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EXCHANGE DEPABTMENT.
FOR BALE.
TTIOR SALE-Cornoord Vines, best °.?*j"yi<*e'_?
JD for Cash. Samples 10 cents. LEE A SON,
Mlnonk, Woodford County, Illinois.
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T710R SALE—Eggs-From 8 varieties, at 12 per
JD dozen. Circular free. C.Dickinson,Waterloo,
Ind. 14-lOw
TTIORSALE—Seed potatoes—Extra Early Vermont,
JD Brownell's Beauty and Compton's surprise, II
per bushel. Wm. Ahrends, Sunman, Ripley county;
fnd.  M-ow
TTIOR SALE—Several flne young Poland China
JD male pies, well bred and ready.for service.
Address T.UckEEVER, Antioch, Huntlugton Co.,
Indiana.  H-Bw
TJIOR SALE—FOWLS and EGGS—All bred from
JtJ    first-class stock.    Turkeys,Chickens. Ducks
and Peafowls.    Send for circular and price-list
5-16 L. 8. GOODWIN. Waterloo, Ind.
TCTOR SALE—Rouen Due- Eggs—Can spare a few
JD at $3 per doz. With the same feed, the Rouens
will weigh heavier than Pekins. Wm. H. Fry, Indianapolis. 18-1 w
FOR SALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for gale at reasonable prices
there and fire months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsville,
Tipton county, Ind. . 6-tt
"|J!OR SALE—Eggs of Imperial Pekin Ducks, tl
JG per three eggs. The handsomest and best layers of all domestic ducks. John Bennett, Sunman:.
Ripley county, Ind. 17-2w
"I710R SALE—Seed Sweet Potatoes, on reasonable
JO terms; or furnished to responsible parties to
sprout on shares of one-half; (Yellow Nansemond
variety.)  H. A. Wooley, Galveston, Cass Co.. Ind.
"DIOR SALE.—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1
JD Jack, five yean old next foaling time. Sired
by C-sUlllon; 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
npon or address M. W. ROBERTS,
Brook's Station, Ky., on the LAN. railroad, thirty
minutes ride from Louisville.
TT1ARM FOR SALE—140 acres, adtolulng Shldeler
JD Station, on the Muncie A Ft Wayne railroad;
110 acres cleared, SO acres timber, all fenced; two
orchards: spring water all the year; frame house of
six rooms, porch and milk-house; barn 82x40 feet;
bay and stock scales with house over them; other
buildings convenient Price 160 per acre, one-half
down, balance in three equal payments. JOHN S.
SHLDELER, Shldeler Station, Delaware Co., Ind. 4-T
TJIOR SALE—A Farm of 320 acres for sale. The
JD best farm in Jasper county, for sale; 240 acres
in high cultivation, the remainder good timber, all
adjoining. The land produces 80 bushels of corn
per acre, nas on it a good bank barn, 86x52. a good,
new, well-finished, two-story frame house, with ten
rooms, cellar, well and cistern, is very pleasantly
situated. Any one wishing to buy a strictly number
one farm will do well to give this their early attention. For further particulars, address, Jared Benjamin, Rensselear, Ind. 17-2
WABTED.
WANTED-It known that the "White OU Corn''
is giving universal satisfaction.    A Tyner,
Indianapolis. 16-2W
\\T ANTED—Young men wishing to attend the
TV best Businesa College In the West to send
stamp for circulars to the Indianapolis Business
College, Bates Block. Graduates assisted in getting
situations. 4-tf
•\\f ANTED—Farms—Persons having farms for
TV sale or tradewill please send description and
price to Jno. M. Todd <Ss Co., Indianapolis. A SO or
40 acre farm with neat improvements, within 40
miles of city will find a ready purchaser. 14-tf
WANTED—Farms and Country Town   Property (anywhere in the States) for City Property and Western and Southern lands.  We have extra facilities for making exchanges.  Bend full description. WADSWORTH A KLDXR,
1-r            16% East Washington St, Indianapolis.
