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yOL. XIV. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MAY 10, 1879. NO. 19. FOB MALE. -^rBALE—EGGs-S-ee Bennett's special offer. - -^ThALE—Oliver Chilled Plows. Best In us "C \V. J. KERCHEVAL. Agent. Danville. Ind. ■-^5""fiALE— One handsome Poland China male -pig- Address W. O. REVEAL, Clermont, Ma- oa county, Ind. •—,R u\LE-Etres from high-class land and water V towlV Leading varieties. Address, GREEN & ^r^^Clayton, Ind. F-^riT«ALE— Six handsome Partrldee Cochin Cockerels at $2 each- Order soon. GEORGE VES- aLiGanibridge City.Ind. F"^i^SALE—Aahton's salt for butter. "Lump Rode" for salting stock. CHAS. L DIETZ.^7 r^t Market street, Indianapolis, Ind. r-TntTsALE— Farms In Marlon, Rush and other F counties in Indiana. G. W. ALEXANDER, 36 £ jjajtet St., (side door Central Bank). ^7^~gALE—J. L. Brown, Manilla, Rush county, Ind., breederof Light Brahmas of Felch and •rnjej-'8 stock, and White Leghorns. Bend orders ttrgt*___ F~~nB SALE—The Farm Register and Account Rook. --Complete method of keeping farm ac- nnt*rprice$leach. Address INDIANA-FARMER [oMPANY, fndlanapolis. FOR SALE—I have a few Light Brahma Cockerels at 42 each. I want to close out for the season. _r,t_!\i the time for Farmers and others to improve JSr stock. G. A. DANLEY, Indianapolis, Ind. FOR SALE—Short-horns—Fletcher s young Ma ry a Fhylis, Agathas, Brides, Gems, etc. Bulls and hoifprs choicely bred. Correspondence solicited. t C. THOMPSON, Lock Box 1, Edingburg, Ind. FOR SALE—EGGS—Dark Brahmas, Pool A Bag- ley's importations. Plymouth Rocks, Conger's ..«-iin*i 13 per 13; $350per 26 at one time. Money to Kmpany order. VVT R. ZIKE, Morristown, Ind. f^0It~SALE-JERSEY RED HOGS-Sows with P nle one year old; boars tour to twelve months U HARRIS SHEPPARD, w Spencer, Owen county, Indiana. ■pOR SALE—11 Black Spanish, 11 Light Brahma Y and 9 Pekin duck eggs for $4. Good hatch guarded if hens do their part. (Mention Farmer). Ad- JresaJOUN BENNETT, Sunman, Ripley Co., Ind. FOR SALE—EGGS, EGGS-Dark Brahmas, pen Ko. 1, $2 per 13; No. 2, Jl 50 per 13. Plymouth Rtvk 62 per 13. All prize-winning strains. Orders Sled now. Chicks for sale. WILLIAM R. ZIKE, Morristown, Ind. FOR SALE—Pampas or Northern Rice. Healthy, nutritious food for man or beast. Very best chicken feed. Now is the time to sow. 25 cents a pvketor 5for§l. Postpaid. Address.J. H. BROU- Dls,care Indiana Farmer Co., Indianapolis, Ind. pOR SALE—ARTICHOKES—Red or Brazilian, 6 £ pounds for 25c, or 10 pounds for 40c by express. Vnume Sweet or Sugar Corn, excellent variety, 2 ojnees for 10c by mail, postage prepaid. J. G. KINGSBURY.-34 East Market street, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—Eggs—actly 27 Grand Prizes at Indianapolis and Lafayette, on our stock of Dark Brahmas, White, Black and Partridge Cochins, Ph mouth Rocks, Brown Leghorns, Bronze Tur- _.\_ and Toulouse Geese. Our birds have scored frj'm 99 to 95 points by B. N. Pierce. Eggs. $2 per Utting. WEST A WHICKER Pecksburg. Ind. FORSALE—A farm of 104 acres adjoining Whltes- ville.on the L.,N. A. and C. K. R-, six m!le3 ■wilheast of and connected with Crawfordsville, the coanty seat, by good free gravel road. The land is new, well underdrained with tile, has young orchard, grape and other small fruits, commodious barn and ether outbuildings, and part of the material for a dwelling-house. For sale on good terms. Address or call oa L. J. COHOON, Whitesville, Montgomery cojnty, Ind. FOR SALE—Farm 81 acres, six miles south of this city, on a pike; very best second creek bottom toiI, lasting stock water; large amount of plank fence; 80 large, healthy apple-trees; comfortable house, five rooms, with cellar; two good barns; in a first-class neighborhood, near Southport; having church, high-school and railroad station. Price, POO. At. ARBUCKLE, 70 E. Market street. FOR SALE—Eggs from Partridge Cochins„Dark Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks. Gray Dorkins and White Holland Turkeys at f 150 for 13. Light Brahmas, 8. S. Hamburgs, White and Brown Leghorns at |1 25 for 13. 25 cents less where three or we sittings are ordered at one time. I have in my Fns birds from some of the best breeders of New Wk, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. T. J JOHNSON, Greencastle, Ind. misc £x,i,A>i:*nus. FOR SALE^-See Bennett's special offer. M. GOODE-Dentlst, over • nla street. ) North Penhsylva- ^ C BURGESS, Dentist. Office In room 4 Va- J* jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St. ALLEN'S DRUG STORE, OPPOSITE POST- OFFCE, Drugs,Patent Medicines/Toilet Articles. GJ.ILT EDGE Creamery Butter can be made by ' every Farmer at home. No extra expense for apparatus. Full Instructions sent for one dollar by *rtART A CO., owneis Gilt Edge Creamery, Mount Carroll, II). ' & F°? (1 I will procure the patent, or government *■ deed to your farm if on file. If delivered here- £iore and lost, I will get a certified copy for $2 fiO. G. *• BALLARD, Indianapolis, late Receiver United ^fl-Land Office. ])KICK AND DRAIN TILE-Fletcher A Thomas trfrti ep constantly on hand pressed brick, red runts, pavers, and common brick; also, drain tile; r*Kr smaU orders promptly tilled. Office, room 10 *iftcher & Sharpe's blockT T 0AN-MONEY—In sums of $300 to $10,000, on -^ ""Proved farms in Indiana, at eight per cent. Thp « ,-Payable annually (no commissions charged). time ir paluor any J)art °* it can be PaId atany Sl.Indl •'■ B. PALMER & CO., No. 78 East Market '■"■napolts.Ind. l_l o Six per cent, loans made on longtime ***»0i"I'1 re&i-estate security at 6 per cent, interest. B u. .*> Uarrangenients for those wishing loans in from i-iit. inonths ■« lower rates. A. W. PKATHER, » *•&'>? Ranted in every connty in the State. Office __■ "na Delaware street, Indianapolis, Ind. Wxvt ^taclt. Meeting of Short-Horn Breeders'and Wool-Growers' Associations. Editors Indiana Farmer- Arrangements have been made with the following railroads centering in Indianap? olis, to carry persons in attendance at either association as follows: all who desire to attend over the I. C. and __., the P. C. and St. __., or the I. B. and VT. railroads, are requested to address me, giving name and address, and I will forward them certificates which will entitle them to reduced rates. All coming on the I. P. and C. R. Ri, will please address me as soon as convenient, giving name and tho station from which they will come. Those who intend coming on the J. M. and I., the C. H. and D., or the Vandalia route, need not address me, as certificates will be furnished at time of meeting. No letters mailed after the 20th of May, will be answered, so please address soon, and oblige. Thomas W. VT. Sunman. Spades, Ripley Co., Ind., May 5. » — » Sale of Fine Stoek. Editors Indiana Farmen I have recently sold the following Shorthorns: Whittington Lad, red, calved July 4, 1878; got by Oxford Royal 2d S. II. R., dam Josephine 3d by Capt. Sheftoe 7661, etc., to imp. Lady Whittington, by Whittington 12299, to R. McCafferty, Fayettes- ville, Brown county, Ohio. To S. C. Cline, Snowhill, Ohio, the Amelia bull calf, Earl Airdrie, red and white, calved Dee. 12,1877; got by 7683 Lord Loudon, dam Amelia Airdrie by 4554 Washington Airdrie, etc. To J. Leeka, Clinton Co., Ohio, the Miss Hopper heifer, Miss Maynard 2d, red, calved June 3, 1875; got by 5656 Prince of Bellville, dam Maynard 4th by 3963 Mar- quiss etc. To A. T. Johnson, New Vienna, Ohio, the Miss Hopper bull, Marquiss May- -fiard.Xfid,. QalvfidJJfjc. IS, 18.76; gpt.byj 5272 Hankins 1st Loudon Duke, dam Maynard 4th by Marquiss. My herd embraces Rose of Shaiors, Young Marys, Young Phyllis, Mazurkas, Charlottes, Pomonas, Amelias, Matildas, etc., and they are all coming on to grass in fine condition, with eleven winter calves. J. F. Terrell. in his driver; and so long as that confidence ls notabused, they will yield implicit obedience to the word of command. When the wild colt is trained under the law of force, he becomes terror-stricken with fear, and fights back to relieve himself from oppression; and having the advantage of Buperior strength, often triumphs over his trainer, and contracts tho vice of rebellion. This vico lives on to be interred with his bones. —Correspondence National Live-Stock Journal, Chicago. We are decidedly of the opinion that brood mares should have plenty of exercise, and nothing is better than moderate work. Neither should they be permitted to become fat, ior the dangers of parturition are immensely augmented in such cases. Mares in thin flesh, if healthy and in "good heart," rarely experience any difficulty in foaling, and there is but little danger of "milk fever" after tho foal is dropped.