VOL. XXVIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.  AUG. 19, 1893.
NO. 33.
A Pleasant Summer Resort.
Editobs Indiana Fabmeb:
Of all the pleasant places for a summer
outing I have ever visited, Bay View ls
the most pleasant. The place is beautiful,
the climate is delightful, and there are so
many ways of being entertained that one
cannot grow weary or homesick. During
the Assembly which lasts from the 19th of
July to the 16th of August, there is a great
variety of entertainment. The best musicians, the finest lecturers and best ministers are here to give the people the benefits of their knowledge. There are not only concerts, lectures and sermons to listen
to, but there-are classes in most every
branch of study. It is a kind of summer
school.
Bay View is on a high bluff overlooking
the bay. It is so shady that at first glance
only a few cottages are visible. The cottages extend over quite a large territory.
There are many people here who came the
last of June and will remain till October.
Bay View is only a half mile from Petoskey, another famous resort, on the
Grand Bapids ■ and Indiana R. R. Just
across the Bay are three more lovely
places. Wequetonsing, Harbor Point and
Ilarbor .Springs. Two excursion boats
make hourly trips around the bay stopping at all these points for 25 cents. At
Harbor Point there is one of the finest harbors in the United States, and all boats
tltfttican possibly -do so, lind .-shelter there
from storms.
Bay View is only a short distance from
Mackinaw and there are frequent excursions to that island. There is one thing
that can be said of the grounds that perhaps-can be said of no other assembly
grounds in the United States. That is
there is no fence around it and no entrance
* fee is charged. It is in this respect just
like any town; but you see no disorder of
any kind; there are no saloons, and as one
lecturer here said, "even the presiding
elders and ministers have to go Petoskey
for their tobacco." From the 1st of September to the last of October people suffering from hay fever come to this place
for relief.
There is a very good class of people here,
not of a fashionable crowd. It is a very
cheap place to board, and very few clothes
are necessary, two or three dresses being
sufficient. One of the most impressive
services held during the assembly is the
Sunday evening beach service. Kvery
body goes down to the beach at sunset
and all join in the hymns and responsive
readings. There is a short address and usually a solo. One cannot help feeling impressed with such a service midst such
surroundings. F. C.
Bay View, Mich.
pea vines and it can't help but make large
yields.
One can obtain a crop of hay, too, if
the hay is cut' before the clover blooms.
We think so well "of this addition to our
new grasses that we have sown 100 acres of
it. "We sowed in oorn ground, just after
laying the corn by, and then harrowed
with a light spike tooth harrow. The time
for sowing is from.as soon as corn is laid
and the first year a good many of them
die, and to finish the job, when winter
comes on, he turns his cattle in to pick his
corn stalks, and as a rule they stay in
there until they eat and destroy all the
trees left, and then the nurseryman is
cursed because the trees die.
The time and attention that should be
given fruit is put upon other farm crops,
and fruit fails for the want of care.   Not
Editors Indiana Farmkr:
By this mail I send you sample of scarlet clover seed grown by us. AVe seeded
10 acres last fall, and being so very dry at
the time, only about seven acres of it
made a catch, from this 7 acres, we
thrashed 27 bushels of seed, which sold
very rapidly at $8 per bushel.
It being our first trial, we allowed the
seed to stand too long before cutting, thus
shattering very badly in handling so
much, that all who saw the field expressed
themselves that we were not saving more
than, half of the seed. Should that be the
case, anyone can readily figure how much
scarlet clover would beat 50 cent wheat.
The clover was sown August 15 and
made a good growth before winter, and
kept growing all winter. Underneath the
snow, you would find it green and thrifty,
like rye or wheat.
We did not pasture it any, but think it
will make a most valuable winter and
early spring pasture, and for hay it will
surely be the equal, if not better than the
common clovor. The stems are not so
brittle as red olover, but more tough, like
signs of the "sky. He grows up in familiar
acquaintance with animals. He owns a
dog, he has a favorite horse, he rides wild
colts, he feeds the horned cattle. He helps
in the planting and in the harvesting. He
is usually versed in wood lore and knows
trees and plants, birds, squirrels, rabbits
and ground hogs. He hunts with a gun
and goes fishing. He develops superb
health. He helps repair the fences. He
learns about tools and masters the complexities of farm machinery. In short,
the range of his practical knowledge becomes very great.—Albert Shaw, in Sketch
of Leland Stanford, August Review of Reviews.
