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Year: 1875

It is best to exchange wheat that was grown on freestone for wheat grown on limestone. Smut in seed wheat may be prevented by washing the wheat in strong brine and drying it in wood ashes.

 The mere sprouting ofthe ker- nal is not fatal to the seed, but heating to any considerable ex- tent, either in mows or in piles of threshed grain is ruinous. Be- fore sowing tests were made by placing soil in pan and planting in it known number of kernals to test the question of vitality. A large percentage failed to ger minate under these very favorable circumstances.

 It is always best to exchange s sed, if only for a few miles, ot any grain, but particularly wheat, which becomes, as farmers call it, tired. This has been known to make difference of from two to ten bushels per acre in the yield. A careful selection of tile most approved varieties as seed, and the certainty that It is free from smut and foul seeds, is very inn portant in the effort to grow q good crop of wheat. If seed IS old or has been heated in the mow or bin, the germs may he injured or destroyed, and in that case will fail to produce q full and vigor- ous growth of plants. Seed wheat should be graded, that is, the small kernals should be, in some way separated from the large and perfect ones, and only the best sown.

 This m ly be done by raising up the front end of the flaming mill, thus slanting the selves in the di- rection of the blast of the wind, and feeding the mill slowly, turn ing fast and blowing hard, driving half or more of the grain over the selves and thus allowing only the plump, to come forward of the mill for seed.-Exchangc.
Year: 1875

It is the wish of every one who feeds an anima. for butchering that each bushel of gram should make as much flesh and fat as it is possible to obtain from the same.

 It is we'll known that animals fatten faster in moderately warm weath than in cold weather, therefore those who began to feed freely a month or two ago have gained by it and can kill very early if the season is favorable.

 The writer has known men to put hogs on a floored pen and deny them a drop of watet. This is the worst of economy to say nothing of extreme cruelty, altho' it is SAID that they live and get fat.

 All food for animals and plants must be in solution before it can be converted into flesh, fat, fiber, or grain, so give your animals plenty of pure water lest they "dry up" as the crops do in time of drouth. It is also economy to feed out freely giving as much as can be consumed allowing them to clean up once in while. If yol have beeves to feed let them and the hegs run together, at least a part of the time, as the hogs will finish up the waste. T
Year: 1875

A writer i1 the N. k. Farmer who evidently understands the subject, gives the results of his experience in this particular as follows:

 I find the advantages of fall following to be, first, by the de- composition of the sod, much of it becomes available plant food in the early part of the next season. I have seen a difference of ten days in the ripening of Early Rose potatoes caused by fall following. I have known early cabbages to be two weeks earlier on land fall fallowed than on land in the same field treated in the same way in other respects, but not fall fallow- ed.

 Secondly killing witch grass and weeds, 1 have known it to save three fourths of the hand hoelng necessary for clean culti- vation.

 Third-By killing the worms, l have known potatoes dug in Sep tember, to be perfectly smooth on followed land, but in the same rows on land not fallowed, they were very much eaten.

 Fourth-It leaves the land in good condition, for very wet or very dry weather.

 Fifth-It gives one an oprortu- nity to gather as large a pile of material to be used as an absorb ent in the barn cellar or elsewhere as they may desire. Two years ago the absorbent problem looked to me like difficult one to solve. Two public highways and a rail road run through our farm, and the facs of mother earch mas been sadly scared on the side of these roads by digging material for the barn cellar. There is on the farm a small meadow in which there is first rate meadow mud. It is also good grass land. It is by the side of the railroad and near the barn. The mud cannot be dug without leaving unbroductive and unpleasant looking holes, there fore l decide to go to the fields for my absorbents. My plan is, after blowing, take every tenth furrow from the most fertile part of the field until I have piled uI as much as I think 1 shall need l pile in the barn yard, near the cellar, so that with a wheel bar row it can be taken in as wanted What was piled last fall is ir splendid order to use now. Witt the barn cellar doors, which wt take of in the summer time, made roof over the sod pile. Il was very satisfactory during the hot weather of last week to SC. the dry material absorb the liquic manure. thereby keeping the eel
Year: 1875



 From the Co., Operative News.l Cotton seed, which the planters are sending in such quantities to market. contain the life of the soil; the lint abstracts but little nntriment from the land, in com parison to the seed.

