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ToLSIL DTOIAMPOIiIS, INDIANA, APRIL 14,1877. No. 15. EXCHANGE DEPlBTMENT. Lost, Strayed or Stolen. Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less ','than 25 cents. ' y FOR SALE. T**tOR SALE- Eggsfor hatching from the follqwlng H _Euff, While, Black and Partridge Cochins. Breeding stock mery fine. Write for what you want. DMdd Hadley, Plainfleld, Ind. £10w216 IOR SALE—FGGS—Bee card in this column. J. BENNETT, Sunman, Ind. 15 3t-209 F •**"""**IOR SALB-Farm of 60 acres, Z\i miles south- X? west of city. Call at or address 311 West "Washington street 1A4X* E IOR 8 \LE-PEKIN DUCK EGGS—13'0 FOR 13 EGGS. PURE STOCK. T. E. ELLIS, 12-10w288 Plainfleld, Ind. FOR SALE—New and fecond hand Portable and Stationary Engines, Saw Mills, Separators and Corn Shellars. H. K. BOLL, JR., Indianapolis. 15 2w* TTIOR SALE—Fgg5 for hatching, S3 for thirteen. tj Either Dark Brahmas, Buff or Partridge Cochins. W. Kenyon, Crawfordsville, Ind. 8-8wl80 FOR SALE—Eggs from first class Buff Cochin fowls from iiu ported stock till July lst at J2.00 per setting of 13. Address: J. L. Carey, Indianapolis Ind. 6-22U 85 and 87 South Meridian St TnOR SALE—Yellow Oil Corn; single package 25 fl cents; 10 or more packages at 20 cents each. Address L. F. Fanner, Huntlngtcn, Ind. 13-4w XilOR SALE—The well known White Oil Corn Jt> Single packages 25 cents; 12 or more 20 cents each. Address, Indiana Fakmee Office. 7-tf. * "TJIOR SALE or TRADE—"Muggins," 4028 A. S.H. _E Record; 4 years old; a good breeder; will sell cheap, or trade. S. R. QUICK, Columbus, Ind. • 13-tf-i00 FOR SALE—Galvanized Eureka Sap Spout We have a few hundred of these sap spouts, which we will sell at the low rate of 84 50 per hundred. 4—tf PUBLEHEES OF INDIANA FAB.MEB. OR 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. 3-tf E EOR SALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style SO, new and in good condition. For sale at a discount from regular price. 4tf Indiana Faemer Co. TJIOR SALE —POLAND-CHINA PIGS-A few JD choice pigs selected from a lot of 200. Satisfaction gnarantt ed. Send lor prices. Address B. C. BURKETT, Fincastle. Putnam county. Ind. 12-13wl97 "T7*IORSALE-Oneset of Jardlne's Naturalists LI- JD brary; 42 volumes; 1300 finely colored plates; splendid wr>rlt; only 136 00; less than half published price. F. M. CR0U3E, Bookseller, 88 North Delaware, Indianapolis. .J5-lw\*208) fllOR SALE-*Chester White, Poland China and Jj Berkshire pigs. Eggs of all leading varieties of fowls for sale. We guarantee satisfaction. Write for price-list GUILLIAMS jfcHARfMAN. ll-8w Fincastle. Putnam county, Ind. TOR SALE—KANSAS "LAND—160 acres of rj flne farm land in southwes' Kansas; l\i miles from county seat; near timber; thriving county. Price 85 per acre. 1200 down, balance in 9 and 18 months—secured. H. BROOKE, Peru, Ind. 15 2t208 FOR 8 ALE—Will spare eggs, at reasonable rates, from premium Light Brahmas, Toulouse and White China Geese and Pekin Ducks that won first and second premiums. Satisfaction guaranteed. Address GREEN & VAU8CYOC, IndianapoUs, Ind. H-lOw-202 FOR SALE—Eggs, for hatcling. of White-Faced Spanish, Light Brahma; Game Bantam, Pekin and Ciyuga Ducks and Bronze Turkeys. Send for REDUCED PRICES. Egg» of my Fowls hatch remarkably well this season. Can spare a few fowls. Mention this card when you write. JOHN BENNETT, Sunman, Ripley county, Ind. 15 3w 209 FOR SALE—Twelve imported Clydesdale Stallions, from four to six years old, weighing from 1,850 to 2,2t)0 lbs. Also, two three quarter bloods. Two of the above stallions will stand at Pendleton, and one at Indianapolis. Season 1877. Furiher notice will be given in the Indiana Faemer. Apply to WM. MEIKLE, Pendleton, Madison county, Ind., formerly Indiana, Penn. 14-3w FOR S ILE—Cedar Hill Poultry Yard, Jacob Kennedy, proprietor, Lizton, Hendricks county, Ind. Light Biahtca. Buff and Partridge Cochins and White Holland Turkeys, Ayletbury Ducks and Toulouse Geece., Eggs In season from all the above fowls at reasonable lates. No orders filled C. O. D. 8-8W180 FARM FOR SALE-Contalning 52 acres, ln Morgan (Jounty, Iud., on the gravel road half a mile east of Martinsville; good two story frame- house, several oui-buildings,17 acres of woodland, pasture, balance under cultivation, apple and peach orchard, several good springs with plenty of never- failing water for stock.. Address J. M. ST. JOHN, 6-10t ' Franklin, Ind. WAITID. "\TTANTED—Agents ln every township in this W State to sell the New Illustrated History of Indiana, and fine family Bibles. J. W. Lanktree A ,Vp., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind. 10-ly(189* "ITT* ANTED-You to send for circulars for the f V best Map of Bible History ln the world, and send your orders for Sunday-school supplies to James H. V. Smith, Publisher and Bookseller, Indianapolis, Ind. 15 tf TITAN TED it known that the White Oil Corn TV has stood the test, won laurels, and is for sale at 25 cts per pkg Address 8-tf Indiana Fabmbb CoitPANY, TXTANTED—The address of parties Interested ln TV Partridge Co< hins. Will send an Illustrated circular. Address JOHM M. 8PANN, No.44 N. Penn. St, Indianapolis. ' 14 3w201 r MISCELLANEOUS- TXTK have a good assortment of horse cuts, and T T can print horse bills neatly, at reasonable *"*tes and on prompt notice. Indiana Farmer Co. 8tf THE initials «w. O. C." signed to the article on f„. «rSe lnside orthls p-vper, headed "Mfrit," stand aI V^i16 oa Co™, V^cto.ta f»r <*k at The Farmer ^fencr. 15-lw »T^iW cow •"* male calf Short-horn for sale, cipiw' aSI6 Jersey and Short-horn heifer forsale. •-neap. Address THOS. H. HINER, Columbus,Ind. . 