The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-18


be forgotten. This plan will work 10
perfection with the most difficult" of
help, who will refuse to understand all
other methods Of exercising their memo
ries.-Boston Globe.
All Around the Farm.
German estimates place the worlds
production of hops in 1898 at 49, 00, 900
pounds, against 153,000,000 pounds in
1892. The German crop is short about
100000 according to the latest esti-
mate.
1t is the market price you are after,
no matter If you are making the best
butter in the world. in your opinion.
If you fail to get the highest price for
1t you are failing to realize the most
profit.
When you are husking corn this fall
and design the stalks for the COWS don't
be afraid to leave all of the nubbin ears
unhusked. The cows will eat them with
the fodder, and will be greatly helped
on milk yield thereby.
A rainy day depresses the market
and one so unfortunate as to have
fruits or vegetables arrive on such a
day is likely to suffer in consequence.
So we see how circumstances utterly
beyond control or foresight affect prices.
One of the principal advantages of
dairying on the average farm is that ii
offers a good opportunity for converting
all kinds of grain and fodder and at the
same time secures a large amount of
valuable manure that will add to the
fertility of the soil.
Get a COW for the specific purpose for
which she Is to be used, and II you can
not get your profit out of her by the
time she is useless in the dairy then the
fault is not so much in the COW as in
her management. With good dairy
II,
be considered.
an exact science by the application of
irrigation to the soil than by any other
means whatever. 1t prevents drought
and makes crops certain, and thus fixes
the earning power and value of the
lard. We shall see il much more ex-
tensively applied in the future than it
has been in the past.
The question is sometimes raised
whether it is possible TO always keep
wooden dairy utensils perfectly clean. 1t
Is not good policy to let milk stand for
any length of time in wooden pals or
receptacles, but wooden churns and but
ter workers are all right, and can be kept
perfectly sweet and bacteria-proof by
the use of lots Of hot water.
Propping heavily loaded fruit trees of
any age is a mistaken policy. Thin out
the fruit until the limbs need no props,
first picking off the specimens injured
by insects, and next the smaller ones.
There is money in this work, though it
may look otherwise at first. A tree al
lowed to overbear will become feeble and
fail to bear to half its capacity.
The business of manufacturing starch
from potatoes has been confined to COM
paratively few localities. Where it has
been carried on it has proven a profita-
bic industry and has increased the
value Of farm lands devoted to growing
the crop. The combination of agrlcul-
tural production and manufacturing is
usually satisfactory to all concerned.
Very much depends on the road in de-
termining the capability of the horse.
On a poor earthen road he can drag
three times as much as he can carry;
on a macadamized road, nine times as
much: on a plank. road, twenty-five
times: on a solid stone trackway, thirty
three. and on a railwoy, f1fty-four times
as much as he could carry on his back.
This is the time of the year to look
after the fences. Are you getting a lit
tie short of good material for rails
Then it should be a suggestion TO you
that il is time to be planting a little
timber. When the supply begins to get
so short that there is not an abundance
of wood for all the needs of the farm
the market value of the farm suffers
at once.
So far as is possible, succulent foods
should always be provided in winter as
in summer. as this kind of food is pro-
ductive Of the largest quantity of fat in
the milk and also has the effect of caus-
ing the cream to separate more readily
from the milk and the butter globules
from the cream and leaving less fat in
the buttermilk: to a more or less extent
IL also increases the flow of milk.
The introduction Of an entirely new
fodder plant is reported from Europe
1t is kind Of vetch and is said to be
extremely productive, and to grow well
In very dry weather. owing to the ex-
traordinary length of it's roots which
are sometimes from twenty-five to thirty
feet long. Its name is almost as long.
for 1t passes by the euphonious desig-
nation of lathyrus silvestris wagneri
The improved breeds Of cattle, for beef
or butter. will always proftably market
the raw products OF the farm. while
scrub stock will almost inevitably con-
sumo them at a loss The market re-
ports are the best evidence Of this fact.
and we do not see how a farmer, who
is conversant with these, can go on rails
ing cattle to sell at bottom prices when
he might be growing such as would sell
at the top.
Prof. Webster says: IT wonder II the
country horticulturalist ever stops TO
consider what an important factor coun-
try fences may be in the problem of
success In his calling Can you compute
the number of raspberry sawflys. cane