The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-09-14
TIE Poetry Of PloWjn9.
BY c. N.AHoLMEs.

The lord Of earth, the hero of the plowl
First in the field before the reddening sun,
Last in the shadows when the day is done
Line after line along the burning sod,
Marks the broad acres where his feet have trod;
Still where he treads the stubborn clods divide,
The smooth, fresh furrCw opens deep and wide;
Matted and dense the tangled turf upheaves.
Mellow and dark the ridgy corn-feld cleaves;
Up the steep hillside where the laboring train
Stands the long track that scores the level plain;
Through the moist valley cloggd with oozing
d clay, -it
The patient convoy breaks its destined way;
At every turn the loosening chains resound,
The swinging ploughshare circles glistening
Till the wide field one billowy waste appears,
And wearied hands unbind the painting steers.
ENGLISH RACE oRsEs.-In Great Britain
from the. highly cultivated knowledge of the
mechanical structure of living bodies with the
junction of best shapes although but for racing
this knowledge would have been only in its in
tancy-the horse has arrived at its highest state
of perfection OF which his nature IS capable;
y. andinwhateve or country, and whatever climate
his racing powers are put to the test, he has
scarcely found a rival, excepting under very
dlsadyantageous circumstances; 1t Is true ms
lasting qualities were doubted, and he was
challenged to rebut the charge, and the follow
ing was the result. - a.,
On the 4th of August, 1895, two second-rate
English racers-Sharper and Mina--contended
against the most celebrated, Cossackl horses
from the Don, the Black Sea, and the Ural, in
a race of the cruel length Of forty-seven miles.
At starting, Sharper and Nina ran away with
; their riders more than a mile, and up q steep
hill, when the latter broke down and i'm
mediately pulled up. Half the distance q, was was
half only one of the Cossack horses was able
] to contend with sharper, who, Notwithstanding
every foul advantage was taken by changing
the weight, and dragging along his opponent
tu,p,, in Ia CT
forming the distance in two hours and forty
eight minutes. At starting, the English horses
carried three stones weight more than the
Cossacks; and during. the latter half Of the
by q mere child. Every trial over the desert,
no matter what the distance, during 1926 to-
+ 1856, between English and Eastern horses has
been attended with precisely the same result i
HEN MANURE.-A correspondent of the
Country Gsntlema, writes: Twill give you the
method which have practiced for the last few
years. Take one bushel of hen manure one
bushel of ashes, one-fourth of bushel of plas-
ter, mix it thoroughly together; and apply
one-third of handful to each hill. 1t is very
essential that manure should be thoroughly
pulverized, and for this purpose usually place
already so. Place a thin layer on a portion of
the floor, take a common fail and commence
to thrash it until very fine push this one side,
take, another flooring, and proceed as before
y
methods to crush the many Jumps that are in
the manure, but have found this much the
quickest and easiest. Ny practice has been to
apply this to the young corn as soon as it shows
GUS start. . 35.,. Il
mark the time of day and night nearly as faith
fully as the hands of a clock, thus Lettuce
flowers open at six in the morning, those of the
water-lilly at seven, of the pimpernel at eight,
Of the field marigold at nine, of the Neapolitan
fig marigold at ten, of the star of Bethlehem at
eleven, of the EGGPLANT flower at noon, of the
pink of Spain at one, of the red fringe tree at
two, of the chinchona ut three of the beam tree
at four, of the mervel of Peru at five, of the
black and blue geranium at six, of the yellow
day lily at seven, of the nocturn marigold at
eight, of the Mexican pystrche at nine The
rainy marigold can be used for barometer.
FIT is going to be fine weather, its flowers open
at about seven in the morning and close be-
tween three and four in the afternoon; if it
will rain during the day, they don't open at all.
A NEW SERIES OF FowL.-A gigantic barn
yard fowl called the Bengum Gayusa has been
introduced into Scotland from Central India.
This male is thirty inches high, and appears
like the Shanghae, except that on the head Il
couple Of minute horns rise, instead of comb,
along the upper side of the bin. The wattles
are also larger and fuller. The chickens of
this fowl, it is reported, grow to the weight of
eight pounds at seven and eight months old
of course including the drumsticks.
Moss BISCUITS. Weigh half pound of
flour, to which add an ounceand a half Of but
ter and five ounces of sugar, rub them well
together and mix with one whole and one white
OF egg and teaspoonfull of milk; then add
two ounces of ground almonds, which rub well
into the paste; afterwards rub the whole
through a gauze, wire sieve, taking it off IN
small pieces, which lay upon lightly buttered
baking-sheet, md bake them in u moderate
oven. .,. - HSV If y. 4fte - Fl .,., .
PRoTIT ON STRAwaERR1Es-Fro the single
county of Bergen, New Jersey, there were
h sent to the New York market 4, 500, eco baskets
rate of five cents per baskeGthe value of these
would be 1926, GEO. The prost made IS about
I fffyper cent59s II .l--siS fstHif
'as THERE Is trouble in reference to the
NJ. E. Church South, at Parkefsburg.
Bishop Kavahaugh, who recently visiHsa
I, that place for the purpose Of reorgaNs-
II ling the denomination, not only there,