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VOL. LX. INDIANAPOLIS, MAY 6, 1905. NO. J 8 'gxpcxlcutz _zpitxtxuznt EXPERIMENT STATION AT THE iTATE FAIR GROUNDS- Beit Place In the SUtc. 1st Premium.—To get the most good from a braiteh experiment station, it should be located that a large number of people could easily reach it. The comparison of different methods of crop production lias more effect upon the farmer v.iien he sees the crops growing together than when he reads about tluem. lly locating the station at tlie State fair grounds, large numbers of farmers would be able to inspect the work carried on an.l to profit by it. State fair week is about as goorl a season to see the experiment grounds as we have during the whole year, and the farmer would tako more good ideas home with him and profit by them than at otlier times of the year. Wnile at the fair the farmer sees the *.ery best products that the State can produce, and by so doing he will lealize more good from the experimental work curried on than Ite otherwise would. The experimental grounds would be something that would attract thousands of farmers to the State fair, and aid the State Board a great deal. Thoy would sn-e that tine board was not working for the fair alone, but for the betterment of agriculture over the state as a whole. Whenever a farmer compares his methods and ideas with those of someone else he is very likely to improve his ovrit methods, unless he thinks lie "knows it all." There is no place in the St.tte where a bnnch station could be established that would do more good than at the State fair grounds. C. B. He word Oo. Would Attract Many Visitors. 2d Premium.—The advantages of sueh a branch for the farmer can hardly be overestimated. Many interesting facts coiild be learned that would prove very helpful on the farm. Many farmers would attend the fair just in order to sec the experiment branch. We could get knowledge there every year which would help us to 'become more successful farmers. Just this kind of knowledge is so valuable that our government expends annually nearly a million of dollars to maintain agricultural experiment stations, and by using this knowledge the farmers arc enabled to save many times this amount. If the farmer hopes to keep pace with _the otlier callings in the race of life, he must travel at the same rate of speed. In order to do this he has to employ some of {he same agencies, and the experimental station ought to be one of them on which he can rely. By attending the fair ami visiting the exineriment station the farmers would soon be deeply interested. The farmer needs the advice of meir who have marie a scientific study of farming. Such men are to be found at the head of our experiment 3tution. Success on the farm depends on something more than the mere performance of manual labor. The farmer must study to direct this labor in view of certain ends to produce the best results. In other words lal>or must be coupled with well directed thought, if the liest interests are to 1« subserved. Kvery fanner should attend the State fair, ami a great many of our progressive farmers do so evory year. People are beginning to see that there is length and FARM RESIDENCE PLANS 77/A'WT£&*.i l'-<.'i''s,>',.s.''\,''\(.6. r7^7liP m^mm. ■,-.t.rr.ir;''f^J- '■'■ t-v->":-"" ._ vr, /f,,r's^'ii''«"i-/i''^fr'-irs-{nr:,: nsiy.s.1,^ 'ithiAw/}'-\*^or1>'/w,,lliW;7-™™'r,'/'^fl'^^^—=— ■ -^-t-rr-rrTSr/i.- /. .. 5eo Room j /4o"k 15-4- ^D «oom : \ 13 6"* 8 6' I c flRST FLOOR. SECOND FLOOD Copyrighted by the Co-operative Building Plan Association, New York City. Width r.O feet, length 40 feet G inches, including veranda. Cellar story 7 feet, f,rst story 9 feet, second story 8 feet. Foundation stone; first story dropped siding, second story gables and roof, shingles. Two coat plaster and hard white finish. Plaster centers in dining room and parlor hall of first story. White wood finish inside and flooring yellow pine. Main stairs ash; chair rail in dining room, kitchen and bath room wainscoted. All interior woodwork grain filled, stained to suit anil finished in hard oil varnish. Size of rooms shown in plans. Cellar nnder whole house and concrete floor. Full plumbing in second story. Open fire place in ■lining room and parlor. Attic finished for storage. Cost in New York prices .$2,480. On-e to two hundred dollars less in the central states. breadth and deptli to the farming question. The time is coming when the fanner will prepare for his vocation as carefully as the druggist, the teacher, or the physician. M. A. Kosciusko Co. Central Sub-Station A Good Idea. 3d Premium.