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Year: 1872

Farrow cows that are being MIXED and
fattened at the same time, must have an
abundance of rich foOd-say four or five
quarts Of corn meal per day, with cut stalks
or hay. Beet is now low bat 50 are milch
cows, and it will probably be better to dis
pose Of farrow cows that are fat than to
keep them another season. If literally fed
We have known them MIXED up to the time
they We're sold 20 the butcher, and still
prove very fat inside. As rule, however,
the butcher will pay little more if they
have been dry few weeks.


Cows that come in before the first of
April will now, in ordinary daries be allow
ed to go dry. In the majority Of cases they
cease to give milk Of their own accord
With warm stables and liberal food, some
cows will continue to give milk nearly or
quite up to calying. A COW with great di-
gestive powers, that will keep in high con-
dltion, nourish her calf, and give milk, NAV
be allowed TO do so. In fact, it is probably
better to keep on milking her There will
be less danger of milk fever after calvino
but such cases in our experience, are rare
1t requires liberal food and the best of treat
ment TO keep such a COW in vigorous health.
As rule, the average good dairy COW re-
qureS and will repay a few weeks rest at
this season. And we need seldom be afraid
to feed literally. Any fat accumulated be-
fore calving will in the case of good milk
er find its way to the butter-tub.


For ten day or two weeks before calving,
1t is well to give laxative food, such as bran
mash and linseed tea. or, If this is not sufii-
cient, to give pound of Glauber salts, or
half pound Of Epson salts, and a table
spoonful of ginger. In cases of very fat
cows,it is we'll to give this dose once week
for three weeks or month before calying,
as preventive Of milk-fever. American
Agriculturist
Year: 1872

CARE OF STOCK. The farmer who stints
the feed of his stock during the winter
months, in order to have something to car
ry 20 market, is foolish; the farmer who
1eeds MS stock we'll through the winter
months Is wise. One makes his stock bring
price lar more than the price of the extra
FEED gwen; the other has the pleasure of
seeing his neighbours stock sell readily at
the highest market, and his own slow and
at reduced price.
Year: 1872

SEED Corn. Many have secured their
seed corn and hung it up braided over their
corn bulk. This is wrong. We have evil
dence by testing that this will not do. The
evaporation from below will keep up a
moisture, an infectious one, that will dis
pose to mildew, and will spoil the corn for
seeding. Hang where only the outside air
can reach it, and comparatively pure and
Dry ar within. An upper room without
hre and with open windows is the thing.
provided there is nothing or not much in
the room TO give off moisture. Rapid dry
ins is turuol' Let there be a gradual cur
ing. A little moist air from without will
not be serious, as the roof will be a nro-
lection from direct wet. Too much care
can not be taken with seed corn. CURING If
gradually, thoroughly. This not only makes
the crop sure, bat better. Country Cen
tleman.
Year: 1872

Col. Wisehart. an old Confederate off.
Ger and dauntess man, living near Moss
Neck, has shot at Lowery several times,
but always missed him, and once sur
rounded with a posse the outlaws cabin,
but he got off so mysteriously that they
allege to this day that he had an under
ground passage.


Lowery is said to whip his wife some
times and to have threatened also to
shoot her, on the occasions of her reprov-
ing his long absences. Some time ago
she came, according to rumor, to store
at Lumberton, and remarked:


Berry put his gun in my face to-day
Year: 1872

There is much unpalatable but
wholesome truth in the following ex
tract from a leading editorial in the
(Gallatin) Tennesseean, of Nov. %.
And he is very correct in saying, that
what he states of Gallatin, is true of
fifty other places in this State. May
the time soon come when the present
lethargy will give place to activity and
enterprise:


