The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-17
Farm Notes.

If the manger Is kept stuffed with hay
the horses are liable to take the heaves.
A New Yorker claims that the health
fulness Of his hogs Is due TO the large
quantity of milk which he gives them.
1t is observed that young animals
cramped and confined never attain the
highest symmetry, strength and vitality.
An English beef-grower by experiment
reached the conclusion that beeves cease
TO be fed at a profit after they are two
years old.
Flesh is put on more rapidly in warm
weather and while the grass lasts than
after cod weather comes. Begin feeding
and fattening your stock early.
\ swine feeder says the necessity for
nearly always increased whenever the
hogs are put on full feed to fatten.
It would seem that these broad acres
Of Uncle Sans dominion should be equal
to the demand our millions make for
things to eat, but there is still imported
a large portion Of our supply Of potatoes,
beans. eggs, cheese, seed bulbs etc. This
is our own fault.
During the past seven years Iowa has
planted out about forty million forest
trees. Switzerland has increased her
woodland to about the same extent. This
is an encouraging thing, and there could
be no more profitable move than this
upon thousands and thousands of acres
Of the hard-worked hillsides in our east
ern ana middle states.
Ii is a frequent mistake Of hop-grow-
ers to begin picking too early. This loses
the fullest development of hop flavor and
also something in weight. The cary pick
ing occasionally has its advantages in
saving the crop from Injurious storms,
though even then the superior strength
OF hops that have fully ripened may
make more than what is lost by storm.
Plant the wild cherry. It is fully as
valuable as the walnut. 1t grows to great
size and hight and will furnish 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 not much
difficulty in transplanting the young trees.
This timber question concern every
farmer
Every year on most melon patches
some specimens are caught by frost,
green. unripe and good for nothing This
is a waste OF the vigor of the vine. If
the smallest of these are removed one or
two weeks before time for frost the vine
will push the remaining specimens more
rapidly and Will probably ripcn some of
them that without this help would have
been worthless.
4 sheep is an animal that is easily
overfed, and one if Overfed requires a
longer time to recover from the effects
than almost any other animal. There
is no class Of stock that it is more in
furious TO leave feed before. In al feed
ing. whether for growth or to fatten.
only such a quantity as they viii readily
eat up clean should be given More than
this is positively injurious. In fattening
in nearly all cases the better plan is TO
gradually increase the grain ration, and
not put on full fattening food too rap
idly.
English flock masters have a habit Of
relying on the annual lettings Of rams by
stead of each breeder keeping a ram for
his own flock. The system has the ad-
vantage that each owner Of a flock can
choose the ram every year if he chooses,
and by judicious selection he may thus
breed the kind Of sheep he prefers. The
price for rams for the season was higher
than usual. as much as 500 for one ram
being paid. Wool in England is made
worth more by the market for woo-en
goods in this country which the new tariff
gives.
II is a good plan to utilize a time of
drought for securing a quantity Of road
side dust for use in the winter. The~c
Is nothing better than this 10 throw in
the corner Of the hen-hOuse at all times.
1t will enable them to destroy Vermin,
though this viii do little good unless
rOOsts, walls and nests are purified by
other means. The dust from rsads
whose soil has a good deal OF clay Is
excellent for covering compost heaps. 1t
IS al the better if a good deal of
horse droppings are mixed with it. AS
there is apt to be if the dust is secured
from roads that are much Travelled.