VOL. XY.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1880.
NO. 2.
FOR S-ULK.
FOR SALE-Pekln ducks. Rood birds. (a 50 per pair
lf taken soon.  J. !_. BRENTON, Petersburg,
Flke county, Ind.
FOR SALE-Fine Berskshlre plfrs by W. H. Fall,
Lebanon. Ind.. at ja apiece for 30 days.   Selling
to move to Nebraska.
FOR SALE—Cnester White pigs.   Boars ready for
service.   Satisfaction guaranteed.   Addresa U.
L. McCORMICK, cartersburg, Indiana.
FOR SALE—Farms In Marlon, Rush and other
counties ln Indiana.   Q. W. ALEXANDER. 88
E. Market St,, (side door Central Bank).
OR BALE—Seed Oats—Will yield fifty pev cent.
  more than any other variety growrrln this section.  E. S. FOLSOM, IndianapoUs, Ind.
F
FOB BAIiE—160 acres of excellent land one mile
from Kokomo. Will require $1,500 to 12,000 cash,
balance on time at 6 per cent. T. A. GOODWIN, In-
diapolls.
FOR SAIiE—The farm Register and Account
Book. Complete method of keeping farm ac-
eonnts. Price Jl each. Address INDIANA FARMER
COMPANY, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE-Tboroughbred Jersey cattle—Registered in American Jersey Cattle Clnb. Best
bntter strains known. Address W. J. HASSJEL-
MAN. IndianapoUs, Indiana.
FOR 8ALB—A few good Berkshire pigs. 4 months
old, both sexes, Sallie and Oxford strains; also.
Dark Brahmas and Bronze turkeys. W. A. KEL-
SEY, Areola, Allen county, Ina.
FOR SALE—I shall breed, in the 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.
FOR SALE—Two Short-horn bulls, one 4 years old
red. kind to handle and sure getter; one 10
months old, red, very stylish, will make a good show
bull. For price and pedigree, address J. N. C#RY,
Fort Wayne, Ind.
FOR SALE— Fa?m of 162 acres, adjoining a county seat 20 miles of this city of 2,000 population,
good improvements and excellent soil, in a fine community. Price |56 per acre. M. ARBUCKLE, agent,
7UlKast Market street.
FOR SALE—Stock farm of 240 acres, 3 miles northwest ot Greencastle. Ind. land broken, grass,
water and timber plenty, bniidlngs poor. Price. -H5
per acre. Terms easy. SMITH & HAKNAMAN,
Loan Agents, Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SALE—A farm of 160 acres, 7 miles northwest of Indianapolis. This farm is under a high
state of cultivation, and Is thoroughly tile-drained;
has a substantial brick house ot 10 rooms, 2 barns,
and all other necessary buildings. Q. T., care Indiana Farmer Co.
EOR SALE—A small place of 20 acres In Orange
county, Ind., 2>s miles from Orleans, 3>6 from
Mitchell. A cottage house of 3 rooms cistern, smokehouse, statue, plenty of Bmall fruits, 800 budded peach
„ trees of 12& sorts, large enough for bearing. Price
|660, one half down, balance on time. Call on or
address HENRY REED, Orleans, Orange Co., Ind.
AXXOrNCKJIKNl S.
TDOBERT C.  LOSEY will be a candidate for Re~
-jIV   corder of Marion.county, "Indiana.A^Jjj^t to
the decision of the Republican nominating convention.
GAL.  F.  DARNELL will be a candidate for Recorder of Marion county, subject to the Republican nominating convention. 	
DAVHVE.  SWAIN will be a candidate for Record of Marion county, subj ect to the Republican nomlnatipg convention. .
HENRY   C.   ADAMS will be a candidate for
Sheriff of Marlon  county, subject to the decision of tbe Republican nominating convention.
ENGELBERT J. METZGER. deputy sheriff, will
be a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention of
Marion connty. 	
DW. GRTJBBS will be a candidate for Bberiff of
• Marion county, subject to the Repulican nominating convention.     ■        _________________
JW HESS will be a candidate for Sheriff of Ma-
•   rlon county, subject to Republican nominating convention.	
/GEORGE F. BRANHAM will be a candidate for
\JT sheriff of Marion connty, subject to tbe Repub-
lican nominating convention.	
CAPT. W. O'HAVER Is a candidate for Treasurer
of Marion county, subject to the decision of the
Republican nominating convention. /
raise ei_j*AXEO us.
c.
