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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05
Making Soil:

WE make soil when we ditch it. Be-
fore, it was wet and unreclaimed, fit only
for water grasses, and in many cases not
even these. Now, it is land. i, You look
upon it, and you think it almost miracle
and, indeed, a miracle it is in farming,
such as we want to see more of. This is
the farmers praise, that he has reclaimed
useless soil. 1t is better than to make a
new soil, as is done in sandy districts ac-
cessible to good markets. 1t relieves your
land of a cess-pool, where it is swampy,
and removes danger to cattle. An eye
sore is also removed, and you can now go
about your farm. tits dry--it is land-it
is healthy. It will last; but this only
when you make your ditch well, if Gov
cred; if open, you need not keep it clear
but cover, that is the beauty and the
benefit of the thing. If all our land was
underlaid with numerous bitches, laid
deep, what world it would be!-what an
increase of the arabic quantity of land J.
and what wonderful increase of It's pro-
ductiveness Cor. Rurdl World.
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becoming smaller to the northward, but
increasing in number at the same time, SO
as to excite the profoundest astonishment.
The surface of the ground of one of the
Lachow Islands is said to be completely
covered with mammoth bones. Tusks
have been brought thence for hundreds of
years, without apparently reducing the
supply in the least. About 10000
pounds are collected annually in New
Siberia, representing at least 800 mann
moths, SO that in the 200 years of
trade with that country, the tusks of co.
900 animals must have been collected.
Some Of the tusks are so large as to render
it impossible to remove them except in
pieces. They are found lying either on the
surface of the ground or beneath it, some
times buried in bogs, or heaped up along
the mouths of the rivers, covered with
sand, or frozen ill the cliffs by the sea-.
Entire skeletons occur, sometimes singly,
at others aggregated as if an entire herd
had been suddenly destroyed. The coun-
try, in many places is said to resemble,
with it's scattered, unburied skeletons and
bones, some vast battlefield.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05
The WOman,S Club.

JOHN PAUL writes from New York: !" A
considerable curiosity has been expressed
to know what the object of the woman's
club is, what is going on there. Have
patience, good public, and you shall know.
The married women will tell their hus
bands all about it, and, some of them being
editors, it will get into the papers. There's
Mrs. Paul, for instance; I've got nothing
out of her yet, but the things working.
The treatment which she is now undergo
ing never fails. I affect to have no curl
osity at all scarcely mention the club, in I
fact, except to say, when the appointed day
comes: well, my dear, this is your club
night; you'll want my latch-key, suppose.
Don't let that horribly dissipated Mrs.
Brown persuade you to drink more tea
than's good for you; and, if I've retired
when you get home, come up stairs as
softly as you can, and don't get into bed
with your boots on-be particular about
that She assumes very mysterious cir
about her club and tries to provoke me
into questions which, of course, if l asked,
she would refuse to answer. AS it is, in
the face of my indifference to know, it is
evident that she is dying to tell. The
other night, she began, sOh, John, if L
was only sure you wouldn't tell about the
Sorosis, I'd But l simply said,
Don't dear; Pm so sleepy However,
intended to let her tell me at an early day;
for, plainly, the thing is on her mind, and
she must have it off 1t is clear case of
feminine n0Nesse obgSge-tell ordie. Ishall
soon know as much about the SorOsis as
could were | Sorose myself"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05
Farmers Gardens.

