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VoL XI
MDIANAPOLIS, MDIANA, FEBRUARY 26th, 1876.
No. 8.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
FOR SALE.
HUTT FARM FOR 8ALE—800 fine bearing trees.
L. NICHOLSON. Sa'.em, Washington Co.. Ind.
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FOR SALE—Eggs from the very best Light Brahmas at 82.50 per doz.  Geo. Vestal, Cambridge
City, Ind. . 8-9w
FOR SALE—Peach Trees—at $1.25 per hundred,
at Samuel McCurdy's, four miles south of Trader's Point, Marion county. . 8 lw ■
FOR SALE—A few pairs of Light Brahmas and
Black and White Cochins.   Eggs for hatching.
T. E. ELLIS, Plainfleld, Indiana. 7-4t
FOR SALE—Corncord Vines, best quality: cheap
• for Cash.    Samples 10 cents.    LEE -4 SON,
Mlnonk. Woodford County, Illinois. ■•'  4-tf
FOR 8ALE.-Six young Poland-China Sows that
have been bred to a fine Poland-China Boar.
Address F. McKEEVER, Antioch, Huntington Co.,
TniUtmft, 2-lSt.
F
OR SALE—FOWL3 and EGGS—All bred from
      first - class stock.    Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks
and Peafowls.    Send for circular and price-list.
5-16     L. S. GOODWIN,'Waterloo, Ind.
FOR SALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices
there and five months old. W. A. Maze.Sharpsville,
Tipton county, Ind. ,• 6-tf
TT^OR SALE -Seed Sweet Potatoes, on reasonable
JD terms, or furnished to responsible parties to
sprout on snares of one-half; (Yellow Nansem md
variety.)   H. A. Wooley, Galveston, Cass Co., Ind.
TT^OR SALE—A thoroughbred Jersey Bull, in his
Jj prime, weighs a thous ind fts; color white and
bronze. Price fcoo. R. R. Mason, New Lebanon,
Sullivan Co., Ind.   .   8-4w
FOR SALE— "STAR OF TBE WEST," the best
Strawberry—100 acres in Small Fruits—Colossal
Asparagus Seed—Millions of Trees and Plants at
POMONA NURSERY. Send for Circular. WM.
PARRY. Cinnamlnson, New Jersey.    5-7
FOR SALE or EXCHANGE—Choice Fruit Trees,
oMHnds-, and finest Seed Wheat, for Poland-
Chinas and Aiderneys—two or three each. Satisfaction guaranteed, (Harvey's Nursery). A. C. Har-
vey, Lafayette, Ind. 8-2w
FOR SALE—Choice Jersey Cattle—two splendid
Bulls, solid color; eight cows, imported and
•their descendants; selected for butter qualities; all
registered, A. I. C. C.   For catalogues and prices t__.
ply to Thomas S. Kennedy, Louisville. Ky.   rSMw ;
EOR SALE.—A valnable French Norman Stallion,
the property of the Adams Township. Joint
Stock Company, of Hamilton County Indiana,' Liberal terms, and a general guarantee will be sriven\ -■ '
Address. R. G. KERCHETAL,
'   6-4t   .     >• Boxley. Hamilton County, Ind,
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10R SALE—The"White OU Corn"— the Earliest?!
_   _ Largest, and Richest 13orn cultivated in the.I
Ifest» 8oid.ii} pnesize packagesonly.  Single pack.
. 35 cenis/portage paid; VI or more, packages (to
Jiges) 20 cents each.       ALPHEUS TYNER,-   , ...
5-1 Purch'g Ag't, Indianapolis, Ind."
TEVHl SAIE—200 Farms—Splendid Soil and good
_E Buildings; cansuitanyone; no better country;
cheap transportation to Philadelphia, New York, or
Baltimore; all in Delaware and Maryland; finest
Boil in the world for fruit, Geo. W. Ingraham, Real
Estate Agent, Middletown. New Castle Co.. Delaware.
