James Mustard, of Broad Hippie,
this county, has just been over into Ohio
on a hog raid, and has captured and
brought home some of the finest specimens of the Poland China breed we have
seen in many days. Ue bought a boar
and sow from Mr. A. M. Jewell, of Butler county, paying $75 for the former and
$50 for the latter. He bought three fine
animals of Jas. Marshall in Warren
county, paying $130 for the three. Mr.
Mustard has some very fine stock of his
own breeding already, but is still trying
to improve.
CBTJELTY TO ANIMALS.
It is, perhaps, too much to say that
cruelty to animals and crime necessarily
go hand in hand ; yet it is a suggestive
fact which Mr. Bergh records in his
paper, The Animal Kingdom, that of
two thousand convicts of whom inquiry
was made, only twelve admitted they
left pets at home, and this is in accordance with the experience of all visitors
among the poor, who tell usthat the pet
squirrel, the canary hung in sunshine,
the cat purring on the hearth, are sure
indications of quiet and content within.
Who has not often passed an humble
dwelling and, catching sight of flowerpots in the window, has not felt that refinement had its abode there? Leigh
Hunt pleads for a geranium in the window; we plead for other flowers as well,
and for pets too. Give your children all
the means you can for association' with
life, vegetable and animal, and you will
humanize them, while you save them
from the vioious thoughts of idle hours,
and give them a pleasure which they
will cultivate and perpetuate through
life. Cowper, who would "not needlessly set foot upon a worm," acquired
his love for pets when a child ; and some
Flora,
Ayrshire Cow "FLORA," property of Hon. M. H. Cochrane, Compton, P. Q.    /
Flora, illustrated above, was bred by James Mitchell, Blackhouse, Eaglcston, Scotland; was calved June, 1871. and won
the first prize as a two-year-old at the Highland Show, Stirling, 1873.
A HEW CATTLE DISEASE.
Editors Rural New Yorker:—My
brother, who is a farmer, residing near
here, has lost five cattle during the
season. The first died in May last, the
others have died at intervals since, the
last on the 17th inst. None of the animals have lived more than 24 hours after
it was discovered'that they were ailing.
They were in good condition, apparently
healthy. In each case it was first noticed
that they ceased to chew the cud ; soon
after that their heads drooped and they
continued to follow the other cattle
about until about half an hour before
they died. They then appeared to be in
great distress, groaning straightening the
of tmr greatest men—notably Glay, Web-jliniba and-quivering. -Soon after death,
COOKING FEED.
ster', Agassiz, and Marcy—were as fond
of petsin later years as in early childhood.
A DEEP YELLOW SKIN.
"This test," says the Practical Farmer, " is considered infallible. No cow
with a deep yellow skin has yet been
known to give Door milk." Just so, and
no cows are so invariably possessed of a
"deep yellow skin" as those of,the
Channel Islands, which whether they
are known as Alderneys, Jerseys or
Guernseys, whether^ they give-milk in
large quantities or small, are pre-eminently the butter makers of the age.
They have been derided by beef-breeders until sneering at Jerseys has come to
be a well-received order of wit among
butchers, and uninformed people would
learn _to believe that tallow was_ worth
more in the market than butter—if they
did not consult their pockets instead of
their friends. Yes, a deep yellow skin is
one sign which Jerseys always possess, in
common with other rich milking cows.—
Journal of Agriculture.
in each instance froth appeared at the
nose. Before death, the pulse was
quickerthan natural;_ respiration natural until about 30 minutes before; the
bowels appeared to be in a normal condition, noDody here has been able to
form tn opinion respecting the disease.
We suspected poisoning, but nothing
has been discovered tending to confirm
the suspicion. A post mortem examination showed nothing unnatural, except
discoloration about the large blood vessels.
The_ disease seems to be so obscure in
its origin and without remedy that I
would like to know whether you or your
subscribers can give any information
about it.
ClIAS. 0. Tappan. in Moore's Rural.
Potsdam, N. Y.. November 19.
NEW CATTLE DISEASE IN
JAMAICA.
A correspondent. Writes to thc London
Field: " A. relative in Jamaica writes:
' I ^ix in & SCa of troubles; the cattle on
One of my properties will not get well,
and will die. Nobody here has ever seen
or heard of anything like it upon any
pen (a cattle estate) in the island. I
nave lost fully £900, and am by no means
out of the wood. The animals waste
away until they die; there is no other
symptom than that of wasting, and,
when opened, the liver is a mass of corruption, and full of big worms. I am
well acquainted with tbe ordinary liver
disease of cattle. The present plague
differs from it in the beast having no
cough, and in the old herd of between
five and six hundred being affected
Nothing that I have tried does any good.
