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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
Farming on Poor Land.

In reclaiming w0rn out lands my plan
may not be the best one, but 1 am salts
fed that it is good one. 1 have been
farming for the past twenty years, be-
ginning for myself in the spring of 1861.
A portion of the farm L went on had
been under the plow for twenty-five
years. The first and second year only
could raise twenty-five or thirty bushels
of corn to the acre. Other crops also
were poor. 1 was not long in finding
out that farming on such poor land did
not pay j saw that something had to
be done, and sowed one of the poorest
pieces on the farm to rye, and seeded it
down, using a liberal amount of clover
seed, and L kept on treating the rest of
the farm in this way year after year.
The first meadow seeded / broke up
in the fourth year and put into corn,
blowing the ground in the fall. During
the past fifteen years have broken up
q piece of meadow and seeded new ont
each year, and in this way the land has
been growing better instead of worse.
During the past five or six years have
raised from fifty to eighty-five bushels
of corn to the acre which satisfies me
that clover is the cheapest and best ma
nure q farmer can use, and this Is the
best way to make old land new. The
manure from the stables is only enough
for the garden and potato patch. With
the quantity of stock keep | can not
make it go farther. And when clover
q SO much better, of what use is it to
employ barnyard manureP This is our
plan, let us hear from others.-C0r.
Pr1iyie Farmer.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
. Hnsking Corn Under Cover.

A large proportion of the corn raised
in the West last saason was injured or
completely lost by allowing it to remain
In the fields where it grew till the COM
ing ofcold weather. Winter commenced
early and continued late. The weather
was extremely cold, and there was an
unusual amount of rain and snow. In
some sections there was no suits BILE sea-
SON for husking corn after the middle of
November. The corn remained in the
hills where it grew orthe stalks were cut
up and built into shocks. In either case
much of the corn was wasted This
season more care has been taken to pre-
serve the corn that has been raised,
partly on account of its scarcity and
partly on account of the losses sustained
last season. In some States many farm
ers have broken the ears from the stalks
with the husks attached to them and
taken them to the barn or other build
ings for safe storage. In some cases
where the amount Of corn raised was
large, and the accommodations under
cover small, the ears with the husks
about them have been placed on coat
ing of straw and covered with straw or
long grass. In the opinion of those who
have tried the experiment the moisture
dries out of the ears better when the
husks are about them. When harvested
and preserved in this way the husking
may be, done under cover at any time
during the winter. The only additional
labor required by this method is that of
handling the husks that remain on the
ears. tbs claimed that the husks, which
can be readily saved when the work of
husking is performed under cover, will
more than pay for the extra labor re-
quired. By having the ears under cover
the husHng may be done during stormy
weather or even in the evenings, and all
danger of loss by exposure to storms
obviated. .-C Chicago Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
Erect Of High Pressure.

A subscriber would ike to know if
feeding cows meal-corn and oats,
equal parts, or clear corn meal alone:
win cause them to run outn after two
or three seasons milking; ''or, in other
words, can you milk a cow as long prof.
litably that is fed twice day on prov
iender as one that simply has her grass
and no extra feedP" Cows which are,
made to live chiefly upon meal do not
last as long as those which live on
grass. A highly stimulating diet for
any animal shortens the duration of
its life. Over-exciting any particular
organ exhausts its functions premature-l
;ly. But a generous diet-one that
fully sustains all parts of the body
contributes to health and longevity.
Cows which have moderate feed of
meal while grazing will give more and
better milk and hold out longer than
those which live exclusively on grass.
This is more especially true with large:
milkers. So large share of their food
lis converted into milk that their bodies
fail to be properly supported With such.
cows moderate feed of meal daily while
at grass gives fuller development of
vigor without undue excitement, and
contributes to the duration of the milk
producing function as well as TO an inn
.proyement in the quality and quantity
of milk. Exhaustion. or a failure to,
fully sustain vital functions, is as fatal
to duration as over excitement or over
lexertion, and from this cause morel
cows have their time of profitable milk
producing shortened from the lack Of
meal than from getting too much while
at pasture.-Prof. L. B. arnold, IN NJ
y Tribune. a
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
What Food Produces Large Yields.

