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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
rowing Potatoes Under Straw.

l HAVE grown potatoes under straw in
one instance, by dropping the seed on
bluegrass sod, and covering with straw
and constable manure. The yield was
large. But, of the character of the sea-
son, do not now recollect, as this occur,
red more than twenty years since. The
plat was at the end of some currant- bush
es, and contained some ten square rods.
The turf was all killed and rotten, and the
following year planted to strawberries for
market, and produced great crops fol
some years.
last year a neighbor planted his pota-
toes in the usual way, cut the seed to one
eye, and planted in drills, and covered
with straw to inches. Two rows left
uncovered were ruined by the Colorado
potato-bug; but those with the straw COW
ering produced good crop. Although
the sets were covered with earth, the
tubers grew on the surface next to the
straw. He planted about the first day OF
May, but all potatoes planted at that date
in the neighborhood, and in the usual
way, proved failure. My neighbor will
use the straw again this year, while 9th.
ers will plant early this month; in fact
some few have their crop in at this date
The object is to grow the potato in the
cool, moist part of the season.
The potato delights in rich, loamy
soil, rather moist, and cool, equable
climate; for these reasons, the crop is liza
BILE to prove failure when planted late
so as to subject it to the summer drought
before the haulms are sufficiently abun
dant to shade the ground. "Ru7dl," ~
Chicago Tribune, ApgN 6.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

storms. Next comes the winds, and the
tall stack topples over, and it becomes
trodden under foot, and again we have
fifty to seventy-five per cent. loss. Hay,
in many cases, receives like treatment.
But in most cases it is husbanded and fed
in barns.
Now, the cooking process saves all this
loss. You cannot find in my yard a
pound of straw or corn fodder; all is cut
by steam power, mixed with water and
shorts, and cooked by steam, and every
ounce eaten up by the stock, and the
manure always ready, for use, cared for.
| can safely say / am saving fully forty
per cent. of food, and my stock is in
much finer condition than by the old
way. During the extreme cold weather,
early in the month, our water pipes, con
veying water to the boiler, froze up, and
the cooking process was stopped about
two weeks. Our stock became mourners,
and hung their heads when dry food was
offered them, and positively lost, with
our best efforts to prevent, ten per cent.
in condition, while eating forty per cent.
more fodder. This statement may ap'
pear questionable to many of your read.
ers; but only ask trial, as evidence OF
| its truth. And while do not wish to in
tiuence any one into its use by. my own
experience or views, / can be but an ad
vocate of its utility where circumstances
demand economy; and l would advise,
to all iuquiring minds. personal invcsti
CATION, if possible. e.-SyrGcuse (N. ~ Cor
Rural Neao Yorker.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
Dolly Warden.

EVERY now and then whim seizes the
public and takes possession of peoples
senses. though why or wherefore. it would
be hard to say; but when once it has got
a fair hold, it has to be humored until
it is worn out or supplanted by some
other novelty. At the present moment
the name which predominates ev erywhere
which is advertised in the papers, posted
on walls in bills in large block type,
stuck up in the windows of dry goods
stores, and heard in everybody's mouth,
is that of Dolly Warden, the sprightly, CO.
quettish heroine of Dickens historical
novel, BarnabY Rudge." But the novel
was written thirty years ago, and there
seems to be no apparent reason why the
London locksmith's pretty daughter
should all of a sudden start out into pop
ularity greater than she enjoyed when
she was first introduced to the world
She was then made the subject of many a
picture, and the celebrated artist, Maclise,
at the suggestion and under the guidance
of his friend, Dickens. painted what may
be called portrait of her, if there can
be such thing as portrait of an imag-
mary character. 1t was, however, a real
lzation on canvas of the conception of
the author, and it has given to her the
bodily form and costume by which she will
henceforth be identified. Just as we
form but one conception now of Uncle
Ioby and the Widow Wadman, or of Sir
Roger de Coverly and the Spectator, or of
MI. PlckWlck and Sam Weller, in conse.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
Letter.Writing.

