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55-f^^-Sr*^ ^ .->.* J -j*'*>- v-,. ' Ii Tt tj.-^iK- Y <*<\ VOL. XIU. INDIAKAPOUIS, INDIANA, DECEMBER 28, 1878. NO. 52. FOB-UE. ITIOR SALE—Whitney sewing machine needles, all JP sires, at 30 cents per dozen. Send order to INDI- ASA FARMER COMPANY. f FOB 8JLLE—25 of the best Chester White pigs I ever saw, weigh from 100 to 225 lbs, atllo for choice, or |_5 a pair Address, E. B. MOODY, Eminence, Kentucky. FOR SALE—The Farm Register arid Account Book. Complete method or keeping: farm accounts. Price II each. Address I3SDIANA FARMER COMPANY, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—Short-horns—Fletcher s young Marys, Phylls, A gat has. Brides, Gems, etc. Bulls and heifers, choicely bred. Correspondence solicited. E. a TKOMFSO-s*, Lock Box 1, Edlngbnre, Ind. FOR SALE—Large, high-bred Poland China pigs, of both sexes, near descendants from the noted prixe hogs Bismarck, Tom Corwin and Perfection. My herd are healthy and vigorous. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. T. M. REVEAL, Fisher's Station, Hamilton county, Ind. FOR SALE—ISO acres, two miles east of Middle- Fork station, Jefferson county, at £30 per acre, ten rears time at. per cent. 160 acres, one mile north of Kokomo, at |30 per acre, five years time at 6 per cent. 80 acres, lour miles north of Indianapolis, at |50 per acre, five years time at 6 per cent. 120 acres, In Pulaski county, at J10 per acre, ten years time at 6 per cent. 80 acres, near StilesTillo, at (30 per acre, five years time. T. A. GOODWIN, Indianapolis, Ind. WA-sTTED. TTTANTED-To exchange spring mattresses and T V loungos for country produce. No. *5 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis. WANTED—An agent In every township to sell Western Wilds by J. H. Beadle, and Rldpath's Popular History of the United States; Apply at once tol. M. OLCOTT, 38 East Market street,Indlanapolls. '\\T ANTED—Agents, on salary, after 3 months V V trial, on splendid commissions, to sell the new medical book for families by the famous Dr, Hall. Secure your territory soon. It will have a splendid sale. Send |150 for complete outfit and contract for exclusive agency. Only 1 township at a time given to one agent. Ask for 1st and 2d choice of territory. ERED. L. HORTON A CO.. Publishers, C6 East Market street, Indianapolis, Ind. I-OA-.S. TO LOAN—Money, at the Farm Loan Office of T. C Day. Interest at a low rate and payable once ft year. No Interest ln advance. Commissions moderate. No charge for examination, abstract or viewing forms. Address TJI0& C. DAY, or W. C. GRIFFITH, 24 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis. MISC t-L-LAJsTDOlrS. s M. GOO DE—Dentist, over 80 North pennaylva- , z_ia street. Prices reduced to suit Umee. CC. BUKGESS, Dentist. Offlce ln room 4 Va- » Jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St. I bave some good farms for sale, an d desire calls and correspond en oe irom parties In quest of them. G. W. ALEXANDEK, 33 E.ist Market St. STBAYED—Two black match colts, three years old (horso and irare) Dec. 7._,.J-*iJderalj£.gArd .Cf**. "aiSyliiTGTijiaWU-l Ul lilefilT AZ'Lt. \ft A. GlVSN.,*raH__> . fort, Ind. ALLEN'S DRUG STORE, opposite Poatoffice, is as good a place as you will And for anything in drugs, patent medicines, dyes, perfumes, toilet articles, etc. BEAL ESTATE ADVERTISER tells all about the Rlue Grass Valley of Middle Tennessee. Price 25 cents a year. Published by E. M. COCK- RILL, Real Estate Agent, Gallatin, Tenn. 40 of the prettiest Visiting Cards yon ever saw, _ yonr name neatly printed on them all, post- Saidforloc. You will have Snowflake, Marble, Rep, amask. Flower, Diamond* Plaid, Magenta, Transparent, Chromo, Granite, Embossed, Pebble, Navy Blue, and many others. "Your cards are splendid,'' "The largest ^1 nicsst I ever received,'1 are expressions wK-r/t constantly reach us. Mrs. Bently, ftC Flu^ticrf, fMIchiean, writes: "My 20 signers are welrmeased." Write plainly and address C. A. VICK, Arbelft, Michigan. XVt ) tacit. We have received from Messrs. Churchman & Jackson, two handsome photographs re'presentingspecimens from their famous herd of Jerseys. One of the cards contains five oval photos of their prize herd at the St. Louis fair, in October last. The names of this splendid herd are: Cows—Lilly of Les Niemes, 7465; Le Gallias Gipsy, 768S; Queen Bess of St. Brelades, 7462; Valentine of Trinity, 7460, and the bull, Le Brocq's Prize, 3350. O Ost » Advantages of Imported Stock. Editors Indiana FarmeH I have just been reading James A. Guil- liams' article In the Farmer on swine and chicken cholera, and I am surprised at the conclusions he came to in regard to the causes of these diseases. ' If his theories are correct, farmers had better discard the improved breeds of swine and poultry and fall back on the old fashioned "elm-peelers," "dunghills," etc., and cease sheltering and caring for their stock and flocks, and thereby keep them strong and healthy, and of course profitable. Brother stockbreeders and farmers, how would you like this happy'condition of things? No ■work in feoding and caring for our stock; all well and thrifty; all profitable, without shelter and but little grain; little or no trouble and anxiety. If his theories were true, what a happy time farmers and stock men would have. Farmers in this part of the State have found the improved breeds of swine and poultry, as well aa other kinds of improved stock, much more profitable than the scrubs, and also more healthy. His assertion that Berkshires are more liable to cholera than other breeds of swine is eimply ridiculous, as they have proven , equally as hardy as any known breeds, and much more hardy here than any of the "mongrel" breeds, and farmers and breeders in this part of the State, who have given the breeding of any kind of improved stock any careful and intelligent attention, are in no mood to abandon it, as they find that the improved breeds are the only ones that return any profit in these times of low prices, as they mature earlier, fatten at any age, and bring better prices; and a man of taste will derive a great amount of pleasure from looking at pure bred stock and "having them around," and a farmer or breeder who takes pride in his calling can scarcely bear to look at a "mongrel." By the way, a former in this vicinity, who raises Berkshires exclusively, sold his fat hogs a short time since, and they were the culls of his herd, as his best had been sold for breeders, and they averaged 350 pounds each, and a part of them were under one year old at that. None of his neighbors, except those who raise improved breeds, could make anything like such a showing. • Yours for improved stock, whether imported or otherwise. I. N. Barker. Thorntown, Ind. . « ___ » For the Indiana Farmer. Care and Management of Horses. In order that we may have a perfect horse, it will be necessary to start out with a good colt. Good care should be taken of the mother from the time she is bred until the colt is foaled. In order that we may have a good and healthy offspring, it