VOL. LXIV
INDIANAPOLIS, APRIL 24, 1909.
NO. 16
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THB Nisla'aisa.
Summer Sown   Alfalfa.
That remarkable new crop, alfalfa, may
be started this summer upon any elean
land that the farmer has failed to get satisfactorily seeded to corn or oats, or it may
he sown ppon winter ====:===
wheat stubble or elover sMMMHMHI
ground after these crops
are removed. Alfalfa will
yield four to six tons per
t.cre. It will produce such
irrops tor six or seven
years without re-seeding.
Alfalfa hay contains
much more protein thau
red clover and is about
three times as rich in this
costly and essential food
element as timothy hay,
and practically equal iu
feeding value to the
Name weight of wheat
bran. If    the    farmer
raises alfalfa he will need
io buy but little, if any.
bran or other nitroge
nous feeds. Alfalfa in any
fc l in is eaten greedily by-
most farm animals. Its
giowth is of immense
value to the land. Like
clover it brings nitrogen
from the air to the soil,
and its roots penetrate
much deeper thau those
cf clover, bringing up
fertility from below, loosening the soil, and ashling qualities of organic
matter. It has been thoro-
Ij demonstrated that alfalfa can be profitably
giown in most of the
counties of lud. and 111.
Every farmer would do
well to try a little paitch
sst alfalfa to get used to
strict requirements for
starting it. The following directions were given
by Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins
the alfalfa expert of the
University of Illinois, be-
Cora the Illinois Fanners'
Institute:
Make the i?s3s?il Bed
I'me and Rich—Alfalfa
ii a hard crop to start.
It is delicate and tender,
•nd to put alfalfa on or-
slinary laml without auy
lirotsection or help, is
about like throwing away
M an acre. Put ou 20
to 30 loads of manure per
acre; you are preparing
'he land for ten years.
Thoroly Clean of Weed*
—But the land must first
he worked over and over
"ntil it is free from
*'ee_g; it may take a
disking or harrowing
01 ery ten days all summer to do this. If the
s"il is acid, as shown by
'he dmple litmus paper
,est, put on ground limestone. Inoculate the
••'round and sow the alfalfa the last of July or the first of Angust.
Inoculating the Soil—The best method
°f inoculating the soil is to use soil from
an old ficid of alfalfa or from a patch of
s^eet clover, a wagon load or more per
aore,    but ths soil must not lie on top of
the ground in the hot sun many hours or
the bacteria will be killed. There is
little danger from sweet clover, which is a
two year plant and will not survive in the
field when the alfalfa is mowed as often
Vanderbilt was a traveling passenger
agent on the Northern Pacific. He grew
tired of running up and down the Hill
lines chasing possible patrons and turned
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as it needs mowing.—Illinois Farmers' Institute, per Arthur J. Bill.
Oscar Vanderbilt, the apple king of
Oregon, is a maker of money. In his
early youth—he is still    in  his    forties-
small acreage and planted the first orchard on. Hood river. He attended to
the plantation with a book in one hand
and a hoe in the other until today his
success has made him one of the greatest
men in the northwest.
Indiana   Childrens  Home   Society.
At tbe regular quarterly meeting of the
Board of Managers of the Indiana Childrens' Home Society, held in the Y. M. C.
A. building, April Sth luncheon was serv-
====^== ed to the twenty-five peo-
  pie who were in attendance and the spirit of
l progress and good cheer
seemed to possess the
whole company .
The State Superintendent had planned quite a
surprise for the board, iu
that he had present at the
meeting all of the field
workers of the society.
There are three regular
district superintendents,
and one person whose
sole business is to seek
out and investigate homes
where children are to be
placed. lteports were
made by all of these
workers, which showed
the number of homes
found, children placed,
the amount of money
collected and the number
of miles traveled. Many
of these homes were
found thru the little ad
veptisement in the (columns of this paper, and
many a fanner in this
state now has a boy in
his home who is made
happy from the fact that
these tireless workers
have been doing all that
they could to find the
home for the boy. The
board planned for the future by appointing some
special committees whose
business will be to give
special attention to the
work assigned to them.
One is the Building Committee, which is to serve
until discharged by the
board, and it is thought
that this will only be
when a new building or
buildings shall be erected
and at the disposal of
the society. One who has
not given the work of
this society study, can not
appreciate what is being
done for the dependent
and neglected children ol
the state. The idea of the
society is that there is for
every homeless child iu
the state, a good home iu
a good family, where
both the chilsl and the
home will be blessed and
the state have produeeil
for its help and growth, a
good citizen, for whom no
pries; can be fixed, because there is no thing so
necessary to the prosperity of the rtate as the
good citizen and none can
be made or grow into his
real worth except in the
family home.
A financial statement was made, in
which it. was disclosed that all of the work
of this society, in home finding and child
placing, as well as in supervising the child
after it is placed, is the work of charity
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