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VOL. XIV. IXDIAXAPOLIS, INDIANA, JUNE 21, 1879. NO. 25. FO-t •.ALE. Six handsome Partridge Cochin Cock- 1- '*>'retsat *>2 each. Orde fu Cambridge City. Ind. £"0ereH aM2 each. Order'soon. GEORGE VES- F~*~>r s \LE.—Farm of five a Indianapolis Stock-yards, ... „'_Tc. K. COFFIN, Indian acres within one-half will be sold cheap. diariapolis oTsAfv?- Ashton's salt for butter. "Lara tg stock. ndlanapolls. Ind. ■p-Rock" for salting stock. CHAS. L DIETZ is., Varket street. * Farms ln Marlon, Rush and other j Indiana. O.W.ALEX **" f var.et St.. (side door Central Bank). F*""_r SALE— Farms . _ . . . _. (.unties in Indiana. O. W. ALEXANDER, 36 . ..„..*>tSt_(sldedoo F- ,7ffsALE—Farm of 80 acres three miles north ".est of Indlanopolis at a bargain w tt. * t\ ■ mFFIN. 34 North Delaware St, ' J W.M. _-._*. Indianapolis. _-n_ SALE—J. It. Brown, f-*-*?.? _.____. nf I.l»hi 1 _._. _. , Manilla, Rush county, ."ind breederof Light Brahmas or Felch and I t]ey,,"stoc_\, and White Leghorns. Send orders ).*____. i-i7T?TsALE.—One Stump-puller, Famsworth pat- . tern new, cheap, to pay ware-House charges. f*„_S _". erdelmeyiTr, - '^Llodlanapolls , 249 West Washington JJob SALE—The Farm Register and Account h R_ok. Complete method of keeping farm ao \tiuJPrice Jl each. Address INDIANA FARMKR {OMPAIfY, IndlanapoUs. r^oBSALK—Farm of 82 acres within one-half mile r of Darum, a railroad station in Clark Co., 111. i-iit sf.il cheap or trade for Indianapolis property. J Jl. AC. E. COFFIN. Indlanapolla. F-TorT SALE.—Farm of nine acres, house, three rooms, fine orchard, adjoining Transitville, a -dread station in Tippecanoe Co., Ind. For sale or S_e7W. M. A C. E. COFFIN. Indianapells.; F*~~0R SALE—Fine fruit farm of 20 acres, 16 in best of fruits, balance ln cultivation; two-story .__ with seven rooms. One-half mile fromKln- iindr or Chicago branch of Illinois Central Rall- **_.in Marlon Co., III. W. M. A C. E. COFFIN, iijianapolis. FOR SALE—A flne well-Improved farm of 200 acres_ in Washington township, in Hamilton 10 p. iifc of VINSON oapolis This ls a rare bargain. CARTER, No. 21 Vance Block, F~*0R SALE—A Jersey bull. "Bob Ingersoll," 2,40_ Dropped January 20,1876; sire Ramchnnder 718; .jiu Ullie Fair No. 1007; bred by F. M. Churchman; >m Bounty. 160B. Address, PETER RAAB, Cum- yrland, Marion Co.. Ind. * F~' OR SALE—Pampas or Northern Rice. Healthy, nutritious food for man or beast. Very best ->icken feed. Now is the time to sow. 25 cents a •v-ket or 5 for fl. Postpaid. Address J. H. BROU- [,(;*< care Indiana Farmer Co.. Indianapolis, Ind. T*0R SALE—Alderney bull calf "Wanderlich," f xo. , dropped April 2S. 1870 dam mv cele- mteil cow "Maud Howe," No. 1856; sire "Olive rake," No 1901 A. J. C. C. Come and see dam, sire, md«alf, if you want one of the best bulls in the . „e. R. S. DORSEY, Indianapolis, Ind. well improved, with plenty of stock water, good n-hird, all kinds of fruit. Six miles west of Moores- n le and five miles south of Clayton. Parties de- . r*n„ to purchase will please address me for parttcu- .. J. I. TURNER, Center Valley, Hendricks Co., h itaaa. . . FOR SALE—The Ashland Adjustable Bag Holder, the most complete device for the purpose ever ffered to the public. Every farmer, miller, thresh- »*min, grocer, grain dealer, and all others who use *irk% should not be without it. It Is adjustable, ude of Iron, will not get out of order, and will last ilifaime.* It will lit any sack, long or short, wide marrow. Price, . 150. Address Indiana Farmer. wise g__i___ceo cs. s. M. OOODE—Dentist, over 80 North Pennsylvania street. CC. BURGESS, Dentist. Office in room 4 Va- . ]en's E-change Block, N. Pennsylvania Bt. WALTER BHORTRIDGE, Indianapolis breeder II Rose-combed Black Bantams exclusively. first Premium birds. SHORT HORNS—Bates and Booth kinds for sale. Correspondence sollcted. E. C. THOMPSON, Lock Box 1. Edinburg. Ind. MORTGAGE LOANS NEGOTIATED AND first-class fire insurance placed on all classes of insurable property, farm-houses and barns Included, RI East Market street. G. G. HOLMAN. TITHO will be President in 1880 is uncertain, but It II is certain I am selling Hedge Plants cheaper Han the cheapest, will do to set out last of May or tret of June. W. B. LOYD, Jordan, Jay county, Ind. 0O X REWARD-etrayed from my premises, on 0*10 February 28. two horses, one a dark bay, tavymain and tall; the other a sorrel: both horses ■.boot eiifht or nine years old, and about fourteen lands high. A reward