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THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
That bloody Milk.

(which of these cows did you throw stones
at this morning-boy said /, while try
ing to milk the young s'Tantrum'' cow
usually the quietest of creatures, but now
founcing about with her teats and udder
swollen with milk, seemingly as sore as bos.
81 thrung stones at all of 'em-at every
one of 'em''-said our chief small boy, with
ont stammering.
''Do you throw stones at 'em every morn
ing and nightp"
''Yes"-was the reply, with face like
that of a small Meriden reformer. "They
run every way, out of the road into the lots.
A-a-stones 'em, too, b-b-but n-n-not as much
as II do.' 49,.
Here was news, you see, welcome and I'M
welcome, for was fain to balance the morti-
fication of the stonipg with the qualification
of hearing the exact truth about it. The
days of pasture lanes and road fences are on
the wane, hereabouts, while the need of both
remains inherent in men and animals still.
The children were evidently having their pa
thence tried too severely, while driving the
COWS among swarms of mosquitoes and horse
flies to the swamp pasture. But 1 said moth
ing to the boy of this, but slapped him down
fact to match his own, if possible
he was upon facts. -s..5.-
''See here, boy-look in the pail. Here's
bloody milk See how red the stream out of
that teat is! See that bruised place where
the skin has been broken! You fired one
stone too much, guess. What do you s'pose
the cows run out ofthe road for? They are as
hungry as you are when you call for bread and
milk or bread and butter, and are only after
grass to make milk of for us to eat. You would
not like to eat such milk, would you You must
learn to keep better watch as you drive the
cows, use your legs and whip more and let
stones alone. They are dangerous. This
bloody milk comes from bruise in some
way. If you keep on throwing stones, you'll
knock cows horn off or break a leg"
This statement of the case rather quelled
the boy, abating that extreme Meriden look
and the next day we put the cows in the
home pasture. Whether the bloody milk
came from a stone-bruise, or a pinch of the
udder in crowding over the bars beside anoth-
er cow, or from some prod of vicious horn,
or because the children had killed toads, as
they used to say when was boy, it was
serious accident. The effects appeared in
an ugly beautifully pink tinge in the milk for
several days. Bathing in coolest or warmest
water bearable before or after milking, with
but grass for food. was our remedy. Water
as drawn from the well, applied with sponge
to the udder and escutcheon is well enough
for mild cases of inflammation. Water quite
warm in pail held between the legs and APP
piled to the udder with both hands, is excel
lent for sluggish swellings and soreness. 1t
is sweating poultice, you see, while it lasts.
And the less milk you feed for at such times,
the betser.-Hdrtord Courant.
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POETRY.
The Cliff.

There's great gray cliff by the deep blue sea-
There was maiden that loved not me.
To the great gray cliff came the sea to WOO
With love that was great and deep ard true.
The sea came up and kissed the feet
Of the great gray cliff with kisses sweet
The cliff said, "Never to thine embrace
VIII stoop, It's enough thou shouldst see my face"
Said the sea. with ripping smile, "I'n wait
Till 10 my embrace thou art sent by fa.e.'
And Il e great gray cliff, so the tale did tell,
Into the arms of the blue sea fell.
loved my love, she was cold to me
As the great gray cliff to the deep blue sea!
wooed my love for many day;
have won my love, she is mine for aye.
London ObSerrer
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EASTERN RAILROAD.

