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VOL, XXX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., FEB. 16,1895. %fre&e& ^CQislntion. Thjs remainder of our communications on Needed Legislation -we shall be compelled to conderse. They have overwhelmed us. ' W. I*. Hall, Rash oounty, wants the liquor traffic*, legislated clear out of existence. This is the best thing the Leglsla ture can do for the people. XJ. Q. R, Fountain county, says his township owns 4o5 dogs and yet the sheep funds are |500 behind. A better dog law is needed. A tag law will do. War. Adams, of Clarke county, wants a law to enoourage fencing along the highways. It is almost impossible to drive a herd of cattle to market where the farms are not enclosed. J. H., Obanqb county, says compel sup ervisors to grade roads in spring and haul gravel by the yard. Revive the tag law for dogs. Spare the quails for five j ens. Reduce salaries. Amend the bird law. A Carroll oounty subscriber is opposed to the attorney fee clause on notes, and thinks that justices of the peaie and constables should attend to the collecting business. He also demands reduction of salaries. "Tippecanoe Couuty" says enact a law to prohibit killing quails at any time. It is not the extreme oold that is eztermlnat ing the quails; it is men and idle boys with gun and dog. We once fed a flack that sheltered under an old building during the old weather. Coming ont in spring in fine condition only to be entirely "cleaned out" the next fall by men and boys who watched to sea me leave for a day in the city.' He also wants a stringent law against trespassing and one to abolish the offioe of county assessor. A Voter at New Amsterdam, says: The people are expecting this Republican Leg islature to give them at least a small crumb in favor of temperance, and also we need a radical change in our school laws. Steps should be taken on compulsory education. There are too many boys and girls too, loafing about town, who should be in school. Their parents are ignorant and will not make the children attend sohool and as a safeguard to the future generations, the law should compel their attendance. Editobs Indiana Fabiikb: I would like to hear something on our free gravel road law. "While most town ships in this county have a levy of 10 cents on the {100 for road purposes, our free gravel road levy is 15 >4 cents on the f 100. I think there is fully four times more road work done 'with the 10 cent levy than there i- vs ith the 15)4 cent levy. I favor putting our free gravel roads under the same supervision that our other roads are under, and do away with our free gravel road superintendents^ and relieve our county comnissioners of the burden (?) of having to meet every fsw days to do gravel road business. C. B Huntington Co. . Xtotobs Indiana Fabmeb: I think the road law should be amended so that the time can be extended until the 1st of November for the spring work, that the law now requires shall be done during the months of April, May and June. Most of the effeotnal work done on the roads is in hauling gravel This is fully recognized by farmers generally. If the law was so amended, the supervisor could order out men enough to do what grading was necessary during the early part of the season and let the bulk of the work go in graveling. Ab the law is he must work the men before the 1st of July or not at all. The law allows 40 days limit for supervisors to re ceive pay. This is wrong and should be oorreoted. In some densely-populated districts, like In this township, I know of supervisors having to work 10 days extra and receive no pay, so as to complete their work. How can we expect a man who has any business c»pabillties tb work for and take and interest in our road work at the magnificent sum of f60 per annum. Most any of us will pay a fine before we would serve. They should be paid for time actually put in, and a sworn statement required. It would not be a very hard matter to "get on to them" if there were any false returns. Farmer. Munoie. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb; I see quite a number of suggestions for better legislation, I will also add my mite. A law to reduce the rate of interest to five or six per cent would be worth more to the people of this State than any one law that I can think of. More than 90 per cent of all the bnsiness is done on creditor borrowed capital and as a matter of fact the consumer (thepoor man) pays it all. Another: A law to prohibit towns or oities that have schools and school officers of their own, from voting for township trustees. We have no cay in their elections and they should have none in ours. A good local option liquor law; or better a State dispensary law and have the profits all go into tha State treasury. - We do not want our State militia increased. We are not quite ready for Germany and Russia's plan yet. Even if we have got the foreign money power system this is curse enough for this century. Abolish county assessors. Reduce salaries from governor down to trustee. An officer should have no more than his services would demand in other vocations.- Our court expenses need trimming down largely. Reduce railroad passenger fares to two cents per mile and freight rates in proportion. Prohibit quail kiUing for at least five years.; A greater limit to the power of county commissioners and township trustees. Our road law will do very well if we will elect good supervisors. W. Cory. Anderson. