VOL. XV.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JAN. 3,  1880.
NO. 1.
FORSAUC
FOR S A LE-Pekln ducts. sood birds, *P 50 per pair
if taken soon.   J. L.  BRENTON, Petersburg,
• Pike county, Ind. '   	
FOR SALE-Flne Berslshire nt-rsby *W. H. Fall,
Lebanon. Ind.. at »8 aplei-e fc.r 30 days.  _.e.llag
to move to Nebraska.
FOR SALE-Chester White pigs.   Boars ready ter
service.   Satisfaction guaranteed.   Address B.
L. MCCORMICK, Cartersburg, Indiana. 	
TJIOR SAXK-Farms ln Marion,Rushand otter
i_ counties ln Indiana. O.W. ALEXANDER, 88
5t Market St,, (side door Central Bank).	
FOR BALE-Seed Oats-Will yield fifty per cent,
more than any other variety grown In this section.   E. S. FOLSOM, Indianapolis, Ind.
dlapolls.
FOR BALE—The Farm Register and Account
Book, complete method .■£ ^Mplng^fa**™ «:
oounts. Price Jl each. Address INDIANA FARMER
COMPANY. Iudlanapolls. 	
FOR SALE-Thoroughbred Jersey cattle-Registered In American Jersey Cattle Clnb. Best
butter strains known. Address W. J. HASaKL-
MAN. Indianapolis, Indiana.
FOR 8 ALE-A feweood Berkshire pies. 4 months
old. bo-h sexes. Sallie and Oxford strains: also,
Dark Brabmas and Bronze turkeys.   W. A. X.£Aa-
SBY. Areola, Allen county, Ind. 	
FOR SALE—I shall breed, ln tbe next 30 days, 10
of my choice Poland China sows.   If you want
one please write me before you purchase elsewhere.
Address L. H. AIKMAN. Dana, Ind.
FORBALE-Saleofflneher.es; two Hambleton-
ians and one Morgan stallion, from New York,
will be .old at pnbllc auction In front of Gates A
Pray'a stables. In tbl- city. Saturday afternoon, Jan-
nan 3, at 2 o'cock.   WM. A. QREOORY.	
FOR SALE—A farm of 160 acres, 7 miles northwest of IndianapoUs. This farm [sunder a high
state of cultivation, and ls thoroughly tile-drained;
has a substantial brick house of 10 rooms, 2 barns,
and all other necessary buildings. Q. T., care Indiana Farmer Co,
FOR SALE-I have A No. 1 farm for sale of two
hundred acres, good Improvements, two miles
west ot Oreensburg, Decatur couniy Ind. Any person desiring to purchase such a farm can correspond
wiih me by letter, or call on me at my premises.
J « B. w. MAOK. Oreensburg. Ind.
FOR SALE-A small place of 2(f acres in Orange
county, Ind., 2h miles from Orleans, 3>4 from
Mitchell. A cottaije uonse ot 3 rooms cistern, smokehouse, stable, pie, ty of small rrults. 800 budded peach
trees of ber.t sorts, large enough forbearing. 1 rice
. J6.--0, one Iralf down.balance on time. Call f nor
Adjlress HENRY I!EEU. Orleans, Orange Co., Ind.
""" ANSOHSCK3IESIS.
BOLFJvT C.  I.OSEY will be a candidate for Recorder of Marion county, Indiana, subject to
the decition cf tbe Republican nominating conven-
' tiOJ,. 	
C-IAL.   F.   ilAR-'litjIj will be* ee.ndi.iate'orTte-
. j   corder of Mjirlon county, BUbJect to the Republican nominating c jnvntlon. _	
DAVID   E.   SWAIN will be a candidate  for Recorder of Marion cJiiinty,'subject to the Kepub-
Mean nomina tin_a_conventlon.
trjrEN.'Y C. ..t-'jMP will be/R cnrdldate for
*YL KherliTot Muriel: county, taoject to tne decision of the Republican nominating convention.
!r-*INGELBERT J. METZGER, deputy sheriff, will
.Hi be a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention of
■Marlon county. ■ ;	
DW. ORUBBS will be a candidate for Sheriff of
. Marion county, subject to the Repuilcan nominating convention.  ■	
JW. HFS3 will be a candidate for Sheriff ot Ma-
•   rion county, subject to  Republican nomina-
ting convention. ' ; _
GEORGE F. BRANBAM will be a candidate for
.sheriff of Marlon co inty, subject to the Republican nominating convention.      .	
