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Year: 1874

ArFRAY.-A few of the young bloods on
Washington street got up an affray yesterday
afternoon. They had smart fight Tor Few
minutes, when the beaming face officer Fields
looked in on the scene and they broke and run,
but not SO fast as to prevent the officers arrest
in5 two of the ringleaders
Year: 1874

A CoRRECTIoN.-By some unaccountable ac-
cident Mr.. Albert Berry, one of the leading
citizens of Rocklaad was accused in this pa
per few days since of the crime of larceny.
To person less known than Mr.. Berry an in
jury might have resulted from such a mistake,
but it must have been apparent to all of Mr..
Berry's fellow citizens, and acquaintance
throughout the state, that such charge against
him could only have been the result Of blum
der. While we regret that such an error should
have occurred, it affords some consolation to
know that it was made in relation to a gentle-
man whose integrity is SO we'll known that it
could by no possibility do him any injury. 1t
may be added that James Plummer was the
man whose crime we accidently charged to Mr..
Berry.
Year: 1874




Seaside Lodge No. %, L. o. of G. T., will
bold their tenth anniversary at Seaside Hall
this evening. Admission free. The order of
exercises will consist of vocal music and instru-
mental music by the Seaside Glee Club and
Union Brass Band, interspersed with reading
and declamations by members of the lodge, and
speaking by distinguished gentlemen. G. A
Tilton, esq.,, will give an historical synopsis of
the lodge for the last decade. Supper will be
served 10 the upper hall at reasonable hour to
all who desire something more substantial
than confectionery.


The ladies of Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Association held levee at Union Hall on
Thursday evening last. The proceeds were
given to the organization 10 help defray the
expense of laying out the new grounds A.
Year: 1874

AUTUMN TINTs ON THE MoUNTAINs.-Last
week was the lovelest of the year among the
mountains and the facilities afforded by the
Notch were improved by many of our citizens
to their great delight and edification. The
hues are not quite so vivid as in some former
seasons, the yellowing prevailing little more
largely than usual in proportion to the Grim
son and scarlet; but the forests are bright and
glowing enough to defy criticism, especially
when the rays of the sun are reflected in vary
ing waves from the myriad polished surfaces
of leaves along the mountain sides and through
the villages. Several parties from the city
went up on Saturday to pass the Sunday in the
mountains; and surely nowhere on earth could
be found more imposing or more highly dec
arated and ornate temple in which to worship
God 1t is to be regretted that they failed of
good weather yesterday. The rain has probably
must be beautiful through this week. No one
should neglect except from direst necessity,
the opportunity which is at our very door, One
may leave here at .15 a. M, ride through the
wonderful scenery this side the Notch, stop
thirty minutes at Bemis' Station and reach
Portland again at 2.45 p. M. which is a good
thing to do unless one can do the better thing
of making two days trip. If the journey be
made only as far as Bemis', lunch should by
all means be taken along, as other tastes be-
side the aesthetic demand qualification, which
the resources of the place are very inadequate
to supply.
Year: 1874

Horses ought now TO be in good working
condition, but gratitude towards these noble
creatures should not induce the farmer to
stall feed them. The butcher wants thick
mea. and plenty Of fat in cattle and sheep,
but the plOwman wants strong muscle, spirit
and endurance in his team.


The feed and care Of stock should be con-
sstent with the ultimate purpose they are to
serve. Fat horses, that have been wIntered
mostly IN the stable, without much exercise,
are not fit for hard work at the opening Of
spring, aud prolific source of disease is the
hard work they are made to do when they
are not in proper condition, Roots, espe-
cially swedes, are very beneficial to the
farmers horses. In the absence Of roots,
bran wet with plenty of warm water may be
a partial substitute. Their stalls should be
cleaned we'll every day, aud we'll bedded
with litter or straw at night, They should
be supplied with salt, lump of which
should always be in the managers. Good
grooming at least twice every day is very
beneficial to tho work horse. The curry
comb should not be allowed to rust for want
of use at this season of the year, but should
be we'll handled over the horse before aud
after his daily work. After the horse i'
we'll currisd give good rubbing with a
Year: 1874

