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VOL. XIII. IKDIANAPOI_IS, IXDJA^A, OCTOBER 5, 1878. NO. 40. FOR SALE. FOR SA-LE-Jersjy Bull "Sir Roderick" >o. 1732; three yeara old; sure breeder and from a good butter family. Price fWO. A. L. «fc W. C. DAVIS, Dublin, Ind. FOR SALK—The Farm Register and Account Book. Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price n each. Address INDIANA FARMER COMPANY, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—I have a flne lot of Poland-China pigs now ready to ship, of undoubted purity, representing the Black Tom of Bess families, at reasonable prices. WILI.. T. EVANS, Homney, Tippecanoe county! Indiana. WANTED. ~XtTANTED—Any one wanting a good farm wagon, „>V. buggy or carriage, new or second-hand, to call on G. H. SHOVER, 174 E. Market street, Indianapolis. Repairing of all kinds promptly attended to. ~X\TANTED— We want to arrange with some Vt farmer for hay during fall and winter who has » machine to do his own baleing. D. F. SWAIN & CO., 147 and 149 North Delaware street, Indianapolis, Indiana. "YTT" ANTED—100 breeders of short horns to give one TT good reason why a calf carefully raised on a farmin Indiana is not Just aa good as one raised in Kentucky, when the Immediate ancestors of both were of Kentucky's best breeding—or go to Corn- stock's sale on the 17th inst. WANTED—Three hundred young men and women to learn telegraphing, and take offices on the lines. Salary, $65 to ?S0 per month. Can be learned in ten to twelve weeks. Very little education required. For particulars, address, with stamp, INDIaANAPOLIS TELEGRAPH INSTITUTE, Indianapolis, Ind. MISCEL-LAHTEOUS. c. C. BURGESS, Dentist. Office in toora 4 Va- jen's Exchange Block, N, Pennsylvania St. TO LOAN—Money to loan on improved farms. J. H. HARDEBECK, 36 East Market street, Indianapolis. MONEY TO LOAN—Sums of&XX) to $3,000 on improved farms. RUDDELL, WALCOTT & VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind. YOUNG MEN wishing a successful start in life should attend the old reliable Indianapolis Business College, established in 1858. We refer to Mr. Herbert Conner, assistant bookkeeper Indiana Farmer, son of one of the proprietors, and graduate of this college. Address, with stamp, for full descriptive circulars, KOERNER & GOODIER, Indianapo- lis, Ind. STOLEN. STOLEN—From my farm, on September 3, a bay horse, 12 years old, about 15>_; hands high; mane and tail trimmed short; bar shoes on fore feet; (gets lame without them); sore under Jaw, caused by distemper; coughs some when driving. A liberal reward will he paid for any information that will lead to his reco\ery AddresfMRS. MARY E. BOONE, Lebanon, Ind -_-# mt^i Messrs. Jonathan Baugh & Son, Farmers' Institute, took the first premium on their aged cow, Iowa, and second premium on their two-year-old heifer, Jessie; also second preminm on bull, Young Breastplate, at the Ohio State Fair, at Columbus. very; heavy, the fall wheat has; to be cut withreapinghooks, being 'so heavy aud badly laid the reapers would not cut it. I noticed a fine field of fall oats nearly ripe, and a field ofj fall beans. The farm buildings are commodious and very conveniently arranged; they are all constructed of brick. The stock are principally Shorthorns, being 1-50 in number, also a few Alderneys. I was, shown a young bull, eighteen months old, which is hired for the season, at 200 guineas,! from Mr. Booth, of Warlabj The horses kept at the royal farm are heavy daught. I was shown two fine stallions, three years old, one of them a fine] Clydesdale. At present there are about 100 swine, principally Berkshire of the pure strain. I noticed a noble animal 16 months old, a prize taker. They also keep a large number of the Prince Albert Windsor! swine, which for early feeding are superior to any other. ■ Thej are an improved Suffolk. The' royal dairy is an elegant room, 37 feet long by 23 feet wide I The windows are of stained glass. There are streams of gold water flowing under the panes ' Everything about the dairy is kept strictly clean by the dairy-i maid. On making inquiries here I found they used the old barrel churn, as that was the churn used when the Prince Consort was living. The Que 3D does not want any change. The poultry house is a long building, with a walk (or hall) the whole length on one side; the other is divided into rooms of 12 and 14 feet square. Each room has a door opening into the yard, which is enclosed by a high wire fence, so that every breed of fowls is kept entirely separate from each other. At a short distance is the royal kennel, where every variety of dogs is kept; both foreign and native. The building and " iureHrfi-__^-r(bJ'lfie,hen_i»-j';'*ri,M' royal gardens contain in area 30 acres, and are enclosed with a brick wall 12 feet high. There are ranges of glass housesabout 1,000 feet in all, where pears, grapes, nectarines, peaches, and other fruits are grown, as well as vegetables of all kinds for the castle. This is said to be the most complete vegetable garden in the world. Holstein Heifer, "Minnie Winkle," age 3 years and I(J months, weight 1,320 pounds. •i——- -. , __ Imported and owned by Geo. E. Brown, Elgin, 111. NEWS OP THE WEEK. *><- "5»rds i The Irish Farmer's Gazette looks for an era of renewed prosperity among British Short Horn