VOL. XV.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA! SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 1880.
NO. 6.
Mb. Isaac Austin, Warren Co., Ohio,
has lately sold to some prominent breeders,
, the Poland China sow Princess, sired by
Perfection Prince, for $40, also other fine
sows at like good prices.   .
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Mil.'C. 1*. I>ak_jt_.____ last week sold fine
Cotswolds to T. F. Crist, and S. T. Davis,*
New Market, .Montgomery county, this
State, twenty-two head In all. The sheep
were fine thoroughbreds and they brought
good prices. , .-
FIHB STOCK SALE.
We call attention to the fact that the
already advertised sale of J. T.'Williamson
* Son, of fine thoroughbred Short-horn
cattle, at or near Thorntown, Indiana, next
Tuesday, February 10th. The sale of this
herd offersa rare opportunity' for breeders
'and farmers to obtain some choice breeding
'stock. The catalogue, before us, J ust printed, gives the pedigrees of 29 head of some
ofthe best strains of this choice stock, and
It Is to be hoped that oar breeders and
farmers will see to it that all are retained
in this State where they are needed. The
eows are all bred to Oakland Duke, No. 20,
and Mary's Prince, No. 29, both superb
animals.
MODEL STOCK 3?ABM.
The Mexico, Mo., Intelligencer, mentions
the fine stock; farm of Messrs. L. <$; M.
Lackland near that place, of 1,040 acres.
This farm il; states is most methodically
conducted, is divided into 600 acres of
timothy meadow, 200 acres bf bliie-grass
and 40 acres of orchard, the, balance being
devoted tb corn growing.. It is devoted to
stock, grazing and feeding, the usual stock
. consisting of about 300 sheep, 450 hogs, 300
steers, and from. 30 to 50 mules and horses.
The yearly feed for the market is about 300
steers, 400, to 500 hogs'and twoWr^ loads of
mules," the market value 'of'the whole
ranging from $25,000 tp $28,000. The more
noteworthy feature of this farm is the great
stock barn, a splendid structure 150x160
feet upon the ground, covered by a perfect
roofing of cement, and most perfectly constructed in every part. It has two broad
central drives or wagon ways, crossing each
other at right angles in the center, dividing
the ground plan into four grand divisions,
subdivided into departments with stalls,
yards and feeding places for about 400 head
of stock of all classes. Method and
thoughtful management is the secret of
success in this as in all successful enterprises. .
DB. HAVIH OH H0BSE-SH0EIHG.
A few days ago the Western Sportsman
Interviewed Dr. J.N. Navin on this subject,
the pose of it relating to the "frog"
of the horses foot. The Doctor in this
Interview says:
A liondon bus owner who works 400
horses, said to a friend of mine recently,
that he never allowed calkings upon the
shoes of any horse, that placed his feet
down fairly on the ground, but said that
some horses put their feet down in a sliding
or shoving manner. Those we have
calked, When asked by my friend, what
percent, of lame horses were in favor of
.smooth shoeing. The answer was: That
over ninety per cent, of the lame horses
were among those wearing calkings. In
further proof of my position, I finjj In a
book lately written in Scotland by an emi-
nentphysician.   The author says:
Calkings and toe-pieces Bhould be done
away with for all kinds of horses; except,
those used for heavy draft, in towns where
the streets are paved and steep. This
means paving with square stones with
flat ends, such as those used in New York
city. He further says: all those horses required to go beyond a walking pace, are
injured by shoes with turned-up heels and
toes. Farm horses, and those employed
upon Macadamized roads, are better without, than with heel and toe-pieces, although
the pace they are required to go is never
faster than a walk. In fact, where possible,
all horses should be shod with flat shoes.
That nature has supplied tho foot with an
insensitive sole, reaching from the toe back
to the heel, dividing in front of the frog,
and extending beyond the bars to the heel,
this Bole represents a flat or half-moon arch,
with the frog dividing its posterior end into
two wings, including the bars above this
arched insensitive sole, is a sensitive sole,
and above the frog is a sensitive frog, both
highly vascular,—supplied with bloodvessels—and both supplying the office of
cushions in modifying the ascent of the
coffin and navicular bones upon the Insensitive sole and frog, both as before mentioned
being vascular. If the weight of the horse
should' rest upon them the circulation
could not be carried on.
