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]S1 Vol. IX. OT3IANAP0LIS, INDIANA, JULY 18, 1874. No. 28. LiYG Stock. A LORD OF THE SOIL. GEORGE* GRANT, PROPRIETOR OF THE VICTORIA COLONY, KANSAS. . Mr. George Grant, tlie proprietor of the •famous Victoria Colon}'' in Kansas, spent Saturday in the city. Mr. Grant is a Scotch gentleman, who acquired a large "fortune as a silk merchant in London, and who, with an enterprise and energy as unflagging as that of an ambitious youth who has a fortune still to make, comes over here with his fifty years' experience and ample fortune, which he liberally invests in Kansas and in tho improvement of stock. He is a thorough believer in improvement by judicious crossing, and his example is already being felt by the spirit of emulation engendered among stock-raisers to improve the quality of .their stock. He has just returned from Chicago, where he went to meet stock coming from Canada. He left two bulls, a Booth and Bates, both representatives of a pure-blooded stock, with Hon. John Mix, of Kankakee, the great cattle-breeder of Illinois. This stock will come through St. Louis for Victoria in a couple of weeks. They are represented by Mr. Grant to be the finest of their strain. Mr. Grant has now at his colony ten bulls, six Short-horns and four Angus pole bulls. The latter he has great confidence in crossing with Cherokee cows, as the majority of calves from these bulls are like their sires. He estimates that not more than five out of forty are like the cows. Mr. Grant has 7,000 merino ewes which he intends to cross with sheep just bought in Colorado. The cross will be with the long- wool imported rams, such as pure Lin- colns, the Cotswold and Oxford downs. He will prove, notwithstanding the prevailing opinions_ to the contrary among sheep-breeders in this country, that the merinos will cross with the imported long- wools, and he ventures the opinion that the result will be successful by putting 6,000 to 7,000 of that breed with 3,000 of the graded merinoes and pure merino, Spanish tups. He is building a sheep cor- Tal, covering twenty-one acres, arranged in four divisions, with, gates to go out, so as not to mix during the winter, when the sheep will be fed on corn and hay. About two miles south of the sheep corral he is also building a cattle corral, covering about the same area. Mr. Grant's land continues to be rapidly taken up by Scotch, English and American, parties. About twenty square miles have bean already taken up by NewYorkers, among whom are Mr. Gunth- er.nephew of the Mayor, Mr. Shields and Messrs. Clarke, Fisk, Flagg, and others. Mr. Moller, owner ofthe largest sugar refiner}7 in New York, has lately come out with his wife and daughter, and taken up three square miles along Big Creek river. An English gentleman, Mr. Ratcliff, of London, who left there three days ago, has purchased three square mile for himself, and four square miles for two of his friends. They all intend to come out with their families next spring, and will build handsome residences. This colony differs in every respect from other colonies founded in the United States, most of the settlers being persons of fair fortunes, who are seeking a healthy climate and country life. Mr. Grant will go back for a few days to to collect sheep iu Colorado. About the 20th of July he will return here and go to Kentucky, to be present at the stock sale on the 22d, of Alexander, the great Shorthorn breeder. He then goes to East and West Virginia, where he has already a thorough-bred stallion and several fine mares. At Victoria he has the finest stallion of the light-draft or Clydesdale-breed in the country.—St. Louis Democrat. • Diseased Swine.—The veteran farmer, Levi Bartlett, of Warner, N. H., writes thus to the Rural New Yorker: In your issue of December 13th, I. L. Stewart, Salisbury, N. C, gives an account of a couple of hogs he had recently killed, in which, to his surprise, he found the meat filled with great numbers of little white specks, or globules, or balls having the appearance somewhat of a white worm. The trouble with Mr. Stewart's swine was that of hog measles. The small pustules or tumors are mostly found in the throat and about the shoulders. In bad cases, the head-quarters are large in proportion to their hind-quarters. Perhaps Mr. S. may have noticed this. In this section, hogs are occasionally slaughtered that upon being opened present precisely the appearance as described by Mr. Stewart. Several years ago, Prof. Simonds, of the Royal Veterinary College, at a weekly meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, England, ?gave a lecture on The Natural History of J Parasites affecting the internal parts of the ^bodies of animals, etc. * In the course of jhis lecture, the professor tells how the tape worm is introduced into the intestines of man, viz:—by eating measly pork. If that is a fact, whoever is so unfortunate as to have measly swine, had better boil them up for soap grease than to salt them down for family use. Tape worms are not a profitable kind of stock to propagate. But to the professor's lecture. After describing several kinds of parasites to which sheep are subject, he said : Next come the Hydatis celluscooe, so called because it lay in the cellular tissues, which collected the muscles together in different parts of the body. It was.the Ilyuaus which produced that peculiar condition in the swine which was known as measly flesh—an affection to which the attention not only of naturalists, physiologists and pathologists but. of the. government,--also,- was-caliea during the Crimean war, because it was found that large