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Vol. XL
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JANUARY 8th, 1876.
No.l.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
We have concluded to admit "brief business announcements in this column, from those who wish
to exchange or sell, or who may desire to purchase
any article. The charge will be 12!^ cents per line,
each week. About eight words make a line. No
notice admitted for less than twenty-five cents.
When answering these advertisements, please say
that you saw the notice in the Ixdiana Farmer.
FOR  SALE.
i)f~\ KAXOY CARDS, 7 slvles, with name, 10 cts.
£i\J Or 20 Acquaintance Cards, no name, 10 cts.
Address .1.1!. HOSTED. Nassau, llensselaer Co., N. Y.
FOR SALE—PRINCE CLIMAX 2n, 15,175, red; l
fine breeder, of good size.   Apply to
52-2w, \VM. KENNEY. MtT)., Paris, Ky.
Q K KARMK, from 80 to COO acres, for sale, at $25'
JZi fj $TiO per acre; well improved, and close to
markets.   Apply to A. E. HARMON.
l-4w Champaign, 111.
PURE HONEY-DEW TOBACCO.—Send ten cents
for a package of seed: one ounce 2o cents.
Address CHARLES W. PEUC.H, Kossuth, Washington county, Indiana.  1-?
FOR SALE—A desirable Ayrshire Bull Calf, nine
months old.   Pedigree perfect, choice ancestry,
good size, rich color.   Correspondence desired.
52-lt. S. B. POTTER, Lansing, Mich.
POR SALE—CHEAP—53 acres of coal and heavy
oak timber land, two miles from Clinton Vermillion countv, Ind., near the T. H. & C. railroad.
For terms, address P. P. NOEL, Rockville, Ind.
FOR SALE—TWO FARMS AT CHAMPAIGN, ILL.
Three miles from the city. One contains 100
acres, the other 160 or 320 acres. All under good
cultivation,with good buildings, hedged and fenced.
For particulars, address J, B, PHINNEY,
52-lw. Champaign, Illinois.
EOn SALE—A PRAIRIE FARM, WELL IM-
proved, choice land, 800 acres, near a great
commercial center, at only S20 per acre. Will take a
farm in Marion county, worth 88,000, or city property
of equal value in part pay.
T. A. GOODWIN, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—THE BEST COUNTRY STORE IN
the State. All the old stock worked off by me
in the last two years, and new goods in their place.
It is one of the best points for business for the
amount of capital, I know of, Inquire of ANDREW
WALLACE, Indianapolis.
A BARGAIN IN A FARM—214 ACRES IN PUT-
nam county, 1% miles from Greencastle (seat
of Aslmry University). All under fence; 65 acres
in cultivation; 60 acres splendid timl e-; never failing water; buildings fair; good orchard. Price only
$!>0 per acre. Or I will divide the land and sell
either part at a bargain. M. W. II. Woodruff, Green-
•."stle, Ind.
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TjWB SALE— PRAlKIE VARM, IN BODGE CO.,
.Vj Nebraska: 800 acres, well improved, in the
,i<;v\4 of g. .oil ftrj.s. five miles from Scribner, a
rail/oad star on; winters four weeks shorter than in
Indianapolis; only $20 per acre, half cash, balance
in ten years time, at (i per cent, interest. T. A. Goodwin, Indianapolis, Ind.      52-lw
FARM FOR SALE—Containing 52 acres, in Morgan County, Indiana, on the gravel road, half
a mile cast of Martinsville: good two story frame
house, several out buildings, 20 acres of woodland
pasture, balance under cultivation, apple and peach
orchard, several good springs, with plenty of never-
failing water for stock; splendid view of Martinsville from the verandah. A dairy, in good running
order, can be bought with the farm. Address MARY
MAINS, Martinsville, Indiana, or J, M. ST. JOHN,
Franklin. Indiana. .  l-4t
"WANTED.
:\T7-ANTED—TO   LOAN    52,000    FOR    THREE
Vl      years on first mortgage improved property,
at 10 per cent, interest, payable semi-annually. R. S.