14 2t« E ^2'S^J?9 selected hedge plants, ln quanti- AddreJa m AuiS,P^'chasers « *M0 per tbcuiand. Address M. G. TRAUGH, Box 68, Reilngton, Ind. 14-2t* ' S^harT^a^K'lm.b™TOmKemule near marks and «n'»i?.lne7ear8 olOi ™ry heaT3'' 8ear AnyinfOTmaM,?^!6^18 m"ks; fh°d &U roSnd. mule oVSher ^.1iil^tart.£° "CoVery of thlet and WHITKBminL^iLbe,Trberally rewarded. R. H. ^ r"uln8svllle, Union county, Ind. 14 2w SaT-aFT"*. 1720 15th DUKE OP AIRDRIE, 6628, at 10 Years of Age, the Property of Hon. JOHN.WBNTWORTH, Chicago, Illinois. THE FARM. Postal Card Correspondence. INDIANA. Knox Connty—April Sth. ■ Wheat looks well in this county. There has been a great deal of hog cholera. Pat hogs sell from four and a half to four seventy-five. James Ashbt. Grant Connty.—April 7th. We are having fine weather now, and farmers are ploughing sod. Roads muddy. Stock looks well generally. Hogs are dying with cholera in some parts of the county. Wheat looks very green, and farmers are hopeful for a good crop. W. R. Mabshall. Wabash Connty—April 3rd. Weather is fine at present. Wheat is doing well. Potatoes scarce at 95 cents. Corn plenty at 55 cents. Wheat, $1,25. Stock is doing well. There is no hog cholera here. Great preparations are being made for the coming crop. Peaches about half a crop. Health is pretty* good. Husky CSomstock. liberty Mills, Ind. •. Owen Connty—April eth. The weather is very spring like. Farmers delighted. Fields are being cleared, stalks cut, preparatory to ploughing; gardens are being made, fences repaired, stumps and brush burned. The hills and valleys of Owen county begin to-assume the appearance of industry indeed. This county holds out well in faithfulness to the grange. Reader. Pike County—April 6tta. Growing wheat looking umuually well. Hog cholera abating. Stock hogs plentier than usual at 5 cents. Young clover is not coming up very well. Farmers ploughing for corn. Peter Wbitehouse is correct in saying the Fae- mib Is the text book of all good farmers; to its teachings and themes he owes a large per cent, of his wonderful success in his occupation. Long may it wave. Setii Edwards. Owen Connty—April 9th. I notice in a back number of the Farmer that some one at Sunman, Ind., wanted to hear more about the Jersey Red hogs. I have forgot his name. Richard N. Hyden of Spencer, Owen Co., Ind., received a few days ago a fine four months old male pig of full blood Jersey Red stock, from an eastern breeder. Sheep and dogs on the decrease. Weather last week was good for farmers to plow; this week cold and raining. Peaches all killed. Harris Siieitard. Bartholomew Connty—April 5*th. Fruit safe yet. Wheat looks well. People busy ploughing. The grange is prospering. There was a very interesting communication in the Fabmeb from Mount Nebo Grange, entitled "The Social Features of the Grange," can't the writer give us some more of the same. The farmers here complain of tightness in money matters, many of them are in debt and ih the hands of the money sharks paying big interest, still they voted for contraction and they are getting it. JOHK McClBIjIjABB. Porter Connty-Aprll 2nd. Wheat is not much damaged by winter and we will have a fair crop if nothing happens to it from this out. Com sells at 40 to 42 cents; oats, 30 cents; potatoes, 90 cents; hogs, $4,50 to $5,00, cattle, butchers' stock, $3,50 to $4,00; cows are in good demand at $38, to $45, extra ones $50; steers two years old past, from $23, to $26, yearlings, from $16, to $20; calves, coming yearlings, $12. to $14; horses in tolerably fair demand; hogs, about an average stock in the hands of farmers and seem to be healthy. Sheep, very few kept in this connty. Wages from $15, to $18, per month. A. S. Huntington Connty—April Oth. Last week was fine for farm work. Farmers are beginning to plow on the river lands. Ground is breaking mellow and fine. Wheat is looking well. Grass lands came through winter in good shape. Every farmer should have a piece of sod for pasture, heavy enough to bear heavy stock In early spring, so that we can turn on, and get our stock off from dry feed as soon as possible. Do not turn on grass and stop feeding, but continue to feed and give the bit of grass extra. The pig I offer as a premium will be ready in June, the parties getting it can have choice between sow and boar. F. McKeeveb. MISSOURI. Benton Connty—April 4th. A very large crop of winter wheat sown la*t fall, and it is now looking well. Sheep and other stock looking fine. This is one of the finest stock sections in Missouri. We shall have fruit wherever there are trees old enough to bear. E. C. Campbell. NEBRASKA. Furnas Connty—April 4th. A. good crop of spring wheat has been sown. The'ploughing now is fine. Stock healthy. Winter wheat .much damaged by winter weather, bnt not much was sown last fall. B. E. OHIO. Shelby County—April 3rd. Farmers here ploughed more in February than they did in March. Wheat is looking well now, and all feel encouraged at the prospect before us. Wheat is selling at $1,40; corn, 35 and oats 32 cents. 