The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30

The flavor of milk is not always due to
the food. On hundreds of farms there Is
an utter lack of cleanliness i'm the handling
of milk. although it is well known that
sickness and death are caused by the
garms which enter into the milk through
lack of cleanliness in milking and careless
ness in other details.
No one who has not tried raising and
feeding turnips to sheep can have a full ap-
probation of the benefits derived from this
cheap food and in the increased thrift OF
advantage of the English method of teed-
ing compared with ours, IL We compare
their immense fat muttons with ours, and
in all the feeding districts of the English
provinces turnips are fed in immense GUAM
titles.
The farm surplus should never be sold
in its original condition If 1t can be changed
to something else with profit. Hay, when
fed to dairy cows, and only the butter is
sold, leaves a portion OF the profit or the
farm. as the butter Is derived mostly from
the air, and IL Is to this fact that cream
cries which return the skim milk and whey
TO their patrons have done much 10 IN
crease the fertility OF some farms by rem
dering the manure of the farms more valu-
able.
Sheep are necessary on some farms in
order to save much OF the waste materials.
Sheep will eat many plants that other ami
mails will not touch. 1t may not be profta-
bic for some farmers 10 keep large ffochs OF
sheep. but a dozen sheep will cost almost
nothing. The same may be said OF one or
TWO plBs, NhlSA give d pioht OrNauSc nv
consume materials that would otherwise
go 10 the manure heap. but too many sheep
or pigs may make the item OF labor too
costly TO allow of a profit.
In making a selection OF an appropriate
situation for a garden one should be chosen
which will receive throughout the day.
more especially in the morning. the
full benefit Of the sun. A gentle slope to
the south and east is always preferable.
The close proximity to large trees should
be avoided, as their ever-greedy roots would
absorb the nutriment which the vegetables
require, and their shade deprives them Of
light and heat. Vegetables can never be
brought to maturity i'm a retired or shady
spot. A garden should be as near the
dwelling as possible.
A short illustrated article in the Decem-
Der Cosmopolitan shows what the poorest
farmers can accomplish when driven TO
structed OF box boards, barrel slaves.
scrap iron and odds and ends of discarded
threshing machines and farm Implements.
costing In cash about 30 cents. have been
made in the prairie States to irrigate farms,
| pump water for thousands OF cattle and
sheep. shell corn and relieve the farmer OF
| what used to be the hardest manual labor.
At an experiment station il has been
| demonstrated that it requires 20 per cent.
more power to draw a load on "A wagon
with one-and-one half-inch tires than one
| with a three-inch tire. With "A Baldwin dy-
namometer careful tests were made with q
| loaded wagon drawn over bluegrass award.
In a wagon weighing LOCO pounds u was
found tina a load weighing BIZ pounds
| could be drawn on wide tires with the same
force required To move 1000 pounds on
narrow tires. Moreover. the wide tires did
not injure the turf. while the narrow ones
cut through IL.