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Connecticut western news., 1880-03-31
THE FARMERS GARDEN.

The farmers garden, says Alex. Hyde, should be larger than has been and still is the common custom. In the olden times, when only one crop of corn, peas, etc., was planted, and half dozen messes only of each of these vegetables were ex- pected in season, garden six or eight rods square might answer, but in these days, when the variety of vegetables has increased so much, and they are in de- mand for the table in fresh condition as many months as they formerly were weeks, little plot does not suffice for their cultivation. A full acre is the least that an enterprising farmer who has 8 family of ten or twelve persons should allot to the culture of vegetables and small fruits, and if he doubles this al- lowance and raises surplus for market he may find that his garden will bring him more profit than his 90 acres as- signed to grass, grazing, and grain. If he lives near what the Yankees call 8 'smart village, he will find no trouble in selling every bunch of asparagus, every peck of peas, and every quart of strawberries and entrants that he can raise. In everything except earliness the Northern farmer has the advantage over his Southern competitor in the fruit and vegetable market. The soil is stronger, transportation and commissions comparatively nothing, and the products fresher and more valuable. Peas brought from Norfolk to the North are wilted and worthless. Peas, in order to be prime,
 must be picked the day they arc cooked,
Connecticut western news., 1880-03-31

The Printing Deficiency bill was passed in the House. Mir. Ellis, of Louisiana, offered . resolution calling for the abro- s&&ion q the Clayton-B Bplwer treaty,
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Corn Smut and Cattle.

In the fall of the year there is always
frequent complaint of cattle dying after
being turned into the corn field, when
husking is done. Usually this fatality
is attributed very enormously to the
fungus or smut so common on the stalks.
One farmer will affirm that he knows
this to be the cause, having seen the re-
suits so plainly, and so many times, that
there is no possible room to doubt it.
Another testifies with equal energy and
certainty that his cattle have eaten corn
smut time and time again, and that not
the least injury has happened. If this
fungus is a poison, it must always
operate in the same way. POisOns do
not work differently in different cases.
Arsenic will poison one man just as
quickly as another, and one animal as
soon as another animal; and if corn
smut can be eaten with impunity by one
herd of cows, it can be eaten with i'm
punity by all COWS. That cattle do eat
it without injury, we know, and so do
many of our readers. So we conclude
that it is not a poison.
The trouble in such cases is not caused
by the smut but by the stalks themselves,
which cause an impaction of the third
stomach. The cattle are turned among
the stalks, and without sufficient water,
are permitted to eat their fill of the dry
over ripe, indigestible fodder. The re-
suit is death and the smut gets the
credit. The same result often happens
from other causes. A sudden change
from dry food to the stimulating fresh
grass of spring, from soft to hard water
or the taking of lead into the system
will cause it.
The symptoms of the impaction, in
acute cases, are drowsiness and stupor,
accelerated pulse and breathing hard
ness and tenderness under the right
short ribs and tremor of the muscles.
At later stage the eyes glare, the ami
NAL moves about regardless of obstacles
often breaking its teeth and horns
against the more solid impediments to
its course and believing fearfully in the
meantime. Death often results in a few
hours.
So far as feeding upon corn stalks is
g cause of this trouble, it may be pre-
vented by not allowing the animal to
feed until it is gorged and by giving it
free access to plenty of water. We al
ways followed this rule, and never had
any trouble with cattle that had eaten
stalks or smut. Western Rural.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
FARM AND FIRESIDE.


