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A GREAT FAIR LARGEST CROWDS EVER KNOWN ON THB GROUNDS. Indianapolis Day Thursday, Brought Over 40,000 People. The Board ls Clear of Debt! It is hardly necessary for us to write np the great State fair of last week, for it seemed that a large proportion of the people who read our paper must have been there, at least the Indiana Fabmer families were very largely represented. We had several agents on the grounds distributing papers and taking subscriptions, and their chief oomplaiut was that most of the farmers solicited were already taking the paper. Tuesday was Children's day and the grounds swarmed with young folks, who complained of the implement men and other exhibitors because they didn't treat them to picture cards. Wednesday was a fairly good day, and but for the great heat the crowd would have been much larger. Thursday was Governor's day. There were several attraction?, and the attendance was good. The heat during the forenoon was intense. It continued until about half past one o'olook in the afternoon, when a sudden and very heavy wind and rain storm broke over the grounds, and with-such violenoe that scores of tents and sheds were blown down upon their occupants; limbs were torn from the trees in the west part of the grounds, and hurled among tenls,wagons and horse9, creating intense alarm and doing considerable damage. One man was pinned down by a heavy limb, and so badly injured that he died next day Several others were badly hurt; one horse was killed and many eating stands lost most or all their provisions, by the drenohlng rain. It was an exciting and fearful twenty minutes to all upon the grounds, for fow of us had ever before seen a wind blowing at the rate of a mile a minute, as this one did, and the falling of tents around us and limbs of trees flying by, at the speed of a lightning express train, were not calculated to make us very secure about our own shelter. Indeed but for the help of fifteen or twenty brave and sturdy friends who rushed in for shelter and took part in holding down the posts and curtains our tent would have been carried over our heads and we have bsen left to take a drenching. But the storm cooled the air which had been almost at torrid heat, and after it was over the people were thankful. As one result it gave almost a perfect day on the morrow, and thousands of people who had resolved not to come on account of the hot weather changed their minds Thursday evening, and made ready to come on Friday, and they came. They came by thousands and by tens of thousands, by long train loads, from all quarters of the State until Union Station was crowded as never before, and the street cars and the Monon railroad trains were taxed their utmost to convey them to the grounds. Owing to the rain the previous day which prevented the races on the program for that afternoon a large part of Friday was given to them, and the great Patohen-Pointer speed trial •▼as delayed till after five o'olook, muoh to the disappointment of the lovers of the sport, who by the w.ay seemed to form a large majority of the visitors that day. The fastest pacers In the world, had a wonderful attraction not only for the oity people, for whose benefit they were brought here, at large expense, but for farmers as well. There is no doubt but thousands of them were very anxious to see these speedy goers ln action for they missed their trains home to see the race, which after all was not finished till next Qay. Many claim that this delay was planned for the purpose of holding the orowd on Saturday, which otherwise would have been a free day, but others admit that the storm on Thursday was sulli-ient cause for all the delay and disappointment. The crowding to reach street cars and trains after the raoe was terrific. Many thousands failed to get to Union Station until near midnight, when trains were all gone and hotels nnd boarding houses overcrowded, and the unfortunate strangers had nothing to do but spend the ui^ht as best they could on the sidewalks and on the grass plats ln front of the station. Hundreds If not thousands were compelled to shiver through several cold hours in this manner. Had the LEA W. Co. run trains as the Monon Co. did,it wonld have relieved the pressure materially. This arrangement should be made another year. It in an impossibility for the street cars to move 40.CCO people in the short spaoe of one or two hours. On Saturday 0,000 people gathered at the grounds to see the finish of the great race. Star P rinter having won a heat ou Friday ln 2:01%, and Joe Patchen won In 2:03 Star Pointer won the last heat in 2:01, beating Joe Pdtohen three lengths. Star Pointer now holds the world'.) race reoord of 2:01, as well as that for a mile against time, 1:59%. NOTES. As to the exhibits it 13 psrhaps sufficient to say that all departments were not onlv filled, but well filled. The stalls and pens were nearly all occupied by the most perfect animals in all the breeds, allot oourse in the most perfect condition. The Implementdisplays were unusually numerous and fine. It was a pleasure to see Patchen and Pointer go In their raoe last Saturday. They went easily and seemed to enjoy it, and they were not cruelly over-checked as many of the othor racers were. Another thing In favor of this race was that as every one expeoted Pointer to come out ahead there was but little or no betting on the result. Patohen's winning on the second heat, Friday evening, was necessary in order to have a continuation of the raoe the next day, but no one had any doubt about the final result, for Pointer has already made his mile in 1:59% minutes running alone. Lady Anderson, a Hancock county mare, produced a sensation by pacing alone and without rider or driver in 2:10)4 minutes. Buggies, carriages and wagons were ln very large display, probably never more so. Manufacturers certainly expeoted the farmers to use a good deal of their wheat money in this direction. The agents reported much enquiry and many sales. Implement men were present in great numbers, and most of them are well pleased with the prospect for better trade next season. The horticultural display was better than in many previous years, but lacked much of what our State ought to be able to do. Johnson, Shelby and Marion counties made very creditable displays.