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cold weather Effects.

The extreme cold weather the past
kinds of cattle throughout the North
Of Commerce Of February I'D. says
I'VE hear bad accounts from the
West, where the snow Is deeper and
continues longer on the ground than
ever before, Of the loss of large num-
bers of cattle and sheep by the farm
ers and rancheros of the Northwest
ern States and Territories The COM
plants come from as far west rs Ore
gou, where the custom Is to winter
the cattle in the valleys between the
great mountain ranges. Now, how
ever, the valleys as well as the noun
tains are covered with snow, In some
places to great depths. In some parts
Of Minnesota cattle have been known
to follow a hay wagon for miles in
order to get little feed, which their
owners are unable to furnish Tor them.
Already large number of cattle and
sheep have died in the several North
western States and Territories, while,
IL the weather continues as severe as
II 10 at present for many weeks longer,
or II the spring should be a late one,
the loss of both cattle and sheep will
be quite serious. Probably the cold
eft and latest winter previous To this
was Of 1912. In that winter the farm
ere in northern Illinois, towards The
close Of the winter, we've compelle
to fell tres and allow their uttle %
brovse'upon the branches NE wit
err saw fl,is done IN NE Fox River
Valley, by which means tbe live %
many cattle were preserved. OF course
any serious losses Of cattle would
cause en- sdvaDce mot only in beef,
but in PORK meats Of all descriptions.
In fact, the market for the latter Of
late shows an extraordinary activity,
combined with q rapid advance In
prices"
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Ellis & Co., of Wytheville, n. c.,
vines are planted should be dry, either
from natural location or drainage,
and should be light soft, loamy land,
easy of cultivation, naturally rich or
made so from the use of fertilizers.
They advise against planting in stiff,
sour land. The vineyardist having
selected his field for planting out vines,
should lay it off in rows twenty,
thirty, or forty feet each way, or twen-
ty by sixty, to suit his own fancy ;
then, in these rows, dig three feet
squares one foot i'm depth, to fill with
muck, compost, fence-row-cropping
or well-rOtted vegetable matter, and
then, into these squares, plant the
vines; covering the hole up around
the vine with small quantity OF the
dirt that was first taken out, then set
stake six feet high by the plant, to
which the vine should be trained as
it grows, care being taken to pinch or
cut off the side shoots, so as to have
one straight stem. When the vine
reaches the top of this stake it should
be furnished with arboring, which, in
many lnSlallceS VIII ue eiic hiSV ye"i
growth.
All the varieties of Vitus Uulpind
should be transplanted from the first
of January to the twentieth of March,
in order to insure their certainty of
life. In the spring and summer OF
the first years growth, when the
weather is dry, they should be water
ed occasionally of evenings, with
branch or ditch water. All growing
vegetation should ..ba carefully kept
cut down around them. They should
be mulched with weeds, straw or some
suitable material, to keep the earth
damp about the roots. After the first
years. growth, the process of manur-
ing should begin and be attended to
with occasional applications of muck,
yard-litter, bones, bone-dust, lime
mari, vegetable mould collected from
fences, the woods, and all such like
material as will readily suggest itself
to the prudent vineyardist. These
applications should be made annually.
The arboring should be commenced
after the vine reaches the top of its
six feet stake, where it should be al
lowed to branch out i'm every direction,
and be continued from year to year,
rs the vine spreads. During the third
year thrifty vine will cover ten feet
of square arbor, and produce fine
crop of fruit, after which, if cultivated,
as suggetted, there will be endless
quantities of grapes and much vlne.'
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Typhoid Fever or Hog cholera

Editors Country Gentleman:
Many of your readers have undoubt-
edly had more experiences than pleas
ant of the great losses occasioned by
hog cholera. If you will allow me !
shall have much pleasure in placing
before your readers an extract from
letter recently received by myself
from Mr.. Louis Lionjon, distinguish
ed breeder of pigs i'm France. He
says that i'm France the losses from
typhoid fever, or as it is commonly
called, "rouget," are terrible; that ii
is nearly always prevalent in his dis
trict, but thathe has hitherto escaped
any losses from it by continually dis
injecting his piggeries, and by giving
in the food of each of his full grown
pigs a small teaspoonful of "le vinai-
gre phenique," (which is made OF
picnic or carbonic acid and common
vinegar, q ounces avoirdupois of the
former and one gallon of common
vinegar) and also by occasionally CIV
ing his pigs a dose of nitre or sulphate
of soda.
/ have no doubt that the treatment
here prescribed must be of great ben
eft in keeping ones pigs in health,
IL not a certain preventive against
hog cholera. 1t is also very ineXpen-
sive. Should any of your readers try
the recipe hope they will give the
results Of the experiment.
SANDERS SPENCER.
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small Farms.

