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EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. FOR BALE. FRUIT FARM FOR SALE—800 flne bearing trees. L. NICHOLSON, Salem. Washington Co., Ind. FOR SALE—Eggs from the very best Light Brahmas at J2.50 per doz. Geo. vestal, Cambridge City. lad. 8"9w FOR SALE-CUlcago Premium Egg Transporting Boxes, for hatching. JOHN BENNETT, Sunman, Ind, ll-2t FOR SALE—Seed Sweet Potatoes, five kinds; price H per barrel. Address L. K MACE, Lexington, Bcott county, Ind. \ ll-4t - "T710R SALE—One Jack—a large breeder. Call _1 soon or address W. A. BRANSON. Zionsville, Boone county, Ind. 12-2w FOB SALE—Corncord Vines,best quality; cheap for Cash. Samples 10 cents. LEE 4 SON, Klnonk, Woodford County, Illinois. 4-tf FOR SALE—Several flne young Poland China male pigs, well bred and ready for service. Address F. McKEEVER, Antioch, Huntington Co., Indiana. 125w TTIOB SALE—FOWLS and EGGS—All bred from Jj first - class stock. Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks and Peafowls. Send for circular and price-list 6-16 L. S. GOODWIN, Waterloo, Ind. FOR SALE—Eggs from registered stock,. Light Brahmas. Burr, Black, White and Partridge Cochins, $3 for 13 or $5 for 26 eggs. T.E. ELLIS, Plain- field, Hendricks county, Ind. 11-tt. FOE 8 ALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices there and rive months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsville, Tipton county, Ind. 6-tf EOR SALE—Seed Sweet Potatoes, on reasonable terms, or furnished to responsible parties to sprout on shares of one-half; (Yellow Nansemond variety.) H. A.Wooley, Galveston, CassCo., Ind. FOR SALE—200 Farms—Splendid Soil and good Buildings; can suit any one; no better country; cheap transportation to Philadelphia, New York, or Baltimore; all in Delaware and Maryland; finest sou in the world for fruit Geo. W. Ingraham, Real Estate Agent Middletown, New Castle Co., Delaware. FOR SALE—Select Seed Potatoes. Extra Early Vermont S1.75 per bbl; Campbell's Late Rose, 11.60 per bbl.: Russets and Peachblows, $1.25 per bbl. Any of above for 30 cents per peck. All select and fnaranteed true to name. Address ALANSON HAUL, M. Columbia Grange No. 526, Noblesville, Ind. ll-2t FOR SALE—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1 Jack, five years old next foaling time. Sired bv 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 oneseason 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. FARM FOR SALE—140 acres, adjoining 8hldeler Station, on the Muncie & Ft. Wayne railroad; 110 acres cleared, 30 acres timber, all fenced; two orchards: spring water all 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. 8HIDELER, Shldeler Station, Delaware Co., Ind. 4-? WANTED. WANTED—A situation on a farm or in the city. Will do almost any kind of work for fair wages. Address F. K. H., at Indiana Fabmeb Office. 11-? "\T7"ANTED—Active Agentes everywhere to take T V control of counties for first-jlass goods. A light, and permanent business with large profits. Particulars free. Address N1CKERSON, SMITH & CO., 342 E. St Clair St, Iudianadolis, Ind. 12-2w "TrrANTED—Young men wishing to attend the VV 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 "TIT"ANTED—Farms and Country Town Prop- W 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-? 16H Kast Washington 8t, Indianapolis. MISCELLANEOUS. BUY your wife a Success Washing Machine, and save health, clothing and soap. It squeezes, pounds, rubs and rinses clothing without damage to clothing and buttons. Manufactured and sold by ENGLISH & OVER, 240 to 216 South Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indianapolis. 5-8 STOCK NOTES. D. W. Voyles, of New Albany, Ind., has sold to W. Kinney, of Portsmouth, Ohio, the 2 year old Jersey heifer, Alice C. No. 4,144. On the first of June next J. P. Forsythe, of Franklin, thia State, will sell about seventy head of fine Short-Horn cattle. He is now attending sales in Iowa. F. M. McKeever, of Huntington county, has lately sold some good Short-Horn cattle to parties in the northern part of the State, and also a lot of-fine pigs. The Stallion Show at the State Fair Grounds promises to be an attractive feature. It takes place, as before stated, April 5th. Fearcy.—Salt and soft soap mixed, and applied to the part affected, together with dieting and light feed, will cure the fearcy. It has hardly ever been known to fail. The next volume ofthe Holstein Herd Book will be published by Winthrop W. ' Chenery, of Boston, in August, 1878, and »in the meantime he will receive applications for record to go in the next issue. To keep sheep healthy, mix a half ounce of pulverized rosin, per sheep, in their feed twice per week. It may be fed in a little meal or bran. Occasionally a little sulphur may also be given. We find it impossible to give in detail the sales of stock often, as our columns are frequently too much crowded for this, and all must be content with a general statement, and summary of the same, which we are always glad to publish. A. W. Ross of Muncie, Ind., has recent- ly made Bales of choice Poland China pigs to breeders and farmers in some nine different counties in this State. Mr. Ross has attained a fine reputation as a breeder of Poland Chinas, and is very successful in his business. John Comstock, of Liberty Mills, Ind., has lately sold to C. C. Parks, of Wauke- gan, 111., six of his Duchess milkers, and a heifer calf put of his Duchess milker 17, to a party in Minnesota; also a bull calf out of Duchess milker 13th, by Townley Gem 18463. The Poland China hog "Sherman," owned by Henry Comstock, of Liberty Mills, Ind., was slaughtered by him lately, and measured through the shoulders 23 inches; through the hams 22; depth of heart 26 inches; depth of loin 27 inches; size around the heart 6 feet 7 inches, and same at the loin. Gross weight 750 lbs., and net weight 690 lbs. Short-Horn Bulls.