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Year: 1860

This question is often asked among


farmers, and we think il should be as
certained whether it will pay or not. We
will give our experience, and some OBJ
servations upon the subject. Men, who


have not barn, will say: eve can get
a Machine that will thrash our grain and


clean 1t all at once and our barn will be


OF little use 10 us nine months out of the


year." Now. what does this lead to9
Just as soon as harvest is over, every
machine in the country is running over
with business; threshing and hauling 10
mill is the order of the day; prices run
down to the lowest point. Then, when
they can't stand the price any longer,
they coax the millers to take it in on re-
ceipt, for their grain is stacked out, and
probably spelling. 1t must be thrashed
out, and they have no barn put it In.


The millers generally have a limited
time set when they must sell their re-
ceipted wheat. Now the farmer who
cannot see how they manage to keep the
price down till the time expires that they
have to sell their receipted wheut. is very
far from being posted. And il is no ad-


vantage to the consumer to have the trade


thrown so entirely into the hands Of the


miller.


Now we would say, never put a bushel
of wheat in a mill OF eceipt-either sell
or keepit at home. YOu run the double
risk Of fire and the miller failiRg-in
either case you could get nothing, Be-
sides, we think this is not half of the loss;
for when grain has to be stacked, it is
often hauled out into the woods, where
the straw will be out of the way. or, If
not, 1t is stacked. probably in the middle
of the field, and, as soon as it is threshed, =
the straw is burnt.


Now, when a man has no barn il is
difficult to convert his straw into manure,
or use it for his stock in winter, as hs
could do, if be had a barn. 1t is we'll
known that where several hundred BUSH
els of grain are threshed, and the straw
all put in one pile, it will take several
years for it TO rot, and even then it will
scarcely make the ground rich it is piled
upon. /! wastes about as fast as it rots.
| bought a place about ten years ago,
myself, that had no barn on it. l put in
but little small grain, because / had no
place to put il. Five years since. / built
a barn ffly-six by forty feet. One Of my
neighbors said | never could ill it. I
told him if ! did not soon fill it | would
leave the farm. The first year, had
six hundred bushels Of wheat.tO put IN il.
Two years ago l had all the Inows full,
and piled enough On the barn floor to make
two hundred bushels more.


Before | built my barn | made dozen
DR. so loads of manure; now, | can man.
are from eight to ten acres every fall
[ honestly believe that my barn has paid
or itself, or that / have made enough
more than l could have made without it,
Ind in tins way-by keeping grain when
t was low priced, till it was higher; max
ng more manure; saving fodder, etc.
Year: 1860

Some farmers still adhere to the old
practice of topping their corn as soon as
the ears are glazed. They suppose that
the corn ripens better by exposure to the
sun, and that the tops so cut, make bet
ter fodder. We advocate the cutting up
the entire hill as soon as the kernals are
well glazed. This method saves labor,
yields as much and as good grain, gives
the farmer more time TO secure his crop,
and the stalks make better fodder.


II is much easier to cut up the stalks
when green, than when ripe and dry.
A workman can grasp whole hill with
one had and arm and cut it up with the
other with a single blow. But, in topping
each stalk must be cut separately, and
then in the final cutting up OF the hills
when dry the labor is much greater.


At the North, frosts visit US soon after
the kernels are glazed, if not before !;
and after the leaves have been once scar
ed by frost, very little good can come to
the ears from the ascending sap Now,
if the entire stalks are cut up Just before
frosts come, and bound together IN large,
loose bundles, most of the leaves will re-
main unhurt by frost, and will continue to
send down their accumulated food to the
grain. So that probably the ears become
fully as well developed as they would if
the stalks had been allowed to stand few
days longer uncut. Besides it should be
remembered that all standing corn wastes
by being broken down, and eaten by
poultry, birds, etc.


