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Year: 1876

Every intelligent, practical farmer knows
that after grass has become ripe and the
weather is warm and dry there is danger Of
drying hay too much ; than it will do some
times to cut it down and get it up before
dinner. But when the grass is green, not yet
in blossom, to talk Of giving it few hours
sun and then pitching it into the bay to
steam NOW. burn, sweat and sour is respect.
able nonsense. A very good way is to partly
dry early cut hay and mix it with old hay
or straw. La this way the dry straw is
benefited by absorbing the juices of the
green hay aud the clover and daisy blossoms
of the new hay will look as fresh as when
put into the NOW. 1t seems that the state
board Of agriculture in their wisdom have
declared in favor of mow.henting or drying
hay, instead Of air and sunshine.


Col Mead is reported as saying at Cauaan,
N. II I'll cut my grass early and cure my
hay as little as possible, fill up my bays in
sections. This year had some very hot
bays was afraid of spontaneous combustion.
None was injured except some that was
pitched over. Now we suppose that it won't
do to question doctrines that come from SO
high source. We should not have been
surprised to have heard them from some Of
the pale.faced, slim-6ngered professors con-
uected with that board, but for practical
farmer to say that heating NOW Of hay re-
ceives no benefit, but injury. from pitch.
ing it over, is a matter Of surprise. We
have been in the habit for years of curing
all kinds Of fodder more or less under cover
Our practice is during the season Of haying
to keep green hay ON the Scaffolds over the
barn floors aud after it gets warmed up 4
little to pitch on tho NOW and replace by
another load.


What farmer has not frequently drawn il
a load Of hay 10 time of a storm or shower
80 green that after letting il heat "a hour
he has only saved it by pitchingit over ant
exposing it to the air. But the doctrine is
let it burn, it will be all right except wha


part is exposed TO the air. OF course th


heat will rise from the load or NOW and th'
top will be more affected than the rest


but to say that moW.burnt hay is not in


jured is too absurd to talk about. Graf


when not thoroughly dried will heat an


spoil, whether in tho kernel or ground an


the same rule holds good through the Who'll
vegetable kingdom. We cOnfess that it is


nice thing aud requires great skill to cur
} hay as it should be, Much hay is dried to
much, but to pat hay into a NOW SO gree
/ that there is danger OF spontaneous cOmbuI
, tion is worse still. Il. w. b.
I'VE desire to remind our cOrreSPOudsI
. that hasty denial Of facts stated BY Al
/, other, is not regarded BY those accustOm'
I to courteous debate as adding to the weigh
/. Of argument. Col Mead is too we'll know
Year: 1876

l have read with good deal Of interest
the discussion 10 the FARMER about the best
kind Of COWS for the dairy, winter manage
ment Of stock, large VS.. small cows, and
feeding meal, and am still al loss to know
how much to store away for future use.
But if there is room in your paper | will
try and say something upon these subjects,
hoping no one will think that | am we'll
enough posted to lay down correct rules, but
perhaps l may advance some idea that will
draw out some discussion that may be bene6-
cial. In the first place we have a great many
breeders of blooded stock who have taken a
good deal Of pains to raise up nice stock, and
think it is good deal as you said about
some breeders, they breed for looks more than
anything else, and always find some one
ready to buy regardless of the real worth,


Now the question is, shall We raise the
ShorthOrns, Ayrshires, DOvons, Jerseys, OF
Natives for the dairy, and this cannot b
answered any better than to say, the kin(
that will give the larges. flow Of milk aud
the greatest percentage Of cream from th'
same food ID the kind for the dairy. hAV,
seen some Native cows that with the SAM
food are equal to any other kind for butter
1t cannot be disputed that We have good an'
poor COWS in all classes. l was talkinI
Year: 1876

have piece Of stubble ground that will
not bear good oats without manure. l in
tend to try 40 experiment in raising pota-
toes on one fourth of an acre Of it next
year. Will you give ne some information
as TO what kind Of manure 10 use 7 Would
you put ashes in the hill, and it 80, in how
large quantities ? Would hen manure be
good, aud il so how would you usa III


Would hog or stable manure do best spread
on and narrowed in, or in the hill 2 IL you
will give me the best information you eau
on the subject through the columns of the
FARMER, l will report the result next fall.


can see no reason why potatoes will not
yield as well now as City or sixty years ago,
if they are kept clear of weeds and as much
plant food Of the right kind as they need
supplied them. Nor DO | believe that it
will cost as much to get 400 bushels of po-
tatoes on one acre as on four acres. as many
farmers do. YouNG FARMER.