The fact that nearly all published test
records make no mention of the food
given before or during the experiment.
shows how little attention is paid to
;one of the most important considera-
itions in the production of milk and beef,
Some sharp breeders, perhaps, may
neglect to state the food consumed, so
THAT the entire credit may be given to
the cow. They would like to have the,
cow considered as the creator of milk
land butter, and not merely as the ma
Chine to manufacture it out of food.
But the time has gone by when this
kind of miracle is believed in, and the
science of the day requires that every
fact should be stated to give a clear un-
lderstanding of the test. No test is
complete without statement of the
kinds. quality and quantity of food
Igiyen per day before and during the
trial The great question between the
ibreeds, in a dairy point of view, is,
(which produces milk and butter cheap
lest per quantity and qualityP This can
ionly be determined by accurate expert
Iment. and the experimenters on the diff
ferent breeds may as well begin in
;earnest to solve this point, for much is
Host by delayingit- l.c.rHl
oome engines are more economical OF
fuel than others, and there can be little
doubt that some animal machines are
more profitable in production than 9TH
Iers- But it will probably be found,
latter the most accurate tests are made,
THAT all breeds increase in productive
mess as they are improved In capacity
for digestion. and that this capacity
improves gradually as the system of
feeding improv ves.-Natio1saI LiUe Stock
Journal
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
The Royal Egyptian Mammies.

The finding at Thebes of thirty-nine
mammies OF Egyptian royal and priest
ly persouages. which has been hailed in
! Europe as the greatest archaeological
discovery since Sir Henry Lay ard re-
searches at Nineveh, grows in impor-
tance. Two-thirds of the mummies are
now identified BY means of the inscrip-
lions upon their cases and the manu-
cripts found. They are, for the most
part, Kings and Queens, with theiI
children. ranging through four dynas.
ties, beginning with the seventeenth
and ending with the twenty-tirst, or.
stating it roughly, from 1000 to l,70C
b. G. The mummy of the Pharaoh OF
Israel is among these, in a perfect state
of preservation, and the mummy oi
fhotmes I'LL, in whose reign the obe-
lisk that stands in Central Park was
irst erected. The Imagination fairly
alters in the attempt TO realize that
these figures have been brought back
from the vast and shorelesS sea OF
Egyptian antiquity to our own day, and
our very doors. Lotus flowers that
,ook as il they chad been plucked
lew months ago." are found lying in
the wrappings of Kings who were dead
centuries before the Pharaoh of Israel
was born, and the passage of nearly
1000 years has not dimmed the beauty
of the colors of the inscriptions and
peneilings, (which are as bright and
fresh as il the artist had touched them
but Yesterday" This is a wonderful
prize for arch Geological science, the full
meaning of which scholars probably are
just beginning to appreciate.-M y
TRIBUNE
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
HUMOROUS.

