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.G***^ Vol. XL HTOIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 23,1876. No. 38. EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. "V - PERSONALS. Persons In any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties In other portions of the Etate oi country shot-Id 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 yom* neighbor of it when yon hear of the loss of his Btock. Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less than 25 cents. FOR BAL£. FOR SALE—Choice Partridge Cochins suitable for exhibition at any connty fair, at 85, per pair. Geo. Vestal, Cambridge City, Ind. 37-2w MONEY LOANS. TO LOAN—$500,000—In sums of 81,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county in the State. Time, three' o five years. Interest ten per cent., 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, State Pavings Bank, No. 56 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. 84-tf WANTED. "TT"**-ANTED—A reader of the Farmer wishes to TV obtain copies of "The Hog," by H. W. Ellsworth and Charles Loring, by Dr. T. A. Bland. Any cne having these books for sale will please send address and price to this office. 38-tf INDIANA FARMER. ANNOUNCEMENT. It CLASSES in SHORT-HAND commence the first of each week at the Indianapolis Business College, Bates Block, opposite P. O. Lessons given by mail. For terms, etc., call at College, or address, with stamp, C. E. Joslin, Indianapolis Business College. '■ 38-2w MISCELLANEOUS. FOR TRADE—I wish to exchange a thoroughbred, Southdown Buck, ont ot S. Meredith A Son's imported stock for one of the same kind but of different strain. S. K FLETCHER. 36-tf STOCK NOTES. \ A pair of thoroughbred Holstein cattle •will be on exhibition at the State Fair. These are the first of this breed brought into Indiana, by Tilghman H. Anderson. A lot of fine Cotswold lambs were recently sold by a Kentucky breeder for ten dollars per head. Mr. Murray, of Westover Farm, on the James River, Va., has just imported a two year old Devon bull, a Devon heifer of the same age, two Shropshire rams and ten ewes, from England. * — — m—m • ■ ■■—■ The splendid series of Short-horn sales ,for Kentucky, advertised in the Farmer, will probably be the last of the autumn - sales. Mr. Jas. H. Parker, a swine breeder of Spencer county this State, writes us that he is losing nearly all of his valuable hogs with the cholera. He has lost many hundreds of dollars worth of fine stock in this way. He writes that the disease is so general and fatal, that there will hardly be enough pork made in that county to supply the home demand. We regret to hear of this .disaster among our good friends of Spencer. The Farmer has published everything that promised relief on thia subject, but what gives relief in one case has no effect in another, and bo there is no effectual and general remedy found yet for hog cholera. We believe that if the rules laid down by Prof. Law, as published in the Farmer of August 26th, were carefully observed, that there would be little orrib cholera among the swine. s s Sale of Sheep.—We observe in the papers the following report of a sale of sheep, the property ofF. GanoHill, Centerville, Ky.,30: 106 CotWold ewes :.........i:;ii; *tt,M3 5o 21 •• " lambs, 259 00 35 " bucks, 735 00 10 " "Stick iambs,. 170 00 3 Leicester ewes 45 00 11 Shropshite-Down ewes,. 250 00 4 " bucks, „... 78 00 16 Southdown ewes 268 50 9 " buck lambs, 13143 224 head, average 17 00 The principal purchasers were Mr. Mark 8. Cockrill, for the Tennessee Importing Company, and Mr. J. L. Devore of Ohio. Highest priced imported Cotswold buck went to J. L. Devore, Ohio, for $51. Highest Cotswold ewe sold to B. H. Prewitt, Pine Grove, Ky., $41. Imported "Shropshire buck sold to W. A. Gaines, iCentreville, Ky., $46. and re-sold to General Cheatham, Nashville, Tenn., for $50. Cotswolds in Kehtocky.—At the public sale ■ of Cotswolds by Messrs. War- nock & Megibben, of Harrison county, and J. W. Allison, of Bourbon, at the farm of Mr. Megibben, near Cynthiana, Ky., August 31st, the Kentucky Live Stock Record says there was a good attendance, notwithstanding rain, and the following prices were paid: . 164 ewes, average per head $18 55 ' 27 ewe lambs, 1140 41 bucks 36 25 32 buck lambs „ 1175 Highest priced bucks purchased by Mr. Gordon of Indiana for $200; D. S. Coleman & Son, Fayette county, buck, $200; 2d, Jas. Williams, Clark county, $185, and 3d, John Skillman, Bourbon county, $145. The highest priced ewe was sold to Buckner Woodford of Bourbon, for $60. . . ♦ . Ethan Allen, the celebrated trotting stallion, died a few days ago in Kansas, at the advanced age of twenty-seven years. s m . The owner of a large herd of Shorthorns in the county of Perth, Englandi states that he has lately lost £50,000 by the foot-and-mouth disease. The firm of Gen. S. Meredith & Son, of Cambridge City., has lately made a ship ment of horses to England. This firm of breeders of superior stock has a worldwide reputation, and this is not the first time English stock breeders have sought their herds for superior animals, of one kind or an other. SHEEP IN EUROPE. The report on sheep and wool at the Vienna International Exhibition has just been given to the public, from which we quota the following in regard to^tsheeD and wool: ■•■-;■*""-.