The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-04
All Around the Farm.

one Of the best ways Of increasing the
appetite of "A horse is TO change his diet
In addition TO its value as a stock feed.
the roots Of clover make one of the very
best fertilizers for ether crops.
The constant squealer fattens slowly,
because contentnent is necessary TO the
taking on of flesh. The squealer is never
cOntented.
The merino sheep is naturally long
lived, slow-maturing animal, and one
that, if properly cared for. pays we'll in
the amount of wool clipped.
Dairy farmers who have wheat or win
ter oats sown on dry land will often find
the crop much benefited at this lime by
thorough narrowing, followed by a hber-
al top-dressing of commercial manure.
Now is also the best time for top-dress-
ing grass lands. Grass. grain and farm
crops in general succeed best winch Id
orally fed while young. As liberal feed
ing pays with the cows, so 1t pays with
the crops.
In bulletin No 2S of the Orc ex-
pertinent station experiments in ple 'eed-
ing are given by H. T. French. ilese
experiments relate to feeding for pork
with wheat and to the comparative value
Of wet and dry feed in fattening pigs
The advantage was slightly with the wet
food, and wheat was shown 20 give re
suits in fattening which compared favor
ably with those obtained from corn. The
wheat was chopped.
1t has been proved by experimo ats that
London purple. Paris green and white
arsenic. when applied upon foliage along
with Bordeaux mixture. do less injury
than when applied in water alone; that
London purple and Paris green are not
more injurious TO foliage when applied
in resin mixture; that foliage will suffer
greater injury when arsenites are used
IN sulphate of copper solution, strong
sOapy mixture. and eau celeste, or iron
chloride solution.
writer in a turf journal gives the fol-
lowing rule TO estimate the hight colt
will grow to: Take colt at any time
between six weeks and one year, stand
him on a level surface SO that he viii
stand naturally, then measure the dis
lance from the hair of his hOof to his
knee joint and for every inch or fraction
thereof he measures he will be hands
high when matured. If he measures fif-
teen inches he will grow to be fifteen
hands high; if fifteen and half inches,
he will grow to be fifteen and half
hands high, and so on.
Two years ago we tried an experiment.
in feeding newly set tomato plants with
a very small dressing Of nitrate of soda.
which was thoroughly mixed with the
soil around them. The ground was mod
erately fertile before the application. Not
olllS NdS the SioN III u luc pants greatly
stimulated, but their prodUctiveness also.
The fruit was unusually large and fair,
and il ripened several days before that
on vines to which we did not apply the
nitrate As a special manure for the to-
matO crop. nitrate Of soda cannot be eX-
celled.-American Cultivator.
1t is a good plan to sprinkle the ma
nure pile with salt. When used in small
quantities salt promotes fermentation,
and at the same time its capacity for at
tracing moisture is excellent to prevent
fire fanging. In other words, the salt
promotes slow rather than violent fer
mentation. and makes the fertilizer solu-
bic without wasting il. 4 little addition
of salt to phosphate manures makes them
much more effective. But the salt should
be added only just before the fertilizer
is to be drilled in or it will be made a
wet. spongy mass that cannot be evenly
distributed.