INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JANUARY
1879.
NO. 2.
>ORSALE-
either sex, at-to each
, DeKalh coanty, Ind.
Fine Chester White Digs,
weeks old,
CKHART. But-
ORSAI-K—Whitney sewing machine needles, all
sUes, at -30 rents nei dozen. Send order to U-.DI-
A FARMER COMPANY. tf
~C<OR  SALE
JI1    ever saw.
Choice, or 415 a pair
ii***, Kentucky.
25 of the best Chester White pigs I
weigh from lOO^to 223 lbsA at $i£ fc
A ddress, E.
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R. MOODY. Emi-
OR SALE-The   Farm
Book. Complete method oT keeping farm ac*
nnts. Price tl eacb. Address INDIAN " -*-*"""■
MPANY, Indlanapolla.
Register and Account
il SALE—Short-horns—Fletcher s young Marys,
PhyJls, Agathas, Brides, Gem., etc.   Bulls and
choicely  bred.
THOMPSON, Lock Box
Correspondence   sollc
Box 1, Edingburg, Ind,
solicited.
R .SALE—120 acres, two miles east of Middle-
Fork fetation, Jefferson county,at|30 peracre,
ars time at 6 per cent.
cres, one mile north of Kokomo, at ?TO per acre,
ars time at ti per cent.
es, tour miles north of Indianapolis, at $50 per
re years time at 6 per cent.
,«te 's^tfcres. In Pulaski county, at flO per acre, ten
^_ps time at 6 per cent.
'80,'acres, near Stilesville, at $-30 per acre, five years
'   - T. A. GOODWIN,
____ Indlanapolla, Ind.
r,OR TKADE.-F&rra of 123 acres about fifty miles
;'    northeast   of Indianapolis,   clear   of tncmn-
ance, worth $5,000, and will pay $3,000 in cash for a
*idenc«- In north part of Indianapolis.   Also farm
f 120 acres live miles from city, in high state of cul-
vation, clear of incumbrance, to trade for Kansa3
£nd.   Also farm'-SS acres seven miles from city, a
bod stock and grain farm,!-.} acres in cultivation,
JO acres timber, set in blue grass, for Kansas land.
Also 120 acre farm with good buildings, well fenced,
food land, has $1,-300 incumbrance for city property,
and several good proportys in city, free of incumbrance, for Kansas ^and.I We do a general real estate
busines?.   Also furnish tickets to aU points in the
.-.west and Southwest-   Call and see us at No. 2 Iron
'Tlj-ock, over 13 West Washington street, Indianapolis,
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Idrcss the
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been cured.
E—Dentlsf, over 80 North Pennsylva-
Prices reduced to suit times.
Dentist.   Office In room A Va-
fe Blo-k. N. Pennsylvania St.
irma for sale, and desire callsand
iompartles Inquest of them.. G.
pe East Market St.
Fani\
ESTATE*_N)V3_RTISBR tells all about
lue Grass Y&lley of- Middle Tennessee.
'cents a year.   Published bv E. M. COCK-
' Estate Agent, Gallatin, Tenn.
|pU£   jpfotli*
:f^<
Leb, Esq., shipped to Chicago
Elm-wood, 111., on the 31st ult., 50
of prime  hogs,   which averaged
ut 390 pounds, and sold for $3 05—the
price of the day.
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Sales of Short-Horns.
i Indiana Farmer:
IW. Halstead, Fair view Farm, Lin-
Ind., has sold to Clint Wilkins, of
Richmond, Ind., the yearling, short
bull, 4SS/,  Cinderella Andrie, by
stain Andrie, 3636, out of Cinderella
Compromise, 15,844.   To J. W. Kirkpatriek, of Stockwell, Intl., Hoosier Boy,
4SS9, by Ben Allen, 22,133, out of Nan-
"    B.  by Duke John, 2741.   To John
I Miller, of Linden, young Grant, a high
[grade bull.   Also, five head of Cotswold
buck," lamb>- to parties in Montgomery
' and Tippe-Ganoe counties.
h Cure for Kidney Worms.