Thinking men now demand facts.
They live in practical world and
they realize, from living evidences
around them, that practical improve-
ments. which tend to relieve mankind
from the druggery of hard physical la
Dor, inevitably promote higher de-
gree of civilization and in all respects
a better and happier condition of So
ciety. Gallatin stands to-day as, per-
haps, fair sample of the effect of our
heretofore mistaken idea of civiliza-
tion. The mute eloquence of its
broken sidewalks and its dingy, dead,
walls tells its story; and the way-far-
ing man, though he could not read a
letter upon the printed page, can yet
read in the woe-begone features of
Gallatin story Of touching and mel
ancholy sadness. Its story is the same,
no doubt, as that of fifty other places
in Tennessee: too much idleness and
too little work too much politics and
too little patriotism too much preach
ing and too little piety; too much
theory and too little practice togeth-
er with all the minor ills and evils in
cident to country village in which,
although they know that labor is wor-
ship, and cleanliness is next to god
illness, they yet maintain half dozen
different kinds of religion and not
a single bath-house, Board of
Trade, nor place of public amuse-
ment; where there is no diver
sity of employment for the energies of
the young men who are compelled to
loaf half their time on half salaries
with week after week following each
other in dull, unexpectant sameness.
And even Sundayin such towns present
to them only the alternative of doctrin-
al sermons, assuring them of their de-
pravity, (?) or divers drinks on the sly,
which serve to change their feelings
from loneliness to headache.
Year: 1872

The amount annually paid by farm
ers for marketing and selling their
produce is equivalent, according to
the best authorities, taking all articles
together, to one-third their value. 1t
is quite an important problem, there
fore, in the history of the agriculture
of every State, in what manner the
cost of transportation can be reduced.
Some advocate the raising of stock
which would give only partial relief.
There is but one way in which the
farmers of State can permanently
and successfully reduce the cost of
transportation, and that is to encour-
age the building of manufacturing es-
Establishments to work up the raw ma
terial. There is no sound reason in
the practice which prevails among
the people of the South, in shipping
away raw material and importing man
utacturing articles. Why send away
our cotton and leaf tobacco, and bring
back millions of dollars worth of cot
ton goods and manufactured tobacco? :?
If the people of the North, living in
an inhospitable climate, can afford to
manufacture cotton goods at a profit
a thousand miles from the cotton
fields, surely our people, with streams
as good and climate much better,
ought to be able to work up our cot
ton and wool into fabrics at fair
profit.


But it is to the indirect benefit that
would result to the agricultural COM
munity to which we wish to call special
attention, The farmer in manufac-
turing district has market at home
for all his surplus products. Potatoes
and beets, parsnips, turnips and other
products that will not pay to raise in
greater quantities than are demanded
for home supplies, because of the high
rates of transportation, would find
ready consumers. A diversified agri-
culture would be stimulated and fos-
tered by the presence of manufacture
ing establishments. Mr.. Mechi esti-
mates that English agriculture
owes its success quite as much to the
vast number of factories as to any
other cause. Indeed, it is said that
farmers in the countries that have
manufacturing establishments, are
able to pay double the rents for land,
and realise much greater returns for
their labor. The farmers of New
England, with their soil originally
thin. and ungenial climate, are able to
pay higher wages than the farmers of
Tenncssee.-Rurat San.
Year: 1872

The California wine crop of 1871
amounted to about seven million gal
ons, the yield of 1872 will beaboutthe
same, Notwithstanding sanguine antic-
ipatoons that it would reach nine mill
ion gallons. In Sonoma and some of
the northern countries the vineyards
are backward, and this operates as a
set off to the yield of the new vine
yards of this year. In Los Angeles
county the crop is better than it was
last year, The deficiency in the sup
ply of oaken casks this year has caused
much sacrifice and loss of good wine,
and the red wood casks are not strong
enough for shipping purposes. The
oakeu slaves have TO be imported into
California, and this is the first year
that any failure in the supply has been
experienced.
Year: 1872

About one hundred negroes will
leave New York this week for Liberia
by the bark Jasper, under the charge
Of the American Colonization Society.


The Government of Liberia will
give each family of them twenty i've
acres of ground, and the society gives
each cblonist free passage and means
Of subsistence for six months. What
a God-send this society would be to
the South. The Southern States will
give the last cent of money they have
in the world if such society will
come among us TO appropriate il as
aforesaid.-Dyer Comfy Progress.
Year: 1872

Nrltlng from Boston to the Chicago
journal, a correspondent relates the story
| OF such mutations in a life AS may he con
| sidered characteristic of American expert
ences


In 1860 there came to the metropolis of
New England, from Penobscot in Maine.
young orphan girl, who after vainly
striving to maintain herself comfortably
at nome, by school teaching. had decided
to essay the fortunes OF L factory girl in II
larger city. Entering the hoop skirt manu-
factory of 4 private firm in Boston, She
DEVOTED all her energies to Il mastery OF
the business. that her confinement to mere
drudgery might not be long protracted,
and this to such effect that in Il years time
she was promoted to the position of sales
woman.


