Vol. xn.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JULY 28,1877.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.