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ENGINES. MACHINERY, ETC,

ysSFSS2., PENN STEAM ENGINE AND
s8sssA&sssss, BOILER W0RK5--NEAFIE d LEVY
Pl.AGl1CAL AND TuEORErIOAL ENGINRERAI
SMITas, Rnd FOUNDERS, having Tor many yesys
been Ia successful operation, and been exclusively
ongaged in building and repairing Marine ana Rive
ranks, PropeIers etc. ETC., respectfully offer theI
setylces TO the public as being fully prepared TO cor
!EaGt 5oE engines OF all sizes Marine, River, sn0
prepared TO execute orders wish quick despatoS
avery description OF pattern-ma making made At ths
Tubular Cylinder Boilers, OF the best PennsylVs
MIA Charcoal iron. Forging o. al sizes and kinds
Iron anG B2ass Castings OK GL descriptions. RcU
turning Screw Cutting, ana all athes work connected
Drawings and speclacatl lOns Tor all work done al
the establshment free Of charge, Snd work guaraR.
fChe Subscribers have arnpe whAytduck room tov
repairs OF boats, where they can lie In perfect SAFETY
and are provided with sbeRra oiocks falls, ETC. GA
''1 N'D"'Ds As~'S Va ''7 JACOB o. NEAFIB,
JOHN r. LEVY,
sk BEACE and PALMER Streets,
!. YAueRN HERGIcE. .,,u ~ wIILIAA H, HERRICs
SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, FIFTH ANT
- WASHINGTON sueets,
PHILADELPHIA
MERRICh D SONS,
LSNG1NELHS AND hACHLNlSTH,
maarfnGt9Ee High and Low Pressure steam EngiEes
for Land, River, and Marine Service,
Boilers, Gssometers, TanEa, Iron Boata etc.
Castings OF all kinds either lion DrA5s.
Iron frame t.oom ior Gaa Wor&, Wnrkshcpai ana
RGLro9o stations, etc.
KetOFta and Gas N MachineIy, Ol the lAssaI ana noa
improved construction.
Every description Of Plantation NAohirery, Alss
sugEr, Saw, and grist ME-, Vacuum Pans, QA
steam Trains, pefecators, Filters eumpinS, Eh'
Sole Agents for ". 8Illeux'g Paaent sugar BoiiDa
Apparatus, Nesrnyth's Paters s,eaL3 Hammer, and
Aspinwall h WC0lsey's FStent Centrifugal susex
Draining Machines eslk
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READINa NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

.IchYes POltatOWh at 64b a NJ B,Opplng at Intel
mediate ststione; arrives 10 Philadelphia at gIO A.
Returning leaves Philadelphia at Z. MI arrives Il
POLtStown at els Z. M.
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CHESTER VALLEY RAILROAD.
PERKIOMEN RAILROAD,

Passengers for Downlngt0Wn and intermediate
points Is ke the 7'3O a. NJ II 30, and p NJ. trains
rom Philadelphia Returning from DowningtoNn
at $50 A, M, IL 40 and 5'l5 Z. M.
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,.->1111 ADEI PHIA AND ERIE RAILROAD
'ltt1rxTER 'ltt TIME TABLE,=ThRouGH AND
1IRECT k0UT BEEMktjEEs E fWHtLL1A1Rhhtsat4'
"a sAD % HE GREAT OIL REGION OF PENNsYL-
VANlA:, s,eeuipg Cars all Night Trains,
~ EIesSaa' aSa sfter MONDAY, Noyemher - isos, the
s on sn on the Philadelphia ana Arie R@llrOaa Will
run as follows;- WESTWARD,
mr., ,,z laaves Philaoe lphA.,,.,,,lOf5 as p, NJ
ALL = hAAAN ~ WilliRmspOrt,.,,.,,, $40 A. NJ,
=, arrives at Ere,,.,..,, ..,",,., so p. NJ,
, NV ppEssS leaves Phlladelp IL 80 A. M
Eh1b go Willam5port..",,. $50 p, M
a arrives at tErie,"-.,.,.,",l l0t0 A. M
,cY NSTpA MAII, leaves PhlRdelphiA..,u,, 500 A. M
ELUAnHu WillAmBpOrt,,.,.,. 6 80 p, M
arrives at LockhRVep.,,, 746 p, M
MAI1, TRAIN aves Erie.."..,.,....,"""1O'5 A. M.
a" Wnliamsp port .12 90 A. M
" arrives at Philadelphia".l0O0A A. M,
ERIE EXPRESS leaves l,;: ETle S2S
arrives at Philadelphia. 4'20 p, M
Mail ana Express connect with OIL Creek and
Allegheny River Railroad, BAGGAGE CHECK HD
THROUGH, ALFRED L. TYLER,
liz General superintendent
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INVEST JERSEY RAILROADS.
wv FALL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT,
From foot of MARKET Street (Upper Ferry.
Com menGinE w @WEpNNESRAYl y septempsr, 10, 1883
- For Cape May and stations below Alllyille, S6
For Mnlyille, vinelAnd. ana intermediate stations
and $50 p. M, : = =. -. =. :.
For Woodbury. At Sis A. M, sl5, $50, and 500 ?.
noon.
~A'@A' ~"N WILLIAM ]. SEWELL4
Gas sapaxntepdRnk
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a FTEnNOON EXPRWae
PoTTsTowN AUCOMMoDATIoN

