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Year: 1876

A correspondent at Hyde Park, who writes
in commendation Of the FARMER saying, at
is just what a young farmer, like myself,
needs" inquiries where the best place for is a
young man with small capital to buy farm.


If we were y locate again we should
look for no better field for the young farmer
with small capital than the state of Vermont.


If the young man has barely enough To
buy pair Of horses and harnesses, . plow
and few other tools, and is willing to live in
house and put up with fare that Ver-
monter would regard none too good for pigs,
with few, if any of the privileges and enjoy
ments free to all 10 the society and institu-
tions Of New England, let him "go west and
"squat" on the government land. Unless a
young man is willing to take such . chance
as that, it is our belief that he will do better
In Vermont. The west is hard place for
poor man unless he is miserably poor, and
expects that his life and surroundings shall
be compatible with that condition.


The selection of the right farm without
running too deeply iu debt is a question of
more moment than its location, although
that is not a matter Of indifference. The
young man who buys run out farm with
dilapidated buildings, because it is cheap,
finds too late that it is far from cheap.


This is favorable time TO buy farms
so many are for sale at prices greatly reduced
from those of ten years ago. 1t is the
opinion of many good judges that farming
has reached its period Of greatest depression
and that better day is at hand. We be-
lieve there is good reason for this faith.
Year: 1876

The old adage that IAN ounce Of proven
tion is worth pound Of cure, is empbatically
true when applied to the diseases Of domestic
animals. AS a class, farmers, who own
nearly all the live stock in the country, are
not acquainted with the methods Of treating
the diseases Of animals. They do not know
what remedies to give, and the great major
ity live some distance from skillful veteri-
nary, so that medical attendance is difficult
to be secured. These facts render il very
important that preventive measures should
be understood and applied. l say these meas
ures are important, because overy year an
innumerabe multitude Of animals die Of dis
case which proper preventive measures would
either have kept entirely away or else so
modified that the animals might have been
saved. There can DO no doubt that many Of
the diseases TO which our animals are sub
ject are not known where proper care is
given, and consequently il may be laid down
as q settled principle, that care is q sure pre-
ventive Of their approach. Others may be
so modified by careful preventive measures
as to lose their deadly power; and all dis
eases, Of whatever type, may be much more
readily managed VIXEN common sense efforts
have been put forth for their prevention.


just now. one OF the diseases of which
farmers and dairymen ought to bo very
watchful aud take careful measures TO pre-.
vent is milk fever. This disease annually
carries off great many COWS and causes q
great loss to their owners, aud in almost all
cases an attack could have been prevented
by careful treatment My own experience
with this disease has not been very extensive,
but l have seen enough TO teach me TO be
very careful with my COWS at calving time.
In one case l paid veterinarian fifteen dol.
lars, besides paying for the medicines, to
cure Q COW Of this disease, when all the
trouble was due to my own carelesSness. |
let her into an open yard where there was a
supply Of cold water. She drank too much
and brought on an attack Of the milk fever
which came very near proving fatal, made
me great deal Of trouble and some expense,
and also proved an injury to the COW for
more than a year. If had kept her in the
barn a day or two longer and warmed the
water which 1 gave her to drink, she would
probably have been we'll all the time And
in multitude OF cases little care in this
direction would prevent sickness Of animals
and loss To their owners.
Year: 1876

II the experience of the following writer
for the Ohio Farmer is to be taken as u fair
average, the butter of Ohio is very poor.


l am "butter-and-egg" mau-that is, l
run wagon on "route," gathering up but
ter and eggs for shipping. l am "middle-
man." but also own a small farm, and regard
one employment Just as honorable as the
other. But this is not what L started to
write about. The point l wish to call atten-
ton to is the great amount of poor butter
made by farmers. l visit on every round
filly-eight farmers and get all the butter they
make. used to work in q butter dairy,
and claim to know what good butter is, and
Of these fifty.eght farmers wives only nine
of them make what would be regarded as
first quality of butter. but it wouldn't do for
me to tell them 50. The butter obtain is
Of all grades Of excellence Tor quality vary
ing from "grease," which comprises about
half, to the 6ne solid, golden butter, with a
flavor that would tempt dyspeptic. The
latter, however, is made at one house only
out Of the whole number. In attempting to
get at the reason of this disparity, End
some difficulties. Methods Of making vary,
facilities for keeping milk are different, pas
lures are not all the same and COWS give milk
Of different quality. These all will not &C.
count for the difference Of quality in the
butter, and am forced to the conclusion
that it is solely the treatment which the
milk receives from the time it leaves the COW
till 1t is converted into butter.


