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_.c^ **_** - ■1 • . v. '***■*-* *• *• _•.*> YOL. XIV. INDIANAPOLIS, INKIMA, SEPT. 6, 1879. NO. 30. FOB S.4UE. F IOR SALE-Cotswold Buck Lambs. Address, ENSMINGEB BROS., Danville, Ind. FOR SALE—Farms tn Marion, Rush and other counties in Indiana. O. W. ALEXANDER, 36 E. Market St., (side door Central Bank). FOR SALE—J. L. Brown, Manilla, Rush county, Ind., broeder of Light Brahmas of Felch and Danley's stock, and White Leghorns. Send orders for egRS. OR SALE—100 acres of excellent land one mile ___ from Kokomo. Will require $1,500 to £_.0CO cash, balance on time at 6 per cent. T. A. GOODWIN, In- diap-ulis. F IT.ORSALE—A fine lot of yonng: thoroughbred cat- ? tie of both sex. Also. Poland China hoe__bf the best strains. Correspondence solicited. GEO. W. THOMAS, Homer, Rush county, Ind. FOR SALE—The Farm Register and Account Book. Complete method of keepingfarm accounts. Price #1 each. Address INDIANAFARMER COMPANY, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—A Ilerd Boot Registered Jersey Bull, bred at Beech Grove Farm. 3 years old next March. Fine breeder. Four-fifths of bis calves are heifers. Address DAUBKNSPECK A OSBORN, Nora, Indiana. "TT^OR SALE—A choice farm of 156 acres in Han cock county Ind., 1 mile south of Philadelphia and 15 miles from Indianapolis. Price, ffi.OOO in payments. Address II. B. PALMER A CO., 78 E. Market stre-et, Indianapolis. Hast IT.OR SALE—Sir hundred acres of fine land two _ miles east of French Lick Springs in Orange county. It is a tine stock farm. Address WILLIAM CHARLES, Lick Creek, Indiana. LOANS. I* OAN—Money to loan on Improved farms in In- -J dlana and Ohio. The terms are very favorable. Address THOS. C. DAY, 87 East Market street. Indianapolis. LOAN—Money to loan at 8 per cent. Ten years* time with privilege of paying at any time after three years. No life insurance. No commissions. M. E. VINTON, Vinton Block, Indianapolis, Ind. .-f" OAN—MONEY—In sums of $300 to $10,000, on L*_J improved farms In Indiana, at eight per cent. interest, payable annually (no commissions charged). The principal, or any part of it can be paid at any time. H. B PALMER & CO., No. 78 East Markei St. ,Indianapolis,Ind. W-AJPTED. ""If/"ANTED— Agents, local and general for Indiana > V History, Family Bibles, and the Voters Text- Book. S. L. MARROW, Indianapolis. WANTED—To trade land In Cumberland county, Tennessee, unincumbered for a span of mnles. A£d 'esa G. W. SCHOFIELD, Indianapolis. TrrANTED-To trade 80 acres unimproved land in TT Starke county, lad., for portable engine aud boiler, size from 7>£ to 10 Inch diameter cylinder. J. D. MCCLELLAND, U3 East St. Clair street, Indianapolis, lad, • WANTED-A Good Farm of about 160 acres in either Shelby, Johnson or Morgan counties, within a short distance of railroad'. Writ*, postal card description, price, etc.* to JOHN RAFE«,care of Indiana Fabmeb, Indianapolis, Ind. MIS-t'EI^LANEOU-S. s M. GOO DE—Dentist, over 80 North Pennflylva- , nia street. C. C. BURGESS, Dentist. Office in room 4 Va Jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St. MVght ERS.ONAL— fou can buy a better boot for less money at C W. Tutewiler <fe Co.'s than can be ' in any other store ln the State of Indiana. THE cheapest place in the State to buy Buggies. Carriages, etc., is at Ripley's, No. from 62 to 74 West Market street, Indianapolis, Ind. Call and see for yourself. PERSONAL-C. W. Tutewiler & Co. are filling up their store-room, No. 22 East Washington St., with the finest and best line of men's, women's and children's shoes ever brought to the city of Indianapolis. "l^TAVIN'S Explanatory Stock Doctor is sold in _1^( Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, by the under- s'gned, to whom all orders for books and applications for agencies should be addressed. J. B. HANN, Room 12 Journal Building, Indianapolis, Ind. PERSONAL—It is worth remembering that C. W. Tutewiler A Co. not only sell at bottom prices, but also give a useful present aa an advertisement, with each pair of Boots and Shoes sold. Remember the place, 22 East Washington street. CN. PALMER A SON, Gallipolis, Ohio, breeders #* of Cotswold and Southdown Sheep, Berkshire. Yorkshire, Magie or Poland China Swine, Bronze Turkeys, Pekin Ducks, Light and Dark Brahmas. Buff and Partridge Cochins and Brown Leghorns. Also, Nursery Stock at wholesale and retail. Write for prices. GRANT'S TOUR.