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Only Agricultural Paper in Indiana. Devotes a Department to the Interests of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry. Endorsed by Indiana State Board of Agricul- ture, Indiana Horticultural Society, Indiana Short-hom Breeders' Convention, and many County and District Societies. KINGSBUEY & CONNER, Publishers, OFFICE: No. 8 Bates Block, Opposite the P. 0., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. BrrBSCRiPTiON Tbkms—Two Dollars per Year; to Clubs of four or more, $1.75 each. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. This Department has been placed in the charge ef W. C. Gerard, to whom all Inquiries pertaining to advertising should be addressed. Terms—For four Insertions or less, ordinary pages, 15 cents per line each Insertion—12 lines nonpareil type per Inch. More than four and less than thirteen Insertions, 12>£ cents per line; more than 13 and less than 26 insertions, 10 cents per line. Liberal discounts for large advertisements and yearly contracts. Indianapolis, August 7th, 1875. For the Indiana Farme'r. VARIOUS CURRENT TOPICS. The harvest is over and the wheat is almost a failure. The farmers of this county generally would be better off if they had not sown any wheat. It is a very common remark, "that where wheat was well put in with the drill it has done well." That don't apply here this time. The best field of wheat I have seen this harvest, was on what is regarded as the poorest farm in the west part of this (Randolph) county, put in in the most slovenly manner, by one who is not regarded by his neighbors as a good farmer or an industrious man. On two ef the best farms managed by as good farmers as any in the county, land well prepared and carefully drilled in, with good clean seed wheat, the crop is not worth harvesting. Now what are we going to do about it, must we go back to the old slovenly method of the shovel plow or go forward to something better? The drill is no more certain to produe a good crop than broad-cast sowing, and I have been using the ordinary drill for twenty years. Last year I harrowed a field of wheat in the spring, with marked benefit to the crop. Don't let us keep on saying that drilled wheat does the best, when drilled wheat don't pay expenses. Try wide drill rows and spring harrowing and if that don't pay, sow less until we find out some plan of making the wheat crop pay. THE DOO AND SHEEP QUESTION. Brother Comstock makes out a strong casepgainst the dogs, and I don't wonder at his getting discouraged in trying to raise good sheep, and if a man does not know how to protect his sheep from dogs 1 should not advise him to go to sheep raising very strong. I have been keeping sheep on the same farm for over thirty years; began with thirteen sheep, have had as many as three hundred, on a farm of over 500 acres, have pastured my sheep in every field and woods pasture on the farm; left them in the fields at night, and never had a sheep killed or injured by dogs. There are over one hundred dogs in this township and there are nearly as many sheep killed each year as the dog tax will pay for. Some one will ask "have the dogs any respect for you or your sheep?" I think not, but they don't make it a regular business to tramp over my sheep pastures. Dr.' Stevenson says all _ dogs kill sheep. There may be exceptions to this rule, but it is a safe one to be guided by. We ought to raise more sheep and better ones; we ought to eat more and better mutton, then perhaps we might raise more and better wheat. ANONYMOUS WRITING. Seme one of your correspondents want to know why we sign any other than our own names to our communications. Anonymous writing has its uses as well as its abuses. A modest man or woman may have something valuable to give the public, but if required to give their name, would shrink from the task. New beginners do not know their own powers, and would not begin,_ if they were not allowed to sign a fictitious name. Some times popular evils need exposing and it needs must be done over an assumed name; but above all, the discussion ofa difficult question is best carried on over assumed names; then the arguments of each will have their just weight, whereas if one of the disputants is unknown and the other has an established reputation as a writer and thinker, the unknown man would hardly get a hearing over his own signature; but where we write facts for agricultural papers we should give our own names. Our county papers are full of abuse of the lowest order, of anonymous writing for the vilest pur- Pose, spite—and il is doing its work. Thomas W. Reece. Windsor. Indiana. , ?• S.—Since writing the above I learn 'bat William Botkin shot and dangerously wounded Charles Lewis. Both Parties are of respectable and wealthy families, living near Unionsport, in this county. Mr. Lewis is a nephew of Hon. isaac Jenkison, and was his secretary while at Glasgow, Scotland, as Unitod states Consul. The trouble as I understand grew out of some anonymous let- **rs published in the Winchester Journal 0ver the signature of'.'Zip," which were generally supposed to be Botkin, or some of his friends, and were replied to "P the same spirit by some other parties, "nose names I did not learn. A striking 1 Duse of anonymous writing, very much t0 be regretted. T. W. R. There is hardly a city in the United States which does not contain more people than can get a lair, honest living, by labor or trade, in the best times. AVhen times of business depression come, like those through which we have passed, and are passing, there is a large class that must be helped, to keep the-n from cruel suffering. Still the cities grow, while whole regions of the country,— especially its older portions,—are depopulated year by year. Yet the fact is patent to-day that the only prosperous class is the agricultural. We have now the anomaly of thrifty farmers and starving tradesmen. The agricultural classes of the AVest are prosperous. They had a good crop last year, and have received good prices for all their products; and while the cities are in trouble, and manufactories are running on half time, or not running at all, the AVestern farmer has money in his pocket, and a ready market for everything he has to sell. The country must be fed, and he feeds it. The city family may do without new clothes, and a thousand luxurious appliances, but it must have bread and meat. There is nothing that can prevent the steady prosperity of the American farmer but the combinations and "corners" of middle-men, that force unnatural conditions upon the finances and markets of the country. This is not the first occasion we have had for allusion to this subject, and it is sot likely to be the last. The forsaking of the farm for city life is one of the great evils of the time, and, so far, it has received no appreciable check._ Every young man, apparently, who thinks he can get a living in the city, or at the minor centers of population, quits his lonely home upon the farm and joins the multitude. Once in the city, he never returns. Notwithstanding the confinement and the straitened conditions of his new life he clings to it until he dies, adding his family to the permanent population of his new home. Mr. Greeley, in his days of active philanthropy, used to urge men to leave the city—to go AVest—to join the agricultural population, and thus make themselves sure ofa competent livelihood. He might as well have talked to the wind. A city population can neither be coaxed nor driveh into agricultural pursuits. It is not that they are afraid of work. The average worker ofthe city toils more hours than the average farmer in any quarter of the country. He is neither fed nor lodged as well as the farmer. He is less hide pendent than the farmer. He is a bond slave to his employers and his conditions; yet the agricultural life has no charms for him. Whatever the reason for this may be, it is not based in the nature ofthe work, or in its material. rewards. The farmer is demonstrably better off than the worker of the city. He is more independent, has more command of his own time, fares better at table, lodges better, and gets a better return for his labor. What is the reason, then, that the farmer's boy runs to the city the first chance he can get, and remains, if he can possibly