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VOL. XXXII. [ tap? S/ INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. MARCH 6. 1897. NO. 10 K EXPERIENCE DEFABX_Kl_j__r^ HOG RAISING.-No. 1. Yards, Buildings, Beds. 1st Premium.—I build my houses on oak ronners 2 by 6 or 8 inches 7 feet long by 6 wide—use for siding and roofine plank % by 12 in, scantling for frames 1]4 by 3 Inches. No floor,—bed with straw or other material- Bore holes in end of runners for clevises, hitch on with two horses and move where you like. Such houses are inexpensive and will last for years. I do not have permanent yards, but move from one field to another, as they are changed into clover or other grasses. Any portable plank fence, 3 or 4 boards high, is convenient for making yards large or small, as ocoasion requires. Stack straw convenient to pens for winter bedding, and change bedding often, have feed and water near, and yon are fixed for successful and profitable hog raising, with little labor. This is experience. G. 2d Premium. — The breeding yard, where a brood sow and her pigs are kept, should contain about one acre of ground, thoroughly ditched and well set in grass; also a few good shade trees, and be so arranged that the hogs from the various yards can come into the feeding house. In every yard there must be a sleeping or breeding house made'seven feet square, on runners. Make the roof slant one way, the lower side being three and ahalf feet and the upper, or front side six feet high. In the front there should be a door two feet wide, extending from bottom to top, and a window with strap hinges three teat wide, extending from door across the iront, as' near the front as possible. Cover with shingles and put in a board floor. By facing the above house to the south, opening door and window the pigs get the benefit of the sunlight and plenty of ventilation. The feeding house should be built 20 feet wide, and long enough to accommodate your hogs. This building shonld have a stone foundation for your sills to rest on, and all center posts should be set in the cement floor. To make a cement floor, dig down one foot, paoking firmly eight inches of gravel. For the concrete foundation nse eight barrels of gravel to one of the best cement. Thoroughly mix and make damp. Stamp this in, four inches thick, in sections four feet square. For the finishing coat take two barrels of sand to one of cement. Have one Inch of topping smoothed down Make the sides six feet high; a gable roof. Cover with shingles and put in fonr or more good sized windows. Make a hall four feet wide, extending through the center of this house. Make your stalls eight by ten feet, and as many stalls as vou have yards. The doors opening into the various yards to be fastened at the top, so they will swing out and in. Every stall should have a door opening into the hall, and each stall shonld have a temporary partition so they may be divided, making a place to feed and slop the pigs, away from the greedy mother. Have awell in the hog house or water piped. Use barrels with two fountains attached to each barrel, so that one barrel will supply two stalls with water. Bed with clean, dry straw, and renew as often as it becomes filthy, or every two weeks. When the house is thoroughly clean sprinkle coal oil over the floor and sides; occasionally scatter some air slaoked lime on the floor, and whitewash inside once a year. Bartholomew Co. Theo. Templeton. 3d Premium.—The yards for fattening hogs should not be so large, but should be on ground that is well drained, as fattening hogs do not need muoh exercise, especially when they become a few Months old. When they are younger they have range of the rye and clover pas rare. If there is any beech mast they are then turned into the woods until three or four weeks before selling, when they are put ln smaller quarters and fed corn and slop. The hog lot shonld be en- tr „with a Sood fence. Any farmer can build him a common pig pen without 'he use of any other tools than a saw, square and hatchet. Straighten three small logs, ss long as »i°n w»nt on one side; place them about ■f.1"!*-. wet apart; use two-inch flooring eight feet long; then build the frame only seven feet wide, and let the floor project six inches on each side. A trough can be made from oak plank, but don't fasten the frames too firmly to the floor, so the noor can be easily removed when it be 2S21e8 rotten. As to the beds, pick a _Ei wh"e the water will run oft on all it .t8, .^y. closing one side and both ends, Jt stionld be high enough so the hogs can- -SLu0?**!