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VOL. Lvn. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 11, 1902. NO. 41 Con'erence of Farmers' Institute Officers * and Workers. Editors Indiana Farmer: The fifth annua] Conference of Farmers' Institute officers and workers, will be held at Purdue University Lafayette, on Tuesday an.l Wednesday, October 14, 1"*. 1902. Prominent men from Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and Now York have* been invitoil to take places on tin* program. Tin- day session! **n Tuesday will be de- voti-il entirely to livi* stock, dairy, agricultural and horticultural interests. These great Industries will be so presented as t.* adequately set forth their magnitude and imparlance and Indicate feasible ways ot promoting these great interests at tht* county institutes to in* held later throughout the State. Nature study ami college extension work, in the way of farmers' reading courses and suitable home reading, will receive attention at tin* Tuesday evening session. The sessions on Wednesdav will be devoted to conference matters of i-special interest to all institute chairmen and speakers. The day sessions of the conferences will be held in the new Agricultural building. A round trip rate will be granted, for particulars address Prof. AV. C. Latta, Snp't, Farmers' Institutes. The Apple Tree Borer. Editors Indiana Farmer: Every man who has apple trees, should, between this time and hard freezing. Investigate the bases of the trunks for borers. There are two species of this pi*st. practically Identical, ami the knife is the best cure for both, supplemented by a stiff wire puncher, if the worm has gone into the wood of the tree. No tree is too old or too young to be rejected by tin* borer. The fly lays its eggs abont the first of Jnne, and the young boret be found now by dose examination. The base of the tree, usually just at the point of contact with the ground is where the are generally deposited, and as soon as hatched the grubs strike into tbe bark and commence eating, following just under the bark slantingwise around the trunk. Sometimes there will be a little Avail of brown sawdust, sometimes only a a slight darkening of the bark, with th" sawdust underneath. A knife prick will iiis.li.se the channel made. The borer is an effective gird ler, and if three of them lappen to set onto a two or three year **i*l tie**. **f apple or quince, and an* left in eat fm* a season, that tree will be a fit subject for the brush pile. On the other hand trees which have been three fourths girdled by borers, if thereafter kept free from them, will grow and yield for years with apparently undiminished ' vigor. Such trees are always, however, in a precarious eomlition. hanging to life, as it were, by a thread. G. E. M. well started and the green tops begin to show. The calls lily thai has been resting should be brought into the house iu September. Repotting is a benefit if the roots are numerous ami the bulbs large. The calla thrives in a rich soil mixed with saml. When repotting sift the tine saml around Ihe bulb. Liquid manure will aid the plant in making a rapid growth. It is a plant that will thrive with little care, but it will not grow and bloom without plenty of moisture. For shady windows we recommend the umbrella plant. Many fail to grow this plant successfully because they do not give it enongh water. It requires tint only root moisture but a moist atmosphere. This plant should be repotted at this season in rich, black soil. Then if ymi would have the plant show large, healthy palm-like leaves place the pot in a jardiniere containing water. 'Tis said this plant may be propagated by inverting a leaf in a dish of water. It is commonly known as the umbrella plant because the haves resemble the frame of an umbrella. When begonias drop their foliage the usual cause is defective drainage. Palms are suited best with a deep pot. Their roots are inclined to reach down rather than spread out. When frost threatens move potted plants to a sheltered location and bring in the house by degrees. They should not be brought into the living room until freetdng weather. Most living rooms are too dry for plants, especially when heat- * *1 by gas. The pots should be set in two inches or more of moist sand, and moss should be kept on top of pots. F. M. W. Properly employed, prose may express more poetry than could ever be found in the minds of ordinary mortals, and for these mortals, accordingly, prose is at least good enough. Iu all arts it is the same. A smaill knowledge Of the art leads'to the belief that the art is small: a greater knowledge *li*i\vs one t.i be further and further from its mastery. Let him who has the itch look more Into the great poems of the century and gain the reverence for the art that will make hi:n leave it alone, and let him study th.- great prose writers to learn what can be done in full page lines. Poetry should be reserved as the art of a select few. for. like piano playing, it is only beautiful in the hands of its masters. The common herd should not think of it, the world shouhl not make note of what they insist nmm producing, dingle pleases many, and the editor has to publish poems that appear simply an account of the lack nf better ones. The ideal editor would publish a year no more than a half dozen **f those he receives, but the ideal editor would lose his job.