The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-07
FARM NOTES.

Wood ashes anu plaster make an excellent
fertilizer for all kinds of grass crops, and
should be freely used.
1t is estimated that Ohio has 200, 600 less
sheep and will have SOC, 600 less pounds of
wool this spring than two years ago.
Raspberries throw up great many suck
ers, and these should be thinned out, leav-
ing not over four canes to the hill, so as to
afford plenty OF room.
A farmer OF experience in wool growing
says that there is more money in growing
wool at 10 cents per pound than in loaning
money at 20 per cent. interest.
The Keiffer pear is poor in quality and the
tree is more tender than most other sorts,
winter killing very commonly in the west
and northwest-about as hardy as a peach
tree.
In breeding stock on the farm DO not be
tempted to sell the best, but dispose of the
inferior animals first. By carefully select
ing and retaining the best every year, the
value of the stock will be increased and
larger profits secured.
Mustard plants used to be the terror and
disgust Of the California wheat grower. Now
they are a source of profit. By ingenious
mechanical harvesting both crops are gath
cred separately, aud the mustard Is worth
more than the whea. on the same land.
To cure a COW of the habit of sucking her
self, says the Jersey Bulletin, make satu
raj ed tincture of powdered aloes and alec.
hol, keep it in mucilage bottle, tightly
corked, and paint the end of each teat with
the mixture, and the COW will soon become
Disguised.
A few years ago il was the fashion to sneer
at the Norman horses To-day the fashion
is this powerful farm horse. The ligat-
limbed, slim bodied, weax-constitutioned
racer and trotter is at a discount. Colorado
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If pillow or other steel implement rs be
come very rusty, make mixture OF half a
pint of oil of vitriol poured slowly into a
quart of water, and apply to the rusted
metal. Wash off with water, and scOur in
the usual manner. 1t is better, however
not to let any implements get rusty.
If farmers who have never tried it will cut
their corn fodder and straw finely for their
cattle, they will be surprised TO notice how
much better the stock will eat them, and how
much further the same amount of fodder will
go than when fed whole. A little sprink-
ling of meal does not iniure 1t in the asst
Eastern fruit-rs isers who packed apples in
-four barrels last fall found the contents of
the Packages to be in bad condition. The
-four between the slaves of the barrels alb
sosbep moisture, and, becoming mouldy,
conveyed. disagreeable smell and taste TO
the apples, and in some cases caused them
to rot
An Indiana farmer finds that it is an adj
vantage to mix bluegrass seed and other light
grass seed with moist sawdust before sowing.
He says the grass seed adheres to the sawdust
and enables the sower TO spread it evenly.
lie uses about three bushels of saw-dust to
one Of grass seed.
The chief advantage of incubators consists
in the circumstance that eggs may be hatch
ed in them before fowls show a disposition
to sit on eggs. The eggs of ducks can be
hatched in incubators to the most advantage,
as early ducks OF improved varieties sell at
high prices in large towns
An experienced beekeeper states that colo
MES do not suffer from having the hives
located near railway station or MACHINE