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IKDIMAPOLIS, INDIANA, JANUAET 27,1877.
No. 4
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
PERSONALS.
Persons in any part of the state seeking the address 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 Fjjucxb for'the recovery of stock.
Tell yonr neighbor of lt when yon hear of the loss
of his stock.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for lea
than 25 cents.
FOR RALE.
FOR SALE—Twenty-five Poland China and Berkshire brood sows far shle.  J. B.GILBERT,
; Louisville, Henry oonnty, Ind. 4-4wks
FORSALE—A few White and Buff Cochins. Cockerels at tl each, lf ordered soon.   J. A. ECK-
HaRT, Butler, DeKalb county, Ind. 4-lw
EOR SALE—AnewChlldsBrothers' Organ,style
SO, new and ln good condition.    For tale at a
discount from regular price.
4tf iNDiiNA Fames Co.
FOR SALE—Galvanized Eureka Sap Spout    We
have a few hundred of those sap spouts, which
we will sell at the low rate of 13 50 per hundred.
m—4W PUBLISH IBS OF INDIAKA FARMER.
FOR 8ALE—Two male pig*—one a Berkshire the
other a Poland-China; Doth ready for service.
F. M. KNETZElt,
2-4wks Antioch, Huntington county, Ind.
TJIOR SALE—Poland-China pigs, from three to
l* six months old. Some fine males ready for
service. Geo. F. Parent, Union City, Randolph Co.,
Ind. S-ly
FOR SALE—Essex Swine. A few extra choice
male pigs 4 to 8 months old at low figures. Address A. P. Wiley and Son, New Augusta, Marion
county, Ind. 8-tf
"TTT-ANTED—Cotton-wood logs; also. Cotton-wood
W    Inch-boards.  State prlie delivered at
UDELL LADDER AND WOODEN WARE CO'3
4-lm Factory North Indianapolis, Ind.
TT'lOR SALE—Black Spanish Jack for sale cheap;
Jt? he Is 15 hands high, weighs 1,000 Use, ls 9 years
old and a good foal getter. Address or call on A. J.
Peed, New Castle, Henry connty, Ind 8 8t'
FOR SALE—A stylish English Draft Stallion, five
years old, formerly owned by C. Y. U. Alden,
deceased.   Pr*ce*300. WM. AHRENDS,
2-4wks        . Sunman, Ripley county, Ind.
T7OR BALE—Cotswold Sheep, Berkshire Bwine,
JD White Holland Turkeys, Aylesbury Ducks, and
Partridge Cochin Chicks. Address, Jacob Kenne-
day, Litton, Hendricks Co., Ind. 40,tf
FOR SALE—Concord Grape Vines, three years,
extra, 12 per dozen. Eureka, a new seedling
of great promise, SI per two vines. Nursery stock
of all kinds. Send for circulars. I. H. HAYNES,
Xxcelslor Gardens, Delphi, Ind. 4-4wks
fJ^OB SALE—We have a nice lot of choice Berk-
Jj   shire pigs now four months old, which we will
■ell at reasonable prices to all customers who apply
early.  Alio a few sow pigs ready for breeding.
A. 8. GILMOUR A CO.
60-tf Greensburg, Ind.
THE FARM.
FOR 8ALK—Will book orders for eggs of Dark
Brahmas, Houdans, and R. B. Games at 32 per
setting. Rouen and Aylesbury Ducks at S3 per setting. Pekins at H per setting. Bremen, Toulouse
and Hongkong Geese, 81 per doien, Premium stock.
I. H. HAYNEa, Excelsior Gardens, Delph, Ind. 4-4t
"TT^ORSALE—At a Bargain—One Short-Horn Bull
P 8 months old; sired by Duke Vanmeter, (Duke
Vanmeter by 14th Duke Tnorndale). Dam running
to Imp. Amelia by Plato, and two Short-horn Cows,
all recorded In the Short-horn Record.
J. BUTTERFIELD,
4-2wks Indianapolis.
