VOL. XIV.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JULY 5, 1879.
NO. 27.
unless the other is also likewise affected.
In the sound hock there cannot be found a
sharp or pointed prominence. No other
affection ot the limb loses its soreness by
action except bone spavin.
FOB SAUL
FOR SALE—Six _andsome_Partridge Cochin Cockerels at *_each.   Orderlioon.   GEORGE VES-
-   -*.--__-4-f--_. e.t—  T__    *
,6
TAL, Cambridge City, Ind.
EOR SALE—Farms in Marlon. Rnsh and other
^counties ln Indiana.   O. W. ALEXANDER, S6
E. Market St., (.side door Central Bank).
FOR SALE—J. It. Brown, Manilla, Rush coanty,
Ind.t breeder of Ught Brahmas of Felch and
Danley's stock, and White Leghorns. Send orders
for eggs. •- .        	
FOR BALE—The Farm Register and Accinnt
Book. Complete method or keeplngfann accounts. PriceM each. Address UTDIANAFARMEB
COMPANY. Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—A flne well-improved farm of 200
acree In Washington township, in Hamilton
connty. Price. ISO per acre. This ts a rare bargain.
Inquire of VINSON CARTER, No. 21 Vance Block.
Indianapolis.
EOR SALE—Pampas or Northern Rice,
nutritious food'for man or beast.
*
Healthy,
._  __       Very best
chicken feed.   Now ta the time to bow.  25 cents a
Socket or & for fl.   Postpaid.   Address J. H. BROU-
HI8,care Indiana Farmer Co.. Indianapolis, Ind.
171 OR 8ALE-
f_    the most complete device for the
The Ashland Adlnstable Bag Holder,
_____ complete device for the purpose ever
offered to the public. Every farmer, miller, thresh-
erman, grocer, grain dealer, and aU others who use
sacks, should not be without It. It Is adjustable,'
made of Iron, wi 11 not get out of order, and will last
a lifetime. It will fit any sack, longr orBbort, wide
or narrow.   Price, $150.   Address Inpiaxa Farmkr.
MISC EX-JJtivNKOVH.
SM. GOODE—Dentist, over 80 North Pennsylra-
•   nla street.
CC. BT7RGES8, Dentist.  Office In room -l.Va-
 •   Jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St.
S
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■\i7-ALTER SHORTRIDGE, Indianapolis, breeder
*T     Rose-combed Black   Bantams   exclusively.
First Premium birds. . "
II6RT HORNS-Bates and Booth kinds for sale.
Correspondence sollcted.   E. C' THOMPSON,
Lock Box 1.   Edlnburg. Ind.
MORTGAGE LOANS NEGOTIATED AND
first-clas*. fire Insurance placed on all classes
of .Insurable property, farm-houses and barns ln-
cluded, 64 East Market street.   G. G. HOLMAN.
HO will be President In 1880 Is uncertain, but tt
ls certain I am selling Hedge Plants cheaper
• than tbe cheapest, will do to set out last of Mayor
first of June. *W. R. LOYD.
^- *j Jordan, Jay county, Ind.
\
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brt sry 23. I
TtEW V *D—Strayed from my premises, on
.•brl *,ry 28. two horses, one a dark bay.
* * 9» ** *„il- the other a sorrel; both horses
*    nine years old, and about fourteen
,-eward.of f2S will be paid for their.
.* liberal reward will be paid to know
!    -,-ntn. <.,.!!■ , address G.W.WALKER
■t, Ind: ...apolis, Ind.
I-OAJVS.
low rate of Interest.
'.   M.   E.   VINTON.
H>ng time
,..   -l... interest.
s.lshingloans in from
A. W. PRATHER,
very county in the State. Office
-reet. Indianapolis, Ind.
.WANTED.
W_*«TE*b—A suitable location to erect a Tile
\Pactory.    Address A. C. BOWLBY,  Fair-
W Ki
land. ll<
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TED—Make your Chicks and Pigs grow by
,»-ling Ground Beef Scraps, 4c per pound.
