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Vol. xn. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JULY 28,1877. EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. I m Lost, Strayed or Stolen. Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less than 25 cents. No better medium conld be selected than this department of the Fabmeb for the recovery of stock. Tell your neighbor of It when you hear of the loss of his stock. FOR SALE. -fTIOR SALE—Farms ln Indiana and Illinois. A. Jj M. ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Indianapolis, Ind. 20-52ti(10) FOR SALE—SEED WHEAT, Muscovite, 65 Bus. per acre. Send 55 cents for package, orJ6 per Bu. Address J. WADE, Battle Creek, Mich. 80-2t **|""**tOR TRADE—Berkshire boar, pigs, or sows for J_\ Alderney calves. J. C. COMSTOCK, Martinsville, ni. so-it T*"***OR SALE—A few choice, pure Poland-China Jj Pigs. Prices reasonable. Address B, POPHAM, Claypool, Ind. 30-3t *T7*I0R SALE—A few No. 1 Farm Wagons. For sale Jj cheap. Enquire of W. A. A I. N. PATTISON, No. 100 East Washington street, Indianapolis. 80-2t TTIOR SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage, Jj for one or two horses, at a bargain. Call on or address G. H. BHOVER, 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. Fanner Agency, No; 8 Bates Block, Indianapolis. 26tf "T710R SALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style Jj SO, new and in good condition. For sale at a discount from regular price. itf Indiana Fabmeb Co. EOR SALE-Owing to a change In my business, will sell very cheap, or trade, ln one or separate lots, my entire stock of high-class Light and Dark Brahmas, Buff and P. Cochins, Bronze Turkeys, Bremen Geese, and Pekin Ducks; among which are fourteen premium birds. Address H. O. GREEN, Indianapolis, Ind. 29 4t EOR SALE—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, 'j hey are flrst- class; will sell all to one address very low, or each let at a reasonable price. Also Spanish and Brahma Cockerels for sale cheap, if ordered socn. .JOHN BENNETT, Sunman, Ind., (oh I, C. jSs L. BR.) 27US5 FOR SALE—Poland China Pigs. No. 1 Pigs at from 812 to 1115 each. Also a few choice Chester White Pigs. *Eggs and Chicks from high class White, Buff and Partridge Cochins, D. Brahmas, and B: Leghcrns. W EST A WHICKER, Pecksburg, Hendricks county, Ind. 16-3mofl ORSAlL K—YOUNG JERSEY BULLS AND BllLL Calves, very valuable for dairymen for raising grade milkers. They produce from 12 to 15 pounds of butter per week, ol superior quality. We offer at prices, to suit the Umes. Calves, 520; yearlings, 110; two years, SOO. Registered and shipped carefully. Address JAMES EDGERTON, Barnesville, O. 30 3t WAHX-C. WANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory Stock 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) "TIT*ANTED—Farmers to call on H. O. Rice, 35 Ky. VV Avenue. Pumps, Wells, C isterns and Vault- dug, cleaned and repaired. 19-13t(4' PROFESSION-.]. CARDS. EYE AND EAB. DR. I. A. E. LYONS, Room 10, Bates' Block, opposite Post-office, Indianapolis, lid. 1913U3' HENRY F. BARNES, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office, Booms 10 and 11 Masonic Temple. Office hours 10 to 12 a. m, and 2 to 4 p. m.. ' .. ■ 19-13t-3 : . MISCELIaANEOUS- vania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 2O*_-(10) "TTTANTED—Purchasers for all of my new and W second-hand Carriages, Buggies and Wagons at prices to suit the times. G. H. SHOVER, 172 and 174 East Market street, Indianapolis. 80-4t STRAYED OR STOLEN—Dark bay horse, about 15 hands high, dark mane and tail, saddle- marked. Will pay818 reward for his recovery. F. CHRISTMAN, 175 W. Pearl street, Indianapolis, lt TEXAS LAND WARRANTS—Of 640 acres each, for sale at 25 cents per acre, locatable on any public lands in the S tate of Texas. Maps of Texas and full information free. Address N. R.WARWICK, Agent, 138 Vine -t, Cincinnati, O. 19tf(S) TO TRADE—For a flrst-class family horse and canisge, an elegant, new stock of furnishing goods, which will invoice about J4O0.C0, including the latest novelties; also two elegant, oval front, silver show cases, seven' feet each. This is a rare chance. Call on or address J. SCHLOS3,16 E. Washington street, Indianapolis. S0*»lt BtTLLETIN . WAR DEPABTMENT— SIGNAL SERVICE V. S. AKMY. Division of telegrams and reports for the benefit of commerce and agriculture. Meteorological record, July 24th, 1877,7 a. m. Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Explanation.—Lowering barometer and rising thermometer Indicate rain. Rising barometer and falling thermometer, indicate fair or clearing weather. ■*" Indications.—For Tennessee and Ohio Valley, stationary or falling barometer, slightly lighter temperature, except in Lower Tennessee, northeast winds, cloudy weather and numerous rains. Place of Observation. Cairo CWcago Cincinnati Davenport, Ia J>enver, Col- Indianapolis. Knorrtlle, T. Leavenworth |*ulsville._... Memphis . N«w Orleans- Omaha. • |J. Louis......." I St Paul I Yankton— i & 30.11 30.80 30.16 30.22 29.91 80.17 30.06 30.08 30.15 80.09 30.07 30.09 30.12 3012 30.10 X07 X03 XOt -01 X03 X05 03 XC9 X06 X01 X01 X03 X02 X01 S NE. ...E ~.E ..& N.E ....8 ...E ..N .SE ...S NW .NE .BE S 3& ...6 „& ...„2 2 § Cloudy. Fair L. Rain Fair Clear.... Cloudy. Clear... Clear..., Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Fair Cloudy, Clear- Clear ... THE FARM. Postal Card Correspondence. To Onr Postal Card Correspondents. Please send your favors for thia department not later than Monday morning of each week, on Saturday If possible, to insure their appearance in the paper promptly.—Eds. INDIANA. Owen Co., July 18th.—Splendid rain here to-day, will make thousands of dollars for the farmers. Corn is very good. So far this is the most favorable harvest we have had for ten years. J. 0. Md. Putnam Co., July 23d.—-Wheat all stacked and some thrashed. Oats all cut, crop good. Weather has been too cool for com. Meadows good on low land, but light on high land. Potatoes good. Fruit light. Hog cholera has nearly disappeared. B. P. Bruner. Tippecanoe Co., July 23d.