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The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-04-11
Abuse OF Old Horses.

A correspondent of an exchange saws:
| feel deep sympathy for old horses. 1t
is q common practice in this country to
make old horses break the colts and too
often work with them for years. 1t is
hard for an old horse to work with a colt
or young, active horse. Old horses,
like old men, are often capable of perform
ing more hard work than some young
ones, who can beat them for an hour or
more. The old man wants to take mod
crate jog, and can hold out all day; but a
little immoderate exertion for few min
utes unstrings him perhaps all day. An
old horse driven at the top of his speed
tor few miles spoils the days journey.
When once made sore or strained, the re-
suit is stiffness the next day. The old
horse should not haul his load to town
and then be forced to trot back. 1t does
not injure him as much to do heavy work
with slow motion as to do light Jobs ut the
last gait. Again, the old horse requires
more time to eat his meals and rest his
nerves. Of all animals the horse is the
worst abused. Although he has been our
faithful and profitable servant, vet in his
old age the lash is applied to force out his
youthful vigor. The older he grows the
more he feels the lash. He is often turned
out doors to give place to the colts. Too
often the neglect and abuse he is subject
to, because he is little old, result in q
greater loss than is made up in the care of
young horses. The last part of horses
life may be more profitable if rightly used
than the first part.
There is more comfort and less danger
in..working old horses. We understand
them and they understand us; and we
should be willing to conform in some
measure to their wishes. It would be
more humane as we'll as profitable to use
them as they should be and as long as it
would pay, and then take them out and
shoot them down. But the practice is to
knock them about as much as they will
bear to pay we'll, and then trade them off
to some more inhuman wretch than our
selves. The old servant has gone among
strangers, and he receives no sympathy in
his last extremity. We do not blush to
say that q man who has enjoyed the
profits and pleasures of a good horse as
long as he was profitable, and then shoves
him off among inhuman jockeys, is an
inhuman, treacherous and suspicious
friend. The man who does 50 without
regard to how the horse may be cared
for is, in my estimation, of a suspicious
character; and never see horses abused
so az 20 excite pity but my sympathies
are directed to the mans wife and chill
dren also, if he has them.
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Thirty Years Experience Of an Old
Nurse.

thirty Hears' Experience Of an Old
Nurse.
Ms. WINDOWS soo1u11a srxuP IL tho prescrip.
ton Of one Of the best Female Physicians and Nurses
In the United States. and has been used for thirty
years with neverfaing safety and success BY mill.
Ions OF mothers and children from the feeble infant
OF ono week old to the adult 1t corrects acidty Of
tho stomach. relieves wind colic regulates the bow
els and gives rest health and comfort to mother and
child. We believe it to be the Best and Surest Rene
dy In the World In all cases Of DYSENTERY and
D1ARRHGA IN CHILDREN, whether 1t arises from
Teethtng or from any other cause. Full directions
for using Will accompany each bottle. None Genuine
unless the facsimile of CURTIS & PERKINS Is On
the outside wrapper.
SOLD BY ALL Madeleine DEA1xRs.
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Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From no other cause than having worms in the stom
ach.
BROWNS vERM1FUGE COMFITs
viii destroy Worms without injury the child, being
perfectly WHITE, and free from all cooring other
injurious ingredients usually used in worm prepare
tons.
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Sold By Druggists and Chemists, and Dealers In
Medicines, at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A Box.
The LITTLE CORPORAL.-The April
number is full Of excellent original matter-good
reading for both young and old-and contains
several pretty and appropriate illustrations We
| the publisher has made arrangements with prac-
teal florist Of Chicago to furnish each new sub.
scriber who may desire it beautiful floral premium,
consisting Of several varieties Of flower plants This
Is valuable present, and is alone worth the price
Of subscription to the magazine, which is $3.50 a
| year. Specimen number Of the Little Corporal,
with prem ium list, ten cents. JOHN E. MILLER,
Publisher Chicago, III.
''NOTT.ING BETTER said DR.. John Ware OF
| Boston, than Cntler Bros celebrated VEGETABLE
| PULMONARY BALSAM, for Colds and Consumption
| " ASTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise.
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n ASTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise
ment.
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..NOTT:ING BETTER,, said Dr.. John Ware, Q
Boston, than Cntlcr Bros celebrated VEGETABLE
PULMONARY BALSAM, for Colds and Consumption
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Sandwich Manufacturing Co

