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Year: 1873

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From the London soeiety.l


The sight of the camp was barren
enough, a few stunted birch trees be-
ing the sole Representatives of vegeta-
BILE life, unless one includes the few
patches of blabar and the scraps OF
moss, which had been trodden as near
! ly as possible to the condition of the
meagre soil which afforded them their
| existence.


This scene of desolation and unmit-
| igated dampness was the actual home
of the Laplander, and now were we
to make acquaintance with family of
these quaint and interesting people,
They are. true Mongolians, we are
told, and much of the poetical is often
connected with their names. The
Arabs of the North, the dwellers in
tents, the proud and ingenious people
who are vaingloriohs of their isolated
life, and contented with their peace
fulness, who have. never known war
with their neighbors nor feuds among
themselves, aud those who so rejoice
in the natural beauties of the eoun-
try they inhabit that seems to them
the fairest world can boast.


Surely this is a people with whom
it is well to make acquaintance!


The VdgVSsGre lifts the flap which
serves as an entrance to the tent, and
announces our arrival to the family
within. It is an ordinary bGtG, per-
haps eight feet in diameter, with fire
in the center, above which is hole in
the roof, to serve as means of exit.
for the smoke. We conjecture that
such tent might accommodate two or
three, persons, and we wait to see how
many shall emerge.


One comes forth, a man dressed in
a garment of skin, brown and rusty,
which has long projecting peak
Spangles of brass and other barbar-
Gus ornaments adorn his person and
knife hangs at his side. His face is
tanned to the color of his dress of
skins his expression is one of low
cunning and arrant knavery, and his
bleareG eyes, that are watering from
the smoky atmosphere in which he
has been sitting, lend to his hang-dog
face an appearance of dissipation that
is melancholy to see. Is there any
thing of poetry about this creature
Poetry there is nothing but dirt.


But he is followed by another stni-7
NAL of the same type--an old woman,
who grins and smirks and chatters-
an undesirable, filthy old hag. Then
follows younger woman, another
man third woman, two more men
and there are still an. old man and old
woman in the tent. We have been
deceived by the chroniclers of Lap
pish traditions, if these are fair speci-
mems of the people. They are low
and filthy herd, who are not inodor-
GUS. Dirt is the only thing remarka-
BILE about them, and that one sees in
perfection. Their clothes are plas-
tered with dirt, their faces are smear
ed with dirt, their hands are caked
with dirt; they are the princes of
dirt, the very personification of dirt.
Year: 1873

FORSE. azas aefa


L. Pat the horse upon the neck ex-
anime the harness carefully, first on
one side, aud then on the other,
speaking encouragingly while doing
so; then jump into the wagon aud
give the word to go; generally he
will obey. b la


2. A teamster iIr Maine says he can
start the most balky horse by taking
him out of the shafts and making him
go round till he is dizzy. If the first
dance of this kind don't cure him, the
second will.


3. To cure a balky horse, simply
place your hand over the horses nose
and shut of his wind till he wants to
go, and then let him go.


4. The brain of horse seemsto con-
tain but one idea at a time; therefore
continued whipping only confirms his
stubborn resolve If yon can by any
means give him new subject to think
of, you will generally have no trouble
in starting him. A simple remedy is
to take q couple of turns of stout
twine around the fore leg, just below
the knee, tight enough for the horse
to feel, and tie in bOw-knot. AT the
first check heswill generally go danc-
ing of, and after going short dis
tance, you can 60 out and remove the
string, to prevent injury to the tendon
in your further drive. eVe


5. Take the tail of the horse be-
tween the hind legs, and tie 1t by q
cord to the saddle girth.
Year: 1873

so. The Judges requested to examine the stock to
that there is no fraud practiced by exhibitors


33. The committee shall not award a premium, when In
their judgment the article is unworthy though there is no
competition.


No article animal will be permitted to compete for
than premium unless otherwise specified in the
premium list.


49, The Superintendent hereby declared the chief of
Police


Secretary.


81 No intoxicating liquors of any kind allowed to be sold
the fair gound and intoxicated persons to be
excluded.


49, Articles named in the premium list will be entered
and will be examined by awarding
committee who shall award such premiums and make such
commena;ory notice their merits appear demand


30. Designations of officers The President and Vice
President of the Society will wear white each member of
the Board Directors blue the Secretary red the Treas
urer green the General Superintendent yellow rosette
he Marshal and Police of metal or cloth.
Year: 1873