Dorsey, 8 Bates Block, this city.
"YrrANTED—AGENTS—WE WILL SELL TTJCK-
VV er's Alarm Money Drawer to canvassers at a
price affording a very large profit. Small capital
required. May select your own territory. Call on or
. address Tucker & Dorsey, 129 South'New Jersey St.,
this city.
"ITTANTED— FARMS—LARGE     AND    SMALL
T V ' Farms in any good county in Indiana.   Address. W, E. Mick, Real Estate Broker, 16J^ E. Wash-
""  *f Indianapolis.
~\t-/ ANTED—TO EXCHANGE—GOOD BRICK
V T Business He "" "nder rent, free from encumbrance, for stock oi' .riry Goods. Will give or
take difference. Taylor & Co., 31 Circle street, Indianapolis.
TO EXCHANGE   two pairs of Bronze Turkeys
and four extra fine Gobblers, for Light Brahma
Chickens, or other offers.      WILLIAM F. KERR,
1-lw. Wilmington, Dearborn Co., Ind.
FOR TRADE OR SALE—Farms and country town
property (anywhere in the States) for city property and Western and Southern lands.   We have extra* facilities for making exchanges.   Send full description. WADSWORTH & ELDER,
1-?               lfi]4 East Washington St., Indianapolis.
STOCK NOTES.
Lekoy P]vans, of Plymouth, Ind., last
week, butchered a full-blooded Poland-
China sow, a little over three years old,
which weighed net 59f> pounds. Who
can beat it?
Geo. W.Thomas, of Homer, Ind., has
sold two Fhort-Horn heifer? for $375, and
sixty breeding pigs, of the thoroughbred
English Berkshire and Poland-China
stock at fair prices.
The Berkshire Stock of James Riley,
Thorntown, is in fine condition now, and
he writes l.s that the pig he gives as a
premium to one of our agents this year
will be as good a one as that furnished to
Mr. Lockhart, in northeastern Indiana,
which swept the field for sweepstakes at
the fair up there.
Messrs. S. Meredith & Son have sold
all their Poland-China pigs ready for
market. They write us that they trace
their •rapid sales to their advertising in
the Indiana Farmer. They are having a
very large demand, generally, for blooded
'stock.    Their stock is tloing  fine this
iwinter.    The large lot of calves being
dropped are doing exceedingly well.
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John Comstook, of Liberty Mills, Indiana, has sold Mr. Gibbens, of Kosciusko
county, a yearling Short-Horn bull by
10th Duke of Hillsdale, out of Tearl 3d;
also a yearling bull to Jeremiah Lewis, of
Dekalb county, Ind., sire Townley Gem,
dam Adelaide 3d.
James Riley has recently sold to Lean-
der S. Brown, of Carmel, Hamilton Co.,
Ind., two fine Berkshire pigs. The male
pig "Granger," dam Lady Reese, sire
Henry Clay. The female Hoosier Lady
2nd, dam Molier, sire Hoosier Dick;
price paid for them, fifty dollars. Mr.
Brown also purchased some fine Partridge Cochins, and dark Brahmas of Mr.
Riley.
"Perfection."—James Mustard, near
this city, has just bought the celebrated
Poland-China male hog "Perfection," of
D. M. Magie, of Oxford, QJiio, and Oliver
Paddock, of Liberty, Tnd. The price
paid was $325. He is one year old, and
believed to be the best Poland-China in
the West, if indeed not the whole country. He has swept the field at all the
fairs where he has been exhibited. "Perfection" is out of old Black Bess' mother.
Black Bess is now owned by Messrs.
Shepherd & Alexander,* of Charleston,
Illinois.
