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A Weekly Journal of the Farm,Home and Garden.
VOL. XVII.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 1882.
no. a
FOR. 8A1YE.
17IOR SALE—Hedge plants, hedge seed nnd Blount
*     corn.   KL1BHA MILLS, Farmland, Ind.	
FOR WALK— Prize-winning mammoth BronseTur-
keys.Eggs in season.RockbillBroe.,Ft.Wayne,Ind
FOR SALE-Sbort-born bulls from 1 to 11 months
old.   JOHN   McCABLIN   <fc SONS, Franklin,
Ind.
FOR SALE—56 bead ot  flne Cotswold sbeep.   Address, or call on, MARTIN  PEARSON. Greenwood. Ind.
FOR S A LB—Fine Peklns—Six ducks and one drake.
The lot for «10.   BEECH DROVE FARM, In-
gallston, Ind.
FOR SALE—White and Brown Leghorns, Aylesbury and Pekln ducks.   TILSON AROB1SON,
Rocklane, Ind.
FOR SALE-Pure Valley White and Early Calico
corn.   Address A. W. BEWSEY, Colfax, Clinton county, Ind.
FOR SALE—Clinton seed corn, potato onions and
vegetable dishcloth. Address W. E. OIACK80N,
Knigbtstown, Ind.
IfiOR SALE—Plvmouth Rocks and Gold Spangled
1     Hamburgs, {5 a pair.   Eggs f2 for 13.   T. HUL-
KAN, SR., Terre Haute. Ind.
FOR S * LE—Orchard-grass seed at (3 per bushel,
sack Included in two bushel lots.  Address JOHN
H. RENT, Mechanlcsburg, Ind.
FOR SALE—Graded Jersey cows and heifers. Rend
for catalogues, descriptions, etc. Address THEO.
P. HAUUHEY. Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SALE—Eggs for batching from WWW Leghorns and Pea Comb Partridge Cochins,   p for
13.   DR. W. J. ELSTUN, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—High class Plymouth Rock cockerels
and pure bred  IVkin drakes at *150 eacb.   Address MRS M. E. HUNT, Onion City, Ind.
FOR SALE-Afew choice Shepherd pups. Scotch
Collie crossed wltb   English r-hepherd.   Inquire
of GEO. BUCKLEW, Wolf Creek, Marshall Co., Ind.
FOR SALE—Selected seed corn—Yellow Dent,
Learning and Mammoth White, $1 25 per bushel,
sacks added. Address JAS. M. BRANSON, Farmland, Ind. , ,,
%xm jliacTi.
C. X. L.: Write to the party of whom
you bought, and he can give you the information and proof also.
 s> .	
Prof. George E. Morrow, of the Illinois
Industrial University, says, in the Chicago
Tribune, that he never saw a breed with
which he was before comparatively unfamiliar that so favorably impressed him
as did the polled cattle, two years ago,  at
leading British shows.
 « .
I was for a long time on the fence on
the silo question, but think I know which
side I Bhail get down on. There is something in the silo for localities where corn
and bay do not grow so well as they do
here. I do not deny merit in it even here,
but there is not enough in it to make it a
paying investment to our average farmer
—and the average Bu<-ks county farmer is
not a bad one, either.—A. M. Dickie,
Bucks Co., Penn.
FOR SALE—Light Brahmas a specialty; famous
"Duke of York*' strain. Eggs from selected
breeders. Packed to hatch, t2 per 13. Dv F. HIGH-
LEY, MIer, Ind.
FOR SALE—Improved seed corn: Chester County
Mammoth and Early Chester. Prices, 1 B>, 60c
by mail, postpaid: 1 pk ,1 50; % bu. f3; 1 bu.fr D. Y.
KINCAli), New Paris, O.
FOR SALE—300 extra flne Plymouth Rocks and
Buff Cochins, bred from my "Prizewinners.'
Send for Illustrated circular with prizes won. SID.
CONGER. Flat Rock. Ind.
