V
GARDES:
VOL. XXI.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JULY 24,1886.
NO 30
BT. JOSKPH COUNTY
Is one of the wealthiest and best improved
counties in the State. South Bend, the
county seat, is the leading manufacturing
city of northern Indiana, 85 miles east of
Chicago and 160 miles north of Indianapolis. Some of the largest manufacturers in
the west are located in this county. And
we can readily see that with a good home
market to consume the products of the
farm, there can be no reason why tbe surrounding county should not be prosperous and highly cultivated. A Farmer
representative visited
THE SOUTH BEND HEREFORD AND   JERSEY
CATTLE COMPANY.
The above named firm is located at South
Bend, Ind., the farms and stables lying
near that city, and consists of such favorably known breeders as Mr. Clem Studebaker, Mr. F. H. Johnson, and others.
Tbeir herds of registered cattle at present
number about 40 head each, Herefords and
Jerseys. Of the Hereford herd Dakota is
the leader, a four-year-old bull by Tredegar
and out of Dollie Yarden 2d. Dakota's
weight is at present 2,600 pounds and he
can be forced to a much higher figure.
His style is excellent, head and neck well
carried, shoulders broad, ribs broadly
sprung, hams deep, and the whole body
finely shaped and meaty—a show bull
from nose to tail. In the show ring he has
made an excellent record, among the premiums he has taken being 1st at Ohio
State fair in 1884 and 2d in 1885, 1st at Indianapolis in 1885 and head of sweepstakes
herd at Tri-State fair in the same year. He
is seconded in the South Bend herd by
Century, a blocky, square three-year-old,
weight 1,950 pounds. Century took 1st at
the Ohio, Tri State, Michigan and St. Louis
fairs in 1885. Another of their best bulls
is Earl Sbadeland, sired by Oen. Garfield
and purchased of Mr. Adams Earl for a
long price. Among the Hereford cows we
noted most particularly Stately Maid, the
winner of a long list of prizes and in all
probability the successful competitor in
many of the show rings of the future. Her
record includes such premiums as 1st at
the Ohio, Michigan, Tri-State, Northern
Indiana and Southern Michigan fairs, 2d
at Indianapolis, and 1st and sweepstakes
at St. Louis, in 1885, as a three-year-old.
In 1884 she took first at the Ohio, Tri-State,
Michigan, N. Indiana and S. Michigan
and Ft. Wayne fairs. She is, in short, a
close approach to perfection in all the
points of excellence and any further pen
picture would fail to do her justice. There
are other prize winners in the herd. Two
of the heifers, yearlings last fall, took 1st
and 2d in class clear through the Middle
States circuit of fairs; the young herd won
1st at St. Louis in 1885, etc., etc. The South
Bend herd of Herefords is undoubtedly
established on a substantial foundation.
Of the Jerseys there is much to be said.
At the head stands Duke of Willow Grove,
4813, by Grand Duke Alexis and out of
Clytemnestra, 5868, a pure Alphea oow.
Duke does not belie his parentage. He is
dark fawn in color, lengthy, and straight,
stylish and attractive; tongue, tips of
horns and switch black, and tail finely
tapering. He has won 28 first and sweepstakes premiums at leading fairs, in several cases taking sweepstakes over all
breeds, and has never been beaten in his
As a breeder  he ranks with the
best, his get closely resembling him in-
style and form. These calves by the Duke
are for sale, and Jersey fanciers should
make a note of the fact. The most noted
Jersey cow owned by the South Bend
company is Little Patience, a neat, trim,
beautiful animal, faultless in face, horn
and eye, and a typical Jersey. Little Patience is not behind in the way of premiums, having taken 1st at the Ohio,
Michigan, Tri-State, N. Indiana and S.
Michigan fairs in 1884, as a two-year-old,
and 1st and sweepstakes over all breeds at
Ohio fair, 1st at Tri-State and 1ST. Indiana
and S. Michigan fairs, 1st and sweepstakes
at Michigan fair, and 1st at St. Louis, and
1st at the Chicago Fat Stock and Dairy
Show in 1885, a record the South Bend
company is proud of and one that speaks
volumes for the character of tbeir stock.
