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"F. F." in Prairie Farmer, gives
an experiment, which, in our opinion
proves the value of poultry manure:-
"Last fall we plowed up an acre of
rather poor, gravelly land, that had
been lin grass for ten years; in the
spring four cords of well composted
barnyard manure was spread on and
plowed in; then the field was harrow
ed and furrOwed three feet apart.
Then we selected medium sized pota-
toes of the prolific variety, scooped
out all the eyes but one and planted
one footapart in the burrows; manured
in the hill with hen manure, one
handful well mixed with the soil to
each hill. The hen manure was
scraped from under the roosts in the
poultry houses during the winter,
mixed with three times its bulk of dry
road dust, and stored in boxes and
barrels under cover until wanted. AS
nearly as we could estimate we used
ten barrels of this mixture to the field.
The potatoes were thoroughly hoed
three times, and the bugs kept under
by hand picking and Paris green.
We harvested 299 bushels by actual
all were marketable
except - bushels, which were too
small. The potatoes were large, re-
even in size, and but very
few scabby ones. The following is the
debit and credit account
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A Probable Cure for The cotton
Warm.

Eorlv last summer the Entomolopi.
cai Co9mission consisting Of Professor
q v, Rilen A. r. Grote and + M
Comstock began n stndv nf the cotton
worm which IL likely fo result in the
easy extinction of the nest. The
cotton nlant ia peculiar in having a
gland on from one to three of The
larger ribs or the more mature leaves,
and n still larger gland MI he base of
each of the three lobes of the involucer.
AS soon as Professor Riley learned
that these glands secreted a sweetened
LIQUID he inferred that the plant would
be found to furnish nourishment 10
the moth as well as the larvre, and
drew attention to this belief in the
Atlanta Constitution. Subsequently,
i'm company with Prfessors Comstock
and Willet. he was able to prove his
anticipation correct by studying the
normal habits of the moth with
dark lantern at night. The moth is
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The Cash System.

There is more money made and
more money saved 10y farmers adopt
ing the cash system in all their deal
ings than is often made from the
profits of one crop. Farmers generally
sell their produce for cash, and they al
ways should do it, and they should
endeavor to raise such crops and stock
as will bring in cash income through
out the different months; then you can
always buy cheaper for the cash, you
will be surprised at the end of the year
to find so great saving.
The credit system has been a great
curse to the West, and if the Grange
can successfully bring about a cash sys-
tenn which they SO ably advocate, that
alone will more than repay the entire
cost of the organization.
With the coming of the New Year
let farmers universally, with one accord
adopt the cash system and practice it.
Never bay what you cannot pay for.
That system is adopted by European
farmers, and is strictly lived up to there,
and they save by it handsome profit
every year. Then, too, every farmer
should keep an account Of all sales and
purchases, to see what pays best and
where the money gOes.-West Agri-
culturist.
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CONDUCTED BY s. II. SE40KHoUSE
IMMIGRATION.