of f25 will be paid for their Mnrn tome, or a liberal reward will be paid to know rttliMr whereabouts. Call or address G.W.WALKER Hantonville street, Indianapolis, Ind. LOANS. LOAN-MONEY—In sums of f300 to flO.000, on improved farms in Indiana, at eight per cent, merest.payable annually (no commissions charged). IM principal, or any part ot it can be paid atany :'■■«. II. B. PA1MKR4 CO., No. 78 Ea Market **MndianapoIis, Ind. LOAX-six per cent, loans made on long time on real-estate security at 6 per cent. Interest. ■ fwlal arrangements for those wishing loans in from ''*> 12 months at lower rates. A. \v. PBATHES, sat* Agents. *?ents wanted In every connty In the State. Office ■*■ *North Delaware street, Indianapolis, Ind. WASTED. The Scientific American says that an immediate and effective remedy for lice on cows and other cattle, also for tickson pigs, is to wash the aflected parts with potato water, water in which potatoes have been boiled. _ _» » We note the sale, by J. P. Luse A Son, Round Grove, Ind., of Jersey bull, "Bluff Buff," to Jacob Stickler, of Earl Park, Ind; also, bull "Baron," to Henry Baum, Frankfort, Ind. Both ot them are registered thoroughbloods. TTTAMED-100 Distributing Agents to sell the " Household and Farmers' Cyclopedia, the only SnftUt.ral cyclopedia ever published Address, I. *___COT, 36 East Market St.. Indianapolis. TTTASTED-Make your Chicks and Pigs grow by _•_. feeding Ground Beef Scraps, 4c per pound, PM..10? poun<ls- Uround Oyster Shells 2C per a-___& O. EAGLET'S, Indianapolis. Indiana. uTASTED-Agents everywhere to sell trees and _' Plants A ^—.Ht—*.t— __A n.,man»nt AmnlnT- &_• Ihave Jj'MiicaUon i-ftj , ParPose I ask your patronage. _._. u_ u*/ _> „7th dishonest tree agents and know what we Mri! ,£■ we expect the people to show their (*___. ™Me correspond witn us in regard to your ■foible wants; also, for terms to agents. Address tit.', B*BSU__. at Barnum House, ISO Bast Mar- _^wt, Indianapolis. It will be noticed in this Issue of the Farmer that Mr. Harshbarger, of Montgomery county, this State, speaks in the highest terms of Dr. Haas' swine remedy. Mr. Harshbarger is known as one of our best stockmen, and has used the remedy intelligently. * m . The following items are clipped from the last number of the National Live-stock Journal: Care of Breeding Sows.—Don't neglect the sows that have young litters of pigs, if you wish the latter to make satisfactory growth. Abundance of food in liquid or semi-liquid form is necessary to produce an abundant flow of milk. Dry corn is a very poor ration for the brood sow; but, with the run of a good clover pasture, and plenty ol soaked corn added, both sow and pigs will do moderately well. Oats, peas, beans, oil-meal, bran or middlings, all make excellent feed for the sow that is suckling, and may be used as is most convenient. Feedinb Steers.—Mr. J. L. Moore, of Polo, Illinois, bought ten yearling steers in May, 1878, that averaged, at the time of the purchase, 600 pounds, payiug for them 519 a head. During last summer they were on good pasture, and had, in addition to the grass, one quart each per day of dry, shelled corn.. From September 1 to March 1,1879, they were full fed, and were then sold at 4}_c per pound. The average gain made in the ten months was 700 pounds per head, and the average difference between the price paid and that received was ?38 50, a pretty handsome return for the investment. Neat Cattle.—In the old English works all farm animals were called cattle; and the term neat cattle was used to designate such as were of the bovine genus. This nse of the term cattle having become obsolete in this country, it is now applied to the bovine genus only. VTe still cling, however, to some of the old forms of speech connected with the former nse of the term; hence we often meet with the expressions, neat cattle, or horned cattle, which, although useless verbiage now, were necessary adjuncts so long as the word cattle was understood as applying indiscriminately to all kinds of domestic animals. Choosing Breeding Swine.—"With breeding stock, a healthy development is of much more importance than rapid growth. The worst place in the world to select animals for breeding purposes, is the show- yard, for here all the appliances known to the best leeders are usually resorted to to produce rapid development, which consists in most cases of adipose tissue; and these unnaturally forced show-pigs are like hothouse plants, too tender, from the very forcing process they have gone through, to be strong, healthy, hardy, breeding animals. In selecting breeders, it will be well to let the excessively fat and the abnormally large pigs severely alone. Ohio Poland China Record. Editors Indiana Farmer: ' -'.