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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA DECEMBER 8,1877.
No. 49,
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Lost, Btrayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per liae, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
No better medium could be selected than this department ef the Fam-ib for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor of it when you hear of the loss
of hia stock.
FOR   SALE.
EOR BALE—In order to make room for other
stock,wewUlBeilSflneyearllngbuUs. IwtU
Ventura to say that you cannot find 6 as fine yearling
bulla ln any other herd ln ihe State. Will sell for
part cath, or all cash, 6 or 12 months time. We have
but one price. Alio some find Poland China sows,
old enough to breed, which I will breed to my fine
boar, Beecher, and guarantee to be safe ln pi*. I
can also ship you as tine a boar pig, (old enough for
service, as you can flaa anywhere. Send for pedigrees and prlce>i. Addresa, L. II. AIKMAN, Dana,
Vermillion Co,, Ind. 48-u.
STOCK NOTES.
FOR SALE—My Breeding Berkshire Boar, two
years old, for want o( uso. Is ln prime condition, (Barker's stock) took 1st premium at the Tippecanoe county fair; welghs850,sure getter, desirable every way; cost, 810 at two months old; ls worth
more; will consider offers, or exchange for Jersey
heller calf. Poland Chinas. Please write If you
want him lo A. C. HAKYJ-iY, Lafayette, Ind.
48-3t.
FOR BALE-Three pure Poland China male
pigs, large enough tor service, 810 each; three
tows in .arrow 116 each. Choice pigs out of a
lot of fifty 6 to 12 weeks old at reasonable prices;
only a short time at tne_e reduced prices; satisfaction insured. WILLIAM ALDKIoHB, r*ew Kots,
Montgomery Co., Ind. 49-lt
EOR SALE—Berkshires of the finest breeding, 20
young sowa, pare of them bred; 10 boars old
enoogn for use; 75 pigs from 8 to 12 weeks old, all of
this ttock is to be sold at panic prices. Come and
examine the herd, or write lor what you want to
WM. H. FaLL, Thorntown, Indiana. 48-St.
EOR BALE—A flne lot of pigs, the get of Adonis
1149, and Colonel Humirey 1129, Vol. II, A. B.
Record. Also young sows ln lanow. For prices, etc.,
address W. L.MaJU_OW, New Holland, O.       89-13t
"TT*OR BALE-GOURD SEED CORN at low prices.
JJ satisfaction guaranteed. For full particulars
address F. J. BToVJiK, Deerfield, Lenawee county,
Mich. 47 St
EOR SALE-Peland China and Berkshire pigj,
at reasonable prices,  IB. GILBERT, Lewisville, Ind, 49 4t
F
OR BALE—COLT-Ste- Wanted, M_i« column.
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Mr. J. B. Gilbert, of Lewisville, Ind.,
has lately bought "Perfection Chief," a
handsome male Poland China yearling,
from William Hankenson, which he will
place at the head of his herd this winter.
Mr. Gilbert has, the past season, grown
the Brazilian artichoke, with success, and
finds them good feed for his hogs.
Mr. Jas. Mustard, of Broad Hippie,
near this city,has just brought home the
fine male Poland China, which he
bought of Mr. Orton, of Cambridge, 111.,
at the Illinois State Fair. This is one of
the finest Poland Chinas we have seen in
a good while. He possesses great vitality,
and has admirable hams, and is otherwise well proportioned. He is of the
Bismarck strain, and we understand will
go at the head of the herd.
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Shelbyville, Ind , Nov. 24,1877.
Editors of Indiana Farmer:
I have just sold to James Midkiff, of
Shelby county, sis very fine Essex hogs
lor breeders. Friend M. is a good farmer
and knows a good pig when he sees it.
He has given the White Oil corn a fair
trial during the past two seasons and pro
nounces it a humbug.
Wheat generally looks well. Corn was
a fair crop. Fruit almost an entire failure, H. F. Hornaday.
WANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
Btock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and fine family Bibles.   Address J. W.
Lanktree A Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind,
10-lyU8»)
WANTED—Farms for % cash, and Land in Neosho Valley, Kansas, see before trading. Cheap
travel furnished.   M. ARBUCKLE, 74 East Market
Street- 87-13t
WANTED—Farms of all sizes to trade for city
property. Will take encumbrance. A, M.
ALEXANDER, 2% West Washington 8t, over "Bee
Hive," IndianapoUs, Ind. _0-62t
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YY     Tarpaulin,  Wagon Covering,  Waterproof
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CHAS. THATCHER. 49 It.
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YY     Bmall quantities.   TUCKER & DORSEY, 15
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"TTTANTED—To buy, or sell, a black horse colt.
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48-2t
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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 flill description of the different breeds. Price
26 cents. Seed wheat; aU the best varieties, g.6wn
especially for seed. Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce,'radish, spinach, and all seeds for
the fall. Prickly Comfrey, the most wonderful forage plant, setts "HOO per 1U0; 50 cents extra by mall.
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Indianapolis, Ind. 42-tf
JOSEPH POOL,Greensburg, Ind.,offers80 pairs
of very fine Bufl Cochin Chicks, early birds,
at very reasonable prices. All bred from Young
Victor, the prince of Chicago show, Feb. 1877, scoring 98 points. *8tf.
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Meteorological Summary for tbe Month
of November, 1877,
Highest barometer, 30.528. Novembor 6. Lowest
*baroT__eter,**_4.,35f7,November M. Difference of barometer, l.JU.
Highest temperature, SI, November 14. Lowest
temperature, 9, November 80. Difference of temperature, 6i
Prevailing direction of wind, west
Greatest velocity of wind, 34 miles per hour, November 2 and 5.
Total number of miles, 8.462.
Number of fair days, 6. Number of clear days,
7. Number of cloudy days, 18. Number of days
on which rain or snow fell, 18 Total ram fall, 364.
Comparative temperatures—1871.80.1872.86; 1873,
87.05; 1874, 43.4; 1875, 40.05; 1878, 41.03; 1377, 43 09.
(Jompaiattve precipitation—1871,8.51 lncaes; 1871,
0,80 Inches; 1873,2.46 inches; 1874,2 48 inches; 1875,
3.0i Inches; 1876,2.26 inches; 1877,2 64 inches.
A Paper tor Young People.—The Youth's Com.
ponton of Boston employs the same writers as the
best English and American magiz'Jies, and no other publication for the family furnishes so much
entertainment and instruction ot a anpjrior order
tot co low a price. Among its contributors are
Dinah Muloch crahc, Mias Yosge, J. T. Trow-
I BMDQE, LorjBA M. ALOOIT, H-.KRY W. LOHQPELLOW,
! w*. Cui_u__r Bryant, John G. Whittier, and near"
I ly fifty of the best story writers.
Sales.
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Wm. A, Macy, of Lewisville; Ind., has
recently made sales of Poland Chinas
to the following parties: W. C. Williams,
Henry Co.; Wm. Wallace, Fayette Co.;
M. H. Mills, (three) Boone Co; F. W.
Thomas, Henry Co.; D. McCorkle, Rash
Co.; Samuel Pitts, Rash Co.; D. W. Slo-
niker, Delaware Co.; H. C. Castle, Wilmington, 111.; James Kiser, Wayne Co.;
W. L. Marsh, Johnson Co.
"Hoosier Prince" is doing well; looking
much better than at State Fair. From
inquiries about stock, I find "Prince"
stands high among hog raisers. I have a
black pig from him that is making as
fine a hog as I ever saw.
Nov. 26,1877. Wm. A. Macy.
The Best Breed of Horsei for All Purposes.
Indianapolis, Nov. 26,1877.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Farmers and stock growers in the West
are beginning to agitate the question as to
the best breed of horses for the farm, the
road and the market. This is a question of
great importance and requires careful consideration, good judgment and experience.
