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VOL. XXVIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. JUNE 10, 1893. NO. 23. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. Department of Agriculture United Stales Weather Bureau. Crop Bulletin of the Indiana Weather Service in Co-operation With the Agricultural Experiment Station ai Purdue University, Tuesday, Juue 6, 1893. Slightly excessive temperature on most days, rainfall and sunshine about normal ■were quite beneficial to growing crops, but the frequent rains kept the ground too wet and interrupted plowing and planting corn and farm work in general; wheat is much improved, heading and blooming- while most fields are exceedingly good, some are very bad; oats, rye, tobacco and other crops, but especially grass, are in very fine condition. Corn planting is completed in most counties; nearly so in others; the plant is coming up, growing vigorously and stands well the weather permitting cultivation. The wheat harvest is near and the prospect for an average yield in most fields is good. Hay and clover will be a large crop. SOUTHERN FORTION. Switzerland Co.—The weather has been unusually favorable to all kinds of crops; occasional showers and the heavy rain on Friday have been beneficial to tobacco and corn, which were somewhat late but have recovered; wheat is in most forward condition; apiarients predict a good honey * -crop; clover* is-plentiful. Kainfall 1.20. Jackson Co.—Rainfall excessive and sunshine deficient; temperature uniform and nearly normal; altogether a favorable week ior growth of crops; all spring planting is nearly completed, and the crops generally are doing well; wheat harvest is very near at hand and the prospect is excellent for a yield above the average in quantity and quality; hay will be abundant and good; melon prospect very promising; no noxious insects. Kainfall 1.92. Owen Co.—The weather has been favorable, especially the warm rains after corn planting was finished, were beneficial; wheat, oats and grass are growing nicelv. Rainfall 1.50. Greene Co.—Corn is coming up well and farmers claim a "good stand," yet planting ia not all done because of frequent rains; some fields of wheat are fine, othors hardly medium and some' on low lands almost worthless; oats and grass are in very good condition. Kainfall 0.89. Perry Co.—The weather was hot favorable to farm work and corn is not all planted yet; wheat, clover, timothy and early potatoes are doing well; pasturage is good and stock in good condition. Kainfall 0.55. Franklin Co.—There were only two days when plowing could be done and corn is not all planted yet; heafry rains have injured wheat in bloom;.the prospect for corn is not good; meadows are in fine condition. Rainfall 2.62. Posey Co.—The weather was favorable to all farm work; the wheat and grass harvest will commence in 10 days. Rainfall 0.19. Dubois Co.—It was too wet to plant corn and about one-third of the crop is not planted yet; wheat is heading out well; in low ground it turns yellow becauso of excessive rains. Rainfall 1.75. Warrick Co.—About one-third of the corn needs to be planted; from present appearances wheat will yield about three- fourths of a crop; oats and grass are doing splendidly. Rainfall 0.90. Gibson Co—Wheat on high lands looks fine, but in the river bottom lands it is all ruined; much corn is to be planted yet as soon as the rains cease. Rainfall 1.27. Vanderburg Co.—Farm work and corn planting were almost suspended this week on account of frequent rains; a thunder storm on Wednesday did much damage. RainfaU 2.00. e Clarke Co.—More sunshine and less rain would have been better for the wheat now In bloom; much corn has to be planted yet; the fields are too wet to work; some farmers used bad seed and such corn has to be replanted. Rainfall 1.60. Decatur Co.—The we *ther was favorable and encouraged farmers very much; all crops are in good condition oxcept fruit, which is dropping off. RainfaU 1.00. Jefferson Co.—Thero has been a marked improvement in all agricultural work; corn planting is all done; barley, wheat, rye and all vegetation look well and promise an abundant yield. Rainfall 1.22. Sullivan Co.—Much rain and some sunshine; the ground is too wet and but little work is done; wheat, oats and grass are doing well. Dearborn Co.