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Year: 1876

The losses by waste of barn-yard manure,
so much deplored, are the inevitable couse-
quences of neglect in winter. When thaws
and spring rains come it is exposed to leach.
ing. The Canada Farmer says


Change the ordinary plan of pitching
your stable manure promiscuously out OF
doors. Give the composing and shetering
method at least one fair trial during the
coming fall and winter, and you will be sur
prised at the result. Have you vacant
shed or outhouse on the premises If so,
use it for the purpose of storage; it not,
erect something of the kind, however cheap
aud temporary. A common board or slab
roof, resting upon bare posts, is better than
no shelter At all. Early in the fall, before
you begin housing your cattle, cart a few
cords Of good dry loan or muck into some
place convenient and handy to your stables.
If muck cannot be got, use any other absorb.
ent like straw, leaves, even sawdust, sooner than
nothing. Lay a wheelbarrow load or two
of this absorbent every day in the trenches
behind your COWS and horses, and, in clean
ing out your stables, night and morning,
wheel earth and all out under the storing
shed. Continue this during the winter,
sprinklng the heap occasionally with plaster
Of Paris to retain its ammonia, and in spring
you will have ready for your fields fertl-
izing material worth fifty per cent more than
the best ordinary barn-yar manure. When
straw alone is used as an absorbent-and no
doubt it is most extensively empoyed-just
take the trouble of running it through the
cutter beforehand, and you will thus not
only lessen the difficulty of subsequent hand,
ling, but materially aid in its incorporation
with the animal waste. In applying thi'
compost to the fields it is to be treated il
the ordinary way, that is, spread broadcast
over the surface and plowed under, il on the
green sward; or thoroughly narrowed in, i
on the inverted sod. The principal gail
effected by composing is the preservation
Of the liquid excrements, which by the usua
method are almost, if not altogether, lost


and when both science and experience Alik
prove these to be Of more enriching valu
than the solid, surely it is to the farmer
interest TO do all he can to conserve then
and enjoy the profits Rccruing from their up
plication.
Year: 1876

In ordinary fed sheep retention Of urine
and inflammation Of the bladder is not of
frequent occurrence; but highlY-lod rams
and wethers seem to be peculiarly liable to
it. This is a disease which requires the most
delicate aud at the same time the most
speedy treatment. The animals which be-
come affected are generally those intended
for some practical use, such as for exhibition,
which have received liberal feeding, and are
consequently of more than ordinary value to
the stOckOwner. Being in a highly fed con.
dition they do not withstand, so well as
other sheep, the operation necessary to get
rid of the disease, and the fatality from the
complaint is great. The disease is induced
by graveley sediment forming in the bladder
of the animal, caused, there can be no doubt
by the rich food OF which they partake. The
first thing to be done when the disease makes
its appearance is to endeavor to pass the
sediment off by gently rubbing the part
where the inflammation is. The part at the
same time should he bathed with warm wa
ter. Should this have no visible effect upor
the inflammation, immediate piercing Of the
bladder becomes necessary, or the inhamma'
tion being communicated to the kidneys, ant
subsequently to other parts of the interna
organization, the animal will soon succumt
to the extreme pain. Some sharp instrumen
should be used-such as pair of scissors
to penetrate the part with, when, if success
fully done, the sediment may be removed
This operation is the only one calculated L
save the animal after the disease has exceeded
its primary mild form, aud should there bo an


appearance Of straining, the sheep should b
at once killed. Too much roots, particular,
mangolds, are, to great extent, blameabl


for this disorder in sheep, so that the far
mer should regulate the quantity Of this fee


when given to his highly.ied animals Will
the animal suffers small quantity Of Cal
Donate Of potass-about a dracham dissolve


in water should be given TO it once or twic
a day. Easily diEested food should also
given .-English Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1876

1t occurs to me that a few thoughts con-
oerning farming in the West may serve q
good turn to many readers of the Rural who
are coming from the East--at least l am
positive that my accumulated experience
would have benefited me materially could l
have had it earlier.


A largo proportion of those who come to
open up farms are men who have had little
or no experience in farming previously, and
they generally succeed the best, for they
have no theories-adapted only to some
other latitude that must be thrown over
board.


