The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-14

Inc cellhr enOut0 De kept StrlCtiy clodu, aS |
decaying vegetable matter is often source
of disease.
The following is the weights of some OF the
prize fowls at the Birmingham tEng. show:
Augsburg ducks, % pounds per pair; ROwen
ducks, y pounds ounces per pair; Pekin
ducks. IL pounds s oui per pair; geese, 80
pounds per pair; &c sy-cocks tsingle), "a
pounds; turkey hens, 20 pounds.
Mr.. Henry Stewart, in Home and Farm
says the esoutcheon has been supposed or
believed 10 be an indication OF all the good |
qualities of COW. This is wholly extreme |
view of ii, for no matter how fine the e. |
cDtcbeon may be. il will never be substi- |
tute for good udder or copious abdomen.
good fertilizer for pot.plants is one ounce |
of carbonate of ammonia dissolved in = gal
Ion of water, which should be soft. Water
the plants well with il 8 few weeks and You
will be surprised at the way they will grow.
The article can be bought 81 the druggists
for fifty cents per pound. Keep the soil IN
the pots loose.
An English experimenter says that sim
| gle gram OF wheat has produced thirty nine
ears containing in all $500 grains, and that
| three of the largest of the ears had, respect
| lively, 104 103 and 101 grains. His expert
! ence corToborates that of Professor Blount,
who states that wheat is more easily im-
| proved than any other plant
Dissolve one pound of copperas in two
1
| sulphuric acid; then add one ounce OF poos-
| plate of soda, and the same quantity o.
1 common Ealt Pour a tablespoonful OF this
mixture in quart of drinking water and
you will give the fowls splendid aud cheap
tonic. 1t inyigorates and wards of disease.
in skimming the cream from milk, there
| should always be milk enough SKINNED
f, Yith the cream TO give the butter, when
chuIped,a bright, clear look. Butter churned
| from clear cream, with little or no milk IN
it. will usually have an oily or shiny look.
This shows that the grain OF the butter is
injured. which affects the keeping qualities
| OF the butter.
For years red has been the preferred color
OF ShorthOTns in this country. But in En-
gland Ioan is the popular color, in the prize
| ring and everywhere. Roam is the trade
mark of the Shorthorns, and we are pleased
to see it again asserting itself for popularity
in this country but il is better to ignore
color and breed for bsef.-Western Agricul-
turist
A writer in the Country Gentleman says
that it costs TO plant, cultivate, mulch aud
get into bearing an acre of straw berries
about $50, and $50 TO $50 to harvest and sell
the crop, sometimes leaving profit OF $3.50.
The crop If, however, subject to ss many 10
certsinties as a crop Of wheat, and the ex-
pense is az large in proportion perhaps in
one case as in the other.
| Very rich and heavy coils are in most
csses inferior to the losmy gravelly soils for
fIust growing. On these lighter soils the
| tIess ripen their wood better. grow less rap
idly and give better favored fruit than those
grown on very rich soils Usually the best
fruit lands are those which ere naturally
light, but which are kept up By a judiciOns
system OF cultivation and manaripg.
Colorado recognizes in its statutes the ad-
| vantages of good breeding, and discourage5
the wasteful folly of breeding from scrubs,
by enGcting law that mo bull unless he be
as good az half or quarter Thoroughbred SD all
be allowed to run at large on the public do
msin." Tho example Is one that all States
might follow with great benefit to owners of
stock and to humanity generally.
1t is great mistake 10 select 3 heavy clay
soil for a garden. 1t is too cold and wet, and
early crops can not be raised upon it. Ii
| would be better to abandon such a locstion
than to attempt to improve ii, il ii is posi-.
BILE to DO so. because ii would cost too much
to remedy the detects of such a soil. The
course OF treatment necessary would be 10
thoroughly underdrain it, 10 spade il over
two feet deep
Grains of sll kinds, including svesy ysri
ETY. OF trees and vegetables, are composed oil
certain gases. acids and dissolved mineral
substances, which they absorb from the soil
together with large per cent of carboniC
acid inhaled from the air, which, by the acid
of the direct action OF the sun, is changed
into carbon. The elements That make uE
each variety and order Of vegetables differ in
quantity and quality.
Onions can not be kept well in a damp eel
IeT, The secret OF keeping onions is TO nsvs
them thoroughly dry when they are put n
the cellar, and keep tbsm go. Also keeT
them cool. Onions that are not wanted IN
til late winter or early spring may be stored
in dry loft and covered with q foos or more
of hay or straw. In this position, il ths
| &bar 10 a.Nla u Nv -
frozen all winter, and may be used rs de
sired. They should not be thswsd out Until
wanted.
} A correspondent of the North British Ag
Ticulturist, published in Edinburg, writes
very disc0uTsgingly Of The British farmers
prospects, dsclarin that, were ii not fo
the straw wheat would cease to be WORT
growing. High rents and expensive manur
ing combined with low prices, are starvin!
out the wheat grower. The average price
OF the year are the poorest en- record, nine
ty-three and ope-fourth cents per bushe
being ''the miserable price," using the wri
ter's own language.
Mari is carbonate of lime, as the common
| limestone is. Heat drives out the carboni,
acid and leaves the lime pure calcium OK
| ide, or quick lime and this effect is pro
! | duced equally with mari or limestone. Mar
| can &c burned in kilns or pits built up will
, | logs and wood in the same way that lime
| stone is burned. The burning Is all that j
required to produce the lime. Msrl bein'
less solid, requires less burning than stone
. | Two or three days burning is sufficient Il
, | make the lime.
The flavor of cheese is the most essentis
| requisite in the composition OF the 6Ies
quality. This subtle element is dependen
, | upon contingencies, many of which do nc
! | come under the control of the cheesemaker
such as food and drink of COWS, the ABSORB
, | ton Of odors from impure surroundings
improper keeping and treatment of warn
milk. ETC., and, during tho process OF max
ing, the treatment of both milk and cure
has decided effect in determining the havo
, | of the product.
Green food is fully as essential for poultrl
in winter as in summer. Their confinement
to dry food during the continuance of COLI
weather goes far TO account for the scarcity
I of eggs at this season Of the year. Fresl
: winter eggs are always in demand and brini
q good price in every mRrkt Hens, hk
cows, should be producers as well as con
sumo rs during the cold months Of winter
Farmers, as well as fsnciers, should have
? | supply OF green food safely stored away 70
r the winter use Of poultry.
An Irish paper savs that Mound of flesh