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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-02

or quickly opened by hand, the gatherer
following at the proper time to mass and
carry it to the stack or barracks in the
field, where it may remain until fed ont
or hauled away.
The curing of clover requires especial
care. If left in the sun until the stalks
are naturally cured the leaves become
SO dry that they invariably fall, and but
little is left but the bare stalks and the
heads. 1t should only lie long enough to
wilt thoroughly. Then it should be
stirred with the tedder, and before the
leaves are 30 dry as to crdmble placed In
high, narrow cocks to cure. Al soon as
it has commenced to sweat, which will
occur within f6rty-eight hours, ii should
be spread and, before dry enough 10
crumble, carried ID the barn bt stack II
there are appearances, 81 fain II may 10
opened the. hext day By uncappihg and
then spreading the, remainder, just so
that the air, may have access to pass
through easily, and when dry from SUI
perhuous moisture, carted to the barn.
We do, not believe in saiting hay sufti-
GENTLY to cure it, as it is called. Two
quarts to the ton will make it palatable
to stock. If it be necessary to absorb
the moisture of certain loads put in green
to save them from getting wet we should
prefer to use air-slacked lime, say two to
four quarts per ton, in connection with
as much salt. The better way, however,
since hay is one of the most costly of the
natural products of the farm in the West,
is to use every care, so that, while saving
expense as much as may be legitimateis
possible, to pairs be SPARED Is have the
hay carefully made and without the use
either of salt or lime. If this be done
there would he no objection to sailing or
lining, now and then, a few loads more
heavily; since, in cutting down the stack
or NOW, the sailed and unsalted would
be mixed, and the stock would not be
tortured with thirst from eating over
sailed hay in the Western Rural
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4" Pretty, Don't Hart. "

The front hair is worn in crimps."
So says 0-la-mode, and of course my hair
must be crimped; SO / twist it in and
out, and around the hair-pins, until the
roots are nearly twisted out of my head.
I know it cuts and ruins the hair, butone
might as well have no hair at all as to
wear it out of style. There is no telling
the number of false braids and topsys,
and chignons, and curls, and combs, and
hair.pins that is piled on the top Of ones
head nowadays am sure my scalp
must be = thick and strong q, the lid, to
: cast-iron stove, Or 4 would have besn
crushed In long ago.
3 Bot " pssttys 1oa'ta huts" IEedght to
sfapd T. # other people canl rxer !.
Ard heEppfp ~ Skoe6 tk6y ~ hxlf
. 6iss - isast 10 small for me. /
otdpred them TO BE- madez q. Tho
wants = a ciuppine alSund = aaI6sa.
large enough for giantessi A pretty
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A Friend to Hettichltirs.

LAST season I noticed the ants were
more numerous than I had ever known
them to be before. We had been expert
menting some in silk-worms, and we found
it very difficult to keep the ants from
them and their cocoons. Then I also
discovered another thing. had hive
that only had few bees in one side, oc-
cupying between two combs, and these
got some moths in it before I knew it !;
so when l got leisure I went out to de-
stroy them before any would hatch out
in the miller, and then l found that the
ants also had got in and made clean
sweep and departed, only leaving holes
in the cocoons to show that they had
been there. l then examined further
about other hives. Under them, when
they set on boards, you will generally
find few cocoons of the moth Larvae,
and where I found one there was hole
in them. The idea then struck me, and l
suggested it to others, that the ants had
probably played out several of those in
sects too troublesome to our apple-trees
and fruit, the tent caterpillar and cod
ding moth. And now 1 find in my
orchard of over 1000 trees one nest of
the caterpillar. Now, if they found the
coddling moth and cleaned them out as
well, would suggest that the State
Board of Agriculture offer premium on
the production of ants.
Twas feeling pretty blue over fruit
prospects in this State. Last year, in an
orchard of about 200 trees-large enough,
some of them, to bear four or five bush
els, and ought to average bushel to the
tree at small estimate-I got six bush
els, and four of them only fit for cider.
Unless we can meet the coddling moth in
some way apple-raising is played. l will
watch with good deal Of curiosity the
appearance of the moth this season, hop
ing that my supposition will prove true
in relation to them also.-N. Cameron, in
Kansas Farmer.
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The Flower Mission.