breeders. We quote the following paragraph: "The closing of the Australian ports against English stock has been one ofthe principal causes of the late depression in the value of Short Horns and Herefords, but now that . these ports are again opened, combined with the triumphant and satisfactory settlement of the Eastern question, and the safety of the Cattle Diseases Bill, a great impetus will inevitably be given to the sale of purely-bred stock in Great Britain and Ireland. Stock of that description, for breeding purposes, has for some time past brought enormous prices in the Australian colonies, the high range of value being due to the scarcity of pure-bred stock in the colonies. STATE NEWS. Swine at the Paris Exposition. Mr: Samuel Dysart, special commissioner from our government, from Illinois, to report upon live-stock at the Paris exposition, writes as follows concerning thcshow of swine: "The exhibition of swine was not equal to that of one of our Western State fairs, in quality of animals exhibited. True, there was a great number of wbat mijght be termed breeds, represented by what would be considered very inferior specimens in our country. AVe have all the principal English breeds in as great a degree of perfection as I have seen them here. France is not what might be termed a pork-producing nation, and but little attention has been given to the improvement "of swine until quite recently. The different English breeds have been largely imported and bred gure in many places, but they have een more generally crossed with the native breeds, greatly to the general improvement in the quantity and quality of the meat produced. "The grand prize of honor was won by a Suffolk, owned by G. M. Sexton, Ipswich, England. The prize of S200, by the agricultural society of France, was awarded to a Frenchman named Porsin, on the Middlesex breed. There was a splendid show of Berkshires, but the juries seemed to favor the white h6g where they competed with those of dark color, and the small breeds over the large animals.* New Cattle Disease. Mr. Beuben A. Hart, of this county (Vanderburg), reports a mysterious disease among the cattle by which he has lost several head, among them a very valuable blooded bull worth $300. The disease manifests itself very suddenly, and completely prostrates the animals at once. The milk suddenly fails from a full flow to nothing in about six hours, the cattle droop and die in from seven hours to three days, and as yet no remedy has been discovered. Mr. Hart has tried several remedies without avail, and at last, to ascertain the nature of the disease, he made a post mortem examination of the bull in which the disease was very marked. When turned out in the morning the animal seemed as well as usual, but when Mr. Hart went to drive him home he found him lying down and disinclined to move, flis urine was bloody and scanty, his bowels ceased to move, and when opened the stomach proved to be full of dry, hard food, and the membranous lining tender and fragile as paper. The liver and lights were badly congested and spotted; the melt seemed rotted and jelly-like. The absence of all moisture from the stomach is a marked feature. Between 25 and 30 cattle are reported to have died from the disease, and any one who can prescribe a remedy will be a great benefactor to farm ers and bane. cattle raisers.—Evansville Tri* Live Stock at the Queen's Farm. Mr. Wm. Kennie, of Toronto, has a letter in the Mail of that city, giving an account of his visit this summer at the Queen's Farm, at Winsor, England, from which we clip the following extract: • There are SOO acres in the.farm, only about 200 acres under crop, the balance hay and pasture. This farm is kept in a high state of cultivation. The crops are . American Association of Breeders of Short-Horns. Secretary's Office, \ Greenc-STLe, Ind., Sept. 23,1878. J Dear Sib:—The American Association of Breeders of Short-horns, will hold its Seventh Annual Convention in the city of Nashville, Tenn., beginning October, 30th, 1878. The election of officers of the association for the ensuing two years will be held at this meeting. You are very cordially invited to attend. The Agricultural Commissioners' room has been secured for the sittings of the convention, and the Maxwell House will keep members at reduced rates. The committee of arrangement has also secured a reduction of fare over the Louisville and Nashville railroad to all attending tbe convention. Subjects for discussion, or short essays, on matters of interest to the Association, are solicited. The directors are requested to meet at the Maxwell House on the even ing before the opening session. Very respectfully, S. F. Lockridge, Sec'y. If there is no agent for the Farmer in your locality, send us postal card for full and complete agent's outfit. You can make big wages with light work. A Richmond dispatch states that thirty thousand people attended divine services at the Indiana yearly meeting of the Orthodox 4.