—New York Times Literary Review. Editors Indians Fsrmer: Geraniums when two years old make the best winter bl tiers. But the bnds Should 1"- kept pinched off during the fall months, if winter blooms an* desired. They cannot bloom forever without rest. All bulbs will give better results if given the right kind of soil. They thrive in the rich brown looking earth, found under a decayed log or around a well rotted stump. Put tin** sand directly under the bulbs and they can't help growing. There is good reason for keeping bulbs in a dark place. Kept in a light room the will start before tiie roots, which is "•ot desirable. They should be kept in a < '• dark place until the white roots are thi*: EDITOR and Tin: POETS. The editor who reads a drawvrful of manuscript poems a day characterizes poetry for most people as a misdirection of energy. That there is need for more poetry in the practical things of life, 'tis true, 'tis very trne: but it is quite as true that there is need for more practicality in poetry. For as in contradiction to the fact that in the great American world of mod- ernuess the missing factor is the heart of the machine, so in the min,Is of the great henl of unsuccessful artists of all kinds the missing factor is practical steadiness. *>r Common sense, with a touch of humor that always serves as an automatic corrector of mistakes. Through the host of rejected manuscript poems the editor sees the untrained minds of their authors who have never grasped th** value of advisability of a thing and who have skipped t** poetry over the everyday means of expression by which greater minds have built the art nf literature. The exact quality of poetry is misunderstood by all those unsuccessful contributors- unless it be that poetry is a form of writing whieh ean be -Used legitimately to amuse those who have not had enough soberness to timi pleasure iu prose. Hy its masters it has been supposed to be the highest form of expression to Im* used by those who have a finer shade of meaning than prose can as well express ami who understand the art sufficiently to warrant their tackling it. The difficulty of limiting **ti.'s meanings to the sphere of words the poet overcomes by using a form that plays upon the imagination more than docs prose, by reason of its cadence and its euphony. Hut the strength of real poetry does not come through jiugb* or honeyed w..nls. Humorous verse ami song legitimately turn t*i those, but nothing else. LOTS OF WAYS TO DIE. The Chicago Tribune, a while ago. published a column of strange fatalities selected from its exchanges of a single week. It illustrates on how slight a thread man's life often hangs, and bow oddly unexpected may be the- accidents that result in death. One man. Henry Hush, of Quincy, kick- eil at a cat. missel the animal and fell, breaking his neck. At Akron, Ohio, a barber died from inhaling hair while work- in*; on his customers' heads. At Bloss- burg. N. Y.. in opening a can of peaches the top of the jar was fractured, and bits of the powdered glass being eaten resulted in death. At DUlsboro, Ind.. a farmer undertook to shoot a hog. The bullet hit the animal, bnt rebounded striking the farmer full in the face. In* the midst of a blinding storm Mrs. Mary Pcmlerland and Samuel 11..Ian. of Altoonn, Pa., were walking in opposite directions on the railway track. A locomotive struck the woman ami threw her with such force against him as to kill Dolan instantly, while Mrs. Pemlerlaml was merely bruised. Another and more recent unusual death was that of Prof. John Hut ler Johnson, of the I'niversity *.f Wisconsin, who fell from a load "f goods which he was assisting to remove from his summer home, and was instantly killed. Still another was that of Frank Huntley, a seaman in the navy, who ha*l been several times around the world ami participated in the action against Cerera's fleet, off Santiago. He was killed while the ship was in port at Seattle by falling down a gangway while escorting a party of visitors over the cruiser. Suppose any one of these victims had been told that he was to die as indicated, could he have believe.1 it? Supposing one of them had been implored to insure his life to guard against the possibility of death by such a peculiar accident, would he have thought there was much of a chance of anything in the way of unusual deadly disaster befalling him? married life that they had ever been separated. When* Mrs. McMillan went the Senator accompanied her. and wherever Senator McMillan was called Mrs. McMillan was his companion. Forty years of unbroken companionship is seldom ac- i-ii ri led by husband and wife, and those who have visited in the home bear witness- to the happy and beautiful life of the household. Family prayer was a feature of the home life of this family. In spite of multitudinous cares of business and state .the family was regularly called together for prayer and Bible reading by the father. The senator was a member of the Jefferson avenue Presbyterian Church. Senator McMillian was the most domestic of men. I lis home life is to be regarded as appropriately the ideal. His family came first in everything, and there was nothing he loved better than to gather the members around him for little family dinners. Always at Christmas the ramil.v gathered, and,since the affairs of state have called the senator to Washington if he could not return to Detroit for the Christmas dinner as many of the family as could went there to spend the day with him. Business cares were never allowed to obtrude iu the homo. When office hours wen* over the senator threw off all responsibilities and went in for healthy recreation.