$3 per-0(7* pounds.
pound, at
Ground Oyster shells 2c per
E. G. BAGLEVS, Indianapolis. Indiana.
... __._, _. _— -Agents everywhere to sell trees and
VV    plants.   A profitable and permanent employment.   I have agreed to give IS per cent, of sales to
the education of ministers at Asbury University.
away with dishonest tree agents and know what we
are doing. We expect the people to show their
colors. Please correspond with us in regard to your
probable wants: also, for terms to agents. Address
T. C. BARNUM, at Barnum House, 190 Bast Market street, IndlanapoUs.
A Plea for the Pig.
BY It. N. BONHAM, Of OXFORD, OHIO.
Delivered before the Indiana Swine Breeders' Association at its meeting, January, 187*. Published
at the reqnest of the Association.
In this day of many lectures and discussions at our farmers' clubs, granges and
fair associations, it has become a difficult'
matter to present anything fresh or attractive to a company of experts, associated
together for the improvement of their
specialty. Their fields of investigation
have been thoroughly worked by the best
men of their department of agriculture. I
had not dared to accept the honor conferred
Upon me by so distinguished an association
had I not felt assured of sympathy with and
from men engaged in kindred pursuits
with myself. It is pleasant to meet friends
having a common interest with us, and to
hear what they have to say by way of encouragement or way of instruction. Dr.
Fletcher has given us the instruction, practical and scientific. It used to be the custom for the regular preacher to deliver a
set sermon, and after him- some young
brother, wishing to learn how to preach,
would follow with an exhortation. The
Doctor has delivered the sermon, and I invite your attention to the exhortation,
which I will call
A PLEA FOR THE PIG.
1. The pig is the victim of several miserable prejudices.
2. Th.se are ill-founded and scandalous,
since he is the factor which has put more
ready money into the pockets ofthe farmer
and merchant than any other animal; and
he will yet do more for solving the two
great questions of eternal fertility of the
soil and of food supply for the older nations of the earth. To these points I invite
attention. I am aware that it is always
dangerous to attack the prejudices of mankind, yet I always ft*" 1 like helping the
under dog in the fight, if he is a good one,
though it be at the risk of getting hurt,
which is very probable if the upper dog is
powerful and plucky.
Dr. Stetson, in his well-received address
at Champaign, Illinois, put in some good
, kicks, and made good points in favor of
swine's   flesh as an article of diet, but I
think he missed the big dog, or, at least,
only grazed hitn, when he said that the
.Latin name, sus scrofa, has done a great
deal more to prejndice the ignorant against
the hog than almost anything else. ■ Thousands and tens of thousands who have
never heard the Latin name, sus scrota, are
fully Imbued with the popular prejudice*
They may have imbibed their views from
some of the doctors, who are said never to
agree, and who may have heard that an
ancient impression gained credence among
tfte Romans that their over-fed pigs sometimes showed scrofulous symptoms, and
that old sows sometimes had sores on their
necks, similar to scrofula; hence the genus
was called sus scrofa. More learned zoologists, however, claim that the American
and English swine sprang from the sus in-
dicus, which renders the prejudice more ill-
founded. The fact is, the prejudice against
the genus sus is more universal than ever
was the Latin language. It was born of
Jewish bigotry and is as wide-spread as the
Jewish race, and is felt wherever the name
or fame of the Jewish law-giver was .Mver
read or talked of. . The curse of Moses
abides upon the hog. .The children of Israel, in every land-under the sun, call' him
unclean, because he "divides the hoof and
cheweth not the cud." I.ork surely must
have been an important ration in the savory
flesh-pots of Egypt, or Moses would not
have had occasion to check its use by his
curse, pronounced six thousand years ago.
Nevertheless, the pig has held his own
against the Jew and the Mohammedan.
While they have diminished, he has increased. They have lost their promised
land; he is just now entering iuto the land
of plenty, where he shall want for no good
thing. This Western land, the .land of corn,
is to him the land of Canaan. He never
has flourished among savages or half-civilized nations. He is, and ever has been,
mot appreciated among the most civilized
Ann "m*** .-if the earth. He would have cut a
■••.*.«.»_' ._,^no,s,fre ... and.JAarf**-.