-?2Se*y-Of Friend* in that city on Sundy th> SStK ult. Several prominent English ministers were present. . A term ofthe United States court will be held at Kvansville, beginning October 9th. A band of robbers went through the stdre of Gladden & Lashbrook, at Lpxington, on the night of the 26 inst., and carried off a large amount of goods. J William Jewell, a farmer living about 4 miles east of Shelburn, while engaged in cleaning out his well, was overcome by dimps and was taken out dead. The removal of the county seat of Clark Co., from Charlestown to Jeffersonville has at last been accomplished by the commissioners. An incendiary fire on the night of the 24th inst., destroyed a barn on the farm of Charles Brooks, north pf Muncie. Two horses, two mules, a wagon and the year's crops were burned. Loss, $2,000; no insurance. John Boyd, a respectable citizen of Clark county, twenty miles below Madison, was brutally murdered in his bed by unknown masked men Sunday night. No cause known, and no arrests so far as learned- On the25th inst., an altercation took place at Frankfort between two boys, thirteen and fourteen years of age, in whieh "William Steele stabbed Pulsy CorneUson nine times in the abdomen and back. Steele has been bound over to await the results of Corneli- son's injuries. Trinity Episcopal church, one of tlie finest in Ft. Wayne, was struck by lightning on the 20th inst., and took fire. It burned off the roof, completely ruining the organ and altar, and badly damaging tlie cushions and carpets by water. Loss $9,000. A filmier living near Broad Ripple, in this county, got drunk in this city and started home in a buggy soon after dark. He was stopped near the exposition grounds by foot.pads, who unhitched his horse and rode away on it after having relieved him of $180 in money. A boy named Paddy Raper, living at Cataract, Owen county, commenced bleeding at the nose on the 24 inst., and before noon next day died from loss of blood. Mr. John Flack, a young farmer, was badly injured on the 28th inst., by being crushed while driving into a warehouse in Attica. He was sitting on a high spring seat, on a grain wagon, and was caught between the ceiling and the seat, and before the horses could be stopped was seriously crushed about the back and hips. Mr. llenry J. Bowser, of Allen county, narrowly escaped death while on his way to his home from Ft. Wayne, on the 27th inst. A large ash tree was blown down and fell across his team, killing one and badly injuring the other. The tree fell within 3 feet of Mr. Bowser. Trouble is brewing at Sullivan on account of the admittance of colored children tothe public schools. The Crawfordsville Journal says: Chickens and canary birds, as well as hogs, are Scotland, last week. The cattle were flipped by steamer from New York. The (tittle of Central Indiana are coming int6 avoir abroad. " ■ . . $A< -StoiT-trpf wind destroyed $10,000 worth of property ,^t Waynetown on the 25th inst. 4Wffime storm LjbanoB, Boon GENERAL NEWS. nel, reports that three cases of gunpowder, for blasting the tunnel, exploded on tho 20th inst.* Ten men wero instantly killed and several torribly injured. A claim for §200,000 against tho Indianapolis, Bloomington it Western railroad company, was sold in New York last weok for #13. Tho total valuation of property in Vermont is $87,002,500. There aro 31,000 pupils enrolled in tho St Louis schools, an increase of 3,000 since last year. Queen Victoria travels in a carriage wliich cost ,$30,000. Georgo Harris, employed in tho woolen mills at Freeman, IJ1., was adjusting some of the machinery, when his hands wero' caught between the heavy rollers, and before ho could extricate them both arms were completely torn off to the shoulders. Fifty thousand tons of scranton coal wero sold at aucton last week by tho Dolawaro, Lackawanna and Western railroad company at tho following prices per ton: Grate, ?3,5o@3,57^; egg, $3,65@3,70; stove, -54,07® 4,50; chestnut,?3,52)_. James A. Hamilton, son of General a\lex- ander Hamilton, of Revolutionary famo, who was killed in a duel with aVaron Burr, died on the 25th inst., at his country seat near Now York in tho 91st year of his age. A man named Van Emlen was crushed to death under a threshing machine at Kim- mundy, Illinois, on the 27 inst. The oldest woman in tho world is claimed to be Mary Benton, of Elton, England, who is in her one hundred and forty-eighth year, and is as smart and busy as ever. Sirs. Mackey, of Nevada, has become the' happy owner of some of the most gorgeous jewelry in the Paris exposition. She has bought a pai-ure of diamonds and sapphires costing $170,000; likewise a diamond nock- Twelve buildings were destroyed by tho East St. Louis fire oh the 27th inst. The origin of the fire is not known. The loss is laco valued at **$25.000.■'.'-- ' , estimated at f 150,000; insurance not ascer- An -Aj*»-'rican *f">m Ohio during the first tainedyet * "•-*' \8eason hag raised oa a farm eighteen miles ajP§^*_____2__?