quantities of measly pork where being exported to supply our troops, the use_ of which must have resulted in producing tape-worms in the intestines of those who ate it. As measly pork is considered a dangerous kind of food, the probability is that it was not offered for sale in the English market, but was purchased by contractors of pork for the army, and probably at a much lower price than that of healthy swine. It would seem that if the pork was thoroughly boiled, fried_ or broiled, it must give the parasites constituting measly pork their quietus. If not, they must hold on to life with a tenacity that is truly astonishing. Measles in swine, and Trichinae spiralis are entirely different species of parasites infesting porkers. Of the two, I would prefer risking the tapeworm in my intestines rather than having th» muscles, of my body perforated in every direction by the Trichinae spiralis. In either Case, I would suffer extreme hunger before I would eat pork infested with either of the above named parasites even after it had been boiled for two_ hours. Mr. Stewart may.fry some of his pork, and while frying if it causes frequent reports, similar to that ofa pop-gun, ne may then be 3ure his hogs were measly. Horse Morals.—In selecting a horse, or mare for breeding, speed and form are not all the qualities to be looked after. Never breed to a vicious or ill-tempered horse, no matter what maybe his pedigree or antecedents. And reject at once any horse lacking a sprightly intelligence. There are as many degrees of intelligence in a horse as in the human race, and without intelligence a horse is.always sluggish, stupid and awkward in his movements. The thoroughbred Arabian horse has generally that capacity necessary for learning any useful lesson, that all his work and labor for man is a pleasure to the owner and apparently to the horse. We like to see a man proud of a noble horse, but more especially does it fill our heart with delight to see a horse proud of his master. There are clowns among horses, and they are always a vexation to the owner. Some will plod along the road, never looking where they step, and just as likely to step on a stump or in a hole in a bridge as nny other place. But the intelligent horse takes heed to his steps, and if anything happens dangerous to life or limb to himself or his master, his judgment frequently Erevents the accident. And a gentle, kind orse, with a large.development of social and intellectual powers, whiles away many a weary hour of the lonely traveler, or lightens the labor of the long days of the tiller of the soil. In selectmg_ breeders great care should be taken relative to the social moralsof both horse and mare. Like begets like, and in no case more so than that of the horse. A bad and vicious temper in a horse may be checked, but never eradicated, and he will always be unpleasant, dangerous, and in his fretting and fuming will unnecessarily waste his strength. Form and action have claimed the closest scrutiny, and those qualities have been given their full importance, but the social morals of the horse have been lost sight of in the strife for speed and strength. Viciousness is almost invariably transmitted to the progeny, more certainly than color or points, and should be a serious objection to any horse as a good breeder.—Iowa State Register. m Cure for Cholera.—A correspondent at Mulberry Grove sends us what he recommends as the best cure for hog cholera known. The recipe was first published in the Prairie Farmer some years since. The quantity given is sufficient for one hundred hogs, and is mixed with slop enough for a few doses, say a pint of the slop to the hog each time. This is the recipe: Take of sulphur, two pounds; black antimony, one-half pound; arsenic, two ounces. Our correspondent says he has tried the above on a lot of fifty hogs, and cured all that were able to walk to the trough to eat the slop. Prof. J. B. Turner also published the following preventative in the Prairie Farmer in 1*304, which our correspondent says he has seen used with perfect satisfaction : One peck wood ashes, four pounds salt, one pound each of black antimony, coperas and sulphur, one-fourth pound saltpeter. Pulverize and mix, moisten and put in a trough under shed where the hogs can have free access to it.—Greenville (III.) Advocate. A Hen that was a Rooster.—P. A. Cushion, of this county, had a chicken hatched about eighteen months ago that was gray on one side running back to the side, on the opposite side a deep black. It had a very heavy comb, and a large wattle on the black side and small one on the gray, a heavy spur on the left leg and a light one on the right. It laid a dozen or more eggs, set on them, hatched and raised a brood of chickens, as any good lieii would, After.tho chicks were .weaned, it went info the -rooster business—crowed regularly, fought the other roosters, got it a number of wives and proceeded to assist them in their domestic affairs, as a_ good rooster should. By and by—that is, a week or two ago—it laid down and died with the cholera. A post-mortem examination discovered the fact that on the gray side it was a perfectly developed hen, on the black side a perfectly developed male.—Dresden (Tenn.) Democrat. Stock Sale.