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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
Natural Gas on the Farm.

Nearly twenty years ago gas was discov-
cred in digging q well on the farm of Mr..
Dunlap, near Champaign, Ill. IHwas con-
Quoted into the house by pipes and used
for cooking and heating purposes. No
recent account has been published in rela-
tion to this gas well, but a sprightly female
correspondent OF The Indiana Farmer
writes: 81 have received a letter from
friend living IN the gas district. She says
that in Noblesville, since they used the
street torches, they are not bothered with
insects; that they fly into the flames and
are consumed. She further SAYS: When
we get a well of natural gas on our farm
will go into the poultry business, heat
their winter quarters with gas, get eggs
all winter, have chickens for early market,
etc. That is a gas castle. l do not know
whether she thought of using gas in
artificial incubation or not, but here
is field for experiment. In speaking of
its consuming insects, she says: i should
think it would be nice thing to have
torches in the orchards, and thus consume
the moths that are so destructive Well,
why not? Perhaps the possibilities with
gas have not all been dreamed of yet.
Perhaps in the future we can utilize gas for
defeating Jack Frost when he comes to
lock our fruit buds in icy letters, thus de-
stroying one of our most healthful articles
of diet. If our strawberry beds are threat
ened we can save them with the gas instead
of sitting up at night to keep fires around
them, or making artificial clouds by burn
ing pitch. We will produce an artificial
climate so that seekers after health need
not be humbuPged into going to California
or Florida. We will luxuriate in peaches
and semi-tropical fruits. The labor of
getting fuel for winter fires, which con-
sumes so much of the farmers time, will
be thing of the past. But l leave the
rest to your imagination"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
For Young Cooks.
Mail and ExDresG


Rice Pudding.-One teacup of rice, one
teacup of sugar, one quart of milk, one tea
spoonful OF cinnamon; bake slowly one
and half hours.
Delicate Crackers.-Two pints of -four,
one pint OF sweet cream and the yolks of
three eggs. Roll out thin and bake quickly.
Jumbles-One and one-half cups of
white sugar, three-fourtbs cup of butter,
three eggs, one-half cup sweet milk, one
half teaspoon soda, teaspoon cream tartar.
Green Sponge Cake.-Two tescups of
sugar, one of cream, two of -four, four
eggs, one teaspoonful of baking powder
and one teaspoonfui extract lemon, Bake
quickly:
Ham Salad.-0ne pound of boiled ham,
chopped fine; one-half dozen small pickles,
chopped fine also; add little chopped cell
cry and serve with dressing as for a
chicken salad.
Cree m Pudding.-One pint of -four, one
. -, of mix, Ui = teaspoon of salt; to this
da tx eggs vell-beAten, and three tea
ST. ore white sugar and one tablespoonful
Of exaact of lemon. Bake in a buttered
dish.
Corn Bread One pint of cornmeal, over
which billing water has been poured,
e4uO, 10 scald il, also one teaspoonful OF
silt, the same Of yeast powder; bake in
QUICK oven.
White Cake One cup hesping full OF
sugar, piece OF butter size Of an egg, rub
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
AgricuIturs In Colorado.