THE wide success of this aesthetic charity
in Boston, in the brain of whose daugh-
tiers the plan originated, and its equal sue
cess in New York and other cities, where
it is more recent experiment, lead all
its friends to hope that it's beneficence
may be carried to every part Of the
country. Its simple requirements-a
depot Of arrangement and distribution
generally convenient church-vestry), a
few willing hands and abundant contri-
buttons of flowers-ought to be easily
obtainable in any town in the land.
A feeling is prevalent that the mission
is needed only in the larger centers; but
while their need is greatest, the smaller
towns and even the villages ought not to
be neglected. Manufacturing companies
especially want them, for mill operatives
and factory hands are generally farthest
removed from refining influences. To
the girls confined in the sitting atmos-
phere of the weaving and carding rooms
Of cotton and wooden mills the gift of a
few flowers, though they die in an hour,
is as q boon from Heaven.
In many of the missions point is
made of distributing fruit, when it can
be obtained, to poor, sick people; and
the delighted. gratitude of the recipients
is one Of the most touching features of
the charming charity. Pathetic stories
are told Of the regeneration of spirit
which has been wrought in the wretched
beings to whom growing plants and slips
have been given, and who, perhaps for
the first time in their lives, have been
brought into direct contact with those
blooming messengers of goodwill.
If excuse or reason be needed for the
establishment of flower and fruit
mission, it exists in the melancholy at
tempts at window gardening, always to
be seen even in the most miserable
quarters. These tell their pitiful tale Of
the longing for and love Of Nature which
poverty, squalor and crime cannot quite
crush out
To establish the flower charity in con-
nection with the beneficent societies
mentioned in the last Scri1ner would be
the easiest thing in the world. Let it be
organized in every church in the land;
let the sweetest offerings Of Nature be
brought to those who cannot seek them
for themselves.-6crj1ner's Monthly for
July.
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from the upper floors, and he wheeled
out Of the room, ninging Be back in
.tantlyn at me, with an apology that
.eemed to come from the heart. He re-
turned in one boar, and excused The delay
With feeling, and immediately pitched o
to the book
This time it was the terms, finish, etc.
All his fine works were taken up III cfder
and compared, with an interest no book
aren't could ignore, and thus two hours
more went on the merits of morocco,
calf, edges and titles, title pages, frontis-
pieces, etc. Twain took no note of time,
and verify believe he fortified himself
with q lunch during that mysterious
hours absence, with malice aforethought
70 sit and to talk me out if it took till
midnight.
The question of binding settled, l ven
tured to press the issue of subscribing.
In the whole six hours of criticism and
comment no word of committal had
passed his lips. So immensely pleased
and flattercd was by his conspicuous
patronage, and carried away with his
descriptions, that it was like dispelling q
pleasant dream to come down to COM
mon.places and ask Mark Twain, my
hero of book and platform humor, to
subscribe The ceremony was stumbled
through in some way, and Twain drank
it in with the interest sustained all day.
| finished, standing, hat in hand, the
book still lying on the writing-table,
while Twain swung rapidly back and
forth in luxurious rocking chair. He
stopped an instant, took a sweeping
glance at the horizon, repeating that
stroke of the chin with his left hand
always prelude to settling something
and drawled out: ooh! I'll-take--the
work. Not-to-day-though. Sup
pose -you-run-in- again-as-you-
happen-around." How the street was
reached l cannot for my life tell, but l
rot there somehow, after stammering an
attempt at polite and assured answer.
1t isn't likely that shall "call around
again-not if all Hartford refuses to take
The book until Twain does. The game
of worrying man into subscribing, "just
to get rid of fellow" won't work with
him, certain.-Boston transcript.
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"A short time since alittle commercial
drummer" CHANGED to get into the same
railway carriage, in England, in which
the Dukes of Argyle and Northumber-
land were travelling. The three chatted
famlliarly until the train stopped at Ain
wick Junction, where the Duke of North
cumberland got out, and was met by a
train of flunkeys and servants. "That
must he great SWELL" said the drummer
to his remaining companion. "Yes," re-
sponded the Duke of Argyle, "he is the
Duke of Northumberland. "Bless my
eyes!" exclaimed the drummer; "and to
think that he should have been so conde.
scending to too little snobs like u.s."
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.lEef :. IT.
HOUSEHOLD nlMTS.

