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EXCHANGE BEPAETMENT.
FOR SALE.
TG~OR SALE—Comcord Vines, best quality: cheap
tj for Cash. Samples 10 cents. LEE & SON,
Xlnonk. Woodford County, minois. t-tf
OR 8ALE—Eggs—From 8 varieties, at $2 per
doaen.   Ciremar tree.   C.Dickinson,Waterloo,
d. H-lOw
lad.
"TJIOR SALE—FOWLS and EGGS—All bred from
' P    flrst-clsjss stock.    Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks
and Peafowls.    Send for circular and price-list.
5-16 I_ S. GOODWIN, Waterloo, Ind. •
FOR SALE—Rouen Duek Egss—Can spare a few
at S3 per doi. With the same feed, tbe Rouens
will weigh heavier than Peklns. Wm. H. Fry, In-
dlonapoils. 16-tw
FOR SALE-Seed potatoes—Extra Barly Vermont
Brownell's Beauty and Compton's surprise, $1
per bushel, or $2 per bbL Wm. Ahrends, Sunman,
Ripley county; Ind. 15-8W.
FOR 8 ALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices
there and five months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsvllle,
Tipton county, Ind. 6-tf
"T710R SALE—Eggs of Imperial Pekin Ducks, $1
JD per three eggs. The handsomest and best layers of all domestic ducks. John Bennett, Sunman:
■ Ripley -county, Ind. 17-2w
FOR 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, Cass Co., Ind.
T710R SALE.—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1
JO Jack, five years old next foaling time. Sired
by Castlllion; 1st dam, Black.Sampson; 2d dam, Pioneer, 3d dam, Black Warrior. This Jack ls 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. A N. railroad, thirty
- minutes ride Bom Louisville.
FOR SALE—A Farm of 320 acres for sale. The
best farm in Jasper county, for sale; 210 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, 36x>2. a good,
new, well-finished, iwo-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 iheir early attention. For further particulars, address. Jared Benjamin, Rensselear, Ind. 17-2
WAKTED.
"Tl/-ANTED—I want a good, young milch cow.
VV   She must be kind aqft gentle.   I. Butterfield,
■Indianapolis, Ind. 18-lt
11/ ANTED—Young men wishing to attend the
VY 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
FOR SALE.—44 acres of ctiolce bottom and hill
land, one mile from the Court House, Lafayette, Ind., at »80 per acre, worth double the amount
■asked. For terms, address W. J. HUFF, Monticello,
> Indiana. 18-4w
"TTT-ANTED—Farms—Persons having farms for
V V sale or trade will 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. M-tf
\\r ANTED—Farms and Country Town Prop-
T T erty (anywhere In the States) for City Property and western and Southern lands. We have extra faculties for making exchanges. Bend full description. WADSWORTH e. ELDER,
1-T              1«X East Washington St, Indianapolis.
STOCK NOTES.
Stock men should bean in mind the
'meeting of the Short-horn Breeders Asso-
<oia,tion the last of the present month.
It is said that the cattle driven from
'Texas this season will be about 500,000
iead. . •-■ '.-,*.....■-..
Fine Wool.—We have received two
a-are samples of wool from Mr. W. H. Col
lett, Morgantown, Ind., taken from a
yearling Cotswold buck, and" ewe, respectively,\ of his own breeding. The
specimens are as fine as we have seen
anywhere.
Mr. Ayrault of Duchess county, K.
Y., is shipping to the Centennial Exposition, two cattle which he challenges the
world to beat, and oners $500 to any one
exhibiting a heavier heifer or cow of any
age, pedigree or nation than his "Queen
of Cattle." The ox, "Champion" is the
other one, weighing 4,000 lbs.
Jesse B. Jessup, an old subscriber,
formerly from Knightstown, this State,
but recently removed to Iowa, called on
ns a few dayB since, and ordered some
cards and letter heads. He is breeding
and selling Poland-China pigs, and finds
Central Iowa a good market for disposing of them.
The Denver News says: Wm. Rosenthal, of Santa Fe, planked down $18,000
in cash, the other day, for a flock of 1,700
sheep. James Campbell has just re-
• moved his flock of 12,000 sheep from Colorado to New Mexico.
A machine For shearing sheep is_ a recent Californian invention.   It facilitates
►the work immensely, makes the operation less disagreeable for the animals, and
I will probably be a great helper  in the
|Iarge sheep-raising districts..
The embargo upon the importation of
horses by the Prussian government has
been rescinded.
