VOL. LVIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, MAY 23, 1903.
NO. 21
Written  for  tbe  Indiana   Farmer:
A   DISGRACE.
By   Melissa   Marlln.
We Bins of Brother-hood world'svlde.
Of   Freedom   marching   grandly   on;
"We prate with self-complacent pride
Of  tbe  barbaric   ag*es  gone.
Yet,  see,  upon  his  native shore
The   hunted   Filipino   shot,
While greed, real-handed as of yore.
The  staunch   home-loving  Boer  spares  not.
->he hour calls loud for right and truth,
Ob!   vaunted   Anglo-Saxon   race
True to tbe fair dreams of thy youth.
Cry  out,   and   cancel   this  disgrace!
Bloomington,
wa ather is not unfavorable. A swarm
will make its appearance in* a day or two
after the sealing of the first quoin cell.
The farm bee-keeper is often too busy to
pay much attention to the colonies on the
inside; and a swarm issues while he is
nw.iy at work, or attending church, and
Ihey abscond because there is no one at
band to disconcert them. It is claimed
l.y experienced bee-keepers that a swarm
rarely fails to cluster before leaving.
With us they leave in a hurry if we ilu
r.ot spray water on the leaders, or use
sa.me other remedy instantly after they
begin circling about. It is rarely that the
"touchy" fellows will settle for us, with-
Written  for tbe Indian-  Farmer:
At a Mountain Church— No. 2.
(By   Alta).
tiown   to   business,   remove   them   to   the
stand   of   the   parent   colony,   giving   the
hater a new location.    See that all hives
have plenty of shade and ventilation.
Bush Co. I'\ M. W.
Experiments With Forage Crop-.
The Experiment Station Division of
*:..* Iii'partment of Agriculture has been
withering some information regarding
u>e best time to cut forage crops, iu-
cluding oats, field peas, field corn, millet, sorgum, Kafu- corn anal cowpeas. A
description of experiments is given when*
analyses were uiade of these crops at
two   different  stages  in   the    growth     of
The Sabbath morning of which I write
was clear and cold. A cyclone and hail
storm had cooled things off, even on sunny Pine mountain, and still at 9:30 a. m..
a brisk north wind was blowing. But
despite the chill atmosphere the people
began to assemble even at thatearly hout.
The girls wore summer dresses, "because they had put away their winter
dresses and hats before hoeing time and
had  got  their  summer  dresses  fixed."
It was noticeable that in the large families only the eldest daughter had a new
dress, while her last summer muslin was
made over for No. 2; No. 2's for the next
sister, and so on respectively. But all
were neatly and daintily clad and pretty
little shoulder capes, from pieces of their
winter dresses, warded off the chill air.
Button hole boquets of snowballs or
roses adorned swains as well as sweethearts.
Don't think the preacher failed to put
in- an appearance, for he did arrive, ready
for a pratical sermon at 11 a. m.
But there was a good hour for noting
clothes and for "small talk," before the
s;nging, which occupied a half hour before service. The "girl heroine of the
Lee," noted before, stood in the choir
abont the pulpit, while her sister serveo
a 3 organist. The voices were sweet nnd
the music excellent for a country church.
When the first hymns of the regular service were concluded, the chorister sat
down on a short bench, occupied by one
deacon. He motioned for a spittoon and
the young chorister deferentially remover:
one from near the organ (where he had
kicked it for his special use) and placed
it at the deacon's feet.
Yes, the sermon—it was from the 13th
ft 1 Cor., my favorite chapter. The last
vtrse was taken as the text, and Paul
was the illustration of the highest type
of Christian* 'love humanity has yet afforded. It was really the finest exposi-
t:on of Paul's life I have ever hoard, except one given by Dr. J. W. Bashford,
president  of  Ohio  Wesleyan   University.
constituents in* fodder obtained from oats
proportion a.f llcsli-forming to fat-forming
and peas is very nearly the correct one for
a well balanced ration for most daSSSS
of animals, and it would probably bo
found unnecessary to supplement this
fodder with grain or other foods.
Field corn, millet, sorgum and Kafir
corn decrease rapidly in protein content
while heading ont,    In order to obtain -
fodder from theae having as narrow a ratio of flesh-forming to fat-funning f.n.als
a* poaaible the crop should be a*ut as early a Stage as it can be well cured. For
roughage to be fed in connection with
highly nitrogenous foods it may well lie
allowed taa grow until the seed forms.
After that, however, the stalks rnpidly
1 eioiiii* woody and the proportion of
v raste is greatly increased. No very significant change was found in the cowpeas, but this fodder is highly recommended on account of its large proportion of nitrogenous, strength producing
material nnd small percentage of indigestible fiber. G. E. M.
Washington, D.  C,  May 9.
The Clover-Leaf Beetle.
This is an European species (Phytono-
mus punctatus), known in this country
for the past quarter of a century. The
adult is a dark brownish snout-beetle, a
l.ttle less than half an inch long; it deposits its eggs in clusters on the leaves or
flower-stems near the base of the plant.