C. BURGESS, Dentist.   Office in room 4 Ya-
Jen's Exchange Block. N. Pennsylvania Bt.
IF you  want seed  from pure  premium Hubbard
squashes, send address on postal, and learn an
easy way to get them.   FRANK.  WILLIAMSON,
Ijtlvt j^foflt*
Mr. J. B. Fosher, of Carpentersville,
Putnam connty, this State, makes a specialty of breeding Chester White swine, and
has some  of the finest stock in the  West.
The cattle disease which broke out in
Haverhill, New Hampshire, and which occasioned the appointment by the Governor
of a commission of investigation, has had
a thorough examination and it is decided
that the sickness ia not pleuro-pneumonia,
but was induced by local causes, and is not
epidemic in character.
StTRAYED—A larjje red cow, marked some with
\ white;when she left home had on a leather head
halter. A reward will be paid for the return ofthe
cow or information which will Jead to her recovery.
Call on or address W. B. ROWH, 130 East St. Clair
Btreet, Indianapolis, Ind.
VALUE OF COOKED FEES FOB STOCK.
This important subject is receiving new
interest. It is certainly time that farmers
should receive more definite information
regarding the relative value of cooked over
uncooked feed for the different kinds of
stock. A writer in the Michigan Farmer
who has had two years experience thinks
he has saved one-third of his feed by cooking. In feeding horses he says that eight
ears cooked go as far as twelve ears uncooked. In the United States Agricultural
Reports it is stated that Mr. James Buckingham gives an experiment where 3%
bushels of uncooked com made 19 lbs. of
pork, and 1 bushel cooked made 22 lbs. and
Mr. T. J. Edge, detailing an experiment
says: "I found that 5 bushels of raw corn
made 47?£ lbs. of pork, while the same
amount of corn cooked made 87 % lbs. Mr.
E. W. Stewart, of New York, sums up the
result ot cooking as follows: 1. It renders
mouldy hay, straw, and corn stalks, sweet
and palatable. 2. It diffuses the odor of
the bran, cornmeal, carrots, or whatever is
mixed with the food through the whole
mass, and thus it may be cheaply flavored
to suit the animal. 3. It softens the
tough fibers of the dry corn stalks, straw,
and other hard materials, renderine.-*1—-»
almost liko geen, sooouient food, and easily
masticated and digested. 4. We have
found it to cure incipient heaves in horses;
and horses having a cough at pasture have
been cured in two weeks on steamed food,
lt has a remarkable effect upon horses with
a sudden cold and In constipation.
Horses fed upon it seem much less liable to
disease; in fact in this respect it seems to
have all the good qualities of grass, the
natural food of animals. 5. It regulates
the digestion, and makes the animal more
contented and satisfied; it enables fattening
stock to eat their food with less labor, and
consequently requires less to keep up the
animal heat, gives working animals time to
eatall that is necessary for them in the intervals of labor, and this is of much importance, especially with horses. 6. It enables the feeder to fatten animals in one-
third less time, and saves at least one-third
of the food. We have found 2 bushels of
cut and cooked hay to satisfy cows as well
as three bushels of uncooked, and the
manure in the case of the uncooked con-
tained much more fibrous matter unuti
lizedby the animal. This is more particularly the case with horses.
THE old reliable Indianapolis Business College,
Bates Block, opposite the postoffice, imparts
a Practical, Useful and Profitable Education, meeting the wants of nine-tenths of the young men and
boys. "Young men wishing to enter business will
here receive such aid as will insure a successful fu-
tHre to them. For circulars of information, address KOERNKR & MOODIER. Indianapolis. Ind.
WANTED.
WANTED—Agents, local and general for Indiana
History, Family Bibles, and the Voters Text-
Book.   8. L. MARROW, Indianapolis.
"TTTANTED—Good Bronze Gobbler, hatch ot 1S79,
YV     state weight and price; also, a shepherd pup,
price and age.   1). 8HEHA, College Corner, Butler
county, Ohio.
■TTTANTED—Persons having farms to sell to no-
VV     tlfy me in person or by letter.   I have a great
many cash buyers at present.   M. ARBUCKLE, 70
East Market street, Indianapolis.
FOR   BENT.
F
OR RENT—Farms, as follows:
10 acres In Marlon county, Ind.
3* a< res ln Marion county, Ind
40 acres in Marion county, Ind.