Premium Stock.—Mr. Williams, of Argus, Marshall county, the chief assistant
of Mr. Brownlee in soliciting clubs, writes
that he has the first premium stock
awarded by the Indiana Farmer in 1874
and 1875; the first, a fine Berkshire from
the pen? of Wm. Higbee, Rising Sun,
Ind., ami the second the superb Short-
Horn calf, from the herd of S. Meredith
& Son,, which at one year old weighed
eight hundred pounds. 3If. Williams
adds: "1 am not competing for a premium this >i.".*.r, but think no man c.uld
devote a month's time more profitably
than in securing some of your premiums
for 1876. I am working for the Farmer,
however, anyhow."
A New Use for Onions.—We see it
stated by a New Hampshire paper that
the speediest way to cure the epizootic
and make a horse thoroughly happy; is
to give him onions. In proof whereof
the case of a Portsmouth horse is cited,
which had a severe attack of the disease,
and his owner placed half a dozen onions
in the crib with his regular food. The
horse tackled three of the onions immediately, and by the time he had swallowed
them, began to cough and sneeze and
prance about, appearing quite indignant
and refusing to touch the remaining onions. For full five minutes he wept at
the nose, and then—was a cured horse.
He has not had a cough, a sneeze, nor
any symptom of the epizootic since.
Some Fine Jerseys.—Dr. Voyles, of
New Albany, Ind., has recently sold to
Mr. Lewis .Mann, of that city, the six-
year-old Jersey bull, Augustine; also a
very fine Jersey heifer to the same party.
He purchased at the late sale of Mr.
Hardin, the heifer Alice C, No. 4,144, H.
B.,—a most beautiful, solid, fawn-colored
animal, sired by imported Young Brown,
No. 702, out of imported Vesper Lass
No. 1,782. The purchase of this heifer
gave Dr. Voyles possession of all the
heifer calves of that famous old cow
(having previously purchased Vexation
and Twilight Lass) Vanilla, out of Vexation, by imported Duke of Grayholdt,
(the first grand-daughter of Vesper), has
recently dropped a fine heifer calf out of
Philip No. 1557.
Dr. Voyles has contracted for—to be
delivered May 1st, .187(5—the bull Balboa,
No. 1244, recently purchased by Mr. Herr,
of Scott Newman, of Louisville, Ky.
This is a three-year-old, solid, bronze colored bull, sired by the imported Duke of
Grayholdt No. 1034, out of imported Ibex,
and regarded by the Jersey breeders, who
have seen him, as one of the very finest
bulls in this country. He is said to resemble Marius very much, for whom Mr,
Churchman, of this city, paid $500. The
admirers of Balboa claim that he is the
finer bull of the two. Dr. Voyles has
laid the foundation of his herd by placing at its head this fine specimen of the
Grayholdt family, and as a basis, has the
three fine heifers from imported Vesper
Lass: Vexation, Twilight Lass and Alice
C, with two representatives of Mr. Kennedy's famous old Prize Cow, with her
eighteen-pound butter record: Prize Maid
and Spring Beauty; and from them, proposed to show in a short time, a herd of
Jersey's, for uniformity in shape and color, and also in actual merit, unsurpassed
by any herd west of the Alleghenies.
For the Indiana Fanner.
PHILOSOPHY OF STOCK FEED-
ING~No. 4.
There is a group of substances that eit-
ter largely into the composition of the
food of animals, known as the cellulose
group, or amaloids. This group consists
of cellulose, starch, gum, sugar and others of less note. These substances are
very nearly related, some of them being
identical in their composition, as the following table will show:
Carbon.
Hydrogen.
Oxygen,
6.17
411.39
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Gum 4212
6.41
51.47
6.43
6.67
,"•1.46
53.33
"
From  this view  it will
be seen  that
these substances are practically identical;
and, as might be expected, they are easily
convertible from one to another, both in
the vegetable and in the animal system.
As ingredients in the food of animals
they answer the same purposes in the
animal economy. It is worthy of note
that the carbon and hydrogen found in
these substances is in the exact proportion to farm water, viz: 8 of oxygen to 1
of hydrogen; so that these articles of
food are really composed of carbon and
water.