CAPT. W. O'HAVER Is a candidate for Treasurer
nf Marion county, subject to the decision cf the
Republican nominating convention.
snst: -i__ii_L*-jfi*OESj.
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C. BTJROESS, Dentist.   Office in room 4 Vajen •« Exchange Block. **T. Pennsylvania St.
CHARLEY   LINCOLN—Formerly at tbe Arcade
- is now at the Oak Hall Clothing Btore, 9 West
Washington street.   Give Charley a call.	
LANDS bought and sold, titles straightened, and
taxes paid  in all  Sta'es.   Cash paid for land
warrants.   G. M. BALLAP.D. Indianapolis.	
IF you want peed from pure premium Hubbard
sauashes. send address on postal, and learn an
easy way to get them. FRANK. WILLIAMSO-H,
Nora Marion county. Ind.	
rT*>HE old reliable Indianapolis Business College,
_I_ Bates Block, opposite the postoffice, Imparts
a Practical. Useful and Profitable Kducatlon, meeting the wants of nine-tenths of the young men and
boys. Young men wishing to enter business will
here receive snch aid a3 will insure a successful future to thera. ■ For circulars of Information, addresa KOKRNER it GOODIER, IndianapoUs. Ind.
WAKTI5M.
WANTED—Agents, local and general for Indiana
History, Family Bibles, and the Voters Text-
Book.   S. I,. Mj\R)inW. Indianapolis.	
WANTD—Salesman—for each State.   Salary S75
to isioo and expenses,   uoodssold by sample.
La BEI.I.B Manui-'o CO.. Chicago, 111.	
TTTANTED—A gocd stock fsrm of about 200 acrea
VV within 15 miles of Mil. dty, for cash. M. AR-
BUCKLE, 70 E- Marget street. IndianapoUs.	
tjt    H. ALLEN A Co., Druggists opposite post-
VV . offlcej keep a complete stock of Drugs, Patent
Medicines, Oils, Toilet Articles.   Best goods and
lowest prices.
FOB   BEST.
F
OR RENT—Farms, as follows:
10 acres in Marion county, Ind.
31 aJ-ies in Marion county, Ind.
40 acres In Marlon county, Ind.
IM acres In Clinton county. Ind.
»« acres in .Tack»on county. Ind.
s«0 acres in Jasper county, 111.
These farm, are also for sale.
For further particular., call on, or address
CHARLES E. COFFIN.
34 North Delaware street, Indianapolis.
I_0_LN_>.
M
ONEY  to   loan  on  Improved  Farms.   M. E.
VINTON, Indianapolis, Iud.
A Pine Horse.
Editors Indiana Farmer.
Wm. Meikle, of Pendleton, formerly of
Indiana, Penn., sold to Messrs. Given <fc
Baud, Frankfort, Ind., the imported
Clydesdale stallion, Baron, imported here
in September, 1879. In his native country,
Scotland, he had few equals, as can be seen
by examining bis record. Since lavjing
he has had no chance to be exhibited, but
all horsemen allow at once that he is the
finest specimen ofa draft stallion ever seen
in Indiana. The importer, Wm. Meikle,
claims him to be the nearest a perfect draft
horse in America, and it will require an
extraordinary close inspection to find a
fault in him. Frankfort can now claim to
have two a*) fine imported stallions as there
are in Indiana, Rob Roy and Baron.
t
ivt s
jfatlt.
Mr. I*aao Austin, Springboro, Warren
county, Ohio, has a Buperb herd of Poland
China hogs of the finest strains. Hi* herd
is in most excellent condition for spring
returns.
Jhrshts.—A. Bybee.Indianapolis; Messrs.
Fesler & Math_s,Frankli rr; Augustas Seifert,
Stratford, and Matt. Ferguson, Irvington,
bave all recently purchased thoroughbred
Jersey bulls from W. J. Hasselman, Indianapolis, breeder ot thoroughbred Jersey cattle.
»—
The Paris Kentuckian says that Mr. B. F.
"Vanmeter, Clarke county, that State,
breaks his doubtful breeding and fat Shorthorn cows to the yoke, and they answer
the purpose of oxen. This, with feeding
hemp seed, restores many barren cows  to
fertility.
 *.	
