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VOL. LXII
INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 23, 1907
NO. 47
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CARE OF VEHICLES.
Select Oood Materials.
1st Premium.—Iu buying a wagon or
buggy, select one miule of "A" grade material. If you buy cheap material it
will show its true colors iu less time than
some other cheap things that have not the
hard wear and tear on them that a wagon
has. After you have bought a wagon
of good material take good care of it.
When not in use keep it in shelter, not the
shelter of the old oak tree, but a well ropif-
od building where it will be dry in all
weather. Keep the taps tight, the bearing well greased with a good grade of
wagon grease, aud all wood work well
painted. A very good and cheap paint for
farm wagon running gear may be
made with pure linseed oil and red lead,
or if ypu don't care to mix your own paint
you can buy good paint already mixed.
Keep the tires tight. If they are lo. se
a good medicine, for wagon or buggy, is
to run the wheels through a vat of hit lin
seeil oil. This may look like an artful
job bnt it fact it is uot such a hard task.
Fix Ihe vat over a furnace fixed for +li«-
purpose, and have a frame over the furnace to slip the wheel on directly over the
vat ppf oil. The wheels can then he reapl-
ily revolved in the hot oil as long as
need be to cnre their complaint. It
tightens spokes and tires and makes wheels
last much longer than if not so treated.
Do not -overload a wagon. It can he
broken down early in its life by careless
loading, the same as horses or men can be
early ruined by too much load.
In caring for a buggy the same judgment
may be used. Castor oil is a good buggy-
grease. The buggy should be kept painted
with a good grade of buggy paint. Avoid
rough driving, or fast driving over rough
roads. A good set of wheels is soon
done, if in the hands of a careless driver.
Do not try to see how many trees, wagons
and other things you can butt the wheels
against without tearing them completely
off or wrecking them other ways. 1 have
seen young drivers of gcpppd. new buggies
that seemed to have this idea in view.
When you get the buggy muddy don't
knock the mud from the wheels with a
base ball bat. I have seen this done, but
a better way is to take it to water and
soak the mud off.
Get a good grade of material in the
buggy or wagon and give it good treatment1, or in other words use judgment,
and you will get good long service for
your money. Render.
time run our wheels, by using tlip'in with
loose tires. Then too it is humiliating tp>
drive throngh town with a lol of loofie
spokes clattering and trying t.> keep time
with a lppt iiiipre loose fixtures about the
running gear. This can all he avoidel
b.v a little timely action in keeping all tins
tight nnd well painted. This should l.e
done at least twice a year on a vehicle
that is in use quite a great (Deal. If we
attend to keeping the felloes painted
about tbis often, as a rule we will not
need to get the tires Bet, which will he far
better for the  wheel. We  shonld  alsn
keep all nuts tight. Just try tightening
ii|: the nuts on your wagons and buggies
ami you will think you have a new vehicle.
preventing blacksmith bills. The wagons and buggies should he kept ander shelter, whore they will not be in the rain or
sunshine. Another   matter   is   the   way
they are driven. Don't bitch the bolts I"
the buggy till they arc first broken tn
drive. Don't run races. Don't drive
over rocka and through chucks without
slowing up. J.
Some Pointers
One thing you must do. is t.> keep the
tires on wood felloes tight. You can do
this h.v running the felloes in linseed oil.
Get yuur tinner to make a galvanized iron
trough. liaise the wheel off the gronnd,
put  the  trough  under  it,   put  in  the   oil.
Keep  Under Shelter.
il Premium.—The first and one of the
nip.st essential points in keeping a wagon
"i- buggy in good order is to keep it well
shediled. We  should   not   expect   good
results of any vehicle or any machinery if
it allowed to stand out m all kinds of
weather, exposed to rain, snow and sun- ;
shine. How long can we expect to have
a good wagon if we do this way? If we
are really compelled to let our wagons or
buggies remain out, then hy all means keep
them well painted. The paint will k<-cp
the water ont of the wood and will to
some extent preserve the vehicle. Put
it is far better and far cheaper, and
more satisfactory every way, to keep
them sheltered when not in use.
We should see that all tires are kept
•'ght, both on wagons and buggies. lt
•" certainly quite expensive to cheat the
blacksmith   out of a job, and at the same
ing hugs.     It      is a very iip-h corn,      and,
I bushel per bushel, I believe it will produce
i more fat than any other     variety.    Also,
as a corn for market it is unexcelled, but
it should  always      he shelled.    The man
who sell's Heid's Yellow Dent in ear ami
allows 70 pounds   imt bushel loses three to
live pounds on every bushel.        For spring
leediug this corn becomes   very hard, ami
j the cob becomes firm, and for this reason
it should be ground.    Learning is the cattle
feeder's favorite. The grain is soft and the
i cob is not so hard    as Keid's.    For    lung
feeding Learning has     always held    rery
1 high rank.    Boone County White is rather
a large ear, ,with a large cob, but it shells
ofl' an oiipirinous amount of good corn.    On
account of the size of the ear or shelled, it
stands at the top of the white list.    As a
ihhi  for milling,   probably   Boone  County
White has no equal.    There are many less
j noted  varieties,  and  many  of  them  have
desirable characteristics.   For selling over
llip' scales one    wants      corn which      will
"Weigh like lead."    Fppi-      cattle and horse
f ling Hip' softer      grain spirts, such      as
Learning. Oalico and Qolden Eagle will be
found lust.   For sheep feeding or hog feeding 1 would give Reid's the preference.