—Detroit Journal. SENATOR AND WIFE NEVER SEPARATED. When James H. McMillan, the son, died at Colorado Springs early lo May. Senator McMIlUan, the father, was ill nnd Could not leave for the West. So Mrs. Mrs. McMillan made the trip alone. This was the first time in their 40 years of GOSSIP ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. The President finds it hard to get Cabinet officials to walk with him. The memory of the day when he dismissed the carriage at Cabin John's bridge and made Secretary Boot walk back to the White House with him, eight miles, still lingers. The President is s** vigorous and so. fond of outdoor exercise that he thinks every body can do what he ean. His best walk- in:,- chum is his oldest son. Theodore, Jr. The President cannot tire that young man. Tin* President is still extending invitations. He rarely has a meal without company. When there is no state function or public dinner he has friends at his table from everywhere. Dinner invitations go out in every mail. Washington- notes also that the President draws no party lines in his invitations. Al! parties look alike to him when it comes to a dinner or a reception. Free Silver, Populist, Republican or straight Democrat—it's all one to him. Politicians who rarely went* to the White House in other days now eat. drink and are merry with the President. McKinley did not entertain many Democrats. His party plan was followed iluring the Cleveland and Harrison regimes to a greater or lesser extent. Now everybody is invited and everybody goes. Rough Riders are received with open arms. Most of them have been around at one time or another to see their colonel, Many of them want office. The President does the best he can for them. A few days ago he gave Ben Daniels an appointment as United States marshal for Arizona. Daniels was a war friend of the President. He sent him to the attorney-general with a note which said: "He's bully." Somebody said that in the note the President sent to Attorney-General Knox n -amending Daniels he spelled it "mar- shall." "Don't let that worry you," said the at- torney-'general: "he ean spell it with scv- en-teen l's if he wants to and it will go. Don't forget that."—Washington Letter. At the time of the last census there 780,000 foreigners in the German emprie.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1902, v. 57, no. 41 (Oct. 11) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA5741 |
Date of Original | 1902 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
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Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. Lvn. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 11, 1902. NO. 41 Con'erence of Farmers' Institute Officers * and Workers. Editors Indiana Farmer: The fifth annua] Conference of Farmers' Institute officers and workers, will be held at Purdue University Lafayette, on Tuesday an.l Wednesday, October 14, 1"*. 1902. Prominent men from Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and Now York have* been invitoil to take places on tin* program. Tin- day session! **n Tuesday will be de- voti-il entirely to livi* stock, dairy, agricultural and horticultural interests. These great Industries will be so presented as t.* adequately set forth their magnitude and imparlance and Indicate feasible ways ot promoting these great interests at tht* county institutes to in* held later throughout the State. Nature study ami college extension work, in the way of farmers' reading courses and suitable home reading, will receive attention at tin* Tuesday evening session. The sessions on Wednesdav will be devoted to conference matters of i-special interest to all institute chairmen and speakers. The day sessions of the conferences will be held in the new Agricultural building. A round trip rate will be granted, for particulars address Prof. AV. C. Latta, Snp't, Farmers' Institutes. The Apple Tree Borer. Editors Indiana Farmer: Every man who has apple trees, should, between this time and hard freezing. Investigate the bases of the trunks for borers. There are two species of this pi*st. practically Identical, ami the knife is the best cure for both, supplemented by a stiff wire puncher, if the worm has gone into the wood of the tree. No tree is too old or too young to be rejected by tin* borer. The fly lays its eggs abont the first of Jnne, and the young boret be found now by dose examination. The base of the tree, usually just at the point of contact with the ground is where the are generally deposited, and as soon as hatched the grubs strike into tbe bark and commence eating, following just under the bark slantingwise around the trunk. Sometimes there will be a little Avail of brown sawdust, sometimes only a a slight darkening of the bark, with th" sawdust underneath. A knife prick will iiis.li.se the channel made. The borer is an effective gird ler, and if three of them lappen to set onto a two or three year **i*l tie**. **f apple or quince, and an* left in eat fm* a season, that tree will be a fit subject for the brush pile. On the other hand trees which have been three fourths girdled by borers, if thereafter