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Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

CABBAeE.-Cabbage plants require
rich, moist soil and the application of
manure in large quantities pays well.
The Flat Dutch variety is the most gen.
orally grown for winter use, the plants
to be set from the Goth of June to the
middle of July, according to the climate.
Market gardeners usually grow cabbages
as IA second crop where they have grown
peas the same season. Set in rows three
feet apart in the rows. Two feet and
half apart each way mayN1o very we'll;
but it is not easy to run a cultivator
between them, at that distance, when
the cabbages are half or more grown.
Farmers who reside within ten miles of
a large town can make the growing of
cabbages profitable, as 10000 heads can
be grown on an acre of land, worth
usually $500. There are some drawbacks
to success, as not heading well, worms,
and the club-foot. Lime applied to the
soil around the plants is beneficial in
preventing the club-foot, and worms
may be destroyed 10y examining the
plants every morning, and if gnawed
leaves are seen, the worms to the plants
gnawed may be found just below the
surface of the soil near the stems of the
plants. Cabbages are also profitable to
grow to feed to cows in the fall till cold
weather sets in; at least such as are
loose and not well headed. The Agri-
cultural Chemist says: THE cabbage is
a potash plant; of this element ton of
heads would remove IL lbs, and of phos-
phoric acid but lbs. AS the average
crop in England is % tons, and as this
would not be an excessively large crop
in America, we may calculate that such
crop wUnld remove 264 lbs. of potash
and Ss lbs. of phosplioric acid, which
would be supplied in about 528 lbs. Of
muriate of potash of high grade, and
about 100 lbs. of an average superphos
phate.''
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

This composed the complete fertil-
izer." as applied to plot No. l. Here
are the general results with a crop of
oats:
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29
HINTS TO H0UsEKEEPERs.

RASPBERRY VINEGAR.-Masha quart
of raspberries with spoon in china
bowl: pour over it pint of vinegar of
the incest quality ;let il stand three days.
and stir it frequently. Pass it through
flannel bag, but do not press or squeeze
it in the least. Putap pound of loaf sugar
to pint of juice, boil it ten minutes,
skim well add glass of brandy when
cold, and then bottle and seal it.
BRANDY PEAcHEs.-Wipe off the
down of the skin with flannel cloth,
prick the fruit with a needle, put them
In cold water, and scald till quite tender,
| but not broken. Use half "a pound of
sugar to pound of peach clarity the
syrup as before directed, and, when
warm, add nearly the same measure of
white brandy. Put the peaches in jars,
and pour on thes yrup. The cling stones
are best for this purpose, se
TOMATO FIas..-Scald the tomatoes
and remove the skins. Allow half a
pound of sugar to pound of fruit, and
boil together until the sugar penetrates
the tomato. Then take out the tomato,
spread it in thin pieces on dishes, make
them quite fiat, and dry them in mod
crate stove oven. Roll them in sugar
occasionally, while drying. Pack them
in boxes on white paper sprinkled with
powdered sugar. Boil the syrup til
quite thick, and flavor with lemon an6
ginger keep it for future use. These arr
better made now, by the use of the Mod
ern.fruit drying Machines.
PINEAPPLE PREsERvE.-Have thu
!, piEe-apples as ripe rs you can get them
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

MANURE FOR TURNIPs.-Of all COM
mercial fertilizers superphosphate is the
best for turnips. That which is dis
solved in oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) is
best. Indeed, al! superphosphate is thus
dissolved, if not, it is merely phosphate
of bone meal. The dissolved article acts
upon vegetation Immediately, while the
crude bone meal will remain in the
ground several years before its virtue:
are exhausted heterogeneous fertilizers
as guano, sulphate of ammonia, and nj
trate of soda are not of much benefit tt
root crops.
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

