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Year: 1879

We consider early winter to be the best
time for scraping and washing the trunks of
trees, though the present time will do very
well when it has not been previously at
tended to. 1t is well known to all obsery-
ing fruit-growers that the loose bark of trees
is the winter-qnarters of myriads of insects,
where they securely remain until the ensu-
ing spring, when the warm, genial weather
invites them to quit their cosy homes and
begin their destructive operations for the
season. We have found narrow saw,
rather fine-toothed, to be an excellent tool
in rasping off the superfuous bark. It ac-
complishes it more uniformly than hoe,
trowel, or other scraper; q trowel or short
handled hoe, however, is very good. when
the other may not be possessed. After the
bark is removed, the trunks should be wash
ed thoroughly with a preparation of whale
oil soap and water, say in proportion of q
pound of the soap to four or five gallons of
water. II can be applied to large trees with
a hickory broom or stiff whitewash brush,
and to small trees, especially dwarfs, with
the hand scrub-brush. Sickly trees. which
can at this season be easily detected by be-
ing covered with species of fungi, or, per-
haps more properly, peculiar insectivorous
deposit-should be scrubbed so as to COM
pletely remove this. The mixture will of
itself benefit the trees, while the removal
from the stem OF all extraneous and injllri-
GUS substances will give to it new health
and yigor the ensuing seaeon--in some in-
stances to a surprising extent. When whale
oil soap is not obtainable, lye may be used,
Year: 1879

MA6A6I.
Great Britain takes but little over quar-
ter of all our exported flour and pays .
smaller price for it than any other country.
How the price paid for one-fourth can In
any way control the price paid for three
fourths is quite beyond our ingenuity to
discover. Besides, what becomes of the
theory when grain and -four are cheaper In
Liverpool than in New York city, as has
been the case.


1t is an established fact that wheat has
been worth more in Minneapolis during the
past five years than it has in Chicago or
Milwaukee, when cost Of transportation is
added. Now, if the home demand for wheat
in Minnesota is sufficient to keep the price
above the ruling quotations of the two met
ropoltan cities Of the northwest, it would
seem to follow, rs a natural conclusion, that
the home demand of different states would
exercise tar greater influence on general
prices than the market quotations of ma
ton across the water. This seems all the
more reasonable when we remember that
the deficiency OF the wheat supply in all OF
the states combined requires much larger
amount of wheat to satisfy the demand than
is exported to Great Britain. A compari-
son of market quotations, both at home and
abroad, will not reveal anything which
shows that prices paid here are at all regu-
lated by the British demand for wheat.


We are led to the conclusion that while
strong foreign demand for our breadstuffs
naturally raises the price, there being de-
mand in that case for all the farmer can
raise, under ordinary circumstances prices
here are not governed by London or Liver
pool prices. The fallacy that the exact con-
trary is the case is certainly very deeply
rooted; but study and comparison of facts
and figures will dissipate the beliet.-Amer-
iea,s Miller.
Year: 1879

Fowls suffer more from sudden changes
Of the weather than they do from excessive
heat or cold. At this time Of the year colds,
Group, catarrf and the numberless ills
caused by the chilling air and stormy
weather are to be carefully guarded against.
In this climate a mild sunset is often fol-
lowed by high, cold winds. See to it that
the chickens are protected ut night from
these sudden changes, 1t is Indispensable
that for the next few months the fowls be
provided with warm, dry quarters, as they
must spend many whole days in doors.
Keep good sized box of sand and cold
ashes, well sprinkled with sulphur, for their
accommodation inside .--Inaiana Farmer.
Year: 1879

The first occupation of man, agriculture,
will always be the noblest calling that men
can pursue. While formerly the foolish
world, outside the farm life, have assumed
to think agriculture beneath it, the times
have changed, and the farmer is being look
ed up to as one whose occupation is the first
and whose influence is the greatest.
Year: 1879

A correspondent, on addressing us on
this subject, says in brief, that each fowl
ought to produce 160 eggs year; that in
winter warmth is Indispensable; that the
fowls must have some ofthe food they find
at other seasons when at large !; TINT they
must have plenty of room in their house.
and It and the laying boxes kept clean j;
that they must be fed with corn, barley,
Year: 1879

