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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-08-19

FOR RENT--Thc commodiou: two--t rr}
Ha BRICK DWELLING, No. Wi Prime -
rtent $50 per month. Possession on the l":h dag
of Septern Der, or sooner if desired. apply 70
aug lJtf ROBERT W. DAVIS.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28
The Application of Manures.
From Cultarator.

From Cult,rator.
AS general rule, manure does best
on heavy soils, applied as broadcast
top-dressing; on light soils it is better
to pillow it in with shallow burrows.
There have not been sufficient number
of accurately-conducted experiments
with top-dressing in Summer to deter
mine satisfactorily what amount of
manure would be thus wasted by ex-
posure. We suspect, however, that
this great loss is, co mmonly overestimat-
ed. Manure sprc ad on grass land early
in Autumn, or even in August, has not
only proved of great value to the grass,
but has had marked effect on the fol-
lowing corn crop, planted on Spring
plowed sod. We should prefer spread
ing to leaving in heaps, although the
latter is most common. When spread
evenly every shower of rain washes
the soluble and enriching parts into the
soil, but if in heaps, it would be more
likely to lose by fermenting, and rains
would be no benefit to it. Without
knowing anything of the nature or con-
dition of the soil, we should be inclined
to recommend, as the safest course, to
pillow in the manure as shallow as prac-
ticable after being thoroughly spread
and broken by surface harrow, leav-
ing, however, portion of the field
with the manure exposed, by way of
experiment.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28
What q Horse is Worth.

The average working life of the horse
will not exceed fifteen years. If the
average price of the farm or road horse
at five years-the period at which he
will generally reach his full value-be
500, then he will depreciate in value
$40 per annum after that age At ten
years he should be worth but $50, and
at twelve years but $50, seeing as at
the latter age the probabilities are that
he has used up seven-tenths of the
period of his usefulness to man. am
speaking nowof the average horse, and
of his real value at that age as compar-
ed with younger horses of the same
grade. tits true that horse, if compar-
atively sound at twelve years of age
will generally bringin the market price
considerably in advance of this; but con-
sidering fifteen years to be the average
limit to usefulness, and considering the
increased cost of keeping, as the horse
gets older, and also the extreme liability
to die by bolts, and other diseases to
which old horses are peculiarly liable,
and the chances are greatly against any
ordinary horse being worth at that age
sum of money much in excess of that
l have named. 1t is also true that a
farm or work-horse at even fifteen years
OF age, if still vigorous, is often worth
q considerable sum, but as rule, with
few exceptions, sound horse, five years
of age, is as well worth 500 as is a
horse from twelve to fifteen worth $50
or less.
Gieeley Tribune.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28
The Chester County Milk Company.

This company was organized for the
purpose of furnishing market for the
surplus milk of the neighborhood of
Oxford, and Judging by the gradual in
crease of its business it seems to give
satisfaction
The milk is purchased at the door of
the factory, and at once emptied into
large receiving tank, from which it is
run by gutta percha hose to to the
lower story, where it is placed in cans
seventeen inches deep and eight inches
in diameter. These cans are immersed
in cold water as high as the milk, and
after standing twenty-four hours the
cream is taken off and the milk raised
by a large elevator into the the third
story, where it is emptied into the
cheese vat. The rennett is then added,
and the milk brought to the proper
temperature by steam At the proper
time the whey is run off into pipes to
the pig pen, and the curd ground and
sailed, and placed in the presses, where
it is bandaged and turned, and returned,
to be removed in time for the curd of
the next days manufacture to take it's
place.
On the lower floor of spring-house
are three churns of large size, and in
these the cream is placed, and brought
to the proper temperature by steam,
and then churned by water power. At
the time of our visit, the company
were receiving about four thousand
pounds of milk, from which they were
making about nine hundred pounds of
butter, and three hundred of cheese
The milk is delivered at the factory
in the morning, and the patrons are re-
quired to skim the evenings milk just
before starting for the factory in the
morning, and to bring it and the cream
in separate vessels. During cool wealth
err this skinned milk is set away with
the other to raise more cream, but as
the season advances it will be taken to
the cheese vat as soon as received, and
only the mornings milk set away to
raise cream.
During the summer the company
make large amounts of ice cream, for
which they find a ready market in
Washington and Baltimore, and they
also supply one of the Washing ton
hotels with butter at remunerative
price
The company insist that the milk
must be so cool that it shall not have
higher temperature than IS degrees
when it reaches the factory, not later
than eight o'clock in the morning; that
the amount of good cream shall not be
less than one quart to every five of the
skinned milk; that milk which first
fails to produce fve-eights of cream in
the cream glasses of the factory will
not be received, or if taken will only be
paid for in proportion to the amount Of
cream actually produced, fve-eights of
an inch being the ultimatum. The
company also reserves the right to re-
ject for cause any milk brought to the
factory. All milk bills are settled
monthly.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28
;MMhe Hattn.
REARING STOCK.
From the MARYLAND Farmer.

