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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

VEGETABLE GARDES.-Bush Beans should
not be sown in this climate until about the
first of May, as q slight frost destroys the
young plants. They may be grown in any
good rich soil, though one rather light is pre-
ferable. Sow in drills about two inches deep,
the beans two inches apart in the aows, and
the rows one foot apart. Frequent hoeings
will be necessary, and the earth should be
drawn towards the plants. There are sever
al good varieties, the best Of which are Early
Sir Weeks, Early Moha~k, and D,carf Chi
T1.
The Lima is the king of beans, both for
size and quality. They should be sown in hills,
and if the plants grow in a hill it will be
enough, though it is better to plant half doz-
en-. Cold, wet weather is very apt to rot the
seed, and it is often necessary to plant the Sc
cond time. A warm, dry situation should be
selected for this bean. We have heard good
gardeners say they come up better if planted
with the eye down. and we think there is some
truth in it. The hill should be raised a few
inches, and the seed planted two inches deep.
They require long and strong stakes, and it is
better to put the stakes in the ground before
planting, as they require to be driven in the
ground two feet, and should be about eight
feet above ground. The Lima bean is great
luxury, either shclled and eaten green, or dry.
Every one who has q vegetable garden should
have few Lima beans.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

How TO KEEP Far SrocK.-Good hay is
not only the basis of fattening, if you feed in
winter, but all You need for winterinc stock
which can make healthy cattle grow all win
ter by taxing his ingenuity to see how much
good hay he can manage to get them to eat.
and this is the great secret in keeping stock.
de who attempts the experiment, as very
many do, of trying to winter cattle on the
least possible quantity Of hay, will find him
self in the end in very much the condition of
the economist who tried to see with how little
salt he conld winter his pork When warm
weather came, to his great astonishment, he
had not only lost his salt but his pork.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21
farmers 1epartmsut.

RATS AND MICE REPELLED FROM DWELLINGS.
Mix almost any sort of meal, as Indian
corn or wheat shorts, aud arsenic, in the pro-
portion of about two quarts Of the for
mer to one ounce of the latter. Place it in
protected places under your barns and out
houses, where the children, pigs and chickens
will not he likely to get it,
advise thus to place it some little distance
from human dwellings, both on account of
greater safety to human beings, and the pro-
liability that the rats and mice getting the
poison, would die at a distance from them.
NY own way is to remove stone in the under
pinning of my barn, and shove under narrow
board, to which tin pie-pau is fastened (by
driving shingle nails each side of it, and on
which | place some Of the mixture. also
place it in sheltered places in my wood-house,
where there are known places oil the entrance
Of these creatures.
Where the ordinary provision of the family
ore we'll secured during the summer, rats and
mice usually tske to the field and hedges.
They return during the summer, as provisions
become scarce in their summer haunts. This
is the very time to interrupt them in the man.
ner have mentioned Thus did during the
past autumn. The result is that but one rat
has been heard about my premises for long
time, and that one was but once heard, and
at time long ago. My family contains but
one servant and no small children, and the
whole arrangement of this thing is in my own
hands, otherwise it might not be so safe to
use so powerful poison as arsenic. There
arc numerous other substances that may be
used besides arsenic. And write now not
so much to commend it as the especial ingredi-
ent of poisonous mixtures, as to describe what
| consider the safest and most ef1cctual mode
of its application.--C. Z. GooDNCH. Utica,
n. Y-Country Gentleman, February II.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21
BOOTS A ND SHOES


GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, &C.
West side of the Public Square, opposite the
Court House.
RA1LEY & NEVINS are Just receiving n
Yankee Notions Toys, Fruit, Confectionery &c which
will be sold wholesale of retail for cash. or in exhanre for
most kinds Of country produce at prices that cannot fail
TO suit purchasers Consumers dealers woud
do well to call and examine our stock and prices.
GROCERIES,
Black and Green Tea, Rio and Java Coffee Chocolate
Cocoa, Sugar MOlasses, Syrup, Ginger Pepper Spice
Gloves nutmegs, Mace cinnamon Ground Mustard Pepper
Sauce Soda, Saeratus, Cream Tartar Sperm and Taow
Candles, Bar Soap Vinegar, Starch, &c.
PROVISIONS.
Flour, Buckwheat Flour Rye Flour. Corn Meal Feed
Pork, Hams Shoulders, Mackerel, Goldfish Shad Lake
Trout Pickeed and Smoked Herring Cheese Rice Beans
Onions. Potatoes Butter, Lard, Crackers, &c. &c.
FRUIT.
Prunes, Citron, Figs, Eng Currants Raisins Lem
ons and Oranges, Green andDried Apples and Peaches
Almonds Pecan nuts Prazil nuts, Grenobe and Madeira
Walnuts, Fberts nuts, Chestnuts Hickory nuts &c
GERAAN, FRENCH and AMERICAN Toys, FANCY GooDs
&c-BOys Sleighs, Tin Wagons, China Pewter & Wood
Tea Sets Dolls, Trumpes Toy Guns Accordians Har-
monicas Glass Paper and Wood Inlaid Work Boxes and
Toilet Cases Toy Bureaus Secretaries &C. Pearl livery
Papier Mache and Leather Port Monaes Wallets Purses
ivory Horn and Wood Pocket and Toilet Combs Tobac-
co and Snuff Boxes, Cigar Cases Tooth Hair and Cloth
Brushes, Fancy Mirrors, Perfumery, Hair Oil, &c.
Paper Envelopes, WATERS Sealing Wax Ink Inkstands
Wafer Cups, Sand Boxes Penholders Pens Wafer scales
&c. &c.
TABLE AND DAIRY SALT, Sana and Rock Salt and
Cayuga Ground Plaster. BAILEY NEvINS.
Towanda November 26 lS55
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

A SUBSTITUTE FOR BEAN PoLEs.-How
many gardens have their appearance spoiled
by unsightly bean poles, as the old saying is,
" standing seven ways for sunday" | have
a way that looks better, and as for the pro-
ductiyeness, there is a full difference in favor
OF my plan. Set posts twenty feet apart, six
feet high, and fastcn No or 10 wire on the
top. Plant under the wire in hills two feet
apart, leaving two plants in hill to grow.
Stick with willow or ony kind of sprouts, peel
ing the ends to prevent growing, Tie them
to the wire and cut off the tops of the vines
two or three inches above the wires. The
rows should run north and SOUTH and be four
and half feet apart c. H. r. Stormvillc
Dutchess Co., n. Y.-Moorc', Rural New
Yorker, March I.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

BLACK TEErH.-The cause of this disease
in hogs, is close confinement from the ground
Its symptoms are these The hog loses ap-
petite, becomes dizzy, and is weak in the hind
legs; the teeth are black. Prevention and
cure may be effected by giving the animal
a clean, dry pen we'll strewed with wood and
ashes, and plenty of turf for him to root over /;
feed him we'll, too. In bad cases, removal of
the worst teeth, is thought good, but this may
be avoided by due care. Many farmers and
agricultural writer's, ridicule the idea that
swine are liable at all to such disease. They
deny that we'll authenticated case has ever
heea'' a''proved.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21
TOW ANDA
IFEMALE gEMlNAIRY<

rTNHE MISSES HANSON respectfully inform the public
l. that the Winter Term of their school will open in the
new building second street west of the Ward House.
on Monday December l, 1856.
Miss o. ID. HANSON will have the general supernten
dence of the school, assisted in Music by Miss REBECCA
d. HANSON, and in French by Miss EMMA HANSON.
Thankful for the patronage already extended to them
they beg leave to those entrusng their daughters
in their charge that every effort will be made to deserve
the confidence and favor of their patrons.
The school year will consist of four quarters Of eleven
weeks each. The summer vacation commencing in July
and ending in September recess of a few days will be
taken at the holidays.
TERMS, QUARTER:
First Class-To include the elementary English &c m
branches and the study of the Latin language, w
Second Classic include the more advanced stu
dies ofthe English branches with Mathematics 50 90
and the study of Latin and French. ..........)
Third Ciass-To include Mathematics, Mental)
and Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric, Botany, &c, sl2 90
with Latin and French. h,.....................)
Each pupil will bring with her desk and chair There
will be extra charge whatever.
MusIC-InstructOn on the Piano, with of instrl-
ment, will be given by Miss REBEccA D. HANSON at $40
per quarter.
Boarding for young ladies be obtained in private
families at reasonable rates. Pupils from distance will
receive the especial care Of the teachers.
They beg leave refer to the following named gentle
men :-Rt. Rev. ALoNzo POTTER, Bishop of the Diocese
of Penna, Philadelphia Rev. Dr. MACLEAN, President of
the College of New Jersey.
Hon. DAVID WILNor, G. F. MASON, C. L. WARD, JOHN
F. MEANS, ID. F. BARsTOw, III. S. MERCUR, o. D. BART
RETT, Z. o. GOoDRICH, Towanda.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21
THE PEOPLES CLOTHING STORE I!
1S] GREAT BARGAINS! [66
NG. E. solomon, Proprietor.

