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Year: 1876

DR. Z. A. Baker gives in the Beekepeer's
journal the following plan for securing an
extra yield Of honey. Perhaps our Bridport
correspondent will tell the readers Of the
FARMER whether the advice is sound.


The plan is simply to keep a very strong
colony queenless during the period of the
greatest flow Of honey. All apiarians know
that virgin swarm will work with more
energy in building comb aud storing honey
than one with full supply. 1t Is not un.
common for strong families, with everything
needful for storing honey in surplus boxes,
to loaf about the hive until few empty
frames are given between the full ones, when
they will soon be filled, but, being in the
queens chamber, she immediately performs
her maternal duty and you get no honey.
The law is immutable, in their allowing no
empty space between broad combs, aud the
law impeling the bees to fill the space with
comb acts with like force in indicating to
the queen her duty. By virtue of cause
and effect, if the entire hive is made into
space it is but fulfilling that law for the bees
to promptly fill it with comb aud honey, if
perchance it is in abundant supply, but
madam queen being present, we must allow
4 considerable force TO assist in attentions to
her royalty; dethrone her and supply the
colony with material to make new one. and
yet allow none to mature for period, and
we shall have our boxes filled with the beau.
teous nectar. The operation is to put two
large swarms, without queens or comb, into
a hive filled with empty sectional frames or
honey boxes, aud give one broad comb at
Que end Of the hive, and before the new
queen is hatched remove the comb and give
them another. When the second has become
fertile, the greatest flow OF honey being over,
remove the honey frames or boxes aud fill
the hive with combs or empty frames as the
fall season for honey may indicate. The
queens and broad combs can be utilized to
advantage, which any intelligent apiarian
will understand.
Year: 1876

In our visit to the place Of Mr. Cleveland
Of Coventry We were much interested 10 his
admirable system of winter care. Having
three horses, forty.three head of cattle and
White Chester pigs to be cared for, he insures
uniformity of care and regularity Of food by
intrustiDg the entire work to the hands Of
one man, requiring no other labor of hun
beyond bringing in wood and such chores
about the house and holds him responsible
for results. His theory is that man can
do but little besides caring for the stock even
though he sights them to some extent and
that it is far more economical to give him all
the time for the work and require thorough
performance, and to hire such extra help as
may be needed for chOppiug, etc. The ag-
gregate gain derived from thorough care
more than pays the cost of hiring the extra
help for such work as might possibly be got
out Of the chore man. 1t is better and more
economical than to try to care for them him.
self with the Interruptions which would come
from necessary absence.


The managers are divided by partitions
some four feet high extending backward
about twenty inches beyond the manger, so that
the cattle cannot reach each others food, or
strike with their horns. Back of the man.
ger some twelve inches high is board
standing upward on one side, to make tri.
angular opening for the animals head tied
with straps or chains around the neck, at.
tached to ehSins ten inches long sliding on
iron rods. Platforms level, well Uttered
with saw dust


BY this arrangement the cows never get
their feet in the manger aud soil their food,
and their Aanks and hind quarters are as
clean as can be.


In the morning the cattle are fed with
oat straw, quite ripe, threshed not very clean,
and cut about one inch long. After which
they are MIXED aud watered While drinking
the stalls are cleaned, platforms bedded and
managers swept out clean with broom.
Then they are tied up again and every aai.
NAL cardsd, when they are left to themselves
At noon they are fed, aud again at night
Every animal is in good order. healthful and
sleek, and shows lair paying result for theil
good care. There appears to be no doubt
that with an equal cost for food and slightly
additional for care, the average condition o
the animals is improved many dollars in cash
value per head.


The straw, stocks aud much poor quality
hay are cut short by Baldwin feed cutter
which can be gauged to cut fve.eighths tC
one and one'fourih inches in length. Th
appears to be the most rapid, easy ruunin,
and effective hand cutter which we have eve
seen.