—An experiment sub-station at the State fair grounds is oertainly a good idea. Its advantages would be in attracting attention of so many farmers ulio go to the State fair, and impress upon them the value of work being done hy our State Experiment Station. Only a few go to Lafayette to see these tlyn«£, and that is onercasoii the interestin thatwork is not widespread. Another thing of importance has often been mentioned by l'rof. Latta, of Purdue University, ami that is that the sub-stations should be on a different soil from that at the Purdue farm. He sairl that wc needed to make experiments o:i the different kinds of soils of the State. The State fair grounds are located on a kind of loam land, like that of nearly all of central Indiana, and here is a large advantage, where thousands assemble when crops are jnst maturing. They would carry away with them good impressions a'hout the valne of experiment work by our agricultural station. Fayette Co. S. M. No. 470, May 1.1.—What is the host way to handle tlve hay crop? What hay tools should the farmer have? No. ISO, May 20.—What is meant by the term "a,-good housekeeper?" No. 481, !*iay 27.—Give experience with incubators and brooders. Premiums of ?1, 75 cents and CrO cents are given for the best, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company ami should reach us one week before date of publication. lltltltiATION IN TEXAS. Written far thu Imllmia Farmer: ■San Antonio, Texas., .\pril 25th.—Irrigating lands in Texas, in oriler to produco good crops, is made necessary ou account of the rainfall being light, and when it does rain it rains for a few days and then ceases for mouths. If tlie rain was mme equally distributed, irrigating would he unnecessary, but as it is, it must be dom*. We have been in San Antonio now two weeks, it has been cloudy, for four days, looks like it might rain, ibut alrout 5 o'clock each evening the gulf breeze blows up and drives the rain clouds away anrl tin- night is clear ami cool. The corn is in good shape however and the crop is made, if it did not rain any more this summer. When it does nain, it pours, and soaks the ground good. Farmers who take great delight in their vocation, irrigate tneir lauds, and thereby raise good crops each year. It was our pleasure to spend a few hours ou the Collins farm. V. F. Collins, the owner, up to a year ago, was one of San Antonio's manufacturers and implement dealers, but 4 years ago, he purchased ISO acres of land, one and one-half miles from the center of San Antonio, at a very low figure. At the time of the pur chase, the land was covered with Mus- r-iiilo trees, and prickly pear cactuses; in fact it was so thickly grown up that tliiey could not get the wolves out of it, aud the rattlesnakes. Mr. Collins at a cost of .$10 per aero had the farm cleared, leaving nothing but the black loam. At (he farther end of the farm he dug out and hanked up his fish pond, and then sunk his artesian well, which has a capacity of 2,500,000 gallons of water every day. About oOO feet from the lish pond he built a very fine two-story house, modern in every respect, and finely furnished. Around the house he laid out hiswalks and llower beds, and near by he planted his peach and pear orchard. About 100 fiet in front of the house the farm proper begins making a macadamized roadway i'h'ng the side of the farm, aud main- ditch firr his irrigating alongside of this: road, every ;'.50 feet is a lateral ditch which, conveys the water alongside of the dill'eretit plots of ground. Water gates are put 'n the main ditch wherever a lateral starts out. and every 50 feet in the lateral water gates are put in. In this manner he is able to let the water run down between the rows of whatever is planted. Rotation of crops is practiced. Mr. Collins is able to raise from three to five crops each year on his farm of 180 acres. He always raises 5 crops of lunch vegetables, three crops of green corn; always starting with one crop of Texas Bermuda onions. The farm the past two years has netted him over 1*100 per acre. And it is better than a First .National Rank, and there is more pleasure obtained in looking after such a farm than any banking or mercantile interest. It takes from one to three men to tend every five acres, according to the cnp. Labor in Texas is very reasonable, 75 cents a day, and laborers board themselves. The Collins farm is cue of the great places of interest around historical San Antonio. Farmers from the Xorth, East and West, whenever they are touring Texas, and are in San Antonio never fail to visit this farm, where they can see and study irrigating. C. A. Kurtze. Carpenters are demanding 45 cents an horn* in Cleveland, and contractors have granted it in most cases.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1905, v. 60, no. 18 (May 6) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6018 |
Date of Original | 1905 |
