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VOL. XXII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JAN. 29,1887. NO. 5 THE STATS FAIR REMOVAL QUESTION. We are requested to publish the following letter from Mr. L. S. PI tort, secretary of the Door Prairie Live-stock Association ..to Robert Mitchell,of the State Board. The statements made by Mr. Fitch in his letter, which was read before the Board- seem to have had great weight with that body, and to have done more than anything else to rev-joe the-r action of last year as to relocating tbe grounds. In view of this fact we feel warranted in giving the letter place in our columns. Our remarks on the letter will be found on the editorial page. As I understand there will bean effort made at tbe Teeting. f Delegate State Board of Agriculture to change the location ot Stat** fair grounds, allow me as one o* our firm, and an exhibitor at *rom two to fou State fairs acu year, during ihe last four years, to relate our exp rien e in eettliig to and from the 8ta'e fa r grounds. We find that exhibitors are usually from oue to four days ln arriving at fairgrounds, thus giving reasonable time for ra'l- roads to han<U > their cars, and exhibl'orsare usually not delayed to «xceed six hours ln getting to grou ids; but when the fair closes all want to ship out at once, and no cue line of railroad can handle carsard get exhl *ltor* shipped out without delay. Cars are scattered along heir roads from six to IS n* ties distant on side tracks, and trainmen bring them lu as they are run < ut, regardless of the urgency of exhibitors In reaching ntbc* Stale fair*, because it takes too much time to get one or two cars out from a lot of cars on oue track and two or more from another. Train men like to ac ommoda'e and promise to do lt, but tbe cars fail to arrive, and the platforms at fair grout-dsonly being used once or twice a year ihey are generally shore and can only load four to six cars at a time. We have been delayed ln loading 14 hours at Detroit, Michigan, State fair; 16 hours at Colnmhu-*, Ohio; 12 at Chlcago.even when they loaded Blight aud day all the time, aud care were ordered two days before we could possibly ship out. No one line ef transfer cau handle '2/ 0 to 400 cara and get them loaded and shipped ont without delay to some, but when divided among 6, 8 or 0different railroad lines they can load easily and ^et out In good time. WeU do I remember the greeting you gave me ln Chicago this year on arriving at fair gr*. mid aud cur hors-s were ordered Into the show before we arrived or could get unloaded having been three days and three night' lu car, a delay of 32 hours, all owing to transfers at bt th ends of the route, Indlanapolla and Chicago. We arrived ln Chicago at 2 a. m. aud bad four changes of train men before we could get to fair ground. Freight bills were "all right and prepaid, but nightman in freight olli^e had seen no.fair bills before and would not ilgn them o. k.,although I ofler ed tojeave drafts lu pay meut and give reference so that be rxlght be safe; two cars stock were h?ld until day clerk came around, then sent over to C, B. and Q. yard, and left again until tbey could telegraph fair greund for engine to ccme and take us In because they only used one. engtt.a to do tbe transfer work at fair ground. These a-e part of our trials and delays with transfers at fair grounds. Your grounds are ln good location, aud no <* el ay tu getting there, all railroads h«ve platforms long enough to load and unload 10 to 20 cars,and we never bave been delayed in Indianapolis to exceed two hours. Usually in au hour we are unloaded and eu route to fair ground. You always have to haul or lead to the stalls, and after you have your m<m and wagon you can as well travel two miles as only half a mile and just as cheap as the railroad transfer. Then lu shipping out you order your car to load for a certain train, ana tlie yard master will always have car placed to load, and the train will wait until you are ready, but not so with the transfer, as you cannot promise when you wiil reach their yard, and when you do get there they send you on first train. Again, tbe publ'c in vlslt'ngyour fair ground,want to see your city and the best portion of It, and In passing through generally do some little shopping, buying mementoes of the trip and presents for those at home. This is a benefit to the business houses and no doubt they will acknowledge i*. Your street car line is improving each year ln handling passengers and by running around the louplt only depends on tbe number of cars us-d to handle any number . or passengers. I admit your grounds are small, but you can add a ■mail tract on north side and make far better grounds than to change. Also, the public ln viewing the exhibits appreciate their being closs together and can lcok all over the ItSOk and Implements lu half the time aa wheu scattered, and the exercise so much less they are apt to come again next day. These and many others not mentioned form the advantages of yonr present grounds. ghe gatru. W*-*.*tjj.d for th«» Indiana Parmer. HOW TO MAKE OOOD BUTTER AND DISPOSE Of IT 10 MAKE MONET. Selection of Cows, Care and Management in Every Particular for a Small Dairy. It may seem like presumption in any one to assume tbat they know how to make good batter ;as though every farmer's wife did not know how; and according to oar oountry village grocery keeper's talk, they do. Every onn claims to make as gocd batter as any one, and if the grocers do not acknowledge it by paying the top prices, they will move their trade and taereis no convincing them other wise. Bat I believe differently. 1 know they can and do know that there is a difference in butter and like nearly every other occupa pation some su -coed and others fail; some -ire anxious to learn and others care noth tng aoout it. Having over 50 years experience and always a great lover of good sweet butter and willing and anxious to learn at all times and from any one I oould—it does seem like I ought to know how to make good butter and care fur it. In order to make good butter there are several things necessary. lst,you must like the business. 