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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Watering Plants In Summer.

Plants growing in the open ground and
fully exposed to the sun, are frequently
ruined by the very means taken to
save them-by watering in hot, dry
weather. Generally, merely the sur
face of the ground is wet, and the
moisture soon evapOrates, leaving the
soil dry and hard-almost impervious
to air as well as to the dews. But this
is not the only, nor the greatest evil
which results from the ordinary slight
watering which plants get. The tenn
porary, superficial moisture causes the
roots to seek the surface, where, in the
intervals between the waterings, the
heat and drought destroy them, and
the plants become stunted or die outs
right. The remedy lies in a more
thorough irrigation and in a different
mode of applying the water. In the
case of young trees and large herbace-
Gus plants, the best way is TO carefully
scrape away the soil around them to
the depth of an inch or two, forming a
shallow basin into which sufficient
water should be poured to moisten well
the ground as deeply and as widely as
the roots extend. When the water has
soaked in, the dry earth should be re-
turned, which will prevent a speedy
evaporation. Among small plants
which can not be treated in this way,
make holes with an iron rod or a
sharpened stick several inches in depth
and fill them with water which will
thus reach the deepest roots.-Ruro
| CdrOlinidn.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Horse Food.

Wilkes' Spirit says: awe have
never believed, and never shall, that
chopped hay and corn meal, saturated
with water, is proper for a working
horse as a general diet We firmly
believe that the food for q working
horse who can not be pastured should
be good sound oats and sweet hay for
at least five days in a week. Look at
the South, where the common run of
working horses are fed on corn. What
is found there? Why, the big head, a
terrible and almost incurable COM
plant We also think that corn meal
is the very worst way Of feeding corn
TO a horse that was ever practiced.
And the chopped wet hay Is not half
as good as fine timothy from the NOW.
We like 10 hear horse grinding up
his good timothy hay like grist mill
after he has finished his oats. A nice
mash once In while is good, and q
very different thing from almost cou-
slant diet.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE IL, 1874,
FIELD AND FARM.

CoNvERsISG with an intelligent gen.
tleman yesterday, who has given the
subject much practical thought, he
mentioned that what farmers want
above all things else, is a more general
diffusion of knowledge. That class of
people want to adopt all entirely diff
ferent system of arriving at the value
of their products If we go into the
store Of merchant and he inquiries
what we will give him for his wares,
we conclude at once that he does not
understand his business. The BUSH
ness man knows what his merchan-
disc costs him, and he marks such a
price upon itas will pay cost anda profit
sufficient to make him a living. But
how is it with the farmer? He comes
to market to sell his wheat or other
products and inquiries "what will you
give me?n Would it not be better for
him, like the merchant, to keep an
account of what it cost him ard then
put Oh enough to yield a fair profit.
Let him know how much it was worth
to plough the ground, and SOW the
-eed-what the seed was worth-what
it cost him to harvest his crop and get
it ready for market-what the interest
on the value of his land-what amount
Of taxes be has paid, &c. If all farm
ers could do this and make it the basis
upon which to fix the price Of their
products, it would certainly ho more
satisfactory than the present hap-haz-
ard way of taking whatever they can
get without regard to cost.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
"TOO Poor to Take a Paper. y

Moore, of the Rural NetC Yorker, was
sitting in his Office one afternoon some
years ago, when farmer friend came
in and said Mr.. Moore, like your
paper, but times are so hard l can not
pay for it"
Z as that so, friend Jones? Pm very
sorry to hear that you are so poor; il
you are so hard run will give you my
paper"
30, no can't take it as a gift"
Well, then, let's see how we can
fixit. You raise chickens, l believe? u
Eyes, a few but they don't bring
anything hardly"
Don't they! Neither does my
paper cost anything, hardly. Now, /
have proposition to make to you. |
will continue your paper, and when
you go home you may select from your
lot one chicken and call here mine.
Take good care of her and bring me
the proceeds, whether in eggs or chick
ems, and we will call it square"
. All right, brother Moore" and the
fellow chuckled at what he thought a
capital bargain. He kept the contract
strictly, and at the end of the year
found that he paid about four prices
for his paper, He often tells the joke
himself, and he never had the face to
say he was too poor to take paper
since that day.-MOdeL Farmer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
The New Postage Bill-Town and Conn
try Papers.

