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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
Clearing Land.
lNew England Farmer ]

1t is sometimes a question with owners OF
farming lands how much they can afford to
do in the way of clearing land of stumps and
stones before commencing 70 pillow and crop
1t. In this, as In everything else, circum-
stances undo 4btedly alter cases. and one
must Use his own best judgment when decid-
ing how Thoroughly be shall fit field for
handling before he begins to use it. On
general principles we should say pat the
land in good order to work before sttempt-
ing to work it. Il does certainly seem fool
ish to pillow and cultivate around a rock for
forty years and then conclude to get It out.
1t is true there is Rauch land in New En-
gland which at the present time. is not
wortb the cost Of clearing but there are
other lands which iSzve a few rocks scattered
here and there over the surface, Just enough
~ prevent the use OF the most i'm proved ma
chiBery, and enough 20 endanger such as is
used. and which might be cleared at o com
paratigely tritiing expense.
Good. strong grass land that can be easily
worked with improved tools ought to be
worth 500 per acre in every favored locality
in New England. 1t certainly ought to be
made to pay the interest on that sum.
Light, sandy soil is not worth so much, as il
requires greater and more continuous out
Jay for manures, nor does sandy land usually
cost as much in market as good loamy grass
land. If we had land that would be worth
a hundred dollars Fer acre after clearing it
we should not hesitate TO spend nearly that
sum In putting it in frst-rate order to
work. for until land is fitted for the use of
improved machinery it can not be apPrais ed
at a very high figure for purposes OF cultiva-
ton. A great many rocks can be sunk where
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
The Black Forest.
London Graphical

As s. matter of fact, The Black Forest is as
easy to traverse as Switzerland; the roads are
infinitely better as they are under the
charge of special association, which takes
great care TO make them the best high ways
in Europe; there is a sign-post at every turn,
a milestone to mark every hundred yards,
there are plenty of clean and well-kept inns,
where carriages and horses can be obtained
at fixed charges, and there is well-regu-
lated Government diligence service for
those who do not care to afford private We
kicle. Then, again, the Sehwarzwalder is 0
plain, straightforward peasant, as honest as
he is obliging. never prone to overcharge,
and ready to do a stranger good turn
without looking for the least consider
ation'-in fact. as complete contrast as
could be imagined to the avarieious Switzer,
who regards every stranger as legitimate
prey-and fleeces him roundly accordingly.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15

sustenauce of the body. Value of the ma
nure, twenty cents. His figures are proba-
bly, too large.
Prices asked by American breeders of
pure-bloOded POlled Angus cattle are as high
as $3.50 for cows and 81 800 for bulls
In Algeria is school for training shep-
herds. They are instructed in all that af-
fects the breeding and rearing of sheep, in
Guiding diseases and their treatment.
If the owner of a COW will realize that I'M
less she pays him $50 yearly in clean cash
she is kept at loss he will soon become in-
terested in the improvement of stock.
During the past year, from seven high grade
cows and one Jersey, for three months, j.
G. Emb-ee, of West Bradford, Pa. sold but
ter and cheese to the value of SS25.13.
Horse-radish is profitable crop to grow,
as it finds sale at from five to six cents per
pound unprepared. tbs bought readily by
manufacturers OF the prepared article.
Bluegrass is somewhat delicate when very
young, but after it gets good hold it usurpS
the soil, cleaning out all other grasses. 1t
should not be pastured the first season.
Professor Riley thinks that immunity
from the ravages of the Hessian fly may be
expected for several years, as the heat and
drought of last summer killed large numbers
of them.
sold by the pound that they vary in weight
from one TO four ounces. The average
weight of a dozen eggs is twenty-three and a
half ounces.
One of the latest theories advanced is that
apples are more nutritious than potatoes,
and in Cornwall England workmen say
they can work better on the fruit than on
the vegetable.
During the week ending February there
were shipped from American and Canadian
ports to England 65i live csttle, 900 sheep,
cases of mutton.
1t is proposed to prevent forest fires by
regularly burning out the underbrusb, etc,
every autumn, while it Is still so small thai
its burning can be easily regulated, and will
not endanger the grown trees.
With population of but % 100000 En-
| gland annually consumes 500, 0OO, 600 pounds
of cheese. while the United SLatos, with a
population OF 50,0000O0, consumes but u.s.
000,0O0 pounds of cheese annually.
Farmers are often at a loss how to clean
an old pork barrel, making it fresh and
sweet. We have seen the following plan
recommended: IL is simply to fill the faint
| ed cask or barrel with fresh earth let IL
stand a couple of days, when this should be
emptied ana more earth put i'll. After two
or three days empty this out, and 10 make
assurance doubly sue, invert the barrel and
burn under it some bits of cloth saturated
with solutions of sulphur or birthstone.
Keep nursing ewes by themselves and give
| scalded bran or oatmeal daily. Sugar beets
or potatoes sliced and sprinkled with quart
of middlings or bran for each eve. will pro-
duce abundant and rich milk. Keep lambs
where they will have plenty of sunshine
| When rough, sheddY wool appears in the
heeces or the wool drops OFF in locks the
sheep are not healthy, or the food has been
too dry and heating. Stop the corn inca
and give some linseed Oil-cake meal; few
| potatoes will be useful if roots are not to bt
had. Give salt frequently and freely.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
A Vaccination Point.
New. York Tribune, March 81
New York Herald, 4th. |

