The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-24

the soil after every rain. Observance of
the foregoing rules will save some from
failures in transplanting. OBSERVER.
Cooking Food for Hogs.
Feeders have always been divided upon
the question of cooking or not cooking
food for hogs. Many are sure that cook
ing or steaming paws. while others think
otherwise. Numerous tests have been
made at the state stations, and an Ohio
feeder has collated the results of some of
these as follows:
Wisconsn-Cooked barley meal -four trials)
was to unlocked 93.7 to 100 Cooked
| meal two trals) was to unlocked as 81 to 100.
| Cooked corn meal and shorts Two trials was
| to unlocked 96.1 to 100. Cooked whole
! corn and shorts 1.-TWO trials) was to uncooked
| S5.S to 100.
Ontario-Cooksd peas two trisls) to I'M
| cooked as $40 to 100.
| Michigan-Scalded corn and oatmeal was to
wet meal as l01.7 to 100.
| Kansas.-Cooked shelled corn was to IN
cooked corn as 81 to 100
| Iowa.-Cooked shelled corn two trials) was
to uncooked shelled corn as S23 to 100. Cooked
/ corn meal 1.-TWO trieis) was to uncooked as 1913
to 100.
Malne-Cooked corn meal mine trials) was
| to unlocked as $40 to 100.
| A study of these station results will show
| that ID every instance excepting Michigan, the
| evidence is in favor of raw food. Prof Stewart,
| while he claims his experiment shows profit
| IN cooking, says that cooking should not he
| praeticed unless the food can be fed warm, and
the animals kept In q building of even tempe r
! AZURE at about 90 degrees. In the face of these
facts what Is the use OF the mass of farmers and
heavy hog-producers to undertake the cooking
| OF food for their hogs with any hope of obtain
| ing profit? There are other lines OF improve
ment that he can work along that will assured
| ly bring a profit and carry with them the feel
ing that better farming is being done.
| Moore About Grating.
To THE AGRICULTURAL EDIToR-Sir;
| Will you please tell US in THE SENTINEL
the best time OF year for grating apple trees?
Z. r. 81.
Spring is the proper time. In your lati-
tude Delphi, Ind April is probably the
best month. although grating is success
| fully performed throughout the month of
May. When the sap begins to flow freely
the conditions for grating ars at their
| best. Let all those contemplating graft
| ing bear in mind that the chief point
sought Is perfect union between the
/ inner bark of the Iree-stock and the inner
bark of the cion. Then the sap can pass
from stock to cion. The outer bark never
unites, but makes scar. Use only last
! years growth for cions. Wood two years
old Is sometimes used, but the operation
is not uniformly successful.
The Wife's Share.
To THE AGRICULTURE EDIToR-Sir: In
last weeks SENTINEL you ask, "What
is the wife's share of the farm in
Gomez" / answer that if wife man
ages home we'll doing all the work
she can, and trying TO make and save
money as well as her husband, she has a
right to just as niue of the profits of the
partnership as he has. Ii is not right
that wife should have to ask for a half
dollar and explain what she wants TO use
it for when her husband spends dollars
without thinking of consulting her ?
Some wives do not get nearly as much as
the wages OF hired girl when they do all
the kitchen work, take care OF the home
and children and slave from morning till
night. The wife's sharel 1t is half Of
the income If she wants il when il is
chiefly the result of the hard work of the
husband and wife. l don't believe in
woman's suffrage, but / do believe in
woman's rights. The partnership should
not be wholly onesided. Am | not right?
DOROTHY NJ.
This is good thing in the garden, saws
I. Greiner, the well known authority on
gardening. 1t can usually be had quite
cheaply from the nearest cigar maker.
use il very freely as a general insect re-
peller in greenhouse, hotbed and open
ground. 1t is also a good fertilizer. being
especially rich in potash. l advise my
L fri do m oh haF for
supply. In hotbed. and cold frames you
can mulch the ground a quarter or one
half inch deep with il. 1t will surely
keep the green fly in check. In starting
cucumber and melon vines IL IS OF es-
pecial service. When l see the first sign
OF life in the seed, i. e., when the ground
above the seed begins to rise, showing
that the young plants try to break
through. put ON inch layer OF tobacco
dust-or a mixture of tobacco dust and
bone meal-an over the hill and every
few days l sprinkle handful or two
more of the same material over each hill,
covering the plants and the ground
around them. Since l have adopted this
practice, have lost very few plants by
the attacks of the yellow striped cucum-
Der bug.
Cooperation Again Failure.
| Aho NadOhai uhioh "a al nh'i'AniuoiO-
man, anti-capitalistic organization which,
in connection with the farmers alliance,
some time ago established large number
OF retail stores In Kansas and some OF the
other western states in order TO relieve
their patrons OF the burden of the mid
dleman's share" The stores were cup.
piled with stock purchased at Wholesale.
and sold goods at prices only enough above
cost 10 leave a margin just sufficient 70
pay the expenses of handling. Then they
Issued checks against deposits OF farm