Cream Crackcrs.- pint of sweet cream !


six eggs; q little salt and -four enough to


make a stiff dough; beat tho eggs separate


~, and pound the dough for fifteen or twen-


ty minutes. Roll thin; cut into any shape


you please and bake in a moderate oven.
Mince Rs.-One pound of finely-chopped


boiled beef-that from the neck is best one
half pound Of grated sour apple, d pound
Of raisins, stoned and cut fine, pound Of
currants, one-fourth of a pound of suet. and
the same of citron, both chopped. One
teacup each OF jelly, sugar and molasses,
the juice and grated rind of a lemon. one
grated nutmeg, Il teaspoonful each of salt,
ground cinnamon, mace and cloves two
quarts of cider boiled or not. Mix thor
oughly, put in a porcelain kettle and set in
the back OF the stove. Let the mixture SIM
mer for one hour, stirring it often. Pack in
stone jar and keep in cold place.


Cabinet P,4dding.-An excellent pudding
for company dinner, quite as good doubt
lees as the far-tamed English plum pudding.
One cnpful each OF suet, molasses, and sweet
milk, three cups Of flour, one teaspoonfnl Of
soda, grease the pudding mould and boil
fully three hours. | use small tin bucket
with close fitting lid, when ready to serve
II the bucket is inverted the pudding will
easily slip out. Sauce to be eaten yith it
can be made by mixing together half cup
of butter, one cup Of sugar, and one large
tablespoonful flour, when thoroughly mixed
add one quart of boiling water, allow it TO
come 70 boil and simmer awhile, then add
iavoring.


Pop Corn Balls.-Pop the corn, rejecting
that which did not open nicely, and put into
q large pan or on clean table--there should
be a scant half bushel. Add little water
to . pound of granulated sugar and boil
until the mixture. when tried in cold water,
Is waxy; stir in five tablespoonfnls of gum
araqic solution, of about the thickness of
molasses-made by dissolying the gum in
boiling warer-and pour over the corn With
spoon or stick stir until all of the kernels
are coated with the mixture. When cool,
flour the hands and press into balls. Fla
vor the sugar mixture with whatever ron
choose.
Year: 1879

An honest, industrious man can earn not
only living, but enough to enable him to
lay up money for a time of sickness and old
age. Yet there are many honest, industrs-
GUS men who do not. One reason is improv-
idence at home; another, indulgence in
strong drink.
Year: 1879

We have the following correspondence
upon this subject from the Country Gentle
man


One of your correspondents, on page 775,
undertakes 70 tell what he knows about
gapes in chickens, and on the only point in
which he Is very decided, must beg leave
to differ with him. He is clearly Of the
opinion that gapes cannot be cured. There
Is AL old truism that says-..remove tile
cause and the effect will cease" or remove
th1 worms and the chicken is cured. nev-
er performed the operation, but have been
accustomed for years to seeing it done by
young and old. IF the relief is not immedi-
ate, it only needs another trial. Take a
stalk Of blue grass, clip the seed spikes
from the main stem with pair of scissors.
leaving each projecting. say one-sixteenth
of an inch. This makes kind Of corkscrew
for gathering the worms. Let one person
hold the chickens legs, and pull forward
its tongue, while another inserts the straw
into the windpipe, and gives iG a few twists;
withdraw your straw, and from one to q
half dozen worms will be hanging to 1t.
The time and trouble will not exceed that
of washing baby's face, to say nothing of
giving 1t a dose of medicine. ! do not
know what produces this worm. Cold, wet
weather is very propitious to gapes.