The average woman is too careless, and no
wonder. There is no encouragement here
for making an effort to produce good butter
All butter, good, bad, and Indifferent, brings
the same price, unless the maker Of the good
butter can make private contract to supply
some hotel, boarding house, or private fami
lies. Some do this, and get Ave to ten Centl
per pound above the market price.


Now | would like TO see proper discrim
inAtion madc in the purchase Of butter. Il
is shame to put roll Of really good buttel
into the mass Of "grease" which one collects
In "butter tour" but l am compelled I,
do It. can't get any more for the goOC
than for the poor. There is only one remedy
for US "eut west people," and that is t,
manufacture enough Of really good butter b
mako discrimination an object. This is no
done now. The ratio of good butter is s
small that it will not pay to keep it separate
and 1t must all be thrown in together, an
worked over, and sent TO market as "wester


butter" where it is sold at much less figure
than creamery or dairy butter Of almost an
locality. should like to hear from other
on this question.
Year: 1876

AMERICAN RoAsr BEEF IN ENGLAND
Liverpool Courier says; Something over
one hundred tons of American beef, prepared
by the cold-air process, is brought weekly
into the London market. The beef is pro.
nounced to be excellent aud is sold of rapid
ly by West End butchers, who do not think
it necessary to inform their customers that
it has crossed the Atlantic. Whether the
beef is sold under the market price Of native
beef to the butchers is one Of those dead Sc
crets of cattle raft which no outsider can dis
cover. The butchers do not make any re-
duction in the price per pound to consumers.
AS the imported heef meets with instantan-
eous sale; the probability is that the traffic
in the article will increase and extend. Ships
constructed specially for this trade are in
preparation, and when these are At full and
constant work the supplies from the United
States will be multiplied, and then perhaps
a wOrkingman may purchase a piece Of
sound beef without expanding one-half his
weeks wages.
Year: 1876

There is q constant buying and selling OF
farms going on from year to year in our
country. This restlessness on the part Of the
farmer and this desire to change present
location for another one hundreds Of miles off,
is so frequently witnessed in our day that we
cease to wonder at it. In the time Of our
foreiathers, when man was settled on
farm he commonly continued on il through life,
and then left it for his son. In times gone
by, the same farm was first occupied by the
grandfather and so on by the son and grand
son. Then the good old homestead was rev.
erenced and the occupancy Of it was es.
tsemed great privilege. There was satis-
faction felt by the successor that his prede-
cessor was his relative, cultivated the same
fields, wandered by the same brooks, travsed
the same hills, and ate of the fruit Of the
same orchard. Then there was q homo feel.
ing, home associations, and home attach
ments. Now the farmer looks more to his
pecuniary gains, aud when offered q large
price for his land, hesitates not to SELL lie
quits his beautiful home, his well-oultiVated
acres, emigrates to the Far West, and com.
mences life of hardship that he never
dreamed Of. II can safely be said that
where one man succeeds in this undertaking
many fail. If he could only sell his new
farm, how gladly would he HE back to the
old home, now occupied by strangers, and
the enclosure contains the graves Of his kin
dred going to ruin. With the advent o.
spring, many will dispose Of their farms and
remove to far-of country, to undergo the
priVAtions and troubles incident upon Ostab.
fishing home in new country. Our Ad
vice to is remain where you are. II you ar
comfortably of, be contested To remain 50
Do not exchange certainty for an uncer
tainty, unless powerful reasons are brought :
bear upon you to seek new settlement in
distant region. Stick to the old farm, for
has never failed you in the time Of need
Nei0 England Homestead.
Year: 1876

