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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
Tas pULlIoN PRODUCT.

Wells, Fsrs, 4 Co.'s annual e'rco'.'
diving the produc, Of precious metals 10
th.. portion OF the Uui,ed States lying
bstus.u the Missouri river aud the Pa
oiac Ocean. presents som very Interest,"
IN, .,.,i.tics. California maintains her
Weld Of gold With great regularity. In
1875 she reported sls els 800; 10 1877,
sls. TIA 700; In 1878. SIS. 92O. 600. and
In 1879. sis.lsi.OOo. These figures do
not look a. though mining was exhaust
ID. The bullion product OF Nevada is
moro nttul. II reached its highest point
In 1877. The yield 10 this State in 1876
wss $40. $50. 900; in sis77, s~5l,5so,ooo;
In 1873. s35. 1s2. 900; in 1879. Ssl,ssS''
900. A falling Of OF nearly GO per cent.
In two years. say $780, oo. 900. is rather
heavy. yet IL merely signifies q retire
msnt from O bonanza feast to leansr
pickinss. Perhaps we may have an
other bonanza fsss. before the end OF
ths present year. Even . product Of
S22, 900, 900 . year. however. cannot DO
called . famine.
California shows o decrease In gold Of
Sl40, $40, and in silver Of $3.50, li6-s
net decrease Of s729.4ss. Nevada shows
. total falling or Of $40, ls4. 235. the
Yield from the Comstock being only
%. $50. $50. ss against s2l. 295. o4a for
1S7s-a decrease Of So. 46i,4Sl. The
product Of Eureka District Is $780,.
2el. against 90. 9si. 4O6 for 1878 do
sreass Of 81. l22. las. Utah shows q fall
Ing Of OF 1896. 734. Colorado shows an
Increase Of over 50. OoO. 900. chiefly from
Lssdvills District. The bullion from
Ihs Comstock contains 41.2O per cent.
gold and $3.50 per cent. silver. OF the
so-callsd base bullion from Nevada "a
Der cent. was gold, and Of the whole
product Of the State "a. so per cent. was
gold.
The increasing product Of silver il
worthy OF attention. Ten years ago Il
was only about hall Of the yield Of gold.
Three years ago ii had caught up to
gold and was actually $1,000 600 in
sxcess Of that metal. Two years ago il
wss practically even. Last year II was
%, SOC. 900 more than gold. These are
facts that should DO borne in mind in
ths adjustment Of . ratio Of values
between tho two metals. Gold Is ap.
parsntly becoming harder to find from
year to year. while silver Is becoming
more plentiful.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
v, N. oLAnxr. J.. {. sAuTH.
". H. CLARKE & CO.,
STOCK q 8
NO. 81 SOUTH Q STREET,
VIRGINIA CITY. NEVADA.
San francisco correspondent, .. .. wAkk-
FIELD 4 co. ned'm

OONSOLIDArED IMPERIAL HIN.
u ING COMPANY.-Location Of principal
place Of business, San Francisco. California.
Location Of works. Gold Hill, storey county,
Nevada.
Nouce.-There are delinquent upon the fol.
iowinp.described stock. on account OF assees-
ment mo. iO) levied on the tenth day OF De-
cember, 1872, the several amounts set oppo-
site the nance OF the respective shareholders
IS follows:
Names. NO. Oerui. ohs' Amt
Atkinson, Doud 4 %. True
Atkinson. Doud / %, Trus
tees. 80
Atkinson. Lyon 4 Co, Trus- -.
bal. 20tos. ....s...... 90
Atkinson, Lyon 4 %. Trus-
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16

San Francisco Stock Report: Out Of
forty-nvs men who enter the editorial
rooms Of = newspaper and see an editor
with . pair Of scissors in his hand. forty.
four will 30 sure to say: Editing your
paper with the scissors. I see. and forty.
two OF them think that only just let
them edit . paper and they would gil Il
chock full Of original matter. and throw
the scissors in the sewer.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16