will be necessary that the mother should be used as little as possible; should not be worked or rode so as to heat up the blood from the time the colt is foaled until it is weaned. We will find this is where the most of the skin diseases In our horses originate, caused from the colt sucking the milk from the mother while the blood is very warm. This should never be the case. But so long as we use our brood mares to help run our farms and to plow through the long, hot summer days, and to help do our heavy hauling, with colt by eht side, just so long we may expect to have scrubby and unhealthy horses when they have grown to maturity. AFTER A COI/T IS WEANED no corn should be given until it is about twenty months old, or at the beginning of the second winter, should it be ar spring colt. For the first winter, it would TJSTieuer to &tve' plenty of corn blades (or tops) to feed on along with oats, either threshed or in the sheaf. This I consider sufficient for the first winter's feed. The second winter I should feed a little corn along with oats, giving plenty of good fodder, and no hay if we can avoid doing so, fo* I think hay should not be fed until the beginning of the third winter, when it can be fed regularly if desired. The stable has considerable to do with the health and comfort of the horse. Do not suffer your horses to stand in the stable from morning until night without being looked after, especially in the winter. See that our horses stalls that they have to stand in are kept leveled up, keeping the front of the stalls some higher than behind them, in order that they may keep as much weight off the shoulders as possible. I believe that a horse will get stove up in the shoulders as soon from standing in the stable, with his fore feet six or eight (as I have often seen) inches lower than the hind feet, as he will at hard work. I always clean out and add new bedding twice a day in winter, morning and evening. The old method of cleaning out the stable twice a year, spring and fall, as a good many do, is simply ridiculous. FEEDING AND WATER is something that requires a great deal of attention. My plaj i is to always clean out the trough before feeding, and see that they have cleared up their feed of the previous feeding; then select nothing but sound corn to feed; always feed the same amount of ears at each feeding, giving a little bran and salt mixed, about every other day to eacn of my horses, giving no more hay than they will always clean up from one feeding to the other. A word about horses being foundered from drinking water when warm, and how to prevent it. Let your colt have all the water it wants to drink, and when it gets old enough to work, follow up the name rule; then, whether he is very warm or not, and he comes to water, let him have his fill and you need have no fears of founder from drinking too much water. I have worked horses for thirty- five years, and followed this rule, and have never had a horse -foundered yet from drinking water when too warm. But if horses have been learned to have but a few swallows of water, espeeially when very warm, and they get into the hands of some person not knowing your rule, and they are allowed to drink what they want, in all probability your horse will be water-foundered; but if the rule I have mentioned is followed, this trouble will be overcome. J. B. G. Hartford/Ohio Co. * — •—; Vot the Indiana Farmer. Waste of .."odder ia" Feeding. Very few of our farmers will admit that they waste fodder. It costs them too much labor, they have too many hungry cattle and sheep and horses, and fodder commands too good prices in market for them to be guilty of any such waste. We use improved straw cutters, they say we feed out only as much as our stock need, and will eat up clean at the time; ws never allow any to be trodden into The HUGHES SJJXKY BBEAKIHG MOW, Tho I-ons _- Allat-UUer Co. Manurartnrera, , lla-i-llton, Ohio. the mud any more than we waste lt by exposure in haying and harvest time. And yet there is one way in which good farmers unconsciously waste fodder. They do so when they use it .for keeping their animals warm instead of making them fat. It is well known that the bodies of most animals (except at-the surface merely) are as warm in win ter as in summer, at the North as at,the South. In cold weather and in cold climates, this internal heat is constantlypassing' off, just as heat radiates from a fire. Now where does this heat come from, and how is a constant supply maintained? Food is the fuel, and breathing makes it burn; or to explain more at length, the food which animals eat supplies their blood with carbon and hydrogen, and every act of^breathing brings the oxygen of the air into contact with these gases. A combination is then formed in which heat is involved just as it is in the burning of wood. The combustion is slow to be sure, but none the less with rapid breathing increases the heat. When animals run, they breathe faster, and so become warm. A child breathes more rapidly than a man, and accordingly its heat is greater. Birds are warmer than quadrupeds, because they breathe faster. "Fishes and reptiles," known as cold blooded animals, breathe very slowly. As, moreover, there is more rapid waste of bodily heat in winter than in summer, animals need more food to supply that waste. If they are running at large or any way exposed to cold winds, they lose their heat faster, and hence require more fodder. Every farmer knows that it takes more time and more grain to fatten animals in mid winter than during the mild days of autumn. The drift of our logic is this: If domestic animals are allowed in any way to suffer from cold, they must have a quantity of food given them to keep up their heat over and above what they require for simple nourishment, or else they will grow miserably poor—and is this not a needless waste of fodder? How much better to keep the animals warm by providing them comfortable shelter, give them warm stables, and good blankets for horses, and dry sheds and a plenty of litter, and in the spring they will come from the barn in good condition. J. L. Heesey. Tuftonborough, N. H. to throw his ears well forward. Look out for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation going on behind him. The horse that turns back his ears till they almost meet at the points, take my"word for it, is sure to do something wrong. See.that straight, elegant face. A horse with a dishing face is cowardly, and a cowardly brute is usually vicious. Then I like a square muzzle with large nostrils, to let in plenty of air to the lungs. For the under side of the head, a good horse should be well cut under the jowl, with jaw-bones broad, and wide apart under the throttle." "So much for the head," he continued. "The next thing to consider is the build of the animal. Never buy along-legged, stilty horse. Let him have a short, straight, back and a straight rump, and you've; got a gentleman's horse. The withers should be high and the shoulders wel'^et ba£k and broad; but don't get the«5r. top/deep in the chest. The foreleg'J-iutfM be shoit. Give me a pretty straight hind-leg, with the hock low- down, short pastern joints and around mulish, foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good natured and serviceable. As to color, tastes differ. Bays, browns and chestnuts are the best. Boans are very fashionable at present. A great many grays and sorrels are brought here for shipment to Mexico and Cuba. They do well in a hot climate, under a tropical sun, for the same reason that you find light colored clothing most serviceable in summer. That circus horse behind you is what many people call a calico horse; now, I call him a genuine piebald. Its a freak of nature, and may happen anywhere.