From the Maryland Farmer.
We cannot forego the expression of a
desire that is ever present to our mind,
of seeing our farmer friends paying
more regard and taking deeper inter-
est in stock-raising Let US now plead
for the lives of the best calves, particu-
larly cow calves, and beg our friends to
save them for at least two years from
the butcher They will be well repaid
for generous treatment of these young
animals for two years, and better,
for three years. Save the best COW
calves, and breed at the proper time to
improved bulls. Save the best eve
lambs to supply the places of old in
ferior ewes to be sold this autumn.
Every two years get the services of a
buck superior or fully equal to its pre-
decessor, and you will soon have a
superior flock of sheep. The same in
regard to hogs We would suggest
that every farmer who has fine mare,
and can dispense with her services for
a month or so, should breed her to some
superior blood horse of high pedigree.
good points and large size, and fine ac-
ton, and the produce will be worthy
the expense and inconvenience, for a
useful, serviceable horse of all work
will be obtained, or it may be an animal
worth thousands of dollars. No such
"good luck" will result from breeding
a worthless mare to barrel of corn
runt, or a beefy over-grown monster.
We despise these picayune stations,
and cannot either admire or believe in
those who only boast of the enormity
of size and weight. If they were
grown to be eaten, then, like Short Horn
cattle, the larger and heavier they were
the better; but until We become a hip
popohagous people we must decline as
senting to the propriety of breeding to
these elephantic beasts. The medium
sized, active, enduring sinewy, high
melted animal is what the people want
for all purposes, the pillow, the saddle,
and quick draft on the light family
carriage.
Why should people of the South and
the Middle Border States pay such i'm.
mense sums annually for Western and
Northern horses and mules from Ken
lucky and the northwest? We can
raise the supply needed, better suited
to our climate and work, at small cost
of either labor or food. 1t takes NO
more to raise horse or mule than to
grow an OK, or five hogs two years old,
and the horse or mule will at three years
old be worth twice as much as the OK
at same age, or the hogs at two years
old A couple of horses or mules rails
ed every year on each farm would sup,
ply our home demand-On many farms,
half or more of the profits go to keep
up the stock of horses and work cattle,
and often on such farms there is vast
ed more food than would subsist enough
young stock to supply the wants of the
farm. But our planters and farmers
ought to look to breeding horses and
mules and raising oxen, not only to
furnish working stock for their individ-
ual wants, but as source of yearly
revenue to swell largely the receipts of
the farm. Let. it be remembered that
the blooded horse is admitted to be
more capable Of resisting disease, will
last longer, and do better service than
the common breeds.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28
Total
Or 9Gs cents per bushel.

This estimate undoubtedly approx
mates very closely to the actual cost of
the production of wheat in the older
settled sections of the country. Esti-
mates on raw prairie or the second year
from the sod might show a still more
profitable result. He says it must he
borne in mind that the above figures
provide for the payment of taxes, and
fair interest on money invested, so
that what is obtained in price above
the cost is actual profit We shall be
pleased to have our readers initiate the
above example in estimating the actual
cost of production. To this it would
be well to add the yearly increase in
the market value of the land.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28

LARGE END DowN-In packing eggs
for transportation, always place the
large end down. The large end of
every egg contains an air-bubble, and
if packed small end down, this bubble
will expand, and in a short time will
destroy the vitality of the egg. Any
position but the one we have recon-
mended will increase the size of this
air bubble, and will have a tendency to
separate the membranous lining from
the shell.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28

A COOP FRENCH IDEA.-The milk
cans in which milk is conveyed over
the railways of France are made of
similar shape to ours, but the lids are
so arrrnged that by turning a screw
they can be forced down on the milk,
and thus prevent all motion. The cans
are wrapped in wooden clothes and these
are wet from time to time as they may
need it. The evaporation of the moist
ure keeps down the temperature of the
milk, and no difficulty is experienced in
carrying it long distance, even in
warm weather
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28

sB The poultry-houses, if well
managed, will furnish valuable lot of
manure. Guano is the excrement of
sea-birds, deposited in localities where
it is not destroyed or washed away bv
rains. Proper attention to and man
agement of these houses will pay well.
Manure is the basis of all good farm
ing. The person who cannot make
large lot of good manure, and who does
not know how to use it after it is made,
is in no sense a good farmer.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28
CHANGING THE CoIoRs OF Ero,vppc