Mr. J. W. Baker, of Butlercounty, Ohio,
while attending the late fairs in this State
got sight of the fine strain of Poland China
swine bred by Mr. A. W. Ross, Muncie,
and a few days ago visited Mr. Ross and
bought some of him. Mr. Baker is highly
gratified with his investment.
The late rapid advance in carpets and all
woolen goods is indicative of higher prices
for the next wool clip. The rise in goods
came after the wool had passed out of the
producers hands, and into the woolen goods
manufacturers combination, hence the
steady price of wool. - Everything now
points to better price3 for the next clip, and
the sheep interests are everywhere looking
«P- 	
SHEEP   HTJ6BAKDBY  IN NEAB  FUTURE.
There isnot a doubt but sheep husbandry
is on the eve ofa great revival in this country. The ;ap1d sdvrtr.ee In rll kinds of
woolen goods and the increasing demand
for them are sure signs of this. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman viewing the matter from the same standpoint,
say«J....'.     .   ,        - [
It la probable that,'"(ft* a number of years
to j^ome, more attention will be paid to
sheop-growing than has been recently.
Even in the years of hard times, sheep, in
localities adapted to them, have probably
paid as well as anything else. But, from
one cause and another, the country has
been getting out of sheep; wool went down
so low tbat fattening and killing sheep for
their carcasses has paid better than keeping.
The result is that—take the country through
—the number of sheep has increased little
since 1869; has, perhaps, even decreased in
in that time. Now the markets are nearly
bare of wool; the manufactories are in full
blast to supply the'demand for woolen
goods, and we are beginning to find dut
that sheep are scarce. Eastern farmers
have been frightened out of sheep-growing
by competition in Texas, the Northwest,
and Australia. At present prices of wool
and sheep, we-can grow them in Western
New York. It is probable that the extremely low prices ofthe last few years have been
as injurious to our competitors as to ourselves. If this proves to be so, we have
nothing to fear unless they so rapidly improve their stock and methods of keeping
as to compete with us on equal terms.
FEEDING AHD CAEE OF H0ESES.
A BOs'ton Transcript writer strikes a keynote when referring to the care of horses. It
says the sundry condition powders and tonics which are often fed to horses, and produce
an increase of flesh, but they must be kept up
or the horse will run down, and in the end
they will do an injury. Regular feeding,
faithful grooming,change of diet,salt always
accessible, exercise,even if it be hard work,
with sufficient rest, pure water, pure air in
the stable, and comfort with quiet, will
causjs almost any horse properly fed to lay
on flesh, if not to become fat. A writer
upon this subject, who appears to be well
posted, sayr; "Many good horses devour
large quantities of grain and hay, and still
continue to be thin and poor. The food
eaten is not properly assimilated. If the
usual food has been unground grain and
hay, nothing but a change will effect a desirable alteration in the appearance of the
animal. In case oil meal can not be obtained readily, mingle a bushel of flax seed
with a bushel of barley, one of oats and another bushel of Indian corn, and let it be
ground into fine meal. This will be a fair
proportion for all his feed. Or the meal of
barley, oats and corn, in equal quantities,
may be first procured, and one-fourth part,
of the oil cake mingled with it, when the
meal is sprinkled on cut feed. Feed two
or three times daily, mingled with a peck
of cut hay and straw. If the horse will oat
that amount greedily, let the quantity be
increased until he will eat four or six quarts
at every feeding three times a day. So long
as the animal will eat this allowance, the
quantity may be increased a little every
day. But avoid the practice of allowing a
horse to stand at a rack well filled with hay.
Iii order to fatten a horse that has run
down in flesh, the groom should be very
particular to feed tbe animal no more than
he -will eat up clean and lick the manger
for more."
Horae Shoes—No. 1.
BT DR. JOHN N. NAVIN, V. S.
The unexampled number of horse shoes
lately patented, and the many perfections
claimed for each by the different patentees,
wopld excite discussion upon the merits of
each, in preference to the old concave-seated shoes.
In a country like ours where every man
who thinks himself capable of judging for
himself, is free to approve or disapprove
either one or all, I ask the readera of the
Fbrmbx to be a little slow until satisfied
that they have something better than the
old concave-seated shee, that for a century
ard a halt, at least, has been approved by
the ablest judges of Europe and America.
