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VOL. XXVI INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 3,1891. NO. 40 WEATHER CHOP BULLETIN*. Of the Indiana Weather Service in co-opera- lion vnthlhe UnitedStates Weather Bureau for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 26, 1891. ■ Hot, dry, sunny weather continued*, no rainfall; thirteen days in succession now the maximum temperature each day was above 90 degrees, a climatic freak not remembered to have occurred 1 efore in the month ot September in Indiana; corn in nearly every field is beyond injury from frost; most of the tobacco crop is under shelter and the rest will be within a few days; no rain fell sin,ce the 5th of the month; streams begin to get low and wells dry; live stock suffers; pasturage, newly coming up wheat, late vegetables, etc., need rain very much; the ground is so dry that wheat sowing has been temporally interrupted. SOUTHERN PORTION. Worthington, Greene Co.—Nearly, if not all, of the corn is beyond the reach of frost; quite a large acreage of wheat has been sown, although the first sown has come up well and looks fairly well, it needs rain badly; I am feeding now new corn; only 0.54 of an inch of rain fell so far this month. No rain. Seymour, Jackson Co.—The excessive heat every day and abundant &vd generous sunshine have done wonders in the maturing of corn; the great crop.issafe beyond any possibility of injury; the early sown wheat is up and growing nicely but needs rain at present; sowing is retarded and streams and wells are drying up, while late vegetables, pastures and live stock are beginning to sutler from the continuous drouth; much com fodder has been saved; vegetables are plenty and unusually cheap; of noxious insects only a few grasshoppers have been seen. No rain. • Vevay, Switzerland Co Another week of uninterrupted dry weather has hastened the maturing of corn, which already is regaded beyond inj ury from frost, should such occur. Immense crops of tobacco are under shelter and with another week of favorable weather the remainder will be secured. Daring the entire harvest season, the farmers have not sustained any. reverses. At the meeting of the Switzerland Horticultural Society there was a display of the finest variety of apples, pears, peaches, plums etc., besides two stalks of raspberries, bearing the second time this season. No rain. Monnt Vernon, Posey Co.—Corn ls safe, a full average crop will be gathered. Very little wheat has been sown, most farmers think it is too early yet; a large acreage will be planted. It is very dry and dusty and rain is needed much. No rain. Columbus,Bartholomew Co.—The weather continued clear and warm; corn has dried very fast; pastures and early sown wheat begin to need rain; the grasshoppers are working in some of the wheat. No rain, Marengo, Crawford, Co.—We have had the hotest weather of the season; corn' is out of danger of frost; wheat, pasturage and almost every growing thing but corn needs rain very much; many are waiting tor rain to sow wheat while some are done sowing and gathering apples. No rain. DeGonia Springs, Warrick Co.—Corn is ripe enough to cut; wheat sowing has fairly commenced; the roads are getting 10 be very dusty; pasturage, cisterns and newly sown wheat need rain. No rain. . ri-ceton, Gibson Co.—Corn is out of danger from frost; farmers are sowing wheat, aud although dry most of the ground js in fair condition; the temperature has been 90 and above every day during the week; ** '■» remarkably dry and lusty and rain is much needed. No rain, CENTRAL TORTION. Indianapolis, Marion Co—Dry, hot and sunny weather continues uninterruptedly; corn is safe; pasturage and winter wheat need rain; the temperature was every day above 90 degrees. No rain. Mauzy, Rush Co.—The weather continues hot and dry; the maximum temperature ranged from 80 to 92 degrees. No rain of any account since the 5th; the ground Js getting dry and roads very dusty; pasturage is getting short; most of the wheat is sown. No rain. Sheibyville, Shelby Co.—The extreme heat of the past week has been phenomenal with no rainfall since the 5th; this weather has effectually made tho corn crop all there could be made of it; it was planted late but is now already out of "Jack Frosts" reach; new wheat needs rain much and the insects will play havoc, it is feared with much of it. No rain. NORTHERN PORTION. Angola, Steuben Co.—The weather has been remarkably hot and dry, for a week or more the themometer read 90 and above which is very unusual for this time of the year; corn is all cut np in good shape; corn can not grow, it is too dry and hot. No rain. Lafayette, Tipptcinoe Co.—Corn is mostly out of danger of frost, except some on low lands, which yet could be injured by heavy frosts; wheat is nearly all sown but the weather is is too dry for it "to come up well; pasturage and w .eat need rain much. No rgin. Michtgan City, LiPorte, Co.