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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-14

~ five pounds. Encouraged by this, we
sheared the other twelve and from the lot
got fifty four pounds of wool. which We sold
along with other wool at the same price
Some of the advantages we think, from
raising fall lambs would be the great demand
as early lambs for the butcher. The lambs.
learning 10 eat so soon. do not rely on milk
SO much for their support, thus
lieyiDg the dams frOm such a drain
on their system, and coming through
the winter in good condition, go on
grass without checking their growth. as is
very often the case with spring lambs when
weaned and turned on dry feed, as must nee
essarily be done in that season of the year;
besides the wool will more than pay for
what they cons ume through the winter. as
am satisfied was true in my case. The ewes
came through the winter in fine condition,
and when / weaned the lambs they were in
much better condition than / ever had ewes
when the lambs were weaned i'll the fall, and
sheared an average of lbs pounds per
fleece a lot of thirty-two yearlings, win
tered with the ewes, clipped an average of
8 316 pounds per head, all nicely washed
wool, and all sold at market prices would
say to those who are prepared to properly
care for fall lambs to give it a trial. My
sheep are high grade MeTinos.
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At tho .Zoon ir paris.
IN. Y. Witness. !

l.
In the Jardn des Plantes, in Paris which
is something like our Geological Garden, a
very exciting incident happened the other
day.
A little boy of five years old, reaching too
far over the rails of the white bears den to
give them bit of cake, overbalanced him
self and fell in. His nurse, who had been
looking the other way for minute, missing
the little fellow and hearing the cry of af-
fright setsup a shrek ten times as piercing,
wringing her hands and bemoaning the child
as dead. The two great clumsy bears were
good deal puzzled at the event They shifted
and snufied at The boy, and finding he was
not cake, retired to consider now to treat
him.
Now was the moment to save the poor
child, but who was to do it? The company
in the gardens consisted chiefly of old people
summing themselves on the benches, babies
and nurses
All at once something blue came in sight,
"a young workman in his blouse with his
tools over his shoulders. In a
twinkling he threw down bis tools
and called for rope. Then down into
the den he caused himself to be lowered. just
between the child and the savage beasts. He
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FARM NOTES.

From seven to ten sheep can be kept prof
itabIy on the land required for one COW.
When bens in their prime have ceased
moulting and do not lay try feeding them
meat.
A beef carcass weighing 400 pounds, and
a mutton 100 are the standards in the British
market.
If ounce orchard be we'll managed it
will last for forty yearsor more, and the crop
is usually sure one.
In crossing with Cotswold sheep much de-
ponds on the capacity of the eve to feed her
lamb. as the lambs from such cross are large
in size and grow rapidly.
Under the same apparent circumstances
many crops do not yield so we'll as Others
but if careful examination be made the fault
will often be found to be favoritism in Civ
ing care to the growing plants.
An Iowa farmer thinks there are lessons to
be learned from the three wet seasons coming
in succession that will strike deep into the
memory Of all who have struggled with
water-soaked fields and mud They should
warn farmers 10 drain their lands or seed
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Cattle Plague Increasing.

