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Year: 1874

In the VERMONT FARMER of May 22d, L
noticed some reasons given by "a" why
girls are averse to marrying farmers. She
implies that all farmers daughters are
taught to consider labor as degrading that
it is beneath them to associate with those
who labor, and that even their brothers are
not suitable company for them, because they
are lawful awkward creatures"


Probably some regard labor as degrading,
but think most farmers daughters would
choose to labor moderately, rather than live
life Of idleness.


No wonder that girls shrink from the
great variety Of duties and great amount Of
work imposed upon farmers wives If they
use their eyes and help their mothers, it will
not be of much use to "keep hush, as one
correspondent suggests.


Can they not see how their mothers and
friends, who are farmers wives, drudge,
how careworn they are, and how little credit
they receiver For how many men even de-
ny their wives money because they "do not
earn anything" and how many consider it
unnecessary for their wives to have help,
even when they have extra work to do, while
perhaps the men have help all of the time
and extra help when extra work is to be
done. As if they were saving by running
their wives health, and shortening their
lives.


About farmers sons being awkward, are
they not liable to bo so ? Not that they are
any worse, or are too blame for it, but on
account of the education they (do not p re-
ceive. How few farmers take the trouble to
give their sous good educations, and espe-
cially to encourage them if they no not like
to study, thinking it unnecessary for farm
er to have much hOok-learning, Aud after
working hard Of course they are too tired to
90 into society much, and what is more nat
ural than that they should be awkward, not
being accustomed to it though their sisters
ought to encourage them to 60 out with
them instead oil looking down upon them.


What recreations have farmers wives n
Lectures, literary societies, etc., are likely
to be few among farmers,-th ough l hope
the oranges will remedy this evil,-and af-
ter working hard they do not feel like walk
ing to take the fresh air, and Of course the
horses are at work or resting after having
worked hard.


do not see but that farmers are as liable
to use tobacco, drink, and swear, as other
men. I also think that there are young
men who are neither farmers, nor yet
"snobs," and that if farmers in general were
better educated, and their lives had more
pleasures instead of so much work and mo-
notOny, young girls would not be 50 avcrso
to marrying them. B.
Year: 1874

The difficulty of getting good help is par
TALLY owing to the price paid as corresponds
with other business. A labOrer may work
on farm ten years and the last year he
will command only dollar Or two more
than man that has only worked a few
months, provided he is capable of the same
endurance while the clerk in the store or
the apprentice at a trade generally gets
twice as much the second year as the first,
while he gets nearly as much the first year
as a farm hand.


The farm hand seldom finds place where
he can improve his mind there isseldOm much
Of a library in the farmers house. Perhaps
he will find one political paper and few
school books, and if the hand takes paper
or has any books, he may have TO keep them
in his trunk, where it is difficult TO reach for
few minutes perusal from the fact Of his
room being some out-oi-the-way place or
if he leaves his paper in the stting-room he
may find it torn up or mislaid where it would
take him longer to find it than he has time
to read and there are no reading-rooms ex-
copt near large towns. "a farm hand is re-
spected for what he is, tho same as in other
business" In this must differ with some.
1 have had some experience, and quite q
chance to observe the usage OF farm help.
| claim that the farm hand should be re-
spected and considered as good as the clerk,
mechanic, or the men in any other avocation,
provided he merits it in his manners and
good behavior. have seen the farmer and
men of other avocations pass by the farm
hand to shake hands with u clerk, or me-
chanic, or lawyer, acting as if the farm hand
was beneath his notice. have been in a
store or post.oiiice and heard an intelligent
young man talk and when he passed out,
some one would ask, "Who is that2" The
reply would be, "Nobody but farmer HIS
hired man he would look better ii he
would keep his mouth shut"


The way farm help is quite often paid is
reason why men aud women do not like to
Year: 1874

The great secret Of success in tho winter
iattening and management Of sheep is to at
tend to them yourself. A hired man who
will feed at given hour every day, and in
the accustomed order; who will exercise a
little judgment as to the amount required


feeding little more grain and hay during q
cold, stormy day than during warm one I;


who will sec that the sheep never want for
water that Is reduced almost to freezing
point by snow and ice, but will, on the con-
trary, pump them fresh water three or four
times a day, and always at fixed hour a
man who knows how TO fodder the sheep 10
such way that they are tempted to eat as
much as they can possibly digest, without
leaving any to get stale in the racks a man
that will litter the sheds and yards two or
Year: 1874