FOR SALE—The Onarga Importing Company offer seven very fine imported Percneron Stallions
at bottom prices, for cash, or at reasonable prices on
time, to responsible parties. Be sure and examine
onr stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
L McCourtle, Onarga, PI. 3-frw
FOR SALE—Choice Chester White and Berkshire
Swine of all ages at very reasonable prices for
the superior quality of stock. Also fancy poultry,
turkeys, geese, ducks, eggs for hatching, pigeons,
ferrets, and thoroughbred dogs. Circulars free. Illustrated descriptive catalogue 10 cents. Write at
once to W. ATLEE BURPEE, No. 1332 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pa. 8-tf
A BARGAIN IN A FARM—241 acres, in Putnam
county, l}i miles from Greencastle, (seat of
Asbury University). All under fence; 65 acres in
cultivation; 60 acres of splendid timber; never failing water; buildings fair; orchard good. Price only $60 per acre. Or, I will-divide the land and sell
either part at a bargain. M. W. H. WOODRUFF,
Greencastle, Indiana.  4-5t
FOR SALE.—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1
Jack, five years old next foaling time. Sired
by Castillion; 1st dam, Black Sampson; 2d dam, Pioneer, 3d dam, Black Warrior. This Jack is near 15
hands high, large bone, good length of body, carries
himself up well, good action. Has made one season
and proven a success. For further particulars call
upon or address M. W. ROBERTS,
Brook's Station, Ky., on the L. & N. railroad, thirty
minutes ride from Louisville.	
EARM FOR SALE—140 acres, adjoining Shldeler
Station, on the Muncie & Ft. Wayne railroad;
110 acres cleared, 30 acres timber, all fenced; two
orchards: spring water ail the year; frame house of
six rooms, porch and milk-house; barn-32x40 feet;
hay and stock scales with house over them; other
buildings convenient Price $60 per acre, one half
down, balance in three equal payments. JOHN 8.
SHIDELER. Shideler Station, Delaware Co., Ind. 4-?
FARM FOR SALE.—Containing 52 acres, in Morgan county, Indiana, on the gravel road, half
a mile east 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-giew of Martinsville from the verandah. A dairy, in good running
order, can be bought with the farm. Address MARY
MAINS. Martinsvills, Indiana, or J. M. ST.' JOHN,
Franklin, Indiana. 7.4t
FOR SALE—Potatoes for themillion—D. W. Fowler of Wabash, Indiana, has for sale the following varieties warranted true to name; Extra
Early Vermont,;Early Mousers, Carpenter's Seedling
and King of tho Earlies. Medium and Late Varieties—Brownell's Beauty, Brownell's Eureka, Brownell's Nonesuch, Oswego. King of Jacksons, Concord,
Red Carter, Red Jacket, Campbell's Late Rose, Snow
Drop*, Eclipse. Snow Flake, Compton's Surprise. Will
be sold for $1 75per bushel, except Eureka and Snow
Flake, these 32 per bush. No charge for package or
Drayagc. except for less than oue bush., then only
cost of box. Also the leading varieties of strawberry
plants at $1.25 per hundred.   Send for circular.   8-lt
WANTED.
"VX7"ANTED—All lovers of Grapes to send 50 cents
W    and learn to prevent the rot   L. NICHOLSON, Salem, Washington county, Indiana.       7-2t
"TTTANTED—Every Grange in the State to try at
W     least one package of " While Oil Corn," only 25
cents.   ALPHEUS TYNER, Indianapolis, Ind.' 5-4
"TTTANTED—Young men wishing to attend the
TT best Business College in the West to send
stamp for circulars to the Indianapolis Business
College, Bates Block. Graduates assisted in getting
situations.  4-tf
"VX7"ANTED—Farms and Country Town Prop-
TV erty (anywhere In the States) for City Property and Western and Southern lands. We have extra facilities for making exchanges. Send full description. WADSWORTH A ELDER,
1-t              W/i East Washington St, Indianapolis.
MISCELLANEOUS.
6)f\ FANCY CARDS, 7 styles, with name, 10 cts.;
£i \J 20 Acquaintance Cards, 4 styles, no name, 10c.
. Address J. B. BUSTED, Nassau, Renss. Co., New York.
<&C_C\ PER MONTH, and traveling expenses,
iy) \J \_f paid to talesmen who can sell our goods.
Better wages to experienced salesmen. AKGAND
KINDLER CO., 36 LaSalle 8t, Chicago, DX     4-4t
EVERY FARMER NEED8 Jftz>« Improved Srat
Seed Sower. Circular free. Ask yonr dealer
for it or I will sen I one on receipt of $4. N.P.MIX,
Manufacfr. Avenue. Franklin connty, Ohio.    6-4
T OSTI—125 REWARD!—At the Chicago Poultry
JLj 8how, a 2d premium Llzht Brahma Pullet
small bare spot on head. I will give $25 for the safe
return of the Pullet, if lost, or $30 for Pullet and
thief. If stolen.      C. Y. C ALDEN, Sunman, Ind.