THIS extensive Ready-made Clothing Establishment
situated in Mercurs block Main street has Just been
filled with a large assortment of SPRING CLOTHING.
The proprietor the public that he has the best
and cheapest assortment offered In Towanda and to
prove this fact he respectfully asks the public to call and
examine for themselves. =
Persons wishing good bargains and an elegant suit or
any portion thereof well made of substantial material
Coat Vest Pantaoons Cavat Collars and in fact every
thing in the line, will do well to CALL He Il confident lie
can satisfy all in price and quality.
&S Don't forget the placeone door south of Mercurs
store Main-st. Towanda, March 2e 1856,
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

- MouLnISEss: :-Fait jellics may be preser-
ea trom mouldiness by covering the surface
one one fourth OF an inch deep with finely pulyer.
eeo La ioat sugar. Tins protected they will
AecP III good condition lor ten years
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21
Business CARDS.

MEDICINE e. SURGERY.-DR. J. E.
WI INGHAM (of the University of Pennsylvania hav
ing permanently located in Wysox offers his professional
services to the public. APrh u
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21
WAVERLY
MARBLE HSTARIYsHNFY1N

X III: BALDWIN, having purchased the
IL Marble Factory of this village under the superin
tendence OF h. Hanord, the subscriber Is happy To an
nounce that the Marble business in Wavery viii now be
conducted by him, He is constantly receiving ITALIAN
AND RUTl.ANDMARBLE,fo for Monuments Head d-stones
Tomb Tabels and Stand Tops Paint Stones Mullers &C.
known 70 be the most perfect Artist in the State he offers
unparalleled inducements to persons wishing to secure
cal beauty.
wayeriy, N. Y, Feb. g. 1867.
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a. CARD-vERX SHORT.

BARCLAY COAL-THE BARCLAY
-D RAIL ROAD AND COAL COMPANY have now on
hand, and will keep constantly for sale at TOWANDA,
large supply of their coal, at
So 90 per ton for Blacksmith Coal, and
So so per ton for Raked Coal
Apply for coal at Towanda to HORATIO BLACK. Coal
will also be sold at THE MINES at
50 90 per ton for Blacksmith Coal, and
s. so per ton for Raked Coal.
liberal discount will be made sales by the boat load
Oct. 80, 1856. EDW'D OVERTON, President
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04
TELLING MOTHER.


4 cluster of young girls stood about
the door of the school room one after
noon, engaged in close conversation when
q little girl Joined them, and asked what
they were doing.
81 am telling the girls a secret, Kate,
and we will let you know, if you will
promise not to tell any L as long as
you dive" was the reply.
81 won't tell any one but my mother"
replied Kate. 81 tell her everything,
for she is my best friend"
"No not even your mother no one
in the world"
"Well, then, 1 can't hear it for achat
Icant tell my mother, as nat fit for me
to k7aOr0.'' After speaking these words,
Kate walked away, slowly, and perhaps
sadly, yet with a quiet conscience, while
her companions went on with their Sc
cret conversation.
I am sure if Kate continued to act on
that principle, she became a virtuous,
useful woman. No child of a pious
mother will be likely to take a sinful
course, if Kate's reply is taken for a rule
of conduct.
As soon as a boy listens to converse
ton at school or on the playground
which he would fear or blush to repeat
to his mother, he is in the way of temp
tation, and no one can tell where he will
stop. Many, a man dying in disgrace
inprison, or on the scaffold has looked
back with bitter remorse to the time
when first a sinful companion gained his
ear, and came between him and his
mother. Boys and girls, if you would
lead "a Christian life, and die a Chris
tian death, make Kate's reply your re-
ply" What I can not tell my mother,
IS not tit for me to knoa0; !" for a pious
mother is your " best friend"
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04
I,et MS Reason Together.