The bill passed on Saturday, chang
ing the rate of postage on printed mat
ter does not seem to meet With hearty
approval in any quarter. The Post.
Office department desires that printed
matter shall be prepaid, aud very likely
would prefer the provisions of Satur-
days bill to the existing law. Never
theless, they are in favor of fixing the
rate at one cent per pound, instead of
one and half cent on periodicals pub.
lished once week and less frequent
ly, and allowing no newspapers as
dead-heads.
They claim that the revenue would
be greater at one cent. per pound from
all papers in the country that the
revenue under the bill rs drawn, which
permits free circulation in the coun-
ties of publication. The bill seems to
have been framed with especial re-
ference to the protection of small
country newspapers, influential with
in the home districts of members of
Congress, and which, of course, those
gentlemen consider must be propitia.
ted in some manner. 1t seems to be
the idea of Mr.. Cannon, Of Illinois,
who had charge of the bill, that nearly
all the revenue would be paid by a few
leading newspapers in the large cities,
and that the great number of small
papers all over the country were to
escape without paying any postage at
all.
Mr.. Cannon made his own speech in
explanation and defense of the bill
presented, and then refused to allow
any amendments to be offered, or any
speeches made on behalf of the oppo.
site side, though earnestly appealed to
by such men as Mr.. Dawes, Mr.. Rob
erts, of New York, and Gen. Hawley.
1t is not believed possible that the
Senate will agree to the bill in the form
in which it has passed the House, and
most likely a disagreement between
the two Houses would cause a failure
of the bill at this session. The mem
bers of the House from the rural dis
tricts are very earnest in their efforts
to secure the free distribution of their
local papers. and will hardly permit
any change in the postal laws which
does not effect that result. The Senate
is probably much less influenced by
the considerations, and is expected to
hold out against the pressure from the
| House, Wash. Cor. ". y. Times.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Orchard GFhss

Orchard grass will produce three
times as much feed as blue grass fPOd-
J0rateRsis,) except on strong lime soils,
as in Eastern Kentucky. 1t will do
well on wet land, where clover aud
timothy will heaye OUT but il the
land is very vet, red-tOp, sometime
called herds grass lAgrOStic Uulg0ri)
will do better. This is natural swale
grass and is perennial. II is much
later than orchard grass, and although
the hay is somewhat soft and light, il
is valuable and makes permanent and
strong sWaTd.
/ should not advise farmer to SOW
orchard grass where his last year seed
ing has failed, but if he is anxious TO
get il into grass as soon as possible, TO
pillow up the land and put on oats or
barley, and seed this spring with or
chard grass and June clover. If his
sod ground il not too heavy, and he can
bring 1t into a fine filth, it will do to
SOW on spring grain with orchard grass
and clover this season, a better would
be IL he desires 10 get "a good, perma-
nent seeding and can spare the land,
10 summer-fallow his sod ground, and
SOW II with rye or wheat the last Of Au-
Tust, and seed then with orchard grass.
Two plowings would be sufiicient--one
early in July, and the other the last of
August. By following this plan, con-
siderable pasture or hay could be OBJ
tanned, the weeds killed, and a
very desirable seeding could be
had. Orchard grass, like any other
crop, will do best when sown early in
spring, 30 that as large q growth as
possible can be made before the summer
drouths.
There is no grass, unle-s it be clover,
which furnishes 80 satisfactory an
aftermath as orchard grass. For soiling
II 10 admirable, as several cuttings can
be made in one season. TO secure a
thorough seeding of thisexcellent grass
" worth the most careful pRinstaking.
for when once done it will prove per-
maAent and profitable investment, aud
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17

A writer of some distinction says
those little plump, clean animals
should be used for food. A mistaken
notice is entertained generally that
they are a kind of rat, and therefore an
unjust prejudice ought to be overcome,
since they are excellent eating.
Guinea pigs are not pigs. They are
Harmless, tirnid vegetable feeders. Their
flesh Is nutritious aud delicate. If once
received into our markets, being easily
raised, they would soon be priced for
their many desirable dietetio proper
ties. Being prolific, too, they might be
raised in vast abundance, their
food being an item of no expense, few
cabbage leaves, roots, or waste pArings
being all they would require TO grow
into proportions to fill vacancies in a
gourmand's stomach.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Who Could Have Done Better.