—A complete record ofthe travels of General Grant around the world, with descriptions ot the places visited, interesting incidents, enthusiastic ovations by Emperors and Kings. Illustrated. Price, *2 50. Out-sells all books. Territory rapidly taken. AGENTS WANTED. Fob- SHEE A McMakin, Cincinnati, O. Alarm of 220 acres In Marlon coun Ills., 5 miles south of Kinmundy, 70 miles FOR TRADE ty, Ills., 5i east of St. Louis, ISO acres rich loam under cultivation. 40 acres heavy timber, large two-story brick dwelling, barn, two orchards, stock water all tbe year. Will trade for a small well-improved farm near this city. 37 West Washington street, Room 1. G. G. HOLMAN. FOR SALE—FARM—230 acres, 6 miles southwest of Indianapolis; 190 acres in fine cultivation. Soil a rich sandy loam, free from gravel; Is better than river bottom. Lying on a pike in a country un- surprssed for beauty and fertility ot soil. Frame house of seven rooms, good barn, etc., 200 apple trees and small fruits. Price, 865 per acre; a forced low offer. Buyers snould see this before purchasing elsewhere. M. ARBUCKLE, Agent, 70 East Market street, Indianapolis. STOLEN-$150 REWARD—2 Horses aud Wagon. From my premises in Edgar county, 111., Aug. 23, one Bay Horse about 15.*4 hands high, about 9 years old, very slim, crestfallen; one Iron-Gray »Horse about llH hands high, 6 years old. Both horses shod in front very rough. Wagon nearly new. No. 5 931, Fish Bros. make. The thieves also took a full-quilted summersault saddle, hand-stitched. 1 lfty dollars will be given for tie arrest of thief and re turn of horses. Edgar county pays one hundrtd dollars for the conviction ot a horse thief. Address ASA ELLIOTT, Ferrell, Ills., or M. W. STACK, Chief of Police, Terre Haute, Ind. Wiue j|Marh. L. H. Aii-MAN, of Dana, Vermillion county, reports sales of stock to John B. Wright, Walnut Grove Herd, Eugene, Indiana, as follows: 2d Duchess of Dana, 8 years old; Duchess of Walnut Grove, 10 months old; Minnie Wells, 1 year. ■_•»- One of our fine wool growers had a sale of sheep last week, which for some reason, he failed to advertise in the Fakmek. In the issue of our paper of the week previous, one of our enterprising subscribers asked us where he could buy 20 head of the same variety of sheep. Had the man who sold his sheep, invested asmall sum in advertising in the Farmer he would doubtless have had this man ?and many other bidders at his sale. - We have received the second semiannual catalogue of Kidd's great combination sale of trotters, thoroughbred horses, Short-homs, Jerseys, Cotswold, Southdown and Shropshire-down sheep, at Lexington, Ky., September Sth. For copies, address P. C. Kidd, Lexington, Kentucky. m * Mr. Daniel Brewer, a sheep breeder of Johnson county, Ind., sold fifty head of his thoroughbred Cotswold ewes and lambs on Thursday 28th ult. The sale was well attended, but the bidding showed a lack of interest in thoroughbred sheep, as the sheep and lambs only sold at an average of $6 65 per head. One flne yearling buck sold for $21, the highest price paid for anyone sheep,and it was the best bargain of the lot. KIDD'S COMBINATION SALE. To personsproposingto engage in rais- ing'_flne stock, we call attention to the great combination sale of P. C. Kidd, advertised in another column of this paper. The sale will commence on the 9th of this month at Lexington, Ky., and will continue from day to day till the stock proposed to be sold is disposed of. The sale embraces a large catalogue of horses, cattle and sheep. It is a commission sale, in which all purchases must be settled in cash before the stock can be removed. Ready cash will no doubt command good bargains. Breeding for Sex. Editors Indiana.Farmer: S' In the Farmek_some_two years past, 1 gave notice that I would give my method of producing heifer calves, and in a few days 1 was overrun with letters asking the modus operandi, which I answered. Have heard from some, and all heard from, say it-proved correct. All.who have tried the directions I gave, thoroughly, will please report in the. Farmer. My address is P. O. box 142, Richmond, Indiana) V. .; ___. i* •»- • -.■ .■-" - .- .- *•*»■ ■***•***■■ ■***■_.,'._■ ..