MONET LOANS.
TO LOAN—jBOO.OOO—ln sums of Jl.OOO and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
Inthe State. Time, three to 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 ls made. In
•writing give number of acres cleared and ln cultivation, kind of house and barn and value. Address W. A. Bradshaw, State B&Vlnga Bank, No. 56 N.
Pennsylvania st, Indianapolis. * M-tf
WANtXII.
W;
ANTED—I have a flne organ. Child* BUM.
. .  manufacture, which I wish to exchange for
a good, gentle family horse.
* J. O. KINGSBURY,
. -  Farmer OStx, Indianapolis.
"TTTANTED—Agents, In every township ln this
YV   State to seQ the New illustrated History of
Indiana, and fine family Bibles.   J. W. Lanktree A
Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis Ind. 48-w
■TTTANTED—For every township in the State, ac-
YV   tive canvassers for a choice weekly paper.
Largest casn Inducement yet offered to oonvassers.
Address Wixklt News, IndianapoUs. 61-lw
MISCELLANEOUS-
FOR TRADE—Safe, donble doon with combination lock, for horses and large delivery wagon
or lumber. UDELL LADDER ahd WOODEN WARE
CO., North Indianapolis, Ind. 4-lm
One County Forces a Saloon on Another. * *
To Vie Editors Indiana Farmer :
I am glad to say that our senator and
representative and joint representative
will vote all right on  any good  temperance law, as we in old Henry always see
to that before we elect them, but we are
now for the first time in the  history of
our county cursed with a licensed saloon.
The proprietor! *&eT try^g 'or two years
in thia county, and failing, removed his
case to Wayne county, and  was  there
counted low enough to sell  whiskey.   I
think it is unjust for Wayne  county  to
f say we shall have a saloon when we say
gwe don't want one.      W. C. Williams.
Spiceland, Ind.
Postal Card Correspondence.
INDIANA.
Bartholomew connty—Jan. Doth,
"Will some one of the many readers of tbe
Fakxib, inform me throngh ita columns,
if they know of the whereabouts and post-
office address of Joseph A. Gain, and oblige a
brother. Wm. H. Cam.
Seymour—Jan. ISth.
Will some of the many readers of the Fab-
Hia, please inform me ofthe post-office address of Jno. Pert. He resides) In Clark connty Ind. Also the address of Samuel Mabey,
of Lawrence county, Ind. Jas. Marsh.
Gibson Connty—Jan. 161b.
Wheat looks like it was very nearly all dead,
since the snow has gone off. Hogs all sold
from $5 to $5 75; com worth SOc; wheat $1.25
to $1 30; stock hogs very scarce. I am glad
to see the dog and sheep question getting so
high. J. L. Wassou.
Hamilton Connty—Jan. 18th.
Hog cholera is raging still in some local!
ties. Fat hogs very scarce, and nearly all
sold at $5.00 to $8.25. Cattle doing weU. Not
many sheep in the country, but what there
are are doing well. Wheat fine, but under
the snow since the last of November.
W. W. Hisrs.
Wells Connty—Jan.30th.
Weather not so cold, still good sleighing.
Wells county is alive in tbe ditch business.
Tbe county commissioners in the last year
granted petitions for eleven ditches, ' total
length 42 miles; total cost $25 485.00; estimated number bf acres drained 12.000. Corn
plenty at 40c; wheat $1@$120.   Nicodemcs.
Miami   connty—Jan. 22nd.
We bave had splendid sleighing this ' winter ; the roads are one solid cake of ice here
now; it is dangerous for man or beast to be
out; but there is a good coat of snow on the
wheat, so it is protected from the ice. Wheat
$1.00 to $1.10; corn 40c; stock hogs about
51 to 6c; tat hogs all sold. Jacob Satqxb.
Hlaml Connty—Jan.  18th.
I should like to know through the Farmib
the right address of the man that raised the
Yellow Oil Corn, for I would like to get some
for seed. CO. Carl.