—Hay nearly all stacked. Oat harvest in full blast. Our corn looks very well, but the last few cool days and nights have checked its growth very much. Saturday morning the thermometer stood at 52° at sunrise. The prospects are generally encouraging for the farmers of Tippecanoe county. ,. R. A. Lockwood. Hamilton Co., July 21st.—Wheat is nearly all stacked or thrashed. Oats mostly cut; the oat crop is much better that usual. A great deal of hay to make yet; there is a large quantity of old hay here yet, and the new crop is heavy. The prospect for potatoes ia good. Since the late heavy rains most of the corn has been ploughed, and it is in fair condition. Fbank Williamson. Anotheb.—July 23.—Corn on sod will be a full crop, but on fallow ground not more than half a crop. Wheat never was better since 1864, and all in the stack. Oats will be in the stack this "week, and never was better. Hay all ready to cut and of fine quality. Flax not harvested yet, but a fine crop. The apple crop will be a half crop. Peaches none; pears none. Stock of all kinds looks well. Some hog cholera in the western part of the county. : - Calvin Stubdivant. . Union Co., July 18th.—Wheat nearly all in stack, very heavy straw, but poorly filled. Hay heavy nearly all saved in fine condition, large acreage cut. Corn that was planted early and well tended, is fine, but the late is very weedy and looking yellow. No hog cholera at present, but hogs are scarce having died last fall of cholera. J. L. Boon- Co., July 16th.—Wheat good, but light crop sowed. Oats, flax and meadows good. Corn large crop out, but from wet weather and bad seed the crop must be light; corn to be a good crop must come good, and be tended early and well; the failure in the two particulars named makes the failure here in our com crop. Some hogs dying with fever. , H.-I. Bennett. Wabash Co., July 20th.—Had a very wet harvest except a few days at the wind up. The threshing machine is heard in every direction. Com generally looks well, hut it is damaged some by the extreme wet, but will make a fair crop if it is favored with a good season to make itself. Off of a three acre patch planted in com last year, hogged down and sowed in Fultz wheat at the rate of one bushel per acre I thrashed 90 bushels. H. Comstock. Howard Co., July 23d.—Wheat all stacked. Hay making progressing finely; fair crop of grass. Corn I think will hardly be an average crop; very many fields sorry, but some good fields. Oats fair, but blown down some. On last Monday we had a very hard storm of rain in the southern part of the county, some six inches or more; since then mostly fair, will soon need a little more. Health good, and nights cool. Wheat an average crop, and good quality; worth $1,20 per bushel. H. W. Smith. Elkhabt Co., July 20th.—Since the Sth inst, the weather has been fine and wheat has all been harvested and some threshed and brought to market and Bells for $1,50 to $1,60. Clean plump and nice and the berry is large and yield good. Com looks well and the oats are fine. Potatoes 25 cents. Hay crop very fair. Small fruit good, but no apples. Health good, very little sickness. It will soon be time for grange pic-nics; who will be first ? G. T.B. Parke Co., July 15th.—We are still haying considerable rain, which is proving an injury and drawback to harvesting. Considerable of the wheat is not yet taken care of. Havnc up yet, and some com wants ploughingW)ats to cut yet, and the wet and rains is still the trouble in the way of work. Wheat will piobably make a good yield to the number of acres, but a rather small crop was sown last fall, so we will not have snch an extraordinary quantity. Com a good deal of it not looking very well, being yellow and small. Oats a larger crop sown than usual and looking vj-ell. E. Thomas. JERSEY BULL LITCHFIELD, (674), Winner of the Centennial Award. Owned by F. Ratchpobd Stars, Echo Farm, Litchfield, Conn. Pike Co., July 16th.—Health in Pike is good. Weather has been dry for three weeks and mostly hot. Wheat was put up in good condition and is gocd.. Oats ditto. Corn is late, some weedy. Grass is good, some cut. Apples tolerably plenty, but as to peaches your informant who said they were plenty, was mistaken, we have none only on high points. An abundance of hog cholera and fatal. Today we are having a nice rain which was much needed. The sound of the thresher is beginning to be heard in the land. " J. L. Brenton. Obange Co., July 18th.—Wheat all cut and most all stacked. The farmers are very busy putting up their oata and hay. Wheat, oata and hay are gcod in this part of the county. Com .will not be so good on account of so much rain the forepart of the season and the dry weather that followed. We had a refreshing shower the 16th inst., and it is raining today, which will make a great change in our prospects for a corn crop. Hogs not very plenty, some cholera. Cattle scarce but in good condition. Fruit of all kinds scarce. Potatoes good. The good old Fabmeb comes to us every week in due time. I think it one ofthe best papers for the farmers and grangers in the State. W. R. Wells. Pulaski Co., July 16th.—Just now we are having a dry spell of weather which will in a few days seriously effect the corn crop; nevertheless, the prospect is better than for several years. Potatoes in abundance, no bugs. Wheat was generally good and the whistle and buzz of the thrasher is joyfully heard, proclaiming thereby the glad tidings of plenty of bread without buying. Scarcely no apples; no peaches; a fair crop of cherries, and other small fruit. We have enough hogs and no cholera. Cattle do splendidly here; sheep also in most places. We have plenty of laborers here without having any imported. Charity begins at home. Pulaski is a good county to live in, some writers to the contrary, notwithstanding, and it is progressing. The Fabmee is one of our greatest blessings. S. Williams. QUERY AND ANSWER. I see a communication in the Fabmeb of July 21st, from G. D. Beard, of Floyd county, stating that wheat averaged 30 to 40 bushels per acre. Will you give the P. O. address of Mr. B. in the Fabmbb. N. Ettzbock. Marion, Ind., July 23d. Mr. Beards' address is Georgetown, Floyd county.