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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-10
Not an Unusual Event for Hsw Orleans.

Hot sn Unusual Event Tor hew oTiseu''
In the grand monthly drawing Of The
Louisiana Stste Lottery .: New Orleans,
ON July I2th, $4,000, tie frst capital
prize. vss Won by ticket no. ~, liz, ball
held by Jessie Y. Webb, well known
ieveIer on Gay street, West Chester,
Ps the other half by r. s. Kearney, .
;on,neymsn with Warner and SesrIes.
Wsshinston street, vicxsburg, Niss.
sjO. 600, the secosd prize, BY No. 22y6l7.
held by John Benz, No. Z Hope strest,
Utica. n. Y, collected through Grsnnis
A Co.'S Bank there. 5000, the third
prize. by No. 3,547, ball be!d By J...
O'Gormsn, liquor dealer. No. 8 n.
Delaware avenue, Philsdeiphia, the
other BY J. r. Hendrickson, New York
city. $500, the iourth. by Nos. %, ,4bS.
iS.460, held 8. Stein, 8. B. Pond, .
veil known music dealer, Union square,
u. A. Bowen, care Of Richard Morris.
No. 1865 Front street, New York city,
etc. Tbsse are among msSy thousand
fortunate ones- The next dfaving Will
Be Ssptsmbes 18Th. and T. A. Dauphln,
New Orleans, La, should Be written 70
at once BY any inquirss on thet subiece
who vanis 10 venture q o. e o. ths
matter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-10

coin per cent discount.
GovERSNENTs-Quiet and firm.
Skies, extended n
New Four-snd one haIb, coupons ............llils
New foun, ...... .. .. --ll51
Pacific Skies OF %
RAILROAD BoSDs-In the railroad
bond market Iron Mountain SIS ad-
vanced to 93t, from 9l: Ohio and Mis-
sissippi seconds to i23!, from 1901; and
Galveston, Houston and Henderson
firsts to 76, from IS; Lake Erie and
Western firsts declined 10 100, from ll2;
Richmond and Allegheny firsts to los,
from 100; and G. G: & |. G. incomes TO
7S, from 70. Western railroad agents
are arriving TO be ready for the meeting
which Commissioner Fink has called
for tomorrow.
STATE SECURITIEs-Dull.
SroCXs-The market was dull again
to-day. In the early dealings prices ad-
vanced i@li per cent, the latter for
Texas Pacific, but before noon n reaction
Of t@l per cent. took place, in which
Canada Southern was the most promi-
nent. During the afternoon speculation,
although inactive, was fairly strong and
continued 30 until after the second
board, when there was recovery OF Ia
II per cent, the latter for Nashville and
Chattanooga. In the final sales the mar
ket was a shade weaker and some shares
recovered the fractional decline.
Transactions, l59, 900 shares.
The Commercial says: Before the frs
call this morning, one passing the Produ'e
Exchange would have supposed that
there was a Variable beer garden inside
or that a genuine bull.fght was in pro.
gress from the bowling and shouting aud
bedlam in the wheat corner over the
sudden and wide fluctuations in that
market here and at Chicago. Up this
market followed like the tail OF Kite 10
| per cent. as strong as at Chicago was
let out. then down It came Il per cent
as suddenly as the string was pulled in
or broken, leaving the bulls almost in 4
panic. But before they could all climb
over each other 10 sell ont up she rose
again and gave them courage to hold on
till the first call at which the clique
steadied up three fourths OF cent from
the bottom. After the call there WAS
another pow WOW up stairs and II took
ceded by the best posted grain dealers
here that allowing for the short crops
every where the result Of an August
corner in Chicago will be the price Oh
the crop on August 81.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-10
BUYING AND SELLING.
GENERAL MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

Money Easy at2l.2t to 3 Psfcsnt-Gov.
ernments Quiet and Firm Flour
Quiet and Steady-whsat Un-
settled and Lower
Hogs Steady.
FlNANCE.
New York.
NEW YoRK. August 9.-Mox.v-Mar.
ket easy at 2I@S per cent Prime mer-
camille paper S!tS4i per cent Sterling
exchange. bankers bills weak at 4s2i;
demand 4s4l.
SrLvER-At London slid per ounce;
bar silver here ll2t; subsidiary silver
coin per cent discount.
GovHRNNENTs-Quiet and firm,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-10
PRODUCE.

