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Little Things of Great Moment.

1t is small matter to take the horses
across the field for their water; it seems to
cost nothing, yet if farmers time, or that
of his hired man, is worth anything, it
costs great deal in the course of year.
1t is a small matter to chop each days
wood upon the day it is used, and thus
have it all fresh; but fifteen minutes in har-
vest time is worth more than in January,
besides, there are vastly more economical
methods of making 6re-wood than with an
AK 1t is very little matter to tighten
loose nut, but it sometimes costs life and
limb not to do it. A pear tree here and
there costs so little that one is inclined to
think they are of no account, but when the
fruit is ripe they are appreciated. A single
step from one room to another is only one
step, but the thought of stairway made
out of these steps during lifetime is enough
to almost make womans back ache.
Look well to the details, and see that the
little things are right, for it pays in the
and
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RECRUIT THE LEAN Cows.-It is an
erroneous opinion, too general among farm
ers, that because their cows have nearly
ceased giving milk it will not pay to feed
them generously. 1t will cost more to keep
them through the winter, but they will not
be in condition to produce the yield they
are capable of doing, if lacking in strength
and vigor in the spring. If brought into
condition they will stand the severe cold of
winter on much less feed and thrive better
than if in low flesh. The same amount of
roots, corn, meal or mill feed fed now will
be worth twice as much as it will be in
January or February. Fat laid on now is
a stock of fuel laid up for winter and capt.
tai which it is easy to add to, so that the
amount of feed that will merely sustain
life in lean creature will be amply sufi-
Gent for improvement and profitable growth
when fed to an animal in thriving condi-
ton. Good feeding is good economy stingy
feeding no economy at all.
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PROFIT OF THIRTY HENs.-The re-
cord kept by Zenas Savage, of East-Coven-
try, Chester county, Pa, shows how much
money can be made from a few hens when
they receive proper attention. He owns
thirty fowls, which were kept in a warm
place all winter, fed variety of food and
given a plenty of pure water. From the
first of December to April first he sent
weekly to market an average of twelve doz
en- eggs, the total number being 1852, each
hen produced an average of sc. Mr.. S.
says his receipts from the sales of eggs
were $50, and the expenses of food, &c,
so, leaving profit Of S42, or fraction
over $1.32 per hen. If any of our readers
kept an account of the expenses and profits
of their poultry during the past winter, we
would like to hear from them.
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The Sarnler.
A Gold Vein on Most Farms.