CHANGING THE CoLoRs OF Flowers.
The Gazette DIES Campagnes SAYS
that Mr.. Hueghe has succeeded in
changing the common cowslip from it's
natural yellow to an intense purple by
merely transplanting it into richer earth.
The color of plants can be readily var
led by mixing certain substances with
the soil. Wood charcoal will darken
the hue of dahlias, petunias, and hy-
acinths. Carbonate of ida turns the
aforementioned flowers red, and phos-
phate Of soda alters greatly the shades
of many plants.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-06-28
WHEAT CULTURE.
GoLfnnn's Rural W0rld.


The Importance of selecting pure
seed should not be overlooked. The
large and well-developed kernels should
only be selected Such wheat should
weigh nearer IS than 60 pounds when
measured in an accurate-gauged half
bushel. The heavy kernels may be
separated from the others by means of
an improved fanning-mill. or, whence
one is not to be had, by taking a small
hand-scoop, holding q quart perhaps,
and throwing it against strong breeze
nearly to the opposite end of your
threshing floor; the heaviest grains
suitable for sowing will accumulate
near the end from which it is thrown.
No further preparation of the seed is
usually desired. The following Spring,
as soon as the ground becomes suffi-
GENTLY dry, the roller should be brought
into requisition. Then in week or
ten days the field should be narrowed
with light harrow The Thomas
smoothing harrow is the best for that
purpose Then SOW broadcast from
fifty to one hundred pounds of gypsum
to the acre. 70 this could be added,
with great benefit, double the quantity
of unleached wood ashes. No farmer
can afford to sell the latter for twenty
five cents per bushel.
Mr. VIM. H. Gibson, an enterprising
young farmer in one of the best wheat
growing neighborhoods in Madison
county, Illinois, in recent address be-
fore the Farmers Club Association of
that county, made the statement "The
average price of wheat, corn, and hay
for twenty-five years in St. Louis has
been for wheat, Sl.2s; for corn, SO cents;
and for hay, S19.s6 per ton" In max
ing an estimate on the profits of wheat
culture, he estimated land at $50 per
acre, of which the average yield of
wheat was Is bushels corn, As !; oats,
40; and of hay, l IA tons to the acre.
Interest 6 per cent, or $500 per acre;
taxes about so cents per acre; interest
on wear and tear of machinery about
90 per cent on first cost, which is about
10 cents per acre for reaper and mower,
40 cents for drill, and cents per acre
for the plows, &c.
Flowing, twenty days, s1.90 per day,
$500
Narrowing, four days, s.. 10 per day, $40
Rolling, four days, S2.10 per day, $40
Seed, twenty five bushels at $3.50 per
bushel : $3.50
Interest on seed ten months at ten per
cent SIS
Seeding and use of drill one and half
days 1910
Rent, twenty acres at SO. 90 per acre ~. 90
Taxes 1000
Harvesting, two days 1890
Stacking, four men, two days 20.45
Threshing 3S.05
Total S299.o5
Or 9Gs cents per bushel.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-07-31

AN "a CT To Fix THE TIME foK THE
.HotpfNa OF THE U1Rou1T GouRrs
fitN, CERTAIN COUNTIES A11EREiN
MENTIONED. Il ii
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-07-31
Po oEsTRY.
DON'T BE IN A HURRY 10 GO.

Come, boys / have something to tell you
Comehere Iiwould whisper it Low
You're thinking ofleaving tho Homestead
Don't be in hurry to go. s.
The city has many attrac.ionss
But think of the vices and sins,
When once in the vortex of fashion,
How soon the course downward begins.
You talk of the mines of Australia,
They're rich in treasures no doubt,
But ah, there is gold in the farm, boys,
Z. If only you'll shovel it out.
The mercantile life is hazard,
The goods are first high and then low,
Better risk the old farm awhile longer "a
Don't be in n hurry to go s !.
The great busy West has inducements,
Ands has the busiestmart,
But wealth was not made in day, boys, q
DON'T be in n hurry to go. b.
The banker and broker are wealthy
They take in their thousands or So
Ah, think of their frauds and deceptions
Don't be in hurry to go. .s.i.t
The farm is the safest and surest;
The orchards are loaded to-day;
You IRE free rs the air of the mountaih.
And monarch of all you survey.
But stay on the farlh awhile longer,
Though profits come in rdther slow,
Remembers you've nothing to ask, bows
Don't be in a hurry to go. f
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-07-31

