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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27. 1892-TWELVE PAGES.

FARMTALKFORTHESPRING,

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TU Pnbllo Iii(:n rotor ef Ilorae. Dreading Cabbage Tttnroncribr ad Pool, try National Crop Ilepitrts Talks forth Tarna Hoys No. 3 Tlirae-IIor.a Farmer Our oritur i Competitors Tha Ber. n nl a e Spring Work rüttln; tli Soil la Trim The Cat Worm Orchard 'otos Jleopea.

The report of the commissioner of the general land office for the liacal year trndintf the aOth of June, 1S!)1, contains much that is of interest to tho farmer. No tboupnt fif ovcr-productioa or increased competition among tho farmers of this ountry trouble? the public servant vrho teams to think that man serves the people best who gets rid of tho public domain the quickest. He quotes from the report of his predecessor to prove that the preat national gift enterprise is being run under the present management at a hhfh pressure unknown in former years. He quotes as follows from his prcdeces fior'a report: "At the outset of my aJuiinlatration I was confronted with overrhfclminz eviaennes that tho public domain was beinjj made a prey of unscrupulous speculation and the worst f jrma of land monopoly through systemtic fraud carried on and consummated under tho public laws." In criticism of eucn a law he says: "Fn-tt- ' lining such views, it was but natural tl. t the commit-sioner should in every w;-y possible impeie the transaction of bu-iness in the bureau." i'.y his own Etatemeut no euch trifles as '"impeded" tho distribution of our public domain to any one who M-ar.ted to enter into competition with the farmer were e'lowe t to stand too inu-h in the way, end "under the changed order of business and legal constructions" ho was able to i5Ue 11 i,?M) i.j;ricultural patents for public land lut year, as .iguiudt 1.ÖÖS by his predecetser. The acreage of public lands disposed of during the last fiscal year is 10,477,700 acre. He speaks of Ids disposal of public land es bei n s "expeditious," a ciaim that will be readily granted by eastern farmers who have borne tli injustice of benring a share of setting up tens of thousands of foreigner?, as well as others, in business to render the competition more severe and the frofits on their eastern highly-taxed farms ess and less each year. At a time when these western lands are overwhelmins eastern producers, the aelffrloriflcation of tho guardian of our public domain for his expedition in disposing of the land, coupled with criticism of the course of his predecessor in withholding patents when there was evidence of fraud, will not commend itself to the farmer. When every safeguard is used, enough of Ihe nation's wealth is given away each f ear to keep our faTniers crippled by tho ncrcased competition. 1 ljimnlibrect I'oultry. Many country boys and pirls who long lor some chance to make money for themselves fuld rind a good profit in raising pure-bred poultry. We say many, not all, as only those wiil succeed who like poultry and are willing to work and study. Nothing pays for proper care more than chickens, and ea!ea of stock from purebred birds for breeding can bo made to Increase tho income in a handsome way. Little capital is required, and it is stranje that so few have enterprise to engage in it The market is not overstocked, as not sne farmer ia ten l.as a good strain of chickens. If you contemplate g"in into tho business bogi.i on asmall scab. A trioof chickns ia enough, but tiiey should be good Snes. .tirt right and build up a good reputation for yonr tWk. Patronize an honett breeder who will furnish what you buv. Then ii you have the capital buy two prthr?o settings of egg from another Breeder, and yen are fairly starteJ. If ther chickens are kept, it will be necessary to coop yours during tho breeding Season. Puild them a house remote from Ihe other chicken house, and teach them Jo roost in it away from the ethers. 1'sa special care tokeopthem pure, and never tue doubtful eags lor hatching. All this seems easy, but the raising of Ihe young chicks is not half ho easy as it seems. If your stock is ever valuable it will be by skillful breeding and feeding. You must learn what ones to reject from the breeding pns It may seem hard to cull tut a fourth or a half of your spring chicks nd consign them to tho pot after having put a high valuation on them when chicks, but the rule mud be invariable that no poor specimens will be allowed to leave your crops for breeders nor be used by yourself. A stood strain in the hezinning tnd careful selection will soon reduce tho culls to a point where the loss w ill be inconsiderable. Do not be afraid cf soma inbreeding if ou want to fix a special type, but when fresh Mood can be safely introduced use It. In doing so, get cockerels of prize-winning strains chickens that have been bred with more skill than you possess, tnd thus build up your flock. Pure blood la a good thing for any kind of stock to have, but do not make the mistake of iup-pot-ing that 'it will make your birds sell tonleas they have other merit. Pure blood Is the foundation on which to build. There ia plenty of room for skill ia buildin? up a good flock, and it ia a kind of kill that pays. Dezin in a small way and work op. You can make it pay. Tl' Fnlitra at Korea Kreadlnr. The normal annual increase In number et horses in this country is near 500,000, which is between 3 and 4 per cent. We greatly exceeded thia number last year, while it is doubtful whether the demand was much greater than for the preceding year, owing to the extension of steam and electricity as a power for moTing passengers and freight. We have no statistics at Land determining this point, but the tendency toward employing inanimate power is very great. We hear on every hand of the lessened demand for street car hores, but other classes are affected in a great degree, though in ways hardly so perceptible. This b very true of the common road hores. Peoida me tbem very little for business, as fa-ter means of travel are at hand for the great majority. Then, too, they are found less commonly on farms now, as incomes di not seem to justify keeping an idlo horse fur country travel and the farm hordes are made to do doable service. This is not as we would like to see it, but the fact tends to lessen the demand for road stock. Progress has Sected draft stock equally, as without uch extension of railroads and other public transportation means this class of horses would be needed in number almost past conception. The horse is getting too slow for many of our people and does not hold the place be onc did, but he is the must useful and oeeessary of animals, and will always be such. A half mil. ion increa.se annually is In excels of the requirements, however, and we counsel our readers at this time to prodaca ouly tho beat, aa the inferior will

