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VOL. XXIX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. MARCH 10, 1894. NO. 10. Prize Scholarships In Purdue TJniversitv —Last Year's Offer Renewed and Enlarged. The interest manifested in last year's offer of Prize Scholarships in Purdue University, to young men and women of Indiana, leads the university authorities to renew the offer tbis year and enlarge the opportunities for securing such scholarships. WHAT A PRIZE SCHOLARSHIP WILL SECURE. Those who win prize scholarships may avail themselves, of all the advantages which the University offers to agricultural students absolutely free of charge. This means .not only free tuition, but free biological, chemical, physical, physiological and veterinary laboratories; free libraries and reading rooms; free access to and use of the dairy and feeding barns; free inspection and study of the work and experiments in progress in field, orchard, vineyard, green-house and garden, and free use of costly and delicate apparatus necessary in pursuing "the prescribed course of study. One object in offering these prize scholarships is to encourage improvement in agriculture, and all who compete will be greatly benefited by the study and effort put forth even though they fail to reach the standard required to secure a scholarship. ■ HOW TO WIN A SCHOLARSHIP IN PURDUE *^ " UNIVERSITY. - Any young man or woman residing in this State who will produce the yield or secure the financial returns in any of the first four classes named below, will be awarded a SCHOLARSHIP IN THE SHORT AGRICCL- '* TUBAL COURSE, which will begin early in January, 1895, and continue 8 or 10 weeks, with lectures on live stock husbandry, agriculture, horticulture, veterinary and dairy topics; demonstrations in the veterinary hospital and laboratory exercises in the farm dairy, etc. Class I. A yield of 70 bushels of corn, 50 bushels of oats, or 35 bushels of wheat, one acre in one piece of ground, or 70 bushels of potatoes on one-fourth acre. Class II. A yield of 30 bushels of strawberries on one-tenth of an acre, or sales therefrom amounting to $60. Class III. A net profit of 25 per cent on any sum not less than $15 invested in sheep, calves, swine, poultry or eggs. Class IV. Sales from butter amounting to $16, the product of one cow for 8 consecutive weeks. Any one winning a short course scholarship in any one of the classes named above may, at his option, take instead a SCHOLARSHIP IN THE REGULAR AGRICULTURAL COURSE for one year, beginning in September, 1894. Class V. Any one obtaining corresponding yields or financial returns on 2, 3 or 4 times the area, in one piece of ground, named for corn, oats, wheat, potatoes or strawberries, under classes I and II, will be correspondingly awarded a scholarship for 2, 3 or 4 years in the regular agricultural course, beginning in September, 1894. Class VI. Any one securing corresponding returns to those named iu classes III and IV, with 2, 3 or 4 "times the minimum investment named, or with 2, 3 or 4 cows, will be correspondingly awarded a scholarship in the regular agricultural course for 2, 3 or 4 years, beginning in September, 1894. Class VII. Any one producing, In 1895, 35 bushels of wheat on one acre, or the same yield per acre on 2, 3 or 4 acres in one pieoe of ground, will be correspondingly awarded a scholarship for 1, 2, 3 or 4 years In the regular agricultural course, beginning in September, 1895. Any person desiring to compete fora scholarship In any one or two of the above named classes should report at once to Prof. W. C. Latta, LaFayette, Ind., who will forward instructions for performing the work. These scholarships are limited strictly to the short and regular courses in agriculture. All persons securing prize scholarships in the short course must present testimonials as to character and be at least 16 years of age.- In addition to the requirements for the short course, those securing clubs lying round the cow stables, anyhow?^ There, that bunch of thistles went to seed again this year. You know I told you in June to dig it up. Some farmers can never find a hole under the fence until the pigs crawl through it a dozen times and show their owners where the hole is. If there is anything that will induce a farmer to put rings in his hogs' noses it is to see them standing on their heads in his the tree. If you had taken a piece of wire and drawn it around all three of. those flaring limbs, taking care to put an old piece of carpet between it and the tree yon would have saved it. Of course it is too late to save that one now, but you can save the other two by doing the thing advised right away. Now don't rush off to bed so early, the nights are long and you cannot do much anyhow, so help the cLildren with their lessons, they never refuse to help you with your work, and you should not decline to help them with their lessons. Take the children's shoes to town on Saturday and have them mended if you cannot do the work yourself. I have seen farmers who could do a real neat job of mending boots and shoes, and thus save several dimes during the year. What are you going to do with that dry hickory timber out there in the shed. Why not take your drawing knife and shave out a few single-trees, and a doubletree and a neck-yoke? Then paint them up well with ventian red and lay them away. By and by, you will break one of your old ones and it will be very agreeable to run