find there the means of life ? It can only be found, we believe, in the social leanness, or social starvation, of American agricultural life. The American farmer, in all his planning, and all his building, has never made provision for life. He has only considered the means _ of getting a living. Everything outside of this—everything relating to society and culture—has been steadily ignored. He gives his children the advantages of schools, not recognizing the fact that these very advantages call into life a new set of social wants. A bright, well-educated family, in a lonely farm-house, is very different material from a family brought up inignor- ance. An American farmer's children, who have had a few terms at a neighboring academy, resemble in no degree the children of the European peasant. They come home with new ideas and hew wants, and if there is no provision made for these # new wants, and they find no opportunities for their satisfaction, they will be ready, on reaching their majority, to fly the farm and seek the city. Ifthe American farmer wishes to keep his children near him, he must learn the difference between living and getting a living; and we mistake him and his grade of culture altogether if he does not stop over this statement and wonder what we mean by it. To get a living, to make money, to become "forehanded"—this is the whole of life to agricultural multitudes, discouraging in their numbers to contemplate. To them there is no difference between living and getting a living. Their whole life consists in_ getting a living; and when their families come back to them from their schooling, and find that, really, this is the ouly pursuit that has any recognition under the paternal roof, they must go away. The boys push to the centers or the cities, and the girls follow them fif they can. A young man or a young woman, raised to the point where they apprehend the difference between living and getting a living, can never be satisfied with the latter alone. Either the farmer's children must be kept ignorant, or provision must be made for their social wants. Brains and hearts need food and clothing as well as bodies; and those who have learned to recognize brains and hearts as the best and most important part of their personal possessions, will go where they can find the ministry they need. .What is the remedy? How shall farmers manage to keep their children near them? How can we discourage the influx of unnecessary—nay, burdensome— populations into the cities? AVe answer: By making agricultural society attractive. Fill the farm-houses with periodical's and books. Establish central reading-rooms, or neighborhood clubs. Encourage the social meetings of the young. Have concerts, lectures, amateur dramatic associations. Establish a bright, active, social life, that shall give some significance to labor. Above all, build, as far as possible, in villages. It is better to go a mile to one's daily labor than to place one's self a mile away from a neigh- bor._ The isolation of American farm- life is the great curse of that life, and it falls upon tbe women with a hardship that the men cannot appreciate, and drives the educated young away.—Dr. J. G. Holland, in Scribner. JONATHANS DOINGS. Uncle Sam's history is rapidly approaching the Centennial. The following record of his early days, and up to one hundred years ago, shows how he employed his time: 1C20. Lands on Plymouth Hock, and sets up for himself. 1621. Keeps Thanksgiving—in no danger of over-eating. 1G22. Building a meeting house. Proclaims a Fast day. Cuts down a May pole at Merry as a rebuke to vain recreations. Is crowded for accommodations, and stakes out a new farm at Connecticut. 1687. ' Makes war on the Antinomi- ans and the Pequot Indians, and whips both. 1638. Starts a college. 1040. Sets up a printing press. 1643. Goes into a confederacy. The first Colonial Congress. 1643. Lays down the Cambridge Platform. Hangs a witch. 1649. Sets his face against the unchristian custom of wearing long hair, n tninir linniinl nti.1 «>MiAe«e,lii " 1623. 1628. Mount, 1635. a thing uncivil and uncomely 1651. Is rebuked for "intolerable excess and bravery.of apparel," and is forbidden to wear gold or silver lace, or any such gewgaws. 1052. Coins Pine Tree shillings, and makes the business profitable. 1003. Prints a Bible for the Indians. 1080. Buys a _" hang-up " clock, and occasionally carries a silver watch that helps him to guess the time of day. About this period learns to use forks at tables, a new fashion. 1092. Is scared by witches again at Salem, but gets the better of them. 1702. Founds another college, which, at last settles down at New Haven. 170-4. Prints his first newspaper in Boston. 1705. Takes coffee as a luxury, and at ais own table. 1708. Constructs another platform— this'time at Saybrook. 1710. Begins to sip tea—very sparingly. It does not come into family use till 25 years later. * 1711. Puts a letter into the first Post office. 1720. Eats a potato, and lakes one home to plant in his garden as a curiosity. 1721. Is inoculated for the smallpox—not without grave remonstrances from his conservative neighbors. 1730. Begins to sing by note, on Sundays, thereby encountering inu'jh opposition, and opening a ten years quarrel. 1740. Manufactures tinned ware, and starts the first tin peddler on his travels. 1742. Sees Faneuil Hall built. The cradle of liberty is ready to be rocked. 1745. Builds an organ, but does not permit it to be played in the meeting house. 1750. Buys a bushel of potatoes for winter's use—all his friends wondering what he will do with so many. 1755. Puts up a Franklin stove in the best room, and tries one of the newly invented lightning rods. 1700. About this time begins to wear a collar to his shirt. AVhen he can afford it, takes his wife to meeting in a chaise, instead of on a pillion, as heretofore. 1705. Shows his dislike to stamped paper, and joins the "Sons of Liberty." 1708. Tries his hand at type-founding—not yet successfully—in Connecticut. 1770. Buys a home-made wooden clock. 1773. AVaters his tea, in Boston harbor. Plants Liberty trees wherever he finds good soil, 1774. Lights Boston streets with oil lamps—a novelty, though " New Lights " have been plenty for some years. 1776. Brother Jonathan—as he begins to be called in the family—declares himself free and independent. In the face of the universal esteem in which these wonderful structures are held, we find the most wide-spread carelessness as to their preservation. Itis not too much to say that good teeth in adult mouths are the rare exception; they should be the rule. AVhy are they not the rule? Simply because of the criminal neglect of their owners. AVhat would be said of the man or woman who would- rest content to plunge the hands into a mass of meat and grease, and potatoes, and bread and coffee, three times each day. and yet leave the hands unwashed? Yet this is precisely what is done with relerence to the teeth by ninety-nine one hundredths of the American people. The result is, a breath bearing the pestilence; a thousand diseases induced by breathing air thus contaminated: the early loss of the most beautiful ornaments of the face; dyspepsia from imperfect mastication; the evidences of old age before the years of youth are past; deformity and homeliness where beauty might have dwelt had ordinary neatness been the result. The teeth can be saved, ordinarily, by proper care, begun in infancy and never suspended. A brush must be used, and a very substantial one, which should be often renewed. The teeth should be brushed up and down, so that the bristles will pass between and dislodge the food which collects between them, and which will speedily make vinegar having complete solvent power over them. A good dentifrice may well be used, as we have said, but in the absence of exactly the right thing, a little soap or cnalk will be found useful and harmless. AVe have often, of late, pointed out what we have found to be the best article prepared for use upon the teeth. The great thing is cleanliness, unceasing, energetic cleanliness. AVithout it, no tooth is safe; with it, few teeth need be lost. These facts let parents command and teach and enforce by daily precept and by constant example.