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VOL. XV.
ESTOIANAPOlsIS, INDIANA, SATUBDAY, MAY 15, 1880.
NO. 20.
roB-uuE.
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OR SALE—Eggs—Plymonth Rocks, Light Brahmas, |2 for 13.  J. A. GAU.NTT, Marlon, Ind.
710BSALE—A 4-ton United States hay scale ln
'    good order, cheap.   Address Scales,  this office.
FOR SALE—Two extra Una Alderne;
one from my premium cow.
BEf. Indianapolis.
&
bull calves
S.   DOR-
EOR SALE—Eggs of Partridge Cochin chickens
and Muscovy ducks at fl for 13.  M. M. KENNEDY, Butler, Ind.
FOR SALE—10 pora bred Plymonth Rock eggs to
one address for f- for 30 day a only. R. O. CRIST,
Hew Market, Indiana.
entire   show
Choice
FOR SALE
herd, w*
pigs |10 each
-Chester Whites, my
herd, winners or 17,670 ln oash prizes.
 -*-    E. R. MOODY, M. p.. Eminence, Ky,
OR BALE—A No. 1 thoroughbred bull, color.deep
.- red,bredby Aikman; alBO some splendid hivh
rades ot both sexes.   Address GEO. W. ALLEN,
Fi 
red, bred by Aikman
grades of to   "
Dana, Ind.
TTIOR SALT?—Attention everybody! I will Bell
Jn eggs ol Brown Leghorn, the rest of the season,
16 for (1; Pekin ducks 11 for »1. Address MRS. ANNA
H. PARKS, Austin, Scott county, Ind.
F
OR SALE—Thebest that grows.the LateHoosler'
potato; yields ii more than the Peachblow, and
are a splendid eatlngpotato. Have been tested since
1873. Address SAMUEL GRANGER, Evansville,
Ind., or S N. UOLD A CO., IndianapoUs, Ind.
FOR SALE—A handsome young three-fourths
Jersey bull calf, from Superior milking stock,
on both sides. Solid red with black nose. He is al-
together too nice an animal for tbe butcher. Will
be sold very low. J. O. KINGSBURY, No. 84 East
Market street, IndianapoUs.
FOR SALE—Two young Jersey bulls and two bull
calves ot the very oest butter family ln the
State. Dams make from 12 to 14 lbs. of butter ln 7
days, also 4 young graded Jersey cows. Would trade
someot the above stock for a good work horse. T.J.
JOHNSON. Greencastle. Ind.
fbr hatching from my prize
___A „ . £.
FOR  SALE—Eu,   ......
winning Buff and Partridge Cochins, Light
Brahmas, W. C. B. Polish, Sebright Bantams and
Plymouth Rocks. Over 400 prizes have been awarded
my stock. Send for new circular. 13 for 15, or 30 for
16.  I. N. BARKER, Thorntown, Ind.
FOR SALE—Very low, by the herd or singly,
Short-horn cows, heifers, calves and bulls.   All
registered and good animals. '  *  "*
22330, stands at the head.   Egg,
Leghorn chickens for sale at 75c per dozen,
JACOB TAYLOR A SON. Bplceland, Ind.
Imported Chaudas,
of Brown or White
FOR SALE—At bargains ln the city ol Indianapolis,
- One brick block,
Four cottage dwellings.
One grocery store and <f'
Two brick house..
One grocery store and dwelling.
One bakery and feed store.
" The terms are easy.   Address THOS. C. DAY, 87
E. Market street, IndianapoUs, Ind.
FOR SADE—I have 47 farms to sell at bargains.
Located as foUows:
•   2 lnHendilcis county.
5 ln Putnam county.
17 In Daviess county.
4 In Greene county.
6 ln Sullivan county.
8 ln Clay county.
2 in Gibson couniy.
