Vol. X.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, OCTOBER 9th, 1875.
No. 40.
Live Stock.
THE KENTUCKY SALES.
Next Monday the great series of Short-
Horn sales begin, and continue to the
27th inst., as will be noticed by our advertising columns. These sales will afford opportunity for obtaining some of
the finest animals in this county to breed
from, and we understand that there are
many who will avail themselves of the
privilege offered. The sales are likely
to be well attended.
REPORT OF SALES OP 8T0CK.
J. T. Williamson, of Thorntown. Ind.
reports the following recent sales of
stock: One yearling Bull, 5th Duke of
Atholl 11W05, got by Fairholme Duke of
Atholl 13244, out of Grace Plumwood
9th by Don Louanjo 7840; to George E.
Conrad, Thorntown, Ind.; one 2-year
old bull Excelsior Cth 17065, got by Excelsior 14214, out of Julia by Pearl 2012;
and also one yearling, Leicester buck,
to E. Fryback, Lafayette, Ind.; one 2-
year old buck to J. D. Barr, Pennville,
Ind.; four ewes and one buck to Martin
Smith, Jackson Station, Tipton Co., Ind.;
two bucks and two ewes to W. H. Branson, Farmland, Ind.; one 2-year old buck
to Lanty Armstrong, Center P. 0., Howard County, Ind.; one buck lamb, to
John Pearce, Freelandsville, Knox Co.,
Ind.; one buck Iamb to D. B. Engart,
Walton, Cass Co., Ind.
THE NEW CATTLE DISEASE.
We have several times referred to the
prevalence of this disease in a mild form
in this State. We have not heard of
many deaths from it yet. It has lately
spread with great rapidity in Great Britain. In the county of Dorset, England,
alone thirteen thousand cases were under
treatment. They have had the largest
experience with the disease in that country, of any other, and are, therefore, most
capable of suggesting remedies. Mr. G.
A. Fancett, of Somersetshire, England,
publishes the following remedy which he
recommends as a certain cure of the disease :
"It is possible to cure the foot and
mouth disease in four days. In getting
some cattle from Ireland a short time
ago, they arrived with this disease, and
it appeared in three or four different
parts of the buildings. _ Of course it
commenced with one animal, and then
other animals were taken with it in different positions in the yards. He isolated those that were ill as quickly as he
could, and got all the infected animals
into one building, where he shut them
up. He covered them up, and so got
them warm. The next thing was to take
the food from them entirely, give them
8 ounces of salts, 4 pounds of treacle, 1
ounce of nitre, 1 ounce of ground ginger,
and 2 ounces of sulphur, adding boiling
water so as to make four or five quarts,
giving it new milk warm. The next
morning he gave them one ounce of carbonate of potash, two ounces of the hy-
posulphate of soda, in six quarts of warm
water, for the jiurpose of purifying the
blood and keeping down the fever. On
the evening of the second day they had
about a quart of linseed well boiled, and
horned into them. He had their feet
washed with on ounce of nitre in a quart
of warm water—not to stop the discharge, but to soften the parts and take
the inflammation away. It was a very
important point to wash the nose out. He
had their mouths washed out with a
quarter of an ounce of tannic acid in a
quart of boiling water, using it when
new milk warm. That immediately took
away the soreness of the mouth. About
a wine-glassful of this tannic acid was
put into their nostrils, and allowed to
run right into their throats. The result
was that in a few minutes a large quantity of mucus was thrown from their
throats, and that enabled the animals to
breathe freely. On the second day he
had the same done, and on the third day
the cattle were able to chew the cut.
Under this treatment there was only one
day they did not chew their cud, and on
the fourth day little or nothing could be
seen ef the disease. In milking cows he
knew what a great deal of difficulty was
sometimes experienced. His cows lost
no quarters, and had no inflammation of
'he udder, which he bathed and washed
with tannic acid every two hours, and he
had the cows milked every two hours,
Jhe result being that he never got any
inflammation. Within a week the whole
of the animals were well, and he stopped
the extension of the plague by placing
Pure carbonic acid on pieces of old sacks
Placed near the mouths of the animals,'
• ?o that they could not breathe without
'ohaling more or less carbolio acid, and
a'bat prevented them taking the disease,
I'md no bad results were left behind."