PEOPLE do not write letters any more,
but notes. At least most people. Now
and then there is letter-writer ofthe old
sort who knows how to say brilliant and
piquant things. But most people who
can say piquant things sell their brilliancy
to the journals, and waste none of it on
friends. In the "good old days." before
newspapers took the place of conversation,
when man saved his best things for the
parlor of his friend, there were letters
the only substitute for talk in absence, the
only way of making ones brilliancy per-
manent. Letters in those days were
literary compositions. They were filed
in portfolios and read to circles of friends;
they were admired, criticised, and talked
over. Madame de Sevigne was only a
letter-writer, and the greatest of letter
writers. The matters now discussed in
piquant newspaper paragraphs were sub
jects for Madame de Sevigne's letters
And the whole history of the Hotel de
Rambouilet, and of the society of the
days just preceding and during the
Fronde, has been reconstructed by NJ
package of old letters accidentally dis
letters. 1t is: 'My dear Tom: Excuse me
for not writing before. Anna has the
measles. Mr.. Smiths youngest child
died Saturday, oftyphoia. Business dull.
Wife sends love. Truly, Ben" The
telegraph, the steam-engine and CHEAP
postage have demoralized us, and we
grudge the time given to even these brief
notes. In the olden time, when youl
fathers letter was carried to Cincinnati
by post-coach once week, and when il
cost a precious silver quarter of postage
and consequently must be made of value
to him that received, your father tried to
write quarters worth. And so he whit
tied his quill-pen leisurely, and gave
good, long, fresh forenoon to the com
position of the epistle. Very delight
ful those old epistles were, telling
about weather and news and customs anC
dress and speech-just what books anC
papers tell now. They were little stiff
and formal, we grant. We have seer
many an old letter in which the husband
wrote to the wife, or the father to the son
with all the starched decorum of a Presi
dents Message. People who were Der
| fectly free and easy in their ordinary in
tercourse froze to icicles of prophet,
when once they had written 'Dear who
ver-itmight-be," over the top. We hav
known Southern lady who had neve
called her mother anything but ina" il
her life-for ma is the aristocratic usag
there-we have known such lady t,
write mamma" in all her letters. Indeed
any other term written was disrespectful
We have now in our possession a letter O
forty years ago, in which the writer, ad
dressing his own brother near his owl
age, never alludes to the father but in til
most formal way as "my father"
There are many people at the presen
time who are free enough in conversa
ton, but who are fearfully stiff as 500
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
A Wonderful Fowl that Crows with
its Head Off.

Ok last Friday, Mr.. George Forester,
ex-member of the Legislature from Ran
dolph County, and Col. r. S. Heffiin, ex-
member of Congress, passed through La
fayette with living, headless rooster!
The facts, as related to us by Mr.. Forrest
er, to whom the chicken belongs, are
about as follows: "On the 9TH of this
month he had og-rolling, and, for the
purpose of preparing dinner for the oc-
casion, began at an early hour to dispatch
turkeys, chickens, ETC., among them the
rooster herein mentioned; but the won
derful bird, although his head was cut
smoothly off, refused to die. After the
lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, perhaps,
Mr.. Forester, observing that he was still
alive, called in some of his neighbors to
see the unnatural phenomenon. In the
evening Mr.. F. put the headless fowl into
basket in his room, thinking that he
would certainly die before morning. But
imagine his astonishment to hear the no.
headed chicken crow distinctly several
times during the night. After keeping
him at home nine days, Mr.. Forester
passed through here on his way to Opeli-
ka, where the remarkable sight was put
on public exhibition, twenty-five cents
admission being charged, which paid
handsomely. Mr.. Forester has decided
to visit New York with his 'show," and
will doubtless have exhibitions at points
convenient on the route.
This seems to be an almost incredible
story, but is nevertheless true, as many
of our citizens can testify. We not only
saw, but had the rooster in our hands,
and know that there is no deception in
this matter. The life of this remarkable
chicken is sustained by meal and water,
introduced into its craw with spoon
Last Thursday, ten days after decapita
ton, his roostership crowed twenty-five
times; and, impossible as it may appear
yet it is said to be true, that he crows
every night, with the most exact regulari
ty, and occasionally during the day,
''How is this for high. Lafayette Ola.
| ReD0rter
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