--. . '•: . The Union Stockyards. The St. Louis Republican publishes an artidle on the Union Stockyards, of this city, from which the following is extracted: After two years of determined energy the' capital ofthe "Hoosier" State has been converted into one of the most advantageous distributing live-stock markets in this country. Situated in one of the most important corn-belts of the country in the Union, on a direct line between the graz- ing-fields of Kansas, Texas, Colorado, the Indian Territories, and points of consumption along the Atlantic seaboard, with a most liberal system of railroads, are advantages that must soon develop Indianapolis into one of the largest live-stock centers of the "West. Then, again, the important relations sustained by that city towards the pork-packing interest of the country will be largely increased by the completion of this enterprise, thus making Indianapolis a most formidable competitor for the live stock traffic between the West and East. There are some five or six extensive pork packing houses in that city, three of which pack the year round, thus making it the third packing point in this country in the magnitude of ita operations. And with the facilities for handling stock, as provided by the Union Stockyards, that branch of .industry will be largely increased. Besides being on a direct, line between points of production and consumption, Indianapolis has the advantage of being south of the snow belt, hence shippers that way will never suffer from snow blockades. Eleven railways center at Indianapolis, which provide ample shipping facilities at comparatively lower prices than are charged by lines further north. The Indianapolis yards are situated on White river, about two miles from the- business center of the city, and occupy an area of over 100 acres. In construction, these yards, while the more useful and advantageous features of other prominent stockyards in the country have been adopted, many original and valuable improvements, both in the buildings and the system of handling stock, have been brought into use. The yards are of a capacity to meet the largest possible demand, say 10,- 000 cattle and 40,000 hogs and sheep, with ample room to build additional yards when required. The pens are all well roofed and provided with water and feed-troughs, while the system of sewerage is such that the entire yards are kept dry and clean. The loading and unloading chutes are ample and admirably arranged; the yards are traversed by streets twenty-five and thirty feet in width, which are also roofed over, thus protecting both stock and operators from the inclemency ofthe weather. A fine sale-stable, of a capacity to accommodate 100 horses, has also been constructed. Eight lines of railways enter Indianapolis from the TV est, while the roads leading to the East are the "Panhandle," which connects with the Pennsylvania Central at Pittsbnrg, making a short route to Phila delphia and New York; the C, C, C. and I. road direct to Buffalo via Cleveland; the T., C. and H. road, which connects with the Baltimore and Ohio, offers to shippers the most direct line to Baltimore and Washing"** ton. In, the conipletion of this enterprise we see three great iive-stock centers—Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis—forming a triangle about equi-distanees from each other. The arrangements for handling stock at each are all that could be required, and as each are well supplied with capital, ability and enterprise, one may look for a brisk three-cornered competition during the next few years. AVhen operators at the Chicago point of the triangle get lonesome, all they have to do is to move down on the business line. Success in Sheep Husbandry. Sheep husbandry, as an avocation, has no distinguishing peculiarities. Its valleys of humiliation and disappointment are peopled by those plodders whose dreams have failed of realization; others of its votaries struggle with the throng along the plains and uplands of mediocrity, while tho few reach the mountain top and impress their name and fame upon the deep blue of a complete success. The plodder may live, and he who moves only to keep from being run down by his surroundings, may be floated beyond want by a better return than he merits; but the flock-master's utima thule—those grand results which leave ineffaceable tracks upon life's highway and bring honor and wealth in their train—are achieved only by those who, through untiring study and persistent effort, have come to deserve them. The "luck" of Sheep husbandry is so thoroughly within the control of the flock-master that he rarely need look beyond his own management lor those causes and effects which go to make"* or mar his fortune. The corner stones of success—proper selection, judicious blending, liberal alimentation, and adaptation of variety and number to natural and artificial surroundings— are so readily accessible, that no one need lay his foundations improperly, or unintel- ligon41y\t-i±ltvlt_pc.