VOL. XIY.
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INDIANAPOLIS, jQ-TJDIAjSTA, MAY 31, 1879.
NO. 22.
FORSALE.
F~^~nrT SALE—Partridge   Cochin breeding stock.
For bargains send card to JOHN GOttS, Bellcore, Indiana.	
FOR SALE—Eggs from high-class land'and water
fowls.  Leading varieties.   Address, E. ESTES,
Clayton. Ind.	
FnU SALE—Six handsome Partridge Cochin Cockerels at pi each.    Order soon.   GEORGE VESTAL, Cambridge City, Ind.
SHORT HORNS—Bates and Booth kinds for sale.
Correspondence solicted.   E.  C. THOMPSON,
Lock Box 1.   Edinburg, Ind.
FOR SALE—Ash ton's  salt   for  butter.     "Lump
Rock" for salting stock.   CHAS. L   DIJETZ, 77
vast Market street, Indianapolis, Ind.
FnR SALE—Farms In Marion, Rush and other
counties In Indiana.   G. W. ALEXANDER, 36
v jtfarket St., (side door Central Bank).
FOR SALE—J.  L. Brown, Manilla, Rush county,
Ind., breederof Light Brahmas of Felch and
Danley's stock, and White .Leghorns.   Send orders
for eggs- *   ________    -
I^OR SALE—2*0 acre grass farm three miles north-
4    west of Greencastle.   Price $15 per acra.   Easy
Pftvments, SMITn A HANNAMAN, Loan Agents,
Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—The   Farm  Register and  Account
Book.   Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price jl each. Address INDIANA FARMER
COMPANY, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—Some very fine thoroughbred Jersey
Red pigs, ready to ship, at prices that cannot
fail to please.   Write me and see, reader.   Address C.
IX STACK HOUSE A SON, Rensselaer, Ind.	
IOR SALE—I have a few Light Brahma Cockerels
. at $2 each. I want to close out for the season,
vow is the time for Farmers and others to Improve
their stock.   G. A. DANLEY, Indianapolis. Ind.
F
T710R SALE—A Jersey bull. "Bob Ingersoll," 2,401.
E Dropped January 20.1876; sire Ramchunder 718;
dam Lillie Fair No. 1WJ7; bred by F- M. Churchman;
dam Bounty. 1606. Address, PJ5T.ER RAAB, Cumberland, Marion Co., Ind.	
-p-IOR SALE—Pampas or Northern Rice. Healthy,
r nutritious food for man or beast. Very best
chicken feed. Now is the time to sow. 25 cents a
parket or 5 for fl. Postpaid. Address J. H. BROU-
pUS care Indiana Farmer Co.. Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SALE—Farm of 122 acres near Pendleton,
Madison county, Ind.; good orchard, first-class
Improvements. This Is positively one of the best
firms in the State, and must be sold at a sacrifice before July.   W.M.&C.E. COFFIN, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE^-A farm of 104 acres adjoining Whites-
ville, on the L.f N. A. and C. R. R., six miles
southeast of and connected with Crawfordsville, the
county seat, by good free gravel road. The land is
new, well underdrained with tile, has young orchard,
grape and other smalt fruita, commodious barn and
otber outbuildings, and part of the material for a
dwelling-house. For sale on good terms. Address or
call on X, J. COHOON, Whitesville, Montgomery
r/ou nty, Ind.       -
FOR SALE—Cheap for cash. A fruit farm and
nursery. Orchard containing about 3,000 trees;
some In bearing; all selected choice fruits for this
latitude; 80 acres of land, good buildings, well, etc.;
40acres fenced; good wind break around the buildings; pleasant location; 5 miles from the new and
thriving town of Onaga; Pottawatomie county; Kansas. Farm without the nursery stock, $1,500. Address me with stamp, until June 15, at Hutchinson,
Keno county, Kaoas. after that date at Vienna, Pottawatomie county, Kansas.   J. J. MEASER.
MI.SC FXLAXEOrS.
s
M, GOO DE—Dentist, over 80 North Pennsylva-
i   nla street.
C.
C. BURGESS, Dentist.   Office ln room 4 Va-
Jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St.
TO EXCHANGE—G. S.  Bantam eggs for P. R,
eggs or offer.   Address C. R. WINTERBOWD,
Martinsville, 111.