[Odessa Letter to the London Times.
The cattle plague is in Bessarabia endem-
ical, but even there, in some districts, it is at
present raging more violently than usual
This is especially the case over q large area
by the River Pruth, of which the frontier
town of ONgheny is the center and where.
in many places. the rate OF mortality among
the animals has reached, and in some instan-
ces even exceeded. so per cent Notwthstand-
ing this state ofthIngs, scarcely any measures,
either OF 4 precautionary nature or fOT the
purpose of stamping Out the distemper, APP
pear to have been taken. In some
neighborhoods a veterinary surgeon is
never seen. In all, animals go freely from
infected 20 uninfected. and, oftener than
not, the skins of those which have died of
the disease are stripped of, and the bodies
left above ground TO putrefy in the open air.
In consequence of the vicinity OF the plague
to RoumanIa it has been carried
across the Pruth into that country.
But there the authorities act with more
energy. They are said to have estab-
lished quarantine on their side of the river.
and at the Roumanian frontier town of
Neemshen, at which place there is a Custom
House. they are reported TO have removed
the bridge which there crossed the Pruth, and
to have forbidden all communication with
Russia. So that not only are cattle and
goods-especially goods likely to carry in
lection with them, as hides, wool, etc.-in-
teTulSleu, out also the puDuC anu postal
correspondence. This is, of course, done
with the object of localizing the plague.
Nor is that ALL Orders have been given to
have every animal shot the moment il shows
any symptoms of disease, and the entire
carcases, includingEthe skin, burned. In
order to facilitate this being done, the
Roumanian Government is said to have
undertaken to pay for every hide burned
on the body of an animal which
has died of the disease, and for the whole
animal, including the hide. when shot.
have remarked that cattle disease is endem-
iCal in Bessarabia. 1t may be said to be
more or less so throughout Southern Russia,
and not merely confined to cattle, but ex.
tended also to sheep and pigs. Hence the
Sultan's Government has Just interdicted
the importation of Russian sheep into Tur-
key, and the German Government the inn
pOrtation of Russian pigs into Germany. AS
regards the latter animal. it may be men
toned that in this part of the world his stv
is usually purposely placed next to that
part of the yard garden or field commonly
used n water closet As to washing him,
that is never thought of, nor could that we'll
De expected in land in the country dis.
tricts of which the majority of the horses
are seldom or never curried.
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What Last Season Taught.

That tomato plants in the same bill with
squashes, cucumbers and pumpkins will not
keep off the bugs. That an application of
air Stacked lime will not keep bugs away
from vines, cabbage plants, radishes, turnips
or egg plants. That saltpetre water will
not accomplish anything in that line. That
coal oil for that purpose is also failure.
That good application, repeated three
times, of reasonably strong liquid ma
nure does we'll, and that an APP
plicat ton of fine sulphur sprinkled over the
plants aud vines will greatly help in getting
rid OF these pests. That reasonable appli-
cation of wood ashes is very beneficial in
garden, but that it is comparatively an easy
matter 10 make the application too strong,
espe cially if the ashes are unleached. That
it is useless to plant sweet corn before the
ground gets warm we'll as the weather, as
corn planted three weeks later will come TO
maturity just quick with the same soil
AID cultivation. That there is a very decided
advantage in good. sound quick ger
minatiDg seed corn, and this will be evident
from the time the corn begins to sprout un-
til it natures. That peas will not do as we'll
on new, rich grounds as on old. That can
raise more aud better Lima beans by plant
ing in a row, the plants six inches, than in
hills with three or four beans in hill. That
il pays to soak sorghum seed twenty-four
hours in water before planting. That tomato
vines will grow faster and blossom quicker if
a little man ure is worked in to the hills than
If set out without.
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fore they can have an opportunity to seed =
sity for so doing occurs, and the next
business will be TO destroy the plants
by shading with some other crop, and
pulling OF digging them out, which is not
often necessary. except when helds are en-.
tiTely over-run. But the continued use OF
the mower is one OF the best remedies to try,
although il REQUIRES the abandonment OF the
field for season That, however, is the pen
atty the farmer paws for the intrusion, and
is not heavy compared with other tried
methods.
1t might be claimed without much exag-
geration that he growth OF single thistle
on a farm is the beginning Of decay, and
should cause as much alarm as the entrance
of an epidemic in a community. As sani
tary measures are needed in the case of cpl.
demic. so is cooperative effort required to
prevent the spread of thistles.
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Corn Fodder.