—The Catalogue of Short-Horn Bulls for sale by S. Meredith & Son, Cambridge City, Ind., just issued at the Farmer office, contains some of the finest stock in the West, all recorded in the American Short-Horn Herd Book. This is all young and choice stock, and offers excellent opportunities to those wishing to begin the stock business. They can be sure that the stock is pure, as represented. THE CHESTER-WHITE SWINE. Editors Indiana Farmer:—I have noticed several articles in the Farmer in reference to the best breed of hogs for the farmer, but never have as yet seen an article in favor of the Chester-Whites, which in my judgment are the best hogs the farmer can raise. In the Farmer of February 26th, there is an article in favor of the Berkshires, which says: "The friends of the Berkshires claim 1st, That they have more constitutional vitality, and consequently-are less liable to disease than any other breed." This I deny, my observation going to prove (in this vicinity at least,) that they are more liable to disease than any other breed of hogs. Many of them in this neighborhood have what we farmers call "the snorts," which seems to be almost entirely confined, in this locality, to the Berkshires. Now for the other side of the question. I have been raising Chester-Whites ever since I commenced farming, six years ago, and never had but two hogs to die ; one of them a sow died in farrowing, the other a boar died a few days ago from injuries received while with cattle. I never had a mangy pig. The article above referred to also claims that the Berkshires 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. This I also deny. They are not more prolific than Chester- Whites, but I think they are more so than Poland Chinas, and this is my only objection to the last named breed. The pigs are less uniform in size than those of any other breed within my knowledge, there being more little, puny, and what we term runty pigs among the Berkshires than other breeds. As to color, the Chester-Whites are always white, and I challenge successful contradiction on this point. I have seen Berkshires which were claimed to be thorough-bred crossed with Chesti r-Whites and in all cases the pigs would be perfectly white, not a black hair on them. _ I never charge anything for breeding to my boar if there can be found a black hair on any of the pigs, and I have never yet lost a cent in thia way. Therefore I claim for the Chester- Whites that they are the only pure blooded hogs in existence. As to the 3d and 4th claims, I am not able to answer them as they refer to matters which I have not tested. In the 5th place the writer claims that they are the best breed for Western farmers, fattening early and|readily,on less food than almost any other breed. 'Tis well that the word almost was put in where it was, as it could be made to serve quite a purpose in the relation in which it stands. But perhaps I might as well say here that there are but three kinds of hogs in this neighborhood, (or I might say four including the hazel-splitters which I am happy to say are nearly all "gone where the.woodbine twineth,") and they are the Chester-Whites, Poland Chinas and Berkshires. These are all of the breeds thatlknow of anywhere near here. Now are the Berkshires the best breed for Western farmers ? I say they are not. Why? Because the Chester-Whites or Poland Chinas will fatten more readily at any age, and make larger hogs with the same amount of feed. They are more quiet and docile, and are in every way a better hog than the Berkshire. There is a man near here who has been breeding Berkshires for some time, and he is obliged to get some other breed of hogs to make his meat, and furnish grease to grease his Berkshires when he goes to the fairs. These are facts. • I know the Berkshires are fancy hogs, commanding fancy prices, but they are not the hog for the Western farmer, and the farmers here are finding it out. The consequence is the Berkshires are being supplanted with better breeds, that is, the Chester-Whites and Poland Chinas. J. B. Fosher. Carpentersville, Ind. PHILOSOPHY OF BREEDING. A broad view of the subject will show that animals possessing unusual qualities, transmit these qualities, sometimes to their male and sometimes to their female progeny. Hambletonian is an instance of the first kind, and the imported horse Glencoe of the_ latter. Of the winners of running races in this country during the last twenty-five or thirty years, probably five-sevenths have been from Glencoe fillies, with but very few from the sons of Glencoe. It has been thought that it was the knowledge and observance of this principle that lay at the foundation of Bates and the Collings. It is certain that they had a secret theory which they refused to disclose. If the principle may be relied on, very little reflection is needed to show its immense influence and ita great importance to breeders. We value horses for speed, strength, endurance and docilityl; neat cattle for milk and butter- yielding qualities, early maturity and aptitude to take on flesh; sheep for their wool and flesh; swine for their fattening properties; fowls for their yield of eggs and table qualities; and our constant effort is to increase, or intensify, these characteristics. The prize falls to the patient lover and close observer of nature. I will not at present trespass further upon your valuable space, except to say that it may be reasonably affirmed that there exist3 in nature another important principle, which may be called "mutual adaptation," and which accounts for the excellence of the product of Hambletonian horses and Star mares, as well as for that of Lexington horses and Glencoe mares.—Cor. Country Gentleman. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS THE FARM. FOR Editors Indiana Farmer:—One man tells us that when you have a horse foundered you should immediately administer a table-spoonful of pulverized alum, and I would recommend the same, for to my certain knowledge foundered horses have been cured by the use of this simple remedy. to cure garget. Some one says that a strong decoction of sage tea or a salve made of sage tea and lard, and well rubbed on. will cure garget or caked udder in cows. We have a remedy for this ailment, well experimented with and successfully, which I will give. Give the cow one, two or three doses of raw poke root, cut fine, and if she refuses to eat it alone we mix it with cut feed or any kind of slop that she will eat. Don't be afraid to use poke root for it is harmless, and a cow will eat just enough of it and no more than she needs. This is a sure cure. FOR CHICKEN CHOLERA. The remedies we use for this disease are oak bark ooze or logwood; it is given to the fowls in their feed or in the water they drink, and our fowls are generally healthy. But so soon as we let dirt accumulate in the watering trough and fail to keep the remedies pure and fresh, the dread disease overtakes them in a very fatal form. We find that chicken cholera is a disease of the bowels, a kind of dysentery or flux, and that unwholesome food or impure water seems to originate or feed the disease. We advise all poul- tro raisers to keap their poultry houses clean and well aired and to provide untainted food and water. We also advise farmers to keep the best breeds of all kinds of fowls, as well as horses, cows, sheep, and hogs, for pcor stock eat as much as the fine and blooded varieties which pay us best. It is also desirable for farmers to send to some distance, every year or two, for seed corn, oats, wheat, potatoes and things in general, such as are grown on our farms, for experimenting proves these seeds to produce the best crops. J. H. Bruner. Harrison county, Ind. HOW TO SELECT SHEEP. Early Tomatoes. A writer in one of our exchanges says the way to get early tomatoes is, as soon as your tomato plants have made four leaves, pinch the top bud from the stem, then