The Shortr-Horns are rapidly being introduced into Kansas. Cotswold and
Southdown sheep are proving profitable
there.
Fine Wool.—J. M. Harshbarger, of
Montgomery county, sends us some exceedingly fine specimens of. wool from
his Leicester flock. We have never seen
finer samples of this wool.
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Great changes are going oa in Texas
m the stock interests. Many fine bull-
are being introduced this season for crossing with the native stock. Stock men
are fencing large ranches, and the disposition to improve is seen on all hands.
It is stated that there are 2,158,000
horses in Hungary, being fourteen head
for every one hundred inhabitants.
There are more horses there to the
population than inany other government.
A CHALLENGE. — 8HEEP-KILLING
D0QS.
In consequence of the continued prevalence of cattle diseases in Europe
the Dominion government prohibits importation of live stock at all points' except at Halifax, St. John and Quebeck.
Those received at these ports will be subject to strict quarantine.
Abdallah Clay.—Mr. Claude Matthews, of Clinton, this state, is the owner
of this fine trotting stallion. He is one
of the best bred horses in the state, as
shown by his pedigree. He has not been
handled much for speed, but has made
his mile in 2:50. He was bred by Robert
Simms, of Nicholas county, Ky., and is
six years old, a rich dark bay, and has
very fine action. - We are glad to note
that Indiana is beginning to put the true
value on such fine horses.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—In a late
No. of the Farmer, I see a report of ft
large lamb belonging to one Mr. Brown.
Up to the time of seeing this I had never
thought of weighing a lamb, in fact I had
no idea as to the weight of one.- Having
a very large lamb, as I thought, come, I
weighed it the next morning and, found
it to balance twelve pounds. I weighed
it again at 8 days old, the age at which
Mr. Brown weighed his, and it weighed
twenty-one pounds, heavy. Now I want
to make this proposition to Mr. Brown:
If his lamb is the same sex, a ewe, I will
run him a race, weighing every four weeks
and report in the Farmer, provided you
will consent to publish the reports. [All
right.—Editor.] We also have a two-
year-old (last March) buck that weighed
in March 299 pounds, and our yearling
weighs 196 pounds. None of these are
imported stock, but were bred and raised
in Johnson county, Ind.   Beat them who
.n.
While talking about sheep -I must pay
my respects to the dog, for I read about
him, think about him and dream about
him, and not without a cause, for I think
WEIGHT  OF   BERKSHIRES
POLAND CHINAS.
AND
•Editors Indiana Farmer:—I see in the
Farmer of the 15th, an article by John
Thompson, comparing the gross and net
weights of my Berkshire sow and Henry
Comstock's Poland China, as a test of the
two breeds. I do not think that is a fair
test for this reason: the sow I butchered
I thought had quit breeding, as I had repeatedly tried her for over a year and
put her up to fatten with a young boar;
when I butchered her she proved to be
in pig and would have farrowed in
about two or three weeks, which accounts
for her grossing off so much. I have had
considerable experience in breeding fine
hogs, having tried all the improved breeds
except the Essex. I found the Suffolk
would gross off less than any other breed
that I tried, and the Berkshires next,
tried the Poland China two years, finding
them very desirable hogs, but for me the
Berkshires would make the most pork on
the same amount of food, and are the
most prolific and the best grazers on clover. They grow very fast and fat well
when young. If Mr. Fosher will call and
see my stock, I think I can show him
some Berkshires that will furnish- then-
own grease to grease themselves at the
Fairs.
My experience with Berkshires has
proved that by having the pigs come in
March and April and then feed the sows
and pigs liberally for three months and
then gradually drop off the feed and let
them take the clover alone till September
1st, and then feed out on new corn they
will make from 200 to 250 pounds gross
at ten months old, or 300 to 350 pounds
at twelve months old, and that on a very
small amount of food. If any man will
take a well bred Berkshire pig and one
of any other breed, and weigh all the
food they eat till matured he will find
the Berkshire a very profitable hog.
James Riley.
Thorntown, Ind., April 29th.
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Big Results
The Toronto Globe says Mr. Samuel
Scarleljtj of McKillop, had a sow which
last Spring gave birth to a litter of ten
pigs.. Mr Scarlett sold two of these pigs
when six weeks old for $6; he fed six of
them and killed them this winter, and
they made 1,500 pounds of pork,, which
he sold for $109; he keeps the remaining
two, which are worth $66.25. Thus the
progeny of this one sow realized in about
six months $181.25. The sow was killed
a few days ago, weighing 488 pounds, and
was sold for $36.16, making a total return
for the sow and ten pigs of $216.50.
