Garden
VOL. LVIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, FEB. 21, 1903.—TWENTY PAGES.
NO. 8
As to Unreliable Help.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Unreliable help, with the male population, is .'iii.*. greater iii proportion to nuin-
1, rs .in*l greater inducements t** divert tbe
mind in* ..tli.-r channels, than 25 yearn ago,
•hi.I I doubt not, for tliat matter, three
times that period, when a far burger percent than to-.lay believed in the commandment: "Thou shah not," ul' barkened inr-
tn tin* man who arraigned liis hearers for
tin* "terror* of tin* law," an.l "all must
:.. i**ls render an account," etc.
I'I..* writer has in mind men. an.l yoong
men. whose word an.l promises a quarter
. f a century seo, were as unreliable as any
uf tn-'lay. nnd hare '•.limine.I to be such.
though some of them were brought up
in- the tear of the Lord and are solid
with the affairs of tho doctrine thus promulgated. They could not be depended
epon for their services at any time, even
lo leading, by putting the "hoe" in their
hand, much less when trot; they reiterating
the untenable phrase, "by the day," or
"if I had so and so wouldn't work."
Work—honest, legitimate labor was a
terror to them, and to get a living with-
* ii. seemed the one incentive to them.
Again we recall to mind young men who
were eager to obtain work and were
faithful to their employers, soon to become known as such in their respective
neighborhoods, working just as well or
. von better in the absence of those laboring for. and who soon had enough money
"laid by" for safe investments, for seemingly small but sure profits, and now have
hundreds of acres of improved lands an.l
interest for money loaned, that would sup-
port them without a turn of the hand at
labor   were   they   inclined   that   way.
No, Mr. Editor it does not all depend
upon the Sunday school boy, or the pretentious listener and devotee for red hot
harangues.
Blood and In-ceding have prepotent tendencies upon the scion ot the parent stem,
anal if the mother has endeared herself
to th" hearthstone of her own home as the
one place and haven of contentment for
truest blessings ami happiness, by the
aid of the sober and industrious "head" of
the domicile, ami tea. lies the child as
well, by precept and example, to be obedient to parent alike, learning to care for
self-respect in* being truthful, honest, industrious and thai the "world owes them
nothing" but that attained by painstaking
earnest efforts, in my opinion, would there
be the complaint of the unreliable heard
of so much.
There is nothing contributes more to the
life and welfare of boy. girl, man or
Woman than having acquired honest, industrious habits in youth. Learn to
labor with head and hands, that the equipoise of mental an.l physical vigor will
(tlike grow to become dependent one on
the other, and a healthful, happy and
prosperous life will  be the result.
The hired -men and women of to-day
nre following the trend by stipulated
niles of organized labor of being specialists by working in lines. Hence, in
manufacturing eaeh have their work to
do and man is more like a part of the
machine that takes the raw material
in at the hopper an.l cornel) from the spout
bundled to a finish for shipment, Likr-
rise many girls In-come specialists in some
lines, of everything, but in the culinary
art and plnin practical home sense housekeeping: especially to the one looking forward to that mueh used as well as abused
term "indepeirdont giri."
The  other girl,  well,  really  she is not
• ivbolly i*. blame  for turning trom being
:*  "domestic"—nigger    for the    kitchen
once,  there  always  and  no  more?
As   under  modern  methods   the   hours
are dreary and lonely between preparing
meals an.l putting the house in order for
ibe unapprociative master nnd mistress,
who may be out three-fourths of the time
in VY. C. T. U. .Missionary work or perhaps organising a social :wtd card party.
In ye olden time the wife nnd help meet
with the aid of the girl or those of hoi*
twn rearing, were all round workers
callable or doing what is embodied iir a
poem in a copy of the old Genesee
Fanner, Rochester, X. Y., I committed to
memory, years ago. The verses run like
this:—
THE   I'AKMKU'S   GIBL.
"Up tn the early morning,
Just at the peep of day,
Straining the milk of the dairy,
Turning the cows away;
Sweeping  the  floor of  the  kitchen.
Making the beds up-stairs,
Washing the breakfast dishes,
Dusting  the  parlor chairs."
'■Brushing  the  crumbs   from   the  pantry,
Hum ing the eggs at tbe barn.
Cleaning the turnips for dinner,
Spinning the stocking yarn,
Spreading   the   whitening   linen*
l.o.vn on the bushes below,
K:tnsnoking the  mea.l*,.. s
Where the strawberries grow.