MONEY IN SWEET CoRN.-An Ohio
farmer ''grows over 500 acres of this
crop annually. The drying house en-
ploys over SO persons. The fresh ears
are steamed five minutes to set the milk, ;
the grain is then cut off rapidly with
cutters having concave faces then
spread on perforated timetables, and
heat applied four or five hours from
long furnaces, stirring constantly then
packed in barrels of three bushels each
for shipment. Great care is required to
have the corn just at the right age, and
to have it dried just enough to keep well
Four bushels of corn on the cob make
one bushel dried-the wholesale price o.
which is 500 to 500 per barrel. At 81
bushels of corn per acre 500 acres would
yield $4,000 bushels and give over ZOO
barrels of dried corn, which, at $40 pc
barrel, would be $4,000"
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29
S25 for a Farm EvapoTator
OnIv SQ6,


Only $25.
They will work on amy stove, on any stove.
Warranted in every case 10 give satisfaction.
They pay their cost in 30 days drying of any
No connection with any other Fruit Evapor-
ator.
In presenting the boys AUTOMATIC EvAPoR-
AToR we have only to say in describing It that
it. consists simply of u series of Patent
Sieves so constructed as to form arerfect com
bination of Trays and Dry House, in one, with
our AUTOMATIC Hot AIR GOVERNOR beneath
the lower Sieve, which distributes me not ar
always working automatically by the action OF
the heated air, rising from the furnace. The
only invention of the kind on Earth.
No more "gluts'' in markets. or cutting down
trees because they don't pay. Every basket OF
peaches may now be harvested ut fair pront,
which are usually lost for want of means to
preserve them (dried), cheap and rapidly
enough to control the markets dpring the
It IS a weli.known fact that every pound of
nicely Evaporated Peaches can be sold every
year, and If cheap, practical Evaporators of
large capacity could be had at the proper
time, every peach farm could be made 10 pay
good income to the owners ,.,,..,,, ,,
A boy, Is years old, has recently invented ana
obtained Letters Patent for this new principle
in EvapoTators, doing away with ALL costly
machinery Mt one blow, and making com
piete Evaporation, overcoming all the difficulty
OF uneven drying, costly bindings, anu want
of capacity, so common in all other machines.
This Evaporatorwo rlSs automatically, giving
O perfect even circulation OF the heated air in
all parts of the EvapOrator. Til ONL1 HUI
AIR GOVERNOR IN EXISTENCE.
Sold only by our authorized Agents.
Down with high prices, slow, expensive and
| uneven Drying Machines.
Our three foot square Evaporation may be
| seen at all times at the Stove Store of William
Gray Il Company, Milford, Del.
| OUR PRICES
| Hereafter will be So per basket, per day ga
! hours J, for all sizes of EvapOrators; (peeled
peaches) counting full guaranteed capacity OF
| Evaporation for one day-thus 100 basket MA
chine, $500. This reduces the prices of our large
| Evaporators. Every Evaporutor guaranteed
| to give satisfaction in all respects.
INCLUDING STANDARD HEATER.
| AUTOMATIC FRUIT EVAPORATOR
COMPANY Limited,
II2 North Sixth ST., PhIIad eIphia.
d. N. VANZANDT, Gen. Agt. Lower Peninsula
GATTry p s; THOMPSON Local A AfI1 9dsh No,
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

costs but trihe to send them to the
district schools now everywhere estab-
lished; and see that they attend regular
ly, and that they learn their lessons.
No farmer living can afford to rear q
family Of children without fair school
education. But one of the best aids in
giving children general knowledge of
what exists in the world, and what is
transpiring therein are the newspapers.
and magazines of the day and you will
find it economy that pays well to sub
scribe for them literally, as no farmer
exists who has ever repented of laying
before his children generous supply Of
the best current news and literature Of
the times
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