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The Centennial managers have decided to not open the Exposition on Sundays. Some nine States, however, voted
to have it open on Sunday.
at maturity. They are very gentle and
quiet in their disposition, and have not
the restless spirit always manifested in
the Berkshires.
The type is the strongest of any breed
within my knowledge. I have seen
many articles in the different agricultural
journals, in regard to the certainty with
which the Berkshire stamps its peculiarities on its offspring, claiming that even
those of one-fourth Berkshire blood will
show unmistakably their Berkshire origin. But I have never seen a Berkshire
with sufficient stamina to obliterate the
marks of the Chester, where the breeds
have been crossed. A few weeks since
I was shown a large white sow, that
would easily pass for a pure Chester, yet
she is one half Berkshire; she has six or
eight pigs, sired by a pure Berkshire, making the pigs three-fourths Berkshire, and
one-fourth Chester, vet there is not a
black hair to be found on any of them,
and in size and form they show unmistakable evidence of the Chester blood. I
see by the press, that in England the
black hog has had its day, and the white
breeds are principally in demand, and I
am glad to see that the indications in our
own country show that the farmers and
packers are finding out that Berkshires
and Poland Chinas are not the most profitable.
The quick growth, and small proportion of offal in the pure Chester, is very
much in their favor, while the attractive
appearance of a handsome white pig has
Save the Wasting Fertilizers.
NEWS
Editors Indiana Farmer: — The
amount of valuable fertilizers that is
allowed to go to loss by western farmers
is really astonishing when realized; and
more especially so when the impoverished condition of many of the once most
fertile farms is considered.
Farmers are becoming somewhat interested in husbanding manures, but not
to such an extent as they should he.
Many farmers that feed all their grain
etc. on the farm, in order to retain its
fertility, still allow much fertilized matter to waste unobserved. In order to
give an idea of the extent of this loss I
will cite a little of my experience this
spring in collecting manure about an
average farm yard.
During the past winter I leased for
garden purposes ten acres of land on
which was the house,- barn, sheds, etc.,
formerly occupied by a "thrifty farmer,"
who had advocated using bone and other
fertilizers, and feeding all his grain on the
farm, in order to increase its productiveness, and when I leased the place reserved all the manure that was collected
about the stables.
I was very anxious to secure a consid-
State Hewe.
Clifton's furniture factory burned early on
Saturday morning.     Loss, $10,000;
"    "     '\ British and It
insured
ercantile.
KOAN DUOHBSS.
Property, of Robert Holloway, Alexis. HI.,
oago, May ..5th, 1876,
to be sold at his sale Dexter Park, Ohi-
they have killed, half the sheep in this immediate vicinity, and would have killed
the other half if the sheep had not been
penned up of nights, and I might add
guarded in the day time.
Thanks to the aroused indignation of
the sheep-raisers, tbe road the dog has to
travel will henceforth be very straight
and narrow, and then he must have good
vouchers in the way of his master, or he
is liable to come to an untimely end. I
have read a good many suggestions as to
the kind of a law we need to restrain the
dog. Some were good and some fell far
short of what we want. I will give my
plan. I would have the township trustee
procure a sufficient number of tin collars,
with the year in which they are to be^
worn stamped on them, and then whoever wanted to keep a dog be required
to_get one of those collars, paying a certain price for the same, not less than $2,
the fund thus obtained to be used in paying for the sheep killed by dogs. Also
make it the duty of any constable, when
informed of the fact, to kill all dogs found
without a collar properly dated, paying
him out of the dog fund.
W. H. Collett.
Morgantown, Ind.
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For the Indiana Farmer.
THE CHESTER-WHITE.
In writing this article, I wish it plainly
understood that I am writing in defense
of what I consider the best breed of swine
for the common farmer to raise, and not
for the purpose of advertising my stock.
I was at one time engaged in breeding
Chester-White pigs for sale, but at the
present time I have not a single pig of
this breed, either old or young, so do not
write to me asking my price for pigs.
The Chester-Whites, as the name indicates, are always white, and have been
bred for the purpose of early fattening so
long that fat has become "second nature"
to them, and many farmers thinking
them too fat, endeavor to reduce them to
the "razor back" standard, and completely
ruin them. They fatten as easily at a
few months old, as at maturity. For
family pork, spring pigs may be fattened
in the fall, dressing from 200 to 250 lbs.,
and when com is plenty, and large hogs
are desired for packing, this breed is superior, weighing from 800 to 1,000 pounds,
always had a tendency to make this
breed apopular one wherever it is kept
pure. Deloss Wood.
