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INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 7,1888.
NO. 14
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^Tyerar:name and postofflce when asking qnes-
ons. Many queries go unanswered tor (allure to
_,er. e this rule.	
E. W. B-i Walkerton: See ad of Pekin
rack eggs, by Wm. Threewits,in For Sale
olumn.
S. A. H., Vanderburg county, your arti-
is not appropriate to our columns,
end stamp and we will return it.
There is some man in Ohio who makes
business of raising seed sweet potatoes.
Ve had his address but have lost it. "We
ould like to have it again. A Sub.
Who knows his address?
Please inform me where I can get the
tate map and price of same and olige
Banquo, Ind.   . J. P. L.
We can send you a nice map of the State
or 50 cts. The same amount' will buy a
nap of Indianapolis,asked for by J. P. W,
Please tell me if there is a book called
he Guardian's Guide and if so where can
t be got, and the price T N. B.
Cory, Clay Co., March 11.
There is no such book published. There
i a book called the Administrator's and
'x_cutor's Guide, which costs ?4.
Please tell me through Farmer when
3 sow millet, and how much per acre and
here can it be obtained? B. K. W.
Ellettsville, March 27.
Sow late in May or early in June.   Sow
rom one to one and a half bushels.   Can
ay of Huntington & Hoss, this city.
Tell me through the Farmer where we
in get a rubber  tube  or nipple -with
hicti to raise calve** by hand?
Floyd Co. C. A. C.
We know of none of these calf feeders
ir sale in this city. They are made and
ild by a firm in Boston, Mass.
I want to try some Alsike clover. Will
it pay in this latitude?
Henry Co. J. W.
Several farmers in Central Indiana' have
tried it long enough to be satisfied that it
will stand our winters, and they are well
pleased with it as a forage plant. We
think you will be safe in sowing it en a
small scale at least.
Will you inform me through your valuable paper what year Indianapolis was
first called a town and how long it has
been since the States prison was removed
from there and oblige a
Avon, March 26. Subscriber
It was first settled in 1819, and was made
tho capital of the State in 1821. The
States prison never was located here.
Will yon, or some of your correspond-
4 its, tell me when is the best time to set
lit grape vines, and what varieties are the
e»t for table use? Success to the Farmer.
Ripley, O. A. W.
Set early in the spring. The Concord,
Borden and Moore's Early are first class
arieties.
Please inform me and others interested
t ?lre ls a Patent on a fence made by
'retching wires and weaving in wooden
'!f s.' e'tner by machine or twisting the
ire back and forth and pounding in
icsets by hand as many do in this vi-
-?. *y * J. W. B.
Goshen.
» e understand there is no such patent.
Have any of the readers of tbe Farmer
|L2?ny experience in grafting pears on
™,iV a?ple trees? If 80 what was the
h«» I was told by a fruit agent that
-«iT w.onld ^ar ii two years, and do
,"-, As I have no faith in our fruit
arm.    .would  like to hear  from some
rE_.iT of experience. P. Y. L.
G<*hen, March 23.
Wno has the experience?
iiak!.iSOW millet when i sow oats, and
iZr,6?8 ot it? Can I also get a set
osoJ?      If not, when is the best  time
'Ctagton. W-RM-
*,l?tt Would not  get»  stand of  millet
nt m    M earl-y aB oats  should be  sown,
ear»rSrwUld0 ve-Twell.   Sow millet
t ]^e lst °* June, not before May 15th,
Please inform me through the Farmer
whether an Osage Orange hedge of 30
years standing will be a success if transplanted, and what time is best to transplant? E. McK.
College Hill, O.
We would much rather start a new
hedge. The old trees transplanted would
be very apt to die. Transplant as soon as
possible if at all.
Please inform m where I can get the
most reliable poultry paper.
Wabash. S. G.
The American Poultry Yard, Hartford,
Conn.; The Poultry Monthly, Albany, N.
Y.; The American Poultry Journal, Chicago, and The Fancier's Gazette, this city,
are all good poultry papers. We would
not like to (determine the question which
is best.
I see in a late number of the Farmer
that the Clark county farmers were
troubled with rabbits gnawing their young
fruit trees and want a reinely. Tell them
to sot cornstalks around and tie them, is a
cheap and effectual remedy. I was told
once to grease trees with lard and sulphur.
I tried it, but that killed them in hard
freezing weather. J. P. W.
Degonia Springs.
Another correspondent gives the well-
known remedy of coating the trees with
blood, for a foot or more above tho ground.