-' ro0** ofl; it shonld faoe the couth, and the roof should slope only one way, and it can he made of old refuse stuff. The bed should be placed a few yards from the feeding place, so as to give exercise to the pigs. I alwavs use leaves for,bedding. N. B. Harrison Co. In the first place to be successful in starting pigs, they mnst have comfortable quarters, if farrowed in winter or spring months. We make one honse for one sow and pigs, 6x6 ft. on 3 runners 2x4 inches; then floor. Start the roof from floor, and we have, by bringing the tops together, the roof and siding. Gable and make a door in one end. We strip the cracks. Sows cannot lie on their pigs in a house built this way. We take a team and pull it to some convenient place to slop and feed, build a fence around it and give a small amonnt of bedding. Straw finely cut is the best. We make ready to place the sow in her quarters two or three weeks before farrowing. We then begin the very careful feeding and slopping. Grant Co. Lin Wilson. The yards, for the flrst thing, should not be too large for fattening hogs, as they do not need to exercise so much when fattening. Stock hogs should have plenty of room. My stock hogs range ln the woods pasture in the winter, and in the clover field in the snmmer. Hog buildings should be comfortable at as little expense as'possible. Their sleeping quarters should be so as to break tbe nortn and east winds, as they are the most disagreeable. As to the bedding, I always prefer leaves for bedding I read Mr. Hart's piece on hog beds. He says oorn cobs make good bedding, but I think if he would try such a bed himself he would' change his mind. Hts plan of burning the cobs I think is excellent for the hogr. ' *-' — You say nothing about stopping troughs, and no feeding pen is complete without troughs. They shonld be fastened to the floor so the hogs cannot over turn them. The trough should have a spout, or shoot, from the outside of the pen.. Then slopping is an easy jjb. Corydon. Elf. review. Should first premium have been given to Mr. Templeton? What do yon think of a hog house large enough for a herd? Mr. T.'s plan is good, but the house is rather costly, and reminds me of a discussion on bee houses, at the North American Bee Association. Some one read a paper on bee houses. A prominent and successful bee-keeper, a Butch honey merchant in Cincinnati eald.*"De pee-house may pee a goot ting Boot I hab hot tons of hooney in meschtore,undt I niver yit got a car loat from alny mahn vwat keep his pees in a pee house all retty." Theoretically^ bee-house and a hog-house are a success. But practically I have never known "ainy mahn" to grow hogs by the car load who had a single, costly hog-house for the whole herd. Many of our breeders build small, separate houses or sheds. Often movable with movable yard fences. I may be peculiar, but I think costly, permanent hog-houses are like brick and stone hospitals—they get infested and old. Hospitals are now bnilt cheaply, so as to be torn away every few years. A surgeon will not perform a serious operation in any hospital, for fear of disease germs. I believe I have 10 or 12 little houses, some of them 8 by 12 feet, built in the place of a double pannel of rail fence; some are smaller and movable. My larger permanent sheds are only nsed when the field they are in is in pasture, which is one year in three. I don't like a system of hog raising that tends to keep the hogs using abont one place too much. That may do for cattle. Hogs should be scattered, separated in small groups and changed occasionally. I know several breeders who have rather inexpensive houses, arranged with bins and cellar to keep feed, and even boil it. Bnt their sleeping apartments are scattered in little lots about it. We sometimes put a lot of fresh straw in one of these cheap little houses and burn it. It fills it so fall of fire that one would all burnnp. After the flash, one can disinfect the ground, or move the house and put in new clean straw. . Let me call attention to Mr. Hart's series of articles in the swine department. His house does not bring the roof eaves down to the floor, as Mr. G.'s does. Mr. Hart makes the eave sides 18 inches high. This makes the house much more roomy, especially for large sows. And they will not lie down close to the wall either. Why. do Mr. Williams and others slope the roof one way? Let it make both roof and siding. Mr. Williams ' roofs with shingles. Wouldn't pine plank be as cheap, especially if they made both roof and siding? Again, a hog-house, like a hospital, should be as plain as possible, to not harbor germs. Mr. Elf wouldn't like to lie ou Mr. Hart's cob bed. That was what I thought when Mr. H. said he used cobs. But on seeing his hog beds I noticed that the cobs were much crushed by the sheller, and made a good open, dry cool bed. Nature's bed