take up the plant, pinch off two inches from the tap root and transplant it in a common box-frame, where the soil is rich and loamy. The box will keep off the wind, and plants sown and grown there eighteen inches apart will produce fruit two weeks sooner than the same planted in the open ground. A mat or a few boards, spread over the frame at night, will keep them from frost, and is far easier and quicker than going over a field nightly and setting boxes over each hill. As soon as the plants have set fruit on two blossoms of each branch, and the top has grown two to four leaves, the pinching off the ends of each branch and top should be again put into practice. •—m> * FARM NOTES. In parts of Missouri many cattle have died from too heavy feeding with soft corn. PROPER SIZE OF DRAIN TILE. A wrker of extensive experience in rearing fine wooled sheep and in handling wool, communicates the following suggestions for selecting a good wooled sheep: Always assuming that the wool to be inspected is really a fine wool, we first examine the shoulder at the part where the finest and best wool is usually found. This we take as the standard, and compare it with wool from the ribs, the thigh, the rump and shoulder parts, and the nearer the wool from these various parts ofthe animal approaches the standard, the better. I?irst we scrutinize the fineness, and if the result is satisfactory, we pronounce the fleece in respect of fineness very even. Next we inquire into the length of the staple, and if we find that the wool generally approaches the standard, we again declare the sheep, as regards length of staple, true and even. We next desire to test the density of fleece; and, if we do this by closing the hand upon a portion of the rump and of the loin wool, the fleece at these points being usually the thinnest and most faulty, and, if this again gives satisfaction, we signify the fact by designating the wool even as to density. All these points being considered and found to approximate the standard, you may conclude that you have a nearly perfect sheep for producing valuable wool. Selecting sheep for valuable feeders is quite another thing. . ♦ . Pneumonia in Pigs. C. A. W., of Graham. Mo., asks: Can you give usa remedy for "Thumps" in hags? Answer.—Give fifteen drops of extract of gelseminum mornings, noons, and evenings, until febrile symptoms disappear. Inflammation of the lungs in pigs runs its course rapidly, and may be considered as a disease generally fatal, if not taken in hand as soon as the first symptoms appear, such as hard breathing, (generally mistaken for so-called thumps), Bhivering, loss of appetite, cough, etc. Half an ounce of hyposulphite of soda, or two drachms saltpetre, should be given in a little gruel every morning, and the animals kept warm, dry and comfortable. Indeed, if a little more attention were paid to the cleanliness and comfort of pigs, "thumps," and other diseases among them would be much less frequent than they are. Place fresh cold water within reach of the pigs, and renew it mornings and evenings.—Nat. Live Stock Journal. Trenton, Ind., Mar. 16th. Editors Indiana Farmer:—As the time is at hand when much underdrain- ing must be done, I send you the following table showing the proportions in which water is carried by different sized tiles. Let us noterr in usingtileof insufficient caliber, for one inch of rainfall leaves the enormous quantity of 874 barrels per acre on the ground, hence we must make more than ample allowance for floods. TABLE OF RELATIVE VELOCITIES: Relative sectional areas and relative quantities of water discharged by different sizes of tile. Proportion- Proportion- Proportion- Size of Tile, ate areas, ate velocities, ate quan. discharged. 86 .16666 25 .13888 16 .11111 9 .08333 6'4 .06W4 4 .05555 .5999 .3172 .1777 .075 .0416 .0222 Six Inch. Five " Four " Three " Two aud a half Two From this table it will be seen that the sectional area of a six inch tile is nine times that of a two inch tile. The velocity is nearly three times as great, and therefore the discharge is nearly twenty- seven times as much. , Brother patrons, in buying tile you will do well to study this table till you know what is the true economy of size. Isham Sedgwick. Blue grass has lately been introduced into Arkansas, and it is rapidly running out the wild grasses where it is grown. : . . — They are increasing the sorghum product in Georgia, and the yield has been very large in the past two years. Sheep raising for mutton is made a specialty in some parts of Pennsylvania, and is very profitable where they keep the worthless dogs killed oft'. The dogs have been slaughtering the sheep and lambs in Connecticut, and the farmers are declaring war upon them. The same is true in western New York. Caleb 8tark, who died lately at his home in Adams, Decatur county, came to this State in 1823, and lived in the house in which he died over fifty years, and is the first death that ever occurred in the house, notwithstanding there he raised eleven children. He served faithfully some time as commissioner of his county. General News. It is feared that the fruit crop in the region of Southern Illinois is destroyed by the late storm and cold snap. A very large fire occurred at Charleston, 8. C, on Monday morning, which rendered hundreds of people homeless, and penniless. The loss is estimated at half a million. Marsh, the witness against Belknap, has been induced to return to Washington from Canada by the promise of protection; and now we shall have all he knows. The mud blockade in Central 111., is complete, depressing all enterprise, and occupations. Citizens are shut out from country trade, and farmers are cut off from the world. No couutry produce is coming in and the city and country it is almost impossible to obtain fuel. A telegram from Naples reports the long- expected eruption of Mt.Vesnvius commenced on Friday night. The lava is flowing towards Pompeii. A large column of vapor rises from the summit and reflects the fire beneath. Vast quantities of lava were thrown upwards. The sight is magnificent. The mercury fell Irom 50° above aero to 4° below on Sunday at Sioux City; Ia. It is feared much suffering will ensue to the Black Hill adventures, as many of them are blockaded by snow, and are beyond the reach of food and fuel. Passengers arriving at Omaha on the 19th, state that the fall of snow between there and Calif rnia to be greater thnn known for many years past; tbat it covers almost the entire country. In many places the road bed is ten to twenty feet below the top of the snow. It has required almost superhuman efforts to keep the roads open at all. Farmers in Bucks county, Penn'a., sell from $50 to $400 worth of poultry annually for each 100 acres of land owned, and find poultry-* tgreat source of profit. California is constantly increasing her flocks of Angora goats. The skins of these goats have