The London Agricultural Gazette recent.
ly made suggestion that seems worthy Of
trial. Two shOrt-horn breeders in Ireland
hired two aged but valuable bulls, and used
these to cows recently purchased at sales at
long prices, and which had been moro or less
forced. They found their COWS in heat again
and again; but finally tried the experiment
Of each driving his COWS in the ordinary
country manner seven miles to the others
bull, and succeeded in getting calves from
all the cows. The result plainly shows that
the driving of cows in heat some distance be-
fore serving is of decided benefit in cases
where the cows arc in high order. In one
case the treatment had answered when the
COW had been two years barren, and had
been served at home thirty times by seven
different bulls.
Year: 1874

The season has arrived when something
must be done to rid our trees of these pests,
and il seems to me a fit subject for general
discussion through the FARMER by fruit.
growers, each stating his plan for destroying
them, so that the best plan may be adopted
for the benefit Of all This is in accordance
with grange principles-cO6peratiOu. My
plan is 10 tie small swab on a stick, which
| keep wet by dipping in kerosene oil, and
drip very little on top of the nest, which
will strike through and close business in
that place, provided you look along the
limb and find and peel off the little nest of
eggs where the worms keep Matching out and
crawling down to the web nest. They are
generally stuck to a twig in cluster, and
gllsten in the sun, SO may be readily seen,
Ii this is done in the winter or carly in the
spring, before the eggs are hatched, you will
have no further trouble with killing the
worms, as by so doing the larve is destroy
ed. Il. @. NARAMoRE.


WiliiSt0n, w.
Year: 1874

A German agricultural journal prints a
plea for long furrows. The turning of the
plow and the commencing of new furrow
require more exertion in the powman and
tho team than continued work on a straight
line and how great may really be the loss
Of time from frequent interruptions in short
turns may be shown by the following oalcu-
latiOns In field 225 feet long, five and
half hours out Of ten are used 10 redirect
ing the plough with length Of 575 feet
four hours are sufficient for the purpose
and when the plough can proceed without
interruption for 500 feet, only one and a
half hours Of the daily working time are
consumed.
Year: 1874

"Mary had a little lamb"


We've heard Il O'or and o'er,
Until this little lambs become


A perfect little bore
SO propose there shall bo dug
A grave both deep and wide,
In which that lamb and all It's bards
Do buried side by side.
Year: 1874

ORIGIN OF THE TEMPERANCE CRUsADE.-
The ltdies temperance movement COM
menced at Hillsboro, Ohio, by lady whose
husband and son had fallen victims to the
intoxicating cup, and all earthly means of
reforming them having failed, her burdened
soul cried out to God for help; and she
arose in the church and asked her sisters to
meet her in her own paror to pray. A num-
ber volunteered. They held prayer
meeting in her parlor; the Divine presence
was with them in power. Deeply impressed
to do so, she asked her friends to follow her
into the street, and they all did so, neither
she nor any of the others knowing what
would be done, or by what mysterious in
huence they were led but, single file, they
passed along the principal street, singing as
they went, until they came to the leading
saloon; and, led by the same unseen hand,
they entered it and plead with the proprie-
tor to quit the business; but he said he
could not, that it was his only heahs of sup
port, and bis family would suffer and ST. rye
if be quit; but he gave them permission to
hold prayer meeting in the saloon; and
they sang and prayed until all the ladies
present had led in prayer, and there was a
wonderful manifestation of Divine power ac-
companying the exercises. They again en-
treated the sa.oon-keeper to desist, he said
he would if he had any other means of sup
port, but could not as he was situated. In
II moment the lady asked for a sheet of pa
per, wrote out a subscription, and, in as
brief time as the names could be written,
81 900 was subscribed by the ladies', the
wives of bankers and merchants. The man
closed bis saloon, and it has never been
opened since. lie is now converted,
member of the church, and has a good situ-
alton in dry goods store. This was the
unpremedtated beginning of this wonderful
movement
Year: 1874

