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VOL. LIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JUNE 17, 1899. NO. 24 %xpzxizucz _zpuxtmzut. Experience in Sowing Rye, Beans, Clover, or Other Feed Crops in Corn. 1st Premium.—I always try to have the ground clean when the corn is "laid by." But if any weeds appear between the last planting and the time to sow rye, • say Sept. lit. I go through the standing corn and cut them out with a hoe. I use a one-horse drill, either five or six-hoed, running once in a row. This will do good work if the ground has been left as it should be—level. I use" the large white rye; run the eeed through a good fan and make it perfectly clean and sow one bushel per acre. This will make it thick enough. Since rye is hardy and stools out well. I do not regard rye as a money crop, but use it occasionally to renovate and' fertilize fields. I have also poled it down, after letting lt get dead ripe, so that the boards would soiten, then I turned hogs on it. After getting it down and rained on, it makes fine hog pasture, upon which they will gain in weight, become sleek and eaucy. Rye will loosen up and enrich the ground, and where the etraw is left on, as in hogging down, will greatly add to the store of humus. It is also an excellent crop upon which to sow clover or timothy, as the straw is tall with a few blades near the ground, hence the young grass is smothered out. I have heard of farmers sowing rye right down in etanding corn, not even plowing it in, claiming that rain will beat it in. I would not do that. Always use a drill, a steady horee and clean seed. Rye may not be a money crop, but it will seed, makes fine ground feed, good straw, gives lots of early paeture for calves or sheep, and looeens up and helps the ground. In fact rye deserves more attention. A. B. M. Spencer. — 2d Premium.—I have sown rye a number of times in corn, always with success. Generally sow the last time I plow my corn. It is leas trouble than if the corn gets too big. Paeture with sheep. If you have none borrow eome. I have sown clover several times, and always failed. I know of some cases that were a success. The rye is the surest thing I have fried. I knew a case where a man sowed rye in his corn every fall, ten years, and broke it up in the spring and planted It to corn. He claimed the land was as good as when he commenced. S. D. E. Hendricks Oo. BIVIEW. Our best farmers make it a rigid rule not to let any land go through winter, without some kind of a covering of green. They take the hint from nature which always keeps some green thing on her seedbed. The corn crop dies in September. The soil has been stirred most all summer and much Plant food has become soluble. This will all fix iteelf in the soil so as to not wash out, except the nitrogen. Take a rich clover sod and take off corn or potatoes and that soil contains a lot of soluble nitrogen. The only 'ay to fix this kind of plant food is by a growth of green plants. Wo have September, October, November and April, all open months, with lots of rain. Examination of water from tiles shows a heavy lose of nitrogen but scarcely any loss of otter elements. Mr Terry hastens to sow his wheat after potatoes, riot so much to get the 'heat in early as to prevent a heavy rain from washing many dollars of soluble nitrogen out of the rich seed bed. One will also hnd that a seed bed that has been protected 'rom eun and weather will be much more mellow and lively in the epring. There are five crops at least that are ueed for this purpoee: Wheat, rye, clover, crimson clover and cow peas. This is by far the cheapest way to sow wheat. Rye for pasture ls usually sown in this latitude either juat after harvest and drilled ln, or worked ln with a Planet junior. It does well on mellow black land if the eeaeon is fairly wet, sown down the last of August, without working in. But it is always risky. Pour pecks per acre is enough. Olover is usually sowed immediately after the last cultivation after harvest. I prefer sowing ahead of the Planet junior. The trouble with this practice is that if it ls a little dry the clover will perish. I have lost my seed and trouble twice. One eeaeon it rained till we could not thresh, and it came up well but all perished later. Crimson clover is fine, especially if one wishes to follow with a cultivated crop. Of course it may die either of drouth, or may freeze. I have a neighbor who grows it on his garden potato patch every year. It never fails with him, and usually makes a heavy crop. It would of course be much more likely to live after potatoes than sown in corn. While near the Ohio river laBt winter I was much interested in hearing Dr. Wolf tell of his marked success in growing cow peas ln his