The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-18
FARM NOTES.

A cellar is not good place in which to
keep butter.
About 100 bushels of wood ashes per acre
are fair proportion to apply on light soils.
Hard subsoils serve to arrest and retain es-
Gaping fertilizing material but are usually
cold and late IN advancing crops.
Rice is one of the best substances for fat
tening fowls quickly. Boiled and mixed
with ground oats and ornmeal. it can not
be excelled.
Seedlings are apt to succeed best where
they originate; hence the many disappoint-
ments when varieties are transferred to
other sections.
Coarse and unpslatable feed. such as straw
and ! 'der, may be advantageously used by
passihl through cutter. moistening and
spTinknl z it with bran and meal.
farm IN Maryland has been expert.
meDting " ith barbed wire fences for tele-
phone use, and announces that farmers and
Others will soon adopt them for this pur-
pose.
Dung applied to land in the Ordinary pro-
cesses OF agriculture will nos be entirely ex
hausted until considerable number OF years
have elapsed from the time of its first appli-
cation.
4 Kansas farmer says, according to the
New York Tribune. that he put a stop to the
heating Of wheat by mixing with each fifty
bushels bushel of salt, and also kept weev.
lis away.
Whole, oats, wheat, bran and corn meal
form an excellent ration for young stock.
The health and complete and symmetrical
growth of the body are best secured by feed
ing variety of grain.
The hog-pen should be ALWAYS literally
bedded with straw, not only where the pigs
sleep, but the yard outside where they run.
Unless this yard is we'll bedded much of the
liquid manure will be lost.
1t has been discovered recently by medical
men that "lump-jaw," as it is called, or
Jumps found on the Jaws of cattle, are some
times caused by decayed teeth. 1t is not
known how much the poor brutes suffer
with the toothache.
The Board of Directors of the American
Jersey Cattle Club offers a premium of $500
for the best essay and 5000 for the second,
the essays TO relate to Jersey cattle; all COM
munications to be sent in as the property Of
the association.
The average number of eggs laid By an or
binary flock of hens is eight and one-half
dozen 10 fowl. yet instances have been re.
corded where a hen has laid $50 eggs in one
year. and from sixteen to seventeen dozen is
considered by poultry men q remarkable
yield.
The proposition has been advanced that
work horses be sold by weight 1t is well
enough in some respects to charge more for
a large horse than a small one, but the dis
position, soundness, age, breed and other
conditions will also have to be considered.
Sir J. B. Laws says that a given weight OF
nitrogen, in the form of nitric acid, will pro-
dHce more growth in the crop to which it is
applied than the same peight of nitrogen in
manure, but the influence OF the nitrogen
upon succeeding crops will be very much
less
In great many instances diseases of root
crops arise from the use of unfernented or
partially rotted manure. Ii only well rOtted
manure is used there will be less liability OF
the crops being affected with rot. This has
been particularly no iced in the cases OF
both white and sweet potatoes.
In pruning trees aim to distribute the cut
tings sufficiently throughout the entire tree.
| If there is twice too much Top 1t might be
reduced by cutting off all the branches on
one side, leaving the other half untouched
II tree looks too thin another years groEth
Will fill il up. Rural Record.
The United States Commissioner of Agri-
culture says that while in some. Of the States
the pure bred and high grade cattle are but
| lucky 1t is 40 per cent, in Indiana % per
cent, in Illinois 35 per cent and Massac hu.
setts 80 per cent. of the whole number.
| The sheep is exceedingly neat, and even
fsstidious, about his food and drink, aud
| hence should have clean grass and clear run
/ ming wafer. Though they less water
than other animals, often passing some DAYS
without it. il is none the less necessary for
their comfort and health that it should be
accessible.
A writer informs the Prairie Farmer that
| a bleaching process has been invented where
/ by demand, at remunerativo prices is
created for sll the fax straw that can be
| grown. He says that when cut close to the
| ground, bound and kept straight in thresh.
ing, the straw is worth as much per acre as
| the seed.
A forty quart eau of milk contains enough
bone earth to form seven ounces of bone.
enough nitrogen to make several pounds of
lean meats, and proportion of potash. m
the milk is sold off the farm all these 90
with ii, and If the process is kept up for a
long while exhaustion follows.-Farm Jour
nal.
The New England Farmer states that the
eoops Tor broody hens at Houghton Farm
are about two feet square, with bottoms of
stats go small and far apart that no hen
however broody, will imagine she is sitting
while roosting upon them. They ere raised
about four inches above the ground. 1t
seems to be 6rst-rate c0ntrivance for break
ing up sitters-
Now. when COWS should be stabbed at night,
TO protect them from cold. rains and stor ms
the farmer should see to il that the stable is
sept scrupulously clean. Cows neglected in
this respect will not yield 90 much milk, aud
unless the milk can come through clean tests