Therefore nature has furnished the coffin
bone with elastic, little lamellte which are
dove-tailed into a like number upen the
interior, superior and lateral surface of the
wall of the foot .above them, by which
means the coffin bone never presses upon
the sensitive sole beneath it, unless in
action. These lamellae are about 550 In nuin-
The sensitive frog is placed in the posterior of the foot and the tendon passes it
and inserts itself into the body ofthe coffin
bone between its wings. Therefore the
frog protects the tendon from violence
below it. The navicular bone is placed
between the wings of the coffin bone above
the tendon to which the bone performs the
office of a puUey, and by its union with the
coffin bone. forms a seat for the lower
pastern bone to rest upon, the union of the
f three bones, the coffin, the navicular and
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the pastern, form the coffin joint, '■ with the
tendon beneath them, - <
; Therefore any unprejudiced man will
readily see that the object of nature in
placing the frog in the heel' ofthe foot was
not for the purpose of: acting. as a .wedge
with which to expand.tbe he$l f^r ii is not
wedge shaped, and it so is too soft and
elastic as I said bgfore to exert the amount
of force necessary ' to expand the heel,
although it may supply some Jittle assist-.
anee. It is plain that the frog has' two'pur-
poses to perform. First its gfeatest use
is to protect the sensitive frog from injury
from beneath, and it is also' useful as a stay
to the wild horae in descending steep
places, and is equally useful In keeping the
unshod horse from slipping on frozen
ground. I can readily prove to any man
professing ordinary good sense, how ex-
Jansion is effected without frog pressure,
t is effected in this way, by the horse being
suspended to the wall of the foot, in violent
or quick action, the foot is. put down
heavily, those elastic lamella, spoken o'f
allow the coffin bone and navicular to descend upon the crown of the so called arch,
and therefore, presses against its base, the
wall, and reaqily expands it, allowing the
arched sole to descend and hinder concussion of the sensitive sole, which is all
nature demands in expanding the foot.
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This department ls edited hy Dr. John N. Navin,
Veterinary Surgeon, author ot Navin's Explanatory
Stock Doctor.
Correction.—In response to the Inquiry
of "J. Mc. K." last week In regard to oil
meal, it shoud read "feed a teacupful, etc.,"
not "teaspoonful," as printed.
.Is It GoodP
Editors Indiana Farmer:
The fat portion of one hog tbat I butchered was very yellow, also a yellow or oily
substance in the small intestines. Is it
advisable to use the meat or lard?
W. W. F.
The yellowness of the fat of your hog,
and yellowness of contents of Its bowels,
are caused by a defect In the secretion of the
bile being passed into the duodenum, and
will not affect anybody except that a bitter
taste may be felt.
Lame Horse.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Puffy tumor in front of hock-joint; makes
a noise like a screeching door at every step;
horse is not so lame after traveling a little
time.   Give remedy. E. B. G.
Blister your horse severely with a liquid
blister composed of cantharides VA ounces,
spirits of turpentine 1 pint; rub in hard
with the hand once per day until blistered,
then every other day for 15 days. The hock-
joint never cracks or rattles, the pastern
may snap a little; never saw but one that
did. "
Foundered.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
My horse is foundered, and being hoof-
bound it seems from the appearance that the
two front feet are coming off. The hoof -is
getting very long and dry; the animal
wants to stand on the heel with the toe
turned up. J. C
If tne crust of your horse's feet are coming off all that is necessary to do is to keep
the old shell pared or rasped away before
the advance of the new one; keep at least a
quarter of an Inch distance between the
old and the new., If the old hoof should
stay on and the lamllsB that joins It to the
ooffin-bone gives way, the sole breaks
down, see Navin's Explanatory Stock Doctor, page 190, for pumiced foot, and' page
267 for double shoe for that disease. Full
instructions would require nearly one page
of the Farmer.
Horse's Eyes.     >      yy
Editors Indiana Farmer! .' ■• J? "! ■ .
. How shall I treat my horse's eyes?. He
first took' a soreness in his left eye "and
then it got better. In a few weeks it
wouldj get sore again, and: every timeYltr
would leave it weaker until there ia^jlm
£rown over the eye, and I am afraid ' the.-
other eye will go the same way, '* '■'. '-y' '■'.-'
;...-*, ■•;,,•,■>■.. •y-.y-"-*f!YV'A SCBSCIOBER.*;
•* .Yotii? horse has either qpttialmla or junc-
tavo. Give him ten grains of calomel three
times per day in tn-au;'continue it for some
time if doing -good.. Make-a powder of the
yolk of an egg and salt; -mix the salt with
the egg till it J-ecomes too stiff to be poured
out by heat; place it in a hot fire of clear
coals, burn until it quits blazing, then
cool, grind and blow into the eye. The
chances now are doubtful.
