The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-23
All Around the Farm.

one advantage with small fruits is
that they can be raised while one is
waiting for the trees to come into bear
ing. On new farms this is often quite
an argument in their favor.
In stalking trees much damage may be
avoided by using strips of leather or
duck to tie the tree to the stake rather
than to use a cord. Tall. slender trees
especially need stalking and tying.
In purchasing seeds for the garden
pay a fair price and secure the best. Do
not risk crop of any kind with poor
seeds. Try novelties on a small scale,
and rely on well-tried standard sorts for
the main crop.
Trees. whether planted for ornament
or usefulness, are the better for the
society of other trees near by because
of their affording one another mutual
protection from winds and from ex-
tremes of heat and cold.
Pork is largely what we make IT, So
far as the quality is concerned, there is
more in the feed than in the breed, but
a better quality of meat will be secured
if the hogs are fed for early maturity
than if allowed to make a slow growth.
While stable manure has generally fall
len into disrepute for fruit, the need of
nitrogen to form a healthy but not ex-
IRENE growth is still acknowledged. Peas
are good for orchards. They are the
king Of leguminous plants which dis
solve air in the soil and put lis nitrogen
into available form.
In trials with field-cured corn fodder
at the Pennsylvania station corn fod-
der" in this connection meaning tho en-
tire plant, ears and all. a given area cut
when the kernals of the ears were mostly
dented. but with the husks and leaves
mostly green, produced more butter fat
than an equal area when cut earlier or
later.
The National Dairyman says: "Over
one hundred new creameries is the record
in this country for 1898. Many poorly
located ones have quit business, but it is
perfectly safe to figure on 600 good, live
creameries added to the forces. This will
make close to 5000 good, live creameries
in operation, an increase of about 10
per cent.
Horses are cheap now, and farm labor
is comparatively dear. There is no use
i'm hiring a man to work with horses and
then give him a team that will need
TO rest at every bout with the pillow or
harrow. A three-horse team will usu-
ally do one-third more work at either of
these operations than will team having
only two horses.
Asparagus beds in private gardens are
maintained for twenty years or more in
good condition, and in market gardens
about as long Their profitableneSS de-
ponds on the care which they receive.
If they are freely MANFRED every year
they can be kept in good order for a
quarter of a century, but they quickly
fail if neglected.
As a result of the recent London show,
agriculturalists abroad are deciding that
for beef-making the cross of the Aber-
deem on the shOrtborn is preferable to
either the shOrthorn or the pure Aber-
deem: for the same reason a good cross
of two pure-bred varieties of sheep sur
poses, which is allied for the cross.
In an experiment, continued three
seasons at the Utah station, a COMPARE
son is made of deep and shallow tillage
and no tillage for potatoes. The aver
age Of duplicate plats for three years
the yield of large and small potatoes on
shallow titled plats was 206.3S bushels per
acre; on the deeper titled plats. 2O4S7
bushels, and on the untitled plats. 1867
bushels.
As caulifloWer should be white and
dainty-looking when fit for the table il
may be sometimes necessary to bend a
single leaf over the head or flower when
it is about half formed. This also has
a tendency to check growth some, so
that a part will help to extend the crop
week an important consideration for
home use, although of no moment for
market purposes.-Prairie Farmer
The superior hardness of the yellow
Crosby peach is giving it a boom among
growers of this fruit. This year. when a
large proportion of peach buds are de-
stroyed. il would be worth many hun
dred thousands of dollars to change the
standard varieties whose buds are all
dead for the hardy Crosby. One Connec-
ticut grower remarks that it would be
$4,000 profit to him this year If all his
peach trees We're of the Crosby variety.
Many mistakes are made in setting
out shade trees. Evergreens ought never
to be set near the house. They are use
full as wind-breaks at the north and
west, at some distance from the house,
where they may be set in clumps or
hedges, but never on a lawn. Grass does
not do so well under them as under de-
ciduous trees and so many of them
drop cones almost the entire year that
they are unsigntly and interfere with
the mower.
Many English horticulturists claim
that fruit trees do better when they are
grown from their own stalks, and not
grated on the stalks of other trees.
They claim il is more natural to grow
fruits from their own roots, but this
theory hardly makes it conclusive that
budding, grating and root propa cation
of trees are of no avail. There may be
some difference in the general longevity
of the budded and seeding trees, but
otherwise we have no occasion to look