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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-09-18

though in good condition pr,,;,,,,
flesh will be dry and tas p,ss'ous!
ia, soft. Never buy an undrsaa
The gas from the eron a..a
Will faint the flesh, even th Ia .a'ssas
ed but Il short time Eauc;s fsss>
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16
What Do You Want ?

Do you want to insure In the largest
and best Life Insurance company In the
world, The Mutual Life Of New York;
Call at 800 Hill street.
Do you want to insure your property
In only Standard Fire Insurance COM
paniesP
Call one square and o half north of
the Inter Ocean hotel.
Do you want to see $500, 600 insur-
ance now In force among the best bust
ness men in Cheyenne?
Call n square northeast Of the post
office.
Do you want rates ON Fire Insurance
as low and equitable as is consistent
with safety?
Call for information, calendars, blot
tiers, lead pencils, etc.. etc., on the west
side of Hill street between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth.
Do you want to see the largest street
scales In town, 10000 lbs. larger than
any other, Fairbanks Standard
Remember that Burners new office
Is the place, on Hill street.
Do you want to see the neatest and
only model Insurance Office in the ter
ritory?
Call on J. W. Bruner at the above
mentioned place.
Office Hours: Any hour, day or
night, Sundays excepted. n28-3m
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

The New Orleans Picoyune proposes
to utilize loafers by labelling them with
the names of the streets they infest for
the convenience of strangers.
The most successful settlers here
abouts are the steam pile drivers.
A railroad is to be built across the
great desert of Africa. The bells will
then go ringing for Sahara.
The magnetic telegraph has reached
the age Of IS years. What did the
papers do for telegraph news thirty-six
years agor
King Humbert, of Italy, is in ILL.,
health, caused by o%ssifcation of the
liver. He must feel like the young
Englishman who declared that the
question of whether life is worth living
or not depends entirely on the liver.
The expense of a Legislature to an Or
dinary-sized state ranges from $1,000 to
$1,000 per day.
An alley CORY; One where the boys
fight.
AGen. Spinner and his signature still
writhe with the rheumatism.
Senator David Davis grows heavier
every winter. 1t is the weigh he
has.
Any man who parts the last syllable
of his name as did Andre deserves no
monument.
Snowbody's child: One that's turn
ed adrift.
1t is the deliberate man who carries
wait with him.
The Albany Press, as accessory to
the crime. spreads abroad the report
that wei 300 letters addressed TO one
William V. Taylor are now lying un-
claimed at Whitehall, the work of the
wicked paragraph that has gone the
rounds of the press to the effect, that
that said Taylor was to come into pos
session of 500 900 IL he could get mar
ried within a year. The address on the
envelopes is, in every instance, in FEM
mime hand, and the letters are suppos-
ed to contain %propo-but no matter.
The WEEKLY LEADER goes to all
parts of the country. Advertise in its
columns.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16
WHILE THE GRAVE ROBBERS

OF the East are shocking the world by
their ghastly work, in the West. the
grave Of the coughing consumptiye is
cheated Of its victim by the timely use
Of that neve failing remedy, Browns
Cough Balsam. This Balsam does not
stupefy with opiates, but produces easy
expecturation and assists nature in her
efforts to cure herself. Do not neglect
that cough until it is too late. Every
delay lessons the chance of recovery.
For clearing and Strengthening the
voice use Browns Tar Troches once
and you will use no others.
Physicians who have tried Browns
Arnica Salve for removing infamma-
ton and curing old sores, cuts, bruises,
piles and sore eyes, pronounce it the
most wonderful healing remedy Of the
age.
All of Browns remedies for diseases
of the West for sale by Addoms &
Glover and Hurlburt Bros, Cheyenne.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16
The Value Of Crows.

1t wac Mr.. Grandley Berkeley who.
under the skillful cross-examination Of
Mr.. John Bright, then or a committe
to inquire into the operation of the
game laws, was made to show that the
average farmer made $4,000 a year
by the crows on his farm. As thus:
Crows kill wire worms. Where there
are no crows boys had to be employed
to kill the worms at I'D. a hundred.
The boys made Cd. = day each. A crow
Mr.. Berkeley declared, was worth 80
boys at such work, Dr. within a small
fraction of SO a day. On an average
there we're 20 crows on a farm, hence
a each bird earned f700 a year, the
average farmer made $4,000 a year
out of his crows.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16
So Near and Ye, So sur"

o, would that I coud call ermine.
Although she Is a saucy minks.
Fur-get herr No-such girls divine
In LIES dull chain are golden lynx;
Iotter tell her all my love,
And seal that love as young fox do,
Shes purei than the saints above,
As playful as q squirrel. too.
If I was sable. I'd impart
That feline that reigns In my heart
But language falls. o. when she dyes.
Nav angels bear her to the skies.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16
CHEYENNE MARKETS.

