Vol, XI
LKDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MAY 13,1876.
No. 19.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
FOR  BALE.
OR BALE—Comcord Vines, best quality; cheap
for Cash.    Samples 10 cents.    LEE & SON,
ion_. Woodford County, Illinois. 4-tf
Mini
XTIOR SALE—Eggs—From 8 varieties, at S2 per
Ij dozen. Circular free. C. Dickinson, Waterloo,
lid. 14-lOw
EOR SALE—A good second-hand leather-top
buggv for sale cheap by F. M. Herron, 16 West
Washington street, Indianapolis. 19-2w
TTIOR SALE—FOWLS and EGGS—All bred from
JD    first -class stock.    Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks
and Peafowls
6-16
stoca. lurzeys, umcaens, —nic-s
Send for circular and price-list
L. S. GOODWIN. Waterloo, Ind.
EOR SALE—Seed potatoes—Extra Early Vermont
Brownell's Beauty and Compton's surprise, 50c
per bushel, or Jl per bbl. Wm. Ahrends, Sunman,
Ripley county; Ind. 15-8w.
"TTIOR SALE—Rouen Duck Eggs—Can spare a few
.Jj at $3 per doz. With the same feed, the Rouens
will weigh heavier than Peklns. Wm. H. Fry, In-
dionapolis. 16-4w
FOR SALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices
there and five months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsville,
Tipton county, Ind.  ■ 6-tf
"fTiOR SALE—Eggs of Imperial' Pekin Ducks, $1
JD   per three eggs.   The handsomest and best layers of all domestic ducks.
Ripley county, Ind.
John Bennett, Sunman:
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.
TfTIOR-SALE—Eggs for hatching from pure blood
JJ Light Brahmas. Price SI per dozen. Warranted pure.  Address
MRS. MARIETTA AIKMATJ,
19-lt Dana, Indiana.
FOR SALE—Alderney cow and calf for sale; cow
thirty-one thirty seconds and bull calf sixty-
. three sixty-fourths Alderney,_bought from Messrs.
Foyntz & Son, of Maysville, Ky., for sale cheap by
F. M. Herron, 16 West Washington street, Indianapolis. 19-2W
rmOR SALE—Eggs for hatching from Black Bed
JD games. Golden Penciled and Black Hamburgs
for sale. My fowls were awarded six premiums on
pairs by Indiana State Fair, and seventeen on single
birds by Indiana Poultry Association Ust fall. Chicks
for sale next fall. F. M. Herron, Indianapolis.
19-2W .   .-,-   .    < . ■.!•■..-.
T710R BALE,—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1
JD Jack, five years old next foaling time. Sired
by CastlUlon; 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.
"|j!OR SALE—A Farm of 320 acres for Bale.
JD   best farm In Jas]
in high cultivation,
The
r county, for sale; 240 acres
e remainder good timber, all
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 atten-
situated.
" » gi
tion. For further particula
mln, Rensselear, Ind.
ars, address. Jared Benja-
17-2
WANTED,
\\r ANTED—I want a good, young milch cow.
W   She must be kind and gentle.  J.Butterfield,
Indianapolis, Ind.
18-lt
. \\r ANTED—Young men wishing to attend the
TV   hest Business College in the West to send
•tamp for circulars to the Indianapolis Business
College, Bates Block.  Graduates assisted In getting
situations. 4-tf
FOR SALE.—M acres of cnoiee bottom and hill
land, one mile from the Court House, Lafayette, Ind., at J80 per acre, worth double the amount
asked. For terms, address W. J. HUFF, Monticello,
Indiana. lMw
breeder has ever crossed with Berkshires
to improve color. Dark will beget dark,
and careful breeders can govern color as
easily as shape and style. _ Mr. Clark
says he showed at the State fair two years
ago. Did he not also tell hundreds of
men that the yearling sow was full blood
Poland-China. The name of "Magee
hog" was given by the community, and
Mr. Magee had no hand in the matter.