3 In Knox county.
' These farms were taken nnder foreclosure of mortgages and will be sold cheap and upon easy terms.
r THOS. C. DjSlY,
87 E. Market street, Indianapolis, Ind.'
FOR SALE-1 offer at private sale, from my large
herd, twenty Hue choice Short-horn cattje.
grant.ng the purchaser the privilege of selecting.
'Among them are cows, hellers and bulls that win jjo
to show ln any ring. The bulls and helfers are from
"Marquis of Sugar Grove," a very flne deep red
'bull, got by the Imported Second Marqnis of Worcester, he by the Tnird Duke of Hillhurst 30075, tuost
aU are red, and all straight pedigrees running to Imported cows. Will.sell singly or in large lots to Buit
fturchasers. A few Cotswold lam js from Mr.' Mer-
deth-s Imported ducj., A. MAELATT, Milton,
Wayne ceunty, Iud.    .
3|iite ^loth.
IHDIAHA WOOL GB0WEES' ASSOCIATION.
The Indiana "Wool Growers' Association
■will meet at the rooms of State Board of
Agriculture in this city, May 26th and 27th.
It is hoped that a large number of sheep
breeders will be present at this important
meeting. ■	
WASTED.
WANTED—Cash   paid for land warrants  and
Western Lands.   G. M. BALLARD, Indian-
-apoliB.
"-TTT-ANTED—Agents,local andgeneraltorIndlams
Book.
VV     History, Family Bibles, and the Voters Text-
8. L. MARROW, Indianapolis.
-Bveiy farmer and thresherman to
to send for catalogue of the new "Bonanza"
" thresher, also   engines  or all sizes,   etc.    Address
ROBINSON & CO, Richmond, Ind.
XTT'ANTED-
nCDIANA SHOUT-HORN BBEEDEBS' ASSOCIATION.
This association meets in this city at the
State Board of Agriculture, May 25th and
26th. The programme arranged for the meeting is as follows:
Essays—The Milking Qualities of Shorthorns. How developed, how maintained,
and at what age to be bred in order
to develop the best milking qualities.
By  JohnW.  Robe, Greencastle.
At what age should we sell our steers to
be the most profitable to the breeder. By
Col. C. B. Jackson, Centerville.
Is it important to have experts as committeemen to pass on Short-horns at our
fairs.   By Hon. Robert Mitchell, Princeton.
What are the qualities and eharacteristics
that Bhould govern the price of Short-horns.
By W. W. Thrasher, Groves.
At what age should we commence using
young bulls. By Thomas Wilhoit, Middle-
town. .     __ ■: •
IMFOBTAHT TO STOCK BBEEDEBS.
An Iowa court has rendered a decision
on an important subject to stock breeders,
and it should serve to warn the owners of
scrub stock. The common law recognizes
the principal of damages, and the court ih
reviewing the case In point said: "The damages cannot properly be restricted to the
mere physical injuries whioh they occasion.
The importance to the State of improvement in all kinds of stock can scarcely be
overestimated. The intelligent publicspirit
which employs itself in the improvement
of stock, ought to be: encouraged and pro
tected. It will be found impossible to
maintain good breeds of stock if the owners
of 'scrub' male animala may permit them
to run at large with impunity. Much skill
and intelligence are requisite upon the part
of stock-breeders in selecting the most
desirable crosses so as to transmit the best
qualities to the progeny. The value of
thoroughbred stock consists in the probability that the qnalities of excellence Will
be transmitted j to, the offspring. It is
evident that to a 'breeder of .fine-stock, a
thoroughbred heifer with calf to a bull of
impure blood would be of less value- than
one with calf to a thoroughbred, or not with
calf at all. The difference in value of the
heifer for the purpose of breeding fine
stock, before meeting the defendant's bull
and afterwards, constitutes the proper
measure of the plaintiffs damages."
MANNY'S  FBOST-C1JT HOWBB,  BLANVFACTITBED  BT  JOIIH  P.   *U_UfY,  BOCBrOBD,  ILLINOIK.