The light road horse, the fast and fancy
horae has proved unprofitable in a general way, and now a change must be made
in the stock or breed used; and, consequently the. question arises which of the
many heavy draft horses offered is the best.
We have the French nor man, the English
draft, and the Clydesdale "Scotch." In
this communication I only propose to offer my own views and opinions as to which
of the three prominent breeds I consider
the most useful and available for all purposes, giving my reasons for such opinions,
and then leave the question for others to
comment upon.
The pure French Norman horse possesses
many valuable qualities. He is a cross
of the small, active Arabian horse with the
large coarse Norman mare. If pure, the
Norman will show his fine Arabian blood
in his dished face, broad forehead and intelligent eye. He has Bhort limbs, heavy
quarters, and is a quick stepper and a
horse ol great endurance. Napoleon used
this horse for army Purposes, and it will
be remembered that the French cavalry
have always been the best mounted of
any nation. This breed is used exclusively by the omnibus companies of Paris,
and to haul the heavy Diligence French
coach of Europe. Six of these horses working three abreast, will haul a Diligence
that will weigh five tons when loaded,
twelve miles an hour. They are driven
upon the run,'and have been known to last
twenty years at Diligence work. The English draft horse is a short limbed, heavy
quartered horse, generally of good color
and disposition but without action or courage. His build is for work before the cart,
and it requires years of crossing down before a colt .' is reached that can
be of afay use other than for
hauling the cart at a slow pace.   The
Scotch Clydesdale horse is a monster of
flesh and bone. He will weigh from 1500
to 2400 pounds. He is slow, but of more
action than an English draft horse.
The Clydesdale is a long limbed horse and
in most cases is lacking in his quarters, the
fore too heavy and the hind too light, or the
reverse in height, he is far above the Norman or the English draft horse. At the first
glance the Clydesdale has the appearance
of being a short, low, heavy animal, but
when the measuring pole is placed beside
him he is found to be from 16} to 18 hands
high. This horse, upon careful examination, will be found to be a monster upon
stilts, therefore the only conclusion that I
can arrive at, taking into consideration
that the ordinary mare of this country is
of the light quartered, long limbed breed
it is absolutely necessary if the horse for
the farm, the road, and the market is wanted without waiting for years to cross down
from the clumsy heavy draft horse we must
use the horae that has the least day light
under him and possessing the greatest action and endurance. In the States of
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
the French Norman horse has been used
for stock purposes for the past twenty
years, the English draft and Scotch Clydesdale horse was obliged to give way to the
Norman, and the result is, the finest horae
f ireveryuse in this country is found inthe
three States mentioned. The most e'.e- j
gant and highest priced coach horses in
America are to be found in tbe city of
New York, and in nine cases out of ten
they are direct descendants from Louis
Napoleon, a Norman horse, imported into
New Jersey twenty-five years ago by a
gentleman, a resident of tbat Btate. I j
have never seen but one pure Norman
horse in Indiana, he was here but a short
time, was offered for sale but did not find
a buyer, and was returned East.
Experience is the best of teachers, and
the only true test, and the twenty-five
years of experience of the Eastern farmers
and stock growers with the French Norman horse, resulting as it has in the exclusion of all other heavy stock horses, is a
lesson that the farmers of the West can
learn to great profit.      J. R. Robinson.
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Jerseys as Profitable Cows.
From an article on the above subject,
in the last number of the Monthly Bulletin,
of the American Jersey cattle club, by R.