—Everything made good growth with favorable warm, wet weather; two-thirds of the corn crop is planted and needs cultivation; apples have nearly all fallen off. Rainfall 1.85. Pike Co—Cool, cloudy weather prevailed during the earlier portion of the week, but the last two days were warm and sunshiny; all growing crops were injured by the excessive rains; some corn remains to be planted on the hills, and about one-third is planted in the bottoms; apples, peaches anel plums are falling off. RainfaU at Petersburg 1.35. Floyd Co.—The weather has been favorable for all growing crops; wheat will be harvested later than usual, and the prospect is favorable for a full crop; clover is unusually good and is nearly ready to harvest. Rainfall at New Albany 1.20. Brown Co.—Growing crops have been benefited by the weather of the past week; the ground, however, is too wet to plow. CENTRAL PORTION. Marion Co.—The warm temperature and rains were quite beneficial to growing crops; corn is all planted; wheat blooming, rye and oats and grass in best condition. Rainfall 0.84. Randolph Co.—The temperature' and sunshine were beneficial to crops but it was too wet for farm work. Rainfall 2.20, Clinton Co.—Rain has been the chief characteristic again this week and caused general discouragement to farmers and laborers; much corn will have to be replanted because of too much rain and cool temperature; cutworms are doing damage in some fields; a storm on Thursday did much damage near Frankfort. Clay Co.—The temperature the past week has been about normal but in every other way the period has been adverse to farmers' interests; ground has been too wet to work most of the time and but little corn has been planted; it will require one week of favorable weather to finish; wheat in portions of the county is very fine but will hardly make an average crop for the whole area; an unusuaUy large percentage of blasted heads are showing and chess is very prominent in many fields; meadows will be light and weedy; strawberries are ripe and will make one-half crop; oats are in the best condition for years.' Rainfall, 0.98. Union Co.—Heavy rains all the week wUl reduce the area of corn planting; the ground "is too wet for breaking; wheat in general looks well but it needs dry weather; fruit has been injured by the rain. Rainfall, 4.00. Rush Co.—Corn is mostly planted; some had to be replanted; wheat is heading; the hay crop "promisos well and pasturage and stock are in good condition. Rainfall, 2.02 Hendricks Co.—Good growing weather prevailed; wheat is heading nicely; some corn was planted and some had to be replanted on account of injury by cut worms. Montgomery Co.—The weather during the week has been beneficial to all growing crops. RainfaU at Ladoga 0.55. Wayne Co.—The sunshine was deficient, temperature favorable and too much and frequent precipitation prevented farm work; all crops are in good condition except barley, which is light, and apples, because of frost, will probably yield only half a crop; corn is nearly all planted; many hogs are fat for the June market. Rainfall, 3.40. Tipton Co.—I have been thro'ugh the county and found that peaches, cherries and apples are very badly injured; most of it is kiUed. NORTHERN PORTION. Tippecanoe Co.—Corn and oats are in fino condition; wheat is looking generally fair; local showers wore numerous during the week. ISatnfall, 0.69. Elkhart Co.—Corn is all planted and doing splendidly; nearly all crops and vegetation are doing well; considerable lly is in the wheat; some of the early planted corn, potatoes and even oats did not come up well; the hay crop is very promising; pasturage is good and stock in good condition, wheat is just beginning to head. RainfaU, 1.00. Newton Co.—It was warm enough to make corn and the weeds grow, but it was too wet to work in the fields; oats are doing well. Rainfall, 2.20. LaGrange Co.—Theground is too wet to work corn which is a good stand but noeds cultivation; with but little Injury by insects, wheat is heading; oats growing fast and clover in good condition. Rainfall, 2.00. Kosciusko Co.—Wheat is doing well and apparently will make an average crop; clover and grass never looked more promising; many fields of the early planted corn had to be replanted but worms and the mole are doing damage; wheat has begun to head, clover to bloom; tree fruit will be as much a failure as last year; bush and vine fruit promise an abundant yield; stock is healthy and doing well, some chicken cholera prevails. RainfaU, 2.10. LaPorte Co.—Wheat is heading fast; some fields are in fine, some in medium and some in sad condition; oats and cornfields are washed by heavy rains; a few farmers are yet planting corn while most farmers are plowing their corn; peaches are falling off. RainfaU, 2.00. Pulaski Co.