VOL. XXX.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JUNE 22, 1895.
NO. 25.
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C. N. Davis, of Forest, was kicked by a
oolt, breaking both the bones of his forearm.
Vernon Howe, near Farmland,was damaged f 1,500 by the bnrnlng of his bank
barn.
A field of rye was reaped last week in
Vigo oonnty, but there was not a grain in
any of the heads.
Richard Short, of Ossian, 68 years old,
while walking over his farm, was attacked
by a bull and fatally gored.
James Holton, of Jeffersonville, crossing
the track near his home, was caught by a
freight train, and was killed.
Llghtnirg struck John Bowling's residence at Warsaw, doing considerable damage, but hurting none of the family.
The two-yeas-old daughter of W. H.
Bradford, of Washington, wandered on
the railway track yesterday and was killed
Basil Sharpe, 10 years old, of Ft. Wayne,
dived ln shallow water and his head stuck
in the mnd. He could not extricate himself and was drowned.
Mrs. Frank Sommers, of Morgan county, left home four weeks ago to visit friends
at Centerton, since which time she has
been on the missing list.
A son of Benjamin Pettit, of Shelbyville,
caught his arm in a belt, but he managed
to out the belt with a knife in his disengaged hand, and escaped death. His arm
was broken in two places.
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A subscriber asks for information regarding the culture and marketing of
ginseng.   Has any reader had experienc.?
Will Chas. Danforth, of Bartholomew
oonnty, please give particulars about the
cultivation and harvesting of broom corn?
Grant Co. C. H.
Will some reader of the Farmer who
has bad experience in raising olover for
seed inform me if it is better to ont the
first crop, or can it be pastured with as
good results.? A Reader.
Franklin Co.
What is  the  best  way  to  rid land of
what la called red sorrel?   Please  answer
ln the Fabmeb and oblige.   It  is a splen
did paper. Mus. J. D. C.
Oreene Oo.
There is no sure way of destroying it,
but putting the ground in some cultivated
crop. Careful cultivation will root it ont
in time.
Enclosed find a few stalks of my wheat.
I wonld like to have you tell me if this is
the egg or maggot of the Hessian tly, or
what is it? I have plowed up fifty acres.
Moat everybody is plowing up wheat in
this neighborhood. D. L, H.
Decatur, Ills.
Yes, it is the Hessian fly in its "flax
seed" or pnpa state. Burn the straw, and
thus destroy the Insects.
My yonng chicks are afflicted with
sore eyes. Their eyes swell up and are
covered with a frothy substanoe, whioh
aticks their eye lids to gether. It seems to be
contagious; I haven't lost any as yet
Would like to know what it is, also a prevention and cure. Will in and inbreeding
in turkeys produoe weak, little ones?
Crawfordsville B.
It is probably tbe roup. Separate the
sick from well, and keep all ln dry, clean
quarters. Feed bran mush and bread
crumbs, well sprinkled with pepper. A
few drops of camphor or turpentine in
the drinking water will hasten a cure.
Rob the sore plaoes about the eyes with
glycerine 3 parts aud tnrpentine 1 part.
~It is not advisable to inbreed any kind
of stock.
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Postal Oard Correspondence.
Howard Co., Jnne 14 —The drouth still
continues, the farmers have quit plowing
corn and are patiently waiting for rain;
very little hay made in this seotion of the
State; the timothy not making anything;
will have a better yield of wheat than was
anticipated; oorn does exceedingly well
considering the dry weather.      J N. S.
Boone Co , June 14.—We had our first
rain in two months day before yesterday;
no wheat to speak of here; no timothy;
half orop clover; good prospect for apples;
a great orop of oorn in acreage was planted; muoh of it late, but with plenty of
good rain from now on will have a large
crop. I, N, B.
Adams County, Jane 10 —Wheat is out
of bloom with prospects of a good orop on
oommon land, but ln swamps it has been
plowed under. In poor land the straw
will be very short. Oats ia beginning to
head. Corn is very little on ace nnt of
dry weather. We had a good rain the 4th,
but it is all gone. Hay very poor, grasshoppers by the million. A, M.