—Halls Journal of Health »WMentIon the Indiana Farmer when writing to advertisers concerning advertisements ln onr columns. Essex Pigs—Pure and well bred. Address A. P. WILEY & SON, Augusta, Ma- rlon County, Indiana. 22-8t. A. W. Boss, Muncie, Delaware Co., Indiana. Breeder of Thoroughbred Poland Swine. Pigs for Sale. 30-52, Harvey Lewis, Edinburg, Ind., Breeder of Thoroughbred Alderney Cattle, Southdown Bheep, and BerkHhlre Pigs, x-1-52 J. L. Stratton & Sons, New London, Howard county, Indiana. Breeders of Berkshire Pigs, Light Brahma and Partridge Cochin Fowls, Btock selected and bred from the best in the State. Prices reasonable, Satisfaction guaranteed. 18-52t. M. C. Stanley, Annapolis, Indiana, Breeder and Shipper of Poland-China Hogs, and the leading varieties of land and water Fowls. Satisfaction guaranteed. xl7-ly. Ayres & McClintock, Millersburg, Bourbon County, Kentucky, are breeding and have for sale Shott-Horns of the most fashionable families. Send for catalogue. 22-ly. James Jackson, Breeder of Short Horn csttle and South Down sheep, Hich- valley, Wabash county. Indiana. ix-4fj-ly Jacob Kennedy, Lizton Hendricks county, Indiana, Breederof and Dealer in pure Berkshire Swlne and Cotswold Sheep. 6, ly. R. B. Chenoweth, Greencastle, Ind., Breederof thoroughbred Short Horn Catlle. Bulls and Heifers for sale. 38-ly John W. Reagan, Poultry Fancier, Monrovia, Indiana. All leading varieties of eggs for sale ln season. Price-list free. 6tf F. H. Starwalt, Quincy, Owen Co., Indiana, Breeder and Snipper of Berkshire Hogs, and Light Brahma Fow Is. x-7-ly C. Y. C. .Alden, Sunman, Ripley Co., Indiana, Breeder of and Dealer in Alderney Cattle and Light Brahma Poultry. 20-32 Berkshire Pigs. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circulars sent free. 2S-tf. WM. HIOBEE, Rising Sun, Ind. Wm. H. Pry, Indianapolis, Indiana, Breeder of strictly flrst-class Light and Dark Brahmas, White and Partridge Cochins, Black- Red Oaine Bantams, Bronze Turkeys and Aylesbury Ducks. SB.tf James Riley, Thorntown, Indiana, Breeder of Pure Berkshire Swine and Partridge Buff and White Cochins, and Dark and Light Brahmas. I took the following premiums on my Hogs and Poultry last fall: at Lafayette 8 First Premiums, at Fort Wayne 10 First and 2 Second Premiums; at Kokomo 4 First and 2 Second Fremiums, and at Thorntown 7 First Preminms. Choice Pigs lor sale at reasonable prices. 6-ly, MISCELLANEOUS. ThoTfll I -RATFI Prlte Picture sent free! I MB I ULL.-UM I C ! An ingenious gem I SO objects to find 18-ly E. V. Address with stamp, ABBEY, llnllalo, X. gem I T. J.N.Russell, Kirklin, Ind., Breeder of Pure Berkshire Swlne. Olves personal attention, and breeds carefully selected stock. Choice pigs for sale at reasonable rates. 14-38. R. N. Priest, Maple Hill Farm, Bainbridge, Putnam county, Indiana, Breeder of and Dealer in Thoroughbred Bhort-horn Cattle. ■ x-10-ly Wm. H. Spahr, Millersville, Marion County, lud„ Breeder ana Dealar in Poland China Hogs, and Uold-Dust and Mambrino Horses. ' 40-ly. J. Butterfleld, Indianapolis, Indiana, Breeder of Select Light Brahmas, Golden Seabright Bantams and Rouen Ducks. Eggs J2.0U to $5.00 per dezen. 16-13. Providing Hay Caps. John Bennett, Sunman, Ripley Co., Ind. Light Brahmas. White-faced Black Spanish, Cayuga Ducks, Black-Red Game Bantam. Fowls lor sale uow—prices reasonable. 28-tf. FARM GATE HANGER, or the Barn Door Hanger, modified for use, on the Farm Gate. A durable, convenient and cheap Gate Hanging. Sold by hardware dealers generally. 16-16. L.W. NOYES, Chicago and New York. I. H. HERRINGTON, Manufacturer of and Dealer in HAKNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, Collars, Whips, Kobes, Blankets, Brushes, Combs, Fly Nets, etc., etc. • 78 W. Washington, St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. From Moore's Rural New Yorker we take the following, which may prove a valuable suggestion to our farmers in the future: Cotton cloth is cheap this year, and farmers who have much grass or grain to gather will find it economy to purchase hay caps. Any good cotton cloth will answer, but the closer the threads the better; oil and varnish will make it nearly impervious to water, though a very fair protection will be afforded by the simple cloth covers to heaps of hay or shocks of grain. In a "catching" season the saving of crops in one year will more than repay the cost, besides the feeling of rest and contentment they give at a time when there is always worry enough. For curing clover hay they are absolutely essential, as clover needs to be mainly cured in cock after the first day's sun, thus retaining its freshness into the winter. The cocks of hay may be made large, and safely protected under hay caps, may be allowed to remain four or five days in stormy weather without injury. Then with the approach of fine weather, open them to the sunshine, and the hay, perfectly cured, will be ready for the barn. A slight heating in cock is the best preventive of heating in the mow or stack, for the reason that the slight heating dries the juices ofthe plant more rapidly even than the sun and air. . a, ee> » Cold Water in the Field. John Comstock, Liberty „, Wabash couuty, Indiana, on the Detroit, Eel River and Illinois railroad, breeder of Short-Horn cattle. Stock for sale. Mills, olt, Eel of pure x-l-tf James Mustard, Broad Ripple, rion county, Indiana. Breeder and Shlpp Poland-China Hogs, 'r ., . Ma- Indiana, Breeder and Shipper of . Hogs. They are docile, and fat- ten readily at any age. l-ly W. P. & S. B. Law, Breeders of and Dealers in Berkshire Pigs, Cotswold Sheep. Bronze Turkeys and Light Brahma Fowls. Marietta. Shelby county, Ind. 61-ly. O. B. Huxley, Martinsville, Morgan Ind., Breeder of Poland-China He Count ens and Eggs for Sale, ty, t-lg and Light Brahma Chickens. •WPlgs, Chick 7-13w T. Wilhoit & Son, Middletown, Henry county, Indiana, breeders of Thoroughbred Short-horn cattle, Berkshire hogs, and Cots- wold and American merino sheep. 1-yl John Hamilton & Son, Montgomery Stock Farm, Colfax, Indiana, Breeders and Dealers ln Pare Short-Horn Cattle, Berkshire Bwlne and Cotswold Sheep. Stock for sale. 40 FAIRBANKS' STAHDABG SCMESI Repaired. Of all kinds, at manufacturers prices. Also, Warehouse Trucks. WM. P. GALLUP, Agent for State of Indiana, Nos. 43 and 45 North Tennessee St., Indianapolis, Indiana. Scales x-4-lyr S. Meredith & Son, Breeders of Thoroughbred Bhort-horn Cattle, Bouthdown Sheep, and Berkshire and Poland-China Hegs, Cambridge City, Wayne county, Indiana, l-ly THE SEVEN WISE MEN. Premium Cheater 'White Berkshire and Essex pigs, fancy poultry Ac., bred, and for sale by Geo. B. Hickman, Westchester, Chester County, Penn. -Send stamp for circular and price list. 60-24 W. H. Fall, Thorntown, Ind., Importer and Breeder of Thoroughbred Berkshire Swlne. Stock of large size and fine style. Pigs for sale at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. 40-ly. J. c. Jenkins, Petersburg. Ky., Short-Horn Cr " ...«.jheep, Chester Pigs. Send for Catalogue. Breeder of Short-Horn Cattle, Trotting Horses; Cotswold Sheep, Chester White and Berkshire 8-44w. Most people have heard of tKe " seven wise men of Greece," but very few know who they were, or how they came to be called so. Here is the story of them, and the moral of it is worth remembering if their names are not: The seven wise men of Greece are supposed to have lived in the fifth century before Christ. Their names were Pitta- cus, Bias, Solon, Thales, Chilon, Cleo- bulus, and Periander. The reason of their being called "wise" is given differently by different authors, but the most approved account states that as some Coans were fishing, certain strangers from Miletus bought whatever should be in the nets without seeing it. When the nets were drawn in they were found to contain a golden tripod which Helen, as she sailed from Troy, is supposed to have thrown in there. A dispute arose between the fishermen and the strangers as to whom it belonged, and as they could not agree they took it to the Temple of Apollo, and consulted the priestess as to what should be done with it. She said it must be given to the wisest man in Greece, and it was accordingly sent to Thales, who declared that Bias was wiser, and sent it to him. Bias sent it to another one, and so on until it had passed through the hands of all the men, afterward distinguished by the title of the " Seven Wise Men," and aB each one claimed that some one was wiser than he, it finally was sent to the Temple of Apollo, "where, according to some writers, it still remains, to teach the lesson that the wisest are the most distrustful of their wisdom. There is nothing new in the following method of keeping water cool, for the principal is used by the Egyptians at the present day, and, as may be seen by their inscriptions, has been used by them for thousands of years. Thev keep their water in unglazed vessels, through the pores of which the water forces itself. The evaporation of this leakage on the outside carries off the heat from within, precisely in the same way that the evaporation of perspiration from the human body enables it to stand a heat which would otherwise be fatal. If the pail or large vessel containing tbe water be enveloped in cloths that are kept constantly wet, and be placed in the shade, the water will be found to keep as cool as water for drinking ought to be. Each person on drinking should empty what is left in the dipper or drinking cups upon the cloths, so that they will be kept from drying. Water kept cool in this manner will be more grateful to the palate and less dangerous to the system tlian ice-water.