+ Again: corn thus early cut up can be
housed IN better season an with less la
Dor than if left standing in the field. Ii
is less liable to become m u dy, or to be
soaked by water. If the farmer wishes
TO prepare his corn-feld for fall crop
say Of wheat or rye--it can be easier
and sooner cleaned by this method than
by any other.
Year: 1860

Then, as to the fodder 1t is very
slow work to top the stalks one by one,
to gather up and bind and carry them by
hand to the wagon OK cart at the outside
of the cornfeld.. And if they are left
on the ground until the crop is gathered,
they are worth no more for fodder than
the butts themselves Whereas, if gath
cred as we recommend, and cured under
cover or on poles in an airy loft, they
will remain succulent and sweet all win
ter. 1t must be very fastidious COW
that will not eat up every inch of such
stalks, if they are cut up with straw
cutter and properly fed out. So, on a
review of our reasons, we shall still ad-
here to the practice we have recommen-
Observation-Disclosures
Year: 1860

The Chicago Times and Herald says
that an idea Of the amount Of ground in
wheat may be gathered from the state
ment Of a responsible gentleman Of
Jaynesville, who says that with the assist
anee Of a spy-glass, he saw one hundred
and forty-six Feapers at work at one time.
This is on the line of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad.
Year: 1860

est mein. During the time which he held
the position for which he is now seeking
it was notorious fact that the most revolt
ing c-imea were perpetrated under his sane
ton. lie squandered the substance of the
people; and morality and virtue found no
protection from his administration. If the
people of Chicago will place hio, again at
the head of the city government, where all
his power and influence will be used for
Lis own personal aggrandizement, we very
much mistake their intelligence. We are
pleased to see that the Democrats are max
ing vigorous canvass, aided by some Re-
publicans who are not yet sold, body and
soul. to this pot-house pimp They are de-
termined their city shall not be again dis
g1aced and outraged by his election.
Year: 1860

SAD AccrDENr.-The Union says that a
little daughter of Mr.. Wolly who resides
about sixteen miles below Sacramento. was
seriously If not fatally burned on Wednesday
afternoon last While kindling fire in the
stove, her dress took fire, and before it could
be extinguished the child was badly burned
from the waist to the shoulders. The girl is
but five years old, and an only daughter
Little or no hopes are entertained of her re-
coyerV
Year: 1860

TIMBucToo FIRE Co.-The Rescue Hose Co.
is fully formed at Timbuctoo, and is only
waiting for its Hose Carriage to be made, in
order to be in complete readiness for every
emergency. The carriage is being made in
this city, and the Foreman, Mr. Des Moines,
informs us that it will probably be finished
sometime in the latter part of next week. On
the occasion of the complete readiness and
equipment of the Company, there will be a
grand parade at Tinbuctoo, and in the even.
ing a superb ball and social entertainment.
Year: 1860

MIsrAKE-The Appeal claims the stand in
front of the Western House as Republican
stand We are informed that it was erected
as Douglas stand, by subscription, and that
every man who contributed was a Douglas
man. unless it might be one, and he is also
in all probability Douglas man, too. What
says the Appeal to this?
Year: 1860

PASoEAMA.-A fine audience was present,
last evening. at the unroling of the magnif-
cent panorama of the Tour of Europe by
the great painter Gropius. 1t will he ex-
hibited this evening for the last time in this
city. We were in error when we stated that
last evening would be the last
Year: 1860

HINDNAN of Ark, who struck Hooper of
the same State in the Baltimore Convention,
refuses to fight the latter on the ground that
he is not his equal. Hooper denounces Hind
man as q bully and coward.
Year: 1860

IT Is fact not generally known that established my Clothing


Mandatory In this city TEN YEARS AGO, aad have constant


for that time continued and make large portion OF NV
stock 10 Richmond hundreds OF my customers will testify To-
and having eed time 90 time, no" better
prepared to orders for work In large small quantities
than heretofore and will guarantee furnish them just rs low as
h De had Of Northern houses equal In s i and ma
teriaL


Being practical my Business mot having climbed In al
the back WndOE others shOuders aer myself ha can
give much and good article the price as any house
North South


those wish build up Southern Manuaetoes
parone the old established houses first and let reap the
reward they justly merit for past present future services


This no huubug can prove by from seyentyhVe 10 one
hundred hands employ and OF them have been
Tor years


Paouz the manufactures at home especially when you
can do 90 without additional cost. WM IRA SMITH,


las ia Main 81.
Year: 1860

population of one hundred thousand free.
men, who bring this great empire of industry
and advancing civilization and lay it at the al
tar Of our country. What justice would there
be in denying TO these men a voice in the for
nation Of the institutions under which they
are to live Is it just to say that the men
who have endured all the hardshipS of the
wilderness to build up new empires shall live
under institutions formed by those who have
endured no greater pFiyations, or perhaps none
at all.