--_^ b7 dying in many, parts of the county 'with cholera. Captain J. B. Homan, of Danville, sold a cargo of fat cattle to Mr. Swan, of Glasgow, Davidson's Academy of Music, at Rochester, which has been two years in building, at a cost of $30,000, and said to be the finest structure of the kind in Northern Indiana, was open to the public last week. The eleven year old daughter of Louis Brown, of Lafayette, went into a field where the men were using a harrow, and while resting the horses she got onto one of them. It took fright and threw her to the ground. The heavy harrow passed over her body and literally tore the flesh in great pieces from the bones. Eleven deep gashes were made, exposing her lungs and entrails. She cannot recover. The streets and stores of Shelbyville were covered with honey bees one day last week. Several shops were compelled to close up on account of them. They appeared like an immense swarm on every street. Ezra Guard, for murdering his wife at Hardentown, Dearborn county, several months ago, was sentenced on the 28th inst., to the penitentiary for life. Early on the morning ofthe 28th inst., the tank in Charles Riker's fertilizing house, two miles south of Franklin, exploded, badly damaging the building, and scalding George Harrison, one of the workmen, about the head and shoulders. He will probably recover. On the night ofthe 27th inst., an attempt was made to burglarize the dry goods store ofW. N. Evans, at Noblesville, by two white men and a negro. The authorities anticipated the robbery, but failed to capture the thieves, although much wild shooting was done. Two suspected persons were arrested to-day. The school fund of Indiana foots up the snug sum of $8,965,000—the largest of any State in the Union. Charley Willard, a brakeman on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad, fell from the train at Patoka, on the 28th inst., and the entire train passed over him, taking off both legs and one arm; he died soon after. Arrangements are now being made for a new town hall at Carlisle. Surviving members ofthe One Hundred and Twenty-fourth regiment will hold their reunion at Winchester, October 24th and 25th. There was a serious accident at thc Delphi races on the 24th inst. There were 8 horses on the track. The horses were in a bunch, just finishing the first half mile, and near the judges' stand, when one ofthe horses stumbled and fell, and three others with their riders, fell over him. A man named Lyons, who owned and was riding one of the hbrses, had a leg broken, and anotherparty named Matthews was badly bruised up. The house of Mrs. Eads, a widow lady living near Brookville, was entered by tramps a few days since, and robbed of$104. Five cars of John Robinson's train were wrecked, south of Vincennes, on Sunday. Five men were badly injured. Tlio gate money at tho Boone eounty fair amounted to $1,261.75, and the total receipts were $1,949.90. !5wSr"<Tr^k"&ur_rig VES l*aSfTw^w^-e_aiha.Te been the largest ever known, amounting to more than 5,000,000 bushels. During the same period nearly 70,000 barrels of flour and over 1,300,000 bushels of corn were shipped from the same port. The national banks in Boston pay an annual local tax of $885,000, one ninth of the entire city assessment. Besides this they pay $705,000 a year taxes to the general government. Their aggregate capital is $52,- 000,000, and on this day they pay a total tax of $1,560,000. It is proposed at Washington to organize a society to urge upon Congress the enlistment of 100,000 men for military and agricultural purposes on government reservations. The treasure coach of the Cheyenne and Black Hills line, which left Deadwood on the 26th, was robbed by road agents of $25,- 000 to $30,000. There is a project on foot for laying a new Atlantic telegraphic cable. A number of French and American financiers are said to be interested in the scheme. Senor Zamacona, the Mexican minister, says the purpose of the Mexican government in sending 5.000 troops to the border was to suppress raiding, and aid the United States troops in putting down lawlessness. Mrs. Samuel Salmore, wife of a prosperous farmer near Clinton, Ky., died on tho 26th inst., from an overdose of Chloroform, administered to facilitate the extraction ofa tooth. Five hundred and ninety-nine Mormons arrived at New York last week. They are for the most part Danes. The principal demand at present for the new silver dollars comes from the south, where they aro used for the payment of tho negro'cotton pickers, who prefer them to greenbacks. But tho demand is less than the supply, and tho daily shipments of four tons do not exhaust the daily coinage. Buenos Ayres is floundering in a sea of debt and paper money, and proposes to further increase the flood by issuing eighty millions more of paper dollars to any person' corporation or government, that will give her three millions in gold. Eighty millions of paper for three millions in coin is dirt cheap. The average yield of corn in Iowra this year will be sixty bushels to the acre, or 250,000,000 bushels, as against 194,000,000 last year. This will give an income at 15 cents per bushel of $37,500,000. It is doubtful if any other State in the Union will exceed the corn crop of Iowa this year. President White, of Cornell university, just returned from Europe, says the financial depression in Germany is almost unbearable, and that there are no signs of a better outlook. Near Salem, Oregon, recently, a team hitched to a self-binding machine, ran off, taking its way through a standing field of wheat containing about 100 acres. Strango to say the machine kept together, and bound every bundle that came to it with lightning rapidity. AVhen the team had stopped, it had nicely bound 150 bundles, but the swathe was crookeder than -a cork-screw. A dispatch from Rivolo, Switzerland, at the southern mouth ofthe St. Gothard tun- *. 