VOL. XXVIII.  \.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. MAY 13 1893.
NO. 19.
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN-...
Department  of Agriculture   United  States
Weather liurcau.   Crop Bulletin of the Indiana   Weather  Service  in   Co-operation
With the Agricultural Experiment Station
al Purdue   University, Tuesday, May 9,
1893.
■   Warm and. rainy  weather  during the
earlier part of the week, was followed by
fair cool weather in the latter part.   Brisk
winds  and   sunshine  dried   the  ground
rapidly and in the northern and central
portion of the State farm work, especially
plowing, progressed but in the Southern
portion less so.   Grass is in good condition
so also wheat, oats and other crops on high
lands; wheat in low lands is turning yellow in many fields.   Fruit is apparently
doing well; in the northern portion fruit
blossoms are backward and plums, cherries and strawberries begin to bloom only.
The more  favorable  weather during the
latter part of the week put farmers in better spirits.   Near the rivers many fields
are still under water.
SOUTHERN PORTION.
Switzerland Co.—Excessive rains of last
week resulted in overflow of the Ohio
river; fair weather continued since Tuesday; our farmers have labored under
great disadvantage this season. Kainfall
2.90.
Jackson Co.—The weather conditions
.were, ..mere favorable; _niich_iarm work
■wan accompllohod and. enrn and mplr*T*
planting is now well under way; fruit
germs have escaped the frost, but some
bloom has fallen on account of high winds;
generally the crop outlook is more promising than at the close of last week; Whit-
river overflowed and injured wheat in low
lands.   Kainfall 1.61.
Greene Co.—Cool weather prevailed; all
the low lands are overflowed and*much
wheat is destroyed; on the uplands wheat
and grass are doing quite well; but little
farm work was done.   Kainfall 2.53.
AVarrick Co.—There was less rain and
more sunshine this week; the weather was
unsettled and no farm work was done;
much wheat is turning yellow; pastures
are excellent.   Kainfall 1.29.
Dearborn Co.—Very little corn has been
planted, as the ground is too wet; the
streams overflowed the fields. Rainfall, 3.00.
Floyd Co.—There was a slight improvement in the weather, although still too
much rain for farm work; no corn was
planted and but little plowing done;
grass and wheat on high lands are doing
well.   Rainfall, 1.94.
Dubois Co.—We have had four days of
nice weather; wheat and oats look well
except on low lands; peaches probably
will be half a crop; apples a full crop.
RainfaU, 5.00.
Owen Co.—The excessive rains for the
past four weeks have prevented plowing
or planting; much wheat on low lands has
been under water, but after the water receded the cool, fair weather has been beneficial to crops.   Kainfall, 2.00.   .
Lawrence Co.—All grass and grain show
only an average amount of growth; bnt
little corn has been planted; fruit is not
injured.   Rainfall, 2.84.
Crawford Co.—Rains in the fore part of
this week hindered farm work and consequently but little corn is planted. RainfaU, 4.60.
Jefferson Co.—Heavy rains on Monday
and Tuesday, but since then plowing pro-
gressed rapidly; farm work is much be-
iod; fruit is abundant and safe.   Rainfall, 2.17.
Franklin Co.—Another bad week for
farmers; it is entirely too wet to cultivate
the ground or plow even sod; potatoes are
rotting in the ground.   Rainfall, 1.88.
Gibson Co.—The Wabash and Patoka
Rivers overflowed corn and wheat lands;
farm work is greatly behind; but little
plowing and corn planting is done yet.
Rainfall, 1.80.
Decatur Co.—Since Monday \h_ weather
was more favorable; cool, with strong
east wind; no plowing or seeding done;
farmers are more cheerful.   Rainfall, 0.89.
Sullivan Co.—Cool weather prevailed;
the ground is drying fast and on uplands
soonwiUbein condition to work; wheat
looks fair, grass good; the fruit crop will
be average.
Posey Co.—All the low land on the Ohio
and Wabash Rivers is overflowed; many
fields of wheat are under water; no corn
planted and farm work progresses only
slowly; fruit not damaged.   Rainfall, 1.49.
Perry Co.—Heavy rains injured wheat
and other crops, and the weather was unfavorable to farm work; the Ohio is out of
its banks and bottom lands are under
water.   Rainfall, 2.80.
Brown Co.—Fine growing weather;
farmers are in better spirits; plowing and
seeding progresses on uplands; peaches
and apples will yield an average crop.
Kainfall, 1.23.
Pike Co.—No rain during the week;
some plowing was done, but tho ground is
still wet and heavy.   Rainfall trace.