corn. He drills one drill mark in the middle between the corn rows. This fills the row with a wonderful growth df feed, by fall. He then turns sheep* on it. They eat the peas and corn blades. He says it looks like a wilderness of feed. The cow pea as you know is a true legume, and acts like clover. Its fault iB that it is tender, and the soil has no green covering in winter. It does however have the dead carcas of the pen, which is far better than no cover. Dr. Wolf Bays that he thinks too much of clover to care to displace it, but that where the pea Buits the farming it Is awful nice. The peas and other clovers are much richer fertilizers than rye. The crop does three things. It retains and adds moisture, shades the soil and furnishes pasture. Where hilly it checks washing. It it a crop that ip not appreciated, and is very much neglected. If some farmers are afraid to let their ground lie idle a week or two, how impudent it is to leave it expoeed half the year. It also makes lots of good pasture, and if not pastured when wet it does not harm the soil more than any other pasturing. You can have your cake an eat it too. No. 172, June 2d.—How best clean rooms in dally housework, floors, furniture, brass, pictures and the like. No. 173, July 1.—The effect of the policy of political expaneion on American agricultural interests. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents will be given to let, 2d and 3d best articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as poeelble and forwarded 10 days before publication to Oarmel. E. H. Collins. A Rich Man's Generosity. A etory hae been going the rounds of the press, concerning a well-known politician and business man, that is good enough to be true. This politician is aleo a very rich man, and last fall, when he was exceedingly busy, he was informed that one of his corps of bookkeepers was about to be married. The man of business at once sent for him, and asked where he intended to go on his wedding tour. Ae the young man wae poor, he timidly replied that he did not expect to make much of a trip. "How would you like to go through the Great Lakes, and return on one of my boats?" pursued the employer kindly. "Very much," the bookkeeper replied, brightening up, "if I could be spared so long." "I will give you a vacation and a pase," was the reply, and the young lover went away rejoicing. True to his promise, the magnate went to the captain of one of hie finest boats, and told him to give the bridal couple the best quarters and every [attention without charge. "After you are well out from shore," continued the employer to the captain, "hand the bridegroom this envelope with my compliments, and toll him to have a good time." The envelope contained $200. All the little worries about wayB and means were swept away for these young peoplo by the rich man's generosity and kindness. If a man can do so much to shed light on the path of his fellow, how much more ehall tho assurance of God's embracing love dissipate our worries and put them to flight. The rich man's generosity wae only a temporary kindness, but God is always dealing with us in that way, and His rich provision for us ls unlimited.—Selected. POSTAL CARD CORRESPONDENCE. Quxkij atuT ^nsurje*. Can you give me the address of tho person who had a gate at the State fair laet year that slid back and forward, and was painted red? Homer, Ills. J. S. —Perhaps some reader who saw the gato can tell tell ub. We do not remember it. Oan you inform me who is growing or has the swamp Mediterranean wheat, the beard variety. J. W. —We do not know, but would suggest that any reader has this wheat to sell he will do well to advertise it in our columns, at the proper time. Should barn yard manure to be hauled out now and plowed under next epring be placed in piles or scattered immediately? What are the objections to either plan? Carroll Co. A Subscibkb. —Unless the ground Is quite level we would leave it ln piles, to prevent the liquid portion from being washed away by rains. If the the ground is so level that it will not wash' it is not so material about when you spread the manure. If hilly, pile the manure on the higheet points where fertilizing is most needed. I wish you would inform me.through the columns of your paper, whether or not a public school student is compelled to take part in commencement exercise, ln order to secure a graduation diploma, providing he or she has passed the township examination and has received the required grade for graduation? Jay Oo. 0. 