In two years more her superior mental
capacity and practical tact made her the
chlef Saleswoman IN the establishment.
ana through this last position she was
drought to the acquaintance OF a certain
rlcb California merchant buyng goods for
MS store IN San Francesca The acquaiut-
ance matnred in mutual regard OF
griver nature. The girl, well as she wa,
long, had woman'S natural vearning
Tor WOman'S domestic kingdom, and when
the Californian closed his business ar-
count for the time by asking the sales
woman to go back to San Francisco with
hum as his wife she yielded graceful as
sent. After a quiet wedding the Two de-
parted together for the Pacific coast, where
the ensuing tour years were passed in all
the harmony and prosperity requisite tor
the smoothest progress of married lire


The wife now of Il rich man and The
poSsessor OF abilities and personal come
iinesS to grace high social station, the
former factory girl assumed command
my position in the society of her new
nome, and became a leader in matters OF
arIstocratlc taste and t"shon. After four
wears the Amerlcani5m OF her DESTINY
found tragic demonstration Some month,
t9o her husband was tempted into one OF
those tNtravagant mining speculatiuns
Which are the bant of California, and en-
tered too deep to be able to Withdraw be
tore the collapse and crush. In few
hours of sinking values he was dragged
Gown from wealth to poverty, and re-
Venged himself upon fortune by commit
tIhg suicide. The sound OF the fatal II ;tui
shot aWoke the hcreaved wife from her
tour years dream ef happiness and plenty.
to the Old reality of her grish homrh-
Ness and want. The expenses ol the sell
destroyer'S burial left her with barely
enough remaining from recent wealth tu
secure her return to Boston, where She j.
once more working for her livelihood 4,
though the California episode had never
hhghted her existence.
Year: 1872

The Saturday Review says of novels
Both reading and writing novels is favor
able to tlabby condition of the mental
fibre. The great mass OF fiction lies like a
poultice upon the human mind discourag-
ing energetic thought or severe forms of
art"
Year: 1872

A musician doing business at Hudders-
field, England, was recently sentenced to
eighteen months Imprisonment because
when asked by his sick wife to run for the
doctor he merely sat down by her bedside
and played the "Dead March in Saul"
He had also in other ways shown lack of
artistic perception in his treatment of his
wife, but the ''Dead March IN Saul" play
ed to a live woman in bed and suffering
from severe illness seemed so utterly and
helplessly unesthetic that the husband
and musician was deemed unfit to associ-
ate with men. Such is ever the fate of
genius.


The editor of the New Orleans Repub-
lican thinks it must have been the proof
reader who made him call the governor
"our enterprising thief when he meant
to say "our enterprising chief"
Year: 1872

The VICTORY NOT OUTWARD In the
universal conflict OF life, The victory is not
to be looked for outwardlv. You will re-
member that when Paul had that strange.
mysterious thorn in the flesh, whatever il
was, he prayed thrice that it might be re
moved from him and the Lord answered.
My grace shall be sufficient for YOU.
Will not take away the trouble, but | will
give you grace that shall enable YOU TO
bear II, and give you a victory over it ."
In this world we frequently gain victories
in ourselves, although outwardy we seem
to suffer defeat. There are many men
who are not prospered when they seem to
be prospered. Ii is the worst part of them
that is prnspercd when they ale only bros
pered ontwardly, Many men who have
gone down in bankruptcy are themselves
conscious that there is something in them
that is better, sweeter, more noble than
material prosperity has been able to de
velop. They are conscious that they are
more men in their trouble than they would
be IT they We're out of it. Grief opens the
door of Heaven to many souls. just 90
to those who sit in the shadow There is
many Il man who has sought success and
struggled tor it, and come short of it, and
who seems to be defeated, but who. after
all, has had a victory. The best side of
him has been victorious That which
made him victorious was more manliness
it was more godliness, it was more OF thai
spirit of hope by which we are saved 1t
was that faith which inherits Heaven by
foresight. Gil. W. Beecher
Year: 1872