Mr. Magee has always claimed the name
Poland-China. I can say for him that he
has done as much to improve the Poland-
China hog as any man living, and is a
gentleman. Breeders should not get
jealous, but stand united in the great work
of improvement. ■ Men who have any
doubt in regard to their hogs being thorough-bred should not be patronized under
any consideration. A. W. Ross.
BOTJEN DUCKS.
For position, surroundings, and colors,
we have never seen a more natural illustration of any fowls than the one we give
of a pair of Rouen Ducks, reposing in
perfect happiness. In color, Rouens are exactly like
the Wild Mallard, and, when
in full plumage, are indeed
most beautiful. It is a
curious fact that while the
drake is colored so differently from the duck when
in "full dress," during the
summer he loses his variegated hues and handsome
markings, and for a few
weeks modestly wears the
plain brownish-drab of the
duck, looking exactly like
her till he moults back to
his original. colors. in the
fell.
Notwithstanding all that
has been said about the
large size of Pekins,we have
yet to see any as large as
we have seen Rouens. We
once saw a pair weigh twenty-one pounds in their yard,
and after a shrinkage of
three days, on a trip and
in a show, weigh, officially,
nineteen and three-fourths
pounds. So far as our observation and experience
goes, the Rouens are the
largest of all the duck tribe;
they are No, 1 layers, fair
foragers, and unless "starved
out," will not ramble, and
stay away from their quarters, nights. They are not
as noisy as common ducks,
can be raised with hens,
and without a stream or
pond, if plenty of water is
given them for drinking.
With us, Rouens are great
favorites, and where ducks =
are kept for beauty, market, or feathers,
we believe they yet stand without a
superior.—Poultry Nation.
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How to Break a Balky Horse.
him get up; now talk kindly to him and
caress him.
Your work is now half done, for you
have only to tie the rope to the other
side of the bit, and pull his head around
the other way, and make it fast like a crupper, the same as before, and start him off
again and let him go till he falls down a
second time; let him get up immediately
and hitch him up, and you will, probably
never have any more trouble with him.
I have tried the above many times, and
have never known it to fail.
Remedy for Sore-Backed Horses.
Prepare a wash of vinegar, one quart;
laudanum, half an ounce; sugar of lead,
four drachms; mix and apply three or
four times a day. The bruised part
should be washed with warm water and
carbolic soap every morning, and well
dried before the lotion is applied. The
saddle should not be put on his back
until the wounded part is healed.—Turf,
Field and Farm.
HOW THE  WEST  IS TO BECOME
PROSPEROUS
RlVERVIEW IOWA.
You say in your paper, and I see the
Commissioner of Agriculture holds the
same views, that Iowa, in order to be
prosperous, must spin her own cotton
and wool, roll her own iron, make her
own paper, and manufacture her own agricultural implements, thus bringing the
producer and consumer together, and
save freight on our manufactured goods
and on our grain. Iowa raises say 15,-
000,000 bushels of wheat which she sends
out of the State to be consumed elsewhere. _ Now, suppose we had the manufactories and enough laborers employed
in them to consume all of our surplus
wheat, would the wheat be worth any
more than it is now? Would not the
English market then, as now, govern the
price of wheat in Iowa ?
Answer.—Wheat would, and other farm
produce would, certainly be worth more,
under the circumstances specified. When
LETTER FROM FLORIDA-EARLY
VEGETABLES, ETC.
sea-
NEWS  OF  THE  WEEK.
Gainesville, Alachua Co., Florida. 1
May 4th, 1876.    J
Editors Indiana Farmer:—The
son has been very unfavorable for the
vegetable growers, being very dry and
rather cold. We had a big frost on the
20th of March that done great damage to
the growing crops, killed the vines generally. Replanting was done at once and
now they are shipping cucumbers,
squashes, snap beans and peas to the
north. Prices received in New York
range from $3.50 to $6.00 per bushel.
Freight and commision $1.00 per bushel.
Corn and cotton are the principal crops
among the farmers and they look very
well. Corn $1.10 per bushel; Hay $1.75
per cwt.; flour $7.00 to $10.50 per bbl.;
bacon 14 to 18 cents; lard 20 cents; butter 30 to 50 cents; potatoes, Irish $1.50,
sweet 75 cents to $1.00; horses $100 to
$250; cows $15 to $30.