Leaves Philade phia at 30 p. n. for Reading,
POttsvile, Harrisburg, etc. cont eCtnE with Re al
and Columbis Railroad trains for Columbia, etc,
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MORNING ACCo@MoDATIoN.
MORNING EXPRESS.

oU =.
stations and Allentown. Returning, leaves Reading
ct 635 r. NJ. arrives in Philadelphia at 9'I5 Z. Nj.
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AEARTIN BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS.-
lNl (Lattly Shlesnen for Id. Thomas q Sons.)
No. b29 CHLSNuT ST.. rear entrance from Minor
Sale at no. 24l =. Filth street.
VERY SUPERIOR HUUSEH OLD FURNITURE,
FINE BRUSSELS CARPETS, ETJ.
on Friday Morning,
26th mat AT 10 O'Clock, at No. 241 Fifth street,
the househo furniture. including suits handsome
walnut chamber furntlure superior walnut diniog-
room furniture walnut sldebosrd, cottage chamber
furniture hne Brussels carpets oil cloth, ingraia
carpets, Kitchen furniture, utei 8 Is, etc,
May be seen early on morning ofSale. L2233t
Sale at NO. 1s41 Chestnut street,
SUPERIOR HOUSEhOLD FURNIIURE ELE-
GANT ROSEWOOD CHIIKERING PIANO,
BOOKCASE, COTTAGE SUITS, FINE BRU5.
Sells AND OTHER CARPETS, BlC.
On Saturday Morning,
Feb. ~. at 10 o'clock, at No ls4I Chestnut street.
by CatRIoa the entire household furniture, nclud
ipR elegant rosewood pianotorte by Chickering,
superior walnut secretary and bookcase, cottage
chamber suits, mattresses bedding, fine Brussels and
ingram csrpets Oil cloth, china and glass; kitchen
utensils etc.
O'clock. 2 234t
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Passengers tor skppack take 7'3O a. NJ. and 4
M trains from Phllade phla,returning from 5kippac
a $40 A Nj. and IL As p ~ Stage lines tor the vRrou
points In Perkiomen Valley connect with trains a
Golegevlle and SkppRck
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MAITG

Close at the Philadelphia Post Office for all places
m the road and It's branches at M, and for the
principal stations only at 2l5 NJ
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RAILROAD LINES,

PBADING RAILROAD. GREAT TRUNK
Ik LINE FROM PHILA DELPHIA TO THE
ANTERIOR OF PENNSY LVANfA. THE sCHUYL
kILL; ILL; SU5QuEHANNA CUMBERLAND, AND
WYOMING VALLEYS,
NORTH, NORTH WEST AND THE OANADAs.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER
TRAINS, December Ia, 1868.
Leaving the CUmpanys Depot at Thirteenth and
Caliowhin s.reets, Philadelphia, at the following
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DunRan's Express Will collect baggage tor all trains
leaving Philadelphia Depot, Orders can be left at
No. 225 Fourth street, at the Depot, Thirteenth
and Callow hill streets.
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iSCHUYLKILL VALLEY RAILROAD,
Trsina leave Potlsville at 10 IL 80 A, M and
81 p, M returning from Tsmaqua at S'35 a, M, and
2.l5 and 4.35 ?. III.
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FREIGHT TRAINS
Leave Philadelphia daily at 4'35 A. M 1890 noon,
8 and 6 p. M, Tor Reading, Lebanon, Harrisburg
POtlsyiIle, Port Clinton and all points beyond.
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Gossip ana Gleanings.


