EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
FOR BALE.
T710R SALE—Eggs from the very best Light Brah-
tj mas at $2.50 per doz. Geo. vestal, Cambridge
City. Ind. **"
FOR, SALE—Comcord Vines,best quality: cheap
for Cash.    Samples 10 cents.    LEE & SON,
Mlnonk, Woodford County, TUlnois. «-tf
FOR SALE—Eggs—From 8 varieties, at J2 per
dozen.  Circular free.   C. Dickinson, Waterloo,
Ind-       : 1-t-lOw
E"     OR SALE—Fresh supply of "White OU Corn"
just received.    Send early.   25c per package,
prepaid.   Alpheus Tyner, Indianapolis.        15-2W
FORSALE—Seed potatoes—Extra Early Vermon t,
Brownell's Beauty and Compton's surprise, $1
per bushel. Wm. Ahrends, Sunman, Ripley county;
ind. M-5W
FOR SALE—Large White Seed Corn. Send 10 cts.
for sample (100 grains, or more.) Reference:
Indiana Farmer. John Bennett, Sunman, Ripley
eonnty, Ind.   Bo- St.  M-tf
EOR SALE-'Several fine young Poland China
male pigs, well bred and ready for service.
Address K. McKEEVER, Antioch, Huntington Co.,
Indiana.  12-6w
"T710R SALE—FOWLS and EGGS—All bred from
JD    first-class stock.    Turkeys,Chickens. Ducks
and_Peafowls.    Send for circular and price-list.
6-16 L. S. GOODWIN. Waterloo, Ind.
FOR SALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices
thereand five months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsville,
Tipton county, Ind. 6-tf
T710R SALE—Seed Sweet Potatoes, on reasonable
JD terms, or furnished to responsible parties to
sprout on shares of one-half; (Yellow Nansemond
variety.)   H. A. Wooley, Galveston, Cass Co.. Ind.
FOR SALE—Select Seed Potatoes. Extra Early
Vermont, 81.75 per bbL; Campbell's Late Rose,
I1J50 per bbl.: Peachblows.J155 per bbl. Any of the
above for 30 cents per peck. AU select and guaranteed true to name. Address ALANSON SHAUL,
M. Columbia Grange No. 526, Noblesville, Ind.   14-2t
Among the stallions exhibited at the
Horse Show at the State Fair Grounds
last week, Young Arabian, owned by John
Pence, of Rochester, Fulton county, Ind.,
attracted universal attention. He was
sired by Forepaugh's Arabian ring and
trick horse. His dam was an Arabian
mare.
Heia a handsome, smooth, plump and
well formed animal, medium in size but
weighing heavier than many horses much
larger in appearance. This horse is for
sale and will be a valuable acquisition
for some lover of fine stock in this line.
W. H. Wilson, of Cynthiana, Ky., is in
Russia, investigating the famed .Orloff
trotter, with a view to purchasing and importing a stallion of that stock.
EXPERIENCE IN* FEEDINGHOGS.
insisting that such is of hereditary taint,
a phenomenon which I stubbornly deny,
and intend to disprove. He asks why
disease is not transmissable in the brute,
as it is in the human family. For an explanation to this inquiry, I answer by
saying that there is no visible difference.
But unfortnnately for his adroitness, he
has missed the class of transmissable diseases. Does it follow that the abscesses Of
The Btallion show last week at the Fair
rounds, considering it was the first of
e kind, the.bad weather, &c, was an
couragiug exhibition. Twenty-one entries were made, the bad roads keeping
many away, and the bad weather made
the attendance of visitors small.
J. D. Campbell entered two fine sorrel
Suffolk (heavy draft) horses. One of
them has a splendid silver-colored mane
and tail, and weighs 2,160 pounds. The
second one weighs 1,900 pounds. A half-
blood English hunter, a cross on the Suffolk5, also a splendid sorrel, weighs 1,765
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I notice in
the Farmer for March 4th, that Joseph
Riley had butchered his Berkshire sow
weighing 697 lbs. gross, and 555 lbs. net,
showing a loss of 140 lbs.; while Henry
Comstock had butchered his Poland
China weighing gross, 750 lbs., net 690
lbs., a loss of 60 lbs. Inthe discussions
that have been going on in the Farmer
as to which is the best breed of hogs, I
have not seen any account of the difference of the two breeds in the gross and
net weights. If the above is a fair test,
the Poland Chinas have the advantage.