Septehhfbsf15 and the Court Sf coininorii
Pleas, IN. <Uniohyilfvs;s iaor the County of
~ nion, 4oh the first Wedhosday after tho
Z third 3 Monday Of Marcll juno aud
septembets s sSlsa s,ss ~.
= Tls cotfs of. GSnetals sssylSt Stans az ait
Spartanbufg, { fot the. county Of Spa a,fi rtan
sfass,s,lj kt AZ 81. a, GS y - Tsil lsssl,
sltta saaa h;a alaset apa aa : aly aaa
stbeg tc,oou4t 81 s6m m,naSS5 Plan i sSs !. ],
burg, for Che @ county " spar.anbuifaa ia oIi g
the first Wsdnesdav aflef I tbc, az Y:62st Man
day after tl.e LEI fourth iohday a ,a Il March al
and July, and "a The fiffsst wednesday ;sf,y
after the tliifd Monday Mon i5s il Octobser ls ss
SEo. s. THAT ali vi wfiis SUNNI - Mons ons,
reeoghisances and other FL processes "a ,ess ssf )
whatever ink, relurnabls Is thes ss Courts Srt
Of General Sessions AID m am, nm man IspI Ie,s
u.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-07-31


Quaker lately popped the qiies.;
ton 70 Q fair Quakeysss, as, followss;:7-7
Hum! yea and verify, Penelope, the
spirit surgeth and moyeth me wonderfully
to beseech thee to. cleaye unto me, flesh
Of my flesh and bone of my bone. - -
Hum truly, Obediah, thou hast wisely
said. Inasmhch as it it is written fhatI
it is not good for man to be alone, ID, il
will sojourn with thee, 6. e..s -, 4 ~ II
The murder Of, Goodrich Of Brook,
lyn 50 long Q mystery is at last sol yedi,r
His paramour "Kate StoddarH shut
him because he attempted 70 abandon
her. 6 - ~. go NJ ( Il
On the 9th of July a tamily,, feud
eliminated in the fearful tragedy of q
bloody rencontre, Two sons Oscar and
Lycurgus Li'tell, from jealousy, shot
and killed their, younger brother, Clin-
ton. The mother was also shot, but not
fatally, and in. the retreat of the 2assail-
ants, one of them, Lycurgus, was shot by
a brother who fought for the, murdered
boy. 8 -..,sr6 i,s,q s.es ,es. q, a g...sg
Cholera Is iiow fayaging the States
of Kentucky and Indiana. Forty deaths
per day are reported at Evansville. $50
-Greenville,ss. s. Csis5growing rapidly
The air line .sR. r.. from Charlotte to
Atlanta has added to the population,
and created a demand for property .hoTes
An EdgefeId planter expects to
gather two bales Of cotton from I. pet
acre. ny ~ ao0 Aatsst2s sasfs'f
Columbia is alarmed on account Of
typhoid fever prevailing there. ssa
Gold has been found, in Newberry
county. s mo a:aa,
--Newberry is organizing a mutual
fire insurance company. aess g5ssri
The Beaufort paper complains that
notwithstanding the offer of the govern.
ment to restore forfeited land, and d large
amount of money paid in BY applicants
for that purpose that there isgreat delay,
and but one piece of property has been
recovered. a5sA aas ssas'f sie} aasa's5 g
An affair of honor was amicably adj
justed at Augusta, between two young
men, and another at Greenville, between
the proprietor Of the Mansion House and
the editor Of the Republican, stfa a'
Mr.. A. S. Hull, of Charleston, long
and fayorabIy known on Meeting street,
died at Barnwell last week. 80. q. N'.ss q.
q Geo. 7. Mcintyre sot.. tho Colleton
Gazette, whose wholesale. ,lashipgss Of
Judas Meses," are repeated in every
| issue of his paper, is out with card
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-07-31

