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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Hints AbOut Work.

The beautiful Spring is near, and thos,
who have glanced at our previous hint
| will be prepared for the aUoTk 20 be done
the culture of the soil.
Again we ask attention to the care of an.
finals, so that when some are driven a-field
they will be full of life and loneliness in
| the landscape; and so, too, that those fol
the draft may have strength enough for the
labor before them.
DO not put OFF anything which can be
done before the work begins IN earnest.
Manure must be properly composted as
well as saved.
Turn and assert potatoes and other vege-
tables-and remove refuse matter
Ventilate and whitewash cellars.
Clean and repair harness.
Overlook the implements again, and see
that they are ready for use.
Implements, seeds and trees must be
ready for the Spring.
Clean the old bark from apple trees, and
wash them. Soft soap, or sal-soda heated to
readiness, and then dissolved in water,
may be used as a wash.
Heel in trees till the soil is in condition
for planting.
Remember that to select trees for home
use is one thing-to select trees for
market is another.
Make war on insects in the nursery and
orchard.
Cut scions before the sap starts, and pre-
serve them in dry earth, sand, or sawdust
When the sleep of Winter is over, prune
and graft the fruit trees-but before that
sleep is over, prune the grape vines, if you
did not prune them in the Fall-prune
currants and raspberries. Cut out old wood
and shorten the new.
Let i'll air and light, through all your
trees-through all your plants.
Make mats for frames and hot-beds.
Nentilate cold frames.
Before making the hot-beds, make shell
ter for them.
Prepare poles and brush for peas and
beans.
Roll lawns after the frost-and top dress
them-n necessary.
See that Dahlias, &C., do not decay in
damp places.
Prune and thin the shrubs, but don't dis
turb the shrubbery.
Rid the walks of rubbish.
Look to the greenhouse and the house
plants. Sudden change of temperature
mean death to the children of Flora. Tenn
perGture and pure air are essential to life.
Though they cannot soon bloom again, care
for the forced plants whose early bloom and
beauty have embellished our homes.
Plant early flowers. Start seeds--as the
weather permits-these germs of still
another life,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

a North Carolina man raised last yeal
~ bushels of sweet potatoes from one
acre of land, at a cost of S64.
A New Jersey man claims a clear profit
| on seventy chickens and nineteen ducks,
last year, OF $T7. He says il costs him 81
year to keep a chicken.
The fruit prospects in Southwestern Mis-
souri, are very good, and with favorable
conditions the harvest will be a plenteous
one.
The stocks of pork and lard in New
York City and the six leading Western
cities are estimated at 90, 600 bbls. pork
and 227, 900 ties. lard.
The production of wool in the United
States during the last four years ia thus set
down by the Commercial Bulletin. In
1870, 125 million pounds; 1871, 112i million
pounds; 1872, 135 million pounds in 1873,
l4Sk million pounds.
For the ten years ending January, 1874,
the average price of grain and produce in
the New York market was as follows:
Wheat, 81. 20; price now, Sl.65. Rye, $1.1S;
now, $l.00. Corn, S1.0S; now 81 cents.
Hay, S1,13 per cwt.; now, $1.00. Butter,
SO cents now, SO cents. Cheese, 49, cents
now, 14f cents.
A farmers wife, writing to the Ohio
Farmer, says: "Of all the products of the
farm butter is most liable to be tainted by
noxious Odors floating in the atmosphere.
Our people laid some veal in the cellar,
from which little blood flowed out, and
was neglected until it began to smell. The
result was that a jar of butter which was
then packing smelled and tasted like
spoiled beef
The House Pensions Committee have
agreed to an amendment to the Pensions
Code by which en- increase of pension shall
date from the first surgeons certificate
showing an increased disability. 1t is fire.
quently the case that when an application
of this sort is made it is not reached for
three or four years, owing to the press of
business in the Office, and as each year, I'M
til the demand is disposed of, fresh GER
tificate is requisite, the rule has been that
when granted it is made to date from the
last certificate.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Butter In France.