0. —We are quite sure the law makes no such requirements, but we would advise you to comply with the rule of the echool and take part in the exercises, botb on your own account and to avoid unpleaeant feelinge on the part of others. I have five acres to clear for next year. Shall I put it in potatoes? What about second crop potatoes for Boed? I have an old threshing yard which I am thinking of plowing up and planting ln a few weeks to raise my seed on. How many buehele and what varletlcB? If the new ground is stumpy* or soddy I would rather grow corn on lt a few years. Or better still eow it down to paeture till many of the etumps rot out. As to varieties In this latitude, the best yielders are the Carmen and Rurale. Aleo the Potentate and Roee family. The practice of planting the green second crop tubers hae not yet proven very successful. Some like it very much, others had lots of trouble. If I were in your place I would plant this year'e patch ae eoon as possible to late varieties, and give it good care, so as to get eeed out of it next year. It is impossible to decide which Is the best adapted to any ono locality without testing them. I would not grow five acres at one time until I have tested the seed in smaller patches. It takeB from bIx to ten buehels per acre, according to the way the tubers are cut and planted. The best time to plant late potatoes ls when the ground is in fine condition; any time in May. E. H. O. Ghees County, June 0.—Early sown wheat on good ground all O. K. Com not all planted, and but little plowed over; too wet for anything but grass. Oats good. Clover good as ever known. Strawberries never better. Apples and cherries, a fair crop. Early potatoes good. H. B. Wayne County, June 5.—The warm weather and frequent showers of the last week have been very favorably to the growth of vegetation. Much corn has been planted over. Fly has damaged wheat to a considerable extent, but many fields are in fine condition. Late sown wheat on poor land is not good. Potatoes were never better. Stock looking well. J. G. W. B. Knox County, June 8.—Wheat not over half crop, fly being tho cause, promoted by dry April. Oats moderately good. Growing corn looks well now. Young clover and pasture fino. Potatoes and garden truck fine. Meadows not so good, too many weeds, Live- etock looks well. Apples, plume and moet all other fruit, except peaches, plenty. Let us hear from every county in the State. E. J. O. —We eecond the suggestion as to hearing from other counties. Send more postals. Norway, Sweden and Denmark—Regions Without Agriculture—Some Temperance Lessons. Kditors Indiana Fasimek. Nearly the whole Scandanavlan peninsula is a confused combination, of rocky hills, swamps, forests, and etreame. One would hardly expect to find a promielng agriculture especially when the eeasons are at variance. As I write, epring is just making ite advent. Potatoee are being planted and the recently eown oats are coming through the ground. While the season is late the winter ls not severe and a visit to the city markets revealed many kinds of vegetables. But farming is not a principal source of industry. Iron and lumber and Its carrying furnish the chief sources of wealth. Theee northern lands have plenty of scenery, but its people cannot live on that alone, and the emigration to the United States ls very large; so great in fact, that the population of the country remalnB about stationary. Moet of the emigrants find homes ln the great northwest, principally in Wisconsin and Minnesota, a climate not unlike their own, but far more favorable in an agricultural way. These people are a vigorous, honest race, and form one of the best elements that come to us. Their temperance law and its effectiveness has interested me as to Its' enforcement and reeults. It is much the same in Norway and Sweden, and I give its main features. Formerly the liquor trade was entirely free and the consumption was enormous. Now, under a "permission bill," the authorities may refuse to grant a license for the sale of spirits entirely, or they may grant a monopoly of the trade to a company or Individual, who is bound to pay the whole of its profits to the municipality, after deducting expenses and 5 per cent Internet. The privileges to sell are disposed of by auction to the highest bidder, and tho bar-keeper must have no interest In the business, only as an employe. Another provision requires that the food should be sold at all these places. So effective has been the meaBure that little drunkenness is observed, when formerly it was very prevalent, and poverty, crime, and disease has been greatly diminished. The revenue returned to the city government ia considerable and goes to the support of the improvident classes. This migmr furnish an Incentive to our prolific law-makers. J. B. Bubms. Stockholm, Sweden, May 27.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1899, v. 54, no. 24 (June 17) |
