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VOL. LXIV INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 14, 1909. NO. 32 The Call of the Farm. [From the Literary Digest.] Many others besides James J. Hill see in the "return to the soil" of a large part of our population the only hope of rescue from high prices and food scarcity. In an interview in the New York American John W. Gates is quoted as saying: " 'This country has not been scratched yet in the way of development, especially in agriculture. There is Texas, with 20 to 25 per cent more area than France, and Texas has 4,000,000 population, while France has about 38,000,- 000, and the French are a prosperous people. Take California, with its 3,- j 000,000 population. It has the area of I Germany, while the last-named country has 60,000,000, and Germany is one of the most prosperous countries in the world.'" In the same paper Secretary James Wilson of the United States Department of Agriculture, corroborating Mr. • Hill and Mr. Gates, argues thus in behalf of agricultural education as a means of turning the tide that during the last fifty years has been draining tbe rural communities and flooding the towns to congestion: " Most of our colleges to-day are strenuously at work turning out lawyers, doctors, preachers, and typewriters, but few of them make any effort to graduate a farmer. I would have agriculture in some form taught in every seat of learning and in our public schools. " 'Starting with the fact that while the farmer has to work hard he has as a reward better health, a longer life, and a more independent existence than any other man on earth, it ought to be easy to make the life attractive. " 'Then I would have the young men taught the newest and, latest methods of agriculture. Show them how they can produce more from an acre than their fathers did, prove to them how to make $2 where their fathers made but $1, and you will have offered the inducement needed to check the abandonment of the farm for the city.' " And now that the papers pictorial ly and editorially are echoing the call from the grain-fields for labor to aid in gathering in the crop, the Indianapolis News thus explains the reluctance that the unemployed city laborer manifests toward hastening to the wheat country: "The annual call has come from the WeBt for harvest hands. Fifty thousand of them are said to be needed this year to start the wheat and other grain crops on their way toward the consumer. Doubtless there are many more than 50,000 men in the country who would be glad to have this work; but the distance between the man and the job Is long and to the man in urgent "'■'■il of work the railroad fare is practically prohibited. Aside from this many such men have families which "'• '.v are maintaining, poorly enough it must be confest, but in some way or other—perhaps by eking out a little money here and there from odd Jobs. These families they would necessarily have to leave behind them to get along ln some way or other until money earned in the fields could be sent to them. "Nor is that the only complication. w«rk in the harvest-field is not a steady J°b- It may pay comparatively well while it lasts, but it is soon over, and at the conclusion of it the laborer may find himself far away from his family with scant prospects of other means of maintaining either it or himself, and a serious problem before him when he considers the means of getting back to the place he calls home." The News hopes for a remedy through "the encouragement of a gradual movement away from urban congestion, and the dispersal of labor over a greater area so that it will be bushels, out of 3,500,000 bushels which constitute the world's crop, are practically out of danger. That is to say, even tho our own spring wheat harvest in the Northwest is just reaching the point at which they are calling for labor to help in harvest, easily the major portion of the world's bread supply is now under cover. "The expectation of months of work and waiting is realized and the reward of the toiler will be far more liberal than usual in the comparatively high A REMINDER OF EARLY DAYS. Old Homestead of Tavner Neal, Hendricks County. This House is Still Standing, Though Long Disused. more readily available for the necessary work of the time." Meanwhile The Wall Street Journal presents a brighter prospect in this picturesque review of the great march of the world's harvest line: "Harvesting operations at this season of the year extend ths.