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:jity library Vol. XI. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AUGUST 26th, 1876. No. 34. 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 *(till cost you only 25c each insertion. FOR SALE, *"G*"OR SALE.—A few choice Berkshire pigs from 3 C to 4 months old. A. C. SHORTRIDGE. Indianapolis, Ind. 28,tf -fTIOR SALE—Poland-China and English Berkshire JJ pigs, all warranted pure bred. Address J. B. Gilbert, Lewisville, Henry county, Ind. 33-4w FOR SALE—Fultz Seed Wheat, by E. R. Kenny, Lafayette, Indiana. Price J1S0 per bushel. Also a white bearded wheat very good, fame price. 83-4t FOR SALE—Fowls, all best breeds at lowest prices, warranted pure bred. Bend stamp for illustrated circular and price list. Dr. C. Lewis, Marlboro, Stark county, O. 33-2w F OR SALE—Seed wheat—two hundred bushels of pure Fultz wheat for seed free of cheat, cockle or smut, at 81.40 per bushel, sacks furnished at 35 cents apiece, delivered eX Orleans depot. Money sent by Post Office order to A. V. Poindexter, Orleans, Orange county, Ind. All orders will receive immediate attention, . 33-2w FOR SALE—800acres farm lands, very cheap,250 acres in corn and meadow, etc., the balance well set blue grass pasture land, well watered in every part, and good, dry, rolling land; some parts a little broken A splendid body of Fine Timber (Over 1,600 fine oak and poplar trees alone being counted on it). This timber alone if marketed would more than pay for the whole tract. Location—On the I. A St. L. Railroad near two other Railroads and midway between the four great cities of the west, with good railroad facilities to each—in Putnam connty, Ind., the finest grass and stock county in the State. The advantages of such a location over the far west must be clear to all. This property was recently appraised at $50 per acre, but to secure a speedy sale, it is now offered at from 822 to 825 per acre, less than half its appraised value. For particulars address Col. C. C. MATSON, 34-4w Greencastle, Ind. MONET LOANS. TO LOAN—8500,000—in sums of 81,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county in the State. Time, three 10 five years. Interest ten per cenu.payable semi-annually at the end of every six months. Commission five per cent. Money furnished in five days after examination of property, and abstract and appraisement is made. In writing give number of acres cleared and in cultivation, kind of house and barn and value. Address W. A. Bradshaw, No. 16 Bates Block, Indianapolis. 34-tf WAITED. "IIT ANTED—Excursionists to the Great Neosho W Valley, Kansas, August 16th and Sept. 6th. For rates and special information, address J. D. King, Mo., Kan. & Texas R'y, Land and Excursion agt., Crawfordsville, Ind. - 29-7w STOCK NOTES. The live stock show at the State Fair this year promises to be a very interesting one. There will probably be several breeders here from New York and other States who have not previously shown their stock in this State.. The Kentucky Live Stock Record says: At the public sale of Cotswold sheep, the property of Geo. M. Bedford, Stoner Farm, Bourbon county, Ky., sold on the 10th inst., the following prices were obtained: 14 rams, aggeisate 8290 00 Average 20 71 31 ewes 644 00 Average 18 94 . .♦ . - Live Stock etc, in Illinois. The returns to the Board of Equalization of Illinois, says the Prairie. Farmer, gives the following live stock in ninety- nine counties: Hogs .2,670,363 Cattle 1,861,278 Sheeps 826,077 Horses „ 924,044 Mules, and asses _ ;. 123,213 Total acres wheat, 2,005,262; total acres corn, 8,218,299; total acres other field products, 2,277,615; total acres orchards, 312,- 902. The assessment returns in Illinois show a reduction in the valuation of property, over that of last year, of $58,020,571. That is over half a million to the county. The returns last year showed 2,809,- 969 hogs. This, exhibits ■ a considerable falling off in the hog crop of that State. We shall soon have the returns in for Indiana. They are not all complete yet. . . m> m ■ Live Stock at tiie Centennial.—The exhibition of live stock at the Centennial promises to be numerous in the number of entries and of high character and order. The total number of entries of live stock for exhibition some two weeks since include 300 horses, over 600 sheep, 590 swine and nearly 400 dogs. Application is stated to have been re- ■ ceived at the Bureau of Agriculture for stalls for 146 EnglisTi sheep, sent for exhibition, and quite a number of choice .English shorthorns will also be exhibited. THE STOCK SHOW IN PARKE. Editors Indiana Farmer:—As our show of colts and hogs is now • a thing of the past, we thought to send a notice of same to your readers. So tar as success was concerned, it was a surprise and exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine and was a holiday enjoyed by a large concourse of people. As it was rather a novelty in its way it was if possible a success unexpected, and appreciated by all present as was attested by the enjoyment of all present. Friday evening the hogs began to arrive. Messrs. Turner and Fosher of Putnam County bringing over their stock including some from our friend Mustard they purchased lately. Early Saturday morning Mr. Harrison Guilliams of Putnam county was on hand with some of his stock. Then the neighbors and friends came in until we had 99 head as good as ever was shown at any of our State fairs. Committees were puzzled to know where to tie the ribbons there being so many good ones. Mr. Swaim (not Swain) was as happy as a cricket and so far as the show of colts was concerned it was excellent. It was a show sure enough, better stock is not to be seen anywhere. It may be thought that we are enthusiastic, but will just say that in competing for a sweepstakes premium of all ages of Hamiltonian colts there was present five that have taken the ribbons at the State fair heretofore, and plenty of others was as good or better if possible than.those above mentioned. Such in brief was our show.and many would have been glad to have shown their cattle, sheep and fowls. But those inaugurating the movement for a show little expected such a turn out of stock and people. A free show and a free sight to those who came to see, and you have our show in lull, better than any fair. I suppose that another year will see the same thing over again though probably on a larger scale. But we say a free show with a little more notice before hand. All were benefited and said what a success. E. Thomas. Bellmore, Parke Co., Ind. HOG CHOLERA AGAIN. Editors Indiana Farmer:—The hog cholera is becoming too embarrassing to the farmers of the West and South to be overlooked or disregarded; thousands of dollars are annually lost to the farmers of these sections on account of this dreadful pest. Several neighborhoods in Spencer county during the present season have suffered severe losses, and still it is dealing out death to the swine of all ages, breeds and color. All the known remedies, as well as many unknown ones have been resorted to, to little purpose. As well as I can ascertain not less than one fourth of the hog crop in our county is annually destroyed