A man had Q tooth extracted BY .
Chicago dentist. and expressed regret
for the loss. A girl whose jaws we're
overcrowded with teeth entered the office
to have two Of them taken out. The
dentist suggested the experiment oil
transferring one OF these sound teeth to
the vacancy In the mans mouth, and
the operation was performed with sue.
cess, the tooth growing fast and arm In
ten days.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16

The New York Sun Of January 7th
says twenty kegs Of gold were received
in Chicago from this city few days
ago. Each weighed about 900 pounds.
and contained $75 making ST..
600. 600 in all. This money wa sent BY
Jim Kssns In payment for wheat.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
1860. 1879.
PIONEER LAUNDRY,
NORTH OF VIRGINIA.
G. W. HALL, Proprietor.

THIs oLpRsTABLIsHKD AND RRLL
quantity Of Renoyatsd and Cisan Linen WITH
ost oetns damaged ~ manipulation % b.
chemical application.
Psciases punctuaily called for and -
turned.
oFPIoRs-Theodors Woln's Clothing etoe,
opposite International Hotel, O strsst, virs
gnia. and vsssy Houss. Gold Hill In
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16

The Prettiest girl in the world. that
Ars. General Grant observed whom she
was passing through Reno, wa . de-
nurs little blonde grass widow from
Gold Hill. She Is considered merely
passabls here.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
CAPTAIN Esds ha. b,,n .,,m;,;r, n

Captain Eads has hsen examining the
systems Of improvement carried out
upon the Danube and Thiess rivers.
having credentials from President Hayes
which secured him excellent opportuui-
ties. The information hs has gained
will b Of use to him in the matter Of
Mississippi river improvement.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16

Greensbsum. Helbing& Co,
Trustees. .96o6. .20O. $50 =.
0reenebaum, Helbing b 90,
trustees. 1857. 90. =.
oreenebsum, Hslbiug b %,
Trustees $3.50. 5000. 1000 e.
0resnebaum, Helbing 1 90.
Tru,tse,....:.;::...:...s ssis. ...lo.....a.
0reenebsum, Aelbing / %,
Trustees. .t0210.. 100. IN =.
dreenebsum, Helbing b Co.
Trustees. .t016T. 90. 100. ...2o =.
drssnebaum, Helbing& Co.
Trustees ........ ........ .40769. ...b0.. ..l0 :.
0reensbaum. Helb.ng 4 %.
Trustees ..tl604. 1000. 100 =.
Greenebaum, Helbing / 90,
Trustees. tltOo. lOOO.. ~ :.
Greenebaum, Helbing 1 %.
Trustees ......... .tlSi6. .lOOO.. .2OO =.
0reenebsum, Helbing 4 Co,
Trnataoa AfQ6H .10O 20 =.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate.

OC8ssC
WASHINGTON. January 15.-McPher-
son and Baldwin presented the petitions
Of women asking for q constitutional
amendment giving women the right Of
suffrage.
Allison, from the Committee OF FL
nance. reported back adversely Bayard's
joint resolution for the Withdrawal Of
the compulsory legal tender power OF
Treasury notes. He understood there
wal . minority report to be presented;
otherwise he should ask indefinite post
ponemsnt Of Bayard's resolution.
Bayard. from the same committee,
presented the views Of the minority. AZ
follows: "The undersigned. believing
that the financial prosperity Of the
country, in order to DO enduring and
secure. must DO based upon money Of
actual and intrinsic value; that our gov.
eminent has no power and Is incompe-
tent to endow its paper obligations with
such value. and the United States Treas
ury notes in existence and in circulation
being now redeenisble In gold and silver
coin at the option OF the holder. do
recommend tho withdrawal Of the conf
pulsory legal tender power Of such notes
and the passage Of the subjoinsd resolu.
tion." [Signsd BY Francis Herman and
Thomas +. Bayard.1
Adjourned till Monday.
House.
After some miscellaneous business,
consideration was resumed OF the bill re-
curing ons-half Of the reserves Of tho
national banks to be kept in gold and
silver coins Of the United States. Price
OF Iowa spoke in support Of the bill. In
advocating the bill he declared himself
opposed to any tinksring with the cur.
rency, either a. to the quantity or quail
ity Of d which was circulating. He
also opposed to taking away the
legal tender quality Of the sreenbacks.
All prudent men spoke in thunder tones
and said, LET well enough alone"
AT the conclusion OF Q short speech by
Lewis, in favor OF the bill. the morning
hour expired. and the bill went over
without action. The House them went
into Committee OF the Whole on the re-
port Of tho Committee on Rules.
The House Committee on Indian Al.
fairs today began an Investigation into
the causes Of the recent outbreak. Gen:
Adams was before the committee, and
gave . long statement Of the grievances
Of the Indians. Miss Meeksr was pres
emit but did not testify. Reporters were
excluded.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
Saturday Afternoon, Grand Matinee.

