The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-04
Farm Notes.

German potatoes are sold in New York at five
cents pound. by retail They are no larger
than walnut and are said to have qualities not
found in any American variety of the tuber.
To prevent the hens pulling feathers, feed
meat, and keep them busy at work scratching
for their grain food ALI XII nds of fowls will pull
feathers if kept closely confined and not kept
busy with exercise.
The ashes of plant simply contain it's mineral
constituents Nitrogen is supplied to the soil in
some degree from the air, and also by the action
of potash heat and air in combination with the
humus of the soil Carbon is conceded to be cup
piled from the air, through the agency of the
leaves.
A Georgia farmer is inclined to think that a
mistake is made in not raising more goats. Hs
says that thcy cost absolutely nothing to raise,
are not as troublesome may be supposed, are
much more prolific than sheep aud when fat the
goat-meat rivals mutton. He states that he
has spring lamb the year round. as goats
usually bear young ones twice year"
The Holstein COW Aggie Clara, three years
old, gave eighty four pounds of milk In one day,
2,207 pounds in thirty days. and 40S5 pounds in
sixty days or over thirty quarts (sixty pounds)
per day. The wo-year-old Holstein Dowager
third gave nearly forty-seven pounds in one day,
and ], 927 pounds in forty seven days. Both are
owned by Roberts g. Son, of Maury county
Tenn.
For most soils lime in any form is useful.
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der SO as to be evenly distributed over the land.
and equally diffused through it. 1t may be
fresh slaked lime, air slaked or pulverized lime
stone. In Jumps it will be of little use.
On some soils which already have enough. it
has little effect This can be ascertaned only
by making the trial.
Every farmer should have some kind of
milk house. and if they cannot afford to build
one with all the modern conveniences every one
can, at least, put up rough board shed over
some convenient spring. or near the well, and
let the waste water run into it. This kind of a
building fitted with good trough for the milk
cans, etc, often answers very well, and at
least, is much better than no milk house at all
AS well drink the water from filthy barn
yard pool as TO allow cow to drink it and then
use her milk Whatever impurities may be in
the water are taken up by the system of the
cow and are given off in her milk and pass off into
the system of the human consumer. Owners of
cows. then should be very careful to allow them
only pure water to drink and it is just as i'm
portant that their food be pure and wholesome
also.
Many of the diseases of fruit trees may be due
to lack of hardness on the part OF the special
varieties Formerly the oid-time varieties were
seldom attacked by disease While many Or
chards of Bartlett pears die out in few years,
such is not the case with seedlings. There Is a
pear tree in Montgomery county, Georgia. now
eighty seven years old, which has not failed to
bear a crop since il was seven years old. The
tree is six feet in circumference. and its fruit
resembles the sand pear in shade and flavor.