—National Live Stock Journal, Chicago. Preserving Sheep from Dogs. On one sheep in every ten of the flock put a boll of tho usual size for sheep. The instinct of the dog prompts him to do all his acts in a sly, stealthy manner; his attacks txym sheep are most frequently mado at night while they are at rest, and tho simultaneous jingling of all the bells strikes terror to tho dogs; thoy turn their tails and leave the shoep, fearing the noise ofthe bells will lead to their exposure. The ratio of bells may be made to vary according to the size of the flock.—Ex. our stock in the quality of meat. So they are still on even terms; but its hide is worth four times as much, so it comes out far ahead in the last heat, as horsemen say. The hide from my bull was a beautiful «pecimen. It was better than a ?25 robe I bought to compare with it. The fur was longer and finer, the result of good feed, I think." The buffaloes herded with the other cattle on tho best of terms. What surprised the Colonel most was their weakness. Ho supposed they were very powerful, but they are not. He has seon a yearling Alderney bull push a three-year-old buffalo bull up hill. They are fast, but they are not strong. They are also very cowardly, very playful, and very cunning.—Scientific American. ^ & arm* Postal-Card Correspondence WAJfTEO. W fbT.?D_slake your Chicks and Pigs grow by tl t»r imt1in*f Ground Beef Scraps, 4c per pound, Pound at poun<1'1- Uround Oyster Shells 2c per y-~-_j*J?. BAOLEY'S, Indianapolis, Indiana. 'V 7i"rED- A purchaser for a tarm ln Hendricks *"* In h nty* "° acres, well Improved, *p*2.000; also, '■"M* *.m.amilton county, 80 acres, well Improved, ' •"a a large list of farms for trade. 05,,., CLBAVELANU 4 CO., - .-^orth Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis. ■j.., It Pays to Advertise. """Indiana Farmer: hash- here! St0p the machine! A man j la f°ot in it, but won't do so any more! Tom 6<1 your readers with Hathaway's p ' -tfl seed according to my offer in the jjj, f" "H they went up in the hundreds, ^n,8 1" 'ho'orders come. Please say I will a,]v rest next season, very early. If Sll .1Sers will patronize the Fakmek I am eit will be profitable. fjllft Chas. A. Green. a°°, Monroe Co., N. Y., May 2. rwth.. at an Advertiser Says. The fi !lna Farmer* frrJIn 'rst rePly from my advertising came PARJ) "e advertisement in the Indiana *.*.,;, .Rto"-uay,though I have been adver- 1 ^°lrs f1 °tller PaPers longer than in your's. Dm . y' C. G. Hami-ton. T"*. Mich'., May 3. Breaking Colts. Colts should be halter-broken when following the mare; it helps to subdue them, and supercedes the necessity of breaking them over again when grown up. "Once broken, always broken,", is an axiom as old as the art of breeding. It is advisable to break them to harness at two-and-one-half or three years old. They will receive no injury frompareful usa-^e in light vehicles. The most practicable modo of subduing wild colts is to hitch them up with a well- broken horse, and teach them by example to perform service. The first step is to bit the colt, to make him bridle-wise. This is accomplished by checking up the head with the bitting bridle. They may bo turned into the yard to run at large, taking care that their heads are not left strained up more than an hour at a' time. The head should be let down often to give the neck rest. It will prevent their contracting a coarse, unpleasant hog- mouth. After they have become accustomed to the bit, they should bo driven in harness, without any load, until they yield implicit obedience to the bit, and obey with alacrity the word of command. They will become comparatively broken by tho simple process of suppling the neck, and teaching them to stop and go forward at the will of the driver. They will seldom offer any resistance when hitched to the vehicle. Patience and perseverance will accomplish wonders in horse flesh. Intelligent instruction improves the disposition and develops the speed and endurance of colts, essential qualities in tho roadster. The more good qualities developed wheu young, the greater will be the merits of the recipients. Those subjects that will do the most work in the least timo aro tho most profitable to the owner. It costs no more to keep or raise the fast worker than it does the slow mongrel. The former will perform twice the service of the latter. The best are the cheapest to wear out; besides, there is pleasure in using a superior animal. Colts should be broken to harness before they get so strong as to control tho driver. They are not perfectly developed for hard work before tney aro fivo years old. Gentle usage at light work for one or two years will bring them into submission. They will become accustomed to different kinds of service, and tho force of habit will make them kind and trustworthy. When broken under tho law of kindness, they seldom contract vicious habits. They are not naturally vicious; they aro mado so by ignorant or brutal drivers. Incompetent trainers make talky horses. Thoy use too much brute force without reason or common sense. They appeal to the lowest passions, in place of intelligent instruction. Reason is better than force to govern the horse; kindness is the weapon to subdue the wild colt. This humane law removes terror, and secures the confidence of the colt A Special Want. Tho United States needs more sheep. In all parts of this great country to secure health and comfort, its people*inust have food aud clothing. The sheep furnishes the best and most wholesome animal food, and the most comfortable clothing yet tested by the masses of our people. In malarial disirlcts, c»peci**Jly those where, the. ^t.< tremes of heat aud cold aro frequent, woolon clothing and a freer and more common diet of goood young mutton would insure better health and more vigor than generally characterizes pork eaters and the wearers of cotton and fine linen. From the best data within our reach, wo ascertain that there are on tho entire globo about 500,000,000 sheep. Ol theso tho United States have but about 35,000,000. Our manufactories consume annually more than 225,000,000 pounds or wool. Il each of our sheep furnished five pounds of wool, there would yet be a yearly deficit of 50,- 000,000 pounds. Here is a good field lor enterprising stockmen. We need double our present number of sheep. Let no one indulge a single fear of an overproduction of either mutton or wool. Could our flocks be tripled or quadrupled they would add not only to the comfort and healthfulnessot the people, but to their intelligence and sobriety, as well as to the productiveness of every field used as a sheep pasture. We hope that every farmer who reads this, will at once consider how much his interests would be subserved by adding a score of Leicester or Southdown, long- wooled sheep, to his stock. Theso lurnish choice food, and their increase and fleeces are always in demand, and tbat, too, at fair prices.