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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, DECEMBER 15 1877.
No. 50.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 oents.
Mo better medium could be selected than this department of the Farmeb for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor ol it when you hear of the low
of his stock.	
AUK   SALK.
SELKctHiRES FDR SALE—The undesigned
hare for sale near PI,infield, Hendricks, Co.,
, 80 first cists pits, nearly ail sired br Imported
"Canada John" Pi ice 515 each or $25 per pair.
6 young boars old enot.gh for service. Price 120 each.
10 fine young sows—gilts—to be bred to "Canada
John" ln December and January. Price 125. Tobe
deliver, d aftei breeding. Imported "Canada John"
Will also be offered for sale after January. Price
ISO. Hols a Hie breeder. Also fine, nicely-bred
joung Short-Horns for e.le. Correspondence solicited. CHARLES LO W DER & BON:..
Not. 17th, 1677. 16-eow-tf
T7.0R SALE—In order to make room for other
JD ttotk.TevilllBell6__ne yearling bulls, lwlll
venture to say that you cannot And 6 as fine yearling
bulls ln any other herd in ihe ttate. Will tell for
part ca-h, or all cash, 6 or 12 monthstiixe. We havo
bet one price. Alto une find Polaid china sows,
old *nough to breed, v hlth I will breed to my flne
boar, BetcheT, and tiuarantee to be tafe ln pig. I
can also ship you as fine a boar pig, (old enough for
ter-r.ee. as ycu can fiud anywhere. Sena for pedigrees and price*. Acdress, L. H. AlEMAN, Diiia,
Vermillion Co,, Ind. *8-_t.
Ec
flOR 8ALB-Ten Imported Clydesdale Stadlons,
_«J weighing from 1860 lbs to a'1.0 lbs; one three-
<_uarter biood weighs 1«W lbs., woula trade one of
the in.potted bUunuus as first payment on a small
farm. A litter of Hh.pheid pups from Watty j!
Meg, Centennial piizo winner.; u.e bett Shepherd
dog. in America apply to WM. Mt!._KLE,.Pen-
Oltton, Madison Co , Ind. 60-5t
TTIOR SALE—My Bteedlrg Berkthire Boar, two
_C years old, for want ot use. Is ln prime con-
oition, (Barker's stock! took 1st prcmli._nat ine Tippecanoe county tali; weighs*!60,sure geiter, desirable eveiy way; coat, (40 at two months old; is worth
more; will consiOtr oliers, or exchange lor Jersey
heller calf, Poland Chinas. Please write if you
want him ro A. V. HAM VJB.Y, Lalayette, Ind.
  <Mt
*Tj.OR SALE—Plymouth Rocks. The result of
JC this, my secondstason niihthetn, gives me
great tatistacilon. I have taken first ana teoond
premiums wherever shbWB. I breed from two
strains, the teet ln tha United btates.
Choice chiciia lor sale at reasonable prices.  Eggs
at 13,00 per dosen.
DAVID DOUGLASS,
EO-.t Plainfleld, Indiana.
*"|"**-,ORBAI_E—A Bhelbj Co.,'Ky., farm of 167 acrea
Jj of good land 7 miles north west of ehelbyviile,
1 ulle ln,m chestnut (iiove, 28 trom Lonls ville. A
good brick cottage containing 5 rooms and all nee-'
etaaiy outbuildings, on a good turnpike road, good
i ehool ln one miie, convenient to churches. For
price and further particulars address me at ehelby-
TUlftKy.      M. M. PATiB. 10 4.
*T7.0R HALE—6 Jersey Hulls from 4 to SO months
JC old, Including Jason, No. 876 that took first
piemium at the li. dlana state fair, *77; ol» purs
Jersey HUtlT, one *Sg, one a, will be ,"re-jn during
the winter and spring. Eor partlculals, addreta, T.