On and after Monday, June 2lst, 1875.
Passenger Trains will leave Station Commercial foot
Of State Street.
Portland for Portsmouth and Boston at
200 A NJ, 6.l5, 1900 A. NJ, and t2.S5 P. M, Re-
1880 A. NJ, 80 P M. 1000 and $500 p. NJ.
Leave Portland for Cape Elizabeth. scar
borough. West scarberough,s SAGE, Bid
wick. south Berwick junction, Com
way Junction, Eliot and Kittery at
For saco ,V2 s ID s;sI KsnnebunL, Wells,
North Berwick, south Berwick june
ton, Conway function, Ellie. and Kit
For Sac0, Biddeford. Kennebnnk, Com
wsy Juno,ien, X iitery and PSrtsmoufh
For Cape Eli EIizaS ABB IS sca ar Yves,
Scarborough, saco, and Biddeferd at
30 p. M, Returning at 500 A. M.
Conway junction with the 500 A. III. train from
Boston for North Conway.
900, 1920 A. NJ, 500. $40, 100 p M. Returning
at6.40, 100, 1915 1885 A. M, 4.10, 8. 20 P. NJ.
The geo, 6.15 A. NJ, 900 A. NJ. and 2.35 P. NJ Trains
from Portland make close connections for New
York by one or other of the routes from Boston.
Passengers ticketed through.
The $50 A. M. Train from Boston arrives In Port
land in season for passengers to take the of
the Portland q Ogdensburg Railroad, the Grand
Trunk Railway for Montreal, Quebec and
all parts Of Canada East and the Maine
Central and Knox & Lincoln Railroads for An
gusts, Baugor, Aoekland, Belfast and
other points on these roads.
The $50 P. M. Train from Boston connects with the
Maine Central and European 81 North American
and Intercolonal Railways for Bangor, 81.
John, Halifax and other points on these
roads.
The 1890 P. M Train from Boston connects at Port
land with the Maine Central Railroad for Au-
gusta, Bath mud Lewiston; and on MON
DAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS with
the steamer for Eastport and 81. , ohm. A
Pullman Parior Car is run with the train
leaving Boston $50 A. NJ, Portland Ito p. NJ.
through to Bangor; also with train leaving Bos-
ton 1880 P. NJ. and Portland 500 P. NJ, through
to Augusta. Returning, leave Augusta 500 A.
NJ, Portland 900 A. NJ. Bangor 500 A. M. and
and Portland 235 P. M for Boston.
*Pullman Sleeping Car Express Train. NJ B.
This train runs Sunday but not on Monday.
Accommodation Train.
tFast Express.
CHARLES F. HATCH, GenT Man.
GEORGE BACHELDER, Sup't
June 81, 1875. jne21tf
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A First Class Residence i'm Deer
ing for Sale.
MEDICAL
Iron I'm the Blood.

TIE Il PERUVIAN
SYRUP Vitalizes and
Enriches the blood, Tones
up the System, Builds up
the Broken-down, Cures
Dyspepsia, Debility,
DrOpsy, Chiils and
Feyers, Chronic Di.
|arrbGa, Nervous AT
fecti0ns, BOils, HUI
nlOrs, Diseases of the
X idneys and Blad.
der. Female COM
unDo1nfs KzN
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Improved Starch.

A beautiful finish can be given TO articles
to be starched by taking one fourth of pound
OF starch, and working it over and kneading
it with little water, then placing five or six
pints of water in pan, aud adding to this
very small quantity of powdered borax, a
small piece of sugar and a fragment of
white wax about the size of hazel nut, and
heating the whole sufficiently. This water is
thenfto he added to he starch, with continual
stirring, mixing the two together until the
whole is as thick as is consistent for applica-
ton. 1.-THE articles are TO be made quite
stiff. the strength of the starch may be in
creased two or three fold.
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Raspberry Vinegar.

The following receipt for making this de-
lcious sirup for summer-drinking is the best
have ever tried, and l think such of YOUR
readers, Mr.. Editor, who use other methods
will after trial endorse what say:-Put a
pound OF very fine ripe raspberries in bowl,
bruise them well, and pour upon them a
quart of the best cider vinegar; next day
strain the liquor on pound of fresh, ripe
raspberries, bruise them also, and the follow
ing day do the same, but do@ot squeeze the
fruit or it will make it ferment, only drain
last time pass it through a canvas bag pre-
viously wet with vinegar, to prevent waste.
Put the juice into stone jar, with a pound
of sugar to every pint OF juice; the sugar
must be broken into Jumps; stir it and when
melted put the jars into pan of water; let it
simmer little and then skim it; when cold
bottle it. 1t will be fine and thick when cold
and most excellent strip for making a
wholesome drink,
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How To Reed Strawberry Vines.