Fine Stock a Safe Investment.
John Scott, in the -urine and Poultry
Journal for September, impresses a lesson which we have always sought to teach
by an illustration which may make it
clearer to many than it ever has been
before, and especially as he vouches for
the occurrence as an actual fact:
My neighbor bought a trio of fine pigs,
paying therefor the reasenable sum of
$120. The male was valued at i?C0, and
the females at thirty each. This was a
wise apportionment of value on all the
Eroduce. There are those who think,
oweyer, that $00 is too great a price for
one pig. In this case he did not die or
prove barren, but he begat his likeness
not only on the females of his own blood
but largely on others to which he was
bred. In tbe
short space of
two years my
neighbor had
sold, at prices
much less than
he paid, pure
bred pigs to the
Live Stock in Ohio.
The Ohio State Auditor has made up
his annual report, embracing, among
other things, the numbers of live stock
in Ohio as assessed in June. The numbers compare with last year as follows:
1875. 1ST..
Hogs _..1,17*,S!_ 1.915.320
Cattle LSOS^tiO 1,673,M_
Sheep _ _.100,_S8 4,Si3,N_
Horses    73.H.KU 72M,3t«
Mules, Ac     ---,£"1 25,: _5
The decrease in hogs is about 7 per
cent., and in sheep 55 per cent. The increase in horses is about 1_ per cent.; in
mules a little less than 4 per cent. There
is, therefore, a general decrease in the
numbers of live stock kept in Ohio of
more than 6 per cent.
Hungarian Grass for Cows.
.The following is the testimony of Dr.
Loring respecting Hungarian gra«s : "I
believe that I can more milk with this
grass, cut and mixed.with corn-meal and
shorts, than I can with the best timothy
hay cut and mixed in the same manner.
And when you remember that you can
raise on ordinary land, by sowing the
seed of Hungarian grass late in June,
from two and a half to three and a half
tons of good fodder to the acre,and that
this crop can be sown after we have ascertained whether we are to have a good
crop of hay or not, you will see the value
of this grass. I have such a high opinion of it that on my own farm I have
this year and last year raised from 75 to
100 tons of it for the purpose of feeding
to my milch cows during the winter."
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE   PROPERTY   OP   B.
male on his
other stock
say nothing
his enjoyment i
the possession
the best,
increased respect
of his neighbor:
of his own culture growing out
of the thought
he gave to his
pursuit, he had
a clear return of
$1,000 on an in-
vestmentof$120,
and all in two.
short years. Allowing one-half for contingencies, and
who has done as well as this with low-
priced stock ?
[f a boar will get one hundred pigs
in a year, and each of the pigs is worth
two dollars more than are those from a
common sire, what is he really worth?
If we'use him but three years at this
rate he will earn us $600. Is it not plain
that such an animal has a real value far
beyond the terrible hundred dollars for
which he sails? Is it safe, then, to wait
for the price to come down before we
buy ? The expectation or fear that the
prices will tumble, is based on the assumption that the world will move backwards. The idea is as vain as it is
uncomplimentary, as fallacious as it is
undesirable.
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American Cattle in London.
Much interest was created in the live
cattle market yesterday by the presence
of several salable fat beasts from New
York. Considering they had journeyed
about 3,000 miles by sea, and that on
their reception at the port of London
they were very rudely treated they were
in marvellously good condition. The
cattle arrived in the docks on Monday
week, all sound, with the exception of
one which which had Buffered severe
butting and bruising. The inspector declined to allow any of them to pass until
he had examined the one tbat showed
symptoms of injury. This he did not do
at once. He waited until the following
day, the result being that the uninjured
thirty-seven (thirty-eight being landed)
were kept until Wednesday in a space
not sufficient to accommodate half the
number. Then it was veterinarily declared that the animal supposed to be
affe*ted with chrouic disease was all
right, and it was sent up to the shambles
to have the small offall condemned ; the
meat, however, being passed, and the
others permitted to go at a loss to their
owners of at least a couple of pounds
per head. Still they handled admirably,
and the prices realized showed that they
must have been extremely good ere they
started on their long and "parlous'
journey as they made from £28 to £36 a
head, a good price even in this day of
"dear meat." The great fact to be noted
is this, that animals can be brought long
distances by sea without suffering much
deterioration in well appointed vessels.