FOR SALE—Short-horn cow, 3 years old, deep red,
is of good milking family and recorded in A. II.
Book, will sell cheap. Address GEORGE J. COL-
LINGS, Crawfordsville, Iod.
FOR SALE—Selected seed corn, Yellow Dent. My
corn is very large eared and deep grain. Matures early. $1 per bushel, sacks 25 cents. Address J.
M. VANCE. Springport, Ind.
FOR SALE—A choice lot of yearling Cotswold
ewes, bred to my imported ram, Duke of Gloster
—prefer to sell in lots of five or more. HENRY C.
MEREDITH, Cambridge City, Ind.
FOR SALE-White Pekin duck eggs at »1 for 13,
and White Holland turkey eggs at $3 per dozen.
The largest turkey6 in tbe world. JAMES M. MAR-
IX>W. Adams, Decatur county, Ind.
FOR SALE—Beauty of Hebron, Mammoth Pearl,
Burbank seed potatoes, fs per brl, or 4 cents per
pound (|240 per bu.) in 100 lib lots; bags 25c; brls free-
Address A. C. HABVEY, Lafayette, Ind.
FOR SALE—A flne lot of Poland China pigs, from
8 to 12 weeks old. Eligible to record in the Central P. C. R.' Prices reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed.   P1TZER A GWINN, Kokomo, Ind.
FOR SALE—White Crested Black Poland chicks.
They are non-sitters and mature rapidly. Fowls
ISperpair. Eggs 8150 for 13; *250 for 26. Address
OSCAR LANG EL, Casey, Clarke county, III.
FOR SALE—Our Short-horn breeding bull, Richard 5th, 36787, for want of further use; also a few
choice yearling heifers and bull calves. Send for catalogue.   EZRA SWAIN & SON, Noblesville, Ind.
FOR SALE—Bronze turkeys and Toulouse geese of
heavy weights and fine markings, winners oi
six prizes at National Exhibition, Satisfaction guaranteed. Address DR. J. B. FORSYTH & SON,
Frank in, Ind.
FOR SALE—"Snyder" blackberry plants, genuine
at t3 per 100, packed, and true to name; also Turner raspberry, Beauty of Hebron and Mammoth
Pearl potatoes. Can ship all In one barrel. A. C.
HABVEY, Lafayette, Ind.
TJiORSALE—1 trio of Light Brahmas; 1 trio of
X: White Leghorns; 3 Dark Brahma hens; 6 Silver
Gray Dorking hens, at 75 cents apiece; a few pairs of
White Holland turkeys at $2 50 perpalr; alsoeggsln
season.   MRS. T. J. JOHNSON, Greencastle, Ind.
FOR SALE—BuffCochlns.Isixdollars a trio, good
birds; heavy leg and toe feathering; not exhibition birds of course, but good substantial fowls.
Satisfaction guaranteed, or no sale. Eggs t4 permitting of 13. Address JOHN A. YOUNG, Shelbyvllle,
Indiana.
Fra nk Tyner & Brother, Morristown
Ind., are having their herd of Poland
China hogs recorded in the Poland China
Record which will be found in the 3d Vol.
They claim some very fineanimals as they
have been selected with care from some of
the most reliable breeders in the country,
and have recently made valuable accessions to their stock which is said to be the
only Herd of Poland Chinas in Hancock
county that is eligible to record in the
Central Poland China Record.
forty new lnenvbors were admitted, including John Lome Stewart of Scotland. Officers were elected as fallows: President,
J. D. W. Eronch, North Andover, Miss.;
Vice-presidenhs, Peter Coutts, Mayfield,
Cal.; J. P. Converse, Woodville, N. Y,;
Jno. L. Gibb, Compton, P. Q.; Alonzo
Libby, Saccarrappa, Me.; H. W. Blodgett,
Chicago, 111.;' Executive Committee, S. M.
