The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-08
Enrrn Notes.

Stack the straw we'll, so it Will keep.
1t is a good food and what is not fed
can be used for bedding and other pur-
poses.
In selling any kind of farm products
they should be graded into uniform lots.
They will sell more readily and for bet
ter prices.
The statisuician Of the United States
department of agriculture says there is
a light supply of hogs, lighter at April L
than for six years.
Someone has said that those who sneer
at intensive cultivation, extra heavy
manuring. etc, are the men who are
never tempted to practice them
Lambs will fatten faster than the older
sheep, but ii takes a careful, sldllful
feeder. who gives his best thought TO
what he is doing, TO fatten sheep sue
! cessfully.
We are apt to charge the weakening
of bones in hogs and general degeneracy
wholly to food, when in truth good
deal of 1t may be due to the selection
OF breeding stock, says a swine breeder.
The advice of practical dairyTnan is
to milk a COW with her first and second
calves until, at least, within Two months
of when she is expected to calve; this
Is the sUTest and best way of making a
persistent mixer
Fifty years ago barr0ws were not
marketed until two or three years old.
Times have changed wonderfully The
successful swine-grOwer now markets
them under a year Old-many of them at
eight and ten months.
one dairyman has reached the con-
clusion that no self-respecting cow will
pay more for her feed and care than it
is worth Her milk is her capital, and
if you get it you must pay for 1t, ard
you get what you pay for and no more.
When milk is converted into butter
and cheese it takes about ten quarts OF
milk to make about one pound OF butter,
the. average price Of which IS p cents per
pound; fourteen quarts of milk 10 three
pounds of cheese. average price S14 cents
per pound. thus netting in each case
about two cents a quart for milk.
The relation of the soil to water is one
that can be very greatly modified by
drainage, manure and tillage. Indeed, in
general on farms OF ordinary fertility,
the real operations is in their effect upon
the physical condition of the soil, by
which the relation of the soil to water IS
effected. and thereby also the relation of
the soil to heat.
Plant the wild cherry. Tt is fully as
valuable the walnut. 1t grows to great
size and height, and will furnish a great
amount OF merchantable lumber. 1t
grows more rapidly than walnut, and is
freer from insects and borers- 1t ranks
next to mahogany in value. There Is
young trees. This timber question con-
Germs every farmer.
The hog Is not a ruminant animal, and
its smaller stomach requires more rich
food than does the COW or sheep, which
have a greater proportion Of paunch. A
little silage. simply 10 prevent the cloy-
ing effect Of rich grain feed, is all that
can De devised in feeding swine. If much
is given them they will waste more than
they eat as we think will most other
farm animals except the cow.
A poultry writer says that the dust
| bath is not merely a matter of fanciful
benefit to the fowls. 1t is the same TO
them as a water bath to the human BIZ
ped. and more, for IL not only helps to
free their plumage fran dirt, but dis
lodges insect enemies from their skins.
Their appreciation Of its value is sufi-
GENTLY attested by the use they make
of 1t when they have the chance.
1t takes very little grain to keep hogs
in thrifty condition when they are at
pasture. Grain fed at this time gives
much larger return than will the in
creased quality given when the hogs are
put up for fattening. The clover and
grass they eat are less valuable for the
nutriment that they contain than they
are for keeping digestion in good order,
so that the richer food given may do the
most possible In building UP frame and
putting on fat
The disease known as club root in
cabbage is always the result of growing
them on the same ground in succession.
1t is also more prevalent on land which
is deficient in lime. A. s. Fuller Of New
Jersey has succeeded in growing cabbage
free from club root by being always care
ful about his plants. He grows them on
soil where a heap of brush has been
burned, and he also scrapes up and uses
this burned soil as top dressing when
he grows the plants in frames.
Peat as dug from the swamp. owing
10 its acid and antiseptic qualities. is
frequently injurious to use. 1t brings in
on the uplands the coarse and wild
grasses of the swamp, but soda ash,
twenty pounds to the cord of peat las
duz OUT will neutralize the acid. cause
the peat to heat and ferment, generate
ammonia, putting peat in the same con-
dition as COW dung, equaling ii in quail
ty cord for cord. and will not cost as
much, with no limit to the supply to be
obtained.
Grass or hay fed to COWS in milk cannot
return its full manurial value to the soil,
as a part Is used in producing the milk
| There is also loss when fed TO any
| growing or working animals, but the
manure made from feeding a ton Of hay,
/ if worked into the SOIL may be worth more
| for a crop than if the hay was left to roC
on the surface. The manure, especially
the liquid portions, would act quickly,
| perhaps in part be blown away upon
| other fields or waste places.
The field pea is an important crop in
| Canada. partly because it succeeds in
| localities where corn cannot be grown
| and partly because in many localities the
| pea weevil, which infests peas grown in
| the states. is not known. It was long
| the habit Of farmers near the Canada
| line to send north for seed peas free
| from the weevil. When Canada seed
peas were procured each spring one or
| two crops and sometimes more could be
| grown in the states free from bugs be-
fore the pest would reappear again.
How many of those who in spring go
TO the fields and slowly dig out among
grass and stones a mess Of dandeliOn
green's know that this crop is more sat
isfactorily grown in the garden? The
improved cultivated dandelion is much
larger, is more easily cleaned and free
from insects than that gathered in the
fields. 1t is safe to say that whoever
procures and sows a package Of the i'm
proved dandelion seed in his garden will