They have young stock of both breeds,
from such animals assure mentioned above,
for sale, and will reply to all inquiries.
WM. O. JACKSON A SON
are breeders of thoroughbred Holstein-
Friesian cattle. Their address is P. O Box
355, South Bend, Ind., and their farm a
short distance northwest of that city.. The
Farmer representative called upon Mr.
Jackson and was taken to inspect the herd.
They have at present about 50 head of
Holsteins, many of them imported. Mr.
Jackson has been breeding these famous
cattle for eight yean?, and among others of
his finest cows is one from whom he has
sold $2,250 worth of produce in that length
of time. We saw one of his breeding
bulls, Gerard of Lonsides, a four-year-old,
large and straight, with fine mellow skin
and a splendid breeder. Among the cows
we noted Eudora of Lonsides, a four-year-
old Imported cow that took 2d premium
at St. Louis in 1883 against 21 entries, the
noted Mercedes taking first. Eudora also
took 1st in the same year at the Indiana
and Michigan State fairs. One heifer, a
three-year-old, of his own breeding, has
been shown at ten fairs including three
State fairs, and has never yet been beaten.
We were shown a number of other prize
winners and also a half dozen of yearling
bulls, sterling young fellows, all from imported sire and dam and from prize winning blood. One of them is from Eudora,
mentioned above, and when he was a calf
his dam gave 72' _ pounds of milk per day
when three years old. Such fine bulls
should find ready sale to lovers of prime
dairy stock.
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BY VINSON CARTER, ESQ., THIS OTTY.
A employs B to work on the farm during the summer months. B works 2','
months and quits without cause, putting
A to the trouble of hunting another hand.
1. Can A demand damages for disappointment?
2. If A settles with B and makes a mistake against himself, can he demand a
correction of B in a due bill given him to
balance account on settlement?       Sub.
1. Yes.
2  Yes.
If A sells B farming implements and
B gives chattel mortgage on implements
and other property and A sues B, taking
judgment, and said property is sold under
the hammer but does not bring amount of
the mortgage. A has the property bid in
and afterwards B possesses other property,
does A have recourse on B?
A Reader.
Yes.
The dairy public will be interested in
examining the following butter averages
from the Lakeside Stock Farm of Smiths,
Powell & Lamb, of Syracuse, N. Y., which
show what selection, breeding and care
will accomplish. These gentlemen write
us under date of July 10, 1886: "For the
past 18 months we have tested 92 Holstein-
Friesian cows and heifers in our herd for
butter (which includes none of the records
made prior to that time) and we find they
make the following remarkable weekly
averages: Five cows, 21 lbs. 4-5 oz.; 10
cows, 19 lbs. 4 ozs.; 23 cows, 17 lbs. 1 oz ;
9 three-year-olds, 14 lbs. 2-3 oz.; 15 three-
year-olds, 13 lbs. 2 1-5 oz ; 8 two-year-olds,
13 lbs. 1-8 oz.; 21 two-year-olds, 12 lbs. 1-8
oz ; 37 two-year-olds, 11 lbs. 4 5 oz.; 58 two-
year-olds, 10 lbs. 2 7 oz."
CHEESE-MAKING IN CAN ADA.
The method of making cheese in the 66
factories owned or managed by Mr.
M'Pheraon, of Lancaster, Ontario, known
as the Canadian Cheese King, is, according
to a correspondent, as follows: By dry
steam the milk is warmed to from 80 dogs,
to 82 degs. for receiving tbe rennet extract,
of which enough is added to produce curdling in about 15 minutes. If the curd
comas soft and the whey separates slowly,
separation is assisted by cutting the curd
fine; if it comes hard, and separates too
rapidly, the cutting is coarser. In this
way the moisture is regulated, that being
a point of importance. Temperature is
next raised to 98 degs., and the curd and
whey are stirred till the latter is drawn
off, which is not until the curd will stick
to a hot iron, and spin out in fine threads
a quarter of an inch long. The curd Is
afterwards stirred by hand for ten or fif
teen minutes to get the whey thoroughly
out of it, and then allowed to "pack" for
about an hour, till the application of the
hot iron shows threads half an inch long.