Alachua county has the big orange
tree. It measures eight feet five inches
just above the grounds, is thirty-seven feet
high and the breadth of top is twenty-
seven feet six inches. It divides into
four branches near the ground measuring respectively, 27£, 39,40 and 43 inches
in circumference. After the family, with
several children, feeding off of them for
some time, and a quantity were stolen at
night, there were six thousand and six
hundred picked and sold. The owner,
feels confident that it bore ten thousand.
San Pablo has the big fig tree. It measures five feet ten inches in circumference,
spreads over an area of forty feet. It
bore twenty bushels last year, that sold
for three dollars per bushel. The Farmer
comes regular. Grangers scarce in this
section. B. F. Millad.
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ROUEN     DTJO__9,
lirANTED—Farms—Persons having farms for
VV Bale or trade will please send description and
irlce to Jno. M. Todd & Co., Indianapolis.    A 39 or
VV sale or trade will please send description and
'ce to Jno. M. Todd & Co., Indianapolis. A 39 or
acre farm with neat improvements, within 40
E
miles of city will find a ready purchaser.
14-tf
TtTANTED--Farms and Country Town   Prop.
Y V : erty (anywhere in the States) for City Property and Western and Southern lands. We have extra facilities for making exchanges. Bend fall description. WADSWORTH A ELDER,
1-? •   16HEast Washington St, Indianapolis.
Poland-China, or Magee Hog.
Editors Indiana Farmer :—I must
confess my surprise on seeing Mr. Clark's
answer to Mr. Johnson's enquiry. He
promises information as far as his knowledge goes. Now I infer from his article,
his knowledge is somewhat limited. He
says that the name Poland-China is a
humbug. Mr. Clark ought to know that
all breeds of swine are and were made
up of crosses, and that outside of the
hazel-splitter there is no distinct breed
without crosses. The Swine Breeders
association, held at Indianapolis, November 20th, 1872, appointed a committee to
settle this question. Their report was
accepted by all reasonable men. He
further claims that none but Berkshires
and Chester whites can be pedigreed.
This I claim is for want of knowledge, as
they are made up of crosses, also such
statements only show ignorance, and in
claiming that no such breed as Poland-
" China ever was imported. Youatt and
Martin, standard English authors, both
speak of the spotted Chinas. Mr.
* WilUam . Neff, of Cincinnati, imported
pom England, a fine stylish white hog,
[known as the Irish Grazier.   No careful
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Home Journal has the following on this
subject:
Balky horses may be divided into three
classes:
1st. Such as do not like to go from
pure laziness, or stop when tired and refuse to go any further. This is a balky
horse in a very mild form, and can generally be cured by any good horseman.
2d. Embrace such horses as are really
stubborn, and refuse to .go from a headstrong disposition to have their own way.
This class are, generally, the most_ troublesome, but, in fact, are the easiest to
break; and, when once broken, seldom
make any more trouble.
3d. Are timid_horses combined with a
stubborn disposition,-and often refuse to
go from fesr as well as stubbornness.
This is the worst form of the balky horse
and the hardest to manage, but can be
broken so as to work well, but can never
be considered really safe.
One important point should always he
remembered in breaking a horse; always
speak kind and pleasant, though you
may use a commanding tone and even
harsh means, but never lose your temper.
Now suppose we are to commence to
break a balky horse of class second, and
that he is sufficiently gentle to know what
is wanted of him. Put on your harness
and hitch him to anything you desire,
either single or. double, as you feel disposed, and give him the commanding
word to go ahead. If he goes, you have
nothing to do or say but let him go on
and do your work; but if he refuses to go
take him out immediately, take all the
harness off except the bridle, and take a
small rope the size of the plow line, and
tie one end to tlie bit on the right hand
side, and pull it through the ring of the
left under the chop, pull his head around
to his left side, and slip the rope under
his tail like a crupper and make it fast,
keeipng his head tolerably close to his
side. Now all is ready, so let him go,
and take a good long whip and make him
go, talking kindly to him all the time.