BUY yonr wife a Sweets Washing Machine, and
save health, clothing and soap. It squeezes,
pounds, mbs and rinses clothing without damage to
clothing and buttons. Manufactured and sold by
ENGLISH & OVER, 240 to 246 South Pennsylvania
Street, Indianapolis, Indianapolis. 5-8
STOCK NOTES.
There is to be a great sale of Short-
Horns in May at Springfield, Illinois.
James Mustard has recently added
several fine Poland-China sows to his
herd, purchased from prominent breeders
in Ohio. .
It is said that 80,000 head of Texas
cattle wiH be driven north from Texas
this year. About 150,000 were driven
last year to northern markets.
Fine Stock Sale.—There win be some
fine stock sold at the administrator's sale
of the late Jabez Hodson, at'-Knights-
town, Indiana on the 1st of Marcb*^ See
the advertisement in  the Farmer  this
week. V
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:; There is-more inquiry for good" sheep,
for v breeding,    than*. we;V^ver   heard
'before iiifour state.   A'.'feeling of confi-
dtoe0>'.p6rvades  the  mirids'W farmers
that; some good  practicable  legislation
!$ill be secured by our next legislature to
rotect this interest from the ravages of
/j&ki, ■'■'■   • v.vi;"  "  • ' '
ViJozy.CoMSTOCK, of Wabash county,
has sold, .to John Welch, of Kosciusko
county,: bull calf, dam the Duchess
Milker 11th, sire Townley Gem 18463
Also he has sold" to David Wall, Grant
county, bull calf dam Alice Renick 7th,
sired as above; sold to L. F. Foust, Huntington county, yearling bull Clement 3d,
dam  Duchess Milker, sired by Clement
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SWINE DISEASES.
Remedy:—Ashes is all that I can
recommend. The pig can hardly eat as
much of them as it wants. This disease
seldom or never attacks a thrifty hog,
over 1 year old; is not malarial like
cholera and pneumonia, but. contagious.
Trenton, Randolph Co., Feb. 18.
Editors Indiana Farmer: — Some
writer in the Farmer seems to confound
hog cholera with the more common disease of pneumonia and catarrhal fever.
Symptoms of cholera are a red skin, loss
of appetite, thirst, copious discharge of
thin matter from the bowels. Duration
of disease from eight hours to five days.
Symptoms of Pneumonia :—Hacking
cough, rapidly increasing, loss of appe
tite, water reddish, bowels constipated;
death being directly.caused by the fillingof
the lungs with postules and the animal
after choking with phlegm; duration of
disease from four to ten or twelve days.
Shelter and moist feed, with little grain.
Perhaps some mild physic would be
beneficial.
Catarrhal Fever:—This is the disease
most fatally prevalent this year. Symptoms : 1st, a cough; 2d gradual decline
in flesh; 3rd, urine brownish; 4th, high
fever in mouth, nose and throat, causing
the animal to hold his mouth in the
water as if thirsty, but he dripks but
little; 5th, a thin viscid discharge from
the nose not always noticed but always
there; Gth, partial loss of appetite from
the beginning, but the pig will eat till
within twenty-four or thirty-six hours of
death; 7th, loss of hair. Duration of disease from two to six weeks, if the pig
dies, and five to twelve weeks if he recovers. But he does not thrive short of
twelve to eighteen weeks.
Isham Sedgwick.
Benefits of Charcoal for Swine.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—Permit me
through the medium of your valuable
paper, to ask some of your many subscribers who have had experience in the
breeding and care of hogs; what are the
benefits to be derived from feeding charcoal, if any? and what are the relative
virtues of stonecoal in comparison used
for the purpose?
Also whether it is advisable to put
rings in the noses of brood sows? and
whether crossing between Berkshire and
Poland China is to be recommended or
is it better to keep the blood pure ?
The experience of several breeders
would be appreciated by some of my
neighbors as well as myself. L.
Montgomery Co., Ind.
ADVANTAGES OF GOOD STOCK.
Liberty Center, Ind., Feb. 18.
Editors Indiana Farmer.—I have just
been thinking of a sale of a few steers
one of my neighbors made a few days
since. He sold eight scrub steers for
$217 which had been grain fed this winter.