- greater way around the globe in a line which coincides approximately with the forty-first degree of north latitude. On a level with New York and Northern Pennsylvania, with the lower lake districts and westward across the Mississippi plain to the North Pacific States, there is a line of reapers which day by day moves a little farther north until the entire winter wheat belt is reaped and the shock stands in the field for the curing which precedes the threshing. Of this kind of grain the United States alone is expected to furnish this year at least 410,000,000 bushels. "But the line of reapers does not end with the Western Continent. In Europe it is high tide in the harvest calendar. In Northern France, Switzerland ,\ Germany, Austria-Hungary, east along the .Danube and the north shores of the Black Sea into Bessarabia and the Volga Valley of Southern Russia. Far over into the Caucasus harvest comes a little earlier, and down in the Anatolian region of Asia Minor they finished the work of harvesting fully a month ago. "By this time of year probably two- thinls of the wheat of the world is cut. Within a month more, nearly all of it will be safely garnered. At this time it 18 safe to say that 2,000,000,000 pricea which wheat commands in every commercial center of the world. Whether it be in the rich granary of our geat interior wheat States, or in the heavily set growth of Central Europe, or in the small yielding acres of North Africa, or in the remote plains of Damascus where the American reaper and thresher have begun to influence the output, the grower of wheat generally is getting from 25 to 4 0 per cent, more this year for his product than a year ago. "From now until the snow flies the harvest line will move more rapidly northward. Its extreme limit will this year go somewhat farther North, thanks to the Saskatchewan wheat- grower, than ever before. For wheat is a pioneering crop and lays the foundation for the flrmer grasp of man on the problems of' developing the resources of nature. Higher values have pushed out the domains of wheat- growing, and the harvest line this year will be flung out a little farther than in any earlier year of the world's wheat industry." Barley Growing. Editors Indiana Farmer: In looking over some old copies of the Farmer today my attention was called to an article on barley raising by John Stine of Edinburg, In which he gives his experience with both fall and spring barley. I have never had an y experience with spring barley, but have had with fall barley, and in that I was well pleased, both in quality and quantity. I will give my experience. In the fall of 1891 I sowed five acres (drilling) used seven bushels seed, sowed first days of September on high sandy and clay land, mixed, that had been in wheat the year before, where I had thirteen bushels, of wheat to the acre, and to my great surprise I had 45 bushels of barley to the acre, machine measure. It was the bearded variety, and the beards were as long as my hand and as sharp as briers. The straw was soft as oats, and not as high as wheat by almost a foot. Harvested the barley the 13th of June and wheat just two weeks after. Wheat in the same field and the same kind of ground made 13 bushels, the same as the year before. Sold wheat at 68 cents and barley at 55 cents, 48 pounds to the bushel. In harvesting the barley my men that did the shocking used short handled pitch forks, as they did also in the stacking. I sold a large part of my barley for seeding, and nearly everyone made a failure in raising barley, for the reason that they didn't sow early enough, and some almost swore in their wrath they would never try barley again. The sowing to insure a good crop must be done early, not later than the 20th or 25th of August and must be on dry land (sandy or loam). Wet sprouty land is not in it, neither i.s late sowing. It will be remembered that the fly that works on wheat doesn't trouble barley. Barley is not a hard crop on the ground, but will make a good crop on ground which is not first class for wheat. The grain is first class feed for any and all kinds of stock, and ground with corn equal parts, there is no better feed for milk cows. Barley made good bread in Bible times, and I don't see why it would not now as well; and all kinds of stoek will eat the straw in preference to any other straw. Barley in the shock or stack will shed water better than any other grain it is a little late to get the seed and sow now. They that make the test will be pleased in more ways than one, and don't forget it. Henry Baker. Worthington. Indiana State Fair opens on Labor Day, Sept. 6. The marvelous develop- ment of the last decade assures marked advance in this year's show, according to Secretary Downing. We predict that Indiana farmers and manufacturers, will take most of the prize money. Everyone should attend this great Fair. The Payne tariff bill passed the lower house of Congress, July 31, and the Senate, Aug. 5th, and was signed by President Taft the same day. It is now the law, and will no doubt bring some relief, tho not what most consumers had hoped. The immediate effect will be to start the wheels of trade and commerce. Manufacturers, importers, etc., now know what to depend on in the way of prices and will at once start up business in their several lines. A report of the summer meeting of our State Horticultural Society will be published in our next number. Gas wells have recently been developed in Gibson county with a total capacity of over 20,000,000 cubic feet per day. Why don't the owners pipe it to this city? .