sNo sales. t0Gere !.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

Among the questions asked at the New
Britain convention was one about flies injur-
ing apples, and now receive by mail from
Berlin the following reference to the post al
luded to:
Files injnring apples-For three seasons
past it has been almost impossible TO find a
mellow, early apple not infested by these
maggots. II makes but little differBncs wheth-
err the apple be sweet or sour The last sea-
son has been the worst. have two trees in
my garden of a reddish, early sweet apple of
very fine eating or cooking qualities but they
have become worth very little to me, and last
summer did not try baking them but once
Early Sour Bough and North American Best
were Affected in like manner, as WAS also the
Red AstraehRn, though not so badly. Golden
Sweets did not escape, aud those who ate the
most of this kind after being baked got the
most larye. Other apples suffered, especially
an early variety called the "Orange" Many
winter apples that mellowed carly were more
or less infested, Cannot say as pears were
much troubled by the flies, but think they
were some. Now would inquire if you are
troubled in like manner, and if there is any
way to prevent their rayages ?"
Answer.-The apple maggot is compare
lively new enemy in apple culture. 1t is
not noticed in Harris's work on "Tnsects in
furious to vegetation" or in Downing s
Fruits and fruit trees" first saw it in an
orchard in Rhode Island, affecting variety
called lifts Smut, which the owner stated
were worthless from this pest This was
about twenty years ago. Since then it has
become quite common in some parts of this
state, and have seen it on the Hudson. |
think it thriyes best on light soil. l never
have seen it on my own farm, yet q friend
some years since reported finding specimens
here. 1t cannot have multiplied more, or we
should have noticed it. do not find the sci.
entifc name or description, but it is probably
the larva or small, twO-winged fly. Mr..
Augur, in the report of the board of agricul-
ture for 1872 says; ''The apple maggot il
an insect which, should it become general,
would be very destructive. It perforates the
apple through and through in all directions,
spelling it, The habits of this worm are be.
ing studied, and will soon be better known.
A safe preventive is TO destroy all Larvae and
all affected apples"
should be pleased to hear from all parts
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

A well-written agricultural paper published
anywhere is interesting but it is seldom that
one made far away from his farm is of any
practical use to the farmer. Our farming
should be adapted to our soil, climate and cir
cumstances, and so should our reading.
Reduce as far as you can the amount of
fencing upon your farm, and put that which
is necessary to keep up in good substantial
order. Fences at best are dead capital, a
great and constantly recurring expense.
Michigan produced last year 80, 9S3, $40
bushels of wheat asimilar proportion of 9TH
err cereals and fruits, 1895, 900 gross tons of
iron ore, 81, $40 net tons of ingot copper,
2,67G,000 bushels of salt, o. 800, 900 pounds
of wool and 3, 800, 000 900 feet of lumber.
'Get out of the rut" is the advice of tho
New Orleans Times to the Louisiana farmers.
The maxim, Nothing ventured, nothing
gained, is as true in its application to farm
ing as to stock jobbing.
George Geddes of Paramount, N. Y, who
feeds about 1000 bushels of grain annually,
after 80 years experience says he is satisfied
it is worse than lost labor to grind cobs for
cattle, and that corn should be ground as fine
for stock as for bread, the object being TO SO
reduce the grain that it can be the most read
lily acted upon by the gastric juice of the stom-
ach.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28
some,hInr ahou, soIdsrInr.

