VOL. XXII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY,   FEB. 12,1887.
NO. 7
JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS.
Fifth Aunnal Convention.
Tuesday, the 1st Inst., the Jersey Cattle
Breeders of Indiana met ln annual convention at the rooms of the State Board of
Agriculture ln this city. In the absence
of President Amos Garretson, of Pendleton, Ellsha Howland, this city, occupied
the chair. Owing to a misunderstanding
as to the time of meeting there was but a
limited attendance and the time of the
Association was devoted entirely to the
consideration of business items, there being no addresses.
The report of the treasurer, W. T. Fen-
ton, Bhowed a balance of {13 on hand.
Membership fees have paid expenses, ao
far, and have purchased for the Association 18 velumesof the A. J. C. C. Register.
Secretary T. A. Lloyd, this city, presented a letter he had received from F.
Bronson,presldent of the American Jersey
Cattle Club, urging npon this Association
the neceisity of securing legislation that
will preserve the purity of records, and
that will pnnlsh any one fraudulently obtaining registry for any animal, or giving
In a pedigree known to be incorrect. At
a recant meeting the A. J. C. C. directors
appointed local committees for the different States, that for Indiana being Chas. B
Stuart and Adams Karl, Lafayette, and
Simuel McKeen,Terre Haute. The legislation proposed is, of course, not for the
benefit of Jersey breeders alone.but for all
breeders of recorded stock. The matter
waa referred to Representative Sid Conger,
a member of the present Legislature, who
has in charge a bill of this character that
meets the approbation of the Association,
and Messrs. Howland, Jenkins and Lloyd
were appointed a committee to lobby for
the measure.
The Live Stock Sanitary Commission
bill, which was described in the Farmer
last week, was indorsed by the Jersey
men, and the committee mentioned above
was instructed to give it their support.
OFFICERS.
Officers for the Association were chosen
as follows:
President—Judge J. D. Conner,Wabash.
Vice-president—J. H, Jenkins, Indianapolis.
Board of Directors: Hold-over members
—A. E. Taylor, Columbns; Sylvester
Johnson, Irvington; H. M. Banm, Frankfort. Members elected (for two years)—J.
W. Sllger, Richmond; H. H. Wheatcraft,
Southport; Peter Raab, Indianapolis; C.
C. Crockett, Richmond.
Treasurer—W. J. Hasselman, Indianapolis.
Secretary—T. A. Lloyd, Indianapolis.
The president, secretary and treasurer
were appointed a committee to prepare a
program for next year's meeting, with instructions to make arrangements for a
banquet. - The next meeting will convene Monday, Jan. 23,1888, at 2 o'olock
p. m. Tbe banquet will be spread Monday night,  ana a morning session,  on
the 24th, will close the proceedings.
A water spout visited Chestnut Mound,
ten miles above Carthage, Tenn., and
almost ruined that section of country.
OHIO YALLEY CATTLE GROWERS.
Tbe Organization Effected nt Cincinnati
Last Week.
According to announcement the live
stock breeders of the Ohio Valley met at
Cincinnati last week and organized the
association. Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia participated. Judge T. C.
Jones was called to the chair, and John B.
Conner, of the Indiana Farmer, T. D.
Harman, of the National Stockman, Pittsburg, Pa., and W. E. Bean, of the Kentucky Shorthorn Journal were elected secretaries in the preliminary organization.
Judge Jones ably presented the reasons
why such an association should be formed.
He stated that it would more nearly rep-
resent the skilled and intelligent breeders
of stock In the greet breeding States of
the Central West. The meat and wool
made in the Ohio Valley is the best in the
world, b-Cwsethe brpedlngts the most
Intelligent, and the grazing and feeding
the best.
Messrs. C. Hills, of Ohio; D. A. Givens,
of Ky.; John B. Conner, of Indiana, and
J. L. Henderson, of Pa., were appointed a
committee to report a plan of organization. The committee subsequently reported the following:
CONSTITUTION.
1. This organtz ition shall be known as
the Ohio Valley Cattle Growers' Aasoci-
Uon.
2 Its objects shall be to promote <•>
operation among the breeders of cattle,
sheep and sjvine ln all matters of common
interest, and among other things to provide for holding ;annual exbiuitsof the
fat stock, dairy cattle, dairy products and
wool, within this valley, which embraces
the States of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
3. Officers: At the annual meeting of
the Association, 18 directors shall De elected, who shall hold their offices for the
term of one year or until their successors
are elected. The members of this board
shall be nominated to tbe convention for
election annually by the members of the
Association presents-from each of the
States within this district. To this board
shall be intrusted the general management of the affairs of the Association.
They shall elect from theirnumber a president and vice-president, and shall appoint a treasurer and secretary, who shall
held their offices for one year, or until
their successors shall be appointed. They
shall have power to fill vacancies In their
own numbera.
4. At each annual m, iting after the
election of the new board, they shall determine the time and place for holding the
next annual meeting, and for holding tbe
fat stock, dairy products, and wool exhibit.
' 5. Membership: All persons interested
ln the obj -.cts herein stated are eligible to
membership in thia Association. The
membership fee shall be ?-, and the annual dues $1. These fees are to defray the
necessary expenses of the Association and
the publication of its proceedings, and
other matters of general interest to the
members.
6. This constitution may be altered at
any regular annual meeting of the Association by a vote of two-thirds of the
members present, after such amendment
shall have been favorably reported by a
committee.
The plan of organ!* ition was adopted,
and the meeting  elected the following
well-known gentlemen as the
board of directors.