"rorsr,e.. arA,n. rrov,.,on-. Etc.
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Rates OF Advert,s,ns

No Advertisement inserted for Less than nv
cents.
DAILY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments 10 cents per line, Nonpariel. each In
sertion o insertions eight cents per line; 30
Insertions cents per line.
Local Notices., per line. bourgeois, each in
Bertion, 10 cents per line 30 insertions 5 cents
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WEEKLY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments Is cents per line, first insertion ; one
month 10 cents per line; six months. 10 cents
per line; one year 5 cents per line.
Cheyenne. Oct. LIST. 1877.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
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The WEEKLY LEADER goes to all
parts of the country. Advertise in its
columns.
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@rThe
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Ear Weekly
EDLEADER
Is the largest and best Weekly pub.
ished IL the Rocky mountain region
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16

Corrected weekly by whipple q Hay, Whole
sale and Retail 3rocers and Commission
Merchants, Cheyenne Wyoming.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-16
The Weekly Leader,
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ioes Ss sxscnted% .es casas eo or eSsry sn shape ssp and
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Blanks OF every kind, Posters. ETC., printed
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and Presses. we can do handsome work at
low prices.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09

will cross the mountains, and
twenty-five more will connect
with the iron road now building
to Cranberry. This will give a
long and urgently needed con-
nection to the middle region of
the State, and 50 to the whole of
it, with the salt AM plaster
mines ana the limestone noun
tains of southwest Virginia.
And there is no doubt that a
branch road viii speedily be
carried by the great Ore Knob
copper mines TO the New River
branch Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, soon to be built /;
and thus the great west will
have an open way through the
State to our sea coast, both by
the existing lines, which are
crossed by the narrow gauge
road, and b. a branch which
will build itself from Patterson
down the fine valley Of the Yad-
kin to Salem, and so connect By
change of gauge with Fayette-
vile and Wilmington. Such a
road will be from the day of its
completion the best paying road
in the State. w. c. X.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09

duce from five to ten times the
quantity of pork in chufas, that
It would in corn. | am sustain
ed in this estimate by one or
two of my neighbor5 who got
seed from me and made careful
observations. | am of the opln-
ion that the cutting OF the hay
in August was slightly injurious
to the crop of chufas, though, as
it produced a second crop OF
hay, there may have been no
loss in it. The saving Of seed
is tedious and expensive. With
large sleeves properly prepared
in formidable weather a hand
can save about one bushel per
day on an average.
From my experience with the
chufa this year, | believe the
general use of it would enable
US to raise our pork at one-fourth
the usual cost. l may be mis-
taken, but | have tried to give q
true statement and to draw cor
rect conclusions from the results
| obtained.
Yours, very truly,
+. NJ. GARRETT.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09

store is sunk about a foot or
in III ground, and a halcbarraI
with the head knocked out in
verted upon it, and tie ea,fL -,
then soiiilv PACKED around. 49,
barre. This Will serve as .
mortar; the pestle may be anv
any convenient heavy piece Of
iron, fastened u i stout rol. The
upper end II WEIGH is to b. a.
tuChed b. a strap ii a s1rinr-
pole. which Is secured to two
posts at the proper height. Bv
this simple contr.vanee, which i
a mobilization 81 the druggists
mortar and p,stle, the labor !,
grellv facilitated. a the spr.ng
helps te lift the weight. and
but Il SLIGHT obstruction to It's de-
scent. This will serve to effec-
tually smash up the bones. and
prevent waste from the pieces
flying about.-1merjela Agri-
cultrak;St.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
By THE GRAND MASTER
Of NORTH CAROLINA
GRANGE.
GRANGE
MASTERS OFFICE.
y. l.. STATE GRANGE.
CHARLOTTE. Aug. 81, ISIS. I
<

Bros j. L. Winston ". T. Co.'S
and J. \. Harris were appointed a
Committee on the Organ under the
above resolution. Sand committee
have reported that they have
made satisfactory arrangements
with the FARMER AND MECHANIC.
an Agricultural journal, published
II the city Of Raleigh, and do re-
commend the FARM AND Me-
CHANIC the organ of Ii order.
Patrons,- It is with pleasure |
announce to YOU that the FARMER
AND MECHANIC IS the organ OF our
order. In it will be published all
reports and communications from
the asters office ard the office Of
the Executive Committee, that
I'll be made public. Each patron
should not only subscribe for il.
hut should send to the manager all
"irams" that will be Of general in
terest to our order. ast1's md
Secretary's Of subordinate oranges
will have this announcement read
before their respective oranges.
Trusting that each Of you Will aid
M extending the circulation of oar
organ and IN building it up.
! am, fratcrna!Iy,
:. b. ALNANDR.
II t,t@r \. G.. Stale Granra
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09
For the FaRMER AID MECHANIC.
Sheep Husbancry.

