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VOI_. XIII. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 2, 1878. NO. 44. FOR SAJ-K. F0R SALE—A good two-seat, second hand carriage, glass doors, for #75. Call and see lt. O. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market St., city. OB SALE-I'artridge Cochins at |2toS3 pr. pair, according to quality. W. D. LATSHAW, Oak. town, Knox county, Ind **• Jk—._*-■-_. s_-\j_--Js \tj , a. a-.-- FOK SALE-Pekin Drakes, Jl 50 each. Can spare a few pairs at «3 50 per pair. JOSEPH Is. BREN- TON, Petersburg, Pike connty, Ind FOR SALE—Thoroughbred registered Jersey bull, 14 months old; a superior animal. Price $40. WM. C. SMOCK, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—The Farm Register and Account Book. Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price *1 each. Address INDIANA FARMER COMPANY, Indianapolis. FOR SALE VERY CHEAP—100 head of pure Poland-China Pigs, bred from flrst-class.premlum stock. Also two fine yearling boars. Send for prices, A. JOHNSON, Clifton, Ohio. • FOR SALE—Three Short-horn Bulls, one two-year- old and one yearling. "Young Marys," red with some white. One vearling red ofthe CoL Sanders' imp. DR. JAS. P. FORSYTH, Franklin, Johnson Co., Ind. E OR SALE—Ten Black Bess SowPigs, three and a ^half to five months old. The dam of five of these pigs Is a niece to-ShepUerd A Alexander's fumous old Black Bess. Price reasonable. Address WH-LIAM' BAKER, North Madison, Ind. FOR SAI.E—I have a few head of Jersey Red pigs now ready to ship, of undoubted purity, of both »ex, at reasonable prices. HARRIS SHEPPARD, Spencer, Owen Co., Ind. FOR SALE—1.50 Bertshires from my imported herd. Pigs weighing 40 to 100 pounds, $10; young sows. $15 to $25. They are as fine as the finest pedigreed stoefc. WM. It. FALL, Lebanon, Boone Co., Ind. FOR SALE—An improved farm in Pulaski county of 200 acres for «2,000on ten years time, at 6 per cent interest. Also 160 acres one mile from Kokomo; wilHmprove at $40 per acre on same terms. T. A. GOODWIN, 29 Thorpe Block. Indianapolis, Ind. WA?fTE»- W ANTED—It known that Mrs. Itobrer's great Oregon cure for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Dyspepsia, etc., is fast gaining a reputation unequaled by any other lung medicine in use. It is vouched for by many well-known citizens of this city and State, who have tried it satisfactorily. For sale by druggists. Prepared by MRS. E. BOURER & CO., 347 and 349 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. WANTEI>—To exchange spring mattresses and lounges for country produce. No. 45 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis. \tf ANTED— Wood, potatoes, apples, butter and TT other farm produce in exchange for dentistry. C. C. BURGESS, No. 4 Veen's Exchange Block, city. .LOANS. SIX PER CENT—Loans made on long time on real estate security at 6 per cent int. Special arrangements for those wishing loans in from. 6 to 12 months at lower rates. E. A. WJIITCOMB & CO., State Agts. Office 72 E. Market St. A. W. PBATHER, Att'y., Indianapolis, Ind. ■• .STRA V_KI> OR STOr._E_V. STRAYED OK STOLEN, on 27th Oct., a brown or brindle muley cow. Information of, or return of cow to 5?4 Pleasant St., Indianapolis, will be rewarded, J. M. EADS. MISCE-IO-AN-BOITS. c. C. BURGESS, Dentist. Offlce In room 4 Va- jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St. TO LOAN-Money to loan on improved farms. J. H. HARDEBECK, 36 East Market street, Indianapolis. I have some good farms for sale, and desire calls and correspondence from parties in quest of them. G. W. ALEXANDER, 38 East Market St. ' MONEY TO LOAN—SumsofS300to $3,000 on improved farms. RUDDELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind. tyivt yjptatk. see any change for the better until I went to the drug store and got some fish oil and poured it all along their backs in sufficient quantity to grease them all over from head to foot. One application ofthe fish oil was all I gave them. In a few days I could see they were getting better; their appetites became good, and the scales and dead lice began to fall off and the hair started to grow again, and now they have a fine growth of young hair and are in pretty good flesh and entirely free from mange and lice. I don't know whether the sulphur or copperas had any effect for better or worse, or whether they would have got well without any doctoring, but until I have proof to the contrary I shall always believe it was the fish oil that effected a cure. I. Hyde. . Gibson Co. N. Mallow, of Franklin, Ind., has recently purchased the bull Sultan, eight months old, of Messrs. Ezra Swain & Son, Noblesville. Price $150. * — > In the list of premiums awarded at the State Fair, in the Farmer of the 12th ult., we have it best sow under six months, Kyger & Cowan, Oxford, Ind. It should be Oxford, Ohio. o — . Fine Stock Sale.—We note the sale by J. P. Luse & Sons, Round Grove Stock Farm, Montmorency, Ind., ofthe thoroughbred bull "Von Tromp," to Alexander Wilson, Esq., of Lafayette; also the thoroughbred Jersey cow "Dairy Too- dles," to Prof.Hassey, of Purdue University. ____»» Accompanying the offer of a Poland China pig for our premium list by Lloyd Mugg, of Center, Howard county, was a photograph of "Bess Mark," one of hi» premium sows. If the pig on our premium list comes as near perfection as this picture, the agent who gets Mr. Mugg's prize will have something to be proud of. . — » What Ails the Pigs.—Will some of the many readers of the Fabmer please tell me what ails my pigs, and oblige a reader? My pigs begin to fail to come • up to eat, and when they do come up only take two or three bites. They go around, but look sick; ears hang down; tail down; no life in them hardly. They have forty acres of wood pasture to run over. They dwindle away for some four or five weeks and get so weak they can't get up, and then die. A Reader. October 4. ■st — > . Mange in Pigs. I see an article in the Farmer of the 19th inst., on the treatment of pigs with the mange. I will tell how I cured the mange and killed hundreds of lice at the same time. I have two shoats about 9 months old that were objects of pity. If any one had offered me a dollar for them both I would have taken it; the mange and lice had worked on them so long and sp fast that there was very little left of them but skin and bone; the former could hardly be seen for scabs and sores caused, I suppose, by rubbing and scratching. I fed them sulphur about once a day in sour milk, and occasionally gave them a dose of copperas, but I could not A State Veterinarian. One of the arguments presented to the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, to persuade them to* ask the Legislature to provide.for'appointing a State Veterinarian, is thus stated by Dr. Paareri, in his article on the subject: But it is not only „tne hog cholera that needs attention. There are numerous, other diseases, including those among; horses, cattle, and sheep, that need tlior-; ough investigation and watching.