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VOL. XX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JUNE 27,1885. NO. 26 'Quevg & guxsium Give your name aud postofflce when asking questions. Many queries go unanswered for failure to 'of Russell's Cham- ,14th, 1882? and D. O. ins? who j '.s endure i. J. E. "Srer the JdrtttfJ. D. W. in v.- i'/hat Pleaso inform me where '»-. , cost I can secure a copy of Michigan State Horticultural Society report for 1884, noticed in your last number. A Sub. • Vincennes. Send 15 cents for postage to Chas. W. Garfield, Sec'y, Grand Rapids, Mich., andjj»"- he will send you a copy, we think When is the right time to sow buckwheat, and how much per acre? When is best time to plant late potatoes? "Hail destroyed all my wheat and I must try to raise something else. J. H. S. . New Augusta. Buckwheat should be sowed about the first of July—from two to three pecks per acre. The ground should be mellow and free from weeds. Late potatoes may be planted from the first to the tenth of July. We had a heavy frost on morning of the 9th. The ground was frozen and corn on low land was killed to the gronnd. What effect will the freeze have on wheat? Kosciusko Co. E. M. I. The effect ofthe freeze on the wheat that has headed out will be very disastrous. The wheat will probably grow as before, but the heads will be empty at harvest. So far north as you are we hop© the crop was not so far advanced as to be materially injured. The corn will soon come out again, and be as thrifty as ever. You will find enclosed a hair snake that turned to a snake from a horse hair. Please examine it through a microscope and report through the Farmer what it looks like. I also send a twig of a peach tree to show you what the locusts are doing for our small fruit trees. Wheat through these parts is at least ten per cent better than last year. Jasper Co. J. R. H. The hair snake is a parasite which is hatched ont in Insects like beetles or grasshoppers, like the tape worm in man, and developes in the warm water of ponds. This one is so small and dried up that it does not show up under our pocket lens. We will take it home and look at it under the microscope. The eggs of the locusts are very plainly to be seen under the glass. Their punctures will be very injurious to your fruit trees, but there seems to be no help for it. 1. Can anyone, alter taking a homestead on Government land, change to a preemption claim after six months residence on the land, and secure a deed for the land, by paying the Government price per acre for the land? 2. What portion of the land is required to be fenced or cultivated? 3. If timber land, how much must be cleared and fenced? A. subscriber. Shelbyvllle. 1. Yes. He may commute aa it is called; prove up and purchase, any time after six months. 2. No amount is designated. 3. Five acres the first year and same amount the second year. The second year the first five acres must be cultivated and the third year planted in trees, and so of the second five acres on the following years. At the time of final proof there must be not less than 675 thrifty, growing trees on the ten acres. At end of eight years final proof may be made. ,.l.^Vhat is the law on building school . 2.' n a trustee be compelled to build a stthool house? If so how many scholars would it take to establish a school house? 3. If the scholars were to live in three different townships would eaoh township have to help bear the expenses? A Reader, : 1. It Is one of the duties of the township trustee to build, or otherwise provide sultabls houses for schools., 2. If he fails to do this or any other duty ~At..~t.j^o»r.,HJxy person may maln- ..^,*us. una ior suoh offense, in the name of the State. Th&re is no definite number. The trustee uses his discretion in the matter. Generally 20 children are deemed a sufficient number to justify the building of a school house. 3. Yes, each must pay according to the number of children of school age. i send you an insect that has taken a great deal of my corn and also some of my neighbors' corn. What is it and is it likely to be more numerous next season? Please give the address of the Ohio Agricultural College. A reader. Andrews, Huntington Co. We forwarded the bugs to Prof. Webster, at Purdue, and here is his reply: Yours enclosing letter and samples of corn supposed to have been injured by insects also included, is at hand. The insect is a beetle, known as Agonoderun pallipes They are abundant every season, and are not considered injurious; their food, so far as known, consists largely of small insects including young clinch bugs, Aphides and others of this sort. It is not probable that they had anything to do with the injuries to the kernels of seed corn. From the appearance of these kernels, I should say that the seed was poor, and had failed to germinate, or at best sent out weak and insufficient roots. I have often observed, in precisely . similar