We have written several articles on
the advantages of small farms over
large ones. There is no use of hav-
ing a large amount of uncultiva-
ted land, upon which taxes are to
be paid, and nothing comes IN. Farm
ing under the old regime must sue.
cumb to a new departure. The his
tory of all countries goes to confirm
the advantage of small farms. Better
dispose of portion Of your land for a
mere song than to keep it at an ex-
pense.
The French people have more ready
money in dividend possession than
any other nation in the world. 1t is
not the wealth of a nation that makes
the people rich, but the general diffu-
sion of wealth. This is the case in
France. The French are nation OF
small farmers. There are more land
owners In that country than in Amer
lea. The farms are small; the ma
jority are under twenty acres, and a
very large number under ten. IL may
not be that this is the only reason for
the money wealth of these people;
they are notably economical and
thrifty. But the small farms have
something to do with it. The farmers
In some OF the eastern counties OF
Pennsylvania, where the farms are
comparatively small, could well af-
ford to compete with the French in
their possession of money and wealth.
Almost every farmer has his hoard
invested. These men have habit Of
feeding few head of beef cattle or a
flock Of sheep every winter. They
sell little grain but wheat, and feed
their fodder and coarse grain to pur-
chase stock. They make more profit
to the head Of stock than is made
upon large grazing farms, and their
land is rich and high-priced, because
OF the large quantity Of manure that
is made In feeding stock. The con-
sumption of meat Is continually In
creasing, and with the extension Of
manufactures there are more mouths
to fill every year, SO that 1t is not
probable the supply can ever become
excessive. .|.-... r.rr
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Ice-cOated Fruit.trees.
Rural New Yorke

huTal new
One of the wrong ideas which has
a very general Judgement among the
the opinions and beliefs of orchardists
and which keeps its place in the face
of the food of light that the press Is
now throwing upon all the theory and
practice of the farm, is that Of sup
posing that coating of ice or of hoar-
frost on the branches and twigs OF
trees is destructive to them and their
fruit-buds. 1t is, on the contrary,
preventative, unless its weight is so
great as to cause breakage. Hoar-
frost is dew, freezing crystalizing as
it condenses, and whenever it occurs
the air is warmer than the objects
which receive the condensation, and
is at the same time saturated with
moisture which it deposits on cooler
surfaces. Now plants in general enjoy
moist air, and dryness of the air is by
far the most frequent cause of their
death and it is when the sky is dry
and clear that heat radiates freely
from every surface into space, and
during the long clear nights of winter
very much more heat is lost than the
short days and dim sunshine enable
plants, ETC., to absorb. Blasts from
colder districts are dry as well as
cold, and attack the life of plants by
both weapons.
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PARAGRAPHS OF ALI SORTS.

IL looks more now rs if we're going
to have Il wet spell than dry one,
aud the ground is SO cold nothing will
grow. Vegetation is extremely back
ward-dog-wood blossoms, the far
mer's harbinger of spring time keeps
back its blooms. Strawberries are
also behind in putting out foliage.
Straw berry plants set IL inches
apart by three feet will make IA, $40
to the acre.
A south American fruit grower has
discovered that mulch of tomato
vines around peach trees will prevent
an attack of the curculio and other
noxious insects.
After pruning an orchard care should
be taken to burn up all the brush in
order to destroy the insects.
In recent work Oh foreign grapes
$50 varieties have been described.
1t takes 100000, cords of timber to
make American shoe pegs; $780, 900
cubic feet of the best pine for lucifer
matches; 100000 of birch beech and
maple for shoe laths 500, 900 trees for
telegraph poles and 1000, 900 cords of
wood to bake bricks.
The Gardeners Monthly and Horti-
culturist say the annual laugh of the
newspapers over the peach crop is
now supposed to be more serious than
first supposed.
The cultivation of Cinchona is in
creasing largely in Bengal. During
ls79-sO there were planted out 100000
trees.
Among the attractions at the Massa-
chucetts Horticultural Society, are
roses valued at one dollar piece.
Prof Wood the great Botanist is
dead.
A true test of eggs is to drop them
into water and if the large end comes
up they are fresh. ...
Col. Lamar is paying considerable
attention to the breeding of Jersey
cattle. If he succeeds as well in that
as he has in politics, it will be great
success.
A correspondent writing to the
Courier Journal from Okolona gives
the following directions for capturing
owls and hawks: get small steel
trap and place it on pole about ten
feet high in an open place. The
hawks will light ON it ard get en-
trapped.
Mr.. Doron has a terrapin farm near
Mobile which covers about three acres
He has about 10000 or 5000 terrapins
and generelly realizes about $1,000
annually from them.
The fruit farm of Robert McKins-
try near Hudson. New York, contains
$4,000 trees.
Messrs. Archer & Co., of st. Joseph
Michigan, writes to Col. f. e. PEBBLES
of Golden, Illinois, that there will be
no peaches in Michigan this year
but letters from Tennessee say that
prospects for large crop are favora-
BILE in that State.
The Chicago Board of Trade says,
that of the 5O,OOO,OOO pounds of hide
sold in that market one-fourth of the
hides are perforated by grubs.
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Large Celery Plantation.