MEAL AND HAY FOR FATTENINd STocK.-
"An Old Farmer" who has been accustomed
to feed aud fatten few animals, has record
ed small item Of his practice in regard to
feeding raw meal, against cooked meal. He
writes my practice in fAttening beef and
swine, as well as feeding cows for milk, has
been to pour boiling water on as much meal
as would not make the animals bowels move
too freely at night aud in the morning. When
the mush is cool give it TO the COW or pig
In covering the meal with boiling water IN
this way the starch of the grain is dissolved
and the latent nutritive properties extracted,
aud the animal receives the entire nutriment
Of the grain. l have for two years past fat
ted two ordinary-sized cows, feeding only
meal and hay and only 300 pounds each of
the former, and each yielded upward of forty
pounds of rough tallow. Salt was given
once week and occasionally tablespoonful
ofwood.ashes. In my experience 100 pounds
scalded and fed as above is equal to 200
pounds fed dry"


Live stock do not, in eating dry meal, re-
ceive more than one.half of the goodness Of
the meal, or there would not be so many farm
ers as he knows who feed from four to eight
quarts of meal day to one beef creature,
till they feed from seven to ten hundred weight
of meal to one animal. Those farmers never
slaughter an ordinary sized beef that yields
upward Of forty pounds Of rough talow.
Year: 1876

The straw Of oats or barley, cut when
half turned in color and cured bright, makes
food for stock of much greater value than
straw Of ripe grain. The grain is worth
nearly, if not quite, as much too. There
certainly is not loss enough on the grain to
balance the gain on the berry.
Year: 1876

Wheat cut while in the dOugh-while the
kernel is still so soft that it can be easily
crushed between the fiuger aud thumb-nail-
makes plumper, heavier grain and better
head than if il stands until the berry is
dead.ripe and hard
Year: 1876

To COLOR SCARLET.-Take half a
pound of madder, half a ounce of cream
tartar and one ounce of marine or n.y.
drochloric acid to one pound of goods.
Put all together and bring the dye to a
scald for ten minutes, but do not boil
rinse Immediately in cold water.
Year: 1876

To KEEP SWINE HEALTHY.-Give hogs
plenty of pure water to drink, and keep
within their reach equal parts of wood
ashes, common salt and flour Of sulphur,
and you need not fear hog cholera, not
other disease.
Year: 1876

CUSTER I1E1R4NED BY CROW SCOUT.
"A new and singular version of the cir
cumstances which led to the massacre
of Clusters brave command comes from
Bismarck, being the story related by a
sergeant of the Sixth Infantry. He as
serts that Custar Was led into the snare
by the treachery of Grow scout named
Cross. The scout, with the two guides
Gerard and Jackson, were all who es
capped from the massacre. It is said that
Cross was sent out to reconnoitre by
Custer, the night before the battle, and
that lie returned in the morning and re
ported that the Indian village was small
and offered an easy victory. Then fol-
lows the disastrous charge and whole
sale massacre. The Indians were IN
formed of Clusters intentions and had
made every preparation to give him &
warm reception. Everything was done,
and breastworks Of willow brush had
been thrown up, from behind which the
Indians could pick off the soldiers with
ont being seen. Further evidence has
been obtained that white men were Will
the Indians. Reno's men say they heard
English spoken frequently in the Indian
ranks during the fight. One of the In
dians shot by Reno's men was found to
be white man with long beard, wear
ing an Indian mask. A bugler who was
honorably discharged from the Second
Infantr.J in 1859, is also believed to be
with them. During the fight he blew
calls on a trumpet several times.
Year: 1876

THOUGHT 1T WAS A TUNNEL.-A young
couple boarded the North bound Ken
lucky express at Boston last evening"
Il was at once observed by the passen
gers that they were ''some spoons. y
The young man, evidently, was acqnaint-
ed with the road, for as the train APP
preached the tunnel about ten miles
back of Covington he prepared fer bus
mess. just before the road reaches the
tunnel, however, it passes through a
short, dark bridge. As the train shot
into the bridge tho young man. not to
miss an inch moro of the supposed tun-
nel-opportunity than he could help,
threw his arms around the girls waist
and proceeded to spread his month all
over hers. Just rs he got properly ad
justed, had secured a moderate suction
power :; o It the girls sweet mouth, and
was tigl ming his grip around her
shoulders till the bones fairly snapped,
the train was suddenly whizzed into day
light at the moment before it rumbled
into darkness. The young man drop
ped the girl as ii she WAS poison. 70
aggravate matters still more, after they
had got into the tunnel some one in the
immediate vicinity touched up green
light and nipped another embrace just
about half way up. People who can't
reprcss their freshness ought to hire n
STALL Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1876