We have spent considerable time in trying
to learn how to feed strawberry vines so as to
continue their life and productiveness on the
same ground from year 10 year, and can re-
port nothing like success except where for
five seasons all the manurial waste of house
hold including wood ashes, was applied to the
strawberry bed. In this instance, the annual
crops were large and fine.
Every old strawberry grower will acknowl-
edge the use of continuing to crop the same
land fthe yield can be kept up as the labor
of wedding might be made so much less; but
in practice every one finds the crops more
certain if new paintings are made every
spring. Confessing ignorance by the same
token Of any accurate knowledge of the par
ticular nutriment made by the strawberry.
Last summer we kept no pigs, and our
of Chas. Downings twenty rods long, that
had already borne their first crop. Two
other rows were left without milk for COM
parison. The milk was stopped ON the beds
from ten quart pals, stretching pailful over
eight or ten feet of row. The growth last fall
was most admirable, and this spring and
summer, nothing can be finer than the dark
green foliage, completely hiding the ground.
The other rows are weaker, with no more
than half the bulk of leaves, leaving the ber-
ries equal in number if not in size, open and
exposed to the sun.
Upon exhausted stools of rhubarb the re-
newed yigor where some milk was spread has
been wonderful. As only the leaves or leaf
stalks of this plant are used-somethiDg nj
trogenous, like milk, would seem to be rea-
sonable manure fer it.
Our asparagus has been greatly benefited
also. u The rather poor farm dung we have
applied before, seems net to have improved
the shoots much.
The effect of sour milk upon all vegetation
appears very like that of Peruvian guano, fish,
urine, and the like, SO far as we have OBJ
served. Where the foliage and the tops of
plants are the marketable portion, it may pay
under favorable circumstances to use it. The
slop of cheese or butter factory diluted,
would make excellent irrigating dressing for
grass. Our milk-fed strawberries may be
overfed with nitrogen, They look like an ig-
norant rich mans property. Visitors praise,
but on the whole 1 am rather ashamed of
them. We have no science of strawberry
growing yet, but to manure as for stout corn,
or plant after tobacco, new spot every year.
Hartford -Courdnt.
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Forest COnseryatOries.

Wilson Flagg, in conluding chapter of
his Woods and By-Ways of New England,
advocates the reservation of tracts of three
or four miles square in different parts of the
country, on land not valuable for agricul-
tural purposes, whose primitive widness.
with all its vegetable and animal life, should
be preserved with as little invasion OF art
as possible, as perpetual Conservatives of
the wild animals and plants that to great
extent have disappeared before the invasion
of civilized men, and the clearings and cul-
tivation of agriculture.
1t is an idea that seems TO us worthy of
more thought than has been bestowed upon
by the casual reader The cost of puls
chasing waste lands of little value and Sc
curing their protection by law and public
opinion against the small-bird hunter and
the not less destructive hunter of hoop-poes,
axe.handle timber, etc., would be nearly ali
that would be necessary to success. It
would require no costly fences, roads, drive
ways or water works, like the modern park.
Let it alone, and let primeval nature assert
its sway, would be the one thing needed.
As a woodland haunt for school-children,
for the naturalist and the lover of nature of
all ages, such would make most attractive
resort and would be useful in many ways.
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Portland & Worcester
LIME

A Steamboat Express Train with Drawing Room
Car attached leaves Portland at 2.30 p. m. daily,
Sundays excepted, for New London, connecting with
the Steamers Of 1.-THE Norwich Line evening for
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Real Estate for Sale.

ON Cumberland Street near State, thoroughly
" finished house, contains eight nicely arranged
rooms, with ample closet room, handsomely frescOed
ceiling and PAINTED walls hardwood finish, marble
NANTES, and the modern conyeniences of bath room.
water closets, hot aud cold water and gas carried
over the house; first class furnace. 1t Is perfectly
fitted 10 every respect, ndshoud be seen to be APP
preciated. Price and terms liberal for purchasers
HN THOMAS WILDES.
N. B.-The person who makes an acceptable sale
shall receive per for his services and none
others will receive anything. T. w.
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a correspondent of one of our exchanges
says:
When at a neighbours house one day got
tomato mashed on my dress. said was
sorry, for it would take the colors out. Said
Mrs. W, st will not, if you wash it
in soda water" "But will not the alkali take
the colors out 2" asked. Mop SAID she.
lit will first counteract the acdity, then
you can rinse it all out together in clean
water" 1 have tried it with cherries, cur
rants and other fruits and proved it effect
tual. The soda must be used Immediately
after the fruit gets on.
Perhaps should be ashamed to confess
my ignorance, but l did not know until late
ly that when lard was taken out of the mid
die of the can that the oil would separate
from that which is left around the sides and
cause it to grain and grow rancid.
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City of Portland

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE,
June %, 1875. I
NOTICE is hereby given to all owners of every
~ truck wagon, dray, cart, any vehicle used
for the conveyance OF wood coal, lumber stones
bricks, sand, clay gravel dirt rubbish, goods wares
furniture. merchandise, building materials, or any
City Marshaps Office, for their licenses on Monday.
the 18th day of July next, from 10 to 70 a. 1n and
from to p. M All owners of the above named We
with proper numbers, to be one and one-half inches
square, and place them on their vehicles in snch po-
sition directed.
Any person not providing himself with number
will be revoked.
All persons not obtaining their licenses VIII be
dealt with according to law.
jne2adiw GEO. W. PARKER, City Marshal.
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E. P. Sexton, of Claremont, writes, that
''people troubled with bugs on their squash
and cucumber vines can get rid of them by
using manure water; take pail and fill it
two-thirds full of hen manure, and fill it up
with water; let it stand 10 or - hours, then
use this water to water the vines with. /
have tried it for two or three years and never
have seen bug around my vines; also it will
improve the vines or any other vegetable"
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REAL ESTATE.
Valuable Property for Sale