TTTALTER SHORTRIDGE, Indianapolis, breeder
\\ Rose-combed Black Bantams exclusively.
First Premium birds.
CROP of cabbage, gooseberries, etc., insured to
 all who have our "Worm and Pest Destroyer."
Ko expense.   Two recipes 25 cents, cash, and stamp.
SCOTT MORRIS, Franklin, Ind 	
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MORTGAGE LOANS NEGOTIATED AND
first-class fire insurance placed on all classes
of Ins-arable property, farm-houses and barns included, 64 East Market street.   G. G. HOLMAN.
FOR TRADE—Kansas farm; 80 acres under cultivation and SO acres in timber aud prairie; orchard and good Improvements, to exchange for tarm
of&Oacres in or near Marion county, Indiana. W.
M. & c. E. COFFIN, 34 North Delaware street, Indianapolis.
BRICK AND DRAIN TILE—Fletcher A Thomas
keep constantly on hand pressed brick, red
fronts, pavers, and common brick; also, drain tile;
large or small orders promptly fllled. Office, room 10
Fletcher <_ sharpe's block.
TTTHO will be President In 18S0 is uncertain, but it
IT is certain I am selling Hedge Plants cheaper
[flan the cheapest, will do to set out last of Mayor
first of June. W. R. LOYD,
Jordan, Jay county, Ind.
DON'T READ THIS'-EUGENB A. ROBINSON,
"Spring Hill Poultry Yards," Rockland, Johnson county, ind., breeder of pure-bred poultry, Buff
Cochins of Pool and Christian stock. Eggs. *}1 50 per
sitting,    w. Leghorns and Aylesbury duck eggs, fl.
LOANS.
LOAN-MONEY—In sums of *|300 to |10,000, on
improved farms in Indiana, at eight per cent.
Interest, payable annually (no commissions charged).
Tne principal, or any part ot it can be paid atany
time. H. B. PALMER* CO., No.78East Market
ot., Indianapolis. Ind.
LOAN—Six per cent, loans made on long time
. on real-estate security at 8 per cent, interest,
special arrangements for those wishing loans in from
J to 12 month? at lower rates. A. W. PRATHER,
Mate Agents.
Agents wanted In every connty in the State. Office
*» North Delaware street, Indianapolis, Ind.
WANTED.
TlTANTED—100 Distributing Agents  to sell the
' >    Household and Farmers' Cyclopedia, the only
agricultural cyclopedia ever published    Address, I.
*^_0_COT. 36 East Market St., Indianapolis. 	
TVTANTED—Make your Chicks and Pigs grow by
' T     feeding  Ground Beer Scraps, 4c  per pound,
V per loo pounds.    Ground  Oyster Shells  2c per
Pound, at
 E. G. BAGLEYB, Indianapolis, Indiana.
TtTANTED—Salesmen to handle the celebrated
„'. , Celluloid Collars, Cuffs and Bosoms. Strictly
■rat-class. When dirty sponge off and they are brll-
'*-*"',* Will last one year. I will pay good men commission or salary—the result—"Satisfaction." Order
m. *" A. C. GREGG, General Salesman for In-
_"">*, 261 Virgianla Avenue, Indianapolis.
• A Correction.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
The Richmond Horticultural Society
18 invited to attend,the June meeting of
ta. Montgomery County, Ohio, Horticultural Society, at Dayton, on the first
^•eduesday in June instead of the first
Monday in June, as stated by one of
i°ur correspondents in a recent number
°f the Parmer. It is expected that this
^iHbea grand reunion, at which time
Richmond Pomologues will be feted aud
-i'ned. A
Jlle Production of alcohol has increased
^onderlnlly in the last four years.   From
7,000 gallons, in 1875, it has already
bached the enormous figure of 12,000,000
gallons during the first nine months of the
'"""' year.   The bulk   of this production
We are in receipt of a valuable book for
advertisers. It is called the "Right Hand
Record," and is.published by Mr. H. P.
Hubbard, the well-known advertising
agent, of New Haven, Conn. It is a complete compendium of all the newspapers of
the country, showing circulation, population of city and town where printed, etc ,
and will be found exceedingly valuable to
all general advertisers. It is sold by the
publisher at ?2, and is worth twice its cost
to advertisers.
