VOIi. XVI.
IKDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 8ATUBDAY. FEB. 12, 1881.
-NO. 7.
roBaus.
-COR SALE—Nice White seed corn.
Jd     DRAOOD, Edinburg, Iod.
SAMWSaa
FOB BALE—Chinee farm near the city,finely Improved.   SalWYJ'.R ,t WASSOK,Htom6Tal-
bott block.
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*': box-d and delivered on cars at Bedford.Ind.
P. A. HOUSTON.
TflOB SAleE-Shepherd Pups-
FOR SALE-Choice selected White and Yellow
Beed corn.   Address J. B. JOHJSSON, Laurel,
Franklin connty, Ind.
FOR SALE-An  imported
Tested as a breeder,
TON, Greenwood, Ind.
Clydesdale stallion.
Address  A. 8. bTAN-
FOR SALE—Plymouth Kocks and Golden Hamburg chickens and eirgs.   Address T. HUL-
MAK, Sr., Terre Haute, Ind.
FOR SALE—Farms—In various parts of Indiana,
by M. ARBUCKLE, Agent, 58 Kast Market
street, Indianapolis, abdiana. /
FOR SALE—The TIce Weather Almanac for 1881.
Price 20 cents postpaid.    Address INDIANA
PARMER CO., Indianapolis.
-Choice Red WethersSeld onion seed,
E. Y. TEAS,
Dunreltb, Henry county, Ind.
FOR SALE-
_      per mall, 2jc per oz.; $2 per tt>,
T710R SALE-Mammoth Bronne-turkeys, 45 to
JC pounds per pair at 2 years old; also a few pal
or Toulouse geese.   ELLIS HOUSE. Blcknell.ln
I.-IOR SALE-C'heap-A     .   -      .       ,,
'    siock farm. 1% miles from city and oollei
title good.   Por particulars,
Bloomington, Ind.
well-improved 125 acre
YOBK,
tnpri
 citj
address W. D.
A good lot of Cotswold sheep, all im-
.. a   __a   '.aejacfa.    Corre-
Address   E. J.
FORSALE   __  .
ported from   England  and   Canada.    Corre-
crooudence   promptly   answered.
REEL, Vincennes, Ind.
TTIOR SALE—Three Clydsdale stallions, Imported
Jl? October last, and one grade between Clydesdale and Norman horses. Address ROBEBT
OBAIG, Greenwood, Ind.
FOR S ALE-A fine 40-horse power engine. 48 floe
boiler, l_r*re iron tank. 2 sets of pnmps,lln*e extractor, smoke-stack, etc., ln good order. Address
ENGINE, Parmer OtBce.
FOR BALE—Kossuth Joker one year, and a paper
of Honey Dew and a paper of White 'jobaceo
seed, aU postpaid for 15 cents. Stamps taken. Address C. W. PEUG H, Kossuth, ind.
FOB SALE—Choice White and Yellow Seed Corn-
took tirst premium at Butte lair: price, $175
per bushel, er tl per half bushel. Address HtTL-
BERT HAYES, Klizaoethtuwn, Ohio.
FOR SALE-Stock aud egjra from my imported
and high-class Dark Brahmas and Pekin
danks. Send for illustrated circular. 11. H. CON-
NEB, Wiuteiowtd, Shelby county, Ind.
FOR SALE—A limited quantity of Mammoth
corn that I raised on my prize acre ot 115 bushels. Will deliver on railroad, in sack, at filly cents
per peck. OEORGE O. COOK, Sevastopol, Kosciusko oounty, Ind.
FOR
SALE—One fine younir stallion, four years
old this spriDg.a cross of the Norman and
Morgan stock, has taken four flrst premiums at
three diflVreut county lairs. Address B.S.DUNKIN
Carroll, OarroU county, Ind.
floe
Jb thoroughbred 015 desdale stallion, has splendid
style and action. Color, dark brown; weight, l.sno.
For further j.a«ticulars. address H. G. PALTER, St.
Stephens, Seneca connty, Ohio.
TJTOR SALE-
-Cholce Wisconsin and Minnesota
   " sprint; Barley.   Farmers wanticc pure and
choice seed, corn. oats, barley, grass seed, or rota-
toe?, will please drop postal to T. M. HAYES &CO.,
126 Court street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
TjiOR BALE—Thoroughbred   ..
