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Year: 1877

A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT.-I do not know a
more beautiful sight on earth than man
who has served his Lord for many years, and
who having grown gray in the service, feels
that in the order of nature he must soon be
called home. lie is rejoicing in the first
fruits of the Spirit which he has obtained,
but he is painting after the full harvest of
the Spirit which is guaranteed to him. |
think | see him sitting on a jutting crag by
the edge of Jordan, listening to the harpers
on the other side, and waiting till the pitcher
shall be broken at the fountain and the
wheel at the cistern, and the spirit shall de-
part to God who gave it, A wife waiting
for the husbands footsteps, a child waiting
in the darkness of the night till its mother
comes to give it the evening kiss, are por
traits of our waiting, 1t is pleasant and
precious thing so TO wait aud so to hope.
Year: 1877

Jonah was but one man, and he preached
but one sermon, and it was but short SER
mon as touching the number of words, and
yet he turned the whole city, great and
small, rich and poor, king and all. We be


many preachers here in England, and we
preach many long sermons, and yet the peo-
pie will not repent aud convert. This was
the first fruit, the effect, and the good that
his sermon did, that the whole city, at his
preaching converted, and mended their evil


living, and did penance in sackloth. And
yet here i'll this sermon of Jonah is no great
curiousness; no great clerkliness; no great
atfectation of words, nor of painted elo-
quence; it was none other but, :" Yet forty


days and Nineveh shall be DESTROYED !" 1t
was no more. This was no great curious
sermon, but nipping sermon, pinching
sermon, biting sermon it had full bite ;
it was rough sermon, and a sharp, biting
sermon. DO you not here marvel these
Ninevites cast not Jonah into prison that
they did not revile him nor rebuke him +?
They did not revile him nor rebuke him, but
God gave them grace to hear him, and to
convert and amend at his preaching. A
strange matter, so noble a city to give place
to one mans sermon Bishop Latimer 1880.
Year: 1877

An old lady at the Maine muster no.
ticing the fine appearance of General
Chamberlain on his white horse. gave very
soberly this valuable information to her
companions: Gen. Chamberlain has had
seven horses shot out from under him,
and that Is the very horse"
Year: 1877

She was fond Of conundrums, and when
she learned that mulidr was Latin for
woman, she asked her husband what va.
the difference between herself and a mule.
As he had been married several years, he
was too thoughtful to trouble her by guess
10y, but kindly remarked that he had new
Or been able to see any.
Year: 1877

Time and again it has been shown
that wheat is almost certain to be n good
crop upon land previously run 10 clover.
Equally often has it been shown, by ac-
tual trial, also, that clover can bo made
q profitable crop to the farmer. When
we consider that these two facts are well
known, is it not n little singular that
farmers will persist in taking their
chances in wheat crops on land not nat
urally fitted for wheat? Year after year
this Is done on land not possessing the
elements required to produce wheat, but
which would produce clover, which in
turn, while making q profitable crop,
would put the soil in precise condition
for q wheat crop. Why not observe
these plain facts, and thus become more
successful?


DR.. Weiske, Of Germany, has shown
by actual and repeated experiments the
true value Of clover as o preparatory
crop on wheat land, and, indeed, for
corn and other crops requiring similar
elements Of soil. 1t is shown that q
single acre of clover left enough nitro
gen in the soil to produce 1l6 bushels
OF wheat; phosphoric acid for ia bush
els, and potash enough for 78 bushels.
These are the active and essential ele-
ments of soils for producing wheat.
We urge again that it is both useless
waste of time and labor to plod along,
without method or information, or what
is still worse, without disposition to
yield to what is known on the subject
in the production of wheat. II ever the
production OF wheat is increased, these
well known and well-tested facts must
be observed. 1t may be true. and Is,
that there are sometimes failures in
wheat crops even on land so prepared.
But these are clearly traceable to con-
ditions of climate and atmosphere, char
acter of land and want of drainage.
Lands which are now annually produc-
ing poor crops of wheat and corn, can
be made to nearly double their produc-
ton by running them to clover, and at
the same time the clover itself may be
made valuable crop.