—The temperature and sunshine were beneficial, but the heavy rains injurions to crops, especially to corn and oats; a heavy wind on the 28th of May was slightly injurious to cherries and pears. Rainfall 2.27. Huntington Co.—Rains and warm temperature were none too beneficial to crops. Porter Co.—It rained some every day and the ground is too wet to work and also it is too wet for crops in low lands. CassT Co.—The wet weather retardnd plowlng very much; wheat and oats are looking well; clover will be light; heavy hail on the 30th injured crops. Rainfall 3.00. Steuben Co.—The weather during the week was very beneficial until Saturday, when the heaviest rain of the season fell; wheat is heading and corn is aU planted. RainfaU at Angola 2.G0. H. A. Huston, Director Indiana Weather Service. Per C. F. R. Wappenhans, Weather Burea uAssistant Director. mixtc sat.*. There are six cases of smallpox at El- wood. Simeon Hunt, one of the oldest citizens _ of Madison died last week. He had re- " sided in Madison 78 years. Charles Hazelrigg, aged 78, a pioneer of Henry county, died Sunday night, the 28th of May, after an illness of several months. An auction sale of 480 lots at Marlon Saturday, May 27 brought ?10,800. This is said to be the largest day's record of lot sales ever made in tho gas belt. A wild-cat of monstrous size has been seen on the farm of James Campbell, near Bluffton. The animal is supposed to have been one recently escaping from a circus at Bluffton. A severe hall-storm swept over Pendleton and vicinity, accompanied by a great display of electricity. S. W. Wildridge's farm house was struck by lightning, and Mrs. Wildridge and son were unconscious for several hours. Mrs. Frank Cavanaugh, of Jeffersonville, went into the cellar underneath the family residence for a supply of gasoline. The can was leaking, and as she entered ihe cellar there was an explosion of gas which enveloped her in flames. The force of the explosion moved the house off its foundations and hurled weather-boarding and flooring in every direction. Mrs. Cavanaugh was fatally burned, and her five- year-old child, who was in the kitchen, was also dangerously Injured.. LAEGE SEED POTATOES. Some growers of this tuber have found that large potatoos "are inclined to make too great growth of vine to tho detriment of the yield of potatoes. Medium, riot small nor largo ones are best for seed they say. Medium-sized seed wiU give the largest portion of marketable tubers, which will be much more uniform in size than if either large or small seed is used. The selection of the seed is a matter which we seldom go about In the right way. It should be selected in the field, instead of in the*.ellar, and it is important that we should take the seed from such hills as show the greatast numbor of tubers of a good size. Let tho production and vitality of a hill be its test for fitness for seed, in tho same way that we try to make it so for «orn. The best corn growers select their seed where they are able to judge the vitality of the parent plant, a much moro sensible method than to go to the bin at seeding timo and pick out the largest ears. The same test should bo applied to the potatoes, and in fact, to all seeds where It can be done. CROP YIELDS IK QEKAT BEITAIH. There has been a general Impression pre- vaiUng that Ireland was farmed exceedingly poor, and that the crops grown there were far below those elsewhere in yield. That is a mistake. The Irish farmer is a pains-taking man, and with half a chance distances many others in the staple crops. Here is a comparative average yield of the leading crops of last year: Great Britain. Ireland. Wheat, bushels .26 33 29.36 Barley, " jji.bi 3^75 °"t» " -38.-0 42.31 Potatoes, ton". * _ 5.sj 3.49 Turnips, " _ 14.12 ^55 Ilay.cwt ._ 19.11 42;8 Hay from clover andsainfoIn,cwt_25.52 41.36 The three-year-old son of Mrs. M. Stalev, of Sanborn, drank a preparation for killing chicken Uce and died. (S&xxcxtCL Uews. Sick-headache yields to Beecham's Pills. President Cleveland and family will go tp the Adlrondacks in July. In the last two weeks 40 cases of cholera have been reported in France, 23 of which have been fatal. The British ship Germania was wrecked in a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. Sixty- four lives were lost. Eleven persons in Seabrook, Mass., were poisoned by eating cheese which contained deadly poison; The Princess Eulalla placed a wreath of flowers on General