They weighed 775 a head, sold by weight.
Would be three years old in the spring.
Now the same number of steers had they
been full blood or even good grade Short-
Horn cattle would af^the same age have
weighed 1,500, and at the same market
have brought five cents per pound or $75
per head or $600 for the weight, a gain of
$383, or a gain in clear profit of more than
twice what the scrub cattle sold for, or
enough to have bought an extra good
Short-Horn bull and thus laid the foundation for the permanent improvement of
his. cattle.
We noticed an article some time since
the Rural New Yorker giving the
standard adopted by the Indiana Swine
Breeders' Association of the most profitable hog which is an exact description of
the thoroughbred Berkshire, which we
regard as a perfect hog. We sometimes
hear the objection urged against" the
Berkshires'that they are too small, and
yet any careful feeder can make the
Berkshire weigh at nine months old
more than the average hog which gow
into market at fifteen to eighteen months
old. I think, in fact'T know, the hogs
which have gone into market in this part
of the State this year have not averaged
two hundred ana twenty-five pounds per
head, and I have a Berkshire now six
and one-half months old which had it
been fed half the corn these market hogs
have eaten to the head would weigh today two hundred and fifty pounds andj
sell for fifteen to twenty-five cents more"
per hundred than hogs weighing tne/j
same-number of pounds of scrub_BtOGtt|
Besides the Berkshire can at eight to ten
months old be made to weigh from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds,
which is large enough for profit, and what's
the use any way of having hogs you can
make weigh six or seven hundred pounds
if you never do and never intend to
make them weigh the half of it.
I bought a Berkshire last fall and
for the purpose of ascertaining its superiority over scrub pigs, I took one which
had been well kept, the best of a lot of
twenty, two and one-half months older
than the Berkshire, though at the time I
commenced the experiment they were
exactly of one size; fed together for six
weeks, the Berkshire was twenty-five
j pounds the heavier and now two months
later is seventy-five pounds the heavier
Pig-
I have had occasion lately to treat a
hog affected, as your correspondent from
Ft.Waynesays hogs are with pneumonia,
and by giving warm dry bed, warm slop
of bran and shorts and giving a few doses
of my hog cholera medicine it is entirely
cured and doing finely, though I thought
a few evenings since when my treatment
commenced it would not live till
morning. James A. Cotton.
CALVES SHOULD NOT BUN WITH
h     ■■ COWS.
BY D. Z. EVANS, JR.
I
Very many farmers makes a great mistake in the management of their cattle by
permitting the young stock to run continually with the milking stock, as it is a
detriment to them both, and the injury is
apt to be permanent. Most farmers take
the calf away from the cow when a few
days old and bring it up on skim milk
and qther food until it can subsist on
grass alone, when it is turned out to
pasture with the cows and left to run
with them and the bull until ready to
drop its first calf. This is one of the
most prolific reasons that the cows do
,not milk as heavily as they should and
the trouble_ experienced with young
heifers sucking the cows. I have seen
some heifers, even after they had be-
cohie cows, such persistent "suckers" as
to attempt to draw milk from every cow
they pastured with, which necessitated
stabling, a separate pasture, or putting a
band, bristling with sharp nails, on their
noses as the only remedies beside the
butcher knife. Even when calves are
brought up away from the cow, and
taught to drink frori a bucket, they are
apt to try to suck each other in the field;
but this can be cured, by putting the
above named band on the nose of the unruly member. Always have a separate
enclosure for the young stock to run in,
where they can, during the spring and
TBummer, have plenty of grass-to pick on;
but do not turn them into this until they
are thoroughly weaned. We always
tether our calves while feeding them
milk, moving them once or twice a day,
and even in the winter we tether them
out on mild days to get a good sprinkling
of sunshine, which is as essential to a
healthy growth and development of
cattle as with the human being.—Live
Stock Journal.
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Destruction  of Sheep.
Nora, Marion Co., Ind., Feb. 15th.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—While I
do not question the motives of the. Hendricks county friend, in offering a reward
for dogs' scalps, I do doubt the practicability of getting rid of the dogs in this
way. What we want ,is legislation.
While the law protects the worthless dogs,
and makes the killing of them a crime,
sheep raising must be a failure. We
farmers should demand thp enaction of
laws that will protect our interests
against these pests. I think that we
should make this an issue in the selection
of legislators.
Two men in this neighborhood, Mr.
