The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-08-01

Commerce and Agricultural ASSOCIATIONS
throughout the country, the following act
of congress, charging the usefulness of
the signal service. Previous to this en-
actment this Service was conducted for
the benefit of commerce alone. It is a
step in the right direction, but the appro
priation is altogether insufficient for car.
rying on as complete system of observa-
tiOns and reports as agriculture demands
Besides, the system needs amplyfying so
as to include crop and stock items and
statistics. Undoubtedly this will occur at
do distant day.
THE ACT.
For manufacture, purchase or repair Of
meteorological and other necessary in
struments; for telegraphing reports; for
expenses of storm signals announcing
probable approach and force of storms
throughout the United States, for the ben
eft of commerce and agriculture for in :
strument shelters for hire, furniture and
expenses of offices maintained for public
use in cities or posts receiving reports; for
maps and bulletins, to be displayed in
chambers of commerce and boards-of-
trade rooms for books and stationery :;
and for incidental expenses not otherwise
provided for, two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars. Provided, That the Score
tary of War be, and hereby is, authorized
and required to provide, in the system of
observations and reports in charge Of the
chief signal officer of the army, for such
stations, reports and signals as may be
found necessary for the benefit of agricul-
ture and commercial interests; And pro
vjded, That no part of this appropriation,
nor of any appropriation for the several
departments of the government, shall be
paid to any telegraphic company which
shall neglect or refuse to transmit tele-
graphic communications between said de-
partments, their officers, agents or en-
ployees under the provisions of the Sec
end section of chapter two hundred and
thirty of the statutes of the United States
for the year eighteen hundred and sixty
six, and at rates OF compensation therefor
to be established by the Postmaster Gen
eral: Provided also, that whenever any
telegraph company shall have filed its
written acceptance with the Postmaster
General, of the restrictions and obliga-
items required by the act approved July
twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and
sixty six, entitled can act to aid in the
construction of telegraphic lines and to
secure to the Government the use of the
same, for postal, military and other pur-
poses" II such company, its agents or en-
plOYees, shall hereafter refuse or neglect
to transmit any such telegraphic commu-
nications as are provided fer by the afore-
said act, or by the joint resolution ap-
proved the ninth day of February, eighteen
hundred and seventy, ITO authorize the
Secretary of War to provide for taking
meteorological observations at the mill
tary stations and other points Of the In
terror of the continent, and for giving no
tice on the northern lakes and seaboard
of the approach and force of sterms,
"such telegaphic company shall forfeit
and pay to the United States net less than
one hundred and not exceeding one thou
sand dollars for each refusal or neglect
aforesaid, to be recovered by an action or
actions at law, in any district court of the
United States.
Approved June 10, 1872.
CARE OF FARM TooLs.-The Bowling
Green Democrat says: We suggest to
farmers the Importance Of remem bering
that the injury done to hand tools and
implements by long exposure to rain and
sunshine amounts to more than the wear
and tear. Plows and hand. hoes are fire.
quently left covered with wet earth
pressed down on the surface, thus faclli-
tating the formation Of thick scale of
dust which wears out the steel and makes
he tools unaccountably hard. 1t should
be one Of the infexible rules Of the farm
and gardent to wipe the bright surfaces of
all tools clean, and cover the parts with
1xin # Ill hot raN
saline matter The wood work of hand
tools and implements even when painted,
is often seriously injured by rains, dews
and sunshine. Water and dampness will
raise the grain in timber settle in the
Joints, crack the surface, and warp, con-
tract and twist the wooden parts to such
an extent as to cause more damage than
all the work that has been done with it.
REPAIRING RoADs.-A correspondent
Of the Rural New Yorker suggests that
it is cheaper and better to haul gravel
to. repair aroad, after the read bed is
properly constructed, than TO pillow and
scrape and pile up dirt in the center
thereof A few loads CT gravel, few
burrows to let the water off, leaving the
grassy roadsides undisturbed, is the best
way of mending highways that I have
ever known. If it is stone country,
stone broken fine may be substituted for
grave. There is great deal of laboa
wasted on roads and not half enough ap
piled as it should be. Provide for keep
ing the water out of the roadway, and q
bed of good wearing material for it, and
we may soen have good roads at all sea-
sons of The year.
USES OF CHARCoAL.-The Country
Gentleman says At this season of the
year one desires to obtain some purifier,