EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
PERSONALS.
Persons In any part of the state seeking the ad-
dress or attention of parties ln other portions of the
state or country should make Inquiry ln this department
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Fashes for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor of lt when yon hear of the loss
of his stock.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 centa. 	
FOR SALE.
FOR 8ALE—Cotswold Sheep, Berkshire Swine,
White Holla nd Turkeys, Aylesbury Ducks, and
Partridge Cochin Chicks.   Address, Jacob Kenne-
day, Lizton, Hendricks Co., Ind.    40,tf
FOR SALE—I have a few choire Poland China
pigs, of good stock, for sale and realy for shipment. Guaranteed thoroughbred and to give satisfaction to purchaser.   W. O. Reveal, Clermont, Ind.
52 2w
EOR SALE—Chester Whites—James A Guilliams,
Fincastle, Putnam county, Ind., breeder and
shipper of thoroughbred Chester White pigs. Pigs
now ready for shipment.   Send for price UsL
50-5w
T***lbi*t SALE—One Short-horn Cow and bull calf,
_E seven head of Registered Jerseys, six Berkshire and Poland-Chinas, (3»ach); or e dozen Span-
lf d Game Cocks, (2 years old). D. W. Voylos, New
Ybany.Ind. 52-8W
tf
FOR SALE—We have a nice lot of choice Berkshire pigs now four months old, which we will
sell at reaonable prices to all customers who apply
early.   Also a few sow pigs ready for breeding.
A. S. (J1LMO0R A CO.
50-tf Greensburg, Ind.
EOR SALE—Young Berkshire sows, eligible for
registry in 8wlne Record, got by Imported
sire, and oat of Imported Sabiesuws, at prices to
suit the times. Also, a few pairs of Dark Bramah
fowls cheap.   Address,        W.A.KELSEY,
Fort Wayne, Ind.
MONET LOAMS.
TO LOAN-4500.000—ln sums of »1,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
Inthe State. Time, three io 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 ln cultivation, kind of house and barn and value. Address W. A. Bradshaw, State Savings Bank, No. 66 N.
Pennsylvania st, Indianapolis. 84-tf
VARIED.
"ITTANTED—Agents, ln every township In this
YV   State to sell the New Illustrated History of
Indiana, and fine family Bibles.   J. W. Lanktree A
Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis Ind. 48-w
"T TTANTED—For every township in the State, ae-
YY   tive canvassers for a choice weekly paper.
Largest cash, inducement yet offered to convassers.
Adoress Weekly News, Indianapolis. 51-4w
MISCSlXANEOtTS-
RUN AWAY—From his rider on November 19th,
a black horse, with a saddle and bridle on.
A natural pacer. Defective eyesight, and was shod
all around.' Any one giving intormatlon of same,
will be satisfactorily rewarded by
60-Sw
__ W. FLOEBA,
Milton, Wavne county, Ind.
STOCK NOTES.
i\
Mr. John Bennett, of Sunman, has
lately sold another one of his fine Chester White pigs to A. R. Parks,, of Austin,
[ndiana.
W. 0. Reveal, of Clermont, this coun-
tr, haa recently bought from James
Kutchinson, Oxford, 0., a fine Poland
\C\ina male pig of the Black Bess "Per-
i r jtion " stock. He intends to breed from
th'i.best strains only.   •
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U notice the weight ofN. H. Scorsen's
j/ai-nb. I will report mine at six months
J ,W weight 120 pounds, wool 7 inches
j.oli:. S. M.Booie.
Hillsboro, Ind.
/
Pi -tors Indiana Fabmeb:—The pro-
}) ri- i Y on of Mr. Macy, and other brother
vr-, r, - breeders, for a swine breeders aster.-Yon, for Indiana, meets my hearty
f.p- :o 'al.
',•> • nfield, Ind,
Emmanuel Smith'.