Goodman, of L-jnox, M*ss., we make the
following extract:        .     •
Among E-ig'iish landlords it is an
axiom that no rents are so well paid as
those of the dairy farms; and with us
who are our own landlords, it is pretty
certain, that under ordinary circumstances, butter-dairying pays a good return on the amount invested, and that
the makers of gilt-edged butter will
always have a good and profitable occupation, for they will continue to be, like
angels' visits, few and far between, and
the demand for and consumption of the
A I article will exceed the supply, as it
at present does. The price of very first
class butter has advanced much more in
our cities than any other agricultural
produce, and now that the "travelled,"
whose taste has been cultivated butter-
wise abroad, find an equally good article
at home, and those remaining at home
have got educated to enjoy a fine quality,
the demand is largely and constantly increasing, and even our hotels are getting
to be as particular as to their brands of
butter as of wines, hams, and other superior potables and edibles.
The first essential point in the establishment of a butter-dairy is to have a
good breed of cows, and it is settled beyond all peradventure that the Jerseys
are for this purpose especially adapted,
and no intelligent breeder of other milch
cows any longer disputes this. Of course
there are other essentials to the production of a good grade of butter; which are
apt to be overlooked by ordinary farmers
and dairymen, but taken into account by
those who make an article for castomers
paying the highest prices—suck as propsr
Buildings and implements, skillful dairymaids, utmost cleanliness, right kind of
food, not alone for production of largest
flow of milk, but to increase, if possible,
its quality, color and flavor; but as I am
not treating of butter-making mainly,
but of the adaptation of Jersey cows to it,
they need not here be further enquired
into. Most farmers find it difficult during
the midsummer to produce from the
milk of ordinary cows, butter of sufficient
solidity and firmness, and turn their attention to cheese-making. During the
two last summers, which were unusually
dry and hot, I found the demand for butter from my Jt.r=ey herd uuuaually great
for this reason, and, on inquiry among
the surrounding butter-makers, found
that only those having a dairy of Jersey
cows, in whole or in part, could make at
that season of the year, a grade of butter,
such as city customers desired.
Another strong point of the Jersey as a
profitable cow is her persistency as a
milker. Very few cows yield a profit on
eight months' milking, and yet it is the
usual custom in the country to dry them
off at that period, often because their
owners don't like to milk in cold weather,
oftener because a large calf is desired to
capitalize the beginning of the agricultural year with, and full as often because
the rural community, though keen
enough in certain details, is not given
to large considerations, and does not
take into account the factor of liberal and continued feeding during
two months  beyond the  eight in the
bountiful production of milk and conse
quent profit. A cow thus early dried off
establishes the habit for herself and progeny, and remains on a dairy farm at
least an unprofitable animal. The Jerseys/ on the contrary, .breeding early,
continue, under good management, persistent milkers, many drying off with
difficulty before calving, and become
more profitable at the end of this year
than at any other period during it.
Finally, as the "small Alderneys" of
half a century ago throve upon grass
"upon which a Yorkshire cow would
starve," so the Jerseys of the present day
will "get along" upon as little and poor
feeding as any scrub of the roadside and
do more for their owner in the production of butter. I don't know any one,
pretending to be a decent dairy farmer,
having a poorer pasture than I, and my
kine have suffared under, for several
years—though it is now being cleared of
stone, ploughed and prepared for a first-
class cow feeder hereafter—and it has
had to be supplemented with corn-fodder
and rowen most of the season—never any
grain, except some seasons a quart or
two of wheat middlings per cow, and it
has been a source of wonder and pi .asura
to see how these indefatigable providers
will manage to eat enough to produce
the amount of butter they yield.
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Agricultural Progress in Allen County.
W. A. Kelsey, Esq., of Aboite township,
and one of the Trustees of the Agricultural
Society of this county, obtained, with a
very little trouble, over fifty subscribers
to the Indiana Farmer, most of whom it
is said, reside in that township, and immediate vicinity. No. wonder Aboite township farmers win such a large share of pre
miums at our county fairs. Mr. Kelsey
is a very enterprising farmer, and took
the premium for the best herd of Berkshire hogs at the last fair. He ought to
prize his diploma highly, for a finer show
of hogs than was exhibited at our fair last
fall is rarely'Seen at any State fair.
