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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-07-04

Flower

This is the query per-
What is petually on your little
boys lips. And he is
u rorr no worse than the big
81
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
Our Jury System.

81 don't see how you could sit on that
jury as you did, and not find Mccain
guiltyl"
''Oh, he was insane"
"Well, there's no doubt about his be-
ing tried by jury Of his peersl'-Puck.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

DR. Fenners Kidney and Backache
Cure is warranted to give satisfaction IN
every case or money returned.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

Texas has Hogg for Governor, Pig
for Judge, Lamb for Senator, Durham
for Representative and a Buffalo for
Sheriff. 1t would seem as if the Lone Star
State proposes to run her political machin-
cry on regular ''stoek' combination.
Rheumatism cured in a day-"Mysti--
cure" for rheumatism and neuralgia, radis
cally cures in to days. Its action upon
the system is remarkable and mysterious.
1t removes at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The first
dose greatly benefits. 10 cts. Sold by j {
Redick, druggist, Butler.
A top dressing of salt or ashes will
often aid to prevent diseases or pests in the
onion bed in the spring.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
Hogs will do in young orchard, but
other stock should be kept out.


Hogs will do in a young orchard, bu
other stock should be kept out.
Itch on human and horses ana all ami
mails cured in 30 minutes by Woolford'
Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Solt
by j G Rediek, druggist, Butler.
Some Judgment and experience il
necessary 10 prune just right.
DIR. Fenner's Golden Relief is warrant
ed to relieve toothache, headache, neural
gia, OF any other pam in to minutes
Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, swelllngs
bites burns, summer complaints, cole
(also in horses), diarrhga, dysentery ant
aux. If satisfaction not given money
returned.
The girl of the period may never be al
angel, but if the present style of puffet
shoulders keeps growing she ought to be
soon able to (o) fly.
For headaches, biliousness, constipa
ton, dizziness, sleeplessness, the blues
scrofula, the blood and all skin eruptions
Dir. Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy ant
Nerve Tonic never fails. Warranted tC
satisfy or money refunded.
Mares that are heavy in foal should bt
carefully fed; weak, unthrifty colts are
often the result Of failure to properly
feed the mare during CESSATION.
English SPAWN Liniment removes al
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blemishe'
from horses, blood spavins, curbs, spllnts
sweeney, ring bone, STILES, sprains, al
swollen throats, coughs, etc. Save 800 by
use of one bottle. Warranted the mos
wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold
by G Redick, druggist, Butler.
"A Philadelphia paper tells of an ex
hausted dude who ordered ga stiff sarsapa'
rilla" at Broad street pharmacy the othel
night, saying in explanation of his condition
that he had been ''umpiring a game of It'd.
dlywinks."
DIR. Fenner's Cough Honey will relieve
any cough in one hour. Equally good fol
horses. Gives energy and strength. Money
refunded if satisfaction not given
After working in the mud the horses
legs should be carefully cleaned off, q
failure in this case often results in grease
heel, and more time will be required tc
heal than to have kept clean.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

Gen. Lew Wallace, the author of 'Ben
Hur," says he can cure rheumatism in one
night without fail by poultice Of mustard
and garlic applied to the feet.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

"Ohl Mabel, tell me the truth, now;
Il you were in my place would you &C
cept n?"
Certainly. Why, If had been in
your place would have accepted him
myself, the other night, when he pro
nosed TO me. .n-Life.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
Special Announcement.

We have made arran gements with DIR.
B. J. Kendall Co., publishers of "A
Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases,
which will enable all our subscribers to OBJ
tain copy of that valuable work free by
sending their address (enclosing q two-eent
stamp for mailing same) to DR.. b. J. Ken
dali Co., Enosburgh Falls, Vt. This book
Is now recognized as standard authority
upon all diseases OF the horse, as its
phenomenal sale attests, over four million
copies having been sold in the past ten
years, a sale never before reached by any
publication in the same period of time. we
feel confident that our patrons will appre-
ciate the work, and be glad to avail them
selves Of this opportunity of obtaining q
valuable book.
1t is necessary that you mention this
paper in sending for the Treatise" This
offer will remain open for only short
Time
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

