VOL.. XTI.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY. MARCH 12, 1881.
NO. 11.
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FOR SAIaE-Garden Seeds-Groff <fc Co.,77East
Market street, Indianapolis.   	
^-ToR 8 -.LB—White P<*kln dnck eggs at|l lor 13.
Y   JAMKS M. MARLO-aV, Adams, tnd.	
FORSALE—A line Mn<-«ln buck, two yeara old.
Address FRANK CROSS. Washington . Ind
F
jjn, Iudlana. 	
IOR  SAIaK-Oarden Seeds-Send  for catalegue.
urof.vt* Co.. 77 East Market street.Indlanapolls.
FOR SALE— Blount's Proline corn, from 2 to 6
ears per stalk, 75 cents perpeck.   E. J. REEL,
Vincennes, Ind. 	
FOR SALE-"Beantj* of Hebron" potatoes at tl
P>r bnshel; t_ Per barrel.  A. C. HARVEY,
jalayette, Indiana. 	
FOB SALE—A flne Norman stallion, 5 years old
this spring.   AddresB F. C. McCLOTJD, Pera,
Miami connty, Ind.
FOB S ALE-Cholce Yellow seed corn, thoroughly
tested,   ft per bushel;  sack, 25c.    JNO.  W.
CLARK. Arlington, Ind.
FOR SALE—Plymouth Bocks and Golden Hamburg chicken*, and eggs.   Address T. HUL-
MAN, Sr., Terre Hante, Ind:.
FOB SALE—Farms—In various parts of Indiana,
by  M. ARBUCKLE, Agent, 58 East Market
street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
-rnOR SALE—Mammoth Bronze tnrkeys,45 to60
h pounds p'r pair at 2 years old; also a lew pairs
tt Toulouse geeBe.   ELLIS H0TJ8E.BickneU.lnd.
FOB BALE—A good lot of Cotswold sbeep, all Imported from   England  and   Canada.    Correspondence   promptly   answered.    Address   E. J.
RElti*, Vincennes, Ind.
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FOB SALE—One of the finest general purpose
stallions ln tbe West.   Weighs 1 400 pounds;
splendid color and carriage, and a sure foal getter.
Address  H. G., Farmer Office.
FOR SALE-Stock aud ergs from my imported
and  high-class Sark   Brahmas   and   Pekin
docks.   Send for Illustrated circular.   M. H. CON-
NEB, Winterowed, Shelby county, Ind.
FOE SALE—Norman Percheron Mat-get. imported 1875; also two of his stallion colts, three and
four years coming spring, for sale cheap, on easy
terms.  SMITH <t SHERMAN, Loogootee, Ind.
FOB SALE—Eggs from Light Brabmas.Plymouth
Becks. PartrldgeCochlns,Brown Leghorns and
Pekin Ducks. IIFO per 13. packed lo go safely anywhere.  J, L, BRENTON, Petersburg, Pike Co., md.
FORSALE—Finely marked Bronze tnrkeys, Toulouse and White China geese, of heavy weights.
Winners ol six prizes at National exhibition. 1880.
All kinds warranted. DB. J. P. FORSYTH & SON,
Franklin, Iud,
FOR SALE—Thoroughbred   Sbort-horn   calves,
Poland China pigs and Cotswold Bheep.   Cor-
J reepondence solicited.   Satisfaction guaranteed,or
money relunded.  Call on, or address O. W.TVJELL,
Vallonla, Jackson connty, Indiana.
FOR SALE—Farm of 76 acres near Morristown
Hanoock county, 60 acres cleared, 40 in wheat,
1 new frame house of 5 rot mi. new barn 80x35 feet.
V BeatvUiul situation, on a pike. Price, t-.OW. M.
I ABBUCKLE, 58 East Market Btreet.
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FOR SALE—A trio of Maltese turkeys, two Ply-
month Rock cockerels and three Brown Leghorn cockerels. Send to me ior price list of eggs
from flne towis. Pekin ducks and Toulouse geese.