In plot No. 2, "without nitrogen"
means that the sulphate of ammonia
was left out. In No. 8, without phos-
phoric acid means that the bone in the
superphosphate was omitted. Now,
note the singular results. When some
of these chemical fertilizers were omit
ted the crop was largely Increased; and
the plot. that contained mo manure"
Was larger than on plot Q, with nitrogen
only omitted. In regard to these re-
suits, Prof Atwater says: "Soils vary in
their needs of plant-food, and if we are
going to buy fertilizers to put on them,
we should select the ones that furnish
the needed materials rather than to pay
our money for ingredients that are not
needed. Phosphates and bone manures,
make up the larger part Of the CONNER
cial manuresinor ordinary use and they fur
nish varying, but generally small quanti-
ties of nitrogen, and little or no potash.
Their most important ingredients phos-
phoric acid: they all contain lime, of
which in the superphosphates, a consid-
cradle is in the form of sulphate. In a
vast number of cases they are just what
is wanted. But in the one described,
the phosphoric acid and sulphate of lime
did very little good. 1t certainly would
have been poor economy to buy phos-
pilates and bone manures for the land
and crops experimental on. Peruvian
guano which is rich in nitrogen, and
furnishes little potash, would have
been better, but large part of its value
is in phosphoric acid, which was moi
wanted, at least not for present use. Ol
course, after long cropping, the condi
lions might be changed. But most o.
us can not afford to store up large ex
cess Of costly material in our soils, to b.
drawn upon, perhaps, a decade or gen
Grafton hence, and perhaps, never. w
want our investments to bring the hes
return in the quickest time, and W
ought to try to apply such fertilizers a
will do this, and at the same time brin
the plant.food in the soil into equilit
rum with the needs of our crops.''
The Professor has correct view of til
case, as he admits that farmers mu:
themselves ascertain by experiments whs
their soils need. But then comes in I'll
difficulty that every field, according
its cropping, is different in its requir
ments; one field may lack potash, al
other nitrogen, and third phosphor
acid only; while a fourth may nee
them all.
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29
THE THOMAS
Patent Smoothing Harrow


This Harrow is acknowledged to be the best
rake harrow ever invented 1t is now in use in all
the best farming sections OF the country and is
entirely displacing all others.
IL does its work on the drawcut principle,
runs lighter, never clogs (no matter how much
grass or corn stalks may he on the land) and
does better work in every respect than any
other.
tits strongly constructed; frame of white oak
and teeth of warranted solid cast steel, and will
with care last many years. 1t is especially
recommended for narrowing III grass seed
and to run over Wheat, Oats and Rye, whom
ever n hard crust FORMS thereby increasingthe
yield of bo'h grain and straw. 1t is the best
machine in the world for narrowing corn UNI
til it is a foot high, breaking the ground deep
without covering or injuring the young plants.
The undersigned has taken the agency for
this vicinity chiefly with The view of introduc-
ing such valuable implement and will be
gladhto show il to all corners. Parties wishing
to see the harrow work can do so by calling at
the Farm of the undersigned.
GEORGE HoFF, Agent,
2-23tjan LINCOLN. DEL.
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

THE ECONOMY OF FARMERs.-Prob-
ably no class of people are compelled to
be more economical than farmers: but
in the end they enjoy life quite as well
as any other class Of citizens. A mer-
chant may dress better than a farmer
but could we read the anxieties of his
mind-how he is to support his family
in style-how he is to pay his notes at
the bank-how he is to collect doubtful
debts, and many other things, we should
decide that the farmer, with his new
suit of clothes once in three years, and
his plain style of living takes more real
enjoyment of life than the merchant or
professional man does. But farmers
should live within their incomes how
ever small they may be. 1t is not so
much in saving as in taking care of what
you have that most affects your incomes.
just think Of the reckless folly of leaving
4 farm wagon out exposed to the sun
and rain, winter and summer, as some
farmers do 1t does seem that such
farmers are partially demented. Not
only wagons, but AL kinds of farm i'm
plements are left out by many farmers
to be ruined by sun and rain. 1t is the
most important branch of economy tC
keep implements we'll painted, and under
cover when not in use. A rich farmer
may be able to afford to be careless il
this respect, but not the farmer of mod
crate means. Nor can farmers afford Il
use the old style, cumbrous farm tool
that do poor work, and require mucl
more time to do their work than tn
improved implements do and here ais
is economy in buying the best nipple
ments that exist, because "time is mon
ey," to say nothing of the superior man
ner in which the best implements d
their work, by which crops are increased
But in all of your efforts to economics
don't neglect to give your children
good common education. at least; as i
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29
Hundreds of Fancy Articles,

Paints, OILS, Glass, Picture, Frames, Periodi-
call s, all the New York ana Philadelphia
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29
AGRICULTURAL.
SCIENCE APPLIED mol FARMING.