It is claimed for one of those shoes, the one
advertised in the Farmer of the 21st inst.,
perhaps no worse than many others of such
Impositions jj_\ its manufacture, that its
calkings are *ltCJiistructed that not only
does it prevent JK/ase, but cures those already provoke*jjry tho oid concave and all
other shoes. Tbii proposition I shall combat while paper continues to not refuse
ink, and here bold*y assert that oo shoe
ever invented is of itself capable of curing
contraction, unless so constructed as to admit *of mechanical force being applied to
the foot, and not even then, except the foot
is property prepared by either a skillful
veterinary surgeon, farrier or blacksmith.
II I understand the eulogy accompanying
it, tho shoe is to be fitted cold;.this means
fitting the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to
the loot, which is simply impossible until
old nature consents to procure a pattern
of the much-boasted shoe and form all future feet to fit it. In the meantime, had
we not better use the shoe that can be fitted to any and all shaped and sized feet?
This is, therefore, the theory that all sensible men will adopt.
The excuse put forth for fitting—I would
say misfitting cold—seems to bo a natural
horror against touching the foot with a
heated shoe. To this I would ssy that J
am not scared about burning my horse*-'
feet, unless carried too far. The reason
whvl, a-y -sveltpr-r.'n-j_,.- «,T.iier;-.vr'lr..,», l,.iV J
forbiden the excessive burning of J^-j
foot, is to caution lazy blacksmiths agai *s
burning away instead of cutting the ex«He
of horn necessary to be cut off at ev-he
shoeing. Any man -who knows tha ar a
omy of the foot knows that slightly bing
ing the stiff fiber composing the chief b___k
of the feet on their extreme ends, about
four inches from the coronary that produces them, cannot affect their normal
healthy condition, but is the quickest way
to find the level, or under surface of both
shoe and foot, which is necessary to a perfect fitting shoe.
If the reader will take the troublo to read
page 26S of my work on the horse written
fourteen years ago, he will find that in it,
and tlie following pages, 270, 272, and 276,1
advocated then the exact theory that I do
now. Indeed, there can be no other theory.
I then denounced the theory of fitting the
foot to the shoe, and quoted the case of an
ancient king who made a uniform coffin
that fitted his own length, and issued a
decree that all his subjects who died must
be made to fit It, those too short to be
stretched in a machine made for the purpose, and those too long were cut to fit. I
advocated .close seating and close fitting.
On page 272 and 276 I showed, the extent
that burning might be carried on.
Although not a prophet*, or the son of a
prophet, the article upon shoeing in my
book looks more prophetic of the attempts
at superseding the best shoe ever made,
the concave seated shoe, on -which there is
no patent, but free to all men.
There is no class of men in the world
more willing to pervert the laws of nature
than the most ignorant, for no sooner do
they conceive anything in their mind than
they try to put in it practice, never consulting the laws of nature, which, of course,
they are ignorant of in toto, and never car-
ingwhatinjurythey may do as long as they
can make a profit out 'of a poor dumb life
qhat may suffer. If they can only deceive its
owner, and never caring or considering
that a horso without feet is worse than no
horse at all. Indeed, blacksmiths are no
more capable than are the generality of
people ior their careless interference with
tbe life they aro utirtble-to give. Brewers,
and bakers, glovers and skinners, and
everybody else pretend to know all about
the horse.        *
In conclusion I here assert boldly, and
without, fear of contradiction, that no form
of shoo that has ever been invented can exert tbe least influence in curing the general
diseases incident to the foot, thrtt it is the
sole business of the veterinary surgeon or
blacksmith, and that they cannot be
entirely successful if only one form of the
shoe is used, and I think that the intelligent American horse owner will agree
with my entire theory in this article, except, perhaps, a firm hired, or interested individuals. Not while I stand ready to do
battle in his behalf, and I am persuaded
that by his so doing that all bare-faced at
tempts to revolutionize nature will, and
should be, stamped out.
Black Sheep.
C. v. Croxton received an order from R.
A.,-Stewart, of Rush county, Ind., for 50
black ewes and he purchased all of them
from the herd of Sydney Clay and shipped
yesterday. This makes 153 sheep Mr. C.
has sent to Rush county lately, all for breeding purposes.—Paris Kentuckian.