JOHN MORRISON, Box 77, Shelbyville, Indiana.
FOB SALE-7 fine large yonrg Poland China
sows, bred and > ale ln pig. These are recorded
in 2d vol. Central P.O. Record. Also. 6 extra select gilts of 150 pounds weight each, at prices rfas-
onabie. Address T. M. REVEAL, Clermont, Marion county, Ind.
FORSALE-Orchard grass seed, crop of 1880, my
own raising, $2 per bushel;  sack 25 cents.  A
few bushels  Beauty of Hebron potatoes Irom seed
from the Agricultural Department at Washington
city. 12 per bushel; «ack 23 cents. Delivered free on
cars.  Address J. W. ARCHfcR, Spencer, Ind
FOR SALE—Blount's corn, grows 2 to 6 ears on a
stalk: ISO bushels per acre. Peck. $2. Also the
"Mamm-)ih Pearl" potatoes; be t, finest ana most
prolific in cultivation; yields 400 to 6t"i bushels per
acre. 1 lb, 6>c: 3 lbs, Jl 60: peck, *3. Sacks free.
Address E. S. TEaGARDEN, Davenport, Iowa.
FORSALE—Farm—Half ln good timber,the other
half In good cultivation: large apple orchard,
plenty of other-fruit; good two story house, stone
chimney; other outbuildings: never tailing medical
well of water at the door, besides other running
"Dring". on place. For further information addresB
J. B. HUTCHISON, Pulaski Station, Ky.
FOR SALE—Fertilizers—Caynga Land Plaster ln
any quantity by the sack, barrel or car lots ln
bnlk.Bone Dust Amontatea Bone Guano and Superphosphates. Blaster So-rer and Seeder combined,
write ns for circulars ana t--ces.statlng kind and
quality wanted. TUN*..*. »!lADLt-.Y, Indianapolis, Indiana
FOB 8ALE-8ee^
quantity. I ,
tprlng. They grr
fall down. 85ce*n
Yellow Dent so*
Per bushel, del1 vo*-.
Indianapolis, U--1
Oatar Golden Drop: limited
- .'*--'..* seed from Canada last
. .* .-.,;-**.td heavy, and don't
tit^i..'«:',-. added.  Also,
■ te.1. in   .■„;■:... i Soiled, »1
•    . .r*.    'Via.. .-"._'.' .'.SMlIi.
Ijfyivt ^>imt\\.
Mb. John Hall, Bloomington, Ind., has
a Cotswold lamb seven days old, tbat weighs
18 pounds.
Mr. O. F. Darnell, of this city, has jnst
returned from Canada with another flne
lot of Cotswold sheep, he says tlie finest
bloods he could find there.
L. H. Aikman, Vermillion Co., Ind., has
lately sold the Short-hom "Garfield" to
Mr. E. Brown, Crooked Creek, Ind., and
the bull calf "Hancock" to Geo. B. Tillot-
son, Toronto, Ind. Also a considerable
number of Poland China pigs to various
parties.
Messrs. J. Baugh ifcSoN, Tippecanoe Co.,
Ind., have just sold to W. T. Alkire, Brookston, Ind., a Sbort-horn bull oalf eleven
months old which good judges consider
ono of the best of his age in the State. Mr.
Alkire has some fine cows and intends to
breed up and stock his splendid farm.
HOEMAH H0ESE SALE.
The stock sale of Noah Cripe, which was
advertised in the Farmer to take place
March 1, near North Manchester, Ind, was
largely attended from Ohio, Illinois and
this State. Two three-year-old stallions
■old to S. K. Quick 6. Son, Columbus, Ind.,
for **685 and {250. One-third interest in imported ''Primate"- sold to Simon Frantz,
North Manchester, for $300. Five young
colts, including two sucklings sold for $530.
These were Percheron-Norman horses.
"Primate" was imported by Mr. M. W.
Dunham, "Wayne, 111., in 1876. It will
be noticed that the value ol these horses
are beginning to be highly appreciated in
our State. Mr. Cripe writes as as follows
in a business letter: "I acknowledge the
value of the Indiana Farmer as an advertising medium."
