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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-08-24

Ihe Adair county Teachers Institute
will cioAe its present session, on Friday
evening with an entertainment
at the Christian church. The following
is the programme of exercises:
Select Reading.--Miss Laura Seals
"The Lost Heir "
Declamation.-Sllas Dinsmore-"Gov.
Campbell's Welcome
ESsay.-Mrs. Florence knighton-
Sowing and Reaping.'
i MUSIC.
iecitatlon-Miss Lizzie Fowler
Painter of Seville"
ssay. Miss Ida Frankland--"The
Wealth of Youth"
select Reading.-Mr. John Kennedy
"Jamie Butler and the Owl"
MUSIC.
W. Grifith-"Protective
Tariff.
Dialogne.-"Polly Ann"
CHARAfrERs:
Richard Brown-R. R. Steele.
Ellen 8rsSn~Mi.s Georgia Funk.
Miss Dounee-Mis, Laura Seals.
Bridget McSloveh-hiss Della
Garrett.
Polly Ann Morris-Mlss Emma
Miller.
MUSIC.
Rec,tation.--Carrie Randall Damon
and Py.hias.'
lddnes. by Pres. Baldwin, of Hunts
vile, Texas.
Music.
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We ATTORNEY AT LAW,
kIRKSvILLE, Mo.
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FIRST CL ASS WORK

And ask trial. Apply to them either IN
person or by mail, or leave orders At Markey
Bros. or the GRAPHIC Office, Kirksyille. Mo.
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GRAPHIC Correspondence.
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FARMERS
SAVE YOUR SEED.
Fish & Labette.

Wou.d announce to the farmers Of Adair
and Seuyler conties that they have. ordered Il
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-08-24
NEW CLOVER MULLER

BY which farmers can save their clover
seed at large profit to themselves. The
guarantee
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26

The WHEAT CROP OF GREAT BRITAIN
The Mark Lane Erpress gives the acre
age in wheat in Great Britain the past
season as 2,6l3 l47 acres, with an average
Weld of 264 bushels per acre THIS
would give for the entire crop 68 9S7 $50
bushels. About eight million bushels, it
is estimated. will be required for seed,
which would leave a little more tn II
6O,O000 900 bushels available for consump-
ion. The annual consumption is stated
1t 200,00O,000 bushels, showing a shortage
of about 140,000,000 bushels, which will
he needed to supplement the home supply.
But it says that not nearly all this quantity
will have TO be imported as the stock OF
wheat in the country is probably heavier
han it has ever been before. If the vied
in this country this year from our 81 GOO,
100 acres had been equal per acre to that
If Great Britain we should have had Il
.rop of 992 100000 bushels instead of the
4l5, 000, 900 bushels, at which the crop is
now estimated by the department of agri
'ulture. 1t is perhaps fortunate that we
id not raise such a crop for it would have
ylutted the MARKERS of the world, and yet
t is little difficult to see lust how the
American farmer is justified in growing
wheat with an average yield in average
seasons but little IN excess of ~ bushels
per acre, while the British farmer gels 80
nd - bushels as an average crop of an
,verage season.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26
Keeping Land in Grass.

MIR. EDIToR:-I have two acre lot
would like to keep in grass; soil, strong
loan. Would the yarding of six COWS or
the lot, after cutting the hay, be suflicien
TO keep the land in good condition. They
would be kept on the land about tire,
months nights. Respectfully,
Ais.
Waterford.
REMARKs.-T amount Of manure
winch would be left on the field by yarding
the COWS would, in our opinion, BIZ
sufficient to keep the land in good heart
But the keeping The COWS on the fell
would defeat the very end you wish II
accomplish. 1t is generally conceded thai
the feeding of mowings in fail is iniuriou
and the cows would in three months grul
down pretty close. Again, the manure
left would not be in form to secure Thu
best results. 1t should be spread evenly
and fine on the soil, and if we had such Il
piece, which we wished to keep in grass
we would top dress with a light coat Of
manure before the fall rains and keep tn,
cattle off entirely. One friend who has g
similar piece some distance from hom'
has for some years cut single crop o
hay from it and neither fed it or cut !
second crop and he tells US the gras
grows heavier yearly, and he now cut
better crops than when it lir't came into
his possession. We should not pat on The
cows.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26