—[Eds. TEXAS LAND WABBANTS. A subscriber enquires whether the land warrants advertised in this paper can be used in the purchase of land in any county in Texas. Ans.—Yes. These warrants are good in any county where the lands are not taken. This embraces 140 or 150 counties.—[Eds. SHErHEBD DOGS. To Uit Editors Indiana Farmer: Can you or some of the many readers ot your valuable paper inform me where I can get a pair of full blooded shepherd dogs? I want full blood or none. J. S. Sturgeon. Nineveh. We know of no one who has these dogs for sale among those who advertise with us, excepting Dr. D. W. Voyles, of New Albany. See his card in onr Breeders' Directory. FULTZ WHEAT WANTED. To the Editors Indiana Farmer: I wish to purchase about 100 bushels of Fultz wheat for seed, I want a good quality and pure seed, thinking that perhaps you know where it can be had, if not please to make inquiry through the columns of your valuable paper. I prefer it from the northern part of the State. Please to state price. Thos. H. Wathington. Jefferson county. who has fultz wheat fob sale? Will parlies having the Full*- wheat for sale please advert ise it in the Indiana Fabmeb and oblige J. B. Doty. Shelby county, July 30th. The suggestion of our correspondent is a good one. There is great enquiry now for the best varieties of wheat for seed, and those who have the Fultz or any other kind which has- made a good jield and has not been troubled with the midge the past season, will do well to make it known through our "For Sale" column on first page.— [Eds. THE CLOTHES LINE SWINDLE. To the Editors Indiana Partner: I saw a few days ago a clothes line swindle exposed in your paper. Can you, and will you be to kind as to send me a copy of agreement with said swindler, and would it be best not to take line from depot, and what I must pay per foot? Joseph Fby. Henry county, July 17th. We have no copy of the agreement, but we advise you not to touch the clothes line, if it has been Bent to you under any such contract as that of the swindlers we have exposed. You can buy the wire clothes line through The Indiana Farmer Agency at one cent per foot. The nsual price is li to 2 cents.—[Eds. WHAT KIND OF WHEAT TO SOW. Can some reader of the Farmer tell why the millers do not like the Fultz wheat we have now in this neighborhood ? Can we not have a little information from wheat raisers which kinds are proving the best? Some of us would like to. change our seed if we knew what to get. Subscbibeb. Wayne County. : This is an important question. Let the desired information be given through the Postal Card Correspondence. Thousands of farmers throughout the State are anxious to know what kind of wheat has proved the most satisfactory in all respects. A brief discussion of the subject by our correspondents will prove of great interest and value to all our readers.—[Eds. THE ISDIANAPOLIS OBPHAN ASYLUM. To the Editors Indiana Farmer: Will yon be kind enough to tell me throngh your valuable paper if there is not an Orphan Asylum in Indianapolis, and who to address in order to learn particulars. By answering you will oblige Mrs. M. Smith. . Ladoga, July 15. • The Orphan Asylum for white children is at No. 711 North Tennessee St., Mrs. E. J. Brown, Matron. The Home for friendless oolored children, ia at the corner of 12th and Mississippi Sts., Mrs. Rachael Carpenter, Matron. We visited the first named institution last Sunday, and listened with much interest to the recitation of the Sunday School lesson, and the singing of a number of Sunday School hymns. There are many bright and intelligent faces among the unfortunate children gathered at the asylum, and their appearance and manners show that they are under good care and training. There are about seventy children now in the institution, from infants of a few week- old to boys and girls of ten or twelve years. The managers desire to send all, who are old enough to go, to good homes, and homes in the country are generally preferred.—[Eds . THE TIME TO PLANT. I want to know the best time of the year to set out asparagus, rhubarb, grapes, currants gooseberries and raspberries, and the kind of soil each requires. Some gardener or some one else that understands growing small fruits please answer and oblige a reader of your valuable paper. A Reader. Asparagus requires rich, deep, dry and porous soil. . The plants are raised from seeds sown in September or April. They may be planted either in au'.umn or spring, either when one year old or two; many gardeners prefer leaving them till the second year before transplanting. The bedn-ust be prepared with extra care. Rhubarb, or pie plant, requires similar soil to that described above, and "can scarcely be made tco rich. It is propagated either from seed or from divUion of the roots." Seed should be sown in April and the plants set out in the fa 1. Roots may be set out either in spring or autumn. Grapes grow and do well in almost any soil and with but little attention, though of course the better care they have the larger returns they will give. Cuttings can be procured readily and for out door propagation may be set late in the fall or in early spring. They should be taken from well ripened wood of the new growth and should be about a foot long, including two eyes. In transplanting cut them back to two buds. Set them in rows six or eight feet apart. The Concord is perhaps the best variety for this climate. Currants Bhould have good soil. They are reac ily propagated by cutting. Set four to Bix feet apart. Trim each year. Manure and mulch plentifully. Thin out old and decaying branches. This .fruit will well repay all attention bestowed upon it. The gooseberry requires much the same treatment. An excellent practical article on the culture of strawberries appeared in the Fabmeb two weeks ago. The raspberry requires a longer discussion than we have room for at present, and we recommend our enquirer to Gregg's Fruit Culture, Barry's or Henderson's Fruit Growing, for information in full as to soil, treatment, varieties, etc.