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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 and equipment |
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Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JUNE 17, 1899. NO. 24 %xpzxizucz _zpuxtmzut. Experience in Sowing Rye, Beans, Clover, or Other Feed Crops in Corn. 1st Premium.—I always try to have the ground clean when the corn is "laid by." But if any weeds appear between the last planting and the time to sow rye, • say Sept. lit. I go through the standing corn and cut them out with a hoe. I use a one-horse drill, either five or six-hoed, running once in a row. This will do good work if the ground has been left as it should be—level. I use" the large white rye; run the eeed through a good fan and make it perfectly clean and sow one bushel per acre. This will make it thick enough. Since rye is hardy and stools out well. I do not regard rye as a money crop, but use it occasionally to renovate and' fertilize fields. I have also poled it down, after letting lt get dead ripe, so that the boards would soiten, then I turned hogs on it. After getting it down and rained on, it makes fine hog pasture, upon which they will gain in weight, become sleek and eaucy. Rye will loosen up and enrich the ground, and where the etraw is left on, as in hogging down, will greatly add to the store of humus. It is also an excellent crop upon which to sow clover or timothy, as the straw is tall with a few blades near the ground, hence the young grass is smothered out. I have heard of farmers sowing rye right down in etanding corn, not even plowing it in, claiming that rain will beat it in. I would not do that. Always use a drill, a steady horee and clean seed. Rye may not be a money crop, but it will seed, makes fine ground feed, good straw, gives lots of early paeture for calves or sheep, and looeens up and helps the ground. In fact rye deserves more attention. A. B. M. Spencer. — 2d Premium.—I have sown rye a number of times in corn, always with success. Generally sow the last time I plow my corn. It is leas trouble than if the corn gets too big. Paeture with sheep. If you have none borrow eome. I have sown clover several times, and always failed. I know of some cases that were a success. The rye is the surest thing I have fried. I knew a case where a man sowed rye in his corn every fall, ten years, and broke it up in the spring and planted It to corn. He claimed the land was as good as when he commenced. S. D. E. Hendricks Oo. BIVIEW. Our best farmers make it a rigid rule not to let any land go through winter, without some kind of a covering of green. They take the hint from nature which always keeps some green thing on her seedbed. The corn crop dies in September. The soil has been stirred most all summer and much Plant food has become soluble. This will all fix iteelf in the soil so as to not wash out, except the nitrogen. Take a rich clover sod and take off corn or potatoes and that soil contains a lot of soluble nitrogen. The only 'ay to fix this kind of plant food is by a growth of green plants. Wo have September, October, November and April, all open months, with lots of rain. Examination of water from tiles shows a heavy lose of nitrogen but scarcely any loss of otter elements. Mr Terry hastens to sow his wheat after potatoes, riot so much to get the 'heat in early as to prevent a heavy rain from washing many dollars of soluble nitrogen out of the rich seed bed. One will also hnd that a seed bed that has been protected 'rom eun and weather will be much more mellow and lively in the epring. There are five crops at least that are ueed for this purpoee: Wheat, rye, clover, crimson clover and cow peas. This is by far the cheapest way to sow wheat. Rye for pasture ls usually sown in this latitude either juat after harvest and drilled ln, or worked ln with a Planet junior. It does well on mellow black land if the eeaeon is fairly wet, sown down the last of August, without working in. But it is always risky. Pour pecks per acre is enough. Olover is usually sowed immediately after the last cultivation after harvest. I prefer sowing ahead of the Planet junior. The trouble with this practice is that if it ls a little dry the clover will perish. I have lost my seed and trouble twice. One eeaeon it rained till we could not thresh, and it came up well but all perished later. Crimson clover is fine, especially if one wishes to follow with a cultivated crop. Of course it may die either of drouth, or may freeze. I have a neighbor who grows it on his garden potato patch every year. It never fails with him, and usually makes a heavy crop. It would of course be much more likely to live after potatoes than sown in corn. While near the Ohio river laBt winter I was much interested