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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-21
Rules for the Care Of Sheep.

To keep sheep dryunderfoot with
roofing them. Never let them
stand or lie in mud or snow.
Take up lamb bucks early in
summer, and keep them up until
December, when they may be turned
out.
Remove the lower bars Us the
sheep enter or leave a yard. thus
avoiding broken limbs. Count
them every day.
Begin granting with the greatest
care, and use the smallest quantity
at first.
If a eve loses a lamb, milk daily
a few days and mix d little alum
with her salt.
Let no hogs eat with sheep in
Spring.
In weaving lambs use ID little
mill feed.
Never brighten sheep if you can
avoid it.
Sow rye for weak. ones in cold
weather.
In the fall separate the weak,
thin or sick from the strong and
give extra care.
If one is hurt. catch at once,
wash the wound. if in fly time, APP
ply spirits turpentlne daily: always
wash with something healing.
Splinter broken limbs tightly, loos-
ening as the limb swells.
Keep a number of good bells on
them.
Don't let them spoil wool with
burrs.
Cut tage locks in early spring.
For scours give pulverized alum
in wheat bran. Prevent by taking
great care IN changing dry for
green feed.
II We some good book on sheep
to refer to. 1t will put money in
thy purse.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-21

There is much sense in the fol-
lowing excerpt Practical farm
ing is IN no way incompatible with
scientific knowledge, as those who
fling the epithets kid-glove farm
ing sidewalk farming 'aristo-
cratic farming.' and scientific
farming would have us believe !:
but the practical farmer avails
himself of every fact and improve
ment which the plodding farmer
despises. He takes a good paper
which intelligently discusses the
great subjects Of agriculture, which
interests the great mass of the
population of nearly every country.
The reading farmer who farms IN
the broadest sense, imparts his
knowledge to others as freely as he
has received it. that the benefit he
enjoys may be enjoyed By all who
farm for pleasure or for profit: he
feels the generous impulses which
should actuate the universal BROTH
erhood of man. For none of ms
'llyeth to himself
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-21

Ten and a half tons-or about
$500, O0O-of locusts were destroy
ed at Ajmere, India, in one day,
not long ago. The young ones
we're doing immense damage, when
the officers Of a regiment stationed
there got out fatigue parties of men,
dug several trenches 70 lee-ward Of
the pests, and sent Sepoys to wave
branches and drive the locusts in.
As soon as one trench was well
packed earth was thrown in. and
the mass of hopping creatures, not
yet ready to fly, was driven into the
next. Ia two hours 300 feet of
trench a foot wide had been filled
TO a depth Of a foot. A finger
bowl dipped into the trench and
struck off with a card containing
800 locusts, and from the unit Of
weight and number thus obtained
the calculation was made.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-21

tons needed 10 get heir r.
eaten. Simple, hca5,hls1. -
cooked and more than
every atom. save spice, a#G. ...
mentS. a part OF the >We...
perhaps, and the tea au.l ..
used, could be produced 81.
farm. With the other v..-.-
pies, lot mentioned. l.. ga..#
varied every day in the week
out dctracting from Ill, excel.
An old turkcy-ral>ov e....
following experiment Ea.r....
eNs We're confined IN "A pen au.. f.
on meal, boiled potatoes an. g
-Four others. Of the sam. ...
were also at the SAME time .......
IN another pen, and fec. a.. Is.
the same article, but with oa.r
Of very finely pulyeriz.d e.....
mixed with their food ml<..n ..
and boiled potatoes. They ua.
a plentiful snpnIv nf Lr.L..
coal in their nrn III.
killed ON the same ia, .-
was ditrnrerr. nf n,n
nonnds nach ~ f..a,, ~
which had haDn sr,.n.s VII.
coal they bnino mInrh 49,.
ana tbn moat L7;nr n,..,.
In point Of tenderness and H.
nu
l 2,S, 'i H VI ''..,
N''" ne''i "''""'' 'I' ".
spuI 'e So" WINE ''e "".-
,I"ln'" never ncc"o' 'i. "
i,,e,r SpIrIIs ,, were on''o"..
ScNei''N' an" rng1 "'t1'" I'D. .
est IN puISc OF the once or IfE.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
Dairy Farming.
ISt. Louis Republican.

