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Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Two Strings 10 tee Boz.

1t is the practice of large farmers, ia
some parts of the country, TO devote their
entire energies, ind the resources Of the
farm, to only one or two crops annually.
Attbe extreme South, il is cotton OF sugar;
in the other States it is corn or tobacco.
At the West, it is often wheat or corn;
and at the East, in some districts, it is
hops. In Ireland, the potato crop is the
main reliance of the hungry population;
and when that fails, famine s,ares them
in the face. England relies so much on
her grain crop that failure Of is begets
panic. -leai
This plan works well, at home and
abroad, prOUided the season is entirely
favorable to the particular crop. But un-
timely frosls will come, Notwithstanding
our plans and expectation; insects will
revel in the immense field, however Valua-
bic in prospect to their owner; unseason-
able rains will fall; rust and worms and
manifold other evils will beset US on eY-
cry SIDE. And when the calamity comes,
it is great one, we have intrusted for.
tunes all to the keeping Of one frail boat,
and when that goes down, all our hopes
are wrecked. Who does not see thar In
this course of farming one is incurrirg
TOO great a risk? Il is like investing
ones whole fortune IN a single kind oe
railroad stock, and tIat very unreliable.
1t is a sounder policy 70 distribute ones
chance over a wider surface. 1t is far
safer to raise ) or more different crops
then, if one or more fail, there is some-
thing to fall back upon. II is very true.
that this does not make so great a show
for an ambitious farmer. The proceeds
do not come in all at once, in so large
amounts, as when single great crop is
gathered and sold. Bnt IN the 10 az run,
the proceeds are larger, as they certain
ly are surer. 1t is better to have FIVE
years of moderate and regular Profits.
than one year of large gainsj followed
by three or four years Of losses. Better.
so far as the mere money re suits are con.
cerned; better for ones habitual DeEee
Of mind. and better for our morals.
When the mania FOR any kind OF
speculation prevails Di the land, few
large fortunes are mHde, bot many men
are ruined, MaDy become suddenlv
rich and then as suddenly poor. Sagas
gaciOus and obse rving fnanciers tell "a
that the most successful and sure wav to
amass property is TO avoid all unpeces.
sary risks, and to be satisfied with siea.
dy and small gains Apply this to ag-
riculture. Well has one written: "A
farm which depends for its profit on bun
ter fruit, cheese, timber, cattle, hogs,
corn, wheat, potatoes, fax, etc, makes
perhaps, but a little on each crop. bur
the rains come in drops are usefal, but
those which come in torrents, and Taise
treshets. leave great mischief behind
.Agricssltt~ask
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
NEBRASKA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1862. NO 2l.

As to the question of profit to be
derived from the manufacture of light
American wine, it is believed, that as
branch of industry it is rather more
profitable, where the grapes will ripen,
than the cultivation of wheat and corn.
In relation to the probable capacity
of the soil and climate of the United
States to produce wine of high char
acter, equal, if not superior, to the
best wines of Europe, and also in re-
spect to the prospect that wine grapes,
which will bear vineyard culture, of
the proper quantity to form such wine,
will be obtained by hybridization or
otherwise, no doubt is felt by those
who are best informed on this subject.
We have already numerous natural
seedlings and hybrid grapes of great
promise, not yet fully tested, and
more are annually produced and dis
covered by our zeRlous cultivatOrs. 1t
is not, perhaps, fully settled that some
locality may not yet be found in our
widely diversified Union, where the
best wine grapes of Europe will grow
with as much success as in the cOun.
tries where they are now cultivated
1t should be born in mind that the
wine grapes of Europe are not natives
of the countries where they are now
grown in vineyards nor have the
States of Europe any thing like the
same number of native varieties of the |
crane that we have in America. So
there is hops fer American success in
wine making, as we'll as in the product
of wheat and corn, and in all the arts
of peace and war.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
American Wine.