—Drovers' Journal. The Domestication of the Buffalo. Col. Ezra, Miller, of Mahwah, New Jersey, has been making some experiments which have led him to the conclusion that it will pay to breed buffaloes, both pure blood and crossed with our domestic cattle. Relating his experience with these animals lately, the Colonel said: "I have proved to my own satisfaction several points. First, that buffaloes can be tamed. Second, that it doesn't cost one half as much to keep a buffalo as to keep an ordinary cow. Third, they can be fattened as quickly as ordinary beeves, and on half the food, and their meat is just as good. Fourth, they are as good milkers as our Alderneys; and fifth, they are as good butter makers. The milk of the buffalo is a little yellower than that of the Alderney, but very sweet and rich, and there is more cream than in the Alderney milk. As to the quantity of milk given by buffalo cows, they will average with the average milker. The udder of the buffalo cowls very small indeed,but the milk veins are immense. This is a provision whereby nature enables them to run faster than if cumbered by a large udder. I am of the opinion that the most desirable cross is with the big Dutch cattle that have such big udders. I think that crossing them with our Short-horns will give remarkably good beef. But tho beef from our buffaloes more than met my expectation. It was sweet, juicy and tender, not at all like the meat of the buffalo ofthe plains. "Now, in drawing the balance between the buffalo and tho ordinary cow, I find these facts: The buffalo can be kept at one half the cost ot tho cow; that's one point forthe buffalo. We will assume, to give the oow a fair show, that she yields more milk and butter. That balances the account so far. The buffalo is fully equal to IXDIAXA. Mox-rooMERY Co., May 3.—Wheat looks well. Farmers are getting along well with planting. Somo are done. Fruit prospects good. VT. II. O. Clarke Co., May 3.—Fino weather at present. Farmers planting corn; some j*irmers have finished planting corn. Judging from tho bloom thero is going to bo a big crop of apples. D. C W. Wells Co., May 3.—Weather fine; farmers busy al'out their spring work; tho spring is backward and fully two weeks : behind time. Somo have not plowed any yet. Wheat never looked better. Times hard as ever; business dull; corn, 25c; oats, 18c; wheat, 88c. C. Q. W. Hamilton Co., April SO.—Wheat looks well in our county. Farmers aro very busy plowing. A large crop of flax has i>o*sn sown. Plenty of hay stacks to be soeii. Potatoes rather scarce at 50c. The Farmer is a welcome visitor at my house. -.11. Wabash Co., April 30.—Weather warm and pleasant. Farmers are all in excitement about getting their flax sown. But littlo plowing done for corn in this locality. Wheat looks fine. Grass is coming on finely. We all welcome tho Farmer. The neighbors borrow it. Long may it wave. A Subscriber. Martin Co., May 3.—Weather fine; roads good. The growing wheat looks well. Peaches all killed. Apples, if not killed yet, will be a good crop. Farmers busy plowing for corn; somo corn planted. Wheat worth OOc; corn, 35e; oats, 25c. Farm hands from ?10 to §15 per month. A Reader. Vioo Co., April 30.—The weather is fair and everything looks fine. Tho wheat never looked better. Apples lair crop. Peaches all killed. Blackberries mostly killed. Small fruit all right yet. Wheat, ?l 05; corn, 25c; oats, 25c; potatoes, Early Rose, 51 25; peach blows, 65; butter, 20c; eggs, 10c. A. G. Madison Co., April 30.—Wheat continues to do well. Oats, flax and clover are coming up all right. Farm work well advanced. Weather has been highly favorable for work and .crops. Farm hands plenty at f 12 to ?15 per month. Female help scarce at ?1 25 to ?2 50 per week. Good rain on Sunday evening. S. VT. H. Harrison Co., April 30.—The spring has been cold and wet and has thrown the farmers back in their work until the last week; since then we have had delightful weather, which has been improved every hour. Harrison county never had a better prospect for wheat for tho timo of year. The prospect for fruit is bright except for peaches; for apples very good, all in full bloom. We have average of stock hogs and no cholera. J. S. B. an article in your paper from this place, so here it goes. Farmers very active; ground In splendid order. Wheat looks well but not so large as last year at this time. Last winter beat all the prophets; twice in January the thermometer went 22° below zero, and with all we have about one-fourth of a peach crop; May cherries about the same. Tender grapes are nearly all killed and others badly damaged. A good prospect for apples and pears for this season. Some hog disease, pneumonia, as I believe it to be. No fat hogs; but there is money in hogs at present prices, three dollars per cwt., when corn is 25c per bushel, but farmers are afraid to risk their money in hogs. Subscriber. Johnson Co., May 3.—Wheat looks tolerably well in our county; not quite so strong a growth as last year, but we think we would as lief risk it as if it was ranker. Fruit a very good prospect; has been a little cool tbe last night or so, but the very dry and windy weather we think has saved it. Some corn planted; most of tho plowing is done; ground is getting rather dry and hard, and if you would listen I expect you could hear somo of the farmers praying for a shower of rain. Times hard; money scarce; hogs low; no wheat, and things a little blue generally. J. T. D. Huntington, May 1.—Tho weather is fair and everything is growing nice. Oats and flax all sown and corn planting commenced. Mr. Samuel Emley planted seven acres tho 29th of April. This is tho earliest planting in this part of the State. Wheat looks splendid. Stock wintered well; pasture coming on nicely, and fruit is out in full bloom. The supposition was that peaches were killed, trees and all, but it's a mistake; wo will have plenty of peaches if late frosts do not hurt them, and all other kinds of fruit. Somo farmers aro complaining that their seed corn is hurt by tho cold weather, but I think that is a mistake, for I had mine ^n as cold a place as could be found, and it is all right. I think heat will hurt it quicker than freezing. Success to tho Farmer. E. E. Henry Co., May 5.—We are now having nice growing weather. The farmers are entirely engaged in plowing, preparatory to sowing *a large crop of oats and flax. Wheat is looking better than that of preceding years and tho acreage is fifteen per cent greater than the average sown. Apples, pears, grapes and small fruits are flattering for a largo yield, though peaches and early cherries are killed. Early vegetables are up and promising. Stock is looking well considering the poor shelters usually provided for them. Much maple molasses has been made and of good quality. It is selling on an average at §1 25 per gallon. Farm hands receive from ?12 to §18 per month. Business of all kinds is opening with vim, while the prospects exhibit success. Long may tho Farmer wave and bo prosperous. J. C. M. PEJiSSYLVASIA. , York Co., April 30.