The great mistake is to suppose that the
road to success can best be travorsed with a
plow. If one desires to make grain raising
the business Of his life, he can scarcely do
worse than to come here. We cannot com.
pete with some other States in producing
wheat, or even corn, and yet very fair mixed
crops are raised. 1t does not pay to raise
grain to ship. Wheat should be raised sim
ply for home consumption. Corn should
only be sent to market changed into hogs,
cattle and wool. Where the deer and ante
lope love to dwell, sheep are raised with care.
Where vast herds Of bisons have fed, our
native cattle thrive.


The greatest curse to the Nebraska far
mer to-day is a superabundance of first-class
farm machinery purchased son time" If
the capital locked up in headers, harvesters,
grain drills, etc., were in sheep, we could
soon laugh at the locusts. 1t will pay to
ship wool, it will pay doubly well not to
ship it, but manufacture goods at home.
Streams of water are waiting to set a million
spindles humming and the operatives will
help to consume our surplus grains.


1t is fact that cannot account for that
cattle, other than Texas, command a price
almost equal to that price in Michigan,
while the cost of production is comparatively
nothing. Look at this ? A good quality of
hay can be had for the cutting. During the
six months that crops are in the way, viz,
from May to October inclusive, stock is
herded from one dollar per head, the owner
being relieved of all care Of them, even
to the giving of salt.-R. II. Crane "a,
Rural NeU Yorker.
Year: 1876

NoN-HEADING CABBAGE.-Last autumn
was mourning over an unusual number Of
half.developed cabbages, which were only fit
to be fed to the cows, and mentioned the
fact to a Duchess County farmer, who is
in business in New York, and has lately
bought farm near US, asking if his crop
had turned out badly. His answer was that
he had no more soft heads than he wanted,
or to the effect that he would feel disappointed
il he had not considerable number. Now
we, neither Of us, raise cabbages for market,
but for our own consumption mainly, and
| was utterly at loss to know what he
could do with quarter of his crop that
failed to make heads. He told me that he
dug wide trench, so deep that after some
top soil was thrown in he could set the cab.
bages out in the trench as close as they could
stand, and their heads would not come up
level with the top Of the ground. When
planted he covers the trench with boards
and some brush, corn.stalks, salt hay, and
earth on the top, keeping it open at the ends
or elsewhere until cold weather, and ther
covering it in close. lie said they would
all have firm, solid heads in the spring.
tried it, and this spring we are enjoying the
best cabbages we ever ate. They are rather
small to be marketable, say four and a hall
to six inches in diameter, solid and sound
crisp aud tender, as delicate as cauliAowers
and what is most remarkable, 1 never know
we are going to have cabbage for dinner un-
til see it on the table. The great objection
| have to this most wholesome aud deliciou,
vegetable is, that it usually fills the house
with its detestable odor, so to have cabbage
without this drawback is worth all the
trouble it costs,-Cor. American AgricuI
tUriSt.
Year: 1876

SUNFLowERs.-Thcy are rich in honey,
and are consequently good neighbors for
bees. Oil, hardly to be distinguished from
olive oil by any but an expert, may be ex-
tracted from the seeds, in the proportion of
one gallon to one bushel, One acre will
produce something like fifty bushels of seed,
The seeds, too, make food not unpalatablo
for human beings, and very good for ami
mails and poultry. The Portuguese and
the American Indians make a kind of fbread
from them and use as a substitute for cof-
fee. The stalks may be used as bean poles
while growing. Dry, they make passable
roofs for sheds and the like, and burn rap
idly on the hearth. The ashes are very
rich in potash. Altogether, it IS very
useful plant and to crown all, it has a
reputation which scientists have never dis
proved, for absorbing malaria, and acting
as an effectual screen against the scourge OF
the low-lyng district fever.-Ex.
Year: 1876