Seventy different species of vegeta-
bles with over 400 varieties, are grown
in the gardens of the United States.
Farmers should make their home
so attractive that the affections of the
children will cling to it and return to it
often during their wanderings, as the
sweetest place on earth.
To Turn Horn.-A country paper
thus tells how to turn q horn: Rasp
the horn on the outside if you wish to
turn the horn in. 1t will give life to
that part and increase its growth won
derfully on the side rasped. You can
give the horn any shape you please by
scraping.
Sauce Robert.-Put two medium
sized onions, chopped very fine, with a
large lump of butter, in stew-pan; let
them brown well, constantly stirring
add teaspoonful of -four mixed with
half pint OF good stock; salt and pep
per; cook about five minutes; add a tea
spoonful of mixed mustard and one of
vinegar.
For storing onions, there is no bet
ter place than dry, cool and airy loft,
where they can be spread out thinly
and often looked over for the removal
of those which may have begun to de-
cay. Warmth and moisture are fatal to
the keeping of onions and much hand
ling is almost equally so.
The Country Gentleman says it has
been fully proven by chemical examina-
ton and otherwise, that plants in liv-
ingrooms, or in bedrooms, rather purify
the air than otherwise. Yet they may
in some cases prove injurious in sick
rooms, when the odor is offensive to in
valids, Whatever annoys the sick does
harm to greater degree than healthy
persons can understand.
Black Leg in Calves.-There is no
cure for the disease in calves known as
black leg or carbuncular erysipelas,
when the swellings on the TANKS and
legs have appeared. In fact, cure may
be said to be impossible at any stage,
but prevention is easy. Just at this
time the disease is imminent with calves
taken from poor pasture and taken on
to good feed or into corn stubble. To
prevent danger, give each one ounce of
linseed oil daily for three days, and do
not let the calves overfeed themselves.
"A delicious filling for layer cake is
made in this way: Take a cup of white
sugar, put it into tin basin with enough
water to dissolve it, let it boil until it
will harden in cold water, have a cup
full of stoned and chopped raisins ready,
then beat the white of one egg to a stiff
froth, put with the raisins into the boil
inc sugar, stir briskly, and while warm
put it between the layers of cake, which
should be all ready, having been taken
out of the tins and laid on cloth, so
that you may easily select one which
is nicely Drowned for the bottom of the
cake, and another very smooth one for
the top.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
A Ladies' Bonnet With q BIush.Pr
ducing Attachment.

1t is not every maiden, in these pro-
sale days, who can summon the tell
tale blood to her cheeks at will, or 81
lently reveal by an opportune roseate
flush, those inward feelings to which
many young ladies experience such diff
ficulty in giving verbal expression. But
as the value of the blush, as a high
ly effective weapon in the feminine
armory, is still universally recognized
by the sex, although it would appear to
have somewhat fallen into desuetude.
French ingenuity has been at the pains
of devising a mechanical appliance for
the instantaneous production of fine
natural glow upon the cheek of beauty
no matter how constitutionally lynn
phatic or philosophically Unconditional
its proprietress may be. This thought
full continuance is called 1.-The Ladies
Blushing Bonnet" to the side ribbons
of which-those usually tied under the
fair wearer's chin-are attached two
tiny but powerful steel springs, ending
in round pads, which are brought to
bear upon the temporal arteries by the
action of bowing the head, one exqui-
sitely appropriate to modest embarrass-
ment. and by artificially forcing blood
into the cheeks cause them to be suf-
fused with " the crimson hue of shame
at q moments notice. Should these
ingenious head coverings become the
fashion among girls of the period, it
will behoove ''young men about to
marry to take sly peep behind the
bonnet-strings of their blushing charm
ers Immediately after proposing. in
order to satisfy themselves that the
heightening color, by them interpreted
as an involuntary admission of recipro-
Gated affection. is not due to the agency
of carefully adjusted 4" blushing bon
net. London Telegraph
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