as they get pen-holder between their
fingers. We have known young men
from the country to go and buy Let
ter-Writer" in order to find out the cor
rect way of writing to a friend with whom
they were not under the least restraint In
conversation. Perhaps there is one rule
better than all the guides ever written on
the subject of epistolary correspondence.
Write as nearly like your conversation as
you can. Think of your friend as before
you, eschew all affectations, and talk to
him. A very easy rule to give, but very
hard one to follow This simplicity and
straightforwardness is often the last result
of long practice But the best letters are
the simplest. st.-HearM and Home.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
Cooking Food for Stock.

NOTICING in the Rural Neao Yorker a
lengthy article upon the cooking of food
for stock, in answer to an inquiry from a
dairyman, whether it will pay, take the
liberty of giving my views and expert
ence upon the subject. Location, which
fixes the value of food to be fed, is of the
most importance in arriving at "a conclu-
sion next, the quantity of stock to be
fed. A farmer living in district remote
from market, where fodder is only worth
fifty per cent. of the values near market,
and feeding less than forty head, in nv
judgment will find it will not pay to make
the necessary outlay. But in case like
or larger amount are fed, near market,
where fodder is comparatively high, there
is no better investment.
AS to my own experience, / am cooking
feed. This is the second winter. have
a careful, observing farmer in his judg-
ment we saved forty per cent. of food
last winter, and the stock wintered in
much better condition than in the old
way. This winter, with improved quar-
ters for them, the result is more satisfac-
| tory their condition improved from the
day they were put up, and no objections
appear, as your English authority sug-
gests. The process is, perhaps, more sat
isfactory to dairymen than any other
| for cows will, with this process of feed
ing, give nearly twice the amount of milk
they will from dry food.
Now as to the economy. If you visit
the farmer who feeds dry or natural
food, you will find, first, that in the fall
he spreads out in his yard his crop of
cornstalks; his stock will eat the leaves
and tips, if well cured; but the stalk, con-
tanning seventy-five per cent. of the nu
triment, is left to be trampled in the mud
or snow, and lost; for if you depend upon
results from manure, before it has decom.
posed for such use, seventy-five per cent.
of the manure is washed away or passed
off in evaporation. So put it dowr
as seventy-five per cent. of corn fodder
lost.
Next comes the imperfectly made straw
stacks back of the barn. Set up as tar
get, it becomes the objective point of the
hungry herd. This is to furnish shelte
as well as food, and its sides are sool
made into holes for shelter from tn,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
A New Dfspensatfon.

The grand opening of the Retail Depart.
ment of John V. Farwell IL Co.'s Dry Goods
Store, this week, was the most brilliant dis
play ever seen in the West, and marks new
era for Chicago. A leading wholesale dealer
in another line expressed the general senti
ment in saying, he felt a just pride in theil
success because they were so accommo
dating, always sold at reasonable prices, and
gave tone to the trade of Chicago. They
have long stood at the head of the wholesale
dry goods trade of the Northwest, and this
exhibition marks their pre-eminence in the
retail trade
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
In the Garden.