"A certain poet asks How sleep the
brave'" That depends largely upon the
number of cats in the neighborhood.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

The poets oft have mentioned
The great unequaled snap
The lingering of winter
In springs delightful lap.
But the way things now are going,
1t rather seems to me
That winters got the gentle spring
Across his chilly knee.
Rheumatism is disease of the blood
and is cured by Hoods SarSaparilla.
BY little planning, vines can be made
useful as well as ornamental in hiding un
slightly objects.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

Wife (who supports him)-Did you
see that Williams has advertised for
help? Now, there's a good chance for
you.
Eydle-Chance? No chance at all.
Williams wants tleo men Just my
luck,-Judge
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
consumptIon Surely Cured

To The EDIroR:-Please inform your readers
that have a positive remedy for tho above named
disease. BY Its timely use thousands OF hopeless
cases have been permanently curod. shall be glad
to send two bottles OF my remedy FREE to any Of
your readers who have consumption II they will
send me their Express aud P. o. address. Respect
fully, 7. "A. SLoCUM, NJ. c., lel Pearl st.. N. Y.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
Look here. Friend. Are You Sick?

Do you suffer from Dyspepsia, Indi-
gestion, Sour Stomach, Liver Complaint,
Nervousness, Lost Appetite, Billiousness,
Exhaustion or Tired Feeling, Pains in
Chest or Lungs, Dry Cough, Nightsweats,
Nervous Debility or any form of Consump-
tiona Ifso, send to Prof Hart, IS Warren
ST., New York, who will send you free, by
mail, bottle of medicine which is sure
cure. Send to-day.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
To ConSump ptiVeS.

The undersigned having been restored tc
health by simple means, after suffering fol
several years with a severe lung affection
and that dread disease Consumption, II
anxious to make known to his fellow suffer
ers the means of cure TO those who desire
it, he will cheerfnlly send tree of CHARGE
copy of the prescription used, which they
will find a sure cure for Consumption
Asthma, Catarrh, Bronchitis and all throal
and lung Maladies. He hopes all suiierer'
will try his Remedy, as it is invaluable
Those desiring the prescription, which will
cost them nothing, and may prove bless
ing, will please address REV. EDWARD A
WILSON, Williamsburg, Kings County, New
Yrok
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03
THE CITIZEN.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Incompatible.

Have you ever lost any thing by be-
coming a Christian?" asked the clergy
man
YES" replied the new convert. Il
used to get three hundred and fifty dol
lars year for singing In the choir, but
have had to give that up."-Judge.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-04-03

Don't put on so much coal as to put
ont the fire. and don't try everything for
catarrh or influenza, but buy and try Old
SauPs Catarrh Cure, the quickest and saf-
est remedy known.
The best is the cheapest. Dr. Bull )
Baby Syrup is acknowledged to be the saf-
est and most reliable medicine for babies.
Price % cts.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28

Many of our small farmers want to keep
more stock, and would do so if their farms
produced more fodder to feed it on. Their
dependence is chiefly on hay, and their linz
tied acres, many of which after three or
four mowings yield only light crops OF
grass, fail to furnish the needed fodder for
any increase of stock. To such the oat
crop can be recommended as worthy OF at
tention as a fodder crop. Oats are crop
easily grown on nearly all kinds of soil,
are reasonably sure of making good crop
and very well take the place of thin grass,
now so commonly seen. They will yield
much more to the acre, and though not
rich fodder, yet when cut at the right stage
Of maturity make a fodder that gives
good account of itself when a grain ration
is fed with it. In our own practice we
have occasionally fed this kind OF fodder,
and with good results. S. A. HickoX, OF
the Massachusetts board of agriculture, IN
a lecture before one of our institutes last
winter, advocated resort to this method
Of increasing the fodder supply, in bringing
up rundown farms. He has himself
grown it largely in his own practice. 10
any one wishing for an increase OF stock
fodder at small cost, this crop is commend
ed to his attention. They should be cut
just at the time they begin to change III
color, and before the grain is fairly full.
Maine Farmer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28
An Agricultural Curiosity.