Among the important rela-
tons of sheep husbandry is an
improved system of agriculture.
1t IS claimed for sheep that
they are the only animal which
do not exaust the land upon
which they feed, but perma-
nently improve its production
through the peculiar nutritious
ness of their manure, evenly
distributed in their wan lerings
in search of food.
The value of Their manure
may be estimated at about one
fourth the value of the sheep.
One hundred sheep folded on
one acre of land for two weeks,
would produce and apply on it
tWenty-fv We dollars worth of the
best fertilizer known to the far
mer.
1t is conceded that the time
has come when we must pro-
duce more and larger crops on
less acres, and at less cost than
we are now doing. Sheep IS the
medium through which we can
do it, ard if the press in the
State would discuss this question
with as much earnestness as
they discuss politics, they would
do more good to the people Of
the State, thar to fight over the
chances between Mcrrimon and
Vance for United States Senator
from now until dooms day.
One great advantage in rails
ing sheep is that the ea0e gives
two dividends each year, her
fleece and her lambs. Capital
invested in raising sheep for
wool and mutton may be turned
over two CT three times in the
same period as when invested
IN cattle to raise beef.
OF al the products Of agricul-
ture wool is most capable Of
transportation, for the reason
that the greatest value can be
placed in the smallest bulk, and
less injury from friction results
from its transit to market.
By reference to the market re-
ports of the western and north
ern citi-s, you will find it costs
so per cent Of its value to ship
wheat from Chicago to New
York, 80 per cent on pork, 20
per cent on beef, and only per
cent on wool.
These figures very clearly de-
monstrates the fact that the
great drawback to the farmers
Of the country, is in having to
pay too much for transportation
on their produce to market.
u. A. M.
Co. Shops, n. c., Dee. 29th,
1878.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09
Homemade Fertilizers

The most successful farmer is
the one who avails himself of
every means to enrich his land
from home resources, and allows
nothing to go to waste which
can be utilized for plant-food.
If success comes when refuse
material is only partially utili-
zed, how much greater the sue
cess when this refuse is 50 man
ipulated as to secure all its fer
tilizing properties in the most
available form, and IN a condi-
ton best suited to the needs Of
the crop?
FERTILIZERS FROM BONES
are those most frequently az
tempted by farmers, because Of
their known value for the ma
iority Of crops. Well made COM
mercial superphosphates are
found to be very efficient ferti-
l@izers, and farmers often seek to
initiate them, but with indiffer-
ent success, always with incon-
venience, and often with injury
to person or implement, on &C
count of lack OF skill in the use
of sulphric acid employed to
"cut" the bones with. Bones
are composed of phosphate and
some carbonate Of lime, and or,
ganic matter, the latter con-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09
Watauga.

No county in the State il 50
little known. And yet it is III
some respects one of our best
counties, and one Of the most
UNIQUE as we'll. 1t is the high
est county, its average altitude
rising to near $500 feet, that of
the court house being $3.50, just
1000 feet above Asheville. 1t
has the most extensive and I'M
broken and magnificent oak for
est. to be found. Its soil is al
most uniformly productive. And
most singular of all, it has no
old fields, a term which describes
one half Of all our open lands.
And there is more evidence Of
improvement and thrift than IN
any other station, away from
the railways. 1t has the finest
summer climate to be found this
side of the Rocky Mountains,
and the only condition wanting
to make it the most frequented
is accessibility and this diff
Guilty will be removed in great
part within a year by the COM
pletion of the narrow gauge
railroad to Lanoir, from which
point the plateau is reached by
a turnpike Of 20 miles over one
of the easiest crossings of the
whole Blue Ridge.
Watauga is a fine wheat
county. The best buckwheat
in the United States is raised
here, and two new and complete
buckwheat mills have been
erected within a few years. No
such cabbages come to market
as are raised on this plateau. |
have seen a plot Of cabbages,
planted one yard apart, cover
the entire surface completely,
some heads weighing Is and 20
pounds; and a weight Of q
pounds has been reached on
Elk River. Fruit of course
hourishes luxuriantly, ana ofthe
finest quality.
The county also contain beds
of excellent iron ore, and the
copper veins about Elk Knob
are well known. The eastern
section of the county abounds
in white pine. The county IS
drained mostly by the head
streams Of the Kanawha and
New River; the Watauga and
Elk OF the westsid going to the
Tennessee.
This region needs to be an
nexed to North Carolina. A
railroad would do it. The Ches-
ter and Lenoir narrow gauge,
nearly finished, will easily reach
Patterson on the upper Yadkin,
Z miles nearer the foot of the
Blue Ridge. Twenty miles
more ola very practicable grade
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09
Silk Again.

