The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-21
FARM NOTES.

English farmers say sheep and the liquid
manure carts ore the best rent-payers
Dynymlte s. now regarded as the best agent
for clearing out stumps or telling trees.
If posts are 10 be put i'm, the holes should
be dug now, in order To have all such work
done before winter sets i'll and the ground
becomes frozen.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer tried
a decoction of red pepper, applied boiling
hot to cabbage heads by sprinkling, which
ef1ectually saved them from the worms
The SOuth,.own sheep is somewhat small,
but has great proportion OF meat TO aflal.
They are brown or gray-faced, no horns,
thick, close wool between the ears, with fine
form, and are very hardy.
To prevent the hens pulling feathers feed
meat, and keep them busy at work scratch
ing for their grain food All kinds of fowls
will pull feathers if kept closely confined
and not kept busy with exercise.
Wool at thirty cents a pound is by no
means losing affair, says the New York
Times. "a 100 ewes, allowing the safe esti-
mate OF an increase of 50 per cent, and losses
by death OF 10 per cent, will increase to ,425
in ten years,
Before Strengthening an animal withhold
all food from il for twenty-four hours but
allow all the water it will drink. This course
empties the intestines. facilitates the clean
of contamination OF the meat.
Fowls as well as chicks become quarrel
some if fed on raw meat. Again, cooking
makes meas more nutritious. When raw it
is rather harsh and crude compared with the
more natural diet of worms and grubbs,
which are for the most part soft and easily
digested.
If one-half the corn usually fed on hogs
was fully Ctgested and assimilated il would
Ill.
roots, more meat, and save many losses. The
difficulty is that but little care is given the
preparation. Cooked or ground ii is cheaper
than when fed whole.
Stephen Powers says that sheep may
yield the best meat the worst. Mutton
partakes more OF the flavor OF food than does
pork OF beef. The "sheepy" flavor, so much
disliked by good judges is impaired by bad
feeding tor no feeding 1T ALL and by the de-
lay in the removal of the viscera. Skin and
dress the sheep at once.
Lady Of Otsego, Jersey COW belonging to
John Soden, Of West Laurent, n. y,
dropped her first calf when two years old
She gave in twenty-five DAYS over G07 pounds
of milk, which made thirty-elght pounds
| and fifteen ounces of butter. In four months
and twenty-five DAYS she gave 3, 1851 pounds
of milk and made 227 pounds of butter
The Holstcn COW Aggie Clara, three years
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pounds in thirty days, and 1875 pounds in
| sixty days, or over thirty quarts sixty
| poundS) per day. The two-year-old Holstein
| Dowager I'd gave nearly IL pounds in one
| day and 1,627 pounds in forty-seven days
Both are owned by Roberts Il Son, of Maury
| County, Tenn.
A Georgia farmer is inclined 10 think that
a mistake is made in not raising more goats.
| He says that they cost absolutely nothing to
| raise, are not as troublesome may be sup
| posed, are much more prolific than sheep,
| and that when fat the goat meat rivals NUT
| ton. He states that she has spring lamb the
year round. as goats usually bear young
| twice year."
As an argument in favor of the soiling sys-
| tenn an English breeder says that cows will
always searih after the sweetest spots in a
| grass field, thereby travelling long distances
| at the expense of much valuable time that
should be devoted to Illumination and rest.
| When confined, however, they are literally
supplied with everything they require.
Poultry-raising, like that of stock, is on
the improvement, the whole world being
| ransacked for breeds. One of the newest
| varieties in this country is that of the Lang
shan. They are comparatively new bird,
| but very excellent one. They are said by
| visitors to have been the finest birds on ex-
hibition at New Orleans. They are perfectly
black and very pretty, good layers and
healthy.
| In DR.. Lawes experiments potatoes were
| planted six successive years, some on land
| receiving no manure, and one place receiv-
| ing fourteen tons of barnyard manure per
| acre yearly. The field unmanured rapidly