WHITE Cur CAKE.-One cup Of fresh
butter, two cups Of white powdered
sugar, four cups Of sifted flour, five eggs,
one cup sour cream or rich milk, soda to
sweeten it, half grated nutmeg, one
teaspoonful cinnamon; bake in small
tins.
CATsKnL APPLE PUDD1Na-One pint
sweet milk, four eggs beaten to froth,
one teaspoonful soda, . little salt, flour
enough to make stiff batter, four large
apples chopped; mix well, or, rather, stir;
bake in deep tins; serve hot, with butter
and sugar or sweetened cream.
GLUE PUrs.-Nothing about house is
more useful than a glue pot, 30 many
things may be repaired by means Of Il
If the knobs Oh the bureau drawers be-
come loose they can lie speedily fastened
again by the timely application Of q little
glue. If the thread of the screw has be-
come worn put oh some glue, aid then
wind on some fax Of tow y YOU have it,
Or q soh ray, Then put on more glue and
fasten on the knob, and it is all right. If
pieces of veneering fall off the furniture,
they can be replaced by means of glue
and feather, and anything else Of that
kind also. l can think Of no present
which, for the expense, would be more
useful to working housekeeper, or
cause the giver to be Oftener remembered
with kindly feelings than the gift of one
of these little conveniences-Farm
Wife.
How TO MANAGE CUcUMBERs FOR
PIcKLEs.-First get good kind of cucum'
Der, then proceed as follows: Be care
full In picking hot to bfuise them; wash
them clean; pack them III stone jars, as
they are far the best with one quart of
salt to every peck Of pickles and one and
half gallons of water to every five gal
Ions of pickles; also lump of alum as
large as hens egg to every five gallons
of pickles. When your jar is full put
clean flannel cloth over them with q
weight heavy enough to keep them under
the brine and keep the cloth clean and
free from mold Now, in soaking them
for use, the quicker it is done the better
your pickles will be. When freshening
keep plenty of fresh water on them
Now scald in a brass or copper kettle,
using weak vinegar for the purpose and
about enough to cover your pickles,
adding lump of alum as large as a
quail's egg to every gallon of pickles.
Scald slowly until they get scalding hot,
but do not let them boil; take them out
| and lay them in stone jar, using CHINA
mon or cloves to suit the taste. Spread
one large coffee cup of sugar to one gal
lon of pickles over them; then pour
vinegar mot too strong) also over them.
This vinegar will do for use again. If
made in this way they will keep months
and be as plump and sweet as the day
they were put up. Your vinegar should
not be too strong, as that would make
them sour and destroy the taste of the
| sugar.-Western Rural.
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Sowing Grass Seed Where There Il No
Grain.