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb: We read eaoh week with interest the many communications concerning needed legislation, which we all should feel interested in, and if any of us can give a point to our legislators through the press that will be a marked benefit to not only farm- eis but to those of every occupation within our limits, let us be improving the time while our editor invites suoh communications to the columns of the best paper of its kind published. I am opposed to levying any higher taxes on the people for we hear them everywhere crying for reduction. How can the poor indebted farmers pay higher taxes, when they have to scrimp to pay interes:? Let us compare a few occupations: Does any officer work for half price? Will the president and all others down to township officers reduce 50 per cent, as did the farraei? Will onr doctor likewise reduce 50 per cent? Will lawyers, railroads and many others reduce to 50 cents on Jl? No, they won't drop from 100 cents to 50. There is nothing to compel them to do so, but the poor fanner had to reduce to £0 per cent. I think officers, doctors, lawyers acd all others Bhould be willing to equalize with farmers by a liberal reduction. A double tax on the high salary men would not be unreasonable or much out of proportion. Lawmakers are to blame for not equalizing things. Why do these men receive such salaries? Because the laws so provides. Farmers want quails protected as hunters are invading farmers lands endangering the lives of the occupants while they are trying to crib their corn before winter comes on. There is no use of talking gravel roads when there is no gravel in 40 miles so we have to be content with clay roads. To ship gravel would cost each man a good sized farm and a great amount of labor. As to taxing people for the purpose of curing drunkards by the Keeley cure I would say if you tax any on e tax the saloon keeper for the cure of those who they have made sick. Equalization and justice to all is what we want on taxes my friends. A Farmer Citizbn. hauler gets on lt with his heavy weight, cuts it to pieces, and calls on the men who made him a gift of it to repair it. Don't be ungrateful? They say to these men who built it, you must repair it, and the law says that too. Is it just? I say no. Let those that dance pay the fiddler. Clinton Co. S Kyqer. Editobs Indiana Farmer: As this question appears to be up at this special time, I will give you my views with the rest ef the road men. I think the mud roads a thing of the past. It is only a matter of a little time until 8.1 roads will be gravel, our present law as to building and keeping in repair of gravel roads makes them too expensive. A better and cheaper law is what we want. I would endorse the gravel road Jaw as it now is up to the letting of the road to be built. I would pull up stakes right the. e. Take it out of the hands of the oounty commissioners and engineer and put it under the management or the stock holders of the road to built. Let them mset and agree or elect a suitable number of stockholders to superintend the building of said road, fix a pric9 for their services not to exceed two dollars per day. By so doing we can cons'aruot a better road and save quite a margin cf cost. First we save cost of advertising. "We also cut olf the f3 50 a day of eaoh commissioner and engineer fees; quite a nice little sum of cost. We save also all profits of contractor, a great amount of trouble, in calling on the commissioners about the quantity and quality of gravel to be put on the road; as under this plan of building a road it is nobody's business but the men that have their money in the road. If there should be dissatisfaotion in quality of gravel or anything else call the stockholders together aud let the majority decide the question. It they decide to get gravel some place away it is no contractors' business, because their are none, the stockholders under this law would have all the say. Xamsa'i.fied we would gat a great deal cheaper and better road than under the present law. I would also change the law on repairing gravel roads. I think tbis the worst part of it, or most expensive, I would put this fully under the control of the stock holder. Let them select some of their members, to superintend keeping tbe road in order, give him a fair price for his service and pay so much a load or yard for hauling and giving the stock holders the preference of hauling. By this plan you take this power out of the commissioners hands of appointing a superintendent of the road. I think this the best move made yet in economy. I come now to a point where my views are not popular with the masses of people. I would make all roads, built under this new law we are making, toll roads. I believe the land owners on the line of road should build theroad.but I don't think they should keep it in order for other persons to tear up and wear out, at no cost to them. Now, Mr. Editor, what would you think of me or of a law that would force or compel you, if you made a gift of yonr office all in good running order to me and in six months I would call on you for a new press and type? "Would you not think It an unjust law and me an ungrateful man? I think this is parallel with the gravel road law of to day. The stockholder builds the road, pays for it, gives It to the public free of cost in good running order; the log Institutes, Wr have received the program of the Farmers' Institute to be held at the court house at Wabash on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22 and 23. Marion county institute will be held at Bridgeport Friday and Saturday, the 15th and 16th inst. An attractive program has been prepared and a good time is expected. Wr are indebted to Louisa Deist, of Nashville, fora report of the Brown