- 'The desirability of preventing the spread of disease amongst domestic animals, must suggest itself to everybody. Though, on others pertaining to agriculture, the intelligence of our farmers is proverbial, it is certainly not much to their credit to find them entrusting the lives of their valuable stock- in the hands'of* farriers, cow leeches and-other pretenders, who generally manage to kilr-more animals than they cure. When the country shall be a little better supplied with qualified veterinarians, the farmers, even those amongst them that are bred and born with cramped views and narrow minds, will learn the importance of veterinary science, as applied to pathology, and will cease to employ quacks. The public shall know that where there is none but the ignorant pretender to be had, We should be discarded, and along "with him all his rubbish of secret remedies and quack nostrums. A proper^value must be put upon the principles or sound science and correct investigation. The practical man waits for results, while the well-balanced mind, thoroughly trained in the process of events, their nature and bearings, acts by anticipation and induction. < » t : Keep the Animals Warm. The first blast of wind from the North is a reminder that animals, however tough and hardy, need shelter in winter. It will take less food to keep farm stock over winter in warm stables than when exposed to severe cold. Of course, good wood, stone, or brick barns and stables are expensive, and there are many farmers, especially in the recently settled districts, who have not the means to build such structures, but there is no one too poor to furnish some kind of shelter for their animals. If a man cannot afford to build what he desires, let him do the next best thing, and build something that will furnish shelter, even if it is nothing better than a shed with sod for walls, and a roof of brush and corn-stalks, All attempts at elegance or extra convenience may be left out of the question where a man's purse is light; still, it is economy to keep all farm stock sheltered from cold, wind and storms in winter, even if the owner does not possess enough of the humane feelings to care for their comfort. i More than one-half of all the diseases and parasites which infest farm stock are the direct result of neglecting to furnish them with proper food or shelter during cold, stormy weather. Cattle of all kinds, when forced to remain in muddy, wet yards, during cold weather, are liable to various diseases of the feet. All kinds of farm stock are liable to take cold when exposed to storms, and from this comes a weakened constitution, which invites various kinds of diseases and parasitic insects. Weakened vitality or vigor in either plants or animals opens the way to hundreds of parasites which are resisted by the healthy individual, and the farmer should keep his animals in a condition which enable them to ward off the attacks of such enemies. He has only to think of his own comforts, such as nutritious food and warm clothing, and consider how the reverse of these conditions would affect him, to understand how it is with his animals. It is unnecessary to go into details in regard to the building of sheds, stables, or other kinds of structures for sheltering stock in winter, as every man knows best what materials are at hand or within reach suitable for such purposes, but the fact should be apparent to all breeders of animals that in all cool climates some kind of protection is required. Out on the plains and prairies of the West and South-west it is often asserted that sheep need no protection in winter, and it is even claimed by some that they do better without it than with it; but the frequent heavy losses by cold, starvation, and disease plainly show that all this, talk of mildness of climate is an error. Sheep and other farm stock may live through the winter without artificial shelter or more feed than can be obtained on the range in these favorable localities, but they would certainly do better with added comforts every winter, and occasionally heavy losses might be avoided by making the necessary provision to-protect and feed them when severe storms prevail.—New York Weekly Sun. PURDUE UNIVERSITY. Flans for -Practical Work in Agriculture, Horticulture, and Mechanics. SPECIAIs report by president white. To the Board of Trustees of Purdue University: . Gentlemen—It is now a little more than two years since I submitted a plan for the reorganization of this institution. This plan, unanimously approved by the Board, provided (1) for courses of instruction in those branches of learning "related to agriculture and mechanic arts," and in those essential to "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes," as required by the law of Congress; and (2) for practical instruction and training in agriculture and mechanics. I was not then prepared to determine the details of tlie second part of the plan, and I asked for time to make myself more fully acquainted with the experience of older institutions. It seemed important to avoid the wasting of money in fruitless experiments. It was then hoped that we would be prepared to complete the reorganization as early as the' opening of the next college year, but it has been necessary to take a second year to mature plans which promise satisfactory results. It affords me great satisfaction to be able to add that experience has given us increasing confidence in the wisdom and success of the plan adopted. The departments of-the University, now in operation, are not only meeting the requirements,of the organic law, but the increased attendance shows that they are meeting the demands of the industrial classes. What we are now doing is clearly in the right direction. What is needed is the completion of the system by adding PRACTICAL TRAINING IX AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND MECHANICS. No friend ofthe University claims tbat what we have done in these departments, is satisfactory. The farm has too little practical relation to the University, and, so far, it has been too little used as an educational appliance or aa a means' of experiment, can begin with a small stock of materials, and the necessary tools and fixtures can be paid from the State appropriation for apparatus and fixtures. The principal outlay to be provided for, is the salary of the instructor. A correspondence on this subject has resulted in the belief that a competent instructor can be employed at a salary not exceeding $500 for the first year. We would reconimend the employment of a young man who has taken a thorough course in mechanical engineering, and who,is also a practical mechanic. PRACTICAL WORK IN HORTICULTURE. The class instruction in horticulture can be given by the professor of botany or the professor of agriculture, but more important than theoretical instruction is actual training in landscape gardening and in cultivation and care of plants. To secure this result, I would recommend the employment of a practical horticultur- ist- to take charge of the campus, nursery, gardens, and orchard, and give students who may work in the same, needed instruction and training. This will involve little, if any, more expense than th4 present arrangement. We do not propose to enter upon the cultivation of * trees, fruits, or flowers for the market, but a small income may '.'easily be obtained by the sale of surplus products. The nursery now contains several hundred choice evergreens which will not be needed on the University grounds. In a recent visit to the Massachusetts Agricultural College, I learned that the horticultural department more'than pays all its expenses—a result due, in part, to the great demand in New England for choice plants. ■Mrs Peirce's generous donation of one. thousand dollars for a conservatory will put up and equip a green-house adequate tor present use. The building can be so planned as to permit the addition of a handsome conservatory for choice plants. ■[ '."THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. Ttte. University has, from the first, announced special courses of instruction in agrif|ulture, but until recently, there has beeiElio demand for such instruction. The present demand happily comes when we ,.Tlie-pracUeaL..work.accomplished^ m*ar«I^K*pared.to organize, the School of horticulture is, perhaps, a little more sat- Agriculture, both for instruction and ex isfactory. Something in landscape gardening has been done in the laying out ofthe University grounds/ and in adorning them with trees, shrubs, hedges, etc. These grounds are under the almost constant observation of the students, and their horticultural taste and knowledge are thereby cultivated. In the absence of a practical horticulturist to take charge of this department, we have been obliged to abandon all attempts in the direction of cultivating plants and small fruits. The nursery of evergreens, the once- abandoned orchard, and the hedges and young trees all need the attention and care of a skilful hand and a trained eye. The School of Industrial Art is a most promising beginning in the mechanical arts. The courses of instruction in industrial