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Year: 1875

While horse breeders are sounding the
praises of thoroughbreds, trotters, Perchcr.
ous, Clydesdales, and all the host Of strains
and breeds, claiming untold good qualities
for the one and the other, we seldom or new
er hear single note in favor of that useful
animal, the mule. On the road, amid the
hum of cities, in the very bowels Of the
earth, these patient, persevcring, long-lived
"hewers OF wood and drawers Of water" are
plodding through their daily drudgery un-
honored and unsung. We once overheard
farmer say, with quaint expression The
best horse for farm is a mule y aud we
subscribe ourself champion Of his faith.
Do YOU want an animal which will serve you
faithfully without growl or bak-one which
will keep fat on short commons, never need
the veterinary, always be ready for work ?
Do you want great big burly brute that
will catch coal wagon OH his shoulders and
to,c it up a hill, or u little sprightly fellow to
plow corn or to do chores, or make himself
generally useful? If you do, get mule.
lie will require less care, will cost less mon
cy, will do more work, will cat less corn,
will live longer, and pay you better than any
horse we know of-on the farm. Now it
will be said that mules move slowly, that
they are tricky that they are frequently
breachy Some mules have none OF these
traits, and some have them all, but their
good qualities, taking them all in all, very
lar surpass their bad ones. Who ever saw
spawned mule, or a curbed mule, or a dead
mule that had not been killed by accident
A man may live a lifetime, he may have
gone through the wars, where horses laid
down aud died by the score from bad treat
ment and starvation, but venture to say he
can count upon his fingers the number Of
mules he ever saw yield up the ghost under
any ordinary pressure.


We sing our pGan to the mule only as re-
CARDS his usefulness on the farm. We do
not claim that he is trotter, though we re-
member to have seen some very lively step
pers-nor that he would be success on the
running turf He certainly is not an object
of beauty and would make but poor show
in gilded coach or a lady's phmtou, He
is intended for use and not for ornament.
His place is where the laborer tolls through
the long day, planting and cultivating aud
gathering aud garnering the produce Of the
| fields. lie eats no corn he does not earn!
he is an animal of "business," and goes right
along, slowly but surely, looking neither to
the one side or the other. We confess to a
liking for the mule. There's something hon
est about him he sails undor no false col
ors he puts on no airs, and he is just lit.
tie better at ten or fifteen years Of age than
he is at five or six His principal growth
from year to year is in dignity, wisdom and
ears. He never forgets anything he learns.
He soon learns all about 4 corn.row the
darkeys can ride him at night without his
seeming to suffer from it, and il every horse
on the farm has the episootic, you will find
that the mule-if you have onc-is as calm
ly prepared for every emergency as ever.
Yes, when it comes to business, we like a
mule.-MuStrated Journal Of Agriculture.
Year: 1875

A London journal says Extra Early Yer
mont is far too much like the Early Rose to
be pleasant 1t may be little earlier, per.
haps few days it may be little better
cropper, but that is doubtful it may be Of
a little better table quality, but l boiled
some Of each the other day and found no
difference and as the tubers are exactly
alike, and the haulm is the same, except
perhaps, that of Extra Early Vermont is q
little dwarfer, it will be matter Of compar.
ative ease for any person to substitute the
one for the other, and the purchaser be none
the wiser. After all, these early pink
skinned potatoes are of but little use until
they are ripe enough to be peeled, aud by
that time the Late Rose is ready for use, and
that is the heavist cropper and the best oil
the whole batch. Ii Is the finest of all the
Americans yet introduced, excepting, per.
haps, Snowflake.
Year: 1875