Blood Will TelL
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Throe years ago Frederick B. Packer,
wliose tarm is situated near our village,
sold three three-year-old steers, oommon
stock, for $30 each. last Saturday he again
sold to George Ricket, Sevastopol, Kosciusko county, three steers three years old
last May, from the same cows but from a
thoroughbred Short-horn bull, at the following figures: Total weight 4,988 pounds;
average, 1,G66 pounds; price per pound 4K
cents; average value, f70 6GJ4; total, 9211 99.
The keeping of each lot were about the
same, not fatted. J. M. D.
TYosa, Ind.
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The Hereford Herd Book.
TJ.ie publishers have adopted for the title
ofthe above work, The American Hereford
Ke lord, and have made application to the
Set retary of State for permission to form a
stc -k company for the publishing of this
an, \ such other works as shall seem best to
ad' ance the interest which they represent.
1 '•e Record will be in the hands of the
printer by the lst of January next and
plY ^d before the public at an early day.
It -f'ill contain 2,300 pedigrees ahd some 50
or r.ore pages of reading matter, giving a
s).etch of the progress of the Heroford breed
of i-attle and their relation to other breeds.
'^tie English Hereford Ilerd book society
haa issued the 10th volume, which is just
out. vhe American workwill be complete
in ftself, every pedigree will trace as far
b»j *: r,R the record goes.
Tha Cattle Plague.
'Ino committee of veterinary surgeons,
itt^jjnUl bv the TJ. s. Veterinary Associ-
i. '(n- to i-oiisider this sulj it report with
5 °~(l-'t lowing resolutions, and have deter-
Lied tr present the subject to Congress
T| suitable legislation:
esolved,   That  -we,  the   undersigned,
snben* of a committee appointed by the
;ted States Veterinary Medical Associ-
•n for that purpose, do hereby respectfully petition, that  the  Honorable,   The
Congress of the United States, shall establish a Veterinary Sanitary Bureau, whose
duly it shall be to advise Congress as to
wh;it mep.sures shall be necessary to control, restrict, or eradicate any contagious
or infectious disease affecting the domesti-
cat:d animals:   And
I."solved, That in view of the urgent necessity for the eradication of the Lung
Pla'grue of cattle from the United State*,,
the' restriction of the Texas fever of cattle
to those Southern States in whioh it is already domiciled, and the protection ofour
flocks and herds against festileuces that
may bo imported with foreign stock. Congress is further respectfully requested to
appropriate a euffif-ient sum ot money to
ent ble the Veterinary Sanitary Organization to deal at once, and effectually, with
these three important matters.
A. Liautard, J. Law,
and others.
^Icteniwrji*
healthy? We do not use it, but let her own
and other calves run with her. What will
cure her? George.
Preble Co., O.
—The abscess on the jaw does not affect
the milk of the animal for use. The injury
may be caused by rubbing on a fence, in
which case a splinter may have run into
the hide and caused the trouble. It appears that the abscess is indolent from
secreting matter too long, and a morbid
secretion gathered and lodged in tbe surrounding parts. If no caries, roling ofthe
bone has commenced, stimulate the parts
to healthy action, ahd nature will provide,
form a covering, blister the parts, and let
us know if the bone is sound or not.
Disease in the Blood.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Can you give me a cure for my horse?
Her hind legs swell when she stands in the
stable. She is seven years old, a good gentle worker. I do not work her hard; I
drive her to the buggy. She is a big eater
but does not thrive. Last summer she got
some little lumps on her breast and fore part
of her belly, but they opened and are well.
Wm. Dernbtte.
Terre Haute, O.
—The disease is an aqueous, watery, effusion in the blood, which percolates through
the cellular tissues, and consequently gravitates to the legs. Give the following:
Ground ginger, four drachms; flour of sulphur, two drachms; Pulis nitre, four
drachms; black antimony, two drachms;
sulphate of iron, two drachms; resin, two
drachms. Dose, one teaspoonful three
times per day in feed. Blister one side of
the legs with a liquid blister of t}_ ounces
powdered Spanish flies, and pint spirits of
turpentine; mix by shaking together. Rub
in well with the hand morning and evening for three days, then every alternate
day for five applications, then blister tha
other side if necessary.
Catarrh Fever.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
My hogs have a cough and snuff their
noses, shake their heads, and considerable
matter comes from their nostrils. When
they snuff in some cases their noses turn
up so as they can not eat corn off the cob.
