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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Watch the Barnyard.

During a recent excursion through q
rural district which we refrain from To-
eating, except to say it was not in the
7Eariaaned Genesee Valley, or any 9th
.er part OF Western New York, we saw
some surprising evidences of neglect
about cleaning out barnyards and
utilizing the elements of fertility they
e contained. In one instance the ma
nure pile was SO large that itreminded
rus of the old story anent the farmer
who was obliged to move his barn be-
cause access to it was so blockaded Ey
rich fertilizing materials! And we
thought it might not be amiss
TO ask the readers of The Rural
Home Tor at least such of them
as borrow the paperD if they had any
trouble with like membranes in their
bafnyards-suchv valuable material as
ought to have been long ago spread in
field, orchard and garden, instead of
being allowed to run to waste by evapo-
cation or otherwise, thus pulluting the
air with disagreeable odors and per-
haps engendering disease. If any have
inadvertently overlooked a matter so
important, or from any cause being
prevented from doing their duty in the
premises, we would suggest that it may
mot be too late yet, as some crops
would be decidedly benefited by an APP
piication of barnyard or other fer
Gilizers.
But the barnyard should be looked
to at this season, even fit was cleaned
- out IN the spring or none of its con-
tents are needed afeld. An excerpt
= AN our scrapbook truly AYERS that the
barnyard should be watched at this
time of the year to see that the juices
- do not run to waste. If the flow can
he turned into field to soak away
= over its surface, the manure contained
In it will settle into the. ground and
he saved. On the land where this
deposit is made no other manure will
be necessary, as the best materials,
: the chemical salts, are washed out and
flow away with the water. Where
there is a considerable distance for the
'sseEssasn to run these will be deposited
unless the flow is too rapid. Where
the juice cannot be made to flow over
a field it should be damned up in a
Tbarn-yard, and the coarse manure
Thrown into the pool. This is presup-
posing that no arrangements were
made the year before to manage it to
better advantage. To utilize this val
saIaasle material there should be hauled
anto the barnyard in the autumn a
lot OF muck or earth which should be
80 placed that it may be able to alb
sorb the juice Where there is base
nent it can be placed therein, and
wheeled out any time when it is re-
.quired- Without such convenience it
may be piled up across the natural
outlet from the barnyard, and SO as
swer the purpose of dam and alb
.sorbent.-Rural Home
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Witnesses for the Wilson.

Mr. w. A. Brown writes to the Fruit
Growers Journal that of the over a.
900 acres of Strawberries in Berrien
county, Mich, ''nearly all are Wilson, :"
which has been thefavoritefo twenty
five years:
ffCouid you visit some of our best
fields at this time you might look in
vain for sign of deterioration in this
grand old variety. Many growers in
tfle gulf states send here for plants,
and they always order Wilson's. Why
: the Wilson fails at Golden (Southern
Uiinois) is a mystery to northern and
southern growers. Perhaps pure Will
sons planted on isolated new lands in
your vicinity would again give old time
results"
Mr. f. T. Hollister in a letter to the
sane paper about the culture of tbs
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Personal Paragraphs.

