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Garden
VOL. LVIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, MAY 9, 1903.---TWENTY PAGES.
NO. 19
Written for the Indiana. Farmer:
THE BOY ON THE FARM.
By Hardy Perennial.
Called up with the sun on a fair spring morn.
He may see just how a day Is horn;
Thankless  perhaps   at   tirst   but   soon.
For the cows  with   "Frisk,"   anw  away   with
gloom.
He swings his arms and tosses his hat.
Whistles   and   calls   to   this   and   that.
Boh   Wblte  on  the   bars,   the   prairie   bens,
The blaze-faced colt; all these are friends.
How  his quick eyes  scorn  the   morning  newsl
Here's a hatful of mushrooms among the dews,
Another egg ln the  dove's flat  nest,
And a new little calf hy old  'Spot* doth rest.
Then home to breakfast  with,  oh,  what  zest!
No city boy Just  up from  his  rest
Such store of porridge,  of bread and of milk,
To lower away,  would dare to think.
Then cows to milk; how muscles must grow,
With garden to weed, and grass to mow.
Water to bring,  and wood to get,
To save for mother such extra fret.
But  off  to  school,   with   a  will  at  laat
His morning's work makes light school's task
But a ribbon filched, a jack-knife's trade.
Proclaim just  an average  boy  I'm afraid.
No book  for him  through  noon's  glad  hour.
With bat  and ball,  or woods to scour;
Perchance   to   3sh   along   the   brook,—
All  out  of  life,   by  hook  or  crook.
Then home from school at half-past four.
Where  still  confronts   the  endless  chore.
But night and bed come round at last,
And  so  the   days  go  fleeting  past.
Then father,  mother,  all  wbo  may,
Nature's young  plant  promote  I  pray
Give   snnshlne,   time,   toll,   everything.
That will  the perfect ending bring.
lifts, delivered ia McCook, brought over
$00 per acre. A patch of ten aud scvon-
terrths acres brought $1,015.80, a little
over $95 per acre. There were some
patches where the crop on 15 acres would
pay for a quarter of good land. This
jsugar beet business wall double the prices
of land very soon. There will be over
.. 000 acres planted this spring. Tn
sacharine they are remarkably rich, some
testing over 17 per cent. Aside from
being worked into sugar, they are great
btock feed. Two loads of steers were
fed, one, corn and alfalfa hay, one, sugar
Lightning Strikes Twice ln Same Place.
.Editors  Indiana  Fanner:
One of our Harrison county farmere had
his barn burned three weeks ago, from
lightning and on the same place where
his previous barn was burned by lightning.
We have lots of men in Indiana who could
save their barns for $10. Here is prosperity to the dear old Farmer and long
life. Corydon hasn't had a groggery for
1\_ years and is  a clean town.
Corydon, April 25. E. W. F.
 ...
Artichokes.
Bdltote Indiana Firmer:
What variety of artichoke is best to
plant; when is time to plant and how
mnch seed to an acre? Give name of
frm that sells them aud  price,  etc.
Greensburg. C. K.
—The variety known as Jerusalem artichokes is what you want. They are
grown in such soil as potatoes require,
light, sandy and deep, and the manner
of cultivation is much the same as with
them. Plant cuttings about 3 feet apart
each way or in drills and cultivate two
or three times. Four bushels per acre
would be seed enough on good soil. They
yield according to the soil, but 1,000 bushels per acre have often* been reported.
Plant early as possible. Any seed firm
can furnish the 'chokes for planting. Tbey
are very hard to get rid of when once
started.
Sugar Besets ln Nebraska.
Editors Indiana  Farmer:
Red Willow county is in the southern
tier, 70 miles east of Colorado. McCook,
the oonnty seat, is a town of over 3,000.
In 1901 a good many farmers raised some
beets to try them. About 100 acres were
raised. They did so well that in 1902
ever 800 acres were grown. Some, on
upland,  made 18 tons per acre  and  the
not pay expense*; just us in all other
countries. Corn is not so sure every
j car here as in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois
and Missouri, still I have raised over 60
bnshels per acre. I was born and raised
an n farm in Indiana. I first plowed
corn there in 1848.
Nebraska. William Coleman.
Values of Feeding Stuffs.
Edltora Indiana Fanner:
"It is becomiog a generally well known
fact among farmers that the leguminous
bays are very much  more nutritious    in
danger from indigestion Mad to utilize
wheat to the best advantage as a stock
food it should be fed witli other grains.
An English authority estimates wheat
fed to lambs as worth about 76 cents per
bushel. The Indiana Station realize*,
77 cents per bushel for wheat fed to
slieep.
"It would be difficult to find a better
food for young hogs and shoats than two
parts (by weight) of wheat, two parts of
corn and one of shorts; or a ration perhaps of equal weights of wheat, corn and
shorts.
In Canada it was found that frozen
wheat fed to hogs, between 61 and 14.ri
pounds iu weight, gave an average increase of 15.46 pounds per bushel, while
with heavier fattening hogs, from 9 to
il pounds of gain was made per bushel.
Washington, D. C. G. B. IC
THE  BIBLE IN TIMES OF PERSECUTION.
The terror on the face of the father and
son, shown above, lest they may be
oaught reading the Bible, helps us to feel
what a precious and what a recent privilege this is.
WilEam Tindale, who translated even
our own- English Bible, was strangled and
burned for it in 1536. Of Tindale's first
edition of three thousand English testaments, only a burned fragment of one
ropy has come down to us. His avowed
object, to make it possible for even a
plough-boy to know the Scriptures, has
bten grandly attained.
