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National Republican., 1878-06-26
NEW OnIrANs Lnnc -. ls-s.

NEW DklfANs, June u, lFib,
This i 10 certify that we have this day paid a
check Of the Louisiana state Lottery tOmpHuy for
The sum Of one Hundred Thousand Dollars, in
ticket of the drawing Of June II, ls7s which drew
pe capital prise Of that amount A. LURIA,
Cashier Louisiana National Bank
OF New Orleans
National Republican., 1878-06-26
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Final Meeting Of the Present Board
of Trustees.

All the Members In Attendance-A Call for
Higher Salaries from Principais-A High
School mended-Nominations
OF Teachers for the Coming Year
Retention OF the Old Teachers
Resolution of Thanks to ths
District Commissioners.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

The Potomac Fruit Growers II will be seen, In
lend 10 make its July meeting a rural one, the
needing Mount Vernon Springs ior the aceommO-
dalton Of the attendants.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

For upward Of thirty years Mrs, WinsOw's
soothing syrup has been used for children. II cor.
reefs acidlty Of the stomach, relieves wind collie
regulates the bowels, cures dyscntcTy aud diar-
An old and well tried remedy. % cents bottle
National Republican., 1878-06-26
United in WetlloclS.

The clerk of the court has issued marriage
licenses to the following applicants:
Martin Hellmuth and Annie Smith, Of Alex.
andria, Va.
j. ID. s. Hall, of Annapolis, Nd, and Mary
C. Bond, Of this city.
Frank Gilbert, of Montgomery County, and
Isabella Deter. of Prince Georges County,
Md.
National Republican., 1878-06-26
VEGETINE
FOR ALL LADIES WHO ARE SUF-
FERERS.

CISCISSArI, ONO, March %, 1877
Mr.. STEVENS
Dtdr Sir: have taken several bottieI OF yovr Veg.
etine for Fndls Weakness and In justice to the msd
cine, and TO all ladies who sufferers from such
complaints, Will recommend the NCgrtinr must
say has helped me very much; indeed, 1t invalu.
bic for such complaints. -
MARY T. MEREDITH
100 Eastern avenue.
FEMALE WEAKSE3S.-VEiErIN acts d.
rectly upon the OF these complaints. II invig
orhtes and strengthens the whole system. acts upon
the secretIye orgnIs. nllnyS Inflammation, cieanses
aud cures liberation cures constipation, regulates the
bowels headache and pains In the hack cease; In ct
there Il no disc Use or complaint where the NEGE
curs as IN what Is termed Female Weakuess. II has
never failed In one Instance.
National Republican., 1878-06-26
aHH. H
Indications

Indications
For Wednesday in the South and Middle Atlantic
statcs stationary barometer, slightly warmer, clear
weather, aud westerly winds will prevail.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

Bsuncient.
The NEW "wHITE" SEWING MACHISE,
roomy, light.running, quiet also the New Home"
the Domestic, the American. the Singer, the Howe,
and In fnct everything In the sewinG-mGchimc line
at J. Y. McKcnney ~ Ninth street northwest
Renting and repairing speciality.
REDUCED rates to parties remaining ono week or
longer. Season lsIsopens June Is. Stockton Hotel
Cape May, \. J. tNOTE.-We take great pleasure IN
Informing, our patrons that new passe!ger elevN.
added TO the hotel.l CHARLIE bury
(of Continental Hotel, Philadelphia
Proprietor and General Manager
YouSd PEOPLE do pay attention to your teeth
neglect VIII soon ruin them. he wise In time.
ToorH POWDER, the most perfect dentrihce known.
il will keep them through life In good condition.
SnS snfb ana sGTmH' H sn WIN haTGe Inc gums sTcesn
druggists. 70 and 30 cents per bottle.
ERs are still the best known. Their curative pow.
ers far hurpaSs all others.
HARD times demand economy; practice II by
rcnoyuting your soiled gloves with JoUvES's ISo-
nERous KID GLOVE CLEANSER. Price rs cents per
bottle.
ARE you bilious. troubled with headache dizzy
ness, sick stomach constipation, &c? Are you dys.
exerton. Is your life miserable? You require u
change Cleanse the system, purify and renew the
blood. Take Qu!RKs lnIsH TIA, the great mouse.
hold remedy. 1t will soon relieve YOU Sold by oil
druggists, 25 cents per package, which makes a
quart Of medicine.
Is your hair harsh. dry and stNY Does IT refuse
TO curl? Dress II with iHoNPsoS's ! oNADE OPrINE.
An olcaginOus compound Of singular merit. 1t
viii improve 1t. Sold BY druggists. &c. Price IS
and 20 cents per bottle
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
Interest paid oil deposits. Special rates on time
deposits J. II. sQUIEG 4 Co.
Bankers lil6 Pennsylvania avenue.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

CITY ITFMS,

HEALTH-thc poor man, riches the rich mans
blss-is found In Ayers Medicines after fruitlcss
search among other remedies. A word 10 the wise
Is sufficient.
National Republican., 1878-06-26
SCHOoLs EOR COOKING.

