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farmers might make their homes better.
their families happier and their business
more prosperous. Ia this excellent address
we find, however, this bit Of twaddlc we
have quoted at the beginning of this article.
Whenever public speaker, addressing
farmers, undertakes to say to them that he
would rather be an independent farmer than
be President Of the United States, or be a
Member of Congress. he is. indulging in
senseess gush not ncommon-absurd flat
terry, Insulting to the intelligence Of farmers
and unworthy of himself. As if the ordn-
ary difficulties would prevent them from be-
coming ftrmers-but they don't. They say
these things because there seems to be an
impression that these soft nothing are best
appreciated. Nine-tentEs Of the orations at
fairs are buncombe, political speeches, neitl-
er helpful TO farmers nor instructive to any
body else. The independence of the farm
comes through the brain and heart OF the
farmer, not through the earth he digs in.
Farming is not Il romance, but d business in
which the strong arm Of the farmer, guided
by q clear head, does more to make him in
dependent than the mere fact that he is till
ing the soil. A mortgaged, overworlea
farmer struggling with fixtures in crops and
markets, is no more Independent than any
other man under similar circumstances. Let
men have the courage and the sense to in
culcate the idea that happiness and indie
pendence may be the result of conducting
their business successfully, of intelHgently
doing their duties as citizens, and building
up happy, harmonious homes.-Kansas
Farmer.
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THI P0U LTRY YARD.
AILMENTS OF FOWLS.

In the first place hold that fowl well
cared for will not get sick, and when she
does it is better to look for the cause and
then you will generally find the cure. Mis-
management in most eases is the trouble.
lst. Hens, non-sitters, do not need any
crowling to make them lay. They should
rather be held back for health. Many times
they are crowded with warm food and pep
per, even though molting, and fail under the
pressure-lay themselves to death.
"a. Sitters, or those predisposed to fav,
ale9oyer fed With warm meal, and not Ell
ouXh of wheat and the like, and are taken
with apopiexy or Icy weakening, or cannot
drop the egg and die on the nest.
I'D. BY harsh handling, or not having ac-
cess to shell forming material, and death is
the result.
4th. A few small hens are put with very
heavy, vigorous cocks. and are killed.
9TH. They go without water perhaps one
day, and have plenty the next, or have foul
water to drink all the time, and are soon
taken with the gapes, or diarrhma, Or with
cholera.
9Th They do not have what they want
and are forced to eat filthy or poisonous
matter; or
7th. They do not have a change of diet,
and are good subjects for many diseases.
9th. They do not have 9 good clean dust
bath, and green food, ana ire troubled with
yer5nin or lose their feathers.
Gth One or two are Qaarrelsome. and
worry others to death.
10th. They go out i'll all weather, stand
in the rain or snow, or are obliged to loosf
where the wind blows on them; they get
cold and have the roup.
1Ilh. They don't lave animal food, and
eat their own feathers and eggs.
Ia any Of these eases the first thing to be
done should be to look for the cause, and
ehecl. it at once.--G. If. q. johnson.
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pererce, to the knowledge gained from the
experience of years in succession? Slowly,
day by day, must we toll for our knowledge,
and gain it morsel by morsel, to be Of bene~
fit. Just one years breeding gives us little
or no acquaintance with variety. We
mast make study Of it, and bow down to
the labor as if we meant to draw all the slls-
tenance and sweetness Irom the kernel offer
ed for our digestion. When Leghorn eggs,
for simple culinary purposes, are command
ing double the price OF Others for the same
object, is il not to our interest to breed and
keep the very best layers of this valuable
breed? And which are they? Experience
at once replies. the little Browns. While
the White hen is laying her two eggs in
three days, the Brown is dropping hers each
and every day in succession, and equally as
large, on the same care and food
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PROFIT IN POULTRY KEEPING.