MISOEIsIsANEOTJS.
EOR TRADE—A carriage and buggy for horses,
and mules.  Ell Helny, Indianapolis.      lMt
STOCK H0TES.
All our readers who are interested in
improved stock, as all ought to be, should
make their arrangements to attend the
meeting of Short-horn  breeders to be
* held in this city on the 30th.
In an article bv L. W. Thompson, published in our last week's paper, a mistake
occuredin giving the names of stock -
raisers. The names should be S. R. Quick
and J. McClelland.
A California man recently lost 100 head
of sheep in one night from the flock being turned into a wheat field where they
ate so much grain that, by its swelling,
their stomachs were ruptured.
We trust that there will be a good attendance from Indiana breeders at all
the great Short-horn sales to be held during May and June in Illinois and that a
fair proportion or the herds will find
their way to the bluegrass pastures of our
State.
D. W. Voyles, New Albany, Ind., has
recently sold the Jersey bull calf, Crusade
No. 1753, to H. S. Webster, of Union
Mills, Ind.;  also  the   Jersey bull   calf,
Schottisch No. , to Wiley ELrod, of
Washington county, Ind.; also Fanny S.
•pure bred, Jersey cow, S years old,
sto Hon. Chas. Cathcart, of Laporte
[county, Ind.
STOCK CATALOGUES.
We have received the catalogue of Durham Lawn herd, Robert Holloway, Alexis, 111., proprietor. As will be seen by
reference to our advertising colmuns a
large proportion of this herd will be offered at public sale at Dexter Park, Chicago, May 25th. The catalogue embraces
a large number of highly bred cattle and
the sale will be one of the largest and
most important ever made in the West.
We are assured that the individual merit
of the animals on the list fully corresponds with their breeding. We present on
this page a cut of one of the cows, Louan
4th, to be sold at the sale. She is a highly
bred and superior animal.
The catalogue of Beech Grove Farm of
thoroughbred Jersey cattle, Berkshire
swine, and fancy poultry, F. M. Churchman and George Jackson, this city, proprietors, has been handed us. The list of
Jerseys comprises seven males and twenty-eight females. The bulls—Marius 750,
Marmion 859, and Ramchunder 718, are
the foundation upon which this herd is
being built. Among the numerous sales
from this herd we are pleased to notice
that a large proportion have been made
to parties in our own State. This is as it
should be.
Durham farm, Stephen Danlap, proprietor, Jacksonville, 111. This catalogue
embraces pedigrees of 53 head of well-
bred animals. The sale takes place on
Thursday, June 8th. The announcement
is published elsewhere in these columns.
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For the Indiana Fanner.
EXPERIENCE IN FEEDING HOGS.
OVER-FEEDING FINE STOCK FOR
SHOWS.
It is astonishing that breeders will be
so foolish as to still continue the practice
of stuffing, to their utter ruin, valuable
animals from their flocks and herds,
simply for the purpose of outshowing
each other in monstrous fat at the Agricultural Fairs. See, for example, what
destruction has resulted for years past
from this cause in the noble tribes of
Bates' and Booth's Short-horn cattle. It
is not surprising that many have died
under this practice; the only wonder is
that a single animal of them has survived
it, and is still left with sufBcient stamina
to propagate its species. In a late issue,
the London Agricultural Gazette observes
that this lamentable destruction is going
on in other superior families of Shorthorns, and also in other breeds of cattle,
for it says: "Mr. Outhwaite has lost his
celebrated cow Vivandiere. She and her
calf have both died during protracted labor. The North British Agriculturist of
last week enumerates the disasters which
have of late befallen prize animals.
Among them, Mr. Kennard's Queen
Mary, which has lost her calf; Mr. A. H.
