smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

When the queen bee is forcibly ia
ken away from the hive, says the Amer
5cGn Bee Journal, the bees which are
near her at the time do not appear
sensible of her absence, and the labors
of the hive are carried on as usual for
time. 1t is seldom before the lapse
Nef an hour that the working bees be.
gin 20 manifest any symptoms of un-
easiness. They areythen observed to
quit the'larvG, which they had been
feeding, and to run about in great ag-
itation..to and fro, and on meeting
with such of their companions as are
not aware of the disaster which has
befallen them, they communicate the
intelligence by crossing their attenna
and striking lightly with them The
bees which receive the news become
in tier turn agitated, and spread The
alarm further. All the inhabitants
nov rush forward, eagerly seeking
their lost queen; but finding search
useless, they appear to become resign.
ed to their misfortune, the tumult sub
sides, and if there are worker eggs or
young Larvae in the cells, preparations
are made to supply the loss by raising
a new queen, and the usual labors OF
the hive are resumed.
Year: 1873

Thorough preparation OF the soil


and clean culture always pay in any


locality with the commonest fam


crops. In the orchard, proper prep


aration OF the soil before planting is


especially needed, and in the garden,


not only thorough preparation of the


soil but subsequent good culture are


abolutely necessary 10 success.
Take small fruits, the berries for in


stance; one man, by care and constant


working, will produce large and uni


form crops Of strawberries, raspber-


ries and blackberries, while others, by


let alone process, never get enough


fruit TO pay ground rent, to say moth


ing OF cultivation Strawberries are


usually planted out, hap hazard, and


allowed to take cure of themselves.


This, if the soil be tolerabIe, they are
pretty apt to do, and usually cover
the ground so thIckly with runners as
to give small returns in fruit, while ii
a little care and attention had been
paid to keeping the runners down, and
the plants confined to hills, large stools
would have been formed, and a full
crop of extra berries would have been
realized. So with the other small
fruits, as raspberries and blackberries.
They should have plenty of room.
The old wood of the preceding year,
already dead should have been cut out
and the new wood topped to three or
four feet. This being done, we should
have stocky, branching canes, loaded
with fruit.


Again, take currants and gooseber-
ries. Too often they are allowed to |
rsmble at will, and overgrow the
whole surface Of the ground together
with the weeds, when by little judi
cious pruning they would have been
kept in shape and furnished plenty of
new wood upon which to have borne
fruit. Grapes, on the other hand, are
allowed either to grow at will or else
they are pruned SO severely that moth
ing is left upon which to bear fruit,
when one or two canes, according to
he strength of the vine, pruned as to
,he laterals to three or four buds
FOuld give a full crop OF superior
ruit.


in the Spring, all small fruit should
,e gone over, the ground thoroughly
LEANED, and the plants brought into
hape, and if thereafter they are prop
rly attended to according to their
pecial wants, which any common
ense man may soon find, we should
ease to hear the stereotyped cry that
mall fruits don't pay. There is moth
ng about the farm garden you do
hat will pay better, SO far at least as
he wants OF the family are concerned,
han fruit, and especially the so-called
mall fruits. All that is necessary is
o give them proper attention, at the
roper time, and it will be found that
he added comfort to the family will
'ay hundred per cent. on the cost,
o say nothing of the improved gen
,ral health of the family and the con-
saving on doctors bills. |
Year: 1873