county institute. There is so much of instruction to be gained by those attending these institutes that no farmer can fcff.rd to miss. KOSCIUSKO COUNTY. We had a very successful three days' Farmers' Institute, with an c instant average attendance of 500, plus a few hundred more transients, owing to lack of even standing room. We were highly entertained and instructed by Mrs. Meredith and Hon J. A. Mount, who I fear were taxed to the extreme limit of endurance, and by Messrs. Bartholomew and Mehl, of Elkhart county. Mrs. Eph. Wells, of this county, in a well prepared and highly appreciated paper, showed the duties and influence of the wife and mother in the farmers' families and demonstrated the fact that there is a work in every Farmers' Institute that woman only can fill, and no program is complete without that place supplied by a farmer's wife or daughter. The general trend of the thought of the institute was along the three lines essential to agricultural progress, viz: Observation, scientific Investigation and common sense. By observation efidots are discovered and noted. By scientific research,the facta of observation are traced back to their true cause and the true relation of effect to its remotest cause that can be modified or influenced by man's efforts is made known. By common sense the best use is made of the knowledge revealed by observation and science to improve and lessen the cost of all kinds of crops and farm animals. Without a knowledge of immediate and remote causes, and without the power to modify any of those causes, improvement would be impossible. A study of the effects upon animals by a change in food, care and protection; and upon plants by croplng, cultivation and fertilization Is absolutely necessary for the farmer of the present. A resolution asking our Legislature to increase the State appropriation for Farmers' Institutes from f 5,000 to f 10,000 was passed. Also one that provision be made to teach the effects of alcoholic liquors upon the human system in our public schools. And that our Legislature be petitioned to establish a State Normal Sohool in the north paat of the State. Warsaw would be a good place. Kosciusko Co. e F. Diehl. Editobs Indiana Fabmkb: How many bushels of the following seeds does it take to sow one aore: Corn, oats, wheat and potatoes. Kindly answer ln your next paper and oblige. A SUBSCRIBER. Of corn about one and one-half to two bushels, oats from two to five pecks, wheat from three to five pecks, potatoes, plant about eight bushels. "Grandpa," said a small boy to his grandfather, who possessed a complete Bet of false teeth, "do you put your teeth outside your bedroom door with your boots to be cleaned?''
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1895, v. 30, no. 07 (Feb. 16) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA3007 |
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. |
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, XXX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., FEB. 16,1895. %fre&e& ^CQislntion. Thjs remainder of our communications on Needed Legislation -we shall be compelled to conderse. They have overwhelmed us. ' W. I*. Hall, Rash oounty, wants the liquor traffic*, legislated clear out of existence. This is the best thing the Leglsla ture can do for the people. XJ. Q. R, Fountain county, says his township owns 4o5 dogs and yet the sheep funds are |500 behind. A better dog law is needed. A tag law will do. War. Adams, of Clarke county, wants a law to enoourage fencing along the highways. It is almost impossible to drive a herd of cattle to market where the farms are not enclosed. J. H., Obanqb county, says compel sup ervisors to grade roads in spring and haul gravel by the yard. Revive the tag law for dogs. Spare the quails for five j ens. Reduce salaries. Amend the bird law. A Carroll oounty subscriber is opposed to the attorney fee clause on notes, and thinks that justices of the peaie and constables should attend to the collecting business. He also demands reduction of salaries. "Tippecanoe Couuty" says enact a law to prohibit killing quails at any time. It is not the extreme oold that is eztermlnat ing the quails; it is men and idle boys with gun and dog. We once fed a flack that sheltered under an old building during the old weather. Coming ont in spring in fine condition only to be entirely "cleaned out" the next fall by men and boys who watched to sea me leave for a day in the city.' He also wants a stringent law against trespassing and one to abolish the offioe of county assessor. A Voter at New Amsterdam, says: The people are expecting this Republican Leg islature to give them at least a small crumb in favor of temperance, and also we need a radical change in our school laws. Steps should be taken on compulsory education. There are too many boys and girls too, loafing about town, who should be in school. Their parents are ignorant and will not make the children attend sohool and as a safeguard to the future generations, the law should compel their attendance. Editobs Indiana Fabiikb: I would like to hear something on our free gravel road law. "While most town ships in this county have a levy of 10 cents on the {100 for road purposes, our free gravel road levy is 15 >4 cents on the f 100. I think there is fully four times more road work done 'with the 10 cent levy than there i- vs ith the 15)4 cent levy. I favor putting our free gravel roads under the same supervision that our other roads are under, and do away with our free gravel road superintendents^ and relieve our county comnissioners of the burden (?) of having to meet every fsw days to