VOL. XIV.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, NOV: 15, 1879.
NO. 40.
FOB HAltK.
FOR SALE—Pure Chester White boar pigs. Ready
for use.   R. S. RUSSELL, Zionsville, Ind.
FOR SALE—55 hend of yearling steers.   Address
A. J. PATTERSON, Union, Pike Co., Ind.   '
FOR SALE—Farm ol 95 acres, 8 miles northeast of
Indianapolis, to close an  estate.   O. W.  DEFORD. Castleton, lud.
F
OR SALE—A few choice Chester White pigs, in
show fix; also, some aged hogs.   Address E. R.
Moody, Eminence, Ky.
FOR SALE—Chester White pigs.   Boars ready for
service.   Satisfaction guaranteed.   Address S.
L. McCOBMICK, Cartersburg, Indiana.
FOB SALXV-Farms In Marlon, Rush and other
conatleeTn Indiana.  G. W. ALEXANDER, 36
E. Market St., (side door Central Bank).
FOR SALE—160 acres of excellent land one mile
from Kokomo. Will require -(1.500 to *R.000 cash,
balance on time at 6 per cent. T. A. GOODWIN, In-
dlapolis.
^TTIOR SALE—Bronze goblers. Pekin ducks. Part-
J_ ridge Cochins, and Plymouth Bock cockerels.
Write at once to J. L. BRENTON, Petersburg, Pike
county, Ind.
FOR SALE—The Farm Register and Account
Book. Complete method of keeplng_farm accounts. Price $1 each. Address INDIAN AFARMER
COMPANY, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—Fifty head of Jersey Red swine. Pigs
from 8 to 12 weeks old. Shoats from 5 to 9
months old. Sows with pig, or without. HARRIS
SHEPPARD, Spencer: Owen county, Ind.
FOR SALE—Twenty head of choice Poland China
pigs, ready for service, either sex. Special offer
for 30 days. Please write me before you purchase.
Address L. H. AIKMAN, Dana, Ind.
FOR SALE-I have one of Zimmerman's galvanized iron Fruit Drying and Baking Machines,
which I will trade for wood and oroduce. A bargain
to any one.   J. A. RIPPETO, ofllce Indiana Farmer.
FOK SALE-Fine farm of 103 acres. In Hamilton
county, 14 miles north, of city, near Carmel,
well Improved, and unsurpassed for stock and grain.
This Is a rare bargain. Address J. F. MENDEN-
HALL, Carmel, Ind.
FOR SALE—A rarm of 160 acres, 7 miles northwest of Indianapolis. This farm is under a high
state of cultivation, and Is thoroughly tlledralned;
has a substantial brick house of 10 rooms, 2 barns,
and all other necessary buildings. Q. T., care Indiana FariSer Co.
LC. CORWINE, fine stock artist.   Address, Lln-
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LOANS.
LONEY  to   loan  on  Improved  Farms.   M. E.
VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind.
LOAN—Money to loan at 8 per cent. Ten years'
time with privilege of pajlng at any time alter
three years. No life Insurance. *N o com missions. M.
E. VINTON, Vinton Block, Indianapolis. Ind.
LOAN—MONEY—In sums of {300 to ?10,000, On
improved farms in Indiana, at eight per cent.
Interest, payable annually (no commissions charged).
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St. .Indianapolis, Ind.
If^xvt j|toch.
creation and encouragement of a vitiated
appetite, the administering of suitable food
at improper hour?, or improper food at
any time—in short, all errors of management—are as cautiously avoided by the successful breeder as would be the use of a
ram possessing some objectionable peculiarity of form or fleece, even though the
iesult of mistakes in the one should not
prove so permanently disastrous as those
in the other direction.
Improvement of Popular Breeds.