We do not keep hens as we do canaries, as
pets, but they are kept tor profit in eggs andF
meat. Now, the income from our poultry
will be large or small just to the degree in
which we are successful in making our hens
forget or ignore the seasons OF the year, and
our profits will be large or small just in pro-
portion as we accomplish this without in
curing unnecessary expense. Ii we can So
surround our poultry with the conditions
which belong TO spring that they will not
realize that it is mid-winter, then we can.
have eggs. Some poultry keepers do have
eggs all winter long, and always obtain good
prices, and make large profits from their in-
vestments. Poultry, If properly managed,
we believe may be made TO pay the largest
per cent. OF profit on capital invested Of any
Of our live sock. The outlay is small on
each fowl, and the returns are quickly made.,5
We do not have to whit two. three and five.
wears, as is the case With cattle or horses,
before tho harvest season begins Chickens
are fit for market in ore hundred days from
the she'll, and good pnllet will pay for her
self in eggs before she is a year Old s4,
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FARMERs SHOULD CULTIVATE TEEzEE1s1s
SPEAKING .P0WELsa

Have YOU debating society in your
school district? If not, lose no time in form
ing one. Indsce every resident OF The dis
trict to attend the weekly meetings. Select
Interesting questions for discussion, and dur
ing the week reflect upon the points you
will make in the discussion. Make your
speeches as you follow the n2ow, or ride in
the Wagon, or while engaged i'll any KING
Of work. Henry Clay said that when ne
was a young man he spoke III the forests
and corn fields. and whenever opportunity
offered. In this way he cultivated ana de-
yaloped that matchess voice and that grace
full flow of language for which he was so
dstir pushed There is no excellence With
out labor. No one can become a fluent
speaker without practice. any more ti'ah one
,.an become an accomplished perfornc. On
the piano. violin. OF other musical lnstfu-
ment. without long and careful training anu
nractice. The reason that lawyers are sVch
proyelbial easy takers is, they are N con-
stant practice. They are called out on pub
lie occasions, because they dehgiiaaAd en-
tertain the crowd They thus become Tie
leaders Of public affairs, and tiA the hishest
offices in the State and nation. Iney had
nosbetter natural endoWments at the start
than farmers sons generally posses oue
their occupation has developed fheif speak
ing talents, Farmers never WilAspe> apaa "
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wrest the sceptre of political power from
them until they are able to cope With them
in debate. They will be able to do this only
by organizing debating societies, attending
farmers clubs, grange meeting, ETC., and
speaking in them.
But they must do more than this. They
must be, readers and thinkers and listeners.
1t is not necessary for them to read every
thing, but they must master what they do
read, digest it, and make it their own. They
should have broad and liberal views, and be
able to express them in clear and forcible
language. 1t is only in this way that farm
ers will take that high position in their pro-
fession which the times imperatively de-
mand. 1t is only in this way that farmers
can represent their class in the councils of
the nation. The practice we have recon-
mended is a selfdeyeloping one, and no one
can follow it without great benefit to him
lf-R,truJ World
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TEiE:: HOUSEHOLD
TyEfs'gEsPa

Wedding Cake.--0ne ana half pounds Of
butter, Il lbs. Of sugar; 9 lbs. or 81 eggs,
beaten separately; lbs. of raisins, 5 lbs OF
English currants, 2 lbs. OF citron, 2 lbs. OF
sifted -four 2natmegs; flavor with II or l5@
drops of oil Of lemon. Take the seeds fronl@
the raisins and chop fine, wash and dry the
currants, and cut the citron fine. Mix the
fruit and spices in the batter, except the cit
ron, which must he put il three layers, one
an inch from the bottom, one aA incl from
the top, and one III the middle.
Trosting for Ctthc.-Ihe whites,of 8 eggs,
beaten to a stiff froth; 2 lbs. OF pulyerized
white sugar, tablespoonful Of starch. OF.
Of pulyerized gum arabic, aud the juice Of lt
lemon. Great care need not be taken with
the first coat as little bits of cake will mix
with ii, giving it Il brown color, but next
day make some more icing, and spread on
smoothly with q knife wet III cold water,
Do not set in the oven to dry.
Marbled Cahe--Dark part.-One cupful Of
brown sugar, cnpful Of molasses, cupfnl
Of butter, J cupfnl OF sour mills..I teaspoon
lnl Of soda, ! teaspoonful of cream tartar, %
cnpiuls of -four, the yellSs of eggs; cloves
cinnamon aud nutmeg, ground, table
spoonful of each. Light part.-Gne and a
half cupfnl of White sugar, 3cnpfill OF but
ter, cuptilI Of sweet milk, 3teaspoonial OF
soda, ! teaspooaful Of cream tartar, wliites~
of 4 eggs, and . cspfuls Of -four. Flavor
with lemon. Whoaeach part is ready, dropa
first a spoonful Of dark. ,lena' spoonful of
light, and SO FIJI UP the dish, taking care To +.
drop light on Dark.
Fruit cahc-Butter, sugar, English cns~-
rants, eggs and flour, ofeach q lbs; mix as
you would other cake. This quantity will
make three good-sizea cakes, and will keep,
fora year, pnd Le,as good.as anhaked.s.
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EXPER ugENTAL GRAINS.

