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lira Stock* i fie Indiana > armer. THE MOUNDALE HERD. Property of H. F. Thomson, to be Sold at Moundale, Thomson Station, Clarke County, Ky., Oct. 15th, 1875. Boubbon County, Ky., Oct. 27. In the grand offering to the publio of Short-Horns in central Kentucky, next month, many aud valuable ones will be presented but in the list I question muoh, if any one breeder can or does pesent as many popular and elegantly bred young Bates heifers; as the gentleman whose name appears above. Ninet.- eight head and all deep in Bates blood; 88 females, and 78 of theso under five years. Princess, Craggs,.Gwynne's, Can- nondal's, and Constance's, Bloom's, Gems, Young Phillis, Louan's, Golden Pippins, Dew Drops, are strongly represented in numbers, and elegantly in desirable forms and ages. Drafts from the North, East, West, England, Canada and Kentucky are to be lound here; rare and noted cows, young and thrifty heifers of unexceptiDn- able forms, pedigrees and colors will be sold. I will not undertake an individual description of all the good things in the lot. The bulls are all under one year old; some are not all that could be desired, but being of pure pedigree blood they will meet a demand amongst a large class who cannot afford to pay fancy prioes. Tho most ho? ever are good ones, all thrifty and in colors desirable. In heifers w'e find 18 beauties, all reds and roans, except one, she, a snow white. Perhaps the toppiestand most stylish is Cth Tube Rose, of Brattleboro, a red, 8 months, a highly bred Princess, a fine showy calf, of decided first quality, with a superb coat of silky hair, a good head, crops, and ribs well sprung, with symmetrical contour, and the foreshortened view from either end good. In yearling heifers 34 handsome ones can be fouud. One of V1 e best is Rosa 2d. from imported Agatha and topped Kirklevington. (11640), a pure Bates, Ci.mmodore and Crusader, well bred in B tes. She is a show heifer in form, with small clean head trim neck fine bro. d back, with a splendid bosom, of grand quality and is likely to prove a gem ot the first water among Shoit Horns. More than a dozen remarkably beautiful heifers in this list of yearling deserve commenting up n, but I pass to the baker's dozen of two year olds, at least ten of them. deserving of Page's pencil. I will not individualize in this lot for discrimination here would be hard to effect as for style, substance an general quality, they all rank high. Most all of them arc safe in . alf to Grand Duke a 63-<_tth pure Bates bull, or to one of the pure Dukes of this region. The three year olds also number 13 and all of them giving milk, having safely calved, they are fine, healthy, thrifty looking young cows. I rather inclined to Peachbud 12th, sired and gr. sired by bulls deep in Princess blood, she is mellow to the touch, sightly _ to the eye. and gives every sign of becoming a most stylish and desirable cow. Ot the 20 cows between 3 and 9 years of age they are all very good looking matrons, fine and substantial, of good quality in both beef, touch and pail proclivities We clos_ our notice with Grand Duke, an 8 year old bull, standing at bead of herd, a great heifer producer, based on Craggs, with 5 pure Bates sires above. He is a bull of magnificent proportions, a fine handler and well worthy, of his pure lineage, he has already left his impress on many of the young animals, his get in this offering, and many ofthe females to be sold are stinted to him. I hope the Short-Horn buyers of Indiana will be here in force, as a splendid opportunity is presented, in this sale, for securing rare and most desirable families of the Bates and Princess kinds. S. II. R. Spaying Cattle—The Missouri Farmer says that a great many yearling heifers are annually spayed in Missouri. The time most generally adopted is in early spring when the grass is sufficient for them to lived without other food The heifers thus treated universally wake better cattle than they otherwise would do, and are more valuable th au they would be as cows. The inlerior heifers should always be selected, and they are as valuble for beef as the best steers. Our cotemporary has seen cows spayed at two years old that continued to give milk until very old age. They, of course, gave more in early spring than at any other season of the .year, but we did not see that they gave less iu the same length of time than those with calves. They evidently fatten more . readily than cows do that are raising calveB, and consequently should be more ^thoroughly milked andfed less thansuch icows. Frvm the London Agricultural Gazette. THE WADSWORTH ESTATE SHORT-HORN HERD. ' This is one of the largest and probably at the present time the most valuable cultivated estate in North America. It consists of about eighty thousand acres,_ ocoupying parts of the five coun- oouuties of Genesee, Livingston. Monroe, Erie, and Niagara, of New York. One may walk from a few miles above the village of Geneseo to the City of Ro Chester, a distance of about thirty miles, without stepping off this magnificent domain. Eis_bt thousand acres, or about ons-tenth of this, is what is locally called "flats," whioh answers to the term "meadows" in England. They form a rich alluvial plain, of considerable leugth, and of one to threo miles in breadth, the Gene see river meandering through it. Almost every Soring it overflows these "flats," and as the waters suhside they leave a ricl sediment on their i in Bridle-Breaking.—To cure a horse of bridle-breaking, get a piece of bed- cord, four times the length of tbe horse, and double it in the middle, and at tbe doubled end make a loop, through which pass the animal's tail. Then cross the cord over his back, and pass both ends through the halter-ring under his chin and tie both ends ofthe cord to the trough ring through which the halter strap p^s. the end ofthe halter being attached to a billet of wood. Should the horse attempt to pull back, the strain will all boon the root of his tail before the halter strap will become tightened, and he will at once step forward to avoid it. Alter so fixing him a few times in stable he will abandon any such propensity. Ceoss-bbed Ram.