There has been growing notion in the
minds of many Of us Eastern farmers, that it
does not pay to raise corn. We have come
to this conclusion generally, Judge, without
going to the bottom Of the subject, and
noting the results that must follow the empty
corn crib. 1t is very comfortable and con-
venent way Of getting a supply Of meal to
have a bag or two thrown into ones sleigh
or buggy when at his post office. The hoe
is not needed to raise corn in that way, The
crow can't pull up that corn, the wire worm
cant eat it off at the root, the cut worm
can't NOW it down, nor the blue,jay lug it
off aud store it up for his winter feasting.
When home one can lift it, and pour 1t into
the chest and feel quite comfortable that the
supply has been so easily obtaiAed. But
there is a sequel being experienced to this
method of "raising corn" 1t is not quite
the "solid pan" way Of doing. There are
latter claps." One is, the "gude wife" or
the anxious cook is dissatisfied with her
brown bread. There is kind of old, dry,
chippy taste to it, unless something is put in
to cover it up. The Johnny.cake as 1t
comes "piping not" from the oven emits a
kind of musty.bag odor. All the gilt-edged
butter in the world won't give 1t the right
flavor. That dead, almost musty taste can
not even be covered up with the cream Of
the best COW in the barn. 1t is there, aud
one longs for the good old days of native
bread aud butter to come again, The vision
of the smoking sweet Indian cake Of the OIL
den time comes to him. The sputtering,
sweet-odored, aud delicious hasty pudding,
comes up in memory, as he tries to flavor
the dish before him to suit his taste. All Of
this comes of not raising the corn at home.


Aside from all these considerations, the
question comes up does it pay to raise corn
Can farmer do better to buy his meal, than
to raise it? Does it pay to raise corn on
] corn land in New England? Corn should
Year: 1875

There is an expectation among the Pat
rons throughout Kansas aud Nebraska, that
the National Grange will make liberal do
nation towards relieving the suffering Pat
rons on the frontiers Of both states. The im-
portance of this action is so apparent that it
has seen anticipated and looked for for some
weeks past. 1t should be prompt, immedi-
ate and liberal. The organization can in no
way more certainly challenge the admiration
and respect of the country than by improving
the present opportunity and sending to each
Of the state oranges of Kansas and Nebraska
fifteen or twenty thousand dollars to be
expended as the officers of the state oranges
of these states believe would be for the best
interests of Patrons needing help.


There are ample funds now in the Nation
al Grange treasury invested in bonds, which
would be well serving the live and fuudamen.
tai principles upon which the organization
rests, in relieving the suffering aud needy Of
the order.


The West has created three.fourths OF the
funds now in the treasury, and an expendi'
ture Of this kind on the part Of the officers
OF the National Grange will meet hearty
aud cordial support among the Patrons Of
Year: 1875

"Can you render the chick advantageous
assistance during its hatching?" Yes, most
assuredIy. The eggs of some varieties, par
tiouarly the Asiatic, are sometimes exceed.
ingly thick shelled, the shell "pips and
here the little bird breaths his last if help is
not given; the fine membrane becomes glued
to him and contracts, and it, with his downy
covering, becomes, as it were, coat of mai,
to crush out its life. Notice, and if the
Matching is slow, have an eye to your nest
until the business is through with for some-
times it appears as if epidemic. Many chicks
go by the board in this way; help should be
rendered; so take small sized bodkin, and
carefully thrusting its point short distance
under the membrane and shell, gently tear
the first, and crack the latter as you proceed
around the circumference of the egg. If the
shell is dry, drop few drops of tepid water
at the point of pressure. Having taken of
the top of the shell, drop about ten drops oil
warm water around the body of the chick,
and put the egg, as it now stands, under the
hen, the open side uppermost behind or un-
der the fluff is the best situation. This done,
the chick is nine times out Of ten safe and
will hatch vigorously. have had wonder
lul experience in this line.-POultry Bulle-
tin.
Year: 1875

Any one familiar with the appearance OF
our wholesale and retail provision markets,
for the past ten years, must have noticed a
great change in the pork there offered for
sale. Formerly, the demand was for full
grown aud wel.fattened hogs. "Pig pork"
was not considered up to par. When peo-
pie bought pork, they wanted fat pork, and
the dealers made it point to supply what
was called for. II farmer came into the
city, with load Of half-grown and habitat
tened porkers he did not find very ready
sale, lie must go to a third.rate market in
order to dispose Of his goods. Now all is
changed. A pig which will dress 200
pounds is the model porker if he has not
had meal and is not very fat, so much the
better. Lean meat and bones suit the Gus.
toners of these markets better than fat meat
aud lard. The large, fat, handsome, four or
five hundred-pound hogs, which were former.
ly the standard OF excellence, are very sell
dom wanted now. Our farmers complain
that there is no call for their large hogs.
No one wants them. lftaken at the market
at ALL the price must be lowered because the
pork is too fat. To plain, honest farmer
this looks like turning things the wrong side
out. 1t seems to him that fat creature is
better for food than a poor one, and conse.
quently ought to sell for higher price per
pound. But to be told that because it is
fat and good it is not wanted, and is not
worth as much by the pound, as a small aud
lean specimen, causes him to shake his head
and sorrowfully declare that times are
changed since he was a boy. Well, the
times have changed. They are always
changing; aud the farmer who means to be
successful must change with them. 1t is of
no use to produce what is not wanted. The
farmer must raise something which he can
sell If lean hogs are wanted and fat ones
will not sell, he must grow lean ones for the
market, but if he is wise he will have the fat
test and best for home use.-NeD ENGLAND
Homestead.
Year: 1875