Let us hear from the advocates of the
two breeds, their tests on that point.
John Thompson.
Mt. Carmel, Ind.
State Heirs.
Indianapolis  undertakers  talk abont dull
times.
A fatal plague is l
in the localities of 1
revailing among the cattle
[arrison county.
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OR SALE or TRADE—An Almont StaUion, four
    years old, sixteen hands high, beautiful bay,
good style and trotted a quarter in 45 seconds when
a two-year-old, with very little handling.   Would
trade for good, broke mules.   Call soon' ot address,
Alfred Pratt, New Maysville, Putnam county, Ind.
lt-2w
FOR SALE—Go»d farm, one half mile from Ath-
erton Station, Vigo county, Ind., and 9__ miles
from Terre Haute City, consisting of 280 acres, 255
in crop and pasture, balance timber j good sized
house and barn; large orchard; weU watered, suitable for stock or crops. . Price $65 per acre on long,
time at 6 per cent, interest Apply to proprietor,
Alex. Menhinick. 13-3W
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.
FARM FOR SALE—HO acres, adjoining Shldeler
Station, on the Muncie & Ft. Wayne railroad;
110 acres cleared, 30 acres timber, aU fenced; two
orchards: spring water aU the year; frame house of
six rooms, porch and milk-house; barn 32 x 40 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 S.
8HIDELER; Shideler Station/Delaware Co., Ind. 4-?
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College, Bates Block. Graduates assisted in getting
situations. 4-tf
WANTED—Farms—Persons having farms for
sale or trade wUl please send description and
price to Jno. M. Todd & Co., Indianapolis. A 30 or
40 acre farm with neat improvements, within 40
miles of city will find a ready purchaser. 14-tf
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MISCEIsIsANEOTTS.
F
OR TRADE—A carriage and bug^y for horses
and mules.   EU Heiny, Indianapolis.      13-4t
STOCK NOTES.
A hog weighing 1,750 was lately sold in
Putnam   county,   N. Y.   It   measured
eight feet in length, seven   feet around
the body, and Was three feet four inches
high.
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Mr. Benjamin Booher, of Whitestown,
Boone county, Ind., handed us a sample
of wool from a thoroughbred Cotswold
buck, 11 months old, which is as fine a
specimen as we have ever seen.
The late Short-Horn sales in Iowa were
well attended, and former prices well
maintained. The average price at S. W.
Jacob's sale, West Liberty, was $630 per
head. Peri 2d, of Lendale, was sold to
a New York man for $7,050.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I. saw in
the Farmer lately, an article written by
J. B. Fosher, in favor ofthe Chester White
breed of hogs. Allow me to give your
readers a little of my experience with
hogs.
I have been a farmer all my life, and
have fed hogs eversincelwasbigenough
to carry a basket of corn, and for the last
fifteen years I have made hog feeding a
specialty! In that time I have fed hogs
of nearly all breeds except the Chester
White; but I have fed the grades with
success. .    .
In the fall of 1856 I bought some Poland China sows, and bred them to a
Chester White, and their pigs made the
best feeders I ever fed. They were
healthy, thrifty growers, fattened on little feed, and averaged when fat over 400
pounds net, at sixteen months old, with
no extra keeping. The next best feeders
were Poland Chinas. -Alone' a hog of this
breed is very docile and quiet, and is not
so much for running around and rooting
the pen up as the Berkshire is, and will
fatten at any age. . -
The Berkshire is a nice smooth little
hog, and very .pleasing to the eye -tvhen
fatted, but my experience is. that the
Berkshire is not the hog for the common
Western farmer, with a small farm and
capital. Th ey might be profitable to feed
after a large herd of cattle, but; I have
never fed them with success as I -have
the Poland China, or the Poland China
cross with the Chester White. As Mr.
Fosher said, the farmers here are beginning to find out, without being told, that
the Berkshire is not the best hog.
