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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
Pulling and Curing Onions.

AS soon as the onion crop is ready to
harvest pull at once, the sooner the bet
ter. The onions will be brighter and
keep longer than if permitted to remain
in the ground after they have attained
their growth and the tops lose their
lively green color.
In favorable season, with proper
culture and good seed, the crop will ma.
ture evenly, and the time of harvest be
designated by the dropping over of the
greater part or all of the onion tops.
Under adverse circumstances onions
will incline to run to scallions and many
of the tops refuse to drop down and dry
up. A common preventive when this
state of affairs exists is to roll an empty
barrel over the bed to break them down
a few days previous to pulling the crop.
AS soon as the main crop has ripened
it is advised to harvest it, sorting out
what is unfit for market or table use.
Onions may be pulled by hand or raked
out with an ordinary mandrake. A COM
mon practice is to throw them into
heaps containing two or three bushels,
there to remain until the tops are cured
and the bulbs are hard and solid. Should
rain occur, these heaps must be
opened on a fair day and piled again,
otherwise they will retain moisture
enough to blacken and injure the onions.
Some cultivators leave their onions in
the field after pulling until freezing
weather or until they are sold, believing
that early housing induces sweating and
sprouting. The usual plan, however, is
to cart the crop away when the tops
have become thoroughly dry and store
in some dry, cool place where there is q
free circulation of air. The tops should
not be removed until they are dead
throughout their entire length. Many
farmers delay topping onions until they
are marketed.
When it is desired to keep onions
through the winter it is wise to store the
crop where frost will not affect it, and
where no loss will be sustained from
heating or growing. The cellar is not q
good place unless it be dry, cool one.
A lattice-work bin affords good stor-
age, provided it is raised a little from
the floor, in some well-ventilated build.
ing. So.
When freezing weather approaches,
some farmers spread straw to depth
of twelve or fifteen inches upon barn
or garrett floor; on this they spread a
layer of onions from six to ten inches
thick, covered in turn by a layer Of
straw, say, two feet in depth, and held
in place by old boards and rails.
Onions receive little or no injury from
freezing, provided always they are
thawed out gradually: as this cannot
always be insured, the safe plan is to
protect them. If by any chance they
become frozen, however, let them re-
main undisturbed and covered until
thawed. IN. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
THE DAIRY.

The Utica Herald reports the shrink
aoe of milk this season at about twenty
five per cent, but says that as much
cream cheese will be made tins year as
last, and including creamery stock, the
amount made will greatly exceed that
of last year.
"A good native COW should yield an
average of seven quarts of milk per
day for ten months, that is equal to
about 1000 quarts in the year; OF this.
if she is good COW and well fed, l6O
or 40 pounds of butter should be made,
or about five pounds IL week. A GOOD
Jersey (not Alderny) COW should give
about the same amount OF milk, but
twice as much butter.
Since the introduction of American
cheese into England the taste of En-
glish consumers has materially changed;
very few now prefer old and sharp
cheese. This being the case it is be-
coming more risky to hold the summer
make, forever if the price does advance
the difference between the value of sum-
mer made goods held till fall and the
fall make is so great as to make the
holding Improbable. 1t would have
the effect of Cutting the home market
in the fall and preventing a legitimate
rise of prices for the fall make.
In regard to the use of saltpeter in
cheese-making, small quantities applied
to tainted curds may be more or less
beneficial in arresting further develop
ment of faint. But our advice is for
factory managers to see to it that pa
Ial l. hot
there shall be no necessity for doctor
ing up the milk or curds with drugs, or
the handling of tainted milk and float
ing curds. OF course, it is important
that factory managers should under
stand the best methods of treating
tainted milk and floating curds, but they
should impress upon their patrons the
necessity of delivering good milk and
be held responsible when they fail in
this regard. -American Dairynaan.
Flies now abound, especially in the
stables, and milking IS most disagree
able labor from the constant lashing of
the cows tails to fight off the flies. Some
persons cut off the switch to prevent
the trouble, but this is very thoughless
and wrong. 1t derives the poor COW
of her only protection against her rest
less tormentors, and leaves her de-
fenceless My plan is to use linen
sheet and cover the COW while milking,
and to rub sponge dipped in soapy
water, in which little carbolic acid
has been mixed, over the legs. Sweet
oil, to which some oil of pennyroyal
has been added, is also good protec-
ton against the flies and smells sweeter,
or rather not so disagreeably as carbolic
acid. Then one can milk in comfort
and has fewer " idle Words scored up
against him to account for at future
time
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
Diseases of Poultry.