—Canada larm- er. « ee> e. You Will be Wanted.' Light and Dark Brahmas and Partridge Cochins. Birds.sent C. O. D., if desired, giving parties an opportunity of seeing before investing. Prices reasonable. GIB. D. JAY, Kokomo, Ind. to n52 H. D. Collings, Bellmore, Indiana, Breeder of Poland-China Hogs, Spanish Merino Sheep, and Fancy Poultry. Eggs at S3 per doz. from White Holland Turkeys, Aylesbury Ducks White, Buff and Partridge Cochins, Light and Dark Brahmas. 10-17t. S. P. Lockridge, "Waterlea Farm," Greencastle, Ind., breeder of first class thorough-bred short horn cattle, and fine Berkshire pigs, from imported stock. Farm two miles west of city. 46-ly aotoS20sS! An article which retails at One Dollar sent on receipt of Fifty Cents. Or, a confidential circular sent on receipt of a three-cent stamp. Address J. H. BARKER & CO., x7-ly. Bluffton, Wells County, Ind. ATTENTION, OWNERS OP HORSES. Ask yonr Ilarness Maker for the 55I.NO OOLLAH PAD. . They are warranted to cure (p. nny sore neivk on horse or so mule, or money refunded, if -7 Jirlnted directions- are fol-l^ owed. Send 75c. forsample. Zinc Collar Pad Co., Bole ManuTt'rs. Buchanan, Mich. NEW FORCE-PEED > i© — roa — * -Buckeye Grain-Drill! T. B. & O. Paddock, Breeders and Shippers of Poland-China Hogs, bred from superior stock. Boxed and delivered at Depot free of charge. Address, T. E.&O. PADDOCK, x-4-52. Liberty Indiana. D. W. Voyles, New Albany, Ind., Breederof Thorough.bred Short-Horn and Jersey Cattle, Poland-China and Berkshire Hogs, Buff Cochins and Light Brahma Chickens, •WOrders solicited. x-l-ly. Grassland Farm Herd, J. P. Hymer A Son, breeders of Short-Horns and Berkshire Hogs. Young stock for sale on reasonable terms. 1% miles West of Ashby's Mills, Montgomery county, Indiana. 8-ly. Take pourage, my. lad. What if you are but an humble, obscure apprentice—a poor, neglected orplran—a scoff and a by-word for the thoughtless and gay, who despise virtue in rags because of its tatters? Have you an intelligent mind, untutored though it be?_ Have you a virtuous aim, a pure desire, an honest heart? Depend upon it, some of these days ypu will be wanted. The time may be long deferred—you may be grown to manhood, and you may even reach your prime ere the call is made ; but virtuous aims, pure desires, and honest hearts are too few not to be appreciated—not to be wanted. Your virtue shall not always hide you as in a mantle—obscurity shall net always veil you from the multitude. Be chivalric in your combat with circumstances. Be active, however small your sphere of action. It will surely enlarge with every moment, and you will have continued increment. A quaint writer says: "I have seen women so delicate that they were afraid to ride for fear of the horse running away; afraid to sail, for fear the boat might upset; afraid to walk, for fear the dew_ might fall; but [ never saw one afraid to be married, which is far more riskful than all the others put to gether." Emanuel Smith, Greenfield. Hancock County, Ind., Breeder and Dealer ln Improved Poland China and English Thin-Rind Bwlne. Pigs for Sale at reasonable prices Satisfaction guaranteed. 16-26t. Charles Lowder, proprietor of " Crescent Hill Herd," breeds and offers for sale Pure Bred Short-Horn Cattle and Berkshire Pigs. Prices reasonable. Catalogues furnished on application. Address: Plainfleld, Hen- drlcks county, Indiana. 47-26t, H. C. Willett. Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana. Breeder of and Dealer ln Improved Poland-China Swine. Color—dark spotted, and all from premium stock. Pigs for sale at reasonable prices. Satlsfatlpn guaranteed^ 18-ly. GREAT^ALE LIVESTOCK! THE LARGEST SALE THAT EVER OCCURRED IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY, at Public Auction, embracing nearly three hundred head of highly bred animals, will take place at the NASHVILLE FAIR GROUNDS, adjoining the city ot Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, Aiignst IStli, 1875. The stock will consist of Thoroughbred and Trotting Horses, Short-Horn and other varieties of Cattle, aud Fancy Sheep and Swine of the different breeds. The thoroughbred horses are the get of such sires as Imp. Bonnie Scotland, Brown Dick, Jack Malone, Vandal, Pat Maloy, and others. The trotters are the get of Chieftain, Mambrino, Patchen, American Clay, Enfield, Woburn, Alhambra, and others. The Short-Horns by the Eighth Duke of Thorndale, 8,080, Derby 6,800, Duke of Richland 9,910, and other noted bulls. The sheep and swlne are bred with great care, from recent importations. Those desiring to purchase flrst-class animals, either for breeding or track purposes, will do well to embrace this opportunity. Catalogues ready for delivery ln June. Address either of the undersigned, at Nashville, Tenn. B JOHN OVERTON, B. F. COCKR1LL, M. 8. COCKRILL, EWING & WILLIAMS, 27-6W. And Others. W. P. Christian, No. 124 East Vermont street, Indianapolis, Indiana, Poultry Fancier. Exclusively Buff Cochins and Black breasted game Bantums. Buff hens weighing II pounds. Bantnm hens weighing H ounces. Eggs S3 per dozen. 6,ly. I. N. Barker, Thorntown, Ind., makes the Breeding of Thoroughbred Berkshire Pigs a specialty. His hogs are of large size and fine style, and have won for him over Forty Premiums at leading fairs. Pigs for sale, and satisfaction guaranteed. Also, Buff and Partridge Cochin Fowls, and eggs for hatching. 11-tf. A. S. Gilmour & Co., Greensburg, Indiana, Breeders of Thoroughbred Berkshires, and pure bred Poland-Chinas". Won 57 premiums ln the last two years, six sweepstake prij.es at five of the leading fairs of Indiana, including the State Fair. Choice stock for sale from select stock; all from premium stock. Fnll description of stock sent on application. Btate where you saw this advertisement. 6-ly. Leicester Sheep for Sale! THE undersigned has 15 bucks and buck lambs, and 30 ewes and ewe lambs for sale at reasonable prices. Parties writing will please state exactly what they want. J. T. WILLIAMSON, 29-4W. Thorntown, Ind. .Armstrong & Bro., Breeders of Poland-China Hogs, from selected strains. Colorblack. Choice young stock for Bale. Onr stock took four premiums at the Indiana State Fair. "Lady Johnson" of this herd took sweepstakes at the State Fair and Exposition of ,1873, over the best ring of hogs ever shown ln the State. Farm and residence, 2}i miles north of Indianapolis, near Crown Hill street railroad. Btock boxed and delivered at depot free. 18 Wholesale Grange Supply House' JOHN A: WEST, Successor to Dickinson 4 Co., Has REMOVED to 213 West Madison St., Chicago, WHOLESALE DEALER IN DRY GOODS, BOOTS AtfD SHOES, CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, And General Merchandise. GRANGES, FARMERS' CLUBS, and all' oonsnmeru supplied ln any desired quantities. Catalogues of prices for spring and summer trade, containing full information regard-] ing my manner of doing business will be sent | free on application to any address. All orders promptly and carefully filled SSV to 60 per cent less than retailer's prices. 15-26w.