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w£^-\ VOL. LIX. INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH 19, 1904. NO 12. QntKVl UVL& &USTV&C. -Whit Is the best time to sow alfalfa, and will it be all right to sow with oats, how many pounds to the. acre? A Subscriber. Our correspondent will find his enquiries answered on the first page of the Indiana Farmer of __arch 5th. I hate several dozen Gladioli bulbs snd Ma- deria Tine tubers, and a few Cans bulbs, and vhlle they last I will Rive a few each to farmer's wires and daughters w1» will send stamps to pay postage snd packing. : Shirley. Mrs. C. E. Byrtcet. Who wants them? 1 bave a pasture of timothy and red clover, white cloycr, red top and June grass. Is this pasture bett.fr than a timothy and red clover pasture) M. S. It is considered good pasti re, but nothing is quite equal to blue grass, where t_>e latter will grow. » Can any of the readers of the Indiana Farmer inform we where I can buy metal bands for marking turkeys. They are for fastening aronnd the leg. T. C. A. I_afayette. Some one should advertise these in our columns., >''...■* Please tell me through the Indiana Farmer where I can get the seed of Alfalfa, snd the price of It; also tell how much to bow per acre? Warren Co. J. T. , In your copies of the Farmer for a month past you will find a full discussion ot tlie subject.. - i 1. W'jn a bull breed that ls a twin calf, whose mate was a heifer? 2. How long after sale of a registered calf can transfer be made to puchaser of same by association? C. 1. Yes, but the heifers are ffreemartins and do not breed. 2. Any time the certificates of transfer are presented. Please state bow to plant catalpa seed and replant t_e trees? A. W. riainville. You can start the plants in nice, mellow, sandy soil, in rows a foot or 15 inches apart. Thin the young trees to six or eight inches in the rows,' and cultivate well the first summer. Next year transplant into rows four feet apart. Please tell me through your valuale paper how to plant and cultivate and manage a raspberry patch for market use. Also where to get good plants at reasonable price; what distance apart to plant? How and when to prune, how to cnltivate, etc? A Subscriber. Apply to any of the fruit growers who advertise with us for plants. They are not expensive. They should be set about four feet apart in rows five feet wide. Cultivate with cultivator and harrow three or four times the first season. Ask us about pruning later. You do not need that information till next season. I notice in the Farmer of March Sth. you say that alfalfa seed can be bought for $2.25 per bu. will you please tell me where it can be had for t-at. I would also like to know how long lt takes red kidney beans to mature, now they should be planted and if they are a profitable cr-.? ... _, A Subscriber. Hamilton Co. The price given for alfalfa seed was a typographical error. Any of our seed advertisers can quote you prices per pound, and bushel. Write to them. 2. It depends on quality of soils. If rich they mature about same as other like varieties, and yield well. 'T*"hat ls the best wsy to get rid of tbe stslks in a corn field, for breaking; np in tbe spring? How wonld you make a permanent pasture out of a field that ls now in timothy sod? I want it in blue grass, or blue grass and white clover. Adams Oo. F. D. B. The quickest way to get rid ot the stalks is ta drag the field with a heavy rail or pole, forwards and back, when the ground is frozen, and then raked into Piles and burn them. Bnt that is wasteful, and we hope yon will run a lolling cutter over thom, and turn them under with a big breaking plow. Prepare your timothy field as soon as it is possible to do it well. The ground must be thoroughly pulverized and harrowed down smooth. Then there ought to be no trouble in getting a good stand of bine grass on it. We wuuld not advise you to mix white clover with it. A good s*t in blue gras3 is all you need. I have IS acres of new ground that was ln corn last year. It is stumpy and I want lt for pasture this summer. What must I sow, and how mnch per acre, for hogs and cattle? My plan ls to bow oats, rye and clover. Fountain Co. A Subscriber. Don't plow the ground; work it up shallow with disk harrow or cultivator, Drill 1J,4 bushels oats to thle acre, or broadcast it and harrow lightly. Follow with ten it and harrow lightly. Follow with 10 lbs., clover seed, lightly brushed or harrowed ever grew from Indiana, and Illinois saod, 50 to 70 bushels per acre. National Horse Thief Detective Aee'n. To the Officers and Members of tbe respective Detective Companies of the N. H. T. D. A. A resolution was passed at the Grand Annual 'at Richmond, authorizing the Grand Organizer to make an arrangement with the publishers of the Indiana Farmer, whereby the losses and matters of general interest to the members pertaining to the doings of the N. H. T. D. A., and the local companies may be printed in a certain column of the paper. The Indiana Farmer will therefore give free publication to items and articles of interest received from the members. I would suggest that the secretary of each associa- ■____________*-*g-T-^^ ' I Iff If-11 *fe-tf!