The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-28
FARM NOTES.

Ground properly prepared for planting, Is
half cultivated.
The corn row will not be straight if you
look behind you.
Michigan celery growers propose to organ
iZe celery exchange. Last year they ship
ped $685. 600 worth.
Make record of the time when you set
your hen, in order that you may be looking
out for the Matching.
If the hay ran short and the cattle are thin
and poor, remember to use caution in letting
them into rich pasturage.
BeYery careful about the temperature of
the hot-bad, keeping it as even and moist as
possible, and not too high-never over $50.
Grape cuttings should be placed in the
ground at once. The same is true of all
hardy cuttings. The earlier in the spring the
better.
A healthy hen REQUIRES no stimulants ex-
cept good food. If any substance be used,
let it be ground ginger, using a teaspoonful
for twenty fowls, in soft food.
Don't disfgure your grounds with laths or
Stats when wire netting is so cheap, says the
Homestead. A netting Enclosure is durable
and Will not be blown down in any wind,
The hens are paying the rent on many
WORKOUT farm. They are calling people
back from the factories to the deserted farm.
houses. The American eagle will yet be
hen if solid worth is ever counted.
Never try to stimulate man or bird or
beast. a hen filed with egg producer or
a COW given more food than she can digest,
will go like a man kept on whisky. There
will be brilliant, feverish work for a time,
and then grand collapse.
The wheat record for last year is as follows:
Minnesota. 81, S25, 900 bushels; Michigan, 81,
261, 900 bushels; Iowa, 80, $50, 600 bushels;
then Dakota, ~, 9l3 600 bushels of wheat
Last year Dakota increased her wheat area
by over 100000 acres beyond that of the year
previous.
A fat, puffy" bull is nuisance. Don't
let bull overfeed. Give him plenty of ex-
ercise. He never will he fit for service if
you pamper him. If you can fit up har-
ness for him and make him haul out the
manure and do other light jobs, you would
be doing business-like farming.
Suitable food and lodging; regular hours
of labor; freedom from nagging, ridicule
and the annoyance from his employers
saucy children; considerate treatment gen.
orally; prompt payment of wages according
to agreement, are the rights of the hired
man, according to r. j. Fleming.
The white of a hens egg contains S4.S per
cent. of water, II OF albumen, of fat, sugar
and membranes. and 3 per cent. of mineral
matter. The yolk shows a much greater de-
gree of richness than the white; 1t contains
51.5 per cent water, ID of casein and albu-
men, 80 of oil and fat, 81 coloring matter
and extract, and = per cent. of mineral
matter.
Fuchsias placed in the cellar in the fall
may be brought into heat. When they be-
gin to show new leaves, shift into pots a size
or two smaller than those previously occu-
pied, shaking out most of the old earth. The
soil should be fresh, light and well enriched
with old, decayed manure. Ivy and like
plants with heavy leaves should be often
washed for the sake of health and looks.
Mr. Phipps, Chief of the Bureau of Agri.
| cultural, Canada, is strongly in favor oil
| planting the silver leaf popular for pro-
ducing fuel. He says that he has known a
| tree only twenty years old to afford -four
cords of wood. He raises the trees from cut
| tings OF last seasons growth. He does moi
not pillow the land near the rows, as the
| pillow cuts the roots and causes growth oil
| sprouts.
Ponds are not good for young ducks. Wet
| grass dampneSs and cold sleeping places will
| kill young ducks as quickly as such influ.
| ences will destroy young chicks. Feed the
| ducks on bulky food. Cooked turnips OF
| potatoes, thickened with oat meal makes q
| good and cheap food for them. Give them
| plenty of water TO drink, but not to battle
in until the down is off and the feathers Gov
! er the body. Then you may let them enjoy
1 themselves III the water as luCD as JDey ue
| sire.
Grain is always less injured by dry wealth
| er than is at first supposed. If the plant i:
somewhat pinched up nature concentrate:
her efforts on perfectiDg the seed. thus in
| surfing reproduction. The straw may be
4 short, but the berry will often be plumpel
than when much moister, causing excessive
1 growth of straw, also inducing mildew, rus
and other fungus attacks which feed on toe
4 jnices of the straw that should go 10 perfect
the grain.
1 There is practically little loss of fertilizne
1 materials by evaporation when manure i:
| spread broadcast. 1t may be drawn anl
| spread at this season and so help out the
| rush of spring work. On level land the prAr
| tice of spreading manure on the last snow o.
| 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 OF
large fields, it pays to sled the manure on
and put it into large piles at each end of the
/ lor