■ -- isnwwani*.—The" Southdowns take the lead in point of numbers, with 40 animals; 20 from the flock of Lord Sondes, Elmham Hall,' Norfolk; and as many from the Merton flock of Lord Walsing- ham. The former represented a flock of 1,200 pnre bred Sussex Downs, founded in 1823, and distinguished for symmetry and thriftine3S. They were sold to go to Hungary, Galicia, North Germany and Russia. The latter, from a flock of worldwide renown, were sold to the Archduke Albrecht for his estates in Austria; to Count Fries, Czernahora, Moravia; Baron Magnus, Dresha, Saxony, and to breeders in Russia. The Elmham Hall rams yield fleeces of 8 to 10 pounds, and those of Merton Farm are quite as heavy. The Cotswolds numbered twenty-six in three entries. Those from the Agricultural College Farm, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, twelve in number, representing a flock of 200 ewes and 60 rams and 180 fattening sheep, illustrated well the especial aims of breeding at the college farm, viz., a heavy fleece, depth of fleece, and great hardiness. The fleeces weigh from 13 to 20 pounds. The rams are in great request for cross-breeding with Southdowns, Hampshires, and mountain sheep, to give length to the fiber and weight to the fleece. There were also eight from Mr. T. Beale Brown, Salperton Park, Gloucestershire; and six from Thos. Fulcher, Elmhall, Norfolk. Germany.—The Merinos of Germany have been greatly modified in later years by crossing, so that it might be impossible to find a flock with the precise characteristics of twenty years ago, though bearing the same name. ' The Electoral, Negretti, and Rambouillet are mingled according to the whim or judgment of the breeder,, the better to suit his views of the demands of the market for wool or meat, and the result is the loss ofthe distinctive character of the originals. The spindle legs have been shortened, the flat ribs rounded, the bald head covered, and the very fine super-Electoral fleece has been displaced by longer,' coarser, and more abundant wool, which brings more money at a slightly reduced price per pound. Cement for Cracked Hoofs. Mr. Defay has discovered a preparation, by means of which sand-cracks or fractures in hoof or horn may be durably cemented up. Even pieces of iron can be securely joined together by ita means. The only precaution necessary for its successful application is the careful removal of all grease by spirits of sal- ammoniac, sulphide of carbon, or ether. M. Defay makes no secret of ita composition, which is as follows: Take one part of coarsely powdered gum-ammoni- acum and two parts of gutta-percha, in pieces the size of a hazel nut. Put them m a tin-lined vessel over a slow fire, and stir constantly until thoroughly mixed. Before the thick resinous mass gets cold, mold it into sticks like sealing wax. The cement will keep for years, and, when required for use, it is only necessary to cut off a sufficient quantity and re-melt it immediately before application.— English Live Stock Journal. Holsteins at Illinois State Pair. Among the attractions at the Illinois Sta'fe Fair last week, were the Holsteins.] represented by the herd of Mr. Dexter Severv, of Leland, 111. First prizes were awarded on cows as follow s: Zuyder Zee 9th dam imp. Zuyder Zee. Rosalie, dam imp. Vrouw. Hester, dam imp. Hendrika. First prize on bull" to Merrimac, on First Prince of Victor, and on duke of Leland. The Holsteins are attracting increased attention on account partly of their large milking capacity as a breed, combined with large size.—Farm Journal. Feeding Meat for Hog Cholera. Trifles light as air are sometimes of weight and moment, when they help to illustrate interesting and important subjects. As an example, I repeat the con versation had with a couple of gentlemen I met on the fair grounds last week. First with Mr. Wiley Davis of Mahomet, Champaign county, a well-informed, wealthy and successful cattle feeder, owning a large farm, and living on the east fork ofthe Sangamon. After the_ compliments of usage due to the magnificent Short-horn show before us, I enquired: "You and your neighbors on the Sangamon suffered much from the hog cholera last year; how is it this season?" D. " JVe have very little of it. At one time I thought my hogs were on the point of being attacked, when fortunately the train killed a couple of steers for me, on which the hogs gorged themselves,! and they have been healthy ever since.") J. "Ah, indeed! Then you regard fresh meat ai the best antidote or pre-] ventive. How would you feed it; is_there} not danger from gorging; would it no; have been better to have cut the carcase: up and doled them out, a pound or two day to each?" ' D. "No. Gorging is just what the want, or excess, or stirring up of so: _ kind; when a hog takes the cholera jt li down, and if not stirred up,', dies in " own atmosphere. Forcing them to mo| is one of thebest. things for *them, n< to feeding flesh and , providing them? tini3v-«»^^vsr-«>e»^rnar»wviy ftncrilrjie.'