~il_c.-_U-.,_ecpllf_nrjir\- fluences, such as flnetuattoiar-»f-iJi*jf.e«,\ ,* \4- propitious seasons; or unforseen casualties'? may intervene and occasionally disturb tlie surface of the tide, but under prompt and judicious management, the ripple will soon disappear, and the general flow *will tend surely on toward comfort and competence. Many disasters have overtaken those who have essayed sheep husbandry. Extravagant purchases, and unintelligent breeding, improvident feeding, negligence in supervision, and absence of any well-defined policy, are the rocks upon which the .majority of such efforts have been stranded, and he who would decree for his ventures a better fate, must needs avoid the dangerous road marked by their wrecks.—Na tional Live Stock Journal, Chicago. Working Cattle and Horses. The question is often asked, why do not farmers use cattle more for farm work, since they are kept at so much less expense than horses? The reason is, they are not more cheaply fed considering the amount of labor performed, and they are too s}ow to allow their use to become universal, when labor is scarce and consequently high. The horse consumes his feed, grinding it thoroughly, and lt immediately undergoes the process of digestion, while at work; not so the ox. The food is roughly masticated, psjsses into the first stomach, is there still further softened, and macerated, and passes) into the second stomach. It is then raised, chewed, and being again swallowed, pass( 3 into the third stomach; true digestion b* gins, and when received into the fourth, t) e true digestive stomach, the process is lontinued by mixture with the gastric fluia from its walls, and is converted into chyme; it then passes out and enters the first bejwel where it receives the secretion from thi pancreas, and the liver and then becomes chyle. Passing along the bowels, the n itriment is constantly absorbed by the num rous ducts and by them passed into th< blood, by which it is distributed to keep i p the wear and tear of the body, and bull 1 up new structures where the labor is n< t so severe as to constantly exhaust the foe I which is supplied. From this it will be seen thi t, although the horse consumes more tim in taking his food than the ox, when ones taken the animal is ready to labor until] this sustenance is assimilated, and tho force given 1 y it consumed. With the ox it lis different. He must have time to rechew his food, or ruminate. At slow work, if no exhaus'iye, this may be, and often is per .rmed while at labor, if of such a kind as > afiord resting spells, but if this lab-»r o continued and heavy, as in plowing, ete, the animal is prevented from ruminating until at rest. For this reason, an ox shouldjnever be employed for more than five or t x hours each day in exhaustive laborleavi g three hours for gathering its food if grass and an equal time for rumination; this ^ ith its labor, and twelve hours rest occupi s the twenty- four hours of the day; for fee ox, unlike the horse, cannot rest without ilying down. *The horse, on the other hand, when at work is fed on concentrated Tood^.oats and "corn, with what hay may be necessary for a|dtvisor to this food. The animal will re- quire from one-half to three-quarters of an i^mr to properly masticate eaoh mess of grain, the hay being principally consumed (J.'Uing the night, and in the early morn- i^?*. before feeding time. If fed only on grass?, or hay, he will perform no more work than tho ox, for nearly the whole time is consumed in gathering food enough to"'support the animal economy. Tho siorhach of tho horse is small,.and eating and'digestion go on simultaneously. Therefore in all new countries, where grass is plenty, and grain is scarce, oxen are generally-used; but as soon as the farmer is able to procure grain enough to seek horses, or mule-teams, oxen are quickly abandoned fbr horses, except for slow wort, as hauling fodder, carting manure, and other labor pj, that kind for which they are always available. .'.