Those having genuine good seed, com or
otherwise, will find many customers by advertising in our columns.—Editobs.
Alien Connty—Jan. 18th.
Weather has been very cold. Hogs nearly
all sold at from $5 to $6. Wheat $1.35; corn
40c; oats 30c; potatoes $1. No hog cholera.
Stock hogs about an average crop. Wheat
never looked better than it did in the fall, for
that season of the year. There is au average
crop sown. The Fabmeb is a welcome visitor.
Thomas Geekh.
VermllllonConnty—Jan. 23od.
Our winter has'been steady cold, with very
little snow for the past ten days. The ground
has been covered with a glare of ice, unprecedented in the past. The wheat fields look
bare and brown. Wheat is probably somewhat injured.. The Ikdiaka Fabmeb is the
best paper we have ever seen for farmers.
N. M. Ton.
Noble connty—Jan. 20th,
Will Mr. Farmer give a fuller description
of his Yellow Oil corn, and price per bushel.
J. K. Btleb.
The prices of commodities offered for sale
should appear in the advertising columns,
but we Should be glad to publish the discrip-
tion, yield and all the facts regarding the
desirableness of corn or other seeds, for the
benefit of our readers.—Editobs.
Martin connty—Jan. 19th.
The growing wheat looks well, better than
usual, a large amount sown in this vicinity;
corn in this vicinity was about an average
crop, and is worth about 35 cents per bushel.
Fat hogs all sold; no stock hogs to amount
to anything; but few cattle for sale. Oranges
about at a stand still, yet we are still determined in the cause, and believe it to be a
firmly established organization. Z. Brock.
Montgomery Connty—Jan. 17lh.
Wheather very cold, and the most slippery
time I ever saw. The boys can travel from
Alamo to Crawfordsville on their skates on
the road. Health good at present in this part
ofthe country; times dull and money scarce.
People are traveling over the country, buying
np dead hogs. I wish it could ' be stopped. I
think we are bothered with the hog cholera
enough without hauling it to ns. .
.   ; •   ■ • -       - M. Fatrrrs.
Sen ton Connty—Jan. 20th.
We are having a dry cold winter so far.
The ground has not been free from snow
since early in December, wheat looked well
at that time. , Corn is selling for 31 cents;
potatoes 75 cents. Fat hogs about all sold at
from $5.00 to $5.50 gross. We have had no
hog cholera here till this winter. Not many
have died yet. Orange interests reviving;
patrons more hopeful. We cannot do without the Indiana Fabmeb; it is our standard
authority. M. V. Bowmas*.
Whitley Connty—Jan. 18. '-^
Very cold weather here this winter, the
ground has been covered with snow, from
three to six inches, ever since the middle of
November. The prospect for wheat is very
good at the present; corn sells for 40c; wheat
$1@125; hogs 5J. to 51 per hundred. The
Centennial chromo received, and is certainly
a handsome picture, well worth all the Fabmeb costs. ,0. M. J.
Montgomery Connty—Jan. 16th.
Will some one of the many readers of the
Fabmeb, give a description ofthe country in
the neighborhood of Nashville Tenn., state
whether it is healthy or not. What kind of
soil and what it is worth per acre. I also
wish to ask some experienced farmer, which
is best, to scatter or pile manure at this season
of the year. Some one please answer the
above and oblige. I. 8. Toss.
Washington Connty—Jan. 181b.
For six weeks the weather has been the
coldest ever known In this country. The
cold snap caught some of the farmers with
their corn out. Com is worth 40c; wheat
$1.25; oata 50; fruit plenty. The peach bids
all killed. Fat hogs about sll sold, wdkh
now 6} to 6) gross; stock hogs 0 to CJ; other
stock low. Health good. Let the Fabmeb
come, lt is a welcome visitor. L. D. B.
llnntlnsrlon Connty—Jan. lOlh.
