smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Edward Fesser writes TO the Poultry
Bulletin his notion in regard to the poor
success in Matching, last spring as follows {:


For my part il is mostly and very forci-
bly, attributable to very common error
which We are all very apt to fall into, and
which posses unnoticed in ordinary mild
springs, but which papably shows itself in
such heightened and severe one as the pres
ent. refer to the practice Of setting thir-
teen and even fifteen eggs under hen in
the early part of the season, in fact, more
than she can well cover at any season, forget
ting, in our anxiety to have early chickens,
that If the eggs we're not chilled on being laid,
they surely will be at the least and shortest
exposure from under the hen.


In Wright's last most excellent work are
recorded some noteworthy observations on
the peregrinations Of eggs under the hen, by
which 1t will be seen that all the eggs repeat
edly take their turn to be on the outside !;
consequently in severe weather they all stand
good chance Of getting chilled; and that
authority explicitly recommends that no
more than nine, and better seven, eggs shall
constitute an early setting, for if more did
hatch, the hen would hardly be able to prop
erly take care of them.


l have not practiced what l am preaching,
and have consequently suffered the conse-
quences of willfully dsregarding good advice;
the average of my hatchings is little over
fifty per cent, but having broken and exam
ined every egg that did not produce chick
en-, have observed that the most of them had
been fertile, and contained either fully
formed but dead chickens, or partly so ac-
cording to the different stages of incubation,
and the least of them were added or unfer-
tile eggs.
Year: 1875

Every day in the fall not occupied in har-
yestng and other work of which there is
immediate necessity should be devoted to
paying improvements on the farm, until
farmers can say farming does pay. There
are low, wet places on most farms wkere the
soil is full Of humus or vegetable m ould, and
the washiugs of the uplands. which, on ac-
count of stagnant water produce very poor
quality of grass, and are necessarily moved
by hand. A covered drain through these
places would change their condition so as to
admit of their being plOwed up and smOOthed
off, when they would become the most prof.
table land on the farm. We have had a
single drain through such bog change the
crop from coarse, sour, swale grass to a
red clover the first season.
Year: 1875

One Of the most serious obstacles encoun-
tered by husbandmen in this country is
drought In our excessively hot summers
there is usually great deficiency of rain,
and crops suffer to an enormous extent.
There are but few who practice irrigation,
although many farmers have facilities for
retaining water and turning streams upon
their lands when parched drought prevails


There is not the slightest doubt that irri.
cation might be carried on much more ex-
tensively than it is, and that, too, with
profit. Our country is intersected with a
network of streams and rivulets, and only
the skill Of man is needed to turn the water
to useful purpose. The amount Of water,
however, required to irrigate an acre of
ground in the hot summer months, when rain
has been withheld for several weeks, is enor.
nous. If the means of irrigation are at
hand, it is not well to allow field to be-
come parched before water is let on, as in
this case the advantages are in measure
lost, and the labor greatly increased. We
have had some experience in irrigating
vines, and this experience leads us to sug-
gest that no more than two or three days
should eIapse after rain before water is
allowed to flow in moderate quantities, and
two days later more should be applied. The
intervals must not exceed two days in hot
weather, and by this management the earth
is kept in retentive and absorptive condi-
tion, and plants flourish luxuriantly.


The plan usually adopted in watering
plants, flowers, DC, is erroneous, inasmpch
as the interval between the rain and the
watering pot is too extended. II one has
valuable plants out Of doors in summer time,
which it is desirable TO nourish aud sustain
against drought, it is better to assume at
once that drought is certain, rather than to
wait for rain through days and weeks, OF
months. In a day or two after a rain, wa
tering should commence, and the amount
applied need not be large. If the practice
is continued every other day, the plants will
at no time suffer from either redundancy OF
want of water, and If the rainfall is scanty
the plants cannot suffer as they will if wa
tering is only resorted to when it is absO
lutely necessary to sustain life.


Water is not alone needed to supply moist
ure to plants it Is required to render sou
BILE the food in the soil which they consume
The most complex vital changes go on in thu
soil aud in the plant under the influence o
water, aud it it is withheld for a considera


bic time check is experienced which N


subsequent supply can remedy


Irrigation need not necessarily be an ex
pensive undertaking. If a stream can b
secured at an altitude, so that gravity vii
cause it to flow into cultivated field, tn
labor of turning it from its accus


toned channel may not be great
; The subject is worthy the attention Q


farmers, and we hope many mountain O
5 hillside stream will be made in the futur
| to add to the crops on farms in all section
Of our country.


