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VOL. LXV INDIANAPOLIS, MAY 7, 1910. NO. 19 CUT UP THE BIG FARMS. Edit*!* Indiana Farmer; There are thousands of farms ranging from 160 to 500 acres, the owners of which are land poor ;buildings dilapidated and fences going into decay, for the want of care. Now, if such places as these were divided into small tracts, say forty acres each and sold on the installment plan, with a reasonable rate of interest, it would not only be more profitable to the land owner, but would provide a home for the people of our cities and towns that are looking for just such opportunities. Also making the country throughout more thrifty. It has always been a puzzle to me, why people owning large tracts of land will hold them while each year they are becoming more and more run down. I had occasion to take a drive through ono of the counties of Indiana where the lack of good fencing and good buildings met me on all sides; this land too was on good pike roads accessible to railroads and having telephone and rural routes. The land was in large tracts, being no dividing fences and grown up in weeds, briers and underbrush. What does it profit to hold land and pay taxes on mmething that the owners can not or will not keep up. If lands such as these were laid off and sold In small tracts, the wilderness would soon blos- Eom like tlic rose. Thereby giving opportunity lo the struggling mass of humanity that are just now trying to cope with this momentous question of how to make a living. It is to be hoped that these few lines may attract some one that is in position to help in this matter and will do what he can toward it. Anna W. Dillman. Monroe Co. A QUESTION OP BREAD. Edltora Indiana Farmer: I have just read Dr. Hurty's article on butter in your issue of the 16th, also have read what he says in . another number that there is not a farmers' wife who can or does bake bread fit to cat. I want to ask the learned gentleman how much the creamery men gave him for his scientific article on butter, and if the butter germ producers are paying him to advertise their germs? Also what the National Biscuit Company gives him to denounce all bread but theirs, and to advocate cold bread only—the only kind that the Bakers' Association can get to the people; also if the State Board of Education has in contemplation the passing of a law to establish a baking school in order to make place for a few more men of the Hurty sort? It has come to pass now that all the use parents have of their children is to clothe and feed them, and turn them over to others to teach from the time they arc six to twenty-one, and of course they are expected, yes forced, to keep them in school and support the book combine and the various other Institutions of learning, that have all their salaries made by law. Now, don't take it that I oppose education; I do not, but I do opopse raising children to be pale and puny from long days of confinemer'. between the walls of the school room. I know that If the teachers and pupils were to attend a 6 months' school and learn the practicable education and let the non-es sentials off, both would be benefited. There is much time taken in cutting paper, drawing, singing, etc., that can be learned at home in the open air; that ought to be dispensed with; one- half of the time is taken up with such nonsense, while nine-tenths of the graduates could see their own lot or farm advertised for sale and the proper numbers given, and they would not know that it was theirs. I believe in a practicable education to be given in the shortest time. A. C. D. Kokomo. —As to Dr. Hurty, we will answer for him. Your questions do not apply. He is not under pay of the concerns you CONSERVATION OP A COMMUNITY. By Warren H. Wilson, Ph. D. The farmers of Rock Creek, Ilinois, found that the retirement of farmers from their farms, for residence in the towns, was destroying the social and religious life of the community. They took counsel to devise measures, by which to save the community. Their first proposal was a farmers' union or a syndicate which would rent the land offered by retired farmers, and sublet it to desirable tenants, whose presence in the community would not be a detriment. But this plan soon Farm Home of Jos. Kin der, Switzerland County. name, nor any other. He is paid by the State only, and is working conscientiously, earnestly and ably for the welfare of our people. We regret, however, that he has met with such poor bread at the country homes where he has stopped. His charge is too sweeping. It would be very easy to show him finer bread and biscuits on the tables of farm homes than he eats at his own home, if he buys of the bakeries. - The doctor means well but he is mistaken, if he thinks our farmers' wives cannot make good bread, and many of them have learned to make prime butter. Let him test the samples at our next State fair, or at the county fairs. TUBERCUIiOSIS IN INDIANA. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, in a recent address stated that Indiana, while productive of more cases of tuberculosis than most other states of the Union, is making no united effort to fight the disease, while Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and almost all other states have sanitariums for tuberculosis patients and laws which will prevent the spreading of the disease. He said the average death rate caused by tuberculosis in the State is 4,471 a year. Of this number 1,964 are male and 2,328 female. Last year 826 mothers were claimed by the disease and 343 fathers died By the advance of the disease during the year just past 2.340 orphans were added to the enrollment of the orphans homes of the state. Statistics show that 3,849 Indiana homes were invaded by tuberculosis last year. proved its weakness. The retiring farmers were only too willing to put their lands in the hands of the syndicate, and go to town or city; reassured that while they were enjoying town life, its good schools, its music, and lectures, for the retiring farmer is an intelligent, aspiring man,—that their farms would be well rented. . So the sons of the early settlers decided that they must go deeper. They undertook to provide their community with better schools. They erected a building as good as one finds in town or city, and they abandoned the old country schools, with their small districts and poor teaching. They thus assembled about a hundred children in one school company. They hired wagons to carry them back and forth. They employed good teachers, and put in laboratories, work benches, sewing machines and ranges, for teaching manual training and domestic science. They heated it well, and lighted with gas; and in the third floor they had room for a meeting-place for all the people of the community. Out of doors they have grounds for games, base ball, tennis and foot ball. The result has been that the retirement from the farm has been stopped. The place has come to be so desirable as a place of residence that the rental of land has gone up, and the average tenant will not go there. Foreigners are excluded, and the drifting element of the population has ceased to be restless. Social life has been restored, and the continuous life of the institutions of the countryside has been assured. This cannot be accomplished by mere prosperity of the individual farmer, nor by the increase of the general products of the soil. Without the saving of the community all other gains are only partial. Even the saving of some souls will do little good, unless they have a home to live in, and that home a part of a growing, intelligent community, in which women shall be happy and children shall be contented to live all their lives. The country community must make itself the best place on earth, not only to the man, who makes the money, but to all members of the family, among whom the money will have its greatest value. EIGHT HOURS A DAY WONT DO. Editors Indiana Farmer: As to Joseph Nolting's, Linton, Ind., lengthy letter. Just think of eight hours a day on the farm! The farmer of this country to-day if he had eight hours to do his work in i-ouldn't even more than get his daily chores done, let alone any of his farm work. It is very easy for some people to write and tell others how to do, but let them come out into the hay field and see if they don't get buncoed in the proper way. When you are working on the farm you are not in factories or autos riding. Joseph says if you in the city gat hungry como to the country. Most of the city people that come to the country get a blame sight more hungry than in the city. They think the dolars ami dimes just pop up out of the ground into their pockets. They think they have got a snap, but when they get to the end of the rein it happens to be a buckle. Whenever the farmer can do all his farming on the eight hour system he will know of a different gart to take after the season is over. Also the farmer can't work every day like the factoryman. They have bad weather to be bothered with. Orleans, Ind. D. Thomas. . ♦ . A PAYING CROP. Editors Indiana Farmer: To any who may bo interested and especially to new beginners in the crop of broom corn and especially of the crop of the past year has been a very paying one. My crop made me from $65 to $85 for brush alone per acre, selling at $200 per ton, as soon as ready for market, grown on ordinary good average corn ground, no fertilizer. Of course this means for brush alone; the average about $65. The seed from crooked, kinky and faulty brush was separated by separating brush before threshed first and spread on floor for drying, giving plenty of ventilation; the cull bush taken to another place threshed, and fed whole to chickens, or ground for stock with other feed; seed almost paying for harvesting even at feeding prices. Seed sells at $7.50 for a hundred pounds for carefully hand selected, and $5 per hundred for cylinder threshed, and cull brush thrown out. Can not the farmer do well raising a crop like this, even should the price be reduced quite a bit? It will surely take a large crop to overstock the market for the coming year. I won lst on seed rt Indiana Sta <* Pair, 1908 and 1909, also one first, two seconds and one third on brush at same fair and offer seed for sale for the first time. While early in the season the crop needs careful attention, later it is easier tended than field corn and brought a much larger price last year. Muncie, Ind. C. S.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1910, v. 65, no. 19 (May 7) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6519 |