—The warm dry weather during the past week has been favorable to the corn crop which is now about out of danger of frost; the fall grass is very dry, causing a great scarcity of milk and butter. The average temperature during the past week w as 77°; the themometer registered 91° at three o'clock last Sunday, the 20.1*.. H. A. Huston, Director Indiana.Weather Service. Per. C. P. K. Wappenhans, U. .. Weather Bureau Assistant. Heart Culture. Editors Indiana Farmer- One of the^mysteries to an unsophisticated mind like my own, ls the unquestioned fact that heart culture does not keep pace and combine with mind culture. My own thoughts ever being led by an inborn instinct or a paramount sentiment, into channels wnere the heart and intellect can expand together, it is one of the almost insurmountable ob structions in the path of my work in the humann cause among the more intellectual classes, that itis next to impossible for me to realize that in many cases where the mind is highly cultured, trained and disciplined in various branches of knowledge, the heart beats sluggish, the manner is cold, the hand grasp (if it might be calle done,) is chilly, and a general fixedness about the whole make up and manner, that repels any warmth or enthusiasm before it can find expression. We are making great strides in intellectual advance, and the world has not seen such a time for the development of the mind of my own sex. And all honor to grand free America; no other country on the globe offers such opportunities to woman, as that haven upon whose shores the hopeful millions of down trodden aliens, subject of decaying despotisms, find peace and competence. Bat the heart is not keeping pace; I greatly fear it is falling far behind. If it were not all a too painful subject, I would here illustrate this forcibly by going into detail on the horrible practice of Vivisection. Science professes this fiendish cruelty Is absolutely necessary to the greater knowledge of the workings of the organs of the ''uman system, and advocating that ber- barous doctrine that "the end justifies the means," pursues the heinous practices to the utter destruction of the sense in man that makes him other than a demon, that allies him in any sense to the nature of God, in whose image we are told he is made. "Where igno ranee is bliss it is folly to be wise," as sumes a significance here, unthought of by its author, and. many that we meet in the higher walks of life, might well envy the sweet and happy lives of those whose minds are comparatively uncultured, but whose hearts beat time to merry music, and melt at the sight of pain and sorrow of man or brute. Some might say right here, what folly to assume a brute can sorrow. No one ever called me a sickly sentimentalist, and yet I assert the brute creation feel and envince sorrow, as also joy, shame or any other passion supposed by many to be the exclusive prerogative of human kind. I have loved the so-called lower animals, (F. Marion Crawford, the popular novelist, takes a decided stand that man is the lower animal in the scale of creation, and I often feel he is not far wrong, in my study of both creatures) from my childhood, and since arriving at middle life have suffered much more than is healthy at the thought of the cruelties practiced upon poor trusting brute creation. Could my faith in God be shaken it would be dispelled entirely by the sight and knowledge of humankinds cruelties to these loving, dependent, faithful friends, The lukewarm in humane societies put up the plea that people are thoughtless, not intentionally cruel. Have we a right to be thoughtless? The trouble Is not so much with the mind, it is largely in the heart. The tender sympathetic heart needs no promptings of the intellect to lend a helping hand or speak a courageous word for the down-trodden or abused. It is a step in the right direction, which I am hopeful will lead to marked results that our school boards are introducing readers into the schools almost entirely filled with matter teaching love and kindness to the lower animals. It is the chil dren we must work with largely, and we must not faint and grow weary by the wayside because we cannot mould the characters of older persons into finer stuff. If we, by diligent effort and stratagem can turn a few of the more stubborn characters into the better path occasionally we must be content. How many self-sacrificing pioneers in any noble work for the amelioration of suffering have lived to see their Ufa's work bear fruit in abundance? We must be patient, diligent toilers, schooling ourselves to the thought that life is short, and be noble enough to work to the end, that our cause may triumph when we are no more. Yet it may come