Mr.. Lancaster, near London, has 4t
acres Of celery, and his celery com
maDds the highest prices In the mar.
ket. His plantation, at 10000 plants
per acre, requires 400, 600 plants. They
are set In trenches, and vast quaint
ties Of manure are used. Seven horses
are used in his S0-acre vegetable gar
den. Radishes between the celery
bring about $40 per acre, and the
celery $3.50 per acre. The labor comes
to $50 per week in summer and
autumn.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-03-12

The Southern Planter gives the fol.
lowing method Of an Alabama gentle
man for ascsrtainIng the age Of horse
more than nine years old: After the
horse is years old a wrinkle comes In
the eyelid, at the upper corner Of the
lower lid, and every year thereafter
be has one well defined wrinkle for
each year OF his age over nine. II, for
instance, q horse has three wrinkles,
be Il II II four, Is. Add the number
Of wrinkles 70 nine and you will al
ways get at the age.
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Peach YeIIews I'm Georgia.
The following valuable note has
,een handed to us by Mr.. John Rutter:

The following valuable note has
been handed to us by Mr.. John Rutter:
AUGUSTA, Ga, Feb. IL, 1881.
Mr.. J. Ruter. West Chester Pa
Dear Sir-The question of the existence
of the "Yellows" in Peaches in this State
has been discussed In our societies and the
result is that no one could positively say
that he had ever seen genuine case OF IT
here. In the course of my observations,
extending over twenty-five years, have
never seen tree affected with 1t here, or
in any place south of New Jersey; and
am, therefore, safe in saying that the dis
ease IL unknown in this section. What
may have happened in Mississippi, accord
Ing to the statement made by member of
the Penna. Fruit Growers Society, may be
possible; but should like undoubted EVIL
dence of this, and If the locality can be as
certained where the disease affected the
trees we can readily find out the extent of
the disaster and perhaps the origin in that
locality. This is an important matter, and
il the fact Of the loss in Mississippi Is
really so. there is cause for careful inyesti-
J.P. BERKMANs.
GThe "member" referred TO was the
editor of this journal. He merely
stated what he saw himself ON the line
of the jackson route" through the
State. 1t would not have been diff
cult in that year to find plenty of
samples" 1t is scarcely possible that
one familiar with "yellows" should
not know il, though the trees should
be yards away. II these trees with
their yellow leaves, water sprout'
branches from the trunks, and dead
branches generally, had not the yell
lows, they had something else just as
bad. This statement was made in our
magazine at the time of our visit, and
does not seem to have been controvert-
ed before.
The above IL taken from the Gard
ner's Monthly and Horticulturalist,
published at Philadelphia. We are
pretty well acquainted with the or
chards along the jackson route" and
we have never known anything to re-
sembIe yellows among the peach or
chards so far. The editor must have
fine eye-sigbt to be able to detect this
disease, rolling along at the rate Of
twenty-five miles an hour.
Trees were badly injured two years
ago by cold, which caused the leaves
to iurn yellow, aud the trees died
out, and very often trees are yellow
from an attack Of the borer or bad cul-
tivation, but we must be poor horti-
culturists not TO be able to find out by
examination what was discovered by
a mere glimpse from car window.
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the C.i,for.I. n.ss sugar I.an.sry.


Beet sugar manufactures In Califor-
mia seem to be experieneina a greater
degree of prosperity than has hereto
fore fallen to their lot Prices are
more remunerative, competition less
urgent, and, by reason Of careful man
agement, the field OF saccharine mat
ter appears to return a greater per
centaee OF sugar than has been The
case in past seasons. Nor do we hear
any complaints ss to the quality Of
their out-put About 100 barrels per
month are now said 10 be turned out
by the two beet-root suggsries now in
liberation i'm that State. The San
Francisco Grocer, In referring TO the
subject says: Nothing can be more
entirely a honeproduct fhan beet
sugar. and while looking about for op-
portunIties 30 develop profitable local
enterprises, we know Of nothing bet
fer entitled TO the consideration Of cap
italists than this industry"
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500, 900 NO. 1 PEACH TREES

Over eighty varieties. Among which can be
found kinds suited TO all sections including all the
new and old standard standard sorts. Also 800 go
Apple trees. 100000 Of them extra long keeping
varieties adapted 10 Southern planting wherever
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celebrated Seedlings Of the Chinese sand Pear,
Leconie Keller Also offer full line Of all kinds
Of Nursery stock at prices 10 suit the times Apple
aud Peach Trees sent By mail TO all sections Cats
logues showing how and what 10 plant, with much
valuable Information, mailed giatis 10 all applicants
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II, FARM, md GARDEN.