%\vt JsMaflu
Five hundred people attended the fourteenth annual sheep-shearing of the Southwestern Wisconsin Wool Growers' Associ
ation, at Caldwell Prairie.in Racine count j,
on the 7th inst. A grand dinner was served
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The Michigan Farmer notes the fact that
two well-known cattle dealers have commenced the purchase of 150 head of Michigan cattle for the English market, to s-ul
for Liverpool on the 27th inst. For a bunch
of 19 very fine steers averaging Impounds, ?4,70 per cwt. was paid.
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More Triplets.
Editors Indiana Farmer;
, I have on my farm a two-year-old ev, c,
grade , Cotswold, that at her second
lambing produced triplets, which aro
now three months old, of uniform
size, all doing well, and as fine lambs
as any in our neighborhood. They are all
female, and were raised by the ewe without
any assistance or special care from me at
any time. They are beautie*.
Orleans, Orange Co., May 24.     T. G. F.
Chillingham Wild White Cattle.
The company present at tbe let of the
Chillingham grass park last week had an
opportunity of inspecting a fine young bull,
half-breed, from the celebrated Chilling-
ham wild white cattle. To the experiment
of crossing this "untamed_,unmixed, and
unstrained stock,'' with the Shorf-nbrns
we have already alluded, theobject in view
by the Earl of Tankerville being to impart
fresh blood and constitution to the Shorthorns. The first cross was between a wild
bull and two Short-horn heifers, one of
which calved in June, 1877, a very fine
heifer calf, pure white, with a grand coat of
hair, white muzzle, and red-tipped ears.
In the same month the other heifer produced a bull calf, which is more of the
wild type. It has a brown muzzle and
spotted nese, black eyes and black eyelashes, and red-tipped ears; it is also white,
and has a splendid coat of hair. One of the
heifers has since produced, to her own son,
a bull calf, a perfect beauty, being pure
white, with white-tipped nose, red-tipped
ears, a fine coat of hair, and good shape. It
is intended also to cross back with twe of
tae wild heifers.—Banffshire Journal.
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IltltlSOIH.
Fulton Co., May 20.—Weather very dry;
have had no rain to wet the ground since
the 11th of April. Corn planting nearly all
done. It is coming up very uneven; takes
about four times the usual amount of labor
to get the ground in good condition. Wheat
looks very well. Oats need rain; some are
plowing them up and planting over. Will
be some fruit except peaches. Wheat selling at 90c; corn, 25c; oats, 20c; hogs, fat,
$3 10; stock hogs none selling. No cholera
at present. Cattle in good demand and
worth from $3 to ?5 per cwt. Good horses
are bringing a good price. P. E. J.
'"^•rJ'   Sr^7e*%i~'-Zi"_ _r- „-
The* Ear-fenI'mtrr Draft Blower, Jamt-a McMurry _ A. J. IV. BllIIii_.I_y, A_.nt_, IuillfuinpoUs.
Hog Fens and Hog Cholera.
Now that summer is approaching, hogs,
if confined, shouldbe turned out to pasture.
Many a farmer keeps his pigs in a little
yard or pen, often near the house, where
the mud is as deep as they can wallow
through. He throws their feed in the mud,
from which they must pick it as best they
can, and clean water is something that
they do not get from one year's end to
another. Yet such a man will wonder why
his family has the fever and his hogs have
cholera. I have seen hogs kept in this way,
or, worse yet, in floored pens which were
never cleaned, until at killing time their
bellies were full of small ulcers; and such
meat is packed and shipped to the East as
prime mess pork! Places where filth always reigns supreme, are the fattening-
pens connected with distilleries. I believe
that such places have as much to do with
spreading disease among hogs as among
cattle. So far as I have ever known, when
cholera makes its first appearance in any
district, it has nearly always been among
the swill-fed hogs of distilleries or flocks
treated as described above. I do not claim
that in great cleanliness we have an infallible preventive of cholera; but I do claim
that with cleanliness and proper variety of
food, the appearance of the malady would
be less frequent and its victims fewer; that
farmers, by little care and attention might
save themselves much loss. Men shut a
pig up in a filthy pen and give him filthy
garbage to eat, and then abuse him because
he is an unclean animal; but let them give
him a clean place to stay in, clean food and
clean water, in short, treat him as well as
other stock, and see if he is not as clean as
other animals. Now, farmers, try a little
wholesome cleanliness with your hogs
and see if they do not pay better.—V. J.