Fowls are particularly liable to colds,
as the air-cells occupy so large part of
their physical framework. Where there
is a slight cold, put the fowl in warm,
sunny place, give warm food, and moth
ing more will be needed. The same
method should be pursued in hard colds.
If there is much fever, put four drops of
tincture of aconite into the water, or
sweeten it, and make it little sour with
sulphuric or nitric acid. Add to the
food pinch of ginger or cayenne pep
per. If there is much swelling about
the head, mild purge will be useful.
The monographs give mercur virus for
slight colds, euphrasia for more serious
ones; each thrice daily, adding aconite
for the fever.
A roup may only begin with catarrh,
and, like roup, catarrh and bronchitis,
sometimes cause death. But how are
we to know such cases from roupP Sim.
ply by the offensive discharge at the
beak which characterizes the latter dis
ease. When the fowl has discharge at
the beak that is not offensive, you may
call it simple catarrh or common cold.
When the odor is bad it is roup. No
better distinction is possible in the pres
ent state of knowledge of fowl ailments.
The difficulty in telling these maladies
apart will suggest to the careful poul-
terer prompt isolation of cases where he
is not certain.
Cough may come from parasites in the
air passages. This applies more par
ticularly to the sneezing effort caused by
the cape worm in the throat of young
chickens. A spasmodic cough, lasting
whole day even, is reported as having
accompanied the epizootic. 1t yielded
under treatment with potash.
Consumption, or tubucular deposits,
may be suspected where cough does
not yield to treatment, and admits of no
other explanation. Cod-liver oil in
barley meal would be the treatment if
any one really wanted to save consump-
tive fowls. They ought to be killed.
Asthma is nothing more than roup, as
far as we know, and very likely this
name may have been given to cases of
that sort.-Anerica Poultry Yard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
HOW Crickets March In dragon.

"A correspondent of the Laobo stoteo
M'''t Nv, writing from North Powder Riv-
"a o. oiegon' says: A few DAYS ago I
nau occasion to ride over the rance on
burnt River and Willow Creek. trav-
ellng over about seventy-five miles of
terrilory- bunch-grass hills-and alone
tne whole distance, from ten miles he.
low Oids Ferry, on Snake River. to
lronsides Mountain, and AVERAGING
about ilve miles in width. the earth nre,
sentea black, moving, shrieking mass
OF cricRets (orthoptera). While those
crlckets are not so destructive as the
locust (grasshopper), they nevertheless
uesvur gardens. grain fields and much
tenuer vegetation in their path. saw
many gardens which they had left a
wreck They cross streams, bitches
ana mountains, and seem to move in
columns, but with little regularity.
lhey nave no wings, hence they depend
upon their long, lever-like legs, or hop
pers; ior locomotion. They are not
much IKE the chimney-black cricket.
lhey are fearful cannibals, Staying and
eaung each other with ravenous ap-
petlte' They have no sting or danger
Gus ,nlppers, hence are not dangerous
to the human family, so far as INJECTING
wounds The way these crickets cross
streams is amusing. When they come
to astream of water which they ''think''
they can cross, they climb every object
along the margin and when as high as
they can ascend, they shut their eyes
and give one, long, dangerous, and
s9rfs6aes fatal, leap into the water,
shut upike a jack-knife, and float down
until TINY come in contact with an OBJ
Ject, thel they Immediately seem to
wake up nd make desperate grab and
crawl upH it. If he is lucky enough
TO be on tie right side he moves on; if
not ne trie it again. Thus thousands
are drowne.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

William J. Coughlan, OF Somerville, Mass,
says: sin the fall of 1876 l was taken with a
violent 6eedingof the lungs, followed bya severe
cough ] was admitted to the City Hospital
While there the doctors said had hole in my
left lung as bic as ahaIf dollar. gave up hope,
but friend told me OF DR.. VIM. HALLS BAL
SAM FOR THE LUNGS. got a bottle, when to
my surprise commenced to feel better, and to-
day feel in better spirits than have the past
three years. Iwrite this hoping that every one
afflicted with d seased Lungs will take DIR. VIM.
HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS, and be con-
WINGED that CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED "
Also sure remedy for Colds, Coughs, and all
Chest and Lung Diseases Sold by druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

A deaf aid dumb son of Mr.. Dan
lei, OF Green county, Va, was shot and
KILLED by Hery Waldron, colored, a
rev nights age The young man was
mistaken for apurglar, and was chal-
lenged several tines. but on account of
MS lnflrmity coud not, of course, hear
or reply. The c,lored man then fred,
BENG directed to do so by Mrs. Hern-
oon, on whose riemises the supposed
burglar was. Wadron, who is a ten
ant of Mrs. Hernbn, was arrested, but
upon examinationlwas discharged.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
"A bolt of lighnino shattered ar

A bolt of lightning shattered an
elm in front of the residence of George
late, at Biddeford, Me-, entered the
house by a second-story window. shiv-
cred a mirror without injuring the
frame, broke fragment from the steel
plate OF sewing-machine, cut round
hole through the floor into the room
below, broke a. vase on the mantel in
this room, and departed alter throwing
to the floor Miss Tate, who was sitting
in the next room.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

SOME people have habit of always say
ing: ooh, no, quite the contrary Gus
de Smith is one of them. He was standing
ON Austin avenue talking, when, having his
back turned to horse that was hitched to q
post, the animal reached out and sent Gus
flying against the wall. AS they carried him
into the drug store the owner Of the horse
said hope you are not hurt" sob,
no, quite the contrary" replied Gus, as
usual.-Tf1Gs Sifti,igs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

"PHAT wud do wild thatP exclaimed
Patrick, when the hackman handed him
the baggage check. 81 gave yez good
money. and yez try to put counterfeit on
ter me-" "You mistake" said the hack
man; this is not money; it is only a
check" Go way wild yez, !" cried Pat;
isn't check always writ on paperp Did
yez take me for greenhorn altogither?''-
Boston Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
An Old Doctors Advice.

