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This tongue adjustment will vary on the different makes of planters. On some it is at the rear end of the tongue, but it will be found on all the popular makes. As a rule the front frame of the planter should be run level, and it can be so run with a properly drawn check wire. But different ten- sions on the wire drawn by different drivers may necessitate throwing the front frame slightly out of a horizon- tal position. If the planter drops too close to the button, make such tongue adjustment as will drop the furrow openers back a little toward the wheels. To some extent tightening the check wire will accomplish the same result in the check. Forcing the furrow open- ers a little ahead by means of the tongue adjustment will cause the hill
Fig. 1. Tongue Adjustment to Secure Accurate Checking
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A
B.
A Spread Check Fork May Cause Stringing
to be dropped a little close to the but- ton, or having the check wire a little more slack will have the same result in the check. In testing for accuracy of check by digging up hills, select hills pretty close behind the planter. Ad- justing the neckyoke straps will also affect t the check. The adjustment shown in Fig. 1 is also a means of maintaining a good check when differ- ent heights of teams are used and when the difference cannot be compensated for by adjusting the neckyoke straps.
Uniform tension in the check wire must be maintained if accurate check- ing is to result. Some drivers even go so far as to make allowance for the expansion and contraction of the check wire due to varying temperature from day to day, but this is getting too par- ticular to be practical. It is practical, however, where planting is being done up and down a slope, to pull the wire tighter when setting the high stake.
Uniform Depth of Planting
In planting over a rough field, a more uniform depth can often be se- cured by floating the furrow openers, but when this is done the operator should keep the openers under foot control so that the shoes may be forced to their depth in dry spots and kept from planting too deep in moist, soft spots. There are a number of shoe gauges now on the market which attach to shoes to insure uniform depth when floating is desirable. Such attachments should prove valuable if properly used where the conditions demand. String- ing of the hill may be caused by (a) dirt in the boot, and (b) by a spread check arm. Trouble from the first cause will probably be due to the team having set back on the planter while the shoes were still in the ground. Clean out the boot bottom thoroughly and the rest of the remedy is obvious.
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Trouble (b) is less easily detected. If the check arm is spread as is shown at B in Fig. 2, the wire button will let go of the check arm before the valves have been forced wide open, to the re- sult that the kernels will be strung out in the row rather than being dropped well together. By means of a ham- mer, drive the arm halves together to their original position, but in so doing care must be taken not to get the halves so closely together that binding of the wire will result. The check arm halves can be left straight as shown at A in Fig. 2 .; Some opera- tors find that stringing is due to a bad- ly worn shoe. If this is determined to be the cause, new parts must usually be supplied.
Clutch Troubles
Clutches on the various planters differ so widely in design that no spe- cific rules can be given that would apply to all makes. Failure of the clutch to grip or release can often be overcome by thoroughly cleaning the parts, and if the striking forces are worn round, new parts may have to be secured. On most planters this means but slight expense and a little patience.
Timing the Plate Rims
Breakage may necessitate removal of the rim which drives the plate. This rim is timed with the pinion on the shaft which drives the plates from the clutch, and when the rim is replaced on the machine the "time" must be re- established. If the plate rim is out of time with the pinion, inaccuracy will result because the plate itself will not stop at the proper time.
On some machines the cog teeth of the rim and pinion are so marked or constructed that it is very easy to ascertain the proper relation between the two castings. Before removing the rim the operator should carefully seek any such guides so that he may know just how to replace the parts. If no guide is found on the arm and on the shaft pinion, make a mark on each by means of a cold chisel, and then in replacing parts bring these two marks into the same relation to each other as at first. It sometimes happens that after replacing a rim or adding a new one, it breaks as soon as it revolves. This is due to non-timing.
The question is often asked: "Is the disc furrow opener preferable to the ordinary shoe runner?" The sin- gle disc opener has better penetration than the shoe and will cut through trash to better advantage, but it throws the soil to one side and cover- ing is made more difficult. The dou- ble disc has less penetrating ability than the single disc, but covering can be more easily accomplished after it.
In hard, thrashy ground, then, the disc opener should prove preferable to the shoe opener, but in a well pre- pared seed bed, well free from surface trash, the shoe is strongly advocated because of its simplicity. The planter with disc openers cannot be consid- ered a heavy draft implement, but the discs carry bearings which must work in soil and one may always expect trouble with such a combination.
