INDIANA   FARMER.
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Devoted to Agriculture,  Horticulture, Mechanics and the Useful Arts.
D. P. Holloway,*- _ mmriirrniTTt   mm     nnn     i     inu /      Holloway & Co., Publishers.
W. T. Dennis,  }■ Editors.
B. T. Beed,    )
. IND., FEB. 1, 1854.
[Vol. 3 No. 9.]
Table  of Contents.
Page 130, 131—Depth of Burying Manure, Farm Division
Fences.
"   132—Unreasonable Farming.
" 133—The Buckeye Thrasher in England, High Priced
Apples.
" 134—Flax, by Thomas Kimber, Jr% Sulphur for
Swine.
" 135—The Reapers and National Prejudice, Durability of Wood.
" 136, 137—Editorials: The Madura Again, Cutting
Grafts and Grafting, Hort. Review and Bot.
Magazine, Measuring Grain in Bulk, (selected.)
" 138—Communication: Destruction of Sheep by
Dogs, from George Johnson.
■•   138,139—Guttapercha, Ashes.
•' 140, 141—Communications: Limited System of
Draining, by J. P. Bra dy, Valuable Hen, by
G. Y. V., Twenty-one Rules for Farmers,
Average Yield of Wheat, &c, in the Southern States.
" 142, 143—Wintering Manure, Keeping the Teeth
Clean, Forbidden Fruit.
"   144—Ladies and Agriculture, For the Teeth, A Blessing for icy weather.
List of Premiums
Awarded by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, at its
annual meeting at Indianapolis, January, 1S54.   '
GRAIN CROPS.
Best 5 acres Wheat,  Azariah Freeman, Porter co.,
Silver Pitcher, $30 00
Best 5 acres Hay, John VVidner, Knoxco., 5 00
Best $ bushel Wheat, Samuel Frazer, 6 00
2d   do i     " "       Isaac Jackson, 3 00
BestJ     "     Winter Barley, Barton Wyatt, Wayne
county, 5 00
Best J     "    Oats, Z. S. Ragan, 5 00
2d  do I     "     do,   Geo. Davidson, Wayne co., 3 00
Best sample Corn, Paul Howland, 5 00
2d  do     do       do,   L. T. Vanschoiack, Wayne Co.,     3 00
Best variety Corn, Paul Howland, 5 00
2d   "       " "      L. T. Vanschoiack, 3 00
FRUITS, HOOTS AND VEGETABLES.
Best 12 varieties of Apples, J. A. Matson, $5 00
2d   "   12       " "     Z. S. Ragan, 3 00
Best general display of Apples, Gen. Jos. Orr, 5 00
2d "       " " '■        Powell Howland,     3 00
To H. Secrist, of Putnam co., for a sweet Seedling,
Thomas' Fruits.
/' Josephus Clark, Aurora   "Easter Beurre Pear,"
Diploma.
" A. H. Vestal, Wayne co., Sweet Potatoes, 3 00
" John Carlisle, Carrots, Buist's Kitchen Garden.
" Mrs. Isaac Votaw, Preserved Fruits, &c,
Western Hort. Review.
" Dr. J. A. Warder, of Cincinnati, for an essay on
the Osage Orange* Diploma.
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Grapes as House Plants.—In a visit to Mr.
•Johnston's nurseries which we referred to a few
weeks since, we were struck with the extraordinary beauty  of some  rich   clusters of grapes
. growing upon dwarf vines cultivated in flowerpots. Mr. Drew, ofthe Banner, in referring to
the cultivation of grapes as house plants, says:
"A pot large enough to sustain a grape
stern three feet long, spread upon the windows,
will yield several clusters of grapes, and these
are the only fruit thai will grow and ripen indoors under glass, and not lose their peculiar
fragrance anil flavor thereby. A pot of growing
and ripened grapes, standing in any lady's parlor window, would be a handsomer ornament
than any geranium or cactus.—Lincoln Dem.
v    An Ode.
At the recent Vernon Town Fair, the following pretty
ode, from the pen of C.S. Percival, Esq., was sung by tho
Vernon Glee Club:
There is a Giant, strong and brave, —
And generous as great,
Who for the feeble race of men
Doth early toil and late.
He delveth in the murky mine,
And on the furrowed lea;
And, with his vessels built of oak,
He plows the stormy sea.
The forest falls beneath his axe,
And cities vast arise;
And verdant fields look smiling up
To greet the smiling skies.
He builds the mansion towering high,
The little cottage near,
And fills to overflowing both,
With all the heart can cheer.
He chains the streamlet to the wheel.
And bids it turn the mill;
He harnesses the iron horse.
And guides him at his will.
His powerful arm defends the weak,
Against o'erpowering wrong;
And grateful hearts conspire to praise
The Giant, great and strong.
.Fair bands have twined a wreath to deck
His rugged brow with bay,
And we, with joy, have met to keep
His festival to-day.
Then farmers, artizans and all
Who scorn your task to shirk,
Come, join your song with ours, to sing
The mighty Giant, Work!
Cost or Crop3 in England.—The following
estimates are given by the London Agricultural Gazette, as the average cost of various crops
at Cirencester, Ag. College, including rents and
taxes:
1. Potatoes—Crop, from 30 to 200 bushels
per acre; cost £11 16s. 6d. or S56 per acre.
2. Carrots—£9 ls. or §43,50 per acre.
3. Mangolds—£1 Is. 8d. or $35 per acre.
4. Turnips—Crop, 13 tons per acre, cost £5
13s. 3d. or $26,50 per acre.
5. Grass seed for meadows, $2 per acre.
6. Barley—Crop, 40 imperial bushels per
acre; costs ready for market, £2 12s. 3d, or $11
per acre.
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To Fatten Fowls.—Fowls may be fattened
in four or five days, by the following process:
Set some rice over the fire with skimmed
milk, as much only as will serve one day.—
Let it boil till the rice is swelled out; add a tea-
spoonful of sugar. Feed the fowls four or five
times a day in pans, and give them as much
each time as will fill them. Great care must
be taken that they have nothing sour given
them, as that prevents their fattening. Give
them clean water, or milk from the rice, to
drink. By this method the flesh will have a
clear whiteness.—Southern Cultivator.
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