Very many communities know the ex-
element produced by the rumor, even, that
somebody in the vicinity has found indica-
tions of the presence of gold in the soil.
Untold millions have been expended in
searching for the precious metal in locali-
ties where bit of useless iron pyrites (sul-
phide of iron) has been mistaken for gold,
which it resembles in color Our observa-
ton indicates that there is, on at least four
fifths of the farms of this country, an over
looked golden vein, of much greater value
than any yellow metal likely to be found
outside of few special geological forma-
tions.
The following experiment, tried on any
farm or garden, will explain what we are
aiming at. Take quart of fair quality
yard manure, and pour upon it a pint Of
water. After standing week or two, drain
off half pint of the liquid. Now prepare
two corn hills, few feet apart, on any
ground, even rich prairie soil. For one
hill, make hole three or four inches deep,
and pour into it the half-pint of liquid, ad-
ding a trife of fine earth, and plant the
corn. Plant the second hill without this
preparation The result will be, almost
always, that in the first hill the rootlets,
and subsequent roots, will grow down where
the liquid has soaked, much more quickly,
grow stronger, spread wider, and send out
far more numerous feeding fbres than will
be found in the second hill. The young
corn plants (and the same with other plants
will, like well fed young animals, develop
much earlier and take far better advantage
of the growing season. In short, whatever
the soil, this hill will, on the average, ripen
earlier, produce more stalks, and twenty to
fifty per cent.-often hundred per cent.
more sound kernels than the other hill.
And, by the way, there is in the quart of
fertilizer enough material left for similar
effect upon three or four other corn hills.
Now, visit the farm-yards of the country
generally, and in nine-tenths of them there
will be found, on one side or another,
quarts, gallons, barrelfuls of this golden
liquid teaching away and wasting often
scores and hundreds of barrels of it during
a year. Yet, at trifing cost, perhaps only
an earth bank on the lower side of the
yard all this wastage may be saved and
turned to account. The streams, rich in
stimulating plant food, now lost from the
Yards of the four and one-third million
farms of our country, may, with very little
care and trouble, be retained in the rotting
organic matter, and transferred to corn
hills and to the roots of other crops. Rea
gold will be found in the increased crops
and be obtained at far less cost and labor
than is expended by the great mass of gold
miners, Proper attention to so simple /
matter on the farms of the country, taken
together, would add more dollars to the
wealth of the country every year than is
now dug out of all the gold mines between
the Atlantic and Pacific. During this
leisure month let every one look over his
own premises, and see what he is wasting
in this direction, and where he can save and
proft.-American Agriculturist.
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SHEEP FOR RENovATING PASTURES
A Massachusetts farmer says that few
years ago he had a rough, rocky pasture
which was covered with briars and bushes
so thick that there was very little grass
upon it. He cut off the bushes and put on
sheep enough to eat everything that grew
upon it for four or five years. They killed
all the briars and most of the bushes. He
sowed on some plaster of paris and that
was all he did to it, and then he said an
acre of it was worth more and would pro-
duce more feed than three would before.
If pasture is heavily stocked with sheep,
and oil meal and cottonseed meal is fed to
them to make up the deficiency of the food
great improvement will be made in the fer
tility and productiveness of the pastures
English farmers have declared that they
had doubled the value of their grazing
lands by feeding oil cake in the summer.
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PRESERVE Your IMPLEMENTS FROM
The WEATHER-Farmers cannot be too
earnestly impressed with the propriety Of
caring for the implements which they will
have no use for during the winter. To
leave them out exposed to the weather is
almost as bad as to neglect attending to their
cattle At this season of the year there are
many days when but little work can be
done in the fields, yet an inclement day can
be well utilized by looking after the farm
tools, carts, wagons and the various nipple
ments required upon the farm A coat of
paint applied to the wood work would
preserve it for great many years, and the
paint applied to the iron would greatly pre-
serve it, but in this case the bearings should
notbe painted. A coating of lard oil would,
however, be found of good service; the
bearings would be preserved from rust, and
when the machine was brought into use in
spring or summer it would run much easier
than If allowed to rust all winter In case
paint is thought to be too expensive, petro-
feum is as good preservatiye, though ap-
nerrance is sacrificed in its use.
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3 Progressive Farmers.

The true farmer does not stop to count
the cost of improvement, for his reason
prompts him to believe that he cannot 60
wrong by endeavoring to improve. Every
acre of his farm is cultivated to its highest
capacity, and his soil never deteriorates in
quality. He rotates his crops with the view
to increased fertility, and he estimates his
profits by the amount of expense entailed
in securing that profit. The failure to re-
alize immediate results does not discourage
him, for he knows that, through his judic-
ious system of cultivation, the realization is
but deferred for a little while longer. He
farms for profit, and he spends for profit.
He knows nothing of stinted economy,
which saves to-day and robs tomorrow.
The farm is his bank, his workshop and his
occupation, no stone being left unturned,
and no portion sighted at the cost Of an
other part.
A good farm means good stock. The
squealing hog has no place on it, but must
be superseded by the quiet thoroughbreds.
The tangled faced, small carcassed sheep
cannot be allowed where only the merino,
the Cotswold and the Oxford Down are
adopted. The scraggy bovines of the past
are seen no more, for the deep-milking
Holstein, the creamgiving Jersey and beef
producing Hereford have occupied their
places. The thoroughbred and the Clydes-
dale pillow the fields that formerly yielded
to the wind-broken plugs, and the wagons
and implements are of the most approved
labor saving patterns. All this means CAPT
tai and is expensive; but when we consider
the fact that it costs no more to keep the
best than the bad, and that expense means
profit in the end, the cost is not so formida-
BILE as it seems.
But the manure heap is the most impor-
tant of all. A good farmer can be selected
by the manner in which he keeps his ma
nure The manure is the wealth-the
bank on which the check is drawn-and it
is imprudent to neglect it. Drenching
rains and searching suns carry upward and
downward the soluble and volatile constit-
uents of the unprotected heap, and often
great bitches are dug to allow the black
liquid riches to pass off and away forever
But the good farmer works differently
He makes his manure fine, attends person
ally to the process of decomposition, protects
it from the weather and endeavors to make
it ready food for the crops when hauled
to the fields Farming pays well-to good
farmers -Philadelphid Record.
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Peter Henderson says the best known
fertilizers of commerce are Peruvian guano
and bone dust. Whatever kind of con-
centrated fertilizer is used, he finds it well
repays the labor to prepare it as follows
before it is applied to the land: To every
bushel of guano or bone-dust add three
bushels of leaf mould, well pulverized dry
muck, yard scrapings, well decomposed
stable manure, or, if neither of these can be
obtained, any loamy soil, but in every case
the material mixed with the fertilizer must
be fairly dry, as it is used as temporary
absorbent for the fertilizer
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The ants on trees are after the lice, which
are hurting the trees. These lice exude a
sweet substance, which attracts the ants,
and the ants do no harm. To get rid of
the lice make solution of whale oil soap and
add to pailful one drachm of carbolic acid.
Syringe or spray this on the under side of
the leaves, and it will either kill or drive
away the lice, and the ants will be seen no
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A correspondent of the Country Cen
tenan gives the following as his method Of
destroying sprouts from the roots OF trees :;
tsBore a three-fourth inch hole in the CEN
tire of the stump, 10 inches deep; put in
one ounce of the oil of vitriol, and plug it
up tight"
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SEX OF EGGs.-The small, round eggs
are female eggs, and the long, slender ones
are males This rule holds good among all
kinds of birds So if you wish to raise
pullets set the small, round eggs; if you
wish to raise ROSTERS set the long, slender
ones. In this way you will be enabled to
raise whichever sex you wish.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-06