ElsEMAS BROTHERS. corner seventh and stree
Headquarters for flannel suits.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

s5 pants to order variety of patterns to suit the
most stidious taste. Eiselnan Bros corner Seventh
and + streets.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

Our 81 white VGsts the success Of the season.
Eiscmun Bros, seventh and L streets.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

HARD times demand economy; practice II by
Tcnoynting your suiled gloves with JOUvES's ISo-
nERous KID GLOVE CLEANSER. Price Is cents per
bottle.
National Republican., 1878-06-26

WELLS MACHlSE-SPREAD STRENGTHENING PLAsr.
ERs are still the best known. Their curative pow
ers far kurpass all others
National Republican., 1878-06-26

ST. VINCENT School, TRoy, n. Y.
October ), ISL.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
How we can Improve our
Poor Farms.

Messrs. Editors american Farmer:
Your correspondent "B," in
April number of the Farmer, Just
ly remarks, that most remedies
suggested for the improvement of
poor farms are made with the sup
position that farmers have the
available means to accomplish the
difficult task. But the fact is, that
those most in need of improving
their WORKOUT lands, are mostly
also poor in purse and credit. For
this class of farmers we would make
the following suggestions: AL
though destitute of credit in its
more expanded sense, still an hon
est poor farmer may reasonably be
expected to be able to borrow $50.
if he can command that sum him
self. With hat money he can buy
say so head of ews from ? to ; wears
old, or, still better, buy 20 ewes
and a good Merino buck. This
stock, if penned every night. will
manure three acres of land per an
aum./
If the manuring is done gradual
" the land can be made to produce
a wonderful amount of soiling ma
terlal, such as corn, peas, oats. rye.
etc. The soiling feed produced
during the year Will soil six head of
cattle. Let these be mich cows.
and each will produce during the
summer, at very lowest calculation
surprising the stock to be natives
-150 pounds of butter at 25 cents
per pound=s31. 50-total 1925, al
lowing the skim milk and manure
for labor and interest on capital
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20

From the report of the ComIs-
.ioner Of agriculture for 1876, we
learn that North Carolina IN that
wear produced 100000 bales of cot
on. COG. 900 acres We're planted,
making the average of 1870 acres
to each bale. or more than one-thlrd
of "A bale to the ere. This aver
age exceeds that of Georgia. Florl-
da, South Carolina and even III
Alabama. The average yield per
acre of the last named State is less
than one-third Of u bale. or three
and %one-fourth acre 10 make a
bale.
Mississippi produces the most
cotton, the yield being 100000
bales. Texas ONE next with
G90, 600. Florida produces 10000
bales with an average of less than
one fourth bale per err.
Total yield of the cotton States
3,43S,0 600 bales.
The average WELD for North Car
DINA is verv fair. but we remem-
Der that cotton culture with us is IA
forced one: and could never be
profitable without the aid of eXpen-
sive fertilizers. If the present low
prices continue, cur State will
speedily become grain growing, as
II farmers will be compelled to
abandon the cultivation of cotton.
$4,000 bales at S45 per bale will
make the amount of S9.4jO. COO,
vet it Will astOnish our farmers to
know that it costs that enormous
amount to raise the cotton. The
constant drain for money to pay
for supplies is fast depicting us Of
capital, and unless we pay atten-
ton to grain culture in a few years
we will be irretrievably ruined.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
Chemical VS. Animal ManureS