There arrived in Crystal Springs Il
few days since, a number of Swedes,
direct from Sweden, who have been
induced to come here through the in
fluence of Mr.. A. f. Andre, and will
settle on his place about two miles
from here.
They are all robust, hardy looking
Young men, and they seem to be much
pleased with our genial climate at this
season of the year, when, no doubt,
everything in their own country is
bound up in ice and snow. Swedes
are generally very sober and indus
trious people and full of energy, and
we believe they will all do well III
this country. We know several who
came out a few years ago, have
done well. One of them already
owns Il nice little place, and is married
and settled. Also, a gentleman from
Chicago is down here for the purpose
of engaging in the culture of fruits
and early vegetables for the Western
markets. He is also very much pleas
ed with our wonderful climate, and
thinks that there will soon be Il large
immigration from that portion of the
country early in the spring or next
fall. AS soon as the resources of our
climate and soil are properly found
out, we think we will have large
immigration here. A majority of the
immigrants, heretofore, have remain
ed in the cities and sought work there,
rather than go out on the farms to
work. We need good and reliable
labor to settle up our waste places.
There are thousands of acres of good
lands lying idle here, for the want of
good, practical farmers to cultivate
them.
Immigrants have been prevented
from settling here by the terrible re-
ports which have been circulated at
the North for political effect, as to the
unsettled and deplorable condition of
our country. But when immigrants
from the North and from Europe come
here and see for themselves, they are
bound to correct these false statements,
and will form the nucleus for a larger
and better class of sturdy tillers of the
soil, armed with capital and enter
prise-ready to aid in developing our
unbounded resources.
Owing to the oppressed condition OF
ireland, and bad crops throughout the
whole of Europe, there is a larger i'm
migration than usual pouring into the
Northern States, and now is the time
to do something towards turning the
tide to some extent Southward.
Unless we do. something to induce
them here, they will be drawn to the
fields of the West by glowing descrip-
tions of Kansas wheat and corn fields,
while the malarial districts and yellow
fever regions of the South will be used
as arguments to drive them from the
South. {
Our present prosperous condition !
our bountiful crops-our political con- {
peace reigns supreme at {
home and abroad-our almost entire {
freedom from almost all kinds Of in Z
fectious diseases during the present i
year-can all be used as strong and l
potent arguments to convince the {
large influx of immigrants from the G
I'D countries that we have one Of the I
most desirable countries on the face Of C
he globe, and susceptible of the great Y
ast development. Q
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Peanuts are come to be an important
industry and contribute much money
to the yearly amount of the agricultural
products of the country. Among other
items ofinterest concerning this annual
product the Cincinnati Price Current
gives the following:
The dividing line between the old
and new year in the peanut trade is
the 1st of October. Ordinarily the har-
vest begins in Tennessee about the mid
die of September, in North Carolina
about the second week in October and
in Virginia about the 1st of September.
These three States produce about all of
the peanuts which are consumed in the
United States. There are some grown in
other sections of the South, but NEARLY
for home consumption, and there are a
few imported from Africa, but not
enough to be considered in a review of
the trade. The year opened with the
Norfolk, Va. and Wilmington, N. G.,
markets nearly bare of stock, while in
Cincinnati there were about 10000
bushels of the old crop on hand. The
aggregate crop was u larger one than
that of the preceding year, but the old
stock on hand at the beginning was
and it has been found thrt the
supply was not excessive. In South
Virginia and Tennessee the quality was
good. The incoming crop for 1889 for
Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina
is reported at 1890, 600 bushe's-prices
ranging between 60 cents in April to
81 80 per bushel November l, the mon
py value of the crop being estimated in
round numbers at 81 100000.
The present seasons crop is reported
as unusually lsrge. In North Carolina
he increase in acreage is 25 per cent,
giving an estimate for that State Of
lbout 125, 900 bushels. In Virginia the
Increase in acreage over last year is 10
Der cent. giving an estimated crop for
hat State of over 10000 bushels.
In Tennessee the estimated increase is
rom 20 to 25 per cent, giving for that
State an estimated yield of about 5000,
100. bushels, or for the three States H.
$4,000 bushels, or 355, 900 bushels over
he crop of last year.
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CULTURE OF RUTABAGAS.

