The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-03-23

should be to develop, II possible, .
taste for good reading, 30 that instead
of willing away his long winter evening
smoking his pipe behind his neighbours
stove, or in some shop, or roosting on
meal bag or nail keg telling big sto-
ries, he will stay at home and read.
Or late years, those so unfortunate as
not to have liberal educations conclude
that it is useless for them to attempt to
compete for honors or distinction
against those more fortunate. Frank
lin, Washington, Jackson and Lincoln,
though deficient in the education of the
schools, did not quail before educated
competitors, but marched boldly for
ward to honor and renown.
THE British Quarterly Journal of
Agriculture says: "The horses of Nor
mandy are capital race for hard work
and scanty fare. Have never elsewhere
seen such horses at the collar. Under
the diligence, post-carriage, or cum
brous cabriolet, or on the farm, they
are enduring and energetic beyond de-
scription. With their necks cut to the
bone they finch not. They keep their
condition when other horses would die
of neglect and hard treatment.
THERE are many qualities essential to
constitute the model hog-and although
he is not permitted by the laws of ma
the next blessing of humanity-th dis
position to grow fat He is happy
fellow; when well bred and cared for,
he lives like gentleman of leisure, free
from all the trials that disturb this busy
world He has no mortgage on his
farm, no notes in bank maturing in the
next ten days; yes, he is happy as
hog in clover; when he can't stand up
he lies down.. FailOr.
WE say to two-tl''rds of the farmers
of Iowa-knowing what we say, and
saying it with our teeth clinched and
our nerves strung, that if you expect to
successfully compete with your more
enterprising neighbors, there must be a
more thorough system rigidly enforced
to increase the productiveness of your
farms. Your situation imperatively de-
mands that you improve your stock by
the introduction of better blood. You
must cease scattering the corn in the
mud or the snow TO stock sheltered in
these bleak days on the north side of a
wire fence You must cease the prac-
tice which makes you send your 10
months-old hogs to market weighing 80
pounds each when your neighbors' hogs
of the same age weigh 400 pounds. You
must understand your business better
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cost, and what the food is worth which
your hogs and cattle have consumed.
The reason why you are behind your
more prosperous neighbors is that you
have not yet walked up to your duties
or your possibilities. You have not
lived to know your business. For q
quarter of a century we have been with
you in Iowa farming-have watched
your operations-seen wherein you
failed-know whereof we write-and
feel the full force of our words when
we say you must wake up to full reali-
Zation of your situation, or drag out
your life and that Of your family in pow
erty and obscurity. And all we regret
is that we cannot arouse you with our
words as with forty-horse-power gal
vanic battery Moi1les Register.
WE notice frequently outlandish
recommendations, agriculturally and
horticulturally, which must result in
failure and Encouragement. We have
now before us one of these for stimu-
lating the growth of trees, by boring
holes in the ground and pouring in
liquid manure about the roots! How
the roots are generally to be got at in
this way we cannot see. What better
can be desired than applying the same
liquid uniformly over the ground and
let it soak in? If the surface is very
hard it should be loosened; or, what
we contend is still better, top-dress the
surface as far as the branches extend
with good manure, and the substance
will soon find its way uniformly to the
roots with the assistance of the rains.
Our own judgment and practice has
always been to treat the soil in which
the trees, fruit and ornamental, grow,
as far as can be done, the same as soil
that is cultivated for vegetables or gen.
eral farm crops, and we have always
been satisfied with the result. As
some evidence of the effect of such APP
plication we will mention this instance /:
Some years ago hemlock spruce had
a rusty appearance and at last fell
much behind the others in depth of
color 1t was about II feet in height,
and must have been set out in spot
where the soil was not as affluent as
that where others were planted. At
any rate two wheelbarrow loads of
good manure, spread out as far as the
extremity of the branches, restored it
perfectly the ensuing year, and it was
one of our handsomest trees.-Ger-
n,dntoWn Telegraph.
In early life (sixty years ago. we
were taught that it was important in
order to have strong and hardy horse
that the colt must be allowed to shift
for himself, live out doors through the
winter and support himself by cleaning
in the stock-felds. And this doctrine
is believed, or at least practiced, at the
present day, not in solitary cases, but
the instances can be found all over the
State. There is no doctrine more fall
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