J.JOHlSUOM.GresiJCaetle, lua. BO-it
TTtOR Ss Li—At Beech Farm Poultry Tarda a few
JD choice L ght and Utile. Brahmas, Buff, Partridge, and Bls.cu Cochins at tl to 13 each. White
Holland turkeys, $4, each; Bronze turaeyB, $3. Satisfaction guaranteed. M.T. KKI.1KT, Rloomlng-
due, Far ie Co., Ind. 5o-4t
"CT*IOR SALE—Berkshires of the finest breeding, 20
_C young sows, part tf them bred; 10 boars old
enough for use; 76 pigs Irom 8 to 12 weeks old, all of
this stock Is to be suld at panic prices. Come and
examine the herd, or write :or what you want to
JVM. H. FaLL, Thorntown, Indiana. _S-5t.
*t_*>OR SALE—A fine lot of pigs, the get of Adonis
JC 114», and Colonel Hundley 1129, Vol II, A. B.
Record. Ai_o young tows in lanow. For prices, etc.,
address W. UMaIuaIW, flewHoiland.o.       S9-liSt
TT'.OR SALE—Pekin Drakes, fine as lhaveEeen
_E .2e«.cnit taieuscon. JO.-EPttL.BiiEN'I-<jN,
Peterstiurgn, PUo Co., Ind. 50-
*T7.OR SALE—Poland China and Berkshiie pigs,
Jj at reatJon&Dle prices, L B. ULLtU-Rl', Lewis-
-rnie, ma. ia it
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Opeiatots at thu BijautjSttnuU.il Business College
and Telegraph institute, 44 South Meridian street,
kemtmber the place, as an ln.enor school ls advertised under our college name. Address K. SIMMONS A CO., proprietor, Indianapolis, Ind.   S'J-13t
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to 175 per month can be earned ln ten to twelve
Weeks. Address, with stamp ior circulars, INDIANAPOLIS TELEGRAPH INaTiTOTE, Bates Block,
opposite J-cttofhce. 42tf
**\1/AN1KD AUKNTS—Just published. A fine
VV ctayon portrait of »k_i.tj_k Mobtom, Mo
better oppoitunlty to make mouey. Sell at sight.
Price 75u- San, pie copy aent onrtcelptof 50c. Address Star Union PuUishma Co.,119 Lite St., Chicago,
Illlnola. .      60-U
WANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
Stock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and fine family Bibles.   Address J. W.
Lanktree jStCo., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
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*TT7*ANTED—Farms of all siaes to trade for city
VV    property,   will take encumbrance.   A, M.
ALEXANDER, 2X West Washington at, over "Bee
Hive," Indianapolis, Ind. 20-521
w
ANTED—To buy walnut lumber ln large or
■mail quantities.   TUCEER A DORSEY, 15
Bates Block, Indianapolis, Ind. 42-ly
WANTED-Farmers to bny Tarpaulin, Wagon
Covering,  Waterproof   Horse Covers, tto.,
at 78 North Delaware Street.   CHA8. THAI CHEF.
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 tancy potiltry; ficest,
new breeder's manual, elegantly Illustrated and
giving full description of the different breeds. Price
& cents. Seed W heat; all the best varieties, grown
especially for seed. Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, spinach, and all seeds for
the fall. Prickly Comfrey, the most wonderful forage plant, setts MOO per KO; 50 cents extra by mall.
8eed catalogue free. BENSON, BURPEE A CO.,
223 church street, Philadelphia, Pa. 88-ly
YOUNG MAN I Do yon want a lucrative situation ln buslnestT If so, attend the old reliable Indianapolis Business College, Bates Block,
opposite tbe roslofflce, In same building ln which
the Indiana Farmer is published. Address, with
stamp for circulars, etc, K.OERNER A GOODIKR,
Indianapolis, Ind. 42 tf
JOSEPH POOL, Greensburg. Ind., offers SO pairs
of very flne Buff Cochin Chicks, early birds,
at very reasonable prices. All bred from Young
Victor, the prince of Chicago show, Feb. 1877, .coring 93 points. 48-tf.
TO LOAN—Money on improved farms at 8,9 and
10 per cent. Money furnished promptly. RUD-
. DELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, 3 Vinton Block, In-
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STOCK NOTES.
