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The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Care of RawIs i'm Winner.

This is the method of caring for fowls in the
winter season that was practised by the late
Q. w. Dickerman:
"My winter quarters for them are
not as large as they should be,
being only twelve feet square for from
twenty to thirty fowls, but they have
the run of the yard whenever the snow
does not forbid. Instead of cleaning out
these quarters weekly or ottener, as frequent
ly recommended in books, I occasionally
throw few shovelsful of earth iron boxes
filled for the purposel over the droppings.
Their quarters are not as warm as should
provide were to build house expressly Tor
them; but have two large windows in the
south and east sides, which give them all the
benefit of the SUMS warmth, and in meas
ure make up for considerable lack Of Eatten-
ing.
Cold weather is the trying time when most
people complain that their hens do not lay.
1t requires more attention to the fowls to get
eggs in the winter than in summer; but thew
can be had. Give them sunlight and keep
them warm, in the first place, and secondly,
give them varied food and plenty of it.
feed principally corn through the winter,
but vary it with wheat, oats, buck-wheat,
and meat scraps. Part of the corn feed
whole, and part 1 have cracked or ground
into meal 1 prefer the cracked. l feed
Whole grain al night and the ground IN the
morning, on the principle that through the
long night they need something that will
stand by them that having digested all their
nights food by morning they need something
they can act upon quickly. For the same
reason, in the very coolest weather, when I
go out to give them their mornings feed I
carry basin of WARM water from the teaket-
tie and wet up the dough with that. 1t will
warm them quickly and make them feel COM
fortable-au essential, as have said before,
to supply of eggs. The wheat I feed in
screenings, which can be had at any mill or
feed store.
Mashed potatoes, fed warm, are just the
vegetable food they iced, and were on
farm l should carefully husband few BUSH
els of small potatoes for this purpose. The
meet scraps buy of the butcher in large
cakes, and believe it is as cheap as corn,
while it answers purpose like that Of the
bugs and worms in Summer.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
Mules for Farm Work.

Mules on ON average are more valuable
than horses, are more easily raised, are not
so subject to disease, are not likely to run a.
way in wagoning and blowing, are longer
lived, will do more work and require less
feed and attention, they are stronger, will
draw heavier loads and stand more hardship,
and are in every way preferable TO the horse
for general farm use. Mules come in earlier,
ready for light work when three years old.
They will then do enough work on the farm
to pay for their feed, and after having at
tanned the age of four years they are ready
for any kind of service. But the horse (colt)
must be kept until he is four years old before
he is worked at all, and when he is four he
must be first-rate colt TO bring as much as
the mule will at two years old. But assume
the animals are both required for farm work,
see what difference there is in favor Of the
mule. The working life of the mule can be-
safely estimated at thirty years, and that OF
the morse at ten years. So, while mule is
working its life out, three horses will be re-
quired to do eqnal service. But these are
not the only items. The saving of teed is at
least one fouth, or not less than 647 bushels
of corn and 427 tons of hay. These amounts,
added to the original saving in purchase of
animals, show an advantage in favor of the
use of the mule over the horse of over 81 900
during the ordinary life OF the animal The
mule is less dainty about food, unground
grain and dry feed being just the thing for
him.-American Farmer.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
Destroying Weeds.

A correspondent of the New England
Farmer tells how he eradicates weeds, as
follows:
Some fifteen years ago turned up all acre
of rich land and sowed it at the proper season
with rye. It came up perfectly well and
promised good crop. In the spring it looked
very fourishing, but there soon appeared
multitudes of weeds, which continued to
flourish till, at the time for harvest, they
were much more conspicuous than the rye.
After threshing, the straw, which I usually
value more than the grain, sold very i'll,
hardly at half the usual price in Boston. The
rye itself was full of seeds, many of which re-
fused to be separated by the wianowing. ]
determined to avoid this evil if 1 could; so L
ploughed up an acre, next to that which had
served me SO i'll, let it lie until next spring,
and waited until rich crop of weeds had
sprung up, which, when they were five or six
inches high, ploughed in, and waited till
another crop OF somewhat later weeds were
in the same condition; these were ploughed
in, and afterward third crop of the latest
weeds were served in the same manner. 1t
was then sown with rye and produced the
cleanest and most beautiful and luxurious
crop had ever seen. have no doubt that
the three crops of weeds did the land more
good than an ample covering of barn manure
would have done. The same course essen
TALLY pursued since has been equally success
full. My crop of rye this season was the best
and largest have ever had, and the straw
was the best-perfectly clean.
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SaIt.peter i'm the Hog PEN.