in and grab up a new one. Waste not. Want not. # C. A. Robinson. THE KEIFFER PEAR, GliOWN BY ALBERTSON & HOBBS, BRIDGEPORT, IND. scholarships for the regular course must pass the examinations in the several bra'-c'ies of study required in the annual register before admission to the university. Candidates for the regular agricultural course should enter at the beginning of the college year in September, and those who compete for scholarships by growing corn may, if they so desire, enter the regular course next September and have the crop harvested by another, in which case they could pay the customary fees for the fall term and have said fees remitted at the time of securing a scholarship. It Is suggested that all candidates compete in two classes—say with crop and live stock —so that if they fail in one they may yet succeed in another. A prize scholarship in the short course in agriculture will effeot a saving of at least $10 and a scholarship in the regular agricultural course a saving of $25 a year, or $100 for the full course. J. H. Smart, President. Sidelong Glances. Editobs Indiana Far_eb: That gate drags on the ground. Lay up those two rails now, and prevent a horse from jumping over. Pick up that piece of a board in the road. See it has a sharp end. I saw a valuable horse killed once by being snagged by such a stick when he stepped on one end and the other flew up piercing his abdo men. What means so many sticks and j^tafce Hjetos. favorite orchard. See how the road is washing along your farm. A little work now may save a great deal after a while. Drive a nail in that fence plank that has been torn loose from the post. Do It right away and save trouble. See where tbat ditch is cutting a place in the bank. Put in a little wall of "nigger heads" and it will save trouble in the future. Last summer that peach tree dropped its leaves in June and you did not know why. The next time such a thing occurs, scrape the dirt away from its roots and pour a bucket of hot water on them and watch the result. The leaves will come out green in three weeks. Now look at that cow with her head among the limb* of that young apple tree. Before you can get to her a new. tree will be needed on that spot. It is much cheaper to keep the cows out of the orchard than to replace the trees they destroy. Stop! See that little ridge along there? That is the track of a mole. Let's follow it up. Gently, now, for he is a quick eared creature and will stop working if he hears you. Here is the end of the track but no mole. He is gone, but you can catch him if you will get five cents worth of strychnia and put it in a quart of water and soak some corn in it, then put the corn in his track and cover it up. There, that fine apple tree limb has fallen down and split a great piece off tbe side of Measles is epidemic at Washington. Belle Houser, 20 years old, of Marion, is reported to have lost her mind, due to the cigarette habit. F. D. Huzenga, near Winamac, has been indicted, charged with selling chickens dying of the cholera. There is no foundation for the report that gold in paying quantities has beon found near Hagerstown. Michigan City is discussing the advantages to oe derived from a ship-canal connecting that city witb Lake Erie. Mrs. Elizabeth Christian, of Boone county, fainted while attending her daughter's funeral, and died without returning to consciousness. Harry Worden, of Fort Wayne, jumped down stairs while asleep, the result of dreaming that the house was burning. He was severely injured. John Jones, a prominent farmer near Eaton, fears that lie was Inoculated while treating a horse ill oT the rabies,and he bas placed himself under treatment at Muncie. William D. Fryer, of Crawfordsville,un- dertook to lead four horses while riding a fifth. This led to r runaway, in which he was thrown off and trampled under foot, fracturing his skull. Three dogs having gone mad at Bird's Eye, a war of extermination has been declared. WhUe the excitement was at its hight a savage dog attacked Louis Chatd- worth, 15 years old, throwing him down and mangling his leg terribly. The dog was brained with an axe before its hold could be released. (Sjetiural _.&xob. Four barrels of honey were taken from a bee tree by Guy Marr near Baroda, Mich, As much more was wasted. Tkree hundred negro converts, men and women, were baptized In the freezing watered a creek atlSpringfield, O. John Carlerry, of Newark, N. J., died last week of hiccoughs. It had been 13 weeks sines the disease attacked him. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Schmidt, of Lawrence county, have celebrated their golden wedding. They were married in Prussia fifty years ago, and they were among the first German families to settle at Bedford. Mr. and Mrs. James Brunton. an aged couple, and a domestic named Rose Connolly were overcome by coal gas at Racine, Wis., and when found yesterday the girl was dead and the old people unconscious. Beth will probablyidie. At a sale in Somerset, Pa., about 250 farmers who were in attendance ate of meat that had been cooked in a copper kettle where it remained over night. A number of men were poisoned. Two have died and about 10 more will probably die,
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1894, v. 29, no. 10 (Mar. 10) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2910 |
Date of Original | 1894 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