—A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal says tbat Ma- lon Bryant, of Woodstock, Me., has a ram, of Southdown and Leicester breed with a touch of native, which produced 17 lbs of unwashed wool, when a year old. and for which N. L. Marshall, paid $8 50. This year the ram was two years old in May last, and weighed 250 lbs. befor e shearing and sheared 20 lbs. of wool by weight, the wool was Cinches long, very fine, and has been sold at 20 cts, a lb. s m s . Hon. Mr. Cociirane's Airdrie Duchess 2d (dam of the $18,000 eow) has given birth to a yellow-red and white bull calf by llth Duke of Geneva. He will be called Cth Duke of Hillhurst. The last Indiana Legislature passed the following act on this subject: "Be it enacted, etc., That every person who shall cruelly beat oi torture, or ovrdrove any horse or other animal, whether belonging to himself or another, shall be deemed guilty of a msdemeanor, and upon conviction, snail be fined ln any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars." .—s m s TnE rule of TnE Shorxiiorn Society of Great Britain disqualifying for entry in the Herd Book of bulls with only four crosses in their pedigree, has been relaxed. Such bulls will be entered in the forthcoming volume of the Herd Book, but will be recorded in a separate list. Indiana, Farmer Family. Onr Postal Card Correspondence. __yjtVs «<-__*ttj_S,_? Ul trees, pretty bori vated in various crops, bounded in the far distance by high, picturesque, wooded hills. Through these meadows winds the placid Geneseo to its frightful leap thirty miles below, of over ninety feet from a perpen dicular limestone precipice at Rochester; then flowing on agjin, now gently, then over other successive falls for a dist;__:;_e1!of niue moke miles, till mingled with the clear blue waters of Lake Ontario. Add to these features, in tbe immediate foreground of this general view, a choice and beautiful herd of upward of seventy head of fine thoroughbred Short-Horns, cropping the succulent grass, or reposing in the shade of the trees, and about 1.5(H) high-grade bullocks feeding for the New York maiket", and we have a scene which, I will veature to say, is nowhere surpassed in rural richness and beauty. In coming into the uiana ement ofthe estate, a few years since, the present owners set apart 3 00U acres each for their own individual farms. Until the Indian corn, wheat, aud other small grains had been the staple products of the?e lands from their tii s t sell It ment, more especially wheat was the best pacing crop; but the great rise iu the wages of labor, and the low price ol the above products which have lat- teily ruled in the United States, made it impossible for them to successfully compete with the cheaper lauds of the West; aud then they wisely concluded to change their grain-fields to grass as rapidly as was convenient, and enter more largely on the breeding of Short-Horns. These they will continue to increase until they entirely supersede their numerous grades now pasturing here. What a magnificent herd it will then show! Well worth the while alone of the English breeders of this kindred race to cross *he Atlantic to look at. The foundation of this herd was laid by their father, the late Gen James S. Wadswonh, in the year 1854 The imported cow, Australia, has been the chief strain in this. She was got by Lord Foppington (10 437) out of Adonia, by Harkaway, (9,184.) Mr. Charles F. \Vadsworth showed me eight of this fdmily, which I think will fully equal any other eight of a single family to be tou .d in the United States. To these they have added largely from the Duchess and Princess tribes, preferring the pure Bates and Stephenson blood to any other strains now existing. Their cows excel generally as milkers, and are fully able to bring up their own calves in good condition; and if a cow will not do this, I think she ought to be ruled out of every show-yard, as unworthy of being awarded a prize of anj; kind. The buils latterly used in the Genesee Valley herd are Fourteenth Duke of Airdrie. Third Baron Bates, Earl Seahan, Second Baron Morley, and Fifth Prince of Oxford. The latter is the youngest of the five, having been calved slaouary 14, 1874 He is almost entirely red, with the gold hue of hair which we so much admire here, as indicative of high breeding, and as a distinguished shade in the color of the Duchess and Princess tribes of cattle. He is of good size, fine quality, and quite stylish in his makeup. We may look for a choice lot of calves next year from- his get. At thc New York State Agricultural Show at El- mira, in 1872, this herd took the herd premium and four first prizes; at ■ hat of Albany, in 1873 it took the herd premium and five first prizes; at that of Rochester, in 1874, it took the herd premium and four firat prizes. fsPC*-— -~ 2 Zaire/ Cernyi/cr/t W.^^Ce^j^. THE PROPERTY OF B. B. GROOM & SON, WINCHESTER, KENTUCKY. Disease in the Feet of Cows. O. B., Butternuts, N. Y.. writes : "I have three cows taken lame in hind feet. The disease appears like a bruise on heel, which soon swells ; cracks appear above the hoof similar to scratches in horses, and bloody matter discharges in small quantities. There is no soreness between the hoofs. _ One of my neighbors calls it cow itch—another, fouls. Can you tell mo what it is. what causes it and a remedy? Will other cows be liable to take the disease by running with them? Reply.—This is one of the symptoms of the disease, now very prevalent in England, known as the "foot and mouth" disease, in which,in addition to the soreness of tho feet, the mouth and tongue arc generally affected. It appears to be somewhat prevalent in this country< but only in a very light degree. The remedy is to give a dose of physic, (eight to twelve ounces of salts,) and to wash the feet with soap and warm water afterward anointing them with the following ointment: Eight ounces lard, two ounces of bees-wax, and two ounces resin melted together and then mixed with four ounces of spirits of turpentine and one ounce each of sulphate of zine and sulphate of copper very finely powdered. These are all to be stirred together until thoroughly mixed and cooled. The affected animals should be skept by themselves, as others may take the disease from them by contact with the discharge from the feet.