Wells, Weathersfield, Ct.; Herbert Mer-
riam, Weston, Mass.; C. II. Hayes, Portsmouth, N. H.; Obadiah W. Brown, Providence, B. I.; Secretary, Chas. M. Winslow,
Brandon, Vt.
FOR SALE-ROBERT CRAIG, Greenwood, Ind.,
has several imported and grade Clydesdale
horses oi various ages at low figures. Mr. C. will go
•to Scotland early in the spring and is prepared to im-
g>rt all classes of stock at a reasonable commission,
eferences given.
FOR SALE—Seven Cotswold ewes, imported, will
register; very fine; ewes will have lambs in
March; also 16 bucks. Including Gray Prince. Must
sell as I have to give possession of farm March 1. Address CAL F. DARNELL, 738 North Illinois street,
Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SALE—Two flne bull calves, 7 months old,
color deep red: 2 two-year-old heifers, safe In
calf; also some nice Poland China pigs, weight 50 to
100 pounds eacb. and a splendid lot of Buff Cochin
cockerels, only ?1 each. Address L. H. AIKMAN,
Box 21, Dana, Vermillion county, Ind.
FOR SALE—A beautiful home, 210 acres, good Improvements, good bouse, barn, orchard, water,
timber, 140 acres in cultivation, church and school-
house near by, 6 miles from Bloomington, 3^ miles
from Elliottsville railroad station. Cheap and easy
terms. Will sell at a bagain if applied for soon. Address C. M. HOUSTON, Bloomington, Monroe county, Ind.
FOR SALE—One of the finest farms around Edinburg, Ind., on Blue river; no better land; 1.13 to
215 acres; would suit purchaser; you must see this to
appreciate it; good Improvements; If a man bas the
money he can get a great bargain In this land: %
mile of Edinburg. We are bound f> sell, have a good
reason which we explain. V. K. MORRIS, East
Market street, Indianapolis.     *
ITWR SALE-A fine farm in Clay township, Dear-
:. born county, Ind., of 153 acres; one mile from O.
and M. R. R., lOmflpsfrom Aurora on a good pike
road one mile from Dill.shorougb.near three churches
and a graded school. There is a good 2-*tory frame
bouse, a large frame barn, a good orchard, all in good
order; SOacresof limber, balance ingrassand pasture. Price, $5,300. Terms easy, Possession given
1st of next March. Address J. S. BECKETT, Aurora, Ind.
FOR SALE—One of the best farms of 343 acres in
the State, In 16 miles of this city, flne 10-room
house. 3barns; adjoining a good town of SOOpeopIe;
Ito acres wheat; over 203 acres.under cultivation; some
fine timber, 1,000 trees iu sugar camp; this farm will
he sold at a great bargain for cash; the cheapest farm
I ever offered; no trade taken; railroad near; pike
in front of house; suxar tree and walnut land. Come
and see lt. V. K. MORRIS, 58 East Market street,
Indianapolis.
JH1SOBH.ANEOU8.
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WINE BREEDERS' JOURNAL, fl per year.   A.
K. SAUNDERS, Indianapolis, Ind.
SEND for catalogue and prices of pure bred Shorthorns.   E.C. THOMPSON, Lock Box 1, Edinburg, Ind.
FA RMS | FOR SALE OB EXCHANGE-In Howard and adjoining counties, ranging in price
size and payments to suit purchasers. Some special
bargains.   STUART et HOSS, Kokomo, Ind.
LADIES' buy New Mexican flower seeds. I will
send five papers of seeds, gathered by me last
fall, for one dollar, or I will Fend one mixed package
for twenty-five cents. They are the seeds of very
beautiful flowers growing wild in the White mountains. New Mexico. Send money In registered letter
to POSTMASTER, Berwick, Warren county .Illinois.
THE   CATTLE   PLAGUE—PLUUBO-PNEUMO-
HIA.