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1909, v. 64, no. 32 (Aug. 14) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6432 |
Date of Original | 1909 |
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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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Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LXIV INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 14, 1909. NO. 32 The Call of the Farm. [From the Literary Digest.] Many others besides James J. Hill see in the "return to the soil" of a large part of our population the only hope of rescue from high prices and food scarcity. In an interview in the New York American John W. Gates is quoted as saying: " 'This country has not been scratched yet in the way of development, especially in agriculture. There is Texas, with 20 to 25 per cent more area than France, and Texas has 4,000,000 population, while France has about 38,000,- 000, and the French are a prosperous people. Take California, with its 3,- j 000,000 population. It has the area of I Germany, while the last-named country has 60,000,000, and Germany is one of the most prosperous countries in the world.'" In the same paper Secretary James Wilson of the United States Department of Agriculture, corroborating Mr. • Hill and Mr. Gates, argues thus in behalf of agricultural education as a means of turning the tide that during the last fifty years has been draining tbe rural communities and flooding the towns to congestion: " Most of our colleges to-day are strenuously at work turning out lawyers, doctors, preachers, and typewriters, but few of them make any effort to graduate a farmer. I would have agriculture in some form taught in every seat of learning and in our public schools. " 'Starting with the fact that while the farmer has to work hard he has as a reward better health, a longer life, and a more independent existence than any other man on earth, it ought to be easy to make the life attractive. " 'Then I would have the young men taught the newest and, latest methods of agriculture. Show them how they can produce more from an acre than their fathers did, prove to them how to make $2 where their fathers made but $1, and you will have offered the inducement needed to check the abandonment of the farm for the city.' " And now that the papers pictorial ly and editorially are echoing the call from the grain-fields for labor to aid in gathering in the crop, the Indianapolis News thus explains the reluctance that the unemployed city laborer manifests toward hastening to the wheat country: "The annual call has come from the WeBt for harvest hands. Fifty thousand of them are said to be needed this year to start the wheat and other grain crops on their way toward the consumer. Doubtless there are many more than 50,000 men in the country who would be glad to have this work; but the distance between the man and the job Is long and to the man in urgent "'■'■il of work the railroad fare is practically prohibited. Aside from this many such men have families which "'• '.v are maintaining, poorly enough it must be confest, but in some way or other—perhaps by eking out a little money here and there from odd Jobs. These families they would necessarily have to leave behind them to get along ln some way or other until money earned in the fields could be sent to them. "Nor is that the only complication. w«rk in the harvest-field is not a steady J°b- It may pay comparatively well while it lasts, but it is soon over, and at the conclusion of it the laborer may find himself far away from his family with scant prospects of other means of maintaining either it or himself, and a serious problem before him when he considers the means of getting back to the place he calls home." The News hopes for a remedy through "the encouragement of a gradual movement away from urban congestion, and the dispersal of labor over a greater area so that it will be bushels, out of 3,500,000 bushels which constitute the world's crop, are practically out of danger. That is to say, even tho our own spring wheat harvest in the Northwest is just reaching the point at which they are calling for labor to help in harvest, easily the major portion of the world's bread supply is now under cover. "The expectation of months of work and waiting is realized and the reward of the toiler will be far more liberal than usual in the comparatively high A REMINDER OF EARLY DAYS. Old Homestead of Tavner Neal, Hendricks County. This House is Still Standing, Though Long Disused. more readily available for the necessary work of the time." Meanwhile The Wall Street Journal presents a brighter prospect in this picturesque review of the great march of the world's harvest line: "Harvesting operations at this season of the year extend ths.