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VOL. XXIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SEPT. 28,1889. NO. 39 Written tor tbe Indiana Farmer. INDIANA FARMERS' INSTITUTES. Law Relating Thereto—What Has Been Done—PlanB and Purposes. BT PR0F.W. C. LATTA. Please give to the publio through the columns of your paper the following information concerning Farmers' Institutes to be held under an act of the General Assembly approved March 9 th, 1889. The following is the full text of the ACT RELATIVE TO FARMERS* INSTITUTES. au aot to encourage the study of agriculture, horticulture, eoonomio entomology and agricultural chemistry, providing for county institutes, prescribing the duty of trustees and faculty of Pardue University in connection therewith, and making an appropriation therefor. S90.1. B*> it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That it is hereby made the duty of the committee of Experimental Agriculture and Horti- of trustees, and they shall annually report such expenditures and the purposes thereof to the Governor. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE, The members of the State Board of Agriculture have been asked to co-operate with the authorities of Pardue University and with the County Agricultural Associations in arranging for, and in conducting the Institutes. Nearly all the members of the State Board of Agrioulture have kindly promised their hearty co-operation aud many of them are already actively engaged in arranging for Institute work. The following members of the Board, having definitely consented to aot, have been appointed to direct the work of arranging for and holding Institutes in the counties of their respactive Agricultural distriots: . lst Agricultural District, Hon. Robt. Mitchell, Princeton. If the members of the other Agricultural distriots find it impossible to look after the work the superintendent of Institutes will co-operate direotly with the county associations in arranging for Institutes in said districts. PLAN OF WORK. The f5,000 appropriated for Farmers' Institutes by the last Gjneral Assembly, is all the money available for two years. In view of this faot, and after consultation with the proper authorities, the committee on Institutes have planned to spread the work over two years, for the purpose of carrying out thereby more perfectly the intent of the law. If this plan meets with the approval of the members of the State Board of Agrioulture, Institutes will be held in the alternate counties of each Agricultural district during the coming winter, and with intervening counties, one year later. The committee on Institutes will apportion to each county $40 of the State Institute fund towards defraying ers, horticulturists and stookmen siez9 the opportunity to make these Institutes pre-eminently a farmers' institution—a power for good in the interests of Agricultural classes. Pardue University, Lifayette. <£n\xc (&VOWZK8. LET VS GROW SOBE SORGHUM. According to Secretary Rusk of the United States Agricultural Department the farmers have it in their power to break down the sugar trust. In speaking of the sorghum industry recently, he said that the time will oome when all the sugar needed in the United States will be manufactured at home. The seoretary has {.one to inspect the factories of Kansas. If our farmers would turn their attention to sorghum growing again it would help to reduce the oost of sirups at onoe, and eventually would make us Independent of Imported sugars, and free us from THIS ILLUSTRATION SHOWS THE HOME 01 THE OREAT SWEEPSTAKES HERD CF POLAND CHINA SWINE, OWNED BY J. H. BEHOUT, NFAR RUSR\ ILLE IND culture of the board of trustees', together with the faoulty ot the School of Agriculture of Pardue University, to appoint, before November 1st of each year, suitable Persons to hold in the several counties of this State, between the lst day of November and the lst day of April of eaoh year, County Institutes for the purpose of giving to farmers and others interested therein instructions in agriculture,horticulture, agricultural chemistry and eoonomio entomology. Seo 2. Such Institutes shall be held at "■"ob times and places as said committee and faculty may determine, and under snch rules, regulations and methods of in- "'notion as they may prescribe: Provided, however. That suoh Institutes shall J>e so conducted as to give those attending the results of the latest investigations in horti it nd praotioal »Krio*aHure and ■o^.30' SL_F,0T ta0_ Purpose of carrying out |he provisions of fiua act, paying the salaries of instructors and other necessary ^S8f >AtbL° B^m ot -J51*-*0 is hereby appropriated, to be expended under thedl 21 Agricultural District, Hon. W. W. Barry, Vincennes. 3J Agricultural District, Hon. J. Q A. Sieg, Corydon. 6th Agricultural District, Hon. V. K Officer, Volga. 