Our illustration shows a fine Devon bull
owned by Mr. Mead, of Ohio. The Devons
are a favorite breed with many excellent
breeders', East and West, and have many
rare good qualities.
~~ H0VEH*.
A writer in an exchange says: In case
of hoven, tympanitis, or drum belly, as it
sometimes called, which is,caused by cattle eating to heartily of wet, rank grass,
clover or green rye in the spring and overfilling the paunch before the stomach has
time to act—hence fermentation commences, the animal swells, suffers great
pain and generally dies in a short time unless relieved—we give a teaspoonful of pulverize^ charcoal every fifteen, minutes, in
about one-half pint of milk or water sweetened with a little molasses, uiltif relieved.
Since we learned of the efficacy of this
remedy we have b-*d no difficulty in relieving our cattle from the severest attacks of
hoven. ,  ,    ..•."',
WANTED-TO OWNERS OF STALLIONS—
Posters and cards of any size at lowest prices.
Finest cuts ln the State. Send stamp for samples
and prices. RANDALL A FISH, 67 and 69 East
Washington street, IndianapoUs, Ind.
Hiac eiasAXi-oi'a.
EGOS-Exhibition Game and Game Bantam eggs,
J2forl3.   R TWELLS. Montmorency, Ind.
PIG extrtcator to aid animals ln  giving birth.
Send for clrcnlar to WM. DULIUf.Avoca, Iowa.
LONDON PURPLE—The celebrated potato bug
deutroj er for sale at Allen's Drug Store, opposite Postoffice.
JOHN G. BLAKE wlU be a candidate Ior county
clerk, subject to the decision of the RepubUcan
nominating convention.
' WATCHES, 4 os. stiver cases for J18. Every
-_) watch Jeweled and warranted two yeara.
i ordering state name of express office. Watches
sent C. O D. with prlvlledge of examining belore advancing any money. N. A. STEVENS, Jeweller,
Brandon, Wisconsin.
-LOANS.
Public Shearing ia Illinois.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I gave an invitation to quite a number of
prominent sheep raisers and farmers of out
town to attend a public shearing oi sheep
at my barn on Thursday the 29th of April,
af?d  in  spite  oY the  inclemency  of the
In-and-in Breeding.
1 have often heard and seen it advocated
that Buch a course would improve the
stock. I would like to know in what re-
ipect. As far as my experience has. been,
lt is ruinous in ever form. : I can readily
say that it is the worst thing a breeder ever
did. I have tried lt with cattle and they
Would be deformed. I have experimented
with Cotewold sheep and it ruined the constitution. That was about ten years ago,
and I lately tried it again, not being fully
satisfied. I bought some Shropshire-
Down sheep about, nine years years ago,
and used the same' ram on his offspring
once, and kept the ewe lambs, 'and then
bought another ram from the same man,
and of course they were closely connected,
^used.himand the result was that the lambs
had no constitution, and were very leggy
and narrow chested. Some were nearsighted, and some blind. /Of' course there
were some good ones.
j I saw that I must change my course, or
ruin to the flock would soon follow, .1
theu went to Canada aud bought a very
fine ram,**weighlng 330 pounds, which was
imported from England, and Ihavejustbegun to see. the. difference: The lambs are
larger and stronger when they drop; none
are near-sighted and no blind ones.  I have
'iJelerhtarji,
This department is edited by Dr. John N. Navin,
Veterinary Surgeon, anthor ot Navin's Explanatory
Stock Doctor.
XJrer Ont of Order.
Editors Indiana Farmer
I have a horse whose bowels are loose all
the time, ns matter how dry the feed I give
him; has been that way about six months;
the manure is of a light color and watery
and thin. The horse appears healthy and
eats hearty. Subscriber.
Your horse's liver is not acting properly.
Give him either podophyllin, 80 grains, in
water once per day for three days, or spirits of turpentine % ounce in oil twice in
one week, then take salts of tartar 40
grains; pulv. rheubarb, 20 grains; lauda-'
num, one ounce; oil of peppermint 12 drops;'
water, four ounces; give one ounce in warm
water, next day another ounce. If bowels
are not retarded give half an ounoe, ones
per day till well.
