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The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17

Saturday morning while playing in a swing,
a daughter of Mr.. Edward Lawrence of Pitts
ton, aged five years, fell over backwards and
struck on the back OF her head. Sa nday she
was seized with vomiting, and medical aid at
once summoned, but she died at eight that
evening, from confusion Of the brain received
by the fall.
.PENoBscoTICoUNTY.
The run of salmon in the PenObseot is lessen
ing, and now there are but few in the market.
Those caught at present do not average over II
to Is pounds. This year has been real bo-
nanza to the fishermen, the salmon fishery
having brought large sums of money to that
section.
An epileptic pauper OF the name of Kimhall
was badly Injured by an officer of the town of
VIM lately. The matter is in the hands OF
lawyers, bat it is said that it will be settled by
indemnity.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
The Observer says there have been brought
to and shipped from Guilford depot since last
September not far from 10000 bushels OF pota-
toes which cost upwards OF S5z'oUo'
sAGADAHoo COUNTY.
A Bath doctor has book printed in 1888,
and a collection of manuscript sermons writ
ten sometime in 100.
WALDO COUNTY.
Friday horse belonging to Dr. Il. Manter
of Winterport was ruined while at work on
two-horse moving machine by the pole strap
giving way, which let the horse back among
the knives.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
While riding on load Of coal Monday Jos
eph, son Of S. Whittier, OF East Machias, got
his hand caught in some part of the cart, and
before it could be removed, took the flesh al
most entirely of from one of his fingers.
YORK COUNTY.
Some rascal stove window 10, and bored
hole through the bottom OF the sail boat Lady
Waldo" at Kittery, and rewrrd of SlOO is
offered for Information that will lead to his
conviction.
fred broke into the Congregational church to
ring the bell. The authorities had him arrest
ed and fined.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17

While riding on load Of coal Monday, Jos
eph, son of j. S. Whittier, OF East Machias, got
his hand caught in some part of the cart, and
most entirely of from one of his fingers.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17

NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
~ been duly appointed and taken upon himself
the trust of Administrator of the estate of
JOHN d. LINCOLN, late of Brunswick,
in the County OF Cumberland, deceased, and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons having de-
demands upon the estate of said deceased, are re-
CURED to exhibit the same; and all persons indebted
10 sad estate are called upon to make payment to
CHARLES S. d. FESSENDEN Admir-,
of DeeriDg.
Brunswick June, 10, 1877. ie22d1aw3wS*
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
THE PR ESS
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY IL.
TEIE PRESS

May be obtained at the Periodical Depots OF res
sender Bros, MARQUIS, Brunei q Co., Andrews,
wentworth, Moses, N. b. Kendrick, ana Onlsholm
Bros, on all trains that run out OF the city,
At Saco, of T. Hodgdon and II. B. Kendrick.
AT Wateryille of J. 5. Carter
AT Bath of j. o. Shaw.
AT Lewiston, of French Bros, and Stevens Il Co
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17

The scythe business at West Waterville is
about closed for the season, and large BUSH
ness has been done. The Hubbard & Blake
Manufacturing Co. are to make some addi-
tions to their scythe machinery, it being the
object to make their scythes with less labor and
at less expense.
Saturday. while at play, little son of Jas.
Colgan, living on the east side of the river at
Augusta, chopped off the two first fingers OF
the right hand of a playmate.
Thursday night the house of Mr. G. 81. Da-
Wis of Sidney was entered by burglars. Some
one cut the screen, entered his sleeping room
and took $75 in cash from Mr. Davis pocket,
and escaped.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
TEMPLARs OF HONOR.

Al Temptars' Hall, No. 100 Exchange Street.
CoUNcIL-Maine, first and third Monday in each
month.
TEMPLE-Forest City, No. 1, every Wednesday
evening"
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
STATE NEWS
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
HANCOCK COUNTY.

The Lewiston mills shipped 1886 cases of
goods the past week and, received $40 bales and
bags of cotton.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
KENNEBEO COUNTY.

Brig Helen c. Holmes, which arrived in Boz
ton Sunday from Smyrna, reports that on tb
outward passage Feb. 18th, mate CHARLES K
Waters OF Deer Island, was lost overheard.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17

Friday horse belonging to DR.. E. Manter
of Winterport was ruined while at work on a
two-horse moving machine by the pole strap
giving way, which let the horse back among
the knives
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.
Arrival and Deuarture of Mails.