He will travel like a dog after his tail, for
he can travel no other way, but after a
while he will fall down, when you will
immediately let loose the rope and let
To Keep Flies from Hones.
Bathe the.hide with a strong lye made
from carbolic soap. A few applications
of this will keep the flies away. Kerosene
is still more effectual, if the odor from it is
not offensive.—Turf, Field and Farm.
 .   m   s ■—
Inflammation of the Eyes in Horses-
Treatment.
Bleeding to the extent of 6 to 8 quarts
is essential; next give a good physic ball,
and add a drachm of tartar emetic to each
ball, with a view to nauseate the stomach
and lessen the arterial action. Keep the
eye bathed with a lotion composed of
sulphate of zinc and morphine, of each
1 grain to one ounce of rosewater. The
balls should be given every 12 hours. If
the eye still retains that bloodshot appearance, bleed again the following day,
and if the case be a severe one, put a
seton in the cheek about two inches
below the inflamed eye. This time a little morphine lotion applied with a
camel's hair pencil to the eye will tend
wonderfully to allay the inflammation and
hasten the curing of the disease. No
corn or strong feed should be given, or in
fact anything that will heat the blood.
Grass is the best diet, at the same time
not much green meat as green clover.
Keep to this treatment and success will
follow your efforts.—W. E. Wadams, V.
S., in Chicago Field,.
Lodging and Board at the Centennial.
There is no doubt of Philadelphia being able to entertain, if necessary, at
reasonable price, 100,000 persons, and, if
further pressed, to comfortably lodge and
care for 200,000 persons. Hotel prices,
from $5 to $1.50 per day; boarding houses
from $1 to $2.50: per day; Centennial
Lodging-house Agency lodgings, $1.25
per day; breakfast, supper and lodgings,
$2.50 per day.
'• As an instance of the preparations for
the accommodation of visitors, the Centennial Lodging-house Agency is mentioned. It has rooms for 20,000 guests,
which can be increased to 50,000. Tickets for lodgings and meals will be sold at
all important points in the country and
on all passenger trains approaching Philadelphia. Persons who have purchased
such tickets will be furnished a card by
the train agent, assigning them to proper
quarters! This agency is in the hands of
competent managers.
grain is sent from the farm to a distant
market for sale, the price realized by the
farmer is the price in that market, less
the cost of transportation and middlemen's
profits. But when, by the creation of a
home market, through the establishment
of domestic manufactures of various kinds
the consumption of grain is in the neigh-
hood of the place of its growth, then the
farmer saves the, cost of going to a distant
market, besides the profits ofthe middlemen, and the saving goes into the pocket
of the farmer, securing to him a much
larger net reward. Henry C. Carey says
on this point, in his able work on "The
Harmony of Interests;"
"Grain and flour have for several years
been higher in the coal region of Pennsylvania than in Philadelphia, because
the demand has been always in excess
of the supply. Close the mines and the
farmers will have to send their products
to Philadelphia, receiving therefor the
city prices, minus the cost of transportation. At the present time the price of
grain throughout the Union is maintained wholly by the domestic market, for
flour sells in Liverpool at less than the
price in New York. Close the mines and
and factories, and convert minera and
mechanics into farmers, and the price at
home must be the Liverpool one, which
will then be lower than at present, minus
the cost of transportation, which will
then be higher than at present."
That the English price is only one of
the elements which governs the American price for wheat is manifest from the
frequent fact that New York prices are
higher than those in Liverpool, even
measured in gold.—Inter Ocean
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"FREE CENTENNIAL GUIDE".
The London Times has published a
statement of the public debt of Spain,
procured from official sources, which is
an extraordinary document. The grand
total is $3,500,000,000, or almost the same
as the debt of Great Britian. The interest on this, at 3 per cent, is about $100,-
000,000, while the total revenue of the
kingdom, even in good years, does not
reach $90,000,000.