! Boston Journal of Chemistry.
Year: 1875

The grain harvest is now here. 1t is a
question Of importance to the farmer who
hires most of his work done how to raise,
harvest and thresh field of oats, and not
have the cost of labor equal the value of the
grain. We have had but one hired
man for eight years that would earn more
than his board binding grain. Several of
the last years of our raising grain it was
cut with a mower and handled as so much
hay would be with great saving of labor
and expense. The threshing costs a little
more, and more room is needed for storage.
If farmers who raise hoed crops would seed
to grass without grain, it seems to us they
would make more money.
Year: 1875

il. 1t is doubted if it will thrive elsewhere.
We cannot inform our correspondent, with
certainty, in regard to the best time for SOW.
ing, but should suppose that it would do
quite as well sown in the fall in time to get
rooted in the soil Autumn is the natural
time for seeding to grass. 1t will be neces-
sary on soil adapted to blue joint, to either
SOW in the fall or prepare the land so that
the seed can be sown early in the spring,
without the use of team.


We have had quite as good success in
sowing red top in the fall as in spring. We
always SOW it with timothy, but have not
had good catch with any uniformity. A
peck of timothy, bushel (elght pouuds) of red
top aud ten pounds of clover is our rule. A
lot sown three years ago, by hired man,
"in streaks," the seed not meeting, gave a
striped field, timothy and rcd top alternately.
We have supposed that the red top was car
ried along by the south wind and was more
evenly distributed than the timothy, and drew

poorly where there there was timothy because
the latter choked il down. The soil was a
rich, moist, gravelly loan. The second year
the clover being gone, gave at the first cut
ting, two tons by the scale, to the acre, o
well.curcd hay, of this peculiar mixture.


Alfalfa is a valuable forage plant in 9
milder climate than ours. Our winters are
too severe for it.


1t is true that the grass crop receives to'
little attention. Farmers should give more
attention to choosing varieties and take I
great deal more pains to keep the moving
aud pastures up to their highest capacity o.
production. Therein lies success
Year: 1875

In looking over your paper from week to
week, any one would suppose the Jersey
COWS were ahead of all other breeds in the
state for making butter l think there are
other breeds that will make more milk than
the Jerseys, and make butter Of as good
quality. / have thoroughbred Short-Horn
COW, four years old last March, that made in
one week last January eleven and three
fourths pounds of as nice butter as was ever
produced by a Jersey COW. 1t was but seven
minutes churning by the clock. Her feed
was but four quarts of shorts per day, aud
as much good hay as she would eat Ifany
one has Jersey hefer three years old past,
that will beat this should like to purchase
her. Nj. Il. Wilder in Maine Farmer.
Year: 1875

Fields which are always wet from springs
or tenacious subsoils are rarely benefited
much by the use of gypsum. But drain
them thoroughly aud they respond to its use
as fully as any others.
Year: 1875

Governor Allen said the other day
to an interviewer


'I regard the accomplishment OF
resumption in this country as pAyst-
cal iHlpOssi6Rity. And l regArd the
whole doctrine Of specie payments as
an ideality, without practical founda-
ton to rest on. regard it as \ id
barren Ideally, SIR ~


We should like the opinion of the
Pain Dealer on this utterance OF its
standard bearer. Some OF the hard
money Democrats of this city who
are working for Governor Allen's re-
election would do we'll to make this
chunk Of latter-day sentiment from
"Old POt-mstar" the text for sOTOe OF
their eloquent efforts in his behalf
Qeueldnd Herald.
Year: 1875

Like little generals who write after
the war, there are thousands of men
VINO say they would have done differ
emily had they been in Beeeher's
place. OF course they believe him
guilty OF Innocent.
Year: 1875

We like to see 3 man reasonably
quiet and peaceable, but when he
stands IN one place long enough for
the Hasps to build Rest la the seat
Of his pants, he ought to be kicked
into some sort OF resistance.
Year: 1875

TRY TIE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL NOT
] Rust or crack s-a COSTS only a triie more than
common iron pipe Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. haYe the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS


Store in Star Block
Year: 1875

The Henderson Advocate in its last
number says: 1t is incOmprehensible to
US, why it is that the property-holders,
business men and newspapers Of Mem
pbis remain so Indifferent to the COM
pletiOn of the above road. The citizens
of Henderson, and all along the line to
Memphis, are anxious to push the work
trough to our great commercial city as
early as possible. They have taken
stock literally, and have had the road
bed completed to Bolivar. Only fifty
thousand dollars was asked for from
Memphis; this amount was promised to
be raised, yet deadlock has taken place
and nothing has been done. We need
not remind our friends at Memphis of
the great advantages they would realize
by the completion Ofthe road even from
here to that city. II they will make q
calculation they will see that Memphis
is losing fifty thousand bales of cotton
annually, for the want Of such connec-
ton by rail, to say nothing Of the vast
amount of trade, in every branch now
obtained in other markets, that Mem
phis could supply. Well, If Memphis
can stand to miss this road we can;
for as certain as there is anything in
the future, the road will be finished from
here to Bolivar il we have to negotiate
with the New Orleans, st. Louis and
Chicago company, to change it to q
broad-gauge and make it feeder to
that road. This will give US direct COM
munication with New Orleans, and a
competing line with the Mobile and
Ohio road. At meeting of the stock.
holders of our road, at Bolivar, last
November, resolution was adopted
authorizing the directors to open negoti-
ations with any party or company,
looking to the flushing of the road from
Henderson to Bolivar. So, with
sincere desire to make connection with
Memphis we must yet say, il you give
US the cold shoulder, 10, we turn to the
CreOles.
Year: 1875

LITTLE Rock, March S.-The govern
or to-day issued proclamation appoint
ing Thursday, March ,25th, as a day of
Thanksgiving for the many blessings
which have beeR shOWered upon the
State during the past twelve months.
Referring to the adoption of the Poland
report, the governor says: "We have
been sustained by the true conservative
Republican sentiment in the north,
which is one of the most gratifying fea-
lures connected with our struggle, and
one of which we should feel proud; and
we should strive by all means to prove
ourselves worthy of this indorse-
ment, so emphatically given by those
supposed to differ with us politically;
and who were begged and importuned
under all Circumstances to put US down
with all we have undergone. If our cause
has been the occasion of harmonizing
and uniting the liberal and conserva-
tive elements in the nation that have
heretofore been discOrdant, we are
more than paid, and it should be one of
our chief duties to see that they be kept
together hereafter. AS governor of the
State l eDioin upon all persons
now to see that peace and
order are preserved, alI violations of law





gagged in them be arrested and brought
to answer before the law. The prevent
ing or prompt furnishing of individual
infractiOns Of law is the surest remedy
against mobs and general outbreaks
that sometimes occur aud almost defy
the entire power Of the government.
AS we have been peaceful and law
abiding, and thereby won respect aud
confidence everywhere, let us continue
to be, and enforce the laws, so that each
and every citizen may feel that he owns
a direct interest in the government,
while that government not only can but
is able and ready to protect him. Stir
up no strife. Revive no old political diff
ferences or animosities. Prosecute no
one that may have differed, or that may
hereafter differ, with US. Let US at all
times, in fact, exercise charity to all
and malice toward none. Should there
be any indictments in the courts for past
political offenses, l would suggest and
advise their dismissal. Let people of
all parties, races and cOlors come and be
welcomed to our State and encouraged
to aid us in bringing her up to position
of true greatness.


POWELL CLAYToN's DISPATCH.
Little Rock Republican.


WASHINGTON, March 5.-The action
of congress upon Arkansas affairs is
conclusive. The validity of the new
constitution and the government estab-
lished hereunder ought no longer to be
questioned. 1t is the duty of Republi-
cans to accept the verdict, and render
the same acquiescence which we would
have demanded had the case been re-
versed. AS am in receipt of numerous
communications regarding Arkansas
affairs, please publish this for the in
formation of all who desire my views
upon the subject. l will return home
soon after the adjournment of the senate.