Science, as that term Is generally APP
piled, has not effected for agriculture
what farmers have been led to expect;
and in stating wherein it has failed, we
claim that we confer greater benefit on
agriculturists than we could by urging
upon them the theories advanced by
those who claim that the failure of far
mers to grow large, profitable crops
every season is owing to their neglect to
follow the rules laid down by agricultur-
al chemists. We claim that no man
exists who can give formula of COM
mercial fertilizers for the different crops
grown with certain and Interchangeable
results in different localitities-that the
best formulas for fertilizers that can be
given are liable to fail as profitable in
vestments in perhaps half the cases
where applied. Professor Atwater, in
an article in the AgricaltariSt, gives the
result of the application ito one plot a
complete fertilizer, to another the same
with the omission of nitrogen, while
from third phosphoric acid, and from
fourth potash was omitted, and so on,
the last of the plots, seven in number
being left unmanured." That the read
er may understand this case more fully
we will add that the complete fertil
izer" was that known Prof. Villers'
which is extensively sold. 1t is said t.
be adapted to all crops, and is composed
of the following:
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

BUcKwHEAT.-No farmer can make
a mistake in sowing few acres of buck
wheat early in July-half bushel of
seed to the acre. Sow broadcast, and
harrow as for oats and other grain. If
you have piece of ground infested with
thistles or troublesome weeds, SOW buck
wheat on it, and a little thicker than
usual, and the Doxious weeds will be
smothered.
Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29

LIME FOR SLUes.-Pear trees may
now be expected to be infested with
slugs, which may be destroyed by sprink-
ling the trees with fine Stacked lime.
Put il in bag made of coarse, open
material, tie it to pole, and shake the
bag over the leaves Of the trees when
the dew is on them, or Immediately after
a rain.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-06
the Loss or the Steam.
er City OF San Francisco.

SAN Francisco, June ga court Of
inquiry, consisting OF the United States
inspectors of boilers and Hulls and H. B.
Williams, agent ofthe Pacific Mail Com.
pany, convened to-day, to investiuate the
loss Of the San Francisco. Capt. Wsd.
dell and First Officer Buell. were ex.
amined. The testimony showed but few
facts in addition to the previous reports.
At o'clock, one hour and eighteen min.
utes before the ship struck, the captain
obtained her position by solar observs.
tion and land marks, and the course
steered carried her four and a half to six
miles southwest of Tartar shoal;
tide was ebbing. The chronometers were
tested before leaving Panama. The Chi
nese crew acted we'll, considering that
they did not understand English, and
had TO be addressed through an inter-
prefer. The captain thought they were
inferior to the white men, and should not
be employed as q crew. Mr.. Buell. the
first officer, Joined the captain on the
bridge at 9 o'clock; saw the water break.
ing about two points on the starbosrd
bow, apparently not connected with the
line OF breakers running to land as there
was smooth water inside; knew about the
ships position at o'clock that morning,
but not exactly; the second officer took
the observation that morning. The testi-
mony as to handling the vessel after
striking for landing the people was the
same as previously reported. One of the
steerage passengers, now in the city, re
iterates the previously stated remarks of
the behavior and want of discipline to
the Chinese in contradiction of the other
statements published.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-06
Mount Carmel Disaster.