**.-""' The board of directors ofthe Ohio'Poland China Kecord Association met at Hamilton June 4. Tbe day was busily spent in inspecting pedigrees, and it was gratifying to find that so many breeders have given attention to the ancestral lines of their stock. Few mistakes were found in appJi-*ations from breeders, who gave fullest pedigrees. Such showed care and acquaintance with the breeding of their stock. Some pedigrees, however, were very incomplete, and had to be • returned to the owners for correction. The board does not exact long pedigrees, but they must be correct as fir as possible. The spring has been a backward one, and breeders have been too busy on farm work to give attention to preparing their applications. The result is not moro than one- fourth of the applications are in, and the board was compelled to extend the time for receiving pedigrees. Requests came before them that the time be extended until after the fairs, in order that this season's breeding may go on record. It was agreed that if this were allowed, there would be no necessity for publishing a volume next year, and altogether thero would be economy in the plan. Accordingly, tho timo for receiving pedigrees has been extended to November 1, 1879. The breeders can now select their young breeding stock, and put lt on record. Blanks will be sent by the secretary to all who will Bend him their names, and state how many blanks they wish. If the blanks fail to come promptly, he will take it as a favor it tho applicant will write again. L. N. BoNnAM, Secretary Ohio Poland China Record Association, Oxford, Ohio. ^cicriitarg. The answers to the following queries are given by John N. Navin, V. S., of this city. Bloody Milk. Editors Indiana Farmer: I wish to know what is the trouble with our cow. She has been giving bloody milk for about t**o weeks, first from one teat, then another. Generally, the blood does not show till the last, or the final stripping. She came fresh March 21, rather too soon, and her calf died, but she appeared to do well since, except the above trouble. She has clover and timothy, with access to running water. She is milked regularly, salted, and otherwise taken care of. Her udder and teats are not caked or sore. No flinching or uneasiness when milking, but hard to milk. E. W. W. Annapolis, Juno 10. —The samp affection that caused the cow to slink her qilf, is the cause of her secreting bloody milk. The lacteal and reproductive functions aro eminently and closely connected by nature, so that tho life of the embyro is sustained by the blood of the dam while pure, but fails to sustain life when impure. The milk is manufactured from tlio blood, also; so is tho aqueous secretion. You often find that the urine contains bloody infusions, also. All this is affected by malaria, poor stabling, hurts, etc. Paint her udder twice a day with tincturo of iodine. Give her in mill or ground feed three times per day, one teaspoonful ofthe following: ground ginger, four ounces, pulverized nitre, four ounces, sulph. of iron, four ounces, black antimony, two ounces, and flour of sulphur, two ounces. awaiting the arrival of their days of execution or the decision of theCourt of Appeals. Thero will be more hanging in Texas this year than in any two States in the Union. Alabama has repudiated $3,700,000 of her debt, Arkansas 82,000,000, Florida 4,000,000, South Carolina ?6,000,000, and scaled the balance 50 por cent. Louisiana is going to repudiate seven-eighths of hers, Georgia has scaled hers from 15 to 40 per cent., North Carolina has repudiated a large part of hers, Tennessee and Virginia are devising means to get rid of a large part of theirs. A profitable and permanent employ igreed to give IS per cent, of sales to ministers at Asbury University. Let us do ^ake County Agricultural Society. *«on Indiana Farmer: ■Jo's annual fair of the Lake county Agri- "-"ural Society will be held on their fair- j^unds at Crown Point, September 30 to oner 3, inclusive. Fair ground includes _*!CreS' 8loPinS from all parts to a lake of *, nt 8even acres near the center. Mem-. ^rship tickets, ?1; entry fee, ten per cent Premium. Good stables and pens for ^k- Open to the world. O. Dinwiddie, Sec'y. Woods, Pres't. . Lake