Miss Kellogg goes to Europe next month
Moving for new trial-Courting seconi
wife.
Prince Arthur comes to Canada as a rifle
man,
Jerry Blackis still confined to his bed, in
Louisville.
The Gear has sent to the President small
field piece, with the names of the latters victo-
ries inscribed on it.
brigham Young's daughters wiring the
apostolic heart by their devotion to chignons
and paniers.
MIR. Raymond's grandfather and grand
mother, on his mothers side, and one of his
uncles died of apoplexy.
-P. 4. Barnum is revising and continuing
his autobiography, which is to be published in
the autumn.
Miss Rye has arrived again at Toronto
with an invoice of 80 young English women
who want places as domestic servants.
The Bev. Mr.. Whittingham, Rector of st.
Johns Church, New Haven, intends to start
new church magazine in few weeks.
The Minnesota squash vines have struck,
and voted that owing to the unreasonable de-
mands of the bugs there shall be no squashes
grown in the State this year.
The man who acted as guide to Lieutenant
Zebulon M. Pike, at the time of his discovery
OF Pixies Peak, in 1906, is now living at Con-
ejos, Colorado, and is over one hundred years
of age.
Here is suggestive sentence from late
advertisement by Londcn merchant: Min
lister Of the gospel supplied with goods at cost
if they will agree to mention the fact to their
congregation"
AN inebriated man walking along the
street regarded the moon with sovereign con-
tempt: "You needn't be so proud, ole fellow"
he said. You're full only once month, and
I am every night
-Eugenie was so moved by the sudden
death of her sister few years ago, that she
meditated retirement to cloister. 1t now
transpires that the sister committed suicide
through jealousy caused by tboughtless act
of the Empress
The redwood forests of California are rap
idly disappearing, and the newspapers are dis
cussng what can be done to promote the
growth of this valuable tree.
The music-loving citizens of Vermont and
New Hampshire are to have a grand musical
festival at Lyndonville on the 10th, IL, 18th,
and 18th of August next A large tent is to
be used, capable OF accommodating 1000 per-
sons.
"A company has been formed in New York
to bring fresh meat to that market from Texas
The entire hold of their vessels is lined with
non-conducting felt; and by chemical means
cold below the freezing point will be kept up
Within the past ten days there has been
an extraordinary exodus of native and foreign
artistes to Europe. Among the latest depar-
lures are Madame Camilla Urso, NJ Aujac,
M. Colonne, Miles. Irma, Desclauzas and Du-
/ clos, and Miss Kate Newton. There are no
| opera boufe singers left in tbs country. Who
cares?
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,rn.s $500 per arnan., In advance.

acre for land, the state pamphlet to which l
have SO often referred, says 1t may be paid
out of the first crop. The average yield of
the crop for 1867 was given in the Bureau
statistics at Washington, at 1920 bushels per
acre, and $1.50 per bushel is the largest
amount claimed here as the average price,
which would make the State yield average
1880 per acre, or less than the cost Of the
first crop aside from the cost Of the land I.
But take the yield for that year claimed by
the official home statistics, 14,64 bushels per
acre. 1t is but justice to say that the first
crop is not ordinarily equal in amount or
quality to subsequent crops, unless the soh
has deteriorated through long cultivation,
lack of rotation in crops, OF lack of manure.
After the first crop the cost of fencing-less
expense of repairs-and halt the cost OF
breaking may be dropped out ofthe account.
We should then have 1921 per acre as the
average cost OF the wheat crops, ami twenty
bushels per acre at $500 per bushei, would
leave $3.50 per acre TO cover the interest oil
investment, repairs of fences and tools, and
DrOntS. Let III De felntinD<ieu3 hV"SfN@' e@
twenty bushels per acre is at least four or nve
too many, if we regard the most impartial ana
authoritative statistics, in considering tne eh-
tire crop Of the State, and while in years be-
fore the war wheat often realized to the pro-
ducer not over fifty cents per bushel, the past
year it has not ruled above eighty-hve cents
with present prospect of declining rather
than advancing.
CONCLUSION.
In the rough notes from which have
made up this communication, l had some
facts in relation to farming on big SCALE
and specInc facts in relation to the largest
wheat field in the state, containing from sew
enteen hundred to two thousand acres, but
the pledge made to myself that this letter
should be shorter than its predecessors COM
pels me to omit that portion, though II leases
this with an abrupt termination.
OBSERVER.
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Watches, JeweIry. &c,