SANDWICH. DE KALB CO., ILLINOIS.
ADAMS PATENT SELF-FEEDING
as the Sandwich Shellers'l, varying in size and
pacity to suit all wants. Farm Horse Powers.
the celebrated CORN KING CULTIVATOR.
Descriptive Circulars fully illustrated mailed free
to any address. j. p. ADAMS, Secretary
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MOST IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
| TO RUPTURED
DIED cnnO

Now and Perfect KEN.
edy for Hernia. The In
vention Of The Elastic
Truss is without doubt
the most important med
ical discovery of the cen
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
Mango in Horses.

WILKES Spirit Of the Times pronounces
the following to be a safe and most effect
i've remedy: Whale (sperm) oil, SIX
ounces; oil of tar, three ounces; lac sui
phur, three ounces; mix thoroughly, and
apply by means of hair brush The
skin should be thoroughly washed before
the remedy is applied. At the end of the
second or third day the animal is again
to be washed before the remedy is ap-
piled. AT the end of the second or third
day the animal is again to be washed and
the remedy reapplied, as it is very posi-.
BILE that all the ova (of the mango insect
are not killed by the first dressing.
Mango being Il contagious disease, il is
essential that all animals suffering from
it should be isolated, and all objects with
which they may have come in contact
purified.
The clothing is to be boiled with a
solution of soap and carbolic acid, and
the harness, saddle and grooming utensils
washed with warm water and soap, and
dressed with a solution of arsenic or cor
rosive sublimate, in the proportion of
ten grains to the ounce of water. After
being so washed and dressed they are to
be kept for several days exposed to dry
air, washed again with soap and water
before they are used, and before they are
again put on the horse they should be
sprinkled on the side next to the horses
skin with sulphur. These may seem use
less precautions, but in many cases the
harness and clothing are lined with thick
scabs containing the ova of the parasites,
the vitality of which is so great as to
almost defy all efforts to destroy it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
A Remarkable Conflict.

| THE beet-growers around Brighton,
| five miles from this city, have been
| greatly excited for week past over the
| appearance of the army-worm in their
| beet-tields. The worm Is q newcomer,
and has appeared in vast quantities over
| an area of at least three miles. The
worms average about two and half
| inches in length, are as thick as an ordi-
nary lead-pencil, and of dark brown
| color, with longitudinal stripes of black
and white on either side of the brown
back The head resembles that of q
silk-worm, and is armed with keen, nip.
per-like teeth.
They have eaten up nearly all the
beets that were. planted by the Beet
Sugar Company, and the fields of John
Rooney, which are mostly planted with
beets, are almost as clean as when the
seed was put in. They cover the ground
in n hideous black, crawling mass and
present most loathsome sight. They
eat the tops entirely off the beets, not
even leaving the stems of the leaves but
after these are all eaten they descend to
the beet itself and devour it. There are
a great many willows in the vicinity, and
il is probable that the moth that lays the
egg out of which the worm Is Matched is
harbored by them. When the worms
come out they commence depredations
on the nearest fields to the willows, and
this fact has been observed in former
years. The course travelled by the
worms is from the southwest to the
northeast
Two days ago the owners of the fields
procured 1000 hungry turkeys and
turned them loose on the ravagers The
turkeys went at the pests voraciously,
but made. but little progress, though they
devoured the worms in millions. To-day
l 400 more of the hungriest turkeys TO be
found for miles around were turned into
the fields. The scene that ensued when
the entire 2, 400 turkeys got fairly to work
was thrilling in the extreme. The tur-
keys charged on the black, crawling,
seetmng mass of loathsome things, and
devoured them in great punches, gulping
them down in their eagerness like starv-
ing vultures. The worms came on in
great black waves, swaying on the beet
tops like an undulating sea. The turkeys
gorged themselves till they reeled and
staggered and tottered like demoralized
soldiers. AS the gorged turkeys fell back,
fresh and hungry ones took their places,
and scooped up the loathsome food in
wriggling strings. After a hot contest,
in which finally all the turkeys took a
part, they fell back, sick and disheart-
ened, with overladen crops and disgusted
looks. After fast of day or two they
will again be set to work, but in the
meantime the worms are Increasing in
millions. The damage done already is
enormous.-.Sderanient Cor. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07