•If? however, cattle are fed liberally with fheal or other concentrated food they will, be found to do nearly as much work one ■3«£ with another at plowing, harrowing, and.other slow work as horses, for in this case so much time is not spent for rumination, and the food being prepared ready, so much time is not taken iii eating. Indeed we have known cattle so fed for a considerable length of time, to perform fully as much work in cool weather at plowing, etc., as horses, and then there is this ad- di| ional advantage, that when disabled for active work, they are fit for human food. \iy?e think that on a'great #nany farms, Qne.yoke of cattle might be profitably employed to each two or three pair of horses, ft>r there is a variety of work they may per- fcrita to good advantage, but if so kept they Should be liberally fed, for any animal forced to perform labor atthe expense of lesh and muscle already laid on does so at a'Joss to the owner.—Western Rural. [:• -*i ■—- •» — **>* | ,*\Tr_.e Way to Handle Sheep. •r we is a right way and a wrong way, a .■n***^ and 'an easyv way, an awkward 1_ skillful.wavr>/<-oi'f^ij'^ntihaigHfe. , _, et A great many men will catch the .sii^e'jjjby the wool on the back with both hands, and lift the animal clear from the ground by the wool only. Barbarous! Let some great giant grasp you by the hair oi your head and lift you from the ground by the hair only! Would you not struggle and squirm worse than the mute sheep does when lifted by tho wool? And would there not bo a complaint of a sore head for a week or two? If you do not believe it, try the experiment. We have slaughtered a great many sheep in years past, and when removing the pelts of such sheep as had been handled by the wool, we never fail_-_ to observe that beneath the skin wherever the animal had been caught by the wool, blood had settled. In many instances, the skin had been separated from the body so that inflammation was apparent. We have known proprietors of sheep to be so strict in regard to handling them, that they would order a helper from the premises it he w-ere to catch a sheep by the wool on any part of the body. Some owners of sheep direct their helpers thus: "When about to catch a sheep, move carefully toward the one to be taken, until you are sufficiently near to spring quickly and seize the beast by both hands, then pass one hand around the body, grasp the brisket, and lift the sheep clear from the ground. The wool must not be pulled. If the sheep is a heavy one, let one hand and wrist be put around the neck and the arm pressed against the leg." We have always handled sheep in the way alluded to. We never grasp the wool. Others seize the sheep by a hind leg, then throw one arm around the body and take hold of the brisket with one hand. But ewes with lambs should never be caught by the hind legs, unless they are handled with extreme care. When sheep are handled rou£ ', especially if their wool is pulled, the small bruises and injuries will render them more wild and difficult to handle.—Drovers' Price Current. STATE NEWS. The warehouse men of Lafayette are daily paying out §15,000 for grain. Eight car-loads of stone are shipped dailk* from North "Vernon for the State-house. Seventy-five cases of scarlet fever were reported to the Board of Health during August. The soldiers of Lawrence county will hold a reunion on the fair ground, September 25 and 27. - James Bwyce's bagging factory, at Muncie, the largest in the West, was damaged by fire on the 30th ult. A. Lybrook, of Richmond, has been appointed private secretary to General John A. Bridgeland, consul at Havre, France. The soldiers of Howard, Cass and Miami counties will hold their second annual reunion at Galveston, Ind., on September 25, 2. and 27.- The barn* of Israel Whey, of Afarion township, Hendricks county, burned August 29. Loss ?1,500; uninsured. The fire was incentliary. . The residences of John Cook, James Simmons and George Bundy, ot Knightstown, were burglarized of articles amounting in value to ?500, while the inmates were absent at the fair. Frank Fitzpatrick and Jack Doonan, two notorious young men of Bloomington, wero arrested on the 30th ult., for an extensivo job of corn-stealing. They will be sent to the penitentiary. Clara, four-year-old daughter of Henry Seidenberger, of Seymour, accidentall*. overturned a pot of coffee, completely covering her all over, from the effects of whi< h she died soon after. James "Vanmeter, of the Cambridge Car works came too close to a companion who was driving nails with a spike maul, the point of which passed clear into his eye, mashing lt completely. > Fifteen cases of typhoid fever of a violent type have occurred ln the Uttle village of Abbington, a few miles south of Richmond within the past few days, and a large percentage h,ayeJjroved fataU_.,.