''People make q mistake" said physi-
clan to Herald reporter yesterday, "wht n,
because they have been vaccinated ON one
arm and the vaccination does not take. they
conclude their system will not receive the
virus"
Then you mean to say" said the report
err "that in case the vaccine matter does not
take on one arm the other should be vaccin-
ated?'
THAT is just it, vaccinate myself and
as often as once year. 1 do it for self-pro-
lection, as | am employed in Hospital
which receives many smallpox cases. Re
Gently vaccinated myself on my left arm.
The vaccine matter did not take at all.
Then / determined to vacciDate my right
arm. The trial resulted most successfully,
and | am just getting over about as painful
vaccination take as | ever experienced"
You would advise the public, then, not
to rest satisfied with vaccination which
does not result in sending the virus through
the system?'
Yes. 1 would advise person to keep at
it. If the left arm does not feel the influ-
ence. try the right one, and even if the right
arm shows no sign of the vaccine taking
effect, try some other part of the body.
Where failure will result the first or second
time, success will come on the third OF
fourth trial.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
The Dead and the Living.
[St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The progress of civilization among the
American people is well illustrated by our
effective but human manner of disposing of
aspiTants for the chief executive power of
the country.
In Turkey any one suspected of desire TO
ascend the throne of the Sultan is sewed up
in bag and quietly dropped into the Bos-
phorus. In Russia announcement heirs or
aspiranrs obnoxious to the Emperor are re-
moved to some distant fortress, or even TO
the eternal ice-tields of Siberia, ana some
how or other are never heard of afterward
In England it was for many'centuries the
custom to settle questions about the success
sion by providing quarters for the successor
in the Tower OF London, which in every in
stance proved to be TO him or her the vesti-
bule to the next world.
The Republican party has invented a new
process for that important class who are
always revolving around the throne without
getting on it or staying there. One is muir
dered. Another is placed in honorable Sc
clusioR on the retired list of the Army,
where he will occupy about the same posi-
ton and be OF about as much use as a CEN
tenarian patriarch in a seraglio. Another
is softly seated on one OF the drowsy benches
of the Supreme Court, where, in constitu-
tional security, he can gaze out peacefully
upon the political world for the remainder
of his mortal days. Assuming that Senator
Conkling should consent that his political
future be smothered beneath the robes of
Supreme Judge, who will be left of the Re
publican leaders who so lately bossed and
governed this great Nation?
Cameron, the elder, is superanuated and
his son, although a man of decided execu-
tive ability never pretended to be anything
but a party boss. Sherman has more ene-
mics than friends even in his own party,
and as tue turf men call it, has "Iet down in
his hind quarters" Logan's warmest sup
porters never supposed he was fit for any
thing above Senator. Washourne, who is
really the best man in the party, is openly
accused of treason against Grant and his
Stalwarts at Chicago.
| With Grant and Conkling shelved it is OBJ
vious the field is left to Arthur and Blaine
1t is the old, old combat between trained
and paid regulars On the one side and an un-
disciplined mass on the other. The great
body of the Republican party is no doubt
with Blaine. but what does that amount to
against trained band of Office holding des-
peradoes who reversed a Democratic ma
jority of eight thousand votes in Louisiana
disregarded the statute laws and the Su-
preme Court of the United States defied a
popular majority of three hundred thou
sand votes as well as the moral senti-
ment of the great body of the people of the
United States, seized the Government by
fraud and menace, and have quietly enjoyed
it ever since 1876? The retirement of Grant
and Conkling is tantamount to the nomina-
ton OF either Blaine or Arthur in 1884. 1t
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
what a Farmer Says of Farmers.