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 | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or not-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 2011-01-25 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Description
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 |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | VOL. LX. INDIANAPOLIS, MAY 6, 1905. NO. J 8 'gxpcxlcutz _zpitxtxuznt EXPERIMENT STATION AT THE iTATE FAIR GROUNDS- Beit Place In the SUtc. 1st Premium.—To get the most good from a braiteh experiment station, it should be located that a large number of people could easily reach it. The comparison of different methods of crop production lias more effect upon the farmer v.iien he sees the crops growing together than when he reads about tluem. lly locating the station at tlie State fair grounds, large numbers of farmers would be able to inspect the work carried on an.l to profit by it. State fair week is about as goorl a season to see the experiment grounds as we have during the whole year, and the farmer would tako more good ideas home with him and profit by them than at otlier times of the year. Wnile at the fair the farmer sees the *.ery best products that the State can produce, and by so doing he will lealize more good from the experimental work curried on than Ite otherwise would. The experimental grounds would be something that would attract thousands of farmers to the State fair, and aid the State Board a great deal. Thoy would sn-e that tine board was not working for the fair alone, but for the betterment of agriculture over the state as a whole. Whenever a farmer compares his methods and ideas with those of someone else he is very likely to improve his ovrit methods, unless he thinks lie "knows it all." There is no place in the St.tte where a bnnch station could be established that would do more good than at the State fair grounds. C. B. He word Oo. Would Attract Many Visitors. 2d Premium.—The advantages of sueh a branch for the farmer can hardly be overestimated. Many interesting facts coiild be learned that would prove very helpful on the farm. Many farmers would attend the fair just in order to sec the experiment branch. We could get knowledge there every year which would help us to 'become more successful farmers. Just this kind of knowledge is so valuable that our government expends annually nearly a million of dollars to maintain agricultural experiment stations, and by using this knowledge the farmers arc enabled to save many times this amount. If the farmer hopes to keep pace with _the otlier callings in the race of life, he must travel at the same rate of speed. In order to do this he has to employ some of {he same agencies, and the experimental station ought to be one of them on which he can rely. By attending the fair ami visiting the exineriment station the farmers would soon be deeply interested. The farmer needs the advice of meir who have marie a scientific study of farming. Such men are to be found at the head of our experiment 3tution. Success on the farm depends on something more than the mere performance of manual labor. The farmer must study to direct this labor in view of certain ends to produce the best results. In other words lal>or must be coupled with well directed thought, if the liest interests are to 1« subserved. Kvery fanner should attend the State fair, ami a great many of our progressive farmers do so evory year. People are beginning to see that there is length and FARM RESIDENCE PLANS 77/A'WT£&*.i l'-<.'i''s,>',.s.''\,''\(.6. r7^7liP m^mm. ■,-.t.rr.ir;''f^J- '■'■ t-v->":-"" ._ vr, /f,,r's^'ii''«"i-/i''^fr'-irs-{nr:,: nsiy.s.1,^ 'ithiAw/}'-\*^or1>'/w,,lliW;7-™™'r,'/'^fl'^^^—=— ■ -^-t-rr-rrTSr/i.- /. .. 5eo Room j /4o"k 15-4- ^D «oom : \ 13 6"* 8 6' I c flRST FLOOR. SECOND FLOOD Copyrighted by the Co-operative Building Plan Association, New York City. Width r.O feet, length 40 feet G inches, including veranda. Cellar story 7 feet, f,rst story 9 feet, second story 8 feet. Foundation stone; first story dropped siding, second story gables and roof, shingles. Two coat plaster and hard white finish. Plaster centers in dining room and parlor hall of first story. White wood finish inside and flooring yellow pine. Main stairs ash; chair rail in dining room, kitchen and bath room wainscoted. All interior woodwork grain filled, stained to suit anil finished in hard oil varnish. Size of rooms shown in plans. Cellar nnder whole house and concrete floor. Full plumbing in second story. Open fire place in ■lining room and parlor. Attic finished for storage. Cost in New York prices .$2,480. On-e to two hundred dollars less in the central states. breadth and deptli to the farming question. The time is coming when the fanner will prepare for his vocation as carefully as the druggist, the teacher, or the physician. M. A. Kosciusko Co. Central Sub-Station A Good Idea. 3d Premium.