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Weekc_ "uoT *^\ VOL. XXVI. ', '', Jvl ._"*7 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 31,1891. NO. 44 Farmers Do Need More Legris„ttIo_T' Editors Indiana Farmer: Yonr correspondent, D. K., who gave ns clod-hoppers so much good advice in last week's Farmer, is no doubt a learned man, he may be a lawyer for all I know, bat some of Ms sage remarks won't stand logic, if I know anything abont it, and I got a smattering of it when I was going to school. By the way its a study I want to recommend for that reading circle you talk so much about. D. K. says lots of good things about better icanagement, less waste land, more fruit trees, better fences, more care of machines and so on. Farmers need this kind of advice, at least many of them do. But when he says, as he does in the first part of his piece, that it is safe to say that, because the resolutions passed in the farmers' conventions were not enacted into laws, none of them were feasible, he says what does not follow, a non sequitur, asmylogiobookhasit. He might aa well say that all the laws we have were enacted be cause they were feasible, and the reason we have no more laws is because no more laws are feasible. I suppose feasible means all right, or something of that sort, doesn't it? Let me put the thing into logic. All measures that are feasible are enacted into laws. The measures that the farmers proposed to the last legislature were not feasible ;theref ore they were not enacted into laws. Now I dispute the major premise, and claim that many of those demands the ranne_«i__.de were _ll right and ought to have been passed, and that it doesn't follow because a measure proposed'is all right that it's going to be made into a law. Not by a good deal, and if D. K. is a lawyer he knows it. He knows it if he is only a farmer. That's just the point. He has the question. The demands were right and yet the Legislature didn't make them into laws. Again he says "all that a farmer needs to make him prosperous is to have something to sell." That's worse than bad logic. If D. K chances to be a lawyer, and has the average amount of brains with'the rest of them, and has read up pretty well in his books, would he admit that that was all that he needed to make him a success in his business? No sir, he must have a lot of us fool farmers to work on, and the more of us he can get to law ing with one another tbe bigger his success will be. If he is a doctor brains and medical lectures and pills are not all he wants by a long ways. He must have silly women to get sick or think they are and badly raised children to get the colic and whooping cough, to give him something to practice on and make out bills for. And so the farmer must have a market for what he has to sell. He must have customers for his grain and his pork, and this is one of the things he wants Uncle Sam to give him. Next D. K., says that the only way to help the sick or indebted farmer by legislation is to give him a pension and put him on the list of those who cannot take care of themselves. That's not so. The farmer doesn't ask anything from the Government but fair treatment. He wants no special favors. He demands fair rates for transporting his crops, a fair rate of interest, just and equitable taxation (this he has a good prospect of getting in this State) reasonable salaries for public officers, abolition of trusts and combines, overthrow of the whisky business, Government control of railroads and telegraph lines, a graded income tax, etc. These are reforms that will help all classes nearly, and one class as much as another. Farmer Steve. Prosperity of our Industrial Classes. Editors Indiana Farmer: In your valuable paper of September 26th is an article by Frazlei_Thomas, of Car- oil Co., in which he says he Is unable to see how I can endorse our present monetary system. I could not endorse it, if I conld see it in anything like as mean a light as he does. The distress he depicts, does not exist in the bounds ofthe United States. There is every opportunity for men of good habits, who are willing to take hold of the industries that present themselves, to live comfortably. It is untrue and a slander on the city of New York, and on the Nation in which that great city exists, to say that "one half ofthe people who die in that great city are" either paupers or convicted criminals; it is untrue, and a slander on the State of Indiana, to say "we have now an annual interest quoted at $51,000,000." He cannot show authority for one third of that amount and a large amount that be could show authority for would be owing from one neighbor to another, or to the school funds, and other incorporated funds within the State, by which we all might be more or less benefitted. Fifty-one million dollars' would about equal seven per cent of the appraised value of all property, both real and personal, in this State; it is false and unwise to say, or intimate that the government ever did "retire and burn up a billion and a half of greenbacks," for there never was half that amount issued; it is equally false .to intimate that silver was.demonetized. It has been money ever since resumption, it was money before suspension, and was one of the two metals that measured the .value of our currency during the suspension. AUsuph statements are wild and unreasonable. I am sorry that any of the industrial class of people can be imposed upon by them. It is to be hoped thatthe Farmer's Reading Circle will be instrumental in imparting better information to the working classes of the country. He says "there are known only two ways by which the industrial classes may correct the evils of which they complain. One is by the suffrages of the people, and the other by the saber and bayonet." Here he is badly informed again. Nin- ty per cent of the American industrial classes boast ot being the best paid and the happiest people