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VOL. XXIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY.JDEO. 1,1888 NO. 48 Home Made Conveniences. Editors Indiana Farmer: You ask for description of home made articles that are useful. Almost every reader of the Farmeii is using sirae simple device that he has been familiar with all his life, but is not known outside of his neighborhood yet. He thinks every one knows of it. Here are a few that I have used, or seen in use. I saw lately a neighbor have an old-fashioned wooden husking peg with an iron point. It was' c D 12 1. Iron point. 2. Wood showing the Iron point. 3. String to hold pin to the hand. 4. Finger protector. made by first fitting a nail or piece of wire in the wood and then dressing the wood down to the desired shape. There is great wear on the fore ringer of the hand the husking pin is used on. This can be prevented to some extent by taking a piece of soft leather or India rubber, an inch or two wide, long enough to fit around the fore finger and fasten to the string that holds the husking pin on the hand. Any one who has never tried it will be surprised at the wear there is on the finger. A good piece of leather will wear out in a few weeks of husking. In husking fodder it is easier, and does not waste the fodder as much, to stand up as to lay the fodder on the ground. A convenient frame for this purpose can be made on any farm in an hour or two. Take two pieces of light wood 10 feet long and about 2x3 inches square. About 1. Main top pieces. 2. Cross pieces. 8. Legs, three feet from the end,put in a round or cross piece, so that the frame will be two and a half or three feet wide; then nearer the ends of the long pieces put in legs tho hight you wish the trestle; about two feet I think is a convenient hight. Bind the fodder in bundles. If not hauled in im mediately, set up in shocks again, and bind them secure so they will not be blown away. If the ground is muddy use a board to stand on, and it will keep the feet dry. The frame is like the bier that was used some years ago in graveyards to carry the coffin on. Light poles will do if one has not sawed stuff. When done, lay away in the dry and It will last several years. When tired standing lay a board across the frame and you can have a convenient seat. I prefer good rye straw to bind with. When I could not get rye have used oats or twine. A convenient tool for pulling hay and straw from the stack is made by cutting a limb or small tree that is about an inch in diameter and four feet long, and has a fcrk or limb that stands at an angle of Straw Hook. about 45 degrees. Smooth the loig part (or a handle; trim the short piece to a sharp point; also sharpen the point of the main stick that is to be pushed Into the stack. When you want to pull out straw or hay, thrust the hook into the stack, tarn it a little so it will hook in the hay, then pull it out. After a little practice one can haul out hay rapidly. This also makes a good hook to clean wheat drills. A better one can be made by taking a half 'rich iron rod and welding on a barb. Those who use the old style of tables often want to enlarge them. This can be done by making extra leaves as long as the table is wide when both leaves are spread. Make a couple of mortices in the end of the table jast under the top of the table; make cleats tbat will fit in these 1. Top of Table. 2. Mortices in theend. 4 n i s j bs that it would not gather so much grain. It then cut all right. But if tbe farmer goes to manufacturing his inventions he is not known as a farmer, but a manufacturer. D. M. A. Home, Kan. CQxtcrtj mitT &USWCV. Give your name and poslomce when asking qaea- tlons. Many queries go unanswered for failure to observe this rnle. Please state in your paper how a Territory is admitted as a Stato. A Scbscribkr. By act of Congress. A majority vote of both Houses is all that is required. H. S. B., Middlebury. The State Board of agriculture does not pay the expenses of lecturers whom they send to attend Farmers' Institutes. Those interested In holding the meetings generally arranged for paying expenses among themselves, or by taking collections. 3. Cleats to tit In mortices ln table. 