What Causes Hog Choleral
Editors Indiana Farmer :
Brother farmers,—I say "Brother farmers," because I hare a little farm oyer
here in Montgomery county and try to
farm a little because I love the business.
But I am a praotcal .mechanic, raised so
from my eai liest recollection, and having
been taught that people with two ears and
one tongue should hear twice as much as
they say, I haye been trying to profit by
the reading of others. Having been a constant reader of the Farmer for nearly
three years I hope you will bear with me
if I attempt to say a little, not in the way
of experience but as a suggestion, for I
have not found out by all my reading who
has the experience. What I wish to say
is concerning
THE DISEASE OF THE HOO, ITS PROBABLE
CAUSE AND REMEDY.
First, to forcibly illustrate this matter
in short; if a community of farmers were
to plant and raise corn, gather and ship it
out ofthe country for a successive number
of years, they would impoverish their land
to such an extent that corn would not
grow, no matter what quality or grade of
seed they planted and for such an unwise
course they would invite and justly receive the condemnation of every public
journal in the land.
Now, how is it about the crop of hogs
annually grown ond shipped to Indianapolis, Louisville and Chicago, from my own
neighborhood. Others ship to other cities
I know not where, neither do I know the
amount or quality of the substance shipped away, but in my ignorance I argue
that if you can impoverish your farm and
unfit it for raising grain without supplying the necessary substance to keep up and
produce that grain, why not do so by continually shipping the hog?
If any one has found this to be a fact,
why haa he not cautioned us through the
Farmer of the trouble we were running
into? Or why has he not told us that if
we expect to follow up the business of
raising and shipping hogs successfully, that
we must supply our farms with the material necessary to the growth and well being of the hog, even if we have to ship
from other sources.
I feel confident that my farm has not
the proper salts of lime in sufficient quantities to produce the bone structure of 50
hogs a year, still I can raise corn enough
to easily fatten that number and I think
many of my neighbors have some difficulty. Now how can this salts of lime be
supplied with success?
I think if a good chemist was brought
to our aid, we might probably banish
cholera, or at least so far remove the cause
that the effects would be light. I should
like to have an adult hog that was adjudged perfectly healthy, analyzed, also another that had died with the cholera and.,
the results carefully compared and see
what the healthy one had that was lacking in the other; also a portion of the soil
where the hog was raised, and a portion of
the soil where the cholera hog was grown
and see what one soil had that the other
had not.^ I believe we would find much
variation, hence the different features of
the disease. No matter what form it assumes we want to know the cause, and
then we could find a remedy. Some ofour
people believe cholera to be cont.gcous; I
do not; for how is it that some farms have
it while all the adjoining ones are free ?
I think that some cf tte constituents that
go to make up a good hog are lacking, or
nave been exhausted on those farms. Now
if the trouble was with my boiler, engine,
saw mill, planer or other machinery, I
could tell considerable about it and go to
work and remedy the defect, but you already know I am no farmer by my talk.
Farmers let us hear from you.
Fraternally Yours,
L. J. Cohoon.
Hog Cholera.
Tothe Editors Indiana Farmer:
Prompted by a desire to do good to my
fellow-men, I accompanied Dr. Haas on a
tour among the farmers of tho northern
part of this county, for the purpose of
introducing his medicines and making
some observations in regard to the cause
of the so called hog cholera. In no instance where hogs had #been well cared
for, did we find cholera among them;
but in every instance where we found
disease among them we found them in a
filthy condition, such aa sleeping in
manure piles, stable-lots and open sheds,
among manure and dry, rotten and filthy
dust. Sometimes in rotten straw stacks,
and small, filthy pens, with wet rotten
straw for bedding, with their lots small
and mud belly deep. Now, I fear that
men so careless as to allow this kind of
treatment to their stock will not give the
medicine a fair chance; hence I will
write this note to warn all who use any
remedy to give it a fair and impartial
trial; follow the directions to a letter, and
then report results to the inventor of the
medicine, and give him a chance to try
hia own hand, and if he fails, warn the
public of the results. I think it a duty
every man owes to bis country, to try to
find the cause of this malady and seek a
remedy. I hope to be able, in a short
time, to report some good results from
the use of the Doctor's medicine. Wish*
ing the Indiana Farmer success, I remain as ever yours,
Jacob Kennedy.