4. M HN MNNT ~ II II IL
| ping one side down let the eggs run out
on the gravel Movo the pan along as
the eggs are running outi so that thev
will be evenly distributed.7 Remove the
extra cross-strip very slowly to prevent a
rush of water. 81
II you, have no hatchinehouse the
trough must be provided with n board
cover TO keep out sun, rain and snow.
Mice and rats are fond of the eggs, and
will destroy large numbers ifbnllowed to
get at them. II at any time dead egg
Is found, which may be told by its turn,
ing milk white color, it must be re-
moved, as q kind of mildews soon forms
about It, which will in time communi-
cate with and kill all the eggs in its
vicinity
The young fish require no food for a
month or more after Matching; at the
end of this time they should be fed regu-
larly--at least once day-with the yolk
of an egg, boiled hard and grated, or curd
of sour milk. The water may be raised
in the trough when the eggs are all
Matched, to give the fry more room.
When the fish are three months old they
can be removed TO the pond. ....'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07

ment or so great question The Importance
Of the question must increase from decade 10
decade. and Is so vast In its proportions that
u will require years for Its solution; but the
Republi Can party has addressed itself 10 Che
task, and will not pause until the way has
been found out and accomplished; while the
Democr attic party will doubtless continue 10
devote It's vast energies 10 devising ways and
means To- prevent the social equality of The
negroes, and 10 the enlargement Of the school
fund by fostering the traffic of intoxicating
liquors by the licensesystem.
In conclusion, / am proud TO say that.
while the Republican party may have erred,
IT has NOT proved false TO the great princi.
pie, nor cowardly In the presence Of any
great question. It's aims are noble and pa
triotlc, and II does not seek a continuance in
power by pandering to vice and prejudice.
but refers to the past record of great ac
tions In behalf Of the Union, Of liberty, edu-
cation, equality and the material growth and
Improvement of the nation as an earnest Of
what IL seeks to accomplish in the future
And there must be no cessation in its labors /;
IL must not presume to live upon the glo-
ries and memories Of the past. Its first and
ever-preseut duty Is introspection, self-exam-
nation, the correction of errors, the intro
duction Of reforms. 1t must look TO the ex-
ecution and enforcement Of the Constitution
and laws; and, while asserting the existence
Of the nation and the just powers Of the Ma
tional Government, 1t should ever be vigil
liant to preserve in all their Just extent the
rights and powers Of the States--ever carry
ing before II, as a lamp TO guide its steps,
those great fundamental principles which
have given to the party its power and glory
equal rights to all, equal and exact justice to
all men.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
When Grain Should Be Harvested.