Heavy Hogs.
nu Indiana Farmer:—One of my
■•'r8, by the name of Joseph Pat-
u '-. Poland-China breeder, fed and
\y hogs which averaged four hun-
i i ..'• > twenty pounds. Four of them
■v- \ ■■<•■. t'renty-four hundred and thirty-
fr-i-ijj. (is. Pretty good for old Deca-
tu*.?. i.•?:'" hear from the one that can
be-H •*■!-*> sight.    . T.G.P.
"'"*•'■'.:< burg, Ind.
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1        -Yageesiown, Ind., Dec. 19th.
To A<" r.li'.yrs of Indiana Farmer:
J :/:i a litter in last week's issue from
W. K. Macy, asking the opinion of swine
bw-e-lcr** .**.». to the expediency of holding
a sr. - i *.h91 >r**tders' convention immediately
aft r th'e j-.'.joumraent of the i&ate Board
of A,-ri<. rltare. I, for one, heartily appro ■ '■ of Voiding the convention, and
dee i **.*.-■ It i j <* --operation of all swine breeders in thu*-1 ate.     Rankin Baldridge.
X3VE*E>0'l=X.'I?X)33   ttX3Htt.f333Lm.Ta
Property of W. L. MALLOW, Concord Farm, New Holland, O.   Residence, six miles stuth df
Beven milea north of Roxabelle Station, on M. & 0.' K. E.
New Holland,
on C. & M. V. R. R., and
INDIANA  SWINE BREEDERS'
ASSOCIATION.
Meeting, Wednesday, January 3d
At the request of a large number of
swine breeders, we announce that the
meeting to organize a State Association
will take place in this city on Wednesday,
January 3d, at the Agricultural Rooms
in the State House. This is the second
day of the meeting of the State and Delegate Boards of Agriculture. The Indiana Wool Growers' Association meets
here on the same day, and all these meetings will bring together many interested
in this movement. The notice is thort,
but we hope to see a good turn out of our
swine breeders, as well as others, to perfect the organization. The proprietors of
the Indiana Fabmeb make this announcement on the authority and request of
many breeders.
Mprd Heavy Hogs.
see m
list of
. Editobs Indiana Fabmeb:—I
your issue of December 16 th, a
farmers' names who sold lots of hogs, the
average weight of which seemed to deserve comment. I have one to add (away
down here in the pocket) that beats them
all. James Cole, of Posey county, sold
fifty-four hogs that made an average of
469 pounds, net. Two years ago about
the same number averaged very nearly
500 pounds, net. His original stock came
from A. C. Moore, Illinois, but his herd
of swine now are said to be superior to
the first. E. F. Owen.
New Harmony, Ind.
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fine Short-Horns.
J. T. Williamson <fe Son, Thorntown,
Ind., have sold from their Deer Lick
Herd to A. D. Moore, of Moore's Station,
Ind, the following Short-horns:
Red, fourteen months old, bull, nth Duke of
Athol, by Fairholme, Duke of Athol, 18,2*4. Dam,
Annie Page, by Mountaineer, S,67l.
Red, five months old, heifer, Mabel 7th, byFutr-
holme. Duke of Athol, 13,2.4. Dam, Mabel 3d, by
Mad Biver take, 6,932.
He also purchased for his neighbor, a red, nine
months, bull calf, 18th Duke of Athol, by Fair-
holme, Duke of Athol, 13,214. Dam, Red Rose 2d,
by Mad River Duke, 6,982.
Mr. Moore gets a very promising young
bull that will give credit to any herd;
good in all his points, and will be hard
to beat in the show ring next fall.
JERSEY BED HOGS.