MRS. LENA STEVENSON MANN Household Editor of Prairie Farmer
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Some Common Unsoundness
By Dr. A. S. Alexander, in Prairie Farmer
T AKE nothing for granted when buying a horse. One should make sure about doubtful things. If the eye cannot decide the mat- ter the hand may be employed to corroborate or disprove; but the eye should be the main dependence and · the hand used only as a last resort. An Irishman does not like to buy a pig "in a poke." He wants to see and examine the "rint payer" and may even make the animal squeal to be sure that he is getting his money's worth. In just the same way one must make the most careful examination of every part of a horse, "size up" the entire combination of points and make sure that there is lack of vice, sound- ness of eyes, wind and limb, and perfect fitness for the special kind of work the animal will have to do.
A famous veterinary teacher once called upon his senior students to ex- amine a lame horse and state in writ- ing what they thought was the cause of lameness. The horse had a splint, one sidebone and a small ringbone affecting the lame leg. To one or
other of these three unsoundnesses each student in turn attributed the lameness. But one learns best by making mistakes and this truth was soon "rubbed in" by the teacher. Having collected the reports he told the smith who was standing by, to remove the shoe from the lame foot. Then a majority of the students no- ticed for the first time that the sole of the foot was covered with a thick leather pad. When the leather came off puss spurted from a nail prick wound which had been purposely hid- den. Lameness was due to the nail prick, not to splint, ringbone or side- bone, and the laugh was on the "boys." Never again would one of them be similarly caught and so a never - to - be - forgotten lesson was learned. Every intending purchaser should learn this lesson, too, and be a "doubting Thomas" until his hands have felt where the eyes could not definitely decide a mooted point.
Seek to deal with men of known integrity in business. If not expert, and the horse to be bought is a dear
Splint
Curb
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one, it will be good policy to employ a veterinarian to make a critical ex- amination. Better visit the stable when not expected and see the horse in the stall. There some things can be learned that will not be seen when the horse is warmed up. You should be able to enter and leave the stall on the left side of the horse, without being received with a bite or expelled with a kick. Note, too, if the horse digs a hole in the floor by pawing, or chews his manger and hay rack, which may indicate cribbing and wind suck- ing, or weaves from side to side, or pulls back on the halter. Make him "stand over" and note if he jerks up a hind leg, or hops over. The hopping may indicate spavin lameness, which quickly disappears when the horse is warmed up.
The jerking up of a hind leg may be accompanied by quivering of muscles and tail and such a horse is a "shiv- erer" or "crampy" and afflicted with incurable St. Vitus' dance. The symp- toms of the latter disease become more apparent as the horse backs out of the stall, but quickly subside with slight exercise. If the animal has "string halt" the jerking up of the hind legs is continued as long as the horse is in motion, he does not warm out of it. When a horse is brought out for inspection "on a run" or "dead jump" it is impossible to detect spavin lameness or chorea and even string halt may not be noticed. This will be more certainly the case if the horse is turned loose in deep snow, or plowed land, or in a straw bedded pad- dock. This commonly is done. Some- times an old plug that has scarcely animation enough to get out of its own way will kick up, strut and trot, proud as a peacock, when suddenly the halter shank, previously cut part way through breaks and the old pilgrim imagines he has broken loose by his own great strength. This trick is often tried. Never allow the dealer to keep the horse "in the air."
After making an examination in the stall watch the horse for a while as he stands at ease on a level floor. Maybe he cannot stand at ease. If foot hurts, soon that foot will be thrust forward; if two hurt each will be thrust forward ; if two hurt, each will be advanced turn about; if four hurt the horse will rest each foot in turn.
And do not forget to walk around the horse that every part may meet the eye. Often one side is a pretty pic- ture, the other marred. See both sides, for often the animal is turned toward the wall if an eye is out, a big bare spot present or some unsound- ness there that had best be kept hid- den. A "watch" or "wall" eye can see, but it is unsightly. The tour of inspection around the horse discloses such blemishes.
Remember about not buying a pig in a poke, so remove the blanket from all fancy harness and see that the halter has no springs and trusses to press down upon the nostrils to pre- vent high blowing and "roaring." Many a man has neglected to remove a horse's hood before buying and af- terward has discovered that it hid a cropped, lopped, or split ear, fistula of the base of the ear, a "poll evil" or some unsightly blemish.
