VOL. LX.
INDIANAPOLIS, APRIL 1,1905.
NO. 13
INDIANA BIRD LAW.
An act for the protection of birds, their
nests and eggs. Approved Mlarcli 5,
1S91.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of tbe State of Indiana,
That it shall be unlawful for any person
to kill any wild bird other than a game
bird, or purchase, offer for sale any such
wild bird after it has been killed, or to
destroy ths nests or eggs of any wild bird.
Sec. '1. For the purpose of this act the
following shall be considered game birds:
The An.itidae, commonly called swans,
geese, brant, and river and sea ducks; the
Ilallidae, commonly known as rails, coots,
mudbens and gallinules; the Limicolae,
commonly known as shore birds,
plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock and sandpipers, tattlers and
curlews the Gallinae, commonly
known as the wild turkeys, grouse
prairie chicken-, quail and pheasants, all of whieh are not intended to be affected by this act.
Sec. 3. Any person violating
the provisions of Section 1 of thia
act shall, upon conviction, be fined
in n slim not less than ten nor
more than fifty dollars, to which
may be added to imprisonment for
not less than five days nor more
than thirty days.
Sec. 4. Section 1 and 2 of this
act shall not apply to any person
holding a permit giving the right
to take birds or their nests and
eggs for scientific purposes, as
provided in Section 5 of this act.
Sec. 5. Permits may be granted
by the Executive Board of the Indiana Academy of Science to any
properly accredited person, permitting the holders thereof  to collect  birds,   tlieir nests  or 	
eggs for strictly scientific purposes. In
order to obtain such permit the applicant
for the same must present to said Board
written testimonials from two well-known
scientific men* certifying to the good character andfitoess ofsaid applieantto be entrusted with such privilege, and pay to
said Board one dollar to defray necessary
expenses attending the granting of such
permit, and must file with said Board a
properly executed bond in the sum of two
hundred dollars, signed by at least two responsible citizens of the State as sureties. The bond shall be forfeited to the
State,and the permit become void upon
proof that the holder of such permit has
killed any bird or taken the nests or eggs
of any bird for any other purpose than
that named in this section-, and shall further be subject for each offense to the
penalities provided in this act.
Sec. C The permits authorized by
this act shall be in force for two years
only from the date of their issue, and
shall not be transferable.
Sec.    7.    The    English    or    European
house sparrow (passer domesticus) crows,
hawks and other birds of prey are not included among the birds protected by this
act.
Sec. 8. All acts or parts of acts heretofore passed in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sec.9. An emergency is declared to
exist for the immediate taking effect of
this act, therefore the same shall be in
force and effect from and after its passage.
and people aud people.
Some say farmers enjoy being humbugged; Barnum said people like to be
humbugged. IIo profited by practicing
the humbuggery, aud it is true, if a pity,
that many unscrupulous manufacturers
and tlueir agents, profit greatly by humbugging the farmers.
About a year ago a cream separator
agent made enough money to enjoy the
St. Isouis exposition in.grand style, or to
use otherwise, in this neighborhood by
selling some of his separators.
These separators were good but were
no better than many advertised to be
shipped direct from the mairufaeturers,
and nothing like so good as the agent pic-
oiight to have known could not he fulfilled. , For instance, no pay until the
fruit was in bearing; then they would buy
half the fruit at good prices; tlie prices
specified 75 cents fror tlire poaches, I believe. They would take half the cost of
the trees ami plants in this way, if purchaser wished; where a sale was a little
slow, they promised to take all tlie pay
in fruit.
The agent certainly possessed hypnotizing power, else why would sensibly, hard
working farmers believe that a linn could
purchase fruit at such prices from so
many different persons? Of a good peach
year how many busbels of peaches ought
to be harvested from 100 trees? and multi-
Fruit Farm on the Columbia Uiver, Wash.
GULLIBILITY.
Kill tors Indians Farmer:
There  are churns and churns,  separators and separators, cows and cows,—yes,
tared them. One great point he made was
in explaining that they were sold on time;
give your note, good security of course,
when necessary, then you could make
quite a little of the cost price off of the
separator before  paying for it.
How long did this item work? Before
leng the purchasers received notice from
different banks that they held a note
against them. Upon investigating they
found the creamery notes had been cashed,
ond the holders wanted the money, or
would require interest. The agents had
no trouble in cashing the notes, for they
knew before accepting the notes that they
wero as good as the money.
They were to furnish all needed repairs free of cost. Our near neighbor
purchased one, and it began leaking soon.
II wrote about the matter several times
to the address given with tlie result of no
answers.
Tho machines were creameries and refrigerators combined, keeping fresh meat
in the hottest weather several days, without ice, ami "it would be as sweet when
wanted as when placed therein."