Russell and Mr. J. Wilkinson, have recently lost about all their sheep. Mr.
Wilkinson had about twenty, and all but
one were killed in a single night. This is
worse than "hog cholera."-
I think that granges, and farmers
throughout the state should discuss the
dog vs. sheep question, and report to the
Farmer. J. W.
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Wool-Production of the Argentine Republic.
In 1862 there was exported from the
port of Buenos Ayres 58,000,000 pounds
of wool. Four years later the export was
144,000,000 pounds, and in 1873,170,000,-
000 pounds. It appears that in 1868 the
Argentine Republic had 67,700,000 sheep,
and the number is now put at 70,000,000.
This is the principle industry of this republic, as of Uruguay; but it seems that
no progress has been made in improving
the breeds of sheep, and little effort made
to feed them well, and they are suffering
with many diseases which are prevalent
with improper food. This result is no
doubt owing to the large increase in the
numbers of sheep, and the consequent
decrease of the native grasses.
NEWS   OF  THE  WEEK.
State News.
Fine Sheep.
;, Mr.-J,, M. Harshbarger, of Montgomery
county this State, who has been breeding
Leicssierslure.sheep for seventeen years,
has perhaps the best sheep In Indiana.
He sold three bucks, thirty-six ewes and
eight. I»ml is this winter, and now has on
hand forty-nine head of these thoroughbred Leicestershires. The following show
tlie purity of his stock:
Lord Raglin Leicestershire the 2d, bred
by John Scott, Lobe, Ontario, Dominion of
Canada, was bought and imported to the
United States by S. D. Hostetter, of
Whitesville, Montgomery county, Indiana. Raglin the 2d was sired by Lord
Raglin. Leicestershire the 1st, was bred
by Dr. Purvis' Linton, Burnibot, Rose-
burghshire, Scotland; was bought and
imported by George Douglass, Lobe, Ontario, Dominion of Canada; imported by
S. D. Hostetter, for J. M. Harshbarger &
Son, Ladoga, Indiana.
Tom Leicestershire, .the Second, was
bred by Gliliast Grice, West Minister,
Willow Grove, Dominion of Canada;
bought and imported to the United States
by S. D. Hostetter, of Whitesville, Montgomery county, Indiana. Tom Leicestershire the 2d was sired by Tom Leicestershire the 1st, bred by Dr. Purvis' Linton,
Burnfoot, Roxburghshire, Scotland.bought
and imported by George Douglass, to the
Dominion of Canada, and imported by S.
D. Hostetter, for J. M. Harshbarger, & Son,
Ladoga, Indiana.
David Peel, ex-policemen of Vincennes, was
drowned in the Wabash liver on Saturday.
Wall, the condemned murderer at Ft.
Wayne, will soon be sixty-five years of age.
A bird concert given at South Bend, for
the benefit of the reformed church, netted
about $286.
The farmers of Howard county are paying
more attention now to raising fine stock than
ever before.
Goshen had five weddings within a half,
hour, the other day, and is inclined to put on
airs over it.
The public schools of Madison have 1,600
pupils enrolled, 400 of whom are detained
from attandance by measles.
The result of Dr. Munhall's work in the
way of accessions to the different churches at
Vincennes numbers 262 persons.
Notwithstanding the excessive rains of
last summer, Spencercpunty, will haveenotigh
corn to run over to the next crop.
Under the Vincennes tramp ordinance the
city is renumerated for supplying them with
food by ten hours breaking stone daily.
The extenstye tannery of Mr. Simeon Cook,
at Leavenworth, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss $2,000, which was covered by  insurance.
Burglars entered the store of Niblock, at
Wheatland, on Friday night, and blowing
open the safe, secured about one-hundred
dollars.
Abraham Quarles, the escaped convict, returned to the Southern penitentiary Wednesday night, having become disgusted with his
experience outside.
An attempt was made on Friday night to
blow up the court house at Greensburg, by
placing a keg of powder against the south
wall and exploding it.
The St. Joseph County Savings Bank received $28,300 during the month of January,
and loaned $25,000. Its deposits amount in
round numbers to $130,000.
Vincennes Sun : There is a school house
across the river and every time the Wabash
raises the house is submerged, then the children get up a petition for a holiday. -
The wife of Mr. Robert Hurse, living near
Pine Village, Warren county, was burned to
death last week. Her clothes caught fire, by
the explosion of a bottle containing alcohol.