THE ALABM ABROAD.
The alarm that Is represented to exist in
Europe just now respecting the hog product of this country is wholly without justification. Some four years ago disease did
prevail to considerable extent among swine
all over the West, but the inquiry instituted by the government suggested in a
large measure the causes, and the improvement has been marked in the past two
years or more. The whole country is now
more free from swine disease than for several years past. The cleanly management
of the improved breeds, pointed out as
necessary to avoid disease, has especially
in the past year or more resulted in great
improvement. The telegrams lately sent
abroad, which have caused needless alarm,
considering the facts, look very much as it
they were sent in the interests of speculators in the hog product. They certainly
state what was absolutely untrue, and any
reasonably inquiry will show them to be
so. We do not believe that this State has
been so free from swine disease in five
years as it is now, and our information
from other parts of the West correspond
with that regarding our own State.
FOB v>AL<V-<\ r.iw umbO*.-*?!'!*.'T •"■awlae Machine. 8r.'ail"/ ■ ir*vC).inesfurnioa;' J age-ate-,r. trial.
Wood Wor-., 17* ^-..and Stands aSpw-'aHy. = ■.-""
for terms .-:.«. .Ires on large erdeis. Evc-v \*".-
chine Wrrr.i-i ,1 ar.d subject to return at My Ea-
Ieenselft'1'.aa-i.'far.WTy. C. G. AKAM, 22 Adams
street,C".i>*"-i!*. ill.
Tj*OT. !-ALIe—Garden Beeds—Fiech new crop, In
X? tM.rkag.-H or bntk. Field Seeds: Clover, Timothy, iit-i-tn< »*; Blue-gra*>s, Alsike and Mellftot Clover. A tut: !li:e ef Garden Sped Drills, Garden and
Field Cultivators, and standard saTicultural machinery. Write us for circulars. TYNEB «"• HAD-
LEY.St) and 77 West Washington Btreet, Iudianapolis, Indiana.
FOR SALE—150,000 frnit.shade and ornamental
trees at wholesale and retail. Peaches a specialty; my peaches I have grown In New Jersey: we
think all the peach stock in Indiana is winter killed;
the old peach trets In Ibis valley In particular.
Also, Cottswold and Lincolnshire sheep ct late Importation from Canada. Correspondence solicited.
Address WILLIAM SIGERSON, Wabash, Ind.
FOR SALE—Short-horns—I have 20 head of Shorthorn cattle on my faim near Richmond, Ind.,
embracing snch families as Donna Bosas, Endoras,
Bright Promises, etc.. also pure Bates hull. I offer
an elegant chance to persons wishing to start a herd
as my animals are all tlrst-clafs breeders and flne
lndivldnals. The majority of theBe cattle were bred
by the well-known breeders, S.Meredith <St Son, of
Cambridge City. Ind. Address FRANCIS A. COFFIN, Indianapolis, Ind.
TTIOR SALE—A good stock farm situated on the
-I? New Albany and Paoli turnpike seventeen
rallee from tbe former and twenty-one fr. m the latter place. This farm consists of ISO acres of flne
■arming land, fifty acres of lt In tlmbt-r, the rest
nnder good cultivation; well feDced, well watered
by a spring branch, has two wells and a cittern:
tood lrame cottage of nine rooms: two barns and all
other cececsary buildings; two good bearing orchards; near good stores,school and three churches.
