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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
The Agricultural Darkey.
IBin AZ, in Albania constitutIon.l


But there is not much time to frolic on a
farm at this season of the year, for my alma
nae says, About this time plant corn" and
We are doing it all around these parts. can
sit on my PLACER and look into five farms
and see the darkies and mules and hear 'em,
too, and it's gee and "haw," and ''eit
along, Pete" and "whar you gwine, Nell,
come round dar, tell you and there's no
end 10 this kind of affectonste ne-sided
discourse until the horn blows for dinner,
and then the most knowing mules give a
bray all round. It's astonishing how much
they do know and can be made to understand.
l had big mule who would never give but
one pull at a root unless the darkey who
plowed him hollered out, Rotten root,
tell you'll and then he would break that
root, or something else, for he had conf
dence in the Niger. 1t always did seem
like there was kind of confidential relation
between niggers and mules, a sort of treaty
of peace and equality. for there is no other
animal can stand the darkey and there is no
other human can get along in peace with a
mule. When they are alone together in a
big field with long rows the darkey talks to
him all along the line and the mule listens
in respectful silence, bat If two darkeys are
blowing together they talk to one another
and the mules are snubbed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

diamond, and, when touched, with a little
oil or turpentine the tools are superior for
engraving and also for piercing the hardest
metals.
Probably the largest COW in the world is
owned by Martin s. States, of GRANVILLE
White County. ILL., She is seven years old
aud weighs 5000 pounds. is seventeen and a
half hands high, ten feet six inches long
from the nose to the end of the tail, eight
feet nine inches around the girth, twenty
six inches around the forearm and thirty
one inches across the hips.
Sows sometimes devour their young,
which indicates that something is wrong in
the management. They do not do SO from
lack of maternal instinct, but because the
demands of nature have not been complied
with an supplying them with salt, charcoal,
wood ashes and variable diet SOws con-
fined in pens have no opportunities for graft
flying themselves. and if vices crop out it is
not always their fault
A New York farmer states that he uses
only coal tar to prevent the ravages of the
potato beetle. He puts a gallon of tar in a
tub, over which he pours boiling water,
which is allowed to settle and cool. This
is sprinkled over the vines with an ordinary
sprinkler. A gallon of tar. costing sevety-
five cents, suffices for several acres of pota-
toes.
Artificial incubation has been practiced
from the earliest times in the East, chiefly
in China, India and Egypt In the latter
country large manuals, or ovens, holding
| from 40 600 to 80 900 eggs are still used fol
the purpose, and the villagers bring theil
eggs in the expectation OF receiving, efter 8
| lapse of twenty-one days, 200 chicks FOL
every 300 eggs deposited.
The following method of softening putty
| - FIJI 70 h.
remove from sashes: Take soda or potash
the latter being preferable-and dissolve i
in water and mix the solution with frest
| burnt, fresh slaked lime. After the mixture
has stood for time pour off the clear iuiC
and bottle for use. Putty moistened will
this fluid quickly softens and is easily re
moved.
As the season grows warmer the horse
should be fed sparingly on corn. Oats, wei
crushed, make the best grain feed, as corr
contains too much oil, and produces fat anC
animal heat with little muscle. 1t oats ar,
moistened previous to feeding the demand
for water after feeding will be lessened, anC
too much water at that time often carrie
| the grain from the stomach into the mites
tines, where it can not be digested. Corr
often causes sweating when given in larg
quantities.
| We sometimes hear complaints about
poor patch of clover, especially where tn
land is poor or has been hard rum" HaT
row in clover without any other crop, to-
dress with manure, and the results are al
that could be desired, especially in a dr.,
| season. This is good way to "bring up
poor or worn out land. 1t should no longe
be necessary to ADJ Use any American fsrme
to SOW plaster in spring on young clover
He knows it pays, and therefore follows tn
practice.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
broom Corn.