of late been dressed with the fleece intact, and manufactured into robes, mats, rugs, gloves, etc., with much success. In several counties of Minnesota the farmers are turning their attention to cheese making on the co-operative factory plan, where the milk of the neighborhood is delivered to be manipulated. * . In parts of Vermont the stock kept are mainly cows, and the leading product for market is butter. The hay and straw is all carefully kept in barns and fed so as to waste none. LATE PUBLICATIONS. Two crops of hogs are turned off and sold by Connecticut farmers, one in the spring and one in the fall. The hogs are made to weigh about 180 pounds each. They are always kept penned up, and the manure utilized in growing corn. Many young cattle are reported to have died lately in Minnesota. They were fed chiefly on wheat and oat chaff, and were given little or no salt. The disease was called black-leg, congestion, and various other names. Let Them Try It. Editors Indiana Farmer :—If some of the hard-up farmers would take the Farmer and practice what it teaches, they would not be so "hard-up" in a few years. Many of them have a dollar to spend for crooked whiskey every time they go to town, but say they cannot pay for a good paper. Times are hard, it is true, but not so hard that most all men can take a good paper. I advise them to try it. They will find the investment pays. Clinton Co., Ind. I. N. R. ..— . ♦ * Plans for the Garden.—Farmers will find great help in carrying out plans for thegarden,and keeping it free from weeds, by adopting the following suggestions: There should be a clear space at each end of the plat, sufficient for a horse to turn on with the plow and cultivator, and nearly everythiug grown should be put in straight rows, far enough apart to admit of cultivation with the cultivator. I venture the assertion that with the general adoption of this plan there would be few unsightly gardens in the country, and by the exercise of a little taste in the arrangement of the different varieties of plants, the garden will present quite as attractive an appearance as in the old arrangement.—Country Gentleman. For the past year $2,362 have been paid out on account of sheep-killing dogs in a single county in New Jersey—more than the worth of all the dogs there since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. NEWS OF THE WEEK. State Sews, Raccoons must be plentiful in Posey county. One Mt. Vernon firm has purchased 4,000 coon-skins this winter, and several firms to hear from. Charles Doty, of Milton, Ind., while on his way home from Cambridge City, supposed to have been intoxicated, Saturday night, fell into the canal, crawled out on the bank and froze to death. So far as we have been able to hear nearly all the sugar camps in this section of the country have been opened, and an estimate of about 5,000 gallons of molasses, at $1.50 per gallon, would make quite an amount.— Noblesville Independent. TheMetzgar families, who various branches are rooted in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties, Indiana, and Berrien county, Michigan, have fallen heirs to $116,000,000 in Holland. If they continue to fall until they get possession ofthe money, the "bringing up" will certainly kill them. Upon the farm of Mrs. Agar, one mile north of Princeton, between a quarter and a half an acre of ground, upon the side of a small hill, has been sinking squarely into the earth for some time past. It is now ten feet below the surface of the ground Burrounding, and about fifteen feet in the middle of the sunk space, and still sinking at the rate of six inches every twenty-four hours. Barnes' Centenary History of the United States, or One Hundred years of American Independence. Written by P. Dorman Steele, Ph. D., F. G. S.. &c, ofElmira, New York. A. S. Barnes & Co., Publishers, New "York. This book is published in twelve monthly parts of about fifty pages each. The paper, " type and illustrations are superb, and the style, of the writer is concise but clear and graphic. When completed and bound the volume will contain some 650 pages, giving in brief all the leading events in the history of our country, and the lives of its great men, for the past one hundred years. It will be interesting to all readers, especiallyt his Centennial year, and always valuable as a book of reference. P. A. Baller's Discriptive Plant Catalogue, Bloomington, 111. • W. W. Moon's Discriptive Catalogue of Nursery and Greenhouse Stock, Marriesville, Penn. Manuel on the culture of small fruits, by E. P. Roe. Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, Orange county, N. Y. This is a valuable pamphlet of instruction, as it name implies, containing many useful hints and suggestions. Supplement, Omaha Bee, Neb., contains a description of the Black Hill gold fields, instructions on the route there, and various other hints to those wishing to go out. Zell's Popular Encyclopedia.—We have received Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 12 of this valuable work, and are well pleased with the' illustrations and definition. The former are numerous and well executed, the latter are brief, but clear and accurate. The book will be completed in 64 parts and whoever possesses it will have a complete and reliable Dictionary of History, Biography, Geography, Science, Arts and Language. We trust it will have a large sale among our readers. For terms address, J. W. Marsh, General Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Scribner's Magazine, for April, is an unusually interesting number. The two serial stories now running in its columns, Gabriel Conray, by Bret Hart, and Philip Nolan's Friends, by Edward Everett are increasing in interest. • St. Nicholas, for April, contains, among other attractions/a "Hoosier Fairy Story," by Edward Eggledton. St. Nicholas is about as near perfection as any juvenile magazine has yet attained. * mm . The Sweepstakes Washer. Office or the Chairman or the Executive f Committee of the Ind. State Grange, !■ Brookvillb, Ind. March 4th, 1876. J Sweepstakes Washing Machine Company, Metamora, Ind.—In this day of general humbugs, when many of the unsuspecting and inexperienced are wheedled out of their money, I am slow to indorse any patented machine of any kind. Thia being my view I was determined to neither buy nor recommend your machineuiitil J saw its merits fully tested. And seeing the machine worked by one who has done my washing for forty-six years, and who has tested every class of machines from the paddle and bench, the pounder and the hand-board up, I do rm>t cheerfully and heartily recommend your Sweepstakes washer l to the public, as the most perfect machine, ' both as to labor and time saving, in the market, and in saying this I disclaim either^ fulsome flattery or hired puffing. 12-tf. Aaron B. Line.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1876, v. 11, no. 12 (Mar. 25) |