.'^V ' J. Better and better! x>**ry?t<sti-!s salt, and lime. How about offal-feu swine? Do they have the cholera? I ask you besause I understand you have had experience as a butcher." D. "Yes. I slaughtered more or less from the time I was 10 until I was 28. I never saw hog cholera in a slaughter yard, and though the popular prejudice is quite to the contrary, the best clean pork I ever ate,—that of which, after cooking thoroughly, the meat remained, was fed solely and exclusively with butcher's offal." J. "If the cholera were to show itself on your return home, among your swine, what is the first thing you would do?" D. "Hunt up the poorest and cheapest old cow or steer among my cattle, add kill and throw to them. J. "How about contagion?" D. "I am not fully persuaded one way or the other, but I do know by my own, and the experience of others, that there is nothing better for a herd of swine, attacked with cholera, than hauling the dead ones together, piling on brush and wood, half cooking and half consuming them, and then leave the sick and well to feast on their half roasted dead relatives and friends. But what is the use of talking about preventing contagion by separating the sick from the well, when buzzards swarm as they always do, where there is much cholera and leave the foul traces of their flight and presence everywhere? You remember the reported fall of flesh in Kentucky some months ago, the work of buzzards, as a matter of course." Taking leave of Mr. Davis, I soon after met Mr. John Allen Urbana—"Judge" Allen as he is called by his neighbors —a farmer of Quaker parentage and a well-to-do and intelligent man. Judge Allen had previously given 8 hours of honest work on a committee with which I had had official relation, and so after thanking him for the service and greeting to the fairness and justice ofthe awards, I inquired as to the condition of hia swine this summer. Had he seen the cholera, or symptoms of it, I asked. He had, but he had arrested it, aa he had previously done, by feeding meat. "In fact," said he, so far as my experience goes there is no other remedy worth anything." ''What kind of meat, Judge?" I enquired. "Why cracklins are best if you can get them, but refuse meat from the smoke house, surplus fat or lean, shanks, rinds, &c; any kind of meat will answer the purpose." "Your report gratifies me exceedingly, Judge. I shall soon see you again.—III. Correspondent Country Gentleman. $1 Jer head equivalent to hay at $10 per torj He would like to see our dairymen feeing more corn-meal and more oata in wilier and less hay. Then cows would notcome out in the spring as lean as Pha- roia's lean kine, and they would start off foiiheir summer duties with good heart an|udder, and more than pay back the exta cost, if there is any, of the winter foder.—N. Y. Times. BUBAL NOTES. BY A. FURNAS. jJierican Beef in London.—The Anerican feeders probably never could ha*e invaded the English meat market at .'more opportune period. The sham- bis' are not only sparsely covered, but thtquality of the meat exhibited is, gen- er.ly speaking, unpopular and ill adapted o cope with the grass-fed meat that th« are prepared to offer to the meat eaiog population of Great Britain.—Lon- doiAg'l Gazette. . GRASSHOPPERS IN KANSAS. Fain Devastated in an Hour—An Original Account ofthe Occurence. .1 'He New York Times says:_ The follow- ingoriginal and characteristic account of thtKansas grasshopper plague is taken frca a private letter to a gentleman in th; city: <, "Saline County, Ks., Sept. 8,1876, My Dear Father—No man can suc- ce-fully fight against nature. The con- te> }s unequal—nature caring no more foiaman than for a grasshopper. Ah I th< jhopper.' To-day I lost sixty acres of wbjtt, eaten into the ground in legs than tir. I thought I had seen locusts ears ago, but I was mistaken. out 10 o'clock this morning, I no- ticcfl a heavy smoke r.'sing in the west. I Ead to myself, ' that is strange-looking smoke. What causes it ?' I sat on my whe^t-drill and watched it. Rapidly it ai-ojej*—smoke rising to the south, to the now, to the northeast. In a few minutes tKefcOlumn of smoke extended from the s&ith xround by the west to the north- eaift—id the extreme limit of vision. I un- A Good Crop. To The Indiana Farmer: This part of Indiana can boast of one heavy crop