INDIANA   FARMER.
Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, mechanics and. the  Useful Arts.
D. P. Holloway, W. T. Dennis,)
R. T. Heed.—£>'ilort. j
RICHMOND, AUG. 15, 1854.
(Holloway & Co., J>ii&*i>7t*r*.
I     Vol.3 .No. 22.
Table  of Contents.
Page 338—Hedge Cutter Wanted—Animal Portraiture—Birds—
New Fencing—Paper—Onions for Poultry.
•"    339—Farm of D. T. Moore, Watervleit.
-" 340—Farmer's Wives Wanted—Preservation of Manure in
Summer—Bread.
**    341—Working and Resting—Scrap or nistory.     **
"    31-2—Domestication of the Camel—Grafting Pears.
**     343—The Cranberry—Tall (Jrass—Preserving Butter.
'* 344—Have a Trade—Apples for Hogs—Spontaneous Combustion—lied Weevil.
"    343—Wheat Culture.
**    340—Preserving Winter Apples—Orchard Hanagement-
"    347—The Oregon Pea.
"    348—Improvement in Farm .Machinery—The Bee Moth.
'*"     341)—Kenovating  Pear Trees—Nutmeg Tree Preserving
Bacon from the fly—Thermometer for Farmers.
**    350—Action of Lime—Villa Architecture.
**■ 351—Bees—A Perverse Animal Suodued—Sale ef Horses—
Oalls on Horses—March tc the Grave.
*'     352—Diseases of Plants—Summer Fruits.
Abundant Crops in Europe.—The intelligence from all parts of Europe, says the Philadelphia Ledger, relative to the fine and abundant
crops, is causing tho prices of breadstuffs to fall
very fast in the markets of that country. In
Great Britain the corn crops were never better
or the growth greater. France has wheat crops
the present season superior in quality and larger
• in quantity than in former years. It is said that
•with her own and the abundant crops in Algeria,
France will be able to sell to English purchasers
instead of being purchasers in English markets.
On the continent the crops are extensive, and tho
markets are not only dull, but fast declining. A
circular from Rostock calculates on a large yield,
at least one-fourth above the usual average of the
wheat crop, and more than a full average of other corn. There are the same prospects in the
Baltic districts, and accounts are extremely favorable from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In
Prussia there are excellent prospects of a great
yield, and at Smyrna the grain is unusually plentiful. In Egypt the prices have, greatly fallen,
and at Alexandria the corn is most abundant. In
the Principalities the corn is being cut by the
Russians, but in Bulgaria the harvest has been
most abundant on the whole. Potatoes promise
to be abundant. In spite of war there seems to
bo an abundance of the elements which give
impulse to industry, and make manufactures
nourish.
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$£g~ It is said on the authority of the Scientific American that, the putrefaction of fish and
fresh meat of all kinds, is more rapid when exposed to the light of the moon than at any other
time.    This is strange, if true.
Z3T" Sir Francis Bacon was wont to commend tho advice
of a plain man of Ruxton, who made brooms. A proud, lazy
young fellow cams to him one day asking a broom on trust,
to whom he said—''friend, hast thee no money? Borrow of
thv ba •!; and thy belly, they will never ask tbec for it. I
should be dunning thee every day."
-g^" The Eaton Register tells of a man nt Euphemia, sick
of Cholera; who, after ho had been -'given up by the doctors,"
was saved by pulverized egg-shell, boiled in sweet milk and
taken internally. The reaction and cure speedily followed.
Dayton Oat.
Insect in Wheat:
Messrs. Editors: Enclosed you will find a
spire of wheat, with an insect in it. It is destroying my wheat considerably, by eating off
the stem just above the upper joint, when in
blossom. Timothy has been injured in the same
way for several seasons past, and it has been attributed to the wire worms. The ravages of this
insect are shown by the heads turning.white
while in blossom.
Do you know its character or name, or how it
gets into the stalk? Thero is no opening or mark
that I can perceive. It may be a common insect in wheat-growing sections, but I did not
know that it attacked timothy in the same way.
Oswego, July, 1854. W.
On reaching us, we discovered only-two specimens of the insect. At first they appeared
dead and dried legless larvae, but a closer inspection showed they were the insects passed to the
pupa state. They are about three sixteenths of
an inch in length, and one-thirtieth of an inch in
length—light green, with a slightly brown head
—and consisting of nine rings or joints. They
occupied the centre of the stalk, which they had
partly devoured and killed, the head of the wheat
being nothing but empty chaff, and nearly white
in consequence of the death thus occasioned.
The stalk was straight, and the sheaths entirely
uninjured. We have not met with this insect
before, and do notknowit,—-Country Gentleman.
How to Cook Green Corn.—Corn boiled in
the ear should be dropped into boiling water with
salt to season. Corn cut from the ear, and boiled
in milk, seasoned with butter, pepper and salt,
is an excellent dish. Corn cut from the cob after boiling, and mixed with butter-beans, seasoned with butter, pepper and salt, makes succotash,
a capital dish. Corn oysters is a delicious dish
—grate the green corn from the cob, season with
salt and pepper, mix in batter, and fry in butter.
Green corn pudding is a great delicacy; grate the
corn from the cob, mix sweet milk and flour until the consistency of paste: season with anything
the taste may dictate, and bake in a hot oven; it
should be baked quick.—Soil of the South.
Corn cut or grated off the cob cooked well in
in a common skillet, and seasoned with butter
and salt is an excellent dish. R,
"The cost of Hearing a Cott until three years
old.—A good colt at weaning—'say four months
—is worth twenty-eight dollars; first years' keeping, twelve dollars; second year, fifteen dollars;
next twelve months, fifteen; which will bring the
colt to threo years at a cost of seventy dollars.
Average value at that age ninety dollars,"