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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

Mail Southwark, Connects at Charlottesville with
Ches, 4 Ohio K, x, last and vest At Lynch
burg. connects VITA NOrfols and Western Il. L.
through Southwest virginia, to Nashville. New
Orleans Memphis, Little Rock and lexas-and at
Danviue with Richmond * Danyiue Il, Il, to South
ana Southwest.
Express southwark connects at Charlottesville
to all points on Cbes K hiO and az Danyile for
all points SOUTHEAST aud south.
MIXED TRAINS for Main Line leave Alexan-
dria daily, except sunday, Oh NJ and IL IS ID.
aud returning arrive at Alexandria u UO ? IN and
235 N.
For MANASSAS LINE leave Washington 7 10 a
N aud Aiexandria 50 m daily, except sunday,
arrive Ut Strasburg at IL % N, connecting with
the Valley Road Last and west, Leave sttasburg
81 In, arriving at Alexandria at q So p u.
MIXED TRAIN FOR MANASSAS DIVISION
IN, arriving at 1t ssOurg at . Us IN. and returuir :
at 50pm.
For Niddeburg, daily connection at Plains sta
ton.
For UpperSille, regular connection ct Delap'ane
For WAkhENION, leave Washington At ~ d
m, daily.
All trains make good connections, at Washing
ton, to and from North anu vest.
New Orleans sleeper leaves Washington at 10
a N running through without change.
On Express train, leaving washington at 10 90
p m Marks Adjustable Reclining Lbair Car, with
extra charge only 81, through 10 Danyiile
Pullman sleepinn Cars between Washington
and savannah Ga. without change, on DO % train.
Through tickets very low to the South aud
Southwest,
Feb. ST. MERCER SLAUGHTER eta
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

Thos. L. Mitchell of Bristol Ferry
R. L, writes: Ny experience in
land draining convinces me that the
pipe and collar with the earth
pressed hard upon them is the best
method. Ny stone drains very
often stop from springs flowing in
from below, and the consequent
crumbling in. Many of the latter
are now useless.
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RaiIroad advertisements.
Aug. StIi, 1881
CHESAPEAKE IL OHIO R. ~.
Passenger Trains run as follows:

no. MAIL.-Run daily except Sunday from Rich
mond 10 Huntington daily, William sCn's t.
Huntington connects at Lynchburg junction for
Lyuchbuig Danyil and Bristol; at Wayues bOro
for Luray cave; and ut Ashland, KY, with all rail
for Cincinnati and the West.
No. kXPkESS.-kuns daily from Richmond e.
Huntington; connects at Lynchhurg junction f0r
Lynchburg and Washington; at Hubh ngton With
steamers for Cincinnati and tho West.
No. ACCOM-Leayes Richmond daily except
Sunday at 80 P. NJ and arrives at Char lotesyile
A p. NJ.
No. q MIXED Leaves Charlottesville daily ex-
cept sunday at4 40 P. NJ. and arrives stanton
$50 p NJ.
No. q PASS Leaves Cannelton at 3 30 A. NJ.
daily except Sunday, and arrives Huntington ~
A. NJ.
f., L. b. s. r. r. TRAINsrun dolly.
G., Ii. s. Z. +. STEAMER leaves Huntington
daily.
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pound OF sugar 70 the same guam
THY. To cook the skins in the
syrup toughens them. The sugar
must be put in last but to facilitate
matters in canning, the skins can be
cooked in the water at the sam
time the pulp is stewing. In eithe'
cascade the sugar when the skins
are well softened, stir until dis .
solved LET all boil up well. and seal
up immediately in alright jars.
GRERN GRAPE PRESERVES.
{ Cut the fruit enough to pick the
seeds out; allow an equal measure
of fruit and sugar, make a syrup
boil the fruit in it until clear, and
seal up in air-tight jars.
OUNCE PRESERVES.
Pare core and quarter fine large
ounces. Lay aside all inferior and
badly shaped pieces. Cook the
fruit in water enough to cover, hav-
ing first weighed it. Allow three
quarters Of a pound Of sugar. Make
this into a clear syrup, and when
the fruit is easily pierced With a
straw, drain it from the water and
put it, while still hot, into the
boiling syrup; seal up in air-jars'
Can ounces in the same manner
using less sugar.
OUNCE MARMALADE.
Put the cores and skins into the
water in which the ounces were
boiled; add more if necessary. and
cook, closely covered, until soft,
then strain through sieve. To
this add the reserved quarters
(Which should have been boiled with
the others and cut into bits), and
sugar in the proportion of three
quarters of a pound to pouad Of
fruit. Cook slowly, being careful
not to burn, until the mixture looks
clear and grows thick when cold.
Put into small jars. Both mar
malade and jelly made of ounces
become frmer with age, for which
reason it should not be boiled
down too much in the first place,
CHILL SAUCE.
Half peck of ripe tomatoes, six
large onions, and four red peppers
chopped together. Add two cups
of sugar, four Of vinegar, a tea
spoonful each of salt and ground
mustard, and two teaspooniuls each
Of cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nut
meg and cloves, Boil tor an hour,
strain through coarse seive and
bottle for use. The same sauce
made of green tomatoes should be
bottled without straining.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