for hogs ls the ground, covered with leaves. I may be wrong when I doubt tbe plank floor being any improvement We sometimes lay a floor to feed on it in muddy weather, but never in the sleeping house. Nothing has been said about saving manure by cement or plank floors. Of course, no manure is ever found in the sleeping shed; a floor is not needed there for that purpose. One argument in favor of an apartment house is in saving of the manure. I have seen such houses, and the owner of one told me, he cleans his every day, yet it was filthy and sour and strong when we walked through it. Hog manure is very good when the hogs are fed high as they usually are. In the summer, say nine months, our hog manure is mostly dropped on the pastures. In the winter months much of it is wasted. Some of our winter lots, however, are for pasture or cultivation and are helped by it. I suppose one could arrange so that most of his pig lots would be cultivated or allowed to grow trass. We have now three bunches of ogs following three bunches of cattle, on three places. Every thing sleeps in good beds in some building; and we are making it a rule, more than ever before, to feed all that the growing animals will eat clean, but we try to make it a balanced up ration. No. 53, Maroh 13 Hog raising No. 2. Choice of stock, not choice of breeds, but appearanoe of individual parents. Treatment of both before mating, and of sow during pregnancy and farrowing. No, &_, March 20. Hog raising No. 3. Care and feed of sow and pigs after farrowing. Also exercise. What should pigs weigh at 60 days; at 270 days? No. 55, March 27. Hog cholera and other fatal diseases. The sanitation of hog raising. No.56,April6. Fertilizers. Wherecan commercial fertilizers be economically used and how? No. 57, April 10. The best fence post and how to preserve it. No. 58, April 17. Best material for roofing. Experience in painting roofs. Material. No. 59, April 24. Renovating an old orchard. No. 60, May 1. Mistakes and failures of recent years. Ih writing don't fall to note new points not generally known; also other points of real experience. Address all copy 10 days before publication. Let our subscribers write their experience. The purpose of the department is not exaustive articles but brief, pithy, Eractical experiences. A sort of heart to eart talk, suoh as you enjoy with a neighbor. I Read onr excellent articles on this subject. We were favored with some 30 letters. Those we are able to publish contain most of the points made. Address all copy to E. H. Collins. Carmel. <$\XZXXl KUtX &USXOZX. How muoh seed field peas and oats ar» required to sow an acre for best results? Also in what proportion should they be sown? O M. M. Aalia. Sow 1% bushels of each to the acre, abont equally divided, and sow in early spring. A subscriber asks for information about the Vineless sweet potato, whether it succeeds here, and whether there are several varieties under this name. We raised a few of them along with other kinds last summer, but cannot recommend them above the Nansemond, either in yield or quality. There are two or more varieties of the vineless sweet potato we nnderstand. We hope that several of those who have tried them will report, as many readers are interested. Report briefly on postal cards, please. How to Apply Fertilizers. Editobs Indiaka Fabmib: ■ Commercial fertilizers can be economically used on np lands in Washington county, by exercising good jadginent in carefully selecting such material as best intended. Fertilizers shonld be applied, nnder the surface of the ground,to insure dampness, at a depth most accessible for tbe rootlets to appropriate a sufficient amount as plant food. R. M, Salem. %nw Qc pnxtmznX. Elmer E. Stevenson, attorney, Indianapolis. The pure food bill is so just and reasonable a measure that we confidently expected it to pass, but it seems the wholesale dealers objected to it, and for that reason it was left to sleep in the hands of the House committee on rights and privileges. How must I understand the fence law in this State? If my neighbor wants a partition fence, will it be compulsory on my part to build half, or would it release me if I did not want it or need it? A. D. The laws of Indiana would seem to require you to erect or contribute to the erection of and to maintain one-half the partition fence. Please answer the following in your law column: A gives B notes secured by mortgage, so specified in mortgage. B loses some of the notes. In what way can B protect A from paying notes the second time, if they should be found after payment is made? Colfax. A Subscriber. The only entirely safe way-would be to take from B an indemnifying bond covering the amount of the lost notes