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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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."
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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
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