—Wheat and rye look tolerably well. The rye is beginning to shoot heads. Grass is coming on finely. Oats are all sown. Corn planting has begun. Apples, peaches and cherries if not killed in the future will be a good crop. Wheat, ?1@1 06; rye, 48c; corn, 40c; oats, 27c; butter, 14c; eggs, 8c. Fat cattle nearly all shipped; worth from 4 to 5c. J. F. C. lLLI-NOtS. St. Joseph, April 30.—Very cold and backward until the past week changed to warm and dry, at present favorable for a good crop. Wheat never looked better at this time. Oats coming up nicely; a good deal of corn will be planted the present week ii favorable. Health good. Stock healthy and doing well; no hog cholera in this neighborhood. Peach and apple trees are full of bloom and promise an abundant fruit crop. Small fruit and vegetables in abundance. L. C. McE. tables with better food than they now have, and clothe and educate* all their children; hence I only pity them for their ignorance. Health good. Colored people aro preparing to emigrate in large numbers to Kansas; most of the better class hero encourage them to go, as we think it will better their condition and also induce the whites from the north to tak« their places here. Your paper is growing better. V. R. S. OKOItOIA. Walker Co., April 28.—AVheat looks well and is heading out. Corn all planted and coming up; put in better than usual. Winter oats badly frozen out; spring sown coming on finely. Stock wintered well, and has been living on the range for a month. Peaches all killed except on elevations. Apples and cherries partly killed. Plenty of plums. Grapes uninjured. Strawberries ripening. Gardens look fine; peas blooming; onions as large as your thumb; potato slips ready to transplant. Tho spring has been unusually backward, but the forests are at last clothed in green, and the atmosphere is laden with tho perfume of millions of wild flowers. Corn, 50c; wheat, §1; oats, 40c; bacon, 7c; flour, ?2 75 per sack. Health good; havo heard of but ono death in a month—a very old citizen. Schools and churches in a flourishing condition. Farm hands §9 per month and board. But one family ol colored peoplo in tho neighborhood. Horses, ?40 to $60; mules, ?75 to ?125; beef cattle, V/, to 4c gross, owing to quality; butter, 15 to 20e; chickens, 10c; eggs 5c per dozen. J. L. Jenkins. QUERY AND AXSWER. Hen-House. Editors Indiana Farmer- Will some reader of the Farmer please give me a good plan for a cheap hen-house, and oblige? I. N. L. . Holstein Cattle. Editors Indiana Farmer: Are there any Holstein cattle State? If so, who has them? Hamilton Co. in this B. Y. Bone Dust. Editors Indiana Farmer: I wish to inquire through the columns of the Farmer where dry bone dust can bo had and what will be the cost of same. A. G. Mulberry, April 30. —Dry bone dust can bo bought of the Indianapolis Fertilizing Company, this city, atthe rate of?l 50 per hundred pounds. From ono hundred to one hundred and fifty pounds per aero should bo applied.— Eds. Pike Co., April 30—Cold rains and mud and bad roads and poor stock and long faces prevail here, or did until the 20th. Tho last three days have been warm, and grass is visible. Wo think we will have apples and some cherries. Farmers are very backward. Feed is getting scarce and high. Wheat looks well. There will hardly be as much corn planted as common. Work has begun on tho Petersburg and Worthington railroad in Pike county. L. B. Howard Co., April 30.—The spring has been backward, but we have had splendid weather for two weeks past, which the farmers have been using to a good advantage. Farmers wasting no timo in making preparations for planting. I understand one farmer in Tipton county has thirty acres of corn planted, while some farmers are busy gathering their last year's crop. On examination since my last writing I notice that thero will be a fair crop of apples, pears and May cherries. No hog cholera. Hogs worth ?3 10; cattle worth from ?2 25 to ?3 25 gross; sheep worth §3 to §4 25 per cwt. Farm wages from $8 to ?13 per month, and some hands furnishing a horse at the latter price. Health good. W. VT. F. Parke Co., April 30.—I have never seen ALABAMA. Morgan Co., May 1.—Health good. Weather fine with now and then a warm shower of rain, which enables the young plants to grow off with great celerity. Wheat, corn, oats, potatoes and cotton all look fine and promise a good crop. Fair prospect for fruit of all kinds. The Farmer is appreciated very much by those who take it, and the prospects are that as soon as tho farmers sell their wheat and corn this fall I shall be enabled to raise a good big club. My best regards to the Farmer. U. T. Huntsville, May 1.—The weather has been nice here for about three weeks, with nice showers, and our farmers are making good use of it. Oui crop is all out except the cotton, which is being put in as fast as possible, and we have a good prospect for a large crop of everything except peaches and apples. But we shall have many more peaches than we 'expected after our big frost. Of apples only the early kinds were killed. All small fruits will be very abundant. Some complain of hard times, but if they will give me the money they spend for whisky, tobacco and unnecessary and injurious indulgences, I-will supply their Sowing Blue-Grass. Editors Indiana Farmen In response to "J. H.," who wants to know when to sow blue-grass, whero to get the seed, etc., allow me to say that when I sowed turnips last July, about the 25th, I also sowed blue-grass in the samo ground, and I now have a great sward that looks like an old pasture. I sowed a large quantity, perhaps a bushel on one quarter of an acre. In sowing I used a hand sieve, such as plasterers screen sand through, carrying ' it before me with one hand and rubbing the seed round with the other, as I walked back and forth across the ground. But blue-grass would perhaps not do well sown in tho summer if tho weather should be dry. In tho blue-grass regions of Kentucky the sowing is genorally done in the fall, about wheat-sowing time. But it will grow well any time when the weather is wet and warm. The seed can be obtained of seed dealers in any of the cities, and it is now selling at low figures in Kentucky. The poople of Indiana havo not yet learned the value of blue-grass. From experiments I have made I am satisfied that much of the soil in Central Indiana is as well adapted to blue-grass as the celebrated blue-grass region of Kentucky, and there are thousands of acres of this land today overgrown with brush and weeds, which, if sowed in blue-grass, would bring millions of dollars ot wealth to our State. It costs but little to sow it and it needs no cultivation, and then it enriches the ground almost, if not quite as much as clover. It never dies out, and continues to make the ground richer and richer. It does best where there is a clay subsoil, but it will grow in almost any kind of ground that is well drained. It is a good plan to let it go to seed once about every three years beforo turning stock on it. If not pastured during the summer, it makes tho best of winter grazing for cows, making rich cream and yellow butter all winter. The tops die, but there is a coat of green underneath all winter, and all kinds of stock will paw away the deepest snow to get at it. You could not perferm a greater servico to tho farmers of Indiana than to get them to fully understand the value of blue-grass and how to manage it. The variety known as Kentucky blue-grass is the best. Montgomery. Crawfordsville, April 2-1.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1879, v. 14, no. 19 (May 10) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA1419 |