 How few planters reflect that they are robbing themselves and their heirs and assigns by sending their cotton seed to market, in- stead of returning them to the soil as manure.

 We are literally selling the fat of the land, in parting with he cotton seed as we do.

 Tie oil when expressed goes to the soap maker and inty a h.n- dred other uses; the oilcake goes ta Europe, chiefly to England and Scotland, to fattcn British cattle and make richet the we'll titled British soil: while the best part of the seed is totally lost for any farm use; this is the hull, so very rich in phosphates.

 The hulls of cotton seed, which are worked up in the South, as most of them are fed to milch COWS in cities or are used as fuel.

 We trust the day will soon come when, if cotton seed must be used for oil making, that they will be wyrked up near the cotton fields, so that the planter will receive back the oilcake and the hulls, to be fed to his own beeves, cows and work stock, and returned as manure to hlS SOli.

 The granges should take up the subject, and see that their cotton lands are not robbed as they now are.

 A cotton seed oil manufactory is not q very costly establishment and every nelghborhood should have one. To all appearances they are as profitable as tan yards, whisky mills, or state offices.

 One of the chief duties of the grange is not only to promote the cultivation of the soil, but to stim- ulate and educate the scultivators.

 Improvement of farm and farm CTS is the motto.

 We can no longer calculate on wearing out lands and then nov Ing west.

 The west has disappeared in the land of grasshoppers and mountain deserts.

 No farmers of the world have such materials to make ample manure of the richest quality as have the cotton planters. They can, if they will, build oil estab- lishments in their own neighbor- hoods, and get back the oilcake and hulls; not only have less corn to raise, but they will have ma nure heaps that will surpass any of the commercial fertilizers and their lands may be made more fertile each ear.

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Year: 1875

Good horses and mules for farm use are indispensable 10 successful farming. Did you ever think of the difference in the result of a days work between horse that would walk in the blow three miles an nour, and one that only goes two, or two and a half? If you have not try it, and you will be astonished to see how much va!uable time the hand that fol lowed the slow horse has been losing. The same may be said even more emphatically of slow oxen.
Year: 1875

Has the largest circulation of any paper in the State, outside of Little Rock, and is not surpassed by any other paper in the south west being circulated in nearly every town and city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent. enterprising people.
Year: 1875

The September number opens with a fine
Yignette, Which Of Theseg' The two Sc
rials, "The Deserted Husband" and "rhe
Mystery of Blackwood Grange"-are contin
ued, the former deepening in terror and
gloom and the latter emerging into sunlight
The shorter stories are Too Late, BY Chance
and The Hostess of the Raven. There is O
very able article on Richard Wagner, In
which the merits and dement's of the great
German composer are weighed with an IN
telligence, discrimination and power OF analy
sis we have seen in no other magazine writer
that has approached the subject In Topics
of the Times the editor talks a great deal toe
much pOlltics-belng a devoted follower OF
pigiron Kelly and firm believer in his tariff
spoliation and initiation lunacy
Year: 1875

We direct the attention of the trav-
cling public to the advertisement of
the PicO House in another column.
This house Is now complete from Gel
lar to garret, and is one of the most
home-like hotels on the coast. Itcon-
tains one hundred elegant rooms well
furnished, finely lighted and fully ven-
tilated, and the hotel is provided with
all refined necessaries such as spa
ciOus dining room, ladies ordinary,
private bath rooms, luxurious parlOrs,
Il commoGi0us billiard room &c. Ia
ken altogether, Messrs. Swales Il Guy
as have one Of the most comfortable
houses in California and offer the trav-
cling public every inducement to be-
come their guests.


The chain gang should be engaged
clearing offthe crossing after these
rains. To-day church going people
will be much incommoded by the
mud on the crossings unless the Cap
tain of the chain gang bestirs himself
and gets his proteges out early with
shovels, scrapers and broOms. We
heard Councilman say that he had
spoken to the Captain of the chain
gang about scraping the crossings and
the latter official was quite Indignant
and intimated that it was not his bus
mess TO keep crossings in order. II
might be well to dispense with Cap
tain of the chain gang unless he can
keep crossings in order on the leading
streets.