Rev. DR.. A. C. George, one of Chica-
go's most prominent Methodist cler-
gymen, died at the residence of his
| son-in-law, Mr.. r. p. Hollett, at En-
glewood.
The story is told OF Mr.. Evarts that
he once sent a donkey up to his farm
| at Windsor, VT, and about week af-
terward received the following letter
from his little grandchild: Dear
Grandpa: The little donkey is very
gentle, but he makes a bignoise nights.
Heis very lonesome. Iguess he misses
you. L hope you will come up soon,
and then he won't be SO lonesome.
MINNIE.
The engagement is announced in New
York of Grace Seligman, daughter of
William Seligman, the well-known
banker OF that city, to Henri Michel,
editor Of LIE Temps, Paris.
There lis a John E. Sullivan in In
dianapolis who is the heaviest dealer
in poultry, game, and produce in the
United States. He started in business
with twenty-five cents, and now his
annual trade exceeds a million and a
quarter
When Mrs. George M. Pullman left
Chicago for Long Branch, her special
train was drawn up almost at the very
foot of her lawn. With her were her
children and about eight attendants.
Her boudoir car was beautifully
decorated with ox-eyed daisies, gera-
NUNS, heliotrope, pansies, and other
blooms taken from her own flower
beds, and the bits of Partisan
draperies, water colors, prints, period
icals and new books about the coach
gave it a home-like and yet elegant as
pect. One car was devoted to her
horses, and another to the carriages
of herself and children.
A spirited young lady is reported to
have summarily ended an interesting
and promising love match simply be-
cause her adored young man insisted
on conducting his part of the CORE
spondence with the aid OF a typewriter.
She declared she could easily read his
manuscript, and did not propose to
file away any more machine love-let-
ters. There is something cold, unsym-
pathetic in friends letter that has
been ground out of a typewriter. 1t
lacks individuality, suggests the print
ed circular
At sale of relics which had been the
property of the poet Burns, at the
Tam O'Shanter Inn, Ayr, the ''Tam
O'Shanter' and ''Souter Johnnie"
chairs fetched EAT each, being secured
for Burns cottage. The stirrup cup,
a small wooden bowl with a silver
band, was sold to Mrs. Christie, pub
lican, for 955, and an autograph let
ter to Hamilton Nimmo fetched 97.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Weed Out the Diaries.

When we say weed out the dairies
we mean TO say that in nearly every
dairy there are some COWS that are
unproftable, that do not give enough
milk, or make enough butter or cheese
(whatever the object of the dairy) to
pay cost of keeping and care, or, if
they barely pay cost, they displace
Others that would pay good profit.
A grain growing farmer who should see
so many thin or barren spots in his
fields of grain as to reduce the average
yield below cost OF production would
not be satisfied, even though some of
the acres yielded large enough to pay
good profit. He would try, by heavy
manuring, more thorough tillage, or by
draining, to bring up the yield of the
poorer spots to a profitable standard.
A da1ryman may easily sink the
profits of his herd by keeping few
poor COWS. Part of the herd may give
enough milk, or make enough butter
or cheese to afford fair profit over
cost,-feed, care, interest and wear,
and yet the business be a losing one,
because the other portion of the herd
do not pay their way. Dairymen
SnOulQ not De content WIN knOWI-
edge of what the herd is doing, even
though it may be returning a profit,
but should know just what every COW
is doing. Every cows milk should be
set and tested separately at least
twice in the season, when in full milk
and when she has been in milk six or
eight months. If are and found
doing less than the average, they
should be prepared for the sham
bles, and the feed, labor and
care bestowed upon them given to those
that would yield above the average.
By such means the average would be
continually increasing.
Some dairymen have named POOH
ayear as the minimum yield of butter
that should be tolerated in a dairy
COW, but that is pretty low, and no
dairymen can afford to retain a COW
making so small a quantity, if reason
able effort will create herd. every
one of which shall do considerably
better. 1t is because so many farmers
are satisfied with doing only tolerably
well, do not determine to do the best
possible, that SO much complaint is
made of the unprofitableness of farm
ing-American Rural Home.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Changes in College Life.
'ew York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
"Tve come down to buy some bill
lard tables for the college gymnasium.
Can you tell me the best place for
them?" Such was the salution with
which an Amherst Professor, a few
months ago, startled a New York
graduate, who, though not quite twen-
ty years an alumnus, remembered how
i'll the billiard player Jared with the
Faculty when he was a student. An
old graduate of Bowdon College, in
Maine, returning to commencement
fifty years after graduation, asked the
meaning of a rambling noise which is
sued from the gymnasium.
"Bowling?" the old man musing re-
peated after friend had answered his
question; ''they used to expel boy for
bowling in my day" Colby University
in the same state is the most sectarian
and straight-laced institution any
where to be found-a place where the
stage used to be regarded with a holy
horror. The commencement at Colby
occurred afew weeks ago, and among
the attractions of the occasion, enjoy
ing the official recognition of the au-
thorities, was the performance OF
'The Merchant of Venice" by a compa-
ny of professional actors.
These incidents illustrate how revo-
lutionary has been the change in the
attitude of college authorities toward
the students within the memory of
graduates now wliving. Doubtless there
are plenty of old alumni who think
it is all sad mistake, and who shake
their heads in dismay over a genera
tion which bowls, plays billiards and
attends theatrical performances under
the patronage of its instructors. Yet
there is no doubt that this relaxation
of the ancient strictness in matters ct
amusement has accompanied an ado
vance in character and manllness ne
less noteworthy.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Putting up Cucumbers in Pickles.