Don't get too close to the horse when making the preliminary exam- ination. Ex-Governor Hoard, of Wis- consin, once said that in farm business matters a man may hold a cent piece so close to his eye that it keeps him from seeing a big silver dollar a little further off. So if one rushes up and grabs a foot, before viewing what the French term, the tout ensemble-the assemblage of all points-he misses the comprehensive estimate of the horse as a whole and that is of most importance. When one has looked the horse over from a little distance and from all points of view and has seen how the animal stands and be- haves it will be time enough to scru- tinize each component part of his an- atomy. First we shall see him move away and back, at a walk, then at a trot, and finally we shall gallop him. Be there when he stops and so decide as to the soundness of his "wind." It is not enough to test the "wind" by standing the horse close to a wall and suddenly threatening to strike him with a whip. The sudden fright may cause the animal to grunt loudly, but this does not necessarily prove that such a "bull" is unsound in wind.
Many sound horses grunt when so threatened, or even when one goes to mount. In the latter instances it is a nervous "expression" and nothing serious. When watching the horse at rest one should note that he does not
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Sidebone
Spavin
heave at the flanks, cough or pass gas from the rectum. These are the symp- toms of "heaves"; but the "heavey" horse may be "shut" or "doped" with drugs so that temporarily the symptoms do not show. Usually they will quickly appear if the horse is given all the hay and water he wants and then is gal- loped. Roaring sometimes is tempora- rily relieved by plugging the nostrils with a sponge or squeezed half lemon. Discharge is also prevented by this means. It is best to locate these at once than have them sneezed into the feed box when the horse is yours.
At both walk and trot the horse should go straight, level and true, each joint perfectly fixed, the soles of the feet well turned up, as he goes away, and no "padding," "winging," in or out, "forging," stumbling or toe dragging noticeable. Lameness should be absent. If the horse passes muster when in motion and his style, action and conformation are suitable, he next may be critically examined as he stands at rest. He should stand square and firm on each foot. The profile of the front and back of each leg should show no abnormal bends, curves, puffs, swellings, or lumps. If any one of these things is seen its nature will have to be carefully determined. The eyes should be sound and of the same color. The pupils should dilate in the dark and contract when the horse is brought into the light. Angular, wrinkled eye- brows and sunken eyes denote previous attacks of "moon blindness" (periodic
ophthalmia). "Smoky" or "opaque," or "pearl grey," or "curdy" appearance of the cornea (anterior chamber of the eye) denote more serious stages of the disease or blindness from cataract or glaucoma. A brilliant sparkling prominent eye ("glassy eye") may be stone blind from paralysis of the ret- ina and optic nerve. The ears should neither be absolutely unused, nor ab- normally active. The former may in- dicate deafness; the latter, impaired vision, nervousness or vice.
See that a thread from ear to ear under the forelock, does not keep lop ears upright and that a leaden ball, suspended from a thread in the ear, is not preventing undue motion. The horse should let one handle his ears, his poll (back of ears), the top of the neck, where the collar will bear, and the withers, where fistulous openings or their scars so commonly are found. Fighting against such handling indi- cates a reason for fear and the rea- son usually is that a twitch has been used on the ear and the horse may be hard to shoe, have sore neck from the collar, poll evil or fistulous with- ers, or have suffered a previous opera- tion for such disease.
Handle each part upon which har- ness will have to bear and see that it is sound and free from sores, tu- mors or abscesses. The nostrils should be large, under command of the will, rosy pink inside, not slit and free from abnormal discharge. See that the breath does not smell foul and
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that the teeth are sound and the jaws not under or over "short." Examine the back. It should be strong, broad, straight, free from sores and well muscled. Pinching the loins is un- necessary. A ticklish horse will squat when so handled but the test does not detect weak kidneys. Note that the ribs are well sprung, the underline fairly straight, the abdomen capacious, the flank not tucked up and the coupling short and strong. See that no wounds or abscesses are present high up on the right flank, as the re- sult of tapping for flatulant colic. With the left hand on the horse's loin, as a support, stoop and examine - sheath, or udder as the case may be, and other parts high up in the groins.