16J acres in (jllnton county. Ind.
ax) acres in Jucbson cousty, Jnd.
380 acres in Jasper county, 111.
These farmi are also for sale.
For further particulars, cull on, or address
CHARLES _K. COFFIN.
34 North Delaware street, Indianapolis.
3LUAN!*.
M
Ofj'EY to  loan on  Improved Farms.
VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind.
bushel a week will make every hog, reared
as above, to weigh 250 pounds.
If fed without the ground cob it is too
concentrated, unless other vegetable food
be used as well, aud if fed unground or
coarsely gromnd is very inappropriate, as
nothing but a fowl can extract the lull
value from such food.
Under these conditions no animal on
the farm pays like the hog, all things considered. But be it remembered that a- hog
will "only live" on June grass pasture
even if he has a little milk, whereas if a
small field of young clover be provided, he
will keep tat and grow twice as fkst, wiih
the same quantity of other food. But in all
cases, even in hot summer nights, hogs
mast have a warm dry bed, and a place
where they can get warm iu rainy weather,
otherwise they will not grow on grass or
clover food.
In the foregoing calculation nothing has
been said about manure, but the manure
of one hog will half pay for the barley it
takes to fatten him, eay two bushels, value
?1 20.
Sheep at our State Fairs.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
We wish to correct an error in your
paper of December 26th. You state that
William Hodgson won most of the premiums at your State fair 1877 and 1878.
Mr. Hodgson was not interested in the
show of 1877. We won most all the priias,
on sheep that were imported from England.
A part were bred by Snell <fe Sons of Canada, and a part by Hodgson. In 1878 Mr.
P. W. Hodgson, in connection with us,
won most of the prizes. The aged sheep of
this show were imported. The yearling
ram was bred by Messrs. Snells, and part
of the lambs were bred by Snells. The
yearling ewes and part of the lambs were
bred by Hodgson. We want Mr. Hodgson
to receive credit by what is due him,' but no
more.   Please correct, and oblige,
T. W. Samuels & Sons.
Deatsville, Ky.
them for a year or eighteen months, and
then sell three times as many horses as
they would if they were home bred. This
mode of skillful stock raising produces
those valuable horses scattered in great
numbers throughout our departments
under the name of Percherons, belonging
to all our principal French races." Tbe
same author says: "The Percherons do not
form a definite and distinct race; * * *
they are the fruit of the labor of man and
the fertility of the soil which nourishes
them; * * * they owe their good qualities less to their ancestors than to their
s_tfk of oats." .
THE   BREEDING. I
These facts may be stated for the benefit
of those who may have formed an idea that
the Percherons are purely bred and form a
separate and distinct race. The class of
horses that are called Percherons in France
are not the famous French draft horses that
are so valuable for breeding purposes.
They are not tbe class of horses that experienced breeders and good judges of dralt
horses are importing from France to the
United States. All Percheron horses are
Ndrman*., but not all Norman horses can
be.Jcalled Percherons. Wehave many quarter, and half bloods in this country that
•would readily pass for Percherons in
France. We can breed Percherons from
Normans, but we cannot breed Normans
from Percherons.
Draft horses are valuable in proportion
to their size, being equal in other respects.
SizBj with the proper form, is the most
difficult thing to preserve in any breed of
domestio animals; it is indispensable in
draft horses, for without it we could not
perpetuate and improve the race. A horse
that weighs 1,800 pounds will s°ll in France
for double the money that the same quality
of-a horse weighing 1,400 pounds will sell
for. The same may be said of horses in this
country. It is true, that there will always
be a demand for light draft horses, and
past experience has proved that in breeding for the largest we are sure to get small
animals enough for all practical purposes.
Wehave had a fair" demonstration of this
intheCanadianhorses. Theheavy Norman
horses introduced into Canada by the early
French settlers were bred pure for many
generations; and although they retained
all the characteristics ot their ancestors in
every other respect, in size they degenerated down to mere ponies. From the ex-
periet.oe of our Canadian friends we may
Receipts or Lumber at Chicago.
The receipts ol lumber for 1S79, at Chicago, reached
1,475,000,000 feet, or 315,000,000 feet more than the total
receipts in 1673. This product, lf made into boards
1 foot wide r*nd one inch thick, would reach, placed
end to end -*79,:-oj5 miles, or make two fences five
boards high, around the world, and have a smal^
matter of nve thousand miles to spare.—Grain and
Provision Review.
