The Indianapolis journal., 1903-04-06
Farm Notes.

1t is very easy to make cuttings OF cur
rants or gooseberry bushes "A foot length
of last years growth with the end
smoothed off and fixed standing in the soil.
will put out roots from its smoothed sur
face. 1t is best to leave only one above
ground. This will make the stem for the
future plant.
Any sort of a milk tester Is better than
none at all. Take as many glass tumblers
of equal size as you have cows. and I'LL
each to the brim with milk from one of
the COWS. Let these stand for twelve
hours and you will get very fair idea of
the cream or butter-producing capacity Of
your several cows.
Bear in mind that when using oil or
grease of any ,,I kind on fowls ,S, only little
destroy chicks. AS spray for poultry
house use kerosene emulsion (or kerosene),
adding. gill of sassafras Oil and half
pint of crude carboic acid to a gallon of
kerosene or emulsion. Two or three .ap-
plications will destroy not only the lice.
but also the "nits' and eggs"
The management of garden does not
the farm. No work pays so well as that
given the garden, as a larger amount OF
produce, and Of various kinds, can be Sc
cured from a garden than from the culti-
walton Of large area. Every farmer who
gives a garden his attention usually is
more careful of his other crops. Every
portion of the farm Is kept clean and in
good condition.
be done regularly and not occasionally. 1t
may be given as seasoning to the ground
grain, or placed where they can have ac-
cess to it. Cows have been known to fall
off one-tenth in flow of milk when deprived
of salt. There are some who do not be-
lieve in the use Of salt by allowing stock
to help themselves, but 1t is beneficial to
season their food with 1T. which makes
the food more palatable and better rel
ished.
1t is not always that the entire crop of
peaches or plums Is destroyed because OF
a sudden change to cold weather. While
a large number of buds may be destroyed,
yet enough may remain TO pay profit, as
IL is well known that during those years
when crops are short the prices are much
better. Light crops do not exhaust the
trees and land so much as do crops from
oyerladen trees, hence the cost OF produc-
tion may be lessened and the profits great
er. when the trees are not overloaded.
The dairy cow Is a very sensitive crea-
ture and always shows at the milk pail
when she has been abused or fll-treated.
Her treatment should be such that will al
ways inspire confidence on her part In the
one who cares for and feeds her. The
feeding and milking should always be done
regularly, at the same hour each day, and
If possible always by the same person.
found that variation in these points pro-
duced variation in the amount of milk Sc
creted and the per cent. of butter fat.
There are several borers of the apple tree
the nat-heaQeu, Wnlcn pores unuer the
bark and sometimes in the wood; the
round headed, which bores into the tree,
remaining I'm the larval state three years.
and the twig borer, which enters just
above the bud. Dig out the borers with a
sharp knife, or probe into the bores for
them with sharp-pointed wire. Scrub the
trees, and apply early In June and July
whale oil soap (or soapsuds), with a little
carbolic acid added. Burn all twigs at
tackled. The soapsuds keeps the moths of
The digging out of the round-headed and
fiat-headed borers must be done effectively
The borers are about an inch long. A
sharp wire kills them In the tubes made by
them.
1t may surprise the inexperienced that
although the cows can be put on pasture
after grass appears. the supply of milk is
then usually reduced. This Is frequently
the case when any kind of change In the
food is made. but more especially very
early in the spring, the grass is then
more largely composed Of water than at
any other season OF the year, and conse-
quently is also more laxative than when IL
approaches maturity. To Offset these con-
ditions give the cows a full supply OF
ground grain mixed with cut hay at night
and do not keep them on the pasture but a
short while each day at the beginning. Al
ways give a full meal of grain and hay at
night and also an allowance OF grain In
the morning. bran. middlings, ground oats
and corn meal being an excellent mixture.