It was a true instinct that led Robert
Burns, after describing family worship in
"The Cotter's Saturday Night," to burst
forth:
' From  scenes  like    these    old     Scotia's
grandeur springs,
That  makes  her  lov'd   at  home,   rever'd
abroad:
Princes and lords  are but the breath of
kings,
/.n  honest man's the  noblest    work    of
God."
Senator George F. Hoar, of Massaebu-
satts, says that Burns has here put his
finger on the secret of the success of English-speaking races.
The vitality and progress of nations
can be gauged by their consumption of
Scriptures. Protestant lands, only about
one-eighth of the human race, have consumed at least three-fourths of the world's
supply of Bibles.
beets   and   alfalfa.        These   gained   as [
much and brought as much as those on J
corn.        Two   other   lots   were   fed,   one!
corn and stalks, for roughness, one sugar!
beets and tops for roughness; these were |
the best when taken to market.     At the
late Fat Stock Show in Denver, Colorado,
the first prize steer was raised and  fattened on sugar beets and never saw an ear
of corn.        The  tops  are  fine  for cows
in October, November and December and
makes  them  give  lots  of   milk.      Sugar
teets and alfalfa are revolutionizing this
country   in   sugar  making,   stock   raising
and     dairying. Hogs       leave     corn
for beets. One acre of sugar beets
ot 15 tons per acre makes more feed than
seven acres of Corn at 50 bushels per
aere. I have farmed over 50 years but
never found anything that will make anywhere near as much feed per acre as
sugar beets do here. Onr alfalfa with
Eve to six tons per acre per year comes
next. In six years past there has not
been one but the crop would pay ten
per cent on $150 per acre and several
years on $300 to $400 per acre, still some
alfalfa (bottom) land can be had yet at
.'-a) to $25 per acre, and one fine quarter
section at $15. I have farmed here ovei
?0 years, have raised over 40 bushels of
fnll wheat per acre, but some years it dla
protein than the hay from other grasses,"
said Dr. E. W. Allen, assistant director
ot the oflice of Experiment Stations, in a
talk on the value of various feeding
stuffs. "The clovers, alfalfa, cowpeas,
lupines, etc., contain about twice the
amount of digestible protein that hay from
the grasses does. As a result the
manure from the legumes contains much
more nitrogen; it is also somewhat richer
in potash than that from grasses. The
seeds from such legumes as the cowpeas
ond soja beans are exceedingly rich ln
protein, and can take the place of expensive commercial feeds.
"By growing and feeding on the farm
more leguminous crops the amount of grain
required will diminish, the value of the
manure, increase, and the soil enrich in
fertility. And as the legumes draw
."bout all their nitrogen from the atmoos-
phere, the farm and the farmer, if the
latter plav ,« rilenty of them, are sure to
le the gaiua-rs."
"A pound of wheat," said Dr. Allen,
speaking further of farm feeding stuffs,
"furnishes more real nutriment than a
pound of any other grain. Corn contains about 8 per cent of digestible protein, barley 8.69 per cent, oats 9.25 per
cent, rye 9.12 per cent, but wheat contains 10.23 per cent.       To guard against
Defence of pie.
Out of Indiana, the abiding place of current popular literature, comes a jeremiad
tgainst pie. The University of Indianapolis (which, pardon us, we never heard
of before) has discussed pie and fouud it
wan-ting in all the virtues of which it has
been so cammonly thought to be posiuessej.
"Pie," cays Miss Edith Abbott (a co-ed
who evidently does not know as much
about cooking as she does about Aeschylus), "destroys the stomach, saps the vitalities and leaves the brains supine. It is
the great national evil."
We look upon this statement as a distinct attack upon the integrity of the
American people, a revolutionary sentiment of dynamite quality, a deep-laid plot
to overthrow the basis of American institutions, and, worse than all, an effort
to destroy all American literature except
that coming froib tbe Hoosier state. Pie!
You might better try to tear down the
Constitution thnn the most sacred of dinner table delights. You might as well
try to restore slavery as to remove pie.
The American- people will not stand for it,
snd the Indiana persons had better understand it to begin with.
This unfeeling onslaught, however, gives
us some insight into the wave of Hoosier
authors. Is it because they do not eat pie
that they have suddenly achieved such
prominence? Is General Wallace a total
abstainer from the delictable dish of New
England invention? Did Mr. Majors never
eat mince pie? Can Booth Tarkington
say that tbe pumpkin variety has no
charms for him? Let us call George Ade
snd Maurice Thompson and the rest of the
Indiana authors, not forgetting the grandest poet of his day, James Whiteomb
Riley, to the stand.    Will they desert pie?
Be it known that American literature
has flourished on pie from the days of the
elder John Adams,Bancroft and James
Russell Lowell down to Henry Cabot
Lodge. We resent this effort to relegate
to the rear the most toothsome invention
that comes to the tables of the rich and
the poor. Pie is not an artistocratic dish.
As Horace remarked, it "knocks at the
hovels of the poor and the palaces of the
kings." It is the sign of democracy triumphant. What if it does hurt the stomach! It brings joy to the heart and makes
glad the heart of man.
We shall stand by pie until the last and
will resent every effort of the Indiana
school of literature to displace it. It ean
not be done. Pie will survive when the
Inst Hoosier author's ten thousandth edition is not salable even in the second-hand
bookstores.—Philadelphia Inquirer.