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DMANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JULY 8th, 1876.
No. 27.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
PERSONALS.
Persons in any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties iri other portions of the
state or country should make inquiry in this department
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Fakmir for the recovery of stock.
Tell yonr neighbor of it when you hear otthe loss
of his stock.
A two or three line notice will coit you only 25c
each insertion.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.—Ten Short-horn cows and heifers:
no bulls.   Recorded stock.   J. A. JOHNSON,
Poolsville, Warren county, Ind. 24-10t
FOR 8A"*^—BERKSmBES—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices
there and five months old. W. A. Mase,8harp6ville,
Tipton connty, Ind. • t-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—One Hundred Stands Italian Bees
for sale, at 810, with right of hive. Also honey
at SI for 4 pounds and jar. Residence 5 miles northeast of Indianapolis on Fall Creek. Address, W. A.
Schofleld, Indianapolis. 25-4w '
T710R SALE—Essex Pigs—The Essex are of good
I** size, mature early and fatten readily at any
age. Color, black; meat and lard excellent Can
furnish pairs not akin. It Is a good time to buy.
Address A. P. WILEY & SON, Augusta, Marlon Co.,
Ind. •  ■ 21-tf.
WAITED.
WANTED—Young men wishing to attend the
best Business College in the West to send
ttamp for circulars to the Indianapolis Business
College, Bates Block. Graduates assisted In getting
situations. 4-tf
STOCK NOTES.
All opportunity id ri-rv-roirereaf iur»iij-
who desire to do so, to purchase some
good, well-bred Short-Horn Cattle at very
reasonable prices. See the advertisement
Of W. W. Thrasher, in another column.
L. S. Hardin, of Louisville, Ky., the
pioneer Jersey cattle man of the West,
recently visited Beech Grove farm belonging to Mr. F. M. Churchman of this
city, and inspected his herd of Jerseys,
which he pronounces "as good as there
is in the country."
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Heavy Lambs. — Having seen the
weight* of several fine lambs in the Farmer, I will say I have 16 lambs—average
age 48 days on the 20th of May,—that
averaged fifty pounds. The largest one,
a ewe, weighed seventy-five pounds. They
were dropped between the 8th of March
and the 20th of April, and are a cross of
the Lincolnshire (Canada sheep) and
'"" 3wold. Let us hear from you again,
Mr. Voyles. L. L. Kelso.
Ireland, Ind.
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There are-now on exhibition at Philadelphia, three steers, triplets, that were
calved Feb. 4,1876. They were raised by
Horace Tucker, of Kosciusko county, Indiana. Their weight at present is 9,600
pounds.^ There is hardly any difference
in the size of the animals, and in color,
marking, etc., they bear an exceedingly
close resemblance to each other.
'■ A total of 3,050 horses were exported
from England during the past year, of
which 258 were sent to Germany, 652 to
Holland, 545 to Belgium, 1,238 to France,
and 357 to other countries. The value of
horses exported to the United Kingdom
in the last eight months £173,982, against
£136,819 in the preceding year. To France
this year horses to the value of £63 401
and in 1872 £43,606, were sent.. •     '     '
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Ticks .on Sheep.
A correspondent gives hiii method of
getting rid Of shfeep ticks, thus:
I propose to give my plan of cleaning
and Keeping a flock clear of ticks. Seven
years ago, two weeki oJter shearing, I immersed my lambs in tobacco water, being
careful to keep their eyes and noses out.
As soon as they were dry, 1 commenced
feeding sulphur to my sheep with then-
salt, being careful to feed soon after a
storm, in order that the sheep might not
get wet while the pores of the skm were,
open from the action of the sulphur.
During the past seven years I have avoided driving my. sheep into a sheep wash
until the yard has been empty at least
twenty-four hours. I have seen but seven
ticks on my flock of 100 during these
seven years, and they were introduced by
the purchase of rams. Some three years
ago, I think, you remarked editorially
that sulphur is useless in removing sheep
. ticks.   I am satisfied that you were in
error, as some of my neighbors have tried
Bmy method with the same success as my-
iself.
HARBISON COUNTY, INDIANA.
Freaks of Nature, and Numerous Cu-
notitiei.