HorIoryay,s DiIIs..Whv are we sick \
n ~ 49, ~ lot az 1be bnmSn rsee 70 he wefeb,
"a 5own he Jise.se and snfersnes HALO.
W. VS. Pills are sneciaIiy ada pied 10 the eIief
~ : 1kaE tbe me
md nd The INFIRM' ofaII eIimes. AGES. sexes. and
constifutions Professor HoIiowaE personaiIy
1be united States and offers thenI Ia arfee ande m
iishtene ed neonIe as the hest remedy the world CIV.
eT saw for The removal ofdisease! So :
THESE PILLS PITRIFY THE BLOOD
rtttaSIsa.- p;,s ,assi1 eonbined ta
srsfe on he stom sob The liver the Eidneys.
the lungs, the skin 81 and = 9owel saG gSTEseu fSs
blood, the very fountain ot'Hfe' ho'n i
oiseeSe D PRpsIs HND LIVER COMPLAINTS:
Ne.riy half the human rae e. have taken these
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04
STRONG MINDED WOMEN

A minister, presiding over one of the
Presbyterian Churches in Lafayette, in
. recent sermon, alluded to the lectures
of a Phrenologist, and intimated plainly
his belief in the immoral tendencies of
the lectures delivered, especially to
women" Five strong minded ladies Of
the church demanded retraction. This
the pastor refused to do.
"For," said the minister, 1--WE copy
from the American, underlying all, is
a principle to which no faithful pastor
could yield. If five ladies were to de-
nnand a public apology for his expression
of honest convictions in regard to what
he deemed a serious evil, where would an
end be of such things? Another Sab
bath, he might deem it his duty to say
something of banking house morals, and
five bankers might make a similar de-
mand. And again, should he preach
upon commercial integrity, the mer-
chants of his congregation might re.
sort to the same course. Where, then,
would he the independence of the pull
pit, so essential to the success and sta
bility of the pastoral officer"
The affair has produced some excite
ment in Lafayette, as the pastor was
much loved, and has applied to the Pres
bytery for a dissolution of the pastoral
relation between himself and that church.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04

A Word TO BoYs.-Boys, what COM
pany do you keep, what company do you
shun? We are known by the company we
keep. A boy that keeps bad company is
sure to be bad.
L. Those who ridicule parents, or
disobey their commands. 2. Those who
p%rofane the Sabbath or scott at religion.
5. Those who use profane or filthy
language. 4. Those who arc uufaith-
full, play truent or waste their time in
idleness. 5. Those who are of a quar-
relsome temper. 6. Those who are ad-
dictcd to lying aud stealing. 7. Those
who take pleasure in torturing animals
and insects. s. Those who loaf around
grog- shops, smoke and drink whisky.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04
PROFITS OF FRUIT.

Examples almost without number
may be given, where single trees have
yielded from five to ten dollars a year in
fruit, and many instances in which TWEEN
ty or thirty dollars have been obtained.
If one tree of the Rhode Island Green
ing affords forty bushels of fruit, at a
quarter of a dollar per bushel, which
has often occurred, forty such trees IN
an acre would yield a crop worth four
hundred dollars. But taking one quar-
ter of this amount as a low average for
all seasons, with imperfect cultivation,
one hundred dollars would still be equal
to the interest on fifteen hundred per
acre.
But the anxious inquiry is suggested,
"Will not our market be surfeited with
fruit ?" This will depend on the judg-
ment and discretion of %eultivators. With
the exception of the peaches of Pnila-
delphia and the Strawberries of Cincin-
natl, a great deficiency is still felt in all
our large cities. Of these two fruits.
large plantations are brought rapidly in
to full bearing. The fruit, when ripe,
quickly perishes, and cannot be kept a
week; yet thousands of acres in peach
trees, bending under their heavy crops,
are needed for the consumption of the
one city, and broad fifty acre fields, red
dened with enormous products, send
many hundred bushels of strawberries
daily into the other. But the market
would not be confined to large Cities
Railroads and steamboats, would open
new channels of distribution through
the country for increased supplies. Nor
would the business stop here. Large
portions of the eastern continent would
gladly become purchasers, as soon as suf-
fcient quantities should create facilities
for a reasonable supply.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04
AN ACT