AS rule, farmers allow their grain OF
all sorts to stand until it is quite toe
ripe. There is a certain point in the stage
of the growth of both grain and grass
which indicates the best period for har-
vesting the crop. A writer in the Times
says that grain is fit to be harvested when
it can gain no further growth from the
root. When this occurs it IS lost time to
let 1t stand any longer. If cut before
this time the grain shrinks, shrivels and
loses weight and substance The repro
ductive germ may be perfect, because
that natures while the supply of starch
upon which the germ must depend for its
earliest food after termination has com
menced is yet incomplete. Shrunken
grain will germinate perfectly, but the
germ is insutficiently nourished and dies
prematurely. When the point arrives at
which the circulation of the sap between
the root and the plant is stopped depends
greatly upon the weather. II it is dry
the plant ripens rapidly, and the func-
tions of growth are stopped suddenly
II, however, the weather should be wet
the process of ripening is delayed, and
the crop may be fit to cut at period
which would be premature in dry wealth
er. We have found that in dry season
the grain must be left until it is harder
and more nearly dead ripe than in wet
season. In wet season the straw is still
full of sap when the grain is hard enough
to cut, and it may be harvested safely
while the straw is yet unripe. On the
contrary, during dry weather the straw
ripens so quickly that if it is cut a day
before It is fully ripe the chances are
greatly in favor of the grain shrinking.
This contingency must, therefore, be
and allowed for.-N.. Y. Her
aLd
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
Early Harvesting.


The cutting of grain should take place
elght ten, or even twelve days before the
perfect maturity of the grain, as recon-
mended by the great master, De Dom
basle; when the straw has begun to
whiten and dry at the base, to lose its
green tint, and when the grain has ac-
quired more firmness than it presents to
the nail and fingers when in a milky or
pastry state
Grain harvested before complete ma
turity has smoother skin, is better for
cattle and yields more flour; millers and
bakers can discriminate by handling it
and will pay more for it there is no shat
tering, the yield is greater since the
grains are better supplied, and the crop
is less exposed to the dangers of the
weather. With strong heat grain ripens
very rapidly; under these conditions the
grain is not properly nourished 1t re-
mains delicate and small when the stem
ripens too rapidly the ascent of the sap
Is arrested and the grain dies as in a
stove.
Vegetation is not stopped simply by
the separation of the straw from the
roots; in the last period, cut or not, the
grain draws nothing from the earth,
but is nourished by the juices from
the straw, and for that reason it
is important that grain should not
be dried too quickly, as would hap
pen If itwere exposed to hot suns, which
would remove without profit its nutri-
tious properties; upon the other hand, if
1t was heaped up into barns after being
tied into sheaves IL would be exposed to
fermentation and rot the sheaves should
be thoroughly cured in shocks before
stacking or housing. .5
Numerous experiments have been made
and demonstrated that grain cut eight
or ten days before perfect maturity
gives the best results in quantity and
quality.
In addition it has been established by
NJ. DuGhartre that the terminating prop
erly precedes maturity NJ. Roiset has
further proved that the nutritive power
of grain not ripe is equal to that of ripe
grain. An early harvest, therefore, is
an advantage to both producer and con.
sumer.
IL Is, moreover important to cut the
crop before it gets beaten down; in this
case the plant is nourished with Difficult.
ty; it cannot be acted upon by the winds,
II receives the direct rays of the sun, and
hence dries up; the grain is not properly
supplied, and the return is small.-Har1.
and Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
Butterby's Dog.

] HAVE had charge of Butterby's dog
this summer. was not very anxious to
take care of him, but | am under obli-
cations to Butterfly, and when he asked
me to keep the animal for him while he
went to the seashOre, didn't like to re-
fuse. Butterfly brought him around and
turned him into the cellar, where he
could amuse himself hunting for rats
That was on the 18th of June, and after
that time only two persons entered the
cellar, The hired girl went down once
after the cold beef, and came up dishev-
eled and bleeding, with number of ap-
palhng dog bites in her legs, and de-
scended Immediately afterward for the
purpose of pacifying the infuriated ami
NAL. lie did not feel disposed TO be-
come calm, however, and deem ii prob
able that If l had not suddenly clambered
into the coal-bin, where l remained until
he fell asleep in distant corner about
four hours later, l should certainly have
been torn to pieces, We thought we
would have to try to get along without
using the cellar until Butterfly could
come up and take away his dog. But
Butterfly wrote to say that he couldn't
come, and the dog, after eating every
thing in the cellar, and barking all
through every night, finally bolted up
stairs into the kitchen on the I'd of July
and established himself in the back yard
Since that time we have used the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
Cause of Smut in Wheat.