by this dreadful pest. I have taken particular pains to learn its course the* present season. When it commences ita ravages in a neighborhood no one seems to know how it got its start, but it is evident that after it gets a foot hold in a neighborhood it goes from herd to herd, till farmers become alarmed and stop its course by seperation and division of herds. While I am fully satisfied that it is contageous, (as stated in a former article) yet there are a number of hogs that seem to escape the disease altogether. Such are generally found to be very thrifty, and though they may have the cholera, it is so light that it is not observed. My rule is a preventive, and not a cure, to effect this I would recommend. First. Regular feeding, and not too much doctoring; use but little drugs, feed your hogs mostly on slops and cooked food, slightly salted, so as to prevent cos- tiveness. Second. Do not suffer too many hogs to run and sleep together and keep the pens clean, or if in lota or fields, change often. Third. See that your State Represent- atives and Senators, are pledged to enact a law the comming session to prohibit hogs running at large, this done, and then in my judgement we will be troubled but little with the hog cholera. A. H. McCoy. Gentryville, Spencer Co., Ind. . ■ m m Prof. Law on Hog* Cholera. Prof. Law, of Cornell University, in commenting on one ofthe many "sure cures" for hog cholera, says: When tried in a sufficient number of cases, and. extending over a series of years, all these boasted specifics have hitherto broken down. Examples, which might be very greatly extended, imply that a sound mixed diet is of great importance in maintaining a healthy activity ofthe various organic functions, and a vigor to a large extent antagonistic to this and other diseases, and that a somewhat similar immunity may be secured by the use of tonics, antisceptics, and gently stimulating agents. But if we rest our faith upon any or all of these assure cures or preventives, we shall only pave the way for disappointment whenever the disease takes on an unusually malignant type. Thus, in spite of the protective power of a partially milk diet, as above mentioned, now often does the disease prevail most disastrously in the herds_ of cheese and butter factories, and, notwithstanding the good effect of an occasional meal of flesh, we find the most extensive losses among pigs that are largely camiv- erous (flesh eating) in their habits. Keep your hogs clean is good advice. Protect them from the hot, reeking bed of manure and close sleeping places, 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, inthe sense of being free from disease germs, and from the microscopic particles of decomposing organic matter which, within the system as well as outside of it furnish appropriate food, for the disease, poison, and favor its in creas, while they depress the vital powers^ and lessen the chances of the virus being thrown off. No less important is the purity of the air, since the delicate membrane of the lungs, perhaps more than any other, furnishes an easy mode of entrance for any injurious external matter. Finally, purity of the blood can only be mantained by a healthy functional activity of all the vital organs, which insures the perfect elaboration of every plastic, constituent of the blood, and the excre- . tion 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 seperation of sound from diseased animals, and the free use of disinfectants (solutions of sulphate of iron and chloride of lime, fumes of burning sulphur, etc.) to purify the air and other surrounding objects, as well as the simple clearing away of filth. And it is here that the pork raisers are most frequently at fault. Fifty or a hundred pigs are allowed to crowd together in a filthy manure heap, a rotten straw f*tack, or under a barn subjected to the droppings of other animals, as well as their own products. Their feeding troughs and drink water are so supplied that they can get into them with their filthy feet, and they must devour the most obnoxious mattejr or starve. If, under this abuse, disease is developed, the healthy are left with the sick, as "they will all have it any way," and the result is usually a clean sweep. When hog cholera exists, the sick should be placed by themselves under a special attendent, and under the free use of disinfectants; the healthy should be carefully watched, and on the first sign of illness, as increased temperature, to be ascertained by the introduction of a clinical thermometor 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 animals from an infected stock, to be removed 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 whenever it is found to exist, give our main attention to prevent the further generation and dissemination of the poison. m m s Horses Pulling at the Halter. A horse can pull more backwards by a strap over the top of his head than he can pull forward by the breast, and when he has learned this he will break almost any single strap of leather, but this is not the worst of it, there is great danger of his injuring himself as well as doing injury to the harness or carriage, when loose. There is much danger of injury by tieing him with a strap around the neck when he cannot or will not exert as much force. A handy way with a carriage horse is to have a strong two-inch strap with a strong black buckle fastened to an iron ring. This can remain on the horse's neck then have in your buggy a new, strong rope with a large knot on one end that will not pass through the ring. Draw this through the ring when you tie him and he will try the strength of it but a few times. Such is my experience.— Cor. Moore's Rural. SHEEP IN COLORADO. The Avelanche, a paper published at Canon CSty, Colorado, has the following account of a large flock of improved sheep. .' We recently witnessed the weighing of fleeces shown from rams imported and owned by our townsman, Joseph Kenyon, Esq., and are of the opinion that they are hard to beat in Colorado or elsewhere. Mr. Kenyon has taken great pains, and spared no expense in procuring the very best blood to be obtained in the United States or Canda. Hia purchases last year comprise many of the "prise takers at various fairs in Canada, which he visited for the especial purpose of obtaining the best, and paid in many instances for rams as high as $150 each, in gold. He now finds his enterprise fully rewarded in the value of his lambs, having ready sale for young rams from I blood ewes, • at $15 to $20 apiece. In fact he has sold 300 of the young rams at those' figures. There are now in his herd 42 rams, the average yield of wool from which has this year been 16 pounds each; selected fleeces weighing 18} pounds of the most beautiful lustre combing wool, measuring 10 to 15 inches in length. The rams are of Cotswold and Lincoln breeds, and very large, the two year-olds weighing from 250 to 300 pounds. Mr.