sooner than we think. It is a great time in which we live; the greatest. It is dazzling to the senses to run the mind backward over the past 25 years and sum up the wonders that man and science have developed. Who knows but God may raise up some one like "Abraham Lincoln", in the cause of the brute creation, and carry the whole human race up on to a higher plane of thought and life in this matter. Let us hope on and work diligently and faithfully, trusting all will be well. Evelyn McCormick. Washington Letter. From Oar Regular Correspondent: There is a wide discrepancy between statements made by two prominent citizens of North Carolina, both at present in this city, as to the present attitude of the Farmer's Alliance of that State towards the third party movement. One of them Senator Hansom, who ia strongly opposed to both the demands of the Alliance and a third party, says there is no third parly in the State and that there will be none, because the members of the Alliance, with the exception of a few demagogues, are all democrats and will continue to be. The other gentleman, Col. L. L. Polk, whs is President of the National Farmers' Alliance and presumably acquainted with the intentions of the organization over which he presides, says that the Alliance in North Carolina as well as in other Southern States, is prepared in a certain contingency toenter heartily into the third party movement. The contingency is" that both of the old parties shall refuse to recognize the demands of the Alliance. Which of these men ought to be best posted on this subject? Kx-Representative ("Deacon") White, who was at the head of the New York firm that went under this week on account of its failure to corner September corn, was well known in Washington, where he served two years in the House of Representatives, nominally representing a Brooklyn district, but in reality directly representing the speculators of Wall street. He has been charged, and his actions confirmed the charge, with having purchased a nomination and election to the Hovue for the single purpose of gaining an entree to the floor to look after the interestsof him* self and other speculators. While a mem= ber of the house he was never heard iron} except when there was legislation up that affected his interests. Then he never failed in a Bingle instance to stand up un-. blushingly and advocated what would put money in his pocket. Since his term ex-- pired he has visited the capital as a lobby-. ist whenever there was any likelihood of legislation affecting Wall street. It is a bit of retributive justice that he should have lost his large fortune in grain speculation, after he had been instrumental in defeating the bill, which was before the last Congress to prohibit dealing in "futures" and "options" on Agricultural products: It was charged at the time that he was the disburser qf a large fund raised in Wall street to "Hang up'' the bill, whicji had been endorsed by the Republican caucus, and wliich appeared certain to become a law. He openly made his boast tbat ht* had succeeded in puttiDgthe t*ill where it would not be heard from, and it was not heard front again, notwithstanding the ttforts of its author—ex-Representative Butterworth.- and others to get it before the House. *. ■» ■> A Peculiar Piece of Land. Editors Indiana Fanner: I have some land that has grown oorn, millet, rye and hluegrass, that seems to lose its productiveness. The blue grass dies as the soil decays and settles. These dry seasons we have not been able to get anything to grow. The land was a very wet and mirey marsh beforebeingditched. It was ditched four feet deep and more, and the muck is much deeper. It has de. cayed since I seeded it to blue grass, so that logs that we plowed over when we farmed it are on top of the soil, and the soil seems to have decayed like straw, as there is not much change in the compactness of the surface soil. We have used it for pasture for ten years and mare, and have hopes when it decays to damp soil it will improve, aa there were some small ditches made that have been allowed to fill up, so that the blue grass seems to remain green and grow when our uplands are so dry that fire would run where there is any old grass. We are working ours with harrows, spring cultivators and anything to help to keep them level and break the old sod. We have had blue grass sod so tough, that water ran oft the higher places, and would not wet it, but after a heavy rain it would be perfectly dry. I think we must pasture and harrow and keep it as level as we can that wa mayget the benefit of the moisture, as my land gets dry as dust and would burn uny time these dry seasons. J. S, Mather, Elkhart Cj.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1891, v. 26, no. 40 (Oct. 3) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2640 |
