The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-24
FARM NOTES.

Without manure no good ground, with it
no poor ground.
Kalnit, or nitrate OF potash, should be
kalinit, but by force of custom has dropped
a letter
Pacific ports have lately been furnishing
from one-half to three-fourths of the wheat
for Liverpool, in spite of distance.
1t is believed that there are more fowls in
the country than at any period in its his
tory. The supply of poultry and eggs is
very large in most cities.
The use of the steam pillow is said to be di-
minishing in Great Britain, not because it
does not give good satisfaction, but because
the large farms are being divided, and the
steam pillow can not be employed advantage
ously in small fields.
couple of Kansas men lately got into
lawsuit oyer the killing of 81 hog. After
a long litigation a verdict was rendered in
favor of the owner of the hog. His lawyers
charged $500 for services rendered. He lost
his hog and $500, but had satisfaction.
nurseryman of Union County, Pennsyl-
vania, claims to be able to grow apples
without cores. His theory is to bend the
twig when the size of small elder and insert
the top in the ground. When the top takes
root sufficiently cut it off near the butt and
stake it up perpendicularly.
A farmers garden, planted in rows clear
across the patch, and cultivated as far as
possible by horse power and given as good
cultivation as the best farmers give their
corn fields, will require only half an acre to
supply half of the living of the average
family and add largely to the health of the
members.
Cheshires will outweigh any breed thine
months; hence they are especially the farm
er's hog for the only profitable pork is
that which is made at an early age. For
making cheap pork, use thoroughbred
Cheshire upon good-sized healthy sows of
any breed, and every pig will be white, no
matter what the color fthe SOW.
1t is a notable fact that fruitgrowers who
cultivate but a few acres usually reap the
largest rewards, as compart with the extent
of their efforts. This is owing to the fact
that they can select the choicest ground,
make it exceedingly rich, and give it the
best cultivation; whereas, large cultivators
are compelled TO take average land, usually
fertilize il spariDgly, and cultivate it as they
may be able.
A goose farm is one of the curiosities of
agriculture on the eastern shore of Virginia.
Within an area of 5000 acres live 5000 geese,
of several varieties attended by herders and
regularly fed with corn, etc. The object is
the collecting of down for quilts and pill
lows, and once in about six weeks pluck
ing takes place Only the breast and the
sides under the wings are plucked, and it
requires the yield of nearly 100 geese to
weigh pound. The raw feathers are sent
| to Philadelphia for cleaning and sorting.
A lady at Nyack, n. Y, is keeping large
number of Angora goats, some of which cost
| 5000 each to import An attempt is also
| being made to revive the interest in the An
| CORA goat business in California. One en-
| thusiastlc breeder ventures the prediction"
| that Angora feeees will be worth 81 pound
| in few years. 1t is safe to say, however,
| that there is scarcely any market for the
feeces Of Angora goats at any price, and that
the prospect for high price Is very poor.
| At meeting of Scottish agricultural so
| ciety Colonel Innes said that in order to en-.
| courage the economical working of crofts (oI
/ small holdings) he would give prize of S.
| for the best pair of cows that had been used
| in the cultivation of the land; it being q
| recommendation that they had been worked
| in cart or wagon. From remarks made by
some members it appeared to small extent
| cows were still employed in the district to
| do the work of horses, Nevertheless. a sug
| gestion that they should be shown in harness
| elected 'sgreat laughter"
NJ. Ruinat suggests in The Times of Ceylon
| the introduction into that country OF plant
known in Tong King as "Hoang-nan." He
/ says this plant is q certain cure for hydro
| phobia, as il has been used with great success
/ in France since 1882 by DR.. Barthelemy and
DIR. Wand. Out Of twenty persons bitten BY