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Transcript | EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. FOR BALE. FRUIT FARM FOR SALE—800 flne bearing trees. L. NICHOLSON, Salem. Washington Co., Ind. FOR SALE—Eggs from the very best Light Brahmas at J2.50 per doz. Geo. vestal, Cambridge City. lad. 8"9w FOR SALE-CUlcago Premium Egg Transporting Boxes, for hatching. JOHN BENNETT, Sunman, Ind, ll-2t FOR SALE—Seed Sweet Potatoes, five kinds; price H per barrel. Address L. K MACE, Lexington, Bcott county, Ind. \ ll-4t - "T710R SALE—One Jack—a large breeder. Call _1 soon or address W. A. BRANSON. Zionsville, Boone county, Ind. 12-2w FOB SALE—Corncord Vines,best quality; cheap for Cash. Samples 10 cents. LEE 4 SON, Klnonk, Woodford County, Illinois. 4-tf FOR SALE—Several flne young Poland China male pigs, well bred and ready for service. Address F. McKEEVER, Antioch, Huntington Co., Indiana. 125w TTIOB SALE—FOWLS and EGGS—All bred from Jj first - class stock. Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks and Peafowls. Send for circular and price-list 6-16 L. S. GOODWIN, Waterloo, Ind. FOR SALE—Eggs from registered stock,. Light Brahmas. Burr, Black, White and Partridge Cochins, $3 for 13 or $5 for 26 eggs. T.E. ELLIS, Plain- field, Hendricks county, Ind. 11-tt. FOE 8 ALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices there and rive months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsville, Tipton county, Ind. 6-tf EOR SALE—Seed Sweet Potatoes, on reasonable terms, or furnished to responsible parties to sprout on shares of one-half; (Yellow Nansemond variety.) H. A.Wooley, Galveston, CassCo., Ind. FOR SALE—200 Farms—Splendid Soil and good Buildings; can suit any one; no better country; cheap transportation to Philadelphia, New York, or Baltimore; all in Delaware and Maryland; finest sou in the world for fruit Geo. W. Ingraham, Real Estate Agent Middletown, New Castle Co., Delaware. FOR SALE—Select Seed Potatoes. Extra Early Vermont S1.75 per bbl; Campbell's Late Rose, 11.60 per bbl.: Russets and Peachblows, $1.25 per bbl. Any of above for 30 cents per peck. All select and fnaranteed true to name. Address ALANSON HAUL, M. Columbia Grange No. 526, Noblesville, Ind. ll-2t FOR SALE—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1 Jack, five years old next foaling time. Sired bv 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 oneseason 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. FARM FOR SALE—140 acres, adjoining 8hldeler Station, on the Muncie & Ft. Wayne railroad; 110 acres cleared, 30 acres timber, all fenced; two orchards: spring water all 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. 8HIDELER, Shldeler Station, Delaware Co., Ind. 4-? WANTED. WANTED—A situation on a farm or in the city. Will do almost any kind of work for fair wages. Address F. K. H., at Indiana Fabmeb Office. 11-? "\T7"ANTED—Active Agentes everywhere to take T V control of counties for first-jlass goods. A light, and permanent business with large profits. Particulars free. Address N1CKERSON, SMITH & CO., 342 E. St Clair St, Iudianadolis, Ind. 12-2w "TrrANTED—Young men wishing to attend the VV 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 "TIT"ANTED—Farms and Country Town Prop- W 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-? 16H Kast Washington 8t, Indianapolis. MISCELLANEOUS. BUY your wife a Success Washing Machine, and save health, clothing and soap. It squeezes, pounds, rubs and rinses clothing without damage to clothing and buttons. Manufactured and sold by ENGLISH & OVER, 240 to 216 South Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indianapolis. 5-8 STOCK NOTES. D. W. Voyles, of New Albany, Ind., has sold to W. Kinney, of Portsmouth, Ohio, the 2 year old Jersey heifer, Alice C. No. 4,144. On the first of June next J. P. Forsythe, of Franklin, thia State, will sell about seventy head of fine Short-Horn cattle. He is now attending sales in Iowa. F. M. McKeever, of Huntington county, has lately sold some good Short-Horn cattle to parties in the northern part of the State, and also a lot of-fine pigs. The Stallion Show at the State Fair Grounds promises to be an attractive feature. It takes place, as before stated, April 5th. Fearcy.—Salt and soft soap mixed, and applied to the part affected, together with dieting and light feed, will cure the fearcy. It has hardly ever been known to fail. The next volume ofthe Holstein Herd Book will be published by Winthrop W. ' Chenery, of Boston, in August, 1878, and »in the meantime he will receive applications for record to go in the next issue. To keep sheep healthy, mix a half ounce of pulverized rosin, per sheep, in their feed twice per week. It may be fed in a little meal or bran. Occasionally a little sulphur may also be given. We find it impossible to give in detail the sales of stock often, as our columns are frequently too much crowded for this, and all must be content with a general statement, and summary of the same, which we are always glad to publish. A. W. Ross of Muncie, Ind., has recent- ly made Bales of choice Poland China pigs to breeders and farmers in some nine different counties in this State. Mr. Ross has attained a fine reputation as a breeder of Poland Chinas, and is very successful in his business. John Comstock, of Liberty Mills, Ind., has lately sold to C. C. Parks, of Wauke- gan, 111., six of his Duchess milkers, and a heifer calf put of his Duchess milker 17, to a party in Minnesota; also a bull calf out of Duchess milker 13th, by Townley Gem 18463. The Poland China hog "Sherman," owned by Henry Comstock, of Liberty Mills, Ind., was slaughtered by him lately, and measured through the shoulders 23 inches; through the hams 22; depth of heart 26 inches; depth of loin 27 inches; size around the heart 6 feet 7 inches, and same at the loin. Gross weight 750 lbs., and net weight 690 lbs. Short-Horn Bulls.