—Scribner's for January. The Hughes Sulky Breaking Plow. Every intelligent and observing farmer knows the importance of thoroughly breaking and turniug the soil to produce a good crop. The quality and quantity of which depends very largely upon the manner in which the plowing is done. It is also well understood that only under certain conditions, viz: When the gronnd is in good order and comparatively free from trash, is the ordinary hand-plow equal to the task of doing the work. Hence the necessity for raking and horning the stalks in the spring, and not unfrequently is the clover mowed and burnt later in the season before the plowing can be done. Let the ground be covered with trash, luxuriant with weeds or clover, or baked and hard by tho heat and drought of summer, and the best hand- plow is a ■ failure, as it is either -totally disabled and can do nothing, or a little work is imperfectly done by the most laborious and exhaustive labor. The implement is simply not equal to the task. To remedy this defect is the province of the sulky plow, which will, when constructed upon correct principles, entirely overcome every objection made to hand- plowing. Not only is tho soil improved and enriched by having the surplus vegetation completely turned under and the ne- cessity for clearing the ground before plowing, and the extra labor in making up for bad work, afterwards entirely obviated, but much better work and much moro of it is the result. The "Hughes" sulky, shown on this page, owing to its remarkable lightness of draft and facility in turning at the corners, is fully the equal of two two-horse hand- plows in quantity of work, while there is no comparison in the quality of it. The "Hughes" is free from the common and radical delects of all others, in that the plow does not run between the wheels, requiring to be thrown out at every corner, but at the right or left side ofthe sulky, the wheels of which run entirely opon the un- I plowed ground. This secures greater ease of handling,. and better work than any other, or the plow need not be .thrown out at the corners but remains in the ground and acts as a pivot around which the j_ulky travels, stirring thoroughly all tlie ground in the held, the corners as well as any other part. This arrangement ofharing^the plow out- On Fees, Salaries and Bribery. For tbe Indiana Farmer: Your remarks in a recent number of the Farmer, in regard to the fees and salaries of county officers, is in the right direction, and I would like to seethe farmers especially, speak out on this matter all over the State. Let our representatives know how we feel about this matter. "Why give a man from $4,000 to $8,000 per year to fill these offices when men fully competent can be had to fill them for one-fourth such an amount, and then have the law made in such a loose manner, as the present fee and salary law is, that dishonest officials can take advantage of it and generally make twice the amount of their salaries. What we need is a salary law without the fees. Pay the officers a salary such as men in other occupations get, where there is an equal amount of labor performed, with similar qualifications and responsibilities. And when there is more labor than one man can perform, allow a reasonable compensation for an assistant or deputy, and all fees to be paid into the county treasury. It is the fee clause that dishonest officials take advantage of. An ex-county auditor of Floyd county, received for his services (a misnomer) over $44,000 for his second term of offlce. The lawful amount due him was less than half that amount. He took advantage ofthe fee clause of the law. County auditors are allowed $3 for each order audited. I know an instance whero the auditor received $30 for auditing a claim of $30. He did it in this way: He told the man who had the claim against the county for $30 that he had better have it in small orders; that he would stand a better ehance to sell them to parties to be used In paying their taxes; So he made it in ten orders, and the auditor I received $30 in fees for what the law I intended he should receive $3. I know of no milder term .than to say that he store*"$27 from"'the*.ax-payers, of Floyd™ Points of a Horse. "I can't explain what a real good horse is," said one of the best natured dealers in the street. "They are as different as men. In buying a horse, you must look first to his head and eyes for signs of intelligence, temper, courage and honesty. Unless a horse has brains, you can't teach him anything, any more than you can a half-witted child. See that tall bay there, a fine looking animal, fifteen hands high. You can't teach that horse anything. Why? Well, I'll show you a difference in heads; but have a care of his heels. Look at that brute's head- that rounding nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, full place below the eyes. You can't trust him. Kick? Well, I guess sol Put him in a ten-acre lot, where he's got plenty of swing, and he'll kick the horn off the moon. The world's treatment of man and beast has a tendency to enlarge and intensify bad qualities, if they predominate. This good natured phrenologist could not refrain from slapping in the face the horse whose character had been so cruelly delineated, while he had nothing but the gentlest caresses for a tall, docile, sleek-limbed sorrel, that pricked, her ears forward and looked intelligent enough to understand all that was being said. "That's an awful good mare," he added. "She'strueas the sun. Youcan see breadth and fullness between the ears and eyes. You couldn't hire that mare to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye should be full, and hazel is a good color. T like a small, thin ear, and want a horse Heavy Pigs. JCditor. Indiana Farmer: As to those Chester White pigs, I had two of them killed by butchers at Mansfield, and they weighed them. One of the pigs was 12 months and 12 days old, and weighed when dressed 630 pounds. The other was three days older and weighed 762 pounds. I fed them all they would eat, from little pigs up. I have heard of several pigs being killed that dressed from 600 to 700 pounds at from ten months to one year. G. W. Bittinger. Plymouth Ohio, Dec. 20. Mr. Bittinger encloses the following testimony from A. Falconer, Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio: Those pigs I bought of you at the Toledo fair, when