Vol. Xffl.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JULY 20,187&
No. 29,
FOB IAII.
I have one more Boar Pig ont of bow bought of I.
N. Barker, sired by Tlppe?*?''*' for which I will
take 18.00.   K. U. BAGLEY. Indianapolis.	
i-OO.ooo acres beat -fanning lands in Wisconsin for
» sale. Send tor price and descriptive list B. A.
■Y_OB. Dobbstoa, Oconto Ca, Wisconsin.
SOB aALK—A Mason A Hamlin organ, suitable
for church or parlor, at a gTeat bargain.
Iress J.MdaKNE, 189 North Penn. St, Indianapolis.
IOR SALE—Jersey Bull
732; 3 years old; sure breeder and from a good
butter family. Price 11*50 00.   A.L. A ff. GDAV1B,
K
  "Sir Roderick"  Na
s old; sure breeder and from a good
Dublin, Ind.
FOR 8A_B—The Farm Register and Account-
Book. Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price, JL0O each. Address INDIANA FAR-
MEB CO., Indianapolis.
iR SALE—The largest stock of Bait, calcined
     plaster, land plaster and cement.  The only
house that keeps these goods always on hand, at
lowest prices. .ANDREW WALLACE,.Indianapolis.
inapoll
d-Chlr
|7IC)K tjA.L_—I have a flne lot of Foland-dhina
.E pigs now ready to ship, of undoubted purity,
representing the Black Tem of Bess families, at
reasonable prices. WILL T. BY ANS, Romney, Tippecanoe Co- In_
WAITH.
WANTED—I have some very fine Bnff Cochin
chickens, worth, per trio, $15, I will exchange tor bees. One trio for a swarm in good
•condition.   B. B. DORSEY, Indianapolis.	
11T ANTED- Good, reliable agents. Liberal in-
W duoements and good territory offered. Call
or address INDUSTRIAL LIFE .1SSOCIATION, ?1
and 24 Hubbard's Block, Indianapolis. Bules and
By-laws sent free upon application.
MSCEa__AHEOTJ_.
XJ.ABMEBS,LOOK AT THIS!—Yon can get new
Jj and second-hand canvas for covering stacks,
machines, etc; also tents and wagon covers on
hand and made to order. Grain sacks, etc. Call
on ox address CHAS. THATCHER, 618, Illinois St.,
Indianapolis, Ind.	
c,
C. BURGESS, Dentist  Office ln room 4, Va-
Jen's Exchange Block.N. Penn. Bt.     7-tf.
TO LOAN—Money to loan on Improved farms.
J. H. HARDEBECK, 36 East Market St. Indi-
anapolla.   ■ .  . tf
MONEY TO LOAN—Sums of I30O to J3.000 on
improved farrhs.   BUDDELL, WALCOTT 4
VINTON. Indianapolis, Ind.	
_T\ KEAT BARGAINS in 8prtng Wagons of all
XX kinds, manufactured by C. B. Schellert. For
sale at wholesale and retail. Prices to suit the
bard times. Call at 291 and 296 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis.   J. CAYLOR, Agent        	
A REMEDY WELL TESTED—The Hog Cholera
Is again beginning to prevail in many localities. If farmers and hog-raisers will send me a 3c
stamp; I wllV by return of mail, send th*m-a vain-*
able document on the prevention and cnre of. the
disease; The it .format—- they will get from the
document will be valuable to them in dollars.
Address S. K. HOSHOUR, Indianapolis, Ind.   eow
DECIDED BARGAINS to reduce otu choice
breeding stock of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Essex, Chester White and Poland China pigs of all
ages. Also sheep, cattle, and fancy ponltry; finest
new breeder's manual, elegantly illustrated and
giving full description ofthe different breeds. Price
—*. cents. Seed Wheat; all the best varieties, grown
especially for seed. Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, spinach, and all seeds for
the fall Prickly Comfrey, the moet wonderful forage plant, setts 14.00 per 100; 50 cents extra by mail.
