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DIR. Allen, of New Maysville,
Ind, has a wonderful dog. 1t IS a
large black-and-w white NewfOund-
land. This faithful animal per
forms its daily work with the
utmost promptness and regularity.
This consists in keeping the wood
box filed. At intervals through
the day it will report to the kitchen
and view the wood. box. Whenever
the supply of fuel is getting low
he proceeds to the yard, grabs a
stick in his mouth and takes it to
the kitchen, repeating the operation
till the box is filed again. IL keeps
a special lookout on wash-dsys,
aud at other times when an unusual
quantity of wood is being used, and
never lets the box get empty as
long as there is a supply in the
yard.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-10-15
GLeANINGS.

1t often happens that fine speci-
mems of fruit hang too high to be
reached from the ground, and with
too slender a support to place lad
ders against. Various pickers have
been devised for picking them,
but most of them are Objectionable
on account Of the iron sides 10 the
baskets bruising the delicate fruits.
The country GcnticmaR recon-.
meDds as n good and simple picker
one made by firmly tying n small
basket or canvas bag holding a
quart or two to the upper end OF a
light pole about the size Of the
handle of common hand rake.
The pressure of the basket handle
on the fruit will loosen it into the
basket without bruising.
a scrapcr is a good thing to have
about every farm. Many fields
have little knobs and holes that
might easily and cheaply be level
ed by the use of the scrapcr. If
much soil is taken from any place,
the manure cart must follow after
the scraper. \ depression of any
considerable extent must, Of course,
be drained. Even a little surface
drainage will often accomplish
wonders.
Always gatheryour own tomato
seeds, selecting the earliest and
smoothest specimens from the va
riety which you may prefer. 1t
may be advisable to pick these
fruits for seed before they are
fully ripe, for It is proclaimed as a
fact that earliness is promoted by
seed from immature fruit.
Manure-water is easily made. a
sunken hogshead in the barnyard,
covered with Il lot of white oak
saplngs, fouror FIVE inches through,
will fill up with the first rain and
be strong enough to make the crops
laugh over an acre or moro of land
if mixed with plenty Of water.
The application should not be
stronger than one-fourth manure
water to three parts water. Nitrate
of soda may be very effectively
applied in this way, say one pound
to ten gallons Of water, or three
pounds to the barrel.
The best time to apply ashes to
grass land is early in the spring.
The quantity should vary with the
needs of the soil, and this can be
only by experience, some
soils requiring much less than
others according to their compost |
ton; but the usual amount is twenty |
to fifty bushels per acre. Occasion
ally much larger applications have |
been useful. 1t is best to try diff |
lerent quantities IN different parts |
Of the same field, and measure the
result on the crops.
A calf will thrive on milk after
Inc cream has been taken off. It's
better fell to them sweet and warm.
rhe cold milk taken from the
creamery is not good. 1t chills the
stomach and draws from the vital.
ty of the animal to warm it.
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NORTH BOUND.
MANASSAS BRANCH.

BRANCHES.
Manassas Division daily except Sunday.
Westward-leaves Washington 2:3O p. m.
Alexandria, 2:55 p. m. Manassas 3:js p.
m. Arrive Riyerton 6 IL p. m. Strasburg
7 o. D. m. Accommodation leaves Manas-
sas 90 a. m. Arrive Riyerton ~ DOM.
Strasburg | O0a.n.
Eastward-Leave Strasburg 6 10 a. NJ.
Riverton q b a. IN. Arrive Alexandria
10 - a. m. Washington 10 40 p. n. Ac-
commodation leave Strasburg | - p. m.
Riverton ID p. III. Arrive Alexandria
200 p. m.
wARRENTON BRANCH.
Trains Nos. 30, 81, 81 and 30 connect
daily and No. - and 80 daily, except Sun.
day, to and from Warrenton.
Franklin Diyision-(daily except Sun
day. leave Rocky Mount 90 a. m. Ar
rive Franklin Junction 10 20 a. m. Leave
Franklin Junction . 90 p. m. Arrive
Rocky Mount IL Bop. m.
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
On trains No 80 and 81 Pullman Buffet
Sleepers between New York and Atlanta,
via. Danyille.
On trains No. 52and 50 Pullman Buffet
Sleepers between Washington and New
Orleans, and Washington and Aiken via.
Danyille.
On trains No. 81 and 50 Pullman Pleep-
ers between Washington and Louisville,
and Charlottesville and Cincinnati.
Through tickets on sale at the principal
stations to all points. For rates or infor-
nation apply to any agent Of the Com
pany, or to
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G. w. Chears, A. G.. p. A. Richmond, Va.
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Preparing The Asparagus Bed Tor Winter

