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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03
Ghe Sarmer.
CLOVER.

A corr lspondent from Bucks county,
Pa, writes to the Germantown Telegraph.
There is no crop raised ON the farm
which tends more to the improvement Of
the soil than clover, and as forage crop
it is equal to any other crop under cult
walton. Though it is more difficult Ia
make into hay than timothy or herd grass
yet if any part is lost in making and gath
ering the clover hay, the soil viii receive the
the enriching deposit Clover win do well ia
almost any. soil which is not too wet, but its
favorite is deep sandy loan, in which the
long tap-root can penetrate deep down.
1t borows more of its growth from the
atmosphere than most other crops. The
tap-root draws most of its nourishment
from the subsoil, and the tops extract
largely from the dew and the atmosphere,
thereby greatly enriching the surface-soil
for wheat and timothy. A good crop Of
clover in full blossom, tops and roots, win
sum up in weight between eight and ten
tons Of green vegetable matter to pillow
under to enrich and mellow the soil; aud
where can be found cheaper manure to
improve heavy soil2 Lime and clover
are the cheapest means by which to enrich
the land for the growth Of wheat. Stable
manure is decidedly the best, but it is en-
tirely too dear, and farmers must resort to
other means to keep up the fertility Of
their land.
have met with much success in raising
clover among oats, but the ground must
be well cultivated to ensure good growth
Of clover. After the oats crop is sown
and well narrowed, next pass over the field
with a drag to crush the clods and level
the ground. The drag to be SIX feet long
with block nailed on one of the corners
underneath, by which every ''boutp viii
mark of a land twelve feet wide, which
is the right width to SOW clover seed at
two casts and after the clover is sowu
harrow the ground to cover the seed.
To SOW clover seed on Winter grain,
March is the right time when there Is
snow on the ground. Take span Of
horses to sled and mark the field Of In
lands proper width 10 SOW by; then let the
sewers follow the sled Clover can be
sovn much eyener on the snow than other.
wise, because you can see precisely IL you
are sowing it even or not In my opinion
clover is underestimate by farmers, and
should be much more in cultivation than
is general A clover lot near the pig pen
can be cut four or 1--we times during the
summer Il not left 70 SO % blossom, and Il
makes the most economical feed for swine,
and Il il Is moved down about the time
tho blossom begius to form and aliehtly
uilted and free from dew and moisture AMI
packed away with sufficient salt, The hog
win relish Il 8 much il the winter seasos
as cattle, and i makes good feed for soul
and pigz
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

/ E..
Mr.. A. Gibson, Of Pleasant Valley.
Westnoreland county, Pa, IN note 70
the Philadelphia Farmer, gives his mode
Of farming. He has what he calls the
diversified system, rnising corn, barley,
clover, wheat, cattle and sheep but his
particular hobby Is raising wheat. For
the past five years he has averaged 40
bushels Of the finest quality, always being
over weight; he thinks he Is gaining every
year, and attributes this to. the system
pursued, and especially to keeping sheep.
His rotation is corn. barley with clover;
third year, clover, and fourth year clover
plowed down for wheat. WeMill give bis
own description of the process pursued:
II have never missed a crop of clover by
seeding IL with barley. II gives the grass
seed a chance which oats does not. |
raise full crops of barley, which does not
at all interfere with the grass, but think
rather helps by the slight shading. Amer
barley Is cut, the clover makes astonishing
growth, giving me superior late pasture.
Owing to the danger from mice, pasture
it down pretty close.
my sod is clay loan. Iplow down the
rank clover about nine inches deep, give It
one narrowing, then haul out my manure
and spread This I pillow down shallow,
as consider it important to have the fer
tilizer near the surface for the roots Of the
wheat plant I use The dslH, putting on
one bushel and one peck per acre.
II have never had a wheat crop hurt by
freezing and thawing, which see you
sOnutimes suffer from in Eastern Penn
sylvania. One season, and one only, when
we had very fine fall Of growing weather,
the wheat grew so rank that pastured It
some during the winter. I have never
had any attacks Of insects enemies on the
wheat crop, and feel as certain Of crop
Of about 40 bushels per acre under my
system, as that spring win succeed winter.
Is is ten years since / moved on to this
farm, and believe aotl.iiag more recupratss
a ~or''-om farm than keeping sheep. They
spread their manure evenly over the field,
and have found the truth of what some
one said, shat the tread Of a sheep is
golden"
Il have 100 ewes, chiefly of common
breed, and put with them every Call cou-
pie Of pure southdown bucks, which give
me fine early lambs, and railroad facilities
are such that send them to your PhiIa-
delphia butchers with as much ease as il
were only twenty miles out.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