A little daughter of Elias Wagner, tif Logansport, in play stuck her tongue* between
the back edge of the door and the jam, and
her little siter closed the door, cutting it about
half off.
Rev. Ragsdale, moral instructor at the.
Northern Prison, will in a few days commence the publication of a weekly paper, designed especially for circulation among prison
convicts.
Lafayette Courier: "Lulu Owens, our Charley Ross, is still undiscovered. The chief of
police has telegraphed every point in Indiana
to no avail. Her parents are almost distracted, and are loth to fear the worst."
The Richmond Independent says that Mr.
Clayton Brown has, no doubt, the oldest
watch in the state. It has been in his family
for more than one hundred and twenty years,
having passed through five generations, and
is still an excellent time-keeper.
Ten convicts in the Indiana State Prison
South were baptised in the chapel of that institution Sunday morning by the chaplain.
Seven others, ready and desirous of that ordinance, but who preferred to receive it by immersion, will be baptised at some of the religious services soon.
Stephen Wood3 and a "pal," name unknown, robbed a butcher-shop till in Edin-
burg one night last week of eighty dollars,
and came to Indianapolis to spend their ill-
gotten money and have a time with the boys.
Both were arrested Friday afternoon and returned to Johnson countv in charge of Deputy-prosecutor Williams. Woods is thirteen
and his companion sixteen yeara old.
The province of Ontario, Canada, is fast becoming one of the great cheese districts. The
amount of cheese made there during the past
year would bring a revenue of nearly five
millions of dollars, at the price of ten cents
per pound.
The Moody and Sankey meetings -are growing in interest, being attended by from 8,000 to
12,000 persons daily. It is already evident
that the Hippodrome revival will be the means
of strengthening a large number of churches
in New York.
John Huffman, aged 14, employed in a
machine shop at Hamilton, O., was caught in
the belting one day last week and drawn to
the shaft, his right arm torn from his body,
both legs broken and otherwise injured, lie
can not possibly survivo his injuries.
The Sanitary Record says that the duration
of life in this country is longer than in England, and that the immense profits of the
life insurance business here are explained by
the fact that the rates of insurance are chiefly
based upon English tabular estimate of life.
The largest blast furnace in the world is
situated in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,
and turns out 791 tons per week from coliiic
ore, 311 per cent., requiring 65 cwt. to make
a ton of iron. Whitwell's hot blasts are used,
invented by the iron king of Thornaby, England.
The Centennial bill was signed by the
President, the pen used on the occasion being
made from a quill of the American eagle
which was shot in the vicinity of Mount
Hood, Oregon, furnished by Mr. Joseph Wilson, of Washington city, who is well known
as an earnest friend of "the Centennial."
This pen and tho eagle will be an attractive object at the great Exposition in Philadelphia.
John Finnegan, an engineer on the Cincinnati and Louisville Short-Line railroad, was
killed in a horrible manner at Lagrange, Ky.,
Saturday, by the breaking of an axle. Ills
engine was precipitated down an embankment. He was caught under the engine in
such a manner that he could not be released,
while two streams of boiling water were discharged from rents in the boiler upon his body
and face, litterally cooking him to death.
The  Berkshires.
The friends of the Berkshire breed of
swine claim:
1st. That they have more constitutional vitality, and consequently are less
liable to disease than any other breed.
2d. That they are more prolific, and
that the pigs are more uniform in size,
color and form, and_ consequently produce more salable pigs than any other
breed.
3d. That their flesh is finer, firmer,
and of higher flavor than any other
breed.
4th. That they furnish the finest and
best hams, shoulders and bacon of any
breed in the world, and in England their
meat brings a higher price than that of
any other breed, on account of its superior excellence.
5th. That they are the best breed for
the Western farmer, being active, seeking their own food, keeping in excellent
order on grass or clover, and fattening
early and readily on less food than almost any other breed.
These excellent qualities 'the breeders
of Berkshires believe they possess, and
they think it is only a question of time
when they will supplant the other
breeds.
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To Relieve Choked Cattle.—A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker
says that he has tried pouring a half pint
of melted lard down the throat
of the suffering animal and has never
known it to fail to give relief.
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We have personal knowledge of Fougera's
Inhaler, advertised elsewhere in this paper,
and can recommend it as efficacious in the
cure of catarrh, bronchitis and similar
diseases of the throat and bronchial tubes.