AS the increased number of vine
yards and the manufacture of native
wines are becoming important items
in the agricultural and commercial re-
sources of our country, we think all
the treatises which throw any light
upon the character of the grapes which
are most suitable to the geographical
lines most favorable to the growth of
the same will be beth interesting and
valuable. We append accordingly,
the report of the Fruit growers Soci-
ETY. of Eastern Pennsylvania, as made
by DIR. J. S. Houghton, which We
quote from the "Ga' dener's Monthly"
No grape is suitable for making
wine which will not produce, in the
process of fermentation, sufficient
grape sugar and alcohol to form wine
that will keep for several years in
casks or bottles, without the addition
of cane sugar and alcohol or spirits
obtained from other sources. Domes-
tic wine as commonly made, with the
addition of two or three pounds Of
cane sugar to the gallon of grape juice,
and three to six gallons of pure spir-
It's or high wines to the barrel, is not
true wine its use is injurious to the
stomach, and the manufacture of such
cordials and alcoholic mixtures should
be discountenanced as unworthy of a
grape growing country. @
The first essential condition required
in grapes to make good wine, is that
they should arrive at perfect maturity
that is to say, to such state Of per.
fiction that they will not grow sweete,
in a sensible degree. 1t follows
therefore, that no variety OF crap,
which does not attain this perfec
degree of maturity every year, in an,
given locality, can be depended on t
make wine, however high its win
making qualities may be in othe
respects.
The leading wine grape of tn
Atlantic portion of the United States
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Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Pure Water For Horses,

it is highly necessary that horses
should be supplied with pure water,
for impure water, like damaged food,
is more or less opera tive as an indirect
cause, in inducing an unhealthy con-
dition of the digestive organs. We
urge the owners of horses to attend
to this matter, for it is wretched bad
policy to lead a hard working, thirsty
horse to trough containing water
not fit to drown a cat in, and too bad
to make tea for such wretch as Yeh.
Some infectious and contagious
diseases can, without doubt, be COM
municated through the medium of
water. Sometimes a horse, the sub
iect of some affection, either acute or
chronic, of the respiratory passages
has prOfuse discharge from the nose;
this mOrbed secretion finds its way
INTO the water in the act of drinking,
and the next horse that comes to i'm
bibe is very apt to swollow a portion
Of this matter, which is generally
found floating on the surface. Trough
water is further contaminated by
animals washing their mouth and
lips in the same, and the bipeds who
delight to visit a water trough in
warm weather, are not ever careful
what they put into it. We have
often found an old boot, or an "old
soger, or dirty sponge at the bottom
of a trough in this city, from which
over twenty horses drank their daily
supply of water. Attention to this.
matter may possibly prevent moHy
cases of unnecessary diseasc.--Am
Yet. Journal.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Agricultural Editors.

A great many people think that ed'
itors of Agricultural papers, are all
practical farmers, but this is a great
mistake. Probably not over three or
four of some fifty editors in the Uni.
ted States, are men who cultivate any
thing more than a garden. They are
not able to cultivate farms, if they de-
sired to, because the duties Of their
Offices prevent any such diyersionfrom
their mental and general office labors.
We are compelled to spend a pOr-
ton of our time upon our farm, in the
season Of cultivation, in order to
secure a state of health which close
confinement to the duties of our Office
would render impossible.
But farmers do not want to read
what editors ofrural papers have to
say on farming, &C., so much as what
is communicated by fellow farmers,
they who have spent their lives in
husbandry, stock>raising, sc. One
department, the agricultural Press"
VIII be especially valuable on this
account, as it is made up of the best
by practical farmers, that
we can find in about forty different
agricultural, and horticultural Jour
nails. .---
1t is always. however, expected
that the editor of such paper as this
will have something to say in each
number on some important subject to
farmers, or fruit growers, or garden
srs; but it should ever be borne in
mind, that almost every editor is
liable to error, at least liable to make
which will not always be
endorsed by all the readers of his
paper. No editor ever was perfect,
md we are no exception of this rule.
Rural american.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
RhnhArll.

