Vol. XI
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JUNE 17,1876.
No. 24.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
PERSONALS.
Persons in any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties in other portions of the
state or eountry should make inquiry in thia department.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Farmer for the recovery-of stock.
Tell your neighbor of it -when you hear of the loss
of his stock. ,
A two or three line notice -will cost you only 25c
each insertion.
FOB  SALE.
F
OR SALE.—Eggs of Bronze Turkeys, 25 cents
* 24-2W J. BENNETT, Sunman, Ind.
FOR SALE.—Ten Short-horn cows and heifers;
no bulls.   Recorded stock.   J. A. JOHNSON,
Poolsville, Warren county, Ind. 24-10t
FOR SALE—BERKBHIBJS—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices
there and five months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsville,
Tipton county, Ind. fr-tf
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.
FOR SALE—Essex Pigs—The Essex are of good
size, mature early and fatten readily at any
age. Color, black; meat and lard excellent. Can
furnish paira not akin. It is a good time to buy.
Address A. P. WILEY & BON, Augusta, Marion Co.,
Ind. 21-tf.
EOR SALE.—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1
Jack, five years old next foaling time. Sired
by Castfllion; 1st dam. Black Sampson; 2d dam, Pioneer, 8d dam, Black warrior. This Jack is near 15
hands high, large bone, good length of body, carries
himself np well, good action. Has made one season
and proven a success. For farther particulars call
upon or address M. W. ROBERTS,
Brook's Station, Ky., on the h. <b N. railroad, thirty
minutes ride from Louisville.
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class city property.   A. M. Alexander^Room
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TTTANTED—Farms and Country Town Prop-
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STRAYED—Dark Bay Mare, 15 hands high, light
build, heavy mane and tail, right eye defective,
small rope around neck. Reward given. H L.
BENHAM & CO., 36 East Washington 8treet       lt
STOCK .NOTES.
W. A. Kelsey, of Allen bounty, Ind.,
has lately sold many fine Berkshire pigs.
His two imported sows now have fine
pigs, eight each, which promise well.
Wm. K. Marshall, of Grant county,
has nineteen head of Lincolnshire sheep
which this season, sheared fleeces averaging nine pounds of wool each. One
ewe sheared 11$ pounds. The wool is
very fine, as shown by the sample sent us.
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Mr. D. S. Van Blarictjm, of Hendricks
county, has two fine Liecester lambs
dropped the last week in February, and'
which a few days ago weighed 105 pounds
each. The Bire of these lambs sheared
16} pounds of wool on May 1st. The
lambs, we should judge, are hard to beat
for weight.
J. H. Harshbarger & Son, of Ladoga,
Ind., has some as fine Leicester lambs as
we have heard of anywhere. They have
ene lamb which at eight weeks old
weighed seventy pounds; another at the
same age, weighed sixty-eight pounds,
and one at ten weeks old weighing seventy-five pounds. These are out of his
imported ewes. The lambs were weighed
May 29th.x
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Editobs Indiana, Farmer:—I received
the premium (No.—) Berkshire pig from
A. C. Littleton, Pickard Mills, Indiana,
and would like to say through the Farmer
that it is a first-class pig, and I can recommend Mr. Littleton as a good square
honest fellow to deal with, and those
wishing to buv pigs will do^ well to cor
respond with him. x a "   """"
Waterloo, Ind.
L. S. Goodwin.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I am ready
to make my report on weight of lambs.
I weighed yesterday. My lamb was 64
days old, and weighed 70 pounds. •The
sire of the lamb sheared 17 pounds; is
three years old, and weighs 225 pounds.
My yearling used some in the flock
sheared 18 pounds; very long, and of good
, quality.   My flock of 57 head, principally  breeding  ewes, averaged   near  ten
gpounds clear of burs.   W. H. Collett.
Morgantown, Ind.
For the Indiana Farmer.
BERKSHIRES vs CHESTERS AGAIN.
In looking over the Farmer my eyes
rested on an article headed "The Best
Breed of Hogs," from the pen of Mr J. F.