There has lately been some inquiry in
the Fabmeb regarding Jersey Red Hogs,
and in response to it we quote some extracts of correspondence to the Farmers'
Home Journal, of Louisville, in regard to
them. The letters were written in response to like inquiries with ours, and
by practical men. The following is by
Thos. 8. Grundy, of Springfield, Ky.:
They are entirely a different hog from
the red Berkshire, raised in Madison,
Garrard and some other counties of the
State. I have been raising hogs for many
years, trying different breeds, with a partiality for the black Berkshire, but now,
after trying the true Jersey Reds, I say,
without hesitation, they are, in my judgment, the best hog, for all purposes, I ever
saw; will fatten at any age, and make, on
the same amount of food, more pounds
of better quality of pork than any hog
or breed I ever saw tried. I have tried
crossing them on my black Berkshire
sows, and find the cross to be a grand
improvement on the Berkshire, fattenin-**
better and making a much heavier hoy
at an earlier age. Some of my neighbors,
who have got the full-blooded Jersey
Red boars from me, and crossed on Chester White sows, say it makes a most et-
cellent cross. I have not tried it myself,
having no Chester sows. The full-blool-
ed Jersey Reds, with good feeding, vill
usually make, from ten to eight-jen
months old, four to six hundred pouids
of net pork to the hog. They have, generally, a full and rather thick coat of hiir,
but are very easily cleaned at the scalding tub; with a very white and smooth
skin, making beautiful pork. I might
add that I never knew one of the Jersty
Reds to mange, as most of other breeds
do—I don't think they would, under ary
circumstances. f
The following was written by Clark
Pettit, of Salem, New Jersey: If
They are very hardy, great feeders, attd
remarkable breeders; fatten readily at
any age, yet with time attaining gnat
weights, they have been fed as highjas
1,300, and quite frequently attaining
1,000 pounds. I fed one four months tiro
years ago, which weighed at twenty-cbe
months old 845 pounds, and was pro-
nounced the finest hog ever shown, %y
the hundreds who visited him while exhibited in the city of Philadelphia. 11
sold another' the past season, weighing
940 pounds, and know of another not-
weighing between 1,000 and 1,100 poundi.
March or April pigs frequently weigh
from 300 to 400 pounds net, when from
nine to ten months old. A neighbor if
mine, now deceased, fed and slaughter! d
on a farm of 100 acres, fifty hogs of th s
breed, averaging net weight 520 poun s
apiece—one season's feeding.
Notes From Ohio.
New Holland, O., Dec, 25,1876.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Herewith I send  a  small  sample
wool, as taken from my Cotswold rat
Granger, at two years old.   The  flee<|8
weighed 16} pounds.
My hogs and sheep are doing finel
Hope to have a handsome IotofBerY
shire for spring trade, which I expect *>
be very large, especially if the Indiani
Farmer continues to do the good it..Jits
done since my card has appeard, 1 feel
confident it will. W. L. Mallow!
The sample of wool mentioned IJas
come to hand, and we find it very fine
indeed, equal to the best we have seen.—
Editors. '
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A New 1 ood for Horses.
THE FARM.
Postal Card Correspondence.
INDIANA.
cause and cure of lampers in horses. Have
not seen yonr Centennial chromo vet. Granges
In 'Whisi-ey-run townships, almost a failure;
some mixed politics with it and it was no go.
At present we are standing still. Always glad
to get the Fabmeb. Jacob B. Rhodes.
MICHIGAN.
' Kalamazoo County—Dec. 20th.
Onr fall weather being flne, wheat got a fine
start, and if the winter continues geod, the
prospect is better than last year for a large
crop. With the exception of hay crop, which
waa large, our crops last season were only
moderate. N. J. Babtoh.
NEBRASKA.
Thayer Countv—Dec. 20th.
Wheat is selling here for 75 cents per bushel
only, and I see you get over a dollar in Indiana and Ohio. Com, 40 cents, and potatoes
60 cents. We had some locusts here but hope
for better things next season. It is very
healthy in this section.      N. O. Balleac.
TENNESSEE.
A new kind of mash for horses is now
coming into use. It is thus described by
the California Farmer:
It is composed of two quarto of oats,
one of bran, and a half pint of flax seed.
The oats are first place in the stable
bucket, over which is placed the linseed;
add boiling water, than the bran, covering the mixture with an old mg, and allowing it thus to rest for five hours; then
stir the mass well up. The bran absorbs
while retaining the vapor, and the linseed binds the oats and bran together; a
greater quantity of flax seed would make
the preparation too oily and less relished.