Coal.
Of the world's coal supply, the greater part is in
this country* Of the E.f'opean areas Great Britain's
are the largest. It has according to one estimate.
4,500 square miles; and according to another-tbat of
Professor Ansted—12,800 square miles. The same au
thority gives the fallowing areas ot the coalfields of
Europe ln square miles: France 2,000; Belgium 530.
Spain 4,000; Prussia 12,000; Bohemia 1,000. These
added to the British fields, give a total of 32,000 square
miles.  The most recent estimate of tne coal measure
I In this country ls 192,000 square miles; or more than
' six times the European area.
EXPEEIEHCE IH SWIUE BEEEDING.
An experienced swine breeder of Toronto,
Canada, contributes the following very
practical suggestions to the American
Cultivator, and though it is the experience
of one in a more Northern latitude, for the
most part the suggestions are also applicable here also:
A sow ought to have good care but not
fat, or she will be too heavy and liable to
prove a bad nurse. When the young are
ten days old and all dangers of milk fever
over, you cannot feed the mother too
plentifully, but you can give her too
stimulating a class of food, and vast numbers of young pigs are puny and runty,
due altogether to improper food being
given to the mother. A brood sow wants
to be led on warm, cooked vegetable food,
house slops with milk, and, above all,
farinaceous addition to the vegetable food,
such as potatoes, turnips, carrots, cabbage-*,
boiled and led warm, is bsirley meal.
There is more milk in ono gallon of barley
meal than in two gallons of com or peas,
liodh these latter foods are too heating and
will fatten the mother, but produce a
certain amount of fever, and so dries up
the milk.
Alter the young are a month old they
must be regularly led with barley meal or
fine shorts. Com and peameal will not do;
they cannot digest corn, as can be proved,
and pea moal is very heating. Milk and
barley meal, potatoes, vegetables, boiled
and ftd warm, cist half tho money and are
double the work in starting young hogs
growing; and recollect a start in the rignt
di rection is never lost, whereas a check iu
the wrong is never recovered.
Directly clover can .be had the young
may be weaned. They will probably be
about six weeks or two months old at that
time; afterwards milk and a little meal
and clover, with a very warm place aud
plenty of bedding to sleep in, and the care
of keeping will get less aud less until stubble and fatting time comes.
When put up to fatten, their food must
be softened by heat if they are to do well.
Dry pea meal and water is perhaps the
most economical in Canada, but in corn
countries the food must not be whole corn
or the profit will be precious small. It
should be ground up, cob and all, to an almost impalpable powder. I consider that
four bushels of barley meal at the rate of one
- , _,_ jjVII-'w". have ___«<!«___ n. selecting
only the largest piid mosVperlect animals
in the Norman family for breeding purposes, we may be able to breed them up to
a standard of excellence even beyond that
which they now possess.
'Sjcfcrinarg*
This department ls edited by Br. John N. Navin
Veterinary Surgeon, author ot Navin's Explanatory
Btock Doctor.
Correction.—In response to the inquiry
of Wm. Dernette, Terre Haute, Ohio, in the
recipe for "disease in blood" for horse, the
printer made it reed "drachms," whereas
we wrote ounces. It should read ounces
everywhere in place of drachms.
Norman French. Horses.
For many hundred years there has existed in Normandy a superior race of heavy
•"*"«"»«•»noted for their size, action, strength*. .      . 	
and endurance, *rt_ey wero nuj>d u<_«j{,learna valuable lesson, and by a judicious
man horses, from the fact that \hey 'w'eret^f^'v*fit breed_in.«..we may. avoidjhe mis-
bred in Normandy, and existed there, a
distinct breed, for many years before they
became scattered throughout the other districts in France. They are now known by
various names peculiar to the departments
in whioh they are found. In Boulogne,
they are known as Boulonnais; in Normandy, . as Augerons; in Picardy, as
Vimuex; and in Artois and French Flanders, as Hammonds. They are all descendants ofthe Norman race, to which they are
indebted for all their good qualities as draft
horses. There are various other names by
which Norman horses areknownin France,
but the familes we have named are the
most renowned in commerce.
THESE FAMILIES PRODUCE
not only the renowned heavy drait horses
known by their respective names, but they
furnish a large number ot the colts which
are taken into Perche and raised there and
sold by the Perche iarmers under the name
of Great Percherons. The name Percheron
originated among ,the good farmers of
Perche, who buy colts from all the neighboring departments and Percherize them—
that is, they make Percherons of them by
giving them plenty of good and moderate
work. The farmers of Perche are engaged
more in raising horses than breeding them.