If our dairymen need a spur, an eye
opener, lesson which speaks volumes in
three words, here is one at the head of this
article. Butter is actually brought from
France and sold by the New York dealers.
And this is thus because there is an actual
scarcity in the market Of good butter put
up in attractive shape for small consumers.
When we know that one dairyman gets
81 Is pound for his product, another 81,
and another rs cents the year round, at
his dairy door, it is easily seen that it will
pay to bring butter across the ocean from
France, if it is only good and shapely
enough to suit the fastidious purchasers
who will have something nice whatever it
may cost.
All this butter is made from choice cows,
choicely fed on clean sweet food the milk
ing is done in the cleanest manner. The
milk is handled as carefully as though it
was nectar; the cream is churned with ut
most care by clock and thermometer, the
butter is worked with skill, and is made
up in shapely cakes, which do not require
to be cut when brought to the table. Com
pare then, this cake-hard, golden yellow,
sweet, fragrant and tempting to all the
senses-with an unsightly chunk, which is
cut out of greasy keg, and smells of old
age and rancidity, and is made from i'll
kept cream from cows filthily lodged and
carelessly MIXED, and is churned anyhow,
and the difference is amply accounted for.
N. y. Tribune.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
FIELD AND FARM
TRICHINE.
A whole Family stricken In Iowa,

Fourteen weeks ago the family of l.. =
Blood, farmer dwelling near Grinnell
Iowa, comprised thirteen members two
daughters-in-law and two grandchildren
included. All were we'll and of strong
constitutions, such as are bred on the level
lands of Central Iowa. Fatherand mother,
Hulburt j. and wife, with Bertha and Lii
lie, his children, Wallace and wife, Mary,
Annie, Willie. Agnes and Perley, these
composed the healthy and happy group.
1t so happened, unfortunately enough,
that a common article of family consump-
ton was raw pork. A new crop of invi-
ting hams having been gathered by Mr..
Blood, slices from these were freely eaten
without being submitted to the crHcible of
cooking. Shortly after the first indulgence
Mrs. Blood and four of the children were
taken with violent diarrea, cramps in the
stomach, and subsequent vomiting. A
doctor was summoned, and gave his medi-
cal opinion that the five had been poisoned
by arsenic. Whence it came was beyond
discovery. Relief was afforded partially,
and the others went on eating the deadly
meat, to which suspicion was not attract
ed. Wallace, the second son, was the mex
one stricken, and more severely. Two or
three days later, and nine of the thirteen
were ailing, some more than others.
At this juncture the eldest son, Hulburt,
came home, with his wife and two chill
dren, from Augusta, KAN, to take care of
the sick. The doctor was still of the opin-
ion that arsenic had somehow erept into
the cooking, and thence into the stomach
of the patients. All of them continued to
have violent pains and diarrhea, and weak
ness was inevitably the result. After an
illness of five weeks Allie, the wife of
Wallace died. She was worn out with
pain, having suffered intensely. No direct
cause could be found for her death, yet no
examination was made, or thought neces-
sary. Two weeks ago last Saturday, Viii.
lie, a lad of twelve years, died. He did
not seem to suffer so much as the other,
but grew weaker day by day till death
came TO him. He was sore, as if bruised,
all over his body, and could not bear so be
touched or moved. No examination was
made either in his case, and still the raw
pork had been not suspected.
But one day MIR, Blood, who was able to
be about, carried ham to his son Hulburt.
A portion of it was eaten, and almost inn
mediately there were four more patients.
The doctor now had his attention pointed
TO the pork, and at once charged upon it
all the previous troubles of the family.
To make certain, four or five pounds of
it were sent to DR.. J. Adams Allen, of Chi
cago, who no sooner placed it beneath his
powerful microscope than it presented a
most hideous spectacle of life, and one
which there was no mistaking. He in
stantly wrote the Ohio doctor that there
was no doubt about the case, and instruct
ed him as to the best knewn remedies for
the dreaded disease.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