Browne's Duke of Aosta, winner of many
prizes, including the first at each of the
three national meetings in England, Scotland, and Ireland, last season; Lady Pi-
got's Victoria Victrix, Rose of Wytham,
and Moorish Captive, all of them 'Royal'
winners; the Duke of Buccleuch's prize
Our experience in feeding hogs we
thought would probably be of some benefit to the many readers of your valuable
paper, and we give it of last year as common farmers and feeders. We feed no
cooked or steamed food.- Our hogs are
of a variety of different breeds, generally crossed. In the last three years
we haye fed the year round on corn, old
and young alike, sows and pigs and fattening hogs all they would eat, and generally all together. We never bother
with clover for hogs. When they do not
get plenty of good running water we give
them plenty from the well. They will
wade ponds all day and come up to be
watered from the well; this showB that
they appreciate good water. We keep
salt where they can get it all the time
when they want it, and give a little sulphur once a week with their salt; also
ashes and charcoal at will, but more particularly in the fall and winter. We never ring or trim a hog's nose, or aim to
prevent them from rooting. We always
let our hogs run on fields when we can,
or in woods, the larger the better, and
never pen them up to fatten.   •
We put our hogs after cattle in the fall
as soon as corn will do to feed. The
three last winters we have fed all together—cattle in troughs and hogs on
the ground. We sell at seven months
old, and at that age we have made the last
three years an average of 200 pounds, and
we have lost but three small pigs with
cholera, and have had none sick although
the cholera was all around us during that
time. We have sold as fat hogs from
fifty to a hundred each year.
My object in writing the above is to
show what is best for the health of the
hogs. The main thing is plenty to eat
and drink, and that of the best, and salt
all the time. The next thing essential is
to give the porkers liberty to roam and
free«use of their snouts, as nature intended.
Give a pig all he will eat and he will
snout but little and will be docile and
quiet. J. D.
Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind.
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Sheep Raising.
A few good sheep can be raised on almost every farm, at merely a nominal
cost, and the profits thus realized will be
so much clear gain. When the farm is
changed from a miscellaneous to a specific production, the former surplus is
soon consumed and sustenance is frequently bought at prices relatively higher
than wool or mutton. When such is the
case the profits are not only consumed
but losses are frequently sustained, and
owners become disheartened and change
their business. Those who have been
very successful in a small way are often
disappointed with results when they devote their time and capital, and make a
specialty of this business. We will merely state that which all practical men know
to be facts, when we say that large bodies
of sheep seldom do well for any considerable length or time. The large mutton
sheep, or the long-wooled varieties, require extensive range, and if confined
long to one farm seldom remain healthy.
The short or fine wool sheep will do better in large herds than their long wool
cousins; andwhile these are known facte
it is equally true that all kinds do best
when not crowded.—-Journal of Agricul
ture.
Care of Sows while Littering.
Two or three days before the time my
sows are to pig, I put them each in a
separate pen, constructed as follows: I
build low sheds on tile south side of a
board fence, with the front to the
south, say from six to eight feet in
width by eight feet in depth; to the front
of each is extended an open pen, about
eight or twelve feet, to allow them to
have access to the sun and air. In each
pen I place a little dry fine straw, or, still
better, the straw run through the cutting
box—not much straw is required, as they
are apt to overlay the pigs if they have
too deep a nest. Care must be taken to
keep the bedding clean and dry, but always on the ground. A little ditch dug
around the pens will keep the water from
running into the sheds. While the pigs
are very young, the sow should be fed
light, with but little grain, mostly a little
thin slop, increasing the feed gradually
till the pigs are able to eat some, then
they can be fed quite strong of corn-
soaked in cold water from twenty-four to
forty-eight hours. The sow and pigs
should be kept in this pen till the pigs
are old enough to know their dam, when
they may be turned into a grassy lot together. At the same time, you should
have a pen high enough from the ground
to allow the pigs to pass under and exclude the sows. In these pens should be
placed troughs long enough to give each
pig plenty of room.   In these troughs
For the Indiana Farmer.
ESSEX HOGS.
NEWS  OF THE  WEEK.
In reply to "F. W.," in regard to Essex
hogs, we can say that they are a distinct
and thoroughly established breed. They
are classed among the small breeds, but
are larger than any of the small breeds.