We have proposed the jute
problem to tie universal Yam
kee nation for immediate solu-
ton, and we must have it. The
Sin problem is soloed already. |
| saw in Mr.. Edward Serreli's
office in New York within a
week, the machine which does
it. L e thing which defeated
silk culture IN this country, in
North Carolina, Virginia, Geor-
gia, two hundred years ago, and
up to the Revolution, and
again all over the continent in
1889, and onward for 20 years,
in naorus muHicauIts times, and
which has in fact given a mo-
nopoly Of silk production to the
nations having the cheapest labor
and the most of it, that is, main
ly to the Asiatic nations, is sim
ply the want of an improved
ilature to take the place Of the
slow, tedious, killing, hand pro
ces that has come down from
the Chinese antiquities. Yam
kee ingenuity has wrestled with
this problem for two centuries +;
but it has triumphed a last. 1t
is done in the simplest manner
imaginable, By a neat adapta-
ton of the electric current. /
have before me q proposition
from the invent r to start his
machines here in North Care
lima, if we will promise to raise
cocoons enough to run one-say,
10000 to $4,000 pounds, in a
few years. And we can do it.
We have at least a hundred
thousand white mulberry trees,
and we can have a million in
four years. And Mr.. Fasnach
need not ship his barrels of CO.
coons to Lyons to be reeled and
brought back and sold for three
times as much to the Patterson
and Cheneyville spinners. Who
plants out the next mulberry
orchard? Mr.. ". G. Rogers, of
Cameron, has had faith enough
to set out the plants, and can
furnish the first corners. Here
opens up a new field for our un-
employed, useless, unproductive
labor, two thirds of all that we
have. This will bring into use
our wide pine barrens; the null
berry thrives no where 50 well
as on these sandy sterile ridges.
The legislature might we'll fol-
low the lead of that Of Califor-
MIA now, and offer a bonus to
the producer of a thousand
pounds Of cocoons.
w. X.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09
Practical Experience With
the Chufa.

The blowing letter from one
of the great cotton counties
shows hat the making Of fifty
bales of cotton does not neces-
sarily preclude the raising of so
good stout porkers for home use:
RINGwooD, HALIFAX Co.,
n. c., Dec. q, 1878.
Col. L. L. Polk, Raleigh, n. c.:
DEAR SIR In an interview
with you the past summer near
Hickory, you asked me to give
you a fair statement of the re-
suits [ obtained from the cult
walton of the chufa this season.
I bought one bushel of chufas
from Il. A. Adams, of Smith
field, and planted them accord
ing to his directions in the
month of April, on a lot o
ground part of which was sandy
and part of it Of a clayey char
acter. [ planted in rows three
feet apart, and dropped the seed
from one foot to Is inches apart
in the drill, covering about two
inches deep. This bushel
planted over three acres. They
came up badly, not over one
fourth of a stand. BY drawing
the plants from those that had
come up, succeeded in getting
a fair stand during the month
Of June. [ cultivated them
about as cotton is cultivated,
using the cotton-plow and hoe,
and keeping the land as nearly
level as 1 could. They grew off
finely, reaching & height of two
and one-half feet by August, and
presenting a fine appearance.
They seemed to grow best on
the sandy land. In August |
cut a portion of the hay with
an ordinary scythe, making
about one ton to the acre of a
hay, which seemed to be highly
relished by stock of all kinds.
In the latter part of September
l cut all the hay with a mower,
securing fully one ton per acre
of fine hay. Fencing Oft a por-
ton for seed, | turned about
fifty hogs Oh one and a half
acres, about the first of October.
The hogs were generally in poor
condition, and went to work on
the chufas with much earnest
ness. They would not eat corn
at first, and have not vet touch
ed a lot of artichokes in the
same enclosure. They fattened
with remarkable rapidity. l
have never seen hogs improve
more rapidly, or seem to relish
food more. They have rooted
the land very thoroughly, and
yet there seems to be a large
quantity of chufas left IN the
soil, which shows them very
plainly after a rain. From a
somewhat careful examination
of their product, | estimate that
light sandy soil, capable of pro-
ducing five barrels of corn per
acre, would produce from 10 to
$50 bushels chufas. The largest
yield I got was not on the rich
est, but on the lightest soil. !
think the same land will pro-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09

Solomon was one of the best
photographers of his day, but if
photographers pay vas no better
at that time than now, he never
could have supported seven hun
dred wives from his salary
Boston Commercial Bulletin.