The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-07

spring rains. Dry winds and lack oil
moisture cause some of the plants to per-
ish, and the more growth made py the
time the warm days shall come on the
better il will be for runners and plants in
rowe.
Mrs. Ada Martin, OF Charlton, Iowa says:
ITO prevent cholera in poultry dissolve
copperas in water and sprinkle the premises
with it, feeding little salt and bread soda
in the soft food, scalding the ground grain
when mixing it" She never feeds on the
ground. Her preference is yello T.legged
fowls. a pound Of copperas in two gallons
Of water is an excellent disinfectant.
The Woman's Journal of Boston, Mass,
reports Mrs. A. Hills, of Skowhegan Falls,
Wis, as q successful ee-keeper, her stock
] in three years having increased from two
colonies to forty-one, and the surplus
| honey, after enough had been sold to pay
| all costs, averaging eighty-two pounds per
colony. Mrs Hills feels justified in think
| ing that bee keeping is good business for
women.
Tobacco lie another excellent insectcid9
| and ought to be more used. Ia many
| places the stems can be obtained free at
cigar manufactures, and they make an
excellent insec;.repelling mulch for vari-
GUS plants, as we'll as being OF value as a
fertilizer. A strong decoction of tobacco
made by soaking the stems in water, or
| boiling them, is effective in killing plant
lice, red spiders and many other similar
pests.-Prairie Farmer.
An advocate of corn-fed pork admits
that the hog fed miscellaneously has the
sweetest and tenderest meat, and If tas.e
| be q criterion in pork as 1t is reckoned 10
be in everything else that is eatable, the
fTuit.fed ana milk. fed pork is certainly
| ~ he Cd o 10 E-v,,
be desired il may be had by finishing of
the last few weeks OF fsttening by feeding
corn mesl, not corn in the ear.
Tie seeds of carrots and psrsnips are
very Glow in terminating, and to this
cause is due the failure on the part OF some
| farmers to grow those crops. The seed
should be sown early, so as to have the
young plants make some Roadway before
the grass shall begin to grow thicklY, oil
hand wedding must be resorted to. II
would be best 10 use plenty of seed, plant
ing them in 'stools" about six inche!
apart in the rows, and thin out the sur
plus plants sfter they shall be up.
Fowls all roost high, and If the nests are
placed up against the walls, at a distance
above the floor, the hens will roost in then
at night and soon make them filthy. 6igb
nests breed lice, for the heat of the hens
bodies Oh the nest all night will hatch on
| lice plenbfully. The nests should be do VI
on the ground and so arranged that they
can be taken out of the poultry house to b:
cleaned.
There are in America over 4 000, 00farms
lsrge and small. They cover nearly 20,
COCO acres Of improved land, and theIl
total value Is something like $40 600, 000, 900
These figures, are not, of course, very com
pIehensible. They simply convey the ideS
of vastness of area and equal Ysstness o
importance. The estimated value OF to-
yearly products Of these farms is between
5000, O00. 600 and S.. 900 000, 600.
The best remedy for Toup is 10 give tn
bird a pill of asssfetida as large as bear
twice day, and to inject at the same tim
two drops (using SEWN e machine oil can
of the following mixture, in each nos,ril
ard four drops down the throat. Bromo
cbloralum, one dram; water, one dram
csrbolic acid, ten DROPS. Keep the bird II
dry, warm place. Roup may be knoTI
by foul odor, discharge from the nostrils
hoarse breathing and sometimes swelIeI
head and closed eyes.