HANDLING WET SoIL.-0n this subject
the California AgricUlturist says Better
not do it, because it Is an injury to it--an
injury that years of careful culture cannot
remedy. Heavy soil, once puddled and
packed when wet remains so for long time
Every step the horses take on wet soil
peaches it. The plow turns it over without
pulverizing it, and leaves a stiff glaze on the
burrows, Better be idle few days, or even
SOW the grain without plowing, and scratch
in when the surface dries off, than ruin oil
seriously iujure the soil by puddle-plowing
This way that many farmers have Of rushing
through when they get started, rain or shine
mud or mellow, regardless of consequences
is not according to the dictates of common
sense, aud is not profitable either. Better
pay your hired man to let it alone, than tC
pillow the soil when too wet,
Year: 1875

This would be more than the interest at
per cent on $500 per acre. The most Of the
above account were actual sales have let
the house-rent, fre.wood and garden, offset
the seed used.
Year: 1875

WE call especial attention to the
liberal extract we publish from the
II. 8. Comptroller's annual report
It is candid, mastery discussion oi
our National Bank system, and We
must regard the position Of the Comp
troller as unanswerable. We hope
that all our readers will give itn care
full perusal.
Year: 1875

and l strongly recommend that a
more national Importance be given to
this exhibition by such legislation and
by such appropriations as will insure
its success. Itovalue in bringing to our
shores lnnumerable useful works OF
art and skill. the commingling OF the
citizens of foreign countries and our
own, the Interchange Of ideas and
manufactures will far exceed any pc.
cuniary outlay we may make.
transmit herewith the report oi
l tho CommiReiOner of
Year: 1875

ernment which they have long since
abandoned, and to which for years
they have rendered no service nor
held themselves in any way amcna
bic in other cases. naturalized citizens


Immediately after naturalization,
have returned to their native land
and have become engaged in busi-
ness, and have accepted Office in pur-
suits inconsistent with American citi-
zenship, and evinccd no intent to re-
turn to the United States until called
to discharge some duty to the coun-
try where they are residing. when at
once they assert their citizenship, and
call upon the representatives Of the
government to aid them in their un-
just pretension. 1t is but justice to
bona-fide citizens that no doubt
should exist upon such questions,
and that Congress should determine
the enactment of a law how an cxpa-
triafion will be accomplished and a
change Of citizenship be established.


l also invite your attention to the
necessity of regulating by law the
Year: 1875

indicates In the samo measure tho
progress OF tho industrial activity of
tho country. The receipts Of the Office
arc In excess OF its expenditures, and
the ofilco generally 10 IN prosperous
unsatisfactory condition,


ThA renOrt Of the
Year: 1875

y week ago Chicago was visited by dele
CATION OF big lniuns OF the Sioux persuasion
consisting of the head chief Red Cloud, and
HIS more notable councillors Little Wound
American Horse, Shoulder, Conquering Bear
Sitting Bull, Face Iron Horse, Black Bear
Pawnee Killer, Bad Wound and squaw, Tall
Lance, and Fast Thunder, and so on-abou'
twenty-five in all. These gentlemen" were
on their way to Washington to have talk
with the Great Father, primarily about max
ing such a trade as will open the Black Hills
to the gold seekers, but secondarily and more
particularly, to lay before the President va
riety OF complaints about the treatment the
Indians have received during the past year
or two at the hands Of the government agents
Indeed it is believed that if the negotiation
for the transfer of the Black Hills makes any
progress at all, the Indians Will couple their
consent to the REIMBURSEMENT with condi
tions in which the government cannot ae
Quiescc, as they have been continually tam
pered with since their departure from the
plains by certain white men and half-breeds
mostly traders, who have told Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail that they must insist upon pro
vision being made for them. Such provisions
have heretofore been made in almost every
treaty, but the commissioner is determined &c
break up the practice.