I got them home, the 21st of September, and weighed them, they weighed 120 pounds, the two. Today I weighed them again and they weighed 172 pounds, a gain of 52 pounds in 14 days. I think that is a large gain for pigs. Their feed was sour mdk and boiled rye. They had all they would eat. They eat well and-are doing well. So far I am well pleased. Abram Falconer. In Mr. B.'s circular we find the following: J. W, Ford, proprietor of the Fairview Farm, Adario, says: "The hogs purchased of you I think are the finest and f'ow fatter on the least feed of any breed ever had. I have been in the business for fifteen years. My pig when three months old weighed 100 ponnds; and at four months my scales of 150 pounds would not weigh him." side of the wheels also enables the "Hughes"todo good work in rough ground and across corn rows, where all others fail, as the plow is not fastened rigidly to the axle of the sulky, but is attached thereto by flexible joints that permit the sulky to pass over ridges or obstructions without lifting the plow or interfering with the level run of it. This same peculiarity of construction in the "Hughes" relieves the land side of the plow from the enormous pressure and friction it must bear in all other plows, and enables the "Hughes" to draw from 33 to 50 per cent, lighter draft than any other. At the great sulky plow trial held at Columbia, Mo., and lasting five days, where thirteen Slow* competed, the "Hughes" was the ghtest draft and also received the highest award of merit. Without stopping the team the "Hughes" can be thrown instantly upon the bar or share, and held in any position a hand-plow can be made to assume, or that the nature of the ground requires the strength of a ten year old boy being sufficient to handle it. The Long & Allstatter Co., Hamilton, Ohio, are the manufacturers of this splendid implement. ' Mr. Sol. Beard, 100 West Washington street, this city, is the agent for Central Indiana, where the plow maybe seen. QUEBY AND ANSWEB. J. S., of Pulaski county, asks for a book that teaches the duties of sherifis. The treatise by H. H. Dougherty, is the best we know of. We can iurnish this work at the publisher's price ($3), postage prepaid. The Coecci-IO.—A new subscriber asks our L. J. T., who is contributing some articles on insects, to ventilate the curculio, giving his description, habits, etc. Mr. Templin will please heed the request Osaob Oranges.—P. Armstrong, of New Salem, Bush county, informs M. M. L. that he can furnish osage oranges, from which the seed can be obtained. county. And this is the way that dishonest officials are making princely fortunes, while we farmers aro selling our hogs and beef cattle at two cents per pound, and hay at $5 per ton. As long as we have our laws made bo that they can be evaded, dishonest officials will take advantage of them. better law on bribery; Another much-needed reform is a more stringent and effective law, punishing bribery, than the one we have. Bribery has become so common, that it is a disgrace to our country. In a recent political convention in Floyd county, it is a notorious fact that nearly half of those who participated in it, were bribed, bought like cattle. One candidate secured a room in a hotel in New Albany, the evening before the convention, and told the clerk to show every one up to his room who inquired for him. The clerk informed me that the room was soon full of those who were for sale; that the aforesaid candidate had tlie greenbacks and silver piled upon the table, and was doing a lively business in the purchasing of "Judases." I know men in my own neighborhood who set themselves up as examples of Christianity, members of the church, who sold their votes. My Lord, deliver me from such Christianity! The political morals of our country are fearful to contemplate. It is ruining the rising generation. We need a stringent law to punish bribery. I do hope that the next Legislature of Indiana will pass a law disfranchising the bribe-giver and bribe-taker, for a term of not less than ten years. The man who will sell his vote should not be permitted to vote. He is only a tool in the hands of wicked, scheming office-seekers, who, if elected, willsteal from the honest, hard-working tax-payers, the purchase money for these worthless "Judases." Jonathan Beard. Georgetown, Dec. 19. Fertilisers. Editor. Indiana Farmer: In reply to Mr. Bich, of Bush connty, in regard to fertilizers, will give him my experience with four different kinds on corn the past season. I used the Buckeye phosphate, manufactured in Cleveland, O.; phosphated bone-dust, manufactured in Chicago; a raw bone manu- tured in Louisville, and a raw bone manufactured in New Albany. The Buckeye is decidedly the best for corn. I used about 300 pounds per acre. Drop a small handfull in the hill; it is best to spread it around a little; it will then not be so likely to affect the germ of the corn. Jonathan Beard. Georgetown, Ind. Seven Millions Under Arms. In Europe, political economists are tracing hard times to the immense standing armies, which are sustained mainly through the military influence ol Germany. It is estimated that the European nations have now 7,500,000 men under arms. These men are non-producers and are taken fromtheir legitimate spheres of daily toil. These m en cost on an average $200 per annum, or about four million dollars each day, or a total of fifteen hundred millions of dollars per annum, expended for the services of men who do not add one penny to the production of the world. The tobacco crop is now safely housed and cured. The estimate places it at abont half that of 1877. The demand is slight, as the market is glutted. The quality in considered light. i Cuba's estimated crop of sugar will reach 1700,000 tons. Letter from Illinois. Bdltors Indiana Farmer: The failure of crops and low prices are making times extremely hard here. For three years previous the corn crop has been a failure in this county, but good in adjoining counties. This year it is nearly an entire foilure in this and adjoining counties. The wheat crop was fair, yielding from 15 to 28 bushels per acre. Oats, fair crop. The grass crop was very good; thousands of tons of hay will be carried over in this and adjoining counties for want of money to buy stock to eat it. We lack capital and stockmen in this part of Illinois. The acreage of wheat sown this fall in this county (Clay) Is not nearly bo large as it was last year. Neither doesit look so well, being sown late on account of the fly, and having but little f rowing weather since. Some damage y fly is reported to early wheat. Prices of stock and produce about as.follows: Hogs, $2 25; cows, $15 to $25; wheat, 75c; oorn, 30c; oats, 15c; hay, $2 60 per ton; sheep, $2 to $3 calves, $5 to $8. More auon. Clay Co., Dec. 16. W. H. J. 4 «s. » Milo J. Smith, of Northampton, says the best time to feed grain to cattle is after they have been fed with hay. -vrrn v>.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1878, v. 13, no. 52 (Dec. 28) |
