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Year: 1874

How much has been written about sup
plying plenty OF bedding ana absorbents
for the stable. Yet Il correspondent OF
the Practical Farmer thinks he has made
an Improvement in his stable manage
ment, by dispensing entirely with bedding
for all his animals. After a long course OF
observation, he has arrived at the conclu-
sion that the use Of absorbents in stables,
as bedding. was filthy, barbarous and
meconomical practice. lie says:


II set about with diligence and deter
lnination to so construct the floors Of the
stables that the liquid cxcrement would be
removed from the stable by drainage, as
etfectually and as rapidly as possible. In
this. am happy to say, | succeeded, SO
that | ain now able to keep both horses
and cattle in the stables without the use OF
bedding or absorbents Of any kind and
tle animals are more cleanly, more
healthy, and more comfortable than they
could be with any amount of any kind of
absorbent bedding. a Clean dry, plank
floor, without any bedding, is infinitely
more comfortable than bed of straw OF
any other material saturated with urine
The purity Of the air of stable in which
no absorbents or Of bedding are used, is a
delightful contrast with that of one under
the old system.
Year: 1874

4 writer in the New York Tribune saws
Il satisfactory winter feed for sheep, in the
absence Of clover hay, is peas and oats
soWn together, and cut when the grain is
in the milk, or when ripe, if SO desired,
and cured az hay. Two and a half bush
els of oats and one and half Of peas
sown upon ploughed and narrowed soil,
and covered with light tnrrow, or with
the cultivator, would yield on fairly good
ground, a heavy return Of fodder. Some
ruta bagas may also be fed along with the
crop before mentioned
Year: 1874

A TRII NIr1I or MEDICAL >uKGEI;i. The
theory that anputation may be performed
without loss Of blood to the patient, which
has attracted the attention Of surgical
men for some time past, was successfully
demonstrated by an operation at Bellevue
hospital, New Y lork, Wednesday, where a
large number of physicians and students
gathered to witness the proceedings The
subject was 4 little boy who had been run
over by horse ear and his right leg below
the knee badly crushed. The little fellow
was rendered insensible by ether The
crushed limb was uncovered, and q roll OF
crimson elastic betting was slowly wound
from the knee upward to nearly the top OF
the leg, and a piece Of white rubber pipe
was bound tightly around it at the upper
extremity Not muscle stirred as the
knife and saw did their work, without loss
Of blood. The little patient came to him
self Just as the last artery was tied, but did
not appear to suffer acute pain, and in a
few hours after the amputation he was
quietly sleeping in a hospital cot.
Year: 1874

Says the Canada Farmer. grcasing
hu@@les and wagons is Of more importance
than some imagine:


MANY a wheel is ruined by oilng too
plentitullv. \ well made wheel Will en-
durc constant wear from ten TO twenty
Years, if care is taken to use the right kind
and proper amount Of Oil but if this mat
ter is not attended TO, the wheel will be
used up in five or six years, or it may be
sooner Lard should never be used on Il
wagon, Tor it will penetrate the hub, and
work its way around the tcndons Of the
spokes and spoil the wheel. Castor oil is
a good material for use on an iron aNel;
Just oil enough should be applied TO u
spindle to give it Il light coating; this is
better than more, for the surplus put on
will work ont at the ends, and be forced
by the shoulders and nut, into the hub
around the outside of the boxes. To oil
the aNleree, first wipe the spindles clean
with Il cloth wet with turpentine, if it
won't wipe without it. On a buggy or
carriage, wipe and clean off the back and
front ends of the hubs, and then apply a
very small quantity of castor oil, OF more
especially prepared lubricator near the
shoulders point.
Year: 1874




PHOFIT OF COOP CROPS Mr. Harris in
his walks and talks i'll the American
Agriculturists thus discourses =