Editti'rt) Indiana Farmer:
ijoffer a remedy that waa an effectual
curl* in one case, at least, for me. The
recipe is ten drops of carbolic acid, given
internally, in milk, half pint; then take
thirty, drops of acid in one gill of vinegar, heat the vinegar as hot as can be
used, drop the acid into'it, and bathe
freely from the shoulders to the hips.
Give the dose, and bathe the back once a
day for three days*, then omit for three
days. If the hog is better,wait a. week.
The hog I cured stood up the third morn-
Jbut was very weak, but finally got
well. My hogs are healthy and
ell. Success to the Fabmeb.
s A. W. Ross,
cie, Jan. 3.
Those Pigs.
Indiana Farmer:   •
looking over your paper of the 28th
\o, I saw an article, headed, "Those
vy Pigs," and signed by Mr. G. W.
inger.   The first pig he speaks of, he
ff&:   "At twelve months and twelve
Jays old, weighed, when  dressed, 630
poinds.   That would be called, by most
s\vtne breeders as well as butchers and
packers, an extra large pig.   But Mr.
Bittinger goes  on to say that another,
- only   three   days   older, . weighed  762
• pounds.   It is well that he spoke of the
smelliest pig first, for, after reading that,
we art's better prepared to take in the
weirfct/of the second.   Will Mr. Bittinger 0| kind enough to state through the
eolunlus of the Fabmeb, just how and
what lie fed those pigs, to get such enormous Veights.   Perhaps it might benefit
many'breeders of other breeds of swine,
''  is the Chester White men.
,0., Jan. 2, '79. J. C. C.
Hardiness of Improved Stock.
Editors Indiana Farmer.
I have been highly entertained with
the excellent articles of Dr. Brown on
grain and stock farming, and there are
very many of the general principles
he advances which should be put in
practice by our farmers. ^There are some
few questions upon which I take issue
with him, however, and upon these I
shall write.
The idea that improved stock is less
hardy and more subjected to diseases
than the original scrub stock of the
country is a great mistake. Nevertheless, Dr. Brown says'v.c knows this principle has been called in question, but
that it rests on a physiological law, and
every day's observ^ sn of facts sustains
it.
These assertions are not proofs, and
wheu they are made, give rise to some
of the greatest principles of breeding, iu
handling which a theorist gets into'very
deep water. In fact, there are many
things "in this world which science
teaches us as true, but practical observation shows the opposite. I may state
that science says that coal and the precious diamond are one and the same
thing in constituent parts. .Science
teaches jis that parturition in the lower
animals is painless, and it is said to be a
physiological fact, but how many persons who have attended their stock in
such critical times know the opposite to
be true.
Darwin, the greatest scientist of his
age, proved to his own satisfaction, at
least, in a scientific way, that man is the
legitimate offspring of the monkey, yet
how few of us are ready now to admit
the theory as correct.
Darwin also says that the species 60s,
the cattle -ov havt iti s-vur fields—the
bulls,' cows, steers and calves—will not
scrape the snow away and eat grass. It
is hardly necessary for me to ask -any
well informed stock farmer who winters
his stock as it should be kept, on large
quantities of blue grass that grows up
knee high and falls down, with a constant green winter growth beneath, I
say, it is hardly necessary for me to ask
such men if this be true, and yet that is
one'of the physiological facts which
proves in practice to be only a myth.
" It is so, too, of the liability to disease
of improved stock, and that they are less
hardy, which Dr. Brown claims to be
a physiological fact, is a great mistake in
practice.
There is a herd of cattle in Illinois
owned by Mr. Gillett, which were raised
and kept in the open air from birth to
maturity. These cattle are kept for beef
only. They are improved in the highest
degree, so far as perfection of form is
concerned, and they sell at the highest
market prices for the European market,
bringing six and one-half cents per
pound, gross, at the farm, when your
scrubs would not sell at the Indianapolis
stock-yards for much more than one-
third as much by the pound, and will not
weigh so much by equally as great a difference.