PRICES or ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and dress
circle seats, 81; rvserv,d seats. 80 cents extra;
gallery, 80 ceuts; boxes, accommodating four
persons, IS and 50. Boz sheet on view ct ths
rheater from 10 A. u. till Z p. y.
E1-Doors open ct Z O'Clock. Curtain rises
at 8 O'Clock precisely. jAlftd
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
eoRn

In Cold an January IL. 70 the wife Of @. u.
Miller. . daughter.
I, Virginia. January II, 70 the ~ifs Of n. R.
Neville. Q daughter
In v,rx mia. January Is. To the wife Of Z. II.
Sullivan . daushtcr
n Phoebe January 4. to the wife Of John
O'Oonn.r. Q daughter.
In Ne dow vi %. January 4. 10 the wife Of
J.. Conxay. . daughter.
Ia car:Ou. January II, q thu wife Of ssorss
Hvaglsnd. O daugh.sr
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16
MARRIED.

In Pioch'. J.nu.ry Q. Thomas v. Brown 10
Msry 3. Butt<rheld.
AZ bath Ranch. vest Of Carson. January IL.
O rro..
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16

And In aooordance With law, and an ordsr o.
the Board Of Directors, made on the Ioth day o.
December, 1879, % many shares OF saen parcel
ct pubic auction. at the ofios Of the company,
Recon- Q, 2os Bush street, Ban Frsnclsco. Gall.
fernia, on WEDNESDAY, the FOURTH 9TH
day OF February. 1880, st ths hour Of ] o'clock
?. y. Of said day, TO pay aid delinquent ssssse-
ment thereon. togsthsr with costs Of sdvsr-
usinR and expensss OF sals.
". Z. DEAN, Secretary.
o~fnce-Room 8. No. 2os Bush street., Ban
Francisco, Oalifornia. 10
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-16

Bates ID O. Trustee. ........4l697.. .l0o....2o e.
Breciinridge d Yost, Trus.
Bender ID A 4 Co, Trustees .s562s. 10. a..
Render ID 4 Co do $3.50. ....6.....l ..
Brcoks 4 Lee. Tiustees. bal. .9eoS. ...s.....l 30
Berry, wolfskil 4 co,Trus
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23
How Battles are Fought.

How is n battle fought? With tremen-
dous volleys, the ranks standing firm and
steady as on dress parade-with enthusiasm,
with dcafening cheers, with music and fin
ished by glorious bayonet charger Moth
ing of the kind. Here are simply some
thousands of men on either side who have
been marched out this pleasant day to butch
er each other. Modern firearms are terribly
effective weapons a Springfield musket will
kill at a thousand yards, and by the time you
have drawn these opposing forces to within
two hundred yards of each other, or the dis
lance across good-sized wheat-feld, the bat
tie is resolved into simple problem-which
army can stand the most killing and wound
ing without breaking up? When that ques-
ton is answered, you can tell which side will
be victorious. The business of the officers is
to hold the men to the work, to compel them
to load and fire until SO many ofthe enemy
are put h0rs de combat that he is forced to
withdraw. Take your regiment into battle
as orderly as you may, before it has been UNI
der fire half an hour it will become resolved
into knots and groops from the drawing to-
gether to fill the places of those stricken
down, and the survivors will be lying or
kneeling, forced down by the irresistible in
stinct Of self preservation.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23
Not to be Counted Out with Impunity