The unusual quantity of rain which has
fallen in the last two months, may have
increased the epidemic'"
Food  Medicine.
"Youbelievein cooking food for hogs,"
said the Deacon, "your steamer seems to
be going almost night and day."—Yes,
but I am working in the dark and no
"report" will give me light. I suvpose
cooking makes some kinds of food more
easy of digestion. And when you are
trying to push young pigs along as rapidly as possible, or when you are fattening
well-bred hogs that can assimilate more
food than they can digest, then cooking
will probably pay. At the present time,
corn is so high that we cannot afford to
let any of it pass through the animal un-
CLAY COUNTY.
In our hasty reference to the industries of Indiana, and rapid development,
we omitted to refer to the wonderful
growth and prosperity of Clay county,
this State. We thank the Brazil Echo
for calling our attention to this oversight. It is well known that no county,
in all the history of tho State, has been
developed and grown so rapidly in wealth
as this  county.   We   append  below a
brief statement on this point, from the
j Echo :
A dozen years ago a dozen coal open
digested.   In fattening hogs, the  great JBga ;n tne county, producing, perhaps, a
Dr. Hall relates the case ofa man who
was cured of his biliousness by going
without his supper and drinking freely
of lemonade. Every morning, says the
doctor, this patient arose with a wonderful sense of rest and refreshment, and a
feeling as though the blood had been
literally washed, cleansed and cooled by
the lemonade and the rest. His theory
is that food will bo used as a remedy for
many diseases successfully. As an example, he cures cases of spitting blood
by the use of salt; epilepsy and yellow
fever, by water-melons ; kidney affections, bycelery; poison, olive or_sweet
oil; erysipelas, pounded cranberries applied to the parts affected ; hydrophobia,
onions, etc. So the way to keep in good
health is really to know what to eat—not
to know what medicines to take.
How To Avoid Colds.
aim should be to make them eat just as
much and no more than they can digest.
There are hogs that can digest more corn
than they will eat. In this case there is
nothingto be gained by cooking—unless
it will induce them to eat more. I
would give them all the cooked or fermented food they would eat up clean. I
would then pour a little more into the
trough. They will fight over it and eat
it up. Then give a little more, and so
on until you are sure they will eat no
more of this cooked food. Then throw
an ear of corn into the pen, and let them
try to get it away from each other. Every
extra ear of com you can get them to eat
and digest, will give you nearly or quite
as much pork as the corn contains. A
large proportion of the food of animals,
is used to support respiration and the
vital functions. The growth comesfroin
the food eaten and digested in excess of
this amount. It takes some time and
not a little sense to feed pigs in this waj\
But it will pay.
Now, On the other hand, if your pigs
will eat more than they digest, there may
and there may not be an advantage in
COokillg their food. If the cooking or
fermenting will enable them to digest
more food, then, at the present high
price of corn, it will pay well. "I don't
think it pays at all," said the Deacon,
"to feed hogs corn at present prices."—
I think it does; but that is not what I
meant. That is another question. What
we are talking about now, is whether in
case you feed pigs at all, it will pay to
cook the food for them. It certainly
will not pay to throw bushels of corn into a pen of coarse, ill-bred,_ ravenous
hogs, and let them pass one-third orone-
half of it undigested. A good appetite
is a good thing. A good digestion is
better—what we want in a pig is both.—
American Agriculturist.
dozen car loads per day, was the sum of
our prosperity. Now, what have we to
exhibit as the reward of our industry in
that time: Over forty first-class coal
shafts in successful operation, five blast
furnaces, with a united manufacturing
capacityof over one hundred and fifty
tons of pig iron per day, one of the largest rolling mills in the world, one of
thc best foundries and machine shops in
the State, four newspapors instead of
one, terra cotta works, a stone pump
manufactory, stave factories, saw, grist
and planing mills by the dozen, woolen
factories, tanneries, potteries, and various other branches of manufacturing
industry, in iron, wood, leather, stone,
clay, and the productions of tbe earth
and soil, giving employment to thousands
ofskilled workman in converting the
"raw material'1 with which our county
abounds, into marketable products,
while our population has increased in
proportion to the demands of labor, thus
creating a "home market" full of good
prices, for the products of the farmer.
It invades the family circle and spreads
woe and sorrow all around it; cuts down
youth in all its vigor, manhood in its
strength and age in its weakness; it
brakes the fathers heart, bereaves the
doting mother, it brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength ; sickness,
not health ; death not life. It makes
wives, .widows; children, orphans. It
covers the land with idleness and poverty, disease and crime. It fills our jails;
supplies our alms house and furnishes
subjects for our Asylums. It condemns
law, spurns order, crowds penitentiaries,
and furnishes victims, for the gallows.
