davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10
STRAWBERRY STORY. We copy

"STRAwBERRY STORY. We copy the
following from an exchange:
Some of the strawberries of California are said to
be of such size that of them will afford subs stence
for family for a week. The Western editor who
vouches for the statement CONSIDERABLY acknowledges
however, that there to be found few smaller
rieties.
The smaller variety spoken of, are proba-
bly, similar to those raised in the vicinity of
New Richmond, ST. Croix County, in this
State. We have it from good authority,
that one of these can with difficulty be
crowded into Q~art pat The culture of
this variety is said to be attended, pecun-
iarilv, with astonishing success.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10

THERE are in England 10000, 900 people
in the United States 100000 900; in Eng
land out of that $4,000, 900 but 30, 900 own
any land; in the United States out of 4O, ;
100000 over 100000 own the ground
they live on. That is to say, in England,
under the absorbing aristocracy, there is
to-day but one land owner to every seven
hundred who have no material interest in
the kingdom; whilst here, under our liber-
ty, the proportion of owners TO non-owners
is but us one to eight. There, generation
narrows down the number Of England's
proprietors; here, generation makes even
immigrants voting representatives Of acres
THE Honorable Caleb Cushing saws ::
Before the close OF the present century the
United States will count more than one
hundred million inhabitants and that with
out taking into account possibl', nay prob
able, anneXations in the direction of the
West Indies or the South.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS,

If we are ovrnsrQgKzp in anything it is in Grocer
les and Provisions, Of which keep Good Stock
consisting OF CHOICh aud F.iNCY GROCERIES,
as wen as .STfPLE.S. In this line we would call
not excelled by anything I.IaIlet.
Is When visiting oBr store, if you do not see wha
you want, ASK FOR II.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10
JAMES BARDON,
CLERK CIRCUIT COURT
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.
SHERIFF'.S .SALE
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF D0UGLAs-In Circuit
- Court.
Frederick A. Newton, Plaintiff
against
SHERIFF'S SAL

Frederick A. Newton, Plainf,l
James P. Cireves, Defendant !
BY virtue of issued under the seal Of
the Circuit Court for Dongla County the above entitled
directed and lie iverei ami the personal and
of the SAID def n1nt Greves seized
and eyed the following described read
right title and interest which id defendant had
said property, the the dockeg uig-
wit: the 4th day of January 1871,
acquireiof the Southeast quarter
the southwest nainng forty
acres, and undivided fifty half II
half section twenty-five ( all township
s north of range fourteen "a west the of SUPERIOR
county of Douglas aud of Wisconsin, being ninety m
land which said real right shall
for sale and sell at public CHEST bidder
TUESDAY THE 11TH DAY OF JULY 1871,
O'Clock in the frenpo, rhe door
he urt Roant ~ sfi@ otest
~1p-fi'r r sstts +. satsia .ssf
exc 81 E. - s.
be II aEtr a-lt.stts :
Ea7 -sae -se-5 gs s.sze gr..ty.
IL HAYES. 4t.a. irs
Dated saerlgs ota,e, Superior Nay e3i, 1871. 81,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10
Progress of the Wisconsin Central R. R.
FROM DoTY ISLAND TO STEVENS POINT
The Winnebago County Press SAYS:

The Winnebago County Press says:
On Thursday morning of last week we were favored
with an invitation and accepted a with President
Reed In well appointed turnout, with course
headed westward. Destny-a trip over the line of
the work on the Wisconsin Central Railroad to Ste
vens Point The work is well advanced, and substan-
TALLY half completed through the towns of Menasha
and Clayton.
On the Wolf river bottoms, across several bayous
and streams there is 260O feet of pile bridging Ma
eral is being accumulated for the bridge the OFF
river crossing, few rods above ellis Landing Sew
eral hundred feet of dock is to be built by the r. r.
Co. at this point to accommodate the business of the
road. The latter work will cost some $4,000.
The work. all the way from Neenah and Menasha to
Stevens Point is being most substantially executed.
The grade is free from vaneered" stumps and rocks
1t is feet in width the top being feet wider
than that of any other road in the The cuverts
are substanl tally and permant nty built of stone.
Ties of uniformly good size, and one foot extra in
length all along line.
There are, all told, of aborers and teamsters about
sixteen hundred men employed the work There
be scarcely doubt but that track laying will
commence the first day of July, the time by Mr.
Phillips and that it will proceed at the of one
mile per day until completed sixty-seven miles to
Stevens Point. Mr.. Phillips has the first day OF
October as the time for running trains.
There will then be time of general rejoicing and
time for the people express their appreciation of the
valuable services of Hon. George Reed, President o
the road in persstenty holding on to the Land Grant
interest, in not allowing it revert to the general
government, and than all, in giving direction o
the road Doy Island. Without such efforts in this
behalf be it repeated, could hardly have hoped fo
| The Press also says:
Judge Reed left for Bayfield, on Thursday evening
and will probably be absent three weeks. He goes
make preliminary preparations for constructing sec
ton of the Wisconsin Central from Chequimason Ba
Ashland to the Penoka iron mines
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10
City NJ at Iarlxet
S. WAKELIN, Prop'r,