presume that many are not aware OF the
presence of saltpeter in their hog-pens, or its
effect on the health and lite of their hogs.
It is deadly poison to swine, and hog that
has once got a taste of it will dig for and eat
it until it kills him, and that will not be long,
either, If he is left in pen where he can get
at it. have seen hogs refuse to eat corn
and root for the nitre. Add to this, the fact
that most farmers keep their hogs in their
barn-cellars, which are perfect nitre- beds
that is, they contain all the conditions for the
formation of nitre, of potash or saltpeter-a
valuable fertilizer, but dangerous food for
pigs.
The ammonia, and especially the liquid
portion from horses and hogs, contains nitro
gen, which in warm weather rapidly decom-
poses and turns to ammonia, which unites
with the oxygen of the air and forms nitric
acid. All soil contains more or less potash
and this nitric acid, teaching into the soil in
the bottom of the pen, or the dirt that has
been carted in, unites with the potash and
forms nitre of potash. There is no danger of
their getting it as long as the pen is wet, but
when it becomes dry, the saltpeter will crys-
talize in the dirt, and if the pigs get at it
there will be sudden and mysterious death in
the pen, and the owner will wonder what
allied his pigs, they weighing well, and the
next he kew they were dead.
How shall we avoid the danger? First, by
never putting pigs in an old pen after the
manure is got out, until the bottom is well
covered with fresh dirt; then keep it well
covered with loan in dry as well as wet
weather. remembering that it is in dry dirt
only that it can crystalline, and while it is
wet they cannot get at it.-N. b. Farmer.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
Pruning Hedges.

A friend who has an evergreen hedge-from
the description we suppose it is an arhor-vite
hedge-asks us whether it is good time to
prune now. There could not possibly be a
worse time than to cut at this season Ever
greens as rule are very sensitive to cold, cut
ting winds. Even the hardened leaves that
have been exposed to all the vicssitudes of the
weather often get injured by wintry winds, and
this is more likely to be the case with those
which are tender, as those inside, exposed sud-
denly to the weather by cutting away the out
side, must be- No good hedgist cuts away
evergreens till the winter is over and all dang.
er of cold winds is gone. This disposes OF
hedge-pruning so far as evergreens are concern
ed, but in the case of deciduous hedges, wnich
need renovating pruning, it is nat only allow
able but sound practice. In this vicinity we
have many of these deciduous things used as
ornamental hedges. We have beech, horn
beam, privet, Usage orange, honey locust, py-
rus, iaponica, and some other things of this
character. Sometimes they are neglected, as
our friends evergreen hedge appears to be, and
to renovate them they are often cut too near
the ground, SO as to induce them to throw out
a large lot of new sprouts, which the next year
are trimmed into shape This sort of tim
ming can be done at shis season, and is the on
ly kind of hedge-pruning that is at all seasonal
Bile. Hereabouts we leave all evergreen prun-
Ing, hedges or otherwise, till about April, be.
fore the new growth appears.-Germantoao
IelegTGph.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
STATE OF MAINE.

CUMBERLAND, IS.
At the Court of County Commissioners begun and
holden at Portland, acithn and forthe County of Cum
bertand, on the first Tuesday of January, Anno
Donsini, 1876. to aoit at adjournment thereof on
the first Tuesday of February, Anno Domini, 1875
On the foregoing Petition it being satisfactorily
shown to the Court that the Petitioners are responsible
andlthat hearing is expedient it hereby ORDERED
That the County Commissioners will meet at the
House of William Haley, Jr., in Sebago, Thursday
May 4tb, A. D. 1876, at 10 O'Clock A M and that the
Petitioners give notice to all persons interested by
causing attesed copies of said Petition and this Or
der of Court thereon to be served upon the Town
Clerks OF Baldwin and Sebago, and also by post
ing up copies of the same in three public places
in each of said towns and publishing the three
weeks successfully in the Maine State Press news
paper printed in Portland the first of said pubca-
tons and each of the other notices, to be at least
thirty days before the time of said meeting /;
at which time and place, after it has been satisfac
toriy shown that the above notice has been duly
given) the Commissioners will proceed to view the
route set forth in said Petition and other routes and
roads connected Herewith. and after such view
they will give hearing to the parties and their wit
nesses at some convenient place in the vicinity when
and where all persons and corporations interested,
may appear and show cause, if any they have why
the prayer of said Petition should not be granted
Attest: F. j. LITTLEFIELD, Clerk.
Copy of the Petition and Order of Court thereon.
Attest: f. j. LITTLEFIELD, Clerk.
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Parker House. school 81. M. ID. Parker q
Co., PrOprietOrs.
st. James Hotel-J. II. Crocker. Propri.
etOr.
fremont House, fremont 81. -Chupip,
Gurney a. Co. Proprietors.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
Sale of Real Estate.