At the late Agricultural Congress at
Washington, Commissioner Loring gave
an interesting account of the stamping
out of the cattle plague in Massachusetts
some years ago. A commission was appointed by the legislature with Dr. Loring
at its head, and an appropriation of $10,-
000 was placed at their disposal. After
looking over the field the commission reported that they could do nothing with
$10,000, and asked that it be increased to
$ 100,000 which was done. With this they
proceeded to pay for and destroy all the
cattle in the infected district, burned
many of the stables, and used disinfectants on others. After this, the introduction of cattle into the district was forbidden for one year. By these means the
plague was effectually stamped out. The
convention passed a resolution asking
Congress to approriate $2,000,000 to root
out the cattle plague from New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and now we see
a move in that direction, by the following
telegram from Washington:
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
sent to the Senate the manuscript report
of the Commission on Cattle Plague. It
is a very voluminous document, covering
hundreds of pages of foolscap, and is also
a most exhaustive history of the plague,
and consideration of its causes and the
treatment for its extinction.' The commission consider it necessary that the authorities intrusted with that work should
be clothed with the following powers by
law:
To abolish or regulate markets and store
cattle in the infected districts; to enjoin
the slaughter at the markets in the infected
districts of all cattle entering those rhar-
kets—fat cattle for slaughter elsewhere
can be obtained at the bonded market; to
prohibit all movement of cattle in infected
districts except under special license; to
inspect all cattle in suspected districts; to
slaughter all infected cattle, and, in exceptional cases those that have been exposed to the infection; to have the con
demned cattle appraised and the owners
liberally indemnified; to prohibit all exposure of cattle on highways in un-
fenced or insecurely fenced places in infected districts, or of suspected cattle on a
lot adjoining that occupied by healthy cattle or bordering on a highway; to prohibit
the pasturage of more than one herd on
one pasture unless under special license;
to disinfect all premises, fodder, and other
articles that have been, i resumably* exposed to infection; to institute and enforce such minor rules as shall bo commanded by the peculiar conditions of particular districts. .
In order to carry out these suggestions
the commission recommend a liberal appropriation by Congress, to be distributed
by some designated Federal officer. In
case the work is delegated to the different
States the commission advise that a liberal
appropriation be made from the Federal
exchequer, sufficient to cover the greater
part of the outlay, aad that this be paid
over to the executive of the infected State,
on approval by the veterinary sanitary organization designated for the purpose.
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The Ayrshire Breeders.
The Ayrshire Breeders' Association held
its annual meeting at Providence,  R.   I.,
Jan. l6.   Fifty-sir members were present
from various parts of the country.   About
The Swine Disease.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Articles upon this subject are being liberally produced through the Farmer lately, aud while some theories advanced are
very sensible productions, others ^liave no
merit.
The article written by Mr. Thomas, of
Rushville, and read before the swine
Breeders' Association of Indiana, is a very
creditable one, and while I scarcely agree
with Mr. Thomas in all respects, it is the
most sensible article upon the subject I
have read recently. It is visibly apparent that Mr. Thomas has dug deeply into
the merits of the disease, and has also
quoted the experience and research of professor Law, and Dr. Detmers, in their inoculating processess, and the transmission
of the disease by the many vehicles mentioned, all of whieh I pass by, without
comment, for it is evident they have
plunged themselves into troubled waters
in which they are most likely to catch
troublesome fish, by denying the sporadic
contraction of hog cholera. I hope
before I wade very far Into the hog wallow
to show that they cannot prove the hog
cholera, to be not of sporadic origin, and
that it is communicated by inoculation,
and by taking the germ into the system
in its drink or food only; that the germ
has been detected in ponds and streams
frequented by sick and other hogs, that
the wind spreads it. I believe and hope
the reader will make a note of this,
when I come to that point farther on.