<_&U __==-*r ? fc - -,_-______•_*** -.*-*_■ asstiS__K_^. m *-*_*<--«s^ Indiana Building, at W orld's Fair, St. Louis. in. All this must be done early, just as soon as the ground will do to work. Some timothy added to the clover will help. Do uot pasture the clover too close in dry weather, especially by hogs, and while pasturing the oats watch the hogs to see if they are injuring the yonng clover. We do not see how you are going to work rye and oats together. If rye is put in, 1.5. bushels per acre, early in September it will furnish late CaU and early spring pasture, and you can add clover to it in the spring, but for this season your best plan probably will be to depend on oats and clover, and in order to have the best possible chance for a stand of clover, plant early, the earlier thi? better, and plant while the ground is fresh and mellow from the harrow. tion act-as a correspondent -thereof or select another in his stead. Let the items and articles be condensed and the thought plainly expressed. We hope the members will take advantage of this offer and will cordially respond to the kind offer of the Indiana Farmer Company in this matter. S. D. Anglin, Grand Organizer. I have a patch of catalpas, 4 to 5 feet high. ITnd I. better cut them off at the ground this spring,? or let them grow? I hare some black lJKUst seed I want to plant; bad I better plant them in nur.ery rows and transplant them, or plant them where I want them to grow? What time had I better plant them, and must the seed be scalded? W. K. W. Shelby Co. We can see no advantage in cutting the Catalpas at the ground., Trim them ;>nd let them grow. Sow the locust seed at one-, after scalding them, in rows two fleet apart. Cultivate and thin to eight or ten inches, and next year transplant to rows fonr feet apart. Locusts suffer from borers of late years, so that they are being abandoned for post timber. ' Yon must prepare to fight the borer, or you will fail. . Urich Low, Carrollton, Indiana:—Yes, a large nnmber of Indiana readers of the Farmer for several years past have grown good acreages of corn th*-y obtained in Iowa, which yielded as large as any they About Alfalfa Again. Editors Indiana Farmer: I uvtice that you refer to my letters of February 13 and March 5, 1904, for answers to alfalfa inquiries, and that you state that alfalfa seed sells at $2.25 per I bushel! I would like- to buy a few carloads, at that price, if seed is free from buck horn. I can Curnish good seed, free from weed seeds, at $10 per bnshel, bags included; but would say beware of seed that has buck horn in it, as a gift. Would say in reply to the question of S. H., Edgar Co., 111., "Do we need alfalfa in our bnsiness?" That we certainly do. . I would not try to farm high priced land, if I could not raise alfalfa [ and pure blood cattle. S. H. asks if "Al- ! falfa would take the place of, or be any I>etter than blnegrass." "Wouldn'J it be I better than little red clover in preparing 'soil for corn?" "Is it any better than oler^r or timothy as pasture, or when cured for hay?" I answer yes,-to all these questions. I mean to plow up eight or ten acres of fine bine grass sod this f-pring. and sow to alfalfa, simply to get the land in alfalfa and bluegrass, both for pasture. Bluegrass is a shallow feeder while alfalfa roots very deeply, thr_s, the on.> does not interfere with the other and you will have fine pasture, even in droughts, while blnegrass is dead and parched, and ss you have blnegrass in your alfalfa, there is not so much danger of bloat, as there would be from alfalfa alone. If alfalfa is all right in the West, where it is raised by irrigation, why can it not be raised here, where we do not need irrigation? I find that very little grain is needed with alfalfa hay, and I do not raise corn at all. On my farm of 100 acres, I have no room for corn. I have 50 acres of alfalfa and 50 acres of blue- grass. I buy a little corn 'each year, but my mature Herefords get no grain, iimtil in February and March, when I , feed them some corn and oats. I feed n little grain to calves, even while they are on good pasture. I have never plowed up any alfalfa to put to corn, but I have noticed that the outside row of corn, next to an alfalfa field is taller than the rest of the corn in the field, and it must be caused by the fertility that the alfalfa accumulates from the air and. from great depths in the