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cr-vA'A'"~Y- ■■* ) '■ m DON'T TELL IT. Your neighbor's name, •Or your friend's fair fame, And what befel it, In deed or word, * Ybu may have heard. Yet pray don't tell it. If kept within, This rumored sin May* prove a but>ble^ . If told again, Like tbe thriving grain, Twill soon grow double. Instead of peace, If strife increase, Then try and quell it; Think wh'at you will, Of good or ill, But pray don't teH it. §Qmm%mM®m& [For the Indiana Farmer. PURDUE UNIVERSITY. As I liave not read the report of President Owen and have no knowledge of the plans of the Board of Trustees of this institution, Iain neither able nor willing to try to defend either the one or the other from the attack of yonr " Humbug" correspondent. But there are some assumptions in his article, which it seems to me, require a passing.notice. In the first place, he assumeV that the plan proposed by Mr. Owen ■*' is as good as tlie law,"* by which I suppose he means-that said plan wjll and 'must be adopted by the Board of Trustees without a change or question—a very poor compliment indeed, to the intel- ..... ]v;o-nt^.^i^]$vaevL:eov^^xtS^^e.,J^&r6j.. and, without doubt, very wide of the truth". In the next place, after giving a list of the scientific professors recommended, he asserts — with a most " Harrowing " affirmation—that he cannot see how any or all of these are going to fit a young man for anything useful. Then when he comes to the practical part—to the farm and its management—he asserts with theairof an oracle, that "the amount of .agricultural knowledge to be derived from a farm superintendent cannot be more than what • a hired hand would get of his employer." Yet in the onset he tells us that he had " thought that a four years' course at this institution would, teach the boys " a great many useful things. Now, if the profes- ' sors of science cannot teach these things and the practical farmer, acting as superintendent of the college farm, eannot do it, ■then "in the name of my grandfather's" common sense, I want to know of this " Humbug " how he supposed it was going to be done at all. It seems to me that the animus of his production is to be found, not in opposition to the report alone, but in opposition to the college under any management, either good or bad. It is too late in the day to argue the question as to whether it was wise or unwise to establish such a school, because it is established, located, and endowed, and the buildings are fast verging toward a state of completion. It only remains for the people ofthe State to see that it is so organized and conducted as to answer the design of its creation. To enable them to do so, it would seem that they ought to know what those to whom they have entrusted the work are proposing to do, and the whole plan ought to be calmly and fairly discussed and judged by the people, and this judgment should be, and I doubt not would be, treated with due regard and respect by the Board of Trustees. "* Thos. Jones. }Vea Phwis, Tippecanoe County. [For the Indiana Farmer.* SUGGESTIONS ON FAIRS.. In looking over N.o. 11 of the Indiana Farmer, I noticed an article from the pen of our esteemed friend and brother, - S. Deal, of Tetersburg, Indiana, entitled, " A Suggestion to Farmers," which in my opinion, though short, embraces some excellent hints to the farmer and agriculturist. First to inaugurate a better system of management of our county fairs; the plan that Bro. Deal proposes is a very good one, and is as follows, to-wit: That every farmer should use his best endeavors to get the best productions from the soil he tills, and offer his best specimens at the county fairs as. the proceeds of his ?Iabor, with an account of the manner of ^cultivation, etc., and.thus make it strictly Ian agricultural fair and let it be known pthat it is to be conducted in this way, and our county fairs willjbe attended with bet- j ter success than while conducted on the old plan of gambling, horse: racing and all such vices as are calculated to draw 1-jrge- ly on the immoral.^ By so doing,* very many of our best citizens who aro opposed to fairs on the ground of these immoral characters, would become honorable members-of agricultural societies, and aid materially in; bringing out the resources of j the soil. Let me ask how or in what way! are the farmers or any other class of persons (except those who run all over the country to gobble it up) benefited by offering and paying large premiums for fast trotting or pacing, which are carried off out of our treasury", ■ on old, lousey looking horses that a respectable farmer would not give one hundred dollars per dozen for; but instead of fast horses let us have best trotting and pacing, style, carriage, and speed considered; let it be the between those giant hills which seem to stand as sentinels over the little town and inhabitants? I think.any one well repaid to climb to the top of one of those high hills, and looking away offdown the valley, view the beautifula»-jhery, fields of golden corn waving' in m ' \. wind, interspersed with fields of gre-^yrj-ow'ng wheat, with herds "of horses. ciiCzh ar-d sheep in the pastures busily nip""*"''..