HAppTEsT PERIOD OF LIFE am sure
there is only one answer to the question,
"What is the happiest period of human
life p 1t is now. If | am doing my duty,
to-day is the best day ever had. Yester-
day had happiness of its own, and up to
this morning it was the best day of all. l
would not, however, live it over again. l
string it, as a new bead, on the chaplet of
praise, and turn to the better work and the
higher thoughts of this present time. OF
all the many days of my life, give me to-
day. This should be our feelings always,
from the cradle to the hour when we are
called to come up higher. Childhood is best
for children, manhood is best for men. and
old age for the sver-haired. We will all
join in a chorus of common thanksgiving to
God, and when asked, (Which is the hap
piest period ?" will say-childbood, man
hood, and old age alike. "O, Father, it is
now. Geo. H. HepacoHh.
Year: 1874

California is good place to come to. In
San Francisco You can get the best free
lunches for nothing in the world. None of
your stewed kindling wood on toast, with
drawn butter over it, but real meat Al
you need to 60 to housekeeping is New
York Mills muslin case, quilted inside, to
sleep in. Buy drink and they will give
you for nothing boned turkey, boned pat
ridge, boned Goldfish balls, and everything
luxurious. You needn't be afraid of earth
quakes, for it is generally understood now
that the commissions of nature that shook
the people of San Francisco up some time
ago, were caused by the feas getting tired
Of lying on one side, and turned over
Sun. .f+
Year: 1874

themselves upon the statement Of
facts that we have given, and we are
bound to add, that they are animated
by the conviction that there has been
political revolution in the North,
and that their time had come.- GIN
cinnati Commercial.
Year: 1874

RAwLEY SPRINGS The Rawley Springs
Company are making preparations to better
accommodate the visitors at this popular sum
neI resort, by building new hotel, IS by 200
feet, three stories high. The back of the build
lug will be five stories high on account OF the
sloping ground. This new hotel will contain
lo2 sleeping apartments in addition to the bail
room. The old bail room will be appropriated
to some other purpose probably to bed cham
bers. On account of these increased accommo-
datons the company next season will be able
to entertain 200 more visitors than formerly.
The largest number there at any one time last
season was 6U0-OM Commonwealth
Year: 1874

A call has been made by tho Comptroller Of
the Currency for = statement Of the condition Of
the National Banks at the close Of business on
May l. For the first time since tho panic, there
ta now somo hope Of learning the exact condi-
tion OF the banks at data 30 recent as to make
the information Of contomporaneous interest,
Year: 1874

\ correspondent Of the New York Trib-


unc, who enquiries how to construct a box


in which he can carry his butter to market


over Il rough road, during the warm


season, and keep the rolls sweet and in


good shape. receives the following prac,i-
cal answer form Prot L. B. Arnold =


\ good way to carry rolls of butter over
4 rough road or any other is to make tin
boxes to suit the size of the rolls. cylindri-
cal in form Cike 4 pill-box,) dividing
near the middle, so that the cover will
constitute one-half of the box. Wrap each
roll IN lind bleached muslin and insert one
end in the box and slide the cover over
the other end. pressing it down till the
end of the roll will touch the inside of the
cover. lnclose the tin boxes in wooden
ones. Make the wooden box of sound -


inch boards, fastening the corners firmly
with Sheet-iron straps. The outside should
be planed and painted; the inside may be
rough. Line the inside Of this box with
two thicknesscs of felt and cover the telt
with thin but sound boards. mailing them
right through the felt snugly to the ont
side boards The felt is a non-conductOr,
and will keep the heat from striking
through into the butter Line the inside
Of the cover to the wooden box in the same
way, cleating the top Of it to prevent
warping or splitting, and attatch it TO the
box hv strong hinges on one side and hold
the other down firmly by two straps and
staples Stout handles should be put up
ON each end of the box Ion convenience in
handling. Rolls OF butter in tin boxes in
closed in such 4 case will neither get out
ct shape nor feel the heat. Upon arrival
at The end OF their journey the rolls are
easily removed from the tin boxes which
can be returned in their case. Boxes 1 =
inches in diameter and s inches long hold
a roll of pounds and cost $ 80 10 - per
dozen, according tothe quality OF the tin.
The whole outtiI is cheap. durable and
and Will secure m attractive
form i" the butter upon IFS rrarhin" the
marker
Year: 1874

the foreman of the establishment informed
us that, in twenty years experience, he
had never seen anything alive in the hair
1t Is at this stage that gray hairs, OF which
there are some in two-thlrdS of the locks
lhat come to market, are picked one by
one the high price obtained for this shade
lust about paying for the trouble.


