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Lost, Strayed or Stolen..
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for loss
Villi 25 cents.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Farmer for the recovery of Btock.
Tell your neighbor of lt when you hear of the loss
of his stock.
""      ' FOR SALE.
TTIOR SALE—Farms ln Indiana and Illinois. - A.
h M. ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Ludian-
ijblis, Ind. 20-52ti (10*
-T710R SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage,
tj for one or two horses, at a bargain. Call on or
iafdiess G. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market street, Indianapolis. 27tf
FOR SALE—A nearly new Childs Bros. Organ,
popular style, seven stops, excellent tone, for
sale at greatly reduced rate.  Address Ind. Farmer
Agency, No. 8 Bates Block, Indianapolis.        26tf
FOB SALE—Egga from first class Buff Cochin
fowls from imported stock till July lst at (2.00
per setting 0113.  Address:
J. L. Carey, Indianapolis Ind.
8-22tl *     : >    85 and 87 South Meridian 8t
FOR SALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style
SO, new and In good condition.    For sale at a
dlscount/romregular price.' . < ■
4tf '      INDIANA FABMEB CO.
FOR BALE—9 Light Brahmas, 12 W. F. B. Spanish, 6 Pekin Ducks, 4 B. B. R. G. Bantams, all
this of my this season's breeders. 'i hey are first-
class; will sell all to one address very low, or each
lot at a reasonable price. Also Spanish and Brahma
Cockerels for sale cheap, *if ordered soon. JOHN
BENNETT, Bunman, lnd„ (on I, C. A L. RR.) 27H35
FOR SALE— Poland China Pigs. No. 1 Pigs at
from (12 to (15 each. Also a few choice Chester White Pigs. Eggs and Chicks from high class
White, Buff and Partridge Cochins, D. Brahmas,
andB. Leghorns. WEST jS WHICKER, Pecksbuig,
Htndricks county, Ind. 16-3mos
WAIl-lD,
*\T*rANTED—The farmers of the West to know
YY that my Berkshires are equal to the best ln
America.   JAMES HASLET, Camden, Ind.    27 lt*
TTT*ANTED^-Everybo-Jy to know that lam hreed-
YY    Ing pigs from 'Excelsior,-' sired by "Fit-
Meteor,"   Dam, "Beautiful Star,'-imported.
27 it* JaMES HASLET, Camden, Ind.
WANTED—Agents to sell Navin's: Explanatory
Btock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and fine family Bibles.  Address J. w.
Lanktree A Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
10-ly(189) •
-ITTANTED—Farmers to call on H. C. Rice, 35 Ky.
YV Avenue. Pumps, Wells, C lsterns and Vaults
dug, cleaned and repaired. 19-13U4J
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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MISCELLANEOUS-
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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.B. WARWICK, Agent, 138 Vine ot, Cincinnati, O.  ,   19tf (3)
TO ALL WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN, greeting:
The partnership heretofore existing between
L. B. Case, H. P. Marshall and H. J. Kneisley under
the firm name of Case. Marshall A Kneisley, as
managers for the Mutual Protection Association of
Patrons of Husbandry for the State of Indiana. Is
this day dissolved by mutual consent, and in this
dissolution lt is mutually agreed by the above
named parties that for all work done to this date,
shall be settled for upon the basis of the original
contract      [8igned:f L. B. CA8E,
H.P.MARSHALL,
H. J. KNEISLEY.
We thank the patrons for their liberal patronage,
and trust they will continue to extend the same to
Messrs. Case A Marshall, Indianapolis, successors of
Case, Marsnall A Kneisley. 2711*14
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"WAR DEPARTM-NT— SIONAL SERVICE U. S. ARMY.
Division of telegrams and reports for the benefit
of commerce and agriculture.
Meteorological record, July 3d, 1877,7 a. m.
Observations taken at the same moment of time
»t all stations. , ...
Explanation.—Lowering barometer. and rising
thermometer Indicate rain. Rising barometer and
railing thermometer, indicate fair or clearing
weather.
Indications.—For Tennessee and Ohio Valley,
stationary or lower pressure, stationary or higher
temperature, southerly wlnds.paitly cloudy w eather
and occasional rains.
Place of
Observation:
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QUERY AND ANSWEB.