For the successful cultivation 0
garden vegetables, the use of chem
icals and minerals is much better
adapted than that of animal eXcre-
ments or stable to supply
in sufficient abundance and in the
most available form those necessary
constituents found wanting in soils,
are distracted slowly from those
long under cultivation by success
sive crops. There is a marked diff
ference to be observed between
vegetables grown upon soil where
chemicals, and minerals are used
and those where stable manure is
employed, the former being less
watery, more solid, Of better quail
ity, texture and flavor. Pigs dung
is characterized by an exceedingly
unpleasant odor; which, when APP
piled to the land, it imparts to the
crops, and especially to the root
crops which I MANFRED with it.;
even tobacco, when MANFRED with
pigs dung, is SO much tainted that
the leaves subsequently collected
are unfit for smoking.
Sickness, resembling typhoid fe-
yer, has been caused by horses and
cattle, pastured on land where sew
age was used, and may not vegeta-
bles, grown in soil where effete
matter is Used, be one reason for
the prevalence of this disease =? If
SO it is at once prevented by re-
moving Of the cause; while by the
necessary chemicals and minerals,
adapted to the various crops, no
loss is sustained by the market gar.
dens; rather are they helped to a
strong and more vigorous produc-
%uucing capacity of large and better
crops, and at a less cost than the
use Of stable entails.
Pastures, a portion being dress
ed with barn manure, and a por-
ton with chemicals and minerals
and some left undressed, and cat
tie turned in, they will seek the
portion dressed with chemicals to
the exclusion of the other parts,
that portion dressed with barn ma
nure being entirely neglected. Ami
mails are subject to all the dangers
which affect the health Of human
beings; thus, disease among cattle
may spread, unchecked, through
an extensive district, from one
seed-bed of pestilence and conta-
gion, as we have seen in pastures
on which cattle from Texas had
keen kept. The dreadful disease,
diphtheria, springs from the growth
of "a nauseous fungi caused by Of
fenslve surrounding, a defective
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20

invested. The second wear these
three acres planted with corn Will
produce 10 bushels In the acre more
than otherwise: and If followed by
oats the third year Will yield %
bushels to the acre. After the oats
have been harvested III May. "a crop
Of new peas can be >own for turn
ing under rs manure. turned
under in August, seed the land. al
ter preparing it finely. with red
clover To be cut for hay once IN the
fourth yea the after math be al
lowed TO remain on the ground.
This aftermath plowed under IN
September, and the land allowed
TO settle until the last days of the
moath. SOW wheat. In the NTH
wear. after the wheat has been har-
vested, SOW peas TO be plowed IN,
and in the latter part of September
SOW turnips. which during the WIN
ter Will give a most valuable feed
for mich COWS and such sheep rs
have been culled and fattened for
for the market. Sixth Year com
mence again with corn, and follow
the above or Il similar rotation.
Meanwhile the flock Of sheep
brings the first year about %
pounds of wool at % cents per
pound=S3S. -; IS lambs, allowing
ten per cent. loss. OF these nine
ram lambs to be sold at, say 500
=S22.5 30, and nine eve lambs ad-
ded to the stock. Second year the
flock consists of ,. ewes, one-quar-
ter Merino, which will produce one
quarter more wool and one-quarter
more valuable lambs, manurlng
four acres instead of three the pre-
vious year, ALLOWING the soillng of
s COW instead of 6 the year before.
The stock increases from year to
year, and also the fertility OF the
soil. Where a farmer has the ia
cilitv of mari or lime and utilities
them, the progress will be increased
threefold. Lime and mari are the
cheapest and most active agents
that a be applied for the improve
ment of land, provided it is follow
ed by manure or clover
The principal mistake OF our
farmers is their ignoring of stock.
To improve soil without a full herd
stock to produce manure, is a tedl-
Gus and slow business. Every farm
er should carry as much stock as he
possibly can provide for well, and,
as sheep produce the best manure,
are easier acquired and maintained,
they will always have the prefer
ence, especia ly for the poor farmer.
Where the WOrn-Out soil has a good
red clay sub-soiI about s to Il
inches below the surface, the I'M
provement of the same is no very
serious task. Judicious working,
manuring and c%lovcring will bring
it up IN one rotation, and If first
started it is easily kept up and
further improved.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
The use of Insect Destroyers.

Since the employment of Paris
green for the destruction Of potato
beetles. its use for various other
similar purposes have been found
very advantageous. Mr.. Shaw, of
the famous st. Louis gardens, EN-
ploys it largely IN a wash he applies
to his fruit trees. BY using it he
claims to have almost totally de-
stroycd the insect enemies, which
formerly claimed such large share
Of his crops. The writer has been
much annoyed, for many years by
worms which have destroyed all
the leaves of rose trees and bushes,
leaving nothing except a tuft at the
end, and etfectually preventing
them from blooming IN autumn.
A few dustings of flour mixed with
Paris green and applied when the
dew is on, completely arrested their
ravages.
Cotton planters have also largely
destroyed the destructive boil worm
by similar applications. A very
slight busting will effectually drive
off all aphides, slugs and everything
Of the sort.
OF course this application cannot
be made to cabbages, or anything
else that is to be eaten. A very
small quantity of Paris green goes
a long way, "a teaspoonful to a pint
Of plaster, middlings, fine meal or
flour, being amply sufficient if it
barely colOrs the mixture.
The Colorado beetle seems to be
now completely controlled by tie
lady bird, which devours the eggs
before Matching, SO that this season
they have failed to put in an APP
pearance.-Prairie Farmer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20

drain. or badly constructed privy,
and NAV not the milk Of cows that
are kept on such fields be contaml-
mated. and thus rendered unfit for
food. and he one cause of the Nor
tality among children
ANDREW IL. " ARD.
Bridgewater, Mass.
We prin. the above 10 show how
far a college professor can 80 when
he takes sides.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20