There is nothing better for stock
than Rutabagas, and nothing grows
more vigorously in the South. Eng
land depends upon her turnips and
roots in the winter time for stock, and
the North could not winter their stock
unless they laid in a good supply Of
turnips, beets, ETC., for their cattle.
The South, particularly where it is
only necessary to feed stock two or
three months in the winter season,
ought to be able to raise fine stock
cheaper than where they have winter
for six months in the year.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman writes as follows on the
culture of turnips:
On the 18th of July the preparation of
the land for turnips commenced. Drills
three feet apart were first opened with a
pillow, BarHvard manure was hauled and
fue-e, + this the earth was
Fa .uCh viii .,rw upon the manure,
.I 'A.Ig al e. To 5 for the seed three
ttr Tc rows we're next raked or
'.-''-Eaj, ..na then snDerphosphate was
o. .lps. Just on rhe top them. BY the 22d
Nf r. a tllrnip seed was all in. Barn
r .---lur- WIS applied at the rate of
.-,ftt .-ca~t Ha', per acre. The manure
E... Ean.> in each of which We're /
placed, i'll the preceding December, twenty /
loads of muck from under a salt marsh, and |
each of which received during the winter |
and spring the Otfal Of ten animals. OF the /
phosphate 800 pounds were drilled in on |
the tops of the rows. The seed sprOuted
well, and there were but few misses On
the 9th of August cultivatOr was passed
between the rows. On the 11th of August
hand-hOeing and thinning was cOmmenc-
ed, and was continued until the 10Th of
August. On the 2Sth of August the culti-
yatOr was again passed between the rows.
ON the Both of August hand-llOeing and
thinning was second time commenced, and
was continued until the 4th of September.
On the 18th of September the field was
again run over with a cultiyator. The
pulling, topping and hauling of turnips to
the cellar was commenced on the 9Th of
November, and finished on the 2Sth of that
month. The total yield was 4G tons and
1.710 pounds, making the yield per acre IA
tons and 131 pounds; or taking the weight
of barrel at 145 pounds. 40 barrels per
acre.
A firm in Louisville is filling an order for
800 head of mules for Cuba. which will bc
shipped in few days. Five hundred more
are in pens ready to be shipped for the :
Southern trade. BY the first of January
there will be big business done by Louis
willie in this line. Kentucky furnishes the I
bulk Of this kind Of stock for the South.
We copy the above from Louisville ,
paper. Before the war, and during
the war, farmers bought fewer mules
than even they do now and then ;
they were rich and able to buy.
We have seen as fine mules and ,
horses raised i'm the South, as ever we
saw in Kentucky. What can be done ,
1nce can be done again, and certainly
It is more necessary in our present {
condition to raise our
,wn stock at home than 10 send thou '
ands Of dollars Ia Kentucky and {
tber States every year.
The comet., 1879-12-27

The growing of the cotton trade in st.
Louis the past few years has been some
thing remarkable. In 1866, the receipts of
cotton We're only 10000 bales, and this year
the receipts will amount to about $1,000
bales, judging from the amount received al
ready. The strangest thing in this connec-
tion is the fact that nearly every bale is
shipped away again-to the eastern and En-
glish manufactures, where ii is turned into
cloth and clothing and shipped back here
again to be worn. Why manufactures of
this character are not established in st.
Louis, where labor and fuel are so cheap
and provisions much cheaper than in the
East, is one of the conundrums that should
be solved. 1t looks like very inviting
field for the idle capital in bank vaults
througout the country.
We take the above extract from the
Rural World, published at st. Louis.
We admit it is strange that cotton
factories are not established in st.
Louis but we think it great deal
stranger they are not built up at the
South, where there is not only an
of wood and water, but we
have the raw material at our own
doors. The time will come when fac
tories will be smoking in every little
village.
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English Fruits.

Mr.. Gladstone in a recent speech.
made another point for the English
people to consider. He told his audi
ence that they imported five millions
two hundred pounds sterling, yearly,
ed gentleman on the "Hudson river,
America" who has an apple orchard
of 200 acres, the produce of which were
shipped to England. He could do
this because the land was his own,
and not rented from grasping land
lord. Twenty-Five or six millions of
dollars sent away for fruit! for the
reason that if a tenant plants fruit
trees, the product goes ultimately to
benefit the landlords, and so it is with
other things that require time to
The comet., 1879-12-27

A London Journalist of rather ripe
imagination says at recent dinner
given in New York the peaches de-
vOlved an altogether new and unex-
pected feature. They bore the mono
gram of their owner traced distinctly
i'm their velvety bloom. The process
he describes thus: Letters cut from
paper are pasted on the peaches while
growing. When the fruit is ripe, on
removing the paper the letters are
found picked out in the most delicate
green, the rest of the fruit being rosy
hued.-Exchange
This is an old but quite interesting
process for. marking both peaches and
apples. The paper letters are pasted
ON the side Of the green fruit exposed
to the sun, and as the fruit ripens and
cOlors, the shading Of the letters pre-
vents the skin underneath from color
ing, thus leaving the letter marks in
green on the fruit. - Enter-Union
Agrieulturist.
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Net profit

