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VOL. XV.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA! SATURDAY, FEB.
1880.
It is Thus. C. Hammond, instead of Chas.
C, who has Short-horns for sale. See his
advertisement on 3d page.
FIHE SHEEP.
Mr. Cai. F. Darnell, of Evergreen Hill
Farm, has just imported from Canada another very fine lot of pure Cotswold sheep.
They arrived in fine condition last Saturday, seventy-five head, as uniform and flne
as we have ever seen. He now has 112
head of Cotswolds, with as fine a buck as
•we have ever seen at the head of a flock,
a cut of which with a boy by the side, appears in our advertising columns. As one
of our correspondents states, the sheep is
really finer than the picture shows him.
We do not think there is a better sheep in
the West than this buck is.
SWIHE BECOHD.
The importance of some reliable method
of tracing the record of swine has
taken shape in some sections of the country in annual printed records, similar to
the method of the Short-horn Herd-book.
The American Berkshire Record, published
at Springfield, 111., is an admirable publication for breeders of this class of swine,
treating breeders fairly from all the States
ofthe Union, giving postoffice address, etc.,
of each one. But the Poland China Record,
printed in a neighboring State, seems to be
a close corporation, as we understand that
the-managers decline giving the address of
Poland China breeders outside their own
State and circle. It seems strange that the
numerous and honorable breeders of
Poland Chinas in Indiana will longer submit to be tabooed by this kind of manipulation. Some of tbem, we understand,
have their stock recorded in the book of
this close corporation, but as stated, their
addresses are studiously omitted, while the
addresses of their own State breeders are
given inthe record. Perhaps this is the
secret of the falling off of the sales pf-fin'e
-"-^-^.^a _r-V.in««_jn__Tndiana,...It is surely
time that the Indiana breeders were looking after their own interests a little in
someway.
much cheaper than I can make it, if I can
buy it for 10 cents per pound. It a steer
weighing 900 pounds can be bought for
?25, he will be cheaper at 535 after he is fed
to 1,000 pounds. By buying this first 100
ponnds gain, a double advantage is obtained; I have secured the actual gain, and
also secured in the animal a habit of gaining. Other things being equal, the second
month of feeding will develop a greater
gain in.weight than the first, even with the
same feed. My expfrience accords with the
celebrated German experiments, which
proved that during the first stages of the
fattening process, large quantities of water
are removed from the cellular structure,
and its place is supplied by a deposit of fat.
When this process of substitution has been
completed, and the formation of new cells
commences, it is then that we may look for
a gain in the weight of the animal. While
it is economy for the grain farmer to bny
the first 100 pounds gain of the steer, it is
also economy for him to buy the steer at 30
months old, rather than Taise him upon
land capable of producing 30 bushels of
wheat per acre, and other crops in proportion.
I often realize as much money for the
keeping of a steer the last six months ofhis
life, as the former owner did for the first
thirty months. It is in this finishing process that all the profit lies. Six months is
as long as a steer can be led with profit, unless we turn to grass—something which the,
true grain farmer will not be guilty of. Six
months is insufficient time in which to convert a thin steer into prime beet; therefore,
I say, commence with fleshy steers. The
fattening process in cattle can never be hurried, and is at best a slow one—15 pounds
per week being the best gain I have ever
been able to make.. I avoid surfeiting, as
a steer once cloyed will never have a regular appetite again, and his gain at best will
be irregular. A good appetite being essential to the thrift of a steer, all reasonable
efforts should be made to jsustain it. To
this end I allow plenty of out-door exerr
cise, and am careful never to give. more
'grain than tiiey will eat—Cor. Country
Gentleman.
Fine Sheep—How to Sell and Find
Them.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Wanting to buy some thoroughbred Cotswold sheep I looked into your advertisements to see who had them for sale, and
found S. R. Quick & Son, and wrote to them
and bougnt eight head oi ewe lambs.
When they sent them to me I found them
better than I expected, and found them
gentlemen to deal with. I next saw that
boy and sheep advertisement in the
Tamer, and found that Cal. F.' Darnell1
was the man. Went to see his sljeep—saw
the boy and the sheep, Canada Boy, which
• is at the head of his flock,. He is better
, than his piqture.. Bought twenty ewe
lambs and one buck that can't be. beat in
these woods. I will say this to my farmer
friends, that if they want to buy good stock,
try C. F. Darnell or S. R. Quick, and you
will get your money's worth, or if you have
stock or anything else to sell, put your card
in the "boss paper" for the farmers, the
Indiana Faemeb. Long may it live. I
have no sheep to sell. R. G. Crist.