liz letter from Paris, France, the
Weekly Herdld is advised that Prof
| Pennetier, who has made this subject
one of lifelong study, states that smut is
owing to the presence of animalcules,
not unlike the tiny eels which exist in
the smut ball as whitish filaments. Al
though dryness suspends the life of these
worms, they Immediately regain it on
being plunged into water. The humidity
OF the soil effects the same change
When the sound grain terminates the
| larvR of the diseased seed are attracted
to the young plant, live on its pulpy
matter, forming tumors on the stem and
leaves, and ultimately lodge in the ear.
They are now in an adult state. The
sexes become distinct. The female de-
posits her eggs, from 200 TO / 800 as
many thousands being found in n single
grain of wheat. The new Larvae remain
in desiccated state till the following
season, and may be dried and restored to-
life several times with impunity, In
France, when such grain is sifted, It is
roasted in an oven and given to fowls.
sleeping the seed wheat in solutions of
arsenic, or blue vitriol or ammonia kills
the parasite effectively. Placing the
seed for twenty-four hours in a solution
of one part of vitriol and $50 of water is
tavorite remedy.
The presence of the field mice and
their numerous cousins is also rapidly
rising to the dignity of plague. When
the same little barbarans invaded
France, in 1856, Bousingault conquered
them by sleeping grain in an arsenical
solution-two ounces of arsenic in one
quart of water-stirring frequently, al
lowing the grain to soak for an hour and
then dry Eight poisoned grains will
settle mouse, but care must be taken
that it does not do the same for barn
door fowl or game.-N. y Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
" Riches Take Wings"

IT is not only individuals who have
suddenly increased in prosperity and as
suddenly gone down into nOthingness !;
there are cities of which the same can
be said. Such one is Pithole City, Pa.
Within one month from the completion
of the first house this city had tele-
graph office and a hotel, costing the
owners $4,000. In one month more
there was daily paper established and
in the next theater; in another month
another theater and then an academy of
music. In six months there were seventy
four hotels and boarding houses; in the
seventh month the city had reached its
highest prosperity, 1t then had about
$4,000 inhabitants, elaborate water
works, city hall and an expensive city
government. Then occurred the com
pletiOn of a labor saving enterprise, the
so-called Miller Farm Pipe line, by which
the petroleum was sent off Independent
of the laboring population. At once
1000 persons were thrown out of en-
ployment, while 1000 houses became
useless; this was the death blow to Pit
hole City. At once the hotels, the thea
ters and the telegraph Office were closed,
and the daily paper gave up its ghost,
while almost everyone packed his trunk
and moved out. Only nine families re-
mained out of population of $4,000
souls, while the railroad from Pithole
and Oleopolls runs only one train day
consisting of a locomotive and single
car, which usually is empty; but the
company is Obliged to keep running,
the charter for the road would
be lost. They still hope against hope for
better times for that unfortunate city,
which, in only seven months, was born,
full grown, got sick and died Undoubt.
edly this is case unparalleled in his
tory, modern or ancient; neither Egypt
nor Greece can give examples of such
rapid changes.-BostOn Sunday Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07

Upon which the Republican remarks :
An approximate estimate-and nothing
more is pretended-would show frac-
tion over , per cent. of the population in
the Northern and Western sections EN-
ployed in exclusive attendance upon the
remainder, while in the Southern section
about per cent, or double the number
in the North and West, is employed in
account the fact that more than half the
population of Louisiana is colored and
that the colored people employ scarcely
any servants, the Republican concludes
that the "white and colored domestics
of the whites in Louisiana are 10 per
cent. of its population" In other words,
there are foe servants in Louisiana to one
in Illinois.