j. AMBROSE MERRILL, No. 1879 Middle Street.
J. w. & H. H. McDUFFEE Ger. Middle & Union SITS
G. w. WINGATE, Nos. III and 1i9 Middle Street.
EDWARD G. SWEET, II Middle St., Fox Block.
II. F. HILL, No. 81 Federal Street.
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BiIliard Tables for Sale.

Tr0R SALE-Eight good Billiard Tables-three
L nearly new. Can be seen at Mechanics Hail.
Will be sold very low II applied for soon For fur
ther particulars inquire at
a16dtf 81 COMMERCIAL TRERT.
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This means the first plowing, and is gener-
ally done, on newly taken-up land, by con-
tract, as few immigrants are able to provide
themselves with plows, and teams Of sufi
cient weight and strength to do this kind of
work. The usual average price OF breaking
prairie, after the 'grubbingp has been done, is
five dollars per acre. The plows are of i'm
mense size and corresponding strength, and
cut or shave off very wide but thin furrow,
which, on smooth grass prairie, can be regu-
lated about as well as the thickness of pine
shaving made by carpenters plane. Deep
plowing Of unbroken land is not admissible,
because if the ploughshare goes below the
grass roots, they suffer but little decline, but
viii turn about and grow up again, through
the furrow, as though no calamity had be-
fallen them. To avoid this, the plow, pro-
vided with very sharp steel point, and al
most knife edge TO the share, is regulated to
so just deep enough to cut all the grass roots,
which ensures their destruction. The depth
to do this is from two to three inehes-some-
times less. The second and all subsequent
plowing is better for being deep, and the cost
per acre is about $3.50, or half the cost OF
breaking.
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WANTED
Agents Wanted

SoU CUNWsESs ST, FOftfHhu, Nts
ANE Or TWO active canvassing agents (femalcs
" prefelred1. in each town In the County of Cum
berland and with capital OF from five to twenty-five
dollars, to sell novel and useful article. which ID
wanted in every family, and from which a compen-
realized. june 20-d1m
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vVestbrooIr Manufac,rri,,o :

iTHE Westbrook Manufacturing Company having
removed their place of business from the store Of
onas II. Perey to the store occupied by the under
Agned on Central Wharf, offer for sale the various
hips Duck, Ravens Duck, Sail and Wrapping
wine, Sheetings, Mariners Stripes, Drills, Camlet
ppany are now putting in new and improved
sehincry for the manufacture of SHIPS DUCK,
eh they believe viii insure the best article which
be made. All orders promptly attended to.
M RUFUS e. WOOD, Treas,
No 10 Central Wharf.
.IP0rtland, Jan 9Th, 1869. isdtf
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OFFICE OF THE
lMrs. Belcher,s Wondertnl Cmre.

YHIS remedy for female weaknesses, made from
an Indian recipe, is entirely vegetable and cures
Vt0ut supporters. Manufactured and sold by Mrs.
Nus Belcher, Randolph, Mass General Agents
~ y. Goodwin d. Co, Boston, Mass. Demas Barnes
No, 81 Park Row. New York
VII. II. Hay General Agent for Maine.
~ For sale by druggists everywhere.
ffX 10. weow1y2t
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Found.
Found