It is the food for the gamblerv
counterfeiter. It countenances thc liar,
respects the thief, and esteems the blasphemer. It violates obligations. It
hates love, scorns virtue, and slanders
innocence. It incites the father to
butcher his innocent children j helps the
husband to kill his wife. It burns man,
consumes woman. It curses God, despises heaven. It bribes jurors, defiles
the jury box. It bribes votes, corrupts
elections, poisons our institutions, and
endangers our government. It degrades
the citizen, degrades the legislator, and
dishonors the statesman. It brings
shame, not honor; terror, not safety;
dispare, not hope; misery, not happiness
It kills peace; ruins morals; blights
confidence ; slays reputation and wipes
out national honor; then curses the
world, and laughs at the ruin it has inflicted upon the human race. It covers
the land with idleness,_ poverty, disease,
and crime. It creates infidelity; it hates
God, despises God's sacred word, and
would destroy the Holy Bible.
I think there might bo some means to
eradicate this evil where there are so many
cries going up to the Lord, by so many
wives and mothers, praying that their
husbands andsons might bo saved from
the intoxicating cup. Let the sober
thinking men cease to nominato men to
office of profit or trust, whatever that is,
who is in the habit of treating any man
to gain votes. Because to nominate such
men or elect such men to office is adding
fuel to the flame. It is increasing misery,
hatred, immorality. We then as voters
should vote for the moral man, instead
of_ voting for the tipler or the dram
drinker. Lotus stand firm and true to
this one principle, that we won't support
men that are in league with these sink
holes,
A Voter and Farmer.
Caring for Farm Implements.
AN INTERNATIONAL CUERENCY.
Kor the Indiana Farmer.
THE POULTRY SHOW.
Purdue University, Nov. 30th.
I have read with interest in your paper
Messrs. Riley, Barker, Bennett and John
G.'s talk about poultry. The question
should not be who will take the premium
at the shows? But let us organize a
State Poultry Association, then get all
the breeders of Indiana interested, then
we can hold our shows and let those
who show the best birds take the premium.
Gentlemen, what do you say? Lotus
ask all the poultry men of Indiana to
meet us in Indianapolis on the 6th day
of January, 1875—this being the second
day of the meeting of the State Board
iof Agriculture; then we can see what
i our agents are doing for the promotion
of the agricultural interest.
L. A. Burke.
An editorial in the   British   Medical
Journal,   on   catching  cold,  concludes
thus:—"The   practical     considerations
which are the out-comes of this  review
of the pathology of colds   are   these:—
Never to wear wet clothes   after  active
muscular exertion has   ceased,  but  to
change them at once; to meet the loss of
the body heat by warm  fluids   and  dry
clothes ; to avoid long sustained loss of
heat which is not   met by increased pro- I
duction of heat; to increase the tonicity i
of the vessels of the skin by cold  baths,
etc., so educating them to contract readi- i
ly on exposure,   by  a_ partial adoption,
indeed, of tie hardening' plan ; to avoid
too warm and   debilitating   rooms  and
temperatures;   to   take    especial    care
against too great loss of heat when   the
skin is glowing; and to prevent the   inspiration of cold air by the mouth   by
some protecting agent, as a  respirator.
We can readily understand how a respirator should  bo an effective  protection
against winter bronchitis in those so disposed."
—. , m s
To Conceal Bad Tastes of Medicines.—The bitter taste of quinia, colo-
cynth, aloes, quassia and other bitter
medicines is said to be instantly removed
by chewing a piece of licorice root. To
disguise castor oil rub two drops oil of
cinnamon with an ounce of glycerine and
add an ounce of castor oil. Children will
take it and ask for more.
Light Draught.
An'experienced farmer says, for any
soil except sand or gravel use a steel
plough. Their cost is but little more,
and the draught enough less to pay. the
difference^ in ploughing twenty acres.
In ploughing sod the coulter does a great
deal of the work and should be kept
sharp bv forging at' thc blacksmith's,
and grinding every day if necessary. Of
course it will wear out sooner, but new
coulters are cheaper than new teams.
Set the coulter in line with the plough,
tho edge square in front, with an angle
of forty-five degrees from the point to
which it is attached to the beam. When
the share gets worn short it is poor
economy to use it any longer; but replace it with a new one. Let the traces
De as short as will allow the horses to
walk without hitting their heels against
the whiffietrees.
