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IUPUI UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 755 W. MICHIGAN ST. INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202-5195
FARMERS AND BREEDERS, HENDRICKS COUNTY
First National Bank DANVILLE, INDIANA
ESTABLISHED 1863
CAPITAL & SURPLUS $140,000.00
RESOURCES NEARLY $1,000.000.00
The best possible service is none too good for the people of this community. Our service has been developed and perfected through more than half a century; our facilities are modern and efficient; our desire is to serve YOU as we are interested in your welfare and the progress of our community.
OFFICERS
W. C. OSBORNE, President CHAS. Z. COOK, Cashier. AMOS HARVEY, Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS
W. C. OSBORNE, THOS. J. COFER, THOS. J. MILES, M. T. HUNTER, J. W. ADER, JOHN P. MORAN, CHAS. Z. COOK
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SALESMEN-DAN W. TIBBS, JOHN R. WILHITE, ARCHIE W. WADE, L. S. KELLY HARLEY R. DRAKE-Office.
Main, 1866, Auto 21866
Night Phones: Belmont 2668 or Irvington 264
Johnson, Tibbs & Drake DAN W. TIBBS HARLEY R. DRAKE
Live Stock Commission
Indianapolis Union Stock Yards
United States Department of Agriculture, License No. 1876 ROOMS 1 and 3 EXCHANGE BUILDING
Your Success is our Pleasure. There are no "Ifs and Ands" about our delivering value received for every shipment entrusted to us. The selling of live stock on a public market is no longer an exper- iment with us. Well trained and efficient men in all departments, we are in the very best position to handle your consignments of live stock to the best advantage. Surely, service is what you want, and the best costs you no more. Remember we are always glad to hear from you and any information you may require will be freely and cheerfully given.
THE ONLY ANSWER WHEN YOU NEED
DRY GOODS, SHOES, MEN'S and LADIES' FURNISHINGS and READY-TO-WEAR GOODS
DANVILLE PROGRESS JOE HESS, Proprietor
DANVILLE
INDIANA
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Hadleyl Men's Wear
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DAWSON & CO., Inc.
Successors to
Supplies for Farmer, Dairyman
Southern Seed Company 23 North Alabama St. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
and Poultryman
SEEDS
We stock and sell only fancy re-cleaned stocks. We have a full line of Clovers, Timothy and other Field Seeds. Also a com- plete stock of Garden Seeds, which is all of high germination and guaranteed to be true to name. We do not handle any low quality seeds of any kind that are full of weeds and dirt.
POULTRY SUPPLIES
We have everything the Poultry Raiser needs. Incubators up to 25000 capacity and a full line of Feeders and Founts as well as all other kinds of equipment and supplies.
FEEDS
We carry a full line of Feed for Poultry, Dairy Stock, Horses and Hogs.
DAIRY SUPPLIES
This department is unusually complete with Pasteurizers, Clari- fiers, Separators, Coolers, Cans, Milk Bottles, Bottle Caps, Fillers, Bottle Cases, Churns, Milk Testers, Empire Milking Machines, Etc.
BARN EQUIPMENT
We handle Lowden and James equipment for Dairy Barns, such as Stalls, Stanchions, Drinking Cups, Etc., as well as equipment for Horse Barns and Hog Houses.
Call or write when interested
DAWSON & CO., Inc.
Successors to
Southern Seed Company 23 and 25 N. Alabama Street
INDIANAPOLIS - INDIANA
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Introduction
I' 'N this directory we have endeavored to give the farmers of Hendricks County, a complete and reliable directory of the farmers, breeders and merchants of the county, with such other information as will make the directory a valuable refer- ence book.
The task of calling on every farmer in a county and collect- ing the information for such a directory is a tremendous one. We have received splendid co-operation from the farmers and business men of the county, without which the publication of such a directory would be impossible. In a very few cases we have found farmers unwilling to give the information requested, which accounts for a few names that do not appear.
A few mistakes are bound to occur in a directory that in- volves so large an amount of work, but we have spared no effort nor expense to make the information complete and accurate, and believe that the mistakes are very few. .
We want to speak a word of appreciation for the advertisers whose liberal support has helped materially to bear the heavy expense of publishing this directory, and ask that you favor them with your patronage whenever possible.