without precedent for the last quarter of a century, and that is malaria. Having had a "tech," and just when I didn't want it, I feel competent to sit in judgment in the case. As I was going to start to Indianapolis to receive the Centennial Fruit so liberally contributed by our horticultural friends, I had to take my bed with bil- lious fever, being a relapse from a previous attack. I am thus "personal" for the purpose of explaining my seeming neglect of correspondence at that time. After finding my inability to attend to the centennial fruit, I sent my papers to Charles Lowder with a request that he fill my place. This he did, and after working one "day, went home with the fever. He in turn sent for J. B. Milhous, but he or his family were sick, so the work of packing fell upon Sylveste r Johnson, assisted by Jesse White^ind Matthew Lowder. S. J. reported that he would go with the fruit and see that it was properly displayed, and I feel gratified that one of the committee was found well enough to go with it. Verily this would seem to be the pursuit of glory, or knowledge, under difficulties. Since writing the foregoing, friend Johnson wrote me briefly, stating that our fruit all arrived safely at the centennial grounds-, and that by evening of the second day of the exhibition, he had it all arranged, and that for quality it compared favorably with other states, but waa far behind some of them in number of varieties. To see this national exhibition of fruit would have been worth more to me than all the other part of j the centennial show, the occasion being' slowly ssjnk,l auspicious, for making notes and corroc- . > .— o - ■* ; - r-« my wheat jtisaii,'bt)i\i in'desirable varietieiVas wei] sacks u the wtgon, hitched to it, drove Winter Feeding. Corn is better adapted for fattening animals than for making them grow. To young animals, even to pigs, it should be fed in moderation. Fat is not what we want in a young animal, but bones and muscles instead, and these are best produced by grass, roots, and oats. It is often, however, economy to feed a little corn-meal with these. Prof.Arnold has made some experiments in feeding corn compared with hay, and he estimates the former at to the g-anary, unloaded, drove to the house, got my tu^ and went prairie- chicken shooting. My wife looked at me in mild surpris Quitting work on a beautiful day to gOHooting was a queer thing, she thought, ±&& not i,ave the heart to tell her that i jggg than four hours her nice garden **,„-<} be cleaned out, and that all our wheatT0Uld begone. Soon the low hum, as of a t^tant threshing machine, filled the air—*ie advance of the locusts. Louder, ever -.uder the hum, till in a rear the counties billions of devourers were .on us, all art.nd us. The air was stiff with them. I coui \0q_[ at the sun without blinking. The; 8et. tied constantly. The earth was cov*^ with them, yet not one in a thousa^j stopped. To the east they went in a vat _ cloud. A west wind, a gale, blew them.' For six hours they flew, a solid cloud; and to-night there is not a wheat plant left in any of the counties about here. I sat on a hill and watched them, and smiled aa I saw some hundreds tackle a sunflower, and laughed as I saw that sunflower vanished. How thick they were I How harmless they looked; but, by Jove, how they ate! Ah! what appetites they have. It would make a dyspeptic turn green with envy to see the way they fasten to anything and everything edible. The characteristic of a grasshopper's appetite is, that all he eats runs to appetite. Sixty acres of my wheat was up. Now it is down— the gullets of the locusta. I suppose they will take the residue as it cornea through the ground. Well, I shall have to re-seed, that is all. But the loss of seed and labor is pretty sore on me this year, I have joy in saying that I have eighty acres of com that will try their teeth somewhat. It is aa hard aa corn can be. I walked down this afternoon to see how they were making out with it. They had the stalks all stripped of leaves, and were sawing at the corn. But I could see it was no go. The teeth alipped over the bright yellow surface. I have gone to haying again, and will hay until the locusts leave. I still keep three plows run- ning, and will re-seed as soon as possible. Our garden is perfectly cleared; beans, cabbages, tomatoes, melons, everything utterly gone. The vines to the potatoes are gone, and I am expecting a boss hopper nere at any minute to request the loan of a spade to dig up my potatoes with. I shall refuse hia request with scorn." as nomenclature I might be allowed to remark here that out of some fifty persons that -were booked for the horticultural excursion, only nineteen were able to go, sickness being the principal cause of the others not going. In our popular form of government it is said "the majority is always right," but in thia particular in- 8tance