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VOL. XXX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., FEB. 2,1895. NO. 5. MecauX %cQisUtion. Editobs Indiana £'abmkb: As moat of the stook In j ared by careless hunters Is shot by those who own no prop erty in the country, would lt not be a good law that would make It a punishable offence for any one, not a land owner, to own or have in his possession either fowling pieceor.rlfl.? E E Heacock, Washington Co. —That would be too great a restriction on the rights of the citizen, but the man or boy with gun has no right to trespass on private property without permission from the owner. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb: I see in the good old Fabmeb tbat quite a number are writing on the road question. Now, the law is about ai gocd as you will get it, only there might be a little more tax levied so as to give the trustee enough to put in all bridges and culverts and grade the road and pay for the gravel. Then let the citizens haul the gravel on the roads free. Or let each one on the line to be graveled put on two yards for each acre they own on each side of the line, and the next one baok ot them one lead. They can thus make a road in two or three years and be out no inoney, thus saving court expenses also. J. S. Hoss. Hancock Co. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb: We, as farmers of the Gas belt and of the most favored part of Dataware Co., should look to our interests by appealing ' to our State paper and making known oui wants through you to our legislators 1st. We want the read law left as it is. 21. Cut all salaries from president to supervisor. 3d. A law governing our upper and lower courts. Here in Delaware Co., our circuit courts runabout 315 day** in the year, and our commissioner's conn runs whenever Muncie needs a new bridge and 1 think when they get a gas well on the poor farm, they will be able to run the year round. An Old Subscbibbb and Tax-payer. Delaware Co. the road law that will take the work out of the hands of the farmers and give it to professional jobbers. We are doing very well as it is, so let well enough alone. We need a fee and salary law that will be just; one that will not make men rich in one term. Repeal the law making county assessors. Simplify the election law so that a man of common sense can vote and have lt counted. The law that Is of the moat importance and spoken of the least is the liquor law. We need a radical change in that, so that it oan be executed when violated. It won"d not hurt my feelings if there was a strict prohibitory law passed, In fact I think it would be the best thiog for the people that the Legislature could do. If the party that now controls the legislature wishes to remain in power it had better lend a listening ear to those who are asking for something to be done to help in this great question. A great many men voted for the party that controls the Legislature, hoping that something might be done in this direction, and if there is not their votes will go somewhere else hereafter. W. J Morgan. Morgan Co. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb: Permit me to state through your needed legislative column that I desire a change in the liquor law of our State. I should prefer entire prohibition if such a thing were possible at the present time. If prohibition is not possible at present, then I am in favor of adopting the South Carolina dispensary system. We need a change that will close every saloon or dram shop in the State. The South Carolina plan will do it. Half a loaf is better than no bread. If liquor must ba Bold as a beverage the State "ought to handle it, and the whole traffic ba taken-out of the hands of individuals. If there is any profit in the liquor business the State ought to have it. Every dollar of it should go into the State treasury to help defray the expenses of the Slate and lessen the taxes of the people. 1 wish the Legislature would appropriate money for the construction of the State Soldiers' Home. I do not want the fish and game laws repealed. I do not believe in sending everybody to the alms house who happens to need a little temporary relief from the township occasionally. C. Eossomon. Lafayette. Editobs Indiana Fabmxb: I read with much interest the draft of the law regarding fish, orchards and gardens. I Immediately clipped it out and sent it to our senator. Judge Duncan, with the earnest request that he not only vote for it but do all in has power to get it passed. Living in the edge of a village I bave for years seen my orchards and vines stripped of their fruit, in my presence, oftentimes and literally no recourse was left me. Frequently the choice fruit I had tended and cared for expressly to give to some invalid was not only taken but the tree or vine, irreparably injured. As we bave no fruit market in the smaller towns and villages these losses are often irreparable. The second olaase of the law I con sider especially important. Please repub lish the proposed law with editorial comment. The enactment of suoh a law would give an impetus to trait culture that would result in lasting benefit to the State. Urge all your readers who are engaged in horti culture to write to their senators and representatives asking not only their support of this bill but requesting them to