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 | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Description
Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
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 |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | VOL. XXIX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. MARCH 10, 1894. NO. 10. Prize Scholarships In Purdue TJniversitv —Last Year's Offer Renewed and Enlarged. The interest manifested in last year's offer of Prize Scholarships in Purdue University, to young men and women of Indiana, leads the university authorities to renew the offer tbis year and enlarge the opportunities for securing such scholarships. WHAT A PRIZE SCHOLARSHIP WILL SECURE. Those who win prize scholarships may avail themselves, of all the advantages which the University offers to agricultural students absolutely free of charge. This means .not only free tuition, but free biological, chemical, physical, physiological and veterinary laboratories; free libraries and reading rooms; free access to and use of the dairy and feeding barns; free inspection and study of the work and experiments in progress in field, orchard, vineyard, green-house and garden, and free use of costly and delicate apparatus necessary in pursuing "the prescribed course of study. One object in offering these prize scholarships is to encourage improvement in agriculture, and all who compete will be greatly benefited by the study and effort put forth even though they fail to reach the standard required to secure a scholarship. ■ HOW TO WIN A SCHOLARSHIP IN PURDUE *^ " UNIVERSITY. - Any young man or woman residing in this State who will produce the yield or secure the financial returns in any of the first four classes named below, will be awarded a SCHOLARSHIP IN THE SHORT AGRICCL- '* TUBAL COURSE, which will begin early in January, 1895, and continue 8 or 10 weeks, with lectures on live stock husbandry, agriculture, horticulture, veterinary and dairy topics; demonstrations in the veterinary hospital and laboratory exercises in the farm dairy, etc. Class I. A yield of 70 bushels of corn, 50 bushels of oats, or 35 bushels of wheat, one acre in one piece of ground, or 70 bushels of potatoes on one-fourth acre. Class II. A yield of 30 bushels of strawberries on one-tenth of an acre, or sales therefrom amounting to $60. Class III. A net profit of 25 per cent on any sum not less than $15 invested in sheep, calves, swine, poultry or eggs. Class IV. Sales from butter amounting to $16, the product of one cow for 8 consecutive weeks. Any one winning a short course scholarship in any one of the classes named above may, at his option, take instead a SCHOLARSHIP IN THE REGULAR AGRICULTURAL COURSE for one year, beginning in September, 1894. Class V. Any one obtaining corresponding yields or financial returns on 2, 3 or 4 times the area, in one piece of ground, named for corn, oats, wheat, potatoes or strawberries, under classes I and II, will be correspondingly awarded a scholarship for 2, 3 or 4 years in the regular agricultural course, beginning in September, 1894. Class VI. Any one securing corresponding returns to those named iu classes III and IV, with 2, 3 or 4 "times the minimum investment named, or with 2, 3 or 4 cows, will be correspondingly awarded a scholarship in the regular agricultural course for 2, 3 or 4 years, beginning in September, 1894. Class VII. Any one producing, In 1895, 35 bushels of wheat on one acre, or the same yield per acre on 2, 3 or 4 acres in one pieoe of ground, will be correspondingly awarded a scholarship for 1, 2, 3 or 4 years In the regular agricultural course, beginning in September, 1895. Any person desiring to compete fora scholarship In any one or two of the above named classes should report at once to Prof. W. C. Latta, LaFayette, Ind., who will forward instructions for performing the work. These scholarships are limited strictly to the short and regular courses in agriculture. All persons securing prize scholarships in the short course must present testimonials as to character and be at least 16 years of age.- In addition to the requirements for the short course, those securing clubs lying round the cow stables, anyhow?^ There, that bunch of thistles went to seed again this year. You know I told you in June to dig it up. Some farmers can never find a hole under the fence until the pigs crawl through it a dozen times and show their owners where the hole is. If there is anything that will induce a farmer to put rings in his hogs' noses it is to see them standing on their heads in his the tree. If you had taken a piece of wire and drawn it around all three of. those flaring limbs, taking care to put an old piece of carpet between it and the tree yon would have saved it. Of course it is too late to save that one now, but you can save the other two by doing the thing advised right away. Now don't rush off to bed so early, the nights are long and you cannot do much anyhow, so help the cLildren with their lessons, they never refuse to help you with your work, and you should not decline to help them with their lessons. Take the children's shoes to town on Saturday and have them mended if you cannot do the work yourself. I have seen farmers who could do a real neat job of mending boots and shoes, and thus save several dimes during the year. What are you going to do with that dry hickory timber out there in the shed. Why not take your drawing knife and shave out