JC    Poland China pigs and Cotswold Bheep.
Short-horn   calves.
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respondence solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed, or
money reiuuded. Call on,or address O. W.TDELL.
Vallonia, Jackson county, Indiana.
trtOR SALE—Finely marked Bronze tnrkeys. Tou-
JJ lotrse and White China geese of heavy weigh**.
Winners or six prizes at National exbihtuon. 1880.
All birds warranted as represented. DR. JAS. P.
FORSYTH* SON, Franklin, Ind. eow
TarOR 8ALE-A few Poland China pigs of the best
J.* premium-taking stock; having taken over
fifty premiums last year. Will sell at fair prices. I
have special rates with express company. Address
J. OTJNN1SGHAM, Miami, Miami county, Ind.
if™*
ifodt.
Mr. Jos. Cunnikoham, Miami, Ind., is
having quite a run of orders for his thoroughbred Poland China stock of late.
        -*•**.
Mr. W. L. Smith, Connersville, Ind.,
sends us a sample of wool from his premium Cotswold lamb, which Is very fine.
Messrs. Duffield <k Shellenbarqbr,
SomerviUe, Ohio, are having a large run
with their Tom Corwin, the 2d, Poland
Chinas for breeding stock, from the best
breeders in the country.
Sixteen car-loads of calves and yearlings
have been shipped from the depot of Can-
lsteo, N. "ST., the present season to go west
of the Mississippi, to be there grown and
fattened and finally reshipped to the New
York market.
J. W. Baker, Soinerville, Ohio, sold two
fine Poland China pigs to J. W. Williams
& Brother, Jay connty, Ind., bred to Baker's Tom Corwin; also J. B. Dufflsld,
SomerviUe, Ohio, Bold two to the same
parties, bred to Baker's Tom Corwin.
We note with pleasure the healthy condition of late, of the leading swine of our
best breedars. Good breeders take extra
care in this regard. Mr. James Riley,
Thorntown, Ind., one of this class, finds a
very large demand for prime breeding
stock, and of late has sold a large number
of Berkshire pigs for this purpose.
Messrs. D. Is. <fe Geo. W. Thomas,
Hdmer, Ind., have bought a half interest
from I. A. Lawrence, in the fine Poland
China pig, Napoleon Bonaparte, which
took first premium at six fairs in three
States last season*, including the St. Louis
and Illinois State fairs. They have also
bought lady Walker, of Mr. Slaughter,
of Ohio, also a prize-ring 1st premium animal, and was in their premium herd at our
last State fair. They also recently shipped
a pig to Illinois which weighed 117 pounds,
at three months old.
TIIE   BARNES   WIRE   CHECK ROWER.
TI^OR SALE--Just_ what you want-
 „        _ -80 acres, finest
soil, flne brick house of 9 rooms, good barn and
other buildings, 60 acres cleared, on a pike, 2 miles
of Mooresville, In a beaatltut high country, sugar
tree, walnut and ponlar land. A rare bargain for
}6,0.0.   M. ABBtTCKLK, 68 East Market street.
"TaiOR SALE—Orchard grass se*3d, crop of 1880, my
P own raising, $2 per bushel; tack 25 cents. A
tew bushels Beauty of Hebron potatoes trom seed
from the Agricultural Department at Washington
city, *2 per bushel; rack 25 cents. Delivered free on
oars.  Address J. W. ARCHER, Spencer, Ind.
FOR SAL15—Fertilizers—Cayuga Land Plaster ln
any quantity by the sack, barrel or car lot.* ln
balk, Bone Dust Amonlated Bone Gnanu ard Superphosphates. Piaster sower and Seeder combined.
Write us for circulars and prices, stating kind and
quality wanted. TYNER & HADLiiY, Indianapolis, Indiana
TGIOK SALE—Garden Seeds—Fresh new crop. In
JJ packages or bulk. Field Seeds: Clover, Timothy, Kentucky Blue-graw, Alsitte and Mellltot Clover. A full line ef Garden Seed Drills, Garden and
Field CultrvatorB, and standard ft-*rlcultural machinery. Write us for circulars. TYNER & HADLEY,75 and 77 WtBt Washington street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
"TT'ORSALE— A desirable and cheap Btock farm ot
JJ 197 aores 3H miles southwest of eity stockyards.