BALKY lIoRsEs.-The Kentucky Home
Journal gives the following directions for
breaking up the baking of a viciousy stub
born horse "Put on your harness and hitch
him to anything you desire, either single or
double, as you feel disposed, and give him
the commanding word to 60 ahead. If he
goes, you have nothing to do or say but let
him 60 on and do your work but if he re-
fuses to go, take him out Immediately, take
all the harness off except the bride, and
take small rope the size of a plough line,
and tic one end to the bit on the right hand
side, and pull it through the ring of the left
under the chop, pull his head around to his
left side, and slip the rope under his tail like
a crupper and make it fast, keeping his head
tolerably close to his side. Now all is ready,
so let him 60 and take good long whip and
make him go, talking kindly to him all the
time. He will travel like a dog after his
tail, for he can travel no other way, but
after while he will fall down, when you
will Immediately let loose the rope and let
him get up; now talk kindly to him and
caress him. Your work is now half done,
for you have only to tie the rope to the other
side Of the Bit and pull his head around the
other way, and make it fast like a crupper,
the same as before, and start him of again
and let him 60 till he falls down a second
time let him get up Immediately and hitch
him up, and you will probably never have
any more trouble with him."
Year: 1876

CULTIyArING APPLE Whether
to cultivate an orchard or not, depends on
several conditions. If the color of the
leaves is good, if the growth is good, if the
trees bear well of nice fruit, they are doing
well enough, even if they are in grass and
have been for years. But if the leaves be.
gin to look pale, the growth of the upper
twigs much less than foot year on trees
which have been set twelve years, if the
fruit is small in size and yield, then some
thing is the matter. After apple trees are
well established they may need no culture
in some parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
westward aud southwark but in Michigan
have never seen or heard of an apple orch
ard injured by frequent culture. On the
contrary l have seen hosts of them, some il
every county | have visited, which were
suffering for want Of the plough, the harrow,
the cultivator, or a heavy mulch or a heavy
coat of manure as a substitute for culture
Cor. Michigan Farmer.
Year: 1876

GENTLEMEN is well known
that am again Candidate for your
srffrage at the ensuing election, for
the responsible position of Aatditor and
Recorder of your county Two years
ago, you elected me to this position
by your own free cAoice, for which
favor I have ever since felt grateful.
Having served you nearly two years,
it is for you to say whether or not I
merit the position another term. If
I have attended to the business of
the county and the duties of the
office promptly, JaitAfu1W, smpor-
TALLY and honestly, then I feel that I
am entitled to your support again,
otheracise do not ask ii. The pres
ent duties Of the Office prevent my
making an extensive canvass among
you were it in accordance with my
feelings and ideas of propriety to
do science this card. Those de-
string my re-election'will protect me
against false reports and political
t'iche,y. I have no fears of the
truth, be it what it may.


Very respectfully


Your obedient servant,


M. S. BOOTH, Auditor.
Year: 1876

on Saturday night was one Of the best
evidences of the determination of the
people to vote with the Democratic
Party in favor of Reform and Retrench-
ment.


The vast crowd of people assembled at
the corner of Sixth and King streets to
hear Senator Bayard's clear, eloquent,
concise and truthful exposition of the
abuses of the government by the Ad-
ministration at Washington, with such
marked attention proved that the mas
ses are in sympathy with the movement,
and are fully determined that there shall
be an entire change in the executive
power of the General G ,vernment by
which the dishonest men who have made
once means for enriching themselves
and impoverishing the people during the
last ten years shall surrender the places
they have dishonored, to better men.
TO men who will be careful of the inter-
ests Of the people and cooperate with
them in the great movement Of Reform
whereby the expenditures Of the General
Government shall be reduced seventy
tive or one hundred millions of dollars a
year.


By proper retrenchments this can be
done, and SAMUEL J. TILDEN is the very
man to undertake, push forward and
complete such Reform as will accom-
Fiish such desirable bject. At the
meeting on Saturday night no sentiment
was uttered that could be objected to


any gentleman who desires Reform in
The Government. and all are invited tc
vote and cooperate with us in our en-.
deavors TO accomplish the patriotic object
in view. Under the Democratic platform
every man may vote the ticket of oul
party freely whet her he had co.operated
with it or not, nor will he subject him
self to any charge except that of being
Reformer, and certainly all men ought
to be ready to rid the government of the
thieves and robbers who have fed upor
it during the reign of Grantism. Come
with us and help us in the good work.
Year: 1876

