The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24

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I. Il. FAIRCHILr.
Raleigh. n. c., Jan. l4th ISIS
4 Psychologist estimates Ills.
there are 2,400 disorders to WIZ.
the human frame Is liable. and
there are plenty Of people who .
lcye they have every one q them
4 Western Ncw-Yo9k farmer
credited with the noteworthy ~
mark that he once carefully his.
served the effect OF the appl.ca.a-
Of stable manure which had b,e-
saved under shelter till needed H.
use, and he concluded that one ...
Of il was worth about as much
two loads Of that exposed in Tie
usual wasteful way which
scarcely stating the case toostronc.r.
Analysis Of leaves and wood shau
that of earthly matter or ashes. t..
mature foliage of the elm couta r,
IL per cent. /; the solid wood les,
than ?: the leaves OF the willow
more than ; per cent, It's WOOD
only o. those of the beech 60
per cent, the wood only O.35 those
of the European oak 400 per cent.
the wood only 0.3j; those Of the
pitch pine 3.13 per cent, the wood
only 0.31.
Ex-president Houslv, Of the Kan
sas Horticultural Society, saws he
has for several years protected fr.-t
trees against teeth Of rabbits bv alb
plying with a brush to the bark.
say two-and-one-half feet M from
the ground, a mixture of one-th.ri
lime and two-thirds soft soap. with
water enough added to thin. the
whole boiled, and while boiling .
little flour stirred in to make tH.
wash adhesive like paste.
A deputy sheriff recently Sc.
out to arrest two brothers. who had
farms a few miles from Waco. Tex
as. He found them ut work in thcg
fields picking cotton. lie told them
what his errand was. They stared
at him, winked at each other. gent
" but firmly disarmed him, and
ordered him to 90 to work in the
field; and there he remained. pick
ing cotton for dear life, until the
officials IN his W frontier county
heard Of the incident and rescued
him.
Several children were fccdiug
q pet bear with corn at Austin,
Texas. An ear was dropped out Of
the reach OF the bear, and a little
girl handed it to him. The bear
sportiyely pulled her to him, when
a house dog, believing the child iu
danger sprang upon the bear. BruIA
then carried the child to the fur
ther part Of the hogshead in which
he slept and returned to fight the
dog, under the impression that the
dog would hurt the child. \ par
ty Of darklcs tried . protect the
child from her other protectors, but
the little one did no escape unit.
her mother killed both the bear
and dog with a muskct.
Col. Thomas j. Conger, a North
r gentleman, thus writes TO Col.
Polk, III a private letter:-"I am
glad to see the State is at last put
ting forth an effort to let the PEG
pie outside Of the State know Of
some of the great advantages NORTH
Carolina offers to immigration. ]
came down here from New York for
my health required it, and have
succeeded IN farming far beyond
my expectations. | have been i'm
ployed by the American Bible So
clety at the Bible House as the
salesman for a number Of years. |
like the State and the people. Its
very strange what absurd opinions
there is about the South: that life
and property Is unsafe etc
The \. Y. 7ribune says that j,
must be admitted that the South
has many natural advantages for
cotton manufacturing, which are
not possessed by the north. The
streams that run their spindle5 are
never frozen, and up to this time
they have never been seriously al
fected by the drouth5 of summer.
The climate is peculiarly adapted
for the first manipulation Of the
delicate raw material. In tn
North the air Is frequently 50 DRY
that steam has to be introduced in
to the weaylng-room to keep the
threads moist and prevent them
from breaking. Such an expedienc
Is never necessary IN the South;
even IN midsummer the atmos-