The Rural Neao Yorker says: "There
is quite as much necessity for barn-cleaning
on the farm as for housekeeping, and if
farmers were as punctilious about the reno
walton and publication about the outbuild-
ings as farmerines are about the dwellings,
there would speedily be an improvement in
the appearance of things; and of convent
ences, too"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-06

Professor Beal furnishes statement to
the Rural Ne,o Yorker, that neighbor
who was poor cultivator had ripe toma-
toes two weeks before some of his neigh
bors, simply because his soil was poor and
had not been MANFRED, while the neigh
bors had rich soil, which kept the plants
growing with more luxuriance, with later
ripening of the fruit. 1t is easy to test the
matter another season.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-06

The cheapest way to keep up the fertility
of most soils consists in raising red clover
and turning it under while it is green.
The growth of the plants may be greatly
increased by the application of ground
plaster of gypsum, which costs very little
and is very easily applied.
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EIRE INSURANCE AGENCY
OF
YINGLING 4 MATTHEW'S.

Insure against Loss or Damage by, Fire or
LIGHTNING to Buildings, Live Stock, etc.,
and Loss by Lightning to Stock anywhere
ON the premises, and to other property whether
fire ensues or not.
Office with State Mutual Association, near
Railroad, Westminster, Md.
ian 15-tf 49,
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The raising of sheep is of the greatest
benefit to the land, because wherever they
feed, new and sweet grasses grow and
flourish, and the weeds are destroyed.
Farmers should raise turnips and feed them
to sheep. l a
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We have Just had completed one of the
finest Hearses in the State, with which all
funerals entrusted to our care will be at
tended.
We are manufacturers and dealers in fine
and common Furniture, Spring Beds, Mat
tresses, Fancy Chairs, &C., &C., which we
offer at the lowest rates.
nEE An examination of our stock is soi-
cited before purchasing, as you can SAVE
MONEY by buying of us.
f. A. SHARPER & SON,
Main Street, East End, Westminster, Md
iy 10
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Farm-yard manure is often seriously in
jured by allowing too much water to fall
upon it, whereby some of its most impor-
tant elements are washed out of it. This,
with the loss of ammonia by drying makes
IL useless,
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Westminster, Md, Oct. 20, 1881.
, B. NORMENT,

d B. NoRMENT,
II. ATTORNEY AT Law,
Office with Hon. Charles B. Roberts, opposite
the Court House, respectfully informs the
citizens of Carroll and adjoining counties that
he will give prompt attention to all business
intrusted to him, both before the Courts of
this State and the Departments of the Gen
eral Government at Washington, ID. e.
ian T. 1873
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NEW STORE, NEW GOODS, AND
AN CHEAP.