During the next three years the
Episcopalians propose to rise fund of
Sl,0O0,0 900 for church building.
The revival of Carlist ultramon-
tanism in Spain is said to be assisted by
the arrival of hundreds of Jesuits and
friars from France.
The Church Missionary Society has
ordained thirty-seven Maori ministers
in New Zealand, all of whom are still
engaged in pastoral duties.
The English Church Missionary
Society labored for twenty years. before
it could report one convert. Now it re-
ports $4,000.
The Religious Herald, published at
Richmond, Va, saws that four-fifths of
the l, 455, 923, 500 persons in the world
are without God and without hope"
Evangelist Hammond has gone to
Winnipeg, where he will hold revival
services. Winnipeg is the principal city
of Manitoba.
in the Mahratta district of India the
leader of a band of robbers was several
wears ago converted to Christianity. He
studied for the ministry and is now the
pastor of church at Watwal.
The special school at Constantine
pie for the advanced instruction of girls
and the training of teachers and govern
esses has for its principal the widow of
a Hungarian officer who was in the
Turkish service. The public schools
are free to girls as well as boys.
"A German revivalist has come to
the front in the person of the Rev. f.
Won Schleumbach. He has been made
a secretary of the Young Mems Christ
ain Association of the United States, and
is holding meetings in Boston. He is
called the German Moody on account
of slight resemblance to Moody, but
he is said to be better speaker and
logician. His strongest point, however,
is that he is converted atheist, and his
most effective assaults are upon the sin
of uhbelief.
The Tungwen College, of Pekin,
China, has issued its first calendar,
which is an interesting and peculiar
document. The institution appears to
be in fourishing condition, its faculty
numbering twenty professors ndtutors,
b"ClNC DtlLD SilICSC. 1ilC JOIdl
Der of students is 102, being divided in
to four departments-the English,
French, Russian and German-and into
classes of mathematics, astronomy,
mathematical physics, international
law, chemistry and physiology, the en-
tire course of study requiring eight
years to complete. The students are
in receipt Of Government stipend.
Although German children at birth
possess excellent eyesight. the strain
caused by constant studying of the con-
fused and almost indistinguishable Ger
man alphabetical characters soon i'm
pairs it, so that it has been found that
in the schools of Breslau there are two
per cent. of short-sighted pupils in the
primary classes, four per cent. in the
second classes, nine per cent. in the
third and fourth classes, and in the
most advanced classes of the higher
schools the startling proportion of sixty
four per cent. is reached. This can, it
is thought, be best remedied by the
general adoption of Roman characters,
and the Cologne Gazette strongly advo-
Gates the change.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
A Remedy for Malaria.


THE value of vegetable and especial
ly forest growth as factor of both sani-
tary and social economy, is not as gen.
orally appreciated as it ought to be.
The absorptive quality of certain trees
is so great that they make use of many
gases injurious to animal life, and drink
up the liquids from which such gases
are formed. The anti-febrile influences
of the eucalyptus globulus have been
utilized with great gain to health in the
north of Africa, the south of Europe, in
South America and in many of the low
er ATTITUDES of our own country. In
California and in some of the Southern
States, this tree, which grows very rap
idly, is being cultivated for the benefit
of the health of communities, and the
results have been very satisfactory,
banishing fever and ague from many
districts that were formerly cursed by
it. But fever and ague has become
New England as well as Western and
Southern disease. Various causes have
contributed to its development. Al
ready it has done no little mischief in
certain portions of Western Massachu-
sets, and the danger is that it will be-
come neutralized unless some whole
some check can be instituted. 1t has
already reached Springfield and claims
its victims by hundreds. Naturally it
will spread from that convenient center
of radiation and discover its most hope
full field for disastrous operations along
State. In the kind economy of nature
there has been provided corrective for
almost every evil, if it can but be dis
covered. We can not cultivate the eu-
calyptus with any great hope of success
in this latitude, but the willow, which
has many qualities in common with that
tree, has been suggested as an effective
substitute The willow is graceful, and
in other respects, beautiful. In the
summer it sports with the breeZes, and
the silvery sheen of its leaves flashes in
the sun. In the spring it diffuses fra
GRANGE that is worth days journey to
enjoy, and the softness and innocence
of its bloom are full of idyllic and sweet
suggestiveness. But while beauty is its
own excuse for being, the quality of
utility detracts from it in no respect.
A great boon to society is uninterrupted
health, and if the willow will help US to
that it should be planted in generous
abundance in the denuded and marshy
tracts of land formerly covered with
trees, whence the malarial influences
issue. So rapid is the growth of the
willow, that many farmers think it
should be kept under like noxious
weed; but if it will accomplish for man
what is claimed, it ought to be encour-
aged in all its original efforts at growth,
and its area should be largely extended.
At any rate, the experiment involves no
serious consequences, even though it
should fail in its main purpose, and
we advise the afflicted to give the sug-
gestion trial.-BOSton Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
ISt. Louis Times.l