33«£^-OTlii|[jtfn^ cane" groWnin bur Southern (States, havin&h'-*-* attained a heighth of thirteen feet. Fino samples of syrup havo already been manufactured therefrom. Nearly one million dollars has been awardod to American claimants for damages arising from the rebellion in Cuba. According to tho official figures from Washington the national banks havo suffered a loss of $50,000,000 during tho past two years. The loss results mostly in the depreciation of bonds. For tbe Indiana Farmer. Our llailroad Commerce. The traffic which passes over our railroads furnishes the true index to the activity of business throughout tho country. At a time like the present, when we are looking and hoping for a revival of business and a return of prosperity, we naturally look to the railroads leading from the great fields of production, to the principal markets of these products, to indicate the advance or decline of business. At the request of the Secretary of tho Treasury, the Bureau of Statistics has , prepared an elaborate report covering nearly the whole field of our internal commerce. From tliis report we condense the following facts. From 1873 to to the present time, freights over the following roads have increased at the ratio indicated, to-wit: Southern Michigan and Lake Shore (i'-j percent. New York Central /.... 4 " " l'ittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago 16 " " l'ennsylvania It. Jt 41$ " " Baltimore* Ohio Kl>_ " - Union 1-aclnc 47 " *' Chicago* Northwestern 24 *' " Chicago & llock Inland 'm " " This indicates ah average increase of business at tbe rate of 24 per cent, since the crisis of 187S. In what docs this increase of traffic consist? is an important factor in the problem of returning prosperity. It may Indicate an immense consumption of foreign goods, purchased on credit, whicii would entail a ruinous burden of debt on the country. To settle this question we turn to the report -before us, and learn that the amount of grain received within the past twelve months, at the ports of Montreal, Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans, exceeds that received in 1872, by 70 per cent., and 1875 was the year of heaviest grain received, previous to this. The actual value of the freights passing over our railroads can only be estimated—having no means of obtaining the accurate figures. It is affirmed, however, that the commerce over the Pennsylvania railroad and tbe New York Central and tbeir western connections, exceeds in value the entire foreign commerce of the United States, imports ami exports combined; and that the commerce of all our railroads will represent an aggregate value equa. to sixteen times tliat of our foreign commerce. At no time in our history has tlie internal commerce of our country increased more rapidly than within tlie past year. 1 H. T. 15. Complimentaries Keceivcd. Wc acknowledge tbe receipt of complimentary tickets to the Ht. l/>uin Kxposition and Fair. '.. O. Kabb, H<«:'y.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1878, v. 13, no. 40 (Oct. 5) |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Transcript | VOL. XIII. IKDIANAPOI_IS, IXDJA^A, OCTOBER 5, 1878. NO. 40. FOR SALE. FOR SA-LE-Jersjy Bull "Sir Roderick" >o. 1732; three yeara old; sure breeder and from a good butter family. Price fWO. A. L. «fc W. C. DAVIS, Dublin, Ind. FOR SALK—The Farm Register and Account Book. Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price n each. Address INDIANA FARMER COMPANY, Indianapolis. FOR SALE—I have a flne lot of Poland-China pigs now ready to ship, of undoubted purity, representing the Black Tom of Bess families, at reasonable prices. WILI.. T. EVANS, Homney, Tippecanoe county! Indiana. WANTED. ~XtTANTED—Any one wanting a good farm wagon, „>V. buggy or carriage, new or second-hand, to call on G. H. SHOVER, 174 E. Market street, Indianapolis. Repairing of all kinds promptly attended to. ~X\TANTED— We want to arrange with some Vt farmer for hay during fall and winter who has » machine to do his own baleing. D. F. SWAIN & CO., 147 and 149 North Delaware street, Indianapolis, Indiana. "YTT" ANTED—100 breeders of short horns to give one TT good reason why a calf carefully raised on a farmin Indiana is not Just aa good as one raised in Kentucky, when the Immediate ancestors of both were of Kentucky's best breeding—or go to Corn- stock's sale on the 17th inst. WANTED—Three hundred young men and women to learn telegraphing, and take offices on the lines. Salary, $65 to ?S0 per month. Can be learned in ten to twelve weeks. Very little education required. For particulars, address, with stamp, INDIaANAPOLIS TELEGRAPH INSTITUTE, Indianapolis, Ind. MISCEL-LAHTEOUS. c. C. BURGESS, Dentist. Office in toora 4 Va- jen's Exchange Block, N, Pennsylvania St. TO LOAN—Money to loan on improved farms. J. H. HARDEBECK, 36 East Market street, Indianapolis. MONEY TO LOAN—Sums of&XX) to $3,000 on improved farms. RUDDELL, WALCOTT & VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind. YOUNG MEN wishing a successful start in life should attend the old reliable Indianapolis Business College, established in 1858. We refer to Mr. Herbert Conner, assistant bookkeeper Indiana Farmer, son of one of the proprietors, and graduate of this college. Address, with stamp, for full descriptive circulars, KOERNER & GOODIER, Indianapo- lis, Ind. STOLEN. STOLEN—From