4. Extra leaf with cleats on. mortices; fasten them to the extra leaves, so that they will slip out and in when wanted. When a large table is wanted slip in the extra leaves; when not wanted they can be laid away. When a cheap milking stool ts wanted, take a 2x4 piece and saw it off the hight you wish your stool. Nail a piece of board on one end, and you have your stool. How many farmers are there that know that the terms teat 60 and weigh 60, when when used by a grain buyer,are different? Until this fall we thought they were the same. Ssveral farmers borrowed grists of the first ones that threshed. They meas ured them in the half bushel at home, and sometimes weighed when tried on the tester, and they always tested less than they measured. Then when weighed on the scales they would weigh as measured or more. Finally a miller was asked to explain why it would not make as much when weighed in the tester as when weighed in a half bushel. He said that the tester took more to weigh 60 than 60 pounds of wheat. Grain that weighs 00 by correct weight only weighs 58 on these testers. He claimed that was the standard and that there was no cheating about it, as they gave us full weight when they bought our grain. This is all true by the scales, but they dock a few cents off for each pound it lacks of weighing 60 pounds per bushel. By these testers it takes 62 pounds to weigh a bushel. It looks similar to having a yard stick 38 inches long for a standard to buy with and 36 to sell by. Would not this be a suitable topic to discuss at Granges and Institutes this winter T It is often said that farmers seldom ever invent anything. This Is a mistaken idea, as many of our great labor saving ma chines are the Inventions of farmers. If there was any way of finding out what was the occupation ot these inventors we would find that men on the farm thought them out. But of tener the farmer goes to the manufacturer and tells him where he can improve his implement. The manufacturer alteis or adds the suggested improvement, gets it patented, and is known as the inventor. While the real inventor is not known. How often at fairs we have seen a crowd of farmers examining some new implement. In a few minutes they would point out defects and show how to improve upon them. We once saw a man take a new style reaper into a field to test IU He found that it would draw in more grain than it would cut. The manufacturer did not know how to remedy it. A farmer that was looking at it told him his dividing board ran too far into the grain. They sharpened a shingle, nailed it on so L. W. N., New Lisbon. It is very difficult to explain the method of running electro motor cars without illustrations, and these we are not able to get. You will find a full illustrated account of this system in tbe last New England Magazine, published at Boston, Mass., price 20c. I would like to hear through the col umns of your paper the best way to dig a well in quicksand. I have been troubled to get water on the account of quicksand coming in with tho water. Will a driven pump keep the sand out? O. P. H. The driven pump is the best thing we know of. It will clear itself of sand after a time, if not driven in too far. Let some one who has had experience answer further. Will some of the readers of the Farmer please give us their experience in growing the stock pea; how, and when to plant, amount of seed required to the acre, and about tbe average yield T Also, where can we get the seed, and the cost of same? White Co., Ills. A Subscriber. The Canada blue field pea is the favorite in this latitude. It is usually sown with oats and makes nice green feed for hogs. If sown for seed use one and a hal f bushels, but if intended for green feed with oats one bushel of each is sufficient. Itis difficult in this climate to dry the vines for stored forage. They are apt to mildew, unless out too early to be of much value. Seed costs from ?l to $1.50 per bushel. I send you by mail a sample of wheat that I pulled up on my farm, and would be very glad to have you tell me the trouble,and also how to handle the ground so as to eradicate the insect that infests the soil. The wheat when sowed comes up as nice as any I ever sowed, and grows orT nicely until about this time of the year, when it begins to die, one blade at a tlme,and in a month or so it is dry enough to burn. Itis just in the black ground, say two or three rods wide, and follows up where there Is tiling. I have other black ground in the same field that has no insscts in j tiring the wheat. I have sowed the fiald in timothy this fall, and intend to add clover in the spring and try pasturing the field awhile. How will that do, or will that clear it of pests T Hancock Co. b. L. B. The sample of wheat referred to in the above, did not reach ns. From the language used, we infer that this trouble has occurred other years before the present, and if so, ft is not,probably,the work of an Insect. In many places, the bed of former sloughs when drained, will be found to rest on a blue clay, containing iron and sulphur. In a dry season, the moisture rising through this clay comes up charged with sulphate of Iron, which is poison to vegetation. Spring crops will not be so likely to be affected, as the soil will be washed by the spring rains. If this be the cause, lime liberally applied.is the