Mr. Thomas alludes to its transmission
by cars, wagons, etc.f and the hundred
and oneother means quoted for years, but
like a sensible man, has not closed bis eyes
and prejudiced his judgment to our pet
dogma alone. 'He admits that, as all signs
fail in gd';d weather, so all of the means of
transporting hog cholera have failed to infect in his vicinity at Rushville. He says
the transporting theory signally failed,
for that herds of hogs remained healthy in
lots joining sick hogs, that healthy hoga
have not contracted the disease by drink
ing daily from streams below where diseased hogs had drank, and wallowed. He
further says that last fall hundreds of hogs
had died of the plague, were -hauled to a
Rushville rendering tank, and he could
not learn of a single hog having died along
the highway, and further says. The offal;
lungs, livers, etc., of these dead hogs were
thrown out and consumed by a herd of
hogs, and pigs raised in the lot arouud the
rendering tank, that he says has been the
custom of the proprietor for years, and
he never has the disease in his herd. Mr.
Thomas is correct in his diagnosis of the
varied symptoms which portray the disease, evidently proving that he is nortovioe
in regard to hog cholera. So here I leave
Mr. Thomas and proceed with an article
which I had prepared for the Farmer in
comment on a production which appeared
in its issue of the 4th instant.
In the article alluded to, in the Farmer
ofthe 4th inst, it appears that a club known
as the Green County Ohio Farmer's Club,
meffor the purpose of exchanging views
upon the subject of hog cholera. Four
gentlemen having been chosen to guess at
the causes of tho disease, they preceded by
Mr. Collins and Mr. Jobe like sensible men,
simply stating their experience with their
own herds; told just what they supposed
to be facts and no more.
Dr. Watt, though, more competent to
wrestle with such subjects showed his
good sense in not grappling with what ho
never studied, or investigated.    . /
Two gentlemen, to be champions of the
day, broached the knotty subject with
commendable grace, and seemed to know
some little of cholera in tho hog*, and
drunkenuess Inmeu. The essays wore to
theeffect that both monsters.drunkeuuess
and cholera entered both hogs by the
mouth and into the alimentary canal. That
the cholera entered the fourf ooted hog, aad
the whisky the two footed hog just alike.
Before I conclude the cholera question, I
shall try to prove that both can be effected
by inhalation if their, mouths are stuffed
with straw.
The gentleman did not tell the audience
that he was an expert, or claim any knowledge of his own, but said he read three reports of the commissioner of agriculture
upon the diseases of animals.hadonly time
to glance over them, so he guessed at their
contents, and by inspiration or  otherwibe
gleaned sufficient knowledge to satify
him, that the man and the hog wereinvul-
nerable if they only kept their m.mths
shut. He had very little difficulty in exhausting all his store of knowledge, so he
exhibited the experience of a Professor
•Slayi o >1, of Antioch college, a very clever
gentleman. The Professor he says, traced
it, most likely hunted it up and down hill,
throughglade and plain, and finallypulled
Up at a hog cemetery, where hogs dying of
the cholera had been buried one year prior,
aad had been freshly exhumed. No
doubt of it at all; the Professor must have
found there malaria sufficient to infect
hogs half a mile off, if not two miles,
liow, perhaps, the Professor is not aware
tifcat, though there might have been still
flesh to be eaten off the bones, which is
doubtful, for gangrenous flesh decomposes
Very soon. I propose and assert, that the
eiitingof the flesh, or gnawing the bones
could never Lave infected, except through
sores or Cuts on the outside of the mouth,
alby inhalation, for the reason that there
areiao" absorbents within the mouth, gul-
IX or stomach, that all the vessels  are se-
perbapa he means fencing it out. By his
theory it appears that the disease can
neither climb fences, nor creep through
hem. That, says he, is quite certain that
he knows of hogs keeping healthy on ono
side of a fence, while on the other side in
the next lot hogs continued to die all summer. Well, to-be-sure, had Mr. D. observed
the direction of the wind that summer,
that is not such a surprise, for though not
a farmer, I have seen hogs die in the same
field where a large number lived and kept
in fine health. How does Mr. D. account
for that? He further says that the man who
goes about the country pretending to cure
it, is either a fool or a knave. I shall attend to Mr. D. in a subsequent number of
the Farmer.      John N. Navin, V. S.
