The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-18
slightly disease. The second application
will mot often be necessary

will not often be necessary.
Seed corn cannot be too dry, according
TO the experience of Connecticut farmer,
who states that although his corn is good,
sound and so dry that it will slide around
with touch, nevertheless, he is taking
the precaution to season several bushels in
warm room for seed.
Now that the holiday supply of poultry
is being reduced, prices will advance.
Early broilers will begin to be in demand
after February, weile capons will be high
| est q month later, There is always a sup.
ply of frozen young stock at this season.
| left over from the fall supply OF late
chicks.
Feeding for eggs is the principal thing,
no matter what breed of fowls one may
keep for winter laying. Mashed potatoes
in the soft food are very desirable two or
| three times q week. Vegetables are neces-
ssry, as well as grain and animal food for
full development OF the laying capacities
of any breed of poultry.
Broomsedge, a worthless plant that over
runs old fields in the South, is rapidly dis
appearing before the introduced forage
plant, Japan clover. A writer says that
no land is too poor for the latter and none
too good. Its seeds are carried everywhere,
and 1t is taking possession of the waste
places, converting them into valuable
| pastures.
To keep the cows hair out of milk, even
at the season when the herd are shedding
old coats freely, the American Dairyman
ADVISES lsSiuE I~o Ihlcknes5ee OF hne
cbeeEe clo'h b 10 basin strsiner, wire cloth
bottom. "A single strainer let's through
| vast nus0 h,T. sDd double one is little
httter. TIE airs get into the cream and
butter sn6 maze endless trouble"
Lend does not always give immediate re-
| T. Ian mn
completely oecomposec the manure the
bier the crop, as such manure is more
70 !Eble. IL manure. when applied, he
coarse snd fall Of litter, it may require
tao or more years before il will reach q
cr"ti'icn to he of service. which ex-
plains the securing OF heavier crops OF
times during the second year than in the
first.
The poultry industry of our country
counts up to hundreds of millions
annually. Every farm and many village
homes have greater or less interest in it.
That table in the lowliest home, as well
as IN the grandest, would be sadly
of, upon which eggs did not enter more
or less into the cookery. There 1s as much
difference in profitable breeds and profit
able management with hens, as with any
other industry.
d. B. Weir Of Illinois, claims that the
black walnut may be transplanted with as
much safety as any other tree, that it
is not necessary to plant where they are
to grow; but that they may be thickly
planted in nursery rows and then trans
planted at 10 years of age with perfect
safety. By the way, it is time TO plant
Talnuts now, and every farmer ought to
start few at least; they are very valuable
both as nut bearing trees and Tor timber.
A cemeet floor is not best for dairy,
as it absorbs the drippings OF milk and be-
comes foul il a short time. A good floor
is of matched plank, with tight joints, and
painted, so that it will absorb no moisture.
Whatever drippings that should fall from
the ch1rn could be washed off such floor
without leaving any traces. Brick is quite
as absorbent as cement. A fagstone floor
with close joints set in cement is the best
| OF all.
Mr.. Crozier, of the Department OF Agri-
culture tells the Country Gentleman that
he has found field of Bermuda grass with
heads well filled with ripe seed on stony,
sandy coil on the bank OF the Potomac,
twenty miles below Washington. OF over
500 answers to a circular sent out last win
ter by the Commissioner of Agriculture to
farmers in the South asking whether Ber-
muda had been known to seed, less than q
dozen replied that they had found
seed, but always in small quantities.
The yearly loss by the depredations of
insects in the United States has been va
riously estimated at from $500, 000,000 to
$500, 600, 600; but though the amount of
crops has been increasing, We have no
doubt the insect losses have decreased
through the knowledge of cultivators to
elude or destroy them. A late scientific
winter. says there is no doubt X would be
wise economy for every State 10 the Union
to have properly qualified officer charged
with the study of insect injuries and bene-
| a.. -, 4 ~ L. a
be saved to the State.-Country Gentleman.
The question whether one-eye, two-eye
tbree-eye, in half pieces or whole potatoes
for seed should be used is a conditional
one. In q very rich soil two-eye pieces
J might give the best crop; IL poor soil
larger pieces wonld perhaps yield better
Some varieties of potatoes are weakly
growers and would be helped by the larger
| seed. Others ere rank grower, and small
seed pieces would do as well or batter
This problem can be best solved by each
, | planter, as the condition of the soil differ:
with the locality.
The four feet of an ordinary OK will make
pint of meats foot oil. Not bone OF any
, animal should be thrown away. Many
cattle shin-bones are shipped to England
for the making of knifehandles, where
they bring $40 ton. The thighbones are
the most valuable, being worth $50 tor
: for cutting into tooth brush handles. The
foreleg bones are worth $50 ton, and arr
made into contributions, parasol handle
3 ard jewelry, though sheep legs are the sta
t pie parasol handles. The water in which
the bones are boiled is reduced to glue
end the dust which comes from saving
them is fed to cattle and poultry.
r Side by side in experiment plots VI
have raised as many as seventy-fVe differ
! ent kinds of wheat. The best yield wa
! at the rate of thirty-seven bushels to tn
l acre-the lowest twenty five. Side by sid
we have raised 100 different varieties o
potatoes. The highest yield in our ricl
. garden soil has been at the rate of owe
/ 200 bushels to the acre-the lowest abou
5 800. In field culture in poor soil well fer
tilted with potato fertilizers we hsv
t raised from one variety $50 bushels to tn
s acTe-from another 800 to the acre. Now
a what whest on your soil, good farmer, vii
give the maximum yield? What potato
g What kind OF oatsf Isn't it worth you
II while to find out, or don't you believe i
!, such difference? Rural New Yorker.