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.
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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.
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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.