VOL. XVIII.
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Postal Card Correspondence.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JAN. 6,1883.
NO.2.
.V Kit It ASK A.
Hiikkman Co.—Crops were very good here
the past yonr—whent 17 unci com 40 to 50 bushels per lu-re.   Slock scarce and high.
C. F. II.
AKKANNA8.
Conway To.—Corn wiu never n better crop
In thin State than that of 18X2. Cotton was
also good, mul the picking has been brisk.
  J. M. It
TKNNKSSEK.
Knox   Co The   growing   wheat   la   quite
promising here. ('utile and other stoek in fine
eondltinn.nnd we have general prosperity and
good health. I>. W. It
TKXAM.
McLknnax Co. -We had splendid crops of
■  all   kinds grown   in this Stnte.   Cotton was
never better.   The prlee of real estate Is rapidly advniieing.   Stoek all doing well and commands high prices. C. I*. Mmxkv. .
DAKOTA.
KrunKHCo.—Tappln will beourfutureeoun-
ty seat, situated on tlie Northern Puiiflc railroad. Soil here Is o black sandy loam, very
fertile for wheat, oats and barley. Wheat
yields about 25 bushels to the acre; oats 55 to
00; barley 30. Laud from M to *15 peracre.
The county Is settling up fast.
Moses Sasbokn".
. Wisconsin.
WArsitKBA Co.—Fine weather and good
sleighing. Tbe snow fell on unfrozen ground
making It Impossible to get hay from the
marshes. Wheat averaged 10 hushelsperacre;
oatsij; rye 12; corn about two-thirds crop.
The blight struck potatoes before fully ma-
.tured. We have a splendid market for all
kinds of produce. Soil sandy. Land !10 to 8ar>
peracre. C. S. Pickering.
.**- MICHIGAN.
HiLUtSALE Co.—We have had but little
snow for this region yet Wheal Is in very-
fair condition, and the same Is true of agriculture In general here. P. lt S.
CLiNTOjr Co.—Live stock of all kinds Is
looking f3ne here. The weather has been
pretty cold and little snow. Wheat thin and
looks sickly. Corn was a poor crop, but osts
good.   K. B. C.
KAM-JAM.
Mitchkli, Co.—We have had some snow and
a few cold days, but lt Is nice and warma^ulu.
Htoek and graiu doing well. I have been four
years In this country and like it Land la
cheap yet and crops fair. My neighbors lost
.quite a lot of their hogs last winter of quinsy
or something else, In a few days. By giving
them carbolic acid tbey cured the balance and
did not lose anymore. By giving my hogs
kerosene oil and sulphur occasionally, they
kept well. Farmer.
ALABAMA.
- Lawkexck Co.—We are about through gathering crops. Corn the best I ever saw; cotton
nearly as good; 12V, barrels corn and one bale
cotton per acre. A good many rust proof oats
sown and looking well. Very little wheat;
the ground was too dry and hard to break.
Clover and orchard grass looking well. Stock
of all kinds In good condition and high. Hogs
very scarce. Corn selling at 40 to 50c; oats 40
to 50c; wheat 95c to 81; cattle S3; mules SI:
1200; horses $35 to 1150; sheep S3 50 torH; land
SlOtoSao.       J. M. Haxptox.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Maoos Co.—The winter thus far has been
much more severe here than Is usually experienced.  The weather has been mostly dry
and moderately cold. Two cold snaps sent the
mercury down to 3' or 4', the severe cold lasting, however, but ii few hours. The wet
weatherof July and August injured the fall
crops, especially potatoes, which seldom fail
to make a large yield. Even hog cholera penetrates the mountains sometimes, nnd last
season the razor-back wood rangers were
slaughtered extensively by the disease, making fresh pork scam* at 12 and 15c. Oood beef
aud mutton 5 aud tx*, the customorj- price.
  K. K. E.
PENNSYLVANIA.
. Pekry Co.—We are now having several days
of rainy weather, which was greatly needed:
farmers nnd all people alike were thirsty for
water, as streams and springs alike formed an
ley bridge over them. Many farmers hauled
their water from a distance, while others
drank hard elder Instead. Ice hauling was
brisk for a week or more, but now houses are
filled In this section with tha clear crystal.
Epidemics, such as diphtheria, and pneumo-,
nla prevail in mnny places.
C. I„ Stkele.
'>       ILLINOIS.
FlKR Co.-Land Is worth fro-ji S3I to *MI.
Farm hands receive from tU to fijper month.
Hogs are very high; cattle sell for V_ to 3c per
pound. w. A. 8.
jAr-Kxox Co.—Wheat is looking tolerably
well, and we have a large acreage sown. Hogs
scarce and high. Agriculture is rapidly rising
in efficiency and Importance. A. G. M.
