Vol. IX.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AUGUST 29, 1874.
Livs Stock-
John Giles' Short-Horn Sales.
As stated, last week, our report of
these sales did not reach us in time for
publication, but we give it here. Mr.
Giles is a most hospitable gentleman, and
had made ample preparation for the accommodation of all who attended. The sales
comprised eighty bead. Many of the cows
were getting quite old, and though well
bred, of course did not sell at-so high a
price as younger ones would. This.was a
clearing out sale, but we are glad to
announce that Mr. Giles is only getting
ready for. a herd on a grander scale, and
that the State is still to have the benefit
of his eminent practical knowledge. The
following is a report of the leading
animals:
cows.
"Zenaida 4th," Ked, six years old, by
2d Duke of Geneva, 5,562; S. S. Coffman,
Sulivan, Ind., $300.      -
"Kate Dunam, 2d," Ked, seven years,
by the Priest, 6,246; J. T. Williamson,
Thorntown, Ind., $160.
" Musk," Ked and White, by Brampton,
7,606: P. R. Sugart, Princeton, 111., $165.
"Diana 2d," Red, five years, by Union
Duke 2d, 9,242; R. N. Priest, Bainbridge,
Ind., $215.
"Downhorn," Red, seven years, by
Scipio, 9,059; R. N. Priest, Bainbridge,
Ind, $205.
"Charlotta 4th," Roan, one year, by
Patrick. 8,761; John W. Ward, Shelbyville, 111., $230:
" Winter Rose." Red, seven months, by
Patrick; B. H. Campbell, Batavia; 111.,
$320.
" Gold Ring," Red, six years, by Brampton ; J. T. Williamson, $200.
"Miss Wiley," Red, three'years, b?
Wiley Duke, 15,727; B. H. Campbell,
$305.
" Beauty 2d," Red, eight years, by Ashland Airdrie. 7,514; J. C. Neal, Sullivan,
Ind., $325.
" Queen of, Scotts 3d," Red, 4 years, by
Layton, 14,692; S. Aikman & Son, Dana,
Ind., $160.
" Queen of Scotts 4th," Red, one year,
by Oxford Airdrie, 12,545; S. Aikman &
Son, $200.
"Lady Simpson 2d," Roan, 3 years, by
Van Duke 2d, 15,632, P. R. Sugart. $160.
" Maynard 9th," Red, seven months, by
Patrick; George Elliott, Harristown, 111.,
" Honor 2d," Red. five years, by Jeweler,
12,207; H. Miller, Ciay City. 111.. $165.
" Ashland Short Tail 4th," Red, 6years,
by Noble. 5,997; J. S. Sconce, Indianola,
fll-  $16*» ,        '..XT    ,      ,
" Mary 3d," Red. 8 years, by "Nabob
2d," 17,195; B. H. Campbell, $180.
" Mary 4th," Red. 5 years, by Dr. Morgan, 16,650; N. R. Jones, Humboldt, 111.,
$175.
" Mary 8th," Red and White, 2 years,
by Dr. Morgan; N. R. Jones, $160.
"Mary 10th," Red, 1 year, by Charlie
Tabb, S. H. R., 1,600; B. H.Campbell,
$160.
"Miss Gilky," Red, 3 years, by "Van
Duke 2d"; H. Mills, $180.
"Mary 12th," Red, 1 year, by Charlie
Tabb; B. H. Campbell, $240.
" Lady Barriscourt 4th," Roan, 4 years,
by Pogue, 17,966; Wm. Stewart, Taylor,
111., $205.
"Red   Lady  5th," Red, six years, by
' Pogue; Charles Lowder, Plainfleld, Ind.,
^200
" "Red Lady 6th," Red,   five years,  by
Pogue; Wm. Halsted, Lincoln, Ind., $200.
lfRed Lady 7th," Red, four years, by
Pogue; Wm. Stewart. $200.
'tRed Lady 9th," Red, two years, by
Qharlie Tabb; P. R. Sugart. $190.
"Red Lady 10th," Red, one year, by
Charlie Tabb; A Edwards, Charlestown,
111., $200.
"Red Lady llth," Bed, one year, by
Charlie Tabb; A. Edwards. $230.
"Red Lady 12th," Red; five months, by
Charlie Tabb; Wm. Stewart. $225.
"Red Rose 3d." Red, ten years, by Nabob 2d 17,795; Chas Lowder. $155.
BULLS.
"Patrick," 8,761, Red, five years, weight
2,300 lbs., by Buruside 4.818; dam, Ellen
Chelleneer 2d, by Geo. B. McClellen 5,-
666; to W. G. Culbertson. Paris, 111., $300.