When the farmer has stored up the ears Of
corn in his bins he has laid by only two
thirds OF the feeding value of his crop. The
stalks that bore the corn hold another third
Yes, the stalks, or corn fodder. as il is called
is worth nearly or quite one-half the grain
for feeding stock. Governor Boutwell,
estimates the value of his fodder at one
half the value of his hay that is
if hay sold at $40, fodder was worth $40, and
for every ton of fodder used he sold one
ton of hay. DR.. Sturtevant estimates his
fodder at six-tenths the value of his hay;
that is, when he sold his hay at SD his corn
fodder brought him in cash $500 a ton.
value regard it only as a necessary evil, and
for " hen huskiDg time comes with as much
certainty as the grain. The few who have
large barns and only moderate fields OF corn
can stow it away loosely in their barns, but
this method is not generally feasible. To
handle it easily bind it near the middle
into small, compact bundles, tying with rye
straw or tarred Irvine. After a dozen or so
are tied set them up carefully in shocks. As
soon as possible after husking carry them
under sheds or into barns, and have them
ricked or stacked convenient to the barn or
cattle yards The great essential is to keep
them from being washed and bleached by
the rains. BY exposure the carbohydrates,
the nutritious parts are changed 10 fiber
DIR. Lawes is authority for the statement that
dried fodder loses nothing but the water in
the drying. Therefore its value is equal to
that of green fodder. and it can be restored
to its original condition by soaking in water.
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Two Lots of Lambs Per Year.
fCorresDondence Ohio Farme-


In the spring of 1882, after washing our
sheep, supposing that no evil would result
from il, We let the ram run with our breed
ing ewes (then sucking lambs dropped from
March ID to April 15) until shearing. In the
fall, about November l, fifteen or eighteen
OF these same ewes dropped lambs, the re-
suit of letting the ram run with them
from washing to shearing time. When
We began feeding for the winter we fixed
place in one of the stables so that the
lambs could enter and the ewes could not
and sprinkled some bran and salt in the
trough. Very soon the lambs learned to go
there, and In short time they would run
for their pen TO get their rations as greedy as
a litter of pigs for mess Of milk. We fed
them literally through the winter and they
came out in the spring in good condition
Encouraged by their nice appearance we
turned our ram with the ewes again on the
9th of May, and will try our luck again with
fall lambs. At washing time this spring
We washed the lambs, thinking we
would shear one or two, and il thought
profitable would shear the whole lot. The
first one clipped a fleece that weighed exact
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Canada Thistles.
| Philadelphia Record. |