—The Hazel Bluff herd of Short-horn cattle, belonging to Claude Matthews, of Clinton, Vermillion county, will be sold at the Terre Haute Fair Grounds, August 13th. This is an excellent herd, and our readers would do well to be careful of time and place, and secure at this sale somegood breeding stock for their own localities. «*<*'=*"'§«* *■£■*?! SOUTIIDOWNS, THE GRANGE—ITS LESSONS AND ITS WORK. No literary exercise can be more beautiful or instructive than the initiatory and degree work in a grange, especially when the work is well done, and with a full understanding and application of its spirit and meaning. No matter how often it is witnessed and heard, each time it is rendered new beauty will be developed to the reflecting mind. But to produce the best effect, each officer should study and become familiar with his or her part. Not only should the words be read or spoken, but their atonation and accent should be carefully studied and considered. It would be all the better if the book could be dispensed with entirely, or at most employed only as a prompter. The music of the grange should also receive especial attention. Nothing adds more to the beauty of our work than music and singing, and nothing is more elevating and harmonizing to the mind. No grange can be well conducted without it. All Masters should urge the importance" of these matters upon both officers and members. The utmost decorum should always be observed in the grange. The observance of decorum by members is not only due to themselves and to one another, as ladies and gentlemen assembled together to deliberate and act upon matters of common interest, but it is also essential to the regular and harmonious proceedings ofa grange. The grange is the place where we should learn not only how to transact public business, to familiarize ourselves with parliamentary usage and public speaking, but it should also be made a school of manners, where our children may learn how to behave both in the public and in the family. Fraternal duties should never be forgotten. In the grance, fraternity has ever been placed at the very base of society, and has been made the corner stone ot every human effort. We should feel that we are in reality what we profess to be—a band of brothers and sisters. If a brother or sister is sick or in distress we should be ever ready and prompt to offer all needed assistance, and whenever, in the last event, it meets the views of the relations of a deceased brother or sister, the funeral services should be conducted according to the usages of our Order, and in the presence of as many of the members of the bereaved grange as can make it reasonably convenient to attend. The grange is a democratic institution in the highest and widest sense of the term. The rights and duties of the members, as regards one another, are found in and derived from the principle of absolute equality and fraternity. * Every member, male or female, however humble she or he may be, has the same right with each other to speak, act and vote. No association of any age or character has ever before occupied a_ field of labor so wide or so comprehensive as that now improved by the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. The working abilities are as broad as are the wants ana needs of the human race, while at the same time they are eminently simple, practical and effective. The work of the Order may extend from the planting of a vine to the construction of a continental railroad— from the procurement of the simplest want of an individual member to the purchase of a home or farm. It is expected to undertake the settlement of all disputes between its members, and between them and all others. If need be it can exert a con trolling influence, by moral power alone, in the election of every officer iu the land, from a Justice of the Peace to the President of the Republic. It has business agents wherever they are needed ; in the country and in the metropolis, on both sides of the continent, and on both sides of _ the ocean. Beneath its protective ajgis, wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, rich and poor, meet in harmony and on equality; to labor, to learn, to teach and to sing praises to Him from whom cometh every good and perfect gift. Let us then strive to so do the great work before us that, when all our labor is over, our children and children's children may look back with just pride upon what we have done ; while the Grand Master above shall say. "Well done, good and faithful servants." THE EVILS OF THE CREDIT SYSTEM. AN INQUIRY. FROM BARREN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. To Masters of Subordinate Oranges : We are entering a crisis of pressure from drouth. It has been dry- eight weeks. Our oats crop is a failure. Corn Is drying up. There are no garden vegetables. There has been no tobacco planted. The meadows are a failure. We shall be compelled to send off our stock If it does not rain in ten daj-s. Our wheat is good. What could we do with horses, mules, and cattle in Indiana ? Could we sell for money, at any price, or let them out on shares, or buy feed 1 Please answer this without delay. C. W. Biggers, Master of Oak Grove Grange, Nabob postomce, Barren county, Kentucky. FARM INTELLIGENCE. The Scotch have a proverb to this effect: ''Better it is to have a crust with contentment, than a feast with uneasiness.'' Two- thirds of all the evils that overtake us in life, or that grow out of business troubles, are entailed upon us by the false aud pernicious principles of incurring debt in the uncertain hope of gain. Whenever the future effort is pledged to secure a present advantage, the parties to the arrangement are both injured. He making the pledge, because there are so many chances of failure, and when that comes, the expense of litigation is the result, and the frieuds alienated are worth all the advantage were he absolutely successful. The experiment is an investment whieh does not pay a dividend large enough to warrant the risk. On the other