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St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
Artichokes for Hogs.

Experience has demonstrated the fac
that artichokes are excellent food fo
hogs, and that they are practically val
liable in those localities where corn i,
the principal food. As more than s
usual quantity is likely to be planted
this spring. word or SO of caution may
not be out of place. 1t is not a good
plan to plant them in the centre of q
field, for when once established they are
very difficult to eradicate. A better
way is to plant them where they can
remain for any length of time desired.
We would not recommend planting more
than an acre or two, unless the person
has had some previous experience with
them; although those who make hog
raising business, often plant as many as
five acres. At all events the artichokes
should be planted where it is convenient
to turn in the hogs, so that after the
frost has destroyed the tops in the fall,
they will root up and eat the principal
part of the crop. Enough of the tubes
will usually remain in the ground at the
time winter sets in to seed the ground.
From the numerous reports of farmers
how are now raising them for feeding
hogs, we infer they are probably as valu-
able to the northern farmer as the stock
or field pea is to the southern one.
Col. Scott, of Iowa, who is an extern
sive farmer and close observer, says his
hogs seem to thrive upon them as we'll as
when fed on corn, and for stock hogs
they are better. He regards them as be-
ing in no small degree an antidote for
disease known as hog cholera. When
digging what he desired to store away
for winter use for his hogs, he found the
yield per acre was nearly 1000 bushels.
After digging what he desires, the hogs
are turned in, and they complete the
work, and at the same time their drop
pings enrich the land. He says the
white variety is not only more hardy,
but more prolific than the Brazilian or
red artichoke. The artichoke thrives
and does as well on nearly all kinds of
lands as the common potato; in fact, it
proves to be very profitable crop even
on thinner lands.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
FARM AND HOME.
Weening Colts.

A correspondent of Canada paper
has this to say on weaving colts:
Put the colt and its mother in stable;
tie both side by side in manger, in q
wide stall; have nothing between them;
give them an adequate supply of nutri
uous aliment tor few days, and the
thing is accomplished. prefer this way,
because it prevents fretting, on the part
of both the mother and COLT and as an
1rishman expressed it, about the two
pigs in the same pen, the one encourages
the other to eat; SO that the colt is not
reduced in condition, as is too often the
case during the weaving process. This
mode OF treatment helps to halter. break
the colt, too, if it has not previously
been done.
Another plan have sometimes adopt
cd, when | did not want to stable the
colt-that is, started the old folks away
on ii visiting tour for week or so with
the mare, leaving the colt in the pasture
ieid with the other colts; thus the two
are out Of hearing distance of each 9TH
err, until the young one forgets its baby
notions.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
Love Solution OF Life S Mystery

The intellect can never solve the prob
lem pain; only love can do it. We
know that Cali things work together
or good to them that love God," is the
utterance, not of a clear comprehension
Of 8 consistent theory of the universe
but of love that by faith knows the
divine love. The household interprets
life as the father interprets God.
For we do precisely the same thing in
little which God is doing in the great.
In the family we deliberately put our
children to pain as a means of impress
ing on their minds ideas that it is indis.
pensable for them to know, as a means
of bringing them to patience and cour-
age, of curing in them morbid tenden-
cies to, which they are addicted. We
subject our children to small but real
pains; we are sorry that they cry; ye
we look with comparative compcsure
upon the suffering of the child, because
we see the end, and know that the
trouble will be transient, and that final
ly it will work out "a far more exceed
ing and eternal weight of glory"
While, then, we, looking at the bottom
OF the cloud in our short lives, see
simply that sorrow is checking our tenn
porary joy bere, God, looking at it from
the eternal horizon, sees that it is to
produce eternal joy in Heaven. What
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
RELIGIOUS READING.
Content
Beyond the hills that shut me in,