Mr.. EDITOR: Lucerne should be
sown IN August or September. Be
fore making much top, the plant
must have SIX months to make root,
the fall and winter months are pre-
ferable for root growth. To sowin
spring is bad, but to SOW rye or any
thing else with it is far worse: ''like
putting a lion In a path to guard
the lamb Lucerne positively re-
fuses to grow with any other plant
it will have all the land or none.
The only remedy that | know for
your lot, is to NOV it off close i'm
mediately, and kill all weeds, ETC.,
by frequently moving close. After
1t commences to grow, top-dress
with land plaster or ammoniated
guano, or both. When the leaves
are wet, it will not be of much SER
vice until 1t has six months to form
roots deep into the subsoil, If it
don't die out entirely this summer,
you may expect a return from it
next spring. The next time YOU
SOW, p%ulverlze the soil Is inches
double the quantity of manure;
SOW the first "good turnip season +"
IN August or the first ten DAYS of
September. Don't sow when the
soil Is dry. No more trouble to
succeed with lucerne than with
turnips. Ten pounds Of seed to
the acre IS sulii lent. Never graize
1t, not even with chickens. Never
let it make seed.-H. u. H., IN
Southern Home.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
Gle FARM.
NEW GARDEN, y. {.
June Sth, 1878. !,

Mr.. Editor,
DEAR SIR: | was glad to see a
call for views on road-maklng etc.,
as we are very much In need OF a
method for road-making IN this 10
caIity. Our roads as a general rule,
want turning oyer, for they are
hollow in the middle making a
water course in the center, whereas
it should be on each side, and the
work put on the center OF the road
always. But sir we will never have
good roads until we have good road
laws. which we have not got now.
AS a custom or rule, here, the
poor man works the road and the
landholder uses it. The men who
make the road have no interest IN
it. No wonder, for many have
nothing to use it with. My opln-
ion is, that if our roads we're made
and kept up by direct taxation, we
would soon have good roads, and
the right men would make them.
Doubtless many would oppose a tax
to make roads, but | own land now,
which cost me over $1,000, not in
Guiding personal property, and
have, formerly, lived where roads
were made by direct taxation, and
would he glad to see it done here,
as the law is here | need not pay
one cent except plodding in mud
knee-deep. | have lived in Canada
most of my life. The laws in that
country compels a man not hold
ing property to do two days work
on the public road or pay for hv-
ing it done, from the time he is
twenty-one years of age, till he is
sixty. If a mans property is val
ued at 5000, he puts On three days
work, for $500, four days work, for
5000 or 81, 900, five days, and on a
scale similar to that rs the prop
erty increases. The tax does not
increase so fast as the value of
property.
In Canada my property was val
ued at So, 800, or So, 400, and my
highest tax was 9 days work. And
the road overseer can call on any
man to bring his horses and wagon
or pillow or scraper, or whatever
he may have on the road, and is
allowed for them three days for
self and team, one for wagon, pillow
or scraper, anu by working accord
ing to this rule they have excellent
roads.
1t is rather di~scouraging to emf
grants coming here to see the
state of the roads. A road tax
would brighten some people, but
we pay more now by taking
one-half or one-third Of a load to
mill or market, if we count time
wear or tear anything. We need a
fence law but not such as is being
talked of, but a law to regulate a
reasonable height of fence, and to
allow no entire animals to run at
large, but to have pounds in every
neighborhood where such things
may be confined (instead Of shoot
ing them as now,) and advertised
and sold if not redeemed by the
owner. Charges regulated by prop
Ell parties. JOHN DUNDAs.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20

