The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-21
FARM NOTES.

Do OF overlook the fact that the horses
should De roughshOd now.
1t is claimed that evergreens are better
than Usage orange as wind brakes, being
closer in growth.
The retaiI demand for wheat -four under
the present era Of low prices IN Germany is
reported to be gaining.
Immediately when an animal begins to
fret tor food it begins to lose hesh. Never
check the tattening process.
All such material as cornstalk ks and straw
should be cut into small pieces before being
placed In the barnyard.
Ear chicks should be Matched this month,
as the smaller sizes are usually in demand
when they first reach the market.
DR.. Bennett, in his address before the Nova
Scotia Fruit Growers Association, said he
preferred cutivsting orchards during the
whole period in which the trees are being
prepared for fruiting. When they reach full
bearing the land may be laid down to grass,
but even then there must be no failure of
surface feeding and mulching applications,
| without which the fruit will dwindle TO
| small size and become spotted and fungus
| marked.
All the seeds should be overhauled nov,
| thoroughly cleaned aud placed in q convent
| ent rece ptscle for immediate uss in spring.
| Those who did not save their seeds from
| plants of their own growth shOuld procure
| w,
| order to avoid loss of time at the planting
period, SIS orders in the spring usually crowd
| the scotsman, thereby causing delay. 1t is
a mistake to postpone the purchase OF seeds
till the ground is ready.
Fifty fowls can We kept IN one house pro.
| vided the place is kept elesn, we'll vs&tilsted
/ and furnished with good run, the fowls
should have wholesome food, varied with
green stuff, ground bone and oyster shells.
| Fowls should become used TO their quarters
| before extreme cold weather. Be careful
and protect them from extreme cold winds
An open shed facing the south is good
! thing house twelve by twenty feet is
| necessary to keep Fifty fowls. Sand for the
floor is NEST desirable.
Hens fed on a regular diet will not az rs
many eggs as il they were fed on a variety OF
grains. A very wholesome diet for fowls
during cold weather, and excellent for pre-
| duoiDg eggs, is 70 Ind in a warm mixture of
boiled potatoes, mddlings, ground oats Or
barley meal with dry mustard, pepper or
| ginger, mixed for breakfast scraps from the
table, boiled vegetables, pieces of meat aud
screenings for dinner, the screenings to be
scattered through the loose chat or dry
leaves on the hen house floor to give the
fowls exercise; oats and buckwheat or corn
and barley for supper.
Mr.. w. L. Stone, of Houghton Farm, calls
attention in the American Agriculturist to
the fact that the real value of corn estimated
by weight is almost as inaccurate as that es-
timeted by measure. The true worth of the
gram is the actual amount of dry matter it
contains. The moisture in corn varies large
1.-TWO months after harvest the corn was
found TO be nearly % psr cent. water and
when year old less than - per cent. That
is, If corn year old is worth sixty cents per
bushel, the came corn wss worth 545 Cents
the previous July, and 50.2 cents in April
after huFking.
OF the action Of clover when plowed under
as green manure correspondent of the
Country Gentleman rays: Glover is not ma
nuTe, but by its growth, and especially by its
decay. it renders soluble for plant-food mat
tiers which without its aid might remain in
soluble, thus indirectly Rmeliorating the
constitution of the soil on which it acts.
Any vegetable growth, green or dry, buried
in the earth alters some Of the inorganic
matters with which it comes IN contact in
decsying, and to that extent slowly i'm
proves by increasing solubllity. But it does
add something, inasmuch as it provides an
assimilation for atmospheric nitrogen"
The great secret of proper pruning con-
sists in knowing the nature of the SUBJ ect
to be operated upon, the future use of each
shoot and branch.
The abundance of market garden products
in England is said to be cutting the demand
for -four, while a warm temperature adds its
influence in the same direction.
| n CIO65 u u pure Dr6Q I0bl6 Is OF
great advantage AT the recsnt Fat Stock
Show in Chicago the grades were heavier aud
better proportioned than some nf the thor
oughbreds.
Dairymen are learning that it does not
pay 70 keep cows that are not well bred, as
the difference in yield of milk from grade
cows more than compensates for the cost OF
improvement.
In England, British owners OF American
| paffIa ranrboc Eornolu ahrooI To- tko;w
unpatriotio attemptst to make money BY
breeding cattle in America in preference 70
doing ii at home.
If the farmers living along the lines of the
country roads would unite and use their
farm rollers over the roads whenever thaws
occur, such practice would make the roads
much more passable.
Canadian apples are selling at q higher
price in England than these from the United
States. 1t is claimed by British statesmen
that they hold out better In size and quail ty
} than the American apple.
The Sac and Fox Indians have leased 200.
600 acres of grazing lands to Kansas parties
for ten years at $40, 900 per annum, the wire
fencing to revert to the Indians at the ex
piration OF the lease,
Ground oats two parts, bran one part and
cornmeal one part is an excellent mixture
Tor young growing stock of all kinds. 1t il
not necessary TO keep young stock very fat
but they should be kept in growing condi
ton at all times.
he fodder cutter should be kept constantly
IL operation during the winter season. By
cutting the coarse material the unpalatahis
portions may be mixed With concentrated
substances which induces the animals to
eat the whole.
Rubbish should not be allowed to accum
late. All matter not suitable for the manu- =
heap should be burned which destroys tn
harboring places of insects Even in tn
manure heap all the substances should un-
dergo decomposition.
Centrifugal machines for sep srating the
milk from cream are now in general uss, and
as an aid to bee keepers machine has been
invented Tor extracting honey from the