L'zton, Hendricks Co.
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The Heavy Draft Hone.
To ths Editors Indiana Farmer:
I feel like criticising an article by J. R.
Robinson in last week's Farmer. The
subject is a very important one to farmers.
The general purpose hoKe, or, "the horse
for all purposes" We must use a good
strong thoroughbred horse to mares, weighing twelve to fourteen hundred pounds.
Then we have a horse that will (stand any
and all kinds of work, but still I doubt if
it is possible to raise a horse that will make
twelve miles an hour with a ton of weight,
or nearly so. Such a sight was never seen.
All horsemen know that any horse that
can pull close to a ton can not go twelve
miles an hour. If they have such horses in
France, I venture to say that not one of that
class has ever been imported here, and I
have seen hundreds of this breed, from
New York to the far West. J. B. B. states
that he never saw but one pure Norman
horse in Indiana. We have had at our
State fair Norman horses, imported by
Dillon & Co., Illinois, one of the most noted companies in America. How strange
they never had apure bred Norman, when
they have been importing for the last fifteen or twenty years. I think J. B. can
be informed where he can see as many as
fifty head which are all claimed to be pure
Normans, and I venture to say many of
them are as fine specimens as the New Jersey specimen he refers to. I never heard
of the two States, New Jersey and New
York being noted for Normans or any other
breed of draft horses. I always undc rstood
that the farmers of those two States devoted their attention to light fast stock. One
thing I do know, no eastern trader ever
attempts to select many heavy horses, such
as a Norman ought to breed, till he gets
to Western Pennsylvania, and Western
Pennsylvatia supplies Eastern Pennsylvania. ' With both, heavy draft and general purposes.
I will endeavor to give a description of
the breeds offered in J. R. R's article:
First, the Norman. The average Ncr-
man is a horse with good style and large
hind quarters, as J. R. Btates, low back,
lacking of middle drooping rump, as a rule,
altogether too light' bone for their body,
more especially when crossed with our fine
bones mares, and the cross as a ru.e naturally is a soft brute that can't stand a real
hard day's work. The English horse is a
big heavy horse with immense bone, and
leaves his mark every time in the first
cross of that most important point that a
draft horse ought to have, that is strong
bone. He is probably not very nice about
the head and neck; in fact, clumsy, sp'en-
did back and rib, heavy quarters, and in
my opinion, far ahead of the Norman for
raising high priced draft horses. Then
comes the Clydesdale, J. B. says they are
light in their quarters, and look like they
were on stilts. Some of them he says are
eighteen inches high. I never saw one
of that height or one that looked the least
like he was on stilts; quite the contrary
they are short legged, strong boned, clean
flat bone at that, springy, active movers,
and model forms, as have been proved the
last few yeara by their success in the show
ring, beating the Normans from Pennsylvania to Illinois. I have been all through
Western Pennsylvania and I. never heard
of a single Norman gaining a piize since
the English draft and Clydesdale were introduced. In Ohio .the Clydesdale has
gained first prize several years at the State
fair; also every year but one for the last
four years they have carried away the ribbon at the State fair at Indianapolis. In
Illinois also, till last year, when they were
debarred from competing. In conclusion
I would advise your readers, if their object is to raise a general purpose hor.e,
not to use any of the three breeds mentioned above, but if they want to raise a
draft colt that will make money for them,
use the Clydesdale stallion. They have
been imported to many foreign countries
and have taken the lead wherever they have
been. No breed of horses in the world can
compare with the Clydesdale in strength
of limb—all horsemen know this that have
seen them. Justice.
Dec 10,1877.
Stock Breeding.