0. D. Henry County—April 6th* All the wheat drilled in early on well prepared fields is looking very fine, but the slipshod broadcast sowing looks sorry. Potatoes here are worth $1,00. Fruit all right except some tender varieties. A. D. Sansom. KANSAS. Beno Connty—April 3rd. The growing wheat is looking well, and spring work is going on rapidly. We did a great deal of ploughing in February and March. The hoppers are hatching now rapidly, and we shall soon know what they will do. Everybody hopeful and busy at work. T. R. W. MICHIGAN. Barry County—April eth. The winter wheat is very promising, and a good large crop was sown. We had an unususj amount of snow in March, which was a great protection to.the growing wheat. F. H. St. Joseph Connty—April 7th. The splendid protection of the wheat in March by the snow, will probably insure us a big crop. It is looking well now, and the weather is getting fine. Stock healthy. A. T. R. ILLINOIS. Bfason County—April 4th. Our winter wheat is promising well indeed. We have a good wheat section, and averaged over twenty bushels per acre last season. Wheat now selling at $1,35, and corn 38 cents- • S. L. Watsoit. ■ Montgomery County—April Sth. The hog cholera is much less fatal here now than a few months ago, but a large per cent. of the hogs have died with it. The acreage of wheat sown was much below an average, but the growing wheat looks very fine. Corn' is 35 cents and good wheat $1,35 per bushel. NOTES AND QUERIES. Henry Co., April 9th. I have a large yellow willow tree which I wish to kill immediately. Will coal oil or any of the acids do this t A. B. V Will some of the readers of the Farmer tell me how to take a knot or lump off of .the pastern joint of a horse's leg caused by a yoke when young. J. A. Collbtt. Morgantown, Ind. Special Correspondence. Galveston, Texas, April 2nd. 1877. Ediiors of Indiana Farmer: Through the courtesies of the Houston Direct Navigation Company, office at Houston, I was tendered a pass on the "Diana," a splendid boat of 458 tons burden, and accommodations for sixty passengers, but not so many on board at this season of the year, as it is now considered dull. Captain Christian has been in charge for a number of years and is considered one of the j oiliest of men on ship of'land, as he has large farms and fine stock, race horses and fighting cocks. Mr. Stiles, Clerk, Mr. Holbeck, Steward; L. T. Folk, Pilot, were all agreeable gentlemen and ready to grant a favor and give any information that was wanted, any you may .guess a green lands man as myself, had a great many questions to ask. We started at five o'clock in the evening, and a novel ride it was. The Buffalo Bayou, as it is called, is a narrow body of water extending from Galveston Bay up to Houston, and with its meanderings gives 85 miles of tide water and looks like a canal, only the banks are too high and covered with undergiowth to the waters edge, festoons of moss hanging from cozy boughs. Magnolia trees are green with foliage, but not in bloom as yet. The boat so nearly fills the stream that you can pluck the hanging branches as you pass the bend, and its all bend, for you can scarcely see a gun shot distance at any time. As the darkeys sung their evening song it reminded me of some of Mrs. Stowes pictures in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." We passed cotton presses and grain elevators arranged to load cars and boats, as the railroad runs near by. I saw a young Scotchman who proposed to take charge of a small plantation and put in potatoes; he wants to raise two crops in a season; his theory was nice, but I am doubtful about the practice. At day light we were on the bay out of sight of land, except in one direction. The Steward told me we had been "laying to" for six houts, for fear of a storm, as this little bay, 40 miles across, gets on a high sometimes and makes one wish he hadn't left home. After all danger was over I found a card posted in my room telling where to find life preservers and how to adjust the same, and that the doors and shutters could all be taken off of their hinges and rafts made of the same, all of this and much more was there in plain English, but I had failed to see it till the voyage was over, and we were now in sight of Galveston, the "city in the sea," for it is sito ated on an island of the same name, made of sand washed up by the ever flowing Gulf of Mexico. The island is thirty miles long, east and west, and two miles wide; nothing grows there naturally, only a coarse grass and a wild flower, now and then can be found, making a struggle for life among the sand which drifts like snow over everything, vegetables of all kinds are grown on the island by gardners, after they are enriched by manures of various kinds. The market looks much as it does in Indianapolis in July and August, with the addition of yams, garlics, shrimps, crabs, and many things that are considered as delicacies here, that we in the interior are not used to. Fresh turnips are grown here at all seasons. Nice large pumpkins that had been kept over winter, brought from fifty cents to one dollar each* Kansas butter was one man's attractive sign; he Baid lt was the best in the market and brought 30 cents per pound, looked quite common and greasy; good milk is not to be found on the island, all the drinking water is caught in wooden cisterns above ground, as the water from the gulf can be found any where within two feet of the surface. All nations of people are to be found here. The Medical Convention of the State met here today, some fifty members present reptesenting all parts, some dignified portly looking gentlemen of undoubted worth, and others that reminded one of the "Arkansaw .Doctor" of world renowned noteriety. The only interest the farmer would have in Galveston would be as a shipping port. All the supplies for southern Texas come by way of the Gulf; there are large wholesale houses of every kind here. There is one large flouring mill making one hundred barrels of flour per day from Kansas wheat, and selling it at as low figures as the retailers in your city. Ice is manufactured by steam at the rate of thirty tons per day, but the great business of all others is cotton. The largest ware houses are for storing and pressing, nearly all the cotton of the State finds an entrance into this port, water navigation is so much cheaper than