1t was this: "Trust in God and keep
your bowels OPEN" For this purpose take
Kidney w ort-for no other remedy SO
effectually overcomes this condition, and
that without the distress and gripping which
--TeZe0y1Dh
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
Baby Saved,

We are SO thankful to say that our baby
was permanently cured of dangerous and
protracted irregularity of the bowels by the
use Of Hop Bitters by its mother, which at
the same time restored her toperfect health
and strength. The parents, Rochester, N i.
Y. See another column.-Bafalo Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

81 THINK, "said Mrs. Darlington, get
ting up from the breakfast table, 81 will
take tower or go on discussion. The
bill says, if collect rightly, that party is to
go to a. very plural spot, and to mistake a
very cold collection. 1 hope it won't be so
cold as ours was for the poor last Sunday.
Why, there wasn't eff. lent to buy a foot for
restitude widder." And the old lady put
on her sash and left.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

That's what the proprietors of James Cough
Pellets are having. Coughs, colds and lung
troubles generally, succumb every time.
Pleasant and cheap. Ask for them. Benton,
Myers Il Co., Cleveland. O., wholesale agents
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

1T was a wise old French woman who
once wrote: "The world can give a woman
many allurements but race alone can give
a woman three things-the hand, the glance,
the voice -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

TO remove mildew on linen or cot
ton goods rub the spots with softsoap
and place in the sun. Repeat the APP
plications of soap and expose on good
grass plot every bright day until tho
mildew has disappeared.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

THE Chicago boy who made gun out Of
a gas-pipe will recover, but his eye isn't
good any more, his scalp isn't complete, and
his nose Is broken. The neighbors miracu-
lousy escaped.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27

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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-04-08
The Clean Newspapers.

There is a growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journals
who make it their special object to min
lister to perverted taste by seeking out
and serving up in o seductive form dis.
gusting scandals and licentious revea-
tions. There is good reason to believe
that the clean newspaper is more highly
priced to day than it was four or five
years ago. 1t is also safe to predict
that, as people in all ranks of life, who
wish to protect their own at least from
contamination, become more conscious
of the pernicious influence of certain
class of journals, called "enterprising"
because they are ambitious to serve up
dirty scandals, they will be careful to see
that the journals they permit to be read
in the family circle are of the class that
never forget the proprieties of life. Al
ready men and women of reiinementten-
and healthy morals have had their at
ton called to the pernicious influence OF
bad literature, and have made commend
able efforts to counteract the same by
causing the sound literature to be pub.
lished and sold at popular prices. These
efforts are working silent but sure rev.
olution The best authors are more gen
orally read today than at any previous
time The sickly sentimental story pa
per, and wild ranger and pirate story
book, are slowly yielding the field to
worthier claimants. To the praise of the
decent newspaper it may be said, that
where it has place in the family, and
has been read for years by young and old
it has developed such a healthy tone and
such discriminating taste that the lit
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Fortunately the number of such families
is increasing in che land, and as they in
crease the journal that devotes itself tc
sickening revelations of immortality will
be compelled to find its supporters solely
among those classes that practice vice or
crime, or are ambitious to learn to follow
such ways.-Boston Herald
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-04-08
rnE wlLLIAMspORr COUNCILS.

Judge Ewell filed his opinion on Sat
urday the 25 inst, in the case of the
members of the Common and Select
Councils of Williamsport, who were
summoned before HIM TO show that they
were not in contempt for having failed
to make provision for the payment of in
terest now due and unpaid on the city
bonds. The Councils responded to the
rule of Court by making answer,by sworn
affidavit, that they had made proper eff
fort to rise the interest, by laying an ex-
TIA assessment, but only few thousand
dollars had been collected, and that they
had no intention of resisting the DEGREES
of Court. This last proceeding was the
result of foolish movement ofthe Coun-
ellis some time ago looking to the sur
render of the city charter and repudia-
ton. After reviewing the case at some
length, Judge Elwell DEGREES that the rule
be executed by the arrest of any of the
Councilmen, who shall, within Zen days,
execute and file bonds in the Blooms
burg Court to the Commonwealth in the
penal sum of 81, 900 each for appearance
on the 9Th of May or other subsequent
time fixed by the Court, of which they
shall have five days notice, to answer
for the proper performance of their duty
in the case. The City Treasurer is alsc
included in the decree. The decision OF
the Court has caused considerable flutter
ing among some of the councilmen, as
they did not expect that bail would be
demanded for the performance of theil
duty, and had been boasting about the
streets that the Court was at the end oi
its string. AT the first regular meeting
of the Council on Monday night an ordi
nance was introduced looking to a settle
ment of their financial difficulties, ant
they have manifested a disposition t,
end the unpleasant condition in whicl
Wiliamsport has been for several years
This is the only wise and sensible plan
that can he adopted, and the sooner, tn
better.