New Market, Montgomery Co.
dergoing no change, except softening until
tbe auimal ceases eating and stops to
rnminate, when by a rolling peristaltic motion commenced by the stomach, the food
is carried round, and on reaching the fold
or partition between both stomachs a portion of it, one pellet or that amount, is
passed over the partition into the second
stomach; here the walls of the Reticulum
contract upon it, and carry it round, and a
mucus of its own manufacture is added to it.
It is formed into a ball, or pellet, and by
the contraction of a spiral muscle which
surrounds the Reticulum,the pellet is forced
out through the opening through the ceseo-
pbagus and out upon the floor, once out it
is seized by the spiral muscle of the ceseo-
phagus and carried upward and into the
aniinal's mouth. Here it is subject to asec-
ond chewing, mixed with saliva again, and
is swallowed a second time, and this time
the openings into both stomachs remain
closed; at the will of the animal it passes on
until it reaches the opening of the maniplus, or third stomach. Another portion is
then separated from the contents of the
Rumin and undergoes the same process,
until all of the contents of the Rumin are
exhausted or tbe animal ls disturbed, after
which time rumination is again commenced
and all the contents disposed of.
The maniplus, or third stomach, is situated further on along the coseophagean canal, the opening into it being a circular
aperture situated where the muscular pillars already spoken of unite, in a sort of
obtuse angle. The body ot this stomach is
situated above the line of the oeaeophagus,
which is itself deflected considerably from
___. straight line. The floor is closed, *&nd
the roof is composed, as Its name would indicate, of a vast number of folds; plates or
leaves, which hang down near its floor.
These plates are studded with an infinite
number ol points ot great hardness, resembling a„fasp. Many of them have the
hardness of horu. They are so managed
that nothing can escape them, and hard indeed naust he thesubstance that resists their
rasping or filing action.
" Toward the opening from the maniplus:
to the fourth stomach, called the aboma-
sum, are many little hard hooks, which
catch auy bits of hard substance about vto
Selecting the Cattle.
The most important and first consideration, therefore, is the selection of stock. I
assume that every feeder will buy his stock;
hence the necessity of being a good judge of
stock. He should know when and where
to buy, and know how much to pay. If not
'a good judge himself, he had better employ
some one who is to buy for him. It is false
economy to buy steers which have had good
pasture all summer and are poor in the fall,
because this class of cattle may be bought
ior little money. The fact of their being
poor in the fall is an indication of inapt.-'
tude to fatten even with good care and food.
This class of steers will invariably disappoint the feeder, and feeding such stock
will end in loss.' Oxen of 1,500 to 2,000
pounds in weight, il of mature age, will
gain more per day than younger and
smaller cattle, but will consume much more
feed, and will not bring so much per pound
as smaller sized cattle, as butchers and
meat dealers generally have learned that
beet carcasses weighing 1,200 to 1,400
pounds are less desirable for retail purposes
than carcasses weighing 600 to 800 pounds.
I would, therefore, not choose large cattle
for feeding purposes. I find profit in buying and feeding good, straight, thrifty and
fleshy two or three-year-old steers, such as
I think will, when finished, weigh from
1,100 to 1,300 pounds (and often 100 pounds
heavier).
I always avoid purchasing a steer with
disproportionate head, tail or belly. I buy
wild steers, if they are broad between the
eyes, for such always have good sense, and
may be easily tamed. If narrow between
the eyes, and wild, I never buy them. I
'buy fleshy steers, because I can buy flesh
Digestive Organs of the Ox.
BY DR. JOHN. N. NAVIN, V. S.
I have been often requested to explain
the above organs, their number and how"
digestion is carried on in them, by those'
not possessing my book. And in reply,
say through the Fakmer that the cow (ox)
has four organs namely: the first, second,
the Reticulum; third, the Maniplus; fourth,
the Abomasum. In this latter the gastric
fluid is secreted, the same as in man, the
horse, the dog, and all animals which do
not chew the quid.
As regards digestion proper, it commences in the mouth of all animals, where
a saliva is secreted, which seems to perform
a double purpose in the digestion of the ox.
One great purpose is supplied by its toughness in keeping each mouthful of food
swallowed in the form of pellets until returned into the mouth for second mastication, called chewing the quid (cud.)
. .   CONSTRUCTION OF ORGANS.