notice In recent issue, an article upon
gapes in chickens. will give my plan for
curing this disease: Take box that will
hold four bushels of any substance; place
the chickens in the box; place covering
over the top Of the box, made Of some thin
cotton texture, drawing it over tightly like
a drum head then take half q pint Of slack
ed lime, pour it on top OF the cloth, tapping
it lightly for one minute, causing thick
dust to fall among the chickens. This
causes the chickens to snecze rs it enters
the nostrils and mouth, and produces the
election OF the mucus and worms from the
throat. and relieves the chickens. Two APP
plications will be sufficient. Try It; 1t is
simple and safe. Be sure to bush the dust
of the fowls on being taken out ofthe box,
that the lime may not affect the body.
Year: 1879

saves you the danger of being embarrassed
in an evil hour. Make the experiment for
one year at least. You will become accus-
toned to it in that length of time, and will
to the cash system now while times are
good-then come immigration, railroads, or
whatever may-and you will be independ-
ent and free from the tolls of the usurer.
Year: 1879

Anh cApcllellCc VI Lllc paSt tell years
should teach the farmers of this territory a
valuable lesson, and enable them to steer
clear in the future of the breakers upon
which they came SO near wrecking their for
tunes in the years that are past.


Our farmers, as is always the case in new
mining countries, contracted very extrava-
giant habits. They were profligate in their
expenditures, and entered rs wildly into
speculation as it flush times you'd last
always; and the consequence was that when
times narrowed down and the price of farm
products was reduced two-thirds many
were heavily encountered by debt, and it
has been with great difficulty that they have
managed to meet their liabilities. The
change in the times came upon them so sud-
denly that they were almost completely par
alyzed, the future being enveloped in dark
ness. BY rigid economy they have man.
aged to maintain themselves, and the dawL
of an era of better prices has placed them
again on a better footing and square with
the world. But these years of prosperity
are inclined to beget carelessness, and ii a
tall in the prices OF produce was to occur
again to-day it would catch many ill prepar-
ed to stem the current of affairs.


Now we will say to one and all, that these
days OF prosperity will not last always, and
the judicious farmer will so arrange his bus
iness as to be able to cope with whatever
difficulties may arise. Now, we do not an
ticipate any sudden decline in the price of
farm products, but we do expect to see them
gradually press downward. Another year
will probably flood the country with peo-
pie; farms will spring up where we little
think of now; production will be greatly
increased, and times become gradually hard
er and states-like, until the railroad, the
great equalizer, reaches us, when they will
come down almost on par with the states.


In view of this inevitable result of the
advance of years, we think it advisable to
begin to prepare lest we be taken unawares.
The initial step, and the one which will
prove only the more beneficial should times
improve rather than retrograde, is to settle
up and begin OH cash basis. The old the
ory that farming can only be carried on on
the credit system has exploded. The most
thrifty and progressive farmers of the age
pay as they go. He that does this is never
cramped. 1t may require some extra exer-
tisn to break off from the old habit of buy
ing on credit, but once out of the old ruts,
the way Is clear. Settle up your old ac-
counts with the beginning of the year and
contract no new ones. If you have not
money to pay cash for the necessaries of life
an o,,I ~ Dat xovr
unfortunate as to have nothing to sell. Farm
products are bringing good prices, especial
~ butter and eggs, which can be produced
In the winter. In fact, there is but little ex-
cuse for a thrifty, industrious farmer buying
on credit It is the worst system that ever
beset any country. Take the money with
You when you go to buy. 1t goes much
farther in accomplishing your purpose, and
Year: 1879

LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY


This Institution was regularly incorporated by the
Legislature of the State for educational and charitable
tract the nyioabe faith Of the State Is pledged with
cspsl Of 81 00OO0O which II has since added
fund Of Ooo It's grand single number drawings have
always taken place monthly scales pospones
Look at the following distribution -
Year: 1879

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WASHINGTON, June 21.-The President to-day
sent to the Senate the following: HDoubts
having arisen as to the propriety of appoint
ing in advance of the actual vacancy to occur
September LIST, 1879, person to fill the Office
of judge of the circuit court of the United
States for the Eighth circuit, hereby with
draw the nomination for that office Of George
McCrary, Of Iowa" The message will be laid
before the Senate in the next executive session.
Year: 1879