and any possible expense to which A might be put. A owns the north half and B owns the south half of the same quarter section. A has huilt the east 80 roas and 11 the west 80 rods of tbe division fence. A has two sons, C and D. A dies and leaves the east 40 to C and the west 40 to D. Now must C always keep up the east 80 rods of the division fence and D keep up none? T.C. A statute of Indiana provides that, "Partition fences dividing lands occupied on both sides, except waste lands and nn- inclosed woodland, shall be maintained throughout the year equally by the owners or occupants of said lands." Under this statute C and D wonld each be required to maintain one-half of the fence between their lands respectively and the land of B. A and B have a line fenceor a partition fence. It Is a hedge fence. A claims he set it out 45 or 50 years ago, and it was supposed to be on the line. Said fence has never been cut or trimmed. B wants to cut half of the fence to get the posts and to keep the shade from 2 or 3 rods from the grain, and A says he can't cnt it or his half. Please answer, if not too much trouble. Carroll Co. A. B. W. A cannot legally maintain a fence that is a nuisance. After notifying A to reduce his fence to such proportions that it will not shade the ground of B, B can cnt off such limbs as overhang his land, throwing them on A's ground, if A refuses to trim the fence. Or B may bring suit against A for maintaining a nuisance. There seems to be no right by which B could cut the hedge fence simply to get the posts. Our Experience Department. Enrross Indiana Fabmib: I want to congratulate you on yonr experience department. It is a great success. Virginia C. Meredith. Cambridge City. EDrroBS Indiana Fabmeb: The experience department is the best thing I ever saw in any agricultural paper. L. P. R. Mt. Sterling. Our Endeared Paper. Editohs Indiana Fabmeb: Our endeared paper, the Indiana Farmer. I like it ever so much and cannot afford to do withont it at all. Madison Co. •.. D. W. T. Joseph Sherman, 76 years old, of Carroll county, while at Burrows, getting a prescription filled for an invalid wife was struck by a train and killed. ^~ In California the strawberry plants are now in bloom, and the berries will be in season from January till September.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1897, v. 32, no. 10 (Mar. 6) |
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Transcript | VOL. XXXII. [ tap? S/ INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. MARCH 6. 1897. NO. 10 K EXPERIENCE DEFABX_Kl_j__r^ HOG RAISING.-No. 1. Yards, Buildings, Beds. 1st Premium.—I build my houses on oak ronners 2 by 6 or 8 inches 7 feet long by 6 wide—use for siding and roofine plank % by 12 in, scantling for frames 1]4 by 3 Inches. No floor,—bed with straw or other material- Bore holes in end of runners for clevises, hitch on with two horses and move where you like. Such houses are inexpensive and will last for years. I do not have permanent yards, but move from one field to another, as they are changed into clover or other grasses. Any portable plank fence, 3 or 4 boards high, is convenient for making yards large or small, as ocoasion requires. Stack straw convenient to pens for winter bedding, and change bedding often, have feed and water near, and yon are fixed for successful and profitable hog raising, with little labor. This is experience. G. 2d Premium. — The breeding yard, where a brood sow and her pigs are kept, should contain about one acre of ground, thoroughly ditched and well set in grass; also a few good shade trees, and be so arranged that the hogs from the various yards can come into the feeding house. In every yard there must be a sleeping or breeding house made'seven feet square, on runners. Make the roof slant one way, the lower side being three and ahalf feet and the upper, or front side six feet high. In the front there should be a door two feet wide, extending from bottom to top, and a window with strap hinges three teat wide, extending from door across the iront, as' near the front as possible. Cover with shingles and put in a board floor. By facing the above house to the south, opening door and window the pigs get the benefit of the sunlight and plenty of ventilation. The feeding house should be built 20 feet wide, and long enough to accommodate your hogs. This building shonld have a stone foundation for your sills to rest on, and all center posts should be set in the cement floor. To make a cement floor, dig down one foot, paoking firmly eight inches of gravel. For the concrete foundation nse eight barrels of gravel to one of the best cement. Thoroughly mix and make damp. Stamp this in, four inches thick, in sections four