The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-21
EARzz NOTES.

egg DaSkeL. twenty PcunuS Ol GOTH, IIteen
pounds of oats, ten pounds of barley, ten
pounds of wheat bran, 10 be ground fine and
well mixed.
A writer in The Poultry Keeper keeps what
he calls homemade tincture of iron" in
bottle of water in which handful of rusty
nails has been placed. A little of this placed
in the hens drinking-water adds greatly to
their health, he thinks, but it may be {
doubted.
According to the statistics compiled at the
Office of the Illinois State Board of Agric1lt-
ure, the number of hogs for 1885 was 1885,
$50. The average weight OF the 5000, las head
marketed was 800 pounds, and the price 1895
per hundred pounds.
A farmer in Central New York, where
many beans are raised. says the best crops
are produced when they are planted in hills
two feet apart each way, and the soil worked
with narrow cultiyator. He advises plant
ing from five to seven beans in q hill.
If your Leghorns have too mach comb,
cut it off. Use sharp pair of scissors, trim
closely to the head, and take off the wattles
also. Then dip the head IN strong alum
water, and put the birds in a warm, dry
place until the combs and wattles have
head.
1t will do hen no harm to have her
wings clipped, and it will prevent her from
going over the fence. The proper mode is
10 cut only one Wig. Inc TWO longest, are
flight feathers and may be left, cutting al the
shorter ones. When her wings are folded,
the shortened feathers will not be seen.
If large watermelOns are desired for show
or exhibition purposes, give the vines a very
deep, well-enriched SOIL and do not permit
more than one fruit TO remain on a vine.
Pinch back the leading shoots occasionally,
and be very careful not to iDjure the vine in
any way during its season OF growth.
Mr. j. J. H. Gregory is authority for the
report that a Mr.. Curtis, farmer of Pea
body, Mass, has a variety OF apples so like
Baldwin that it can not be distinguished
from that variety, and that it appears to
have the remarkable power to reproduce
itself true to type from the seed.
Do not be tempted to keep rooster that is
not thoroughbred or that is related TO the
hens, no matter how promising he may
seem. Change the cocks every year, and
the flock win gradually improve in vigor.
resulting in greater lumber of healthy
chicks, as well as an increase in the supply
of eggs.
Professor Brown says that the experience
of thirty years convinces him that OF all
animals on the farm the pig is the most free
from dental Irregularities; and the evidence
of age which skilled Inspector may obtain
from a careful examination of the teeth, may
be accepted as free from any suspicion of
error.
Mr.. B. c. johnson, of Champaign, ILL.,.
states as the result of his observation that
good crops of broom corn can not be raised
many years in succession on the same land,
even if a considerable quantity of manure be
annually applied to il. 1t appears to ex-
haust the fertility of the soil much quicker
than common corn, small grain, or potatoes.
A man in California recently received 5000
for single cherry tree. 1t was required to
be removed to make way for the New Alma
den railroad. The owner demanded 5000 for
it; experts were appointed, and 1T was proved
that the tree had for years yielded the owner
crops Of fruit which sold for sums equivalent
to the interest on the amount claimed. By
compromise 5000 was accepted for the tree.
G. Gowing, of Indiana, says that, having
mislaid a paper of gourd seed, which he in
tended to plant early in the spring, he did
not plant them till'June. The exterior of
the seed had become hard and dry; so he
carefully split the shells at once, planting
the germs. They came up in short time,
and grew vigorously till autumal frost, and
produced the only satisfactory crop of gourds
he ever raised.
Horseradish should be planted as early in
the season as possible, or just as soon as the
ground can be properly prepared, and if large
roots are desired the soil can not be made too
rich and deep. In planting always use sets.
These are t1e rootlets or branches of the
main root, which are too small for table use.
They are cut into pieces about four or five
inches in length, and in such manner that
there will be no danger in setting the roots
upside down. Sets planted upside down
will never make good roots.
To have fine crop of large, rich cnrrants.
enrich the ground, make it clean and mel
low, and thin out the brush. Cut away the
old stunted wood and leave the vigorous
young shoots. Let them occupy equal dis
tances from each other and give the bushes
in some degree regular form. No fruit is
more neglected than the currant, the bushes
being allowed to become enyeloped in weeds
and grass, and the enfeebled bushes allowed
to grow into mass of brush. The difference
in the size of the berries raised IN the two
modes is about as one TO four.
Cyrus T. Fox, in his Experiences of a
LIFETIME" read before the Pennsylvania
Horticultural Association, ascribes much Of
failure of fruit trees of late years to exhaus-
ton Of the soil, and not to diseases and in
sscts, and he recommends more generous
treatment He measured an apple tree in
his neighborhood which was over five feet in
diameter five feet from the ground and it
was in a thrifty and vigorous condition. He
thinks it is the largest apple tree in the
world. 1t grows on high, gravelly, ironstone
land. Another tree was nearly as large.
A correspondent of the Texas stockman,
IN writing about marketing eli mohalr, says;
81 have received returns from my mohair.
Though it was but six months growth,
received sixty cents for the best, which was
about onesixth of the amount shipped. The
price averaged thirty cents. One of my
neighbors received ninety cents for his best
mohair, fall clip. They wrote me that /
should have rolled each fleece up separately,
which shall do this spring The outside of
the fleece should be rolled out. / expect a
better price for this springs clip, as the hair
is longer than in the fall Goats will yield
more when shorn twice q year, and it is bet
ter for the goats"
A London paper says project is on foot
for the establishment of colonial school
and training farm for young men intending
to engage in agriculture abroad. The under
taking is approved of and supported by the
head-masters of our great public schools. and
many more who may be considered to have
knowledge of the need of such an institution
from the home point Of view. At present
there are thousands of young men annually
leaving these shores for our colonies, OF whom
only very small proportion are fitted in any
way for the life on which they are entering;
consequently the number Of failures is Ia
mentable. An institution ut which some