kept free from them, will grow and yield for years with apparently undiminished ' vigor. Such trees are always, however, in a precarious eomlition. hanging to life, as it were, by a thread. G. E. M. well started and the green tops begin to show. The calls lily thai has been resting should be brought into the house iu September. Repotting is a benefit if the roots are numerous ami the bulbs large. The calla thrives in a rich soil mixed with saml. When repotting sift the tine saml around Ihe bulb. Liquid manure will aid the plant in making a rapid growth. It is a plant that will thrive with little care, but it will not grow and bloom without plenty of moisture. For shady windows we recommend the umbrella plant. Many fail to grow this plant successfully because they do not give it enongh water. It requires tint only root moisture but a moist atmosphere. This plant should be repotted at this season in rich, black soil. Then if ymi would have the plant show large, healthy palm-like leaves place the pot in a jardiniere containing water. 'Tis said this plant may be propagated by inverting a leaf in a dish of water. It is commonly known as the umbrella plant because the haves resemble the frame of an umbrella. When begonias drop their foliage the usual cause is defective drainage. Palms are suited best with a deep pot. Their roots are inclined to reach down rather than spread out. When frost threatens move potted plants to a sheltered location and bring in the house by degrees. They should not be brought into the living room until freetdng weather. Most living rooms are too dry for plants, especially when heat- * *1 by gas. The pots should be set in two inches or more of moist sand, and moss should be kept on top of pots. F. M. W. Properly employed, prose may express more poetry than could ever be found in the minds of ordinary mortals, and for these mortals, accordingly, prose is at least good enough. Iu all arts it is the same. A smaill knowledge Of the art leads'to the belief that the art is small: a greater knowledge *li*i\vs one t.i be further and further from its mastery. Let him who has the itch look more Into the great poems of the century and gain the reverence for the art that will make hi:n leave it alone, and let him study th.- great prose writers to learn what can be done in full page lines. Poetry should be reserved as the art of a select few. for. like piano playing, it is only beautiful in the hands of its masters. The common herd should not think of it, the world shouhl not make note of what they insist nmm producing, dingle pleases many, and the editor has to publish poems that appear simply an account of the lack nf better ones. The ideal editor would publish a year no more than a half dozen **f those he receives, but the ideal editor would lose his job.—New York Times Literary Review. Editors Indians Fsrmer: Geraniums when two years old make the best winter bl tiers. But the bnds Should 1"- kept pinched off during the fall months, if winter blooms an* desired. They cannot bloom forever without rest. All bulbs will give better results if given the right kind of soil. They thrive in the rich brown looking earth, found under a decayed log or around a well rotted stump. Put tin** sand directly under the bulbs and they can't help growing. There is good reason for keeping bulbs in a dark place. Kept in a light room the will start before tiie roots, which is "•ot desirable. They should be kept in a < '• dark place until the white roots are thi*: EDITOR and Tin: POETS. The editor who reads a drawvrful of manuscript poems a day characterizes poetry for most people as a misdirection of energy. That there is need for more poetry in the practical things of life, 'tis true, 'tis very trne: but it is quite as true that there is need for more practicality in poetry. For as in contradiction to the fact that in the great American world of mod- ernuess the missing factor is the heart of the machine, so in the min,Is of the great henl of unsuccessful artists of all kinds the missing factor is practical steadiness. *>r Common sense, with a touch of humor that always serves as an automatic corrector of mistakes. Through the host of rejected manuscript poems the editor sees the untrained minds of their authors who have never grasped th** value of advisability of a thing and who have skipped t** poetry over the everyday means of expression by which greater minds have built the art nf literature. The exact quality of poetry is misunderstood by all those unsuccessful contributors- unless it be that poetry is a form of writing whieh ean be -Used legitimately to amuse those who have not had enough soberness to timi pleasure iu prose. Hy its masters it has been supposed to be the highest form of expression to Im* used by those who have a finer shade of meaning than prose can as well express ami who understand the art sufficiently to warrant their tackling it. The difficulty of limiting **ti.'s meanings to the sphere of words the poet overcomes by using a form that plays upon the imagination more than docs prose, by reason of its cadence and its euphony. Hut the strength of real poetry does not come through jiugb* or honeyed w..nls. Humorous verse ami song legitimately turn t*i those, but nothing else. LOTS OF WAYS TO DIE. The Chicago Tribune, a while ago. published a column of strange fatalities selected from its exchanges of a single week. It