Mabysbubg, Minn., June 28th.
'Will gome one of the many readers of the
Fabmeb send a clrcnlar, price list and sample
M the Sonth Down sheep, best quality, to
• yours. J. S. Foster.
LaSueurCo..
5   *HE F-BKIB to end of year for 85cts.  Tell
tout neighbors.
Please send your favors for this department
not later than Monday morning of each week,
on Saturday if possible, to insure their appearance in the paper promptly.—Eds.
HTDIANA.
Wayne Co., June 27th.—Wheat good, bnt
badly tangled and down. Corn in bottoms
fipe, on uplands where nndrained, is in bad
condition. , Oats good. Grass excellent. Flax
promising. Potatoes looking well; some bugs.
Plenty of small fruit, other kinds scarce. ■ ' ,
,-jjS    . ■ Wm. King. .
■Sullivan Co., June 24th.—Wheat is good
and well filled. Harvest is here at hand. Corn
looks well considering the heavy rains we had
the last of May and the first of June. Potatoes look well and no bugs yet have made
their appearance. There will be some fruit;
Grangers are still alive and in good spirits for
the future. A Gbangeb. '
Pabke Co., June 28th.—Bain, rain, and very
wet at present Wheat badly tangled and
down in consequence of storms of wind and
rain. Some wheat is ready to cut, but the
ground is so soft and wet that they can hardly do anything yet. Oats look well, considering. Corn ia not as yet suffering a great deal
because of wet, but of course it is not ploughed as it ought to be. We have some midge in
our wheat, some pieces pretty bad.
E. Thomas.
Tipton Co., June 25th.-TCrop reports from
this vicinity not very promising at present,
owing to some three weeks of rainy weather.
Abont one-half of the corn is in good growing
condition, and the rest" very foul and partly
covered with water. Wheat bids fair for an
average crop; less than usual sown. Oat-
good...' Meadows thickening hp very fast. Potatoes a larger acreage sown than usual. Bugs
scarce. Fruit of most kinds scarce. Hogs
scarce; no cholera yet. Granges rather dormant. I. N. Goab.  .
' Washington Co., June 26th.—Corn is growing fine. Some fields quite weedy owing to
wet weather. Oats still looking well. Some
wheat being cut in this section. Millers are
refusing to buy old wheat, owing no doubt to
the flattering prospects: of. a good yield. Potatoes will be a good crop; no bugs to damage
themi. Blackberry crop will be short in this
section. Harvest hands range from $1 00 to
$1,25 per day, and plenty. Grangers are erecting a business house in Saltillo, this county.
Health good and weather pleasant now.
G. 010.
Booh**! Co., June 25th.—The weather appears to be settled after three weeks of wet
weather. Corn pretty weedy, but farmers are
making it lively for them now. The prospect
for a good crop of all kinds is good. I can
say to the unemployed of your city not to
come here, hands are plenty that have worked on the farm all their lives. Wages $12 to
$15 per month. We are having no trouble in
getting all the extra help we want to clean out
our corn at 75 cents per day. They will have
to look in Borne other direction for relief.
F. O. Phillips.
Allen Co., June 25th.—The rain-storm of
last Monday the 18th, did not do much damage to the crops; we are having too much rain,
rained hard the 21st and again yesterday and
to-day heavy rains. Farmers are grumbling
some. Com is growing fine. Wheat still
looks fine, lodged and tangled some, but not
so very had. Pastures good, clover somewhat
lighter crop than last year. Potatoes look
good, think we will have a fine crop of them.
Bugs find the frequent rain storms unhealthy
and are getting interested ih the eastern question. Hope they will all migrate to the beautiful blue Danube and they would soon teach
the Russians how to cross it. L. P. N. .
Putnam Co., June 26th.—Wheat crop always
over-estimated, badly damaged by midge, the
bearded kinds are least injured. Fultz and
Amber varieties next and fine White, worst
of all. Corn mostly ploughed three and four
times, and in good fix. Bad seed will reduce
the crop some from what it would have been.
Have had very seasonable weather since it
got warm enough for com to grow right, till
the last week we have had thunder storms
and gales of wind that blowed down and
tangled the wheat and rye and covered the
furrows in the fields with standing water.
