VOL. XXII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MARCH 12,1887.
NO 11
How to Make a Good Roller.
Editors Indiana Farmer: .
Below I send a description of my "famous" roller, viz : Cut three logs 18 inches
in diameter 3 feet 2 or 4 inches leng;
around eaoh make a frame. Hat two rollers
end to end, with a space of about 7 or 8
inches between them; make your tongue
so high that the piece across the end (b)
will be about 8 inches longer than it is
from the middle of one frame to the middle of the other; about 4 inches from each
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<>lney has secured the Illinois State fair
for the next two years.
The pineapple crop in Florida this year
will be the largest ever known.
The beggars of Rome, it is estimated receive 92,000,000 a year,and five hundred are
said to be worth from $15,000 to $25,000
each.
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end of said'oross piece bore a % inch hole,
and with the same bit, bore in the center
of each frame, both front and back. Now
when the tongue is raised level with the
frames, the holes through the cross piece
in the end of tongue will correspond with
those in the centers of the two frames,
front; slip a washer about an inch in
thickness between the frames and said
cross  piece, and bolt  them with  ;■   Inch
There have been but five snow storms in
San Francisco, Cal, during the past forty
years.
An eighteen-inoh sheet of solid lead ore
has been discovered near the surface al
Warren 111.
The value of the cotton goods produced
throughout  the world  is   estimated   at
$ I. 750,000,000.
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bolts. Now make a bar (c) the same length
of the cross piece on the end of the.tongue,
bore a % Inch hole in each end, same distance apart as in cross piece (b) and it will
correspond with the holes in the center of
the two frames, back; slip an inch washer
between said bar and said frames and bolt
with % incb/bolt. Now you have a roller
to roll corn, or a dead furrow, or a ridge,
only the tongue is "limber" or weak. To
remedy this, fashion a piece something
like the half of a wagon hound, fasten that
part that would be front in hounds, just
behind the doubletrees on the tongue, (a)
Fig. 2. It will then arch or raise above
the rollers, and should extend 20 inches or
2 feet hack or the bar that connects the
two frames back; fasten a support from
said bar up to said hound, place a seat on
stld hound where the weight of the driver
will balance the tongue, and you have a
roller that will roll the two insides of a
ditch, or the outsldes of a ridge. Fasten
the third roller by a coupling pole 20
Inches or 2 feet long to the middle of the
bar that connects the 2 front rollers together, and it will roll the space left between the 2 front ones.
R«i- Geo. E. Brown.
Only 80 oents for the Farmer to end of
the year.
FIG.. 2.
Of the .500 Chinese now living In Philadelphia about one-quarter attend Christian
Sunday-schools.
The largest library in the world is the
Imperial at Paris, which contains over
two million volumes.
The new bridge at Cincinnati will oon
sist of three spans of 500 feet each, and will
contain 10,000 tons of iron and steel.
An American exhibition of American
products suitable for dermany will be
held at Mannheim, Germany, next July.
An explosion of gas occurred at the
Sheridan furnace, Heading, Pa,, Friday
night, and live men were terribly burned
about the face and bodies by molton Iron.
Charles J. Peterson, author and publisher, and proprietor of Peterson's Lady's
National Magazine, died suddenly at his
residence, in Philadelphia last Saturday,
aged Sti years.
A project is on foot for the erection of
a new American college in R mie. The
structure which it is proposed to build will
have a church attached for the benefit of
American visitors.
Wilmington, Vt., is nearly in the center
of the largest maple sugar-making section
in the ;world.   The largest  maker there
ships 10,000 gallons of sirup yearly, and
the business is growing fast.
General Cassius M. Clay, who is a candidate for the republican nomination for
governor of Kentucky, claims that he is
treated fairly by neither democrats nor
republicans, and has withdrawn all appointments for speaking.
A dispatch from Brussels says that 50
dead bodies, all terribly burned, have been
brought to the surface at the Quaregnon
colliery,in which an explosion of fire-damp
occurred. The King has sent the sum of
|2,000 to be distributed among the families of the victims.
General I'oale, of Washington, is proprietor of a cattle ranch, embracing 250,000
acres, eighty miles north of Los Angeles,
Cal, upen which are 40,000 head of cattle
and horses. He has a farm of several hundred acres eight miles from Washington,
where he has a stud of blooded stock He
also possesses a large estate In Chester, Pa.
A rusty Iron wedge with the initials
"A. L." rudely stamped upon it was recently found in an ancient house, near
Old Salem. Tt has been recognized by former companions of Abe Lincoln as tbe famous wedge which he used in splitting rails
in that vicinity. The lnltals were made
by Lincoln himself in the presence of J.
t^ Spears, now a resident of Talula.