soil, as, generally, the outside row is thepoorer in the field. J. N. Shirley. The Coming; Season, ltdltors Indiana l**ar___r: - The season for sugar making is about gone and .no .sugar ■ or, sap .for pancakes this year. Early sown wheat is _iII right, late wheat is a failure. No peaches. t Of other fruit it is too soon to predict. This year will be the farmer's picnic, as the deep freezing and the overflowing of all low lands will get away with moles, ground hogs, and countless insects thst prey on all kinds of crops Tne deep freezing and sediment on ground is a grand fertilizer, and one that will tell its own tale the coming sum- . raer. The summer that 'followed the hard winter of 18S0 and 1SS1 was about the hottest of any in the history of tlie State, and in which there were 2t» d:.y. that the temperature reached 100 degrees and over, and one day each of 100, 107, 108 and 11.0 degrees in the shade. H. B. . Indiana Butter. We have before given n.itice that Prof. H. E. Van Norman, of the Purdue Agricultural school is superintendent of the dairy exhibit to be made (by Indiana at the coming St Louis exposition, and has sent out notice to the farmers all over the state asking that every one desiring to offer country butter to be placed in the exhibit shall send in one pound packages of bntter to him at once, at Lafayette, Ind. The purpose of this is to assist prospective exhibitors to bring their product up to the highest standard of excellence. As fast as the packages are sent in, the butter is scored by an expert and the score, together with any criticism or suggestions for bettering the product will be returned to the maker free of expense. The dairy school established by Prof. Vim Norman has already received replies ers over the state who regularly send in samples of their bntter for analysis lias proved successful in raising the standard of /butter made by all the pupils. Professor Van Norman ha salready received replies from shape of the pound. packages from many farmers who contemplate making exhibits. The matter has never been put properly before the public, however, and Professor Van ..orman has appealed to the papers over the state to help him in giving publicity to his scheme.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1904, v. 59, no. 12 (Mar. 19) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA5912 |
Date of Original | 1904 |
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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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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | w£^-\ VOL. LIX. INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH 19, 1904. NO 12. QntKVl UVL& &USTV&C. -Whit Is the best time to sow alfalfa, and will it be all right to sow with oats, how many pounds to the. acre? A Subscriber. Our correspondent will find his enquiries answered on the first page of the Indiana Farmer of __arch 5th. I hate several dozen Gladioli bulbs snd Ma- deria Tine tubers, and a few Cans bulbs, and vhlle they last I will Rive a few each to farmer's wires and daughters w1» will send stamps to pay postage snd packing. : Shirley. Mrs. C. E. Byrtcet. Who wants them? 1 bave a pasture of timothy and red clover, white cloycr, red top and June grass. Is this pasture bett.fr than a timothy and red clover pasture) M. S. It is considered good pasti re, but nothing is quite equal to blue grass, where t_>e latter will grow. » Can any of the readers of the Indiana Farmer inform we where I can buy metal bands for marking turkeys. They are for fastening aronnd the leg. T. C. A. I_afayette. Some one should advertise these in our columns., >''...■* Please tell me through the Indiana Farmer where I can get the seed of Alfalfa, snd the price of It; also tell how much to bow per acre? Warren Co. J. T. , In your copies of the Farmer for a month past you will find a full discussion ot tlie subject.. - i 1. W'jn a bull breed that ls a twin calf, whose mate was a heifer? 2. How long after sale of a registered calf can transfer be made to puchaser of same by association? C. 1. Yes, but the heifers are ffreemartins and do not breed. 