Bond Co.—Farm products abundant. Wheat
averaged IS bushels peracre; corn;*); oats 30;
potatoes 100 to 150. A great deal of wheat has
been sown, and as usual has been much damaged by the fly.   Laborers receive 81 per day.
J. B.S.
Eno.AB Co.—Wheat looks well and in good
condition to stand the winter. Corn good, es-
speclally on drained lands; worth 40c per
bushel. Cattle reasonably plenty and In good
tiesh. Hogs are less plenty than usual. Horse
buyers are purchasingour best horses at prices
ranging from fl25tofI75each. J. J. K.
OHIO.
BvTl,r.R Co.—Grain is bringing fair prices.
Our staples are wheat, corn aud barley, the
first two of which produced excellent crops
this year; barley, however, was almost entirely destroyed by tbe barley worm. A great
deal of flne stock Is raised In this vicinity.
Prospects for small grains the coming year
very good. ft. C. C.
Pukble Co.—Corn about gathered; averaged
HO bushels i>er i»eie. Wheat looks badly; hus
been greatly damaged by the fly. Livestock
high. Many half fatted hog* have been sold
to prevent loss from cholera which Is prevalent. Farm hands receive fair wages. Land
Is worth about ST5 per acre. Fever has been
raging here toon alarming extent, causing a
great many deaths. G. 8.  '
Preble Co.—A heavy frost almost anytime
In September would have left us almost no
corn. We have a full average crop, too damp
to ship. Hogs fatted very well; worth 6c per
pound. Wheat acreage for next year, same as
this; slightly Injured by fly. Hay an extra
good crop; worth Ss In stack. Pastures were
good, stoek did well and doing well now.
Good milk cows S50 to S65. Good horses 1150 to
toSao.   Apples a complete failure.
It E. M.
INDIANA.
PiKK Co.—Wheat looks well, some fly; corn
two-thirds of u crop; hogs scarce, not enough
for home supply; few cattle; potatoes light
crop, some rot; hay good; no oats; but little
barley raised; corn the principle crop raised
In Sclotsvalley,notdonegatherlngyet Farm
hands, paid from 816 to SIS' per month and
board.   Farms in the valley worth from S75 to
the valley are thousands of acre* of cheap hill
lands, line for sheep or peaches, apples, small
fruits, etc.   Fanners contented and happy.
J. 11. It.
DavikssCo.—Wheat looks very fair here,
with niroodncrciiKChown. General prosperity
anion*" farmers. W. W. C.
Jay Co.—Since the completion of the Lake
Erie and Western railroad, many miles of
open and tile ditches have been made, and
many liouscsnnd burns built. Great improvements havo beon made, nnd the price of land
much advanced. W. B, K.
IlANiMH.nt Co.—Seed corn will be nn object
I think In this part of the State, on account
of the lute extreme cold snap. Wheat Is not
looking very well. Hogs are about all sold,
and hog cholera Is not so prevalent as II has
been. Corn was half :v crop ami wheat the
same. E. M.
Switzi.hi.and Co.—Wlieat looks bad since
the freeze; early sown Injured by the fly and
late sown Injured by freezing and thawing, as
we have not had any snow for protection; not
much obi wheat In farmers' hands. Hogs
scarce, but healthy. .May the circulation of
thc-1'AHMi'.jt Increase, us it Js much needed
iiinoiiK farmer-of this'vlclritly.   *    H. M. P.
THE CHUBCHES OF IKDIANA.
The following statistics of the churches of
Indiana for 1882, have been collected by the
State Bureau of Statistics:
Number of church organizations  4.93
Number of chorea edifices  —- 4,4ti
Total membership...-          444,458
Members admitted during year          43,839
Value church edifices, lota and other property   *,I0,82.*>,555
Minister's salary for the year __   |1,248,913
Other church expenses for the year _.     £93,905
Missionary and other benevolent collections        tl87,**!7
Number of Sunday-schools           24,003
Number attending Sunday-school       257,873
Average attendance on public worship       428,812
The table below shows three of the leading
Items hy denominations:
DENOMINATIONS.
AOBICCI.TUBAL NOTES.    »'•-
Kansas claims to have produced 3.>,000,000
bushels of wheat, and 160,000,000 bushels of
corn.
The Minnesota farmers "do a great amount
of fall plowing, and with the aid of frost are
ready very early In the spring for seeding to
spring wheat.
The fence question In former heavily timbered sections Is going to be an Important
one. The people on the prairies are solving it
by stock laws.
The condition of the growing wheat of
Mlchignn Is reported by their Bureau of Statistics on December 1st at 01 percent, at same
date last year It wns HO per cent.