=" What we want now is water"
sxclaims q Cincinnati editor. thus Civ
ing to the world for the first time the
news that Cincinnati people sometimes
mix their drinks.-Chtcago TriGtlae.
When Methuselah was only 500
years old his father told him that If he
1idn't stop smoking vile cigarettes he
would die in early manhood. He didn I
stop, and he only lived few hundred
years after that. But boys will be boys
-Norrist0tca Herald. ....I I 70, 80.
Carpenters notices: !. When you
grab saw. let her rip. 2: Square deal
my adze to a mans reputation. s.. You
can brace up bit, without drinking
WHISKY. 4. Nail your loose change for
rainy day. 8. Give your scrutiny to
the small gimlet hole. 6. Be plane
spoken, and chisel no MANY. Y. Net1s
II dotted, Pm free to confess, on her hair
II was wondrously long and SO eharmIng gly
s-.. fair. slT . sLIsr.frr rEr uslll,-
And so when one evening we walked on the
Whispered the tenderest words in her ear.
Then a strong wind uprose, and she blushed
As it Llew ali that beautiful hair or herhead:
sne was 6ald as an egg, and blest that hard
I For disclosing the fact by the shimmerIns
seas. ar1 u.
Punch.
a native of Flint River Township
went limping and groaning to the office
of the new doctor with the blue and
gold sign and the Latin diploma and
the new buggy and the chestnut horse
with a blaze face. 80 1t the rheumatiz,
doc" grosned the patient, ''my whole
back is Jest gone with it; I'm one broad
ache from the back of my neck clean
down 10 the hips. I'm sutier.n' tor
ments unspeakable." Let me see
your tongue" said the new doeto-.
= Ah, YES, l see, see; that will do;
take this prescription. get it filled and
use us directed. -Four dollars" . By
hokey," said the afflicted one. as he
ho5bled away, .'Ef amt the luckiest
man in Flint River. Four dollars for
lookin' at my tongue! An was Jest
on the bare point of askin' him to look
at my whole back" And he breathed
hard rs he thought by what a narrow
escape he had saved his farm. bur
iiIlgi0a HdUkeye.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Tennyson has just passed his 72d
birthday.
-Longfellow has in his time declined
three embassies. yer
The portrait of ex-G Governor Leland
Stanford. of California. which was re-
Gently painted by lMeissonier, cost 5O,-
600 francs, and measures about ten. by
thirteen inches. y
Congressman Robert Vance, Of
North Carolina, has q beaufifih home
on the French Broad River, near Ashe-
vile. Here Mr.. Vance every night
Bible and leading in family prayer.
Mrs. Hathaway, of Wisconsin. who
-read-a line paper Sehopenhauer at
the Concord school, is young German
woman. whose husband is a prairie
farmer aud poet, and has just published
q volume of verse entitled: 1.-The League
of the Iroquois." 80
There was concert at Bergen.
Norway, lately in aid of the Ole Bull
memorial. A full house, great enthusi.
asm and Mrs. Ole Bull and family
present. Miss Emma Thursby, the star
of the occasion. Ten thousand dollars
were put in the fund. tt 49,
Annie Louise Cary seems to have
really left the stage with the intention
of never returning to it. When abe
first said so, it was thought that an in
crease of pay would change her mind.
or that she aimed at some incidental
advertising, but she steadfastly refuses
to make an engagement for next season
on any terms. atta- -ilt'
-One more story about Dean STAN
ley. mo one feels up to his work" he
said one day. al have always thought
that q dean should have three quahfi-
cations, none of which l possess. First
think q dean should know something
about music; am absolutely ignorant
of the subject. Secondly. think q
dean should know something about
architecture; 1 know nothing about it.
Thirdly. think q dean should know
someth ng about the management of
business; am always thankful when
our audit is over and we have not come
20 some grievous mishap." slptl
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Empress Eugenie- viii spend
the winter in London.
AOne of the richest heiresses in Ger
many is Countess Soims, q baby only q
year old. ..- f,.- ttr-- -,
The engagement of Princess Beat
rice, Queen Victoria's youngest daugh-
ter, and Thomas, Duke of Genoa, broth
er of Queen Marguerite of Italy, is ru-
mored. e'', 7A-
-Herwarth Won Bitterfeld is the old
est field-marshal in the German army,
being nearly ninety years old, and hav-
ing served, forseventy, and is still hale
and sound. ,-. E-,c
The owner of several of the finest
palaces on the Grand Canal at Venice Is
one Papadopoli, whose grandfather was
an oil merchant. Meanwhile the de-
scendants of the old Falieros and Con-
tarinis are lodging-house keepers
Emperor William is complaining
because his enthusiastic female admirers
throw bouquets at him so recklessly
whenever he appears in public, On
several occasions he has had the skin of
his royal nose knocked off by the force
of the admiring sweets bestowed. 2
The Siamese Prince Prisdang, clad
in gold-embroidered mantle, violet silk
stockings, gold broidered shoes and
golden hamlet, was one of the chief
guests of the court at the recent festivi-
ties at Vienna. He has presented to
the Princess Stephanie wedding gifts
Of the most gorgeous Siamese descrip-
ton. :-la
Prince Krapotkin, the Nihilist, hav-
ing been ordered to withdraw from
Swiss soil, has taken a villa at Thenon,
on the banks of Lake Leman. Here he
receives many visitors, both men and
women, steamers and railway trains
rarely stopping at the place without
landing party for him. An Ultramon-
tame journal is published in the town,
and raves at Krapotkin's presence there
as though he were Satan himself.
President Grevy is man of much
simplicity and 6onhoDlie. His good
sense and his kindliness are proverbial.
1t is notorious that he holds in horror
capital punishment and looks as care
fully into the cases of wretches asking
for pardons as If ~ were an advocate
engaged to urge II their behalf extenn-
ating circumstances. He was never
known to turn biz back on an old friend
who had not succeeded in life, and as
President he If accessible and courte-
Gus. - His deter 1.'nation that his daugh-
ter should have 40 snowy wedding, and
that the nor sy that one would cost
should be seni to the relief bureau, has
been much applauded in France.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
Butter Color.