go begging for a market. Thoso who breed poor mares to equally poor how es will soon quit the business in disgust, but it will take a number of years to rtdicve tho market of the present excess. Prices mny gr lower, but the time never comes when the best stock is bred at a loss. Within a few railps of the writer scores of acres of land are devoted to cabbage growing, and money is being made in the business. Cabbages require a rich soil, and one that is retentive of moisture. Seven thousand plants can be set on an acre, two-thirds of which should form good heads. Tho price varies much, but 4 cents per head in tho field is not far from an average for all years except the few when the market is overstocked, and then like potatoes there is no sale at any price. The cost of raising is not greater thp.n that of potatoes. The plants are grown from the seed on tho fnrm, and men become so expert in setting the plants that the cost is small. The work is done with a small stick, with a hole inndo and tho dirt pressed to tha roots after the plants are stuck in. The entire operation requires hardly morn that a moment. An expert can set 5,000 plants in a day. For field planting the late, hard-headed varieties aro always best, as the demand is small before the time for winter storaze and the making of nam kraut. Too much care can not be used in buying tho seed. Twice within recent years have the growers of whom wc write been deceived by dealers nnd sown teed of early varieties, thus entailing heavy losses. The best cabbage in raised when frequent cultivations are given. Dich, randy bottom land ia adapted to cabbage growing. ome of our readers may find it profitable to grow a few acres. Do not plant too early, as there is danger of the crop maturing and rottpnincj beforo winter. The last of May rr the lir.-t half of June, according to latitude, is best for field crops. Transportation is costly, and a market within reach should bo assured before any great acreage is devoted to the production of cabbage. Talk for Farmer lioye No. 3. The albuminoid?, or muscle-formers, aro often designated by the word protein. They are also called the nitrogenous compounds, as nitrogen ia a chief element. The carbo-hydrates are often 6poken of as nitrogen-free extract. In feeding animals we want to give them these elements in a proportion suited to their need?. If they are working, the protein must be increased. If fattening, tho amount of carbo-hydrates. The relation betn en the.e two cia?ses of clem nts is called the ratio. A pound of vegetablo iat is worth two and and a half times as much 03 a pound of carbo-hydrates for making heat of fat, and in getting tho ratio the amount of fat is multiplied by two and a half, and the result added to the carbo-hydrate. l'y careful. experiment it has been found that the nutritive ratio tho proper ratio between tho muscle-forming part of the food and the heat or fat-forming of young piifs is 1 :4, i. e., there should be one pound albuminoids lor four pound of tho fatformers. The analysis of corn shows tho ratio to be 1 :S. We can thus see why corn is not a lit food for a pic when used exclusively. It does not make growth. Wheat bran has a ratio of 1:4.5, which is about tho proportion that the young growing stock requires. These foods are mentioned its illustrations. All foods have been analyzed and the ratio of their elements determined. It has also been found that somo foods siro more dige-stible than others, and so tables of digestibility are. given with tables of analysis. The subject of scientitic feeding is full of interesting facts, and a knowledge of them should be obtained by all farmer boys. You should get a good manual of cattle feeding and make the composition of feeding tut e n study. National Crop Iteporl. The farmers aro learning to value tho crop reports issued by the government, and the benefits that may be derived from them aro not reaped alone by grain gamblers and speculators. While a greater degreo of accuracy is desirable, the very nature of the work forbids exactness. Tho figures given are only estimates, but tbev give the conclusions of trained observers and nie the best data obtainable. In most respects the bulletins issued are undeserving of any unfriendly criticism. If, however, the desire is to get the farmers to welcome these monthly reports, it is an error to incorporate in them any partisan politics. The crop reporting is a butdnes.s venture and the people do not card to pay for the propagation of any principles of a pure partisan character. This tendency to try to educate the farmers along certain lines for the benefit of tho political party in power has bepn noticeable for some time. One of the latest is intended to remove the crowing prejudice of farmers against excessive taritf duties. The claim is made that Canadian farmers are quite convinced that the American tariir on barley is a tax on the Canadian producer. Arguments on tho question who pays the tariff tax are found pro and con in profusion in plenty of publications without the farmers having to be treated to the opinion of their paid servant, whosa duty it is to gather crop statistics. The opportunity of reaching the farmer through his trop report may be tempting, but it is pool policy to gratify such desire. If the reports aro made popular they must be restricted to their true work and let politicians use other means for the propagation of peculiar political views. Tlirae.tloree Kar in or. Three-horse teams are rarely seen. It is difficult to assign a good reason for this, as much farm work can be dono with more economy and ease with a threehorse team than with the usual two horse one. Especially is this true of the spring plowing. Horses come out of the stable in the Bpring with softened muscles and tender shoulders. The work pushes and more is required of horses than is good for them. An ordinary breaking plow is too heavy for common teams this time of the year, if as much land is turned as an energetic farmer thinks necessary. A three-horse tein makes the work easy. More And better work is done by tho driver. In point of economy as weil us speed there is little heavy farm work for horses in w hich throe aro not better than cither two or four. Then why not try it? For breaking plows no simpler adjustment of the point of attaching draft of a treblotroe is found than on a block cf wood bolted on aide of end of beam. Three horses abreast can do nearly as much as four as usually hitched. In all respects, except for turning with rollers, harrows, etc., the three-horse team is preferablo to the four-hcrse one.

