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VOL. LXV INDIANAPOLIS, JANUARY 8, 1910. NO. 2 BIG BLACK LOCUST PLANTATION. Editors Indiana Farmer: The black locust is time honored as reliable post timber, and while recently somewhat in disfavor, because of the borer, is still the favorite with many. Locust will grow on gravelly or h'eavy clay hills and slopes, where —. catalpa will fail. Locust procured from Nebraska appears to be free from borer. Indeed this pest seems to be going out in the Southeastern part of Indiana. Some of my own young locust, which a few years ago shed branches at every wind, are now free of the pest. I was recently invited by the owner to inspect his planting of 20,000 locust trees, on Sprlngdale farm. This farm was inherited by Edward P. Meyer, from his grand uncle, Philip Eschen- bach. The young man drives to the farm every day, works harder than any tenant on the land and is an omnivorous reader of agricultural literature. The farm lies on the "second bottom" of Whitewater river, and is a plateau about 100 feet above the first bench, and is underlaid by gravel, from which hundreds of flowing springs gush forth. Along one side of the farm Little Cedar creek flows down at about river level, and every flood cuts into the bank, until fully fifteen acres have been undermined and caved off, while the level plain resulting along the creek is of little value, because of the stone and debris of the washed out soil. Mr. Myer concluded to bind this bank with locust trees. He bought his trees in Nebraska, at a dollar per thousand. He had all the straggy timber cut off the bank, and got enough firewood to pay for the cutting, the plants and the planting. The plants were dibbled in, one man thrusting a crow bar into the soil, and another pushed the sprout down. The plants were set three feet each way, too close for timber, but the primary purpose was to mat the bank of rolling gravel with roots. That was three years ago, and there has been no farther caving of the bank, which is now a tangled mat of roots. The trees will average fifteen feet high. Mr. Meyer intends planting 20,000 more this year, some for bank protection, and some for posts exclusively. These sprouts should be planted early. A neighbor, who bought plants | In the same order with Mr. Meyer, and waited until later in the season for | planting, lost nearly all of them. The plants were well rooted, while he stems were not more than six in- Icpes tall. Better results seem to follow |tl\e planting of small sprouts. It any reader wishes to write Mr. ' yer, please enclose postage. Requests 'or information as to mutual farm in- wanee and catalpa, relating to recent rt.cles of mine appearing in the aimer, have cost me more than two K02m\\O dollars postage. There is a little incident connected with the splendid buildings on Spring- dale farm that is worthy of emulation. Mr. Eschenbach was the heaviest tax payer in Franklin county, and when he was near seventy years of age, the ly paying financially, but are a splendid object lesson to the community. Brookville. Dr. G. H. Bogart. Valuable manuscripts transferred to the library of congress this year from various departments of the government Best Bushel of Corn in the "World. Awarded sweepstakes prize at Omaha Corn Exposition Grown and exhibited by G. L. Kerlin, Franklin, Indiana. writer accompanied a contractor to his home to look over some plans for a new tenant house. These plans were from a small frame cottage up to an elegant brick mansion. After carefully considering all of them he ordered the latter, and added numerous Improvements to the architects drawings; closets, more cellarage, better interior finish, and the like. A neighbor expostulated, and the old gentleman answered: "I'll never live on that farm, and I'll not live much longer anywhere, but a good set of buildings, worthy the good farm will be a better monument to Philip Eschenbach than a granite shaft. Draw that contract so that if any more improvements suggest themselves, they may be added." And they were added, and cheerfully paid for, and the heir devotes his time to practical farming for the love of lt, tho educated for a professional life. Financially, he does not need to work, but the fine farm and its adequate equipment sends him down where he can see the dew drops glisten at the sunrise, and his intelligent crop rotation and stock growing, are not on- \ include all the "applications for offlce" during Washington's administration, the original vouchers and accounts of Washington's expenses during the revolution, and historical documents regarding revolutionary pension claims. KERLIN'S PRIZE BUSHEL. Editors Indiana Parmer: The champion bushel of corn at Omaha is of the Johnson County White variety. It was grown on a piece of clover sod on black and clay soil. The clay spots were covered with manure last winter, also a good portion was top dressed with manure with a manure spreader, after ground was broke and before any harrowing was done. I was very careful in regard to seed selection, choosing only the ears that were true to variety type, looking well to depth of grain, shape of ear, Indentation and strong seed vitality. My crop rotations are corn, wheat and clover. I believe any one can raise prize corn who will exercise care in selecting seed and taking the proper care of the soil. G. L Kerlin. Franklin, Ind. COWPEA—CORN SILAGE. Editors Indiana Farmer: The cowpea is one of the sturdiest and most valuable representatives of the remarkable family of legumes which