Date of Original | 1879 |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | yOL. XIV. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MAY 10, 1879. NO. 19. FOB MALE. -^rBALE—EGGs-S-ee Bennett's special offer. - -^ThALE—Oliver Chilled Plows. Best In us "C \V. J. KERCHEVAL. Agent. Danville. Ind. ■-^5""fiALE— One handsome Poland China male -pig- Address W. O. REVEAL, Clermont, Ma- oa county, Ind. •—,R u\LE-Etres from high-class land and water V towlV Leading varieties. Address, GREEN & ^r^^Clayton, Ind. F-^riT«ALE— Six handsome Partrldee Cochin Cockerels at $2 each- Order soon. GEORGE VES- aLiGanibridge City.Ind. F"^i^SALE—Aahton's salt for butter. "Lump Rode" for salting stock. CHAS. L DIETZ.^7 r^t Market street, Indianapolis, Ind. r-TntTsALE— Farms In Marlon, Rush and other F counties in Indiana. G. W. ALEXANDER, 36 £ jjajtet St., (side door Central Bank). ^7^~gALE—J. L. Brown, Manilla, Rush county, Ind., breederof Light Brahmas of Felch and •rnjej-'8 stock, and White Leghorns. Bend orders ttrgt*___ F~~nB SALE—The Farm Register and Account Rook. --Complete method of keeping farm ac- nnt*rprice$leach. Address INDIANA-FARMER [oMPANY, fndlanapolis. FOR SALE—I have a few Light Brahma Cockerels at 42 each. I want to close out for the season. _r,t_!\i the time for Farmers and others to improve JSr stock. G. A. DANLEY, Indianapolis, Ind. FOR SALE—Short-horns—Fletcher s young Ma ry a Fhylis, Agathas, Brides, Gems, etc. Bulls and hoifprs choicely bred. Correspondence solicited. t C. THOMPSON, Lock Box 1, Edingburg, Ind. FOR SALE—EGGS—Dark Brahmas, Pool A Bag- ley's importations. Plymouth Rocks, Conger's ..«-iin*i 13 per 13; $350per 26 at one time. Money to Kmpany order. VVT R. ZIKE, Morristown, Ind. f^0It~SALE-JERSEY RED HOGS-Sows with P nle one year old; boars tour to twelve months U HARRIS SHEPPARD, w Spencer, Owen county, Indiana. ■pOR SALE—11 Black Spanish, 11 Light Brahma Y and 9 Pekin duck eggs for $4. Good hatch guarded if hens do their part. (Mention Farmer). Ad- JresaJOUN BENNETT, Sunman, Ripley Co., Ind. FOR SALE—EGGS, EGGS-Dark Brahmas, pen Ko. 1, $2 per 13; No. 2, Jl 50 per 13. Plymouth Rtvk 62 per 13. All prize-winning strains. Orders Sled now. Chicks for sale. WILLIAM R. ZIKE, Morristown, Ind. FOR SALE—Pampas or Northern Rice. Healthy, nutritious food for man or beast. Very best chicken feed. Now is the time to sow. 25 cents a pvketor 5for§l. Postpaid. Address.J. H. BROU- Dls,care Indiana Farmer Co., Indianapolis, Ind. pOR SALE—ARTICHOKES—Red or Brazilian, 6 £ pounds for 25c, or 10 pounds for 40c by express. Vnume Sweet or Sugar Corn, excellent variety, 2 ojnees for 10c by mail, postage prepaid. J. G. KINGSBURY.-34 East Market street, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—Eggs—actly 27 Grand Prizes at Indianapolis and Lafayette, on our stock of Dark Brahmas, White, Black and Partridge Cochins, Ph mouth Rocks, Brown Leghorns, Bronze Tur- _.\_ and Toulouse Geese. Our birds have scored frj'm 99 to 95 points by B. N. Pierce. Eggs. $2 per Utting. WEST A WHICKER Pecksburg. Ind. FORSALE—A farm of 104 acres adjoining Whltes- ville.on the L.,N. A. and C. K. R-, six m!le3 ■wilheast of and connected with Crawfordsville, the coanty seat, by good free gravel road. The land is new, well underdrained with tile, has young orchard, grape and other small fruits, commodious barn and ether outbuildings, and part of the material for a dwelling-house. For sale on good terms. Address or call oa L. J. COHOON, Whitesville, Montgomery cojnty, Ind. FOR SALE—Farm 81 acres, six miles south of this city, on a pike; very best second creek bottom toiI, lasting stock water; large amount of plank fence; 80 large, healthy apple-trees; comfortable house, five rooms, with cellar; two good barns; in a first-class neighborhood, near Southport; having church, high-school and railroad station. Price, POO. At. ARBUCKLE, 70 E. Market street. FOR SALE—Eggs from Partridge Cochins„Dark Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks. Gray Dorkins and White Holland Turkeys at f 150 for 13. Light Brahmas, 8. S. Hamburgs, White and Brown Leghorns at |1 25 for 13. 25 cents less where three or we sittings are ordered at one time. I have in my Fns birds from some of the best breeders of New Wk, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. T. J JOHNSON, Greencastle, Ind. misc £x,i,A>i:*nus. FOR SALE^-See Bennett's special offer. M. GOODE-Dentlst, over • nla street. ) North Penhsylva- ^ C BURGESS, Dentist. Office In room 4 Va- J* jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St. ALLEN'S DRUG STORE, OPPOSITE POST- OFFCE, Drugs,Patent Medicines/Toilet Articles. GJ.ILT EDGE Creamery Butter can be made by ' every Farmer at home. No extra expense for apparatus. Full Instructions sent for one dollar by *rtART A CO., owneis Gilt Edge Creamery, Mount Carroll, II). ' & F°? (1 I will procure the patent, or government *■ deed to your farm if on file. If delivered here- £iore and lost, I will get a certified copy for $2 fiO. G. *• BALLARD, Indianapolis, late Receiver United ^fl-Land Office. ])KICK AND DRAIN TILE-Fletcher A Thomas trfrti ep constantly on hand pressed brick, red runts, pavers, and common brick; also, drain tile; r*Kr smaU orders promptly tilled. Office, room 10 *iftcher & Sharpe's blockT T 0AN-MONEY—In sums of $300 to $10,000, on -^ ""Proved farms in Indiana, at eight per cent. Thp « ,-Payable annually (no commissions charged). time ir paluor any J)art °* it can be PaId atany Sl.Indl •'■ B. PALMER & CO., No. 78 East Market '■"■napolts.Ind. l_l o Six per cent, loans made on longtime ***»0i"I'1 re&i-estate security at 6 per cent, interest. B u. .*> Uarrangenients for those wishing loans in from i-iit. inonths ■« lower rates. A. W. PKATHER, » *•&'>? Ranted in every connty in the State. Office __■ "na Delaware street, Indianapolis, Ind. Wxvt ^taclt. Meeting of Short-Horn Breeders'and Wool-Growers' Associations. Editors Indiana Farmer- Arrangements have been made with the following railroads centering in Indianap? olis, to carry persons in attendance at either association as follows: all who desire to attend over the I. C. and __., the P. C. and St. __., or the I. B. and VT. railroads, are requested to address me, giving name and address, and I will forward them certificates which will entitle them to reduced rates. All coming on the I. P. and C. R. Ri, will please address me as soon as convenient, giving name and tho station from which they will come. Those who intend coming on the J. M. and I., the C. H. and D., or the Vandalia route, need not address me, as certificates will be furnished at time of meeting. No letters mailed after the 20th of May, will be answered, so please address soon, and oblige. Thomas W. VT. Sunman. Spades, Ripley Co., Ind., May 5. » — » Sale of Fine Stoek. Editors Indiana Farmen I have recently sold the following Shorthorns: Whittington Lad, red, calved July 4, 1878; got by Oxford Royal 2d S. II. R., dam Josephine 3d by Capt. Sheftoe 7661, etc., to imp. Lady Whittington, by Whittington 12299, to R. McCafferty, Fayettes- ville, Brown county, Ohio. To S. C. Cline, Snowhill, Ohio, the Amelia bull calf, Earl Airdrie, red and white, calved Dee. 12,1877; got by 7683 Lord Loudon, dam Amelia Airdrie by 4554 Washington Airdrie, etc. To J. Leeka, Clinton Co., Ohio, the Miss Hopper heifer, Miss Maynard 2d, red, calved June 3, 1875; got by 5656 Prince of Bellville, dam Maynard 4th by 3963 Mar- quiss etc. To A. T. Johnson, New Vienna, Ohio, the Miss Hopper bull, Marquiss May- -fiard.Xfid,. QalvfidJJfjc. IS, 18.76; gpt.byj 5272 