—iV. Y. Times. Corn as a Food for Horses. Mr. Church, the general manager of the London omnibus company, before a select committee of the House of Commons, spoke very highly of Indian corn as food for work horses. The company find it so much cheaper than oats that they have_ discarded them. He says : These animals arc fed entirely on maize and chaff, each horse receiving as its daily ration about 17 pounds of the former and ten of the latter. The maize is just broken sufficiently to enable the horses to eat it without difficulty, and they thrive better on this fodder than they ever did upon oats. _ On the ground ol economy, also, maize is preferable tb oats as forage, its price being much lower, and the saving effected being 3s. or 4s. a quarter. These facts, Mr. Church went on to observe, have long been known to many owners of horses, but gentlemen with private stables find great difficulty in substituting bruised maize ai d chaff for the old fashioned ft»rage of oats and trusses of hay. Coachmen and grain dexlers resolutely oppose the innovation, for the reason that it enables the owners ot horses to exercise a control over supplies for tbeir stables, and prevent a waste and fraud. Interesting to Short-Horn Breeders. Editors Indiana Farmer:—I send you a little' of my experience in regard to the purchase and breeding from two aged cows. Easter Day was purchased by T. J. Migeblew and myself from Dr. J. J. Taylor, near Lexington, Kentucky, at nine'•years old (see Vol.8, page 315) we give $350 for her. She was in calf to Airdrie Duke 5306, and produced a red C. C, March 6th, 1869. I give names of calves descended from her and names of purchasers below. Airdrie Belle, Vol. 10, page 122, Geo. M. Bedford, $1,700; Airdrie Belle 2d, W. E. Sims, $900; Airdrie Belle 3d, Geo. M Bedford, $940; Rosette. John Nichols, $750; Cambridge Rose, John Nichols, $800; Cambridge Rose 2d, .John B. Taylor, out Canada, $1 000; Cambridge Rose 4th. twin, Richard Gibson, out Canada. $350; Master Maynard to Corbin and Patterson, $700; Admirae $370, to S. Moore, Ohio, Prince Alfred, twin, Mr. Larkinsville, Alabama, $80, making $7 590 more than the investment in the old cow. The bull, Master Maynora, being let to about twelve cows by his owners and then selling him to Cyrus Jones of San Jose, California, for $1,700, an advance of $1,000 more than first cost. The cow Easter Day above was a descendant of imported Rose of Sharon through Flora, full sister to Thames. Also we bought Miss Stonewall Jackson (Vol.7, page 478) at $GU0and in about the same length of time as Ea«ter Day we sold ber descendents lor $5,8S0 more than the first cost, making an advance on thc increase of the two cows of $13,- 470 for food and interest on the first cost of $950 for both cows. Wesley Warnock. The Vlnewood Herd. SHEEP IN VIRGINIA. The Richmond Whig strongly urges the farmers of Virginia to engage more generally in wool growing as it. climate and soil not only are adapted to this industry, but the changed conditions of its people since the war and abolition of slavery. But in the first place it demands that tho Legislature shall pass a stringent dog law for the farmer's protection, from which it would appear that the State is overrun with dogs to such an extent as to have actually discouraged if not permitted the general introduction of this .industry. Upon these points the Whig says: With the extinction of slavery, the old system of cultivation has' become unprofitable. In its place must be substituted others adapted to ouralterted condition of labor. Among those, not one is so profitable in this interior as the the raising of wool, <_c. The industry requiresbut a small force compared to the cultivation of wheat, corn, and tobacco, and, therefore, the Legislature should foster it in every possible way. If the Old Dominion could produce sheep to anything like the extent that Michigan does, she would in a few years become far weathier than she is, and we see no reason why such should not be the fact with proper legislation. It does seem to us that the Legislature might_pass such laws as would protect our citizens in their property. What ever enactmenis there are, seems to be practically of little effect. We have never seen the statutes of Michigan, but we would venture to assert they secure their farmers. THE CORN CROP. Thi? issue of the Indiana Farmer contains two illustrations of animals of the celebrated Vinewood herd of B. B. Groom &, Son, to be sold near Winchester, Kentucky, October 14:h, as advertised elsewhere. This sale affords o*.ie of the rare opportunities for obtaining somo of the finest Short-IIorns in this country. The Kentucky Live Stock Record, alluding to this herd says : The herd consists of eighty-one animals, amor-g wh ch will be found twenty head ot imported cows and five imported bulls. The Messrs. Grooms' sale presents one of the most attractive offerings ofthe October serie-i, as Kirklevingtons. Wildeyes, Barmpton Roses, Prinsesses, Brighteyes, Places (Bates), and other very popular English sorts, will be offered. To lovers ofthe Bartes sort, the Vinewood herd sale should be an unusually attractive one. Catalogues are ready. The September report of the department of agriculture saysot the corn crop: "Could it be thoroughly ripened, its aggregate would exceed any previous crop, and the yield per acre would be one of the best, notwithstanding the losses by the overflow ofthe b.ttoms. and the saturation ofthe heavy flat soils, such losses proving less than the usual damages by drought and insects, while the rains have greatly benefited the crop's in the higher and dryer soils. Nearly everywhere the corn is late in maturing from one to two weeks._ General high condition is still maintained. The average being one per cent, higher than in August. The state averages are: Maine, 107; New Hampshire, 109; Connecticut 108; New York. 99; New Jersey, 111; Pennsylvania, 108; Delaware, 100; Maryland, 106; Virginia, 112; North. Carolina, 105; South Carolina, 87; Georgia; 90; Florida, 83; Alabama, 111; Mississippi, 116; Louisiana, 85; Texas, 89; Arkansas, 103; Tennessee, 114; West Virginia, 107; Kentucky. 