We hope and believe that the publication of this directory will be a real service to the farmers of Hendricks County and in line with PRAIRIE FARMER'S policy of service to the farmers of Indiana. We hope that the increased circulation of PRAIRIE FARMER in Hendricks county, which has resulted, will help in the movement for better farming, better farm living, and more prosperity for the county, and that our many new friends will become permanent members of the big PRAIRIE FARMER family.
BURRIDGE D. BUTLER, Publisher, Prairie Farmer.
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FARMERS AND BREEDERS, HENDRICKS COUNTY
PRAIRIE FARMER'S DIRECTORY
of
Hendricks County Indiana
DIRECTORY OF THE FARMERS of Hendricks county, with valuable information about each farm.
BREEDERS' DIRECTORY, giving full classified list of breeders of purebred livestock and poultry. DIRECTORY OF AUTOMOBILE OWNERS, giving list of automobile owners and make of. automobile.
DIRECTORY OF TRACTOR OWNERS, giving list of tractor owners and make of tractor.
Copyright, 1920 By The Prairie Farmer Publishing Company
Compiled and Published by Prairie Farmer Publishing Company Chicago, Illinois
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EAST SIDE OF SQUARE
The
Most Modern Drug Store In Hendricks County. Have You Paid Us a Visit?
RED + CROSS DRUG STORE
HARKNESS & REDIFER, Proprietors.
We are agents for Sonora and Deterling Talking Machines and Records.
DANVILLE, INDIANA
PHONES-OFFICE 374, RESIDENCE 166
HOUK & WINTER INSURANCE
AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE, TORNADO AND HAIL EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE Continental Insurance Company of New York IN HENDRICKS COUNTY
Agency for Hartford Live Stock Insurance Company
Insures Cattle, Horses, Mules and Hogs against death from any cause. Special Rates for Sales of Thoroughbred Registered Live Stock
COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY INSURANCE, FIDELITY AND SECURITY BONDS, BURGLARY INSURANCE, AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE SERVICE, SECURITY AND SATISFACTION IN ALL OUR DEALINGS
Room 1 Hendricks Building : DANVILLE, INDIANA OFFICE ALSO AT JAMESTOWN, IND.
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Livestock Farmer's Medicine Chest
By Dr. A. S. Alexander, in Prairie Farmer
When a farmer can employ a com- petent graduate veterinarian at rea- sonable expense it always is best to do so, and in all serious cases such expert help should be used even if the expense will be considerable. Un- fortunately it is not always possible to find such an expert or he may live at such a distance that an ordinary or trivial case will not warrant the ex- pense of his employment, or the near- est veterinarian may not be a properly qualified practitioner, or is one in whom the stockman has no confidence.
For these reasons every owner of animals should keep some simple remedies on hand, and these are nec- essary even on farms where profes- sional assistance can readily be had. It should be understood, however, that the untrained farmer should not attempt the administration of strong poisons, alkaloids and many prepara- tions used hypodermically by a gradu- ate veterinarian. Such preparations are extremely dangerous in the hands of the layman and are liable to do much more harm than good. The trained surgeon also should be de- pended upon for all major operations.
A cupboard may be set apart for storing medicines in a cool, dry place and where freezing will not occur in winter. A glass graduate and scales will be necessary for measuring and weighing medicines. Powdered drugs should be kept in tightly closed glass fruit jars and should be plainly labeled. They may soon lose their strength if exposed to the air. Poisons should be kept on a separate part of a shelf partitioned off for the purpose and away from simple, harmless drugs. Ointments, with the exception of fly blister, should be made up fresh at time of use. Liniment may be pre- pared and kept indefinitely if well corked.
The medicine case should also have a special division in which to keep a few instruments, bandages, suture silk and absorbent cotton; or better still, these may be kept in a handbag for immediate use as required. The emergency bag should contain a roll
of absorbent cotton, several rolled three-yard bandages of unbleached muslin in strips three inches wide, a pound or two of oakum, a spool of strong suture silk, half a dozen suture needles of assorted shapes and sizes, most of them large; a half-ounce, short-barreled, strong-nozzled hard rubber syringe, a two-ounce metal syringe, a cow trocar and canula for tapping a bloated animal, a pair of curved shears, a combination operat- ing knife containing a curved bistoury, a probe pointed bistoury and a strong straight scalpel, a few milking tubes and a teat bistoury, an artery forceps, metal probe, castrating knife and pair of horse clippers.
