The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-05
EARN Mites.

The first half hour after milk leaves the COW
has much to do with its excellence.
OF the seven prize-winners at the New York
dairy show six set the milk deep, and the
seventh used a separator.
Mai. Alvord ranks crops for ensilage as fol-
lows: Millet, sorghum, japanese beans, corn,
peas and oats, COW peas, grasses, rye and clover.
Adiantums or maiden-hair ferns succeed
quite readily in the window with the same care
that any ferns need. They require no direct
sunshine.
In Denmark dairyman who keeps $50 cows
requires the mixers to wash their hands after
milking two cows and the result is that he gets
quarter of cent pound more for the butter
than others do.
The great preponderance of testimony shows
that soft food is better for cattle than is dry
feed, and that in the dairy it is no trouble, wth
plenty OF ensilage, TO keep up summer low
OF milk ali the year.
Hens like TO roost high. The roosts should,
therefore, be all on the same level to prevent
crowding. At least one foot of space on the
roost should be allowed for each full-grown
fowl, and the roosts should be eighteen inches
apart.
Vegetables and fruits as much as the grain
crops, require deep working OF the soil. A
moderately heavy soil that has been under
drained and subsoiled, and then carefully
worked, is capable Of producing the heaviest
crops.
No danger need be feared from eating ma
ture apples that were poisoned when the size
of peas, for chemical analysis has shown that
the extremely small amount OF poison that
lodges on the fruit is dissipated long before the
crop natures.
1t is surprising how many insects flock of
turkeys or guineas will destroy in day. If
given large range they will be industriously
at work all the time, and will need no feeding
at the barnyard at this season of the year.
Bees will find but little to work on at this
season, but they may be assisted il a crop OF
buckwheat has been sown Any attempt to
supply the bees with sugar or other material
will result in an inferior grade of honey.
When a COW dries off and is expected to calve
soon, the food should consist of but little grain
as the feeding of grain induces milk fever.
Grass and hay should be the principal food
until the COW comes in as a mixer.
1t is now time to be making the preparations
for coupling the sheep. Only rams OF the best
breeds should be used. A eross-bred male can
not be relied upon for producing uniform Of
spring.
In trial with several varieties Of strawber-
ries the Sharpless gave more berries on old beds
than other kinds. This is a valuable quality,
as il avoids planting new beds frequently. In
one instance the crop from a bod three years
old was larger than from a younger bed.
II is claimed that 500 pounds if onion seed
can be sown on an acre of ground, the price
varying from 80 cents to 81 per pound. The
receipts from an acre OF onion seed are usually
large, but the crop calls for quite an expense in
labor, much Of which is hand-weeding.
One of the evils of breeding is that if ex-
changing males between neighbors. It is only
a system of in-breeding, and no improvement
can be made by it. The males should come
from the best stock and should in no manner
be related to the females
In England the ratio is abou. two lambs to
every two ewes. This has been accomplished
by carefully selecting the most prolific ewes
land males from prolific dams) for many years.
The result is the gradual increase In the num-
Der OF lambs
All surplus fruit should be dried or evapo-
rated. 1t is waste of land and fertility to al
low fruit to drop and rot 1t is expensive feed
ing for hogs, considering the value of the land
occupied by trees, and unless all fruit grown
can be sold or applied to family use, it viii pay
TO cut down the trees and devote the land to
some other crop.