AS soon as the frost is out of the ground
the rough portion of the covering of the
asparagus beds can be removed, and the
other carefully forked in. Most of the
covering of the strawberry bed can be
also removed, and the rest let remain as
mulch. Flower borders, which are usual
ly well covered with manure in the fall,
can be treatedin in the same way, and the bor-
ders partially dressed. About mid April
the rest can be tenderly forked in, especi-
ally where there are any bulbs remaining
in the soil or tender roots, and the bed put
in the best order.
Raspberry canes laid down through the
winter can be relieved of their covering
as soon now as the frost is out of the
ground, and should be staked up at once.
In stalking they should be tied loosely to
give the young branches room to grow
and expand. Rose bushes not yet thin
ned out and the dead wood removed,
should be attended to at once. Rampant
growers require sharp pruning. All
stalks partially killed should be cut out to
the ground. The best roses are produced
from young or well pruned bushes
Shrubbery should be generally well
thinned out. Some of the spir,eas grow
tall and spindling, and fall over on every
side, unless kept down. To have the
| hnest SnOWballS there should be frequent
paintings of young wood, as it is this
that produces the largest flowers.
The first crop of peas-Extra Early
should be sown as soon as the ground is
fit, and followed by others according to
the directions given by us week or two
ago. The onion crop is among the first
to get in. The value of this vegetable is
greatly underrated None is more nutri-
tious and wholesome, and should be in
every household.
Rhubarb roots should be transplanted
as soon as possible So with horse-radish.
This should be cut in pieces, each with a
small particle of the crown adhering, and
set two inches under the surface in a rich,
moist spot. A bed once established will
keep itself going.
Grating can now be proceeded with.
Be careful in waxing or tying-up entirely
to exclude the water, otherwise your
grating will be fruitless
Let your outdoor grapevines lie on the
ground until after they have begun to
sprout, if you desire low branching vines
and new wood for renewing. g.-German.
toaon Telegraph.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

AN IMPORTANT INvENTIoN-The mon
strous and almost incredible impositions to
which ruptured persons have long been SUBJ
jected in their efforts to find relief have in
duced us to investigate the merits of the
newly invented Elastic Truss and Supporter.
If any of our readers will send for a Circular
to the Elastic Truss Co., No. 6S3 Broadway,
New York, we are confident they will
thank us for this information, for we believe
that with this instrument there need be no
further suffering from Hernia, as the price
is within the means of all. The day of
metal spring trusses has past.-N Y. hide
llendellf
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

NOTHING is more curious in the pyscho-
logical history of man than the freaks of
the insane Some of the strangest of
which we have read of late have been eX-
hibited by man from Detroit, who left
his home year ago and has been travel
ing about under the impression that he
was somebody else, but retaining at the
same time peculiar interest in his real
self He would write home to his wife
occasionally inquiring after her husband,
being especially anxious to learn whether
he had "got over his crazy spell yet. "
He was traced from place to place fol-
nearly year before his friends could
come up with him.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18
The Price of Health,

Like that of liberty, is eternal vigilance. The
vapor-laden air of spring exercises depressing
influence on the vital powers. The strongest
feel this devitalizing eect the weak prostrated
by it. Everybody is more less debiitated at
this season. and the feeble instinctively seek the
help of medicine. Unfortunately, the remedy s"
resortcd to. sometimes aggravates the mischief
Raw stimulants eninently pernicious in such
cases, and drastic cathartics about bad. The
vital principle needs succor and support, and a
reinforcing preparation that will tone and rouse,
while it regulates and purifes the system, is the
medicine that nature demands. All the medicinal
elements required for such emergencies are COM
bined in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the purest
and most efficacious vegetable elixir that the
world has ever known. 1t is a mild stimulant, q
powerful tonic, an unequaled appetizer, an abso-
lutte specific for diseased digestion, wonderful
nervine, a moderate cathartic, a remedy for liver
complaints and periodic fevers, cure for consti-
patton, specific for rheumatism, of essential use
in all ailments to which the feebler sex sub
jeet and as a general household medicine un-
equaled and unapproaehed, These are the prop
critics which have made Hostetter's Bitters famous
everywhere. See to il, however, that You have
the true article, for the land is infested with
swarms Of local bitters, made from condemned
liquors and worthless drugs, which greedy wretchcs
who speculate on human life recommend as
panaceas for every i'll that flesh Is heir to. Beware
Of the charlataDs and their poisons.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

oped by DIR. J. WALKER, of California. 1t
cuts right through all the old fallacies of the
faculty. His famous CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BITTERs are working wonders. The formula
of this inestimable Vegetable Medicine ex-
cludes alcohol, mineral poisons and danger
Gus narcotics. 1t is a tonic of the purest
character, with cathartic anti-bilious, and
regulating properties. Composed of vegeta-
BILE products gathered on the Sierra Nevada,
and other parts of California, it is medicine
sal Seneris, without rival, as remedy fol
dyspepsia and all bilious and nervous dis
orders
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