Professor Blount, OF the Ayr icultural
College, writes The agricultural outlook
in Colorado for the future is certainly
gratifying and brighter than ever before,
The farmer feels secure in the prospects
and greatly encouraged to do more here
Complished in all branches OF agriculture,
not a farmer, stockman, or laborer bat
feels doUbly encouraged. The results of
1887, throu shont the State are not only
gratifying, but truly surprising. Our soil
and climate have exceeded the most
sangline expectations OF the incredulous
tenderfOot' aud the most pronounced
skeptic. With our strong mineral SOL
and irrigation we are able to do anything.
Anything that can be done in agriculture
in this latitude we can do nOw-make
90 d crops every year without fear OF
failure from too much rain or too much
Drought. Our average crops the past
yer have been greater than those
of any other State or section, and
tue success attending the results have
pIscs it on an equal footing with her
sis, States of the West. To some such
tall as the above is misleading and erro.
neol 8. To the contrary, Notwithstanding,
every word is true, and the language
mig al be made much stronger and not
''stT- tch the truth" During the year end
| ing December l, 1887, the rainfall was so
very spall that early blowing and seeding
to sI.. al grain was greatly retarded. Grass,
Glove, wheat and oats in most sections of
the + ate failed to terminate readily from
| the l. huences of natural moisture. Irri-
| CATION came to the rescue, insuring good
stands for all who made a proper use OF
this great sgent of success in sgciculture.
When compared. termination of seed by
natural moisture in the soil is far better
than by irrigation. Better stands can be
made of small grain and vegetables and
greater vigor and growth attained. The
! rainfall for the year has been only 1918,
and the evaporation of standing water
36.32 inches. In this climate, dur
ing The GUNNER months rains do little
good on occount of evaporation. Hardly
fLurth of the rains that fail in
june July, and August enter the soil. OF
all Il meteorological influences the intel
HgeLt and thrifty farmers take advantage
turning them TO some good account. As
agrit ulture has gradually developed and
advanced, transformations resulting from
irrigation and the cultivation of the land
have wrought in these arid regions great
and beneficial changes, 30 great in some
sections as to produce average crops where
in early times 1t was impossible to raise
anything. On the Divide, at Evergreen
in eastern Colorado. and all through the
mountains the cereals, grasses, clovers. and
vegetables have been successfully produced
and in paying quantities. Until recently
many. even some among the old settlers
have declared and firmly believe that oul
land without water is worthless; but ex
periments made in the above-nsmed sec
tons and when subsoiling has been prac
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
Winter Care OF stock.

at q Farmers Institute, held at Bloom
5ngton, Ill, Hon. Lafayette Funk gave
lecture on this Subject, of which the fol-
lowing are the leading points: Ex cept for
the danger of slipping upon icy 70 ads, it
would be better for horses to go without
shoes in the winter, When il Is not nee.
essary to use the teams on slippery roads,
1t would be preferable to have them bare
foot. When shoes are needed, the move
able steel cslks will be found both safe and
convenient. These are screwed in and out
of tie Shoes, and are taken out when the
horses arr put IN the stable. Great care is
to be taken 70 have the horses fastened
securely. A horse getting loose in the
night may bs badly hurt by being kicked,
or may hurt the others. Sharp shoes are
dangerous IN this way. Wounds made by
them should be washed at once with warm
water and dressed with some slim ulating
linimeat or mixture. Hate rs should be
made so short that the foot can not be
got over them aud the animal be cast in
the stall. The safest fastening is q strong,
broad, leather collar with q ring sewn in
it, and rope tie with a snap hook to fssten
to the ring. The tie should be fastened to
the side OF the stall by ring screw bolt
and t. be no longer than to hang within q
foot C. the Il ,or. The foot can not be got
over sGcb fastening. Keep cattle clean
and the skin we'll carded. 1t helps the food
and is an economy, and it is healthful.
reed nDerally. Keep the stables warm Dy
closing all air spaces and admitting only
as much air as is required for good ventil-
alton. Cows that are coming in should be
provided with q warm, quiet stall in sep
arate building. Cutting the fodder is a
saving CT one third. Corn fodder shonld
never be fed whole, and the wasted butts
of IL WIN cut may be thrown under the
COWS il there is any waste. Fattening
beeves should be crowded with food. A
variety OF food will help the appetite.
Roughness IS indispensable for the diges
tion of grain. Daily carding is help to
making fat, and warm water with fine
meal or shorts stirred In it is better than cold
water or water alone. Excess of water is to be
avoided. Turn off the animals as soon as
they are in passable condition. The first
feeding is the most proftsbl. Do not over
1atten swine. Thin, meaty pork is best for
use and for sale. The last of the feeding
puts on the lest weight, and of course costs
more, while IL makes the least money. Ear.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
Negligent Farmers.
Ohio Farmer,