They go into the neighboring departments
and buy a certain class of gray colts that
make medium-sized animals when matured; they feed them well, work them
moderately, and sell them, when grown,
under the name of Percherons. This class
of horses is extensively employed in the
omnibus service throughout all the departments in France.
Brittany, a division in France, situated
on the western coast, furnishes the Perche
farmers with the greatest number of colts
suitable for omnibus horses. This Percher-
izing business has been carried on extensively in Perche, and the large number of
Percherized animals which the Perche
farmers have thrown upon the market
under the name of Percherons, has established that name for all omnibus horses in
France, regardless of where they are bred
or raised. Brittany furnishes the Paris
market with as good omnibus horses as
Perche does, and although they are bred,
raised and, sold by the Breton.farmers,
when they arrive in the Paris market they
are called Percherons.
WHAT OTHERS SAY OF THEM.
Professor Magne, a very reliable French
writer, director oi the Imperial Veterinary
College at Alfort, France, says: "All Breton horses are not sold as such. Many are
called Percherons because they have been
kept a longer or shorter time in Perche or
finance. Even tne horses that leave Brittany completely grown do not always keep
their name; according to their shape, they
are passed off as Percherons or natives of
Caux or Virois."
. Hon. J. H. Klippart, secretary of the
Ohio State Agricultural Society, who traveled extensively in France in the interest
of agriculture, iu his report to the State
board, says: "By the name Percheron, the
Parisians" understand all omnibus horses,
and in general, horses of this size and
weight, especially if they are gray horses."
Professor Mague, in his history of French
horses, s-ays: "Although horse industry is
well understood where the Percheron is
raised, it is not. understood where he is
bred. * » * The iarmers of Eure-et-
Loir, in Perche, buy colts from Vendee,
Poitou, Brittany, Normandy, Picardy, Artois, and even from Champagne, Nivernais,
Bourgogne, and French-Comte. They keep
sweet spirits of nitre, in her drink. If she
refuses this, give her pulverized nitre, a
level teaspoonful in feed once or twice
daily; keep her from pasture, or watch
what she eats when outdoors.
Blackleg.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Tell us through your valuable paper
what is the matter with our calves, they
are yearlings. They Lecome lame, the
blood rushes to the" shoulder and settles
between the flesh and skin; they only live
one day after they are noticed. We supposed it to be blackleg, and gave them salt
and vinegar, according to prescription,
but it does no good. Please give us a cure
and a preventive if you know ot any.
Atchison, Kas. Thos. Keith.
—Your calves are affected with a disease
variously called blackleg, blackquarter,
inflammatory fever. Prevention in this
disease is preferable to remedy, whereas
that a remedy is imminently doubtful.
Your calves are over fed, from the fact that
none except fat, or over led cattle are ever
affected by this fell disease. The sheet anchor of the veterinary surgeon in this disease is bleeding. For a large animal 40 to
60 grains of tartar emetic and tincture of
digitalis one ounce, reduced according to
size; leave out the digitalis after the first
dose, and the antimony after vomiting
takes place. Wet packing is good; take a
wet sheet and cover the animal with it, and
two or three blankets or rugs over it, to
bring on perspiration.
Scabs on Cattle.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What is the matter with my cattle? About
two months ago I noticed scabs on a thoroughbred cow; they came off and most of
the hair, but left no sore. Three weeks ago
she lost twin calves, being about six
months' gone. She was not hurt to my
knowledge. These scabs are on her body.
She seems smooth in the hair except those
places. I next noticed the same on a yearling heiler, but just on her legs from the
hoof to knee. Next on a grade steer, same
place as heifer. Those three are no relation,
so cannot be inherited. - They are well fed,
stabled and watered. Now what, is the reason of those scabs, ahd what will be beneficial for them. Subscriber.
- Plymouth, Ohio. _-, m	
v  —^TCOT-X BtUCK ai-rr    *<w   ..^_a--fa._. ,-X^tluJU-
condition of health in coming off pasture,'
their blood is poor and watery from some
cause, perhaps from eating wild grass,
herbs, in woods or fence corners, etc. For
application to sores, take sulphate of zinc
one ounce, and cold water three, which
may be made stronger if necessary. For
internal treatment give ginger four ounce*-;
flour of sulphur, Pulis nitre, black antimony, sulphate of iron and resin of each
two ounces; mix and give one teaspoonful
three times per day in mixed wet feed.
