I
vol. xn.
IKDIA-NAPOUS, INDIANA, JUNE 16,1877.
No. 24,
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Tea cents per line, and no advertisement for lees
than 25 cents.
FOR BALE.
■F
OR SALE—EGGS—L. Brahma, Spanish, Game
Bantams, 1150 per 13. J. Bennett, Sunman, Ind.
242t23
TTIOR SALE—Farms ln Indiana and Illinois. A.
h M. ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Indian-
Jpblis, Ind. _0-5-ti-(10)
per
EOR SALE—The well known White Oil Corn
Single packages 15 cents; 2 packages, 25 cents,
or f 1.40 per dozen.        Lsduha f__m__ Officx.
*T"**IOR SALE—Eggs from first class Buff Cochin
Jj fowls trem imported stock till July lst at .-.00
per setting of IS.  Address: ,    _
- J. L. Carey, Indianapolis Ind.
(*-__■_ 85 and 87 South Meridian Bt
FOR BALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style
30, new and in good condition.   For sale at a
discount from regular price.
«f Indian- Fabmee Co.
FOR SALE orTRADE-"Muggins," 4028 A. S. H.
Record; 4 years old; a good breeder, will sell
cheap, or trade.   S. R. QUICK, Columbus, Ind.
13-tf--00 .
FOR SALE —POLAND-CHINA PIGS—A few
choice pigs selected from a lot of 200.   Satisfaction guaranteed.   Send for prices.   Address B.
C. BTJBKETT, Fincastle, Putnam county. Ind.
12-13W197
*T710R SALE— One trio Peckin Ducks, of'76hatch,
Jj one Bronze Turkey Gabbler 35 lbs., two line
pouter male Pigeons, two Jersey Red sow pigs, any
or all very cheap. J. C. COMSTOCK, Martinsville,
IU. 24-lti(25)
FOR SALE—Poland China Pigs. No. 1 Pigs at
from 812 to ns each. Also a few choice Chester White Pigs. Eggs and Chicks from high class
White, Buff and Partridge Cochins, D. Brahmas,
and B. Leghorns. WEST A WHICKER, Pecksburg,
Hendricks oounty, Ind. 16-3mos
FARM WAGONS—We have five good, new farm
wagons for sale. Very cheap for cash; or on
time, with secured notes. They were made at the
Indianapolis Works, out of tbe best material, and
are warranted. W. A. A I. N. PATTERSON, 100 East
Washington street, Indianapolis. 23 2t 20
FOR SALE—A fine Jersey Bull Calf 6 months old;
sire, Rip Van Winkle; dam, India No. 2696.
His sire was bred by F. M. Churchman, of Indianapolis, and his dam by R: 8. Dorsey, of the same
place, to either of whom you are referred. Sam J.
is from excellent butter stock. Tarvin C. Grooms,
Greencastle, Ind. 23 3t22 .
FOR SALE—Three Short-horn Brood Cows with
Sucking Calves by their Bide; good Pedigrees;
first-class Show Cows; in flne show condition now;
will sell lower down than any man will similar
stock. They are regular oreeders; in their prime
from 4 to 6 years old. Also, 15 to 2) Breeding Ewes,
finely bred Cotswold,—several of them imported;—
will sell on 6 months time for approved paper.
Anyone wanting Btock, all they have to do is to see
the Btock, and we will trade SURE.
W. W. THRASHER,
22-4t* Groves P. O., Rush county, Ind.
WAHID.
WANTED.—Cash paid for   Military  Bounty
Land Warrants.   G. M. BALLARD Indianapolis. .    94 lt
"•fry* ANT ED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
W     Btock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and flne family Bibles.   Address J. W.
Lanktree &Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
10-ly(189)
WANTED lt known that the White Oil Corn
has stood the test, won laurels, and is for
sale at 15 cts per pkg.  Address
8-tf Indiana Fabmeb Company.
"VaT ANTED—Farmers to call on H. C. Rice, 35 Ky.
