VOL. LX.
INDIANAPOLIS, MAROH 25,1905.
NO. 12
THE AI-IARY.
Pasturage;
Bass-wood-White and  Alsike
Clovers.
Editors Indiana Fanner:
In locating an apiary, pasturage is an
important matter to consider. Linn or
basswood, probably furnishes more honey
when it blooms than any other plant or
tree in this section, but it is getting
rather scarce and it only blooms in this
locality every other year. If you have
any amount in your locality, you are
lucky indeed.
White clover is the most widely distributed honey plant we have; it has quietly crept into every nook and corner. It
spreads [by both seeds ami suckers, or
runners. It is essentially a volunteer
crop, and is very valuable for pasture and
honey. The honey is white, rich and
is the standard of excellence for all hon(.y.
-\lsike clover has in the last few years,
made great advance ns a honey and forage crop. This plant for us is the solution of the pasturage question. It
combines a valuable hay and seed crop
with the perfect honey producer. It
should be sown in rather moist ground,
the same as red clover, but if timothy is
sown with it it is a great benefit to
both. Sow a small patch of it this
spring and it will amply repay you.
— Seasonable Hints. —
Look over your colonies and be snre
that they have honey enough to last until
fruit bloom.
If your bees dwindle, protect them carefully from cold and feed as much as they
will  need.
One strong colony now. is worth 10
weak ones.
In buying bees select strong colonies
with plenty of stores.
Clean the dead bees off from the bottom  rboard.
The one rule to observe is to keep your
colonies  strong.
If you have any troubles do not neglect
to write and we will answer as our space
admits. Let us make this a live department.      Address  all  questions     to
Redkey, Ind. Geo. AV. Williams.
Dry Hot  Farm'np.
By Walter J. Quick, MS. Phis.
A gray haired business man once said
"My boy, don't ever permit yourself, no
matter what business or profession you
may be engaged in, to become infected
with the dry rot—it is a bad thing, I
know it from experienoe. Only luck, I
think, saved me in the end."
Without telling the old gentleman's story
permit us to comment on the fact that
the "dry" rot" microbe is affecting the
bnsiness of a large percent of our farmers. Too many forget that this is a
living active age and although one of exceptional prosperity in the United States,
it requires living, active men to cope with
the heavy competition of the present .iny
and to succeed.- Those that do realize
that they are living to-day and not 50
years or a century ago, find opportunity
of making the greatest success that has
ever been made in the farming wor'd.
In manufacturing and mercantile lines,
the praetionlapplioation ofsystematic and
up-to-date methods are absolutely necessary to success. Competition in such
lines is just as great as in the various
lines of the farmers vocation and yet success attends the mercantile business man.
PICTURESQUE  MANSFIELD.
P«<*T_ ,3,
SWlTigft
Rohm Bros. Mill, Mansfield, I'arke Co., Indiana.
on his management and keeping abreast
of the tilings. lje can no more accomplish this with scrubs or cattle of poor
quality than he could succeed with his
farm by scratching his ground ami attempting to cultivate his crops with antedated  implements  of  a  century  ago.
Tlie  old  gentleman  quoted  at  the  outset stated that his failure had grown out
of a     lethargic condition,  considered    by
him to 1k> justifiable ibocause of his long
established   business  reputation,  but  that
lie had learned from the new generationof
i growing business  men  and  the  improved
I systematic conducting of business, togetli-
j ft- with the adoption of advertising as a
necessity in business by his young eompe-
tnrs, that he was not iir the race, in short
; that he had the "Dry Itot," in comparison
I with the live, wide awake activity now in
the business  world. He  had  felt tliat
' it was not necessary to adopt new methods and means of conducting business,
ami of producing at less expense, a better
quality of product. The farmer and
stockman of to-day who has not already
done so. has the same lesson to learn and
it is our hope that he may with diligent
energy and perseverance, learn tho lesson before he learns a sadder one.
TWO  QUESTIONS  OF  INTEKEST.
Nestled among the rugged hills of Jack- regard to the liquor Irasiness. A history
son township, Parke county, the quaint to whieh every citizen should point with
little hoosier town  ot Mansfield basks in   pride. Way back  in  the sixties  a  sar
the early sunshine..      In point of years it   loon was started, when the ladies of tho j Miters Indiana Farmer:
ranks among the oldest towns in the conn-   village  (among them  being Mrs.  Samuel j     I think that Mr. O
try,    having  been    settled  in   1S20.