--, *..hat "grass Jack Frost has, Irfi "j*.-* *V : seeming to vie with each "oilier V. *. ."-ia]] -*.-<*fure the greatest qn>*;'.h* ■■_,_..- • *'"" '.'•'-<_.«♦ makes another cali ..;,,_ *•-*"."'■- '<j', te high hills covered wit ■ r - * •;*■kind of forest trees, ^ h--->« f«< '.;■•.__,*. Las been touched up by Jaek-'Frost's matchless colors of every shade, from the pale^ye'low ofthe sugar tree to the deep-blood'red of the black gum, but t1; sturdy black *p'Iie stands out in bo'u relief, his ever dark green dress, seeming to defy Jack Frost to five by sixty feet, two stories high, and four schoolmasters ; one furniture factory; and Green Walnut Grange, No. 132, the first organized in the county, and is in good running order, composed wholly of farmers ; and what speaks louder than all, our order and community send in the largest club for the Indiana Farmer of any village in northern Indiana, and has done so for two years past, and we are on the gain. Jamks Lowry. REFUSES TO DEAL WITH THE GRANGES. By the request of Noah Grange, No. 374, Shelby county, we publish the following correspondence between the Secretary of that grange aud the Dayton Aughe Flow Works, Dayton, Ohio. It seems strange that business men will act in such an un- §f CswiihTkA"*^ *^Tiw i ^.feSi ni' »j^ <•*£ _-*v*ji r f&%\ ^Vte** i *», jg& *a %3-»,jl sfetrttftf* fi" wRr1" ^iHI'tfy % \' ■%rtffi *f -w*Tr ?• * Sr **•£•■? -"Sir ■ - <§ $ ■- II -is«ii««"'§s*«§1* -£ «sl«l5-»^ni»4!l flj—illi*'"-^ ill • '■■ •>' W-* M«~k w j**---*****^***--^-^*.* jgr—^*^r~ •« -^ASs^r-** _^«JKS2- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WASHINGTON, D. C. actual merits of the horse and nice work that shall command the premiums, instead of the adroitness of the owner. Another objection to the.management of many of our fairs is in the class" ngoff ofthe different departments ; for instance : A premium is oflered for the best hog of a certain age, there may be a Poland-China, Berkshire or Chester White, and perhaps other varieties, how can a committee decide in such a case ? But let each breed be classed off separately and premiums offered for each class, and then you will see three times the usual number of hogs on exhibition; consequently the competition being great, the people will visit the exhibition en masse, and our fairs will be a complete success; and on the last day ofthe fair, instead of the fast trot or paee_ let us have a stock sale, and our exhibition of premium stock in tbe ring, etc., which will result in more real benefit to the agricultural interests of the county than all the horse racing that could be gotten up, say nothing of the bad influence of the latter. Let me suggest that the Patrons of Husbandry use their influence in bringing about a reform in the management of all our fairs so that good may result therefrom instead of evil. W. A. Maze. Sharpsville, Ind., Nov. 24,1873. <_►_—_ [For the Indiana Farmer, SOUTHERN INDIANA. change its color, but it only serves to make the contrast more beautiful. As we pass along every rock and tree looks familiar to ns; but like the people, some have grown taller, some large and older, while some have passed away altogether; some wave their branches at us seeming to bid us welcome, while the wind passing through tops of others, seems to sigh and moan as if mourning for the departed ones, how vividly it brought to mind those beautiful lines: "How dear to the heart are the scenes oi our childhood, "When fond recollections present them to view." This being our first attempt at contributing, we make our obeisenee; Mrs. L. B. Peck. Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 4,1872. m [For the Indiana Farmer, MARSHALL COUNTY. Visiting the southern part of the State recently, I was surprised to find so many farmers, some very enterprising ones too, not one of whom was taking the Indiana Farmer. Some said they thought they would subscribe for it. I was asked a good many questions about the granges. I told them to get the Farmer and they would learn a great deal more than I could tell them. There are plenty of farmers in the valley, to organize a grange,-and have it convenient to all; some thought it a political scheme, some a woman's right concern. _ I told them they were very nraeh mistaken, that .they were a long ways behind the times. Who, in passing south on the L. N. A. & C. railroad, does not remember a valley enclosed on two sides with high rocky hills, or the little village of Providence nestled Argos is situated in the south part of Marshall county and one hundred and ten miles north of Indianapolis, on the I. P. and C. railroad, in what was once one ofthe finest walnut, popular, ash, butternut, sugar and beech and all other kind of timber common to any -other timbered country; but our timber is almost gone, and it stands us in hand to take care of what wc have left, and make it go as far as possible. Our fine timber has given way to improved farms in a fair state of cultivation. Our staple products are wheat, 'corn, clover-seed