One other consideration regarding
clover. Farmers frequently say that in
their sections of country clover freezes
out. Now we suppose that if people
should attempt to wear linen coats dur
ing the winter, they would freeze out
also. What we mean to say is. that no
grass field should be pastured bare late
in the season. The practice INDUCED in
of grazing land bare to the roots of the
grass, is the chief cause of its freezing
out. A reasonable aftermath should be
left for winter protection, and there
would be little of this freezing heard of
again.-Ind. Farmer.
Year: 1877

The Rural Neac Yorker does not care
whether high or low authorities declare
that ground moles eat nothing but in
sects, but says that the assertion is sim
ply false, and any man who possesses
skill enough to catch a live mole can
prove it to be SO. Without, says our
contemporary, at this time going into
any argument on the mooted question,
we will simply state one fact easily de-
termined by our highest authorities or
anybody else, and that is, the ground
mole will devour earth or angle worms
when in confinement, or at liberty, and
those worms are not insects. Further
more, this tcorB, LNmbricas teTrestris, is
the mole's principal animal food, il our
own personal observation has not led us
far astray. But leaving the food out Of
the question, q vigorous ground mole
win lift up and kill q row Of plants in
far less time than q thousand Of our
most noxious insects, not excepting
grasshoppers and potato beetles. IT l.
to be feared that our authorities who
talk so glibly about the useful mole.
know little Of cultivating gardens infest-
ed with these pests. One season Of gar
dening with a dozen moles per acre
would satisfy them to dispense with
these secret subterrAnean assistants.
Year: 1877

MILKING A DRYING Cow.-Colonel s..
D. Harris. in the Country Gentleman,
condemns the usual practice of farmers
in leaving drying COW alone as soon as
the milk shrinks so as not to fill the bag
once, a day or once in two days. He
says 1.-The little milk which is secreted
must be taken away, or it will work
mischief in the organs Of the udder too
serious to be overlooked by the careful
dairyman. 1t is one Of the processes of
nature that when matter of this kind is
deposited unless it be in large guam
.tity) it must be removed, or it is re-ab-
sorbed into the system, and when mat


ter is once perfected, as in the case of
milk, it is no longer congenial to the
system, and if not taken away it becomes
a deleterious element for reabsorption,


poisoning instead of feeding the animal.


Thus you will find in the udder of cows
thus affected, hard Jumps near the base
Of the teats, which are caused by the
solidihcation Of putrid milk, left there
in dryizg up the COW the season before,
and the COW will never get over it but
when these organs encounter any diff
Guilty in the season of flush milk, this
lump Will Do tno uuc1ous VI 1nuAmma-
'tion, just like thief who is already Sc
creted in house, ready to help another
who is to break in from the outside. To
be free from all such troubles, the COW
should De carefully watched for weeks
and months after the regular milking is
stopped, and the teats tried to see if
thereis milk to be taken away. This OPP
Grafton is to be performed at irregular
intervals, so as not to invite regular Sc
cretion of milk, until the milk vessels
cease to lead anything in that direction. ="
Year: 1877

A PICTURE OF STURGEON, THE CELR-
DRAFTED MN1srER.-Mr. Spurgeon is q
very hard-working man, his time being
spent in moving quickly to and fro from
the Tabernacle, the Pastors College,
the schools, almshouses and orphanages
of which he is the guiding spirit. he
passes islife, when not actually preach
ing or working, in q pony chaise, varied
by an occasional hanson cab. Wrapped
in q rough blue overcoat, with q species
of soft deerstalker hat on his head, q
loose black necktie round his massive
throat, and cigar burning merrily in
his mouth, he is surely the most uncler-
ical Of all preachers of the gospel. Yet
that short, thickly-built man, with the
shock head of hair hardly yet touched
with gray, with ample brown beard GOV.
ering his heavy jowl, and thin line OF
moustache covering his capacious
mouth, is the famous preacher for
whom, when yet a very young man, no
building could be found sufficient to
hold his congregation. One plan he
has ever pursued during public life. 1t
is never to reply to personal satire or
attack. Not even q statement in print
that he had poisoned his own mother
would provoke the shadow Of reply.
More than this; he keeps not one vol
ume, but several, in his library, filed
with newspaper cuttings of an abusive
character, and takes particular pleasure
in pointing out to his guest thevirulent
attacks in which he is designated noun
tebank, bufoon, blasphemer, hypocrite
and villain. His dark brown eye lights
up with keen twinkle Of enjoyment as
he comes upon particularly savage on
slaught, and he actually smacks his lips
over caricatures.
Year: 1877