Wehave been thus particular to describe NJ
C's method for the reason that we hay
never seen cattle in any farmers barn whicl
showed SO good returns 10 condition an
health for the same cost of food and cart
Such an example as this with its wholesom
aud attractive influence will 20 far toward
determining the career of Mr. Cleveland
bright little son. Every friend of agricu
ture can but wish they we're more plentiful
Year: 1876

FREEzING SEEDs.-There are many kinds
of seeds which do not grow freely unless ex.
posed to freezing temperature or considera-
bic heat. Those natives of cold climates,
such as the hickory nut, black walnut, hcavy
locust, Shepherdia, and similar seeds with
hard, horn-like coverings, should be exposed
to the action of frost during winter, but not
IN dry state, for under such q condition
the freezing would do more harm than good.
The best way to manage such seeds is to mix
with wet sand and Put in box or other
tig t vessel, aud then half or wholly bury in
the open ground, but do not cover so deep
that they will not freeze during the coolest
weather. This appears to be the most natu.
raj way of preservation, without sowing them
where the trees are to grow. Fall planting
will answer with many kinds, but there is
more or less danger Of nuts and edible seeds
being destroyed by mice and other vermin,
from which, however, they are readily protect
ed when mixed with sand and kept ia boxes
| have known hickory aDd chestuuts to be
dug up and carried of by squirrels and mice
during thaw in winter hence it is best to
guard against such dopredatOrs. - RHral
NeD Yorker.
Year: 1876

A limited number Of copibes of the very
valuable report Of the Board of Agriculture,
Manufactures and Mining for 1874, (vol p
still remain for free distribution. Any per-
son desiring to procure copy should apply,
without delay, to the member of the board
nearest him or to the secretary at Middle.
bury. If to be sent by mail, the postage
forty cents) should be remitted with the
order
Year: 1876

There was rather serious railroad smash
up at Wyoming last Saturday morning. The
passenger train which leaves there at $50 10
the morning was standing on the side track,
where it had been switched off the night
before, as usual. But the switchman, after
switching he train off, forgot to set the
switch back. So the next morning, freight
train, in attempting to go by Wyoming, was
diverted by the misplaced switch, and ran of
on the side track where the passenger train
was standing The result was smash-up.
Two or three cars were completely wrecked
and one or both of the locomotives. Simon
Hillyard, an engineer, was badly hurt, as
were also fireman and a brakeman. II was
all the result of stupid carelessness.
Year: 1876

Under the above heading we find the following in an exchange. The advice will do very we'll for some of our citizens. Yes, talk up and work up. If it has good schools, good chnrehes, ncwspa pers and clean streets, talk it up. Don't grumble if anything and everything is not up to your ideas especially if you do nothing to make the place. Don't tel strangers it is the worst place you know of to bring up a child, unless you know that it is worse than any other town of the same size. Give encouragement to every useful and crcditable enter prise in our midst, for as sure as effect follows cause, so sure will enterprise or merit repay every citizen. We cannot live unto our selves a personal injury. If you see needed improvement, de- maml it, talk it'up vigorously un- til the whole community is i'm nreonatcd with the idca-until a storm of public sentiment com- pletes the work; but If you can | have everything that is needed, rememle tat in this respect it is just like thousands of other places in the land. Keep talking and encouraging, bat do not grumble. Don't stop because some poor mummy, out of whom has withered all public spirit and love of all advancement, moans out his sepulchral whine 'it won't pay" Show to your live fellows that it will pay, and leave to the mummy his embalmed dust and stupidity, and by and byayou will see the result of your courage and: talk in universal improve ment, increased facilities for bus mess, cultivated society, and a broad, liberal, generous spirit that pervades and yivifies, making pleasant and beautiful every place where it enters.
Year: 1876

Many persons throughout the Statc-among them those who are deeply interested in the matter do not know exactly what will be done with the Real Estate bank lands bought in by the State at the con missioner's sale on May l, 1876. For their benefit we say that by an act of the last legisla- ture, approved at it's adjourned term, after the proclamation re- quired of the governor by sec. 3946 of Gantt's Digest, the owner of the equity of redemption has the term of ninety days, to the exclusion of all others, in which to file his application to purchase from the state After ninety days any person may apply to make said purchase. This may be done for cash, or by paying ten per cent. of the appraised value of the lands and executing note payable Tn fifteen years, and bear ing interest at seven per cent. payable semi annually, for the balance of the purchase money forfeiting the whole if at any time failing to meet the semi annual payments of interest. The ninety days clause above mentioned is about the only material change in the law as it reads in Can't s Digest, commencing at section 3940 and on to section 3964, inclu- siye.-Little Rock Gazette.
Year: 1876