W   Avenue. Pumps, Wells, Cisterns and Vaults
dug, cleaned and repaired. 1913t(i)
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
EYE AND EAB.   DR. I. A. E. LYONS, Room 10,
Bates' Block, opposite Post-office, Indianapolis, Ind. 1913K3>
HENRY F. BARNES, M. D., Physician and Suf •
geon.   Office, Rooms 10 and 11 Masonic Temple.   Office hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m..
19-13t-3
olis, Ind.
R. STOKES, Attorney at Law, No. 6 Vinton's Block, opposite Postoffice, Indianap-
22-4t*
MISCEIalaANEOTJS.
MONEY to loan, in sums of 8500 to 85000, ou improved farms. Money in Bank No delay.
RUDDELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, 44}. N. Pennsyl.
vania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 20 tf-(l0j
POP THE QUESTION CARDS.—A new plan-
Fun alive—In fun or earnest—Sure to please.
Sample 10c ROLIE B. BECK, box 1103, Vincennes,
Ind,     . 21 4t 16 .
s
TEEL Engravings of 1000 American Statesmen.
-J 300 Photographic Views of Washington, D. C.
Price, (by mail) Stereoscopic,. 15c; Cabinet, 25c;
Carte Deviate, 10c; Engravings, 25c each. Agents
wanted. Special terms offered. AMERICAN ART
CO., Washington, D. O. 16-40t 212
TEXAS LAND WARRANTS—Of 640 acres each,
for sale at 25 cents per acre, locatable on any
public lands in the State of Texas. Maps of Texas
and full information free. Address N. R.WARWICK, Agent, 138 Vine St., Cincinnati, O.      19tf(3)
Posey County.
To the Editor* Indiana Farmer.
At the regular semi-annual meeting of
Posey county agricultural society, held
on Saturday, the second inst., it "was decided to hold our nineteenth fair on the
U, 12,13 and 14th days of September,
1877. A number of copies of the Indi
ana Farmer are included in our premiums. ,
The late rains and wind have done and
are Btill doing great damage to the finest
wheat crop ever seen in old Posey. Corn
w backward but if the rains ever let up,
»»ay still do well. The'rains of the last
ten days have injured our prospects for
» big fair, but as we have not failed for
the last nineteen years to make them a
I success, we must not be discouraged.
Frank D. Bolton, Sec'y.
New Harmony, June 8.
THE FARM.
Postal Card Correspondence.
TO OCB READERS EVERYWHERE.
If your county, or the portion where yon
reside, has not been reported in this column
within a month, please send us a postal card
at once. * Let us know how the wheat, com
and grass are. doing. Give ns a word abont
the fruit, vegetables; the demand for hands,
etc. Do not leave this matter ior yonr neighbor, bnt attend to it yourself, and much oblige
onr readers and the Editors.
INDIANA.
Steuben Co., Jane 6th.—Here at present
corn replanting is all the go. Grass, light
crop, and wheat is suffering. Potatoes growing some.   Bags number plenty.
O. Whiti.
Shelby Co., Jane 4th.—Wheat fine, good
acreage. Corn doing well. More corn pnt in
than usual. Oat**, good; grass excellent. No
peaches; some apples; an abundance of small
frnit. A large crop of potatoes was pnt in,
and they are growing nicely) but we have the
bag to fight. S. B. Law.
Knox Co., Jane 7th.—We are having a great
deal of rain at present, consequently the farmers have not ploughed much in their corn.
Wheat still looks well. The right heavy
wheat is falling. Corn 35 cents per bushel;
wheet, $1,25. Laboring hands are getting from
$15, to $20, a month. I am ten years old.
W. R. Chansl-k.
a
Babthoi.om_w Co., June 7th.—You request
correspondents to write you in regard to labor.
Farmers are paying from sixteen to eighteen
dollars per month for hands; good hands command the latter price. Men from the cities
conld not get work as they would know as little abont onr work as a farmer about working
at a trade in the city.     John McCle_lakd.