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WOMEN'S BUILDING, AT INDIANA STATE FA1K GROUNDS.
by to the  1st  or  Middle of  September.
We have no seed for sale. '
New Castle. Hosieb A Phelps.
Failures in Fruit Growing.
A Kansas horticulturist has discovered
the reason so many farmers make such
disastrous failures in fruit growing. He
says: The success attained will depend
upon the practical knowledge of the
grower. He must have some knowledge
of what .he is goizfg to plant, so that he
may select a good variety, suitable and
adapted to the kind of soil on which he
wishes to plant; and, on the other hand,
he  must   understand   and  practice  the
one farmer in 50 knows how to grow and
market fruit so as to get the most money
out of it. I find to be successful in fruit
growing that it requires a great deal of
practical knowledge, as well as more skill
in workmanship in the use of a knife or
saw. I find that it is folly to expect success when* we go blundering along in
darkness, not knowing why we do this or
that.
The Farm as a Triningr School.
It remains true even  to-day that  the
farm is the. chief and the best school for
the training of capable men that exists in
this country.   It is otherwise in Europe,
Beecham's Pills are faithful friends.
Kent Coulson, of Sullivan, owns a dog
which he has trained to dig potatoes.
Barns belonging to W. Haas, John Mott
and George Bower, of Tipton, were burned
the same night by incendiaries.
Edgar Ross, son of ferry Ross, of Clay
township, Bartholomew county, died very
suddenly of a broken blood vessel. He
had just returned from school for the
summer.
Joseph Hubler, of Lafayette, 85 years
.old, died of paralysis, complicated by an
injwy~T«e9iss4_^T€ral_5eai8- ago* He
was a resident of Lafayette ov^rhalf a
century. -^.
Lincoln Harbaugh, near Clay City, took
shelter under a tree from an approaching
storm. Lightning struck the tree, killing
one of the horses and dangerously prostrating Harbaugh.
The barn on Melville* McHaffie's Forest
Home farm, near Stilesville, was destoyed
by fire. Included in tho destruction was
Horse Fly, a yearling colt of great promise.
Loss, $2,500; insurance, $1,500.
Unknown parties burned the large barn
on the farm of Fred L. Jessup, near
Worthington. Mr. Jessup and family
were visiting the World's Fair.
August Parnin, of Allen county, while
driving in the" streets of Ft. Wayne, was
fatally injured in a runaway accident. His
brother was killed by a similar accident
some months ago.      .-'
Cornelius Metz, a bright boy of 14, whose
mother is in the far West, and who was
visiting his grandfather, Nell Buddie, in
Anderson township, Rush county, while
shooting rats in some manner lodged a
bullet in his abdomen, dying the following day.
Robert C. Wishard, an old settler near
Greonwood. is dead. He was 91 years old.
In the early days he took cargoes of provisions to New Orleans, flat-boating down
the various rivers and walking back. Ho
leaves one son and three daughters.'
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THE CAULK DEPARTMENT, AT INDIANA STATE FAIR GROUNDS.
proper modes of cultivation, and also of
gathering and marketing the fruit.
I find that the majority of failures in
fruit-growing are made by farmers who
have too much other farming to attend to.
They will get highly enthused in the business by listening to the cunning talk and
looking at the highly painted catalogues
of the tree agent. He buys a bill of trees
from the agent, soUt them out improperly,
where one does not find a class corresponding to the independent farmer. But
with us the farmer is a superb trainer of
boys. His lads are learning real things,
while the town boys too often ire merely
studying in books the pale reflection of
things.
The farmer boy knows early about land
and soils; about crops and their rotations;
about the season!, and tho weather and the
A limb of a Missouri pippin apple tree,
two feet long, has 32 well developed apples
on it.
While the doors of the jail at Findlay,
O., were open, the prisoners made a break
for liberty and all escaped.
William Ploughman, a farmer, was
stabbed to death and his brother John
wounded by two tramps at Birdsboro, Pa.
A severe earthquake shock was felt at
Santa Rosa, Cal., at 11 o'clock on the morning of Aug. 10. Windows were broken
and chimneys shattered.
Near Hildreth, HI., during a rainstorm,
a stroke of lightning struck a thrashing
machine, killing one man, a farmer named
Benson, and two horses. The thrashing
machine caught fire from the lightning
and w-vrylestroyed.