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1875, v. 10, no. 31S (Aug. 7) |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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Transcript | Only Agricultural Paper in Indiana. Devotes a Department to the Interests of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry. Endorsed by Indiana State Board of Agricul- ture, Indiana Horticultural Society, Indiana Short-hom Breeders' Convention, and many County and District Societies. KINGSBUEY & CONNER, Publishers, OFFICE: No. 8 Bates Block, Opposite the P. 0., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. BrrBSCRiPTiON Tbkms—Two Dollars per Year; to Clubs of four or more, $1.75 each. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. This Department has been placed in the charge ef W. C. Gerard, to whom all Inquiries pertaining to advertising should be addressed. Terms—For four Insertions or less, ordinary pages, 15 cents per line each Insertion—12 lines nonpareil type per Inch. More than four and less than thirteen Insertions, 12>£ cents per line; more than 13 and less than 26 insertions, 10 cents per line. Liberal discounts for large advertisements and yearly contracts. Indianapolis, August 7th, 1875. For the Indiana Farme'r. VARIOUS CURRENT TOPICS. The harvest is over and the wheat is almost a failure. The farmers of this county generally would be better off if they had not sown any wheat. It is a very common remark, "that where wheat was well put in with the drill it has done well." That don't apply here this time. The best field of wheat I have seen this harvest, was on what is regarded as the poorest farm in the west part of this (Randolph) county, put in in the most slovenly manner, by one who is not regarded by his neighbors as a good farmer or an industrious man. On two ef the best farms managed by as good farmers as any in the county, land well prepared and carefully drilled in, with good clean seed wheat, the crop is not worth harvesting. Now what are we going to do about it, must we go back to the old slovenly method of the shovel plow or go forward to something better? The drill is no more certain to produe a good crop than broad-cast sowing, and I have been using the ordinary drill for twenty years. Last year I harrowed a field of wheat in the spring, with marked benefit to the crop. Don't let us keep on saying that drilled wheat does the best, when drilled wheat don't pay expenses. Try wide drill rows and spring harrowing and if that don't pay, sow less until we find out some plan of making the wheat crop pay. THE DOO AND SHEEP QUESTION. Brother Comstock makes out a strong casepgainst the dogs, and I don't wonder at his getting discouraged in trying to raise good sheep, and if a man does not know how to protect his sheep from dogs 1 should not advise him to go to sheep raising very strong. I have been keeping sheep on the same farm for over thirty years; began with thirteen sheep, have had as many as three hundred, on a farm of over 500 acres, have pastured my sheep in every field and woods pasture on the farm; left them in the fields at night, and never had a sheep killed or injured by dogs. There are over one hundred dogs in this township and there are nearly as many sheep killed each year as the dog tax will pay for. Some one will ask "have the dogs any respect for you or your sheep?" I think not, but they don't make it a regular business to tramp over my sheep pastures. Dr.' Stevenson says all _ dogs kill sheep. There may be exceptions to this rule, but it is a safe one to be guided by. We ought to raise more sheep and better ones; we ought to eat more and better mutton, then perhaps we might raise more and better wheat. ANONYMOUS WRITING. Seme one of your correspondents want to know why we sign any other than our own names to our communications. Anonymous writing has its uses as well as its abuses. A modest man or woman may have something valuable to give the public, but if required to give their name, would shrink from the task. New beginners do not know their own powers, and would not begin,_ if they were not allowed to sign a fictitious name. Some times popular evils need exposing and it needs must be done over an assumed name; but above all, the discussion ofa difficult question is best carried on over assumed names; then the arguments of each will have their just weight, whereas if one of the disputants is unknown and the other has an established reputation as a writer and thinker, the unknown man would hardly get a hearing over his own signature; but where we write facts for agricultural papers we should give our own names. Our county papers are full of abuse of the lowest order, of anonymous writing for the vilest pur- Pose, spite—and il is doing its work. Thomas W. Reece. Windsor. Indiana. , ?• S.—Since writing the above I learn 'bat William Botkin shot and dangerously wounded Charles Lewis. Both Parties are of respectable and wealthy families, living near Unionsport, in this county. Mr. Lewis is a nephew of Hon. isaac Jenkison, and was his secretary while at Glasgow, Scotland, as Unitod states Consul. The trouble as I understand grew out of some anonymous let- **rs published in the Winchester Journal 0ver the signature of'.'Zip," which were generally supposed to be Botkin, or some of his friends, and were replied to "P the same spirit by some other parties, "nose names I did not learn. A striking 1 Duse of anonymous writing, very much t0 be regretted. T. W. R. There is hardly a city in the United States which does not contain more people than can get a lair, honest living, by labor or trade, in the best times. AVhen times of business depression come, like those through which we have passed, and are passing, there is a large class that must be helped, to keep the-n from cruel suffering. Still the cities grow, while whole regions of the country,— especially its older portions,—are depopulated year by year. Yet the fact is patent to-day that the only prosperous class is the agricultural. We have now the anomaly of thrifty farmers and starving tradesmen. The agricultural classes of the AVest are prosperous. They had a good crop last year, and have received good prices for all their products; and while the cities are in trouble, and manufactories are running on half time, or not running at all, the AVestern farmer has money in his pocket, and a ready market for everything he has to sell. The country must be fed, and he feeds it. The city family may do without new clothes, and a thousand luxurious appliances, but it must have bread and meat. There is nothing that can prevent the steady prosperity of the American farmer but the combinations and "corners" of middle-men, that force unnatural conditions upon the finances and markets of the country. This is not the first occasion we have had for allusion to this subject, and it is sot likely to be the last. The forsaking of the farm for city life is one of the great evils of the time, and, so far, it has received no appreciable check._ Every young man, apparently, who thinks he can get a living in the city, or at the minor centers of population, quits his lonely home upon the farm and joins the multitude. Once in the city, he never returns. Notwithstanding the confinement and the straitened conditions of his new life he clings to it until he dies, adding his family to the permanent population of his new home. Mr. Greeley, in his days of active philanthropy, used to urge men to leave the city—to go AVest—to join the agricultural population, and thus make themselves sure ofa competent livelihood. He might as well have talked to the wind. A city population can neither be coaxed nor driveh into agricultural pursuits. It is not that they are afraid of work. The average worker ofthe city toils more hours than the average farmer in any quarter of the country. He is neither fed nor lodged as well as the farmer. He is less hide pendent than the farmer. He is a bond slave to his employers and his conditions; yet the agricultural life has no charms for him. Whatever the reason for this may be, it is not based in the nature ofthe work, or in its material. rewards. The farmer is demonstrably better off than the worker of the city. He is more independent, has more command of his own time, fares better at table, lodges better, and gets a better return for his labor. What is the reason, then, that the farmer's boy runs to the city the first