Date of Original | 1910 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
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Transcript | VOL. LXV INDIANAPOLIS, MAY 7, 1910. NO. 19 CUT UP THE BIG FARMS. Edit*!* Indiana Farmer; There are thousands of farms ranging from 160 to 500 acres, the owners of which are land poor ;buildings dilapidated and fences going into decay, for the want of care. Now, if such places as these were divided into small tracts, say forty acres each and sold on the installment plan, with a reasonable rate of interest, it would not only be more profitable to the land owner, but would provide a home for the people of our cities and towns that are looking for just such opportunities. Also making the country throughout more thrifty. It has always been a puzzle to me, why people owning large tracts of land will hold them while each year they are becoming more and more run down. I had occasion to take a drive through ono of the counties of Indiana where the lack of good fencing and good buildings met me on all sides; this land too was on good pike roads accessible to railroads and having telephone and rural routes. The land was in large tracts, being no dividing fences and grown up in weeds, briers and underbrush. What does it profit to hold land and pay taxes on mmething that the owners can not or will not keep up. If lands such as these were laid off and sold In small tracts, the wilderness would soon blos- Eom like tlic rose. Thereby giving opportunity lo the struggling mass of humanity that are just now trying to cope with this momentous question of how to make a living. It is to be hoped that these few lines may attract some one that is in position to help in this matter and will do what he can toward it. Anna W. Dillman. Monroe Co. A QUESTION OP BREAD. Edltora Indiana Farmer: I have just read Dr. Hurty's article on butter in your issue of the 16th, also have read what he says in . another number that there is not a farmers' wife who can or does bake bread fit to cat. I want to ask the learned gentleman how much the creamery men gave him for his scientific article on butter, and if the butter germ producers are paying him to advertise their germs? Also what the National Biscuit Company gives him to denounce all bread but theirs, and to advocate cold bread only—the only kind that the Bakers' Association can get to the people; also if the State Board of Education has in contemplation the passing of a law to establish a baking school in order to make place for a few more men of the Hurty sort? It has come to pass now that all the use parents have of their children is to clothe and feed them, and turn them over to others to teach from the time they arc six to twenty-one, and of course they are expected, yes forced, to keep them in school and support the book combine and the various other Institutions of learning, that have all their salaries made by law. Now, don't take it that I oppose education; I do not, but I do opopse raising children to be pale and puny from long days of confinemer'. between the walls of the school room. I know that If the teachers and pupils were to attend a 6 months' school and learn the practicable education and let the non-es sentials off, both would be benefited. There is much time taken in cutting paper, drawing, singing, etc., that can be learned at home in the open air; that ought to be dispensed with; one- half of the time is taken up with such nonsense, while nine-tenths of the graduates could see their own lot or farm advertised for sale and the proper numbers given, and they would not know that it was theirs. I believe in a practicable education to be given in the shortest time. A. C. D. Kokomo. —As to Dr. Hurty, we will answer for him. Your questions do not apply. He is not under pay of the concerns you CONSERVATION OP A COMMUNITY. By Warren H. Wilson, Ph. D. The farmers of Rock Creek, Ilinois, found that the retirement of farmers from their farms, for residence in the towns, was destroying the social and religious life of the community. They took counsel to devise measures, by which to save the community. Their first proposal was a farmers' union or a syndicate which would rent the land offered by retired farmers, and sublet it to desirable tenants, whose presence in the community would not be a detriment. But this plan soon Farm Home of Jos. Kin der, Switzerland County. name, nor any other. He is paid by the State only, and is working conscientiously, earnestly and ably for the welfare of our people. We regret, however, that he has met with such poor bread at the country homes where he has stopped. His charge is too sweeping. It would be very easy to show him finer bread and biscuits on the tables of farm homes than he eats at his own home, if he buys of the bakeries. - The doctor means well but he is mistaken, if he thinks our farmers' wives cannot make good bread, and many of them have learned to make prime butter. Let him test the samples at our next State fair, or at the county fairs. TUBERCUIiOSIS IN INDIANA. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, in a recent address stated that Indiana, while productive of more cases of tuberculosis than most other states of the Union, is making no united effort to fight the disease, while Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and almost all other states have sanitariums for tuberculosis patients and laws which will prevent the spreading of the disease. He said the average death rate caused by tuberculosis in the State is 4,471 a year. Of this number 1,964 are male and 2,328 female. Last year 826 mothers were claimed by the disease and 343 fathers died By the advance of the disease during the year just past 2.340 orphans were added to the enrollment of the orphans homes of the state. Statistics show that 3,849 Indiana homes were invaded by tuberculosis last year. proved its weakness. The retiring farmers were only too willing to put their lands in the hands of the syndicate, and go to town or city; reassured that while they were enjoying town life, its good schools, its music, and lectures, for the retiring farmer is an intelligent, aspiring man,—that their farms would be well rented. . So the sons of the early settlers decided that they must go deeper. They undertook to provide their community with better schools. They erected a building as good as one finds in town or city, and they abandoned the old country schools, with their small districts and poor teaching. They thus assembled about a hundred children in one school company. They hired wagons to carry them back and forth. They employed good teachers, and put in laboratories, work benches, sewing machines and ranges, for teaching manual training and domestic science. They heated it well, and lighted with gas; and in the third floor they had room for a meeting-place for all the people of the community. Out of doors they have grounds for games, base ball, tennis and foot ball. The result has been that the retirement from the farm has been stopped. The place has come to be so desirable as a place of residence that the rental of land has gone up, and the average tenant will not go there. Foreigners are excluded, and the drifting element of the population has ceased to be restless. Social life has been restored, and the continuous life of the institutions of the countryside has been assured. This cannot be accomplished by mere prosperity of the individual farmer, nor by the increase of the general products of the soil. Without the saving of the community all other gains are only partial. Even the saving of some souls will do little good, unless they have a home to live in, and that home a part of a growing, intelligent community, in which women shall be happy and children shall be contented to live all their lives. The country community must make itself the best place on earth, not only to the man, who makes the money, but to all members of the family, among whom the money will have its greatest value. EIGHT HOURS A DAY WONT DO. Editors Indiana Farmer: As to Joseph Nolting's, Linton, Ind., lengthy letter. Just think of eight hours a day on the farm! The farmer of this country to-day if he had eight hours to do his work in i-ouldn't even more than get his daily chores done, let alone any of his farm work. It is very easy for some people to write and tell others how to do, but let them come out into the hay field and see if they don't get buncoed in the proper way. When you are working on the farm you are not in factories or autos riding. Joseph says if you in the city gat hungry como to the country. Most of the city people that come to the country get a blame sight more hungry than in the city. They think the dolars ami dimes just pop up out of the ground into their pockets. They think they have got a snap, but when they get to the end of the rein it happens to be a buckle. Whenever the farmer can do all his farming on the eight hour system he will know of a different gart to take after the season is over. Also the farmer can't work every day like the factoryman. They have bad weather to be bothered with. Orleans, Ind. D. Thomas. . ♦ . A PAYING CROP. Editors Indiana Farmer: To any who may bo interested and especially to new beginners in the crop of broom corn and especially of the crop of the past year has been a very paying one. My crop made me from $65 to $85 for brush alone per acre, selling at $200 per ton, as soon as ready for market, grown on ordinary good average corn ground, no fertilizer. Of course this means for brush alone; the average about $65. The seed from crooked, kinky and faulty brush was separated by separating brush before threshed first and spread on floor for drying, giving plenty of ventilation; the cull bush taken to another place threshed, and fed whole to chickens, or ground for stock with other feed; seed almost paying for harvesting even at feeding prices. Seed sells at $7.50 for a hundred pounds for carefully hand selected, and $5 per hundred for cylinder threshed, and cull brush thrown out. Can not the farmer do well raising a crop like this, even should the price be reduced quite a bit? It will surely take a large crop to overstock the market for the coming year. I won lst on seed rt Indiana Sta <* Pair, 1908 and 1909, also one first, two seconds and one third on brush at same fair and offer seed for sale for the first time. While early in the season the crop needs careful attention, later it is easier tended than field corn and brought a much larger price last year. Muncie, Ind. C. S. |
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