| Lie uluGIGub hluQO VI IuUUuA Oh {
raised from seeds, and increased by
that means, or dividing the roots; the
latter is preferable for increase, as
there is much greater advantage in
getting good strong plants in one
half the time they could be had from
seed. If raised from seed SOW in pots
very thinly, in mixture of earth
consisting of one-half leaf mould and
one, half rich loamy earth; place the
pots in cucumber frame, or hot
house, until the plants make their
appearance, which will be in a very
short time, provided the seed is sown
in April. AS soon as the plants
have attained the height of one inch,
let them be thinned out to a single
plant, and in two or three days move
the pots into the green house, or
other cool place, to harden the plants.
As soon as the pots begin to be
full of roots, which will be the case in
two or three, weeks let the plants be
moved into pots size larger, and in
two or three weeks time the plants
may be placed in the rows where they
are to remain.
If increased by dividing the roots,
take care that there is a bud on each
part y0S intend to plant; let one of
those buds be placed in the centre o.
each pot, and as soon as they begin
to be filled with roots, &C., treat them
the same as the seedlings. In making
the ground or rows ready for planting,
throw ont the earth two feet in breadt,
and to the depth of twenty inches; let
this be filed up with equal parts leaf
mould rich loamy earth, the soil which
is thrown out of the trench, if of a
moderate quality, and one part of
good rotton dung, to which add a
small quantity of sharp sand; let all
these be incorporated together. Fill
up the trenches sufficiently high to
allow for setting. When the earth
has sunk down, turn the plants out
of the pots into the middle of the
trench, three feet apart in the row,
and if double row, let them be four
feet row from row: If the above in
structions be properly attended to,
rhuharb of first rate quality will be
produced. The only managementre-
quired afterwards is to keep the rows
clear of weeds, and every autumn to
fork the ground over to the depth of
four or FIVE inches, covering the same
with a good coat of rotton manure;
take care not to injure the crowns
in forking. AS soon as any of the
plants begin to run up for Towering,
let the stem be Immediately y cut of,
which will be the means of keeping
the plants in much stronger growing
state; for when they are allowed to
retain the fowring spikes, it weakens
the leaf stalks very much.
The above is from writer in the
Gardeners Monthly, and is designed
for those who have hot houses; but
farmers and others, who cultivate
gardens in a more economical way,
caninerease their rhubarb beds, by
merely cutting up portions of the
plants in the spring. each having a
bud, and setting them out, covering
buds about two incees deep with the
soil. The second year these plants
will be ready to use, and after the
third year may again be divided.
- Miners Rural .Americdn.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
killing RatS.--A NOVel Plan.

The premises of a good many far.
mers are often infested with rats, and
we are often asked fo, modes of des-
truction, A resident of Brooklin is
vexed with an increasing family of
rats that seem to grow fat on arsenic
and rat-exterminators. He dosen't
like rats, and refers his case to the
Sunday Times. That Journal recon-
mends trap made as follows:
"Take u mackeral barrel, for in
stance, and fill it about one third its
height with water. Then place log
endwlse in TIE 'Sater, so that one end
of it will just remain above the SUR
face. Make the head of the barrel a
little too email to fit, and suspend it by
two pins to the inside of the top of the
barrel, so it will hang as if on pivot
arG easily tip by touching either side.
On this head, thus suspended, secure
a piece of savory meat. The first rat
that sents it will, to get the meat
leap on the barrel head. The head
will tip, or tilt, and precipitate him
into the water, and resume its former
position. The rat in the water will
swim to the log, get on the end of it,
and squeal vociferously. His cries
will bring other rats, all of whom viii
be tilted into the water, and all oi
whom will fight for the only dry spot
in it-viz., the end of the log. Al
only one rat can hold it, the victor
will drown all the rest, and can, in the
morning be drowned himself. We
have seen twenty rats caught in one
night by such a trick"
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Iarch 20, 1862. Ins7-1yI
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Superior to any $40 map ever made by Cotton or
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1t is not only a County Map but it is also
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Send for 81 worth to try.
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ali our agents.
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The War Department uses our Nap of Virginia, Mary
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Ferry NillbroOk Mills, NOlands Ford, and all others
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From The Tribune, Augusta.
rsIIoyd's Map Of Virginia, Maryland, and PeDpsylVa-
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and is the best which can be PUrchGsed. al2fs-st
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Garget or Bloody MIX.

Give one pound of sulphur one
fourth of pound at time, four days
in succession, unless the third dose
effects a cure. Give in bran, or meal,
or anything the COW viii eat. AS a
cure for garget and bloody milk, this
is the best thing l ever tried.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Shingles! ShinglesIl

would respectfully inform the citizens OF Nemaha
,1t that shall endeavoF to keep this market sup
I;eI win good Cottonwood shingles which will sci
tr OF take in exchange Cattle, Hogs Wheat or
iot M cesn =" ~ a R. u. BARRET.
March q, 1862. [nss-tf1
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Okra or Gumbo Seed.

The best substitute for Cofee-prepared In tne same
each zach package contains seed enough to raise
sPgpSa gEa ~ oys,sra A. II. A. TERRY.
,sSoS Crescent Oity, Iowa.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06

1t is one of the gravest mistakes in the
world to De looking for great opportuni-
ties.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
PRINCE e. Co.,
FLUSHING. N, ".

will send to applicants who enclose stamps, their
View catalogue OF Small Fruits including zoo select
yistioe of strawberries Also Catalogue OF BulbOus
Tio,TerS and PRonies Fruit and Ornamental Trees,
roses and Flowering Plants, Seeds, &e. n1O-2E
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06

PROPAGATING THE CURRANF.--The
best way is to cut off in the early
Spring before the buds swell, the
growth of the last year, close to tho
old wood; make the cuttings one foot
long; remove all the eyes except some
three or four at the top Of the cutting
to prevent suecers then place it com~
pactly, in good sandy soil, to one
half its depth, OF six inches, and by
good care, in one year it will be suf-
fciently established for transplanting.
1t should always be cultivated in the
form of small brush trees, and by a
skillful hand can be easily made to
assume a handsome pyromidial or es>.
palier form. ALI superhuOus wood
should be carefully pruned out every
winter, and the plant invigorated with
rich manure iD the Spring. The
currant or goOscberry can hardly be
over-fed.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
Hats, Boots and Shoes.