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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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Transcript | 55-f^^-Sr*^ ^ .->.* J -j*'*>- v-,. ' Ii Tt tj.-^iK- Y <*<\ VOL. XIU. INDIAKAPOUIS, INDIANA, DECEMBER 28, 1878. NO. 52. FOB-UE. ITIOR SALE—Whitney sewing machine needles, all JP sires, at 30 cents per dozen. Send order to INDI- ASA FARMER COMPANY. f FOB 8JLLE—25 of the best Chester White pigs I ever saw, weigh from 100 to 225 lbs, atllo for choice, or |_5 a pair Address, E. B. MOODY, Eminence, Kentucky. FOR SALE—The Farm Register arid Account Book. Complete method or keeping: farm accounts. Price II each. Address I3SDIANA FARMER COMPANY, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—Short-horns—Fletcher s young Marys, Phylls, A gat has. Brides, Gems, etc. Bulls and heifers, choicely bred. Correspondence solicited. E. a TKOMFSO-s*, Lock Box 1, Edlngbnre, Ind. FOR SALE—Large, high-bred Poland China pigs, of both sexes, near descendants from the noted prixe hogs Bismarck, Tom Corwin and Perfection. My herd are healthy and vigorous. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. T. M. REVEAL, Fisher's Station, Hamilton county, Ind. FOR SALE—ISO acres, two miles east of Middle- Fork station, Jefferson county, at £30 per acre, ten rears time at. per cent. 160 acres, one mile north of Kokomo, at |30 per acre, five years time at 6 per cent. 80 acres, lour miles north of Indianapolis, at |50 per acre, five years time at 6 per cent. 120 acres, In Pulaski county, at J10 per acre, ten years time at 6 per cent. 80 acres, near StilesTillo, at (30 per acre, five years time. T. A. GOODWIN, Indianapolis, Ind. WA-sTTED. TTTANTED-To exchange spring mattresses and T V loungos for country produce. No. *5 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis. WANTED—An agent In every township to sell Western Wilds by J. H. Beadle, and Rldpath's Popular History of the United States; Apply at once tol. M. OLCOTT, 38 East Market street,Indlanapolls. '\\T ANTED—Agents, on salary, after 3 months V V trial, on splendid commissions, to sell the new medical book for families by the famous Dr, Hall. Secure your territory soon. It will have a splendid sale. Send |150 for complete outfit and contract for exclusive agency. Only 1 township at a time given to one agent. Ask for 1st and 2d choice of territory. ERED. L. HORTON A CO.. Publishers, C6 East Market street, Indianapolis, Ind. I-OA-.S. TO LOAN—Money, at the Farm Loan Office of T. C Day. Interest at a low rate and payable once ft year. No Interest ln advance. Commissions moderate. No charge for examination, abstract or viewing forms. Address TJI0& C. DAY, or W. C. GRIFFITH, 24 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis. MISC t-L-LAJsTDOlrS. s M. GOO DE—Dentist, over 80 North pennaylva- , z_ia street. Prices reduced to suit Umee. CC. BUKGESS, Dentist. Offlce ln room 4 Va- » Jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St. I bave some good farms for sale, an d desire calls and correspond en oe irom parties In quest of them. G. W. ALEXANDEK, 33 E.ist Market St. STBAYED—Two black match colts, three years old (horso and irare) Dec. 7._,.J-*iJderalj£.gArd .Cf**. "aiSyliiTGTijiaWU-l Ul lilefilT AZ'Lt. \ft A. GlVSN.,*raH__> . fort, Ind. ALLEN'S DRUG STORE, opposite Poatoffice, is as good a place as you will And for anything in drugs, patent medicines, dyes, perfumes, toilet articles, etc. BEAL ESTATE ADVERTISER tells all about the Rlue Grass Valley of Middle Tennessee. Price 25 cents a year. Published by E. M. COCK- RILL, Real Estate Agent, Gallatin, Tenn. 40 of the prettiest Visiting Cards yon ever saw, _ yonr name neatly printed on them all, post- Saidforloc. You will have Snowflake, Marble, Rep, amask. Flower, Diamond* Plaid, Magenta, Transparent, Chromo, Granite, Embossed, Pebble, Navy Blue, and many others. "Your cards are splendid,'' "The largest ^1 nicsst I ever received,'1 are expressions wK-r/t constantly reach us. Mrs. Bently, ftC Flu^ticrf, fMIchiean, writes: "My 20 signers are welrmeased." Write plainly and address C. A. VICK, Arbelft, Michigan. XVt ) tacit. We have received from Messrs. Churchman & Jackson, two handsome photographs re'presentingspecimens from their famous herd of Jerseys. One of the cards contains five oval photos of their prize herd at the St. Louis fair, in October last. The names of this splendid herd are: Cows—Lilly of Les Niemes, 7465; Le Gallias Gipsy, 768S; Queen Bess of St. Brelades, 7462; Valentine of Trinity, 7460, and the bull, Le Brocq's Prize, 3350. O Ost » Advantages of Imported Stock. Editors Indiana FarmeH I have just been reading James A. Guil- liams' article In the Farmer on swine and chicken cholera, and I am surprised at the conclusions he came to in regard to the causes of these diseases. ' If his theories are correct, farmers had better discard the improved breeds of swine and poultry and fall back on the old fashioned "elm-peelers," "dunghills," etc., and cease sheltering and caring for their stock and flocks, and thereby keep them strong and healthy, and of course profitable. Brother stockbreeders and farmers, how would you like this happy'condition of things? No ■work in feoding and caring for our stock; all well and thrifty; all profitable, without shelter and but little grain; little or no trouble and anxiety. If his theories were true, what a happy time farmers and stock men would have. Farmers in this part of the State have found the improved breeds of swine and poultry, as well aa other kinds of improved stock, much more profitable than the scrubs, and also more healthy. His assertion that Berkshires are more liable to cholera than other breeds of swine is eimply ridiculous, as they have proven , equally as hardy as any known breeds, and much more hardy here than any of the "mongrel" breeds, and farmers and breeders in this part of the State, who have given the breeding of any kind of improved stock any careful and intelligent attention, are in no mood to abandon it, as they find that the improved breeds are the only ones that return any profit in these times of low prices, as they mature earlier, fatten at any age, and bring better prices; and a man of taste will derive a great amount of pleasure from looking at pure bred stock and "having them around," and a farmer or breeder who takes pride in his calling can scarcely bear to look at a "mongrel." By the way, a former in this vicinity, who raises Berkshires exclusively, sold his fat hogs a short time since, and they were the culls of his herd, as his best had been sold for breeders, and they averaged 350 pounds each, and a part of them were under one year old at that. None of his neighbors, except those who raise improved breeds, could make anything like such a showing. • Yours for improved stock, whether imported or otherwise. I. N. Barker. Thorntown, Ind. . « ___ » For the Indiana Farmer. Care and Management of Horses. In order that we may have a perfect horse, it will be necessary to start out with a good colt. Good care should be taken of the mother from the time she is bred until