A-correspondent of the National Live
Stock Journal ,/entirely agrees with the
views of our own correspondent on this
subject, in a late issue of the Indiana Farmer. VTe believe that breeders generally
will come to adopt this view of the matter
The writer says:  '
But a few years since the rage was all for
cattle that were big,. and fat, and stylish,
and to those qualities all others were held'
as subordinate. Size, fat, and the "grand
up-standing style," carried the day on every hand, as well in the show ring as at
the public sales. It was in vain that a few
practical breeders still held to the doctrine
that cattle were valuable only as they made
profitable returns in beef and milk, and
that the most perfect forms and largest
weights, without these useful properties,
did not entitle cattle to rank as valuable
breeding stock. Quality, while a good deal
talked about as especially characteristic of
certain fashionable strains, was really very
little regarded, except in what had become
an absurd andtechnical sense, indicated by
a soft hide and yielding feel of flesh—properties that may usually be communicated
by high feeding and grooming—where the
real quality of the animal is quite inferior-
But quality, in the wider and more practical sense, meaning a thrifty-growing animal—a good feeder, with flne and dense
bony structure, compact form and an even
distribution of fine grained flesh all over
the carcass—was seldom considered,  and
never given the controlling lD»nen<^_ll^^^,-93^^^?^-:-I&Apth^***
•Shouldhave'ihdetermiiiingtfiee-sceilenceTl^88 "PP681" lo"■*> perfectly -sOifnd,
not only of cattle but of all other meat pro-
dncing stock. It is true that tbese indis-
pensible properties are not Inconsistent
with perfect aymnetry and beauty of form—
they are, indeed, more commonly found in
connection with these attractive forms than
in animals of inferior shapes. But there are
a great many large, stylish and grand appearing cattle, with what has of late been
the fashionable dark-red color, that are
poor milkers, unthrifty, coarse fleshed and
harsh handlers.
Flesh and Fleece.
• There are many engaged in limited sheep
husbandry, who manage to get the least
profit out of it. Their method is to do the
least possible,and that as unmethodic as possible. It has been their habit from youth,—
were trained in that way,—and have no inclination to depart from it. They do not
read nor study the methods of others, nor
observe to any profit. There is no
stock upon the farm that can be made more
profitable than sheep, and none perhaps
that requiro less labor, when method is
used in caring for it. Sheep require and
should have variety in their feeding both
for the best flesh and fleece, and this variety of food is no more expensive than a
straight ration. Founded upon this question of feeding the National Live Stock
Journal says;
Given the proper kiud and variety of
food, the quantity can be safely left to the
instinct ofthe animal. If regularly supplied
no more will be taken than can be properly
assimilated, while with a less quantity
some detriment must ensue. "Blood will
tell," but its story will never be entirely
complete unless the scenes of its triumphs
be laid in proximity to productive pastures
and well filled troughs.
While generous feeding is thus placed
among the essentials to the highest success,
the same, attention to details—variety,
quantity, quality, and the influence of
these upon the fleece and flesh—will
be required that ls bestowed upon what
are commonly considered the higher arts
o*f breeding. Pampering with Incongruous
■ food, restriction to limited quarters*,   the
Choosing Stock for a Farm.
|l,This is a very important matter. Tbe
great variety of soils and of stock enables
us to mi-ke a cltfse adap ation of'hetv. o,
and here is the foundation of profit. The
kind of stock must be also governed by the
variety of feed economically attainable, by
the ability of the owner, to house and
care for vthem, '.and by the market to be
supplied. If for beef, milk, butter, chesse
the breed must be exactly suitable to these
points as well as those referred to above.
Many serious mistakes are made from want
of due previous consideration, and changes
cannot be made without great loss of both
time and money.
It is better to aim at some one point,
some especial market, and then select to
suit as near as possible; but one point is essential—an animal that will utilize the
most food. To secure this the stock must
be healthy, hardy, quiet and of large fiame,
so that when necessary to be fattened ofl
there shall be room for meat. If this is not
provided for a final loss—more than' covering all previous profit—is a sure thing*
A quiet animal will eat mere, will assimilate
closer, retain flesh easier, and fatten much
quicker than one of uneasy disposition.
Of all the stock kept by farmers in this
country it is safe to say that three-fourths
of it is not really profitable, and one-fburth
is not as valuable as it ought to be, or as it
might be made to be.—Cor. Oermantown
Telegraph.