Alter this there is but little 10 be done
to the hair except to tie each tress neatly
with ribbon. A lock as it is finally sold
may include hair from dozen persons.
The waste Of hair during these processes
IS from twenty-five to thirtv-three per
cent.


The value OF halr is determined bv its
length, color and hneness Common dark
or black hair is worth from 80 cents to SS
an ounce, the latter figure beng obtained
for fine hair a yard long, prepared in
France. The Neapolitan hair we have
spoken OF brings Sl.50 an ounce, though
last year, when there was 4 greater glut
OF it than now, it sold for S45O pound
a kind Of coarse black hair. imported
from China, sells for 5 80 an ounce. 1t is
very long, and if it We're Il little finer
would bring double that price. As gen
eral rule dealers find that the longer the
hair the coarser it is.


Very light hair, from gray to pure white
which is the most difficult of all to obtain,
and for which there is continual and
urgent demand always commands fancy
prices. One dealer recently had switch
of fine white hair, thirty-siN inches long,
for which he asked $3.50 an ounce. A
distinguished actress was willing to pay
another dealer here 800 for a%switch TO
match her own hair, which was of q
peculiar bluish-white tinge. Several
switches have sold here rs high rs S4oo
apiece and in New York it is a common
thing to pay from $500 to $500. One old
lady there with whom money was an
altogether secondary consideration. sent
to Europe for pure white switch, for
which she paid $1,000, the highest vet


Years ago wig making was the princl-
pal part OF the hair business, but now the
vast women's hair trade has pushed it in
to 4 secondary position. At present there
are some fifty persons in Boston engaged
IN making wigs. The wig hair is woven
on threads Of silk and sold bv the ward.
Year: 1874

Now i the timp TO 90 for borer> ilh a
sharp stick. They are unusually nlmel-
Gus this season. and have ju,l carried their
rnnons work far enough TO be detected
and DESTROYED. Examine every tree inSt
above the ground With a sharp knife II
yon see 4 mite Of reddish shavingS upon
the bark. there is n hOrer near il and
even il there he no shavmgs, bul only a
dlseoloring of the bark, if vou thrust INTO
il the point OF a pen-knite yon will very
likely find under ii a cavity which the
borer has made When once on his track
80 for him regardless OF any expense or
apple tree bark Better cul the tree half
down than leave him in it, 1t taken in
seaSon--n0W--he can generally be readily
dug out with the point of 4 knife ana with
on lnfllctmg 4 severe wound on the trees,
rs he will he found very near the entrance
to the passage; but, if allowed to 90 on
until. as we have sometimes found him,
he is eight inches from where he entered.
then ii is Job to follow him and one Of
the best tools with which Ia do il is 4
small @ou@e with this you can dig into
his hmTow, and do the tree no more dam
age than is necessary. When once the tree
is free from borcrS if will heal mp and
grow with rapidity.


While Yen are about It look To Your pear
frees; they are not as liable 10 attack as
apple trees, but this spring we have found
several in our pear trees


CaterpillarS are rs thick a, the locuSt>
OF Egypt this year, and a constant war ON
them is demanded Takea wet day, when
they are in their nests. and YOU can shoot
them 10 death by putting Il little powder
without wad or shot. into gun and firing
ii al them with the muzzle about two feet
from the nest. But the cheapest and best
way is to take them off with the hands
and stamp them to death on The ground.
Wctling 4 cloth with kerosene and trying
10 burn them off is liable to he injurious
10 the tree and is also expensive Mirror
and Farmer
Year: 1874

THE OXFORD STREET TRAGEDY. The
girl Ellen lyman, the victim of the muir
aerous assault committed in Oxford street
nearly fortnight ago. still survives at
the City Hospital and was, yesterday, for
= few moments, brighter than ever before
since She received her fearnl injuries


She talked \ little-a very little-and
said among other things that she knew
she had been badly hurt; but She spoke


no word and gave no indication that she
knew who her assilant was or why the
assault was committed The detectives
have well nigh abandoned all expectation
that they will get any clew from her to
aid them in the prosecution Of the assail-
ant, and the medical authorities having
the case in charge, while believing that
the girl may live another week, profess nc
faith that she will wholly survive the
effects Of her terrible injuries. Herald
Year: 1874