Examine the tail, which should be strong, not artificial ("joined on") and not rubbed bare from itchiness. Lift it and see that the black skin below is free from tumors, the anus clean, well pursed up, free from scurvy substances or streaks of mucous; or, in the mare, that the space between rectum and vulva is intact and that no discharge comes from the latter. Looking from the rear, compare one hip with the other. If one is "knocked down" that side will be steep. At each side of the tail is the tuberosity of the ischium. Like the point of the hip (ilium) this often is fractured, leaving one side depressed. All parts of the shoulders, neck, barrel and hindquarters should be smoothly and deeply covered with sound muscles.
Now examine each hoof. Cracks, rings, ridges and meatiness should be absent, frogs and bars prominent, soles slightly concave, heels wide, coronets (hoof heads) open and strong, hoofs waxy, smooth and ample in size. Ob- ject to a horse that has steep narrow heels with a deep cleft in frog, also one that has chronic corns, chronic thrush, ."dropped" (convex) soles, or hoof walls showing toe or quarter cracks.
Make sure that the elbows are free from hard or soft tumors or abscesses called "shoe boils" and that the knees are free from hairless scars and are straight, wide, deep and strong. All joints should be large, clean, bony
and strong. This is of the greatest importance. The joints cannot be too large so long as the size is made up of large, clean sound bones, ligaments and tendons. Beware of puffs, meati- ness and bony growths which give the wrong sort of size. The knees should have perfect flexion, no matter what work the horse has to do. They should not be bent forward (buck knees) nor bent backward (calf knees). Splints close to the knee are serious; but low down, on an adult horse, they are practically harmless, unless struck by a shoe. Splints, ring- bones and spavins are bony excres- censes. Splints come on the cannon bones, along the course of the splint bones (small metacarpals and metatar- sals).
Ringbones are found high, medium or low, on the long pastern, and often involve the short pasterns. Bone spavins are found at the lower, front, inner aspect of the hock joints. Bog spavins are soft bursal distensions of the hock joints, above and in front of the seat of bone spavins. Thoro- pins are bursal distensions seen at the sides of the hocks, towards the rear and when pressed on one side bulge out on the opposite side. "Wind galls" are similar puffs in connection with the tendons at and just above the fetlock joints. A curb appears as a hard enlargement giving a rounded bulging contour to the profile of the back of the hock joint, looking from the side.
Splints are most easily seen by standing in front of the horse, then examining further by feeling the parts involved, first with the foot standing down firm, then with it off the ground. Ringbones are best seen from a side view of the profile of the long pas- tern. The hand may have to help in their detection. To examine for spav- ins look between the forelegs at the inner, lower profile of each hock. The hard "knob" on one hock probably will prove to be a bone spavin. A small spavin is called a "jack" and it is apt to prove serious and grow to be a large spavin. Spavin may also be detected from a quartering view of the hock, or from the rear.
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Tippecanoe County Farmers' Directory
Abbreviations Used in this Directory
a-Acres; Ch-Children; O-Owner; T-Tenant or Renter; R-Rural Route; Sec-Section; Maiden name of wife follows directory name in parenthesis ( ); figures at end of informa- tion-year became resident of county. Star (*) indicates children not at home. Name of farm in quotation marks fol- lows names of children. In case of a tenant, the farm owner's name follows the figures giving size of farm.
EXAMPLE
Ade, Charles F. (Martha Lange) Ch Carl, Floyd, Leona, Clarence, Clara, Helen, George; LaFayette R.J Shelby Sec14S O192a (1874) Otterbein Tel. Otterbein
Means
Ade, Charles F .- Name.
(Martha Lange)-Wife's maiden name.
Ch Carl, Floyd, Leona, Clarence, Clara, Helen, George-Names of children. LaFayette R.J-Postoffice LaFayette, R. F. D. J. Shelby Sec14S-Shelby township, Section 14 South.
O192a-Owner of 192 acres.
(1874)-Lived in county since 1874.
Otterbein Tel. Otterbein-Name of Telephone.