According to Dr. Biley. both the larvae
and adult insects teed upon the clover
leaves at night, concealing themselves under the leaves and the dead grass and the
rubbish of the soil during the day.  Eaeh
female deposits from 200 to 300 eggs
y.hich hatch in about ten days into legless grubs that at once begin to devour
the leaves. The larvce complete their
growth in from seven to eight weeks and
then form pale yellowish netted cocoons
just below the st.rface oU the soil. A
month later the beetles emerge.
No remedy has yet been suggested for
this insect, but infested fields should be
plowed under in: May or June, by which
means developing larvae may be destroy-
ed.—Journal  of  Agriculture.
When tha Beea Swarm,
■dltore IndUna Farmer:
Swarming is likely to occur in a busy
t'me, and you will find it a good idea to
have everything convenient and hives prepared beforehand. Keep hives intended
tor the new swarms in the shade, where
they will not be heated if you want the
bees to settlo down comfortably in them.
Nature's way of swarming is better
than the many artificial ways. The prosperous colony running over with bees,
brood and honey, with eggs or larvae in
partly finished queen cells, may be expected  to swarm  in   a  few  days  if  the
out making them alight. And some tell
us this is all nonsense, the bees will settle anyway. We don't believe it. They
will settle, but cot very near home.
After they have settled on a limb or
brush, shake them in* front of the hive
which should have a full w.ile entrance,
cr bo slightly raised in front to make it
quickly accessible to the bees. If they
do not go in fast enough, hurry them up
with a feather. It is not satisfactory always to shnko the bees into the hive, bnt
sometimes it is the only way to do when
they are clustered on a large limb, that
one cannot or does not wish to destroy.
To shake them in the hive the hive must
be placed directly tinder and close to the
cluster. Or the bees may be shaken in
the farmer's feed basket nnd poured in
front of the hive. Bees are peculiar,
they will go up every time more readily
than down. Sometimes they will cluster
on the body of the tree then they may be
smoked or brushed into the hive, if it is
placed near enough.
It is not safe to leave them until nearly all the bees are inside of the hive. A
small cluster on the tree might contain
the queen, in which case the swarm would
have the hivo and go to her; failing to
find her they would return to the old
h*ve.    After the new swarm  has settled
eaeh. In the oats and peas grown together the first analysis was made when
the pea-pods were beginning Ito form,
the second when the pod had all fille.l
a.ut, and at similar stages of growth for
the other crops. The following tables
will indicate the stages of the crops at
1he  different  analyses:
First Analysis.
Peas.    Toils   beginning   to   form.
Oats.    Beginning   to   head.
Field   corn.    Tassels   showing.
Milla*t.   Beginning  to  head.
Sorgum.    Beginning  to  head.
Kafir  eorn.    Beginning  to  head.
Cowpeas.    Vines 16 inches high, no blos-
soms.
Second Analysis.
Pods filled out.
In  full  bloom.
Com   full   grown,  ear  forming.
Beaded, seeds nearly ripe.
Headed, seeds forming.
Headed,  seeds  forming.
Well  developed,  some  pods  formed.
In reaching a conclusion various factors were taken into account beyond the
mere amount of nutrition found, such ns
«holesomeness, digestibility, palatability.
etc. It was developed that the mixed
crop of oats and peas improves in composition as it grows older and should
probably be allowed to stand so long as
'he  pea  vines  remain  fairly  erect.    The
Value of Beans as Pood.
Beans of various kinds are probably
the cheapest substitute for meat. As ni-
ta-ogen or muscle producing foods, they
are a great deal cheaper than meat. Un-
aler beans would be included such plants
as the cowpea, the soy bean, the navy
bean, the kidney bean and so on. On an*
average American dried beans contain
between 20 and 25 per cent of protein
or nitrogen matter. The Japanese obtain
their protein* almost solely from the soy
l*(-an, which they prepare into various
dishes, eating little or no meat. They
are a wiry and enduring lot. Stock wil!
ihrive on legumes alone, and in some of
tba Southern States horses and mules
work hard on rations of cowpeas, solely, the vine and bean, ami keep in good
aondition. In food experiments noted by
ihe Department of Agriculture the protein of beans which have been found digestible by the human stomach ranges
from 72 to 80 per eent, which is considered a fairly digestible food. A method
if preparation recommended is employment of baking soda to soften the skins
so that tha* latter can be readily removed
—a half teaspoonful of soda to two quarts
of water and a pound of beans. Bean
skins are composeal largely of crude filer which is not easily digested, and experiments show that this treatment adds
to the digestible and food valne of the
beans. G. E.  M.
When the young queen of the Netherlands recently visited in Paris, the ladies
of Paris were all delighted with an original necklace that she always wore, whatever might be her costume. This ornament consisted of a gold chain with a very
original clasp, the clasp being composed
of a snake, whose body partly encircled
the neck and chain. The head of the
snake was a single huge diamond, of wonderful fire and beauty, while the body of
the reptile was composed of smaller diamonds, rubies nnd other precious stones.
But I know of a necklace more beautiful
and enduring than that, and one whieh
every one of us may wear. It is the one
spoken of by Solomon when he says: "Let
not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind
them about thy neck."—L. A. Banks.
 .  »» ,	
Andrew Bailey Young, of Belmont, N.
H., wbo is 91 years old, still lives in the
nouse in which he was born. He and
his wife celebrated the 66th anniversary
of their marriage  recently.