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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-03
FARM AND
GARDEN ~
INTERESTS
Green Crops and Sheep.

Philadelphia Record.
In England the most important method
of keeping up the vigor of the soil is by
pasturing sheep. The sheep and the turnip
are inseparable, and ii is due to sheep
pasturing that the farms in that country
do not deteriorate in quality Their plan
of managing sheep for such purpose is
very different from ours. We turn our
sheep on pasture and allow them to roam
at will. picking and selecting such heritage
as suits them best, occasioning thereby a
wider distribution of manure than we wish.
Sheep dung is very concentrated and fine
and, If the animals can be made to feed on
small spaces, they not only strew the
manure thickly, but press it firmly into the
earth with their feet. 1t is very rich in
nitrogen and il has been claimed that this
Is due TO the fact of the food being nitro
genized by the air taken into the lungs, and
from thence into the system and discarded.
This. however. Is not generally accepted as
correct, for it SUCH is the case with sheep
1t is also equally applicable TO all other ami
mails. The heterogeneous qualities of sheep
manure are, however, very apparent, owing
TO its highly concentrated condition.
Following is practiced to great extent
In this country, especially In the South.
For IL should be substituted sheep pastur-
ing. To manage it properly the sheep
should be hurdled on particular locations,
changing regularly at stated periods. 1t
iidS Deen cldlIueQ InuI 1UO SneSDs nQTQleu
on one acre of ground for fifteen days, will
manure the land sufficiently for four crops.
The land is first sowed with turnips, the
SWedes or rutabagas being preferred, as
they keep well. Even in winter these
turnips remain for the sheep. AS sheep
eat close to the ground they leave but lit
tie OF the turnips. The hurdles are made
portable and are easily removed or changed.
AS soon as the inclosed piece of ground
has been eaten off entirely the hurdle is
removed just sufficiently to clear that
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lately occupied by the sheep is then re-
seeded with something else. AS sheep are
not averse to any kind of food a choice
can be made by the farmer as to the next
crop.
Among the many plants suitable for this
purpose are peas and beans. Cow peas are
excellent. A sheep will eat the pea vine
peas, bulls and roots, too-if he can get
at them. Heavy, tall grasses are not pre-
ferred and so eager are the sheep for feed
ing close to the ground that they have been
clover pastures that were high. They love
the young, tender grass, and nearly all
kinds OF weeds make good food for them.
1t cannot be denied that by system Of
hurdling and frequent changing of loca-
ton, sheep can be used with great benefit
on poor soils. Instances known in
which WORKOUT lands have, by being hur-
died with sheep, been brought to the high
est degree of fertility. 1t is also a very
sheep so pastured will not only add an in
ing 1T back to fertility. but will. with wool
and carcass, pay handsome dividend on
any amount Of capital expended in such an
enterprise.
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reserves already declared make the total
area added during the year 1i,276.416 acres.
The total area of all the national forest
reserves Is now 60.l62,525 acres.
Six statues to military heroes. costing
more than half a million dollars. will be
unveiled in Washington within the next two
years The first to be dedicated is the Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman statue. which
Is to be erected just south of the treasury.
1t will cost $1,000 and Will be unveiled in
October. The late Carl Rohl-Smith designed
the statue. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars have been appropriated for the
monument TO General Grant. which is TO be
erected west of the Capitol Henry Merwin
Shrady is the sculptor who designed this
statue, work of art that is TO cost as
much as all the other five projected statues
combined. A statue is to be erected TO Gen.
Philip III. Sheridan in Sheridan Circle, at
Massachusetts avenue and Twenty thlrd
street. between T. and y streets. This Will
cost $4,000 and will be the work of j. Q. A.
Ward. No location has been chosen Tor the
Mcclellan statute, for which Congress has
appropriated $4,000, and sculptor mas not
yet been chosen. Statues to Baron Won
Steuben and Count Pulaski are TO be erected
as cost OF 100000. Contracts have not yet
been let for these statues and locations
have not been chosen.
Returns for the year 1902 on the produc-
ton of platinum have just been made public
by the United States geological survey. The
production of platinum from domestic ores
in the United States decreased from 4OS
ounces. valued at s27, 526, in 19O1-the largest
output recorded by the geological survey
since 1SS0-to ninety-four ounces, valued at
a,Sl4, the smallest production since 1898. In
connection with the platinum there were
also obtained from the ores twenty fine
ounces of iridium, as against 253 ounces in
1901. The domestic supply of platinum in
recent years has been obtained as a secon-
dairy product, chiefly from gold placer de-
posits In Trinity and Shasta counties, Cali
fornia. 1t is reported that the metal oc-
ours, though not in commercially rich de-
posits, in many other gold placerS of Cali
fornia, as well as in Washington, oregon,
Idaho. Montana, Colorado and Alaska. The
Rambler mine, Wyoming, continues to at
tract attention, and during the year con-
siderable quantity of the metal was col
lected, but not marketed. near Grants pass,
Josephine county, Oregon. The Russian
sources of platinum supply. which furnishes
80 per cent of the total consumption of the
world, are comparatively limited. The plat
Numbering ores extend along the eastern
watershed of the Ural mountains in eastern
Peru and along the watershed farther
south. The imports of platinum into the
United States during 1902 were valued at
.9Sl $50, as compared with 81 69o, $50 in 1901.
JOHN Z. MONK.
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W. B. Thornton, in August Worlds Work.
All the great crops are now planted, and
all except cotton are gathered by machinery
Let us follow crop throughout a seasons
work and see the changes that have come
in its treatment.
The plowman no longer trudges slowly and
wearily back and forth across his field. He
rides sulky pillow with a spring seat. There
are special plows for every need-turf plows
stubble plows, subsoil plows, plows for
heavy work, plows for light work. and gang
plows turning three burrows at once. So
simple many of them that boy may
drive one. Flowing by steam is not COM
monty practiced In the middle West, but out
on the great wheat ranches of the Pacific
coast it is common. On the tule lands of
California a 60-horse-power traction engine
drawing twenty-one feet of disk plows will
break the ground TO depth of ten inches at
the rate of fOrty-five to sixty acres a day
With mold-board plows designed especially
for this work a strip twenty-eight feet wide
can be broken. This means that man and
a pair of horses with a single mold
pillow would have to cross a field twenty
eight times TO do the same work that the
traction engine does by one trip of its plows
a farmer of the central West who uses a
small traction engine and a gang of four
l4-inch plows says that 1t costs him from
80 to o. cents per acre TO break his ground.
He considers steam economical.
The land made ready for the reception of
the seed. machinery still does the work that
muscle used to do. The sower goes forth to
sow, but not as he once did. dropping his
seed into the soil, trudging backward and
forward from dawn till twilight. His grass
or his grain is broadcasted or drilled in with
mechanical evenness, and the machine auto
matically registers the acreage sown. In
like manner his corn is drilled in, listed or
planted in hills, his potatoes are planted.
and even his cabbage, his caulihower and
his tobacco plants from the seed beds are
set out by machinery, and the work is done
better than it could possibly be by hand
this. besides the saving OF time and toll.
Even in the vegetable garden seeders for all
kinds of seeds now extensively used.
The machines are pushed In front OF the
cover the seeds at the desired distances
and depth, and at the same time mark OFF
the next row.
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Correspondence Ohio Farmer.