Hired hands in this township rate at 60 to 75
cents per day, and a great many board themselves. Borne of these hands tend 40 acres of
com, and some of my neighbors are tending
250 to 300 acres of com in this township. The
Grange prospects only moderate. The Farmer is always a welcome visitor.
J. F. Cabvbb.
Anotheb.—June 28th.—Wheat fine; uninjured by the storms. Com good; grass excellent; oats fair; potatoes splendid, no bugs; fruit
scarce. 8. Radaba*-*gh.
•_»_:_»._? of te_:__ i_sr_Di_ft.*ETA._?o__T.s _3__XjT _=iA.i__i.o_^._Da _ft._srr> stock takds.
Anotheb.—June 30th.—With the exception j
of a few pieces of wheat which the midge
seems to have taken possession of, the prospects for good crops of wheat, corn and hay
are excellent. L.
; V_bmil_ion Co., July 2d.—The rain has
ruined a great deal of corn on low ground.
Wheat harvest nearly over. A great deal of
the wheat is down and badly tangled. Oata
and meadows look' well. Very little fiuit in
this part of the country. Harvest hands get
$1,50 per day. K.
Tippecanoe Co., July 2d.—Our corn is looking well; most of it will be laid by this week if
the weather will permit. If nothing happens
to it yet we will raise more than an average
crop. Oats and potatoes look well. 'About
one-third of a crop of apples; no peaches, plenty of small fruit. R. L.
Clay Co., July 2d.—Com looks well on high
land, but is damaged some on low ground.
Wheat is only moderate, there are soice fields
that are almost taken entirely with the midge.
Oats and grass are good. There is some hog
cholera in these parts. Farm hands get from
$12 to $17 per month. B. F. Bbubeb.
Bush Co., July 2d.—Oats flne. Grass splendid. Corn looks well, is grassy in places, but
is growing fast. Wheat is good grain and will
yield an average of 20 bushels to the acre; it
is badly tangled and the ground is too soft for
the machines to-day. Apples are falling off
and the crop will be light. Good deal of hog
cholera. * , ;. G.'.W. R.
Jeffibson Co., July 2d.—Wheat all cut and
farmers busy stacking. Corn will be about
one-third of a crop, wet weather the trouble.
The hogs here will eat it all up and squeal for
for more. Oats look fine. Meadows are fine.
No fruit of any consequence. Potatoes, cabbage and vegetables generally are very good.
Success to the Fabmeb.       ' E. L. Fosteb.
Johnson Co., July 2d.—Our com looks well
considering the wet June. Harvest is in full
blast. Wheat is gocd generally, Borne done
cutting. A tornado passed through the neighborhood of Amity, on last Saturday night,
tearing down timber, unroofing houses and
killing a great deal of stock, and doing damage to farmers generally, but no one hurt in
this locality. J. W. A.
Wayne Co., July 2d.—Raining as usual.
Com doing well on dry lands, on wet lands
foul and backward. Wheat harvest has just
commenced. - Wheat generally good, some
down and badly tangled; small acreage sown.
Stock is doing well. Considerable damage
done by the tornado on the 30th, mostly to
timber and fencing. No demand for farm laborers in this part of the county; wages low.
Hay crop will be very good. Hogs scarce, no
cholera. Apples and pears scarce. Old com
about all Bold. S. H. M.
Bartholomew Co., July 2d,—The bam of
Mr. Solomon Lambert, of Haw Creek township, was struck by lightning on the night of
June 30th, and totally destroyed with one
horse, supposed to have been killed by the
lightning, with some hay, oats, and a small
amount of wheat.:' Mr. Lambert was pretty
badly burned in trying to save his buggy and
wagon.   Loss about 200 dollars.
'. F. A. ROTHROCK.
Owen Co., July 2d.—Our wheat is about all
harvested, the yield is good. The storms have
done but lLtle damage to crops in this section
Our experience is that lightning rods do but
little good. Farmers are now busy cutting
grass and laying by their corn. Everything
promising. We have anew potato destroyer.
It is a worm similar to a caterpi lar which
goes into the stem at the ground and eats the
heart out to the top. What is it ?   H. M. O.
This worm is evidently a new enemy to the
potato as we have never heard of it before.—
Em.
