The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-01

your intelligence to the utmost within
your power. There is profit in I'M
| scientific work in this progressive day.
While the raising the stock will
enrich our soil and renew is productive
| ness, it will market the farm products
better than to ship the feed away. While
grain-growing is yearly becoming more
Improbable, our hope is in stock breed
ing.
Keep the flies out of the stable. Close
up the cracks and tack mosquito bar
over the windows. This may cost you a
little money and trouble, but 1t will
save you many dollars worth of horse
flesh. The horses will pay for it by do
ing lots more hard work without fatigue.
Do not count that man foolish who
harrows his ten-acre field ten days be-
! fore he sows his wheat. This fine, pull
verization not only fits the soil for the
best work. but it brings up the moisture
in dry time and gives hardened bed
underneath. which will just be the condi-
| ton desired
Ensilage is. a healthy food for all farm
animals. 1t has no bad influence on
milk or butter; 1t is digestible, and the
cows relish it; there is less loss in saving
corn in the silo than curing in the field
the one has the more feeding value than
the other; it is as good six months after
making as when fresh.
To fatten an old COW for the butcher
begin as soon as she has calved, feed her
as much grain as her old teeth will grind
for digestion during the time she Is in
pasture. She Will gain in milk and flesh.
and will fatten quickly about the time
the milk fails. This will make her fat
and lean. which the buyer likes.
A young plant must have its proper
food and drink, the same as young
animal. The fine, white roots are the
feeding mouths. They suck and grow
with good care; they starve and die with
neglect The more mellow the soil the
more available the food, and the better
within reach. Manure is fertility; that
is. food.
Opposites often follow each other. We
used to plant our potatoes in ridges.
In the West they now make ridges like
those made for sweet potatoes, and plant
the tubers in the valleys between. There
are no sunburnt potatoes, and the Guilt
vator but tumbles the weeds down hill
into the bitches. The finer roots are not
in the way of the plow.
The quick growing kinds Of turnips,
sown late in the autumn, are very sue
culent, but they do not have the nutri-
tive qualities which belong to the ruta-
baga family. or even the white turnips
if sown earlier. The most succulent turn
pithy in winter, and are not palatable
after January. There is some risk in
feeding turnips freely to breeding ami
mails.
Dairymen are suffering from the tu-
berculOsis scare, and perhaps unduly.
There is perhaps no more Of 1T than Of
old, but we must consent that it is the
best part of wisdom to wipe ii out as far
as possible. The only way is by slaugh-
tering the infected cattle; but the stir
over the question is interfering sadly
with the sale of milk in the diaries
which supply the city.
The dairy brings a revenue which is
always cash and almost continuous. II
helps maintain the fertility of the farm;
its product, il good, has seldom to seek
buyer; it exhibits more vitality in
times of depression than almost any
other product that the farmer sells; but
the average farmer studies improvement
in all other lines before he takes an in
terest in the business of making butter.
Yakima, Wash, If she has not already,
proposes to attain and maintain the dis
tinction of being the banner hop county
of Washington. Last year the hop crop
was in the neighbOrhood Of 10000 bales.
Conservative estimates place the crop of
this year at upward of 10000 bales
There are $500 acres Of old hops and
1900 acres are being planted this spring
No less than 10000 pickers will be re-
quired to harvest the crop.
J. S Wilson, Badger, S. D., writes: 81
have had eight years experience with
the Russian thistle, and can say that on
my farm ii has not caused as much
damage as the common bull thistle, also
a native of this region. With due respect
for the opinions of legislators, who are
endeaVOring to secure additional aid in
suppressing the pest, 1 think that ap-
preparations for that purpose are en-
tirely unnecessary" - Orange Judd
Farmer.
Following is the formula used at the
Vermont station for Bordeaux MIXTURE
Five pounds copper sulphate. five pounds
Inns INN he fFpSh-Onf a C1arlxa60
fifty gallons Zone barreD water. Dis
solve the copper sulphate in a clean
wooden or brass vessel slack the lime
in another vessel, then dilute with water
to a thin whitewash and strain it into
the copper solution. Stir thoroughly and
add water to make about fifty gallons
zone barely
The discovery of phylloxera in vine
yard in the Bendigo district has Gre
ated CONSERVATION in that and other
parts of Australia. 1t is a threatening
menace to the vine-growing and wine
making industries. which have attained
much Importance in many of the Aus
tralian colonies This is not the first
appearance of the pest IN that region.
More than fifteen years of efforts were
required to eradicate it from the Gee
long district.
The early harvest apple is very likely
to overbear, but il is quite good for
pies when not fully grown, provided
enough sweetening is added to take off
the surplus acidity. 1t is best to shake
off some from all the trees at this time,
even though there be no market for
them. for those left TO ripen will be
greatly improved in size and flavor, be-
sides making sure that the tree will per-
feet fruit buds for bearing the next sea-
son. Usually the early harvest tree, al
lowed to ripen all it's fruit in years of
abundance. bears nothing the following