The novel plan Of breeding maggots to
feed TO poultry has been in successful opera
tian in Bohemia for two or three seasons. 1t
is said that young turkeys prefer this food to
any other. Directions: Dig nine pits four
feet deep, smaller if desired line bottom
aud sides with brick, 80 that the maggots
cannot crawl out nor the pit cave in. For
nine successive days fill one of these pits in
the following manner: First, cover the bot
tom three inches thick with cut straw; SEQ
ond, one course of horse, pigeon or chicken
manure two inches; third, one inch of q
mash made from yeast potatoes, aud Indian
meal fourth and last, one course Of loose,
damp soil one and a half inches thick.
Cover the whole with light roof to keep
the sun and rain of, but open to admit the
common muck fly, one of which is capable
of producing, according to natural history,
Eve hundred millions Of eggs in one summer.
The fly will deposit its eggs in the pitt which,
after the expiration of nine days, will be
filled with maggots. The contents Of one
pit will keep three Thousand chickens for
one day, giving three meals per day. To
winter pheasants or chickens on the same
food, make more pits, let the maggOts trans
form into Larvae, and fill the same into bar
rels.-Poulfry World
Year: 1874

This complaint or disease as it is some
times called which has become contagious
in localities, is far from being mysterious or
uneKpainable, but is traceahle from cause
TO effect. 1t is not an epidemic but one
which is liable TO break out in dairy, and
taken on by one or more and sometimes all
Of such dairy as may be near enough 10 have
it telegrAphed to them through their then
peculiarly sensitive organization for ani-
mails are sensitive in advanced stages of gss-
tation, and through their senses Of hearing
seeing, and particularly that of smelling
the complaint is received as by fright, aud
terror stricken, the cOntagion is spread, but
not beyond hearing, seeing or smelling dis
tance.


1t may be caused as in the case Of dairy
not far from this where eighty per cent Of
COWS aborted but did not appear in any
other case near, aud by removing what
believe to have been the cause it failed to
appear the next year.


The cause was in the stable floor, together
with stanchion confinement. The floor or
drop on which the COWS stood was too steep
or santing, having fall of four inches in
the length OF COW, which, together with the
aSor being toe smooth surface, caused the
COWS to slip or fall upon their knees and
sometimes they mere in danger Of being cast
in reaching for their food. This slant of the
floor caused the hind part of the COW to be
the lowest, aud the weight of her burden 70
tall behind its center or natural position,
Year: 1874

Instances of sheep eating their own wool
are quite common, especially during the lat
ter part Of the winter and early in the
spring Some have thought the habit result
ed from the presence of small parasites, as
minute as the red spider of some Towering
plants which produced an irritation, and to
allay this the sheep acquired the habit of
biting its own skin and thereby eating its
own wool. 1t is generally believed that the
habit is analogous to that Of hens eating
their egg shells, and the abnormal appetite
of cows for old bones, wooden rags, &c, and
is caused by an exhaustion Of the phosphate
in the soil. Old pastures and fields that
have long been cropped are deficient in these
elements, hence the absence of them in feed
and consequent want of them by animals.
AS a preventive, mix a small quantity Of
bone meal, and give them an occasional feed.
Sulphur also has been found TO be prevent
i've Of the habit, and many farmers keep
their stock constantly supplied with it. 1t
no doubt assists in giving healthy tone to
the system.-Maine Farmer.
Year: 1874

A little over two months have been a
reader Of your valuable paper, which was
first brought to my attention by a copy
which l received from my friend, O. g.
Pringle, of your state and have thought,
Can not the friends of agricultural journals
by sending out occasionally copy do a
great deal of good, not only by enlarging
the list of subscribers, but in sending val
liable amount Of information to thousands
who would not receive il otherwise7


Our winter has been quite an open one,
with but little snow and scarce any sleigh.
ing of note. Our spring is very backward
We have bad as yet but little warn weather.
consequently no grass for stock. Hay
scarce at $500 per ton. Yesterday, April
20, we had quite hail storm. But little
rain has fallen during the spring which has
left the grouLd in good condition for plow.
ing, which has been improved to a consid-
cradle extent by farmers generally. Some
eats sown by some hasty farmers, but the
majority think "seed time" has not yet
come Winter wheat has not looked as bad
for years as it does this spring, owing to the
open winter we have had aud the vast
amount Of freezing and thAwing


