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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-13

Winch way is the sapp flowing is now the
Il, Yious inquiry of the State Aid people.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-13

Mrs. ANN ELIZA YoUNd,-The first question
asked by everybody is this ''Ir Mrs. Young is
so cultva ed and able a woman as to write and
deliver lectures that rank with the best, why
did she become Mormon, aud marry Brigham
Young?" Answer.-She was born and educated
in tho Mormon church, and consequently had no
choice in t4e matter. She never knew any 9TH
er religion until after her marriage with the
Mormon Prophet
CANVASS AT NEWARK A letter from Newark,
written this morning, says that so far, four per-
sons have signed the petition for Division, and
that Mirtn four names were already on the re-
monstrance. So answers White Clay Creek.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-13

A HIsToRIcAL MAP.-George G. Nlacan, of this
city has had prepared handsome photographic
fac sinaie of stephens plan of Philadelphia
in 1885," the original of which ia in Mr.. Alacan's
possession. He proposes to canvass Philade-
phia, Qf he should not dispose of the right to do
graph and no doubt will dispose of many copies
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-13

Boughman, Thomas ~ Co. have just filled an
order for New York city for three hundred of
" The Thomas Patent Iaderes." This index is
being adopted by leading houses wherever ex-
amned, as rapid, accurate and simple mode of
acknowledged at Washington the best system
known and all business men should give it Il
raI
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-13

END or THE TENTH wEEK-AT LEAST FORTNIGHT
aIoRE--sENAToR sAPP's CASTING VOTE ON STATE
ArD--NEw NOTIONS OF THE DIyIDEns-pRoposED
LENIsLAAtoN.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-13

az tor Terms. etc.. see Second Pa9e.
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WHITE AND RED WHEAT-lt is said
that the hard wheats are all natives of
warm climates such as Italy, Sicily. and
Barbarv The soft wheats are from
northern climates, such as England,
Russia, Belgium. Denmark and Sweden
There is, however, an exception to this
general rule, as the celebrated Polish
wheat is hard, and from this reason it
has been contended that it was not a
native of Poland, but was introduced
there from some milder climate The
English atmosphere is so humid that it
is impossible to ripen wheat hard, and
in many cases it requires artificial heat
to harden it before il can he ground into
-four. Different soils and climates ma
teriallv change the nature and variety
of wheat. The difference between red
and white wheat is net in variety. but
is owing chiefly to the nature of soil on
which it is grown. \ generous dress
ing of wood ashes applied to the grow
ing wheat in the former part Of the
growing season, will exert an excellent
influence in rendering wheat of lighter
color than it would he without potash.
Lime is excellent, also, for the same
purpose.
v Y Trji,Lns
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The VALUE OF EVERGREEN TREsS
AMONG FRUIT TREEs.-A wcll-grown
evergreen tree gives off continually an
exodum of warmth and moisture that
reaches distance of its are, in Fight ::
and when the tree planters advocate
shelter belts, surrounding tract of
orchard of fifty or more acres. when
the influence of such belt can only reach
Il distance Of the hight of the trees in
said belt, they do that which will prove
of little value TO amclioratc climate.
to assist in prevention of injury against
extreme climatic cold in Winter and of
the frosting Of the germ bud of the fruit
in Spring, all orchards should have
planted in and among them indiscrimi-
natelv. evergreen trees at distances each
of not more than $50 feet apart. Such
a course pursued, we have no doubt,
will render greater health to the trees.
and be productive of more regular and
uniform crops Of fruit. At all events.
it is worth trial, and we shall be glad
if oar readers can inform US of anv
practical experiments on the subject
Scientific american.
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DoGs-The st Louis GLOBE has been
making some calculations from recent
statistics on this question, and sums up
in reference to the State Of Missouri as
follows:
"Our 10000 dogs furnish one of
the most important economic consider
atoms now affecting the State. In the
first place they initiate against the NUT
ton crop annually to the extent Of at
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ENGLISH HOMES.