Beyond the hills that shut me in,
heard til. sound OF Iator
Wolld's woe and pain and sorrow, TOO,
Seemed struggling with its neighbor,
For Love seemed dead and Peace had fled
For Off to fields EIysian,
And might was right. and strength was law
Such was the earthly vision.
NV soul was stirred. prayed IS Let me
Do some great work SO purely:
To right LIES wrongs that may know
That have loved Thee surely"
My lips sent forth this eager cry,
The while my heart beat faster,
" For some great deed to prove my love,
Send me, send me, NJ Master.'
But every path was be dyed with thorns
My hands were torn and bleeding;
Each gate was BARI ed, and hope, 1ll.Btarred
Was from my heart receiing.
Night came on, within the valleys rim
The source OF pIin and sorrow
Grew faint with idly folded hands
waited for the morrow.
Then through the silence came voice,
Saying. If God thou fearest
Arise and do, thy whole life through,
The duty that lies nearest;
The friendly word, the kindly deed,
fhoagh small the act in seeming
snail Prove at last unto thy soul
Far mighter than thy dreaming.
" The cup of water to the faint,
The rest unto the weary,
Inc light thou giyest another's life
Shall make thine own less dreary,
And boundless realms OF Faith and Love
Will wait tor thy possessing
Not creeds but deeds, if thou wouldst win
Unto myself blessing.
And 30 I wait with peaceful heart,
Content to do His pleasure.
Not caring though the world may mock
At smallness OF the measure
OF thoughts or deeds, Or daiiy life,
He knows the true eDdeavor
To do His will, and seek His face.
And He will fail me never.
-[sarah II. Gibbs
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
Maintaining Fertility.

The following thought on grain ma
nuripg, by correspondent of the Coun~
try Gentleman, is an excellent one:
When land has been thoroughly en-
riched, it il very easy to retain its fer
tility by seeding frequently with clover
and occasionally manuripg. Only last
week / passed field which seven or
eight years ago produced three hundred
bushels of wheat on five acres, or sixty
bushels per acre. The wheat was of the
Diehl variety, as sny other would grow
too rank on such rich land In the
center of the field are dozen or fifteen
large apple trees, which diminished the
yield somewhat. The field faces two
roads, and doubt not that the owner.
one of the best farmers in the town.
takes much pride in its good appearance.
It is seeded again with wheat this year,
and is as perfect crop as | ever saw.
And yet presume that the field has not
been MANFRED more than once or twice
since the last wheat crop. Seeding with
clover will keep such land fertile for
many years. Sixty bushels per acre
must be nearly the 2imit for possible
whest production incur climate, though
this crop has been much exceeded in
England. The farmer who has land
which will produce such crops, can grow
wheat prof tably, even at low prices. l.
itnot better TO concentrate effort on good
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10

land until it is brought up to the best
rather than to diffuse it over the whole
farm, working all the land and getting
nrofit from none? By increasing the
fertility of the soil we may decrease the
cost of production, which is the best and
surest mode of increasing profits, not
only in farming. but everything else
Farmers cannot well fix the price at
which they will sell their products; but
if they learn how to grow crops at less
cost, they reach the same result in an
equally satisfactory manner. On land
that is productive enough, prices of pro-
duce can never go below the margin of
profit.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
Carver the Marksman.