Their average weight being from 450 to
500 pounds. They mature early and fatten readily at any age, air* are remarka-
able for their gentle and quiet disposition,
not being disposed to roam about as much
as some other breeds.
In color they are entirely black but
dress perfectly white, and their meat and
lard is of excellent quality. There is not
near so much offal as with the other
breeds. A wel' fatted Essex will not
shrink in dressing more than from 8 to
12 per cent., and sometimes even less
than that. They make a good cross on
the larger and coarser breeds, giving them
early maturity and improving their fattening qualities. We think they can
stand the cold weather about as well as
any of the improved breeds, and they can
stand the heat much better than the
white hogs.
It pays well to protect hogs from the cold
and wet, and more < sspeciafly while
young.
These hogs are advertised in the Breeders' Directory in the Indiana Farmer.
A. P. Wiley & Son.
Augusta, Marion Co., Ind.
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State News.
The Spencer county dog tax collected last
year amounted to $2,296.69.
In Gibson county the wheat looks well,
especially that sown with a drill.
A new disease has broken out among the
hogs in Spencer county, which it is feared will
prove disastrous.
The Richmond Independent Bays that Mrs.
Hutspn, of that place, is a niece of A. T.
Stewart.
J. J. Talbott, editor ofthe Advance Guard,
has arranged to deliver a course of sixty lectures on temperance in the East next winter.
George W. Deitz, of New Albany, 80 years
of age, will start to walk to the Centennial on
the morning of May 1st.
Another tornado struck Pike county Thursday of week before last, doing about ten
thousand dollars worth of damage.
, Chas. Davis, of Greencastle, was killed a
few days ago by falling under the wheals of a
street car, while stepping from it, which
crushed his face and broke his neck.
Abram Epstein, of Aurora, and his brother,
Hart Epstein of Lawrenceburg, have fallen
heirs to an estate of $1,000,000 in Luxemburg,
Germany, by the death of an elder brother.
Francis Donahue, of Center township, St.
Joseph county, died from strangulation Thursday evening. He was an old and very
wealthy citizen.
There are 6,600 children in the city of Terre
Haute between the years of six and twenty-
one. Out of these there are seventy-five who
can neither read nor write.
The Iron Furnace Company, at Shoals, will
use over 1,000 tons of Lawrence county ore
this year. It is mined on White river and
loaded into barges and towed to Shoals by a
steamboat built for the purpose,
Frankie Parker, a nine-year old boy of
Lafayette, sustained a fatal fall Friday afternoon. He was playing about a store building and went through the hatchway.
A despondent tramp attempted to hang
himself with his suspenders near Madison
last week. He was thwarted in this attempt
to take his life by the elasticity of the improvised noose.'
A pardon was granted to a convict in the
Southern Prison the other day who still had
another year to stay. He did not want to go
away but asked the privilege to serye / .t his
time, a favor the authorities could rJ_, grant
him.£ /
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LOTJAN HILL 4th.   At 5 Years.   Property of Robert Holloway, Alexis, 111., to be sold at bis Bale Dexter Park, OhioaffO, May 25th, 1876.
winning Ayrshire cow; and Mr. Scott's
fine polled Angus bull, Bluebeard. We
rather suspect, says the Gazette, that the
unnatural Btate of feeding in which show-
yard animals now-a-days appear, has had
not a little to do with the death of some,
if not all, the animals particularized."
Yes, indeed, you may "rather" more
than "suspect" this, for it is a terrible
fact, and no mistake about it. I well recollect when present at one of the Royal
Agricultural Shows in England, of expressing astonishment to a celebrated
breeder there, that he should sell a lot
of his prize animals to a competitor.
"Why," I exclaimed, "in a few years he
will be exhibiting here against you, and
beat you with the produce of your own
weapons." He gave me a nudge with his
hand and a sly wink from his eye, and
at the same time dryly remarked: "Never fear that. These animals have been
fed too high to make good breeders; the
purchaser of them can never beat me at
a cattle show with their offspring."
