The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-27
SPRING WORK.
Putting the Soil in Trim-Ths Cut Worm
Orchard notes.

Orchard Notsa.
II clover is to be piowed in let the work
be done when the plants are about to
blossom. Do not allow any crop to seed
that is to 10 plowed under.
The American Wonder and the Little
g EN- are varieties OF peas for early crops.
They are dwarf in habit and are of eX-
cellent quality for the table.
Better apples can be secured from trees
that have been trimmed and shaped than
when the trees are lett with oyerhanging
branches. BY removing the surplus wood
the warm h of the sun enters and a freer
circulation OF air is permitted.
Ii the peach trees are failing and con-
tain much dead wood cut away every por-
tioa OF the dead wood and allow new tops
to come out. Ii the borers are kept down
peach tree may be renewed in this man
ner 1t seems 10 thrive best with severe
pruning.
1t has been demonstrated that when
corn fodder is cut and fed 10 cattle a saw
ing OF from 70 to 90 per cent. is made in
the feed, gain which more than pays for
the labor of cutting the fodder leaving out
the fact that the manure is also finer and
more easily handled and spread.
a few DAYS Of warm weather in this
section has started the grass some, and the
result may be a falling oil IN milk ii the
COWS are allowed to have full run of the
pasture, owing 10 scours. This may be
partially avoided by given the usual a.
lowance of dry feed and grain and allow
ing salt regularly.
Grass is Il crop that can be produced
with less labor than sgrain and no farm is
complete without grass OF some kind.
L IL, ls,i..r r.rfan IN
70 cost, than any other crop except fruits
AMI vegetables, and when tho hay is fed to
stock q greater profit is made. 1t should
be the object OF every farmer to produce
grass of some kind. II one variety will
not thrive try another.
The first duty in spring. to thoroughly
pulyerize the coil. Laying Off the rows
for seed and then working between them
later on, without FIRST blowing the soil
and narrowing 1t, is 4 quick way Of doing
business, but it does not ii!l the bushel
measure at harvest time. All plants
thrive best when growing in PuiyeTized
soil, "a the roots have greater capacity to
store plant food. The seed bed is the most
important preparation for any crop.
More bad butter is made by holding on
to cream too long before churning than in
any other manner. This occurs mostly
with those who have only one or two COWS.
They delay churning until q suihciency of
cream is secured TO perform the work of
converting all the cream into butter at
once, some OF the cream being, perhaps, a
week old and some of it new, the result
being, that the old cream affects the whole
churning and the result Is bitter butter or
butter Of poor flavor.
There should % no distinction between
farmer and fruit grower; in fact, every
farmer should be a grower OF fruit, not
only for his use but for market. BY in
PRODUCING fruit growing in addition to the
staple crops, a greater variety is at his
command, and he will be lees subject to
failure. rs is often the case when depen-
dence is placed on one or two crops
Farmers should not confine Themselves 10
q specially unless under the most favora-
Bile conditions, but depend on diversity
of crops.
The cut worm destroys whole crops, and
there is no insecticide that can be applied
for its destruction. On old sod land cut
worms are very numerous. Experiments
made demonstrate that the best mode of
getting rid OF them is by fall and early
spring blowing By fall blowing, at any
time after July, the beetles can be de-
stroyed in the soil, and after that time the
mature worms have changed to pup@
After plowIng the land it should he fire.
ouently loosened up with cultivator
Spring blowing, if done early, exposes
them TO frost.
Experiments made in New Jersey the
past winter with cabbages show that by
placing the roots of cabbages in the ground
and having them compactly together with
the heads out OF the ground, and covered
with straw and cornstaiks, as compared
with burying the cabbages lheads in the
ground), they will keep better, and are
more convenient for daily use. The
buried heads were fresh at all times and
the slalks lett in the ground are now pro-
viding early green's.