Broeders, of Pulaski county, Ind., in
which" he tries to handle me pretty
roughly. I did not think .the Chester
had so many warm friends, or perhaps
I should have kept quiet. But nevertheless I must say a little more on the subject if you will be so kind as to grant me
space. And as I cannot change Mr. B's.
opinion in regard to his Chesters, I will
not attempt to. He says I have not pure
Berkshires, but a cross with some large
breed. Will Mr. B. please be so kind as
to tell me just exactly what I have? I
bought my hogs for pure English Berkshires; they are black, with all the Berkshire marks perfect, and I should like to
know what they are if not of that breed,
for I have sold a number of very fine
pigs as Berkshires, and it would be very
wrong for me to humbug my customers
in this way. I also gave a very fine
Berkshire pig as a premium to the Farmer. He says he has hogs so big
that a whole litter of six pigs, at six weeks
old weighed fifty pounds.   Mr. B. is that
AN OMISSION.
. In last week's Farmer in the report of
the sale of S. Meredith & Son, our reporter by mistake failed to give us a full
report of the sale. The following additions will be found correct:
bulls.
Loudon Dure 15th; C. M. Niccolls, Bloomington, 111...... .J1.025
Oakland Duke; J. T. Williams, Thorntown, Ind.. S05
Imp. Chandos; A. Marlott. Milton, Ind .'. 150
Hopewell; D. C. Brookbank, Liberty. Ind........... 100
Baron Mazurka: W. M. Bayne, Metamora, Ind... 300
Captain Napier: Thos. Bond, Fairview, Ohio  130
Logan; N. W. Johnston, LynnJ Ind    60
larl of Oakland; J. W. Carpenter, Cambridge,
Indiana : 100.
Clifton; H. P. Henly.New Castle, Ind : 150
Christie; Robert Varden, .Whitevale, Canada......   76
Duke of Kent; Walter 8. Common, Centerville,
Indiana : '.  230
Willard; R. Baldridge. Hagerstown, Ind    70
Number sold—12 bulls. Aggregate
$3,195.   Average about $266,25.
Of cows sold Indiana buyers got 19
herd; Kentucky 11; Illinois 5; Canada 5;
Minnesota 1; Ohio 1. Of bulls Indiana
got 9; Illinois 1; Ohio 1; Canada 1.
This speaks well for Indiana. The
people must be awakening to their interest, and we look forward to the time
when Indiana breeders will not let an
animal leave her borders. S.
ested in my private affairs, but if Mr; M.
is anxious to know all the particulars,
and will write me personally, I will give
him all the information he wishes on this
point. As for being disgusted with the
breed,- allow me to say that I have just
bought a fine pair of Chester _ Whites,
from James A. Guilliams, of Fincastle,
Ind., for my own private use, and I shall
fatten all others and dispose of them this
fall.
Mr. Maze asserts that Chesters will
"crack open, get mangy, and become
loathsome to behold, if put on clover."
I iim in receipt of a letter from C. Y. C.
Alden, of Sunman, Ind., in which he
states that he has Chesters on clover, and
that thev do not crack open, or get mangy,
that will >compare favorably with
any hog on the continent, and that his
information shows that all things being
equal* packers prefer a white hog. This
gentleman formerly bred Chesters, but
Eke others, went off on the Berkshire
track; he has again adopted the Chester.
Your correspondent asks, "Who ever
saw a Chester that would weigh 800 or
1000 pounds, and walk off with it? Mr.
Guilliams writes me that one in his neighborhood will walk off with a thousand
pounds easilv. I formerly owned a male
that weighed 800 pounds, on Fairbanks
scales, and was kept for service in this
condition, with perfectly satisfactory results. I never attempted to fatten him,
but am satisfied he would have carried
1,000 pounds or more to the market, any
distance that a reasonable man  would
Fine Sheep in Dubois County, Ind.
Ireland, Ind., June 1876.
To Editors of Indiana Farmer:—Sirs,
seeing several cards in your valuable
paper in regard to weight of sheep and
their fleeces, and also weight of lambs, I
enclose you a sample of wool sheared
from a half breed Lincolnshire ewe that
will be two years old the middle of this
month, and also a lock of wool from a
full breed Lincolnshire ewe lamb that
died at six months old. We sheared 23
ewes "and one buck on the twentieth of
May, that averaged 8 pounds of clean,
nice unwashed wool. We weighed a ewe
three years old that had a lamb six weeks
old, after she was sheared; her weight
was 160 pounds. Sixteen lambs which
were dropped between the 8th of March
and 20th of April, averaged 50 pounds.