Jennings Co.—No rain; farmers have
commenced to plant corn; wheat was injured by the continuous wet weather; the
fruit prospect continues good. Kainfall
trace.
CENTRAL TORTION.
Marion Co.—Cool temperature; no rain;
average sunshine were more favorable to
farm work; wheat, grass and otlier crops
are in good condition; fruit probably not
injured.
Hendricks Co.—More favorable weather
the last four days for farm work, and tho
plows have been going early and late; a
few more favorable days and the work will
be done.
Randolph Co.—The weather favored
fruit and vegetables, and crops show improvement; pasture and wheat look well;
much fariii work has been* doile; many
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fall, 1.11.
Rush Co.—Heavy rain the earlier part of
the week; pasturage is in good condition;
stock of all kinds is doing well. Rainfall,
1.40.
Clinton Co.—The weather is favorablo to
farm work, and plowing is done nearly
everywhere in the county, although the
ground is st>ll wet.
Union Co.—Heavy rains prevented corn
planting and was unfavorable to growing
crops. .
Montgomery Co.—Crops are growing
slowly; no rains; farmers are plowing and
planting.
Johnson Co.—Wheat and erass have a
good growth except on flat grounds where
it is too thin; but little oats has been sown;
no corn planted yet. Farm work stands
still.   Rainfall 2.00.
Fayette Co.—Wheat and fruit are doing
well.   Rainfall 1.50.
Wayne Co.—Sunshine nearly every day;
oats all in; some corn planted; the overflowing streams apparently did no injury
to wheat; meadows are in good condition
and there is a very good prospect for all
fruit.   Rainfall 1.26.
Clay Co.—The ground still too wet to
work, no farm work yet done; wheat damaged by cold and wet weather; fruit falling from trees.   Rainfall 0.70.
Boone Co.—Plowing commenced but in
many fields the ground is yet too wet and
hard both in plowed and unplowed; there
was much sunshine but evaporation slow.
NORTHERN TORTION.
LaPorte Co.—Farmers are plowing busily
although the ground is still heavy in the
low lands; wheat does not look healthy;
plums, early strawberries and cherries are
beginning to bloom.   Rainfall 0.48.
Tippecanoe Co.—Farm work is progress
ing rapidly; wheat and oats are in fairly
good  condition;   the  ground is in good
condition for corn planting.   Rainfall 1.13.
Cass Co.—More favorable weather
cheered tbe farmer and the plow was kept
moving; the frost of last week' did no per-
ceptable damage.   Rainfall 0.73.
Whitley Co.—The weather has been more
favorable and encouraging to farmers;
corn planting commenced.
Newton Co.—Cool, cloudy weather; the
ground is in condition for plowing; oata
and grass are of good color, are making
but little growth.   Rainfall 1.00.
Elkhart Co.—Notwithstanding the extremely wet and cool weather, oats, wheat
and grass look well; fruit blossoms are
very backward, peach buds begin to show
a little red.
Porter Co.—Good weather for farm work
since Monday, but a little too all cool;
crops are backward.
Steuben Co.—Less rain, but cloudy and
cold weather this week; whoat, oats and
grass aro doing well; no corn planted yet.
II. A. Huston,
Director Indiana Weather Service
PerC. F. R. AVapi'F.nhans,
Weather Bureau Assitant Director.
A Model Farm.
'•'niTons Indiana Farmer:
There has been much said on the model
farm, but I presume the subject has not
been exhausted yot.
In regard to the size of the model farm
various views have beon taken, ranging
from 40 acres up to 500, according to the
fancy or theory of tho different writers. I
think a number of them are only ideal or
theoretical.
Now let me present to the readers of the
Farmer a description of a farm of
medium size, containing 100 acres, and
one that actually exists as described and
represented in the diagram below.
Written for the Indiana Farmer.
Something1 About Diseases.—No. 1.
BY ROBERT HESSLER, M. D
P.R.
DIAGRAM OF FARM.
PR, pike road; T R, township road; L, lane; SC
sugar camp, ln which is a branch; O,orchard; II,
house; B, barn; S, spring.
The lines represent fields as arranged,
and you will notice that all can be made
accessible to water when used for pasture;
The fields contain from 10 to 20 acres each.
The branch affords running water eight or
nine months in the year, and the spring is
a never-failing one.
The house is a two-story brick, that is,
the main builing, with bay window, and
has four rooms on the first story and four
above, with both a winter and summer
kitchen of one story, with well and milk-
house under one roof. We have also a
wash-house a little distance away, with a
good, dry cellar under it; two poultry
yards, with plum thicket in one, just commencing to bear fruit; two and one-half
acres in orchard, with apples, peaches and
pears and a variety of small fruit for
family use, with some for market occasionally.