First and second bottoms of White river. 180 in
cultivation; be»t quality ot soli; levee sufficient
with a little repair. Price, $8,5i». ln very easy payments at low interest, M. ARBUCKLE, E8 East
Market street, landlanapol's, ind.
FOR BALE-Shoithorns—I have 20 head of Short-
born cattle on my farm near Bichmond. Ind.,
embracing snch families as Donna Rosas, Endoras
Bright Promises, etc., also pure Bates bull. I offer
an elegant chance to persons wishing to start a herd
as my animals are all first-class breeders and fine
individuals. The majority of these cattle were bred
by the well-known breeders, S. Meredith & Sod of
Cambridge City, Ind. Address FRANCIS A. COFFIN, Indianapolis. Iud.
TJ-OB SALE—Farm-1 hereby offer, very cheap,an
J? exceuent farm of 153 acres, pleasantly situated
lo a very healthful locality, one mile northwest of
DiUsborongh, Dearborn county, Indiana, two ml lev.
from the Irtltab.'roujc'' depot on the o. and M. It R.
The farm Is nine and oae-halt miles, by excellent
turnpike, fi-em Aurora, where there is ss good a
market for farm produce aa there is ln the state.
The improvements consist of a two-atory frame
hou-e,*i4 foot front, with dining and kitchen ro-ms
annexed; a stone milk-house, wood-house, granary,
and corn-crib and carriage-house combined, and a
capacious barn; all ot which are in good repair ana
most conveniently Bltuated. Besides theue iroprovo-
menu there is a fine young orchard ot tue very
ohoiceat varieties of applee, pears, plums, and cherries; also a domestic vinery that is hard to excel.
The yard is handsomely laid out and adorned with
many kinds of evergreens. The farm ls well watered
and bu front ao to 43 acres of good wood-land, nearly void of underbrush, and well set to grass, which
makes It admti-ably adapted to stook raising,   Tak-
HEW SWINE DISEASE.
On Long Island, New York, an alarming and fatal disease has broken out. The
farm of Stephen Brothers, at Lloyd's Neck,
was the first to receive a visitation, causing a loss of f600 worth of swine. The disease has been variously designated by veterinary surgeons, some pronouncing it hog
cholera, while others declare lt to be the
black plague. Hogs upon farms in the
neighborhood have been attacked with the
disease, which"bas invariably proved fatal
in a few hours, no method of treatment
having yet been discovered that would
check it. The farmers are taking every
precaution to prevent its further spread
and to keep those animals that are well
from contact with other?.
Oare of Brood Sows.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Brood sows should have a liberal supply
of vegetable food in winter, especially in
long cold winters- like the present, when
it is impossible for them to get bluo-grass
or any other vegetable matter in a green
state, unless the owner has made provision for it, by storing in pits and cellars,
such vegetables aa sugar beets, apples, turnips, pumpkins, etc. I like sugar beets,
as they are wonderfully productive and
%vill keep all winter, and are greatly relished by swine, aa well as other stock, and
aid greatly in keeping them in a vigorous
and healthy condition. "When sows are
thus fed there ia little danger of them eating their young, as there Is when they are
feverish from a long continued corn diet.
It is an easy matter to raise and store up
beets, apples, turnips and pumpkins for
this purpose, and the man who does so
and feeds them judiciously, will be abundantly repaid for his labor in the increased
profit and health of his animals. As a great
number of pigs will be farrowed in March
and April, I would urge upon farmers the
great necessity of providing, If not already
done, dry, warm quarters for them in order
to save every good pig as nearly as possible, for hoga will be comparatively scarce
next year. There are scarcely any pigs
being wintered over this winter, mainly on
account of the soarclty of corn. In fact, a
large number of broeding animals were
disposed of for the same reason, wMeh
makes it more necessary than ever to raise
as many good pigs •_» possible this year.
The scarcity of older hogs will undoubted-
-_©a_H"a.
Ing everything into connSderaUon ltls a most deslr- ■•.„ s„ft„-„„~ n, , - 	
£i^,.?„a._.?i,ymfMta^ influence the prioe next fall and winter.