—[Editors. NEWS OP THE WEEK. State Sew*. A fire at Clinton on the 18th inst., destroyed $5,000 worth of property. The starch factory at Vincennes employs some hundred and seventy hands. The pay rolls of the Richmond shops and factories aggregate over a thousand dollars per day. A boy named Zerby, was killed at Wabash on last Sunday while attempting to climb on a moving train. Little Tommy Haley, five year old son of Edward Haley, was run over and killed by a car at Peru on the 15th inst. A son of James Hurst, of Tippecanoe county, was drowned on the 19th inst., while bath- iDg ia Wild Cat creek. The second ward in Indianapolis, has Eeven hundred voters, is the most wealthy ward in the city, and does not contain a saloon. Mr. B. S. Fewell, a young man living at Vernon, was killed on the 20th inst., by a runaway team of mules. A. Abrahams, a tailor of Madison, while in a state of partial insanity committed suicide on the 20th inst., by jump ing into the river.-■» Laze Husted, of Union county, while suffering from mental derangement committed eui. cide by haDging on the 14 inst. The prospect for a splendid crop Of corn i« very flattering. The bottom lands will yield enormously.—Jackson County Bee. Eugene Scott, a child of Mr. Sol. Scott, of Laporte, fell off a stairway on the 16th inst., a a distance of ten feet, killing him instantly. A young man named Charles Wright was drowned on Sunday afternoon while bathing in the Wabash river near Georgetown.—Logansport Journal. It is estimated that there are hundreds of acres of meadows in this county, which will yield an average crop of two tons of hay per acre.—Delphi Journal. Adam Appleman, of Marshall county, was drowned while bathing in Pretty Lake on the 14th inst. His brother, John Appleman, was killed by lightning a few weeks since. ' The dwelling of A. L. Brown, of Laporte county, was destroyed by fire on the 19th inst., caused by the explosion of a lamp. Loss, $800; fully insured. Sarah Gillis, of Montgomery county, while picking berries a few days ago, was bitten on the foot by a copperhead snake. She soon recovered by the use of whisky. Sebastian Btorebraker, of Alamo, has been swindled by the clothes line dealers out of $105. He signed what he tuppostd was a receipt, but it turned out to be a note. Hugh Cottrell, a workman in a planing mill at Waterloo, was killed on the 17th inst., by a piece of timber which flew back from the saw and struck him in the abdomen. Mr. John H. Stocknover an old and highly respected citizen of Bartholomew county, was killed on the 15th inst., by falling from his wagon, and being kicked by the mules that were attached to it. John Strain, an engineer on the Ft. Wayne ,fc Muncie R. R., was killed by his engine jumping the track and overturning. He could have escaped with his life by jumping, but he bravely stuck to his post and reversed the action of his engine. The threatened bread riot of the unemployed workingmen of this city, during the month of June, in three days cost the township $1,- 614 in supplies furnished, in addition to the regular outlay at the trustee's office. The wheat, corn, oats, hay and flax produced in Hamilton county, the present year, is worth one and a half millions of honest dollars. Add the v^alue of hogs, cattle, horses, butter, eggs, poultry and the very large crop of vegetables yet to be harvested, and we can afford to smile at hard .times.—Noblesville Ledger. The wheat crop is the best that has been harvested in this county for years, selling at $1,20 to $1,30 per bushel. The prospect for a large crop of corn is also good. The oat erop ia up to the average, and hay is so plentiful that it sells for $2,50 per ton on our streets.— Greencastle (Putnam Co.) Star. Peter S. Smith, of Lawrence county, raised one thousand bushels of wheat on 28 acres of land and 20,000 dozen of oata on 40 acrea of land.—Mitchell Times. A farmer friend at our elbow wants to know whether "those oats are Eingle or double bind? If double bind," he admits that it ia a pretty fair crop. Considerable new wheat is finding its way into market, and is being sold at $1,25 per bushel. It is the best wheat ever raised in thia section of country, and the average yield per acre is fully equal to the best year ever known here. We have not heard of a single field, the yield of which ia less than twenty bushels to the acre, and quite a number have reached as high as thirty-five.—Wabash Plain Dealer. The longest heads of wheat and the tallest wheat straw we have seen were left at our office by Jos. H. Saine'and produced on his farm south of town. The straw is five feet ten inches and the heads are six inches long. The latter is of the Egyptian variety and the former is some other kind. Farmers speak in praise of the Tyner wheat, both as to the quality of the berry and quantity of the yield.—Peru Republican. Jersey Cattle. We present to our readers in this number, an accurate cut of the famous Jersey bull, "Litchfield," the winner of the the Centennial award and the special prize of $250 offered by the American Jersey cattle Club, at the Centennial Exhibition. From good judges we learn that this is one of the finest Jersey bulls in the world, and that, his progeny excel as milkers and butter makers. His owner, Mr. Ratchford Starr, of Litchfield, Conn., a retired gentleman of wealth and high character, has become a successful breeder of this famous class of cattle, and has spared no pains or "expense in purchasing and breeding one of the largest and finest herds of Jerseys in America. Baker's Cod Livkb Oil. ahd Lime never fails to check Consumption, Coughs, Colds. '. etc., and immediately restores vigor ana flesh. Pleasant as cordial. Jno. C. Baker * & Co., Druggists, Philadlpliia.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1877, v. 12, no. 30 (July 28) |