SOUTHERN PLANTER AND FARMER
the Oldest and Ablest Agriculture
Journal in the South, Subscription,
eco year, Richmond, Va.
We Will furnish this excellent and
dopalar Agricultural Journal, with our
paper one year for $3.50, or six months
70 $3.50. Everyiarmer should have it.
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No. 2. Mail. No. 4 Express
EASTWARD.
c.D. $. & p. p. sTEAMER leaves cincinnati

T. Is. ~ * +. Z. STEA MER leaves Cincinnati
daily.
L. L. & D. s. r. r, TRAINS run daily.
No. Msil-Runs daily except Saturday from
Huntington to Richmond: daily, Huntington to
Williamson's W, & G.. and SciOtO Valley r. K. from
Cincinnati and the West connect at Ashland with
Mail Train No. 2; connects at Waynesboro for the
North; at Lynchburg Junction for Lynchburg and
Bristol.
No. 4. EXPREss.-Runs daily from Huntington
to Richmond; connects at Lynchburg Junction Tor
Washingtod and the North, and Lynclburg and
Da1yille.
No. 6 ACCOM.-Leaye Charlottesville daily ex-
cept sunday at 4. A a. and arrives Richmond
800 Ia. m.
No. % AITXED.-Lsaves Staunton daily exceut
Sunday at 500 a. M and arrives Charlottesville at
$50 a. m.
No. 70 leaves Huntington at 3.0op. m. daily ex-
cept Sunday, and arrives Jannelton 1t loop. IN.
For Rates, Tickets. Baggage Checks, apply to
II. W. FULLER, @. W SMITH,
G. p. & 7. A. Genl Manager.
II. =. SUMMERoON,
Ticket Agent Siaunt0n, Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

EGGS from hens partakc in a
gseat degree of the flavor and quail
~ Of the food, proving that they
should be fed on clean, wholesome
food. One may get onions instead
Of eggs by feeding liens on onions.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21
Good Leather.

An who are In want Of good home-tanned calf
and kipskins should call on or address Y. g OFT
az the old glove stand in Woodstock, where you
viii find the cheapest and best skins in the mar
ket. He would ask the especial attention Of shoe
makers and leather dealers to his large stock, as
be viii sell by the dozen or haf dozen at Bal Il
more prices. few reliable merchants In the
county having good leather trade, will be allow
ed liberal mission to sell leather aud bay in
hides.
lie takes no short cuts in tanning his leather but
has it taken through the old process, BY that well
known and exprocess, tanner,
ROBERT L. NEWMAN.
Oct 1T
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

SCHEDULE FERRY L VALLEY BRANCH
- Is. * .. II AZ.
Taking Effect May 23 1850.
NORTH.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21
A New SUBSCRIBER
CANNING FRUIT.

Is such a simple process that 1t
seems strange it should ever prove
so troublesome and risky. Failures
are generally due to defective jars
or rubbers. These latter after a
season or two lose their elasticity
and become so loose as to be OF no
avail in excluding the air. The
FIST step in canning should be to
see that the jars are sweet and clean
the ruIbers whole and close-ftting
and the top in good working order.
Place two jars in dish with
folded towel saturated with cold
water under them. Put a silver
spesn in each jar. Use canfller,
(Which is tin with sloping sides
and no bottom. fitting irto the top
Of the jar. and a Isdle, a small
pitcher if you have no can filler.
When the fruit is ready, fill the jar
fall, move the spoon around Ito let
out the ain and remove If, then fill
the jar to overhowing with juice, land
screw on the top as speedily as pos
sible. When all are full wash the
jars and wipe them dry, give the
tops an additional turn as the glass
cools and contracts and loosens
them, then turn them upside down
TO stand over night. Label the
jars, put them in cool, dark closet
and If the work is properly dere you
will never hear a single fzzle'-
After the fruit is used the rubber
will be kept in better condition if is
put, clean and dry, inside OF the
jar, which should also be thorough
ly cleansed and put away with the
top screwed on. Mason's jar as
good as any.
A coed rule for canning most
fruits is pound OF sugar and
cup OF water for every three pounds
of fruit. Make the syrup and cook
the fruit in it until tender and well
heated through. Use a porcelain
or granite kettle and silver or
wooden spoon.
GRAPE JAM.
saWhen the grapes are thoroughly
ripe. tenn, then weigh and allow
half pound of sugar to each
pound of fruit. Push the pulp
Pom the skins, and stew it in
porcelain kettle uEtil it can be easily
s,par. Cd from the seed by strain
ing T. ugh seive. Put the strain
ed PIT with the skins and juice
and lie water into the kettle, and
cook, loosely covered, until the
s'sins are tender. If you were going |
to can them you would add a tea
cup or more Of water for every three
loun Is Of fruit and allow only al
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