Hogs and corn are the farmers main crop ih
this oounty for money. The hog crop was cut
short by the 'cholera, some farmers losing
about all they had. Where ground was well
ditched com was good, but low, wet land,
poorly drained, amounted tq nearly nothing.
Hogs sold from $4 50 to $0.00. Wheat worth
$1 to $1.20; com 35 to 40c; oats20o to 25c;
apples plenty and good quality; small fruit
was plenty; potatoes scarce and not very
good quality. A Pa'tbok.
Jackson Connty—Jan. ISth.
Is White Oil cam different com from White
Dent, or not? The White Dent in this part
ofthe Btate, is some three or four weeks longer maturing, than our ordinary com. The
grain is very-long, the ear general? short' btK
very large. It makes the finest meal of any
com grown here. It is a very good com to
yield. Spencer Banister of Vernon township,
Jackson county, Ind., this year grew an ear
that had 1.560 grains. Who can beat that'
Let ns hear from them if any can beat it.
D. M. Lett. ;
Randolph connty—Jan. '21
We are having a good dry winter. Stock
is doing well. Wheat is doing as well as
could be expected. Wheat is selling at from
$1.00 to $1.50; com 35; hogs gross $5.60;
green apples 20 to 40c; potatoes 75 cents-
Some hogs are dying with cholera; no
remedy as yet proves effectual. I want to ask
a question. Where are those refrigerators
made or kept for sale, family sizes, as I want
to purchase one before warm weather. Any
one knowing will confer a favor on me, by
sending some information through the Fabmeb. J. B. Bbarbo.v.
Parke Connty—Jan. 16th.
It is near the time to open sugar camps.
Let some of your numerous readers
give their different ways. of boiling
sap, and the improved - methods, if
any, of working up the syrup into sugar and
molasses, in fact all the experience of those
having experience in the business. I would
like, to know the best way of boiling and
making sugar and molasses. Have been
waiting to see if some one would not relate
his experience. E, Thomas.
Posey Connty.—Jan. 16th."-.
I will send yon in a few days an account of
the number of hogs packed at this place, and
some other items for publication. I am'much
pleased with the FABMKB,and shall endeavor to
increase its circulation. I am trying to raise
some pure Chester White pigs*' (as they are
coming in fashion again) and have looked in
vain among yonr numerous advertlsments
for a breeder, to whom to send for stock, bnt
Poland and Berkshire are all, I find; They are
the principal breeds in this oounty now, bnt
the Chester is preferred by many.
FbinkD. Bolton,
Secretary Posey Co., Agricultural Society.
Breeders who have Chester Whites for sale,
will do well to advertise their.stock, in our
columns.—Editobs.
IOWA    .
Fayette Connty—Jan. letb.
The weather here has been exceedingly
cold thus far, and good sleighing for several
weeks. Stock is doing well, however, the
weather having been dry and good, therefore,
for feeding. Frnit buds are reported killed in
many localities.  '•' '"   J. C. Abbot.
■    a>   a	
MISSOURI.
Clarke Connty—Jan. 10th.
, The winter here has been dry and cold,
with considerable snow. We had a fair wheat
crop last season, and when winter set in the
growing wheat looked tolerably good. Stock
is doing well. Some say the fruit bnds are
dead, on the peach trees. . Com is . selling at
28 to 30 cents, and wheat $1.00 to $1.20.
Fbanx Demobs.
BtUCHIQAN.
\ Branch Connty—Jan. 151b.
"■I would like to hear the opinion of some
practical and experienced potato grower, as
to the cost per bushel of raising Irish potatoes.
We want to get at the real facts about the
cost of crops, in order to know best what is
the most profitable to grow. D. L.
Jackson Connty—Jan. ISth.
I would like to hear the opinion of your
Indiana readers about the Clawson wheat.
We?find it yields much larger with us than
other varieties, but some of the millers say
it is a soft wheat, and that flour out of it is
not so good. What is the experience of other
farmers raising it 7 Geo. Thabp.