Co., Ind. Condition of Cattle. Of the five States north of the Ohio, about five per cent, report cattlo coming out of winter quarters in poor condition. Diseases are reported in a small number of counties, viz: Black-leg iu throe, murrain iii four, hollow-horn in one, Texas fever in ono, itch, etc., in one, tendency to abortion in one. Several counties in Ohio and Indiana note tbe puerperal fever. One correspondent in Clark county attributes this difficulty to the fact that cows, immediately after calving, are allowed to drink to repletion of cold water. In Oakland, Michigan, early in the winter, several deaths occurred with symptoms indicating smut poisoning; but some of these fatal cases occurred in cattle not fed upon corn or corn fodder* An unknown disease in Leelenaw carried off some cattle; symptoms, rough coat, loss of appetite, craving for bark, rotten wood, or something dry besides grain, costiveness, general decline; no remedy known. A disease with somewhat similar symptoms is reported in Wexford. In Emmett county a disease called "grub in the tongue," is characterized by loss of flesh and appetite, and by a craving for sour food. In Wabash, where a number of cattle were said to have died of smutty corn, it is generally believed that death was caused by allowing the animals to gorge themselves in an imperfectly husked cornfield, and then failing to provide them with water. In Greene, Illinois, some deaths occurred from Spanish fever, native cattle having been permitted to oome in contact with animals from Texas. Dodge county, Wisconsin, reports a disease called strangulation, and several fatal-cases of bloat.—From Report of Department cf Agriculture for April. GENERAL NEWS. A new and fatal cattlo diseaso is creating alarm in many parts of Georgia. The Colorad6 potato bug is bad all over Tonnessee.** ..-•..- -, ' Silver bullion has declined to51%d. %_ ounce in tho London market. . Out of 1,015 convicts in the Texas penitentiary, 915 can not read or write. One hundred and eighty-three cotton mills have been built in the South since the war. Thero are 700,000 cattlo ruminating on the plains of Colorado, and about as many in Montana. QUERY AND ANSWER. Editors Indiana Farmer. Please state in the Farmer the time to use the copperas water on tomato plants? Is it to be used when plants are growing or just before ripening. A Subscriber. Roann, June 12. —Use it at any timo during the growing season. The sooner the better.—Eds. Stenography. Editors Indiana Farmer: Will you please inform me through your paper who is the best author on stenography or short hand? Also whero I can obtain his works. II. M. F. Georgetown, June 14. —Ben. Pitman, of Cincinnati is one ofthe oldest and best authors on the subject. Address him lor a circular.—Eds. EvaporatorB. A. J. C, Jasper Co., Iowa, wishes to know what kind of a patent sorgo pan is the best in use when a person wishes to run on a cheap scale and burn coal and make from 80 to 100 gallons per day? Is the Maulsby cast-iron ovaporator a good pan and much used? or is there something ahead of it? I would liko to hear from a number who havo had experience. Dairymen's Association. Editors Indiana Farmer: , Is there a Dairymen's "Association in i„\_ State? If so, who are the officers, and where do they meet? Please answer in Farmer of this week and oblige O. D. —Tlie following are the names ofthe officers of the association for the present year: Asher Kellum, president, Friendswood; Sylvester Johnson, vice-president, Irvington; Dr. M. G. Parker, secretary, Amo; G. C. Stevens, treasurer, Indiananolis.—Eds. Ba_Ti ftos The-re Egress is more railroad building in and in contemplation in this It m ^ present tuan for six vears Past* not <-St *** that tlle bus*ness does Pay> , *lthstanding the difficulty some of the a(w have been in. Some t •jcoundrel threw a brick into a Passenger car of the I., C. & L. . OR the night of the 15th while 1 on .