remedy. Does the disease affect other crops in this strip? THE INDIANA FARM ONE OF The Most Practical and Popular Agricultural Journals Published In THE WESTERN STATES. The intensely practical character of the Indiana Farmer is what has given it the immense popularity it now enjoys among farmers. Indiana has come to be known as one of the best agricultural States in the world, according to area, in the production of all the staples, and in live stock. The Indiana Farmkr has kept pace in this movtment to the front rank until the agricultural importance of the State is fully reflected in its pages. A State is largely measured by those outside, by its institutions. The great and rapidly growing circulation of the Farmer has enabled us to show that the agricultural industries and improvements of the State have kept pace with Its Railway extensions. Its growing Manufactures. Its Mining industries. Its developing Cities and Towns. The farmers of Indiana, and of the sections of other States naturally and practically allied to us in trade, know the value and importance of a representative of their interests. The census to be taken in about a year from now will it is believed, show that the center of population of the Nation is near the center of Indiana. AVe want by that time to double our present number of constituents, the readers of the Farmer. We appeal to the State pride of our farm readers to stand by their own representative, which stands by them. We do it in confidence, for the past is the assurance for the future. Twenty-five thousand more readers will add so much more to our effectiveness and ability in holding up the agricultural interests. All other industries are heartily supporting and advancing their own class interest". In the heart and center of population, let us keep agriculture in the front rank also. And the Farmer proposes to do its part in the work. It is the largest weekly agricultural paper now published for §1 a year. Each one of our present subscribers can with a word or two secure us one more, and that would be a small work for each, but great in the aggregate good that it would enable us to do for the farm interests of the State. Try it, and report to us. Sample copies will be sent if requested. THE INDIANA PAEMEE 00., IndiuuDolis, Lid.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1888, v. 23, no. 48 (Dec. 1) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2348 |
Date of Original | 1888 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. XXIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY.JDEO. 1,1888 NO. 48 Home Made Conveniences. Editors Indiana Farmer: You ask for description of home made articles that are useful. Almost every reader of the Farmeii is using sirae simple device that he has been familiar with all his life, but is not known outside of his neighborhood yet. He thinks every one knows of it. Here are a few that I have used, or seen in use. I saw lately a neighbor have an old-fashioned wooden husking peg with an iron point. It was' c D 12 1. Iron point. 2. Wood showing the Iron point. 3. String to hold pin to the hand. 4. Finger protector. made by first fitting a nail or piece of wire in the wood and then dressing the wood down to the desired shape. There is great wear on the fore ringer of the hand the husking pin is used on. This can be prevented to some extent by taking a piece of soft leather or India rubber, an inch or two wide, long enough to fit around the fore finger and fasten to the string that holds the husking pin on the hand. Any one who has never tried it will be surprised at the wear there is on the finger. A good piece of leather will wear out in a few weeks of husking. In husking fodder it is easier, and does not waste the fodder as much, to stand up as to lay the fodder on the ground. A convenient frame for this purpose can be made on any farm in an hour or two. Take two pieces of light wood 10 feet long and about 2x3 inches square. About 1. Main top pieces. 2. Cross pieces. 8. Legs, three feet from the end,put in a round or cross piece, so that the frame will be two and a half or three feet wide; then nearer the ends of the long pieces put in legs tho hight you wish the trestle; about two feet I think is a convenient hight. Bind the fodder in bundles. If not hauled in im mediately, set up in shocks again, and bind them secure so they will not be blown away. If the ground is muddy use a board to stand on, and it will keep the feet dry. The frame is like the bier that was used some years ago in graveyards to carry the coffin on. Light poles will do if one has not sawed stuff. When done, lay away in the dry and It will last several years. When tired standing lay a board across the frame and you can have a convenient seat. I prefer good rye straw to