This Hotel has lately b3en enti ely rebuilt and
sfurnished- 1t is the aim of the management o
make HONE for the travelling public of the state
The rates are low any other first class hotel


he State. ns5n
Year: 1876

Editor Democrat Wednesdays issue
Of your paper contains the various num-
bers registrationpapers issued in some
Of the wards OF the city. under the reso-
lutions Of the Parish Committee; and
you say: "The Eleventh Ward is left in
blank, no new registration having taken
place in that ward"


This would seem to single out the
Eleventh Ward as The only one in which
the resolutions Of the Parish Committee
had not been carried out, and, therefore,
to hold us up as rebels.


It might as well be known, once for
all, that seven wards, viz: the Eleventh,
Fourth, Thirteenth. Fourteenth, Fif-
teeth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Wards
have not strictly complied with the res
olutions OF the Parish Committee
These wards have fourteen votes in the
Parish Committee, out of total OF
thirty-four.


] don't propose to review the discus
sion on this subject those who have
thus far failed to see into the evils Of
this registration, will unfortunately do
so when it is too late. Suffice it to say
that the present Parish Committee has
nothing to do with this question, as the
new Parish Committee will be the sole
judge Of the qualifications of its men,
bers. ELEVENTH WARD.
Year: 1876

desiring to correspond, address, with
stamp, in care of the Hoaokeye office.


Pennywait was SO tall when he
was stripped for the bat that he had
to sit down so that the pitcher could
throw the ball up to him. And when
he made a strike and Tipped over to
get up, everything within reach of
his legs was raked, kicked and trip
ped out of existence. He ran over
three baby wagons and broke a dogs
back before he made one base; he
fell over the short stop and stepped
on the first baseman, flattening him
out till he was about four feet across.
He ran around till he was so tired
that he was ready to drop, when the
pitcher put in red-hot ball, about
amidships, and doubled him up, weep
ing bat triumphant.


Corporal Best played in stove
pipe hat, which the pitcher took great
delight i'll drumming on. He made
beautiful triple play, holding a bat
in each hand, knocking his right
knee cap down with one, breaking
enough hide off his left shin to make
a pair Of boots with the other, and
catching the ball a binding lick with
his nose. He would have made a
home run, but just as he reached sec
ond base he slipped and fell, sitting
down on his hat, which instantly ''pop-
ped" and the Corporal was carried
off the field heart broken.


Newlan closed the game for the
Wonderfuls in beautiful style. He
got mad because the umpire wouldn't
let him hold the ball in one hand and
the bat III the other and hit it to suit
himself. He famed the obstinate
umpire with the bat until there wasn't
enough hair on that officials head to
make a show in a ring locket, snatch
ed raw rib out of the pitcher, pulled
all the bases out by the roots and
threw them at the terrified catcher,
tossed the short stop under West
Hill street car, and finally calling on
the assembled spectators to "climu
onto him by thousands" he escorted
the entire congregation down town,
strewing them along the roadside,
and followed by his admiring nine
He has had the aguc all summer and
is quite feeble now; but he is some
what better than he was and would
rather be hit by a piledriver than eat,
jumps out all the third-story windows
rather than climb down so many
stairs, and is always anxious to be
hit, a practice we have endeavorcd to
discourage since he ate up one Of our
fast men on busy night. Parties
having compliments to make at this
office, are informed that his office
hours are from one to four, A. NJ.


We understand the print, want to
play again, but not this week. The
most Of them think they will be
ready for the next game i'll about four
thousand years.
Year: 1876

Cephas Church, of Upper Grove,
Hancock Co, swallowed two needles
4G years ago. Frequently since he
has been troubled with sharp pains
IN his side, shoulder and back, and Il
little more than a year ago there
seemed to be something very annoy
ing and painful when his clothing or
any other substance came in contact
with his back. Upon examination,
the point of a needle was found pro
truding through the flesh, just below
the shoulder blade. 1t was with
drawn, and was in well preserved
state. 1t was entirely different from
the needles made at the present time,
being very fine and two Inches long.
Year: 1876

Hold on to the truth, for it will
serve you well and do you good
throughout eternity. Hold on to vir-
tue; it is above all price to you in all
tunes and all places. Hold on to
your good character. for it is and al
ways will be your best wealth.
Year: 1876