Stirring the soil during the growing
season cannot be done too often, pro-
vided it is not wet enough to pack
As an antidote TO droughts It is unri,
vailed. A man who can stir the soil
every day about his plants and trees,
can virtually DEFY a drought. The
operations seems to create moisture,
or at least to attract it, both from the
subsoil aud atmosphere. The weeds
of course have no chance under such
a system, and the moisture they would
require and take goes to a purpose
"where it will DO most good" Horse
culture is the cheapest mode, but in gar
dens too small for horse culture, hand
culture must be depended on. The dit
ferencein effect between frequent and
occasional stirring will astonish those
who have not before observed it. An
instance was in print some time ago
which will Illustrate it, though, as a
fact, it may be mythical. Two neigh
bors with small patches of corn got
up a friendly rival as to which should
grow the most per acre, and put up
small wager. One of them deterlnin
ing to leave nothing undone in the
way of culture and weed fighting,
hoed his patch once a week regularly.
He was, after q little while, a good
deal surprised to notice that his corn
was falling behind, although he never
saw his neighbor at work. The latter
now, and naturally enough the former,
asked-"how he did it," volunteering
the statement at the same time that
he s:hoed his corn every week until it
had tasseled out" The successful
grower replied 81 hoed mine every
morning before you got out of doors p
There was no further need of expia.
nation The man who has plenty OF
muscle and time, and little or no mon
ey to expend on fertilizers, will find
that frequent stirring of the soil will
go long way to supply the absence
of fertilizers. In fact, culture with :
out manure is worth much more than
manure without culture. When both
can be discreetly applied it is advis.
able, but-when a choice must be made,
l shall always choose culture.-D. z.


f., in Neo York O5sercer.
Year: 1873

CULTIVATION OF FISH IN DITCHKs
AND PoNDs.-Much attention is now
being paid in Germany to the cultiva-
ton OF fish in ponds and bitches, and
it has been found, contrary to the
generally received opinion in reference
TO such localities, that :hey are more
favorable for the purpose than other
large bodies OF water, apparently fresh
and pure IN their character. This is
doubtless owing to the great abund.
ance Of animal life, as well as to the
more decided concentration of yegeta-
be substances in the form of living
plants of different kinds, including the
alsa. This produces a constant evolu-
ton of oxygen needed for the respira
of the fish, and allows larger mass Of
lie TO be crowed together in a given
space The reproduction of the species
Is also unusually rapid, and the young
grow very quickly.
Year: 1873

This is a question that is often asked
US, and it is one that is hard to answer
We cannot designate any particular
breed of sheep that would be most
profitable for the farmers of this coun-
ty to raise, from the fact that all grades
of wool find a market. Considering the
variety and styles of goods to be man
ufactured, it is necessary that all the |
different grades of wool be produced to
meet the demand, each manufacturer
selecting the grade that is best adapted
to the style of goods he manufactures.
1t does not matter so much which one
of the many improved breeds, of sheep
is raised, or whether two or more of
these breeds be crossed, as it does the
way the sheep are cared for, and the
manner in which the wool is handled !;
yet We would advise farmers to avoid
extremes in grade, for many of the full
blooded Spanish sheep that have been


brought into this country are very un-
profitable in consequence of the weight
of grease in the fleece, compared to the


wool when cleaned. Also, the carcass
is very small, and more subject to dis,
ease than when crossed with our more
hardy sheep. On the other hand, there
are coarse, hairy sheep that are occa-
sionally found in the focks in this
county that are very improbable from
the fact that the fleece is very light,
there beingg no wool on their head,


legs or belly, and that upon the back
being very thin aud too coarse to be
manufactured into wooden goods, and


must be bought at price far below


ordinary wool to avoid loss to the
buyer. Our opinion is that a farmer
should raise the breed OF sheep that


is best adapted to his location, for


while perhaps all viii do well on high


rolling land, some will do better on fiat,


wet land than others. Consequently it


Is necessary for farmer to take his To-


cation into consideration, then with the


best advice he can get on the subject,


exercise his judgment as to which will


be the most profitable breed for him


to raise, carefully avoiding the too fire.


quent error of overstocking the farm.