AN BRIGGS ST., new 81 story house, 22xS5,
W twelve square rooms besides the chambers,
wet sinks attached built in 67 Also II story house,
about 1Sx30 with an ell, six rooms, barn attached
will accommodate 2 horses, and contains ton OF
hay, good sewerage on the premises, connected with
S30Go will rent for $4EO year; plenty of hard and
soft water the premises Apply the premises, OF
of f. o. Bailey & Co., No. 10 Exchange St. Same
property was advertised in the Argus, June 2Sth.
Will be sold by Auction, July 10th, at 12k O'Clock,
if not disposed off by private sale. jy5d1w
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Valuable Iron Works
FOR SALE.

FINHE Iron Works known as the Portland Machine
Il Works are offered for sale. This property oc-
cupies about an acre of land tide water on Com
mercal St. in Portland, and comprises a large
Machine Shop, Foundry and Pattern Sop. Boiler
Shopand Blacksmith Shop. There Is full compile
ment OF fowls for heavy work and general Machinery
and large assortment of patterns.
The concern having beon long established a
large and constantly increasing list of customers
New England. and Canada and is running on
full time on orders. A more favorable opportunity
for investment is seldom offered For further parti-
culaSs apply to the proprietor at the Works.
w. Fl. FESSENDEN, Proprietor.
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Thinning Corn,

Prof. Roberts of the Cornell University
made some experiments in growing corn up
on the College farm last season, the results of
which are valuable. He planted three plots
OF three-sixteenths of an acre with corn
and thinned the hills in one lot to three
stalks, another to four stalks to hill; the
third was not thinned. The first plot yielded
at the rate of 100 bushels, the second 1875
bushels, and the third 106 bushels (of ears)
to the acre. Mr.. Roberts states, as the re.
suit of many experiments prior to these, at
the Iowa Agricultural College, that the
heaviest crops of corn were made by growing
three stalks to hill, and that two stalks to a
hill will produce more corn than FIVE stalks.
If every stick produces an ear, and corr be
planted three feet apart each way, there will
be nearly 100 bushels of shelled grain per
acre. To grow maximum crops of corn
then it is only necessary to grow one ear
upon stalk, and ears Of such a size that 100
of them will make bushel of corn. In
view of this it is strange that with so pro-
Life grain as corn, yield of 100 bushels
per acre should be considered almost impos-
sible.
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Watches, Jewelry, and Silver Ware.
J. A. MERRILL ~ CO., 1:s9 Middle st.
j. 4. merrill A. KEITH.
Watches, Jewelry, &c.
:. w. & HI. M. MCDUFFEE, Cor. MidtaI
81 Union SITS.
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RAILROADS.
Portland & Rochester II. Il.
Arrangement of Trains, commencing
May 8, 1875.


PASSENGER TRAINS FROM PORTLAND;
7.50 A. NJ. for Rochester, Nashua and
worcester connects at Rochester with down
trains on Eastern and Boston & Maine, Roads
at Nashua with ExPress Train for Lowell
and Boston, arriving in Boston at 1.3O P. M;
connecting at Aver junction with Express
Train for Fifchburg and III oOsac Tun
mel Line, and arriving at Worcester at 2.10
NJ. connecting with trains South and West.
30 r. vi. (steambOat ExDress) Train with
Drawing Room Car attached, connects at
WesibrOOk Junction with trains Of Maine
Central Road from Bangor, Rockand, Lewiston,
&C.; at Rochester with down trains Eas-
tern and Boston u Maine Roads; at EppiDg
for Manchester and Concord; at Nashua for
train for Springfield New Haven and New York
and goes through to New London withou
change of cars connecting with steamers
OF the Norwich Line for New FORK, ar
irving there early the next morning in time for
the morning trains South and West
LOO r. WI. for Rochester and way SIN
tiOns connects at Rochester with trains Tor
Alton Bay and Wolfboro.
$50 y. W. for GOrham.
teambOat Ex press Train leaves New Lon-
don from Norwich Line Steamer ats D A. w,
and from Worcester mt 8 A. W., connecting
at Westbrook Junction with afternoon
trains going East over the Maine Central Road,
and arriving in Portland at LIS 2. M.
Express Train leaves w oreester ut A. 35 r.
M, connecting with Express trains leaving
Albany at 10A. NJ. and New York at 1000
A. M. arriving in Portland at 1915 p. NJ.
Through tickets are sold in Portland, ana baggage
Lowell, Worcester, New York by Norwich line,
and Springfield Route, and to all important
points South and West
"a Tickets can be procured Of BARNES BROS,
WIN. Ii. TURNER, Supt.
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Steamers EleanOra, FrancOnia
and Chesapeake
FOR HARPSWELL.