The oesophagus, or gullet, passes back,
from the mouth, as in all animals through
the chest and through the diaphragm, but
immediately after emerging from the diaphragm it widens out into a canal, and is
called the oeseophagean <*anal, which terminates in no particular stomach, but has
openings into each of all four of them. The
oeseophagean canal passes above the first
and the second stomachs; namely the YRu-
min, paunch so called, and the Reticulum,
which are in contact with each other.
Through the oeseophagean canal are two
slit-like openings, one lying beside the
other and opening into the stomachs beneath, one into each. These openings are
furnished upon their under surface, joining the stomach below, with two longitudinal folds, called pillars, lying close together, apparantly constituting a perfect
roof over the stomachs lying beneath them,
but these pillars are not united, as before
mentioned they constitute the oeseophagean
openings into the flrst and second stomachs
beneath them, and food that is to be re-
chewed, passes on until it reaches the
widened part of the oeseophagean canal,
and falls down upon its floor, when that
part of the slit opens as a trap door would
letting the food enter into the first stomach, commonly called the paunch (Rumin.)
The second stomach is farther on, and is
very small compared with the Rumin,
there is an opening from the Rumin into
it, partially guarded by an upright partition. This second llttte stomach also opens
out into the floor of the oeseophagean canal
by the slit or aperture before described,
but in such a manner is this opening
guarded that food seldom falls into the
second stomach.
WHEN THK COW IS GRAZING
or feeding the food, is swallowed without
much chewing, just enough, by the aid pf
the saliva, to swallow it and hold it in pellets, i^which shape it is let fall into the
Rumin; in this stomach it is retained, un-
ileiad^for M. K's cow in this issue of the
-FABMER.
{-5 ,   - What Ails My ColtP
;l£d_to.v Indiana Farmer.
t r have a Clydesdale colt that received a
wotindi on the eyeball about three weeks
jigo, it'^vas very much inflamed at first, but
appears to be about well now excepta bunch
joi pw.t or matte-*, on the sight; it can see
a littlty out of tbat eye. B. B. B.
i-Dayton, O.
■ Tsike a piece of alum about one or two
puiicesin a lump; set it on a hot stove or
shovel—must be level; let it keep bubbling
until it becomes a white crust-like mass;
grind it fine and blow it or put it in the
eye with the finger,-or any way. This is
the safest caustic in use, and will burn oft
the proud flesh if there is any. If the outer
covering ot the eye ia broken he will have a
speclfe'ior life. "
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'* | * Hide Bound, v
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Mj| cow failed in her milk to some extent
'at the beginning of the winter and partially
lost her appetite. On examination I found
that *shn was hide'bound. I pulled the *skin
loose on her back once and have been feeding tier oilmeal for borne time. I also have
a mare, that I cannot get fit. It ap&ears
as if her hide is not large enough to allow
any fat to be put on her, although she has
a good appetite. R. L. D.
For hidebound givethesame as I recommend our Corunnna friend for his hidebound horse; get a package for each, both
cow and horse. You should never pull the
hide.upi-*' Do you not know that it is cruel
to <_o*80? The cellular tissue is quite sensitive; never do so, for if the animal was in
health there would be no need of it. It
would grow tight after awhile if you pulled
it ten times.
A Few Questions.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
1. \ What is the cause of "thick wind" in
ahowe7 2. Is there any cure for it? 3.
Is there any injuj*y resulting from the use
of gunpowder and burnt egg shell for a
lazy and stupid horse, or will it have any
In-and-in-Breeding.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I wish to ask through the Farmer about
in-and-in-breeding. I have a thoroughbred bull and have some fine heifers of his.
I would ask if it would be advisable to
couple him with his own get or not? I
have no fault with* him but cannot get to
another   bull   without   some trouble.
S. J. W.
The effect of in-and-in-breeding is to diminish the progeny,in size, if too often repeated. I have seen very flne, robust animals bred by sire and offspring, but the
oftener repeated the more injury may be
expected.' Race horses in England are rejected if too near akin, from the fact that
every generation grows weaker, more diminutive and more subject to disease; the
same breed, or stock, but not too near akin
is the way to breed. * If Bome readers of
papers did not happen to be squeamish,
and think it bawdy to read about tbeir own
physiology I could* explain the laws of
uterism and. reproduction, which everybody of mature age should know. It your
heifers breed to the family of their dams,
it will do' no harm. • It is safer, however,
to change.
What Ails My HorseP
Editors Indiana Farmer:
When I go to turn him around in the
stable and at times when in harness, he will
hang on his hind legs; some times one will
loosen up, then he will hang on the other
for quite a while before he can turn round.