HAVE built Store Room next door to
Il my old stand, Bowers Hall, and my stock
CERES AND PROVISIONS, comprising
logna Sausage, Flour, Corn and Buckwheat
Meal, and all articles generally kept in good
Grocery and Provision Store, all Of which will
be sold low, delivered to any part of the town.
With long experience and by strict attention to
business, | solicit liberal share of the public
patronage.
june II JOHN. FL. BOWERS.
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Common salt is special manure for as
paragus beds when used with rich barn-yard
compost. 30
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HA1NEs g. CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Grccers,
Respectfully call attention to their large
stock of Groceries, &C., at their Store, few
doors east of the Railroad Depot, Westmin-
ster, Nd.
Our facilities are such as to enable us to
offer great inducements in prices, as we pur-
chase for Cash and sell at Short Profits Our
stock consists of
Choice Flour, Groceries, Queens
ware, Stoneware, Glassware,
Willow Ware, WoodenWare, Fine
Cutlery, Fish, Bacon, Lard,
Salt, &C., &c.
OUR LIQUORS
are the finest and best ever offered in this city,
and for medicinal or family use are unsur-
passed. Sole agents for the well known Welty
Whiskey.
Ale, Porter and Beer, by the bottle or
barrel.
Sole agents for Briggs Bros. world-re-
nouned Garden and Fower Seeds.
The highest market price paid for Country
Produce.
feb %, 1879 HAlNES x 90.
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ROBES AND SHROUDS,
DUY YOUR HARDWARE AND
ID STOVES
OF
M. SCHAEFFER & CO.,
WESTMINSTER, Md,
NEAR RAILROAD.

NEAR RAILROAD.
We are receiving an elegant line of fine
heating Stoves, economical in fuel, ornamen-
tai in design, easy to manage and reasonable
in price.
Cook Stoves and Ranges in the latest and
most approved patterns guaranteed.
Sole agents for the celebrated New Light
House Cook and Excelsior Penn, Othello and
New Record Ranges, also the New Golden
Sun and Boynton 1882 Fire Place Heaters,
the very best in the market.
Keep on hand always full line of
HARDWARE, WOODENWARE, PAINTS,
OILS, GLASS, PLUMBERS AND
GAS-FITTERS' SUPPLIES.
Manufacturers of all kinds of Tinware. Roof
ing and Spouting promptly attended to:
Call and examine stock and learn prices.
sept 9-tf
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WESTMINSTER, MD.

Repairing of all kinds attendedto promptly
and warranted.
A liberal share of the patronage of my
friends and the public is respectfully solicited
ap IL, 1879.
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FOR SALE.

A very productive Farm of 49,.
1O4 ACRES, BUILDINGS GOOD. 1A-A
Situated on one of the best ~
roads leading out of, and about .
al miles from Westminster. For particulars
inquire of GEO. w. MATTHEW'S,
Real Estate Agent,
sep 23-tf Westminster, Carroll Co., Nd.
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JOHN E. SMITH. WIN. A. M.kEll'lF'
GMITH & McKELLIP,
y ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND
SOLICITORS IN CHANCER4,
Having formed partnership in the practice
of Law, will give prompt attentiod to all busl-
ness entrusted to their care. Office on Nam
street a few doors east of Court street.
dec Sly
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EMMITTSBURG RAILROAD.

