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VOL. LXI INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 27, 1906. NO. 43 %xX(txiiXitt gcnavtmjeut SOWING CLOVER ON WHEAT. The Weather Tells the Story. 1st Premium.—To get a good stand of c lover in wheat the weather conditions must be favorable. Sow early, the latter part of February, or first of March, if you can find the soil "honeycombed" as some «all it. You may sow even earlier than Ihis if you find the soil in the above condition. If you do not find it in this condition anl wait till later I would advise you to wait until the soil is dry enough to go through with a disk lmrrow. Set the disks almost straight, and if it does not go in deep enough weight it down. Disk ilie way the wheat was sown. Now sow your clover seed, and follow up with a spike tooth harrow, with the teeth slanting backward. Harrow the same way yoa disked the field. A great many farmers put a great deal of stress on the time you sow, some on the condition of the soil, some even on the sign; but the weather conditions tell all. The last spring was very dry here for about four weeks, last week in April and three in May, which put the fixing to our clover—all gone, regardless of time, sign, etc. Now as we don't all raise wheat I would say to those who sow oats, if they want a good stand of clover on oats ground, don't plw your ground, but disk it, and disk it right. Cut your ground, sow your oats, t hen cut it again the same way it was cut before (don't cross-cut the second time), harrow, sow your clover seed, then go over it with a drag. Don't think after you have harrowed your oats in that the stoil is in fine condition to leave, but drag after you sow the clover seed; this will hold the moisture if it should turn dry. Reader. Carroll. March 1st to 15th About Right. 2d Premium.—Taking everything into consideration, from, my experience I think the best time to sow clover is from the first to the 15th of March, and some years probably a little later; that depends a Utile on the spring. If the spring be late or early I prefer a little snow; then the seed remains where it falls, and as the snow melts, and with the freezing and thawing, the seed gets covered, and in that way I have as good success or ibetter than any other way for getting a good stand of clover on wheat. I do not like to sow clover when there is a deep snow. In the first place, if the snow should go with rain the seed is likely to be washed away, especially if the land is rolling. Then too it is very tiresome walking; for I think the use of a hand machine that turns with a crank is the best way to sow clover seed. I do not like to sow any earlier than the first of March, for the season that if there should be a warm spell, as there often is in February, and the seed is sprouted, and then there is some terribly cold weather in March, without any snow for protection, the tender young plants are likely to perish. I have sometimes sowed late and followed with the harrow, which plan has its objections. In the first place it destroys some of the timothy seed. I never sow wheat without clover, neither do I sow clover without timothy, for the reason that it is difficult to get a uniform stand of clover alone, because it is so liable to perish in places, and if we sow a: little timothy we are a great deal more likely to get a satisfactory stand of grass. A little timothy along with the clover makes A GOOD PLAN FOE A FARM HOUSE. By Geo. S. Kingsley, Architect. ffitchei ' /l/gSJS. TSW/Vy J%7/rr//fO y^oo^n —f/rstf7fJorJ7/aii One of the signs of the times is the progress being made in the design and plan of the houses erected by farmers throughout the United States. Once upon a time, and not very long ago, the farmer paid little attention to the plan of his house. As long as it had four walls and a roof, and sufficient space inside) for his needs, the farmer was satisfied. But that state of affairs has ceased to exist and the credit belongs in a good many cases to the farmer's wife. She has been reading articles in her weekly paper and monthly magazine on various ways of planning houses, and has put two and two together and embodied them in a plan that would meet the needs of her family. And she has given particular attention to" the design of the house, always striving to build a house that would be pleasing in appearance as well as practical in plan. The illustrations shown in connection with this article are of a • (3ero/?c/J:Bcjrj3,r/fT ■ small house suitable for a small family in the country, or for a village home. There are three rooms on the first floor and three rooms and bath on the second floor. The dining room is extra large in this plan being 12 feet by 19 feet in size. This will make an excellent sitting room for long winter evenings and save the parlor for company. By placing the fire place in dining room, one chimney only becomes necessary for the house. The stairway is of the open pattern and makes a nice appearance from parlor. The rear stairway leading to basement also has a door on a level with the ground, which allows it to serve as the rear outside entrance to kitchen and to 'basement. My estimate of the cost of this house if built within 500 miles of Chicago, is $1800. This estimate includes hardwood finish on the first floor, plumbing and furnace. Any further information regarding this plan will be cheerfully given by author. better hay and more of it, and just as good pasture. I sow my timothy seed with the drill when I sow wheat. I sow two quarts of timothy seed to the acre and four quarts clover seed. Another objection I have to sowing clover seed late and harrowing is that there are always soft places in the field where a team will do a great deal of damage, both to the wheat and to itself, unless we wait till it is too late. G. B. Kosciusko Co. Before Wiater Sets in. 3d Premium.