The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-28

Al Around The Farm.

The New York experiment station is
authority for the statement that a ton
of butter takes but the insignificant
amount OF IS cents worth of soil fer
tility from the land which has produced it.
The lean ham is the tough one and
the fat ham the disagreeable one. Make
marbled hams by growing the pigs on
clover milk and grain-On a well-pro-
portioned and nutritive ration.-Farm
Journal
See that you have a sunny window and
dry floor in the hen-hOuse this winter
a damp floor and a dark room are fatal
TO success. Sun and warmth and dryneSS
will insure good health, cheaper feeding,
more eggs
Nothing can be more beautiful or
picturesque. says a writer, than a we'll
managed stock farm without a scrub COW,
sheep, hog, horse, or fowl, with green
pastures and verdant meadows, level
plains and slipping hillsides.
Better buy thoroughbred eggs or fowls
than try to grade up the common stock,
because Il saves time. and going up hill
Is not half 50 easy as going down A
little neglect VIII make scrubs out of
some Of the best soon enough.
There's no pace where brain power. in
diligently directed. viii return a Iarear
per cent Of interest than in training and
developing horses. UndevelOped. a horsa
sel-S today at less than pork price but in
proportion 10 development values rapidly
Increase.
We mus not overlook a food for the
hens which we may have in great album
dance-clover. II is bulky, and rich in
lime and nitrogen. 1t is better to cut It
fine and scald it, and then mix it with a
little ground grain in the morning; it will
save more costly food.
A week or ten days Of heavy feeding
vii materially add 10 the condition of
al aNnra al
prices. Turkeys aid geese require longer.
but If thrifty, can usually be wei. fatted
for market with two weeks Of liberal
feeding on a fattening ration.
Butter canned and Theoretically sealed
Will be one Of the articles Of commerce be-
fore long. Canned butter is quite as prac-
Acable as canned lard or peaches Thus
sea-ed up. butter or the first-class can he
shipped 70 any country from the equator
ia the poles and opened and eaten in good
condition
The windmill and the brook water
wheel are yet to be harnessed for cleo
tricity and the grain threshed, the wood
sawed, feed cut water pumped, house
lighted and heated without extra cost.
The water power on or near every farm
will transmit It's force over a wire to every
field and building, and viii save untold
labor
Before cold weather sets in il is a good
loan and store 1t in a dry place. A few
shOveifuls are useful in the gutter be-
hind the cows as an absorbent and deodor-
izer. And in the spring when it Is time
10 make hot beds or plant a few cabbage
seeds how badly we wish for some good
earth if we have not got it.
There IS a healthy undegtone in the horse
trads that IS encouraging, says the
DrOyers' Journal but of course it is now
the season Of the year when thousands Of
common horses win be paced on sale by
owners who do not care TO feed them. The
rapid extension of electric car lines is
without doubt cutting down the demand
for the "streeter" grade Of horses
A-man with a high temper, says a
writer II II Is uncomfortable, has no bus
mess with cow. The man who merci-
lessly kicks a cow cannot possibly sue
caed for his rough treatment vii more
than Offset all he builds up by extra feed
ing. If he would be content to kick the
side of the barn. or even himself Il would
be more sensible. and his end would be
gained just as vel
With animals for meat a quick growth
and early maturity are essential in secur-
ing tha best profit The shortest time
that an animal for meat can be fed Is the
most profitable, and the growth and gain
must be continuous. In nearly all cases
il will be better TO sell off a portion Of the
stock IN good season, even at a low price,
rather than 70 be obliged to stint the IA
ton through the winter
In China many Of the shallow pools
have their bottoms painted with edible
lilies. lotus. water chEstnuts, water spin
ach and other vegetables which thrive
in marThy lands. These grow rapidly.
and IN the warmer sections produce more
than one erop each year. 1t might be