bind with. When I could not get rye have used oats or twine. A convenient tool for pulling hay and straw from the stack is made by cutting a limb or small tree that is about an inch in diameter and four feet long, and has a fcrk or limb that stands at an angle of Straw Hook. about 45 degrees. Smooth the loig part (or a handle; trim the short piece to a sharp point; also sharpen the point of the main stick that is to be pushed Into the stack. When you want to pull out straw or hay, thrust the hook into the stack, tarn it a little so it will hook in the hay, then pull it out. After a little practice one can haul out hay rapidly. This also makes a good hook to clean wheat drills. A better one can be made by taking a half 'rich iron rod and welding on a barb. Those who use the old style of tables often want to enlarge them. This can be done by making extra leaves as long as the table is wide when both leaves are spread. Make a couple of mortices in the end of the table jast under the top of the table; make cleats tbat will fit in these 1. Top of Table. 2. Mortices in theend. 4 n i s j bs that it would not gather so much grain. It then cut all right. But if tbe farmer goes to manufacturing his inventions he is not known as a farmer, but a manufacturer. D. M. A. Home, Kan. CQxtcrtj mitT &USWCV. Give your name and poslomce when asking qaea- tlons. Many queries go unanswered for failure to observe this rnle. Please state in your paper how a Territory is admitted as a Stato. A Scbscribkr. By act of Congress. A majority vote of both Houses is all that is required. H. S. B., Middlebury. The State Board of agriculture does not pay the expenses of lecturers whom they send to attend Farmers' Institutes. Those interested In holding the meetings generally arranged for paying expenses among themselves, or by taking collections. 3. Cleats to tit In mortices ln table. 4. Extra leaf with cleats on. mortices; fasten them to the extra leaves, so that they will slip out and in when wanted. When a large table is wanted slip in the extra leaves; when not wanted they can be laid away. When a cheap milking stool ts wanted, take a 2x4 piece and saw it off the hight you wish your stool. Nail a piece of board on one end, and you have your stool. How many farmers are there that know that the terms teat 60 and weigh 60, when when used by a grain buyer,are different? Until this fall we thought they were the same. Ssveral farmers borrowed grists of the first ones that threshed. They meas ured them in the half bushel at home, and sometimes weighed when tried on the tester, and they always tested less than they measured. Then when weighed on the scales they would weigh as measured or more. Finally a miller was asked to explain why it would not make as much when weighed in the tester as when weighed in a half bushel. He said that the tester took more to weigh 60 than 60 pounds of wheat. Grain that weighs 00 by correct weight only weighs 58 on these testers. He claimed that was the standard and that there was no cheating about it, as they gave us full weight when they bought our grain. This is all true by the scales, but they dock a few cents off for each pound it lacks of weighing 60 pounds per bushel. By these testers it takes 62 pounds to weigh a bushel. It looks similar to having a yard stick 38 inches long for a standard to buy with and 36 to sell by. Would not this be a suitable topic to discuss at Granges and Institutes this winter T It is often said that farmers seldom ever invent anything. This Is a mistaken idea, as many of our great labor saving ma chines are the Inventions of farmers. If there was any way of finding out what was the occupation ot these inventors we would find that men on the farm thought them out. But of tener the farmer goes to the manufacturer and tells him where he can improve his implement. The manufacturer alteis or adds the suggested improvement, gets it patented, and is known as the inventor. While the real inventor is not known. How often at fairs we have seen a crowd of farmers examining some new implement. In a few minutes they would point out defects and show how to improve upon them. We once saw a man take a new style reaper into a field to test IU He found that it would draw in more grain than it would cut. The manufacturer did not know how to remedy it. A farmer that was looking at it told him his dividing board ran too far into the grain. They sharpened a shingle, nailed it on so L. W. N., New Lisbon. It is very difficult to explain the method of running electro motor cars without illustrations, and these we are not able to get. You will find a full illustrated account of this system in tbe last New England Magazine, published at Boston, Mass., price 20c. I would like to hear through the col umns of your