hand, the party extending credit takes a risk, to warrant which he must have a per cent, that no legitimate business will honestly sustain. If disastor overtakes the debtor, his chance for losing all is good in nine cases out of ten. Is it not better that present inconvenience be labored under than to take risks by which all concerned stand so good a chance to be injured? One of the most potent influences to nerve the heart of man to vigorous and persistent effort is a feeling of independence. When once debt is incurred, then passes away that feeling. The idea of working hard, and possibly denying oneself needed recreation and indulgence, for the whole year, to pay every dollar over as soon as realized, to some importunate creditor, is, to say the least of it, notprovoca- tive of content or satisfaction. Debt also fosters habits of extravagance, and no class of the world's working sons can indulge in a useless expenditure of money with so little propriety as the farmer. There are so many uses and necessities for it on his farm, improving his stock, his lands, his fences, beautifying and adorning his home, supplying himself with books, and indeed everything that makes life bright and sunshiny, as well as useful and effective. With a small farm paid for, and the essentials of life in his possession, bread and clothing, with prudence and economy, competence is within easy reach of every farmer in our broad land. Yes, "pay as you go" is a maxim of business policy that will bear the closest scrutiny, and bring the largest satisfaction in the end. This being one of the cardinal principles of the Patrons of Husbandry, we hope to see the Order acting squarely upon it. Let not the farmer be tempted from this sound business policy by the doubtful chance of adding to his stock of this world's goods where the chances, as a whole, are so greatly against him. Let the farmers of Texas, the granger, stand to his declared principle of the Order, and the result will be seen and felt at once. Debt has been the bane of agriculture in the South. It will so prove wherever the farmers, either singly or as a class, incur it.—Examiner and Patriot. CROP REPORTS, ETC. —Wheat was never better in Switzerland county than now. —Posey county boasts of a wheat crop amounting to one million bushels. —A subscriber enquires where he can buy Alfalfa seed, aud what is the cost per quart. —The red-winged blackbirds are reported as destroying the chinch bugs extensively in some portions of the State. —Owen county: J. W. Archard, of Spencer, reports the corn crop never better; wheat about an average; oats short, aud grass good. —The Booneville Hepublican says the tobacco crop raised in Warrick county, this year, can be hauled in two wagons. What will we do for our "pure Havana tilling?" —The farmers in Illinois are importing Norman horses. The animals are heavily built, and are especially adapted for agricultural purposes, be- possed of great muscular strength. —Many hogs throughout the State are dying of cholera. Pigs suffer the most. What will save them? Black antimony sometimes cures, but is regarded as a better preventive than cme. —Robert Russel, on Mulberry creek, is stopping the progress of chinch, bugs In his corn-field by sprinkling coal oil where they are. They turn over on their backs and die. One gallon insufficient for an acre. This remedy is his own invention.— Landmark. —The Miami county Hepublican says: A curious and suggestive fact in natural history, as regards the chinch bug, and one that is doubly valuable when once fully established, has been verified In the experience of a number of our farmers the present season—they inflict no perceptible injury to wheat growing on land that has been manured. Manure tells and tells well against the bug. —Chinch bugs can be killed. The first year that they made their appearance in Central Indiana, they attacked a field of corn, adjoining wheat, on the farm where we were raised, and had covered about a dozen rows as thickly as chinch bugs ever get. We did not like to lose the whole field; so while mother and sisters heated water on the stove, father and the boys carried the boiling water in buckets, and commencing at the last row, attacked—scalded every stalk that had bugs ou It —killing corn and bugs at the same time. The next morning the few bugs that escaped were leaving the field, and we lost no more corn, though many of our neighbors had whole fields taken. A pint of boiling water would generally do the work for a hill of corn, and although it was a hard day's work, we always considered the time well spent.—The Grasshopper. —Mr. H. P. Randall, of this city, has the finest tomatoes we have seen on the vines this season. His manner of training the vines is a little peculiar. He allows but one vine to grow from a root, and trains this to a stake. At each fork of the vine he pinches off the weaker branch. This throws the strength of the plant into the fruit, and increases its size and hastens its maturity. The tomatoes, under this arrangement, have the advantage of all the light and air necessary for their fullest development. They grow In clusters around the Joints of the vine. On one of the plants we noticed there were eight joints, each with its cluster of tomatoes, the largest at the bottom, and diminishing regularly In size to the top. Some of them were nearly ripe, while those oh vines of the same kind and age, growing b - siue them, on the ground, were but just forming. We shall grow our tomatoes on this plan hereafter, as it Is certainly a very good one. J"«*V
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1874, v. 09, no. 28 (July 18) |