A stalk, of corn fifteen feet high, containing two large ears thoroughly ripened,
is still on exhibition at the Agricultural
rooms, and drew large crowds of farmers
who were attending court last week, which
shows what draining will do. It is the
same corn that was exhibited at the fair
this fall, and was grown on the drained
marsh of Mr. W. F. Ray, in the southeast
part of this township.—Ft. Wayne Gazette.
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Breeding and Training Colts.
Mr. M. W. Dunham, of Illinois, an extensive importer of Perche and Norman
horses, in a letter to Wallace's Monthly
thus describes the humane treatment be
stowed upon colts while in training in that
portion of France specially devoted to this
industry.
"The division of the sexes in Perche differs from most countries where horses are
raised.   One section has the mares and
Ereduces the colts, while another section
uys and raises them. No matter what
may be the class to which she belongs,
light or heavy, or partaking of both, the
mare is expected to breed every year. If
barren, she is sold. This fault continuing,
she passes into public use. During her
gestation she works const int'y. A few
days' rest before and after foaling is the
only time lost.   The remainder of her work
Eays abundantly for keep and interest on
er cost. At the age of five or six months,
the colt is abrubtly weaned and sold. Led
into the interior upon the fertile meadows,
it remains one year unproductive. In
winter it is fed on hay, and during the fine
Beason turned into the field to graze. To
sum up, it is rather poorly nourished on
bran, grass, or hay. The reason is, that
it is yet unproductive to its master, and
it feels the effect. Wait a little. Its hardest time has gone by; and work will soften
its lot. It reaches, in this manner, the age
of fifteen to eighteen months. At this age
the colt is put to work. Naturally docile,
in the hands of a maa always patient and
kind, the training is generally easy. Assigned to farm labor, the colt ploughs or
draws a wagon. Harnessed with four or
five colts of its own age, together they pull
what would be an easy load for two good
horses. Put before oxen or joined to three
of its companions, the young animal
ploughs, and is never overworked. Now
it is fed better, and receives better care.
Its morale improves, and its master seems
to delight in contemplating the progress
and development of the desirable qualities.
Master, servant, large and small, all deeply imbued with the love ofthe horse, unite
in this work with admirable skill. Thus
in traveling through Perche, one involuntarily stops in the middle of the fields to
see the colt work, never tired of admiring
the vigor it displays and the gentleness
with which it is treated. At the age of
three, the Beauce farmer buys the colt to
work his soft and light soil. For him the
young animal must be preserved intact, its
development uninjured, nay, encouraged.
The colt has thus been worked one year,
abundantly fed, but supplied with little
or no grain. Doing enough light work to
pay its keeping, the master has received
enough besides the mannre to pay a heavy
interest on the cost of the colt. The primitive work, which would have been injurious under careless management, is, on the
contrary, bene'ficial so long as the colt is
in the hands of a good master. This is so
much the general case, that the contrary
is the exception. The animal grows and
becomes better developed in size and
strength than if not worked."
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Stale JTewa.
Wild geese are plenty near Rochester.
Rockville has a colored lodge of Good Templars.
Lafayette will establish a public soup-house
for the poor.
Large numbers of fiae shad are being caught
In the Ohio river.
Warrick countv has the finest jtll in the
State.   It cost $15.000.
Frank 8heets, of if ooresville, fell upon a buzz-
saw, and sacrificed his good   arm.
Fanners throughout Laporte county are
losing mnch oorn by thieving tramps.
The work of rebuilding the Soldiers' Home,
near Knightstown, is progressing rapidly.
The total cost of keeping up our benevolent institutions last year reaches $505,-
227.
Park, county farmers have lost fully $25,-
000 worth of hogs, by cholera.—Rockville Tribune.
The New Albany people have succeeded,
after a hard fight, in closing the saloons on
Sunday.
Hog cholera still rages near Fair-
mount, and in some other parts of Grant
oounty.
Indiana now has the largest school fund of
any other .state in th« Union, It being $8,-
870,872 43.