Date of Original | 1891 |
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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. XXVI INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 3,1891. NO. 40 WEATHER CHOP BULLETIN*. Of the Indiana Weather Service in co-opera- lion vnthlhe UnitedStates Weather Bureau for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 26, 1891. ■ Hot, dry, sunny weather continued*, no rainfall; thirteen days in succession now the maximum temperature each day was above 90 degrees, a climatic freak not remembered to have occurred 1 efore in the month ot September in Indiana; corn in nearly every field is beyond injury from frost; most of the tobacco crop is under shelter and the rest will be within a few days; no rain fell sin,ce the 5th of the month; streams begin to get low and wells dry; live stock suffers; pasturage, newly coming up wheat, late vegetables, etc., need rain very much; the ground is so dry that wheat sowing has been temporally interrupted. SOUTHERN PORTION. Worthington, Greene Co.—Nearly, if not all, of the corn is beyond the reach of frost; quite a large acreage of wheat has been sown, although the first sown has come up well and looks fairly well, it needs rain badly; I am feeding now new corn; only 0.54 of an inch of rain fell so far this month. No rain. Seymour, Jackson Co.—The excessive heat every day and abundant &vd generous sunshine have done wonders in the maturing of corn; the great crop.issafe beyond any possibility of injury; the early sown wheat is up and growing nicely but needs rain at present; sowing is retarded and streams and wells are drying up, while late vegetables, pastures and live stock are beginning to sutler from the continuous drouth; much com fodder has been saved; vegetables are plenty and unusually cheap; of noxious insects only a few grasshoppers have been seen. No rain. • Vevay, Switzerland Co Another week of uninterrupted dry weather has hastened the maturing of corn, which already is regaded beyond inj ury from frost, should such occur. Immense crops of tobacco are under shelter and with another week of favorable weather the remainder will be secured. Daring the entire harvest season, the farmers have not sustained any. reverses. At the meeting of the Switzerland Horticultural Society there was a display of the finest variety of apples, pears, peaches, plums etc., besides two stalks of raspberries, bearing the second time this season. No rain. Monnt Vernon, Posey Co.—Corn ls safe, a full average crop will be gathered. Very little wheat has been sown, most farmers think it is too early yet; a large acreage will be planted. It is very dry and dusty and rain is needed much. No rain. Columbus,Bartholomew Co.—The weather continued clear and warm; corn has dried very fast; pastures and early sown wheat begin to need rain; the grasshoppers are working in some of the wheat. No rain, Marengo, Crawford, Co.—We have had the hotest weather of the season; corn' is out of danger of frost; wheat, pasturage and almost every growing thing but corn needs rain very much; many are waiting tor rain to sow wheat while some are done sowing and gathering apples. No rain. DeGonia Springs, Warrick Co.—Corn is ripe enough to cut; wheat sowing has fairly commenced; the roads are getting 10 be very dusty; pasturage, cisterns and newly sown wheat need rain. No rain. . ri-ceton, Gibson Co.—Corn is out of danger from frost; farmers are sowing wheat, aud although dry most of the ground js in fair condition; the temperature has been 90 and above every day during the week; ** '■» remarkably dry and lusty and rain is much needed. No rain, CENTRAL TORTION. Indianapolis, Marion Co—Dry, hot and sunny weather continues uninterruptedly; corn is safe; pasturage and winter wheat need rain; the temperature was every day above 90 degrees. No rain. Mauzy, Rush Co.—The weather continues hot and dry; the maximum temperature ranged from 80 to 92 degrees. No rain of any account since the 5th; the ground Js getting dry and roads very dusty; pasturage is getting short; most of the wheat is sown. No rain. Sheibyville, Shelby Co.—The extreme heat of the past week has been phenomenal with no rainfall since the 5th; this weather has effectually made tho corn crop all there could be made of it; it was planted late but is now already out of "Jack Frosts" reach; new wheat needs rain much and the insects will play havoc, it is feared with much of it. No rain. NORTHERN PORTION. Angola, Steuben Co.—The weather has been remarkably hot and dry, for a week or more the themometer read 90 and above which is very unusual for this time of the year; corn is all cut np in good shape; corn can not grow, it is too dry and hot. No rain. Lafayette, Tipptcinoe Co.