on earth, which they accredit to our just and liberal system of government. Though our financial system is not perfect, and is susceptible of much improvement, it is sound and generally just in its workings. It has taken a long time to build it up, and we cannot afford to make any radical changes in it. It may be improved so as to give the farmers better opportunities, but it can never, in justice to other people, be made to pay the farmer's debts. It is always ready to afford him the measure by which his debts can be paid, provided he uses the proper, exertions, and has not ventured too far, and that is all any honest industrious citizen could ask. M. B. K. Aurora. ler of seven feet long we have but a few feet of the roller on the ground at once. We used a thirty inch stone roller and another log one made of gum. The log was 20 inches in diameter and it was much lighter than the stone one, but it run easier and did better work. D. M. A. Kansas. A Good Plan for Keeping- Apples. Editors Indiaua Farmer: My plan for keeping apples is to gather about the 10th to 20th of October and to store them as gathered in an out house for a week or two. I then make a pit over a tile ditch by digging one foot deep, four feet wide, 12 feet long. I next floor this with good hard wood lumber, as pine will give its taste to the fruit. For sides and ends I use two _ eight inch planks. Now you have a box, four feet wide, 16 inches deep, 12 feet long. Sort the apples care* fully and fill to rounding fall. Take a piece of timber six inches square for a ridge pole; rest it on pieces put endwise at the ends so as to make a roof at half pitch. Cut plank for roof and break the joints. Now cover with dirt five or fix inches deep, rounding up at the ends. Leave a small hole at each end of the ridge pole for air to circulate. When wanted forme remove a barrel full to the cellar, and fill the vacancy in the pit with straw. My experience is by this plan the apples have a better flavor than when kept in a callar. Ran Bekoy. New Cumberland. Drag* or Boiler. Editors Indiana Farmer: Some one asks which is the best, a drag or a roller? Both have tbeir places. For leveling the ground the drag is the best. If the ground is dry and cloddy the roller will pulverize the clods the best. To do the same amount of work the drag requires the most power. To secure the best result with a drag tbe ground should be damp enough to plow good. If the clods get dry they will keep the drag off the ground, so that it will not shove the fine dirt into the furrows. When in good oondltion to drag the ground will stick to the drag so that it requires to be cleared once in an hour or two. As a clod crusher a roller issuperior and runs much easier. In the roller we have the weight concentrated into a small space. Take a drag that is seven feet long Who has Tried it? Editors Indiana Farmer: Can some one that has tried it tell us through the Farmer if corn fodder can be ricked so it will keep till last part of winter. We planted some corn thick last spring a year ag>, ran it through a cutting box and fed it with bran with good results. We cut about six acres this fall with binder, that was planted thick, and wished to know if it can be stacked or ricked like a sheaf of wheat so that it will not rot. We think when the corn is thick the glaze does not get thick and hard as it does on field corn; also there is not so much ear corn to cause feverishness in the milk cows. The cows will eat the thick planted fodder up clean when run through a cutting box with bran, while oommon field fodder has such hard joints that the cows will not eat it all, and the troughs have to be cleaned out quite often. So there is more good in the thickly planted corn for fodder in my opinion. Lets hear from others through the Indiana Farmer. A. E. F., An Old Subscriber. Clermont. Importance of Beading* Good Literature. Among the various vocations of life there is no class of people who have as great opportunities for social and intellectual improvement as the farmer and his family. There are doubtless many farmers who will controvert the statement but the assertion is made based on the personal experience of the writer of more than twenty years of farm life, and an equal number of years' observation of those engaged in other vocations. An organized system of the labor and affairs of the farm will afford ample time, facilities and means to acquire an accomplished social, intellectual and business character that will entitle the possessor to merit in any station of life. Every profession and trade, be it commercial or mechanical, has its periodicals and books pertaining to its representative line, and It is the industrious student (he who is never too old to learn) who best succeeds and commands respect in his chosen vocation. These periodicals and books are but recorded practices, resulting from investigations, discussions and conclusions, and are given in exchange for the experience of others, that good may of 28 feet on the ground at once, unaroi- result. THE LEGITIMATE FARM PAPER is a like medium of exchange, and will at all times be just what its readers and contributors choose to make it. Every farmer's home should be well supplied with good newspapers, magazines, books and musical instruments. There is nothing more invigorating and refreshing to the mind and body at the noon hour, or when coming in from his fields after the day's work is done, as perusing the pages of a good book or paper, or listening to the soothing strains of music produced by his accomplished son or daughter, and there is no better place for meditation upon what has been read and studied than between the plow handles. A mere knowledge of "reading, writing and arithmetic" does not complete an education, but the cultivation of tbe moral social and intellectual is required, and no vocation in life should embrace so great a range as that of the farmer. With