Avery desirable farm. Terms easy. Price, IV000
cash, or part payments, well secured. JONATHAN
**• HANCOCK, Palmyra, Harrison connty, Ind.
FOR SALE—Blonnt's Prolific  Corn-Premium
stock, worthy  of extensive trial.  Yield past
«eason about ISO bushels per acre.  Per quart, by ex-
SreBs. 25 cts. When packed with ether seeds, only
'cts By mall, postpaid, 50 cts per quart; 25cts
g'rplnt. Mammoth corn, 20 cts per pkt. -White
"solan oats yield double the Northern or common
white oat, and do not rust; per quart, 25 cts, by ex-
Press: <o eta by mall; }l per peck; fl per bushel, by
express, bags Included. We have a complete and
choice s ock ot garden, field and flower seeds, bulbs,
'oteaand plants;seed potatoes.onion sets. etc. The
Only complete seed store in the State. Wurnake a
JPedalty of flne seeds and plants, and can supply
tnarket gardeners and large growers on the most
. reasonable terms. Hend tor onr catalogue and price
''»" Address J F. MENDENHALL a-CO., 78 East
Market street, Indianapolis, Ind.
8I0CE Fa-OFITABLE OH SMALL FAEMS.
An old and practical N. Y. stock farmer contributes an article on this subjeot to
the Country Gentlemrn which is worthy of
careful consideration. He says:
| J t:! s the mistaken belief of many people
'tb"t f-tcik-ury-'xiing on small farms can
'only be .•-.nieI on at «. loss. The ideal
! "-ncy .-took ?*rn. i.: <-,•—"rnl i'lr-os larger
than th* ordinary farm. V itwri*. .-{!t-*l
must I.* employed; & huge ..ULnber of assistants kept, at good w**;-ci, .'.nd, in short,
there must be all the accessories tor th?
comfort and convenience of the' aristocratic
cattle of an aristocratic man. Cattle kept
ln this manner would sink a fortune, unless their owner avoids it by fortunate sales
—this result rarely occurring. The breeder
is a fortunate ^peculator; if he sells at the
right time, and makes money, he is pronounced a god- breeder, and his cattle are
esteemed desirable. If the breeder is not
a man of sufficient shrewdness to become
a successful speculator, his cattle do not
acquire the necessary reputation, >nd it is
found that there is no money in the business. Most farmers think that there is no
profit ln keeping sheep on a small scale.
This idea is altogether erroneous. Where
ever there is profit at all In keeping sheep,
there ls profit in keeping a very small flock
as well as in keeping a large flock. The
experience of many good farmers shows, I
think conclusively, that small flocks
of sheep pay a larger profit per head than
large flocks. When this is not the case,
there ia something defective in the farmer
himself. All farmers must keep stock to
a greater or less extent, and in mixed husbandry, the greater the amount of stock
kept, all other things being equal, the
greater will be the profits of the farm.
The crops produced on a farm bear a direct relation to the amount of stock kept
and fed. The mare stock fed on, the farm
the greater will be the crops produced. In
1S79, large quantities of hay were shipped
from St. Lawrence county for an average
price of about $8 per ton. A few iarmers
refused to sell at this price, and kept their
hay over the summer, and have been selling the 'present season for {15 per ton.
Others, again, purchased additional stock
to consume surplus hay. Etther course
was good husbandry. When hay, grain
or mill feed can be obtained at fair prices,
it will pay to purchase and feed them on
the farm. I am keeping 42 head of cattle,
20 sheep and four horses on 140 acre- of
land, and am buying grain, and think'that
I make enough butter at 30c per pound to
pay for all grain consumed. If this is true,
I have the improved condition of my stock
to off-tet against the labor oi procuring
and feeding grain. Most farmers keep all
kinds of stock, but they do not take proper
steps to reali-3 sufficient profits from this
stock. More stock of every kind can be
kept, and better blood should be introduced,
and more intelligent management insisted
on. ln thl-i direction may be found the
great room ior Improvement. Many farmers think that because they have small
farms It is impossible to pay extra prices
for thoroughbred animals. They think
that a profitable flock of 20 sheep cannot be
made up of animals costing $20 to $25 per
head. Far more erroneous is the idea that
a flock costing from $3 to $4 • per head can
be made as profitable. The truth is that
the more valuable a flock of sheep is, if returning a good profit, the more wealth they
represent, and. tend more strongly to advance the farmer's prosperity. Which is
the greater sign .of prosperity; to herd
lambs worth $10 per head, or worth only
$3? I think it is the greater actual prosperity to breed the higher priced stock. And
to argue that because a farmer has only 50,
60 or perhaps 100 acres, he cannot afford to
procure and breed the better class of stock,
is utter nonsense. A farmer who has several hundred acres of land can keep an inferior flock oi Bheep, but the small farmer
must keep good sheep, and make money
from them, or go into bankruptcy.