The Indians arrived at Washington on sun
.day and were Ollarterel al a TEMPERANCE no
tel, greatly to their disgust. On Wednesday
they finally had an interview with the presi
dent, who, notwithstanding he knew that the
Indians attached the Utmost Importance t
this talk, treated them with characteristic in
difference appearing 10 be excessively bored
by their defamation. They, however were
not awel by his august presence, but talked
with the utmost freedom. Red Cloud ant
Lone Wolf plainly threatened that ii theil
grievances were not righted, they and theil
followers would drive the whites from theil
hunting grounds before the SHOWS fell. They
were all decidedly bclligerent, and not at al
inclined to agree 10 any further concession,
of territory without positive guarantee tha
the terms OF the treaty they might make
would be faithfully performed. The Presi
dent closed the interview by pretty plain
intimation that he had no time 10 waste with
them, and they must do their future talking
with the Secretary Of the Interior. It looks
as if the negotiations are predestined 10 end
in nothing.
Year: 1875

The Illinois Press Association, as mention
ed by US several weeks ago, hold their annu'
al meeting at jacksonville next Tuesday, and
the indications aow are that il will be more
largely attended than any former meeting
A day or two will be spent in Jacksonville
when tlfe members will proceed in body to
St Louis and spend day or two more there
in sight seeing; then, being joined by nun
ber of the Missouri Press Association the
entire party will take one of the finest and
largest steamers on the Mississippi for trip
as far as st. Paul and return. On the journey
I'D the river, two or three hours time each
will be given to viewing several of the most
important towns along the route. A splendid
band of musicians is to accompany the e&'
cursionists, and it is promised that the cuiln'
ary department shall embrace all that IS in
c!uded in firs.-class and sumpuous fare.
From the start TO the completion OF the trip,
which Will occupy some seven or eight days,
the steamer will be the home and hotel OF the
party. The entire cost will not exceed $50
per passenger All bona fide editors and
publishers doing business in this State are
invited 20 attend the meeting Of the associa-
ton, 10 become members if they are not, and
70 Join in the excursion.
Year: 1875

The Governor Missouri shows piety as well
as good sense in appealing TO providence for
relief from the grasshopper pest, rather than
relving upon human Inventions and applian-
ces. We doubt whether the instance is on
record where human science or ingenuity h as
been found effective to stay plague like that
of the grasshoppers or potato bugs. Hori-
culturists have been engaged for years IN de-
vising means to rid their plumb and peach
orchards of the curculioland their apple or
chards Of the coLling moth, the apple tree
borer, &c, but no impression, even the most
distant, has ever been made on the grand ag-
gregate Of the pest The nuisance, by per
sistent, hard work, may be driven from sin.
gle tree OF even orchard for season, bat
next year the grand army is back again. vora-
cious and rampant as ever 1t is only when
providence interteres, and by the introduc-
ton of some vital atmospheric change or new
condition of soil, or letting loose on the pes
tiferous brood a new insect hostile TO and
mightier ;han the former, that effective re-
lief is wrought. 1t is thus at times that vast
districts have been relieved for many years
in succession from the ravages of the chin.z
bug, the Hissan fly and similar pests, and it
is thus Illinois at present appears TO be re-
lieved Of the potato bug nuisance, at least
none have been seen in this region since last
July; and it is thus the good providence may
stay the grasshopper plague. But it is as
true now as in the days when the locust raw.
aged the land of Israel, that in all such cases,
"vsip is the help of man"
Year: 1875

NORTHERN Pacific X. R.-The Iates
Ocean is about the only really and truly 10y.
al" republican organ in the Northwest, and
as such its utterances, being supposedly, al
least, inspired from Washington, deserve oc
casional attention. After Houndering for a
year or two, like Grant himself, its master
and great exemplar, among the financial
dreamlngs of the day, now inclining to kel.
loggism, and then again to hard money, il
finally solves the problem Of hard times
and proposes for them an immediate and in
fallible remedy, as follows;