Possession will be given Immediately on pun-bane.       Thorntown Ind t -*.t  -r.
^0e,teMthTere,,pwlicu-ar». «-««•» J. B.BSi!aii.Tr,      inorntown, ina. i. ^ Barker.
AurOTft, Indiana. I ->   —   » ....	
Galloway Cattle.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What are the merits of Galloway cattle
besides their hardiness and easy keeping?
Can they bo recommended as to the quantity and quality of milk, early maturity
lattening, etc?
These queries were discussed. in the
Farmer last week by a correspondent.—Ed.
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MONEY to loan on farm*; at 7 e^..        TT
Mv terms are fair aSdltbe ^Tuni' fA
SB %1 *__>. Market street, lncua"apolta,T?d
Interest.
""  DAY,
Sheep Culture ia Kansas-"Will it
PayP '
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I see several inquiries in your paper in
regard to sheep raising In this State, and
the best method of getting them. Having
made some investigation on that subject,
I may be able to give some of the desired
information.
THE QUESTION, WILT. IT  PAT?
Depends upon two things, first, the kind of
sheep you get, and secondly the care taken
of them. With the right kind of sheep and
proper care, there is nothing that will pay
better. With tho vast increase of population
in this country and the growing demand
for wool and mutton, it will be a long
time before the supply exceeds the demand.
The last year we imported over 50,000,000
pounds of wool, which ought to have been
produced ln this country. Sheep can be
had for one half the increase and half of
the wool.
SHEEP RANCHES.
As to procuring or buying ranches, it is
not necessary to invest in them, as there is
an abundance of fine grazing lands that are
free to any who may come, and sheds and
corrals oan be put up while herding duriDg
the summer, cheaper than thoy can le
bought. As to location I think the southern part of the State the beat. Many
who havo been in th9 western part of
the State and Coloradoare moving into this
part of the State, where better care can be
taken of their herds. Among the many
counties that are becoming quite popular
are Greenwood, Elk, Chautauqua, Cowly,
Harper, Sumner, Mitchell and Labette.
These afford an opportunity of locating
your family in some good town, near by.
THE MERINO
is the most profitable kind to raise, as they
are much hardier than either Cotswolds or
Southdowns which cannot be herded profitably in any considerable numbers; then
the Merinos are also very fine shearers,
where well taken care of. A great many
are taking the Missouri and Arkansas,
while others are taking tbe Mexican and
Colorado sheep, which can be bought after
shearing at from 151 50 to ?2 25 per head,
and grade up with thorough Merino bucks.
This makes a good cross, and very good
wool. The great objection though, to this
is that a great many of the Mexican and
Colorado sheep are more or less affeoted
with the scab, giving a diseased flock to
start with. Itis better if yon buy, to buy
good healthy quarter breeds, and then work
up from that. The increase in theState tor
the last year was over
100,000 HEAD,
and they are being distributed all over the
State. Many who have engaged in it will
no doubt fail. For success even in sheep
is only the reward of "eternal vigilance."
And hero I might add a few words of advice to any who may desire to come and
engage in sheep culture as a business, Z
can only repeat, however, what has been
ssdd by others, a sheep to be profitable
must have a good healthy body, and this
they cannot get by neglect. There is no
more affectionate animal than a sheep, and
with due care on tbe part of the shepherd he can be easily controlled and cared
for. One of the great sources of profit is
the wool. This you cannot get in either
quantity or quality from a poor thin sheep,
so to insure a good clip, the best oi care
should be taken of your herd during winter. After the grass is killed in the fall,
you shonld begin feeding corn and grain,
to keep them in good condition and flesh.
THE AVERAGE CLIP
for 1879 was about five pounds, and the
mortality in tho State a little over 3 per
cent. But a few instanoes might bo given
to show what care will do in the way of
increasing the clip. Mr. Kobert Loy, near.
Eureka, cut from 850 Merinoes 9,SM pounds.
Prof. Thompson, near the same place, has
1,000 head, he cut over eight pounds average.
From another flock ot 750 ewes, 7,500
pounds was cut, and gave an increase of
675 lambs. Jac=>b Wright, formally of Indianapolis, who now has nearly 8,000 bead,
just above Winfield, told me he cut about
II pounds, and expected nearly 2.0CO
lamb3 in the spring. Anj one can tell
what the above increase will pay. Mr.