A marked feature of English dwell
ings is the harmony that prevails be-
tween them and the landscape No
painful and glazing contrasts of color
are visible, but the dark brown of the
stone cottage or castle blends easily
with the green Of the surrounding
shrubbery, like mountains brow with
its robe of forests 1t seems as if the
dwelling had grown up out Of the soil
or rock, instead Of being built upon it,
and were indigenous to the country
The same good taste is apparent in the
English love of flowers, which strikes
the eve of the stranger at every turn
Almost every cottage has its little gar
den plot, or at least its box of mignon-
cite and other flowers, stationed in the
windows and lending a cheerful grace
to the most bare and homelv demicile
Another noticeable feature observed bv
travellers in passing along English roads
and by English homes, is the air of RE-
POSE and domestic comfort which pre-
walls everywhere, and as a condition of
this, the thoughtful care and panstak-
ing FINISH which is bestowed on every
thing, however rude, in contrast with
the unfinished and extempore look of
many of our Western homes and vii
lagos The idea which seems to gov
ern English home life is, that here fam
lies expect to LIVE permanently, and
not merely to stay, and whatever is
essential to the real comfort Of life is
worth providing for. Hence the houses
and cottages are all built of stone or
stucco, and tastefully set off with some
architectural adornment, or, at least,
have their roughness softened, and their
nakedness covered with shrubbery or
clambering ivy. The winding lanes
are bordered, not with struggling and
unseemlv rail fences, but either with
neatly-trimmed hedges or substantial
stone walls, over which creeping ivy or
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Nothing can be more acceptable a Lady than a hand
some music-hook. 1t is something useful and at the
sam" time delicate pres-nt-somcthng which any
gentleman can give a lady and which no lady need
hesitate about accepting.
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least 50 900, 00O secondly, they cost at
an average of ,, cents Il week each,
81, 500, 000-enough 10 run all our com
mon schools and leave a large surplus;
thirdly. they slav annually, through by
drophobia, at least l2o persons, which,
at s., 600 each-thc average price paid
bv railroads for the very poorest Of
acknowledgements to the further sum
of 5000 goo Here is direct eXpendi-
ture of nearly S7,750,0G0 for dogs, not
to mention the fines, costs, and more
remote sentimental damages resulting
from lawsuits about dog fights and sew
erance of friendship between the owners
of the combativc ours. Capitalized,
our dogs represent a waste OF S>o,000,-
600. and invested at compound interest
their worthlessness would pay off the
national debt before 1900"
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1t has th, be-. draft. I; = n" ;Gcst "a.
the most h,.autin. 1t is tn" most cheerful
best. 1t is the cheapest.
i VIII" have. tried il pronounce it $"pt
Read II" following testimonial:
This viii witue-, Il al We ur. u-irg ii
iiu.t cl"aHiy. and entir~i, -ltiD:actpr. S5pE
q. W. CRUIkSIiANE,
John II. .IAMaS
" W. HENDERSON.
CLINTON NcCrLLGUGH,
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some climbing and towering vine trails
its clusters aud hangs its luxuriant
wreaths; while the wicket gates that
occasionally open path through them
across the fields are specimens OF inge-
nuitv that show where the Yankee de-
rived his power Of invention.
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RYE STRAW AS MANURE" | wish
to call the attention Of your readers,
writes correspondent, Ito a few facts
which | have obtained in my experience
regarding the great and, may add
generally unknown value Of enriching
our lands by feeding down rye Some
years since | had forty acres Of rye
upon thin piece of land, which | had
sown to grass with the rye Just be-
fore harvest it was blown down COM
plctely by violent storm, and | turned
upon it soon after some sixty head of
stock hogs. After they had cleaned it
up well, turned them off, aud so soon
as the ground became damp enough !
turned the straw under The waste
grain soon came up very Tricky. and
from this | had the very finest Winter
and Spring pasture, on which was graz
ed nice lot of calves until late in the
Spring, when | rebroke and planted in
corn. The season being favorable, it
grew from the outset vigorous, almost
as if On virgin soil. and made ten bar
relS of corn per acre am certain that
the last crop of corn on it previous to
sowing the rye would not exceed six
barrels per acre. Again never vet
fed as little corn to the same number of
hogs to make them, and they came to
the scales as good lot as | ever fat
tened. Profit on the hogs, on the calves,
and benefit to the land | have seen it
tried by others, who are firm in the
belief that this is the speediest way to
restore much of our tired land | sup
pose that oats, of which hogs are equally
fond, would Observation-Disclosures
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BREEDING GEEsE-When the eggs
are hatched it is best to c0ntine the
mother some DAYS in coop or pen
placed upon the dry grass during the
day, allowing the goslngs no access to
the water beyond what they need 10
drink-which can he placed in a shall
low pan-until they are two VEGAS old,
after which mother and young may
have their liberty upon clean grass
The gosings should get meal linked
with water first. and u few leaves of
early beets, turnips or cabbage cut fine
will he beneficial. When they get their
full liberty they will live upon grass
but if it is wanted to have them grow
rapidly and become plump and fat, they
should get meal mixed with buttermilk
or skinned mix once a day, When
Young, goslingS arc subject 10 die OF
cramps, through getting wet and cold -:
hence, it is necessary to insure them
clean and warm nests at night, and not
allow them out in the mornings till the
dew is off: nor should they be allowed
about muddy barnyards, A small grass
paddock for exercise ground should be
set apart for them until they can DC
turned into the stubhles after harvest.
when they will faltcn very rapidly.
Pou!tyu Record.
, 1875-10-02

