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,