To the Editor of Indiana Farmer:
Will you allow me to tell your readers
something about a few of our monstrosities, freaks of nature, and rare Curiosities
here in Harrison county, and elsewhere
in Southern Indiana? for such things
abound here, and a close observer can
find many such things to report to a reading public.   Dr. Levake owns a
CENTENNIAL HEN
which is reported to be laying several
eggs each week weighing 4 and 4£ ounces
each; and a guinea hen on the farm of
James C. Bruner sat on 33 eggs and all
were hatched at the same time.
WONDERFUL GEESE.
She was an uncommonly lucky fowl
most assuredly. Joe Snider reports a
goose which sat on 6 eggs and hatched
out 7 goslings, while Bill Allen reports one
which sat on 7 eggs and hatched out 8
young ones. These men seem to be confident of these results. Dave Kingsly, of
Harrison county, is the owner of a
lucky cow,
which is the mother of two beautiful
heifer calves, being so much alike in size,
color and shape, that it seems to be an
impossibility for the owner or any of his
neighbors to distinguish one from the
other. These bovines will do to go|to the
World's Fair at Philadelphia, or to Phin-
eas T. Barnum's great menagerie and
show, which is the world's wonder. John
O. Green, of New Albany, owns a long-
horn cow that eclipses almost any man s
cow in the Union in the way of being a
NO. 1 MILK AND BUTTER COW.
He says she gave 54 pounds of milk in
one day recently, which yielded something like 3 pounds ©f excellent butter.
She weighs 1060 pounds, and in three
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weight in milk; in one week of the time
she gave milk which yielded 18 pounds
of butter, which was sold at the highest
market price. He lets the cow run on
the best of grass during the day and at
night has plenty ofthe same given her in
the stall. Three times a day she is given
a small quantity of cornrneal and ship-
stuff. Mr. Green is not a regular stock
raiser, but is trying to demonstrate to the
skeptical what can be done in the way of
milk and butter by properly treating a
good cow. He wishes dairymen to come
and see his long-horn cow, "Lily Dale,"
and see for themselves how much milk
and butter she really does produce. If I
understand the term "long-horn," Lily
Dale is not a blooded cow, but common
stock.
AN EARLY HATCH.
On last January 3d, a hen on this farm
hatched out 9 chicks, and with good care
they were all raised; before the pullets
were five months old they were busy lay
ing eggs. They began laying about the
last of May, and are now large, thrifty
young hens. From this fact it seem that
winter is a good season in which to raise
Eoultryfor laying hens. These pullets
ave grown into nice hens sooner than I
ever knew others to. My chickens are of
mixed bloods and are fine laying fowls.
Mrs. Mary, wife of John Moody Anderson, my near neighbor, is a very
SUCCESSFUL   POULTRY RAISER,
but I do not know that she has blooded
fowls. She has been lucky enough to
raise 40 chickens with one hen, and 50
with another. This last had 53 chicks
given her, hatched by different hens, and
she only lost the 3. The poultry on this
farm are mixed bloods, but are good layers. Mr. Philip Brock, near me, is one
of our most successful farmers, poultry
raisers.and dairymen. Atone time, he
tells me, he lost about 300 chickens out
of a lot of 350. Cholera carried off most
of them. He also raises turkeys. His
farm is a poor one, but he makes it pay
by applying
BONE DUST AND OTHER FERTILIZERS
liberally to his growing crops. Several
of our wealthy farmers are now falling
into line, and are using bone dust, barnyard manure, hen manure, and the different kinds of fertilizers now used in the
country, and they find these things pay
well as a general thing.
Mr. Benjamin Brown of this neighborhood, has some
BEAUTTFUL PIGS
which he tells me pull down 53 pounds
at 2} months old; but Robert Finley can
beat him badly, for report says two of his
pigs at 11 weeks old tipped the scales at
95 pounds each. Mr. Finley is one of our
most noted stock dealers. He lives near
Palmyra, Harrison county. Uncle Jacob
Blume lives near me and is one of the
leading old farmers in the county. He
owns a  large tract of land, and knows
precisely how to keep it. He makes a
bountiful living on a poor farm.
LAMB WITH SIX LEGS.