1t is said that If one part of sugar is dis
| solved in three parts Of water, and digest
| ed with one-fourth partof calcic hydrate.
the resulting liquid will readily dissolve
glue warm, and the solution will remain
fluid on cooling, without having lost any
of its adhesive properties.
According to Prof Benevldes, of Lisbon,
gas obtained by distillation from the pine
tree is much more luminous than that
from coal, the difference, according to care
full comparison, being as five to one. The
density is about twice as great. It is rich
in carbon. and requires special burners,
with very small apertures, 80 as to burn
without smoke or offensive smell, in this
respect resembling petroleum.
NJ. Patera proposes to render woven fab
RIGS non-infiammable, by using, instead OF
sodic tungsgate, mixture of four parts
borax with three parts magnesie sulphate.
One hundred grammes of the mixture are
to be dissolved in three hundred to four
hundred cubic centimeters of water, and
in this solution the fabrics are placed until
soaked, then rung out, dried and ironed.
Another mixture proposed for the purpose
is that of ammonia sulphate and gypsum.
The following mixture is said to make a
very good barometer, it being very sensi-
tive to weather changes Mix 81 drachms
OF camphor, dissolved in 10 draehms of al
cohol, with 40 grains of saltpeter and 40
grains of sal ammoniac in 8 drachms of
water. This mixture should be placed in
a four-ounce vial, with piece of cloth tied
over its mouth, and placed in good light,
out of the sunshine, where it can be OBJ
served without handling. When the
weather is fine the fluid is clear, but on the
last change the chemicals rise from the bot
tom in beautiful, frond like crystals.
At recent meeting of the Geological
Institute, of Vienna, the Director, f. Won
Hauer, stated that toward the end of the
international exhibition he had asked al
most all Austrian, and great many of the
foreign exhibitors of ores, Goals, or other
useful minerals, to present these objects to
the museum of the institute. This request
was very successful, more than a hundred
exhibitors having offered the whole or
parts of their expositions to the institute,
and the number of givers is increasing still
every day. Out of the objects obtained in
this way will be formed particular collec-
ton of useful minerals from Austria and
from abroad, embracing ores, Goals, salts,
building stones, all sorts of useful clays,
etc., minerals used for colors,
for manures, etc. This collection, it is sup
posed, will form, when finished, one of the
finest in the world.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Rolling the Ground.

A correspondent of The Germantown
Telegraph writes: ION dry or wet ground
the effect of the roller is found to be salu-
tary. Plowed and prepared for sowing,
dry land is much helped by the roller
The blades of grass spring up sooner and
retail firmer hold in the earth. In q
season Of drought, rolling has saved the
crop, when without it the seed would have
never sprung from the ground. In wet
and heavy ground it is believed the roller,
smoothing and hardening the surface, will
leave the soil Immediately beneath the sur
face in a better condition to generate the
seed. On grass ground that has been
heaved by fiost, the roller has an excel
lent effect in fixing the roots. Rolling the
ground is also good when the land has
been laid down unevenly the previous
year. II the land is too dry, wait till Just
after a soaking rain, and it will work cap
italy. 1t is a good idea to roll plowed
sowed ground before narrowing, as it press
es down the burrows that would be turned
back, and makes the surface less uneven,
and the harrow pulverizes it much. We
find that on an average not one farmer in
four has roller.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Changers at Strawberry Plains.