4 record Of three varieties of oats sent to
Col. c. H. Moore, Clinton. Illinois, last spring
from the Prairie Farmer Office, for expert
ment, Is as follows:
The varieties were Probst;er, Oregon and
hulless oats. The quantity one ounce each.
They were sown April %, on old pasture
broken in the spring of 1876, each variety in
two drills, each 40 feet long, manured with
barnyard manure, and kept tree OF weeds.
The Oregon oats attained a height OF 81
feet, lipened August l, and yielded pounds
or IA for one sOwn.
Probstler grew to a height Of 43 feet, rip
ened August 10, and yielded Spounds, or
l2S fOr | soWn.
Hulless oats grew 10 Il height OF feet,
harvested August /, and yielded pounds,
or 96 times the quantity sowi.
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EGG PRODUCERS.

A correspondent OF the Country Ge2a{enan
says: 1t is comparatively easy to talk, but
more difficult still to perform. No great
talker ever yet accomplished any great feat.
The labor is spent in idle breath, While the
bird is singing tie bee is gathering honey,
and it is The still, quiet, steady laborer that
patiently brings the profits 10 the hive.
Singing hens, contrary to the oldrule, are.
no great layers. There is no denying the
fact that the Lcghorns stand at the head OF
frst-ciass layers, and among the list of this
renowned and valued variety, chief and dis
nnct stand the Brown at the top. They will
produce more eggs, within the shortest per-
iod Of time, than any other one breed now
exta9t. know whereof | speak, and can
bring proof manifold to bear testimony to
their good behayiox What is the compari-
son.o a.few, months - or.egen years esz,
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A|G1RICI II! 7 RAL.

TUE old saying, "save the pennies and
t,e dollars will save themselves" might
Evel] l,e supplanted by ''gather pennies, tor
&,,ov make dollars" The latter is, at least,
Hefa rs much importance to farmers. for while
] hey may be careful about saving small
R,mounts, they are often negligent, and fail
Eto improve many opportunities for gather
#nr tlat present themselves. Too many
EAyoe themselves too exclusively to raising
Eyrun, and neglect many important things
Ibat could be carried OIL in connection with
\ brain raising Just rs we'll rs not. And there
Ik often more profit in these little things, in
@poportion to the cost than in the more cx-
ensve operations. Every farmer should
Ehave good variety o. stocll-horseS. cattle,
Ihogs, and, above all, choice collection Of
|poaltry. There is nothing about a farm
that will pay as we'll as poultry, il properly
managed, and yet, when we look around
1--we liyG less interest taken in this branch OF
|Insbandry than in most any other. Not
|eHe-half of our farmers who keep poultry
|have house to keep them in, but allow
4 them to take their chances-sunmer and
1wnter-n the coW-shed Or stables, and to
|rlse about the stack yard, under the gran
sry, and the like, for living. And those
who do have houses often have very inferior
ones for the business. We have time and
again referred our farmers TO the high price
lot poultry and eggs in winter, yet there
seems to be no effort made to supply the
demand and eggs continue TO rise every
winter to from 75c. TO Sl.00 per dozen, and
Thanksgiving ana Christmas tarIeys sell at
from $l,G0 to 5000 apiece.
Not long since We heard q good substan-
HA farmer say that If an agricultural editor
would turn his attention to tilling the soil,
ne would iind it quite different thing from
mrlnlng Oh papers" that this talk about
"stematlc farming, skill III making gilt cage
9aster, ETC., was all bosh; that hens would
Wy When they got ready, and the idea Of
ssf'ihg them to lay in winter was humbug
NOW, we admit that it is easier to talk abou'
no" thing should be done than to do it
w We are satisfied that the majority of tht
is'nllhgg world will bear rs out in the asser
~" 'lat many things are better never at
s'iip'ed than poorly done. And at this ad
'4ncea age it would be folly on our part to
s'' INTO controversy about the science o
0a''er making, making hens lay in winter
'e' ANY one who will take the trouble tt
p'opefy inform his or herself, and win make
a'e experiment., viii soon be convinced, anl
= " The adding of these little sources o
'1'o'he that pennies are gathered.
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1hE INDEPENDENCE OF FAgK LIFE.