The question to be considered is whether
the freightage may not absorb the profit.
—London Advertiser.
The Food of Swine.
If there is any one thing in rural practice which needs reforming more than
another it is the manner of raising and
feeding swine. From the time they are
large enough to eat they are offered all
manner of refuse about the placo, such
as rank weeds, filthy slops, spoiled vegetables and meats, dead fowls, etc. They
are allowed to rummage the dung-yard
and glean tho refuse of food in the faeces
of cattle and horses, on the ground of
of economy. But we imagine that the
quantity of food saved in this way is very
insignificant—not to exceed the value of
a bushel of shelled corn a year among
the whole stock on the ordinary-sized
farm. The objections to the practice of
keeping swine in this way are so serious,
however, that the reasons in favor of it
have no force at all. The origin of
trichinosis in swine maybe always traced
to the consumption of vile stuffs in their
food, or to being housed and yarded
amid filth and foul air. Every few
months the press announces a case of
trichina, in an individual or a whole
family, with all the horrible details and
sufferings which attend the parasitic attack.
Interests, therefore, as dear as health
require a thorough reform in keeping
and feeding swine. Let their food be as
pure as that which other animals consume. Let them be kept in clean quarters and have pure air. Let diseased or
unthrifty animals be separated from
those in health, and we may have no
fears of trichinosis among either swine
or human beings. .
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Effects of Cold in Fattening.
Large Devon BnlL
Mr. Mattoon is a well-known Massachusetts breeder of Devons. In a notice
of this herd the Boston Cultivator has
the followig:
"The Duke of Hamrden is undoubtedly the best mature bull of the Devon
breed of cattle on the American continent, and it is doubtful whether he has
an equal in fatherland, whence the Devons were imported to this country and
Canada. He has size, substance, and
symmetry of form, his front viewgiving
one an impression of the proportions of
the Short-Horn._ His color is fine, and,
taking him all in all, he has never had,
and probably has not now, an equal on
this continent. His weight is about
2,300 pounds.
"Mr. Mattoon has a cow that weighs
over 1,400 pounds. Thus it will be seen
that Mr. Mattoon has greatly improved
the size of Devons, removing, in a measure, what some regard as a fault in them,
to-wit, that they are under sized, or too
small. Mr. Mattoon is breeding for
milk, he deeming that a prominent end
to be kept constantly in view in New
England. He has one cow that produced upward of 8,000 pounds of milk
in one year.
Terre Haute has organized a Greenback club.
The Fall River Mass., mills are all
running now.
The Ohio State election will occur on
the 12th inst.
Elkhart's Centennial Tea Party footed
$220 receipts.
A constable of Logansport defaulted
in the sum of $1,700.
The late heavy frosts reached as far
South as Memphis.
Many of the children of Angola have
been suffering of sore throat.
The defaulting Treasurer of Ripley
county is now out on $1,000 bail.
North Vernon is going to erect a $6,000
iron Bridge over the Muscatatuck.
Eighty-three National Banks have
been organized since January 14th, last.
One acre of land in Laporte county is
reported to have yield 685 bushels of
onions.
Willard Carpenter, of Evansville, has
contributed property worth $500,000 to
Willard College.
The town of Las Cruces, New Mexico,
was recently nearly all washed away by
water spouts.
Robert Dale Owen has so far recovered
his sanity as to be able to leave the Asylum this week.
The total receipts of the Huntington,
county fair were $2,290 84, and that of
Bartholomew $5,000.
The Van Wert Ohio Woolen Mills
were destroyed by fire a few days since.
Tho loss is stated at from $30,000 to $40,-
000..  No insurance.