A Cleveland Leader reporter recently
called upon DR.. William F. Carver, the
great rife shot, and had a long talk with
him on matters connected with his early
life. He possesses wonderful history
that is full enough of material for the
framework of a good drama, without
going into the realms Of imagination or
wandering from the paths of truth. The
Indians title him evil Spirit" on &C
count of his great accuracy with the
rife. Never missing his object, they
could not understand how it was possible
for one to be SO deadly in aim without
possessing ssome supernatural power.
Carver's life has been one of thrilling
adventures. Captured by the Indians
when only four years old, he never had
an equal among the savage tribes that
taught his hands their cunning, and
helped to train the steady nerve and
physical force that is his birthright.
When IS years of age, the tribe held Il
council, and declared him the medical
man of the entire Dakota nation, which
position he occupied for six years, and
received in that way the title Of doctor.
After leaving the Indians he went to
school in small town in Illinois, where
he remained four years. The inclina-
ton being strong upon him to return
to his former associates and pas
times, he betook himself once more
at the end of that time to the plains,
and soon became famous as hunter of
buffalo, elk and the abundance of wild
game that infest the frontier. He says
that he has killed more buffalo on one
run, solely and alone, than any party of
hunters. In the fall of 1866 he rescued
two ladies from a small band OF Conan
ches, for which he was highly commented
on by the entire Western press. He
acquired the reputation Of 8 phenomenal
shot at the age of seven years, when he
was known to bring down blue:jay On
the wing with rifle.
AS result of constant practice in this
particular line, together with his good
habits, muscular form and unerring
nerve, the requirement Of his wonderful
skill is attributed. He has achieved
most fattering success wherever he has
appeared to give an exhibition on his
way east. At Omaha he surprised his
spectators by killing three teal ducks
while flying in succession. At Detroit
he appeared On the Hamtramck race
track, and, while shooting at glass balls,
q swallow few within range of his I'M
erring gun. The crowd had become so
sanguine of bis ability that they cried
out, "Shoot it," and they were net dis
appointed when the man leveled his rife
and brought the luckless bird to the
ground. DR.. Carver stands six feet two
inches in height, with frank and pleas
ing face. He has pair of keen, restless
eyes, which gives him a wonderful
quickness and precision in sighting. He
weighs one hundred and ninety.six
pounds, and is thirty>eight years of age.
He intends making tour of the world.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
Consumption Due to Insufficient
NOuriShment.

The alarming increase of mortality
from consumption has aroused the atten>
ton of many earnest thinkers outside
the medical fraternity. Statistics show
that this disease carries off more victims
in a year than most fatal epidemic; and
various plans are proposed by which the
power of the terrible scourge may be in
measure decreased. Especially in New
England, where the climate is severe
and the people energetic and enterpris-
ing; "where it is considered effeminate
to dress heavily, to have sIeeping-room
warmed, or to favor ones self in the
matter of work." there consumption
rules and reigns. An editorial in the
July number of scribner, commenting
on this subject, charges mnch of the i'll
health of New England TO the "thin diet"
system of Graham, from which the people
have not yet entirely recovered. Stu
dents starved themselves, took long
tramps while fasting, and died by hun
dreds. The writer considers sawdust as
wholesome and nutritious diet IS buck
wheat cakes and molasses. Good bread
and butter, milk, fruit, nutritious beef
or mutton and nice buildings, these he
considers the necessaries of life, insuffi>
Gent nourishment being one of the chief
causes OF lung diseases. To increase the
vitality to dominant pitch renders the
tubercles already deposited in the lungs
harmless. eve have seen consumption
cured again and again" he says, "by the
simple process of building up the forces
of vitality through passive exercise in
the open air, and the supply of an abun-
dance of nutritious food and we have no
doubt it can be prevented in most in
stances by the same means"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
The Fruits Of Christianity