NEW YORK, July 3, One OF the morr-
inc dailies here tells u story that may be
wholly true on may be taken with salt \
few days ago an elderly. digniticd gentle
man from Boston arrived in this city with
his wife and daughter and put up nj Fifth
Avenue, preparatory to starting ior Europe.
The daughter is 4 beautiful and accom-
pliShed young lady Of about Il, who has
attracted for a year past her share of adj
mirers. as all such young ladies will mol
withstanding the fact that her parents did
not encourage the addresse, of Young
men to their only child at such an age
The favored suitor however, was 4 resi-
dent OF this city. who, in her esteem,
stood just rs high rs though possessing
something else than good looks, Well-tit-
ting clothes and an agreeable address A
somewhat secret correspondence was kept
up between the parties for some time,
until the money panic Of last Fall, when
the impccunious young suitor, being out
OF Il position in this city, went to Boston
to look for 4 situation His attentions
began to he rather pointed, and the Young
lady's father, 4 wealthy gentleman, not
relishing such L son-in-law forbade him
the house, and said that all further com
munications must cease. These orders
We're respected until the Boston party ar
rived here when the Young couple met
and agreed upon plan Of elopement and
marriage, which was duly carried out
After the marriage the bridegroom did
not seem to know what to do with his
new prize. His chumS, however to
whom he confided his case advised him
to make Il clean breast of it to the father.
which he did The deceived gentleman
took the matter very philosopically. He
politely asked his visitor to accompany him
for 4 walk. The latter complied. and in
a short time they Were engaged in Il most
confidential and spirited conversation in
the parlor OF another uptown hotel. Only
4 few words We're necessary to decide the
question OF forgiveness After sundry ex-
postulations the young man was induced
to repair with the torbearing iatherin-law
to the office Of q neighboring Justice of
the Peace, and there, in consideration OF
q few thousand dollars, Il free pass to
Europe and a receipt for outstanding board
and tailors' bills incurred since the panic,
was induced to sign Il paper to absent
himself from the country tor an indefinite
period and never again to seek an inter-
view with his newly made bride, This
business being settled the bridegroom
sailed for Europe on the next steamer
and the father, wife an daughter returned
10 Boston. the pretty bride to repent her
folly and. after due time, to get divorced
it is to be hoped, for the young man is
evidently not the husband her more ma
t,,ra Ua.rS Uould I1va choSao
Year: 1874

\ GOOD many farmers are rushing into
the dairy business under the impression
that the profits are large and sure. They
figure only on the profit side OF the ledger
and do not take inU account losses liable
to occnr in the different departments. We
do not wish to discourage any one from
entering npon dairy farming, for we be-
licve ii will compare fovorably in its prof
lis. when we'll conducted, with other
branches of farming but we have named
some of the disadvantages in one depart
ment-thal of live stock-in order that
men may see their way more clearly and
not get too high notions Of the profits to
be realized.


We advise every farmer who is doing
well and making Il fair income from his
special Kind OF farming, to be cautious in
changing il for other branches concerning
which he is not tamiliar for the chances
are that the new business will not yield
any more brolit. and perhaps not SO much
as the one with which he is acquainted
We believe the profits from dairying are
often over estimated; and while its adj
yantageS are often the topic OF discussion
and landation it is proper that some OF
the disadvantages be made to appear, and
then the balance of accounts may be
struck and no one need be led astray
Rural New Yorker
Year: 1874

Soap suds may be used with great ad
vantage for manuring grape vines. Down
ing says he has seen an Isabella grape
vine produce 5000 fine clusters of we'll
ripened fruit in a season, by the liberal
use of manure and soap suds from the
weekly wash The effect of soap suds on
other plants is remarkable. A cypress
vine that had remained stationary for u
fortnight, when about two inches high,
Immediately began growing after being
watered with soap suds, and grew about
six inches in five DAYS
Year: 1874

Salt seems necessary TO the health oI all
farm animals. They will not eat too mach
if they have access to it At all times Il
they are allowed to go without salt tol
two OF three weeks, they will then eal
more than is good for them, For swine
we mix about two quarts of coal or wood
ashes, one pint of salt, and half a pint o.
sulphur, and let the pics eat al ;hey viii
of it