-^ T *XAV*WVJi- o-itil I intendent of the works fell while running on the track in front of a moving engine, on the 31st ult., and had a leg cut off by the train. A colored man by the name of Roberts, who has been in Howard county for some time buying cattle, was. way laid and robbed of ?250, near Cicero, on the 31st ult. They knocked him senseless and left him for dead. A man name Copeland, in the southwest part of Hendricks county, while repairing a buzz-saw on the 30th ult.,had his right arm completely cut off and the flesh on his left breast terribly mangled. He is in a critics 1 condition. George McWilliams, a prominent mem ber of the bar of Fountain county, and a leading Democratic politician of the western $»art of the State, and Democratic candidate for Congress in 1876, died at Covington on the 20th ult. The boiler used in the quarry at Holtne's cement mill, at Jeffersonville, exploded August 29, fetally injuring Charles Baum- garten, the engineer, and severely wounding James Huddelson. Baumgarten has since died from the effects of his injuries. Willie Hoffman, son of Franklin Hoffman, a prominent farmer, living seven miles southeast of Daktown, kicked by an unruly mule, fracturing his skull and producing concussion of the brain. His injuries are of a serious, if not fatal, nature. A boy named Charles Carney,whose father is a section hand on the railroad at Franklin, attempted to get on the train while in motion, was thrown off, and his l^g crushed so badly that amputation had to be performed. The boy lies in a precrious condition. John Parker, a merchant of Eminence. Morgan county, lost a pocket-book which contained $300. After having four persons arrested on suspicion, including one justice of the peace, he found his pocket-book among-some rubbish under the counter in his store. The residence of Boone Gilson, three miles north of Rushville, was entered by thieves on the 30th ult., who stole clothes, silver spoons, and what other valuables they could find. Two tramps are supposed to be the thieves, as they were seen in that vicinity. Tom Andrews and Frank Pierson, two well-known negroes of Bloomington, engaged in an altercation on the 30th ult., during which Pierson drew a large knife and plunged it into Andrews' breast, inflicting a wound that will prove fatal. Pierson is under arrest. In a general row at the Middlefork fair, on the 29th ult., an omnibus driver, Lou Hock, of Kokomo, knocked down and kicked in the head, John Thompson, of Warren township, killing him. nock is in jail. It was with difficulty that the A full report of the Cicero fair will be I crowd was kept from lynching the Koko- given next week. . I mokean. GE-VEUAI, XEWS. The coinage of standard silver dollars last month was 81,600,000. Minneapolis ships an average of seventy- five car loads of flour a day. There are now in this country 853 Stato banks and 2VS56 privato bankers. Grasshoppers are destroying the clover in the vicinity of Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin. There is an establishment in New Haven which manufactured 22,422,772 fish hooks last year.'-. . More than 5,000,000 cans of corn aro • packed annually in Maine and sold in every part of the world. The cotton crop this year is estimated at 5,250,000 bales, which at the average vahie of $60 n bale will bring $315,000,000. The farmers of Minnesota have harvested this year very nearly a bushel of wheat for every inhabitant ofthe United States. The winter wheat crop of Kansas is reported at 16,000,000 bushels, against 26,000,- 000 last year—a decrease of 10,000,000 bush Judge Nelson has decided in United States District Court, at Boston, that interest paid in advance does not release (he sureties on a note. • In value the sugar imports represent nearly one-sixth of all our imported merchandise, the value of imported sugars in 1878 being {81,187,504. Great Britain holds at present not to exceed ?130,000,000 of United States bonds, and Germany, France and the rest of Europe about $70,000,000. The Austro-Hungarian wheat crop shows a great falling off from last year's totals. The corn crop of Serviais very unpromising in consequence of drought. Railroads* are all doing well, and there are but very few roads inthe country but what show by their semi-annual statements a large increase of business over last year. , .