Uncle Jake has been lucky enough to
find among his flock a lamb with six
legs. This is a grand monstrosity most
assuredly. Woodford Gresham and Blu-
ford Dyer each claim to have owned an
ewe which became the mother of two sets
of lambs in the same season. This is
very uncommon among sheep, but does
occur some times.
Coster Littell comes to the front with a
cabbage, grown last season, which measured 15J inches across the top, from tip
to tip of its leaves. I also heard of one
weighing 24 pounds, brought into Cory-
don market, but failed to learn the owner's name.
WHITE HAWK AND WHITE DOVE.
Mmrod Shurley, near Edwardsville,
lately captured alive a large white chicken hawk, with two of its young ones.
This old chicken thief had been flitting
about there for 5 or 6 years, and successfully eluded the grasp of all who attempted its capture until Nimrod took it in out
ofthe weather. A Mr. Lutz, his neighbor, owned, at last accounts, a white dove
with a ring around its neck.
STRANGE THINGS.
Henry Hum and James Trotter, of
Harrison county, each have a white raccoon; Theodore Goss has a spotted mole.
Mr. Goss has in his possession a stuffed
fowl of a strange species, which happened alonghere recently. It is a large
bird. He also has a large tooth, about
twice the size of an elephant's tooth; it
was dug up at the mouth of Salt River,
in Kentucky.
Miss Kate Miller owns a petrified egg,
or a rock which looks just like an egg;
Abigail Rusk has one of the most beautiful shells I ever saw. It is called the Indian Note Book, though it does not look
like a book in the least. Elisha Harritt
dug from his potato patch a rock so much
j?d5C5iii*j"fns£-«. pot*s» .1»«^»4>4W«   J*- -^isljr.rn'n.
taking it for a genuine tuber tried to peel
it for cooking purposes.
Jacob S. Homer, of Lanesville, owns a
cage of beautiful white mice, as tame as
pet deer, or tame lambs; Jacob Shafer, of
the same place, also has a cage of white
mice. Prof. George R. Green has quite a
collection of stuffed birds, and a very
large collection of geological specimens.
He takes great delight in these. He occasionally sells some of his specimens.
While Philip Brush and lady were at
church one Sunday^ a blood-thirsty rat
sallied out from its hiding place, and
killed 42 young ducks out of a flock of
45; the rat dragged the ducks under a
pig pen, and placed them in a nice pile
together with some chickens which it had
also killed. Mr. Brush raised a little
army and declared war on his ratship;
down' came the hog-sty, and away went
the rat and made his escape, to the chagrin and discomfiture of the little army,
which had given chase. And this reminds me that rats are very troublesome
among ouryoung poultry here. *
s Snakes, crows, hawks, owls, skunks,
coons, foxes and the like prey on our
poultry and young stock. All these are
pests, and require to be guarded against
closely. Two hawks lately yoked for a
fight in mid air, and fell to the ground
their talons sunk into each other, and
while in this condition, James C. and Albert H. Bruner ran and captured them
both and took off their heads.
THREE AND FOUR LEGGED ROOSTERS.
James C. Bruner raised a rooster that
had three legs, and Frederick Minnick
grew another with four legs, the abnormal or redundant ones growing out just
behind the normal ones, and were shorter than the others,and surrounded bv
bunches of muffled feathers.. This rooster brought $35 in Louisville.
Jacob H. Bruner.
Lanesville, Ind.
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THE ESSEX SWINE, ETC.
To the Editors of the Indiana Farnier :
I pen a few truths for the benefit of
those who would like information about
the Essex hogs, and I shall say a few
words about the Chester White, and give
a passing notice of the Poland China.
THE ESSEX
in its class is what may be called a small
or medium sized breed. They are a distinct breed, having been bred in England
for many years, and have been carefully
bred in the United States for at least twenty years, and are noted for their rapid
growth and extra fattening properties.
Their average weight at sixteen months
old is from three to three hundred and
fifty pounds, and frequently going to four
hundred pounds, but the latter is above
their average weiglrtyand it may be put
down as a fact that a 400 pound Essex
hog is rather an exception than a rule.