MANSFIELD, Ohio, Sept. 3o.-Charles
Francis Adams, in letter declining. on
account of his voice, to comply with re-
quest of the Democratic committee to
speak here, discusses at some length the
political issues of the day and arrives at
the conclusion that it would be unsafe to
entrust the country to the Republican par
ty another presidential term That
although nothing can be said against Gov
ernor Hayes, he is not so tried reformer
as Tilden, and is probably less fitted to
cope with the corruption that pervades the
country. He comments on the fact that
bristow's Cincinnati following was compar-
atlvely small though he represented the
best reform element of the Republican
party. lie places against this fact the
nomination of Tilden at st. Louis as an
indication of firm determination to re
deem the character of the country from
disgrace
Year: 1876

1t was pretty big explosion and it is
all over with: but, after all, 1t was nothing
to the explosion that Uncle Sammy Tilden
will touch off the 7th of next November.
On that day the dangerous reef of Grant
ism will be blown into smithereens, and all
of the hidden corruption of the Republican
party sent sky high. This explosion will
nosltively occur on the day specified
There can be no postponement.f for, as Ger,
Newton says, it is work of sheer ne
cessity. ~ Y, Sun.
Year: 1876

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 30.-The cor
oner Jury returned a verdict that the
late accident on the Pan Handle railroad
was caused by the breaking OF au axle on
one of the cars, and the railroad company
was not responsible for the casualty.
Year: 1876

The Crown Prince of Germany
is the author of a work entitled
"My Journey to the Orient, 1862"
of which only about forty copies
have been printed, to be read by
royal blood alone. 1t is not his
first book. Soon after the war Of
1866 he published his reoollections
of that conflict, in an edition
equally small, for au audience
equally select. His style is said to
possess grace and humor, and his
writings show him to be an atfec-
tionate father and husband. But
no critic has the opportunity to
disseot him, nor to expose his
Highness to the indignity of praise,
The vulgar populace cannot share
his thoughts, nor does he run the
risk of being shocked at finding
the offspring of his intellect offered
for sale at a discount among the
refuse Of an old book stand.
Year: 1876

Of these Indians, and will 30 perfect and re-
inforce the troops on the frontier as to enable


them to make . determined and effective re-
sistance to the initiatory attack. and to fol-
low it Immediately by vigorous and aggres-
sive war, which shall soon force these maraud-
ing and vicious tribes to servile capitulation.


It now remains to be seen if the President
and the War Department place the same low
estimate upon the lives and property Of set
tiers on the Western frontier as they appear
to do on those of the residents of the Texas bor-
der. We would not have the government neg
lect to protect the frontier because they have
been 50 cruelty negligent as to matters on the
Rio Grande; but we trust that this last threat
ened outbreak may give them some idea of
the troubles of the citizens of Texas; for no
Indians, however uncivilized, could be more
daring and brutal than these Mexican bandits
have been.


Let both the frontiers receive the immedi-
ate attention of the government-one de-
serves it as much as another, and it is to be
hoped that the same justice may be meted
ont to both. There are plenty of idling Fed
ersl soldiers who might be doing much better
service on the Western frontier and the shores
Of the Rio Grande than garrisoning the
South, in the hopes Of perpetuating the vii
lainous rule Of the Administration and its
carpet.bag suffers. If the Administration
want really good campaign argument, let
them attend to both these matters at once,
and put their soldiers where they will do the
most good.
Year: 1876

SIT is not our fault" says Milwaukee
editor, sfhst we are red-headed and small,
aud the next time that one OF those over
grown rural roosters in ball room reaches
down for our head and suggests that some
fellow has lost rosebud ont Of his button
hole, there will be trouble"
Year: 1876

We are indebted to tho young ladies Of the
Leequet-Lsroy Institute for kind invitation
10 b present ct the commencement exercises
of that admirable institution, on the evening
q February 2S We shall certainly avail our
selves OF the courtesy extended to us,
Year: 1876

The proprietor Of the Philadelphia Times
has been chosen defendant in libel suit for
permitting too free criticism Of Katie King in
III columns. The complainant was hot the
manager Of the performances oh which the
criticism Was founded, but believing .luny'
Who came in for some incidental raillery ip
the course Of the general criticisps