CULTIVATED WoMKx.-Sheridan said
beautifully: women govern us let
us render them perfect. The more they
are enlightened, so much the more shall
we be. On the cultivation Of the mind
of women depends the wisdom Of men.
It is by women that nature writes on
hearts Of men,"
Year: 1877

mountains, and are not, therefore, likely
to be provided with solitaires. Even in
the case of those persons who can afford
such a luxury; it seems to US to be ask
ing a great deal of them to take it off for
the purpose of propping up greasy knife
and fork. And then, if man lays down
his solitaire in company, he takes a great
risk of never seeing it again this sidlf of
the grave. 1t were cheaper, we take it,
TO grease the table-cloth and pay the
damages after dinner-buy a new cloth,
If need be, and take the old one home for
horse blanket. The horses would not
kick tecause of a grease spot or two. A
mule, though, would kick the roof off the
stable on much less provecatiop. Con
the solitaire or piece of bread" Looking
at 1t again, We see in il hole for man
to crawl cut Of who has no diamond.
! But why would not biscuit do just as
we'll as piece of bread? Or, in the
absence of either bread or biscuit-a fel.
low is liable to eat them, you know-how
would cold potato do? Or, again, how
would it do to wipe the knife and fork on
your hair, and--but these things viii


suggest themselves to a man in AT
emergency oil City Derrick
Year: 1877

Some medical students in one of the
colleges, dissecting female subject q
few days ago, found what is called in the
doctors parlance a corset liver" When
tight lacing has been practised through
several years, permanent dent or hollow
is produced in the liver, which may be
seen very plainly after the woman is
dead and her liver dissected cut. This
kind of liver occurs 50 frequently in
women that the physicians have given
il the name of "corset liver" In the
subject mentioned the hollow in the
liver was large enough for the wrist of a
grown man to be laid in it. Young
ladies who don't want their iivers put
into the newspapers and made an awful
example of after they are dead, would
better take warning.
Year: 1877

1t is not too late yet to go through the
field and select the beat mstured ears for
seed. The ears best filed out should
always be taken for seed. 1t is just as
important to have we'll rounded up ears
for seed as it is TO have well formed stock
to breed from. The ears thus selected
should be put in a dry place till thor
oughly dried out, and then they may be
stored away in bulk. \ little of this
work in season, sometimes, may fre-
quently save great deal Of yexation,
delay and loss when the crop season re-
turns. Corn is generally sound and we'll
matured this season, and it will not be
hard TO make good selections of ears for
seed.
Year: 1877

a correspondent writing on the subject
of celery for winter use said that after
the plants are well rooted he draws the
earth up around them little, to give
an upright growth. When the nights
become cool and the fall rains set in Re
ties each bunch up with bark or other
material, ready to be stored away for
bleaching This should be done just be-
fore the cold weather begins, and in the
following manner Dig trench about
two feet wide and as deep as the celery
is high. Take up the plants carefully
and pack them in the trench without
breaking the stalks; cover the trench
with five or six inches of dry straw and
add twelve or more iuches of earth. The
celery can be taken from the trenches as
needed during the winter, for it will be
bleached in a few weeks.


Another correspondent wrote that he
makes his trench so deep that, with all
the earth thrown out, the extreme tops
of the plants only ap ear above the sur
face. Digging the plants up one by one,
lie places them with what earth adheres
to them as thick as they can stand, and
fills about each plant with earth nearly
to their tops, being careful that none of
the soil enters and covers the crown of
the plant within. Next to the plants on
either side barricade is made, to keep
the water from entering and freezing in
cold weather, of brush covered with any
litter that will keep water out. When
celery is wanted. break into the trench
and take cut enough to last several days,
and cover again securely.