a few single-trees, and a doubletree and a neck-yoke? Then paint them up well with ventian red and lay them away. By and by, you will break one of your old ones and it will be very agreeable to run in and grab up a new one. Waste not. Want not. # C. A. Robinson. THE KEIFFER PEAR, GliOWN BY ALBERTSON & HOBBS, BRIDGEPORT, IND. scholarships for the regular course must pass the examinations in the several bra'-c'ies of study required in the annual register before admission to the university. Candidates for the regular agricultural course should enter at the beginning of the college year in September, and those who compete for scholarships by growing corn may, if they so desire, enter the regular course next September and have the crop harvested by another, in which case they could pay the customary fees for the fall term and have said fees remitted at the time of securing a scholarship. It Is suggested that all candidates compete in two classes—say with crop and live stock —so that if they fail in one they may yet succeed in another. A prize scholarship in the short course in agriculture will effeot a saving of at least $10 and a scholarship in the regular agricultural course a saving of $25 a year, or $100 for the full course. J. H. Smart, President. Sidelong Glances. Editobs Indiana Far_eb: That gate drags on the ground. Lay up those two rails now, and prevent a horse from jumping over. Pick up that piece of a board in the road. See it has a sharp end. I saw a valuable horse killed once by being snagged by such a stick when he stepped on one end and the other flew up piercing his abdo men. What means so many sticks and j^tafce Hjetos. favorite orchard. See how the road is washing along your farm. A little work now may save a great deal after a while. Drive a nail in that fence plank that has been torn loose from the post. Do It right away and save trouble. See where tbat ditch is cutting a place in the bank. Put in a little wall of "nigger heads" and it will save trouble in the future. Last summer that peach tree dropped its leaves in June and you did not know why. The next time such a thing occurs, scrape the dirt away from its roots and pour a bucket of hot water on them and watch the result. The leaves will come out green in three weeks. Now look at that cow with her head among the limb* of that young apple tree. Before you can get to her a new. tree will be needed on that spot. It is much cheaper to keep the cows out of the orchard than to replace the trees they destroy. Stop! See that little ridge along there? That is the track of a mole. Let's follow it up. Gently, now, for he is a quick eared creature and will stop working if he hears you. Here is the end of the track but no mole. He is gone, but you can catch him if you will get five cents worth of strychnia and put it in a quart of water and soak some corn in it, then put the corn in his track and cover it up. There, that fine apple tree limb has fallen down and split a great piece off tbe side of Measles is epidemic at Washington. Belle Houser, 20 years old, of Marion, is reported to have lost her mind, due to the cigarette habit. F. D. Huzenga, near Winamac, has been indicted, charged with selling chickens dying of the cholera. There is no foundation for the report that gold in paying quantities has beon found near Hagerstown. Michigan City is discussing the advantages to oe derived from a ship-canal connecting that city witb Lake Erie. Mrs. Elizabeth Christian, of Boone county, fainted while attending her daughter's funeral, and died without returning to consciousness. Harry Worden, of Fort Wayne, jumped down stairs while asleep, the result of dreaming that the house was burning. He was severely injured. John Jones, a prominent farmer near Eaton, fears that lie was Inoculated while treating a horse ill oT the rabies,and he bas placed himself under treatment at Muncie. William D. Fryer, of Crawfordsville,un- dertook to lead four horses while riding a fifth. This led to r runaway, in which he was thrown off and trampled under foot, fracturing his skull. Three dogs having gone mad at Bird's Eye, a war of extermination has been declared. WhUe the excitement was at its hight a savage dog attacked Louis Chatd- worth, 15 years old, throwing him down and mangling his leg terribly. The dog was brained with an axe before its hold could be released. (Sjetiural _.&xob. Four barrels of honey were taken from a bee tree by Guy Marr near Baroda, Mich, As much more was wasted. Tkree hundred negro converts, men and women, were baptized In the freezing watered a creek atlSpringfield, O. John Carlerry, of Newark, N. J., died last week of hiccoughs. It had been 13 weeks sines the disease attacked him. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Schmidt, of Lawrence county, have celebrated their golden wedding. They were married in Prussia fifty years ago, and they were among the first German families to settle at Bedford. Mr. and Mrs. James Brunton. an aged couple, and a domestic named Rose Connolly were overcome by coal gas at Racine, Wis., and when found yesterday the girl was dead and the old people unconscious. Beth will probablyidie. At a sale in Somerset, Pa., about 250 farmers who were in attendance ate of meat that had been cooked in a copper kettle where it remained over night. A number of men were poisoned. Two have died and about 10 more will probably die, |
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