Once Hours.
From 7.30 m to $50 m, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 m.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
PENoBscoTIcoUNrY.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
COUNTY

The Observer saws there have been brought
to and shipped from Guilford depot since last
September not far from 49, 900 bushels OF pota-
toes which cost upwards of $32 000
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
WALDO COUNTY.

A Bath doctor has book printed in 1858,
and collection of manuscript sermons writ
ten sometime in 1900
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
Rotation of Crops.-ClOyer.

A correspondent writes to the Secre-
tary of the Elmira Farmers Club, in re-
ply to question in regard to rotation
of crops with clover, and the interesting
discussion in the Club on the question
1T seems to me that it is problem
somewhat difficult to solve, as there is
much difference in the localities affect.
ING the raising of clover. In some places
it grows almost spontaneously and in
others it is very difficult to raise it, We
think, however, that it does best in our
clay soils, and we are beginning to look
at the propriety of being more syste-
matte in our methods Of growing it.
:" In the discussion sometime since the
question was, clover or timothy? |
have, for some years, noted the differ
ence between the two, and have nc
doubt but crop of Timothy will ex-
haust land as much as a crop Of wheat
whereas clover will enrich the soil in
which it is grown. Why? Because tim
othy draws its entire nourishment from
the soil, while clover obtains almost one
half of its sustenancc from the atmos-
phere. One difficulty with most of us
is that we allow our clover fields to run
too long before we pillow them up. Now
were to suggest method | would say
NOW the clover early the first year, and
cut crop Of seed, and NOV again early
the next season, let the second crop of
clover grow until the first of August
then turn it under as perfectly as posi-.
bic Roll it, harrow and cultivate it
thoroughly and SOW it with wheat, and
my opinion is that it will do better than
summer fallow. My reason is the soil
is much lighter By the decay of the
clover roots wheat gets a good start IN
the fall, and when summer comes and
the dry weather we generally have just
before wheat fills, the roots get down to
the moist, decayed clover turned under,
and the heads fill out beautifully, and
the wheat will be very heavy. If you
wish to plant with corn there is no bet
ter field for that purpose than good
clover sod turned under. Follow your
corn with barley, then with wheat and
seed with clover, Try this method with
one field and another with timothy;
give each field the same quantity of fer
tilizers for ten years and see which field
will be in the best condition With such
a rotation.of crops ourland will improve
with a crop every year, instead of losing
one year in four or five for fallow-
ing
PRESIDENT HoFFMAN.-Does it strike
any of the members that he takes off a
great deal of the clover? Would it not
be better to leave more? | should say
after taking two crops it would be much
better to pasture, thus putting directly
back to the land all that grows after the
first years cutting. By this means he
would be sure of enriching the soil more
rapidly, and | have no doubt he would
find the course attended by better re-
suits. -Uusbandnton.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
Agricultural Items.

The corn crop of Kansas is estimated
at over one hundred million bushels.
The flax mills at Knightstown, Ind,
use 10000 tons of flax straw weekly.
Frank p. Nelson, of Putnam county,
Ind, sold $4,000 worth of cattle not
long since.
Georgia has marketed first bale of
new crop cotton. 1t was received at
Macon.
The standard weight now generally
accepted as the practical measure for a
quart of milk is 2.15 pounds.
The Portage (Wis.) Register estimates
that Columbia county farmers have
raised million bushels of wheat and
oats.
At the Union stock yards, Chicago,
may be seen an Attorney bull, buffalo
COW, and heifer calf, the latter the
product of the twO-frst named.
The silk crop of France for the past
year, it is estimated, will be more than
three times as great as that of last year,
when it was generally failure.
The Louisiana planters annually lose
about one-third of their cotton crops by
reason of insufficiency OF labor. They
call loudly for laborers from the North
ern States.
The recently organized insurance as
ISOLATION of the Cayuga county, New
York, grange has already received appli-
cations for insurance to the amount OF
$133,00O.
A French agricultural journal reports
the prospects OF the wine crop i'll Bur-
gundy and on the banks of the Loire
from its rise to it's mouth as unusually
promising.
1t is estimated that the counties of
Madison Montgomery, Clark, Scott,
Bourbon, Fayette and Woodford, KY,
will furnish this year 81, 600 head OF fat
cattle, valued at $3,O0O,OOO.
The best protection against the tur-
nip fly is thick sowing. Don't spare the
seed, after having obtained the best
Some bush the seed in, some run a
light harrow over it, but we should pre-
fer light roller
A Providence druggist has killed his
man and there is no reason now why he
should not be admitted to all the honors
Of the medical profession.
German novelists are obliged to be
careful what they make their characters
say Guido Walsh was imprisoned three
months for saying something offensive
to royalty.
A Paulding, Cal, farmer, having cat
tie trespassing upon his grain fields, and
to rid himself of the nuisance, posted
up the following: Motifs Fanny mans
or woman's cows or oxen gifts in these
here otes his or her tale will be cut off
as the cass may be- | am a Christian
and pay mi taxes, but blast a man who
| lets his critters run luse, say |.
A copy Of the Shetland Times Of July
IA is sent us, stating that Mr.. Robert
Reesor, of Markham, Canada, shipped
from that port on the 18th ult., by the
steamer St. Clare, one hundred pure
bred Shetland ponies, considered to be
the best and handsomest lot OF ponies
that ever left the Shetland islands"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
The Difference between Milk and Meat.

