The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-05


quoting on grapes. not one was doing any
mischief to the sound fruit.
In selecting a male a swine-breeder adj
vises to seek for your ideal model Of
what you want the pigs to be, but this
care in selection loses its force If a cross
bred animal is purchased. Use only pure
bred males.
Candy to feed bees on in winter is
made, says a writer, by gradually stir
ring six pounds of loaf sugar into about
three-quarters Of a pint of boiling water,
the whole kept boiling and constantly
stirred to prevent burning.
While less than 100000 acres were de-
voted to other cereals in Scotland last
year, 100000 acres were sown to oats.
Scotland is not one of our competitors in
the wheat line, but the wheat crop in In
dla Is per cent. greater than in 1898.
While it is best to provide a good. warm
shelter for the hogs during the winter, in
nearly all cases it will be best TO arrange
50 that they can run out every day dur
ing the winter. Close confinement is rot
conducive to good health, even with hogs.
Good stock and low prices will give
better results than poor stock and good
prices. Now is the time to buy good
should lose no opportunity for improve
ment if we are to stay in the business at
all.
Italian bees are now conceded to be. the
best bees for this country. New varieties
come up every season, are given a short
lived boom and drop below the horizon to
again appear briefly in a few years. The
Italian has been tried and has not been
found wanting. They are the best.
The COW must be good she must be fed
right, but as a mixer much VII depend
upon her individuality. She must be bred,
trained and managed just right. or she
will not do her best as a mixer. Like
-ba ~ To
every individual trait she may possess.
Blackberry plants thrive in any soil in
which any other crop will grow. Plant
2 by 8, or by 10 feet. Head back canes
in summer by pinching off the top when
two or three feet high Strong side
branches viii follow. which should be cut
back in spring, leaving lateral branches
about a foot long.
With all kinds of trees the rule
should be to plant at such distance apart
as will secure the best development of
the natural characteristics Of the kind. A
tree or plant of any kind cramped for
room cannot make the natural growth or
development or present the appearance
of one that has plepty of room.
No care, feeding nor assertion can put
cows on an equality Of production. What
ever the breeding. the producing dairy is
only procured by close selection and test
ing of COWS, and butter and cheese are
only made by uniting the solids of milk,
whatever the quantity of water The cow
giving the rich milk is the COW for the
dairy.
Prof. Baily says: "Trees should be
made to send their roots deep into the
soil in order to fOrtlfy themselves against
drought. This is done by draining the
soil and by blowing the orchard rather
deep. This deep blowing should begin the
very year the trees are set, and it should
be continued every spring until the habit
Of the tree is established.
One great obstacle i'm securing n perna-
nent pasture that viii afford fine grazing
year after year, without elimination, is
the gradual decrease of available nitrogen
In nearly all old and run-Out pastures
patches of moss are found where the land
ought to be occupied by plants Of a higher
order, and would be if the soil contained
more accessible plant food.
Fodder can be as truly wasted when put
in the stomach as when trodden under
foot. Unhoused cattle have a continuous
battle for comfort, and all their stuffing
of food shows no result, for the reason
that il is used wholly in keeping life. More
over they are stunted by their stay at
this unthrifty stage. and will never show
as good results afterward.
The largest pillow in the world, perhaps,
| is owned by Richard Grid of San Ber-
nardinO county, California. This immense
sod turner stands eighteen feet high and
/ II,
is provided with twelve twelve-inch pl0w-
shares. and is capable of blowing fifty
acres Of land per day. 1t consumes from
one to one and a half tons of coal per
, day, and usually travels at the rate of four
miles an hour
When the locality desirable for a lawn
is naturally free from weeds the modern
suggestion of making it by planting
patches of one particular kind, which will
run together in few months, is particu-
larly desirable. Nothing can be more beau
tiful than lawn which is wholly made
up of one species only. For small gardens,
especially where the new plantation can
be hand-weeded during the summer, it is
the best of all methods
Too many men do not believe that there
are settled principles in dairy farming.
They prefer 10 think it is merely a game
of 'catch-as-catch-can." They live on the
outside shell Of the business and are never
masters Of its principles. They are the
ones who sneer at a dairy paper or at the
idea that they could ever learn anything
profitable from one. But every little while
you will find them consulting some neigh
Dor who does take an agricultural paper,
and maybe they ask 10 borrow number
of it.
In filling in an underdrain there is al
ways a mixture of surface and subsou,
which, to an inexperienced underdrainer,
might be supposed to mean a lessening Of
fertility. We have known farmers take
particular care to place the subsOI at
the bottom over the tile and keep the sur
face soil for filling in at the last, but it
really makes little difference. The line
that has been mellOwed deeply will for
many years show a better growth Of all
crops than does the soil few feet either
side, which is doubtless as well drained
as the other. The difference is that one
/ is SUBSIDIZED and the other is not.