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VOL. XXX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SEPT. 28, 1895. NO. 39. A GREAT STATE FAIR. ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER HELD HERE. Grand Displays. Great Crowds of People. The Members of the Board to be Congratulated for Their Successful Management. One or two Objectionable Features Only. One of the very best fairs ever held in the State closed last Saturday. The weather, but for the unusual heat, was all that could have been desired. The displays were large in all but two departments, and in all were remarkably flne, and the people came by tens of thousands, especially on Thursday, which has come to be THK BIG DAY no matter what or how many attractions are offered on other days. The board made special effort to increase attendance on Wednesday and Friday, but the people concluded they could hear and see enough on Thursday, and only moderate crowds attended on the other days. The street cars were run in trains of two and three open cars each, and all were crowded to their utmost limit, many having to stand ou the foot board. Even ladies were often obliged to ride in this manner, or wait indefinitely for cars less crowded. On Wednesday Thursday and Friday half-hourly trains were run on the Monon road, but even this service did not seem to relieve the pressure very materially. But this feature of State fair attendance is vastly improved over that of only a few- years ago, when the poor, worn out-mule was the only motor to trasfer the people from depot to fair grounds. As we look back upon those slow times it seems a marvel that the people endured so much discomfort and delay, with so littleof complaint. Another year we hope that arrangements will be made both with the Monon and Lake Erie and Western rail roads to run at least hourly trains on the three best days. The board would do A VERY POPULAR THING and no doubt a paying one to charter trains those days, for the benefit of its patrons. We believe that the fear of being crowded and of missing home- bound trains at Union Station, keep many, especially of the women and children, away from the State fair. Although the electric cars run rapidly, the distance to the grounds is so great and the number of stops so many that much time, often an hour, is taken in making the trip; while a train on either of the rail roads would make it in 15 to 20 minutes. When an hour is taken off from both ends of the day, it cuts the time for visiting the fair very short, especially for the large number who arrive at the city on the 9 to 11 trains, and must leave on those of 4 to 5 o'clock. The board should arrange with all roads to run special trains, if possible, to arrive here as early as 9 o'clock, and leave not earlier than 6 in the evening. If this can be done we think it will increase the attendance at least 25 per cent. Another suggestion worthy of consideration is that of providing for lodging at reasonable rates near the grounds. A number of near, but INEXPENSIVE LODGING HOP.SKs located within a quarter mile of the gates, where clean cots or beds could be furnished at 30 or 40 cents, would induce thousands of visitors to remain,and spend two days, instead of one, at the fair. The only resource at present is to go down to the city and pay 75 cents to $1 a cot in the hall or parlor of some hotel, with the probable chance of sleeping in a room with a number of strangers. Good meals are furnished on the grounds at very reasonable rates. Let satisfactory arrangements be made for lodging, and the fair will be much better patronized tban now*, and much more useful to the people. This idea, by the way, should never be lost sight of by the members of the board. They are managing this great institution not for making money for themselves nor the State, but "for the encouragement of our agricultural, mechanical and manufacturing interests," and the prime effort should be twofold, namely to secure the best possible displays in these lines and then to bring the greatest possible number of the classes of people most interested, to see and learn and profit by them. , THK BO.iRD HAS SUCCEEDED ADMIRABLY in the first particular, but scarcely so well as might be hoped for in the second. It is a fact we have often noted and remarked upon heretofore that the number of young farmers, and especially of the wives and children of farmers, attending the State fairs is very small in comparison with what it should be. The board should offer special inducements in the way of reduced rates for families and thus try and bring out the young people. The benefit of the exhibits would be much greater to them, in many cases, than to the parents. And we are moyed to say a word in behalf of the patient, hard working, home-keeping wife. She deserves the privilege of a visit to the State fair even more than her husband and would enjoy it fully as much. Yet how seldom is she seen there! We move that she be admitted to the State fair free. Who will second the motion? It would not cost the board a cent, for every man who goes alone now, would certainly go if his wife were with him; indeed many more would go for the very reason that the board thus compliments her. ANOTHER SUGGESTION must be made here. The board should be extremely careful regarding the character of the side-shows and other attractions they admit to the grounds. Noth- ing should be.permitted there that would have a demoralizing tendency; nothing that members of the board would hesitate to take their wives and children to witness. At the present fair there were exhibitions allowed, which were from outside appearances suspicious and from the reports of some who visited them, were wholly vile and a disgrace to the great fair of our beloved State. It is possible that