When a woman has hen to drive


into coop she takes hold OF her hoops


with both hands, shakes them quietly
toward the Delinquent, and says, "Shew !
there" The hen takes one look at the
object to convince herself it's a woman
and then stalks msjestically into the
coop, in perfect disgust of the sex. A
man don't do that way. He goes out
doors and says, at fs singular nobody
in this house can drive hen but my.
-elf," and picking up stick OF wood


hurls it at the offending biped, and OBJ
serves, Get in there, you thief The


hen Immediately loses her reason and
dashes to the opposite end OF the yard.
The man straightway dsshes after her.
She comes back again with her head
down. her wings out, and followed by
an assortment of stove wood, fruit.csn
and coal clinkers, with much putting
and very mad man in the rear. Then
she skins up on the stoop and under
the barn, and over fence or two and
around the house, and back again to
the coop, all the while talking as only
an excited hen can talk, and sll the
while followed by things convenient
for handling, and bv man whose coat,
is on the ground, ani whose perspira-
ton and profanity appear TO have no
limit BY this time the other hens
have come out TO take hand in the
debate and help dodge the missiles-and
then the man says every hen on the
place ell all be sold in the morning, and
puts on his things and goes down street,
and the woman dons her hoops and
mas every one OF those hens housed and
contented in two minutes, and the only
sound heard on the premises is the
hammering by the oldest boy as ne
mends the broken pickets.-DanbTy
NslUS
Year: 1873

l knew the murcury to fall down 10 4O'
below zero, 30o below is not much more
and every winter weexperience several
spells OF % below zero. Remember
that, you can readily see that our cold
spells must be very brief in order to
maintain mean winter temperature OF
l60 above zero. That is a iact | have
lived in this State several years, and
until this winter never knew a cold
spell 10 last more than three days, yet
on th Sc spells our trigid reputation is
based.
Year: 1873

Let me tell your readers how / have kept
ice the four past seasons, and my ice house
cost me only So so! | boarded up one cor
ner OF my COW shed, so that | had an in
closure, or room, s by 10 feet, and feet
high to the floor overhead, or rather
boarded up only one side, the shed forming
two sides, and the fourth side was left till
the ice was put in. This fourth side is
taken down every year to slide the ice in,
and then boarded up again. l used COM
mon rough boards, and myself and one
hand put it up, in readiness for the ice, in
two hours. Cost-l20 feet old boards,
81 so; labor, 81 total S2.5 put about
six inches of chip dirt on the ground, and
on that six inches of sawdust for a bottom
or floor for the ice The ice was then put
in, packing it as solidv as possible by fill
ing up the creviceS between the cakes with
snow or pounded ice. A space of about a
foot was left between the ice and the sides
OF the room This was filed with Sawlust :;
also foot of sawduSt was put on top of
the ice, filling i'll nearly up to the floor over
head. The fourth side was then boarded
up and filled with sawllust The same as the
rest. small space was left underneath
the floor for ventilation. | get the ice ont
by taking up the floor over it.


In this way have kept ice the four past
seasons till September. The reason | did
not have it later in the season was, made
my room too small to allow for waste and
supply our wants besides. 1t holds only
four loads of ice. If the room was twelve
feet square (thus making room for block
OF ice ten feet Square) | am confident that
/ could keep it the year round. The larger
the hody of ice the smaller the proportional
waste. have found the greatest waste to
arise from currents of air passing upwards
through or around the ice. The drainage
at the bottom, which must be secured, is
apt to make and leave passages for the air
to enter. To avoid this it is a good pan to
bank up around the bottom of the ice room
with sawdust or other loose Materials cs-
pecially on the side where the waste ice
water runs out


Having used ice four seasons, we would
sooner fail to fill the pork barrel than the
ice house We find it almost an indispen-
sable article for comfortable housekeeping
in hot weather; and my hired help would
consider themselves poorly equipped for a
days work in the hay or harvest fields
without ii liberal piece Of ice in the pail of
drink. We have adopted the plan of cold
drinks instead of hot ones, and are pleased
with the results. Half a ton of ice will do
more and better work in our fields during
the summer months, than half a barrel of
the best whiskey, and the employed as well
as the employer be largely benefited Feb
rnarN is the best month for farmers to lay
in their stock of ice. Let us secure good
supply, and thus institute a reform in oar
harvest fields, and at the same time keep
things cool and quiet in the house. II g.
in Country Gentleman.
Year: 1873

Cncumhers for early use may be forced
IN hot-bedS. For this purpose the beds
need not be started until the middle Of
March, for when the young vines are above
ground they will require an abundance of
air daily, which cannot ALWAYS be given if
started earlier in the season, on account ot
cold weather. There have been many
attempts made among commercial garden
erS around New York, who have vegetable
forcing houses, to start cucumberS as early
AS January IN these houses hnt every such
attempt has, so far, proved unsuccessful.
But when the forcing beds are started Az
late the middle Of March, it i quite As
easy 10 raise crop OF cucumhers aS il is 4
lot OF e&4 or tomato plants. TO save
trouble in waterins: the beds, more soil may
be used than is needed for raising plants