Seed catalogue free. BENSON, BURPEE & CO.,
S23 Church street, Philadelphia, Fa. gg-ly
STOCK   NOTES.
An auction sale of improved Jersey
cattle took place at Albany, N. Y., on
Thuraday of this week. Another sale of
the same class of stock was made on the
same day at Cincinnati.
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Sales of Jerseys.—Among the recent
sales of Jersey cattle reported to the
.American Jersey Cattle Club, are the
following, to or from parties in this state:
Wonderly 3210, by R. S. Dorsey, of Indianapolis, to B. F. Hudson, Montezuma.
Freak 1396, by A. J. Alexander, of Ken.
tucky, to J. M. Andrew, Paoli. Lizzie
Warren 2d 6965, and Eoselaine 7167, by
J. A. Hoyt, to A. Garretson, Pendleton*,
Ramchunder 718, by M. E. Vinton, this
city, to W. W. Whitesell, same place.
Marno 2646, by F. M. Churchman, Beech
Grove farm, near Indianapolis, to C. H.
Green, Saginaw, Mich.
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Horse Sale.
D. M. Magie & Co., Oxford,
Ohio, have shipped 511 pigs
and hogs to breeders exclusively, besides having ttent
some to England, Scotland,
Mexico, and Canada; and to
nearly all the States in the
Union. Their .'World Beater"
ia valued at $2,000. He is the
most extraordinary breeder
they have owned in many
years. They bred from ten
different males last year and
the stock is the choicest in the
market. A herd of swine shipped to Liverpool, England, by
them will be exhibited at the
World's Great Agricultural
Fair, this month, at Bristol,
England.
These hogs are pure Poland.
China, being bred by Mr. Magie himself in 1837 to 1840, of
pure Poland and China breeds.
They are handsome hogs with
long bodies, short legs, deep
sides, with square, heavy hams
and shoulders. They are of
dark color, weighing dressed,
at 18 to 20 months old, 500®
600 pounds. We give an illustration on this page of two
of his fine premium hogs,—
"World Beater and. Peerless."
Mr Magie is abundantly supported in his claim as the originator of this valuable stock in
this country, and his reputation
is almost world-wide.
WORLD BEATER AHD P__B_-8S—Two Magie or Poland-China Swlne, owned by llie Originators of tbe Breed,
v      D. M. HAGIK CO., Oxford, Bntler county, Obio.
The following are the high-bred animals
that will be oflered at the public sale of
horses by Claude MatthewB, at Clinton,
Aug. 7th:
Abdallah Clay, dark bay stallion, 16
hands; foaled 1870. Wild Annie, brown
mare, 15J hands; foaled 1867. Lady
Hampton, brown mare, 15$ hands; foaled
1869. Fleetfoot, chestnut gelding; foaled
May, 1874. Hampton Clay, bay colt;
foaled April 15, 1876. Annie Clay, bay
filly; foaled May 13,1876. Eowena, brown
filly; foaled April 4, 1877. Dnroc Clay,
bay colt; foaled April 28, 1878. Mayflower, bay or brown colt; foaled May 1,
1878. Of Abdallah Clay, Mr. Matthews
says in his announcement:
The stallion, Abdallah Clay, is a handsome, fine styled horse, and without training can show 2:40.   As a sire he is proving
all I could ask.   His colts are uniformly
good; possessing fine size, style, good disposition, easily handled, and for the class of
mares, all showing more than the average
trotting action.   In short, his colts if not
speedy, will make good sized, fine styled
' roadsters or carriage horses.   I reserve a
I bid of $600 on Abdallah Clay—not half
[ his value;
HIGHLAND STOCK FARM.
On the 8th inst, we had the pleasure of
a visit to tbis interesting and model stock
farm, owned by the celebrated Hereford
stock breeder, Mr. J. T. Miller, of Beecher,
HI. On alighting from, the cars, the
monster barn, on a beautiful elevation,
just^iat ,of the village, arrests the, attefl-
tib_."™Two immense win_ mills, wh'cse
giant arms pump the water and grind the
food for over 600 head of stock, crown this
immense but attractive structure, the
cost of-which was. ten thousand \dollars.
