The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-02
FARM NOTES.

Arkansas has State Agricultural Society
formed exclusively of colored men.
1t is very good plan to have two sets of
roosting- poles for the hens and change them
each week setting them outside when notin
use.
Remember. it is the appearance of goods
that sells them. Nice, large, fat, plump,
white turkeys, ducks, chicks or geese always
bring outside prices.
the breed of Durham long-honr cattle, aud it
is believed by many that they will soon be-
come fashionable again.
in Spain, when person eats peach or a
pear as he passes along the road he imme
diately plants the seeds. Fruit trees are
plenty and free to every passer-by.
Small chickens should never be kept or
fed with old ones; they are apt to be injured.
Have two or three yards and separate them
according to size and strength.
The free use of clover seed and keeping of
farm stock enables farmers to maintain land
in good condition for ordinary cropping with
out purchasing commercial manures.
Minneapolis is the greatest wheat market,
receiving last year 81, 000, 900 bushels, against
$4,000 coo in Chicago, 100000 in Duluth,
10000, 600 in Toledo, and 100000 in St.
Louis.
The production of -four at Minneapolis for
week before last was 10S,370 barrels, averag-
ing is 06l barrels daily, against Ill 800 bar
rels the preceding week. and 142 $50 barrels
the corresponding time in 1880.
Cream rises almost wholly when the milk
is cooling says the Dairy Farmer and If the
milk is warmed up to 100 degrees the cream
will nearly all rise while the milk is gradu-
ally cooling down to fifty degrees.
A good condition powder for fowls is as fol-
lows: One pound each of ground bones,
dried meat, linseed meal and fenugreek; an
ounce each of sulphur, ginger, pepper and
copperaS. Give small quantity once day
mixed with soft feed. But do not feed COL
dition powders to hens unless ailing.
II large watermelOnS are desired for show
or exhibition purposes, give the vines very
deep, well-enriched soil and do not permit
more than one fruit to remain on the vine.
Pinch back the leading shoots OCCASIONALLY,
and be very careful not to injure the vine in
any way during its season OF growth.
In the six months ending March 81, Eng
land imported from India 1856. 600 cwts.
| (62 $685. bushels) of wheat, as against only
4,024, 1000 cwts. (33, 533, 1873 bushels) in the
same period of the preceding year; while the
imports from America were only 1884 600
cwts. (49, 523, 333 bushels against 10, 264 900
cwts. (S5, $50, 1913 bushels
Large hogs are neither fashionable nor
profitable. But few hogs are now bred that,
when fully developed, weigh over 700 pounds.
The small boned, early developed hog that
weighs from 275 TO 300 pounds at twelve
months meets the popular demand as the
most profitable, while those large hogs most
always develop later, and have TO be kept too
long.
Transplanting is held by Mr.. L. G. Brown,
| of Lyndebore', \. H, not TO be detrimental
| to plants, and he declares that practical ex-
perience upholds him. He can not prove as
| some assert, that transplanting dwarfs a
plant, and finally submits this question
'Where transplanting gives double the
amount of roots. will not the growth and
| fruit correspond? Then how is the plant in
| jured?"
Professor J. P. Sheldon says that the seri-
ous decline in the value of cattle in England
| ence to the number of calves that will be
raised this year. Calves have been so low in
price that many farmers have decided to
| hold them in the hope. that prices will inn
prove by next year. Again, the value of
milk 10 always powerful factor in the rear
ing and fattening of calves. Milk and its
| products are now lower in England than for
| imported beef, English farmers feel that it
| will nav as we'll to feed the milk to calves as
| 10 iun it through the churn vat, SO that
| the usual number of heifer calves will be
| raised. and In some sections more than usual
| will be held.
Nurseymen SOW the different sorts of forest
| tress on long fat beds like those prepared for
| onions etc and in the planting of acorns for
oaks the nuts are dibbled in at two inches
/ apart The method has been tried to grow
| oaks at once IN the place they are to occupy
permanently, by planting the acorns on the
spot, but they have generally been failures;