purchase more of this substance in nitrate
of soda for Ella than he can purchase for
EGO in guano. Added to this, nitrate of
soda is sold with a guarantee of quality,
while guano is sold without any, and the
only wonder is that any purchaser of guano
can still be found. It is the prestige of
the name which retains a certain class of
customers, farmers being in general a con-
fding race and averse from change; but
there is a large and daily increasing num-
Der who know that the value of a manure
depends upon its chymical composition,
and who will not purchase any unless this
composition is assured. 1t has, [ believe,
been suggested that by levying a heavy
TAX upon nitrate Of soda, and thus greatly
increasing the price of this substance, we
may be driven to purchase more guano.
To. what extent it would be possible to
arrest the consumption of nitrate of soda
by such a proceeding l am quite unable
to say, but [ feel certain that it would
have no effect in increasing the sale OF
guano. At the present time we are pro-
foundly suspicious regarding the quality
of guano, and the analyses of the new de-
posts from which the supplies are now
being worked do not tend to re-assure us.
judging from these analyses I should say
that the quality is very huctuating, and
that on the whole considerable reduction
in the present selling price must be sub
mitted to before any considerable increase
in sales can be effected in this country.
The farmers on the Continent are not so
far advanced in the knowledge of manure
value as the farmers in this country, and
consequently an interior manure may com
mand a more ready sale there.
| trust l have pointed out with sufficient
clearness the causes which have led to the
declining consumption of guano, and the
Peruvian Government and those who are
interested in the sale of guano may rest
assured that the only remedies for this
decline are a guarantee of composition and
a price varying with that composition.
Yours obediently,
. R~othamsted. J.B LA
, 1875-10-02

structures as a whole, no one has been inclined
to cavil at them. Every one agreed with
what the English critics said, because
every one saw that the same vices were in
both cases attributed to the same reasons.
Those who. think that. the public believe the
Due d. Audifret-P asquier and the Assembly to
be to blame, place too much confidence in the
inspired articles of the writer to whom | have
alluded above. People in general believe that
the Assembly would have done its best to
reorganize the Army ON solid bases had it not
been thwarted in its intention BY military
autocracy. Red tape, in fact, has here, as
elsewhere, been the great obstacle to the work
on which so many hopes had been placed. A
different conclusion may be arrived at when a
future Assembly shall by its votes have
pointed out the General imbued with new ideas
who is to be the executor Of the will Of the
legislative power. Then the French Army
will doubtless make real progress, for its
soldiers have the greatest faculty for assimilating
themselves to inovations but they must feel
that they have at their head a Minister
supported by the Assembly, and a Staff willing
TO sacrifice the traditions of the past to the
exigencies of the present and future.
, 1875-10-02
MILITARY AUToCRACY IN FRANCE
Iron the Times