How Much SHALL WE EAT?- Iloleous
doctrines have been taught on this sui c.
We have been solemnly told to rise irDnl
the table as hungry as when we sat down
We have been told to be always ready iol
Il meal--in other words, to live in Il state
of perpetual hunger. We have been told
to eat those things that we most hate. nno
to avoid those things that we most 1--we
that 10 have IA longing for any artlcle j.
the very reason why we should be denied
it. These doctrines are monstrous. They
are unworthy OF the nineteenth century
They are libel on tie Creator who CAV,
us taste and appetite, IN order that we
might know what to eat and drink, and
gave us also Judgment to direct appetite
and taste when the system becomes dis
eased. Notwithstanding all its liability to
pelversion, the appetite IS, on he whole,
Il better Guide IN selecting fr'i, and in
measuring It's qHoDlN lupr 'ti 49, hop *
on hygiene liutl have ever ,.b Nli ten.
The practice Of Weighing TIC / %, whct
was introduced To Nlle world h, .'e. KAN
Pile and leachlngs Of Cornaro, III lli,n,
cannot be too strongly rrprob IL is
impossible Tor The scale to toll ii. uuw
much to cat. The quantity OF fool HaD we
need depends on the amount of labor nat
we do, on the nature Dl the constitution,
or our mental moods, and on the quantity
and variety Of the food which is served
70 weigh or mca,u,u the food habituaIIy
is not only silly, Uou, ccssary and useless,
it is actually II crane. 1t wastes valuable
hours that should be HrUcr employed, 1t
makes us mseruh, ana that fac alone IS
mt ~ i,,l
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF VETERI-
NARY MEDICINE, by William Williams
professor of veterinary medicin1 and sur
gerry in the new veterinary college, Ediu
burgh; first American edition from las
English edition, VIM Hood & Co. sc an,
So Lafayette Place, New York, page $50
This work by so eminent an authority
as the ex president of the royal college o
veterinary surgeons, commends itself Al
once to the attention of any one desiring >
work of this kind. 1t is illustrated will
numerous cuts, has full index and table 0
contents, making it readily available as :
book of reference. The work is inlende
to demonstrate the general principles o.
veterinary medicine. her than to give
details as to the treatment of variou
diseases and the medicines to e given il
such cases. Its completeness, the position
of the author and the authorities he has
called to his aid, render it most valuable
work for those interested in the disc ases Of
our domestic animals and is in Itself I;
library of information on veterinary
matters.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26
An Open Letter.