During this time the curd is cut into
pieces convenient to haudle, and turned
frequently. The next process is that of
slicing the curd by running it through a
mill, and an hour later it is salted, and
half an hour after that it is cooled down
to 80 degs., and put into the press, being
moderately pressed at first and more
heavily afterwards. If the curd is gassy
it is run through the slicer a second time.
Mr. M'Pherson makes a special point of
keeping the cnrd at a temperature of 95
degs., as nearly as possible, between the
time of its separation from the whey and
being put into the press, and to secure
this he uses covers for the vats, and stoves
in the cheese rooms when necessary.
Last season he made 4,500,000 lbs. of cheese,
which sold at an average of 8 cents per lb.
—a fair price in Canada. He is beaten in
quality by some other makers, but not, it
is said, in uniformity of moderate excellence.      	
MILK AND BUTTER.
Prof. L. B. Arnold, In the BT. Y. Tribune,
says that carrots make better flavored
milk and butter, and rather more of them
than mangels when equal weights are fed.
Mangels are notorious for making thin
and low flavored, but not unwholesome,
milk, like that from brewers' grains.
They have a food value, as compared with
carrots, as seven to nine,   but mangels are
raised with  less labor,  and will  produce
about 50 per cent more weight  to the acre
than carrots, about 600  bushels of  carrots
and 900 of mangels  being the  usual crop
for an acre of good ground, if good care be
taken of them.   As measured by analysis,
5]4 pounds of carrots,  or seven pounds of
mangels, weuld  have a  value equivalent
to one ponnd of oats.   Owing to the quicker and more complete digestion and greater
efficiency of green  food  than dry, something less than the weights above named,
perhaps a pound less of  each, would be as
valuable as a pound of oats.   As a quart of
oats weighs a pound,  about  18 pounds of
carrots or 24 pounds of mangels would be
a fair exchange for four quarts of oats.   In
substituting  roots  for oats, it  should be
remembered that they  differ so  much in
composition that one cannot  fill the place
of the other.   Oats alone make an excellent
milk-producing food, being well balanced
as to   flesh-forming  and  heat-producing
matters, while roots are  much lacking in
flesh-forming  material.   Something that
will make more flesh than roots should be
fed with  tbem.   Wheat  bran  and  middlings would help them very much, or an
. q ia! weight of  early-cut  clover hay, or
oiie-eighth  of    their  weight of  linseed,
cottonseed or pea meal.   When fresh (not
fermented)  brewers  grains are  fed with
roots in equal weights,  each serves to correct the defects  of the other,  and the two
make a much   better  milk  than either
would alone.
%iery & gutstuer.
Give yonr name and postoffice when asking questions. Many queries go unanswered for (allure to
observe this rule.
A. P., asks for a plan for making an incubator. Henry Hodson of Spiceland, has
one and will send him the description,
-.□.close stamp.
Can you tell me where I can get the best
gun, at tbe lowest price? N. C.
Winchester.
A hard question. You do not say
whether you want a rifle or a shot gun,
a breech loader or a muzzle loader. Describe the gun you want and we will tell
you the lowest price on it.
Prof. W. B. Alwood of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, writes us the
wheat sent for name resembles the Arnold No. 4, Michigan Bronze, Deihl Mediterranean, Brady Lake, etc., which are
quite a distinct class, but in color it is off,
not having the bronzed glumes. This
may be however from bleaching. It is
very difficult to identify wheat.
When and where are the civil servioe
examinations held in this State, and what
branches is an applicant required to pass
in? A. R.
Falmouth.
For postal services in Indiana examinations are held in this city. Blanks for
making applications can be obtained
through the postmaster of the office which
you wish to enter.
I would like to know, through yeur
paper, .where I can get seed of a wheat that
used to be called Alabama wheat? or is
there any such now? lam a reader of
your paper and like it very much.
New Market. G. W. C.
Who has this wheat?   It  is not  among
the varieties  experimented  with  at  the
Purdue farm last  year.   The report from
the Ohio   Experiment  Station  speaks of •
having grown a few stalks of  it there, bnt J
gives no description.