— Johnson county's was particularly fine. The apples were large and perfect, and In large variety. The entries of all kinds was 135 in this display. The grains and vegetables In Agricultural building were tastefully arranged, and in good variety; the display did not exceed those made in several former years, however. Corn-shredders are getting popular, evidently, for several new styles were shown at the fair. Two kinds of stone-orushers were exhibited, and they were a surprise to all who had never seen such machines before. They chew up stones and boulders in an astonishing way. Every township onght to own one, and that it would be an easy thing to keep the roads In order. The receipts of the State Hoard at the fair were not far from $10 000 The expenses were near $30 000, leaving a bal anoe of about $10,000 After paying iff ths indebtedness from last year there will be a balance of perhaps $1,000. It was the most successful fair ever held here. EXPERIENCE DEPARTMENT 1st Premium.—Our road supervisors have us work out our road tax in the fall by hauling gravel, which Is obtained from gravel beds along the creek with no more work than to shovel lt ln the wagon. I am ln favor of covering the roads first with rock, then a few inches of gravel on top, but lt Beems aa though we have either too much road, or not enough people to make suoh roads in this part of the State. It URnally costs from $1 to $150 per rod to cover a single traok with gravel. Our trustee got a rock crusher last year, and many contend that lt co.ta as much to run the machine and get the rook to and from it a. it would oost to put the rock on tho roads and have them beat up with hammers. It seems as though our editor must have been asleep one day while at Nashville, as he haa 31 days in September this year. I find that even the editor makes mistakes sometimes. The Centennial must be a good one. 1. B. Cor} don. 21 Premium—Our road- are covered with gravel taken from the gravel beds along the creek and branches that wind their way among our hills. Plenty of oar farms are blessed with these gravel beds, so the gravel can be gotten very conveniently and all it costs is the hauling. The gravel never haa to be hauled more than a mile or mile and a half; sometimes not more than two or three hundred yards, The road tax ls generally worked out in this way, the supervisor warns out as many at a time as he thinks he can manage conveniently. A man and his team and wagon are allowed $2 50 per day. If any one would rather not work in this way he can pay his road tax when he pays the rest of his taxes, and the supervisor can take that money and hire some one to do the work on the road. A. B C. Harrison Co. _^_^^ 3d Premium—Good, pure gravel is the only available material for making coun. try roads in this section. The time may come when most prominent roads will be paved with brick or stone, but not yet. Gravel here sells at 10 oents a yard, the owner keeping pit open. Where gravel is abundant as it is here, it Is only a matter of a little while until all roads are graveled. Our supervisor gets about 1200 loads a year on his roads. W.W. P. Henry Co. REVIEW. A study of road material shows a great surprise in that it is found in abundance ln almost every county iu Indiana. Thia includes gravel and boulders and quarry stone. I have investigated the oost of quarrying and crushing limestone, and find to my surprise that one maobine will prepare 150 to 200 yards a day, and some of the very large machines much more. In an enterprising community whore "nlggerheads" are a curs3 to farming they throw up a grade in the spring with a grsder, and the crusher is moved up now and then along the road and boulders hauled from adjacent farms and turned to a good purpose. I wish all farmers so situated and not favored with gravel would learn this fact and try the plan. It means working out land tax and donation perhap_,so as to turn a curse into a blessing. A man onoe bought a farm, and ln plowing a field broke his share on a bonlder. In digging lt out he found two old rusty broken shares that the former owner had broken. I think our good friend Benj. William., of Corydon, must have seen their crusher used under unfavorable circumstances. You want to remember that the rooks have to be gathered or quarried anyhow If broken with hammers. Also that the machine, If a good one, breaks them more nearly Into cubes and; with less chips and dust than the hammer Itis proven to be cheaper and a better material after breaking by tho fact that our street contractors In Indianapolis use stono broken by machinery rather than tbat by hammers. All their stone Is inspected by experts before using. I am muoh Interested in this question of roar] material, since ln riding over the State I see so much of it waiting for intelligent handling, right beside the awful clay and sticky black prairie roads. I on co rod o hor. ebaek to Illinois to establish a home, lt was early spring and