More failures in sheep-raising have aris-


en- from this error than any other. Fifty


sheep well kept, are more profitable


than one hundred that are left to shift


for themselves, on bare fields in the


summer, and straw stacks in the winter.
Year: 1873

The New York Commercial thinks that the
proposal to compel all hotels to supply their
upper stories with rope ladders is nothing but
device of Satan. What a provocation to
the lofty but curious spirit of some unquiet
American, to set the building on fire. just to
see how the derned things would work. 9d5
Year: 1873

Why is it that young ladies seldom object
to their beaux smoking; very often remarking
that they enjoy so much the flavor ola good
cigar, but do object when their brothers do
the smoking9 This is an idle question, but
one which is calculated to furnish food for
reflection. 5000 sa E fe s1hs q
Year: 1873

The Presidents Proposed Exploration


of tho Amazon Valley.


Among the recommendations submitted to
Congress by the President in his annual Mes
sage one Of the most practical is a scheme for
opening up the Amazon to commerce AS q
measure for retrieving our lost commerce ne
proposes the exploration of the great Madeira
River from it's mouth, on the Amazon, to its
Bolivian headwaters.


The Madeira River, with its vast serpentine
volume, penetrates a country Of surprising
natural fertility and wooded wealth, and is
evidently the commercial artery for North
American and European trade from La Paz,
the Bolivian emporium. This continental
highway is by far the most majestic tributary
of the Amazon, and drains surface of over
one hundred and thirty thousand square
miles. About five hundred miles from its
turbid confluence with the Amazon it's navi-
cation is interrupted by cascades and rapids
but these are not entirely impossible by boat,
and, in the opinion of old explorers can be
economically overcome by a mule road running
around them to the upper falls. For a vessel
drawing six feet of water the Madeira is navi-
gable five hundred miles from its mouth to
San Antonio Falls, which latter can be reached
by an ordinary sailer in thirty days from New
York. Lieutenant Gibbon, who explored and
descended the rapids Of the Madeira, unhesi-
tatingly asserts that from San Antonio Falls
goods and merchandise can be transported in
seven days beyond the highest rapids which
lie on the Mamore "a tributary Of the Madeira),
and thence by steamboat on that bold navi-
gable stream and the Chapari to Bolivia,
taking not more than ffty-fve days from
New York to Cochabamba, and sixty days to
La Paz, the great trade centre of Bolivia It
now takes ship from New York about one
hundred and eighteen days to get her cargo to
La Paz, because she must make the stormy
and perilous passage OF Cape Horn and meet
with inland transportation difficulties after
reaching the Peruvian seaport, africa. Goods
sent by the Madeira route might even now get
to their destination at La Paz at less risk and
less expense at least month sooner than by
the present transit via Cape Horn.


If further exploration of the banks of the
Madeira (along its rapids to the smooth water
of its Bolivian fork the Rio Mamore) demon
strates the feasibility of railroad connection,
then great point will be gained An iron
road of one hundred and eighty miles would
solve all the difficulties and bring New York
within forty days by steam Of the. heart of
South Peruvian and Bolivian commerce.


The enormous wealth treasured up in the
evergreen forest of India rubber, magnolia,
cinchona and live oak; the rich stores of
vicuna WOOL llama and apaca cloths, and the
exhaustless silver and other metallic wealth of
the country, present the strongest inducement
for exploration and early opening up to COM
1nerce of this whole favored region.


The SPEAKERS committee making is good
aE his II q hlaiaa h1taL
Year: 1873

direct for candidates. BY his plan of repre-
sentation by districts each State will be heard,
but none will hold balance of power to con-
troll the result. We shall. however, be able to
Judge of the matter when the details of the
bill are published. At all events we are almost
satisfied in advance that any system IN the
light of the one proposed by Senator Morton
will be better than the present cumbersome,
intricate and roundabout way Of electing our
Chief Magistrate.
Year: 1873

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5, 1878.
The Press says that the leakage OF the monitor
Manhattan was caused by her going to sea with
her turret elevated in fighting trim, leaving an
opening OF two inches all round the turret. She
also had her ventllators on, which intended
TO be used only IN harbor. on these being carried
away by the waves openings OF 10 inches each
were lett Tor floods OF water. she was also in bad
trim, her bow being eight inches lower than her
stern. There are no leaks In her huh, and she Will
be ready TO sail again soon precautions are
taken usual on sending a monitor to sea.
Year: 1873

pa. The tide of Immigration Is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two.
Year: 1873