drawing, designing, and mechanical engineering, and the projected course in architecture, are most important elements in mechanical training, but, so iar, we have done nothing in practical mechanics. The machinery put into the mechanic's shop remains unused, and no instruction in the use of tools and in mechanical processes has been attempted. It may be proper, in this connection, to call attention to the fact that the act of Congress endowing this institution, places the mechanic arts on the same footing as agriculture. This fact is generally overlooked, and the University is frequently referred to as the "State-Agricultural College." But agriculture is only one ofthe important industrial interests which Purdue is designed to promote. Massachusetts divided her fund, using a part to endow the State Agricultural College, near Amherst, and giving the other part to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to promote the me- chanicarts. PurdueUniversity coversthe ground of both of these institutions, and its courses of study must include branches related to the mechanic arts, as well as to agriculture.' ■ It must be oonceded that all we have done in agriculture, horticulture, and mechanics comes farshortof what should be done, and, if nothing more were proposed, the managers of the institution would be justly subject to criticism and censure. But, as before indicated, practical and efficient work in these directions was a part of the original plan of reorganization, and, from the first, it has been our purpose to make these departments worthy of the great industries whic they are designed to promote. The problem to be solved is a difficult one, but the following plans are submitted with the belief that they will prove efficient: THE SCHOOL OF MECHANICS. It is recommended that a school for practical training in mechanics be organized on what is known as the "Russian System," and that a competent instructor be employed. The chief aim of this system is to teach mechanical processes and use of tools—to teach the arts which underlie all important trades, and which are required by skilled artisans. Trades are not taught, and no articles are manufactured for sale in market. The system has been intelligently tested by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with most satisfactory results, and it has been introduced into several other technical schools in this country. It requires a comparatively small outlay for tools, fixtures, and materials, and the students receive no compensation for time spent in the shop.' Its introduction here will be attended with small expense. We periment. The demand for systematic instruction may be small for several yeare, to come, but the wide field of experiment will furnish full employment for the professor in charge of the school. The first step in the organization of the school is the selection of a competent man to take charge of it. This will require time and care, for the men in the country qualified to fill such a position, are few in number. I repeat the remark made in my inaugural address, that a superficial empiric in such a position would do more harm than good. What is needed is a first-class scientific man— one not only competent to teach the science of agriculture, but also competent to conduct a series of observations and experiments in a scientific manner. The next step is to provide the professor of agriculture with necessary facilities for conducting experiments; and this involves the whole question of the management of the farm. In the light of the experience of other institutions, I put the plan suggested in my inaugural address, into the form of a recommendation, believing that it is. the best possible solution to the problem before us. Set apart from five to ten acres of the farm for such agricultural experiments as can be made on a small scale, and make this an agricultural laboratory, under the charge of the professor. The experience of the agricultural schools of Europe shows that such a laboratory can be made to cover most of the important questions in agriculture, with a small expenditure of money—a very important consideration. Let the rest of the land owned by the University, about 150 acres, be conducted as a model farm—as an illustration of scientific and business farming. To this end, the farm should be made to pay not only its running expenses, but all ordinary improvements. There will necessarily be some demand on the farm for experiments which can best be conducted on a large scale, including experiments in the feeding of stock, the rotation of crops, etc.,—experiments requiring great care but little expense. We have an illustration of this fact in the recent experiment relating to the quantity of seed wheat to be sown to the acre. This experiment promises valuable results, but its value would be increased by analyses ofthe soil in the different sections to determine their comparative fertility (a very important fact); by determining the comparative height of the stalk by measurement; by comparing the .weight of the straw, etc. These and-other inquiries repeated with the experiment for several years, with a careful record of the results, will throw much light upon the practical question involved—at least as far as our soil and climate are concerned. These experiments should be made under the supervision of the professor of agriculture, and they should be repeated on different soils and in different parts of the state. There will also be a demand on the farm for practice for those students in agriculture who are not familiar with the details of farming. Nearly all the applications for admission to the School of Agriculture have been made by young men who have not been brought up on a farm. The Japanese youth, who made the first application for admission to this school, did not enter, because I could not promise him practice on the farm, and I have been obliged to give a similar answer to all applicants—a necessity under the present system. I have said enough to show that there must be a close connection between1 the School of Agriculture and the model farm. If divorced, the success of the school will be greatly lessened, and the value of the farm, as one of the appliances of the University, will be nearly, if not quite, destroyed. PLAN RECOMMENDED. How can this necessary connection be made? I have given this important question long and careful consideration, and, as a result, the following plan is recommended: Let the management of the farm be entrusted to a committee of the Board of Trustees, and let the professor of agriculture submit to this committee, from time to time, the experiments he wishes to be made on the farm. If the committee approves, let it order the experiments made under the supervision of the professor of agriculture, all extra expense involved to be charged to the experiment fund. When students wish and require practice on the farm, let application be made to the same committee, and such practice be provided under its orders. This arrangement for the management of the model farm will relieve the Faculty of all responsibility for the results. I have no desire to assume any such responsibility, and I shall be glad to have this duty entrusted to a committee of the Board, composed of experienced and successful farmers. The President of the University will, by virtue of his office, be the dean of the School of Agriculture, as he is of all other schools and departments, and all applications for experiments and practice will be made with his approval. It is my opinion that this arrangement will avoid the complications which have so seriously crippled several other schools of agriculture. The vital condition is that the farm be at all times under the immediate control of the Board of Trustees. It is impossible to determine beforehand how much land will be needed for experimental purposes; where it should be situated; what assistance the farm must render, etc. These and many other important questions can be wisely settled only after consultation with the | professor to be selected