W., of Farmland,
Its   Johnson,  mother of Representative  John- ! is about right on the automobile question.
existence is probably due to the fact of   son)  began a  fierce warfare against  tlie ! The farmer pays the taxes and keeps up
its Ibeing n fine location for a water mill, grog shop.        It is said they entered the
the bed of the Big Raccoon being of solid bnilding rolled the barrels out ami spilled
rock at this point, making a firm founda- the whiskey in the street,
tion for both mill and dam. Later    on an    enterprising    gentleman
The first flouring mill was built about built a log saloon in the village when the
the year 1S25.       It is said that the whito citizens   promptly   proceeded  to   put  him
settlers were assisted by Indians in rais- out of business, by hitching oxen to the
ing the mill. shack and pulling it into  the creek.
softer being operated by different part- A few years ago another saloon was
ies for a number of years, it was bought built, and it flourished until the good citi-
by Jacob Rohm who rebuilt and refitted zens of "hilly Jackson" concluded to re-
it. store  tlie honorable  record  of  the town.
Later on  Mr.  Rohm quit the business The result was the vender of fire water
and entered the ministry, his sons taking moved on to other pastures.        Thus the
charge of the mill.        It is now owned saloon business at Mansfield  passed into
by Rohm Bros. & Co., who have lately re- history,
fitted   it  with  up-to-date  machinery. Oliver D. Switzer.
Mansfield has an interesting history in       Parke Co.
Incidentally, we might remark in this connection that farmers do not appreciatethe
necessary application of business methods
to their lines. No manufacturer would
think of considering the possibilities of
his business simply from the investment
ir. his factory, real estate and machinery.
Neither should a farmer consider his proposition from his investment in real estate,
buildings, thereon and his implements.
Both know without a second thought that
capital enough even if in limited amount
facturers. Forgetting that it is an age
of advancement in which competition is
constantly growing greater, they are attempting  to do  business  as on  the     old
plans while their farms or factories are   nf  loafing,   wh
the roads, so who has the better right to
the roads, tho farmer or the pleasure
seekers in their automobiles?
If the auto once gets the privilege of
running on the country roads when they
please.how many farmers' wives and
children will either have to stay at home,
or take the risk of being killed, every
time they go anywhere by there horses being frightened by the automobile?
Much has been said about the school
law, and there have been some most unreasonable ideas on this subject. The
very idea of pensioning the old schoolteachers! They had better say something of the old farmers, but instead,
if one of them runs slim of a living in
his old days they take him to the poor
house.
If the teachers would not spend their
money so foolishly there wouldn't be so
much talk about higher wages.
If more of the teachers when their
schools are out would go to work instead
radually running down and decreasing in
value and ability to produce. ;
The farmer, by diversifying his efforts,
rotating his crops or making a liberal use
of legumes has every opportunity to maintain the productivity of his soil and by
grasping the well ventilated and practical
en   the   year   is   out, they
would have more money than the farmer.
Corydon. Mrs. C. C. Hubbard.
must be in hand or arranged for. to sup- .ideas  of  scientific    discoveries,     produce
plement the capital invested in either the   even greater returns, nt the same time en-
manufacturing plant or the farm, as running capital.
Having this matter settled, it is as
important for the one as the other to figure on or manage the details, that tho
per cent of profts made may figure a good
per cent ..-.^..e combined capital in the
original plant as well as on the running
capital.
Old established farmers, and farmers
that for years, perhaps decades have
made money, possibly several years ago,
so much that the size of their farm plant
was every year enlarged by the purchase
hancing the fertility of his lands. But,
the man who is asleep—thoroughly filled
with microbes of "Dry Rot"—liccomes disheartened and very soon a candidate for
bankruptcy.
The lietter way perhaps for keeping
up his farming plant and improving its
value by increasing its fertility and therefore ability to produce, is to take on a
side line (as the traveling man or merchant would say), said side line making
his vocation mixed farming and stock
feeding, or breeding, or both. This enables
him to deliver his farm products on foot
of an additional eighty or qnarter section n"'' <° have two profits in so doing, the
of land,  are  now complaining that  they   onp nn 'lis croP heing as great as usual, j
not only cannot make money but cannot   nnd that on his feeding or breeding likely i ttl0    imijarm  parnier we would  all
keep even. The dlfliculty with such farm- ; greater. ! ,K;ttpr CIlris'tinn; With bes(. wiohes T
ers is just the same as with some manu- r     We say likely, since it all then depends   remain  your friend.        John  R.  Hoss
GETS IHS MONEY BACK.
r.illlnp* Inrlinn.l  1'ar-rrM'r:
I am a reader of your paper which I
prize very highly. I am with you Mr.
Editor on  the  temperance  question. I
think the cigarette bill that passed is all
right, if it is only enforced. I am past
40 years old and guilty ot smoking one
cigarette.
Mr. Editor, I read some very valuable
articles in your paper. I am going to
try dragging the road according to directions in your paper. There should bo
a law compelling every man regardless
of ago, that has a team, to work the
public highway two days each year. I
like your paper for the advertisements
there are in it. I get my money back
through reading the advertisements I see
in your paper. T will say this much that
if we farmers would all just throw selfishness away, and work in harmony with
each other, use the golden rule, and read
be