my farm, on September 3, a bay horse, 12 years old, about 15>_; hands high; mane and tail trimmed short; bar shoes on fore feet; (gets lame without them); sore under Jaw, caused by distemper; coughs some when driving. A liberal reward will he paid for any information that will lead to his reco\ery AddresfMRS. MARY E. BOONE, Lebanon, Ind -_-# mt^i Messrs. Jonathan Baugh & Son, Farmers' Institute, took the first premium on their aged cow, Iowa, and second premium on their two-year-old heifer, Jessie; also second preminm on bull, Young Breastplate, at the Ohio State Fair, at Columbus. very; heavy, the fall wheat has; to be cut withreapinghooks, being 'so heavy aud badly laid the reapers would not cut it. I noticed a fine field of fall oats nearly ripe, and a field ofj fall beans. The farm buildings are commodious and very conveniently arranged; they are all constructed of brick. The stock are principally Shorthorns, being 1-50 in number, also a few Alderneys. I was, shown a young bull, eighteen months old, which is hired for the season, at 200 guineas,! from Mr. Booth, of Warlabj The horses kept at the royal farm are heavy daught. I was shown two fine stallions, three years old, one of them a fine] Clydesdale. At present there are about 100 swine, principally Berkshire of the pure strain. I noticed a noble animal 16 months old, a prize taker. They also keep a large number of the Prince Albert Windsor! swine, which for early feeding are superior to any other. ■ Thej are an improved Suffolk. The' royal dairy is an elegant room, 37 feet long by 23 feet wide I The windows are of stained glass. There are streams of gold water flowing under the panes ' Everything about the dairy is kept strictly clean by the dairy-i maid. On making inquiries here I found they used the old barrel churn, as that was the churn used when the Prince Consort was living. The Que 3D does not want any change. The poultry house is a long building, with a walk (or hall) the whole length on one side; the other is divided into rooms of 12 and 14 feet square. Each room has a door opening into the yard, which is enclosed by a high wire fence, so that every breed of fowls is kept entirely separate from each other. At a short distance is the royal kennel, where every variety of dogs is kept; both foreign and native. The building and " iureHrfi-__^-r(bJ'lfie,hen_i»-j';'*ri,M' royal gardens contain in area 30 acres, and are enclosed with a brick wall 12 feet high. There are ranges of glass housesabout 1,000 feet in all, where pears, grapes, nectarines, peaches, and other fruits are grown, as well as vegetables of all kinds for the castle. This is said to be the most complete vegetable garden in the world. Holstein Heifer, "Minnie Winkle," age 3 years and I(J months, weight 1,320 pounds. •i——- -. , __ Imported and owned by Geo. E. Brown, Elgin, 111. NEWS OP THE WEEK. *><- "5»rds i The Irish Farmer's Gazette looks for an era of renewed prosperity among British Short Horn breeders. We quote the following paragraph: "The closing of the Australian ports against English stock has been one ofthe principal causes of the late depression in the value of Short Horns and Herefords, but now that . these ports are again opened, combined with the triumphant and satisfactory settlement of the Eastern question, and the safety of the Cattle Diseases Bill, a great impetus will inevitably be given to the sale of purely-bred stock in Great Britain and Ireland. Stock of that description, for breeding purposes, has for some time past brought enormous prices in the Australian colonies, the high range of value being due to the scarcity of pure-bred stock in the colonies. STATE NEWS. Swine at the Paris Exposition. Mr: Samuel Dysart, special commissioner from our government, from Illinois, to report upon live-stock at the Paris exposition, writes as follows concerning thcshow of swine: "The exhibition of swine was not equal to that of one of our Western State fairs, in quality of animals exhibited. True, there was a great number of wbat mijght be termed breeds, represented by what would be considered very inferior specimens in our country. AVe have all the principal English breeds in as great a degree of perfection as I have seen them here. France is not what might be termed a pork-producing nation, and but little attention has been given to the improvement "of swine until quite recently. The different English breeds have been largely imported and bred gure in many places, but they have een more generally crossed with the native breeds, greatly to the general improvement in the quantity and quality of the meat produced. "The grand prize of honor was won by a Suffolk, owned by G. M. Sexton, Ipswich, England. The prize of S200, by the agricultural society of France, was awarded to a Frenchman named Porsin, on the Middlesex breed. There was a splendid show of Berkshires, but the juries seemed to favor the white h6g where they competed with those of dark color, and the small breeds over the large animals.