If care is taken with feeding in win
ter the butter will get its color in the
natural way. But correspondent asks
us for q recipe for coloring, and so we
reply. We take it for granted that he
/ is familiar with the various kinds of
coloring which are from time to time
advertised in the press. If we deemed
;coloring advisable, we should probably
use some of these ready preparations,
taking care TO get those which had
base and component parts which were
in nowise poisonous. The difficulty
with some of the butter colorings is that
their base is lard. and we do not want
ANY lard in butter. The Rural has been
fighting lard butter for years, and 1t
means lard butter in every shape when
lit says that it is opposed to it.
II coloring is used at all. it should be
added to the cream, and not to the but
ter A homemade color can be pre-
pared as follows: Dissolve annattoine
In potash, using equal quantities, with
water enough to give the strength de-
sired To this may be added, if the
maker chooses. as much sal soda as
potash. Or annatto may be used. IL
lannatto is used, dissolyslit in strong lye
and boil, then strain. and when 1t is.
settled, pour the pure liquid of from
the sediment 1t requires some skill,
however. to prepare the simplest of
color matter. If any one will color do
It sparingiy = Western Rurdt. - =
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
THE DAIRY.

: House slop is not at food for cow.
IT may do very well for hogs but 9
cow is an entirely different animal, and
cannot be fed on slops. A cows stom1
ach is large, and intended to be flled
with bulky food. Greasy house slop
viii not be healthfui for the cow or pro-
duce milk that would be fit for use
Sometimes skinned milk is given to
COWS, which take it readily, and it in
creases the product of milk. Nsa ASys
An English paper says that Ameri-
\ can cheese is arriving in the English
market in very great quantities, from
$4,000 to 10000 gcheeses having been
landed in Glasgow every week during
the last two months. Every lot Is
picked up as soon. as it arrives, the
quality being considered fine. Ameri-
can dairyman will make a huge mis-
take if they spoil this splendid trade by
any lowering of the quality of their
wares for the sake of temporary profit.
AT the close of the season it is 81
usual circumstance that cream requires,
q vast amount of churning to induce it
to become forty-cent butter, and quite
often it utterly refuses to come at all.
This, it is now asserted, can be reme-
died simply by feeding the cows on,
bran at least once day. 1t is quite asl
likely that the fact of cream requiring
more agitation to separate at one season
of the year than another, is due to the
changed condition of the feed as from.
the heightened period of milking. Food,
can be so fed, or different foods furn-
ished, that will change the character oh
the butter, and it is only reasonable to
suppose that the remedy for the long
coming cream can be found in q
change of food, as in scalding the cream,
patent churns, provokingly long times
'' minding the churn." -
A heifer calf, well taken care of
and kept in thriving condition. is the
cheapest COW when she takes her place
in the dairy that q farmer can procure.
One of the mistakes in the past has
been the poor care of the calves, and
from the want of attention poor COWS have
been the result. Milk as rule comes of
breeding and proper feeding, the last of
full equal Importance. After the calf is
a few weeks old small ration of shorts
can be added and this can be increased
to about pound day, when the milk
can be withheld, and if good. fresh
growing grass is provided, the calf will
show no falling of IN growth. A two
year old heifer, when ready to take her
place in the dairy, need not cost more
than thirty dollars to the outside, and
If conditions are favorable, she will pay
for herself the first season When once
this plan has been tried and its benefits
made clear by experience there will be
less grumbling about poor cows bought
out of droves. -.s-er sts
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-21
Scenes in q German University Town.