THE notion is prevalent that it is es-
sential to the life and growth of young
grass to raise crop of some kind Of
grain while the tender spears are becom.
ing sufficiently rooted to endure the dry
and hot weather. But the shading of the
ground is not essential to the growth of
clover or grass, unless the seed be sowed
very late in the spring or during the sum-
mer, and where the soil is not rich and
mellow. On moderately fertile and mel.
low soils, though no crop of grain be
allowed to grow, clover or grass seed of
any kind will ordinarily succeed much
better than otherwise. If the soil be
quite poor and likely to parch during
droughts small quantity of rye per acre
will afford the young grass the benefit of
some shade. Grass needs no shade, even
in dry weather, after it has itself become
large enough to shade the ground, but is
benefited by the sun and air quite as
much rs other plants. Another consid-
Grafton not to be overlooked is that any
crop occupying the ground with the
young grass withdraws both nutri-
ment and moisture from the soil,
which might essentially benefit the
more important but feebler crop. There
is probably no better grain than rye to
sow where field is to be stocked down
to clover or grass. Wheat is second to
rye in this respect, and is superior to
oats and barley, which are quite objec-
tionable, when the usual quantity
is sown per acre, on account
of the large leaves and thick
bottom growth, which is liable to choke
the young grass, while rye shoots upward
rapidly and does not grow thickly at the
bottom. Were oats and barley sowed
thinner on the ground than usual for a
full crop of grain, grass might grow quite
as well as with crop of rye. Another
point in favor of rye is, it usually keeps
erect better than either oats or barley.
On light soils where there is so much
humus or vegetable mold as to cause q
large growth Of straw, if the grain lodges,
as it often does, almost every spear Of
grass win be killed. As spring rye is
often good crop to grow in four or
five years rotation, many farmers will
find it profitable to arrange their
rotation so as to raise spring in pref
erence to winter rye when land Is to
be stocked down. For farmers the fol-
lowing directions win be Of little or NO
value, and may appesf quite untimely,
but many need the alteration: As
most Of our sTass i cut With hors4-mOw.
- it Is quite important that the surface
Ihould Be smooth, free nm inoa1s, ~
lows aeed fuET0w1 1id5es and clods.
evsn 4 + - naovt61s ~ hana ~ g.
lacs ought 70 be ssmooth, . that tie grase
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The births in Boston during 1873
numbered 9,686, an increase of 418, or
4.51 per cent, over 1872, and ratio of
one birth in 1856 Of the population;
$3.50 per cent. of the children are of for
eign parentage. The marriages were
S,8S3, an increase of 121, or 3.23 per cent,
over the previous year, the rate being
one person married to 1851 of the whole
population. The deaths show decrease
of 221 from 1872, the whole number be-
ing 1853, or 28.45 in 1000.
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The amount of salt inspected in
Michigan during the season to June /
was 294, 715 barrels, divided in the fol-
lowing quantities: Fine, 81 ,507 barrels;
packers, 6,sS0 barrels; solar, 827 barrels;
second quality, 5y6oS barrels. The
amount inspected during the same time
last year was $50, AS barrels, or 104, 800
barrels less than this year, but which ct
that time was the largest amount of
Michigan salt inspected during the same
nerind
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1.-THE THRESHER Of THE PERIOD"
- z,eMoNs snzz:5R1
3aIla2Ez1ap-

This Is the famous "vIBRAroR" THREsHER,
which has created such a revolution in the trade
and become so FULLY ESTABLISHED As the
"leadng Thresher" of this day and generation.
More than seven thousand purchasers and ninety
thousand grain rasers pronounce these machines
ENTIRELY UEEouALLED Tor grain saving, time
saving, and money making.
Four sizes made, VIZ: 29.inch, %.
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PORTABLE STEAM ENGINES for
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All persons intending 20 buy Threshing Ma
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KRS who want their grim threslici, saved spd
cleaned to the best Advantage, are invited to send
for our new forty page Illustrated Pamphlet
and Circulars sent free giving full particulars
about these Improved Machines and other infor.
nation vaiiable to farmers and threshermen.
Address,
NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO.,
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Nellie Sullivan, aged sixteen years,
died of fright, at Webster, Mass, during
a recent thunderstorm. No marks of
lightning were found on the house or on
her hOdy
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A pRoTRuDING TOE is not slightly thing,
suy nothing about health and comfort.
SILVER TIPPED Shoes never wear out ut the
toe For Sale by all Dealers.
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MES. WINDOWS SOOTHING sYRtp Is the prcscrip
tion of one ofthe best Female Physicians and Nurse
In the United States, and has been used Tor thirty
years with never:falling safety and success by mil
ions Of mothers and children, from the feeble infan
of week old to the adult 1t cofrects acidity
the stomach, relieves wind colic regulates the bow
els and gives rest h. ,th and comfort to mother
child. We believe 1t to be the Best and Surest Rene
dy in the sorla in all cases Of DYSENTERY ant
DIARRHOcA IN CHILDREN, whether arises from
Tsething or from any other cause. Full directions
for us will accompany each bottle. Non Genuine
unless the fac-simile Of CURTIS 4 PERKINS il Oh
the outside wrapper.
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Thirty Year, Experience OF an Olt
Nurse.