The above is for one beast; the cow may
need more.
^I«
r4nrm-
Lame Horse.
Editors Indiana Fanner:
I have a horse three years old last spring
that has a lump in front of the pastern joint,
on the right hind leg, that appears to be
grown to the leader in front; it remains
soft. Subscriber.
Center Valley."
—If the tumor is round, or semi-oval,
the contents are contained in a sack which
must be cut out, for it maybe opened every
three months, and it will fill again. If a
flat enlargement, blister with the liquid
blister once daily until rough, then every
alternate day for fifteen days, then grease
with lard; take Spanish fly 1 ouace, spirit*
of turpentine 1 pint.
Lice on Cattle.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
(Please give in next issue the best remedy and cure for a cow that has lice.
<!Ciawfordsville, Ind. Subscriber.
I—If the vermin are along the back, neck,
ahd posterior of their horns, take dry clay,
or dry wood ashes, and sift either through
the hair; this will kill half way down the
sides and neck. If on the belly, thighs,
ahd dewlap,breast, take red precipitate and
mix with lard, enough to color the lard; I
rub in on any parts that the cow cannot
lick, or take tobacco ooze juice and rub it
qn one side of the animal, and in a few days
the other side. . If you encircle at once it
will kill her.
Bitter Milk.
Hditors Indiana Farmer:
[ Tell me the cause of a cow giving bitter
milk, and give a remedy forthe same? I
Have a cow that has given bitter milk for
three winters; is a splendid cow for milk
and butter; is easily kept fat, and is fat
enough for good beef now, but the milk is
so bitter when it is milked that we can't
use it, but give it to the pigs—thought at
first it was something she ate, but we
changed the pasture and feed and still the
ipilk was bitter. Can't make any butter
out of the milk, it will foam until the churn
is almost full. Tlie milk is bitter only in
winter, is all right at other times.
Franklin, Ind. Subscriber.
—Your cow has inflammation of the secretory ducts; the cause I am not able to
ascertain, perhaps drinking of stagnant
water, inhaling malarious gases from the
decayed herbs on the brink of some pool,
stream, or pond, perhaps eating some bitter
shrub in woods pastures, etc.   Give her ' per bushel.
Postal Card Correspondence.
INDIANA.
Boone Co., Dec. 29.—Wheat still looks
fine here. But little snow yet. Stock is
doing fine.   Time* good at present.
W. H. N.
Green Co., Jan. 1.—We  are having a
warm winter in this section.   Corn was a
_% crop.   Growing wheat looks well.
* J. M. B.
Spencer Co., Dec. 25.—A large acreage of
wheat sown, looks well since the rains set
in. Corn about % crop. Potatoes good
crop. Hogs about all sold. Sheep scarce
and high. E. C. S.
Franklin Co., Dae. 30.—We are having
a very mild winter. Grass is making some
growth yet. Corn is all gathered; crop
short of an average. Wheat lookiDg fine.
The hog crop was light. Stock of all kinds
doing well. W. M. B.
Hancock Co., Dec. 30.—Corn an average
crop here. Wheat is looking fine. Hogs
about all sold. Stock doing well. Has B.
O. W., Miami county, early Amber sugar
cane seed for sale? Tell him to give price.
[He should advertise it if he has good seed
lor sale.] B. L. B.
Tippecanoe Co., Dec. 30.—I live on the
beautiiul Wea Plains. I have taken the
Farmer for one year, and could not do
without it now. Wheat a large acreage
sown and looks well. Corn nearly all
husked but not quite so good a crop as last
year—is sound but a little light.
G. D. E.
| JNew Harmony, Dec. 30.—Roads are in
a fearful muddy condition.. During the.
late cold weather we gathered some good
ice on the ponds in the fair grounds and
stored for summer. A large number of
hogs are being packed in this place. We
had a good crop of corn. One of our grain
firms shipped 25,000 bushels of wheat today to Baltimore by barges. Wheat crop
looking well. Fran k D. Boi/ten.
TEXAS.
Austin, Dec. 23.—Weather warm amd
pleasant; doors and windows open; coat ofl
and mosquitoes buzzing. Crops poor, all
kinds of feed very scarce.   Corn 85 to 00c
W. P.
m-Storm.
