VOL. XXX.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., NOV. 23, 189b.
NO. 47.
Likes the Sewing- Machine.
Editors Indiana Farmer.
Am very well pleased with sewing machine, received some time ago.        T. C.
Clarks Hill.
Worse Than Missing: a Good Square Meal.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
AVhat was the matter with my Farmer
of Nov. 7th. Can't hardly think of missing a number. It's worse than missing a
good square meal. W. M. C.
Oakland City.
The Best in Existence.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have been a subscriber for the
Farmer several years and it is a welcome
visitor at our home and is the best farmers paper in existence. Long live the
Farmer. J. W. C.
Clay City.
The Farmer has Made Him Some Money.
Editor* Indiana Farmer:
A word in regard to the reliable Indiana Farmer, I can truly say I have received a great deal of valuable information from it. If what we read is practiced
it will profit us something, otherwise it
will not. And I am sure the Farmer has
made me some money by its weekly visits.
So may it long continue to be a welcome
visitor to all who now read it, and many
more who may before long become its
subscribers. G. W.
Birds Exempt by Law From the Hunters'
Gun.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
As the hunting or gaming season has
come, will you please inform us through
the Farmer the names of birds, fowls
and animals that are in part or wholly
protected by law. I. T. G.
Stone's Crossing.
—The birds exempted by law are the
turtle-dove, song sparrow, robiu, bluebird, meadow lark, wren,swallow, martin
thrush, snavis, oriole, red bird, grosbeak,
yellow-hammer, cat-bird, ground robin,
pewee or phebe bird, cuckoo, indigo bird,
nut hatch, creeper, yellow-bird, warbler
or finch, red start, dummock, nightingale,
cross-bill or crake, great tit or blue tit.
The penalty for killing or pnrsueing with
intent to do so, or wantonly destroying
their eggs is a fine of not more than $10
nor less than $1.
Insurance Companies Among-   Farmers
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Farmers have made throughout many
states a great success of county mutual
insurance companies, paying losses satisfactorily and promptly. But there is another kind of insurance much needed,
that of insurance against accidents.
Farmers are subject to accidents of all
kinds. It is theirs to work with animals
and machinery. The many requirements
of farm life endangers both life and limb.
Now a State organization could be carried on as economically as our county fire
insurance companies, with very little expense to the members, which would be a
great safe guard to families dependent
upon the labor of the father or son. All
or nearly all other business men are protected. The miners, shop hands, railroad
men and traveling men, are all protected
by their mutual associations. Why not
the farmers? Most of these companies
are kept up at a very small expense, per
year, and when one of their number is
hurt is a wise thing for their families,
while the parent is helpless, to receive
from $10 to $25 per week for doctor bills
and other expenses. If the farmers of a
county can meet their losses by tire,
surely those of a State can keep up an
indemnity for accidents, and such an association would be of great benefit to the
tiller of the soil, and insure a living without aid from the township trustee, while
recovering from accidents.
A Farmer.
Suggestion  to Advertisers—Express
Charges.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I wish to suggest that your advertising
patrons give the county ss well as the
town and State of their address.
A few weeks ago we wanted to make an
order for some poultry stock, and after
studying carefully the advertisements in
that line, as to who were special breeders
in the particular lines of stock we wanted
and noting the postollice address, the
question of transportation came up for
consideration. When we looked up our
State map to see where and in what
county the advertisers lived, we found
that goods would have to come over two
or three different lines of railroad and
pass through two or three express companies' hands. This discovery changed
the location of our selection, so that we
did not send to those parties, but selected
those nearer home and on one line of
railroad and on one express company's
line. If the county had been given in the
advertiser's card we could at once locate
the whereabouts of the dealer.
The transportation charge is no small
item in dealing away from home. Take
poultry crates, such as dealers usually
ship breeding stock in, and the express
rates are double rates when shipped to
individuals, when if shipped to a poultry
dealer there is only one rate.
There is no greater monopoly, nor
greater extortioners in the country today than the express companies. They
are in fact a set of public robbers when it
comes to rates.