Boose Co., June 5th.—Wheat, an excellent
prospect, better than for several years. Meadows looking very promising. Corn coming on
slowly, but with favorable weather we expect
a good crop, as more than usual has been
planted. Some complaint of seed not growing
'well. Stock all healthy and doing well, and
better prospects ahead for farmers.
I. N. Baekeb
Jacksoh Co., Jane 5th.—Oar farmers are
generally done planting corn, and a larger
acreage than usual has been planted. Wheat
looks fine and promises a bountiful yield.
There is not much promise for good oats,
however, not a very large breadth was sown.
Wheat is worth $1,50 to $1,60 per bushel; corn
45 cents. Stock hogs, $4,25 and scarce. Fruit
abont all killed. .      J. H. Camp.
Tiptos Co., Jane 6th.—Wheat good. Corn
looks well. Some farmers planted too early
and the seed rotted during the cold weather
in May, and had to replant. More corn has
been planted in this connty this season than
was ever planted before in any one season.
Oats are fine. Grass first rate. Potatoes look
well, a large crop was planted; very few bngs.
Plenty of berries of all kinds but other fruits
scarce. J. A. Thompson.
H_nd_icks Co., €Juue 6th.—Wheat looks
well. Com all planted. Farmers are busy
cultivating the same. Not much replanting
done where corn was planted after the 10th of
May; all planted before that date made a bad
start. Pastures very good. Hendricks county might be called the "Blue Grass" region of
Indiana. Apples one-fourth crop. Strawberries very light. Farmers generally ih good
spirits and hopeful.   Health very good.
J. M.
Pulaski Cp., June 7th.—Heard from at last
and a good report.—Corn is doing well, but
late. Oats, good. Wheat very good. Grass
never better at the time of year. Fruit scarce,
apples badly winter killed. Peaches plenty
where there are trees and protected by timber.
Hogs plenty and no cholera. Hands are getting from 15 to 20 dollars per month; good
hands in demand. Grangers are doing their
clod hopping now with great energy.
J. L. W.
Allen, Co., Jane 7th.—We had a fine rain
the night of the fourth which was very much
needed, as oats and flax will be almost a failure on account of the dry weather. Corn has
come up poorly on the same account. Grass
will be light. Apples none; small fruits plenty; potatoes coming up where the bugs will let
them. Wheat looks well, getting out of blossom.   No hog cholera.   Hogs scarce.
F. M. Tatloe.
* Fulton Co., Jane 9th.—Thereps still a fine
prospects for an abundant wheat crop. Com
all planted, but did not come up very well;
some was planted too soon and failed on
account of so much rain, especially on clay
ground. Grass looks well. A great many
cherries and peaches have fallen off green.
Oak Grange is in a prospering condition. We
are talking of building a hall. We will hold
our Sixth Annual Fair, October 4,5, and 6th;
the prospects for a good fair, very flattering.
"    L. W. Shelton.
Obange Co., Cnne 4th_-r-The weather for the
list few days, rainy. The early planted com
came np poorly and required much replanting. Some farrowed out and planied the second time. Potatoes generally backward
though some patches look well. The prospect
for a good crop of wheat was never better than
at present. The fly is in some places, but not
hurting the wheat only in poor ground. Oats
and grass look well. Fruit scarce, bat will be
some apples. Pasture good; slock looks well;
hogs scarce, and dying with cholera in thia
vicinity. Hope it will not prevail as a general
scourge, as the farmers are getting supplied
with the best stock in the country.
John Millis.
Pike Co., Jane 8th.—We are having an
abundance of rain, it has rained nearly a
week straight along. Farmers are way behind with their crops, some are not done
planting. Com is getting weedy. Wheat
looks well, bnt I fear the bloom will all be
knocked off by the wind. Oar roads are bad
and we can't work them on account of mud-
Corn in Pike is yet low and the old wheat is
all sold. Farm hands are getting about $16,00
per month and are tolerably plenty. Tramps
are many and have done considerable pilfering of late. Some have been lodged in jail.