I would have preferred being recorded with the minority, and when the train started with those that did go, I felt somewhat like the Irishman that missed connection, "that there was a passenger aboard that was left behind." NEWS OF THE WEEK. State Neva. by the arrest of "William Fordner and John Watson and their wives. A large quantity of stolen goods was recovered at their houses. A petition circulated for the pardon of Jas. K. Hill, a "crooked-whisky" convict, who is now in the penitentiary South, has received the signature of Jndge Walter Greaham, before whom he was convicted. Hill was sent for two and a half years on the charge of defrauding the Government as whisky-guagei. The Clay County Trotting Association and fair closed Saturday. It was a successful «x- hibition. The attendance was not quite so large as last year, but the fair was much better in other respects. The races are conceded the best of any former year. The residence of J. T. Prather, (a large two- story structure,) near Wheatland, Knox county, was destroyed by fire on Monday night, together with nearly all of its contents. The fire originated from a defective flue in the kitchen. Loss about $3,000; insured for $2,000. Cannelton Enquirer: A little child of Mr. James Conner, aged about three years, died, after a short illness, on Friday last. On Sunday, another being very Bick, Mr. Conner went for a physician, and while he was gone, his eldest boy, about eight years of age, came in from play and complained of not feeling well, and died before his father came home. The Lafayette Journal says: At the South- street depot, Saturday, two travelers, awaiting the Chicago train, were both attacked with ague at the same time. They shook and shook, and made fun of each other, and shook again. When the train arrived they both got aboard and took the same seat together, being determined, as one of them said, of shaking the conductor out of his fare. General News. The State Fair and Exposition opens on (onday, the 25th. -".nathan White's residence, near Liberty, wasiestroyed by fire a few days since. Loss $3,00*. Mrs. Hedman, of Bloomington, who waa shot by Lur son-in-law, a week ago, has since died. Lightningstrnck the barn of a Mr. Walker, near Andersoi recently, and burned it down. Loss $4,000; iraurance' $2,800. One firm in this city has canned 10,000 bujhela of tomatoes this season. •ere were forty-seven deaths in this city last Week. There were twenty-one interments from yellow fever at Savannah, Ga., on Saturday. There seems to be no abatement of the terrible scourge. New York and other eastern cities are extending aid to the suffering people of Savannah, Georgia. John D. Lee, the leader in the Mountain Meadow massacre of 1857, in Utah, where a company of emigrants were butchered, is now on trial for the same. Boss Tweed was sent from Spain to Cuba on the 21st, and from thence he will be forwarded to New York. Gen. Terry's command in the Indian country has broken up and the pursuit of the red skins abandoned for the season. Th» barn of Archibald Armstrong, near BymVille, Harrison connty, was destroyed by fire oil the morning of the 7th inst. It is supposed the fire originated from lightning. Loss about $2,000. Burellvrs attempted to rob the Renssalaer bank .by\ digging under the foundation, the other day, but were captured before completing the job. One of them -was a grocery man of the place. The ague is more generally prevalent now than at any time since 1865. The wife of Samuel Barrow, of Windfall, was instantly killed by lightning, on Saturday afternoon while in an upper room of her house in '.hat village. Tie Cass County Agricultural Association lost about $1,400 on their fair last week. Sickness was the prime cause of their failure. The twenty-second annual convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Bynod of Northern Indiana will meet in the city of Elkhart on the 3rd of October next. There is expected about seventy ministers and lay delegates. The meeting will be continued for five days. A stranger was put off from the O. and M. train at Wateon, on Thursday morning of last week. No one. appears to have known him, his name, or where he came from and he died Friday night at the residence of John Dawson. . **. A farmer named John Holtz, living near Eugene, Vermillion connty, committed suicide by hanging himself in his bam on Monday last. Mr. John Biley, of Graham township, Jefferson county, died on the 5th inst., in the eighty-eighth year of his age. Mr. Riley was a soldier in the war of 1812 under Gen. Hani son, and participated in the siege of Fort Miegs. Chief of Police Ayres, of Evansville, has just broken up a gang of robbers and bun-lars It would appear from newspaper dispatches that the political campaign in South Carolina is bordering closely upon open war between the two parties. Riots are frequent. Bishop Edmond 8. Janes, of