Too Much Blister.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a mule that had a lumpon one ofhis
pastern joints and tried to drive it away
with one of your blisters of capsicum
and one pint turpentine, and made it sore,
and it has run into what is called the
grease-heel. I would like to know what
will cure it? J. N. R.
Your mule's ring-bone has not run into
grease-heel. You may have blistered its
heel, which never should be done. Take
powdered gum camphor J4 ounce; gum
myrrh, 1 ounce; spirits turpentine, 1 ounce;
sulphuric acid, 1 ounce; mix with 1 pint of
lard; pour in the acid very slowly, a little
at a Urn*, or else it will take fire; wash the
parts with castile soap; dry well every
time before using, once per day.
Tone up the Horse.
Editors Indiana Farmer
■ Will you please give me your treatment
for worms in horses, and tell me whether
the worms will make the hair come off the
horse if he Is troubled any length of time?
The hair is coming off of my horse's belly
and legs. . J. F. O.
No healthy bowel will breed worms,
as unhealthy meat creates maggots. You
must tone up your horse's system. Sulphate of iron will destroy worms in level
teaspoonful doses once per day, but they
will not stay destroyed. Take ground ginger four ounces, black antimony, Pulis nitre, flour of sulphur, resin each of two
ounces, and sulphate of iron four; mix and
give one teaspoonful three times per day.
You must allow your horse to lie in a
dirty place, to scald the hair ofl, the ammonia in the horse'B urine will necessarily
scald the hair off.
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Why Sheep Shed their Wool.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I feed them once a day on corn and fodder. I have 44 ewes, feed them about 100
stalks of fodder with corn on • It at a feed.'
They are of the Cotswold stock and are in
good order.« The wool comes out on the
sides of some of them. Is it the corn that
causes It? What will prevent it? Will
Dr. Navin, the farmer's friend, answer?
K. N.H.
You are correct in your allusion as to
the farmer's friend, and so is the Indiana
Farmer 'the farmer's true friend. You
are also correct in your idea of too much
carbonized food being a fruitful cause of
your sheep, shedding their wool. You
know when stock of any kind are fed in
means, together, the boldest get the largest
share, and as one ear of corn has more nutriment in it than three small ears, some
get more than an equal share; feed less, or
feed equal, give your shedding sheep a little bran for a change, and take alum, pulverize very fine; take proof spirits and
mix in all the alum that it will dissolve,
then add as much olive oil as of spirits;
annoint the skin on and above the stripped
rr~—;	
portion once a day for at least two weeks;
this Js the best topical astringent you can
use.
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What Ails   My HorseP
.BJitori! Indiana Farmer: .           ';.'_..,
"He has been sick for about six weeks, has
a weakness in back pr hips, can get up
feffy^ttany trouble when down, only that
he reolS*and staggers-in "his hind parts.
^Several men have examined him and'say
^it is worms, but have failed'to": bring any
from him. He showed some* trouble in his
back or hips before he was'taken bad. He
eats well, was two years old last Bpring.
H.,S. S.
Your horse is not troubled with worms,
for they never affect a horse in that way,
his staggering is caused by either an affeo-
tlon of the brain, kidneys, or of his loins,
called sprained back. If sprain, blister his
loins. If ot the kidneys, give him pulverized niter twice per day in feed. Dose one
rounding teaspoonful. If of the brain,
give hypodermic injections of morphia and
atrophia, one drachm every two hours
until the pulse is reduced five beats, or use
tincture of aconite R. T. and tincture of
belladona, J^of a drachm alternately every
two hours until pulse is reduced.
Diseased Condition.
Editors Indiana Farmer. ~*
I have a horse that has worms very bad,
has had them for over a year, and swells In
the hind legs from the hoof to a little above
the knee after standing in the barn for a
day or two; is a good ■ feeder and worker,
and is 13 years old; the swelling goes off
after working a while. D. V. B.
The cause bf your horse breeding worms
so persistently is that his bowels are in a
diseased condition, and nourish and perpetuate worms on the same principle that
diseased meat perpetuates maggots; thus
the food she eats, though properly digested,
is made unhealthy by contact with diseased
bowels, therefore vitiating its nutriment
and causing an unhealthy condition of the
blood, which Is the cause of the legs swelling. Give the medicine ordered for Horace G. Sutton's horse. I suppose your
horse will eat it in ground feed. Blister
the legs on one side only; use the liquid
blister Spanish fly \% ounces to I pint spirits of turpentine; rub hard daily until blistered, then alternate days for five or six
times, then grease with lard and blister the
other side of the limb; do not dare to blister all round at a time.