The best investment is in that which will
maintain health. From letter of Mr.. c. w.
Eek, No. 12 S. 5th St., St Louis, Mo-. 1t is
learned that the clerk Of the Money Order
Dept. at the post Office in Alton, his, Mr.. J.
d. Kuhn, suffered for some time with indi-
gestion and all its accompanying evils-a
headache, loss of appetite and dependency,
and was surely becoming q hypochondriac
He commenced the use Of Hamburg Drops
and is now well and strong again.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

"A joint stock company is about to
De organized for manufacture lumber
on mammoth scale, at Shell Lake, on
the line of the North Wisconsin Rail
way. The parties interested have COM
pleted trade for the purchase of a vast
amount of standing pine, which takes
nearly all tributary to Shell Lake,
amounting to between 200,OO0,OOO and
3O0,000,000 feet. They also bargained
for nearly as much more tributary to
the Menomonee, which, in conjunction
with the other deal, makes one of the
largest transfers ever known in lumber
circles
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
1t appears by an Odessa circula

1t appears by an Odessa circular
that the total stock of wheat in that mar
ket is $4,000 quarters, whereas to keep
the mills going until the opening of the
navigation in March no fewer than 600,-
600 are required. Russia, which ordinar
lily exports 40,00O,OO0 quarters will now
have to buy grain. The GOtos gloOmily
points out that there is small ground for
looking forward with any degree of con-
fidence to a good harvest in the future.
The thousand insect pests which, aided
by improvidenca and the communal sys-
tenn, have brought things to their pres
ent pass, have defied the efforts made
to exterminate them, and lie safely hid
den under the snow until spring enables
them to resume their destructive work.
The GoIos puts the expenditure of Rus
STA this year at 26,S43, 461 roubles over
the revenue. Things are altogether in
poor plight tn ere.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

ANOTHER Of the popular errors to be cor
rected is that the African Sahara is a great
desert. On the contrary, It is now pro-
nounced cultivated country, fruitful as the
garden of Eden. All that is now wanted is
proof that Iceland is tropic country, and
that the Rocky Mountains are below the
sea level, in order tc convince the average
citizen that the lime he spent in studying
geogrsrhy in his youth was fooled away
ROSfO3, Post
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

"A stranger in Galveston asked an
old resident how malarial fever could be
distinguished from yellow fever. "Asa
general thing" was the reply, ''you
can't tell until you have tried it. If you
amt alive, then it is most likely yellow
ferPr -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

"A woman at Columbus, Ohio, left a
dish of concentrated I've where her baby
drank some of it. During the several
hours that the little one survived IN
agony, the mother sat motionless, with
her hands over her face, and when it
was dead she arose from her chair a
hopeless maniac.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
Tyalparaiso undl Messenger

An Indiana sPOrtsman's Experience.
One Of the finest kennels in this country,
and the purest in the West, is owned by Mr..
W. II. Holabiri, the Sportsman's Clothier, Of
Valparaiso, Indiana. He says: "We use St
Jacobs Oil in our family in preference to all
other linimcats; have also tried 1t in my
kennel with wonderful resultsn
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

Regulate Grst the stomach. second the liver;
especially the first, SO as to perform their
functions perfectly, and YOU will remove at
least nineteen-twentieths Of all the ills that
mankind is heir to, in this or any otEer eli
mate. Hop Bitters is the only tn ng that will
give perfectly healthy natural action to these
two organs. -HGlIs Farmer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

That gigantic floating palace, the
Livadia, made. in passing from Cork to
Gibraltar. upward of seventeen miles an
hour. while there was a total absence of
any disagreeable motion, her 'pitch'
being but one degree. This may lead
10 a great change in ship building.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
Mrs, General Sherman

Saws: az have frequently purchased Du-
rang's Rheumatic Remedy for friends suffer
ing with rheumatism and in every stance it
worked like magic" 1t will cure when every
thing else fails Sold by all druggists. Write
for ~ page pamphlet to L. X. Heiphenstine,
Druggist, Washington, d. G.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

DO not forget that the old adage,
"Stuff cold and starve a fever"
means that if you do stuff cold you
will have to starve fever. Tannerism
is good for cold. Oranges are good
for fever.-Dr. Foote'S Health Monthly
for November,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
Advantage of Heavy Plates.