TO BE CONTINUED.
(rfeting ^vessels 'which , throw out  saliva,
6ic.,and that the* gastric fluid secreted  by
tie stomach, neutralizes all septic poison,
ahd glandered virus, each of which wil 1 in
fjfetand kill by Inoculation. Should the
fleshof horses which die  of glanders, and
cftion; that is, the flesh of beasts which are
not bled to death and which by decomposition  set  up a  ferment    called   septic
poison kill, by being eaten by a .wolf, dog,
oi a buzzard, would ere this time be  difficult to find, though both will poison and
kjll by inoculation. So will the decomposed
body ot a man kill a doctor in  the  act  of
dissecting if he cuts a finger.    .-' .  , ',. •-
ffeher th| Professor or Mrrf, Tomlinson,
IJyave'furgotten 'whichj says that railroad
cars.'and wagons used in the transport of
dead cholera hogs are fruitful vehicles for
the transportation of the disease; for peace
stke.and to avoid argument, it is admitted,
but I must insist that the wagons and cars
d£> not thrust the^disease down  the  hogs
throats and  into   the  alimentary  canal.
Horses feet and buzzards they say also infect, but I deny that they run down their
throats in streams and flow on with their
jpoisan for brevity sake. The greatest troub-
blewith those scientific enthusiasts s,that
ihey take the will for the deed, and the ef-
"tsct for the cause,   and  become  so confounded, that they lose sight of the right
Ajlbject, and instead of. investigating  the
j£rue source of  the  disease,  they  set  to
iv/>rk io investigate its transmission,  and
Hi infection from sources in which the disease is already established; but how, tbey
know nothing about.   There,- gentlemen,
Is the way your fertile minds are turned
ill the wrong direction,
flask where, and from what source of infection has the first hog,  or  lot of  hogs
ftiuhd the infection.   Perhaps that is not
a.scientific way to put it, I  mill therefore
enquire What influence upon the system
of tho first hog,   or  lot  of  hogs  infected
tliern with cholera.   That  is the   starting
point; that is the first consideration which
others have been leaving  untouched, the
only one they should have 'displayed their
talent and skill upon, before there were
any hog graveyards for professors to stum-
over, or exume.   No rendering tanks, railroad cars, or wagons hauling  the  disease
ifbout; horses feet could not have carried it,
the harmless streams had  rippled  within
their banks Act  carrying  destruction  to
hogs upon their bosoms.   Then  the  buz-
xjrds had been innocent lookers on, never
supposing that such fruitful harvests were
near at hand, and that they would have it
ia their power to sow the seed broadcast
to raise their supply of carrion.   Will Mr.
Tomlinson and his professor just tell us
where the disease started and perpetuated,
and we will attend to the  infection,  and
inoculation by transit, do these books, Mr.
Tomlinson guessed at, inform us?   If not,
the  commissioner of  agriculture  should
start at the right point to in vestigate.aud inform us lesser lfghts where it commenced,
andsee if the first cause isstill the prevailing
oue, not transportation*   I happen to be a
pr>fessor myself iu a   small   way,   and  I
shall soon give my views fully through
the Farmer.   I tiud another absurd ty in
the article referred to, viz: that the disease
had been inoculated into tho systems of
caitie, and sheep, and transmitted from
them to hogs in a   virulent  form,   which
proved  fatal "ta  the  hogs.    Well,  that
knocks all the virtue  totally  out  of   Dr.
Jenner's vaccine scheme.   Oood  enough
for the old fellow; he should havo been as
smart as our present professors.   I much
doubt the truth of the assertion  however.
At the above rate one would expect that
the entire hog  creation would be  before
now exterminated  from the earth or run
down hill into the sea for  fear of cholera,
butthe other gentleman belonging to the
club, Sir. Doublett comes to the rescue and
gives us a  remedy by which we can save
our bacon.   He says it can be  fenced^ in;
An Experiment in Feeding.