the M. E. church in New York died on the 18th. Several negroes and one white man were killed in Aiken county, South Carolina, the result of a riot Gen. Crook overtook a force of Indians, fought amjYkUled between 2C0 and 300 of them, on the 9th intt., . , '-■.,■'-,■•■ iV hi?ryy^tzd 'toi^Pn^^ to ^titiideii- *■> phia -Ua.,on Sunday last, which done considerable Qatoaee.to tlae m&Vu «xW*b*&*uS*tY -hoiva- - ing and Machinery Hall. Considerable dam- "•■ age to American and English exhibits re- '' suited. A few days ago a flock of swans, a half mile in length and estimated at 10,000, passed over LaSalle, Illinois. In the oolleges, academies, schools and other educational institutions of Jacksonville, 111., there are 65 males and 83 females employed as instructors—148 in all. Not less than three thousand pupils are receiving instrnction in the educational institutions in that city. Last week and this witnessed larger numbers of visitors at the Centennial than at any former time. Rufus R. Graves, who died recently at Morristown, N. Y., left large bequests to numerous institutions of learning and christian associations. The legislature of Maine stands, politically—' House, 120 Republicans, 30 Democrats; Senate, 29 Republicans, 2 Democrats. Contributions have been flowing into the yellow fever afflicted city of Savannah. Great destitution exists. Mr. J. H. Potts, of Morgan county, carried off over $600 in premiums at the Illinois State Fair last week on his herd of shorthorns. Robbers boarded tbe Utah Central Railroad a *few nights ago near Salt Lake City, and secured $15,000. The Architectural Iron Works of New York City have failed. Liabilities $200,000 of which $11,000 is due employes. Miller & Son., calico printers of Glasgow, Scotland, have failed. Liabilities $500,000. The great boss thief—Tweed—will ere long be returned to his native heath, New York. Illinois has 929,940 horses, nearly 2,000,000 cattle, 1,000,000 hogs, 17,575 pianos, 21,608 melodeons, 155,728 sewing machines, and diamonds valued at $50,000. The revised statutes, 1874, of Illinois, pro- hibiU waging or betting money on valuables of any nature, on the result of an election, under penalty of $1,000 fine and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. The war which has been going on for some time in Turkey has been marked by the most atrocious crimes that could possibly be conceived by the human mind. In some provinces the women have been outraged by the Turkish soldiery by the hundred. The details of the various crimes committed by them are disgusting, Bickening in the very extreme. The Turks appear to have gone to the very verge of the most hideous and revolting catalogue of crime, exhibiting all the characteristics of the most barbarous and brutal of created man. One is appalled at the recital of the devilish crimes they have committed. And neither age, sex, nor condition seem to have escaped. The authorities promise to redress their wrongs by apprehending and punishing the bloody bandits. Special Notice. To obviate the accumulation of dirt on top of the hog's nose, which happens in some lo- ? calities only, insert the Champios Dot-nti- "*| Ring so that the cross-ban comes in frost of "j the nose, and not on the top. It can be used either way as the judgment of the operator. dictates. Insert the Double Ring carefully, ' and it will give entibb satisfaction. Sx
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1876, v. 11, no. 38 (Sept. 23) |
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.G***^
Vol. XL
HTOIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 23,1876.
No. 38.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
"V -
PERSONALS.
Persons In any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties In other portions of the
Etate oi country shot-Id 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 yom* neighbor of it when yon hear of the loss
of his Btock.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
FOR BAL£.
FOR SALE—Choice Partridge Cochins suitable
for exhibition at any connty fair, at 85, per
pair. Geo. Vestal, Cambridge City, Ind. 37-2w
MONEY LOANS.
TO LOAN—$500,000—In sums of 81,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
in the State. Time, three' o five years. Interest ten
per cent., 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, State Pavings Bank, No. 56 N.
Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. 84-tf
WANTED.
"TT"**-ANTED—A reader of the Farmer wishes to
TV obtain copies of "The Hog," by H. W. Ellsworth and Charles Loring, by Dr. T. A. Bland. Any
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
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CLASSES in SHORT-HAND commence the first
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mail. For terms, etc., call at College, or address,
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MISCELLANEOUS.