103; Ohio, 97; Michigan, 101; Indiana, 83; Illinois, 95: Wisconsin, 60, Minnesota. 72; Iowa, 92; Missouri, 111: Kansas. 109; Nebraska, 93; California, 95; Oregon, 100. GIBTON COUNTY-Sept 25. We've had some flne growing weather since tbe flood. Wheat ia abont all threshed, and ls worth from SO oents to f 1.15 per bnshel. Corn on rolling ground looks well. That in the Whit, river bottom was all destroyed, leaving many farmers without anything. Tobacco la growing fine, and promises a better crop than was anticipated. Early potatoes are good, bnt late ones are damaged some, but yet, a good yield. The Indiana Farmer Is a welcome visitor here, and is read with great Interest. Long live the Farmer. Chas. Struct. GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VA.-Sept. 24th. Slight frost this morning. Corn crop flne, considered the btst since I860. Wheat is a good yield but much damaged by rain; few prime samples. Hay about two-thirds of a crop ln the James River Valley. Has the frest damaged the corn crop ln the West? What ls the estimated damage to the wheat crop ln the West? R. B. A. KNOX C0UNTY-_epl. 27th. It is as much too dry now as it was wet some time ago. Not mnch wh-at sown on account of the dry weather, the ground being so dry and so difficult to get ln order for sowing. Plenty of frost a few nights tlnce. Farmers are about done cnttlng up corn. There will be a greater amount of wheat sown ln th s section of thc county than ever. Corn in the bottoms of the Wabash and White river was all destroyed. Our county fair begins October llth, and we expect the best fair this year that we have ever had. j. p. q_ WELLS COUNTY. Farmers in this neighborhood are about done sowing wheat. Wheat turued out very well, considering the wet weather; worth 11.10. Corn not very good. Hogs nearly all 6old off. Potatoes are good, and turn out well; worth 35 cents per bushel. No apples worth mentioning. Grangers are plenty, and still increasing In numbers. The Indiana Farmer is taken by nearly all ln onr Grange. M.J. Lowry. MIAMI COUNTY-September 26th. Seeding has been very late ln this section; some wheat to sow yet. We had some heavy frosts last week, which killed the late coin. The most of the corn here was ont of danger, but we will have poor fodder, as there has not been much made yet. Corn is tolerably good alons Eel river. Wheat was very poor; Is selling from 60 cents to fl. The Indiana Farmer Is the favorite agricultural paper ln these parts. We wish it success. Jacob Sayoer. HUNTINGTON COUNTY-Sept. 24th. • Seeing a note ln the Farmer that J. Hardey, of Starke connty, (In; sixteen bushels ol potatoes irom four rods of ground, please inform us what kind? whether at one or two different times? I raised forty-three bushels of Early Rose from eighteen and one-half rods, and I thought that was enough. Wheat abont all sowed; selling irom 50c to 11.10. Corn cntting is going on lively now. Heavy frosts on the _M and 23d inst. Apples scarce. The Granges are still alive here, they have their shoulder agalDst the wheel and are helping to push. p. jt. HANCOCK COUNTY-September 26th. Weather has been very flne lor fall work. Farmers are abont all done sowing wheat. They have their corn about all cut. Hogs are dying with some new disease, which some call cholera, because they don't know what else to call it. Hogs are scarce and high. Corn is good in some localities. It is worth from 40 to 75 cents. Wheat is poor and low in price; worth from GO cents to 51. The Farmer Is a welcome visitor at our home. • J. ty. Comstock. HENDRICKS COUNTY-September 27th. Corn is much better than had been expected, and the shipment of a great many cattle and hogs to Illinois has lett the farmers with plenty of feed for their their stock. The following, furnished us by D. W. Sparks, shows an average of the wheat crop. He threshed 579 acres, yielding 7,806 bushels—less than 14 bnshels per acre. Also twelve acres of bats, yielding 533 bushels, an average per acre of 44 bushels. Halcyon Grange ls flourishing. Its members are hopeful for the future. 21. E. H. PORTER COUNTY-September 27 h. I have Just made a Uttle trip through a portion of Pnlaski, Fulton, Marshall, Stark, St. Joseph, LaPorte and Porter counties. Corn, marsh hay, potatoe", pumpkins, etc., in abundance. Old Jack Frost has made bis mark in many localities. I do not think he. has done mnch damage. The farmers are pretty nearly through seeding ; abont an average.cropt will be sown. 1 noticed a good many apples and pears. I haven't heard much complaint about damaged wheat, but all say the crop ls short. Health Is better than I have known lt for several years, and I have passed over the same route every fall for the last six or eight years. J. B. D. Bone Dnst.—I see ln yonr paper an inquiry from Pike County, I think, about the amount of plaster required to oe used on wheat. If yonr inquirer will only try about 150 to 200 pounds of pure Bone Dust to the acre, he ^-111 flnd that the yield of wheat will be mnch larger and better than by using plaster, or Any thing else. One farmer that nsed bone dust this spring says he got ten dollars back by extra yield lor every one Invested. Chas. G. Morris. Legal Tender Ketirement.—Tbe Secretary of the Treasury has given directions for the retirement of $304 58-1 of outstanding legal tenders, that amount being 80 per cent of the National bank circulation issued during the present month. Until further orders outstanding legal . nders will be $373,941,12_,— Washington Telegram.