Emery, in Rural New Yorker.
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Mad Itch in Cattle.
The mad itch, as it is termed by breeders
and farmers, is caused by cattle following
hogs that are fed upon green corn and
stalks cut up and thrown to them when the
corn ears are in the roasting state. This is
not an unusual way of feeding in the Western States. The hogs will chew the stalks
as well as the corn-ears, and extract all the
juice or sap from them, and then drop the
sapless stalk out of their mouths. These
woody fibres thus discarded or thrown ou
by the swine with all the sap extracted,
cattle will eat very Yoraciously. Such
refuse contains no nutriment whatever.
It is totally indigestible, in consequence
of which the animal is unable to ruminate,
and i n this condition the refuse mass finds
its way into the maniplies, and thero lays
dormant and inactive in the manifold portion of the stomach, causing irritation and
acute inflammation in the part, and no mf ;.
dicinal agents will serve to even allay it,
leaving eradication out of the question.
The result is the death of the animal in
great agony. The first symptoms developed in cattle that aro destroyed by eating
the woody fibres and sapless corn-stalks,
are a wild stare of the eyes,the animal is very
irritable and cross, and will attack everything in the shape of a person or animal
that chances to come in itsway. Theafllict-
ed animal in a very short time subsequent to
the attack will begin to rub its noso and
head against a fence, tree or post until the
skin and flesh are torn and lacerated in a
severe manner, and will continue the rubbing until death ends its suffering. The
only efficacious treatment is to prevent
your animals from eating this and other
indigestible food.—Canada Weekly Globe.
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Sheep  Shearing—Sows  and Figs-
Horses.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have sheared my sheep and marketed
the wool, and with fair results. We began
shearing April 25th, which is rather early,
especially this cool spring weather. The
sheep needed some covering from the
weather, but we had good houses for them;
and I think sheep do better to have the
shearing done as early as convenience and
comfort will admit. We had a splendid lot
of yearling Cotswold ewes, and wishing to
know exactly what each fleece would
weigh, I provided myself with draw-scales
and as the wool was shorn from the sheep
it was tightly folded together and tied with
twine, first, however, removing all signs
of tags and other foreign substances; the
hook was then placed in the cord around
the fleece, an$ it took but a second to see
what each weighed. A bit of paper and
pencil convenient, marked down the weight
opposite the number of the sheep. I havo
each one designated by number, with an
ear label, so that it is very easy to refer to
my book at any time and know just what
a certain sheep sheared for me, and as each
ewe's lambs are designated in tho same
way, it is a source of information to know
just bow to mako crosses in breeding for
special purposes. It is but very little
trouble to take notes and do the work as
I have stated above, and it is much satisfaction to know whero your profits come
from.
These yearling ewes with their first fleeces
averaged a little over ten pounds each, the
eighty head making eight hundred and
thirty-two and one-half pounds. I got a
little betto-r than twenty-one cents, delivered in market, and though tho prico was
low, I certainly did much better than to
have had a flock that would only have
sheared for me half so much wool. The
highest weight for any of the yearlings was
fourteen and a half pounds, and the lowest
was six and a half. There were several that
went fourteen, and but few that went so
low as seven. These latter were late lambs
last year, and were not so well grown in
body or wool, though we found that it was
about tbe same quality as the other. We
did not weigh the sheep, but they are of
good size, aud being in good condition
would weigh well.   The time of year we
sheared would make considerable difference in the yield of wool, because a month
later would have not only added tho additional growth of a favorable season on grass
and grain, but the oil and gum would have
added much.
We have a nice ot ot pigs tor the season,
aud they are doing well. I find that sows
will do better to have their pigs in as quiet
a place as possible, and to be as far from the
barn as they can be kept. I keep my sows
in a blue grass woods pasture, and allow
tbem'* to take care of themselves. They
have, of course, plenty of fresh water, and
I go among them every day to see that they
are all right, and to give them a little corn.