Please inform me where Bermuda grass
seed can be obtained. W. G.
Cass.
We do not find this seed quoted in any
of our seed catalogues, and we doubt if it
can be found in this country. Bermuda
grass is generally propagated by cuttings.
The long roots are run through a cutting
box, and the pieces are scattered over the
ground and plowed under. A sandy soil
is best for its growth.
A reader asks if pear cions grafted on
apple will produce fruit in two years.
Mr C. M. Hobbs, Sec. of our State Horticultural Society says: Pear grafted on
bearing trees of apple might bear a small
amount of fruit the second year if the
grafts grew. The pear will occasionally
grow on the apple, but is not generally a
success, and this method is never used by
pear propagators.
InAuilding a straight rail fence where
the stakes project 234 feet from the fence,
is a man allowed to put the fence on the
outside line, or must he set the fence so
the stakes will face on the ruad line?
Montgomery Co. A Subscriber.
The fence must stand entirely upon his
own land. As to the other question asked,
the answer would depend on the understanding you had with the men you deal
with.
Ceylon, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Aden and
Singapore; in Africa, Cape Colony, Sierra
Leone, Gold Coast, Natal and St. Helena;
in America, Dominion of Canada, Xew
Foundland, British Honduras, Jamaica,
Trinidad, Barbadoes, the Bahamas, the
Bermadas, Britist Guiana and Falkland
Island; in Oceanlca, Australia, Tasmania
and New Zealand.
2 Slavery Btill exists in Brazil, but the
government has provided for a gradual
emancipation; in tho Spanish colonies of
Cuba and Costa Rica, and they are in process of emancipation. It also exists in a
few Portuguese colonies and in nearly all
Maharhmedan countries.
I intend to plow und«r a crop of rye
when in bloom, for wheat this fall. After
the rye is plowed under, will sow in oats
or buckwheat, to be plowed under green.
The question is, will oats do any good
sown so late as June 1 ? Or will buckwheat be any benefit to the ground? Will
not some of the readers of the Farmer
give their experience with either rye, oats
or buckwheat, plowed under green and
oblige.   My ground is a clay soil.
Waynetown, March 30. C. E,
It is stated that a, certain steamship consumes 15 tons of coal per hour. For the
information of some farmer boy reader..,
will you state whether there are any vessels of such capacity? Also give ca-
pacitv of "Great Eastern," used in laying
the Atlantic oable, and oblige
Laketon, March 28. Reader.
We presume the Great Eastern would
consume the amount named. Ordinary
screw propeller steamships use from three
to four tons per hour. The Great Eastern
is G80 feet long, 83 wide and 58 feet deep,
draws 28 feet water and has a capacity of
24,000 tons. Her boiler surface is 44,000
feet, or more than an acre.
Can
) readers  of the
'ARMi.it0,u*.or a'yof the «
ad Answer rn?metb,rou8h  y<»"-Query
■*te, oVlZ co*;n*n- in what part of the
[»xinwt r what cit7 or town, is lake
( i tC,r^k«e, and oblige j. v.
' est of0^*1811811 county, 12 miles south-
' ] --"Jckfi/i      °nth"   Tn^iHage  ofMax-
■ i a then v °n the east side and Marmont
'' ' * i* •" ° Westend- Both arepostofflces
' ! -o StatBJanyre8pects'the Pettiest lake in
■ : *mUe!'£nd^0neofthe Orgeat, being
; ,    UJUes long by l}i Wide.
To settle a dispute please tell me which
got defeated in the battle of Tippecanoe,
General Harrison or the Indians? and
where did Harrison and his army camp,
on the hill, or in the swamp, as some say?
Please answer and oblige J. C.
Vanderburg.
Gen. Harrison and his 700 men defeated
the 1,000 Indians, and drove them from
the field. Our history does not say where
Harrison's army encamped.
1. Which is the best plan, grafting or
budding, on old trees?
2. Will it pay at all, on old trees, when
they are thrifty and in good condition.
3. When is the best time for doing the
work? G. W. D.
Forest, Ind.
1. Grafting.
2. Yes, if trees are thrifty and hardy
and are grafted with profitable  varieties.
3. About the time the buds begin to
swell.
Please state through the columns of your
paper the chicken Jaw of Indiana. Has
any person the right to allow his chickens
to trespass on the lands of his neighbors?
Please answer in full.
Anderspn. A Subscriber.