A member added IN conclusion that
some farmers find autumn leaves covered
over the entire bed about two feet deep,
with corn stalks laid over them to keen
them secure, a sufficient protection.
Others, again, use sawdust for late crops
to be kept during the winter, banking up
in the usual manner and adding the
sawdust. A general saying in some To-
calities is, that the blacker the earth in
which. celery is grown the whittier it will
bleach
Year: 1877

over them, In other cases better bridges
should be built In nearly every neigh
bOrhood stone can be had for this pur-
pose, and winter is the time TO do it.


If g farmer has a few fresh cows, or
if he has 4 few htndred dollars To in
7est n such stock, they will nearly pay
for themselves, if carefully fed and
housed, in one winter, and be worth
more in the spring than now. Here is
wide and profitable field which can
he7er be overdone, and which will
| always be remuDerative. Any man who
has money, credit or enterprise, and who
will studiously attend to such business,
need not be bowling about hard times or
let his notes go to protest.


Mills for manufacturing hominy, pearl
barley, oroat meal, are cheap, and require
but little machinery, and yet the pro-
| ducts of such mills are always in demand
at one hundred and two hundred per
| cent. above the rsw material. If one
| farmer does not wish to invest enouga to
start one of those mills, let a few neigh
boTs combine and thus work lip their
| prcduse and give winter employment to
/ hands and horses. Neither corn nor corn
meal, without being kiln-dried, can be
shipped to many OF the southern climates
or the islands of the sea, and there is n
large demand for kiln dried cornmeal.
The machinery is cheap and any one can
do the work, which would make winter
employment and create a market for our
great staple.


The average of our own crops is not
forty bushels PER acre. 1t might be raised
to eighty. The manure in ali our cities
and towns is wasted and can be had in
most cases by hauling away. And vet
on nearly every day in the winter our
teams return empty from town. If q
man can live at forty bushels per acre,
he can get rich at eighty bushels, and
this can be attained if the idle hours OF
winter are improved.


There are thousands Of pieces Of public
road which can never be made per
manently good without gravel or stone


The mucky soil will always become soft
in wet weather. See your supervisor and
get permission TO haulOut gravel or stone
tor this purpose. If you cannot make
three dellArs per day. try two dollars
rather than be taken from your farm ir
the business season OF the year to WORK
on roads.


Agd thus we could lengthen out this
article to columns senumeratinC the object.
to which the farmer can direct his atten
ton, make money and keep himself from
the consequences of idle habits. Gu
3 country will never prosper as it shoulC
until enterprise gives employment in ri
seasOns.-I0lrG STATE RegiStT.
Year: 1877

In an interesting paper on jute culture
in the report from the department of
agriculture for 1s76sit is stated that the
quantity of cereals and vegetables re-
quiring to be sacked before they can be
sent to market in the United States is
largely more than 1,5O0, 900, 900 bushels.
If it were necessary to renew these bags
every year, it would cost for grain pulse,
grass seeds and potato sacks over one
hundred million dollars. Add to this
the glInny cloth or other strong material
Year: 1877

is awful but pretty black hall and whiskers is not
Use DIR TUrrs Hair Dye, and in fifteen minute
you viii have them natural as in youth. II your
Drugsi.t does not have it he viii order It Tor you
Year: 1877

AVON as far as possible those weak
nesses which diminish respect of char
acter. Most of men have some great
follies about them. The greatest are
not exceptions. Tycho Brahe lost his
color and trembled at the sight OF
Fox or hare. DR.. Johnson would new
er enter a room with his left foot fore
most. Julius Caesar fled to the cellar
at the sound of thunder. Peter the
Great could not be persuaded to cross
a bridge. Marshal SAKE screamed at
the sight of cat. Byron would new
er help any one to salt. He would
leave the table if any salt was split
during the meal. Early in life is the
time to find out and put away foolish
practices.
Year: 1877