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Transcript | Vol. xn. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JULY 28,1877. EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. I m Lost, Strayed or Stolen. Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less than 25 cents. No better medium conld be selected than this department of the Fabmeb for the recovery of stock. Tell your neighbor of It when you hear of the loss of his stock. FOR SALE. -fTIOR SALE—Farms ln Indiana and Illinois. A. Jj M. ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Indianapolis, Ind. 20-52ti(10) FOR SALE—SEED WHEAT, Muscovite, 65 Bus. per acre. Send 55 cents for package, orJ6 per Bu. Address J. WADE, Battle Creek, Mich. 80-2t **|""**tOR TRADE—Berkshire boar, pigs, or sows for J_\ Alderney calves. J. C. COMSTOCK, Martinsville, ni. so-it T*"***OR SALE—A few choice, pure Poland-China Jj Pigs. Prices reasonable. Address B, POPHAM, Claypool, Ind. 30-3t *T7*I0R SALE—A few No. 1 Farm Wagons. For sale Jj cheap. Enquire of W. A. A I. N. PATTISON, No. 100 East Washington street, Indianapolis. 80-2t TTIOR SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage, Jj for one or two horses, at a bargain. Call on or address G. H. BHOVER, 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. Fanner Agency, No; 8 Bates Block, Indianapolis. 26tf "T710R SALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style Jj SO, new and in good condition. For sale at a discount from regular price. itf Indiana Fabmeb Co. EOR SALE-Owing to a change In my business, will sell very cheap, or trade, ln one or separate lots, my entire stock of high-class Light and Dark Brahmas, Buff and P. Cochins, Bronze Turkeys, Bremen Geese, and Pekin Ducks; among which are fourteen premium birds. Address H. O. GREEN, Indianapolis, Ind. 29 4t EOR SALE—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, 'j hey are flrst- class; will sell all to one address very low, or each let at a reasonable price. Also Spanish and Brahma Cockerels for sale cheap, if ordered socn. .JOHN BENNETT, Sunman, Ind., (oh I, C. jSs L. BR.) 27US5 FOR SALE—Poland China Pigs. No. 1 Pigs at from 812 to 1115 each. Also a few choice Chester White Pigs. *Eggs and Chicks from high class White, Buff and Partridge Cochins, D. Brahmas, and B: Leghcrns. W EST A WHICKER, Pecksburg, Hendricks county, Ind. 16-3mofl ORSAlL K—YOUNG JERSEY BULLS AND BllLL Calves, very valuable for dairymen for raising grade milkers. They produce from 12 to 15 pounds of butter per week, ol superior quality. We offer at prices, to suit the Umes. Calves, 520; yearlings, 110; two years, SOO. Registered and shipped carefully. Address JAMES EDGERTON, Barnesville, O. 30 3t WAHX-C. WANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory Stock 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) "TIT*ANTED—Farmers to call on H. O. Rice, 35 Ky. VV Avenue. Pumps, Wells, C isterns and Vault- dug, cleaned and repaired. 19-13t(4' PROFESSION-.]. CARDS. EYE AND EAB. DR. I. A. E. LYONS, Room 10, Bates' Block, opposite Post-office, Indianapolis, lid. 1913U3' HENRY F. BARNES, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office, Booms 10 and 11 Masonic Temple. Office hours 10 to 12 a. m, and 2 to 4 p. m.. ' .. ■ 19-13t-3 : . MISCELIaANEOUS- vania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 2O*_-(10) "TTTANTED—Purchasers for all of my new and W second-hand Carriages, Buggies and Wagons at prices to suit the times. G. H. SHOVER, 172 and 174 East Market street, Indianapolis. 80-4t STRAYED OR STOLEN—Dark bay horse, about 15 hands high, dark mane and tail, saddle- marked. Will pay818 reward for his recovery. F. CHRISTMAN, 175 W. Pearl street, Indianapolis, lt TEXAS LAND WARRANTS—Of 640 acres each, for sale at 25 cents per acre, locatable on any public lands in the S tate of Texas. Maps of Texas and full information free. Address N. R.WARWICK, Agent, 138 Vine -t, Cincinnati, O. 19tf(S) TO TRADE—For a flrst-class family horse and canisge, an elegant, new stock of furnishing goods, which will invoice about J4O0.C0, including the latest novelties; also two elegant, oval front, silver show cases, seven' feet each. This is a rare chance. Call on or address J. SCHLOS3,16 E. Washington street, Indianapolis. S0*»lt BtTLLETIN . WAR DEPABTMENT— SIGNAL SERVICE V. S. AKMY. Division of telegrams and reports for the benefit of commerce and agriculture. Meteorological record, July 24th, 1877,7 a. m. Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Explanation.—Lowering barometer and rising thermometer Indicate rain. Rising barometer and falling thermometer, indicate fair or clearing weather. ■*" Indications.—For Tennessee and Ohio Valley, stationary or falling barometer, slightly lighter temperature, except in Lower Tennessee, northeast winds, cloudy weather and numerous rains. Place of Observation. Cairo CWcago Cincinnati Davenport, Ia J>enver, Col- Indianapolis. Knorrtlle, T. Leavenworth |*ulsville._... Memphis . N«w Orleans- Omaha. • |J. Louis......." I St Paul I Yankton— i & 30.11 30.80 30.16 30.22 29.91 80.17 30.06 30.08 30.15 80.09 30.07 30.09 30.12 3012 30.10 X07 X03 XOt -01 X03 X05 03 XC9 X06 X01 X01 X03 X02 X01 S NE. ...E ~.E ..& N.E ....8 ...E ..N .SE ...S NW .NE .BE S 3& ...6 „& ...„2 2 § Cloudy. Fair L. Rain Fair Clear.... Cloudy. Clear... Clear..., Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Fair Cloudy, Clear- Clear ... THE FARM. Postal Card Correspondence. To Onr Postal Card Correspondents. Please send your favors for thia department not later than Monday morning of each week, on Saturday If possible, to insure their appearance in the paper promptly.—Eds. INDIANA. Owen Co., July 18th.—Splendid rain here to-day, will make thousands of dollars for the farmers. Corn is very good. So far this is the most favorable harvest we have had for ten years. J. 0. Md. Putnam Co., July 23d.—-Wheat all stacked and some thrashed. Oats all cut, crop good. Weather has been too cool for com. Meadows good on low land, but light on high land. Potatoes good. Fruit light. Hog cholera has nearly disappeared. B. P. Bruner. Tippecanoe Co., July 23d.