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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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Milo J. Smith, of Northampton, says
the best time to feed grain to cattle is
after they have been fed with hay.
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