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Transcript | lira Stock* i fie Indiana > armer. THE MOUNDALE HERD. Property of H. F. Thomson, to be Sold at Moundale, Thomson Station, Clarke County, Ky., Oct. 15th, 1875. Boubbon County, Ky., Oct. 27. In the grand offering to the publio of Short-Horns in central Kentucky, next month, many aud valuable ones will be presented but in the list I question muoh, if any one breeder can or does pesent as many popular and elegantly bred young Bates heifers; as the gentleman whose name appears above. Ninet.- eight head and all deep in Bates blood; 88 females, and 78 of theso under five years. Princess, Craggs,.Gwynne's, Can- nondal's, and Constance's, Bloom's, Gems, Young Phillis, Louan's, Golden Pippins, Dew Drops, are strongly represented in numbers, and elegantly in desirable forms and ages. Drafts from the North, East, West, England, Canada and Kentucky are to be lound here; rare and noted cows, young and thrifty heifers of unexceptiDn- able forms, pedigrees and colors will be sold. I will not undertake an individual description of all the good things in the lot. The bulls are all under one year old; some are not all that could be desired, but being of pure pedigree blood they will meet a demand amongst a large class who cannot afford to pay fancy prioes. Tho most ho? ever are good ones, all thrifty and in colors desirable. In heifers w'e find 18 beauties, all reds and roans, except one, she, a snow white. Perhaps the toppiestand most stylish is Cth Tube Rose, of Brattleboro, a red, 8 months, a highly bred Princess, a fine showy calf, of decided first quality, with a superb coat of silky hair, a good head, crops, and ribs well sprung, with symmetrical contour, and the foreshortened view from either end good. In yearling heifers 34 handsome ones can be fouud. One of V1 e best is Rosa 2d. from imported Agatha and topped Kirklevington. (11640), a pure Bates, Ci.mmodore and Crusader, well bred in B tes. She is a show heifer in form, with small clean head trim neck fine bro. d back, with a splendid bosom, of grand quality and is likely to prove a gem ot the first water among Shoit Horns. More than a dozen remarkably beautiful heifers in this list of yearling deserve commenting up n, but I pass to the baker's dozen of two year olds, at least ten of them. deserving of Page's pencil. I will not individualize in this lot for discrimination here would be hard to effect as for style, substance an general quality, they all rank high. Most all of them arc safe in . alf to Grand Duke a 63-<_tth pure Bates bull, or to one of the pure Dukes of this region. The three year olds also number 13 and all of them giving milk, having safely calved, they are fine, healthy, thrifty looking young cows. I rather inclined to Peachbud 12th, sired and gr. sired by bulls deep in Princess blood, she is mellow to the touch, sightly _ to the eye. and gives every sign of becoming a most stylish and desirable cow. Ot the 20 cows between 3 and 9 years of age they are all very good looking matrons, fine and substantial, of good quality in both beef, touch and pail proclivities We clos_ our notice with Grand Duke, an 8 year old bull, standing at bead of herd, a great heifer producer, based on Craggs, with 5 pure Bates sires above. He is a bull of magnificent proportions, a fine handler and well worthy, of his pure lineage, he has already left his impress on many of the young animals, his get in this offering, and many ofthe females to be sold are stinted to him. I hope the Short-Horn buyers of Indiana will be here in force, as a splendid opportunity is presented, in this sale, for securing rare and most desirable families of the Bates and Princess kinds. S. II. R. Spaying Cattle—The Missouri Farmer says that a great many yearling heifers are annually spayed in Missouri. The time most generally adopted is in early spring when the grass is sufficient for them to lived without other food The heifers thus treated universally wake better cattle than they otherwise would do, and are more valuable th au they would be as cows. The inlerior heifers should always be selected, and they are as valuble for beef as the best steers. Our cotemporary has seen cows spayed at two years old that continued to give milk until very old age. They, of course, gave more in early spring than at any other season of the .year, but we did not see that they gave less iu the same length of time than those with calves. They evidently fatten more . readily than cows do that are raising calveB, and consequently should be more ^thoroughly milked andfed less thansuch icows. Frvm the London Agricultural Gazette. THE WADSWORTH ESTATE SHORT-HORN HERD. ' This is one of the largest and probably at the present time the most valuable cultivated estate in North America. It consists of about eighty thousand acres,_ ocoupying parts of the five coun- oouuties of Genesee, Livingston. Monroe, Erie, and Niagara, of New York. One may walk from a few miles above the village of Geneseo to the City of Ro Chester, a distance of about thirty miles, without stepping off this magnificent domain. Eis_bt thousand acres, or about ons-tenth of this, is what is locally called "flats," whioh answers to the term "meadows" in England. They form a rich alluvial plain, of considerable leugth, and of one to threo miles in breadth, the Gene see river meandering through it. Almost every Soring it overflows these "flats," and as the waters suhside they leave a ricl sediment on their i in Bridle-Breaking.—To cure a horse of bridle-breaking, get a piece of bed- cord, four times the length of tbe horse, and double it in the middle, and at tbe doubled end make a loop, through which pass the animal's tail. Then cross the cord over his back, and pass both ends through the halter-ring under his chin and tie both ends ofthe cord to the trough ring through which the halter strap p^s. the end ofthe halter being attached to a billet of wood. Should the horse attempt to pull back, the strain will all boon the root of his tail before the halter strap will become tightened, and he will at once step forward to avoid it. Alter so fixing him a few times in stable he will abandon any such propensity. Ceoss-bbed Ram.