-VVI TIVIIU tCTI ~
Interest, taxes and the cost of
"bugging" were not reckOned in the
cost of the crop, as the manure left in
the ground and the eight bushels of
small potatoes, which were worth
half price for feeding, would offset
these items. The potatoes were sold
from the field, 50 there was no cost of
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don't know but I Good hev convipst
en- that they wuz all rooined eff he'd
a far show, but the alarmin fact
wuz all to bizzy to listen to me. fol
| it happened to be pay day. y Every
man NV EN- went ont nv the offs with
his money in full. and every man
+uy EN- declined to hear word 1 sed,
1t wuz in vane I urged that they.
wuz serfs, it wuz in vain that I told
EN- they wuz bein ground into dust
by the Nashnel banks, It wuz in vans
I told EN- resumption wood be their
room, for every cussid one of en- fled
past me and went and despositid
there spare earnings in one Nv these
cussid octopusses, the Nashnel banks
NV the place.
I can't understand what Ewing sent
me to SIGH a place fur. and I TELEGRAPH.
he'd. The Dimecratic Central Cons
mittee ansered: 80 81 NI
"Hold ON . while. e heavy frost
NAV come in August and kill the corn
and fetch EN- to their senses. Then
they will know what fisherman has
done for EN-. Suthin must be left
to Providence
3 And so I am sittin in the tavern,
EwatchinS the thermemeter. 1T is a
corn kentry, and the farmers depend
mon that crop for the heft nv their
profits. Eff the Lord would only
take pity on The Dimocrisy and send
a heavy frost, a regular black frost,
this month, shooh hev some show.
It wood derange thing and tear up
mattersto such an extent that il
wood give as q chance But then
the wheat crop was SO heavy that
am net ,shoor that even the totle des-
rtrueshen nv the corn crop wood save
us. The hog cholera can't come soon
enuff, and ez for cattle and horses,
never seed EN- SO disgustinly healthy
Still I shell sit and watch the ther'
mometer and cuss John Sherman. ez
the Centred Committy direx. It is
possible that some distress may come
on the kentry before October. the
RELY / see no encurridgin signs
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Is- Distrest Finanseer.
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$ a courtIy term Of getting rid Of .

is courtly term Of getting rid of 2
king.
Henry VI died in prison, By
means known only to the jailor, and
now only known in heaven.
Edward v was strangled in the
tower by his uncle, Richard III.
Richard III was killed in battle.
Henry VII wasted away as a
miser ought to-. E1ax0 - Ekx :
Henry VIII died Of carbuncles,
fat and fury.
. Edward VI died of q decline.
Queen Mary is said to 1--we died
of q broken heart. L--1o sa195A
Old Queen Bess is said to have
died of melancholy, from having
sacrificed Essex to his enemies.
James I died of drinking aud the
effects Of vice. rs 6
Charles I died on the scafold. -
Charles II died suddenly-it is
said of apoplexy.
William III died of consumptive
habits of body and from the
stumbling Of his horse.
Queen Anne died from dropsy.
George I died from drunkenness,
which his physicians politely called
an apopiectic fit.
George IL died of rupture of
the heart, which the periodicals Of
that day termed visitation of
God. s 8. 8. !.
George III died as he had lived
"a mailman. Throughout life he
was at least a consistent monarch.
George " died Of gIattony and
drunkenness. - EG- j ss>sLl
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A ReetoI's Letter to a Parishioner.

Ny DEAR PARIsHIoNER: I am
panied by your constant absence
from the house of God, and am
greatly discouraged thereby in my
work. Every absence discourages,
not only. your Rector, but, also,
those who are regular attendants.
I do most earn estly desire your sal
walton, and I, know that it is en-
dangered by wilful and habitual
neglect Of the house Of God, whose
way, says the Psalmist, is in the
sanctuary, who commands US to
reverence His temple, and to keep
whose commandments we are under
the most solemn vows. No one can
innocently refuse to engage in pub
lie worship, when it is possible to
attend 1t works harm to the soul,
and influences others to stay away
And the habit grows stronger the
more it is INDUCED. Will your ex-
cuses stand in the judgment? IF
you desire theservices of your church
SO edifying to the soul
when hartily engaged into be well
sustained; and, above all, if you
wish to be built up in the faith, and
to increase in knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I beg
you to make every effort to attend
each service. If the sermons are
uninteresting, don't help to make
them more SO by your indifference,
and remember that you 60 to church
not merely to hear sermons, but to
worship, to join in the prayers and
anthems, so well calculated to lift
the thoughts above the cares and
trials of life. Come then, my dear
friend, to God's honse, whenever it
is open for divine Worship Your
privileges viii soon be gone, and
then you must give an account for
the manner in which you have im>
proved them. Fight the good fight
of faith. Do your duty faithfully,
and you will not only receive a rich
blessing yourself, but you will be
blessing to your attached.
-...- RECTOR.
.Iowa Church Missionary.
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MONARCHICAL MISERY.
The Terrible findings Which Bsfsll the
Kings and Queens of England.