Wright estimates the ontire animal cost at
from 50c to $1 per head. Parties, though,
who expect to come out and buy or take
sheep on the shares, and put them out on
the prilries, with a boy to herd them, expecting to make money had best stay at
home, as sheep make no money for such.
It is bet* for those who come to come early
and look out a location In time to get sheep,
and prepare for keeping them. From 200
to 300 is enough to begin with, unless you
have some experience ln the business.
They increase as fast aa your experieace
will enable you to care for them. Then
during lambing time they require very
close attention, and extra help.
E. H. W.
What IeP
Editors Indiana Farmer*.
I see that Lee McDaniels is to read a
paper before the Indiana wool growers, in
May, on "What Is the best cross to pnt I
upon our common sheep." This is an important question to be decided by many of
your readers before another breeding season. I am a new subscriber, and do not
kuow to what extent it has been discussed
through your colnmns, but I would like to
see the claims of the different breeds presented by different breeders, especially the
Oxford Downs by T. S. Cooper. Myself
and others have been using Cotswold. How
fat BttEii we carry this cross? You say
"the tendency is to middle and fine wool,
and sheop breeders should prepare to meet
tho demand." We want to be up to the
times,|but the butchers must have those
large fat latai^in May. J.C.
Cloves, O.      ~~——■-—_^
between the top of the hoof and the corronary, severing the corronary irom the
hoof; then the corronary will throw out
an undivided hoof. Your operator must
be careful to not touch above the split.
Flatulent Colie.
Xditsra Indiana Farmer:
Is it botts or colie? My horse is usually
hearty and always fat, but probably twice
a month will be quite sick, lying down,
rolling and showing evidences of great
pain. He usually recovers in a few hours,
without medicine. C. L.
Paris, Ky.
Your horse is afflicted with eithei flatulent colic or inflammation of the bowels.
If he swells, It is colic, and give him
double the amount ordered for mule colt
of C. S. If not swollen, give him, far up
on his tongue, half a drachm of tincture of
aconite root, and the same of belladonna,
alternately every two hours, till well.
There is no such a disease as bott disease.
Botts never hurt a horse.
Breed Her.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Will you please telL me what ails my
mare and what to do for hei? She takes
spells as though to make water, but makes
little. She will keep it up all day, some
times acting that way every few minutes.
First took that way when etirrying a eolt;
has kept it up ever since. Also have a
horse that struck his ankles till they are
enlarged; have him cured of striking now.
Thanks to you for that. Will blistering
take the enlargements away?      Agknt.
I think if you breed yonr mare she will
stop the nuisance. It is a desire of her
generative organs. It is well known that
mares with foal will copulate every month
ot her pregnancy except one. If. this is
not effective let us know.
Blistering or painting with iodine is all
that can bo done for your horse; I prefer
the blister.
This department Is edited by Dr. John N. Navin,
Veterinsry Snr-reon, author ol Navin's Explanatory
Stock Sector.
Rules to be observed by those expecting correct
answers:
1. State tie rate of pulse.
2. Thejor-athing.
S. The stasvuns attitude.
4. App**arance of hair.
5. It cough, and secretion from nose, whether
glands between the Jaws can be felt, and how near
the bone
6. It breathing ls rapid, accompanied by rattle or
rushing Boand, no time must be lost ln bllstcrtn*-
throat, |hd using tincture of aconite root and tincture of belladonna 20 drops on t«c*rne alternately
every two hours, lor time is too short for an answer.
7. Parties desiring answers by raall must enclose a
stamp.
Dropsy in Speep.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Pieasj tell me what is the cause and also
the cur*) for dropsy In sheep. E. S.
Perhtpa you have not distinguished the
differerce between dropsy and the rot. In
both diieases water is found in the abdomen. In dropsy the water is of a reddish
color, aafl iu rot it is of a greenish color.
Query.
Editors Iidlana Farmer:
Pleasi inform me what ails our cow. She
urinater every time she is milked, and the
milk is bitter, and she is failing of her milk
on gooc feod. Header,
Take .bloodroot, flour, of sulphur, sulphate of; iron.black antimony, and resin, of
each tw;> ounces; ground ginger and pulv.
niter, of each four ounoes; podophyllin,
one ouuee; mix. Dose, one teaspoonful
three times dally In chop or mill feed.