The farmers of this State marketed at the
various mills, warehouses and elevators for
the month ending December 1, lost, 142,181
bushels of wheat, and during November the
farmers of Michigan marketed at IlkiTplaces
In that State 127,0m bushels.
We know of a farmer In a county of this
state who don't read the papers, but who produces t) to 10 bushels of wheat per acre, and denounces "book farmers," as he calls Intelligent neighbors, who average IS to 20 bushels of
wheat to the i.cre and take nnd read four agricultural papers. Comment Is unnessary.
But It may be added that brain work and
work with the hands Is the ro^d to (ncecs,
and that farmer will learn the fact lf he lives
long enough.
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SCHOOLS FOB PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
Purdue University, our State Agricultural
and Industrial College, and the Hose Polytechnic Institute, at Terre Haute, Just opened,
are two schools for practical education of
which the State may well be proud. These
schools have grown out of tho fact that a
large per cent, of the graduates of literary and
classic schools and colleges have gone out into
the world with neither natural fitness for professional pursuits nor practical knowledge
enough to do anything for which anybody
wonld pay-them a dollar. TheoldfChool Idea
and narrowness In educational methods Is
gradually giving way to better thought, and
lt Is a pleasure to know that our own Staters
well up In the front rank in this new and
practical movement. What was o few years
Iigothe butt of ridicule In thi* regard has
come to be most favorably looked upon by
schoolmen. Purdue and the Rose Institute
both teach the applied sciences— head and
band are educated together, and the young
men who enter them with a view of other
than  professional vocations  purely, will not
Methodist Episcopal..«
MetlrtUst Protectant.:. ■-
African M. Er.._ ...
German Mrthddtxt..„l_
Southern Methodist......
Wesleyan Methodist-...
Free Methodist. —
Metbod>t Reformed....
Wesleyan— ».	
Baptist 	
Missionary Baptist—	
Predest'n Baptists 	
Free Will Baptists 	
Separate Baptist ...
Menonnltes ._«._■
Christian..........	
Christian fNew Light).
Christian Union 	
Ad ventlst '.	
German Reformed.	
Ebeoezer	
Prysbyierian..—	
Cumberland Presb*n	
United Presbyterian—
New 8*1 Presbyterian...
Reformed Presbyterl'n
Lutheran... 	
Lutheran Evangelical*
Lutheran Ileformed_
Lutheran, Old School....
Catholic  _.	
United Brethren.. _
U. B. Evangelical .
Moravian 	
Friends .
Reformed Quakers......
Hlckalte Quakers	
Evangelical ..—^.....-.
Episcopal __  .
Frostestant Episcopal..
Congregational'.. ......
Swedenborglsn  >
Swedish.—«.. —..-.
tTnUarln.il
Unlversallst__. —...
Hebrew.—..—..._,	
Ahasoth 8bolom„._...„
1*17
118,949
f 2.561,431
41 -
1,572
„„,,  41,*)80#
W
818
39,238
r.fatu"
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12
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■      691
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74
6.051
I
38
1,72*1
1
28
. 129
1
	
5,1*3
4S4
18,918
770,557
114
9,804
127,364
5
213
6,914
22
2,009
217263
8
242
1,210
155
18,283
227,958
M2
49,102
972,269
102
6,282
102,211
S
S3S
11,241
a
■     602
16,079
47
2,709
73,478
1
m
•      518
341
81,ei8
1,561,731
22
3,198
44.(51
1*
1,711
32,330
1
199
5,186
6
232
11,410
161
20,713
666,781
83
8,813
264,166
t
3,457
3
BS7
25,069
28*
86,872
1,909.304
4S7
22^62
849,273
1
69
1,382
3
864
34,578
IM
196
319,679
S
432
5,186
3
51,SS7
137,100
93
4.3U7
24
1,884
1:3,477
s
461
30.652
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2J**7
119.294
a
69
15,558
i
6S7
69.156
i
86
3,112
34
1.9W
65,525
7
Ul
16,078
1
77
1,729
Total.
    4,921      444,459       tl0,825.565
In explanation of the foregoing, the Chief
of the Itureau states that tbe figures relating
to the Christian denominations include nil reported by the Campbellltes and the Church of
Christ, or the Disciples of Christ. The Men-
nonltes include the German Baptists, Dunk-
ers, Dunkards, Tunkers, Ornish, River Brethren, or Defenseless Mennonites. The Evangelical associations, the Evangelical Protestants, the Danish Evangelists and the All-
brights, are all classed as Evangelical.
♦100 per acre.   Three or four miles back from   go Into the world aimlessly and helpless.
Therr is no objection to large farms If the
owner Is full handed and wise enough to cultivate them properly. But it is neither wise
nor profitable to attempt and fall to do well
that which can only be done on smaller
farms. It is a uselesss exhaustion of both soil
and muscle.