VOL. LVII.
indi-4HHHHHHHHHHBtwenty pages.
NO. 48
No Rati on the House.
Bd'.tors Indians Farmer:
In answer t*. your enquiry
that Charles Marshall was instantly killed an.l Mrs. Helton l.ailly stunned on
the morning ot the 10th in a farm house
live miles north-west of Brazil, l.y lightning.     There  as   no   rod  oit  the  house.
Clay c*. D. S.
—Thank  you  fur  replying  to    our    enquiry.
Plume ln Novtmber.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Find .end *o **f the second crop
of plums,  grown on  a  tie.* owned   by   1,
I).   Henderson,   a   farmer  living   \',   mile
**f Nora. A.  H. B.
—The   plums   were   ahout   half   growi .
The tree is attempting too mueh for this
latitude.     It  can't  make  two  crops  in  a
>n.       Wefear  that  it  will  not  make
any next year.
Immense Yield of Sugar Beets.
Editors Indiaua Farmer:
You published last November a short ar-
Ik-el in regard to my crop of Yellow Globe
Mangels. This year I grew one-fifth
acre  of  Giant   Feeding   Sugar  Beet   that
1   ever
November 12, 10,700 pounds
of beets actual weight, or 178 bushels of
60 pounds. This is at the rate of 800
bushels per aere. My purpose in writing this is to interest the many readers of
your valuable paper in the growing of
eome variety of stock beets for their milch
cows and brood sows. A small plot furnishes so much feed.
Union Co. W. T. Hill.
The Origin of Taankeglvlng and why
We Observe lt.
Editors Indians Farmer:
What is Thanksgiving and why do we
observe it? Thanksgiving was. first set
apart many years ago by our pilgrim fathers who left their own beloved land and
came over here to make their home on
the bleak Xew England shores where they
might have freedom of worshipping God.
They were so thankful for their privilege that when they landed they knelt
and offered thanks for being protected
through their journey. The county was
so wild and rugged that many of their
band died during the winter from exposure and  starvation.
But in just a year from the day they
landed they spread a feast and offered
thanks for their bountiful provisions.
They called that day Thanksgiving in remembrance of the day they landed. Every year since, that day has been observed
in honor of our forefathers who braved
the wilds of a new country to worship
God in peace. But to-day we have se
much more to be thankful for than they
had. We shonld go to church and thank
God for our homes, friends and this lovely land ainl all the pleasant things which
we have to enjoy, and then devote the remainder of the day to doing good and
making somebody happy and feeling as
the day draws to a close that it has been
one of thankfulness. Another nice way
to celebrate the day is to invite your
friends aad kinsfolk to spend the day nt
your home, and entertain them with a
nice dinner of roast turkey, plum pudding
and mince pies, such a dinner as only a
farmer's wife knows how to cook. After
dinner is over an.l entertainments for th-
evening are in order it is nice to have a
pogram and honor the day by singing
and speaking recitations; about our
good  forefathers  who  braved   the  storms
::y years ng...  So when it  is  Hi
go home every one feels like the day has
well   spent   and   that   he   has   man]
things  to be thankful   for.
Wegtfield. Emma Hutchens.
A Model County Fair.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
At a meeting of the stockholders of
Gibson county fair, the following officer,
were elected tor ensuing year:
President, Hon. Albert G. Holcomb;
Vice President, II. A. Agar; Secretary,
Willard T. Hopkins: Treasurer, W. 11.
Lewis; General Superintendent, John K,
Shall, together with a board of twelve directors, composed of the best farm.
the county.
Iu this day of street fairs and race
meets the Gibson county fair is unique,
in that it is an old fashioned agricultural
fair, special attention being given to
farm products of every kind, to eattle,
hogs, sheep and chickens, to fruits and
articles of domestic manufacture, and in
these the premiums arc as high and the
exhibits as good  as at any  State  fair.
The society is run on strict business
principles and a high moral tone, no liquor selling, gambling, .'..lok-makiug, slot
r immoral pwTsons are allowed
on the grounds. On the oilier hand,
"Education day," "Fraternal day." and
"Sunday-school ehildrens' day are features of each year's  fair.