and hogs; this country is a good potato country when the bugs don't take them, and a very good quality. A very poor oats country. We have some good grass" land, but the cultivation of timothy hay is much neglected; there are some small marshes and cat swamps that would be well to be drained, and exchange the ague they produce for 'timothy and red top hay, and save the money we pay the doctor and buy tile with it. Our average of wheat in the south part of the county, acording to the threshers' report, was nineteen bushels per acre; our corn 'from forty to forty-five, not so good as last year; our hog crop was good, and a better breed than former years; we have but very little, improvement on the breed of cattle, some young bulls this season. Argos has a fine brick sehool-house, forty- i. 374, *) If, IND. "- r 22,1873. J business like way, and the fact that the company does so only demonstrates the necessity of co-operation and organization on the part of farmers to resist the oppression that has been practiced upon us in the way of commissions. The communication of this plow company is not only plain, but insulting; and we say to farmers, let the Dayton Aughe Plow Works Company eat and wear their plows until they become more reasonable. You will receive a circular in a short time telling you where you can buy at manufacturers1 prices without the commission: Noah Orange, No. 371, Noah, Shelby Count y*. " December Editors Ind. Farmer—jS/j-s.-—At a meeting held In November, it was ordered that tlie Secretary write to the Aughe Plow Works, Dayton, Ohio, to see if they would sell plows to tlie granges at wholesale prices. We received their answer, and it was ordered that the Secretary send a copy to the Isdiana Farsiek and one to tlie Cincinnati Enquirer for publication. Leander Fox, Secretary Noah Orange, No. 37J, Noah, Shelby- county, Indiana. The following is.the reply received by Secretary Fox from the proprietors of the Aughe Plow Works: Dayton, O., December 9,1873. Leander Fox, Noah, Indiana : Dear Sir:—Inclosed rind our bill of prices for plows to all but agents. We don't intend to cut off our heads to gratify the granges. We purpose to let the farmers have a living, and we ask the same. We have hardly an agent but what purchases from £200 to $000 worth of plows In a season, and we have one or two who purchase 83,000 worth in a year. We don't purpose to leave such a trade to sell a few farmers $100 worth. There Is not a manufacturer in Dayton that will have anything to do with the grange movement, as far as we can learn. Farmers now owe our agents hundreds of dollars, but say they will not sell their wheat and corn at present prices, and so keep us waiting. We have to pay SS00 cash to hands every week, and for steel and lion In sixty days, and to get money we have to go to bank, and why 1 Because the farmers don't pay agents. We pay forty cents per pound for butter and thirty-five cents a dozen for eggs, that in the country can be bought for half. And why is this? Because farmers sell to hucksters, anil they keep up the prices. We intend to turn over a new leaf next season with agents. If our agents sell plows, they will nave to pay us within ninety days, or else we shall stop our trade with them. We can't do business this way. The way farmers have done since the panic commenced has led the people here to suppose that none of them had a hundred dollars. If you only knew what we have had to contend with, you would understand better what we mean. We have written plainly, for I am satisfied of this: If farmers will not buy plows only on the grange movements, they will have to do without. Yours truly, CHAS. Fakkott, Editorial Botes* GENERAL TOPICS. Granges everywhere report growth and progress.* Hancock county has sixteen granges, and ali are prospering. Hereafter our office will be No. 76 West Washington street, where we will be happy to meet our friends wheu visiting the city. The meeting of tlie State Teachers'Association, . in session in this city last week, wa-s largely attended, and very interesting and profitable. The proceedings of the late meeting of the Stato Orange will be sent to all granges In tlie State, so far as the names oi the Secretaries can be learned. The Passenger tariff on one road leading from this city, the C. C. O. * I. or " Ueo Line," lias been reduced since the 1st inst., from four cents per mile to three cents. We invite attention to the advertisement of It. H. Slimnway, Itockford, Illinois, seeds, plants, etc. Tills is a large, complete and reliable establishment and is well worthy of patronage. A sudden change in the weathertook place last Sunday night. Tlie week previous had been remarkably pleasant. Tho weather on Monday morning was nearly 50 degrees colder than on Sunday. We take pleasure in calling attention to the advertisement.of. Moore's Rural Xeiv Yorker in this mfmber. The paper is one of the largest and best of its class in the country, and well deserves the high reputation it has gained. We ran short of copies of tho la.st number of the Farmer, although several hundred extras had been