The principal purpose served by these
substances in the animal economy is to
furnish carbon to be consumed in the
process of respiration. It is probable
that the animal functions may, by an
elaborate process, employ other ingredients of food for this purpose, yet it is the !
most natural and easy for it to be fur-,
nished by this kind of food. As every
breath the animal draws is a draft on
this species of nourishing elements, it is
important for the health and thrift of
animals that they be furnished with n
bountiful supply of this heat-producing
food. As alt the heat of the animal system is derived from the combustion of
this class of 'substances, it is evident that
their consumption will be nearly in proportion to the degree of cold to which
the animal is exposed. The sources of
these substances are exhibited in the following table:
A  Little   Tour  Among   the   Swine-
Breeders of Central and Eastern Indiana.
(
Cellulose.
Starch.      Gum.
Suga:
Wheat	
.... 3.0
59.5           4.50
 7
6S.7             6.25
2.33
Rye	
.... —
59.7             4.10
.—
.... —
              7.20
3.46
57.5             —
	
—           6.33
3,04
Oats	
....10.3
46.6              	
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              3.50
2.19
... 5.5
70.06          1.23
1.10
"   Meal	
.  —
            3.05
Wheat Bran	
.«. —
           8.85
S.30
Rye         "   	
—
          10.40
1.86
190
.... 1.1 (dry) 62.5           —
...15.0
 (flour)2.S5
.91
Red cloverin tl'w'rlO.O
            —
,
Hay.,
....S4.0
            —
.	
Timothy      "   .,
....23.0
            —
	
Wheat Straw	
...48.0
            —
	
Oat          "    	
,...40.0
            —
	
Rye         "    	
,...54.0
            —
	
.    —
37.3              	
	
—
33.0              	
.	
61.7 (flour) 2.00
.39
These ingredients vary considerable,
and for the want of sufficient data many
of them are not given; yet a careful observer will be able to see the comparative
value of these articles of food as heat-
producing material for the use of the animal body. L. J. Tempi.in.
Kditors Indiana Farmer :—On the 13th
lilt., the subscriber taking the train at
Greencastle in due time arrived in the
metropolis of, the State, and after a very
brief but pleasant call upon the gentlemanly and accommodating proprietors
of the Indiana Farmer, started out to
find the. farm of Armstrong & Bro. I
found the senior partner of that enterprising firm just about starting to the
city for the-purpose of shipping one of
his very superior Poland-China pigs to
some purchaser. He, however, took tim'e
to show me through their splendid herd
of swine, which is certainly, first-class.
The folks, farm, improvements,stock and
everything about the place, denotes thrift
and enterprise. Here we were kindly
furnished with a good saddle horse to
convey us to the farm of James Mustard,
Which is pleasantly situated, six miles
north of Indianapolis, on the banks of
White River. Arriving there near sunset,
we, of course, accepted the kind invitation of that gentleman to remain over
night, and certainly never spent a night
with a more quiet, pleasant family.
Early the following morning, in company
-with Mr. Mustard, we were again among
the hogs. And such specimens of the
genii! splendid, indeed. Mr. M. pointed
us to one female, especially, for which he
had been offered (and refused to take)
three hundred dollars. We did not see a
mean animal 'on his farm. The fact.that
he shipped, during my stay, eight breeders to different parts of the State, and to
different States, is sufficient evidence that
he is doing a thriving business. After
making «omc purchases of Mr. M.'s
splendid hogs,- -that clever gentleman
hitched up his buggy and conveyed us to
the city where we went aboard the 3:35
tr,in on the Pan 'Handle H. R., for Cen-
,tc Till*> sivtv'Tthvpe.mn^s east of indian-
t; .lulls'.   '        '" - ■'      ''
Centeryille .is.-.n..o.tuec nltai.-.-uu little
town of about two thousand inhabitants,
formerly the county seat of Wayne Co.,
but, as a very intelligent la'dy remarked,
the glory of Centerville is departed (refer! ng to the removal of the county seat
to .Richmond.) We remained in Center-
villo over night.
