The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
FARM NOTES.


1t is said that the pods of lima beans are
injurious to hogs, though they may be freely
fed to cows.
The use of Paris green on potatoes and
other things kills many bees and insects that
are useful, and also destroys many small
birds.
American pork now enters Germany
through England, and thus evades the paw
ment of duty. In England it is branded as
English pork.
Pennsylvania fruit grower prevents the
ravages of the borer by killing the earth about
the tree ten inches high in May, as the borer
appears in June.
1t IS said that pyrethrum, mixed with five
times its bulk of plaster. and busted into the
center of the leaves with pair of bellows,
will destroy cabbage worms.
Regarding the dehorning of cattle, West
ern paper says that experience teaches that
the growth of the horn oan be stopped by
applying redhot iron to the horn germ in
calves.
1t requires more time to spread manure
over two acres than over one, and hence the
aim should be to concentrate the labor on
the smallest space that can be made profit
able.
For the best egg production in heavy fowls
oats are as good feed as any. They give bulk,
while the nutriment they contain is of the
kind which goes to make eggs rather than
lat.
Horses are not fully matured until six years
OF age, nor do they arrive at their full
strength until eight years old. Immature
animals are often Overtaxed and their future
usefulness injured.
Celery plants should be pricked out about
six inches apart as soon as they are large
enough to handle with the fingers. When
six or seven inches high transplant a foot
apart in the rows.
Into a pound of soft soap dissolve one
ounce of carbolic acid crystals, and it be-
comes an excellent remedy for lice on ami
mails when they are washed in warm water
with the aid of the soap.
An enterprising New Englander Mr.. Col
cord, has invented a governor for the silo,
which is claimed as regulator of the tenn
peIature, fermentation and quality Of the
ensilage stored.
Australian fruit arrives in England in ex-
cellent condition. 1t is packed in cOrkdust
or sawdust and placed in cold compart-
ment where the temperature is kept as near
to forty degrees as possible.
Short hay crops mean cheap cattle in au-
tumn. But the farmer who makes full pro-
vision for keeping can buy and turn his fod-
der to good account not only in sales but in
added value to the manure pile.
Time intelligently given to bees will pay
cpudhy well Win Iudl given 70 any OLner
kind of farm work; and where too many
are kept it may be done at such times as not
| to interfere with other important work.
When hoe becom dull it retards work
because of the increased tax il imposes on
strength. Sharpen it by filing to chisel
edee. When sharp it works much more
| effectively, especially when there are weeds
| to cut.
In selecting SOW for breeding choose one
q nm int and rnild in
may be the one that will lay on fat most
| easily, and will therefore be necessary to
| feed sparingly, but she will be all the better
| as breeder for Ehis.
| One of the advantages from narrowing
| corn is that man with a smart team will
run over nifty acres or more per day. The
smoothing harrow takes a width of eleven
| feet, and as only scratching the surface is de-
sired no tapping is needed.
| Corn and potatoes may often be top
dressed to advantage after planting, provid-
| ing hne mar ure is used. The cultivation of
the sc crops during the season will mix the
manure with the soil much more perfectly
than it could be If plowed under,
The disadvantages of the ordinary system
OF setting milk in shallow pans for raising
the SHINING is completed. too much SPACE is
required and in summer the milk becomes
sour before the whole of the cream is raised.
| Professor e. NJ. Shelton considers thirty
loads of msnure applied to one acre about
| equal 10 forty spread over twice as much
| surface, and bases the idea on reasons similar
TO those employed I'D proving large crops
NOR profitable than small one.
/ After cutting, orchard grass springs rap
idly, and the aftergrowth Is heavy. This
should not be pastured during the summer
| or fall, but should be reserved for winter
/ grazing. 1t should be treated as above di-
rected in the case of the tall meadow-oat
| grass.
Mustard plants used to be the terror and
disgust of the California wheatgrower.