This crop Is becoming 8 very important
one, and ii is used for several purposes, thus
afording larger margin for profit than for
merly, when its brush alone was in demand.
Broom corn requires a good rich soil, and
can be planted in this latitude as late as the
middle of June; bat it is best to put 1t IN
as soon after frost as possible. About two
and one-half quarts seed viii answer for one
acre. The ground is prepared the same as
for corn. 1t enoures drought better than
corn, and, possessing a very dense foliage, 1t
protects itself, to certain degree, against
weeds and therefore requires less cul-
tivation. A good yield of brush is
about one-third of s. ton per acre. As
the labor required for its cultivation is
but little it probably is as profitable as
other crops which need much attention
from planting or sowing to harvesting. The
bush is cut in green state and cured uh-
der well-ventilated sheds. The seed makes
a valuable addition 10 corn when mixed and
fed TO stock, especially when ground.
For poultry il is one of the best, particular
ly for young chicks. The yield of seed is
equal to, if not greater, than that of corn,
and requires less expense to harvest. Com
pared with wheat as a crop, considering ex-
pense, broom corn is more profitable, and II
is always salable. Last year the demand IN
some sections exceeded the supply, the
price reaching $ll5 per ton.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

and unnecessary. When time Is an object,
or facilities for isolation are not present,
then test incubation must be resorted to.
For the purpose a worthless horse, or, bet
ter still, an ass, is inoculsted, and a few
days suffice to decide whether CHAMBERS is
present II the result Of the incubation is
afirma i've, the experimental animal mani
tests symptoms generally at the 81 at of in
oculation, which cause it little If any dis
comfort, and it is rs at once destroyed. as is
also the suspected horse. BY this precau-
tionary procedure, many horses, possibly
those of an entire regiment Of army corps,
may be saved from peril, and human lives
preserved from a loathsome and fatal dis
ease. In calculating the processes OF dis
ease, in framing preventive measures, in in
vestigating the spread OF contagious disor-
ders, as well as in perfecting modes of cure,
and the most humane methods of surgical
operation, experiments on living creatures
are absolutely necessary, for their own in
terests no less than for those of mankind.
Veterinary medicine and surgery are based
on humanity no less than on utility, and
their aim is TO remove or alleviate pain
among the animals placed under the do
minioR of man. BY experiments in pa
thology, disease and mortality have been
vastly diminished, and continued expert
ments in the same direction will cause fur
Their diminution. If mankind benefits, so
do animals. A discovery which will avert
disease in one will probably do so IN the
others; every advance Of knowledge is a
boon to all. To prohibit resort to experI-
mental pathology would be at once to doom
creatures which we are bound to protect TO
the endurance through all time of terrible
suffering from diseases that might otherwise
be vanquished. Abhorring cruelty in every
shape, and DESTROYS of abolishing it By every
possible means. must nevertheless depre-
cate the attempt 70 place a barrier across the
path pursued in pathological investigations
on animals.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
The Rhubarb Plant.

No garden is complete unless it contains a
few rhubarb plants. They are often grown
on the edges of walks, and sometimes near
the fences, when but a few are wanted. Rhu-
barb is excellent for pies, and when pre-
pared the same as when ready for pies it can
be put away in jars and preserved for future
use. Roots sent out this year will produce
good-sized stalks next year The plants will
do best il supplied with dressing of we'll
rotted manure and an occasional watering
with soapsuds. Plaster also benefits them,
as likewise will common salt. In dividing
the roots for planting a portion of the crown
should remain with each section. Rhubarb
needs good cultivation, and the soil should
be kept mellow. Mulching also assists the
plants.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
The Supreme Authority.
springfield Republican,

The Roman Catholic Provincial Council,
just closed at Cincinnati, uttered sound doc
trine when, justifying laborers in union for
self-protection, il condemned the practice of
Labor Unions in compelling men to work
whether they will or no. for price fixed by
the Unions. Here, as so often, the Church
comes to the aid of individual rights and
public order. The same Council warned
the readers of its pastoral that, according to
the Church, power does not come from the
people-meaning that the powers that be
are ordained of God" and the people are
but instruments of Providence. This was
written IN particular application to the Irish
disturbances and with specific disapproval of
the Irish World
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
The White Race.
Richmond Dispatch.l