I called next at the farm of J. D. Spake,
five miles south-west of Centerville, on
the Pleasant Valley Pike. Here we found
another very enterprising swine breeder.
Mr. S. was engaged in weighing out some
very fine porkers for the Cincinnati
market. He kindly showed us through
his superb herd of Poland-Chinas, which
are certainly hard to equal. After making up our mind to take at least a pair of
Mr. S.'s best pigs home with us, we accepted his kind invitation to stop over
night with one of Wayne's most mtelli-
gent-fumilies. On the morning of the
16fii we took the 10:40 train for Indiana-
polisj'and in due time arrived at home
well pleased with our little tour among
the swine breeders, all of whom I found
to be the most obliging gentlemen.
John A. Turner.
Fincastle, Indiana.
TRICHINAE SPIRALIS   IN  HOGS.
An Important Paper on the Subject,
by Dr. W. B. Fletcher, of this City.
Editors Indiana Farmer :—In your issue of January 1st. I notice an inquiry
by " C. I}.," -Shelby county, Indiana, in
relation to the Trichinae Spiralis in hogs,
and desiring to know, 1st. How hogs are
affected, their symptoms; and how long
they live after becoming hosts for the
parasites.
■ 2d. How powerful a microscopo is re--
quired to discover a parasite in the moat.
.' Having devoted leisure time for somd
years to the study of animal parasites, I
will answer these questions in as simple
and direct a manner as possible. ■   ' j ,
Answering your first involves a history
of Trichinae. Pigs are not born with this
parasite, but take them in some kind of
food; and when once swallowed byjthe
hog, or other animal, the worm in from
two to five days , brings forth its young
alive, within the.stomach and intestines.
No.l. No. 6
484 diseased hogs, or about 44,29f>,2(X) lbs.
of meat, every ounce of which might
produce disease. Dr. Sutton thinks that
the frequent diarrheas and) dysentery so
common in the West is from this cause,
and that in thousands of instances the
disease is not recognized.
No. 8.
Hot Baths for Animals
It is reported that at a recent meeting
of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland, some interesting statements were
made concerning the use of hot' air or
Turkish baths as a remedy for the diseases
of domestic animals. Lord Scriven declared that his own experiments in the
use of these baths, covering a period of
over four years, proved conclusively that
they would cure all ordinary diseases incidental to horses and all farm stock.
The remedy is especially efficacious in
cases of colic, dysentery, lung complaints,
swellings and inflammations, and serves
also as a protective against approaching
diseases. These baths can be constructed
cheaply. Those in Ireland generally consist of a close room, the walls being
doubled, the steam thrown around the
room in pipes, which is thus heated up to
150 or 180 degrees, and even higher, without injuring the contained air for purposes of respiration. By paying proper
attention to ventilation, allowing no
steam to escape into the room, but with
pure, dry, heated air, a single application
in the bath will cure the most severe
cases of garget. In case of swelling or
sprain, a vigorous rubbing adds materially
to the good effect of the bath. We hear
of the "epizootic" and cattle disease spreading in all parts of the country. Here is a
chance for a big speculation to some
horse or stock man who knows enough to
put up a Turkish bath for horses and
cattle, buy up the sick ones, cure them
and sell them, if people won't use the
same means to save their own stock.
Every farmer who owns horses and domestic animals should have a Turkish
bath apartment. Briefly stated, we may
mention several reasons why its use is so
commended :
1. Cure of sickness in cattle, sheep
and pigs.
2. Saving of mortality in young stock.
3. Fortifying the horses engaged in
ploughing and heavy work against colds.
For the Indiana Fanner.
Secret of a Stock Disease.