Threatened With Paralysis.
What ails my horse? He eats hearty,
but when I work him and get him warm
he has a quivering in his flesh on each side
of his breast and behind his forelegs, and
up his neck on each side of his throat and
his under lip, and sometimes his head.
When at work he bites his bit very hard,
and throws his head up and down. Eats
hearty, works well, and is only three years
old. He appears to be drawn up in the
flank, and a little stiff. Reader.
Your horse is threatened with paralysis,
whieh generally is fatal to brute beasts. If
Its origin is in the digestive organs, give
rest, and take ginger, 4 ounces; black antimony, flour of sulphur, pulls nitre, sulphate of iron; give one teaspoonful three
times per day ln chop or mill feed. It
somewhat resembles megrims, for which
there is no remedy.
What Alls tbe Sow?
Editors Indiana Farmer:
My neighbor has a sow that has been
down tor one month. She lays on her side;
eats well, and has all tbe time. She can
raise herself on her forelegs.
Subscriber.
Feed your sow arsenic acid. If that does
not cure her the chances are unfavorable,
What Alls My Hone?
Editors Indiana farmer.
When he gets tired and warm he takes
staggering Bpells. It seems hard for him
to pick up his feet, but when he does raise
them he lifts them very high. Let him
stand a few minutes and be goes all right.
He eats hearty.   Is it blind staggers?
W. J. S.
Your horse has the full symptoms of
megrims, for which there is no remedy.
Keep him trom being heated too much, and
do not rein him up too tight, indeed his
head should not be pulled up over a level
with his back.
BpOsTO m fCli
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a sow which raised alitte'rof pigs last
tall, and she haa not thrived well since she
MONEY to loan On Improved Farms at7 per aent.
Interest.  M. E. VINTON, IndianapoUs, Ind.
The Fluke.
An insidious worm called the fluke is
causing losses among the sheep ln Great
Britain, actually exceeding in the aggregate, the cost of any of the wars whioh have
5j figured in the indictment upon which the
Tory Ministry is said to have been found
guilty. In some parts of England, chiefly
the Southwestern provinces, whole flocks
have perished, and not a sheep is sound.
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Announcements.
Millers exhibition at Cinninnati commences May 29th.
Indiana Wool Growers' Association,
May 25th and 26th in rooms of State
Board of Agriculture, this city.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
The time of the June meeting of our
society has been changed to Wednesday,
the 9th. Meeting will be on the picnic
Plan and will beheld on the new fair
grounds. James Calloway, Sec'y.
May 4.
Some of the leading farmers of Bush
county met in Rushville on last Saturday, May lst,  and  organized a wool
j-ySjjLi ^wers association with about 25 or 30
members.   They elected officers for the
HIS? ensroh*igyear, G. W. Reeve being made
■■.W. Preaident,  and D. W. A. Pugh, secre-
W   ^l7*   A called meeting of the associ-
I *&?.    ion "was appointed for May 15th at 1
$*-»* P. m.
FIHE 0EC0ABSE GBOTJND FEEDF0BST0CK.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says upon this subject: Whole grain
is inferior to ground because the fineness
of division in the ground grain gives it
much more surface for the digesting fluid
to act upon, and thus digestion becomes
much more complete;
The question must be, in what condition
of fineness is meal  most digestible when
properly fed?   It we  grant  that   coarse
cracked  corn  allows a freer circulation of
the gastric juice than fine ground meal, still
it does not prove that more of this coarse
ground will be digested.   In fact I have
conclusively  proved   the  contrary  by  a
number of careful experiments in feeding
very finelyground meal for one week, and
then coarsely-ground the next, and carefully examining the manure, found scarcely a trace of the fine, while about 10 per
cent, of the coarsest passed without digestion.   It would have been somewhat more
satisfactory if the manure had been  analyzed; yet inspection was quite sufficient as
a  general  comparison.   This experiment
consisted in feeding alone three quarts of
either quality dry per day.   I also tried the
same experiment by mixing first the fine
meal with twice its bulk of cut hay, moistened during ten days, and then the coarse
mixed  the same; and in this case not a
trace ofthe fine meal could be found in the
manure, but what was judged to be about
5 per cent, oi the coarse was found in the
manure.   In feeding shelled corn alone, 20
per cent,  appeared in the  manure,  but
when the shelled corn was fed with cut
hay, which rendered it difficult to separate
the corn from the hay, both being eaten together, about half as much appeared in the
manure.