The Journal ofthe Farm well says:
There is no principle in farming better
established than that all tools and machines should be housed when not in use,
and the farmer who neglects this is
greatly wanting in the eloment of economy. _ The mowing machino that is left
standing in the fence corner, cannot be
expected to do good work, and for wooden
implements the case is worso still. The
prudent farmer not only houses his implements, but he devotes rainy and snowy
days to repairing them. A mowing machine the journals of whicharo cleaned
of their accumulation of grimed grease
and carefully oiled, will run twenty-five
per cent, lighter and fifty per cent, longer
than one that does not receive this attention.' Joseph Harris says his hardest
task with hired men is to make them
take care of the tools of the farm. No
wonder such men never reach the good
fortune of having farms of their own.
Keeping Celery.
At the time ofthe funeral of the late
Capt. B. F. Willard, in North Berwick,
Me., his faithful dog howled so mournfully that he had to be chained in the
barn to lessen the sound. When he was
let loose he searched the premises to find
his master, and not finding him, he
tracked the body to the grave-yard, a
half-mile or more from the house; and
now he daily goes to the grave and howls
for his lost owner.
A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph says : A friend of mine has
kept his celery through the winter now
for several years by standing it in spring
water about an inch in depth; and kept
thus it continues to grow and send up
fresh branches, so that ho has cut
nicely blanched, tender tops two and
three times in a winter. My trouble
with the y-ench system has been meadow
mice, which appear to be as fond ofthe
plant as I am, and make sad havoc with
it. Otherwise, it was the best way to
keep it, which I had an opportunity of
trying.
 .. m>   «  .
Bonk Felon.—The London Lancet
suggests the following simple treatment:
As soon as the disease is felt, put directly over the. spot a fly-blister, about the
size of your thumb nail, and let it remain
for six hours, at the expiration of which
time.directly under the surfoce ofthe
blister, may be seen the felon, which can
Horace II. Day, of New. York, a man
of standing, great wisdom and forecast,
and withal, the enemy of all monopoly,
originates the following on national and
international finance:
"It is to abandon gold or bullion to
the category^ of _ valuable commodities.
Let each nation issue for itself the 3 U.V
100 per cent, interchangeable bonds,
bearing in all cases and in all countries
thc. rate of interest not higher than the
average annual increase of wealth, say
three per cent, and thus make the medium of exchange, of uniform value—or
rate of interest—a legal tender for everything in the country issuing it. Then in
effecting trade and adjusting balances,
those interest-benring obligations of the
Government will supply the place of
gold. I ask how, under such a system,
could there be disastrous over-trading?
Every nation would have the power to
measure its neighbor, and the country
which had no product to exchange, could
get none of its 'obligations abroad, nor
control their value at home as a measuring instrumentality for commodities,
and therefore must so adjust.tlio quantity
as to benefit equally all classes. I say,
also, it cannot escape the minds of far-
seeing men that all thc nations are passing through stages of development, the
natural outcome of causes, among which
the printing press and telegraph may be
named, which have never previously uttered the force of their combined power
upon mankind in a general upheaval.
Nor of theinoral force of that modern
organized industry, under the lead of
men who love God and their fellow-men,
are looking and working for judgment
and justice in the world, and who Beek
an ultimate common interest, where may
be found safety and permanent peace."
HAMILTON COUNTY.
Westfieij>, December 7.
Corn good and nearly all In the crib. Wheat
(old crop) an average and of good quality.
That now ln the ground ls damaged some by
insects and the late droght, but llatbeen greatly Improved by the tail ralna. Apple crop
short. Hog crop short and mostly sold at from
$5 to 158, although some persons had tho requisite nerve to hold longer and received t7. Tha '
hog cholera ls prevalent and destructive, and
the crop next year will be shorter than It Is this
year.
We are proud of the Farmkk, and aro glad
you have rescued lt from the political quagmire
ln which Mr. Olleman was sinking It. Please
publish this without doctoring, for I will put
my "John Hancock" to lt and assume all responsibility. I have been a subscriber from
the beginning, and shall continue so long as
politics are banished from its columns. Suo-
cess to you and your subscribers.
T. J. Lindi.ev:
MORGAN COUNTY.
Mouoantown, Dec. 7.
Some time ago you published a statement
that Bro. Thompson', of Monrovia, had a'stalk
of corn that measured over nine feet, and another says he has a stalk over ten feet to tho
first ear. We can bout that In Johnson county.
Bro. Yount presented our Post-master with a
stalk ten feet seven Inches to the first ear, and
A. Moser, of Brown county, a mole bean stalk
fifteen feet high. How will this do for high,
and who can beat it? Grangers thick and Increasing in numbers. I see you pror nse to club
with tho Chicago weeklies; why not club with
the Stock Journal of thc same place, and same
price? Nearly all stock men take tho Journal,
and I think a great many would take the Farmer ln connection with It. Header.
