VOL. XXIX.
INDIANAPOLIS. IND. MAY 26, 1894.
NO. 21.
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
United States Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau, drop Bulletin of the Indiana Weather Service in Oo-operation
With the Agricultural Experiment Station
at Purdue University, Monday, May\2l,
1894.
The warm weather the first half of the
week and numerous good rains continued
to be beneficial to crops, but from Friday
the temperature fell to ulinost freezing
during the nights and great injury to the
crops was only prevented by continuous
cloudy weather; snow in the northern
portion and rains in the southern; on
Thursday hail and strong wind did injury
to wheat, fences and trees in many localities; wheat is heading now nearly everywhere; it is very rank; clover and rye are
in bloom and pasturage in most excellent
condition; fruit is falling off; the planting
of corn is not finished yet everywhere because of frequent and in some localities
very heavy rains, but little planting could
be done; the Hessian fly and cut worms
still are doing much damage in some fields;
light frosts occurred in few localities on
the 18th, 19th and 20th.
SOUTHERN PORTION.
Gibson, Vanderburg, Posey and Warrick
counties.—Until Friday the weather has
been exceedingly favorable, but little rain
fell and corn planting is about finished;
since Friday night it has been quite cold;
wheat is heading and looks well; in Posey
county the fly is injuring it in some fields.
Dubois, Spencer and Perry counties.—
Favorable weather prevailed until Friday
when it turned dangerously cold; wheat
never looked better; it is heading out; in
Dubois county oats seem to be a failure;
corn planting is alinoBt finished; in Spencer county some corn too much injured by
cut worms has to be replanted; grass and
clover in best condition.
Orange, Harrison and Floyd counties.—
Warm weather continued until the latter
part of the week, when the temperature
fell suddenly; the crops are in good condition; corn is a good stand, but the cutworms are damaging it in some places;
strawberries are plentiful in Floyd county;
500 crates were shipped on Friday.
Washington, Clark and Jefferson counties.—Warm and favorable weather was
followed from Friday by cold, wet
weather; wheat is in full head; the Hessian
fly is doing injury to it in Washington
county; oats, potatoes, grass and live
stock are doing well; corn ha3 come up
well; in Clark county cutworms are doing
injury; there is not much fruit except
berries.
Switzerland, Dearborn and Jennings
counties.—Generally the weather was favorable to crops, but heavy rains and snow
made the ground too wet for planting
corn; a severe hail storm did much damage to growing crops in Dearborn county;
corn is coming up nicely; a large crop of
tobacco set in Switzerland county; wheat
is heeded and looks very fine; oats less so;
fruit is falling off much; pasturage and
stock are in tine condition; wool is going
to the market.
Ripley, Bartholomew and Jackson
counties.—The weather continued favorable to crops; wheat and rye are growing
too fast; there is danger of weak straw;
the Hessian fly is doing some damage to
the early-sown wheat; all crops in best
condition; corn is coming up nicely, but
needs plowing; cherry buds are falling off,
but there will be a fine crop of blackberries in Jackson county; snow fell in Ripley county on Saturday.
Greene, Lawrence and Daviess counties.
—The first part of the week was good
growing weather, but since Friday it was
too cold and wet; all crops are in good
condition, except perhaps oats; corn is
coming up well and plowing progressed
until Thursday; wind storms did much
damage to buildings, fences and trees in
Greene county, and heavy rains washed
up corn in Lawrence county; cutworms
are doing some damage to young corn, and
the Hessian fly to wheat in Daviess
county.
Knox and Sullivan counties.— Favorable
weather to crops and farm work continued
until Thursday, when heavy rain did
damage to melons and corn in Knox
county; wheat is not looking so well, and
fruit is falling off; but have been hurt
some by frost in low places in Sullivan
county on the 18th, 19th and 20th.
CENTRAL PORTION.
Vigo, Vermillion, Parke and Fountain
counties.—Until Friday warm weather and
numerous rains kept everything in splen-
eondition. but the latter part of the week
it was cold; frost occurred on Saturday
morning in Vermillion county, hurting
tender vegetation; wheat is heading; oats
is in good condition; corn is coming up
nicely; planting is nearly done; strawberries are ripening and there is a fine prospect for blackberries and melons, tomatoes
and sweet potatoes in Vigo county; some
hail fell on Thursday; cutworms did some
damage but the warm weather checked
their ravages in Parke county.
