The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-13
Farm Notes.

Tt is said that the following preparations APP
Piled to the surface will prevent any rusting
on plows or any other metal surfaces:
Melt one ounce of resin in gill of lin
seed oil, and when hot mix with two quarts of
kerosene oil This can be kept on hand and APP
piled in a moment with brush rag to Il o
metal surface of any tool that is not going to
be used for few days preventing any rust,
and saving much vexation when the time comes
to use it again.
In majority of cases the cheap egg foods are
composed of bone meal and ground oyster
shells. They are do doubt excellent to a certain
extent, but not worth the price asked for
them when put up in the shape of boxed goods
for market. If ground oyster shells are desired
they can be procured as such at low price and
if bone meal is desired it is cheaper to buy it
direct from the manufacturer or from poultry
supply house. Many so-called egg foods are
given high-sounding names, though composed
only OF cheap substances.
A New York farmer, writing of the benefits
of under. draining relates one of them enjoyed
in time of drought In the spring of 1886 he
under-drained piece of ground which he could
not usually pillow until June In April of 1887,
when he put his pillow in, the ground could not
have been in better condition. He says: Though
the season was uncommonly dry this piece pro-
duced the heaviest growth of oats / saw during
the season, giving me sixty two bushels OF clean,
heavy oats to the acre, and the catch of grass
seed was as good as l ever saw"
correspondent of an Ohio agricultural paper
says that one of his neighbors threshed his corn
this year in an old vibrator thresher. and made
such success of it that farmers III that vicinity
followed his example He threshed out 231
bushels in three quarters of day, and another
man threshed 200 bushels of shelled corn in half
day. They set the machine outside of the
barn and the fodder into the NOW. The
fodder can be carried in bushel basket. He is
satisfied that it will pay well to run the fodder
through the machine after it has been husked.
Maj. Alvord, of Amherst, Mass, has for
eral years kept accurate record of the milk
yield of summer mixers and those of winter.
the latter kept under favorable conditions, and
has found that winter mixers. as rule give
about 1000 pounds more milk in a season than
ter than the summer quality this LOCO pounds
of milk should be worth at least $l2 more than
the summer yield. With dairy of twenty five
cows, this would be 5000, enough for a man and
his wife to go in August to the White mount
aims tour.
e suggestion for the building of ice houses is
made by person who has had large experience
in the work, and has tried various schemes.
His last was this: when the frame work
is raised know the boards the outside will
be put perpendicularly and those
ON the inside horizontally. On the
outside I nail heavy builders paper hori-
zontally on the framework and board it.
On the inside / run the paper up and down
ject aimed at is to make complete air.
space as possible. Into this air-space no filling
of any kind should be put. In filling the house
with ice the latter is packed within six inches
of the wall and that space is rammed with
dust, or, what is better, sawdust and planning
mill shavings mixed The top of the ice must
be well covered. After this the condition of the
ice-house should be carefully inspected as often
every other day"