["Long manure" is best for potatoes.
1t is best mixed with the soil rather than
in the hill. Manure in the hill is too
stimulating to potatoes and causes decay or
rust Ashes, and on soil where it works we'll,
which can be ascertained by trying it, plas-
ter in the hill "a handful Of ashes aud half
tea spoonful Of plaster) form as good re.
liable and cheap an application as can be
put in the hill II manure is put in the
hill it should be strawy. If the soil is very
poor aud we had few ashes and no coarse,
strawy manure, little hen manure CON-
posted with an equal part Of ashes aud a
little plaster night be used TO give the plants
a start, but nitrogeuous manures, especial y
10 an unfermented state, cannot be recon.
mended for application in the hill to po.
tatoes. Our practice |, to spread strawy
barn-yard manure on sod, plow il in FIVE
inches, and put ashes and plaster in the hill
The only improvement which our expert
ence suggests upon that is to pillow the land
early ia autumn, aud harrow in manure.
Cross plow aud harrow in spring aud apply
plaster and ashes 10 the hill


1t istrue, as"Young Farmer says, that the
yield Of potatoes may be largely increased
by supplying the necessary food. But it
will be found to be a difficult thing to put
the soil In so favorable a condition for the crop
as it was fifty years ago. The element
needed for the potato growth can be sup
piled. But the mechanical condition of the
nssly cleared land is gone. More than thai
the diseases which affect the potato ia
modern times cauuot be prevented by Civ
ing plant food to the soil
Year: 1876

What color ought hay to be when, it
comes out of the NOW in the winterf


Suppose We have two mOws of hay Of the
same size, taken from the same kind Of soil,
from land that produced the same amount
per acre, cut at the same time, Of the same
quality, in short two mows OF hay alike in
all respects AMI conditions, except that one
was dried enough so that it comes out green
and the other put in green enough so that Il
becomes hot all through, and comes out red
Year: 1876

MISUNDERSTANDING lecture of
Rev. Huntly, of the NJ. E. Church
Of Madison, which was given last
Monday evening in the lecture room
of the M. f. Church of this city.
was listened to by a small but ap-
preciative gathering. Few persons
have so many of the qualifications
Of the model platform speaker. Add
to fine physique, a mind well cul-
tured and always ready, a voice at
once powerful and flexible, natural
grace Of motion, such that the ac-
ton suits the word, the word the
action, and you have a combination
of rare qualities. These the earnest
and persistent gentleman has in a
marked degree. He held his hearers
enchained for over an hour with his
graphic descriptions, sallies Of wit,
humorous "hits" upon the various
misunderstanding of our family
and society life. Should he ever
again favor this city with his elo-
quence, Cat time when it does not
rain or some other excuse does not
occur we bespeak for him a larger
audience, though he could have none
which would be more appreciative
than that which greeted him the
other evening.
Year: 1876

WE should dislike to believe that
the people of Dodgeville are 50 fool
ish as to be offended at the bur-
lesqne Narrow Gauge r. H. display
in this city on the 4th, as the little


Chronicle would make appear. The
Common Council Of Mineral Point,
and other things, we're quite rs
pointedIy hit as the Narrow Gauge,
yet no one here took oiiense. a
fear that soD4e people at Dodseyiile
would regard it as a reelection upon
that town, instead Of accepting it in
the spirit of good humor, in which
it was conceived, was entertained
and expressed by some Of our peo-
pie at the time. The idea of taking
it to DodgevilIe was never seriously
Year: 1876

JUDICIAL.--A machine dealer Of
this city, sold to farmer of VALID
wick q secondhand threshing ma
chine for $40; the farmer, without
removing the machine from the
premises of the dealer, sold it to an
iron founder. The founder took
what he supposed to be the machine
he had purchased, to his foundry.
The machine dealer claims the ma
chine taken was not the one sold to
the farmer, but more valuable one !;
and brought suit before Justice
Tramel to recover the difference. A
jury Of five freemen were after some
trouble impanneled, and suit COM
menced. After q sixteen hours ses-
sion the case was given to the jury,
who, after brief retirement, re-
turned the following verdict:


'Wc the jury do agree that Joe Gribblc shall
return the machine to BUY Maloney, and tlat
Billy Maloney shall pay back 10 joe Gribblc his
ten dollars and that the costs of the court shall
be divided between joe and Billy


