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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 17,1877.
No. .46.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the _j*_lb__ib for the recovery of stock.
TeU your neighbor of lt when you hear of the loss
of his stock. . i
FOR BALI.
BERKSHIRES FOR SALE—The undersigned
■have for sale near Pl»Infield, Hendricks Co.,
Ind., 30 firstclass pigs, nearly all sired by Imported
"Canada John." Price $15 each or 525 per pair.
5 young hoars old enough for service. Price 120 each.
10 fine young sows—gilts—to be bred to "Canada
John" ln December and January. Price 125. To be
deliver, d after breeding. Imported "Canada John"
will also be offered for sale after January. Price
150. He is a fire breeder. Also line, nicely-bred
young Short-Horns for sale. Correspondence solicited. CHARLES LOWDER & SONS.
Nov. 17th, 1877. 40-eow-tf
■p-IOR SALE—Five nice bull calves, 10 to 13 months
J3 old; good colors and finely bred; are of the
"Rose of Sharon," "Blue Bonnet" and "Matilda''
families. Will sell very low if taken soon. CLAUDE
MATPHEVVa, Clinton, Ind. 46-2t
"TTIOR SALE—Four pure Berkshire Boars, (Mere-
____ dlth and Barker strains.) large enough for
service; boxed and warranted to please Only $10
each. Sowssameprice; allhealthy acd well marked.
«-3t A. C. HARVEY, Lafayette, Ind.
EOR SALE—Five extra large fat steers, for the
Christinas Market See dtseriplion in Farmer
of Oct. 20tb. Address ELIJAH CLORE, Alamo,
Montgomery Co., Ind. .42-3,6,7
EOR SALE—A fine lot of pigs, the get of Adonis
1H9, and Colonel Humfrey 112S, Vol. II, A. B.
Record. Also young sows In farrow. For prices, etc.,
address W. L. MALLOW, New Holland,O.       S9-lSt
EOR  SALE—Three flne,  large,   well-marked,
young Bronza Turkey Gobblers; weight 18 to
20 Iba. each at $3 each.   FRANK BARBER, Wash
ington, Ind.
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*T7*IOR SALE—Pure bred Partridge Cochins and
JD Bronze Turkeys at $3 00 per pair. WILL D.
LAT8HAW, Oak town, Knox county, Ind.        45-3t
"T710B SALE—Some fine White Leghorn chicks,
_J0 either single birds, pairs or in trios. Address
THOS. W. POTTAGE, Indianapolis, Ind.    •   45 2t
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OR SALS—Berkshire Pigs and Muscova Ducks
JACOB RAGER, Williams Center. Ohio.   13 It
TV A SITES}.
"■Try*ANTED—Young Men and Women to prepare
W fot Copyists, Book-Keepers and Telegraph
Operators at the Bryant A Stratton Business College
and Telegraph Institute, 44 South Meridian street.
Remember the place, as an inferior school is advertised under our college name. Address E. SIMMONS A CO., proprietor, Indianapolis, Ind.    39-lSt
**\TTANTED—300 Young Men te learn Telegraph-
W ing, and take offices on the lines. Salary $60
to $75 per month can be earned in ten to twelve
weeks. Address, with stamp ior circulars, INDIANAPOLIS TELEGRAPH INSTITUTE, Bates Block,
opposite Postoffice. 42tf
WANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
Stock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and fine family Bibles.   Address J. W.
Lanktree & Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
lO-lyt-189)
XTTANTED—Improved   farms and  good town
W    property to trade for Indianapolis property.
Address FRANK A. DIAL, No. 77H East Marxet
St, Indianapolis, Ind. 46 3t
"TTTANTED—Farms for \% cash, and Land In Neo-
W sho VaUey, Kansas. See before trading. Cheap
travel furnished.   M. ARBTJCKLE, 74 East Market
Street '     W-ttt
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TTTANTED—To buy walnut lumber in large or
W    small quantities.   TUCKER A DORSEY, 15
Bates Block; Indianapolis, Ind. 48-ly
"TTTANTED—Farms of all sizes to trade for city
Vy    property.   WlU take encumbrance.   A, M.
AtBX-ilNDER, 2H West Washington St, over "Bee
Hive," Indianapolis, Ind. ' 20-S2t
MISCELLANEOUS.