In color they are black, and the purebred Essex of to-day  seldom  shows a
white hair, although when dressed they
have a fair delicate skin, and their pork
is considered extra in quality. They
have fine upright ears, and are very
smooth, in all these essential gross points
much less than any of our larger and
courser hogs. There is no doubt about
their being a distinct breed, for the get of
the Essex male, when put to the Poland-
China or Berkshire, seldom shows any of
the marking on the mother's side, and it
is a fact, that both the Essex and Chester
White hog have the power of transmitting their color to a greater degree when
bred to a different breed than any other
pure bred hog. Upon the whole the Essex hog can be highly recommended as
desirable to improve our larger and coarser
breeds of swine with giving giving the
cross-bred pigs the power of taking on
flesh very rapidly, which makes them
desirable for the farmer who wants to dispose of his pigs at eight or ten months
old. They are also a most excellent hog
for grazing, and like all of our pure bred
stock they want good grass and grain and
pure water to insure a profit to the farmer. And here let me say to my brother
farmers, if you get Essex pigs that will
weigh four hundred and fifty or five hundred pounds on an average, at eighteen
or twenty months old, they are half breed
Essex, and you should not use them to
improve your stock, as you will be disappointed in their offspring.
CHESTER WHITES.
A few years ago I was breeding and
shipping the Chester White hog (which
by-the-way, is a No. 1 breed in many respects) and it was not a want of good
qualities that made the Chester White
hog unpopular, but it was, that the farm-
era were imposed upon by having grades
or half bloods sent them for pure bred
hogs, from the fact that the pure bred
Chester White sow, or boar, when coupled
with any other breed of hogs, their offspring are almost invariably white, and
farmers became dissatisfied, not with the
merits of the pure bred Chester hog, but
with the grades that were sent out as pure
bred stock,. I, have made it a specialty
fraajv^ra} yeats^to breed none but thoroughbred hogs, and as far UB preflMwiw
of breeds, much depends on the care and
skill ef the farmer, in raising his pigs,
and in fitting them for the butcher or
packer.
THE GREAT ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS
with stock are wholesome feed, pure water
and a strict attention to cleanliness.
THE POLAND-CHINA
hog, when properly bred, is one of the
very best hogs for the farmers, but the
merits of the breed are suffering by grades
being sent out as pure bred stock. Mr.
Clark's assertion that he never saw a hog
that came from Poland or from China
is simply a weak effort to establish his
aversion to the Poland-China hog. I sold
a Poland-China sow and had taken several
premiums in her time, but she owed nothing to Mr. Magie for her Parentage. Nor
was she the cross of a Burkshire hog
that gave her color. I have a sow now,
which 5s nine years old, ii suckling seven
pigs, had eleven pigs last fall, and shows
no eig is of old age. She has produced
more prize pigs in the last eight years
than ivery Magie hog that has been
brougl it to this county since she was a
year o d. And there has been a goodly
numb ir of the so-called Magie hogs
broug it to our county, but they liave not
had t ie essentials that is satisfactory to
the fi fmer generally. That Mr. D. M.
Magie!; is a scientific breeder, and good
judgelof a hog, there is no question with
the people; but that Mr.Magie sends out
as Magie pigs, more of other men's stock
than ia to his credit, is pretty well known
in the West, and more than that, a large
per cent, of his best specimens of the
Magie hog were raised by other men, and
by their original owners would be called
by another name, from the fact that they
are the product of the skill, patience and
perseverance of their original owners.
At some other time I will speak of the
Bershire hog, especially that refined
Berkshire that grows to five or six hundred pounds at eighteen or twenty months
old, and say a few words to illustrate the
causes and effects of farmers working on
the cost-nothing plan.
A. V. POINDEXTER.
Orleans, Orange Co., Ind.
HOGS AND   CHOPS  IN  SPENCEH
COUNTY, IND.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—There has
been much said of late about hog-raising
by, hog-raisers in the Indiana Farmer,
which is very good,—"opposition is the
life of trade". I suppose some like the
Chester Whites because they never raised
any.0ther breed; but many farmers, Who
have raised Poland China hogs, say 'r"he
Chester Whites once were a good hog,
when there was no better, and I think
most men are willing to acknowledge
that black hogs are more hardy than
white ones.
On the first of May last, I turned a lot
of hogs on a clover field and fed com
once a week. Part of the number were
white, which I bought as stock hogs last
fall. The white hogs took a disease called
by farmers here, "lung disease," and they
would all have died on the clover. I took
them off, put them in a pen, and fed corn
and slop. None of these have died since.