A little oil OF cloves poured into
a bottle containing gum mucilage
viii prevent it from becomings our.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21
Important Farmers.
.:O:-

Farmers increase your crops by buying a
Superior Grain and Fertilizer Drill which
will distribute your Grain and Fertilizers
regularly without punching
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SOUTH.

Train 63s and $50 daily all other trains daily
except sunday. Train go and 6i5 connects at
Strasburg with train On Va. Midland Road. No.
sos runs to Baltic. via Washington without change
Passengers for Jordsns Springs leave at stephen
sons, for Rock Enon leave cars at Winchester for
Oapon SPRING. leave cars at Capon Road, for
Orkney Springs leave cars at Mt. Jackson, for
Rawley Springs leave cars az Hsrrisenburg. Par
ties visiting New Market and Luray Caves leave
cars at New Market.
w. NJ CLEMENTS, II. Of T.
I'm MANTZ, S. Oft.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

These drills are nicely balanced, durable,
have IA inch solid iron bottom in Ferti
lizer box heavily galvanized and have galya
nized stirrsrs. No extra wheels to be carried
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

60 A WEEK, sl2day at home easily made
y = Costly Outfit free. Address True Co.
Augusta Maine Dec. s.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-21

VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILWAY
JOHN S. BARBOUR, Receiver.
On and after SUNDAY, June Il, 1881 Passengers
trains will run as follows:
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TESTIMONIALS

SAUMSVfLLE, Va, July &c. 1881.
Messrs. J. Rhodes 4 Son.
Gentlemen:-Tke
Superior Grain and Fertilizer Drill bought
of YOU last fall has given entire satisfaction
in every particular. 1t is evenly balanced.
draft light, and strongly built. The force
feed grain and grass seeders. and the ferti-
lizer attachment are all that could be dssir-
ed all ofthem performing with great regu-
lartiy and accuracy. Indeed. 1t IS the drill,
and the farmer can make no mistake IN buy
ing it. Yours truly,
We the undersigned having bought and
used the Superior Grain and Fertilizer Drill
last fall, can cheerfully recommed it to any
one wanting good drill for the following
reasons.
1t is a positive force feed drill. The stir
rers are in the bottom of box and make full
revolutions assuring regular distribution OF
fertilizers.
The quantity of grain to be sown can be
changed without stopping team or changing
wheels.
For convenience, ease ofmanagement. light
draft. strength &c. we believe it is wit bout
an equal,
S. E. HAUENFLUCK, S, A. SHAVER,
JNO. HAUSENFLCK, NJ. SRCKLER,
VIM. H. BAUSERMAN. G H0CKMNA'
SAM'L HICKMAN.
July 18th 1881
NEAR STRAsBURe, Va. July 10 1880,
Mcssrs, J. Rhodes 4 Son.
The Superior Drill
bought Of you last fall has done good work
used it over the toughest land | ever saw
without any bresksge. In my opinion it
the best drill ever saw or used for co
venienee and light draft. The fertilizer a.
tachment you cannot recommend too highly
to those %ho may want to buy drill.
7s.rs. kc. H.G. HUFF
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Plain and Fancy Brides.

Plain and Fancy Brides.
Saddles will be furnished at prices
as low as they can be purchased at
Winchester or IN the Northern cities.
This class of work will be put up in
the same style as northern work, and
made of some similar material. It
will be hand made, and warranted So
perior to Northern work of the same
price.
Returning thanks for past favor 1
respectfully solicitA continuance of
rustom.
E. GRARILL.
IA 80
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PIANOS
,IHRIIEE ORGANS
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SHEEI the DAY
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Dry Earth Bedding.