The residence is a modest structure, embowered in a wilderness of green trees,
whose refreshing shade was a most welcome treat to a dust covered and perspiring traveler. The host gave us a
royal welcome, and extended the hospitality of his home which, it need not be
said, was most willingly and thankfully
accepted. Mr. Miller has the largest and
finest herd of Herefords in America, if
not in England, and is certainly as well
posted on the history and qualities of
this superior breed of cattle, as any man
now living. His library has the look of
an author's studio—books, maps, charts,
papers and manuscript, lie on an ample
table in great profusion, as if the history
of the race was being written.
His herd of Herefords will compare
favorably with any herd of cattle we have
ever seem They are large in size, perfect
in form, beautiful in appearance, and are
easily fatted at any age. Two calves, a
few days over eight months old, were
led to the scales, one weighing 808
pounds and the .other 820 pounds. A
half breed steer weighed over 1600 lbs.
In passing from the village to the house,
asmall herd of his show cows were seen,
and the sight waa one rarely excelled for
beauty. Their uniformity of size, form
and color makea a very showy and pleasing appearance. These show cows all
have young calves, though they are as
fat as though they had been stall fed. At
the head of the herd is the imported bull,
SUCCESS.
He ia an animal of unusual merit, having the very highest qualities in shoulder,
chest and back, while as a breeder, his
get shows that he transmits his good
points, in a marked degree, to his offspring.
SEVENTY-SIX,
one of his calves two years old will be, in
our judgment, superior to his sire as a
show animal, ifpresent promises are fulfilled. The herd consists of something
over 200 head and the marvel is, that
each animal ha3 so many individual
points of excellence. If Herefords generally have the merits of this herd, they
should be introduced into every county,
in every state in the great grass and
grain growing states of the northwest. It
is claimed for them, first, that they can be
fattened at a cost of 25 per cent, less
than the Shorthorns; second, that their
weights are equal to Shorthorns; third,
that their beef is superior to Shorthorns,
bringing one to two cents more per pound
in the London market. Such claims cannot be ignored, if they can be sustained
by facts, and breeders of these cattle assert
in the most positive and unequivocal
manner, that they can prove them to be
true both by practical tests and statistics.
Will breeders give them a fair trial ?
Mr. Miller, in the past few years, has
also turned his attention to Cotswold
sheep and Berkshire hogs. Of the former*
they, are all that can- be said of the -very
• best Cotswolds.   We predict that they
to regard as the highest authority on
agricultural matters in the state of New
York, and who has raised sheep for many
years in connection with wheat, says that
with one sheep to the acre of cultivated
land, pasture and meadows, he raises
more bushels of grain, on the average,
than he did when he had no sheep to
manufacture his coarse forage into manure, and to enrich his pastures to prepare
them for the grain,crop; that the land is
wiU makea masked impree-ion at all J^.l^>cStantlv improving, and the crop in-
—-a. r •  _i ai t-L-a-j ' ■__j   nrfiasiner -in   niiantitc ;   -and   tlmt,' wkfloi*
state fairs, where they are exhibited, and
carry off the first honors. Of the latter,
they, too, are choice animals. It would
seem about impossible to improve tbis
choice breed, as now bred in the west,
but there is a tendency in some places to
sacrifice form and hardiness to beauty.
The type here is robust, vigorous and
weighty, rather than fine and beautiful.
One of the reasons for Mr. Miller's success in stock raising is the care and judgment used in the selection of his employes.
The care of the hogs is placed in the
hands of men who have spent their life
in that business. So of sheep and of cattle. Several of his men are directly from
Herefordshire, England, and Mr. Geo. F.