Just when we were very much in
want of telegraph during the heavy
rain of Friday night we received big
dose in the shape of prize fight, a
chicken main, wrestling match and
a Charley Ross item. We missed the
inevitable Beecher-Tilton item that
has been coming in for the last few
years, so we resented the insult and
did not publish the rest of the chapter.
Year: 1875

poses of transit, and the difiicitlty VIII
probably never be overcome. Certain
emergencies, however have occasionally
made the balloon very useful II was en-
ployed during our civil war to watch the
motions of the enemy in and around Rich
mond Gen. Porter was once watching
the Confederates from captive balloon
when the cable broke and he was carried
over their lines; but on pulling the valve
the machine descended, and favorable
wind took him back to his own forces.
The most notable use ever made of bal
looms was during the siege of Paris by the
Germans in the last war. When the city
was completely invested the project of
sending out mail balloon was conceived
and put into execution, the first leaving
Paris Sept. 23 with 227 pounds of letters,
and descending at Evereux. Until the
close of the war balloons were constantly
being dispatched, some carrying letters
others passengers. More than sixty in all
were sent out, most of which were utilized
by the Postoffice Department, which for
warded in all about 2,500,000 letters
Among those who took this means of
escaping from the devoted city was Gam
beta. Many of these balloons were car.
ried far beyond the French boundaries,
one landing in Norway, 600 miles north
of Christiana, while some fell into the
hands of the Prussians. One, in pass
ing over the Prussian lines, was fired
at so often that the aeronauts became
much alarmed, and were forced to ascend
several hundred feet to escape the balls
which whistled around them. It is diff
cult to conceive a more frightul situation
than that to which those travellers were ex-
posed. In danger anyhow, a stray shot
striking the balloon would usher them to
IA sudden and violent death, and we may
well imagine the haste with which they
tossed sand-bags overheard, and their re
lief when beyond the reach of the Prus-
sian balls. Since the war the German
Government has taken ballooning in
hand, and is now endeavoring to improve
it and render it available for military pur-
poses.


A singular fact about aerial voyages is
the calm which apparently surrounds the
balloon. No matter if it be carried along
with "A velocity of 100 miles an hour, there
is rO resistance; all appears to be still,
and only by comparison with terrestrial
objects can the traveller perceive his high
rate of motion. The danger to which the
balloon is exposed from 1ightningstrokes
is supposed to be not very great, since il
does not communicate with the earth, and
there is no special projection for the cleo
tricity to single out as a mark Should
such calamity occur it is easy to appre-
hend what might be its dreadful character
and effects. Thus far balloons have done
little save 10 minister to the curiosity and
love of novelty of the populace, and it is
not very probable that they will ever serve
a much better purpose.-St Louis Globe
Democrat.
Year: 1875

ACRoss the rapid stream Of seventy years
The slender bridge OF human life Is thrown
The past and future form it's molderlng piers ;
The present moment Is It's frail keystone.
From dust thou art' the arch begins to


rise, h rH
"To dust" TIE fashion Of its form dcscends,
"shalt thou return" the higher curve i'm
In which the first to the last lowness bends.
Seen by youths magic light upon that arch,
How lovely does each far-off scene appeari
But an! how changed when on the onward
Our weary footsteps bring the vision nearl
Twas tabled that beneath the rainbow's foot
A treasure lay, the dreamer to bewitch;
And many wasted In the vain pursuit
The golden years that would have made


them rich.
so where life's arch Of many colors leads
The heart expects rich wealth of joy to
But in the distance the bright hope recedes
And leaves cold gray waste Of care be-


hind.


A sunlit stream upon It's bosom takes
Th' inverted shadow Of ~ bridge on high,
And thus the arch in air aud water makes
One perfect circle TO the gazer's eye.
so tits with life the things that do appear
Are heeting shadows on times passing


tide


Cast by the sunshine Of a higher sphere
From viewless things that changelessly


abide.