Anotheb.—July 2d.—Wheat very good.
Oats fine. Potatoes looking well, no bugs.
Apples perhaps one-fourth of a crop. Corn
looks well considering the heavy rains we had
during June. There was only about one third
of the time that the ground was dry enough
to plough. Heavy rain this morning. Prospects for harvesting rather gloomy. No hog
disease here. ■ Wm. Aldbtdqe.
i Wabben Co., July 2d.—Another heavy rain
on the 24th ult. Everything well soaked.
Dried off the latter part of the week, and farmers were busy cleaning weedej and grass out
of their corn. When it is too wet to plow
some use the hoe. Corn on high land looks
well, on low land it has the "yellow jaundice."
Wheat looks well, but little sown on the prairie, it freezes out so easy. Oats are improving.
Grass looks well. Garden vegetables look fine.
Potatoes, ditto; bugs gone east. In my last
you made me say that peaches were plenty;
that is a mistake of the printer's—peaches a
failure. Grangers are defunct in this county
as an organization. Some cholera among the
hogs. Chas E. Winks.
Montgomery Co., June 28th.—This portion
of Montgomery county was visited by a terrific storm of wind and rain on the 25th inst.,
at 2 o'clock. P. M. Great damage was done
to growing crops, fences, orchards and timber.
Great effort upon the part of farmers has been
made to secure a large corn crop. More than
an average acreag * was planted, but bad seed,
and wet weather is likely to foil the efforts of
the husbandman. An average crop of corn
cannot be expected. One-third of a crop of
wheat sown, but it will produce more than an
average yield per acre, if it can be saved. Oats
and grass are good. Fruit half a crop. Hands
from $15 to $20 per month. More hands than
work, and likely to be from the financial outlook. The Fabmeb speaks forth the words of
truth and soberness on the Sherman policy.
J. A. Mount.
Butleb Co., June 26th.—Wheat heavy, injured by the fly. Too much rain, causiEg it
to fall some. Old wheat scarce. Com tolerably good, getting rather grassy. Oats and flax
good. Meadows good. Lots of potato bugs.
No cherries or peaches. There will be a fair
crop of apples. Stock of all kinds look well.
No cholera among our hogs here. Hands are
getting from $15 to 20 per month.
John Miller.
IOWA
Lucas Co., June 18th.—Wheat and oats on
rolling land generally look well. In some localities the farmers have ploughed their oats
np and put the land in com. There are quite
a number of farmers that have just finished
planting corn. There was a great many who
had to plant twice, and some the third time.
Corn that has come up ia in a bad condition,,
owing to the cold heavy rains we have had
lately. Meadows are looking well. There is-
but little demand for farm hands at present.
The ruling rate of wages is $15 per month.
John W. Eajbtes.
ALABAMA.
Thinking it might interest the readers of
the Fabmeb to know the price of labor in the
"Sunny South," I hereby give the latest quotations. For a good thoroughbred negro we pay
$6 to $8 per month, and one peck of meal
and 31 pounds of side meat per week. They
take their rations to an old cabin and cook it
themselves, thereby saving many steps for the
good matron. With proper supervision they
do as much as many of the hands North will
do. Some white labor here. Corn, cotton,
oata and peanuts growing fine. Over an average crop of wheat, barley and clover now
about harvested. G. M. Ovebleese.
Huntsviile, June 22nd.
hxino-b.
Cabboll Co , June 28th.—The prospect for
a large corn crop is not so good as two weeks
ago. In the south part ofthe county it has
been too wet for cultivating the com. Since
the 4th inst a number of fields have not had a
plow in them, weeds and grass are ahead of
thecorn. Tho central part, Deer Creek town-1
ship, has not been so wet. Last Monday, 25th,
we had a heavy rain and wind storm. Wheat
is heavy, badly lodged, will be bad cutting;
it is well filled, but not yet cafe from rust;
some few have commenced cutting. With
good weather hereafter a msjority of corn may
make a fair crop. Oats and flax promise a
good crop. Too much Shermanism out here
in old Carroll. Can't give employment to all
within our own borders. We have too many
people already that won't work unltss they
get two prices for their labor.
.James Haslett.