So universal is the law that cruelty to
the animal Injuries the meat, that an emf
nent English physician, DR.. Carpenter, in
recent letter to the London Times, assur-
cs us that the meats Of animals which have
been made fat by overlooking viii some
times produce gastric diseases in those who
eat them. In England it has been found
that the flesh Of hares chased and worried
by dogs, becomes diseased, and soon pu-
trefes Old hunters tell US they do not
like to eat the meat Of deer which have
been run and worried by dogs, and that
they sometimes, when hunting, shoot dogs
to prevent their worrying the deer, and 50
spelling the meat. The same doctrine
applies to game caught and tortured in
steel traps.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

Boss.-In reality, it is four different
words, if / may SO say, each with dis
tinct meaning, as follows:
Boss is derived from the French bose
and signifies knob or prOjection--in thil
case the protuberance in the middle Of q
shield, or large.
1t is probably derived from the Welsh
bon, to drink, and connected with the
English booty.
Boss, in the sense Of master or ovorsser,
comes from the Dutch baas
Boss, as applied to cattle. is derived
from the Latin Dos, an OF or COW.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

NECESSARY KEowLEDGE.-Withou
advising you to become domestic drudges,
young ladies, we earnestly recommend to
your consideration the practice Of all ne
eessary household duties. One Of the
most prolific sources Of matrimonial diff
culties is the lack of knowledge on the
part Of wives of the duties of housekeep-
ing In these days there are hundred
young ladies who can thrum piano to
one who can make good loaf Of bread.
Yet husband has SO much of the animal
in his nature that he cares more for good
dinner than he does--as long as his appe-
tite is unappeased-to listen to music of
seraphs. Heavy bread has made many
heavy hearts, given rise to Dyspepsia
horrid dyspepsia-and its herd of accom-
paning torments. Girls who desire that
their husbands should be amiable and kind,
should learn how to make light bread
When a young man is counting, he can
live at home or if he has to 60 distance
to pay his addresses, he usually obtains
good meals at hotel or eating house but
when he is married and gets to housekeep-
ing, his wife assumes the function of his
mother or his landlord, and it is fortunate
for her if she has been educated to know
what good table is. Those who are en-
tircly dependent upon hired cooks make a
sorry show at housekeeping. The stomach
performs very important part in the
economy of humanity, and wives who are
forgetful Of this fact, commit furious
mistake Even the lion may be tanned by
keeping him well fed, and the true dignity
and muni6cence Of the housewife is stored
in her larder rather than in her wardrobe,
though unfortunately, too many ladies
bestow far more time and attention upon
the latter than upon the former.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03
A Perfect Home.

The most perfect home ever saw was
a little house into the sweet incense Of
whose fires went no costly things. A thou
sand dollars served as years living Of
father, mother, and three children. But
the mother was the creator Of home; her
relations with her children were the most
beautiful l have ever seen: even the dull
and commonplace man was lifted up and
enabled to do good work for souls by the
atmosphere which this woman created;
every inmate Of her house involuntarily
looked in her face for the key note Of the
day, and it always rang clear. From the
rosebud or clover leaf, which in spite Of
her hard Homework, she always found to
put by our plates at breakfast, down to
the story she had on hand to be read in
the evening, there was no intermission of
her influence. She had always been and
always viii be my ideal of a mother, wife,
and homo maker. If to her quick brain,
loving heart, and exquisite face had been
added the appliance of wealth and the en-
largement Of wider culture, hers would
have been absolutely the home. As it was,
it was the best ! have ever seeu.-Helea
Hunt
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