DECIDED BARGAINS to reduce our choice
breeding stock of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Essex, Chester White and Poland China pigs of all
ages. Also sheep, cattle, and fancy poultry; finest
new breeder's manual, elegantly Illustrated and
giving fall description of the different breeds. Prico
25 cents. Seed Wheat; all the best varieties, grown
especially for seed. 'Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, spinach, and aU seeds for
the fail. Prickly Comfrey, the most wonderful forage plant, setts $4.00 per 1C0; 50 cents extra by mail.
Beed catalogue free. BENSON, BURPEE A CO.,
2S3 Church street, Philadelphia, Pa. 38-1/
YOtfftG MAN I Do yon want a lucrative situation ln business? If so, attend the old reliable Indianapolis Business College, Bates Block,
opposite the Postoffice, ln same banding ln which
the Indiana Farmer ls published. Address, with
stamp fQf Circulars, etc., KOERNER A QOODIER,
Indianapolis, tad. 42-tf
THE FARM.
Postal Card Correspondence.
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ikdiana.
To Onr Postal Card Correspondents.
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.
Hkhdbicks Co., Nov. 9.—We have been hav-
ing much wet weather daring the past week-.
Farmers are gathering their com and getting
wood for the winter. Potatoes are nearly aU
dug. Hogs, 4,75; cattle, 5, to 5,25. Health
is good and money scarce.
A. B. CoV/MAM.
Montqomiet Co , Nov. 5.—The amount of
wheat sown in this oonnty is large, and never
looked better. Corn is mostly good and sells
at 25 cents a bushel. Apples scarce and high.
Hogs, $4,00 per cwt., and scarcer in this'vicinity than they have been for a long while.
G. T. Huffman.
Huntington Co., Nov. 5.—The amount of
wheat sown in this county is large and looks
well. The corn crop is very fine and Iarmers
are busily engaged cribbing. No hog
cholera in this section at present, although a
great many died of this disease through the
summer and early part of fall. The hog crop
will be light through this part of the country.
T. W. Lcoan.
Haebison Oo., Nov. 3.—A large acreage of
wheat sown, and most of it bone-mealed. Wet
raised a fall crop of corn, only about a half
crop of apples. We have had scarcely any hog
cholera, and consequently this connty will
have a great deal of pork to spare. Wheat is
worth $1,05 to$1;25; corn, 35 to 40c.; oats, 25
to 35c; hogs, $4,50 to $5,50 per cwt., gross;
beef cattle, $2,25 to $3,50 per cwt. gross.
Joseph P. Pinaibb.
Frenchtown, Ind.
Howabd Co., Nov. 6.—The growing wheat
looks well. Corn in some localities is very
good, in others nearly a failure. Potatoes
plenty and cheap. The cholera is thinning
out the hogs very fast, causing heavy loss to
many. Cattle in good demand; fat cattle
scarce. Horses plenty and dull sale. Health
generally good. Grangers still alive but not
doing much. If every member would read
the Fabmbb, and pay for it, they would be
greatly benefited, and so would the order.
R. D. Babbbb.
Pish Co., Nov. 2.—Pike county has considerable sickness at present. The weather has
been very flne. We had the longest wheat
sowing I ever knew—over two months—a
larger crop and better pnt in than common.
Pastures are fine yet, and stock doing well
except hogs. The cholera got away with most
of them. Corn is not fit to crib yet, but soon
will be, and Pike has an abundance of it and
hay till you can't rest, and sorghum enongh
to swim in. We are going to spend most of
our time licking lasses. J. L. Bbenton.
Flotd Co., Nov. 6.—Farmers in this locality are busily preparing for the coming winter, gathering corn, hauling in crops, burying
cabbage, potatoes, etc. The early sown wheat
in some plaoes will nearly hide a rabbit. The
White Arab** was the variety mostly sown in
this county. I notice several articles in your
valuable paper speaking of the Fultx wheat;
we have none of that variety in our county,
so far as my knowledge extends. Mr. George
Hans, of this neighborhood, is erecting a new
barn 60 feet long by 40 feet wide.
Lundy D. Enqleman.
Georgetown,'ind.