do gravel road business. C. B Huntington Co. . Xtotobs Indiana Fabmeb: I think the road law should be amended so that the time can be extended until the 1st of November for the spring work, that the law now requires shall be done during the months of April, May and June. Most of the effeotnal work done on the roads is in hauling gravel This is fully recognized by farmers generally. If the law was so amended, the supervisor could order out men enough to do what grading was necessary during the early part of the season and let the bulk of the work go in graveling. Ab the law is he must work the men before the 1st of July or not at all. The law allows 40 days limit for supervisors to re ceive pay. This is wrong and should be oorreoted. In some densely-populated districts, like In this township, I know of supervisors having to work 10 days extra and receive no pay, so as to complete their work. How can we expect a man who has any business c»pabillties tb work for and take and interest in our road work at the magnificent sum of f60 per annum. Most any of us will pay a fine before we would serve. They should be paid for time actually put in, and a sworn statement required. It would not be a very hard matter to "get on to them" if there were any false returns. Farmer. Munoie. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb; I see quite a number of suggestions for better legislation, I will also add my mite. A law to reduce the rate of interest to five or six per cent would be worth more to the people of this State than any one law that I can think of. More than 90 per cent of all the bnsiness is done on creditor borrowed capital and as a matter of fact the consumer (thepoor man) pays it all. Another: A law to prohibit towns or oities that have schools and school officers of their own, from voting for township trustees. We have no cay in their elections and they should have none in ours. A good local option liquor law; or better a State dispensary law and have the profits all go into tha State treasury. - We do not want our State militia increased. We are not quite ready for Germany and Russia's plan yet. Even if we have got the foreign money power system this is curse enough for this century. Abolish county assessors. Reduce salaries from governor down to trustee. An officer should have no more than his services would demand in other vocations.- Our court expenses need trimming down largely. Reduce railroad passenger fares to two cents per mile and freight rates in proportion. Prohibit quail kiUing for at least five years.; A greater limit to the power of county commissioners and township trustees. Our road law will do very well if we will elect good supervisors. W. Cory. Anderson. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb: We read eaoh week with interest the many communications concerning needed legislation, which we all should feel interested in, and if any of us can give a point to our legislators through the press that will be a marked benefit to not only farm- eis but to those of every occupation within our limits, let us be improving the time while our editor invites suoh communications to the columns of the best paper of its kind published. I am opposed to levying any higher taxes on the people for we hear them everywhere crying for reduction. How can the poor indebted farmers pay higher taxes, when they have to scrimp to pay interes:? Let us compare a few occupations: Does any officer work for half price? Will the president and all others down to township officers reduce 50 per cent, as did the farraei? Will onr doctor likewise reduce 50 per cent? Will lawyers, railroads and many others reduce to 50 cents on Jl? No, they won't drop from 100 cents to 50. There is nothing to compel them to do so, but the poor fanner had to reduce to £0 per cent. I think officers, doctors, lawyers acd all others Bhould be willing to equalize with farmers by a liberal reduction. A double tax on the high salary men would not be unreasonable or much out of proportion. Lawmakers are to blame for not equalizing things. Why do these men receive such salaries? Because the laws so provides. Farmers want quails protected as hunters are invading farmers lands endangering the lives of the occupants while they are trying to crib their corn before winter comes on. There is no use of talking gravel roads when there is no gravel in 40 miles so we have to be content with clay roads. To ship gravel would cost each man a good sized farm and a great amount of labor. As to taxing people for the purpose of curing drunkards by the Keeley cure I would say if you tax any on e tax the saloon keeper for the cure of those who they have made sick. Equalization and justice to all is what we want on taxes my friends. A Farmer Citizbn. hauler gets on lt with his heavy weight, cuts it to pieces, and calls on the men who made him a gift of it to repair it. Don't be ungrateful? They say to these men who built it, you must repair it, and the law says that too. Is it just? I say no. Let those that dance pay the fiddler. Clinton Co. S Kyqer. Editobs Indiana Farmer: As this question appears to be up at this special time, I will give you my views with the rest ef the road men. I think the mud roads a thing of the past. It is only a matter of a little time until 8.1 roads will be gravel, our present law as to building and keeping in repair of gravel roads makes them too expensive. A better and cheaper law is what we want. I would endorse the gravel road Jaw as it now is up to the letting of the road to be built. I would pull up stakes right the. e. Take it out of the hands of the oounty