7th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. E. H. Peed, New Castle. 8th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. S. W. Dangan, Franklin. 9th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. Thomas 'Nelson, Bloomingdale. 10th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. J. N. Davidson, "Whitesville. 12th Agricultural District, Hon. J. M. Boggs, Lafayette. 14th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. J. A. MoClung, Rochester. 15th Agricultural District, Hon. W. A. Banks, LaPorte, expenses Incurred in holding a Farmers Institute under the provisions of the law. As soon as the members of the State Board of Agriculture decide in which counties Institutes will be held during the coming winter, the Agricultural Associations in these counties should make the necessary preliminary arrangements in order that there may ba thorough local preparation for the Institutes. If, In any case, the proper officials are slow to move, the wide-awake farmers should take the Initiative and urge prompt action. PURPOSK OF THE INSTITUTES. It Is the fixed purpose of the committee on Institutes that these meetings shall be live Farmers' Institutes, conduoted largely by, and solely in the interests of the farming classes. It should be borne in mind, however, that the benefits to accrue will •rection of the said committee of said board Lockhart, Waterloo. 16th Agricultural District, Hon. R. M. • be in direct proportion to the interest 1 taken and the effort put forth. Let farm- the extortionate demands monopolists. of the sugar Brief But to the Point. Editors Indiana Farmer: It is said that "God helps those, who help themselves." Does grumbling help us, Bro. farmers? I telljyou nay! We must not grumble at what we can not help, nor at what we might help, and will not. "We must educate." Therefore, we must organize. Let us at the work at once, success is ours, if we be worthy. Six Mile. old Man. ■» ♦ . Bait road engines last week handled 944 car-loads of live stock, against 645 carloads in the corresponding week, 1888; increase this year, 299 cars; and there were transferred over the B.lt road last week 18,470 cars, against 11,896 ln the corresponding week, 1888; increase this year, 1,574 cars.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1889, v. 24, no. 39 (Sept. 28) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2439 |
Date of Original | 1889 |
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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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. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
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Transcript | VOL. XXIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SEPT. 28,1889. NO. 39 Written tor tbe Indiana Farmer. INDIANA FARMERS' INSTITUTES. Law Relating Thereto—What Has Been Done—PlanB and Purposes. BT PR0F.W. C. LATTA. Please give to the publio through the columns of your paper the following information concerning Farmers' Institutes to be held under an act of the General Assembly approved March 9 th, 1889. The following is the full text of the ACT RELATIVE TO FARMERS* INSTITUTES. au aot to encourage the study of agriculture, horticulture, eoonomio entomology and agricultural chemistry, providing for county institutes, prescribing the duty of trustees and faculty of Pardue University in connection therewith, and making an appropriation therefor. S90.1. B*> it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That it is hereby made the duty of the committee of Experimental Agriculture and Horti- of trustees, and they shall annually report such expenditures and the purposes thereof to the Governor. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE, The members of the State Board of Agriculture have been asked to co-operate with the authorities of Pardue University and with the County Agricultural Associations in arranging for, and in conducting the Institutes. Nearly all the members of the State Board of Agrioulture have kindly promised their hearty co-operation aud many of them are already actively engaged in arranging for Institute work. The following members of the Board, having definitely consented to aot, have been appointed to direct the work of arranging for and holding Institutes in the counties of their respactive Agricultural distriots: . lst Agricultural District, Hon. Robt. Mitchell, Princeton. If the members of the other Agricultural distriots find it impossible to look after the work the superintendent of Institutes will co-operate direotly with the county associations in arranging for Institutes in said districts. PLAN OF WORK. The f5,000 appropriated for Farmers' Institutes by the last Gjneral Assembly, is all the money available for two years. In view of this faot, and after consultation with the proper authorities, the committee on Institutes