VOL. XXII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, OCT. 22,1887.
NO. 43
tQxxsxyi and &usvoev.
<Jive your'name and postollice when asking question--. Many queries ko unanswered (or failure to
observe this rule.
Please tell your correspondent, the book
entitled "Way of Holiness" may be obtained by sending 50 cents to Palmer -J*
Hughes, 62 and 64 Bible House, New York
City. Hannah C. B.
Jonesboro, Grant Co.
I read that alfalfa is tine for hay, and a
superior crop for bees, that it produces a
line flow of honey. Is it true? If so, will
it do well in Indiana? What kind of soil?
How much to the acre? When to plant?
Where can we get seed? I live in Wayne
county and have 60 colonies of bees, so I
am interested in it. Is it true that alsike
clover makes as much hay as red clover.
Fountain City. G. N. H.
Alfalfa is not recommended as a honey
producing plant. Alsike is much better.
Alsike is good for hay if cut while in
bloom, but in this case it is not of much
value to the bees. When left till the
bloom fades the stalk becomes tough and
woody.
Please publish the scale of points of
standard Leghorn fowls and oblige
A Subscriber.
Arcadia.
We presume you refer to Brown Leghorns. The head of the cock is short, dark
red, lieak yellow; eyes red and bright; face
bright red. Comb bright red, medium
size, sipgle, straight, deeply serrated, extending well over back of head. Ear lobes
white or cream white, smooth and thin,
wattles bright red, long and thin. Neck
long well arched. Back, medium length,
very dark red, almost black. Breast,
black, full, round. Wings large, dark
red, primaries black; coverts metallic
greenish black. Tail upright, large and
full. Legs, thighs medium length and
black. Shanks, yellow. You need The
Standard of Excellence, price ? 1.
Please tell me what to do for my warm
house.   There is a small   insect,  so small
?*ou have to look closely to see them, of a
ight cream color that crawl about quite
lively for their size. They accumulate by
the thousands around the edge of the milk
in the crocks and over the crocks and milk
lids, and everything in the warm house.
They look like young spiders, only they
are much smaller. They are easily mashed
under the finger.
The warm house has eight 10-inch walls
filled between with sawdust, fresh from
the saw, and also fresh from green logs.
The siding is pine and painted inside and
out. Is standing on a brick wall two feet
high, banked up with earth on the outside
and floored with brick on the inside.
A. B. C.
Prof. F. M. Webster replies: As near as
can be inferred, without specimens, the
insect which causes your correspondent
so much trouble is a species of 1'oditridti;
or spring ■ tails, as they are commonly
called. These diminutive creatures belong to the extensive order of insects
known as Neurojitera, anil are very abundant during spring and fall, in damp
places, where they dejx-sit their eggs in
great numbers; a single female having
been found to contain 1,360 eggs.
Dr. Packard states that the eggs are
round, and transparent, and apparently
hatch in from six to ten days after being
deposited. The young are of a whitish
color, and it is probably these which infest
the "warm house" of A. B. O.
One  species   of  these  Insects,   Lipura
fimetria Linn, has been known to infest
cisterns and wells, where they lived upon
the surface of the water. Another species,
l'tiditi-a nivicola, has been called the snow
flea,by Dr. Fitch, on account of their habit
of leaping about on the surface of the
snow in winter. They are not injurious,
as their food consists of the impurities
which accumulate in damp places, and but
for the annoyance which they cause,
might be considered beneficial.
They can doubtless be destroyed by removing the milk, etc., from the room, anil
burning sulphur or tobacco therein, keeping the doors and windows carefully closed
for 48 hours to retain the fumes.
%i%xo Qtpvtxtmtnt
BY  VINSON CARTER, ESQ., THIS CITY.
A husband and wife each own a piece of
land in Indiana. They have no children
nor father nor mother living.
1. In case the husband should die tirst
who would inherit his estate?
2. In case the wife should die tirst who
would inherit her estate?       A Reader.
1. The wife.
2. The husband.
A and B join farms. A makes his share
of the fence but B won't make his share,
and A's stock goes on B's land. What
must A do to have the fence built? Must
he build it himself? A does not want his
stock to bother B, but cannot help it unless
the fence is built.      Constant Reader.
A cannot compel B to make half of the
fence. A should make all the fenoe on his
own land and then refuse to let B join to
it until B pays for one-half of the fence.
A man has two children, a girl aud a
boy, and he is too poor and trifling to feed
and clothe them as they should be, to go
to school and be comfortable. The girl
gets out from home and tries to earn
something towards clothing herself, and
at the age of 14 she hires out for wages,
and gets a good home, as one of the family, and is well clothed and well treated.
Can the father make her leave her home
after she had been   there eleven months?
W. E. W.
Yes. The father is entitled to the care
and custody of his children under 21 years
of age.
In the year 1875 a husband sold and conveyed 80 acres of land, by deed, in which
the wife did not join. The purchaser took
possession of the land and it has been sold
and passed through several hands since.
In the mean time the wife has died.
Does the present owner have a good
title to all, or any portion, of the land? If
his title is defective how should be proceed to make it good? Reader.
Yes, the purchaser has a good title to
the whole of the land.
£fcje $farm.
Postal Oard Correspondence.