We looked over this week's Farmkr,
pages 12 and 13, and examined every advertisers card in those columns and we
don't find a single one that has the county
added to the postollice address.
Bring this to the attention of your advertisers, and see if the added change will
not be for the better.
As an agricultural paper I prize the
Farmer highly, because it is a home paper, and because we can place confidence
in what we find in its columns.
Miami Co. Peter Keegan.
ance in large quantities. 1'rof. Bitting
said it was a species of plantain that had
been seeded with the clover. He said it
was often shipped in clover seed from
Michigan. He advised farmers tobecare-
ful as to their clover seed and vigilant In
lighting this weed pest. In connection
witli the institute there was a fine show
of corn, fruit and vegetables.
The meetings of this club are growing
in numbers attending and in interest. At
the night session the audience was too
large to he accommodated. Farmers are
realizing more and more the value of
comparing notes and discussing thomos
pertaining to their interests.
Shannondale. Faum i:i:.
pay some attention to this part of the
trustees duties when choosing candidates
for that office. H. S. K. B.
(jjcumtX 2£cu>s.
Interesting Meeting of Farmers.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
The Farmers' Club, of Franklin and
Sugar Creek townships, Montgomery
county, held their semi-annual meeting
at the M. E. church, Darlington, Oct. 17th.
Pres. Chas. K. Butler called the meet'
ing to order promptly at 10 a. m. with a
full house in attendance. "The future of
farming" was well discussed by F. S.
Quigg. "Home influence" was the theme
of a well written essay by Mrs. Almeda
Pritchard. The relative profit of blue
grass and clover was discussed with much
animation by Mr. B. Waugh and W. B
Mount. Mr. Waugh championed Blue
grass and Mr. Mount clover. The dairy
was discussed by Capt. Billingsley and
Milton Hadley. Corn culture and hog
raising was presented by B.C. Harper
and .1. M. Harchbarger. "The value of
home attractions and amusements" was
presented in a well written paper by Mrs.
J. A. Mount. Walter Weasner reported
for the committee on observation.
L. W. Cochran's paper on the present
ontlook for horse raising contained valuable advice to farmers. J. A. Mount discussed the outlook for sheep raising. He
argued in favor of sheep raising from the
prospective profits in mutton and wool,
and as a means of keeping farms in best
condition. "Winter Mowers" by Mrs. Cora
M. Jewell was instructive to all growers
of flowers. Prof. Howard Greist read an
able paper on the "Value of education."
Prof. Bitting, of Purdue, discussed
swine plague and hog cholera. His address was fall of good advice, both as to
how to prevent these diseases and management of the sick herds.
W. H. Mount sowed a field of clover in
corn land in July. He had some specimens of a weed that had made its appear-
Notes From Elkhart County.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Corn Husking—There is a great deal of
corn standing in the shock in this county.
The weather has been so dry and the
winds have been so strong as to make
husking very difficult work, so many
farmers quit for awhile and waited for
rain. Others hauled water in the evening
and poured it into the tops of shocks that
were to be husked next day. We had a
nice shower last night, and it is raining
again this evening, so that the fodder
will be damp enough for husking for
sometime. The work will be pushed as
rapidly as possible by those farmers who
have not yet finished. I husked my last
load nearly three weeks ago—to be exact,
on Oct. 21st. Last week I had my fodder
threshed and it is all under cover. I began just as early as the corn would do to
crib and kept right at it until I finished.
The dry winds did not bother me except
the last two days husking.
Cleaning up Again.—Since corn husking is over, I have spent some time cleaning up about the farm. This is a good
time for such work. Roadsides, fence-
corners and out-of-the-way places have
come in for a share in this work. The
orchard must be given some attention next
as there are a number of large limbs
which have been broken oft by winds
and storms. I have, this week, been
cleaning up a little spot, possibly a third
of an acre, that was formerly a pond, but
now as dry as any part of the field. An
immense amount of trash has been thrown
into heaps and burned and the appearance of the spot is greatly improved.