Mr.. Speaker, it is time that this record of
Kansas wrongs should be closed The black
est page of American history has been writ
ten in the last four years in the blood of her
pioneers. 1t is chapter of history that will
be read by our children with a shame of their
ancestry. 1t is time to open q new volume in
the history of Kansas. Let this strife be end
cd and Stanch the wounds of Kansas, infict-
ed with the acquesceace of the Government
of the Hepubc. Give to this greatly wrong
ed people government of their own, and to
the freemen of the nation the assurance Of re-
turning justice in the councils of the Republic,
by adding this star 10 the constellation of the
Union.


Mr.. GROW demanded the previous ques-
tion on the passage Of the bill.


The question was taken and it was dccd.
ed in the allrmative-yeaS l34, nays T3.
Year: 1860

SILENCE fN NATURE.-It is a remarkable and
very instructive fact that many Of the most
important operations Of nature are carried on
iu unbroken silence There is no rushing sound
when the broad tide of sunlight breaks on
dark world and floods in with glory, as one
bright wave after. another falls from the foun-
tan millions of miles away. There is no creak-
ing of heavy axes or groaning Of cumbrous
machinery as the solid earth wheels on its way
and every planet and system performs its re-
volutions. The great trees bring forth their
boughS and shadow the earth bcucath them
the plants cover themselves with buds and burst
into flowers but the whole transaction is un-
heard. The change from snow aud winter
winds to the blossoms and fruits and sunshine
of summer, is seen in its slow development, but
there is scarcely sound to tell of the mighty
transformation. The solemn chant of the ocean,
as it raises its unchanged and unceasing voice,
the roar of the hurricane, and the soft notes
Of the breeze, the rushing Of the mountain
river and the thunder Of the black -btOwed
storm all this is the music of nature-a great
and swelling anthem of praise, breaking in on
the universal calm There is lesson for us
here. The mightiest worker in the universe
is the most unObStruSlvc.
Year: 1860

- PRETTY FANcY.-When the day begins to
90 up to Heaven at night, it does not spread
a pair of wings and fly alort like a bird but it
just climbs softly up on ladder. 1t sets its
red sandal on the shrub you have watered
these three days, lest it should perish with
thirst thence it steps to the tree we sit under
aud thence to the ridges of the roof. From
the ridge to the chimney, and from the chin
ney to the tall elm from the elm to the tall
church spirc, and then to the cloud, and then
to the threshold of Heaven and thus, from
round to crimson round, you can see it 60 as
though it walked up red roses.
Year: 1860

LIFE CONSTANTLY NARowrNG.-If the rota-
rieS of pleasure, on whom time hangs heavily,
and who are devsing expedents to relieve its
tedium, could only comprehend the Importance
of life, and the vast issues involved in it, they
would be started eifectualIy from their dreams.
There is depth of meaning in the following
paragraph from the National Preacher


The narrow limit of the longest life is every
day becoming narrower still. The story is
told of an Italian State prisoner, who, after
some weeks confinement, became suddenly
aware that his apartment was becoming small
err lie watched, and saw with horror, that a
movable iron wall was gradually encroaching
on the space, and that as the movement came
on it must soon crush him to death, and he
could calculate it to a day But you have
not that advantage. John Foster yet more
appropriately resembles our time to a sealed
reservoir, from which issues daily a certain
small quantity Of water, and when the reser-
voir is exhausted we must perish of thirst but
We have no means of sounding it to ascertain
how much it originally contained, nor whether
there be enough remaining even for to'mor
row."
Year: 1860

Btzy- \ man who don't believe the world is
growing better says that the time may como
when the lion and lamb shall lie down togeth-
err but if it does the lamb will be inside tho
lion.
Year: 1860

BZ~ Why isa womanS tongue like planet?
Because nothing short of the power that Great
ed it can stop its regular course. The man
who pcrpctratcd the above conundrum has
left for California lie was pursued by forty
women, and forty broomsticks were picked up
in the harbor after the vessel left.
Year: 1860