On the large farm a great many things
may be done ln a slipshod and careless
manner, trusting to something else to
make up the loss. This is wrong, but the
large farmer can do it—the small one cannot. The small farmer must devote extra
attention to all the details of firm management, or fail. Toen why does not the same
proposition hold in reference to breeding
all kinds of farm stock? I know farmers
with small dairies of thoroughbred stoak,
who make no pretensions to breeding fancy
stock, and yet are never obliged to "deacon"
their calves, always selling their young
stock of both sexes at remunerative figures.
This class of farmers, who understand
the true secret of success in dairying, are
able to keep a -airy of select animals, and
by extra feed and good care, succeed in
distancing their less enterprising neighbors. G.tod stock -will pay a profit in all
seasons, under all circumstances, and on
small farms as well as large ones. The
farmer with large .flocks and herds can
breed many animals at a loss, and yet succeed In making a little profit on the whole.
He loses animals by disease an I careless
treatment, and still succeeds in making a
little profit; but with the small farmer the
breeding of an unprofitable animal, or the
loss of a single animal from disease or accidentals a serious Ions. A cow that will
make 300 pounds of butter per year is
eheaper to keep than three cows that will
make only 100 pounds each. I would
rather pay $200 for the former than be
obliged to keep the latter as a gift. If a
calf is bred on the farm (and it is much
pisler to breed a good animal than to buy
one) it should bo of good blood, a very important element In breeding good stock.
Farmers are too backward about paying
what good animals are really worth. It Is
for our small farmers to take the lead in
this matter. Small .farmers, rather than
the larger farmers, will have to Invest in
good stock In order to make any profits in
farming. ■
Galloways, Again.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
In answer to Elwood, I would say that
Angus and G-lloways are the same breed
of oattle. (Youatt supposes all polled cattle
have originated from the Galloways.) Mr.
Grant imported three bulls to Kansas in
1873 and crossed them with Texas cattle.
Some of the product Is now in the distillery
pens atr Lafayette, bought at the St. Louis
cattle-yards, I am Informed. Mr. Parsons,
Colorado Springs, writes: "They require
less oare in wintering with the herdsman
of the plains than the Short-horns, as they
are better adapted to endure the storms of
that country."
In regard to the space required to shed
them from the storm, If "Elwood" will go
up near Bath, Michigan, he can see the cat-
tl-3 and shed for himself. I did not say
that they were all grown cattle. A herd of
cattle is understood to consist ofa promiscuous lot of cows, bulls and calves.
In regard to putting up wild hay in the
States spoken of, stockmen in the business
tell us the cost Is the same as here.   While
he may prefer the Short-horns, I find no
fault, as it is necessary that different breeds
sliould have their admirers, in order that
we may have the great varieties of breeds as
now exists.
I cannot agree with that thinly attended
convention of Short-hom men at Lafayette,
viz: That Short-horns are best for all purposes, and the only cattle tbat should be
encouraged. Let us have all the variety
that have been created,"variety ls the spice
Of life." We want them in our show-yards
to make them interesting. A show-yard
with nothing but Short-horns would be
monoljonous. Hence it is that some of the
wide-awake stock shows are encouraging
other breeds to exhibit their stock of late,
whioh will be done where equal premiums
are offered, and to no great extent tefore,
as It costs just as much to fit up and exhibit any other breed as Short-horns.
Tippecanoe Co., Ind. J, B. L.
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Editor* Indiana Farmer:
I have noticed Wilson Hunt's ct Sons advertisement, speaking of a calf three
months and twenty-three days otd, that
weighs 340 pounds. I have Just weighed
one that is fifty-eight days old and he
weighed 232 pounds. He is of the Shorthorn breed, and Is a square, blocky, heavy
built oalf, of a beautiful red. He gets half
of the milk, and ground corn and dry hay.