There is scarcely anything which gives
me more genuine satisfaction than to
clean up and make the farm look better.
Working the Boads.—In'this neighborhood the usual amount of fall road work
is being done. While I believe that, as a
rule, it is best to do most of this work in
the spring, a little labor judiciously expended at this time of the year is a good
thing. But this depends almost altogether on the kind of man who fills the
office of road supervisor. For five or six
years we have been so unfortunate as to
have an incompetent supervisor in this
locality. The result is, that although a
great deal of road work has been done
our roads are in a notoriously bad condition. Perhaps the man meant well
enough in directing the work in the way
that he did, but he evidently lacked judgment. People make a very serious mistake sometimes in selecting their public
officers. I do not think that it would
better the condition any to change our
road laws, as some men have advocated,
so that a superintendent of roads should
be selected for the whole township instead of only a small portion of it as at
present. If an incompetent man were
chosen to superintend the road work for
a whole township, he could do more damage in proportion to the territory over
which he would have Jurisdiction. What
is needed more than a change in the law
is a change in the minds of the people in
regard to the kind of men they should
select to serve them. Now since the
supervisors are appointed by the trustees
instead of being elected, it is necessary to
In 1500 cattle were worried by dogs before killing to tender the flesh.
The recent severe weather in New Zealand killed the wild ducks in thousands.
The first buckwheat State is New York
with 280,029 acres, and 1,075,735 bushels of
product.
White willow, the chosen wood for the
cricket bath, is said to be disappearing
from England.
Beavers have reappeared in rural
Maine, and other wild animals are increasing in number.
"Garland" Stoves and Ranges are no
higher in price than the worthless imitations.   Ask to see them.
The principal county in England for
fruit cultivation is Devon, where there
are 2">,0.V> acres of orchards.
Owing to the failure of the apple crop
in central Pennsylvania, that rural luxury, apple-butter is a scarce article.
A dreadful accident occured at Cleveland, O., on the 10th, in which a loaded
street car ran olT the bridge over the
Cuyahoga river when the draw-bridge
was open and fell 100 feet into the stream,
killing all in the car, some 20 persons.
One hundred acres of corn were burned
near Harwood, Mo., last week. The fire
was started by the carelessness of a farm
hand while lighting his pipe. A fire
started near Montevallo, 15 miles southeast of Nevada, Mo., and burned 200 acres
of corn.
Acting Mayor Faude, of Ashland, Wis.,
who issued an order to the chief of police
last week to allow the saloons to keep
open on Sunday, was arrested on a charge
of "knowingly violating his oath of office." The Civic Federation is back of
the prosecution.
The Celebrated Caricaturist,
Thomas Nast, has not hitherto been
known as an author. He has written an
article for 77/<- Youth's Companion, illustrated by himself, showing "How Caricatures are Made," which will be published
in the next volume of the paper.
The Rev. William E. Hinshaw, the wife-
murderer, who has been received in the
prison south, is now known as No. 125.
For the present ho is assigned to odd
tasks, but when the manufacture of shoes
is under way he will be assigned to that
department. Beyond saying to the chaplain, "Brother, this is more than I can
bear; the thought of this living tomb has
crushed me," the prisoner declines to talk
of his case.
Senator Quay's Model Farm.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, has a
model farm in Lancaster county, that
State. It embraces 135 acres, aud lies
along an electric railway. On the north
side runs the Pennsylvania steam railway with a station on the farm. The
land was taken up in 1741 by Christian
Garber. It remained in that family continuously until last October, when it was
bought for Senator Quay.
The new barn is the finest and most
convenient in Pennsylvania. It has a
frontage of 00 feet and a depth of 03 feet.
The basement is used as a stable and is
so arranged that one can stand anywhere
on the lower floor and see all the horses
and cattle feeding. Each stall is automatically supplied with water from a
large spring. The second floor is of sufficient depth to admit of three four-horse
wagons being driven on the floor at the
same time. Two immense corn cribs and
an agricultural implement shed are built
in the barn.