tbo roads wore Impassable. I left on good pikes at Crawfordsville, audit was such a contrast. Kl^ht through fertile, black land, tho road was tramped up Into a loblolly from side to side, and men went to mill or to tho postoll'ue with a sack of wheat on tho hounds of the front part of the wagon and four horses. Horses even mired down and could with difficulty get up. 1 kicked on living ln such a place, as It was evident to me tbat I could get along where we had pikes* They said frankly that thoy had no hope of pikes; no sign of gravel, and couldn't afford to break stone with hammers and haul lt 100 miles. A study of the situation under the new Inventions proves that these very roots are not often far away from limestone, and that railroads are offering to haul crushed stone at cost ot hauling. They can afford to, because it pays them to bring the producer and consumer oloser together, and these roads act as feeders to the railroads. Theso stones are being used first in the centers to build streets, and then reach-, ing out lines of pike on popular roads and the whole country ls being gradually invaded with the improvement. What we need is for farmers to wake up and use the means at hand, wo oould not blame them when It was an impractical thing, but it is now practical. Crushed stone can be had in unlimited quantities at the quarries, whioh oan be opened in any section of Indiana for 40 to GO cents a yard f o. b oars, and in quarries worked by the county at cost, it can be had for 20 to 30 cents a yard. Add hauling and you find that a stone pike can be built in very many large sections of Indiana at only a little above the cost of gravel, and will not cost so much to keep in repair. Count grading and bridges the same, lt required less stone tban gravel per rod, and the cost being but little more and repairs less it ls a practical road to build. They build a pike here now and then where 75 cents a yard is allowed for hauling ; count gravel uncovered at 75 cents a yard and you have 00 cents besides shov- elers to pay. Suppose any one reading this who feels "snowed under" with mud should ask his railroad what gravel or stone can be hauled at. Also inquire Into the cost of machinery to crush stone. Of coarse a good threshing engine will furnish power, and the county ought to establish a plant. Put three yards to the rod of stone on a smooth, nice grade and see if a mile of lt don't stir up publio sentiment in a year or two. No sandstone is fit. Limestone and boulders are best. NOTES. I Just heard, Sept 1G, of the blow at the fair ground, killing two men and doing much damage, especially to the beautiful C.ntinued am 13th mage.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1897, v. 32, no. 39 (Sept. 25) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA3239 |
Date of Original | 1897 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
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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 | A GREAT FAIR LARGEST CROWDS EVER KNOWN ON THB GROUNDS. Indianapolis Day Thursday, Brought Over 40,000 People. The Board ls Clear of Debt! It is hardly necessary for us to write np the great State fair of last week, for it seemed that a large proportion of the people who read our paper must have been there, at least the Indiana Fabmer families were very largely represented. We had several agents on the grounds distributing papers and taking subscriptions, and their chief oomplaiut was that most of the farmers solicited were already taking the paper. Tuesday was Children's day and the grounds swarmed with young folks, who complained of the implement men and other exhibitors because they didn't treat them to picture cards. Wednesday was a fairly good day, and but for the great heat the crowd would have been much larger. Thursday was Governor's day. There were several attraction?, and the attendance was good. The heat during the forenoon was intense. It continued until about half past one o'olook in the afternoon, when a sudden and very heavy wind and rain storm broke over the grounds, and with-such violenoe that scores of tents and sheds were blown down upon their occupants; limbs were torn from the trees in the west part of the grounds, and hurled among tenls,wagons and horse9, creating intense alarm and doing considerable damage. One man was pinned down by a heavy limb, and so badly injured that he died next day Several others were badly hurt; one horse was killed and many eating stands lost most or all their provisions, by the drenohlng rain. It was an exciting and fearful twenty minutes to all upon the grounds, for fow of us had ever before seen a wind blowing at the rate of a mile a minute, as this one did, and the falling of tents around us and limbs of trees flying by, at the speed of a lightning express train, were not calculated to make us very secure about our own shelter. Indeed but for the help of fifteen or twenty brave and sturdy friends who rushed in for shelter and took part in holding down the posts and curtains our tent would have been carried over our heads and we have bsen left to take a drenching. But the storm cooled the air which had been almost at torrid heat, and after it was over the people were thankful. As one result it gave almost a perfect day on the morrow, and thousands of people who had resolved not to come on account of the hot weather changed their minds Thursday evening, and made ready to come on Friday, and they came. They came by thousands and by tens of thousands, by long train loads, from all quarters of the State until Union Station was crowded as never before, and the street cars and the