The new census of Minnesota, shows
a population of 597.016, a gain over census of 1670, of 157,312.
Tho decrease of thc national debt during September, was $3,342,562. Decrease
since June 30th, 1875, $6,222,499.
Two prominent citizens of North Vernon, are reported-to have died last week
from the effects of liquor drinking.
Gens. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Ros-
encranz and other military leaders are
expected to attend the State ro-union on
the 14th and 15th.
Indiana, Farmer Family.
Our Postal Card Correspondence.
Cot. John B. Poynt_'s herd of Alderneys, at the CoIumbus.Ohio.Fair, last
week, carried off five first and three
second premiums, viz: lst and 2d, on one
and two year olds; 2d on bull Kentucky;
lst, on twoyear old bull Kentucky No. 2;
lst on yearling bull and lst on best cow;
eight head of cows were shipped on
Tuesday morning by Col. Poyntz to
Indianapolis, where the herd will next
be exhibited to^ take the place of that
number sold during the fair at Columbus,
Ohio.—Maysville Bulletin.
A producer of pork in Muskingum
county, O., who has made an expe'iment
with hogs with a view to ascertain how
far cold retards the rate of fattening,
reports thejbllowing results :'"-•*•"•'.r—_
"Carefully weighing the hogs fed, and
the corn fed to them, and estimating
pork at four cents per pound, he found
that what he fed out during the first
week in October returned (in pork) 80
cents per bushel; the first week in November, 60 cents; the third week, 40;
the fourth week in November and the
month of December, 25; the first half
of January, 5; the last half, 0. In the
October week of the experiment the
weather was pleasant and warm. It
gradually grew colder till the latter part
of November, from whieh time it remained about stationary till the lst of
January, after which it ran down to
zero, and below in the latter part of the
month. The hogs were well sheltered
in a good pen with plank floor."—Agricultural Report.
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Sale op Trottino Stallion Dr.
Herb.—R. S. Stradcr, Esq.. Boone Co.
Stud Farm, Bulletsville, Ky., has sold
to Mr. Isaac Shcppard, of Indiana, the
bay horse Dr. Herr,foaled 1868,by Mambrino Patchen, out of Forrest Tell Tale
by Edwin Forrest, her dam Tell Tale by
Telamon, out of Flea by Medoc, &c, &c.
i —Ky. Live Stock Record.
Jndge Fnllerton's Cattle.
The Culpepper (Va.) Observer says:
"We are glad to announce that Judge
William Fullerton of New York, who
has a fine farm in Fairfax County, well-
stocked with the purest breeds, has consented to bring a herd of the celebrated
Holstein, or Dutch, cattle to our next
fair for exhibition. These cattle are
something new to our people, in fact we
doubt if a half dozen men in our country have ever seen them. They are large
thrifty cattle, black and white, and are
said to be the very best milkers, and combine a great many excellences entirely
novel to our people."
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Slobbering.—The cause of slobbering in horses, like that of milk sickness,
Beems to be ascribed by many to eating
clover, but to my mind, and that by
practical test, it is quite different. It
any one will go when the dew is on the
grass and gather a peculiar woven spider-
web, and take a small quantity and swallow it, he will feel a prickly sensation on
the glands of the throat, and for a time
will slobber the same as a horse. The
spider is small and red.—N. IF". H. in
Country Gentleman.
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Sheep on a farm yield both wool and
mutton. They multiply with great rapidity. They are thc best of farm scavengers, "cleaning a field" as no other
class of animals will. They give back
to the farm more in proportion to what
they take irom it than any other animal,
and distribute it better with a view to
the future fertility of the soil.
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The Michigan Parmer reports a three-
vcar-old steer which weighed 2,300 lbs
when turned on grass last_ spring. He
belongs to Mr. Beach, of Livingston Co.,
Michigan.
•The Bank of California,for some time
past suspended, resumed^ business on
Saturday last. The deposits largely exceeded the payments. ''
A prominent citizen of Greenfield, by
the name of Wood, committed suicide
in this city last week, in consequence of
financial and business difficulties.