How often, when we are riding along the
country road, we see unmistakable signs Of
negligent farmers. From afar off we can
see his barn with its doors hanging on one
hinge, the siding OF his stable lying scat.
tered over the barnyard, and a manure
pile almost as high as the barn. What
shameful sight, when but few minutes
time would rehang the doors and pound
or two OF nails would adjust the dilapida.
ted siding, and the mountain of good,
rotted manure, which is OF no benefit to
the barnyard, should be made to
return its full value in the way of
crops. We 60 on past the house. You
can scarcely get to the house without
climbing over hay racks, wood-rack, hand
saw. or half dozen old plows. These in q
few minutes time could be placed in the
shed, which is of course, almost always
empty while the farming utensils lie scat
Tered about the yard. The yard fence has
every other picket off, unless the women
have time to attend to such work. How
much nicer the yard would have looked if
the too's were properly housed, the chip
pile removed and neat, regular yard fence
made, at only q few cents cost and few
minutes time. AS we are going along by
the fields we see dilapidated gate, and a
fence showed and pushed to pieces. The
gate has been so cobbled up that it is al
most impossible to get through, so the
owner lays down the fence in dozen
different places.
This is what helps to make hard times.
Instead of making q shed for his stock out
of his straw, he stacks it in the farthest
corner of his farm, or rather piles it up,
and in the winter his cattle stand in the
empty, muddy, sloppy barnyard, with
scarcely anythsng to eat except what is
| thrown over the fence into the mud. He
could just as we'll have gone to the woods,
| got some forks and poles and made a shed
with his straw ia the manure yard, stacked
the ST raw on the sides; arranged the inte-
rior In stalls and boarded up the other
side, and had good cheap COW shed which
! would have saved many q maledictio1 on
| the bad weather. Go into the fields; part
| of his corn is not cut up, and is going
to waste with scarcely any benefit to
him, when it might just as we'll have
been ted TO some hungry cow and
| returned in milk, beef, and good supply
of manure. That which is cut and husked
is thrown down and left exposed to the ele
ments. Such are some of the habits of 6
negligent farmer. They are q blight tC
the agricultural class Negligence is ont
Of the principal causes of hard times
mortgages, failures etc. The farmer hal
aeIeat many chores TO do, of course, bu
be has only one chore to do at time. HI
need not get discouraged on that account
| Why do not farmers awake to the fac
that neglect does not pay in sny way
| Such farmers can usually be found at TIT
country store arguing about SGriptnre o
politics, or telling hunting or fishing
stories, and talking about their industriou
neighbOGs. G. L. w.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
Preventing Hog Cholera.

The State Veterinary and Livestock
Commissioners of Nebraska have issued the
following circular on preventing the intro
duction and spread of the swine plague:
Whether the ravages of hog cholera can be
prevented by incubation is still very ques-
tionable. 1t has never been satisfactorily
demonstrated that any benefits can be de-
rived from this method, nor does it seem
probable that incubation can be made
practicable. If, therefore, farmers and
swine breeders apply such rules as are
b. rein suggested, they would be able to re-
duce their losses to q minimum and cope
successfully with the disease. IL an out
break exists, separate all healthy from the
diseased hogs as soon as possible. The
healthy hogs should be removed to a new
and uninfected pasture or pen and care
fully watched by an attendant. Should
any that have been thought to be well be-
come weak or appear to be sick, ailing, or
of their feed, take them out and kill
them. All diseased hogs should be killed
and cremated as soon as possible.
Section 1, chapter 8, laws of 1885:
hog cholera makes it the duty of owners of
swine dying from hog cholera to either
bury or burn them within twenty-four
hours after death, on his own premises"
IL neighbors would see to the enforcement
of this law they would in al probability save
themselves frequently from serious losses,
and would be doing the bubble a great SER
vice. If your hogs are healthy it is advisable
never to allow new hogs to intermingle
with them in the herd until after having
them subjected to a strict quarantine of not
less than seven weeks. Neither is il advis-
able to allow anyone to go into hogpens
after returning from an infected place
without first changing their boots There
should be but one attendant to look after
sick animals, who, during such service,
should not be allowed to leave the place.
Hogs should never be watered at stream
If il comes running from where the disease
is known to exist. Dogs or other animals
| belonging to infected farms should not be
allowed to roam about at will where hogs
are kept, as they may carry the infection
/ to them. II these rules are carefully OBJ
served there need be little fear of hog
C loera causing any serious loss or spread
| lug TO any alarming extent.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
How to Make a Hot.Bed.