* New Cattle Disease. Mr. Beuben A. Hart, of this county (Vanderburg), reports a mysterious disease among the cattle by which he has lost several head, among them a very valuable blooded bull worth $300. The disease manifests itself very suddenly, and completely prostrates the animals at once. The milk suddenly fails from a full flow to nothing in about six hours, the cattle droop and die in from seven hours to three days, and as yet no remedy has been discovered. Mr. Hart has tried several remedies without avail, and at last, to ascertain the nature of the disease, he made a post mortem examination of the bull in which the disease was very marked. When turned out in the morning the animal seemed as well as usual, but when Mr. Hart went to drive him home he found him lying down and disinclined to move, flis urine was bloody and scanty, his bowels ceased to move, and when opened the stomach proved to be full of dry, hard food, and the membranous lining tender and fragile as paper. The liver and lights were badly congested and spotted; the melt seemed rotted and jelly-like. The absence of all moisture from the stomach is a marked feature. Between 25 and 30 cattle are reported to have died from the disease, and any one who can prescribe a remedy will be a great benefactor to farm ers and bane. cattle raisers.—Evansville Tri* Live Stock at the Queen's Farm. Mr. Wm. Kennie, of Toronto, has a letter in the Mail of that city, giving an account of his visit this summer at the Queen's Farm, at Winsor, England, from which we clip the following extract: • There are SOO acres in the.farm, only about 200 acres under crop, the balance hay and pasture. This farm is kept in a high state of cultivation. The crops are . American Association of Breeders of Short-Horns. Secretary's Office, \ Greenc-STLe, Ind., Sept. 23,1878. J Dear Sib:—The American Association of Breeders of Short-horns, will hold its Seventh Annual Convention in the city of Nashville, Tenn., beginning October, 30th, 1878. The election of officers of the association for the ensuing two years will be held at this meeting. You are very cordially invited to attend. The Agricultural Commissioners' room has been secured for the sittings of the convention, and the Maxwell House will keep members at reduced rates. The committee of arrangement has also secured a reduction of fare over the Louisville and Nashville railroad to all attending tbe convention. Subjects for discussion, or short essays, on matters of interest to the Association, are solicited. The directors are requested to meet at the Maxwell House on the even ing before the opening session. Very respectfully, S. F. Lockridge, Sec'y. If there is no agent for the Farmer in your locality, send us postal card for full and complete agent's outfit. You can make big wages with light work. A Richmond dispatch states that thirty thousand people attended divine services at the Indiana yearly meeting of the Orthodox 4.-?2Se*y-Of Friend* in that city on Sundy th> SStK ult. Several prominent English ministers were present. . A term ofthe United States court will be held at Kvansville, beginning October 9th. A band of robbers went through the stdre of Gladden & Lashbrook, at Lpxington, on the night of the 26 inst., and carried off a large amount of goods. J William Jewell, a farmer living about 4 miles east of Shelburn, while engaged in cleaning out his well, was overcome by dimps and was taken out dead. The removal of the county seat of Clark Co., from Charlestown to Jeffersonville has at last been accomplished by the commissioners. An incendiary fire on the night of the 24th inst., destroyed a barn on the farm of Charles Brooks, north pf Muncie. Two horses, two mules, a wagon and the year's crops were burned. Loss, $2,000; no insurance. John Boyd, a respectable citizen of Clark county, twenty miles below Madison, was brutally murdered in his bed by unknown masked men Sunday night. No cause known, and no arrests so far as learned- On the25th inst., an altercation took place at Frankfort between two boys, thirteen and fourteen years of age, in whieh "William Steele stabbed Pulsy CorneUson nine times in the abdomen and back. Steele has been bound over to await the results of Corneli- son's injuries. Trinity Episcopal church, one of tlie finest in Ft. Wayne, was struck by lightning on the 20th inst., and took fire. It burned off the roof, completely ruining the organ and altar, and badly damaging tlie cushions and carpets by water. Loss $9,000. A filmier living near Broad Ripple, in this county, got drunk in this city and started home in a buggy soon after dark. He was stopped near the exposition grounds by foot.pads, who unhitched his horse and rode away on it after having relieved him of $180 in money. A boy named Paddy Raper, living at Cataract, Owen county, commenced bleeding at the nose on the 24 inst., and before noon next day died from loss of blood. Mr. John Flack, a young farmer, was badly injured on the 28th inst., by being crushed while driving into a warehouse in Attica. He was sitting on a high spring seat, on a grain wagon, and was caught between the ceiling and the seat, and before the horses could be stopped was seriously crushed about the back and hips. Mr. llenry J. Bowser, of Allen county, narrowly escaped death while on his way to his home from Ft. Wayne, on the 27th inst. A large ash tree was blown down and fell across his team, killing one and badly injuring the other. The tree fell within 3 feet of Mr. Bowser. Trouble is brewing at Sullivan on account of the admittance of colored children tothe public schools. The Crawfordsville Journal says: Chickens and canary birds, as well as hogs, are Scotland, last week. The cattle were flipped by steamer from New York. The (tittle of Central Indiana are coming int6 avoir abroad. " ■ . . $A< -StoiT-trpf wind destroyed $10,000 worth of property ,^t Waynetown on the 25th inst. 4Wffime storm LjbanoB, Boon GENERAL NEWS. nel, reports that three cases of gunpowder, for blasting the tunnel, exploded on tho 20th inst.