Hankins 1st Loudon Duke, dam Maynard 4th by Marquiss. My herd embraces Rose of Shaiors, Young Marys, Young Phyllis, Mazurkas, Charlottes, Pomonas, Amelias, Matildas, etc., and they are all coming on to grass in fine condition, with eleven winter calves. J. F. Terrell. in his driver; and so long as that confidence ls notabused, they will yield implicit obedience to the word of command. When the wild colt is trained under the law of force, he becomes terror-stricken with fear, and fights back to relieve himself from oppression; and having the advantage of Buperior strength, often triumphs over his trainer, and contracts tho vice of rebellion. This vico lives on to be interred with his bones. —Correspondence National Live-Stock Journal, Chicago. We are decidedly of the opinion that brood mares should have plenty of exercise, and nothing is better than moderate work. Neither should they be permitted to become fat, ior the dangers of parturition are immensely augmented in such cases. Mares in thin flesh, if healthy and in "good heart," rarely experience any difficulty in foaling, and there is but little danger of "milk fever" after tho foal is dropped.—National Live Stock Journal, Chicago. Preserving Sheep from Dogs. On one sheep in every ten of the flock put a boll of tho usual size for sheep. The instinct of the dog prompts him to do all his acts in a sly, stealthy manner; his attacks txym sheep are most frequently mado at night while they are at rest, and tho simultaneous jingling of all the bells strikes terror to tho dogs; thoy turn their tails and leave the shoep, fearing the noise ofthe bells will lead to their exposure. The ratio of bells may be made to vary according to the size of the flock.—Ex. our stock in the quality of meat. So they are still on even terms; but its hide is worth four times as much, so it comes out far ahead in the last heat, as horsemen say. The hide from my bull was a beautiful «pecimen. It was better than a ?25 robe I bought to compare with it. The fur was longer and finer, the result of good feed, I think." The buffaloes herded with the other cattle on tho best of terms. What surprised the Colonel most was their weakness. Ho supposed they were very powerful, but they are not. He has seon a yearling Alderney bull push a three-year-old buffalo bull up hill. They are fast, but they are not strong. They are also very cowardly, very playful, and very cunning.—Scientific American. ^ & arm* Postal-Card Correspondence WAJfTEO. W fbT.?D_slake your Chicks and Pigs grow by tl t»r imt1in*f Ground Beef Scraps, 4c per pound, Pound at poun<1'1- Uround Oyster Shells 2c per y-~-_j*J?. BAOLEY'S, Indianapolis, Indiana. 'V 7i"rED- A purchaser for a tarm ln Hendricks *"* In h nty* "° acres, well Improved, *p*2.000; also, '■"M* *.m.amilton county, 80 acres, well Improved, ' •"a a large list of farms for trade. 05,,., CLBAVELANU 4 CO., - .-^orth Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis. ■j.., It Pays to Advertise. """Indiana Farmer: hash- here! St0p the machine! A man j la f°ot in it, but won't do so any more! Tom 6<1 your readers with Hathaway's p ' -tfl seed according to my offer in the jjj, f" "H they went up in the hundreds, ^n,8 1" 'ho'orders come. Please say I will a,]v rest next season, very early. If Sll .1Sers will patronize the Fakmek I am eit will be profitable. fjllft Chas. A. Green. a°°, Monroe Co., N. Y., May 2. rwth.. at an Advertiser Says. The fi !lna Farmer* frrJIn 'rst rePly from my advertising came PARJ) "e advertisement in the Indiana *.*.,;, .Rto"-uay,though I have been adver- 1 ^°lrs f1 °tller PaPers longer than in your's. Dm . y' C. G. Hami-ton. T"*. Mich'., May 3. Breaking Colts. Colts should be halter-broken when following the mare; it helps to subdue them, and supercedes the necessity of breaking them over again when grown up. "Once broken, always broken,", is an axiom as old as the art of breeding. It is advisable to break them to harness at two-and-one-half or three years old. They will receive no injury frompareful usa-^e in light vehicles. The most practicable modo of subduing wild colts is to hitch them up with a well- broken horse, and teach them by example to perform service. The first step is to bit the colt, to make him bridle-wise. This is accomplished by checking up the head with the bitting bridle. They may bo turned into the yard to run at large, taking care that their heads are not left strained up more than an hour at a' time. The head should be let down often to give the neck rest. It will prevent their contracting a coarse, unpleasant hog- mouth. After they have become accustomed to the bit, they should bo driven in harness, without any load, until they yield implicit obedience to the bit, and obey with alacrity the word of command. They will become comparatively broken by tho simple process of suppling the neck, and teaching them to stop and go forward at the will of the driver. They will seldom offer any resistance when hitched to the vehicle. Patience and perseverance will accomplish wonders in horse flesh. Intelligent instruction improves the disposition and develops the speed and endurance of colts, essential qualities in tho roadster. The more good qualities developed wheu young, the greater will be the merits of the recipients. Those subjects that will do the most work in the least timo aro tho most profitable to the owner. It costs no more to keep or raise the fast worker than it does the slow mongrel. The former will perform twice the service of the latter. The best are the cheapest to wear out; besides, there is pleasure in using a superior animal. Colts should be broken to harness before they get so strong as to control tho driver. They are not perfectly developed for hard work before tney aro fivo years old. Gentle usage at light work for one or two years will bring them into submission. They will become accustomed to different kinds of service, and tho force of habit will make them kind and trustworthy. When broken under tho law of kindness, they seldom contract vicious habits. They are not naturally vicious; they aro mado so by ignorant or brutal drivers. Incompetent trainers make talky horses. Thoy use too much brute force without reason or common sense. They appeal to the lowest passions, in place of intelligent instruction. Reason is better than force to govern the horse; kindness is the weapon to subdue the wild colt. This humane law removes terror, and secures the confidence of the colt A Special Want. Tho United States needs more sheep. In all parts of this great country to secure health and comfort, its people*inust have food aud clothing. The sheep furnishes the best and most wholesome animal food, and the most comfortable clothing yet tested by the masses of our people. In malarial disirlcts, c»peci**Jly those where, the. ^t.< tremes of heat aud cold aro frequent, woolon clothing and a freer and more common diet of goood young mutton would insure better health and more vigor than generally characterizes pork eaters and the wearers of cotton and fine linen. From the best data within our reach, wo ascertain that there are on tho entire globo about 500,000,000 sheep. Ol theso tho United States have but about 35,000,000. Our manufactories consume annually more than 225,000,000 pounds or wool. Il each of our sheep furnished five pounds of wool, there would yet be a yearly deficit of 50,- 000,000 pounds. Here is a good field lor enterprising stockmen. We need double our present number of sheep. Let no one indulge a single fear of an overproduction of either mutton or wool. Could our flocks be tripled or quadrupled they would add not only to the comfort and healthfulnessot the people, but to their intelligence and sobriety, as well as to the productiveness of every field used as a sheep pasture. We hope that every farmer who reads this, will at once consider how much his interests would be subserved by adding a score of Leicester or Southdown, long- wooled sheep, to his stock. Theso lurnish choice food, and their increase and fleeces are always in demand, and tbat, too, at fair prices.