chance he can get, and remains, if he can possibly find there the means of life ? It can only be found, we believe, in the social leanness, or social starvation, of American agricultural life. The American farmer, in all his planning, and all his building, has never made provision for life. He has only considered the means _ of getting a living. Everything outside of this—everything relating to society and culture—has been steadily ignored. He gives his children the advantages of schools, not recognizing the fact that these very advantages call into life a new set of social wants. A bright, well-educated family, in a lonely farm-house, is very different material from a family brought up inignor- ance. An American farmer's children, who have had a few terms at a neighboring academy, resemble in no degree the children of the European peasant. They come home with new ideas and hew wants, and if there is no provision made for these # new wants, and they find no opportunities for their satisfaction, they will be ready, on reaching their majority, to fly the farm and seek the city. Ifthe American farmer wishes to keep his children near him, he must learn the difference between living and getting a living; and we mistake him and his grade of culture altogether if he does not stop over this statement and wonder what we mean by it. To get a living, to make money, to become "forehanded"—this is the whole of life to agricultural multitudes, discouraging in their numbers to contemplate. To them there is no difference between living and getting a living. Their whole life consists in_ getting a living; and when their families come back to them from their schooling, and find that, really, this is the ouly pursuit that has any recognition under the paternal roof, they must go away. The boys push to the centers or the cities, and the girls follow them fif they can. A young man or a young woman, raised to the point where they apprehend the difference between living and getting a living, can never be satisfied with the latter alone. Either the farmer's children must be kept ignorant, or provision must be made for their social wants. Brains and hearts need food and clothing as well as bodies; and those who have learned to recognize brains and hearts as the best and most important part of their personal possessions, will go where they can find the ministry they need. .What is the remedy? How shall farmers manage to keep their children near them? How can we discourage the influx of unnecessary—nay, burdensome— populations into the cities? AVe answer: By making agricultural society attractive. Fill the farm-houses with periodical's and books. Establish central reading-rooms, or neighborhood clubs. Encourage the social meetings of the young. Have concerts, lectures, amateur dramatic associations. Establish a bright, active, social life, that shall give some significance to labor. Above all, build, as far as possible, in villages. It is better to go a mile to one's daily labor than to place one's self a mile away from a neigh- bor._ The isolation of American farm- life is the great curse of that life, and it falls upon tbe women with a hardship that the men cannot appreciate, and drives the educated young away.—Dr. J. G. Holland, in Scribner. JONATHANS DOINGS. Uncle Sam's history is rapidly approaching the Centennial. The following record of his early days, and up to one hundred years ago, shows how he employed his time: 1C20. Lands on Plymouth Hock, and sets up for himself. 1621. Keeps Thanksgiving—in no danger of over-eating. 1G22. Building a meeting house. Proclaims a Fast day. Cuts down a May pole at Merry as a rebuke to vain recreations. Is crowded for accommodations, and stakes out a new farm at Connecticut. 1687. ' Makes war on the Antinomi- ans and the Pequot Indians, and whips both. 1638. Starts a college. 1040. Sets up a printing press. 1643. Goes into a confederacy. The first Colonial Congress. 1643. Lays down the Cambridge Platform. Hangs a witch. 1649. Sets his face against the unchristian custom of wearing long hair, n tninir linniinl nti.1 «>MiAe«e,lii " 1623. 1628. Mount, 1635. a thing uncivil and uncomely 1651. Is rebuked for "intolerable excess and bravery.of apparel," and is forbidden to wear gold or silver lace, or any such gewgaws. 1052. Coins Pine Tree shillings, and makes the business profitable. 1003. Prints a Bible for the Indians. 1080. Buys a _" hang-up " clock, and occasionally carries a silver watch that helps him to guess the time of day. About this period learns to use forks at tables, a new fashion. 1092. Is scared by witches again at Salem, but gets the better of them. 1702. Founds another college, which, at last settles down at New Haven. 170-4. Prints his first newspaper in Boston. 1705. Takes coffee as a luxury, and at ais own table. 1708. Constructs another platform— this'time at Saybrook. 1710. Begins to sip tea—very sparingly. It does not come into family use till 25 years later. * 1711. Puts a letter into the first Post office. 1720. Eats a potato, and lakes one home to plant in his garden as a curiosity. 1721. Is inoculated for the smallpox—not without grave remonstrances from his conservative neighbors. 1730. Begins to sing by note, on Sundays, thereby encountering inu'jh opposition, and opening a ten years quarrel. 1740. Manufactures tinned ware, and starts the first tin peddler on his travels. 1742. Sees Faneuil Hall built. The cradle of liberty is ready to be rocked. 1745. Builds an organ, but does not permit it to be played in the meeting house. 1750. Buys a bushel of potatoes for winter's use—all his friends wondering what he will do with so many. 1755. Puts up a Franklin stove in the best room, and tries one of the newly invented lightning rods. 1700. About this time begins to wear a collar to his shirt. AVhen he can afford it, takes his wife to meeting in a chaise, instead of on a pillion, as heretofore. 1705. Shows his dislike to stamped paper, and joins the "Sons of Liberty." 1708. Tries his hand at type-founding—not yet successfully—in Connecticut. 1770. Buys a home-made wooden clock. 1773. AVaters his tea, in Boston harbor. Plants Liberty trees wherever he finds good soil, 1774. Lights Boston streets with oil lamps—a novelty, though " New Lights " have been plenty for some years. 1776. Brother Jonathan—as he begins to be called in the family—declares himself free and independent. In the face of the universal esteem in which these wonderful structures are held, we find the most wide-spread carelessness as to their preservation. Itis not too much to say that good teeth in adult mouths are the rare exception; they should be the rule. AVhy are they not the rule? Simply because of the criminal neglect of their owners. AVhat would be said of the man or woman who would- rest content to plunge the hands into a mass of meat and grease, and potatoes, and bread and coffee, three times each day. and yet leave the hands unwashed? Yet this is precisely what is done with relerence to the teeth by ninety-nine one hundredths of the American people. The result is, a breath bearing the pestilence; a thousand diseases induced by breathing air thus contaminated: the early loss of the most beautiful ornaments of the face; dyspepsia from imperfect mastication; the evidences of old age before the years of youth are past; deformity and homeliness where beauty might have dwelt had ordinary neatness been the result. The teeth can be saved, ordinarily, by proper care, begun in infancy and never suspended. A brush must be used, and a very substantial one, which should be often renewed. The teeth should be brushed up and down, so that the bristles will pass between and dislodge the food which collects between them, and which will speedily make vinegar having complete solvent power over them. A good dentifrice may well be used, as we have said, but in the absence of exactly the right thing, a little soap or cnalk will be found useful and harmless. AVe have often, of late, pointed out what we have found to be the best article prepared for use upon the teeth. The great thing is cleanliness, unceasing, energetic cleanliness. AVithout it, no tooth is safe; with it, few teeth need be lost. These facts let parents command and teach and enforce by daily precept and by constant example.