J. R.
Hog Cholera—Commission by the Legislature to Inquire into it
The Imported Horse ROLO, the property of Benj. Booher, Whitestown, lad.
at the last State Fair.
wnich took the 1st Premium
Editors Indiana Farmer:—At the last
regular meeting of Glade Grange 967, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
" Whereas, Hog cholera is prevailing to
an alarming extent in portions of our
State, therehy causing a loss of millions
of dollars to our people annually, therefore be it
Resolved, By this grange, that we are in
favor of the appointment of a commission by our Legislature to inquire into
the nature and cause ofthe same, and if
possible discover a true remedy. And
further, that we recommend to the State
Grange to memorialize the Legislature
on the subject, and press the importance
jof such a commission.
Nearly every number of the Farmer
brings us a new remedy, and yet the epidemic still prevails. Now, I have about
lost all faith in the virtue of any of these
remedies, to either cure or prevent. If
there is any benefit to be derived from
scientific investigation, why not let us
have it in this case. Professional men
cannot afford to spend their time and
money pro bono publico, hence the majority of farmers know but little about the
physiology of the hog. J. R. C.
This is a good move. It was urged by
us in the Farmer during the past winter.
—Editors.
Dr. J. P. Forsythe, of Franklin, and
Jas. T. Williams & Son, of Thorntown,
■will sell seventy head of prime Shorthorn cattle at the State Fair Grounds on
the 1st of June. There will be many de-
sirable animals sold, and this opportuni-
jityof increasing their breeding stock will
doubtless attract a large attendance.
MAGIE OR POLAND CHINA HOGS.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I saw in
your paper some time since a statement
that the Magie and Poland China hogs,
by the decision of the National Swine
Breeders convention, were to be called
Poland China hogs, and the name Magie
dropped. . In the Indiana State Journal
of March 15th, tho editor in answering a
correspondent says that the Magie and
Poland China are not identical, that the
former is a Pennsylvania breed and but
little known in the West. Now what I
wish is, that some one knowing exactly
what the Poland China is would write a
history of the same,, giving names of the
different breeds and how they were crossed
to make up the present one, and have it
published m the Indiana Farmer, the
best paper published in Indiana.
J. Johnson.
Etna Green, Ind.
black-tongue, or foot-rot, are transmissable or hereditary, because a few of the
progeny of one so affected, become the
victims of like diseases? Allow me here
to teach the writer something he perhaps
has never learned, viz: that all hereditary diseases are the result of malformation. He certainly must admit that consumption is the result of flat, narrow
chests, therefore like begets like. With
like consequences, spavin, curb, ringbone, &c, are the result of ill-formed
limbs, therefore transmissable; fistula,
poll-evil and big-head are the result of
malarious affection, (influence,) the two
former are abscesses of the most virulent
character, yet no man is foolish enough
to attribute them to ancestry. Big-head,
although not a suppurating abscess, is an
enlargement ofthe bones of the face, and
of the lower jaws, ending in caries of all
the ossious structure, especially of the
limbs. It is of malarious affection too,
and no man possessing much sense would
attribute either ofthe above to hereditary
taint. I would have answered the inquiries in a former issue, but being too
busily employed, and the further reason
that I have been hunting through several
of my; books to find if any author was at
any time ignorant enough to advocate
such false theory as abscesses being of
hereditary" origin. I am happy to say
that I have utterly failed, and if I had
found such, I should have-burned the
book, and set ihe author down as a novice, fit only to be laughed at. •
I am now attending to the brute creation exclusively in mv theory.
J. N. Navin, V. S.
A Specimen Short-horn.—Inthe Shorthorn herd of Mr. Whitman, of Fitchburg,
Mass., one of the cows gave, in one month,
1,200 pounds of milk, and in one year,
being in milk eleven months, 9,200 lbs.;
and one of the calves, fed cooked food in
part, weighed, dressed, at thirteen months,
547 pounds, which indicated that such
food makes both flesh and milk in abundance.
The peaches are not all killed in Green
county, 111. /
pounds. Selking & Springstine, Balrow-
nie, a splendid four-year-old, brought
from Kentucky, giving evidence of good
blood. Isaac Smock, a dark iron gray
six years old, weighing 1,300, a good style
of horse for this country.
M. L. Hare, Mambrino, a splendid dark
bay horse 16 hands high, weighing 1,344;
a true Mambrino.