lSJ. Louis kepuOllcan.
The statement made at the International
nearly $3.50, 900 worth of butter and
cheese have been produced in this country
during the last year is so surprising that we
hardly know how to take il. The dairy pro.
duct of the country in 1860 was 459, 7S1, 00O
pounds of butter and log, 663 600 pounds of
cbeese-worth about $74, 000, 900. In 1870,
according TO the last census, the butter pro-
duct had increased to 5I4 092 600 pounds,
while the cheese product had decreased to
SO, 492 900 pounds--the whole worth about
Sl06, 900 900. It is well known that since
1870 the dairy business has been largely de-
veloped, and the butter and cheese product
greatly increased, but we were not prepared
for eneral Buffers assertion that the value
OF these products had increased TO $3.50 000,
600 If IL be true, the dairy product of the
United States is one-third more valuable
than the whole cotton crop, and one-seventh
more valuable than the whole wheat CROP
4 One thing Is undeniable-that dairy farm
ing is becoming the most satisfactory branch
OF American agriculture. The reasons for
this are,
l. That the consumption of both butter
and cheese Is constantly and largely increas.
ing.
g That choice butter, made from the
best breeds of COWS aud sl1illfully manipu.
lated, commands its own price IN city mar
kets.
g. That Europe demands all our surplus,
both butter aud cheese.
f. That dairying steadily enriches instead
of exhausting the farm on which it is con-
ducted. by the direct return to the soil of all
that is taken from il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
Improved ways OF Farming.
Rural New Yorker.l

Suppose We succeed in doubling the yield
of corn, wheat and other crops by intelligent
culture and the application OF improved
methods of agriculture. That would be a
triumph for Intelligent culture and lin
proved methods" Suppose then that their
value in the market falls to half its present
value? That would not be satisfactory.
Toe problem before US is to double the yield
and 10 maintain the price. Then there
ought not to be a grumble. II this could
be effected with halt the expenditure of
labor and tiEe that is at present re-
quired, that would be a triumph indeed.
Then farmers would find plenty of time to
read agricultural papers, interest themselves
10 farmers clubs, partici cate IN politics
dress in the latest style, adorn their door
yards, plant evergreen wind breaks, stop up
all the cracks in their barns, wear smiling
faces at nome, and occasionally go abroad.
Or they could Investigate hog cholera, pear
blight. grape rot, how to exterminate insect
pests, and so on until nothing in particular
is left to Investigate except the new ques
tons which arise out of the elevated condi-
ton of things
Our really slow progress in agricultural
matters has been due in great measure to a
lack of time. To give the first illustration
tha. occurs 10 u.s. II is known from actual
the time to skill weeds before they are born
that II requires to exterminate them after
they have grown "apace" Whence it fol-
lows that If after weeds have grown apace"
twenty days are needed to kill weeds
under the killing them before they are born
system one day would saffice. II is plain
that nineteen days would be left for stop
ping up the cracks in the barn; for travel
ing abroad; reading agricultural literature,
etc, ETC. Again, agricultural progress has
been retarded by an absence Of Concerted
effort. The effort has been made, put upon
the principle Of equal forces pulling in OPP
posite directions. The result of this sort of
effort simply lacerates the object upon which
the forces are applied. In fact, many an
object has been broken all to pieces by tins
sort of effort
We must first settle upon plan and then
tremendously and vigorously pull together.
rbe problem. as we see it after careful
perusal OF ali Of our agricultural literature,
Is as we have stated: To double the yield of
all crops and to maintain the price with half
the expenditure of time and labor at present
employed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18

head well between the ears poured one
tesspoonful into each ear. Relief was mani
tested Immediately. In few days they
were perfectly well.-Letter to San Francisco
Chronicle.
Pasturing is a means of inducing fertility.
1t is computed to add twenty per cent to
the fertility of first rate soil. This arises
from two causes A large percentage of
what is grown upon the soil is returned to 1t
in the droppings OF the animals which grszs
upon ii. In the second place, when broken
up by the pillow, the sward is converted INTO
food for the tillage crops, and is believed to
be equivalent in the case of we'll set sod,
to more than twelve loads of dung on the
acre. In this way sheep husbandry is known
to enrich lands rapidly, and TO operate still
further in this direction where meal, beans
or oil cake is fed to the grazing animals.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
Eggs I'm winter.
kansas Earmer.l

