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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12

HOSIERY ofevery quality and style
at Bankrupt prices at Z. SMALL'S.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12

BOYS don't so to see your SWEET
HEARTS until you get NICE NEW
WHITE SHIRT from
L SNAIL
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12
Business Gotites.
DRY GOODS CHEAP AT
l.. Rosenberg d Bros.

Spring has come and the sun shines hot.
Go to E. Small's and get the latest agony
in PARASOLS.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12

The season for having job-work
done is now at hand, and we are pre-
pared to do all kind in neat style.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12
All for One Dollar.

Ten elegant Sheets of Choice Music ar
ranged for the Piano Forte will be sent
by mail on receipt of one dollar, (post
paid) or single copies at Is cents each.
They can also be ordered through any
News Dealer in the United States.
Happier Days.-Instrumental... Tom Broon.
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Far Der the Mdytdth.
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The Grand Old RVb!ee.
The College Quickstep StOddaTt.
There's a Letter in the Candle............ CoOte.
Do you Really think he Did?
Address orders to BENZ. w. HIrcHcocS,
Publisher, 355 Third Avenue, New York.
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WORSTED UMBRELLAS and RUB
Der GOODS to keep You dry during the
April showers at E. SMALL'S.
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Ladies' and Children's Latest Style
Hats LOW DOWN at
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12
For Sheriff.

We are authorized to announce
STEPHEN WOODWARD as candidate for
Sheriff of Ohio county. Election Au,
gust 1876.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12

DIR. j. w. Meador, of Fordsville,
formerly our Representative in the
Legislature, was in town, yesterday.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12

BOOTS and SHOES cheap at
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12
B.P. BERGMAN,
Fashionable Tailor,
HARTFORD. KY

Coats, Pants and Vests cut, made and re-
paired in the best style at the lowest prices
nOl ly
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HO, for the Centennial! But before
going, buy your outfit from
Z. SMALL.
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Cottonades aud Linens, for Men and
BOYS wear CHEAP at
L. ROSCnbort: 4 RrO's
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26
WHOLE NO. 2S5.

gauic life. In this particular il is more re.
markable than any other vegetable produc.
ton known to man. There is a large num-
Der of dishes Of which corn meal forms the
basis, which are exceedingly palatablc.
What, for instonce, is more delicious than
cold corn pudding cut in slices and fried in
sweet butter and lard ? Hot corn-cakcs,
when properly and skilfully made, are
almost universally regarded as luxury, and
Boston brown bread is famous everywhere in
the country. The reason why corn meal is not
more largely used at the present time is that
it is quite difficult to obtain it of dealers or
grocers in a perfectly pure and sweet state,
Millers grind the corn as it comes from the
West, mixed with portions of the cob and
saturated with dust and dirt and this is sold
for kitchen as we'll as stable use. Much of
the western corn is damaged in transporta.
tion, and this is ground up with that which
is sound. If good, sweet, northern corn is
properly ground in an old-fashioned stone
mill, after being winnowed to free it from
dust, meal will result Of a rich golden col
or, aud no dish can be prepared from it which
will not be palatable and most nutritious.
In our family we use the Lakeside-grown
corn, selected for domestic use, pass itaiter it
is sheled through winnowiDg machine, and
have it ground between millstones which
have been revolving for probably half con-
tury. In this way we secure meal in its
highest perfection and this is what ought to
be accessible to all families.
In trials at the farm TO test the compare.
tive value of meal from home grown corn and
that for commercial sources when fed to
cows and other animals, we have learned
the nutritive value of the former is nearly
double that Of the latter, and this practical
result confirms analytical results The diff.
ference between the specimens from the two
sources is most surprising. Farmers who are
so foolish as to 90 into the market to pur-
chase corn and meal for their animal; mel; should s,
understse211 tne great difference in nutritivo
value between what they can raise and what
they purchase.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26