I have mentioned this herd, ak it is a
practical beef herd, the animals are
raised on the farm, and are sold to the
butcher there.
My own experience and observation is
worth more tome, however, than all the
theories I may hear of or read about, and
when I say that, among the 50 to 100
head of improved cattle under my care,
besides fine hogs, sheep and horses, I will
venture that there are fewer of them
diseased, and to which accidents from
natural or unnatural causes occur, than
with three times the number of any of
my neighbors, who handle scrub stock.
I will say there are fewer deaths, they
are more prolific, and are in every way
in a more prosperous and profitable condition than the ordinary stock of the
Country, in a far greater degree.
Take the blooded horse,forinstance,and
the man who says he is less hardy or
more liable to disease than the native,
makes a statement that breeders or informed men would as soon believe as
that the sun shines in the night. The
breeding world would have lived for
naught, these centuries, could this be so.
The great principle of breeding underlying all others in improved animals is constitution. This they possess in an eminent degree. It is the great object and
aim of intelligent breeders—the great
masters of the art. Scrubs have not this
vital force to endure hardships, to throw
oft the dangers with which the body is
constantly beset by disease, to withstand
the vicissitudes of climatic changes aud
to grow vigorous and stroug.
Let any one who wants to try the experiment for his own satisfaction, take a
well-bred steer calf and a scrub of the
same age, treat them as meanly as he
knows how for two years, and then give
them plenty of good grass. He will see
the well-bred steer rise above his former
abuses, spread out, thicken up in fleshy
and grow into a grand animal. _hh
scrub will always appear pinched, his
shoulders and fore-ribs will be bare. of
meat, the vital parts will only be covered
with a shell of bones and the hide, while
the former will be covered with most;
delicious meat from his neck to his tail.
This constitution I refer to gives game
and ambition to the animal. . He rises
above the. hardships of this world, as a
great man of superior energy and ability
rises above a sea of difficulties.
To say that Texas cattle never take the
Texas cattle fever themselves, but that
they impart it toourstockhere, is noargu-
ment. Indiana has as very scrubs as the
world ever saw—natives if you prefer-j-
and these Indiana scrubs will take the
Texas cattle fever as quick as any improved stock. Indiana has ''elm-peelerj'
hogs, too—at least, I have seen them id
large numbers here, but a few months'
ago—and they are as subject to the
cholera, so-called, as any of our improved
breeds, and, I think, much more so. J
think them more scrofulous, they lack in
constitution, and have less vitality.
Their breeding is bad, and they are the
subjects of neglect, want and disease.
The best bred hog in the world is the
Berkshire, and he has more game about
him than a thoroughbred horse—a slight
attack of cold does not affect him, he
does not lie down and die without a
struggle, but he keeps going until disease
is overcome and thrown off in the natu-*
ral way. I do not say these hogs neve)'
die, but I say they are more hardy ancl
less liable' to disease than any other in
the catalogue. And itis trueof all other
well-bred stock. I will Venture Dr.
Brown has seen men who were in bed
from slight illness, sid who were taken
out feet foremost; and he has seen others)
who lived and kept up an active busi-]
ness life, suffering more each day, than)!
killed tlie man w'ith less vitality and |
energy of character. ,.__,.'f_
I do not wish to argue t_at' scie.Y'-e
teaches nothing but what is false or untrue; on the contrary I' hold tbat science
does not truthfully teach us that improved stock is less hardy and mort',
liable  to  disease  than  native  scrubsi^l',':^infU=f;,F','T
after shearing time my ewes will weigh
from 180 to 200 pounds, aud are always
fat with a half chance. They live long
and breed well. I have some that
raised lambs at twelve years old, and I
sold the Iambs at ten dollars.
