The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-05

as he gets in half or three-quarters of ton of
fertilizers. | am not ObjectlRg TO the use of
these fertilizers when needed, but one should
not depend upon them SO long as he can grow
good clover.
But am especially interested in that idea
about the manural value OF the food. IL a man
can get $40 or So worth of fertilizers out OF a
ton of wheat bran by feeding it and saving all
the manure, he should buy such stuff instead of
fertilizers. The trouble is that we don't save
the manure right see manure lying under
the caves of barns. teaching all the strength
away. If we would bed stock well and
haul the manure direct TO the fields we would get
nearly all oft. Will you please tell us what is
the manuTial value OF corn-fodder and of timo-
thy hay? Also cats? 10. NJ.
Prof. Armsby estimates the manurial
value of ton of corn fodder to be S4.39;;
timothy hay, So 90. and oats, SAB. j. Q.
NJ. understands that when we feed these
stuils to stock that there is some loss
although when fed to grown stock except
to mich cows, the loss need not be very
much. If all the manure, both solid and
liquid, be saved, il is safe to estimate its
value at so per cent. OF the manurial value
of the feed, We can thus see that many
farmers often sell plant food off the farm
for less price than they pay for it in fer
tlizers, besides losing all the feeding
values The only gain in it rests IN the
availability of the fertilizers, as they ect
on plants quicker than coarse yard ma
nITe.
What Cnssius NJ. Clay Says.
We have no better authority upon the
care of sheep than the Hon. Cassius u.
Clay He gives the following advice to
shepherds:
l. Select dry and high lands and lay
them at once in the best native grasses,
adding others as they prove suitable from
abroad.
2. Buy the beet yearlings land upward
ewes OF the scrubs" or mOngTels.
5. Buy the best purely bred bucks, say
one TO thirty ewes The ewes and rams
should be over one year old when bred.
Put The pairs together SO as 10 have the
| lambs five months in besring) in the fall
to take the early spring grass before the
gadly checks their growth by driving
them from pastures to cover.
t. Never breed any but purely blooded
rams; then your whole flock will improve.
Bv breeding mixed blooded rams the
locks will reirograde all the time.
s. Divide your LANDS so that you can
| have suitable lots for change of all of
! the sheep tiocks. This allows the grass to
grow and sweeten and interrupts, by fire.
| quent changes, the attacks of the CAD fly,
as the new conner will not take the old
Stamping ground of the last occupants.
6. Have cheap, rude sheds boarded up
on the north sides, with the east and south
sides open, Here store hay and keep the
racks full. and let the sheep enter st will.
| Glover here is The best hay. Hay should
never be left to ripen the seed. By all
means use the modern wood pulp hay
| cap5.
7. The beat troughs for salt are the old
| dugouts of trees. II plank is used oak lie
| best. / keep salt, fine and lump rock
| salt, all the year round. For sheep they
must not be water proof, as they get into
/ them and soil il. For other stock they
should be water tight and too high for
sheep.
| s. Cattle should always run in the
sheep pastures to eat the long grass
which the sheep refuse, preferring short,
richer stuff The cattle should precede
and tho sheep follow after the others are
| moved on, and the cattle on the place are
4 great terror 10 dogs. These trOughs
| should be near the water and shallow as
| possible.
9. Mutton lambs by Southdown rams
are now very profitable in the demand in
| all cities, which is better than wool any
where. My wool has run down from 80
cents in three years to % cents. Tariff
don't save us; it keeps out foreign wool of
| fine g.ades and reduces the same woods
| here TO the price Of "shoddy" from
abroad. Let us have no more protection.
Let it 90 now and forever, stock, lock and
| gun barrel.
10. 1 put bells on my sheep, one to
about three or five, against dogs, with
success for twenty years.
sentinel Pointers.
| Red-top does we'll on flat land
Sow little timothy with the clover.
Is Mr.. CLAW right about protection Ia
wool?
Now is the time to set out straw berry
bed for next year.
Corn on a late plowed sod usually es.
capes the cut worm.
Nothing much better than the early
Ohio potato for the early patch.
Graft few limbs of YOUR favorite apple
tree upon less desirable variety.
1t viii pay you to spray your orchard
with the diluted Bordeaux mixture.
am setting some Concord grape vines.
Do you know a better variety among the
score of new varieties?
The old May Duke cherry is a grand
one. Set one tree for the birds or they
will take those YOU want for yourself.
Feed some hay or straw to stock during
first ten DAYS of pasture. Tie grass il
washy. and the stock will relish a little
dry iced.