_iid*i *,mt_iyi___f_a-rig thibiigta the wilderness. ,_'heir nomadic life and short rations
won '-j-ithave suited his notions of comfort au1! Pr**>9Perity* He loves good living,
and that served at regular times in generous quantities. The savage mode of feast
and famine is not suited to his wants or to
his cultivated tastes. He would have been
an unprofitable member of the Israelitish
camp. That was a masterly stroke of policy
on the part of Moses, when he would banish the 'troublesome beast from his camp.
He appreciated its hold on the peoplawhen
he arrayed against it the national pride and
religious bigotry of his ignorant followers.
His success showed him to be a powerful
leader of a "peculiar people." The Jewish
prejudice had no sway over the cultivated
Greek and Roman, nor over the independent old barons of England and Germany,
who gloried in the chase and crowned it
with a royal feast, at whioh the boar's head
was the dish of honor. The Anglo-Saxons
had no Jewish ideas, but abundance of
wine. This prejudice is old, and fortified
by ignorance. This is seen by two orders
issued by the Jewish council, which were,
"Cursed be he who breedeth hogs," and
"Cursed be he who teacheth his son the
learning ofthe Greeks."
The sublime style of Virgil or of Homer
was not too good to be used in the praise of
swine, and instruction of the husbandmen
in the arts of breeding and rearing them.
Its study was respected, and dignified with
the name of Porculatio. At the matchless
Roman feasts and banquets, the chief dish
was the porcus troyannus. This was a hog
which had been carefully fattened on dried
figs and delicacies, and drenched to repletion with honeyed wine. When dressed,
this hog was stuffed with larks, thrushes,
oysters, nightingales and delicacies of all
kinds, and the whole mass was bathed in
rare wines and rich gravies. Among the
Greeks and Romans, a Jew was as unclean
as is the pig among tho Jews. Hence the
pig stood there on his own merits, and his
flesh was a choice dish at table or feast; and
the world over, where the curse of the Jew
had not weight; swine's flesh has been held
in high esteem.
The pig is the victim of another prejudice, iounded on ignorance of his habits at
home. He is called a dirty beast. The fact
is, a well-bred pig, and I am not the advocate of any other kind, has gentlemanly
instincts. He loves his ease in a good,
clean bed, and will never defile it if allowed his own way. He is the only one of
our farm animals that carefully deposits
his droppings in the corner of their pen or
house, and even in his lot he will have a
place for vile uses. Oae old writer says,
he is the cleanest of all animals, and will
never dung in his sty if he can get forth.
Should you chance to find a house-dog or
cat so neat as he, it is at once the pride ot
the household, and the talk of the neighborhood. Yet the dog and cat are admitted
into the palors and dining-rooms of lords
and ladies? We do.not recommend the pig
as a parlor pet; though he be neat in his
habits, he has the reputation for getting his
nose into other people's business. He is
enterprising, and his prying nature leads
him into forbidden grounds.: As do the
rheumatic patients at Hot Springs, he sometimes takes a mud bath fer some of the ills
which swine flesh is heir to, and, lik. all
bathers, does not appear at his best until lie
has had time to dry off and brush up. Like
the elephant and rhinoceros, he is a pachydermatous beast, and knows the* value of
water and earth as disinfectants, which is
more than can be said of all his accusers.
As to diet, his taste is superior to that of
our fowls, whose fl> sh Jew and Chris tain
alike accept as savory meat. A prejudice,
peculiar and singular, attaches to the. American-ton^ pig, dead or alive, in the show
ring or the pork-barrel, be he Essex, Berkshire, Poland China or what not, and at
this time, is working against our shipments
of breeders and porkers to England and
Europe, and for that reason is worthy of
our notice.—To be continued.