On the first day of January in each
year I credit my farm with everything
it produces in grain, grass, pasture, and
stock raised each year of all kinds. Then
I take out my taxes and expenses for the
year. This enables me to know exactly
what I am doing at the end of each year,
and what kind of stock is most profitable. This accurate account shows me
that my sheep are the most profitable of
any stock that I handle, although I have
sold fine cattle from $50 to $500; but this
is like getting office, you hardly ever get
two terms together. If a good dog law
be passed this winter by our Legislature,
there are hundreds of men in our State
that would go into the sheep business.
Every man that owns 80 acres of land in
the State could pay his tax with ten
sheep. This is rather a secret I am telling, but times are so hard, I will tell you.
Try it. Start with ten good ewes, at
four dollars per head. They will shear
twenty dollars worth of wool, and raise
seven lambs-sure, which, at three dollars
each, makes £21, and added to the value
of the wool it makes $41, which is the
Dutchman's "one per cent." and one
dollar over. Xow any person that owns
80 acres of land can run these sheep, before he breaks his corn ground in the
spring, on each field, and they will
clean his fence corners and briars all out;
then on his stubble-fields in the fall, so
that he will never miss what they eat,
and he can go right on with his farming
every year as usual, with his taxes paid,
and he don't know how, and be converted over in favor of a good dog law
besides. AVe never expect to let up till
we have more sheep and less dogs.
Leosidas McDaniei..
Rush Co., Dec. 29.
—AVe would like to have Mr. McDan-
iel's idea of what a good dog la--y is. The
Legislature may think that the present
law is a good one. Sheep men should
'.it th\ir legislators know whist kind of a
„'uw they want.—Eds. .
Letter Frc m' Johnson County.
That scientific men may hold h, as\-uu;>_T;^-n->«___ thinks he has an untruth, that it is.a. theory of theirs, i-j on OI/5_..inon large oulf, but he will be almost
thing, and that it has a foundation ii fa-shamed that he said anything about it
™*t_-£5'T_b£m -Sr agricultural col( ?"hen ^ "<*> "* fclf-ig, which can
leges are expected to do their greatest1,be vouched ior on good authority:
good.   Their field is to make praqticajj I John S. Cox, living two miles west of
A Fine Herd of Poland Chinas.
While canvassing for the Farmer a
short time sine?, I called at Mr. J. \V.
Ellis' to look at his herd of Poland China
hogs, from which he offered a choice pig
as a premium to some agent of the
Farmkb. I want to say that Mr. Ellis
has some as fine hogs as it has been my
pleasure to see. He has sixteen or eighteen brood sows, all square built and
lengthy, on short legs of symmetrical
make, having good bone, and some
of them, as he told me, deep in
Perfection blood. At the head of
his herd stands a young Perfection
boar of excellent make up, having
great length and depth, with broad back
and hams—such hams! broad, and muscled well down to the hock. This pig
he bought of Mr. Kyger, of Butler
county, Ohio. In short, Mr. Ellis has
herd of Poland Chinas that he may well
be proud of, and the agent who gets this
premium will be sure to get a good one.
Mr. Ellis is a clever gentleman and will
answer all correspondence relative to his
pigs, and I am sure he will give satisfaction to all who patronize him.
H. M. C, Agent for the Farmer.
 < _ ♦	
Union County Stock.
A Large Calf.-—Mr. S. M.**Lafuse, of
this county, has a calf that weighed 138
pounds when it was four days old. The
cow is a grade Short-horn. The sire of
the calf is a three-fourths blood Shorthorn. If any one can beat that, I would
like to have it reported in the Farsier.
Heavy Hogs.-—Mr. Carey Toney »sold
ninety head of hogs that averaged 500
pounds. Mr. S. Lafuse sold eighty-seven
head of his own raising which were
eighteen and nineteen months old and
fed about eighty days, that averaged 400
pounds. These hogs were of the Poland
China breed. Mr. S. Tappen sold nine-,y
head of Berkshire that averaged, ''411
pounds. /
Union county is said to ship the best
hogs and cattle that come to th^ Cinoin-
niiti market. Poland China/hogs nnd
Sht.r*:-horii cattle are the predominating
bret'ls ,' W. H. L.