The USES OF WALKING.-Walkinp
for young and active people is by far the
best exercise riding is good for the
elderly, middle aged, and inyalids. The
abuse Of these exercises consists In taking
them when the system is exhausted more
or less by previous fasting or by mental
labor. Some persons injudicously attempt
long walk before breakfast. Others will
get up early to work three hours at some
abstruse mental toll. The effect 10 both
instances Is the same; 1t abstracts from the
power Of exertion in the after part Of the
day. A short saunter or some light read.
ing before this meal il the best indulgence
ofthe kind otherwise the waste occasioued
by labor must be supplied by nourishment,
and the breakfast win necessarily become
heavy meal, and the whole mornings
comfort sacrificed by weight at the chest,
from imperfect digestion Of food. These
observations apply especially to elderly
persons, who are prone to fatter them.
selves into the persuasion that they can
use their mental or bodily powers in age as
in youth.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

THE 0DDIrIEs OF IcE--In addition to
the fact that ice is lighter than water, there
is another curious thing about il which
many persons do not perhaps know
namely, iis purity. A lump Of ice melted
will become distilled water. Water In
freezing turns out Of il all that is not wa
ter--salt, air, coloring matter and all i'm.
puritics Frozen sea WAGER makes fresh
water ice. If you freeze basin Of indigo
water, il win make ice as clear and as
white as that made Of pure rain water.
When the cold is very sudden these for
eign matters have no tine to escape, either
BY raising or sinking, and are thus entaa-
glcd with the ice, but do not make any
part Of IL
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

One Of the hard things to bring home
to the Imagination is the extreme youth
of the men who made this country an in
dependent power. Looking at the years
against the names on Lexington and other
Revolutionary monuments aud tablets, it
is difficult matter to think of them Who
fell as veterans Gen. Warren was nos
80 at Bunker Hill. In Washington's
cabinet at the start Hamilton was but 80,
the Postmaster-G General 81, the Secretary
Of War 40, and Jefferson himself, at Al,
was the patriarch Of the whole ministry.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03
Select Aoetrp.
IN MEMORY.


4 poem, second to Shelly's "Cloud" il
S&| and sweetness Of expression an,
*1, provoked the remark from the gifte,
/. rented Prentice that "0ne could al
VAL to die, il he knew such beautiful
|| would be written TO his memory.n1
i lhe bosom Of river,
Were the sun unloosed its culver,
*ad the starlight cleaned forever,
sailed vessel light and free.
#ofning dew-drops hung like mama
~ The bright folds Of her banner,
I6d the zephyrs rose 10 fan her
Softly to the radiant sea.
her PROV pilot beaming
i he flush Of youth stood dreaming,
"a he was in glorious seeming
Like an angel from above.
rough his hair the soft breeze sported
A<d as on the waves he floated,
W. that pilot, angel throated,
Rarbled lays Of hope and love.
brough those leaves SO brightly flowing
Buds Of laurel bloom were blowing,
1l,d his hands anon we're throwing
Music from a Tyre Of gold.
&Hifily down the stream he glided
''off the purple wave divided,
Md rainbow's arch abided
On its canvas snowy fold.
Anxious hearts with fond devotion
Watched him sailing to the ocean,
Prayed that never wild commotion
Midst the elements would rise.
md he seemed some young Apollo,
Warming summer winds to follow,
While the water flags carol
Trembled on his music signs.
Hat those purple waves enchanted,
Holled beside city haunted
~ an awful spell that daunted
Every conner to the shore.
light shade rank the air encountered,
&nd pale marble statues numbered
Where the lotus-eaters slumbered,
And awake to life no more.
Then there rushed with lightning quicknes,
0er his face mortal sickness,
and the dew in fearful thickness,
Gathered DER his temple fair.
4pd there swept dying murmur
through the lovely southern summer,
AZ the beauteous pilot conner
Perished at that city there.
SIill rolls on that radiant river,
And the sun unbinds his culver,
Aud the starlight streams forever
On its bosom as before.
Nnt that vessels rainbow banner
0reets no more the gay savanna,
And that pilots Lutte drops mama
On the purple waves no more.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

The SMITH CLUB WHEAr.--The Pa
cifc Rural Press gives the origin of this
variety Of wheat, now so popular in Cali
fornia. Itsays that some years ago Robert
3. Smith found grain Of wheat in lot
Of coffee purchased in Santa Rosa. From
this grain sprung the variety Of wheat now
universally grown throughout sonoma co.,
known as the Smith Club. 1t is, Is his
name indicates, a club wheat, large heads,
hardy, white and Of superior Touring
qualities.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

