The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27

with some qualification or taken with some
allowance. While il may be true that an
animal can eat enough in the given time to
fit him for market, IL is also true that one in
low condition Will not bear full ration and
must be brought TO it gradually, and one ex
cessive ration which brings on scours in a
sheep is worse than day of fasting Ami
mails must be in good condition at the start
TO be finished off in the time named.
The best site for poultry onse is an ele-
waited one but where y at is not at hand the
ground should be spaded or plOwed. and the
earth thrown toward the center. 4 frame,
say 10xl2, will accommodate dozen hens
and cock nicely. We prefer an earthen
Hoor, as it is cheaper and healthier than any
other. And it should be raised 10 the top of
the under-priming with dry road dust, loan
and sand, and renewed occasionally.
Breeding sows and store hogs should not
be neglected now, but should receive good
attention, be well provided with warm shell
ter. and be well fed. All kinds OF stock N
fact, should receive the best of care and be
kept constantly improving For the swine
little powdered sulphur in the slops once a
day or three times week VIII be of great
benefit. Let them have also free access to
some charcoal; also TO an abundance of
liquid.
There is practically little loss of fertilizing
materials by evaporation when manure is
spread broadcast. 1t may be drawn and
spread at this season, and so help out the
rush of spring work. On level land the prac-
tice of spreading manure on the last snow OF
winter is growing in favor. The snow should
not be more than four or six inches deep.
When the manure Spreader is TO be used on
large fields il pays To sled the manure out
and put ii into large piles at each end Of the
lot.
Like sheep, with many farmers sufficient
care is not taken to properly save the manure
from hogs, and no special pains are taken ID
increase the amount. Manure from hogs,
especially when fatted, as they generally are,
on corn fed in the ear, is very valuable and
when combined with the cobs becomes par
ticularly 50. if allowed to lie too long il is
not as good for corn as some other kinds, be-
cause it becomes infested with too many
worms. 1t is coarse, and should be gathered
up and applied before it wastes too much
by lying out exposed to the weather.
Covered yards possess one advantage in re-
gard to the smaller consumption of food by
animals that are covered than by animals
that are not The cold wind. which causes
loss of the heat of the body of animal,
necessitates that animal consuming more
food to regain such heat, but the wet which
falls upon any animal requires a still much
larger amount of heat in order to convert that
moisture into vapOr. Under a covered yard
an animal is protected not only from cold
winds, bat also from the rain, and an inn
mense amount of food is thus saved.
Breeding fowls should be separated from
the main flock, and only the very best Sc
leCted if we would improve them. Breeding
at random is too much like saving seedcorn
from the bin, one does not get what they
should've best. Selling the best fowls and
breeding from those that are left, as many
DO, is like planting seed peas or beaas from
the vines that have supplied the table till
they are no longer worth picking. The
poultry raiser, as the stoek-breeder, should
breed from the finest specimens, those that
will give him the most profit for the out
lay.
In an address by Mr.. J. ]. Coleman, Presi-
dent of the chemical section of the PhlO-
sophical Society of Glasgow, it was stated
that at about 1873 below zero the flesh of ami
mails, such as mutton, becomes so hard as to
ring like porcelain when struck with iron,
and can be crushed into n fine powder. And
yet, as demonstrated by his own and Profess
SOr Mckendricks experiments, micrObia
contained in such meat has recovered vi
tally on thawing, even after an exposure of
100 hours to the temperature above men
toned.
The currant may easily be grown from the
seeds but this is not advisable except for the
purpose of obtaining new and better varie-
ties. There is wide field for improvement
in this direction. A large per cent of seed
lings will be inferior TO the old standard va
| rieties, but this should not deter us from
making an effort for something better. Some
| bushes will be found producing finer fruit
and more abundant crops every year than
! others OF the same variety and seeds SHOULD
! always be selected from the best punches of
fruit produced.
| President Barry stated to the Western New
! York Horticultural Society that to become
| really profitable apple orchards must have a
| soil, the fertility of which is to be main
tanned with suitable fertilizers, giving the
trees a good annual growth, with judicious
pruning and the destruction of noxious in
| sects that when the fruit is well grown, it
must be carefully gathered assorted, packed
and market. the whole requiring care and
! skill at every step, and without which or
charding can not be profitable.