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CUy ttbraty fl EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. PERSONALS. Persons In any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties in 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 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. FOR SALE. FOR SALE.—Ten Short-horn cows and heifers; no bulls. Recorded stock. J. A. JOHNSON, Poolsville, Warren county, Ind. 24-10t FOR SALE.—A few choice Berkshire pies from 3 to4 months old. A. C. SHORTRIDGE. Indianapolis, Ind. 28-tf OR SALE—State and county rights of a Vegeta ble and Fruit Slicer useful any month in the year send stamp for circular to John R. Wharry, patentee, Moundsville, W. Virginia. 29 4w E FOR SALE—Leicester Sheep.—We have for sale four yearling bucks, two buck lambs and 20 ewes and ewe lambs. Also four bull calves 5 mos. old at reasonable prices. J. T. Williamson & Son, Thorntown, Ind. 29 2w WAMTED. WANTED—Excursionists to the Great Neosho Valley, Kansas, August 16th and Sept. 6th. For rates and special information, address J. D. King, Mo., Kan. & Texas R'y^agt. Land and Excursion, Crawfordsville, Ind. 29-2w *\TT*ANTED—A»good, young, fresh cow with suck- W ing calf. No fancy price, but good common stock. One that would be profitable to keep in a city. Prefer one near Ind's, Peru and Chi, or Ind's, Bloom. &"West. R R. Address with full particulars, L. N. Andrews, 39 S. Meridian street. 29 lw **f TTANTED—Farmers and saw mill men to know W that they can have their saws repaired in the best manner or can purchase tlie celebrated Disston saws at the Hoosier Saw Works, 94 E. Georgia street, W. B. Barry, proprietor. 29-4w STOCK NOTES. D. W. Voyles, New Albany, Ind., has recently sold four head of pure bred Jersey cattle to N. F. Bonsall, Clear Spring, Monroe county, Ind. = ^~~*-4» The great Bale of Shorl>horns from the herds of B. J.. Clay & Son, Hall & Taylor, and B. F. Bedford, will take place at Paris, Ky., 'on the llth day of August next. ^._^__ We have received some fine ^samples of wool clipped from the lambs of L. D. Brown, Otterbein, Ind., Nos. 1 and 2 mentioned in the Fabmeb this week. These lambs are respectively 110 and 125 days old only, and the wool measures four and four and a half inches long. They are certainly very promising. Mr. A. H. McCoy, of Gentryville, Ind., is accumulating and breeding a fine herd of pure Berkshire swine, of the Black- hawk and Canada Prince strain. His Prince was bred by John Snells Sons of Canada, and his sire was sold last year to Mr. Gentry, of Sedalia, Mo., for $700. Mr. McCoy's card will be found tn this week's paper. - - s m s Special Premium for Spencer County. —This was received aud is a very good Poland China pig, from James H. Parker, near Rockport, for which accept thanks. When I went for my prize, I took a look through the pens of Mr. Parker, and saw some very fine pigs and brood sows, and the largest male hog I have ever seen. It is a good place for any one to get some fine Poland Chinas. ;• O.P.Chase. Founder of Horses. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: Founder is acute and chronic. In an acute case, unless the cause is superpurgation, give a moderate purgative, with injections of warm water and soap. The shoes should be taken off, and the patient stood in a clay puddle up to the fetlocks. If the fever is high, give ten drops of Fleming's tincture of aconite, with half an ounce of tincture of belladonna, in a little water, every three or four hours as required. Some advocate bleeding, others oppose it; for my own part, I nave been exceedingly successful without it. Even local bleeding is rarely advisable. After the physic has operated, give one drachm of nitrate of potash three times a day in the mash, for a week. The patient should stand in the clay for four hours daily during the week; afterwards have heavy rocker shoes applied, and have a run at grass in * moist pasture, dressing his hoofs with hoof ointment. If pain remains after this, blister around the coronet. For chronic founder, a long run at grass, the application of hoof ointment regularly, application of the rocker shoe with a leather sole, stuffed with tar and * tow, with repeated blisters around the l coronet and as high up as the fetlock, are J the means offering the best prospects of ■ success. THE FINE LAMBS. Editors Indiana Farmer:—I am glad to seethe spirit there is manifested inthe lamb business, and it has been no small amount of pleasure to me to see the different accounts of weights, and compare them, and after comparing them I still feel proud of my own lambs, to know that they are not left in the distance, but still are coming on close in line with the rest of reported lambs. As to the weights of my lambs, the are as follows: No. 