The soft bituminOus coal used in the West
is so destructive on all cast-iron that the
heavy plates in the CHARTER OAK COOK
STOVE will be appreciated by hOusekeepers
as well a. dealers. This advantage, with ex-
cellent draft, quick and uniform baking,
make the CHARTER OAK the most desirable
stove in the market.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

in digging a well at Plankinton,
Dakota, the workmen found beautiful
sea shell at the depth of eighty-six feet,
and several well preserved pieces of
timber at one hundred feet below the
surface.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
Best Stove We Ever Used.

After many years. trial, we are satisfied
that the CHARTER OAK is the best Stove we
ever used, and cheerfully testify that it is
the best adapted to the wants Of the general
public Of any stove in the market.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

"How TO Pay Church Debts" is the title
OF new book. If the same methods can be
made to successfully apply to other debts it
will have large Philadelphia Nelcs.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

EVERY Farmer and Teamster should know
that Frazer Axle Grease cures sore necks and
scratches ON horses. Buy it anywhere.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

The Rochester clergy have conclud-
ed to officiate at weddings for nothing
less than IS a couple. The Norristown
Herald asks if they won't make liberal
deduction to a club of six or upward.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

1t is estimated the Minneapolis Mil
lers' Association will convert 25,000,.
900 into wheat this season.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
TO CORRESPONDENT.

All communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the name of the author not
nece-s arily for publication, but as evidence OF
good ntith on the part of the writer Write
onlyon one side of the paper. Be particularly
careful I'm giving names and dates, to bsve an
letters or figures plain and distinct.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

REDDING's RUSSIA SALvE, the most wonder
full healing medium in the world. Price 25c,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

FIRES in the mountains near Ukiah, Cal,
drove the snakes from their retreat, and
many rattlesnakes were killed in the streets
of the pity
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02
The Positive Cure
rsrarl those Painrul Complaints. and Weaknesses

for all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses
socOmmon to cur best female pepal1eiOE-
Il win entirely the worst form OF Female Com
plants, all ovarian trouble Inflammation and Clcera-
ton, Falling and Displaeerents, ard the consequent
Spinal weakness sad Is particularly ada7ssd to the
Change OF Life
1t VIII dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus In
an early stage Of developments The tendency to
csrous humorS there is checked very speedily By its
II removes faintness la-uency, destroys all craving
for stimuants, and relieves weakness Oft stomach.
IL cures Floating Headaches, Nervous Prost-ation,
General Debility, sOe2lcSsncss, Depression and Indi
gestion-
That feeling Of bearing down, causing pain weight
and bacEnche is always permanently cured by its use
1t VIII at all tines and under al circumstances net in
harmony with the laws that govern the female system
For the cureof Kicney Complaints OF either this
Compound is unsurpassed.
LYDIA Z. PTNKHAA'S VEGETABLE COM.
PoUNDis prepared al % and 235 Wcctern Avenue,
LJl ESS Price 81 Six bottles for s.. Sent by mail
IL lie form Of Pills, also in the FORM OF lozel.cs,
receipt OF price, 81 per box for either Grs PinShaIa
freelyGnswers av le..ers Of inquiry. Send for paph-
let. Address az above. Mention this Paper.
No family should be without LYDIA Z. P-NEHAN's
LIVER Pills They cure constiDatiOn bliSCsnesh
and torpidity OF tho liver. &c cents per boz.
50LDRY
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-02

"A poor rider always has an eye on
the name chance.