The captain at the Central Station had a
day-dream of burglars rudely shattered the
other day by the advent ofa gaunt, tall woman
about forty years of age who carried closed
umbrella in a threatening way She refused
his salutation of, "Hot day, madam-sit
down." but slowly advanced to the desk, gave
il a rap with her umbrella, and solemnly ask
cd:
cam | Il human being-a persona
woman?"
The startled captain was so long in answer
ing the question that she continued:
"If amt want to know it, snd that's
what Pm here for"
"What is your case?" he cautiously inquir-
"Why I've been passed over by the census
men the same as if was n dog! Not one of
the gang has been near me p
Haven't Ell? Well, suppose they have
missed a few"
"But there was some spite about it, and you
| can't make me believe there wasn't" she ex-
claimed, as she waved her weapon around his
head. "They might accidentally miss some
little dwarf of a woman, but how could they
get past me? tell you it was put-up job,
and | don't feel right over it."
ut won't make no great difference, sup
pose" unused the Captain.
HOW 40 you KNOW III wont I! Sne lnQlg-
nantly demanded. Don't l live here p
Don't count one? Haven't just as many
rights as any other woman? Do | belong in
the census of people OF of goats? know
when Pm stepped on as well as anybody
else"
"It's too bad"
"It's mean, that's what it is Every old
poke of an old maid ON our street, every girl
and every old woman has got her name down,
while I've been left out in the cold as if be-
longed in Africa You've got to make this
thing right"
"Mew
Yes, sir, you! Now then, write it down.
Pm forty-three years old, and no lying. I've
| been married three times and am the mother
of nine living children. My father was born
in England, and my mother in this country.
was born in New Jersey, and my occupation
| is that of widow who don't care two cents
for all the men you can pile into ten-acre
| lot Got that all DOWN."
Yes, but you see -
al don't see nothing. If am put in the
census, all right. If find amt there you'll
see me again Good day, sir~
With that she gave her umbrella an extra
flourish, upset the chair on which she had
rested her foot and sailed out without look
| bchind-Detroit Free Press
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23
miscellaneous.
Miss Fydget's Mistake.