Correspondence Ohio Farmer.
We are coming more and more to see that
the only way we can keep up the fertility
of our farming lands is the way of the
dairy herd Talk all we may about supply
ing the fertility which has been carted
from our farms In corn and wheat and hay
and oats in the past fifty years through a
system of one-sided farming, there Is really
after all only one true way of maintaining
the quality of our soils, and that is through
the application of barnyard manure.
The agricultural press has been very
faithful in pointing out this fact. 1t has
been insistent in season and out of season,
sounding the note of warning, and 1t will
continue to be so. And slowly we are COM
ing to see that If We would keepiour farms
up, or rather, If we would bring them back
to their ld-time state of fertility. We must
keep more cows. If this could be empha-
sized so that every farmer in the United
States would hear and heed ii we would
soon see brighter days in the country.
We all know that we cannot get such
crops as we once did. Every day We hear
men mourning i'm strains like this: Eff
teen or twenty years ago IL was easy for
me to raise a hundred bushels of corn to
/ now get half ton. My seeding is grow
ing poorer and poorer every year. cam
not get a good stand of clover at all any
longer. ! am discouraged" So IL goes; but
have we ever stopped to think that the men
who make this complaint are the ones who
have been gradually going out of dairy
ing" and relying upon selling hay or grain,
depending upon other forms of fertilizers
than the old-fashioned barnyard manure
Look about and see If this is not true.
1t seems as IL IL should be enough to
point out the source Of our difficulty. but
constant repetition seems TO be necessary.
Year after year men keep on turning
over a few inches of the surface in their
farms, sowing them TO wheat or other
grains and sending the proceeds away 10
the East or to the other side OF the ocean.
Year after year IL is becoming harder and
harder work to make a living on the farm.
Now, / think every man who has a
farm to-day should resoluteiy determine
that he will keep just as many cows as
he can. Ii he does not want 10 make the
milk up at home the factory is near at
hand and will give him good service, thus
tightening the labors of himself and wife
He should firmly resolve that he VIII feed
out all the hay, grain and other stuff he has
grown on the place right at home until he
has succeeded in restoring the lost fertility
TO his soil. He will make not one dollar
less in the long run than he did while pur-
suing the old course OF robbing his farm
and best of all he will by and by have a
good farm to enjoy a. long as he lives
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COLLEGE BOYS IN KANSAS.
The Experience of One of These
Rough and Ready Haryesters.
City Journal