[Will club with Stock Journal; It and Farm-
iV'. for $3 20.~Ect'r.] ,   •
HENRY COUNTY.
Mt. Summit, Dec. 3.
As I see no report lu the Farmer from this
county, I will venture to write you one. Corn )
is over an average crop, and of good quality;
mostly sold at from 45 to 50 cent^, "llojjji. rjA,
an average number, but very fine." Wo nuve "
good stock, and good corn makes flne porkers
—mostly sold nt $5 to S7. Wheat, not ail average acreage sown, and nearly all that I have
seen, looks bad; chinch bugs supposed to be
the cause. Old wheat about three-fourths sold,
at from 90 cents to SI 25. Oats about lX, tho
usual crop. Potatoes a full crop, und very fine;
sweet potatoes about the usual crop. .Apples,
y., of a erop, but very line, and wild at CO to 75
cents per bushel. Peaches were a bountiful
crop, but of second rate; sold at 50 cents to tl 25.
Grangers rather in the back ground. Peach
buds badly damaged. P. P. Rifnkii,
PORTER COUNTY.
Valparaiso, Nov. 30.
Wheat averaged 10 bushels per acre. Corn
about half n crop on account of the drought.
Oats a medium crop. Fruit of all kinds about
% ofa crop. Potatoes, average price 50 cents.
Crops of all kinds were short, but well matured.
Cattle above an average; market dull. Good
butchers' stock 3 to 4 cents; stock cattle J2 75 lo
83 00; good cows from 20 to RiO. Hogs havo
nearly all gone forward. Prices range from W
$6 GO per hundred. A very large acreage of
wheat sown, and never looked beater. The Indiana Farmer is an Indispensable article, and
I will use ray best efforts to get up a club for It.
A. Stanton.
RUSH COUNTY.
JlKKCH Orovk, 12th mo., 7.
Corn mostly cribbed in good order; prico 60
cents per bushel. The growing wheat has Improved, but looks poor yet. No wheat selling
now. Fruits generally rotting badly. Cattle
are not very plenty, und low price. Hh eop very
scarce, and the dogs are killing what we have.
Hogs, chipping last week at 7 cents; stock rated
at 6 cents, and moro wanted in this locality.
The cold snap left many to mourn over house
plants,and lire-wood the suow. Rats are
plenty. John W. Ci^ark.
N
PROW ANOTHER.
Milrov, Dee., K.
Corn one-half crop. Potatoes!, apples and all
other winter stores, one-third crop. Hogs one-
lurif crop, and all sold at good prices. Stock
hogs very scarce. All klndsof stock are looking bad from want of fall pasture. Stalk fields
are already eaten up. Hay scarce, and corn
the only feed. Wheat is looking well and nn
average amount sown. Orungers flourishing,
nnd are going to build a store-hsuse and hail
iu Milroy. G.M. ().
Treatment op Erysipelas.—The
Medical Recbrd states that in the Brooklyn City Hospital the following has
proved efficacious as a local application
in erysipelas: Acetate of lead, carbonate of magnesia, camphor, each twenty
grains, water one pint.
Some farmers in Ohio  report largely
increased  yields  of wheat  by mixing
 t j ,  various kinds of seed. Some have mixed
instantlybe taken out with the point ofa I six or eight kinds, and   have   increased
needle or a lancet. their crop twenty-five per cent.
The 'New Harmony Itegistcr says:
'The finest—that is the heaviest—lot of
hogs ever received in New Harmony,
antl perhaps in the State, was slaughtered this week for Mr. llibeyre, st the
Kage Mill. The lot comprised sixty
hogs, the average weight being over 501
pounds net. The bogsi wero raised and
fattened by Mr. James ('ale, of 1'osey-
ville, and sold alive, without weighing,
to Mr. Ribcyrc, for $10 a head—$2.100
for the lot. Sixty hogs, eighteen months
old, averaging 501 pounds I 'Some' hoea.
Who can beat its"'
Mr. H. Funston, ofthe same neighborhood, also sold and delivered thirty
hogs, one-half blood ofthe same breed-
they were fifteen months old and weighed
10,120 pounds—averaging &J7J pounds.
They have a "dreadful" mean mtm in
Iowa, He gave the measles to a neiith k
bor tho other day and has hem crying-
ever since—not because bo parted with
the measles, but brcauso ho had to iriv<.
them away. Could he havo sold thLn
"he would have died happy." h '"'
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