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OHIO.
$12(3.30 per acre for improved; raw prairie
$8@12,50 per acre. I will give you the prices
of produce, stock and wages in my next.
WABHIKQTON TERRITORY.
Wail.*. Waixa, Oct. 28.—Wheat flne; Ugh1
frosts. Grass growing finely. Stock looks
well. Largest crop of wheat this year ever
raised here, averaging 35 bushels per acre,
some as high as 60 per acre; worth 75 cents per
bushel. Vegetables grow fine here. Fruit of
all kinds are raised in abundance. We have
the most delightful climate in the United
States, oool summers and warm w Inters. Thousands of acres of good land yet to take up.
Don't be afraid of "Injins," we've killed them
all. Beet country In the world for a poor
man. A. C. Dickinson.
QUERY AND ANSWER.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Is there any place in Indianapolis where
fire-clay, or anything else better than sheet-
iron, is used for lining sheet iron stoves ?
What is good to put in ink to make it dry
quick when used? O. O.
There are several places here where fire-clay
can be had, but you will have to give the size
and shape of your stove in order to have a fit
made.
If your ink is agood article it will dry quickly enough if a fine pen is used with a light
hand. Anything that would make the ink
dry aa soon as written, would be apt to. coat
the pen and injure it for writing.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
State News.
TO TRADE—A large quantity of choice selected
lands in Kansas for improved farms or city
property, or for sale on best ot terms at office of W.
F. MASON, 16X East Washington St., Indianapolis,
Ind. -. 13 »t
rT.0 LOiS—Money on Improved farms at 8,9and
A. 10 per cent Money furnished promptly. RDD-
"DELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, 3 Vinton Block, In.
dlanapolls, Ind.
20-tf-(10)
W
ANTED—Lady and gentlemen canvassers to
call and see those beautiful Oil Pictures
ven to our subscribers.   Address  Western Sub-
gency, 68 Penn. St, Indianapolis. 46tf
PENSIONS—No matter how sli
Advice free.   W.J.WRAY, 205
Philadelphia, Pa.
rhtly wounded
3 Carpenter St.,
44-4t
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CARDS, all colon, with name on all, 10c.
A. L. VANDEB,
Hudson, Mich.
Hebry Co., Nov. 8.—Tha growlflg wheat
looks unusually well, never iaw it look so
Well before at this time Of year. Corn a fair
crop, will average from 30 to 40 bushels to the
acre. Farmers are all busy gathering corn.
There has been a great deal of rain here this
fall, Thte first snow of the season fell on
last Monday afternoon, Nov. Sth. The streams
«re all full and fields muddy, making it bad
to husk and haul out com.
D. E. Bbubakkb
Wool Grower*' Association—A Called
Meeting.
The Indiana Wool Grower* Association
will meet in the city of Indianapolis, Ind.,
Wednesday evening, January 2d, 1878,
in called session, at which time papers
upon the various modes of treatment of
sheep and other subjects pertaining to
the growing of wool, from the pens of
some of the most experienced men of
our State, will be read. All members and
others interested are invited to attend
this meeting. The meeting will be held
. in the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture at 7 o'clock p. m.
S. R. Quick, Pres't.
Thob. W. W. Sunman, Sec'y.
KANSAS.
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Ahtblopi, Nov. 6.—Bince the rain in the
spring which retarded the planting of crops,
it has been very seasonable. Grain of all
kinds except winter wheat, has done very
well. Stock of all kinds healthy. Never made
better butter or sweeter than this summer
from grass alone. Fruit splendid. Apples
and pears at our fair measured five inohes in
diameter, grown in thia county. Corn 15 to
25 cents per bushel; wheat $1. T. P.
-MISSOURI.
Bates Co., Nov. 7.—Wheat crops were splendid, averaging between 20 and 25 bnshels pe,
acre. A fair crop sown this season, and is
looking fine. Corn is splendid, but not much
gathered yet on account of so much rain and
cloudy weather. It has been raining for the
last two weeks, and it is still cloudy and
misty. We have only had two frosts to hurt.
This is a prairie country, but plenty of timber
along the streams, and plenty of coal at 6 to 8
cents per bushel at the bank. Land rates from
Peru has "hen" parties.