POWELL CLAYTON.
Year: 1875

WE publish in another column the
answer by the New Orleans Times to
the indignation resolutions Of our State
legislature. 1t is even more insolent in
tone than the first, and goes further by
wsy Of inGsndo. 1t talks Of checks and
q Memphis bank; and when it ought to
be specific is vague and indefinite. II
our contemporary knows anything it
should say 50 in plain terms, and not
thus seek to cast odium upon gentle
men every one OF whom We believe to
be above suspicion. We do not believe
the Times speaks the truth, and doubt
that it ever received such information
from a corresponds Mt.
Year: 1875

The standing committee of the diocese
of New Jersey refused to consent to the
conservation Of DR.. Jaeger as bishop of
southern Ohio. No action yet taken in
the case Of DR.. DeKoven.
Year: 1875

rected in the interest of Memphis, doubt
less the passage Of this bill by our legis-
lsture would work greatly to our detri-
ment. would suggest the appointment
OF a committee to take the subject in
charge, and to endeavor, through our
representatives, to have our interests
properly protected.


On motion of Major Meriwether the
unanimous thanks of the chamber were
returned to Mr.. Toof for his very excel
lent report, superior as it is to any ever
before made.
Year: 1875

The Swallow flying South" was en-
trusted with a very pretty message
from her destined husband to TeDny-
sons wilful princess. UtOpian swal-
lows, no doubt. transmit all such com
municatiOns faithfully. but in this
prOsaic world they usually come and
90 unweighted even with such light
gear as lovers vows. One, however,
lately knocked at the window of a peas
ant farmer in Il village in one of the
Northern departments of France to de-
liver note. ON being admitted in a
very exhausted condition it perched
upon the ehimney-piece where 1T al
lowed itself to be examined and han
died, when it WAS discovered that the
little harbinger of summer had red
ribbon round his neck to which a paper
was attached. This, on being unfolded
proved to be an appeal on behalf of the
bird from member of n household in
Italy, whose home it had visited for
six years. In obedience to the wishes
of It's distant protector the swallow
was caressed, warmed, and fed, and a
green ribbon substituted for the deco
ration it had received in Italy. Then,
and not till then, the bird exhibited
symptoms of impatience it was set at
liberty, flew out of the window, and,
although it remained in the neighbor-
hood of the farm, never again made
any attempt to communicate with the
inmates. The locality from which it
came being, as it appeared from the
note, in the neighbOrhOOd of Mount
vesuvius, the occurrence is worthy of
the attention of OrnithOlOgists as a con-
tributiOn to the data on which to de-
eide the length and direction of the
flight of migratory birds.
Year: 1875

The lives of the mothers of great men
form an important branch of biOgraphi-
cal literature: and it is usual, even in
the paternal line, to find traces of here
ditary taste or talent tending toward
original production. The mute, inglO-
rious Milton finds glorious tongue in
his great-grandson the great statesman
is the heir of the village Hampden. The
theory, though more than merely prob
able, is by its nature incapable Of ex-
haustive proof: but instances are notO-
rious enough to found thereon a reason
able assumption that family talent pre-
cedes individual genius even if the ten
dency has never made itself conspicu-
Gus, or, like the gout, has passed over a
generation or two here and there. But,
on the other hand, it is yet more certain
that genius, like the blossom with its
fruit, closes while it crowns the family
tree. The man Of talent is the ancestor
of the man of genius, but the man of
genius is the ancestor either of nObOdies
or of nobody. Descendants of great
authors, painters and musicians, who
lived two or three generations ago, are
hardly to be found. While the families
of great soldiers and statesmen swarm,
there is scarcely n man i'm Europe who
can boast of great poet or other artist
in the direct line of his pedigree: prob
ably there is not even one who can
boast of two such forefathers. The
rough stem runs into the leaf, the leaf
to the flower, and the flower to the fruit
of good work, or-to seed. To pursue
the analogy to its end, the full beauty
and prOductiveness of imaginative
geniuscOrrespOnd to the effect of decay
ing vitality.-Popuiar Science Monthly.
Year: 1875

