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

mad dogs. and who have been Iea.ed Dy the
above-named doctors with the help of the
"hoany-non," only one has been attacked
with hydrophobia. NJ. Ruinat says that
''hoang.nan," a creeping plant, has been cul-
tivated in France since 1875.
Chickens often get forked pieces of bone
fast in the throat, nearly starving with
plenty of feed before them; and no matter
how tame the fiocks usually are, when hen
is affected this way she will scarcely allow
herself to be caught, but in running and
lodging about to elude you, she may herself
dislodge the obstruction, if it is only slight.
When. chicken bones are thrown out with
the table refuse, it is perhaps best to have
the children chop them up with an old
Ratchet, as the hens are so fond of them that
in their eagerness they swallow them hap
hazard.
France has 5000 600, thrifty agriculturists
in absolute ownership of their small hold
ings, while we have only 100000. On the
contrary, there are ] $50, 600 tenant farmers
in free America" or more by a fourth than
in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Illinois is the champion State of Landlord
ism'-with over 100000 tenants-and a
recent thoughtful writer on this subject
says! He land law is made altogether for
landlords and by landlords, without single
one of its thirty-odd clauses that can be
construed as other than device to secure
that the tenant shall bleed to the full nomi-
going the same way in Ohio, Indiana, Mich
igan, Kansas and Missouri"
When hot-beds are desired for only few
flowers and vegetables for home use, the
frame may be made movable. Dig bed
six feet wide, two feet or more deep, and of
any length desired Level of the bottom OF
this bed and drive down strong stake in
each corner, to which nail cheap boards.
Make the frames twelve feet in length by
five feet ten inches in width. so that a sash
three feet by six may be used. The manure
used for the hot-beds should be fresh and
well worked, removing all coarse litter. If
small hot-bed, and the owner does not care
to go to the expense of sash. 'h~- Hhhesch-
ed cotton cloth, oiled, will an,s.r the pur-
pose, and if the bed is built a warm loca-
tion is nearly as effective as glass. Buy I'M
bleached cotton cloth and Oil with linseed
oil on one side. Tack to a light frame with
the oiled side up. These frames are much
lighter than glass sash, and will be found
very desirable in small gardens.
Many farmers have suffered losses among
their calves by putting them too early upon
non-milk diet of an unsuitable nature.
The stomach of a calf but few weeks old is
very tender and delicate, and will not stand
irritation such as is produced by many feed
ing stuffs that readily digested at more
advanced age. 1t is necessary to remove
from such foods all particles of h1sk or fibre ;
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bean-meal, pea meal
wheat, linseed, or variety of otbers-it is
important not merely to grind finely, but to
carefully separate through silk or fine cloth
sieve all particles of husk. If these are not
removed they are, however finely ground,
likely to cause serious irritation. The judi
cious use of gruels made from properly pre-
pared foods, at first in partial and finally in
total substitution for milk, from an early
age, effects a considerable economy on large
dairy farm.
In consequence of the drop in prices, and
the agricultural depression generally. Mr..
Gladstone has reduced the rent of one farm
on the Hawarden estate from fifty shillings
to thirty-twO shillings per acre; second,
from forty-two shillings to thirty-two shill-
ings per acre: third has been lowered nine
shillings, and fourth seven shillings per
acre. Mr.. Gladstone has also intimated that
he thinks it more satisfactory gradually to
| bring the rents on the estate to a moderate
scale, conformable to the somewhat clouded
prospects of agriculture, than to resort to
| repeated remissions, which seem to him
more properly adapted to occasions amount
| ing to calamity. A good deal has already
been done TO this end ON the Hawarden es-
| tate, and Mr.. Gladstone adds that more re-
mains which he hopes it may be possible to
| do. The game on the estate, which was
| originally let to game tenant, is now let to
the tenant farmers at the nominal rate of Az
pence per acre