The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-05

cultivation and barpyafd manure contain, as
a rnle, all the necessary constituents of plant
food.
The problem Of successful farming consists
in making the soil increasingly fertile.
Profit comes of high fertility and excellent
tillsge.
Organic and inorganic matter in the soil is
what, forms and fattens the plant. Like the
overfed animal, the soil sometimes suffers
from indigestion.
1t is said that bee can pull more in pro-
portion to its size than a horse. We don't
know as TO that. but they are qnite powerful
when they back up TO you and push.
Too many fowls have to depend upon the
contents of the wash-tub for krinking water
The dirty soapsuds will be sure 10 cause dis
ease. Give the hens pure water.
The Duroc-Jersey Swine Association is
making progress. In two and a half months
nearly 100 members were added in eighteen
States, and over 600 names claimed for leg
istry.
Poison from bees hornets, spider bites,
etc, is instantly arrested by the application
of equal parts of common salt and bicarbon-
ate of soda, well rubbed in on the place bit
ten stung
The hens are paying the rent on many a
vorn-out farm. They are calling people
back from the factories to the deserted farm
hen If solid worth is ever counted.
The editor of the Philadelphia Weekly
Press holds that timothy should be added to
either blue grass or red-top-nOt that timothy
| is good in itself as lawn, or that good
| lawn can be made OF it alone, but because it
| gives an immediate effect.
A prairie farmer contributor proposes TO
! keep moles in check by clean cultivation,
and encourage ment of hawks, skunks, owls,
eats and dogs. Clean cultivation is good, but
| the nextthree members of the combination
are as bad as the moles.
A standing antidote for poison by poison
oak, ivy, etc, is to take handful of quick
| lime, dissolve in water, let il stand half sn
| hour, then paint the poisoned parts with il.
Three or four applications, it is said will
cure the most aggravated cases.
There must be no jerking no loud words
! nothing quick in the movements about the
colt, but everything slow in motion. There
| must be no loud shouting or anything of that
| sort. The horse has got 10 be gradually ia
milarized with the work which he has 10 do,
and his muscular strength must be developed
at the same time. With young horses | don I
| think that there is better plan for breaking
| tbem-although think that that is rather q
| bad woIG-tban to put them to werk upon
the pillow. l don't believe that there is any
way in which the horses temper can be bet
ter developed than by putting him on the
| pillow when he is about three years old and
teaching him how to be patient of the obsta-
cles that have to be met in that work.
Constipation is claimed to be the chief
| cause of many sows eating their young,
and so regulating their feed as to prevent
this trouble will put an end 10 their DISPOSE
ton TO try this unnatural diet. For a cou-
pie of weeks before narrowing care should be
taken 20 prevent constipation among the
sows by giving such feeds as have an opposite
tendency. and those kinds which will pro-
mote to the secretion of milk. This will pre-
clude the use of corn and similar grains To a
great extent and necessitate the feeding OF
bran mashes, by-products of the dairy.
worthless apples etc. This treatment will
insure the healthiness OF the SOW, and put
her in condition TO the best produce and
nOurish her Young. Both, will be healthy
ar d vigorous, and her blood will be cool, her
system in proper condition, and she will not
likely develop the unnatural tendency of de-
strOying her young.
There are few sorts of land that can not be
made productive of either pleasure or profit,
and which would not be made to afford both
if they were in countries where land is
scarcer and labor more plenty. However
steep and rocky land may be, IL can be made
to produce trees and vines that both USE
full and ornaments. There are scarcely any
hills or mountains in this country that are
not covered with trees, shrubs and vines, il
|
roots of trees and hardy vines find their way
among rocks and obtain all the nutriment
they require. All the nut bearing trees do
exceedingly well on these rocky elevations.
So do all varieties of eYergreens. A hill
covered with nut-bearing trees and ever
| greens presents very beautiful appearance
| and ornaments farm better than expensive
buildings do. Many hardy apple trees and
grapevines Go well on these rocky elevations
The like is true OF wild plum and cherry
trees. A hill covered with trees and vines
| will soon become a source of delight to the
occupants of farm. If they are from a
| place where forests abound, 1t will remind
them of their old home 1t will be seen and
admired by travellers and people living sew.
eral miles from it.
Farmers need not fear that they shall lose
any Of the manure by spreading it broadcast
apart, even if plants can not get it, when be-
| You'd their roots, for most of even the small
est plants spread their roots more than eight
| cen inches each way. We are informed by
one OF our most successful and reliable gar
deners that he has seen the cabbage root ex
tend four feet. We have seen them extend
more than two feet. But the distance which
the roots OF plants will spread depends on
the condition and character of the SOIL nc
doubt if plant like a cabbage be set IN a
his rd soil that has been MANFRED only in the
hill. there being no current OF plant
food coming from outside of the
hilI the roots would naturally make net
work over and through the manure placed
in the hill, and would have no indictment
to grow beyound; 1t would be very singular
indeed If they did: put plant set in a soil
that is made very loose and Light by mixing
the manure with it, will as a natural coase
qLeDce send its roots long distances in va
rious directions. because OF the numerous
streams of plant food that fill the sDil and
tina: 4 plant thus abundantiy supplied
| would MAKE a more rapid growth than one
with the roots confined in limited space
there can be but lite doubt-in fact expe
rience prove this to be so.