The real is but the half of life; it needs
The ideal to make perfect whole;
The sphere Of sense is incomplete, and


pleads


For closer union with the sphere Of soul.
All things Of use are bridges that conduct
To things Of faith, which give them truest


worth;
And Chhst's own parallels do us instruct
That heaven is but the counterpart of


earth
The pier that rests upon this shores the


sane


AS that which stands upon the further


bank
And fitness Cor our duties here will frame
fitness for the joys Of higher rank.
OH dark were life without heavens sun TO


show


The likeness of the other world in this;
And bare and poor would be our lot below
Without the shadow OF world Of bliss.
Then let US, passing DER life's fragile arch,
Regard it as a means and not an end;
As but the path of faith on which we march
To where all glories of our being tend


Good Words.
Year: 1875

The court Of inquiry into the circum-
stances attending the loss of the steamer
Vicksburg have made their report, in
which they censure the officers of the lost
ateamer for recklessness
Year: 1875

In the middle Of his face,
Never getting out of place,


Is his nose.
Multiplying briskly there.
The carbuncles gleam and glare


As 1t grows.
Strange the history it has,
Strange Dc things which comes TO pass
Round that nose.
Time full many changes wrought,
Men were sold and men were bought;
Still it blows.
How 1t swells in lurid pride,
Hov'ring lightly DER the tide


As there flows
Underneath its purple grin
Stream on stream of ripping gin,
Beaming nose!
Long and earnest wos the work,
But his soul no toll would shirk,


How it growsi
When he sinks into the grave
May grim death unto US save


His big nose.
Who would lose the gentle wheeze,
Muddy shuttle, rafting sneeze
of that.nose?
Who will check the rising tear
When in pallor on the bier,


Home 1t goes?
Year: 1875

ACCORDING to dispatches from Madrid
the Carlists are rapidly approaching dis
solution. The frequency with which
similar announcements have been made
within the past three years leads to the
presumption that the Carlist army has
all the vitality of a cat. Similar state
ments have been made at least once q
week for two years, yet the Carlists do
not die, but cling to life with tenacity
that is truly remarkable. When Don
Carlos surrenders it will be time enough
to give credence to these reports.
Year: 1875

BALTIMORE has new idea in the way
of transferring grain, which New York
would do well to adopt if she wishes to
save the remnants of her whilom monop-
oily of the Western trade. At the former
city, cars are run directly upon a two
story scow, which is then towed along
side the steamer. The pipes are ad-
iusted, and the grain runs down into the
hold. Gravitation does the work of
steam, and does it much cheaper. The
adoption of such system in New York
would hurt the men who now make ex-
tortionate profits out of the cumbrous
"lighters " into which the grain is slow
ly shoveled from the cars, to be after
wards slowly shoveled into the steam
ships, but it would benefit good part
of The rest of American mankind.
Year: 1875

We are among those who see
the better days returning-not at =
railroad pace, but with a slow and
healthy tread, and though that re-
turn may not come until it accom-
panies the centennial year, it i at
least some consolation to be able to
predict with confidence that the
days Of the depression Of our com
mercial world are numbered. There
are already many indications that
our business men see and appreciate
the prospect, and the frmer feeling
which prevails viii probably result
in an early activity among them. an
activity which will be the seed of =
very considerable harvest in the fall,
and a golden harvest in the coming
year.-Ne1r York TonaD7erc;aI 4 re.
Year: 1875

just as good a warrant dfsperse this


meeting by sending a band of armed


men to clear this hall at the point of


the bayonet.