KANSAS.
'    Harvey County—Jan aoth.
Wheat that was put in with the drill here
looks very well, though generally late sown,
but the broadcast wheat is not so good.
Been very cold for this climate. Millions of
hopper eggs deposited, but we hope they will
leave us in the spring before much harm is
done, as they did once before. Wheat 95c;
com 25o. Hogs scarce, at $5.00 to $5.50. But
little hog cholera. Homesteadeb.
Reno County—Jan. leth.
Since the weather has moderated, and the
weather is warmer, every farmer begins his
plans for the coming spring work. Breaking
ground for spring crops was carried late into
the fall, and small grain goes into the ground
early here. There is not much fine stock in
this valley, but there is no better place to
grow it with profit The prospect for a large
influx of land buyers here this season is good.
Wheat is in fine condition. J. 0. A.
KENTUCKY.
ITnrrUon connty—Ky. Jan. 20th.
We have had the most intensely cold winter I have ever known, though our stock has
done well wrtWe they have had attention.' I
recently bought some Poland China hogs in
your State, and hope to have an improvement
in my stock of hogs. Our fruit men'think
our peaches are pretty well destroyed; corn
is worth 35c; apples $2 00 to $3 00 per barrel.
Hogs were sold from at 51 to 61c; bulk of
sales at 5}c. Good young steers that will
weigh from 900 to 1,100, sell from at 4} to 41c;
while scrubs sell at 21 to 21. So you* see it
will pay to raise the good ones. If yon can
furnish it, I would like to have another number of the Fakmer for January 13th. I think
lt one of the best family papers I have ever
taken. Hoping you will have abundant success. Hknbt Williams.
OHIO.
Greene Connty—Jan.   20th.
Hog cholera is not so fatal here as it ap
pears to be in Illinois and Indiana, though a
good many hogs have died of the disease. Fat
hogs sold here at from $5.60 to $6.00. Weather
has been very cold. Corn was a fair crop
selling at 35 to40c L. P.
Champaign Connty—Jan. ISth.
I have found that cutting bay is great
economy for ' feeding. The same amount
eaten does more good, it is less wasted, and
animals do not expend themselves so much
in mastication. I know this to be true after
a series of careful experiments. Even in
feeding a dozen head of cattle, it will save
more than a hundred dollars in a single feeding season.    ...     Pbactical Fabmeb.
ILLINOIS.
TnzawcII Connty—Jan. 17<h.
The winter thus for has been cold1, and required unusual heavy feeding to keep stock
in good condition. The cholera has killed a
great many stock hogs, and the hog supply
will be much shorter than usual here next
season. N. W.
Champaign Connty—Jan. 19th.
Slnoe the combination of railroads in
freights, the price to Chicago has gone np,
and tbe com is down now to 30 to 33 cents.
It has been a very severe winter here so far,
but is a little more moderate now. Com is
being hauled rapidly; the roads are very good.
.8. G.
Franklin Connty—Jan. 20th.
There is barely com enongh in this oounty
to carry ns through this hard winter. We
had very little snow here till after the middle
of December, and though wheat looked well
in the fall, it suffered a little before snow
came. Many hogs died here of cholera, ' and
the fat ones are all sold..  '  ' W. R. Doble.
Iroquois Connty—Jan. ISth. ■
One of your correspondents . asks how . te
kill lice on cattle.: I have found mercurial
ointment, mixed with an equal quantity • of
lard a good*remedy. It should be rubbed on only in snch places as the animal cann ot lick it.
as it is poisonous. But the lice will soon
leave after it is used.   ' A Patron.
EdJfar Connty—Jan. 20th.
- The late thaw and wanner weather , makes
the farmers thoughtful of the coming spring
operations, and they begin to talk about seed
com, oats, and methods of planting. I have
found drilling com the most profitable, and
it is coming into fashion., I can grow twenty
per cent, more that way on the same ground.
Fabmeb.
HEWS   OF  THE  WEES.