^ 'ough Greensburg and seri- ,' y/VTOUtded a lady passenger. No Ue has ^ found to the villain. Hog Cholera Eeeipe. A subscriber at Summitville asks us to publish the following recipe for the benefit of our many readers. He says he knows it will save them money: To one half-pound of copperas dissolved in half a gallon of water, add one quart of coal oil and one pint of turpentine. Give to each grown hogthree tablespoonfuls once per week in slop. . _» » It Saves the Hogs. Editorslndiana Farmer: I want to write something in regard to hogs and how we are getting along with them. I have used Dr. Haas' remedy for hog cholera over a year, and my hogs have been very healthy since using it. It has done all he claims for it, and I would cheerfully recommend it to all hog raisers. Four farmers up the creek on farms adjoining mine, lost fully one half their hogs last summer. I have kept from 100 to 150 hogs all the time, and they run to the creek below those that died, and they kept in fine health. I lost none. I feed them Dr. Haas' remedy. I know of hogs dying on one side of a fence where no remedy was used, and on the other side, where the hogs were fed Dr. Haas' remedy, they all kept healthy. I consider it a duty to my brother farmers to let them know myexperience. Dr. Haas' medicine, I think, has repaid me twenty times the trouble asd cost I have been to. J. M. nAUSHBAROER. Ladoga, Montgomery Co., Ind. Blackleg. Blackleg is a form of anthrax, carbuncu- lar erysipelas, to which young cattle are especially subject when in a plethoric condition. It is one of the most acute diseases, and one of a generally fatal nature, wherefore treatment will be of no avail unless resorted to in the very beginning of the disease. In fat and plethoric animals, it is proper to bleed, but if this is not done in the beginning of the disease, it only tends to hasten death. Frequently showering the body with cold water is beneficial. The following physic may be given in one dose: one pound of Epsom salts, ten ounces of solution of aloes, made by dissolving an ounce each of Barbadoes aloes and common soda in eight ounces of boiling water, one ounce of spirits of turpentine, and half a gallon of thin, warm gruel. Shake this well together before drenching. Thereafter give every two hours, half a drachm each of nitric acid and muriatic acid, mixed together with a pint oi cold water. The animal may have all the pure cold water it will drink. A seton should be inserted in the dew-lap. In fact, as a preventive measure, when this disease appears among a herdofeattle.it will be of great service to put a seton in the dewlap of all the young stock up to two years of age, and to give each one from two drachms to half an ounce of saltpetre, once daily, during the week. Jt will also be proper to remove the animals to a pasture some distance from the one on which the disease occurred. Discontinue corn-stalk pasturing. Woodland pasturage is preferable.—National Livestock Journal. There are more than half as many colored children as white in the public schools of Richmond, Va. The business of canning fruits and vegetables is increasing in all parts of the country, except the South. The wool trade of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio is reported as enormous, and there has never before been such a heavy crop of wool as this season. Fifteen thousand acres of land in Murray county, Minnesota, were bought last month by the Catholic colony land agent lor immediate settlement. Thousands of Chinese are employed in building the Texas Pacific railroad. According to Californian construction, such action is unconstitutional. More than ?1,000,000 worth of manufacturing establishments are now building in Peoria, Illinois, and another million is being put into business blocks and private dwellings. The bill recently passed by Congress providing for tbe exchange of subsidiary coins for lawful money and to make such coins a legal tender on all sums not exceeding ?10 has been signed by the President. The price of bread in London is lower than it has been for forty years. The best of bread is sold for three cents a pound, the average for forty years past having been about four cents. At the East petroleum has declined to the lowest price ever before reached, in consequence of the early completion of the Tide- Water Pipe line, whic i is expected to break up the long-continued monopoly in the refining business. The average salary of Methodist ministers in fourteen Southern conferences is J572, and the average amount paid ?438. In Northern conferences the average is $700 and the deficiency in payments about twelve per cent. The Boston Traveler says: "The demand for labor in the West has materially reduced the volume of unemployed labor here, while the demand for our products to meet the wants of the West is causing most of our Kew England manufacturing corporations to work on full time." The export cf produce from New York tor the past week were $5,540,538, against 86,677,74s for the corresponding week last year, and 