Whatever legal defect it may have,
the verdict was 10 doubt as nearly
equitable as could have been found.
Year: 1876

About o'clock last evening a fire was
discovered in the rear Of Robert DOn's S
bakery, which proved to be in barn be-
longing to the premises. which belonged to
James Johnston, who lives above the
bakery. Wide Awake Hose Co was the
FIRST to throw water on the fire, Neptune
second The Phoenix Co. was also on hand
and laid its hose, but the fire was a small
one and was put out before they threw
water Wide Awake Co., Jr arrived at
the same time as the senior company, and
the little boys had their hose off ready for
business in case of break.


The barn was a small frame. very dry,
and contained some hay in the loft. The
whole was totally destroyed, and in a very
few minutes. Two horses were in the
barn at the time, one belonging to Mr..
Don and the other to g. A. Bromley,
which were rescued, not without consider
able trouble, by Deputy Marshal Miller
and Policeman Rogers. The FIRE was the
work of an incendiary. Loss about $500
No insurance
Year: 1876

CAUGHT BY A SHARK, has been the
fate of many poor fellow at sea, and from
their hungry jaws none have returned to
tell the tale, Their death has been more
the result of accident than heedlessness
Would that we could say the same of those
who live on land But the difference
which a cold, cough, headache or
backache, loss of appetite, constipation,
indigestion, &C., is regarded compel us to
think they are willing victims to the shark
disease. If you avoid becoming prey to
that fell monster, attend slight ailments


in time by taking the celebrated HOME
STOMACH BITTERs.
Year: 1876

A VENERABLE man with long, aow-
ing beard and Il thoughtful countenance,
remarked the other day, as he pensively
mopped his face, that be was more sure
Of Hayes election than ever. He says
that a merciful Providence would never
follow so hot Summer with Democrat
ic victory.
Year: 1876

A CHAP was arrested in Philadelphia
the other day for stealing clock. The
Judge told him that as he had taken
another mans time 10 begin with, he
could now take his own time to reflect
upon it, and sent him up for three months
forthwith.
Year: 1876

Az a meeting of the Quickstep Base
Ball Association, last evening, it was
decided TO commence active field prac-
tice on Monday next, 18th inst. Mean.
while the grounds will be placed in
perfect order.


The Quickstep Amateurs have chal-
lenged the Brandvwine club of West
Chester to a match game, to take place
on Saturday, April 22nd, in that city
The challenge has been accepted and
the occasion will be the dedication OF
the new grounds of the Quicksteps to
the uses of the national game. A large
number of West Chester young men.
will accompany the visiting club.
Year: 1876

AMONG the most devilish Democratic
outrsCes IS ,he attempt to fix on Governor
Holden, Of North Carolina, the crime vi
killing S:vens without malice or motive


Stevens Has decoyed out of Democratic
meeting 10y al eX-Democratlc sheriff, taken
into a room under the Democratic meeting


Gin the court house, and then and there
murdered ard robbed of $500 by Demo
Gratis because they feared and hated him.
The $4,000 insurance on his life was OBJ
tanned from his ife on fraudulent pre-
tences by Hill, Democratic lawyer, ami
thus the dead and living were both robbed.
In the KIRK War" not a drop of blod was
shed, and the whole disturbance Was caused
by the resistance Of the Democrats to the
execution of the laws. A number of the
murderers were convicted, and some of
them are still serving their country under
guard. OF course these men and their
friends do not feel kindly toward Governor
Holden or Col. Kirk, who made the arrests.
This is not strange, but it is great outrage
for Democrats to attempt to fasten the
guilt on men who only did their duty in
enforcing law and order. Nevertheless,
this, as a thousand other cases, shows the
animus of reconstructed traitors, and how
great the folly Of pardoning traitors while
the hot blood of their treason is reeking on
their garments. 1t is notorious that the
life of Col. Kirk and men of his character,
whose war record is untarnished, who
stood by the Union and now stand by the
laws, is unsafe in their native South.
Year: 1876

IT Is AMUSING and would be astounding
if Democracy could do anything astound-
ing, to see the brszen effrontery with
which Democratic organs denounce fraudu-
lent voting. as if they had never opposed
registration laws and all other means OF
preventing illegality, and had not always
and at all times resorted to this method of
supplying the requisite number of votes to
carry elections. As well might the devil
play missionary and preach holiness of
heart to bell-bound sinners. Every man.
woman and child knows that it is fraudu-
lent pretense has no honest basis, and is
done only for effect.
Year: 1876

WE surrender all our available space this
morning to the report of the proceedings
of the Society of the Army Of the Tennes-
see, believing that the events of the day
and the eloquent words of tribute to a
brave soldier, a self-sacrifcing patriot and
noble man spoken by his compatriots
will be quite as acceptable to the readers of
the NATroNAL REPUBLICAN as any other
matter thaf could be presented.
Year: 1876

a robust tramp called at a house for
something to eat, averring that he had
not tasted food for week.