1t is always chilling in friendly intercourse
to say you have no opinion to give. And if
you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stu
pidity not to do it with an air of conviction
and well-founded knowledge. You make 1t
your own in uttering it, and naturally get
fond OF it,
Year: 1873

The wife of a Liverpool butcker has devel-
oped lare talent as special pleader. Her
husband was recently arrested on a charge of
selling veal which was unfit for food, and the
good lady promptly explained that it was not
for food, ''but it was going to be made into
veal pies, and that she considered it quite
good enough for that purpose"
Year: 1873

Next to @ press noser for news or nastiness, we bet on @ man who regards himself as entirely sure of the kingdom of heaven and spends much of his time in weeping because of his certainty that so many men and women are capering merrily on the road to perdition, as one who will find out and dish up the kitchen, parlor, bedroom and other similar "news ]" in plain but attractive style.

 Our exemplary friend and mission ary, Rev. G. A. Reeder, recently visited Cachise' reservation and there after considerably gave some of his choice observations to the press. Fol lowing is a reference to the women on the Chiricahua, to which we fear the ladies on other reservations may take exception, notwithstanding the good mans fearful apprehensions."

 As for their women, they excel every tribe have seen in Arizona in tastiness of attire, not excepting the Papagoes. They use needle quite we'll; many having neat dresses with flounce, and other ornamental work. Yet it must be presumed that they are quite as expert in making tizwin," as in dress-making; and the freedom with which all use it, am free to acknowledge look upon with fearful apprehensions. There is degree of chastity among them which is unexcelled. It is also stated, of fciallly, that there is not 8 case of " venereal" in the tribe.
Year: 1873

PLANETS. The two brightest planets
in the solar system are now very nearly in
line with the earth. Their nearest an
proach was on Tuesday. They are visible
IN the carly morning, rising more than
two hours before the sun. Venus is the
most northerly Of the two, and the most
brilliant and splendid in appearance. Let
no one miss the opportunity OF seeing
them,
Year: 1873

SALT LAKE Cry, October 20.--An
immense quantity of bullion is locked up
here, in consequence of the scarcity Of
currency. Silver is now selling less than
seventy cents per ounce. t3G f
Year: 1873

THE GRAND RUSH.
From near and far to Golfers car
The people are a rushinr
Before every glass that you may pass
The girls their heads are brushinI
The first thing you know away they 90
To see our Brother George,
That he may make and tor them take
A photograph nice and large.
So Brothers, all, both great and email,
Lay up the cash you're maxim,
And when you lay enough away
Go have your picture taken.
u22tl Temperance Gem.
Year: 1873

Three persons ont of four would push
right mp to the burning individual and
begin to paw with their hands without
any definite aim. 1t is useless to tell
the victim to do this or that, or call for
water. In fact, it is generally best not
to say word, but to scize blanket
or any wooden fabric-if none is at
hand, take any woolcn material-hold
the corners as far apart as you can,
stretch them out higher than your head,
and rnnning boldly to the person, make
a motion of clasping i'll the arms, mostly
about the shoulder. This instantly
smothers the fire and saves the face