The white race includes a good many peo-
pie who are not Anglo-Saxons. The Irish,
the French, the Italians, the Portuguese and
others are not Anglo-Saxons. Nor are the
Isrealites.- Yet all these among US belong
TO the superior race, which is best known as
the the Caucasian" and are best described
by that word. We suppose that d majority
of the white people Oh the United States are
not Anglo-Saxons. Webster confines the
Anglo-Saxon to a very few people, but says
a Caucasian is ANY one belonging to the
ndo-European race and the white races
originating near Mount Caucasus"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Bonded Debts.
[G. A. Grow.l

81 have never yet heard of railroad pay
ing Off its bonded debt except in one case,
where the Delaware and Lackawanna did
So and then, when the panic of 1878 came,
got permission to put the bonds back. The
whole SYSTEM" said Mr.. Grow, Consists in
mourning bonded debt, and when it ma
lures get permission from the Legislature to
issue what they call consolidated bonds,
meaning the old debt and several millions
of new debt besides, and that is the story of
all the railroads in America"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Much Truth in Small Compass.
[Cincinnati Gazette. REM

The three Territories which are billed to
be set up as States-to-wit, New Mexico,
Washington and Dakota-have an aggregate
population of 3l5, 600. OF the population of
New Mexico, which is the most populous of
the three, It may be said with safety that if
all of that which is native were swept off by
deluge, it would be filter for State. OF
all it may be said with reasonable certainty
that each State will be owned and run by a
railroad corporation, endowed with grant
of most of the LAND
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Mrs. Polk.

President Folks widow was born in 1903.
and married Polk, then a member of the
Tennessee Legislature, when she was nine
teen years DID, She joined the Presbyterian
Church in 1884, and upon entering the
White House in 1S45 made it her first bust
ness to abolish dancing there. She kept out
OF politics. and was one of the most digni-
fed, exemplary and popular women ever
known in Washington. At about the time
of her leaving that city her husband bought
from Felix Grundy the house and spacious
grounds in Nashville which were thence.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

Nineteenth Century,


Chambers, as everyone knows, is q highly
contagious disorder of solipeds, and is now
very prevalent in the United Kingdom. In
London it is especially so, and causes great
losses to owners of horses. 1t is readily
communicable between the horse and ass
species, less so between these and other
species, but man is frequently infected. 1t
is q most repulsIve mslady, aud is incura-
BILE. Very much of our knowledge respect
ing it is entirely due to experiments Oh
living animals. Not infrequently II
manifests itself in a chronic form.
and with such vague symptoms Though
it is. nevertheless, as contagious as if these
were well markedly that the most skillful
veterinary surgeon can not tell for certain
whether it Is the disease or only an ordi-
nary cataTrh. If it be CHAMBERS, then to al
low the animal to live is to endanger the
life of every horse and man who came in
contact with it; while to destroy it, If the
malady is not contagious, would be cruel
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

forth known as ''Polk Plsce" and there she
has lived in retirement ever since his death.
His grave is in the yard near the house; and
with her own hands she has kept his cham
Der in order, with his books, table, papers
and writing materials just as he left them.
She inherited from her father a considerable
property, and President Polk left her well
provided for; but she suffered losses In the
War, and now, in her childish old age is
without an income sufficient for comfort
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
The Bernhardt Tonic.
baltimore Gazette I

Matrimony as a cure for pulmonary con-
sumption is not only new idea, and as a
remedy will be undoubtedly preferred by
many to cod liver oil and nauseous hypo-
phosphites. This is the view Sara Bernhardt
seems to have taken of the matter. Three
months ago she burst blood vessel at &c
nOa, and medical men spoke graveiy of
tubercles in the lungs, and days that, like
poor Haidee's, were to be brief but delight
full. Now all this is changed by the magic
of Hymen's torch, and Sara is busy at work
again. Long may she live and prosper.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
BE Sensible

=; You have allowed your bowels to become
habitually costive, your liver has become
torpid, the same thing ais your kidneys,
and you are just used up. Now By sensible,
get package Of kidney Wort, take it faith
fully and soon yOu will forget you've got
any such organs for you will be q well man.
A lhanV Aious
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
A Grave Question Asked in Massachusetts.