—A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal says tbat Ma- lon Bryant, of Woodstock, Me., has a ram, of Southdown and Leicester breed with a touch of native, which produced 17 lbs of unwashed wool, when a year old. and for which N. L. Marshall, paid $8 50. This year the ram was two years old in May last, and weighed 250 lbs. befor e shearing and sheared 20 lbs. of wool by weight, the wool was Cinches long, very fine, and has been sold at 20 cts, a lb. s m s . Hon. Mr. Cociirane's Airdrie Duchess 2d (dam of the $18,000 eow) has given birth to a yellow-red and white bull calf by llth Duke of Geneva. He will be called Cth Duke of Hillhurst. The last Indiana Legislature passed the following act on this subject: "Be it enacted, etc., That every person who shall cruelly beat oi torture, or ovrdrove any horse or other animal, whether belonging to himself or another, shall be deemed guilty of a msdemeanor, and upon conviction, snail be fined ln any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars." .—s m s TnE rule of TnE Shorxiiorn Society of Great Britain disqualifying for entry in the Herd Book of bulls with only four crosses in their pedigree, has been relaxed. Such bulls will be entered in the forthcoming volume of the Herd Book, but will be recorded in a separate list. Indiana, Farmer Family. Onr Postal Card Correspondence. __yjtVs «<-__*ttj_S,_? Ul trees, pretty bori vated in various crops, bounded in the far distance by high, picturesque, wooded hills. Through these meadows winds the placid Geneseo to its frightful leap thirty miles below, of over ninety feet from a perpen dicular limestone precipice at Rochester; then flowing on agjin, now gently, then over other successive falls for a dist;__:;_e1!of niue moke miles, till mingled with the clear blue waters of Lake Ontario. Add to these features, in tbe immediate foreground of this general view, a choice and beautiful herd of upward of seventy head of fine thoroughbred Short-Horns, cropping the succulent grass, or reposing in the shade of the trees, and about 1.5(H) high-grade bullocks feeding for the New York maiket", and we have a scene which, I will veature to say, is nowhere surpassed in rural richness and beauty. In coming into the uiana ement ofthe estate, a few years since, the present owners set apart 3 00U acres each for their own individual farms. Until the Indian corn, wheat, aud other small grains had been the staple products of the?e lands from their tii s t sell It ment, more especially wheat was the best pacing crop; but the great rise iu the wages of labor, and the low price ol the above products which have lat- teily ruled in the United States, made it impossible for them to successfully compete with the cheaper lauds of the West; aud then they wisely concluded to change their grain-fields to grass as rapidly as was convenient, and enter more largely on the breeding of Short-Horns. These they will continue to increase until they entirely supersede their numerous grades now pasturing here. What a magnificent herd it will then show! Well worth the while alone of the English breeders of this kindred race to cross *he Atlantic to look at. The foundation of this herd was laid by their father, the late Gen James S. Wadswonh, in the year 1854 The imported cow, Australia, has been the chief strain in this. She was got by Lord Foppington (10 437) out of Adonia, by Harkaway, (9,184.) Mr. Charles F. \Vadsworth showed me eight of this fdmily, which I think will fully equal any other eight of a single family to be tou .d in the United States. To these they have added largely from the Duchess and Princess tribes, preferring the pure Bates and Stephenson blood to any other strains now existing. Their cows excel generally as milkers, and are fully able to bring up their own calves in good condition; and if a cow will not do this, I think she ought to be ruled out of every show-yard, as unworthy of being awarded a prize of anj; kind. The buils latterly used in the Genesee Valley herd are Fourteenth Duke of Airdrie. Third Baron Bates, Earl Seahan, Second Baron Morley, and Fifth Prince of Oxford. The latter is the youngest of the five, having been calved slaouary 14, 1874 He is almost entirely red, with the gold hue of hair which we so much admire here, as indicative of high breeding, and as a distinguished shade in the color of the Duchess and Princess tribes of cattle. He is of good size, fine quality, and quite stylish in his makeup. We may look for a choice lot of calves next year from- his get. At thc New York State Agricultural Show at El- mira, in 1872, this herd took the herd premium and four first prizes; at ■ hat of Albany, in 1873 it took the herd premium and five first prizes; at that of Rochester, in 1874, it took the herd premium and four firat prizes. fsPC*-— -~ 2 Zaire/ Cernyi/cr/t W.^^Ce^j^. THE PROPERTY OF B. B. GROOM & SON, WINCHESTER, KENTUCKY. Disease in the Feet of Cows. O. B., Butternuts, N. Y.. writes : "I have three cows taken lame in hind feet. The disease appears like a bruise on heel, which soon swells ; cracks appear above the hoof similar to scratches in horses, and bloody matter discharges in small quantities. There is no soreness between the hoofs. _ One of my neighbors calls it cow itch—another, fouls. Can you tell mo what it is. what causes it and a remedy? Will other cows be liable to take the disease by running with them? Reply.—This is one of the symptoms of the disease, now very prevalent in England, known as the "foot and mouth" disease, in which,in addition to the soreness of tho feet, the mouth and tongue arc generally affected. It appears to be somewhat prevalent in this country< but only in a very light degree. The remedy is to give a dose of physic, (eight to twelve ounces of salts,) and to wash the feet with soap and warm water afterward anointing them with the following ointment: Eight ounces lard, two ounces of bees-wax, and two ounces resin melted together and then mixed with four ounces of spirits of turpentine and one ounce each of sulphate of zine and sulphate of copper very finely powdered. These are all to be stirred together until thoroughly mixed and cooled. The affected animals should be skept by themselves, as others may take the disease from them by contact with the discharge from the feet.