To PREVENT CATCHING CoLD.-The
mistake is often made, of taking great
care to put on extra wraps and coats
when preparing for outdoor exercise.
This is not at all necessary in robust
persons. Sufficient heat to prevent
all risk of chill is generated in the
body by exercise. The care should be
taken to retain sufficient clothing af-
ter exercise, and when at rest, to pre-
vent the heat passing out of the body.
Indeed, persons very often catch chills
from throwing off extra clothing after
exercise, or from sitting about in gar
ments, the material of which is not
adapted to prevent the radiation OF
heat from the body. Linen and cot
ton under-clothing, when moistened by
perspiration, parts with heat very rap
idly, whereas flannel and silk, being
nonconductors, prevent the rapid loss
of heat Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1877

The history of jurisprudence does
not afford more amusing story than
that of an incident which occurred
two or three weeks ago in an English
Court, when man had been convict
ed of an attempt to steal was brought
up and sentenced to five years penal
servitude. "What! five years for an
attempt?" he exclaimed. at ought en-
ly to be two years." He went to his
cell, but bis comment on the sentence
was correct, and in few minutes he
was recalled to the dock and an
amended sentence was passed upon
him. 81 told you so" be remarked
triumphantly as be went back to his
cell elated at having saved three
years
Year: 1877

natives from utilizing the wire in re-
gions where iron is scarce and yalua-
BILE, but this might be got over. The
undertaking, if it could be established
and kept in working order, would be
exceedingly lucrative, and would in
many ways aid in opening up Africa
to commerce and civilization.
Year: 1877

Very many farmers fail to appreci-
ate the value as well as the pleasure
OF good dog around their premises.


If shepherd dogs were better known
there would be fewer useless ours,


whose sole aim seems to be to prowl
around on their own account and take
whatever lays in their way, not ex-
cepting sheep, Of which many suffer.


In many places heavy taxes are laid
on all dogs, the sum raised hS this
means going to pay the sheep raisers
for the loss they sustain by the depre-
dations Of the hundred worthless ours
which roam around without having any
acknowledged nome. inns We tlluil
is unfair to those who have good dogs,
which stay at home and attend to their
masters business, for they have to
help make good the loss occasioned by
the misdceds Of the evil disposed ones.
We think that if cold lead was the
penalty imposed on all sheep stealing
dogs, the country would soon be- rid
OF much useless dog-stock, and this
would foster the breeding and dissem-
nation Of valuable dogs t,... j


To show that shepherd dogs are
soon appreciated, it is merely necessa-
ry to state that when they are once
introduced into q neighborhood, the
neighboring farmers r soon find out
where they can be had, and get some
for their own use. And this liking fol
this breed Of dogs is sreadily accounted
for, for they are not only attractive in
appearance as well as most excellent
watch dogs, but are so. readily taught
when properly and kindly handled, tc
do SO many useful things about the
farm that their owners soon appreciate
their usefulness, and are 10th to part
with them after having had them once
Ohio Farmer. 7f.g tft.ai
Year: 1877

A lady correspondent of a Southern
paper, writing from Arkansas, gives
the following recipe to increase the
flow of milk in a COW. She saws ::


"Tepid'water, slightly salted, given
twice a day, will increase the flow of
milk one-thirdi if the COW will not
drink it at first trial scatter handful
of meal over the top oft. TheyIsoon
become very fond Of it, and will drink
all you give them. tried the plen
three years ago with perfect success.
! had only one COW, ard she was of
the common Scrub stock Of the coun-
Try. cad after she began to drink the


%ater, prepared as above, she furnish
ed me twice a day two ordinary buck
cts full ofmiIk, and by feeding little
corn boiled with Gotten seed the milk
yielded butter enough to supply my
table bountifully and leave me a few
pounds to sell every week. | gave
her ten gallons Of water twice day"


This is a novel method of watering
milk. The only difference between
this method and the one ordinarily
practised is that the water is put into
the milk through the COW rather than
by more direct route. Coaxing a
COW to drink large quantity of warm
water, by putting Il bait of salt OF
meal into it, may increase the quantity
of milk, but it can only do this at the
expense Of the quality. This latter
point, however, would be of no conse-
quence provided one is in the milk bus
mess and does not make butter and
cheese. The fair writer doubtless had
her eye on milkmen in preparing this
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