The next instant throw the person on
the floor. This is an additional safety
to the face and breath, and any remnant
of flame can be put out more leisurely.
The next instant immcrse the burnt
part in cold water, and all pain will
cease with the rapidity of lightning.
Next get some common flour, remove
from the water, and cover the burnt
parts with an inch in thickness of -four


if possible, put the patient to bed, and
do all that is possible to soothe until
the physician arrives. Let the flour re-
main until it falls off of itself, when n
beautiful new skin can be found. I'm
less the burns are deep, no other appli-
cations are needed. The dry flour for
burns is the most admirable remedy ever
proposed, and the information ought to
be impaired to all. The principle of its
action is, that like the water, it causes
instant and perfect relief srom pain by
totally excluding the air from the in
iured parts.-.Scicntifc Anterican.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Greeley (Col.)
T'ibn,c, who signs himself Justice,
complains that the railroads between
that place and Salt Lake City are bring
ing in wheat at too low rates. He ar
CUES that the farmers in that Territory
have wheat enough to supply the people
in the Territory till spring, and taking
advantage of high freights, they have put
their own prices on it, having no fear
that the Mormons could send in their
wheat. But now the railroads have put
down the price of carrying wheat from
1900 to S73 per car, and Mormon grown
wheat is pouring into Puritanical Gree
ley. The Colorado people had better
employ their Chinese in building wall
around their country. They are the
only farmers who complain that railroads
carry produce too cheap.
Year: 1873


Mary had a little lamb,


1t died long time ago;
And with it's wool she bought a calf,
As I'm about to show,
The calf it was of Jersey breed,
And it was slick and nice;
And Mary thought to feed it well
'Twould bring her good price.
She took 1t of to Washington,


(But that was on a sly,
Aud shew it to the Congressmen,
To see if they would buy.
She told them when it WAS COW
'Twoud be 80 very nice,
The milk would be SO good aud nice
'Twould bring them good price.
Some Of them thought twas very fine,
And bought share or two,
And when they thought they were all right.
The COW began to loo.
1t scared them all no terribly
Year: 1873

The following beautiful chemical ex-
pertinent may be easily performed by a
lady to the great astonishment of a cir
Gle at her tea party: Take two or three
leaves of red cabbage, cut them into
small bits, put them into a basin, and
pour pint of boiling water on them
let it stand an hour; then pour it off
into decanter. 1t will be fine blue
color. Then take four wine glasses
into one put six drops of strong vine
gar into another six drops of solution
of soda; into the third a strong solution
of alum, and let the fourth remain
empty. The glasses may be prepared
some time before, and the few drops of
colorless liquid that has been placed in
them will not be noticed. Fill up the
glasses from the decanter, and the liquid
poured into the glass containing the
acid will become a beautiful red; the
glass containing the soda will become IL
fine green that poured into the empty
one will remain unchanged. BY adding
little vinegar to the green it will i'm
mcdiately change to red, and on adding
little solution of soda to the red it
will assume fine green, thus showing
the action of acids and alkalies on vcge-
BILE blues.
Year: 1873

"TnE HAIRS OF Our HEAD. Our
blonde belle has about one hundred and
forty thousand filaments to comb and
brush, while the red-haired damsel has
to be satisfied with eighty-eight thou
sand; the brown-haired damsel may have
one hundred and nine thousand, the
black-haired but one hundred and two
thousand. Few ladies consider that
they carry some forty or fifty miles OF
hair on their heads; the fair-haired may
have to dress seventy miles of threads OF
gold every morning. A German expert
mentalist has proven that a single hair
will suspend four ounces without break
ing, stretching under the process and
contracting again. But the hair thus
heavily weighed must be dark brewn,
for the blonde breaks down under two
and half ounces.
Year: 1873

BoYHOoD IN SPRING TINE. Rafting
is the prevailing popular amusement
with the juveniles this month. The
boy whose parents own the pond is
generally chosen captain of the raft.
The raft quite frequently consists of a
couple of boards the captains father
has laid away to season. The captain
stands Mt the bow and hollers, and the
other officers, hose claim to the berth
principally rests on the fact that they
nave dry pants at home, stand at the
stern and spatter water on the outsiders
who are on the shore with their hands
in their breeches pockets and guile in
their hearts. They thus navigate for
hours at time, and then fight over the
distance they have made, and finally go
home to see their parents alb out it, and
are dried with bed-cord, and are put
to bed, where they can feel of their in
juries without molestation. -Danbu1y
NcaCS.