Did the purchasers believe this? I can't
say; they know bettor now. They are
a handy, convenient piece of farm furniture, if I may so call them, but as good
ones can and could be procured for a
fourth of the money.
The majority of the purchasers in this
neighborhood do not read the advertisements in farm papers very closely; if they
did, perhaps, it would not be such a
snap for agents of such firms.
To make the matter more noticeable, it
had been but a short time since many
were swindled by fruit tree agents; buying in large quantities at exorbitant
prices,   and   under  assurances   that   they
ply this by scores of purchasers (they sold
no less than 100 trees to each person),
Other fruit the same.
They also agreed (written agreement,
all of it), to replace all that died otherwise than through neglect, they to send a
man each spring to prune, and examine
and replace.
How did it work? \A7hen the trees
came to the railroad station it was "no
pay,   no  trees." They     couldn't    help
what that agent sairl, he was dead, and
the firm couldn't act on his agreement,
(the salesman had the notes), so the exorbitant price was paid, the trees received and presumably set out. It is rather
funny. They could have procured as
good trees, just as many as they really
wished, at a third what they gave.
AA'e will all have poaches whenever
those trees begin bearing; they will be too
plentiful to give away.
It isn't this neghborhood alone that is
gullible; that nursery sold its fruit for
miles and miles around here, and this isn't
a very extra region, either.
Since there are so many farmers' toh-
phones through the country, there isn't
quite so much Muffing be done, ftir
outsiders can see the catch whon the inner
circle don't ami by talk over the wire, all
will catch on and be better posted.
The country 'phones are a groat thing
for isolated farm communities. Scarcely
a bouse but h.is a 'phono and connection
with the switch boards, and very, very
seldom is one removed. It will he     n
grand thing when every house is supplied.
Emma  Clearwater.
Edgar Co., 111.
N ■■*. S FOOD.
The culture i q as a special article,
of food has, <r _■ >>utly, received but
little attention,^ » <w nuts arc regarded as a valualir-»*3~ (ituent of the real
"broad of life.']= § t beof and fat aro
to the Ilesh eatWos* are far more to the
now flesh eater!"" i ney are not only fat-
forming, boat ami force-producing, but
aro more nutritious than flesh and animal
fats, are always ready for use, and it will
lie a very diflloult matter to adulterate
thom, so long as we insist upon having
thom in a stato of naturo—either in or out
of the shell. But woe be unto us whon
we consent to use thom "made up" into
various compounds, heralded by fancy
names anrl sold at fanoy prices.
The nut growing industry is yearly assuming larger proportions, and
the demand for nuts will increase
with the awakened intelligence of
a progressive people. Nut trees
once in bearing are a sure ami constant soourco of revenue. They
aro stately anrl Ix-autifnl, Iong-
lived, anrl occupy but little spaoe
when compared with that necessary for the sustenance for domestic animals. s\nd more than this,
tho culture of nuts is more cleanly
and inviting to the rising generation than the laborious work connected with the care of stoek and
the dairy,—-ra great point worth attention by those who lament becauso thoir sons and daughters
drift away from their country
homes to the crowded cities.
Nuts living a complete substitute
for animalfood if it were impossible
to produce fish, flesh or fowl in this
"the greatest of meat-eating nations,"  there  would  be no  starva-
     tion,  no  loss of nerve or strength
of muscle, for nuts would supply the deficiencies in diet, even the milk, cream
and butter. If the flesh-eaters who get
so overheated, and "puff and blow," getting so easily "out of breath," so often indisposed and threatened with a shock" or
"apoplexy," would abstain from animal
foods, and their products, substituting a
few nuts and fruits, without sugar, they
would escape much discomfort, and would
also find that nuts are really economical
as compared with former expenses. But
■ rf still greater value will he the lessoning
tinilenoy of symptoms that lead to sudden fatal results. Everyone using nuts
should bear in mind that food well masticated is more tban half digested iir the
mouth, and the human, mill—the mouth-
is nature's pre-digesting laboratory, where
food oannot be overdone. Several times
"30 chows" are necessary to reduce nuts
to a perfect cream or milk, but this
should be done if one desires to obtain all
possible nutriment from them and soecon-
oinize both nutrition and digestion.—Dr.
Ellen (i. Smith, in American Nut Journal,
Petersburg, Va.
Harvesting  by   electric   light  has  been
introduced in Australia.
CLIMATE NOT TO BLAME.
II. W. Henry, of Laporte, in an address
at the St. Joseph County Farmers' Institute, recently, said: "It is an insult to
Providence and a libel on one of tho most
fertile portions of the country to say that
our climate is not favorable to fruit raising. He added that "the whole blame
lies with the tiller of the soil. Conditions bore are just as good for growing
fruit as the districts near by in Michigan,
whore all kinds of fruit are raised in great
quantities and with decided profit to those
engaged ill it." ••