Plymouth indulged in a $5,000 Are oa the
7th inst.
A tobacco eating goat is one of the curiosities of this city.
The people of Carlisle are talking abouj;,
starting a new bank.
Another extensive branch has been discovered in Wyandotte cave.
The State Association of Tile-makers will
meet in this city on the 21st inst.
Elkhart has a new city directory, which
makes the population of that place 7,274.
An eagle has been killed near lake Maxin-
kuckee which measured eight feet from tip to
Up.
Joseph Bowers, of Jackson county, with his
six feet eight inches of stature, claims to be
the tallest man in the Btate.
A little son of Solomon Deputy, of Paris,
Jennings county, was instantly killed by a
runaway mule team on the 12th inst.
Sneak thieves are getting to work at Spencer. Several stores have been burglarized, residences entered and barns nearly emptied.
The Greencastle Banner estimates that the
people of Putnam county have a half million
dollars locked np in Indianapolis real estate.
. Wheat never looked better than at present,
Farmers say that with a favorable winter the
crop will be immense.—Richmond Palladium.
Ernest Morris, accompanied by Edward
Zond, of Boston, have sailed for Brazil, to
explore the valley of the Amazon and its
southern tributaiies.
A little daughter of Charles Pendergrass, of
Lawrenceport, Lawrence county, was burned
to death on Monday, 12th inst., by her clothes
igniting attn open fire.
James Dwyer, of Fort Wayne, wa s fatally
injured on the 6th inst., by the breaking of a
shafting In White & Bosker's spoke factory,
where he was employed.
Richmond has a gang of young till-tappers
numbering twelve or fifteen, who have been
making it quite lively for the police and the
merchants for some time.
At the meeting of the Bush Connty Agricultural Society last week the treasurer's report showed the society to be out of debt and
with $500 in the treasury.
It is stated that Father Albrinck, of Cincinnati, stands a very good chance of being ftp-
pointed bishop of Vincennes, he being a favorite of Archbishop Porcell.
The trial of Dick Jones for the killing of
Henry Bteinberger, which waa transferred
from Bartholomew county to Brown, ha* resulted in the acquittal of Jones.
At a meeting of soldiers held in this city on
the 10th inst., the preliminary steps were
taken to have a suitable monument erected to
the memory of Senator Morton.
John Haub, of Seymour, was accidently
shot by his companion on the 7th inst., while
hunting, a full charge of bird shot taking effect in his head, seriously injuring him.
Five hundred and thirty-nine thousand
sure cures for hog cholera exist; yet the porkers are passing to that undiscovered bourne
and porcine diaphragm is getting scarce.
A gang of masked men went through the
house of John Mills, four miles from Fort
Wayne, Saturday night. The family were
kept quiet by the persuasive influence of
cocked revolvers.
In consequence ofthe fearful ravages of hog
cholera, quite a number of Union county farmers and stock raisers are abandoning all efforts to raise and fatten hogs, and have turned
their attention to raising sheep.
Squirrels are said to be in great abundance
in the woods in the south part of the county
One man living near Saline brought to this
City forty, last week, the result of one day's
hunt.—Clay County Enterprise.
Wm. Fallis, of Wabash county, went to his
barn the other day to do his "chores" and
carelessly knocked the ashes from his pipe into the rubbish on the floor. He thinks he can
get a new barn up before ths cold weather
sets in.
A farmer living on the bank of Flat Rock,
who has hogs dying with the cholera, is throwing them into the river. We make this note
forthe benefit of those living below him, who
water their stock in the stream.—Rushville
Republican.
Hon. Chailes H. Test, has overruled the
motion for a new trial in the case of Stephen
Smith, oonvicted of the killing of James Davidson, in Shelby oounty, and passed sentenoe
upon the verdict of twenty-one years in the
State's piison.
Kckomo has a musioal prodigy in the person of little June Heed, daughter of Byron
Reed, aged ten years. She reads the most difficult music and performs on the violin very
skillfully. She lead the orchestra in the opera
house for the last theater.
Judge Jordan, one of the trustees of the
Home of Refuge, reports the oost this year for
educating and supporting the boys is $120 per
head. Last year it was $150, and the year preceding $2C0. It is estimated this amount will
be reduced to $100 per annum.