The Republican majority in Congress
began the session by repeating the OBJ
noxious salary bill. They have re-
duced expenditures nearly or quite
thirty millions. They have succeeded
in carrying the government over the
exigency of the panic and the loss of
revenue without any increase of taxa
ton. They have passed in one branch
and are preparing in the other meas
ure of moiety reform. They are strik-
ing down the wrongs of the District
Board of Public Works, and devising
new and improved system of govern
ment. They have broken up the San
born contracts, repealed the law under
which they were made, and, in con-
junction with the President, are driv-
ing from the service all the officers
connected with them.-Albdny Jour
nat.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Usefuie Recipes.

VEAL MoLD.-Line a small mold
with hard-boiled eggs, cut across so as
to show the yolk, and fill it up with
small pieces of veal, nicely favored
and filled up with clear veal jelly OF
isinglass jelly.
BURNT BUTrER.-Put a couple Of
ounces of butter in frying pan set II
on the fire; when of dark brown
color put in half a teacup of vinegar, 6
little pepper and salt. This is good fol
fish, salad or eggs.
BOSTON PUDDING.-Take six ounces
of fine flour, six ounces of fresh suet
shred fiue, six ounces of raisins stoned
cup Of molasses, cup of milk, Mix
well, put in a basin, tie cloth over
and boil for three or four hours. Serve
with sweet liquid sauce.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17

stolen away" while we were gaping
at forbidden sights. Served me right,
! thought, but did not say so.
Why did you not tell me they
would all be gomez"
II did tell you there would be no
chance after the circus" explained
Philip.
There was no one to blame.
| might have known that Mrs.
Dahomey would not be sitting
alone all this time, smoothing the lap
OF her calico wrapper.
But revenge is sweet, and l took
mine by refusing to "move on from
among the baggage wagons, and per-
sisted in seeing the child rider mount
his pony by the side of his father on the
Australian.
When we are asked how we liked
the managerie, we dwell on the amia-
bility of the camels, the ugliness of
the elephants, and the beautiful eyes
of the giraffe. More than this we
treat with superior indifference. R.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
TOO Mach Hoppe. >,

A Chinsman entered a store In Hell
ena, Montana, Che other day, and
walking up to the counter deposited
a grasshopper thereon, saying, as he
gazed upon the clerk with confiding
look - He too much hOppee; all hop
pee-stop him. You sabbee?n The
obliging clerk at once commenced
measuring off mosquito bar TO the in.
tense delight of the heather. The
grasshopper had been destroying his
garden, and wanting to purchase some
musquito bar, but not knowing the
name Of the article, he brought the de-
stroyer with him, and the clerk under
stood in q moment the article needed,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17

Everybody who wishes women to
succeed in art will be glad to know
that the English girl who painted for
the Exhibition the picture, THE Roll
Call in the Crimea, A" has received Sc, 900
for the engraving copyright, and better
than thst-considering how much pop
ularity is involved in the fact-the
Queen has given her a commission.
Above all. Miss Thompson's picture
has been the occasion of violent dis
cussion of the grsvest nature. The
question is, "How does a horse move
bis legs when walking?" Divers au-
thorities say that the artist has painted
her horse in motion in the most erro-
neous manner; other authorities, equal
ly competent, declare that she is quite
right. And so the talk goes on, leaving
outsiders a.marveling that so ordinary
fact in Nature could not be determin-
ed on the instant. Miss Thompson's
picture is said to be spirited and bold,
and even If her drawing be wrong, it
is certainly no worse an error than
Raphael made when he represented
the Disciples drawing boiled Holsters
from the Galilean sea.-N. Y. Tribune.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Flirts.