—An experiment sub-station at the State fair grounds is oertainly a good idea. Its advantages would be in attracting attention of so many farmers ulio go to the State fair, and impress upon them the value of work being done hy our State Experiment Station. Only a few go to Lafayette to see these tlyn«£, and that is onercasoii the interestin thatwork is not widespread. Another thing of importance has often been mentioned by l'rof. Latta, of Purdue University, ami that is that the sub-stations should be on a different soil from that at the Purdue farm. He sairl that wc needed to make experiments o:i the different kinds of soils of the State. The State fair grounds are located on a kind of loam land, like that of nearly all of central Indiana, and here is a large advantage, where thousands assemble when crops are jnst maturing. They would carry away with them good impressions a'hout the valne of experiment work by our agricultural station. Fayette Co. S. M. No. 470, May 1.1.—What is the host way to handle tlve hay crop? What hay tools should the farmer have? No. ISO, May 20.—What is meant by the term "a,-good housekeeper?" No. 481, !*iay 27.—Give experience with incubators and brooders. Premiums of ?1, 75 cents and CrO cents are given for the best, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company ami should reach us one week before date of publication. lltltltiATION IN TEXAS. Written far thu Imllmia Farmer: ■San Antonio, Texas., .\pril 25th.—Irrigating lands in Texas, in oriler to produco good crops, is made necessary ou account of the rainfall being light, and when it does rain it rains for a few days and then ceases for mouths. If tlie rain was mme equally distributed, irrigating would he unnecessary, but as it is, it must be dom*. We have been in San Antonio now two weeks, it has been cloudy, for four days, looks like it might rain, ibut alrout 5 o'clock each evening the gulf breeze blows up and drives the rain clouds away anrl tin- night is clear ami cool. The corn is in good shape however and the crop is made, if it did not rain any more this summer. When it does nain, it pours, and soaks the ground good. Farmers who take great delight in their vocation, irrigate tneir lauds, and thereby raise good crops each year. It was our pleasure to spend a few hours ou the Collins farm. V. F. Collins, the owner, up to a year ago, was one of San Antonio's manufacturers and implement dealers, but 4 years ago, he purchased ISO acres of land, one and one-half miles from the center of San Antonio, at a very low figure. At the time of the pur chase, the land was covered with Mus- r-iiilo trees, and prickly pear cactuses; in fact it was so thickly grown up that tliiey could not get the wolves out of it, aud the rattlesnakes. Mr. Collins at a cost of .$10 per aero had the farm cleared, leaving nothing but the black loam. At (he farther end of the farm he dug out and hanked up his fish pond, and then sunk his artesian well, which has a capacity of 2,500,000 gallons of water every day. About oOO feet from the lish pond he built a very fine two-story house, modern in every respect, and finely furnished. Around the house he laid out hiswalks and llower beds, and near by he planted his peach and pear orchard. About 100 fiet in front of the house the farm proper begins making a macadamized roadway i'h'ng the side of the farm, aud main- ditch firr his irrigating alongside of this: road, every ;'.50 feet is a lateral ditch which, conveys the water alongside of the dill'eretit plots of ground. Water gates are put 'n the main ditch wherever a lateral starts out. and every 50 feet in the lateral water gates are put in. In this manner he is able to let the water run down between the rows of whatever is planted. Rotation of crops is practiced. Mr. Collins is able to raise from three to five crops each year on his farm of 180 acres. He always raises 5 crops of lunch vegetables, three crops of green corn; always starting with one crop of Texas Bermuda onions. The farm the past two years has netted him over 1*100 per acre. And it is better than a First .National Rank, and there is more pleasure obtained in looking after such a farm than any banking or mercantile interest. It takes from one to three men to tend every five acres, according to the cnp. Labor in Texas is very reasonable, 75 cents a day, and laborers board themselves. The Collins farm is cue of the great places of interest around historical San Antonio. Farmers from the Xorth, East and West, whenever they are touring Texas, and are in San Antonio never fail to visit this farm, where they can see and study irrigating. C. A. Kurtze. Carpenters are demanding 45 cents an horn* in Cleveland, and contractors have granted it in most cases. |
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