Bates Co., Dec. 24.—There has been
more wheat sown this year than usual, and
it looks well. The corn is not all gathered
yet. It will average at least 50 bushels to
the acre in this county. The sugar cane
crop has done well here this year.
Rollin P. Browning.
KANSAS.
Labette Co., Dec. 29.—A good deal of
sickness, mostly typhoid fever; a good
many deaths. Corn a good price for this
country, fion 24 to 30c, owing to the Texas
demand, a large quantity being shipped
there. The growing crop looking well,
acreage more than double that of last year.
J. II.C.
UlEMTGCKY.
Daviess Co., Dec. 25.—Farming very
good this year. Corn would have been extra but for a sterm that blew it down and
injured it considerable. Tobacco, for this
is a tobacco county, is splendid, hardly ever
fails. Some have already sold for f 8 from
the ground up—leaf lugs and trash.
Sam'l H. Griffith.
TE*VNi*aSI-I2.
Lawrence Co., Dec. 29.—The growing
wheat here looks quite well where it was
sown in good season, but much was sown
late. Corn % of crop. Sweet, potatoes are
a good orop here; they are now selling at
50c per bushel, and dull at that, norses
are low; mules bring good prices. Weather
is warm and rainy. Jno. W. D.
OHIO.
Warren Co., Dec, 27.—My farm is in the
Little Miami Valley. Some say that I do
not need manure on my land. But in the
six years'experience that I have had with
heavy manuring, am well satisfied that it
doeri pay, as I sell enough seed corn every
year to pay for a lot of manure. The Poland China hog and Chester White are -Uie
prevailing stock. All kinds of sheep from
the small Saxon up' *o the large Bakwell,
mostly Cotswold. I ieop the latter in preference to any other. Corn on level land
light and'ehafly; oh botloirj'/gooa. There
are a great matiy bogs to Im Blit_ ptmi iron. —
here yet; most of them will be very heavy.
1. P. Porter.
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Fayette Co., Dec. 29.—Wheat still looks
well—acreage more than last season. No
hog cholera here.   Times good. M.
Ci-ay Co., Dec. 29.—Corn about half crop
and poor quality. Fat hogs all sold at f 1.
Our wheat crops look well. Long inay the
Farmer live. W. H. J.
Douglass Co., Dec. 27.—Our corn crop is
a large one. Growing wheat looks nice.
Will some of your readers tell me the best
way to pack ice for summer use?
W. F. W.
Franklin Co., Dec. 27.—Early sown
wheat looks well In this part of the county.
Corn was not as good a crop as expected.
We are having a good deal of rain. I
think the Farmer an excellent paper—
would like to continue to take it this nex
year. H. S.
From a Friend of the Farmer.
Ejlltors Indiana Faj.mer:
I feel as though it is the duty of every
tax p'tyer in tho State of Indiana to take
the Indiana Faiimer. During the session
of the last LegisLiture'V.f the State, the
Ikdiana Farmer did more for the tax
payers of the State, especially the farming
portion, than all the other papers combined.
The reduction of the officials fees and
salaries and the reduction of the rate of
interest was mainly due tothe influence
brought to bear by the Indiana Farmer.
May the farmers repay tho favor by supporting their best friend.
Jay Co., Ind. Daniel Atkinson.
ri.oitii.jt.
Manatee Co., Dec. 20.—So far winter
has been more pleasant than your summers.
Temperature is usually 82 degrees at 1 p.
m. Planting of the most delicate vegetables may progress all the winter, thus
supplying the table, aud balance to ship
North. This is a remarkable country and
will require years to develop its resources.
If Northern people would come here to
spend their winters and go out into the
country, they could get good boarding at
rates so low ag to seem incredible, and
thereby get knowledge of the country.
Bees do weU here and work nearly all the
year, often building honey comb on the
outside of gum, after filling inside. Facts
appear as folly. I don't advise anyone to
come; personally wish I had come years
ago, in which case I now might have a
grove of bearing orange trees to bring in
an adequate income in future. Had Florida fever before I came, and yet have it
fully developed. Kiliiy Ferguson.
The Best Paper.
The Indiana Farmer is the best paper
to advertise in I have ever tried. I am receiving letters of inquiry by every mail,
and all say they saw the advertisement in
the Farmer. J. B. Fosher.
Putnam Co., Ind.
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