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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
BANKING BARNS.

A correspondent writes to the Ohio
Farmer: While it is not good plan to
make the stable too warm in winter, it
is a most excellent arrangement to have
the ventilation under the control of the
owner
believe in tight barns, and banking
up such as are built upon corner blocks
or stones, so as TO prevent free sweep
of wind beneath the floor 1t will be
found with an animal as with person.
that a current of air striking the body
from an open place in a floor, will chill
quicker than coming from the side. In
deed it is contrary to the natural laws
TO have a current of air strike the ami
mails body from that direction, as the
movement of the atmosphere is in
horizontal position-if the term may be
applied to the atmosphere-an though
il may be considered but a small mat
ter, little attention given it will con-
vince any one that it is of no small im-
portance.
When building barn, if the means
will permit. make good stone founda-
sion and lay tight fioor-if double, all
the better--and then attend to the ven
tiiation as the condition of the weather
demands; but do not have the points
from which the air is to be admitted
either in the rear or close beside the
animal, but such a distance away that
that the current of air will lose its per-
ceptible force by the time it reaches the
animal
There are certain principles in all laws
that govern the health and condition of
the animal world that cannot be vio-
lated without damaging effects. A per-
son may be moving about out door pur-
suits all day, and not take cold, while
an hour spent in house where small
currents of air strike the person, a Sc
we're cold will be contracted. Now the
difference comes, not from a difference
in the temperature, but in the differ
ence of manner in which the winds come
upon the body. So when studying to
protect ourselves from bodily injuries,
we may apply the lesson to the protec
tion of domestic animals to certain
degree, with as certain good results.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
THE BRITISH GRAIN TRADE.

In its weekly review of the grain
trade. the Mark Lane Express, London,
under date January IL, gives the follow
inc statements which, while not indica-
tive of any present advance in the pri-
ces of our wheat, are not at all discour-
aging as to the futures
Winter returned last week with greatly
increased severity, but the change from
the mild and damp weather has been
serviceable to the newly-rhreshed sam
piles which lad scarcely found bdyers in
consequences of their miserable condi
ton, and to this we attribute the modern
decline in average, rather than to any
actual reduction. But We can hardly
rely upon full recovery in condition un-
til March sets in, so we have six weeks
before we can expect much benefit,
though the land has been getting some
what dra ned of superfIuous moisture in
preparation for spring planting We
uote by weekly sales, that now we have
exactly reached the average of last year,
when the crop WAS good one. Unless
imports continue to be overdone, which,
with the Northern ports closed and New
York quotations fully five shiliipgs per
quarter dearer, seems quite improbable,
there must eventually be recovery in
psisss ~ our wants become conspicuous.
More armness is evinced at Paris and in
some Of the provincial markets; also in
Belgium. but Dutch and German mar
kets have ruled dull, the roads and
canals being obstructed by ice and
snow. The latter seems TO have been
more plentiful in other parts of Europe
than in Epgland.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
Come, farm and gardfn
ENGLISH LAB0RERS IN 18TH AND
18TH CENTURIES.