The easy way in which the French nation
forgets the most important incidents connected
with its history has become prOverbial. One
dav a Frenchman will be deeply interested i 10
q subject, and on the morrow he will have
forgotten all about it. Exceptions, however,
prove the rule, and the lighthearted Frenchman
is never. weary Of all that concerns military
organization. Thus it is that the public mind
has heen greatly excited by the criticisms on
the Army which have lately appeared ip the
English press. The article in Black,o0od. the
two answers which have appeared in Tile
Times, as we'll as the recent exhaustive sum.
mary in one of your contemporaries, have been
warmly discussed in all classes of society The
articles in question have been translated into
most of the leading journals, and am assured
that the AVenir ,Mi1itaire, which has shown
itself the most jealous collector Of these
warnings from abroad, has in 0 garrison
towns been resold and bought at four times its
price. All this tends to prove that he nation
in general Is fully alive to the danger Of war
being declared without its having the means of
carrying it on. A new phase has just become
evident. The military authorities, unable to
resist the crushing weight of the evidence
brought against the organization of the Army,
are now trying to shift the responsibility from
their shoulders on to those of others. The
dpholders of the Imperial system, which
consisted for go years in conducting affairs with
the %strictest secrecy, by playing with the War
Budget, by talking ofpaper armiesa and deceptive
armaments-in a word, by showing France to
be ready for war when she was not, these men
saw with despair the Assembly about to re-
organize the defences of the country in
broad daylight. After the lesson of 1901
the Deputies began to see the danger Of this
administration, which kept aloof from the coun-
try and concealed with the most jealous care
its resources in the way of munitions, men, and
horses. The Assembly said, "Since old
institutions are to be abolished, let US summon
to our aid the men most competent to assist in
the work of regeneration. Let US be influenced
in this by no traditions of former statesmen,
since those who have committed a fault are
always those who are the last to recognize it."
The. Assembly, therefore, attempted to do its
best when it resolved not to leave the
reorganization of the Army to the former
heads of the War Office, but to do the work
itself. Hence the representatives of the nation
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-16
Liquid Manure.

VIM. r. Rand wivcS IN interesting ar-
coun, "fcxrerimcnt> with liquid manure,
in Il recently published report of the com
mis>ionrrs "t agriculture lie lc;uhcd
~oap-SudS and houSr-SlupS of every kind
through fresh barn-vard manure and ap-
piled the liquid thus obtained to the soil
in his hoihuusc, and il increased the tenn
pcratnrc and improved the growth of his
tlowrrs and plants To such degree that
II seemed the work of magic.
Bv adding one buShcl of fresh wood
ashes to ten of stable manure, and leach
ing S,aIrSudS, etc, through it, he found
the alkali addition had the effect of ma
turing the woody parts of plants, and di-
minishing the vinc-growing plants. Leach
ing Soap-slldS, etc, through peek of
fresh cow droppinwS, produces Il liquid
which had Il very beneficial effect upon
vinc-growing plants, and the contrary cf-
feet on iruit-growing ones.
During his experiments, in order to
obtain Il valuable liquid manure for
universal use, Mr. Rand filled his hopper
with variety Of dccaying animal and
vegetable matter, such as rotten wood,
dccavrd weeds. refuse meats old bones,
lime, ashes. old leather, slops, etc, in
i'l't, tNti thiiS VI u l'ellSIithic NATURE
on the farm. y covering of lime, ashes
and sand, kept fermentation beneath the
surface of the mass. In the liquid
which oozcd through, bag OF charcoal
waS placed, to ,lrodorizc il.
In order to test the value of this
liquid, he made three beds for onions
sets. One OF these wis made OF good
soil into which rotten compost, and vel
dccompoScd barn-yard manure WAS work
ted In another phoSphatcS and patent
fertilizers perc incorporated with the soil
In the third bed the soil WAS spadcd III
and saturated with the liquid manure.
The result was decidedly in favor of the
latter, for the soil prepared with it was
~ productive that Tie onions iiiItilrc,i
and were eaten in the spring, before the
remainder We're large enough for use 4
similar result attended the application
Of the liquid To rarsnips, bects and cab
hngcs. Liquid manure is much mere
beneficial in Il dry season than in Il moist
one lis advantages over solid manure he
ing very striking during the tormc,
season and very slight during the latter
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-16