2. Any time the certificates of transfer are presented. Please state bow to plant catalpa seed and replant t_e trees? A. W. riainville. You can start the plants in nice, mellow, sandy soil, in rows a foot or 15 inches apart. Thin the young trees to six or eight inches in the rows,' and cultivate well the first summer. Next year transplant into rows four feet apart. Please tell me through your valuale paper how to plant and cultivate and manage a raspberry patch for market use. Also where to get good plants at reasonable price; what distance apart to plant? How and when to prune, how to cnltivate, etc? A Subscriber. Apply to any of the fruit growers who advertise with us for plants. They are not expensive. They should be set about four feet apart in rows five feet wide. Cultivate with cultivator and harrow three or four times the first season. Ask us about pruning later. You do not need that information till next season. I notice in the Farmer of March Sth. you say that alfalfa seed can be bought for $2.25 per bu. will you please tell me where it can be had for t-at. I would also like to know how long lt takes red kidney beans to mature, now they should be planted and if they are a profitable cr-.? ... _, A Subscriber. Hamilton Co. The price given for alfalfa seed was a typographical error. Any of our seed advertisers can quote you prices per pound, and bushel. Write to them. 2. It depends on quality of soils. If rich they mature about same as other like varieties, and yield well. 'T*"hat ls the best wsy to get rid of tbe stslks in a corn field, for breaking; np in tbe spring? How wonld you make a permanent pasture out of a field that ls now in timothy sod? I want it in blue grass, or blue grass and white clover. Adams Oo. F. D. B. The quickest way to get rid ot the stalks is ta drag the field with a heavy rail or pole, forwards and back, when the ground is frozen, and then raked into Piles and burn them. Bnt that is wasteful, and we hope yon will run a lolling cutter over thom, and turn them under with a big breaking plow. Prepare your timothy field as soon as it is possible to do it well. The ground must be thoroughly pulverized and harrowed down smooth. Then there ought to be no trouble in getting a good stand of bine grass on it. We wuuld not advise you to mix white clover with it. A good s*t in blue gras3 is all you need. I have IS acres of new ground that was ln corn last year. It is stumpy and I want lt for pasture this summer. What must I sow, and how mnch per acre, for hogs and cattle? My plan ls to bow oats, rye and clover. Fountain Co. A Subscriber. Don't plow the ground; work it up shallow with disk harrow or cultivator, Drill 1J,4 bushels oats to thle acre, or broadcast it and harrow lightly. Follow with ten it and harrow lightly. Follow with 10 lbs., clover seed, lightly brushed or harrowed ever grew from Indiana, and Illinois saod, 50 to 70 bushels per acre. National Horse Thief Detective Aee'n. To the Officers and Members of tbe respective Detective Companies of the N. H. T. D. A. A resolution was passed at the Grand Annual 'at Richmond, authorizing the Grand Organizer to make an arrangement with the publishers of the Indiana Farmer, whereby the losses and matters of general interest to the members pertaining to the doings of the N. H. T. D. A., and the local companies may be printed in a certain column of the paper. The Indiana Farmer will therefore give free publication to items and articles of interest received from the members. I would suggest that the secretary of each associa- ■____________*-*g-T-^^ ' I Iff If-11 *fe-tf!<_&U __==-*r ? fc - -,_-______•_*** -.*-*_■ asstiS__K_^. m *-*_*<--«s^ Indiana Building, at W orld's Fair, St. Louis. in. All this must be done early, just as soon as the ground will do to work. Some timothy added to the clover will help. Do uot pasture the clover too close in dry weather, especially by hogs, and while pasturing the oats watch the hogs to see if they are injuring the yonng clover. We do not see how you are going to work rye and oats together. If rye is put in, 1.5. bushels per acre, early in September it will furnish late CaU and early spring pasture, and you can add clover to it in the spring, but for this season your best plan probably will be to depend on oats and clover, and in order to have the best possible chance for a stand of clover, plant early, the earlier thi? better, and plant while the ground is fresh and mellow from the harrow. tion act-as a correspondent -thereof or select another in his stead. Let the items and articles be condensed and the thought plainly expressed. We hope the members will take advantage of this offer and will cordially respond to the kind offer of the Indiana Farmer Company in this matter. S. D. Anglin, Grand Organizer. I have a patch of catalpas, 4 to 5 feet high. ITnd I. better cut them off at the ground this spring,? or let them grow? I hare some black lJKUst seed I want to plant; bad I better plant them in nur.ery rows and transplant them, or plant them where I want them to grow? What time had I better plant them, and must the seed be scalded? W. K. W. Shelby Co. We can see no advantage in cutting the Catalpas at the ground., Trim them ;>nd let them grow. Sow the locust seed at one-, after scalding them, in rows two fleet apart. Cultivate and thin to eight or ten inches, and next year transplant to rows fonr feet apart. Locusts suffer from borers of late years, so that they are being