• ■ No Appetite.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Please tell me what _Bls my mare, she has
no appetite unless I work her very bard;
her hair looks bad all the time, and when I
drive her but a short distance she becomes
weak. It is only through the winter that
her'hair" looks bad, and no appetite, but all
through the summor she is weak. I have
taken the Fakmer but a short time, and
like it very well. I would not do without
it? H. G. S.
' The laterals of the bowels which take up
the nutriment out of the food and pass it
into the blood fail to perform their functions, of course not all, but many of them,
therefore scarcely enough carbon is taken
into the system to counteract the effect ot
the oxygen taken into the lungs from
eliminating their substances into a turbur-
culoas disease, either consumption or into
glanders- Takeground ginger four ounces,
and flour of sulphur, Pulls nitre, black antimony, sulphate of iron and resin of each
two ounces; give one heaping teaspoonful
three times per day in water; drench with
a bottle; put on a bridle and throw the
rein* over a beam aud pull up the head till
the nose is higher than the gullet.
The Fence  Question.
This is getting to be a very important
question to Iarmers, and we give here some
estimates of the cost of the different kinds
of fencing;
,- lw the following calculation-of.- eost-of
different kinds of fences/40 rods of each
■kindare tal_;en, that being the side- of a' 10
acre field; p'eriody.11 years, that being the
average duration of board and rail • fences,
as estimated by intelligent farmers. The
.estimate of a large number being averaged,
a rail fence, eight rails high, requires 800
rails. A rail is reckoned 10}i feet long and
four inches square, so that timber for 800
railj Is equal to 10,700 feet of lumber in the
tree worth 50 cents per 100.
Mating cost..: _  .   fS3 .»
For making 800 rails....'. _ _     g m
Hauling and building _ „ _      4 oo
'   First cost—  	
Average annual repairs Ave per cent., 11 years
IffiM
61*2
Total , »»i ea
Average annual cost of rail fence 33 cts. per rod.
BOARD   FENCE.
Bor a fine board fence, without capping posts,
requires 1,700 feet of lumber at (2 CO per 100
feet „ .'.   |34 00
Hauling and building __    12 00
Eighty five pasts at 20 cents each     17 00
First ceet    f63 OO
Average annual repairs 2>$ per cent, ls     17 32
Total for 11 years ;     (80 32
Average annual cast per rod of board fence 18.3 cts.
,   HEDGE FENCE,  j
First csst per contractors _.   fH CO
Four yaars expense of another  fence, while
hedgsgrews, if rails „     36 80
Average annual repairs for 11 years including
extra ground 20 cts. per rod..     88 OO
■ Total _       JIM (8
Average annual cost per rod of hedge 37.3 cts.
STEEL WIRE NETTING.
Forty, rods at (1 40 for standard..  |i6 10
"forty posts at 20 cta... _.        8 M
Hauling, freight fer IK) milts and building      8 00
First cost _   !?9 00
Aaaual repairs X per cent, for n years      3 85
__Total _..    873 85
AVerage annual cost wire net-work per rod 16.8 cts.
Having made a careful estimate the annual cost and whole for 11 years, and given
each kind of fence a fair estimate, the result we recapitulate   as follows:
Forty rods rail fence, whole cost for 11
years $101 52, liable to be blown down
and to fires; ^of probably one-fourth first
cost value at end ot 11 years.
Forty rods board fence, whole cost for
11 years $80 32, liable to fire, less so, than
rails; probable value at end of 11 years one-
eighth first cost.
Forty rods hedge fence, whole cost for
11 years $164, liable to winter-kill, to be
killed to the ground by fire, a great vermin
harbor, and at end of 11 years destroys fertility of soil, at least one rod each' side.
Future annual expense 30 cents per rod, including rent of land.
'. Forty rods steel wire net-work fence, annual cost per rod; and whole cost ior 11
years $73 85,/not liable to storms or fire,
produces no shade or snow drifts, harbors
nothing. At end of 11 years ■ new set of
posts, setting and painting $14, good as
new, annual expense for 11 years more
4 cents per rod, including new posts and
repairs.                                       •  ■
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The scarlet fever has broken out in Salem
and the school is becoming depopulated
very rapidly, and from present ' appearances will be compelled to close. Pneumonia has also become almost epidemic.
 m   m.   «	
Sixteen million bushels of oysters are annually packed at Baltimore.