Owen, Shelby, Johnson, Rush and Decatur counties.—Warm and rainy weather
until Thursday was beneficial to crops but
prevented farm work; wheat is heading;
corn needs plowing; potatoes a luxuriant
growth, clover is blooming; oats is standing thin in Johnson county; a severe wind
storm on the 17th did much damage to
fences and trees.
Fayette, Franklin, Union and Randolph
counties.—Until Friday was the best of
growing weather; warm and showery;
from that day cold, rainy weather prevailed and snow fell on same day in Union
county; crops are in good condition; wheat
is heading; wheat in Fayette county became too rank and some went down, is
plowed up and planted in corn; clover is
blooming; potatoes grow nicely; strawberries are growing nicely; in Randolph
county some fields of oats not doing good
are sown to millet; corn planting except
replanting is done in Franklin county;
fiuit is falling off much.
Madison, Hancock and Henry counties;
—All crops look tine; wheat is heading,
corn is doing well and stands clean, but
moles and cut worms are doing damage in
Henry county; fruit is falling off much;
garden truck stands well; potatoes look
well; it hailed and strong wind did some
damage on Thursday in Madison county;
from Friday the temperature fell very
low and snow fell on Saturday.
Marion, Boone and Hendricks counties.
—The warm weather with rains at the beginning of the week was very beneficial to
crops which ate in best condition; , corn
stands well in clean fields; wheat is heading but is very rank; strawberries are
ripening; potatoes and gardens are advancing finely; heavy rains did much damage
in the northwestern part of Boone county;
the temperature fell to near freezing on
Friday and light snow fell everywhere on
Saturday.
Montgomery, Putnam and Hendricks
counties.—Crops are in good condition;
berries are full of bloom but tree fruit is
falling off; heavy rain and wind storms
did much damage in Hendricks county;
much corn was washed out; snow fell on
Saturday.
NORTHERN PORTION.
Lake, Porter, Jasper, Starke and La-
Porte  counties.—Warm  weather of  the
first half of the week turned to colder,
rainy weather, which interrupted corn
planting; vegetation advanced very rapidly; wheat is very rank; clover is beginning to head; worms are doing much injury to strawberries; potato bugs are more
numerous than for several years, and cutworms are doing much damage.
Marshall, St. Joseph and Kosciusko
counties.—Warm and showery weather
was followed by much colder weather on
Friday; crops look well; wheat and clover
are heading; clover is being injured by
worms; potatoes have made a rapid
growth, but bugs are very numerous;
much corn was planted, but all is not
planted yet, as rains interfered; oats are
in good condition; a heavy thunder storm
on Thursday did much damage in St.
Joseph county, and snow fell on Thursday
in Kosciusko county.
Elkhart, Noble and Whitley counties.—
The fore part of the week the weather was
warm and very favorable, but it suddenly
turned to cold and rainy weather on Friday; snow fell on Friday and Saturday;
what harm it did to wheat has to be seen;
wheat is nearly ready to head; oats is in
fine condition and grass promises well;
corn is coming up nicely, but worms are
in some fields; clover Is heading.
Allen, DeKalb and Steuben counties.—
Warm and favorable weather was followed
by cold and snow; wheat is nearly hip
high; oats is in good condition, also stock;
cherries are falling off, but there will be
peaches and apples in Steuben county;
caterpillars (Clitocampa) are destroying
orchards in DeKalb county; corn is coming nicely; a heavy wind storm on Thursday did much damage; wheat went down
but as it has not headed yet it will rise
again.
Adams, Jay, Wells and Blackford counties.—The weather was very favorable although somewhat cold at the end of the
week, snow falling on Saturday; clover is
in bloom; corn all planted; it stands well
and is being cultivated, so also potatoes;
cutworms are numerous; gooseberries and
currants are being injured by worms.
Miami, Huntington, Wabash and Grant
ounties.—Until Thursday the weathe3
was all that could be desired, but on
Thusday heavy wind storms did much
damage to trees and fences in Miami
county; large hail fell in that county
totally destroying hundreds of acres of
wheat, snow fell on Saturday and from
Friday the temperature was very low;
crops in general are in good condition;
corn all planted.