ono candid Observer" says the
Springfield Republican, "will deny that
whatever of good there may be in our
American civilization is the product of
Christianity. Still less can they deny
that the grand motives which are work.
ing for the elevation and publication of
eur society are strictly Christian. The
immense energies of the Christian
Church, stimulated by love that
shrinks from no obstacle, are all bent
| toward this great aim of universal puri-
fication. These millions of sermons and
exhortations, which are constant power
for good; these countless prayers and
songs of praise, on which the heavy laden
lift their hearts above the temptations
and the SORROWS of the world-are all the
product of faith in Jesus Christ. That
which gives us protection by day and by
night-the dwellings we live in, the
clothes we wear, the institutions of social
order-all these are the direct offspring OF
Christianity. All that distinguishes
us from the Pagan word--all that
makes us what we are, and all that
stimulates us in the task of making
ourselves better than we are--is Chris
tian. A belief in Jesus Christ is the
very fountain-head of everything that
is desirable and praiseworthy in our
civilization, and this civilization is the
flower of time. Humanity has reached
its noblest thrift, its grandest attitudes
of excellence, its high-water mark,
through the influence of this faith"
And if the tree is known by its fruits,
what can be said against the tree which
bears such fruits as these We shall
be told that great corruptions and gi-
gantic lniquities prevail in the midst of
our best civilization; but these iniqui~
ties were not introduced by Christianity
though they may have accompanied it
in its introduction. When the sons of
God come to present themselves before
the Lord, Satan also comes with them.
The iniquities which disgrace 8 so.called
Christian civilization, are the remnants
of old heathenism never yet purged out.
They are the works of the flesh, the
fruits of that evil tree which is as deadly
to-day as it was when it first sprung up
outside the gates Of paradise. The
crimes which are charged upon Cbristen-
dom, and which are perpetrated under
the name of Christian civilization, are
committed in direct defiance of every
precept of the gospel of Christ.
All that is best and purest in human
civilization springs from Christianity; but
if Christianity prevailed absolutely, and
all things were subject to the dominion
of its moral force, how soon the desert
would rejoice and blossom as the rose,
how soon the waste places of our civi.
lization would be built up, how soon
the dark, and foul, and stagnant POOLS of
vice and sin would be dried, and days of
blessing would come such az this earth
has never seen. He who spreads Chris.
tianity advances the greatest moral ren>
ovation that the world has known; he
who scatters the word of God in its liv-
ing, healing power, sows the seed for the
most glorious harvest that earth has ever
borne, and shall reap precious fruitage
in the great day of ingatbering.--
Church Union.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
Cheap Fruit Rooms,

There are some patented lighthouses
that cost thousands OF dollars, and for
the privilege of building them hundreds
arc sometimes charged. Farmers or
farming neighborhoods want something
cheaper. Judge Stitz,l stated at the
meeting of the Pennsylvania Fruit
Growers society that gentleman of
"'o.a'n< has a building holding 5000
usners, and keeping pound" apples
until October of the following year, and
greetings till July. He charges Is cents
per bushel for keeping his neighber's
apples. The building is of wood, above
ground, and ice keeps the temperature
nearly down to freezing, the ice being
stored above-the ceiling is water. tight
to prevent moisture. The space in the
walls is filled with tan. The apples are
in twe-bushel boxes, SO placed that the
bottom of one is the lid of the rext
below. The house cost $3.50. Mr.. Engle
built house, half underground, the
body of ice being u feet deep. A part
of the underground is partitioned off by
a slantipg division He finds no diff
Guilty in keeping fruit the year round.
The ice is carefully packed perfectly
tight, and the sides are watched to fill
any vacancy or crevice. Ice overhead
is better than this, but more expensive.
Mr.. Tracy buried the barrels of fruit in
the ground, covering lightly with earth.
He has buried maiden's blush in Au-
gust and kept them till April, and green
ings till June.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10

the farm, SOW the seed, and make big
manure pile. The year after, manure
sod heavily, plant with corn or potatoes,
and then follow with barley or oats, and
wheat again. In this way there is no
trouble about a good catch of clover
every year, and besides the manure
made from the two crops of clover, and
seed sold aud used will pay the interest
on the land.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
How to use Glover.