* . The United States have now more than five-eights as much railroad mileage as all Europe, and it will be but a few years be: ' - ** - tiy„ restf of 1'*,' ' '■* ^-■'•Nlyj- The exports of.loeomotives from tho-pori""* of New Tork from January 1 to June 30 were forth-five engines, valued at |312,OOo) against only thirteen last year( ' alued at ?115,000. The total amount of tallow exported from the United States in 1878 equaled 53,- 340,696 pounds, at a value of $4,808,612, as against 55,362,763 pounds and value of ■55,294,668 in 1877. _-*__.-*ifper- fc^j^-havo^invlci.*^-- Richmond City Mill- ,► A New Phosphate for $11 per Ton. Editorslndiana Farmer: Messrs. David Hottel and John Delling- ner, two reliable farmers of this county, have tried it on wheat the past year, and have found it as good or better that phosphate that is sold for §30 per ton. Mr. Hottel has been to "Virginia and says that the farmers there have been using it for three years, and it has prove d a success. I am making three tons for my own use. I expect there will be about one hundred tons manufactured in this county this year; 600 pounds bone-meal, $9; 100 pounds sulphate of soda, $1 50; 100 pounds salt, 50 cents; 1,200 pounds ashes and made earth. Put it on the barn floor to dry; then sieve it, so as to drill, then add the other ingredients and mix well. The sulphate of soda shoulcTbe beat up and pulverized. J. S. Burgess. Harrison Co. Nebraska will harvest 100,000,000 bushels of the products of the soil in 1879. Twelve years ago this Stato was a frontier territory and supposed to constitute a portion oftho great Amorican desert. Our exports of agricultural implements in 1878 were of a total value of $2,552,260, against $1,781,022 in 1877. The amount sent abroad this year will be still greater, as the demand from Russia and South America is increasing. The amount of gold on the way to this country is estimated at $2,500,000, and the current will steadily increase. We have taken in all the bonds that foreigners can spare us, and still the balance of trade is enormously in our favor. The shipments of boots and shoes the past week foot up to 60,548 cases, and the total shipments sir.ee January 1 have been 1,054,736 cases, against 841,331 for the same time last year, being 213,405 cases in excess for the same period last year. On the first of the month the total amount of currency in circulation was $734,801,991.78, Worth its face in gold. This is about $9,000,000 in excess of the purchasing powerof the total outstanding currency at any previous period of American history. J The deficit inthe grain and other crops of Great Britain, involving a loss of about two hundred millions of dollars, and the falling off in the agricultural produets ot France, presage an enormous demand for American cereals the present year. Tlie attorney general has decided tlu.t soldiers living in the various homes are personally entitled to money due on account of arrears of pension, and that they do not go to the institutions. There are about 15,000 inmates who are affected by this decision. A few days since Secretary Sherman ordered the shipment of $50,000, standard dollars, from the treasury as follows: New Jersey, $20,000; Indiana, $16,000; Pennsylvania, $11,000; Texas, $5,000; Ohio, $2,000*. Minos, $1,000; Minnesota, $1,000. The day previous the shipments wero $40,000, and during the month, $431,500. The peach crop in the West has been almost a total failure, and nearly all seen in Western markets are brought from tiie East. The high freight rates make the cost excessive. In Baltimore peaches are selling at from 60 to SO cents a Jiushel, and through the West at from $2 to $2 50. •-r^r*y_ ^Mk
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1879, v. 14, no. 36 (Sept. 6) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA1436 |
Date of Original | 1879 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
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Coverage | Indiana |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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YOL. XIV.