Ia the first place select warm, southern
exposure, high and dry as possible, so that
no top water can run through the bed after
1t is made. Make as long as you like-say
6 feet long, feet wide, feet high on the
south side, 3 feet high on the back part.
Set posts at each corner, front ones feet.
back ones 3 feet. Board up the sides and
then the ends. Let the top of the ends
slope down to the lower side. This gives
it the slant to the south. BE careful to
make it mouse and rat proof as near as you
CAM Next put on the stove wash boiler
of water to heat boiling hot. Have good,
full load of fresh stable manure (be sure
to have it fresh, as 1t is not often warm
enough otherwise) and fill up the hot-bed
until about inches from the top. Have
your hot water ready. Pour on the ma
nuTe now. Cover up the manure with 4
inches of rich dirt, composed of part sand
and part rotten wood dirt. Have this even
dept; put il down firm. Have 81
yard of unbleached quilt lining; muslin
is tn OK enough. Tack it to the north
edge: then have light piece of smooth
board six feet long, one inch thick and two
incl cs wide. Tack the outer edge to this,
bring this canvas down over the bottled,
smooth, leaving the ends free. Take q
common paint brush. proceed as If paint
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11

to a cream; two-thirds cup of sweet milk,
two cups sifted -four, two teaspoons baking
powder, whites of three eggs beaten to
stiff froth and add last.
Velvet Cream.-Three pints of milk,
whites Of six eggs, half box Of gelatine,
sweeten the cream and beat to froth;
dissolve the gelatine in cup of hot water,
and when lukewarm add the cream and
eggs; stir till smooth; line mould with
sponge cake, then pour in the mixture.
Apple Tapiocs Pudd1ng,-Cover the bot
tom OF pudding dish with sliced apples.
Put little sugar and lemon peel on them
and bake till tender; add little water if
needed. Soak one-half package Of tspioca
in one quart of warm water and a little
salt over night; pour over the apples and
bake one hour. Serve with cream and
sugar.
Fruit Cake.-One cup of molasses, one
cup Of brown sugar, one cup of shortening,
two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of soda, three
cups of -four, two cups OF dried apples be-
fore being soaked. Beat and stir in one
egg, and add raisiDs and spices to suit.
Soak the apples over night. In the morn.
ing put in molaEses and sugar, boiling down
quite thick.
Mufins.-0ne heaping cup -four, two
thirds cup meal, one and half cups sour
soda. Beat hard and pat one spoonful of
the batter into well buttered muffin cups.
Bake in hot oven. They are so nice for
breakfast and can be made so quickly.
have seen many recipes for mullins, but
none Just like this.
Chocolate GUS erds-One-fourth of "a cake
OF chocolate, one pint of boiling water, six
eggs, one quart of milk, one-half cup of
white sugar, two teaspoons of vanilla.
Dissolve tie chocolate in a very little milk,
STIR iO'o the boiling water and boil three
minutes. When NEARLY cold, add the beat
en- ,gs, stir into tie milk, flavor aud pour
in cnr': 'tt in boiling water and bake.
Bak ed OmeIet.-TlBe six eggs, three even
81 olnfuls. -four. ttle salt, and beat them
we'll toeether-tht mure 1t is beaten the
] gbter it will BET ~ add one pint of hot
milk and keep Or eating. Have hot
dish with some me- i butter the size of an
egg, and put into H oven. Bake twenty
minutes, and eat en- it comes from the
oven, for it will fall soon. This Is very
nice for breakfast.
Bread Puddipg.-One quart of grated
bread crumbs, one quart milk, yolks OF
four eggs well beaten, butter size Of an
egg one cup of sugar, two teaspoons bak-
ing powder, and two teaspoods extract OF
lemon; mix all well together and bake
beat the whites of the eggs with a cup OF
powdered sugar, flavor with one teaspoon
full extract of lemon or orange, cover the
pudding with it and bake until Drowned q
little.
Woodford Pudding.-Three eggs, one
tescupsugar, one-half teacup butter, one
half teacup -four, one teacup jam or pre-
nerves, scant teaspoon soda dissolved in
three teaspoons sour milk, mix well
and bake slowly. Sauce: One egg, one
large cup sugar, one small cup butter, mix
well, put on stove and stir until melted
add.tablespoon wine, brandy or whisky
and pour on immediately.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11