—Corn is mostly out of danger of frost, except some on low lands, which yet could be injured by heavy frosts; wheat is nearly all sown but the weather is is too dry for it "to come up well; pasturage and w .eat need rain much. No rgin. Michtgan City, LiPorte, Co.—The warm dry weather during the past week has been favorable to the corn crop which is now about out of danger of frost; the fall grass is very dry, causing a great scarcity of milk and butter. The average temperature during the past week w as 77°; the themometer registered 91° at three o'clock last Sunday, the 20.1*.. H. A. Huston, Director Indiana.Weather Service. Per. C. P. K. Wappenhans, U. .. Weather Bureau Assistant. Heart Culture. Editors Indiana Farmer- One of the^mysteries to an unsophisticated mind like my own, ls the unquestioned fact that heart culture does not keep pace and combine with mind culture. My own thoughts ever being led by an inborn instinct or a paramount sentiment, into channels wnere the heart and intellect can expand together, it is one of the almost insurmountable ob structions in the path of my work in the humann cause among the more intellectual classes, that itis next to impossible for me to realize that in many cases where the mind is highly cultured, trained and disciplined in various branches of knowledge, the heart beats sluggish, the manner is cold, the hand grasp (if it might be calle done,) is chilly, and a general fixedness about the whole make up and manner, that repels any warmth or enthusiasm before it can find expression. We are making great strides in intellectual advance, and the world has not seen such a time for the development of the mind of my own sex. And all honor to grand free America; no other country on the globe offers such opportunities to woman, as that haven upon whose shores the hopeful millions of down trodden aliens, subject of decaying despotisms, find peace and competence. Bat the heart is not keeping pace; I greatly fear it is falling far behind. If it were not all a too painful subject, I would here illustrate this forcibly by going into detail on the horrible practice of Vivisection. Science professes this fiendish cruelty Is absolutely necessary to the greater knowledge of the workings of the organs of the ''uman system, and advocating that ber- barous doctrine that "the end justifies the means," pursues the heinous practices to the utter destruction of the sense in man that makes him other than a demon, that allies him in any sense to the nature of God, in whose image we are told he is made. "Where igno ranee is bliss it is folly to be wise," as sumes a significance here, unthought of by its author, and. many that we meet in the higher walks of life, might well envy the sweet and happy lives of those whose minds are comparatively uncultured, but whose hearts beat time to merry music, and melt at the sight of pain and sorrow of man or brute. Some might say right here, what folly to assume a brute can sorrow. No one ever called me a sickly sentimentalist, and yet I assert the brute creation feel and envince sorrow, as also joy, shame or any other passion supposed by many to be the exclusive prerogative of human kind. I have loved the so-called lower animals, (F. Marion Crawford, the popular novelist, takes a decided stand that man is the lower animal in the scale of creation, and I often feel he is not far wrong, in my study of both creatures) from my childhood, and since arriving at middle life have suffered much more than is healthy at the thought of the cruelties practiced upon poor trusting brute creation. Could my faith in God be shaken it would be dispelled entirely by the sight and knowledge of humankinds cruelties to these loving, dependent, faithful friends, The lukewarm in humane societies put up the plea that people are thoughtless, not intentionally cruel. Have we a right to be thoughtless? The trouble Is not so much with the mind, it is largely in the heart. The tender sympathetic heart needs no promptings of the intellect to lend a helping hand or speak a courageous word for the down-trodden or abused. It is a step in the right direction, which I am hopeful will lead to marked results that our school boards are introducing readers into the schools almost entirely filled with matter teaching love and kindness to the lower animals. It is the chil dren we must work with largely, and we must not faint and grow weary by the wayside because we cannot mould the characters of older persons into finer stuff. If we, by diligent effort and stratagem can turn a few of the more stubborn characters into the better path occasionally we must be content. How many self-sacrificing pioneers in any noble work for the amelioration of suffering have lived to see their Ufa's work bear fruit in abundance? We must be patient, diligent toilers, schooling ourselves to the thought that life is short, and be noble enough to work