Nc. l4.l AN All
To prevent the spread of disease among
Sheer.
SEC. 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That any
person being the owner of sheep, or hav-
ing the same in charge, who shall turn
out, or suffer any sheep having any con
tagious disease, knowing the same to be
so diseased, to run at large upon any
common, highway or uninclosed ground,
or who shall sell any such sheep, know
ing the same to be diseased, without fully
disclosing the fact to the purchaser, shall
be deemed guilty of q misdemeanor, and
be punished by a fine of not less than
twenty dollars and not more than five
hundred dollars, to be recovered like 9th
err penalties of a like nature: Provided,
That nothing herein shall change the
right of any one sustaining damage from
the running at large or sale of such sheep
in bringing suit for the recovery thereof,
or in defending against any suit brought
upon a sale of such sheep.
SEC. 2. This act shall not be so con-
strued as to prevent any person owning
such diseased sheep, from driving the
same along any public highway.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House Of Reps.
LESTER TAYLOR,
President Of the Senate, pro tenn,
Columbus, Feb. II, 1857.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04

A heavy fire having occurred in Cleve-
land, a safe manufacturing firm in New
York; wrote to the sufferers from the fire
to ascertain how one of their safes had
stood the scorchirg. The proprietor
wrote back that the " safe " was " safe"
that it was wonderful, and adds that
the night previous to the fire, one of the
clerks placed a Shanghai rooster in the
safe for sAFE-keeping. In the morning
the safe was dug out red-hot, opened,
and the rooster found leaning up
against the ledger, frozen to death l"-
The yarn is rather trying to a mans
faith, but we suppose it must be true
in a horn.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-04
farmer s Column.
How blest the Farmers simple life,
Far from the noise of the City's strife.
~ @Au
PRUNING.

There is, perhaps, nc subject in hor-
ticulture SO little understood as the
principle upon which pruning is foun-
ded. The object in pruning fruit trees
is chiefly to hasten or regulate the crop
of fruit, and induce or retard the de-
velopment of wood growth. With ref
erence to the farmer, more depends up
on summer pruning and disbudding.-
Trees are frequently barren from exces-
sive wood growth, which is weakened by
pruning during the summer. 1t is a
we'll understood fact among scientific
cultivators, that summer pruning wea-
kens, and winter pruning strengthens
wood growth. Hence the practice OF
nurserymen in pruning young trees at
ter the seasons's growth is completed, to
increase their luxuriaucs.
Trees that have arrived at a bearing
state, if properly managed during growth
would probably require no winter prun-
ing, unless the removal of large and
misplaced branches. In the abstract,
it seems a negative practice to encourage
a luxuriant growth, and then cut it down
in winter. 1t is quite possible to man
age trees without having recours to
winter pruning, unless for special OBJ
jects, as already alluded to. 1t is GER
tain hat much injury is inflicted by the
indiscriminats use of the saw and prun-
ing-knife, at this time, especially on
young bearing trees.
Make it a study, next season, to dis
bud and summer PPrune all growing trees,
so that you may weaken and check the
wood !; pruning such trees now increases
their future vigor, since, by diminishing
the branches after the fall of the leaves,
the roots gain a greater preponderance.
On the other hand, it is no less neces-
sary to prevent weakness from overbear-
ing. Since the introduction of the
dwaring system, by grating on weak
growing stocks, the error has been fire.
quently committed, and Improbable
trees have been the result. 1t has also
had a tendency to throw discredit on the
system, by those who, from want of
knowledge and experience, have been
unsuccessful in cultivation.
There are many kinds naturally of
slender growth grating them on a slow
growing stock induces fruitfulness, and
represses wood growth to an injurious
extent. Such trees should have every
blossom picked eff that appears in spring,
all growth carefully retained during sum-
mer and pruned down in winter. Such
treatment will be followed with increased
vigor, which may be maintained by tax
ing moderate crops, and continued good
cultivation.
So much depends upon individual Pc
culiarities in trees, that it is difficult to
form a definite rule that would serve az
a safeguard to the uninitiated. Close
observation, extended experience, and
at the least, a slight knowledge of phys.
iology, are indispensable requisites to a
successful cultivation of fruits.-Horti-
cuHuraSt.