The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-22

time, should be on his good behavior as
he would be If his "best 0irl' and the
minister were standing by to see him do
the job.
A Michigan man who keeps accurate
and careful accounts, finds that silage can
be packed for 20 cents a ton-which in
Guides cost OF raising the fodder-and that
a steer can be carried through the winter
in better order on five tons costing 1915
than with two tons or $40 worth OF hay.
The Ohio Creek cheese factory in Gunni-
son county, Colorsdo, made this year. up
to the LIST Of December, 10000 pounds OF
cheese, besides 125 pounds of butter
week. Furthermore, a number of hogs
were fattened from what was lett over
after the butter and cheese were made.
This is No. l record.
Among the gooseberries, Industry is
thought by some to be the best English
gooseberry yet introduced. 1t is of vigor-
Gus upright growth, and great cropper,
and shows no signs of mildew; berries
of largest size, often one and one-half
inches in diameter and of excellent flavor,
pleasant and rich color when fully ripe,
dark red.
Mr.. o. S. Bliss of Vermont gives some
pretty strong evidence in the New York
Tribune to show that the strength of ma
nure does not wash away to any consider
able amount, even on quite steep side
hills. He says the color is no evidence of
the presence of fertiizing material, which
is very rapidly deposited if taken up at all
by the surface water.
In the experiments made at the Wiscon-
sin station to make 100 pounds of gain
with lambs required SEQ pounds of sweet
skinned milk, twenty-six pounds of oats
and sixty pounds of green feed. To make
100 pounds of gain with pigs, under the
same conditions, required 654 pounds of
sweet skinned milk and 1913 pounds of
cornmeal and shorts.
Beet sugar is made in Germany and
France at the low cost of 1.5 cent per
pound. According TO the Sugar Beet the
annual consumption of sugar in this coun-
try is about fifty-seven pounds per capita;
it was only 43.37 in 1915, so the increase
has been 1876 pounds, representing rs
pounds annually more than Great Britain
consumed during the same interval.
Unless rich ground is closely covered
with useful plants it is quite certain to
produce weeds. Nothing surpasses clover
for smothering weeds. II sown thickly
and stock is kept off from it after the
moving, so that some of the seed from the
complete possession of the field to the ex-
clusion of the weeds.-N Y. World.
The milk of sheep is quite largely used
in some of the old countries for cheese
making, says the National StOckman. Sar-
DINA makes over one million pounds of
this cheese annually. In some of the
Italian factories the milk of COWS, sheep
and goats is mixed in making cheese.
There is a small sheep cheese factory in
Tennessee. The article is reputed to be
erich and delicious"
Running a dairy of cows so as to have
them dry in the winter. and have nothing
to sell from them when butter and cheese
are highest, is just about as smart, fnan-
cially, for dairy farmer, as it would be
for manufacturer of reapers to so gauge
his business that he would not have a
reaper to sell in the early summer, and
could only fill orders late in the fall when
the snow was flying and there was no
reaping to do.-Hodrds Dairyman.