* Kenyon has for six years been breeding from thi* class of sheep, first crossing them with Mexican ewes, and now has 2000 } and I blood ewes, which has shorn this season an average of 6 lb. apiece combing wool, which even at the present low price, will yield him a handsome profit over the cost of keeping, to say nothing of the increase of his herd. This class of wool sold last year, in the Boston market at 45c. per pound, being 8 to 10c. higher than the best of Merino The clip of this year is unsold, but will probably bring 35c, notwithstanding the great depression in this product. If wool-growers would more generally pursue the policy of Mr. K., and insist upon having the best of rams, at whatever cost, avoiding promiscuous and irresponsible ram-peddlers, and dealing only with breeders of known reputation, their experience would correspond with his, and occasional depressions in the wool market would not transmit a corresponding depression to the spirits and prospects of sheep owners. For example the yield of six pounds from his ewes, say at 30c, which is lower than combing wool has ever been quoted, gives him $1.80 per head, not taking into consideration the increase, which is about 20 percent., of lambs of superior grade, worth at least $5 per head even for mutton, at two years old, and vastly more to breed with the coarse-wool Mexicans. Mr. Kenyon informs us that he has such arrangements with large sheep growers in New Mexico, that he can furnish purchasers with No. 1 young Mexican ewes at lowest current prices, and his engagements for this season, already amount to over ten thousand head, to be delivered in October. sterling into currency at the rate of $5 to the pound, of $236 per head. If later sales were included, the average would probably be brought up to a higher figure, but there is little doubt, we presume, that it would still be lower than at the American sales of the season." Jersey Cattle. NEWS OP THE WEEK. Thomas Fitch, of New London, Connecticut, writes the American Agriculturist: I have bred many thorough-bred Jerseys, and hundreds of grades, but comparatively few of my thorough-breds have given more than twelve quarts of milk per day, and I have the credit of breeding some of the most celebrated milkers and butter-makers now in this country, among them the following well-known names: Palestine third, Maggie Mitchell, Fleetwoot, Flora, Buff, and more that I can name, all are the direct descendants of Mr. John A. Taintor's stock, some of them having given as high as twenty-two quarts of milk and made more than two pounds of butter per day, measured and weighed. I have crossed the Jersey bull with nearly all the known breeds of cows, Ayrshires, Natives, Short-horns, Dutch, the "sacred cow," and the Devons, and it is an excellent cross with any and all breeds for the dairy. I have never yet found a half-blood Jersey cow that did not yield a richer quality of milk than her dam. One peculiarity of the cross is this: Wherever the Jersey bull serves, he transmits the rich quality ofthe milk to the grade he gets. —, s m s Protecting Horses from Flies. A French pharmaceutical chemist has discovered a way to protect horses from attacks of flies, according to a London medical paper. His invention consists in rubbing the horses, especially on the part most subject to attack, with, a little concentrated oil of laurel. There is not the slightest danger in its use, and the cost is said to be very small. Another repellant suggested by the same person, is a solution of sixty grammes (one pound and five ounces avoirdupois) of assafoeti- da in two glasses of water, and one of vinegar. If horses be well washed with this, not a fly will settle upon them, as the odor of the assafoetida drives the flies away. This drug has no deleterious qualities as an external application, and may be used unhesitatingly. . 9 . W. B. Dillon, of Normal, 111., will bring twenty-five of his celebrated Normandy horses to the State Fair. The Market Value of a Short-horn. A CARD. To Breeders of Fine Hogs: I desire to sell the fine boar known as Harry Clay Second, which was awarded to me as a premium by the Indiana Farmer in 1875. He was bred by James Riley, of Thorntown, Boone county, and is said to be the finest hog ever seen in this part of the State. He was pigged on March 7th, 1875. I can not keep him in town advantageously, and to persons that are intending to show stock at fairs he will prove a good investment. He is hard to beat. For further information write to R. M. Lockhart, Waterloo, DeKalb county, Ind. 34-lt. The Country Gentleman figures up the Eresent nominal value of a fancy Short- om as follows: "What is the average current value of a Short-horn? Struck with this question, on the arrival of Bailey's Short-horn Reporter for July 1, we took some pains to draw up the following table from the reports at public sales it contains, comprising, as will be seen, the average and total returns on twenty-nine different occasions, and relating to 1,347 lots, of both sexes and all ages. The general average on this large number may be regarded as a fair answer, and we find it to be $382, which, although less than the general average on all the sales of 1875. is almost precisely the same as that obtained on all the sales of 1874 ($385 on 2,676 head). This is certainly not a discouraging aspect of the case, and the probability ■ seems to be that this average will be at least fully sustained in the Kentucky sales, that are atill to come. As our table for the past two months may be of interest, we give it below in detail: Date and Place. No. April 6—West Liberty, Iowa...77 April 12—Galesburg, HI 54 April 26—Mechanichsville, Ia.5S May 2—Springfield, HI 18 May 3—8pringfield, 111 38 May -3—Springfield, 111 29 May 4—Springfield, 111 21 May 5-Springfield, IU 55 May 10—Marehaltown,'*Iowa_80 May 16—Louisiana,Mo...- 44 May 22—Freeport, IU. 84 May 23—Franklin Grove, IU.54 May 24-Franklin Grove, M..47 May 25—Dexter Park, 111 -65. May 26—Dexter Park, HI 67 May 26—Dexter Park, HI .48 May 31—CambridgeCity, Ind.64 May 31—CambridgeCity. Ind.10 June 1—Jacksonville, 111 50 June I—Indianapolis, Ind.....38 June 6—Carrollton, 111....: 44 June 7—Berlin, HI .59 June 14—Toronto,. 53 June 15—Toronto, 35 June 16—Toronto 56 June 14—Table Grove .19 June 14—Table Grove 111 -.19 June 15—Baraboo, Wisconsin..l2 June 16-Utica, lo wa 49 Total - - 1,347 $382 J514.835 We also have the last number of Thornton's London Short-horn Circular—rather behind time as it dates back to April 1st, but we have no later statistics in accessible form. In this circular nine sales are reported," in which the number of animals sold was 295, at an average, converting Average Total. J333 $25,610 355 19,190 199 11,565 351 6,320 934 35,505 139 4,020 234 9,115 344 18,920 212 16,980 219 . 