On the main street of Yarmouth is to be
seen a curious agricultural phenomenon.
For a space of about an acre the Pulp COM
pany have been dumping for years large
quantities of ashes, leaving them on the
ground to a depth of about four feet.
They are those left from the wood that has
been chemically treated in the digesters of
the pulp mill. They are almost entirely
ashes, with only slight trace of caustic
soda. They have repeatedly been analyz-
ed but not found to contain sufficient chem
ical properties to render them of any value
as fertilizer. After they had been dump
ed to a depth of about four feet over the
acre of ground, three or four inches of
loan was scraped on them from an adja-
cent hill. With this loan were mixed
about 300 pounds of phosphate. This
was not considered great amount of fertil-
izer, and when clover was sown only an or
binary crop was expected, TO every ones
establishment, a most phenomenal crop re-
suited. That clover attained height OF
two and a half feet considerably before
having, and when it was cut must have
Welded at the rate of two tons to the acre.
Already second crop of remarkable clio
yer has grown and is nearly ready for the
scythe. Although the ashes seem to have
no fertilizing properties, yet the results are
there and various theories prevail to ac-
count for the large crop. Some attribute
it to the moisture held by the ashes.
Maine Farmer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28
Pens nsn tirnin Crop.

There is a tendency among good farmers
to give much more attention than formerly
to the growing of peas as valuable grain
crop. One reason for this is, doubtless,
that the pea weavil is much less troublesome
than formerly, and as rule the crop is
now comparatively free from that pest.
They yield as much to the acre as wheat,
a crop of 80 bushels being often secured by
sowing broadcast. The price in the gener-
al market ranges from $3.50 to S1.75 per
bushel The fact that pea vines enrich the
soil on which they grow has long been be-
lieved by farmers. The crop is reckoned
nearly or quite as good as a summer fallow
to precede wheat. Peas rank with clover
in their ability to use atmospheric nitrogen,
and are one of the few crops that can be
taken from land and leave it no less fertile
than before. As this fact becomes known,
it may become advisable to SOW peas late,
or after harvest on land intended for
wheat for the purpose of blowing them in.
Pea vines are rich in nitrogen, and being
green when plowed under they will decay
quickly enough to benefit the fall growth
of winter grain. 1t is believed that peas
can be grown for feeding hogs with as good
profit as can corn, the peas requiring
scarcely any labor, for pigs will harvest the
rron without much loss
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28
The Good Old Times.

Grumblng farmers and those who waste
time and breath talking about Glow prices
for what they have to sell, and high prices
for what they must buy" will find some
thing to think about in a few facts con-
densed from an article in the Minneapolis
Tribune, which compares the prices of the
good old times, and the present prices 1t
says "In 1870 calico cost SO cents yard;
in $780, 20 cents in 1850, i cents; in 1891,
) cents. In 1890 sugar cost 1S4 cents for
cheap brown grades; in 1880, - cents; in
1860 rs cents; i'm 1891, 81 cents for granu-
lated. In 1870 the farmer received for but
ter IL cents; in 1880, Is cents; in 1860, 26
cents; in 1891, 30 to 30 cents. In 1890 the
farmers sold dressed beef for 81 cents; in
1880, u cents; in 1860, II cents; in 1891,
II to Is cents"
The farmers of Revolutionary days dress
ed in cotton jeans and shirtings that cost
fifty cents yard, slept on ticking that cost
ninety cents, and wiped their brows upon
fifty-cent handkerchiefs, if rich enough to
own them. Their wives dressed up in
muslin at seventy-five cents, Bingham at
fifty-five cents, or cambria at 81 per yard.
They paid fifteen cents for a paper of pins,
and had to 90 to the neighbors to borrow a
brand to light the fire if it went out.
This list might be much extended, even
without going back to Revolutionary days
There are women now living who do not
hesitate to acknowledge that they went to
church barefooted, and in calico or lin
sey-woosey" gowns after they were seven
teen or eighteen years old, and carried their
stockings and calf-skin or raw-hide shoes
under their arm, to be put on when within
a quarter of a mile of the Westinghouse,
and going home they stopped at the same
| place to take them off again
Farm hands of only forty years ago
worked for fifty or seventy-five cents per
day, "from sun to sun" and a good hand
could get the fifty cents and his meals,
which was considered as good as S74 cents
per day, but many who had homes and a
garden, COW and hens, would prefer the
seventy-five cents in cash, or in such farm
er's produce as they did not raise. But the
farmer when he had chance to work a
day for his neighbor got no more, unless he
took his oxen and pillow, when they earned
as much as he did.
What farmer would care to 90 back to
those good old times" and begin to cut
his grass with hand scythe at three
o'clock in the morning. and after moving
till noon, with brief intervals for breakfast
and luncheon, then work till nine o'clock
at night taking up the hay, while his wife
and daughters fed the hens and pigs, and
got the cows up from the pasture and
MIXED them?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28
SeasOnabIe Nudges.