A serious accident happened on the 12th
inst, at a bam raising about five miles northwest of Greenfield. William Barnard, an estimable citizen, was killed instantly by being
struck on the head by a pole which was being
nsed in the lifiing of the limbers.
Farmers are now wondering what they will
do **j ith their com, as there is not near enough
stock in the country to consume it, and prices
are very low, one gentleman offering to take
twenty cents per bushel, in the field, for all h*
had—nearly 100 acres.—Mooresville (Morgan
Co.j Herald.
GENEBAL NEWS.
Goldsmith Maid is withdrawn from the
turf.
'Nebraska  has 86,191  Sunday-schcol children.
Minnesota has 5,000 lakes, covering 1,500,000
acrea.
A Hendersonville, Tenn., potato weighs 8
pounds.
Maine's apple crop is less than half the usual yield.
American stoves are sold in Japan, Chili
and Germany.
The Texas cattle disease has appeared at
Worcester, Mass.
There are now about fifty cases of small-pox
In Louisville, Ky.
The railroad riots oost New York State $250,-
000 for milita pay.
Japan sent over 16,000,000 pounds of tea to
New York last year.
The 1880 census is expected to show 47,000,-
000 people in this country.
Large qnanties of grain are being shipped
from New Orleans to Europe.
The Moffat liquor register will yield $1,000,-
000 annual revenue to Virginia.
Heavy shipments  of produce were made
last week from Boston, per English steamers.
There   are    thirteen    German    Catholic
churches within the limits of New York
City.
Tiffin,- Ohio, supplies the world with 5,000
churns and 40,000 dozen washboards per annum.
The heavy rains throughout Texas have
decreased the cotton crop by at least one-
third.
One hundred and twenty thousand children have been made orphans by the India
famine.
The low price of potatoes leads to extensive
shipments to the West Indies and to South
America.
Grass thirty feet high is said, by a Texas
paper, to grow on the banks of the San Marcos river.
The number of idle men in the anthracite
coal regions of Pennsylvania is estimated at
over 40,000.
A bill has been introduced in the House to
admit women to practice in all courts of the
United States.
The reduction in the publio debt during
October was nearly four and a quarter millions of dollars.
Mr. Charles Delane, for thirty-one years editor of the London Times, retires on a pension
of $10,000 a year.
The estimated yield of metals in Califor nia
and Oregon for this year is, gold $33,000,000,
silver $27,000,000.
A six-story tenement house in Mott Street,
New York, contains ninety-nine families,
numbering in all 500 persons.
There are eight hundred and eleven railroads in the United States, of which only one
hundred and ninety-six pay dividends.
The entire coffee crop of the world last year
was 900,000,000 pounds, fully one-third of
which was consumed in the United States.
The Pope's physician is reported to be alarmed at the increasing weakness of his holiness, and a medical consultation is now being
held..
Spain has expended over $200,000,000 in trying to put down the Cuban rebellion. She
would have sold the island for half that sum.
The Agricultural departmental Washington, estimates the present wheat crop at 325,-
000,000 bushels, being an increase of 60,000,000
bushels from last year.
Seven years ago Methodism was first introduced into the dominions of Brigham Young.
Now there are six Methodist churches and 15
Sunday schools in Utah.
The Illinois supreme oourt has decided that
optional transactions on the board of trade
are not unlawful, but that the devices known
as puts and calls are illegal.
During October the receipts of the patent
office at Washington were, with two exception, larger than those of any month since the
establishment of the bureau.
A telegram from Rome says it is believed
that Christmas is the time fixed for the pope
to issue apostolic letters re-establishing the
Catholic hierarchy of Scotland.
Cork is coming into use in Germany as a
filling for winter bed ooverlets, in place of
feathers. It Is said to be not only lighter and
cheaper, but decidedly warmer.
Among tbe children exhibited at the baby
show in Boston, was a girl four and a half
weeks old, and weighing one pound and a
half.   She was apparently in good health.
In one county in Vermont there are 240 deserted farm houses. The farmers have emigrated to other states or removed to the city,
leaving the farms to the hands of strangers.