C. O.  •
Franklin Co., Ind.
t'—Your hogs are affected with catarrh
fever, or probably pneumonia or pleuropneumonia, most likely the former. Keep
them as -warm as possible, ih a situation
where they can have fresh air to breathe, so
that the oxygen ofthe air can be inhaled to
biearbomze the blood. If you have a large
earthen floored shed or barn, burn wood
all over the floor until the floor is quite
hot; sprinkle dry dirt, dust, etc., over it,
or sawdust to prevent injuring the feet;
shake straw over it also. If properly done
the hogs will sweat; give in slop or drench
with spirits of nitre, or drop 20 or 30 drops
of aconite rt. tincture and tincture of belladonna on the tongue every hour, using
them alternately.
Postal-Card Correspondence
This department Is edited by Dr. John N. Navin,
Veterinary Surgeon, anthor oi Navin's Explanatory
Stock Doctor.
Bad Treatment.
Edlcors Indiana Farmer:
My mare got hurt on the side of the
neck near the weathers a year ago; it run
on for quite a while; I then cut it. open and
put in rhubarb and arsenic, and killed it,
cut it all out; used lard, gun-powder and
camphor. It healed up, but breaks out occasionally. She has never been worked
any; is running out all the time.
Subscriber.
Cicero, Ind.
—The surprise is that you hadn't killed
the. mare with the arsenious acid; the rhubarb did neither harm nor good; your lard,
gun-powder and camphor were so much
waste; the result now is quite doubtful.
The best way would be to cut out all the
diseased flesh with a knife, or destroy it
with caustic medicine. Take copper cents,
about fourto six, in a wide-mouthed bottle,
and pour nitric acid over them until all are
dissolved; temper a portion of it with half
its amount of cider vinegar and force it
down to the bottom of the abscess once or
twice por day with a long snipe-billed syringe; wet the part.; under the abscess with
thevii.fgar. If this is ineffectual use the
mfdi-iino' stronger, until it cauterizes the
pins uud destroys tho walls of the abscess.
Abscess on the Jaw.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What may be the matter with my cow?
She rubbed her jaw against the edge of the
trough and formed a running sore, but for
Bix or nine months it has "run" or festered,
but seems dry, and the skin haa grown fast
to the bone, leaving the bone exposed the
size of a quarter dollar. It is situated
about two inches back of the chin on the
under edge of the bone—bone deems scaly,
whitish   like  dried   beet     Is her milk
r.vniAXA.
Daviess Co., Dec. 23.—Wheat looks fine;
large acreage sown. Corn % crop. Stock
looks well.   Fat hogB all sold.     J. M. S.
Shelby Co., Dec. 23.—Growing wheat
looks well, and large amount was sown.
C6rn about half crop.   Hogs all sold.
J.O.
Scott Co., Dec. 24.—Corn not more than
% of a crop. There is a large acreage of
growing wheat here and it looks splendid.
Hogs very scarce. J. M. I_.
Noble Co.,Dec. 24.—Corn about all gathered and a good crop. Farmers are in good spirits. A large crop of wheat sown. Business is lively generally.   Jno. Maqobrt.
Washington Co., Dec. 24.—Hogs are
mostly sold. Corn light on upland and
damaged in the bottoms. Stock doing fine,
Times are getting better, and .farmers are
looking up, W. A.
Mabsbtalt- Co., Dec. 24.—Corn was a full
crop here on well drained land. It pays to
ditch clay land. Wheat looks well. Farmers are taking more pains every year to excel in farm work. Times are good and
"money plenty. D. C. W.
Vermillion Co., Dec. 24.—Growing
wheat looks fine, and ground frozen eight
inches deep. Swine have the cholera in
parts of this county, and hogs not so plenty
as a year ago. Farmers here will feed most
of their corn themselves to stock.
Pioneer.
Harrison Co., Dec. 23.—Corn a light
crop. We have a large acreage of wheat
sown, mostly with bone dust. The prospect is now good for a lair crop next season. We are greatly encouraged at the business boom. Money is plenty with all who
have anything to sell. J. H. B.
Jasper Co., Dae. 25.—Prospect for wheat
looks bad, as it is under a heavy sleet.
Previous to that it never looked better for
done here in the spring.   We find that it
pays a large per cent. C. D. S.
Ratsville, Dec. 22.—Our wheat crops are
looking very fine for this date, with perhaps 25 or 35 per eent. larger acreage than
last season. Corn is light, mostly sold to
shippers. Ours is the banner temperance
county of the State, consequently OBr jail
is empty.   Yon will always find us right.
