The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-02-22
what the Farmers Home should BE.

From Hon. Paul A. Chadbourne's Paper Read at
the Massachusetts, state Board Meeting.l
see, or think see, great probabilities in
the farmers life yet to be reached. Agricul-
ture is now, and must from the nature of
the case, ever remain the employment of a
great mass OF people in this world. They
can not live on the products of the mine or
mill. 1t is of the utmost importance that
the great mass of humanity connected with
farm life should be able to secure the best
possible conditions for human development
and enjoyment The home is the center of
life, and the farmers home we wish to i'm
prove-to carry on more rapidly and intelli-
gently that good work that has been going
on for the past fifty years. When pictpring
the farmers life of the future We must re-
member that we live in an age of invention
and discovery, and some new element may
come in of which we at present know moth
ing. There must be food for all, and such
variety of food as will call for q great
amount of hand labor; and there must be
material for clothing, wool and cotton.
These come from the field.
The question then arises, Is the tendency
in the future to be division of land into
small farms, or a swallowing up of small
farms into large estates? Great estates must
fall to pieces. The tendency North and
South is to small farms; as diversified in
dustry increases, and diversified crops are
called for. those that require an increase of
hand labor. The,time is coming, though per-
haps q long y off, when the surplus pro-
duct of our land Sill come from a multitude
of small farms, representing pleasant,
thrifty homes, instead Of from great planta.
tons representa- nothing but land-robbing
and unsettled, wandering wage labor And
the products of our soil will be more and
more consumed in our landas new branches
of manufacturing spring up to supply the
material now purchased abroad. Hence we
ask, what can be done to make homes what
they ought 10 be?
The first thing we want to see prominent
on every farm Is that its chief end is home,
and that those for whom all Others are sim
ply conditions are men and women. We
counsel the owners OF farms to see that the
fruits are the best that can be raised, that
he animals are of tn best breeds; but we
want above all that every son shall go forth
from the farm house with good education
trained to honest labor, with a sense of his
duty toward his fellow-men. his country and
his God; and every daughter with equal
training, certain then that she will find her
own sphere, through that womanly spirit
implanted in her nature, which needs only
culture and fair chance 10 make her the
blessing to the world which all good women
are.
home so that it be in as healthful locality as
possible As a general rule, the buildings
should be placed on the highest ground of
the farm, if it is easily accessible. If water
can be secured from spring that comes d.
rectly from the deep strata of rocks, somuch
the better. Don't fear the cool breezes.
They will not be half as fatal, at the worst,
as the damp of the valley below, and they
can soon be wonderfully modified by ever
green screens properly placed. Make the
location IS near good neighbors as you can.
Vicinity to school and church is a great ad-
vantage. Let the permanent work of the
farm, the planting of trees, and all other
farm changes, have reference to the ultimate
place OF residence on the farm.
Then let the inside of the house be pleas
ant. It may be small and plain, but let it
show signs Of taste and culture; make the
home pleasant TO your children, and make a
happy childhood for them. Send your chill
dren 10 school and fit them to be citizens,
but never send them to college; let them go
of their own choice believe the farmer
home of the future will continue to i'm
prove. and that it will be q place of honest
labor, of generous culture, the best place to
begin life, good place to spend it.
and the best place for it to come TO a close
The Only entailmeHt OF property we want is
the continuance of the old farmers home.
stead from generation to generation in the
same family, because it is place worthy oil
preservation forts conditions of high physi
cal, intellectual, moral and social life.
More About EnsiIage.
Al the Ensilage Congress, recently held il
New York City, much information was adj
duced in regard to the new method of pre-
serving green fodder.
Mr.. w. NJ. White, of New York said h.
had planted corn with drills in rows thirty
two inches apart, and got eleven tons anC
200 pounds to the acre. He had tried sow
ing broadcast and only got half as much a
by drilling. He cut some of his corn three
eighths OF an inch long and put it in his silo
After that be cut some double that length
The corn that was cut later was not so salts
factory in feeding The corn that was sowe,
latest was most satisfactory when taken on
of the silo. That which was older the cattl
did not like so we'll. He approved of cut
ting the corn in a comparatively green stat
for ensilage. He managed to stow four ton
an hour from the field to the ensilage ri
very comfortably. He had fed as much a
100 pounds day for one ration, but eight
pounds was better. In one case an anims
gained 100 pounds in weight in forty-tw
days He proposed to try a sixty poun
ration.
Mr.. Wright, of New York, described hi
four silos. They were each twelve by fort
feet and sixteen feet deep. They held abou
200 tons and he had filled them in two day
using sixteen men and six twO-horse teams
costing him from thirty to thirty-fv
cents a ton for cutting and put in
the crop in the silo. The crop was corr
planted about thirty-two inches apart II
got about $50 tons out of forty acres an
planted with drills run by horse powe
After he got the crop in the pit he got III
boys o tramp it down, and then put on II
pounds to the square foot. He showed
sample that had kept perfectly we'll
Mr. Wright said further that he had new,
seen any ensilage food like that described b
the inventor, Auguste GOffart, of Franc
which was said TO be perfectly insipid, wit
out perceptibie odOr. He referred to ii
samples present as proof that no such Or
duct had yet been secured by American e,
perimenteTs. He had raised only $50 tor
on forty acres of land, but that was owing
the dry season. The year before be hs
raised fifteen tons to the acre, and sever
acres averaged twenty-five tons each.
did you weigh it2' inquired farmer.
81 did not weigh it. l know how much
was, because l estimated it." said NJ
Wright.
Mr.. G. W. Mills, OF Pompton, n j., gave
long statement, and submitted to protraC
ed cross-suestioning on the subject of an j
dependent discovery which he claims