' , North Madison, Ind.
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How to Clean a Clock.
■"■ An English writer gives the following
directions for cleaning clocks' which
suit all metal clocks, and the larger and
coarser they are the better: Dip a feather
into common paraffine oil, such as are
used for lamps, and touch all the oily
places of the clock especially axles and
'holes; then let the clock stand a few hours,
give more paraffine, and touch oftener if
you think it ta better for it. Afterwards
strew strong washing powder among the
wheels, etc., and plunge the clock into a
strong solution of the same in boiling
water. Let it lie therein till the water
gets cool enough to place your hands in,
when, with a tooth brush rubbed with
soap, wash out the dirt from the works.
Afterward cleanse completely from all
trace of soap and powder in plenty of
warm water, and the opperation is complete, the clock not having required to
be taken assunder at all. Many an old
clock could be cleaned by this method,
which if taken assunder, even by skilled
Bands, would never tick again, owing to
fresh portions of wheels being placed in
contact.
  .   m   . —
w Dr. Dwight closes a sermon "on the
happiness of heaven," with the following
beautiful simile: "To the eye of man the
sun appears a pure light; a mass of un-
mingled glory. Were we to ascend with
a continued flight towards this luminary,
and could, like the eagle, gaze directly on
ita lustre, we should in our progress behold its greatness continually enlarge, and
its splendor become every moment more
intense. As we rose through the heavens,
we should see a little orb, changing, gradually, into a great world; and, as we advanced nearer and nearer, should behold
it expanding every way, until all that was
before us became a universe of excessive
and universal glory. Thus the heavenly
inhabitant will, at the commencement of
his happy existence, see the divine system filled with magnificence and splendor, and arrayed in glory and beauty;
and as he advances over and through the
successive periods of duration wjll behold all things more and more luminous,
transporting and sun-like, forever." Ex.
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The Benham Organ Co., of this city have
sent one of their organs to the Indiana Headquarters at the Centennial to remain on Exhibition during the Exposition. 18-lw
erable quantity of manure for spring use
on the gardens, and with shovel and cart
went to work cleaning up the decayed
chips etc. about the wood-yard, gathering
the ashes and other deposits where water
was heated for scalding hogs, making
soap, etc., cleaned out the poultry yards,
and up to the present time have collected
sixty-five cart loads of very good manure.
Fertilizers of this kind are constantly
collecting, but the deposits are so gradual
and unobserved that farmers do not realize the amount or value of. manure that
is laying idle about their very door-yards,
while the crops on their worn out fields
will hardly pay the harvesting.
For the benefit of those that have but
little manure to haul, and would like to
utilize everything of fertility, I will name
the places where I found the above
amount, and the number of cart loads
obtained, viz:
Under the floor of an old barn 15 cart
loads.
In the last years hot beds 9 cart loads.
. In the poultry yards and houses 7 cart
loads.
In the wood house and about the entrance 30 cart loads.
Where water was heated for butchering,
2 cart loads.
In an old bee house that had been monopolized by poultry, 2 cart loads.
I can get several more loads by re
removing old rubbish and scratching up
the deposits that have collected about
old lumber piles. Many may think this
was rather a sloven farmer, but I assure
you such is not the case. He is a man
that keeps his farm in good order. There
is not a briar to be seen in his fields nor
around his fence corners. His fences
and buildings are in good repair, and he
always takes premiums at the county
fairs on his products.
This is but a fair sample of the amount
of "available plant food" that is constantly wasting about the average form
yard.
Besides the fertilizing value of these
waste materials, the health and comfort
of the family and domestic animals certainly demand the removal of such decaying substances from the buildings,
and the labor of carting it out to the grain
field is amply remunerated at harvest
time. It. H. Wood.
North Madison, Ind.
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Thk Shbfhzbd's Maicoth,, by Stewart; The
Piopue's Peaoticai, Poult? Book, by Lewis,
$1.50. The above books can be had or Bowen,
Stewart, & Co. 18-lw
for $2,000 in the North ]
The residence of Mrs. Isabel Wolfe,' on
Shaker prairie, Knox county, was consumed
by fire on Monday last.
Prof. E. E. White, the new president of
Purdue University, has arrived in Lafayette.
Geo. W. Deitz, of New Albany, seventy-
nine years of age, started on Monday to
walk to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia.