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Transcript | ]S1 Vol. IX. OT3IANAP0LIS, INDIANA, JULY 18, 1874. No. 28. LiYG Stock. A LORD OF THE SOIL. GEORGE* GRANT, PROPRIETOR OF THE VICTORIA COLONY, KANSAS. . Mr. George Grant, tlie proprietor of the •famous Victoria Colon}'' in Kansas, spent Saturday in the city. Mr. Grant is a Scotch gentleman, who acquired a large "fortune as a silk merchant in London, and who, with an enterprise and energy as unflagging as that of an ambitious youth who has a fortune still to make, comes over here with his fifty years' experience and ample fortune, which he liberally invests in Kansas and in tho improvement of stock. He is a thorough believer in improvement by judicious crossing, and his example is already being felt by the spirit of emulation engendered among stock-raisers to improve the quality of .their stock. He has just returned from Chicago, where he went to meet stock coming from Canada. He left two bulls, a Booth and Bates, both representatives of a pure-blooded stock, with Hon. John Mix, of Kankakee, the great cattle-breeder of Illinois. This stock will come through St. Louis for Victoria in a couple of weeks. They are represented by Mr. Grant to be the finest of their strain. Mr. Grant has now at his colony ten bulls, six Short-horns and four Angus pole bulls. The latter he has great confidence in crossing with Cherokee cows, as the majority of calves from these bulls are like their sires. He estimates that not more than five out of forty are like the cows. Mr. Grant has 7,000 merino ewes which he intends to cross with sheep just bought in Colorado. The cross will be with the long- wool imported rams, such as pure Lin- colns, the Cotswold and Oxford downs. He will prove, notwithstanding the prevailing opinions_ to the contrary among sheep-breeders in this country, that the merinos will cross with the imported long- wools, and he ventures the opinion that the result will be successful by putting 6,000 to 7,000 of that breed with 3,000 of the graded merinoes and pure merino, Spanish tups. He is building a sheep cor- Tal, covering twenty-one acres, arranged in four divisions, with, gates to go out, so as not to mix during the winter, when the sheep will be fed on corn and hay. About two miles south of the sheep corral he is also building a cattle corral, covering about the same area. Mr. Grant's land continues to be rapidly taken up by Scotch, English and American, parties. About twenty square miles have bean already taken up by NewYorkers, among whom are Mr. Gunth- er.nephew of the Mayor, Mr. Shields and Messrs. Clarke, Fisk, Flagg, and others. Mr. Moller, owner ofthe largest sugar refiner}7 in New York, has lately come out with his wife and daughter, and taken up three square miles along Big Creek river. An English gentleman, Mr. Ratcliff, of London, who left there three days ago, has purchased three square mile for himself, and four square miles for two of his friends. They all intend to come out with their families next spring, and will build handsome residences. This colony differs in every respect from other colonies founded in the United States, most of the settlers being persons of fair fortunes, who are seeking a healthy climate and country life. Mr. Grant will go back for a few days to to collect sheep iu Colorado. About the 20th of July he will return here and go to Kentucky, to be present at the stock sale on the 22d, of Alexander, the great Shorthorn breeder. He then goes to East and West Virginia, where he has already a thorough-bred stallion and several fine mares. At Victoria he has the finest stallion of the light-draft or Clydesdale-breed in the country.—St. Louis Democrat. • Diseased Swine.—The veteran farmer, Levi Bartlett, of Warner, N. H., writes thus to the Rural New Yorker: In your issue of December 13th, I. L. Stewart, Salisbury, N. C, gives an account of a couple of hogs he had recently killed, in which, to his surprise, he found the meat filled with great numbers of little white specks, or globules, or balls having the appearance somewhat of a white worm. The trouble with Mr. Stewart's swine was that of hog measles. The small pustules or tumors are mostly found in the throat and about the shoulders. In bad cases, the head-quarters are large in proportion to their hind-quarters. Perhaps Mr. S. may have noticed this. In this section, hogs are occasionally slaughtered that upon being opened present precisely the appearance as described by Mr. Stewart. Several years ago, Prof. Simonds, of the Royal Veterinary College, at a weekly meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, England, ?gave a lecture on The Natural History of J Parasites affecting the internal parts of the ^bodies of animals, etc. * In the course of jhis lecture, the professor tells how the tape worm is introduced into the intestines of man, viz:—by eating measly pork. If that is a fact, whoever is so unfortunate as to have measly swine, had better boil them up for soap grease than to salt them down for family use. Tape worms are not a profitable kind of stock to propagate. But to the professor's lecture. After describing several kinds of parasites to which sheep are subject, he said : Next come the Hydatis celluscooe, so called because it lay in the cellular tissues, which collected the muscles together in different parts of the body. It was.the Ilyuaus which produced that peculiar condition in the swine which was known as measly flesh—an affection to which the attention not only of naturalists, physiologists and pathologists but. of the. government,--also,- was-caliea during the Crimean war, because