The horse's hind legs do not swell when
standing in the stable. The horse gets very
foul and bas to be cleaned often. It seems
after an operation of this kind is performed he is better for a short time. The
horse eats well and looks well enough with
on the rise, as buyers are getting plenty.
I think sheep will be in good demand this
spring, as there is a good deal of call for
them at present. I have a steer that will
be three years old the 3d of May that is 16M
hands high. Who can beat that? We like
your paper very much, would not do without it. J. O. C.
Vioo Co., Feb. 18.—Wheat looks nice and
bids fair for another good crop. Health is not
very good, lots of whooping cough and measles. Myself and one of my neighbors sent
to Mr. M. W. Dunham, Dupage county,
111., for his catalogue, and it failed to come.
Stock looking well. The Farmer is a welcome visitor in this section. F. McG.
Laporte Co., Feb. 2.—Weather cold and
winterish. Roeds very rough; hard
weather on wheat; injured very materially.
Quite a lively trade in hay in the western
part of the county. Don't know whether
fruit is injured yet or not, think it id all
right yet. Stock still doing well. Considerable sickness, mostly lung complaint.
S.
KANSAS.
. Oxford, Feb. 18.—This is the finest prairie country I ever saw. Farmers are doing
well. A large acreage of wheat is sown
here and it looks well. Plowing Is going
forward rapidly. G. A. D.
onio.
Paulding Co., Feb. 18.—Early Wheat
looks well; late wheat slightly damaged by
freezing. Weather warm and mud deep.
Plowing for spring  crops now the order.
enter the fourth stomach, *nd returaJhSm }g^£^L^™W™*LJ?6" M th6
tp further undergo the action of the>f^!^y^^^DSfCI 5"? ^
nfthlinjjjnjj.lllj, '■>■■--.   \        JlnlV^-JW- *V",-V      ..
of the maniplus. --. .
The abomasum, or. fourth stomach, is of
a cone-like shape, not very large, and its
inside is provided with many folds, ot
membrane covered with a delicate villous
coat. It assumes much the appearance of
the mouths ot honey comb cells. It is not
until the food reaches it that true digestion
begins. .Here it enters in a perfect state
of comminution, and is mingled with the
gastric fluid which the/walls of thestomach
secrete. Alter this it is changed into a bu Instance called chyme, by being mixed with
the gastric fluid, and passes out - through
the pyloric orifice into tije duodenum as
chyme, and meets and mingles with the
bile, and is by that and .another solution
turned into chyle, a"nd becomes ^nutriment
which is taken up into circulation through
tbe Jacteals,pores of the bowels,as it passed
along their great length, and the woodjr
fibrfc JUi which the nutriment was contained,
passes*off. at the rectum to be.used as maj-
nure. The duodenum and the other bowelb
are the same both in name itucl structure,
as are thbse of the horse, hog ani hu-iuan.
the exception that his hide is as tight on   AU 8t°ck wintering fine where their feed is
him as a drum, and his hair stands straight  kept out of the mud. Wm. M,
out. M. K.
Your horse perhaps has cramps, but more
likely has been injured by some fool in the
^dmnarji.
.
This department _s edited by Df. John N. Navin,
Veterinary Surgeon, author ot Navin*r Extflajuttory
Stock Doctor. .
. .Sulphur for Sheep. ■-
Editors Indiana Farmer: •*
How much sulphur should' be fed to a
flock of 100 sheep? J. K.
"i have no idea how much sulphur it
would take to injure 100 sheep; nor-pm I
aware of any benefit derived from its'use.
It wouldf have the power of opening the
pores of the skin and facilitating the taking
ofa cold. This reminds-me of an.jrish-
man when asked what he would- .ti^ke to
climb a tall tree naked, on a stormy: day.
His answer was, "a great cold be jabbers."
Cow in Bad Fix.
Editors Indiana Farmer: * .  ■"'
I have a cow that is in a bad condition;
she is very poor; her hair leans the wrong
way, and she has a cough. She was lousy.
I gave her sulphur for about three weeks.
She eats hearty. I feed corn and oats
ground. Subscriber.
I guess you worked .upon the skin
of your cow with sulphur a little too much
for your benefit, opened the pores, and she
took a cold, which now affects her lungs,
or bronchiae. Give her the following:
Ground ginger, four ounces; bloodroot,
powdered, two ounces; nitre, powdered,
two ounces; black antimony, two ounces;
sulphur of iron, two ounces; mix. Dose,
one teaspoonful three times per day.