The New York Herald, of Saturday,
continues to charge the death of Custer
to the conduct Of President Grant, in
removing him from his command because
he testified under oath against Babcock
and the whisky ring. It's statement is
Il plausible one, which also duplicates to
a considerable extent, Sheridan and
Terry, for the disastrous defeat of the
army. 1t charges that these Generals
had command of the expedition and they
were responsible for undertaking the
Indian force and sending an inferior
force against them. Hence the disaster.
Year: 1876

1t is burning shame that Custer and
Reno should have been sent against the
merciless savageswith inferior arms while
the War Department have thousands
upon thousands of better. Every soldier
should have had with him a repeating
rifle and brace of revolvers. With
these the three hundred under Custer
could hrvc killed thousand red skins
before they could have been butchered.
Year: 1876

Imposition Hated, Opposition Courted, Compe-


tition Defed


In clothing Of the finest and best make in the
District. Our stock of clothing is all of this
seasons manufacture. The piece goods
bought direct from manufacturers, and made
for US exclusively. Every article warranted
shrunk. Fit and satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. Bear in mind that we have
no old stock that has accumulated for years
past, like some other houses in this city which
have tremendous stocks of goods, the major
ity of which has been carried over from year
to year, repressed and placed among goods of
this seasons manufacture.


Below we enumerate some few of our goods
Year: 1876

Smokers are highly pleased with the new
brand of Herbe de Ia Refine Cigarettes aud
Smoking Tobacco. Those goods are superior
TO any in the market. The favor is so delight
ful and pleasant that we can recommend all to
smoke them.
Year: 1876

in the Republican party, which these men IN
minor degree represent, il more snaipv
drawn than ever. The better impulses OF cho
party must be respected; the cleaner, hlgner-
minded men must be put at the front; inc
camp-followers must be sent to the rear, OF
there ia an end of the Republican party.
Whether Gov. Hayes becomes President or not'


il is in need of all its resources, all its capacity
for self-regeneration. There is greater need
of them if he should become President than III
he should not No matter by what clear ana
impregnable title he holds his place, there VIII
always be a considerable section of the people
to believe him to have obtained 1t unJustiy'
Torestore good feeling between all sections OF tne
country and reconcile those who will still cherish
the memory of an injury which was never commit
ted, there must be not only in Gov. Hayes's ad-
minstration but in the conduct of the RepuD-
lican party, the utmost cOnscientlousness, the
highest purposes displayed in the loftiest
practices The choice of unworthy men to fill
high Offices Will only feed the grudge OF those
who will persist in believing that worthy
man has been chosen to the highest of offices
by unworthy means. The Speakership of the
New-York Assembly is not a national office,
but it is by no means an obscure one. Ihe
Empire State casts million of votes, and the
head of the popular branch of its Legislature
should be the best man that can be found 10
I'll the place. That man is not Mr.. Alvord.
The time has passed when the Republican
party could safely confer its high hOnOrs ON
this OF any other representative of a corrupt
school. We need men with clean hands.
Year: 1876

The peninsula of Florida, thumb of the Gulf
States, must be a pleasant dwelling place.
The dispute now raging has brought it some
what largely into the public eye, and made
conspicuous some of its special charms. Ii
seems to be State in which not only the face
of nature but the condition of politics, which,
offers the highest encouragement to both par
ties, continually suggests the line, "Where
"every prospect peases," and q very brief con-
temptation of the condition of society turns
up the remainder of the quotation with a snap.
There seems to be a slippery quality about
this remarkable neck of land which is beginning
to give it in the public mind notion of resem-
blance not only TO thumb, but to q
creased thumb. There may be facts down
there somewhere, and we presume there
are; simply as a matter of physical
geography there must be basis of fact for it,
but what facts there are are of the most elusive
character. Possibly they have taken to the
abundant swamps. Possibly the citizens of that
pleasing cline, standing by as spectators of the
efforts of sundry "visiting statesmen to get al
some solid basis of truth with reference TO the
late election, may make the same answer tC
their foundering investigations that the boy
did to the reprOaches of the traveller whom he
had directed "Look here, boy" said the
traveller, as his horse sunk to his belly in the
swamp, 81 thought you said there
"was hard bottom here" "Well, there
"is," said the boy. "but, bless ye, you
haven't got half way to it YETI
There is probably some truth in Florida
but it must be either at the bottom Of


= e Al.


so far as the efforts of the in
vestigators are concerned. It's enough tC
take the top of an ordinary mans head off Il
undertake to follow the testimony and keeT
track Of the witnesses in these contested
Year: 1876

TIE SPEAKER or THE ASSEMBLY.