The best lamb, a ewe 65 days old weighed
75 pounds. L. L. Kelso.
The specimens of wool enclosed are exceedingly fine.—Eds.
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Sheep in Pike County, Ind.
The Celebrated ACME MOWER- AHD RSAPfiS, Manufactured by Everett, Hobbs, Bracken & Co.,
Wellsburg, Va.   See advertisement bn 6th page.   Write to A. Tyner, State Agent, for descriptive pamphlet, prices, etc.
so? Six pigs, six weeks old, weigh fifty
pounds, and the same litter at three
months weighed 125 on an average! Well,
that is very good. He has never had a
mangy hog, nor one to die of cholera.
He is lucky, indeed.
I will accept Mr. B's. proposition. I
have a very fine litter of five pigs that
average 67J pounds; they were pigged
March 26th, this year. Now, dont get a
Berkshire of some one of your enterprising neighbors to feed and compare
weights with me, but feed one of your
Chesters, and I will feed one of my what-
you-call-em hogs, and report. I had
thought of making this proposition to
you: that you send me one of your pigs
and I send you one of mine, but it would
be foolishiness, for if I never saw a Chester, as you say, I would not in all probability know what it was, and mine, you
would likely mistake for a young hippopotamus, it would be so large. But
enough of this.
It appears that Mr. Comstock thinks I
pinched his toes. If so, it was not intentional, as I think' the Poland China a
good hog. But he says I have the hogs
he has been trying to get for lo! these
many years. I think I have the hogs he
wants.
My fine boar, Dandy Jim, is 14 months
old and weighs 336; he has not been
crowded with feed. Send in your orders
and I will fill them .out of my what-you-
call-em hogs. W. A. Maze.
Sharpsville, Ind.
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Editors Indiana Farmer:—Will some
one please inform me through the columns of the Farmer, whether the pure
bred Poland China hogs ever have dark
sandy color in place of black? There
are hogs here called Poland China, the
pigs of which are of a dark sandy color
spotted with white, but changing to black
as they get their growth. Will somebody please answer and oblige
A Reader.
A SWINE BREEDERS' CONVENTION.
At the National convention of swine
breeders held at Indianapolis, November
20,1872, a committee was appointed to
call another convention at such time and
place within the next few years as they
deemed best The committee were Frank
D. Curtis, of New York; A. C. Moore, of
Illinois; J. P. Roberts, of Iowa, John M.
Milikin, of Ohio; and Chas. Lowder of
Indiana. In my judgment it would be
advisable to hold another convention at
Philadelphia during the centennial exhibition ,of swine, and if the other members of the committee' agree with me and
so direct, I will make arrangements accordingly. An expression of opinion in
regard to a convention at this time and a
programme of discussion and business is
respectfully solicited from the swine
breeders of America.
Agricultural and other papers please
copy.
Kirby Homestead.       F. D. CURTIS.
Charlton, N. Y., June 1st, 1876.
CHESTER WHITES AGAIN.
Editobs Indiana Farmer:—Your issue
of May 20th contains an article written
by W. A. Maze, in response to one written by myself on the subject of the best
breed of hogs for the farmer, and as he
has invited me to reply, I will notice a
few points in his article. The first, in
which he accuses me of falsehood in
stating the object in writing, being merely
a personal matter, I will pass it over.
Next, he asserts his opinion that I "had
become disgusted with the breed," and I
had none to sell. I did not give my reasons for discontinuing the business, supposing the public not particularly inter-
drive. Mr. M. states that in a litter of
eight pigs, a cross of Berkshire and Chester, four were black and four were white,
and that each maintained the characteristics of the two breeds; that the black
pigs were larger and stronger than the
whites. This is the first time I ever
heard the assertion that the Berkshire
was a larger breed than the Chester.
When breeding Chesters for sale, I
never had a case of cholera, even when
Berkshires and other breeds in the neighborhood were dying with it. As for the
advantage of keeping the Berkshire because it will do better on the "root pig
or die" practice, I had supposed this recommendation had long ago lost its force.
Intelligent farmers now are generally
agreed that "anything that is worth doing
at all is worth doing well," and certainly
this way of raising pigs is far from being
considered as doing well.
In regard to  prices   by   car  loads, I
know nothing save from the market quotations; but by these I see that the high
est prices are for the heaviest hogs.
