The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-02-17


Strong brine is reported TO be taking the
place of alcohol for preserving specimen
fruits They keep size as well and preserve
their color better.
1t has been determined that 8, 100 pounds
of corn products, including grain, cobs and
stalks IS equal in nutritive value TO 9,6l2
pounds of hay.
Instead Of putting fertilizers on the wheat
crop TO help the grass, the plan should DE
reversed and fertilizers OF all kinds should
De put on the grass year or two before it is
ploCghed for wheat or corn, says Judge
James w. Waters.
Diversified farming means fields of grain,
meadows and pasture; a kltchen-garden and
orchard; a lawn with trees and flowers;
breeding mares and mich cows, sheep,
swine and poultry. Live stock is the ground
work, and will hold the soil fertile. Get
that which is superior in all the depart
ments. From the best is where the profit
comes in.
Mr.. Edward VI. TEAL, in the Breeders Ga
zette, upon feeding ensilage to cattle, says:
When fed to bulls it makes them sluggish
and Indifferent, and in the majority of cases
of service the bull fails to get the COW in calf.
When fed to cows long in calf, saw one or two
months before calving, the calves have the
woast kind of scOurs, and in large majority
Of cases the calf dies"
riculturist, writing from a district where
calves are generally reared by hand, says:
Il rear annually about twenty-five calves on
five cows; i have been giving half milk,
along with lactina and bruised cake. This
season have given half milk and farina
mixed amongst the milk, farina TO be boiled
and prepared in the usual way before mix
ing.''
Every bee master should take special pains
in spring to ascertain constantly the amount
of store each hive contains. If he has IN
capped most of the honey. and this has re-
suited in larger supply being required to
maintain the increasing number OF bees, 1t is
evident the hive will starve unless syrup Is
applied to it, or honey in considerable'quan-
tity is being gathered. A stimulated hive
requires additional care in this respect, and
lis wants must be supplied artificially if they
are not satisfied naturally.
There is no way to make good cheese ex-
cept by using the whole milk. Swimming
the milk at night, and adding the skim milk
to the mornings milk, will not answer. 1t
makos fair quality of cheese, but the diff
ference in the price of the better article will
be more than the value of the cream taken
off. Our Canadian neighbors, knowing this
fact, have secured the English markets, where
American cheese was once in demand. 1t
does not pay to make poor article. There
is a small. gain at first, but a heavy loss in
the end.
1t is very we'll for farmer to turn a few
sheep in a rough, neglected field and let them
trim down the briarS and weeds if he will
provide them with sufficient good food. in
this way the old field may be turned to good
account by the foaling of sheep upon it, but
for regular business one can not hope to raise
sheep in this way. A good pasture, roots for
winter feeding, well-made clover hay and
good, careful attention and management are
essential to success. Sheep are fond of va
riety of food-briars and weeds. and such
things. Confined to that diet they run down
fast They thrive on substantial food.
Extracted honey should be thoroughly
SKINNED of all bits of comb or other sub
Stances before it is marketed. 1t is often
damaged by being run into whisky barrels,
which have charcoal on the inside of the
staves and particles of this get into the
honey, spelling its appearance. Clean bar
rels are indispensable. Comb honey must
be white, well capped and put up in neat,
attractive manner Only thus can the pro-
ducer obtain the top figure of the market.
In New York the principal demand is for
honey in glassed sections, or in paper boxes.
In the West such are unstable. In Cincin-
natl the market requires it in unglassed Sec
tons, but with the crates glassed.
Mr.. James Fallen, of Webser Groves, st.
Louis County, has heller possessing quail
ties of rather an unusual order. The heifer is
calf when only year old. When she had
carried the calf six months, through some
accident or cause unknown, she lost it, and
the heifer being rather small, and udder not
very much developed, no thought of milking
| her was obtained. However, Mr.. George
| Ming, man of considerable experience with
| cows, and under whose charge the heller was;
began milking her, and she soon began
| developing quite surprising milking quail
ties, giving, on dry food, about gallon of
very rich milk day. By keeping her from
the male for few months, thus giving her a
| chance TO grow before her second calving
| and in the meantime continuing the milk
| ing, she promises to make valuable COW.
A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker
says: 81 have reason to believe that copper
as will prevent the grape-rot. In a small
| vineyard in Massillon, o., where quart of
| cOpperas to the square rod had been sOwn in
| July for three years there has been no rot,
| while other grapes in same neighborhood
have rotted more or less every year. They
| formerly rotted in this vineyard" Accord
| ing TO the above the cOpperas, to be Sown,
must be pulyerized. Whether the effects are
| due to the destruction of the spores or a def
| cheney of iron in the soil are not stated, as
| copperas (sulphate of iron is soluble and also
| an excellent disinfectant. 1t Is cheap and
| worth trial.
Perhaps in no State in the Union has there
been more attention paid to the drainage
| than in that of Illinois and no farmer need
20 further to discover the good it has done,
and is doing. Not only have lands too wet
| for cultivation been laid under tribute to the
| pillow, the cultvator and the crop, but al
most every kind of land known to the pro.
| gressive farmers of thar great State has been
undetermined, made TO produce more and
better, not alone in wet seasons, but in dry
ones as well. To such an extent has this
method been practiced and found profitable
that there are not less than 600 tile factories
in the State making a speciality of drain tile.
| 1t will be evident to any thinking man that
this number of factories could not exist un'
less there was an immense demand for tile
and that the demand would have long since
died out unless the farmers found it paid to
use it.
| While summer lasts it is not very diff
cult matter to keep up a good supply Of
green food of different kinds for the poultry
U even when they are confined to compare
rninEnall yards; but when Jack Frost as
nnering and browning the
within its reach, the
~, is suddenly cut