The attempt of the Government Com-
misssioners to buy the Black Hills of
the Indians, ha9 proven a failure. The
Indians wanted a fabulous sum of
money.
The Commissioners of Gibson county
have appropriated $7,000 to repairing
the public roads, in order to give employment to those who suffered so much
by tha summer floods.
The Soldiers Re-Union in this city on
the 14th and 15th insts., promises to be
the largest gathering that ever assembled
at _ Indianapolis. Putnam county is
striving to send the largest number of
any county in the State.
INDIANA   SOLDIERS'   REUNION.
Gr_encastl_, Ind., Sept. 14,1874.
The soldiers of Indiana, including
those of the late war, Mexican war, war
of 1812, and those from other States
now living in Indiana ; also sailors of
either ot the foregoing wars, will
go into camp for two days in old
Camp Morton, (now the State Fair
grounds, Indianapolis), on the 14th and
15th of October. Every man who
takes pride in having served his country
is urgently invited to attend. Each regiment and battery will be assigned headquarters, thus enabling all to meet with
old friends and comrades without confusion. Governor Morton will make the
reception speech. Of the other speakers
so far selected more than one-half served
through the late war as private soidiers.
Their names will be announced as soon
as the list is complete. The programme
will include a review the second day by
President Grant, General Sherman and
other distinguished officers, the regiments carrying their old flags and the
wounded occupying the post of honor.
Railways will furnish transportation at
reduced rates, but it is recommended
that each county make arrangements for
special trains at special rates. Counties
along the Ohio river will make their own
arrangements for transportation by water
to the nearest railway. This should be
done without delay. Many counties are
mustering their men by regiments for
the Reunion, and it is urged that this be
done everywhere as the best means of
securing a full_ attendance. Begin recruiting and drilling at once by townships. Bring out your flags, your music,
and every man who wore the Union blue,
especially the disabled. Which will be
the Banner County ?
By order of Executive Committee.
Oh J. Lanqsdale, Chairman.
HARRISON COUNTY-October 2d.
Crops ln old Harrison look better and are
turning ont better than was expected. Our
corn Is mnch better this year than for many-
years. The wheat yielded better than we had
anticipated, aid potatoes never were better.
Cattle plenty; hogs scarce.  VV. F. Cromwell.
MONROE COUNTY-October 2d.
Weather very flne, but dry. We've had but
little rain since August 10th. Corn an average
crop, worth 60 cents. Hogs and cattle scarce.
Mules plenty, and buyers few. Corn Is abont
all cut up. Grangers ln a backward state. The
Farmer ls a welcome visitor. Long may lt
wave. • Lew Anderson.
GIBfON COUNTY-October 4.
Weather very dry. Some seeding done. The
ground Is too dry and hard to break, pest
wbeat worth J1.25 per bushel. Old corn scarce
ard selling at 60 to "Scents. Sweet potatoes are
selling at (1, and Irish potatoes 50 cents. Corn
crop short. Oar grange expects to build a hall
this tall.   Success to the Indiana Farmer.
J. Keron.
HAMILTON COUNTY-Oct. 4th.
A good potato crop—worth 30 cents per
bushel. Wheat not very good, and ranging in
price from thirty cents to 81.00. The corn crop
ls not as good as was expected. Apples a failure. Wheat sowing ls about over, and lt Is
coming up very well, and needs rain.
W. J. Land.
HAMILTON COUNTY-October 2d.
Wheat nearly all sowed, and the weather ls
very dry. Corn will be chaffy, and the fodder
nearly all ruined by the frosts. It ls very Inferior, and there will be less of It saved than
usual. Hogs are still dying with cholera, or
something similar. Cattle are in very good order, generally speaking. Sheep the same.
Horses are ln poor condition, and some for sale.
Potatoes reasonably good. Beans poorly filled.
Broom-corn good. J. H. A lbertson.
DELAWARE COUNTY-October 2nd.
Wheat all threshed; yield in my neighborhood, ten bushels per acre, and badly damaged
—worth 11.15 for best. Seeding mostly done.