As far as we, IN this central portion OF the
West, which has Chicago for its trade center
are concerned, every emigrant that stops in
Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, Utah or Montana


is pledge of a future increase OF trade IN
this city but those who go beyond Salt Lake
are to great extent lost to this part OF the
country. 1t is in this view of the case that
the opening of the Black Hills and the re
sumption of work on the Northern Paclhc
Railroad would be adirect benefit to Chicago
and all this part of the West and II is only to
some such new employment of capital as this
that we can look for the recuperation OF
trade anywhere in the United States. Long
before the meeting of the next Congress II
will be apparent TO Congressman that they
must talk about something else than specie
payments, and that notwithstanding the un
Popularity which partisan politicians have
contrived TO fix upon what they are pleased
to call the subsidy business" the most eftec
tual way out of the present general depression
of trade and industry is for Congress TO star
the revival by aid TO some such large and i'm
portant internal improvement.


As Jay Cooke & j. Edgar Thompson have
| Just got an order from the L. ). Distric
Court of New York for the sale of the North
ern Pacific Railroad at auction under il
mortgage to them, the object O. such procsed
ing obviously being To wipe out the stool
thus far subscribed and the floating indebted
ness of the road, this fact, taken.in connection
iwlth the above from the only organ of tn


Northern Pacific ring in the northwest


would indicate that at least an effort is to b


made at the next session of congress to Civ


tins notable remedy for hard times tia
This idea of taking money from the publi


treasury and scattering 1t among the peopl


as mode OF curing hard times Is by n


means new. II las been tired before, ant


never failed TO work until the tax collecto


started on his round 10 raise the money I
pay expenses Then, somehow or other, thcr
was always fearful collapse.
Year: 1875

The Beecher case, on Thursday of last week,
reached that stage when there is rest to
hard swearing, and the lawyers prepare tor
the final pull or closing chin music. An ad-
iournment was therefore taken TO Wednesday
of the present week On the latter day Judge
Porter commenced his argument for the de.
fence, speaking all that day and the next and
is expected TO consume the balance of the
week Most Of his speech thus far has been
devoted TO defence of the purity Of Mrs. Til
ton and furious lampoon of her ''lecherous
beastly husband" whom he branded as an
adulterer, seeking verdict TO make his wife
as vile as himself. There are four or five
speeches 10 follow Judge PorteI's, none OF
which will occupy less than three or iOul
days, so that it will probably be June before
the case goes 10 the jury.
Year: 1875

Jay Gould, the great Wall street operator,
having recently gobbled the Union Pacific
railroad, the Pacific mail steamship line, and
the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Line, and
being now on the eve Of swallowing the Chi,
cago and Northwestern, the Lake Shore ana
the Erie railroads and the Western Union
Telegraph line, it is a good time TO foot up
the extent and present money value OF the
"little business which Jay Gould is about to
manage. The figures run about as follows
Year: 1875

s@ If Paul Boynton proves, by ex-
pertinent, that it is a safe thing for a
man to cross the Channel in gum
breeches, the Britons will not have that
sense of security in the isolation of their
tight little island.
Year: 1875

\ tramp writes to the Providence J0ur
nal defense of his profession. He says that
the profession is composed of men "who
90 from place to place through the country
gathering and disseminating great amount
of useful information, relying mainly or the
public hospitality for their temporary nam
tenance never wearing out their welcome by
long soiourn in ore place, never interfering


in politics, carefully and conscientiously alb
staining from the labor question in al! its
phases"
Year: 1875

There is no truth in the story tho. the son
Of Brigham Young who graduate at West
Point, has proposed marriage TO the whole OF
Vassar college. He Is already engaged TO d
boarding school out west.
Year: 1875

here that the citizens OF the towns Of Collins and North
Collins have just organized mutual protection society
for the purpose OF putting stop ~ depredatous which
have OF late committed. The momberz pledge their


tune and tue detection and punishment of tho
and the recovery or property wnch may be stolen
from any member OF said society.