EDS. CHRONICLE: According to appoint
ment, Col, G. w. Charlton made his APP
pearance on yesterday at this place for the
purpose of organizing Grange of the Pa
irons of husbandry. Some difficulty hav-
ing arisen as to organizing at this place
and Lyons Creek, the two places being
less than five miles apart, all parties met at
the latter point and organized two Oranges,
one the "Strawberry Plains" and the
other pheasant HILL" The Strawberry
Plains Grange was organized by the cleo
ton and installment of the following
named officers for the ensuing year, with
monthly meetings on the last Saturday of
every month, to wit:
Worthy Master, John H. Caldwell !;
Overseer, 8. Kennedy; Chaplain, r. w.
Trent; Lecturer, John M. Meek Secreta-
ry, A. S. Caldwell Treasurer, Il. A. Smith !;
Steward, Robert Caldwell; Assistant Stew
ard. c. w. McCampbeil, Gatekeeper, w.
Flora, Miss Alice Mcmillan; Pomona,
Miss Ada Caldwell: Lady Assistant Stew
ardess, Miss Josie Caldwell.
Our next meeting will be held on the
last Saturday of this month, at o'clock
p. M, in "Grange Hall" over Vance, Ken
nedy & Co.'s new store.
We hope to be in full working order
against that time, and all who wish to be-
come members of this Grange will have an
opportunity of doing SO.
Our Lecturer at that time, will be pre-
pared to explain the workings of the Or
der-its principles and purposes, and the
benefits accruing to its membership, by the
successful attainment of its objects. We
are sorry to see that some Of our most
promising young merchants are very
much opposed to the, organiza-
ton; upon what grounds has not
TRANSFERRED. presume they ''see through
glass darkly" at the present, and hope
the time may come when they will "see
face to face"
Again, some of our farmers are opposed
to it, for fear it proposes to make war on
the railroads and Others, some are fearful
of the amount of money it requires to run
the order, &c. To all of whom we say, we
are able to show the fallacy of the fears.
Come out, gentlemen and friends, on
the last Saturday of this month and hear
before you judge US.
Respectfully,
JOHN NJ. MEEK.
Strawberry Plains, March II, 1874.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Young Grass,

The German papers publish details of a
series of experiments carried on at the
agricultural schools of Fatherland, for the
purpose of testing the nutritive properties
of grass and hay at various stages. The
experiments were initiated by the excessive
demand for forage in Germany, but are not
the less valuable on that account. BY an
elaborate series of analysis, it is shown
why young grass is more nutritious than
mature grass: The physiological expert
ments show that it is more easily digested.
Thus grass two and half inches high con-
tains nearly fifty per cent. more Of albu-
menolds than grass which is six inches
high, and about ten per cent. more of
"crude fat'' (5.4 per cent. against 4.S2).
The mature grass contains more woody
hber and less hesh-forming matter than
the young grass, and besides this il is found
that the nutritious albumenoids exist In
less soluble form in hay than in young
grass. Hence the difference of nutritive
value and digestibility. Autumnal hay was
found TO be more nutritious than summer
hay Union and american.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Words OF Wisdom.

The Sandersville (Ga.) Herald is full Of
common sense on the subject of farming
this year. These are pre-eminently the
times for small fields and concentration of
labor. Put the manure commonly allow
your coat and pitch into work yourself.
Raise all your own food. Lead your labor
ers. Stay at home, make no debts. Waste
no time. Do a good days work every day,
and see that everybody who works for you
does the came. The Herald tells Of a
Washington county farmer who made
last year seventy five bushels of corn TO the
acre upon what was once poor pine land.
II does not take many such acres to fill the
crib. Put these little paragraphs into prac-
teal effect and tight times will leave your
clearings.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Notes from TIE Farmers.

see in your last weeks issue an inquiry
as to when and how is the best time and
way of sowing clover seed. L Twill give my
experience Turn your ground with a
heavy two-horse pillow in the month of De-
cember or January. That turns all weeds
and filth, and all wild seeds so deep they
will remaint there until summer before they
can get up. Sow your oats at any time
from the full of the moon in February
until the new. I have tried this method
for the last six years and never failed. Use
a heavy two-horse harrow after sowing
your oats TO cover them, then follow i'm
mediately sowing your clover while the
ground is loose. That is sufficient. The
first rain will cover your clover seed plenty
deeD
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Bruising Horses.

The following sensible advice is from the
NelU England Farmer:
"a man who will habitually take horse
through narrow door knows very little Of
what horse remembers, or what Is fair
treatment TO the animal. One single blow
on the hip against the sharp corner Of q
doorway Is sometimes sufficient to ruin q
valuable horse. But when that blow has
been several times repeated the horse be-
comes valueless, because he has become a
highly dangerous animal. We have seen
a horse whose hips were never healed after
striking two or three times in passing
through q narrow way. Another danger
Gus practice is the leading of horses out of
the barn door, by the sides of loads Of hay,
graid, etc. A slight blow upon the hip
will sometimes so excite a hlgh-spirted
horse that the person leading loses control
over him, and he escapes upon q Jump,
banging his shoulders and hips as he pro-
ceeds, leaving patches of skin and hair as
evidence that he has got through. Many a
valuable horse has been ruined in this way,
and many a valuable one can be saved by
never leading him through narrow
spacen
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
Mr.. FilImore's Illness.