These will suffice, but there are many other useful instruments such as a clinical thermometer, horse tro- car, catheter and dentistry "float," which may be added from time to time. Some of the medicines to be listed later may also have a place in the emergency kit or bag, notably those needed for the treatment of wounds, and at hand should be a strong quart drenching bottle and ten feet of quarter-inch cotton rope with which to hold up a horse's head for drenching. A veterinary force pump is added on a large farm, but its place may be taken by three feet of new lawn sprinkling hose fitted with a large tin funnel. This is used to give a horse or cow a rectal injection. There should also be a six-foot piece of new half-inch rubber tubing for use in giving a cow or mare a vaginal injection.
Simple necessary medicines may best be listed under the following spe- cial heads :
Physics
Epsom and Glauber Salts. Average dose for an adult cow, one pound in three pints of warm water. Dose for a horse, 12 ounces.
Castor Oil. Especially useful for young animals. Dose for a caif or foal, from 1 to 6 tablespoonsful shak- en up in milk.
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Raw Linsed Oil (not boiled, which is poisonous). Average dose, one pint for constipation and to follow a dose of colic medicine, or contain medicine for colic.
Barbados Aloes (freshly powdered). Average dose, one ounce, to be given to an adult horse as a "physic ball."
Wound Medicines
Keep in stock one pint each of car- bolic acid and coal tar disinfectant and a gallon can of the latter for dipping and disinfecting purposes. Two tea- spoonfuls to a pint of water ordinarily makes a sufficiently strong solution. Bleeding is stopped by applying Mon- sel's solution of iron on oakum or cotton batting, or applying Monsel's powder. As a wound lotion also keep on hand a mixture of one ounce of sugar of lead and six drams of sul- phate of zinc in one pint of water. This is called "white lotion" and should be plainly labeled "poison" and well shaken before use.
Dusting Powders
A dusting powder of equal parts of slacked lime, charcoal and sulphur is useful for application to surface wounds and sores. Boracic acid also is needed and a little iodoform may be added to keep flies away.
Liniments
Keep on hand a pint (pound) each of turpentine and aqua ammonia. One ounce each of these mixed with a pint of soft water, in which two raw eggs have been shaken up and the mixture left for 24 hours, will make a good stimulating liniment; or one ounce of each may be mixed with 6 to 14 ounces of raw linseed oil to make a very strong or comparatively mild liniment.
Lotions
"White lotion" for wounds has al- ready been mentioned. Equal quan- tities of lime water and raw linseed oil make "carron oil," an excellent lotion for burns. Two to four ยท unces of Goulard's extract and one to two ounces of glycerine in one quart of soft water form a useful lotion for scratches and mud fever of itchiness and "gumminess" of the legs. A good lotion for inflammation of the udder
is made by mixing together one part each of fluid extracts of poke root and belladonna leaves and one part of tur- pentine with five parts of sweet oil, melted lard or camphorated oil. It is made weaker or stronger as required. Anodyne lotion for painful swellings is made by combining equal quantities of tincture of opium, aconite, bella- donna and druggists' soap liniment. A small quantity of chloroform may be added. Mouth lotion consists of an ounce of powdered borax or alum in a quart of soft water; eye lotion of half a dram each of sulphate of zinc and fluid extract of belladonna in a quart of soft water.
Tonics
Fowler's solution of arsenic is a good general tonic for rundown, thin, hidebound horses and those afflicted with chronic skin diseases or heaves (broken wind). The average dose is half an ounce (one tablespoonful) given night and morning until one quart has been given. The medicine may then be gradually discontinued, taking at least a week to the work. Dried sulphate of iron (copperas), dose one dram night and morning, is another good tonic, commonly com- bined with an equal dose of ground gentian root or ginger root, nux vomica, saltpeter and fenugreek as a condition powder. The dose is one tablespoonful of the combination .of drugs mixed in the feed night and morning for ten days. Omit sulphate of iron for pregnant animals. Nux is poisonous and must therefore be given with care. It is most useful as a nerve tonic and appetizer.
Colic Medicines
Keep in stock one pound each of laudanum (dose, 1 to 2 ounces) ; es- sence of ginger root (dose, 1 to 2 drams) ; sulpuric acid (dose, 1/2 to 1 ounce) ; turpentine (dose, 1 2
to
ounces ) ; granular hyposulphite of soda (dose, 1 to 4 ounces). A dose of each of the first three medicines in a pint of water containing two ounces of hyposulphite of soda will prove effective for most colics. Two ounces of turpentine in a pint of raw linseed oil may be given for "wind" (flatulent) colic, or following the other medicine when the pain of "cramp" (spasmodic) colic has subsided.