For the past three or four years a
strange disease seems to have taken hold
of horses, hogs and cattle in some of the
counties of Indiana, and stock owners
sought the cause in vain. Hundreds of
hogs were destroyed by this unknown
disease this season. This strange disease
does the most of its work close to fertilizing establishments. The proprietors of
those establishments, or their agents,
make their appearance, and the next day
after a horse or a hog dies. One of those
men passed bv a hog pen one day, and
that night ten^liogs died. He called the
next morning and bought the hogs for
one dollar per head. That looks a little
suspicious on his part. It stands in hand
for every farmer to watch these men, and
they will soon find out the secret of the
hog disease. Counties that have no fertilizing establishments lose but few
horses,- hogs and cattle with this strange
disease. I think if the hog's stomachs
were examined by a chemist, he would
find it contained corrosive sublimate.
I write this to warn the farmers to
watch  those, men  that  are buying dead
sto'ck
Wabash, Ind.
J. H.
Weather Report.—General items for
December, reported by Seargent Wappen-
haus, of the Signal Station, Indianapolis:
Highest Barometer. 30.356 Dec. 17
Lowest "         29.391    "   24
Difference in Bar 965
Highest Temperature 69° Dec. 31
Lowest " (belowO)  1°    "   19
Difference in Temp 69°
Prevailing direction of wind—West. Greatest velocity of wind—24 miles per hour. Total number of
miles—5189.
Greatest daily range of temperature 33.00°
Mean of maximum "  47.26
"       minimum " - 34.00
Mean daily range of " - 13.26
Total Rainfall 4.01 inches.
No. days on which rain or snow fell 17. "
Female Intestinal Trichinae.
The young trichinae arc about one-thirtieth of an inch long, and they begin at
once to migrate from the intestines, by
working their way through all the structures of the body, until they arrive within
the muscular or fleshy parts of the animal, where they coil themselves up and
become as it were imprisoned in an oval
fibrous shell or cyst, and there they may
remain until the animal, or host, dies of
i old ;.gc, o:1 is killed und oaten by ^nai. 'Or j
!,otUi'V.-uunt:i!-.i vlieu thi-vI'i'lV ''est if sot-I
free from its long imprisonment by the
dissolving of its cyst in the juices of the
stomach. And this same phenomenon
is repeated—and if it be a man who has
eaten the meat—he becomes trichinous.
Now the symptoms in the hog present a
great variety. 1st. They will depend
upon the number of young trichina; that
may have developed within the animal.
2d. The phenomena will be almost as
various as there are different structures.
Thus, if many thousand of young trichinae are at one time irritating the delicate
lining of the bowels, thirst and diarrhoea
may show themselves as prominent symptoms, and death follow from exhaustion.
No. 2. If there be few of the
parasites, the irritation
is   less;   but if  trichina; work their way into a nerve center or
sympathetic ganglia,
we may have most curious actions in the animal, as though it had
become   mad.     Some
will run, others Full or
drag themselves, some
squeal as if in pain.    If
the parasites get into
the muscular walls of
the heart, as they have
been known to do, the
animal dies of paralysis  of that J organ.    If
the liver is   attacked,
many   curious   symp
toms   may  present
themselves; but the trichinae once safely lodged in the muscle, it will
remain harmless to i(s
host for ever.
The symptoms are much the same in
man, and depend in severity  upon the
number of trichina' swallowed.    In  two
cases under my observation the soreness
of all parts of the  body  was so intense
that the  patient could not be moved or
touched except on the palms of the hand
or soles of  the  feet.   This   soreness is
caused by the  trichina' boring through
the muscular parts,and only subsides when
it has become encysted for life.
In answer to your second question, I
will state that if you shave a thin bit of
ham, or take the thinnest bit of fresh
meat, soak it in water, press it between
two bits of cleanVindow glass, and hold
it to a strong light, the muscular trichinae
may be seen with a watch-maker's lens,
or a linen-tester's glass. Anything with
a power of four diameters will do.
It is high time that this subject be thoroughly examined by our agricultural societies and formers' clubs. The whole
food question is involved; the lives and
health of thousands are at stake, and
millions of dollars will be lost by the
farmers, by depreciation of the value of
western pork, if not in the loss of affected
hogs by cholera.
Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora, Indiana,
who has been examining pork killed in
southeastern Indiana, says he has found
from three to sixteen per cent, of the
hogs affected with the disease—differing
in various localities—and that taking the
rate at four per cent., we have put upon
the market from the Western State*, 221,-
Trlchimein human muscle, not yet encysted.
Some three years ago I had the opportunity of examining two cholera hogs,
and I stated then that I believed the disease was only trichina? in the intestinal
stage Of development. T am still of this
opinion, although it would ho hasty to
conclude that because I found the intestinal worm in these two cases, it would bo
found in all. But I have this evidence
in confirmation of my theory: The cases
that recover by medicine are those treated
by anthelmintics, (medicines which destroy worms),such as your correspondent,
Dr. Rouch, of Fort Wayne, gives.
I have, also, found thourands of small
hair-like worms (in these two cases and
many others) known as Fillaria Broneh-
alis, in the windpipe, Such hogs usually
cough a great deal, i' nd also swallow the
worms. Whether this worm produces
sickness or death is unknown. •"~" •,
Tlic male  trichir.se is ahou vvcji-
tocnti.   of   aii 'inch ;<nu ilii- TT.T%T' oi;o
eighth of an inch long,
Cut No. 1 represents the latter magnified about 10 times, and Nod its natural
size. ,S
No. 2 shows a portion of trichh-.w pork
encysted between the bundle- of muscular fibers (drawn from nature.)
No. 8—Trichina; from muscle of a girl
who died of the disease ecently. This
specimen was alive when examined, and
moved in the fluid when removed from
the muscle with a spiral motion.
Trichime Cyst in
Muscle of Hog.
Competing  Agents  fa' the  January
Premiumi
The following is a statement of the result of
the competition for the January premiums:
W.'D. Ward, of Howard county, with a list
of seventy subscribers, sent in before January
1st, takes January premium, No. 1, the Berkshire pig, given by I. N. Barker, of Thorn-
town, Ind.
Ira T. Gregg, of Greenwood, carries off January premium Xo. 2, witli a list of sixty-four
subscribers. This is n trio of light Ilrnlima
chickens, given by M. T. Kclley, from his
Beech Lawn Poultry Yards, at Blonmingdule,
Parke county, Ind.
No. .'1 is canietl off by Jf. (i. Power, of
Greensburg. with a list of fifty-eight subscribers. This premium is the Chinchilla overcoat,
given by Arcade N'o. (J, clothing house of this
city.
No. 4, one dozen copies of .Standard Singer,
by Philip Phillips, given by Messrs. Merrill it
Hubbard, leading hook dealers of this city,
was won by 0. A. Stanton, of Greenwood, on
a list of fifty-two.
No. 5, a barrel of Eastern apples, given by
the commission house of Billingsley <fc Williams, this city, goes to W. II, Martin, of
Southport, on a list of forty-three subscribers.
It will be noticed that, agents at Greenwood
take two of these January premiums. 2d uml
lth. The January premiums, now having
been disposed of, our large list to be awarded
March 31st, given by the numerous friends
of the Fakmek, awaits the work of the
energetic agents.
Live Stock Jockn.w, fop. Jam aiiy.--This
first number of the new year contains fine illustration of an Octagon barn, elevation mid
ground plan, with a description of this mode
of building farm barns. It shows how every
farmer may build one barn to answer all his
purposes, instead of having many barns—putting every thing under one roof—thus making
his work much more convenient, ami the
cost to be much less. Thousands of farmers
will build new barns this year, and they
should examine this improved plan before
commencing to build the concrete wall—ho.v
much cheaper and easier it is than the stone
wall. This number also contains more than
sixty articles upon the farm, garden and
every class of live stock. Send !•'> cents for
this'number or $1.U0 for a year. Buffalo,
New York.
We  will club this Monthly Journal   with
the Fabhkk for $3.00.
\
I. N. Barker, of Thorntown, Ind.. still lia<^
on hand and  for sale a fine lot wf Buff and
Partridge Cochin Fowls. l-tf