A slight storm passed over the west end of
this county the first of last week, doing some
damage. J. L. Bbenton.
Tippecanoe Co., Jane 4th.—It has been wet
with ui all spring until the last two weeks
putting us back with our com planting, but
we are about through now. Theie is a great
deal of complaint about the stand of corn
owing to the wet and cold weather; it averages
about two-thirds of a stand. Oats look well.
Hands are plenty at from $15 to $18, per
month. No hog cholera in our part of the
county. Price of hogs 4 to 41. No wheat
sown; we depend on corn, oats, rye and potatoes. Wheat freezes out so bad that we have
abandoned it. The potato beetle has made
its appearance in large numbers.
K. A. Lockwood.
Octagon, Ind.
Johnson Co , Jane 12th.—We have a fine
prospect for wheat in this county, although
there was a great deal beaten down during the
rain. It has rained nine days out of twelve
this month. All the corn looks well, but is
weedy in some places, and a great deal of water
on the ground. Fruit is scarce with the exception of apples. They pay hands here from
twelve to eighteen dollars a month.
J. A. W.
Akotheb.—Jane Oth.—Wheat looks well.
Corn is in a bad fix on account of the wet
weather. Terribly muddy. Large com crops
in our neighborhood. Oats looking very well.
Find enclosed sample of wool clipped—not
pulled—from a two year old Cotswold buck.
* J. A. Collett.
The wool is of extra fine fibre and measures
eighteen inches in length.—[Eds.
Vigo Co., Jane 7th.—As I have never seen
anything in your valuable paper from the
southern part of this county, I will drop you
a few lines. We are having copious showers
which were much needed at this time. Wheat
looks well; the early wheat U damaged by th e
fly. Corn looks well; most all the com was
drilled in this section. Hogs scarce and dying
with the cholera. The Fabmeb has many
friends here. Joseph K. Bailey.
Another.—June 8th.—As I promised you a
few notes from this place again, I now proceed: The rains have ceased in this locality
to some extent. Owing to the long continued
wet spell, the farmers were late planting
corn, consequently not much ploughing done
yet, and harvest nearly here. Wheat in some
parts of this county is good, while in other
parts it is very poor. Wheat is worth $1,50
per .bushel; com is selling at 40 to 50 cents; potatoes, scarce and high, and retailing at $1,60
to $1,60. Strawberries are in fall blast at pres-
est, and were not so much injured by frost as
was first stated, although all the early blossoms were killed. They are selling at 50 cents
a gallon. There tire also some cherries in the
market at present. John.
vines. Men, boys, women and children are
employed to pick them off. We know hut little about the habits of this new pest. Last
year only a few beetles were found, but this
year we have them by the million. The sun
has been very warm for the past week. Very
little wheat and corn is raised here. Apples
will not be as plenty as last year, but we shall
have small fruits in abundance. H. A.
OHIO.
Columbus, Jane 6th.—Soaking and welcome
rains all over the State. Crop prospects improved. I have just spent a week in onr best
wheat counties. Never saw better prospects
for this crop in Ohio. Oats will be light crop
owing to the dry spring. Corn is backward,
but will b s likely to come on now. Grass crop
moderate. Apples, peaches and grapes, about
one-fourth crop. M. B. Bateham.
IOWA
» Keokuk Co t Jane 6th.—'limes have been
hard here. The last two years have been very
wet and the crops light; the prospect for the
present season is quite discouragin g. It is
very wet and cold. Many of the farmers are
not done planting, and many have to replant
on account of bad seed and wet weather.
Geobge Hutchison.
QUERY AND ANSWER
Mabtinsvillk, III., Jane Sth.
Will some of the many readers of the Fabmeb tell me where I can get some Silver Hull
buckwheat? J. C. C.
