The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-20

one combined all. The Rennie ditcher,
made IN Canada, seems 20 make the best
ditch, and is best adapted to working in
stony ground.
Wood ashes can often be purchased cheaply
of those who have no iand to use them on,
or do not know their real value, and il is
well to collect all of them that can be col
lected conveniently and spread around the
fruit trees especially the peach trees.
The Wisconsin sheep owner who brought
suit against bee keeper for damage to his
| flock, caused by attacks from bees, lost the
| case. Had a verdict been rendered in his
| favor il would nave caused much uneasiness
among extensive bee keepers in various parts
| of the country.
Kansas corn fields were effected in 1884
with blight similar TO that from which Illi-
| nOis farmers have suffered loss the past sea-
| son, and in several instances where stock was
| turned into the field after harvesting and
fed upon the blighted ears they were poi
| sOned so as to cause death.
Some farmers who regularly salt their
| stock in summer neglect il in winter. This
| is not a wise or economical plan, and leads to
| loss of appetite among the animals. A little
/ salt should be given twice a week, if each
| meal is not suitably seasoned as is the food
| of the human animal.
| Wheat is plant that thrives best in cool
weather, and often considerable growth is
tDdUc VAIN SpellS IN winter. III Will
sometimes make root growth under the
| snow, and covering OF this is always bene-
| fetal, as it prevents injurious effects from
| alternate freezing and thawing
in localities where alsike clover is grown
its blossoms make excellent bee pastures.
| 1t continues in bloom longer than white
clover, and makes as good honey though not
| quite so light in color. 1t extends the season
when honey bees can work, which, when
J drCuth dries up the white clover is apt to be
, too short for profit.
1.-THE Australian woods recently received
here have" says a Boston paper, "proved as
weak as water under test. They are verv
tender and can not stand any pressure They
may be good enough to make fine shawls for
| children, but they do not count for much
except mixed with other stock of more
strength and elasticity"
Young cattle may live through the winter
running to straw-pile and fed few nub-
bins, but they will not grow and mature;
rather they will become poor and lean, and
be smaller in the spring than at the COM
| mencement of winter. This is lust six
months of time lost in maturing the cattle
for market, and in nine cases out of ten de-
stroys all chances of profit.
| Notwithstanding the increased attention
| paid 10 poultry raising, the home supply is
still insufficient for the demand. Last year
the United States paid Canada $1,000, 900 for
| ll,50O,O00 dozen eggs, breeders importing
millions OF lined eggs from Germany and
| Holland. Every farmer can add to his in
come by the iudicious keeping of at least
small flock OF hens
1t viii not do to apply coarse manure to
newly-seeded clover. No other plant is more
easily smothered, and. while the ground will
be fertlllzed under the mulch, it will lose the
greater benefit from the growth of clover
| roots to the subsoil. But manure applied as
1 -, 1ar,, ~.
always beneficial, and is one of the best ways
to insure good catch.
a COW usually carries her calf the full Pc
| riod of nine months. In old cows this time
| is prolonged several days, and it is believed
| by some that when the latter part Of the time
| of CESSATION is during winter the period is
still further prolonged. However, if dates
have been kept, as they should be, the COW
will need extra feed and care from and after
eight and a half months following the time
when CESSATION began.
Many of the large crops per acre which
! are reported are grown on very small patches,
and the crop from these multiplied by the
number required to make a full acre. A
single hill of potatoes may thus be taken,
and this multiplied by 4, 800, the number of
hills on an acre at three feet distance apart.
Taking quarter, or at least an eighth, of an
acre is much better test.
The eggs of the cut-worm are found gen.
orally in the latter part of the summer on
low plants, near the food which they are to
devour. In the early spring the worms be-
gin their depredations. Then they burrow
| into the ground, to rise again in perfect
state. This insect has a varied taste, and
will attack very many of the products of the
field and garden. Corn is a favorite food
plant for twelve or more species, and as
many as sixty individuals have been taken
from a single hill.