Onr Northern Competitor. Tho agricultural correspondent of the Ontario government estimates the yield per acre of the various crops for IS'Jl as follows: Fall wheat, 25 butbels; oats, 40 bushels ; rye, 18 bushels; corn (in ear), 65 bushels; potatoes, 200 bushels; man-gel-wurzels, 400 bushels. let the reader compare these figures with the average yield per acre for there crops in our country for ten years. They are as follows: Wheat. 12 bushels; corn, 24 bushels; oats, 2tf bushels; rye, 1'2 bushels; potatoes, 70 bushels. It is true that our last year's crop exceeded this average, but

when wo bear in mind that our enormous wheat yield gives us an average of only 13 bushels per acre, the highest probably ever known, wo can see how far we aro behind our northern neighbors. In this connection we givo tho official estimates for the Manitoba crop for ISl'l: Wheat, 2 bushels; oats, oO bushels; potatoes, lSd bushels. Inl8!K)the yield of wheat and oats was not eo great, but potatoes yielded 2C3 per acre. Tli llartiiinpis. In tho market reports of tho early spring, before the gardener or truck farmer has his potatoes and other early vegetables fairly tdarted, "Bermuda" etock is quoted at prices that are tantalizing to tho home grower. Pcrmtida potatoes sell in New York for S( to per barrel, tomatoes $'i to $4 per bushel and onions the same. Prices decline rapidly as soon as Florida stock reaches the market. Our readers will bo interested in the following account of the Dermu la inlands written by Itubsell Hastings: "The r.ermudas are a group of islands numbering in all, of which ony twelve or fifteen aro inhabited, and having an area, all told, of only I'J.IXM acres. They are situated (1W miles due southeast from Mow York, 800 miles due east of Charleston, S. C, and 780 miles south of Halifax, N. i. Tho group extends from northeast to southwest in a direc t liue about two miles. It is a Pritish colony and an army an i navy stronghold. Tho" population is 15,000, a God-fearinpr pc-oplt. l:tween November mil April tno thermometer ranjon from 50 to 74 decree?, and during thrt pummer months the tcmperaturo is never higher than f;( degrees. About 2,000 acres aro under cultivation, on which are raised, during tho winter months, onion j, potatoes, tomatoes, beets, peas and all the garden vegetables. About .100,000 bushels of onions, 40,000 barrels of potatoes, 100,000 boxes (ono peck each) of to natoes, 8,000 bushels of beets and a few peas, lettuce und euch things are eeut to New Yorik and other U. fc. porta each winter." SPRING WORK.