use their influence in securing other votes for its passag.. Laura D. Wobley EUettsville. —Mrs. Worley's suggestion is most ex callent. We urge our readers to follow up these needed legislation letters in the Fabmeb by personal letters to senators and representatives. If all who are interested will do as Mrs. Worley has done the desired legislation will be enacted, no doubt of it. Before we complain of the Legislature for not doing what we want done let us leave no effort undone in our power to make, to keep the members in mind of our wishes and hopes at their hands. to look after cannot take the time to compete with those "gentlemen of leisure;" and he dare not draw a seine, consequently he must buy his fi.h or do without. Then again there is a lawless element that is secretly and constantly using the seine, more greatly to their benefit, Inasmuch as no law abiding person would think of using a seine. 2: The quails; yes, the poor little, coveted Bob White. The fish do not come out in fields and orchards and eat up the chinch bugs, cut worms, eto., while the quail whioh is abundantly proven to be such a friend to our agricultural interests is pursued by whom? Onr same city friends above referred to. Yes, they can hardly wait until the date the law allows of their being killed, and I have heard of them starting -wl<h dog and gun before lt was fairly light to pursue and kill the farmer's best bird fil«nd, poor Bib White. I say to our honorable body of law makers, enact a law prohibiting their being killc d at any season of the year for a term of at least 10 year*?; or, what would be better, forever; yes, forever. Of course, we hear the argument that we had as well kill them as let them live just to freeze to death in winter. But my observat'on is that this is not the case. Ot course, there are some instances of whole coveyes being fonnd frozen, but it is the exception and not tbe rule. There are also many de- stoyed by hawks,#eto, but-the more we have the more there will be that will es cape. B F. C. Hob Roy. Editobs Indiana Fabmkb: I have been much Interested in the articles in the'Farmer oh legislation. Same of them look very sensible, and some of them look a good deal as though some f el - low wanted a job. We want no changes that will ~ make any more offices to fill or make taxes higher. We want no change in Editobs Indiana Fa3kkb: Another word or two in regard to needed legislation. Aside. from the saloon question, which is of eqnal imparlance to all the rest, the farmer needs some legislation for his protection and special benefit, and from the many suggestions that might be made I wish at tbis time to speak of two in particular: 1. Our present fish law. I do, indeed, concur with A. O , of Carroll county, and others on this subject, for it is surely an imposition for the farmer to see his city friends (?) and "gentlemen of leisure" basking on the sunny banks of the very streams which he (the farmer) pays tax on, and while he is trying to make a crop by hard and honest toll his fish are yanked out and appropriated for the benefit of others. The farmer who Is industrious and has muoh business Editobs Indiana Fabmeb: The farmers of the State, on the appreciated invitation of the editors of the Indiana Farmer, are, a few of them, suggesting some needed legislation for the action of the' present Legislature. I am afraid that most of these suggeUions will be forgotten or swallowed up in the more important (more Important in the estlma tion of the average law maker and profes s'.onal man) blennlel struggle of the In diana Universtty. Whether the Indiana University is to remain at Bloomington "forever," or whether it is to go to Indianapolis now or at any future time, is a question being a good deal discussed In some sections of the State. Whether this discussion is alto gether in the interest of education or whether there are other and less worthy factors at work to produce it I do not now wish to say. I have no intention, at this time, to take sides in the matter. But there is another phase of the universary question to which, it the editor will let me, I will devote a few sentences. Like the "horse leeches two daughters," this institution comes before the Legislature every session with the clamorous cry of "give, give." No matter how hard the times are, no matter how the working common people have to try and strain to make both ends meet; no matter how much more of the products of the farmer's toil a given amount of salary will buy, still there Is no let up to official and professional demands. Salaries mnst not only be sustained, but increased. These Cte.ars, no doubt, owing to the meat on whioh they feed, have grown so great as to feel themselves insulted it they are asked to share the lot of common mortals. The last sentence I would not have written but that I read the other day in a magazine "that a college-bred man was more than one hundred times the superior of other men." Now, while admitting the advantages and desirableness of education I do not believe a word of it, and I must be excused for challenging the statement. If the "other man" does not assert himself, there is danger that in these days of colleges and universities he will drop out of sight altogether. That there have been 1 many great men, and superior men, grad-1 uated from colleges none will