D.P.
Knox Co., Dec. 22.—Wheat looks well ln
this -vicinity, about an average crop sown;
the early sown looks quite yellow; some
dead and dying before the late rains, but
is now looking better. Corn is little more
than Ji of a crop in bulk and less in weight
and quality, caused by two wind storms in
August. Hogs are tolerably healthy and
stock generally doing well.
Ephraim Wamplkr.
H.I.IXOIIi.
Clay Co., Dec. 26.—Corn mado 30 to 40
bushels per acre here. The largo acreage
of growing wheat looks well. Stock looks
well. a. E. D.
Jasper Co., Dec. 24.^-Cattle and all kinds
of stock in fine wintering condition. Wheat
looking fine. Corn averages 50 bnshels
per aere. q. b. D.
Vermillion Co., Dec. 26.—Thereisdouble
the last year's acreage of wheat here, and it
is looking fine. Hogs about all sold and
scarce. Corn crop averaged 35 bushels per
acre. Times are booming—everything we
have to sell there is a good price for.
W. A. F.
St. Joseph, Dec. 24.—Last season's wheat
crop here averaged 20 to 25 bushels per
acre, and corn 40. Growing wheat looking
well. L. C. McEi.wee.
Fayette Co., Doc. 28.—Wheat looks well
at this time, and the acreage is large. Corn
average crop. Sugar cano was better here
than ever known before. Hogs healthy
and in fair supply. i,_. jJt
Coles Co., Dec. 26.—Larger than usual
acreage wheat sown, and it is looking well.
Corn is making from 30 to 40 bushels per
acre. Stock in line condition for winter.
Times are better than for years.
__ W. T. W.
O'i.IO.
Warren Co., Dec. 23.—Corn here averaged % of a crop. Wheat and barley are
looking well, and a large acreage sown.
Times are good, with fair prices for everything. Fat hogs are about all sold. All
stock looks well. Thero are many feeding
spring pigs for a late market.
John B. J.
Defiance Co., Dae. 24.—Farmers here
sowed a large acreage of wheat. Si>me of
it was hurt by dry weather and the fly.
Oorn on bottom land fine, but light on upland. Farmers are gradully but suroly on
the high road to prosperity, and the little
shiners go down into their pockets with a
satisfactory clink. n. H. Hill.
Sprinohoro, Dec. 26.—We have a fine
prospect for winter grain. Wheat and barley fields almost universally good. Corn
crop an average in quantity but inferior in
quality, caused by storms in the early season, and early frost. The wheat on my
farm yielded 60 bushels per acre, on a 12
acre field. No hog cholera here, but it has
been fatal inthe neighborhood of Franklin
Fat hogs sold. Trade good for first-class
Poland Chinas for breeding. I. A.
AltKA-V.VtS.
Norristown, Dec. 23.—Corn gathered
here. Considerable cotton yet remains to
be picked, and wagon after wagon comos
into town with from 100 to 400, and from
500 to 520 pound bales of cotton for sale.
This fall there is an immonse business in
cotton, the merchants shipping by the boat
and carload. Wheat in places looks well.
Have seen a great deal in tho Farmer
about the number of grains of the big
corn. There are hero four ears of corn,
the first having 25 rows with 65 grains to
the row; second, 25 rows with 60 grains to
the row; third, 28 rows with 61 grains to
the row; fourth, 30 rows with 65 grains to
the row. S. E. McCurdy.
WASIIIJKJTOS TI-KRITOIIT.
Farminoton, Dec. 15.—This is a fine
country for all kinds of small grain, and
beats the world for vegetables. Stock of
all kinds does extra well. Stock need little
attention, as grazing is good, and sheep go
through the winter with very little feed.
Sheep here average 7 to 8 lbs. wool per head.
Wheat is selling at 50c. This place is at the
junction ofthe Snake and Columbia rivers.
J. N. Balthis.
HISSOURI.
Nodaway Co., Dec. 22.—Wheat looks
promising. Corn was Hi ot tt crop. Grrrat
amount of rye grown here. It mak^/'very
fine winter pasture for youner^tock and
cows. This is a fiio country f,,r stock raising. We have Jiving water in great
abundance. '     Jonas Sperlixo.
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Jeffebsqk^ Co., Dec. 24.—Wheat looks
well ttfiie for the season. Stock of all
kinds looking well.   Farmers are in
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