DavidFoster, aged 70 years, the founder of
Kokomo, and the first white settler in Howard
county, died last week.
Charles Bruce, of Fisher*>bttrg, attempted to
make a pot- hot on a covey ofqiails, and tore
his good bird dog all to smithers.
James Hart, of Warrick county, is charged
with using for his own behalf the pension money of his minor brothers-in-law.
Henry Frous, of Laporte, anticipated
Thansgi-fing by getting drunk, and from
to death Wednesday evening, Dec. 28th.
Wat Bosworth, a notorious bummer and
gambler of Terre Haute, fell dead la a saloon
in that city on tha night of Dec. 28th.
The Booneville coal merchants have had
a war ia prices, and consumers now buy coal
there at 5_ cents for lump and Si cents for
nut.
Our corn elevators are running night
and day, and still they can't make room
for corn aa fast as i* oomes ia.—Greenfield
Democrat.
A Mr. Elder, of Etna Green, was out duck
shooting, and ia discharging his piece the
breech blew out, fatally lacerating his face and
breaking hisskuU.
The prospect of the Ohio being bridged at
Evansville is f ivorab'e. The project is eliciting
the consideration and assistance of the influential men of the city.
The Seoond National bank of Lafayette
closed on Wednesday in consequence of the
defalcation of its cashier, Chas. T. Mayo, to the
amountof about $60,000.
John Wiser, a well-known farmer of Black,
ford county, while chopping down a tree,
Dec. 30th, was struck on the head by a falling
limb, killing him instantly.
The folly of supervisors grading roads in
the fall, or any other season, faster than they
spread gravel on the grade, is now superlatively apparent.—Danville Union.
The body of Charles Wright has been stolen
from thaL ndenwood cemetery, Fort Wayne,
whare it was interred, the 28th. The cemetery
company will pay $1,000 to find out who
stole it.
Based upon recent advices, our pork packers announce that the receipt of hogs this
season In this city will be one-half larger
than the whole number of any previous
season.
Fort Wayne claims to have four gambling
establishments in full blast near the
police-station. This makes it handy for
the police who may be of a speculative turn of
mind.
Mrs. Litxie Potter, of Richmond, committed
suicide on the SOth ult., by taking a
large dose of morphine. The cause: unfaithfulness of her husband, who is a common gambler.
W. H. Bolinger, jr., who resides near Shelbourne, Sallivan countyv went gunning, and
climbing a stump pulled his gun up by the
muzzle, which accounts for that ugly hole in
his shoulder.
■ Edward Holmes, of S vaun, while working
on theroof of ahou<elsst weefc, was by some
means thrown to the ground. H. was picked
up inien.ible, and disd In a short time from
internal injuries.
On Wednesday evening, 27th, ult., a daughter of O. P. Jacobs, of Warsaw, let a lamp fall
causing it to explode. She was fatally burned,
and her father suffered severe iojaries while
trying to assist her. •
Apart of tha hands on the railraod work
train attempted to " take" the town of
Bloomington the other night, while on a
spree. They now mourn over their.folly while
breaking stone on the street.
A young man namsd James Lahue, of
Bioo..iDgdale, while oat huating the other
d_y, attempted to scare the game out of a
bruih pile by punchiig in it with the breech
of his gun. The funeral took place the next
day.
John Sidenwalter, of Michigan City, was
assisting in killing a hog on Wednesday, the
28th ult., when the animal In its struggles
knocked the knife from his hand in such a
manner that it struck his leg with great force,
severing the femoral artery. He bled to death
in a short time. •
The revenue officers complain that, though
repeatedly warned, many farmers continue to
retail their leaf tobacco. Farmers generally would do well to rememb3r that itis a
violation of law to retail leaf tobacco, or manufacture cigars even for their own use, without first paying the special taxes required of
dealers and manufacturers.
GENERAL NEWS.
Moody and Sankey are working now at
Hartford, Ct.