The closing paragraph of Mr. M's. article shows where the trouble lies. He
has Berkshires to sell, and must praise
them. He says he has pigs that at ten
months old weigh 300 pounds, and at
eighteen months old weigh from 500 to
600 pounds. They are certainly a different kind from those shipped by our regular breeders, as they cannot be made to
weigh nearly so much. If he ever saw
one that would weigh 600 pounds, he has
seen larger ones than I ever have. I
have had Chesters that from two to six
months old gained 2 pounds per day, and
some as high as three pounds. I had
them to dress over lib. for everyday they
had lived. I have now a half Berkshire,
three months old, from a common sow,
which very strongly resembles the Berkshire; the other seven pigs are almost
white, several entirely so. The black
pig is fat and sleek, and very healthy, but
will not weigh 50 pounds. It is like others of the stock in the neighborhood—'*a
nice little pig, but it will not grow.
Delos Wood.
North Madison, Ind.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I see a num
ber of heavy fleeces reported in the
Farmer, and I will report a few lest your
readers should think Pike county has no
fine sheep. Mr. George W. Hollon, a
neighbor of mine, has nine ewes of the
Cotswold breed that sheared 103J pounds
of wool, an average of 11J each. Four of
these ewes are yearlings and sheared as
follows: No. 1—\<o\ pounds; No. 2—15*
pounds; No. 3—13J pounds; No. 4—11 £
pounds. His old ewes are suckling their
lambs Or perhaps they would have
sheared, as well as the yearlings. I own
the sire of these lambs. This year his
fleece was Blightly wet and would not be
a fair test; This buck weighs 260 pounds.
Mr. Hollon weighed one of his lambs at
three months old; it tipped tho scales at
92 pounds, This gentleman is not a
breeder, but a good farmer, and believes
that the best pays. J. L. Brknton.
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Another Friend of the Chester.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I have
read ' the articles in regard to Chester
White hogs and other breeds with great
interest, but was greatly surprised at W.
A. Magee's last article. Allow me to say
a few words in reply. I have been breeding the Chester Whites for a number of
years, but have no pigs for sale. I have
never bred a hog that has proven more
satisfactory to me than the above breed!
Mr. Magee has either never had a Chester hog, or has been very unsuccessful in
his management of the same. I think
there must be something wrong when a
man will condemn a breed of hogs when
he alone has had'poor luck with them,
when hundreds of farmers have tried:
them and pronounced them the hog for
the farmer.' I have been breeding nogs
for more than twenty years, and have
never lost a hog with mange or cholera.
Brother breeders, when you have poor
luck with your stock don't condemn the
breed, but find out if possible the cause
of your bad luck. .       J. A. Eckhart.
Butler, Indiana.
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Remedy for Foot Disease.in Sheep.
Veterinary Surgeon Felizct draws attention to the continued success attending the employment of caustic lime for
the foot disease in sheep. It is very laborious to touch the feet of a numerous
flock of sheep with the usual astringents
—solution of copperas, white vitriol, calcined alum, or spirits of turpentine. Instead, form a species of closed "run," 15
yards long by two wide. Make 'a well-
trodden floor; raise a border with puddled
clay round the enclosure, so as to secure
the uniform depth of nine inches toward
the middle of the run; pour into this bath
four barrels of water, and distribute over
the bottom 2 cwt. of quick-lime, covering it over with a dozen bundles of the refuse fodder from the racks, so as to form
a carpet. Drive the sheep into this footbath, 100 at a time, and compel them to
pass and repass from one end to the
other. The spread fodder prevents the
feet sinking too profoundly, and acts as
a brush at the same for forcing the caustic solution to enter the nails. The bath
must be made entirely new once a week;
as the lime, absorbing carbonic acid,
loses its causticity. It is a common
practice to wet the straw intended for
thatching purposes with a solution of
quick-lime; the straw becomes thus more
durable, incombustible, along with possessing sanitary advantages.—Cor. American Farmer.
Canker Worms.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman from Iowa writes:
The canker worms are in my orchard,
and I am using both Paris green and
arsenic in water, sprinkled on the trees
with a small brass hand pump, with a
half barrel of poisonous water in a
wagon, driven between two rows of trees.