—The first thing necessary to get a good stand of clover, sown at any time, is to have good seed. The next thing it to sow that seed at such a time that it will germinate at the proper season; and under such conditions as will not expose it to the hard freeze that we so often have in spring after a few warm damp days that have sprouted the seed; and not lale enough to have the seed on the top of the ground, thereby endangering the life of the plant, with ouly a small, short r»ot with which to withstand the long continued drouth so common in this part of our country. Therefore we must sow our clover seed as early in the fall or winter as is possible, after the earth has become ccol enough to stop the germination of all plant seeds. Sow if possible while the tiny clods are yet resting on the slope and ou top of the ridge made by the drill, so that the seed may be covered by the melting of the little clods in the rain and by the freezing and thawing. If the seed is covered a very little with soil they will lie dormant in the cool earth, and not be sprouted by the first two or three warm days we have, only to be killed by the cold snap in March, that is nearly always sure tc follow these little warm spells. Sometimes even in April we have the weather cold enough to kill the young plants, if the seeds are just open and the tender little stem still in the curl and on top of that hard, smooth surface of the field on which so many people sow seed in February and March thus exposing it to the hard freezing weather that we are sure to have in early spring, and to the burning rays of the hot sun, later on, without any protection, no possible chance of ever being protected, except where a seed by chance may fall into the cracks in the ground, or when we have a rainy season, such as no farmer can afford to hope for at this season of the year and which would be greatly to his disadvantage if he did get it So always sow clover seed in November or December, if the ground becomes cool eiiOugh, and by using a little good judgment we may have our seed covered and so protected that no freeze nor drouth will destroy our most valuable crop for our land, the clover crop. A. S. Shelby Co. Premiums of $1, 75 cent* and 50 cents are given for the best, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company, and should reach us one week before date of publication. Topics for future numbers: No. 556, Nov. 3.—Tell some things that can be done to make the home comfortable during winter. No. 557, Nov. 10.—Explain- how you raise turkeys successfully. Elizur W Sage, who recently fell heir to $50,000 thru the will of the late multimillionaire, Russell Sage, has shown sound judgment by investing a large portion of his inheritance in good farming land in his neighborhood He turned down all schemes proposed to him by get-rich-quick sharks who were after him in great numbers Electrical storms caused a great deal of loss by fire in Allen county during the past summer. Lightning played havoc in that section to such an extent that losses by fire were reported after every thunder storm.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1906, v. 61, no. 43 (Oct. 27) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6143 |
Date of Original | 1906 |
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 |
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. LXI INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 27, 1906. NO. 43 %xX(txiiXitt gcnavtmjeut SOWING CLOVER ON WHEAT. The Weather Tells the Story. 1st Premium.—To get a good stand of c lover in wheat the weather conditions must be favorable. Sow early, the latter part of February, or first of March, if you can find the soil "honeycombed" as some «all it. You may sow even earlier than Ihis if you find the soil in the above condition. If you do not find it in this condition anl wait till later I would advise you to wait until the soil is dry enough to go through with a disk lmrrow. Set the disks almost straight, and if it does not go in deep enough weight it down. Disk ilie way the wheat was sown. Now sow your clover seed, and follow up with a spike tooth harrow, with the teeth slanting backward. Harrow the same way yoa disked the field. A great many farmers put a great deal of stress on the time you sow, some on the condition of the soil, some even on the sign; but the weather conditions tell all. The last spring was very dry here for about four weeks, last week in April and three in May, which put the fixing to our clover—all gone, regardless of time, sign, etc. Now as we don't all raise wheat I would say to those who sow oats, if they want a good stand of clover on oats ground, don't plw your ground, but disk it, and disk it right. Cut your ground, sow your oats, t hen cut it again the same way it was cut before (don't cross-cut the second time), harrow, sow your clover seed, then go over it with a drag. Don't think after you have harrowed your oats in that the stoil is in fine condition to leave, but drag after you sow the clover seed; this will hold the moisture if it should turn dry. Reader. Carroll. March 1st to 15th About Right. 2d Premium.—Taking everything into consideration, from, my experience I think the best time to sow clover is from the first to the 15th of March, and some years probably a little later; that depends a Utile on the spring. If the spring be late or early I prefer a little snow; then the seed remains where it falls, and as the snow melts, and with the freezing and thawing, the seed gets covered, and in that way I have as good success or ibetter than any other way for getting a good stand of clover on wheat. I do not like to sow clover when there is a deep snow. In the first place, if the snow should go with rain the seed is likely to be washed away, especially if the land is rolling. Then too it is very tiresome walking; for I think the use of a hand machine that turns with a crank is the best way to sow clover seed. I do not like to sow any earlier than the first of March, for the season that if there should be a warm spell, as there often is in February, and the seed is sprouted, and then there is some terribly cold weather in March, without any snow for protection, the tender young plants are likely to perish. I have