Morgan is the general Superintendent
Many persons will remember him as the
exhibitor of some of the finest Cotswold
sheep ever shown at our state fairs. He
has not only a practical knowledge of all
kinds of stock, but is a thorough veterinary scholar, having taken a course in
Hngland. Everything pertaining to feed,
care and management is thorough,
methodical, systematized and brought to
the highest perfection. The visit will be
remembered as one ofthe pleasant experiences of our life, and we wish our host
and his kind wife many years of quiet
peace in their lovely home. G.
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Sheep as Fertilizers.
In a paper entitled "Sheep Husbandry
in the South," by John L. Hayes, in the
Bulletin of the National Association of
Wool Manufacturers, is the following, in
reference to the agency of sheep in improving the fertility of the soil :
Bheep are the only animals which do
not exhaust the land upon which they
feed, but permanently improve it. Homed cattle, especially cows in milk, by
continued grazing, ultimately exhaust the
pastures of their phosphates. In England,
the pastures of the county of Chester,
famous as a cheese district, are kept up
only by the constant use of bone dust.
Sheep, on the other hand, through the
peculiar nutritiousness of their manure^
and the facility with which it is distribu*-
ted, are found to be the most economical!
and certain means of constantly renewing1
the productiveness of the land. By the
combination of sheep husbandry with
wheat culture, lands in England, which,
in the times of Elizabeth, produced, on
an average, six and a half bushels of
wheat per acre, produce now,over thirty
bushels. For these reasons, the recent
practical writers in the Journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society of Eagland
pronounce that, while there is no profit
in growing sheep in England simply
for their mutton and wool, sheep husbandry is still an indispensable necessity,
as the sole means of keeping up the land.
Experience in the United States leads
to similar conclusions. Mr. Stilson, of
Wisconsin, by keeping sheep, is able to
raise his twenty-four bushels of wheat to
the acre, while the average yield of wheat
in Wisconsin is but ten bushels. There
are cases in Vermont where sheep farmers
have been compelled to abandon one
farm after another as they became too
fertile for profitable sheep growing.   Mr,
creasing -in quantity; and that,' while
producing crops on less acres and at less
cost than he did before he kept sheep,
he has, in addition the wool and the mutton
produced by the sheep.
Mr. William Chamberlain, of Red
Hook, Duchess county, New York, celebrated as a grower of Silesian sheep, purchased, in 1840, a farm in that place of
380 acres, which had been used so long
for selling hay that it was worn out. The
hay crop, in 1841, was seventeen loads;
40 acres oi rye gave ten bushels to the
acre; 25 acres of corn averaged twenty-
five bushels to the. acre. The rest of the
farm pastured two horses, four oxen and
one cow. The land waa so poor that it
would not raise red clover. By using
sheep as the producers and manufacturers of manure, he made his worn-out
farm so productive that its crops would
be satisfactory even in Ohio. The product in 1866 was 600 tons of hay; 40 acres
of Indian corn, yielding 50 bushels to the
acre; 30 acres of wheat, averaging 15
bushels; 30 acres of oats, 8 acres of roots,
and the pasturage of 300 sheep and of the
teams, cows, etc., necessary to carry on
the farm and to supply the families oh it
with milk and butter.
Mr. Chamberlain's plan, when he first
commenced- making manure by using
sheep, was to spread it thinly, so as to go
over all the space he could, and make
clover grass; and he said that when he
had brought his land to where it would
produce clover, improvement thenceforth was easy and rapid. The sheep not
only gave the first impulse, but were all
the time depended upon as the great
manure producing power.
»   am  a
Shipping Meat to Europe.
About two weeks ago 200 cattle were
shipped by a Clyde steamer, and they arrived in England aa fresh aa if they had
just been driven out of a yard. In fact,
they stand the ocean passage better than a
trip from the Weat in cars. The first consignment of meat sent over from New York
was in 1875, and amounted to 36,000 lbs.
One year later Philadelphia sent over her
first shipment, amounting to 150,610 lbs.