Corn half a crop. Potatoes good. No apples,
and but few grapes. Fat hogs worth J7.15.
Btock hogs scarce, but healthy. Average paid
farm hands {18 to $20 per month. Health moderately good. Some chills and fever. Grangers
are ln good spirits. Our farmers seem to be
trying to Improve their stock. The Farmer Ib
a welcome visitor. A. ty. Ross."
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY-October 2d.
Weather cool, with frost and light freezes at
night. Corn badly bitten by the frost, but not
damaged, only the fodder, as most of the ears
were matured and ripe. A large amount of
fodder has -been cut for winter feed. Corn is
very good. Wheat that was sown early looks
well; the later town does not look quite so well.
Potatoes are yielding largely, and are very
good. Fall pastures are holding out well, and
stock is generally ln good condition. Apples
scarce, and what there are not very good.
Other fruit poor. A large acreage of wheat has
been sown. Patrons are numerous and In good
spirits. The Indiana Farmer Is very much
liked by all its readers hereabouts. The price
of wheat Is low; good, SI; poorer, from 50 to 90
cents. Potatoes very low, market overstocked.
Sweet potatoes plenty, and quality good; they
bring J1.25 to Jl_5 ln market. T. Ross.
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY—September 30th.
Weather warm and pleasant through the day,
but the nights are cool, with some frost. The
wbeat ls about all sown. Some complain of
the fly ln early sown wheat. Corn will be a
good average crop ln this county. Owing to
the excessive wet weather, hay was badly damaged, consequently farmers are " cutting np "
a large share of the corn, so as to have fodder
to supply the want of bay. Pastures are good,
and stock ls in good condition, which Is quite
an item. Apples are very scarce, and what
we have are of an Inferior quality. The potato
crop ls an enormous one, and many farmers are
feeding them to the hogs. Tbe grange ls still
alive ln this county, but is not making great
advancements towards the accomplishment of
any permanent good. There has been a Pomona Orange  organized  at the county seat.
B. F. H.
Reported for the Indiana Farmer.
Official List of Agricultural Patents
Issued by the United States Patent Office, for
the week ending Saturday, Sept. 25th, 1875.
Harvesters, A. J. Cook, Wachita, Kansas.
Horse Hay Rakes, B. J. Downing, Dayton, O.
Side Hill Plows, R. I. Knapp, Half Moon Bay,
California.
Wheat Steamers, D. Sines, Leavenworth, Kan.
Hog Traps, W. Deatherage, Galesburg, HI.
Harrows, J. B. Oreen, Elliott, Cal.
Cultivators, M. McNltt, Mound Station, IU.
Cotton Planters, J. B. Onon, Pecan Point,
Arkansas.
Sulky Plows, E. W. Russell, Ashley, Mo.
Butter Workers, P. Shaw, Scltusto, Mass.
Butter Molds, P. Shaw, Scltusto, Mass.
Rollers and Harrows, A. P. Allen, Denmark,
Iowa.
Churn Dashers, J. D. Bright, Terrell, Texas.
Churns, J. H. Coe, Zaleskl, Ohio.
Churn Dashers, O. W. Echoltz, New Manchester, Ind.
Corn Droppers, J. W. Fawkes, Mava, Ills.
Feed Cookers, B. Fisher, El Paso, 111.
Harvesters, J. S. Fowler, Davenport, Iowa.
Fence Posts, G. W. Hatch, Harkman, Ohio.
Horse Hay Rakes. J. Holllngswarth, Chicago,
Illinois.
Fruit Driers, D. S. Lemon, Leitersbnrg, Md.
Cattle Stalls, J. R.Marsh, Brasher Falls, N. Y.
Corn Planters, E. E. Matthews, Muncie, Ind.^
Check Rowers, L. J. Odell, Fayetteburg, 111.
Gates, C. C. Redmond, San Jose, Cal.
Grain Separators, L. C. Roger, Royerton, Ind."
Corn Shelling  Implements, J. M. Wilson, '
Nashua, N. H.
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