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Fever Medicines
Powdered saltpeter is an important drug for animals. It is given in the fever of influenza, founder (laminitis) or lymphangitis (milk leg, also for stocking of the legs and other large swellings. A dram is the average dose. Give it every four or six hours in fever, twice daily for swellings, or with tonics as a condition powder, and in double doses for founder or milk leg. Do not give it in colt distemper, when abscesses are forming. It may often be administered in drinking water or a bran mash or damp feed. It also is given in tablespoonful doses once or twice daily for garget of the cow. Beware of aconite often given for fever. It is too dangerous a poison to be safely used by anyone other than a trained doctor.
Blister
An effective blistering ointment is made by melting together three parts of lard and one-quarter part of finely shaved, yellow beeswax, and then stirring it one part of powdered can- tharides (Spanish fly). Stir in a tin dish until cold, then store in a capped glass fruit jar. It improves with age. When using this blister clip off the hair, wash the skin clean, dry it per- fectly. Tie the horse up short in his stall, rub the blister in for fifteen minutes and then smear on some more blister. Wash the blister off in 48 hours and then apply a little lard daily. Do not cover a blistered part, or rub it on the loins, or on top of the hips, or use it after a poultice, or on irritated skin, or in very hot or cold weather.
Absorbents
Never be without tincture of iodine to swab on swollen glands, tumors, forming abscesses, bony growths, capped or puffed joints, indolent sores or wounds, canker of the mouth in pigs and ringwork spots. It also is useful to inject into abscesses, fistula and lump jaw cavities. Iodine oint- ment is made by mixing one dram each of iodine crystals and iodide of potash in one ounce of lard. This is used on swellings, sore necks and shoulders, puffs of all sorts, tumors, forming abscesses, ringworm spots and enlargements of the udder. As an absorbent blister rub up one dram
of biniodide of mercury with two ounces of the fly blister already men- tioned and use on bony growths, such as splints and ringbone, callouses, indolent sores, tumors of the udder.
Worm Medicines
Gasoline is kept on most farms and in tablespoonful doses in six ounces of milk is the best remedy for stomach worms in sheep. Lambs take less in proportion. Two ounces of turpen- tine in a pint of raw linseed oil is effective as a starting dose for a "wormy horse." Follow with worm powders composed of equal parts of salt, sulphur and dried sulphate of iron. Dose, one tablespoonful night and morning for a week, then skip ten days and repeat. Omit iron for preg- nant animals. For worms of swine give one teaspoonful of turpentine in slop for three consecutive days for each eighty pourds of body weight; or one dram of dried sulphate of iron in slop for five successive mornings for each hundred pounds of body weight. Where swine are known to be seriously infested with worms, give
eight grains of santonin and five grains of calomel . in a little slop for each hundred pounds of body weight. Divide the pigs into lots of five and give the medicine in a little slop after starving the animals for eighteen hours. Care must be taken to give only the doses here prescribed, else damage may be done.
Disinfectants
In the paragraph on wound medi- cines it has been advised to keep car- bolic acid and coal tar disinfectant in stock. To these may be added for- maldehyde, bichloride of mercury tablets and permanganate of potash crystals. In disinfecting a stable a solution of four or five ounces of for- maldehyde to the gallon, or a 1-1,000 of bichloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate) or a 1-30 solution of car- bolic acid or coal tar disinfectant should be used after a thorough clean. sing of the premises. For wounds a 1-1,000 solution of corrosive sublimate also is the most effective disinfectant and a 1-500 solution should be used for disinfecting when a spore-form- ing germ, like that of anthrax, is pres- ent. Permanganate of potash is a useful mild disinfectant (antiseptic
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and deodorizer) in a 1-5,000 to a 1-50 solution. The weaker solution is used lukewarm for vaginal injection pur- poses, while the 2 per cent solution is useful for injection into cavities from which come bad-smelling discharges and for swabbing sores (cankers) of the mouth. As a wound lotion it is usual to employ a 2 to 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, or lysol, or coal tar disinfectant. Carbolic acid is also much used as an internal disin- fectant in contagious abortion. Two drams of the acid is well diluted with water and mixed in soft feed for each
. pregnant cow every other night
throughout pregnancy. Peroxide of hydrogen one part and clean water two or three parts is a popular dis- infectant for cleansing foul wounds.