the members of the board who were responsible for admitting them were not aware of their true character. Whatever may be the explanation there can be no excuse for permitting anything of the kind in the future and it must not be done. Another year the people will ask to be informed before taking their families to the great show, what kind of side show attractions are going to bo admitted. In case such as we have referred to are among the number we shall advise our readers to remain at home. NOTES. Jesse L. Stevens, Wayne county, after receiving many premiums on his fruit exhibit, presented it to the ladies of the Central Christian Church, who served lunch at the fair. From the large number of displays of buggies, carriages, etc., one would think there were no bicycles in the oountry, and that everybody was going buggy riding. There will certainly be a good demand for driving horses .when all these vehicles are sold. No previous State fair could compare with this one in the display of fruit. It was magnificent.' If Indiana could.have done half as w-ell in '93 at the World's Fair, she would have won fame throughout the world for her apples and pears_ The wide tables were covered completely with the finest and most perfect sepeci- mens of these fruits ever grown within our borders. Grapes also were in good display. Monroe county took the first prize of $,50 offered by the State Agricultural Society, while Marion county took the first prize, $40, offered by the State Horticultural Society for best exhibits. There were a good many stylish carriages from the city on the fine drives in the grounds on the busy days. It was sad to see that most of the horses driven to them were tortured with the tight over-check rein. This barbarity ought to be punished by law. In hogs the display was not much larger than in some former years, but the quality of the stock was never excelled here. The same may be said of the horse and the heavy breeds of cattle. The Jerseys and Holsteins were in greater numbers than usual. The dairy interest in the State is evidently on the advance. The poultry show, as Superintendent Stevens assured our readers some time ago would be the case, was ahead of any of its predecessors. The new coops and numerous other improvements and conveniences, together with a good list of premiums, brought out a large and fine display. All classes were kept in separate divisions, which was a great convenience to spectators. Among the machines that attracted most interest were the corn shredders, Keystone and Common Sense. Crowds stood around these new inventions, watching with great interest their working and output. The shredded fodder w*as put in bale form, and looked as though cattle might be willing to eat it all down if well seasoned and moistened. Has any reader tried it? It is often remarked that Thursday is the biggest day at our State fair. The reason for this fact we think is that people usually spend but one day at the fair, and they take Thursday, if it is pleasant, to make sure of going. If it rains on that day, they still have another chance, whereas if they select Friday and it happens to rain on that day they lose the fair entirely. The State Board has a large tract of unused ground north of the race track. Why not fence off twenty acres and erect cheap cottages there to rent to families during fair week? Such cottages or shelters need not cost more than $25 each, and even at quite a low rent would repay the investment in a few years, besides bringing the families of farmers to the fair, and thus increasing the attendance and receipts. Mr. Holton in charge of the implement and machinery display, took great pleasure in directing visitors through his department. He boasted that this was the best exhibition of the kind ever made at a State fair anywhere, and in traction engines, threshers, etc., it excelled that made at the World's Fair. The statement that 254 manufacturing concerns were represented there seems incredible, but Mr. II. assured us that it was correct. Large numbers of the FARM Kit's friends paid us the honor of a call, and, as we had a cool, breezy place, many sat down, cooled off and rested, and chatted with us and each other. We began to make a list of their names, but soon found it was impossible to keep up with them. All the treat we had to give them was some orange watermelons, grown by Thos. T. Newby, of Hush county, and they came too late for most of our friends. All who tried them pronounced them the best, or among the best, they had ever tasted. We showed some of Mr. Newby's apples, and a few of our own fruits and vegetables. Many of the visitors on Thursday upon making each other's acquaintance, began giving experiences, and the meeting became for a time much like a farmers' institute; but we had no time to take notes. It was a very pleasant occasion. Early Fall Plowing. Editors Indiana Farmek: It It important to plow as early as possible, and sow to rye or oats for fall and winter pasture. Millions of dollars could be saved to farmers if they would make it a rule to plow the stubble ground as soon as possible after the grain is harvested, and sow to either rye or oats. If not- wanted for pasture, and if oats are sown, the ground can be plowed early in the spring and a heavy coat of the very best fertilizing material will be had; or if sowed to rye, it can be pastured in the winter and spring, and then plowed under, or left to produce a crop of grain. Such a fertilizer will be free from weed seed, and other obnoxious ingredients found in ordinary manure. The plowing in the fall should be deep, and if plowed again in the spring, six inches will be deep enough. It is remarkable that farmers will leave the stubble ground, from which a crop of small grain has been taken, to grow up with