Bone-Spavin.
Editors India-- Farmer:
I have a mare which has bone-spavin,
only of about two weeks standing, and is
qul.e lame with It. f, g. q_
Middletown, O.
If you have diagnosed the case correctly,
blister the parts severely twice daily for
ten or twelve days. Rub in well with the
hand; uso Spanish fly and spirit of turpentine; one ounce ofthe former to one pint of
the latter; grease with lard about the
twelfth day.
A Lamo Horse.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What cart I do for my horse? He has
been lame for three months. His right
front hoof is split on the inside, and when
ho travels tbe blood runs out of the split.
I kept greasing it with lard, and have vised
hartshorn liniment. L. K.
- Have your horse shod with a stout shoe
that will >-ot bond, .and under the split
form a depression; then take a chisol-
pointed iro-i, about one-fourth of an inch
wide, heat it to a red heat, and run it in
Arabian Colt.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a fine Arabian colt, one year old
last spring, wh6n it began to shed. The
hair began to fall off tail; at this writing
there is but very little hair left; don't rub
tail; is in good condition. I have beau
told by some that it is hereditary with thia
stock of horses; that there are quite a number of theso cotta so aflocttrd. C. A. Is.
Your colt is not affected with any uncommon cutaneous disease, for it is very
unusual for horses of that breed to retain
much hair in the tail up to maturity, and
frequently the mane suffers in this climate.
This is the cause of the light manes and
t-oiaof tbo rare stock in England aud in
this country, tie breed having beea largely Arabian. Take proof spirits, six ounces;
olive oil, four to six; crude niter, (saltpeter)
half an ounce; mix, and rub in once or
twice daily.
Sweeney.
Editors Indiana Farmer
I have a mule that had the sweeney in
the left shoulder and was lame for a
month or two, Lut after being blown up
twice it got well. But in a short time afterward he got lame in the left hind leg.
I could see nothing wrong except that the
left hip seemed to shrink some. After
awhile that leg got better, and he got lame
In the other hind leg; can see nothing
wrong and cannot tell where the soreness
Is. He rests the lame leg when standing.
He eats as well as common.        O. W. T.
Your mule has migratory rheumatism,
and the cause of the shrinking is resting
the leg, throwing the weight of the limb
upon the muscles above this shrinkage. Is
easily cured. As soon as the cause is removed, drench your mule daily with
whisky, one-half pint, with ono lemon
squeezed into it and into one-half pint of
warm water, like many of our bogus patent medicines, will call it good for man
and beast.
Cholic.
Editors Indiana Former:
Please prescribe for my mule colt. One
day he appears to bo woll, and the next he
will bo quite sick, looking back when
standing, and often lying upon his back
with his teet in the air. C. T.
You give no symptoms of any disease.
He may have either of the following diseases, viz.: colic, gripes, inflammation of
the bowels, or spasmodic colic. If worms,
give him sulphateof iron, a level teaspoonful with one grain of calomel once or twice
daily. If flatulent colic, give him tincture
of opium, half an ounce; Bulphurlc ether,
one ounce; tincture of camphor, half an
ounce; tincture of capsicum and of peppermint of each half an ounce in water every
two hours. If inflammation of the bowels,
drop on his tongue alternately every two
hours, half a drachm of tincture cf aconite
root, and cf belladonna. If gripes, any
stimulant, whisky or capsicum tincture,
half an ounce In water every two hours.
Distemper.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What can I.do for myliorst? He had
the distempei, or epizootic, very badly
this winter, at first swelllne badly under
tho throat and jaws. He could eat nothing
for three weeks, consequently got very
poor. There is a Jargo lump under his
throat that doesn't seem to ho awp.y. His
cough has not left him entirely; does, not
eat heartily; hair looks very well.
T. J. L.
Blister the afcecees urder the throat, and
use the following: Crude niter, one oucce;
carbonate of Iron, two ounces; phosphate
of lime, two ounces; ground sarsaparilla,
eight ounces; ground sassafras, eight
ounces; as-rafceditie, two ounces; Spanish fly, one drachm; blue vitrol, two
drachms; powdered iodino, two drachms;
ground ginger and capsicum, of each six
ounoes. Mix, divide into 45 doses, and
give one three times daily in chop, or
dronch in water. Give him 80 drops ot"
Fowlers' solution of arsenioin his drink,
three times daily; increase two drops daily
until 50 drops are given. If his hair looks*
very bright in 10 or 15 days, stop the arsenic for a few days, then resume it again.
