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VOL. LVIII. INDIANAPOLIS, FEB. 7, 1903.—TWENTY PAGES. NO. 6 Qucvtj and gtustrjc*. Please state In the Indiana Farmer where I can get an agricultural report of Arkansas. Hancock Co. Wm. B. D. Address Frank Hill, Commissioner of Agriculture, Little Bock, Arkansas, for a copy. Where can I get a book of plans for dwelling houses? J. F. E. We can furnish you a copy of "House plans for everybody," or "How to build a borne, or homes, for home builders;" each $1, postage prepaid. Where can I get a plan for a round barn? Is lt as substantial as a solid frame? Portland. Bound barus are proving very satisfactory an-d convenient. The book "Barn plans, etc., price $1 gives all necessary information as to plan and cost. Can you send me the address of "Sbawver," the originator of the plank barn plan? W. M. S. Royerton. Don't believe we can, unless you can give us some clew to his whereabouts. Did we publish anything about him? If so, when? Give date, or number, and page and we'll look him up. In building a partition fence how mnst one go at lt to get the one who does not want to build his part of a line fence between farms to do his part? He says he doesn't need any fenee. Sections 4848 to 4834 Bevised Statutes give directions how to proceed in- such cases. Ask your justice of peace to show you his copy of the Statutes. C. E. R., Johnson Co., is troubled with rats in his barn, and is afraid to use "Rough on rats," and wants to know what to do. A good cat is the best trapper. She will catch the young rats, and the old ones will leave. The round top wire trap is a good one; bait it with cheese. Sprinkle chloride of lime in their runs. They will keep away. I hare a drilled well, 46 feet deep, 6 Inch casing, drilled six feet In stone. It afforded the best of water for three years. Since last April It has pumped up very oily water and sand every day or two. I would like to ask if any one has had a like experience, or If anyone can tell me the cause, and what ls the remedy. Decatur Co. A. C. W. As you are in or near the oil field it may pay you to go deeper. Take the advice of men who are in the business of boring for oil. They will know. Please tell me, through the Farmer, lf Johnson grass will do well in Illinois, and where I can obtain seed, and what kind of pasture lt makes. w*. C- p Vincennes. It would no doubt do well in most sections of Illinois. Seed can be had in Atlanta or Macon, Ga. It yields heavily an.l makes fine pasture at the South, but has not been tried in northern States, so far as we know. Some corn out in field yet. Weather has been unfavorable to husking. Wheat looking wel], but small acreage sown. Snow has covered the ground most of the time since winter set ln. More or less hog cholera In this and Fountain counties. The disease Is still raging. Is there any law concerning burying or burning hogs dying with hog cholera? Many people In our neighbor- hood are putting them on top of the grouno. What can we do if they do not dispose of tl.im In some way? C. O. Ltndburg Warren Co. Yes. indeed; the law of 1807 has not been repealed. Itimposesa penalty of from S10 to $50 for failing to "burn or securel- bury" hogs that have died of the cholera. We will publish the law if your neighbors doubt us. Notify them of their liability, end no doubt bnt they will speedily comply with the law. I should like to know through yonr valued paper all about seeding clover lu wheat, the time, manner, etc. Please answer in au early issue. Warrick Co. Subscriber. Bow red clover seed, at the rate of from 8 to 12 poumls to the aere, when the ground is slightly frozen, in the morning of a sunshiny day, when the thaw is likely to be sufficient to soften the earth and U-t the seeds settle into it. Most any time l>etween Ihe middle of March und the middle of April will do. Some farmers run ever the wheat with a light harrow, to loosen the surface, and make a good bed for the clover seed. This does not harm the wheat usually, but is often a help to it. Will W. J. T., who gave his experience with Alsike clover in last number, please give us his post office address? E. L. B., Fountain Co., asks W. J. T., of Howard Co., to tell in this column, how he sows Alsike clover. If he has seed to sell it would pay him to* state the fact in our For Sale column. In No. 4, January 24th, a subscriber of St. Joseph county, inquires where to get carp (fish). I think the editor is right in the answer he gives. I have two ! onda partly stocked with carp, I wish they were all out. I got some rock bass and put them in one pond, after a lot of carp were taken out. There are many other kinds o£ fish superior to the carp. Elkhart Co. J. P. Smucker. In answer to query of a Subscriber as to a movable wire fence, published in No. 4, page 1, will say I have used the 26-inch American field fence with two barb wires above for that purpose for some years, moving its from clover to clover field each year, in my rotation, and find it efficient iu turning hogs and all other stock; very quickly-put up, taken down and moved away; have handled 50 rod roll of it easily; any kind of timber answers for posts; with good sized log for ends well set and braced any kind of stake or post set 13 in. deep, one rod apart answers