The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-04
Farm Notes,

The question is not what could be done
if We had certain other things, bat what
can We do to make the most of what we
have.
1t pays to keep eyes and ears open for
the new developments of agrlc ulture,
Our fathers didn't know it-neither do
their sons.
If farm will pay no mere than legal
interest, how can buyer who has to bOr-
row the whole price expect to meet the
debts at last?
estimated to be 10 per cent, less than last
year, The whole country falls short half
a million bushels.
spanish" onions, which are really Sicil-
ian and Italian onions, are largely sup
planting the American onion from tie
markets of this country.
To wholly abandon 6 staple crop or
product, because il is temporarily unprOfit-
able, is 10 lose ones hold on the market
when it becomes profitable again.
When butter is gathered IN the ohurn in
granular form, 1t IL never overchurned.
Pounding it after ii is in lump or large
mass is what ovsrchurns ii.
Large profits do not always depend upon
large crops. One may grow an extraor-
binary large crop, but the expense Of so
doing may balance the receipts.
More than 10, 0OO, coo eggs arrive in New
York each week. The chief supply is from
Canada and Michigan. a single Canada
train had thirty-one cars with 100000 eggs
in each.
II is estimated that over eight thousand
head of cattle have been slaughtered in
Chicago IN the efforts of the Illinois 1--we
Stock Commissioners TO stamp out pleurO-
pneumonia in this State.
Professor McMurtrie seems to prove by
Investigations that the much praised and
sought for "fol6s' in merino sheep are
detrimental, in that they do not increase
the yield and do decrease the quality.
Sometimes land may be profitably
plowed in winter when slightly frozen. A
thin slice of frozen earth is no serious OBJ
stTuction to the pillow with good cutter IN
| advance, nor is II any injury when turned
| to the bottom of the furroW. Rather Gu
| Iiously, it makes the land warmer aud
dryer early in spring than it would other
| wise be. The explanation of this singular
| fact is that the frozen earth holds the fur
row up and prevents it from becoming as
| compact as it otherwise would fall, es-
| pecjally If wet. While the frozen slice at
the bottom thsws by internal heat Of the
| soil beneath it, the furrow above it mean
while freezes, thus insuring not only dis
Indignation Of soil to that depth, but a
| looseness of texture that admits the warm
| air in spring when the furrow thaws out.
| A heavy sod, plowed when there is thin
| slice of frozen soil among the grass roots,
makes particularly mellow seed bed IN
| spring. The frost works il down about as
| well as working on it half the summer
could do.-American Cultivator.
Some good farmers are readopting the old
method of threshing their oat crops with
fail, leaving the work to be done in winter,
who would otherwise be idle. There are
some other advantages in this practice not
included in the employment it gives to
labor in winter. The freshly threshed oat
straw is readily eaten by stock, and there
are usually enough light oats left in it to
make it passably gooS teed. 1t u better to
leave light oats in the straw than to put
them In the bin among the threshed grain,
for unless the grain is carefully graded
some Of these light oats will go in the seed
and help to deteriorate the crop. With
handkerchief oats in cold weather there
has been no danger that of vitality seed
has been impaired by heating.
In the winter it is necessary, thinks a
writer in the Mirror and Farmer, to con-
fine COWS much in warm shelters, and even
in summer, especially when soiling is the
practice, the COWS will be in their shelter
not little. The successful dairymaR will
! give the greatest attention to stables. IN
| fact, the success of the dairyman, while by
no means altogether due 20 it, Is usually
measured by his study of sheltering and
| the wisdom and care he shows IN the build
ing and care Of COW stables.