One feed per day is sufficient. , It is easily digested, and is especially adapted to
young animals, adding to their volume
rather than to their height, giving substance to the frame.
Randolph County—Dec. 25th.
This part of the country has been scourged
with the hog disease.   I have lost ninety head
of shoats and large hogs.     - Jas. B. Rdbt.
. ' - Kosciusko County—Dec. 25th *
W eater, cold and good Bleighing np here.
Health good and business improving.   Wheat
fist $1,25 to $1,28; corn, 45 to 48 centa; hogs,
$5,25. "-   IsaasBbacy.
Montgomery County—Dec.23d.
We are having nice winter weather.   Less
wheat was sown here this season than formerly, and it does not look well.
Vmos Township.
Jay County—Dec 18th.
Winter has set in in earnest. We have had
a verv nice fall for work, but on account of
sickness, some have been thrown back with
their work, and winter has come before some
are ready. Crops were not very good, on account of rains; still we have enough to live
on. Money is scarce and hard to get. W heat,
$1,00 to $1,10. Corn, 85 cents; oats, 20 to 25
cents; hogs, $5,00 to $5,20; Cattle, 2 to 2Jr cts.
We had a' large crop of apples, but they are
rotting. Fruits of all kind was plenty, except
peaches. We have not had the cholera among
our hogs in this neighborhood this fall, though
in some neighborhoods they have suffered
heavy. w. 1. Clotjqh.
St. Joe County—Bee. 2Zd.
Our beautiful valley is covered with about
20 inches of snow. Stock of all kinds doing
well. Corn nearly all cribbed, and it is good,
but I do not think there is much of a surplus.
Hogs nearly all Bold; price, $5,25. Stock hogs
not very plenty • none forsale. Farmers generally are improving their hogs and sheep.
Wheat looked well when winter set in. Wheat
selling at $1,25. Corn, 40 cents; potatoes, $1,00,
and scarce at that; butter, 22 cents; lard, 10.
Grangers are still alive and making arrangements for the coming year. Our agency was
a success this year. J. W. Snokb.
Warren, Ind.
Wayne County—Dec. 22d.
The growing wheat looks well, never better
ai I have seen. A small quantity sown in
tlis vicinity. Com in this neighborhood was
a very heavy crop, and is worth now I think
abrat 35 centa per bushel. Hogs, nearly all
sold at $5,00 to $5,50. Stock hogs not very
plenty and nothealthy. Would like to know
what ails mine. They become lame, with
kn>ts on their legs, draw np in the flank and
sone peel off, cough, and most of them die.
Ca*tle, a few for sale; no fine stock among onr
cattle in this vicinity. Oranges about at stand
sill; yet we are still determined in the cause,
anl believe it to be one of the firmly estab-
lisled organizations.
S. Fablow.
Wilson County—Dec, 21«t.
I notice the experience of farmers in planting the Bame seed com for a series of years. I
have grown the same corn (yellow) for the
past twenty years, and it has steadily improved with me, getting ripe earlier, and yielding
better. I select each year the ears maturing
first, and of these selected forseveral years only the largest and most perfect (n-ains, and
thus I have improved my corn.      M.-E. S.
Our wheat crop the past season was not so
large as last year, but the growing wheat promises very fine for the coming year's crop. There
are farmeis here who have devoted nearly
their whole farms to wheat from year to year,
and they have made money. This section
is very healthy, and stock have generally done
well. B. F. Hartmas.
Franklin County-Dee. 21<L
The corn crop is a great deal lighter this year
than last, not more than half a crop generally.
Corn is about all cribbed, and selling for 22c.
Not a great deal of wheat sown. Hoppers
took the most of it last fall. Wheat, is worth
$1,00 to $1,10. The apple crop was light this
season. Apples, are worth from $1,00 to$1,25.