it was found that large quantities of measly pork where being exported to supply our troops, the use_ of which must have resulted in producing tape-worms in the intestines of those who ate it. As measly pork is considered a dangerous kind of food, the probability is that it was not offered for sale in the English market, but was purchased by contractors of pork for the army, and probably at a much lower price than that of healthy swine. It would seem that if the pork was thoroughly boiled, fried_ or broiled, it must give the parasites constituting measly pork their quietus. If not, they must hold on to life with a tenacity that is truly astonishing. Measles in swine, and Trichinae spiralis are entirely different species of parasites infesting porkers. Of the two, I would prefer risking the tapeworm in my intestines rather than having th» muscles, of my body perforated in every direction by the Trichinae spiralis. In either Case, I would suffer extreme hunger before I would eat pork infested with either of the above named parasites even after it had been boiled for two_ hours. Mr. Stewart may.fry some of his pork, and while frying if it causes frequent reports, similar to that ofa pop-gun, ne may then be 3ure his hogs were measly. Horse Morals.—In selecting a horse, or mare for breeding, speed and form are not all the qualities to be looked after. Never breed to a vicious or ill-tempered horse, no matter what maybe his pedigree or antecedents. And reject at once any horse lacking a sprightly intelligence. There are as many degrees of intelligence in a horse as in the human race, and without intelligence a horse is.always sluggish, stupid and awkward in his movements. The thoroughbred Arabian horse has generally that capacity necessary for learning any useful lesson, that all his work and labor for man is a pleasure to the owner and apparently to the horse. We like to see a man proud of a noble horse, but more especially does it fill our heart with delight to see a horse proud of his master. There are clowns among horses, and they are always a vexation to the owner. Some will plod along the road, never looking where they step, and just as likely to step on a stump or in a hole in a bridge as nny other place. But the intelligent horse takes heed to his steps, and if anything happens dangerous to life or limb to himself or his master, his judgment frequently Erevents the accident. And a gentle, kind orse, with a large.development of social and intellectual powers, whiles away many a weary hour of the lonely traveler, or lightens the labor of the long days of the tiller of the soil. In selectmg_ breeders great care should be taken relative to the social moralsof both horse and mare. Like begets like, and in no case more so than that of the horse. A bad and vicious temper in a horse may be checked, but never eradicated, and he will always be unpleasant, dangerous, and in his fretting and fuming will unnecessarily waste his strength. Form and action have claimed the closest scrutiny, and those qualities have been given their full importance, but the social morals of the horse have been lost sight of in the strife for speed and strength. Viciousness is almost invariably transmitted to the progeny, more certainly than color or points, and should be a serious objection to any horse as a good breeder.—Iowa State Register. m Cure for Cholera.—A correspondent at Mulberry Grove sends us what he recommends as the best cure for hog cholera known. The recipe was first published in the Prairie Farmer some years since. The quantity given is sufficient for one hundred hogs, and is mixed with slop enough for a few doses, say a pint of the slop to the hog each time. This is the recipe: Take of sulphur, two pounds; black antimony, one-half pound; arsenic, two ounces. Our correspondent says he has tried the above on a lot of fifty hogs, and cured all that were able to walk to the trough to eat the slop. Prof. J. B. Turner also published the following preventative in the Prairie Farmer in 1*304, which our correspondent says he has seen used with perfect satisfaction : One peck wood ashes, four pounds salt, one pound each of black antimony, coperas and sulphur, one-fourth pound saltpeter. Pulverize and mix, moisten and put in a trough under shed where the hogs can have free access to it.—Greenville (III.) Advocate. A Hen that was a Rooster.—P. A. Cushion, of this county, had a chicken hatched about eighteen months ago that was gray on one side running back to the side, on the opposite side a deep black. It had a very heavy comb, and a large wattle on the black side and small one on the gray, a heavy spur on the left leg and a light one on the right. It laid a dozen or more eggs, set on them, hatched and raised a brood of chickens, as any good lieii would, After.tho chicks were .weaned, it went info the -rooster business—crowed regularly, fought the other roosters, got it a number of wives and proceeded to assist them in their domestic affairs, as a_ good rooster should. By and by—that is, a week or two ago—it laid down and died with the cholera. A post-mortem examination discovered the fact that on the gray side it was a perfectly developed hen, on the black side a perfectly developed male.—Dresden (Tenn.) Democrat. Stock Sale.