cases, that after the kernel had been softened by moisture in the soil, the substance was excavated out and carried off by a very small yellow ant, Solonopsis fugax, Latr., and I presume the same is true in this case, and your correspondent has mistaken the author of the mischief. This sums all the more probable as the Agonoderus are quite common about cracks and crevices in cultivated fields. Lafayette. F. M. Webster. The address you want is Prof. W. R. Lazenby, director Experimental Station, Columbus, O. As many are in doubt as to the future market for small fruits, raspberries, strawberries, grapes, etc., please give your opinion through the Farmer. Will shipments from the south break down*4ne northern growers of fruit? Ib there a. prospect that the business will pay in future as it has in the past. Where can I get the Finley wheat for seod this fall. Is it a good variety for this State? Is raw ground limestone a good fertilizer for wheat and how is the best way to apply it, and where is it manufactured? A Subscriber. From inquiry atone of our best fruit commission houses we learn that the strawberry crop has not been much if any in excess of that of former years, but the season has been shorter than usual, and occasionally there has been a glut in the market for a short time. ■ Growers who have tended their berries well and had good crops have done better, even at the low prices, than they could in anything else perhaps. It will be so with raspberries and other small fruits. Those who raise the most to the acre and the finest will do well. The prices will not be so high as in former years probably, but fair prices for good fruit may always be expected. When prices run quite low the masses of the people begin to buy, and soon clean up the stock in the hands of dealers, and at once the price advances. In the meantime the common people have got a taste for fruit, and find that it saves in other food, and they are willing to pay a little more for it. So gradually the demand increases. Dealers do not think there is any danger of overproduction of good varieties of fruit, large er small. Probably the Sugar Valley Seed Company, of Thorntown, will advertise the Finley wheat in due time. Raw ground limestone is not very reliable on most of our Indiana soils. Your soil in Putnam county ought to have lime enough already. A bad his house insured last November in a reliable company, but not having the money at the time, the agent of tbe company advanced the money for him. In April A's house caught fire and burned down and on the same day A refunded the money to the agent that he had advanced for him in November. The agent took the money and told A that the policy was at his dwelling, and he would leave it in possession of a gentleman, a banker, who was present and heard the conversation. In a few hours afterward the agent heard that the house was burned, and refused to surrender the policy according to agreement. Can A recover anything for loss of property, the agent being worth several times the amount of A's insurance? C. W. H. A can recover his loss from the insurance company. T nxo gcpax'twtixi BY VINSON CARTER, ESQ., THIS ClTT. A marries a widow's daughter. The wife dies leaving a child; the child dies soon after. At the widow's death can A inherit any of the widow's property? A Subscriber. No. In putting in tile ditch can I make an outlet on my own land within a short distance from the line between me and my neighbor and not be liable to him for damage, that being the natural course for the water to flow? A. S. I. Yes. A owns a quarter section of land through which a creek flows. His father entered and received a patent from the United States Government, paying ?1 25 per acre for land and creek. Can the State make a law by which he will be debarred from fishing with net or seine in any part of creek that passes through said land? Parke Co, C. P. Yes. A man owns a machine on which the manufacturers have infringed on a patent, and he receives notice from the party owning the* patent to pay royalty for tho use of their patent, but say that he can continue to use the machine. Will he be released from paying royalty if he discontinues the use of machine, or will it make any difference in the law in the case, if he continues to use the machine, or on receipt of notice of royalty he sets the machine aside and gets a different machine. J. E. D. Any person using a patented article is liable fer royalty for the time he used the same; ceasing to use it does not release him from liability for past use. Letter from California. Editors Indiana Farmer: Spring has come and gone and now tho summer solstice is near at hand, but the weather is no warmer than that of last month, and indeed, as the season progresses onward.no progress is made in degrees of heat, it being cooler than some of the winter months. The latter rains came just in time to save our crops of barley and wheat and to add millions