We are having nice winter weather; roads nice
and dusty. Have had but iittle cold weather
as yet. Fat hogs are selliDg for $5,00 gross;
there are but few hogs in the country, but
what few there are, are good. Money scarce
and hard to collect. J. G. Eastes.
Ottawa, Kansas.
FARM TALK AND INQUIRIES.
—•—
Cellars.—Whould like to know the best,
way to make one above ground, 'or partly so,
or rather, the essential principles for the construction of such. Maeion.
OHIO.
Medina County—Dec. 22d.
I notice by yonr correspondence that we
possess some advantages over farmers in districts further West in prices of grain. We are
getting $1,40 for winter wheat, and S5 to 37
cents for oats, while in your State the prices
are 10 to 25 cents below this per bushel. Oar
winter thus far has been good for growing
wheat. B. L.
Hancock County—Dec. 20th.
Fall wheat (no spring grown here) got a
good growth before winter set in, end looks
fine lor next years crop. Corn was light compared with other years. The clover crop was
good, and the seed yield fair. Timothy was a
good crop, and feed is plenty. We have had
a little hog cholera here also. W. H. F.
Fbostbd Feet.—I see in the Fabmeb ofthe
23d, an inquiry by T. J. B.; wanting to know
what will cure frosted feet If he will go to
a flouring mill and look nnder the buis and
get some grease that drips from the bnr Bpin-
dle and grease his feet for a number of nights,
and bathe well by the fire, it will cure them.
W. I. T. S.
Bbeediko Fine Stock.—Is it more difficult
to breed fine stock successfully, than ordinary
scrub stock ? Ia this difficulty more often met
in attempts to obtain pigs from fine bowb? In
overcoming this difficulty, what course is best?
When should the male be admitted to the
pen ?   Let-some of ouratock breeders answer.
Reader.
Exporting Sheep.
Canadian sheep breeders are shipping
to England large numbers of fat sneep.
Two steamers recently arrived at Liverpool with 1,130 live sheep on board, designed for the English market, and to
afford a supply of the best mutton at low
rates. The twenty per c"»* duty 'on the
introduction of/P^' "    4*»*o
the United "*
expen*
Car
v
IOWA
Clarke County—Dec 18th.
Clover has not proven a success here, and I
think'one reason is that we pasture it too close
in ihe fall, and it has no aftermath for winter
protection. Timothy seed yielded well. Wheat
was a very short crop j oats, average; and com
not so good as last year. Thia is a very
healthy country, and while times are quite
hard, we aU have plenty of the necessaries of
life, and are thankful for them. G. H.
Fayette Comfy—Dec. 19th.
I see that farmers are losing a large number
of their hogs in your State and others, by cholera. We have never had any hog cholera
here. A rapid improvement iu all kinds of
stock is taking place, and they are healthy and
thrive well. Wheat and oats were short crops,
but corn was good. Potatoes were nearly a
failure and selling high. D. R. 0.
ILLINOIS.
Catch or Blue Gkass.—How can I get a
good catch of blue grass. J. D. G.
The ground should be fall plowed, and then
sow early in the spring, clover, timothy and
blue grass seed together. A crop or two of
timothy and clever before the blue grass thoroughly Bets, and after it ia set well it will take
the field against all comers.—Editobs.
Check Row Plahtebs.—I see in your paper
of Dec. 9th, an inquiry from E. K. Stratton
regarding the check row planter. I have seen
them work for five or six years; and can say
that it will do better work than can be done
by hand, and saves one hand on planter,
and can plant a strip at a time and have it
growing, and rows straight. It certainly is a
great invention.
W. C. Haymohd.
Francesville, Ind.
 » «
• White Oil CoBrr.—8ome wanted to know
through the Fabmeb, how the white oil corn
came out the past season.   I procured a package, planted it, gave it good land to grow on,
and the same care as my other com, and when
it got ripe enough, I fed it to my hogs.   I have
to my notion better corn; ripens earlier; produces more corn on less stalk than it did.   I
have no corn to Bell.   Who's next that wants
to make money by pedling out their corn ?