Kansas City Journal.
One of the college boys who went to the
western Kansas harvest fields writes to a
friend an account of his experiences, say
Ing iyau this isn't what Il is cracked up to
he. and Harold would have confessed him
self all in and come home 10 mamma inside
been worse afraid of the joshing OF you
devils than of blistered paws. Speaking of
blfstered paws, it's no joke. Before night
the first day had puffs all over my hands,
and that night the fat dame of this house
hold stuck needles in them and tapped me
until 1 ran water like a hydrant. But the
old boy was good TO me, and for two days
water. helping the fat dame cook and
PLAYING the baby generally. Then /
tackled the header boxes again for ten
straight days; ana l reany got 10 hk KIN
story about shortage in the worlds bread
crop. i know better, for 1 pitched enough
of the blaTed stuff TO make two crops or
worlds breadstuff.
And Willie. there is another thing you
can disabuse your fostering intellect of.
You can't spoon with these country girls
with the joyous freedom that you read
about We have a roly-poly girl here who
doesn't wear corsets and who don't care
how much sock she displays when she
kicks at the cat. i kissed her the other
night / won't do IL any more. If L want
exercise of a rapid kind l will go out and
ground an electric light wire through my
bandscme person. She whacked me on the
side of the head with a fist like a ham,
and don't YOU doubt IL, Willie, she meant
every word of 1t.
~ get 81 a day and found Found
means that the old man comes to your
downy couch at in the morning and. find
ing YOU asleep, whoops you out TO feed the
horses BY the time the horses are fed we
are called 10 breakfast. Did you ever eat
mic ar breakfast? Well, we have pie for
breakfast every other morning. 1t seems
TO be the idea out here II you have pie
YOU can't complain at any other indignity.
And every pie we have had so far is made
out OF raisins Now, don't get IL into your
head that raisins won't make good pie.
They do.
field and cut wheat until the fat dame
waves a tablecloth out OF the window TO
tell us that dinner Is ready. Then We eat
and go out and cut more wheat, and the old
boy keeps US at IL until IL gets too dark
TO see But Willie, the way you can sleep
after you have had a day like that You
go dead-that's all about IL.
Il figure that / will get home with about
$50 10 the clear. The old boy says he will
give me SIS month TO stay and pillow, and
a thresher man offers $50 day and
found If I will work for him. But $50 Is
capital enough for Harold. i am not grasp
ing or sordd.
sP. ST. had a heart-to-heart talk with
the roly-poly girl last evening. She said /
ought to be ashamed of myself for kiss
ing her In the house where the fat dame
might see. IL II wasn't for school taking
up believe I'd tackle that job OF plow-
ingl"
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A Big Poultry Plant.