J. W. Adams, of K>ckville, Ind., wishes
to know what will kill wild sweet potato vine.
I had a field that was over run with the
vine, I pastured it three years with sheep
which cleaned them out. John Bakeb.
Vevay, Ind.
Kokomo, Ind., Jane 4th.
To Vac Editors Indiana Farnier:
Will some one of your many readers give
me a remedy for barrenness in sows. I have
a valuable sow that raised a litter of nine pigs
when first bred and Bince then has failed to
breed. 0. J.
a   .
Monrovia, Ind., May 4th.
Tb the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I wish to know through your columns, if
any of your readers have used the Honey Ex-
tracter?if so, their experience and the kind?
also where they can be had ? Any such information will be thankfully received.
Nixon Henley.
HEWS  OF  THE   WEEK.
State News.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer: ,
As I have never written anything for your
paper, I thought I would make a few inquiries
through it. Which is the best way of drying
a cow ? I have a cow that I want to dry up,
that has been fresh six times and has only
been dry once. Also the best way to clean a
fish barrel so as to be fit to Bait cucumbers in ?
And the best way to get rid of the worms that
infest the gooseberries and currant bushes.
Will some one please answer these questions
and oblige a Reader.
Powdered white hellebore will rid your
bushes of worms.—[Eds.
MISSOURI.
Bates Co., June 4th.—Wheat looks fine.
Oats first rate. Plenty of peaches, grapes, apples, cherries, etc. Com looks fine for the
time of year, and some have corn planted
twice over. Grass looks well. Stock in good
condition. Have h_a some hog cholera, but
none now. Fair prospects for a large yield of
potatoes. Health in this county ia very good.
Farmers are making a large effort to raise
large crops this year. The grangers are reviving up again. They have been in the background during the winter on account of sickness in this part of the county, but now the
grange is all right again.   More anon.
Thomas Herman, Sb.
Master Deepwater Grange.
3*0 the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Can you send me a recipe foi the gipes in
chickens? If possible please do bo, and oblige a Constant Reader.
Ans—In our numbers for May 19th and
June 2nd, we published remedies for the gapes,
and it is strange that a "Cmstant Header"
should have failed to notica them. Below is
another remedy just received.—[Eds.
OAPES IN CHICKS.
7b the Editors Indiana Farmer.
This disease is beiag anao-lated for in several different ways. I have nothing to say,
except, that I behave it is not caused hy the
chicks being improperly kept, but that it is a
disease that prevails in certain.localities. This
theory I draw from my own experience, having lived on many farms on some of which my
chickens would havs the disease and ia others
they would be free from it.
My remedy for the gapes is as follows : To
every quart of msal add one-half teaspoonful
of cayenne pepper; mix with boiliag w ater.
Feed with this once a day regular ly.
C. Spbadling.
massachtjssetts.
Essex Co., June 4th.—I don't see much
about the potato beetle in the Farmer. Here
in Essex county we have all we can attend to
now in keeping them from destroying all the
Covington hai nineteen lawyers, eleven saloons, and only one resident minister.
Mrs. Amelia Armstrong, of New Albany,
has a quilt which contains 14086 pieces.
S. Davidson, of Montgomery county, sold
twelve walnut trees for six hundred dollars.
Norman Wood, a Bix year old boy in Evansville, was kicked to death by a horse on last
Baturday.
A fire in Mix's Ice-house, on the Kankakee,
the other d»y, destroyed 10,000 tuns ofthe congealed element. '
Pleasant Johnson, an old and valued citizen was run over and killed a few days since
by a train near Irvington.
Gen. Knefler will be appointed pension
agent at Indianapolis, in place of W. H. H.
Terrell, and will take the office July lst,
L. D. Rabnett, a farmer of Clark county,
was fatally injured a few days ago by the fall
of a ridge-pole over a brick kiln.
On Sunday night last, a deaf and dumb
man, name unknown, was run over and killed by a train on the Pan Handle Railway, near
Indianapolis.