the colt is foaled. In order that we may have a good and healthy offspring, it will be necessary that the mother should be used as little as possible; should not be worked or rode so as to heat up the blood from the time the colt is foaled until it is weaned. We will find this is where the most of the skin diseases In our horses originate, caused from the colt sucking the milk from the mother while the blood is very warm. This should never be the case. But so long as we use our brood mares to help run our farms and to plow through the long, hot summer days, and to help do our heavy hauling, with colt by eht side, just so long we may expect to have scrubby and unhealthy horses when they have grown to maturity. AFTER A COI/T IS WEANED no corn should be given until it is about twenty months old, or at the beginning of the second winter, should it be ar spring colt. For the first winter, it would TJSTieuer to &tve' plenty of corn blades (or tops) to feed on along with oats, either threshed or in the sheaf. This I consider sufficient for the first winter's feed. The second winter I should feed a little corn along with oats, giving plenty of good fodder, and no hay if we can avoid doing so, fo* I think hay should not be fed until the beginning of the third winter, when it can be fed regularly if desired. The stable has considerable to do with the health and comfort of the horse. Do not suffer your horses to stand in the stable from morning until night without being looked after, especially in the winter. See that our horses stalls that they have to stand in are kept leveled up, keeping the front of the stalls some higher than behind them, in order that they may keep as much weight off the shoulders as possible. I believe that a horse will get stove up in the shoulders as soon from standing in the stable, with his fore feet six or eight (as I have often seen) inches lower than the hind feet, as he will at hard work. I always clean out and add new bedding twice a day in winter, morning and evening. The old method of cleaning out the stable twice a year, spring and fall, as a good many do, is simply ridiculous. FEEDING AND WATER is something that requires a great deal of attention. My plaj i is to always clean out the trough before feeding, and see that they have cleared up their feed of the previous feeding; then select nothing but sound corn to feed; always feed the same amount of ears at each feeding, giving a little bran and salt mixed, about every other day to eacn of my horses, giving no more hay than they will always clean up from one feeding to the other. A word about horses being foundered from drinking water when warm, and how to prevent it. Let your colt have all the water it wants to drink, and when it gets old enough to work, follow up the name rule; then, whether he is very warm or not, and he comes to water, let him have his fill and you need have no fears of founder from drinking too much water. I have worked horses for thirty- five years, and followed this rule, and have never had a horse -foundered yet from drinking water when too warm. But if horses have been learned to have but a few swallows of water, espeeially when very warm, and they get into the hands of some person not knowing your rule, and they are allowed to drink what they want, in all probability your horse will be water-foundered; but if the rule I have mentioned is followed, this trouble will be overcome. J. B. G. Hartford/Ohio Co. * — •—; Vot the Indiana Farmer. Waste of .."odder ia" Feeding. Very few of our farmers will admit that they waste fodder. It costs them too much labor, they have too many hungry cattle and sheep and horses, and fodder commands too good prices in market for them to be guilty of any such waste. We use improved straw cutters, they say we feed out only as much as our stock need, and will eat up clean at the time; ws never allow any to be trodden into The HUGHES SJJXKY BBEAKIHG MOW, Tho I-ons _- Allat-UUer Co. Manurartnrera, , lla-i-llton, Ohio. the mud any more than we waste lt by exposure in haying and harvest time. And yet there is one way in which good farmers unconsciously waste fodder. They do so when they use it .for keeping their animals warm instead of making them fat. It is well known that the bodies of most animals (except at-the surface merely) are as warm in win ter as in summer, at the North as at,the South. In cold weather and in cold climates, this internal heat is constantlypassing' off, just as heat radiates from a fire. Now where does this heat come from, and how is a constant supply maintained? Food is the fuel, and breathing makes it burn; or to explain more at length, the food which animals eat supplies their blood with carbon and hydrogen, and every act of^breathing brings the oxygen of the air into contact with these gases. A combination is then formed in which heat is involved just as it is in the burning of wood. The combustion is slow to be sure, but none the less with rapid breathing increases the heat. When animals run, they breathe faster, and so become warm. A child breathes more rapidly than a man, and accordingly its heat is greater. Birds are warmer than quadrupeds, because they breathe faster. "Fishes and reptiles," known as cold blooded animals, breathe very slowly. As, moreover, there is more rapid waste of bodily heat in winter than in summer, animals need more food to supply that waste. If they are running at large or any way exposed to cold winds, they lose their heat faster, and hence require more fodder. Every farmer knows that it takes more time and more grain to fatten animals in mid winter than during the mild days of autumn. The drift of our logic is this: If domestic animals are allowed in any way to suffer from cold, they must have a quantity of food given them to keep up their heat over and above what they require for simple nourishment, or else they will grow miserably poor—and is this not a needless waste of fodder? How much better to keep the animals warm by providing them comfortable shelter, give them warm stables, and good blankets for horses, and dry sheds and a plenty of litter, and in the spring they will come from the barn in good condition. J. L. Heesey. Tuftonborough, N. H. to throw his ears well forward. Look out for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation going on behind him. The horse that turns back his ears till they almost meet at the points, take my"word for it, is sure to do something wrong. See.that straight, elegant face. A horse with a dishing face is cowardly, and a cowardly brute is usually vicious. Then I like a square muzzle with large nostrils, to let in plenty of air to the lungs. For the under side of the head, a good horse should be well cut under the jowl, with jaw-bones broad, and wide apart under the throttle." "So much for the head," he continued. "The next thing to consider is the build of the animal. Never buy along-legged, stilty horse. Let him have a short, straight, back and a straight rump, and you've; got a gentleman's horse. The withers should be high and the shoulders wel'^et ba£k and broad; but don't get the«5r. top/deep in the chest. The foreleg'J-iutfM be shoit. Give me a pretty straight hind-leg, with the hock low- down, short pastern joints and around mulish, foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good natured and serviceable. As to color, tastes differ. Bays, browns and chestnuts are the best. Boans are very fashionable at present. A great many grays and sorrels are brought here for shipment to Mexico and Cuba. They do well in a hot climate, under a tropical sun, for the same reason that you find light colored clothing most serviceable in summer. That circus horse behind you is what many people call a calico horse; now, I call him a genuine piebald. Its a freak of nature, and may happen anywhere.