A delightful experience after arriving
here was that of taking tea at sunset in
the free air of heaven. The table was
set in q garden nook, around which
shrubs grew thickly, and nothing but
bad weather. is allowed to interfere.
German love of outdoor strikes one i'm
mediately. 1t expresses itself in various
ways. There is first the house garden,
and no house seems too mean to have at
least one shade tree, with its table and
chairs, while the gardens of the richer
are often large, and contain many de-
hghtful little hooks. In these it is, a
common thing to see members of the
family gathered of an afternoon. : For
some days had from NV room window
a bird ,s-eye view into one of these gar
dens. The sweet, restful home picture
there 1 shall not soon forget. There,
under =. spreading linden, sat husband,
wife and little daughter, the toilet of
the two latter evidently made for the
occasion. The husband would read,
perhaps, the wife would be engaged with
some light work of house economy, and
the child busted with something suited
to her age. Or, perhaps, the husband
and wife would walk quietly back and
forth as the little girl skipped hither and
thither among the shrubbery. tsIf
were not Alexander, would be Do
genes" If 1 were not an American, I
would be such a German. This love of
the open sky has impelled the German
to make him beer garden, with its
profusion of shrubbery, its gravel walks,
its little tables of wood, iron or stone,
with seats around. Hither on sultry
summer afternoon the careworn ''frau"
will wend her way, the maid will go
along to wheel the little ones, or watch
them as they toddle over the grass. At
ter bit the lunch which was brought
along will be spread, a cup of coffee or
glass of beer can be had at the garden.
This is only one group; there are others
around. This one consists of elderly
ladies, who enjoy their gossip not less
than their coffee. That consists Of a
lady and gentleman; the latter is en-
ployed on some kind of "woman's
work" Don't think now that she was
writing an article for a mission society I;
she was really knitting. The gentleman
reads. He has the appearance of being
q well-to-do man; is possibly profess
sor. The lady must be his daughter !;
she is too young for his wife. Whatever
their relation they seem to be very much
contented, off in their secluded, shady
corner. There is another figure. He
sips his beer with seeming unconcern,
and tries to be at home. He is rather
too unconcerned; he overdoes the thing (;
he is clearly q foreigner; likely an
American just come over, perhaps my
self. : Gottingcn Letter to Baltimore
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An English Army Story.

Our commanding officer, Col. Free
man-retired now these seven years
was a gentleman of very limited knowl-
edge as regards regimental maneuvers,
and as the Onety-oneth had been sta
toned at N for more than n year,
and was apparently forgotten by the au-
thorities, he had no inducement to ex-
tend his acquaintance. Thus, from long
practice, we could go through his half
dozen movements with precision and
readiness that might have been envied
by the smartest corps in the service.
But there we stopped. Beyond those
we knew nothing. You can imagine,
then, our CONSERVATION when we heard
that the officer commanding the district
Lord Pufferoo-was coming TO Off
cially inspect US. Freeman was at first
overcome by the news; but after time
we could see upon his face look of
stern resolve. He had evidently made
up his mind to do something desperate.
The fatal day came at last, as did also
Gen. Lord Pufferoo, " attended by a
brilliant staff" as the newspapers say
We were duly paraded and inspected,
and put through the same old maneu
vers we had performed every day for
the last twelve-months. We deployed
and marched, and marched and de-
ployed, and then began all over again,
till at last the General showed evident
signs of impatience. And then, when
an aide-de-camp came galloping up to
Freeman, we knew our fate was sealed |!
Col Freeman" said the aide-de-camp,
suavely, +" his lordship wishes me to ex-
press his satisfaction with the move
ments so far; nothing could have been
done better. At the same time he
would suggest that something fresh
might be gone through with advantage.
He has scarcely, as yet had an opportu-
nifty to judge of your regiments capa-
bilities." Tell his lordship," said the
old Colonel, hoarsely, "that he shall be
obeyed." We all wondered what was
coming next. Judge of our astonish-
ment when, after getting US into lne
facing the staff, he rode behind ms and
called out: Battalion-withb ball car
fridge, loadi Readyi pre-" Be-
fore he could get out " Present." the
General and his staff had turned tail and
were flying over the field to get out of
rangel Lord Pufferoo went back to his
headquarters at once, and next week
came an intimation to the Colonel that
his resignation would be acceptable
Army and Navy Magazine.