The barns are about 120 feet apart, with
a double corncrib midway between. Barn
No. 1 contains tho horse stable, with mow
room enough for 20 tons of hay and five or
six hundred bushels of wheat. Barn No.
2 contains a cow stable large enough to
hold 10 head of cattle on ono side, while
the other side is used for farm implements, buggies, carriage, etc., with mow
above. Stock from each barn can be
turned out in a lot that surrounds the
spring and can have access to water. The
branch gives a good outlet for all tile
drainage.
While my farm in some respects might
be termed a model farm, I don't claim it
to be an ideal farm by any means. I
think we ought to have a high standard or
ideal in our minds, and try to work as
nigh to it as possible, both in farming and
intelligence and morals.    B. S. Dunkin.
CarroU Co. _
Introduction.—Tho struggle for existence; the preying of living organisms
upon each other.
The world we live in is one of never-
ceasing activity. Individuals come and
go. The various forms of life are all
struggling for an existence, and are sooner
or later compelled to relinquish their life,
and, sad to relate, to furnish food and
make room for others. Very few living
things die a natural death; that is, of old
age. Most forms fall a prey to other
forms of life. The weak are destroyed by
the strong; the strong are defeated by a
combined attack of the individually weak.
Evolutionists have shown us that there
is a constant struggle going on between
the difierent species of animals and plants.
When the struggle becomes great tliere is
even a contest between individuals of the
same species. The fittest survive. The
weak perish. Man as a species of animal
is no exception to the rule. He is generally the victor in his struggles with the
rest of nature, but when attacked by numbers he too is vanquished. All forms of
life depend ou the destruction of other life.
Among plants the truth of this is not so
apparent to us, and yet it is true. There
is a constant struggle for the possession of
the soil and the plant food in it. The
aspect of a piece of fallow ground left to
nature is constantly changing. One
species of weed after anothor appears—a
^r^s^%_-W_s'oT_t:"otn,er"p^raa_a^fe.ri-
disappears before the advent of shrubs
and trees. In the animal kingdom the
preying of one species upon another is
well known. The herbivora live and
thrive at the expense of vegetable life and
aro in turn destroyed by the carnivora.
Beyond the vision of our unaided eyes
there are other and minute animals and
plants that are engaged in a similar struggle for existence. They make up in numbers what they lack in size. In the conflict with the larger forms of life they frequently conquer by attacking in immense
numbers. The lowest and smallest forms
of life known to us, the bacteria, are of the
utmost importance in the mutations among
the higher forms of life, and especially in
the life of man.
Profitable to the Extreme.
Editors Indiana Fabuxr:
Enclosed find chock for our advertisements which we have found profitable to
the extreme. We have sold all our Hackneys, the majority of them in Indiana,
through the medium of your paper. We
leave on Monday, May 8th, for another
importation of Hackneys, to arrive in
July, at which time wo will be pleased to
meet our old friends and as many new
ones at our stables in Crawfordsville, Ind.
Thomson <fc Bland.
Hearing the Clock Strike.
Lying awake in those still hours which
come between midnight and dawn, the
sound of the familiar clock strikes on the
ear with a strange, solemn emphasis. One
—two—three—how the bell rings out on
tho air, vibrant, sonorous, and resolute,
determined to be heard and noticed! In
the day-time the clock sometimes strikes
without our hearing it, or paying attention to the hour; but at night we are not
so heedless. In one of Dr. Bushnell's letters to his wifo, he speaks of his occasional
absences from home and her, as like the-
strikings of the clock of life. In her presence and sweet company, he said, the time
was ticked off smoothly and imperceptibly
by seconds and minutes—he only observed
the passage of the hour-hand around the
dial when they were separated from each
other.
There are events of joy and grief in
every life, which are like the striking of
the clock. The baby was born on such a
day. On such another, the dear grandsire
was gathered to his fathers. On that June
morning when the honeysuckles were filling the air with perfume, there came the
telegram which sent an icy breath across
the gladness of your days. You associate
honeysuckle ever after with that striking
of the clock. On a sunny autumn noon,
the bride left your threshold to link her
life with that of another. The clock struck
then, and its echoes still linger in memory.
Home life must have its festivals and its
shadowy recollections. We do well to
guard sacredly those associations which
are peculiarly our own, belonging to our
Earticular families and homes. Thus,
irthdays should be tenderly kept, hallowed by praise and prayer, made beautiful with flowers, and jubilant with gifts.
And when the clock strikes slowly and
sadly, in the night of sorrow and care, let
us lift up hearts and voices to God who
never forgets us, however dark the cloud
may be.