The usual practice is TO NOW off
the tops of asparagus after they
have been killed by frost, and burn
them up. This is done to get rid
OF the seed, but by so doing the
land is left exposed to the sweeping
winds of winter, unless, as some do
who have small beds, the land be
at once covered with stable ma
nure. But there is another way to
get rid of the seed, which in large
fields is sometimes resorted TO-,
which is to 90 over the bed and cut
out the seed stalks, carry them
from the field aud burn them, or
otherwise dispose of them, so they
will not seed the land. The stalks
that have no seeds OH them are left
OH the field and a roller run over
them that they may be in a con
dition to mulch the land; in the
spring they must be raked of clean
before ploughing. When the tops
are all taken off in the autumn it is
important that the land should be
covered with a good dressing Of
manure as soon as the land is land
open to the sun and winds, but
when only the seed stalks are taken
it is not so important that the ma
nure should be put on in the
autumn; in fact, when the land is
covered with a good crop of tops
the manure may not be applied I'M
til the next spring, then it may be
applied, not on the surface, but in
a furrow made on each side of the
row of roots, thus placing it down
where the plants readily get hold
of it; but when the manure is APP
piled in the autumn this should not
be. done, because the roots will
some of them be disturbed at a
season when they ought not to be,
and the land will be left in an ex-
posed position. Whenever ma
nure is applied to an asparagus bed
in the autumn, it should be spread
on the surface as a protection to
the land.
When a person has only small
bed OF q rod or two in the garden
for family use, the garden will look
better if the tops be all cut down
and the land protected by two or
three inches in depth Of manure,
but when more than an inch IN
depth Of manure is applied, it
should be raked Off early in the
spring or it will keep the ground
cold and the asparagus will not
start az early. We have seen
asparagus beds that had been
covered with six inches in depth of |
in the autumn, kept back
At least two weeks by the frost
getting into the ground ard kept
here quite late by the heavy
of manure. If early
asparagus is wanted, the manure
should be removed early, and the
bed dug up as soon as the frost is
,ut.-MdSSachuSetts PlOuhgmdn.
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ODDS AND ENDS.


Among recent blunders of print
ers may be mentioned these: The
of Earl Carnarvon, at a banquet, in
proposing the health Of the clergy,
said that, "ln these days clergy
men were expected to have the
wisdom and learning of a Jeremy
Taylor" His lordship was next
day reported to have said, sin
these days clergymen were eX-
pected to have the wisdom and
learning of a journeyman tailor"
Another paper stated that a certain
great statesman had been "every-
where received with great ell
thusiasm by the immense crows
who gathered TO hear him."
An amusing incident occurred at
the Norwich, England, nomination
for the recent Parliament. While
the candidates were being nomi-
mated at the police.court, a police
inspector brought in aman charged
with drunkenness. Both the LIB
eral and UniOnist candidates.
Messrs. Drummer and Verdin-are
magistrates. An amusing dis
cussion arose between them as to
who should try the prisoner, and
probably lose his vote. Eventually,
amid peals of laughter, both candl'
dates sat on the bench and fined
the prisoner IS. and costs.
A new means for shortening the
term of imprisonment is taken
from the German Magistrate
"You are sentenced to fourteen
days imprisonment for stealing
wood. Have you any objection to
make ?" Prisoner-W have at home
a wife and five children. Couldn't
we all 90 to prison together and
serve ont the time in a couple OF
days|
Little Annie, four years of age,
threatened me with "protracted
crying.spell." Several times she
seemed inclined to stop in response
to my reprimands, only to resume
"busineSs" With new vlgor. AT
last she made a great effort, dried
her tears, looked at me slyly, and
approached me with a determined
"Mamma, l guess l won't finish
my naughtiness."
The article on Shakespeare in
the next volume of the Encyct0'
paedia Britannica is to be written
by the editor, Professor Baynes, of
st. Andrews. We hope, says a
London paper, he will allow us to
believe that the great poet really
existed in the century to which
tradition says he belonged.
Our Yankee friends could not
capture Charleston during the war,
but they have done it now. 1t is a
city that had to be shaken before
taken.-MaeOa (GG.) Telegraph.
Little Clara, aged six, was adj
miring the antics of little six
day sold calf. "Why, mamma"
she said, "the calf is already try
ing to eat grass; soon she will be
able to make her own living"
"Wby don't You rise earlier 1t
is dreadful to be so lazy" "Alas,
l have often tried /! | can make up
my mind to it, but | cannot make
up my body"
A Prohibition law is calculated
to interfere with a salOon-keeper's
flow of good spirits.-lierchaat
TrdreIIer.
Wholly uncalled fora dead
letter.
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A9rltnltnral.
GROWING APREEs WITHOUT CORES


A nurseryman in pennsylvania
claims to be able 70 grow apples with
out cores, His method Of produc-
ing such is to bend down the lower
limbs OF an apple tree, and insert
the top of a twig in the ground, and
when it has rooted to cut it off above
the ground, leaving it to grow butt
end upward. This inversion of the
tree seems to demorallze the growth
of the fruit in some way. We knew
of an instance of the kind A limb
that bent to the ground had the top
end plowed under and it took root.
The owner observing it, cut off
twigg a few inches above the ground
and it grew to fine tree, in due
time producing fruit, which to his
surprise, had not even the trace OF a
core. viii not some horticulturist
i'll Georgia, try the experiment. on
apples, and other fruits, aud see
whether this is universal law !?
There seems to be something in it,
and in behalf of the fruit growing in
terest, such a test should be made by
some one. BajHcst1Ue Gazette