Pack the cucumbers in a. jar or tub,
then pour a weak brine upon them,
and let it remain three days. Pour off
the brine, and pour ON enough hot
boiling vinegar to cover the pickles,
and let them stand "a hours. Reboil
the vinegar, and pour on as before.
Do this three times, letting the pickles
stand "a hours each time. Then throw
the pickle away, and add enough fresh
vinegar to cover the cucumbers. Add
a lump of alum the size of a marble to
a gallon of pickle; half pound of sugar
and spices to taste. Bring to a boil,
skim, and then turn upon the pickles
while hot. Let them stand well COW
cred for ten days, and they are ready.
for use. This is one kind of marketable
pickles Another kind, and one that is
largely used, is: Soak the cucum-
bers in a barrel or tub, in salt.
When needed take the cucumbers
out and throw boiling water on
them. When sufficiently freshened
(which you will know by the water be-
coming fresh) put the cucumbers in a
porcelain kettle, and cover with cold
vinegar. Put in little pod or part
of red pepper to each gallon of
pickles; also piece OF alum about the
size of pea to each gallon. Then let
them come to a scald-not boil. When
scalding hot take them out and put in
ve&el to be used, pouring the same
vinegar over them. If to be kept for a
long time the vinegar will need chang
ing. This gives pickles natural color,
which are now most generally in use.
To those who prefer green pickles the
following gives the desired color: Dis
solve five grains ofsaffron in one-fourth
ounce of distilled water, and in anoth-
er vessel dissolve four grains of indigo
carmine in half an ounce of distilled
water. Shake up and allow to stand
"a hours. Then mix the two and a
fine solution, not poisonous, is formed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Not Scared a Bit.

J. NJ. Comfy in National Tribune.
Gen. Hayes once told me story IL
lustrating the feeling of doubt which
every modest man may have, however
brave he may really be, in going for
the first time under fire-doubt wheth-
er his courage may be able to stand
the test The oman" in the case was
a mere lad. too young to enlist as a
soldier, but determined to ''get there"
somehow. He had attached himself
to the wagon-train of the 23d Ohio,
and had been cared for by the good
natured teamsters until the command
took part in it's first battle during the
war-the battle of Carnifex Ferry, in
West Virginia. Gen. then Major) Hayes
was in command Of the left wing of the
regiment for independent service on
the flank of the enemy. There had
been heavy firing in front; in fact, it is
said that there was no action during
the war in which there was more
''racket" from heavy firing than in
the battle of Carnifex Feery. Maj.
Hayes, after waiting impatiently
for an order to advance until
he became afraid that the COM
manding general had forgotten him,
galloped towards the front to find
Gen. Rosecrans and report in person,
hoping to receive orders that would
place his command in immediate and
active proximity to the enemy. And
l may as well say here that he had his
desire, in being ordered through an al
most impenetrable laurel thicket, up
a steep ascent, to attack the enemyin
flank. To return to my subject: AS
Mai. Hayes galloped up the road, tow
ards the front he met this lad ofwhom
l have spoken coming down the road
on Transfers horse, which he had
somehow got hold of his hat set back
on his neck and his face fairly blazing
with excitement, and as hepassed he
called out: "Oh, Major! I've been up
there in the thickest ofit-and WASN'T
scared Bit"
AS nearly as can recollect this was
the experience of most. They were
very curious and somewhat doubtful
as to how they would feel in their first
fight, not knowing what unexpected
aspect of the trial might turn up as ir-
resistibly demoralizing. And usually
they came out, like the boy, mot
scared O. Bit But with some it was
different.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
THE r6ETs WHO LISTEN.