Clinton Co., Ind.    H. I. Hinkr & Son.
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What Short-Horn Breeders Bay.
Edlton' Indiana Farmer:
We find the Indiana Fabmer an excellent paper to advertise In, it has done
more ior us than all others combined.
.   .',   ,. J. Bauoh <fe Son,
'Tippecanoe Co., Ind.
This department ls edited by Dr. John N. Navin,
Veterl!*—ry Burgeon, author ol Navin's Explanatory
Btock Doctor.
Bules to be observed by those expecting correct
answers;
1. Btate the rate of pulse.
2. The breathing. ,
J. Th' fttandlng attitude . ■
4. Appearance of hair.
5. If cough, and secretion from nose, wkether
gland* between the Jaws can be felt, and how near
the bone.
6. If r-reathlng ls rapid, accompanletl by rattle or
rushinr sound, no time mnst be lost in blistering
throat, and using tincture of aconite root and tincture of belladonna 20 drops on tongne alternately
every two hours, for time ls too short for an answer
7. Parties desiring answers by mall mnst enclose a
stamp.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Can you tell me what will cure my hogsT
Tney are taken with the thumps; will eat
a little at first, but continue thumping for
eight or ten days and die; appear to be
very weak, and a little exercise appears to
worry them very much; turn purple when
dead. — I*.
Take ground ginger, four ounces; flour
of sulphur, pulv. niter, black antimony,
sulphate of iron and resin of eaoh two
ounces. Dose, one teaspoonful to each
hog.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Will you please tell me what alls my
mare'a eyes. It first swelled up and was
infl-med with high fever, and watered
some, then turned pale, and now runs
water that looks like salt water when it
dries. I first noticed it about six weeks
ago.and examined it,but could find nothing
ln it;, there has been no change for two or
three weeks. Have done nothing but wash
with salt water, whioh does not seem to do
any good. J. T. S.
Break an egg and pour out the albumen;
mix ln with the end of a teaspoon salt
until a very thick stiff paste has been
formed; set it in the fire, cover with clear
coals; burn to a charcoal; grind flne and
put-iri the eye once daily.
Editors Indiana Farmer.
Please let, me .know what will cause a
horse's shoulder to fill after he has had the
sweeney and gets well. G. H. C.
Take a Beaton needle, made in the
shape of a packing kneedle or spaying
kneedle, and about 18 Inches long; have
the blade end very sharp on each side; cut
the hide above and below the shrunken
part; enter the needle above, and with its
edges cut the cellular tissue that joins the
hide to the muscles, like skinning a beef,
then draw a large cord smeared with yen-
Ice turpentine in above and out at the
lower orifice. Smear once dally with the
turpentine, and draw the smeared part
into the orifice; knot the ends of the cord
together to keep it from falling out.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
raw; she rather prefers the latter but Is
very Indifferent about eating any. Bright
straw and then hay and fodder, neither of
which she eats with a relish. Her horns
were examined, her head and spinebathed
with liniment, and fed one-half pint each
feed with linseed meal and a teaspoonful
of somebody's London "condition powders," with very little Improvement. Hair
is rough and stares; dung natural except
more slimy, and her whole stable seems to
strongly smell of cow. She chews her cud
as usual, but don'c eat one-half as muoh aB
she ought, and In consequence Is growing
very poor and weak, with considerable
diminution in her milk. S. H.
Take podophyllln, flour of sulphur,
bloodroot, black antimony, pulv. niter,
Bulphate of Iron, of each two ounces;
ground gingery four-otinces; mix. Dose,
one teaspoonful three times dally in mixed
feed.
GENERAX,  NEWS.
the
Kdltors Indiana Farmer:
I have a young mare, which, whilst running on pasture last fall was found with a
swelled head, similar to big-head. Swelling most down on one side, but on the
other it settled down to near the teeth, and
seems hard now.   Mare eats hearty.