<*■  -i—•—-	
The Future of Sheep.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
The indications are increasing that the
long, coarse wools are not in demand with
manufacturers. Year by year this change
has come. Fine wools and a finer staple of
long wools has steadily gained. Some of
the more common and coarse Cotswold
flocks have beer(i*&rossed with the Menno
rams to refine and beautify the fleece. The
results are so satisfactory that the market
quotations discriminate in favor of Cots-
wold-Meriho wool as bringing the highest
market price. So well does thiscfos3 please
that rams are in demand from such breeding for the Western trade. This is all wrong
of course, but the sheep produced by such
is so complete and desirable in size, fleece
and style that any one with light estimates
of the value of thorough breeding animals
might be expected to use the half-bred
sheep _s> good enough. The excitement in
the wool i market has been unexpected and
extreme.,' *»■'*'
J"he sheep
i^ht. wit h'-
■'Vhs'witb'-*'
'"  et shows but little swn-
^•^oolnjatliPt.  ^nJU-Ei-r
C?—_ny, and expects tohan-.j
What Ails My MareP
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I hive a mare that was ridden very hard
and overheated, and then stood hitched out
till late at night in a very hard rain and
sleet "that nearly froze her. She took a severe -cold from it, and it makes her what
is called thick-winded. Will Dr. Navin
please give me a remedy through the columns of the Farmer, if there is any for it?
add gVeatly oblige "       J. W. P.
Pilot Knob, Crawford Co., June 25.
—My fears are that your days of grace for
the eyre of your mare have gone by. This,
however, Is only my fear, for you have not
givenithe pathology of the case; you have
giverfjlinly (the cause, and consequent im-
medli j result, a severe cold. Your opinjpn
that .hick wind was tbe secondary result is
nottAliable, from the fact that her hard or
huA_\*£respiration may be either a thickening fef the mucous membrane of the tra-
ind-pipe, of the bronchial tubes, or
ir cells of the lungs, or a tuber-
.ffectlons of those organs, ending in
nsumption or in glanders—the lat-
|he 'worst termination of all. If you
•form me through the Farmer whetb-
las a cough, whether one of her eyes,
Oy the nigh.orleft, is watery,whether
\the submaxillary glands are en-
,T mean kernels between the jaws—
, she runs a secretion from the nose,
flly the left nostril—and if her hair
y or glossy, has she any eruptions
i>gs
tanned into leather stretches very little if
pu".'.3d lengthwise in the direction of the
hair, and its own length, but if pulled
across its length and direction of the hair
it yields readily and gets broader but
shorter.
For the last forty years the advocates of
the cautery in Europe claim nothing more
for it than turning the hide into a perpetual
bandage to keep down synovial enlargements, such as bog spavin, thoroughpins,
etc., which it will effect, unless the case is
hereditary, in which ail remedies prove ineffectual, but should the cautery prove effectual in curable cases why not use remedies which will not become perpetual blemishes as the marks of the cautery of any
kind are; but this is not all the evil to be
dreaded, for as before remarked, the application is unskillfully performed in a majority of cases, the operator scores the hide
transverse of the fibre composing the cutis,
in this way the hide will not contract, at
other times the hide is scored along the direction of the fibre, or both lengthwise and
across, in this manner, the longetudlnal
euts will be replaced by the adjoining fibre,
but this tightness of the hide will be of
short duration for the hide will accommodate itself to the pressure of the super-
synovial fluid and the enlargement will attain its former dimensions. If the nefarious, barbarous practice must be continued,
why not score diagonally across the fibre,
and transverse ofthe former scoring which
will effect the purpose seeked for, but why
not use other means that will not be blemishes as bad as those to be removed, and
■Bill effect as much. Oh, they say that the
cautery is a powerful stimulant and reduces chronic enlargements. It is more of
a counter irritant, or a little of both com*
dl -'it this summer; He sells'* ■#
tlie\n out to tmers, feeders and speculators. The raising of lambs for city markets is attracting a good deal of attention East. Indiana will find that corn and
sheep will pay better than shipping corn
and sheep to New Jersey, or putting corn
into hogs to die of cholera, R. M. Bell.
. _ _» «■	
*
We have received the catalogue of Shorthorn cattle to be sold at Woodburn Farm,
A. J. Alexander's, near Spring Station,Ky.,
on the Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort
Railroad, on Wednesday, July 30. The list
includes pedigrees of 3t head.