Nos 365, G 3G7, End ST., Superior,
Will keep constantly on hand full stock Of FRESH
BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON, SAUSAGE, FISH,
&c. Also SALTED MEATS and FISH. TURKEYS
CHICKENS, VENsaN and OYSTERS Orders solicited and
promptly filled for large small quantities Give
me call. am you will be suited in price and
quality. l5- s. WAKELIN
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08
PA
REPORT OF THE DELEGATE OF THE
PASSUMPSIC FARMERS CLUB TO THE
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

Mr.. Secretary: In answer to an invitation
of the State Board of Agriculture, Manufac-
lures and Mining, and vote of the Passumpsic
Farmers Club, / attended the session of the
State Board at Randolph, the 18th and 10th
of June inst. | reached Randolph on the
10Th, and at once became guest of Col.
Mead, gentleman of culture, and an en-
terprising farmer. AS surveyed his broad
and well cultivated fields, enjoyed the kind
hospitality of his family blessed as he is
with II lovely family, could truly say, 'your
lines have fallen in pleasant places" On the
arrival of the members of the Board, be-
came the guest of Judge Parrish, an elderly
gentleman, resting on his well earned lall-
rels, enjoying the good of his past toll.
Though now in the autumn of life, he takes
great interest in the improvements of the
day. The people seemed to vie, one with an
other, in extending the rites of hospitality
to their visitors, thus showing that their cul-
tvated minds and genial spirits partook
largely of the characteristics of their broad
and fertile fields, their spacious street with n
line of noble naples on each side, and houses
adorned with flowers and shrubs.
In relation to the meeting need only say
that all felt it was n success. All seemed to
feel the Importance of the State Board, and
the value to the farming community of a
greater social intercourse, the effect of which
is to expand the mind and give fresh impe-
tus to progress in education and the arts OF
agriculture.
The reception your delegate received was
like the gentle summer rain upon the parcl-
ed earth, never to be forgotten.
j. p. FOSTER.
Pnssnmpsic, June 20, 1871.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08

u nine acre pasture, with much surplus feed.
The turf was orchard grass. Another pas
ture of nine acres kept nine cows, and was
not stocked to its full capacity, as there were
portions of the pasture that would cut good
swarth of orchard grass. On the estate of f.
A. Anderson, on the west side of the island,
walked across pasture of ten acres which
kept each year ten cows, except that they
had, during part of the season, fodder corn
in addition. This pasture was formerly I'M
profitable low land, but after being under
drained, plowed, cultivated and seeded to
grass, it became upland. In my own neigh
borhood in Vermont, there are inst ices of
very good pasturng on lands that tend to
wetness. All through the season the grass is
pushing up green, tender and abundant 1t
is quite the custom to devote the rough,
steep, waste places to pasture because they
cannot be titled. and what feed is secured is
clear gain, yet, in such pastures those lower
portions, over which the melting snow and
heavy rains find their way, yield the most
abundantly. Land nearly level with plenty of
moisture, Is preferable to all others for pas
ture as grass is abundant and cattle obtain it
easily. In all countries cattle kept in such
situations develop into II larger breed, more
profitable for beef or dairying than those kept
in the highlands. f. J.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08
ANALYSIS OF THE ASH OF THE
POTATO.