A WALLET containing small sum OF money
"A which the owner can have by proving property
and calling at Entrance to Mechanics han, Con
gres ST., or A. G. CORLISS
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With the average market price of wheat at
one dollar per bushel, seed wheat, always the
best of the crop, should be reckoned at $1.25
per bushel, or two dollars per acre. Sowing
is reckoned at twenty-five cents per acre {;
"drag ing" or narrowing at fifty cents; cut
ting and stacking in the field, two dollars /;
threshing from stack, cleaning and putting
INTO granary, y,-alowing twenty bushels to the
acre,--two dollars forty cents; marketing,
two dollars sixty-six cents. In this calcula-
ton l allow, as the average marketing of the
crop of the State, that man with pair of
horses and wagon, can market thirty bushels
or 1900 lbs. per day, and this would be worth
at least four dollars. The product of some
fields may be marketed for much less sum,
while to move large proportion of the crop
the figures have given will be found entire
ly inadequate. The threshing is done in the
field, ordinarily from tee stack, by parties who
work on contract, at so much per bushel, the
owner of the wheat providing extra handsex-
ira horses, boarding the men and keeping the
animals, the extras, added to the usual price
paid the threshers, amounting to about twelve
cents per bushel. The threshers sometimes
receives less pay, like miller, in the form of
tolls.
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PROFITS OF wHEAT-RAIsING.

What remains Of space to me at this time /
will devote to careful consideration of the
profits of farming in this State, which, after
all, is the point in relation to which Yankee
farmers feel the most interest. No intelligent
man will leave New England merely to secure
larger supply of 'hog and hominy" than he
can command al home. He wants to know
something of the facilities for accumulating a
surnlns, and converting it into cash, and what
amount of "sponduIix" his balance sheet is
likely to exhibit at the years end. The state
ment in my last letter, copied from an official
pamphlet, was to The effect that land purchas-
ed at ten dollars an acre, could be paid for
with the cost OF fencing, breaking, cultivat-
ing, and all lother expenses, out of the first
crop. Let us submit this proposition to the
test of facts and figures. a.
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BOARD AND ROOMS.
Use the Original and Genuine
a IsOF. lTOHR,S .sesi
| German Fly Paper,

For the and Ger ain destruction Of Flies, Roach
~ es, Ants, Bugs, BIusquitos, &C.
Sold by all druggists and Grocers VIM. a. PEASE
esCo., Promietois, New Bedford, Mass. je2ieodsm
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no Let.

ssisss 9a45G no LeJs Fas 40 &
FrHE upper part of two story House No. 25 La
l. fayette st. Plenty of Hard and soft water
Rent fourteen dollars per month. Enquire OF
4asA sss PETER W ILLIAMS. g
je2i-d2w 4si-s ~ gy4 On the Premises.
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TOILET.
For Rent,

a HOUSE on Prebe Street. Ii rooms. Cottage at
n Woodfords Corner, 8rooms, and stable. g s
je26eod1w 3 GEO. r. DAVIS &co.
Argus copy, ~ s
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r. o Il r. II.

TrHKEE Rooms on second and third floors Of
Il Printers Exchange. Enqulr at the Press Oh
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WA NTED

TWO Smart and active Boys to act as News
l. Agents on the trains. Apply to
G. r.. CHISHOLM & BROS,
News Agents, G. T. r. Depot.
e29-d2t
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IA chine. Price S25. The simplest, cheapest and
best Knitting Machine ever invented. VIII knit 90
600 stitches per minute. Liberal inducements to
agents. Address AMERICAN KNITTING MA.
CHINE Co, Boston, Mass, or st. Louis, Mo.
Nav f9-d3m ~ as' '3>-FT
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To Let.
M ITH immediate possession, Store No 90 Com
w mercial street, Thomas Block lately occupied
by Morris, Sawyer d Kicker.
Apply to N. j. MILLER, Atheaeum Building,
Plum ST. ap2dtf
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NOTICE.