Swine, as well as the finer animals, do
far better if wisely and regularly fed, than
if served in the usual careless and wholesale way. In illustration of this, note the
following experiment in feeding, made., by
a California farmer: On the first of December, 1880, he penned fourteen shoats,
having a combined weight of 1190 pounds.
During the three months following he fed
them 1497 pounds of barley, boiled whole.
In addition to this, he gave them the
skimmed milk from four cows and the
house slops; and in connection with the
feed about four poundsof charcoal a week.
At the end of three months, there was a
gain of 1790 pounds. The fact is not stated, but the natural inference is that the
feed was judiciously administered, as well
as carefully prepared, or so satisfactory results could hardly have been accomplished.—Examiner.
^jetaitiartjo
This department is edited oy Or. John N. Navih,
Veterinary Surgeon, anthor of Navin"s Explanatory
Btock Doctor.
Roles, to be observed by those expecting oorrect answers.:
1. State the rate of pulse.
2. The breathing.
3. The standing attitude.
4. Appearance of hair.
5. If cough, and secretion from nose, whether
glands between the jaw* can be felt, and how near
the bone.
6. If breathing le rapid, accompanied by rattle or
rushing sound, no time most be lost in blistering
throat, and using tincture of aconite loot and tincture of belladonna 20 drops on tonrne alternately
every two hours, lor time is too short lor an answer.
7. Parties desiring answers by mail most Inclose a
stamp.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a mare that has the farcy. She
has sores on t he rump; some matter in
them; has had it for a month or more.
What shall I do for a cure? Hearty other
wise. Have used fish brine; think it has
heplf d. T. B. W.
The case is too long for a newspaper article. Send $3 50 to Dr. Navin for a package of medicine, and his instructions for
using.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I wish to inquire how to treat or what
to do do for a mare that has a swelled biig
and along under the belly. The mare is
with foat. W. J.
Prick the swelling with a narrow sharp
penknife blade in twenty or more places,
Set your thumb tight against the blade
half an inch from the point. Feed her
the powders so often prescribed in the
Farmer.
Editors Indiana Farmer*
What is the matter with my three or
four months old shoats? They eat and
look well, but a few of them sniffle and
wheeze continually, and are sore around
the snout; can it be on account ofthe ring
in the nose? Not more than 10 per cent,
have been affected, aud none have died.
P. S» T.
They either have cold, or catarrh, or may
take inflammation from rings. If soro,paint
with iodine, and have them snuff persulphate of iron.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a colt that when it drinks, a portion of the water returns through the nose;
it does not swallow with much effort; the
longer it drinks, the stream thiough the
nose increases, until it is obliged to raise
tho head; pulse and breath all rijjlit; hair
looks well. R.L.I.
Blister its throat, also behind the jaws
toward its ears, and between the jaws
once daily for several days. Rub in with
the hand. Use the fly blister bo often
giveu iu the Farmer,
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have two colts which I noticed more
than a week figo wore looping flesh, but
did not kupw the reason at that timo, antJ
havo sinco discovered that one of them
has a swelling between the jaws larger
than a man's list, but now has broken,and
is dripping bloody matter. The swelling
was very hard before it broke. The other
is swelled about as largo as a hen's egg.
The oue that has not brcken, has a froo
discharge at the nose; but tho other docs
not run any; both of them cough cousid-
ablo. A. W. T.
The best you can do is to blister them
over the swelling and the parotid glands
up toward the ears.   They havo strangles.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a mule that has what wo call
cracked heel. Stands on the front of the
foot. T. J. K.
Take gum myrrh, one ounce; gum camphor, one ounce; and spirits of turpentine,
one ounce; in a quinine bottle or other
wide neck bottle, mix and pour intoit one
ounce of sulphuric acid; pour in slow, a
little at a time, else it may explode; keep
your eyes from over it, Mix in one pint
of lard and anoint tho heel onco daily
before using. Each time wash with Castile soap and warm water. Rub with a
cloth till fully dry, then apply.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a horse that is afflicted in his right
hind foot; about eight days ago he got
lame and upon examining his foot with
the knife, there was a small amount of
yellow water discharged from it, but soon
dried up; his pastern joint began to swell
and extended on up his leg. I commenced
using tincture of arnica and reduced the
swelling above, but it continued to swell
next the hoof and in the pastern.