FC7hD RI s. II. STA CKHOUSE.
sdesiiiig to communicate with the Editor
Is Department Of THE COMET, will address 5
pstackhouse. Esq, Crystal Springs, Miss.l
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JOHN NJ. sMYLiE.
REAL ESTATE AGENT.

DERSONS WISHING TO SELL RENT, OR
L Purchase Real Estate will find II TO their i'm
erest TO call, correspond with us In reference to
same.
I will give special attention TO business before
the the United States Land Office, Homestead En-
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with Cash, Scrip, or Warrants. ANY and all kinds
Of Land Business solicited.
viii furnish Maps, Field Notes, etc. Certified
copies from the originals for less than they can he
had elsewhere. 2. q. BOX 16l,
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AGENTS WANTED.

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Peabody West Point, Miss, General Agent for
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-12-03
Meteorological Record.

The following is the daily bulletin of
the meteorological record of the Signal
Service, connected with the q. s. War
nt-observations taken at the
same moment of time at all stations:
DECEMBER 3, lSSl--4:l7 A. M.
he-Thermometer, 25'. Wind
direction, N. W.; velocity, 6 miles per
hour. Weather, clear. Rainfall in
last "a hours, .0l inches.
Salt Lake = Thermometer. 81.
Wind-direction, N; velocity, light.
Weather, cloudy. Rainfall in last "a
hours, IL inches.
San Observation-Disclosures, 460.
Wind-direction, W.; velocity, light.
Weather, fair.
Winnemucca = Thermometer, "a
Wind-direction, N. E.; velocity,
miles per hour Weather, cloudy.
Rainfall in last "a hours, .O7 inches.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-12-03

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EXTENSIVE COAL FIELDS.
An Eight-Fo Vein of Coal q Short Dis
lance from Paradise.


lance from Paradise.
Last evening, J. X. p. Milligan, of
Elko, and Frank Reed, OF Wells, ar
rived here from Paradise. They report
having found extensive coal measures
about fourteen miles east of north from
Paradise. They wospected one vein
by an open cut and found it eight feet
wide. Some years ago Mr.. Milligan
found what he believed to be coal, in
passing through that country, but was
unable to find the place afterwards.
Last Summer, while surveying up in
that section, he found indications of
coal, and accidentally discovered the
groupings he had seen years ago. Three
of the surveying party, f. c. McClel-
Ian, J. X. p. Milligan and Frank
Reed, located claims on the vein, and
have been at work on one of them since
early in October. They brought speci-
mems of the coal here, which look as
well and burn as freely as that which
is brought from the Rocky Mountains
and costs SIC so per ton. They have
taken measures to secure patents to
their claims, and, unless they are great
ly deceived, will be able to supply the
whole country with coal next year.
They say the groupings can be traced
several miles, and the indications for
coal mines are as favorable on the other
side of the mountain as where they
have been at work. We hope their
brightest anticipations will be realized,
and that they have found coal fields
equal to the richest in Pennsylvania.
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RATES OF POSTAGE.
The Reductions made since the Organiza-
ton of the Government.

The Reductions made since the Organiza-
ton of the Government.
In no department of the Government
have the changes been SO marked as in
that of the mail service, When the
Postoffice Department was established
in 1889, the rates of postage were, for
a single letter-that is, one composed
of single piece of paper, as envelopes
were not then invented under 40
miles, s cents; under 80 miles, 10
cents: under 300 miles, IL cents; and
under 500 miles, % cents. In 1916
these rates were modified as follows: A
single letter, not over 20 miles, 81
cents; over 80 and under so, 10 cents;
over so and under $50, l21 cents; over
$50 and under 400, lSf cents; and an
additional rate for each piece of paper.
If the letter weighed one ounce, four
times the rates were charged. Again,
in 1915. the rates were lowered: For a
letter not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, under 800 miles, 5 cents; over
800, 10 cents, and an additional rate
for each additional half-ounce or frac-
ton thereof. Old Californians remem-
Der the time when they had to pay 10
cents on ordinary letters to the States,
The present rates of letter postage were
adopted in 1868, though the postal card
is of much later origin. 1t is quite
probable that within three years the
rates on letters will be reduced to ,
cents for each half ounce, regardless of
distance, as experience shows that ev-
cry reduction increases rather then d.
minishes the revenue from the mail
service.
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