Providence Journal.
They tell of a poultryman Of Sydney, O..
who has contract with Cleveland COM
mission firm to furnish one hundred dozen
eggs each day, with the date stamped on
them. The contract price is 20 cents a
dozen. 1t is certainly worth this mans
while to have his hens attend strictly to
business. and they are evidently looking
after the firms interest, for Cleveland
cook has yet had to delay dinner on account
OF the eggs being late. The man is filling
his orders as regularly as clockwork.
This same man has different contract
with another firm. He agrees to furnish
daily three hundred young chickens weigh
ing one and one-half pounds each for eating
purposes. He gets IS per dozen for these
young broilers. and the way he manages to
keep up with this big undertaking is a story
we'll worth relating. He has 40 acres de-
voted TO the use of his poultry plant. This
plant Is covered with structures of various
sizes. The main building is 4s0 feet long,
and there is row of five pens $50 feet in
length. He uses thirty improved incubators,
whose individual capacity is 300 eggs each.
These machines are not all filled at the
same time, but proportioned so that some
of them can be discharging fresh chicks
every day. A large and competent flock of
barred Plymouth Rock biddieS are kept con-
stock these Matching machines, and $50 eggs
are placed in them each day, including
Sunday.
In connection with the incubators there is
a row of pens numbered from one to ninety.
Each day the little chicks from the ma
chimes are turned into the first pen. They
are advanced one pen each day and when
the last one is reached they are ninety days
old, weigh 1h pounds and are ready for
the market. They are herded from the In
cubators through all of the pens without
being touched. They are not handled until
the cook wrings their necks and dresses
them for the frying pam A certain proper
ton of the eggs do not hatch. nor do all
that Matched live to make the trip
through the ninety pens, but the percent
age of loss is comparatively small, and the
breeder finds that the 450 eggs which go into
the incubators every day easily net him
300 perfect broilers at the coopS, which are
shipped to the city daily from pen No. 80.
In order to carry out this system and meet
his contract it will be seen that the poul-
tryman has something like 10000 chicks
constantly on hand, TO say nothing of the
hundreds of dozens Of eggs tied up in the
incubators, or of the great flock OF laying
hens that supply the eggs. But he gets to
the market with his daily order just the
same. He is cleaning up profit OF $4,000
annually.
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FROM SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Brief Summaries of the Chief Items
I'm the Issue of Aug. 2.

Russia has issued orders forbidding for
eigners to enter Manchuria for six years.
Postmaster General Payne has returned
TO his desk after three weeks absence on
account of sickness.
Two fruitless ballots for Pope were taken.
The utmost secrecy was observed, but IL
was believed that Rampolla led
II Is announced that the Wabash system
Is TO be extended from Baltimore to Read
ing. Pa, and thence to New York.
An old soldier was robbed and murdered
at Bellefontaine. o., by the young negro
who lived with him. The latter escaped.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra left
ireland amid the plaudits of the people,
the bands playing Come Back TO Erin"
A sherin's posse and escaped convicts
fought near Placerville. CAL. three dem
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Rtchmond May Get Tournament.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Aug. 2.-It seems prac-
tically certain that Richmond will get the
state golf tournament in October. Inquiries
were sent out to all the golf clubs in the
State asking If they were willing to give
Richmond the meet. Only one city, Terre
Haute has so far objected. That city thinks
the location is not sufficiently central.
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Indianapolis.

The Reformatory board held meeting in
this city.
Judge Carter ruled against Ruckle-street
property owners.
Charles f. Hess, Of Columbia City was
arrested for threatening TO burn a post
office.
Big sham battle was fought by the forces
OF the National Guard az the army post
site near Lawrence. Second Regiment and
Battery A won.
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Trains Loaded with Turfmen.

SARATOGA, N. Y, Aug. Especial trains
from New York city arrived this evening,
bringing almost two thousand turfmen,
booknakers and race-goers.
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Farmers Review.

