Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-05-18
Bringing up a Worn Farm.


Prof. Kedsie, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, in an able address de-
livered before the Michigan Farmers
Institute, lately held, concludes as fol-
lows:
l believe the easiest and cheapest way
to bring up worn-down farm is by
green manuring. Suppose your farm is
too poor for clover, and grass makes only
feeble growth put on it a manurial
crop that will grow, such MS rye. Turn
this under with your plow, and you can
then raise something better. Keep feed
ing your soil with everything your shovel
and team can command-ashes-- lcached
ashes, if you can get them by drawing
them within Eve miles, muck, mari, any
thing that will bring green mantle over
fields. Soon as you can, set the clover
pumps at work, pumping to the surface
the inexhaustible resources Of your SUBJ
soil
If an animal dies, don't stop to bewail
your luck and exclaim, Everything has
gone to the dogs on my farm" Don't
send it to the dogs at all, but compost it
with muck, or even soil, and thus secure
most valuable manure. Sampson per-
formed wonder by taking honey from
tho dead carcass of lion. You can
Guido that wonder by extracting wheat
from the carcass of your dead COW. Pick
up all the bones you can find. put them
under cover, and mix with them two or
three times their bulk Of ashes from your
kitchen, moisten them with enough water
so that the potash may act on The gcla-
tine of the bones; stir them ever once
week, and in month or two you will
| find the bones so tender that YOU can
crush them with blow from your shovel
Beat the whole in powdcry mass, and
| you will have manure better than the
super phospbates which you feel too poor
to buy. Give handful Of this to each
hill of corn, aud sec how it will wave its
banner of green and pour into your
basket the. golden ears
SINGULAR GEOLOGICAL FACT. AT Mo-
dena, in Italy, within circle of four
miles around the city, whenever the
earth is dug and the workmen arrive at
the distance of sixty-three feet, they reach
a bed of chalk, which they bore with an
auger, five feet deep. They then with
draw from the pit boioro the auger is re-
moved, and upon its retraction the wator
bursts up with great violence, and quickly
fills the wells thus mada, the supply Of
water being neither affected by rain or
drought. At tho depth of fourteen feet
are found the ruins Of an ancient city,
houses, paved streets, and mason work.
Below this is layer Of earth, and at
twsnty-six feet walnut trees are found
entire, with leaves and walnuts upon
them. A twenty ght feet soft chalk is
found and below this vegetables aud trees,
and the remains Of another city.
There is more poetry in a really bcauti-
ful home-life than in the finest natural
scenery; but it lies too deep in the heart
for words to express. 1t is poetry that
is felt rather than spoken. A happy
home is poem that every one is helping
10 write, each for the enjoyment OF the
rest. by little deeds Of tenderness and
self-sacrifcc, which mean so much more
than words. The home-pocm is all tho
more delightful because it does not ask
or need admiration from anybody out
side. The poetry that people live in. Of
which they are part, and which is
part Of thom. is always the most salts
factory, because it is tho most real.
He sat alone in her fathers parlor,
waiting for the fair ones appearance the
other evening, when her little brother
came cautiously into the room, and, Gid
ing up to the young mans side, held out
handful Of something and earnestly in
CURED Il say, mister, what's them 7"
Those" replied tho young man, solomn-
ly taking up one 10 his fingers, chose
are beans" There p shouted tho boy
turning to his sister, who was just
coming in, II knew you lied, You said
he didn't know beans and be does, too !"
The young mans stay was not what you
may call a prolonged ono that evening.
A ciicus company on their way to
Australia, stopped to zee one Of the Fcjee
islands. While wandering about one Of
them turned somcrsault, aud tho native
spectators were astouished by the sight
Thereafter, the circus men, discerning
the opportunity for fun. varied their
walks by frequent somcrsaults and gro
tesquo contoriiong. all the time maintain
ing sober faces and the utmost gravity Of
demeanor Multitulcs followed them in
the belief they were missionaries, sent
to teach a religion in which somersaults
were a part Of the service.
A resident Of Worcester. Mass, re-
ceived recently through tho postofficc,
from Olympia, Washington Territory,
package, which contained large potato.
1t had been cut liz two and the inside
scoopcd out, and in the cavity were found
flowers and leaves, which, as he learned
by note previously received, had been
picked in garden in the opon air on tho
18th of December The dowers--pan-
sizes, geraniums aud otbers-were fresh
and bright, although their journey across
the continent had occupied fifteen days.
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KgEPrko HAMS. After the hams have
been smoked, take down and throughly
rub the flesh part With inolasses than
Immediately apply ground pepper by
spIinkling on as much rs will stick to
the molasses then hang up 10 dry
Hams treated in this manner will keep