as it were to the wealth of Southern California. Had they not come till a week or two later, the crops would have been a failure and if tho rains had come abou t two weeks sooner, crops would have been better. However, we are content as it is and may be thankful, too. At San Gorgonis and Banning, east of this some twenty miles, there was moro rain and consequently better crops. AVe have been favored with good weather for curing hay and it is in excellent conditio so far. In some places towards the coast, it was damaged considerably by rain, which fell in greater quantity there. There have been cut two crops of alfalfa and some farmers have probably cut three. Every time after the hay is gathered In, the ground is irrigated afresh, preparatory to another crop, and so on through the season. Barley hay is quoted at ?7 50 to ?8 and No. 1 at ?9 50, alfalfa at ?10, and wheat hay at ?10, at Los Angeles. Butter is 20 to 25 cents per pound here. Honey is not in such quantities as last year and sells for about i% cents per pound. The sage bloom is scarcely so well developed as last year, on account of less rain. The early fruits, apricots, etc., are ripening, but they are scarce and the birds get the first and best choice, leaving the inferior kinds for us to use. Linnets and wild canaries are so destructive and numerous, the shotgun is put in requisition to save the fruit, and even the birds in their season. It looks cruel but it is necessary if you wish any apricots, of which the birds are excessively fond. Strawberries and raspberries have come and gone and now blackberries are coming on and will soon be ripe. Corn and durra,or dhoora, are getting up pretty well and perhaps we may have green corn by the 4th of July. As to vegetables, we are in the bad habit of being supplied by Chinamen, who dispose of them cheaper than we can afford to raise them ourselves, so people say, but It is merely an excuse for indolence, I think. I do assert that Americans can raise them as well, for I have seen the experiment tried with success. In washing, |however, a Chinaman is necessary. They have a persistent, patient, "get down to it" kind of way that no American can attain to. There's the rub. Excuse pun. J. M. T. Lugonia, Cal., Jnne 10.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1885, v. 20, no. 26 (June 27) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2026 |
Date of Original | 1885 |
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 |
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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 |
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. |
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Transcript | VOL. XX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JUNE 27,1885. NO. 26 'Quevg & guxsium Give your name aud postofflce when asking questions. Many queries go unanswered for failure to 'of Russell's Cham- ,14th, 1882? and D. O. ins? who j '.s endure i. J. E. "Srer the JdrtttfJ. D. W. in v.- i'/hat Pleaso inform me where '»-. , cost I can secure a copy of Michigan State Horticultural Society report for 1884, noticed in your last number. A Sub. • Vincennes. Send 15 cents for postage to Chas. W. Garfield, Sec'y, Grand Rapids, Mich., andjj»"- he will send you a copy, we think When is the right time to sow buckwheat, and how much per acre? When is best time to plant late potatoes? "Hail destroyed all my wheat and I must try to raise something else. J. H. S. . New Augusta. Buckwheat should be sowed about the first of July—from two to three pecks per acre. The ground should be mellow and free from weeds. Late potatoes may be planted from the first to the tenth of July. We had a heavy frost on morning of the 9th. The ground was frozen and corn on low land was killed to the gronnd. What effect will the freeze have on wheat? Kosciusko Co. E. M. I. The effect ofthe freeze on the wheat that has headed out will be very disastrous. The wheat will probably grow as before, but the heads will be empty at harvest. So far north as you are we hop© the crop was not so far advanced as to be materially injured. The corn will soon come out again, and be as thrifty as ever. You will find enclosed a hair snake that turned to a snake from a horse hair. Please examine it through a microscope and report through the Farmer what it looks like. I also send a twig of a peach tree to show you what the locusts are doing for our small fruit trees. Wheat through these parts is at least ten per cent better than last year. Jasper Co. J. R. H. The hair snake is a parasite which is hatched ont in Insects like beetles or grasshoppers, like the tape worm in man, and developes in the warm water of ponds. This one is so small and dried up that it does not show up under our pocket lens. We will take it home and look at it under the microscope. The eggs of the locusts are very plainly to be seen under the glass. Their punctures will be very injurious to your fruit trees, but there seems to be no help for it. 1. Can anyone, alter taking a homestead on Government land, change to a preemption claim after six months residence on the land, and secure a deed for the land, by paying the Government price per acre for the land? 2. What portion of the land is required to be fenced or cultivated? 