Grant's grave at Riverside Park, on Decoration Day. Mrs. Corey, wife of Amos Corey, a woodsman on the Upper Beaver Falls, N. Y., had a desperate struggle with a bear. After a battle sho succeeded in killing the beast. The Presbyterian General Assembly in session at Washington, have decided that Dr. Briggs is a heretic and he was suspended from the ministry. He was suspended indefinitely and can only be reinstated on his recantation of the matter in his speeches and writings to' which objection has been made. Letter From Florida. EniTons Indiana Fai*_*eii: I read in the FAKMEr. the kind words you said about our early peaches for which accept thanks. We can raise plenty of such peaches. I notice an enquiry as to where corn ripens earUest in the United States, and I want to put in a claim for the West Florida Highlands. Onr common field corn ripens in August., We have some fields now, in May, in tassel, 10 feet high and looking as thrifty as any GO bushel per acre corn field in Indiana. But it isn't worth while to say anything about that, the Hoosiers all know we can't raise any thing in Florida. If I should tell them the fact that a neighbor of mine raised 73 bushels of corn per acre, actual measure, on common pine land with cotton seed for fertilizer, they would think I was lying or gone crazy. The other day a man sent me a fine sheaf of wheat, said he got 45 bushels off three acres. Another man sent me a large lot of rye for the World's Fair, it was seven and a half feet long. I went to see the rye and the shortest I could find In the field I could tie over my head and you know I am six feet high. I have some heavy oats 5 feet high; I raised rice over six feet high but I dare not tell it up north. Our local editor mentioned the fact that our early peaches sold in New Orleans for ?S.2o per bushel, a northern subscriber wrote him that if he didn't stop telUng such lies he would stop the paper. I showed some Florida corn at'the Indiana State fair and the people said I got it on the Wabash bottoms. Now what are we going to do about it? Chipley, Fla., May 29. A. G. Chandlee.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1893, v. 28, no. 23 (June 10) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2823 |
Date of Original | 1893 |
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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 |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. XXVIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. JUNE 10, 1893. NO. 23. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. Department of Agriculture United Stales Weather Bureau. Crop Bulletin of the Indiana Weather Service in Co-operation With the Agricultural Experiment Station ai Purdue University, Tuesday, Juue 6, 1893. Slightly excessive temperature on most days, rainfall and sunshine about normal ■were quite beneficial to growing crops, but the frequent rains kept the ground too wet and interrupted plowing and planting corn and farm work in general; wheat is much improved, heading and blooming- while most fields are exceedingly good, some are very bad; oats, rye, tobacco and other crops, but especially grass, are in very fine condition. Corn planting is completed in most counties; nearly so in others; the plant is coming up, growing vigorously and stands well the weather permitting cultivation. The wheat harvest is near and the prospect for an average yield in most fields is good. Hay and clover will be a large crop. SOUTHERN FORTION. Switzerland Co.—The weather has been unusually favorable to all kinds of crops; occasional showers and the heavy rain on Friday have been beneficial to tobacco and corn, which were somewhat late but have recovered; wheat is in most forward condition; apiarients predict a good honey * -crop; clover* is-plentiful. Kainfall 1.20. Jackson Co.—Rainfall excessive and sunshine deficient; temperature uniform and nearly normal; altogether a favorable week ior growth of crops; all spring planting is nearly completed, and the crops generally are doing well; wheat harvest is very near at hand and the prospect is excellent for a yield above the average in quantity and quality; hay will be abundant and good; melon prospect very promising; no noxious insects. Kainfall 1.92. Owen Co.—The weather has been favorable, especially the warm rains after corn planting was finished, were beneficial; wheat, oats and grass are growing nicelv. Rainfall 1.50. Greene Co.