—The Catalogue of Short-Horn Bulls for sale by S. Meredith & Son, Cambridge City, Ind., just issued at the Farmer office, contains some of the finest stock in the West, all recorded in the American Short-Horn Herd Book. This is all young and choice stock, and offers excellent opportunities to those wishing to begin the stock business. They can be sure that the stock is pure, as represented. THE CHESTER-WHITE SWINE. Editors Indiana Farmer:—I have noticed several articles in the Farmer in reference to the best breed of hogs for the farmer, but never have as yet seen an article in favor of the Chester-Whites, which in my judgment are the best hogs the farmer can raise. In the Farmer of February 26th, there is an article in favor of the Berkshires, which says: "The friends of the Berkshires claim 1st, That they have more constitutional vitality, and consequently-are less liable to disease than any other breed." This I deny, my observation going to prove (in this vicinity at least,) that they are more liable to disease than any other breed of hogs. Many of them in this neighborhood have what we farmers call "the snorts," which seems to be almost entirely confined, in this locality, to the Berkshires. Now for the other side of the question. I have been raising Chester-Whites ever since I commenced farming, six years ago, and never had but two hogs to die ; one of them a sow died in farrowing, the other a boar died a few days ago from injuries received while with cattle. I never had a mangy pig. The article above referred to also claims that the Berkshires 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. This I also deny. They are not more prolific than Chester- Whites, but I think they are more so than Poland Chinas, and this is my only objection to the last named breed. The pigs are less uniform in size than those of any other breed within my knowledge, there being more little, puny, and what we term runty pigs among the Berkshires than other breeds. As to color, the Chester-Whites are always white, and I challenge successful contradiction on this point. I have seen Berkshires which were claimed to be thorough-bred crossed with Chesti r-Whites and in all cases the pigs would be perfectly white, not a black hair on them. _ I never charge anything for breeding to my boar if there can be found a black hair on any of the pigs, and I have never yet lost a cent in thia way. Therefore I claim for the Chester- Whites that they are the only pure blooded hogs in existence. As to the 3d and 4th claims, I am not able to answer them as they refer to matters which I have not tested. In the 5th place the writer claims that they are the best breed for Western farmers, fattening early and|readily,on less food than almost any other breed. 'Tis well that the word almost was put in where it was, as it could be made to serve quite a purpose in the relation in which it stands. But perhaps I might as well say here that there are but three kinds of hogs in this neighborhood, (or I might say four including the hazel-splitters which I am happy to say are nearly all "gone where the.woodbine twineth,") and they are the Chester-Whites, Poland Chinas and Berkshires. These are all of the breeds thatlknow of anywhere near here. Now are the Berkshires the best breed for Western farmers ? I say they are not. Why? Because the Chester-Whites or Poland Chinas will fatten more readily at any age, and make larger hogs with the same amount of feed. They are more quiet and docile, and are in every way a better hog than the Berkshire. There is a man near here who has been breeding Berkshires for some time, and he is obliged to get some other breed of hogs to make his meat, and furnish grease to grease his Berkshires when he goes to the fairs. These are facts. • I know the Berkshires are fancy hogs, commanding fancy prices, but they are not the hog for the Western farmer, and the farmers here are finding it out. The consequence is the Berkshires are being supplanted with better breeds, that is, the Chester-Whites and Poland Chinas. J. B. Fosher. Carpentersville, Ind. PHILOSOPHY OF BREEDING. A broad view of the subject will show that animals possessing unusual qualities, transmit these qualities, sometimes to their male and sometimes to their female progeny. Hambletonian is an instance of the first kind, and the imported horse Glencoe of the_ latter. Of the winners of running races in this country during the last twenty-five or thirty years, probably five-sevenths have been from Glencoe fillies, with but very few from the sons of Glencoe. It has been thought that it was the knowledge and observance of this principle that lay at the foundation of Bates and the Collings. It is certain that they had a secret theory which they refused to disclose. If the principle may be relied on, very little reflection is needed to show its immense influence and ita great importance to breeders. We value horses for speed, strength, endurance and docilityl; neat cattle for milk and butter- yielding qualities, early maturity and aptitude to take on flesh; sheep for their wool and flesh; swine for their fattening properties; fowls for their yield of eggs and table qualities; and our constant effort is to increase, or intensify, these characteristics. The prize falls to the patient lover and close observer of nature. I will not at present trespass further upon your valuable space, except to say that it may be reasonably affirmed that there exist3 in nature another important principle, which may be called "mutual adaptation," and which accounts for the excellence of the product of Hambletonian horses and Star mares, as well as for that of Lexington horses and Glencoe mares.—Cor. Country Gentleman. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS THE FARM. FOR Editors Indiana Farmer:—One man tells us that when you have a horse foundered you should immediately administer a table-spoonful of pulverized alum, and I would recommend the same, for to my certain knowledge foundered horses have been cured by the use of this simple remedy. to cure garget. Some one says that a strong decoction of sage tea or a salve made of sage tea and lard, and well rubbed on. will cure garget or caked udder in cows. We have a remedy for this ailment, well experimented with and successfully, which I will give. Give the cow one, two or three doses of raw poke root, cut fine, and if she refuses to eat it alone we mix it with cut feed or any kind of slop that she will eat. Don't be afraid to use poke root for it is harmless, and a cow will eat just enough of it and no more than she needs. This is a sure cure. FOR CHICKEN CHOLERA. The remedies we use for this disease are oak bark ooze or logwood; it is given to the fowls in their feed or in the water they drink, and our fowls are generally healthy. But so soon as we let dirt accumulate in the watering trough and fail to keep the remedies pure and fresh, the dread disease overtakes them in a very fatal form. We find that chicken cholera is a disease of the bowels, a kind of dysentery or flux, and that unwholesome food or impure water seems to originate or feed the disease. We advise all poul- tro raisers to keap their poultry houses clean and well aired and to provide untainted food and water. We also advise farmers to keep the best breeds of all kinds of fowls, as well as horses, cows, sheep, and hogs, for pcor stock eat as much as the fine and blooded varieties which pay us best. It is also desirable for farmers to send to some distance, every year or two, for seed corn, oats, wheat, potatoes and things in general, such as are grown on our farms, for experimenting proves these seeds to produce the best crops. J. H. Bruner. Harrison county, Ind. HOW TO SELECT SHEEP. Early Tomatoes. A writer in one of our exchanges says the way to get early tomatoes is, as soon as your tomato plants have made four leaves, pinch the top