there. l can cipher clean over to improperfracti and the teach

 CT says I do first-rate, but 1 cant cipher out q girl, proper or inn proper, and you cant either. The only rule in arithmetic that hits their case is the double rule of two. They are as full of Old Nick as their skins can hold, and they would die if they couldn't torment somebody. When they try to be mean they are as mean as pursely, though they ain't as mean as they let on to be, except sometimes, and then they are a great deal meaner. The only way to get along with a girl when she comes with her nonsense is to give her tit for tat, and that will fun mux her; and when you get a girl fnmmuxed she IS as nlce as a new pie. A girl can SOW more wild oats in a day than a boy can in year, but girls get their wild oats sowed after q while, which boys never do, and then they set tie down as calm and placid as a mud puddle. But l like girls firstrate, and guess all boys do, I don care how many tricks they play on me-and they don't care either. The hoity -toiticst girl in the world cant always boil over like a glass of soda. Byand-by they will get into the traces with somebody they like and pull as steady as an old stage-horse. That is the beauty of them.e So let them wave, l say; they will pay for it some day, sewing on buttons, and trying to make q decent man out of the fellow they have spliccd on to: and ten clianc- es to one if they get the worst of
Year: 1876

In an editorial on the next House
of Representatives the New York
HERALD says;


"As regards the standing of the
House it viii be of about the same
calibre in the forty-tifth as in the for
ty-iuurth Congress. Butler takes the
place of Blaine as the representative of
the dramatic element in the Oppusi-
ton, and on the democratic side
Lamar will be the most sadly missed.
With these exceptions the leaders on
both sides will he pretty much the
same. Sayler will be Speaker, as u
matter of course. Cox having sacri-
feed the chance which possession
gave him 10 his opposition to Tilden
at St. Louis. The organization Of the
committees, too, will be very much
the same. MOsrison and Randall and
Cox and Swami being all reelected
and entitled to the courtesy Of their
places In the committees of ways and
means appropriations. banking and
currency and foreign affairs. Knott
is also reelected and we presume will
be able To hold his place at the head of
the judidiCiaTy committee. Only two
important committees Wlll be remOu-
eled. those on the Pacific railroad and
on commerce. Lamar was chairman
of the one and Hereford, of West Nir,
gnia, of the other. Had General
Ward. of this city, been chosen, he
would have been entitled to the chair
manship Of the committee on com
merce, and we shall not be surprised
if the new Speaker takes advantage Of
these circumstances to repair the in
justice done to Mr.. Wood through the
prejudice Of the late Speaker. These
speculaIiOns are only valuable at this
time as showing that the present
regime in the House will be continued
for at least two years of the coming
administration. and q. fotecasting the
kind of legislation we may expect in
the near future. The next viii he the
complete counterpart of the present
House Of Representatives in every
essential feautur5, the only difference
being i'm the absence of one distiu-
guished statesman on each side, and
in the smaller majority which the
county has accorded to the democratic
party"
Year: 1876

If the Louisiana Returning Board
is allowed to reverse the Will OF the
people and cast the vote of the
State for Hayes, is there any way
left by which the people can ever
express their choice? The ballot
may Just as well be abolished.
Year: 1876

Hayes will get his Valentine on
the 18th Of February, the day ON
which Congress is to count the
electoral vote. Tilden being a
bachelor will be mated with Miss
Columbia for his bride.
Year: 1876

the family position and power. Thousands
of men, left to themselves, could only
compass their own grave-stones, but cast
by kindly Fate into the hands Of able wo-
men the quarried rock is fashioned into a
monument more durable than brass. into
Il living temple whose head-stones shall be
brought forth with shoutings, whose


''dome of many-cOlUred glass


Stains the white radiance of eternity"


--Harper's Bazaar
Year: 1876

The following simple treatment, for
adisease which has occasioned so much
distress and bereavement, may serve a
good purpose:


Undress the child. and put it to bed
at the very first sign of Sickness
Give it, if it has already fever,
sourish warm lemonade, with some
gum arabic in it. Then cover its alb
domen with some dry flannel. Take
a well-folded bed-sheet, and put it in
boiling hot-water; wiring it out by
means Of dry towels, and put this over
the whole and wait. The hot cloth
will, perhaps, require repeated heating.
According to the severity of the case
and its stage of progress, perspiration
will commence in from ten minutes to
two hours. The child then is saved !;
it soon falls to sleep. Soon after the
child awakes, it shows slight synp-
toms of returning inclination for food;
help its bowels, if necessary, with in.
jections of oil or soap and water, and
its recovery will be steady. Of course.
if the child was already dying, moth
ing could save it, or if it has already
effusioEs in the lining Of the heart or
brain, it is much better that it should
die. Bat if the above is applied in
due time, under the eyes aud direc-
ton of a competent physician, there is
good reason to hope for a beneficial
result.
Year: 1876

You can see any day, in the streets
OF any city, men who look damaged.
Men, too, of good original material,
who started out in life with generous
aspirations. Once it was said that they
were bright, promising lads; once they
looked happily into the faces of moth
ers, whose daily breath was prayer
for their purity and peace. Ali what
if some of them have vowed their souls
away to confding wives, who silently
wonder what can be the meaning of
this change-the cold, slow sleeping
shadow-that iscoming over the house
and heart. Going to the bad The
spell of evil companionship; the will
ingness to hold and see money not
honestly gained; the stealthy, Sc
ductive, plausible advance of the
appetite for strong drink; the treach-
erous fascination of the gambling
table; the gradual loss of interest
iu business, and in doings which build
a man up; the rapid weakening of all
noble purposes; and hlasphemy against
fate; the sullen despair of ever break
ing the chains of evil habit; what vic
tories of shame and contempt, what
harvests of hell have grown from such
seed as this, Sheer, if YOU will, like
fool, at the suggestion of reform, NOR
ais, religion; every man knows in his
better moods, that all there Is of true
life, ia personal virtue and rectitude of
character. Going to the bad But
there is hope. Earth and heaven are
full of hands ever reaching to help the
last man back to the better way. All
she good there is in the universe is in
sympathy with that little goodness
which inwardly reproves and protests.
Tennessee Reporter.
Year: 1876




There is great deal of truth en-
braced in the following extract, writ
ten bya correspondent of the Louis
vile Christian Observer:


tits easy to see that the loye ofmoney
is corrupting the very fountain ofmorals
in our country, and leading thousands
from the path Of rectitude. tits hard
to be strictly yhonestand at the same time
crafty this all absorbing love of wealth.
Hence the failures of that have taken
place in our financial circles, and the
defalcations among our officers, and
persons to whom keeping the public
money has been committed. Embez-
element is the order of the day. and it
is time that we should try to discover
some remedy for this general want of
honesty and uprightness, which is so
much to be deplored People seem to
have found out that they cannot make
money fast enough by honest means,
and they have evidently determined to
see what can be done by fraud, false
hood and deception of every kind.


Instead of paying cash for what they
buy, many go n debt for all the neces-
sarieS of life, and when debt is once
contracted, they never think of pay
ing it until they are obliged to do
so. IF they can take the benefit of the
bankrupt act, or make over their prop
erty to some friend, so as to keep it
out of the hands of the sheriff, they
will cheat their creditors out of every
cent that is justly due to them. This
state of things is alarming, and there
is evidently no remedy for it except
returning to palmer and expensive
way of living, and banishing the credit
system entirely from the land. That
is the fruitful source Of our financial
troubles. LII farmers and mechanics,
if men of every class and calling would
resolve to make their money before
they spend it, and not go in debt for
any superhuous article of clothing or
household furniture, we would soon
become an Independent and self-sup-
porting community, and make the dis
covery that a man may be poor, and yet
command the respect of his neighbors;
that he may be frugal, industrious, and
economical without losing his standing
in society; in word, that he may be
happy without being rieh, but with
conscious rectitude on his side, he may
in very humble circumstances, look
with pity and contempt upon those who
are engaged, with wild excitement, in
the Improbable and fruitles search
after wealth.