"Starching the "finings" for Sunday,
Churning  the   snowy  cream,
Rinsing   the   pails   an.l   strainers.
Hewn  by  the running stream:
Keeling the geese and turkeys,
Making  the   pumpkin  pies.
Jogging the little one's cradle.
Driving   away   the   Hies.
"Grace   in   every   motion,
Musk-   lu  cv.-i-y  tone,
lu-auty   in  form   and   feature,
Thensan.ls  might   covet   the  arm,
Cheeks  that  riTal  spring roses.
Teeth   as   white   as   pearls,
One of these country  maids  is  worth,
A  **-ore of your city  girls."
Grant Co. !_,. li.
What of the ForsSters.
editors Indiana Farmer:
Have just read with mueh interest the
report of the State Board of Foresters
1 am unable to see any practical good to
be derived by the citizens of the Stnte,
by the plan which the Board recommends,
and  the  appropriation which  it asks  for.
The present salary' of the secretary ami
forester is $1,200 with an expense fund
,,i |600. The Board recommends that
Ih.s salary and expense funds be largely
Increased, and also that the State purchase
.'.iHMt acres of cheap waste land at $S per
acre, which would make .'?16,0O0 also (1.0Q
acre annually, making .$3,000, flor th"e
Board t*. use in experimenting on this
2.000 acres. This will naturally call for
a larger appropriation every time tb**
legislature meets and all this expense:for
what object'.' .lust to show the fanners
what they could do in the way of planting
and cultivating forest trees. There could
le no other reason because, all the timber
grown on 2.1 *K1 acres when put to the
commercial use of the State, would be
such a small item compared to the whole
amount now consumed that it would not
be noticed.
Then, if the real object be to induce
farmers, who have timber to preserve it.
: nd those who have none to plant it, why
don't they recommend a law that w mid
have a tendency  to that  at  once?
There is now a law, (but a poor one)
that was intended to lo just that thing
it became a law* on Mcrch 8, IW That
law provides that any land owner may se-
„,i a part *>i' his Ian.I not exceeding ono-
cighth of tb.- whole tract, for forest pre-
Mrvalion, which tract so selected shall
..idy be assessed ther. >fter for taxation
ai one dollar per acre.
Hut  the  iroul.le  . omes   ill   the  following
sections, which provide that if the trad
selected  Im- an original forest  anil curtains
171) trees per acre, it  may 1 xempt. etc,
and when any tree is cut out or oue dies.
another trc* mast be planted.   .
Tb.* law further provides    just    what
kind of tr.es slmll .-.institute ilie forest
treea under this law, as follows: Ash,
maple, pine, oak, hickory, brasswoo.l, elm,
black locust, honey locust, Kentucky
coffee tree, chestnut, osage orange, sassafras, catalpa, walnut, butternut, larch.
tulip tree, mulberry. It will be noticed
that beech treea are not mentioned. In
[toward county, and many other counties
of the State beech was one of the principal forest trees. In my own woods of
2tJ acres there nre more beech trees than
any Other kind,  but they  don't count.
I thought I would take advantage of the
law and have my woods exempted. (My
woods is in the original forest condition,
but when I came to court the tries, an
:*cre, including beech anil all, I found 1
bad about ball' tbe number required. Several others in this county, sought to lake
the benefit of the law, and met the same
difficulty I diil.
Tbe forester, in his report, makes no
recommendation in regard to that law*;
i*r fact the only way in whi. h it is mentioned, is that he gives a table from the
State Statistician, showing the number of
a.i**s exempted in each county. You wil!
notice iu that list that Howard connty,
with quite a large number of other
counties  have   m*t  a   siiiL-lo   acre   exempt.
The fact is that the original forest of
large trees in this part of the State never
did  contain  170 trees  to the  acre.
If the forests of, this State are to be
preserved a law must be made whieh will
make it nn Inducement for each owner
to preserve what timber he DOW has. ami
-inch as will induce others to plant new.
1 do not favor the State buying a small
tract of WOTS out land, and hiring men at
a good salary and expenses to plant trees
ci: it. Save all thnt tax to the farmer
direct. The   farmer  will   save  his   trees
an.l plant new ones if the inducement be
such as to pay him. and he will not. other-
wise, uo matter how nice a little patch tbe
Mat**   might   own,   fin   some   poor   part   of
the State).     It may be that by the time
yon   receive this,  the  legislature will  have
ccrried   out   the   recommendations   of   the
leard ..r Foresters, but I hope sueh will
Lot  be  the case. J.  J.