—Corn is coming up well and farmers claim a "good stand," yet planting ia not all done because of frequent rains; some fields of wheat are fine, othors hardly medium and some' on low lands almost worthless; oats and grass are in very good condition. Kainfall 0.89. Perry Co.—The weather was hot favorable to farm work and corn is not all planted yet; wheat, clover, timothy and early potatoes are doing well; pasturage is good and stock in good condition. Kainfall 0.55. Franklin Co.—There were only two days when plowing could be done and corn is not all planted yet; heafry rains have injured wheat in bloom;.the prospect for corn is not good; meadows are in fine condition. Rainfall 2.62. Posey Co.—The weather was favorable to all farm work; the wheat and grass harvest will commence in 10 days. Rainfall 0.19. Dubois Co.—It was too wet to plant corn and about one-third of the crop is not planted yet; wheat is heading out well; in low ground it turns yellow becauso of excessive rains. Rainfall 1.75. Warrick Co.—About one-third of the corn needs to be planted; from present appearances wheat will yield about three- fourths of a crop; oats and grass are doing splendidly. Rainfall 0.90. Gibson Co—Wheat on high lands looks fine, but in the river bottom lands it is all ruined; much corn is to be planted yet as soon as the rains cease. Rainfall 1.27. Vanderburg Co.—Farm work and corn planting were almost suspended this week on account of frequent rains; a thunder storm on Wednesday did much damage. RainfaU 2.00. e Clarke Co.—More sunshine and less rain would have been better for the wheat now In bloom; much corn has to be planted yet; the fields are too wet to work; some farmers used bad seed and such corn has to be replanted. Rainfall 1.60. Decatur Co.—The we *ther was favorable and encouraged farmers very much; all crops are in good condition oxcept fruit, which is dropping off. RainfaU 1.00. Jefferson Co.—Thero has been a marked improvement in all agricultural work; corn planting is all done; barley, wheat, rye and all vegetation look well and promise an abundant yield. Rainfall 1.22. Sullivan Co.—Much rain and some sunshine; the ground is too wet and but little work is done; wheat, oats and grass are doing well. Dearborn Co.—Everything made good growth with favorable warm, wet weather; two-thirds of the corn crop is planted and needs cultivation; apples have nearly all fallen off. Rainfall 1.85. Pike Co—Cool, cloudy weather prevailed during the earlier portion of the week, but the last two days were warm and sunshiny; all growing crops were injured by the excessive rains; some corn remains to be planted on the hills, and about one-third is planted in the bottoms; apples, peaches anel plums are falling off. RainfaU at Petersburg 1.35. Floyd Co.—The weather has been favorable for all growing crops; wheat will be harvested later than usual, and the prospect is favorable for a full crop; clover is unusually good and is nearly ready to harvest. Rainfall at New Albany 1.20. Brown Co.—Growing crops have been benefited by the weather of the past week; the ground, however, is too wet to plow. CENTRAL PORTION. Marion Co.—The warm temperature and rains were quite beneficial to growing crops; corn is all planted; wheat blooming, rye and oats and grass in best condition. Rainfall 0.84. Randolph Co.—The temperature' and sunshine were beneficial to crops but it was too wet for farm work. Rainfall 2.20, Clinton Co.—Rain has been the chief characteristic again this week and caused general discouragement to farmers and laborers; much corn will have to be replanted because of too much rain and cool temperature; cutworms are doing damage in some fields; a storm on Thursday did much damage near Frankfort. Clay Co.—The temperature the past week has been about normal but in every other way the period has been adverse to farmers' interests; ground has been too wet to work most of the time and but little corn has been planted; it will require one week of favorable weather to finish; wheat in portions of the county is very fine but will hardly make an average crop for the whole area; an unusuaUy large percentage of blasted heads are showing and chess is very prominent in many fields; meadows will be light and weedy; strawberries are ripe and will make one-half crop; oats are in the best condition for years.' Rainfall, 0.98. Union Co.—Heavy rains all the week wUl reduce the area of corn planting; the ground "is too wet for breaking; wheat in general looks well but it needs dry weather; fruit has been injured by the rain. Rainfall, 4.00. Rush Co.