fEE." On and after JUNE 30, 1875,
n/saEssNf>ES Steamer Henrietta, Capt G.
Iz.-zsss <:sssesSsIl LOWELL, will leave Harp.-
we'll at a. m. touching at Che-
bensue, Cousens' ISLAND. Little Chebengue
and Long island. Returning will leave Port
land Pier, at 6 p. m. touching at the above land
ings.
Will run an Excursion trip each day, leaving Port
land Pier at 9.15 a. III and Harpswen at 3 D. m.
For PARTICULARS inquire of Captain on board or
STEPHEN KICKER, Agent,
131 Commercial St.
mas dtf
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FALL RIVER LINE,

To New York and all points South and West. Bag
gage checked to destination. The world-renowned
Steamers, Bristol and Providence.
Trains leave Old Colony Depot, corner Kneeland
and South streets daily at 80 and $50 p M. Sun
days, June 9th to August 29th inclusive, at $50 p
NJ, connecting at Fall River with one Of the above
Steamers. Hali's Celebrated bands engaged
for the season. "Only Forty-nine Miles by
Rail.
Tickets. State-rooms and Berths secured at the
office of the line. No Old State House, corner Of
Washington and State Streets and at Old Colony
Depot, Boston, and in Portland at depots of Boston
s. Maine and Eastern railroads, and at Rollins &
Adams, 20 Exchange St., and W. d. Little s. Co.,
49R Exchange St.
j. X. KENDRICK, Supt. o. G. r. R.
GEO. L. COMMON, G. P. A. o. C. S. B. Co.
L. FL. PALMER, Ticket Agt., 8 Old State House,
Boston. iu30d3m
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For SaIe,

FEsHE two story and half house corner Bramhall
IL st. and Western promenade, with 10 finished
rooms, cemented cellar and gas. Good stable and
plenty OF yard room. Very pleasantly located and
convenient to horse railroad. Apply on the premises
or at GA Commercial St., to j. w. YEATON.
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Brick House for sale.

A FIRST-CLASS three Stored Brick House,
"A located on Dantorth, near Bracket Street.
Contains twelve nicely finished rooms, bath room,
hot and cold water gas. etc. This property can be
had on very favorable terms, if sold within thirty
days. Apply to VIM. H. JERKS, Real Estate Agent.
June Is, 1875. ju18d1ms
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Brick House for Sale

A French Roof Brick House, Cumberland ST.,
"A within two minutes walk of the Park Con-
tains eleven rooms, Sebago and gas Terms favorable
Apply to VIM. H. JERKS, Real Estate Agent
iu30 d4W*
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HOUSE FOR SALE.

DRICK House ana Lot, Is Winter Street. House
ID p story, IL furnished rooms; summer Kitchen
and wood house attached; good Cellar, Sebago water,
large brick cistern furnace gas Throughout. Healthy
location, wide lot and pleasantly situated with plenty
of sunshine. CHARLES NJ. III AWKES.
Inc
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For Sale or to let.

FEVHE lot and buildings formerly occupied by Stew
Il art & Melcher on West Commercial st. An
excellent chance to start mandatory. The main
building is three stories high, 60x75, with counting
room and room for engine and boiler. A spacious
shed and good dry houses attached The lot is near
ly 800 feet square. MATTOCKS & FOX.
mvSdtf MiddJo e.
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Valuable Real Estate for Sale.

TNHE well-knOwn Deane property on State street
Il containing about 10000 feet of land with COM
modious dwelling house in good repair, is offered for
sale. The house can be seen every Thursday and
Friday from to P. M.
For terms. etc., inquire of S. W. ROBINSON, Real
Estate Broker. 205 Middle Street, or VIM. I'll. MORSE,
corner of Pearl and Middle SIS ialkdtf