The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-17
Farm Notes.

Mutton is in greater demand than WOOL yet
the supply of choice mutton is always far be-
low the demand.
The fall colt should be well cared for until
six months old. by which time the pastures will
be ready, and he will cost but little.
According to Prof II. c. Fernald, the borer
in ounce is the same as that in the apple tree,
and should be destroyed in the same manner.
If it take ten tons of good sweet silage to feed
a cow one year, summer and winter, it will re-
quire settled block OF it containing 500 cubic
feet.
If the pasture should give out make up the
deficiency with feed. Mich cows and growing
hogs will require light feed of bran night and
morning.
Keep full supply of fruit and vegetables
for your own use. IL is poor economy to sell
off and then be obliged to purchase before the
new crop comes in.
The New York Times says that the farm wife
has been the drawer of water. the newer of
woOd--an actual fact, very often-and the sery-
mend and wash for him, TO wait upon him, and
to so all this at times for several Of them.
The men who raise prize stock could not do
90 If they turned their animals out on the
fields. They win their hOnors by giving atten-
ton TO the breeding of the stock the quality Of
the food and the warmth OF the quarters. 1t
pays them TO do this.
Old wells in the fields should never be
boarded over, but filled up. They often cause
injury to stock when boarded, as the boards
rot and unexpectedly fall in. A large number
OF animals are annually lost by old wells or
sinks in the fields.
Milk from fresh cows is usually more or less
ropy, and if mixed with the milk from the
other cows it will interfere with the rising of
the cream. This is a matter that deserves more
consideration than it usually receives.
Seeds should be thoroughly cleaned before
drying and saving them. To properly remove
tomato seeds place the pulp in water and allow
it to remain two days. Then wash well, rinse,
dry them and put them in tight walls.
As no two animals are alike, it is best to con-
suit their appetItes and desires. Whatever the
animal prefers as food, and thrives on it should
have. Food cannot be forced on an animal if
it dislikes it.
Sunfowers are used in Wyoming territory
for fuel. The stalks when dry, are as hard as
maple wood and make hot fire, and the seed
heads with the seed in are said to burn better
than the best hard coal. An acre of flowers
will furnish fuel for one stove for year.
As the season advances and occasional frosts
occur, cows are very liable to fall off in their
milk yield, if precautions be not taken TO pre-
vent it. Not only has the grass lost much of its
nutritive value, but cold storms and frosty
nights reduce the general tone OF the animals
system.
At the annual sale and letting of Hamp-
shIre-Down rams, at Salisbury, Eng, on Aug.
IA, 1O4 head made an average of el2 6s, Cd, or
almost exactly $50 eachi One ram was rented
for year at 20 guiueas-$3S2l The ten rams
letting at the highest prices averaged f27 13s.
3D., or S136 each.
If food be not given until after the usual
time, the animal Is apt to eat too fast; the ma
terial from the previous meal has been eX-
hausted and as q result vitality is lowered,
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while the stores of the body have been drawn
on to furnish the material necessary 10 vital &C.
ton.
Any substance rich in sugar will readily fat
ten stock. Sweet potatoes beets, sorghum re-
fuse, etc, can always be used to advantage for
hogs. The small and inferior sweet potatoes,
| cooked will tatten a hog sooner than corn, and
can be used to advantage for that purpose. OF
the roots carrots are best for horses. Turnips,
| if thickened when cooked with corn meal
make excellent food for all classes of stock.
| Now that the animals are becoming free of
the torments of insects they will fatten read
| lily, and will gain much faster in weight than
in winter. Feed them literally and get them
as far ahead as possible before cold weather
| comes on, it can be done at less cost at this
! season than later on. Matured stock should
be fattened and got out of the way early, in
| order to make room for the growing animals.
| Sweet cream and sour cream when ehurned
together will not produce good butter; yet, ii
| is safe to say that large majority of farmers
/ wives hold the cream for q week in order to
collect sufficient quantity for a churning.
! This matter of saving cream is what throws so
much inferior butter on the market. When
| churning is done 1t is best to have the whole of
the cream OF the same quality.
! Look to the winter shelter now. The more
/ exposed the animal during cold weather the
more food required. All the warmth of the
/ body must come from the food, and no animal
I can fatten except on the food left over from
| that required for bodily warmth. Shelter is
| comfortable the stock the lower the cost and
| the greater the gain.