State I««i.
Grant county Is $13,000 in debt.
The city debt of Logansport, is stated at
$450,000.   _
A Booneville firm has packed 26,000
pounds of pork this winter.
J. M. Earl has sold his Earl Park herd of
Short-hom cattle.
Ice-packers have put up some ice twenty-
five inches thick.
The taxable farming lands in Laporte county foot up 867,733 acres.
The old settlers of Wayne county, have
organized a permanent association.
An attempt was made on the life of Rev.
J. S. Reager, of Madison, a few days ago.
A superior quality of coal has been discovered near Petersburg, Pike county.
Mr. Graham, of Irvington, sustained damage
by fire, last week, to the amount of $9,000.
There are thousands of bushels of com in
Wabash county not yet gathered from the
fields.
The delinquent tax list of Hendricks county, is said to be larger this year than ever before.
O. F. McNutt has resigned his position as
professor of law in the State university at
Bloomington.
It will cost $1,000 to furnish the poor of
Warrick county with medical attention during the present yc ar.
""D \Armel & Co., Greensburg, within the
past three months, have killed 13,000 hogs
and paid to the farmers $143,000.
There were thirty deaths last week in this
city. Four were from pneumonia; diphtheria
two; consumption four; scarlet fever one.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: The last will' of
Wah pe-mung-ah, or White Loon, the centenarian Indian chief who died recently, has
been filed for probate.
William Frost, a farmer, near Greenfield,
Hancock county, fell out of a tree on Saturday last, a distance of 18 feet and was instantly killed.
The Studebaker manufacturing company,
of South Bend, have presented all of • their
employes a year's subscription to a weekly
newspaper, every man choosing his own
publication.
A meeting of the trustees of the several
counties in Northern Indiana, for the discussion of matters relating to schools, township
affairs and the poor, is to be held in South
Bend February 8th.
City Councilman' Steinhauer wants the
Chief of Police to rout the gamblers and bring
th'em to punishment, but he opposes molesting the gentle saloon keeper, whose mission
is simply one of destruction.   '
One night last week, 0. A. Buskirk, Attorney General of Indiana, was arrested by
the police of this city in a gambling house,
where he gave tbe name of Smith. He left
the requisite amount of bail and departed.
The police authorities of this city, have
finally been aroused to a sense of duty. The
Chief of Police and Police Board, have determined to enforce the laws against crime. The
saloons, the houses of ill-fame and the gamblers, are being proceeded against greatly to'
their disgust.
fl:
General Hews.
ing to the conduct ofthe Presidential contest,
are being investigated by Congressional com •
mittees, to ascertain if fraud or corruption
was used by either in the use of money or by
any other means. ,
Dr. G. D. Beebee, of Chicago, believes thafr
he has discovered a panacea, for scarlet fever,,
diphtheria, erysipelas and kindred disease, in.
the administration of carbolic acid. Microscopical investigation enables him to assert-
that these diseases are the direct result of in-
finitessimal parasites in the blood, which are
generated and distributed according to fixed
laws of nature. He alleges that having found
their way into the blood, they cause a veritable blood-poison.
1XLISOIS.
A new hotel and warehouse is to be built
in Watseka next spring.
John Rapp, a leading citizen and business
man of Mattoon, died very suddenly Friday
morning.-
At Rockford, IH., TJpson & Herrick's furniture factory burned on the 21st; loss $30,000
to $35,000. Nelson Upson -was burned to
death in the building.
Bert. Fleming, the murderer of George
Sleeper at Ash Grove, Iroquois county, last
summer, after wandering through tbe West-
em territories, down to Mexico and Texas, at
last finds refuge in Canada.
Palmer & Son, brokers and loan  agents of
Danville, were  confidenced out  of $500 on
Saturday last.   On that day a young man appeared at their office, stated his  name  to be
James Stock, and requested the loan of  $500,
as security offering a mortgage on real estate ■
situated in Vermillion county.   He  got the^
money, and afterward It turned out that the-
young  man  wasn't Mr. Stock  at all, but a.
sharper.