At Altoona, Fa., three miles of cars are
standing on the tracks, and all are filled with
"scrap" from the ruins of the round-house,
rolling stock, etc., destroyed by the Pitttburg
rioters.
A horse epidemic is prevalent at Port Republic, N. J. Five hundred horses and mules
have died and swine are now suffering. The
people are killing their hogs in order to save
the meat.
It is stated by New York physicians that the
general prevalence of diphtheria is due in a
great degree to the gas which is thrown off
from coal stovee in rooms where there is defective ventilation.
The Keith paper mill, at Turner's Falls,
Mats, was burned on the 7th inst. Loss,
$300,000, insurance $265,000. The mill had a
capacity of five tons of paper per day, and gave
employment to 300 hands.
■ The petroleum trade of this country has attained to enormous proportions, and there Is
scarcely a civilized spot on the face of the habitable globe to which this cheapest of all illuminators is not now shipped.
During the past year there were registered
in the United States 4,500.000 letters, or one
for every ten.persons. Only one in every 5,000
of these letters was lost, and even of the lost
many were afterwards recovered and sent
either to their proper destination or back to
the writer.
. A refrigerator car, so arranged that thirty
carcasses can be hung up, as in shambles and
Vpt at a few degrees above freezing point, has
been sent by some Nevada cattle dealers as an
experiment. If It la successful, the dealers
will ship meat to the East, tbe coming fall
and winter.
California farmers are cultivating fig trees
for the sole purpose of raising and fattening
hogs. This fruit contains large quantities of
saocharine matter, hence is very fattening.
The fig tree, once well started, requires little
attention, bears several crops a year, and Is
very prolific.
Benjamin F. Groom, a cattle dealer of Clark
county, Ky., has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $178,548;' assets, $130,270, in
lands and cattle. The various banks of Lexington, Frankfort, Paris and all through the
blue grass region are among the creditors. -.
Additional Premiums for 1878.
The following additional offers of premiums
have been received during the past week, togo
on the Indiana Fabmbb Premium list for 1878,
for our Agents.
Messrs. F. O. Barrett & Son, of Ft. Wayne,
Ind., breeders of fine poultry, offer a fine trio
of Plymouth Rook chickens to go on our premium list.
Dr. I. S. Earheart, of Mulberry, Clinton
county, Ind., places a trio of Light Brahma
chickens on the list, pure stook and valuable
in all respects.
Mr. John Bennett, the well-known poultry
breeder of Sunman, Ind., places agents choice
of either a pair of his best Light Brahmas,
Black Spanish, or Pekin Ducks, on our list of
premiums.
Mr. A. H. McCoy, of Gentryville, Spencer
county, Ind., places one of his flne Berkshire
pigs on our list again. We are assured by
those who have seen his stock th is season that
they are very fine.
Mr. Wm. Aldridge, of New Ross, Montgomery county, Ind.,gives agent's choice of either
a Jersey Red or Poland China pig; one that
will make a fine show animal for the fairs.
This will be a first class pig for some good
agent.
The old and reliable Bickford Kn ittlng Machine Co., of Brattleboro, Verm ont, places a
superb ^manufacturing knitting machine on
our list, a No. 3 machine, price $40. This will
be one of their very beat machines for family
or manufacturing work.
Mr.S. E. Hollingsworth, of Bicknell, Knox
oounty, Ind., gives a valuable premium to our
agents, a fine Poland China pig, agent's choice
cf sex, to be worth $25. His stock are of the
best and most popular strains, and the premium will be a valuable one.
Mr. W. A. Maze, of Sharpsville, Ind., places
one of his best Berkshire pigs on our list. It
will bs a male pig from his celebrated sow
"Peerless," sired by "Dandy Jim," both pure
English Berkshires. The pig will be No. 1,
in every respect, well worth working for.
Mr.P.H. Goodlander, of Wabash, Ind., offers a fine Poland China pig to the agent that
sends the largest club during the winter to the
Fasmib, from Wabash county. Mr. Good-
lander v. ill himself make up a large club, but
will not oompete for his own premium here
offered. Thanks to him for his generosity.
It will be a choice pig.