the present low prices for good papers, books, periodicals and musical instruments there is no reasonable excuse why the farmer's family has not an abundant supply, as good papers that used to cost $2 50 to $4 per year are now furnished at prices ranging from one to two dollara, and books of history, biography and travel with hundreds of others, that formerly cost from $5 to ?10, are now furnished at any first-class book store at prices ranging from ?2 50 to J5, and cheaper' editions at lower figures. Within the last few years the number of publications has increased enormously, and the education of all classes is growing with it. There are a great many classes who are farming the farmer, and his greatest safeguard is intelligence. He should be careful in the SELECTION OF THE BOOKS AND PAPERS that enter into his home circle, and while there are many objectionable ones, I will ' mention but two of them: First, the political paper with its "weakly" column of agricultural and farmnews, just enough to persuade the farmer that he does not need a regular, legitimate farm and home paper, and whose ultimate object and only interest is to foist its party politics upon him and retain his subscription, get his vote and set him at naught with his neighbor.* The other class is one whose origin was the advertising circular of some manufacturing concern, its financial backing a syndicate of manufacturers whose only object is to foist their goods and wares upon the farmer. It has no editor or editorials, no contributors, but a "manager" who, with "scissors and paste," pirates upon the columns of legitimate agricultural journals, appropriates the ideas and writiDg9of their editors, and calls the sheet an agricultural and farm paper. The subscription price is low, ranging from twenty-five to fity cents and to every subscriber a premium or present is given usuaUy of more value than the paper. The enterprising and intelligent farmer recognizes the fact that the "best is none too good," and that life is too short to sacrifice time by the perusal of the many worthless publications offered him. The writer was led to express the above thoughts by a screed in oneof the so-called agricultuial papers that "farming didn't pay: we farmers cannot afford such things, they are for city folks;" that "farmers have no time to devote to, or means to provide for more of the comforts and pleasures of life." With all such it is the waste of time. When farm crops and farm affairs are amply fertilized with prcpeny cultivated brains there Is always ample time and means Observer in Western Farmer. An epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria is raging near Chesterton, number of schools have been several deaths are reported. closed A and.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1891, v. 26, no. 44 (Oct. 31) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2644 |
Date of Original | 1891 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
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 |
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Coverage | United States - Indiana |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | Weekc_ "uoT *^\ VOL. XXVI. ', '', Jvl ._"*7 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 31,1891. NO. 44 Farmers Do Need More Legris„ttIo_T' Editors Indiana Farmer: Yonr correspondent, D. K., who gave ns clod-hoppers so much good advice in last week's Farmer, is no doubt a learned man, he may be a lawyer for all I know, bat some of Ms sage remarks won't stand logic, if I know anything abont it, and I got a smattering of it when I was going to school. By the way its a study I want to recommend for that reading circle you talk so much about. D. K. says lots of good things about better icanagement, less waste land, more fruit trees, better fences, more care of machines and so on. Farmers need this kind of advice, at least many of them do. But when he says, as he does in the first part of his piece, that it is safe to say that, because the resolutions passed in the farmers' conventions were not enacted into laws, none of them were feasible, he says what does not follow, a non sequitur, asmylogiobookhasit. He might aa well say that all the laws we have were enacted be cause they were feasible, and the reason we have no more laws is because no more laws are feasible. I suppose feasible means all right, or something of that sort, doesn't it? Let me put the thing into logic. All measures that are feasible are enacted into laws. The measures that the farmers proposed to the last legislature were not feasible ;theref ore they were not enacted into laws. Now I dispute the major premise, and claim that many of those demands the ranne_«i__.de were _ll right and ought to have been passed, and that it doesn't follow because a measure proposed'is all right that it's going to be made into a law. Not by a good deal, and if D. K. is a lawyer he knows it. He knows it if he is only a farmer. That's just the point. He has the question. The demands were right and yet the Legislature didn't make them into laws. Again he says "all that a farmer needs to make him prosperous is to have something to sell." That's worse than bad logic. If D. K chances to be a lawyer, and has the average amount of brains with'the rest of them, and has read up pretty well in his books, would he admit that that was all that he needed to make him a success in his business? No sir, he must have a lot of us fool farmers to work on, and the more of us he can get to law ing with one another tbe bigger his success will be. If he is a doctor brains and medical lectures and pills are not all he wants by a long ways. He must have silly women to get sick or think they are and badly raised children to get the colic and whooping cough, to give him something to practice on and make out bills for. And so the farmer must have a market for what he has to sell. He must have