rail. St. Louis is working hard for trade in Texas, and runners for all kinds of traffic may be seen all over the State selling and buying, and in the north part they have the control of business; all parties spoke well of this country- and-want immigration. One newspaper man said they wanted 100,000 farmers from Indiana and Ohio to settle in Texas. This State is as large as Florida, Alabama and Tennessee, and embraces the same climate, so that some portion of the State should suit most any one, but as I am not advertising, will close. T. E. E. NEWS OF THS WEEK. Itate News. The passenger rate from this city to New York has been fixed at $19, on either of the through lines. Frank M. Churchman, of this city, on the 5th, paid the first half of his County and State taxes, amounting to $5,600. Owing to the scarcity of wheat throughout this Btate, many farmers near the -county towns are buying their flour in this city. On Thursday last, a freight train on the Toledo, Wabash & Western railway, ran over a.cow^nd was ditched near Attica, killing John Morris the oonducter, and wrecking twelve car loads of com. Under the new rates established by the Telegraph Companies, ten word dispatches can be sent to New York, or other eastern cities, for twenty-five cents; a fall of fifty cents below old time rates. The total number of applications for aid of the township trustee in this city during the month of March, was 352. The total disbursements during the month, was $6,394.75 of which sum $4,066.50 was for groceries, and 1,920.40 for fuel. The taxes collected inthe Fourth Internal Revenue District of Indiana, during the month of March, 1877, amounted to $361,285 64. Total collections for six months ending March 31,1877, $1,914 19496, of which amount there was collected as tax on distilled spirits $1,- 875,000. General Sews. The fine illustration, the 10th Duke of Airdrie, is kindly furnished us by the Hon. John Wentworth, of Chicago. ' Mr. W. says of the Dnke— "I bought him when a yearling for $1,600. He has never been sick a day, and has never been out of service. He has never served a cow but my own. He has never been off from mv farm. I have never had a public sale, and always found a ready market for all his calves. He is as gentle as a lamb. Any child can lead him. Some people complain of the want of constitution in the Dukes; but I think this complaint arises from their frequent change of own ers and consequent change of feed and climate." Mr. Wentworth sends catalogues and circulars of his cattle, swine, sheep and fowls to those requesting them. . » Our attention was attracted the other day to one of the greatest inventions of the age. We refer to the "Favorite," cooking stove, which should be in the kitchen of every well regulated family. 15-lt. Paris has about 65,000 . professional beggars. Texas will send north during the coming season 250,000 cattlo. The product of the Wisconsin dairies is es- timated at $4,000,000 per annum. Barnaul has paid 800,000 francs for eight coal black steeds with white hoofs. The telephone has been operated successfully between New York and Boston—two hundred miles. The Great Eastern Steamship is being fitted up, at the expense of $250,000, for carrying cattle from this Country to England. A boy answering the description of Charley Ross, is now reported to have keen discovered in San Francisco. His father is still hopeful of finding him alive. A pure white muskrat was caught in the north part of Great Barrlngton, Mass., the other day, something old hunters never saw before in that part of the country. The valuation of the Perth Amboy, New Jersey, oyster grounds, 1,000 acres, is $1,000,; 000. The annual yield is 8,000,000 bushels of oysters. It requires four years to pioduce a full grown oyster. A new and dangerous counterfeit half dollar is out which is made of glass and silvered over by some process which makes it similar in appearance to the genuine coin, and very hard to detect, as the ring is perfect. L. L. Estes, an Iowa farmer, has lately sold $7,612 Worth of steers and hogs off one farm and nearly all the corn was raised on the farm to feed'the Btock. He has yet on the farm 100 head of stock cattle,. and over sixty head of hogs. The Augusta Chronicle says Massachusetts capitalists are investing in manufacturing enterprise in Georgia. A cotton mill is to be established at Augusta and another on the "Powder Mills tract," the first to run 20,000 and the latter 60,000 spindles. Rouen, France, has the tallest structure In the world. The cast iron spire of its cathedral is 492 feet high, while. the dome of St. Peter's at Rome raises its cross 452 feet above the ground, and Strasbourg, the highest cathedra in all France, reaches, with its celebrated clock tower, 455 feet. There are five hundred million dollars, invested in cows in the United States. The estimated value of butter that can be produced from a first class cow is ninety-four dollars; while a common cow will produce from thirty to forty dollars worth. An immense African lion, about 60 years old, escaped from its cage in his managerie at Augusta, Ga., a few days ago, into a crowd o* people. Great consternation and a thorough stampede resulted. . "Emperor" went to work on a $2,000 Tartary yak and finished it, then tasting gently of the calf o. « man's leg, sat down to rest, when a rope was secured around hia neck, and he was choked into his cage. Baker's Cod Liver Oil ahd Lime.— Increases flesh wonderfully, and gives the Consumptive a new lease of life. Pleasant as a syrup or cordial. Jno. 0. Baker & Co., J'hila- 1 delphia, and druggists generally. 12-11