—Hay nearly all stacked. Oat harvest in full blast. Our corn looks very well, but the last few cool days and nights have checked its growth very much. Saturday morning the thermometer stood at 52° at sunrise. The prospects are generally encouraging for the farmers of Tippecanoe county. ,. R. A. Lockwood. Hamilton Co., July 21st.—Wheat is nearly all stacked or thrashed. Oats mostly cut; the oat crop is much better that usual. A great deal of hay to make yet; there is a large quantity of old hay here yet, and the new crop is heavy. The prospect for potatoes ia good. Since the late heavy rains most of the corn has been ploughed, and it is in fair condition. Fbank Williamson. Anotheb.—July 23.—Corn on sod will be a full crop, but on fallow ground not more than half a crop. Wheat never was better since 1864, and all in the stack. Oats will be in the stack this "week, and never was better. Hay all ready to cut and of fine quality. Flax not harvested yet, but a fine crop. The apple crop will be a half crop. Peaches none; pears none. Stock of all kinds looks well. Some hog cholera in the western part of the county. : - Calvin Stubdivant. . Union Co., July 18th.—Wheat nearly all in stack, very heavy straw, but poorly filled. Hay heavy nearly all saved in fine condition, large acreage cut. Corn that was planted early and well tended, is fine, but the late is very weedy and looking yellow. No hog cholera at present, but hogs are scarce having died last fall of cholera. J. L. Boon- Co., July 16th.—Wheat good, but light crop sowed. Oats, flax and meadows good. Corn large crop out, but from wet weather and bad seed the crop must be light; corn to be a good crop must come good, and be tended early and well; the failure in the two particulars named makes the failure here in our com crop. Some hogs dying with fever. , H.-I. Bennett. Wabash Co., July 20th.—Had a very wet harvest except a few days at the wind up. The threshing machine is heard in every direction. Com generally looks well, hut it is damaged some by the extreme wet, but will make a fair crop if it is favored with a good season to make itself. Off of a three acre patch planted in com last year, hogged down and sowed in Fultz wheat at the rate of one bushel per acre I thrashed 90 bushels. H. Comstock. Howard Co., July 23d.—Wheat all stacked. Hay making progressing finely; fair crop of grass. Corn I think will hardly be an average crop; very many fields sorry, but some good fields. Oats fair, but blown down some. On last Monday we had a very hard storm of rain in the southern part of the county, some six inches or more; since then mostly fair, will soon need a little more. Health good, and nights cool. Wheat an average crop, and good quality; worth $1,20 per bushel. H. W. Smith. Elkhabt Co., July 20th.—Since the Sth inst, the weather has been fine and wheat has all been harvested and some threshed and brought to market and Bells for $1,50 to $1,60. Clean plump and nice and the berry is large and yield good. Com looks well and the oats are fine. Potatoes 25 cents. Hay crop very fair. Small fruit good, but no apples. Health good, very little sickness. It will soon be time for grange pic-nics; who will be first ? G. T.B. Parke Co., July 15th.—We are still haying considerable rain, which is proving an injury and drawback to harvesting. Considerable of the wheat is not yet taken care of. Havnc up yet, and some com wants ploughingW)ats to cut yet, and the wet and rains is still the trouble in the way of work. Wheat will piobably make a good yield to the number of acres, but a rather small crop was sown last fall, so we will not have snch an extraordinary quantity. Com a good deal of it not looking very well, being yellow and small. Oats a larger crop sown than usual and looking vj-ell. E. Thomas. JERSEY BULL LITCHFIELD, (674), Winner of the Centennial Award. Owned by F. Ratchpobd Stars, Echo Farm, Litchfield, Conn. Pike Co., July 16th.—Health in Pike is good. Weather has been dry for three weeks and mostly hot. Wheat was put up in good condition and is gocd.. Oats ditto. Corn is late, some weedy. Grass is good, some cut. Apples tolerably plenty, but as to peaches your informant who said they were plenty, was mistaken, we have none only on high points. An abundance of hog cholera and fatal. Today we are having a nice rain which was much needed. The sound of the thresher is beginning to be heard in the land. " J. L. Brenton. Obange Co., July 18th.—Wheat all cut and most all stacked. The farmers are very busy putting up their oata and hay. Wheat, oata and hay are gcod in this part of the county. Com .will not be so good on account of so much rain the forepart of the season and the dry weather that followed. We had a refreshing shower the 16th inst., and it is raining today, which will make a great change in our prospects for a corn crop. Hogs not very plenty, some cholera. Cattle scarce but in good condition. Fruit of all kinds scarce. Potatoes good. The good old Fabmeb comes to us every week in due time. I think it one ofthe best papers for the farmers and grangers in the State. W. R. Wells. Pulaski Co., July 16th.—Just now we are having a dry spell of weather which will in a few days seriously effect the corn crop; nevertheless, the prospect is better than for several years. Potatoes in abundance, no bugs. Wheat was generally good and the whistle and buzz of the thrasher is joyfully heard, proclaiming thereby the glad tidings of plenty of bread without buying. Scarcely no apples; no peaches; a fair crop of cherries, and other small fruit. We have enough hogs and no cholera. Cattle do splendidly here; sheep also in most places. We have plenty of laborers here without having any imported. Charity begins at home. Pulaski is a good county to live in, some writers to the contrary, notwithstanding, and it is progressing. The Fabmee is one of our greatest blessings. S. Williams. QUERY AND ANSWER. I see a communication in the Fabmeb of July 21st, from G. D. Beard, of Floyd county, stating that wheat averaged 30 to 40 bushels per acre. Will you give the P. O. address of Mr. B. in the Fabmbb. N. Ettzbock. Marion, Ind., July 23d. Mr. Beards' address is Georgetown, Floyd county.