chard and in the field among growing crops,
except as above limited, their services are
more than ample to pay their keeping, aud
leaving all the turkey chicks you raise as an
item OF net profit when winter sets in.
What they CLEAN in the grain -s.a55ie is so
much saved in tangible value. The insects
they eat are converted from destructibe
pests to marketable turkeys. The little
care you give, the value of what food they
eat before attaining size and strength to work
for their living, and the slight feed you
throw to them at night to invite them home
for treat next time, are all repaid ten-fold
in the grass and grain they save from insect
ravagcs. In short, even when they are
ready for the Thanksgiving table, your ac-
count current with the turkey brood will
show credit balance, leaving the birds "free
and independent" OF cost or outlay as one
item calliog for thanks. ....
The demand for the turkeys for the holi-
days is growing demand. Most well.to-do
families, and even some who cannot afford to
"fare sumptuously every day." would think
it next to sacrilege TO set the family table on
Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years,
without the appetite. provoking adornment Of
roast turkey to crown at least one Of these
great feasts every year. And if the Fourth
of July lacks its turkey for dinner, is it not
rather of necessity than choice that the
tender American bird yields to the tougher
eagle of Independence and takes him SYM
bolically at that?
But this is practical topic, and the inde-
| pendenee here aimed at is rather that of the
pocket and the individual than that OF patri.
otism and the public. So We come back to
turkeys.
The little state of Rhode Island and its
| Sionington borders over the Connecticut line,
time out of mind, have been the reliance oI
Boston for holiday turkeys. Aud feeling
/ the responsibility implied in such reliance,
Little Rhody and her Nutmeg sister, have,
| for the last quater Of century been labor.
ing to breed up aud bring up their turkey
crop to meet the demand that an increase in
population, urged on by more than pro
rata growth in appetite for turkey, has laid
upon the little nook of unpropitious soil re-
ferred to. And their success is marvellous
| read the figures thereof in results like
these
Increase in average per capita size and
weight of turkeys at the Thanksgiving sacri-
fee, 30 per cent increase in price realized
per pound, nearly three-fod, or from eight
to 23 cents. Their turkeys now average II
pounds dressed, weight; best specimens weigh
36 pounds. The papers give credit for this
result to feeding. | think it must be
largely the result of using the best for breed
ers. Rhode Island bronze turkeys are ris-
Ing to eminence as a breed--and are still
rising.
Let turkey-raisiug and turkey-breeding
spread as far as turkeys for the table are
eaten and loved.-S. Folsom in the N. Y
World. ."
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26
The Market Value of Poultry and Eggs,

Annually raised and consumed in the
United States is immensely greater than
most OF US have any idea of. To say moth.
ing Of the thousands of prime fancy" fowls
and pigeons every year disposed of to anna
teurs, small breeders, and public exhibitors
in America, the quantities Of farm poultry
and eggs-includlug the products of the tur-
keys, geese, ducks, fowls, aud pigeons pro-
duced on this side Of the Atlantic-are
enormous.
There is no doubt Of the truth of the
statement recently made by an agricultural
lecturer, that "the aggregate weight OF dead
poultry sold yearly in this country exceeds
by many tons the weight of dead beef con-
sumed in our markets"
The product Of poultry is continually on
the increase, also. There never has been,
aud probably never will be any glut in the
market Of these desirable edibles-good
chickens and fresh eggs. The price has
kept steadily up to paying figures, too; and
whether the times be hard or easy the change
in the current value of this product is not
noticeable.
II we were to set down here some of the
figures lately given of the estimated millions
OF dezens of eggs sold in a single large city
market, in 1915, or note the millions Of
pounds Of chickens and other poultry there
disposed OF in the same year, the facts would
be almost startling, and seem incredible.
Yet it is true that no class Of live stock in
the country foots up in solid money value,
annually, the sum that is realized by farmers,
poulterers, and egg dealers in the United
States, at the present time, for these always
desirable and readily salable commodities.
OF course the business of poultry aud egg.
production is disseminated over a wide field,
and great number OF persons are engaged in
producing this aggregate, which is brought
about in individual small quantities, mouth.
ly. But when we know that in single
county of Ohio, last year, according to
official statistics there were over S430,000
worth Of eggs and chickens marketed, we
can fancy that the grand total value Of all
the counties in all the states may be
1t is by no means a trivial business, indeed.
There be those, as we h.nted lately in these
columns, disposed to ridiculc this occupation,
and the parties who follow it. But it those
who incline to jest at the chicken ianciers
and fowl breeders Of this country would re.
fleet upon the solid importance aud large
value Of this interest in America, such rid.
icule would be turned to wonder at the real
facts in the case.-Fancier'S Journal
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26
Chemical Fertilizers.