The thistle is the most annoying weed that
intrudes upon farm. Hard to exterminate
and tenacious OF life, it propagates wherever
plant of any kind can secure a foothold
and once in possession of a field the cost OF
its eradication is sometimes greater than the
value OF the field itself. lt is perennial
plant, with annual stems, and reproduces
itself from seeds and roots, and IL is due TO
its power of rapid reproduction that il is
enabled to withstand the farmers attacks so
successfully.
The thistle is now receiving the attention
of many experienced and practical agricul-
turists, among them Mr.. Archibald Stone of
BiDghamton, n. Y, who states that no plant
is so entirely dependent on sunshine as the
Canada thistle Grow them in mass, or so
closely together that they will completely
shade the ground, and as fast as the leaves
get matured sufficiently to begin to restore
to the plant the nutriment it has cost the
plant to produce them they will be thrown
IN the shade by the constantly increasing
mass of leaves on the top; they will die for
want OF sunshine the stems become naked
and the roots become exhausted while in
bloom, and your ground will have to be re-
seeded before another crop grows. If the
thistles are so scattering that they will not
shade the ground, corr, oats or clover will
have to be sown.
In his article to the Husbandman Mr..
Stone states that ripening a crop of seed is
exhaustive TO any crop, yet TO think of get
ting rid Of Canada thistles by moving after
they had ripened a crop of seed and burning
It seems to be too slow process for this age.
Other writers have recommended different
methods for exterminating the thistle and
claim that individual efforts alone are useless.
As the down is easily carried by the winds to
considerable distances the cleaEest fields are
as liable to the iDfiiction as the foulest. No
matter how careful farmer may be
TO keep the pest OF, his efforts will be
thrown away il his adjoining neigbbors do
not exercise the same care as himself The
work Of destruction can be done at the most
suitable periods by co operative action. and
each individual will be as much interested in
the work upon his neighbours field as upon
his own. The distribution of the seeds must
be prevented in preference to anything else,
and much labor may be saved in so doing
b. moving the thistles when young, and be
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GEAET's recent letter to Porter was noble
thing in its way. Its conclusion will bear
frequent reproductions. He says:
This very short, hastily written and incomplete
summary shows why and when my mind under
went change. j have doubt now but the
change would have taken place in 1867 IL had
then made an investigation. l regret now that
did not understand your case then as do now.
Your whole life since your trial, as well as your
service before, disproves the great burden of
the charges then sustained by Court Mar
tial. As long have a voice 1t shall be raised
in yoursuppOrt, without any reference 10 the effect
upon me or others. Your restoration to the Army
simply, would regard a very inadequate and
unjust reparaiion. While men-one at least
have been restored to the Army because OF their
gallaniry and wounds after conviction and sem
tence, not only To be dismissed but to be confined
in a Penitentiary, and when there is no doubt of
their guilt. and given all their pay for the years
they were out Of the service, can see no reason
for your having less. hope for you thorough
vindIcation, not only by Congress, but in the
minds OF your countrymen.
Faithfully yours, L. S. GRANT.
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CENTRAL SHERIDAN never wants q carriage for
himself. He never uses one in Washington If he
can avoid it, II the day is fine he walks. II not,
he rides in street car. When his war-horse, Win
chester, died, few years ago, says the Washington
Post, mis- love for horse flesh went out OF him. A
gentleman who knew him well in boyhood says
that the first time Sheridan ever bestrode horse
was when another boy pat him on a fiery colt, un-
saddled and unbridled and told him to hold on by
his knees. The animal galloped across the country
for several miles and then came 10 q halt; and
sheridan was still holding on.
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did not lose a second in seizing the half
stunned creature and with eyes still fixed on
the bears he shouted. up, comradesi upi"
But then the bears became irritated. Two
people in their own special den was past
joke, and with one accord they shambled mp
TO their visitors, growing angrily; but they
were just few seconds too late.
The nurse snatched her boy with tears; the
crowd mainly gathered around the workman
TO shake his hand and call him Brave fell
low" but he only smiled, picked up his tools,
and walked of.
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NO USE FOR THEM.
Concerning Certain Relics of the Past-DOgs
that Have Had Their Day.

Georpe stephenson's Rocket and the magnif-
cent locomotives OF to day built upon the same
general principle, yet the machine with which the
great engineer astonished his age is interesting
now only as illustration of the beginning of the
invention. There were plasters with holes in them
long before BENsoN's CAPCINE POROUS PLAs-
TER surprised both the public and the physicians
and the triumph of the Capclne is founded upon
the partial successes the utter failure of its
decessors. Everything of value in the old porous
plaster is retained in the Capcne; but at this point
ali comparison ends, and contrast begins. For
example:
The old plasters were slow in their action; the
Capcine is quick and sure.
The old plasters lacked the power to do more
than to impart slight, temporary relief in cases
easy of treatment; the Capcne penetrates the sys-
tenn and permanently cures the troubles for which
it is recommended.
The old plasters depended for any good results
they might attain, upon an accident of their max
ers and the naked faith of their wearers: the Ben
sons reaches its ends by means of the scientific
combination Of the medicinal ingredients
which il contains.
III DrieI, TIE Olu pidcteIs. Aht ctcphShSOh Wis
carded engine are switched off the track. while the
Benson's 60 on its way winning golden opinions
from all sorts of people.
Yet in this very fact lies the leading danger to
the people who buy and use this reliable and scen-
tifc remedy. Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays
virtuen Imitation is the concession failure makes
to success. Benson's Plasters parodied in name
and style.
Beware OF swindles. The genuine have the word
CAPCINE cut in the center. Price % cents. Sea-
bury & Sohnson Chemists. New York.
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KAHoKA. No. Feb. Q. 1880