After harvest is good time to put in
tile draining if any is to be done; make
the necessary arrangements in advance.
Summer shelter is to protect from heat
and flies: see that it serves the purpose in
a thorough manner. 1t need not be eX-
pensive.
The use of improved machinery has less
ened very materially the feeding value OF
the harvest fields after the grain is taken
out: do not count upon them.
The more dairy blood a COW has the more
certain she is to turn her food into milk
rather than flesh. This does not mean
dairy breed, but dairy blood. There a
wide distinction between the two which
cannot be lost sight of.
One decided advantage with rich SOIL
is. that the crops will Withstand drouth so
much better, and often a good growth and
Weld can be secured where in thin SOIL
he cron would he a failure. Never has
this truth had a stronger Illustration thah
this year.-Mdine Farmer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28
The TasseI of Corn.

As is well known, corn tassels are the
male part of the corn plant, that furnish
the pollen, which falling on the silk fertil-
ICES it and produces the grain. The profu-
sion of nature is such that not merely the
silk, but leaves and the ground between the
rows, is covered at poisoning time with
this fine dust. The tassel remains long
time in bloom, unless drought checks the
corn growth, but even then nature provides
tasses on the suckers that spring from the
base of the stalk, and which often bears
small ears well fortified by the blossoms
on the main stalks as well as upon Ihe
suckers. That this blossoming is exhaust
i've is shown by the change OF color from
dark green of vigorous growing corn III
leaf to the much lighter hue after tasseiS
and silk appear,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28
Corn EnsiIage,

At one of the New York dairy schools
b. d. Gilbert, one of the lecturers, gave
practical and useful answer to question
as to the comparative value of roots and
corn ensiage for feeding. The question
was, which was the more profitable for but
ter production, an acre of ensilage or one
of mangolds? In answer Mr. Gilbert
said:
prefer the silage. Would not SOW man
colds, but sugar beets instead. There is
too much labor connected with the feeding
of mangolds, and there is too much of it
with raising them Slage can be raised
much cheaper, because it can be all done
by horse power. There is no need of any
hand labor till harvest time comes. The
smoothing harrow and cultivatOr are all
the tools needed for cultivating the crop,
the hoe being cleft out" Good silage,
however, can only be made from perfectly
grown corn. The average so-called 'sOwed
corn is not worth the cost of cutting it.
Silage from such corn cannot be compared
with roots or any other crop for stock feed
ing, as any other crop, almost, is prefera-
BILE to it. Good ensilage is made from
corn that will husk from 100 to 125 or more
bushels of ears per acre, planted in rows
and cut just as the advanced ears are glaZ-
ing, then put directly into the silo and
sealed up. 1t will then be the cheapest
food that can be raised on the farm For
ty pounds a;day, in two feeds, per cow, bal
anced with some of the before mentioned
heterogeneous grains, with small ration of
early cut clover or mixed hay fed to good
dairy cows, will produce profit for their
owners if the butter is properly made and
81 rot . CHI hn
plant my corn three and half feet one way
and two and half feet the other, with
three kernels left to grow in hill.
Remember the silo does not add to the
value of its contents; it only preserves
them, and there will always be some loss in
such contents No fodder can be grown,
cut and secured and its whole value retain
ed; there will always be greater or lesser
loss, When the corn stalk is left till it be-
comes dry and ripe, its sugar and starch
have gone and nothing but woody fibre re-
mains. We want to utilize the whole crop
when it is at its best for food. There will
be found more money in meal finely ground
from both corn and cob than from corn
alone: and it is much more healthy food
because there is more waste product-cob-
in it, which is absolutely necessary when
corn meal, which is a heat and fat
forming food, is fed. diversity OF foods
and those that are succulent are most
healthy as well as most profitable. Sweet
corn properly grown and put into the silc
whole makes the best silage. 1t is better
thus preserved than when cut; as the
stalk being full of sugar when it is cut,
loses much of it. 1t must be properly
handled, and preserved in the silo with
care to be safe Should be planted about
the 10th of May, or earlier. l aim to gel
my corn into the ground about May 8.
There will not be much danger of loss from
frost if the seed goes into the ground al
that date
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28