have planned to spread the work over two years, for the purpose of carrying out thereby more perfectly the intent of the law. If this plan meets with the approval of the members of the State Board of Agrioulture, Institutes will be held in the alternate counties of each Agricultural district during the coming winter, and with intervening counties, one year later. The committee on Institutes will apportion to each county $40 of the State Institute fund towards defraying ers, horticulturists and stookmen siez9 the opportunity to make these Institutes pre-eminently a farmers' institution—a power for good in the interests of Agricultural classes. Pardue University, Lifayette. <£n\xc (&VOWZK8. LET VS GROW SOBE SORGHUM. According to Secretary Rusk of the United States Agricultural Department the farmers have it in their power to break down the sugar trust. In speaking of the sorghum industry recently, he said that the time will oome when all the sugar needed in the United States will be manufactured at home. The seoretary has {.one to inspect the factories of Kansas. If our farmers would turn their attention to sorghum growing again it would help to reduce the oost of sirups at onoe, and eventually would make us Independent of Imported sugars, and free us from THIS ILLUSTRATION SHOWS THE HOME 01 THE OREAT SWEEPSTAKES HERD CF POLAND CHINA SWINE, OWNED BY J. H. BEHOUT, NFAR RUSR\ ILLE IND culture of the board of trustees', together with the faoulty ot the School of Agriculture of Pardue University, to appoint, before November 1st of each year, suitable Persons to hold in the several counties of this State, between the lst day of November and the lst day of April of eaoh year, County Institutes for the purpose of giving to farmers and others interested therein instructions in agriculture,horticulture, agricultural chemistry and eoonomio entomology. Seo 2. Such Institutes shall be held at "■"ob times and places as said committee and faculty may determine, and under snch rules, regulations and methods of in- "'notion as they may prescribe: Provided, however. That suoh Institutes shall J>e so conducted as to give those attending the results of the latest investigations in horti it nd praotioal »Krio*aHure and ■o^.30' SL_F,0T ta0_ Purpose of carrying out |he provisions of fiua act, paying the salaries of instructors and other necessary ^S8f >AtbL° B^m ot -J51*-*0 is hereby appropriated, to be expended under thedl 21 Agricultural District, Hon. W. W. Barry, Vincennes. 3J Agricultural District, Hon. J. Q A. Sieg, Corydon. 6th Agricultural District, Hon. V. K Officer, Volga. 7th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. E. H. Peed, New Castle. 8th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. S. W. Dangan, Franklin. 9th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. Thomas 'Nelson, Bloomingdale. 10th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. J. N. Davidson, "Whitesville. 12th Agricultural District, Hon. J. M. Boggs, Lafayette. 14th Agricultural Dlstriot, Hon. J. A. MoClung, Rochester. 15th Agricultural District, Hon. W. A. Banks, LaPorte, expenses Incurred in holding a Farmers Institute under the provisions of the law. As soon as the members of the State Board of Agriculture decide in which counties Institutes will be held during the coming winter, the Agricultural Associations in these counties should make the necessary preliminary arrangements in order that there may ba thorough local preparation for the Institutes. If, In any case, the proper officials are slow to move, the wide-awake farmers should take the Initiative and urge prompt action. PURPOSK OF THE INSTITUTES. It Is the fixed purpose of the committee on Institutes that these meetings shall be live Farmers' Institutes, conduoted largely by, and solely in the interests of the farming classes. It should be borne in mind, however, that the benefits to accrue will •rection of the said committee of said board Lockhart, Waterloo. 16th Agricultural District, Hon. R. M. • be in direct proportion to the interest 1 taken and the effort put forth. Let farm- the extortionate demands monopolists. of the sugar Brief But to the Point. Editors Indiana Farmer: It is said that "God helps those, who help themselves." Does grumbling help us, Bro. farmers? I telljyou nay! We must not grumble at what we can not help, nor at what we might help, and will not. "We must educate." Therefore, we must organize. Let us at the work at once, success is ours, if we be worthy. Six Mile. old Man. ■» ♦ . Bait road engines last week handled 944 car-loads of live stock, against 645 carloads in the corresponding week, 1888; increase this year, 299 cars; and there were transferred over the B.lt road last week 18,470 cars, against 11,896 ln the corresponding week, 1888; increase this year, 1,574 cars. |
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