LaPorte County, June 15 —Still dry;
no rain, only local tprinkles. Wheat estimated at Yu to li a crop. Oats looks bad;
grass very light; pastures poor; potatoes
doing well, bnt few bugs; corn small but
being nicely tended. Livestock looking
well, but on account of poor pastures
some is being fed.
Mbs B A, Davis.
Wayne Co , June 16.—The great drouth
remains unbroken. Pastures are burning
up; corn is a poor stand and very small,
but Is growing some; seme corn yet lies in
the ground unsprouted; wheat in this vicinity will make from one-half to almost
a fall crop; it will soon be ready to out;
clover is being cat in good condition, but
crop very short; timothy and oats are almost total failures; potatoes will apparently not make one fourth crop; apple
prospect good.   Not much other fruit.
J. O. W. B.
Perby Co , June 10 —Wheat is still being out short by the continued drouth;
meadows wc nt be over \i orop, and many
fields will not be cut at all; wbat clover
was left by the outworm is being cut and
find no trouble In getting it cured, as the
thermometer registers about 106°. Oats
seems to stand the drouth better than
•hheat and grass; oorn seems to have
oome up well, but has suffered greatly
from cutworms, many li.lds beirg planted
the third time; good cattle scarce and ln
good demand; hogs and sheep scarce; pasture and garden short. H. W. R.
Posey County, June 9 —The drouth is
becoming serious injuring everything
whioh should be growing. Corn late but
good stand and clean, it osing too dry for
weeds to grow. Wheat less than half yield
of the last five years, growers are puzzled
as to the situation. Speculators have their
agents over the country examining the situation for themselves, not being willing
to rely on reports. The thresher will soon
reveal the true situation, which will be
from nothing to fairly good in a few high
levels. Early potatoes are ruined and if
this drouth continues much longer so will
be the *ree fruits. J. B E.
Four boys in Chippewa oounty, Wisconsin, recently caught 280 trout, weighing
about 125 ponnds, in one day, according to
the local papers.
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There's an eighty-seven-year-old man in
Kistport, Me., who's learning to ride a
bicyole.
'Consistency, Thou art a Jewell" or a
Reply to Q. O.
Editobs Indiana Fir_l„:
In the Indiana Fabmeb cf June lst an
article entitled, "The truth about the
South," is unjust, untrue and Inconsistent
in almost every particular. The writer of
that article makes Tennessee the objective
point of his attack. As a native Tennes-
seean and as one who lives by tilling the
soil, I feel it my duty to reply to G. C's
venomous charges against my State.
1. I will presume that O. C. is a farmer
and that six years ago when he left his
"Hoosier" home he oame here with the
avowed purpose of cultivating and not of
speculating.
2. That he is a man of good oommon
sense who has seen enough of the world to
know that "sugar plums" do not grow on
every tree.
3 That O C. stands for Oood Christian
and that he oame here with a charitable
and unbiased feeling toward this people
and this seotion.
O. C. says that Tennessee has "a fine
climate and water, long and moderate seasons, summer and winter, good pastures,
plenty of timber, eto." Yes, and I might
add, a good soil. All kinds of grain vegetables and fruits that are raised anywhere
in America grow here, unless lt is a few
fruits raised only in the tropical parts of
the country. He says that Tennessee is a
nice place to live if you can live
on these things. Just what he means
by nice I am nnable to say, but
if he is a farmerwhat more does he
want? Besides, we get cash for everything
we raise. For our stock, produoe, etc, we
always find a ready cash sale and at the
highest market price.
In one paragraph G. C. says that thousands of norther n settlers to-day in the
South would gladly sell their farms for
what their improvements cost, and thank
God on their knees for suoh a chance to
get away. In anorher he says that northern settlers here send out glowing descriptions for the purpose of decoying others
Into the same trap in which they are
oaught. Then he says that all the southern man wants is the Yankee's money.
Anybody can see the incontistenoy of
the above. The trnth of the matter is,that
aonthern people weloome northern capital
and northern meohanics, eto. Many of
our best citizens are northern born. They
are happy and prosperous. Will say,how-
ever, that nine out of ten of onr real estate
men are of northern extraction who came
here for the purpose of dealing in real estate, and if G. C. has been "fleeced" in a
real estate transaction, whioh ten to one he
has, the "skin game," as he calls it, has
been practiced on him by one of his northern neighbors, *r ho came here to speculate
just as O. C. did. Of course, if he oame to
Tennessee thinking that some genii of fortune would plice Into his hands Aladdin's
lamp, it is best that Mr. G. C. went back to
"Hooslerdom."