—iV. Y. Times. Corn as a Food for Horses. Mr. Church, the general manager of the London omnibus company, before a select committee of the House of Commons, spoke very highly of Indian corn as food for work horses. The company find it so much cheaper than oats that they have_ discarded them. He says : These animals arc fed entirely on maize and chaff, each horse receiving as its daily ration about 17 pounds of the former and ten of the latter. The maize is just broken sufficiently to enable the horses to eat it without difficulty, and they thrive better on this fodder than they ever did upon oats. _ On the ground ol economy, also, maize is preferable tb oats as forage, its price being much lower, and the saving effected being 3s. or 4s. a quarter. These facts, Mr. Church went on to observe, have long been known to many owners of horses, but gentlemen with private stables find great difficulty in substituting bruised maize ai d chaff for the old fashioned ft»rage of oats and trusses of hay. Coachmen and grain dexlers resolutely oppose the innovation, for the reason that it enables the owners ot horses to exercise a control over supplies for tbeir stables, and prevent a waste and fraud. Interesting to Short-Horn Breeders. Editors Indiana Farmer:—I send you a little' of my experience in regard to the purchase and breeding from two aged cows. Easter Day was purchased by T. J. Migeblew and myself from Dr. J. J. Taylor, near Lexington, Kentucky, at nine'•years old (see Vol.8, page 315) we give $350 for her. She was in calf to Airdrie Duke 5306, and produced a red C. C, March 6th, 1869. I give names of calves descended from her and names of purchasers below. Airdrie Belle, Vol. 10, page 122, Geo. M. Bedford, $1,700; Airdrie Belle 2d, W. E. Sims, $900; Airdrie Belle 3d, Geo. M Bedford, $940; Rosette. John Nichols, $750; Cambridge Rose, John Nichols, $800; Cambridge Rose 2d, .John B. Taylor, out Canada, $1 000; Cambridge Rose 4th. twin, Richard Gibson, out Canada. $350; Master Maynard to Corbin and Patterson, $700; Admirae $370, to S. Moore, Ohio, Prince Alfred, twin, Mr. Larkinsville, Alabama, $80, making $7 590 more than the investment in the old cow. The bull, Master Maynora, being let to about twelve cows by his owners and then selling him to Cyrus Jones of San Jose, California, for $1,700, an advance of $1,000 more than first cost. The cow Easter Day above was a descendant of imported Rose of Sharon through Flora, full sister to Thames. Also we bought Miss Stonewall Jackson (Vol.7, page 478) at $GU0and in about the same length of time as Ea«ter Day we sold ber descendents lor $5,8S0 more than the first cost, making an advance on thc increase of the two cows of $13,- 470 for food and interest on the first cost of $950 for both cows. Wesley Warnock. The Vlnewood Herd. SHEEP IN VIRGINIA. The Richmond Whig strongly urges the farmers of Virginia to engage more generally in wool growing as it. climate and soil not only are adapted to this industry, but the changed conditions of its people since the war and abolition of slavery. But in the first place it demands that tho Legislature shall pass a stringent dog law for the farmer's protection, from which it would appear that the State is overrun with dogs to such an extent as to have actually discouraged if not permitted the general introduction of this .industry. Upon these points the Whig says: With the extinction of slavery, the old system of cultivation has' become unprofitable. In its place must be substituted others adapted to ouralterted condition of labor. Among those, not one is so profitable in this interior as the the raising of wool, <_c. The industry requiresbut a small force compared to the cultivation of wheat, corn, and tobacco, and, therefore, the Legislature should foster it in every possible way. If the Old Dominion could produce sheep to anything like the extent that Michigan does, she would in a few years become far weathier than she is, and we see no reason why such should not be the fact with proper legislation. It does seem to us that the Legislature might_pass such laws as would protect our citizens in their property. What ever enactmenis there are, seems to be practically of little effect. We have never seen the statutes of Michigan, but we would venture to assert they secure their farmers. THE CORN CROP. Thi? issue of the Indiana Farmer contains two illustrations of animals of the celebrated Vinewood herd of B. B. Groom &, Son, to be sold near Winchester, Kentucky, October 14:h, as advertised elsewhere. This sale affords o*.ie of the rare opportunities for obtaining somo of the finest Short-IIorns in this country. The Kentucky Live Stock Record, alluding to this herd says : The herd consists of eighty-one animals, amor-g wh ch will be found twenty head ot imported cows and five imported bulls. The Messrs. Grooms' sale presents one of the most attractive offerings ofthe October serie-i, as Kirklevingtons. Wildeyes, Barmpton Roses, Prinsesses, Brighteyes, Places (Bates), and other very popular English sorts, will be offered. To lovers ofthe Bartes sort, the Vinewood herd sale should be an unusually attractive one. Catalogues are ready. The September report of the department of agriculture saysot the corn crop: "Could it be thoroughly ripened, its aggregate would exceed any previous crop, and the yield per acre would be one of the best, notwithstanding the losses by the overflow ofthe b.ttoms. and the saturation ofthe heavy flat soils, such losses proving less than the usual damages by drought and insects, while the rains have greatly benefited the crop's in the higher and dryer soils. Nearly everywhere the corn is late in maturing from one to two weeks._ General high condition is still maintained. The average being one per cent, higher than in August. The state averages are: Maine, 107; New Hampshire, 109; Connecticut 108; New York. 99; New Jersey, 111; Pennsylvania, 108; Delaware, 100; Maryland, 106; Virginia, 112; North. Carolina, 105; South Carolina, 87; Georgia; 90; Florida, 83; Alabama, 111; Mississippi, 116; Louisiana, 85; Texas, 89; Arkansas, 103; Tennessee, 114; West Virginia, 107; Kentucky. 