PY virtue of power of sale contained in and of
ID the provisions of certain mortgage deed given
by Job r. Duran, of Portland, Cumberland County,
State OF Maine, to George L. Wescott OF said Port
land dated 18th October 1862 recorded in the regis
try of deeds for said county book $685. page &c. which
said mortgage was duly assigned to me, Ira p Far
Iington, the 28th October, 1875, by assignment re-
corded in said registry book 422, page 430, will be
sold for breach of the conditions of said mortgage
at public auction, the premises hereinafter de-
scribed on the day of February next at
o'clock in the afternoon, certain OF of land, with
all the improvements that may be thereon, situated
in said Portland on the northwesterly side of Lin
coin street, and bounded as follows; Commencing
on the northery corner of Lincoln and Elm street,
thence running about northwestery by the north
easterly side of Elm street, twenty feet and seven
nches to the centre of the partition wall between the
block of two houses numbered thrty-one and thirty
three 81 and 3 Elm street. thence through the CEN
tire of the partition wall of said block about north
eastery. seventy five feet, to land now OF formerly
owned by Charles G. Clapp, thence southeasterly BY
the line Of said Capps land, twenty feet and seven
inches, to stake on the northwestery side line of
Lincoln street, thence southwesterly by the side line
of Lincoln street, seventy-five feet, to the bounds
begun at Said lot has, since said mortgage was given
been mortgaged by said Duran to Nathan Hill, OF
Rollinsford, State of New Hampshire and the right
to redeem is now owned. supposed to be owned by
George r. Davis, of said Portland.
Terms cash. /. P, HARRINGTON
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Sherif'S Sale.
STATE OF MAINE.l

STATE OF MAINE,
CUMBERLAND, SIS.
YTyAKEN on execution. and will be sold by public
Il auction, on SATURDAY, March 18th, A. D.
1876 at ten O'Clock, in the forenoon, at the Shers
Office, in Portland, in said County, all the right in
equity, which Henry Sturdivant Of Cumberland in
said County, has or had, on the tenth day of May,
A. d. 1872, at twelve o'clock and ffty-five minutes
in the afternoon being the time of the attachment
of the same on the original writ in the action which
said execution was obtained to redeem the following
described mortgaged real estate, to wit:
Two certain parcels of land, situated in said town
OF Cumberland containing sxty-nine acres, more er
less, conveyed to said Henry StuRdivant by Ephram
Sturdivant by deed dated July 49, 1852 and recorded
In Cumberland Couuty Register of Deeds, Book
244 page 1885, the first parcel bounded and described
as follows Beginning on the County road on land,
now or formerly owned by Richmond Mitchell;
thence running southwesterly said road about
htty-seven rods to land formerly owned by Greedy
Sturdivant; thence sOutheaser seyenty-four rods
to the railroad thence on the same course as the
fence now stands to land, now or formerly owned by
Andrews Blanchard; thence northeasterly on said
last mentioned land to land, now or formerly of
Richmond Mitchell; thence northwesterly on said
last mentioned land to the bounds first mentioned,
excepting one acre conveyed by SAID Ephrajm Stur-
divant to the Atlantic and st. Lawrence Railroad
Company for gravel and containing about twenty
acres. The other parcel is the lot on which the
by the said Henry Sturdivant, in lot number one
known by the name of the Butler lot containing for.
ty-fOur acres, and being all the land which the said
Ephraim Sturdvant owned in said lot, number one at
the time OF this said conveyance to said Henry Sturd
want; bounded by the County road, by the Rangeway
veyed by said Henry Sturdivant to Elias Lunt, Jr
Dated at said Portland, the 9TH day of February,
A. d. 1876.
w3w1 M. ADAMS, Deputy Sheriff.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Justice of the
Supreme Judicial Court, now
holden at Portland. within and
for the COr.nty of Cumberland.