feet square. For the finishing coat take two barrels of sand to one of cement. Have one Inch of topping smoothed down Make the sides six feet high; a gable roof. Cover with shingles and put in fonr or more good sized windows. Make a hall four feet wide, extending through the center of this house. Make your stalls eight by ten feet, and as many stalls as vou have yards. The doors opening into the various yards to be fastened at the top, so they will swing out and in. Every stall should have a door opening into the hall, and each stall shonld have a temporary partition so they may be divided, making a place to feed and slop the pigs, away from the greedy mother. Have awell in the hog house or water piped. Use barrels with two fountains attached to each barrel, so that one barrel will supply two stalls with water. Bed with clean, dry straw, and renew as often as it becomes filthy, or every two weeks. When the house is thoroughly clean sprinkle coal oil over the floor and sides; occasionally scatter some air slaoked lime on the floor, and whitewash inside once a year. Bartholomew Co. Theo. Templeton. 3d Premium.—The yards for fattening hogs should not be so large, but should be on ground that is well drained, as fattening hogs do not need muoh exercise, especially when they become a few Months old. When they are younger they have range of the rye and clover pas rare. If there is any beech mast they are then turned into the woods until three or four weeks before selling, when they are put ln smaller quarters and fed corn and slop. The hog lot shonld be en- tr „with a Sood fence. Any farmer can build him a common pig pen without 'he use of any other tools than a saw, square and hatchet. Straighten three small logs, ss long as »i°n w»nt on one side; place them about ■f.1"!*-. wet apart; use two-inch flooring eight feet long; then build the frame only seven feet wide, and let the floor project six inches on each side. A trough can be made from oak plank, but don't fasten the frames too firmly to the floor, so the noor can be easily removed when it be 2S21e8 rotten. As to the beds, pick a _Ei wh"e the water will run oft on all it .t8, .^y. closing one side and both ends, Jt stionld be high enough so the hogs can- -SLu0?**!-' ro0** ofl; it shonld faoe the couth, and the roof should slope only one way, and it can he made of old refuse stuff. The bed should be placed a few yards from the feeding place, so as to give exercise to the pigs. I alwavs use leaves for,bedding. N. B. Harrison Co. In the first place to be successful in starting pigs, they mnst have comfortable quarters, if farrowed in winter or spring months. We make one honse for one sow and pigs, 6x6 ft. on 3 runners 2x4 inches; then floor. Start the roof from floor, and we have, by bringing the tops together, the roof and siding. Gable and make a door in one end. We strip the cracks. Sows cannot lie on their pigs in a house built this way. We take a team and pull it to some convenient place to slop and feed, build a fence around it and give a small amonnt of bedding. Straw finely cut is the best. We make ready to place the sow in her quarters two or three weeks before farrowing. We then begin the very careful feeding and slopping. Grant Co. Lin Wilson. The yards, for the flrst thing, should not be too large for fattening hogs, as they do not need to exercise so much when fattening. Stock hogs should have plenty of room. My stock hogs range ln the woods pasture in the winter, and in the clover field in the snmmer. Hog buildings should be comfortable at as little expense as'possible. Their sleeping quarters should be so as to break tbe nortn and east winds, as they are the most disagreeable. As to the bedding, I always prefer leaves for bedding I read Mr. Hart's piece on hog beds. He says oorn cobs make good bedding, but I think if he would try such a bed himself he would' change his mind. Hts plan of burning the cobs I think is excellent for the hogr. ' *-' — You say nothing about stopping troughs, and no feeding pen is complete without troughs. They shonld be fastened to the floor so the hogs cannot over turn them. The trough should have a spout, or shoot, from the outside of the pen.. Then slopping is an easy jjb. Corydon. Elf. review. Should first premium have been given to Mr. Templeton? What do yon think of a hog house large enough for a herd? Mr. T.'s plan is good, but the house is rather costly, and reminds me of a discussion on bee houses, at the North American Bee Association. Some one read a paper on bee houses. A prominent and successful bee-keeper, a Butch honey merchant in Cincinnati eald.