I think the principle holds good that the
benefit of grinding is in proportion to the
fineness ol division, and if this is the case,
farmers should be advised to feed the meal
with such coarse food as will separate the
particles of meal, and thus secure complete
digestion. Because careless farmers will
feed meal without any admixture of cut
hay, straw or chaff, their bad example
should not lead us to modify the true principles applicable to grinding and proper
feeding.
DEVON BUI.-L, OlinPIOS, Mt, OWNED, BT JESSE HEAD, BOWlriSVlLtE, CUBE COUNTY, OHIO.
weather (the thermometer standing at
about 40°) quite a number turned out, several bringi ng in some good sheep to be shorn.
We had a good time. Rev. Byron Adlen and'
H. H.Martin, weighing and taking account
of fleeces, and Mr. Geo. Stewart, Mr. Smith
and Mr. Colby sheared the sheep.
Twenty ram yearlings averaging one
year old cut 268J^pounds, which is nearly,
if not quite, as good shearing as there is on.
record for that number. The rams were
very large ot their age weighing from 90 to
126K pounds, the lightest fleece weighed
12M pounds and heaviest - 15X pounds and
that from a carcass weighing 76}4 pounds,
one yearling ewe cut 15K pounds, carcass 64
pounds.
The above were all my own raising and
mostlv from my ram "Crook Leg." I sold
30 ram yearlings last week for the Montana
market at good prices. G. W. Hunt.
Greenwood, Illinois.
•one ewe that for the last three years has
had twins, and every time one or both
would be blind. This year she had twins,
and they are larger and their eyes are all
right. I have weighed some of the single
lambs and they tip the scales at 14 pounda
wheu first dropped, being from three to
five pounds heavier than last year with the
same ewes, which were both years in good
condition.—C. D. S., in Country Genteman.
Short-horns and Scrubs.
An Iowa farmer estimates that the profit
of raising one two-year-old Short-horn steer
for market is equal to that on eighteen
scrub steers, which have to be kept three
years before they are salable.
Death of the First Duchess of Oneida in England.
A telegraph dispatch says, that this distinguished cow died on the 20th of April.
She was bred by Campbell* Walcot, Utica,
N. Y., January 24,1870, got by the 10th
Duke of Thorndale, 28 458, dam Sth Duch-
of Geneva, by 3d I_ord Oxford, 22 200.
First Duchess of Oneida was sold at the
Mills Sale, N. Y., in 1873, and bought by
lYord Skelmersdale, for $30,600. She died
his property. Her dam was sold at the
same sale to R. Payne Davies, for $40,600.
He paid ?10,000 to be left off, and the cow
was taken by L. G. Morris, of New York,
for $30,600. Unluckily for Mr. Morris, she
died February following, without, having
in the meantime produced a calf.     .   .
weaned her pigs. On examination I found
that her feet were sore. Her legs are
swollen some, and hor feet are cracked on
the bottom, extending up to the small toes
on the back of her legs. R. I_. D.
Your sow has foot-rot. Use the treatment recommended ior scratches in horses,
viz.: Powdered gum camphor, \\_ ounce;
powdered gum myrrh, 1 ounce; sulphuric
acid 1 ounce; spirits turpentine, 1 ounce;
lard, 1 pint. Mix to form an ointment,
and rub sore feet once a day.