illustrates on how slight a thread man's life often hangs, and bow oddly unexpected may be the- accidents that result in death. One man. Henry Hush, of Quincy, kick- eil at a cat. missel the animal and fell, breaking his neck. At Akron, Ohio, a barber died from inhaling hair while work- in*; on his customers' heads. At Bloss- burg. N. Y.. in opening a can of peaches the top of the jar was fractured, and bits of the powdered glass being eaten resulted in death. At DUlsboro, Ind.. a farmer undertook to shoot a hog. The bullet hit the animal, bnt rebounded striking the farmer full in the face. In* the midst of a blinding storm Mrs. Mary Pcmlerland and Samuel 11..Ian. of Altoonn, Pa., were walking in opposite directions on the railway track. A locomotive struck the woman ami threw her with such force against him as to kill Dolan instantly, while Mrs. Pemlerlaml was merely bruised. Another and more recent unusual death was that of Prof. John Hut ler Johnson, of the I'niversity *.f Wisconsin, who fell from a load "f goods which he was assisting to remove from his summer home, and was instantly killed. Still another was that of Frank Huntley, a seaman in the navy, who ha*l been several times around the world ami participated in the action against Cerera's fleet, off Santiago. He was killed while the ship was in port at Seattle by falling down a gangway while escorting a party of visitors over the cruiser. Suppose any one of these victims had been told that he was to die as indicated, could he have believe.1 it? Supposing one of them had been implored to insure his life to guard against the possibility of death by such a peculiar accident, would he have thought there was much of a chance of anything in the way of unusual deadly disaster befalling him? married life that they had ever been separated. When* Mrs. McMillan went the Senator accompanied her. and wherever Senator McMillan was called Mrs. McMillan was his companion. Forty years of unbroken companionship is seldom ac- i-ii ri led by husband and wife, and those who have visited in the home bear witness- to the happy and beautiful life of the household. Family prayer was a feature of the home life of this family. In spite of multitudinous cares of business and state .the family was regularly called together for prayer and Bible reading by the father. The senator was a member of the Jefferson avenue Presbyterian Church. Senator McMillian was the most domestic of men. I lis home life is to be regarded as appropriately the ideal. His family came first in everything, and there was nothing he loved better than to gather the members around him for little family dinners. Always at Christmas the ramil.v gathered, and,since the affairs of state have called the senator to Washington if he could not return to Detroit for the Christmas dinner as many of the family as could went there to spend the day with him. Business cares were never allowed to obtrude iu the homo. When office hours wen* over the senator threw off all responsibilities and went in for healthy recreation.—Detroit Journal. SENATOR AND WIFE NEVER SEPARATED. When James H. McMillan, the son, died at Colorado Springs early lo May. Senator McMIlUan, the father, was ill nnd Could not leave for the West. So Mrs. Mrs. McMillan made the trip alone. This was the first time in their 40 years of GOSSIP ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. The President finds it hard to get Cabinet officials to walk with him. The memory of the day when he dismissed the carriage at Cabin John's bridge and made Secretary Boot walk back to the White House with him, eight miles, still lingers. The President is s** vigorous and so. fond of outdoor exercise that he thinks every body can do what he ean. His best walk- in:,- chum is his oldest son. Theodore, Jr. The President cannot tire that young man. Tin* President is still extending invitations. He rarely has a meal without company. When there is no state function or public dinner he has friends at his table from everywhere. Dinner invitations go out in every mail. Washington- notes also that the President draws no party lines in his invitations. Al! parties look alike to him when it comes to a dinner or a reception. Free Silver, Populist, Republican or straight Democrat—it's all one to him. Politicians who rarely went* to the White House in other days now eat. drink and are merry with the President. McKinley did not entertain many Democrats. His party plan was followed iluring the Cleveland and Harrison regimes to a greater or lesser extent. Now everybody is invited and everybody goes. Rough Riders are received with open arms. Most of them have been around at one time or another to see their colonel, Many of them want office. The President does the best he can for them. A few days ago he gave Ben Daniels an appointment as United States marshal for Arizona. Daniels was a war friend of the President. He sent him to the attorney-general with a note which said: "He's bully." Somebody said that in the note the President sent to Attorney-General Knox n -amending Daniels he spelled it "mar- shall." "Don't let that worry you," said the at- torney-'general: "he ean spell it with scv- en-teen l's if he wants to and it will go. Don't forget that."—Washington Letter. At the time of the last census there 780,000 foreigners in the German emprie. |
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