—[Eds. TEXAS LAND WABBANTS. A subscriber enquires whether the land warrants advertised in this paper can be used in the purchase of land in any county in Texas. Ans.—Yes. These warrants are good in any county where the lands are not taken. This embraces 140 or 150 counties.—[Eds. SHErHEBD DOGS. To Uit Editors Indiana Farmer: Can you or some of the many readers ot your valuable paper inform me where I can get a pair of full blooded shepherd dogs? I want full blood or none. J. S. Sturgeon. Nineveh. We know of no one who has these dogs for sale among those who advertise with us, excepting Dr. D. W. Voyles, of New Albany. See his card in onr Breeders' Directory. FULTZ WHEAT WANTED. To the Editors Indiana Farmer: I wish to purchase about 100 bushels of Fultz wheat for seed, I want a good quality and pure seed, thinking that perhaps you know where it can be had, if not please to make inquiry through the columns of your valuable paper. I prefer it from the northern part of the State. Please to state price. Thos. H. Wathington. Jefferson county. who has fultz wheat fob sale? Will parlies having the Full*- wheat for sale please advert ise it in the Indiana Fabmeb and oblige J. B. Doty. Shelby county, July 30th. The suggestion of our correspondent is a good one. There is great enquiry now for the best varieties of wheat for seed, and those who have the Fultz or any other kind which has- made a good jield and has not been troubled with the midge the past season, will do well to make it known through our "For Sale" column on first page.— [Eds. THE CLOTHES LINE SWINDLE. To the Editors Indiana Partner: I saw a few days ago a clothes line swindle exposed in your paper. Can you, and will you be to kind as to send me a copy of agreement with said swindler, and would it be best not to take line from depot, and what I must pay per foot? Joseph Fby. Henry county, July 17th. We have no copy of the agreement, but we advise you not to touch the clothes line, if it has been Bent to you under any such contract as that of the swindlers we have exposed. You can buy the wire clothes line through The Indiana Farmer Agency at one cent per foot. The nsual price is li to 2 cents.—[Eds. WHAT KIND OF WHEAT TO SOW. Can some reader of the Farmer tell why the millers do not like the Fultz wheat we have now in this neighborhood ? Can we not have a little information from wheat raisers which kinds are proving the best? Some of us would like to. change our seed if we knew what to get. Subscbibeb. Wayne County. : This is an important question. Let the desired information be given through the Postal Card Correspondence. Thousands of farmers throughout the State are anxious to know what kind of wheat has proved the most satisfactory in all respects. A brief discussion of the subject by our correspondents will prove of great interest and value to all our readers.—[Eds. THE ISDIANAPOLIS OBPHAN ASYLUM. To the Editors Indiana Farmer: Will yon be kind enough to tell me throngh your valuable paper if there is not an Orphan Asylum in Indianapolis, and who to address in order to learn particulars. By answering you will oblige Mrs. M. Smith. . Ladoga, July 15. • The Orphan Asylum for white children is at No. 711 North Tennessee St., Mrs. E. J. Brown, Matron. The Home for friendless oolored children, ia at the corner of 12th and Mississippi Sts., Mrs. Rachael Carpenter, Matron. We visited the first named institution last Sunday, and listened with much interest to the recitation of the Sunday School lesson, and the singing of a number of Sunday School hymns. There are many bright and intelligent faces among the unfortunate children gathered at the asylum, and their appearance and manners show that they are under good care and training. There are about seventy children now in the institution, from infants of a few week- old to boys and girls of ten or twelve years. The managers desire to send all, who are old enough to go, to good homes, and homes in the country are generally preferred.—[Eds . THE TIME TO PLANT. I want to know the best time of the year to set out asparagus, rhubarb, grapes, currants gooseberries and raspberries, and the kind of soil each requires. Some gardener or some one else that understands growing small fruits please answer and oblige a reader of your valuable paper. A Reader. Asparagus requires rich, deep, dry and porous soil. . The plants are raised from seeds sown in September or April. They may be planted either in au'.umn or spring, either when one year old or two; many gardeners prefer leaving them till the second year before transplanting. The bedn-ust be prepared with extra care. Rhubarb, or pie plant, requires similar soil to that described above, and "can scarcely be made tco rich. It is propagated either from seed or from divUion of the roots." Seed should be sown in April and the plants set out in the fa 1. Roots may be set out either in spring or autumn. Grapes grow and do well in almost any soil and with but little attention, though of course the better care they have the larger returns they will give. Cuttings can be procured readily and for out door propagation may be set late in the fall or in early spring. They should be taken from well ripened wood of the new growth and should be about a foot long, including two eyes. In transplanting cut them back to two buds. Set them in rows six or eight feet apart. The Concord is perhaps the best variety for this climate. Currants Bhould have good soil. They are reac ily propagated by cutting. Set four to Bix feet apart. Trim each year. Manure and mulch plentifully. Thin out old and decaying branches. This .fruit will well repay all attention bestowed upon it. The gooseberry requires much the same treatment. An excellent practical article on the culture of strawberries appeared in the Fabmeb two weeks ago. The raspberry requires a longer discussion than we have room for at present, and we recommend our enquirer to Gregg's Fruit Culture, Barry's or Henderson's Fruit Growing, for information in full as to soil, treatment, varieties, etc.