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VOL. XXIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 29,1888.
NO. 39
Written for the Indiana Farmer.
Salt for Wheat.
BY STOCKMAN.
The question of how and where to apply
salt to wheat is asked in a late number of
the Farmer. I have used salt twice and
will give my experience.
The first time I tried applying salt as a
fertilizer I applied in the fall, getting the
salt in a good tilth by plowing and harrowing until ready for the seed. I then sowed
broadcast as evenly as possible, intending
to use about eight or ten bushels to the
acre. I found it quite a task to sow broadcast in this way, but sowed about four
acres this way. After that the wheat was
Bown with a drill, using five pecks of good
seed per acre. The soil, I should have said
was a good prairie loam and was in good
lth when the seed was sown.
the fall, a considerable portion is wasted
before the plants are able to derive the
benefit. If the application is delayed until
spring, the wheat plants have started to
grow, and are in a much better condition
to take up and use the plant food as it is
made soluble by the moisture and soil.
So that my advice would be to defer the
application until in the spring and then
sow broadcast as evenly as possible, using
from 8 to 12 bushels per acre, depending
somewhat upon the condition and character of the soil. Make a small trial first
and see if it pays before investing too
heavily.
Territories of the United States.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
A little more information on the Territories would certainly be of some advant-
a?e to many of the Farmer's readers, es-
15, had done. I was at the house of T.
Mays, brother of the present chief,
at the Orphan Asylum, at the house of the
assistant chief, at C. Teehee's, whom the
cattle men tired to bribe to get their pasture cheaper. Bat I need not lengthen
the narration; those Cherokee Indians
are some of them about as civilized as
the people in the States; have schools,
churches, etc. I was at Annual Conference while there and from that stage
or degree of civilization down to the
same mode of life, in many respects, as
they had 75 years ago. Their schools are
taught in the English language. They
have good orchards of very fine fruit.
I will say to D. M. A., I can see no more
justice in taking part  of  the  Cherokee's
land, than there would be in taking  part
of mine, or D M. A.'s provided we havea
few more acres than we  are  cultivating
Springer's, but we have had no President
for several years but who regarded the
honor of the Nation and the right of the
Cherokee title.
Talk of that great waste D. M. A.!
Have you noted the great waste of the
seal fisheries of the United States? I am
for justice to all. J. W. Clarke.
Arlington, Ind.
WHEAT ESTIMATES.
The latest worlds' estimates on the demands for wheat, from the latest data to
Bradstreet's, is, that 139,000,000 to 155,000,-
000 bushels will require to be obtained
from countries other than Europe, which
will include the United States and Canada,
with about 100 000,000 bushels probable
sirplus; Chili, 5,000,000 bushels; Argen-
tiae Republic, 10000.000bushels; Australasia, 18,000,000  bushels;   India,   35,000,000
* paid very close attention to the crop I
na never could see that any special ben-
' was received, unless it was in making I
"8 straW a little bigger.   The yield was
n° bett«r than on the rest of the field. The
f_N'trial * made * sowed the wheat in the
iPreparing a* usual and sowing in good
*Wn- Early next spring, as soon as the
tradition °f-the soil would admit of doing
^9 work, I sowed about six bushel of
t8,t)mon **'* Per acre on ab°ut three acres,
I. J1** care to scatter as evenly as possible,
Group of Shorthjorn Cattle, Owned by C. Hills * Son, Delaware, Ohio, Advertised in our Columns
401 satisfied  that this application  paid
Not only did I secure an
yield, but the quality of the
Was  noticeably  better.   Of  course
„ ° *ln8le experiment in this way should
r*T<*y well,
'"creased
Srain i
"ot be
*egarded as conclusive, yet others
Port      6 exPerin.ented more largely, re-
Uua that aDPlvlnK  In the  spring  is the
w plan and for this reason:  Salt is
Uy dissolved in water and if applied In
peciaUy those, if any, who are expecting
to get homes on the public domain.
As D. M. A. states that I had written as
though I were a favored guest of the
owner of a cattle ranch, and conveys" the
impression that I have never seen the territory, except for the statement that I had
spent some weeks in Indian Territory, I
will first speak in regard to that.
I spent some weeks in that country but
did not find the Cherokee Indians lying
around agencies, being fed like paupers,
but living on farms which they cultivated,
and some of them in very nice houses,
well furnished, carpeted, etc. I saw some
good sized, well filled book cases. Sitting
at their tables I could not see but that
they lived on very much such food and
dressed and served very nearly as is done
in Indiana, if they were Indians. One
man. showed me some very good landscape drawing which his daughter, aged
Thelis is not a reservation, they hold the
title in fee simple.
The reason of my writing this is, I have
knowledge of some persons who aim to
wait till that country of Cherokees Is
opened for settlement. One man at
Evansville, Ark., has been waiting there
for 16 years;yea, all this time while the
United States has yet over eight hundred
millions of acres of vacant land, of every
class, from the mountain, mineral to fertile, as that occupied by the Indians.
This land includes every variety of soil
and nearly so of climate, from Alaska to
the yellow fever country. I would say to
any citizen who intends homesteadlng
not to wait for those lands of the Indian
Territory while there are so many millions of acres of as good land and which
may in a few years be better situated.
There have been many bills in Congress to
take hold of those lands, more or less like
bushels; Syria and Persia, 5,000,000 bushels, and Egypt and Algeria 10,000,000 bushels, making 183,000,000 bushels. The West
Indies anu Siuth America usually import
about 20,000,000 bushels.
Some of the exporting countries of Europe may not be able to spare the quantities estimated, and some of the importing
countries of E'i rope may require more to
supplement their crops than estimated.
The water in the St. Lawrence has never been known to be as low as now. It
has fallen about two feet within 10 days,
and has fallen below the low-water mark
known to the "oldest inhabitant." The
special causa for this cannot be given.
There are in New York 20,000 Hungarians, men and women and children. Of
these but 4,100 were residents of the city
at the time of the last census, 1880.       '