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1877, v. 12, no. 15 (Apr. 14) |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Transcript | ToLSIL DTOIAMPOIiIS, INDIANA, APRIL 14,1877. No. 15. EXCHANGE DEPlBTMENT. Lost, Strayed or Stolen. Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less ','than 25 cents. ' y FOR SALE. T**tOR SALE- Eggsfor hatching from the follqwlng H _Euff, While, Black and Partridge Cochins. Breeding stock mery fine. Write for what you want. DMdd Hadley, Plainfleld, Ind. £10w216 IOR SALE—FGGS—Bee card in this column. J. BENNETT, Sunman, Ind. 15 3t-209 F •**"""**IOR SALB-Farm of 60 acres, Z\i miles south- X? west of city. Call at or address 311 West "Washington street 1A4X* E IOR 8 \LE-PEKIN DUCK EGGS—13'0 FOR 13 EGGS. PURE STOCK. T. E. ELLIS, 12-10w288 Plainfleld, Ind. FOR SALE—New and fecond hand Portable and Stationary Engines, Saw Mills, Separators and Corn Shellars. H. K. BOLL, JR., Indianapolis. 15 2w* TTIOR SALE—Fgg5 for hatching, S3 for thirteen. tj Either Dark Brahmas, Buff or Partridge Cochins. W. Kenyon, Crawfordsville, Ind. 8-8wl80 FOR SALE—Eggs from first class Buff Cochin fowls from iiu ported stock till July lst at J2.00 per setting of 13. Address: J. L. Carey, Indianapolis Ind. 6-22U 85 and 87 South Meridian St TnOR SALE—Yellow Oil Corn; single package 25 fl cents; 10 or more packages at 20 cents each. Address L. F. Fanner, Huntlngtcn, Ind. 13-4w XilOR SALE—The well known White Oil Corn Jt> Single packages 25 cents; 12 or more 20 cents each. Address, Indiana Fakmee Office. 7-tf. * "TJIOR SALE or TRADE—"Muggins," 4028 A. S.H. _E Record; 4 years old; a good breeder; will sell cheap, or trade. S. R. QUICK, Columbus, Ind. • 13-tf-i00 FOR SALE—Galvanized Eureka Sap Spout We have a few hundred of these sap spouts, which we will sell at the low rate of 84 50 per hundred. 4—tf PUBLEHEES OF INDIANA FAB.MEB. OR 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. 3-tf E EOR SALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style SO, new and in good condition. For sale at a discount from regular price. 4tf Indiana Faemer Co. TJIOR SALE —POLAND-CHINA PIGS-A few JD choice pigs selected from a lot of 200. Satisfaction gnarantt ed. Send lor prices. Address B. C. BURKETT, Fincastle. Putnam county. Ind. 12-13wl97 "T7*IORSALE-Oneset of Jardlne's Naturalists LI- JD brary; 42 volumes; 1300 finely colored plates; splendid wr>rlt; only 136 00; less than half published price. F. M. CR0U3E, Bookseller, 88 North Delaware, Indianapolis. .J5-lw\*208) fllOR SALE-*Chester White, Poland China and Jj Berkshire pigs. Eggs of all leading varieties of fowls for sale. We guarantee satisfaction. Write for price-list GUILLIAMS jfcHARfMAN. ll-8w Fincastle. Putnam county, Ind. TOR SALE—KANSAS "LAND—160 acres of rj flne farm land in southwes' Kansas; l\i miles from county seat; near timber; thriving county. Price 85 per acre. 1200 down, balance in 9 and 18 months—secured. H. BROOKE, Peru, Ind. 15 2t208 FOR 8 ALE—Will spare eggs, at reasonable rates, from premium Light Brahmas, Toulouse and White China Geese and Pekin Ducks that won first and second premiums. Satisfaction guaranteed. Address GREEN & VAU8CYOC, IndianapoUs, Ind. H-lOw-202 FOR SALE—Eggs, for hatcling. of White-Faced Spanish, Light Brahma; Game Bantam, Pekin and Ciyuga Ducks and Bronze Turkeys. Send for REDUCED PRICES. Egg» of my Fowls hatch remarkably well this season. Can spare a few fowls. Mention this card when you write. JOHN BENNETT, Sunman, Ripley county, Ind. 15 3w 209 FOR SALE—Twelve imported Clydesdale Stallions, from four to six years old, weighing from 1,850 to 2,2t)0 lbs. Also, two three quarter bloods. Two of the above stallions will stand at Pendleton, and one at Indianapolis. Season 1877. Furiher notice will be given in the Indiana Faemer. Apply to WM. MEIKLE, Pendleton, Madison county, Ind., formerly Indiana, Penn. 14-3w FOR S ILE—Cedar Hill Poultry Yard, Jacob Kennedy, proprietor, Lizton, Hendricks county, Ind. Light Biahtca. Buff and Partridge Cochins and White Holland Turkeys, Ayletbury Ducks and Toulouse Geece., Eggs In season from all the above fowls at reasonable lates. No orders filled C. O. D. 8-8W180 FARM FOR SALE-Contalning 52 acres, ln Morgan (Jounty, Iud., on the gravel road half a mile east of Martinsville; good two story frame- house, several oui-buildings,17 acres of woodland, pasture, balance under cultivation, apple and peach orchard, several good springs with plenty of never- failing water for stock.. Address J. M. ST. JOHN, 6-10t ' Franklin, Ind. WAITID. "\TTANTED—Agents ln every township in this W State to sell the New Illustrated History of Indiana, and fine family Bibles. J. W. Lanktree A ,Vp., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind. 10-ly(189* "ITT* ANTED-You to send for circulars for the f V best Map of Bible History ln the world, and send your orders for Sunday-school supplies to James H. V. Smith, Publisher and Bookseller, Indianapolis, Ind. 15 tf TITAN TED it known that the White Oil Corn TV has stood the test, won laurels, and is for sale at 25 cts per pkg Address 8-tf Indiana Fabmbb CoitPANY, TXTANTED—The address of parties Interested ln TV Partridge Co< hins. Will send an Illustrated circular. Address JOHM M. 8PANN, No.44 N. Penn. St, Indianapolis. ' 14 3w201 r MISCELLANEOUS- TXTK have a good assortment of horse cuts, and T T can print horse bills neatly, at reasonable *"*tes and on prompt notice. Indiana Farmer Co. 8tf THE initials «w. O. C." signed to the article on f„. «rSe lnside orthls p-vper, headed "Mfrit," stand aI V^i16 oa Co™, V^cto.ta f»r <*k at The Farmer ^fencr. 15-lw »T^iW cow •"* male calf Short-horn for sale, cipiw' aSI6 Jersey and Short-horn heifer forsale. •-neap. Address THOS. H. HINER, Columbus,Ind. . 