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Notes from Dearborn County—White
Top, Fruit, Etc.
Editor Indiana Farmer :—During the
last week we have had some very cold
weather. On the morning of May 1st,
there*swas ice from 3-16 to } of an inch
thick. Still, owing to the prevailing wind
and extreme dryness, fruit prospect is
good. Hay prospect not very good on
account of the prevalence of "white top."
This weed is an ■ intolerable nuisance.
There should be a simultaneous effort
made by farmers to exterminate it. If
farmers would destroy every weed of this
species on his farm, before the seeds are
sufficiently matured to grow, we should
soon be rid of this pest. ' But if only a
farmer here and there destroy them, it
will not amount to much, as the seed being very light is scattered over the country by the wind.
The ground that was plowed' and sown
to oats before the heavy rain, over two
weeks ago, is badly baked, and there are
now symptoms of a chronic dry spell.
Very little corn yet planted.
Guilford, Ind.   ■'      Ralph Collier.
State News.
A faro-bank in Logansport has $10,000
capital, and is challenging any one to break
it.
Cyrus Katliff's barn, near Spiceland, Henry
county, was burned to the ground, last week.
Loss, $1,600.
Nathan Stout, of Bartholomew county, has
fallen heir to a large fortune by the death of a
relative at Cincinnati.
The Danville Indianian says that the wheat
prospect in Hendricks connty is the poorest
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
The Indianapolis board of health report but
twenty-one deaths for the month of April, in
this city.
Judge W. L. Stewart, of Logansport, died
last Sunday, in New York, whither he had
gone forvhis health.
Greensburg Press: Mr. E. B. Sefton has a
heifer calf of Lecompton stock, six months
old, which weighs 650 pounds. Who can
beat it?
Michael Christ, an old resident of Greene
township. Hancock county, was found dead
in a school-house last Saturday. He was a
victim of heart disease.
Three prisoners in the Warrick county
jail, at Booneville, made their escape by dlg-
ing through the wall with a poker and an old
knife. None of the prisoners are dangerous
characters.
Mrs. Mary Cook, maiden name Simmons,
now living at Dublin, Wayne county, is in
the ninety-third year of her age. Has seven
boys and three girls living, and three boys
and two girls dead ; an even one hundred
grand-children.        ■_ ._.
The storm en Saturday night swept over
New Britain, a town a few miles north of this
city, carrying everything before it for a width
of three hundred feet, and for a distance of
a mile. Two persons were seriously hurt, but
no one was killed.
John S. Shepherd, of Montgomery township, Jennings county, was thrown from a
colt which he was trying to work last Saturday afternoon. His neck was broken in the
fall and he died almost instantly.
In a drunken quarrel, a few days ago,
Thomas Coughlin, of Montgomery station,
shot and killed Cornelius Kane, of Washington. They were good. friends,and had it nut
been for liquor there would have been no
trouble.
Mount Vernon Democrat: "We learn that
the Owen family, of New Harmony, have
lately received by gold draft the first installment of their share of a large estate in Scotland. The draft is probably far the largest
amount of gold ever received by parties in
Posey county.
General News.
Farming in Nebraska.
Send to the undersigned for copy of
a beautifully illustrated Centennial Guide,
published for free distribution. The
Guide contains a full description of the
Exposition Buildings, the most economical way of reaching Piladelphia, complete
history of Hotels and Boarding Houses,
their rates and capacity; reference to
Patrons of Husbandry encampment, and
much other information of general interest. Accompanying the Guide is a large
map of the city of Philadelphia, showing
the location of Hotels, and places of interest in the city, and the Centennial
Buildings in Fairmont Park. Free, to everybody. Address W. L. O'BRIEN.
219 North High Street, Columbus, O.
JJSrWhen ordering the Guide say you saw thisno-
tice in the Indiana Farmeb. 19-3t
We clip the following from the "Farmer,"
(a paper to be had free on application to the
Land Commissioner B. & M. R. R., Burlington, Iowa,) as something likely to prove interesting to many of our readers. We would
advise all who contemplate moving west to
visit Southern Iowa and Southern: Nebraska
before going elsewhere.