"Duke of Mason 3d," Red. one year, by
Charlie Tabb; dam, Red Rose 4th by
Pogue; to M. Morgan, New Lebanon,
Ind., $145.
"Duke of Sullivan 8th" 16,932, Red, one
year, by Patrici; dam, Dianna 2d, by
Union Duke 2d 9,242; to John Emerson,.
Oaktotfn, Ind., $135.
"Jerry Duncan," Red, one year, by
[Patrick; dam, Kate Duncan 2d, by the
Priest; to N. H. Thrilkill, Bruceville,
Ind., $125.
"JimFisk," Red, seven months, by
Patrick ; dam, Queen of Scotts 3d, by Lay-
ton 14,692; to Jas. Irons, Potato Creek,
Ind., $125. • T
"Dexter," Red, six months, by Patrick;
dam, MissGilkey, by Vanduke2d; T. B.
Springer, New Lebanon, Ind., $110.
"Lord Barriscourt," Roan, fourmonths,
by Charlie Tabb; dam, Lady Barriscourt
3d,by Pogue; to G. W. Hunt, Sullivan,
Ind., $1(X). '    •    .
"Tom Moore," Red and White, five
months, by Patrick ; dam, Lady Simpson
2d, by Vanduke M; to Jas. Brewer, Tur-
mans Creek, Ind., $100.
■ ' . SUMMARY.
59   Females...average, $162,69K  Total...S9,605,00
21 Bulls       do 95,00 do   ...1,995,00
80 head, gen'L do
115,00   G'd total Sll,600,00
and within a fortnight, nature, with almost
the regularity ofthe rising sun,-will loose
the bonds ot sleep the moment enough repose has been secured for the w$nts of the
system. This is the only safe and efficient
rule; and as to the question how much
sleep anyone requires, each must be a
rule for himself—great Nature .will never
fail-to write it out to the observer under
the regulation just given.
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• Prevention of Hog Cholera.—The
Rural World says that one of . the largest
hog breeders in Missouri, who frequently
has several hundred head at once, never
has any sick. He gives thein salt, just as
he does other stock. In cooking food for
hogs—which he does in a large  wooden
Except Delaware and Connecticut, all
the States now have State Granges. There
are sub-ordinate Granges in those States,
and in all the Territories except New
Mexico and Arizona.
Many English farmers feed no hay to
their work-horses, but keep them in high
working order with straw, roots, and
shorts. The equivalent of twelve tons of
hay can be produced on an acre of roots.
Several cases of a mysterious disease
among horses, commencing with a lameness in the near hind leg, and several of
them terminating fatally, have appeared in
and near Louisiana, Mo.
•m'-i*>*0**»--'i.'t£ fii^ii.i^'JMi-£tigCofit/
HORN COW  "WATER  NYMPH,"
SHORT
Owned by Leslie Combs, Jr., of Lexington
Ky.
The animals went to. the different States,
as follows':  *" -"'" "
Indiana, 39 head.
Illinois,   35    do
Iowa,        6   do
Total. amt. £1,835,00
do  6,015,00
do      700,00
Totals      80    do . do  511,600,00
Mr. Giles also -sold twelve head of high
grades for $665, and thirty head of Cotswold sheep for $252, making aggregate of
sale $12,517.
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Improving Stock.
It must be remembered that the short
horn stock which sell so high are what are
known as fancy, gilt edged stock, and
bought by fancy buyers. A sensible writer
on this subject says that there are thousands of short horn bulls in the country
which, without doubt, would insure as good
a steer as might be got by a "duke." Not
long since a bull of unfashionable blood
was sold for but $500, about the same time
as $15,000 would have been given for the
"Second Duke of Hillhurst," and numerous excellent judges have held the first to
be the better bull. Now, the lesson of all
this is that farmers sho.uld not be misled
by the glitter and glory of these vaunted
fashionable animals into- the belief that
there is no excellence elsewhere. The
grand patriarch from which these dukes
and duchess sprang was purchased for
$40. and there have been, possibly, as
good young bulls sold for less than $100
within the past thirty days in Kentucky,
as was the bull Hubback in 1787. If
farmers should be misled by the present
high prices of fashionable stock, it were
better that the dukes had never been born.