Mr.. TINKHAM.-Dear Sir: We have
been constant readers of the FREEMAN for
about thirty years. and when you com.
menced your household department | was
very much pleased and always read that
part first, expecting to FIND something
good and useful, and have found many
things that were very good and very use
full, and as was reading some verses that
had that were composed by very dear
friend. thought l would like to see them
in the household department, for thought
they were good, so sat down and wrote
them all off and sent them to you, and
asked you if you would please give them
place in your household department, |
knew you would remedy all my mistakes
l have waited almost five weeks and have
not seen them yet, so have come to the
conclusion that you think they are not iii
10 print, If that is the case am greatly
aslonished for always thought you to be
a gentleman, and a man of great wisdom,
and always loved to read your writing
and my husband often says lie wishes you
would write more for the FREEMAN, but
if you think those verses that l sent you
are not fit 10 print in the FREEMAN, we
can not take the FREEMAN, nor read il
any mora. In haste.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
Within The past eight years there hav,
been founded in several state institutions
which, though they have not attracter
much attention irom the general puhii'
an hardly fail to exert, in the neal
u'ure, an importan, influence both on tn,
matcrla! and mental welfare Of the pon
PIE. These Institutions are the noricutu
al experiment stations. OF which nov
xlst IN this county, with prospect g
ne speedy establishment of at least tw,
more.
BY an agricultural experiment station
is understood an institution established
and maintained 'for the purpose of pro
noting agriculture by scientific invesiga
ion and experiments Such institution,
have, in most cases, owed their existenc.
to governmental action, and have b, "a
| sustained at the public expense, though ii
I few instances universities and privat,
| in ividuals have carried on what are in
effect experiment stations, the most nola
| nic example of the latter being the we
known Rothamstead experiments o
| Me>srs. Lives e. Gilbert, in England.
Although experiment stations are s.i'
somewhat of II novelty in this country
ney are tar from being so in others
| There is scarcely country in EurOp,
where one or more is not in operation
while in the German Empire they mum BE-
not less than fifty. The ii st to be cstah
Iished was that ut Rothamstead, lust allud
TO, in 1S43 This has continued to tn,
present time, though not under the nam,
of an experiment station Nine year
later, the station at Mockern, in Saxony
which had been carried on for some tw,
years by a private and corporate generosl
| V, received grant of money from til.
state, and became the first public station
In 1858 station was f. unded at Chem
niz; in 1855 one at Gross Kmehin, ano
tor the succeeding twenty-five years, 1885,
was the only year which aid not wines
he institution of ut least one station
Other European nations followed IT,
example of the German states, and s.
IONS were established By France in 1886
by Austria IN 1857, by Holland in 1857
10y Sweden in 1861, by Russia in 1864 b.
italy in 1870, by Denmark in 1871. :,
Belgium in 1872. by Swiz rland in 1872
by Au-tro Hungary in 1873, by Scotlan'
IN 1875, by Spain in 1876 The valu'
OF the scientific work done by thts'
stations during the last thirty years an,
the impetus it has given to rationa
agriculture are very great,-H. p arms
By, in Popular Science Monthly
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26

A FARMER S CHILDREN's SUCCESSFUL
POULTRY EXPERIENCE We have DON
or about 800 hens, divided into IS pens
n SIX houses of different sizes Fo
winter laying, in room 10 by 10 feet, We
ont Is Or 20 hens. Keep sand on the
bottom; get the sand in when it is dry
md keep it dry all winter. Put fores
leaves or straw on the sand for the hen:
to scratch in. Throw AL the dry gran
nto the leaves or straw. For the morning
eed, give wheat and dough alternately
Tough made Of shorts, fine middlings and
ensilage, with few ground scraps A
night, feed corn and oats, mixed. Fui
hens we keep Leghorns, and Il cross q
i4eghorn and Brahma.
We have ha ched all of our chicks with
n Eclipse incubator since May, 1878
After we found we could hatch chicks
rtilicially. we built IL chicken house il
he tall of 1873, Is by 50 feet, in which
We can raise 500 chicks, at one time
When they are three or four months OIL
hey are sold or removed, to make room
FOR others. We begin to Sc eggs abou
feb' uary LIST, and finish the last OF May.
February and March chicks are most all
old for poultry. OF the later ones We
>eep the pullels for winter layers. Mos
Vt the hens are sold at about IS month,
old.
AS soon as the chicks are from y to p
hours old they are put in the chicken
mouse. Always put them lnder th'
'rooders at night; then they will learn to
20 there at night or when cold. We feet
;oarse oatmeal, Hungarian seed anc
Ground bone for "A few days; then give
;racked corn for "A part of the feed, Give
hem milk TO drink instead OF water
.ither new or skin med.
AS far as our experience goes, we thinl
cross between Light Br3thma hen anC
White Leghorn cock is lhe bcs' lien TO
'ggs and poultry; but if poultry is u t IA
object, then the Leghorn is the bes, f1
Eggs. But we like to have hens all lool
like in pen rs to size and color, whict
.annot be had in dunghiI. fowls. neithe,
Gan you get the laying qualities OF tho
noroug' bred or the first cross of tn
thoroughbred.
We raise 600 or 700 chickens Il wear
1t is not practicable for farmers, or any
ne, to hatch and raise chickens aruticlalN
Iness they intend to make II business Il
w. 7. Thompson d Co, Homestead
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26