Ihave lust received New Supply Of Hats, Boots and
shoes which will sell cheaper than they we're ever
DAVID sIEGEL.
BrOwnville. April 10, 1ss2-n4O-tf.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
New Remedies for
SPERMATORRHGA.
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
PHILADELPHIA.
For Sale at Bargains.

Two No l Shuttle Empire Sewing Machines.
One FRANKLIN Family Sewing Machine.
Two Horace waters $75 MelodiOns.
T,7o Frecb's Conical Washing Machines
one No. p. W. Gates * Co.'S Sugar cane NILS
Evaporaters. -. on. -,
Vile, Nebraska. -, -
March 18th 1881. Fso-H
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-12-06
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The sea is composed Of drops
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-05-15
HUMORS OF THE WAR.

The war is impressing itself upon our
social relations, and we shall conduct ev-
erythipg la nilitaire by and by. In
one of the New York courts, day or
two ago, one Of the pretty waiter girls"
was brought before the court, and dischar-
ged on giving 4" her parole of honor to
appear when called upon"
The Mobile Register responds to the
call upon the people to bring forward
their brass to be moulded into cannon
1t thinks the lawyers and members of
Congress now have chance to relieve
the wants of the Confederacy from their
large store of the article.
When the rebels are sent out to scour
the country, they think it their duty TO
make a clean sweep of all the property
in it.
The New Orleans papers are asking for
ladies' hoops to make cannon of. They
expectto 60 into battle with whoop.
The Secretary of War in jeopardy
A late dispatch from Gen. Banks division
announced that he intended to "seiZe
Stanton"
Northern Magnanimity. - Although
the South has discontinued all our period
icals, we continue to take their magazines.
The rebel leaders have evidently been
badly raised They may have to be rails
ed over again, or rather hoisted.
As there can't well be too much of a
good thing, pretty rebel women should be
pressed and repressed.
Many able bodied men are actually ask
ing charity. Let them join the army
Better take arms than aims.
There is much blowing, moving and
raking in the agriculture OF war.
The roads in Virginia are forty feet
in water-we refer to Hampton Roads.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-05-15
EX.PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.

Occasional" the Washington CORES
pendent of the Philadelphia Press, relates
the following incident, which clearly shows
that Old Buck" still sympathises with the
South:
Not long ago, two ladies called at Wheat
land, the safe retreat ofthe man who assisted
treason to arm itself in the very sanctuaries
of freedom, and while there they we're thrown
into conversation with the venerable Pres.
ident. Ofcourse, the war was soon intro
duced In the course of conversation, the
battle at Fort Donelson was alluded to, when
he said Ladies, you must not suppose that
this victory will end the war; there will be
much severe fighting yet, and should our
Northern soldiers attempt to 90 South as the
warm season approaches, they will be swept
off like rotten sheep. Besides, ladies', you
know that the Southern people have long an
ticipated this struggle, and have been pre-
pared for it; they can never be conquered. !"
Miss - replied: " Yes, Mr.. B., WE know,
and so does the country, that for the last four
years, at least, the Southern people have been
permitted to do as they please with the pow
ers that controlled the Government, and have
been allowed to have their own way in every
thing; but, Notwithstanding all this, it is our
opinion that they ,ciu be conquered, and made
10 return to the support of the old Constit,i,
ton"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-05-15

ARMY CLorHING.-The Scientific Amer
lean expresses the opinion that the American
Manufacturers will be unable to supply the
dark. blue cloths required for military coats
for officers and privates. 1t estimates that
four and half millions of yards per annum
will be required to furnish an army of six
thousand men. Besides the blue coats re-
quired for our army and navy the officers
wear dark blue trowsers, and so do the entire
cavalry. The color of the trowsers and
oyercoats of the infantry soldiery, is also blue,
but its tone is quite light. For the entire
annual equipment of the army and navy in
uniform, it will be safe to allow one half the
quantity of cloth for trousers that is necessa'
nv for coats, thus making the total SIX and
tire quarter millions yards of indigo blue
cloth.