—Halls Journal of Health »WMentIon the Indiana Farmer when writing to advertisers concerning advertisements ln onr columns. Essex Pigs—Pure and well bred. Address A. P. WILEY & SON, Augusta, Ma- rlon County, Indiana. 22-8t. A. W. Boss, Muncie, Delaware Co., Indiana. Breeder of Thoroughbred Poland Swine. Pigs for Sale. 30-52, Harvey Lewis, Edinburg, Ind., Breeder of Thoroughbred Alderney Cattle, Southdown Bheep, and BerkHhlre Pigs, x-1-52 J. L. Stratton & Sons, New London, Howard county, Indiana. Breeders of Berkshire Pigs, Light Brahma and Partridge Cochin Fowls, Btock selected and bred from the best in the State. Prices reasonable, Satisfaction guaranteed. 18-52t. M. C. Stanley, Annapolis, Indiana, Breeder and Shipper of Poland-China Hogs, and the leading varieties of land and water Fowls. Satisfaction guaranteed. xl7-ly. Ayres & McClintock, Millersburg, Bourbon County, Kentucky, are breeding and have for sale Shott-Horns of the most fashionable families. Send for catalogue. 22-ly. James Jackson, Breeder of Short Horn csttle and South Down sheep, Hich- valley, Wabash county. Indiana. ix-4fj-ly Jacob Kennedy, Lizton Hendricks county, Indiana, Breederof and Dealer in pure Berkshire Swlne and Cotswold Sheep. 6, ly. R. B. Chenoweth, Greencastle, Ind., Breederof thoroughbred Short Horn Catlle. Bulls and Heifers for sale. 38-ly John W. Reagan, Poultry Fancier, Monrovia, Indiana. All leading varieties of eggs for sale ln season. Price-list free. 6tf F. H. Starwalt, Quincy, Owen Co., Indiana, Breeder and Snipper of Berkshire Hogs, and Light Brahma Fow Is. x-7-ly C. Y. C. .Alden, Sunman, Ripley Co., Indiana, Breeder of and Dealer in Alderney Cattle and Light Brahma Poultry. 20-32 Berkshire Pigs. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circulars sent free. 2S-tf. WM. HIOBEE, Rising Sun, Ind. Wm. H. Pry, Indianapolis, Indiana, Breeder of strictly flrst-class Light and Dark Brahmas, White and Partridge Cochins, Black- Red Oaine Bantams, Bronze Turkeys and Aylesbury Ducks. SB.tf James Riley, Thorntown, Indiana, Breeder of Pure Berkshire Swine and Partridge Buff and White Cochins, and Dark and Light Brahmas. I took the following premiums on my Hogs and Poultry last fall: at Lafayette 8 First Premiums, at Fort Wayne 10 First and 2 Second Premiums; at Kokomo 4 First and 2 Second Fremiums, and at Thorntown 7 First Preminms. Choice Pigs lor sale at reasonable prices. 6-ly, MISCELLANEOUS. ThoTfll I -RATFI Prlte Picture sent free! I MB I ULL.-UM I C ! An ingenious gem I SO objects to find 18-ly E. V. Address with stamp, ABBEY, llnllalo, X. gem I T. J.N.Russell, Kirklin, Ind., Breeder of Pure Berkshire Swlne. Olves personal attention, and breeds carefully selected stock. Choice pigs for sale at reasonable rates. 14-38. R. N. Priest, Maple Hill Farm, Bainbridge, Putnam county, Indiana, Breeder of and Dealer in Thoroughbred Bhort-horn Cattle. ■ x-10-ly Wm. H. Spahr, Millersville, Marion County, lud„ Breeder ana Dealar in Poland China Hogs, and Uold-Dust and Mambrino Horses. ' 40-ly. J. Butterfleld, Indianapolis, Indiana, Breeder of Select Light Brahmas, Golden Seabright Bantams and Rouen Ducks. Eggs J2.0U to $5.00 per dezen. 16-13. Providing Hay Caps. John Bennett, Sunman, Ripley Co., Ind. Light Brahmas. White-faced Black Spanish, Cayuga Ducks, Black-Red Game Bantam. Fowls lor sale uow—prices reasonable. 28-tf. FARM GATE HANGER, or the Barn Door Hanger, modified for use, on the Farm Gate. A durable, convenient and cheap Gate Hanging. Sold by hardware dealers generally. 16-16. L.W. NOYES, Chicago and New York. I. H. HERRINGTON, Manufacturer of and Dealer in HAKNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, Collars, Whips, Kobes, Blankets, Brushes, Combs, Fly Nets, etc., etc. • 78 W. Washington, St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. From Moore's Rural New Yorker we take the following, which may prove a valuable suggestion to our farmers in the future: Cotton cloth is cheap this year, and farmers who have much grass or grain to gather will find it economy to purchase hay caps. Any good cotton cloth will answer, but the closer the threads the better; oil and varnish will make it nearly impervious to water, though a very fair protection will be afforded by the simple cloth covers to heaps of hay or shocks of grain. In a "catching" season the saving of crops in one year will more than repay the cost, besides the feeling of rest and contentment they give at a time when there is always worry enough. For curing clover hay they are absolutely essential, as clover needs to be mainly cured in cock after the first day's sun, thus retaining its freshness into the winter. The cocks of hay may be made large, and safely protected under hay caps, may be allowed to remain four or five days in stormy weather without injury. Then with the approach of fine weather, open them to the sunshine, and the hay, perfectly cured, will be ready for the barn. A slight heating in cock is the best preventive of heating in the mow or stack, for the reason that the slight heating dries the juices ofthe plant more rapidly even than the sun and air. . a, ee> » Cold Water in the Field. John Comstock, Liberty „, Wabash couuty, Indiana, on the Detroit, Eel River and Illinois railroad, breeder of Short-Horn cattle. Stock for sale. Mills, olt, Eel of pure x-l-tf James Mustard, Broad Ripple, rion county, Indiana. Breeder and Shlpp Poland-China Hogs, 'r ., . Ma- Indiana, Breeder and Shipper of . Hogs. They are docile, and fat- ten readily at any age. l-ly W. P. & S. B. Law, Breeders of and Dealers in Berkshire Pigs, Cotswold Sheep. Bronze Turkeys and Light Brahma Fowls. Marietta. Shelby county, Ind. 61-ly. O. B. Huxley, Martinsville, Morgan Ind., Breeder of Poland-China He Count ens and Eggs for Sale, ty, t-lg and Light Brahma Chickens. •WPlgs, Chick 7-13w T. Wilhoit & Son, Middletown, Henry county, Indiana, breeders of Thoroughbred Short-horn cattle, Berkshire hogs, and Cots- wold and American merino sheep. 1-yl John Hamilton & Son, Montgomery Stock Farm, Colfax, Indiana, Breeders and Dealers ln Pare Short-Horn Cattle, Berkshire Bwlne and Cotswold Sheep. Stock for sale. 40 FAIRBANKS' STAHDABG SCMESI Repaired. Of all kinds, at manufacturers prices. Also, Warehouse Trucks. WM. P. GALLUP, Agent for State of Indiana, Nos. 43 and 45 North Tennessee St., Indianapolis, Indiana. Scales x-4-lyr S. Meredith & Son, Breeders of Thoroughbred Bhort-horn Cattle, Bouthdown Sheep, and Berkshire and Poland-China Hegs, Cambridge City, Wayne county, Indiana, l-ly THE SEVEN WISE MEN. Premium Cheater 'White Berkshire and Essex pigs, fancy poultry Ac., bred, and for sale by Geo. B. Hickman, Westchester, Chester County, Penn. -Send stamp for circular and price list. 60-24 W. H. Fall, Thorntown, Ind., Importer and Breeder of Thoroughbred Berkshire Swlne. Stock of large size and fine style. Pigs for sale at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. 40-ly. J. c. Jenkins, Petersburg. Ky., Short-Horn Cr " ...«.jheep, Chester Pigs. Send for Catalogue. Breeder of Short-Horn Cattle, Trotting Horses; Cotswold Sheep, Chester White and Berkshire 8-44w. Most people have heard of tKe " seven wise men of Greece," but very few know who they were, or how they came to be called so. Here is the story of them, and the moral of it is worth remembering if their names are not: The seven wise men of Greece are supposed to have lived in the fifth century before Christ. Their names were Pitta- cus, Bias, Solon, Thales, Chilon, Cleo- bulus, and Periander. The reason of their being called "wise" is given differently by different authors, but the most approved account states that as some Coans were fishing, certain strangers from Miletus bought whatever should be in the nets without seeing it. When the nets were drawn in they were found to contain a golden tripod which Helen, as she sailed from Troy, is supposed to have thrown in there. A dispute arose between the fishermen and the strangers as to whom it belonged, and as they could not agree they took it to the Temple of Apollo, and consulted the priestess as to what should be done with it. She said it must be given to the wisest man in Greece, and it was accordingly sent to Thales, who declared that Bias was wiser, and sent it to him. Bias sent it to another one, and so on until it had passed through the hands of all the men, afterward distinguished by the title of the " Seven Wise Men," and aB each one claimed that some one was wiser than he, it finally was sent to the Temple of Apollo, "where, according to some writers, it still remains, to teach the lesson that the wisest are the most distrustful of their wisdom. There is nothing new in the following method of keeping water cool, for the principal is used by the Egyptians at the present day, and, as may be seen by their inscriptions, has been used by them for thousands of years. Thev keep their water in unglazed vessels, through the pores of which the water forces itself. The evaporation of this leakage on the outside carries off the heat from within, precisely in the same way that the evaporation of perspiration from the human body enables it to stand a heat which would otherwise be fatal. If the pail or large vessel containing tbe water be enveloped in cloths that are kept constantly wet, and be placed in the shade, the water will be found to keep as cool as water for drinking ought to be. Each person on drinking should empty what is left in the dipper or drinking cups upon the cloths, so that they will be kept from drying. Water kept cool in this manner will be more grateful to the palate and less dangerous to the system tlian ice-water.