—Corn is mostly planted; some had to be replanted; wheat is heading; the hay crop "promisos well and pasturage and stock are in good condition. Rainfall, 2.02 Hendricks Co.—Good growing weather prevailed; wheat is heading nicely; some corn was planted and some had to be replanted on account of injury by cut worms. Montgomery Co.—The weather during the week has been beneficial to all growing crops. RainfaU at Ladoga 0.55. Wayne Co.—The sunshine was deficient, temperature favorable and too much and frequent precipitation prevented farm work; all crops are in good condition except barley, which is light, and apples, because of frost, will probably yield only half a crop; corn is nearly all planted; many hogs are fat for the June market. Rainfall, 3.40. Tipton Co.—I have been thro'ugh the county and found that peaches, cherries and apples are very badly injured; most of it is kiUed. NORTHERN PORTION. Tippecanoe Co.—Corn and oats are in fino condition; wheat is looking generally fair; local showers wore numerous during the week. ISatnfall, 0.69. Elkhart Co.—Corn is all planted and doing splendidly; nearly all crops and vegetation are doing well; considerable lly is in the wheat; some of the early planted corn, potatoes and even oats did not come up well; the hay crop is very promising; pasturage is good and stock in good condition, wheat is just beginning to head. RainfaU, 1.00. Newton Co.—It was warm enough to make corn and the weeds grow, but it was too wet to work in the fields; oats are doing well. Rainfall, 2.20. LaGrange Co.—Theground is too wet to work corn which is a good stand but noeds cultivation; with but little Injury by insects, wheat is heading; oats growing fast and clover in good condition. Rainfall, 2.00. Kosciusko Co.—Wheat is doing well and apparently will make an average crop; clover and grass never looked more promising; many fields of the early planted corn had to be replanted but worms and the mole are doing damage; wheat has begun to head, clover to bloom; tree fruit will be as much a failure as last year; bush and vine fruit promise an abundant yield; stock is healthy and doing well, some chicken cholera prevails. RainfaU, 2.10. LaPorte Co.—Wheat is heading fast; some fields are in fine, some in medium and some in sad condition; oats and cornfields are washed by heavy rains; a few farmers are yet planting corn while most farmers are plowing their corn; peaches are falling off. RainfaU, 2.00. Pulaski Co.—The temperature and sunshine were beneficial, but the heavy rains injurions to crops, especially to corn and oats; a heavy wind on the 28th of May was slightly injurious to cherries and pears. Rainfall 2.27. Huntington Co.—Rains and warm temperature were none too beneficial to crops. Porter Co.—It rained some every day and the ground is too wet to work and also it is too wet for crops in low lands. CassT Co.—The wet weather retardnd plowlng very much; wheat and oats are looking well; clover will be light; heavy hail on the 30th injured crops. Rainfall 3.00. Steuben Co.—The weather during the week was very beneficial until Saturday, when the heaviest rain of the season fell; wheat is heading and corn is aU planted. RainfaU at Angola 2.G0. H. A. Huston, Director Indiana Weather Service. Per C. F. R. Wappenhans, Weather Burea uAssistant Director. mixtc sat.*. There are six cases of smallpox at El- wood. Simeon Hunt, one of the oldest citizens _ of Madison died last week. He had re- " sided in Madison 78 years. Charles Hazelrigg, aged 78, a pioneer of Henry county, died Sunday night, the 28th of May, after an illness of several months. An auction sale of 480 lots at Marlon Saturday, May 27 brought ?10,800. This is said to be the largest day's record of lot sales ever made in tho gas belt. A wild-cat of monstrous size has been seen on the farm of James Campbell, near Bluffton. The animal is supposed to have been one recently escaping from a circus at Bluffton. A severe hall-storm swept over Pendleton and vicinity, accompanied by a great display of electricity. S. W. Wildridge's farm house was struck by lightning, and Mrs. Wildridge and son were unconscious for several hours. Mrs. Frank Cavanaugh, of Jeffersonville, went into the cellar underneath the family residence for a supply of gasoline. The can was leaking, and as she entered ihe cellar there was an explosion of gas which enveloped her in flames. The force of the explosion moved the house off its foundations and hurled weather-boarding and flooring in every direction. Mrs. Cavanaugh was fatally burned, and