Mr. E. W. Smith, of Ashland, Saunders
county, came to Nebraska in 1870, from Grant
county, Wis., and bought 320 acres of land,
at $8.00 per acre from the B. & M. Railroad
Co., now worth $20.00 per acre. He has 250
acres under the plow, and he finds the conn-
try adapted to all kinds of grain and vegetables. The climate, he says, is the best, the
winters are short, stock can feed among the
cornstalks and do well the most of the feeding season.^ It is the best country I ever saw
for hog raising, and corn can be grown very
easily. Since I came to Nebraska 31 families
from Grant county, Wis., have settled around
me, and they are all doing better than ever
they did East. One of my neighbors had
$5 000 and bought 240 acres of railroad land
at $14.00 per acre. In three years he has doubled his capital. Nebraska is a State where a
man with means may settle with great advantage. '...-•
Near Harvard, in Clay county, John A.
Bishoff settled in 1871, taking up a quarter
section of land. At that time he had only a
span of horses aid a plow, and very little
other means. He has now a house, corn crib
and granary, and owns two cows, several head
of young stock, and a small herd of fine hogs.
His wheat harvest in 1875 averaged 2) J bushels per acre, 6 J acres in China tea wheat, reaching 30 bushels to the acre. Twenty acres of
corn produced 1400 bushels, or an average of
70 bushels to the acre; 13 acres of barley, 44
bushels per acre; and oats 58 bushels per acre.
Mr. Bishoff has a young orchard of apple,
peach and cherry trees, and all the trees are
in thrifty condition. He says, "a man with
the same amount of labor, can,get a bigger
i yield from Nebraska soil than from the soil of
1 any state east of the Missouri river."'    19-lw
The revolution in Mexico is still going on.
TheM. E. General Conference is in session
at Baltimore.
The Indians made a serious raid at Fort
Laramie on the 6th inst, running off a lot of
horses, and killing one man.
It is said that Speaker Kerr, of the House
of Representatives, will retire from office soon,   .
on account of ill health.
A. J. Parshal reached Cheyenne Saturday,
from Custer City, Black Hills, with $1,000 in
gold dust.
It is stated that we are to have a protracted
railroad war and cutting on freight tarilE) to
the east.
A terrific rain and thunder storm prevailed
at Memphis, Tenn., Saturday night, during
which two and one-tenth inches of rain fell.
George Holt, of the firm of Van Wormer &
Co. of Cincinnati, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head Saturday morning.
The cause is said to have been temporary insanity.
A gentleman arrived in San Francisco Saturday morning from the southern country, carrying with him the head of Chaves, thebandit for
which the government had offered a reward of
$5,000.
Moody, the revivalist, announces that he
will attend the meeting of the Illinois State
Sabbath-school Association, to be held at
Jacksonville, May 23-25.
An explosion of giant powder in Jersey
City on Saturday night, destroyed many of
the houses, and shook np the people in New
York city pretty thoroughly.
Dispatches from the different points of central and western Missouri and Kansas note
very heavv rains for several days past and in
tbe Bame localities high and damaging winds.
All the upper-rivers are rising rapidly and
the indications are that there will be freshets
in the Mississippi river
The great storm of Saturday evening and
night last destroyed an immense amount of
property in Leavenworth, Kan., Chicago, and
other places west and north. The central part
of the city of Leavenworth was leveled to the
ground, and many of the churches, hotels and
other large buildings were greatly damaged in
Chicago. A train of passenger cars, running
at full speed was stopped suddenly and blown
from the track near Mattoon, on the Illinois
Central road. The storm was general throughout Missouri and Kausas.
Wehaven't.objectedto the introduction
of silver.   Those who want it ought to be
accommodated, but here's the rub: After
all the fractional currency is withdrawn
from   circulation, and   all   the   silver
"socked" away,. what are we to do for]
change?    Those   who experienced   the'
want of fractional parts of the dollar in.
coin times, will appreciate the size of this*
conundrum.—Trade List.