The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-20
Farm Notes.

Tobacco smoke kills the green fly water,
the red spider.
Use liquid manure only for plants that
are in actual growth or in bloom.
Sulphur is the remedy used for the
mildew in California vineyards with great
success.
Young plants grown from healthy cut.
tings often give better satisfaction than
the older overgrown stock.
Asters are desirable because they come
into bloom after the greater share of gar
den flowers have passed their prime.
The farmer who feeds sour swill to his
swine seldom realizes that it causes de-
rangement of the digestive organs and
gives them diarrhea.
The pigs will be most thrifty if kept in
clean, dry pens and well Uttered, bat will
make more weight on less feed If they
shall have a run on clover lot.
Prof. Manley Miles takes exceptions to
the conclusions OF Profs. Sanborn and
| Henry on feeding for fat or lean, and
maintains that what the pigs want is not
dried blood, but lime.
In pruning roses, cutting back closely
produces, as a rule, fewer blossoms OF
finer quality, while from those not SO
closely pruned will be obtained larger
quantity of smaller flowers.
Poor, sandy soil should not be left I'm.
cultivated. Carefully prepare the land
SOW to bucllwheat, and pillow the buck
wheat under when the crop is in blossom.
In this way the land may be gradually
made productive.
The potato crop is one that usually
pays. The average value of a crop should
not be less than 500 per acre clear of eX-
penses, though more can be made by
selecting proper seed and giving good cul-
! tivation. The early crops are less liable
| to insect attack than the latter, but foi
winter keeping the late crops are better.
The fence corners should be cleaned out
before the weeds become thick. If weeds
and grass be allowed to remain in such
places until they produce seed the work
of graduating weeds from the farm will
| he lost. Many farms are overrun with
weeds every season by neglect of cleaning
the harboring places for seeding.
Turnip seed may be sown in the latter
! part of June or in July. The seed is very
small, and consequently the soil must be
! fine. The land should be prepared now
using plenty of well-rotted manure, which
should be narrowed in. If grass or weeds
| appear work the ground with cultivation
and harrow again before seeding.
The attacks OF the rose bug on rose
bushes is a serious drawback to the flower
garden. Mr.. T.. S. Carman states that the
bugs can be successfully combated by the
use of pyrcthrum insect powder). Use
fresh powder, mosten two teaspoonfuli
with alcohol and slowly add two gallons
of water. Apply in the shape of fine
! spray over the bushes
Where the hay crop is short plat Of
land should be devoted to a corn-fodder
crop. Sow the seed thickly in the rows
and cut Just when the young corn begins
to silk. Let il cure in the ordinary man
ner and store it under shelter. In this
manner a large amount of coarse food
may be grown, which, when passed
| through a cutter and fed in connection
with hay next winter, VIII be found ex
| cellent and economical.
Many farmers claim that if large DO
tato with all the eyes cut out but one be-
| planted larger per cent of early market
able potatoes win be produced than if the
seed had been cut or small potatoes plant.
| ed whole. A study of this subject was
made at the Wisconsin agricultural ex
| pertinent station last season with four va
rieties, the result in each case having beer
in favor of the large prepared seed. Other
] experiments also showed that results are
! best when fresh cut seed are used.