^cfcriimrjf.
The answers to the following queries are given by
John N. Navin, V. S., of this city, author of Navin's
Explanatory Stock Doctor.
Sick Calves.
Editors Indiana Farmen
Having lost four calves with some kind
of a disease, I wish to hear of some remedy
for it. The first one died four weeks ago,
and one every week since. They became
weak and could not walk, their hinder
parts failing first. They would swell and
become cold in the* diseased parts; the
flesh black and frothy. One kidney in the
last one was black. R. D. A.
Plaintield, Ind.
—Your calves have died of a most
fatal disease, called black-leg. The
remedy is too voluminous for a neVs-
paper article.
Blind Horse.
Editors Indiana Farmen
One of my horses became blind last
spring. It may have been occasioned by
over feeding while too warm. The symptoms at first were watering of the eyes,
especially in the morning, and very milch
inflamed. In the evening the eyes would
be apparently well. This alternation con-**
tinued for some time before total, and possibly remediless, blindness ensued. No
white film ever gathered over the eyes.
Now I have another horse affected in the
same way, but this was not occasioned by
over feeding. Sometimes for one, or perhaps two months, this horse's eyes will be
well, when in one night they will become
inflamed, and partial blindness will ensue
for some days. Inasmuch as the symptoms
in both cases are the same, I fear that the
second animal will also lose his sight.
I will qualify what I state about the first
horse's total blindness, by saying that he
seems to see objects at a distance, but this
i*B»t*nB.
a'n<i*I
doubt somewhat whether a veterinary surgeon could tell the blindess by merely examining them.
Can you, .through the Farmer, advise
me of anyTemedy for the one case, or preventive in the other? An answer wonld
doubtless oblige hundreds of farmers.
North Manchester, Oct. 25.       J. VT. C.
—Your horses have scarcely been injured by feed, although a tendency to
disease of any kind is traceable to over
feeding, if inbred in the family. The
greatest cause of constitutional diseases
of any kind is through hereditary influence. You know, as all intelligent men
do, that like begets like, and whatever
the cause of blindness, spavin, and all
constitutional diseases are, the offspring
are imminently liable to inherit it, and
the 'oftener repeated, the more • the
prt geny is likely to inherit it. Use the
egg and salt remedy which you will see
in a late issue of the Farmer.
mortgage.   The section is as follows:
"Sec. 10. A married woman shall not
mortgage or in any manner encumber her
separate property acquired by descent, devise or gift.as a security for the debt or liability of her husband, or any other person."
-j-The farm having come to her by descent she cannot mortgage it as a security, for her husband's debts.
Ii. L. B. The machine you inquire about
is not considered one of the best. It is a
cheaply made affair.
Sundry Queries.
Editors Indiana Farmen
I wish to know what chum is considered
best for family use? What churn took first
premium at Indiana State fair?
Is it necessary for a cistern to have air,
in order to keep it from becoming offensive,
and what will purify it after it has become
so?
An invalid wishes to know where the
best earth closets can be procured; one that
can He kept in a sick room. M. J. S.
Rushville, Nov. 6.
—1. On the subject of churns there is
a great diversity of opinion among butter -tnakers, as is demonstrated every
year, by the great variety displayed at
ourjannual fairs. There was no premium offered on churns at the State
fair/and the committee on special merit
made a report setting out the commend-
ablej points in each competing churn,
and.their adaptation to dairies, private
families, etc. Among others we might
name the rectangular as a very satisfactory) churn wherever it has been used,
and i» slW at a reaiouabJe priee.
.. —--•/. A cistern should have free access
**& air,Sbut a mere surface exposure will
often^fail to prevent stagnation in the
watt# especially if it is not well filtered.
KeMiner's water elevator -and purifier Is
'[thjivaesft msCfumenlTor^ivihg"aTuiT supply of air to cistern water that we have
seen. If cistern water has become offensive it.may be purified by the use of washing soda, at the rate of one pound to
every twenty barrels of water. Lye from
wood ashes may be substituted for soda.