9,630 237 19,876 243 13,125 257 12,065 1082 70,320 27S 18,325 372 17,835 323 20,695 590 5,900 292 14,610 103 3,900 170 7,465 233 13,720 1719 91,075 327 11435 252 14,105 IU 2,115 91 1,735 110 1,405 373 18,275 State News. There were thirty-eight deaths in this city last week. A Miss Perkins was fatallv burned at Crawfordsville, Monday, while kindling a fire with coal oil. The aggregate loss to the O. & M. railway company, occasioned by the late strike of its employes, is estimated at $100,000. The Veteran Soldiers' re-union on the SOth of September, promises to be a monster gathering of the boys. - An incendiary fire at Ft. Wayne, Thursday of last week, resulted in the destruction of John H. Cody & Co.'s stave works. Loss $15,000, insured for $4,000. Wabash, Patnam and Bartholomew counties are each organizing a regiment of soldiers to attend the re-union In this city on the 20th proximo. The indications are that it will be a great meeting. The O. & M. Railway discharged many of the striking employes and filled their places with green hands, and, as a consequence, collisions have occured on the road, resulting in much loss of property besides a half dozen of the new hands being killed, and others fatally injured. Joshua Gallagher, a citizen of Windfall, Tipton county, found a sack of Bilver coin containing $860, in an old stable on his farm, about six weeks ago. No one claiming it, he concluded to make use of it, and accordingly on the 18th he offered to exchange $50 of it for currency, at a bank in Tipton, but upon Eresentation to the bank, it was discovered to e counterfeit. He escaped arrest by proving a first-class character for himself. The coin is now in possession of detectives. Hon. Michael C. Kerr, Speaker of the House of Representatives, died at Alum Springs, Virginia, on Saturday, the 19th inst. His remains will be taken to New Albany for interment. Dr. W. W. Hitt, aged seventy-six, died in Vincennes, on Thursday of last week. He had resided at the Old Post since 1830, was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1852, and for a number of years was President of the Vincennes University, also one of the founders of Asbury University, and a trustee of the same. Samuel Billingsley, an old resident of Clark township, Johnson county, one of the pioneers, committed suicide Saturday morning by hanging himself. Deceased was over sixty years old, and the act may have been precipitated by a desire to teimlnate a life, the usefulness of which has been impaired by declining years. A Cheap Disinfectant. One pound of green copperas, costing seven cents, dissolved in one quart of water, and poured down a water-closet, will effectually concentrate and -destroy the foulest smells. Simple green copperas, dissolved under the bed in anything that will hold water, will render a hospital, or other place for the sick, free from unpleasant smells. For butchers' stalls, fish markets, slaughter-houses, sinks, and wherever there are offensive putrid gasses, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and in a few days the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat, or mouse dies about the house and sends forth an offensive gas place some dissolved copperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is, and it will soon purify the atmosphere. » m* . "This, ladies, " said a Centennial showman in the zoological department, "this is the wild duck, a fowl of well-known migratious habits." "Migratious let's have a look at him," screamed an old lady in the back part of the crowd. "Steam is a great thing," remarked a traveler in a railroad car to his vis-a-vis. "So it is," was the reply. I owe my fortune to it." "Monsieur is manager of a company?" "No, I have lost a number of relatives by railroad accidents." This is the way a citizen of Denver advertises for a lost calf: "Rund away: 1 Red and vite caf. His tu be hint leg was plack, he vas a she calf. Enipotti vat prings him pack 5 tollers. Jacob zudder- mg, Clear Creek, three miles behind the pndge." s ■ s Barley In Canada. A trade circular from Canada, which places the acreage in barley at about the same as in 1875, offers the following: We experienced splendid growing weather until about the middle of June, when hot, dry weather followed, hardening the heavy clay lands, checking the growth and causing the head's to form on short straw. On light soil the barley grew very luxuriant, almost rank, so that when the extremely and continued hot weather followed, the heads formed and ripened too rapidly, thus causing the berry to be light in weight and the yield very deficient. We are sorry to report that the early grown barley will be thin, not weighing over forty-six pounds to the bushel. The late sbwn grain will be plumper. The yield per acre will be fully one- third less than last year. Some reports from threshing-machine men report a deficiency of one-half, but this can be more accurately determined when the threshing has become more general. General News. Congress adjourned last week. The President and family have gone to Long Branch. Watkin's mill and elevator at Mattoon, 111., were destroyed by fire on Friday last. In the Big Horn fight with Custer the Sioux admit only 31 of their number killed. A branch of A. T. Stewart's New York business house is to be started in Chicago. A light frost again prevailed in the vicinity of Port Jarvis, N. Y., on the morning of the 21st inst. The Atlantic Mills at Lawrence. Mass., will be put in operation again Sept. 14th, and will give labor to 1200 operatives. Twentv-five thousand bushels of corn were sold and bought at Lincoln, 111., one day last week. Since the war to August 1st, 1876, the redaction of the public debt has been $503,- 892,915. The Children's Home, at Portsmouth, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the 19th. Loss $15,000. A number of Fenian convicts, who recently made their escape from New South Wales arrived by steamer at New York on Saturday. The dam of a reservoir in Montana gave way a few days ago which resulted in considerable loss of life and great damage to crops. The loss in crops and property will reach a quarter of a million dollars. Mt. Carmel (111.) Register: On the farm of Wm. Johnson is a stalk of corn the top of which is forty feet from the ground. There are two ears of corn growing upon it at the distance of thirty odd feet from the level of the surrounding country. There is great excitement in the vicinity of Barr's store, some twenty miles east of Carroll- ton, near the Macoupin county line, 111., by the appearance of wolves among the sheep, hogs, etc. Large numbers have been destroyed of late, and efforts are being made by the farmers to rid themselves of the pests. Fathbbs and Mothkks look with anxiety to the time when their daughters must leave home to gain an education, and they will find their apprehensions quieted by carefully studying the new and sound method of the Young Ladies Athenaeum, of Jacksonville, where they can indicate their choice of studies, and decide whether an elective or the full classical course shall be followed. In this way culture is adapted to both physical and mental strength, and the best development of womanly capacities attained. Those who have become acquainted with the Anthenaeum methods and results are surprised to find that such a great advance has not been adopted by all educators. Special advantages in vocal and instrumental music, under the very best masters, are afforded at the Illinois Conservatory of music, located in the same block, upon terms within the reach of all desiring perma-*- nent education. These institutions are locat- i ed in a community entirely in sympathy with them and their work, and the social atmos- -> phere of itself exerts a powerful educating influence. 31-1 m>