Can delinquent taxes on personal ]>rop-
erty be collected of a non-resident of a
county. Reader.
Yes.
Mr. Jeremiah Fox, one of Wabash county's most influential and respected citizens, died at his home near Allendale, 111.,
Saturday, Oct. 8th, aged 68 years. He
was a good man, a devoted husband, a
kindjand indulgent father, and esteemed
by~all who knew him. He has held several offices of a local character and served
a term as one of the commissioners of the
county. In addition to farming Mr. Fox
hud given considerable attention to the
raising of Shorthorn cattle. Inthe latter
business he was well known throughout
the county. He was a valuable agent
for the Indiana Farmer in his neighborhood.
IUIIIM.
Weather Report.
Condition of the weather In the State of Indiana,
the week ending Friday nlicbt, October 14.
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Montoomery Co., Oct. 14.—The growing
wheat is reported as looking tine; corn
will average two-thirds of the usual crop.
S. D. S.
Cass Cd.j Oct. 15.—Sharp frosts during
the past three days,preceded by cold rains,
but little damage reported: the wheat
looks well. T. B. H.
Crawford Co., Oct. 15.—Wheat nearly
all sown ; tirst sowing coming up; roads in
tine order, and beautiful weather for
work. J. M. J.
Franklin Co., Oct. 17.—Wheat looks
well; some of the mornings have been
foggy, but generally the weather has been
pleasant. A. W. B.
Hancock Co., Oct. 17.—Wheat in-fine
condition ; weather fine, enabling farmers
to get all necessary hauling done; pastures
are getting short. A. P. B.
Greene Co., Oct. 14.—Heavy frosts on
the 12th and 14th; corn is being gathered
and cribbed; wheat about all sown and
doing well; no complaint about fly so far.
W. B.S.
Henry Co., Oct. 17.—Wheat is growing
nicely, and seems to be doing well; pastures good; the first three days of the week
were cloudy with light rain; last four days
clear; nice for drying corn. W. D.
Jefferson Co., t >ct. 15.—Wheat all sown
and coining up well; no frost yet; turnips,
tomatoes and celery doing well; a good
mouth to prepare for winter; grazing
good: no apples; Irish potatoes scarce aud
tvgh. F. L. M.
Switzerland Co., Oct. 15.—The weather
during the week has been unusually
pleasant, notwithstanding severe frosts;
vegetation looks beautiful and green; the
common honey suckle is blooming the
second time as fresh and fragrant as in
spring; not all the wheat has been sown,
but that whieh had the advantage of the
earlier rains is in the most thrifty condition. C. G. B.
Miami Co., Oct. 15.—We have had plenty
of recent rains to keep pastures and wheat
growing but not enough to replenish the
water sources, and many farmers still
have to drive stock some distance to water; more than the average breadth of
wheat is sown and coming up nicely;
corn cribbing has commenced and we believe there will be 75 per cent of an average crop; potatoes almost a failure; apples
scarce; stock of all kinds, except hogs, are
healthy; considerable sickness owing to
scarcity of pure water; we are far from a
famine, however, and there are plenty of
good people who will have a surplus and
see that no one suffers. X. II. H.
The Moon and the Weather.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Although you have had "an ample sufficiency" on this subject, I crave your indulgence for a short reply to an article of
September 10th, by Wm. R. Norris in
reply to mine of Aug. 13. Many of the
readers of the Farmer will remember
that a number of months past Mr. Norris
wrote an article on the quarterings of the
moon as affecting the weather. I have
not the article before me but I certainly am
not mistaken in saying that he could generally very accurately predict the particular character of weather that would attend
the next quartering. He made some
weather predictions for the next quartering which did not materialize in any part
of the country from what I could hear.
It was to show the unreasonableness of
making predictions of certain conditions
of the weather, just because so small and
distant a liody as the moon, reaches the
exact time of its quarterage. My article
does not say that the moon has no in tin
ence upon the weather. And no such inference can honestly be drawn from a
single sentence, or part of a*sentence.
The article plainly shows through every
part, that it was written solely to show
the absurdity, rather than the impossibility, of accurately predicting the condition
of the weather at the exact time of the
moon's quarterage. I said nothing about
tides.   Who denies their cause?
I once heard of an infidel who hated the
Bible so that he sewed it up iu a coon skin
and then set his bull dog on it. The dog
soon found it dry chewing and retired.
Mr. Norris has entirely ignored the plain
and patent character of my article; but
has sewed it up in a coon skin, and then
set a science bull dog to rend it to pieces.
But the dog is welcome to all the juice he
can get out of the dry hide. I never knew
a man who had a pet theory or 'doctrine
In politics, religion, or/anythiiig"else, to
do justice to his opponent's arguments. I
do not suppose it is possible in human
nature. Mr. Norris' pet theory is his
ability to foretell certain conditions of the
weather at the exact quarterage of the
moon. But when our extensive signal
service, so often fails, even one day in advance, I can have no faith in theoretical
calculations.   Here I bid the subject fare-
Observer.
well.
Thk apple crop in Western New York
is said to lie immense, and the same remark is true of potatoes, and freight cars
are in demand for shipping them to Western States. It is somewhat humiliating
to us to have to send East for our apples
and potatoes, but it cannot be lielped this
year, unless we can content ourselves to
live on bread and meat.