deny. Bnt there have also been many miserable failures. There bave also been many great men, and • superior men, in all the useful walks of life, whose college education was very limited. Thanks to P.ovidence wearenot dependent upon college! for brains, although to some extent we may be for their cultivation. But this has been better pnt by another untitled man, than I can put it,and calling to mind the old adage that, "a man may as well be hanged for an old sheep as a lamb," I will quote it for the benefit of whom it may concern, hoping that the reader will not take me in earnest but in fun: "What's a' the J argon o' your sc hools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made ye to.Is, W hat sairs your gramme; s? Ye'nl better taen np spades and shools, Or knappin' hammers. "A set o' dnll conceited hashes Confnss their brains ln college clas.es. They gang In i tirks and come oat asses, Plain truth to speak; And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! "ale me ae spark o' nature's fl.e, That's a' the learning 1 desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub and jLlre, At pi .ugh or cart; My muse" tho homely in attire, ' May tench the heart." Now, in closing this article allow me ' to ask two or three questions: Should the State tax all the people for the benefit of a part? Is it any more the duty or province of the State to qualify men for the legal or medical profession than lt is to teach them to be blacksmiths or brickmakers? Does not experience teach that private enterprise and individual munificence will always furnish opportunities for the most advanced education to all who are fitted for It and desire it, and Is lt not, to say the least of it, a waste ot time and money to try to force it upon any othei? How many men who would have made excellent mechanics or farmers have we seen made wholly unfit for anything by the foolish and cruel endeavor to lift them to a position for which nature never Intended them? Have not private Institutions of learning turned out as well educated men as State institutions? Should the educational dnty and powers of the State extend further than to provide good and sufficient facilities for a oommon school education, equally in reach of all her chl.'dren? I leave these questions without argument lo the consideration of any who may think worth while to read them. Claud Hopper. My notation of Crops. Editobs Indiana Fabmxb: My regular rotation Is oorn, wheat and olover, 40 acres of each. I have raised -l.OOO bushels of wheat in the last four years; 40 acres each season, and not one grain of rye, chess, cockle or mustard. I pasture my clover, feed.out my hogs on the clover sod In the fall; put on 200 wegon loads of manure; plow deep with three horses In spring; thoroughly prepare the land and plant to corn, cultivate shallow and often. In the fall cut up all the corn and make the ground just like a garden bed, but use no fertilizer of any kind. I then sow to wheat with a two- horse drill. With this rotation I have not only raised heavy crops, but my land is getting better every year. Jay Co. Jacob Listenfelt. Editobs Indiana Fabmkb: I am having many enquiries for Bark- shires rttatlng they saw my sd in the Indiana Fabmeb. I have seme nice pigs old enough to ship now, also someyoungsows old enough to breed, all at reasonable prices if taken soon. Some bf them will make show animals. Wishing the Fabmeb success I remain, J. F. Elliott. Vincennes.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1895, v. 30, no. 05 (Feb. 2) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA3005 |
Date of Original | 1895 |
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 |
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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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VOL. XXX.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., FEB. 2,1895.
NO. 5.
MecauX %cQisUtion.
Editobs Indiana £'abmkb:
As moat of the stook In j ared by careless
hunters Is shot by those who own no prop
erty in the country, would lt not be a good
law that would make It a punishable offence for any one, not a land owner, to
own or have in his possession either fowling pieceor.rlfl.? E E Heacock,
Washington Co.
—That would be too great a restriction
on the rights of the citizen, but the man or
boy with gun has no right to trespass on
private property without permission from
the owner.
Editobs Indiana Fabmeb:
I see in the good old Fabmeb tbat quite
a number are writing on the road question.
Now, the law is about ai gocd as you will
get it, only there might be a little more tax
levied so as to give the trustee enough to
put in all bridges and culverts and grade
the road and pay for the gravel. Then let
the citizens haul the gravel on the roads
free. Or let each one on the line to be
graveled put on two yards for each acre
they own on each side of the line, and the
next one baok ot them one lead. They can
thus make a road in two or three years and
be out no inoney, thus saving court expenses also. J. S. Hoss.
Hancock Co.
Editobs Indiana Fabmeb:
We, as farmers of the Gas belt and of
the most favored part of Dataware Co.,
should look to our interests by appealing
' to our State paper and making known oui
wants through you to our legislators
1st. We want the read law left as it is.