The law does not spe.ify chickens. The
county commissioners are empowered to
designate what animals may run at large,
but we have never heard of any of them
naming chickens. You will have to make
complaint and threaten a suit for trespass
if damage is done. See Revised Statutes,
Seo. 4,835.
1. Can you refer me to any party who
would exchange a pair of White Minorcas
for a pair of nice Langshans, or a sitting of
eggs of 13?
2. When is the proper time to sow
clover seed for pasture, or to enrich soil?
3. How can I get a hog registered which
I have bought? Dam and sire are both
registered. S. B M.
Russiaville.
1.   Who has Minorcas to exchange?
2 Sow early as possible so that it may
get a good start before hot weather comes.
3. S"-nd to the secretary of the association of the breed you own. You do not
name the breed, and we can't guess it.
1. How would you spell worst in liver
worst?   Some of us think it is wurst.
2. What is the significance of the word
mere. Would it be nice for use at the end
of a name for our home, for instance cedar
mere. Would it be spelled mere or mear?
Would it begin with capital letter? Would
you put it in quotation as "Cedar Mere?"
Franklin. A Reader.
1. The word is liverwort, the name of
a plant that grows in moist places and
upon rocks, etc.
2. Mere means pool or lake, and would
not be applicable in your case,unle*>s your
cedar grove is bounded by a fish pond.
Do not capitalize the word nor enclose it
with quotation marks. *
I have one apple tree on my farm I
judge it to be a seedling*. It bears beautiful red apples, most all double, 2 3 and 4
in a bunch, highly flavored, resembling a
banana or paw paw, ripens same time as
paw paws. All sound fruit, and will keep
well until Christmas, in barrels. It is the
favorite eating applets also a good cooker.
Please tell me the name and where I can
obtain the trees. R. S. R.
If it is, as you lnink,a seedling, you will
have to name it yourself. Call it the
Bunch or Cluster. Yoa have the only tree
of the kind in existence, and if worthy of
propagation you should send cions to fruit
men to graft, or graft them yourself.
1. What counties are subject to Great
Britain?.
2. In what countries does slavery still
exist? A. W.
Union City.
1 The name British Empire is applied
to tho Kingdom of Great Britain(England,
Ssotland and Wales) and Ireland, and its
numerous possessions and colonies in different parts of the world. The principal
British colonies are: In Europe, Gibraltar, and Malta; in  Asia, India,  Barmah,
Please tell me the name of, and where I
can get an apple bush that sprouts from
the ground similar to a currant bush. It
grows six feet high, and bears a small apple ripening very early. They were
grown near Bloomington, Indiana, several
years ago. What kind of bush and fruit is
the blueberry? Where can bushes be procured? C. K.
St. Omer.
You probably refer to the service berry,
or June berry, (amelanchier canadensis).
It is for sale by the nurserymen. The
blueberry or whortleberry does not succeed well in most of our western soils, and
is not kept by nurserymen generally.
There is an agent for an Ohio nursery
here selling fruit trees, who represents
his stock to be grown from cuttings inserted in the ground and rooted in that
way, and says it is done to insure tbe
same kind of fruit as the tree from which
the cutting is taken. Now I wish to
know whether such a thiDg is practical or
not, and if so. would such a tree be as
good as a seedling grafted, and would it be
any more suro to be true to name?
Franklin, M.rch 28. H. P.
It is a very rare thing for a cutting to
take root. If you will examine the trees
your agent offers to£aell, you will most
likely find that they are grafted; if not
they _are seedlings and worthless. Of
course cuttings would produce the same
kind of fruit as the tree from which they
are taken if they grow, but that is a b'g
if. Buy the kind of trees you want from
reliable and responsible home nursery -
men is our.often repeated advice.
Usthgrthe Defecator.
Editors Indiana Farmer: •
In answer to E. P., Sharpsville:
lst. Iu defecating with lime for small
lots of cane, make an estimate on the yard
of the same grade of cane and run altogether, or as many lots as will fill the defecator. Have the defecator marked by a
scale, so that you know how much juice
each lot makes, and divide the sirup accordingly.
2d. The cheapest way is to use a defecator for the juice to be limed, on a furnace,
to heatto near boiling; or you can defecate
cold by waiting a few minutes for the lime
to permeate the juice before treating. If
you heat the juice you will need to draw
off and let the defecated juice, settle a few
minutes, then draw off with a swing pipe,
so as to draw from the top. There are so
many different arrangements for finishing
that I fear I would be too lengthy on this
subject. One has to begin and then improve on his own works.orgoand ssehow
others work. Peter James.
Browns Valley.