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

shops, where there is much noise and smoke.
The bees, if brought to the place when queit
prevails, soon become accustomed to their
peculiar surroundings, and gather honey
all the day." Notwithstanding the noise, jar,
and smoke.
The Russians have an efficient way of man.
aging runaway horses. They take a cord
made into a slip-noose, which is passed
around the animals neck. The other end is
placed where the driver can easily reach it.
Any attempt TO run away results in tighten
ing this cord, which soon brings the animal
to terms.
Many diseases of swine are contagious, AMI
when an animal is observed TO be sick il
should be removed from the pen and placed
by itself 1t would be Just as well to keep a
watchful eye on the balance. Clean out the
pens and troughs, scrape out all decaying
matter from under and around them and use
some disinfectant.
In the horse, good width between the
eyes, the eyes prominent but placid, with a
good height from the eye to the ear, are in
dications of intelligence. IL the forehead is
prominent and smooth, it indicates mild,
equabe temper. A round barrel indicates
good digestion; double loin strength. an
oblIque shoulder, sure-footedness With
fat, hard bones. long in the arms, speed is
indicated.
For early maturity the yearling Short
horn steer Cleveland has the best record at
the Chicago fat stock shows yet made. He
was slaughtered at 467 days old, with gain
per day of go pounds from birth; live
weight, 1905 pounds; dressed carcass, $40
pounds per cent. dressed OF live weight, 30;
weight of carcass hide and tallow, $50
pounds weight OF forequarters, GIG and 2l3
pounds, and headquarters, 2l0 pounds each
In the reports of several dairy farmes OF
Denmark in the vicinity of Copenhagen, we
thof fl,ar, sol1 ~ tc.r rlor
weighed, and the excellent average of 800
gallons per cow Is quite general. When a
COW falls below $50 gallons per annum she is
| is led off at once for the butcher. A liberal
| system of feeding prevails and the amount
of milk required for pound of butter varies
| from "a to q pounds, or about $50 to 800
| pounds Of butter per COW.
| Ponds are not good for young ducks. Wet
| grass, dampness, and cold sleeping places
| Will kill young ducks as quickly as such in
| iiuences will destroy young chicks. Feed the
ducks on bulky food. Cooked turnips or
| potatoes thickened with oat meal make
| cheap and good food for them. Give them
| plenty of water to drink, but not to battle in
until the down is off and the feathers cover
| the body. Then you may let them enjoy
| themselves in the water as much as they de-
sire.
Asa Woodbury., of Lansville, Mass, gives
the following as his experience with forty
slA DIdhlnd Hehs. lucy ldlu uuIInS The
year. to-wit: In January 753 eggs, February
GEO March 6S3, April 10 May COS, June 7Ol,
July 626, August 5l2. September 426, Octo-
her 296, November 35S, December S47; total,
| 7,410 eggs. The total receipts and stock for
| the year out of the forty-six hens amounted
to S3lI.50, and deductiDg the cost of feeding
| S94. 4S-leaves net profit of $223.02.
To have fine crop of large. rich currants,
| 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 enveloped in
| weeds and grass, and the enfeebled bushes al
| lowed TO grow into mass of brush. The
/ difference in the size of the berries raised by
the two modes is about as one to four.
| Nearly all gardeners transplant cabbage
plants, but successful grower writes that
he sCws the seed in rows twenty-one inches
| apart, in order to allow of cultivating the
| plants with harrow. After they reach
| the size at which transplanting is done he
| transplants all OF those in every alternate
row until the plants stand two feet apar4.
| The rows re three and One-half feet apart.
| He claims that they do as well as those
| transplanted from seed sown in the ordinary
| way.
The hog is the only animal kept on the
farm without some provision for a regular
supply OF pure water. And when this is
considered IL seems strange that there is not
| more disease among swine than there is. a
drink of clear water has the effect to cleanse
the system of many impurities and pass
them off in the secretions, and if a hog is
deprived of water entirely, or limited to
| what he can extract from the Stops, which
ale already saturated with 18th, and obliged
to wallow in filth and sleep IN dust, how can
his system be healthy or his flesh fit food !?
The comfort of the animal should not be
overlooked. and no animal is comfortable
that is suffering with thirst; and sour milk
and greasy dishwater and salt Stops are not
drink