SOAR from the City Council having
.c,ed with unfAirness toward Mr.. Henry
Evans ard bis petition, they have been
generous. His case was not presented
with all the due forms Of law, and had
they chosen to have resorted to the use y
of technicalities that lawyers rarely iaii
to seize upon they could have thrown IL
out of that body because OF such de-
fscts and neglects. In fact it is even
doubtful whether they can proceed WIN
It because the mode laid down IN the
charter has not been strictly followed
The law committee has been giving Tile
matter Its attention and what determi'
nation will be arrived at we DO ho'


know.
Year: 1879

His ignorance of politics alone, it is
now seen, led him into all his mistakes,
and as soon as he had only his sense of
duty to consult he was irreproachable.
Despite his want of acquaintance with
constitutional fctions, it is mistake to
think him unintelligent. In Cabinet
councils he was taciturn, listening to
what was said without interrupting, but
he had great good sense; and when he
heard one of the Ministers maintain
/ fallacy, or what seemed such to him, he
would fdget, twist his pen or pencil
round, and turn suddenly red. Then
he would begin to speak rapidly, as if in
hurry to finish, putting his point
clearly, and apparently glad when he
had finished. On such occasions he
had kind of eloquence by which his
ministers could not help being i'm
pressed. Outside Cabinet councils and
on ceremonial occasions he had seri-
GUS manner which carried great weight,
even with the least impossible. The
Ambassadors who presented their Gre
dentials confess that he awed them, and
one of the latest arrivals, an eminent
statesman of great GOODNESS, was so
nervous that he left the salon to fetch
his first secretary to stand beside him.
At these ceremonies the Marshal, in full
military uniform, erect and motionless,
his foreign Minister beside him and his
military household around him, made
such an imposing figure as to impress
even those accustomed to see him daily,
He did not himself prepare the speeches
he delivered, but he never delivered one
without making felicitous corrections in
it, and it was he who drew up his speech
at the close of the Exhibition, the
Marquis d'kbsse only revising II,
Year: 1879

boston correspondence Cnlcago Journal.l


A few months ago prominent citizen
of Boston was arrested and put into the
Insane Asylum. He was on the point
of going to Europe, having just previ-
ously made his will, the contents of
which were unknown to his family. 1t
cost one thousand eight hundred dollars
to get the same man out of the mad
house. A few days ago some legislation
was advanced stage with view to
improving the laws relating to lunacy
in Massachusetts,, more especially with
reference to commitment, release and
supervisions. There are four thousand
persons confined in the asylums of this
State, one-half of whom are in private
institutions. Some of these private
asylums are used for the privacy" of
the drunken sons of wealthy parents
sons who have gone to Europe for their
health" The certificate of &c two
respectable citizens will send person
into an insane asylum in this State, but
in England no person can be committed
to an asylum unless it is stated why he
is committed. Such thing as a trial
by Jury is unknown and unauthorized
in Massachusetts,. One-man power runs
the insane asylums of this State. If a
man is charged with murder he has an
opportunity given him to prove his
innocence; but sane person committed
to an insane asylum in this State has no
chance to prove his sanity. Such a
person can only be released upon the say
of the person who caused his commit.
ment. The hospitals of Massachusetts,
are one hundred years behind the age.
The scientific ring rules these insane
hospitals, and the laws which govern
the insane hospitals here are the worst
in the United States. In Illinois, man
had his wife locked up in an asylum
because she differed with him on the five
points of Calvin, but the Superintendent
refused to hold her any longer; and


foiled by the law, the husband tried fol
years to decoy her into Massachusetts
where no doubt he could have had the
woman incarcerated until her death.
Year: 1879

For his master had eaten Goldfish and
potato, and Goldfish and potato was all
that was left for Master Mig.


A plate with the fishy food was pre-
pared and placed in Nig's corner, and
he was invited to partake. At first he
approached with evident hunger and de-
light, shifting eagerly at the offered
plate; but when his nose told him what
it contained his countenance and his tail
both fell. He looked at his master in
reproachful manner, and turned sadly
away. He was called back and ordered
to eat. Slowly he returned, but, instead
of eating, he carefully pushed every
particle Of food from the plate to the
floor, crowded it close under the rim of
the dish, and again retired to a chair,
where he seated himself, looking soberly
at the plate and then at his master, as
though entering remonstrance against
such breakfast.


But his master was obdurate, and
spoke sternly:


Mig, you must eat that fish and
potato before ouhave any thing else"


No sooner were the words spoken than
the dog leaped from the chair, ran to
the door and disappeared.


