The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-26

Fix up the houses now for winter. make
leaky roofs tight; cover the sides with
tarred paper and batten it on closely;
replace the broken glass in the windows;
take everything movable eve take it for
granted your roosts and nest boxes are
not made fasO out of the houses, and
give them a cleansing. If there are lice
in the cracks. give the whole interior.
sides, roof, and floor. too, if it is of wood
or cement. a good soaking with kerosene
emulsion. using pump for this purpose
After this has well dried out, go over 1t
again with whitewash, with carbolic acid
enough added to give it strong smell
of the acid: use the pump for this. also,
and put In elbow-grease enough to drive
both washes well into every crack and
crevics. If the floor is of earth, take
out three oEtSour inches Of it, spread 1t
on the grass, and replace with fresh.
clean soil. Turn the nest boxes bottom
side up. straw and all, put brick or stone
under one side, touch a match to the
straw. and burn that up. cleaning the
boxes of lice at the same time. If a box
catches fire it will do no harm; bucket
of water handy will take care Of that.
The easiest way to whitewash a nes-
-
dip the box in To clean the perches,
pour a little crude petroleum the entire
length Of them, touch match to it, and
that ends the lice and nits. II there IS
dirt to get off. a hoe is a handy tool for
that purpose. Now everything is Clean.
and when nests and perches are replaced
the house is ready for winter. The
mOUlting hens, if they have not been
arlrn tod ri .p1 qHVi=n-GnOnI0
nearly all their new feathers by this
time, and by the last Of the month Be
ready to lay again. If any are slow in
shedding, separate them and give them
a spoonful of linseed meal two or three
times a week with their other feed
Puiiets Of the lighter breeds should be
laying now, and if the houses are warm
enough so that their combs will not
freeze. they can be made 10 lay all win
ter. There is no longer any question
about the Leghorn being a fair winter
layer, provided the conditions are right
Keep al males away from the females
until next breeding season. Unless you
have a very choice specimen which you
wish to breed from next spring, it is
best 10 sell all males in the fall, and
save their feed and room.
When you house the chicks for winter.
do not put too many in one house. Eight
lor ten feet floor space for each one is
none too much for health and vigOr.
Crimson Glover in Southern Illinois.
l sowed about half an acre on my
farm and one-fourth acre on my neigh
bor's, in August, '93. Grassloppers and
dry weather entirely ruined the latter
last fall Nearly all plants on my own
fed were also killed: what little re-
NAMED was frozen. killed to the ground,
the latter part of March. 1t was a long
time before it got wei started again. 1t
stoOled out well. ripened considerably
earlier than the common red clover, but
was not so tall. In order to test it on
poor soil and hardpan 1 gave a little of
the seed TO two friends living about ten
miles south of my home. This was sown
about Oct. Is. after showers had fallen.
It came up in a very short time On a
patch where red variety had never taken
the least hold crimson clover did ex-
ceeding.y well. Large. well-filled seed
heads were produced. The result was a
complete surprise 10 cd farmers who
had lived there more than fifty years.
On sol ike my own and where red
cover generally does we'll. I do not think
crimson clover is very valuable But it
may prove a great boon to hardpan or
marty clay lOcalities.-F. Helms, St. Clair
County, illinois.