The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-25
Farm .InnrnaI.


After you have narrowed the garden ine and
the work has been apparently finished, harrow
it again, The soil for garden cannot be made
too fine, especially if small seeds are to be
sown.
Do not purchase more than two colonies oil
bees to start with. IF the owner can manage
these successfully he will have in the fall (pro
Fided 1t be q good season] four good strong colo
MES and between 400 and 500 pounds of honey.
IL he should succeed his knowlede must increase
in the same ratio as bis bees He must also ex.
pect reverses like the past season, which has
been, with few exceptions. an entire failure all
over this continent
Pumpkins planted among corn should not be
planted at the same time with the corn, but
when the corn is about four inches high. Take
an old shovel or fork handle point the end OF It,
make hole with this, drop in your pumpkin
seed, and close in the hole with your foot. BY
this method you can get your pumpkins just
where you want them, as thick as you want
them, and being later than the corn. the vines
are not in the way OF the cultivator.
Western Rural: The demand for canned
asparagus is increasing yearly, exceeding the
supply Therefore, growers need not be afraid
of over-stocking the market. The first half acre
planted to asparagus on Long island. which is
now great "srass" producing tract, was kept
in that crop. without repan ting for thirty years.
When finally broken up forty-two horse loads of
roots were carted off When the bed was in its
prime 1T often gave fifty lunches, weighing
three and one-hAlf pounds each at a days
outing.
The Guernsey Breeder says soft charcoal. es-
peclally willow, ought always to be kept in the
cow stable If cow does not look bright give
teacupful in her bran or other feed and wet
up. II her breath is bad, her horns hot and her
nose dry she is dyspepric and feverish. Give
her charcoal. If she has hollow horn, sure and
no mistake give charcoal, half a teaspoonful at
each meal for three or four days. It is an excel
lent thing to give charcoal all around once a
week. It is the best regulator of stomach and
bowels known.
A cheap hose for watering plants can be made
of heavy ducking, says correspondents of Farm
Life Cut the duckinR into strips the width
needed to make the size wanted, fold the edges
together, and sew two with sewing
machine. Then roll into rolls or balls, and boil
in grating WAX. the same cloth for grating
purposes. II made $50 feet of such hose" says
the correspondent, ito water straw berries and
vegetables. I cut the cloth length wise, about
fifty feet in a section, and then sewed the sec-
tions together It will leak little, but not
enough to amount to anything"
member of New York farmers club has
sought information concerning the value of en-
silage, and with this object visited many places
to examine slloS and to observe the results of
feeding ensilage freely. He has reached the con-
clusion that roots are better and that they
could be produced as cheaply, considering the
cost with reference TO the results He found
no difficulty IN obtaining 1000 bushels Of beets
from acre of ground-much larger crops
have been raised, one man having obtained
z. 400 bushels. He has fed roots with some
grain and only five pounds OF hay as the daily
allowance for each cow. AS matter of belief
he declared it his opinion that dairymen who
used ensilage successfully, fed more grain than
he with his roofs. A month ago he gave his cows
each a bushel of beets cut in pieces, but the
milk supply was getting short, so he began
feeding more beets and kept increasing until
the daily allowance was two bushels to q cow.
The milk yield up twenty quarts under
this feeding and held mp, result that proved
the value of his beets which, he said, he could
produce at a cost Of four cents a bushel