86,023,957 in 1877. The total since January 1, this year is §138,802,438 against ?152,185,266 for the same period last year, and 8118,975,094 in 1877. There are no less thpn fourteen criminals in Texas who have been found guilty of murder in the first degree, and who are Sundries. Editors Indiana Farmen Please answer the following question and oblige: When is the best time to burn stubble to kill the heart worm, in the fall or spring? Has the patent on the principle ofthe honey extractor run out? Are any extractors manufactured in your city? J. R. —First. Burn in the fall. Second. The principle of the honey extractor is not patentable in this country. We do not know of any extractor being made in this city. You can get them of Everett Bros., Toledo, O.—Eds. TO OUR AGENTS. The Campaign Opened for 1878-80. We propose to present to our agents a larger and more valuable list of premiums at the close of the next clubbing season than we have ever before done. The announcement of these premiums will appear in this column from time to time, and we would particularly recommend the persons and firms making their offers to the confidence of our readers: Double-Draft Hoosier Hay Carrier. Office of J. C. Wingate A Co., manufacturer of the Hoosier Hay Carrier and Derrick, and wholesale dealers in Horse Hay Forks, Rope, Pulleys, Grappling Hooks, etc. Editors Indiana Farmer: You may place one of our Double- Draft Hoosier Hay Carrier's on your premium list. We got value received for the one given you last season. The Farmer has done us a great deal of good. We consider it one of our best friends and take pleasure in doing anything we ean to increase its circulation. Tho noosier Hay Carrier is better this season than ever before and you need not hesitate to recom- commend it. Respectfully yours, J. C. Winoate & Co. Crawfordsville, Ind., June 14. Jersey Beds. Editors Indiana Farmer: Wishing to extend the circulation of your paper in our county as widely as possiblewe will give a Jersey Red pig as a premium for tho largest club sent from Jasper county, and thero must be, at least, two competitors for the pig, and the pig will be worth 825. C. D. STACKnousE & Son. Renssalaer, Ind., June 19. Editors Indiana Farmer: naving succeeded in raising a fine lot of Partridge Cochins this year, I will give a pair to one of your agents. They will be first-class fowls. John Goss. , Bellmore, Ind., June 12. | Editors Indiana Farmer: Please enter upon your premium list for next year, a pair of my superior White Cochin fowls, to be awarded as you may choose. Henley James. Marion, Grant Co., Ind. Editors Indiana Farmer: I will place on your premium list one pair of Light Brahma Chicks for the largest list of new subscribers to the Indiana Farmer. L. A. Burke. Lafayette, Ind., June 16. Young Turkeys, Etc. Editors Indiana Farmer: In answer to Mary B. W. will say: First. Keep turkeys out of dew while young, and feed on soaked crackers and a little meat; they will want little else, and thrive well. A Virginia woman taught me this. Second. Stand the cup-board in water dishes and ants will not get in; or set a dish of grease or molasses in the cup-board and catch them. Third. Five Pekin duck eggs weigh one pound; seven Light Brahma, or seven Black Spanish eggs weigh one pound. Fourth. Pea-fowl eggs are worth 50 cents each, if you can find them. Sunman, June 14. John Bennett. Irrigation. Editors Indiana Farmer. Will some one give his experience in irrigation? Will it pay? Science has discovered a way to avoid damage to crops by wet weather. Why then can we not water our crop and thus be sure of an abundant yield, let the season be wet or dry? J. P. —We have no experience in. irrigation, nor do we know anyone who has, except those who have farmed on the Pacific slope. It has been practiced only on a very limited scale in garde/ring, in this country, and the general opinion of practical men is that it will not pay. First. It is expensive. The construction and maintenance of the necessary dams and ditches to supply and distribute the required amount of water will cost more money than the average increase of crop will pay the interest on. Second. Not more than one year in three is there any material suffering ol crops from drouth, and even then, but a few weeks each year. Third. Nine-tenths of the land in cultivation in Indiana, and the neighboring States, is so located that irrigation is impracticable. Our uplands generally lie above any available water supply. Bottom lands may be irrigated, but commonly at an expense far above any probable profit. Thorough drainage and deep culture are our available defenses against drought in this climate.