The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-04
Farm Notes.

Color may be but skin deep. but It pays
toer1Cte the color in the apples raised for
market.
Many people fail with poultry because of
neglect. Fowls respond to good treatment
as readily as the dairy COW or other ami
mails
Have you cut out all the cases of black
knot in the plum trees and cherry trees?
This is a trouble that means extermina-
ton if neglected.
The garden is the index of the farmer 5
power TO care for the details of his busi-
ness. 4 neglected garden gives away the
habits of order in his business.
A Canada fruit grower says that he
found a remedy for the curculio i'm merely
hanging cedar branches in his plum and
cherry trees at blcssoming time.
Lime sown on the asparagus bed while
the dew is on is recommended to destroy
beetles When the insect is in the larval
stage apply pyrethrum to the plants.
The butter maker who fails to put his
butter or the market in a neat, clean and
attractive form has yet to learn one of the
most important lessons in successful dairy
ing.
When sheep are seen running with head
close to the ground and stamping, the
fly which produces the grub in the head
is near. Put some pine tar on the Sleeps
noses.
is the abstraction of more potash from
the soil than of any other important
mineral. Add this material to the fruit
garden.
The Massachusetts, experimental station
made an experiment in feeding skim mix
TO calves and p.gs. The result shovel that
it was equivalent to selling milk at 80 cents
The twenty thousand-pound Canadian
cheese which was on exhibition al the
worlds fair is now stored at railway
been able to make a sale Of Il.
Trees. whether planted for ornament or
usefulness. are the better for the society
affording one another mutual protection
from winds and from extremes of heat
and cold
1t is not too late to<amend the mistaken
policy of withholding manure from the
garden to enrich the farm. On the former
the most labor is put and the most man
ure needed. Try chemicals in the garden;
they act quickly and do not add weeds 70
the lot.
Make UP a list Of the belts nuts, screws
and small tools that you are in constant
need of. and buy them in one lot, and put
each in a well arranged series of pigeon
holes and keep them there. The saving
will pay a greater interest than the saw
Sheep and hogs are good in orchards
hogs preferable to sheep, because they root
application of fertilizer. Neither class Of
stock is sufficient for the full amelioratiOn
Of the soil TO bring the orchard to its best
productive capacity.
A farmer said before an Iowa insti-
tute: It has been proven that clover sod
is as good TO produce corn as the virgin
Importance of sowing all small grain fields
to clover Ut is the only wholesale fertilizer
we have discovered.
The following from n poultry writer is
good advice: Get a barrel of lime and let
Il air-slack: scatter occasionally about the
towel house and runs. 1t is a great alb
keeps off vermn, tends to keep everything
sweet and clean, and is very healthful for
the towels.
The question is sometimes raised whether
fc poGCfb1p kppp vroodpn diary utensils
always 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 butter workers re all
right, and can be kept perfectly sweet and
bacteria-proof by the use Of hot water.
When your cream foams and swells in
the churn don't pour hot water into IL.
but warm il up to seventy degrees. If need
be, by warm water to the outside, anc
mature il more before you attempt again
TO churn. Maturity and warmth within
certain safe limits viii generally knock the
obstinacX.all out of winter cream that does
not want-to yield up its butter.
While stable manure has generally fallen
into some disTepute for fruit, the need Of
nitrogen TO form healthy but not extreme
good for orchards. They are the kind OF
leguminous which dissolve air in the soil
and put its nitrogen into available form.
Crimson clover is an ideal nitrogen saver
wherever IL grows well. Ii is best for the
South, II will not stand a severe climate.
The Farm and Fireslde says that bagging
grapes as soon as the bloom has fallen
will prevent rot The fruit is much more
beautiful when grown i'm bags One pound
MANILA bags are used The bag is opened,
drawn carefully over the bunch and pinned
above the cane from which the bunch is
growing. This method Of protecting grapes
Is advisable where one has only few
vines.
IL makes little difference how rocky land
is for grapes. They have been known to
flourish where II was necessary to carry
soil to cover the roots when planting
Vines have frequently been known to do
well where their roots were beneath build
ings and. the vines brought out at the
foundation. They never fail In such places
for want Of moisture. the natural dampness
OF the soil being sufficient. Very often