CINCISsATI, June 5.-Mount Carmel,
Illinois, which was struck by tornado
last evening, Is thriving town Of about
1000 inhabitants on the Cairo and VIM
Genes railroad. The most prominent
buildings destroyed by the hurricane
were the court house, two newspaper
offices, three churches, one Of them the
fnest church in Southern ILLINOIS,
two school houses and about twenty bun
ness houses, and 100 residences were des-
troyed or damaged either by the wind or
FIRE. The loss IL estimated At from
$500 900 TO $4,000. The same storm
damaged number Of buildings in other
towns lying in its pathway. At Nation,
Illinois, the residence OF Wins WaIkup
was thrown into the street and turned
bottom side up, wounding Mr.. Walkup
seriously.
CIsCIsSATI, June 5.-The CONNER.
eiaL has the following account Of the dis
aster at Mt. Carmel, Ills: A terrible
Io-nsdo passed over the town about $50 P.
". 1t struck the town a. the south emo
OF Cherry street, pa.sec almost due north,
taking in about one square Q ST and west,
destroying sIm0.t everything in its
course. twenty-five dead bodies have
been found thus far: George WstkiDs,
William NeSkIrk, George Brien, s.
Goodrich, Frederick Goeke, J. Master
sons. child, John Tennis, Mrs. Barton,
John A. Edgar, Charles Norman. Benz.
Ballard, George Moore, William Wal
Ter, John Long, James Higbee, Miss
S.ockmieh, james Reel, Mrs. Dolpbdyer,
Lsihrop, d. LsBsur and &. l.
Poole.
The damage 70 property il esti-
mated a. 10000. The fire wss finally
subdued, after SIX hours steady work by
the fremen. Many were wounded whose
nance cannot now be given. The loss
of life canno. cow be estimated, ~ &
number Of farmers were IN from the
country. whose teams were scattered
among the debris. Physician. were
Brought from the sdjoit ing towns BY
SPECIAL trains, 70 assist and care for the
wounded.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-06
STATE NEWS.

THr Barbour county Jail has no occu'
pants. .ss E.brS SaEv ( 81.
The Pendleton wooden mills are in full
operation.
CHARLEsToN is giving out door moon.
light festivals.
FRIDAY, June 1st, the Putnam County
Democrat entered upon its second year.
JACKSON county has about thirty new
cases tor the consideration OF the County
Court.
BUcKHANNoN is making arrangements
to have an old fashioned Fourth of July
celebration.
The Wayne ADVOCATE has suspended
for few weeks on account of small. pox
in the family of the editor.
SHArFER and Bits, two horse thieves
of Barbour county, have been placed in
the penitentisry ut Moundsville.
FRANK BARRETT, founder ofthe Put.
nam County Democrat, has been elected
Mayor OF Winfield on thirty .tour votes.
The Pendleton Nesos says: We tried
last week to give some reasons why the
citizens of The South Branch valley
should support Clarksburg for the seat Of
government. r.. :
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-06
Indian Fight,

CHICAGO, June 5.-The following hes
been received here, dated headquarters
Yellowstone command in camp on Tongue
river, Wyoming Territory, May 10Th,
1877. On the 7th inst the hostile Sioux
camp of $40 lodges under Lame Deer,
was surprised, captured and destroyed
Four hundred and fifty horses, mules
and ponies were captured and fourteen
Indians lett dead on the field, including
the principal chief and head warrior,
Iron Star.
Our loss IN killed were privates Chas.
A. Martindale and Frank Glockowsky,
company F, Second cavalry; privates
Peter Lewis and Charles Springer, COM
psny Ii, Second cavalry. The wounded
are: Lieut.. A. M. Fnller, Second cavalry,
right shoulder; private Samuel Fryer,
company F, Second cavalry, right arm;
private VIM. Osmer, company F, Second
cavalry, right hand; private Andrew
Jefferson, company G, Second cavalry, in
scalp; private Pat Ryan, company e, Sec
ond cavalry, lest arm; private Thos. b.
Gilmore, company II, Second cavalry,
neck; Private Fred Milks, company l.
and Second Cavalry, lett hand; and Pri-
vste VIM. Leonard, company L, Second
Cavalry.
[Signed] NELSON A. MILES,
Colonel Commanding.
This is the first intelligence OF the bat
tie received at the military headquarters
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-06
south Carolina Leg islature.

COLUMBIA, S. O., June 5.-The con-
ference committee on the appropriation
bill have agreed as follows: That tax
of seven mills be leyied to pay (a) the cur
rent expenses of the government, (6) the
interest on the consolidated debt, and (c)
other valid Indebtedness OF the state after
being Investigated by committee OF
three members Of the Senate and four
members of the House, their report to be
ratified at the next session and de6cien-
ciee, if any, to be me. by loan Of $780,
600, to be effected by the Governor. The
result OF the conference will be submit
ted to the General Assembly tonight or
to.morr ow morning, and will be adopted.