Can some one tell that knows, how much difference there is between a bushel of yellow,
corn and a bushel of white, for making pork;.
or is there any difference between the two ?
Wm. Stbowbbime.
Crawford County.—Dec. 18th. ;
Che weather cold and stormy. Fall has
ban beautiful. A large acreage of wheat
sovn; looked fine until the cold weather set
in Com, mostly in the crib and of good
qiality. Wheat and oats, short crop. '-7> eat
gcod bnt oats badly rusted. 'Beef ra>lie ? sry
sarce; rather poor quality of tovi. f-'&c'-p,
scarce and dogs plenty. Hogs, orY 0
at we would like, as we have a Ic-avy 5f
atoms. But little corn will be ft J ' -*• lw, ."s :n
oit county. Hogs are killed rigl-t fjC;Y t;xe
•roods. Price, $5,50. Wheat, $1.10. to ^i..-:o.
C>rn, 40 cents, oats, none for sale.
Where can I get some good oa'a 1Y,. ,1(V. >
.Andl wonld like to know where t<> hi r lcUi.;i
"iod spring wheat?   Will some re ■iol. 0rt)k.,
*«B answer.   Potatoes, 65 cent1   '(iinoi
\thatprice.   Horses andm*l"! p;er-
->ot much price.   Stock oi al '[___,'■
Uhy.   Will somebody te';n,,ti,.
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McLean County—Dec 23d.
The hog cholera has almost decimated districts of their whole product in this section of
Illinois. .It seems to be most prevalent and
fatal along the streams of water. In the few
instances I have heard of, where fresh meat
was fed to sick hogs, it has generally proved
beneficial, curing- them in many instances
where they were not too far gone with the disease. The disease in many places has taken
the form of inflammation of the lungs, and almost continuous coughing has ensued. We
shall hare to discover the cause and remedy,
or quit raising hogs. A. Y. Cal vibis.
Campaign County—Dec. 23d.
My experience with planting the same seed
com from year, to year is about the Bame as
some of your other correspondents. But potatoes will run out, or, do at least, and I am
led to believe that the cause of this is in cutting the seed, using small and imperfect tubers,
instead of planting the large ones whole.
What is the experience of others on this point?
F. R. B.
KANSAS.
->-.     Atirlene Coun'.y—Dec 18th.
Wheat, rather poor.   Corn, an average crop.
Potatoes, scarce.   Hogs, worth 41 cents.   Fat
Cattle, 2 to 3 cents.   Weather fine, and roads
the same.   Not enongh snow yet to -over the
Measuring Corn,
Editobs Indiana Fabmee:—The rule
given in Fabmee of December 16th, for
measuring corn in the ear, taken from
Ropp's Calculator is certainly incorrect.
Taken the example given 1 a wagon bed
10 ft. long, 3 ft wide and 18 in. deep. By
Mr. Ropp's rule this gives 28J bushels,
while the correct answer would be 20 bu.
taking 3,888 inches for. a bushel or 20 4-5,
nearly taking 3>744 in. to a bushel. I
would take the latter number when corn
had fairly shrunk, and the former when
first gathered. Would it not be well,
for the legislature to provide a rule.
Erie, Ind. Mobtimobe Cbabb.
Mr. Crabb does not give ua his authority for taking 3,888 or 3,744 cubic
inches as a bushel. Webster and
all other authorities with which we are
acquainted give 2150 cubic inches as the
contents of a bushel as adopted in the
United States. Mr. Ropp's rule is based
upon the Winchester bushel of 2150
inches. This in reply to several other
correspondents also. Our correspondents
must refer to corn in the ear, while the
authority we cite refer to shelled corn.—
Editobs.
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century the "Youth's Companion, of Bo's- [.
ton, has been published.   It was started !^
in 1827, and is to-day one of the brghtest.
and most vigorous papers with which we
are acquainted.
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