possess the faculty of obtaining large amounts of nitrogen from the '' air. There is no danger, by the way, of exhausting this supply, for over every acre, including the ocean is enough nitrogen to produce a 100 bushel crop of grain every year for at least 400,- 000 years, The cowpea has an especial advantage over some other legumes in being able to grow from the start upon new land, without inoculation, with the bacteria which live upon the roots and thru whose activities it secures the nitrogen from the air. Much trouble is reported on some soils in getting alfalfa, soy beans and some other crops properly provided with bacteria; but never with the cowpea. The Kansas Experiment Station has, for a number of years, planted cowpeas between the corn rows at the last cultivation. They have usually made a fair growth if there was sufficient moisture. The next important point brought out, however, is that there seems to have been no injurious effect on the corn resulting from the practice; rather in most seasons the result has been an increased yield of corn in the fields in which the cowpeas were planted. In comparative averages of five year yields of corn planted alone and corn planted with cowpeas at the last cultivation the figures were 44 bushels against 47% bushels per acre in favor of the corn with cow peas planted between. Hero was a net gain of 3 V4 bushels per acre of corn a year, besides the value of the cowpea crop. Further experiments of the Kansas station show that it is good practice to grow corn and cowpeas together for ensilage, rather than in separate fields and mix them as the silo is being filled. The station tried this plan for three years and produced from 10 to 14 tons of green fodder per acre. The cowpeas twined about the corn stalks, making the crop easy to harvest with the corn binder. By reason of the cowpeas being mixed with the corn the ensilage was of higher feeding value than corn silage alone, since it was richer in protein, while fully as much ensilage was produced per acre as where corn was planted alone. The di rector of the Kansas Experiment Station !s E. H. Webster, until recently Dairy Divi- Agri culture. G. E. M. 1909. the energetic j&tSfAoT^tie sion of the Department pf s / The Ohio State Board has. published a calend of Agriculture of Farmers' Institutes for the season of 1909-1910. For copies address the /Secretary, A. P. -unfiles. Columbus. Ohio.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1910, v. 65, no. 02 (Jan. 8) |
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Date of Original | 1910 |
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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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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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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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Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
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Coverage | Indiana |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LXV INDIANAPOLIS, JANUARY 8, 1910. NO. 2 BIG BLACK LOCUST PLANTATION. Editors Indiana Farmer: The black locust is time honored as reliable post timber, and while recently somewhat in disfavor, because of the borer, is still the favorite with many. Locust will grow on gravelly or h'eavy clay hills and slopes, where —. catalpa will fail. Locust procured from Nebraska appears to be free from borer. Indeed this pest seems to be going out in the Southeastern part of Indiana. Some of my own young locust, which a few years ago shed branches at every wind, are now free of the pest. I was recently invited by the owner to inspect his planting of 20,000 locust trees, on Sprlngdale farm. This farm was inherited by Edward P. Meyer, from his grand uncle, Philip Eschen- bach. The young man drives to the farm every day, works harder than any tenant on the land and is an omnivorous reader of agricultural literature. The farm lies on the "second bottom" of Whitewater river, and is a plateau about 100 feet above the first bench, and is underlaid by gravel, from which hundreds of flowing springs gush forth. Along one side of the farm Little Cedar creek flows down at about river level, and every flood cuts into the bank, until fully fifteen acres have been undermined and caved off, while the level plain resulting along the creek is of little value, because of the stone and debris of the washed out soil. Mr. Myer concluded to bind this bank with locust trees. He bought his trees in Nebraska, at a dollar per thousand. He had all the straggy timber cut off the bank, and got enough firewood to pay for the cutting, the plants and the planting. The plants were dibbled in, one man thrusting a crow bar into the soil, and another pushed the sprout down. The plants were set three feet each way, too close for timber, but the primary purpose was to mat the bank of rolling gravel with roots. That was three years ago, and there has been no farther caving of the bank, which is now a tangled mat of roots. The trees will average fifteen feet high. Mr. Meyer intends planting 20,000 more this year, some for bank protection, and some for posts exclusively. These sprouts should be planted early. A neighbor, who bought plants | In the same order with Mr. Meyer, and waited until later in the season for | planting, lost nearly all of them. The plants were well rooted, while he stems were not more than six in- Icpes tall. Better