"If you please, ma'am, won't you give me n
drink of milk :"
Miss Fydget had just come in from long
and bootless search through the pasture for a
| wandering brood ofyoung turkeys which had
been missing since morning.
She was warm and tired one boot was
burst open on the side her sun-bonnct hung
| limp at the back of her head her gray curls
were in true artistic confusion, and a vicious
blackberry briar had torn her hands until she
looked as if she might have been in a Skin
| msh with the Lulus.
"But wouldn't have minded all that" was
Miss Fydget's melancholy comment to her.
| self, off only / could have found my young
turkeys They do say that there is com,
pany of tramps loafng around the country,
and"
Just then the mild voice of an old man sit
| ting on the well-curb broke in upon the
| thread of her reilections-an old man in n
shabby gray coat, buttoned closely across his
chest, shoes thickly coated with dust and q
rude cane cut from the woods, upon which
| he rested his folded hands.
| Miss Fydget stared at the old man the old
man returned her gaze; deprecatingly.
perhaps you're deaf ma'am," said the
| stranger, elevating his voice semitone or so
higher
| mo lHOTC Ilull YOURSELF, Salu MISS Tyu-
get, naturally somewhat irritated.
"Would you have the kindness to give me
little milk"
Miss Fydget bethought herself of the float.
ing rumor she heard. Perhaps this venera-
BILE vagrant was one of the very band now
marauding the wales and glens of Rochcmont
perhaps even now he had a corps of bloody
minded coadjutors hidden behind the stone
| wall, or under the moSs-grOwn roof of the
ancient smoke-house. And Miss Fydget was
possessed of several pieces of antique silver,
and had forty dollars in an old teapot, on the
uppermost closet shelf! ...
"Who are you" CURLY questioned she.
"a man and brother" the old man
answered, not without a covert smile.
mo, you're not" said Miss Fydget, in
censed at what she deemed piece of unne-
cessary insolence.
| "You're n tramp"
| The stranger smiled.
us tramp, then, destitute of all the priv
ileges of humanity" he asked.
"Eh?" said Miss Fydget.
Cramps must live as well as other people"
pleaded the old man. "Now, look at me-"
EYES," said Miss Fydget, "Tm looking at
you, and dusty, shabby-looking figure you
are, must say"
"Pve walked fifteen miles since morning
with nothing to cat or drink"
"That's what they all say" said Miss Fyd-
get, incredulously
| would it be any great stretch to your hos
pitality to give me a slice of bread and a
drink of cool milk :" he persisted.
Miss Fydget stood for moment ponder.
ing the petition in her mind
Look here, old man." SHE said, at last, 81
know perfectly well that you are tramp, but
| suppose you are human after all. There's
n pile of knotty pine stumps under the shed
you may split few for my cooking stove
"But, ma'am-"
81 knew how it would be-" shrilly inter
rupted Miss Fydget "You're deal too lazy
to work you'd rather starve than do an hon
est days work, any time" gig
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23
SCOT for Tobacco.

The tobacco planter has an enemy every
year to fight against. The fly meets him
with persevering certainty. II he whips the
fly, he is all right. Ifhe does not, he and
the market know the consequence Which
shall be the victor, is the question. But the
planter is only interested in his own side
and then he asks, what shall be the weapon of
conquest?
As in almost every like situation we 60 be-
yond for our weapon, we borrow from dis
tant suggestions and in doing so overlook
what is in every mans hands if he would
apply it and the best after all.
Every household accumulates during the
years experience, a store OF SCOT in every
chimney in use which, to some, is o source
of danger-but properly used lis a mine of
profit. Let this SCOT be swept down from
the chimneys and gathered to be well mixed
in on the tobacco plant beds previous to
planting or to be busted on the young plants
as soon as they are up. In the first case the
SCOT acts as an active fertilizer; in the other
it is an irreconclable enemy to the fly. The
two cannot exist together. The writer knows
whereof he speaks.
The cabbage, the turnip and the tobacco
fly, if the not the same are so nearly identical
that the treatment applied TO one is efflca-
cious for all and he knows its protective
power over cabbage.
Let the tobacco planter, at least, try SCOT
on his plant beds, and not be deferred by
remedy because of its simplicity.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23

A TmIEF's RITIoIsM.-During religious
services in the Jail at Carson, New, and after
a clergyman had addressed the prisoners on
the text, Honesty is the best policy" thief
named Jones asked if he could makes few re-
marks. Permission being given he said:-
"Thc expression that honesty is the best
policy was first thrown out on q thieving
world by Ben Franklin an old humbug. /
don't agree with Ben Franklin that honesty
should be policy dodge. If mans honest,
keeps correct from; policy he's bad egg at
heart, and only waiting to get the confidence
of the community and rob them out of thous-
ands A man who is honest from policy would
steal if he had the nerve and the chance. We
fellows in here had too much nerve, and we're
too candid to conceal our real character"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23
Cisterns for Farm Buildings.