Sheep Diseases.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a fine Leicoster buck lamb which"
is sick. It will not oat, and when standing;
will stretch his hind legs back as far.»
possible. He has no bruises that we can
find.
Also, several June lambs that have the*
scours, and the droppings clot to their tails.
We have it clipped off, but it accumulates
again in a few days. One of them ha»
died.
Also, a Southdown ram that commenced
to rub tho wool off his back within two or
three days alter we received him. Wo put
sulphur at one time and snuff a£ anothex
time on his back, and keep it covered with
a cloth. He has quit rubbing himself, and
the wool is growing. Was this the right
treatment? S. D. ASon.
If only diarrhea, feed a little oats dried
in an oven or on a pan, with dry hay. If
dysentery, take powdered goldenseal, one-
fourth ounce; powdered charcoal, one
ounce; prepared chalk, one ounoe, ground
ginger and catechu, one drachm of each;
mix and give a heapened toapoonful in
water twice daily; if not well in two days,
double the dose. For your Southdown
mangy ram, you had bettor boil half a
pound of common tobacco in one quart of
water, and in theoczo mix in ono-fourth
ounce of corrosive sublimate. If tho blisters are not rubbed to a scab, scarrlfy with
a pen-knife and drop the ooze into it; if a
scab, rub it a little; havo a gooso-quill
run through the cork of the bottle to pour
the medicine through.
Cannot guoss tho disease of Lolcester.
Give him two tablespcoi.tuAe, ot castor o.$
and 20drops of turpentine in half a pint oV
warm water. If this fails to operate, repeat next day, and until it operates. This
is for an aged sheep, and less for a yearling: say two-thirds of the above.
The Barnes Wiro Check Rowor.
This implement, of which wo give an ac-
Companying illustration has become so popular as the only perfectly successful wire-
check rower, that we desire to acquaint
any of our readers who may not be familiar with the machine, of tho fact. Chambers, Bering & Qulnlan, of Decatur, 111,,
the manufacturers have for years kept its
advantages prominently before the publio
and pushed their agencies throughout tho
corn-growing section of the country until
the Barnes Wire Check Bower can be>
found on sale at nearly every point at which
oorn planters are sold. Their claim of having the largest establishment of the kind
extant, is a vory just one, tho increasing
heavy demand requiring a constant enlargement of manufacturing facilities and
their immense and handsome factory is
the result. The advantages of this checls
rower is very fully aud truthfully narrateia
in their advertisement in this paper.
In addition we would say that the annealed ateel wire used is made of the best
quality, expressly for the firm, and is superior to all others for this purpose. The
wire does not cross the machine thereby
avoiding side draft and saving much constant wear on the wire, which thoreforo
will long outlast ono that does cross the
machino. Chambers, Bering ct Qulnlan
have beon in business lor many years, am.
the firm is very reliable, responsible, antl
popular with all who bave dealings with it.
They are also well known as tbo rmnufar***
turers of the Brown Elleptical (single),
and the Champion (double), Hog and l'ig
Rings so favorably known throughout tho
land as the only rings tbat close on the
outside of the nose, thus preventing it from
becoming sore.
A BuBineBB Man's Opinion.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Though not farming much, I take the
Fakmer and like it well. If it could bo
placed jn the hands of every farmer in
the State, It would add greatly to tho
agricultural products of tbeBtateand the
moral tflect would bo of untold value.
Your discussion ol tbo temperance
question would soon make the farmere.
and their families temperance workers*.
As soon ns the farmers of the Btate realize what Sntemperunce conk them iu
dollars and cents, they can and will blot
out the truffle in iutoxicatiug liquors.
Columbus City. J. B. <;.
Tbe present catlle gracing btlt of Un-
United Btat- s (wild Innd») U tibo'.it 2 W)
miles iu length nnd M-0 in Ivta-th. ft
blrctchcs irom the H'o Cirtui-'-' to I_ tui-
to'»a.
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