The Cincinnati Commercial writing
about tlirts," gets Off the following :
or all classes of male flirts the most
dangerous il a clerical one. Scores of
clergymen are flirts who never deem
themselves such, and who would
shrink from the insinuation as though
it were a deadly sin, as it is. They
are insinuating, and kind, and tender,
that they may WOO souls. They press
young hands softly and murmur bless
ings, while looking into eyes thus
they awake hearts instead of consci-
ences, and set young brains dreaming
in a way they little wish or wot of.
OF all deliberate flirts the married
man is the most deliberate. The fruit
is not his; it grows on another man
tree; it is forbidden him; he has the
like in his own garden. He does not
mean TO appropriate. Oh, no, his
neighbor knows he can not do that, so
it is safe to admire and handle and be
RECALLED with the perfume, until the
bloom lie gone, and blight has begun,
when it is left unplucked to decay.
When "a married man undertakes to
play this game with married woman,
it is Greek meeting Greek, and there
Is not often much harm done. 1t Is
merely a passage of arms, which may
not always be as agreeable to the other
parties supposed TO be interested in II
as il is TO those engaged in the sport.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Feeding for MILK.

The able editor of the dairy depart
ment in the Rural NetO Yorker has an
article on feeding wheat bran and oil
cake for producing milk to be sent to
butter and cheese factories from which
we condense the following statements !:
Bran and middlings make an excel-
lent feed for mich cows. Bran gives
milk of good flavor, it increases the
flow, and is not liable to injuire
the animal as some other kinds of
ground feed, like corn-meal. Among
milk-farmers, or those who have
been long engaged in selling milk for
city consumption, bran is very highly
esteemed and appreciated but the or
binary dairyman aud farmer generally
under value its nutritive qualities.
The average composition of bran in
100 parts is as follows: Water, 10 {;
gluten, 1875; fatty matte r, D; husk,
with starch, 81 ash, 10.
On some FARMS longer employed in
producing milk for market or II max
ing cheese, the soil has become so eX-
hausted of phosphates that the grass
does not supply sufficient quantity of
bone material for stock kept upon the
premises and hence milch cows suffer
from what is known as bone dis
ease" falling down and being unable
to rise. This disease prevails in GER
tain parts of New Hampshire, and as
remedy, bone meal is fed to the cows
to supply this element lack ing in the
food. The grass lands in Cheshire,
England, have been SO long employed
in dairy farming that they require
manuring with bones, from time to
time, to keep up their fertility in yield
ing grass that is healthy and has all
the elements OF nutrition for stock.
Now, bran being suitable for food as
well rs for direct manure, that portion
of the substance which is adapted for
assimilation into the frame of the ami
NAL becomes useful Eas an article of
nutrition, while the remaining portion
loses none of its eXcellency as a fertil-
izing material by having passed
through the alimeutary canals of the
animal-but is virtually an invaluable,
indirect manure. The ash of the bran
of wheat contains in 100 parts the fol-
lowing:
Phosphate and magnesia. .................46
Alkaline phosphate.........................30
Carbonate of potash. ........................l4
Silica, lime,
100
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
4" IISbbs.''

The shibboleth OF the y. O. 4. now
is, not TO pronounce Hobbs. We can't
stand that nonsense. Hobbs
The u Dc a., in its lordly way, init
mates that We must not con luct the
Banner In our own way that we
manifested no little impudeuce in hay
ing squelched the civil rights bin ;
that we INDUCED ia "biu-.rr Il
Judge Frazier, and, finally, that we
must not refer TO Hobbs. Thnt last
straw breaks thecamel's back. Hobbs
Nashville Banner.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
Pensions.