Apr. 81, 1874. BUCKEYE.
Year: 1874

What is the best breed Of poultry for the
general farmer 2" is the question asked by
correspondent in Wayne County, ILL.,, and
taking it for granted he means to refer to
chickens and not to poultry in gen.
eral, we answer, that by general consent
the Light Brahma is conceded to be the best
breed for general purposes. We can make
this statement without fear Of being charged
with favOritism toward the particular breed
mentioned the Brahma being so well
known, and with few exceptions so highly
esteemed by every one that the most ardent
admirers of other valuable breeds cannot con-
strue our words as at all disparaging to their
own iavOrites


1t is, however, very doubtful whether any
pure breed of chickens would prove to the
general farmer more profitable than crosses
of these judiciously made on more common
fowls. Chickens that are really pure bred
are, like pure bred cattle and pigs, too val
liable as imDrovers Of the common stock OF
the country, to admit of their being used to
any great extent for table purposes. 1t has
been said that but few Of the people Of even
this great cattle and hog raising state Of
Illinois have ever tasted thoroughbred Short
horn beef, or genuine Berkshire pork,
Equally true is it of pure bred poultry, that
but little Of it finds It's way to market
Prairie Farmer
Year: 1874

Prof G. j. HeDgeveld of the Royal Ma
tional Veterinary College at Utrecht, whose
attention had been called by the American
Holstein Herd Book TO this question of
name, says, in an article prepared for the
Dutch Agricultural Gazette the thesis
so arbitrarily adopted and set forth by the
Herd Book, that the large black aud white
cattle imported into North America from
North Holland, have undoubtedly descended
from the original stock of HolstsiD, requires
a most decided denial" He very clearly
shows the Holstein races to have sprung
from Dutch cattle carried into Schleswig by
Dutch emigrants. Further, he says "the
name Of Hostein is a local and not a COL
lective name. and may not be given to cattle
bought in North Holland to do so is to
underrate the Dutch cattle race" and
adds this pertinent query "If cattle of the
genuine (Dutch) breed are bought lin Hol-
land), imported elsewhere and there bred,
why must an appellatiOn be given to it quite
foreign and unknown to ~
Year: 1874

Orange Jeiiy-Dissolve one-hali box of
gelatine in cup of cold water for ten min
utes, add two cups of boiling water, enc cup
lemons. Strain through fine sieve and
put into n cold place to harden.


Jelly Roils.-TwO eggs, One-half cup of
sugar, two tablespoOniuls of cream tartar,
one of soda, one cup of -four just cover
the bottom of the bake sheet with the mix
and spread with jelly, and roll while warm.


Sliced Bread PtdCling.-Cut some slices Of
light cold bread, and butter them, then
spread preserves Of any kind over them,
and repeat until you fill your pan or mold.
Beat four eggs, pour over the bread in the
pan one pint of boiling milk, then the eggs
place the mold in boiling water, cover it
with cloth, and let it boil twenty minutes.
Serve with u nice sauce.


Simple Corn Meal Pudiing.-Stir into II
three heaping spoonluls of meal and half
cup of sugar, well beaten together. Cook
five minutes, stirring constantly; remove
from the fire. and add the whites beaten to
a stiff iroth, Pour into pudding dish, and
bake one hour in moderate oven. Serve
with cream and sugar.


TO Prepare Beef for Drying. Two quarts
Of salt enc tablespoonful of salt peter; enc
half pound Of brown sugar; mixed dry
cut the ham into two pieces; rub the mix
turc over them; they make their own brine;
turn ever every day for ten days they are
then ready TO dry
Year: 1874

thereby causing continual and unnatural
strain Of the parts in question, which con-
slant strain we believe to be well calculated
to prematurely bring on this abOrting habit,
and, when one aborts 1t is liable to become
so through the whole dairy and perhaps
neighborhood, by way Of receiving IL
through one or more Of the senses, either by
seeing, hearing, or smelling any remains Of
one that has aborted, like turning COW into
stable, yard or pasture where one has
aborted, providing all signs remaining are
not removed and the smell thereof destroyed
by way Of washing Of the external parts Of
the COW that has aborted and whitewashing
her stall and covering the ground or spot
where remains are found with fresh dirt
or other deodorizing substance.