—Drovers' Journal. The Domestication of the Buffalo. Col. Ezra, Miller, of Mahwah, New Jersey, has been making some experiments which have led him to the conclusion that it will pay to breed buffaloes, both pure blood and crossed with our domestic cattle. Relating his experience with these animals lately, the Colonel said: "I have proved to my own satisfaction several points. First, that buffaloes can be tamed. Second, that it doesn't cost one half as much to keep a buffalo as to keep an ordinary cow. Third, they can be fattened as quickly as ordinary beeves, and on half the food, and their meat is just as good. Fourth, they are as good milkers as our Alderneys; and fifth, they are as good butter makers. The milk of the buffalo is a little yellower than that of the Alderney, but very sweet and rich, and there is more cream than in the Alderney milk. As to the quantity of milk given by buffalo cows, they will average with the average milker. The udder of the buffalo cowls very small indeed,but the milk veins are immense. This is a provision whereby nature enables them to run faster than if cumbered by a large udder. I am of the opinion that the most desirable cross is with the big Dutch cattle that have such big udders. I think that crossing them with our Short-horns will give remarkably good beef. But tho beef from our buffaloes more than met my expectation. It was sweet, juicy and tender, not at all like the meat of the buffalo ofthe plains. "Now, in drawing the balance between the buffalo and tho ordinary cow, I find these facts: The buffalo can be kept at one half the cost ot tho cow; that's one point forthe buffalo. We will assume, to give the oow a fair show, that she yields more milk and butter. That balances the account so far. The buffalo is fully equal to IXDIAXA. Mox-rooMERY Co., May 3.—Wheat looks well. Farmers are getting along well with planting. Somo are done. Fruit prospects good. VT. II. O. Clarke Co., May 3.—Fino weather at present. Farmers planting corn; some j*irmers have finished planting corn. Judging from tho bloom thero is going to bo a big crop of apples. D. C W. Wells Co., May 3.—Weather fine; farmers busy al'out their spring work; tho spring is backward and fully two weeks : behind time. Somo have not plowed any yet. Wheat never looked better. Times hard as ever; business dull; corn, 25c; oats, 18c; wheat, 88c. C. Q. W. Hamilton Co., April SO.—Wheat looks well in our county. Farmers aro very busy plowing. A large crop of flax has i>o*sn sown. Plenty of hay stacks to be soeii. Potatoes rather scarce at 50c. The Farmer is a welcome visitor at my house. -.11. Wabash Co., April 30.—Weather warm and pleasant. Farmers are all in excitement about getting their flax sown. But littlo plowing done for corn in this locality. Wheat looks fine. Grass is coming on finely. We all welcome tho Farmer. The neighbors borrow it. Long may it wave. A Subscriber. Martin Co., May 3.—Weather fine; roads good. The growing wheat looks well. Peaches all killed. Apples, if not killed yet, will be a good crop. Farmers busy plowing for corn; somo corn planted. Wheat worth OOc; corn, 35e; oats, 25c. Farm hands from ?10 to §15 per month. A Reader. Vioo Co., April 30.—The weather is fair and everything looks fine. Tho wheat never looked better. Apples lair crop. Peaches all killed. Blackberries mostly killed. Small fruit all right yet. Wheat, ?l 05; corn, 25c; oats, 25c; potatoes, Early Rose, 51 25; peach blows, 65; butter, 20c; eggs, 10c. A. G. Madison Co., April 30.—Wheat continues to do well. Oats, flax and clover are coming up all right. Farm work well advanced. Weather has been highly favorable for work and .crops. Farm hands plenty at f 12 to ?15 per month. Female help scarce at ?1 25 to ?2 50 per week. Good rain on Sunday evening. S. VT. H. Harrison Co., April 30.—The spring has been cold and wet and has thrown the farmers back in their work until the last week; since then we have had delightful weather, which has been improved every hour. Harrison county never had a better prospect for wheat for tho timo of year. The prospect for fruit is bright except for peaches; for apples very good, all in full bloom. We have average of stock hogs and no cholera. J. S. B. an article in your paper from this place, so here it goes. Farmers very active; ground In splendid order. Wheat looks well but not so large as last year at this time. Last winter beat all the prophets; twice in January the thermometer went 22° below zero, and with all we have about one-fourth of a peach crop; May cherries about the same. Tender grapes are nearly all killed and others badly damaged. A good prospect for apples and pears for this season. Some hog disease, pneumonia, as I believe it to be. No fat hogs; but there is money in hogs at present prices, three dollars per cwt., when corn is 25c per bushel, but farmers are afraid to risk their money in hogs. Subscriber. Johnson Co., May 3.—Wheat looks tolerably well in our county; not quite so strong a growth as last year, but we think we would as lief risk it as if it was ranker. Fruit a very good prospect; has been a little cool tbe last night or so, but the very dry and windy weather we think has saved it. Some corn planted; most of tho plowing is done; ground is getting rather dry and hard, and if you would listen I expect you could hear somo of the farmers praying for a shower of rain. Times hard; money scarce; hogs low; no wheat, and things a little blue generally. J. T. D. Huntington, May 1.—Tho weather is fair and everything is growing nice. Oats and flax all sown and corn planting commenced. Mr. Samuel Emley planted seven acres tho 29th of April. This is tho earliest planting in this part of the State. Wheat looks splendid. Stock wintered well; pasture coming on nicely, and fruit is out in full bloom. The supposition was that peaches were killed, trees and all, but it's a mistake; wo will have plenty of peaches if late frosts do not hurt them, and all other kinds of fruit. Somo farmers aro complaining that their seed corn is hurt by tho cold weather, but I think that is a mistake, for I had mine ^n as cold a place as could be found, and it is all right. I think heat will hurt it quicker than freezing. Success to tho Farmer. E. E. Henry Co., May 5.—We are now having nice growing weather. The farmers are entirely engaged in plowing, preparatory to sowing *a large crop of oats and flax. Wheat is looking better than that of preceding years and tho acreage is fifteen per cent greater than the average sown. Apples, pears, grapes and small fruits are flattering for a largo yield, though peaches and early cherries are killed. Early vegetables are up and promising. Stock is looking well considering the poor shelters usually provided for them. Much maple molasses has been made and of good quality. It is selling on an average at §1 25 per gallon. Farm hands receive from ?12 to §18 per month. Business of all kinds is opening with vim, while the prospects exhibit success. Long may tho Farmer wave and bo prosperous. J. C. M. PEJiSSYLVASIA. , York Co., April 30.