1, at 125 days old, 100 pounds; No. 2 at 110 days old, 100 pounds. Eight of my oldest lambs averaging 100 days weighed 77J pounds each; 12 aged ewes average 114 pounds; 1 imported yearling 114 pounds; 1 imported sucking lamb 100 pounds. A Fairbank stock scale was used in weighing. Now these sheep were all weighed on this day and witnessed. I think there is more interest manifested than any one had any reason to'hope for on the lamb weighing question, and it will no doubt call out a closer range of breeding and handling of the long-wooled sheep, as it is clearly manifested in what has been said in connection with the lambs reported, that each and every one either claimed or hoped at least to have the best of all, but when there is a general report made it reaches many a good lot of lambs. So we find that the solution of the whole matter is self-evident, and that is this: if .people are careful to raise the be3t of lambs they of course will in return get for their trouble the best of sheep, which will insure them" the best of pay and profit. So, in the language of others, "trot out your big lambs," and let us still go on in the way of progress and improvement. Hoping to hear from other reporters, I close. Levi D. Brown. Otterbein, Ind. Show ef fine Stock in Parke County, Indiana. Editors Indiana Farmer:—Mr. Wm. Swain, proprietor of the Bellmore Stock Stables, proposes to have a show of colts from his celebrated premium horse Ham bletonian, and his excellent English draft horse! Black Farm Boy. He proposes to give premiums on the colts as follows, viz; Colts from Hamiltonian, 1st premium, 820.00 2d " 12.00 3d " f Colts from Black Farm Boy, 1st premium, $15.00 2d " 10.00 " 3d " 5.00 Mr. Swain has offered premiums that will be of some consequence to those having colts, and as he and his stock are widely known we think it ought to be pretty generally known, particularly as stock is brought here from far and near to be bred. It has been his custom for several years past to have a show of colts and give premiums. On such occasions there is always a display of colts that does the eye good to behold, and is the cause of a large gathering. There is an arrangement among quite a number of hog breeders to have a little show of stock in their line at the same time and place, and as enough have al ready signified their intention to be here with their stock, success is already insured to them.. It is the arrangement for all that want to compete for premiums to pay a fee of one dollar, the same to be applied as premiums. Just how they will be classified is not yet certainly arranged, only that each breed of hogs will be classified separately. Now, if the outside world don't believe we have some good colts and hogs hereabouts, let them come and see. So far as the show of pigs and hogs is concerned, it is open to all. The show of all this stock will be held on August 12th. E. Thomas. Bellmore, Ind. s » m HOW TO HAVE HEALTHY PIGS. Prof. Law, of Cornell University, in a communicationjto the Husbandman writes as follows in regard to the proper treatment of swine for the prevention of diseases: "Keep your hogs clean. Protect them from the hot, reeking bed of ma nure and close sleeping-place, where the emanations from decomposing dung, urine, straw, and other organic matter are added to those of their own skins and lungs when huddled together in great numbers. See that both food and water are clean, in the sense of being free from disease germs and from the microscopic particles of decomposing organic matter which, within the system as well as outside it, furnish appropriate food for the disease, poison and favor its increase, while they depress the vital powers and lessen the chances of the virus being thrown off. No less important is the purity ofthe air, since the delicate membrane of the lungs, perhaps more than any other, furnishes an easy mode ol entrance for any injurious external matter. Finally, purity of the blood can only be maintained by a healthy funct ional activity of all the vital organs, which insures the perfect elaboration of every placid constituent of blood, and the excretion of all waste matters that, have already served their purpose in the system. By perfect cleanliness the poison, even if generated or introduced, will be virtually starved out,* as surely as an army in a closely besieged fortress. But it will be observed that this implies the separation of Bound from diseased animals; and the free use of disinfectants (solutions of sulphate of iron and chloride of lime, fumes of burning sulphur, <fec.) to purify the air and over surroun-, ding objects as well as the simple clearing away of filth. And it is here that the Eork-raisers are most frequently at fault, fty or a"hundred pigs are allowed to crowd to geather