Carbon as Plant Food
II PROF. L. 7. UHae<

- fkol. l.. I. Brow
hc great mass o. VEG, ...-
ter i composed Of WOO.
tcellulose) which consisted
II per cent oxygen t.. ts
and hydrogen SIS per cen.
" one-half Of the vegetalf.
of our forests aud field.
fore organized carbon. tn
stance Is known 10 III, i. t..t
of charcoal, though tie II
Is pure crystallizcG carlo,
uncomblned form ii j. r..
IN any known liquid. nor
bic III any heat We have hiss.
10 produce. At a red hear
blnes readily with ozyr.,
brisk combustion. wlthog.
and the product is "A Gas CONF
OF ,. FER cent Of carbon ami
cent of oxygen. and n.u
known aS carhonIc acid.
feeble acid reaction AND forms.
with alkaleS. Al a ,cmu.-.
co. water viii dissolve aud t..
solution It's own mca,s~.
bonic acid gas, but 10 par..
all at "A boiling heat. iutn.f
all the carbon appropriate.
plants Is furnished. ana
be "A very natural inference. thai.
furnish supply Of carlane
would be the first care 81. t..t.
mer. But this would d. a......
an erroneous conclu>.ua
various sources the air
supplied with carbou.c a... .
sufficient quantities To ANSWER.
demands of plant crowd. .f....
chef interest Of the farmer
place his crops IN a favorable
dltlon to appropriate the ra-
brought within It's reach. Aas..
mated dispute has been c4r.e..
for several years hctweea
schools OF vegetable phy>.o.o-.
the II contendIng that 81. e..
carbonic acid used by tie r
was absorbed by the leaves. aa.
other holding that a portion a-
was supplied by the roots. .u-.
held IN solution in the wa..r..
sorbed. The question. however.
II of but littIc practical .m.-.
lance, rs both partjc, admir- H..
plants derive all their c8ru.a f..
carbonic acid and that the ln..-
position Of that Gas takes #|....
the leaf.
The important matter, Ia
cally, Is to understand The p...-
tons under which Vegetables .
proprlate carbonic acid, for -#.
the secret of their growth. IU.
conditions are chiefly tap: I-..
healthy condition OF tire ..l.. -.
full exposure to sunlight.
first Of these is that Wu..a ....
concerns the farmer. Leave
sorb carbonic acid in propor...
the amount Of green co.or.a- a
ter they contain. This, a- I@.
Oh a former occasion, depends ..
supply Of nitrogen in form
the plant can use it,. An.m..a
dissolved in water AMI ah-o.....
the roots, is the usual form
which the supply Of n.tro-ea
tanned. This is decompo-o. #
leaf by the agency Of suu-u-H.. 49,
the nitrogen set free lmme.
enters mo Il new cOma.ut'.". ~.
the green coloring matter t- la.
suit. But this chang deems.
the presence Of potash aat
phorlc acid, IN very minute
ties, indeed, but still essential.
deficiency in amy one Of l.-s
ditlons Will give a pale. "r
leaf, and every farmer know. a
that means, though he ma1 as.
able to explain Why lt 800
plants absorb no food, h.. II"
in the dark and there l- he ..
cal action IN the absence "
light. 1t is true that F.aar
at night, but they gro" H..
the material prepared |H ...
and by It's agency
Or g.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
Moisture Required for e.
mlnatiOn.

BFIDGEwATFn. Mas. Mag
To The E,IS. In hau0 /.'E.....
The /ndiana Former %. .".
ult.. is received, and 5000
obliged for the same. anil.
PLANTATION Of the -e0g..
would say that
lbs. mustard seed viii alb
100 lbs. corn will absorb ......
loo " wheat will absorb. --.-.
100 I" rye wi!labs0rb-.-
loo !" beans kid -ey VII -
100 beet viii absorb .....
100 " white clover wll a3-
As n Of the cona.t.Y".
termination Of seeds j.
amount OF moisture. IL
portant 10 know thu
moisture different seeds
and until they have Itt-"t
terminate. The d.-"E
amount required bet"re-
and clover seed is -tr.All.-,
plains why, when t.rt
sown in Il dry time, on
and the other does not.
tard seed gets it limited --.
moisture required and
The clover does not germ.
lack of the moisture II CANA
cure.
Yours truly, u.,s.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
POM CAswELL, PENDER Co..
June 18th, 1878. J

Editor Farmer and Mechanic:
DEAR SIR: In your paper OF
June 9th, you have an article on
trucking in Eastern North Carroll
ma. | am glad to see the matter
brought promptly before the pub
lie. There is no doubt that we are
from 20 to 30 days ahead of Nor
folk and as proof | will give you
the dates of shipments from my
farm to nv agent, Mr.. Thos. III.
Smith of Wilmington.
April 18th. Skinned. Strawberries.
May 10th, cherries.
May 24th, ....Squash.
June ora,
June 10th. -: Watermelons