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Transcript | :jity library Vol. XI. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AUGUST 26th, 1876. No. 34. 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 *(till cost you only 25c each insertion. FOR SALE, *"G*"OR SALE.—A few choice Berkshire pigs from 3 C to 4 months old. A. C. SHORTRIDGE. Indianapolis, Ind. 28,tf -fTIOR SALE—Poland-China and English Berkshire JJ pigs, all warranted pure bred. Address J. B. Gilbert, Lewisville, Henry county, Ind. 33-4w FOR SALE—Fultz Seed Wheat, by E. R. Kenny, Lafayette, Indiana. Price J1S0 per bushel. Also a white bearded wheat very good, fame price. 83-4t FOR SALE—Fowls, all best breeds at lowest prices, warranted pure bred. Bend stamp for illustrated circular and price list. Dr. C. Lewis, Marlboro, Stark county, O. 33-2w F OR SALE—Seed wheat—two hundred bushels of pure Fultz wheat for seed free of cheat, cockle or smut, at 81.40 per bushel, sacks furnished at 35 cents apiece, delivered eX Orleans depot. Money sent by Post Office order to A. V. Poindexter, Orleans, Orange county, Ind. All orders will receive immediate attention, . 33-2w FOR SALE—800acres farm lands, very cheap,250 acres in corn and meadow, etc., the balance well set blue grass pasture land, well watered in every part, and good, dry, rolling land; some parts a little broken A splendid body of Fine Timber (Over 1,600 fine oak and poplar trees alone being counted on it). This timber alone if marketed would more than pay for the whole tract. Location—On the I. A St. L. Railroad near two other Railroads and midway between the four great cities of the west, with good railroad facilities to each—in Putnam connty, Ind., the finest grass and stock county in the State. The advantages of such a location over the far west must be clear to all. This property was recently appraised at $50 per acre, but to secure a speedy sale, it is now offered at from 822 to 825 per acre, less than half its appraised value. For particulars address Col. C. C. MATSON, 34-4w Greencastle, Ind. MONET LOANS. TO LOAN—8500,000—in sums of 81,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county in the State. Time, three 10 five years. Interest ten per cenu.payable semi-annually at the end of every six months. Commission five per cent. Money furnished in five days after examination of property, and abstract and appraisement is made. In writing give number of acres cleared and in cultivation, kind of house and barn and value. Address W. A. Bradshaw, No. 16 Bates Block, Indianapolis. 34-tf WAITED. "IIT ANTED—Excursionists to the Great Neosho W Valley, Kansas, August 16th and Sept. 6th. For rates and special information, address J. D. King, Mo., Kan. & Texas R'y, Land and Excursion agt., Crawfordsville, Ind. - 29-7w STOCK NOTES. The live stock show at the State Fair this year promises to be a very interesting one. There will probably be several breeders here from New York and other States who have not previously shown their stock in this State.. The Kentucky Live Stock Record says: At the public sale of Cotswold sheep, the property of Geo. M. Bedford, Stoner Farm, Bourbon county, Ky., sold on the 10th inst., the following prices were obtained: 14 rams, aggeisate 8290 00 Average 20 71 31 ewes 644 00 Average 18 94 . .♦ . - Live Stock etc, in Illinois. The returns to the Board of Equalization of Illinois, says the Prairie. Farmer, gives the following live stock in ninety- nine counties: Hogs .2,670,363 Cattle 1,861,278 Sheeps 826,077 Horses „ 924,044 Mules, and asses _ ;. 123,213 Total acres wheat, 2,005,262; total acres corn, 8,218,299; total acres other field products, 2,277,615; total acres orchards, 312,- 902. The assessment returns in Illinois show a reduction in the valuation of property, over that of last year, of $58,020,571. That is over half a million to the county. The returns last year showed 2,809,- 969 hogs. This, exhibits ■ a considerable falling off in the hog crop of that State. We shall soon have the returns in for Indiana. They are not all complete yet. . . m> m ■ Live Stock at tiie Centennial.—The exhibition of live stock at the Centennial promises to be numerous in the number of entries and of high character and order. The total number of entries of live stock for exhibition some two weeks since include 300 horses, over 600 sheep, 590 swine and nearly 400 dogs. Application is stated to have been re- ■ ceived at the Bureau of Agriculture for stalls for 146 EnglisTi sheep, sent for exhibition, and quite a number of choice .English shorthorns will also be exhibited. THE STOCK SHOW IN PARKE. Editors Indiana Farmer:—As our show of colts and hogs is now • a thing of the past, we thought to send a notice of same to your readers. So tar as success was concerned, it was a surprise and exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine and was a holiday enjoyed by a large concourse of people. As it was rather a novelty in its way it was if possible a success unexpected, and appreciated by all present as was attested by the enjoyment of all present. Friday evening the hogs began to arrive. Messrs. Turner and Fosher of Putnam County bringing over their stock including some from our friend Mustard they purchased lately. Early Saturday morning Mr. Harrison Guilliams of Putnam county was on hand with some of his stock. Then the neighbors and friends came in until we had 99 head as good as ever was shown at any of our State fairs. Committees were puzzled to know where to tie the ribbons there being so many good ones. Mr. Swaim (not Swain) was as happy as a cricket and so far as the show of colts was concerned it was excellent. It was a show sure enough, better stock is not to be seen anywhere. It may be thought that we are enthusiastic, but will just say that in competing for a sweepstakes premium of all ages of Hamiltonian colts there was present five that have taken the ribbons at the State fair heretofore, and plenty of others was as good or better if possible than.those above mentioned. Such in brief was our show.and many would have been glad to have shown their cattle, sheep and fowls. But those inaugurating the movement for a show little expected such a turn out of stock and people. A free show and a free sight to those who came to see, and you have our show in lull, better than any fair. I suppose that another year will see the same thing over again though probably on a larger scale. But we say a free show with a little more notice before hand. All were benefited and said what a success. E. Thomas. Bellmore, Parke Co., Ind. HOG CHOLERA AGAIN. Editors Indiana Farmer:—The hog cholera is becoming too embarrassing to the farmers of the West and South to be overlooked or disregarded; thousands of dollars are annually lost to the farmers of these sections on account of this dreadful pest. Several neighborhoods in Spencer county during the present season have suffered severe losses, and still it is dealing out death to the swine of all ages, breeds and color. All the known remedies, as well as many unknown ones have been resorted to, to little purpose. As well as I can ascertain not less than one fourth of the hog crop in our county is annually destroyed by this dreadful