111. 1.. C. Brown.
Ezra Dyer's Threshing  Outfit, Morgan ('pp.
Then too they  will last much  longer and
will be far stronger.
Last but not least, by any means keep
tlieni well oiled. Keep the spindles clean
by rubbing the old grease off with a cloth
before applying new. Do not use the inferior, cheap, worthless grease thai will
pause a wagon to run like a sled: but get
a good article and it will he far cheaper in
the  end. It will  last   much   lunger and
will be easier on the team.
G. B.
"Oo It Now."
3d Premium.—The question of keeping
the running gear of the wagons and buggies in good order is one which dues not
admit of theorizing. It is a plain matter
which may be summed up by saying that
what is necessary to be done should be
done without delay. If a bolt or rod is
broken, fix it; if a bur is loose, tighten it
up; if the wheels need washers, put them
on; and do it as soon as it is needed.
Above all keep all vehicles painted. Most
of us can do our own painting, unless wo
disire an especially fine job ou the buggy
or carriage. Once in a while we see a
person who seems to be satisfied if th-:-
wagon or boggy will stand up and run
when hitched to, but of course such a
case is an exception. The jingling, rattling bnggy is in most cases unnecessary,
Imt if left awhile the jingle will become
familiar an.l the thought of preventing it
will not occur.
Another very necessary matter is to
keep the tires tight. A good plan is to
run the felloes in boiling linseed oil every
spring, and then paint them. A pan
for doing this can be purchased for a
(rifle,    and one nse of it will pay for it in
build a slow fire, turn the wheel slowly
till the felloe is well soaked. Then give
it a good painting. They will stay light
a long time. You should do this as goon
as the wheel shows looseness. Keep the
spindles well oiled, and keep a leather
lineoleum or tin shield over the tub tacked
to the axle. This will keep out the dirt
and sand, and the oil will last lunger on
the   spindle. Buggy   wheels   slipiuhl   bo
kept well washed, so the boxing will not
cut pint and the wheel wobble. Keep all
bulls tight. Oil the fifth wheel enough
to keep from cutting out. M.
No. C12, Nov. 30.—Show the had effects of
allowing a young animal to become stunted in growth, b.v lack of proper care or
feed.
N'pp. 818, r>ce. 7.—Give directions for the
proper winter care of poultry.
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Corn Varieties.
Editors Indiana Fanner:
A correspondent writes: '"While I have
attended most corn shows during the last
ten years, and have also studied the exhibits of corn at State fairs, I have never got
much help as to the best varieties of corn
to grow for  special  purposes.    Will  you
! give me the strong points of the standard
varieties?
Our correspondent hns touched upon  a
! point which many good farmers are now
thinking ahout.    They want to know, not
! so much which variety of corn will produce the most show ears, but which variety
will be host to grow for specific purposes.
Heid's Yellow Dent,     which now is     the
| most cosmopolitan of all corn grown in the
western states, is a splendid corn for fall
1 ami winter feeding, and especially for feed-
Somebody Must Pioneer.
Kdltors Indiana   Farmer:
I chanced to meet a gentleman, lately,
who said to me, "I suppose you know that
your husband was the lirst man to grow
vetch in Oregon, and to prove beyond dispute, that red clover would thrive well?"
"Yes," I answered, "and I remember
tuo. the game the county newspapers made
of him, liecause having only a tiny patch,
he had it harvested by hand, so as not to
lose one precious seed!"
"That was nenrly thirty years ago," he
mused, "and it's everywhere now."
About 15 years ago, I recall his saying
in a public address, that there was no connecting link between the Kindergarten aud
the Agricultural Colleges, and that the
public schools ought to supply that link.
We know that in a well conducted Kindergarten, the children learn to love nature,
to say nothing of the art of using the hand.
Time* have changed, and are changing
very fast now-a-days. Our wise State
Supterintendcnt, has been long eager to introduce out-door arts into rural schools,
and the love of them into all, through prize
exhibitions of growing things. •
Our last Legislature brought iu a law,
providing for high schools, in counties.
And these high si-liuuls will continue the
Nature teaching of the rural schools.
Thp'ir chief consideration, to my mind, is
that, to enjoy an advanced education, there
will no longer be the necessity for our
country young people to flock into the two
or three principal cities.
When a few more "respectable funerals"
have taken place in the count ry and the
immense holdings are divided up, Into
small farms, carrying on intensive farming
neighbors, and sociability will be exchanged for the old isolation, and the
young people will be able to have the good
time they naturally crave for.
Tt is a good hearing that a bill is to be
brought before Congress, to make the
work of the rural schools preparatory to
that of the Agricultural Colleges.
Oregon. L. A. N.
Our health statistics show that the death
rate from consumption in the north counties of the State was only 90.?5 in 100,000
last September, while that of southern
counties was 140.8 in 100,000 population,
and 135.8 in our central counties.