The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-01
FARM NOTES.

Wheat is the best food for growing poultry,
and corn the best for fattening them.
The State Veterinarian in Illinois reports
that the cattle interest in that state amounts
10 $ltN000,00u.
Professor Surtevant says that peas planted
when AT the edible maturing state will vege-
tate as well as ripe seed.
Eggs from hens not in company with cocks
will keep twice ~ long u will eggs from hens
not separated from the males.
Butter is carried from New Zealand To Eng
land at u temperature of 53 degrees, and ar
riVcs in excellent condition.
As result from the prohibition of the sale
of oleomaIgarine in New York the demand
for genuine dairy butter is increasing.
farmer near Sacramento. Cal. says his
crop of asparagus this season has brought him
$4,000, Of which $4,000 is profit lie has
twelve acres.
The HesSan fly has extended its operations
10 the wheat fields on the Pacific coast
Heretofore its ravagcs have been east of the
Rocky Mountains
Wheat and oats may he sown late for hay,
il the season is not too dry. Cut in the dough
or milky state, such crops will be accepted by
stock and prove excellent feeding.
Mr. NJ. G. Pohl writes the Philadelphia Re
cord that in a recent morning walk he saw
sixteen English sparrOws making their matin
meal of locusts.
In pruning, cut the wood off close 10 the
base. in order To leave no stubs. This is e.
pecially needful with the sprouts that grow
up from the limbs in the middle OF the tree.
Ali plants are benefited by the hoe or cul-
tiVator, especially in dry season. The fire.
quent stirring of the soil keeps the surface i'm
condition to get the full benefit of the air,
| dews and rains
/ InSrcfs will now n,,,ltinl,- worry rap;dlv
4 aid only vigorous work will keep them down.
| Encourage the birds. use plenty of Paris
green, Kill all the moths possible and exam
1 inc for the pests daily.
| The wire-werm has done great damage this
season. The worm resembles wire hence it,
name. The best method of Kidding Il field of
| them is 10y late fall and early spring blowing.
| a. * done for cut-worms.
Give to the COWS none but the best and
purest food. With no other stock is this 81
essential, for the reason that il has been fully
| demonstrated by competent authority that
| milk Is u very prolific source of transmitting
disease from impure food, and especially from
| impure water
| The sweet potato is one of the most valua
BILE crops grown. In addition To being q
| favorite on the table, il makes excellent feed
for stock. Hogs fatten very quickly on
/ cooked sweet potatoes, which are a cheap ar
| ticle of food, considering that 800 bushels pei
4 acre is not an unusual Weld.
/ : Corn-fodder is produced "a cheapy a. any
| other kind of provender, and should b,
grown as acrop independently of the supply
| obtained by maturing the grain. A field 81
| corn-fodder cut when the ears are i'm tho
milky state will keep better and prove mucI
more paatable and nutritious than wher
| harvested later
Professor Morrow reports that number o
| two-year old steers at the Illinois University
farm made an average gain of eighty pounds
| IN September and ninety-one pounds in dc
tober, on whole corn. They ate ten bushel,
| each i'm September and fifteen bushels eacl
| i'm October. The hogs fed the refuse arr
estimated to have made about seventy-fiy,
pounds each during the two months.
All plants contain certain proportion o
salt or its elements in their composition. A,
such elements are necessary to plant growtl
salt is consequently fertilizer. and should
be applied in certain quantities. A farmer
reports that by using dressing of one par
plaster and three parts salt he doubled tn,
yield of his clover crop. As plaster is alss
an excellent fertilizer for clover, the adyan