Subscribes.
If outside, blister with Spanish fly, one
ounce, spirits of turpentine, one pint. Bub
in well with the hand twioe daily for several.   Grease and let go.
editors Indiana Farmer:
Please tell me what alls my cow. She
dropped a calf ten days ago and has not
cleaned yet. She eats hearty but Is tolerably thin in flesh, and about eight inches
of the end of the tail appears to have no
bone iu it.   This is her first calf.
T.M.K.
Let the afterbirth alone, It will come
away safer than bunglers can do lt. Most
generally the hide hangs below the lower
bone ofthe tails of cows in low condition.
Kdltors Indiana Farmer:
I see in the Farmeb of February 19th,
an article about sick sheep. I have some
owes affected in the same way; when once
ttken sick will eat nothing. Sol see no
way of giving the cure recommended, except drenching. Some of the ewes have
dropped three lambs apparently in good
health, but lambs soon die; seem to have
no strength. Lambs sired by buck not related to ewes. Would like to know some
good, preventive against this disease.
; F. P. S.
. There ' is no way to give medicine to
brutes that refuse it except by drenching.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a yearling thoroughbred bull that
has an abscess on his j»w, or more commonly known as big-jaw. Can It be cured;
if so,: howf Have had a number of cattle
effected with it but never heard of a cure.
, ' J.O.C.
There is no such disease as big-jaw. Blister severely twice dally for 10 or 12 days;
use Spanish fly and spirits of turpentine,
one ounce of the former fco one pint of the
latter.
Editors Indiana Farmer
Please give a recipe for a chronic case of
fistula. I misplaced the paper that had the
recipe In last summer. The case is of more
thau two-months' standing. I have tried
several remedies but they nave done it no
good. B. L. S.
Mercer Co., Ky.
Take 4 ounoes of nitric add and drop In It
as many copper cents,or any clean copper.as
much as It will dissolve. Mix one ounce
with one ounce of pure cider vinegar and
inject into the abscess once dally; if this Is
too weak, use less vinegar until you get it
strong enough to destroy the wall. Give
the powders ending with ginger in this
day's Fabmer.
New York contains more Irish than
city of Dublin.
The public debt reduction for February
was over $10,000,008.
Coinage of the mints for February ;was
$9,658,000, of which ?2,307,000 were silver
dollars.
A tract of 30,000 acres of land In Laural
county, Ky., has been purchased tor a colony of Swedes.
The amount of tax paid by the railways
Into the Wisconsin state treasurer's office,
last year, was $417,519 50.
On Monday, £103,000 of gold and bullion
was withdrawn from the Bank of England
for shipment to New York.
The coal deposits of New Mexico are
known to cover ten millions of acres, and
the supply is inexhaustible.
The amount of money authorized to be
expended by the appropriation bills which
congress has passed is $191,280,168,
A frost in the Island of Antlqua, West
1 Indies, did between one and two millions
damage to the coffee plantations, February
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do for her.   She has brought three calves.
Her milk was all right  until some time
before she had her third calf, when her
milk got lumpy in one teat, and now her
milk has got so lumpy that it hasn't been
fit for use. She will be fresh in May,
Also, before you oan perceive anything
wrong with the milk, it fails to make butter, no matter how long lt is churned.
W. A. H.
Our veterinary surgeon says he Is not
much of a dairyman, but says that
there are many things eaten by cows
which affect the production of butter. Besides oleanliness and foul atmosphere In
milk rooms, have everything clean and
sweet, and take podophyllln, bloodroot,
pulv. niter, black antimony, flour of sulphur, and sulphate of iron, of each two
ounces; ground ginger, four; mix. Dose,
one teaspoonful three times dally in mixed
feed.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
1. Will blood spavin cause permanent
lameness?
2. Is there any difference between blood
spavin and bog spavin? If so, how is it determined?
3. In puncturing thoroughpin, to inject
iodine, is there any danger of producing a
stiff joint by letting the joint-water out?