Union Co., Jan. 1.
experiments of all kinds with the inos*
favorable surroundings of educatioi,
science and all kindred appliances. Ther
can separate the practical from the in 1-
practical, and by giving to the world tie
benefit of their results, through proper
publications the public becomes enlightened and they have fulfilled their rni '-
sion. Otherwise they are needless ii-
cumbrances. We want practical lessois
based upon every day truths, deducf
from the most careful and studied experiments, conducted by men "of gre.t
learning. The true and false then readiy
separates, and inexperienced and Uf-
learned people do notgropo in the dak.
Science, applied to our every day afla^3,
makes prosperity. It gives skill to
dustry, adds knowledge to power. WI
it misleads us, our work and skill are a]
lost. Scientific men, should therefore l|
careful that science really teaches
their theories, before giving them to tl
masses for every day use. "H "
1!
A" Sheep Breeder's Experience.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
It is a good plan each year for the she-
breeders to take a general survey of t
situation, looking backward to see if
has made  any   mistakes  in   breedii
And this part  of   sheep husbandry
quires, as much thought as any part|
the business. We have to look to clim
and' the kinds of sheep that we
handle to the best advantage.   Meri
sheep will herd together in large ilotj-.
better than any other kind, if a manj-j
only breeding for wool.   They will
do for mutton and wool combined, ai
breed, but to cross them with Cotswa
makes ne'xt to tbe best cross I ever.trl;
But my most successful  cross is ol
fourth   Southdown   and    three-fourl
Longwool.   For hardiness, sizeLflfl--
cass, and wool, all 'combined, this enfs
can not be beat in this State, clim-j.-,
market and wool all considered.   To|
this cross, I would start on the lar
best Cotswold ewes that I could raisj
buy, and would stay with them all
time, but in about four years, or fiv
most> they will run down.   To com;
act this tendency to run down and
scours and rot,   and all other ails
this open wool breed is liable to taktj
account  of our  severe winters,  I
throw in one-fourth Southdown,
make this cross,   use a Southdown
Edinburg, had two calves. The first was
aropped in November, the other one
liiter, which at less than six hours old,
-A'eighed respectively 121 and 125 pounds.
Their grandsires were of Jerre Wood-
r'ufl's best blooded Short-horns. By the
way, Jerry „• one of the finest stoek
raisers in Johnson county, if not in the
State, and that is saying a good deal, but it
is not to be disputed. Johnson county is
one of the first counties in the State for
improved stock of all kinds; even her
fat hogs are preferred by the packers, as
they make the best net weight, or, in
other words, gross the least, which is a
great item to packers.
Johnson county has one of the best
grain markets in' the State. It has at
Edinburg a starch mill and hominy mill
that consume fifteen hundred bushels of
corn per day, paying twenty-eight to
thirty cents per bushel. It also has a
large flouring mill that pay* eighty-two
to eighty-five cents per bushel for wheat.
Hogs about all sold; at au average of two
dollars and forty cents, per hundred gross.
There are from three to five hundred
head of cattle fed here every season for
Eastern market. There is a large crop of
wheat sown in this county and looking
very well. It is covered with about eight
inches of snow, the ground being frozen
but very ljttle, which is very favorable
for the wheat. But woe unto the men
that are oufof wood. Sleighing never
was better, with the thermometer ranging about zero. Success to the Indiana
Farmer and to the Indiana farmers,
and hoping that Mr. Young is not bluffed,
and hoping that we may hear from him
again, I remain yours, J. B. M.
Edinburg, Dec. 30.
-.Indiana Patents.
List of patent*; issued to citizens of the
State of Indiana, December 17,1878, and
each bearing date December 31, 1878.
Furnished this paper by C Bradford,
solicitor of pat-ents, 18 Hubbard Block,
Indianapolis, Ind., of whom copies and
information may be obtained:
To Daniel Hess, of Evansville, for improvement in vertical disc grinding mills.