W. Meikel, of Edinburg, a sorrel,
Clydesdale draft horse, three years old,
weighing 1,760. This horse was imported
by his owner last year and is one of a dozen imported by Mr. Meikel; another one
is now a> Pendleton.
W. Spar, of Millersville, Kobert Em-
mett, a dark bay, eight years old, weighing 1,200. This horse made a record of
2:34 at the Exposition last year. Mr.
Spar also entered a six year old gray gold-
dust horse that makes good time. Wm.
Smock, bay Hambletonian, four years
old, a superior colt. H. J. Prior, brown
horse Logan, 21 years old, out of Rysdick
Hambletonian, and a half brother of Dexter, the king ofthe turf. J. F. Sterret, of
Castleton. a blood-bay horse, Red Hawk,
four years old, weight 1,450 pounds.
Mr. Huff, of Oaklandon, a bay Mambrino horse, four years old, took the first
premium for light harness at the State
Fair last year.   W. H. Boyce, a four year
old roan horse, for light harness.   J. M.
Wood, three year old co't, for light harness.   A. J. Springer, of Oaklandon, a
sorrel two year old gold-dust colt, with
good form and action, and giving evidence
ofbl—A     T~1—"" ~*T>~;.i,Mti»r Ful-
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Careful Tests of Seed Corn.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—Being a little fearful of my seed corn, I got some
from three of our prominent farmers,
which I tested, with the following results:
per cent.
tested, 95
" 92
" 93
" 83
"   100
1st lot, bloody butcher, mixed, 100 grain
2d "   yellow 100
3rd"        "      100
4th "   swf et, my own raising, 100      "
5th"   Cooley " '74,100      "
I put some between warmed sods, and
others in loose dirt, confined in boxes and
kept in the house. The three first lots
were selected from corn thought to be
perfectly ripe before frost last fall. I found
in the three lots that all the closest, deepest kernels were moulded, and the
above were of the smaller and lighter
corn.   I have no seed to sell.
Henry Comstock.
Liberty Mills, Ind.
Substitute for Rain.
Mr. Paraf has,   to  a   certain extent,
solved the problem of artificial irrigation
by the discovery of a method of doing
without rain.   His plan is to apply calcium chloride, which has a powerful affinity for moisture, and absorbs a large
quantity from  the  atmosphere.   From
actual experiments he has found that it
will produce irrigation more efficiently
and  cheaper than any   other artificial
method.' One application will, he states,
produce   abundant  moisture   for three
days, when the same amount of water, ap-
% plied in the ordinary way, would evap-
irate in an hour.   The inventor believes
hat his way is cheaper than canal irriga-
ion, and that  not only by its use two
lades of grass will be produced where
nly one is now, but that it will make it
ossible to have fields, meadows, grass
ndprosperity where now there is noth-
lg but sand and desert waste.   It would
e well enough, however, to wait till Mr.
araf demonstrates the utility of his new
ea, before we quit praying for rain.
General purpose, four-year old and over
—Isaac Smock's Hambletonian.
General purpose, under four years—A.
J. Springer s Golddust.
Heavy draft—William Meikel's Clyd-
derdale. The silver medals, of value of
$25.    .
A Big Ox.—An ox that weighed 5,000
pounds arrived in Jersey City recently
by the Midland railroad. He was five
years old and twenty:two hands high. He
rode in a hay car, the ordinary cattle car
being too small. He was raised in Otsego county, N. Y.
Nearly every town and village in Indiana is
furnishing emigrants for the Black Hills.
E. H. Shirk owns twenty-seven farms in
Tipton county, embracing over 3,900 acres of
land.
Rev. T. A. Wylie, of the State University, at
Bloomington, has filled that position for
thirty-seven years.
A good many farmers in Rush county, are
ploughing up their wheat crop and planting
the ground in corn.
A quarry of limestone in Vanderburg county
has suddenly been discovered to be equal to
the finest granite or marble.
A son of Mr. B. W. Semphill, of Lafayette,
was dangerously injured last Saturday by falling down a flight of steps, lighting on his back.
Joseph Blair, a Methodist minister, dropped
dead at Quailtown, Sunday, of heart disease,
at tbe close of a funeral sermon, as he turned
to sit down.