INDIANAPOLIS, INKIMA, SEPT. 6, 1879.
NO. 30.
FOB S.4UE.
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IOR SALE-Cotswold Buck Lambs. Address,
ENSMINGEB BROS., Danville, Ind.
FOR SALE—Farms tn Marion, Rush and other
counties in Indiana. O. W. ALEXANDER, 36
E. Market St., (side door Central Bank).
FOR SALE—J. L. Brown, Manilla, Rush county,
Ind., broeder of Light Brahmas of Felch and
Danley's stock, and White Leghorns. Send orders
for egRS.
OR SALE—100 acres of excellent land one mile
___ from Kokomo. Will require $1,500 to £_.0CO cash,
balance on time at 6 per cent. T. A. GOODWIN, In-
diap-ulis.
F
IT.ORSALE—A fine lot of yonng: thoroughbred cat-
? tie of both sex. Also. Poland China hoe__bf the
best strains. Correspondence solicited. GEO. W.
THOMAS, Homer, Rush county, Ind.
FOR SALE—The Farm Register and Account
Book. Complete method of keepingfarm accounts. Price #1 each. Address INDIANAFARMER
COMPANY, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—A Ilerd Boot Registered Jersey Bull,
bred at Beech Grove Farm. 3 years old next
March. Fine breeder. Four-fifths of bis calves are
heifers. Address DAUBKNSPECK A OSBORN,
Nora, Indiana.
"TT^OR SALE—A choice farm of 156 acres in Han
cock county Ind., 1 mile south of Philadelphia
and 15 miles from Indianapolis. Price, ffi.OOO in payments. Address II. B. PALMER A CO., 78 E.
Market stre-et, Indianapolis.
Hast
IT.OR SALE—Sir hundred acres of fine land two
_ miles east of French Lick Springs in Orange
county. It is a tine stock farm. Address
WILLIAM CHARLES,
Lick Creek, Indiana.
LOANS.
I* OAN—Money to loan on Improved farms in In-
-J dlana and Ohio. The terms are very favorable. Address THOS. C. DAY, 87 East Market
street. Indianapolis.
LOAN—Money to loan at 8 per cent. Ten years*
time with privilege of paying at any time after
three years. No life insurance. No commissions. M.
E. VINTON, Vinton Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
.-f" OAN—MONEY—In sums of $300 to $10,000, on
L*_J improved farms In Indiana, at eight per cent.
interest, payable annually (no commissions charged).
The principal, or any part of it can be paid at any
time. H. B PALMER & CO., No. 78 East Markei
St. ,Indianapolis,Ind.
W-AJPTED.
""If/"ANTED— Agents, local and general for Indiana
> V History, Family Bibles, and the Voters Text-
Book. S. L. MARROW, Indianapolis.
WANTED—To trade land In Cumberland county,
Tennessee, unincumbered for a span of mnles.
A£d 'esa G. W. SCHOFIELD, Indianapolis.
TrrANTED-To trade 80 acres unimproved land in
TT Starke county, lad., for portable engine aud
boiler, size from 7>£ to 10 Inch diameter cylinder. J.
D. MCCLELLAND, U3 East St. Clair street, Indianapolis, lad, •
WANTED-A Good Farm of about 160 acres in
either Shelby, Johnson or Morgan counties,
within a short distance of railroad'. Writ*, postal
card description, price, etc.* to JOHN RAFE«,care
of Indiana Fabmeb, Indianapolis, Ind.
MIS-t'EI^LANEOU-S.
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M. GOO DE—Dentist, over 80 North Pennflylva-
, nia street.
C.
C. BURGESS, Dentist. Office in room 4 Va
Jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St.
MVght
ERS.ONAL— fou can buy a better boot for less
money at C W. Tutewiler |
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