—The Hazel Bluff herd of Short-horn cattle, belonging to Claude Matthews, of Clinton, Vermillion county, will be sold at the Terre Haute Fair Grounds, August 13th. This is an excellent herd, and our readers would do well to be careful of time and place, and secure at this sale somegood breeding stock for their own localities. «*<*'=*"'§«* *■£■*?! SOUTIIDOWNS, THE GRANGE—ITS LESSONS AND ITS WORK. No literary exercise can be more beautiful or instructive than the initiatory and degree work in a grange, especially when the work is well done, and with a full understanding and application of its spirit and meaning. No matter how often it is witnessed and heard, each time it is rendered new beauty will be developed to the reflecting mind. But to produce the best effect, each officer should study and become familiar with his or her part. Not only should the words be read or spoken, but their atonation and accent should be carefully studied and considered. It would be all the better if the book could be dispensed with entirely, or at most employed only as a prompter. The music of the grange should also receive especial attention. Nothing adds more to the beauty of our work than music and singing, and nothing is more elevating and harmonizing to the mind. No grange can be well conducted without it. All Masters should urge the importance" of these matters upon both officers and members. The utmost decorum should always be observed in the grange. The observance of decorum by members is not only due to themselves and to one another, as ladies and gentlemen assembled together to deliberate and act upon matters of common interest, but it is also essential to the regular and harmonious proceedings ofa grange. The grange is the place where we should learn not only how to transact public business, to familiarize ourselves with parliamentary usage and public speaking, but it should also be made a school of manners, where our children may learn how to behave both in the public and in the family. Fraternal duties should never be forgotten. In the grance, fraternity has ever been placed at the very base of society, and has been made the corner stone ot every human effort. We should feel that we are in reality what we profess to be—a band of brothers and sisters. If a brother or sister is sick or in distress we should be ever ready and prompt to offer all needed assistance, and whenever, in the last event, it meets the views of the relations of a deceased brother or sister, the funeral services should be conducted according to the usages of our Order, and in the presence of as many of the members of the bereaved grange as can make it reasonably convenient to attend. The grange is a democratic institution in the highest and widest sense of the term. The rights and duties of the members, as regards one another, are found in and derived from the principle of absolute equality and fraternity. * Every member, male or female, however humble she or he may be, has the same right with each other to speak, act and vote. No association of any age or character has ever before occupied a_ field of labor so wide or so comprehensive as that now improved by the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. The working abilities are as broad as are the wants ana needs of the human race, while at the same time they are eminently simple, practical and effective. The work of the Order may extend from the planting of a vine to the construction of a continental railroad— from the procurement of the simplest want of an individual member to the purchase of a home or farm. It is expected to undertake the settlement of all disputes between its members, and between them and all others. If need be it can exert a con trolling influence, by moral power alone, in the election of every officer iu the land, from a Justice of the Peace to the President of the Republic. It has business agents wherever they are needed ; in the country and in the metropolis, on both sides of the continent, and on both sides of _ the ocean. Beneath its protective ajgis, wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, rich and poor, meet in harmony and on equality; to labor, to learn, to teach and to sing praises to Him from whom cometh every good and perfect gift. Let us then strive to so do the great work before us that, when all our labor is over, our children and children's children may look back with just pride upon what we have done ; while the Grand Master above shall say. "Well done, good and faithful servants." THE EVILS OF THE CREDIT SYSTEM. AN INQUIRY. FROM BARREN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. To Masters of Subordinate Oranges : We are entering a crisis of pressure from drouth. It has been dry- eight weeks. Our oats crop is a failure. Corn Is drying up. There are no garden vegetables. There has been no tobacco planted. The meadows are a failure. We shall be compelled to send off our stock If it does not rain in ten daj-s. Our wheat is good. What could we do with horses, mules, and cattle in Indiana ? Could we sell for money, at any price, or let them out on shares, or buy feed 1 Please answer this without delay. C. W. Biggers, Master of Oak Grove Grange, Nabob postomce, Barren county, Kentucky. FARM INTELLIGENCE. The Scotch have a proverb to this effect: ''Better it is to have a crust with contentment, than a feast with uneasiness.'' Two- thirds of all the evils that overtake us in life, or that grow out of business troubles, are entailed upon us by the false aud pernicious principles of incurring debt in the uncertain hope of gain. Whenever the future effort is pledged to secure a present advantage, the parties to the arrangement are both injured. He making the pledge, because there are so many chances of failure, and when that comes, the expense of litigation is the result, and the frieuds alienated are worth all the advantage were he absolutely successful. The experiment is an investment whieh does not pay a dividend large enough to warrant