A careful analysis has lately been made by
Dr. Schoras, of the ash resulting from the
burning of potatoes, this amounting to from
three to four per cent. of the dried potato.
According to this chemist, the proportion of
potash amounts to over fifty per cent. forty
five per cent. being the smallest quantity OBJ
served. Of soda, there is generally from
two to three per cent, In most cases Only one
per cent. being appreciable. Next to the
potash, magnesia enters as the principal con-
stituent among the bases; nevertheless
amounting to only the tenth part of the pro-
portion of potash. Lime is subordinate
element, in most cases scarcely equaling half
the amount of magnesa. The percentage
of potash was found to increase or diminish.
as the yield of the crop was greater or less;
but of the other bases, little difference was
found in this respect.
1t was also observed that the percentage
of phosphoric acid increased as that of potash
diminished; so that in the abundant harvests
il is proportionally less than in the scanty
ones, varying from ten to nearly eighteen per
cent. The proportion of sulphuric acid is
tolerably constant varying from five to six
per cent. The percentage of chlorine varied
very much; namely, from two to nearly eight
per cent The quantitative difference in the
percentage of chlorine in the ashes was found
throughout to have direct relationship to the
amount of the crop itself. Should this infer
encc, which the author now presents us pro-
visiOnal only be substantated by the further
experiments he proposes to make, it may be
considered that the combinations of chlorine
have the same significance in the cultivation
of the potato, that gypsum has to various
other cultivated plants. -Monthly Report Of
The Department of agriculture.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08
SOIL BEST ADAPTED FOR PASTURE.

Here in New England, where hillsides are
SO plenty, it has become settled opinion
among many farmers that n hill pasture is
very desirable, and if their farms are river or
brook meadows they desire II pasture away
upon some elevation, where sheer, young cattle
and colts are expected to thrive wonderfully
on account of the elevation, sweet grass, pure
air and pure water
1t Is doubtless true that upland is the best
pasture. But what is upandp It is such por-
tons of the country as are free from surplus
water, as will give firm turf, and will not
break badly under the tread of the cattle put
upon it. There is upland close by large riv-
ers in low valleys; and there is low land
near mountain tops, where the springs of
water saturate the mucky soil, making acres
bog, where the sod is cut in pieces by the
feet of the cattle. The best soil for pasturing,
then, does not depend upon its elevation. A
farmer may well be satisfied if his whole
farm is good tilage land, and all, in rotation,
is in pasture. Land that can bear good
crop of corn, with such Il manuring as New
England farmers give, then crop of barley
or wheat, with which is sown generous
seeding of clover and timothy, which the
succeeding year. yields two tuns or more of
hay, is good pasturing, and such grass show
good results in beef cattle or cows.
1t would surprise some farmers to see the
small crop of grass that an old pasture would
yield if no animals were allowed upon it. A
good strong soil with good turf is profitable.
The editor of the Country Gentleman men
tons seeing in England, "a sheep and 10 cat
tie in pasture of only 20 acres. On the is
land of Rhode Island saw, in 1869, on the
farm of VIM. Rogers, 60 sheep and lambs in
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08

John Johnston says the way to kill docks
is to cut them off close to the ground when
the tops are fully out, but the seed not fully
formed, and they are done for. The stalk
dies in the ground; but you must cut so
close to the ground that you leave no leaves
on the stalk, else they will not die. About
the end of June is generally the best time to
cut them.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08

ture, with G. p. Hatch, j. p. Ives, II. A.
Sumner, N. T. Sprague, Jr., and f. N.
Briggs as corporators.
Mr.. f. d. Barnes has inaugurated the but
ter buying enterprise in Bristol village, so
that large quantities of this product which
used to find its way to Vergcnnes and New
Haven now stop in Bristol.
1t is said that if all that the dogs of this
country eat was fed to hogs, it would make
$50, 900, 600 worth of pork. Add to this the
value of sheep they destroy, and something
of an idea of the curse of dogs can be obtain
ed.
Horace Greeley, in his essay on farming,
says that the only way to effectually destroy
widows weeds" which seem to thrive in
some kind of soil, is for wooer to say
"Wilt thou?" That makes them immedi-
ately wilt.
In Connecticut, the total valuation of live
stock owned by farmers has increased SIS per
cent. since 1867 in Maine, more than So per
cent. in Massachusetts, about IS per cent.
in New Hampshire, 40 per cent; in Rhode
Island SO per cent. and in Vermont, as per
cent.
The State Entomologlst of Missouri says
that the washing of fruit trees with soap, or
the application of any alkaline solution, is
an infallible protection against borers; and
this is confirmed by the experience of some
of the most extensive fruit growers in that
section.
| There has been an item gong around about
a hen in Boston laying eggs so small that
twenty-one of them were put in a collar box
ut once. That looked like pretty small bus
mess for an abe-bodied hen, until the author
Of the story was discovered. He said it was
a horse-collar box he meant.
A correspondent of the Rural NeO Yorker
had lot of wheat get rusty in pile. He
says Il put it on my hop kiln, dampened it
slightly with water, put fire under it, with
birthstone on the stove. When it cooled off,
| found the mustiness had entirely left. We
tried it for bread, and it made us good as any
wheat"
Young sows will sometimes eat their Off
spring, from costveness, which may be pre-
vented by feeding some laxative food, and
rubbing the backs of the pigs with an infu-
sion of aloes; or raw salt pork given to the
mother will prevent her from eating her pigs.
1t has been given to them with success after
they had eaten one or two of their pigs
1t is estimated by Prof. Chandler that the
New Workers get one quart of water with
every three quarts of milk. AS the annual
consumption of milk in the city and vicinity
is l9O,OOO,OOO quarts, it follows that at ten
cents per quart the snug little sum of $4,OOO,-
600 is paid by consumers for water which is
used to extend" the tactical fluid.
A letter addressed "To Eny Prominent
Busisaness Man Handeling Butchers Stock
Quincy Ills, and containing the following
marginal directions: POST master will pleas
hand this to some fat cattle men, was receiv-
ed at the post Office in Quincy recently. In
accordance with the request, the letter was
handed to the filttest cattle man in the town.
A disguised amateur fruit raiser says: 81
have no more admiration to waste on the
father of George Washington for forgiving
the destruction of his cherry tree. A cherry
| Il.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08