—Eds. Samples of Wheat. Editors Indiana Farmer: I send you by mail two varieties of wheat. The ripest is the Fultz, the green is the Rock wheat. The Fultz was sown on ordinary land, September 18; the Rock Wheat was sown on about the same kind of land, October 13. The Rock is just in bloom; the Fnltz we cut to-day. VT. H. Jackson. Ingraham, 111., June 14. The samples arrived with Mr. J's letter. The Fultz is extra nice, large heads and plump grains. The Rock is a larger variety, judging from the samples received. The heads average an inch longer and the grains are somewhat larger. It must be a superior variety. We would like to see a sample of it when fully ripe, and have a report of the yield. The Farmer a Citizen. The farmer should consider himself as a citizen, net as one of a class in the community. The farmer's interest in good government is the same as that of those employed in other pursuits. Don't seek or accept office, then, as a farmer, but as a man; don't legislate for the farmer, but for the community; don't vote for a man because he is rich or poor, because he is a farmer or a lawyer, but because he is the best man to represent the common interests of all.—Scientific Farmer. _ _» _■ Hand-Training in Education. In a paper on hand-training iu the public schools, read before a Massachusetts Connty Teaching Association, the reader, Rev. G. L. Chaney, laid special emphasis on the need of giving public schoolchildren the proper bias toward,not against, manual labor. At present children are taught in such a way that they look down upon manual labor. Education should not thus be prejudicial to the laboring interests of the country. Industrial education is absolutely necessary for us as a people. Hand-training is in reality mind-training, or "brain-building by hand." Mr. Chaney argued that special trade schools should be maintained by manufactories, for which the public school training should be a preparation. The work of the Industrial School Association in Boston was alluded to as an example of what might be accomplished in the manipulation of tools common to all trades.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1879, v. 14, no. 25 (June 21) |
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VOL. XIV.
IXDIAXAPOLIS, INDIANA, JUNE 21, 1879.
NO. 25.
FO-t •.ALE.
Six handsome Partridge Cochin Cock-
1- '*>'retsat *>2 each. Orde
fu Cambridge City. Ind.
£"0ereH aM2 each. Order'soon. GEORGE VES-
F~*~>r s \LE.—Farm of five a
Indianapolis Stock-yards,
... „'_Tc. K. COFFIN, Indian
acres within one-half
will be sold cheap.
diariapolis
oTsAfv?-
Ashton's salt for butter. "Lara
tg stock.
ndlanapolls. Ind.
■p-Rock" for salting stock. CHAS. L DIETZ
is., Varket street. *
Farms ln Marlon, Rush and other
j Indiana. O.W.ALEX **"
f var.et St.. (side door Central Bank).
F*""_r SALE— Farms . _ . . . _.
(.unties in Indiana. O. W. ALEXANDER, 36
. ..„..*>tSt_(sldedoo
F- ,7ffsALE—Farm of 80 acres three miles north
".est of Indlanopolis at a bargain w tt. * t\
■ mFFIN. 34 North Delaware St, ' J
W.M. _-._*.
Indianapolis.
_-n_ SALE—J. It. Brown,
f-*-*?.? _.____. nf I.l»hi 1
_._. _. , Manilla, Rush county,
."ind breederof Light Brahmas or Felch and
I t]ey,,"stoc_\, and White Leghorns. Send orders
).*____.
i-i7T?TsALE.—One Stump-puller, Famsworth pat-
. tern new, cheap, to pay ware-House charges.
f*„_S _". erdelmeyiTr, -
'^Llodlanapolls
, 249 West Washington
JJob SALE—The Farm Register and Account
h R_ok. Complete method of keeping farm ao
\tiuJPrice Jl each. Address INDIANA FARMKR
{OMPAIfY, IndlanapoUs.
r^oBSALK—Farm of 82 acres within one-half mile
r of Darum, a railroad station in Clark Co., 111.
i-iit sf.il cheap or trade for Indianapolis property.
J Jl. AC. E. COFFIN. Indlanapolla.
F-TorT SALE.—Farm of nine acres, house, three
rooms, fine orchard, adjoining Transitville, a
-dread station in Tippecanoe Co., Ind. For sale or
S_e7W. M. A C. E. COFFIN. Indianapells.;
F*~~0R SALE—Fine fruit farm of 20 acres, 16 in best
of fruits, balance ln cultivation; two-story
.__ with seven rooms. One-half mile fromKln-
iindr or Chicago branch of Illinois Central Rall-
**_.in Marlon Co., III. W. M. A C. E. COFFIN,
iijianapolis.
FOR SALE—A flne well-Improved farm of 200
acres_ in Washington township, in Hamilton
10 p.
iifc of VINSON
oapolis
This ls a rare bargain.