Tipton, Howard, Cass and Carroll coun
ties—The cold weather following very
warm weather checked the growth of vegetation; heavy storms on Thursday did
much damage to trees, fences and wheat
in localities; snow fell on Saturday: hail
on Thursday did much damage to corn
and gardens in Carroll and Cass counties;
wheat is heading; corn all plauted; comes
up nicely; potatoes are looking fine but
bugs are numerous.
Tippecanoe, White, Clinton, Benton and
Warren counties.—Warm weather was followed on Friday by much colder, almost
freezing weather and rains;  snow fell on
Saturday, and in Benton county young
corn is frozen; on Thursday much lightning,  and  hall  fell  in   Clinton county;
plowing corn was interrupted by much
rain the latter part of the week; wheat and
oats  never  promised better;   cut worms
are doing damage to corn;   potatoes  and
clover are in bloom; wheat is heading.
H. A. Huston,
Director Indiana Weather Service.
Per C. F. R. Wappenhans,
Weather Bureau, Assistant Director.
%mxi QzvwxtmzuX.
Have persons a right to herd stock along
the public road, without permission from
the land owners along the road and how to
proceed to stop it. A Subscriber.
No.
Is there any law prohibiting a man using
Kitselman Bros, woven wire fence machine on his neighbor's farm if he should
purchase a machine? A Subscbihek.
If a man buys a machine he has a right
to use it.
A and B have a partnership line fence,
would A be liable for damage done to B's
stock, if injured by wire, In jumping A's
part of the fence, which is a rail fence of
legal height, with a barb wire stretched on
it? M. T. C.
If the wire is put on in a proper and
careful manner, then A is not liable.
Is it the duty of the county assessor for
taxation to assess every one regardless of
age, sex or the amount of property they
may own? B. S.
Every person owning property should
be assessed. If the owners are minors the
assessment should be against or in the
names of their guardian.
A's wife dies leaving heirs; A marries
again, wife No. 2 having money with
which they buy a farm; wife No. 2 dies
leaving no children; finally A dies. Can
A's children hold the money? The land
was sold before his death. The amount
was less than fl,000. H. S. T.
Muncie.
The money goes to A's heirs at law, who
are his children.
Would you please give me some information through the paper in regard to the
fee and salary la**? Can a county officer
charge any fee above his regular salary?
And how large a salary do the county
officers get? If it will not inconvenience
you I shall be very much obliged to you If
you will answer. O. S. E.
Bremen, Ind.
The county officers charge the same fees
as before the recent law but the surplus
after paying the officer's salary goes into
the county treasury.
<$wc*tj and grusvozxs.
When should grape vines be sprayed for
anthracnose, also raspberries. Fruit all
injured by the freeze, except strawberries
and blackberries. Clover was hurt, oats
killed, wheat will recover; very little
plowing done. J. H. H.
Spray before the leaves are formed, and
again in a week or 10 days.
Please give me the address of the firm
that advertised a pump that neither required wind nor fire to operate it. The ad.
was in the Farmer about two months ago,
but I have lost the copy. W. O. P.
Kansas, 111.
We presume you refer to the Chapman
pump made by the Aurora Well Works,
Aurora, Ills.
Please state through your columns
where I can get horse gotrgles to keep them
from jumping, and if it. is injurious to the
eye and what they cost? W. N.
We will have to ask some reader to answer this question? One of our oldest
harness-makers says he never heard of
such things, but thinks, as we do, that
goggles would be injurious to the eyes if
kept on any length of time.
Will you please give the formula for the
Bordeaux mixture for spraying fruit trees?
When is the best time for spraying and
what the best mixture? The Indiana
Farmer is a welcome visitor to our home
each week, and we believe such a valuable
paper should be In the hands of every
farmer In the State. J. T. C.
The usual formula Is (i pounds of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), dissolved in
«i gallons of water. Mix with 4 pounds air-
slacked lime dissolved in 6 gallons of
water. To this mixture add 10 gallons of
water, making 22 gallons in all. If apple
and plum trees are to be sprayed, add to
the 22 gallons Vi ounces Paris green.
Spray before the blossoms appear and
again soon after they have fallen.