The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-16
Earn Notes

issue. "a word to the wise" etc.
Farm Notes
For home use the white onions are pre-
ferred, as they are mild in flavor. For
market use the red and yellow kinds are
the most desirable.
Where the water is slow in disappearing
from certain portions of the field the best
remedy is tile drainage, which will incur
but little expense.
All canes of blackberries that have not
been cut back should be attended to at
once, as such neglect causes more laterals
and makes the bush compact and stocky.
Do not cover small seeds with too much
earth. Half an inch is deep enough for
some kinds, as too thick a covering would
cause them to perish before they could
terminate and push through.
In addition to the usual thickness of
tarred paper in wooden silos coating of
hot tar ON both thicknesses of boards is
now proposed. This, it is claimed, will
preserve the boards from rotting.
1t is best to divide large silo into two
or three compartments of equal size; di-
vided by temporary partitions. BY this
means slow filling can be practiced about
as is described by Hiram Smith.
The number of farmers who are making
good silage in the barn bays is certainly
surprising. Prof. Gulley's plan of filling
the silos and using the hay for weighing
is Practised by many very successfully.
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The common white clover grows wher-
ever our red clover is found, and makes
an excellent pasture grass. Where bees
large amount of honey of excellent
quality.
Rural NeV Yorker says: "Qne thing
seems to have been quite we'll demon
strated, that a larger quantity OF potatoes,
as well as potatoes of better quality, can
be raised with chemical fertilizers than
with manure"
In feeding silage or grain it pays TO
weigh a shovelful or measureful and thus
systematic the feeding. 1t is better to
feed by the pound, but it viii not pay to
weigh every feed. Know what your meas
ureful weighs.
Some perennial herbs, as sage, pennel,
balm, mint hoarhound, lavender, rue,
thyme, savOry and tansy are easily grown,
and should be found in every garden, as
once obtained they require but little labor
and care.
Shady places may be made attractive
with wild flower garden" the seeds OF
which, composed OF u mixture of larkspur,
mignOnette, marigold, foxglove, candytuft,
and poppies can be secured at any seed
stCie.
Breeders of fancy fowls, when pressed
with orders, sometimes send out eggs that
are small and understood. While such eggs
may hatch, yet, as rule, the chicks will
be weak and not easily reared. Only full
sized eggs should be shipped for Matching
purposes.
In the West, where the ensilage system
is being extensively pushed, the system of
hiring cutters as threshing machines are
hired is tery popular. The cutter and en-
CINE 90 about from house to house with
men enough TO take care of the fodder as
fast as it is presented. Thus many smaller
farmers who could not afford to own
cutter and power are enabled to fill their
silos at reasonable cost.
Young peach trees that made rapid
growth last season have been apparently
killed in some places the past winter. Do
not remove them as yet, but wait for the
buds to appear along the trunks, as will be
the case if only the tops be dead. Cut off
the tops down TO the nearest buds and
permit the trees to make new tops. The
peach tree can stand any amOunto OF cutting
back.
The cheapest and best mode OF keeping
lice out of the poultry house is to add a
quart OF kerosene oil to each bucket OF
strong sOapsuds on washing days and
thoroughly saturate the floor, walls, roosts
and every portion of the poultry house,
forcing the LIQUID into the cracks and
crevices. 1t viii kill the vermin as soon
as it shall touch them, being one of the
best insecticides known.
Scatter ashes along the rows OF the
young strawberry plants as soon as they
shall be large enough to work. Stir the
earth, take out all grass and then apply
the ashes on the surface, and the rains
will carry them down to the roots. Fer
tilizers for strawberries give the best re-
suits when applied near the surface and
not worked into the soil, as the roots feed
near the surface instead of penetrating
deeply.
Only one quart of milk per cow for each
day may be the turning point between
profit and loss in the dairy. As some
cows will yield twice as much as others,
it becomes the duty of the dairyman to
raise his cows and use only those from
good milking families. No dairyman can