in a filthy bariij subjected to the droppings of other animals as' well as their own products. Their feeding troughs and drinking water are so spplied that they can get into them with their filthy feet, and they must devour the most obnoxious matter or starve. If under this abuse disease is developed, the healthy are left with the sick as they will all have it anyway,' and the result is usualy a clean sweep. When hog cholera exists, the sick should be placed by themselves under a special attendant, under the free use of disinfectants ; the healthy should be carefully watched, and on the first sign of illness or increased temperature, ascertained by the introduction of a clinical thermometer into the rectum, they should be at once taken from the herd and carefully secluded. This, with active disinfection, will enable the owner to cut short an outbreak and save perhaps the great majority of an already infected herd. Again, the sale of of animals from an infected stock, to be moved from the premises alive, should be severely punished, and the disinfection of the. buildings where the sick have been should be made imperative. We shall obtain the greatest success with this disease when we treat it as a contagious malady, and wherever it is found to exist give our main attention to prevent the further generation and dissemination of the poison." *■*-*■•■■-•* ,-, FOULS IN SHEEP, ETC. LETTEE FROM WELLS COUNTY. The Country Gentleman says: In hot showery weather, sheep (Merinos) are liable to a disease ofthe foot, called "fouls." Unless this be cured before the formation of pus in the cleft of the hoof, it sometimes is apparently contagious, and the flock becomes considerably, affected. In this case the usual remedies for "foot rot" are required to cure the flock. The farmer who daily sees his flock is apt to notice whether any sheep is lame, and if any such case is noticed, the suffering animal can . be cured without handling the flock, or even, if the farmer is a skillful shepherd, without taking the flock to a pen, or .disturbing any except the ailing sheep. A little vial of salve can be carried in the pocket when visiting the sheep pasture, and a single application will cure an attack of fouls, if given when the sheep first' becomes lame. In order that there may be as much interest taken by the sheep in the visits ofthe owner, as by himself, it will be found a good plan to carry a little salt and give it to them at each visit. Sheep like a little salt every day, and any farmer of ordinary intelligence will soon learn how much to feed them at once so that they will be ready for a repetition of the dose the next day. This plan creates a perfect mutual understanding between the sheep and their owner, and they soon become so tame that he can catch and examine any one of the flock without frightening the remainder. Some advise feeding a little sulphur with-the daily salt, or perhaps once a week, to prevent foot rot and expel ticks. Several seasons' experience in this practice showed the uselessness of expecting any such results from feeding sulphur. The foot rot has proved as virulent and the ticks as prolific when the sheep had sulphur weekly as where none was fed. The fact that a tick will live in a vessel containing sulphur until it dies of starvation is proof sufficient that that drug is not poisonous to ticks. s m m Texas Cattle for Northern Marketi. The Kansas City Price Current has advices that the grand total of Texas cattle driven, to July 6, is 305,290 head. Of this number 50,638 head have been held in Northern Texas, while the remainder, 254,652 headKhave been driven north. Several thousand hea'd, which were wintered in Northern Texas last leason, were also driven north, which will probably swell the total to between 260,000 and 270,000 head. NEBRASKA AHEAD. The truth will at last be sure to prove itself. No yonng State has had more falsehoods to fight against than Nebraska. She is showing herself, however, to be the banrier State of our bread raising country. Last year she had a fair wheat crop, and the finest corn crop in the whole West. This year the wheat, barley, oat, and corn crop of Southern Nebraska, will lead any other section of country. A splendid crop of the finest wheat and barley is now being harvested; oats are ready for cutting, and the corn crop is in splendid condition, and nearly ready for ear-out. The enormous advances in the price of land that we have all witnessed in Illinois and Iowa, will shortly be repeated in Nebraska. 