and appointed, and to enter upon his duties not earlier than March 1, 1879, ;_: __ WAYS AND MEANS. I now come to the important question of ways and means. It has already been stated that the expense of equipping the Mechanics Shop can be paid from the state appropriation, to be received November 1st. So much practical work in horticulture as may be an improvement of the grounds, can be paid from the state appropriation for this purpose. All the experiments in agriculture that can wisely be undertaken next year, can be paid from the appropriation for this purpose. This leaves the salaries of the professor of agriculture and of the instructor in mechanics to be provided for. If the recommendation, made to the Board of Trustees in June last, be adopted, the salary of the farm superintendent, now paid out of the endowment fund, will be available after March lst, for nearly one- half of the sum required. APPROPRIATIONS. It is my belief that the Board can confidently look to the next General Assembly for specific appropriations for these practical purposes. It will require but a small additional appropriation to put all of these departments into successful operation. If the appropriation fails, the Board can make such modifications of the system as may seem necessary. When Purdue University was organized, its endowment fund was invested in United States bonds, nearly all bearing six per cent, interest, payable in gold. This interest, with the premium on gold, yielded an income of about §22,000. When the present organization was matured, I depended on an income of about $20,000—a small one for a scientific and technical institution. The premium on gold has nearly disappeared, and the University has been obliged to exchange its bonds for those bearing only five per cent, interest, and to buy these at a premium. As a result, its income from the endowment fund has been reduced to about $15,000 a year. This great change in its resources renders it impossible to meet reasonable demands, without the aid of the State, and it is believed that needed assistance will not be withheld. Gentlemen of the Board:—Ihe recommendations, above stated, are the result of earnest and careful consideration, and it is believed that they will commend themselves to intelligent men, identified with the three great industrial interests involved. I earnestly hope that they may receive the unanimous approval of the Board of Trustees, to whose favorable consideration they are most respectfully submitted. E. E. White, President of Purdue University. Oct. 22,1878. The recommendations submitted by President White were considered separately by the Board of Trustees and unanimously approved, and it was voted to open the schools March 1st, 1879, if the General Assembly make the necessary appropriation. GENERAL NEWS. A rich sugar refiner of San Francisco, has bought 20,000 acres of land in the Hawaiian Islands for the cultivation of sugar-cane. He will irrigate the dry lands, drain the swamps, build railways, and spare no money to make the thing a suecess. The same man, when the reciprocity treaty making island sugar free of duty appeared safe of confirmation, slipped over and corralled all the sugar for three years ahead. Thirty states will elect congressmen on the fifth. The total number of yellow fever deaths is more than twelve thousand. The rice crop of Louisiana is pronounced to be the largest ever harvested. The epizootic has broken out in the vicinity of Newark, N. J. — The famine in China will cause a largo shipment of wheat from this country. A large number of counterfeit trado dollars aro in circulation in New York. Statistics show that tho United States form the healthiest region of tlie globe. Tho Duko of Devonshire lately cleared nearly ?100,0CK_by the salo of thirty Short Horns. Tho iron works of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, employing 5,000 men, aro now in full operation. A bakery of Albany, Now York, sends 4,000 cans of cakes to Bombay, India, tho first of every month. A party of thieves visited Paxton, 111., a few nights since, and among other tilings stolen %voro thirty-one watches. The Superior Court of Cincinnati lias decided the last two million loan, for the Cincinnati Southern railroad, legal. At Vienna tho export of Hungarian wheat is at a stand still, in consequenso of America underselling the Hungarian market. More than 22,000 barrels of apples havo been exported from Boston during the last three weeks, "by steamship to Liverpool. The 40,000 population of Memphis has been reduced by the yellow fover to 2,500 whites and fi,000 blacks. Twenty-fivo head of Hambletonian stock were sold at Middletown, N. Y., last week, for a total of §4,070. The highest price realized was fGOO. In order to open up a market for hard coal in Europe, a coal firm in Philadelphia presents an American coal stove to each large purchaser, and thus introduces the stovo and coal at the same time. A disease has broken out among tho milch- cows in tho vicinity of Delavon, 111., and is spreading with alarming rapidity, a considerable number having already died. As yet, tho naturo and causo of tho disease Is not known. Tho Prussian minister of finance and a syndicato'of Berlin bankers, on the 25th ult., signed the contract for a Prussian four per cent, loan of sixty million marks. The sum of?345 was realized for the uso of four seats of Library Hall on tho occasion of a performance for the benefit of tho poor ofLouisvillo by tho Prentice Club of that city. Of the number of foreigners who havo come to this country this year with tho intention of making it their homo, 02,022 por-. sons havo no trado or method of making a livelihood. Admiral Paulding, senior flag officer on tho retired list of tho navy, a son of tho captor of Major Andre, and tho last surviving officer of tho battle of Lake Cliamplain, died at Huntington, L. L, last week. The elegant residence of Levi Allen, Esq., near Decatur, 111., was totally destroyed by fire on tho 25th ult. Tho barn, containing i four head of valuable horses, and food stuff, [ was also consumed. Loss, §15,000. John O'Brien, a farmer living three miles from Amboy, 111., while returning homo, was assaulted by two tramps, who knocked him off his wagon with a heavy stick, making a deep and dangerous wound in his skull. Ho was robbed of a sum of money and loft in an insensible condition. Henry W. Tyler, a well-known desperado, of Parkerslmrg, \V. Va., shot and killed his wife on the 25th ult., and thon put a bullet through his own head, dying in a few moments after. He is supposed to havo boen under the influence of liquor at tho time. During tho first nine months of this year the Burlington and Missouri Itiver Railroad Company sold, to actual settlers, 425,107 acres of land in Nebraska for ?2,191,093. There yet remains unsold only aljout ono million acres of the original grant in this State. The town of Frodonia, N. Y., has been lighted with natural gas for fifty-two years. The supply comes' from between two largo coal measures. In Erie, Pennsylvania, there are thirteen gas wells, which furnish fuel for steam boilers, and the lighthouse at Portland, on Lake Erie, has boen lighted with it. ' In England, more than 500 blast furnaces and 3,000 puddling furnaces are idle, and the list is increasing. The chief causo is the developemcnt of tlie iron industry here. A half a dozen years ago England was sending us a million tons of rails per year. Now she sends less than one hundred thousand. There are fifty-three cotton factorios in operation in North Carolina, twenty-seven of which have been built since the war. Tlie great bridge over the MisHissippi river, the pride and best of t lie people of St. Louis, is advertised to bo sold, under mortgages, on the 20th ot Voveuilxir next. Tlie sale is in the interest ofthe foreign bondholders, and the amount involved is fj^V/J/KMi, \
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1878, v. 13, no. 44 (Nov. 2) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA1344 |
Date of Original | 1878 |