pest. I have taken particular pains to learn its course the* present season. When it commences ita ravages in a neighborhood no one seems to know how it got its start, but it is evident that after it gets a foot hold in a neighborhood it goes from herd to herd, till farmers become alarmed and stop its course by seperation and division of herds. While I am fully satisfied that it is contageous, (as stated in a former article) yet there are a number of hogs that seem to escape the disease altogether. Such are generally found to be very thrifty, and though they may have the cholera, it is so light that it is not observed. My rule is a preventive, and not a cure, to effect this I would recommend. First. Regular feeding, and not too much doctoring; use but little drugs, feed your hogs mostly on slops and cooked food, slightly salted, so as to prevent cos- tiveness. Second. Do not suffer too many hogs to run and sleep together and keep the pens clean, or if in lota or fields, change often. Third. See that your State Represent- atives and Senators, are pledged to enact a law the comming session to prohibit hogs running at large, this done, and then in my judgement we will be troubled but little with the hog cholera. A. H. McCoy. Gentryville, Spencer Co., Ind. . ■ m m Prof. Law on Hog* Cholera. Prof. Law, of Cornell University, in commenting on one ofthe many "sure cures" for hog cholera, says: When tried in a sufficient number of cases, and. extending over a series of years, all these boasted specifics have hitherto broken down. Examples, which might be very greatly extended, imply that a sound mixed diet is of great importance in maintaining a healthy activity ofthe various organic functions, and a vigor to a large extent antagonistic to this and other diseases, and that a somewhat similar immunity may be secured by the use of tonics, antisceptics, and gently stimulating agents. But if we rest our faith upon any or all of these assure cures or preventives, we shall only pave the way for disappointment whenever the disease takes on an unusually malignant type. Thus, in spite of the protective power of a partially milk diet, as above mentioned, now often does the disease prevail most disastrously in the herds_ of cheese and butter factories, and, notwithstanding the good effect of an occasional meal of flesh, we find the most extensive losses among pigs that are largely camiv- erous (flesh eating) in their habits. Keep your hogs clean is good advice. Protect them from the hot, reeking bed of manure and close sleeping places, 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, inthe sense of being free from disease germs, and from the microscopic particles of decomposing organic matter which, within the system as well as outside of it furnish appropriate food, for the disease, poison, and favor its in creas, while they depress the vital powers^ and lessen the chances of the virus being thrown off. No less important is the purity of the air, since the delicate membrane of the lungs, perhaps more than any other, furnishes an easy mode of entrance for any injurious external matter. Finally, purity of the blood can only be mantained by a healthy functional activity of all the vital organs, which insures the perfect elaboration of every plastic, constituent of the blood, and the excre- . tion 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 seperation of sound from diseased animals, and the free use of disinfectants (solutions of sulphate of iron and chloride of lime, fumes of burning sulphur, etc.) to purify the air and other surrounding objects, as well as the simple clearing away of filth. And it is here that the pork raisers are most frequently at fault. Fifty or a hundred pigs are allowed to crowd together in a filthy manure heap, a rotten straw f*tack, or under a barn subjected to the droppings of other animals, as well as their own products. Their feeding troughs and drink water are so supplied that they can get into them with their filthy feet, and they must devour the most obnoxious mattejr or starve. If, under this abuse, disease is developed, the healthy are left with the sick, as "they will all have it any way," and the result is usually a clean sweep. When hog cholera exists, the sick should be placed by themselves under a special attendent, and under the free use of disinfectants; the healthy should be carefully watched, and on the first sign of illness, as increased temperature, to be ascertained by the introduction of a clinical thermometor 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 animals from an infected stock, to be removed 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 whenever it is found to exist, give our main attention to prevent the further generation and dissemination of the poison. m m s Horses Pulling at the Halter. A horse can pull more backwards by a strap over the top of his head than he can pull forward by the breast, and when he has learned this he will break almost any single strap of leather, but this is not the worst of it, there is great danger of his injuring himself as well as doing injury to the harness or carriage, when loose. There is much danger of injury by tieing him with a strap around the neck when he cannot or will not exert as much force. A handy way with a carriage horse is to have a strong two-inch strap with a strong black buckle fastened to an iron ring. This can remain on the horse's neck then have in your buggy a new, strong rope with a large knot on one end that will not pass through the ring. Draw this through the ring when you tie him and he will try the strength of it but a few times. Such is my experience.— Cor. Moore's Rural. SHEEP IN COLORADO. The Avelanche, a paper published at Canon CSty, Colorado, has the following account of a large flock of improved sheep. .' We recently witnessed the weighing of fleeces shown from rams imported and owned by our townsman, Joseph Kenyon, Esq., and are of the opinion that they are hard to beat in Colorado or elsewhere. Mr. Kenyon has taken great pains, and spared no expense in procuring the very best blood to be obtained in the United States or Canda. Hia purchases last year comprise many of the "prise takers at various fairs in Canada, which he visited for the especial purpose of obtaining the best, and paid in many instances for rams as high as $150 each, in gold. He now finds his enterprise fully rewarded in the value of his lambs, having ready sale for young rams from I blood ewes, • at $15 to $20 apiece. In fact he has sold 300 of the young rams at those' figures. There are now in his herd 42 rams, the average yield of wool from which has this year been 16 pounds each; selected fleeces weighing 18} pounds of the most beautiful lustre combing wool, measuring 10 to 15 inches in length. The rams are of Cotswold and Lincoln breeds, and very large, the two year-olds weighing from 250 to 300 pounds. Mr.