INDIANA   FARMER.
Devotad to Agriculture, Horticultare, Mechanics and the Useful Arts.
I). P. nollowny,)
,r. T. Dennis,   > Editors.
K. T. Reed,     )
RICHMOND. IND.. -HOT. 1.18B3.
Ilouowty & Co., Pablblters.
[Vol. 3.........No. 3.]
Table of'Contents.
Pages 34 to 45, inclusive—Address before the Indiana
State Agricultural   Society, by Horace
,   Greeley.   .
"    415,48— EitVorials.—-Next State  Fair, State Fair
Premiums, Farmers must Read.
"   4G.—Forest Trees of America,  Catalpa,- Sale of
Mules.
"   47.4S—County  Fairs.-—Jackson,   Montgomery,
Dearborn, Washington, and Knox.
"  48.—Currant Bushes.
Remedy for Croup.—We clip the following
from the Danville Advertiser:
My wife and I were aroused about two o'clock
this morning, by the struggles of our little boy,
about three years old,"who was laboring under
a violent attack of croup. His breathing was
so difficult as to arouse persons who were sleeping in a room beyond the hall. I hastily folded
a towel, dipped it in cold water, and applied it
to his throat and breast; I then folded a sheet
to the proper size, wet it and rolled him up in
it, and wrapt a blanket over that. He went to
sleep in three minutes, and continued to sleep
sweetly until 5 o'clock, when he got up, was
dressed and went to play, in three hours after the
attack, and we were rejoiced at the curative
powers of cold water.
Richard Mendenhall.
Plainfield, Ind., 8th month, 12th.
Flavoring for Mince Pies.—The juice of
the frost or fox grapes boiled with a small proportion of sugar, scummed and bottled for winter use, is said to fully equal wine for flavoring
mince pies, while the crab apple is thought to
surpass the choicest kinds of fruit for this favorite of epicures.— Ohio Cultivator.
How to cook Sweet Potatoes.—Boil two
large sweet potatoes, rub them through a seive,
then add a piece of butter the size of an egg,
a little salt, one pint of buttermilk, a teacup of
sugar, a table-spoonful of saleratus, dissolved
in warm water. Bake in an earthen? dish.—
Serve up cold with cream.
To trt opt Beeswax.—Put the comb into a
colander, or a tin pan with the bottom punched
full of small holes, and place it in a . warm
oven over another pan partly filled with water.
The wax will melt and drop into the water below, perfectly clear. •        -
gsgp" It is said in the Ohio Cultivator/that a
bucket or two of water, given a horse-to drink
just before riding him, takes from him all disposition for capering, and renders him perfectly
ssdate.   , . -.-(■■; I •■'■■■i--^:
ISasP'Tho Orange crop in southern Louisiana,
it is stated, will be remarkably fine this season.
The planters are asking $1€@25 a thousand..
New Corn Cbitsher.—Thomas Durden, of
Montgomery, Ala., has taken measures to secure a patent for a new corn crusher, which is
exceedingly well adapted for cracking and
crushing corn in the ear, also various other vegetables. -The hopper for the reception of the
corn is peculiar; it receives the ears of corn by
various small openings; they pass down and
are first cut by a revolving S shaped knife on a
vertical spindle, and after that they pass down
and are crushed between grooves and projections on the inner face of the machine. The
grinding parts are of cast iron, the inside of the
case being a hollow cone, its bottom where it
discharges being the apex, and the grinding
spindle or muller acting with its outer on the
inner surface ofthe case. The apparatus is
simple and good.—Scientific American.
—— ; HI —■  III	
. Corn Harvester.—The New York Herald
in enumerating various artieles on exhibition in
the Crystal Palace, has the following:. -. , ,
Reams' patent corn harvester is another implement of .agricultural life, which will be.interesting to farmers. This machine is very simple in its construction, andpurports to cut, with
the labos of one horse and a boy, from sixteen
to twenty "acres of corn per day, and lay it in
bundles of from two to ten hills, as desired.
An ingenious part of this.machine, is an appliance called a dropper, by which the boy riding
on the back of the horse can drop the bundles
of corn at suitable distances"in the furrow, all*
ready for shocking. The cost of this machine
is reasonable, ranging from fifteen to twenty
dollars. The speed of this machine is very desirable, as farmers consider jt the best tune to>
cut corn when the dev? is on the stalks, or immediately after a rain. In dry times the corn
is brittle arid difficult to cut. If this b able.to
accomplish that for which it is recommended, it
must be a great advantage to every farmer to
possess it.      .     ^ :, ,.;...; c
Blue Rose.—The horticulturalists of "Paris,
says a correspondent of the New York Express,
have succeeeed by artificial crossings, in obtaining a natural rose of blue color, which is the
fourth color obtained by artificial means—that
and the yellow or tea rose, the black or purple
rose, and striped rose, being all inventions, and
the result of skillful, scientific gardening.,.;
Easy Washing.—Make suds as usual, then
add a teaspoonful of Spirits turpentine to.each
bucket of water, stir it up, put in the clothes,
and let them soak an hour and a half, and then.
boil them as usual. Unless very''dirtyy'they
will need no rubbing, the turpentine' having the-
effect to loosen thedirti/■•''-. _   n>*'}■*',    '