In her ''Notes on Nursingn Florence
Nightingale says with more truth than
We could wish, that three -tourths OF
the whole mischief in women's lives arises
from excepting themselves from the rule
of training considered necessary for man.
Ii three-tourths of the women who are
trying to take the profession by storm,
and to capture journalism by rDtlp R'etH,
and to drive all male lecturers off the plat
form by their pretenSlons, and get the
crank OF the political machinery OF the ma
ton into their own hands, would seriously
ponder Miss Nightingaie's words, it would
be vastly better for them and all concern
ed than at present. Every woman who
attempts anything out OF the beat of her
sex, and fails in the attempt. throws sus-
picion upon the ability OF her sex and him
ders IFS emancipation, II requires time
and patience and vast effort to prepare
oneself to do any thing surprisingly well
but it is only 10y thoroughly training them
women can succeed in permanently estab-
lishing themselves in the great fields of
human enterprise. What women have
gained by the agitation of twenty-five
years is Opportunity, and it remains for
them to make such u use of their unprece-
dented privileges that the opportunity viii
be justified by their Performance. But
August is not October. and those who
spend their strength in trying to pluck


unripe apples from the Tree of Life, will
find their labor WEAKNESS. Golden Age.
Year: 1872

A remarkable instance Of tolerance by
the human system of the excessive use of
tobacco is afforded in the case of Mr.
klaes, of Rotterdam This gentleman,
who was known as the "King of Smok-
ers," has just died in his eightieth year,
and is said to have consumed during his
long life more than four tons of tobacco.
The ruling passion was apparent in the
will of the deceased, and in his eccentric
request that his oak coffin might be lined
with the cedar Of his old cigar-boxes, and
that box of French corporal and pack
age of old Dutch tobacco might be placed
at its foot, and by the side of his body his
favorite pipe, together with matches, flint
and steel, and tinder.
Year: 1872

ditions of demand and supply, namely good
prices for cheap manufactures, indicate
that the making of hemlock extract will be
a profitable business in this region even for
small capital.


Now, we will suppose that no man in
this place who has S. 900 to spare is will
ling to invest i'll such factory, but that
there are twenty-five men Of more limited
means, who are ready to invest $500 each
in the new process, provided they are fully
satisfied by their own inyesti CATION, and
personal knowledge, that it is all it claims
to be. They organizo as a company, build
their factory, start it on credit, or borrow a
few hssadeeds tor running expenses as could
very easily be done, and in six weeks time,
or little over, every debt would be paid
up, original investment returned cent per
cent, and Sc per day be coming into the
pockets Of men who once perhaps, thought
themselves well off, to get half that amount
tor a days hard labor.


To the objection that the demand will
soon create supply, and bring down
prices, the answer is that the manufacture
would be very profitable at one-third the
present rate OF return, and it must be 4
considerable time yet, before the supply can
be great enough to reduce the prices one
cent on the barrel. In the meantime capi-
tai invested can earn its hundred per cent
in six weeks at farthest, after opening a
factory.
Year: 1872




Onperusing the Letter from the Secretary
of War communicating to the Senate in.
formation relating to the canal and dixie, we
cannot help feeling how unsatisfactory that
portion of it is which contains the opinions
of Major Houston on this question. He is
the United States Engineer in charge Of our
harbor improvements, and his professional
opinions, therefore have special interest
for the people Of Superior, in view of the
conflicting rival interests of Duluth.


1t will be found that his testimony appar-
entity involves direct contradictions; that up
to 29th June 1871 he was uniform and con-
sistent in his views regarding the engineer
ing principles of our harbor improvements
and that after that date he suddenly revers-
cd every one of them.


The plan of the harbor improvements is
to contract the outlet or entry between the
Bay Of Superior and the Lake, by two par
slel piers 420 feet apart, and stretching in
to the Lake until they reach deep water.
The object OF THIS IS 70 conhne tGe volume
of water flowing into the lake, so as to scour,
deepen and maintain deep channel at the
entrance This plan was matrred by a
board of Government Engineers, is rigidly
approved of and adhered to by the Chief of
Engineers of the Army, and Congress has
made large appropriations ofmoney towards
it. During the last two years Major Hous-
ton has had the charge of carrying this plan
into effect, and until recently has repeated
II acknowledged the accuracy Of the theory
on which it is based.