Conrad Brocker, one of the wealthiest residents of New Albany, died recently, leaving
an estate of about $110,000. The property is
not to be divided among his heirs until May
1894.
Johnnie McCornell, aged abont fifteen years,
the son of a well known citizen, was drowned in Fox Lake, near Angola, where he was
fishing with a number of companions, Wednesday moraing.
Alice Bischoff, a young girl living in Posey
county, a few miles from Mt. Vernon, fell
from a tree a few days ago, a distance of thirty
feet, and was so badly injured that death resulted in half an hour.
On the 6th inst., Mr. Ernest Schmoe, wife
and grand-daughter, attempted to cross Clifty
creek, near Columbui, Ind. The wagon capsize, throwing the occupants into the stream,
drowning Mrs. Schmoe and the child.
Charles Martle, who was cut at a German
picnic on the 21st inst., at Mt. Vernon, died
on last Wednesday morning. John Sullivan,
who did the cutting, has forfeited his bond
and left for parts unknown.
At Sandborn on the 9th inst., two boys-Clifford Isenbower and Eddie Donnovent, aged
eight and nine years respectively—while playing in a bin of Bhelled corn, while the corn
was running out into a cir, were drawn under
the corn by the suction and smothered.
0. P. Davis, of Opedee, was offered fifty
cents a buahel for his corn a few weeks since,
but thought it would go a little higher. Last
week he sold at forty-five cents, losing just
$1,500 on the lot of 30,000 bush els by holding
off for better prices.
Ernest Whitehousa, a young desparado of
Terre Haute, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
Cleary, Friday night. The act was committed
under peculiarly aggravating circumstances.
Whitehouse escaped. He is supposed to have
been the murderer of A C. Mattox, also.
Frank Sherlock, a 13 year old son of Henry
Sherlock, of Jefferson county, while riding a
mule one day last week, was unseated by a
sudden bound of the anim al, became entan-
g'ed in the harness, dragged over the rough
ground some two hundred yards, horribly
mangled and killed,—Madison Courier.
The house of Mr. W. R Davis, of Warrick
county, was struck by lightning on the 3rd
inst., and shattered nearly to pieces. The
strangest and most p ovidential part of all is,
that not one of the family was hurt, save the
stun the electricity shock caused; it was a miraculous escape. The building is an entire loss
to Mr. Davis, as there was no insurance to
cover it.—Boonville Standard.
The out train on the Pennsylvania railroad,
due in Jersey city on Sunday morning, was
boarded by a band of thieves, who robbed
and nearly beat to death Thomas Downing, of
New York. The conductor and brakeman,
who attempted to rescue Downing, were driven away with revolvers, but locked the ruffians in the car and telegraphed the police of
Jersey City to be ready at the depot. While
the train was running thirty, mile an hour
three of the desperadoes escaped by jumping
out' of the windows. The fourth man was
arrested.
Suicides ara becoming quit? numerous in
this city. Geo. H. Wolfe, of Terre Haute, a
butcher in good circumstances; Anthony Ap,
laborer, and Nora Shedd, a yonng women of
doubtful reputation, committed suicide in
this city during the week. Wolfe blew out
his brains with a revolver, Ap cut his throat
with a razor, Nora took morphine with her
beer. No cause is known for Wolfe's suicide;
Ap was out of employment and discouraged;
Nora had been abandoned by her "friend."
Several other personB made ineffectual attempts to commit suicide.
Prennum No. 20.
Bellemore, Jane 9,1877.
Editor* Indiana Farmer:
Have received from Mr. Demaree the
premium designed forme, a Berkshire
pig. Accept thanks, and aay to Mr. Demaree that we are pleased for such generosity
and spirit as is manifested in the good of
the Farmer, by the offer of such a premium. Oar thanks are due him. Mr. Demaree can supply pigs to all needing such
as hebieeds. Give him a trial.
Parke county. E. Thomas, Ag't.
—: * -a* *	
Premium No 26.