14 2t« E ^2'S^J?9 selected hedge plants, ln quanti- AddreJa m AuiS,P^'chasers « *M0 per tbcuiand. Address M. G. TRAUGH, Box 68, Reilngton, Ind. 14-2t* ' S^harT^a^K'lm.b™TOmKemule near marks and «n'»i?.lne7ear8 olOi ™ry heaT3'' 8ear AnyinfOTmaM,?^!6^18 m"ks; fh°d &U roSnd. mule oVSher ^.1iil^tart.£° "CoVery of thlet and WHITKBminL^iLbe,Trberally rewarded. R. H. ^ r"uln8svllle, Union county, Ind. 14 2w SaT-aFT"*. 1720 15th DUKE OP AIRDRIE, 6628, at 10 Years of Age, the Property of Hon. JOHN.WBNTWORTH, Chicago, Illinois. THE FARM. Postal Card Correspondence. INDIANA. Knox Connty—April Sth. ■ Wheat looks well in this county. There has been a great deal of hog cholera. Pat hogs sell from four and a half to four seventy-five. James Ashbt. Grant Connty.—April 7th. We are having fine weather now, and farmers are ploughing sod. Roads muddy. Stock looks well generally. Hogs are dying with cholera in some parts of the county. Wheat looks very green, and farmers are hopeful for a good crop. W. R. Mabshall. Wabash Connty—April 3rd. Weather is fine at present. Wheat is doing well. Potatoes scarce at 95 cents. Corn plenty at 55 cents. Wheat, $1,25. Stock is doing well. There is no hog cholera here. Great preparations are being made for the coming crop. Peaches about half a crop. Health is pretty* good. Husky CSomstock. liberty Mills, Ind. •. Owen Connty—April eth. The weather is very spring like. Farmers delighted. Fields are being cleared, stalks cut, preparatory to ploughing; gardens are being made, fences repaired, stumps and brush burned. The hills and valleys of Owen county begin to-assume the appearance of industry indeed. This county holds out well in faithfulness to the grange. Reader. Pike County—April 6tta. Growing wheat looking umuually well. Hog cholera abating. Stock hogs plentier than usual at 5 cents. Young clover is not coming up very well. Farmers ploughing for corn. Peter Wbitehouse is correct in saying the Fae- mib Is the text book of all good farmers; to its teachings and themes he owes a large per cent, of his wonderful success in his occupation. Long may it wave. Setii Edwards. Owen Connty—April 9th. I notice in a back number of the Farmer that some one at Sunman, Ind., wanted to hear more about the Jersey Red hogs. I have forgot his name. Richard N. Hyden of Spencer, Owen Co., Ind., received a few days ago a fine four months old male pig of full blood Jersey Red stock, from an eastern breeder. Sheep and dogs on the decrease. Weather last week was good for farmers to plow; this week cold and raining. Peaches all killed. Harris Siieitard. Bartholomew Connty—April 5*th. Fruit safe yet. Wheat looks well. People busy ploughing. The grange is prospering. There was a very interesting communication in the Fabmeb from Mount Nebo Grange, entitled "The Social Features of the Grange," can't the writer give us some more of the same. The farmers here complain of tightness in money matters, many of them are in debt and ih the hands of the money sharks paying big interest, still they voted for contraction and they are getting it. JOHK McClBIjIjABB. Porter Connty-Aprll 2nd. Wheat is not much damaged by winter and we will have a fair crop if nothing happens to it from this out. Com sells at 40 to 42 cents; oats, 30 cents; potatoes, 90 cents; hogs, $4,50 to $5,00, cattle, butchers' stock, $3,50 to $4,00; cows are in good demand at $38, to $45, extra ones $50; steers two years old past, from $23, to $26, yearlings, from $16, to $20; calves, coming yearlings, $12. to $14; horses in tolerably fair demand; hogs, about an average stock in the hands of farmers and seem to be healthy. Sheep, very few kept in this connty. Wages from $15, to $18, per month. A. S. Huntington Connty—April Oth. Last week was fine for farm work. Farmers are beginning to plow on the river lands. Ground is breaking mellow and fine. Wheat is looking well. Grass lands came through winter in good shape. Every farmer should have a piece of sod for pasture, heavy enough to bear heavy stock In early spring, so that we can turn on, and get our stock off from dry feed as soon as possible. Do not turn on grass and stop feeding, but continue to feed and give the bit of grass extra. The pig I offer as a premium will be ready in June, the parties getting it can have choice between sow and boar. F. McKeeveb. MISSOURI. Benton Connty—April 4th. A very large crop of winter wheat sown la*t fall, and it is now looking well. Sheep and other stock looking fine. This is one of the finest stock sections in Missouri. We shall have fruit wherever there are trees old enough to bear. E. C. Campbell. NEBRASKA. Furnas Connty—April 4th. A. good crop of spring wheat has been sown. The'ploughing now is fine. Stock healthy. Winter wheat .much damaged by winter weather, bnt not much was sown last fall. B. E. OHIO. Shelby County—April 3rd. Farmers here ploughed more in February than they did in March. Wheat is looking well now, and all feel encouraged at the prospect before us. Wheat is selling at $1,40; corn, 35 and oats 32 cents. 