purchased five bottles of your Hop Bit
tiers of Bishop & Co. last fall, for my daugh-
ter, and am well pleased with the Bitters.
They did her more good than all the medi-
cine snc has taken for six years
w. t. MCCLURE.
The above is from very reliable farmer,
whose daughter was in poor health for seven
or eight years, and could obtain no relief
until she used Hop Bitters. She is now in
as good health as any person in the country.
We have large sale, and they making
remarkable cures. w. II. BISHOP & Co.
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The Day That is Coming.

BY WILLIAM NORRIS
Then a man shall work and bethink him. and
jOice in the deeds of his hand.
Nor vet come home in the even too faint and weary
TO stand.
Man in that time a-coming shall work and have no
fear
For to-morrow's lack of earning and the hunger
wolf anear.
q strange new wonderful justice, But for whom
shall We gather the gain?
For ourselves and for each OF our fellows, and no
hand shall labor in vain.
Then all mine and all thine shall be ours ana no
more shall any man crave
For riches that serve for nothing but to letter
friend for n slave.
And what wealth shall then be left Us when none
shall gather gold
To buy his Irieud in the market, and pinch and
pine the sold?
Nay what save the lovely city. and the little house
on the hill,
And tie wastes and the woodland beauty, and the
happy fields we till,
And the homes OF ancient stories. the tombs of the
mighty dead
And the wise men seeking OUT marvels, and the
poets teeming head.
And the painters hand OF wonder and the mar
Yelous fddle-bow,
And the banded ehoirs OF music-all those that do
and know.
For all these shall be and all mems nor shall
any lack = share
OF the toll and the gain ofliying in the days when
the world grows fair.
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DR.. Prices Special Flavoring Extracts are
made from the fruit, and have their grateful,
agreeable taste, without the turpentine odor
which is observed in those extracts usually
sold, made from poisonous oils, acids and
taste sharpened by cayenne pepper. We
advise those who wish choice, Pure Flavors,
to buy DR. Prices
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Or the late Captain Mayne Reid the London
Standard says: There was not word in his books
which u schoolboy could not safely read aloud to
his mother and SISTERS" aud the Pail Mall Gazette
adds; "He has gone somewhat out of fashion Of
late the mores the pity for the schoolboy of
the period
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MRs. MORTON, vile of the United States Minister
to France, has quite recovered from the effects of
the accident which lately beiell her. She was in
haling medicated vaDor, TO cure an affection OF
the throat when the inhalnG apparatus got out of
order and exploded. Her mouth and face were
badly cut. bruised ana scalded, and she con-
fined to her room for several days. but all traces Of
the injuries inflicted have now disappeared.
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All poisonous matter is carried of from
the system by Samaritan Nervine. sl.50.
For nine years my daughter had epileptic
fits" writes j. N. Marshall of CRANKY, Mo,
Samaritan Neryine" cured her. At drug
gists.
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AMONG the good old people OF Albany, N. Y.
are John Murphy and his wife. They were both
born in Ireland in 179S. Mrs. Murphy's first hus-
band was a Michael Mcguire, but after Mr. Ma
guire had lain "in the sod for five years she be-
came Mrs Murphy
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Browns IRON BITTERs is
composed ofIron in soluble
form; Cinchona the great
tonic, together with other
standard remedies, making
a remarkable non-alcohoii:
tonic, which will cure Dys-
pepsia, Indigestion, Malaria
Weakness, and relieve ak
Lung and Kidney diseases
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TIE New Orleans papers tell OF an old couple
named Clark. who are both nearly ninety years of
age. In 1855 the pair separated and divorce
granted by the Courts, but after a five years ex-
pertinent in single life the couple reunited, re-
married, and have been living together since.