Strange Disease.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What ails my neighbor's mare? In warm
weather she has a cough, with a tendency
to heaves, also a discharge at the nose. In
cool weather nothing of the kind, unless
she eats musty hay, then she has the cough
without the other symptoms. . I think the
Veterinary Department is worth far more
than the subscription price of your paper,
in fact all of its departments are excellent.
J.T. K.
Itis only guesswork to tell exactly the
ailment ot; your neighbor's mare. I never
knew the symptoms to change by or' with
the season, except that some diseases are
intensified by change of weather, but the
symptoms  never.   Try  the medicine or-
.•jffectat.-all?   4.
jst^ive-;
1. .Thick wind is caused fey a thickening
-of the mucous membrane of the trachea,
bronchiae, or of trie air cells of the lungs.
2. Ko cure. A palliative cure is obtained
by blue water. Keep indigo in a rag and
blue the drinking water, a little lighter
than for laundry use. 3. I do. not think
gunpowder is of any use for the purpose.
I regard it among the fooleries. Egg shells
are inert. 4.*. I consider the' Indiana
Farmer theY'best live-stock paper in ttie
West. Any information you dosire I fancy
I can furnish it, being * among stock
and doctoring tbem riow.for 45 years. Correspondent's opinions-are all you can gain
through papers. "     .   '
Hoj_sb- Shoes.
Editors Indiana Farmer: *
Will you oblige a. subscriber • by. stating
in the-Farmer whether or not you know
if there js any patent on a horse-shoe that
is beveled outwards at the heel tor the
purpose of* allowing the foot to yield outward arid'prevent .contraction of the hoof?
That is, each end of the shoe is shaped outwards and downwards, giving a convex
surface for the heel to rest on.,   N. CP.
That horse-shoe .you inquire' about' was
tried and rejected long before I left Europe,
30 years ago. I have known it tried in this
country years since. I asked *an English
veterinary surgeon this day about it, and
he says he saw it a long time ago in
England, and considers it injurious to the
toot. John Maloney, one among the best
horse-shoers I ever met in America, says
that he saw it .-.used and rejected when in
his apprenticeship. I think every, _ or
nearly every -jbrse-sboer, will tell you the
■ame.   I take v.ery little stock in ,
and wonder hawlt is that roving doctors,
both medical doctors and veterinary surgeons, are allowed to impose upon the credulous people.
Easy Cure?
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have two Jersey calves, just weaned;
were doing well, but I noticed one day that
the urine of one of them looked red, and it
continued for two days, Until it was almost like blood. I gave it a dose of castor
oil which physiced it by the next morning.
I never saw anything more wrong with it;
then in about a week the other one exhibited the same ailment, and I gave the same
treatment with like results. What was the
matter, or would they have got well without the treatment? They ate their food and
showed no signs of sickness except that
mentioned above. I; have a fine Jersey
cow that has a very sore eye, running
water and looks white. She has access to a
straw stack, and may have gotten something in her eye.   What can I do for it?
A.L.S..
I do not think that your calves had red
murrain. If they had you were lucky In
curing so obstinate and dangerous a disease by so simple a remedy. Parties seeing
your account of the' case should try it. It
will do no harm. I use sulphuric acid for
its cure. In relation to your cow's eye,
take a hen's egg and break the. small end,
enough to admit the hand end of a teaspoon; pour out the albumen; mix In
enough salt to make it too stiff to be affected by heat. Set amidst clear coals;
burn to a charcoal. Grind and blow into
the eye once or twice daily.
act of what you and thousands besides call
cleaning, for foul shenth, something I am
proud of never being guilty of. This,like bots
is an imaginary trouble, in which great injury is done sometimes. Why is it that no
other male on the face ol the earth Is aatir
jei&_d^jSjaoliii*ttJ.UTe-^;Jv-hat becoinejj_of .
horses before they are domesticated? they
are never cleaned. What about the horses
en the plains? What of European horses?
They do very well independent of. American quacks. Take of resin, flour of sulphur, tincture of iron, black antimony, of
each -two ounces, pulverized nitre and
ground ginger of each four ounces. Mix
and give one teaspoonful three times per
day in ground feed.
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arm.
sFo^tal Card Correspondence.
INDIANA.
Forest Hill, Feb. 16.—I will reward any
one who can furnish me with No. 5 of the
Indiana Farmer, February 1, 1879. Send
it in care of the Farmer Co., Indianapolis. I
F. M. C.
Decatur Co., Feb. 16.—Wheat looks well
and a large acreage sown. All kinds of
stock in'good condition. Not much sickness, once in a while a case of lung fever.
