The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-30
FARM NOTES.

Plant celery from the middle of June TO
the middle of July.
Reports from the Panhandle of Texas iu-
dictate that the calf crop in that country IS
large.
Encourage toads in your hotbed and gar
den. They will destroy more than their
weight in insect pests.
A man may have the best known breed of
fowls, and if they are not properly cared for
they will not give satifaction.
Now is an excellent time to push young
pigs, as they grow very rapidly after the
weather commences to become warm.
The advice to put COW before calving on
short rations to prevent milk fever is bad,
The food should be regular, not forced.
Dust melon vines with Paris green or Lon
don purple to keep of the bugs. Dust with
one part of the powder to twenty-five parts
of flour.
Calves kept gaining vigorously through
the first year are worth at the end twice as
much as others that have been retarded in
growth.
A second brood of currant worms usually
makes its appearance just as the fruit begins
to r1pen, and is quite as injurious to the
crop as the first if not promptly destroyed.
A soil but five inches deep can not be
worth as much as another that gives free
scope to the roots of plants to whatever
depth they may penetrate in search of nutri-
ment.
Fowls that must be fed in summer should
be fed regularly. If fed only twice d day
feed lightly in the morning and give full
feed at night. If fed but once day, feed at
night.
DR.. Sturtevant, at the New York Expert
ment Station, found that mulching the soil
lightly between the rows of peas with straw
retards the attack of mildew very percepti
bly,. 1t is the late-sown crop that suffers.
BY keeping land in clover, cutting the first
crop and blowing under the second, a New
York farmer produced 100 bushels of shelled
corn per acre. The fortified used was n
handful of hen manu- around each hill of
corn.
1t is stated that it costs S27, 800 per head
to make farmers in the agricultural depart
ment of Yale College-that is, its fund of
$l65,000 expended for that purpose has
placed six agricultural graduap before the
world.
Now is the time to prepare for bluegrass
winter pasture. Let it grow from this time
on undisturbed, and for fall, winter and
early spring pasture it will be worth more
per acre than the everlasting cropping of
grain.
If farmer makes but little effort, and is
content to drive an old scrubby team and
scatter little fodder to "old Brindle, while
sunfish hogs and hairy, worthless sheep COM
plete the live stock outfit, that man is a mis-
cradle failure.
The problem of farming consists in max
ing the soil increasingly fertile. Manure is
the farmers savings bank, and il more OF
them would have large heaps of 1t every
spring to spread upon their lands, instead of
money at interest, they would prosper bet
ter in the end.
Clover growth is helped by lime and
plaster. Large quantities of nitrogen are con-
tanned in the earth and air, and clover absorbs
nitrogen more than any other plant. The
plant and air work together In furnishing
an exhaustless supply of food for all kinds
of food plants.
Separated early and raised up by them
selves pullets are worth at least quarter
more for use than If allowed to run with a
lot of cockerels In the large, late maturing
breeds the evil is less, though even with
them the practice of keeping them separate
is most profitable.
1t is thought by some good observers that
the disease curl in the leaf of the peach tree
is caused, or at least assisted, by the lack of
soluble potash in the soil. In proof of this
it is stated that trees Enthusiastically affected
with curl have been quickly changed to
health through the application CT unbleached
wood ashes about the trees.
Whenever rhubarb throws out a great
many leaves and the stalks are small and
worthless the roots should be dug up and