Now, like to say to a young farmer
advance prices We shall have to take
what We can get. Fortunately, there are
a good many men willing to make Il living
by buying and selling. There is compe-
tition enough, as a rule, to secure u.s. tax
inc one wear with another, all that our
articles are worth. Our business is to raise
the best article at the least cost. Take
such simple crop as potatoes. heard 4
farmer say the other day, that no money
could be made by raising potatoes at 30
cents a bushel 1t never seemed to occur
to him that if he raised two hundred
bushels per acre instead of one hundred
bushels, he could make more profit from
one acre than from five. One OF our Roch-
ester nurservmeu raised a crop of white
wheat this year that yielded forty bushels
per acre, while the average Of the county
would not be over ten bushels per acre. of
red and white wheat together. 'lhe mllers
would pay from - 10 20 cents per bushel
more tor this choice white wheat than for
ordinary red wheat, and this in itself is q
good profit The ordinary crop of red
wheat. OF ten bushels per acre would be
worth SIG; While the forty bushel crop of
white wheat would sell for 50. Ii The
crop of red wheat affords any profit, how
much would the crop Of white wheat
afford Figure the interest and taxes on
the land, the cost ofploughing, narrowing,
drilling, seed reaping, haryostin" and
threShur
Year: 1874

The following Is from the Clarksville
tobacco Leaf Of Jane "a:


Never was the tobacco crop go COM
plete a failure as this year. Tobacco Is
now higher In our market than at the
seaboard, and still advancing. BUYERS
are taking all that IS offered, and rolling
II away. The warehouses arc crowded,
and the streets in front OF the warehouses
are blocked. The banks are having all
they can carry Just now. One buyer re-
marked TO US that II he had all Of his
purchases Of the season together Just now
they would net twenty-five thousand dol.
lars on this market, but unfortunately for
him the bulk Of 1t has been disposed Of.


Great profits will necessarily accrue in
the New York trade, on that which has
already been sold, and our farmers will
SEQ from this item the importance OF con-
cenralion and co operation when produce
Is low. The New York trade Is deceived
by reports Of good rains in this section.
The showers have been very light here,
barely enough rain at any time 10 lay the
dust, and the present estimate OF the next
crop is, that there will not be one thou.
sand hogsheads Of tobacco sold on this
market next year. n, ;
Year: 1874

1t is in the logging camps, that stran-
ger will be most interested on this coast;
for there he Will see and feel the big
ness of the redwoods. A man in Hum
boldt county got out Of one tree, lumber
enough to make his house and barn,
and to fence in two acres of ground.


A schooner was filed with shingles
I made from q single tree. One tree in
Mendocino, whose remains were shown
to me, made a mile of railroad ties.
Trees fourteen feet in diameter have
been frequently found and cut down;
the saw-logs are often split apart with
wedges, because the entire mass is too
large to float in the narrow and shallow
streams, and l have even seen them
blow log apart with gunpowder. A
tree four feet in diameter is called un-
dersized in these woods; and so skilful
are the wood-choppers that they can
make the largest giant of the forest fall
Just where they want it, or, as they say,
"drive a stake with the tree" The
choppers do not stand on the ground,
but on stages raised to such a height
as to enable the axe to strike in where
the tree attains its fair and regular
thickness; for the redwood, like the
sequoia, swells at the base, near the
ground. These trees prefer steep hill
sides, and grow in an extremely rough
and broken country, and their great
height makes it necessary to fell them
carefully, lest they should, falling with
such an enormous weight. break to
pieces, This constantly happens in
spite of every precaution, and there is
little doubt that in these forests and at
the mills, two feet of wood are wasted
for every foot of lumber sent to market.