29-lw Bluffton, July 15th. To the Editors of. the Indiana Farmer•'_[• A county that is out of debt these hard times may be set down as being well-to- do, if not rich. This county -has this good fortune. Then aa will be seen, it is rich in soil, timber,'and general improvements, and only pays taxes to the amount of $90,687. The area of the county is 372 square miles, divided into nine townships, all of which present rich aspects of soil, and produce 'wheat, corn, etc., in remunerating abundance.. The wheat product of 1874, amounted to 177,879 bushels and the corn crop to 1,003,631 bushels. It is claimed that this vast amount of corn was turned into hogs instead of whisky. Such economy is commendable. About one-half of the county is still covered with fine forests. TWO rivers. The Wabash & Salamonie rivers both pass through the county, giving extensive and fertile bottom and affording endless quantities of superior building and limestone rock. As Professor Cox has never taken a survey of the county, it is not yet known what other geological resources it possesses. good sheep law. In the protection of sheep from the ravages of dogs their chief reliance, we learn, is in the virtue of lead and strychnine. They are cheap and easy to be had, without legislation, or law suits. 19,000 sheep were reported from this county in 1874, which is no small item of stock wealth, and of course it should be looked after, if it is even in a beliger- ent manner, COUNTY INFIRMARY. They are building, the present year, a large and substantial county .Infirmary at La expense of $13,000, and as they have the money in the treasury, they pay off their workmen every week. The erection of such an edifice, when they need a new court house so badly, is good evidence of their eminent humanity, at least. To provide for the poor is the best comment any people can make on their civilization. STAVE TRADE. The immense quantities of stave timber turned out from this county makes an item of income of even distinguished importance. They are sold by the millions, and as the past season has been a dull one, they have them staked here by the acre. But few counties in the State surpass this in the richness of its timber. CHIEF MARKET. The facilities afforded by the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati Bailroad make the latter city the chief market for the farmers of the county. Through the energy and liberality of Superintendent W. W. Worthington, this road is kept in fine order and gives business life to the agricultural interests of the entire line. POPULAR FARMERS. Mr. Bowen Hale, one of the active farmers of the county, and who now lives on a fine farm near this place, was the first Clerk of the county in 1847, in which office he served 18 years, going out in 1855. ..Since then he has served three years as county commissioner. His farm is well stockea and in his old days he is still taking a live interest in the agricultural progress of the age. His son, James P. Hale, is one of the rising lawyers of this court. TOWN FARMERS. John Hoover, of this vicinity is one of the best farmers of the county. David Studebaker, I. Kemp, Samuel M. Dailey and T. A. R. Eaton, are also deeply engaged in the farming line. The latter has a large vineyard. GENERAL MENTION. In Jackson township, we find among the live farmers. B. L. McFadden, I Spaulding, S. Good and Dick Mclntyre, the later perhaps owning the largest number of acres of any man in the county. In Chester township, which lies in the south part of the county, there are W. H. Maddux, Henry Barkman, Garrett Ter- hune, J. Lowrey and E. King, who fill the bill of agricultural progression well; while in Nottingham, there are but few farmers who excel Samuel Valentine, J. 0. Swalt, J. G. French, J. G. Myers and James Williams. Passing into Union township, the traveller is will pleased with the farms of Daniel Prough, Stephen D. Cartwright, Samuel D. Caleyj John Cass, Ezekiel Walker, Albert Ormsby and Abraham Wolfcale. Among the Stock Dealers of Jefferson township we find John,T. Glass & Ransom Allen, while John I. Metts, James S. Cart- wright, James Deam, John Caston, and Joseph Burnett, are well worthy of note, both as farmers and Grangers. In Lancaster township, which boasts of two railroads, they table among their active farmers such men as James Dailey,3 J. Davis, James Wasson, J. Maddux, R. Souder and Jacob Miller. Rock Creek gives some good names also. Such as Samuel Riddle, Daniel Highlen, Wm. Barber, John Hayflich, Henry Houtz and Jacob Farling. Then, last but not least, we have in Liberty township, J. Rinear, John Ernst, Gabriel King, Daniel Kain, Henry Mos- burg, and E. Popejoy, all of whom are opening up fine agricultural establishments fully up to most in the county. ; Jefferson. P. S.—How many ' of these farmers read your Indiana Farmer we know not. If many do no^iyou should go for them \ PREMIUMS-AT STATE FAIBS. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Editors Indiana Farmer :—In answer to S. S. Boyer, in the Farmer for July 1st, I would say, if premiums were equally distributed according to the actual utility of the article.) fair-going people would soon tire of th&Kaonotony of the exhibitions. The human eye, like the human palate, craves a variety; indeed, each pre equally omnivorous in character. So those who manage exhibitions of this kind, be they evejr so stoical in their natures, will soon recognize the fact that a variety of interests and tastes are to consult and cater to,1 if success, either in a financial or social way, is the object. Again, managers will take into consideration the expense of production and exhibition, as well as the effect produced: not that an oil painting is of more utility than a textile fabric, but that in its production it far exceeds the former, in patient skill, and actual expense, and that it is a gem of beauty, an object of attraction highly civilizing and refining in its influences, and, while on exhibition, subject to great injury, while requiring the constant care and attention of the exhibitor. Textile fabrics are but little damaged by exhibition, require no attention after being once arranged, with light expense, and no risk in transportation; and if soiled, the damage is trifling if contrasted with a blemish upon an oil painting, while the effect produced is insignificant when compared with the display in the department of fine arts. Again, the culture of fruits and vegetables requires skill and industry, and their exhibition is attended with some labor as well as slight loss by damage, while the effect of a good display of these valuable, as well as beautiful and refining products is good. Yet, when we remember that the exhibition in this class only continues for one week, indeed for only three days, while the skill and expense of production, the .risk, expense and dangers of transportation, the constant care while on exhibition and damages incident thereto, with the far more attractive appearance, and a continuation ofthe exhibition throughout a term of four weeks, we are willing to acknowledge the justice of a liberal award to "floras offering." But our critic in his friendly review of the situation, passes over oneof the most glaring inconsistencies of the Board without a word of censure. I refer to the disparity of premiums in live stock department, a difference greatly in favor of mere show and display, and against utility. _ I find by a comparison that the Board paid five thousand seven hundred and twenty- seven dollars ($5,727) on horses, three thousand nine hundred dollars ($3,900) of which were awarded to speed, while to all other classes of this noble animal were paid but one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars ($1,827). Here are large premiums paid to a momentary exhibition, and calculated to draw out its accompaniment of vice, without a corresponding element of refinement or genuine culture, which, when compared with the month of display in fine art and floral halls, with their expensive displays and highly moral and refining influences, would seem to justify the sharpest of criticism, yet our friend passes over with a partial eye, to point out inconsistencies in minor matters. W. State Scvti, Camp meeting at the Battle-ground -will begin August 23rd and continue two weeks. Hon. R. M. Lockhart, of Waterloo, will be a candidate for nomination to the State Senate. Daniel Coleman, a Lebanon boy, went to Prairie creek to bathe, and was drowsed. The Logansport Star gives publicity to the death of a Mrs. Wiley, in that city, caused by starvation. New Albany is assessed at $7,901,965 and lias 1,740 polls. This is decrease from 1875 of $174,725 and 325 polls. The failure of a pork firm at New Castle, Henry county, results in a loss to many persons of that county. Mr. George Sheets, of Shoals, Martin county, has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities $30,000. Assets $12,000. The store building of J. W. Lake, at Rog- ersville, Henry county, was destroyed by fire last Saturday night. Loss about $4,000. The city board of equalization for.Evansville have reduced the assessment roll over $1,000,- 000 from that of last year. The are over 150 members of the Rogers family in Monroe county, and at a recent family reunion over 75 of them were present. A narrow-guage railroad is talked of from Plymouth, via Maxinkucke lake, to Logansport. A portion of the large meteor which was observed two weeks ago, fell in South Bend, and has heen placed in the museum at Notre Dame University. ■William Wood, a farmer near Rochester, wl was kicked to death by the Fulton county, fell from a load of wheat, on Monday, and horses. George Earheart, one of the oldest residents of New albany, died last Friday, aged eighty- one years. He has been in New Albany for forty-one years. Frank