NOTHING adds to the comfort of a
farmer and his family more than large,
well managed garden in which an abun-
dant supply of small fruits and vegetables
can be grown without much expsnsc or
without interference with the field crops
By little economy, enough.manure can be
collected from the liquids and solids which
are generally allowed to go to waste about
the house to keep up the fertility OF the
soil of the garden.
A liquid manure tank will be found
very serviceable for providing the best
sustenance for plants in shape that it
can be easily taken up by the roots. In
this tank should be collected all the
manurial liquids which are generally
thrown away, and when they have been
enriched by age and fermentation, they
may be pumped out and applied directly
for saturating muck or long-dry barn-yard
manure. None but those who have tried
it are aware of the beneficial effect good
drenching of liquid manure has upon
barn-yard dung.
Every farmers garden should be well
stocked with the different varieties of cur
rants-red, white, and black,-also with
raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, etc.
When a small stock of those valuable
fruits is procured, it may be increased
every year until full supply is obtained.
Rhubarb, or pie plant, is so easily propa-
gated, lasts so long when once planted,
and is so wholesome and palatable a
vegetable, that it should be found in every
garden.
Cabbages, beets, parsnips, carrots onions,
potatoes, turnips, corn, ETC., may be grown
in young orchard with very good effect,
as the manure which is applied to the
vegetables will be beneficial to the trees,
and the after-culture of the crops will keep
the soil friable, and weeds will be eradi-
Gated. a tg s...t .s
Vegetables Of every kind succeed best in
drills with plenty of room between the
rows, and also between the plants The
drills should be wide enough to permit of
cultivation by horse labor. Cabbages re-
quire to have the soil deeply titled between
the rows and everywhere about the roots.
Earthing up, or killing, does not improve
them, as it throws off the rain which is re-
quired by the roots.
A large quantity of excellent manure
for the vegetable garden may be made by
keeping the floor of the poultry house
covered with dry muck or ashes, leached
or unleached, for the purpose of absorbing
the droppings of the foul. When this is
collected, mixed, and applied to the soil,
excellent crops will be the result.-Agri-
cultural Paper.
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Origin of the Names for the Days of
.n the Week. sW

MOST persons are familiar with the facts
in reference to the names of the days of
the week, and yet there may be some who
are not able to account for the order in
which they occur.
The division of time into weeks was
probably first made by the Chaldeans; and
the general order as adopted by this
ancient people, has existed to the present
time.
According to the Ptolematic system,
there are seven planets which revolve
around the earth in the following order of
distances, beginning at the most remote
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus Mer.
curry, Moon.
The day being divided into twenty-four
hours, and each hour, by turns, being de-
voted in theory to one or another, In reg
ular order, of the divinities which ruled
the planets, the present order of days was
necessary in order to keep up an uninter-
rupted succession.
Saturn, or Saturday was the first day Of
the week, the first hour of which was also
devoted to Saturn, the second hour to
Jupiter, the third to Mars, the fourth to
Sun, the fifth to Venus, the sixth to Mer-
curry, and the the seventh to Moon. The
eighth was in regular succession devoted to
Saturn, so also the fifteenth and the
twenty second; the twenty third to Jupi-
ter, the twenty fourth to Mars, and the
first hour of the second day to Sun, hence
the day is called Sunday. By continuing
the same order Sun answers to the, eighth,
fifteenth and twenty second; the twenty
third is Venus, the twenty fourth Mer-
curry, and the first hour Of the third day is
Moon, hence MONDAY or Monday.
Moon answers the eighth, fifteenth and
twenty second hours the twenty third to
Saturn; twenty fourth to Jupiter; the
first hour Of the fourth day is Mars-Saxon,
Tuisco or Zig, hence, Tuesday.
The first hour of the fifth day by the
same succession, will be Mercury-Saxon,
Wodeno, hence Wednesday. The order
gives the first hour of the sixth day to
Jupiter, the Saxon Thor, hence Thursday.
Friday, likewise, gives its first hour to
Venus-Saxon, Frigga. ~
These results may be conveniently
grouped in the following tabular form:
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05