",.,.   STATE  NEWS. i
The businessmen of Connersville have
organized a board of trade.
Jackson Wiggins, a well-known citizen ;
of Angola, committed suicide by taking ;
morphine Saturday morning.
E. E. Myers, of Detroit, Michigan, haa
been awarded the contract for furnishing
the plans for the Grant county court-house
at Marion.
The residence of J. H. Tyner, of Tipton,
was destroyed by fire on the 21st. Fire
caught from defective flue. Loss about
$1,200.   Insured for $800 in Home N. Y.
Elijah Kodgers, a farmer eighty-six years
old, was run over by a freight train at
Bowers, Montgomery county, and instantly killed. Both legs were cut off above the
knees.
Harrison Randolph, of Paoli, who was injured by a slight scratch on the nose and waa
afterward  taken   with   lockjaw,  died in •
convulsions, after being without food  for
six days. ,
t David Lynn's girl "went back on him"
and  he took a big dose of morphine and
prepared to die.   His fremds, forced antidotes   down his throat and  walked  him
about all night and he yet lives at Milton.
Mr.  Wm.  S. Mead's  stave  factory,  at
Spencer, was totally destroyed by fire last
week,   loss, $1,000 on building and machinery.   It was beyond a doubt, set on fire
by some malicious person.   No insurance.
Benjamin Erkers, a single man from Cincinnati, while hunting with several Richmond friends, in Boston township, Wayne
county, was instantly killed by pulling his
loaded shotgun muzzle toward him through
a hedge. *
H. Wheeler was run over and killed by
a freight train at Terra Haute. He. was endeavoring to cross the track, being partially deaf, did not hear the-approaching train.
He leaves a family in destitute circumstances.
«The Allen county commissioners have
concluded the investigation ofthe alleged
abuses at the county asylum. They decided
that the evidence did not warrant the
charges against Superintendent Spice, and
therefore that he should be retained.
Charles Poucher, aged 30, a local preacher
of the M. E. Church, committed suicide by
hanging himself on his farm, four miles
west of New Albany. The cause was insanity, produced by religious excitement
in relation to sanctificatlon.
The commissioners of Tippecanoe oounty have adopted a resolution to build, and
invited -plans and specifications from architects for a Court-house. The general expectation Is that a house costing ln the
neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars will be erected.
Elias Hottinger, of Goshen, disappeared
on the 4th oi December last, and not the
least clew to his late can be discovered. He
was last seen going in a saloon, whose
proprietor, Mr. Edwards, was next morning, found dying in the saloon, from an
overdose of morphine.
The residence of W. L. Hasbrouck of
Greensburg, was destroyed by fire on the
30th. It was insured for $500 on the house,
$400 on the furniture and $100 on the library.
The residence and library were a total loss.
Most of the furniture was saved. The fire
caught from one of the flues.
Orle Allison, foreman In the Owen County Journal office, at Spencer, was loading
some shells ior his gnn when one exploded,
igniting some loose powder, which burned
all the right side of his face, severely burning his nose, the right ear and the eye. It
is thought he will lose the eye.
John Bowen, a well-known young man
of Decatur county, has been arrested by
Marshal demons, of Greensburg, on the
charge of forgery. It is alleged that about
two weeks ago he forged a check on S. H.
Hamilton, presented it at the Citizens national bank ol Greensburg, and drew the
money.
Mr. J. C. Davis, the Madison fruit grower, reports the peach crop on his extensive
place in perfect condition, and is of the
opinion that the harvest will be very large.
He says the buds are not dangerously advanced and that it will take a more severe
cold snap than we are likely to have to injure them.
Emma Cox, living near Fillmore, was
standing before an open fire-place when
her clothes were ignited, and in her efforts
to put out the flames, ran about the yard
until her clothes were burned entirely off.
After enduring horrible suffering for several hours the unfortunate lady died.
Wm. Harris, a colored man living six
miles west of Mitchell, killed bis wife with
an ax. She was suflering with puerperal
fever, and finally she became delirious and
attempted to get out of bed, to which
HarriB remonstrated under threats, and on
her next attempt to get up, he got his ax
and plunged it into her head and body
three times, causing her death almost instantly.
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