results seem to follow |tl\e planting of small sprouts. It any reader wishes to write Mr. ' yer, please enclose postage. Requests 'or information as to mutual farm in- wanee and catalpa, relating to recent rt.cles of mine appearing in the aimer, have cost me more than two K02m\\O dollars postage. There is a little incident connected with the splendid buildings on Spring- dale farm that is worthy of emulation. Mr. Eschenbach was the heaviest tax payer in Franklin county, and when he was near seventy years of age, the ly paying financially, but are a splendid object lesson to the community. Brookville. Dr. G. H. Bogart. Valuable manuscripts transferred to the library of congress this year from various departments of the government Best Bushel of Corn in the "World. Awarded sweepstakes prize at Omaha Corn Exposition Grown and exhibited by G. L. Kerlin, Franklin, Indiana. writer accompanied a contractor to his home to look over some plans for a new tenant house. These plans were from a small frame cottage up to an elegant brick mansion. After carefully considering all of them he ordered the latter, and added numerous Improvements to the architects drawings; closets, more cellarage, better interior finish, and the like. A neighbor expostulated, and the old gentleman answered: "I'll never live on that farm, and I'll not live much longer anywhere, but a good set of buildings, worthy the good farm will be a better monument to Philip Eschenbach than a granite shaft. Draw that contract so that if any more improvements suggest themselves, they may be added." And they were added, and cheerfully paid for, and the heir devotes his time to practical farming for the love of lt, tho educated for a professional life. Financially, he does not need to work, but the fine farm and its adequate equipment sends him down where he can see the dew drops glisten at the sunrise, and his intelligent crop rotation and stock growing, are not on- \ include all the "applications for offlce" during Washington's administration, the original vouchers and accounts of Washington's expenses during the revolution, and historical documents regarding revolutionary pension claims. KERLIN'S PRIZE BUSHEL. Editors Indiana Parmer: The champion bushel of corn at Omaha is of the Johnson County White variety. It was grown on a piece of clover sod on black and clay soil. The clay spots were covered with manure last winter, also a good portion was top dressed with manure with a manure spreader, after ground was broke and before any harrowing was done. I was very careful in regard to seed selection, choosing only the ears that were true to variety type, looking well to depth of grain, shape of ear, Indentation and strong seed vitality. My crop rotations are corn, wheat and clover. I believe any one can raise prize corn who will exercise care in selecting seed and taking the proper care of the soil. G. L Kerlin. Franklin, Ind. COWPEA—CORN SILAGE. Editors Indiana Farmer: The cowpea is one of the sturdiest and most valuable representatives of the remarkable family of legumes which possess the faculty of obtaining large amounts of nitrogen from the '' air. There is no danger, by the way, of exhausting this supply, for over every acre, including the ocean is enough nitrogen to produce a 100 bushel crop of grain every year for at least 400,- 000 years, The cowpea has an especial advantage over some other legumes in being able to grow from the start upon new land, without inoculation, with the bacteria which live upon the roots and thru whose activities it secures the nitrogen from the air. Much trouble is reported on some soils in getting alfalfa, soy beans and some other crops properly provided with bacteria; but never with the cowpea. The Kansas Experiment Station has, for a number of years, planted cowpeas between the corn rows at the last cultivation. They have usually made a fair growth if there was sufficient moisture. The next important point brought out, however, is that there seems to have been no injurious effect on the corn resulting from the practice; rather in most seasons the result has been an increased yield of corn in the fields in which the cowpeas were planted. In comparative averages of five year yields of corn planted alone and corn planted with cowpeas at the last cultivation the figures were 44 bushels against 47% bushels per acre in favor of the corn with cow peas planted between. Hero was a net gain of 3 V4 bushels per acre of corn a year, besides the value of the cowpea crop. Further experiments of the Kansas station show that it is good practice to grow corn and cowpeas together for ensilage, rather than in separate fields and mix them as the silo is being filled. The station tried this plan for three years and produced from 10 to 14 tons of green fodder per acre. The cowpeas twined about the corn stalks, making the crop easy to harvest with the corn binder. By reason of the cowpeas being mixed with the corn the ensilage was of higher feeding value than corn silage alone, since it was richer in protein, while fully as much ensilage was produced per acre as where corn was planted alone. The di rector of the Kansas Experiment Station !s E. H. Webster, until recently Dairy Divi- Agri culture. G. E. M. 1909. the energetic j&tSfAoT^tie sion of the Department pf s / The Ohio State Board has. published a calend of Agriculture of Farmers' Institutes for the season of 1909-1910. For copies address the /Secretary, A. P. -unfiles. Columbus. Ohio. |
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