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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 and equipment |
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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOI_. XIII. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 2, 1878. NO. 44. FOR SAJ-K. F0R SALE—A good two-seat, second hand carriage, glass doors, for #75. Call and see lt. O. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market St., city. OB SALE-I'artridge Cochins at |2toS3 pr. pair, according to quality. W. D. LATSHAW, Oak. town, Knox county, Ind **• Jk—._*-■-_. s_-\j_--Js \tj , a. a-.-- FOK SALE-Pekin Drakes, Jl 50 each. Can spare a few pairs at «3 50 per pair. JOSEPH Is. BREN- TON, Petersburg, Pike connty, Ind FOR SALE—Thoroughbred registered Jersey bull, 14 months old; a superior animal. Price $40. WM. C. SMOCK, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—The Farm Register and Account Book. Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price *1 each. Address INDIANA FARMER COMPANY, Indianapolis. FOR SALE VERY CHEAP—100 head of pure Poland-China Pigs, bred from flrst-class.premlum stock. Also two fine yearling boars. Send for prices, A. JOHNSON, Clifton, Ohio. • FOR SALE—Three Short-horn Bulls, one two-year- old and one yearling. "Young Marys," red with some white. One vearling red ofthe CoL Sanders' imp. DR. JAS. P. FORSYTH, Franklin, Johnson Co., Ind. E OR SALE—Ten Black Bess SowPigs, three and a ^half to five months old. The dam of five of these pigs Is a niece to-ShepUerd A Alexander's fumous old Black Bess. Price reasonable. Address WH-LIAM' BAKER, North Madison, Ind. FOR SAI.E—I have a few head of Jersey Red pigs now ready to ship, of undoubted purity, of both »ex, at reasonable prices. HARRIS SHEPPARD, Spencer, Owen Co., Ind. FOR SALE—1.50 Bertshires from my imported herd. Pigs weighing 40 to 100 pounds, $10; young sows. $15 to $25. They are as fine as the finest pedigreed stoefc. WM. It. FALL, Lebanon, Boone Co., Ind. FOR SALE—An improved farm in Pulaski county of 200 acres for «2,000on ten years time, at 6 per cent interest. Also 160 acres one mile from Kokomo; wilHmprove at $40 per acre on same terms. T. A. GOODWIN, 29 Thorpe Block. Indianapolis, Ind. WA?fTE»- W ANTED—It known that Mrs. Itobrer's great Oregon cure for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Dyspepsia, etc., is fast gaining a reputation unequaled by any other lung medicine in use. It is vouched for by many well-known citizens of this city and State, who have tried it satisfactorily. For sale by druggists. Prepared by MRS. E. BOURER & CO., 347 and 349 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. WANTEI>—To exchange spring mattresses and lounges for country produce. No. 45 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis. \tf ANTED— Wood, potatoes, apples, butter and TT other farm produce in exchange for dentistry. C. C. BURGESS, No. 4 Veen's Exchange Block, city. .LOANS. SIX PER CENT—Loans made on long time on real estate security at 6 per cent int. Special arrangements for those wishing loans in from. 6 to 12 months at lower rates. E. A. WJIITCOMB & CO., State Agts. Office 72 E. Market St. A. W. PBATHER, Att'y., Indianapolis, Ind. ■• .STRA V_KI> OR STOr._E_V. STRAYED OK STOLEN, on 27th Oct., a brown or brindle muley cow. Information of, or return of cow to 5?4 Pleasant St., Indianapolis, will be rewarded, J. M. EADS. MISCE-IO-AN-BOITS. c. C. BURGESS, Dentist. Offlce In room 4 Va- jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St. TO LOAN-Money to loan on improved farms. J. H. HARDEBECK, 36 East Market street, Indianapolis. I have some good farms for sale, and desire calls and correspondence from parties in quest of them. G. W. ALEXANDER, 38 East Market St. ' MONEY TO LOAN—SumsofS300to $3,000 on improved farms. RUDDELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind. tyivt yjptatk. see any change for the better until I went to the drug store and got some fish oil and poured it all along their backs in sufficient quantity to grease them all over from head to foot. One application ofthe fish oil was all I gave them. In a few days I could see they were getting better; their appetites became good, and the scales and dead lice began to fall off and the hair started to grow again, and now they have a fine growth of young hair and are in pretty good flesh and entirely free from mange and lice. I don't know whether the sulphur or copperas had any effect for better or worse, or whether they would have got well without any doctoring, but until I have proof to the contrary I shall always believe it was the fish oil that effected a cure. I. Hyde. . Gibson Co. N. Mallow, of Franklin, Ind., has recently purchased the bull Sultan, eight months old, of Messrs. Ezra Swain & Son, Noblesville. Price $150. * — > In the list of premiums awarded at the State Fair, in the Farmer of the 12th ult., we have it best sow under six months, Kyger & Cowan, Oxford, Ind. It should be Oxford, Ohio. o — . Fine Stock Sale.—We note the sale by J. P. Luse & Sons, Round Grove Stock Farm, Montmorency, Ind., ofthe thoroughbred bull "Von Tromp," to Alexander Wilson, Esq., of Lafayette; also the thoroughbred Jersey cow "Dairy Too- dles," to Prof.Hassey, of Purdue University. ____»» Accompanying the offer of a Poland China pig for our premium list by Lloyd Mugg, of Center, Howard county, was a photograph of "Bess Mark," one of hi» premium sows. If the pig on our premium list comes as near perfection as this picture, the agent who gets Mr. Mugg's prize will have something to be proud of. . — » What Ails the Pigs.—Will some of the many readers of the Fabmer please tell me what ails my pigs, and oblige a reader? My pigs begin to fail to come • up to eat, and when they do come up only take two or three bites. They go around, but look sick; ears hang down; tail down; no life in them hardly. They have forty acres of wood pasture to run over. They dwindle away for some four or five weeks and get so weak they can't get up, and then die. A Reader. October 4. ■st — > . Mange in Pigs. I see an article in the Farmer of the 19th inst., on the treatment of pigs with the mange. I will tell how I cured the mange and killed hundreds of lice at the same time. I have two shoats about 9 months old that were objects of pity. If any one had offered me a dollar for them both I would have taken it; the mange and lice had worked on them so long and sp fast that there was very little left of them but skin and bone; the former could hardly be seen for scabs and sores caused, I suppose, by rubbing and scratching. I fed them sulphur about once a day in sour milk, and occasionally gave them a dose of copperas, but I could not A State Veterinarian. One of the arguments presented to the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, to persuade them to* ask the Legislature to provide.for'appointing a State Veterinarian, is thus stated by Dr. Paareri, in his article on the subject: But it is not only „tne hog cholera that needs attention. There are numerous, other diseases, including those among; horses, cattle, and sheep, that need tlior-; ough investigation and watching.