A GoDLEss UNIVERSAL man may, for
twenty years believe in the Immortality OF the
soul in tae one and twentieth, in some great
momeut, he for the first time discovers with
amazcment the rich meaning Of this belief
No one in creation is so alone as the dencir
of God he mournS with an orphaned heart
that has lost its Great Father by the corpse


of nature, which no world spirit moves and
holds together, aud which grows in its grave ;
and he mourns by that corpse till he himself
crumbIes off from it, The whole world lies
before him like the Egyptian sphynx of stone,
half buried in the sand, and the all is the cold
iron-waSh of formless eternity.-JEAN Paul.
Year: 1860

NOBLE SENTIMENTS. This is an agreeable
world after all. If we would only brig
ourselves to look at the subjects tina. SUR
round us in their true light, we should see
beauty where we beheld deformity, and
listen to harmony where we heard moth
ing but discord. To be sure, there is a
great deal of veyation and anxity to meet
we cannot sail on a summer coast forever
yet if we preserve a calm eye and steady
hand we can so trim our sails and manage
our helm, as to avoid the quicksands, and
weather the storms that threaten ship
wreck. We are members Of one family; we
are travelling the same road, and shall arrive
at the same goal. We breathe the sFme
air are subject to the same beauty and
shall lie down upon the bosom of our com,
mon mother 1t is unbecoming then that
brother should hate brother; il is not proper.
that friend should deceive friend; it is not
right that neighbor should deceive neigh
bor. We pity that man Who can harbor,
enmity against his fellow, he loses half the
enjoyment oflife; he embitters his own
existence. Let us tear from your eyesthe
colored Medium that invests every object


with the green hue of jealousy and suspi-


cion; turn deaf ear to scandal breathe n


spirit Of charity from your hearts; let the
rich gushings of human kindness swell up
as a fountain, so that the golden age"
will become no fiction, and the Islands of
the blessed bloom in more than "Hyperi-.
on beauty"
Year: 1860

THE WIFE OF JoHN ADAMs.-In q few
weeks the proclamation reached the col


onies at several ports. Abagaii Smith, the
wife of John Adams, was at the time in
their home near the foot of Penn Hill


charged with the sole care of their little
brood of children managing their farm
keeping house with frugahty, though
opening her doors to tho nouseless and
giving with a good will part of her scant
portion to the poor seeking work for
ber own hands, and ever busilv occupied,
now at the spinning-wheel, now making
amends for having never been sent to
school by learning French, though with
the aid of books alone. Since the depar-
ture of her husband for Congress, the ar
row of death had sped near her 10y day,
and the pestilence that walks in darkness
had entered her humble mansion she
herself was still weak after a violent ill.
ness her house WIS hospital in every
part and such was the distress of the
neighborhood she could hardly find well
person to assist in looking after the sick.
Her Youngest son mad been rescued from
the grave 10y her nursing; her own moth
er had been taken away, ar i, after the
aastere manner of her forefathers, buried
without prayer. Woe followed woe,
and one affiiction trod on the heels of
another. Winter was hurrying on du,
ring The day family affairs took off her
attention, but her long evenings, broken
by the sound of the storm on the ocean,
or the enemy's artillery at Boston, were
lonesome and melancholy. Ever in the
silent night Illuminating on the love and
tenderness of her departed parent, she
needed the consolation of her husbands S
presence but when, in November, she
read the Kings proclamation, she will
ingly gave up her nearest friend exclu,
sively to his perilous duties, and sent him
the cheering message: "This intelligence
will make a plain path for you, though a
dangerous one; | could not join torday
in the petitions of our worthy pastor for
a reconciliation between oar no longer
parent state, but tyrant state and these
colonies. Let us separate; they are un>
worthy to be our brethren. Let us re-
nounce them and. instead Of supplica
tions, as formerly, for their prosperity and
happiness, let us beseech the Almighty to
blast their coun sells, and bring to nought
all their devices" .rn.~ .
Year: 1860