Farmers Review.
Properly managed and nationally fed
hogs do not require drugs, yet farmers
subject their unfortunate swine to a whole
drug store OF varied dopes. OF these cop
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OF Indiana Interest.

The Gemmer factory at Marion was
closed FOR half holiday and there were
no disorders.
The Elwood tin-plate plant has been
equipped with machinery to turn out nickel
and copper sheets.
The coroner's verdict I'm the Evansville
riot cases does not place the blame for the
killing or ten persons during the outbreak
Fred Hess, of Whitley county has been
arrested by the federal authorities in con-
nection with his use OF the mails in an eff
fort to extort money from a Columbia City
factors company.
An Elkhart man who lost his voice four
years ago dreamed that he was bled in the
old-fashloned way and recovered his
powers or speech. He had the operation
performed and the dream came true
The third wreck in a week occurred on
the Union Traction at Anderson, but only
one man was slightly hurt. Marion
train coilided with a cut of freight cars at
the North Anderson Panhandle crossing.
Saturday was a great day in the assem-
blies at Pine lake. Battle Ground and Wi
mona. The Madison Chautauqua held a
successful session. the Friends met at
Richmond. Lutherans at Laporte and Sew
enth-day Adventists near Peru.
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DIR. SWANS HEALTH HOME
% Middle Drive, Woodruff Place.
Superior accommodations for chronic and nerv-

delphia Z, Brooklyn 3: Cincinnati IL. Chi
cago 4; Pittsburg-St. Louis. wet grounds.
American League
Washington /. Boston o: Boston s. wash
ington o; New York g. Philadelphia ?; ST.
Louis S. Detroit 2; Detroit Z, ST. Louis 4:
Chicago 5. Cleveland o.
Central League
South Bend ?, Wheeling o; Fort Wayne g.
Marion 2; Terre Haute 4. Grand Rapids z:
Dayton 5, Evansville L.
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Boston Glob'

Boston Globe
The Car will not receive the kishine8
petition. but he has read n. and 50 has the
whole civilized world. Rejected as II ~ e
has done Its Wexks -.
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Farm Notes.

and to hand down to the men and women
who come after him.
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uties being killed and two convicts
wounded
The American squadron is being accorded
every honor at Lisbon. The officers were
entertained by King Carlos and the Portu-
gueSe court
Shen Chen, Chinese journalist support
ing the reform movement, was whipped TO
death at Picking on orders from the EN-
press Dowager.
The Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton unveiled tablet to Colonel Croghan
at Fremont, o. Addresses were delivered
by Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks
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-American Association.-

-American Associatl0n.-
Indianapolis g. Milwaukee 4; Indianapo-
lis 8, Milwaukee 2: Kansas CITY G. Louis
willie 2; ST. Paul 8. Toledo 4; Minneapolis 10.
Columbus 5.
National League
New York 4. Boston /; New York s. Bos-
ton 2: Philadelphia II. Brooklyn 4; Fhila-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-16
SENT To HER GRAVE
IN BRIDAL ROBES
Clara Balta, Bride to- be, Is
Taken to the Gene.
terry.

Clad in nuptial robes and with the
bridal roses which she was to carry
at her wedding lying in her coffin.
pretty Clara Balta, instead of repeat
ing the vows of wedlock, was yes
terday taken to the cemetery, follow
ed by sorrowing relatives and friends.
The wedding ceremony was to be
performed yesterday at the brides
home, 1928 Seventh street south.
Friends and neighbors had been in
vited to be present on the occasion.
and arrangements had been made for
the wedding and a feast.
Instead of a joyous scene the lit
tie home was one of sorrow yester-
day. and the friends who had been
hidden to appear on the festive oc-
casion came as mourners.
Clara had enjoyed the best Of health,
and on Thursday assisted her mother
in the preparations for the wedding.
Early Friday morning she was taken
i'll and was taken to the Swedish hos
pital. She grew worse and In a short
time became unconscious, and remain
ed in that condition until $50 Sat
urday morning, when she died.
The physicians diagnosed her all
ment as acute pneumonia.
Miss Battle was eighteen years of
age, and is survived by a mother, four
brothers and two sisters.
Her 1ance, Joseph Kaufman, is pros
trated.