- 'The desirability of preventing the spread of disease amongst domestic animals, must suggest itself to everybody. Though, on others pertaining to agriculture, the intelligence of our farmers is proverbial, it is certainly not much to their credit to find them entrusting the lives of their valuable stock- in the hands'of* farriers, cow leeches and-other pretenders, who generally manage to kilr-more animals than they cure. When the country shall be a little better supplied with qualified veterinarians, the farmers, even those amongst them that are bred and born with cramped views and narrow minds, will learn the importance of veterinary science, as applied to pathology, and will cease to employ quacks. The public shall know that where there is none but the ignorant pretender to be had, We should be discarded, and along "with him all his rubbish of secret remedies and quack nostrums. A proper^value must be put upon the principles or sound science and correct investigation. The practical man waits for results, while the well-balanced mind, thoroughly trained in the process of events, their nature and bearings, acts by anticipation and induction. < » t : Keep the Animals Warm. The first blast of wind from the North is a reminder that animals, however tough and hardy, need shelter in winter. It will take less food to keep farm stock over winter in warm stables than when exposed to severe cold. Of course, good wood, stone, or brick barns and stables are expensive, and there are many farmers, especially in the recently settled districts, who have not the means to build such structures, but there is no one too poor to furnish some kind of shelter for their animals. If a man cannot afford to build what he desires, let him do the next best thing, and build something that will furnish shelter, even if it is nothing better than a shed with sod for walls, and a roof of brush and corn-stalks, All attempts at elegance or extra convenience may be left out of the question where a man's purse is light; still, it is economy to keep all farm stock sheltered from cold, wind and storms in winter, even if the owner does not possess enough of the humane feelings to care for their comfort. i More than one-half of all the diseases and parasites which infest farm stock are the direct result of neglecting to furnish them with proper food or shelter during cold, stormy weather. Cattle of all kinds, when forced to remain in muddy, wet yards, during cold weather, are liable to various diseases of the feet. All kinds of farm stock are liable to take cold when exposed to storms, and from this comes a weakened constitution, which invites various kinds of diseases and parasitic insects. Weakened vitality or vigor in either plants or animals opens the way to hundreds of parasites which are resisted by the healthy individual, and the farmer should keep his animals in a condition which enable them to ward off the attacks of such enemies. He has only to think of his own comforts, such as nutritious food and warm clothing, and consider how the reverse of these conditions would affect him, to understand how it is with his animals. It is unnecessary to go into details in regard to the building of sheds, stables, or other kinds of structures for sheltering stock in winter, as every man knows best what materials are at hand or within reach suitable for such purposes, but the fact should be apparent to all breeders of animals that in all cool climates some kind of protection is required. Out on the plains and prairies of the West and South-west it is often asserted that sheep need no protection in winter, and it is even claimed by some that they do better without it than with it; but the frequent heavy losses by cold, starvation, and disease plainly show that all this, talk of mildness of climate is an error. Sheep and other farm stock may live through the winter without artificial shelter or more feed than can be obtained on the range in these favorable localities, but they would certainly do better with added comforts every winter, and occasionally heavy losses might be avoided by making the necessary provision to-protect and feed them when severe storms prevail.—New York Weekly Sun. PURDUE UNIVERSITY. Flans for -Practical Work in Agriculture, Horticulture, and Mechanics. SPECIAIs report by president white. To the Board of Trustees of Purdue University: . Gentlemen—It is now a little more than two years since I submitted a plan for the reorganization of this institution. This plan, unanimously approved by the Board, provided (1) for courses of instruction in those branches of learning "related to agriculture and mechanic arts," and in those essential to "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes," as required by the law of Congress; and (2) for practical instruction and training in agriculture and mechanics. I was not then prepared to determine the details of tlie second part of the plan, and I asked for time to make myself more fully acquainted with the experience of older institutions. It seemed important to avoid the wasting of money in fruitless experiments. It was then hoped that we would be prepared to complete the reorganization as early as the' opening of the next college year, but it has been necessary to take a second year to mature plans which promise satisfactory results. It affords me great satisfaction to be able to add that experience has given us increasing confidence in the wisdom and success of the plan adopted. The departments of-the University, now in operation, are not only meeting the requirements,of the organic law, but the increased attendance shows that they are meeting the demands of the industrial classes. What we are now doing is clearly in the right direction. What is needed is the completion of the system by adding PRACTICAL TRAINING IX AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND MECHANICS. No friend ofthe University claims tbat what we have done in these departments, is satisfactory. The farm has too little practical relation to the University, and, so far, it has been too little used as an educational appliance or aa a means' of experiment, can begin with a small stock of materials, and the necessary tools and fixtures can be paid from the State appropriation for apparatus and fixtures. The principal outlay to be provided for, is the salary of the instructor. A correspondence on this subject has resulted in the belief that a competent instructor can be employed at a salary not exceeding $500 for the first year. We would reconimend the employment of a young man who has taken a thorough course in mechanical engineering, and who,is also a practical mechanic. PRACTICAL WORK IN HORTICULTURE. The class instruction in horticulture can be given by the professor of botany or the professor of agriculture, but more important than theoretical instruction is actual training in landscape gardening and in cultivation and care of plants. To secure this result, I would recommend the employment of a practical horticultur- ist- to take charge of the campus, nursery, gardens, and orchard, and give students who may work in the same, needed instruction and training. This will involve little, if any, more expense than th4 present arrangement. We do not propose to enter upon the cultivation of * trees, fruits, or flowers for the market, but a small income may '.'easily be obtained by the sale of surplus products. The nursery now contains several hundred choice evergreens which will not be needed on the University grounds. In a recent visit to the Massachusetts Agricultural College, I learned that the horticultural department more'than pays all its expenses—a result due, in part, to the great demand in New England for choice plants. ■Mrs Peirce's generous donation of one. thousand dollars for a conservatory will put up and equip a green-house adequate tor present use. The building can be so planned as to permit the addition of a handsome conservatory for choice plants. ■[ '."THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. Ttte. University has, from the first, announced special courses of instruction in agrif|ulture, but until recently, there has beeiElio demand for such instruction. The present demand happily comes when we ,.Tlie-pracUeaL..work.accomplished^ m*ar«I^K*pared.to organize, the School of horticulture is, perhaps, a little more sat- Agriculture, both for instruction and ex isfactory. Something in landscape gardening has been done in the laying out ofthe University grounds/ and in adorning them with trees, shrubs, hedges, etc. These grounds are under the almost constant observation of the students, and their horticultural taste and knowledge are thereby cultivated. In the absence of a practical horticulturist to take charge of this department, we have been obliged to abandon all attempts in the direction of cultivating plants and small fruits. The nursery of evergreens, the once- abandoned orchard, and the hedges and young trees all need the attention and care of a skilful