There is no horse superior to the broncho
for endurance; few are his equals. He
came by it naturally from the Spanish
stock of Moorish descent, the individuals of
which race, abandoned in the sixteenth
century, were his immediate ancestors; and
his hardy life has, by survival of the fittest,
increased this endurance tenfold. He is
not handsome. His middle piece is dis
tended by grass food; it is loosely joined
to his quarters, and his hip is very short
He has a hammer head and the pronounced
eve neck which all plains or steppes horses
seem to acquire. His legs are naturally
perfect, but they finally give way at the
knees from short stopping with gag bit,
for an Indian will turn on ten-cent piece.
One form of racing is to place two long
parallel strips of buffalo hide on the ground
at an interval of but few feet, and, start
ing from Il distance, to ride up to these
strips, cross the first, turn between the
two, and gallop back to the starting point.
Another is to ride up to a log hung hori-
zontally and just high enough to allow the
pony to get under, but not the rider, touch
it, and return. If the pony is stopped too
soon the Indian loses time in touching the
log; if too late, he gets scraped off. The
sudden jerking of the pony on his launches
is apt both to start curbs and break his
knees.
The toughness and strength of the pony
can scarcely be exaggerated. He will live
through winter that will kill the hardest
cattle. He worries through the long months,
when the snow has covered up the bunch
grass, on a diet of cottonwood boughs which
the Indian cuts down for him, and in the
spring it takes but a few weeks for him to
int C,,lnpIiI 10 On
90 unheard-of distances. Col. II. |. Dodge
records an instance coming under his OBJ
servation where a pony carried the mails
| 300 miles in three consecutive nights, and
back over the same road the next week,
and kept this up for six months without
| loss of condition. He can carry any
weight. Mr.. Parkman speaks of a chief,
| known as lie COchon, on account of his 300
pounds avoirdupois, who nevertheless rode
| his ponies as bravely as man of half the
bulk. He as often carries two people as one.
| There is simply no end to this wonderful
product of the prairies. He works many
years. So long as he will fat up in the
spring his age is immaterial.
! The absence of crest in the pony suggests
the curious query of what has become OF
the proud, arching neck of his ancestor, the
Barb. There are two ways of accounting
for this. The Indians gag bit, invariably
applied with a jerk, throws up the pony
head instead of bringing it down, as the
slow and light application of the schoo
curb will do, and this tends to develop the
ewe-neck. Or a more sufficient reason
may be found in the fact that the starvation
which the pony annually undergoes in the
winter months tends to deplete him o.
every superhuous ounce of flesh. The
crest in the horse is mostly meat, and its
annual depletion has finally brought down
the pony's neck nearer to the outline o
the skeleton.-Hdrper' Magazine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28
AGRICULTURAL,
The Weather Crop Reports.

The government and New England
weather bulletins for last week show moth
ing new in the general crop conditions.
Harvesting is progressing rapidly, both
West and East with few drawbacks, and
everything indicating an almost unprece-
dented yield for all grain crops. Rains fell
throughout New England at just the right
time to assure the perfection of the crops
now approaching maturity. As a rule there
are no serious indications of potato rot,
reports the crop as "rotting badly"