FOR TRADE—I wish to exchange a thoroughbred, Southdown Buck, ont ot S. Meredith A
Son's imported stock for one of the same kind but
of different strain. S. K FLETCHER. 36-tf
STOCK NOTES.
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A pair of thoroughbred Holstein cattle •will be on exhibition at the State Fair.
These are the first of this breed brought
into Indiana, by Tilghman H. Anderson.
A lot of fine Cotswold lambs were recently sold by a Kentucky breeder for
ten dollars per head.
Mr. Murray, of Westover Farm, on
the James River, Va., has just imported a
two year old Devon bull, a Devon heifer
of the same age, two Shropshire rams and
ten ewes, from England.
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The splendid series of Short-horn sales
,for Kentucky, advertised in the Farmer,
will probably be the last of the autumn
- sales.
Mr. Jas. H. Parker, a swine breeder of
Spencer county this State, writes us that
he is losing nearly all of his valuable
hogs with the cholera. He has lost many
hundreds of dollars worth of fine stock in
this way. He writes that the disease is
so general and fatal, that there will hardly be enough pork made in that county to
supply the home demand. We regret to
hear of this .disaster among our good
friends of Spencer. The Farmer has
published everything that promised relief on thia subject, but what gives relief
in one case has no effect in another, and
bo there is no effectual and general remedy found yet for hog cholera. We believe that if the rules laid down by Prof.
Law, as published in the Farmer of August 26th, were carefully observed, that
there would be little orrib cholera among
the swine.
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Sale of Sheep.—We observe in the papers the following report of a sale of sheep,
the property ofF. GanoHill, Centerville,
Ky.,30:
106 CotWold ewes :.........i:;ii; *tt,M3 5o
21 •• " lambs, 259 00
35 " bucks, 735 00
10 " "Stick iambs,. 170 00
3 Leicester ewes 45 00
11 Shropshite-Down ewes,. 250 00
4 " bucks, „... 78 00
16 Southdown ewes 268 50
9 " buck lambs, 13143
224 head, average 17 00
The principal purchasers were Mr.
Mark 8. Cockrill, for the Tennessee Importing Company, and Mr. J. L. Devore
of Ohio. Highest priced imported Cotswold buck went to J. L. Devore, Ohio, for
$51. Highest Cotswold ewe sold to B. H.
Prewitt, Pine Grove, Ky., $41. Imported
"Shropshire buck sold to W. A. Gaines,
iCentreville, Ky., $46. and re-sold to General Cheatham, Nashville, Tenn., for $50.
Cotswolds in Kehtocky.—At the public sale ■ of Cotswolds by Messrs. War-
nock & Megibben, of Harrison county,
and J. W. Allison, of Bourbon, at the
farm of Mr. Megibben, near Cynthiana,
Ky., August 31st, the Kentucky Live
Stock Record says there was a good attendance, notwithstanding rain, and the
following prices were paid:
. 164 ewes, average per head $18 55
' 27 ewe lambs, 1140
41 bucks 36 25
32 buck lambs „ 1175
Highest priced bucks purchased by
Mr. Gordon of Indiana for $200; D. S.
Coleman & Son, Fayette county, buck,
$200; 2d, Jas. Williams, Clark county,
$185, and 3d, John Skillman, Bourbon
county, $145. The highest priced ewe
was sold to Buckner Woodford of Bourbon, for $60. .
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Ethan Allen, the celebrated trotting
stallion, died a few days ago in Kansas,
at the advanced age of twenty-seven
years.
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The owner of a large herd of Shorthorns in the county of Perth, Englandi
states that he has lately lost £50,000 by
the foot-and-mouth disease.
The firm of Gen. S. Meredith & Son, of
Cambridge City., has lately made a ship
ment of horses to England. This firm of
breeders of superior stock has a worldwide reputation, and this is not the first
time English stock breeders have sought
their herds for superior animals, of one
kind or an other.
SHEEP IN EUROPE.
The report on sheep and wool at the Vienna International Exhibition has just
been given to the public, from which we
quota the following in regard to^tsheeD
and wool: ■•■-;■*""-.■
-- isnwwani*.—The" Southdowns take the
lead in point of numbers, with 40 animals; 20 from the flock of Lord Sondes,
Elmham Hall,' Norfolk; and as many
from the Merton flock of Lord Walsing-
ham. The former represented a flock of
1,200 pnre bred Sussex Downs, founded
in 1823, and distinguished for symmetry
and thriftine3S. They were sold to go to
Hungary, Galicia, North Germany and
Russia. The latter, from a flock of worldwide renown, were sold to the Archduke
Albrecht for his estates in Austria; to
Count Fries, Czernahora, Moravia; Baron
Magnus, Dresha, Saxony, and to breeders in Russia. The Elmham Hall rams
yield fleeces of 8 to 10 pounds, and those
of Merton Farm are quite as heavy.