The difference between the Tweed 0l FIVE
years ago and the Tweed of to-day is not more
marked than the difference between the Albany
of then and now. When the Tweed Ring
broke, the old regime in Albany went down in
n heap, and when Gov. Tilden blew the Canal
Ring to pieces with n single broadsidc, the
c1ound was cleared even of the fragments.
With the retirement Of Gov Hoffman to per-
mancnt obscurty, the slow restoration of the
capital of our State to something like its for
mer integrity began. DIX, Tilden, and now
Robinson-these are Governors of whom any
State might well be proud. Under the first,
but more especially under the second began
those reforms in finances and administration
which the third may be trusted to continue.
There is bribery and corruption at Albany yet,
and will be, but it has now become shameful
where once it was shameless. The State Gov
ernment is administered now throughout al
most every branch by men of acknowledged
ability and unquestioned integrity; the Senate
is the ablest and the purest that has been seen
in n generation. The Assembly is constantly
shifting its membership, but the Improvement,
even in that body, is scarcely less marked than
in the other branches of official life.


The question now is, Shall that improvement
90 ON, or shall there be long step backward
II rests with the Republican members OF the
Assembly to say. 1t now seems that they must
choose for Speaker of the incoming Assembly
between Geo. b. Sloan and Thomas G. AlyOrd.
.Judge HogebOom would make an unObjectiOnable
Sneaker, but his health was 80 much affected
Inv the lack of ventilation in the chamber last
session that he was not seldom incapacitated
for work and Gen. Hustled, it is understood,
does not desire the place, and there would be
n strong opposition to him if he did. AS
between Mr.. Sloan and Mr.. Alvord, it is diff
cult to see how any conscientious Republican
can hesitate. Mr.. Sloan is an honorable gen.
tleman, with no spots on his record, with moth
ing in his past that he needs to explain. He
il in the direct line of promotion. In the last
House. he acquitted himself most admirably as
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means, and was made Speaker pro tenn. Mr..
| Alyord has seen longer service in the AS
! sembly, but he has distinguished himself chiefly
as the apOOgst Of rings, the leader of the
| lower and baser element in the party, the
representative of canal contractors and railroad
corporations. No one so far as we know, has
ever accused him of actual bribe-taking. But
all his official characteristics can be summed
up in single item of description, that is to
be found in the current. Albany phrase, that
he has done ga good deal of dirty work for
nothing" AS a presiding officer, his ability
cannot be questioned. He has every qualiica-
ton for the position but the necessary record
and the requisite dignity of character.


The people of the State of New York do not
want this man for Speaker; the Republican
party cannot afford to make him Speaker. For
the future the line between the two elements
Year: 1876

The impartial editors who advising some Re-
publican elector to vote to throw the election
into the House, because in that way Mr.. Tiden can
bo made President in accordance with the forms OF
law, and thus avoid all dangers Of disputed cleo
ton, ought TO remember that if Mr.. Hayes receives
ls5 electoral votes his choice will also be strictly
legal The worst that could possibly happen in the
latter case would be suspicion that the Louisiana
Returning Board made an improper use of its legit
mate powers while in the former case, beyond any
question, the Republican electOr who cast his vote
for any other candidate than Gov. Hayes would
shamefully betray his trust and violate the ex-
pressed will of the voters of his State This pressure
upon Republicans to make some conspicuous sacr-
fee in order to avoid disputes is altogether mis-
chievous for it encourages their adversares to per-
severe in their systematic policy of vaporing and
menace. When conservative gentlemen advertise
their personal anxiety to be intimidated they VIII
naturally be accommodated, for a very little buser
will suffice to terrffy them; but the mass OF
people are not so easily frightened. Ono excellent
way to avoid disputes Is to refrain from disputlng.
and this would to be quite timely counsel 10
Democrats as to Republicans.