The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-17
FARM NOTES.


rod.
Horses and colts feed better irom low
maDger.
Plant potatoes late and avoid the Old bugs
that winter over.
In sowing timothy with wheat and other
grains the best results are obtained by hav
ing the ground dragged and rolled first.
1t is foolish to begin truck farming remote
from a market, where there are bad roads,
where it is difficult to get manure, or COM
mand extra help.
Good farming for term of wears is more
apt to depend on the amount of land seeded
10 clover, and the quantity of seed sown,
than on any other factor.
1t is good time now to begin making the
hot-bed for early plants. Plenty of fresh
horse manure should be collected and kept
in dry place. 1t should contain as little
coarse litter as possible.
Cobs are good for smoking meat, as they
give it good flavor. Keeping a small fire
longer time is better than quick smoking, as
too much heat gives the meat strong flavor
and injuries its sweetness.
A hill of raspberry plants, after being
trimmed in the spring, should have only
three or four canes, three and a half feet
high and nearly one inch in diameter at
base, each cane having a few side spurs
about ten inches long.
The best food for young pigs is something
which will not ferment, such as dry, I'M
ground oats. The thorough mastication
needed wonderfully improves digestion.
Little pigs will eat great deal of grass, and
this is natures own best medicine.
For the squash grub boIer dissolve two
ounces Of saltpetre in one half gallons of
water, and use it frequently around the
stems and roots, commencing soon after the
MI 10 NJ int lie lon,
er than four or five days.
The honey crop of San Diego County. Cal,
for 1885, is reported thus Comb honey, l.
10000 pounds; extracted, 1,2S4, 800; total,
2,177, 500 pounds. This is equal to LOSS tons
or over 100 car loads of honey. At eight
cents per pound it is worth over Sis, 900.
Strawberry plants should be set out in
early spring, or in August, in each case the
object being to derive the advantages of the
early and late rains. The plants should be
set one foot apart, in rows three feet apart.
They should not be allowed to fruit or run
the first year.
To destroy the cabbage worm, take finely
ground pepper and finely ground salt, mix
with little plaster to increase the bulk.
This is busted on with a fine wire sitter while
the dew is on. 1t will kill the worms at
once. The same remedy may be used tor
extirpating the cuTrant worm.
CIV. Coff of Reheboth, Mass, says he has
noticed that those men who get the best re-
suits from incubators are those who are in
terested either in their sale or manufacture.
An incubator at S75, and at least two artifi-
cial breeders at $50 apiece, is big invest
ment of capital for farmer who does not
raise more than 200 chickens annually.
Under the old system of agriculture, that
of raising continuous crops OF head grains,
| the land must eventually become exhausted.
hn nrl of for of fr-dQ ic 10 "
that of restoring to the soil its lost elements.
| Partial stock husbandry is step in advance
of exclusive grain growing, and the use OF
| purchased fertilizers is another.
During the season of 1885 there were pack
| ed in New York State factories 2,464 800 cans
| of tomatoes, an increase over 1884 of over 26
| per cent. This places New York third in the
| list of tomato packing States, New Jersey be-
| ing first and Maryland second. The total
| pack of the United States for the season of
1885 was 81, 600 cans.
The rubbish affords the harboring places
| OF the insects, and the safest method for de-
stroying them is to burn all the rubbish
| which may be unfit for the manure heap.
/ Dried weeds should never be added to the
manure, or seeds will be scattered over the
| farm, and a clean raking should be given all
| the corners and other inconvenient places,
| in order to collect the old rubbish before
warm weather begins.
The American CuItivator says: Many
persons are prevented from using petroleum
on woodwork by fear that it will make the
wood more infammable. This is not the
case. The oil enters the pores and so fills
them that the wood is harder and less likely
| to ignite than before. Coal oil or crude pc
troleum, with something to give it body,
makes cheap paint for all wooden imple-
ments, and to coat oven the iron work of
plows and cultivators to prevent them from
rustipg in the water"
At the end of a month it is good plan to
commence to feed young pigs with hand
ful OF wheat or peas, scattered among the
straw in the sty, the mother also getting a
| title at feeding time. There are no foods as
good as these, although oats are frequently
| and strongly recommended. If the quantity
given is increased as the pigs grow, until
| weaving time, it will be found that they
wean well and continue growing as though
they had not been deprived OF their mothers
milk.
The special prizes for strawberries offered
by the Massachusetts, Horticultural Society
| are to be awarded on the basis of the follow.
ing scale of points Quality, 90 points; pro
ductiveness, 20 points; form, 10; color, 10;
size, 10. Two quarts are to be furnished OF
each competing variety, with additional
specimens for testing to be supplied to the
committee, so as not to break the specimens
exhibited. 1t is well that quality is rated
twice as high as any other character, but In
some localities and in some markets size and
productiveness would override anything else
George w. Dyson, farmer living north oil
Champaign, Ill, has lately discovered to his
own satisfaction that dog has, in several
cases that have come under his notice, been
the instrument OF carrying the cholera
from one herd of swine to another. The dog
having eaten freely of the carcass of hos
that had died Of cholera, went home and
among the hogs of the place. winch soon
| after took the disease and died, while hogs il