If in 1873 there were 8, lib divorces granted
in New England, and $40 in 1880 by Msins
alone, while the ratio of divorce to marriage
in Massachusetts during the past twenty
years has risen from in 81 to l IN 2l. Il
must be plain to the most stolid that some
change is desirable, and, indeed, imperative.
But what shall it be, and how effected?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
PRESS OPINIONS.
Beecher and Jones.
New Orleans Picayune. |

He is the exponent of the reaction that
has set in after twenty years of worship at
the shrine of African idolatry. Helper
wanted the negro shipped back to Africa
the moment he was tree. or even extermi-
mated. Beecher is rapidly coming around,
though from the opposite direction, to the
doctrine enunciated by Senator Jones, of
Nevada, in his speech on the Chinese BILL
TIE line of evolution of his philosophy
might yet bring him to the advocacy of
slavery.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

The Chief Secretary for Ireland has writ
ten Smythe, expressing deep sympathy in
his dreadful afffi0tion by the cruel murder
of his sister-in-law. The authorities are
straining every effort to discover the perpe..
traitors OF the crime.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

awakens all ITS latent strength; il will assist
FERTILIZERS by being thrown upon them. 1t
works rather indirect than direct. Ii enters
into decomposition of vegetation, adding
materially to its quality. 1t keeps the land
much moister, for it is natural absorbent
of moisture, which it imparts TO soil par
ticles.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
salt on Land.


Says the Massachusetts, Agricultural So
ciety: salt has the property of fastening
the maturizg OF all grain crops; that wheat
on salted lsSd will ripen six to ten DAYS
earlier THAI on unsalted land, all other con
ditiOns being equal that it increases the
yield from - to 80 per cent; that il sti fens
the straw ana prevents rust and smut that
II checks. II Il does not entirely prevent, the
sravages of tbe,chinch bug. and that there is
danger of a mans pocket permitting hial to
70 put too much salt on his land, as two
bushels per acre willinsure no gnin crop"
Says the New York Herald: Sow salt bread
cast, from two 20 six bushels per acre. 1t
Is said TO prevent rust almost invariably
Beng an excellent fertilizer, it is worth a
trial" Says l. T., in American Agricui-
turist; while on some soils, salt produces
no apparent Eesuits, on others il ia Of
marked benefit. Its utility can only be
learned by experiment. It often las an in
direct action in enabling the plant to take
Ep silica, and it strengthens the straw. Its
eject in preventing the growth Of those
minute fVngi which cause rust and snut
is sometimes beneficial. After cold winter
has puta stop to the growth of the plants
salt sown az the rate of FIVE or six bushels TO
the acre often increases the health of the
plant, and Improves the appearance of the
grain"
A farmer friend of mine sowed tyo BUSH
els OF salt per acre on his wheat two years
ago, and harvested three bushels to his
neighbor's one. They ridiculed his sowing
salt but when ii saved his crop from rust
and smut they were ready to praise. Theirs
suffered terribly from both these trouble<
Their fields were near together; my friends
wheat was of prime quality. One busheI of
salt per acre has been known to destroy
every insect on the acre.
Now, salt is not strictly a fertilizer, but
rather has mechanical action on the soil
1t brings out ell the powers of the land,
stimulates it TO do its best. 1t loosens and
disintegrstes it, thus opening it up. 1t
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
COMPARING MAINE WITH NEW JERSEY.