The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of Tues
day afternoon gives the following statement cons
corning the illness of Hon. Willard Fillmore {:
1.-TWO weeks ago last Friday February l3), Mr..
Fillmore--haying been in his usual health up
to that time, and for few days preceding
somewhat more occupied than usual-experienc-
ed stroke of paralysis After shaving in the
morning his lef hand suddenly dropped power
less to his side, and lost both sensation and the
power of motion. The difficulty extended to
the left side on the face, and affected the muscles
connected with the voice and power Of swal-
lowing. Under suitable treatment at the hands
of his valued friend and physician, Prof. James
i. White, he improved considerably, and mo-
ton waapartially restored 10 the paralyzed parts.
The voice resumed It's raturalness, and the
patient seemed in favorable state of GONZALES
cence. On Thursday last nearly two weeks
from the first attack, he experienced q return of
the dficulty. The next day Friday, by invita-
ton of DIR. White, DIR. Grey, of Utica, visited
him, together with the first named gentleman.
On Saturday and Sunday he became more
lethargic, and an extension Of the paralysis
took placetow ard the lower eItremities
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
How to Cure Split HoOf.

1 had horse that had both hoofs split
from top to bottom. He could not walk
without his feet spreading apart. 1 kept
him for three months on straw one foot
deep in the stable, but all did no good. At
last l went to the blacksmith shop and had
heavy shoes made which spread wide at
the heels. To these heavy shoes there was
welded, at the outside OF each heel, a
piece made of shoe nail iron. These pieces
were made to fit well around the foot, about
an inch below the hair. let the pieces
come together within half an inch each,
and turned up about three-fourths of an
inch. In the turned-up part hole was
made to receive bolt an inch long, with a
square head and screw and nut on the
other end. On mailing the shoes on and
putting the bolt in and screwing on the
nut, the foot was brought together. In
this way, / was enabled to work him every
day if / wished. Previous to this my
hores had not walked one mile in three
months. Next day after had the shoes
put on L drove him in q carriage twenty
miles, and have used him right along
Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
How 70 GET Rid of Maths

Moths are one Of the scourges of house,
Keepers, who frequently know not how to
get rid of them. Camphor and tobacco are
both good determinations, but will not stop
the ravages Of moths in carpets after they
commence eating. Then they pay no heed
TO the presence of camphor, cedar or to-
bacco. A good way to conquer them is to
clean water, Spread it smoothly on the
carpet, then iron it dry with a good hot
iron, repeating the operation on suspected
places and those least used. IL does not
injure the color or pile Of the carpet in the
least, as it is not necessary to press hard,
heat and steam being the agents, and they
do the work effectually on worms and
eggs. Then the camphor will doubtless
prevent further depredations of the miller.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18

ABOUT GRAFTING.-There are many Gu.
rious facts about vegetable life. We can,
for example, graft the apricot on the plum,
and the peach on the apricot, and the al
mond on the peach, and thus we may pro-
duce a tree with plum roots and almond
leaves. The wood, however, of the stem
will consist of four distinct varieties, al
though formed from one continuous layer.
Below the almond wood and bark we shall
have perfect peach wood and bark, then
perfect apricot wood and baik, and at the
bottom perfect plum wood and bark.
In this curious instance we see the init
mate correspondence between the bark and
the leaf, for if we should remove the al
mond branches we might cause the several
sorts of wood to develop buds and leafy
twigs each of its own kind. Each section
of the compound stem has its seat of life
in the cambium layer, and the cambium
Of each reproduces cells Of its own species
out of common nutrient fuid.-Mos3a.
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