A Western farmer writes a keen aud ex-
celIent paper upon The Farmers Con-
science Tor the Unity, religious journal
published in Chicago. He begins with an
emphatic admission that every farmer Is not
altogether honest. as follows: lit is la
mentable fact-and with all humility |, as a
farmer. acknowledge it-that We as a class,
are not as honest as we should be- do not
mean that more liars, murderers and thieves
are found among farmers than IN other
walks of society, but | do mean just
what | say-that with perhaps few notable
exceptions in every neighborhood, dis
honesty is stamped on the transactions OF
most OF US in everyday life. We cheat in q
score Of ways known only 10 the expert far
mer. If we sell a COW, it is always the
poorest one. and the facts of her poverty are
Suppressed. If We sell fat cattle or hogs, we
water and feed them just before entering
town, so that they will weigh well. This
against the express condition that. they
must be five hours OF feed before weighing
LII we take our hogs to market III wagons,
we try 10 be weighed in, and PAID Tor as 50
much 1--we hog. If We are dairymen,
and set the milk III deep cans. we stir II toe
long, for we have found that this causes
tie gauge to show a thicker cream; or, &c
accomplish the same thing, We add little
new milk, and stir ii into the cream Just
before the skinner comes around. At the
great National Dairy Fair at Cedar Rapids
representatives from twenty-three State:
were occupied half day in discussing th'
shortage in cream; and it was unanimously
assented 10 that most OF the farmers need
watching, while many openly said tina
nine-tenths OF them were downright dishon
est" After this frank freeing OF his mind
our author proceeds 10 show the other side
of his subject, and does ample justice Il
farming and farmers
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
BreesIing Swine.
[Rural Messenger. ]

While swine breeding has tt drawbacks
in common with OIL other branches OF rural
industry its average profits are generally
entirely satisfactory to those who conduct
the business with care, system and knowl-
edge OF its requirements 10 secure healthy
pork, as well as to make it prOfitab grass
run is absolutely essential; good, well-seJ
clover field being invaluable to those who
raise pork for market. Closely-penned and
swill-fed porker5 are &n abomination, and
while they may pay the slop-gatherers of our
large cities. disease is apt to soon settle the
question of profit or loss The quality of such
pork is very inferior, being loose-textured,
S fit and yielding to the feel, and very I'M
savory when cooked, while for packing pur-
poses ii Is of no value.
In breeding swine the first thing iSto have
healthy stock. AS we want the greatest
weight of valuable parts with as little oif4l
parts-legs, nose, tails, etc.-those animals
should be chosen for breeding stock which
have heavy jowls. The back should be
nearly strategic, as we'll as broad, and rather
short. In males we like close-made, rather
short animal but in the sows we look for
more length and rOOminess to insure large
and strong filters, while breeders should
never breed their sOws until they are over
six months old, and then such ought to be
kept in the. breeding herd as long as they
Will breed, as they have finer filters each
succeeding time.
In raising meat of any kind for market, it
is the desire OF all experienced breeders to
secure the greatest good from the food given,
and to feed all the animal will consume with
an appetite and properly assimiiate. 1t
takes certain amount of food merely TO
sustain life. and if only this amount be
gwen there is no profit, the food being an
entire loss, and it is only on the amount OF
food in excess OF this that the profit is Sc
cured, which shows conclusively why 1t pays
To feed liberally.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
ONE-MALF OF HER EARNINGS OF SHAME.
Prayer as a aIoralinlng influence.
Troy Times.