sometimes sowed late and followed with the harrow, which plan has its objections. In the first place it destroys some of the timothy seed. I never sow wheat without clover, neither do I sow clover without timothy, for the reason that it is difficult to get a uniform stand of clover alone, because it is so liable to perish in places, and if we sow a: little timothy we are a great deal more likely to get a satisfactory stand of grass. A little timothy along with the clover makes A GOOD PLAN FOE A FARM HOUSE. By Geo. S. Kingsley, Architect. ffitchei ' /l/gSJS. TSW/Vy J%7/rr//fO y^oo^n —f/rstf7fJorJ7/aii One of the signs of the times is the progress being made in the design and plan of the houses erected by farmers throughout the United States. Once upon a time, and not very long ago, the farmer paid little attention to the plan of his house. As long as it had four walls and a roof, and sufficient space inside) for his needs, the farmer was satisfied. But that state of affairs has ceased to exist and the credit belongs in a good many cases to the farmer's wife. She has been reading articles in her weekly paper and monthly magazine on various ways of planning houses, and has put two and two together and embodied them in a plan that would meet the needs of her family. And she has given particular attention to" the design of the house, always striving to build a house that would be pleasing in appearance as well as practical in plan. The illustrations shown in connection with this article are of a • (3ero/?c/J:Bcjrj3,r/fT ■ small house suitable for a small family in the country, or for a village home. There are three rooms on the first floor and three rooms and bath on the second floor. The dining room is extra large in this plan being 12 feet by 19 feet in size. This will make an excellent sitting room for long winter evenings and save the parlor for company. By placing the fire place in dining room, one chimney only becomes necessary for the house. The stairway is of the open pattern and makes a nice appearance from parlor. The rear stairway leading to basement also has a door on a level with the ground, which allows it to serve as the rear outside entrance to kitchen and to 'basement. My estimate of the cost of this house if built within 500 miles of Chicago, is $1800. This estimate includes hardwood finish on the first floor, plumbing and furnace. Any further information regarding this plan will be cheerfully given by author. better hay and more of it, and just as good pasture. I sow my timothy seed with the drill when I sow wheat. I sow two quarts of timothy seed to the acre and four quarts clover seed. Another objection I have to sowing clover seed late and harrowing is that there are always soft places in the field where a team will do a great deal of damage, both to the wheat and to itself, unless we wait till it is too late. G. B. Kosciusko Co. Before Wiater Sets in. 3d Premium.—The first thing necessary to get a good stand of clover, sown at any time, is to have good seed. The next thing it to sow that seed at such a time that it will germinate at the proper season; and under such conditions as will not expose it to the hard freeze that we so often have in spring after a few warm damp days that have sprouted the seed; and not lale enough to have the seed on the top of the ground, thereby endangering the life of the plant, with ouly a small, short r»ot with which to withstand the long continued drouth so common in this part of our country. Therefore we must sow our clover seed as early in the fall or winter as is possible, after the earth has become ccol enough to stop the germination of all plant seeds. Sow if possible while the tiny clods are yet resting on the slope and ou top of the ridge made by the drill, so that the seed may be covered by the melting of the little clods in the rain and by the freezing and thawing. If the seed is covered a very little with soil they will lie dormant in the cool earth, and not be sprouted by the first two or three warm days we have, only to be killed by the cold snap in March, that is nearly always sure tc follow these little warm spells. Sometimes even in April we have the weather cold enough to kill the young plants, if the seeds are just open and the tender little stem still in the curl and on top of that hard, smooth surface of the field on which so many people sow seed in February and March thus exposing it to the hard freezing weather that we are sure to have in early spring, and to the burning rays of the hot sun, later on, without any protection, no possible chance of ever being protected, except where a seed by chance may fall into the cracks in the ground, or when we have a rainy season, such as no farmer can afford to hope for at this season of the year and which would be greatly to his disadvantage if he did get it So always sow clover seed in November or December, if the ground becomes cool eiiOugh, and by using a little good judgment we may have our seed covered and so protected that no freeze nor drouth will destroy our most valuable crop for our land, the clover crop. A. S. Shelby Co. Premiums of $1, 75 cent* and 50 cents are given for the best, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company, and should reach us one week before date of publication. Topics for future numbers: No. 556, Nov. 3.—Tell some things that can be done to make the home comfortable during winter. No. 557, Nov. 10.—Explain- how you raise turkeys successfully. Elizur W Sage, who recently fell heir to $50,000 thru the will of the late multimillionaire, Russell Sage, has shown sound judgment by investing a large portion of his inheritance in good farming land in his neighborhood He turned down all schemes proposed to him by get-rich-quick sharks who were after him in great numbers Electrical storms caused a great deal of loss by fire in Allen county during the past summer. Lightning played havoc in that section to such an extent that losses by fire were reported after every thunder storm. |
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