SwEARING.-I think man that srears
is like man that fires a gun in the street
without seeing where the charge is going
to strike. When a person uses profane
language he does not know what or whom
it is going to injure. 1t is habit which
comes upon man gradually, but grows
rapidly. 1t demoralises mans conscience
wounds his honor, Injuries his own soul,
and hurts the feelings of others. 1t is
profitable in nothing, and mischievous in
almost everything scarcely know Of
anything for which there is SO little ex-
cuse. If you say that you indulge in it
only when you are angry, reply that il is
worse then than at any other time.''
Year: 1860

crate, about being safe, and never once about
being right. Now that was heathenism
whitewashed. lCheers, We had right to
expect in the youth of America love of lib
erty, and not for self alone, like the Irish pa
triots, so eloquent for Irish liberty, but every
one of whom had in this country thrust his
hand to the shoulder in the guilt of Slavery,
but liberty for all. An American youth who
was not in favor of liberty was born here by
accident. He was lover of the Union, but
was ashamed of the sentiment he had seen
paraded, Union for the sake of the Union"
He had been taught to love the Union for the
sake of justice, for the sake liberty. Even
squirrels knew enough not to hoard nuts at
ter the meat was out. As to this excitement
in the country, it was but natural. When
cur Lord cast the devil out of the young
man, the devil could not go deeently out of
the boy he had to throw him down and bite
him once more. And they never saw devil
cast out of the Government or anywhere else
that he didn't bite There was great excite
msnt, true, but like the boiling pot, by its
very boiling over it would put out the fire.
Cheers If they were dumb. he should
tear that they would blow up, but as thew
could talk they were safe. He had much less
to say against the Southern fanatic than
against the Northern Doughface. lie did
abhor and despise according to Scripture, the
Northern doughface. He had Bible author
ity; for, " Ephriam is cake not turned"
half baked, consequently, dough one sideand
crust the other. Laughter. Mr.. Beecher
concluded by an energetic denunciation of
the panicstnakers, and an exhortation to Fl.
deity to manhood and conscience, which was
applauded to the echo.
Year: 1860

I have seen farmer wade uL to his knees
winter after winter, through manure, iu
going to his stable, when for years his
garden has. been unproductive for the want
of an article so much in his way in the yard.


/ have saw farmer pass fifty times by a
breach in his fence and never stop to Alright
it, always putting it off till another day, until
the greater part of his crop was destroyed.


I have seen a farmer plowiRg around
punches of briars until his field was so taken
with them, that he was compelled TO abandon
and give it up to the neighbors around him
as blackberry patch in common.


l have seen farmer put up his stock fod
der in go careless manner that the first
wind would blow down the stacks; in which
condition they would remain until the fodder
was so spoiled that the half starved cattle
would refuse to eat it, and he would wonder
why his cattle were SO much poorer than his
neighboIs:


l havs seen farmer who took great care
of his fodder, but in feeding it to bis cattle
would let in the hogs, or not separate them
from the cattle, ard before they could mas
ticate half their allowance, the remainder
was rooted about, and SO filthy that they
must be more than half starved to eat it
He too, is one of the wondering" class.


have seen farmer feed horse in hol
low tree with both ends open, and hole in
the middle. "Oh," says he "the pigs will
get what falls out" Yet strange to tell be
never could account for the horses being al
ways so poor. 1 wonder.


have seen farmer who seldom went to
where his boys were plowing. and when be
did, it was the same thing; for they would
merely skim the earth. cut and cover-and
wonder"


I have seen a farmer, land he good rough
carpenter,) who had not door to his stables;
he would stop the entrance with rails laid
crosswise, leaving hole to creep in and out
when feeding. The labor lost during the
year in pulling down and putting up this
abomnabls substitute applied to the making
of doors, would have furnished him life
time. He is always wondering" how some
folks have time to do such things.
have seen farmer, after all his labor
and expense in growing, cutting, stacking,
spreading, dew rotting. and taking up his
hemp, throw hundreds of pounds in the cor
ners of the fence; to make room for another
crop, again to be destroyed in part like the
preceding one.


l have seen farmer richer than his neigh.
bors, and to their great detriment. lose as
much time in borrowing and returning the
various implements of husbandry, as would
pay for them in two years, if time SO spent
bad been pro6tably employed Franklin
Farmer.
Year: 1860

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