ratlin: th Soil In Trini-Th Cat tVortn Orchard .t. If clover is to i e piowcd in let the work bo elone when tho plants aro about to blossom. Do not allow any crop to seed that is to ha plowed under. Tho American Wonder and the Littledemure varieties of peas for cany crops. They are dwarf in habit, and uro of excellent quality for the table. Heiter apples can bo secured from trees that havo bean trimmed und t-hape-d than w hen the treos aro left with oveihunging branches. I'.y removing tho surplus wood tlnj wurm h of tin; kuii enters and a freer circulation of air is permitted. It tho peach trees are lai.ing and contain much dead wood cut away every portion oi the dead wood and allow r.ew tops

to como out, Ii the borers are knjit down a peach treo may be renewed in this manner. It seems to thrive best with fcevere pruning. It has ben demonstrated that when corn fodder is cat and fed to cattle a saving of from ;.0 to 00 per cent, is ma le in thu feed, u gain whh'h more than pays for tho labor of cutting the fodder, leaving out the fact that the manura is a!-o liner and moro easily handled and surf aJ. A few days of warm weather in this section has started tiie grass some, and the result may be a falling od in milk if ties cows are "allowed to have full run of thj pasture, owing to scours. This may bo partially avoided by given the usual allowance of dry feed and grain and allowing sa:t rtguiarly. (Irasis a crop that can be proluced with less labor than gr?:u and no farm is complete without gra-'s of some kind. Ilay brinss a higher price, in propoition to cost, than any other crop except fruits an 1 vegetables, and when tho hay isfe'd to stock a greater profit is made. Jt should bo the object ot every farmer to produca grass of some kind. If ono variety will not thrive try mother. The first dutv in spring is to thoroughly

pulverize the noil. Laying o!J the rows for seed and then working between thsm later on, without (rt plowing t.'io soil and harrowing it, is a qu:ck way of doing bui ineta, but it does not lid ths bushel measure at harvest time. All plants thrive be-.t when growing in pulveiized soil, as the roots havo greater capacity to store plant food. Tho seed bed ia the meet important preparation for any crop. More bad butter is made by holding on to cream too long before churning than in any othT manner. This occurs mohtly with those who have only one or two cows. They delay churning until a sufficiency of cream is secured to perform the work of converting all tho cream into butterat once, someot tho cream being, perhaps, a week old and some of it new, tho result being, that the old cream affects the whole churning, and the result is bitter butter or butter of poor flavor. There should )m no distinction between a farmer and a fruit grower; in fact, every farmer should be a grower of fruit, not only for his use but for market. ly introducing fruit grow ing, in addition to the staple crops, a greater variety is at his command, end ho will be lees subject to failure, as ia often the ca?o when dependence is placed on one or two crops. Farmers should not confine themselves to a specialty unless under the most favorable conditior.3, but depend on a diversity of crops. The cut worm destroys whole crops, and there is no insecticide that can be applied for its destruction. On old sod land cut worms are very numerous. Experiments, made demonstrate that the best mode of setting rid ot tbem is by fall and early Bpring plowing. By fall plowing, at any time aftor July, the beetles can be destroyed in the soil, and alter that time the mature worms have changed to pupa?. Aft-r plowing the land it should be frequently loosened up with a cultivator. Spring plowing, if dono early, exposes tbem to frost. Experiments made in New Jersey the past winter with cabbages ehow that by placing the roots of cabbages in the ground and having them compactly together with the heads out of the ground, and covered with straw and cornstalks, as compared with burying the cabbages (heads in the ground), they will keep better, and are more convenient for daily use. The buried cabbages rotted as soon as the frost left and the soil became wet. The unburied heads were fresh at all times and the sialks lett in tho ground are now providing early greens. Itacifoa. Dewftre of Sulphur Persons ambitious for fine skins and beautiful complexions will have neither if they uso sulphur upon tho Ktirfaco of tho akin. It will give the mettled appearance of an application of gunpowder upon the part to which it is applied. Proiled Fish with Roe Two nice roe fish should be sufficient for a dinner for eight pereons. Open and clean the fi6h, take out the roe carefully and place tuetn on a plate and let them be seasoned with alt and pepper ; add a little lemon juice and olive oil and put the plate in a cool place. The fish should then be split, and, removing tho backbone, trim ; season in the same manner aa the roes have been and also keep It cold. Thirty minutes before serving broil the fish brown and let it b cooked through, basting it fraquentlv with butter to keep it rnout. Broil the roe likewise and briste frequently. Fcrve the ti-h and roe upon a hot riau with a little butter under the fish. Oarj-h with parsley and Quartered leiuou aad'eerve.

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