The Cotswolds numbered twenty-six in
three entries. Those from the Agricultural College Farm, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, twelve in number, representing
a flock of 200 ewes and 60 rams and 180
fattening sheep, illustrated well the especial aims of breeding at the college
farm, viz., a heavy fleece, depth of fleece,
and great hardiness. The fleeces weigh
from 13 to 20 pounds. The rams are in
great request for cross-breeding with
Southdowns, Hampshires, and mountain
sheep, to give length to the fiber and
weight to the fleece. There were also
eight from Mr. T. Beale Brown, Salperton
Park, Gloucestershire; and six from Thos.
Fulcher, Elmhall, Norfolk.
Germany.—The Merinos of Germany
have been greatly modified in later years
by crossing, so that it might be impossible to find a flock with the precise characteristics of twenty years ago, though
bearing the same name. ' The Electoral,
Negretti, and Rambouillet are mingled
according to the whim or judgment of
the breeder,, the better to suit his views
of the demands of the market for wool or
meat, and the result is the loss ofthe distinctive character of the originals. The
spindle legs have been shortened, the
flat ribs rounded, the bald head covered,
and the very fine super-Electoral fleece
has been displaced by longer,' coarser,
and more abundant wool, which brings
more money at a slightly reduced price
per pound.
Cement for Cracked Hoofs.
Mr. Defay has discovered a preparation, by means of which sand-cracks or
fractures in hoof or horn may be durably cemented up. Even pieces of iron
can be securely joined together by ita
means. The only precaution necessary
for its successful application is the careful removal of all grease by spirits of sal-
ammoniac, sulphide of carbon, or ether.
M. Defay makes no secret of ita composition, which is as follows: Take one
part of coarsely powdered gum-ammoni-
acum and two parts of gutta-percha, in
pieces the size of a hazel nut. Put them
m a tin-lined vessel over a slow fire, and
stir constantly until thoroughly mixed.
Before the thick resinous mass gets cold,
mold it into sticks like sealing wax. The
cement will keep for years, and, when required for use, it is only necessary to cut
off a sufficient quantity and re-melt it immediately before application.— English
Live Stock Journal.
Holsteins at Illinois State Pair.
Among the attractions at the Illinois
Sta'fe Fair last week, were the Holsteins.]
represented by the herd of Mr. Dexter
Severv, of Leland, 111. First prizes were
awarded on cows as follow s: Zuyder Zee
9th dam imp. Zuyder Zee. Rosalie, dam
imp. Vrouw. Hester, dam imp. Hendrika.
First prize on bull" to Merrimac, on First
Prince of Victor, and on duke of Leland.
The Holsteins are attracting increased
attention on account partly of their large
milking capacity as a breed, combined
with large size.—Farm Journal.
Feeding Meat for Hog Cholera.
Trifles light as air are sometimes of
weight and moment, when they help to
illustrate interesting and important subjects. As an example, I repeat the con
versation had with a couple of gentlemen
I met on the fair grounds last week. First
with Mr. Wiley Davis of Mahomet,
Champaign county, a well-informed,
wealthy and successful cattle feeder, owning a large farm, and living on the east
fork ofthe Sangamon. After the_ compliments of usage due to the magnificent
Short-horn show before us, I enquired:
"You and your neighbors on the Sangamon suffered much from the hog cholera last year; how is it this season?"
D. " JVe have very little of it. At one
time I thought my hogs were on the
point of being attacked, when fortunately
the train killed a couple of steers for me,
on which the hogs gorged themselves,!
and they have been healthy ever since.")
J. "Ah, indeed! Then you regard
fresh meat ai the best antidote or pre-]
ventive. How would you feed it; is_there}
not danger from gorging; would it no;
have been better to have cut the carcase:
up and doled them out, a pound or two
day to each?" '
D. "No. Gorging is just what the
want, or excess, or stirring up of so: _
kind; when a hog takes the cholera jt li
down, and if not stirred up,', dies in "
own atmosphere. Forcing them to mo|
is one of thebest. things for *them, n<
to feeding flesh and , providing them?
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