Charcoal is also excellent.
—3. We know of no place where
earth closets are made, or kept for sale.
Commodes are made and kept for sale in
this city.—Eds.
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Postal-Card Correspondence
Public Sale of Short-Horns.
A large sale of Short-horn cattle, belonging to the estate of John Comstock, deceased, late of Liberty Mills, Wabash county, will take'place at the late residence on
Thursday, Nov, 20. The offering includes
55 head of thoroughbred cattle. For particulars address John Fisher, administrator, Liberty Mills.
 m-mx—m	
CoIirkction:—It was Mr. Seawright, not
Seabright, of Crawfordsville, who purchased the Jersey cattle of Messrs. A. L. «.t
W. C. Davis, Wayne couuty, as noticed* ih
this column two weeks  ago.
Large   Corn.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have one ear of corn that has 22 rows
and 52grains to the row, which will make
l,166grains,andanother ear which has
26 rowsand 47 grains to the row, which
would make 1,222 grains. I think this
'willknoek the wind out of Mr. Truman's
ear of corn. J. A. E.
Butler, Nov., 5th.
QUEBY   AND   ANSWER.
Additional Pension.
Editors Indiana Farmer: *
Although some time has elapsed since
anything has been said in the Farmer in
regard to pension laws recently passed, 1
wish to ask,
1. Whether I would be entitled to the
additional pension recently granted, having
been a pension widow upwards of seven
years, when I again married. Having no
heir of course the pension ceased?
2. Was there a law passed about the
year 1864 or '65 granting additional pension
or bounty to thepension widows of Indiana
volunteers? Subscriber's Wife.
At Home, Oct. 30.      **
—1. If you received pension during
widowhood nothing further is due you.
—2. A law passed July 25,1S66, increasing widows pensions where they had children; it gave $2 to each child only.
—.'5. Your husband leaving no heir,
there would be nothing due.
—1. A law was passed .July 2S, 1866,
giving you S100 additional bounty providing you remained a widow until that
date. . .
Invalid Mortgage.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
A few days ago I sold to a neighbor of
mine a wagon and team of horses on credit;
he gave his note for the amount and secured it by a mortgage on his wile's farm—
his wife joining in the mortgage. The farm,
came to her by descent from her father,
who died about a year ago. I have heard
it intimated that the mortgage is not
valid. -Can you tell me why, if such be the
fact? w. S.
Morgan Co. .
—Our attorney answers the above as
follows: The mortgage is of no value
whatever and cannot be enforced, for the
reason that by section 10 of the act of
Legislature approved March 25, 1879, a
married  woman cannot make such  a
Wheat Sowing, Prices, Etc.
Wheat sowing is about completed.
Wheat sowing was begun, in this county,
about the 15th of September. The late
sowing generally does the best here, on
account of the fly. The first sowing of
this season is very much troubled with
the fly. Many farmers are breaking the
ground first sown and resowing. 1
[drilled a field in wheat the second week
>f November, last season, which, when
hresheil, yielded 22_ bushels per acre,
he land being cold and  wet  clay  soil;
ne dust was used at the rate of 200
oundsper acre. The yield of wheat, in
this couuty this season, was from 12 to 35
bushels per acre, when heretofore, and
for many years past, the yield was only
3 to 16 bushels. The use of fertilizers and
better cultivation has brought about the
increase. Also, heretofore, the millers
of the county had to send to other -sections for wheat to manufacture into flour;
now there is a surplus which they cannot
use. More fertilizers have been used
this season than ever before, and seeding
with the drill instead of the broad cast,
so much so that the demand for drills
could not be supplied by the dealers or
manufacturers. About one-third more
acreage was sown this season than last.