Our RECEIPT FOR CURING MEAT.-As
the season has arrived when curing meat
is in order, we repubish, rs of old, our
receipt for curing beef, pork, mutton,
hams, etc , as follows: To one gallon OF
water take 2 pound of sail, l-2 pound OF
sugar, IA ounce of sal'pelIe IL ounce of
polash+ In this ratio the pickle can be
increased to any quantity desired Let
hose be boiled together until all the dirt
from the sugar rises to the top and is
skinned off, Then throw it into tub to
ctol, and when cold, pour it over your
beef or pork. The meat must be well
covered with pickle, and should not be
put down for at least two days after kill.
ing, during which time it should be
slightly sprinkled with powdered saltpetre,
which removes all the surface blood. etc,
leaving the meat fresh and clean. Some
omit boiling the pickle, and find it to
answer well, though the operation of
boiling purifes the pickle by throwing off
the dirt always to be found in salt and
sugar. If this receipt is strictly followed,
it will require only single trial to prove
its superiority over the common way, or
most ways, of putting down 4meat, and
will not soon be abandoned for any other.
The meat is unsurpassed for sweetness,
delicacy and freshness of color.
omit the potash unless you eau get tho pute arli
Druggists usually keep IT.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26
Light for Color.

Mr.. EDITOR:-In your description o
the Powell vacuum process of making
butter and cheese at Colchester you sa,
the butter maker remarked that "tht
cream being raised in The dark mad'
coloring necessary" The agent of >
prominent bureau creamery company, il
setting forth the merits OF the dreamer,
said, I'VE have put glass in the front Il
light it and so give color
Now if light gives color in one stage Of
the process why will it not in each an,
every stage, from the formation of rb'
milk in the COW S bag to the finishing u
of the butter for the table? (a)
Then the COW : bag should be ilumna
ted, the cream raised bv daylight ana tn
cream, OF and butter tub have glass GOV
ers. (D
We formerly raised our milk in s an,
10 quart pans, hut since 1880 have USED
Worcester's creamery, which, as every one
knows who is acquainted with its working
operates entirely IN the dark. We fine
the color the same 10 each 81 stem ut tn,
s, me season of the year and on the same
feed. When the COWS have plenty OF
fresh grass there is no necessity for color
ing, but as the grass fails or dries up anC
the cows are fed dry feed, the butter fade,
until when they are fed entirely on dry
feed, although it may be early Cut hay an'
plenty of meal, the butter needs color,
ing. (d)
Do butter makers need light on thi,
subject and if so who will give up
S. +. NYE.
Berlin, Nov, 1888.
REMARKs.-(O Does light give color
1t seems 10 in vegetable growth and il
animal as we'll, we think, and the onl,
way we know to settle the question (D u
for Friend Nye to try it. CD With GU
cows this is not true. With good earl,
cut hay and corn meal our batter need
no coloring. Light and air are necessar
to all healthy growth, both vegetable an
animal; but Of just how much importanc
it is in bringing olt color in cream O
butter we do not know, nor do we know
who does.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26
VITAL QUESTIONS F.!
Ask the most eminent physician

Ask the most eminent physician
Ofany school, what is the best thing in
the world for quieting and allaying all
irritation of the nerves and curing all
forms of nervous complains, giving natu-
raj, childlike refreshing sleep always?
And they will tell you unhestatingly
Some form of Hops!'
CHAPTER 1.
Ask any or all of the most eminent ply
sicisns:
"What is the best and only remedy that
can be relied on to cure all diseases of the
kidneys and urinary organs; such as
Brght's disease, diabetes, retention or in
ability TO retain urine, and all the diseases
and ailments peculiar TO Women
And they will tell you explicitly and
emphatically "Buchu."
Ask the same physicians
What is the most reliable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia !;
constipation, indigestion bousness, malarial fever
ague &en and they will tell YOU
Mandrake! or Dandelion," ,,,
Hence when these remedies are combined VIII
others equally valuable
And COMPOUNDED into Hop Bitter, such
1COucludel next week. tm49W4
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26
REPLY.