I made one mistake however, in breeding
some of my sow pigs too young, but as it
was by mistake during my absence from
home, I do not feel very guilty. They
were farrowed last July and August, and
as they were unusually precocious, it made
them como in with their pigs in April and
May. This was such a great mistake that
I lost about one-half of those of that age
in giving birth to their young. Those that
were twelve and thirteen months old at
time of farrowing had no trouble at all
I see a great many young colts now, and
as horses are dull sale, and tho price of seasons for blooded stallions very low, it is a
good time for farmers to improve their
horses with but little expense. A good
farm team can soon be raised from ordinary
mares and a pure-bred draft stallion that
will be very valuable on the farm. I havo
a two-year-old, bred from a good strong
work mare and a Suffolk horse that is now
doing full duty in a team. He is a good
worker, and we havo found him all that
could be asked.
The cattle are doing quite well, though
grass is unusually backward, and we are
still having to feed some to cows in milk.
The blue grass has headed out from two to
six inches high, and though not so much
of it, the grass is very rich. Where people
have plenty of grass the dry weather makes
it richer than if we had more rain, and
stock will lay on tat faster. There is a
great difference between stock that has
been wintered well and that which has not,
and the man who protects his stock from
storms and gives it good wholesome feed,
gets paid the next summer not only for the
grass eaten, but for the grain consumed,
What is true of good care is also true of
good stock. Let a man take a scrub and givo
it excellent care and he can never make
anything of it. The fact is he loses money
by having the care of such stock, or they
will never pay themselves out. Let him,
however, have somo good blood in his cattle, hogs or sheep, and he will soon see the
difference when given liberal care. It is
useless for any man to keep stock of any
kind poor. The farmer who does so simply
throws away what feed ,his stock does get
It is the last ear of corn that counts. Farmers who care to do so can now get blooded
stock at low prices; such as will be useful
to make great improvement in their ordinary stoek, and the one who fails to take
advantage of it when he knows the difference in the price ol a good steer and a scrub,
ofily deserves to lose his grass and grain
as well as time and attention. H.
r{%\ic 4f;trm.
Postal-Card Correspondence
The register of the land office at Fargo,
Dakota territory, received last week applications ior 192,000 acres of land for settlement, under the timber culture act. The
register of the land office at Cruxtons,
Minn., during the same time has received
applications for 500,000 acres. Ofthe 96 registers of the land office, over half are reporting an immense increase in the settlement of the public lands in the West.
TSltlATiA.
Sullivan Co., May 17.—Late spring.
Farmers ln the midst of corn planting.
Wheat looks well. Fat hogs scarce; pigs
plenty. Cholera scarce. Fat cattle, none. I
Horses plenty and no sale. Grangers
asleep. S. P. D.
- Grant Co., May 18.—Xot seeing anything
from our county for some time, I drop you
a card. Corn planting all done. Wheat
good. Oats and flax look badly from tho
dry weather. The largest flax crop evor
sown here this spring. Stock of all kinds
doing well.   No hog cholera yet.     M. P.
Poset Co., May 23.—We are having very
dry weather. Wheat is damaged by lhe
dry weather. Corn is about all planted. A
splendid crop of clover. Oats look very
bad. Health good. William Kittles house
was burned on May 19th in Farmersville,
this county. The cause of the fire was filling the fire place lull of straw and burning
it.   They saved all their furniture.
A. H. A.
Wabash: Co., May 22.—Very dry but cool
for the time of year; about all done planting. There has been rain all around us for
the past week, but we have not had any
rain to do any good for five weeks. Some
wells are failing already. The flax and oats
are perishing for the want of rain. I have
some corn planted two weeks but not one-
half of it is up yet. Success to the Farmek.
A Subscriber.
Shelby Co., May 18.—Now is the time
we call for rain; wheat and corn have commenced firing on gravely ground. Farmers who planted their corn early have commenced to plant over, much of it rotting in
the ground after it had sprouted. The outlook for the farmer is very gloomy indeed,
a great shortage of all kinds of crops is
now certain. Oats look small indeed, rain,
rain, rain. C. A. P.
Dearborn Co., May 24.—We are no
croaker, but really the drouth is becoming
alarming: Wheat is seriously injured, a
great deal of it heading out six or eight
inches high, and heads short. Grass will
be very light at best. Oats promise to be
a total failure. Corn and potatoes have
made very little headway, but may make
full crops it the drouth does not continue
too long. Think farmers should sow buckwheat on part of their oat ground.    R. C.
Cass Co., May 19.—Corn planting about
all done. The drought is playing havoc
with wheat, oats, grass and corn. The corn
in the ground is part sprouted and withered
away, part rotten and part dry as when
planted, with no moisture in the ground,
will have to wait for rain before replanting;
the prospect is anything but flattering.