printed. Our list has been increasing much more rapidly than we anticipated. We print Ibis week a very large extra edition, and will be able to supply all demands hereafter. Opb space will not admit of our publishing the names of all the officers of granges. Wo desire, however, to publish the name of the Master and Secretary of each grange. Please send them in. Oive the number, name and posto/llce of your grange, and then the names of tlie M. and See. A majokity of tlie questions.asked of tho Master or Secretary of the State Orange In regard to tlie work of the order of Patrons of Husbandry, can be satisfactorily answered by reference to the code of "rules and regulations adopted at the late meeting of the State Orange, and published in the new edition of the constitution, Oub Puzzle Department is in charge of Prof. D. Eckley Hunter, of Princeton, Ind., a gentleman of much experience in providing amusement of this kind for the children. Prof. Hunter desires to have all the children study out his puzzles, and a.s many tut find them out send answers to him. Answers will be given to puzzlesthe second week after they appear. The railroad companies have put upthe freight rates between New York and the West. On first- class from Indianapolis to New York the rate has been raised from 71 to 95 cents; second- class, from (X! to 85 yonta; third-class, from 57 to 71 cents; fourth-cla.ss, from 18 to 07 cents; fifth-class, from a to S>> cents. The closing up of water transportation is the occasion of this increase of rates, but it is difficult to see thejustlce of such a movement whilo the wages of employes are reduced from ten to fifteen per cent. The great strike of railroad engineers on the Pan-Handle road and its leased lines has been tho topic of greatest interest in the daily papers during the past few days. The company cut down the wages of its employes ten per cent., without consulting them, and discharged those who were sent by the Brotherhood of Engineers to remonstrate with them. This offended the Hrotherhood, and hence the strike. The company is filling the places of the engineers that have left their employ, gradually, but so fur they are unable to ru more than a small part of their trains witli regularity, and the prospect'ahead is still gloomymut unsettled. No one ea» predict the end. Meeting of the Executive Committee of the State Ohanoe.—The following officers of the State Grange and members of the Executive Committe assembled at Indianapois, January 1st, KCA: Henley James, Marlon, Grant county, W. M.; Russell Johnson, Valparaiso, Steward; 0«*o. H. Brown, Rensselaer, Jasper county, Treasurer; M. M. Moody, Muneie, Secretary. Executive Committee—David Yeoman, Rensselaer; A. Poor,Valparaiso; J. T. Graham, Crawfordsville; J. ti. A. Newsom, Elizabethtown, Bartholomew county; J. F. Hall, Gienhall, Tippecanoe county. Tlie committee examined and approved the bonds of the Secretary, M. M. Moody, the Treasurer, O. II. Brown, and tlie State Purchasing Agent, J. O. Kingsburyof thiseity. Thecoinrnittee also made arrangements for obtaining correct crop report* from the granges in different parts of the State, for the benefit ofthe order; and authorized the Secretary to pay all reasonable bills for tlie *-ur- rent expenses of his office, and also authorized Messrs, Billingsley & Williams, of this city to a<-t as commission agents for Ihe sale of proddee f«r granges and members of Ihe order in the State upon condition of their filing a bond for the sum of $.j0,(j00 for the faithful performance of the! ties. (The conditions have since been coi with.) Tlie aecounts of the Treusnri'i* ami tary were road and approved. During (he meet ing, the newly elected oflleers of the state Orange who were present, were installed into tbeir r>'- * spective offices by P. M. John Weir, The cause It K, prospering everywhere in the State. The number of granges is now over Hun, and still rapidly increasing. Arrangements are being made for pro- coring agricultural implements, sutving machines, etc., from first hands, and at the J*>w'**t rates, and a large business ifi ex.wted to I. next season through tho pun-liti-dug ag** this city. he sum ' lelr du- Qi -' ■1-iplle.t -JJZij* 1 Seere- » r_ f / y// S^/tf /• -fr-, l^mn- W >-*,
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1874, v. 09, no. 01 (Jan 10) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA0901 |
Date of Original | 1874 |
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 |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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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 |
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cr-vA'A'"~Y- ■■* ) '■
m
DON'T TELL IT.
Your neighbor's name,
•Or your friend's fair fame,
And what befel it,
In deed or word, *
Ybu may have heard.
Yet pray don't tell it.
If kept within,
This rumored sin
May* prove a but>ble^ .
If told again,
Like tbe thriving grain,
Twill soon grow double.
Instead of peace,
If strife increase,
Then try and quell it;
Think wh'at you will,
Of good or ill,
But pray don't teH it.