Deabbobn Co., July 3d.—There was a rift
in the ttorm-cloud last week and the waters
assuaged sufficiently to en able grangers largely to  reduce the acreage  of foxtail.   Much
clover has been mowed, and rapidly the great
area of wheat is  being gathered under the
hudders.   Still there is an ominous look in
the elements and people fear that the yellow
shocks of grain will don  the green again as
they did two years ago.   It has rained six consecutive Mondays with chances good for doubling the count.   In this township, (Adams,)
there have been three wind storms destructiye
io timber, one hail storm, and one terrific cyclone   within the space of two weeks.   The
latter came between the hours of nine and ten
o'clock P. M., June 30th, from the neighborhood  of Geneva, Shelby county,, passing a
mile south  of St. Paul, where  it seems to
have spent its fury.   The track of the cyclone
is some six or  eight miles in length and  I
Bhould say from one hundred to three hundred yards wide.   Within this area the devastation is utter.   No words can depict it. Corn,
wheat, oats, grass, everything is as absolutely
obliterated as if the army  of Xerxes  had'
marched over it.   A church, three farm residences, Borne barns and other out buildings
were razed to the ground.   One man was instantly killed, an old lady seriously, perhaps
fatally, injured and two or three other persons
more or less injured.   In the center of the
storm-tract the earth is as bare as' a traveled
highway, while on either side vegetation is
blasted as if by hot air. Wherever the cyclone
struck a belt of timber, at a little distance the
woods look as if it had been played upon by a
thousand cannons  for a month.   Debris of
buildings and their contents are scattered for
miles around. J. H. W.
Douglas Co., June 18th.—You asked the
price of farm hands. We are paying from
$15 to $17 per month. Farmers have to cut
on expenses, and find they can get all they
want at that price. Rats and birds have been
doing great damage to the early planting. Will
try and get up a club for your paper.
Junius Wheatly.
Anotheb.—Hindsbobo, June 26th.—Crop
prospects are on the decline. -Heavy rains
have made the ground so wet that no ploughing can be done for a week. Weeds are grow-
in g fast. Farmers are fearful of another wet
season. ' W. J.
MISSOURI.
Bates Co., June 15th.—We have a magnificent prospect for a large crop of wheat. There
will be an abundance of fruit, especially apples. RollinP. Browning.
Anotheb.—June 23d.—We are having it
warm and wet; most too wet to plow. Wheat
good and ready to cut. Rye, flax, oats and
meadows good. Corn looks well, but some ia
a little too weedy. Plenty of fruit of all kinds
except apples, mostly all fell off. Still some/
hog cholera. J. P.
St. Chables Co., June 25th.—The wheat in
this neighborhood is good. Harvest has commenced. Corn is a little behind time on account of wet weather. Early potatoes are
good. I have some early Vermonts of good
size; I think it is the best potato for the table.
A good crop of peaches and apples. Stock all
in good health. Lightning rod agents have
done more harm in this township since the
llth of June last, than lightning has done in
the last twenty years. Look out for them, or
they will take your wheat crop in as they did
with ns. J. M. Shiebmeyer.
KANSAS.
'Fever and Ague is Prevailing.—We
recommend to all, Perry Davis' Pain Kill
er, aa being a sure remedy; by using internally and externally freely, it will soon
drive all appearances,of the disease from
the system. 2 t
Cowley Co., June llth.—This is one of the
border counties next to the Indian Territory.
It has only been seven years since the first
settlement was made in the county, but now
it ranks with any county in the southern portion of the State. The acreage of wheat sown
last fall was very large, something near 50,000
acres. A great many of the fields that I have
seen will go 80 bushels to the acre, while the
whole county is thought will not fall short of
25 bushels. . No grass hoppers, no chinch bug,
no nothing of that sort in this county. A former Hoosier. J. O. Stbublx.
Mabion Co , June 24th.—We have had flne
growing weather here for the last three weeks.
More com planted than ever before and it is
doing well. The fall wheat is ripening well,
the spring wheat is filling fine. Oats and barley good. Native grass ln abundance. No
grass hoppers here. Health good. The Fabmeb is more than a welcome visitor.
T. E. Paddock.
2P5P-
EIGHTT-FIVE CENTS will pay for the
Indiana j>abm»», from this date to the end of the
year 1877.