for inter- mediate. It is the easiest ami quickest movable fence I ever tried. Other woven fences may be as handy, I don't know. Union Co. W. T. Hill. The Farm School. Edltora Indiana Farmer: We farmers are all children in Nature's chart class; we learn a lesson and '.ike all other human children are puffed up with the belief that we are near the top, and haven't much to do but practice what we already know, and this spirit is sometimes fostered by having the same lesson presented for two or three seasons. Wo learned to conserve moisture by breaking early and keeping a surface mulch, which is the artificial bell glass, we can spread over an entire field, holding down the stored supply, we learned .hat shallow working tools were best for this purpose, and had supplied ourselves with them, but another combination was presented; heavy rains made our fine mnlch into mortar, which a few days sunshine polished off and hardened until mir favorite weeder was of no value, and the spring tooth cultivator was brought into nse f,.r first cultivation. This was so slow that before a field could be gone over! it ha.l grown so hard that the work was ' very unsatisfactory; we were compelled' to buy plows that would tear up the ground, an.l we also learned that these tame plows could be made to go shallow, as well as deep. And when another season comes we will prepare for a dry one, and use the weeder, and if the rains come too hard, will tear the crust up deep. It is not always good farming to wait until the ground is dry enough to plow before starting in; if the rains should be frequent, plowing Wet is much better than not to plow at all, and if plowed wet and fair weather prevails almost all the evil effects ean be removed by surface working with weeder, when it has dried a little on* top. The drought of 1901 was a great educator and many valuable lessons were learned, gome of them already forgotten. Hog cholera has appeared in many places, and n-o doubt will contribute its share to a light crop of pigs this year, superinduced by a big pile of corn, a scoop shovel ami an able-bodied farmer; but it is so much easier than to prepare warm slops, and the idea of keeping hogs on hay and warm water is so ridiculous. that it is not considered, when corn can be raised or bought. The new road the corn failure made us travel plainly led to better and more economical results. The lesson was forcibly put to us, and a repetition of it woulil bave fixed it. deeply in our minds, and we would have become used to the new way before a chance was offered to drop back into the old. Onr great mother teacher seldom forces us to learn, but self interest and professional pride should make us close students. It is estimated tbat the increase of population in the United States each year is two million six hundred thousand, and the area over which corn can be grown- has already been measured; corn land will soon bo worth $100 an acre. Can the man with the scoop shovel hold on to it, think you? A. A. Parsons. Hendricks Co. fences are a blessing as well as many nther i I'Tii Inventions, with the help of agricultural papers such as the In.liana Fanner. Pen**.* Crockett. My the Co., Va. Prefers Fence Already Woven, Edltora Indiana Farmer: Some one has asked, "Which is a good fence machine? To take my experience there is none; that is, none that the farmer can use. Of course there are some that are used in the factories where they make the woven fence, such as the American fence, Page and some others. But as for a farmer using a fence machine it is not practical. We have had one for 18 nionths or more, aad have put up two lines of fence, ami we have not woven one rod with the machine; and this is the case with two of my neighbors.. I can buy good woven fence for 35c per rod, ami would rather pay 50 cents for it than try to make a fence with a machine, if I got the machine free. I take for granted that any man will luderstand how to work this machine. First, stretch the wire; then for the machine sit].pose you cross a little rise, then .Toss a hollow on the rise, all the wires are on the ground and across the hollow they are so high yon can't reach them without a bidder and making a bend in the fence or a corner, you can't get the machine past the post, therefore there is only one place you can make a fence with the machine, and that is in a straight line, au.l perfect level ground. Brother fanners, unless you protest and expose such things as are detrimental to our cause we will ucver succeed as we should. I wish every man who has fence machines for sale would stop selling machines and weave the fence in his fac- r.iiy, where he is equipped for such business, then sell the feuce. Woven wire' Let-tr From Alabama. Editors Indlsna Farmer: Doubtless many of your readers an- inquiring as to matters South, and will be interested in learning something of the Chattahoochee river country. The Chnttahoochce is the line between Georgia, and Alabama, from West Point na southward to ihe point where these two States corner on the north line of West Florida. The river is navigal.li* as far up as Columbus, Ga., on th** east bank; Fhoenix City and Girard being cities in Alabama across the river from Columbus. To bring the situation- of those three cities down to a