Again, our real estate laws are pretty
muoh as those in Indiana, 1. e , when a
Tennesseean, or in fact when any man
north or south contracts for real estate it
is presumed that he will comply with his
obligations. A Tennesseean in Indiana,
did he not comply in every respect would
expeot to Buffer.
He says that a farmer can't raise sheep
on account of so many dogs. Wonder if
G. C. everjtrled sheep raising? To the best
of my knowledge there haven't been 25
sheep killed by dogs ln my oounty within
a dozen years. He will find that hounds
rarely, if ever, kill sbeep.
G. C's unkind referenoe to our women
as snnS dipper***, tobacco-users and coffee-
drinkers, smacks somewhat of ungallantry
and a great deal of untruth. Come, now,
G. C. just confess that you are a "ohronio
grumbler," even ln fair "Hoosierdom,"and
that you were disgruntled, prejudioed
and uncharitable while here, and now since
you are away you are so ungallant as to
designate onr sweet women—the fairest of
all the world—as scuff dipper* and tobacco users.   Shame!   Shame!
I want to say a few words now in defense of our merchants. Not one of them
will refuse money for goods. And only in
the cotton growing sections, and mostly
with negroes at that, does the merchant
take a lien on orops. And I am glad to say
that this custom is rapidly giving way to
the pay-down system. I, too, thank (iod
that G. C. got away, from the fact that I
think men who grumble as he does are a
disadvantage to any section. He says that
Tennessee's motto is, "Sain, Steal or
Starve." From his article lt might be inferred that S. S. S. stands for Sonr Sucker
in the Soup.
I hope all who read this will look np
Tennessee history,her matchless resources,
her advantages of water and climate, her
stock raising facilities, her splendid farming lands; and, gentle reader, while doing
this you will come in contact with as refined women, as brave and generous men
as the world ever saw. In conclusion I
hope that if yon have occasion to write of
our great State that you will be more charitable than G. C , and at least sign yonr
name in full to yonr article.
Giles M. Reynolds.
Keensbnrg, Tenn.
Notes of an Observer.
Editobs Indian* Fabkkr.
I saw an article in the Fabmeb some
time ago where the writer asserts that silver and wheat always kept together, and
cited an example where such a rise in the
values of each took pltcs. Wheat has
taken quite a little more of a rise. Has silver? If not, wiU he please explain the
phenomenon?
In traveling about I noticed where one
man uses his grain drill for a gate. By so
doing he makes use ofthe implement the
year round, thereby getting lots more use
of It than he would if he would do as others do, keep them in the shed, only when
drilling in grain,
A little more looking around and I find
another farmer using his hay rake for a
gate. He also makes his tool to do donble
duty, and I believe for agate I would prefer the hay rake to the grain drill, as it is
lighter to handle and less expensive. Of
oourse the little while that you nse the implements for the purpose for whioh they
were made you can get a cheap boy to
watch the gap, or else drag in a small tree
top. Now I do not wish to say anything
to spoil the sale of the patent gate makers,
bnt I know that every reader of this article will immediately run his drill and
rake or other tools out and make gates
hen roosts and what not out of them, for
in these hard times we must economize,
and the shed room that these tools have
heretofore occupied oould probably be
rented out to some green farmer who haa
no use for a gate. What has become of
the winter oats boom? Will some one
who has the article report his success with
it? And the crimson olover is new to this
State; I would like to hear from those
who have tried lt. Clodhoppib.
Carroll Co.
There are exceptions to all rules, and the
one you cite is of this kind. This is an exceptional season and the unusually short
crop of wheat causes the marked advance
in prioe. The price of silver has nothing
to do with it this time.
A single log, 32 feet long, 6lA feet In diameter, and oontalning 10.158 feet of lumber, was out from a tree felled ln Mason
oounty, Washington, last week. This log
was out off 25 feet from the buttof the tree.
Several short logs, measuring 11 feet in diameter were cut from the lower part.