M. Spelman, recorder of Floyd county, made an exhibition of himself Friday last by getting drunk, and the New Albany Ledger-Standard demands that be vacate the ofijee or be turned out. Brazil. Miner: Theodore Oliver, living near the Old Reservoir, in Perry township, one day last week became very much exercised about the weather, and swearing at ■ a terrible rate, was taken sick at once and died before night. Muncie Courier-Democrat: Coal has been found near Eaton, this county. Parties have leased the land lor ninety-nine years, and will sink some shafts immediately in search of the dark substance known as the black diamond. The commissioners appointed to appraise the old Clark county court-house in Charlestown have agreed upon $17,000 as the value of the property. In Arlington, Rush county, a party of scoundrels entered the stable of the Burlington Blooded-stock Company, a few nights ago, and cut off the mane and tail of a fine Norman horse kept there. A four-year-old daughter of David Shiss, living near Linton, Greene county, was scalded to death Friday of last week by falling into a kettle of boiling water, Thomas Jones, living near Mt. Summit, Henry county, lost a young daughter, last Saturday, by a coal-oil explosion. The little girl was pouring oil on a fire when the can exploded. Mrs. Jefferson Clark, living three miles west of Auburn, DeKalb county, was burned to death last Wednesday by the explosion of an oil can, from which she was pouring coal-oil on a fire. General News. A four-foot vein of coal has been found at Mattoon at a depth of 390 feet. life insurance policy Beating the* Grasshopper.—A correspondent of a Colorado paper states it has been found that plowing in the spring before the eggs hatch destroys the hoppers effectually on the farming lands. To guard against those hatched.the farmers there have beat the hoppers by dropping coal oil in ditches about the fields of grain. With a few gallons of oil used thus millions of the hoppers are destroyed, as they die instantly when they come in contact with it. This correspondent thinks the grain growers of Colorado will thus be able to beat the grass- noppers in the future, and. produce good crops. General Custer held a on his life for $5,000. Congress has voted the widow of General Custer a monthly pension of $50. Re-enforcements are hurrying forward to Gens. Crook and Terry in tbe Indian country. Sitting-Bull, chief of the Sioux Indians, who killed Custer and his command, was himself killed in the engagement. Governors Tilden and Hendricks will shortly issue their letters of acceptance of the St. Louis nominations. Congress refused to give to the $50,000,000 of silver (which the bill just passed provides for) the legal tender feature for all debts. The crops have been greatly damaged in Fulton county, 111., along the Illinois river, from its overflow. The number of deaths in New York last week rose to 1,298, against 858 the previous week. It is discovered that the Ohio Legislature, in March last, unwittingly repealed the law fixing compensation for the county auditors and treasurers. The fast mail trains from New York to the West, are to be discontinued next Saturday. It is owing to the refusal of Congress in providing sufficient compensation for that servi ~x. At this writing Commissioner Pratt's resignation has not been accepted by the President. It is thought the latter will be induced to refuse its acceptance, thereby retaining Mr. Pratt in the service. [Notice.] The attention of tree-dealers, planters, etc., I is called to the advertisement of E. Moody &■ Sons, Lockport, N. Y. This house is one of«, the oldest and largest in tbe Nursery trade in theUnited States. 29-lw *s*r»"—*S5 rWS-Sjr*?
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1876, v. 11, no. 29 (July 22) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA1129 |
Date of Original | 1876 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
PERSONALS.
Persons In any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties in 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 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.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.—Ten Short-horn cows and heifers;
no bulls. Recorded stock. J. A. JOHNSON,
Poolsville, Warren county, Ind. 24-10t
FOR SALE.—A few choice Berkshire pies from 3
to4 months old. A. C. SHORTRIDGE. Indianapolis, Ind. 28-tf
OR SALE—State and county rights of a Vegeta
ble and Fruit Slicer useful any month in the
year send stamp for circular to John R. Wharry,
patentee, Moundsville, W. Virginia. 29 4w
E
FOR SALE—Leicester Sheep.—We have for sale
four yearling bucks, two buck lambs and 20
ewes and ewe lambs. Also four bull calves 5 mos.
old at reasonable prices. J. T. Williamson & Son,
Thorntown, Ind. 29 2w
WAMTED.