For two entire days nothing was seen
of him, and his master began to fear
that the little fellow was lost, when
early upon the morning of the third
day Mig presented himself at the door
and began to beg for his breakfast as
usual.


Hoping that the dogs hunger had
overcome his scruples, the fish and
potato were again presented to him. He
regarded it for moment with sorrow-
full air, ears and tail dropping low, and
then quietly walked out of the door
without tasting it.


This time he was gone nearly week,
and when, at last, he returned, his mas
ter succumbed. The obnoxious fish and
potato were thrown away, and Mig Jared
sumptuously upon fresh beef and hot
rolls.


Since that time the spaniel has only
eaten such food as he prefers. Like
many children, he had fought the battle
out and conquered.
Year: 1879

EXTRACT from the journal Of travel
of a young American lady according
to the Paris Figaru): 1.-THE captain
then became violently in love with me,
but would not listen to him. Hecame
and knocked at the door of my cabin on
the eve of our landing. Madam said
he to me, my courage is exhausted. /
have placed ten barrels of powder SO as
to blow up the ship. If you continue
cruel, well perish togetherP Well
that night 1 saved the lives of three
hundred people"
Year: 1879

A CUNNING DoG.-Dogs sometimes
exhibit traits that are almost human; !;
and we sometimes wonder whether
Pythagoras was very far wrong in his
theory that the souls of men at their
death, and also before their creation, in
habit the bodies of animals.


Certainly, if so, the soul of certain
little black spaniel named "Nig" must
originally have belonged to seme greedy
boy whose indulgent parents fed him
upon knickknacks until he died, for
never was there an animal more par
ticular in his tastes with regard to food.
Many times Mig would 60 supperless to
bed because his little master insisted
upon his eating plain bread and butter
instead of cake; and he was known to
fast an entire day on one occasion
because his breakfast consisted of fried
potatoes and beef-bones rather than
hot rolls, of which he was extravagantly
| fond.


But little boys learn to get their
own way, and little dogs are quite as
apt.


After time, Mig concluded that the
only sure method of obtaining what be
wanted was to eat, or hide away, what
was given him, and then beg for more,
and, therefore, he would carry off the
crusts which he found upon his plate,
bury them at the foot of the garden and
then return, and with wagging tail ask
for doughnut or cookie, which he sell
dom failed to receive.


By this and other tricks the spaniel
generally managed to secure such food
as he best liked, and, for long time, tht
shrewdness which he exhibited and the
hearty laughs which he excited made
his master forget how bad were the
habits which he was forming. But ont
day Mig made too great fuss about tn,
supper which was set before him, and
as a punishment, severe order wa
issued:


The dog was to eat just what was lef
from the table, and nothing more. Wha
was good enough for the family must d
for him.
That night Mig slept in happy uncor
. sciousness of the new rule; but whe
morning came, and breakfast was ovel
it's full import became known to hin
Year: 1879

Flow on forever in thy glorious robe
OF terror and Of beauty, mostly Of terror,
Particularly to the man of small means
On his wedding tour, many Of whom
Thou suckest In, o mighty suckeri


Nature hath set
Rcr rainbow on thy forehead, and the wonder 10
Thou dost not charge her forty dollars rent
Per diem, or bid her take her rainbow elsev here.
True, she hath given thy voice Of thunder
Powert to spsak Of her eternaliy, bidding the
Lip Of man ho.d silence; or, in other words,
Bidding man to hold his LIP, and upon thy
Rocky altar pour incense OF awe-struck praise,
And dump the contents OF his pocket-book
Within the Golfers of her one-horse hotels.


Even ocean shrinks
Back from thy splendor; and the millionaire,
The Royal Prince, the President Of Savings Bank
On the lookout for ship about to sail,
Fall back appall d when thy hackman
Presents bis bill for splurge around the square.


The morning stars
When hrst they sang DER young creations birth
Heard thy deep anthem, and the world to-day
Doth marvel much that thou didst not
Send in a bill Of two hundred and fifty
Or three hundred dollars to Great Jehovah
For the entertainment.