bud from the stem, then take up the plant, pinch off two inches from the tap root and transplant it in a common box-frame, where the soil is rich and loamy. The box will keep off the wind, and plants sown and grown there eighteen inches apart will produce fruit two weeks sooner than the same planted in the open ground. A mat or a few boards, spread over the frame at night, will keep them from frost, and is far easier and quicker than going over a field nightly and setting boxes over each hill. As soon as the plants have set fruit on two blossoms of each branch, and the top has grown two to four leaves, the pinching off the ends of each branch and top should be again put into practice. •—m> * FARM NOTES. In parts of Missouri many cattle have died from too heavy feeding with soft corn. PROPER SIZE OF DRAIN TILE. A wrker of extensive experience in rearing fine wooled sheep and in handling wool, communicates the following suggestions for selecting a good wooled sheep: Always assuming that the wool to be inspected is really a fine wool, we first examine the shoulder at the part where the finest and best wool is usually found. This we take as the standard, and compare it with wool from the ribs, the thigh, the rump and shoulder parts, and the nearer the wool from these various parts ofthe animal approaches the standard, the better. I?irst we scrutinize the fineness, and if the result is satisfactory, we pronounce the fleece in respect of fineness very even. Next we inquire into the length of the staple, and if we find that the wool generally approaches the standard, we again declare the sheep, as regards length of staple, true and even. We next desire to test the density of fleece; and, if we do this by closing the hand upon a portion of the rump and of the loin wool, the fleece at these points being usually the thinnest and most faulty, and, if this again gives satisfaction, we signify the fact by designating the wool even as to density. All these points being considered and found to approximate the standard, you may conclude that you have a nearly perfect sheep for producing valuable wool. Selecting sheep for valuable feeders is quite another thing. . ♦ . Pneumonia in Pigs. C. A. W., of Graham. Mo., asks: Can you give usa remedy for "Thumps" in hags? Answer.—Give fifteen drops of extract of gelseminum mornings, noons, and evenings, until febrile symptoms disappear. Inflammation of the lungs in pigs runs its course rapidly, and may be considered as a disease generally fatal, if not taken in hand as soon as the first symptoms appear, such as hard breathing, (generally mistaken for so-called thumps), Bhivering, loss of appetite, cough, etc. Half an ounce of hyposulphite of soda, or two drachms saltpetre, should be given in a little gruel every morning, and the animals kept warm, dry and comfortable. Indeed, if a little more attention were paid to the cleanliness and comfort of pigs, "thumps," and other diseases among them would be much less frequent than they are. Place fresh cold water within reach of the pigs, and renew it mornings and evenings.—Nat. Live Stock Journal. Trenton, Ind., Mar. 16th. Editors Indiana Farmer:—As the time is at hand when much underdrain- ing must be done, I send you the following table showing the proportions in which water is carried by different sized tiles. Let us noterr in usingtileof insufficient caliber, for one inch of rainfall leaves the enormous quantity of 874 barrels per acre on the ground, hence we must make more than ample allowance for floods. TABLE OF RELATIVE VELOCITIES: Relative sectional areas and relative quantities of water discharged by different sizes of tile. Proportion- Proportion- Proportion- Size of Tile, ate areas, ate velocities, ate quan. discharged. 86 .16666 25 .13888 16 .11111 9 .08333 6'4 .06W4 4 .05555 .5999 .3172 .1777 .075 .0416 .0222 Six Inch. Five " Four " Three " Two aud a half Two From this table it will be seen that the sectional area of a six inch tile is nine times that of a two inch tile. The velocity is nearly three times as great, and therefore the discharge is nearly twenty- seven times as much. , Brother patrons, in buying tile you will do well to study this table till you know what is the true economy of size. Isham Sedgwick. Blue grass has lately been introduced into Arkansas, and it is rapidly running out the wild grasses where it is grown. : . . — They are increasing the sorghum product in Georgia, and the yield has been very large in the past two years. Sheep raising for mutton is made a specialty in some parts of Pennsylvania, and is very profitable where they keep the worthless dogs killed oft'. The dogs have been slaughtering the sheep and lambs in Connecticut, and the farmers are declaring war upon them. The same is true in western New York. Caleb 8tark, who died lately at his home in Adams, Decatur county, came to this State in 1823, and lived in the house in which he died over fifty years, and is the first death that ever occurred in the house, notwithstanding there he raised eleven children. He served faithfully some time as commissioner of his county. General News. It is feared that the fruit crop in the region of Southern Illinois is destroyed by the late storm and cold snap. A very large fire occurred at Charleston, 8. C, on Monday morning, which rendered hundreds of people homeless, and penniless. The loss is estimated at half a million. Marsh, the witness against Belknap, has been induced to return to Washington from Canada by the promise of protection; and now we shall have all he knows. The mud blockade in Central 111., is complete, depressing all enterprise, and occupations. Citizens are shut out from country trade, and farmers are cut off from the world. No couutry produce is coming in and the city and country it is almost impossible to obtain fuel. A telegram from Naples reports the long- expected eruption of Mt.Vesnvius commenced on Friday night. The lava is flowing towards Pompeii. A large column of vapor rises from the summit and reflects the fire beneath. Vast quantities of lava were thrown upwards. The sight is magnificent. The mercury fell Irom 50° above aero to 4° below on Sunday at Sioux City; Ia. It is feared much suffering will ensue to the Black Hill adventures, as many of them are blockaded by snow, and are beyond the reach of food and fuel. Passengers arriving at Omaha on the 19th, state that the fall of snow between there and Calif rnia to be greater thnn known for many years past; tbat it covers almost the entire country. In many places the road bed is ten to twenty feet below the top of the snow. It has required almost superhuman efforts to keep the roads open at all. Farmers in Bucks county, Penn'a., sell from $50 to $400 worth of poultry annually for each 100 acres of land owned, and find poultry-* tgreat source of profit. California is constantly increasing her flocks of Angora goats. The skins