WANTED—Excursionists to the Great Neosho
Valley, Kansas, August 16th and Sept. 6th.
For rates and special information, address J. D.
King, Mo., Kan. & Texas R'y^agt. Land and Excursion, Crawfordsville, Ind. 29-2w
*\TT*ANTED—A»good, young, fresh cow with suck-
W ing calf. No fancy price, but good common
stock. One that would be profitable to keep in a
city. Prefer one near Ind's, Peru and Chi, or Ind's,
Bloom. &"West. R R. Address with full particulars,
L. N. Andrews, 39 S. Meridian street. 29 lw
**f TTANTED—Farmers and saw mill men to know
W that they can have their saws repaired in the
best manner or can purchase tlie celebrated Disston
saws at the Hoosier Saw Works, 94 E. Georgia street,
W. B. Barry, proprietor. 29-4w
STOCK NOTES.
D. W. Voyles, New Albany, Ind., has
recently sold four head of pure bred Jersey cattle to N. F. Bonsall, Clear Spring,
Monroe county, Ind.
= ^~~*-4»
The great Bale of Shorl>horns from the
herds of B. J.. Clay & Son, Hall & Taylor,
and B. F. Bedford, will take place at
Paris, Ky., 'on the llth day of August
next. ^._^__
We have received some fine ^samples
of wool clipped from the lambs of L. D.
Brown, Otterbein, Ind., Nos. 1 and 2 mentioned in the Fabmeb this week. These
lambs are respectively 110 and 125 days
old only, and the wool measures four and
four and a half inches long. They are
certainly very promising.
Mr. A. H. McCoy, of Gentryville, Ind.,
is accumulating and breeding a fine herd
of pure Berkshire swine, of the Black-
hawk and Canada Prince strain. His
Prince was bred by John Snells Sons of
Canada, and his sire was sold last year to
Mr. Gentry, of Sedalia, Mo., for $700. Mr.
McCoy's card will be found tn this week's
paper. - -
s m s
Special Premium for Spencer County.
—This was received aud is a very good
Poland China pig, from James H. Parker,
near Rockport, for which accept thanks.
When I went for my prize, I took a look
through the pens of Mr. Parker, and saw
some very fine pigs and brood sows, and
the largest male hog I have ever seen. It
is a good place for any one to get some
fine Poland Chinas. ;• O.P.Chase.
Founder of Horses.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: Founder is acute and
chronic. In an acute case, unless the
cause is superpurgation, give a moderate
purgative, with injections of warm water
and soap. The shoes should be taken
off, and the patient stood in a clay puddle up to the fetlocks. If the fever is
high, give ten drops of Fleming's tincture
of aconite, with half an ounce of tincture
of belladonna, in a little water, every
three or four hours as required. Some
advocate bleeding, others oppose it; for
my own part, I nave been exceedingly
successful without it. Even local bleeding is rarely advisable. After the physic
has operated, give one drachm of nitrate
of potash three times a day in the mash,
for a week. The patient should stand in
the clay for four hours daily during the
week; afterwards have heavy rocker
shoes applied, and have a run at grass in
* moist pasture, dressing his hoofs with
hoof ointment. If pain remains after
this, blister around the coronet.
For chronic founder, a long run at
grass, the application of hoof ointment
regularly, application of the rocker shoe
with a leather sole, stuffed with tar and
* tow, with repeated blisters around the
l coronet and as high up as the fetlock, are
J the means offering the best prospects of
■ success.