3. If timber land, how much must be cleared and fenced? A. subscriber. Shelbyvllle. 1. Yes. He may commute aa it is called; prove up and purchase, any time after six months. 2. No amount is designated. 3. Five acres the first year and same amount the second year. The second year the first five acres must be cultivated and the third year planted in trees, and so of the second five acres on the following years. At the time of final proof there must be not less than 675 thrifty, growing trees on the ten acres. At end of eight years final proof may be made. ,.l.^Vhat is the law on building school . 2.' n a trustee be compelled to build a stthool house? If so how many scholars would it take to establish a school house? 3. If the scholars were to live in three different townships would eaoh township have to help bear the expenses? A Reader, : 1. It Is one of the duties of the township trustee to build, or otherwise provide sultabls houses for schools., 2. If he fails to do this or any other duty ~At..~t.j^o»r.,HJxy person may maln- ..^,*us. una ior suoh offense, in the name of the State. Th&re is no definite number. The trustee uses his discretion in the matter. Generally 20 children are deemed a sufficient number to justify the building of a school house. 3. Yes, each must pay according to the number of children of school age. i send you an insect that has taken a great deal of my corn and also some of my neighbors' corn. What is it and is it likely to be more numerous next season? Please give the address of the Ohio Agricultural College. A reader. Andrews, Huntington Co. We forwarded the bugs to Prof. Webster, at Purdue, and here is his reply: Yours enclosing letter and samples of corn supposed to have been injured by insects also included, is at hand. The insect is a beetle, known as Agonoderun pallipes They are abundant every season, and are not considered injurious; their food, so far as known, consists largely of small insects including young clinch bugs, Aphides and others of this sort. It is not probable that they had anything to do with the injuries to the kernels of seed corn. From the appearance of these kernels, I should say that the seed was poor, and had failed to germinate, or at best sent out weak and insufficient roots. I have often observed, in precisely . similar cases, that after the kernel had been softened by moisture in the soil, the substance was excavated out and carried off by a very small yellow ant, Solonopsis fugax, Latr., and I presume the same is true in this case, and your correspondent has mistaken the author of the mischief. This sums all the more probable as the Agonoderus are quite common about cracks and crevices in cultivated fields. Lafayette. F. M. Webster. The address you want is Prof. W. R. Lazenby, director Experimental Station, Columbus, O. As many are in doubt as to the future market for small fruits, raspberries, strawberries, grapes, etc., please give your opinion through the Farmer. Will shipments from the south break down*4ne northern growers of fruit? Ib there a. prospect that the business will pay in future as it has in the past. Where can I get the Finley wheat for seod this fall. Is it a good variety for this State? Is raw ground limestone a good fertilizer for wheat and how is the best way to apply it, and where is it manufactured? A Subscriber. From inquiry atone of our best fruit commission houses we learn that the strawberry crop has not been much if any in excess of that of former years, but the season has been shorter than usual, and occasionally there has been a glut in the market for a short time. ■ Growers who have tended their berries well and had good crops have done better, even at the low prices, than they could in anything else perhaps. It will be so with raspberries and other small fruits. Those who raise the most to the acre and the finest will do well. The prices will not be so high as in former years probably, but fair prices for good fruit may always be expected. When prices run quite low the masses of the people begin to buy, and soon clean up the stock in the hands of dealers, and at once the price advances. In the meantime the common people have got a taste for fruit, and find that it saves in other food, and they are willing to pay a little more for it. So gradually the demand increases. Dealers do not think there is any danger of overproduction of good varieties of fruit, large er small. Probably the Sugar Valley Seed Company, of Thorntown, will advertise the Finley wheat in due time. Raw ground limestone is not very reliable on most of our Indiana soils. Your soil in Putnam