—[Editors. NEWS OP THE WEEK. State Sew*. A fire at Clinton on the 18th inst., destroyed $5,000 worth of property. The starch factory at Vincennes employs some hundred and seventy hands. The pay rolls of the Richmond shops and factories aggregate over a thousand dollars per day. A boy named Zerby, was killed at Wabash on last Sunday while attempting to climb on a moving train. Little Tommy Haley, five year old son of Edward Haley, was run over and killed by a car at Peru on the 15th inst. A son of James Hurst, of Tippecanoe county, was drowned on the 19th inst., while bath- iDg ia Wild Cat creek. The second ward in Indianapolis, has Eeven hundred voters, is the most wealthy ward in the city, and does not contain a saloon. Mr. B. S. Fewell, a young man living at Vernon, was killed on the 20th inst., by a runaway team of mules. A. Abrahams, a tailor of Madison, while in a state of partial insanity committed suicide on the 20th inst., by jump ing into the river.-■» Laze Husted, of Union county, while suffering from mental derangement committed eui. cide by haDging on the 14 inst. The prospect for a splendid crop Of corn i« very flattering. The bottom lands will yield enormously.—Jackson County Bee. Eugene Scott, a child of Mr. Sol. Scott, of Laporte, fell off a stairway on the 16th inst., a a distance of ten feet, killing him instantly. A young man named Charles Wright was drowned on Sunday afternoon while bathing in the Wabash river near Georgetown.—Logansport Journal. It is estimated that there are hundreds of acres of meadows in this county, which will yield an average crop of two tons of hay per acre.—Delphi Journal. Adam Appleman, of Marshall county, was drowned while bathing in Pretty Lake on the 14th inst. His brother, John Appleman, was killed by lightning a few weeks since. ' The dwelling of A. L. Brown, of Laporte county, was destroyed by fire on the 19th inst., caused by the explosion of a lamp. Loss, $800; fully insured. Sarah Gillis, of Montgomery county, while picking berries a few days ago, was bitten on the foot by a copperhead snake. She soon recovered by the use of whisky. Sebastian Btorebraker, of Alamo, has been swindled by the clothes line dealers out of $105. He signed what he tuppostd was a receipt, but it turned out to be a note. Hugh Cottrell, a workman in a planing mill at Waterloo, was killed on the 17th inst., by a piece of timber which flew back from the saw and struck him in the abdomen. Mr. John H. Stocknover an old and highly respected citizen of Bartholomew county, was killed on the 15th inst., by falling from his wagon, and being kicked by the mules that were attached to it. John Strain, an engineer on the Ft. Wayne ,fc Muncie R. R., was killed by his engine jumping the track and overturning. He could have escaped with his life by jumping, but he bravely stuck to his post and reversed the action of his engine. The threatened bread riot of the unemployed workingmen of this city, during the month of June, in three days cost the township $1,- 614 in supplies furnished, in addition to the regular outlay at the trustee's office. The wheat, corn, oats, hay and flax produced in Hamilton county, the present year, is worth one and a half millions of honest dollars. Add the v^alue of hogs, cattle, horses, butter, eggs, poultry and the very large crop of vegetables yet to be harvested, and we can afford to smile at hard .times.—Noblesville Ledger. The wheat crop is the best that has been harvested in this county for years, selling at $1,20 to $1,30 per bushel. The prospect for a large crop of corn is also good. The oat erop ia up to the average, and hay is so plentiful that it sells for $2,50 per ton on our streets.— Greencastle (Putnam Co.) Star. Peter S. Smith, of Lawrence county, raised one thousand bushels of wheat on 28 acres of land and 20,000 dozen of oata on 40 acrea of land.—Mitchell Times. A farmer friend at our elbow wants to know whether "those oats are Eingle or double bind? If double bind," he admits that it ia a pretty fair crop. Considerable new wheat is finding its way into market, and is being sold at $1,25 per bushel. It is the best wheat ever raised in thia section of country, and the average yield per acre is fully equal to the best year ever known here. We have not heard of a single field, the yield of which ia less than twenty bushels to the acre, and quite a number have reached as high as thirty-five.—Wabash Plain Dealer. The longest heads of wheat and the tallest wheat straw we have seen were left at our office by Jos. H. Saine'and produced on his farm south of town. The straw is five feet ten inches and the heads are six inches long. The latter is of the Egyptian variety and the former is some other kind. Farmers speak in praise of the Tyner wheat, both as to the quality of the berry and quantity of the yield.—Peru Republican. Jersey Cattle. We present to our readers in this number, an accurate cut of the famous Jersey bull, "Litchfield," the winner of the the Centennial award and the special prize of $250 offered by the American Jersey cattle Club, at the Centennial Exhibition. From good judges we learn that this is one of the finest Jersey bulls in the world, and that, his progeny excel as milkers and butter makers. His owner, Mr. Ratchford Starr, of Litchfield, Conn., a retired gentleman of wealth and high character, has become a successful breeder of this famous class of cattle, and has spared no pains or "expense in purchasing and breeding one of the largest and finest herds of Jerseys in America. Baker's Cod Livkb Oil. ahd Lime never fails to check Consumption, Coughs, Colds. '. etc., and immediately restores vigor ana flesh. Pleasant as cordial. Jno. C. Baker * & Co., Druggists, Philadlpliia. |
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