^tatc JlewSe
Martin Taylor,a hotel-keeper of Hebron,
died of measles at the age of 51.
Mrs. Pa-rick Young, near Rockporl,was
fatally burned by her clothing taking lire
from a grate.
Diphtheria Is prevalent among children
in tbe locality a Tew miles southeast of
Corydon, and a number of deaths have occurred.
Mrs. Anne B. Faunce, a distant relative
of < >ueen Victoria, and one of the oldest
residents of Wabash, died of ulceration of
the liver aged 81.
A business man in Rushville, heretofore
presumed to be fairly intelligent and
wide-awake, contributed $2,050 to gold-
brick swindlers in Hamilton, O., last
week.
Representative Patton.of Sullivan oounty, has been appointed warden of the
southern peuitentiary, in place of ".lack"
Howard resigned. Mr. P. though a lawyer is a practical farmer, and a fair honorable man.
A barn on the farm of Nelson Strader,
near Walesboro,was burned Tuesday night
together with several hundred bushels of
corn, six tons of hay, a farm wagon, two
buggies, harness and a wheat drill that
were in tho building.
Dr. ('has. A Lei ter, died at his residence
at Monroeville Tuesday last. During the
small pox scourge of 1881, he was alone in
his heroic efforts, in the northern part of
the State in caring for the sick aud assisting in the burial of the dead.
Two free-gravel roads will be built in
Morgan county this season—the Martinsville & Cope gravel road and the Marion
n.v Morgan County-line gravel road. The
Martinsville, Eminence & Hall gravel
road will also probably be built.
In Shelby township, Tippecanoe county,
living in a hole in the side hill is John
Lawrence, an aged Frenchman, who for
many years has lived the life of a hermit.
He subsists entirely upon boiled field corn,
and seems to want nothing to do with
mankind.
Joseph W. Bingham, a newspaper man
of this city, committed suicide on the
morning of the 5th. lie had been suffering seriously for a long time from sleeplessness and nervousness, and was no doubt
insane at the time of committing the deed.
He was the son of Hon. J. J. Bingham.
The fine imported stallion purchased
last fall by Mr. Fayette Lawrence, of
Utica township Clark county, and kept on
his farm near Watson,attacked his keeper,
James Drown, and came near killing him.
He was found in the stall under the animal's feet and in sn unconscious condition.
United States customs officers appeared
ln Ligonier and at once proceeded to tbe
farm of Scott Galloway, a few miles south
of town, where they confiscated seven
head of horse**, just imported from Cau-
ada without having tho requisite duties
paid thereon. The horses are valued at
$15,000
Recently two fatal cases of lock jaw
have occurred near Brazil, Otis Blair,'aged
18 years, got his hand mashed between
car-bumpers, but neglected to havt* it
amputated In time. L. O Rector, aged 15
years,suffered the Iobh of a foot under the
cars some days ago. Ho died on Saturday
from lock-jaw.
Mrs. Magdalen Boggs is the oldest person in Wayne county, she having been
born at Eli/.abethtown, Lancaster oounty,
Pennsylvania, Dec. 178.°.. She appears hale
and hearty, and looks substantial enough
for several years of life yet, being able to
perform a great deal of work in patching
quilts, knitting, etc., and without the aid
of glasses.
Bridget Haye's barn at Dnnkirk,together
with all its contents, consisting of two
horses, one mule, about 10 tons of hay, 500
bushels of corn, machinery and farming
utensils, burned Thursday. (>a the same
day a barn owned by August Gerlach, and
located near Crown Point school house,
Jefferson county, was burned. Four
horses and several head of cattle perished,
also a barn belonging to Adam Gurlock,
living five miles from Madison, was
burned. Four horses, two sheep and a
calf were burned to death, besides a lot of
hay, oorn and other grain.
Dates of Fairs.
New Ross Union, T. I). Hostetter, secretary, New Ross, Ind., Aug. 8 to 1.3.
Parke County Agricultural Society, W.
H. Elson, secretary, Rockvllle, Ind,, Aug.
15 to 20.
(Uiuton County Agricultural Society, M.
H. Belknap, secretary, (Kilmore, Ind.,)
Frankfort, Ind., Aug. 22 to 27.
Tippecanoe County Agricultural Society, Mortimer Levering, secretary, Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 29 to Sept. 3.
Vigo County Agricultural Sooiety, C. C.
Oakey, secretary, Terre Haute, Ind., Aug.
29 to Sept. 2,