During the April following, the shipments
aggregated 2,546,200 pounds. During the
past year one Glasgow firm imported 12,-
000,000 pounds ot American meat. In
spite of the heavy shipments the demand
has so far exceeded the supply that prices
have steadily advanced,
water; and any expedient which increases
the length of time that animals are transported without ul loading and rest, rather
increases the suffering than diminishes it.
Upon this ground we are compelled to say,
that inasmuch as the palace stock cars are
avowedly for the purpose of increasing
the length of time that animals wili be
confined for transportation by tall -without unloading, humanity is the last argument which should be urged in their behalf.
--The true-solution of the transportation
question as it aflects live stock, is found in
slaughtering at points near where they are
fed, and the transportation of the meat in
refrigerator cars, thus saving all losses from
injuries received in transit, and the extra
expense of transportation of worthless offal.
In a humanitarian point of view, this plan
is more desirable than the use of palace
stock cars or any of the other modern appliances for relieving the sufferings of live
stock while being transported from the
Great West to the seaboard.—National
Live Stock Journal.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
State new.
Transportation of Live Stock.
There has been a great deal ot nonsense
palmed ofl upon the uninlorm ed in the name
of humanity, in favor of the use of the so-
called palace stock cars. In fact, we are
afraid that, under the specious plea of a
desire to alleviate the sufferings of live
stock during transportation, a fat job in
the interest ofa ring which controls the
patents on their palace stock cars, has
been concealed, and that the tender regard
for the sufferings of live stock which
has been so prominently developed in and
around Washington City within the past
few months, has been born solely of a desire to so shape legislation that everybody
shall be compelled to pay tribute to the
ring which controls this patent. The facts
are, that all kinds of live stock suffer much
more from the unnatural position they are
I compelled to occupy, while being traps-
Geo. Geddes, whom Horace Greeley used | port^ by rail, than from want of food and
Columbus has organized an anti-tobacco society.
Hog cholera has made ita appearance in portions of Shelby connty.
The Murphy temperance people of Marshall
county number over 6,000;
J. M. Hill, of Marion, drew $30,000 in the
Louisiana lottery last week.
More than a million dollars worth of war
material is stored in the U. S. arsenal in this
city.
Terre Haute capitalists are going to erect an
elevator and grain warehouse, with a capacity
of 100,000 bushels.
Trinity M. E. Church, at New Goshen,
Vigo county, was burned on the 10th instant.
Loss, $2,000; no insurance.
There has been a decrease of $160,000
in the valuation of personal property
at Madison, since the assessment last
year.
The State Board of Equalization think that
the railroad property ofthe Btate is overtaxed,
and will reduce the rate of taxation 15 or 20
per cent.
8. Moses, a Madison butcher, has a knife in
his possession which has Deen used for butchering for 220 yean.
On the 27th day of August next, the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias of the
World will assemble in this city.
The railroad companies are making arrangements to make extensive repairs to
the tracks leading to the several coal mines in
Clay connty.
O. M. White and W. H. Watson, of Farmland, have issued a public challenge to any
two croquet players for the championship of
Eastern Indiana,
A farmer living a short distance east of this
city, reports that a stalk of corn in his field
grew 10 inches recently in the 12 hours between 5p.m. and 5 a.m.
The Crawfordsville Journal comes to us this
week dressed in an elegant suit of new brevier. It is newsy, and deserves an increase in
its already large patronage.
The new German Methodist church at Jeffersonville, one of the most handsome brick
structures ofthe kind in South-Western Indiana, was dedicated last Sunday.
A small boy, the son of Dr. Samuel G. Ir.
win, of Crawfordsville, fell from a tree
on the llth inst,, a distance of thirty feet,
sustaining  injuries that will prove fetal.
The residence of Nelson Phillips, abont a
mile and a half north-east of Pierceton, waa
entirely consumed by fire on the 12th instant.
Loss, fifteen hundred dollare; partially insured.
The summer art school at Purdue University,- Lafeyette, under the direction of Professor Thompson, haa opened nnder highly
favorable auspices. The attendance la quite
large. ■
Peter Bush, of Osceola township, Elkhart
county, was kicked by a hone in the abdomen on the 10th inst, and died from the effects. He leaves a wife and fonr small children.