hand and a trained eye. The School of Industrial Art is a most promising beginning in the mechanical arts. The courses of instruction in industrial drawing, designing, and mechanical engineering, and the projected course in architecture, are most important elements in mechanical training, but, so iar, we have done nothing in practical mechanics. The machinery put into the mechanic's shop remains unused, and no instruction in the use of tools and in mechanical processes has been attempted. It may be proper, in this connection, to call attention to the fact that the act of Congress endowing this institution, places the mechanic arts on the same footing as agriculture. This fact is generally overlooked, and the University is frequently referred to as the "State-Agricultural College." But agriculture is only one ofthe important industrial interests which Purdue is designed to promote. Massachusetts divided her fund, using a part to endow the State Agricultural College, near Amherst, and giving the other part to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to promote the me- chanicarts. PurdueUniversity coversthe ground of both of these institutions, and its courses of study must include branches related to the mechanic arts, as well as to agriculture.' ■ It must be oonceded that all we have done in agriculture, horticulture, and mechanics comes farshortof what should be done, and, if nothing more were proposed, the managers of the institution would be justly subject to criticism and censure. But, as before indicated, practical and efficient work in these directions was a part of the original plan of reorganization, and, from the first, it has been our purpose to make these departments worthy of the great industries whic they are designed to promote. The problem to be solved is a difficult one, but the following plans are submitted with the belief that they will prove efficient: THE SCHOOL OF MECHANICS. It is recommended that a school for practical training in mechanics be organized on what is known as the "Russian System," and that a competent instructor be employed. The chief aim of this system is to teach mechanical processes and use of tools—to teach the arts which underlie all important trades, and which are required by skilled artisans. Trades are not taught, and no articles are manufactured for sale in market. The system has been intelligently tested by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with most satisfactory results, and it has been introduced into several other technical schools in this country. It requires a comparatively small outlay for tools, fixtures, and materials, and the students receive no compensation for time spent in the shop.' Its introduction here will be attended with small expense. We periment. The demand for systematic instruction may be small for several yeare, to come, but the wide field of experiment will furnish full employment for the professor in charge of the school. The first step in the organization of the school is the selection of a competent man to take charge of it. This will require time and care, for the men in the country qualified to fill such a position, are few in number. I repeat the remark made in my inaugural address, that a superficial empiric in such a position would do more harm than good. What is needed is a first-class scientific man— one not only competent to teach the science of agriculture, but also competent to conduct a series of observations and experiments in a scientific manner. The next step is to provide the professor of agriculture with necessary facilities for conducting experiments; and this involves the whole question of the management of the farm. In the light of the experience of other institutions, I put the plan suggested in my inaugural address, into the form of a recommendation, believing that it is. the best possible solution to the problem before us. Set apart from five to ten acres of the farm for such agricultural experiments as can be made on a small scale, and make this an agricultural laboratory, under the charge of the professor. The experience of the agricultural schools of Europe shows that such a laboratory can be made to cover most of the important questions in agriculture, with a small expenditure of money—a very important consideration. Let the rest of the land owned by the University, about 150 acres, be conducted as a model farm—as an illustration of scientific and business farming. To this end, the farm should be made to pay not only its running expenses, but all ordinary improvements. There will necessarily be some demand on the farm for experiments which can best be conducted on a large scale, including experiments in the feeding of stock, the rotation of crops, etc.,—experiments requiring great care but little expense. We have an illustration of this fact in the recent experiment relating to the quantity of seed wheat to be sown to the acre. This experiment promises valuable results, but its value would be increased by analyses ofthe soil in the different sections to determine their comparative fertility (a very important fact); by determining the comparative height of the stalk by measurement; by comparing the .weight of the straw, etc. These and-other inquiries repeated with the experiment for several years, with a careful record of the results, will throw much light upon the practical question involved—at least as far as our soil and climate are concerned. These experiments should be made under the supervision of the professor of agriculture, and they should be repeated on different soils and in different parts of the state. There will also be a demand on the farm for practice for those students in agriculture who are not familiar with the details of farming. Nearly all the applications for admission to the School of Agriculture have been made by young men who have not been brought up on a farm. The Japanese youth, who made the first application for admission to this school, did not enter, because I could not promise him practice on the farm, and I have been obliged to give a similar answer to all applicants—a necessity under the present system. I have said enough to show that there must be a close connection between1 the School of Agriculture and the model farm. If divorced, the success of the school will be greatly lessened, and the value of the farm, as one of the appliances of the University, will be nearly, if not quite, destroyed. PLAN RECOMMENDED. How can this necessary connection be made? I have given this important question long and careful consideration, and, as a result, the following plan is recommended: Let the management of the farm be entrusted to a committee of the Board of Trustees, and let the professor of agriculture submit to this committee, from time to time, the experiments he wishes to be made on the farm. If the committee approves, let it order the experiments made under the supervision of the professor of agriculture, all extra expense involved to be charged to the experiment fund. When students wish and require practice on the farm, let application be made to the same committee, and such practice be provided under its orders. This arrangement for the management of the model farm will relieve the Faculty of all responsibility for the results. I have no desire to assume any such responsibility, and I shall be glad to have this duty entrusted to a committee of the Board, composed of experienced and successful farmers. The President of the University will, by virtue of his office, be the dean of the School of Agriculture, as he is of all other schools and departments, and all applications for experiments and practice will be made with his approval. It is my opinion that this arrangement will avoid the complications which have so seriously crippled several other schools of agriculture. The vital condition is that the farm be at all times under the immediate control of the Board of Trustees. It is impossible to determine beforehand how much land will be needed for experimental purposes; where it should be situated; what assistance the