Fresh laid eggs in winter are worth much
more than summer eggs, and by the requis-
lite care and palDs-takiDg every poultry
raiser may have good crop of eggs in the
winter. a warm place with a southern ex-
posure should be provided, and the fowls be
we'll supplied with stimulating food. A
meat diet is necessary for laying fowls, and
the supply of insects being cut off by cold
weather, the loss should be made up by small
rations of fresh meat three or four times a
week. Parched corn, oats and buckwheat
are excellent food for laying hens. The
light Brahmas and LegGorns are considered
among the best winter layers.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
GROCERIES,.

but little.
GROCERIES.
There has besn considerable activity in this
branch OF trade during the past week. staple
and fancy goods are moving of quite lively
and prices rule steady. The New York Bulle-
tin of Monday says:
Cnffee.-0n Brazil grades there was a con-
Llnuat Ia1 OF the oIa unsettled ieellng. Inc
out This week, and while an additional offer
Ing OF the upper grades might possibly
moe ordinary sorts must must be Considered SO
much under neglect as TO render valuations
nominal only. Sales per "Fycho Brahe" of
1888 bags, 1856 bags and $40 bags Santos, and per
.'City o. Para" l,lOT bags Rio, 2ll0 bags and 500
bags.
There does not appear to be much change on
the general situation of the market for West
India stock. or choice and attractive grades,
there is quite moderate amount available,
ever, with the offering slowly and carefully
made. Demand, however, q little slow, as, ex-
cept on NJ cessity, jobbers are indispoSed to
take in much stock until after the first of the
year.
Sugars.-On raws the general expression is
one of steadineSs, and in some cases holders
are commencing to talk quite confidently
again. As before noted the more general dis
play of interest among retiners OF late, slower
arrivals and fairly controlled accumulation
are supporting features on which holders cal
culate 10 retain or Increase the advance. Sales
OF 100 hhds centrifugal at nc; 200 hhds New
a fair amount of business is being done in
this department for this season of the year,
and prices are undergoing no changes worthy
OF especial comment.
GRAIN.
There is nothing of especial importance
transpiring in this market. The demand for
wheat has been good during the entire week,
and quotations have been well maintained
Corn mas been rather inactive and prices nom-
inal. Oats are quiet and unchanged.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Receipts Of produce are very liberal, and the
market has downward tendency. although
choice country butter meets with quick sale.
Eggs are quiet and unchanged.
GAME AND POULTRY.
The market is better supplied with game
than for some seasons past, aud the demand is
only moderately active and prices nominal.
Poultry is quiet at quotations.
PROVISIONS
have been DUH during the entire week and
quotations unchanged. Packers are killing
large numbers of hogs, and are disposing of
some of their green meats.
CANNED GOODS.
This is just the time of year for this trade TO
be active, and as the holidays approach the
demand increases. Quotations are well MAIN
tanned.
There was a fair amount of business trans
acted to-day in all department OF trade, and
quotations a general rule fiuctuated but lit
tie. The wheat market is steady and firm.
Flour is unchanged. Corn is inactive and
dull, and oats are fairly active. Groceries are
In good demand. Provisions are weak and
dull. Country produced is in large supply and
the market rather dull,
The following were the receipts and ship
uents of leading articles during the preceding
swenty-fo -four hours, as reported TO the board OF
trade:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
Mixed Corn.
lAmerican Agriculturist.l

49," Genyo, West Virginia, having corn
with both white and yellow kernels on the
same ears, inquiries about planting this
mixed seed, as these ears seem more solid
than those hearing kernels of only one color.
We DO not believe in mongrels of any kind,
and doubt if the mixed ears have any advant-
age in the way of solidity that may not be
found in some established variety. Even
ness in ripening is often important in the
corn crop, snd the two sorts in these ears
may mature together or not. A field planted
with this seed would have some stalks bear
ing all yellow and others all white ears,
while many would be more or less half and
BALI II there was weeks difference in
ripsniug, part of the crop would be cut up
too soon aud too late. Besides, there is
chance of loss from imperfect fertilization
a matter we have not space to discuss here.
We favor attempts to improve Indian corn,
but planting mixed seed is not likely to lead
TO any good result.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18