§Qmm%mM®m&
[For the Indiana Farmer.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY.
As I liave not read the report of President Owen and have no knowledge of the
plans of the Board of Trustees of this
institution, Iain neither able nor willing
to try to defend either the one or the other
from the attack of yonr " Humbug"
correspondent. But there are some assumptions in his article, which it seems to
me, require a passing.notice. In the first
place, he assumeV that the plan proposed
by Mr. Owen ■*' is as good as tlie law,"* by
which I suppose he means-that said plan
wjll and 'must be adopted by the Board of
Trustees without a change or question—a
very poor compliment indeed, to the intel-
..... ]v;o-nt^.^i^]$vaevL:eov^^xtS^^e.,J^&r6j..
and, without doubt, very wide of the truth".
In the next place, after giving a list of
the scientific professors recommended, he
asserts — with a most " Harrowing " affirmation—that he cannot see how any or all
of these are going to fit a young man for
anything useful. Then when he comes to
the practical part—to the farm and its
management—he asserts with theairof an
oracle, that "the amount of .agricultural
knowledge to be derived from a farm
superintendent cannot be more than what
• a hired hand would get of his employer."
Yet in the onset he tells us that he had
" thought that a four years' course at this
institution would, teach the boys " a great
many useful things. Now, if the profes-
' sors of science cannot teach these things
and the practical farmer, acting as superintendent of the college farm, eannot do it,
■then "in the name of my grandfather's"
common sense, I want to know of this
" Humbug " how he supposed it was going
to be done at all. It seems to me that the
animus of his production is to be found,
not in opposition to the report alone, but
in opposition to the college under any
management, either good or bad. It is
too late in the day to argue the question
as to whether it was wise or unwise to
establish such a school, because it is established, located, and endowed, and the
buildings are fast verging toward a state of
completion. It only remains for the people ofthe State to see that it is so organized and conducted as to answer the design
of its creation. To enable them to do so,
it would seem that they ought to know
what those to whom they have entrusted
the work are proposing to do, and the
whole plan ought to be calmly and fairly
discussed and judged by the people, and
this judgment should be, and I doubt not
would be, treated with due regard and
respect by the Board of Trustees. "*
Thos. Jones.
}Vea Phwis, Tippecanoe County.
[For the Indiana Farmer.*
SUGGESTIONS ON FAIRS..
In looking over N.o. 11 of the Indiana
Farmer, I noticed an article from the
pen of our esteemed friend and brother,
- S. Deal, of Tetersburg, Indiana, entitled,
" A Suggestion to Farmers," which in my
opinion, though short, embraces some
excellent hints to the farmer and agriculturist. First to inaugurate a better system of management of our county fairs;
the plan that Bro. Deal proposes is a very
good one, and is as follows, to-wit: That
every farmer should use his best endeavors to get the best productions from the
soil he tills, and offer his best specimens
at the county fairs as. the proceeds of his
?Iabor, with an account of the manner of
^cultivation, etc., and.thus make it strictly
Ian agricultural fair and let it be known
pthat it is to be conducted in this way, and
our county fairs willjbe attended with bet- j
ter success than while conducted on the
old plan of gambling, horse: racing and all
such vices as are calculated to draw 1-jrge-
ly on the immoral.^ By so doing,* very
many of our best citizens who aro opposed
to fairs on the ground of these immoral
characters, would become honorable members-of agricultural societies, and aid materially in; bringing out the resources of j
the soil. Let me ask how or in what way!
are the farmers or any other class of persons (except those who run all over the
country to gobble it up) benefited by
offering and paying large premiums for
fast trotting or pacing, which are carried
off out of our treasury", ■ on old, lousey
looking horses that a respectable farmer
would not give one hundred dollars per
dozen for; but instead of fast horses let us
have best trotting and pacing, style, carriage, and speed considered; let it be the
between those giant hills which seem to
stand as sentinels over the little town and
inhabitants? I think.any one well repaid
to climb to the top of one of those high
hills, and looking away offdown the valley,
view the beautifula»-jhery, fields of golden
corn waving' in m ' \. wind, interspersed
with fields of gre-^yrj-ow'ng wheat, with
herds "of horses. ciiCzh ar-d sheep in the
pastures busily nip""*"''..--, *..hat "grass Jack
Frost has, Irfi "j*.-* *V : seeming to vie
with each "oilier V. *. ."-ia]] -*.-<*fure the
greatest qn>*;'.h* ■■_,_..- • *'"" '.'•'-<_.«♦ makes
another cali ..;,,_ *•-*"."'■- ' |
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