My premium pig, No. 26, from James
L. Mallow, New Holland, Ohio, came to
hand. all right and' sound. I came very
near not getting home with him from the
express office. Everybody wanted it
and I began to think that I would
have to give it up. Mr. Mallow is. a
breeder of a family of the finest of Berkshire hogs, and I would recommend any
one wanting hogs of that kind, to send to
Mr. Mallow for them, for I think this to
be a very fine pig. ,1 return my sincere
thanks to Mr. Mallow, and also to the
patrons of the Indiana Farmer, who
gave me the benefit of their names to
increase my club list and put me in
receipt of so valuable a premium.
Michael Fruits.
Alamo. June 5.
Premium No. 39.
From S. R. Qaick, Columbus, Ind.,
come to hand in good condition. He is
a fine yearling Cotswold buck; good judges say he is a worthy specimen of his
breed. Wool not so long as on some other but thicker. He sheared 16} pounds
and weighed after being sheared 164 lbs.
We are well satisfied and. feel grateful to
those who aided us in securing such a
valuable premium. We hope in future
for more mutton and larger clips of wool,
and to see a still greater circulation of
the Indiana Farmer; our best farmers
around here take it. May success attend
Bro. Quick in his effort to supply the
public with good breeding stock.
We send a sample of premium lamb**
wool. John Carter & Brother.
[The specimen received is certainly of
very fine quality.   Eds.]
P.remium No. 49.
A Good Suggestion.
'77.
Lewisville, Ind., June 9i
Editors Indiana Farmer:
A suggestion to farmers. When you
are at town call on your blacksmith or
depot agent and ask the privilege to take
home a load of coal ashes from the forge
or railroad track, (latter preferable,) unload at Borne convenient place and feed
to your hogs. They will eat it readily,
and young pigs two and three weeks old
will eat small particles of partially burned
coal before they eat corn. Persons who
lose hogs from disease may find it to their
advantage to give the above a trial, and
those who have never had any disease
should feed charcoal as a preventive.
W. A. Macy.
General News.
Ex. Gov. Hendricks, with wife and friends,
set sail from' New York for Europe on last
Wednesday.
The Murphy Temperance movement is taking Dayton, O., by storm. The meetings increase in numbers and int erest daily. There
are 2,500 signers, 1,000 signed last Sunday.
The Missouri river, is very high since the
heavy lains of last week, and is overflowing
its banks and doing great damage. In Tennessee the floods have been unusually destructive also.
The Bong of the grasshopp er is fast fading
away, and we trust will be heard no more in
the land. The places that knew them last
year know them not now, and prospects ars
brightening up in'the West.
A fire on the 10th inst., in the dry-house of
the Auburn woolen mill, New York, destroyed 300,000 pounds of wool. Loss $100,000; insured. Three hundred men -rethrown oat of
employment.
Salem, Ind., June 9,1877.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I received the premium, No. 49,
namely, a pair of Partridge Cochins,
from Y. P. Yelton & S ms, and they had
the appearence of being what they were
recommendSd te be, but a few days after
I received them the rooster lay down and
died. I know of no cause, as he seemed
well enough a few minutes before we
found him dead. I opened him, but
could find no cause for his sudden death,
had I gotten them sooner in the season I
might have had some eggs to start from,
but as they came late, and one of them
is dead. I am out. Jesse D. Heacock.
 7 » ♦	
We have heard of several cases recently where fish in ponds have died without
apparent cause.   Perhaps the following
item from an exchange will suggest        ;
explanation of the mystery;
The fish in Park river, Hartford, Conn.,
were seized with a sudden mortality last
week, and for a time the water gave up
its dead in such quantities as to create a
nuisance m the air. _ The cause was al
first a mystery, but it has since been ascertained that somebody who was instructed to wash one hundred empty T^
electric battery jirs, took them to the river, and the vitriol washed off in the process was sufficient to affect the whole
stream for a considerable distance.