To mark the direction line on which the
tree is to fall, the chopper usually
drives a stake into the ground 100 or $50
feet from the base of the tree, and it is
actually common to make the tree fall
upon this stake, so straight do these
redwoods stand, and SO accurate is the
skill of the cutters. To fell tree
eight feet in diameter is counted days
work for a man-Hdrper's Magazine.
Year: 1874

Proverbs in general are more read
than followed. We hear often of the
expression "the more the merrier."
Now go and ask couple of doting
lovers, if they believe in that sort of
thing. They would undoubtedly think
that two was company, and three was
a crowd. One thing is certain it is
hard, very hard to crowd that idea into
the heads of some that is or that was to
be mother-in-laws. When I sparked
Mariah McGoozleum, her dear mamma
always helped to make up the crowd.
But for that might have had the gall,
if she would have had me. can't for
the life of me, see why some mammas
so far forget themselves, as to forget
that they were once girls, and once con-
sidered three was a crowd. The old
saying is that can honest mans word is
as good as his bond" but that's ''too
thin" Shakespeare AGAIN. nowadays s
It might have been so at the time Of
the food, when the world had q good
washing, but il won't wash now.
Year: 1874

The second position is obtained from
the first by inverting the two middle
vertical columns, and the third from
the second by inverting the two middle
horizontal columns. 1t will be observed
that, in the third position, each vertical
column, each horizontal column, and
each diagonal column sums up 81.


In square OF eight figures to side,
invert the four middle vertical columns,
and then the four middle horizontal
columns.


In general, invert the middle half of
the vertical and horizontal columns.


After discovering this rule, 1 applied
it to square of twelve figures to side,
and SO simple is the process that l wrote
down not the first position or the
second, but the third, at the very first
dash, and without mistake. 1 subjoin
one with eight figures to side, so that
the application of this principle may be
seen
Year: 1874

A correspondent describes the annual
celebration Of the national games OF
Scotland at Oban, q favorite watering
place near Glasgow. These games con-
sist OF manly sports, throwing the ham
mer, wrestling, running. walking, box
ing, throwing and lifting heavy weights,
and are presided over by the lords of
the estates, and by them the prizes are
awarded. The gentry of the neiQhbor-
ing counties attend. and in the evening
Q hall and display Of fireworks close
the event. The people belonging to the
Marquis of Lorne's estate were the prin-
cipal competitors on this occasion, and
the Marquis awarded the prizes. They
were all dressed in the national costume,
the different clans wearing three dis
tinct plaids. This Highland dress is
the Same that was worn in the days OF
Wallace and Bruce, and consists OF a
black silk velvet jacket, trimmed with
gold or silver buttons; q plaid skirt
reaching nearly to the knees; a plain
sash Of the same as the skirt, with
stockings reaching below the knees,
thus leaving them bare; a dirk with a
jeweled head is stuck in the stocking,
the head just appearing above the top
OF it. The Marquis of Lorne appeared
in the plaid of the house of Argyl-a
bright scarlet and yellow. The Marquis
is an insignificant looking fellow in
comparison with the stalwart, brawny
chieftains with whom he moved about.
He is very small, with smooth, beard
less face, very light hair, and very blue
eyes. He is difident and shy in man
ner, and when cheered or toasted he
blushed like q girl. He moved among
the people with an air of kindness, and
seemed to much respected and beloved
by them. The hotel WAS full Of people
from the surrounding country, who had
come for the games and the ball. The
yachts were gaily decked out in colored
bunting; the bag-pipers filed the air
With strange. wild music; and . blaze
Of hre in the early evening kept the
scene lively until the hour for the ball,
which was held in . canvas pavilion Just
On he border Of the bay.
Year: 1874

AIR AND LIaHT.-Did you ever think
of the difference between air and light,
in the way they come to us? You can
not catch the sunbeam in your fingers ;
you cannot shut it up you cannot even
feel it. 1t seems as thin, as intangible
as the air itself. Yet the air penetrates
everything; it creeps through; it glides
under it goes behind. There is no
escaping it while the sunbeam is
turned aside by every obstacle. What
if light moved as air does, instead of
only in straight lines? Do You see
what would happen? There ,0ould be
no shado,g;; no escape anywhere from
the piercing brightness. The thick
green leaves would not turn it aside ;
there would be no GOODNESS Of the
woods no shadow of a great rock in
a thirsty land /; no use at all for hat
brims or sun-umbrellas. Some One
seems to have planned very. wisely and
kindly, in this one little law of light, to
keep US all comfortable and happy.
Then the sunbeam itself, though it
looks like simple gleam of brightness,
is really a bundle of different colors
tied up together, and each color has a
different office to perform. The artist
can separate the ray into its original
colors, and letting them fall upon his
prepared plate, will show you that it is
only one or two OF the darkest rays that
have anything to do with printing his
wonderful sun-pictures.
Year: 1874