John S. Shepherd- was thrown from the
back of a fractious horse on Saturday, at
Lovett, and his neck broken, which resulted
in instant death.
Stephen Adams, aged eighteen years, living
near Homer, Ind., committed suicide Saturday
morning by shooting himself in the head; the
supposed cause being disappointment in love.
Peter Bauer, of  Tipton, while very warm
from overwork, last August, applied ice to his  .
forehead, since which time, until quite recently, he has been nearly blind.
A tramp threatened to bum Rockville down
last week because its citizens refused to give
him food so heconld live in idleness. But he
didn't do it.
William Mannering, a farmer living in
Laporte county, visited relatives in
Soute Bond, last week, and on Saturday
dropped dead from rheumatism of the heart.
A fire at Sanborn, on Monday night
destroyed the barn and four hundred bushels
of corn, some farming implements, a wagon
and a pair of horses belonging to Henry
Hazemier, the loss being $2,000.
Wm. B. Orr, of Coburn station, was found
dead on the railroad, late one night last week,
his body horribly mangled. He had been to
Delphi, and it is supposed took too much
liquor and laid down on the track, on his way
home, and the train ran over him.
Two men were having a iolification Sunday
morning in Logansport, both being drunk.
When Jack Lull, of Fort Wayne, drew a revolver and begon shooting promiscuously
and Alfred Porter undertaking to wrest it
from him, was shot through the right hand,
and the ball striking Lull in the right side
lodged in his lung, wounding him fatally.
Mrs. W. C. Bramwellj at Ellis's woolen-
mills, Terre Haute, has invented a machine
that will prove of vast benefit to every woolen manufacturer in the country. It is a wool
feeder and weigher, and is one of the most
complete and delicate machines invented.
A daughter of Mr. Christ. Yader. aged thirteen years, living about three miles west of
Beme, Adams county, burned to death Tuesday morning of last week.' She was setting
fire to some wheat stubble, when her clothes
accidentally took fire, and before assistance
could be had she was burned so badly that Bhe
died in a few minutes,
Lincoln Casey, a young man eighteen years
of age, was brutally murdered while plowing
in a held near Spring Station, Spencer county.
Some one stole up behind him and buried a
hatchet in his brain. Young Casey's father
was killed on a boat below the city of Evansville several years ago.
A mob of forty persons gathered at the Daviess county jail, at Washington, in the early
morning of Wednesday last to lynch a negro
named Silas, who had killed Hiram Huber.
The sheriff, finding the mob had fastened him
in the jail, got a man to raise the cry of fire
from the second story of the house, at which
the mob dispersed.
General News.
During April there were coined at the United
States mint at Philadelphia 4,673,187 pieces,
having a value of $1,087,250.
A skiff containing four boys, all under fourteen, capsized three miles from Newcastle,
Delaware, and two of them, named Davis and
Willis, were drowned.
Mr. J. M. Prickett, of Carbondale, 111., sat
down on the railroad near Wakanda, last
Wednesday, and falling asleep was struck by
a passing train, and tatallv injured.
The barn of James Deathbridge, of Rio,
Knox county, was totally destroyed by fire
on Saturday night. Three hundred and fifty
bushels of oats and three or four tons of hay
were destroyed.   The loss was about $3,000.
The western German Bank at Cincinnati
was robbed of $1,700 about noon last Saturday.
Three men entered the bank, two of whom
engaged the attention of the clerks while the
third succeeded in abstracting the money from
the desk.   All escaped.
A little child, named Emmons, died at Chatham, Sangamon county, 111., last Wednesday,
from the effects of some concentrated lye swallowed six months before. It has suffered intensely in the interim.
Two men, named Lang and Downer were
killed, and a boy named Inskeep fatally injured at Cambridge, O., Saturday morning, by
the fall of a Btable which they were working
upon.
Saturday night while John Sterritt, a fourth-
ward cartman of Wheeling, W. Va., was endeavoring to extricate a fallen horse from his
cart, he was kicked in the face by the animal
and almost instantly killed.
Governor Beveridge has offered a reward of
$200 for the murderer of Charles Sutherland,
who was killed at Oswego, 111., last January.
Kendall Co., had already offered a reward of
$500.
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The 'Masiillon."
The above will be recognized as the name
of the old and well-tried Thresher, manufactured by Russell & Co., Massillon. O.   They I
have issued an elegant catalogue with colored
illustrations of threshing in 1776 and 1876.*
Send for it.     See advertisement in another<
column. 18-lw