From a paper read by Dr. G. Sprague at
the International meeting of breeders, recently held in Lexington, Ky., these excellent suggestions afe segregated:
"A large proportion of the farmers of the
West are growers of grain for shipment,
but they have long ceased to advocate this
practice as either easy or profitable. He
is a progressive farmer who seeks to improve his farm stock, whether his aim be to
grow animals for their flesh or for use in
the dairy. Both interests are getting to
be enormous, and with a steadily increasing growing population they will continue
to grow. No one need have any fear of a
retrogt ade movement. This cannot take
place, because n en will not eat less food,
nor food of poorer quality than now. Rather, the public taste grows more fastidious
as the world grows older, and epicures become more numerous and exacting. This,
the fruit and vegetable grower, the butcher, the baker, and all others who cater to
man's tastes, are every day finding out.
This information reaches the farmer and
he is acting upon it, because he stands
backoftho:e who stand next the consumer, and he kLOWS the d flerence between
having a visit from a customer anxious to
buy at a gcod price and one who buys your
indifferent pioduct vdth reluctance at his
own price, and buys it only because he
cannot supply his wants with something
better at a higher rate. The laws of existence require that we put forth vig, rous
and well-directed efforts to obtain food.
This hfr requires to be met in hard times
as we.I as in good, and whether the times
be good or bad, necessary articles of food
and raiment must be produced. * * *
All their exactions take the mind directly
to the fountain head, viz., your breeding
yard, and the rules which apply to the fine
woods used in mechanical work, to the
precious stones and to the display of mechanical taste in utilizing these apply to
your thoroughbred cattle. You bre«d for
symmetry because. this pleases the eye,
thereby gratifying a becoming taste, while
at the same time it insures a lessening in
the amount of offal and an increase in the
volume ofthe best cuts. So all the points
of perfection now recgnized will continue
to De standard requirements while the
world stands, and breeding animals will
continue to command high prices in proportion to their fine breeding and perfect
symmetry."
 sos	
Sheep Growing—Cost and Profit.
South Whitley, Ind., Nov. 29, '77.
Tb the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I send you a few items showing the advantage of raising sheep. I bought twenty-
eight Iambs and thirteen old sheep last
January, paying $75'for them., February
22,1 bought forty-two head more, paying
$122.70 for these. I fed $50 worth of feed
to them. Shearire*, cost' $4.50; pasture,
$60; interest for eight months, $17; making total cost of $328.70. The wool off of
these at twenty six cents per pound
amounted to $107 90. Isold forty-nine
sheep at $3.50 per hundred, amounting to
$159,24; twenty seven lambs for $75; four
sheep for $9. Total receipts $425.89; profi-s,
$97,19. The majority of farmers could
keep twenty or twenty-five sheep and
scarce'y notice the feed they eat. Farmers,
try the experiment.
The weather never has been more disagreeable in this section than this fall. Corn
is an average crop in this county and is
mostly cribbed. N. H.
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Valuable Invention for Horsemen.
The inventor and proprietor of the celebrated speed accelerators for trotting horses is a dry goods merchant of Brownstown,
Indiana, of ihe name of WilburC. Benton.
Like Bonner, he conceived the idea that
driving would be conducive to his health,
and the result was that ''holding the ribbons" over quick-steppers not only cured
him, effectually, of the rheumatism, with
which he had been afflicted for years, but
it led to the discovery of an art or device
by means of which the speed of the trotter
is at once greatly accelerated without the
use of toe-weights cr heavy shoes, great
incumbrances to the he rse, contracting his
hoofs and stiffening his limbs. The accelerators give him the proper action for speed
without injury to him. It is but the work
of a moment to attach them to the bit and
rein in such a manner as to steady him,
give him an even, lengthy stride, prevent
him form hurting and cutting nimself
while speeding, thus doing away with the
various kinds of boots and appendages for
the protection of the limbs, which so materially retard his speed, to say nothing of
their excessive cost and inconvenience.