2d, you muse have cows. 3d, tbey must be well cared for with best of grass and feed. 4th, yon must have a good place to keep the milk and cream 5th, the milk must be skimmed at the right time,and oream must be in the right condition for churning,and ohurned when ripe and at the right temperature, ti.h, it must be properly worked, carefully salted and packed away for market. Now as a failure in any one ot these, makes a partial failure in all, I will consider each part separately. 1. In liking the business I mean that you must take a pride in every part, be willing to acknowledge that you do by a willingness to show any one that is a learner or anxious to see how such good sweet butter is made around,and show the care and pains taken in every part,and in particular, in keeping the pans or cans olean and well scalded, sweetened by sun- nlng or heating; that care is taken in the cloths, churn, and every thing is kept clean and nice. It is your business and by so doing you a t vertise it. And in regard to the 3d thing mentioned: We know that a great deal depends on the cows, and unless we have good ones we shall make a partial failure. I have tried a great many cows, and have had some good ones and some not good. I have tried the native, the Shorthorn, Durham, Devons, Jerseys and their crosses. My preference for buttei■_,/■,','"» time would be the Jerseys. In selecting, whilst there are many signs to go by, I prefer the sign of a milking set away and examined in 12, 24, and 36 hours. Then churn some of the cream when right.and yeu can judge knowingly. Out side of this I would choose a oow with small short head and neck, Ught before and heavy behind with a good large paunch, for a cow to give much milk must have a place to hold food and be a good feeder. She ought to have a good soft greasy skin and yellow, with a good escutcheon, with a broad, large udder and not flashy, with good large teats that milk easy. But not so as to waste or lose her milk, and with largi milk veins. I would select one the cream raises on soon, say 24 hours, of compact, and waxy appearance and not to go dry longer than six weeks, and if I had to milk till came in fresh all the better. I have had just such cows, and would make from 10 to 14 lbs. per cow a week. I wc uld rather have one such cow than two ordinary cows, and with from 4 to 6 suoh oows,and arrange that they should be from 2 to 3 months apart in be ing fresh, you can make bntter the whole year wbich is necessary if you sell butter at a good price, as individuals want that age butter all the year. In regard to the 31 essential mentioned, if you have good c >ws you cannot proceed unless the cows have proper feed and attention. We all know how a field of rag weed spoils the ou-.ter and milk, how turnips, oil meal, cabbage or bitter weeds of most any kind spoil the milk and butter, so we ought to have nice blue grass or timothy pastures for them to run on. Evon olover gives butter and milk an unpleasant taste. Water ought to be pure spring or well water, instead of drinking out of puddles and pools gathered as dralniDgs from manure heaps. I have seen cattle drink from pools they stand in to fight off the flies, and into which all kinds of filth flow. Running up from pasture by dogs, or careless boys, heating the milk injures lt and tells in the butter. In winter cows will give more and better milk If given clean water with a few bnndfuls of braa, warmed enough to take off the chill. They should be fed and kept in warm stables in winter and well cleaned out once or twice a day; if not the milk and butter will taste of the stench of the stab'.es. Plenty of good olean olover or timothy hay out up and wet, with some bran mixed through it will increase the milk and butter. Cows treated kindly when milked do much better than ill- treated. The +.h thing is very essential and without whioh we surely would fail, and that is, a good plaoe to keep the milk and cream and butter, particularly in hot and warm weather. The best placa for it is a nioe cool spring house, well aired, with the water running half way up the pan or oan from a spring. This water running through a stone or cement trough large enough for all the milk, butter and oream is so nioe. Fruit, vegetables, and victuals should be kept out, as the least smell so easily spoils the cream and gives it a bad taste. I have never been so fortunate as to have a spring, but put up and use ice, which is the next best thing. I use large boxes set in an airy piace,some two by nine feet inside, made double and lined in bot torn with sheet iron or zinc aad filled ln with powdered charcoal. J. T. Richmond, Ind. [Conoluded next week] QbzxxzxixI 2Jjeius. In St. Lou's there is one saloon to every 175 Inhabitants, and one church to every 2,800. Near Atwater, 0., a farmer gathered laat sea«on 1,073 bushels of oorn from less than eight acres of land. Statistics ot last year's labor strikes show that at one time or anoth«r daring the year 450,000 laborers too k part in them. Quails are dying oft in large numbers in the neighborhood of Bloomington. The extreme oold weather is the cause. Goody ear's india-rubber glove factory at Naugacuck bas Bhucdown for wantof coal, throwing 1 000 hands out of employment. Among the curious things noted by Michigan hunters are the great scarcity of rabbits and the increase in the number ot foxes. The live stock of the late S.muel J. Tilden was Bold at auction 1 st week and brought (7395.50—about a q i arter of Ita cost. The Cincinnati superior court bas decided that the D >w liquor tax law is constitutional and applicable to wholesale dealers. A gang of Mexican thieves and murderers is at wotk in New Mexico, and the people are very muoh wrought up