DEAR MADAME-I desire TO thank you
for the kind expression of personal esteem
and your approval of my efforts to make
the department of the FREEMAN in my
charge valuable and interesting.
Probably no duty of an editor is more
difficult, or beset by more perplexities
than the critical one; the duty of deciding
whether communications are Of intrinsic
excellence, but whether they are suited
for his columns as well, and this duty is
doubly onerous when the article in ques
ton is classed us poetry.
No one can have greater interest ir
having good article printed than The
editor and proprietor of the paper; II gooc
Or poor paper means success, Or failure It
them, and self interest will as surely
secure the printing of articles which in the
EDITORS opinion will reflect credit on the
writer Or on the paper. as the rejection Of
those which in his judgment would dc
neither the one nor the other.
If his judgement is faulty, that is his
misfortune and the great public will soon
know the truth, and the verdict "incompe-
tent will be given in his case.
To this test every editor, as well AS
every writer mus. submit, and the verdict
will generally be found to be just.
To write good poetry is much more
difficult than 10 write good prose, and
| have often wondered why people
who write good sound, sturdy prose,
will write, and, still more astonishing, try
10 have printed attempts at verse making
which would excite the ridcule or pity Of
its readers if they were printed, and are
either hurt or angry if they are declined
by the editor, who has in so doing rem
dered them a real service.
have now lying before me pieces in
verse, from personal friends, which ]
would like TO print, because they arc
friends, and who may feel hurt if they are
not printed, but while they have some
rood points, they have faults of compost
lion which cannot be corrected without
re-writing-and cannot write poetry In
poetry as in prose, yes much more SO, TIL
more lofty the subject, the greater the
COVER required for Its adequate treatment
and in the lines your friend composed nnd
you sent me: "Thoughs on hearing the
twelfth chapter of Daniel read At family
prayers" 1t seems 10 me rs read tn,
chapter and the verses side by side, ha,
The glowing imagery of the prophet, OF
he fervor of his language is not at al
improved upon in the lines of your friend
Ia this instance have departed from my
usual custol and replied TO your com
plant for several reasons. The evden,
h nesty and earnes,ness OF your letter
entities it TO notice; again, the SACRED
haracter of the subject of the verses
commanded respect, if the composition
failed to, and wanted 10 say few words
on the subject which should have wider
application than your personal case.
Resretiing exceedingly the necessity
which compels me to decline the verses
and disobige so constant reader. | re-
main with great respect,
Very truly yours,
o. M. TINKHAM, Ag. Editor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26

| end of it. But procure a lead tube, OF
any other kind of pipe, place the lower
! end directly on the ice in the pump, and
with funnel pour hot water in at he top
The weight of the water in the pipe will
drive it hot against the ice. the pipe
settling as fast as the ice melts, and the
whole will be cleaned out in an incredibly
short time.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-26
4" IT'S A GOOD THING
And | Know it," were the Words of
Mr.. Levi Porter, the Celebrated
Fashionable Cutter to the Firm
of Nathan d Taylor, under
the Narragansett House,
Providence, r. I.--Shows
what an Honest Thing
will do

ats good thing; know its good thing" Such
were the words addressed to your reporter when he
called at the fashionable establishment of Nathan &
Taylor under the Narragansett House, Providence,
r. l. The speaker Mr. Leroy Porter, head mana
of the tailoring department Of this large clothing
house, as he was cutting his way through mammoth
pile of brocade, Scotch paids and broadcloths.
II felt sometimes il there was cannon ball rest
ing on my stomach would have to get up at night,
for short of breath. You see in the Spring
our busy seasOu-we are at work sixteen hours per
day Have short times for meals; and at irregular
hours. My stomach became very much disordered,
and was all of health. tried every kind of med
icines, The doctors said il was touch of Dyspepsia
| could get nothing to do me permanent good until u
friend recommended T. Kennedy FAVORITE REM
EDY. know it's good medicine. 1t has completely
cured me of stomach disorders and Indigestion. 1t
seems to be thorough cleanser Of the 81 stem from
biliousness ANYTHING OF that kind know this Tor
I've tried it, I'm in the best OF hea th now Int
] have dNsI eutlc turn again DR.. Kennedy IS
TAVORITE REMEDY would be NV source of relief
DR.. KelnedN;s FAVORI IL REMEDY acts upon the
digestive organs in charming manner, reg llHting
their action, Strengthening and purifying the whole
system "
Ask your druggist for it, 5Dw4