YoUNd FISH, -HAwKs.-The Young fish
hawks are the funniest things you ever
saw, awkward, misshapen, and yet with
such a wise, dignifed expression L
watched for several hours a couple
learning to fly. They sat balanced un-
easily on the edge of the nest, solemn
and grave as judges, and looked as if
they had come out of the shell knowing
everything. The old birds were coaxing
and going through various exercises
which suppose were the first princi-
Piles of flying, and the young ones tilted
about and rolled over and finally got
fastened in the sharp branches OF the
tree. The mother and father fused and
scolded, ''Bill ee, Bill-ee, Stupidity.
The young are very slow In learning to
fly, and l have heard that they often
linger in the nest long after they are
well able to help themselves, to be fed
and waited upon, till driven away by
the parents, who beat them out with
their wings, and peck them with their
sharp beaks. / don't like to think this,
but it may be so, for one day We found
young bird dropping on the fence.
He allowed us to come very close to
him, and we discovered that his wing
was broken. 1t was not shot, SO he
must have fallen in his effort to fly. No
birds were near him-he had evidently
been deserted. He looked forlorn and
pitiful, so we took him home and put
him in the wagon-house. The children
were very attentive to him; they cut up
fish for him-pounds of it-and tried to
amuse him as if he were a lamed child.
But it was of no use-he dropped still
more. and then died, and was buried
with martial noise and pomp. He
would not have been a successful pet,
for these birds have lonely, isolated
nature. They seem to have bred In
them the wild, untamable spirit Of the
wind and wave, and if deprived Of their
free, soaring flight, and their sportings
in air and water, they will languish
and die.-H. Nicholas.
Year: 1874

I found square of six numbers to q
side rather harder, and one of five to q
side quite troublesome. The reason
was that the above method is not appli-
cable. By approximating it. however,
as nearly as practicable, and then using
tentative means toward the close, i
succeeded in both cases.


These tables are not useful in the
ordinary sense of that term they do
not teach us how to measure corn cribs
or survey farms but they may interest
pupils in arithmetic. and may cultivate
the necessary but irksome art of adding
up columns of figures Let the teacher
take an ordinary checker-board some
winter evening. cut out of card or
leather sixty-four men, namely, round
pieces of the size of nickel number
them from to Ga, and set the boys and
girls to work to construct a magic
square. My word for it they will go at
it with an interest such as the rule of
three has failed to oawaken.-NoDlc and
School.
Year: 1874

Marriage, which most girls consider
the sole aim Of their existence and the
end OF all their auxieties, is often the
beginning Of set Of troubles which
none among them expect, and which,
when they come, very few accept with
the dignity Of patience or the reasona-
bleness Of common sense. Hitherto the
man has been the suitor, the wooer; it
has been his meter to make love, to utter
extravagant professions, to talk poetry
and romance of an emineutly unweara-
BILE kind, and to swear that feelings
which, by the very nature of things, it
is impossible to maintain at their present
state of fever heat, will be as lasting as
life itself, and never know subsidence or
diminution. And girls believe all that
their lovers tell them. They believe in
the absorption of the mans whole life in
love, which at the most cannot be more
than part of his life; they believe that
tuiuSo VIII ~ oA AoicNCi 40 bucJ nave
begun, and that the fire and fervor Of
passion will never cool down to the more
manageable warmth af friendship. And
in this belief of tn irs lies the rock on
which not few make such pitiful ship
wreck of their married happiness. They
expect their husbands to remain always
lovers. Not lovers only in the best sense
which of course all happy husbands
are to the end of time,-bu lovers as in
the old fond, foolish courting days. They
expect continuance ofAshe romance,
the poetry. the exaggeration, the petits,
soi'as, the microscopic attentions, the abb
sorption of thought and interest, the
Capitalization of his happiness in her
society, just as in the days when she was
still to be won, or, little later, when,
beng won, she was new in the wearing.
And as we said before, wife's first trial,
her greatest, is when her husband begins
to leave off this kind of fervid love-
making, and settles down into the tran
quill friend instead.
Year: 1874