In the 48 years of its existence a failure
was never made aud all purses and premiums are paid in full.
The ground is a beautiful natural
grove of forest trees, plentifully supplied
with water and improved by substantial
buildings.
The fair held last year was by far the
best in the history of the society, and by
a judicious infusion of new blood this
year there is every reason to believe that
the fair of 1903 will be even better.
Princeton*,   November   16.   Subscriber.
2.    If a farmer takes wheat to the mill
and  exchanges  it  for  flour,   and  the  mil
mixed, is not the miller liable to proseeu
tion   for  adulterating  his   wheat   flour,   if
he has not so in-formed his customers?
3.   Is there a State law on the adulte*--
Nos. 2 au*! .",.--A slat.* law prohibits the
adulteration of Hour in this way. but no
ty is provided foe so doing; hence,
there could be do prosecution under i'.
Hm\.ver. a miller who would fraudulently substitute, meal for Hour hr this way,
would be guilty Of obtaining goods under
false pretences, and might be convicted
<*r  Ian
The Law on Taking Toll.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What is the number of pounds of bran
aud shorts taken from a bushel of wheat
when  made into flour?
1. If a farmer takes a bushel of wheat
to the mill and exchanges it for flour, what
is the amount of flour he should receive,
the  miller  keeping  the  bran  and  shorts ?. -au  a   m.ee   wccks    ireezc-up.     We  sold
Explain  in  full,  ami  the  toll allowed  by I our soft corn to the Peoria distilleries t.i
Don't Hold Over the Corn Crop.
Editors  Indiana  Farmer.
There   seems   to   be   a   question   in   the
minds of farmers as 1** th*' disposil
this   huge   corn   crop   that   is   now   being
gather.*.!.
Some say In.1.1 it for better prici
bave uied holding corn ft.*m on*e year tn
the other, and I know it will not pay any
man. Years ago, when we had only two
or thre*- uses tor corn, and could be sure
of from B0 to 00 cents per bushel for corn
every third year, it would pay to hold
corn, but now, with 28 different uses of
corn, it will pay you at some time during
tin' year to get your crop marketed, and
iu eight years out of ten it has paid me
best to sell the bulk of my crop the third
week in July.
If 1 had a large crop on hands irov.*, that
was rather 'i>-,!.t, or have
soggy cobs, 1 would g*'t it iuto market a?
soon as possible. Of course it will pay
best to feed it to some kind of growing
stock—hogs, if you have them, are quicker money than anything else; but you will
see that lings will eat more anil gain less
on soft corn, made by so bad a season,
than they would on corn that would
grade.
If you are feeding 30-cent com, it
means 3-eeut hogs, or 40-eent corn, 4-cent
h**gs, and if you sell them at $6.50 yon
have a clear profit of almost, or quite
half.
Ami again let me say the cribs of thi.
country are empty aud have been for two
years, ami you cannot count on filling
them with a low grade of corn and holding for high prices.
The corn in the northwest is very inferior, which will have a tendency to lower the price; just the same as it lowers the
price of hogs when the country is full of
hog cholera.
Several years ago we raised a lot of
■Oft eorn in Illinois, and in January we
had  a  three  weeks'  freeze-up.    We sold
make  spirits  to  make  smokeless  powder
out of, and the temperance people figured
I-1 it out that the powder shot out of guirs
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ler gives him  wheat flour and  corn  flour   actually  killed  less  people  than  it  wonld
if it had been drunk as whiskey.
Lit   me  advise  my  brother  farmers  tj
some  time during the  year,  sell  the corn
top, and invest the monye in something
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ation   of  flour  in   the   State   of   Indiana.-, that vou  really need,  and  you  will  come
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Madison Co., Nov. 19. G. W H.
Xo. L—Strange to say, the law does not
regulate the amount of toll millers may
take, except in the case of water mills.