I left my Poland China hogs on clover,
and they are doing fine. The white hogs
have mange, and their ears get sore and
crack open.
Chester Whites have played out in this
county, and Poland China and Berkshire
are the breeds the farmers like best.
my nos.
I shipped to P. Perry, Blackford county, Ind., June 6th, a pair of Poland China
pigs, for which he paid $65.00. Mr. Perry
has bought of me, in the last few months,
six Poland China pigs. He is a good farmer, and believes the best pays best. I
shipped to Mr. S. Smith, of Cass county,
Ind., a fine Poland China pig, on the 7th.
Mr. Smith says he has raised Poland China
hogs for twenty years.
A NEW HOG DISEASE.
A new hog disease has appeared among
the hogs in this county. They die in a
very short time by it. They bleed at the
mouth and nose; it appears to be some
kind of a lung disease. One man lost
fifty head in one day. They are dying by
hundreds. Will some one, please, tell us
what this disease is and what to do to
stop it ?
THE CROPS IN SPENCER COUNTY.
The corn crop on high land is looking
■«**ell, but on low land corn is gone up, and
tobacco on low land is also spoiled. The
crops were all put in in good order, and
were cultivated good .until until the rain
set in, about-two weeks ago, and it is getting worse all the time. Most of the corn
was plowed three times. Corn on Ohio
river bottoms is extra. Oats are good;
meadows are fine; wheat two-thirds of a
crop.   Respectfully yours, etc.,
James H. Parker.
Rockport, Ind.
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Feints of the Berkshire.
the whole amount of legal tender notes,
and squandered four times this sum _ in
useless expense, without accumulating
any reserve for their redemption.
"We denounce the financial imbecility
and immorality of the party which, during eleven years of peace, has made no
advance toward resumption, but, instead,
has obstructed, resumption by wasting
our resources and exhausting all our surplus income, and while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie
payment, has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As sueh a hindrance,
we denounce the resumption clause of
the act of 1875, and we hear demand its
repeal.
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NEWS   OF   THE  WEEK.
The following are the standard Characteristic^ anO"* J-Iiarfcar of-E*rhjahlro awint\
as adopted by the National Convention of
Swine Breeders of the United States and
Canada, assembled at Indianapolis, Ind.,
Nov. 20th, 1872:
Color black, with white on feet, face,
tip of tail, and occasional splash on the
arm. While a small spot of white on
some other part of the body does not argue an impurity of blood, yet it is to be
discouraged, to the end that uniformity
of color may be attained by breeders.
White upon one ear, or a bronze or copper spot on some part of the body, argues
no impurity, but rather a reappearing of
original colore. Markings of white other
than those named above are suspicious,
and a pig so marked should be rejected.
Face short, fine and well dished; broad
between the eyes; ears generally almost
erect, but sometimes inclined forward
with advancing age. small, thin, soft and
showing veins; jowl full; neck short and
thick; shoulder short, from neck to middling deep from back down; back broad
and straight, or a very little arched; ribs
long and well sprung, giving rotundity of
body; short ribs of geod length, giving
breadth and levelness of loin; hips good
length from points of hips to rump; hams
thick, round and deep, holding their
thickness well back a nd down to the hocks;
tail fine and small, set on high up; legs
short and fine, but straight and very
strong, with hoofs erect and legs set wide
apart; size medium; offal very light;
hair fine and soft; no bristles; skin pliable.
POLITICAL NEWS.
State Hem,
, A large Greenback meeting was held  at
t, -rre Haute last Saturday.
An unsuccessful attempt to burglarize the
Greensburg post office was made a lew nights
ago.
Jesse Shriver, an old gentleman, of Rochester, received fatal injuries from a fall from a
hay mow, on the 1st.
The 4th was fruitful of accidents as on all
former occasions. A number of persons, at
the Shelbyville celebration, had legs and arms
broken by the falling of seats.
A few nights ago one George Woodring was
shot and killed in a mill, in Cass county,
while in the act of cutting the belting and
injuring the property.
During the past year the Greencastle nail
works has been manmfacturing more days than
any other nail mill in the country. It employs
now 150 men, and, its daily expenses are $800.