the risk. On the other hand, the party extending credit takes a risk, to warrant which he must have a per cent, that no legitimate business will honestly sustain. If disastor overtakes the debtor, his chance for losing all is good in nine cases out of ten. Is it not better that present inconvenience be labored under than to take risks by which all concerned stand so good a chance to be injured? One of the most potent influences to nerve the heart of man to vigorous and persistent effort is a feeling of independence. When once debt is incurred, then passes away that feeling. The idea of working hard, and possibly denying oneself needed recreation and indulgence, for the whole year, to pay every dollar over as soon as realized, to some importunate creditor, is, to say the least of it, notprovoca- tive of content or satisfaction. Debt also fosters habits of extravagance, and no class of the world's working sons can indulge in a useless expenditure of money with so little propriety as the farmer. There are so many uses and necessities for it on his farm, improving his stock, his lands, his fences, beautifying and adorning his home, supplying himself with books, and indeed everything that makes life bright and sunshiny, as well as useful and effective. With a small farm paid for, and the essentials of life in his possession, bread and clothing, with prudence and economy, competence is within easy reach of every farmer in our broad land. Yes, "pay as you go" is a maxim of business policy that will bear the closest scrutiny, and bring the largest satisfaction in the end. This being one of the cardinal principles of the Patrons of Husbandry, we hope to see the Order acting squarely upon it. Let not the farmer be tempted from this sound business policy by the doubtful chance of adding to his stock of this world's goods where the chances, as a whole, are so greatly against him. Let the farmers of Texas, the granger, stand to his declared principle of the Order, and the result will be seen and felt at once. Debt has been the bane of agriculture in the South. It will so prove wherever the farmers, either singly or as a class, incur it.—Examiner and Patriot. CROP REPORTS, ETC. —Wheat was never better in Switzerland county than now. —Posey county boasts of a wheat crop amounting to one million bushels. —A subscriber enquires where he can buy Alfalfa seed, aud what is the cost per quart. —The red-winged blackbirds are reported as destroying the chinch bugs extensively in some portions of the State. —Owen county: J. W. Archard, of Spencer, reports the corn crop never better; wheat about an average; oats short, aud grass good. —The Booneville Hepublican says the tobacco crop raised in Warrick county, this year, can be hauled in two wagons. What will we do for our "pure Havana tilling?" —The farmers in Illinois are importing Norman horses. The animals are heavily built, and are especially adapted for agricultural purposes, be- possed of great muscular strength. —Many hogs throughout the State are dying of cholera. Pigs suffer the most. What will save them? Black antimony sometimes cures, but is regarded as a better preventive than cme. —Robert Russel, on Mulberry creek, is stopping the progress of chinch, bugs In his corn-field by sprinkling coal oil where they are. They turn over on their backs and die. One gallon insufficient for an acre. This remedy is his own invention.— Landmark. —The Miami county Hepublican says: A curious and suggestive fact in natural history, as regards the chinch bug, and one that is doubly valuable when once fully established, has been verified In the experience of a number of our farmers the present season—they inflict no perceptible injury to wheat growing on land that has been manured. Manure tells and tells well against the bug. —Chinch bugs can be killed. The first year that they made their appearance in Central Indiana, they attacked a field of corn, adjoining wheat, on the farm where we were raised, and had covered about a dozen rows as thickly as chinch bugs ever get. We did not like to lose the whole field; so while mother and sisters heated water on the stove, father and the boys carried the boiling water in buckets, and commencing at the last row, attacked—scalded every stalk that had bugs ou It —killing corn and bugs at the same time. The next morning the few bugs that escaped were leaving the field, and we lost no more corn, though many of our neighbors had whole fields taken. A pint of boiling water would generally do the work for a hill of corn, and although it was a hard day's work, we always considered the time well spent.—The Grasshopper. —Mr. H. P. Randall, of this city, has the finest tomatoes we have seen on the vines this season. His manner of training the vines is a little peculiar. He allows but one vine to grow from a root, and trains this to a stake. At each fork of the vine he pinches off the weaker branch. This throws the strength of the plant into the fruit, and increases its size and hastens its maturity. The tomatoes, under this arrangement, have the advantage of all the light and air necessary for their fullest development. They grow In clusters around the Joints of the vine. On one of the plants we noticed there were eight joints, each with its cluster of tomatoes, the largest at the bottom, and diminishing regularly In size to the top. Some of them were nearly ripe, while those oh vines of the same kind and age, growing b - siue them, on the ground, were but just forming. We shall grow our tomatoes on this plan hereafter, as it Is certainly a very good one. J"«*V |
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