fEyHE petition of Daniel F. Richards of Cape Eliza
Il beth. in the County of Cumberland, gives your
Honor to be informed that in the month of February
A. d. 1863 at Bombay, in India he was married ac-
cording to the forms of the Church Of England by
clergyman whose name he does not now know TO
Agnes Marshall with whom he thereafterwards CO.
habited; that two months after the marriage they
on which voyage your libellant was taken sick and
was left at st. Helena, his wife going to Liver
pool that after his recovery he found her there but
she utterly refused to live with him. and at that time
which was in November, 1868, or thereabouts will
fully deserted and abandoned him without reasona-
BILE cause and without any intent the part of the
hbeant to procure divorce, and said deserion and
abandonment has continued from that day until the
present.
And the libeant further gives the Court to be in
formed that he has resided here in this State in good
meDt of these proceedings, and that he does not
know and cannot by reasonable diligence ascertain
where the bellee now resides and that ali he knows
or can ascertain upon that subject that she resided
in Liverpool at the time of said desertien
Wherefore, inasmuch as it would be reasonable
and proper, conducive to domestic harmony and con-
sistent with the peace and morality of society the
bellant prays that divorce from the bonds of mat
rimony may be by the Court decreed to him, in ac-
cordance with the Statute.
Dated at Portland, Jan. II, 1876.
DANIEL F. RICHARDS
CUMBERLAND, IS: Jan. H. 1876.
Personally appeared Daniel f. Richards, the ibel-
liant aforesaid and made oath to the truth of the al
legations in said libel relating to the residence of the
libellee.
Before me- THOMAS B. REED,
Justice of the Peace.
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Sherif's Sale.
STATEOF MAINE, |
CUMBERLAND, IS. !

STATEOF MAINE,
CUMBERLAND, IS.
TNAKEN on execution. and will be sold by public
Il auction, on SATURDAY the eighteenth day of
March, A d. 1876, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, at
the Sherifs office in Portland. in said County, all
the right in equity which Margaret Jordan, of Port
land in said County has had on the eighth dag of
November, A: D. 1875, at three O'Clock and thirty
minutes in the afternoon, being the time of the
attachment of the same on the original writ in the
action on which said execution was obtained, to
redeem the following described mortgage real estate,
situated in Scarborough, in said County, bounded
and described as follows, to wit: Beginning on the
northeast corner at the Junction OF the Saco road
and the Vinegar road, Doth roads being so called
and knownl the entire western portion of said
farm or land is bounded by said Vinegar road;
eastery entirely by the said Saco road sotherly by
land of Ahner Green; westerly by land of Joseph
Deering, and on the northwest by the Dresser road
so called; said land being portion of the JeWett
farm. SO called, and the same that said Dresser
bought of George Jewett.
Dated al said Portland, the Sd day OF February
A. d. 1876.
w3w6 M. ADAMS, Deputy Sheriff.
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Reduction of Price

Despite the fact that the Publishers are obliged to
pay the postage, the DAILY PRESS is offered for
$500 per annum in advance; $3.50 for six months;
$1.75 for three months.
B- During the session of the Legislature the
Daily will be furnished for $500 in advance
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
A NewtonviIIe Druggist.

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to SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH.
have been much surprised at its large and ready
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Hooded with socaed remedies for this 'n rapidly in
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FOR CATARRH is the most reliable preparation of
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To the Commissioners of the
County Of Cumberland.

WE the undersigned citizens OF the towns of
w Sebago and Baldwin, in said County, do res
pectfully represent that public highway, commen-
cling at the town way, near the dwelling house of
Syvanus Blake, in Sebago aforesaid thence running
southerly over lands of David Haley, Joseph Went
worth and Appleton Burnell, to the town road, in
Appleton Burnell and Nathan Bliss to be of public
necessity and convenience and your petitioners pray
Honors win locate public highway as herein
designated.
Sebago, January 4, 1876. -,-----..r -..
Signed by WILLIAM HALEY, Jr.,
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STATE OF MAINE.