4 little boy wanted drum. His mother,
wishing TO give him an impressive lesson,
suggested that if he should pray for il he
might receive one. So at night, when ready
for bed. he knelt down and prayed:
Now lay me down To sleep,
Il want DRUM
pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Il want a drtm.)
II Ithonld die before wake,
II want DRUM
pray the Lord my soul to take.
II want a drum.
His father, who had been let into the
secret, quietly placed drum on the bed.
As the youngster rose, and his eyes fell on
the drum. he exclaimed in an ecstatic man
ner that banished all serious thoughts from
the minds of bis listeners: Where the
devil did that drum come from?' The an
ticipated benefits from that lesson may
probably be considered lost
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
1t Reads Well.
Michigan City Dispatch.

The indianapolis Sentinel is putting
forth strong efforts to give the Demo
crazy of the State a daily that is worthy
of patronage. We have not always agreed
with it on questions of party. policy,
in its tariff views, for instance, and
also its tendency to chip in with the green
back element; but as an exponent of the
vital principles of Democracy, which in
truth may be gathered into one and de-
scnbed as a belief in the people, and opposi-
ton to oligarchy. the Sentinel has never
failed to give clear and certain sound. 1t
is an honest Democratic newspaper, and
many of its editorials are of distinguished
brilliancy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15

A story is told of member OF Theoios
ical Seminary who was so sensitive as to am
suspicion of plagiarism that he never al
lowed himself to make the slightest quots
ton without giving his authority On on
occasion he commenced grace at breakfas
thus: Lord, We thank Thee that we havt
awakened from the sleep which a writer in
the Edinburg Review has called the image
of DEATH"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15

promises to be very close fight and the
one who shows the most brain during the
next two years will carry of the prize.
Blaine has, to-day, undoubtedly the Re
publican masses behind him, but the power
OF the machine and of patronage is enormous
at least in q nominating Convention.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
Maine News.

Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our
columns are sure cure for ague. bilious
ness and kidney complaints. Those who
use them saw they can not be too highly
recommended. Those afflicted should give
them fair trial, and will become thereby
enthusiastic in the praise Of their curative
qualitles.-Portland Argus.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15

to village, often at the risk of his life, but
always sustained by the conviction that
Allah had appointed him TO perform this
work," and the hope that the world would
recognize its importance.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
The New Jersey experiment Station.


The second annual report of the New Jer
sey Experiment Station contains much in
teresting information to those who purchase
chemical fertilizers. This station was es
Iablished by Legislative enactment. the
Governor being the President of its Board
of Managers. The expenses from May 4,
1880, TO January /, 1852, were so, 752 o.
Not only were analyses of fertilizers made
but the experiments performed with cheml-
cal fertilizers, singly and combined, have
been the means of adding valuable infOrma-
ton regarding the methods of application,
euuualeuts and results Obtained, as well as
the cost and comparative value of nearly all
the manufactured fertilizers now on the
market
No estimate can possibly be placed on the
value TO the farmers of New Jersey and
neighboring States of the work performed
This station stands as barrier against fraud,
and as publication is given its examinations
of fertilizers compelS those who manufac-
ture them TO give full value or suffer the
penalty OF az expose. The plan of operation
is very simple one for TIE farmer. A quart
vessel IS procured, into which are placed sam
pies of the fertilizers TO be tested. This is
sent TO the station, with directions contain
ing the name and address of the manufac-
turer, b<and Of the fertilizer, name and adj
dress of the dealer from whose stock the
sample is taken. date of taking sample
selling price, selling weight claimed, actual
weights, copy of analysis or guaranteed
Imposition att Ked to fertilizer and also the
name aud address of the farmer sending the
sample.
Those who purchase fertilizers in New
Jersey can have them analyZed oy address
ing The New jersey Agricultural Station
New Brunswick, r. Every dealer who
sells q bag of fertilizers is compelled by the
: laws of the State to attach a label to it con-
ptaining list of the chemicals and proper
tons, and failure 10 do this subjects the Of
fender TO punishment.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-13
Zen Thompson Surrenders to the San
Antonio Chief of Police,.
and is at Once
Locked Up.
harris is Said TO BE the 18th Victim
OF His Deadly Aim Able
Counsel Secured.
Friends From Austin and Elsewhere
Anxious TO Go On His Bail.
Encouraging Reports of the Crop
Outlook.
Proceedings Of the Smith County
Convention.
Other Interesting State News.
'reccedings OF the smith County
Convention,
Other Interesting State News
Tyler.