* Kenyon has for six years been breeding from thi* class of sheep, first crossing them with Mexican ewes, and now has 2000 } and I blood ewes, which has shorn this season an average of 6 lb. apiece combing wool, which even at the present low price, will yield him a handsome profit over the cost of keeping, to say nothing of the increase of his herd. This class of wool sold last year, in the Boston market at 45c. per pound, being 8 to 10c. higher than the best of Merino The clip of this year is unsold, but will probably bring 35c, notwithstanding the great depression in this product. If wool-growers would more generally pursue the policy of Mr. K., and insist upon having the best of rams, at whatever cost, avoiding promiscuous and irresponsible ram-peddlers, and dealing only with breeders of known reputation, their experience would correspond with his, and occasional depressions in the wool market would not transmit a corresponding depression to the spirits and prospects of sheep owners. For example the yield of six pounds from his ewes, say at 30c, which is lower than combing wool has ever been quoted, gives him $1.80 per head, not taking into consideration the increase, which is about 20 percent., of lambs of superior grade, worth at least $5 per head even for mutton, at two years old, and vastly more to breed with the coarse-wool Mexicans. Mr. Kenyon informs us that he has such arrangements with large sheep growers in New Mexico, that he can furnish purchasers with No. 1 young Mexican ewes at lowest current prices, and his engagements for this season, already amount to over ten thousand head, to be delivered in October. sterling into currency at the rate of $5 to the pound, of $236 per head. If later sales were included, the average would probably be brought up to a higher figure, but there is little doubt, we presume, that it would still be lower than at the American sales of the season." Jersey Cattle. NEWS OP THE WEEK. Thomas Fitch, of New London, Connecticut, writes the American Agriculturist: I have bred many thorough-bred Jerseys, and hundreds of grades, but comparatively few of my thorough-breds have given more than twelve quarts of milk per day, and I have the credit of breeding some of the most celebrated milkers and butter-makers now in this country, among them the following well-known names: Palestine third, Maggie Mitchell, Fleetwoot, Flora, Buff, and more that I can name, all are the direct descendants of Mr. John A. Taintor's stock, some of them having given as high as twenty-two quarts of milk and made more than two pounds of butter per day, measured and weighed. I have crossed the Jersey bull with nearly all the known breeds of cows, Ayrshires, Natives, Short-horns, Dutch, the "sacred cow," and the Devons, and it is an excellent cross with any and all breeds for the dairy. I have never yet found a half-blood Jersey cow that did not yield a richer quality of milk than her dam. One peculiarity of the cross is this: Wherever the Jersey bull serves, he transmits the rich quality ofthe milk to the grade he gets. —, s m s Protecting Horses from Flies. A French pharmaceutical chemist has discovered a way to protect horses from attacks of flies, according to a London medical paper. His invention consists in rubbing the horses, especially on the part most subject to attack, with, a little concentrated oil of laurel. There is not the slightest danger in its use, and the cost is said to be very small. Another repellant suggested by the same person, is a solution of sixty grammes (one pound and five ounces avoirdupois) of assafoeti- da in two glasses of water, and one of vinegar. If horses be well washed with this, not a fly will settle upon them, as the odor of the assafoetida drives the flies away. This drug has no deleterious qualities as an external application, and may be used unhesitatingly. . 9 . W. B. Dillon, of Normal, 111., will bring twenty-five of his celebrated Normandy horses to the State Fair. The Market Value of a Short-horn. A CARD. To Breeders of Fine Hogs: I desire to sell the fine boar known as Harry Clay Second, which was awarded to me as a premium by the Indiana Farmer in 1875. He was bred by James Riley, of Thorntown, Boone county, and is said to be the finest hog ever seen in this part of the State. He was pigged on March 7th, 1875. I can not keep him in town advantageously, and to persons that are intending to show stock at fairs he will prove a good investment. He is hard to beat. For further information write to R. M. Lockhart, Waterloo, DeKalb county, Ind. 34-lt. The Country Gentleman figures up the Eresent nominal value of a fancy Short- om as follows: "What is the average current value of a Short-horn? Struck with this question, on the arrival of Bailey's Short-horn Reporter for July 1, we took some pains to draw up the following table from the reports at public sales it contains, comprising, as will be seen, the average and total returns on twenty-nine different occasions, and relating to 1,347 lots, of both sexes and all ages. The general average on this large number may be regarded as a fair answer, and we find it to be $382, which, although less than the general average on all the sales of 1875. is almost precisely the same as that obtained on all the sales of 1874 ($385 on 2,676 head). This is certainly not a discouraging aspect of the case, and the probability ■ seems to be that this average will be at least fully sustained in the Kentucky sales, that are atill to come. As our table for the past two months may be of interest, we give it below in detail: Date and Place. No. April 6—West Liberty, Iowa...77 April 12—Galesburg, HI 54 April 26—Mechanichsville, Ia.5S May 2—Springfield, HI 18 May 3—8pringfield, 111 38 May -3—Springfield, 111 29 May 4—Springfield, 111 21 May 5-Springfield, IU 55 May 10—Marehaltown,'*Iowa_80 May 16—Louisiana,Mo...- 44 May 22—Freeport, IU. 84 May 23—Franklin Grove, IU.54 May 24-Franklin Grove, M..47 May 25—Dexter Park, 111 -65. May 26—Dexter Park, HI 67 May 26—Dexter Park, HI .48 May 31—CambridgeCity, Ind.64 May 31—CambridgeCity. Ind.10 June 1—Jacksonville, 111 50 June I—Indianapolis, Ind.....38 June 6—Carrollton, 111....: 44 June 7—Berlin, HI .59 June 14—Toronto,. 53 June 15—Toronto, 35 June 16—Toronto 56 June 14—Table Grove .19 June 14—Table Grove 111 -.19 June 15—Baraboo, Wisconsin..l2 June 16-Utica, lo wa 49 Total - - 1,347 $382 J514.835 We also have the last number of Thornton's London Short-horn Circular—rather behind time as it dates back to April 1st, but we have no later statistics in accessible form. In this circular nine sales are reported," in which the number of animals sold was 295, at an average, converting Average Total. J333 $25,610 355 19,190 199 11,565 351 6,320 934 35,505 139 4,020 234 9,115 344 18,920 212 16,980 219 . 