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.
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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.
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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.