The adoption by both houses of the
conference reports on the bills to in
crease pensions in certain cases, will add
several hundred thousand dollars to the
cost of the pension system. One of the
bills increases the pensions of 69l
totally disabled pensioners from S3l %
to $50 per month. The other increases
the pension of all one.armed soldiers
to the same rate as that paid to one
legged soldiers, which is S24 per month
Wash. Cor. Bat. SIM. 9fh.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
TIE BEST ADKICE
DIR. TUFTS HAIR DYE

possesses qualities that no other dye does. It's
effect Is instaA taneous and natural that il can
not be detected by the closest observer. II Is
harmless and easily applied. aud IL in genera
use among the fashionable hAirdressers in every
large city in the united States. Price 81 boz
Sold everywhere.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17

for years yield bountiful and satisfac-
tory harvest. Il ID. Curtis, Saratoga
county, NeiD York.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
NUF CED.

Kent. .'
 Last week was d rather eventful one for Kent in the way of weddings: Tuesday
 morning witnessed the marriage of Miss Sophia Judd to Burritt Eaton, Esq; We'd nesday, that of Miss Abby Straight to MT. Wbittlesey, of Preston and on Thursday the Key. MT. Jessup, of St. Andrews Par ish, was united in the bonds of wedlock to Miss Blair. Mir. Eaton had remained a bachelor so long that the madden ladies of this village, with whom he was favorite, look as if they had lost friend, but the Elder was heard to remark with a smile on his lips and tear in his eye that he considered Burritt not lost but gone before. We suppose like Jack in the fable he will soon be following on after......Two young gentlemen ot this town called upon some young lady friends one Sunday evening re- gently. On bidding them farewell some time in the wee sma' hours they were con siderably astonished to find that their horse which they had left tied to the post had taken his departure. As several instances of horse stealing have occurred hereabouts, they were somewhat alarmed at the disap- pearance of the steed, but making the best of the circumstances they walked seven miles and found the horse quietly waiting by the gate at home. After all it might have been worse for they were in time for an early breakfast, and we all know walk ing is healthy exercise. SoL.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
Mi1IertOm.

The Presbyterian Society has engaged the Rev. Dr. Walch to be their pastor dur ing the coming year. For over quarter of century he has been faithful amnas- sador of Christ, laboring as missionary in India......On Thursday the 18th inst. Mr: and Mrs. Edgar Clark, of Northeast Center, were surprised by visit from their friends. who presented them with silver tea set the occasion being the twenty-fifth ami versary of their wedding. ...... Weddings, not silver, but real weddings, seem to be the fashion in and about Millerton at present: they follow each other in quick succession. ......Mr. Mack is putting up building over the creek, near Barton's Hall. A part of it he is to use as shoe-shop. Large beams. laid from one bank to the other, form the foundation upon which he is to build Several houses are being erected in the eastern part of the village, and the work is being pushed forward, in order to complete the buildings before cold weather sets in. ......We have at last the prospect of depot here. on the N. Y., B. 6 M. and the Conn. West. Railroads. The whole depot will not be new, as great care is being taken to re- tain the diminutiye building that was put up as a temporary depot, over three years ago; it is we'll that it was not mistaken for baggage and carried off long ago, as the Railroad company must then have gone to the expense of building an entire new de- pot; now they only have to raise this building two feet and put on an addition.
 ..,.. c.
Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
West COrMWaII.


 The late fine weather has enabled the farmers to secure their crops in fine order. ......The highway in front of the Foster House is undergoing extensive repalrs, which will be great improvement when completed. There has been quite brisk trade in chestnuts, and they are selling for two dollars a bushel.. Our legal adviser has taken unto himself wife from among the fair daughters of Bethlehem which yer flies the report circulated by Madam Rumor for the last two or three weeks. We con- graduate MT. and Mrs. Warner, and wish them long and pleasant journey down the turnpike of life... The D. Y. w. Y. K. Dramatic Club had an overfowing house in Milton last Tuesday evening, and we learn that the play-goers of that place were highly pleased with the entertain ment, and the Club assure us that they are truly thankful for the many courtesies'ex- tended them by the good people of Milton, and also for the generous contribution by purchase of tickets, to the coffers of their treasury. We would also say to the citi- zens of Milton that the Club are engaged in a good cause aud are justly entitled to the patronage bestowed upon them.
 NUF CED.