Suppose we take thrifty steer, thir-
ty months old, weighing 1000 pounds,
and place him in an excellent pasture,
and a fresh mich COW, also weighing
1000 pounds, and place her in the same
pasture. They are both kept there
through the season, the eer gaining in
live weight $50 pounds, the COW yielding
in milk 1000 pounds.
The $50 pounds of live weight on the
steer is composed of at least sixty per
cent. Of water and forty per cent Of SOL
id matter, or 40 pounds of solid sub
stance gained by the steer; while milk
is composed Of eighty-seven per cent.
water, and thirteen per cent. solid sub
stance, making 500 pounds of solid sub
stance contained in the milk produced
by the cow from her food, to 40 pounds
produced by the steer.
A good COW will make 200 pounds of
butter in a season, and the skim-milk,
fed to thrifty pigs, will grow 200 pounds
Of dressed pork; or the same skim milk,
fed to calf, will put ON at least 200
pounds of live weight A good steer,
fed in the ordinary way, will dress 800
to 1000 pounds at four years, having
grown, on the average, 200 to $50 pounds
of meat each year, whereas the COW has
made 200 pounds Of butter, and the re-
fuse Of her milk has prodrced nearly as
much meat in pork or growth of young
beef in the calf as the average growth
of steer for year. Or by another
mode of illustrating it, if we compare
milk with the average composition of
lean beef and fat beef, we find the beef
to contain forty-six per &c 1t. of dry
substance, including the mineral matter
or ash, and milk to contain thirteen per
cent. Thus three and one-half pounds
of milk are equal to one pound Of meat;
and only estimate COW to give 4, 900
pounds of milk in a year, this would
make the cows product in milk equal,
in food value, to 1000 pounds of meat,
and this 1,OC0 pounds of meat would re-
quire steer, under ordinary feeding,
four years to produce, so that the COW
produces as much return from her food
in one year as steer in four.-Joseph
Harris, IN the Cultirator.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

The burning of straw at threshing
time, says the Rmol World, is waste
and a sin 1t is generally practiced
hereabout in the wheat districts Prop
erly ricked up, with very little winter
pasturage, it will carry cattle through
the winter in this climate in fine order
1t will pay any farmer to buy young
cattle and let them feed upon this straw
through the winter. He can't invest his
money so well in scarcely anything else.
Much manure is thus made and saved
The fertility of the soil is thus kept up
The cattle can be sold in spring at a
large advance, or pastured and sold dur
ing the summer, or kept over another
winter in the same way, with a little ad-
ditional feed, and then turned off in the
spring for beef.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
A New Export.

Many attempts have been hitherto
made to keep butter during hot weather,
put have been unsuccessful by reason of
the well-known and peculiar sensitive
ness of the article to either heat or cold
thus making it exceedingly difficult to
keep it at a uniform temperature OF
about 40 to 45 by the common appliance
the cellar The trade, however, has
grown to considerable Importance. The
Economist says that the receipts in New
York were II ,554 $40 pounds, represent
ing at an average price of 20 cents, 3d.
51O924; of this, 10,5O4:44 pounds were
exported, equal to $2,0Sl,0S6 value.
This growing trade particularly the
growing export trade-has produced
such demOnd for improved facilities
for keeping that special refrigerators on
large scale have been devised and con
structed In one of these, which holds
200 tons of ice, and is to be filled only
once for the season, the construction is
similar to that of the ordinary ice house
except that flue at the top admits and
carries over the ice warm air from the
outside which, after being thus cooled,
is passed over the contents below, and
ventilating contrivances keep the air
pure and dry. Another and larger store
house has three lofts 65 by 224 feet,
used for the purpose, 300 tons of ice and
1900 barrels Of sawdust being used.
The storage capacity of this receptacle
is 5000 firkins or 10000 tubs of butter,
or $500 barrels of eggs, and the dryness
is so perfect that wet cloth left in the
room over night is dry by morning from
evaporation 1t will be noticed that the
features which make these unlike the
ordinary refrigerator or ice-house lex.
cept as to their size) are the dryness and
uniformity of temperature, which is Sc
cured by ventilation and circulation,
and is capable of being regulated. In
the ordinary household refrigerator, the
ice and the contents are tightly shut up
together, the only opening being one to
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