^Jcfe'rinsirg,
arm;
/a if
Jl.   *_
The answers to the following queries are given by
John N. Navin, V. S., of this city.
Sick Ewe.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Please request Prof. Navin or some one
having experience with sheep, to inform
me what ails my ewe. She acts a good deal
like a hog with the staggers; her legs
tremble when standing, and if she tries to
walk, staggers and falls; her head appears
to move involuntarily with a slight jerk,
almost continually; eyes roll some; has
been sick one day and night. - What shall I
do for her?   Please answer and oblige a
Orangevffle. Subscriber.
—According to your pathology, your
sheep is affected with either of two diseases, viz.: Hydatia on the brain, called
giddy, sturdy and half a dozen others; or
it may be epilepsy; called by some shepherds gorouna, not indeed an inappropriate name. To describe and give remedies
for both would occupy two full squares of
the Indiana Farmer. I shall therefore
refer you to Navin's Veterinary Practice
or Explanatory Stock Doctor, second part,
for hydatia, page 170; and for epilepsy,
page 172. You will be able to borrow from
some neighbors out of the 26,000 sold ii
Indiana.
What la ItP
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Can you tell mo what alls my Dare?
She is lame in the right hind leg, has been
for a long time, and I can't see anything
wrong. I flrst thought it was in th) stifle,
now I am almost persuaded it JS in the
hock joint. It don't seen) that wtfk effects
it much; after she goes about 60 yards she
quits limping and goes all right, hut when
she stands awhile its the sampway again.
I never have seen any swelWg or found
any fever. She don't turn ha" toe out like
the stifle was slipped; her le*i hind leg was
affected the same way but got well. Can
any one give me any causfOr remedy?
/. L. Brenton.
—Your mare is not st«ed; not one in a
Thousand is that are pro°unced so by those
who pretend to know. .$"our mare is bone
spavined. If you sqi^t down in front of
her and look back at oe inner forward part
of the hock joint, ar*' compare it with the
like portion of the'ther joint, it will present a larger, ormo-*» prominent appearance,
of the  legs,  or any  other
s not usual to her? I may then l.-> \ bined, tWthe use of which I have the same
Jveyou an opinion.   You cann'-t, objc.tio?', for the same reason, that if it
details on a postal card. '"    -.-tT.j  trt**dr;-e  an enlargement which is
**?:—     ■_-_.»■     / *»re, blemish, it takes one and
\.The Cautery,     y""'<* \>   _. 8 __,     '
v*^«is,4.^p_«w<}*ytth(»*o»^? "*"•' "■ *"" '"'""'*'
• * * ** _ / -TE&■•-_■_:-_ t_,, ty c
__■«, -tiraliv (that the main "tendon hadbeen
,t__^-«which destroy'>,a*', spra*     /midway between the knee and
^jtht&w-e, are termed cauteriesi pastern.,'In the name of anatomy, physi-
.-iharyprofession.andareequally'jjology a/id the laws of nature, who ever
knew of the main tendon being sprained
midway of its length, although I admit
that the term "sprained tendon" clapped
sinew, etc., are often used for a short name
for inflammation of the sheath of the tendon, and for an Inflammation of the faschia
cellular tissue, etc., placed along on each
side of the leg posterior of the canon bone
and anterior of the tendon through which
the blood vessels and nerves pass to and
from the foot. Should the tendon be capable of elasticity and of being sprained it
would be rather hazardous for a man weighing 175 pounds to ride a horse over a wall
five and a half or six feet high, accidents
frequently happen to the secreting sheaths
of tendons and to the cellular faschia along
the length of tendons, inflammation setting
in, and the man that adds fuel to the fire
to put it out possesses less common sense
than either the horse so fired, or Thompson's colt who they say sought refuge from
a shower by jumping into a river. I shall
here remark that I have no enemy to punish, nor no friend to screen, except humanity and justice. I expect some barking done at the course I have adopted, but
I shall pursue my course persistently, and
fully discuss any barriers thrown across
my path, in kindly feeling to all men, and
in as gentlemanly a manner as I have all
my lifetime, using no vulgar epithets even
to open enemies. It will be observed that
I never use personalities.—John N. Navin,
V. S., in the Western Sportsman.
Returns for four months, to May 1, 1879,
show a falling off of the silver prefluct of
the Nevada and California mines to the extent of -$10,000,000 below 1878.