If any one will observe when the cows
choose to lie down in the yard or pasture,
it viii be seen that they choose the bare
ground rather than the sod or bedding of
straw The same is true of sheep, We
have taken this hint and furnished the COW
stables with dry earth bedding. Leaves
and straw are poor absorbents In compari-
son. In the pig pens dry earth has no
equal In very cold weather weadd straw
or leaves, but until the weather is very cold
the animals viii be more comfortable with
a bed of fresh soil or with soil changed
once fortnight or week In the chicken
house we have learned its great value as a
deodoriaer Our roosts are over a sloping
floor, on which we occasionally scattered
dry earth. The droppings roll down into
a pile Of dry earth. This Is turned over
with a shovel each week or oftener, and We
can say the chicken house is free from any
offensive odor, and the bright combs and
glossy feathers tell of the health of the
fowls. Dry earth is good preventative,
too, of vermin on cattle, pigs and poultry
Ii mast be procured at dry time, and
stored under sheds or in the stables. Itnot
only promotes neatness and health, but
saves the very elements of the manure
which make them most valuable, and most
Of which would evaporate if not absorbed
by the dry earth. We do not like 1t as a
bedding in the horse stables, but it should
be found in every stable, to sprinkle the
floor with as soon as the bedding is removed
in the morning. When removed from the
stables, styes and coops, Il should he kept
under cover for spring use, or for drilling
with the wheat in the fall Cincinnati
Com1lerci0i
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Terra Gotta Lumber.

One of the most important of recent
practical inventions is that of the manutac-
ture of lumber from fire clay, patented by
Mr.. C. c. Gilman, of Eldora, Iowa.
The process is fully described in his let
tiers patent, from which we extract the fol-
lowing The composition consists of kaolln
clay, free from grit, one part resinous saw
dust. from one to three parts, as poroslty
NAV be required; water sufficient to thor
oughly incorporate the above, by the aid OF
machinery, into plastic mass.
Removed from the grinding tubs, where
it has been ground, the spongy product Is
forced by plungers driven by steam through
iron or steam cylinders to express the su-
perfuous moisture therefrom, and issues
forth in the shape of long blocks or logs,
of length, form and size best fitted for hand
ling. usually eight to twelve inches in thick
ness and fous to six feet in length. When
sufficiently day to render handling safe these
logs are moved into kilns or clamps caleu-
lated for the purpose. After the steam and
vapors are driven out by slow, steadily IN
ereasing FIRE. the temperature Is rapidly
raised TO nearly a white heat, which not only
consumes the sawdust, but brings the clay
itself into the FIRST stages of yitrifaction,
On cooling the logs are removed to the mill
and sawed into planks, boards, and dimen-
sion stuff. as lumber from wood Is manu-
factured. and subsequently fashioned in the
workshop into such forms and articles as
demanded by purchasers. This material,
being free from grit and tough in texture,
can be cut, sawed. bored, planed and carved
with edged tools, and before or after such
treatment can. after slipping and glazing,
be submitted to second firing, with fine
results in ornamentation obtained
Kaoliu Is the upper stratum Of fire or
feldspashic clay beds. and owing to the alb
sence Of sand or free silica Is unsuited to
common pottery uses, as its warpage in dry
ing and firing units it for moulding pur-
p0ses.
Mr.. Gilmans invention uyercomes this
trouble. inasmueh a. the material is reduced
to fora with edged tools sabscggeaito 10 friay.
Terra Gotta lumber Is indestructible BY
ERE. gases or acids is poor conductor of
heat. sound and electricity and possesses
molecular attraction to an extent which al
lows of plas;cring without irst a;hing.
It's weight Is one-half less than common
building brick. and Is erected with nails in
stead Of cement OF mortar, virtually ren-
dering irc-proo6ug work Of carpentry
instead 0f masonry As heretofore
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Ghe 6arnrer.
washings of Roads.