THE FINE LAMBS.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I am glad
to seethe spirit there is manifested inthe
lamb business, and it has been no small
amount of pleasure to me to see the different accounts of weights, and compare
them, and after comparing them I still
feel proud of my own lambs, to know
that they are not left in the distance, but
still are coming on close in line with the
rest of reported lambs. As to the weights
of my lambs, the are as follows: No. 1,
at 125 days old, 100 pounds; No. 2 at 110
days old, 100 pounds. Eight of my oldest lambs averaging 100 days weighed 77J
pounds each; 12 aged ewes average 114
pounds; 1 imported yearling 114 pounds;
1 imported sucking lamb 100 pounds. A
Fairbank stock scale was used in weighing. Now these sheep were all weighed
on this day and witnessed.
I think there is more interest manifested than any one had any reason to'hope
for on the lamb weighing question, and
it will no doubt call out a closer range of
breeding and handling of the long-wooled
sheep, as it is clearly manifested in what
has been said in connection with the
lambs reported, that each and every one
either claimed or hoped at least to have
the best of all, but when there is a general report made it reaches many a good
lot of lambs. So we find that the solution of the whole matter is self-evident,
and that is this: if .people are careful to
raise the be3t of lambs they of course will
in return get for their trouble the best of
sheep, which will insure them" the best
of pay and profit. So, in the language
of others, "trot out your big lambs," and
let us still go on in the way of progress
and improvement.
Hoping to hear from other reporters, I
close. Levi D. Brown.
Otterbein, Ind.
Show ef fine Stock in Parke County,
Indiana.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—Mr. Wm.
Swain, proprietor of the Bellmore Stock
Stables, proposes to have a show of colts
from his celebrated premium horse Ham
bletonian, and his excellent English draft
horse! Black Farm Boy. He proposes to
give premiums on the colts as follows, viz;
Colts from
Hamiltonian, 1st premium, 820.00
2d " 12.00
3d " f
Colts from
Black Farm Boy, 1st premium, $15.00
2d " 10.00
" 3d " 5.00
Mr. Swain has offered premiums that
will be of some consequence to those having colts, and as he and his stock are widely known we think it ought to be pretty
generally known, particularly as stock is
brought here from far and near to be
bred. It has been his custom for several
years past to have a show of colts and
give premiums. On such occasions there
is always a display of colts that does the
eye good to behold, and is the cause of a
large gathering.
There is an arrangement among quite
a number of hog breeders to have a little
show of stock in their line at the same
time and place, and as enough have al
ready signified their intention to be here
with their stock, success is already insured to them.. It is the arrangement for
all that want to compete for premiums
to pay a fee of one dollar, the same to be
applied as premiums. Just how they
will be classified is not yet certainly arranged, only that each breed of hogs will
be classified separately. Now, if the outside world don't believe we have some
good colts and hogs hereabouts, let them
come and see. So far as the show of pigs
and hogs is concerned, it is open to all.
The show of all this stock will be held on
August 12th. E. Thomas.
Bellmore, Ind.
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HOW TO HAVE HEALTHY PIGS.
Prof. Law, of Cornell University, in a
communicationjto the Husbandman writes
as follows in regard to the proper treatment of swine for the prevention of diseases: "Keep your hogs clean. Protect
them from the hot, reeking bed of ma
nure and close sleeping-place, where the
emanations from decomposing dung,
urine, straw, and other organic matter
are added to those of their own skins and
lungs when huddled together in great
numbers. See that both food and water
are clean, in the sense of being free from
disease germs and from the microscopic
particles of decomposing organic matter
which, within the system as well as outside it, furnish appropriate food for the
disease, poison and favor its increase,
while they depress the vital powers and
lessen the chances of the virus being
thrown off. No less important is the
purity ofthe air, since the delicate membrane of the lungs, perhaps more than
any other, furnishes an easy mode ol
entrance for any injurious external matter. Finally, purity of the blood can
only be maintained by a healthy funct
ional activity of all the vital organs, which
insures the perfect elaboration of
every placid constituent of blood, and
the excretion of all waste matters that,
have already served their purpose in the
system. By perfect cleanliness the poison,
even if generated or introduced, will be
virtually starved out,* as surely as an
army in a closely besieged fortress. But
it will be observed that this implies the
separation of Bound from diseased animals; and the free use of disinfectants
(solutions of sulphate of iron and chloride of lime, fumes of burning sulphur,
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