But lew apples and peaches; abundance of
cherries and small fruit. Worms are destroying the currants and gooseberries.
Wheat, 95c; corn, 28c; oats, 20c; potatoes,
50 to 75c. R. McM.
Putnam Co.—South part—May 18.—We
cannot speak very encouragingly of the
fruit crop this year., There is some prospect of a small crop of apples and a few berries of somo kinds. The little green worm
has destroyed most of the gooseberries and
currants; probably there will be enough for
home use. Peaches will be a rarity this
year. The farmers have been very busy
in preparing and planting this spring. A
larger number of acres of oats has been
sown this year than usual. Wheat looks
extra well, and unless the insects or something else destroys it, there will be an
abundant harvest. J. L.
Nebraska Letter.
Editors Indiana Farmen
Thinking it would interest your many
readers to read a few lines from one of tho
finest farming countries of the West, I send
the following: 1 was born and raised in
Fairview township, Fayette county, Indiana—as good a county as is in the State.
After hearing much talk of the West, I got
tho Nebraska fever very badly and ventured to buy a quarter section of land in
Polk county, on recommendation, in June,
1877. In September I started to seo the
country, and came to Polk county, on my
way crossing one of the finest looking valleys in the world, known as the Platte
river valley, about 13 miles, perfectly
smooth and level. This valley being of a
sandy soil and alkali nature is unfit for
farming, the soil being only about four
inches, and subsoil entirely sand. But it is
a splendid grass-growing valley and used
for a grazing country. Leaving the valley
we climbed the bluffs of about 150 feet, and
strike what they call the table land, the
cream of the West, with soil from 18 inches
to three feet deep, and the subsoil of a porous nature. Iu wet weather moisture settles, in dry it rises. The roads are always
|good.
I found my farm as represented in every
respect. I traveled over the country about
five weeks, and must say the ■ fever struck -
in on me. I rented out my farm for one
year and went back, well satisfied to leave
the good old county of Fayette and go to a
better one, especially for a man with small
means. I commenced making preparations
to emigrate, and in February last, with my
family started for Nebraska. Arrived at
Silver Creek, 16 miles west of Columbus,
and found the roads dry and dusty, and
have been so all winter, and until about the
1st of March. Had no rain from about the
middle of last September, although the
ground was moist and mellow. There boing no rains here during the winter season of the year, and not much snow. The
atmosphere is very dry and healthy. We
have a good country—plenty good enough
lor me. I can tarm on as big a scale here as
big farmers did in I»diana; put out my 100
acres of wheat, and 100 acres of corn, etc.,
but that is merely common farming compared with .what is called big farming of
this country.
Spring opened as usual about the middle
of February, and a large crop of spring
wheat was sown, and to-day the prospect is
very flattering for a large crop, having nice
growing showers about once a week. All
other small grain looks well. Corn about
all planted; the flrst planting all up and doing well; some has been worked over. Our
county seat will have a new railroad in
about two weeks. Emigration is getting
larger every month. Government and railroad lands are about all taken up.
F. M. J.
Osceola, Polk Co., Neb., May 17.
On Trimming Hedge Pence.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Please let F.M. G., of Fountain county,
Indiana, know that it is not a good plan
to cut off osage plants near the top of the
ground at any time after they are set in
the row, for a fence. Set the plants 12
inches apart in the row where you wish
your hedge fence to be. Cultivate them
two years, without trimming, and when
the plants attain the size of two inches
in diameter, on an average, at the
ground, prune off smooth all the branches
but one from every stalk, and cut the
top off every stalk six or seven feet above
the ground, during March,or April;
then, with a mattock, dig tbe earth out
from betweeri the stalks toa depth of
eight inches; then begin at one end of
the row and bend them back to a slope
of 25 degrees, and fasten them one to
another with this little branch which
has been left on each one. If any are too
stiff, hack them with an ax near tlie
bottom of the digging; in this way not
over one in fifty will break off. Put the
soil in about them. Then when necessary side-trim twice a year, and never
let the hedge get more than 15 inches
wide. If it is left wider than this, many
of the old stalks smother and die. The
year after bending keep the hedge cut
down close to the tops of the old stalks.
Fair Haven, May 15.    J. P. Smith.
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