If they do we'll the prospect is that peaches
will soon be ss plenty inthat market as
straw berries and melons have been dur.
ing several years.
An English farmer, who recently visited
Australia and New Zealand, remarked
that the wheat growers seemed to bother
their heads very little about preparatory
crops. Now, it is not necessary to point
out to farmer who knows his business
that different crops require food elements
in different proportions. Thus clover and
roots need more potash and nitrogen than
the grains. A rotation enables one kind
OF plant TO work for another. Thus, clover,
deep feeder, brings large amount OF
plant food up from the subsoil, which
wheat or oats can use to advantage during
til cir short period of growth. A variety OF
crops permits the farmer to cultivate the
soil and keep it clean of weeds, and deep
and mellow. A good hve-years rotation
is wheat, clover 1.-TWO years., maize, fol
lowed by oats.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
Pence on Earth

Awaits that countless army Of martyrs, whose
ranks are constantly recruited from the victims
of nervousness and nervous diseases. The
price Of the boon is a systematic course Of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the finest aud
most genial of tonic nervines, pursued with
reasonable persistence. Easier, pleassnter and
safer this than to swash the vlctualling de-
partment with psuedo -tonics, alcoholic or the
reverse, beef extracts, nerve foods, narcotics,
seoatives and poisons in disguise. Tired
Natures sweet IestoIer, balmy Steep" is the
providential recuperant OF weak nerves, and
this glorious franchise being usually the con-
sequences of sound digestion and Increased
vigor. the great stomachie which insures both
is productive also of repose at the required
time, NotuRreireShed awakeDs the individual
whe uses it. but vigorous, clear-headed and
tranquil. Use the Bitters also in lever and
sgue, rhematlsm, kidney troubles, constipa-
tioO Snd hiliOuEneSs,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
Pretty Kitchens.
Detroit Tribune.

There is no objection to pretty kitchen,
or to girl filling one up with bric-a-brac,
if she keeps IT from dust. A kitchen to
those who do the work in il is the living
room, and why should it not be made con-
venient and pretty? If the kitchen is a
comfortable, CHEEKY room, most, girls will
take pride in keeping IL so. Give them
pink-colored tissue.paper for the shelves, if
they wish it. and fancy lamp.shsde to
rest by after the kitchen is tided up for
the night. See, too, that they have con-
veDient utensils to cook with, a good
clo' hes.wringer and plenty of clothes-pins,
and good stove. 1t will pay you well to look
after these things in the good, whole
some dishes that will come onto the table
we'll cooked. Many girls have to do with
makeshifts that you would not think pos
sible for yourself to use-a broken wringer,
tub without handles, or wash-boiler or
tea-kettle with rag run through hole 20
prevent leaking. No girl likes to ask for
repairs, and oftentimes the mistress is too
careless TO look well after the little things
of her kitchen. 1 would add: Let the
girls sleeping-room be pleasant. attrac-
tive place. Many horse has better quar-.
tiers for rest than our servants have. Look
well to the comforts of the servants. II
not sppreciative at first, they may learn
| to be go.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11

ly marketing is, as a rule, the most profit
able for the seller. Store pigs are the most
healthful running al large in lo., with
"dug-out" for a shelter, than in ordinary
pens. Nothing is so healthful for pigs as
dry earth bed. The most growth is made
from mixed feed. Corn is the basis, but
bran shorts and potatoes make better and
cheaper meat.
Young pigs should get all the waste milk
Milk and bran with boiled small potatoes
will force them or better than any other
food. Where waste flesh is to be procured
this is useful for pigs. Glover, hay or corn
fodder cut, wetted and mixed with some
meal is excellent for pigs, both young and
old.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
A Wooden Cistern.


To the readers of the Farm and Fireside
1 will give description of cistern that we
have used without trouble or expense for
the past thirteen years. We first dug hole
five feet deep and FIVE feet eight inches
square, then we laid down q levil platform
of two-inch plank solidly on the earth, and
covered 1t over with matched flooring to
make tight bottom. We had common
2x4-inch lumber sixteen feet long, planned
on one side 30 as to gague to an even thick
ness, and then cut into three pieces, each
five feet and four inches in length. Then;
beginning at the bottom, we laid them,
rough side down, around the outer edge of
the platform and nailed them well. We
built it up in this way, laying the rough
side down, breaking joints at the corners
and mailing each course firmly to the one
below, until it was five feet high. 1t holds
about twenty five barrels, and has made q
cheap, durable cistern. A. w.
kalamazoo, Mich.