customers for his grain and his pork, and this is one of the things he wants Uncle Sam to give him. Next D. K., says that the only way to help the sick or indebted farmer by legislation is to give him a pension and put him on the list of those who cannot take care of themselves. That's not so. The farmer doesn't ask anything from the Government but fair treatment. He wants no special favors. He demands fair rates for transporting his crops, a fair rate of interest, just and equitable taxation (this he has a good prospect of getting in this State) reasonable salaries for public officers, abolition of trusts and combines, overthrow of the whisky business, Government control of railroads and telegraph lines, a graded income tax, etc. These are reforms that will help all classes nearly, and one class as much as another. Farmer Steve. Prosperity of our Industrial Classes. Editors Indiana Farmer: In your valuable paper of September 26th is an article by Frazlei_Thomas, of Car- oil Co., in which he says he Is unable to see how I can endorse our present monetary system. I could not endorse it, if I conld see it in anything like as mean a light as he does. The distress he depicts, does not exist in the bounds ofthe United States. There is every opportunity for men of good habits, who are willing to take hold of the industries that present themselves, to live comfortably. It is untrue and a slander on the city of New York, and on the Nation in which that great city exists, to say that "one half ofthe people who die in that great city are" either paupers or convicted criminals; it is untrue, and a slander on the State of Indiana, to say "we have now an annual interest quoted at $51,000,000." He cannot show authority for one third of that amount and a large amount that be could show authority for would be owing from one neighbor to another, or to the school funds, and other incorporated funds within the State, by which we all might be more or less benefitted. Fifty-one million dollars' would about equal seven per cent of the appraised value of all property, both real and personal, in this State; it is false and unwise to say, or intimate that the government ever did "retire and burn up a billion and a half of greenbacks," for there never was half that amount issued; it is equally false .to intimate that silver was.demonetized. It has been money ever since resumption, it was money before suspension, and was one of the two metals that measured the .value of our currency during the suspension. AUsuph statements are wild and unreasonable. I am sorry that any of the industrial class of people can be imposed upon by them. It is to be hoped thatthe Farmer's Reading Circle will be instrumental in imparting better information to the working classes of the country. He says "there are known only two ways by which the industrial classes may correct the evils of which they complain. One is by the suffrages of the people, and the other by the saber and bayonet." Here he is badly informed again. Nin- ty per cent of the American industrial classes boast ot being the best paid and the happiest people on earth, which they accredit to our just and liberal system of government. Though our financial system is not perfect, and is susceptible of much improvement, it is sound and generally just in its workings. It has taken a long time to build it up, and we cannot afford to make any radical changes in it. It may be improved so as to give the farmers better opportunities, but it can never, in justice to other people, be made to pay the farmer's debts. It is always ready to afford him the measure by which his debts can be paid, provided he uses the proper, exertions, and has not ventured too far, and that is all any honest industrious citizen could ask. M. B. K. Aurora. ler of seven feet long we have but a few feet of the roller on the ground at once. We used a thirty inch stone roller and another log one made of gum. The log was 20 inches in diameter and it was much lighter than the stone one, but it run easier and did better work. D. M. A. Kansas. A Good Plan for Keeping- Apples. Editors Indiaua Farmer: My plan for keeping apples is to gather about the 10th to 20th of October and to store them as gathered in an out house for a week or two. I then make a pit over a tile ditch by digging one foot deep, four feet wide, 12 feet long. I next floor this with good hard wood lumber, as pine will give its taste to the fruit. For sides and ends I use two _ eight inch planks. Now you have a box, four feet wide, 16 inches deep, 12 feet long. Sort the apples care* fully and fill to rounding fall. Take a piece of timber six inches square for a ridge pole; rest it on pieces put endwise at the ends so as to make a roof at half pitch. Cut plank for roof and break the joints. Now cover with dirt five or fix inches deep, rounding up at the ends. Leave a small hole at each end of the ridge pole for air to circulate. When wanted forme remove a barrel full to the cellar, and fill the vacancy in the pit with straw. My experience is by this plan the apples have a better flavor than when kept in a callar. Ran Bekoy. New Cumberland. Drag* or Boiler. Editors Indiana Farmer: Some one asks which is the best, a drag or a roller? Both have tbeir places. For leveling the ground the drag is the best. If the ground is dry and cloddy the roller will pulverize the clods the best. To do the same amount of work the drag requires the most power. To secure the best result with a drag tbe ground should be damp enough to plow good. If the clods get dry they will keep the drag off the ground, so that it will not shove the fine dirt into the furrows. When in good oondltion to drag the ground will stick to the drag so that it requires to be cleared once in an hour or two. As a clod crusher a roller issuperior and runs much easier. In the roller we have the weight concentrated into a small space. Take a drag that