"Why don't you go to work 2" asked
the lady TO whom he preferred his Pc
tition


Work." he CALCULATED Work
And what have been doing ever since
the middle OF May but hunting work
Who will give me work? When do I
ever refuse work."


"Well," said the woman, a. guess I
can give you some employment What
can you do?"


" Anything" he shouted, in kind of
delirious JOY. Anything that any man
can do. Pm sick for something to fly at.
Why, only yesterday I worked all day,
carrying water in an old sieve from Flint
river and emptying it into the Missis-
sippi, just because 1 was so tired of
having nothing to do, that l had to work
at something or would have gone ravin'
crazy. I'll do anytf ing, from cleaning
house to building steamboat. Jest give
me work, ma'am, an you'll never hear
me ask for bread agin"


The lady was pleased at the willing
ness and anxiety of this industrious man
to do something, and she led him to the
wood pile.


"Here," she said, "you can saw and
split this wood, and if you are good,
industrious worker, will find work for
you to do nearly all winter"


"Well, now," said the tramp, while a
look of disappointment stole over his
face, that's just my luck. Only three
days ago was pullin' blind cow out OF
a we'll for a poor widow woman who had
nothin' in the world but that COW TO
support her, an l spraint my right
wrist till I hain't been able to lift
pound with it sinst. You kin jest put
your hand on it now and feel it throbi
it's so painful and infamed. could
Just cry of disappointment, but it's a
Bible fact, ma am, that I couldn't lift
the axe above my head eff died fur it
and I'd jest as lief let you pull my arm
out by the roots as TO try to pull that
saw through a lath. Jest set me a
something kin do, though, if you want
to see the dust fly"


Very WELL" said the lady, " then yor
can take these flower beds, which have
been very much neglected, and weet
them very carefully for me. You car
do that with your well hand, but l wan
you to be very particular with them, anc
get them very clean, and not injure AM
Year: 1876




1t is we'll known that plants sleep at
night; but their hours of sleeping are
matter of habit, and may be disturbed
artificially, just as a cock may be walked
up to crow at uDtimely hours by the
light Of lantern. A French chemist
subjected sensitive plant to an exceed
inrly trying course of discipline, by COM
pletely changing its housekeeping it
TO bright light at night. so as to pre-
vent sleep, and putting il in dark room
during the day. The plant appeared to
be much puzzled and disturbed at FIRST
It opened and closed its leaves irregu-
larly, sometimes nodding, in spite Of the
artificial sun that shed its beams at mid
night, and sometimes waking up, from
the force Of habit, 10 find the chamber
dark in spite Of the time Of day. Such
are the trammels Of use and wont. But
after an obvious struggle, the plant sub.
mitted TO the change, and turned day
into night, without any apparent III
effect
Year: 1876




The decline of trades unions in this
country-the falling off of membership
in this city alone during four years has
been ,000-promotes the inquiry:
VIII the quality of American vorkmen-
ship be improved thereby? The decline
of British trade has been attributed by
some English writers to the growth of
the trades unions. Working men, they
have argued, have lost heart for their
work their societies take up too much
of their time; they feel above their work
and, as a consequence, British goods are
of fan inferior quality, and the world
doesn't want them. This roundabout
course of reasoning is not wholly salts
factory. When trades union breed
discomfort, the quality of the work is
impaired bur they are not always unsuc-
cessful; sometimes they have inspired
working men with new courage in their
work. In London, in New York, and
the world over, working-men will do
their best when they are contented an
moderately prosperous. When times
are hard and there is lsttle TO keep the
rot boiling, it costs a bitter struggle to
put conscience into work
Year: 1876