We never could see what vice or de-
formity lay in horses eye that should
make it necessary to cover it up and
shut out it's owner from at least two
thirds of his rightful field of vision
The poets say that old age looks back
ward, but we never heard Of such an i'd
iosyncrasy charged upon horses. The
theory that a horse is less apt to be
frightened when shut out from every
thing behind him we suspect to be fall
lacy, else saddle-horses and warehouses
would be duly blinded. Every horse is
as familiar with his own carriage as with
his own tail, and as far as his own per
sonal' fortitude is concerned, is no more
disturbed at being pursued by one than
another As for other scarecrows that
come behind, they are mostly familiar
to the animal, and the more fully the
horse can perceive them the more quiet
ly does he submit to their approach
Then it is such a pity to cover up one OF
the most brilliant features of this most
brilliant creature. The horse has borne
such hand in the civilization of this
rough and tumble world that it seems
not so much cruelty as discourtesy
as well as disgrace to hide his form
with embarrassing toggery. No wonder
we estimate the force in the world as
horse power; no wonder the Romans and
Germans, each in their own language,
designated their aristocracy as riders;
no wonder their descendants made chiv-
airy a synonym for their highest virtues.
Let the horse be given his due, and I'M
blinded. -English Journal.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

some years ago, in his covered wagon,
drawn by single yoke of oxen. One
of these died on the 'ray, and being I'M
able to proceed on account of it, he de-
termined to 60 INTO stock raising, then
and there. A branding iron was ac-
cordingly procured, the remaining OK
branded and turned out, and so prolific
did he prove with the aid of the iron)
that in few years that individual had
a large and rapidly increasing herd of
cattle, unpromising as his start might
have been to the uninitiated. Not only
branding unbranded cattle belonging to
others, but mutilating and altering al
ready existing brands, is yet practiced
to some extent in different parts of the
State For example, several thousand
head bearing the brand H. |. c. were in
one case driven off in southwestern
Texas by person whose brand was II
l. G.; the G being changed to G he was
enabled to hold them, although they re-
turned to their old ranch and were rec
ognized by their rightful owner, but it
could not be proven that the brand had
been altered, as the new completely
covered up the old.
These are few Of the features that
will step in to mar the beauty of what
appears at a distance a business attend
ed with so much pleasure as we'll as
profit,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
Grange DIRECTORY,

PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No 443-Meets
at the Sheridan ScnOol House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moOn each month";
A. WROTEN, Secy.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 1855. = Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon of each month.
S. G. PIERCE, Master.
S. w. RICH, Sec'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 1216.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. D. RUSSELL, Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. 811.-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full MOON at
Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master.
+. B. SCHEMERHORN, Sec'y.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 52S.-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
b. DUBOIS, Master
E. J. WIGG, Sec'v.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon at No. School
House, HazletOn Township.
T. MESSENGER, Master.
G. M. MILLER, Sec'y.
DYON GRANGE, No. 267.-Meets at Justus
Durkee's, on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
e. GLEASON, Master.
FRANK Fox, Sec'y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

permit the escape Of water while pre-
venting the ingress Of air; the idea Of
these refrigerators- which are said to
be able to keep butter for any time de-
sired at the uniform temperature Of Al,
and without the slightest deterioration
even in favor-is to secure dryness and
the control Of the temperature by hav-
ing an inflow Of air subject to regulation.
The success Of the experiment is an in
teresting illustration of American in
genuity and readiness to meet the con-
ditions Of trade, as well as being, like
the fresh meat trade, the beginning Of
an export business, new in it's extent
and the manner of working it, even if
not new in it's nature.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
FOREIGN ADS.
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