The NORTHWESTERN HORSE-NAn Co.'l
" Finished Nail lie the best in the world.
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MARVELLOUS EFFECT!

A PERFECT CURE.
CHA1LIsrow1, June II. 1851.
Nh. II. r STEVENS.
Dear sir-rhis u 70 certify that vEoETNE made
aperfect cure Of me when my attending physician
ne pronounced my case consumption and said !
MI. LEDsToN, S Cook street.
The facts stated By Mrs Ledston are personally
Known By me, and they are true. A. D. HAYH8s.
vsgstins 10 seld By All Druggists.
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why WIN Yen SaAsrs

To all persons su1erinR
from Rheumatism. Neuralgia.
Cramps In the limbs or stom.
sch, Bilious Collie, Pain In the
back. bowels or side. We would
say TIE HOUSEHOLD PASAoRA
AND FAMILY LINInxxr u Of IN
others the remedy you w,,A
for internal and external ~.
It has cured tho abeve CON.
plants in thousands Of Casa.
There Is no mistake ahoit il
TfY IL Sold bf III prp1slsss.
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THE bodies of all the victims of the
Mill River disaster, with the exception of
two. have been discovered,
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Prince d Co.'S Or4nms.

Splendid finish; six stops; price 1925.
Terms, $25 cash, SIS monthly.
Money refunded If not satisfactory. Reeds
Temple of Music. 81 Van Buren, street, Chicago
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TIE Grand Revelation IN MEDICAL TRHAT-
ress. Nothing can stop it, for 1t is founded the
principle. universally acknowledged, that rhysf
cal vigor Is the most formidable antagonist of all hu
man ailments, and experience has shown that PLAN
TAr1oN BrTrRns Is peerless invigorsrt, NJ we'll as
the best possible safeguard against epidemic diseases.
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Children Often Look palo and Sick

Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From no other cause than having worms In the stom
ach.
BROWNS vERM1FUaE COMFlis
viii destroy Worms without injury the child. being
perfectly WHITE and free from .loring other
injurious ingredients usually used In worm prepare
uons.
CURTIS BROWN, Projectors.
No. 2i5 Fulton street, New York.
Sold by Drunotsts and Chemists. and Dealers {,
Medicines, at TWENTY-FIVE CENTs Boz.
Terminating the Hair.-When the hair
ceases to draw from the scalp the natural lubricant
which Is Its sustenance Its vitality is, it were. ss.
pended and. If not promptly attended to, badness
will be the certain result. The one sure method Of
avoiding such an unpleasant catastrophe is to use
LYONS KArnA1RoN. which, when well rubbed into
the scalp will speedily reanmate the hair and pre-
vent 1t from falling out.
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,Witnott's TONIC isnot . panacea--is not q
cure for everything, hut is q catholicon for
malarious diseases, and day by day adds fresh
laurels to its crown Of glorious success. En-.
gorged Livers and Spleens along the shady
banks of our lakes and rivers are restored to
their healthy and normal secretions. Health
and vigor follow its use, and Chills have taken
their departure from every household where
Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic is kept and taken.
Don't fail to try it. WHEELOCK, FINLAY &
Co., Projectors, New Orleans.
For SALE ny ALI. DRUG0IsTS.
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other medicines ever used. am now twenty
eight years old, and doctored with five doc
tors; not one Of them helped me SO much as
one bottle Of your Discovery. am well and
able to do good days work.
SALT RHEUM AND ERUPTIONs CURED.
Mrs. A. w. WILLIANs, Claverack, Columbia
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many years, until bought your Golden
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half, and was entirely cured. From my shout
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Hitjo1ST DISEASE CURED.
j. Nj; RoBiNsoN, West Grove Station, Iowa,
July IA, 1872, writes: My wife first became
lame nine years ago, ,Swellings would appear
and disappear on her hip, and she was grad
TEN rotten with disease Ii 1871 a swelling
broke on her hip, .discharging large quantir
ties, and since that time there arc several
openings. Have had five doctors ut an ex-
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