The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11
Farm, Notes.

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solids, and they can easily be saved with
as little labor as is required TO the solids.
Farm Notes.
One Of the secrets of large yields of
| berries is TO have plants with plenty OF
vitality to start with
If you think of going into the fruit
business, study the markets and don't
raise crops for which there is no demand.
y safe rule is to sell produce when
ready for market unless the price is un-
reasonably low and good prospect for
better prices.
People will continue to eat beef. pork.
mutton, etc, and there is no danger of
the demand ceasing. Put a first-class
quality on the market. and it will bring
the top market price.
An animal thoroughly heated by rapid
driving on cold day should be kept
moving lively until he reaches the stable.
Neglect of all this precaution has re-
suited in many a fatal case of pneu-
monia.
1t is said that if a team is inclined
to pull unevenly the trouble may be
remedied by unhitching the inside traces
and crossing them, so as TO have the
same horse attached to the same end
Of each singletree.
Verbenas are easily started either in
the house or out of doors, require rich
mellow soil and plenty of sunshine and
moisture. They give an abundance of
bloom and amply repay one for the care
bestowed on them.
The red raspberry is a good honey
plant. the flowers lasting three or four
weeks, and furnishing a honey that is
excellent in quality, while the berries
prove better and more abundant If bees
visit them frequently.
The blight which attacks onions when
lit.
affects the heads containing the seed
and soon turns them black, and Of
course makes the affected head worth
less The other is a fungus which turns
the stalk yellow.
The first shoeing will be largely eX-
perimental. If your colt is pure-gaited
and strongly trotting-bred he may ac-
quire speed with very little change from
the first shOeing. Again, it may be
necessary to shoe him in many differ
ent ways before you get him just bal
anced
The cost of spraying with Bordeaux
mixture, as computed by Prof. Beck
with. is as follows: For spraying five
times during the season, 2.44 cents for
each grapevine treated. This includes
al materials and labor and is computed
from the years work on an average Of
about 1000 vines.
The tendency in some strains of horses
to go through long life of useful serv-
ice as compared with the average Of
horses-never being sick or lame and
rarely failing to take a portion of feed.
is often not rated at it's full value. and
yet there are few things in a horse Of
any kind that are of more Importance
than his endurance.
That which has most Of all tended 70
turn the attention Of farmers to the i'm
provement of the milking qualities of
flnafr fc bo ~ hn
It seems to have the happy faculty Of
setting people to thinking, and one Of
the first things il teaches IS a discrimi-
nation in the capabilities of cows for
supplying in quality and quantity milk
which shall pay the best profit FOR their
keep
writer in the last American Agri-
cuturist tells the result of spraying in
his apple orchard. On five rows sprayed
but once he got 70 per cent. Of perfect
fruit, while on the remaining part of the
orchard, which he sprayed twice, he got
80 per cent He used Paris green, one
pound to 100 gallons of water. The first
spraying was made when the apples were
not larger than peas, the next about a
week later
When the bees cluster upon the out
side Of the hive IL is not always an indi-
cation Of an intention to send out a
swarm. but the fact that the hive is
nearly Iull OF money OF OF young DlOOQ.
In such cases they will swarm if they
have a queen to go with them, and US
ually will do il the first day; but If
they linger in that way for several days,
it is very sure that they need more
room in which to work, or that the hive
stands in too warm a place.
Most farmers in seeding wish to keep
the land in grass more than a single
year. For this purpose a mixture OF
alsike clover seed with timothy seed
makes the best combination that we
know of. The first years growth will
be mainly alsike, and the first crop to be
cut will contain scarcely any timothy.
But alsil<e clover is a biennial, and its
roots begin TO decay after the plant has
died. and then the timothy comes for
ward very rapidly. often making a good
second growth for hay when the first
crop has been cut early enough.
There is usually i'm each litter Of pigs
one that is much smaller when born
than the others. This is usually called the
runt. The fact of it's inferior size usu-
ally indicates some defect in its digest
i've apparatus that all through its life
will make il return less for food con-
sumed than would the same food given
to more thrifty animals. The first loss
Of the runt is. therefore, continued in
creasingly through it's life. Occasionally
skillful feeding will get some profit out
OF runt pig, but generally the best
way is TO kill IL at once and give the
remainder Of the litter so much better
chance.
In France the trend Of the rural popu-
lation is that the augmentation is taking
place in the class that owns and culti-
Yates their holdings. There are $4,000
holdings Of twenty-five acres and below,
and OF these 2,167, 667 do not exceed an
area Of two and one-half acres. Now,
whether a farm be large or small IL must
conform TO the common laws Of being
cultivated in accordance with local nat
ural necessities, and the most economic
cal employment of capital and labor
Produce more and produce cheap that
will enable top prices 10 be realized.
such should be the aim of all cultivators
whether large or small. That is the
end also in view in industry. In France
they are the farms of 100 acres and
above that are on the decrease: those un-
der twenty-five acres show most aug
mentaion and their holdings between
twenty-five and 100 acres