Happiness in the golden mediocrity.
As soon as men become convinced of
that fact, they will be content with the
condition in which Providence has
placed them, without seeking after
honors which are beyond their reach,
or rpleasures that have only an imaginary
charm about them. 1t is better to be
poor and honest than to gain wealth by
dishonest and disreputable means.
That precept ought to be deeply en-
graved in the hearts ofyoung men, and
the idea that poverty is disgrace
ought to be discarded forever. 1t
should never be looked upon in that
light, unless it has been occasioned by
reckless extravaganza, or inexcUseable
idleness.
Year: 1876

Massachusetts, is divided into two fac
tions, those who believe that a bank
cashier ought to permit himself to be
shot before revealing the combination
of the vault lock and those who do not.
The bank cashiers, as a rule, belong to
the latter party.
Year: 1876

On a cold, dark winter night, when
a newly married husband is taking In
the clothes with frozen fingers and a
mouthful of clothes pins, nothing
gives him greater feeling of despair
than to hear his wife open the back
window and say: Joseph, you may
bring yours in, but | guess you can
hang mine back.
Year: 1876

When girl crops her front hair and
pulls it down over her forehead like a
Mexican Mustang, and then ties piece
of red velvet around her neck, who can
wonder at the number of plle.faced
young men that throw away their am
bition, and pass sleepless nights in try
ing to raise down on their upper lip.
Year: 1876

Congressman Lamar has written a
letter to Mississippi, in which he says
that i'll health and press Of business,
growing out of the chairmanship OF
the most laborious and absorbing
committee in the House, together with
the d1lties incident TO the chairman
ship Of the Democratic caucus, have
prevented him from preparing for
publication a speech recently deliv-
cred by him in Jackson, but that he
will try TO do il at once.
Year: 1876

Nevertheless, as | have already said
mankind will never consent that Burns
shall be monopolized by a single ma
ton. Humanity loves aud claims him
Vast as would be the chasm 10 the lit
erature Of his own country, If the glo-
rious offspring Of his genius were
stricken from 1t, vaster still would be
the void in the universal heart Of man
if the wide space filled by the memory
Of Burns would be empty--a memory
which will grow brighter and yet
brighter until time itself shall wax
old as doth a garment, and the heav-
ems be rolled together as . scroll.
Year: 1876

The Independent party has accomplished
much already in the way OF awakening an in
:eress in the subject and promoting currency
reform. Seventeen out Of twenty O; the Con-
xressmen elected in Ohio arr pronounced
Greeuback men. Those seventeen men will he
aided by many more. from other States. No
matter what party may have aided in the cleo
ton Of such, they will ayitase this money ques-
ton until the people see and understand It.
Blu. for the sepera,e and outspokea action OF
thu Independent party sach men As those
seventeen in Ohio would not have been heard
os lis action compelled the selection OF men
by the other parties that Greenback men c.suld
vote for honestly Rochester Record and Un-
ion.


1t is not the men who DRIFT with the
current and hurrah with the crowd. who
really serve the cause of humanity. Ii is
the bold men who are ready to fight the
crowd and turn back the current who
alone make revolutions possible. This
the Independents have been doing. sad
this they win continue to do.
Year: 1876

No matter how the election goes there is still
work for the people to do before they see better
times Immediately the people ought TO be-
government currency receivable for duties on
imports, and convertible into a 3,65 bond, and
to remonetize silver and make the silver dollar
of the same weight and fneness it was before
the demonetzing act OF 1873. These acts could
be passed by the existing Congress. II is not
necessary to wait more than year to do it
Dubuque Telegraph.


How petty appear the squabbles OF the
old parties for office in the presence OF
these great questions, on which rests the
prosperity OF the people and the preser>
yatiOn of our liberties.
Year: 1876

Strait has 1877 more votes in this county than
he ever had before. Having proved
himself the popular man, as well as the use
full man, there is good reason to presume that
he will be far the most prominent candidate
for election two years hence. So he must not
obviously put his hand on pap Thacher.s
shoulders any more, for behold! we now nomi-
nate him for fourth term. Pennington
Preas.


. All very pretty, but we put the pro-
phesv on record that Martin S. Chandler
Of Red Wing will be the next republican
candidate, for Congress in the I'd Dis
trict; and a very popular candidate he
will be,.too.