in hearing Dr. Wolf tell of his marked success in growing cow peas ln his corn. He drills one drill mark in the middle between the corn rows. This fills the row with a wonderful growth df feed, by fall. He then turns sheep* on it. They eat the peas and corn blades. He says it looks like a wilderness of feed. The cow pea as you know is a true legume, and acts like clover. Its fault iB that it is tender, and the soil has no green covering in winter. It does however have the dead carcas of the pen, which is far better than no cover. Dr. Wolf Bays that he thinks too much of clover to care to displace it, but that where the pea Buits the farming it Is awful nice. The peas and other clovers are much richer fertilizers than rye. The crop does three things. It retains and adds moisture, shades the soil and furnishes pasture. Where hilly it checks washing. It it a crop that ip not appreciated, and is very much neglected. If some farmers are afraid to let their ground lie idle a week or two, how impudent it is to leave it expoeed half the year. It also makes lots of good pasture, and if not pastured when wet it does not harm the soil more than any other pasturing. You can have your cake an eat it too. No. 172, June 2d.—How best clean rooms in dally housework, floors, furniture, brass, pictures and the like. No. 173, July 1.—The effect of the policy of political expaneion on American agricultural interests. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents will be given to let, 2d and 3d best articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as poeelble and forwarded 10 days before publication to Oarmel. E. H. Collins. A Rich Man's Generosity. A etory hae been going the rounds of the press, concerning a well-known politician and business man, that is good enough to be true. This politician is aleo a very rich man, and last fall, when he was exceedingly busy, he was informed that one of his corps of bookkeepers was about to be married. The man of business at once sent for him, and asked where he intended to go on his wedding tour. Ae the young man wae poor, he timidly replied that he did not expect to make much of a trip. "How would you like to go through the Great Lakes, and return on one of my boats?" pursued the employer kindly. "Very much," the bookkeeper replied, brightening up, "if I could be spared so long." "I will give you a vacation and a pase," was the reply, and the young lover went away rejoicing. True to his promise, the magnate went to the captain of one of hie finest boats, and told him to give the bridal couple the best quarters and every [attention without charge. "After you are well out from shore," continued the employer to the captain, "hand the bridegroom this envelope with my compliments, and toll him to have a good time." The envelope contained $200. All the little worries about wayB and means were swept away for these young peoplo by the rich man's generosity and kindness. If a man can do so much to shed light on the path of his fellow, how much more ehall tho assurance of God's embracing love dissipate our worries and put them to flight. The rich man's generosity wae only a temporary kindness, but God is always dealing with us in that way, and His rich provision for us ls unlimited.—Selected. POSTAL CARD CORRESPONDENCE. Quxkij atuT ^nsurje*. Can you give me the address of tho person who had a gate at the State fair laet year that slid back and forward, and was painted red? Homer, Ills. J. S. —Perhaps some reader who saw the gato can tell tell ub. We do not remember it. Oan you inform me who is growing or has the swamp Mediterranean wheat, the beard variety. J. W. —We do not know, but would suggest that any reader has this wheat to sell he will do well to advertise it in our columns, at the proper time. Should barn yard manure to be hauled out now and plowed under next epring be placed in piles or scattered immediately? What are the objections to either plan? Carroll Co. A Subscibkb. —Unless the ground Is quite level we would leave it ln piles, to prevent the liquid portion from being washed away by rains. If the the ground is so level that it will not wash' it is not so material about when you spread the manure. If hilly, pile the manure on the higheet points where fertilizing is most needed. I wish you would inform me.through the columns of your paper, whether or not a public school student is compelled to take part in commencement exercise, ln order to secure a graduation diploma, providing he or she has passed the township examination and has received the required grade for graduation? Jay Oo. 0. 