Many man is rich without money.
Thousands Of men with nothing in their
pockets are rich. A man born with good
sound constitution, a good stomach, a
good heart good limbs, and a pretty good
head piece, is rich. Good bones are bet
ter than gold tough muscles better than
silver and nerves that fash fire and carry
energy to every function are better than
houses or land. 1t is better than a landed
estate to have the right kind Of father or
mother. Good breeds aud bad breeds exist
among men as really as among herds and
horses. Education may do much to check
bad tendencies or to develop good ones
but it is greater thing toinherit the right
proportion Of faculties to start with. The
man is rich who has good disposition
who is naturally kind, patient, cheerful and
hopeful
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

A Michigan mant writing from the far
West in speakingof the wholesale destrue-
ton Of crops from grasshoppers, says that
''if you want free fight on your hands,
just congratulate one Of the Gnngers on
having disposed Of his crops to the con-
sumer without tho intervention Of any
'blarsted middlemen."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

To ERADICATE SrUMPs.-The Scien-
t!fc American says :-In the autumn bore
a hole ] to inches in diameter, according
to the girth Of the stump, vertically in the
center of the latter, and about 1s inches
deep. Put into it from l to ozs. salt
peter; fill the hole with water, and plug
up close. In the ensuing spring, take out
the plug, and pour in about gill Of kero-
sene oil and ignite it. The stump will
smolder away, without blazing, to the very
extremity Of the roots, leaving nothing but
ashes.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03
Married Women's Rights.

Discussions are rife concerning the need
\ rest for business men of all occupations
1< school teachers Of both sexes; for Ia
|prers in all industries; for clergymen,
14islators, lawyers, and other holders Of
Icial positions. In word, everybody
10 works is admitted to have need Of re-
BE from labor, aud those who do nothing
1uire relief from the WEAKNESS Of "noth.
5 to do" Custom, stronger than any
~ or argument, emboldens everybody
20 can possibly do so, to take rest in
INNER, If only in an occasional short ex-
nrsion. Or rather, We should say, he is
bold man, and dares to be Questionable,
10 says he has no need Of a vacation, ?"
- therefore does not demand ii.
Yet there are large number Of per-
=, not distinct class, for they are
bid In all classes, who have more need
fest than anybody else, and yet who not
do not, but what is worse, cannot find
Their occupation, or at any rate the
and responsibility Of their position, is
! them at all hours in the twenty four.
IKE 1t possesses their thoughts, and
Up il perturbs their dreams. If they
ain at home il haunts them and If
b 60 to the country or the seashore they
S it with them. Abroad il summons
q home, and at home ii threatens to
se them abroad. 1t requires them not
to think for themselves, but to do the
king for those who are not capable of
y own direction; to regulate not only
most important, but the most common
IONS of the lives Of dependent little
Rtures from whom they cannot be rc-
BED except by events worse than any
e in the world. Neither would these
ercharged persons accept release If they
I'D find il.
Women who are housekeepers, wives
mothers, have already guessed who is
ant by these remarks. The burthened
Z ceaselessly occupied persons spoken Of
the mothers of children. The cease
cares Of motherhood absolutely engross
thoughts of all Of them who have con
ences. II mere duty required this self
Irihcs, there are many--thc larger num-
r-who would submit to il. But natural
iection transcends even conscience in its
peeasiug demands. II is to be suspected,
$50, that this affection, while it increases
Pie obligation, mars and embarrasses the
performance. The constraint of maternal
pve, more powerful than duty, often makes
iuty more difficult.
Who Is "overworked" il mothers are
hot--mothers---who have children to rear,
md both their bodies and their minds,
heir diet aud their morals to superinteud2
who need rest and recreation If they do
mott And who can so little hope for any
lhing like perfect relief, however Temporal
yf AS already said, they cannot, for
themselves, SEQ it or hope for it, They
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

The mushroom cropin Anglessa, Eng
land, is SO heavy that for three days the
London and Northwestern Railroad COM
pany were obliged TO run special trains for
the convenience Of the crop to tho London
market.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03
How we Lived Before the Revolution