Milk pans pals, and many other tin house
hold utensils, will ge. leaky and need repair
ing Bits Of rags and splinters Of wood etc,
give temporary amendment in certain cases
but the only permanent method is to use sol.
der. A soldering Exit consists of a solder
ing iron of copper, weighing about ~ ounces
a fiat 10-inch file, rather coarse; a scraper,
and 3-square file ground TO three scraping
edges for an inch from the point. A bottle
of soldering fluid will also be required, and
little rosn and some sal-ammoniac Last,
and not least few sticks OF solder Direc-
tions for soldering: The iron" must first
be timed, that is, covered with thin coat of
solder. To do this, heat the iron somewhat
above the melting point Of solder. File one
side of the bevelled portion smooth, and touch
it Immediately with rosin and soldering fluid,
and then with solder, and wipe smooth with a
rag File and "tin" the remaining portion.
When done, the surface should be completely
covered with solder. Another way is to heat
the iron nearly to redness, and rub it upon
the sAl-ammoniac with solder in contact,
when no filing will be necessary. This tim
ming must be repeated whenever the thin
coating of solder is removed by over-heating
OF the iron, which is quite likely TO occur.
Now to the work Wherever it is desired to
attach solder, the parts must be clean. If the
surface is not already bright and clean, it
must be made SO by appropriate means.
Here the scraper will generally be of use.
Having scraped the surface, apply with stick
some Of the soldering fluid, or, instead Of SOL
dering fluid, some rosin, TO the parts to be
soldered. Meanwhile the iron has been heat
ing in the cook stove; not TOO hot, for then
the solder is too fluid and you cannot pick up
portion with the point Of tho iron. Take
the iron from the fire, wipe with a rag, or
dip momentarily into a weak solution Of sal
ammoniac. Touch the iron to the solder; if
the heat is right, a small portion adheres, and
is placed upon the spot where it will do the
most good. 1.-THE tendency to use too much
solder should be guarded against.) If the
iron is not hot enough, warm it some more.
The iron must remain in contact with the
place where the solder is to stick until the
surrounding parts are at the temperature of
melted solder. With the above utensils and
directions almost any person can mend
milk pan or ordinary utensil. though there
would be much of soldering still to learn
Old tomato cans would be good to practice on
until the art is acquired. DIS, H., in amer
lean Agricultural
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

To sweep and dust a room properly is an
art, and like all fine arts has a right method
Well done, it renovates the entire room and
the occupant takes possession feeling that
"all things have become new"
1t is not merely performance to be done
by the hand but work into which taste and
judgment-in other words, brains-must en-
ter. Are there closets opening into the room
to be swept? Arrange the shelves, drawers
or clothing, preparatory to sweeping day,
then let this be the first to be swept Cover
the bed with soiled sheets, as also all heavy
articles that cannot be removed, first, howev-
er, having carefully busted and brushed
them. Remove all the furniture that can
easily be set in the hall or adjoining room,
having first busted it then take a step ladder,
begin to sweep or brush, or wipe the cornice
and picture cords and pictures. Draw the
shades to the top of the window, or if there
are inside blinds, dust them carefully. Open
the windows. All the dust left in the room
now is in the carpet or air, and the windows
will soon settle it.
Now begin to sweep, not toward door or
corner, but from the outer edge of the room
toward the center, where the dust will be
taken up with small brush and dust pan
Go over the room once more this time with
q dampened broom that removes the bits of
dust and gives heScarpet a new, bright ap-
pearance. Replace the articles of furniture
as soon as the air is entirely free from dust,
uncover the rest, and the room is new and
clean. All this seems an easy thing to do, but
there is not one in hundred who will follow
out the detail. Some will sweep the dust in
to the hall or from one room to another, and
then wonder why their house is so dusty
again. Others forget cornice and pictures,
and thus leave seed Of future annoyance !;
while third class will do all but using the
damp broom, which is as the finishing touch
es to picture. and Garden.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Last Fri
day the new State Board of Agriculture met
at the Weldon House, St. Adams, to talk
over plan of operations and arrange for
series of winter meetings. Gov. Farnham,
President Buckham, H. A. Cutting of Lunen-
burgh, Henry Lane of Cornwall, E. NJ. Good
win of Hartland, NJ. W. Davis of Westmin-
ster and II. F. Lathrop of Pittsford were
present. Gov. Farnham was elected chair
man and Mr.. Cutting secretary for the term
of two years. About two hours were spent
in the discussion of plans of work. MAORI
ty advocating holding meetings only where
they are invited, and some desire is express
cd to have them, and minority being of the
opinion that the work should be of q mis-
sionary character, and the meetings held fire.
quently where the most good would result.
1t was finally decided to appoint two meetings
and arrange others later. The season is al
ready well advanced and all that it is hoped
to accomplish is to hold one meeting in each
county, at such places as there is an interest
manifested in agriculture by the establish
ment of farmers clubs, or an expressed pur-
pose of forming such in preference to places
not having or desiring such, to be conducted
before spring by the board with the assist
ance of local talent the first meeting of the
board will be held at Lunenburgh, Essex
county, on the let and I'd, and the second at
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