would rather have farm and be inde-
: seAuefe IMAM be Presidef of the United
s,a'es Without independence, or than to be
: s'lehloer of Congress filled with doubt and
oiihg, feeling of the popular pulse. re-
n 'i,s 10 art and artifice to keep my place"
! ool Bob Ingersoll's address at the Illinois
,'se sa :. + ar was full of lively points. He so
~ 80 a'sfessed.from the average polftical.tair
s>NStas 10 tell solid plain truth as to how
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-07
THE WEST,

Mrs Anthony Dean, of st. Louis, the
other day gave birth to four children three
boys and girl. One died, but the others
are doing we'll Her husband is a private
watchman.
Irrigating the dry lands of Colorado
from wells, by windmill power has been
recently found practicable by Il farmer near
Evans, in that state. With one small mill
an acre of vegetables was watered, and the
thirst of herd Of eighty head of cattle
horses and sheep was guenched.
In the case of Poindexter Edmundson,
who was to have been hanged for murder
Wednesday, at Broomfeld, Mo-, and whose
execution was deferred by order of the gov.
ernor till next August, there has been q avery
strange development, II appears that Il
half.witted brother of Edmundson murdered
William Shaw, and Poiudextcr allowed him
self to be convicted and sentenced for the
crime rather than his unfortunate brother,
The latter died a few days ago, and on his
death.bed gave crcumstanciaI account of
how and where he murdered Shaw.
The letter OF Gov. Emory of Utah to
the secretary of war, asking for an increase
of troops in the territory, has been referred
to General Sherman to inquire into the
matter and report upon the necessity of in
creasing the military force. General Crook
has not had an opportunity to inquire into
these Mormon troubles, but the letter will
probably be referred to him by General
sherman when he returns to this city. Gen
eral Crook will then go to tah for the pur'
nose of consulting with Governor Emory,
and if, in his opinion, any real necessity
exists for increasing the force, the additional
troops Will be ordered TO that territory.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-07
COnyicts Who Suffer Most.

The chaplain of Millbrook, London's
largest convict prison, says that the men
whose condition is the most pitiable
when they leave Jail are mercantile
clerks, post-office employees etc. In
competition with the crowds of reputa-
bic men eager for every employment, no
matter how small the remuneration,
they have little chance of obtaining en-
plovment of the kind to which they were
accustomed, and being unused to manual
labor they find themselves in position
which renders return to crime an al.
most overwhelming temptation. And
vet they are the most hopeful and re.
pentant class, and only dire necessity
eCmpels them in most cases to repeat
their ofenses. What is still more against
them, he says, is the fact that they have
little to expect from their friends. "The
Door, it cannot be denied, are far more
ready TO assist fallen relative than the
more well-to do members of society, and
in the present instance | might cite s
case in which an application | myself ad
dressed on behalf of discharged con
vict to his friends, persons of some posi-
ton in society, was not deemed worthy
of even formal acknowledgment"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-07
MISC ELLASEOUS.