*"De pee-house may pee a goot ting Boot I hab hot tons of hooney in meschtore,undt I niver yit got a car loat from alny mahn vwat keep his pees in a pee house all retty." Theoretically^ bee-house and a hog-house are a success. But practically I have never known "ainy mahn" to grow hogs by the car load who had a single, costly hog-house for the whole herd. Many of our breeders build small, separate houses or sheds. Often movable with movable yard fences. I may be peculiar, but I think costly, permanent hog-houses are like brick and stone hospitals—they get infested and old. Hospitals are now bnilt cheaply, so as to be torn away every few years. A surgeon will not perform a serious operation in any hospital, for fear of disease germs. I believe I have 10 or 12 little houses, some of them 8 by 12 feet, built in the place of a double pannel of rail fence; some are smaller and movable. My larger permanent sheds are only nsed when the field they are in is in pasture, which is one year in three. I don't like a system of hog raising that tends to keep the hogs using abont one place too much. That may do for cattle. Hogs should be scattered, separated in small groups and changed occasionally. I know several breeders who have rather inexpensive houses, arranged with bins and cellar to keep feed, and even boil it. Bnt their sleeping apartments are scattered in little lots about it. We sometimes put a lot of fresh straw in one of these cheap little houses and burn it. It fills it so fall of fire that one would all burnnp. After the flash, one can disinfect the ground, or move the house and put in new clean straw. . Let me call attention to Mr. Hart's series of articles in the swine department. His house does not bring the roof eaves down to the floor, as Mr. G.'s does. Mr. Hart makes the eave sides 18 inches high. This makes the house much more roomy, especially for large sows. And they will not lie down close to the wall either. Why. do Mr. Williams and others slope the roof one way? Let it make both roof and siding. Mr. Williams ' roofs with shingles. Wouldn't pine plank be as cheap, especially if they made both roof and siding? Again, a hog-house, like a hospital, should be as plain as possible, to not harbor germs. Mr. Elf wouldn't like to lie ou Mr. Hart's cob bed. That was what I thought when Mr. H. said he used cobs. But on seeing his hog beds I noticed that the cobs were much crushed by the sheller, and made a good open, dry cool bed. Nature's bed for hogs ls the ground, covered with leaves. I may be wrong when I doubt tbe plank floor being any improvement We sometimes lay a floor to feed on it in muddy weather, but never in the sleeping house. Nothing has been said about saving manure by cement or plank floors. Of course, no manure is ever found in the sleeping shed; a floor is not needed there for that purpose. One argument in favor of an apartment house is in saving of the manure. I have seen such houses, and the owner of one told me, he cleans his every day, yet it was filthy and sour and strong when we walked through it. Hog manure is very good when the hogs are fed high as they usually are. In the summer, say nine months, our hog manure is mostly dropped on the pastures. In the winter months much of it is wasted. Some of our winter lots, however, are for pasture or cultivation and are helped by it. I suppose one could arrange so that most of his pig lots would be cultivated or allowed to grow trass. We have now three bunches of ogs following three bunches of cattle, on three places. Every thing sleeps in good beds in some building; and we are making it a rule, more than ever before, to feed all that the growing animals will eat clean, but we try to make it a balanced up ration. No. 53, Maroh 13 Hog raising No. 2. Choice of stock, not choice of breeds, but appearanoe of individual parents. Treatment of both before mating, and of sow during pregnancy and farrowing. No, &_, March 20. Hog raising No. 3. Care and feed of sow and pigs after farrowing. Also exercise. What should pigs weigh at 60 days; at 270 days? No. 55, March 27. Hog cholera and other fatal diseases. The sanitation of hog raising. No.56,April6. Fertilizers. Wherecan commercial fertilizers be economically used and how? No. 57, April 10. The best fence post and how to preserve it. No. 58, April 17. Best material for roofing. Experience in painting roofs. Material. No. 59, April 24. Renovating an old orchard. No. 60, May 1. Mistakes and failures of recent years. Ih writing don't fall to note new points not generally known; also other points of real experience. Address all copy 10 days before publication. Let our subscribers write their experience. The purpose of the department is not exaustive articles but brief, pithy, Eractical experiences. A sort of heart to eart talk, suoh as you