At meeting Of the Massachusetts, Board
of Agriculture at Haverhil,, reported in the
Mirror and Farmer, Prof. Stockbridge gave
an address in which he said
There has been but little advance ia
knowledge of plant food for fifty years The
first or early views Of chemists we're that
organic matter needed to be supplied as a
speciaI want Of the plant. That theory has
been exploded. Then came the mineral the
ory which assumed that minerals alone need
to be supplied in order to grow perfect crops.
That theory has had its day, the nitrogen
men proving that nitrogen must be supplied.
Then the analysis theory came and asserted
that all of the elements as they exist in
plants must be supplied, but it has been
proved incontestably that some Of the elo.
ments will be procured in abundance by the
plant from natural sources. Ii is now con-
sidered that, with the exception of one or
two crops only, nitrogen, potash, and phos.
phoric acid need be supplied; with the ex-
ceptions, maguesia is found needed. These
are continuous and sufficient plant food for
most crops.
He then detailed the experiments in the
college for seven years, which seem to justify
the theory advanced. The fertilizers were
applied with remarkable success the past sea-
sou to potatoes, corn, oats, beans and hay.
Two plots of like condition were planted
to corn. Fertilizers were applied to obtain
fifty bushels Of corn over and above the nat
ural yield of the soil The natural yield Of
the unmanured plot was 25 bushels per acre.
The manured plot gave IA bushels one bushel
less than was asked.
OF potatoes the unmanured plot gave l2S
bushels per acre; manured, 279 bushels
only 100 bushels were asked. Some figures
were here given which showed beyond doubt
that the succeeding crop was benefited by
the fertilizer applied, In the instance given
80 bushels were obtained in excess of what
the naural yield was expected to be. Two
plots were taken for hay one ton was wanted
more than the natural yield. Natural yield
100; yield Of manured plot, 5000, Other
results were given, all of which were success
ful, Of the use Of these fertilizers prepared
by his formula. This formula he declined
to give, saying that it would appear in the
annual report Of the college He said that
over two hundred farmers had used it aud
reported its success.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26
Milk Fever in the Channel Islands.
Mr.. NJ. G. WOld says in a letter from
A., Al a

Mr.. M. G. Weld says in a letter from
Jersey to the Country Gentleman
1t is surprising to hear upon almost every
farm the people mourning, almost with tears
sometimes, the loss of valuable COWS, oftenest
the very queens of the herd, from milk fever.
The hest cows, of course, are the ones to have
the disease, and to die with it, Nowadays
it seems matter Of real congratulation to
the owner OF a frst.class COW if she has Il
calf and gets well over it. So far as know,
Jersey COWS are no more subject to milk
fever with US than those of other breeds, and
yet at rough estimate, should think that
in Jersey fully 30 per cent Of the cows on
the best farms die of this disease, or of one
closely akin to it, possibly an apoplectic form.
The COWS of poor people seem not to be
troubled, hence the practice IS becoming
prevalent to reduce the feed before calvng.
This, | think is great mistake. My own
practice has been for years to feed well and
and even to give fattening food, holding that
the COW passes through the ordeal safer and
better, and that all the fat that one can Law
on a COW before she calves will be given back
in cream and butter afterwards. Nevertho-
less, the greatest care should be taken as the
period approaches to give loosening food.
When COW cannot be turned upon fresh
grass, or fed succulent green food in the
stable, then oil-cake, or oil-cake neal fed
upon sliced roots in sufficient quantity to se-
cure decided, but not extreme relaxation of
the bowels for some days before calving is to
be earnestly recommended. For my own
part, feel as it similar practice, connected
with that of drying off the cows uniformly
at least four, and better six, weeks previous
to calving, might save many Of the best COWS
to green old age, when they might be fat
ter for the shambes with pleasure to them
selves aud profit to their owners. Besides,
it is probably no single one but variety of
influences which in combination produce the
effects alluded to. 1t may we'll be mooted
whether the lack of exercise when in the
stable, and even when tethered by IL or Is
foot chain, may not be the chief cause. Ger
tainly the surroundings are as far as possible
from those of nature, and from what We
might naturally suppose would be conducive
to perfect health.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26
EutritiVe Value of Corn.

The following interesting talk on Indian
corn is from the Boston journal Of Chem
istry
Tho prejudice existing against the use Of
maize as an article of human food, among
certain classes of people, is surprising, and
this prejudice is based on ignorance. Our
corn is seldom found in Irish or English
kitchens, although millions of bushels are ex-
ported to England every year. The people
there are strangers to those New England
luxuries, corn bread aud pudding, and we
suppose it will be long time before they
will know anything of them,
Indian corn is one OF the most important
and healthful articles of human food that
benefcent Providence has bestowed upon
men aud to its high nutritive value is due
in large degree the strength aud vigor of
the race OF men who laid the foundation of
this great republic. 1t was much more
largely used fifty or one hundred years ago
than now, as fine wheat flour, for some not
well founded reason, has usurped its place in
bread-making. In the several forms, how.
ever, Of hulled corn, popped corn, hominy
samp, corn starch, maizenta, etc., vast
quantities are consumed by all classes OF
people.
Meal from Indian corn contains more than
four times as much oleagnous matter as wheat
Hour, more starch, and nearly as much nitro.
genous material consequently in all cold ol-
mates it is Abundantly adapted to sustain the
system by furnishing heat-forming compounds.
The oil gives warmth, the nitrogenous prin-
oiple gives muscular strength. The combi-
nation Of alimentary compoundsin Indian corn
renders it alone the mixed diet capable Of
sustaining man under the most extraordinary
circumstances 1t holds the elementary
principles which constitute the basis OF or.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26
Raising Turkeys.

