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*
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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
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 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