•And, still, with such a lesson before us,
we Americans are so foolish as to continue importing prize stock from abroad,
and boast of it to the public, thinking
thereby to be able to sell their produce
at a much higher price, than such as
come from animals that have not gone
through the injurious process of overfeeding, in order to make a foolish show
of their fine points.—A. B. Allen in Am.
Agriculturist.
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Centennial Exhibition.
The Bureau of Agriculture has provided for a special Exhibition of Dairy
Products from May 16th to 24th, at
which time also will be displayed Fruits
and Vegetables of the year 1875 and such
contributions of like character from the
Southern States of the present season as
may be obtainable.
Manufacturers of butter and cheese
should make early application, as the
space in the building, erected for special
displays is now being assigned. The costs
of transportation to Philadelphia, and
also the expenses attendant upon the
transportation within the Centennial
grounds, is one dollar upon each separate
box or package up to five hundred lbs.,
and twenty cents additional for each one
hundred pounds over that weight, must
all be paid at point of shipment.
Blank forms of entry can be obtained
by addressing Burnet Landrbth,
Chief of Bu. of Agriculture.
the soaked corn should be fed to the pigs,
and the sows may have hard corn. I
generally let my pigs run with the sow
until I see some sign of the sow weaning
them, when I turn heraway on clover,
to run without any additional feed until
green corn comes. Having followed the
above plan for over twenty-five years, I
seldom have muoh trouble in rearing
pigs.—Cor. Live Stock Journal.
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A Perfect Sheep.
Mr. W. L. Archer, of Pennsylvania,
who is accounted an excellent judge, recently described a perfect sheep as follows to the Washington County Agricultural Society:
1st. Of the form—first, the countenance should indicate docility ; _ the eye
of gentle and quiet-like expression; the
form of the head broad or wide between
the ears, and also between the eves; the
bridge of the nose broad, and wide in the
nostrils, with thick .lips; the ears large,
thick and mellow;' the measure should
be short from the eye to the muzzle; the
neck should be short and thick, carrying
the thickness well up to the head; the
top of the neck full and raising from the
withers to the crown of the head; the
withers and back should be in line; the
rump or tail dropping but little from the
line of the back; the brisket projecting
well, heavy and broad enough to spread
the shoulders sufficient to admit a large
hand between them; the rib should be
full rounded; barrel shaped chest; loins
short and broad; the hams muscular and
heavy; well joined behind and full from
the tail down to a line of the belly and
brisket; legs should be short, with heavy
bone, which will be an index to the bone
of the whole animal; the hind legs should
present a perpendicular line from the
root of the tail to the fetlock or foot ;
hock and stifle broad; the foot neat and
square under the sheep, and free from
trumpet-hoof form.
2nd. Rams when full grown should
Weigh from 125 to ISO pounds in full
fleece. The ewes, when fatted, should
average, without wool, 100 pounds.
s 3rd. Covering.—It is desirable to have
a staple three inches long and of uniform
length, including the belly, and of sufficient density to form a smooth, even surface, also to prevent the fleece from parting on the back.
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:' Silver coin is coming rapidly iato circulation.
Tor the Indiana Farmer.
Poland-China or Magie Hogs.
I notice an article in your paper of the
15th of April,on Magie, or Poland-China,
hogs. As I am well acquainted with the
way Mr. Magie breeds hogs, I will give
Mr. Johnson the information he requests
as near as I know it. If any name ever
was a humbug, it is "Poland-China" or
"Magie," as applied to a breed of hogs.