The united testimony of persons from all
parts ofthe county is that crop prospects were v
never  better  than   at , present.—Grandview
Monitor. -    , i
It la estimated that one hundred thousand
bushels of wheat will be offered for sale by the
farmers of Pike county, after harvest is over—
the crop being so large.
Last Friday night a party of five masked
men entered the store of.Hutchinson & Miller,
at Stockwell, and robbed the store of a quantity of goods, and the money-drawer of about
$40. They were pursued and arrested Saturday morning.
A littie son of Rev. George Clouds fell
*£~~Z^--~^»*a0*-*n t^e-J-, M- it 1. E. R. on
the29thult., nearCrothersville; Jackson obun~
ty, and was drowned. Mr. C. being at the Centennial at the time, was telegraphed and arrived home on last Friday. '
At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees
of Purdue University, Professor Herron was
appointed Professor of Mathematics, and Professor Hussey was appointed to the chair of
natural sciences. Professor Hongliam, on
account of pressing private duties, refused the
reappointment.
A very severe storm passed over Benton
county, Friday of last week, and did a great
deal of damage. Several houses were blown
over, but no one was injured. Whenthestorm
was crossing Hickory lake, the water was seen
to be blown clear out ofthe lake, some waves
looking as high as ordinary houses.
The Centennial year was celebrated on last
Sunday by nearly all the churches in this city
by strong, vigorous and patriotic discourses
upon the history of the nation, its mission
and the grand results wrought under Divine
protection.
The National Democratic Convention
which met at St. Louis last week nominated Gov. Tilden, of N. Y., on the second
ballot for President, and Gov. Hendricks,,
of this State for Vice President. The
convention met on Tuesday, and completed its business on. Thursday. The following are the more important resolutions of the platform:
"Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish in the hearts of the whole people
in the Union. Eleven years ago, happily
rescued from the danger of a corrupt
centralism, which, after inflicting upon
ten States the rapacity of carpet bag tyr-
ranies, has honey combed the office of
the Federal Government itself with incapacity, waste and fraud; infected States
and municipalities with the contagion of
misrule, and locked fast the prosperity
of an industrious people in the paralysis
of hard times.
"Reform is necessary to establish a
sound.currency, restore the public credit,
and maintain the National honor.
"We denounce the republican party for
its failure, for all these, eleven years, to
make good the promise of the legal tender notes which are a changing standard
of value in the hands of the people, and
the non-payment of which is a disregard
of the plighted faith of the nation.
_ "We denounce the improvidence which
in eleven years of peace has taken from i
the people in Federal taxes thirteen times I
General "Tews.
The reduction of the National debt for the '
month of June was $3,881,377.
■ A large haul of counterfeiters has just been
made in Brooklyn, New York.
The House and Senate have finally agreed
upon the post office appropriation bill.
Bellefonte, Pa., was visited by a great rain
fall on the 1st, which done great damage to the
place.
Bristow's resignation left the Secretaryship
of the Treasury vacant for several days
Senator Morrill failing to promptly accept the
appointment.
The Singer Sewing Machine company, of
New Jersey, last week took all their employes
and families, about 4,000 in all, to the Centennial, the Company paying all expenses.
The almost continuous rains of a week and
a half past have interfered a great deal with
the wheat and grass harvest. The weeds and
grass also threaten to take the corn.
Colorado has ratified its proposed constitution and will now be speedily admitted as one
of the family of States. She will have a voice
in the Presidential election.
Attention is called to the card of Seward <fe
Co., in another column. This firm has had
long experience in making Sorghum Machinery, and has established a well earned reputation for good honest work, and fair dealing.
The Van Slyke evaporator made by them is said
to be without arrival, for the purpose of making sugar syrup. 27—lw
Art Imitative of Nature,
It is not the amount, but the conscious action (so to speak) of the pressure which gives
perfection to the truss used in iiernia. What
is wanted is a pad acting like the human finger, forcing back the bowel exactly where it
protrudes, and exercising no irritating force
elsewhere. This is obtained in " Eirgleston's
Sensible Truss," which lias a cup pad containing a movable ball accommodating itself
immediately to tlie abdominal lesion, and
gently holding back the protruding intestine.
The value of this improvement lias been recognized by the leading surgeons, and the in-1
strument U fast coming into general um. It |
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