9,630 237 19,876 243 13,125 257 12,065 1082 70,320 27S 18,325 372 17,835 323 20,695 590 5,900 292 14,610 103 3,900 170 7,465 233 13,720 1719 91,075 327 11435 252 14,105 IU 2,115 91 1,735 110 1,405 373 18,275 State News. There were thirty-eight deaths in this city last week. A Miss Perkins was fatallv burned at Crawfordsville, Monday, while kindling a fire with coal oil. The aggregate loss to the O. & M. railway company, occasioned by the late strike of its employes, is estimated at $100,000. The Veteran Soldiers' re-union on the SOth of September, promises to be a monster gathering of the boys. - An incendiary fire at Ft. Wayne, Thursday of last week, resulted in the destruction of John H. Cody & Co.'s stave works. Loss $15,000, insured for $4,000. Wabash, Patnam and Bartholomew counties are each organizing a regiment of soldiers to attend the re-union In this city on the 20th proximo. The indications are that it will be a great meeting. The O. & M. Railway discharged many of the striking employes and filled their places with green hands, and, as a consequence, collisions have occured on the road, resulting in much loss of property besides a half dozen of the new hands being killed, and others fatally injured. Joshua Gallagher, a citizen of Windfall, Tipton county, found a sack of Bilver coin containing $860, in an old stable on his farm, about six weeks ago. No one claiming it, he concluded to make use of it, and accordingly on the 18th he offered to exchange $50 of it for currency, at a bank in Tipton, but upon Eresentation to the bank, it was discovered to e counterfeit. He escaped arrest by proving a first-class character for himself. The coin is now in possession of detectives. Hon. Michael C. Kerr, Speaker of the House of Representatives, died at Alum Springs, Virginia, on Saturday, the 19th inst. His remains will be taken to New Albany for interment. Dr. W. W. Hitt, aged seventy-six, died in Vincennes, on Thursday of last week. He had resided at the Old Post since 1830, was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1852, and for a number of years was President of the Vincennes University, also one of the founders of Asbury University, and a trustee of the same. Samuel Billingsley, an old resident of Clark township, Johnson county, one of the pioneers, committed suicide Saturday morning by hanging himself. Deceased was over sixty years old, and the act may have been precipitated by a desire to teimlnate a life, the usefulness of which has been impaired by declining years. A Cheap Disinfectant. One pound of green copperas, costing seven cents, dissolved in one quart of water, and poured down a water-closet, will effectually concentrate and -destroy the foulest smells. Simple green copperas, dissolved under the bed in anything that will hold water, will render a hospital, or other place for the sick, free from unpleasant smells. For butchers' stalls, fish markets, slaughter-houses, sinks, and wherever there are offensive putrid gasses, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and in a few days the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat, or mouse dies about the house and sends forth an offensive gas place some dissolved copperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is, and it will soon purify the atmosphere. » m* . "This, ladies, " said a Centennial showman in the zoological department, "this is the wild duck, a fowl of well-known migratious habits." "Migratious let's have a look at him," screamed an old lady in the back part of the crowd. "Steam is a great thing," remarked a traveler in a railroad car to his vis-a-vis. "So it is," was the reply. I owe my fortune to it." "Monsieur is manager of a company?" "No, I have lost a number of relatives by railroad accidents." This is the way a citizen of Denver advertises for a lost calf: "Rund away: 1 Red and vite caf. His tu be hint leg was plack, he vas a she calf. Enipotti vat prings him pack 5 tollers. Jacob zudder- mg, Clear Creek, three miles behind the pndge." s ■ s Barley In Canada. A trade circular from Canada, which places the acreage in barley at about the same as in 1875, offers the following: We experienced splendid growing weather until about the middle of June, when hot, dry weather followed, hardening the heavy clay lands, checking the growth and causing the head's to form on short straw. On light soil the barley grew very luxuriant, almost rank, so that when the extremely and continued hot weather followed, the heads formed and ripened too rapidly, thus causing the berry to be light in weight and the yield very deficient. We are sorry to report that the early grown barley will be thin, not weighing over forty-six pounds to the bushel. The late sbwn grain will be plumper. The yield per acre will be fully one- third less than last year. Some reports from threshing-machine men report a deficiency of one-half, but this can be more accurately determined when the threshing has become more general. General News. Congress adjourned last week. The President and family have gone to Long Branch. Watkin's mill and elevator at Mattoon, 111., were destroyed by fire on Friday last. In the Big Horn fight with Custer the Sioux admit only 31 of their number killed. A branch of A. T. Stewart's New York business house is to be started in Chicago. A light frost again prevailed in the vicinity of Port Jarvis, N. Y., on the morning of the 21st inst. The Atlantic Mills at Lawrence. Mass., will be put in operation again Sept. 14th, and will give labor to 1200 operatives. Twentv-five thousand bushels of corn were sold and bought at Lincoln, 111., one day last week. Since the war to August 1st, 1876, the redaction of the public debt has been $503,- 892,915. The Children's Home, at Portsmouth, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the 19th. Loss $15,000. A number of Fenian convicts, who recently made their escape from New South Wales arrived by steamer at New York on Saturday. The dam of a reservoir in Montana gave way a few days ago which resulted in considerable loss of life and great damage to crops. The loss in crops and property will reach a quarter of a million dollars. Mt. Carmel (111.) Register: On the farm of Wm. Johnson is a stalk of corn the top of which is forty feet from the ground. There are two ears of corn growing upon it at the distance of thirty odd feet from the level of the surrounding country. There is great excitement in the vicinity of Barr's store, some twenty miles east of Carroll- ton, near the Macoupin county line, 111., by the appearance of wolves among the sheep, hogs, etc. Large numbers have been destroyed of late, and efforts are being made by the farmers to rid themselves of the pests. Fathbbs and Mothkks look with anxiety to the time when their daughters must leave home to gain an education, and they will find their apprehensions quieted by carefully studying the new and sound method of the Young Ladies Athenaeum, of Jacksonville, where they can indicate their choice of studies, and decide whether an elective or the full classical course shall be followed. In this way culture is adapted to both physical and mental strength, and the best development of womanly capacities attained. Those who have become acquainted with the Anthenaeum methods and results are surprised to find that such a great advance has not been adopted by all educators. Special advantages in vocal and instrumental music, under the very best masters, are afforded at the Illinois Conservatory of music, located in the same block, upon terms within the reach of all desiring perma-*- nent education. These institutions are locat- i ed in a community entirely in sympathy with them and their work, and the social atmos- -> phere of itself exerts a powerful educating influence. 31-1 m> |
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