On this subject the Rural New Yorker
says:
Farmers who grow clover largely are
almost necessarily improving their land.
1t is true that some modes of disposing
of the clover crop are more advantageous
than others, but 50 long as clover is
grown the soil must be bene fitted. The
roots at least must remain, under the
most exhausted system of cropping and
clover roots are no mean fertilizer. They
take from the subsoil and probably also
from the atmosphere most of the sub.
stance which the plaut contains. 1t is
hardly possibly, except by the utilization
of atmospheric nitrogen, to account for
the beneficial effects of clover on the
soil. [ have often seen good crops
grown on clover sod without manure,
and on land which, before being covered,
was reckoned rather poor. Of course,
the effect is all the better if crop of
leaves and haulm is turned under with
the roots
The clover helps the soil in other
ways. It's roots are the cheapest sub.
soiler and if the field is not very wet,
will give the soil all the drainage neces-
sary for ordinary farm crops. I am
sati fed that farmers who grow
clover largely, can keep their fields
dry with one half the understanding
they would otherwise need. Walking
this spring ever the fields, T find clover
sod dry and ready to plough, while in
timothy and other grass adjoining, the
water oozes out from the surface under
the pressure of the foot. Even in wheat
fields / find that where clover has been
ploughed under, or even clover sod, the
soil is much dryer than on wheat after
stubble. The decaying clover roots form
channels through which the water passes
away.
PleughiDg under clover when in bloom
is rightly regarded as wasteful method
of using it-tar better, however, than not
using ita all. The objections to naked
summer fallows are that they require
two seasons to make a crop, and that
while the sod is decaying under the blaze
of summer sun or unprotected surface
of the field, much of the valuable part
of the clover is lost. If the soil is rich,
as it should be, it will produce as much
after barley or oats as after naked fallow.
l do not suppose that fallows average FIVE
bushels per acre more of wheat than land
sown after stubble. This year the
differences will be even less, and some of
the best wheat / have seen was after a
heavy crop OF barley. Five bushels of
wheat are too little to pay the loss Of a
grain crop and the extra expense in
the fallow. There is more
imper ant loss, 3 summer fallows are
usually plongheo the year after the
Glove is sown, he roots have not yet |
made their full growth, and do not until |
the second cro of clover in September
when the sesd is harvested. This ID not |
too ate to plough and SOW to wheat.
Goo crops are thus grown; but the
diff altg ia in getting good "eatch " of
cloV'E seed. My way is to harvest two
crep OF clover the second year, the last
OF which is for seed. Feed this out on
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10

TO us is misery is to God preparation
What to us seems to be the extinguish'
ment of hope is to Him the foundation
of an everlasting experience of happiness
Therefore except as the parent sympa
thizes with a child in an unnecessary
fright, and waits for it to come out of it
God cannot feel about the reign Ct misery
in this world as we do; for He sees that
it is marching on to great triumph.
All the forces of the universe will yet
come into harmony. The march of the
universe is not be forever and forever a
march of discord; cacophonous, harsh
and grating. It is like some of those
sublime passages in the symphonies of
Beethoven which seem for time to
crash and contend; but by and By they
begin to mellow and finally issue in a
magnificent harmonious choral. So the
whole world, that groans and travails in
pain, and has from the beginning,
is coming to Il point where it
will be cencordant, and lit up its voice
in harmonious songs, and glorify God,
and rejoice in the unity of all things in
His Son. Christian Union.
Behold the Fear Of the Lord, That is WISDOM.
Some fancy wisdom consists in amass~
ing wealth, others in gaining a name
among men, others in self-indulgence
but the scripture informs us that it con-
sists in pleasing God. For he who fears
to offend God, will be sure to please Him.
Those who fear God, receive His word,
believe His gospel, trust in His Son,
worship at His throne, observe His ordi>
nances, copy His example, seek His Holy
Spirit, withdraw from His enemies, unite
with His friends resist satan and strive
against sin. This is true wisdom. For
thus they avoid all penal evils, and
secure all real good. The Omnipotent
is their friend; the wealth of the universe
is their portion, and the mansions of
glory their home. If the man who
escapes the greatest dangers, secures the
greatest good, enjoys the greatest pleas
ure and obtains the greatest honor is
wise, then every real Christian is wise;
for such is the happiness of every one
that truly fears God. o fear the Lord,
ye His saints, for there is no want unto
them that fear Him. Rev. James
Smith.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
.IoHNs0N's ANoDYNE L1NIMENr will

JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE LINIMENT will
positively cure chronic diarrhpa OF long
standing, also dysentery, cholera mo.bus,
and cholera, used internally. There is no
remedy known so valuable for immediate
use as this old life preserver.
One single box of Parsons Purgative Pills
taken one each night will make more rev
rich blood than ten dollars worth of any
liquid blood purifier now known. These
pills will change the blood in the entire sys
tenn in thee months, taken one night.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10

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St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10

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