Mr. Magie may have brought some hogs
from Pennsylvania, but he hunts
fine hogs everywhere, and buys what
suits him, although the owner cannot
pedigree the animals unless they are
Berkshires or Chester-whites. I have
been raising hogs for many years and
fenerally have bred what is called
oland-China, but I never have seen a
hog that came from Poland or China, and
I do not suppose any have been imported for perhaps forty years. Some years
ago the greater number of the hogs in
the country were rathjr lighter in color
than farmers liked, afiosome were crossed
with the Berkshire to get the color dark
enough, so now nearly all the Poland-
China hogs are dark. Now how can the
Poland-China hog be described in the
absence of an importation, within the
recollection of any man living. I raised
a yearling sow that took first premium at
the State fair, two years ago; also sweepstakes ; and she was called Poland-China,
but she was about one or two generations
from a male hog, Magie bred.
As to Magie having a distinct breed of
hogs it is a humbug in the fullest sense of
the word. Magie has bought many hogs
and sold them for his own raising, when
they were what were called Poland
Chinas. William Clark.
Centerville, April 14th, 1874.
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The Rural New Yorker says sheep well
kept in winter rarely suffer much from
ticks. At shearing time the ticks gather
on the lambs, whose growing wool affords
better protection than ftiat of the newly
clipped older sheep. Dipping the lambs
in a solution of tobacco water will kill
the ticks. Take the coarse stems of the
tobacco plant for cheapness, steep in
water, and immerse the Iambs, excepting
their heads, wetting the wool to the skin.
This will speedily kill the tick.
The floor of the wheat bin in J. G. Megill'g
warehouse, at Portland, gave way Friday, letting its contents down to the ground. About
1,000 bushels of wheat were in the bin, ami
the damage will be considerable.
At the 9th District Temperance Convention
held at Crawfordsville, last week, Miss A.
Hoyt addressed an assemblage of children between the ages of six and fifteen years, which
numbered about six hundred. Grand impressions for the right and temperance were undoubtedly made.
The particulars of a chocking accident
which occurred recently near Tipton are
given in the last Republican. A man named
William Woods, who had been troubled
much by thieves stealing his corn, shot and
dangerously wounded a neighbor who came
whistling along by his barn to pay him a visit,
instead of intending to steal his corn.
General JTpws.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, is now visiting various portions of America.
The whisky trials in progress at New Orleans, will result in additional convictions.
The Portuguese Centennial Commissioner!
along with their goods have arrived at Philadelphia.
Advice from the Indian country are to the
effeci tha£ many of the redskins are on the
war path. ,.
The postmaster at Sandusky, Ohio, on \f-
vestigatioD, proves to be short in his accounts
a few thousand dollars.
Five persons paid the penalty of violated
law, by hanging, at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, on
the 2rst.
The steamer Illinois arrived at Philadelphia,
Monday, from Liverpool, bringing additional
British exhibits for the Centennial.
The Jacksonville Journal man wants a city
coat of arms and thinks a design representing
a citizen mortgaging his house to pay his
taxes would be suitable.
The sheriff has arrested, at Laramie City,
two women supposed to be old Mrs. Bender
and Katie. Descriptions telegraphed from
Parsons, Kansas , tally exactly with their
apperance.
The soil and climate of California seem to
be  well adapted to raisin growing, and  the
success  attending   well directed  efforts has ;
been gratifying.   20,000 boxes were produced
last year.
The Centennial Commission has provided
for a bench show of sporting and non-sporting dogs, to be held in conjunction with the
International Exhibition of horses, commencing September 1st and continuing for eight
days.
The people of Pennsylvania, are recommended by their Governor, to assemble in
their towns and counties on July 4tb, an<j
have an historical sketch of their severa
communities delivered, the same to be bound
and deposited with the Librarian of Congress.
One Thomas Shackelford, living near Calhoun, Ky., recently recovered, instantly, his
speech from fright occasioned by the burning
of bis dwelling and his narrow escape from
the flames. He had been utterly srxechlcM
for six months.
The stories ofthe Rev. E. P. Roe display »
remarkable vitality in the way of salts. An
edition of one ofthe older novels was p«t ia |
the press theotherday by Dodd, Mead ft, Company, and was entirely ordered before It;"
books were in the store. The salee from ].'f
four stories now foot up to something i'kf '
70,000 copies.
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