the nature of the soil. Sandy soil
especially if of coarse texture, is too
porous during the great heats of summer,
and by these atmospheric influences de-
composition may be carried on too rapidly
so as to remove from the soil the elements
of fertility, and they be lost to the plants
we cultivate. To avoid this danger on
such soil the plows should lay dead, fiat
furrow, and pulyerize it only in slight
degree. But on clayey, tenacious loans,
the plow should perform entirely different
work. 1t should thoroughly disintegrate
the left hand half of the furrow, and lay it
with the greatest lap or at the greatest pos
sible angle, which will not turn back, and
which will kill the heritage that was grow
ing on its surface. The furrow thus pull
verified and deposited will admit air and
water through it, and the air chambers
within the soil will enable us to avail our
selves of all the desirable influences that
have been enumerated.
Frost is one of the great natural forces
that has made soil from rocks, and whose
influence in pulverizing and comminuting
it are indispensable to the farmer in most
portions of the country. If the plow can
aid the frost in this work, when and in
WIldt Uldu1tI Cdn ~ DO tiSCU W tuC SlCdoCol
advantage? In the fall, of course, and in
such manner as to expose the greatest
amount of surface and give the cold air
and frost the first passage through it. This
can be done best by laying the furrow on
edge or by ridging, but a furrow well
Tapped with good passage beneath is very
effective, and we should have plows
adapted to this kind of work. <
The absorbing properties of the soil are
indispensable to successful cultivation and
largely to its fertility. Dark -colored soils,
or those which contain a large per cent. OF
humus, possess this property in the great
est degree, absorbing from the air its
moisture and gases, and conveying them
to the roots of plants for food, and to the
lower soil to develop in it the elements OF
nourishment it contains.
The depth of blowing has much to do
with this, and if too deep nearly destroys
it. Flowing alone will not make soil and
the depth of tillage must be determined
by the nature of the soil itself If that is
but two inches deep, three inches is
enough to pillow at first, and the process OF
deepening should be guarded until you
have reached point where the influences
of air and heat are little felt. If the soil
has depth of six inches, and the pillow
should be run twelve inches below the
surface, and the bottom soil be brought
up on the top, it would be nearly ruined
for time, because its absorbing power
would be destroyed, and around the root
let of the plant mass of cold, Gfeless
material would be placed destitute of food,
while the soil which would afford it nutri-
ment is buried beyond its reach.
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ITEMS.

GIRDLED TREEs.-The most successful
remedy for trees that have been girdled by
mice or other means, seems to be simply
banking the earth around the uncovered
parts, so as to prevent the suns drying
and checking the wood. New bark will
form If the wound is kept moist and dark.
If the girdling is too high up on the stem
to be easily banked, clay should be brou yht
around it by enclosing the tree in. a box
Numerous well attested instances of grid ed
trees being saved by these means have
come under our observation.-Raral Neao
Yorker.
HURRYING FARM WoRK.-It is a good
thing for a farmer to have his ground
mapped out, the crop for every section
specified, and thes time for working each
part noted in his plan of action. But this
rule is liable to modification from causes
not foreseen, and especially from the
character of the weather. If it has been
decided to pillow such a field at a given
time, it would be poor policy to do it if the
soil was overcharged with water, or too
arid to make blowing easy and profitable.
-AgricmturI Paper.
EVERY peach tree in the orchard should
be carefully examined, at least twice a
year, for the purpose of finding and de-
stroying the borer. When the grubs are
small and confined to the bark, they may
be easily detected. If they have pene-
trated into the wood, they must be dug
out with knife or a piece of strong wire.
A small quantity of air-slacked lime piled
around the base of the trunk has been
found good preventive of these insects.
THE Canada Farmer says that of $449.44
of township expenditures in atownship in
Canada, $355.25 were paid "for destruc-
ton of sheep" 1T has no reason to sup
pose the dogs in that township are worse
than others.
IT is said that the last cup of milk drawn
from the COW" the strippings contain
sixteen times as much cream as the first
cup We will not vouch for the exact
figures, but the true ones are large.
THE Trustees of the Maine State Agri-
cultural Society have deci6 eG to hold the
State Fair in Portland, beginning Tues
day, September goth, and to continue four
days. s
MULTITUDEs of farm accidents happen
because nuts on running gear are not
looked after and irept tight. Five minutes
attention each day, wrench in hand, is the
remedy.
THE Department of Agriculture says
that ten million bushels of wheat are
wasted in this country annually by bad
sowing-too deep, too shallow, too thick,
too thin, too uneven.
SOFT soap suds will be found valuable
for gardens and yards of sandy soil-and
almost any other for all that. Suds from
bar soap are of less value.
EVERY farmer ought to know that cut
nails heated red-hot and dropped into cold
water will clinch as well as wrought nails.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05
Genuine Comfort.