0. D. Henry County—April 6th* All the wheat drilled in early on well prepared fields is looking very fine, but the slipshod broadcast sowing looks sorry. Potatoes here are worth $1,00. Fruit all right except some tender varieties. A. D. Sansom. KANSAS. Beno Connty—April 3rd. The growing wheat is looking well, and spring work is going on rapidly. We did a great deal of ploughing in February and March. The hoppers are hatching now rapidly, and we shall soon know what they will do. Everybody hopeful and busy at work. T. R. W. MICHIGAN. Barry County—April eth. The winter wheat is very promising, and a good large crop was sown. We had an unususj amount of snow in March, which was a great protection to.the growing wheat. F. H. St. Joseph Connty—April 7th. The splendid protection of the wheat in March by the snow, will probably insure us a big crop. It is looking well now, and the weather is getting fine. Stock healthy. A. T. R. ILLINOIS. Bfason County—April 4th. Our winter wheat is promising well indeed. We have a good wheat section, and averaged over twenty bushels per acre last season. Wheat now selling at $1,35, and corn 38 cents- • S. L. Watsoit. ■ Montgomery County—April Sth. The hog cholera is much less fatal here now than a few months ago, but a large per cent. of the hogs have died with it. The acreage of wheat sown was much below an average, but the growing wheat looks very fine. Corn' is 35 cents and good wheat $1,35 per bushel. NOTES AND QUERIES. Henry Co., April 9th. I have a large yellow willow tree which I wish to kill immediately. Will coal oil or any of the acids do this t A. B. V Will some of the readers of the Farmer tell me how to take a knot or lump off of .the pastern joint of a horse's leg caused by a yoke when young. J. A. Collbtt. Morgantown, Ind. Special Correspondence. Galveston, Texas, April 2nd. 1877. Ediiors of Indiana Farmer: Through the courtesies of the Houston Direct Navigation Company, office at Houston, I was tendered a pass on the "Diana," a splendid boat of 458 tons burden, and accommodations for sixty passengers, but not so many on board at this season of the year, as it is now considered dull. Captain Christian has been in charge for a number of years and is considered one of the j oiliest of men on ship of'land, as he has large farms and fine stock, race horses and fighting cocks. Mr. Stiles, Clerk, Mr. Holbeck, Steward; L. T. Folk, Pilot, were all agreeable gentlemen and ready to grant a favor and give any information that was wanted, any you may .guess a green lands man as myself, had a great many questions to ask. We started at five o'clock in the evening, and a novel ride it was. The Buffalo Bayou, as it is called, is a narrow body of water extending from Galveston Bay up to Houston, and with its meanderings gives 85 miles of tide water and looks like a canal, only the banks are too high and covered with undergiowth to the waters edge, festoons of moss hanging from cozy boughs. Magnolia trees are green with foliage, but not in bloom as yet. The boat so nearly fills the stream that you can pluck the hanging branches as you pass the bend, and its all bend, for you can scarcely see a gun shot distance at any time. As the darkeys sung their evening song it reminded me of some of Mrs. Stowes pictures in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." We passed cotton presses and grain elevators arranged to load cars and boats, as the railroad runs near by. I saw a young Scotchman who proposed to take charge of a small plantation and put in potatoes; he wants to raise two crops in a season; his theory was nice, but I am doubtful about the practice. At day light we were on the bay out of sight of land, except in one direction. The Steward told me we had been "laying to" for six houts, for fear of a storm, as this little bay, 40 miles across, gets on a high sometimes and makes one wish he hadn't left home. After all danger was over I found a card posted in my room telling where to find life preservers and how to adjust the same, and that the doors and shutters could all be taken off of their hinges and rafts made of the same, all of this and much more was there in plain English, but I had failed to see it till the voyage was over, and we were now in sight of Galveston, the "city in the sea," for it is sito ated on an island of the same name, made of sand washed up by the ever flowing Gulf of Mexico. The island is thirty miles long, east and west, and two miles wide; nothing grows there naturally, only a coarse grass and a wild flower, now and then can be found, making a struggle for life among the sand which drifts like snow over everything, vegetables of all kinds are grown on the island by gardners, after they are enriched by manures of various kinds. The market looks much as it does in Indianapolis in July and August, with the addition of yams, garlics, shrimps, crabs, and many things that are considered as delicacies here, that we in the interior are not used to. Fresh turnips are grown here at all seasons. Nice large pumpkins that had been kept over winter, brought from fifty cents to one dollar each* Kansas butter was one man's attractive sign; he Baid lt was the best in the market and brought 30 cents per pound, looked quite common and greasy; good milk is not to be found on the island, all the drinking water is caught in wooden cisterns above ground, as the water from the gulf can be found any where within two feet of the surface. All nations of people are to be found here. The Medical Convention of the State met here today, some fifty members present reptesenting all parts, some dignified portly looking gentlemen of undoubted worth, and others that reminded one of the "Arkansaw .Doctor" of world renowned noteriety. The only interest the farmer would have in Galveston would be as a shipping port. All the supplies for southern Texas come by way of the Gulf; there are large wholesale houses of every kind here. There is one large flouring mill making one hundred barrels of flour per day from Kansas wheat, and selling it at as low figures as the retailers in your city. Ice is manufactured by steam at the rate of thirty tons per day, but the great business of all others is cotton. The largest ware houses are for storing and pressing, nearly all the cotton of the State finds an entrance into this port, water navigation is so