weeds, allowing them to cover the ground and to ripen their seed, so furnishing a supply of seed to infest the ground for years to come, when, by a judicious course a valuable crop of fertilizing material, or of grain, could as well be- grown. When will farmers take advantage of the many things which can be readily turned to profit, in place of having an actual damage and loss? It is important that the plowing be deep, in many places one foot is not too deep. Where practicable, the subsoil plow should be used to loosen up the soil below the surface plowing. What is all this for? It is to enable the soil to absorb the rains as soon as they fall, so that all moisture will be taken down into the earth before it is carried away hy evaporation. If the moisture is carefully stored in the earth, there will be a bountiful supply for the use of the crop during the entire period of crop growth, and a bountiful harvest will always reward tbe intelligent, faithful, and push-ahead man. The time has come when it will pay to use brains on the farm. It has only been a few years since there was no thought among farmers about subsoil plowing, but now in the last few years no less than five manufacturing establishments are putting out subsoil plows. This shows a wonderful change. It is such an important matter that fields laying open to the damaging inllu- ences of the heat of the sun after harvest, should be plowed and put into some crop, either temporary or permanent, that is, either for pasture fertilizing or a permanent crop, that the writer feels like urging this work on farmers. It has been published in many of the papers for the last eight or 10 years, yet not a farmer has been heard from who has put into practice these suergestions. Why is this, and can any one give a good objection to it? Can it be that the advice given is not good—that it would not be a great benefit to farmers to do this work? Suppose every farmer who reads these lines shall try the experiment by plowing, even now, a few acres, and sowing either to rye or oats. See what can be accomplished in this line and let us hear from you whether it pays to do this work; if it is a humbug, let us know it, but if it is of any great advantage, let us know that, I.et us all awaken to a greater interest in improved methods throughout the entire scope of farm work. A little improvement each year will result in increased yield of crops, improved quality, greater profit arid greater suecess generally. E. S. Tea,;ahi,en. Boone, Iowa. Ohio has the greatest number of farms, 361,430, having 24,352,408 acres; Illinois is second, 240,ti81 farms and 30,498,277 acres; Missouri being third, with 288,043 farms and 30,780,290 acres.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1895, v. 30, no. 39 (Sept. 28) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA3039 |
Date of Original | 1895 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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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 |
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Transcript | VOL. XXX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SEPT. 28, 1895. NO. 39. A GREAT STATE FAIR. ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER HELD HERE. Grand Displays. Great Crowds of People. The Members of the Board to be Congratulated for Their Successful Management. One or two Objectionable Features Only. One of the very best fairs ever held in the State closed last Saturday. The weather, but for the unusual heat, was all that could have been desired. The displays were large in all but two departments, and in all were remarkably flne, and the people came by tens of thousands, especially on Thursday, which has come to be THK BIG DAY no matter what or how many attractions are offered on other days. The board made special effort to increase attendance on Wednesday and Friday, but the people concluded they could hear and see enough on Thursday, and only moderate crowds attended on the other days. The street cars were run in trains of two and three open cars each, and all were crowded to their utmost limit, many having to stand ou the foot board. Even ladies were often obliged to ride in this manner, or wait indefinitely for cars less crowded. On Wednesday Thursday and Friday half-hourly trains were run on the Monon road, but even this service did not seem to relieve the pressure very materially. But this feature of State fair attendance is vastly improved over that of only a few- years ago, when the poor, worn out-mule was the only motor to trasfer the people from depot to fair grounds. As we look back upon those slow times it seems a marvel that the people endured so much discomfort and delay, with so littleof complaint. Another year we hope that arrangements will be made both with the Monon and Lake Erie and Western rail roads to run at least hourly trains on the three best days. The board would do A VERY POPULAR THING and no doubt a paying one to charter trains those days, for the benefit of its patrons. We believe that the fear of being crowded and of missing home- bound trains at Union Station, keep many, especially of the women and children, away from the State fair. Although the electric cars run rapidly, the distance to the grounds is so great and the number of stops so many that much time, often an hour, is taken in making the trip; while a train on either of the rail roads would make it in 15 to 20 minutes. When an hour is taken off from both ends of the day, it cuts the time for visiting the fair very short, especially for the large number who arrive at the city on the 9 to 11 trains, and must leave on those of 4 to 5 o'clock. The board should arrange with all roads to run special trains, if possible, to arrive here as early as 9 