In the endeavor to have everything as con-
venient as possible about farm houses and
farm buildings, there are few things more
worthy ofbeing cared for than cisterns to hold
the rain water from the roof Even where
pumps are supplied it is often an adj
vantage to have cisterns in addition, as soft
water, which pumps will not always supply,
is ofgreat value Atany rate it often hap
pens that though there may be pump con-
venient and water furnished by it all one can
desire, even the little labor that a pump re-
quires for single horse or cow, becomes a
great task when many are to be supplied
We know of one farm where seventy-fv
head of cows more or less, are on hand and
all the water they require has to be furnished
from pump; and it is no small job to do
Yet ON this very farm the land lies so conven-
lent that cistern could be built on an elevation
little above the cattle yard, and all the water
from the roof could go in it, and be drawn
off into the cattle yard by its own natural
flow, without pump or labor of any kind. So
it often happens for household supplies. A
cistern can be built which would cost little,
and yet save the women folks-generally
overwhelmingly an hours labor, besides
giving them quality of water they all 80
much desire.
There is prevalent idea that they cost q
great deal to make; but it is far less than is
generally imagined If the land is solid-say
either of clay or rotten rock-the sides of the
natural ground may be shaped like wall,
and lining ofmortar, say half an inch, put
on before the final cement coat is given. But
ifthere is any chance ofsettling, so as to crack
the mortar framework, four-inch brick
work may be built around first. Most ground
is, however, firm enough for the purpose
The mortar rs it is laid on to form the lining
or framework ofthe tank should be very well
worked by the trowel. The object is to work
out all the air. 1t is the air-spaces in the wall
that make it porous, and it is through the
pores that the water escapes. A working of
the trowel backwards and forwards few
times over the soft mortar expels the air and
closes the pores. This is especially important
to be borne in mind when applying the cement.
This need not be put on very thick. The
merest film, if properly worked is sufficient
-Ge,mantorn Telegraph.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-07-23
VOL. XXIV---NO. 80.
Lime In Agriculture.

The Journal Of Forestry briefly sums up
many of the uses of lime when applied to the
soil. The effects of lime, as will be seen, are
in part mechanical and in parts chemical
l. Upon deep alluvial and clay soil it in
creases the crops of potatoes, and renders
them less waxy Sprinkled over potatoes in
storc-heap it preserves them, and when
riddled over the cuts sets it and wonderfully
increases their fertility.
2. Lime eradicates the finger land toe dis
ease in turnips, and gives greater soundness
to the bulbs.
B. 1t gives, when applied TO meadow land,
larger produce of more nutritious grasses.
III also eXterminates coarse and sour grasses,
destroys couch grass, and acts powerfully
upon rye grasses.
4. Upon arabic land it destroys weeds of
various kinds
s, 1t rapidly decomposes vegetable matter,
producing large amount of food for plants
in the form of carbonic acid gas.
6. 1t destroys or neutralizes the acids in
the soils hence its adaptability to sour soils.
Z. 1t acts powerfully upon some of the
inorganic parts of the soils, especially on the
sulphate of iron found in peaty soils, and the
sulphate of magnesia and alumina.
3. 1t proves fatal to worms and slugs,
and the larve of injurious insects, though
favorable to the growth of shell-bearers.
0. Slaked lime added to vegetable matter
causes it TO give off nitrogen in the form of
ammonia. Upon soils in which ammonia is
combined with acids it sets free the ammonia,
which is seized upon by the plants.
TO- Its solubility in water causes it TO sink
into and ameliorate the subsoil. When the
soil contains fragments of granite or trap
rocks, lime hastens their decomposition and
liberates the silicates.
II. Its combination with acids in the soil
produces saline compounds, such as potash
soda, etc.
12. Strewed over your plants, it destroys
or drives away the turnip fly.
-. Worked in with grass seeds the bene-
fetal effects of lime, chalk mari and shelled
sand have been visible for thirty years.
10. Applied to the hot bed, lime etieetually
destroys the seeds of weeds.
To sum its advantages: when properly ap-
piled to the soil, it purifies and stimulates its
actions, thereby promoting the growth Of
healthy vegetation of all kinds.