Nothing is more needed than an improvement in our beef stock. Recently-stock
was brought all the way from Texas and
sold in the New York market for $25 to
$30 a head. Those who are familiar with
the beef that is supplied to the markets of
country towns ana villages know that
there is much of it that is of no greater
value than this from Texas. The beef
consumed in country places is of the poorest character. The best in the country is
taken to the large cities, but yet there is
much there that is inferior. The feeding
of all this inferior stock is a waste and a
loss to all concerned. It is a loss even to
the consumer, for the poor, who can least
afford to consume inferior meat, are those
who use it.
boiler holding thirty or forty<bushels—he ■
has the coals and ashes thrown in the
boiler and boiled with the food. He also
sometimes puts in salt and sulphur. His
hogs eat burnt charcoal as freely as they
do corn. They are sheltered from the cold
and storms by movable sheds. Occasionally he dissolves copperas (sulphate of
iron) in water and mixes it with their
food. This destroys internal worms and
is also a tonic. Hogs are subject to colds
and pneumonia as human beings. The
internal organs of the hog more closely
resemble those of man than any other
animal.
Will not weeds take possession of the
old meadows after a while? Yes, if the
meadows are not properly fed. There is
some truth in the maxim of the ancients
that nature abhors a vacuum. Weeds
abound on old worn-out lands simply because the proper nutriment for a more
delicately organized herbage has been exhausted. ~\\ bite daisies and golden-rod,
and even hard-hacks, are better than utter
barrenness. In their decay they furnish
food for a better class of plants. Nature
is determined to produce something, and if
left to herself always produces that to
which the Soil is most congenial. If water
abounds, coarse aquatic plants will as
surely grow without any sowing of the
seed, as will corn when planned in good
loam. We have seen alluvial meadows
that had for 9 long series of years produced large crops of good hay, being kept
in good heart by a deposit of fine fertilizing material in the annual overflow of a
neighboring river, suddenly have their
herbage changed to reeds and rushes by
the damning of this river and the consequent setting back ofthe water over their
surface. In those parts of the meadows
where the water did not come within a
foot of the surface, the character of the
grasses was changed.
The Drains.—Taking off the surplus
water is only one advantage of tile drains ;
they also make a tenacious soil more friable
and absorptive, and a soil_ is always productive in proportion to its capacity to
hold water by capillary absorption; vegetable manure or clover, ploughed in, will
make a soil absorptive for a time, but
underdrains are a permanent amendment.
Mr. Prout, the English farmer, who makes
no farmyard manure, but depends entirely,
on concentrated commercial fertilizers,
attributes his success very much to the
very thorough manner in which his farm
is tile drained. The most profitable dairy
farm I know of, is one on which every field
is tile drained, and in proportion as the
farmer increases his butter making, he
adajs to the number of his underdrains and
his- cows.
WOMAN.
Place her among flowers, foster her as a
tender plant, and she is a thing of fancy,
waywardness and folly—annoyed by a
dew-drop, fretted by the touch ofa butterfly's win'g, and ready to faint at the sound
of a beetle; and she is overpowered by the
perfume of a rosebud. But let real calamity come, rouse her affections, enkindle
the "fires of her heart, and mark her then;
how her heart strengthens itself—how
strong is her heart; place her in the heat
of the_ battle—give her a child, a bird—
anything to protect—and see her in a relative instance, lifting her white arms as a
shield, as her own blood crimsons her upturned forehead, praying for life to protect
the helpless.
Transplant her in the dark places ofthe
earth, call forth her energies to action,and
her breath becomes a healing, her presence
a blessing. She disputes inch by inch the
stride of stalking pestilence, when man,
thestrong and brave, pale and affrighted,
shrinks away. Misfortune haunts her not;
she wears away a life of silent endurance,
and goes forward with less timidity than
to her bridal. In prosperity she is a bud
full of odors, waiting but for the winds of
adversity to scatter them abroad—pure
gold, valuable, but untried in the furnace.
In short, woman is a miracle—a mystery,
the centre from which radiates the great
charm of existence.
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More Birds for America.—A very
deserving institution has recently been established in Cincinnati, undej the title of
the Cincinnati Acclimitization Society, its
object being to effect the introduction of
of such foreign birds as are worthy of note
for their song or their services to the farmer and horticulturist. The Society announces that last Spring it expended
$5,000 in introducing fifteen additional
species-of birds, and that it has already
successfully accomplished the acclimitization of the European skylark, which is
stated now to be a prominent feature of
the summer landscape in the vicinity of
Cincinnati. . Among the species which it
is proposed to introduce is the European
titmouse, considered abroad as dne of the
most successful foes to insects injurious to
vegetation.
The Western Farmer claims Spring
wheat to be of greater value and excellence than Fall wheat. The matter is explained in this way. According to Dr.