General News.
Abington, Mass., has not a pauper, and the
selectmen have advertised the alms-house for
sale.
Helmbold has been declared insanej by a
Philadelphia commission, and will be placed
in an asylum.
A convention of the nurserymen of America
has been called to meet in Chicago the second
Wednesday in June.
A Massachusetts man who sued a lady for
breach of promise lays his damage at the
heavy sum of $300. No doubt the lady was
right.
Miss Betsey Carr, of New Hampshire, is 105
years old and is still unmarried, but she has
not the slightest notion of taking advantage
of leap year.
McLeansboro, Ills., and vicinity was visited
by a terrible tornado Sunday the 12th. Fences
were blown down, trees torn up, and many
houses unroofed.
No Chinese bank has failed for five hundred
years. When the last failue took place the
officers' heads were cut off and ilung into a
comer with the other assets.
A lady named Mis3 Moore, a passenger on
the Rose Miller from Pine Bluffs, fell overboard 35 miles below Little Rock Wednesday
of last week, and was drowned.
An Illinois girl wrote to the school commissioners of Chicago that she "had bin out
of employment for a yeare, and wud teech
for $10 a month and bord round."
Some unknown parties placed a piece of
poisoned meat in the yard of nearly
every dog owner in Fort Valley, Ga., and
thirty-seven dogs were afterward  found dead.
It has been an unusually cold season in England, and the registrar-general reports that
for the twelve days ending January 16 the
temperature was 2 96° below the average of
the last sixty years. ^°
A fire at Havana, Illinois, Saturday morning, destroyed the dwelling and its contents,
ownefl and occupied by James Stewart. Loss
$1,500; insurance $1,000. The family barely
escaped with their lives.
Fox the Indiana Farmer.
KAINY DAYS ON THE FAB.M.
Howrto employ the rainy days is always a question to the farmer. While
some saunter off to gossip at tho shop or
store, others make a more profitable use
of the time. I know of some farmers
whtr'ihake more iBoneyon rainy days
thaii dry ones. They do it by spending
the time in library and workshop. Tho
farm- nnd its- buildings always furnish
abundant work for the shop. There are
gates to make or repair, implements of
all kinds that need mending. All of
which he can do on rainy days, if he
will. It offers a fine opportunity for him
to'cultivate his mechanical talent which
saves the farmer many dollars of expense,
and perhaps as many unpleasant trips to
town or village in a busy season, when
the loss of half a day is also tho loss of
many dollars' worth of grass or grain.
Though at present there are few farmers
that have good workshops furnished as
they should be, yet we hope ere long to
find them everywhere on every well regulated homestead.
Another work for rainydays is locating
ditches. No other time is more suitable,
than when the water is running in a
lively manner over your fields and meadows; then, protected by water-proofs,
make a careful survey of the grounds
where you propose making ditches, plant
small stakes every twenty steps to mark
theircourses. If you proceed in this manner, studying the natural drainage of your
fields in a wet time (with good ditches),
you need not fear a failure in getting un-
derdrains to draw in any location where
a quarter or half an inch fall can be obtained in a rod.
Then when the steady patter on roof
and window continues, retire to the library and spend several hours with your
books and papers, try your mind on some
of the unsolved problems connected with
farm life. No one is better situated than
the intelligent tiller of the soil to unravel
the numerous difficult questions which
is every day put to him, asking for
explanation. It is in the consultation of
the rich and varied experience of other
minds, that the farmer often finds his way
out of trouble where he can walk on tho
firm ground of experience and practice.
Besides unraveling problems of soil fertilizers and tillage, there is posting up needed, in other respects the laws of supply
and demand must be studied; that ho
may find a-fair sale for the products of
the farm. It is as important to make a
good bargain for your stock and grain as
it is to raise it.
With these few items of work for wet
weather any one may know how full
those days (so often idled away) may be
crowded with important duties—not only
duties, but pleasures. The mental enjoyment of farming over the broad fields of
literature and experience traversed by
kindred minds in this and other lands, is
very great, to say nothing of the culture
and strength thus gained to help one fight
the battles of work-day life.
Pkhcil, Esq.
The Acrobat Blocks sold by the Orange
Jndd Company, New York, and by toy dealers
and book sellers throughout the country, are
a source of much amusement to children of
all ages, and are among the most sensible and
useful toys we have mircbased for our children.
We heartily recommend them to all parents.