A Connecticut fertilizer company has
enught 12,000,000 menhaden fish in the past
six weeks, and has made over 50,000 gallons
of oil and 1,300 tans of fish scrap.
Of the 18,400 immigrants arrived in New
York during last month, 2,533 were from
England, 3,142 from Ireland, 4,420 from
Germany, 2,501 from Sweden, 1,058 from
Norway, 286 from France, 503 Switzerland.
According to the latest published official
returns, the total expense incurred by Russia from the 13th of September, 1876, to tlie
the 13th of January, 1879, in prosecuting
the late war against Turkey, amounted to
902,000,000 roubles, or about ?657,000,000.
Reports coming in from Central and Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska show great
damage done by a storm, on the 27th, to
bridges, farm buildings and grain. The
only loss of life reported is that of the wife
and two daughters of B. McMasters, near
Stuart, Iowa. They were drowned by the
overflow of Deer creek.
The Zulu war has already cost England
135,000,000, and the expenditures for military purposes is now at the rate of *_5,000-
000 per day, or more than f 100 per minute.
Transportation over 54 miles of the route
in South Africa costs five cents per pound,
which is seven times as much as it costs
from London to Natal.
... . x
The average yield of
5J_ bushels in Russia,
States, 12}_ in Austria, *_■' '_ in l .
29 J_ in* Great Britain.   In the Unit**--.! .
the average yield might easily -be do *
but/the cheapness of the lanuj . ■>. •
maiuaiery,and the cost of feit*
it
.ers,
--re: --
carelessly or i mproperly used
however, is the one most gen-
orted to and is therefore the more
aded; I repeat dreaded, from the
in seven-tenthsof all the opera-
ing under my observation, the
is performed either unscientific-
upon parts that in the darkest days
profession nobody dared to pass a
iot' iton. In the name of humanity, who
woulC have thought that a man could have
beenpiet within this, the nineteenth century /ignorant enough to cauterize, or try
to cauterize the vertebral process anterior
to the bony processes of the withers for
caries. In this attempt the hide, the cellular tigsues, the trapezius, the ligamentism
coli, main tendon, must be burned before
reaching the disease. Another knight of
the cautery, several years ago, tried to persuade me that he found a splint upon the
back of the cannon bone beneath the tendon, that he fired it and cured it. Could I
belieVe, would any sane man believe the
splint, as he called the exostosis could be
readied through the hide, the cellular tissue, the two plies of tendon, the tissue be-
twee a and the periosteum, until all were
bun ed through and the horse totally de-
stroj ed? No sir! I told him so and am
read r to tell any other party that dares assert snch a monstrous impossibility. O,
igno -ance, ignorance, how thou prevailest.
Tt a cautery had been resorted to in times
goi« by for the suppression of synovial en-
larg> ments until better remedies were dis-
coTcred, but if still in use as the only
rem dy, the manner in which it is per-
forn ed in the West, it could be of no lasting >eneflt whatever. Do I hear the honest
asto fished reader inquire how else it is to
be _ srformed to run the fire iron over the
hide and score it deep or light. I answer,
any quack can heat an iron to be sure, and
scorp the hide, but in his ignorance of its
eon-ltruction he is more likely to ruin the
animal than benefit his complaint. To
fully understand the performance of the
barbarous operation, the operator must
fully and thoroughly understand the structure of the hide, for if the scoring is directed either lengthwise or across the fibre
of which the true skin is composed, the
operation fails of the purpose it was intended for, but is an eyesore as great as the
one tt was intended to remedy.