paper the best way to dig a well in quicksand. I have been troubled to get water on the account of quicksand coming in with tho water. Will a driven pump keep the sand out? O. P. H. The driven pump is the best thing we know of. It will clear itself of sand after a time, if not driven in too far. Let some one who has had experience answer further. Will some of the readers of the Farmer please give us their experience in growing the stock pea; how, and when to plant, amount of seed required to the acre, and about tbe average yield T Also, where can we get the seed, and the cost of same? White Co., Ills. A Subscriber. The Canada blue field pea is the favorite in this latitude. It is usually sown with oats and makes nice green feed for hogs. If sown for seed use one and a hal f bushels, but if intended for green feed with oats one bushel of each is sufficient. Itis difficult in this climate to dry the vines for stored forage. They are apt to mildew, unless out too early to be of much value. Seed costs from ?l to $1.50 per bushel. I send you by mail a sample of wheat that I pulled up on my farm, and would be very glad to have you tell me the trouble,and also how to handle the ground so as to eradicate the insect that infests the soil. The wheat when sowed comes up as nice as any I ever sowed, and grows orT nicely until about this time of the year, when it begins to die, one blade at a tlme,and in a month or so it is dry enough to burn. Itis just in the black ground, say two or three rods wide, and follows up where there Is tiling. I have other black ground in the same field that has no insscts in j tiring the wheat. I have sowed the fiald in timothy this fall, and intend to add clover in the spring and try pasturing the field awhile. How will that do, or will that clear it of pests T Hancock Co. b. L. B. The sample of wheat referred to in the above, did not reach ns. From the language used, we infer that this trouble has occurred other years before the present, and if so, ft is not,probably,the work of an Insect. In many places, the bed of former sloughs when drained, will be found to rest on a blue clay, containing iron and sulphur. In a dry season, the moisture rising through this clay comes up charged with sulphate of Iron, which is poison to vegetation. Spring crops will not be so likely to be affected, as the soil will be washed by the spring rains. If this be the cause, lime liberally applied.is the remedy. Does the disease affect other crops in this strip? THE INDIANA FARM ONE OF The Most Practical and Popular Agricultural Journals Published In THE WESTERN STATES. The intensely practical character of the Indiana Farmer is what has given it the immense popularity it now enjoys among farmers. Indiana has come to be known as one of the best agricultural States in the world, according to area, in the production of all the staples, and in live stock. The Indiana Farmkr has kept pace in this movtment to the front rank until the agricultural importance of the State is fully reflected in its pages. A State is largely measured by those outside, by its institutions. The great and rapidly growing circulation of the Farmer has enabled us to show that the agricultural industries and improvements of the State have kept pace with Its Railway extensions. Its growing Manufactures. Its Mining industries. Its developing Cities and Towns. The farmers of Indiana, and of the sections of other States naturally and practically allied to us in trade, know the value and importance of a representative of their interests. The census to be taken in about a year from now will it is believed, show that the center of population of the Nation is near the center of Indiana. AVe want by that time to double our present number of constituents, the readers of the Farmer. We appeal to the State pride of our farm readers to stand by their own representative, which stands by them. We do it in confidence, for the past is the assurance for the future. Twenty-five thousand more readers will add so much more to our effectiveness and ability in holding up the agricultural interests. All other industries are heartily supporting and advancing their own class interest". In the heart and center of population, let us keep agriculture in the front rank also. And the Farmer proposes to do its part in the work. It is the largest weekly agricultural paper now published for §1 a year. Each one of our present subscribers can with a word or two secure us one more, and that would be a small work for each, but great in the aggregate good that it would enable us to do for the farm interests of the State. Try it, and report to us. Sample copies will be sent if requested. THE INDIANA PAEMEE 00., IndiuuDolis, Lid. |
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