CUMBERLAND, IS.
At the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and held at
Portland, aoithin and for said County of Cum5er-
land, on the second Tuesday Of January, Anno
D0mini, 1876.
Upon the Foregoing Libel. ORDERED, That the
Libellant give notice to the said Agnes NJ Richards
dical Court to be holden at Portland within and for
the County of Cumberland, on the second Tuesday
Of April next, by publishing an attested copy of
said libel and this Order thereon. three weeks sue
cessively in the Maine State Press, newspaper
printed in Portland, in said Comfy of Cumberland,
the last publication 10 be thirty Gays at least before
the sitting of said Court that she may then and there
in our said Court appear and show cause if any she
has, why the prayer of said hbellant should not be
granted.
Attest: F. j. LITTLEFIELD Clerk
true copy of the Libel and order OF court thereon.
Attest: F. j. LIITLEFIELD, Clerk.
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VALUABLE FARM
FOR SALE.

CITUATED in Freeport on the road leading from
- Freeport Corner to South Freeport, and known
as the Weston Farm. 1t contains about 80 acres of
land, wood and timber and arabic land under a good
state of cultivation, and well watered. A good Or
chard and fences in good repair: The buildings arc
and in good condition. The house is story and
halt with an ell, and finished throughout. There
is good chance for brick making near wharf
Also one half in common of about two acres NJ
land with buildings and wharf. This property viii
be sold at bargain.
STEPHEN WESTON
Administrator of estate of
JAMES WESTON
wtf4O P.O. Address, Box 1874, Gardiner, Me,
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Boston 4 Maine
RAILROAD.
FALL ARRANGEMENT,
Commencing october II, 1875.

Passenger Trains will leave Portland for
Boston at 6.15, 900 a. M, $40 p M, arriving
at Boston at 1880 a. M, Las 7.55 p. m.
Returning, leave Boston at $50 a. M, - 80
$50 .. m, arriving at Portland at LIS, 5.
8.15 p. m.
For Lowell at els, 900 a. H., 3,1O D. M
For Manchester and Concord and Upper
Railroad (via New Market Junction) at 6.i5 a.
M, and 80 p M; (va Lawrence) at 900 a. M
For Great Falls at 6.15, 900 a. M, $40. DIN.
For Rochester, Pennington and Alton
Bay at 6.15, 900 a. M, $40 p. m.
For Scarborough Beach, Blue Point, Old
Orchard Beach. Saco, Biddeford and
Kenneburk at 6.15, 900, a. M, 8. 10, 500 D. m.
M0rning Trains will leave Kenuebuuk
for Portland at 7.20 a. m.
Trains on Boston & Maine road connect with all
steamers running between Portland and Bangor
Rockland, Mt Desert, Machias, Eastport, Calais, ST.
John and Halifax. Also connect with Grand Trunk
trains at Grand Trunk Station, and Maine Central
trains at Transfer Station. EI tT" III
All trains stop at Exeter 10 minutes for refresh
ments at frsU-class dining rooms
ParlOr Cars on $40 P. M. train from Portland
and 80 A. M. train from Boston.
j. I. FURBER, GenfSup
s. H. STEVENS, Gen'l Ag't, Portland.
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Sherif,S Sale.

CUMBERLAND s.:
NNAKEN by virtue of an execution in favor of TO-
Il seph H. Poor and Edwin B. Poor, both of Port
land copartners in trade under style of Jos H. Poor
& Brother, against William Willard of said Portland
and (unless sooner redeemed) will be sold by public
auction at the Sherif's Office in Portland in said
county,on THURSDAY, the sixteenth day of March.
A D. 1876 at O'Clock in the forenoon four shares
Of the capital stock of the Blanchard Maine
State Boiler Company. to wit: one share num-
bered 157, two shares numbered 1853, and one share
numbered $50. Said shares being sold subject to ali
unpaid assessments and other legal claims against
the same. Also five shares of the capital stock
of the Portland Steam Towing and Water Boat Com
pany, all of the above named stock having been at
tached on the original writ in the action on which
said execution was obtained on the first day of De-
cember, A. d. 1875.
Dated at Portland this twelfth day of February A.
D. 1876. WM. H. DRESSER, Dep'y Sheriff,
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From an old Cane Ann Drugyis,.

Gentlemen II am happy to inform you that SAN
FoRD's RADICAL CURE is the best remedy for
Catarrh have ever sold. 1t gives universal salts
faction. hare not found q case that it did not
retiece once, and in many cases cure is performed
by the use of one bottle. 1t must soon lead all
others in the market. Please send me another sup
ply. -
Respectfully your, ANDREW LEE.
Manchester, Mass, April 8, 1874.