The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-23
ALL AROUND The FARM.
button Sheep and Wool shesP-Garden nnd
Orchard Notes.


Beet sugar is receiving more attention
every year. Clay soil gives the highest
percentage of sugar. The average yield of
sugar from beets is about IA per cent. and
over twenty tons OF beets can be grown on
an acre, the cost of which, for seed, labor,
ETC., is about SO. Over 1000 pounds of
sugar can be realized from an acre. but
this WELD depends on the soil, the fertiiiz-
ers used and the season.
Tho mutton breeds are gradually push
ing the wool-prOducing breeds of sheep
aside. Where formerly the merino was
the leading breed of sheep in this country,
there has been greater attention directed
to the Southdowns Hampshires, Oxiords
and Shropshires. The advantages with the
merino is its ability 10 exist in larger
focks and to forage over hills and waste
lands, but III this respect it has q strong
rivsl in the Southdown, which is far SUI
perior to the merino as a muttOn-produc-
ing sheep, and 1t also grows fair fleece OF
middle wool.
A dairyman who makes a business of
selling milk at good price reports that
from Holstein cow he sold 500 quarts
of milk, at cents quart, making S26S.45,
while from a grade COW he sold 1885
quarts at the same price, making Sl64.30,
showing o difference in favor OF the Hol-
stein of Sl241J.
In experiments made in feeding cows at
the Iowa experiment station 1t was DEM
onstrated that COW will eat seventy-tiye
pounds of green food daily, if kept in the
stable, and a grain ration added, and that
COWS when fed on corn, peas and clover in
the stable, will give more milk than when
fed on a good blue grass pasture.
The amount of green food that can be
grown on an acre, should the soiling sys-
tenn be practiced, is given by Prof. Wilson,
who experimental in that direction, as
I follows: Peas, cut green, 1875 TONS peas
and oats, grown together, cut green, "a
tons: green corn, 1886 tons; and the Sec
ond cut of green clover, 81 tons. 1t is not
necessary TO cut green feed oftener than
twice week If it IS spread out, In order to
avoid its heating.
Do without fences wherever IL is posi-
BILE. A fence is costly luxury, as it is
useless unless kept in repair but when il
lie q harboring place for insects and vermin
of all kinds, which find refuge in the coll
lections OF refuse in the corners it causes
the farmer more labor to repair the dam
age to the farm than the advantages
gained from the fence.
/ Put ont the onion sets on rich soil, and
allow plenty Of room between the sets. so
Z as 10 permit OF the use OF narrow noe
/ between them, which will largely assist in
lessening the hand labor usually neces-
sary.
1t is not advisable to feed young pigs on
fattening food. nor should they be kept in
fat condition. The pig should be kept
growing and IL il time enough to fatten
him after the frame has been produced.
Some farmers keep their pigs fat all the
year, which not only afilicts them, espe-
cialy in summer, but too much fat retards
/ growth. A clover pasture is better than
/ feeding largely on grain.
/ Ii is en- old maxim that everything
goes into the milk" Milk is favored by
turnips and also by wild onions. Water
I that is not fit Tor human being to drink
is not nit for the COW. Disease can be
transmitted through the agency of milk.
( The garden should be 20 managed as to
allow of rotation OF crops as well as in
the field. Avoid growing the same kinds
( of vegetables on the plots upon which
they were grown lost year. Change them
around and they will thrive better. IL
compelled TO grow the same crop on a plot
that was grown upon it last year give the
plot an extra application OF manure.