Messrs. Traugh & Son, of the Remington
Nurseries, Remington, Ind., place agents
chtice ofthe following valuable articles on
our list: Either 10,000 No. 1 Osage plant*, or
100 first class assorted apple trees, or 200 No.
lyearlmg Concord grape vine?, packed and
on board cars. This is a liberal offer from
one of our best narsery firms.
Mr. A. J. Royalty, of the Crawfordsville
Nurseries, Crawfordsville, Ind., places the following excellent premium on our list: Fifty
apple trees, three yeara old, and twenty-five
Conoord grape vines, two years old, to the
agent sending in the largest club from Montgomery county, Ind., or any adjoining county, the trees and vines to be seleeted In person
by the agent receiving the same,
Mr. I. H. Haynes, of Delphi, Ind., places
two good premiums on onr list, as follows:
lst. For the largest club to the Farmeb from
Carroll Co., $10 worth of flrst-class fruit trees.
2d. For the State at large, to successful
agent, a pair of Pekin ducks, or a pair of Dark
Brahma chickens, agent's ohoice. His ducks
and Brahmas took several first premiums at
the late fairs.
Messrs. Todd, Clifford & Co , of Vermillion,
Ohio, places the following splendid premiums
for our agents on our list:
1st. A fine Berkshire sow I ig worth $50.
2d. W. H. Todd", of the same firm, gives a
fine pair of Rouen ducks worth $25. These
are both valuable premiums from well-known
and honorable breeder?, and will be sought
for by our agents.
Mr. J. S. Burgess, of Corydon, Ind., makes
the following handsome offers for premiums :
lit. To the agent in Harmon county, Ind.,
sending to the Fabmkb, the names to be credited to the club Mr. Burges? himself is raising, for a general premium, a Berkshire rig
warranted to give perfect satisfaction.
2d. To the one sending the second largest
club from that county, to be credited the same
way, a pair of Light Brahma chickens. This
is a very liberal offer for that oounty.
Mr. A. C. Harvey, sends us the following
most generous offers for our premium list:
1st. A choice pure bred Berkshire pig, either sex, of the Meredith and Barker strains.
2d. To the grange in Indiana sending the
largest club to the Fabmeb, 303 Monarch or
Chas. Downing strawberry  plants.
3d. To the agent sending the largest club
from Tippecanoe county, Ind., 25 choice apple trees, picked from a nursery of 100,000.
These are choice premiums from an esteemed
friend of the Fakmib.
Mr. Jaccb M. Harshbarger, of Ladoga-
Montgomery county Ind., gives us for success
.fal agents the following handsome premiums:
lst. A male pig out of his finest stock, to
the agent that sends the largest club to the
Fabmkr from Montgomery county, Ind,, the
pig will be ready to deliver -by the lst of July
1878.
2d. A ewe lamb ont qf his finest Leicester
stock, to the agent sending the second largest
club from that county. These are both fine
offers from one of our honorable and well-
known breeders and importers.
Mr. S. H. Todd, of Wakeman, Huron oounty, Ohio, gives us the following handsome premium:
Wakbmaw, Huron Co., O., Nov. 6, '77.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I will donate to the Ihdiana Fabmeb, to offer as a premium, a pair of choice pure Chester White pigs, not akin, to be delivered in
June next on cars at this place. They will
each be out of one of the following sows:
"Lady La Porte," "Old Queen," "Buckeye
Girl," "Wakeman Belle" or "Sallie 2d," all
sows that have acquired an extent ive and unequaled reputation, both as breeders and in
show rings, and one will be sired by my grand
breeding boar, "Chester King," who has not
been beaten this year, and the other by my
noted boar, "Perfection," a hog that weighs
700 pounds, and well sustains his name. The
pigs will be ten weeks old, and worth In cash
$60. Very truly yours,
S. H. Todd.
List of patents granted to residents of
this State. Reported by O. E. Foster, patent solicitor, 509, 7th street, Washington,
D. C, dated Oct. 16, 1877.
J. R. Hall, Oxford, Fence Support.
N. A. Hull, Peru, Table Support.
W. A. Greenleaf, Indjanapolis, Jacks.
J. M. Maddin, Grand View, Insect Killer.
J. H. Edmonson, Valparaiso, Road Scraper.
N. Harris, Xenia, Coffee Roaster.
S. P. Stuart, Greenfield, Churn.
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