—Scribner's for January. The Hughes Sulky Breaking Plow. Every intelligent and observing farmer knows the importance of thoroughly breaking and turniug the soil to produce a good crop. The quality and quantity of which depends very largely upon the manner in which the plowing is done. It is also well understood that only under certain conditions, viz: When the gronnd is in good order and comparatively free from trash, is the ordinary hand-plow equal to the task of doing the work. Hence the necessity for raking and horning the stalks in the spring, and not unfrequently is the clover mowed and burnt later in the season before the plowing can be done. Let the ground be covered with trash, luxuriant with weeds or clover, or baked and hard by tho heat and drought of summer, and the best hand- plow is a ■ failure, as it is either -totally disabled and can do nothing, or a little work is imperfectly done by the most laborious and exhaustive labor. The implement is simply not equal to the task. To remedy this defect is the province of the sulky plow, which will, when constructed upon correct principles, entirely overcome every objection made to hand- plowing. Not only is tho soil improved and enriched by having the surplus vegetation completely turned under and the ne- cessity for clearing the ground before plowing, and the extra labor in making up for bad work, afterwards entirely obviated, but much better work and much moro of it is the result. The "Hughes" sulky, shown on this page, owing to its remarkable lightness of draft and facility in turning at the corners, is fully the equal of two two-horse hand- plows in quantity of work, while there is no comparison in the quality of it. The "Hughes" is free from the common and radical delects of all others, in that the plow does not run between the wheels, requiring to be thrown out at every corner, but at the right or left side ofthe sulky, the wheels of which run entirely opon the un- I plowed ground. This secures greater ease of handling,. and better work than any other, or the plow need not be .thrown out at the corners but remains in the ground and acts as a pivot around which the j_ulky travels, stirring thoroughly all tlie ground in the held, the corners as well as any other part. This arrangement ofharing^the plow out- On Fees, Salaries and Bribery. For tbe Indiana Farmer: Your remarks in a recent number of the Farmer, in regard to the fees and salaries of county officers, is in the right direction, and I would like to seethe farmers especially, speak out on this matter all over the State. Let our representatives know how we feel about this matter. "Why give a man from $4,000 to $8,000 per year to fill these offices when men fully competent can be had to fill them for one-fourth such an amount, and then have the law made in such a loose manner, as the present fee and salary law is, that dishonest officials can take advantage of it and generally make twice the amount of their salaries. What we need is a salary law without the fees. Pay the officers a salary such as men in other occupations get, where there is an equal amount of labor performed, with similar qualifications and responsibilities. And when there is more labor than one man can perform, allow a reasonable compensation for an assistant or deputy, and all fees to be paid into the county treasury. It is the fee clause that dishonest officials take advantage of. An ex-county auditor of Floyd county, received for his services (a misnomer) over $44,000 for his second term of offlce. The lawful amount due him was less than half that amount. He took advantage ofthe fee clause of the law. County auditors are allowed $3 for each order audited. I know an instance whero the auditor received $30 for auditing a claim of $30. He did it in this way: He told the man who had the claim against the county for $30 that he had better have it in small orders; that he would stand a better ehance to sell them to parties to be used In paying their taxes; So he made it in ten orders, and the auditor I received $30 in fees for what the law I intended he should receive $3. I know of no milder term .than to say that he store*"$27 from"'the*.ax-payers, of Floyd™ Points of a Horse. "I can't explain what a real good horse is," said one of the best natured dealers in the street. "They are as different as men. In buying a horse, you must look first to his head and eyes for signs of intelligence, temper, courage and honesty. Unless a horse has brains, you can't teach him anything, any more than you can a half-witted child. See that tall bay there, a fine looking animal, fifteen hands high. You can't teach that horse anything. Why? Well, I'll show you a difference in heads; but have a care of his heels. Look at that brute's head- that rounding nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, full place below the eyes. You can't trust him. Kick? Well, I guess sol Put him in a ten-acre lot, where he's got plenty of swing, and he'll kick the horn off the moon. The world's treatment of man and beast has a tendency to enlarge and intensify bad qualities, if they predominate. This good natured phrenologist could not refrain from slapping in the face the horse whose character had been so cruelly delineated, while he had nothing but the gentlest caresses for a tall, docile, sleek-limbed sorrel, that pricked, her ears forward and looked intelligent enough to understand all that was being said. "That's an awful good mare," he added. "She'strueas the sun. Youcan see breadth and fullness between the ears and eyes. You couldn't hire that mare to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye should be full, and hazel is a good color. T like a small, thin ear, and want a horse Heavy Pigs. JCditor. Indiana Farmer: As to those Chester White pigs, I had two of them killed by butchers at Mansfield, and they weighed them. One of the pigs was 12 months and 12 days old, and weighed when dressed 630 pounds. The other was three days older and weighed 762 pounds. I fed them all they would eat, from little pigs up. I have heard of several pigs being killed that dressed from 600 to 700 pounds at from ten months to one year. G. W. Bittinger. Plymouth Ohio, Dec. 20. Mr. Bittinger encloses the following testimony from A. Falconer, Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio: Those pigs I bought of you at the Toledo fair, when I got them home, the 21st of September, and weighed them, they weighed 120 pounds, the two. Today I weighed them again and they weighed 172 pounds, a gain of 52 pounds in 14 days. I think that is a large gain for pigs. Their feed was sour mdk and boiled rye. They had all they would eat. They eat well and-are doing well. So far I am well pleased. Abram Falconer. In Mr. B.'s circular we find the following: J. W, Ford, proprietor of the Fairview Farm, Adario, says: "The hogs purchased of you I think are the finest and f'ow fatter on the least feed of any breed ever had. I have been in the business for fifteen years. My pig when three months old weighed 100 ponnds; and at four months my scales of 150 pounds would not weigh him." side of the wheels also enables the "Hughes"todo good work in rough ground and across corn rows, where all others fail, as the plow is not fastened rigidly to the axle of the sulky, but is attached thereto by flexible joints that permit the sulky to pass over ridges or obstructions without lifting the plow or interfering with the level run of it. This same peculiarity of construction in the "Hughes" relieves the land side of the plow from the enormous pressure and friction it must bear in all other plows, and enables the "Hughes" to draw from 33 to 50 per cent, lighter draft than any other. At the great sulky plow trial held at Columbia, Mo., and lasting five days, where thirteen Slow* competed, the "Hughes" was the ghtest draft and also received the highest award of merit. Without stopping the team the "Hughes" can be thrown instantly upon the bar or share, and held in any position a hand-plow can be made to assume, or that the nature of the ground requires the strength of a ten year old boy being sufficient to handle it. The Long & Allstatter Co., Hamilton, Ohio, are the manufacturers of this splendid implement. ' Mr. Sol. Beard, 100 West Washington street, this city, is the agent for Central Indiana, where the plow maybe seen. QUEBY AND ANSWEB. J. S., of Pulaski county, asks for a book that teaches the duties of sherifis. The treatise by H. H. Dougherty, is the best we know of. We can iurnish this work at the publisher's price ($3), postage prepaid. The Coecci-IO.—A new subscriber asks our L. J. T., who is contributing some articles on insects, to ventilate the curculio, giving his description, habits, etc. Mr. Templin will please heed the request Osaob Oranges.—P. Armstrong, of New Salem, Bush county, informs M. M. L. that he can furnish osage oranges, from which the seed can be obtained. county. And this is the way that dishonest officials are making princely fortunes, while we farmers aro selling our hogs and beef cattle at two cents per pound, and hay at $5 per ton. As long as we have our laws made bo that they can be evaded, dishonest officials will take advantage of them. better law on bribery; Another much-needed reform is a more stringent and effective law, punishing bribery, than the one we have. Bribery has become so common, that it is a disgrace to our country. In a recent political convention in Floyd county, it is a notorious fact that nearly half of those who participated in it, were bribed, bought like cattle. One candidate secured a room in a hotel in New Albany, the evening before the convention, and told the clerk to show every one up to his room who inquired for him. The clerk informed me that the room was soon full of those who were for sale; that the aforesaid candidate had tlie greenbacks and silver piled upon the table, and was doing a lively business in the purchasing of "Judases." I know men in my own neighborhood who set themselves up as examples of Christianity, members of the church, who sold their votes. My Lord, deliver me from such Christianity! The political morals of our country are fearful to contemplate. It is ruining the rising generation. We need a stringent law to punish bribery. I do hope that the next Legislature of Indiana will pass a law disfranchising the bribe-giver and bribe-taker, for a term of not less than ten years. The man who will sell his vote should not be permitted to vote. He is only a tool in the hands of wicked, scheming office-seekers, who, if elected, willsteal from the honest, hard-working tax-payers, the purchase money for these worthless "Judases." Jonathan Beard. Georgetown, Dec. 19. Fertilisers. Editor. Indiana Farmer: In reply to Mr. Bich, of Bush connty, in regard to fertilizers, will give him my experience with four different kinds on corn the past season. I used the Buckeye phosphate, manufactured in Cleveland, O.; phosphated bone-dust, manufactured in Chicago; a raw bone manu- tured in Louisville, and a raw bone manufactured in New Albany. The Buckeye is decidedly the best for corn. I used about 300 pounds per acre. Drop a small handfull in the hill; it is best to spread it around a little; it will then not be so likely to affect the germ of the corn. Jonathan Beard. Georgetown, Ind. Seven Millions Under Arms. In Europe, political economists are tracing hard times to the immense standing armies, which are sustained mainly through the military influence ol Germany. It is estimated that the European nations have now 7,500,000 men under arms. These men are non-producers and are taken fromtheir legitimate spheres of daily toil. These m en cost on an average $200 per annum, or about four million dollars each day, or a total of fifteen hundred millions of dollars per annum, expended for the services of men who do not add one penny to the production of the world. The tobacco crop is now safely housed and cured. The estimate places it at abont half that of 1877. The demand is slight, as the market is glutted. The quality in considered light. i Cuba's estimated crop of sugar will reach 1700,000 tons. Letter from Illinois. Bdltors Indiana Farmer: The failure of crops and low prices are making times extremely hard here. For three years previous the corn crop has been a failure in this county, but good in adjoining counties. This year it is nearly an entire foilure in this and adjoining counties. The wheat crop was fair, yielding from 15 to 28 bushels per acre. Oats, fair crop. The grass crop was very good; thousands of tons of hay will be carried over in this and adjoining counties for want of money to buy stock to eat it. We lack capital and stockmen in this part of Illinois. The acreage of wheat sown this fall in this county (Clay) Is not nearly bo large as it was last year. Neither doesit look so well, being sown late on account of the fly, and having but little f rowing weather since. Some damage y fly is reported to early wheat. Prices of stock and produce about as.follows: Hogs, $2 25; cows, $15 to $25; wheat, 75c; oorn, 30c; oats, 15c; hay, $2 60 per ton; sheep, $2 to $3 calves, $5 to $8. More auon. Clay Co., Dec. 16. W. H. J. 4 «s. » Milo J. Smith, of Northampton, says the best time to feed grain to cattle is after they have been fed with hay. -vrrn v>. |
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