DR.. A. JOHNSON, one of the most success
full practitioners of his time, invented what
is now called .Johnson's Anodyns Lininaent.
The great success of this article in the cure
of Bronchitis and all diseases of throat and
lungs, will make the name of johnson not
less favorably, if less widely known, than
that of Louis Napoleon.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

A CoUeH, COLD, OR SORE THROAT, requires
immediate attention, as neglect oftentimes
results in some incurable Lung Disease
''Broacn's Bronchial TrocheS" will almost in
variably give relief.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

~ Pimples and brown spots on the face,
Eruptions, Blotches, Scrofulous Diseases,
and all sores arising from impure blood, are
cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. 600
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

THE public are hereby assured, through
the columns of this paper, that Parsons'
PurqdtiUe Pills contain no injurious principle,
but that they may be administered to chill
dren and the most weak and shattered con-
stitutions in small doses with great certainty
of success.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

AN European paper gives the following
concerning car said to be in actual use
on some railroads on the Continent: 1t
is made to seat S4 passengers; 80 on an
upper floor, on eight seats; so on the
lower floor, on ten seats, and one seat for
in the upper tiers, with places for the
conductor and brake. The car weighs
13, 756 pounds, which is at the rate of 204
pounds per passenger.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MEDICRE.-Sdn-
foro's Lirer KnUigordtor.-A purely Vegetable
C'nthdrtic and Tonic-for Dyspepsia, Constipation
Debility, Sick-headache, Bilious Attacks, and al
arrangements Of Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ash
your Druggist for il. Be1Cdre Of initdtions.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

SAD FALLING OUT.-It is indeed a sad falling
out when, after years of the closest intimacy, the
hair parts company with the head. Fortunately,
the lamentable separation may be easily prevented
and the twain more closely united than ever by a
timely and systematic use of LYONS KArHAIRoN,
the most potent nvigorant of the hair and promoter
ofits growth and beauty known to modern pharmacy
1t completely obyiates The dry and parched condition
of the roots of the hair which Is preliminary It's
coming out by supplying the precise degree of mois
ture requisite to Ms preservation In healthy state
1t is the only true dissolvent and evaporant OF dan
druf and other impurities of the scalp, whose pres
ence is injurious to the hair. AS beautiler OF the
head, the kathairon has no equal. 1t not only in
creases the quantity of the hair. but improves its
quality Immediately, mpartng lustrous appearance
and silky texture which are exceedingly attractive.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

PAN KILER.-In another column will be found
the advertisement of Davis Pain Killer. There is
probably no other preparations manufactured that
has become so much of household word as the
Pain Killer For thirty years it has stood before
the public, and the innumerable testimonials that
have been called forth voluntarily testify fully to
its merits. When you need a family medicine buy
4 tH.,I Ilnir L llar
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

THERE is nothing like leather Shoes with Sill
YER TIP for children. Try them. They never
wear through at the Toe.
For Sale by all Dealers.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

Do YOU want the best Shoe ever made, ore that
will not rip nor come apart, then buy the CABLE
SCREW WIRE Boots and Shoes-An have the
D,.o,. Cto,np
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-18

4 HANDSOME M0TSTiCHE

Is the pride of its owner. Prof. ST. Crotxs French
CouDound will cause a luxuriant moustache TO grow
upon The smoOthest face. in six weeks Pleasant 10
rse. and success guaranteed. or money refunded
sent to any address recent OF Fifty Cents Sole
Agent, BOND, Chemist, Box 2AoS, Philadelphia, Pa
A ppie Parer and SIicer ct g and 81; Unionn
n Apple Pearer SFs Peach Parer, 81 ~ Peach Stopor
and Haiver 55c: Nut Cracker &c. Sold by Dealers
Manufactured By d. H. Whttemore, Worcester. Mass