WHILE travelling, few years since, L
was detained some days in one of our West
ern cities. My room overlooked lane,
or alleyway, in which were several houses
occupied by the better class of artisans, and
/ became much interested in one OF these !;
SO much so, that no sooner did | hear a
glad shout from a little voice than knew
It was meal time, and "Daddy was COM
ing,o and / took up my point of observa-
ton in harmless and admiring scrutiny of
the well-governed house. On the way in
the father raised the rejoicing child in his
arms, aud gave it two or three resounding
smacks; another one had crept to the
door-sill, and this was lifted also, and its
little cheek laid tenderly upon the shout
der, which was Launched up to bring it
closer to that of the fathers BY this time
the wife had brought bowl Of water, and
a white, coarse towel then she took the
children down, applying also sundry pats,
now on the shoulders of the little ones,
and now on the broad, fatherly ones; and
while the husband gave last rub OF the
hard, rough hands, he stretched out his
neck and kissed the pretty, girllsh wife,
who would be lowering near him. They
said grace, they dined at the plain, whole
some board and more than once / found
myself waiting them a benediction with
the tears in my eyes 1t is so british
to pass without word of recognition of
the Great Giver The husband was a
grave man, and the wife lively, CHEEKY
one, neat as a new pin, and very chatty.
/ thought them wonderfully well matched,
for there was 10 moroseness in the man
nor levity in the woman, and when Sun
day came. and the little household, dressed
in all their flnery, baby and all, went out
to church, it was sight to behold.-Mrs.
Oahes Smith, in the Herald Of HedtM.
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Potato Growing,

YEAR by year the potato has advanced
in Importance as an agriculture produc-
ton, until it now ranks with the foremost
of our farm crops. 1t is noticeable fact
that its prices in various parts of the coun-
try are nearly equal, and the grower is
not compelled to seek, nor dependent on,
distant markets for profitable returns.
The large cities of course consume i'm
mense quantities, so, too, do the smaller
towns and villages everywhere, and as no
surplus can be carried over from one year
to another, the local as well as shipping
demand will always be good and generally
steady. In all localities that are well
adapted to potato growing, farmers will
do well to pay considerable attention to
this branch of their business AT present
prices the crop is enormously profitable,
with a fair yield. We have observed, too,
that farmers who had good advantages in
the points of location and soil, have made
themselves rich by steadily pursuing DO
tato growing for a short term Of years. 1t
is true they met with occasional failures
sometimes from rot, or drouth, or low pri-
ces-but these were compensated for by
years of unusual success. In regard to
prices, they are much less variable latterly
little danger of meeting serious reverses in
that direction.
Owing to the nature of the crop, which
is bulky and requires much labor to ham
die, close proximity to Market or to a
shipping point, is very essential to grow
ing it on large scale. Five miles, even,
will be found long and weary distance to
haul large crop Of potatoes, and where
the location is so near the market that it
is only the work of two or three days to
haul the crop, the advantage of prices
which may often be taken viii add large
ly to the profits. AS for soil, loans al 9
the best, and stiff clays least adapted to the
potato.
The cultivation of potatoes, with the ex-
ception of harvesting, may be carried on
with as little expense as that of corn, and
perhaps with even less cost. They may
be planted rapidly by machinery, and by
judicious and timely use of the harrow
and cultivator, hand hoeing is rendered
unnecessary. The young potato plant is
much tougher than that of corn, and will
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05

AMONG the resources of our new terri
tory of Alaska, its richness in fossil ivory
is not the least in importance. Several To-
calities are known to abound in this sub
stance-the tusks of the mammoth, or
hairy fossil elephant. The ivory Of which
these are composed is of fine quality, and
for many purposes equal if not superior,
to that of the living elephants This sub
stance is, however, better known asa pro-
duct of Siberia, where trade in it has been
carried on for hundreds of years. The tusks
obtained weigh from 100 to 40 pounds,
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Nature is the Great Physician.