Tyler.
special to the Herald,
TYLER, July l2.-The democratic county
convention of Smith county met in Tyler
yesterday. The convention was held under
u call by the chairman OF the eyccnbvc
committee to elect delegates TO the siata
convention only. The delegates are divided
IN tnelr choice Tor congress between Hub.
oard anu Chiffon with the Chiffon dele.
gates IN the majority. Many of the Chill
ton delegates had been selected by urinary
meetings OF the clubs called without proner
notice, and manipulated to secure The
whole delegation from particular club for
Chilton without respect to the rights or do.
mand OF the Hubbard members. The con.
Ventlon, by stretch OF power, gave the
shiiton men minority representation
rom Iyler OF seven delegates, although the
iiHlei precinct was Overwhelmingly for
Hubbard. The Hubbard delegates denied
lne rleht OF the convention to elect dele
gates 10 the congressional convention, be-
cause the county convention, under its pub.
llshed call, was limited to the electian ri
delegates to the state convention. The
ohllton men being in the majority. deter.
mined to proceed to the election of dele
gates 10 The congressional convention. The
Hubbard Aen then respectfully asked that
, they be allowed to select delegates for Huh.
bard IN proportion to his strength in tbe
convention. This was refused Tbo
hubbard men then asked the con,
vention to adjourn for short
time, that they might have u few minute,
Tor consultation, This was refused. where.
upon the Hubbard delegates withdrew
rom the convention and met at the'court.
house A large assemblage of democrat.
from the town and county met with them
at the courthouse, and amid the greatest
enthusiasm they passed resolutions protest
ing. against the action of the majority In
giving the Chiffon men minority reprcsen.
tatlon from the Hubbard clubs and tber
denying the Hubbard men minority
representation in the congressional
convention. The chairman of The der1o
cratic executive committee has called
q convention to meet in Tyler July lGth
which should send up full delegation /,
the congressional convention Governor
Hubbard has over thousand democratic
supporters in Smith county, includinl
such men as J. ii. Brown, w. l.. Uerndon
j. 7. Douglas l.. X. Bonner, L., G. vii
llamS Judge Rcaycs, aud nearly all prrpn
lnent business men IN Tyler and many O
7 the most prominent llep ia the county
| Tyler Is overwhelmnhgiS.Gr .Gr MIN, ANA m,. IL,
true democrats here aic determined N,
longer to submit to tho manipulations o
political wirc,workers and have mon thrus
upon them who are unacceptable.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-13
New Orleans Gup,t.


NEW ORLEANS, July l2.--Gencral Bar.
rios and party visited the custom.house
this morning, and a. noon were formally
received at the city hall by Mayor Shake.
speato and rendered the hospitalities Of the
city. In reply 10 the mayors address O,
welcome, after thanking his honor for the
hospitabc reception, President Barrios snid
he had long desired TO visit this great re.
public. and now for the first time finds
himself able TO enjoy the privilege. and
while here will take every opportunity To
observe and learn our admirable insti.
tutions and our great works OF pro.
gress aud civilization, and TO proiit
by them for the benefit of his own people
and rs Ear aspossible encourage commercial
relations with our city.
President Barrios attended banauet nj
Spanish Fort this evening, rendered by
the citizens Of New Orleans. Federal, state
and city officials were present, also Tor.
eign consuls and many prominent citizens
the governors stan and prominent military
officers. The visitors leave to.morrow
morning In special car by Louisville 4
Nashville railroad for New YORK direct.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-13
Marshall.
Special TO the Herald.

MARSHALL, July 12.-The county con.
yention OF the citizens party met at the
courthouse to-day; j. A. Galloway chair
man, G, +, McGill and G. +. Adams secrc.
taries. September S0th Is the time fixed for
holding the primary elections. Judges. etc
were appointed to conduct the same. ~
The trial OF Ligo Champion is progress.
ing, p''e''SA-
have consulted many farmers as to thu
crop prospects now as compared with last
year, and conclude that corn Is so per cent.
better and cotton IS per cent. with Hatter.
ING prospects for the latter to make a fine
crop. The season is very favorable.
me school tax question is exciting much
attention. and Is being fully discussed.