0. —We are quite sure the law makes no such requirements, but we would advise you to comply with the rule of the echool and take part in the exercises, botb on your own account and to avoid unpleaeant feelinge on the part of others. I have five acres to clear for next year. Shall I put it in potatoes? What about second crop potatoes for Boed? I have an old threshing yard which I am thinking of plowing up and planting ln a few weeks to raise my seed on. How many buehele and what varletlcB? If the new ground is stumpy* or soddy I would rather grow corn on lt a few years. Or better still eow it down to paeture till many of the etumps rot out. As to varieties In this latitude, the best yielders are the Carmen and Rurale. Aleo the Potentate and Roee family. The practice of planting the green second crop tubers hae not yet proven very successful. Some like it very much, others had lots of trouble. If I were in your place I would plant this year'e patch ae eoon as possible to late varieties, and give it good care, so as to get eeed out of it next year. It is impossible to decide which Is the best adapted to any ono locality without testing them. I would not grow five acres at one time until I have tested the seed in smaller patches. It takeB from bIx to ten buehels per acre, according to the way the tubers are cut and planted. The best time to plant late potatoes ls when the ground is in fine condition; any time in May. E. H. O. Ghees County, June 0.—Early sown wheat on good ground all O. K. Com not all planted, and but little plowed over; too wet for anything but grass. Oats good. Clover good as ever known. Strawberries never better. Apples and cherries, a fair crop. Early potatoes good. H. B. Wayne County, June 5.—The warm weather and frequent showers of the last week have been very favorably to the growth of vegetation. Much corn has been planted over. Fly has damaged wheat to a considerable extent, but many fields are in fine condition. Late sown wheat on poor land is not good. Potatoes were never better. Stock looking well. J. G. W. B. Knox County, June 8.—Wheat not over half crop, fly being tho cause, promoted by dry April. Oats moderately good. Growing corn looks well now. Young clover and pasture fino. Potatoes and garden truck fine. Meadows not so good, too many weeds, Live- etock looks well. Apples, plume and moet all other fruit, except peaches, plenty. Let us hear from every county in the State. E. J. O. —We eecond the suggestion as to hearing from other counties. Send more postals. Norway, Sweden and Denmark—Regions Without Agriculture—Some Temperance Lessons. Kditors Indiana Fasimek. Nearly the whole Scandanavlan peninsula is a confused combination, of rocky hills, swamps, forests, and etreame. One would hardly expect to find a promielng agriculture especially when the eeasons are at variance. As I write, epring is just making ite advent. Potatoee are being planted and the recently eown oats are coming through the ground. While the season is late the winter ls not severe and a visit to the city markets revealed many kinds of vegetables. But farming is not a principal source of industry. Iron and lumber and Its carrying furnish the chief sources of wealth. Theee northern lands have plenty of scenery, but its people cannot live on that alone, and the emigration to the United States ls very large; so great in fact, that the population of the country remalnB about stationary. Moet of the emigrants find homes ln the great northwest, principally in Wisconsin and Minnesota, a climate not unlike their own, but far more favorable in an agricultural way. These people are a vigorous, honest race, and form one of the best elements that come to us. Their temperance law and its effectiveness has interested me as to Its' enforcement and reeults. It is much the same in Norway and Sweden, and I give its main features. Formerly the liquor trade was entirely free and the consumption was enormous. Now, under a "permission bill," the authorities may refuse to grant a license for the sale of spirits entirely, or they may grant a monopoly of the trade to a company or Individual, who is bound to pay the whole of its profits to the municipality, after deducting expenses and 5 per cent Internet. The privileges to sell are disposed of by auction to the highest bidder, and tho bar-keeper must have no interest In the business, only as an employe. Another provision requires that the food should be sold at all these places. So effective has been the meaBure that little drunkenness is observed, when formerly it was very prevalent, and poverty, crime, and disease has been greatly diminished. The revenue returned to the city government ia considerable and goes to the support of the improvident classes. This migmr furnish an Incentive to our prolific law-makers. J. B. Bubms. Stockholm, Sweden, May 27. |
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