When evenings shsdewy fingers fold
The flowers IT every hue,
Some shy, half=9peHed bud viii b5ld
Its drop OF mornings dew.
Sweeter with every sHHlit hour
The trembling sphere has grown,
I'LL MI the frHgraaes of the flower
Becomes ut last its own.
We that have sung perelianee may ffnl
Our little need OF praise,
And round our pailid temples bind
The wreath OF fading days.
All. Poet, who hast never spent
Thy breath IN idle strains.
For thee the dewdrop morning lent
Still in thy heart remains.
Unwasted, in it's perfumed cell
1t waits the evening gale;
Then to the azure whence it fell
Its lingering sweets exhaIe.
August Atlantic.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Grants Missouri Homes.

St. Louis Republican.-Theh history
of the different houses connected with
Grants stay in st. Louis is soon told.
Some twelve miles south of the city is
the old Dent farm, on which White
haven and Hardscrabble stand
Whitehaven is the old family home of
the Dents. The house is over a half
century old, and it is yet, despite it's
age, a handsome structure. 1t is here
that Brevet Second Lieutenant Grant
came counting Miss Julia Dent, the
sister of his old classmate, riding over
from the barracks, only four miles
away. 1t was in Whitehaven that
most of Grants children were born,
and the tenderest associations of his
life are associated with it.
Hardscrabble got its peculiar name
after he had built it. Not many ofo
cities can show in their envirous log
house built by the president OF the
Grant had left the army, presented his
the future General at once went to
work to build a home upon it for his
family. He was very poor-so poor
money to buy the flooring, window
sash and doorways of his house. Ac-
cording to the good old custom, when
the logs were shaped and ready, the
neighbors gathered in to help "raise''
General Grant, with his own hands, did
oil +ha ropl- 4ho oc+o
ner of the house, the one to the left as
f. Long also carried up one of the cor
ners. The house is a comfortable one
well built and commodious. 1t has
old-fashioned fireplaces where many a
giant dog has burned to ashes in the
good old times before the war. 1t is
two-story house, and the arrange
ment of the rooms testifes to the fact
that Grant was a good architect as
well as a good soldier.
The house on Fifth and Core street,
on the southeast corner, was in it's
time fine residence. 1t still bears
traces of the style and fashion OF its
occupants, but it has fallen from it's
high estate, and it is now a boarding
house which advertises the day board
to be found within.
The house on Seventh and Barton
streets was for time Grants prop
erty When he moved into St. Louis
to go into the real estate business, he
traded Hardscrabble for the Barton
street property. There was a flaw in
the title, however, and the property
was taken away from him. 1t was
not till after the war that he recovered
possession of ofHardscrabble. The house
is a frame, full of surprising doorways
and unexpected stairs. 1t is little
bit of a cottage, and in it Grant prob
ably passed the most unhappy years
OF his life.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
AGeOrgia Idyl.