comparison of something more familiar to your readers, the Alabama "twin cities" aro to oCiumboa what New Albany and Jeffersonville are to Louisville. The total population of the Southern trio, however, is but about 35,000. But three to five steamers come to their wharf each week, yet as a railroad center a comparison with the Ohio river cities would be more favoraV* . But to return* to the river itself: From West Point to oCIumbus, (tbe first 40 miles above the navigation) the stream is full of falls and shoals. Long before electrical power, as used to-day, was ever dreamed of some of these points were utilized as locations for cotton mills. Recently syndicates of northern capitalists have bought up the lands on either side *>t the river for several miles, and your readers are already familiar with what generally follows such in vestments, making it unnecessary for me to rehearse the expectations of the citizens here for the future of this favored section of natural '■.'sources. II*iii. J. J. Stranahan. of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, who for some years has been superintendent or a government fish hatchery nt Bullookville, On., has formed a partnership with a railroad conductor—an lowan who has spent over 20 years in Georgia—and bought up an 800-acre tract of fruit lands on Pine mountain, near Bullockvillo, (Warm Springs, on railroad maps), an.l are putting out an immense fruit farm. Lands on these—the most southern range of mountains east of the Fathers of Waters-range in price from $3 to $10 per acre. This section—as I hav,* written before—is near the southern belt for tin* apple and the northern edge of the fig belt. The ribbon (sugar) eafte syrup of this section is the Choicest of 11 the sugar cane belt. This is almost on northern edge of the sugar cane belt too nnd yet not down itr the "pincy woods" belt of warm water, nor too far for a northerner to locate an.l farm pretty mnch as he does at home. ('has. Stout. Phoenix City, Ala. Complimentary. I owe a groat deal to the Farmer. Elizabcthtown, Jan 10. ,\. n. I want to say that your valuable paper bas been a great help to us during tin- past year, could not well do without it. Salem, Jan. 12 J. W. Thomas. ' No other farm paper sn nearly fills all the needs of Indiana farmers as the Indiana Farmer. We saved Si;, which was more than half the value of the purchase in one transaction, by being readers ot the Indiana Farmer, Mrs. C. E. Byrkit. Shirley, Henry Co.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1903, v. 58, no. 06 (Feb. 7) |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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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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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LVIII. INDIANAPOLIS, FEB. 7, 1903.—TWENTY PAGES. NO. 6 Qucvtj and gtustrjc*. Please state In the Indiana Farmer where I can get an agricultural report of Arkansas. Hancock Co. Wm. B. D. Address Frank Hill, Commissioner of Agriculture, Little Bock, Arkansas, for a copy. Where can I get a book of plans for dwelling houses? J. F. E. We can furnish you a copy of "House plans for everybody," or "How to build a borne, or homes, for home builders;" each $1, postage prepaid. Where can I get a plan for a round barn? Is lt as substantial as a solid frame? Portland. Bound barus are proving very satisfactory an-d convenient. The book "Barn plans, etc., price $1 gives all necessary information as to plan and cost. Can you send me the address of "Sbawver," the originator of the plank barn plan? W. M. S. Royerton. Don't believe we can, unless you can give us some clew to his whereabouts. Did we publish anything about him? If so, when? Give date, or number, and page and we'll look him up. In building a partition fence how mnst one go at lt to get the one who does not want to build his part of a line fence between farms to do his part? He says he doesn't need any fenee. Sections 4848 to 4834 Bevised Statutes give directions how to proceed in- such cases. Ask your justice of peace to show you his copy of the Statutes. C. E. R., Johnson Co., is troubled with rats in his barn, and is afraid to use "Rough on rats," and wants to know what to do. A good cat is the best trapper. She will catch the young rats, and the old ones will leave. The round top wire trap is a good one; bait it with cheese. Sprinkle chloride of lime in their runs. They will keep away. I hare a drilled well, 46 feet deep, 6 Inch casing, drilled six feet In stone. It afforded the best of water for three years. Since last April It has pumped up very oily water and sand every day or two. I would like to ask if any one has had a like experience, or If anyone can tell me the cause, and what ls the remedy. Decatur Co. A. C. W. As you are in or near the oil field it may pay you to go deeper. Take the advice of men who are in the business of boring for oil. They will know. Please tell me, through the Farmer, lf Johnson grass will do well in Illinois, and where I can obtain seed, and what kind of pasture lt makes. w*. C- p Vincennes. It would no doubt do well in most sections of Illinois. Seed can be had in Atlanta or Macon, Ga. It yields heavily an.l makes fine pasture at the South, but has