The calves will soon begin to come and
we ought to raise ALL or at least most of
them, certainly all the heifers and the more
promising bulls. How to do this successful
ly, and yet have the use Of the cows milk, 80
much needed at this time for either family
use or for market is the vexing problem
By the aid of the experience of others, added
to little hard thinking of our own, we are
just now doing this very thing, and to our
entire satisfaction. Thinking it may help
others out of a tight place, we will tell how
we manage. OF course, we let the calf suck
three or four days, until the milk becomes fit
for use. This for the benefit of both COW
and calf. When all danger of "cake" in the
cows bag has ceased, and the calf is well on
its legs, we remove it as far from the COW as
possible, tie itup in a comfortable place with
a strap and rope, and let it remain "a hours
without Offering it anything to eat. At this
time we take little new fresh milk in q
bucket, fasten it securely within reach of the
calf, put its nose in the milk once or twice,
and then leave it. In the course of half an
hour or so the milk has disappeared and the
calf is weaned. Continue the new milk for a
week or ten days, and then begin adding
skinned milk in small quantities. Day by
day increase the skinned milk, and diminish
the new, until by the time the calf is three
weeks old, you have it on skinned milk en-
tirely. OF course, skinned milk is too
thin" TO grow calf upon to the best ad-
vantage, and when we have got TO the point
at which one-hslf of its daily feed consists of
this, we enrich it by adding small quantities
of a thin cruel made by boiling equal parts
of fine corn meal, oil meal and middlings in
water. We have half Attorney calf, six
weeks old on the day of this writing, which
has been So far raised on precisely this plan,
and we could not wish it to be in better con-
dition. By the time it was three weeks old
we were feeding it principally on skinned
milk, with the cruel added, and since it was
four weeks old it has had no new milk at all
Without having kept any record, we are con-
WINGED that the butter already sold from its
dam will more than pay for all the calf will
have cost when it arrives at four months of
age.
Tho one thing to be remembered is that
the changes in feed must be made by easy
stages, a little at time, day by day-rather
than in larger quantities and at longer peri
DDS. -EJchdnQe
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

Every intelligent dairyman knows that a
COW in good condition when she comes in will
be much more profitable during the milking
season than if poor. The tendency of good
COW is to turn all the food she can spare into
milk, and she will often draw on her own
body to increase the flow of milk If she is
in fine condition on coming in, this extra
weight of flesh will be drawn off in milk dur
ing the season. When he is putting weight
upon his COWS during the winter, he is as GER
tainly producing milk as when he feeds dur
ing lactation. This extra flesh represents so
much milk, and may be safely calculated at
six pounds OF milk for every pound of extra
flesh she puts ON aud besides this deposit of
milk in the body, subject to future draft, she
will be able to apply more of the food she
eats during the season to the production of
milk. If she is poor when she comes in, then
she must apply to her own wants some of the
food that might otherwise go to the produc-
ton of milk. But care must be taken not TO
give too much corn meal or other heating
food while she is dry, for this may put her
system into such feverish condition as to
cause milk fever after coming in. The best
of care should be taken of COWS while dry
National Lire Stock Journal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28
Agricultural.
Agricultural Ll,era,ure.