Wheat is selling for $110 to$l 20. Isold
my crop, nearly 200 bushels, at my granary, for $100 to $1 25. Corn is only
about a 3 average crop both in quantity
and quality; new sells for 35 cents to 40
cents and old at 50 cents to 55 cents per
bushel. Peachblow potatoes are good,
both in quantity and quality; are selling
at $1 50 to $1 75 per barrel. Hogs are
generally healthy; about an average
number are being fattened; selling # at
§3 60 to $3 90 per 100 pounds. Farm
hands get $8 to $15 per month. It has
been very dry and warm since the 15th
of September until the night of the 23d
ult. when we had our first frost, and last
night, 3d inst., we had a hard frost with
severe freezing, the mercury being as low
as 26° to 28°. W. H. McC.
Clark county, Nov., 4th.
 ♦ em   »  .
Chinese women are bought and sold in
British Columbia for $700 each.
INDIANA.
DeKalb Co., Nov. 5. Weather rery bad
for husking corn, and but little husked;
worth 30c per bushel; wheat worth Jl 20;
oats 30c, potatoes 30c; hogs ?3 25 per cwt.,
gross.   Health good._ Times Improving.
J. A. E.
Hendricks Co., Nov. 5**—Wheat needs
rain, and if it is not favored with the same
in the near future, our huge anticipations
of a large yield will melt. Corn is being
rapidly cribbed, and is of an excellent
quality. The yield will be very large.
Hands scarce, and command ?1 per day.
Long life to the Farmer. J. M. J.
Northern Michigan.—I have recently
returned from a trip into the pine regions
of Northern Michigan. Although there is
some very good farming country there, I
don't desire to make it my home. It was
very dry there' the past summer. Wheat
was an average * crop. Corn a fourth crop.
Oats a third crop. Hay half a crop. Feed
and produce high.   Cattle low.     D. S. I.
Steuben Co.
Vermillion Co., Nov. S.—Weather dry;
water getting scarce. Oorn husking the
order of the day, with fair yield; worth 38c.
Green wheat never so large at this time of
year, and looks as though jointing. Fruit
rotting badly. Potatoes good, worth 30c.
Patrons' Insurance Company of this county
is taking well v Uh the farmers. The
grange is not dead yet; the present outlook
is for a revival. E. H.
Miami Co., Nov. G.—Weather cool; health
good. The prospect for wheat another
year is splendid in this part of the county.
Corn not so good. - The frost made considerable chaffs t/Mni; not near so good aa it
■w7tB-nrong*rf*ft0^^og| an* ^wngy a**}**?**
bring good phces,'ranging from $3 25 to
$3 35. Apples decaying badly. Potatoes
nothing to brag of, worth 40 to 45c. Cattle
look well. Everybody should take the
Farmer. M. H. M.
Floyd Co., Nov. 5.—The wheat in this
part of the county is very badly fly eaten,
especially tbe earliest sown, while that
which was sown later looks splendid.
Some farmers had to sow their wheat over
again*. The fields looked almost as though
they had never been sown. Wheat is
worth Jl 25 per bushel, and it is the opinion of many that it will be worth Jl 50 before next harvest. The greater part of October was nearly as warm as it was in July,
according to the thermometer. Some of the
oldest settlers say they never experienced
such warm weather in October before. We
had our first frost about the 20th of October.
Corn had a fine chance to dry this fall.
More apples have rotted on the trees than
usual. It seemed as if over half of them
were rotten at picking time. L. D. E.
TO   ME
GIVEN TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS!
Something Valuable to Farmers
The Lightning Eod Swindle.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
You will do a public benefaction in
publishing a species of imposition that
is being practiced by certain parties
claiming to represent the Southwestern
Lightning-rod Company.
Their mode of operation in this county
is as follows; by fair representations, or
otherwise, they secure the support *of
some leading citizen whose personal attendance and introduction* gives the
kn*we complete advantage. He makes
a cursory estimate of the amount of rod
necessary to protect the buildings, which
he agrees to put in place at 47 _ cents per
foot. Upon the farmer's signing a contract to allow him to rod the buildings
he issues a policy insuring the party
against damage from lightning for a
period of twenty years. In a few days
a second party appears, goes to work and
puts up from one-third to one-half more
rod than tho contracting party represented as necessary. In my case instead of
$58 or $60 at most, it was $99 47 and any
one may have it at 50 per cent, discount.