Let us begin with population first In 1900
when Maine was a District, she had only Isl, 7sg
Inhabitants and New jersey 1s3, SIS. In half
century she had passed New Jersey, for in 1850
Maine had $50, lt9 people and New Jersey only
ASS. SIS. In 1851 prohibition began its work In
the thirty years from 1850 10 1850 Maine only in
creased her population 81 ~ per cent, while New
Jersey advanced hers ever l31 per cent Maine
lost some b. immigration, but very little more
than New Jersey. In 1870 there were Just sO5 more
than there Were natives OF New jersey out OF her
territory. How many there are now we have as
yet no means of knowing, but certainly not
enough to account for the lack OF comparative in
crease, nor has foreign migration built New Jer-
sey. There are 9O9S natives there TO SOS O76 IN
Maine, as shown by recent census bulletin
In 1850 Maine was ahead IN her religious facili-
ties She had 9l5 Churches, and New Jersey had
only Sl3 Maine tiled the benefcent power OF
prob ibition. In 1850 she had increased the mum
Der of her Churches IL per can't, while New jersey
under license had an increase Oh So per cent. the
Church property of Maine was in value pol rser
cent. and that OF New JerSes 80 per cent while
the Church sittings in Maine had increased only
u per cent, against en- increase of 65 per cent in
New jersey. And Yes we are told cOOlly that "uO
State in this Union has prospered so much as
Maine has during the last twenty years" and
that prohibition has contributed ITO the material
wealth, happiness and prosperity Of the State
perhaps the happiness is there. ITO be drunk is
to be happy" says the old saw. The percentage
of arrests for drunkenness In the principal cities
of that State. so much over that of the cities of
New Jersey, 1niers large amount Of that kind of
happiness and as Neal Dow and the rest tell rs
that there is little open drinking of liquor and
secret drinking has not taken its place, the only
solution is to be found in the assumption that the
here is carbon hydrate instead OF an oxyhy-
drate. and really whisky.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
LET Charles Have His Cbop.

The last anecdote of Victor Hugo concerns
Madeline Brohan, and the economy which
is part of the poets character. Charles
Hugo, who was paying court to M'lle Bro
han, received orders to confine himself to
three shirts week. He disobeyed, and he
punished nina chop was withdrawn from
his breakfast fare. After Hermann" when
Hugo, I'm raptures over his "Dona SOL"
kissed her and said: "Ask me something,
anything, what you like" she duplicated:
'Let Charlie have his chop again."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Infiamed Udders.

Connecticut FaTmer.I
The Inflammation and swelling of cows
uddeTs when they drop their calves is a
fruit IN cause OF trouble and loss, and it ap-
pears oftener IL extra cOwj than in poor
ones. One or two teat5 are often ruined in
this way, and not infrequently the whole
udder is destroyed so as TO make the CO VS.
worthless. The most Of such cases come
from lack of care, especially at the time the
cow is dried. 1t is often the case that when
a COW is giving little milk and it is thought
best to dry her, her owner simply stops milk
ing her and pays no further attention 10 her
udder. instead OF following a careful system
by which she would be dried gradually.
Then the liquid part of the milk is absorbed
by the cows system but the solids remain
in the reservoirs of the udder, clog
up the smaller ducts which become hard.
and when the flow of milk begins again they
are iDfamed and swell and can never be re
stored. These causes are reasonable and
natural 1t is said that there is seldom a
case OF infia amation of the udder of a COW
where the calf has run with the COW until
she weGns it herself. The natural instinct
teaches the COW not to wean her calf sudden
~, fox her own and her calls sake. And the
man or womsn who has charge of COW at
the tiEne of drying her up should carefully
draw the milk from the udGer before il be
comes so hard as to obstruct the milk ducts
and remain there to destroy the useful
ness az the COW. 1t is not neces
sary that a COW at the time of
drying her up should be MIXED dry,
but so as to draw off anything which might
harden and greatly injure or destroy the
COW. Again, cow that yields great guam
tity of milk often suffers from the crowding
into the udder before the calf is dropped
and If SS-e'is not taken to relieve her the
milk cakes and seriously infames the udder.
III the cow is all right when the calf takes
his first meal there is generally little trouble,
but even then a cold may settle in these dis
tended EliHl veins, and there is always more
or less danger until the calf IS a week old
and the milk flow becomes regular. a little
attention to these matters will sage many
valuable cows