Some years ago was raising my own tur-
fully keeping the eggs till opportunity pre-
sented, set three hens on turkey eggs at
the same time. The hens were large and
each covered q dozen. They brought out
thirty three healthy chicks. made yard
with broad boards, set odgewise aud held up
right by small STAKES driven in the ground
giving them grassplat Of about square
rod, with shelter in one corner for their lodg-
ings. The chicks were mutually cared for
by the three ioster.mothers, with no other
division in the household than such as re-
suited from those that failed to. find shelter
under the wings Of one hen, seeking mater
nal shelter from another-neither chick nor
hen making any distinction relative to the
hen which hatohcd them. Feeding IN the
usual way, kept them in this inclosure till
the chicks we're able 10 scale the twenty.inch
wall of their yard. The hens, meantime,
were able to get out at pleasure, but soou re.
turned when they found their family would
not follow. When out the hens were less
inclined 10 wander at a distance than tur-
key mothers are, and at night they genor-
ally "come home to roost." In this way no
chick was lost by getting wet aud chilled in
the grass aud left behind to perish and the
result was that | raised thirty.two turkeys
from thirty-six eggs-thirty. from thirty
three chicks at hatching-a larger per cent
than | ever got from eggs or chicks hatched
by the turkeys themselves and they cost me
less care and labor, and no more than those
raised in the ordinary way. Setting turkey
eggs under hens know, is very common
practice bat this community mode proved
success with me, and | have not learned
that it is generally practised, so it occurred
to me to give it to the readers Of The World
as the best way Of giving a good thing a
large circulation, 1t others have tried it
already, they should not forget "to do good
and to communicate"
Turkeys on diary farm can do large SER
vice as early and persistent harvesters OF
the grasshOpper crop. And, in that matter
their labors are valuable for the grain-raiser,
too II they can be kept out of the fields dur
ing harvest and few days previous, while
crops are ripening.
In a garden, berry plat, or among grape
vines, their attention to early vegetation, aud
to fruits when growing as we'll as when ripe
is not desirable or profitable and unless
they can be shut out and kept out, they will
destroy more than they and their services
together are worth. For this end, hens as
fOster-mothers, are desirably handy. But,
in the pasture, in the wood lot, in the or
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26

am somewhat Of the conviction that by
returning in the shape of manure, all the
products OF said cornfeld, that our poor
pine plain land may be brought to, and
kept in state Of great fertility. A proper
rotation Of crops, Of course should be in.
stituted. If anybody can state anything to
the contrary, would like to hear from him.
L turned over piece of land adjoining
the cornfeld; it has been manured, laid
down to grass, and mown, till 1t had run
out. planted some of it to sweet corn,
and applied the above mixture, the same
amount to the acre, aud harvested at the
rate of over 200 bushels Of ears Of corn to
the acre.
also experimental with potatoes on sod
laud turned over-applcd born.cclar ma
nure at the rate of 6S cords to the acre ;
applied in the hill yield, a fraction over
200 bushels to the acre. They we're badly
eaten by the worms. Again, l planted a
strip, and applied compost Of unleached
ashes, l6 bushels; sulphate of lime, 4 bush.
els salt bushe used 90 bushels to the
acre cost, 500 Crop, 200 bushels Of
handsome potatoes, fit for any market.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26

He gave many instances, some of which l
will quote. g, Fowler received As bushe Is
per acre Of corn from pine land. II. l..
Phelps manured poor land for 40 bushels
three acres were treated, the result was 52
bushels. Enough was applied of nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash to give two tons
Of hay the product was 81 toms
A gentleman OF New York fertilIzod TWEEN.
ty acres; yield per acre, As bushels. In-
stances were given where over 100 bushels
were received. The speaker in summing up
his conclusions said, that it is now possible
to make our fields flourish again with crops.
1t will not be necessary nor desirable to
keep animals for the express purpose of max
ing manure, for the materials mentioned are
the cheapest source of plant food in the
world. The cost Of the fertilizer to produce
one bushel Of corn aud 80 pounds Of stalk is
at present Al cents.