Bellows wheat consists of water, gluten,
albumen, starch, sugar, gum, fat, fiber,
and minerals. There is less water in
Spring wheat than in Winter, and this is
the reason that the flour absorbs more
water when mixed. The remainder of the
constituents are of more compact nature
than those of Winter wheat. Now the
latter containing more moisture, it is softer
and will not granulate in grinding, but will
flatten out, the middlings will be soft and
woolly, and incapable of purifying like the
middlings of Spring wheat. Therefore
the new process of using the middlings is
practicable with the one and not with the
other. It is a conceded fact that Spring
wheat flour remains sweet and moist
when mixed into bread much longer than
Winter.
The North-Western States produce annually a thousand million bushels of grain.
In 25 years, at the present rate of increase,
this production will be doubled. The exports of grain from the whole of the United States is less than a hundred million
bushels per annum. The wisdom of looking for some other sourae of demand for
the surplus of gram than this irregular
and often non-existent foreign demand is
conspicuously apparent' to the least
thoughtful of the Western farmers. Home
markets, however, are only created by
workshops and manufactories.
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The abundance of ill-grown, defective,
or useless hedges, and the scarcity of
properl^jplanted or successfully cultivated
ones_ in the West are leading farmers to
consider if it would not be well to have
persons who know all about hedges to devote their time to growing and caring for
them as a regular Dusiness. In Pingland
there are professional hedgers—the well-
known Joseph Arch is one—who do nothing else than plant and tend hedges.
Sleep.
A scientific journal says that those
persons who think most, require the most
sleep. The time "saved" from necessary
sleep is infallibly destructive to mind,
body, and estate. Give yourself, your
children, your servants—give all that are
under you, the fullest amount of sleep
they will take, by compelling them to go
to bed at some regular, early hour, and to
rise in the morning the moment they wake;
Western farmers in want of a market
and desirous of finding one in foreign
countries across the Atlantic should remember that one manufactory at home
employing 100 men will support an additional 500 people. Three hundred
families will disburse annually, on the
average, $250, or $75,000 in the aggregate.
This money will be drawn into the town
from the outside, where goods are consumed, and the interest of these $75,000 at
ten per Qent would be $7,500. Three hundred families, too, would require houses,
thousands of pounds of agricultural produce and thousands of j-ards of cotton
and woolen goods, thus giving health and
impetus to every branch of business.
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The new style of oath is.out. Mrs.
Marrowfat ordered her husband to peel
the onions before he left the house yesterday, and Mr. Marrowfat, bringing down
his fist upon the table with much emphasis,
observed: "May I be cremated, madam,
if I do?"
The Washburn flouring mill at Minneapolis, is one ofthe wonders of this country. Nowhere in the United States or
Canadas is there _ anything to compare
with it in size, while in the entire world
there are but one or two larger.
It was begun in May last, and has been
pushed forward to completion in less than
a year, by an army of workmen, at a cost
of $250,000." Tbe building is 100 by 137
feet in size, built in blue limestone in
courses, and is 6J stories in hight, or 90
feet from ground to roof.
It contains forty run of stone, driven by
two five-feet, polished bronze wheels, manufactured in Chicopee, Mass., of 250
horse power each, which cost, with the
excavation in which they are set, $25,000.
Some idea of the water power in Minneapolis may be gained from the fact that
the water which drives them has a head
of forty feet.
We need men like old Noah who stood
up against the world. We need men of
backbone, men of spiritual muscle, men
made of stern stuff, men who will neither
fear nor brag, run nor yield; men with
whom self and what the world can give
j or take away nothing, and God, humanity
and the cause are all—men upon whom
the mantle of an apostle, a Latimer, a
Luther or Knox has fallen! God, send
us the men!
What it Costs to be a Loafer.—
Does the young man who persists in being
a loafer, ever reflect how much less it
would cost to be a decent, respectable
man ? Anybody can be a gentleman if he
chooses to be, but it is expensive being a
loafer. It costs time—days, months, years,
of it. It costs friends. -Your consorts
will be the only buccaneers of society. It
costs healthj vigor, comfort—all true
pleasure in living, honor, dignity, self-
respect, and the respect ofthe world when
living, and finally all regret and consideration when dead.
A correspondent of Tlie Practical Far
mer practices the "following rotation, viz:
Cjrn, barley with clover, clover, wheat
upon clover sod. The advantages are, the
clover never fails to take with barley, and
tbe wheat upon the clover sod produces 40
bushels per acre..
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TnE Allen County (Indiana) Agricul-i
tural Society offers a special premium of a '
handsome Union flag,-costing $25, to the j
Grange within the limits of Allen county'
that will make the largest entries at thej
Northern Indiana Fair for 1874.
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