The washings from the public roads that
accumulate in bitches and pools into which
they lead, contain very large amount of
fertiizing material. They contain, among
other valuable material, the solid and liquid
droppings of animals, the foliage and stalks
of plants, the leaves of trees, and earth of
various sorts that have been reduced to a
great degree of fneness by the feet of ami
mails and the wheels of carriages The
value of the first named substance is ac-
knowledged by all farmers. Many are un-
acquainted with the use of finely pulverized
earth, but those who have employed it
speak of it in the highest terms. The
sweepings of the streets of most European
cities and towns are disposed of for more
than enough to pay for collecting them.
They are difficult to handle as they are la
bic to be blown about by the wind. When
applied as top-dressing to grass land they
produce remarkably good results. The
like is true of their use on grain fields.
The loose materials on road beds are car
ried by rains into bitches where they aecu-
mulate or are conveyed, if the'land is de-
seending, into hollows. There they aecu-
mulate, and after the water has passed out
of them by drainage or evaporation, they
assume compact form. The consistency
of the material allows it to be lifted by the
shovel into carts very readily. 1t may be
spread over grass land where it viii disin-
tegrate by the action of rain or it may be
applied TO soil that is devoted to any cnlti-
vated crops. The value of the fine pulver-
lied soil as fertilizer is admitted by all
who have experimental with it, and its
employment will be general in the agricul-
ture of the future
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were serious looking; but as soon as 1t was
over they began to laugh and chat as before.
The flock all the time of the killing and
dressing were TRANQUILITY chewing their cud,
not noticing the smell of the blood even,
which makes cattle so frantic. ss
One of our party was anxious to pro-
cure young one alive to take home with
him, but they would not sell one alive at
any price. When we inquired the reason
they said that if they should part with one
all the rest of the flock would die, and the
same thing would happen if they were to
part with the head of one. This they ex-
citedly declared was true, for they had seen
it proved many times, though white men
did ot understand it and always laughed
about it. When we indicated a very large
buck and inquired why they did not XII
that biz one and let the little ones grow
they replied that the big fellow was strong
and knew how to pull a sled, and could
run fast over the snow that would come by
and by, and they needed him too much to
kill him.
I have never before seen half 50 inter.
esting a company of tame animals In
some parts of Siberia reindeer fOeks num-
bering many thousands may be seen to-
gether. In these frozen regions they sup
lply. every want of their owners as no other
animal could possibly do-foOd, warm
clothing. coverings for their tents, bedding
rapid transportation. and, TO some extent,
fuel. They are not nearly 50 numerous IN
the immediate vicinity of the bay as they
once were-a fact attributed 10 several live
specimens having been sold to the whalcrs.
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A rndia Horse Market.

The most favoritc lounge in the fair, for
Europeans. Afghans. Panihans and Arabs
Is the horse market There was large col
lecsion og almost all kinds of horses, the
very inferior article vastly preponderating
The Thakuss IL the native States 0f Mar
var. Jeyporc and Meywar breel horssS ex-
terssivcly. and bring them To the Pokur fair
for sAle. Large country bred mares were
most Songh, after. although some good
Arab and Persian horses from Bashirc and
Buss.srah. frum Muscaf and Oman, were
there alsa The eountry-hred mars viii
do more work than che niorc slightly built
Arab, particularly IN tbs sandy plains Of
Rajpu,ana- For military puEPo~ss the
mars and gcldings are more efficient than
entire hor~ss They are more tractahls and
cnduFine. TIE air and gait II the Tha-
kurs, A zsaslezssa boase asAlers, ara cx-
auiife. The indifference and noaehalaDee
wah which they loaRgc about, a. if, al
though wiling 70 sell, they Werc BY ma
neans anxious about the usatteF Around
each man's tent his stud is pickcicd Dur
ing the knt days Of ihe mSia they val
hardly answer q question about the pTice
They were not br0aghs there for sale ~, if
il + admitted that thcy we're, fancy price
was asked. By and by whole ba,ehes of
them we're bought at reasonable prices by
eshcers for Government parPs~es. A thous
and rupees would BE- asked for an animal
worth le-S than half that amouni Three,
four, and even FIVE hundred rupees would
b. asked for pair ID bnlhreks to b. obtained
subsequently for hundred to a hundred
and fifty. An easy going Sarni camel would
be valued a, two to othrce hundred rupees and
common baggage animals from sixty to a
hundred rupcsss. This il fully twenty per
cent dearer than the same animals could
have BEEN purchased for few years ago.
The greater number u the cameh came
from Jeysulmir and Bikanir, where they are
bred in immense Humbers- They cost little
os nothing to their owners for keep, and il
eight or ten are disposed Of, the master Of
the herd gues on his way rejoicing. He has
sufficient money TO supply his simple wants
for a wear, and takes hame the remainder
Of bis stock willingly. A native viii lei
out his beasts of burden 10 natives for halt
what he viii lei them for to Europeans, nca
because he fcans he viii no, be paid, not be
cause he fears nlaltreaimeHt, a some will
say, but simply because European baggage
consists Of hard, heavy, angular boxes, diff
cult to pack, and much more likely to gal
the beasts Of burden, where carts cannot be
used, than the softer and bulkier bundles oi
the natives - T'ks Niasfesls,k (snfvr.y