Rain and piud has been the boom here all
winder' until now. They have the pike
fever. . F. M.
Connersville, Feb. 20.—In Fayette,
Franklin and Rush counties the prospect
for wheat was never better, and a large
acreage sown.* Corn was about % of a crop.
The interest in sheep is on the increase.
Weather beautiful.   Hogs most all sold.
J. B. J.
Miami Co., Feb. 17.—Fat hogs all sold
and stock of all kinds doing well where
taken care of. The prospect fbr another
good crop of wheat is fine. Scarlet fever
has been raging in Deedsville; several
have died with it. Agent.
Tippecanoe Co., Feb. 18.—Snow fell here
on the 12th of February about four inches
deep, the deepest snow that fell this winter;
farmers were in hopes it wculd lay on
about two weeks to protect the wheat.
There never was a better prospect for
wheat on the Wea plains. G.
Boone Co., Feb. 14—Wheat was looking
rather brown before the snow, which fell
on the 13th to the depth of eight inches.
Stock doing well. Hens lay eggs all winter. Mud deep. J. O. thinks those corn
huskers were out of their heads, but I
think their heads gave out big words.
W.H.N.
Parke Co., Feb. 16.—Wheat looks well;
acreage large. We had a wet winter; a good
time for farmers to repair fences. Stock of
all kinds doing well. This is a good tim-
Ijered.county; lots of stares got out in these
parts. I have 450 big poplar trees, some
oak. Health good; poor place for doctors
to get rich. We had a good crop of beech
mast; pigs doing well on it; some fatten
their pork with mast; a good many shoats
around; all healthy. I think it pays to
have good stock of all kinds. This is a
good place for sheep grazing, as land is
rolling.    Stock  of all  kinds seem to be
n.i_iNois.
Richland Co., Feb. 16.—Wheat crop
injured some by freeze, but generally looks
well. A few hogs left yet. Corn rotted
badly. Good demand for mules. Times
looking up. Some sales of land reported.
Fruit still reported safe. Some talk of
•inking a coal shaft at Olney, this county.
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P-ENIS'-l-VI.'rANIA.
York County, February 18.—Weather
like spring; ground not frozen. Farmers
are plowing and fixing up fences.
Roads very muddy. Wheat and rye look
well. • To all appearanee we will have a
good harvest this year. There are a good
many feeding cattle for the Baltimore market. Times are improving and work of all
kinds is getting plenty for day laborers
aDd mechanics. Nearly every farmer is
hunting for iron ore, which is bringing a
good price and gives work to a good many
hands. j. p. gm
m.vsoi'itr.
Kansas Citt, Feb. 15.—There is a large
acreage of wheat sown in Illinois and this
State, but is not looking as well as it does
in Indiana. It looks yellow here. From
St. I/ouls west the season has been very
dry, no rain Bince Decemher till within a
day or two. There are a great many emigrants coming in this direction now.
G. A. D,
Vernon Co., Feb. 16.—We have had a
dry, warm winter. Wheat never looked
better at this time of year. Considerable
plowing done since Christmas. Corn crop
here was good. Water is scarce on account'
of drouth. Won't somebody advertise for
sale the Beauty of Hebron potato, and
price for seed? s. W. M.
QUERY AND ANSWER.
W. C. P., Bartholomew county, wishes
to reht a 160 acre farm.
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H. L., Edinburg, and a subscriber, inquire in reference to the steel wire fencing
advertised in the Farmer. Their questions
are answered in the Farmer of February
7th, first page; to which we refer them.
W. M. M., Boone county, inquires In reference to the law on opening public drains
or channels when part of the land owners,
through whose territory such drains must
pass, oppose them.
The act of March 10, 1873 authorizing the
construction of levees, dikes, drains, etc.,
provides for such cases. The act is too
lengthy for publication, but all who are interested can find the law on page 165, acts
of 1872 and 1873, copies of which are in the
hands of all justices of the peace.
The Farmer Appreciated East.
The Indiana Farmer, published at
Indianapolis, is one of the best agricultural papers in the West. It comes to
us laden with good things, including columns of matter of interest to the farmers, while tbe space devoted to the family, science and miscellaneous matters is
evidently superintended by a man who
knows his business. Its advertising columns prove tbe estimation in which it
is held by the business men of Indiana, and if the people generally judge it
on its merits, its circulation must be
large.—Boston Leader.
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