—Wheat and rye look tolerably well. The rye is beginning to shoot heads. Grass is coming on finely. Oats are all sown. Corn planting has begun. Apples, peaches and cherries if not killed in the future will be a good crop. Wheat, ?1@1 06; rye, 48c; corn, 40c; oats, 27c; butter, 14c; eggs, 8c. Fat cattle nearly all shipped; worth from 4 to 5c. J. F. C. lLLI-NOtS. St. Joseph, April 30.—Very cold and backward until the past week changed to warm and dry, at present favorable for a good crop. Wheat never looked better at this time. Oats coming up nicely; a good deal of corn will be planted the present week ii favorable. Health good. Stock healthy and doing well; no hog cholera in this neighborhood. Peach and apple trees are full of bloom and promise an abundant fruit crop. Small fruit and vegetables in abundance. L. C. McE. tables with better food than they now have, and clothe and educate* all their children; hence I only pity them for their ignorance. Health good. Colored people aro preparing to emigrate in large numbers to Kansas; most of the better class hero encourage them to go, as we think it will better their condition and also induce the whites from the north to tak« their places here. Your paper is growing better. V. R. S. OKOItOIA. Walker Co., April 28.—AVheat looks well and is heading out. Corn all planted and coming up; put in better than usual. Winter oats badly frozen out; spring sown coming on finely. Stock wintered well, and has been living on the range for a month. Peaches all killed except on elevations. Apples and cherries partly killed. Plenty of plums. Grapes uninjured. Strawberries ripening. Gardens look fine; peas blooming; onions as large as your thumb; potato slips ready to transplant. Tho spring has been unusually backward, but the forests are at last clothed in green, and the atmosphere is laden with tho perfume of millions of wild flowers. Corn, 50c; wheat, §1; oats, 40c; bacon, 7c; flour, ?2 75 per sack. Health good; havo heard of but ono death in a month—a very old citizen. Schools and churches in a flourishing condition. Farm hands §9 per month and board. But one family ol colored peoplo in tho neighborhood. Horses, ?40 to $60; mules, ?75 to ?125; beef cattle, V/, to 4c gross, owing to quality; butter, 15 to 20e; chickens, 10c; eggs 5c per dozen. J. L. Jenkins. QUERY AND AXSWER. Hen-House. Editors Indiana Farmer- Will some reader of the Farmer please give me a good plan for a cheap hen-house, and oblige? I. N. L. . Holstein Cattle. Editors Indiana Farmer: Are there any Holstein cattle State? If so, who has them? Hamilton Co. in this B. Y. Bone Dust. Editors Indiana Farmer: I wish to inquire through the columns of the Farmer where dry bone dust can bo had and what will be the cost of same. A. G. Mulberry, April 30. —Dry bone dust can bo bought of the Indianapolis Fertilizing Company, this city, atthe rate of?l 50 per hundred pounds. From ono hundred to one hundred and fifty pounds per aero should bo applied.— Eds. Pike Co., April 30—Cold rains and mud and bad roads and poor stock and long faces prevail here, or did until the 20th. Tho last three days have been warm, and grass is visible. Wo think we will have apples and some cherries. Farmers are very backward. Feed is getting scarce and high. Wheat looks well. There will hardly be as much corn planted as common. Work has begun on tho Petersburg and Worthington railroad in Pike county. L. B. Howard Co., April 30.—The spring has been backward, but we have had splendid weather for two weeks past, which the farmers have been using to a good advantage. Farmers wasting no timo in making preparations for planting. I understand one farmer in Tipton county has thirty acres of corn planted, while some farmers are busy gathering their last year's crop. On examination since my last writing I notice that thero will be a fair crop of apples, pears and May cherries. No hog cholera. Hogs worth ?3 10; cattle worth from ?2 25 to ?3 25 gross; sheep worth §3 to §4 25 per cwt. Farm wages from $8 to ?13 per month, and some hands furnishing a horse at the latter price. Health good. W. VT. F. Parke Co., April 30.—I have never seen ALABAMA. Morgan Co., May 1.—Health good. Weather fine with now and then a warm shower of rain, which enables the young plants to grow off with great celerity. Wheat, corn, oats, potatoes and cotton all look fine and promise a good crop. Fair prospect for fruit of all kinds. The Farmer is appreciated very much by those who take it, and the prospects are that as soon as tho farmers sell their wheat and corn this fall I shall be enabled to raise a good big club. My best regards to the Farmer. U. T. Huntsville, May 1.—The weather has been nice here for about three weeks, with nice showers, and our farmers are making good use of it. Oui crop is all out except the cotton, which is being put in as fast as possible, and we have a good prospect for a large crop of everything except peaches and apples. But we shall have many more peaches than we 'expected after our big frost. Of apples only the early kinds were killed. All small fruits will be very abundant. Some complain of hard times, but if they will give me the money they spend for whisky, tobacco and unnecessary and injurious indulgences, I-will supply their Sowing Blue-Grass. Editors Indiana Farmen In response to "J. H.," who wants to know when to sow blue-grass, whero to get the seed, etc., allow me to say that when I sowed turnips last July, about the 25th, I also sowed blue-grass in the samo ground, and I now have a great sward that looks like an old pasture. I sowed a large quantity, perhaps a bushel on one quarter of an acre. In sowing I used a hand sieve, such as plasterers screen sand through, carrying ' it before me with one hand and rubbing the seed round with the other, as I walked back and forth across the ground. But blue-grass would perhaps not do well sown in tho summer if tho weather should be dry. In tho blue-grass regions of Kentucky the sowing is genorally done in the fall, about wheat-sowing time. But it will grow well any time when the weather is wet and warm. The seed can be obtained of seed dealers in any of the cities, and it is now selling at low figures in Kentucky. The poople of Indiana havo not yet learned the value of blue-grass. From experiments I have made I am satisfied that much of the soil in Central Indiana is as well adapted to blue-grass as the celebrated blue-grass region of Kentucky, and there are thousands of acres of this land today overgrown with brush and weeds, which, if sowed in blue-grass, would bring millions of dollars ot wealth to our State. It costs but little to sow it and it needs no cultivation, and then it enriches the ground almost, if not quite as much as clover. It never dies out, and continues to make the ground richer and richer. It does best where there is a clay subsoil, but it will grow in almost any kind of ground that is well drained. It is a good plan to let it go to seed once about every three years beforo turning stock on it. If not pastured during the summer, it makes tho best of winter grazing for cows, making rich cream and yellow butter all winter. The tops die, but there is a coat of green underneath all winter, and all kinds of stock will paw away the deepest snow to get at it. You could not perferm a greater servico to tho farmers of Indiana than to get them to fully understand the value of blue-grass and how to manage it. The variety known as Kentucky blue-grass is the best. Montgomery. Crawfordsville, April 2-1. |
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