farm must render, etc. These and many other important questions can be wisely settled only after consultation with the | professor to be selected and appointed, and to enter upon his duties not earlier than March 1, 1879, ;_: __ WAYS AND MEANS. I now come to the important question of ways and means. It has already been stated that the expense of equipping the Mechanics Shop can be paid from the state appropriation, to be received November 1st. So much practical work in horticulture as may be an improvement of the grounds, can be paid from the state appropriation for this purpose. All the experiments in agriculture that can wisely be undertaken next year, can be paid from the appropriation for this purpose. This leaves the salaries of the professor of agriculture and of the instructor in mechanics to be provided for. If the recommendation, made to the Board of Trustees in June last, be adopted, the salary of the farm superintendent, now paid out of the endowment fund, will be available after March lst, for nearly one- half of the sum required. APPROPRIATIONS. It is my belief that the Board can confidently look to the next General Assembly for specific appropriations for these practical purposes. It will require but a small additional appropriation to put all of these departments into successful operation. If the appropriation fails, the Board can make such modifications of the system as may seem necessary. When Purdue University was organized, its endowment fund was invested in United States bonds, nearly all bearing six per cent, interest, payable in gold. This interest, with the premium on gold, yielded an income of about §22,000. When the present organization was matured, I depended on an income of about $20,000—a small one for a scientific and technical institution. The premium on gold has nearly disappeared, and the University has been obliged to exchange its bonds for those bearing only five per cent, interest, and to buy these at a premium. As a result, its income from the endowment fund has been reduced to about $15,000 a year. This great change in its resources renders it impossible to meet reasonable demands, without the aid of the State, and it is believed that needed assistance will not be withheld. Gentlemen of the Board:—Ihe recommendations, above stated, are the result of earnest and careful consideration, and it is believed that they will commend themselves to intelligent men, identified with the three great industrial interests involved. I earnestly hope that they may receive the unanimous approval of the Board of Trustees, to whose favorable consideration they are most respectfully submitted. E. E. White, President of Purdue University. Oct. 22,1878. The recommendations submitted by President White were considered separately by the Board of Trustees and unanimously approved, and it was voted to open the schools March 1st, 1879, if the General Assembly make the necessary appropriation. GENERAL NEWS. A rich sugar refiner of San Francisco, has bought 20,000 acres of land in the Hawaiian Islands for the cultivation of sugar-cane. He will irrigate the dry lands, drain the swamps, build railways, and spare no money to make the thing a suecess. The same man, when the reciprocity treaty making island sugar free of duty appeared safe of confirmation, slipped over and corralled all the sugar for three years ahead. Thirty states will elect congressmen on the fifth. The total number of yellow fever deaths is more than twelve thousand. The rice crop of Louisiana is pronounced to be the largest ever harvested. The epizootic has broken out in the vicinity of Newark, N. J. — The famine in China will cause a largo shipment of wheat from this country. A large number of counterfeit trado dollars aro in circulation in New York. Statistics show that tho United States form the healthiest region of tlie globe. Tho Duko of Devonshire lately cleared nearly ?100,0CK_by the salo of thirty Short Horns. Tho iron works of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, employing 5,000 men, aro now in full operation. A bakery of Albany, Now York, sends 4,000 cans of cakes to Bombay, India, tho first of every month. A party of thieves visited Paxton, 111., a few nights since, and among other tilings stolen %voro thirty-one watches. The Superior Court of Cincinnati lias decided the last two million loan, for the Cincinnati Southern railroad, legal. At Vienna tho export of Hungarian wheat is at a stand still, in consequenso of America underselling the Hungarian market. More than 22,000 barrels of apples havo been exported from Boston during the last three weeks, "by steamship to Liverpool. The 40,000 population of Memphis has been reduced by the yellow fover to 2,500 whites and fi,000 blacks. Twenty-fivo head of Hambletonian stock were sold at Middletown, N. Y., last week, for a total of §4,070. The highest price realized was fGOO. In order to open up a market for hard coal in Europe, a coal firm in Philadelphia presents an American coal stove to each large purchaser, and thus introduces the stovo and coal at the same time. A disease has broken out among tho milch- cows in tho vicinity of Delavon, 111., and is spreading with alarming rapidity, a considerable number having already died. As yet, tho naturo and causo of tho disease Is not known. Tho Prussian minister of finance and a syndicato'of Berlin bankers, on the 25th ult., signed the contract for a Prussian four per cent, loan of sixty million marks. The sum of?345 was realized for the uso of four seats of Library Hall on tho occasion of a performance for the benefit of tho poor ofLouisvillo by tho Prentice Club of that city. Of the number of foreigners who havo come to this country this year with tho intention of making it their homo, 02,022 por-. sons havo no trado or method of making a livelihood. Admiral Paulding, senior flag officer on tho retired list of tho navy, a son of tho captor of Major Andre, and tho last surviving officer of tho battle of Lake Cliamplain, died at Huntington, L. L, last week. The elegant residence of Levi Allen, Esq., near Decatur, 111., was totally destroyed by fire on tho 25th ult. Tho barn, containing i four head of valuable horses, and food stuff, [ was also consumed. Loss, §15,000. John O'Brien, a farmer living three miles from Amboy, 111., while returning homo, was assaulted by two tramps, who knocked him off his wagon with a heavy stick, making a deep and dangerous wound in his skull. Ho was robbed of a sum of money and loft in an insensible condition. Henry W. Tyler, a well-known desperado, of Parkerslmrg, \V. Va., shot and killed his wife on the 25th ult., and thon put a bullet through his own head, dying in a few moments after. He is supposed to havo boen under the influence of liquor at tho time. During tho first nine months of this year the Burlington and Missouri Itiver Railroad Company sold, to actual settlers, 425,107 acres of land in Nebraska for ?2,191,093. There yet remains unsold only aljout ono million acres of the original grant in this State. The town of Frodonia, N. Y., has been lighted with natural gas for fifty-two years. The supply comes' from between two largo coal measures. In Erie, Pennsylvania, there are thirteen gas wells, which furnish fuel for steam boilers, and the lighthouse at Portland, on Lake Erie, has boen lighted with it. ' In England, more than 500 blast furnaces and 3,000 puddling furnaces are idle, and the list is increasing. The chief causo is the developemcnt of tlie iron industry here. A half a dozen years ago England was sending us a million tons of rails per year. Now she sends less than one hundred thousand. There are fifty-three cotton factorios in operation in North Carolina, twenty-seven of which have been built since the war. Tlie great bridge over the MisHissippi river, the pride and best of t lie people of St. Louis, is advertised to bo sold, under mortgages, on the 20th ot Voveuilxir next. Tlie sale is in the interest ofthe foreign bondholders, and the amount involved is fj^V/J/KMi, \ |
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