The following extract from DIR. Ed
ward Young's Report on Labor in
Europe and America, gives picture of
the condition of the humber classes in
England during what is often claimed to
be the most brilliant period in the his
tory of that country, suggesting some
comparisons which may be profitable at
this time:
Respecting the physical condition Of
the English laborer at the period under
consideration we possess but scanty
knowledge, but it is evident that he
must have lived in a very rude and
primitive style, and that he was subject
TO much hardship and privation. His
dwelling was constructed of the coarsest
materials, most commonly of wattles
daubed with mud or clay. Bricks do
not appear to have used until the latter
part of the fifteenth century, as the first
mention of brick layers occurs in that
statute OF 1896. The manor house was
usually built of stone, but the tenements
by which it was surrounded were of the
meanest description. The occupation
Of glazier is mentioned in the statute
jest referred to, but although glass had
at that date been long used as the orna-
ment of churches, it was not used even
10 the better class of private houses un-
til a much later period; for even as late
as 1867 it was not common to find glass
windows in the castles OF the nobility,
and they probably were not used in
farm houses much before the reign of
James I. That it was an unknown lux
is unnecessary to state.
Artificial light, too, must have been
used very sparingly by the poorer classes,
since a pound of candles would almost
have absorbed a workman s daily wages
1t is believed that fuel also was compar-
atively dear, and the poor mans home
in winter must. therefore, have been the
scene of severe privation and discomfort.
Hence the advent of spring was hailed
with joy and gladness of which we in
modern times can form but a faint con-
ception. Even as late as the reign of
Queen Mary the peasant lived in a clay
built hovel; and according to Erasmus
the dwellings of the poor generally were
unprovided with a chimney to let out
the smoke, while their beds consisted of
straw, with block of wood for pillow,
and the flooring of their huts was moth
ing but The bare ground covered with
rushes, among which was an ''ancient
accumulation of filth and refuse"
The manor-house itself was but scant-
lily furnished, while the moveables of
the "ordinary house" consisted, accord
ing to Mr.. Rogers, of "a brass pot or
for boiling, and two or three brass
dishes; few wooden platters or trench
era, or, more rarely, of pewter; an iron
or lattan candlestick; kitchen knife or
two; box or barrel for salt, and brass
ever or basin. The
walls were garDished with mattocks,
scythes, reaping- hooks, buckets, corn
measures and empty sacks. The dor
mitory contained rude bed, and but |
rarely sheets and blankets, for the gown |
Of the day was generally the coverlet at |
night"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
IySURISG FARM PROPERTY.

The insurau ce companies OF New York
have recently raised the rate of insur
ance on farm property. Among the
reasons given for this course are some
that it is not pleasant TO be told about.
The report OF the State Farm Board of
Fire Insurance, at meeting lately held
at Utica, y. Y. says that these reasons
are ''the alarming increase of tramps,
the use OF infiammable and explosive
oils, great depreciation Of property, and
a prevailing and increasing laxity OF
morals" The Board thought the first
of these reasons had more immediate
effect than the Others. The last one
enumerated, If true, furnishes sad
commentary on the decay Of the old
time, robust virtues of the yeomanry
1t is familiar fact that in hard times
losses by fire greatly increase in cities,
and insurance men always expect a large
part OF tine losses of a crisis is certain
to be thrown on their shoulders by in
cendiary bankrupts. Ii is startling to
hear that bucholic integrity yields to the
same terrible temptation. This growing
disregard for honesty shows that country
clergymen ought to redouble their evan
gelizing efforts, and that, pending the
reclamation of their flocks, the insur-
ance companies should protect them
selves by raising their rates The latter
course was taken by the >rw York
Board. They fixed the minimum rates
at Is cents for three years, with two
thirds valuation clause in the policies,
and charge of ten cents extra per
81 900 when policy is written in gen.
eral terms. The companies represented
at this meeting of the Board agreed that
their business ON farm risks had been
done at a loss. One of the New York
companies had to replace its capital,
entirely lost in insuring farm property.
The public has a good deal of interest in
this matter The question of rates con-
Germs only the citizens of New York
State, but the reasons on which the in
crease of rates has been based concern a
wider circle. The statement of these
reasons unsupported by the facts, reads
almost like a libel Oh what has
always been supposed TO be the most
honest and least vicious part of our pop
ulation. The Board directed its Secre-
tary to obtain all the facts connected
with insurance losses on farms during
last year. When these are complied let
them be published for the edification of
the public ChtcGgo Tribune
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28

Wool AT NEw YORK. If there is any
important feature to note in the market
it is the absence of further failures, and
this fact has allayed the fears of many
dealers. There is no apparent improv
ment in demand, though the aggregate
of sales will foot up very respectable
amount for the period. In some cases
large holders, having eagerly sought
buyers of unquestioned responsibility,
found customers for lots of considerable
quantity by making concessions. Aside
from this, values are unchanged and the
taking out of stock of several important
lines will likely have a tendency TO stiff
en- prices, especially On choice parcels of
fleece. .-AmertcGR Grocer.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
MINGLING THE MANURE OF HORSES
AND CATTLE.