" for the sale of Duck and other goods manuiac-
ftured by the Westbrook Manufacturing Company,
lthe unsettled accounts and debts due 10 them will
Pc asfijs.Atsa by Treasurer. at Central
Wharf RUFUS e. WOOD, Treas.
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rMrANTED-AGENTs-s75 to $500 .,

!:
MErANTED-AesE to $500 per
n month, everywhere, male and female, to
M introduce the GENUINE IMPROVED
HjH COMMON SENSE FAMILY SEWING
81 IA MACHINE. This Machine will stitch. hem
~ b1o1deT III II0sC sarel and en-
81 only SIS. Fully warranted for fze Seafs.
We viii pay $1,000 Tor any machine that
81 will sew stronger, more beautiful, or
"a more elastic seam than ours. 1t makes the
ELASTIC Lock Stitch" Ever second stitch
can be cut, and still the cloth cannot be pulled
apart without tearing 1t. We pay Agents from SIS
to 5000 per month and expenses, or commission
from which twice that amount can be made. Ad-
dress SECOMB & CO., PITTSBUKG, Pa, or BOS-
TON, MASS, or ST. LOUIS, MO.
CAUTI0N.-Do not be imposed upon by other
parties palming of worthless castron machines, nr-
der the same name or otherwise. Ours is the only
genuine and really practical cheap machine manu-
factured. 8. lg'.., ,.,,t5- 4 may19-3m
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As general rule the farmers do not house
their stock in winter, or feed them in COM
Portable barns, but allow their cattle to re-
main all winter in the olen air, with the
mercury much of the time far below zero, the
poor, shiyering auimals glad to get on the
leeward side Of stack OF wild meadow hay,
upon which they contrige to subsist with
very little human care. If the ludest shelter
is provided under which cattle can stand
somewhat protected from the terrible fierce
ness of the elements, it is all that farmers
think of doing for their stock, while the cat
tie are obliged to nibbIe for life at the unpro-
tected hay stack, 1t is MS wonder if stock
comes out in the spring miserably poor, il
milk and dairy products are high, and if beef
is tough and stringy. .sig Sa
True, there are occasional exceptions I'd
this rule, ofsfarmers who show proper regard
for the health and comfort OF their stock, but
the number OF such is small, and though they
uniformly testify that kind treatment 'pays,'
the bulk of our farmers do not heed their
counsels. The prevailing custom to which
have referred shows not only how insensible
Minnesota farmers are to the comfort and
condition OF their live stock, but also how lit
tie they consider the necessity of economy IN
the accumulation and preservation OF ma
nures with which to fcrtilize their soils, and
keep up their productiveness. as4 g
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DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Republican Nominations. /.
FOR GOVERNOR
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN,
OF BRUNSWICK.
Leuer from shc Nsrthwest-No. vi.

ST. PETER, Mimi, June %, 1869.
To the Editor Of the Press:
This week date from the shire of Nicollet
county, which, like its next neighbor from
which dated last week, is one OF the best
wheat counties of the State. The State Lu-
natic Asylum, a very creditable institution Of
its class, is located within this municipality,
and but short distance from the town. The
Minnesota river is navigable for small steam
ers not only to this city and Mankato, doz-
en- miles distant by rail, but at high stages of
water as far up as Redwood Falls, some sew
enty miles above this point. The boats on
this stream take out large quantities of wheat
during the spring high water, but the rail-
road is and must continue to be the reliable
outlet for the products of the country, as it
affords facilities for removing the crops with
out regard to port or the stage of water.
DETERIORATION OF SOILS
In my last made bare allusion to the un-
pleasant fact that the best soils in the West
are liable 10 deterioration, and will deterio-
rate unless ted by proper nutriment in the
--.4.>.asaa ha .@...sAsal4aa rists in
the State and the only agricultural paper
within its limits, urge the necessity of ma
nuring the soils and of rotations in crops, but
their sensible advice is dsregarded by the
largest proportion of our farmers. The too
common practice of skinning the soil, sowing
year after year for the same crop, without ro-
tation, fertilization or rest, will result very
soon in rendering fields now productive, en-
tirsly incapable of paying the expenses of
cultivation. ge
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Wanted,

A Wet Nurse, to take charge OF child two weeks
Il old. Best OF references required.
Apply at S99 Congress street, between the hours
of and p NJ. js24dtt
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Wanted !!

Wanted!
EN0UR ROOMS and board for six persons, some
X where on the coast OF Maine. with bathing ia
cilities and good table. Address with particulars
I. B, s., box 2Si4, New York City. june2S-d6t
WANTED.-A good capable servant girl, to do
general housewerk in private family about
two miles from the city. Washing not requir-
ed. Good references given, and good referen-
ces required. Direct to box 1892, Portland.
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