The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-11
FARM NOTES.

Too much grain is often sown when seed
ing and too little grass seed. These are two
common errors.
Grass grown on nutritious soil is often as
good for horses or cattle as poorer grass fed
with grain rations.
Now is the best time to mulch apple trees
with manure, which will encourage the
formation Of fruit buds for next season.
Late advices from Sandwich Islands state
that the cranberry crop Whereabouts is greater
by 1900 barrels than that of any previous
season.
An Illinois farmer has sixty-acre straw
berry bed, from nine acres of which he gath
cred III one season Sc, 800 quarts oil berries
which is at the rate OF about DO bushels per
acre.
An Ohio farmer has a cornfeld OF twelve
acres upon which the stalks are said TO aver
age twelve feet in height, and Will yield
not less than twenty-five tons Of ensilage
per acre.
Red top grass is regarded as very good
grass for pasture. and Of some value for hay
if cut early, although the yield is not as
large as of some other equally good or better
grasses.
There are $1,000 Cattle club Jersey cows
and heifeys in this country, arr not over To-
coo cows on the Island of Jersey. The place
to get good Jerseys is not jersey but the
United States.
By sowing a bushel OF salt to the acre, 4
Fayette County lMissouri) farmer believes
he has succeeded ia keeping his average Of
twenty-five bushels Of wheat 10 the acre
maintained Tor years.
What to do with the superintendent crop
of apples is 10 evaporate them or make cider
of them, which may be converted into vim
egar or apple-butter. The hogs and sheep
should be allowed 10 consume those not tit
for use in any other manner.
Turkeys should not be confined to he fat
| ted until about ten DAYS before they are to
be sold. They win gain rapidly in flesh for
about ten days, but after that time they be-
| gin TO lose flesh, owing 10 becoming restless
and uneasy from confinement.
In using cold dips for the scab and other
diseases Of sheep, unless the dipping is done
| in thorough manner the solution will not
| penetrate close compact wool and reach all
| the parasites on the skin, owing to the dirt
| and other matter in tho wool.
Draining can be carried to excess, and
| often, perhaps, on account Of certain pecu-
| iarities OF the soil and surroundings, be of
| no benefit to the land, but these cases are
| few, and much more draining could be done
TO advantage on almost every farm.
Professor Brown, OF the Ontario Expert
ment Farm, finds, after nine years expert
mentation, that bullock gained on perma-
l nent pasture 2.O5 pounds per day at a cost of
| two cents per pound, and that this was the
| cheapest OF the twenty ways of feeding
1 tried.
The average value of the corn crop Tor the
4 past twenty years has been 10 per cent Of
| the aggregate value of all our leading crops,
while the acreage devoted to corn has
i equaled 40 per cent. of all the cultivated
land in the United States, including those
lands in grass.
Last season Mr.. G.. w Pressey, of Ham
1 monitor. y. j., raised 1000 chicks in incu-
bators, the care and attention having been
| given them by his two daughters. This
1 season he has made extensive preparations
| will begin Matching in few weeks, and ex-
| poets to double the number.
Trees usually die when transplanted from
lack of moisture. The advantages of plant
ing in the fall is that the heavy rains carry
| the earth in and around the roots, and
| moisture is plentiful. Excessively cold dry
ing winds, however, are injurious. If pos
sible very young trees should be staked.
The best -four for stable, says the Rural
Era, is one made OF an egg shape, set on end,
| on graded floor, well rammed down and
| filled with sand and hydraulic lime cement
| so as to make a smooth surface. This is sat
urated with hot gas tar, and when dry makes
a hard, durable, smooth water proof -four
In planting set early as possible. Rootlets
will grow until frost stops them. A newly
set tree wants all the rootlets il can get. No
1
about the rootets there will be many where
earth does not touch, but the growing root
let pushes in and the earth is in contact over
its Whole surface.
1t is well, every autumn, to carefully con-
slider and decide what fields will be inn
proved and what injured by fall blowing,
and all that are of character MOTTO be in
jured by it should be plowed, thus helping
along the spring work at season when
work is not as driving as in the spring.
Massachusetts, Ploughman.
The experiment OF milking cows three
times day was tried at the Iowa Agricul-
tural College; and the average daily gain of
the herd was four pounds. or half enough to
pay for the extra trouble and expense. The
increase in milk is not considered sufficient
to pay for the labor and expense. even when
cows yielding over twenty quarts daily are
used. The only advantage is that the COWS