Young Grove, who killed Dud. Paul, at
Tipton, last Sunday, has gone crazy over the
affair. He is in jail on a charge of murder,
and refuses to eat anything.
John Ackerman died at Scipio, Ind., on
Sunday last, aged 87. Mr. A. was the last
surviving witness of the famous duel between
Aaron Bnrr and Alexander Hamilton.
The business of Greenfield is looming up
mildly. Prospects for a good trade and business. The farmers are preparing to sow their
spring crops. Weather fine; everybody is
jubilant.
Henry Little, a deaf and dumb man, was
run over by a train on the J., M. & I. railroad,
near Henryville, Clark county, last Friday,
and so badly injured that he will die. He
lives in Memphis, Clark county.
Sandhill cranes make bold to alight within
the corporate limits of our citv, (Fowler,) and
feast at leisure upon the festive frog, meanwhile interspersing their feasting with singing
and dancing.—Benton County Herald.
A young man by the name of Stickley, who
was visiting at Benjamin Sweet's, in Milford,
was accidentally shot by Dave Sweet, Friday
morning, while loading their guns preparatory
to hunting.   His recovery is doubtful.
Last ■Wednesday an" old lady residing in
Scottsburg while in the act of cleaning a coal
oil lamp, broke it and spilled the oil over her
clothing which caught tire and burned her in
such a horrible manner that death soon ensued.
A young boy, 13 years of age, named
Auther, of Newark, Greene county, was dangerously wounded by the accidental discharge
of a pistol which fell from his pocket while
he was kneeling down to take a drink from a
spring.
Thomas Hallahan, Mike Picker, and Jas.
Doyles, employed on the water-works construction, were terribly wounded and mutilated by a premature explosion of a blast, on
Lytle street, Logansport, Monday. Hallahan
and Picker cannot recover.
While plowing on the farm of C. W. Gabbert
last Wednesday, T. M. Glass turned up a $20
gold coin, bearing date of I851-. He attributes
his luck to deep plowing. If this be the fact
it would be well for our Granger friends to
follow his example ard "plow deep."—Rockport Democrat.
J. D. Bray and Geo. Williams, while out
chopping wood a few days ago, cut a tree
down in which they found some young squirrels which they brought to the house and
gave to a cat who had kittens, but killed her
kittens first. The old cat is very affectionate
to her new family, nursing them with great
care.—Noblesville Independent.
A well to-do-farmer by the name of James
T. Hughs, living in this city, and owning a
couple of farms north-east of here met with
a sad accident on Saturday, which resulted in
his death in a few hours. While hauling a
load of hay his horses became frightened and
ran away throwing Mr. Hughs to the ground,
the wagon passed over • his head, fracturing
his skull. The horses then made a turn and
again passed over him, this time tearing open
his abdomen in a horrible manner. His suffering was inexpressible till death came to his
relief.
General News.
The wife of Gen. B. F. Butler died Saturday
morning.
A. T. Stewart, who has been suffering for
the past week from inflammation of the bowels, died Monday afternoon.
O'Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, about midnight Saturday, completed the feat of walking
500 miles in 139 hours and 32 minutes. The
495th mile was made in 8 minutes 58 seconds.
At Minneapolis, Sunday, a Frenchman
named Dostilio, at work breaking up the ice
in the Mississippi river, was blown to atoms by
the premature explosion of dynamite. Only
small pieces ofthe man could be found.
Mrs. Bombeck, wife of a prominent tobacconist, committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo.,
Saturday. Domestic trouble was the alleged
cause. Mr. Bombeck was nearly crazed when
told of his wife's death, and the interference
of friends alone prevented him from killing
himself.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred on
Saturday, at Binghamton, N. Y., at the boiler
shops of Shopley & Wells. While a patent
boiler was being tested it exploded with terrific force, instantly killing three men and
severely injuring several others.
On Friday night, Mrs. Eliza Bartle Pierce
died at her home, back of Newport, on the
Alexandria pike. Mrs. Pierce wag eighty-four
years old at the time of her death, and was the
first white child born in Newport, Ky. Six ty-
eight years ago she married E. Pierce, sr., who!
survives her, at the age of ninety-four, -be being the oldest member of the Pioneer Association. He went to Cincinnati in 1795, and*,
made and used the first dray ever run in that
city, employing it in hauling water.