PlCiciS ehO uuuOi hiiu'
The sweet potato crop of Florida promises
to be unusually large.
A good farmer will never be satisfied with
his farming until he is confident his land
grows better every year.
Florida grown tobacco has this year been
sent to Havana, there made up into cigars,
and then exported as the genuine Havana.
A steam factory for canning pineapples,
which gives employment to 100 persons has
Just been established ut Key West, Fla.
The cultivation of tobacco in Missouri is
falling off every year. Not more than one
third us much is raised there now as ten
years ago.
There are fine prospects of large crops in
Oregon. The rains were very heavy which
is considered a certain indication of success
in that region.
On one farm near Cairo, ILL.,, over 200
bushels of plums have fallen off and rotted,
because the owner of the farm couldn't find
time to harvest them.
1t is said that the sheep owners in some
parts of California are offering their stock at
fifty cents head, on account of the drouth,
present and prospective.
The Wilmington Qll.) independent says:
1T is greatly to be feared tina. the growing
crop of small grain will be greatly injured by
the chinch bug in this locality.
Florida planters complain of very wet
weather, which has already unfavorably af-
fected the cotton crop, and, if continued
much longer threatenes serious injury.
Real estate sales in West Virginia are on II
large scale. The Charleston Herald chron-
icles sales of seventy-four thousand, sixty-siX
thousand and eight thousand acres.
The disease which has been making terri
BILE ravages among the horses in New York
and Brooklyn has nearly disappeared from
those cities, but has broken out in Suffolk
county, Long Island
Better pay n carpenter for making flights
of stairs in the barn, where needed, than a
doctor for mending bones broken by using
ladders. Rule things in daily use should
be exactly adapted to the need.
Skillful fatteners are far less common than
good grain growers. Recent experiments
have proved that animals cannot take on
flesh rapidly unless the temperature is nearly
uniform, and between 500 and 800.
No better plan has ever been devised to
keep butter sweet than to put it in clean jars
and cover it with strong brine No kind of
vessel, cask or tub will answer so well us Il
jar. In this way it can be kept fresh and
sweet for twelve months
The strongest vegetable fibre known is the
New Zealand flax. 1t has long, sword like
leaves, ten or twelve feet in length. 1t is
used by the settlers for binding their sheaves,
fastening their gates tying up their horses,
and in almost every possible way.
Hogs that are much confined, and cannot
get to the earth, will frequently be benefited
by having little charcoal, soft brick bats, or
soft rotten wood thrown in to them; and n
trifling quantity of birthstone mixed in their
food, occasionally, is IN excellent thing.
The peach crop, this year, promises to be
an unusually large one. The fruit growers
association of the Delaware peninsula esti-
mates the shipments by rail ut 3,3l5,0o0
bushels, while nearly, and perhaps us large
The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-02-09