VT. B. C.
Fincastle, Putnam Co., Xov. 3d.
Farmers cannot avail themselves of the
Weather Reports of lhe Signal Service to
learn each day what the weather will &*•,
as they live tod distant from the cities t-i
read daily papers. Realizing the imparlance 'to farmers of a daily knowledge of
what the weather will be in advance,
we have arranged with Prof. Tice, of St.
Louis, fot\ a special edition of his
NATIONAL WEATHER FORECAST
and ALMANAC for 18SO. This work
has a world-wide reputation for accuracy in forecasting thc weather every
day in the year, and in addition thc booh
for 1880 will contain some very valuable
scientific and other matter. We have determined to present a copy of this work to
every new and old yearly subscriber 0/
the INDIANA FARMER who rencw.
or subscribes on or before January Is',
next, at the club rate of $1 60. Tlie
FARMER for the balance of this year is
given free lo all yearly subscribers from
the date of the receipt of, their name*.
Tlie following table of contents, just received from Prof. ftce, indicates the value
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<■ TABLK of cosr^sji.   .   *•*   *
Forecasts of the Weather every day in .
year 1880.
Perihelia and the Plague. In this article
every epidemic for the past two thousand
years is thoroughly discussed in a moat
scientific manner.
Heat  and  Sunstrokes,   showing under
what  atmospheric  conditions  sunstrokes
occur, and how to guard against them.
Facts and Laws of Cyclones. ''
Electro Planetary Theory of Meteorog-
noscy, or Science of Foretelling the Weather.
Outlines of Meteorology and Meteorological Facts.
Table of Interest with Rule of Explanation.
Business Laws.
Number of Pounds of Pork from lifty
Pounds of Feed.
Comparative Differences as to the value
of Feed for Stock.
Rule to find Contents of Hay Mow.
Rule to find contents of Hay Stack.
To find contents of Cistorns.
How to Stop the Flow of Blood.
Table of Distances and Population ot the .
World.
Business Maxims for Farmers.
Table of Daily Savings at Compound Interest.
Distances for Planting Trees, and Nuui-
bo* per Acre.
Weight of a Bushel as Established by law
in the United States.
Quantity of tho various Seeds required
per Acre,
Capacity of Boxes.
Planetary Phases.
Almanac for 1880. etc., etc.
—All sending in their own subscriptions
will please name the agent to whoso club
they desire to be attached,  so as proper
credit can be given.   Address
Indiana Farmer Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
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A second crop of blackberries has been
gathered in the garden of Professor Al van
Clarke, in Cambridgeport.
Too Much Sugar for a Cent.     *
Editorslndiana Farmer:
To avoid misleading fanners to expect
impossibilities,'! call attention to an
item copied in.your issue of Oct., 18th
stating that ten pounds of crystallized
sugar can be made from a gallon of
sorgum syrup. Elven the statement of
the "Chief of the Agricultural Department of Washington" should be veri
fled before large investments are made
in expectation of converting water
and uncrystallizable phosphates into
crystallized sugar. We should raise
more sorghum, as if properly made
it is better than molasses or gyrups
of either sugar or starch. There is crystallizable sugar in it, but not ten pounds
in a gallon-i^nless the "Chief" has become a tra^cMiutationist. L. O.
The "Farmer" and Farming.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I subscribed for the Fakmkk during
our county fair, and the more I read the
paper the better I like it. I think the
Indiana Farmer should be a regular
visitor to every farmer's household and
fireside throughout the country. Free
and unprejudiced by political and religious views, its whole aim and mission
is the elevation aud progress of the farmer. Your paper is doing more good
among farmers than all the political papers combined in this couutry. Agriculture is a science and although tbe old
qualifications of main strength and energy are necessary, yet they can not of
themselves give a young man all that
is required for making the most of the
facilities at his command. To be a successful agriculturist, theory must bo
combined with practice. 'Farming i,<*< a
noble calling, and with a good education,
a practical farmer can make his mark as
well and better than a merchant and
a professional man. V. '/,,
Rochester, Fulton counly.