United States Treasurer Wyman has
rendered his resignation on account of i'll
health, and accepted the position of assistant
treasurer. Gilfillan, assistant treasurer has
been appointed to succeed Mr.. Wyman.
Colonel Forbes, who succeeds Miss
Van Lew as postmaster at Richmond, Va, is
native OF Buckingham county, Va, and
took part in state politics before the war,
He has been register in bankruptcy since
1869, and is now about sixty years of age.
His appointment gives general satisfaction
in Richmond.
Commander Wm. Whitehead, of the
steamer Yantic, having decided to leave the
battery of that vessel at Capetown, south
Africa because of the unseaworthiness of
the Yantic, his action is fully approved by
the navy department. She is whiteoak
vessel, has been in constant service for the
past five years, and was reported unsea'
worthy year ago.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-07
Fast Young Men In New York.

This class of young men is steadily
augmenting in New York. They will
not labor in any way. 1t was enough
for their fathers to do that. The family
estate is large, and are they not entitled
to a share OF it? An allowance OF three
to five thousand year is reasonable
enough, is it not? They lounge at the
clubs, dine at DelmUnicos, stroll on
Fifth avenue, play billiards at the Wind.
sor. or some other high-tOned establish.
ment, drive now and then i'll the park,
occasionally patronize the opera, attend
fashionable parties, and make love to
Laura and Florence and Rosetta and all
the other graces, and at the end OF the
wear find their allowance all gone, and
themselves in debt as much more. AS
rule they are not actually dissipated, IN
the sense of being habitually intemperate,
but their wine bills are not small ones by
any means; and what they spent for
cigars would easily keep small family
in moderate comfort. r. III. Macy, the
Sixth avenue dry goods merchant, who
died in Paris few weeks ago, leaving
$500 600 to his family, cut off his only
son with an allowance of 81 600 year,
solely because the young man had grown
go reckless and incapable of taking care
Of money that it would have been ruin
ous To himself to give him more. 1t was
tor somewhat similar reason that Com
modore Vanderbilt lett his second son
5000 600 out of his immense estate. The
Nathan bows were also wild and extrava-
rant and gave their father good deal
of trouble in this way. 1t would be easy
to cite scores OF illustrations. but the
GENERAL fact is sufficient. The case OF
Wacv has been mentioned. Another of
our drv goods millionaires had SOD,
NOW dead. to whom he gave an excellent
educatiop. but who fell into habits of in.
temperance, married tightly young
woman, went abroad and died there in
poverty and obscurity. There was,
moreover, the case Of the wealthy and
aristocratic George Hoffman, whose son
became infatuated with a popular dan
seuse. followed her to Europe and mar
ried her, and died (trom fast living be-
fore he was twecty-one. The list might
be extended indefinitely, but TO make it
any longer is needless. ] may, however,
take space to notice the fact that reck-
lessness of the kind here in question
seems to be more common among the
sons of men who grew rich during the
war than among any others. Whether
this is to he accounted tor by the put
gar-on.horseback.and he will ride
to.the-devil" theory or not do not
pretend to say; but observation satisfies
me that there il good deal ot truth IN
it at any rate. Nearly all the rieh
mems sons are decidedly free in letting
the money fly, one way or another; ,h pI.
the sons OF those who coined their weaiIn tIn
nut of war contracts are unguestioIao,o
.head in this respect.-M J. o"r' Ha''-
oTd Ti,a<s
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FOItEIGR.

i terrible drought prevails in parts Of
Australia. Nearly every sheep station in
new South Wales has lost from one thousand
to five thousand head of sheep. The total
loss is estimated at over one million sheep,
A traveller writes that in riding seventy
miles not d blade OF grass appeared, where
in former seasons ilocks were accustomed to
roam.
There are now but two field marshals
in the British army, the Prince Of Wales
and the duke of Cambridge, commander.in'
chief.
Over nine thousand horses, six hun
dred and forty.three asses and thirtytive
mules were eaten in France last year. The
first horse abatt0ir was established in 1866,
and the consumption has since increased
yearly. A healthy carcass is worth forty
dollars.
Berlin had a population by the census
in February of l,OOO3O0. twenty-five years
ago it was the ninth city in Europe, and the
twcnty.seventh in the world. Now it is the
fourth city in Europe and the ninth in the
world.