is seven feet long Who has Tried it? Editors Indiana Farmer: Can some one that has tried it tell us through the Farmer if corn fodder can be ricked so it will keep till last part of winter. We planted some corn thick last spring a year ag>, ran it through a cutting box and fed it with bran with good results. We cut about six acres this fall with binder, that was planted thick, and wished to know if it can be stacked or ricked like a sheaf of wheat so that it will not rot. We think when the corn is thick the glaze does not get thick and hard as it does on field corn; also there is not so much ear corn to cause feverishness in the milk cows. The cows will eat the thick planted fodder up clean when run through a cutting box with bran, while oommon field fodder has such hard joints that the cows will not eat it all, and the troughs have to be cleaned out quite often. So there is more good in the thickly planted corn for fodder in my opinion. Lets hear from others through the Indiana Farmer. A. E. F., An Old Subscriber. Clermont. Importance of Beading* Good Literature. Among the various vocations of life there is no class of people who have as great opportunities for social and intellectual improvement as the farmer and his family. There are doubtless many farmers who will controvert the statement but the assertion is made based on the personal experience of the writer of more than twenty years of farm life, and an equal number of years' observation of those engaged in other vocations. An organized system of the labor and affairs of the farm will afford ample time, facilities and means to acquire an accomplished social, intellectual and business character that will entitle the possessor to merit in any station of life. Every profession and trade, be it commercial or mechanical, has its periodicals and books pertaining to its representative line, and It is the industrious student (he who is never too old to learn) who best succeeds and commands respect in his chosen vocation. These periodicals and books are but recorded practices, resulting from investigations, discussions and conclusions, and are given in exchange for the experience of others, that good may of 28 feet on the ground at once, unaroi- result. THE LEGITIMATE FARM PAPER is a like medium of exchange, and will at all times be just what its readers and contributors choose to make it. Every farmer's home should be well supplied with good newspapers, magazines, books and musical instruments. There is nothing more invigorating and refreshing to the mind and body at the noon hour, or when coming in from his fields after the day's work is done, as perusing the pages of a good book or paper, or listening to the soothing strains of music produced by his accomplished son or daughter, and there is no better place for meditation upon what has been read and studied than between the plow handles. A mere knowledge of "reading, writing and arithmetic" does not complete an education, but the cultivation of tbe moral social and intellectual is required, and no vocation in life should embrace so great a range as that of the farmer. With the present low prices for good papers, books, periodicals and musical instruments there is no reasonable excuse why the farmer's family has not an abundant supply, as good papers that used to cost $2 50 to $4 per year are now furnished at prices ranging from one to two dollara, and books of history, biography and travel with hundreds of others, that formerly cost from $5 to ?10, are now furnished at any first-class book store at prices ranging from ?2 50 to J5, and cheaper' editions at lower figures. Within the last few years the number of publications has increased enormously, and the education of all classes is growing with it. There are a great many classes who are farming the farmer, and his greatest safeguard is intelligence. He should be careful in the SELECTION OF THE BOOKS AND PAPERS that enter into his home circle, and while there are many objectionable ones, I will ' mention but two of them: First, the political paper with its "weakly" column of agricultural and farmnews, just enough to persuade the farmer that he does not need a regular, legitimate farm and home paper, and whose ultimate object and only interest is to foist its party politics upon him and retain his subscription, get his vote and set him at naught with his neighbor.* The other class is one whose origin was the advertising circular of some manufacturing concern, its financial backing a syndicate of manufacturers whose only object is to foist their goods and wares upon the farmer. It has no editor or editorials, no contributors, but a "manager" who, with "scissors and paste," pirates upon the columns of legitimate agricultural journals, appropriates the ideas and writiDg9of their editors, and calls the sheet an agricultural and farm paper. The subscription price is low, ranging from twenty-five to fity cents and to every subscriber a premium or present is given usuaUy of more value than the paper. The enterprising and intelligent farmer recognizes the fact that the "best is none too good," and that life is too short to sacrifice time by the perusal of the many worthless publications offered him. The writer was led to express the above thoughts by a screed in oneof the so-called agricultuial papers that "farming didn't pay: we farmers cannot afford such things, they are for city folks;" that "farmers have no time to devote to, or means to provide for more of the comforts and pleasures of life." With all such it is the waste of time. When farm crops and farm affairs are amply fertilized with prcpeny cultivated brains there Is always ample time and means Observer in Western Farmer. An epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria is raging near Chesterton, number of schools have been several deaths are reported. closed A and. |
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