county ought to have lime enough already. A bad his house insured last November in a reliable company, but not having the money at the time, the agent of tbe company advanced the money for him. In April A's house caught fire and burned down and on the same day A refunded the money to the agent that he had advanced for him in November. The agent took the money and told A that the policy was at his dwelling, and he would leave it in possession of a gentleman, a banker, who was present and heard the conversation. In a few hours afterward the agent heard that the house was burned, and refused to surrender the policy according to agreement. Can A recover anything for loss of property, the agent being worth several times the amount of A's insurance? C. W. H. A can recover his loss from the insurance company. T nxo gcpax'twtixi BY VINSON CARTER, ESQ., THIS ClTT. A marries a widow's daughter. The wife dies leaving a child; the child dies soon after. At the widow's death can A inherit any of the widow's property? A Subscriber. No. In putting in tile ditch can I make an outlet on my own land within a short distance from the line between me and my neighbor and not be liable to him for damage, that being the natural course for the water to flow? A. S. I. Yes. A owns a quarter section of land through which a creek flows. His father entered and received a patent from the United States Government, paying ?1 25 per acre for land and creek. Can the State make a law by which he will be debarred from fishing with net or seine in any part of creek that passes through said land? Parke Co, C. P. Yes. A man owns a machine on which the manufacturers have infringed on a patent, and he receives notice from the party owning the* patent to pay royalty for tho use of their patent, but say that he can continue to use the machine. Will he be released from paying royalty if he discontinues the use of machine, or will it make any difference in the law in the case, if he continues to use the machine, or on receipt of notice of royalty he sets the machine aside and gets a different machine. J. E. D. Any person using a patented article is liable fer royalty for the time he used the same; ceasing to use it does not release him from liability for past use. Letter from California. Editors Indiana Farmer: Spring has come and gone and now tho summer solstice is near at hand, but the weather is no warmer than that of last month, and indeed, as the season progresses onward.no progress is made in degrees of heat, it being cooler than some of the winter months. The latter rains came just in time to save our crops of barley and wheat and to add millions as it were to the wealth of Southern California. Had they not come till a week or two later, the crops would have been a failure and if tho rains had come abou t two weeks sooner, crops would have been better. However, we are content as it is and may be thankful, too. At San Gorgonis and Banning, east of this some twenty miles, there was moro rain and consequently better crops. AVe have been favored with good weather for curing hay and it is in excellent conditio so far. In some places towards the coast, it was damaged considerably by rain, which fell in greater quantity there. There have been cut two crops of alfalfa and some farmers have probably cut three. Every time after the hay is gathered In, the ground is irrigated afresh, preparatory to another crop, and so on through the season. Barley hay is quoted at ?7 50 to ?8 and No. 1 at ?9 50, alfalfa at ?10, and wheat hay at ?10, at Los Angeles. Butter is 20 to 25 cents per pound here. Honey is not in such quantities as last year and sells for about i% cents per pound. The sage bloom is scarcely so well developed as last year, on account of less rain. The early fruits, apricots, etc., are ripening, but they are scarce and the birds get the first and best choice, leaving the inferior kinds for us to use. Linnets and wild canaries are so destructive and numerous, the shotgun is put in requisition to save the fruit, and even the birds in their season. It looks cruel but it is necessary if you wish any apricots, of which the birds are excessively fond. Strawberries and raspberries have come and gone and now blackberries are coming on and will soon be ripe. Corn and durra,or dhoora, are getting up pretty well and perhaps we may have green corn by the 4th of July. As to vegetables, we are in the bad habit of being supplied by Chinamen, who dispose of them cheaper than we can afford to raise them ourselves, so people say, but It is merely an excuse for indolence, I think. I do assert that Americans can raise them as well, for I have seen the experiment tried with success. In washing, |however, a Chinaman is necessary. They have a persistent, patient, "get down to it" kind of way that no American can attain to. There's the rub. Excuse pun. J. M. T. Lugonia, Cal., Jnne 10. |
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