Cunning and craft are not Christian
virtues. One may insinuate himself in
to his fathers blessing one may take ad
vantage of brothers hunger and pur-
chase birthright with pottage; and yet
not with any remarkable resemblance to
Jesus. These are not Jacobs best points.
Indeed, best points are what you will not
find just now by any analysis Of his
character. Battles are not fought in
palaces. When you want to know who
is king, it is after the fight is ended that
you must go to the throne-room. When
Saul was after David it looked very much
as if David had the worst of it but in
proper time David wore the crown, and
Saul's sons were hanged.


In most cases we have to wait awhile
before we.can decide as to the results in
these spiritual campaigns. Now as to
this man Jacob, you are about thirty
years too early to judge him fairly. He
is too shrewd for convert. He is more
afraid of Esau than he was of God. He
likes Rsbecca's plots better than Isaac's
prayers. He does not make good show
at all just at present But still there is
that in him which will bear fruit by-and-
by.


For you see Gods Spirit has hold
upon him. In twenty years after this
you will find him at the brook Jabbok,
torn with au awful experience that lanes
him and lifts him. He is only plain Ja-
cob.-" supplanter now; then he
will wrestle with the Angel of the Cove
nant, and be renamed" princely pre-
waller with God" And ten years after
that, he will be back here at Bethel once
more. You will find him building an
altar out of his pillows" He will lay
Deborah close by in an honored grave
under one of these rare oaks, and will
shed honest tears over the death of
good woman for the spot will be named
Allonhuchuth, "the oak of weeping"
He will be better man then. You will
think great deal more of him. Per-
haps you will give him heart-felt-sympa-
thy, for he will bury Rachel a little fur
Their down towards his old home. Those
thirty years will have wroughta wonder
full change in him. His experience is
not very clear now then he will become
gentle, humble, good man. Gods
spirit will have conquered.-C. S. Robin
Year: 1874

a mission far greater to perform in the
unknown world. Her death so tranquil
and beautiful, teaches us that the faith
which sustained her through life, was
with her even unto the end; that it
robbed death of all lis terrors, and gave
her strength and support to pass SO hap
PLY over the "silent river" to leave
her companion and children, all so d ar
to her and to whom she seemed SO neces-
sary. And though she took so much of
the sunshine, which always seemed to at
tend her, we can but feel that our great
loss is her great gain. LAX.
Year: 1874

Any substance that will take fire and
burn is combustible, and combustion is
burning or the act of burning. Flame
must be applied to produce ordinary
combustion, while spontaneous combus-
ton is produced without the application
of flame, the word spontaneous signifying
voluntary-acting by its own impulse.
Damp goods lying piled up will some
times catch fire, caused by fermentation
from heat and damp. Carbonic acid gas
is formed, and is attended with combus-
ton. Greasy rags. especially those con-
tanning oil and lampblack very readily
erment and throw off infiammable gas
es. Lampbiack mixed with linseed oil
is also very liable to spontaneous COM
bustion.


The palette or putty knife when oily
should not be thrust into dry lamp oil,
as the oil may cause combustion. The
carriage painter will see from the fore
going that no small amount of response
bility rests upon him if he be acquainted
with the above facts, and still allows
greasy rags to accumulate in the paint
room and lie for any length of time
slowed away in a corner.
Year: 1874

A dry wag was recently discovered in
the lower branch of the Massachusetts,
legislature. During the discussion of a
bill imposing restrictions on the catching
of trout, an amendment was offered pro-
hibiting the catching of trout less than
three inches in length whereupon Mr..
Butterworth of Brookfield set the house
IN roar by gravely moving that in case
a trout less than three inches in length
bites, il have leave to withdraw.