commissioners and engineer and put it under the management or the stock holders of the road to built. Let them mset and agree or elect a suitable number of stockholders to superintend the building of said road, fix a pric9 for their services not to exceed two dollars per day. By so doing we can cons'aruot a better road and save quite a margin cf cost. First we save cost of advertising. "We also cut olf the f3 50 a day of eaoh commissioner and engineer fees; quite a nice little sum of cost. We save also all profits of contractor, a great amount of trouble, in calling on the commissioners about the quantity and quality of gravel to be put on the road; as under this plan of building a road it is nobody's business but the men that have their money in the road. If there should be dissatisfaotion in quality of gravel or anything else call the stockholders together aud let the majority decide the question. It they decide to get gravel some place away it is no contractors' business, because their are none, the stockholders under this law would have all the say. Xamsa'i.fied we would gat a great deal cheaper and better road than under the present law. I would also change the law on repairing gravel roads. I think tbis the worst part of it, or most expensive, I would put this fully under the control of the stock holder. Let them select some of their members, to superintend keeping tbe road in order, give him a fair price for his service and pay so much a load or yard for hauling and giving the stock holders the preference of hauling. By this plan you take this power out of the commissioners hands of appointing a superintendent of the road. I think this the best move made yet in economy. I come now to a point where my views are not popular with the masses of people. I would make all roads, built under this new law we are making, toll roads. I believe the land owners on the line of road should build theroad.but I don't think they should keep it in order for other persons to tear up and wear out, at no cost to them. Now, Mr. Editor, what would you think of me or of a law that would force or compel you, if you made a gift of yonr office all in good running order to me and in six months I would call on you for a new press and type? "Would you not think It an unjust law and me an ungrateful man? I think this is parallel with the gravel road law of to day. The stockholder builds the road, pays for it, gives It to the public free of cost in good running order; the log Institutes, Wr have received the program of the Farmers' Institute to be held at the court house at Wabash on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22 and 23. Marion county institute will be held at Bridgeport Friday and Saturday, the 15th and 16th inst. An attractive program has been prepared and a good time is expected. Wr are indebted to Louisa Deist, of Nashville, fora report of the Brown county institute. There is so much of instruction to be gained by those attending these institutes that no farmer can fcff.rd to miss. KOSCIUSKO COUNTY. We had a very successful three days' Farmers' Institute, with an c instant average attendance of 500, plus a few hundred more transients, owing to lack of even standing room. We were highly entertained and instructed by Mrs. Meredith and Hon J. A. Mount, who I fear were taxed to the extreme limit of endurance, and by Messrs. Bartholomew and Mehl, of Elkhart county. Mrs. Eph. Wells, of this county, in a well prepared and highly appreciated paper, showed the duties and influence of the wife and mother in the farmers' families and demonstrated the fact that there is a work in every Farmers' Institute that woman only can fill, and no program is complete without that place supplied by a farmer's wife or daughter. The general trend of the thought of the institute was along the three lines essential to agricultural progress, viz: Observation, scientific Investigation and common sense. By observation efidots are discovered and noted. By scientific research,the facta of observation are traced back to their true cause and the true relation of effect to its remotest cause that can be modified or influenced by man's efforts is made known. By common sense the best use is made of the knowledge revealed by observation and science to improve and lessen the cost of all kinds of crops and farm animals. Without a knowledge of immediate and remote causes, and without the power to modify any of those causes, improvement would be impossible. A study of the effects upon animals by a change in food, care and protection; and upon plants by croplng, cultivation and fertilization Is absolutely necessary for the farmer of the present. A resolution asking our Legislature to increase the State appropriation for Farmers' Institutes from f 5,000 to f 10,000 was passed. Also one that provision be made to teach the effects of alcoholic liquors upon the human system in our public schools. And that our Legislature be petitioned to establish a State Normal Sohool in the north paat of the State. Warsaw would be a good place. Kosciusko Co. e F. Diehl. Editobs Indiana Fabmkb: How many bushels of the following seeds does it take to sow one aore: Corn, oats, wheat and potatoes. Kindly answer ln your next paper and oblige. A SUBSCRIBER. Of corn about one and one-half to two bushels, oats from two to five pecks, wheat from three to five pecks, potatoes, plant about eight bushels. "Grandpa," said a small boy to his grandfather, who possessed a complete Bet of false teeth, "do you put your teeth outside your bedroom door with your boots to be cleaned?'' |
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