There are several causes which will pro.
duce abortion yes scores of causes An in-
human kick or blow inflicted on the abdo-
men will cause it fright. falling upon ice,
Sudden change Of feed from dry TO an
excessive green one will 90 relax the system
as to invite il. under slight propagation.
The trouble is taken on more readily by
such ~ are NEST easily shocked or frighten-
" anu hieeANteA y tnSAseaJ ptVVus1111H " WhVlc
dairies through the carelessDess Of AD attend
ant in the first instance. Verify the same
laws which govern and affect the human
family will in like manner apply to the low
er animals. All things are governed BY
cause and effect.


In conclusion, the cause of cows sbortipg
is the result Of some mismanagement some
where. See that your cows stand on floors
that drop but a fraction of an inch, just
enough to cary off the urine. Tie them Sc
curely with cattle ties about the neck or,
what may be better in winter, rope ties,
leather straps, or rope about the horns, aud,
above all, avoid the inhumsn mode Of con-
ining the head between two upright pieces
Of plank called sliding stanchions This in
human mode of confinement should have dis
appeared with the days OF the inquisitiou.


Never strike, kick, or speak sharply to
them whereby their nervous system may be
excited and the trouble invited.-Geo
Baehelder, an Massachusetts PlOughman.
Year: 1874

wisp of straw, and then follow with the
brush. Horses should not be pushed too hard
at the start, but given moderate work the
first two or three weeks when they will get
toughened to the season, and then il they
are in fine condition they can be pushed hard
for few weeks, providing the feed and care
are all right.


New Milch Cows


now need careful attention. They should
be we'll fed aud not allowed to grow poor.
Keep up the condition now If full pals of
milk are wanted in the season Of full flow.
The cattle cards should not be lying around
with the handles of, but should be in order,
and gently drawn over each animal daily.
Do not let the butcher get the best calves
because they will bring few dollars more,
but let him have the inferior ones after they
are we'll fatted.


Breeding Ewes


need good shelter, with good clean bed and
ventilation, and good rations Of nutritious
l6Sedsus there are nov two or more bodies to
support Sheep that are now carrying lambs
need plenty Of good, sweet hay, with few
roots, or ground oats aud bran. Lambs need
looking after this month, as more Of them
come along in April than in March. Nut
ton lambs ought to come earlier, SO as to get

more size and be sooner fit for the butcher.
AS the lambs come along they will need at
tention and care, to see that they get enough
to make them grow fast. A daily feed Of
one-third each of linseed meal shorts, and
ground oats, should be given the ewes that
already have lambs. 1t is better to have
lambs come aleng before the first day of
May, as it is q bad plan to have them
dropped just as the ewes are turned to grass,
or as we say between hay and grass. At
this time sheep lose their appetite, and the
lambs are dropped weak and puny, and are
quite liable to die.


come 10 Tor tnelr snare OF atte1tiOn uurlng
the month TO come. Sows that are soon to
farrow need care and plenty Of feed to
keep them in thriving condition. Breeding
sows ought not to be too fat, but just in
good growing condition. A fat SOW is apt
to be clumsy, and will lie on her pigs aud
kill them. A lean one is not SO apt to do
80, as they are more timber and sprightly
and can handle themselves better. Fat sOws
generally have small pigs, and do not give
so much milk as those in fair condition.
Have the SOW in just good growing condition
and then feed for milk, and if the breed is
all right the pigs will show growth.


Poultry


ought not to be neglected now because the
ground is bare and eggs cheap. Bugs
worms, and grassboppers are not plenty yet
and poultry need as good care and keep as a'
any time during the winter. Why Nor.
Year: 1874

Most people have q propensity to ridicule
others, but no one likes to be ridiculed.
Nothing is more annoying than to feel that
you are being laughed at by some one in the
same room, and still be unable to tell what
ridiculous thing you have said or done.
What relief it is, while suffering this feel
ing to find that some other unfortunate be-
ing is the victim, instead of yourself.