Monon railroad trains were taxed their utmost to convey them to the grounds. Owing to the rain the previous day which prevented the races on the program for that afternoon a large part of Friday was given to them, and the great Patohen-Pointer speed trial •▼as delayed till after five o'olook, muoh to the disappointment of the lovers of the sport, who by the w.ay seemed to form a large majority of the visitors that day. The fastest pacers In the world, had a wonderful attraction not only for the oity people, for whose benefit they were brought here, at large expense, but for farmers as well. There is no doubt but thousands of them were very anxious to see these speedy goers ln action for they missed their trains home to see the race, which after all was not finished till next Qay. Many claim that this delay was planned for the purpose of holding the orowd on Saturday, which otherwise would have been a free day, but others admit that the storm on Thursday was sulli-ient cause for all the delay and disappointment. The crowding to reach street cars and trains after the raoe was terrific. Many thousands failed to get to Union Station until near midnight, when trains were all gone and hotels nnd boarding houses overcrowded, and the unfortunate strangers had nothing to do but spend the ui^ht as best they could on the sidewalks and on the grass plats ln front of the station. Hundreds If not thousands were compelled to shiver through several cold hours in this manner. Had the LEA W. Co. run trains as the Monon Co. did,it wonld have relieved the pressure materially. This arrangement should be made another year. It in an impossibility for the street cars to move 40.CCO people in the short spaoe of one or two hours. On Saturday 0,000 people gathered at the grounds to see the finish of the great race. Star P rinter having won a heat ou Friday ln 2:01%, and Joe Patchen won In 2:03 Star Pointer won the last heat in 2:01, beating Joe Pdtohen three lengths. Star Pointer now holds the world'.) race reoord of 2:01, as well as that for a mile against time, 1:59%. NOTES. As to the exhibits it 13 psrhaps sufficient to say that all departments were not onlv filled, but well filled. The stalls and pens were nearly all occupied by the most perfect animals in all the breeds, allot oourse in the most perfect condition. The Implementdisplays were unusually numerous and fine. It was a pleasure to see Patchen and Pointer go In their raoe last Saturday. They went easily and seemed to enjoy it, and they were not cruelly over-checked as many of the othor racers were. Another thing In favor of this race was that as every one expeoted Pointer to come out ahead there was but little or no betting on the result. Patohen's winning on the second heat, Friday evening, was necessary in order to have a continuation of the raoe the next day, but no one had any doubt about the final result, for Pointer has already made his mile in 1:59% minutes running alone. Lady Anderson, a Hancock county mare, produced a sensation by pacing alone and without rider or driver in 2:10)4 minutes. Buggies, carriages and wagons were ln very large display, probably never more so. Manufacturers certainly expeoted the farmers to use a good deal of their wheat money in this direction. The agents reported much enquiry and many sales. Implement men were present in great numbers, and most of them are well pleased with the prospect for better trade next season. The horticultural display was better than in many previous years, but lacked much of what our State ought to be able to do. Johnson, Shelby and Marion counties made very creditable displays.— Johnson county's was particularly fine. The apples were large and perfect, and In large variety. The entries of all kinds was 135 in this display. The grains and vegetables In Agricultural building were tastefully arranged, and in good variety; the display did not exceed those made in several former years, however. Corn-shredders are getting popular, evidently, for several new styles were shown at the fair. Two kinds of stone-orushers were exhibited, and they were a surprise to all who had never seen such machines before. They chew up stones and boulders in an astonishing way. Every township onght to own one, and that it would be an easy thing to keep the roads In order. The receipts of the State Hoard at the fair were not far from $10 000 The expenses were near $30 000, leaving a bal anoe of about $10,000 After paying iff ths indebtedness from last year there will be a balance of perhaps $1,000. It was the most successful fair ever held here. EXPERIENCE DEPARTMENT 1st Premium.—Our road supervisors have us work out our road tax in the fall by hauling gravel, which Is obtained from gravel beds along the creek with no more work than to shovel lt ln the wagon. I am ln favor of covering the roads first with rock, then a few inches of gravel on top, but lt Beems aa though we have either too much road, or not enough people to make suoh roads in this part of the State. It URnally costs from $1 to $150 per rod to cover a single traok with gravel. Our trustee got a rock crusher last year, and many contend that lt co.ta as much to run the machine and get the rook to and from it a. it would oost to put the rock on tho roads and have them beat up with hammers. It seems as though our editor must have been asleep one day while at Nashville, as he haa 31 days in September this year. I find that even the editor makes mistakes sometimes. The Centennial must be a good one. 1. B. Cor} don. 21 Premium—Our road- are covered with gravel taken from the gravel beds along the creek and branches that wind their way among