CARTER, No. 21 Vance Block,
F~*0R SALE—A Jersey bull. "Bob Ingersoll," 2,40_
Dropped January 20,1876; sire Ramchnnder 718;
.jiu Ullie Fair No. 1007; bred by F. M. Churchman;
>m Bounty. 160B. Address, PETER RAAB, Cum-
yrland, Marion Co.. Ind. *
F~' OR SALE—Pampas or Northern Rice. Healthy,
nutritious food for man or beast. Very best
->icken feed. Now is the time to sow. 25 cents a
•v-ket or 5 for fl. Postpaid. Address J. H. BROU-
[,(;*< care Indiana Farmer Co.. Indianapolis, Ind.
T*0R SALE—Alderney bull calf "Wanderlich,"
f xo. , dropped April 2S. 1870 dam mv cele-
mteil cow "Maud Howe," No. 1856; sire "Olive
rake," No 1901 A. J. C. C. Come and see dam, sire,
md«alf, if you want one of the best bulls in the
. „e. R. S. DORSEY, Indianapolis, Ind.
well improved, with plenty of stock water, good
n-hird, all kinds of fruit. Six miles west of Moores-
n le and five miles south of Clayton. Parties de-
. r*n„ to purchase will please address me for parttcu-
.. J. I. TURNER, Center Valley, Hendricks Co.,
h itaaa. . .
FOR SALE—The Ashland Adjustable Bag Holder,
the most complete device for the purpose ever
ffered to the public. Every farmer, miller, thresh-
»*min, grocer, grain dealer, and all others who use
*irk% should not be without it. It Is adjustable,
ude of Iron, will not get out of order, and will last
ilifaime.* It will lit any sack, long or short, wide
marrow. Price, . 150. Address Indiana Farmer.
wise g__i___ceo cs.
s.
M. OOODE—Dentist, over 80 North Pennsylvania street.
CC. BURGESS, Dentist. Office in room 4 Va-
. ]en's E-change Block, N. Pennsylvania Bt.
WALTER BHORTRIDGE, Indianapolis breeder
II Rose-combed Black Bantams exclusively.
first Premium birds.
SHORT HORNS—Bates and Booth kinds for sale.
Correspondence sollcted. E. C. THOMPSON,
Lock Box 1. Edinburg. Ind.
MORTGAGE LOANS NEGOTIATED AND
first-class fire insurance placed on all classes
of insurable property, farm-houses and barns Included, RI East Market street. G. G. HOLMAN.
TITHO will be President in 1880 is uncertain, but It
II is certain I am selling Hedge Plants cheaper
Han the cheapest, will do to set out last of May or
tret of June. W. B. LOYD,
Jordan, Jay county, Ind.
0O X REWARD-etrayed from my premises, on
0*10 February 28. two horses, one a dark bay,
tavymain and tall; the other a sorrel: both horses
■.boot eiifht or nine years old, and about fourteen
lands high. A reward of f25 will be paid for their
Mnrn tome, or a liberal reward will be paid to know
rttliMr whereabouts. Call or address G.W.WALKER
Hantonville street, Indianapolis, Ind.
LOANS.
LOAN-MONEY—In sums of f300 to flO.000, on
improved farms in Indiana, at eight per cent,
merest.payable annually (no commissions charged).
IM principal, or any part ot it can be paid atany
:'■■«. II. B. PA1MKR4 CO., No. 78 Ea Market
**MndianapoIis, Ind.
LOAX-six per cent, loans made on long time
on real-estate security at 6 per cent. Interest.
■ fwlal arrangements for those wishing loans in from
''*> 12 months at lower rates. A. \v. PBATHES,
sat* Agents.
*?ents wanted In every connty In the State. Office
■*■ *North Delaware street, Indianapolis, Ind.
WASTED.
The Scientific American says that an immediate and effective remedy for lice on
cows and other cattle, also for tickson pigs,
is to wash the aflected parts with potato
water, water in which potatoes have been
boiled.
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We note the sale, by J. P. Luse A Son,
Round Grove, Ind., of Jersey bull, "Bluff
Buff," to Jacob Stickler, of Earl Park, Ind;
also, bull "Baron," to Henry Baum, Frankfort, Ind. Both ot them are registered
thoroughbloods.
TTTAMED-100 Distributing Agents to sell the
" Household and Farmers' Cyclopedia, the only
SnftUt.ral cyclopedia ever published Address, I.
*___COT, 36 East Market St.. Indianapolis.
TTTASTED-Make your Chicks and Pigs grow by
_•_. feeding Ground Beef Scraps, 4c per pound,
PM..10? poun |
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