o'clock, and leave not earlier than 6 in the evening. If this can be done we think it will increase the attendance at least 25 per cent. Another suggestion worthy of consideration is that of providing for lodging at reasonable rates near the grounds. A number of near, but INEXPENSIVE LODGING HOP.SKs located within a quarter mile of the gates, where clean cots or beds could be furnished at 30 or 40 cents, would induce thousands of visitors to remain,and spend two days, instead of one, at the fair. The only resource at present is to go down to the city and pay 75 cents to $1 a cot in the hall or parlor of some hotel, with the probable chance of sleeping in a room with a number of strangers. Good meals are furnished on the grounds at very reasonable rates. Let satisfactory arrangements be made for lodging, and the fair will be much better patronized tban now*, and much more useful to the people. This idea, by the way, should never be lost sight of by the members of the board. They are managing this great institution not for making money for themselves nor the State, but "for the encouragement of our agricultural, mechanical and manufacturing interests," and the prime effort should be twofold, namely to secure the best possible displays in these lines and then to bring the greatest possible number of the classes of people most interested, to see and learn and profit by them. , THK BO.iRD HAS SUCCEEDED ADMIRABLY in the first particular, but scarcely so well as might be hoped for in the second. It is a fact we have often noted and remarked upon heretofore that the number of young farmers, and especially of the wives and children of farmers, attending the State fairs is very small in comparison with what it should be. The board should offer special inducements in the way of reduced rates for families and thus try and bring out the young people. The benefit of the exhibits would be much greater to them, in many cases, than to the parents. And we are moyed to say a word in behalf of the patient, hard working, home-keeping wife. She deserves the privilege of a visit to the State fair even more than her husband and would enjoy it fully as much. Yet how seldom is she seen there! We move that she be admitted to the State fair free. Who will second the motion? It would not cost the board a cent, for every man who goes alone now, would certainly go if his wife were with him; indeed many more would go for the very reason that the board thus compliments her. ANOTHER SUGGESTION must be made here. The board should be extremely careful regarding the character of the side-shows and other attractions they admit to the grounds. Noth- ing should be.permitted there that would have a demoralizing tendency; nothing that members of the board would hesitate to take their wives and children to witness. At the present fair there were exhibitions allowed, which were from outside appearances suspicious and from the reports of some who visited them, were wholly vile and a disgrace to the great fair of our beloved State. It is possible that the members of the board who were responsible for admitting them were not aware of their true character. Whatever may be the explanation there can be no excuse for permitting anything of the kind in the future and it must not be done. Another year the people will ask to be informed before taking their families to the great show, what kind of side show attractions are going to bo admitted. In case such as we have referred to are among the number we shall advise our readers to remain at home. NOTES. Jesse L. Stevens, Wayne county, after receiving many premiums on his fruit exhibit, presented it to the ladies of the Central Christian Church, who served lunch at the fair. From the large number of displays of buggies, carriages, etc., one would think there were no bicycles in the oountry, and that everybody was going buggy riding. There will certainly be a good demand for driving horses .when all these vehicles are sold. No previous State fair could compare with this one in the display of fruit. It was magnificent.' If Indiana could.have done half as w-ell in '93 at the World's Fair, she would have won fame throughout the world for her apples and pears_ The wide tables were covered completely with the finest and most perfect sepeci- mens of these fruits ever grown within our borders. Grapes also were in good display. Monroe county took the first prize of $,50 offered by the State Agricultural Society, while Marion county took the first prize, $40, offered by the State Horticultural Society for best exhibits. There were a good many stylish carriages from the city on the fine drives in the grounds on the busy days. It was sad to see that most of the horses driven to them were tortured with the tight over-check rein. This barbarity ought to be punished by law. In hogs the display was not much larger than in some former years, but the quality of the stock was never excelled here. The same may be said of the horse and the heavy breeds of cattle. The Jerseys and Holsteins were in greater numbers than usual. The dairy interest in the State is evidently on the advance. The poultry show, as Superintendent Stevens assured our readers some time ago would be the case, was ahead of any of its predecessors. The new coops and numerous other improvements and conveniences, together with a good list of premiums, brought out a large and fine display. All classes were kept in separate divisions, which was a great convenience to spectators. Among the machines that attracted most interest were the corn shredders, Keystone and Common Sense. Crowds stood around these new inventions, watching with great interest their working and output. The shredded fodder w*as put in bale form, and looked as though cattle might be willing to eat it all down if