We shall quote from his evidence in the
Injunction suit, and from the letter from the
Secretary of War, and our readers can then
Judge Of his consistency.
Year: 1872

October lS10.-Tke Ca
nal will be "highly danger
Gus" TO the existence OF the
present outlet. It's effect
will be to divert the cur
rent of tie St. Louis River,
thus reducing the securing
force which is necessary TO
maintain the channel aim
ed at, and sought TO be I'M
proved and maintained by
the Government works.
The nearer the canal is TO
the mouth Of the st. Louis,
the greater will be the in
jury sustained by the chan
mel to the lake.


Nay lS7l.-ifthc Canal
is made, the velocity of the
current a. the present out
let viii be diminished, and
the effect of the present
Improvement will be lost.


1t is very probable that
tie effect of the canal viii
be in time to entirely close
up the present outlet, un-
less the costly expedient of
dredging is resorted to.


June lSTl.-N OF hin 2
should be permitted which
would have a tendency TO
diminish the strength of
the current.


Enough of the practical
effect of the canal can now
be seen 10 verify the opin-
ion that unless a dixie is
constructed, the flow of
water through the artific-
ial channel must of neccs-
sity seriously weaken the
current passing out at the
natural entrance.
Year: 1872

on our harbor system have not been char
acterized by that stability which is desir-
able. AS this is subject Of great import
ance to those interested in Superior, we
shall recur to it.
Year: 1872

Mrs. Jane Swisshelm, furnishes the world with description of the cougar, or American tiger, that is thrillingly interest ing. She says that at a certain time past, her husband bought in Arkansas a cougar, six months old, which had been caught while kitten in the woods. The crea- ture was brought home, and remained a prisoner four years, at the end of which time he died. Tom, such was his name, was nine feet in length, of a gray color on his back and sides, and nearly white on the belly and throat. His back was gen orally perfectly straight, his form symmet- rical, and his movements 1.-the and grace ful. If in exceedingly good humor he would purr but if he wished to intimidate he would raise his back, erect his hair, ard spit like a cat. In the twilight of the evening the animal was accustomed to pace back and forth to the full extent of his limits, ever and anon uttering short, piercing shriek, which made the valley reverberate for half Q mile or more in every direction. Mrs. Swisshelm says these sounds were the shrillest, and at the same time the most mournful she ever heard. They might, perhaps, be likened to the scream of woman in an agony of terror.

 The natural ferocity of the panther was at length so far subdued, that his fair mistress sometimes ventured, when he was in good-humor, to stroke his head and feel his paw. On one occasion, indeed, when he had broken his chain, and all the men in the house, with the exception of MT. Swisshelm, had fled to the barn for safety, she seized him by the collar as he took refuge in the dining-room, and held him until her husband took effectual measures to secure him. At length, how ever, the lady was thrown from carriage, and so severely injured that she was con- fined to her bed several weeks. She says:

 When we appeared on crutches we inadvertently went quite near the cougar, and were warned by low growl that he was regarding us as his prey. We turned and found him crouehed within five or six feet of us, ready to spring - his eyes green and blazing, and the tip of his tail moving from side to side. We kept our eyes fastened on his; there was no one within call, and we tried to make him remember us by talking to and naming him.

 1Om-pOOE 1OLu DuG 1Olu eyes lost none of their fire, and the tail kept up it's regular motion.

 "Then we tried to intimidate him, as we had often done before, by assuming a voice of command. Tom Tom Down Tom ? but Tom kept his hostile atti- tude, and we-in doubt as to whether his chain was long enough to reach us, or strong enough to resist the spring we saw he intended making kept our place and tried to stare him out of countenance.

 "After what appeared to us long time, trusting to the power of the eye to keep him still, we set our crutches, and still speaking to him, threw ourself back ward step. The instant we moved he sprang, but the chain held him, and being too shert, he rebounded against post, and fell to the floor some eighteen inches from where we stood."