Why do not our West Point men


seem to understand the limits of mill


tary power2 Had General Sheridan


been perly trained, or not for


gotten his training, he would never


obeyed the mandate which ordered


hum on his guilty errand TO New


Orleans, but rather torn off his
epadiets, broken his sword. and
thrown the fragments into the Poto-
mac. The application of Kellogg
four months sgO for military aid had
lost its effect and could not be used
as pretcxt for this outrage in Lou
isiana. Peace had prevailed since
then. Il new danger of domestic
violence arose. a request should have
Been again made for the interposition
of the President No such request
was made. Il was nonsense to say
the expulsion of FIVE members of the
Legislature was an act of protection
against domestic violence. Even if
Sheridan assertions Ofthe preva lence
of anarchy and assassination in Lou
isiana are true. how could such an act
remedy such state Of thinyss The
wrong done has no possible extenua
tlon. 1t was n violation OF the Con
stitution. No citizen has right to
Withhold his condemnation It must
be rebuked the instantit is preperl
ted. The evil must be crushed be
fore it becomes formidable as a
precedent. These practices snbiect-
ing local politics to Federal aulhori-
ties by military power must be de-
nonrced, stopped, broken up forever.


Mr Bryant, IN conclusion, said
:" The proceedings of this meeting, SO
lar as the great proportion of those
who take part are concerned. have |
no party purpose or object. Far from
us be the pretty and narrow policy !
which could SO preVert them. A s.p-
cere desire TO preserve the COnstitu- |
lion from violation and to prevent
IN act Of arbitrary power from be,
coming precedent in the'future is
lnd should be, our single MOTIVE"
Year: 1875

The harrisburg GAZETTE thinks
the Legislature should abolish
stripes as a penalty for Petit Lar
ceny. We think very differently.
We bad case in point here a few
days ago. The chap that tried on
a pair of Will MeFarlands' boots,
said they fitted and he would take
them at 81, and while a dollars
worth of coffee was being tied up
for him stepped to the door end
called to "Bill'' to hold on, disap>
peared in the dark with the boots,
should have had 80 lashes instead
Of going 20 jail at the expense of
the county. 1t is a good law, but
should be executed with discretion.
Year: 1875

The relative merits Of burial and Gre
nation are discussed from a new, if not
exactly from a novel point Of view, by
Mr.. +. Seymour Hayden, who argues in
a recent letter to the London Times
that the sanitary and aesthetic objections
Justly urged against existing methods of
burial do not necessarily prove anything
in favor of cremation. These objec-
tions, he says, are not valid against
burial, but only against improper burial,
whereby, instead of being committed to
the earth to be by it resolved, the bodies
of the dead are merely hid away in the
earth in close or hermetically sealed
coffins, in which slow putrefaction is in
definitely prolonged. Alluding to the
absorbent properties. OF earth, and
especially OF dry and porous earth, he
says that it is the most powerful Of anti
septics, and that the process Of change
which, under the influence Of the air or
Of the liquids of the body, is putrefac-
ton, in the earth becomes resolution;
that which was offensive becomes in
offensive; that which was decay, pro-


cess of transmutation. The conditions
of effective burial, he says, are attained
by excluding the body from the air to
prevent putrefaction and by invoking
the absorbent properties of the earth to
effect the less offensive resolution of the
body into its component parts-in short,


by burial in loose coffins. AS the result
of observations which it hal come i'll his
way to make, he asserts that when the
loosely buried body is sought at the ex-
piration of five or six years, it will be
found indistinguishable from the earth
with which it will have become assimi-
lated, leaving no trace of corruption be-
hind, whereas the body buried in close
coffin, if examined at the expiration of
fifty years, will be found in state Of
advanced but unprogressive decay. He
insists that burial should be made with
out cofiins, or if these are required, they
should be so constructed as not to Sc
clude the body from the action sf the
earth. One such coffin which he de-
scribes is not without aesthetic sugges-
ton 1t is coffin Of some light, per-
meable material, such as wicker-work,


open at the top and filled in with any
fragrant herbaceous matters that hap
pened to be in season. A layer of ferns
or MOSES for bed, bundle Of sweet
herbs for a pillow, and as much as it
would still contain after the body had
been placed in it of any aromatic or
towering plant for a coverlet-such
covering, in short, as, while it protected
the body from the immediate pressure
of the earth as effectually as the stoutest
oak, would yet not prevent its resolu-
ton. AS counterpart to these sugges-
tions, he asks, not without point, What
would be the effect upon the atmosphere
of London if the vapor from the bodies
of the 1,600 people who die there weekly
were drivenint by cremation furnaces9