The accelerators sell for five dollars per
pair.
s   ssj   s
It will pay farmers, in the winter, when
they have nothing else to do, to take the
wagon and go into the woods and haul
leaves and put them upon the worn-out
places in their fields. Next to manure,
straw and forest leavea are the best to
bring up exhausted lands. If we expect
our farms to feed us we must feed them.
Recollect that we will never have any
new land given to us, and hence we
Bhould take mighty good care of what we
have got.—Ex.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The extra session ha<*.been quietly
merged into the regular sestion of Congress. The first Monday.of November
has heretofore been a day of much political interest, and the opening of Congress
the occasion for an overcrowded capitol.
But this has seemed- to be a day of less
than ordinary interest. I was surprised
to find the galleries of the House and
Senate not more than two thirds full.
The reading of the President's Message
is a monotonous formality. In the House
the clerk reads in a voice distinct and
commensurate in volume with the area
of the room, and the turbulence of noisy
members that has to be overcome, while
in the smaller Senate chamber, and to
the better-behaved Senators, the reader
does not find it necessary to raise his
voice above" a conversational toLe.
Neither Senators nor members pay much
attention to the reading of the message,
but employ the time in writing, reading
newspapers, or, perhaps, in looking over
those parts cf the message that are of
special interest to them. After the
reading had been concluded, both Houses
adjourned, the Senate for two days. It
needs rest, for its arduous vigils over the
Butler and Kellogg cases have impaired
its energy if not its s'amina. Not every
man can endure to Bit up "o' nights" and
brea'.he furnace air. The experiment
killed Senator Bogy, and has sapped or
impaired the health of many others. It
was not exciting debate or consuming
passions engendered in political strife
that sent Conkling across the Atlantic in
search of health,' and have given Blaine
and Lamar their sallow, wearied appearance, and heavy, inelaslio step, more
than the infernal (I use the word in its
etymological sense, the air comes from
the furnaces below) devitalized atmos- j
phere which they are compelled to
breathe, and which no one can inhale
without injury to health.
Now that the regular session has commenced, and the fashionable season is
opening, it may be of interest to the
many who will come to Washington to
see "the sights" to know that the expense of living has been very much reduced since last winter. Good board
may be had at a number of places for
twenty-five cents per meal. At a fashionable restaurant, where three years ago
a luncheon would cost from seventy-five
cents to a dollar, a good dinner may now
be obtained for fifty cents. One of the
first class hotels advertises table board
for $25 per month; and at a restaurant
recently established six courses, including a half bottle of claret, are given for
seventy-five cents. In regard to lodging,
the price of rooms varies with their size,
location, and furniture. A small furnished room may be rented for seven or
eight dollars per month, while larger and
more elegantly furnished apartments cost
no more than from fifteen to twenty dollars, and when the renter expresses his
intentions to remain three or four months
he can secure the room for less. There
are one or two places where board is
offered for fourteen dollars per month,
but the fare, as might be expected, is
very poor in quality and quantity. For
those who desire to spend a few days and
a great deal of money at the national
capital, the completest faci lities are still
afforded. Some of the old hotels still
stand out in their charges, and there is
at least one restaurant where the luxury
of paying a dollar and fifty cents for a
small but highly artistic luncheon may
be enjoyed. But it is scarcely necessary
to say that these stylish places have not
their former patronage. Hotels, like
statesmen, dogs, and other individuals,
have their day of prosperity, and it is
plain that the numerous cheap houses
tre cutting down the profits of the big
hotels very rapidly. It is remarkable to
see the number of well-dressed and apparently well-to-do people who go to the
lees expensive places. Their patrcnage
is made np largely of government employes, but they are also frequented and
patronized by professional men and their
families, lawyers, journalists and physicians. The first-class hotels, with their
extortionate prices of five or six dollars
per day, will doubtless have to succumb
sooner or later, and be reorganized with
less style and display, butnot necessarily
with less of solid comfort for their guests.