If they rise up stiff. spiritless, and not rarely
suTfering from q severe cold after their heat
ed blood and relaxed silews have been ex-
posed to the blasts and frosts of a chilly
night When the days are not stormy it is
well enough to let horses run in the pasture,
but every night should find them comfort
ably bedded and fed in the stable. Ingrati-
tude to our fellow-men is justly considered
an odious vice, but is there not often strong
faint of it also in the treatment of these
noble animals, to whose faithful help in all
kinds of drudgery farmers are deeply in
depted for full barns and comfortable homes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
The Horse IN the Fall.
IRural New Yorker

Farm horses in the fell are often migrate
fully neglected. Their hard toll in helping
With the heavy work of the season once oyer,
when only odd jobs await them, 1t Is too
FREQUENT a custom to dock them of their
grain, and allow them to shift for them
selves on the pastures, often without needed
shelter from the bleak wind and early frosts
of autumn nights. After feeding awhile,
the poor animals get chill and run
about IN the dark IN search OF
warmth, which they often find only
at the cost ofoa stumble or fall, result
ing often in a sp,ain or cut that injnres or
disfigures them for life. Then when warm
and tired they lie down to rest; what wonder
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
Cured Of Drinking.

"a young friend OF mine was cured of an
Unsuitable thirst for liquor that bad so pros
trated his system that he was unable to do
any business. He was entirely cured by the
use OF Hop Bitters. Ii allayed all that burn
ing thirst; took away the appetite for
liquor; made his nerves steady, and he has
remained a sober ard steady man for more
than two years, aud has no desire to return
to his cups and know of a number OF
Others that have been cured OF drinking by
It"-From leading r. r. Official, Chicago.
Illinois.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
signs Of Prosperity Returning.

The increased prosperity of business
affairs in New Orleans Is shown by the con-
stantly growing demand for tickets in the
grand monthly drawings of the Louisiana
State Lottery Company, which take place
invariably in New Orleans, at noon of the
second Tuesday of every month. The fair
ness of these drawings has at length become
certsioty in the public mind. Tickets
only two dollars. Address M. A. Daupbin,
p. o. Box 692, New Orleans, La.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18

As well as of time. Don't coquet with
Cough, Cold, or any throat or lung Com
plant. Without even an hours delay pro-
cure "Hale's Honey Of Horehound and Tar"
There's no discount on its operation. A
cure is the Inevitable result. .,,l,,
one minute. Sold by all druggsta at rs
cents,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
India.apo,i. Live stock Market.

- .'a.H srra UNION STOCK. YARDS, Dee. 10.
Hogs-Reeeipts, $500 head; shipments, 700
head. The market opened with a good de-
mand for the better grades, of shipping hogs,
they selling generally about SC higher, but
there was very little change noted in the light.
er grades for packing purposes. The demand
was sufficient to lake all that were 0nered, SO
that, unless the receipts are heavy tonight
there is a prospect of an active market to-mor-
low. We quote: Roughs, 81 50a2 70; fair to
good packing hogs, 81 5o92 90; prime heavy
shipping, 80 65a2 50.
Cattle9keceipts, $50 head; shipments, 200
head The market was fairly active Tor butch
er cattle for home consr mption, and there
was also a strong demand for heavy cattle for
shipping. We quote: Good heavy shippers,
So SEAL: good butcher steers, w 5OgS 80; bulls
and cows, 81 5O@2 70.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
Salt for Stock.
New York Times.