A
Abbey, Eugene H. (Sarah Kauffman) Ch *Ollie; LaFayette R.A Wabash Sec4N T160a Moore Est. (1895) Otterbein Tel Otterbein
Acheson, Scott (Hazel Snider) Ch Luetta; LaFayette R.H Union Sec15 Farm Hand William Fores- man (1891)
Acheson, Walter G. (Ethel Doyle) Westpoint R.A Wayne Sec19S O96a (1881) Westpoint Tel. Westpoint
Ade, Charles F. (Martha Lange) Ch Carl, Floyd, Leona, Clarence, Clara, Helen, George; LaFayette R.J Shelby Sec14S O192a (1874) Otter- bein Tel. Otterbein
Ade, Charles G. Anna Smith, mother; LaFayette R.J Shelby Sec27-22S O140a (1875) Otterbein Tel. Otter- bein
Ade, Gottlobe F. (Mary Wein) Ch Edna, Wilbur, Lorine; LaFayette R.J Wabash Sec28S O127a (1886) LaFayette Tel. LaFayette
Ade, Jacob W. (Lena Yohn) William, Gladys; LaFayette R.J Shelby Sec23S O194a (1878) Otter- bein Tel. Otterbein
Ade, John M. (Bertha Deitrich) Ch Frances; LaFayette R.J Shelby Sec22S T140a Minnie Ade (1878) ·Otterbein Tel. Otterbein
Ade, William G. (Anna Hessler) Ch Raymond, LeRoy, Leanna; LaFay- ette R.J Shelby Sec26-23S O194a (1881) Otterbein Tel. Otterbein
Aichholz, Charles (Dora Kliber) Ch Clara, Lena. Ella, Viola, *Ida; La Fayette R.F . Wea Sec22 O140a (1907) LaFayette Tel. LaFayette Albright, Albert G. (Emma Beutler) LaFayette R.K Shelby Sec7N T161a H. F. Beutler (1888) Otterbein Tel. Otterbein
Albright, George M. (Rose Huesing) "Glenn Ellen Farm" LaFayette R.B Wabash Sec7 T57a Mrs. M. Al- bright (1890) LaFayette Tel. La Fayette
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Alburn, Lewis M. (Mattie Lucas) Ch Florence; LaFayette R.F Lauramie Sec3 O40a (1857) Farmers Tel. Stockwell
Alexander, Rudy (Hattie Cary) Ch Pauline, 'Raymond, Leona; Attica R1 Jackson Sec15W Farm Hand J. A. Meharrie (1916)
Alexander, Winfield S. (Margaret Ogelsby) Romney Randolph Sec9 O58a T342a Mr. Ogelsby (1904) Linden Tel. Romney
Allen, Asbury (Pephe A. Parr) La Fayette R.F Lauramie Sec5 O35a (1849) Farmers Tel. Stockwell
Allman, Mrs. Delphoná (Delphona Kisterson) Ch *Emery, *Thomas, *Arthur, *Frank, *Cora, *Anna, *Martin; Romney R.A Randolph Sec26 O58a (1867) Linden Tel. Romney
Allman, F. Emery (Minnie Wray) Ch Alfred, Helen; New Richmond R2 Jackson Sec31 O106a (1877) New Richmond Tel. New Richmond
Allyn, Edward C. (Gerda Brand) Ch Floyd, *Madge; Mulberry R1 Shef- field Sec24 T189a Mrs. Ben Hart (1919) Mulberry Tel. Mulberry
Amstutz, Earl (Alma Hedderick) Ch Aldine; LaFayette R.L Perry Sec3 T80a Fred Hatke (1895) Buck Creek Tel. Buck Creek
Amstutz, Henry (Anna Spetz) Ch Ruth, Donald, Lucille, Edna, Har- old; LaFayette R.L Perry Sec16 T80a Anna B. Amstutz (1880) Buck Creek Tel. Buck Creek
Amstutz, Hiram (Cora Hilt) Ch Margaret, *Goldie, *Mabel; LaFay- ette R. C. Washington Sec20 O46a (1882)
Amstutz, William A. · (Barbara Miller) 'Ch Miltreda B., Everett, Lula, Dorotha," Wilma, *Edith, *Earl; LaFayette R.L Perry Sec9-16 O95a (1875) Buck Creek Tel. Buck Creek
Anderson, Charles E. (Bertha Cor- nel1) Ch Charles Jr., Jewell, Fay; Clarks Hill R.A Lauramie Sec2 O40a (1881) Farmers Tel. Stock- well
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