- greater way around the globe in a line which coincides approximately with the forty-first degree of north latitude. On a level with New York and Northern Pennsylvania, with the lower lake districts and westward across the Mississippi plain to the North Pacific States, there is a line of reapers which day by day moves a little farther north until the entire winter wheat belt is reaped and the shock stands in the field for the curing which precedes the threshing. Of this kind of grain the United States alone is expected to furnish this year at least 410,000,000 bushels. "But the line of reapers does not end with the Western Continent. In Europe it is high tide in the harvest calendar. In Northern France, Switzerland ,\ Germany, Austria-Hungary, east along the .Danube and the north shores of the Black Sea into Bessarabia and the Volga Valley of Southern Russia. Far over into the Caucasus harvest comes a little earlier, and down in the Anatolian region of Asia Minor they finished the work of harvesting fully a month ago. "By this time of year probably two- thinls of the wheat of the world is cut. Within a month more, nearly all of it will be safely garnered. At this time it 18 safe to say that 2,000,000,000 pricea which wheat commands in every commercial center of the world. Whether it be in the rich granary of our geat interior wheat States, or in the heavily set growth of Central Europe, or in the small yielding acres of North Africa, or in the remote plains of Damascus where the American reaper and thresher have begun to influence the output, the grower of wheat generally is getting from 25 to 4 0 per cent, more this year for his product than a year ago. "From now until the snow flies the harvest line will move more rapidly northward. Its extreme limit will this year go somewhat farther North, thanks to the Saskatchewan wheat- grower, than ever before. For wheat is a pioneering crop and lays the foundation for the flrmer grasp of man on the problems of' developing the resources of nature. Higher values have pushed out the domains of wheat- growing, and the harvest line this year will be flung out a little farther than in any earlier year of the world's wheat industry." Barley Growing. Editors Indiana Farmer: In looking over some old copies of the Farmer today my attention was called to an article on barley raising by John Stine of Edinburg, In which he gives his experience with both fall and spring barley. I have never had an y experience with spring barley, but have had with fall barley, and in that I was well pleased, both in quality and quantity. I will give my experience. In the fall of 1891 I sowed five acres (drilling) used seven bushels seed, sowed first days of September on high sandy and clay land, mixed, that had been in wheat the year before, where I had thirteen bushels, of wheat to the acre, and to my great surprise I had 45 bushels of barley to the acre, machine measure. It was the bearded variety, and the beards were as long as my hand and as sharp as briers. The straw was soft as oats, and not as high as wheat by almost a foot. Harvested the barley the 13th of June and wheat just two weeks after. Wheat in the same field and the same kind of ground made 13 bushels, the same as the year before. Sold wheat at 68 cents and barley at 55 cents, 48 pounds to the bushel. In harvesting the barley my men that did the shocking used short handled pitch forks, as they did also in the stacking. I sold a large part of my barley for seeding, and nearly everyone made a failure in raising barley, for the reason that they didn't sow early enough, and some almost swore in their wrath they would never try barley again. The sowing to insure a good crop must be done early, not later than the 20th or 25th of August and must be on dry land (sandy or loam). Wet sprouty land is not in it, neither i.s late sowing. It will be remembered that the fly that works on wheat doesn't trouble barley. Barley is not a hard crop on the ground, but will make a good crop on ground which is not first class for wheat. The grain is first class feed for any and all kinds of stock, and ground with corn equal parts, there is no better feed for milk cows. Barley made good bread in Bible times, and I don't see why it would not now as well; and all kinds of stoek will eat the straw in preference to any other straw. Barley in the shock or stack will shed water better than any other grain it is a little late to get the seed and sow now. They that make the test will be pleased in more ways than one, and don't forget it. Henry Baker. Worthington. Indiana State Fair opens on Labor Day, Sept. 6. The marvelous develop- ment of the last decade assures marked advance in this year's show, according to Secretary Downing. We predict that Indiana farmers and manufacturers, will take most of the prize money. Everyone should attend this great Fair. The Payne tariff bill passed the lower house of Congress, July 31, and the Senate, Aug. 5th, and was signed by President Taft the same day. It is now the law, and will no doubt bring some relief, tho not what most consumers had hoped. The immediate effect will be to start the wheels of trade and commerce. Manufacturers, importers, etc., now know what to depend on in the way of prices and will at once start up business in their several lines. A report of the summer meeting of our State Horticultural Society will be published in our next number. Gas wells have recently been developed in Gibson county with a total capacity of over 20,000,000 cubic feet per day. Why don't the owners pipe it to this city? . |
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