But few farmers place proper estimate
upon salt as daily necessity for stock.
To discriminate the quantity needed for
the different domestic animals numerous
careful experiments have been made. Recog-
nizing the importance of the subject, the
French government not many years ago
commissioned a number OF practical and
scientific persons to investigate and report
upon it. In their report the following scale
was fixed upon as the minimum daily allow
ances for the different animals in ordinary
condition, viz:
Ounces.
For a working or milch cow...........2
For fattentng stall-fed oxen ............2h to a.
For fattening pigs. to "a
For store sheep double for fat Sheep n to q
For horses and III ules.-...-....................1
A dairyman found, after many trials, that
with two ounces of salt daily his COWS gave
the most milk The careful chemist and
farmer, BoussiDgsult, once fed six steers for
IL months in two lots, giving the same
kind OF fodder and water to each, but Civ.
ing one lot an ounce and an eighth of salt
daily, and to the other none. A remarka-
bic difference was at once manifest. The
first lot were all sleek. smooth coated and in
perfect condition. The other became rough,
NANCY and i'll conditioned. and weighed at
the end of the test 40 pounds less than those
that had been supplied with salt. Many
other similar results might be cIted but
these are sufficient to induce those who still
doubt the value of salt for all kinds OF farm
stock to test the matter for themselves.
Not only is salt an agreeable and needful
article of food, but ii is in some diseases al
most a specific remedy. For those parasitic
diseases TO which sheep are subject-such as
the liver rot dukes in the liver) verminous
bronchitis (worms in the bronchial tubes),
and worms in the stomach and intestines-
salt is su unfalling remedy, as well as an ef-
feciual preventive. The irritating worms
which sometimes iufest the rectum of the
horses are removed at once by an injection
OF solution of one ounce of salt in quart
of water. But it is as a constant addition to
the food that 1t is most useful as a preserv-
atlve of the health of our domestic animals
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
FINANCIAL.

OFFICE OF THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL
TUESDAY EVENING, Dec. IL.
The money market, since our last weekly re-
view, has been quiet and steady. The banks
and banking houses are all well supplied with
funds, and there is no difficulty In negotiating
first class commercial paper at the usual rate
of interest. Eastern exchange is In fair de-
mand and rates steady at par buying, and sales
across the counter are made at l-l09H pre-
MUM.
New York Financial Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. l6-Money-ActIve at S95
per cent.
Prime Mercantile Paper-4@6 per cent.
Assistant Treasurer Disbursed-s9oo,OOe
Customs Receipts-S2l9,0O0.
Clearings-s6,OO.OO0.
Gold-Weak; 1905 par bid.
Carrying tes-H@3 per cent.
Government ss-Cienerally steady
Railroad Bonds-Firm.
State Securities-Dull.
Stocks-The market was firm in early deal
ings, and prices advanced L9lsk per cent,
Pacific Mail, New Jersey Central AMI granger
stocks leading the upward movement. To-
ward the close the entire list reached LaL.
The principal activity was North western,
st. Paul, Lake Shore and Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western.
Transactions on the stock exchange to-day
aggregated 10000 shares, of which 900 were
Erie, 1900 Lake Shore, $1,000 Northwestern
common, 2000O Northwestern preferred, IL 900
81. Paul common, 500, St. Paul preferred, 49,
600 Lackawan ma, 500 New Jersey Central, as
900 Morris and Essex. 1900 Union Pacific
1900 Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis, 1900 Western Union and $500
Pacific Mail.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
Receipts shipm Is
sNDIANAPoLIs MARKETS.
Provisions.

DRY SALT MEArs-Clear ribs, 50 70, l5 TO 20
days.
GREEN MEATs-Hams, 41<951<c, rs to aver
age, shoulders, 2xc; sides, SIC.
LARD-Prime steam, held at - 10.
SWEET PICKLED MEArs-Hams, 5z95c, ac-
cordlng to age and average.
Bresdstufis, Grain, Etc. ~
FLouR-we quote: New process, S6 5097 90;
fancy, S505 IS: family, HaA 40; low grades,
q 25eS. Bnckwheat -four, S95 q, per Dbl;
wHEAr-We quote: No 2 amber, S@Syc; No
Medites ranean. 9s@e5c, No red. ss993c, ON
track; No red, s5@S6c. t N 80.
SOC; white, Ne 8. new, 2S,}s@ sc; yellow, new,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-18
COMMERCIAL.

The business of Indianapolis mas been fairly
active since our last weekly review, and
prices, a general rule have been fiuctuating
but little