The statute provides that at water-mills
Ihe charge for toil shall not be a higher
rate than one-eighth part. As to other
mills, it is a matter of contract, or custom, between the miller and the owner of
the grain*. However, there is a statute
which requires that millers shall keep
posted i'p in a conspicuous plac, in the
mill, the rate of toll they charge for
grinding grain; any miller who fails to
do this, or that demands or receives a
greater rate than is so posted up, is liable to a penalty of $1 for every day he
Tails to keep the rates posted, or in every case in which he shall demand or receive such greater rate.
out ahead every time.
Indianapolis.
Orrin J. Avery.
Written for the Indiana Farmer:
THANKSGIVING.
(By  Alta).
Let Thanksgiving this year of grace.
1002, be a real one—not an empty form.
These annual holidays are good affairs
if the triie spirit breathe life in the set
form, which is all right for us to observe.
One great wave of thankfulness that
often sweeps over me when I begin preparations for the "outward signs" of
Thanksgiving is that this day was set
apart in November. The season when
Nature calls a halt on out-door enjoyment; when the smile of October's golden
rod  has died  away  like a   rich
: mists hang over the hills like gey mourning  veils.
Thor.au  has  beautifully  called  No
i.e.- "the twin-.!*:
C   is   gone   ami   snow.-
winter is not yet in sight.
1 went wall the children the othei
1 * gather nuts. Oh! how grand the old
w*i*..Is were. The green dress of June
was gone, the gaudy one of early autumn
was brown anil shriveled and fell in eddying Whir • ze swept
by, while banks of dead leaves rustled
beneath our footfalls. Then* is such a
-weit lesson in the falling of the leaf.
The old u* es stand out in such maj
grandeur, speaking of their reserve face
for another year, while the leaves that
Butter down till ol' the hopes that have
perished, the plans we have cherished,
that must be east aside, if we would
make good progress for another year. Sn
we thank God and take a new courage.
"It is good  for a man that he hope."
I often ask the children in summing un
the things for which they are thankful to
count blessings for awhile, but th.-y
get beyond the "counting line." Did you
ever h<*ar them and note how- they cling
to  iii.ii.'i'i.ii  things?
"Why we are thankful that we have
a house and papa and mamma and grandpa and grandma—and that they're coming
to eat Thanksgiving dinner with us, and
we're glad we can see and hear ami talk,
an.l glad that Jet is such a pretty cat
and   Fido,   etc.,   etc."
But as the children chatted on after
having introduced the subject of the coming Thanksgiving I thought that we children, older grown, should thank God for
things we did not have. Coveted pleasures that we have been denied have been,
doubtless, blessings in disguise, and looking away from the material to the spiritual we feel grateful for the hope that we
have made a little progress iu character
building if not in worldly things, that as
the leaves are dying we may say:
"Tne  deathless  beautiful  draws  strangely
nigh.
And we look up, and marvel how so long
We   were   content   to   drudge   for   sordid
joys that die."
This November day has been so restful, so full of sweet beauty, soft ami
soothing to the tired heart. If I hail no
touch of human sympathy I should surely lin.l peace iir this mood of Nature so
near the glad Thanksgiving time. The
very air awe turn* homeward iu the sunset  is full of praise.
And as we cross a knoll and get n
glimpse of the white house among the
trees, where up the red chimneys will
soon leap and sparkle the cheery tires that
will smile a Thanksgiving welcome, we
feel ihat secondary to tbe thanks for a
home in a Christian nation is gratitude
for the home itself. The ideal Ameri* an
home is truly a little heaven upon earth,
and there are thousands of these happy
homes. "God setteth the solitary families." and if ever I feel sorry for these
lonely ones it is at Thanksgiving time,
for this is a day of family reunions -a
real home day—a day to be glad in each
other, husband and wife, parents and children—a day to be glad for home and
friends—glad hank-giving day. Surelv
home ties were never dearer, the world
never brighter than in November, "the
twilight of the year."
Museums are much in favor in Russia.
Even in Siberia nearly every town of 10.-
000 inhabitants has one.