enjoy with a neighbor. I Read onr excellent articles on this subject. We were favored with some 30 letters. Those we are able to publish contain most of the points made. Address all copy to E. H. Collins. Carmel. <$\XZXXl KUtX &USXOZX. How muoh seed field peas and oats ar» required to sow an acre for best results? Also in what proportion should they be sown? O M. M. Aalia. Sow 1% bushels of each to the acre, abont equally divided, and sow in early spring. A subscriber asks for information about the Vineless sweet potato, whether it succeeds here, and whether there are several varieties under this name. We raised a few of them along with other kinds last summer, but cannot recommend them above the Nansemond, either in yield or quality. There are two or more varieties of the vineless sweet potato we nnderstand. We hope that several of those who have tried them will report, as many readers are interested. Report briefly on postal cards, please. How to Apply Fertilizers. Editobs Indiaka Fabmib: ■ Commercial fertilizers can be economically used on np lands in Washington county, by exercising good jadginent in carefully selecting such material as best intended. Fertilizers shonld be applied, nnder the surface of the ground,to insure dampness, at a depth most accessible for tbe rootlets to appropriate a sufficient amount as plant food. R. M, Salem. %nw Qc pnxtmznX. Elmer E. Stevenson, attorney, Indianapolis. The pure food bill is so just and reasonable a measure that we confidently expected it to pass, but it seems the wholesale dealers objected to it, and for that reason it was left to sleep in the hands of the House committee on rights and privileges. How must I understand the fence law in this State? If my neighbor wants a partition fence, will it be compulsory on my part to build half, or would it release me if I did not want it or need it? A. D. The laws of Indiana would seem to require you to erect or contribute to the erection of and to maintain one-half the partition fence. Please answer the following in your law column: A gives B notes secured by mortgage, so specified in mortgage. B loses some of the notes. In what way can B protect A from paying notes the second time, if they should be found after payment is made? Colfax. A Subscriber. The only entirely safe way-would be to take from B an indemnifying bond covering the amount of the lost notes and any possible expense to which A might be put. A owns the north half and B owns the south half of the same quarter section. A has huilt the east 80 roas and 11 the west 80 rods of tbe division fence. A has two sons, C and D. A dies and leaves the east 40 to C and the west 40 to D. Now must C always keep up the east 80 rods of the division fence and D keep up none? T.C. A statute of Indiana provides that, "Partition fences dividing lands occupied on both sides, except waste lands and nn- inclosed woodland, shall be maintained throughout the year equally by the owners or occupants of said lands." Under this statute C and D wonld each be required to maintain one-half of the fence between their lands respectively and the land of B. A and B have a line fenceor a partition fence. It Is a hedge fence. A claims he set it out 45 or 50 years ago, and it was supposed to be on the line. Said fence has never been cut or trimmed. B wants to cut half of the fence to get the posts and to keep the shade from 2 or 3 rods from the grain, and A says he can't cnt it or his half. Please answer, if not too much trouble. Carroll Co. A. B. W. A cannot legally maintain a fence that is a nuisance. After notifying A to reduce his fence to such proportions that it will not shade the ground of B, B can cnt off such limbs as overhang his land, throwing them on A's ground, if A refuses to trim the fence. Or B may bring suit against A for maintaining a nuisance. There seems to be no right by which B could cut the hedge fence simply to get the posts. Our Experience Department. Enrross Indiana Fabmib: I want to congratulate you on yonr experience department. It is a great success. Virginia C. Meredith. Cambridge City. EDrroBS Indiana Fabmeb: The experience department is the best thing I ever saw in any agricultural paper. L. P. R. Mt. Sterling. Our Endeared Paper. Editohs Indiana Fabmeb: Our endeared paper, the Indiana Farmer. I like it ever so much and cannot afford to do withont it at all. Madison Co. •.. D. W. T. Joseph Sherman, 76 years old, of Carroll county, while at Burrows, getting a prescription filled for an invalid wife was struck by a train and killed. ^~ In California the strawberry plants are now in bloom, and the berries will be in season from January till September. |
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