Scour Medicines
The farm medicine chest would not be completely stocked without some remedies for diarrhoea or scours. A mixture of one part of salol and two parts of bismuth (first prescribed years ago by the writer) has become a standard remedy among farmers. The average dose is one teaspoonful given two or three times a day and washed down with milk or water. The dose may be doubled in bad cases and for larger calves and foals. Prepared chalk, powdered alum, sulphur, pow- dered catechu, rhubarb and ginger root are also much used for diarrhoea.
Administering Medicines
Small doses of liquid medicine, such as the average two-ounce dose of a fever medicine or tonic solution, are best given by means of a half-ounce hard rubber syringe. Expert veteri- narians sometimes give such medicines of bad-tasting drugs in gelatine cap- sules, or in form of a "ball." Worm, condition and tonic powders are mixed in damp grain feed. A large dose of liquid medicine is termed a "drench" and is given from a strong, long-necked bottle. A few inches of rubber hose may be fitted on the neck of such a bottle.
To drench a horse, back him into a stall, place a running noose of soft, small cotton rope or "clothes line" upon the upper incisor teeth, under the upper lip, and draw the noose tight, with the knot of the rope to the front. Throw the loose end of
the rope across an overhead beam, raise the horse's head, hold it there by means of the rope and pour the medicine into the mouth a little at a time until all is swallowed. Do not squeeze the throat of the horse when giving medicine and never pour the medicine into the nostril. If the horse will not swallow, pour a teaspoonful of cold water into a nostril and swallow- ing will instantly occur.
To drench a cow, place her in a stanchion or tie her in a stall. Walk up on her right side (milking side). Pass the left hand across her face and into her mouth. Hold her head in a straight line forward and slightly ele- vated, not turned to one side. Pour the medicine very slowly into the right side of the mouth. Let the head down instantly if the medicine causes the cow (or horse) to cough. Fluid given too fast passes into the paunch and is practically wasted. Administered slowly, it largely goes to the third and fourth stomachs and absorption takes place in the latter.
Sheep have to be very carefully drenched from a bottle to avoid chok- ing. Swine take medicine through a hole cut in the toe of an old shoe thrust into the mouth or from a short, strong rubber hose fitted in the neck of a strong bottle. Dogs take medi- cine in capsules inserted in meat or from a bottle or spoon emptied into a pouch formed of the lip and cheek.
Avoid "doping" animals unneces- sarily. Medicine should only be given when the animal is sick, should be the right medicine, and is best pr scribed by an expert.
VALUE OF LABOR
The United States Department of Agriculture found in 1855 that it re- quired four hours and 34 minutes of human labor to produce a bushel of corn. At the Minnesota experiment station it has been found recently that 45 minutes of human labor is about the average time required for the same work. In other words, human labor is worth six times as much as it was 60 years ago, due to the use of better machinery, better varieties of corn and better soil management.
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Some Common Unsoundness
By Dr. A. S. Alexander, in Prairie Farmer
.
AKE nothing for granted when
buying a horse. One should make sure about doubtful things. If the eye cannot decide the mat- ter the hand may be employed to corroborate or disprove; but the eye should be the main dependence and the hand used only as a last resort. An Irishman does not like to buy a pig "in a poke." He wants to see and examine the "rint payer" and may even make the animal squeal to be sure that he is getting his money's worth. In just the same way one must make the most careful examination of every part of a horse, "size up" the entire combination of points and make sure that there is lack of vice, sound- ness of eyes, wind and limb, and perfect fitness for the special kind of work the animal will have to do.
A famous veterinary teacher once called upon his senior students to ex- amine a lame horse and state in writ- ing what they thought was the cause of lameness. The horse had a splint, one sidebone and a small ringbone affecting the lame leg. To one or
other of these three unsoundnesses each student in turn attributed the lameness. But one learns best by making mistakes and this truth was soon "rubbed in" by the teacher. Having collected the reports he told the smith who was standing by, to remove the shoe from the lame foot. Then a majority of the students no- ticed for the first time that the sole of the foot was covered with a thick leather pad. When the leather came off puss spurted from a nail prick wound which had been purposely hid- den. Lameness was due to the nail prick, not to splint, ringbone or side- bone, and the laugh was on the "boys." Never again would one of them be similarly caught and so a never - to - be - forgotten lesson was learned. Every intending purchaser should learn this lesson, too, and be a "doubting Thomas" until his hands have felt where the eyes could not definitely decide a mooted point.
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