abandoned for post timber. ' Yon must prepare to fight the borer, or you will fail. . Urich Low, Carrollton, Indiana:—Yes, a large nnmber of Indiana readers of the Farmer for several years past have grown good acreages of corn th*-y obtained in Iowa, which yielded as large as any they About Alfalfa Again. Editors Indiana Farmer: I uvtice that you refer to my letters of February 13 and March 5, 1904, for answers to alfalfa inquiries, and that you state that alfalfa seed sells at $2.25 per I bushel! I would like- to buy a few carloads, at that price, if seed is free from buck horn. I can Curnish good seed, free from weed seeds, at $10 per bnshel, bags included; but would say beware of seed that has buck horn in it, as a gift. Would say in reply to the question of S. H., Edgar Co., 111., "Do we need alfalfa in our bnsiness?" That we certainly do. . I would not try to farm high priced land, if I could not raise alfalfa [ and pure blood cattle. S. H. asks if "Al- ! falfa would take the place of, or be any I>etter than blnegrass." "Wouldn'J it be I better than little red clover in preparing 'soil for corn?" "Is it any better than oler^r or timothy as pasture, or when cured for hay?" I answer yes,-to all these questions. I mean to plow up eight or ten acres of fine bine grass sod this f-pring. and sow to alfalfa, simply to get the land in alfalfa and bluegrass, both for pasture. Bluegrass is a shallow feeder while alfalfa roots very deeply, thr_s, the on.> does not interfere with the other and you will have fine pasture, even in droughts, while blnegrass is dead and parched, and ss you have blnegrass in your alfalfa, there is not so much danger of bloat, as there would be from alfalfa alone. If alfalfa is all right in the West, where it is raised by irrigation, why can it not be raised here, where we do not need irrigation? I find that very little grain is needed with alfalfa hay, and I do not raise corn at all. On my farm of 100 acres, I have no room for corn. I have 50 acres of alfalfa and 50 acres of blue- grass. I buy a little corn 'each year, but my mature Herefords get no grain, iimtil in February and March, when I , feed them some corn and oats. I feed n little grain to calves, even while they are on good pasture. I have never plowed up any alfalfa to put to corn, but I have noticed that the outside row of corn, next to an alfalfa field is taller than the rest of the corn in the field, and it must be caused by the fertility that the alfalfa accumulates from the air and. from great depths in the soil, as, generally, the outside row is thepoorer in the field. J. N. Shirley. The Coming; Season, ltdltors Indiana l**ar___r: - The season for sugar making is about gone and .no .sugar ■ or, sap .for pancakes this year. Early sown wheat is _iII right, late wheat is a failure. No peaches. t Of other fruit it is too soon to predict. This year will be the farmer's picnic, as the deep freezing and the overflowing of all low lands will get away with moles, ground hogs, and countless insects thst prey on all kinds of crops Tne deep freezing and sediment on ground is a grand fertilizer, and one that will tell its own tale the coming sum- . raer. The summer that 'followed the hard winter of 18S0 and 1SS1 was about the hottest of any in the history of tlie State, and in which there were 2t» d:.y. that the temperature reached 100 degrees and over, and one day each of 100, 107, 108 and 11.0 degrees in the shade. H. B. . Indiana Butter. We have before given n.itice that Prof. H. E. Van Norman, of the Purdue Agricultural school is superintendent of the dairy exhibit to be made (by Indiana at the coming St Louis exposition, and has sent out notice to the farmers all over the state asking that every one desiring to offer country butter to be placed in the exhibit shall send in one pound packages of bntter to him at once, at Lafayette, Ind. The purpose of this is to assist prospective exhibitors to bring their product up to the highest standard of excellence. As fast as the packages are sent in, the butter is scored by an expert and the score, together with any criticism or suggestions for bettering the product will be returned to the maker free of expense. The dairy school established by Prof. Vim Norman has already received replies ers over the state who regularly send in samples of their bntter for analysis lias proved successful in raising the standard of /butter made by all the pupils. Professor Van Norman ha salready received replies from shape of the pound. packages from many farmers who contemplate making exhibits. The matter has never been put properly before the public, however, and Professor Van ..orman has appealed to the papers over the state to help him in giving publicity to his scheme. |
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