Ble Head.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a steer with a lump about the size
of a man's fist j ast above the molar teeth
on the side of his face, commenced forming
about two months ago; on examining it I
found it to be as hard aa bone. I would call
it big head. • W. H. H.
Never knew of a big head among cattle.
If you consider it such, rub the enlargement once daily with the following: Aqua
ammonia, 2 drachms; olive oil, 2 drachms;
oil of arganum, 1 drachm; Spanish fly, 3
drachms; pulls nitre, 6 drachms. Internal
treatment, flour of sulphur, 4 OHnces; pulis
nitre, 4 drachms; white hellebore, 1 drachm;
black antimony, 1 draohm. Mix and give
1 teaspoonful three times In feed. .
Glanders. v
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a horse that is running a little at
his left nostril, sometimes but very little.
He has a lump about the size of a walnut;
it moves about. He is a very hearty horse.
His left eye has run matter a little for
some time. My horses all had the distemper, but they got over it in ten days, except
this one. J. W. G.
In my opinion both horse and mare are
glandered, the horse especially, for he has
one more symptom than the mare;
they are both still curable I think; the
treatment is too long for a newspaper article. You had better refer, to Navin's Explanatory Stock Doctor, or write J. N.
Navin, enclosing f3 by postoffice order, or
registered letter, and he will express you
the medicine, at what it costs.
Ruptured.
Editors Indiana Farmer: .
I traded fbr a three-year-old the other
day that has a lump on her belly about as
large as a hen's egg. I don't think it is a
rupture. It is soft, but when you push up
on the lump there seems to be a hard substance in the middle, as though it was
formed round the naval. A. B. I_.
If it is rupture you will be able to' push
the bowels up through the aperture." If
you find it to be rupture, take a square
piece of sheet-iron or very strong tin,
clip the corners and sew it-in between
two pieces of very stout drilling; better
make a sircingle bf the drilling; lay the
plate on it, theu cover with another piece
larger than the tin; bind the tin over the
tumor; fasten the drilling tightly over the
back, first starching the side next the hide,
then brace it in place by a breast strap and
breaching of the same.
Ia lt HwceaejT
Editors Indiana Farmer:
My horse is lame in left shoulder. About
four weeks ago I hauled a tolerably large
load ou pike after a rain; next morning
was lame; gets very lame or stiff in shoulder after standing in stall over night; can
hardly turn round in stall; refuses to step
over the door-sill in the morning; after
traveling shoit distances gets all right,
seemingly, but stiff again after standing.
Work don't seem to make him any worse;
shoulder little perished; no heat or soreness that I can discover; stands square on
both feet. A. S. B.
If your home's shoulder is shrunken he
must have sweeney. If so take oil of spike,
oil of organum, aqua ammonia, spirits of
turpentine, spirits of wine and olive oil of
each two ounces. Mix aad rub in one-
fourth every alternate day for eight days,
then grease and let go. Must not work
him for 15 days at least.
Sore month.
Editors Indiana Fanner:
The first of March my mare's mouth became sore, and is inflamed yet. The cord
in her upper lip is drawn around to the
left, lip and all, urUer lip hangs to the
right, and tongue hangs to the right; can't
eat very good, nor drink with bit in mouth.
Fed her corn and clover hay all winter.
A Reader.
Your mare has a disease called paralysis,
(paraphlagia) or partial paralysis, which ls
one of the most difficult diseases to control.
I fear you must have her treated by electricity; take her to some doctor, either human or veterinary, and give her an electric
shock once per day. Take also alum
burned and powdered, 3 ounces; salt, 1
handful; meal, 1 double handful; mix and
put in a pie-pan or other shallow vessel.
Make a swab of a thin board VA inches
wide and 2 feet long; roll a strip of muslin
round it; dip in water and swab the mouth,
cheeks, tongue, etc., and rub on both lips
with the hand twice per day.*.
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