When Her Majesty's Ship Jealous
was off VancOnver's Island in 1869, the
captain and one of the midshIpmen


bought two young seals from a native
canoe that came alongside. They were
80 very young that they had to be fed


on milk, out of an old soda water bottle,
which they sucked through a bit of
wash-leather tied round the cork. At
this time they were about three feet
long, and soon became the most affec-
tiOnate little creatures imaginable. The
midshipman used to keep this bottle
inside the breast pocket of his coat,
and directly he came on deck the little
seal would flap along the gangway to
him as fast as it could go. and when
taken up in its masters arms would
make q noise like a child, and at once
poke its nose inside the coat to try and
get at the bottle. We used to take him
down the cuddy and put him into the
water, when ne would swim about for
. long time, and then come hack tn be
taken up and put to bed, which con-
sisted of some wet swabs in the gang
way. The poor little thing, however,
was not In his element, and died after
q week or ten days. The captains was
more fortunate. and managed to survive
his brother three weeks or more, during
which time he became wonderfully
tame. his master never showing himself
on deck but what the seal would make
desperate efforts to get to him, the
while making the before mentioned
Year: 1875

The process of gliding silk, now used
in some of the European tinsel factO-
ries, is thus described 1t is first es-
sential that the silk be of superior
quality, free from knots and rOugiiness.
The gum must be boiled out of it and
it must be tinged tO the shade of light
orange it is then wound on bObbins,
the end of the thread being passed over
a wire. and subsequently under a roller
which works in trough containing q
elutinOus but transparent liquid. 1t is
now made to pass over a reel attached
to an endless screw or threaded spindle
80 arranged that it lays on brass cyl
iader the thread of silk as cords are
wound round the handle of q whip,
without overlapping, until the cylinder
is completely covered with the silk,
when the thread is broken. The length
of the skein of thread depends, there
fore, upon the size of the cylinder and
fineness of the thread, but the cylinder
cannot he of size larger than can he
spanned by single leaf of gold. The
Year: 1875

cylinder being covered with silk IN n
gummy state, the book with the gold
leaf is opened and laid on the palm of
the hand the Notwithstanding like
q turning lathe-is moved the edge of
the leaf Is made to touch the gummed
silk. and it is quickly drawn round the
cylinder covering the silk. This is re-
peated until the entire surface of the
roller is covered with gold leaf. The
next operation consists in fastening n
piece Of cloth or washed leather upon a
slip of wood, something like razor
strOp; the roller is turned round and
the strop pressed firmly upon the leaf,
which not only attaches the latter
closer to the silk, but separates it be-
tween each two windings of the finest
thread. Thus one side of the finest
thread is gilded. III gold or green, or
any other color, is desired in cOmbina


ton. it Is only necessary first to dye the
thread the required color. and then, by
gliding one side, the combination wished
is secured. To gild the entire thread,
it is simply necessary to wind the half
gilded thread ON to another roller.
Year: 1875

Will you know me. will you know me.
In the fair immortal land?
Will you kiss my lips in welcome


And extend your little hand?
Will you know me when I'm coming


And know me when come?
VIII you always be my darling"


In our .blest eternal bome?'
VIII your spirit arms enfold me


When lay me down TO die?
When the shadows gather DER me.


And the angel drzweth nigh?
Wal you be the first to greet me


When reach the other shore?
VIII you sing song of gladness


When my journeying is Ger!
VIII your eyes grow soft and brighter
Your voice take sweeter tone.
When you see me kneeling by you,
Round the Fathers great white throne
Will yon know how have loved you,
As we at the portals wait,
II linger 10 caress you,


Ere We enter in the gates!
VIII this love not purify me,


In its sacredness SO sweet?
Can take you up and bless you


When find you at my feet!
Then that blessed meeting will a-susge
Many days of grief and paiE;
Up in Heaven, face TO face.


Reunited once again.
Year: 1875

: 4 Skeleton ia Erery House-The fol-
lowing conversation was overheard the
other day among a lot of schoolgirls,
who eongregated in front of house.


Each one In turn appeared to be hold
ing up the domestic skeleton which
afflicted their several homes. One told
how her little brother had broken his
leg; another about how sick her mother
was, and still another told abont how
drunk her father would come home
every night.


In short, they all appeared to have
some grief to hold up-all but one little
beauty, who seemed only unhappy tn
think there was nothing that she could
tell to excite the envy or sympathy of
the rest.


She listened to the recital of all these
troubles as long as she could, and
finally she expressed herself in this
way:


"Well. girls. we all have our troubles.
Some have sick brothers and drunken
fathers, and ugly mothers. Some of us
have got measles, and small pox. and
scrofula, We've got something awful
in oar family"


what is it r. asked several.


My little brother Benny's left
handed.r