her five- year-old child, who was in the kitchen, was also dangerously Injured.. LAEGE SEED POTATOES. Some growers of this tuber have found that large potatoos "are inclined to make too great growth of vine to tho detriment of the yield of potatoes. Medium, riot small nor largo ones are best for seed they say. Medium-sized seed wiU give the largest portion of marketable tubers, which will be much more uniform in size than if either large or small seed is used. The selection of the seed is a matter which we seldom go about In the right way. It should be selected in the field, instead of in the*.ellar, and it is important that we should take the seed from such hills as show the greatast numbor of tubers of a good size. Let tho production and vitality of a hill be its test for fitness for seed, in tho same way that we try to make it so for «orn. The best corn growers select their seed where they are able to judge the vitality of the parent plant, a much moro sensible method than to go to the bin at seeding timo and pick out the largest ears. The same test should bo applied to the potatoes, and in fact, to all seeds where It can be done. CROP YIELDS IK QEKAT BEITAIH. There has been a general Impression pre- vaiUng that Ireland was farmed exceedingly poor, and that the crops grown there were far below those elsewhere in yield. That is a mistake. The Irish farmer is a pains-taking man, and with half a chance distances many others in the staple crops. Here is a comparative average yield of the leading crops of last year: Great Britain. Ireland. Wheat, bushels .26 33 29.36 Barley, " jji.bi 3^75 °"t» " -38.-0 42.31 Potatoes, ton". * _ 5.sj 3.49 Turnips, " _ 14.12 ^55 Ilay.cwt ._ 19.11 42;8 Hay from clover andsainfoIn,cwt_25.52 41.36 The three-year-old son of Mrs. M. Stalev, of Sanborn, drank a preparation for killing chicken Uce and died. (S&xxcxtCL Uews. Sick-headache yields to Beecham's Pills. President Cleveland and family will go tp the Adlrondacks in July. In the last two weeks 40 cases of cholera have been reported in France, 23 of which have been fatal. The British ship Germania was wrecked in a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. Sixty- four lives were lost. Eleven persons in Seabrook, Mass., were poisoned by eating cheese which contained deadly poison; The Princess Eulalla placed a wreath of flowers on General Grant's grave at Riverside Park, on Decoration Day. Mrs. Corey, wife of Amos Corey, a woodsman on the Upper Beaver Falls, N. Y., had a desperate struggle with a bear. After a battle sho succeeded in killing the beast. The Presbyterian General Assembly in session at Washington, have decided that Dr. Briggs is a heretic and he was suspended from the ministry. He was suspended indefinitely and can only be reinstated on his recantation of the matter in his speeches and writings to' which objection has been made. Letter From Florida. EniTons Indiana Fai*_*eii: I read in the FAKMEr. the kind words you said about our early peaches for which accept thanks. We can raise plenty of such peaches. I notice an enquiry as to where corn ripens earUest in the United States, and I want to put in a claim for the West Florida Highlands. Onr common field corn ripens in August., We have some fields now, in May, in tassel, 10 feet high and looking as thrifty as any GO bushel per acre corn field in Indiana. But it isn't worth while to say anything about that, the Hoosiers all know we can't raise any thing in Florida. If I should tell them the fact that a neighbor of mine raised 73 bushels of corn per acre, actual measure, on common pine land with cotton seed for fertilizer, they would think I was lying or gone crazy. The other day a man sent me a fine sheaf of wheat, said he got 45 bushels off three acres. Another man sent me a large lot of rye for the World's Fair, it was seven and a half feet long. I went to see the rye and the shortest I could find In the field I could tie over my head and you know I am six feet high. I have some heavy oats 5 feet high; I raised rice over six feet high but I dare not tell it up north. Our local editor mentioned the fact that our early peaches sold in New Orleans for ?S.2o per bushel, a northern subscriber wrote him that if he didn't stop telUng such lies he would stop the paper. I showed some Florida corn at'the Indiana State fair and the people said I got it on the Wabash bottoms. Now what are we going to do about it? Chipley, Fla., May 29. A. G. Chandlee. |
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