OF which more than one hundred rolsmaes have
been issued, has received the commentator of
Judge Story. Chancellor Kent President Adams;
Historians Sparks, Prescott, Bancroft, and Tick
nor; Rev. H enry Ward Beecher, and many others
aud it admit eddy continues TO stand at the head
of it's class. /" IT Is ISSUED EVERY SATUR-
DAY, giving fifty two numbers, and more than
THREE THOUSAND double columns octave
pages threading matter yearly: enabling it to pre-
sent with q combined FRESHNESS and completeness
nowher Else attempted,
The best Essays, Reuieps, Criticisms, tailed
Poetry, Scientific, Biographies, Historical an
Political Information, gathered from the entire body
of Foreign Periodical Xteyature.
THE ABLEST AND MOST CULTURED
NTELLECTS In every department of Literature,
Politics. Science, and Art find expression in the
periodical literature Of Europe, and especially Of
Great Britain. M
THE LIVING AGE, FORMING FOUR
LARGE VOLUMESA YEAR, furnishes, from
the vast and generally inaccessible mass of this
literature, the only compilation that, while within
the reach ofall, is satisfactory in the COMPLETE
NESS with which it embraces whatever is of
immediate intrest, or of solid perma nent value
IT IS THEREFORE, INDISPENSABLE TO
EVERY ONE who wishes to keep pace with the
events or intellectual progress of the time or to
cultivate in himself or his family general intel
ligence and literary Aaste.
Published weekly at So 90 year, free Of post
age.
An extra copy sent gratis to any one getting
up Club of five New Subscribers Address
LITTELL 4 GAY.
30 Bromfield street, Boston.
The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-02-09
GOOD
VVAVO1 -
AT ON pRYfxRQ

AS THE SOLE AGENTS in the United States
for the LIVERPOOL WATCH CO., We are an
thorized by them to close out large line oil
European Watches, Chains etc., now in stock
for Cash, at prices never before known. An
beautiful in finish, artistic in design reliable
for accurate time, durable, and Of the latest
STYLE Every Watch viii be retailed at less than
cost ofimportation, Ind forwarded securely pack
ed, prepaid, to any part Of the country ON receipt
ofprice. Money can be sent to Us by Express,
with orders for Express Co to return Goods o.
Cash, which win secure promptnss and safety
to purchaser. Among our list win. b found.
ABEATHUL ENGLISH SILVER, SOLID
DOUBLE CASE WATCH. genuine English full
plate jeweled movements, adjusted regulator,
steel cut hands, engine turn neri, correct and
serviceable article. large or small size, in COM
plate running order, with IN elegant Gents
Vest Chain, Lockst and key, al complete, mail
ed free for FIVE DOLLARS. ssaei sl,
AVERY HANDSOME WATCH in fine Is
karat Gold plated Double Classes imitation of
500 Gold Watch engraved or plain. genuine
English, full plate jeweled movements, adjusted
regulator, correct, and in complete running
order with elegent Gents Vest Chain, with
Locket and Key, mailed prepaid for only
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS.
The 0ride Gold Watch,
IN MASSIVE ORIDE GOLD Double Hunt
ing Magic Spring Cases. elegantly engraved, or
engine turned, Genuine Patent Lever move
ments, full jeweled, regulated and warranted to
keep correct time. and wear equal to Gold,
precisely like in appearance, make, finish, bril-
hancy Of color 500 Gold Watch. One Of these
splendid Watches win be forwarded by mail FREQ
to any address, in handsome morocco case,
lined with velvet and satin, ladies or Gents
size Watch,) for only TWELVE DOLLARS
Watches for Holiday Presents manufactured to
order. .t'l It ~
GENUINE AMERICAN WATCHES of all
grades, in Gold and Silver Cases, nom SIS up to
$500. Other Good Watches equally low. With
every Club of six Watches, of any kind. We send
one extra of same kind free, as premium to
getter up of the Club. A superior stock of Ge-
nuine Onde Gold Chains 50 to IS each, war
wear, etc. Bills of over $12 collected on delivery,
ifdesired. All Bills of s12, and less, must Be
cash in P. o. Money Orders, or Registered
Letters, at our risk. Goods carefully selected,
packed and forwarded prepaid by mail, or by
Express, or receipt of price, Safe delivery Of al
goods guaranteed. Watches forwarded to be
examined to parties known, when express
charges both ways are paid. No goods forward
ed west of the Mississippi River with bill to col
lect on delivery. Purchasers must pay all ex-
press charges ON goods sent C. o. D.: also
for return Of money. All Cash orders forwarded
free of charges to destination. Catalogues Free.
Address all orders I.an
CHAS. P. NORTON 4 CO.,
Importers Of Watches, etc.
Established 1857. 86 Nassau st., N. Y.
No. SAT-