{ A man was saving wood yesterday af-
ternoon in back yard. He severed two
sticks as thick as ysur wrist, and then
went into the house. "Mary," said he
to bis wife, "my country needs me !;
there's no use talking, we just got to
slaughter all these Injuns; no true patriot
can be expected to hang around wood
pile these days" John" said his wife.
il you fight Injuns as well as you saw
wood and support your family, it would
take one hundred and eighteen like you
to capture one squaw, and then you'd
have to catch her when she had the
ague, and throw pepper in her eyes,
John went back to the woodpile.
wondering who told his wife all about
him.
Year: 1876

The following report of the sanitary
committee on the prevailing disease of
infants contained such seasonabie ad-
vice that the board of health of New
York ordered 10000 copies published
and distributed:


'Never neglect Iooseness of the bowels
in an infant. Consult the family or
dispensary physician at once, and he will
give you rules about what it should take
and how it should be nursed. Keep
your rooms as cool as possible, have them
well ventilated, and do not allow any
bad smells to come from sinks, garbage
boxes, cutters, etc, about the house
where you live. See to your own part
being right, and complain to the board
of health, if the neighbors' houses are
offensive. When an infant is cross and
irritable in the hot weather, a trip on
the water will do it great deal of good,
and may prevent cholera infantum. Do
not allow your children to eat unripe or
dried fruit. An infant under year old
should not have any fruit except by a
physicians orders. In very hot weather
dress your children in thin clothing, and
bathe them with cold water one, two, or
more times day.


"Children under ten months to year
do not need anything but the breast or
good milk. Cows milk, when pure, Is
made like mothers milk by adding one
third water TO two thirds milk and
wrrming to blood heat, and little over
one and quarter ounces of white sugar
to pint of the mixture but in the city
a good deal of the milk has plenty OF
water and too little cream. If you dc
not nurse the child, see that the nursing
bottle tube and mouthpiece are kept IN
clean water when not used. The addi-
tion of little soda will keep them from
turning sour. If the baby does not
thrive well on cows milk, consult
physician"
Year: 1876

THE Turks have an enviabe facility of
disposing of incompetent or unsatisfac-
tory sultans. Murad Efendi had hardly
seated himself upon the throne into
which he was forced after Abdul Aziz
had made such an effectuaI use of pair
of scissors in his bath when he was sum-
mariIy retired and Abdul Hamid has
been declared sultan in his stead. There
is little use in giving the details of the
new sultan's biography, as they will
doubtless appear in his obituary in a day
or two. The deposed sultan was in
curably addicted to strong drink, and
deIeriun, trenasns were unfavorable to the
management of affairs in the present
critical situation of the Turkish state
it is to be hoped that the new sultan
will have the good sense to keep sober
and save his own head.
Year: 1876

OF the South Pass jetty works the
New Orleans Bulletin says: The jetty
contractors are busily employed in con-
structiug the desired works at the head
OF the improved pass to get TO deep water
We have no doubt but that if they keep
on as they have been working for some
time past, they viii gain the end so
ardently hoped for and so long awaited
&, VII,
Year: 1876

IL YOU want to worry anybody, send a
newspaper with paragraph cut out
The effect is marvellous /; the paper has
no interest for that person, all curiosity
being conferred in the missing paragraph.
Year: 1876

few years. lie kept growing thinner and
thinner, until had to go to the expense
Of a calcium light to show him at all. l
was arrested once by doctor, who had
missed a skeleton out OF his office and
swore l bad it,"


" What killed George, as you call
him p asked the timd man.


Didn't anything kill him. He grew
so thin that the breath he drew into his
lungs passed right out between his ribs
without doing him any good whatsomev-
er. l showed him three days after he
was dead before | discovered he was no
more. The doctor tried to buy his body
Of me-said they wouldn't have to touch
him at all with knife, as it would be
only necessary to fasten his joints togeth-
er with wire, and brace him up in glass
case. But | wouldn't consent, and he
sleeps by the side Of the gi,nt. ! had
monument erected over their remains,
bearin' the follown' epitaph, which l
writ myself:


Dearest husbands, you have left me,


And your loss | much deplore:


Gone are all your days of showin',


For you're whore you'll take no more.


Fold away their lia,ie canvas,


Where took tho public in;


Gone are all those days of gladness,


Making blunt through thick and thin


Gone to meet the " What-is-it."
The timid man wanted to ask her if
she had any idea she would be able to
find pair of Siamese twins to marry
next, asa matter of business but his
timidity made him hesitate too long, for
at the next stopping place she got off the
train.