21. Cut all salaries from president to
supervisor. 3d. A law governing our upper and lower courts. Here in Delaware
Co., our circuit courts runabout 315 day**
in the year, and our commissioner's conn
runs whenever Muncie needs a new bridge
and 1 think when they get a gas well on
the poor farm, they will be able to run
the year round.
An Old Subscbibbb and Tax-payer.
Delaware Co.
the road law that will take the work out
of the hands of the farmers and give it to
professional jobbers. We are doing very
well as it is, so let well enough alone. We
need a fee and salary law that will be just;
one that will not make men rich in one
term. Repeal the law making county assessors. Simplify the election law so that
a man of common sense can vote and have
lt counted. The law that Is of the moat
importance and spoken of the least is the
liquor law. We need a radical change in
that, so that it oan be executed when violated. It won"d not hurt my feelings if
there was a strict prohibitory law passed,
In fact I think it would be the best thiog
for the people that the Legislature could
do. If the party that now controls the legislature wishes to remain in power it had
better lend a listening ear to those who are
asking for something to be done to help in
this great question. A great many men
voted for the party that controls the Legislature, hoping that something might be
done in this direction, and if there is not
their votes will go somewhere else hereafter. W. J Morgan.
Morgan Co.
Editobs Indiana Fabmeb:
Permit me to state through your needed
legislative column that I desire a change
in the liquor law of our State. I should
prefer entire prohibition if such a thing
were possible at the present time. If prohibition is not possible at present, then I
am in favor of adopting the South Carolina dispensary system. We need a change
that will close every saloon or dram shop
in the State. The South Carolina plan
will do it. Half a loaf is better than no
bread. If liquor must ba Bold as a beverage the State "ought to handle it, and the
whole traffic ba taken-out of the hands of
individuals. If there is any profit in the
liquor business the State ought to have it.
Every dollar of it should go into the State
treasury to help defray the expenses of
the Slate and lessen the taxes of the people.
1 wish the Legislature would appropriate
money for the construction of the State
Soldiers' Home.
I do not want the fish and game laws repealed.
I do not believe in sending everybody
to the alms house who happens to need a
little temporary relief from the township
occasionally. C. Eossomon.
Lafayette.
Editobs Indiana Fabmxb:
I read with much interest the draft of
the law regarding fish, orchards and gardens. I Immediately clipped it out and
sent it to our senator. Judge Duncan, with
the earnest request that he not only vote
for it but do all in has power to get it
passed. Living in the edge of a village I
bave for years seen my orchards and vines
stripped of their fruit, in my presence,
oftentimes and literally no recourse was
left me. Frequently the choice fruit I had
tended and cared for expressly to give to
some invalid was not only taken but the
tree or vine, irreparably injured. As we
bave no fruit market in the smaller towns
and villages these losses are often irreparable. The second olaase of the law I con
sider especially important. Please repub
lish the proposed law with editorial comment.
The enactment of suoh a law would give
an impetus to trait culture that would result in lasting benefit to the State. Urge
all your readers who are engaged in horti
culture to write to their senators and representatives asking not only their support
of this bill but requesting them to use
their influence in securing other votes for
its passag.. Laura D. Wobley
EUettsville.
—Mrs. Worley's suggestion is most ex
callent. We urge our readers to follow up
these needed legislation letters in the
Fabmeb by personal letters to senators
and representatives. If all who are interested will do as Mrs. Worley has done the
desired legislation will be enacted, no
doubt of it. Before we complain of the
Legislature for not doing what we want
done let us leave no effort undone in our
power to make, to keep the members in
mind of our wishes and hopes at their
hands.
to look after cannot take the time to compete with those "gentlemen of leisure;"
and he dare not draw a seine, consequently he must buy his fi.h or do without.
Then again there is a lawless element that
is secretly and constantly using the seine,
more greatly to their benefit, Inasmuch as
no law abiding person would think of
using a seine.
2: The quails; yes, the poor little,
coveted Bob White. The fish do not come
out in fields and orchards and eat up the
chinch bugs, cut worms, eto., while the
quail whioh is abundantly proven to be
such a friend to our agricultural interests
is pursued by whom? Onr same city
friends above referred to. Yes, they can
hardly wait until the date the law allows
of their being killed, and I have heard of
them starting -wl |
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