of these goats have of late been dressed with the fleece intact, and manufactured into robes, mats, rugs, gloves, etc., with much success. In several counties of Minnesota the farmers are turning their attention to cheese making on the co-operative factory plan, where the milk of the neighborhood is delivered to be manipulated. * . In parts of Vermont the stock kept are mainly cows, and the leading product for market is butter. The hay and straw is all carefully kept in barns and fed so as to waste none. LATE PUBLICATIONS. Two crops of hogs are turned off and sold by Connecticut farmers, one in the spring and one in the fall. The hogs are made to weigh about 180 pounds each. They are always kept penned up, and the manure utilized in growing corn. Many young cattle are reported to have died lately in Minnesota. They were fed chiefly on wheat and oat chaff, and were given little or no salt. The disease was called black-leg, congestion, and various other names. Let Them Try It. Editors Indiana Farmer :—If some of the hard-up farmers would take the Farmer and practice what it teaches, they would not be so "hard-up" in a few years. Many of them have a dollar to spend for crooked whiskey every time they go to town, but say they cannot pay for a good paper. Times are hard, it is true, but not so hard that most all men can take a good paper. I advise them to try it. They will find the investment pays. Clinton Co., Ind. I. N. R. ..— . ♦ * Plans for the Garden.—Farmers will find great help in carrying out plans for thegarden,and keeping it free from weeds, by adopting the following suggestions: There should be a clear space at each end of the plat, sufficient for a horse to turn on with the plow and cultivator, and nearly everythiug grown should be put in straight rows, far enough apart to admit of cultivation with the cultivator. I venture the assertion that with the general adoption of this plan there would be few unsightly gardens in the country, and by the exercise of a little taste in the arrangement of the different varieties of plants, the garden will present quite as attractive an appearance as in the old arrangement.—Country Gentleman. For the past year $2,362 have been paid out on account of sheep-killing dogs in a single county in New Jersey—more than the worth of all the dogs there since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. NEWS OF THE WEEK. State Sews, Raccoons must be plentiful in Posey county. One Mt. Vernon firm has purchased 4,000 coon-skins this winter, and several firms to hear from. Charles Doty, of Milton, Ind., while on his way home from Cambridge City, supposed to have been intoxicated, Saturday night, fell into the canal, crawled out on the bank and froze to death. So far as we have been able to hear nearly all the sugar camps in this section of the country have been opened, and an estimate of about 5,000 gallons of molasses, at $1.50 per gallon, would make quite an amount.— Noblesville Independent. TheMetzgar families, who various branches are rooted in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties, Indiana, and Berrien county, Michigan, have fallen heirs to $116,000,000 in Holland. If they continue to fall until they get possession ofthe money, the "bringing up" will certainly kill them. Upon the farm of Mrs. Agar, one mile north of Princeton, between a quarter and a half an acre of ground, upon the side of a small hill, has been sinking squarely into the earth for some time past. It is now ten feet below the surface of the ground Burrounding, and about fifteen feet in the middle of the sunk space, and still sinking at the rate of six inches every twenty-four hours. Barnes' Centenary History of the United States, or One Hundred years of American Independence. Written by P. Dorman Steele, Ph. D., F. G. S.. &c, ofElmira, New York. A. S. Barnes & Co., Publishers, New "York. This book is published in twelve monthly parts of about fifty pages each. The paper, " type and illustrations are superb, and the style, of the writer is concise but clear and graphic. When completed and bound the volume will contain some 650 pages, giving in brief all the leading events in the history of our country, and the lives of its great men, for the past one hundred years. It will be interesting to all readers, especiallyt his Centennial year, and always valuable as a book of reference. P. A. Baller's Discriptive Plant Catalogue, Bloomington, 111. • W. W. Moon's Discriptive Catalogue of Nursery and Greenhouse Stock, Marriesville, Penn. Manuel on the culture of small fruits, by E. P. Roe. Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, Orange county, N. Y. This is a valuable pamphlet of instruction, as it name implies, containing many useful hints and suggestions. Supplement, Omaha Bee, Neb., contains a description of the Black Hill gold fields, instructions on the route there, and various other hints to those wishing to go out. Zell's Popular Encyclopedia.—We have received Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 12 of this valuable work, and are well pleased with the' illustrations and definition. The former are numerous and well executed, the latter are brief, but clear and accurate. The book will be completed in 64 parts and whoever possesses it will have a complete and reliable Dictionary of History, Biography, Geography, Science, Arts and Language. We trust it will have a large sale among our readers. For terms address, J. W. Marsh, General Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Scribner's Magazine, for April, is an unusually interesting number. The two serial stories now running in its columns, Gabriel Conray, by Bret Hart, and Philip Nolan's Friends, by Edward Everett are increasing in interest. • St. Nicholas, for April, contains, among other attractions/a "Hoosier Fairy Story," by Edward Eggledton. St. Nicholas is about as near perfection as any juvenile magazine has yet attained. * mm . The Sweepstakes Washer. Office or the Chairman or the Executive f Committee of the Ind. State Grange, !■ Brookvillb, Ind. March 4th, 1876. J Sweepstakes Washing Machine Company, Metamora, Ind.—In this day of general humbugs, when many of the unsuspecting and inexperienced are wheedled out of their money, I am slow to indorse any patented machine of any kind. Thia being my view I was determined to neither buy nor recommend your machineuiitil J saw its merits fully tested. And seeing the machine worked by one who has done my washing for forty-six years, and who has tested every class of machines from the paddle and bench, the pounder and the hand-board up, I do rm>t cheerfully and heartily recommend your Sweepstakes washer l to the public, as the most perfect machine, ' both as to labor and time saving, in the market, and in saying this I disclaim either^ fulsome flattery or hired puffing. 12-tf. Aaron B. Line. |
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