* Ten men wero instantly killed and several torribly injured. A claim for §200,000 against tho Indianapolis, Bloomington it Western railroad company, was sold in New York last weok for #13. Tho total valuation of property in Vermont is $87,002,500. There aro 31,000 pupils enrolled in tho St Louis schools, an increase of 3,000 since last year. Queen Victoria travels in a carriage wliich cost ,$30,000. Georgo Harris, employed in tho woolen mills at Freeman, IJ1., was adjusting some of the machinery, when his hands wero' caught between the heavy rollers, and before ho could extricate them both arms were completely torn off to the shoulders. Fifty thousand tons of scranton coal wero sold at aucton last week by tho Dolawaro, Lackawanna and Western railroad company at tho following prices per ton: Grate, ?3,5o@3,57^; egg, $3,65@3,70; stove, -54,07® 4,50; chestnut,?3,52)_. James A. Hamilton, son of General a\lex- ander Hamilton, of Revolutionary famo, who was killed in a duel with aVaron Burr, died on the 25th inst., at his country seat near Now York in tho 91st year of his age. A man named Van Emlen was crushed to death under a threshing machine at Kim- mundy, Illinois, on the 27 inst. The oldest woman in tho world is claimed to be Mary Benton, of Elton, England, who is in her one hundred and forty-eighth year, and is as smart and busy as ever. Sirs. Mackey, of Nevada, has become the' happy owner of some of the most gorgeous jewelry in the Paris exposition. She has bought a pai-ure of diamonds and sapphires costing $170,000; likewise a diamond nock- Twelve buildings were destroyed by tho East St. Louis fire oh the 27th inst. The origin of the fire is not known. The loss is laco valued at **$25.000.■'.'-- ' , estimated at f 150,000; insurance not ascer- An -Aj*»-'rican *f">m Ohio during the first tainedyet * "•-*' \8eason hag raised oa a farm eighteen miles ajP§^*_____2__?--_^ b7 dying in many, parts of the county 'with cholera. Captain J. B. Homan, of Danville, sold a cargo of fat cattle to Mr. Swan, of Glasgow, Davidson's Academy of Music, at Rochester, which has been two years in building, at a cost of $30,000, and said to be the finest structure of the kind in Northern Indiana, was open to the public last week. The eleven year old daughter of Louis Brown, of Lafayette, went into a field where the men were using a harrow, and while resting the horses she got onto one of them. It took fright and threw her to the ground. The heavy harrow passed over her body and literally tore the flesh in great pieces from the bones. Eleven deep gashes were made, exposing her lungs and entrails. She cannot recover. The streets and stores of Shelbyville were covered with honey bees one day last week. Several shops were compelled to close up on account of them. They appeared like an immense swarm on every street. Ezra Guard, for murdering his wife at Hardentown, Dearborn county, several months ago, was sentenced on the 28th inst., to the penitentiary for life. Early on the morning ofthe 28th inst., the tank in Charles Riker's fertilizing house, two miles south of Franklin, exploded, badly damaging the building, and scalding George Harrison, one of the workmen, about the head and shoulders. He will probably recover. On the night ofthe 27th inst., an attempt was made to burglarize the dry goods store ofW. N. Evans, at Noblesville, by two white men and a negro. The authorities anticipated the robbery, but failed to capture the thieves, although much wild shooting was done. Two suspected persons were arrested to-day. The school fund of Indiana foots up the snug sum of $8,965,000—the largest of any State in the Union. Charley Willard, a brakeman on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad, fell from the train at Patoka, on the 28th inst., and the entire train passed over him, taking off both legs and one arm; he died soon after. Arrangements are now being made for a new town hall at Carlisle. Surviving members ofthe One Hundred and Twenty-fourth regiment will hold their reunion at Winchester, October 24th and 25th. There was a serious accident at thc Delphi races on the 24th inst. There were 8 horses on the track. The horses were in a bunch, just finishing the first half mile, and near the judges' stand, when one ofthe horses stumbled and fell, and three others with their riders, fell over him. A man named Lyons, who owned and was riding one of the hbrses, had a leg broken, and anotherparty named Matthews was badly bruised up. The house of Mrs. Eads, a widow lady living near Brookville, was entered by tramps a few days since, and robbed of$104. Five cars of John Robinson's train were wrecked, south of Vincennes, on Sunday. Five men were badly injured. Tlio gate money at tho Boone eounty fair amounted to $1,261.75, and the total receipts were $1,949.90. !5wSr" |
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