well seasoned and moistened. Has any reader tried it? It is often remarked that Thursday is the biggest day at our State fair. The reason for this fact we think is that people usually spend but one day at the fair, and they take Thursday, if it is pleasant, to make sure of going. If it rains on that day, they still have another chance, whereas if they select Friday and it happens to rain on that day they lose the fair entirely. The State Board has a large tract of unused ground north of the race track. Why not fence off twenty acres and erect cheap cottages there to rent to families during fair week? Such cottages or shelters need not cost more than $25 each, and even at quite a low rent would repay the investment in a few years, besides bringing the families of farmers to the fair, and thus increasing the attendance and receipts. Mr. Holton in charge of the implement and machinery display, took great pleasure in directing visitors through his department. He boasted that this was the best exhibition of the kind ever made at a State fair anywhere, and in traction engines, threshers, etc., it excelled that made at the World's Fair. The statement that 254 manufacturing concerns were represented there seems incredible, but Mr. II. assured us that it was correct. Large numbers of the FARM Kit's friends paid us the honor of a call, and, as we had a cool, breezy place, many sat down, cooled off and rested, and chatted with us and each other. We began to make a list of their names, but soon found it was impossible to keep up with them. All the treat we had to give them was some orange watermelons, grown by Thos. T. Newby, of Hush county, and they came too late for most of our friends. All who tried them pronounced them the best, or among the best, they had ever tasted. We showed some of Mr. Newby's apples, and a few of our own fruits and vegetables. Many of the visitors on Thursday upon making each other's acquaintance, began giving experiences, and the meeting became for a time much like a farmers' institute; but we had no time to take notes. It was a very pleasant occasion. Early Fall Plowing. Editors Indiana Farmek: It It important to plow as early as possible, and sow to rye or oats for fall and winter pasture. Millions of dollars could be saved to farmers if they would make it a rule to plow the stubble ground as soon as possible after the grain is harvested, and sow to either rye or oats. If not- wanted for pasture, and if oats are sown, the ground can be plowed early in the spring and a heavy coat of the very best fertilizing material will be had; or if sowed to rye, it can be pastured in the winter and spring, and then plowed under, or left to produce a crop of grain. Such a fertilizer will be free from weed seed, and other obnoxious ingredients found in ordinary manure. The plowing in the fall should be deep, and if plowed again in the spring, six inches will be deep enough. It is remarkable that farmers will leave the stubble ground, from which a crop of small grain has been taken, to grow up with weeds, allowing them to cover the ground and to ripen their seed, so furnishing a supply of seed to infest the ground for years to come, when, by a judicious course a valuable crop of fertilizing material, or of grain, could as well be- grown. When will farmers take advantage of the many things which can be readily turned to profit, in place of having an actual damage and loss? It is important that the plowing be deep, in many places one foot is not too deep. Where practicable, the subsoil plow should be used to loosen up the soil below the surface plowing. What is all this for? It is to enable the soil to absorb the rains as soon as they fall, so that all moisture will be taken down into the earth before it is carried away hy evaporation. If the moisture is carefully stored in the earth, there will be a bountiful supply for the use of the crop during the entire period of crop growth, and a bountiful harvest will always reward tbe intelligent, faithful, and push-ahead man. The time has come when it will pay to use brains on the farm. It has only been a few years since there was no thought among farmers about subsoil plowing, but now in the last few years no less than five manufacturing establishments are putting out subsoil plows. This shows a wonderful change. It is such an important matter that fields laying open to the damaging inllu- ences of the heat of the sun after harvest, should be plowed and put into some crop, either temporary or permanent, that is, either for pasture fertilizing or a permanent crop, that the writer feels like urging this work on farmers. It has been published in many of the papers for the last eight or 10 years, yet not a farmer has been heard from who has put into practice these suergestions. Why is this, and can any one give a good objection to it? Can it be that the advice given is not good—that it would not be a great benefit to farmers to do this work? Suppose every farmer who reads these lines shall try the experiment by plowing, even now, a few acres, and sowing either to rye or oats. See what can be accomplished in this line and let us hear from you whether it pays to do this work; if it is a humbug, let us know it, but if it is of any great advantage, let us know that, I.et us all awaken to a greater interest in improved methods throughout the entire scope of farm work. A little improvement each year will result in increased yield of crops, improved quality, greater profit arid greater suecess generally. E. S. Tea,;ahi,en. Boone, Iowa. Ohio has the greatest number of farms, 361,430, having 24,352,408 acres; Illinois is second, 240,ti81 farms and 30,498,277 acres; Missouri being third, with 288,043 farms and 30,780,290 acres. |
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