To Milton W. Smithand Eli J. Ritchey,
of Scottsburg, for improvement in grain
drills.
To James F. Petty and Thos. J. Mob-
Icy, of Frankfort, for improvement in
bee-hives.
Wire Binders as Viewed From the
Miller's Standpoint.
The subject presei.Hd in the letter,
written, as will be seen, by one of the
most prominent milling linns in Southwestern Indiana, to Uobort Mitchell,
Esq., member of the State Board of Agriculture from that district, will be new
to most of our readers, mul should be
investigated carefully by all wheat growers:
llobert Mitchell, Esq., I'riiK'.toji, Ind:
Dear Sir:—We have been looking
through our bolting cloth, antl making
some calculations as to damage done by
wire in wheat, since we began on new
crop last July. Oue estimate will run
up to about $800. Although wo have
some five cleaners through which tho
wheat passes, yet you would scarcely believe the amount of wire that goes to
the stone and from the stones to the bolt.
The larger pieces pass oil' into the bran
(and it seems to us that it will be a little
hard for stock to digest). Tlie smaller
pieces pass out as middlings into tho
purifiers, cutting tho cloth as they go,
until they are returned to the stone
again for regrinding; then, after grinding, it goes to the middlings chest to perform its work of perforation again, until
the larger portion, after having done its
work on the cloth, works off in the ship-
stuff as feed. Our receipts of wheat this
year from the portions of country where
wire binders are being used has been
comparatively small, and yet the damage
is too great a burden to be borne, with
the close competition we have and small
margins wo are running on. Knowing
the prominent place you occupy among
the leading farmers, we have been thus
minute in describing the results of the
wire in our milling, thinking by some
slight improvement either in the machine for cutting antl binding or in taking the wire out at time of threshing,
these results may be obviated., Gibson
county for j(ears has occupied an enviable reputation as one of the best
counties for^vheat in the Western fall*,
wheat district>NThis reputation has been
well earned by the energy aud enterprise of her farmers, ami *.vy icjtil.-e in ,
every increased facility that can be
given for the saving of labor and th-y development of the agricultural liitereM^w-v
of our country. The truth' is, milling
and farming go hand in hand, and anything that militates against one injures
the other.
You will perhaps have seen that this
subject of "wire binding" has been agitated in the Northwest, and the millers
in several of their conventions have discussed the question at length. Wc have
written you at this early date in order, if
possible, to have some change made before another harvest. Shall be glad to
hear from you on the subject. Will also
say that foreign buyers are alive to the
fact, and protesting against it. Awaiting
anything you may see proper to give us,
we are, yours truly,
Igi.eiieaet Buothehs.
Evansville, Dec. 27.
'a
What Is the Matter With the HogsP
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Can you, or any readers of the Farmer, tell me what is the matter with our
hogs? We killed twelve hogs, the fat
and skins of six were yellow. The hogs
looked healthy, ate and fattened well.
The liver and other organs looked natural, except the gall sack, which was enlarged. Some say it was jaundice. Is
there such a thing as a hog having
jauncice? If so, is there any cure? Would
there not be danger in using such hogs?
Geo. W. Wiiisti.br.
Delphi, Ind., Jan. 0.
ou those large ewes, then cross t^in
with Leicester or Lincoln. I know
thoroughbred gentlemen will cry
"Oh, this is a mongrel breed." W
know that. I sheared ft J- poun
wool from my yearlings, and sold
that weighed 135 pounds.   In a „■
What Kind of Wool is Wanted.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
In reading the article on sheep raising
.and breeding, I have been very much interested and instructed, but there is one
point in this great industry I should like
to hear dismissed by some of our leading
I sheep breeders, viz.: Can men who have
' spent almost a lifetime in producing the
long and lustrous combing  wool now
give way to the wool   merchants and
take their advice as to the kind of wool
they must raise?   Our manufacturers tell
us we must cross our long wool sheep
with some of the Downs to produce the
kind of wool they want. Sheep breeders,
speak up. Nixon He.vley.