Westminster at 1929 a. m and 343 p. m.
EMMITTSBURG RAILROAD.
Trains South will leave Emmittsburg at s 40 a. m.
and 325 p. m, arriving at Rocky Ridge at $40 a.
M. and 400 p m. Trains North will leave Rocky
Ridge at 1896 a. m, and 6.29 p. m arriving at En-
mittSburg 1105 a. m. and 100 p.
BALTIMORE AND CUMBERLAND VALLEY r. R.
Trains leave East daily, except Sunday. Shippens-
burg 635 a. m, and 120 and 2.40 p. m, Chambers
burg 10 a.. M, 155 and S15 p. NJ, Waynesboro 1852
a. M 235 and $50 p. m, arriving at Edgemont SIS
a. m. and 255 and Ais p. m Sundays, leave Ship
pensburg 800 a. m, and 2.40 p m, ChamberSburg
835 a, m. and 315 p M, Waynesboro 917 a. IN. and
355 p. m, arriving Edgemont $40 a. m. and lis p.
M. Trains West daily except Sunday. Edgemont
705 and AZ a. m, and 7.32 p. M, Waynesboro 727
a. m and IL O5 and 755 D. m, Johannesburg $40 a.
H.. and 12.45 and $40 p. m, arriving at Shippens-
leave Edgemont 12.49 and 3.32 p. m, Waynesboro
Ito and 3.35 p. IN, Chambersburg 150 and 440 p.
m, arriving Shippensburg =. Is and SIS p; m.
FREDERICK DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Trains for Frederick leave Junction at 1925 a. m,
and G 10 p. M. Trains for Taneytown, LittlestOwn
and York leave Junction at 935 a. IN. and 615 p. m.
Through car for Frederick leaves Baltimore at AGO
p. and leaves Frederick for Baltimore at S35 a.
m. Through for Hanover and Gettysburg and
points the II. j. II. & G. R. r. leave Baltimore
at 1905 a. m. and 400 p. IN.
Orders for Baggage calls can be left at Ticket
Office, 122 W. Baltimore street. Baltimore time CIV
Ell at all stations.
J. NJ HOOD, Gen1. Manager.
nov Is B. H. GRIswoLD Gen'l. Ticket Agent.
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JOSEPH M. PARKE,
81 ATTORNEY AT LAW AND
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
Will practice in the various Courts OF Carroll
county. pN-Special attention given to Or
phans Court business. May be consulted,
for the present, at the office of the Register of
Wills, or at his residence on Court Street,
Westminster, Md. Jan
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d BENTLEY WARDEN,
III. M. D., d. d. S.,
DENTIST,
Office at Uniontown, Nd. Will visit New
Windsor every Thursday, and Union Bridge
the first and third Tuesday of each month.
July 20 eow-2m
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Will visit the following places:
Union Bridge.-1st Wednesday and Friday
following of each month.
Ne,c Windsor. Wednesday and Friday
following of each month.
Tdnevtoun to the last and the last
Friday in each month, remaining until Satur-
day evening. =. =,
One of the firm can always be found in the
office. sep z5-u
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The 31st Semi Annual Session of this in
stitution of Learning begins September 9TH,
1882. The special attention of those resid-
ing in or near Westminster is called to the
advantages of having such College so con-
venient to them. YOUNG persons of either
sex can here receive a Thorough Education
without losing the privileges of home resi-
dence. The Preparatory Department affords
a full course for the ordinary business of
life, and by the purchase of Scholarship the
full ColLeoidte Course can be had at about the
same low rates charged in the Preparatory
Department.
For further information see or address the
President,
IT. WARD, D. D.,
at his residence, or any of the Professors at
their residences or at the College.
1t is important that students enter at the
beginning of the session, or as soon thereafter
as practicable. july 90
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h1~ FURNITURE, 1a

bss Flu KNIT hEs 6N
A VARIETY OF SEWING MACHINES,
the best of which is
THE NEW AUTOMATIC CROWN,
which is so simple and easy to thread and
operate that the blind can use it, and is war
ranted for six years; try it. Also large
STOCK OF DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, &c.
The quality and price of all goods guaranteed.
Best quality, lowest prices. Having two fine
Hearses and large stock of
COFFINS, CASKETS,
ROBES AND SHROUDS,
we are prepared to give prompt and careful
attention to Undertaking, which business We
make speciality. Satisfaction guaranteed in
all cases. A share of patronage is respect
fully solicited. Give us call for anything in
our line before purchasing, and you will see
that you can save big money by buying of the
new firm of MAIN & GEISELMAN,
Main street, west of Depot, and also on
corner of Liberty and Green streets, West
minister Md. april 1882-ly
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cuAs " REIEsSIDER. CHARLES Z. FINK.
r AW CO-PARTNERSH

The undersigned have this day formed a
eo-partnership for the practice Of Law in
the several courts of this State under the firm
name of Reifsnider & Fink. All business en-
trusted to our care will receive prompt atten-
ton. Office-Main street, adjoining the res
idence of Chas T. Reifsnider.
CHAS. T. REIFSNIDER,
CHARLES E. FINK.
Westminster, Md, Oct 20, 1881. oc %