—Canada larm- er. « ee> e. You Will be Wanted.' Light and Dark Brahmas and Partridge Cochins. Birds.sent C. O. D., if desired, giving parties an opportunity of seeing before investing. Prices reasonable. GIB. D. JAY, Kokomo, Ind. to n52 H. D. Collings, Bellmore, Indiana, Breeder of Poland-China Hogs, Spanish Merino Sheep, and Fancy Poultry. Eggs at S3 per doz. from White Holland Turkeys, Aylesbury Ducks White, Buff and Partridge Cochins, Light and Dark Brahmas. 10-17t. S. P. Lockridge, "Waterlea Farm," Greencastle, Ind., breeder of first class thorough-bred short horn cattle, and fine Berkshire pigs, from imported stock. Farm two miles west of city. 46-ly aotoS20sS! An article which retails at One Dollar sent on receipt of Fifty Cents. Or, a confidential circular sent on receipt of a three-cent stamp. Address J. H. BARKER & CO., x7-ly. Bluffton, Wells County, Ind. ATTENTION, OWNERS OP HORSES. Ask yonr Ilarness Maker for the 55I.NO OOLLAH PAD. . They are warranted to cure (p. nny sore neivk on horse or so mule, or money refunded, if -7 Jirlnted directions- are fol-l^ owed. Send 75c. forsample. Zinc Collar Pad Co., Bole ManuTt'rs. Buchanan, Mich. NEW FORCE-PEED > i© — roa — * -Buckeye Grain-Drill! T. B. & O. Paddock, Breeders and Shippers of Poland-China Hogs, bred from superior stock. Boxed and delivered at Depot free of charge. Address, T. E.&O. PADDOCK, x-4-52. Liberty Indiana. D. W. Voyles, New Albany, Ind., Breederof Thorough.bred Short-Horn and Jersey Cattle, Poland-China and Berkshire Hogs, Buff Cochins and Light Brahma Chickens, •WOrders solicited. x-l-ly. Grassland Farm Herd, J. P. Hymer A Son, breeders of Short-Horns and Berkshire Hogs. Young stock for sale on reasonable terms. 1% miles West of Ashby's Mills, Montgomery county, Indiana. 8-ly. Take pourage, my. lad. What if you are but an humble, obscure apprentice—a poor, neglected orplran—a scoff and a by-word for the thoughtless and gay, who despise virtue in rags because of its tatters? Have you an intelligent mind, untutored though it be?_ Have you a virtuous aim, a pure desire, an honest heart? Depend upon it, some of these days ypu will be wanted. The time may be long deferred—you may be grown to manhood, and you may even reach your prime ere the call is made ; but virtuous aims, pure desires, and honest hearts are too few not to be appreciated—not to be wanted. Your virtue shall not always hide you as in a mantle—obscurity shall net always veil you from the multitude. Be chivalric in your combat with circumstances. Be active, however small your sphere of action. It will surely enlarge with every moment, and you will have continued increment. A quaint writer says: "I have seen women so delicate that they were afraid to ride for fear of the horse running away; afraid to sail, for fear the boat might upset; afraid to walk, for fear the dew_ might fall; but [ never saw one afraid to be married, which is far more riskful than all the others put to gether." Emanuel Smith, Greenfield. Hancock County, Ind., Breeder and Dealer ln Improved Poland China and English Thin-Rind Bwlne. Pigs for Sale at reasonable prices Satisfaction guaranteed. 16-26t. Charles Lowder, proprietor of " Crescent Hill Herd," breeds and offers for sale Pure Bred Short-Horn Cattle and Berkshire Pigs. Prices reasonable. Catalogues furnished on application. Address: Plainfleld, Hen- drlcks county, Indiana. 47-26t, H. C. Willett. Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana. Breeder of and Dealer ln Improved Poland-China Swine. Color—dark spotted, and all from premium stock. Pigs for sale at reasonable prices. Satlsfatlpn guaranteed^ 18-ly. GREAT^ALE LIVESTOCK! THE LARGEST SALE THAT EVER OCCURRED IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY, at Public Auction, embracing nearly three hundred head of highly bred animals, will take place at the NASHVILLE FAIR GROUNDS, adjoining the city ot Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, Aiignst IStli, 1875. The stock will consist of Thoroughbred and Trotting Horses, Short-Horn and other varieties of Cattle, aud Fancy Sheep and Swine of the different breeds. The thoroughbred horses are the get of such sires as Imp. Bonnie Scotland, Brown Dick, Jack Malone, Vandal, Pat Maloy, and others. The trotters are the get of Chieftain, Mambrino, Patchen, American Clay, Enfield, Woburn, Alhambra, and others. The Short-Horns by the Eighth Duke of Thorndale, 8,080, Derby 6,800, Duke of Richland 9,910, and other noted bulls. The sheep and swlne are bred with great care, from recent importations. Those desiring to purchase flrst-class animals, either for breeding or track purposes, will do well to embrace this opportunity. Catalogues ready for delivery ln June. Address either of the undersigned, at Nashville, Tenn. B JOHN OVERTON, B. F. COCKR1LL, M. 8. COCKRILL, EWING & WILLIAMS, 27-6W. And Others. W. P. Christian, No. 124 East Vermont street, Indianapolis, Indiana, Poultry Fancier. Exclusively Buff Cochins and Black breasted game Bantums. Buff hens weighing II pounds. Bantnm hens weighing H ounces. Eggs S3 per dozen. 6,ly. I. N. Barker, Thorntown, Ind., makes the Breeding of Thoroughbred Berkshire Pigs a specialty. His hogs are of large size and fine style, and have won for him over Forty Premiums at leading fairs. Pigs for sale, and satisfaction guaranteed. Also, Buff and Partridge Cochin Fowls, and eggs for hatching. 11-tf. A. S. Gilmour & Co., Greensburg, Indiana, Breeders of Thoroughbred Berkshires, and pure bred Poland-Chinas". Won 57 premiums ln the last two years, six sweepstake prij.es at five of the leading fairs of Indiana, including the State Fair. Choice stock for sale from select stock; all from premium stock. Fnll description of stock sent on application. Btate where you saw this advertisement. 6-ly. Leicester Sheep for Sale! THE undersigned has 15 bucks and buck lambs, and 30 ewes and ewe lambs for sale at reasonable prices. Parties writing will please state exactly what they want. J. T. WILLIAMSON, 29-4W. Thorntown, Ind. .Armstrong & Bro., Breeders of Poland-China Hogs, from selected strains. Colorblack. Choice young stock for Bale. Onr stock took four premiums at the Indiana State Fair. "Lady Johnson" of this herd took sweepstakes at the State Fair and Exposition of ,1873, over the best ring of hogs ever shown ln the State. Farm and residence, 2}i miles north of Indianapolis, near Crown Hill street railroad. Btock boxed and delivered at depot free. 18 Wholesale Grange Supply House' JOHN A: WEST, Successor to Dickinson 4 Co., Has REMOVED to 213 West Madison St., Chicago, WHOLESALE DEALER IN DRY GOODS, BOOTS AtfD SHOES, CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, And General Merchandise. GRANGES, FARMERS' CLUBS, and all' oonsnmeru supplied ln any desired quantities. Catalogues of prices for spring and summer trade, containing full information regard-] ing my manner of doing business will be sent | free on application to any address. All orders promptly and carefully filled SSV to 60 per cent less than retailer's prices. 15-26w. |
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