The Terrible findings Which Bsfsll the
Kings and Queens of England.
William the Conqueror died from
enormous fat, from drink and from
the violence of his passions.
2 William Rufus died the death of
the poor stays which he hunted. 6
Henry I. died of gluttony.
Henry Ii. died of broken heart,
occasioned by the bad conduct of
his children.
Richard Ceur de Lion, like the
animal from which his heart was
named, died by an arrow from an
archer.
John died, nobody knows how,
but it is said from chagrin, which,
we suppose. is another term for a
dose Of hellebore.
Henry LII. is said to have died a
natural death"
Edward ]. is also said to have
died of natural sickness "a
sickness which would puzzle all the
college physicians to denominate.
Edward III barbarously and
indecently murdered BY rufians en-
ployed by his own wife and her par
amour.
Edward III died of dotage, and
Richard IL of starvation-the very
reverse of George Nv.
Heury Nv is said to have died of
fits caused by uneasiness, and un-
easiness in palaces in those times
was very common complaint.
Henry y is said to have died of q
painful affection, prematurely. This
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M e.: 7g GoaGl14 aa a--t1
X 0S A D 4 IL S.
THE GREAT SOUTHERN

! i remedy for the cure of Scro-
1fula, Scrofulous faint, Rheuma-
itism, White Swelling, Govt,
IGoitre, Consumption, Bronchi-
tbs, Nervous Debility, Malary
and all diseases arising from an
Impure condition of the Blood.
Tins merits of this valuable prepar-
alton are so well known that q pass
ing notice is but necess airy to remind
the readers of this journal of tho me-
cessity IT always having a bottle of
this medicine among their stock of
family necessities. 5AEB 30 -
Certificates car, be presented from
many leading Physicians Ministers,
abd heads of families throughout the
South, endorsing in the hig hest terms
Ihe,Ff Extract of Rcsadalis.
+ DIR. k. wilson Carr, Of BaIti-
more, say che has used it in cases of
lScrofaia and other diseases with
much satisfaction" -t9sfetz al Al
"pr. n. q. Pugh, of Baltimore,
recomm ends it tie all persons suffering
with diseased Blood, saying il is SUI
perior to any preparation he has ever
used. ~ =
xev. Dabney Rail-, of the Bal
itimere NJ. E. Conferences. South, says
be has been so much benefited by it's
use that be cheerfuily recommends it
ito all his frieuds and acquaintances.
Craven IL Co., Druggists, at Cor
donsvillc, Va, say it never has failed
to give satisfaction.
Sam'a 81. Nc Fsdden, Murfreee-
boro. Tennessee, says it cured him of
hheumai ism when all else failed.
Rooadalis is not a secret quack
preparation, its Ingredients re pub
iished on every package. Show it to
your Physician and he will tell you
lie is composed of the strongest alter
latives that exist, and is an excellent
Blood Purifier. Did our space admit
We cou give you Testimonials from
levery State in the South and from
persons known to every man, woman
and child either personally or by
Reputation. FE5 F..Us Is
Rossdalis is cold BY all Druggists.
JOHN F. HENRY, CURRAN & CO.,
8 COilege place,
+ NEW FORK. hl
Geo. W. AIbers Wholesale Agent.
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Butchers. Market Square. =.
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Good, fat, smalhcattle ia request at low
prices. Common and poor cattle dull.
Sheep m demand at laiae.f Wequote
BEEF CATTLE.
No. ], 2a23c; good fat small cattle,
Halle; common nominal. = AC = =
.3of 3si4aoa 5ys lvEALs. i4ss< ssbissd
= sIoeto 81 50, according TO quality. z
!. "a .sssis-1s1a FAT SHEEP. q. q rs-s-,,
). 1ia24 cents; stock sheep, IS cents to
SLIGO. Lambs, PABLO .EssI 7s-. >