This is now admitted, by the medical profession,
as a fundamental principle of healing science 1t
is wisely provided by the human economy that
whenever anything is wrong in the physical sys-
tenn the natural forces of the body are brought to
bear to expel the disease. The great aim, there
fore, is to strengthen the natural powers. This
has been kept in view by the skillful compounders
of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS, which
operates to give fresh vitality to all the organs of
the body. The effect of this medicine upon the
stomach, the liver and the kidneys, is prompt and
decisive. The patient who is wise enough to quit
drugging and try the BITTERS, soon feels as If
he had taken new lease of life, and as he contin-
ues the use of the article, he is overjoyed to find
the streams of health coursing through his frame.
1t is prepared with great care, and its component
parts are entirely vegetable. 1t is free from the
objection so often urged against preparations of
the kind as MEDICAL AGENT it has no
equal while its pleasing flavor and healthfu effects
have made ii general favorite 1t liz free from
all properties calculated to impair the system,
and its operations are at once mild, soothing and
efficient. All who have used HOSTETTERS
STOMACH BITTERS attest its virtues and COM
mend it to use. es sd
Even those who are in the enjoyment of perfect
health frequently have need to have recourse to
tonics as preventives of disease. We are never
too well armed against the assaults of . the ills
that flesh is heir to- In health or sickness this
tonic cannot be taken regularly without giving
vitality and elasticity to the system.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05

TINE NOT MONEY" Stubs, my dear
fellow, isn't it about time you repaid me that lit
tie 1oanf''
8 Augustus, my boy, it isn't a question Of time,
but question of money"
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EEeIIsH farmers believe that killing
up" potatoes reduces their yield one
fourth. They do not rlpen as well'Afs9i
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THAT young man to whom the world
"owes living" has been turned out of
doors-his landlady not being willing to
take the Indebtedness of the world on her
shoulders. IN 49, ...,..ll. h. 49,
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Medical Illumination, :.

-Four Magni1cently Illustrated Medical Books, con-
and Women sent free on receipt Of % cents. by nd
dressing DR.J0IIN vhNDERPoOL, No.3G Clinton
Place, New York City. u las o
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Fossil Ivory.

Repeats in same order perpetuaIIy.
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Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury,
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PROSPECTUS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-09
THE GAZETTE.
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 9.

tBR1eHAM YoUNa.-On the 3lst ultimo, in
Great Salt Lake City. Brigham Young was
married for the thirty-frst time, the happy
bride being Mrs Merivine Van Colt, lady
twenty. eight years Of age, daughter of Elder
Van Colt, and formerly, while a gentle, the
wife of a Mr.. Cobb, from whom she was duly
divorced, SO that she could resume her maiden
name. She is; now the thirty. first of, the
Mormon prophets wives. not counting those
who have been only sealed, or formally married
TO him for the sake of merely securing their
salvation, since none but married women are
admitted into the Mormon heaven. VI the
previous thirty wives, the most recent was mar
ried to Brigham on the 29th of January, 1862;
her name was Amelia Folsom, and she emigra-
ted to Utah from Council Bluffs, Iowa. She
has since presided over his establishment and
nat in the first place in the temple and the the
ntre Now she resigns this distinction to Mrs.
Van Cott and becomes lost in the general mass
Ct the household. The prophets thirty-fr
wedding festival was also distinguished by the
marriage Of his fourth daughter, Emily, to Ell.
der Hiram B. Clawson, who first wife is also
Mr.. Young's eldest daughter, Alice.