The authorities of Louisville, Ky., have
largely reduced the salary of city officials.
The Massachusetts legislature elected Geo.
F. Hoar, U. S. Senator, to succeed Boutwell.
President Grant has expressed himself in
favor of the Congressional plan _ for counting
the electoral vote.- -„..•- -.......... -r
A London dispatch says that the American
ship George Green; Captain Wilcox, hits been
lost with all on board. ■ . '.
The House and Senate Committees jointly I
agreed upon a plan for counting the electoral
Vote for President and Vice-President.* I   :
The drouth has ended in California. Bain
in abundance has fallen, and enabled the tillers of the soil to go to plowing in the • southern counties.... t\   , . - ,;
Congress has done little else recently beside
discussing the Presidential contest, and
measures for the best and most satisfactory
plan of settling the matter. Y     - Y   •
. Thejtelegraph dispatches which were • sent
by tlie Chairmen of both the National Committees—Republican and  Democratic—relat-
Forest and Rainfall.
The influence of forests upon the l-aim
fall (the Friend of India says) ia one of
the great discoveriea of the forest officers in Berear.   The importance of the
foresi cenaervancy we have instituted of
late years in India is very strikingly illustrated in that province.    Berar pos;
seeses 660 Bquare miles of state forest
and. 3,600 of unreserved. forest which is
controlled by the civil officers in charge
ofthe districts.    The effect of the exclusion of fires from, the forests are becoming, we are told, every year more and*
more apparent.    On the better wooded
hill-sides grass is gradually disappearing,
and the surface of the soil is being covered with leaves  and other  vegetable
matter in various stages of decay;   while
in the. more open portions of the forest
natural reproduction is making steady
progress.   But the results are not con-'
fined  to  th9 reserves themselves; climatic and : other changes  are taking-
place.     The extreme heat of the hot
weather is modified by increased moisture, diminished radiation and other effects of a dense and extensive under-:
growth; while in the open tracts .frosts;
are becoming common in the cold season. _   Water ia much' more plentiful
than it was a few years ago.    There is.
scarcely a mullah of any size that does',
not now contain pools of water in the hot
weather, whereas formerly it waa the exception to find water anywhere after February, except in the 'main' streams.   In
former years sudden floods used to occur
regurlarly in the rivers at the commencement of the rains, but since 1871 they;
have come later, and with less severity-
year by year, which is attributed to the '
unbounded vegitation retarding thesur-.
face drainage.   There is less mortality-
also, at the commencement of the rains, *!
among the cattle in the reserved than inl
the unreserved forests, and  the .cattlev
are in better condition.   This is attribu- '
ted to their not being abletogorge them-(
selves with young grass, as they do in y
burnt jungle.   On the other hand, the1
climate ofthe reserve appears to be be-'
coming less healthy; fever and dysentery are prevalent, more particularly at
the end of the rains and commencement
of the cold weather;   The subject will be
watched with interest by more than the.
forest officers.       _-..._
Uncle Sam's Farm.
Uncle Sam .has a pretty good* sized"
farm still left. According to the- report
of the Secretary ofthe Interior, 6,524,326 ;
acres were, disposed of during the last"
fiscal year, for which the cash receipts i
were 11,745,215.85. During the year 21r >
806 517 acres were surveyed, leaving yet '
to be surveyed a trifle over 1,132,665,214- '
acres,-, ■ ■    ■        ■-.:-!    :-',:t-,
The crop of Virginia tobacco is esti- ,i
mated at 35,000 to 40,000 hhds.    One-
third of this, from  the  first plantings,
cut in ripe condition, promises good tobacco, but much injured ,by the worm.
The'remainder of the crop will turn out!
aspoor tobacco as ever wasseeh; ita-growth I
waa backwards, and planters were scared.
by early light frosts, and cut largely of
it unripe.        .