The meanest kind ofridicule is that which at
tacks person unawares. and aggravates them
by smiles, whispers. and sidelong glanoes
in their direction, without giving any chance
for revenge except open war This becomes
habit, with some, from long practice but
others are endowed by nature with this
single accomplishment, and are incapable of
any other. Such people have no right to
appear In society until they receive su Efficient
instruction to enable thom to understand
how disgusting they are to refined people
Whenever l see two or three persons anus
ing themselves in this agreeable way al
ways feel like conducting them from the
room, speedily, and placing them under
proper treatment.


There is "A certain class that no one es-
capOs. Young or old, rich or poor, wise or
foolish, it matters not they are, alike, found
guilty of something that is source of rid
icule. To this class of people belong young
ladies and gentlemen who believe them
selves to be very witty, and so cultivate
their talent, publicly, at the expense of peO-
pie much wiser than themselves. 1t is to
be- regretted that this has become SO CON-
mon, and it is my belief that parents are
much to blame. They should never allow
children to ridicule anybody, much less en-
courage them in it, but some people seem to
think that it is smart" and cunning" for
their children to make fun" of people.


There is great difference between wit
and ridicule. A real fun-loving witty per-
son is never caught making fun of unior.
tunate people, or of any one, in the way l
have mentioned. This vocation is followed
usually by people who have II very exalted
opinion of themselves, and 1t is always graf
flying to notice how humble they become
when the object of their ridIcule "turns the
tables and deprves them of their conceit.
1t is doubtless at such times that they are
led to understand the true meaning of the
Golden Rule" W.
North DuGbury, Aprii 8.
Year: 1874

Select by weight the largest fowls to
breed from if possible, have the gobbler
from two to four years old. The eobbler
and hen should not be relaied to each other.
Have no more than four hens to each COB
bier, and do not starve them during winter.
Watch them closely about laying time, as
they nearly always hunt nest the day be-
fore they deposit their FIRST egg Make =
good large nest in some building that you
can con6ns them in, and the next merning
after they hunt their nest catch them, and
shut them up in the place where you made
the nest, for after they have laid one egg
there they will always gs back to that nest
If they choose good place of their own ac-
cord let them alone though put a few
common hens eggs in the nest and take out
the turkeys eggs every day aud keep them
10 a cool place. as heat Injuries them quicker
than cold, provided it dose not freeze.
let each turkey set the first time she wants
to but let no young turkeys run with a COM
mon hen, for it they do 30 half dozen
times they are more trouble than fifty run
ming with turkey hen.


The advantage of letting turkeys set on
their FIRST laying of eggs is this: the young
turkeys are hatchsd before the weeds and
grass get high enough to wet and befoul
them in the mornings watch them two
or three days that no weak ones are lost /;
then they get no more attention, only feed
ing whom they come to the house. On no
account give them raw food when SMALL
feed mine on corn bread sometimes soak it
in sour milk and sometimes give them curd
Never shut them up unless it rains hard.


have been raising turkeys for several
years aud have never had but one sick one
yet. Most of my chickens died with cholera
last fall, and one Of my turkeys took it very
bad, his flesh had turned dark colored when
| found him. gave him pill Of assafet-
ida the size Of pea aud about a tablespoon
ful Of equal parts of sulphur, cayenne pep
per and rosin (tnought it would either kill or
cure him) and he got we'll. gave the 9TH
ers sulphur twice week for about month,
and none Of them took the cholera.
Rtral World.
Year: 1874

Says poultry raiser writing to the PrGi-
RE Farmer, "Our common iarmyard fowl,
with good care, will lay one hundred and for
ty eggs each year, and give them each time
to rear a brood OF chickens. A Black
Spanish will lay two hundred and twenty
eggs hut does not set at all. A Leghorn
fowl will lay two hundred eggs in year T;
this breed does not set till three years old
Hamburgs Golden Penciledl will lay from
two hundred TO two hundred aud forty eggs
each year, but does not set till three years
old and sometimes not even then. Bramah
fowls will lay one hundred and forty eggs and
bring up two brOods Of chickens each year,
The average cost Of keeping fowls, of all
kinds, with corn at one dollar per bushsl
aud small grain in that proportion, will not
be far from one dollar aud twenty cents
each, per year.