to the end, that our cause may triumph when we are no more. Yet it may come sooner than we think. It is a great time in which we live; the greatest. It is dazzling to the senses to run the mind backward over the past 25 years and sum up the wonders that man and science have developed. Who knows but God may raise up some one like "Abraham Lincoln", in the cause of the brute creation, and carry the whole human race up on to a higher plane of thought and life in this matter. Let us hope on and work diligently and faithfully, trusting all will be well. Evelyn McCormick. Washington Letter. From Oar Regular Correspondent: There is a wide discrepancy between statements made by two prominent citizens of North Carolina, both at present in this city, as to the present attitude of the Farmer's Alliance of that State towards the third party movement. One of them Senator Hansom, who ia strongly opposed to both the demands of the Alliance and a third party, says there is no third parly in the State and that there will be none, because the members of the Alliance, with the exception of a few demagogues, are all democrats and will continue to be. The other gentleman, Col. L. L. Polk, whs is President of the National Farmers' Alliance and presumably acquainted with the intentions of the organization over which he presides, says that the Alliance in North Carolina as well as in other Southern States, is prepared in a certain contingency toenter heartily into the third party movement. The contingency is" that both of the old parties shall refuse to recognize the demands of the Alliance. Which of these men ought to be best posted on this subject? Kx-Representative ("Deacon") White, who was at the head of the New York firm that went under this week on account of its failure to corner September corn, was well known in Washington, where he served two years in the House of Representatives, nominally representing a Brooklyn district, but in reality directly representing the speculators of Wall street. He has been charged, and his actions confirmed the charge, with having purchased a nomination and election to the Hovue for the single purpose of gaining an entree to the floor to look after the interestsof him* self and other speculators. While a mem= ber of the house he was never heard iron} except when there was legislation up that affected his interests. Then he never failed in a Bingle instance to stand up un-. blushingly and advocated what would put money in his pocket. Since his term ex-- pired he has visited the capital as a lobby-. ist whenever there was any likelihood of legislation affecting Wall street. It is a bit of retributive justice that he should have lost his large fortune in grain speculation, after he had been instrumental in defeating the bill, which was before the last Congress to prohibit dealing in "futures" and "options" on Agricultural products: It was charged at the time that he was the disburser qf a large fund raised in Wall street to "Hang up'' the bill, whicji had been endorsed by the Republican caucus, and wliich appeared certain to become a law. He openly made his boast tbat ht* had succeeded in puttiDgthe t*ill where it would not be heard from, and it was not heard front again, notwithstanding the ttforts of its author—ex-Representative Butterworth.- and others to get it before the House. *. ■» ■> A Peculiar Piece of Land. Editors Indiana Fanner: I have some land that has grown oorn, millet, rye and hluegrass, that seems to lose its productiveness. The blue grass dies as the soil decays and settles. These dry seasons we have not been able to get anything to grow. The land was a very wet and mirey marsh beforebeingditched. It was ditched four feet deep and more, and the muck is much deeper. It has de. cayed since I seeded it to blue grass, so that logs that we plowed over when we farmed it are on top of the soil, and the soil seems to have decayed like straw, as there is not much change in the compactness of the surface soil. We have used it for pasture for ten years and mare, and have hopes when it decays to damp soil it will improve, aa there were some small ditches made that have been allowed to fill up, so that the blue grass seems to remain green and grow when our uplands are so dry that fire would run where there is any old grass. We are working ours with harrows, spring cultivators and anything to help to keep them level and break the old sod. We have had blue grass sod so tough, that water ran oft the higher places, and would not wet it, but after a heavy rain it would be perfectly dry. I think we must pasture and harrow and keep it as level as we can that wa mayget the benefit of the moisture, as my land gets dry as dust and would burn uny time these dry seasons. J. S, Mather, Elkhart Cj. |
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