timothy grass (phlcm pratcnSo), Italian
grass (lolum ltalicumD. orchard grass
(iactvlis glomcrata.) and (pos memorials.
sometimes known asprctrnSu). Nv. blue
ur;l,S,. The soil for the reception of
these should he brought into !, perfect
state Of t;lth by repeated narrowing and
pluwiu". and the land rolled before Suw-
ium: the seed should then h ~nwi, hrnad-
cast and narrowed in.
Oats, barley atd rye are sometimes
S',wu in winter, hui H. the preparation of
the soil inr ;l,c reception %. Tic seed i
the Very slime a> wheat. ! ball pass on L"
-v:!s> seeding.
Tier" ar;' numerous conflicting urin-
inn> rs /" the depth at which To SOW
wheat. Experience however. has taught
,iS that two inches iS the rronrr drpth.
tw" and Il halt hring the average. Heat.
mir and moisture are the great agents ol
decomposition, -crmlnalirn being not hing
more or lass than gradual decay. or u
conversion ~! the starch matter "t' the
seeds to sugar. That drpth which most
readily promotes this i The one One
inch ut, sol "s ordinary texture j. found
t" exclude !;,ght and li-ht hcin- Il )ar-
tli| aniiS"ptic To decomposition. i; will
readily take place beneath this depth
hn, ~ this is insufficient, 10 protect the
little rootlrl> during winter ! believe
til" preceding statements will hr found
perfectly satisfactory.
One AMI y half pcck- Of timothy seed
will sow an acre: one hu>hcl italian
-,;i>> do; one luShcl orchard "r;,>s, do
! one and !. quarter bushels krntnrk,
blue grass do.
In the early spring this land present.
Il >p"ngy appearance. and should hc har
rowrd and rolled. Rolling cnnsolilatc>
the soil around the roots, md prevents
that otherwise too great circulation ot
air around the roots.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-16
BaulkY Horses.

Professor Jennings, Of the Veterinary
College of Philadelphia says:
y man TO control Il horse, must first
learn 10 control himself"
RAulknG Is the most aggravating Of
all faults To which the horse is subject
yet, 10y patience, observance and good
management. even this habit can be
broken ur. They resist because we fail
Ia make them understand what we re-
quire Of them; or it may occur from
ovcrloading, sore shoulders, or wOrkin"
till tired out. Particular is this the
case with young animals.
~ soon rs Il horse is made To under
stand what i, required of him, he be
come; Il willing subject To attempt to
prchcnd, or to use the whip under such
only rxcites him TO more
determined resistance. Professor .Jcnm-
inys' remedy, which fully sustainS the
opinion Of other great horse students, is
as follows:
On the first attempt of your horse to
bank, get out, pat and rca.>urc him
with kind words, carefully examine the
harness, then jump in and speak to him
Is il you expected him to 30. This is
generally cffrctual."
Bcntwright, the American horsc-tamcr,
says of this subject:
If you have baulky horse il Is your
own fault and not the horses. II Il
team does not pull true there is some
cause for il, and if YOU will remove the
cause the effect will cc;~r. When sour
horse baulks he is excited, and dos not
know what you want him To do.