Howard Co.
he ha.l permitted bis wile to shell the
corn during fall, an.l sell it al a store
near by, expecting me t.* go iii tin* market
: n.l buy liiill corn 1*. make a crop. 1 was
furnishing the land, the horse, tb.- houses,
•be meat;  yet  In*  deliberately  undertook
to   force  me   to   furnish   the   corn    quickly
disposing of that made. This is u6 unusual case. 1 hoped to start Abe to be
somebody, was interested in him because
Us father ami mother in ante-bellum .lays
b. longed to my father.
You see I not only "suggested," but took
(bailees t*> belli Abe, *iii*l lost. And we
all do our b.-st to elevate our tenants, but
. in* failure  is  iad  t*. contemplate.
lames   Callaway.
Macon, Oa.,  Feb. 2.
I'm were certainly very generous towards   your   tenant   and   deserved   better
treatment,     Hut  we  would  expect  smh
from many of the race here, and from not
a   tew   whites  of  tb.   tenant  .-lass. We
would feel safer to have the corn cribbed,
a lock on the door nnd the key in onr
pocket. We still hope that some plan
may be do. is.-.l whereby the tiller of the
soil iu the South can be made to live move
like a human being.
The Unreliable Colored Tenant.
Editors Indians Farmer:
You gave the farmers of Georgia a gentle roast for not suggesting t*. tbeir negro
tenants ways and means for their betterment. This is done, but results do not
always show the effort made.
To illustrate: Abe Biglow, a Colored
man of family, came to me .binnary of
1902 to rent land ami aid him to start,
as ho was tired of working about by tbe
day. I let him have corn nnd furnished
him a horse. He paid his rent one bale
of cotton. As his eorn was short I told
him in the fall of year not to get bread
for his family out of the corn*, but ns he
lad plenty of force to work out for thnt,
mid sav.* his eorn to make crop of 1908.
What did lie do?
I was at his farm n few days since, and
State Farmei'e Congress.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
l'nder a call to meet nt State House,
room 12, January 8, 1903. to organize a
Stat.- Farmers' Congress, there was a temporary organization formed, at which it
was •](-(- i a i.-.l to make each chairman of
County Farmers' Institutes delegates to
tie next meeting, nnd in the event they
could not attend, to select some suitable
person who would nttend, to coirvene in
room 12. State House, 10 n. in., February
" 1903, and continue from day to day until all business matters coming before said
meeting are transacted. All who are interested should see lhat their counties are
represented at this meeting, as it wil! l*e
one of the most important meetings to
farmers   ever   held   in   the   state,   as   the
legislature will be in session and many
bills will be before it which affect the ag-
lieultunil interests ami the farmers in
general. Joshua  Strange.  Pres.
Alvin I,.  Heine,  Sec'y.
Heory Co. Institute
Editors Indlsns Farmer:
The Institute hold at Lewis, ill.*. Henry
('■*.. mi February 1 ainl 2 was a great su.-
cess. 'I'he interest was so groat that a
permanent organisation was formed, with
T. S. Nugen as president and Roy Mills
so* rotary. Mr. < I. A. Sinners, of Kokomo
ami W. It. Flick, of Lawrence were the
speakers on Monday .and on Tuesday Mrs.
Fstcs of Newcastle made th.* third on the
program. Both   Mr.   Somers   ami    Mr.
Flick understood their subjects, a:i*l were
listened to with close attention*. Mrs.
Bates gave an excellent and suggestive talk
in the morning on "The ideal farmer's
home." Iii tin* afternoon standing room
was at a premium, when she told the parents in an eloquent ami forcible manner.
"How to keep the boys an.l girls oa the
farm." The farmers about Lewisville are
up-to-date,   wide  awake  farmers.
The Dhio Poland China Record Association at their annual meeting in Dayton,
Ohio, appointed a committee to consider
the matter **l" consolidating the different
Poland Chins Record Associations. The
officers for the year were elected as follows: President, L. N. Bonham: t ie-
president; L. C. Nixon: treasurer, J. I.
Lackey; secretary, Carl Fnigau, Day ,
Ohio.