While many members of Congress get
their meals at the hotels, a large majority of them have apartments elsewhere,
usually a parlor or sleeping room, on the
first and second floor, for which they pay
from forty to a hundred dollars a month,
according to the locality and the elegance of furniture. The favorite localities for the more aristocratic members
of Congress are near Franklin and La-
Fayette squares, or on the streets bounded north and south by F and K and
east and west by 12th and 18.h. They
are not, however, confined within these
boundaries, but are scattered promiscuously. Some live on Capitol Hill, others in Georgetown. Senator Withers of
Virginia sleeps in his native State every
night, at Alexandria, six miles from the
capitol, and on the opposite side of the
Potomac. Recently, during the exciting
struggle for supremacy in the Senate, he
found himself cut off from Washington
by the swollen " condition of the river.
The regular ferry boat had ceased running, but the Senator, equal to the emergency, hired a tug and made the perilous passage, arriving in time to cast his
vote. 0. P. S.
QUERY AND   ANSWER.
Bird Pepper for thicken*.
To the Ediiors Indiana Farmer:
I saw in a back number of the Fabmeb that
some of the chicken raisers recommend bird
pepper for chickens. I would like to know,
tLrcugh the Fabheb, where I can get some
seed. S. H. J.
We presume it   can be had  at any seed
store.
 . .
Sowing Bine Grass Seed.
Gbant Co., Dec. 6,1877s
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
When is the proper time to sow bine grass
seed? Will it do well sown with oats In spring
and which does the best in this country, Kentucky or English? The quality of my soil
is black loam. T. W. L.
A farmer friend of many years experience
in thi?, Marion connty, tells us that he has the
beet success sowing clover in February. If
the epring and early summer should happen
to be wet, clover will do well with oats, but it
the season is dry, the crop will be most likely
to fail. Aa to the compositive quality of Ken.
tucky, or native, and English blue gran, let
others speak. We doubt, if all things considered, our native blue grass is not superior to
any other.
Additional Premiums for 1878.
These have been received sinoe our last issue, to go on our big premium list to be
awarded to our agents next spring :
Mr. John Goss, of Bellmore, Ind,, gives a pair
ofhis fine Partridge-Cochin fowls, of the Barker strain.
Mr. A. J. Royalty, of Crawfordsville, Ind.
changes the premium offered by him, to be
as follows: 100 apple trees and 50 Concord
grape vines ; apple trees to be selected, three
years old, and grape vines to be two years old,
first-clas", and to be given to the agent in Montgomery, or either adjoining county, in Indiana.
Mr. W. E. Wise, of Fillmore, Pntnam county, Ind., makes a liberal offer of premiums to
agents. Bead his effer in this issue ofthe
Fabmeb.
Mr. J. M. Dye, of Nbrthfield, Boone county,
Indiana, places on onr premium lis*, agent's
choice of one setting of eggs from his white
Leghorns, of J. B. Smith's (Todd) strains.
or of his light Brahmas, of the Felch
train.
Mr. H.W.Beidler, of Waterloo, Ind., contributes two handsome premiums to agent**,
Bead his offer in this issue elsewhere.
A Good Offer.
Waterloo, Ind., Doc. 10, '77.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Wishing to increase the circulation of
the Faemeb, I will give the agent sending me the largest club of names, a Poland China pig, either sex. The pig will
be from stock which took the first premium at the last Northeastern Indiana
Fair. Also, a pair of Buff Cochin chickens fcr the second largest club. This
club to be over fifteen. Pig to be delivered
in May or June next. The names and
money to be sent to me at Waterloo, Do-,
kalb Co., Ind. H. W. Beidleh.
A Card.
Fillmoee, Putnam Co., Ind.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
' I will give a first class pair of Brahma
chicks to the one who will send the
largest list of subscribers for the Indiana
Farmer to the Farmer office, to be credited to my list. Here is a chance for
local agents, who are raising small clube.
All who contend for this premium will
please send a postal card to my address,
with their name and address.
E. W.  Wl:E.
Our readers will take
city,   breakfast,  dinner
notice, when in the
or sapper,  can   bn
had in fali for 25'cents, at tbe Exchange Dir.-
iDg Booms, Nos. 66 and 68 North Pennsylvania Street.
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