Indiana—Allen M. Fletcher, Indianapo
lis; Adams Earl, Lafayette, and Robert
Mitchell, Princeton.
Ohio—Jesse Hagler, Washington, C. H.j
C. H.lls,Ddlaware,and H. H.Clough,Elyrla.
Kentucky—J. W. Furgeson, Paris; Col.
T. S. Moberly, Richmond, and D. A. Givens, Cynthlana.
Pennsylvania—J. LoMoyne, Washington; F. Y. Klopper, Greensburg, and W.
T. Lints, Waynesburg,
Wost Virginia—Jos. VanMeter, Moore-
field; J. W. Stelnbergen, Gallipolls, (O.)
and J. M. Kirk.
Tennessee—Col. M. S. Cockrell, Nashville; Ma j Campbell Brown, Spring Hill,
and W. S. Shields, Bean Station.
The board of directors were requested to
meet at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, February 10.h at 2 p. tn., to organise, elect
their president and vice president, and to
appoint a secretary and treasurer, ln accordance with the constitution. They
will also adopt such rules as they deem
best for the Association, and determine
the time and place for holding tho fat
stocK show, and the next annual meeting.
The Association unanimously adopted
the following resolution urging Congress
to pass the pending bill to suppress pleuropneumonia ln this country:
Resolved, That it Is the sense of the Oblo
Valley Cattle Growers' Association that
our Congressmen should pass without delay the pending pleuro-pneumonia bill,
with the view of extinguishing this terrible cattle scourge, which is paralyzing
the great interests of all the States.
The members of the Association visited
the stockyards to Bee the facilities for
handling lire stock, and the Exposition
Building, which isoflsred for the fat stock
show, and were well pleased with both.
They alao went on 'Change and met the
Board oi Trade, whioh heartily welcomed
the movement. Many of the solid men
of Cincinnati showed a lively interest in
the organlzition, and will offer substantial
inducements for holding the fat stock
show in that city. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Bald of the movement:
1MI*0RTANCE OF THK MOVEMENT.
"Heretofore Chicago has absorbed the
organized, live stock interests of the West
and Northwest. But two factors have entered largely into the plans of the organization effected here yesterday: 1. The recent serious outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia
at Chicago, likely to prevail there for a
long time to come; and, 2, the great ranch
Interests have overshadowed all others in
the Chicago organization. The deadly
contagious disease, eo widespread there
among tbe cattle, and the seeming incapability of the authorities to eradicate it, has
alienated the better class of, fine stock
breeders. Furthermore, the fine stock
breeders are tired of the domination
of the ranchmen. The Chicago Association is nearly or quite purely representative of the trade or commercial-phase of
the live Btock interest, whereas the purpose in the Ohio Valley Association is to
promote the science of breeding and managing higher grades of stock. The ranches
and plains of tho West and Southwest
have poured upon the market second and
third rate beef, made wholly by the crude
wild grasses of those regions. These Central Western States are the home of the
nutritious blue grass, exceeding in pro
ductlveness all other sections of the world,
and are in  the heart of  the  great grain-
producing sections as well. The grade of
beef produced here Is the best, and commands higher prices than that of the
plains and ranch, because the cattle are
highor grades, and the beef Is made by
finer grasses and with grain.
"Another important fact has stimulated
this movement. The cattle growers have
for some years felt that there was such a
concentration of slaughtering and packing
Interests at Chicago as well-nigh dictated
prices of the product, and out of thia
movement It la hoped that competition
will be built up here. To give impetus to
this it is an important part of the Association to organize and hold annual fat stock
shows In the Oilo Valley, to which shall
come representatives of the finest and best
breeds of live stock of all kinds. Such an
association, divorced thus from the cruder
breeds and methods of the other associations, will be truly representative of not
only the highest type of live stock breeding, but also of the finest beef produced ln
the world."
Written for the Indiana Farmer,
A Suggestion for Legislative Aotlon
BY W. H. LAURENCE.
1 cannot now call to mind the name of a
Horticultural or Agricultural paper that I
am a subscriber to, that does not in almost
overy issue warn its readers against all
sorts of traveling and strange agents who
want the signature of the laboring man in
part payment for something they have
purchased of these olly-tongued gentry,
yet, with all of this advice, given free each
week, somo dally paper records the fact
that: "the agent took my receipt because
hia c jmpany required him to do so, and lt
turned out to be a note in bank for—dollars." Thovio.in. hires a lawyer (who at
the time knows that he cannot get away
from his signature, though it was fraudulently obtained) and adds more cost, and
at last pays the principal with attorneys
fees and cjurt costs.
The legislature is now in session and it
does seem that 11 a bill was drawn up that
would speedily right this legal wrong, the
members thereof would not hesitate for a
moment to vote for it when it was put on
Its final passage. Let It be worded so that
lf the person whose name is attached to
the note proves that his signature has been
fraudulently obtained he is forever released from its payment. Add another
clause, that if the note buyer purchases a
note from a stranger that has in any way,
shape, or form, a fraudulent look on ita
face, he does It at his own risk. In the
meantime (whether, a law is passed or
not) remember that your name has a
value attached to it, and, under any and
all circumstances flatly refuse to furnish
your autograph to a stranger, no matter
how oily his tongue may be.
An Immense Ice-gorge has formed in the
Delaware river, near Shawnee, Pa., above
the Delaware water gap. The ice is piled
up to a hight of fifty feet, and the water
has been forced out of its natural course
and has overflowed the lowlands. Dwelling houses are nearly submerged. Should
there be a sudden thaw, the destruction of
property throughout the valley wonld be
appalling. <