Three hundred acres of tomatoes, and one
hundred and fifty acres of sweet corn, are being cultivated at Greenwood, for consumption in the canning establishment at that
place.
The State encampment of all the military
companies of the State, to have been held in
this city between August 5th and 10th, haa
been indefinitely postponed, owing to scarcity
oftents.
The lime business in Huntington county
has been very brink this season, and therefore a large amount haa been burned.   The
lime of this connty is a source of great wealth >
to'.its manufacturers.
Movements are on foot to increase the speed
of the trains which haul the feat freight line
cars westward. It is thought that New York
freights can be landed in Indianapolis in 64
hoars from the time of shipment.
The fish in Blue Eiver, near Shelbyville, are
dying in large numbers from some unknown
cause. The stench from the decaying bodies
is so great that grave fears are felt
for the health of the people in the vicinity.
Articles of association for the establishment
of a free diepensary, for which purpose the
late Chauncey Bose, of. Terre Haute, bequeathed twenty-five thousand dollars, were
filed in tho recorder's office of Vigo county,
last week.
A Morgan county farmer brought nearly a
pound of gold to this city the other day. He said
he could wash a half an ounce ($9 worth) per
day from the soil of his farm, and lie proposes
to give up forming entirely for the cultivation
of his mine.
Andrew Simpson, a Sand Creek miner, died
on the 12th inst., from the effects of sunstroke
received the day before. Had he had medical
attendance he might have recovered. He
leaves a wife and three children ln destitute
circumstances.
It seems now Bettled that the Indianapolis,
Decatur and Springfield road will be completed
to Indianapolis. Trains will be run as far eaat
as Bruin, a point on the Logantport, Crawfordsville and South-Westera, next week,
and the work is then to be pushed on to In-
dianspolis.
During the year ending June 30,1878, there
were distilled in the Fourth District 3,051,925
gallons of spirits; 2,096,498 gallons were withdrawn from warehouse on payment of tax,
and 108,311 gallons for exportation. With fair
prices this district will produce 4,000,000 gallons annually.
Two German farmers living at Brightwood,
in this connty, have proved a nice feast for
the confidence buzzards. They talk but little
English, and have been made the victims of
patent right swindlers of all kinds. They gave
these swindlers notes, secured by mortgage,
not knowing tbat they were making negotiable paper, but supposing they were signing an
agreement for the sale of the articles, on which
they were td receive a certain percentage of
the profits. One of the farmers is troubled to
the extent of $1,400, having signed that
amount ot paper; the other nearly $1,100,
No. 14.—The preminm I was entitled to
came to hand on last Monday night, in
good order. Mr. Monfoit had made a
nice box to ship the pig in, with a place
for water. The pig is a nice one, of Poland
China breed. I left the selection to Mr.
Monfort. I am well pleased with his selection. The pig is a credit to any breeder.   Many thanks to all concerned. .
G. W. Reeve.
Rushville, July 10.
Ancient Business Houses.
There are some old business houses in
London, which are quite in contrast with
the short-lived houses of a comparatively
new country like our own. There are
seme banking and business houses of
very respectable age here, however.
Among the very old ones in London is
the fitrn of Morton & Co., which was established in 1555, and was contemporary
w ith Shakespeare and Bacon. The firms
of Messrs. Child & Co., and Goslings &
Sharpe were established before 1050.
Oliver Cromwell kept his banking account
with Child & Co. The bank of England
began business in 1694, and was proceeded some years by Messrs. Hoare, Thompson, Hankey & Co., Barnett, Hoarts &
Co., and the Hudson Bay Company.
Among the merchants, tlie house of
Messrs. Baring Bros. & Co. was founded
in 17C3. and among wine merchants, the
firm of Hedges & Butler waa founded
in 1667. The Longmans, book publishers, have done business without a break ■
since 1720, and the Bentleys have been,
publishing books for more than two hundred years.—Ex.