Be % enacted az tho Senpta lad
Hoses 81 t;tsI
sof South Caroline, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same, That Section Q
of an Act entitled can Act to grant,
renew aud amend tho charters of certain
towns aud village. .tlcrein mentioned"
be, and the same is hereby, amended by
striking out, on the 9th line, the words
'on the 4th Monday in March, 1871"
and insert the words con the fourth
Monday Of April, 1873"
Approved January 20, 1873.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-07-31
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btbs public printing 6bsst tti liiadly;
1t promises its9Tcaa aersx xa6 publish all
public ia eiis II llIef aad
for or nee fs Bssaefit Of Its
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thaseaorkstsThe IlsiEs iias been siSS;;hngi
thai that i iiery work ao1 lone, that ws
the enterprise s. ! !.
see through il, as tie Wssdsher-s
woman said vixen the bottom of the Tub
fallsoota ssssSss gtlsa Gsff SSclgSa e8 xjgissss
Esa 5Sdf HIVE place s6e BTa;i iae BIZ,
found tHeteMheda wanted hsl iiis sbiisiaess
hours Sos sa cta 80
|gs ssiThs Brook lynsi :. rnstg esStnind,l has
smashed mp, owing tosthe sdsfalcatioh fof
the president About s150, 600 has been
lost, and The nftIairs off the bank afe: :iii d
Ehopeleas state. THE defadIter ii shppIsosed
Ftolliatc committed suicide. aiial 81 !. !;
- -setR powder mills az TaRagiia; pil pi,
were blown tip sdnstIe 2ist Ode dlah
killed, has ssaass 8 Us q
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Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-07-31


NYiilgie Collins the renowne d no
intends makiaga visit visit to 4laaSfie whaFs
sIie aiiIgive ereaaings from bis popular
:MbrEai SiSa az s.s sars sasass sass
2,Q54 births were registered iis Lphddat
for the week ending the s29thsfof Jpne,
and 1,191 deaths for the ssne period.
Tie Morda1nt diyotce case Is In pain.
ful suspense, on acc count Of the Insanity
rof Latiya Mordaunt. I. Her husband sir
CHARLES applieafo 10 disoFee ii 1865,
upon aackarge of u primninaII mature, ,land
the .case,wqs stayed upon the grounda of
ne LADY bsIpgsunabls VI & e I'D defend & Il from
ihsafiity 3 go, 3 ss 81 - >,
Lord SbhflfsbaIy, has made q q fnyions
philipbie against 4Ss priests Of the.
Church Of Eagisiid 2 y no have petition
ed for agricular confession, md likens
them. to Tie priests Of BaaI, md styles
their representative bod q aafollnFag,ea Q
pollution Of the lady Of Baby ON Y 4, Tie
stbject i 1t present opposed by the laitys
aud is SUI msubjecsc ci;iifsfy Il, Tie State, as .all
Church natters are Sp ip England $50 syg
z Nassatgeoiihg are eomfnonsat Irafal.
gar Square 4teh the ;acedmpa paniinentaof
tromhopes and vlimelights The sEducas
ton act deceased wife, = sisters biilii, ann
other defeated sbills,afe howled ioyerby
aerowd of liberal snamskullsaSs 4 ssaass
a & .r-.- g. s-.sssssass44 ~ - ssa .TSzs
AN IrEM OFF, rRurHs Tho New otle
"Sun" says about the fraudulent bondss
"To speak plainly the taxpay yers Of South
Carolina, contend that out Of 81 COO, 600
of these bonds, stf000,e00 were issued in
defiance of law, by Carpet bag thieves,
who stole tic ln1oasey realized upon them,
and that therefore tfis State is not liabIs
for the paymentof aiiSyy.' aiSyy..' saasas Afsl,rfsas }
sas g,s2.sa s.. 80. EA@4 I sgsqeg
CkfElRp1EEA G isEl So This sc%osirge % has has
made is appca on james Isll:a.::::3;
in large umbefisss.'s y .gEs ''< :. s'sRs -.
l - L. = q q. AZ
AIuRpER;-5 a colorea hoy named
James in Greenyille, s. G., attacked .
smaller scoiored boy namcd Hpmbert,
threw him to the ground, and cut his
throat with q knife. James is now in
|jail. ~ - ga - - - s -, i.
81 Egsgs 9I8 9T s. 80 .SiIs55 6ss5.al5
| sUIqDE, w. ssettleml ers an en-, en-,
ployss Of the Charlotte. q g. & s ss y
committed suicide at his room in eGolrns
Ibia, Q few days sinceq by shooting him,
self twice, with 9 navy reyalysrs Tho
cause OF the sad and raSh decd was his
Ilrefa:al by, q yo.pngg lady in Charlotte, 4.
IC. He was'a temperate and indastEious
J man.