Connecticut has cribbed the biggest com
crop in 20 years.
American gold pens are exported to all parts
of the civilized world.
In the past 18 months 2,000 liquor saloons
in New York have closed.
Spain has a population of 15,000,000, and
12,000,000 of its people cannot read.
Last week two million bashels of wheat
were sh'pped from New York to England.
Only twenty-seven persons have announced
their candidacy for Governor of Tennessee.
Ohio has 381,0o0 acres of apple orchards,
and raised this year 15,000,000 bushels of
applos.
The British and German governments are
making the telephone part of their telegraph
system.
The Lutheran church in Beaver city, Pennsylvania, has an oil well on its premi.es, and
the flow is now sufficient to pay all the church's
expenses,
The national woman suffrage association
has called a sixteenth amendment convention
of all woman suffrage associations of the
United States, to be held in Washington, January 8, 1878
In   central   Georgia the  annual average •
cost per head of keeping sheep is fifty-four
cents; average cost of  raising a pound  of
wool, six cents.
The fishery cotmiia.ion appointed to decide
the matter of dispute between the United
States and great Britain, gave their decision,
awarding Great Britain $5,500,000.
Fifteen banks and eighteen insurance com-
pauiesin Chicago hava gone to ruin within
a few years. Nearly all these were swindles,
yet not one of the officers has been punished.
Henry Blackman, of Birmingham, Mich.,
had a quarrel with his mother aud sister,
which resulted ia his shooting and killing
(hem both, and setting fire to the house and
barn. He is no win jul.
The smart farmer cannot afford to
subscribe for a newspaper, but he can come to
town and pay fjurteen dollars for a fifteen
cent watch when ths tearful auctioneer declares
it the property of a poor widow.—Courier-
Journal.
Additional Premiums for 1878.
The following have been received since date
of last i.sue, to swell the number of premiums
to the agents of the Faemee :
Mr. J. H. Farron, of Bainbridge, Ind., furnishes us with a fine male Poland-China pig,
from 3 to 5 months old.
Mr. J. B. Gilbert, of Lewisville, Ind., gives
a handsome premium, consisting of a Poland-
China male pi_;, and a Berkshire female pig.
This will certainly be a valuable premium for
some active agent.
A St. Joseph combined Seed and Plaster
S jwer, worth $50,00, will be given to the agent
sending the largest club from Ohio, of not lees
than 25 subscribers. This implement is very
highly esteemed by all who are using them,
and are destined to come into general use.
A No. 8 Star Feed Cutter, worth $35,00, is
also placed on our list, to go to the agent in
Ohio Bending the 2ad largest club before April
to the Fabkie. This valuable and well known
cutter recommends itself, and in it some
agent will get a valuable premium.
Messrs. F. 0. Barrett & Son, of Fort Wayne,
lad., give another premium; this one to the
agent in DeKalb co., Ind., who sends the largest list to the Faemee from that county a
pair ofhis excell nt light Brahma fowls.
Mr. Sol. Beard,: 69 West Market St., this
city, agfnt of the Siaex Plow Co , Richmond,
Ind., places a three-horse sttel plow, and one ■
of Fredericks' 2 and 3 horse Draft Equalizers,
all worth $25, on our list for a premium. This
will e bv superb premium for some  good
agent. _____»_-_	
Atcenta  Wanted.
To sell our new ihdexkd Railway, County
and Township Map of Indiana. It absolutely
locates every village and hamlet in the 8-ate,
giving school census of 1877. Address Rahd,
McNallt & Co., Map Publishers,   Chicago.
It.
Thi KirriBPiss Hotel—On Massachusetts
Avenue, between DeHware and Alabama S'.s.,
is a well kept hotel, aad our readers who stop
her., will find go-id fare md reasonable ra*es,
Oarreaders who may want to learn about
the Far West, are referred to tbe advertisement of the Kansas Farmer, an old estab'ished
and popular j rarnal ia the West. It is published at the Capital of the State.
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