Monrovia, Dec. 30.
 at   aa»   a.	
\
It is said that between 200 and 300 men
and women of St. Louis drink daily
from a half to a pint of blood, piping
hot from the veins of slaughtered cattle.
More blood-drinking by consumptives
and aged persons is done in September
and October than during the remainder
of the year. The blood of young steers
is the best, and should be caught as it
comes from the animal and drank while
the foam is still ou and the steam rising.
Consumptives are advised, in addition to
drinking the blood to sit in a slaughter
house for a couple of hours every day at
killing time to inhale the "steam" ofthe
running blood.
To beautify the coats of eight horses,
value $3,000, and also four oxen; a Cambridgeshire ( England) laborer put so
j ! much arsenic in their food that they all
-■died. Sentence: a month's hard labor.
This treatment of horses is common at
Vienna. It makes them foam at the
mouth, too, or is supposed to do so.
This is sure to be a cold winter. It is
said the muskrat is the weather insect of
all varmints—Tice not excepted, and that
when he builds his house large, on the
ground and flat then look out for a cold,
dry winter, and when he builds a high
house look out for floods. This season it
has been observed tbat the houses are
both large and high; therefore we may
expect the winter will be cold, and that
there will be high water.
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James Murray has taken his family
from Gilbertville, N. Y., to his South
American farm of 3,700 acres, which is
stocked with 1,000 ostriches and 300
mares of rare blood and pedigree. Murray was a classmate of the Prince of
Wales' at Oxford, and now finds ostrich
raising so profitable that he recently sold
sixty birds at Cape Town for $27,000, and
a pound of feathers for $800, or $8 a
feather.
Sugar Adulteration.
The following petition has been circulated very largely throughout the country, and has already received from 30,-
000 to 40,000 signatures:
From the people to ttie Honorable fc-.TUvte and II-.n!-.e
or Representatives of the United Mate*..
Your petitioners respectfully represent
to your honorable body:
1. That the sweets now in use in the
United States, including cane-sugar,
maple-sugar, syrups, candies, jellies,
honey, etc., are often adulterated with
corn glucose.
2. That this glucose is manufactured
from corn starch by boiling the starch
with sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), then
mixing it with lime. The glucose retains more or less of sulphuric acid, lime,
j copperas, sucrate of lime, etc.
3. That seventeen specimens of common table syrups'were recently examined by R. C. Kedzie, A. M. Professor of
Chemistry in the Michigan State Agricultural College, at Lansing. Fifteen of
these proved to be made of glucose; one
contained 111 grains of sulphuric acid (oil
of vitriol), and 724 grains of lime to the
gallon; another, which had caused serious sickness in a whole family, contained 72 grains of sulphuric acid, 28
grains of sulphate of iron (copperas), and
303 grains of lime to the gallon.
4. Tbe American people are pre-eminently a sugar-eating people. The consumption of sugar by each individual in
our country is shown by statistics to be
about 40 pounds a year. It is seen at
once that the adulterators of sugars and
other sweets not only cheat our people in
the quality of what they consume, since
glucose contains from 30 to 40 per cent,
of sugar, but injurealsothepublichealth,
by selling uuder false names an article
injurious to health.
5. It is as much the right and duty of
Congress to enact laws against tins as
any other frauds; for instance, if counterfeiters of money injure the publio wealth,
counterfeiters of food injure the public
health.
In view of tlie above facts, your j>eti-
tioners earnestly request your Honorable
body to decree that the adulteration of
sweets, and the sale of such adulterated products, arc fraudulent practices
against the people; .*>.nd to eiiar* laws t'tr
the suppression of this illegal busmen/--.
And your petitioner.** will ever pray.
A stock dealer of West*, rn   Jowa
cently bought 40,000 bushel*" of oorn »
Iscm.ars at eightec-iits per biie-ln. 1.
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