The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-03
All Around the Farm.

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All Around the Farm.
Experiments show that a grain Of wheat
reproduces fortyfold. Every pound should
bring forty. 1t, therefore, follows that
much Of our seed wheat is wasted when
we sow one and one-fourth bushels an
acre and get from ten to twenty.
Though the price OF dairy products is
low. il is paid twelve times a year. en-
aiding the farmer to have cash for his
purchases throughout the year, thereby
getting the benefit of cash prices. This
Is one great factor in favor of dalrying.
Excepting the golden rod. milk weed
and rag weed, all the rest of our weeds
have been imported. These foreign are
the most troublesome and persistent. If
Il waa some ones duty TO keep them from
the highways these pests would not travel
SO fast.
The Virginia creeper IS an excellent vine
for covering fences and outbuildlngs.
The plants should be cut down to the
ground when planted. that the young
shoots may cling as they grow. In the
fall the foliage becomes a brilliant red
and yellow.
The better condition in which the farm
tools are kept, the less effort is required
on the part Of teams, and on the part of
the worlzingman also yet farmers will
use their implements a whole year with
out sharpening them. No other mechanic
would do this
About one-third of a crop depends upon
| the soil, One-third upon the seed, one
third upon care and cultivation, Dut
each one Of these must be at its best to
get full advantage of the others. If
either falls short more than its own pro-
portion of the crop is likely to fall short.
At the show of the Royal agricultural
| society In England the cost Of hives that
took prizes for "bast and most complete
fr-ar for 1sa'f
and SL63. Those taking prizes for most
complete arl inexpensive frame hive for
| cottagers' use" We're priced $213 and S2.63.
Cows in milk. it is claimed. win consume
nearly 80 per- cent. more water than the
So ne cows when not giving milk. The
New York experiment station at Geneva
| found as an average OF several breeds
that each cow drank 1.039 pounds Of water
and consumed 547 pounds more in food
per month.
One busheh of potatoes is much like an
| other bushel. and 50 1t IS with most Of the
products we sell: but there Is a vast diff
| ference between pound Of sweet, fresh
butter and the mass we run across in the
| market. No danger Of confounding one
with tho other. The field Is wide for one
| who wishes to make a reputation.
| One can become a famous chicken man,
| or hog man. or cattle man, or horse
| man, as he chooses, but he must remem-
Der that each road to fortune requires
| special knowledge. Our fathers made
money in a haphaZard way, we hardly
know how. but i'm these days of COM
petitive effort this cannot be done.
Some German societies have a central
depot where the honey of members is sod
at a fixed price agreed upon in July. Each
member can sell his honey privately at
any price he pleases. The label of the
producer is a guarantee OF purity, and
adulteration subjects a member 10 eXpul-
ion, II,
others.
As with all other work it will pay you
to do little thinking and planning over
| your door yard. Carefully map it out
| and carefully plant. A well-seeded lawn
with shrubs. roses, evergreens and shade
trees can be procured at a comparati lively
! small cose, and 1t Will not require a great
amount Of work to keep 1t in good
| shape.
1t would be a source Of much satisfac-
! ton. and not cost much extra labor, to
| keep an account with each field, with each
| herd. with the orchard, the poultry. the
stable and so on. Money received or eX-
| pended can be as easily set down one place
as another. There would then be fewer
Improbable crops, and less stock on which
money was being wasted.
| If you have large fruit trees you wish
transplanted, dig around them toward
| the close of the summer, cutting off the
| larger roots at from three to five feet
| from the body, according TO the size Of
| the tree. Twelve months later they will
| have made so many small roots to re-
place the larger ones that transporting
| can be attempted safely.
1t would seem that when inferior ami
mails are bringing so little in market
| shippers would quit selling them But
| there has never been louder complaint
| than now Of the inferior quality of all
| kinds of live stock in market, except
| hogs. Much Of this stock. selling at
ruinous prices, might have been made
| attractive by proper care and feed.
Young clover should not be pastured in
| the fall unless It gets forward enough to
| blossom. If it does this pasturing is bet
ter than allowing the clover to seed. But
/ a still better way is 10 cut the clover
| evenly, but not closely. This will leave
the roots well protected, will cut down
weeds and viii provide the very choicest
| hay for young calves or breeding ewes.
| In selling butter consult the buyers and
| consumers as to the form Of package
| and then employ those that will bring
| best prices for the contents. The aver
| age American consumer wishes to have
| his fancy pleased, and, If he is willing
| to pay fancy prices for fancy packages,
| furnish them for him; and remember one
thing: In spite of the presence or alb
| sence of oleO, no matter whether the
| market be glwtted with it or not, there
will always be a paying price for the
| best brands of butter.
A California woman, in an exchange,
| tells her way of drying fruit and vege-
tables. She says: My husband made
| wooden boxes or frames to fit the hotbed
sash, then set them up from the ground
| on legs, one pair longer than the other, TO
| get tho proper slope. Holes were cut at
| the top and the bottom Of the box TO Sc
| cure a current of air over the drying fruit
| or vegetables, which should be placed in
trays or dishes in the frame. The sash
! should be placed directly over 1t. Place
| the whole in the broad sunlight and leave
until the contents are sufficiently dry to
| be packed in sacks or boxes. This method
| keeps out birds and insects. dust and rain,
| and requires less care than any other"
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