From the West Point (Ga.) Press.
Six miles east of West Point, in Har-
ris County, live two remarkable old
people. They are Benjamin Gamill
and his wife, respectively 73 and 76
years of age. They are now living on
the same place that they took posses
sion of when their young hearts were
first united and they together started
out to fight the battle of life. During
these long years they have moved but
once, and then not more than half
mile. Starting life in poverty they
worked together, and many thousands
of dollars have been the result of their
combined efforts. Sober, honest, and
high minded, the old gentleman has
lived to a good old age, and his good
wife is still with him to shed light on a
peaceful homeland they together
realize that a merciful Father will not
forsake his faithful children. Many
children blessed the union of this hap
py old couple, eight of whom lived to
reach manhood and womanhood. The
death of son and son-in-law placed
six additional helpless children under
the care of this worthy old
couple, and they have lived to see
nearly all of them grown and able to
take care of themselves. Tongue
cannot tell the anxiety, the labor, and
care that the rearing of these children
has cost. Neither is itpossible to tell
the amount in dollars and cents it
has required to supply their many
wants, but those who have had the
care of a family know that unusual
posperity must have blessed their lives
or the task would never be accomplish
ed. A most remarkable fact is that
the youngest of their children-now
the mother of two children-was born
after Mrs. Gamill had reached the age
of fifty odd years. The old spelling
book used by Mrs. Gamill, and from
which she learned her A B Cs. is now
in her possession, and the date alone
shows the great age of the book. 1t
has been carefully preserved, and will
no doubt be handed down to grand
children's children as relic of rare
value. A few days since this venerable
old couple passed through West Point
driving a fine young mule, on their way
to visit son and daughter in Ala
bama, 80 miles from their home. The
old gentleman does his own blacksmith
and wagon work, runs a farm, lives at
homeland lives like a lord-while the
companion of his life for half a cen
tury is the same sweet wife that she
was when she vowed for better or for
worse she would love and cherish him
through life. Well done, good and
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
THE FARM AND FIRESIDE.
Household Notes.

Milk, in hot weather, should be boil
ed before it is put away. A good
pinch of salt and a. bit of cooking
soda, about the size of pea, will not
only prevent it from curdling while
boiling, but will give considerable
<Ilife" to it.
Salt is one of the remedies most fire.
quently employed for keeping weeds
out of garden walks, and the following
rs said to be the best way of applying
it: Boil the salt in water, one pound
to the gallon, and pour the mixture
boiling hot out of a watering-pot with
spreading rose. This will keep weeds
and worms away for two or three
years
Dr.. Alice B. Stockton, in the Peoples
Health Journal, says that unless a
woman has tried loose clothing she
cannot conceive how much she gains
for health and strength by a dress that
gives perfect freedom to breathe. "Six-
teen thicknesses of CLOTH" she says,
-stis no unusual number to be found
tightly fastened about a lady s waist. !"
Concerning this matter she once heard
g. Chinese woman exclaim: "Christian
woman squeeze Gods life"
The etiquette ofhand-shakingi is sim
pie No man should assume to take
a Iady'g hand until it is offered. A
lady extends her hand and allows the
gentleman to takeit. On introduction
IN q room a married lady generally
shakes hands; young ladies not often.
IN the ballroom, where the introduc-
zion is for dancing, not for friendship,
never shake hands. The more public
the place ofintroduction the less hand
shaking takes place.
In the North Carolina Medical Jour
NAL, DIR. J. r. Irwin says that one of
the best and most pleasant things
that can be used to relieve the painful
state of the dental nerves is chewing
ecinnamon-bark. 1t destroys the SEN
sIbility of the nerves, and suspends the
pain Immediately, if the bark is of
good quality. After repeated trials,
and ia different cases, he is convinced
that it is generally as efficacious as
any OF the other remedies suggested for
odontalgia, and not attended with the
unpleasant consequences OF creosote,
carbolic acid, etc., which relieve the
pain, but leave the mouth as sore and
painful as the tooth was previously;
Enough these results are usually due
TO carelessness in using.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-06
Infants Food.

In an Important article on ''The
Quantity of Food Required in Infancy"
in Babyhood for July, Prof. J. Lewis
Smith writes: The Importance OF
these tests and observations is appar-
.ent, inasmuch they enable as to de-
termine approximately how much food
should be given at each feeding to in
fants that are unfortunately deprived
of the breast-milk. The food then
used should, of course, bear the clos
est possible resemblance to human
milk in consistence and nutritive prop
critics. Although many substitutes
for human milk have been prepared,
and sold in the shops with extrava-
CANT recommendations, it is the opin-
ion of the most intelligent and ex.
perienced physicians that animal milk,
and for convenience that Of the COW,
should be made the basis of the prep
aration employed. In my opinion the
following is very nearly the proper scale
for the dilution of cows milk, which
should, of course, always be as fresh
as possible and ofgood quality. Under
the age of two weeks, one part milk,
two parts water; at three weeks, two
parts milk and three parts water; ct