Anatomical view of the hide.—The hide
is composed of three distinct layers, namely
the cutis or true skin within, that which
constitutes its main bulk when made into
leather; the retemucosum or middle layer,
a weblike structure, and the cuticle or scarf
skin, tne outer scaley covering. The cutis
is composed of fibres running in the direction of the hair and length of the limb, and
the scales forming the cuticle run in a like
direction, but the middle layer, the retemucosum, is composed of a weblike structure
joining the two others together into one
covering called hide. To prove this position, the shank of a calf-skin after being
llOu
whii
Hal
sho;
-    .per to cultivate larger
.*■   **- fori ~ee ttvc'irrr. .
• uth, at Sand ^n'.
K_,, it ,r
**lli*yy t>-l._,
/was  consume*!,,
iUussel, aged seven, w.n.
' and two children of Faulkhfer,
eleven and three,
the brutal aflair.
No cause is given
aM.
Sick  Turkeys.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
What alls my young turkeys? They
commence drooping, their crops fill with
phlegm, and they soon die. An early answer will be thankfully received.
D. S. D.
GENE-.-.!.  NEWS.
The Iowa Agricultural College is this
year operating a creamery.
There are 10,000,009 barrels of lager beer
brewed in America annually.
Houston, Texas, has repudiated her public debt, which amounted to $2,000,000.
The Arnold print works at North Adams,
Mass., now make 125,000 yards of prints a
day.
There are more than the usual number of
Texas cattle on the drive northward this
year.
In 28 years New York has sent 48,000
friendless children to the West and found
homes for them.
The daily average receipts of milk in New
York city for the last week were 11,237 cans
of 40 quarts each.
Our minister at Copenhagen reports a
proposed general European Tariff League,
for protection against the United States.
Many farm laborers are leaving England
this year, and the exodus would assume
larger propostions if those desiring to emigrate knew where to go.
The hoard of silver in the Bank of France
since resumption has increased so rapidly
that it now considerably exceeds the gold
reserve, and fears are expressed for the continuance of resumption. It amounted to
?200,000,000.
Sundries.
Editors Idiana Farmer:
Will some reader of the Farmer please
tell me through its columns, how to put up
cucumbers so as to be ready for use at any
time, without putting them in brine? Also
what to put in cane molasses while boiling
to clarify it? We have the early Amber
and white Siberian. T. H.
Johnstown, Bates Co., Mo.
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Threshing Machinery.
The music of the thresher will soon be
reverberating all over the land, as it is now
in the southern latitudes. The Aultman 4
Taylor Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, and
their number of local houses all over the
country, have had a wonderful run for
their machinery this season, exceeding all
previous experience in their business, which
has of late grown to wonderful proportions.
The great wheat crop of this year has made
and is still making a great draft on their
resources for machinery. Its well-known
excellence, and the wide reputation of the
firm has brought them new customers from
all the distant quarters of tbe country. Wo
quote from the letter of Mr. Dunhanj, the
president of the Nebraska State Board of
Agriculture, who visited the factory this
sping:
The superior excellence of your work . is,
we think, in a great measure due to the variety and ingenuity ofthe machinery used,
and the superior skilled labor employed,
and each machine manufactured can be but
a counterpart of tbe other, so that iu case of
an accident to a machine the owner can
send for the part needed and know to a positive certainty that it will fit. The superior quality of the steel, iron and various
kinds of lumber used guarantees durability in the machine, which is the great desideratum with those who purchase and
live at long distances from the manu factorv,
and then, too, every year of "extra life" in
a Threshing Machine is worth at least ten
per cent, of the original cost to the owner,
and from the perfect manner in which the
Aultman & Taylor Company Machines are
manufactured we think they average five
years longer life than the ordinary machines. After examining your manufactories, your supplies of material, and the
manner in which each machine is manufactured, we are not surprised at the enviable
and wide-spread reputation of your goods.
Where one machine goes others are Bound
to follow.
We congratulate you upon your manufactories as a whole, and in detail and upon
the assurance with which you can press
'your claims upon all farmers and upon the
certainty of retaining all customers who
shall once try your goods.
We can sately say of the "Starved Rooster Machines" that the "Breed" is good,
and the quality superatively excellent.
Yours very truly,
Martin Dunham, President,
Nebraska State Board of Agriculture.
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