The costumes of the day were rich and
snowy. The judges wore in Massachusetts,
scarlet robes with facings and cuffs Of
black velvet, and powdered wigs adorned
with black silk bags. These robes in sum-
mer were of black silk. In l774 the
sheriff of York, now in Maine, came out
to meet the court, coming on circuit with
six of his deputies, all with gold laced hats,
ruffies, swords, etc. Nor did legal gentle
men mOnopolize brave apparel. The over
seers of Harvard College in 1854 had to
forbid the students to wear gold and silver
lace or brocade. Laced and embroidered
garments Of velvet and lowered silk were
commonly found in gentlemen's wardrobes,
and there was one solid man of Boston,
thrifty merchant who went about his bust
ness in green or purple and gold. Wigs
gave place to queues when it was seen that
the officers Of Braddock's army did not
wear the former Artisans wore leathern
aprons, and serving maids were known by
short gowns of domestic stuff. What
would they have thought of the satin and
silk which Bridget deems her prerogatiye?
The ladies, according to Copley's paint
ings, preferred red satin and pearls to any
other toilet. Red, indeed, seems to have
been fayorite color with them, for the
authorities of Philadelphia, in order to
drive red cloakS out Of use (for what rea-
son we don't know, } took the novel but eff.
fectiye method of dressing a woman in
one to go to the gallows. The authorities
Of the Quaker city seem, indeed, to have
thought it quite their duty to correct the
fashions, for on another occasion they
sought to make the "tower" headdress
ridiculous by setting it on very tall mans
head aud marching him through the street
to the sound of a drum. Here is hint
for the dress reformer. Low -necked dresses
were an abomination in Boston as long
ago as 1851. It is no wonder the public
has at last got used to them.
Food was cheap In 1740 meat 10 Bos-
ton retailed at two pence q pound, and
twelve pound cod could be bought for the
same. Salmon weighing two pounds sold
for shilling. Chocolate was more used
than coffee. Teetotalism had not then
been invented. Cider was three shillings
barrel and universally drank at meals in
Massachusetts,. Flip and toddy were sin
full drinks also much in vogue with our
abandoned ancestors. Madeira was the
favoritc wine all over the country, and rum
punch found favor without distinction of
party, The students of Harvard were al
lowed sin sober manner to entertain one
another and strangers with il" the corpo-
ration having decided rum punch "as it is
now commonly made, no intoxicating H.
quor" Nowadays Massachusetts, courts
decide lager beer to be intoxicating. Can
ii be that our heads are so much weaker
than our fathers? There were plenty Of
chanches to wet ones whistle in those
days. One house in every ten in Phila-
delphia sold drink, in 1884. So the grand
jury found.-F W. Frost in tie GALAXY.
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New York CRY SOLD FOR TWENTY
Four DoLLARs.-Twenty-four dollars
purchased the whole city and county of
New York in 1925. In 1888 tobacco was
produced 10 considerable extent on New
York Island. In 1862 the first public
school was established streets first paved
in 1876; in 1867 there were twelve streets
and 3S4 houses. In I'LL slave market
was established in Wall street. In 1929
three pence foot was given for land on
the west side of Broadway, near the Bat
terry. The first stage route between New
York and Boston was established in 1892
time fourteen days from city to city.
In 1873 law was passed to preserve the
fish in the Fresh-water Pond (the Kolck, }
now Centre street and neighborhood. In
1877 markethouse was built in Broad
way, opposite Crown, now Liberty street !;
the city at that time contained 1,416
houses. In 1745 the first coach (Lady
Murray'O was driven in New York.
When the British evacuated the city,
November %, 1888, the buildings did not
extend beyond Murray street. In 1901
Broadway was ordered to be continued
through Thomas Randall's land, near
Eighth street, to meet the Bowery, and
the hills leveled and carted into Fresh
water Pond, which was then the northern
limits of Broadway, and much beyond the
settled parts of the city. Previous to this
extension Of Broadway the Bowery was
the only entrance to the city, through
groves Of cedar, to the Bulls Head, now
the Bowery Theatre The old Potters
Field is now the Washington Parade
Ground.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

The attempt to export young American
shad to Germany for stocking the rivers,
has proved failure. Although abundant.
y supplied with fresh Croton water, al Of
the hundred thousand fish died Of starvA.
ton before the end Of the journey.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-03

Happy the farmer who knows the value
of even a small aock Of sheep on the farm
as a means of keeping down the growth Of
bushes and weeds in his pasture. Happy
the farmer who knows that sheep In an
orchard are far better and more profitable
than pigs.