over their outrages. A great deal of wonder is expressed over the conduct of a young woman of Chicago who deolares her intention of marrying Anarchist Spies. A large cake of ice, cut from the Illlnola river, near Ottawa, contained the body of a man frozen ln the middle of it. The dead man was Joseph Johnson, of Peru. The ending of the prolonged drouth ln California by general rains has allayed fears of a failure of the California wheat crop and restored confidence tn the wheat market at home and abroad. Over 52,090,000 bushels of grain were shipped from this oountry during the year I88ti, and of all the vessels in whioh thia product of our soil was carried not one floated the American flag. A number of geological specimens have been discovered in excavations at a ooal mine near Santa Rosa, Cal, among them beds of olam shells, looking fresh and bright, as if just taken from their native bed. Several Milwaukee business men have been swindled out of (50 apiece by contracting to advertise in a life of General Logan, to be published under the auspices of the Q. A. R. That organization denies any knowledge of the book. The government of Belgium haa Introduced ln Parliament a bill to suppress drunkenness. It provides that drunkards in public places and publicans serving drunkards or children shall be fined and imprisoned, and that debts incurred in purchasing intoxicants shall not be recoverable. Only 20 per cent of the population ot Pennsylvania are farmers and her lands were returned in 1880 at $49 per acre, and the average general produot of eaoh farmworker was (100. Georgia has 75 per cent, of her population on the farms, and her farming lands average (4 per acre, and the average of farm labor la (140 per annum.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1887, v. 22, no. 05 (Jan. 29) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2205 |
Date of Original | 1887 |
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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Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
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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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VOL. XXII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JAN. 29,1887.
NO. 5
THE STATS FAIR REMOVAL QUESTION.
We are requested to publish the following letter from Mr. L. S. PI tort, secretary
of the Door Prairie Live-stock Association ..to Robert Mitchell,of the State Board.
The statements made by Mr. Fitch in his
letter, which was read before the Board-
seem to have had great weight with that
body, and to have done more than anything else to rev-joe the-r action of last
year as to relocating tbe grounds. In view
of this fact we feel warranted in giving
the letter place in our columns. Our remarks on the letter will be found on the
editorial page.
As I understand there will bean effort made at
tbe Teeting. f Delegate State Board of Agriculture
to change the location ot Stat** fair grounds, allow
me as one o* our firm, and an exhibitor at *rom two
to fou State fairs acu year, during ihe last four
years, to relate our exp rien e in eettliig to and
from the 8ta'e fa r grounds. We find that exhibitors are usually from oue to four days ln arriving at
fairgrounds, thus giving reasonable time for ra'l-
roads to han their cars, and exhibl'orsare usually not delayed to «xceed six hours ln getting to
grou ids; but when the fair closes all want to ship
out at once, and no cue line of railroad can handle
carsard get exhl *ltor* shipped out without delay.
Cars are scattered along heir roads from six to IS
n* ties distant on side tracks, and trainmen bring
them lu as they are run < ut, regardless of the urgency of exhibitors In reaching ntbc* Stale fair*, because it takes too much time to get one or two cars
out from a lot of cars on oue track and two or more
from another. Train men like to ac ommoda'e and
promise to do lt, but tbe cars fail to arrive, and the
platforms at fair grout-dsonly being used once or
twice a year ihey are generally shore and can only
load four to six cars at a time. We have been delayed ln loading 14 hours at Detroit, Michigan, State
fair; 16 hours at Colnmhu-*, Ohio; 12 at Chlcago.even
when they loaded Blight aud day all the time, aud
care were ordered two days before we could possibly
ship out. No one line ef transfer cau handle '2/ 0
to 400 cara and get them loaded and shipped ont
without delay to some, but when divided among 6, 8
or 0different railroad lines they can load easily and
^et out In good time. WeU do I remember the greeting you gave me ln Chicago this year on arriving at
fair gr*. mid aud cur hors-s were ordered Into the
show before we arrived or could get unloaded having been three days and three night' lu car, a delay
of 32 hours, all owing to transfers at bt th ends of the
route, Indlanapolla and Chicago. We arrived ln
Chicago at 2 a. m. aud bad four changes of train
men before we could get to fair ground. Freight
bills were "all right and prepaid, but nightman in
freight olli^e had seen no.fair bills before and would
not ilgn them o. k.,although I ofler ed tojeave drafts
lu pay meut and give reference so that be rxlght be
safe; two cars stock were h?ld until day clerk came
around, then sent over to C, B. and Q. yard, and left
again until tbey could telegraph fair greund for engine to ccme and take us In because they only used
one. engtt.a to do tbe transfer work at fair ground.
These a-e part of our trials and delays with transfers at fair grounds.
Your grounds are ln good location, aud no <* el ay
tu getting there, all railroads h«ve platforms long
enough to load and unload 10 to 20 cars,and we never
bave been delayed in Indianapolis to exceed two
hours. Usually in au hour we are unloaded and eu
route to fair ground. You always have to haul or
lead to the stalls, and after you have your m |
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