While one man drives, another works the
pump. I will report the effect. We
have not had as much experience with
the canker worm at the West as many
have in the East. I find that my young
orchards of eight to twelve years planted
are not as much infested as the older
ones; the younger have also been annually plowed and cropped with corn or
potatoes, while the older are mostly in
grass. It is thought by a neighbor that
some parasite checked his canker worm.
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The experiments upon potato cultivation, undertaken last year by the Royal
Agricultural Society in various parts of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, were not
without valuable results. From the
twenty experimental stations good evidence was collected in favor of large sets,
for we are told that from the instances
brought under notice, "the potato which
starU with a large supply of food in the
tuber, and secures by its help a good
hold on the soil and a good mass of foliage in the air, produces the most remunerative crop."
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NEWS   OF  THE   WEES.
State News.
Mr. George I. Gordon, near Kokomo, lost
his residence by fire, a few days ago.
Dr. Moss has entered upon the Presidency
of the State University, Bloomington.
The New Albany woolen mill recently
shipped 1,200 yards of jeans to a Kansas City
firm.
The Ohio Falls Car Works at Jeffersonville
were offered for sale a few days ago, on foreclosure, but were not sold for want of bidders.
The assessment of Hamilton county witt
fall short about $500,000 of .the assessment of
last year.
Noblesville apiarists are much disgusted
over the proceedings of their bees, which have
taken to emigration by swarms.
The postoffice at Kendalville was broken
into Friday night, the safe blown open, and
$270 in stamps and $300 in currency stolen.
A five year old daughter of Olintba Scott,
living neai Manchester, was burned to deatli
last Saturday by falling into a pot of boiling
soap.
The old gentleman Deitz, who started to the
Centennial Exhibition from New Albany, on
foot has arrived at Philadelphia, in good condition.   He is 79 years old.
Mary Bowers, aged 21, daughter of James
Bowers, of Miami county, fell dead in the
road on her way home from schoool on the
eighth inst.
The livery stable, horses, buggies and harness, of Messrs. Lucky & Sanders, Worthington, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night
last.
J. W. Smith, a farmer near Logansport,
was thrown from his horse on Monday last,
and was dragged some distance, receiving
such injuries as resulted fatally soon aiter-
wards.
Vincennes Reporter: Thecoffin of Col. Vigo
was paid for this week. The Colonel was
buried March 19th, 1830, and the price of the
coffiin was $20; that amount was paid to Mr.
E. G. Gardner.
A man by the name of Moon, living near
Lafayette, committed suicide in that city in a
singular manner. He erected a framework
to which was attached a knife in such manner
as that when it descended, it would do so with
such force as to sever the head from the body.
This he carried ont to the letter.
The saloon-keepers of Seymour. Jackson
county, attempted to induce the city council
to reduce the fee for whisky license there,
from $100 to $50. The council refused to accede to their demand. Seymour has seventeen saloons.
The "Northern Indiana and Western
Ohio Butter and Egg Association" was
formed in Fort Wayne, on last Wednesday, about fifteen dealers being present.
Another meeting will be held at the same
place in September, the first Tuesday.
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Mr. Blaine and Speaker Kerr were both
very ill during the past week. Both are recovering.
General News.
The railways are still cutting rates from
New York to Chicago and the West.
The first month of the Centennial ended on
the 9th, and one million people had visited it
to that date.
Hostile bands of Indians have been committing depredations near Laramie.
The cotton crop of Tennessee and Alabama
is reported to be very good, but will mature
later than usual.
The New York Herald issued an edition of
its paper in Cincinnati during tbe convention,
and telegraphed ita contents east. Some enterprise, that.
The Women's International Temperance
Convention met in Philadelphia on the 12tb.
Mrs. Margaret E. Parker, of Dundee, iSo-t-
land, presides.
Suit is instituted against Jacob Thompson.
Secretary of the Interior before tbe w»r, to
recover $1,000,000 for bonds taken from tne
Department in his time.
Two more of the Milwaukee, Wic, wM-kv
ring have been sentenced. One pay? a hue or
$10,000 and goes to prison six months i','-
other is fined $1,000 aud gets three month-1;>
prison.
Six men were killed by Jitf/iimn/a ,^'']",7'
ago near Springfield, Tenn.   They took re ■ y*
from a storm in a   field under a  tree * >;'<>\
was   struck   by the ligritnirg with the <•>•'»•
result.
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