our hills. Plenty of oar farms are blessed with these gravel beds, so the gravel can be gotten very conveniently and all it costs is the hauling. The gravel never haa to be hauled more than a mile or mile and a half; sometimes not more than two or three hundred yards, The road tax ls generally worked out in this way, the supervisor warns out as many at a time as he thinks he can manage conveniently. A man and his team and wagon are allowed $2 50 per day. If any one would rather not work in this way he can pay his road tax when he pays the rest of his taxes, and the supervisor can take that money and hire some one to do the work on the road. A. B C. Harrison Co. _^_^^ 3d Premium—Good, pure gravel is the only available material for making coun. try roads in this section. The time may come when most prominent roads will be paved with brick or stone, but not yet. Gravel here sells at 10 oents a yard, the owner keeping pit open. Where gravel is abundant as it is here, it Is only a matter of a little while until all roads are graveled. Our supervisor gets about 1200 loads a year on his roads. W.W. P. Henry Co. REVIEW. A study of road material shows a great surprise in that it is found in abundance ln almost every county iu Indiana. Thia includes gravel and boulders and quarry stone. I have investigated the oost of quarrying and crushing limestone, and find to my surprise that one maobine will prepare 150 to 200 yards a day, and some of the very large machines much more. In an enterprising community whore "nlggerheads" are a curs3 to farming they throw up a grade in the spring with a grsder, and the crusher is moved up now and then along the road and boulders hauled from adjacent farms and turned to a good purpose. I wish all farmers so situated and not favored with gravel would learn this fact and try the plan. It means working out land tax and donation perhap_,so as to turn a curse into a blessing. A man onoe bought a farm, and ln plowing a field broke his share on a bonlder. In digging lt out he found two old rusty broken shares that the former owner had broken. I think our good friend Benj. William., of Corydon, must have seen their crusher used under unfavorable circumstances. You want to remember that the rooks have to be gathered or quarried anyhow If broken with hammers. Also that the machine, If a good one, breaks them more nearly Into cubes and; with less chips and dust than the hammer Itis proven to be cheaper and a better material after breaking by tho fact that our street contractors In Indianapolis use stono broken by machinery rather than tbat by hammers. All their stone Is inspected by experts before using. I am muoh Interested in this question of roar] material, since ln riding over the State I see so much of it waiting for intelligent handling, right beside the awful clay and sticky black prairie roads. I on co rod o hor. ebaek to Illinois to establish a home, lt was early spring and tbo roads wore Impassable. I left on good pikes at Crawfordsville, audit was such a contrast. Kl^ht through fertile, black land, tho road was tramped up Into a loblolly from side to side, and men went to mill or to tho postoll'ue with a sack of wheat on tho hounds of the front part of the wagon and four horses. Horses even mired down and could with difficulty get up. 1 kicked on living ln such a place, as It was evident to me tbat I could get along where we had pikes* They said frankly that thoy had no hope of pikes; no sign of gravel, and couldn't afford to break stone with hammers and haul lt 100 miles. A study of the situation under the new Inventions proves that these very roots are not often far away from limestone, and that railroads are offering to haul crushed stone at cost ot hauling. They can afford to, because it pays them to bring the producer and consumer oloser together, and these roads act as feeders to the railroads. Theso stones are being used first in the centers to build streets, and then reach-, ing out lines of pike on popular roads and the whole country ls being gradually invaded with the improvement. What we need is for farmers to wake up and use the means at hand, wo oould not blame them when It was an impractical thing, but it is now practical. Crushed stone can be had in unlimited quantities at the quarries, whioh oan be opened in any section of Indiana for 40 to GO cents a yard f o. b oars, and in quarries worked by the county at cost, it can be had for 20 to 30 cents a yard. Add hauling and you find that a stone pike can be built in very many large sections of Indiana at only a little above the cost of gravel, and will not cost so much to keep in repair. Count grading and bridges the same, lt required less stone tban gravel per rod, and the cost being but little more and repairs less it ls a practical road to build. They build a pike here now and then where 75 cents a yard is allowed for hauling ; count gravel uncovered at 75 cents a yard and you have 00 cents besides shov- elers to pay. Suppose any one reading this who feels "snowed under" with mud should ask his railroad what gravel or stone can be hauled at. Also inquire Into the cost of machinery to crush stone. Of coarse a good threshing engine will furnish power, and the county ought to establish a plant. Put three yards to the rod of stone on a smooth, nice grade and see if a mile of lt don't stir up publio sentiment in a year or two. No sandstone is fit. Limestone and boulders are best. NOTES. I Just heard, Sept 1G, of the blow at the fair ground, killing two men and doing much damage, especially to the beautiful C.ntinued am 13th mage. |
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