much cheaper than rail. St. Louis is working hard for trade in Texas, and runners for all kinds of traffic may be seen all over the State selling and buying, and in the north part they have the control of business; all parties spoke well of this country- and-want immigration. One newspaper man said they wanted 100,000 farmers from Indiana and Ohio to settle in Texas. This State is as large as Florida, Alabama and Tennessee, and embraces the same climate, so that some portion of the State should suit most any one, but as I am not advertising, will close. T. E. E. NEWS OF THS WEEK. Itate News. The passenger rate from this city to New York has been fixed at $19, on either of the through lines. Frank M. Churchman, of this city, on the 5th, paid the first half of his County and State taxes, amounting to $5,600. Owing to the scarcity of wheat throughout this Btate, many farmers near the -county towns are buying their flour in this city. On Thursday last, a freight train on the Toledo, Wabash & Western railway, ran over a.cow^nd was ditched near Attica, killing John Morris the oonducter, and wrecking twelve car loads of com. Under the new rates established by the Telegraph Companies, ten word dispatches can be sent to New York, or other eastern cities, for twenty-five cents; a fall of fifty cents below old time rates. The total number of applications for aid of the township trustee in this city during the month of March, was 352. The total disbursements during the month, was $6,394.75 of which sum $4,066.50 was for groceries, and 1,920.40 for fuel. The taxes collected inthe Fourth Internal Revenue District of Indiana, during the month of March, 1877, amounted to $361,285 64. Total collections for six months ending March 31,1877, $1,914 19496, of which amount there was collected as tax on distilled spirits $1,- 875,000. General Sews. The fine illustration, the 10th Duke of Airdrie, is kindly furnished us by the Hon. John Wentworth, of Chicago. ' Mr. W. says of the Dnke— "I bought him when a yearling for $1,600. He has never been sick a day, and has never been out of service. He has never served a cow but my own. He has never been off from mv farm. I have never had a public sale, and always found a ready market for all his calves. He is as gentle as a lamb. Any child can lead him. Some people complain of the want of constitution in the Dukes; but I think this complaint arises from their frequent change of own ers and consequent change of feed and climate." Mr. Wentworth sends catalogues and circulars of his cattle, swine, sheep and fowls to those requesting them. . » Our attention was attracted the other day to one of the greatest inventions of the age. We refer to the "Favorite," cooking stove, which should be in the kitchen of every well regulated family. 15-lt. Paris has about 65,000 . professional beggars. Texas will send north during the coming season 250,000 cattlo. The product of the Wisconsin dairies is es- timated at $4,000,000 per annum. Barnaul has paid 800,000 francs for eight coal black steeds with white hoofs. The telephone has been operated successfully between New York and Boston—two hundred miles. The Great Eastern Steamship is being fitted up, at the expense of $250,000, for carrying cattle from this Country to England. A boy answering the description of Charley Ross, is now reported to have keen discovered in San Francisco. His father is still hopeful of finding him alive. A pure white muskrat was caught in the north part of Great Barrlngton, Mass., the other day, something old hunters never saw before in that part of the country. The valuation of the Perth Amboy, New Jersey, oyster grounds, 1,000 acres, is $1,000,; 000. The annual yield is 8,000,000 bushels of oysters. It requires four years to pioduce a full grown oyster. A new and dangerous counterfeit half dollar is out which is made of glass and silvered over by some process which makes it similar in appearance to the genuine coin, and very hard to detect, as the ring is perfect. L. L. Estes, an Iowa farmer, has lately sold $7,612 Worth of steers and hogs off one farm and nearly all the corn was raised on the farm to feed'the Btock. He has yet on the farm 100 head of stock cattle,. and over sixty head of hogs. The Augusta Chronicle says Massachusetts capitalists are investing in manufacturing enterprise in Georgia. A cotton mill is to be established at Augusta and another on the "Powder Mills tract," the first to run 20,000 and the latter 60,000 spindles. Rouen, France, has the tallest structure In the world. The cast iron spire of its cathedral is 492 feet high, while. the dome of St. Peter's at Rome raises its cross 452 feet above the ground, and Strasbourg, the highest cathedra in all France, reaches, with its celebrated clock tower, 455 feet. There are five hundred million dollars, invested in cows in the United States. The estimated value of butter that can be produced from a first class cow is ninety-four dollars; while a common cow will produce from thirty to forty dollars worth. An immense African lion, about 60 years old, escaped from its cage in his managerie at Augusta, Ga., a few days ago, into a crowd o* people. Great consternation and a thorough stampede resulted. . "Emperor" went to work on a $2,000 Tartary yak and finished it, then tasting gently of the calf o. « man's leg, sat down to rest, when a rope was secured around hia neck, and he was choked into his cage. Baker's Cod Liver Oil ahd Lime.— Increases flesh wonderfully, and gives the Consumptive a new lease of life. Pleasant as a syrup or cordial. Jno. 0. Baker & Co., J'hila- 1 delphia, and druggists generally. 12-11 |
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