J. A. F.
1. Blood spavin never causes lameness
until very large, and the horse ls overworked.
2. Blood spavin and bog spavin are the
same, first taking the came bog from a
comparison with the bogs in Europe. It
next obtained its appellation "blood,"
from the fact that the femoral vein passes
over It, and the artery beneath it.
3. Thoroughpin is exactly the same, differently located, and will not stiffen the
joint if the puncture is not too wide to
draw too large a secretion. Even then it
would heal very soon.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a mare that went blind In one eye
last March, and has been blind a few days
at a time, three or four times since. Her
sight appears good now, and eye clear. Is
there any remedy I can apply to save tbe
eye? W. C. B.
Your mare has a disease erroneously
called "moon blindness," though the moon
has nothing to do with It. It is periodical
opthalmia, and every recurrence of the disease leaves a shorter intermission between
its periodical return, until total blindness
Is the result. Your only chance of saving
the eye, 1b to take an egg, break the large
end, pour out the albumen, mix in salt until a stiff paste is formed. Set it in the fire,
cover with clear coals,burn while It blazes;
When fully charred cool, grind fine, and
put, or blow, into the eye through a quill,
once dally.
Editor. Indiana Farmer:
I have been reading your answers In the
Farmer to the dltterent Interrogatories
concerning diseased stock, etc., and think
them quite rational and full of practical
Information.
I have a cow that from some cause has
lost her appetite. She was fresh in November; is a good milker, and has been
kept in the stable in dry quarter, but for
some weeks past seems to have no appetite. Her feed has been shipstuff and cornmeal, sometimes scalded  and sometimes
Of the 3,500 Massachusetts children who
are under the care of the state, 2,000 are
the ohildren of criminals or drunkards.
The -Astors now own (200,000,000 worth
of city property of New York, and they
announce a ten per cent advanoe in rents
May 1.
America sends annually to Europe 700,-
000,000 pounds of pork, and not a single
case of trichina; has ever been proved to
have occurred.
Cattle-skinners are at work In several
parts of Texas. They kill cattle belonging
to others, steal the hides and leave the
carcasses to decay.
The growth of silk manufacture ln this
country Is remarkable. L?tst year the
factories of the United States turned out
finished goods of the value of $29,983,630.
Seven thousand men are employed on
one section of the railroad from the City
of Mexico to Toluca. The work is being
done under the supervision of Americans.
!&. great convention of butter men was
held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week.
Delegations were in attendance from all
parts of the Union.
Last rear the production of gold throughout the world, was Sj.118,000,000 $80,000,000
of whieh was produced ln America; of silver, $94,000,000, of which $76,000,000 was
produced In America.
The average price of all our wheat exported during January—from California
and Oregon as well as Atlantic ports—was
$1 06 against $1 30 In 1880, and of corn 57
cents, against 6) In 1880.
The State-house of Minnesota,at St. Paul,
was burned on the 4th, the loss was $100,-
000. The historical and supreme court
library were also destroyed. Both houses
of the legislature were in session.
It is computed that Great Britain derives
an income of $293,000,000 a year from the
private investment of her people in foreign
countries, which amounts to about $750,-
000,000, of which she has $550,000,000 In
American railroads.
Forty-five hundred citizens of Leadville
petitioned the council to close the saloons,
business houses, theaters and dance houses
on Sunday. The council, however, refused
to recognize the prayer, and by a vote of
five to four killed the bill.
Great barge loads of grain are sailing
from St. Louis via New Orleans and the
Gulf to feed the hungry in Europe. From
300,000 to 400,000 bushels of wheat and corn
for the foreign market will be shipped in
barges from St. Louis to New Orleans this
week.
An explosion of gas in the coal mine at
Almy, Wyoming, on the 4th, threw the
flames up hundreds of feet nigh, carrying
away and setting fire to the buildings and
machinery. Fifteen minutes before the
explosion 30 white men and GO Chinamen
went down to work f >r the night and all
Wire killed, not one escaping.