103; Ohio, 97; Michigan, 101; Indiana, 83; Illinois, 95: Wisconsin, 60, Minnesota. 72; Iowa, 92; Missouri, 111: Kansas. 109; Nebraska, 93; California, 95; Oregon, 100. GIBTON COUNTY-Sept 25. We've had some flne growing weather since tbe flood. Wheat ia abont all threshed, and ls worth from SO oents to f 1.15 per bnshel. Corn on rolling ground looks well. That in the Whit, river bottom was all destroyed, leaving many farmers without anything. Tobacco la growing fine, and promises a better crop than was anticipated. Early potatoes are good, bnt late ones are damaged some, but yet, a good yield. The Indiana Farmer Is a welcome visitor here, and is read with great Interest. Long live the Farmer. Chas. Struct. GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VA.-Sept. 24th. Slight frost this morning. Corn crop flne, considered the btst since I860. Wheat is a good yield but much damaged by rain; few prime samples. Hay about two-thirds of a crop ln the James River Valley. Has the frest damaged the corn crop ln the West? What ls the estimated damage to the wheat crop ln the West? R. B. A. KNOX C0UNTY-_epl. 27th. It is as much too dry now as it was wet some time ago. Not mnch wh-at sown on account of the dry weather, the ground being so dry and so difficult to get ln order for sowing. Plenty of frost a few nights tlnce. Farmers are about done cnttlng up corn. There will be a greater amount of wheat sown ln th s section of thc county than ever. Corn in the bottoms of the Wabash and White river was all destroyed. Our county fair begins October llth, and we expect the best fair this year that we have ever had. j. p. q_ WELLS COUNTY. Farmers in this neighborhood are about done sowing wheat. Wheat turued out very well, considering the wet weather; worth 11.10. Corn not very good. Hogs nearly all 6old off. Potatoes are good, and turn out well; worth 35 cents per bushel. No apples worth mentioning. Grangers are plenty, and still increasing In numbers. The Indiana Farmer is taken by nearly all ln onr Grange. M.J. Lowry. MIAMI COUNTY-September 26th. Seeding has been very late ln this section; some wheat to sow yet. We had some heavy frosts last week, which killed the late coin. The most of the corn here was ont of danger, but we will have poor fodder, as there has not been much made yet. Corn is tolerably good alons Eel river. Wheat was very poor; Is selling from 60 cents to fl. The Indiana Farmer Is the favorite agricultural paper ln these parts. We wish it success. Jacob Sayoer. HUNTINGTON COUNTY-Sept. 24th. • Seeing a note ln the Farmer that J. Hardey, of Starke connty, (In; sixteen bushels ol potatoes irom four rods of ground, please inform us what kind? whether at one or two different times? I raised forty-three bushels of Early Rose from eighteen and one-half rods, and I thought that was enough. Wheat abont all sowed; selling irom 50c to 11.10. Corn cntting is going on lively now. Heavy frosts on the _M and 23d inst. Apples scarce. The Granges are still alive here, they have their shoulder agalDst the wheel and are helping to push. p. jt. HANCOCK COUNTY-September 26th. Weather has been very flne lor fall work. Farmers are abont all done sowing wheat. They have their corn about all cut. Hogs are dying with some new disease, which some call cholera, because they don't know what else to call it. Hogs are scarce and high. Corn is good in some localities. It is worth from 40 to 75 cents. Wheat is poor and low in price; worth from GO cents to 51. The Farmer Is a welcome visitor at our home. • J. ty. Comstock. HENDRICKS COUNTY-September 27th. Corn is much better than had been expected, and the shipment of a great many cattle and hogs to Illinois has lett the farmers with plenty of feed for their their stock. The following, furnished us by D. W. Sparks, shows an average of the wheat crop. He threshed 579 acres, yielding 7,806 bushels—less than 14 bnshels per acre. Also twelve acres of bats, yielding 533 bushels, an average per acre of 44 bushels. Halcyon Grange ls flourishing. Its members are hopeful for the future. 21. E. H. PORTER COUNTY-September 27 h. I have Just made a Uttle trip through a portion of Pnlaski, Fulton, Marshall, Stark, St. Joseph, LaPorte and Porter counties. Corn, marsh hay, potatoe", pumpkins, etc., in abundance. Old Jack Frost has made bis mark in many localities. I do not think he. has done mnch damage. The farmers are pretty nearly through seeding ; abont an average.cropt will be sown. 1 noticed a good many apples and pears. I haven't heard much complaint about damaged wheat, but all say the crop ls short. Health Is better than I have known lt for several years, and I have passed over the same route every fall for the last six or eight years. J. B. D. Bone Dnst.—I see ln yonr paper an inquiry from Pike County, I think, about the amount of plaster required to oe used on wheat. If yonr inquirer will only try about 150 to 200 pounds of pure Bone Dust to the acre, he ^-111 flnd that the yield of wheat will be mnch larger and better than by using plaster, or Any thing else. One farmer that nsed bone dust this spring says he got ten dollars back by extra yield lor every one Invested. Chas. G. Morris. Legal Tender Ketirement.—Tbe Secretary of the Treasury has given directions for the retirement of $304 58-1 of outstanding legal tenders, that amount being 80 per cent of the National bank circulation issued during the present month. Until further orders outstanding legal . nders will be $373,941,12_,— Washington Telegram. |
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