The accumulations of the horse sta
bles, and also of the stables of COWS
and other neat cattle, should always be
mingled together in the yard or compost
heap. Hence stables should open into
yards over which the litter from the
horses and cows should be regularly
spread every day. By this means alone
will good result be obtained The re-
spective merits of boxes and foldyards
for fattenIng cattle in a great measure
depend upon the quality of dung they
turn out. The box is economical in the
matter of straw, and will be esteemed
for this reason in suburban districts. 1t
is favorable Tor the manufacture of
good manure, as being under cover, the
liquor is wetted by the droppings of the
animals only. The byre, says the Agri-
cultural Gazette, is still more economi-
cal of straw, but it is not favorable to
the manufacture of good manure. owing
to the animals being tied up. Litter
from byres ought to be thrown out into
courts and trodden down with young
stock. Foldyards require much litter,
as they are always more or less open,
and are for this reason preferred in rural
districts, where the value of straw is
not yet felt. Excellent manure may be
manufactured in small troughed folds,
with a considerable proportion of shed
ding, Cattle will do well in any of
these forms of accommodations, but if
tied up in byres viii be humane, as well
as profitable, to have them brushed and
currycombed daily 1t must be remem-
bered that animals thus confined cannot
lick or rub themselves and that they are
deprived of the cooling effects of air or
rain. The skin under these circumstan-
ces becomes irritable, and especially
where, as is often the case in byres, dirt
adheres to the animal Brushing and
cleaning the skin and attention to the
state of the feet cannot be too strongly
enforced. .-NetC York Herald.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
TRAINS GOING EAST.

All trains run daily. Sundays excepted.
Close connection made at Fremont with
trains on L. ) q NJ 5. Ry to and from all
points Eas. and West
Al BGrgoon with trains on T. T. ERy
AT Fostoria with trains on Baltimore Pitts
buIgh q Chicago Ry.
Al Lima with trains on ID. NJ. &CH.S
RR. to and from all points south. Also with
trains on r, FL. Wa q. Ry to and from an
points East and West
W H. ANDREWS. Ge3. Ticket Apspf
III BURGOON. Receiver and supr.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28

PIC BREEDING FOR PROFIT. At a
recent stock convention in Iowa, DIR. J.
c. Traer said, in answer TO a question as
TO his plans in pig raising:
To make money, / would buy best
stock, the very best | could get, with
warranted pedigree. | would like the
largest boar of its kind, and the sows on
the same principle. She must be long
bodied and with rather coarse bone /;
the boir not quite so lengthy, with
smaller bone. | would breed in Janu-
airy, so that the pigs would be dropped
ia the Spring, and so as to have them
ali come together, and then they will be
uniform, which is a good recommenda-
ton to stock
Would not keep over eight sows to-
gether in one inclosure, and would not
shut them up only when about to drop
the pigs; would have the enclosures well
ventilated at the top, even in Winter;
should have good bedding, which should
be changed often enough to keep dry
and prevent becoming dusty. Would
feec twice per day and very regularly.
Always keep record of the time of breed
ing my sows SO as to know when they
will have pigs, the usual time being from
: 1l2 to lie days.
give cut straw for feed three or four
days previous to the dropping of the
pigs; wean pigs when they are about
sixty days old; do not breed but one
litter of pigs from a SOW in year; keep
my breeding sOws in rather thin flesh,
aud in good healthy condition; give
them plenty of cinders and stone coal
ashes; think coal ashes better than
wood ashes.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
TRAINS GOING EAsT.

80 Train No. leaves Pittsburg daily at $50
p. m. stopping only at Alliance, 3l b. m
arrives at Crestline, IL IS p. m where it Is con-
solidated with train No for Chieag-.
Trains Nos and run daily. Trails No.
4 leaves Chicago daily except sunday. All
Others daily, except Sunday.
FIR MYERS,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28

The CHEEsE MARKET.-The outlook
for the cheese market is brighter than it
was a few weeks since. The stock on
hand in New York at close of the first
week of 1875 was estimated at 250, ,OOG,
tie stock in Liverpool at 14O, 600 boxes,
and a various interior points in this
country at about $50, 600. The foreign
demand promises TO be fair again.
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