not been tried in northern States, so far as we know. Some corn out in field yet. Weather has been unfavorable to husking. Wheat looking wel], but small acreage sown. Snow has covered the ground most of the time since winter set ln. More or less hog cholera In this and Fountain counties. The disease Is still raging. Is there any law concerning burying or burning hogs dying with hog cholera? Many people In our neighbor- hood are putting them on top of the grouno. What can we do if they do not dispose of tl.im In some way? C. O. Ltndburg Warren Co. Yes. indeed; the law of 1807 has not been repealed. Itimposesa penalty of from S10 to $50 for failing to "burn or securel- bury" hogs that have died of the cholera. We will publish the law if your neighbors doubt us. Notify them of their liability, end no doubt bnt they will speedily comply with the law. I should like to know through yonr valued paper all about seeding clover lu wheat, the time, manner, etc. Please answer in au early issue. Warrick Co. Subscriber. Bow red clover seed, at the rate of from 8 to 12 poumls to the aere, when the ground is slightly frozen, in the morning of a sunshiny day, when the thaw is likely to be sufficient to soften the earth and U-t the seeds settle into it. Most any time l>etween Ihe middle of March und the middle of April will do. Some farmers run ever the wheat with a light harrow, to loosen the surface, and make a good bed for the clover seed. This does not harm the wheat usually, but is often a help to it. Will W. J. T., who gave his experience with Alsike clover in last number, please give us his post office address? E. L. B., Fountain Co., asks W. J. T., of Howard Co., to tell in this column, how he sows Alsike clover. If he has seed to sell it would pay him to* state the fact in our For Sale column. In No. 4, January 24th, a subscriber of St. Joseph county, inquires where to get carp (fish). I think the editor is right in the answer he gives. I have two ! onda partly stocked with carp, I wish they were all out. I got some rock bass and put them in one pond, after a lot of carp were taken out. There are many other kinds o£ fish superior to the carp. Elkhart Co. J. P. Smucker. In answer to query of a Subscriber as to a movable wire fence, published in No. 4, page 1, will say I have used the 26-inch American field fence with two barb wires above for that purpose for some years, moving its from clover to clover field each year, in my rotation, and find it efficient iu turning hogs and all other stock; very quickly-put up, taken down and moved away; have handled 50 rod roll of it easily; any kind of timber answers for posts; with good sized log for ends well set and braced any kind of stake or post set 13 in. deep, one rod apart answers for inter- mediate. It is the easiest ami quickest movable fence I ever tried. Other woven fences may be as handy, I don't know. Union Co. W. T. Hill. The Farm School. Edltora Indiana Farmer: We farmers are all children in Nature's chart class; we learn a lesson and '.ike all other human children are puffed up with the belief that we are near the top, and haven't much to do but practice what we already know, and this spirit is sometimes fostered by having the same lesson presented for two or three seasons. Wo learned to conserve moisture by breaking early and keeping a surface mulch, which is the artificial bell glass, we can spread over an entire field, holding down the stored supply, we learned .hat shallow working tools were best for this purpose, and had supplied ourselves with them, but another combination was presented; heavy rains made our fine mnlch into mortar, which a few days sunshine polished off and hardened until mir favorite weeder was of no value, and the spring tooth cultivator was brought into nse f,.r first cultivation. This was so slow that before a field could be gone over! it ha.l grown so hard that the work was ' very unsatisfactory; we were compelled' to buy plows that would tear up the ground, an.l we also learned that these tame plows could be made to go shallow, as well as deep. And when another season comes we will prepare for a dry one, and use the weeder, and if the rains come too hard, will tear the crust up deep. It is not always good farming to wait until the ground is dry enough to plow before starting in; if the rains should be frequent, plowing Wet is much better than not to plow at all, and if plowed wet and fair weather prevails almost all the evil effects ean be removed by surface working with weeder, when it has dried a little on* top. The drought of 1901 was a great educator and many valuable lessons were learned, gome of them already forgotten. Hog cholera has appeared in many places, and n-o doubt will contribute its share to a light crop of pigs this year, superinduced by a big pile of corn, a scoop shovel ami an able-bodied farmer; but it is so much easier than to prepare warm slops, and the idea of keeping hogs on hay and warm water is so ridiculous. that it is not considered, when corn can be raised or bought. The new road the corn failure made us travel plainly led to better and more economical results. The lesson was forcibly put to us, and a repetition of it woulil bave fixed it. deeply in our minds, and we would have become used to the new way before a chance was offered to drop back into the old. Onr great mother teacher seldom forces us to learn, but self interest and professional pride should make us close students. It is estimated tbat the increase of population in the United States each year is two million six hundred thousand, and the area over which corn can be grown- has already been measured; corn land will soon bo worth $100 an acre. Can the man with the scoop shovel hold on to it, think you? A. A. Parsons. Hendricks Co. fences are a blessing as well as many nther i I'Tii Inventions, with the help of agricultural papers such as the In.liana Fanner. Pen**.