There is a yellow gummy substance discharging all round the bottom of the hoof;
is dry and hard and very hot; his foot '
gives him great pain; he has a gOodjipjie-,
tite, and-is-regtrftsr in his brrvcely.'TIavcnV
done anything but poultice with some
mild poultices. , R. C. H.
Your horse I suppose, hasa quittor. Open
the bruised part of the sole by paring
down to the sensitive sole, making around
opening one inch in diameter, keep open.
No poultice is needed; if proud flesh appears, cauterize with lunar caustic, or poiir
in muriatic acid. Blister the parts above
the coronary once daily.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a mule that was bit by a snake
last July, in one of its fore legs; its leg
swelled as large again as it ought to be and
discharged pus in not less than about fifty places. I gave it ammonia and common
salts Internally, and washed it with carbolic acid. It all healed up, but the leg is
too large; it does not lame it, but it will
hurt the sale of it vory much. Will working him hurt him? 1 have given ammonia, diluted im water, aud that would reduce
the swelling some. C. H.
I have been trying for several years to
admonish owners of stock against neglecting to attend to sprains, hurtsaud wounds,
while there is a fair chance of cure, aud
have used unmlstakeable language, but
the Farmer has been too mild, in failing
to give my earnest words, therefore scarcely a week passes but I receive letters demanding remedies for incurable cases,
made so by neglect of owners. Just think
of reducing chronic enlargements of one
and two years standing. My answer to
you now is, nothing can be done for your
mule. You can try blistering if you so
desire. If you had inclosed a stamp, I should
have answered by letter. I shall never
answer a private inquiry unless accompanied by a postage stamp.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
A short time since, my colt's leg commenced getting sore. It commenced at
the pasteru joint, heing swelled and feverish. 1 procured a bottle of McLean's liniment and applied it. The soreness aud
swelling kept running on up and is now
up to the thigh. The fever isall gone but
the swelling and soreness is worse. It eats
hearty and looks well. I cannot find any
bruise on its leg. Aoent.
If no' fever exists, blister one side of the
limb about half round, from upper to
lower parts of the tumor, and let McLean's
and all other liniments alone. Rub in
with the hand for several days, say ten;
then grease, and if not well treat the other
side the same. Use fly blister. See prior
numbers of the Farmer.
State Fish Commission.
K-ditora Indiana Farmer:
I was pleased to Bee the valuable article
of C. O. Lanham in your issue of the 18th
on protecting and propagating fish. If
his remarks in regard to the enforcement
of the laws, the limitation of the fishing
season, and the suppression of the use of
the hook as well as illegal means of capture were generally read and carried out,
the result would be as he says "that our
lakes and streams would be full of the finest fish there are, and at the command of
any person who desired to take them."
Such sentiments sown broad cast and
carrie 1 out would be worth a fish commission with an endowment of one hundred
thousand dollars.
I des-ire to respond to one or two points
by way of explanation to those who have
net road or heard me express my views as
to the course I should piutue as commissioner of fisheries for the State.
1. The hatcheries of which he speaks
are contemplated—but necessarily iu the
future. An annual appropriation of one
thousand dollats with which to do much
else, presented by law, will not permit a
serious thought of a hatchery yet.
2. As to devoting myself to carp exclusively—apparently it is true to-day, but in
the proper season, there will be distributed
one hundred fold more fry of other kinds
than of carp, and no interest be neglected.
My opinion however is that until the public sentiment and the practices of many
change, the carp will exceed all others in
usefulness. Such is the testimony of
thousands who have tried them.
C. FX.KTOJUKK, comujlsrioner.
Spencer.
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