II IL only within a comparatively short time
that the mass Of farmers have been directly
aided by a literature devoted TO the special
tics Of their calling. or all the vast numbers
that reared 1ocks aud herds or titled the soil
before the commencement Of the present cen.
tury, probably not one in a thousand ever
read an agricultural book, or was directly in
debted, in any degree, TO letters for whatever
knowledge of his business be possessed. His
own experience and the traditions of his faith
ers were his only guide. There was time,
it is true, in the history of Rome when agri-
culture was honored, and few Latin books
on rural subjects dating from this period
some of them, like Virgil, more poetical than
practical-have been handed down to us. A
few other works on kindred subjects are found
in the ancient Greoian literature, and some, it
is said, in the Eastern languages; but, as all
books at this time and for many centuries af-
ter were in manuscript, and very costly, only
the favored few had access to them, or could
read them if they had. All the agricultural
literature Of past generations, though serving
progressive purpose in its time, is of no
value now except as a matter of history its
whole ground, and much MORE is covered by
later writers in the numerous books and peri
odicals of the period-writers having the ad-
vantage Of kno Wedge of new inventions,
of improved machinery and methods of cul-
ture, and Of all the late discoveries of science
as applied to agriculture
Books treating of every nameable specially
connected with the farm are now published
and read by thousands. Newspapers and pc
riodicals, either specially devoted to agricul-
ture or having an agricultural department,
circulate millions of copies. Nearly every
farmer in the land, not wholly illiterate, reads
one or more of these periodicals. The circu-
lation of this class of papers has increased
tenfold within the memory of middle-aged
men. There is a growing appreciation of
their merit among the farmers of the country.
Yet there is one notable fault in these papers,
The greatest present need Of their agricultu-
raj literature is less diffusiveness. Every pos
sible question having any relation to the farm
or to the culture of the soil, near or remote,
is written threadbare in the agricultural jour
mails. All that is worth noting, writing or
reading in many of the column-long articles
and editorials that appear every week, in the
aggregate by hundreds, might be condensed
into half-dozen sentences, and not few of
these long articles would disappear entirely in
the process Of condensation-like rain-water
boiled for sugar. The space given on this
side of The PHOENIX is amply sufficient to con-
tain the cream of all that appears in the agri,
cultural journals-all that is new and valua-
BILE, with much that is valuable but not new.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

The Commissioner of Agriculture has
closed negotiations for securing a farm in
South Carolina on which to establish the ex.
pertinent of tea raising. The owner grants
lease TO the United States Of 200 acres for
twenty years, situated in Colleton county.
The understanding is that at the end of the
lease all permanent improvements made on
the premises by the government shall be al
lowed to remain and become the property of
the lesser. The superintendent is TO be Mr..
jackson, who is now planting tea near Sa-
vannah, and who has had experience in tea
culture in Iudia. Forty acres Of the farm
are at present cleared land, which will at
once be prepared and planted in seeds and
plants. As fast as the land is prepared for
cultivation, more seed will be planted and
more plants set out Tho work will of
course depend on appropriations by Congress
Five thousand dollars is left of the last APP
preparation, and an additional one of $50, -
900 is hoped for. 1t will take three
years for the garden to reach a bearing con-
dition. At the end of five years it is expect
ed that the yield will be about four hundred
pounds per acre. The climate is described
as being very similar to those sections of Chi
ma where the best qualities of tea are mado
and manufactured PLougdmaR.
Commissioner lie Due says "Tho work
will be pressed as rapidly as the appropria-
tions of Congress will permit We now have
left of the last appropriation about $5OOO
and we expect to secure another approprin-
ton soon Of $4,000. Nearly all of these
amounts will be expended upon this farm
1t will take three years for the garden TO
reach a bearing condition. At the end of
this time we expect to have tea to put upon
the market, and ut the end of five years, if
the soil comes up to our expectations, the
yield will be about four hundred pounds of
tea to the acre. Upto seven years the plants
give an increased yield, and they will not be
required to be renewed for many years. The
renewal is made by cutting down the plants
and allowing them to grow up from the roots.
The chief expense in the establishment OF the
farm will be the hoeing and manurin of the
plants, the picking of the leaves and the man.
ufacturing of the leaves into the several quail
tiles. In due course of time, as soon as nee
essary, all requisite drying sheds and other
buildings will be erected, and all necessary
machinery will be put up. When the farm is
thoroughly established it will give employ
ment to large number of persons. 1t will
take time and careful cultivation, but am
satisfied that we will attain complete success
The locality is healthful, and the climate is
wonderfully similar to those sections of Chi
ma where the very best qualities of tea are
raised and manufactured.