* Crockett. My the Co., Va. Prefers Fence Already Woven, Edltora Indiana Farmer: Some one has asked, "Which is a good fence machine? To take my experience there is none; that is, none that the farmer can use. Of course there are some that are used in the factories where they make the woven fence, such as the American fence, Page and some others. But as for a farmer using a fence machine it is not practical. We have had one for 18 nionths or more, aad have put up two lines of fence, ami we have not woven one rod with the machine; and this is the case with two of my neighbors.. I can buy good woven fence for 35c per rod, ami would rather pay 50 cents for it than try to make a fence with a machine, if I got the machine free. I take for granted that any man will luderstand how to work this machine. First, stretch the wire; then for the machine sit].pose you cross a little rise, then .Toss a hollow on the rise, all the wires are on the ground and across the hollow they are so high yon can't reach them without a bidder and making a bend in the fence or a corner, you can't get the machine past the post, therefore there is only one place you can make a fence with the machine, and that is in a straight line, au.l perfect level ground. Brother fanners, unless you protest and expose such things as are detrimental to our cause we will ucver succeed as we should. I wish every man who has fence machines for sale would stop selling machines and weave the fence in his fac- r.iiy, where he is equipped for such business, then sell the feuce. Woven wire' Let-tr From Alabama. Editors Indlsna Farmer: Doubtless many of your readers an- inquiring as to matters South, and will be interested in learning something of the Chattahoochee river country. The Chnttahoochce is the line between Georgia, and Alabama, from West Point na southward to ihe point where these two States corner on the north line of West Florida. The river is navigal.li* as far up as Columbus, Ga., on th** east bank; Fhoenix City and Girard being cities in Alabama across the river from Columbus. To bring the situation- of those three cities down to a comparison of something more familiar to your readers, the Alabama "twin cities" aro to oCiumboa what New Albany and Jeffersonville are to Louisville. The total population of the Southern trio, however, is but about 35,000. But three to five steamers come to their wharf each week, yet as a railroad center a comparison with the Ohio river cities would be more favoraV* . But to return* to the river itself: From West Point to oCIumbus, (tbe first 40 miles above the navigation) the stream is full of falls and shoals. Long before electrical power, as used to-day, was ever dreamed of some of these points were utilized as locations for cotton mills. Recently syndicates of northern capitalists have bought up the lands on either side *>t the river for several miles, and your readers are already familiar with what generally follows such in vestments, making it unnecessary for me to rehearse the expectations of the citizens here for the future of this favored section of natural '■.'sources. II*iii. J. J. Stranahan. of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, who for some years has been superintendent or a government fish hatchery nt Bullookville, On., has formed a partnership with a railroad conductor—an lowan who has spent over 20 years in Georgia—and bought up an 800-acre tract of fruit lands on Pine mountain, near Bullockvillo, (Warm Springs, on railroad maps), an.l are putting out an immense fruit farm. Lands on these—the most southern range of mountains east of the Fathers of Waters-range in price from $3 to $10 per acre. This section—as I hav,* written before—is near the southern belt for tin* apple and the northern edge of the fig belt. The ribbon (sugar) eafte syrup of this section is the Choicest of 11 the sugar cane belt. This is almost on northern edge of the sugar cane belt too nnd yet not down itr the "pincy woods" belt of warm water, nor too far for a northerner to locate an.l farm pretty mnch as he does at home. ('has. Stout. Phoenix City, Ala. Complimentary. I owe a groat deal to the Farmer. Elizabcthtown, Jan 10. ,\. n. I want to say that your valuable paper bas been a great help to us during tin- past year, could not well do without it. Salem, Jan. 12 J. W. Thomas. ' No other farm paper sn nearly fills all the needs of Indiana farmers as the Indiana Farmer. We saved Si;, which was more than half the value of the purchase in one transaction, by being readers ot the Indiana Farmer, Mrs. C. E. Byrkit. Shirley, Henry Co. |
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