When the bed is Ready for planting, tw0


'hllls' may be planted under each sash,
putting six seeds in each hill Of the ''W lite
Spine" one Of the best varieties either Tor
iurcint "t garden culture. When tltt-
young plants are an inch or two above
ground they should he TANNED out leaving
only three vines in one and two in the
other, or two in each, in case the plants
are strong. Al this stage of growth the
important point is to give air freely every
day, without checking the growth, unit the
second week IN April. Straw mats should
be put over the sashe> at night to protect
against frost, When the vines begin to
''run," pinchine off the end of each at the
third ioiut will encourage more stpcky
growth, and if pinched second time at the
fifth Joint the vine will not only be strong
est but the cucumber will be borne nearer
the hill. Whenever the surface soil in the
beds becomes dry, then tepid water should
be given III quantity enough to moisten the
soil, but not enough to saturate the bed.
These few general directions, if followed


will put one on the right path to raise
cucumbers under glass. Those who enjoy
cucumberS and cannot afford the time or
expense of forcing them, can by a little
trouble have cucumbers fit for table use
at least month earlier in the garden than
when grown in the ordinary way. For
this purpose single sash and frame, with
or without bottom heat, in which to sow
the seed will be all.snficient Shallow
drills one inch deep should be made, and
the seed of Early Spine, sowed thinly and
then covered, pressing the soil down firmly
over the seed. This may be done the last
week in March, aud by the time the weather
Is settled and the ground warm enough in
the open ground to plant cucnmbers, the
plants in the frame win be two or three
inches high, with the first rough leaf Well
developed. These young plants may then
be lifted without disturbing the roots and
transplanted into the open ground without
checking their growth in the least. BY
following this simple plan there is no dan-
ger to be apprehended from the striped bug,
for the plants are already far enough
advanced to be proof against such attacks.
In the space of a single sash, 3x6, enough
of plants can be started in this way to plant
10 hills-twce the number usually planted
for family use at any one time
Year: 1873

There have been in the Providence market
this winter q few hundred pals of butter
which have a history. They came from a
single dairy in Illinois, and are uniform in
quality, hardly distuguishable, indeed, onG
from another, although made in summer
autumn and winter. They are Sweeter and
have a fresher and more delicate aroma
than any ball butter we We're able to find
last summer in Rhode Island. They con-
tain little salt and no buttermilk. This
perfect butter is churned daily from fresh
milk. Here lies the secret. Milk one hour,
butter the next. No setting of milk pans
and storing up of cream. No subiection of
milk and cream to atmospheric, electric and
thermal changes. No expensive cellars
with running water 10 secure fresh air and
equal temperature, or, in default perpet-
ually fiuctuating product OF butter IN
place of the hand churn, the power churn
In place of the inefficient hand working of
the butter jaws worked by power, sqneez
ing cut the buttermflk, lust aS the melted
Stag is squeezed out of the sottened iron in
pudding.


The dairy farm at which this butter is
made has we believe, hundred or more
cows, in addition TO which milk is purchas-
ed from the neishboring farms. II is, in
other words, a factory, producing butter Oh
large scale of unitorm, excellent quality.
Our theory of butter making has always
been to carry the milk from the cows direct
ly to the churn, and only to delay churnng
long enough for the milk to cool to the
proper temperature. There would then be
two churnings each day. and the quantity
should be sufficient to make one or more
complete packages for the market at each
churning. Theoretically, also the caseine
should be Immediately separated from the
residual milk and buttermilk, and the ulti-
mate products, butter and cheese, be the
ouly substances remaining to be cared for,
from day to day. In such factory, power
and good machinery would substitute hand
labor, and uniformly good product of
butter should result. The cheese would be
of secondary, though considerable impor-
tance.


A the present time large quantities of
French butter of uniform quality are sold
in the English market at a good price.
Meanwhile American butter in England
brings much less than its value from the
TACT that no two packages are alike, even
from the same dairy. This holds good of
Rhode Island butter in our~own market.
The butter from the same dairy in success
sye weeks in summer has hardly recOg-
nizable resemblance. A principal cause of
this diversity and inferiority of product is
The difficulty or impossibility of keeping
milk in our variable climate, and in any
but the best appointed diary rooms or
cellars. The remedy for this is in churning
fresh milk instead OF stale cream. Provi-
dence journal.
Year: 1873

The London Times, in q long editorial,
after alluding to the recent torgercs on
the Bank of England, gives the following
account of the conspiracy and the manner
in which it was discovered:


The person who is now being sought
by the police commenced by opening Il
deposit account Of the ordinary character
with the western branch of the bank. For
this purpose he would need only an intro
duction by some customer, and the only
evidence of solvency the bank would re-
qure of him woul! be the deposit of a
sufficient cash balance. This was, OF
course, forthcoming, and constituted part
of the capital with which the scheme was
carried on. Of course, all the money
thus invested, would, it was expected,
ultimately be recovered; but the gang
must have been we'll supplied with funds
in order to afford to keep large sum of
money invested, as it were, in the specu-
lation. The manager of the plot was in
no hurry, and took care to gain a good
footing before he ventured on his ultimate
enterprise. He behaved for some time
Just like an ordinary customer Of good re-
sources. He drew upon his balance and
renewed it, but kept it always at a good
figure. After while he deposited some
bills. They were good and genuine bills
Still he was careful not to be hasty, and
he continued his transactions with the
bank until he had acquired the reputation
of a person engaged in legitimate com
merce and thoroughly trustworthy. At
length the moment came for the presenta
ton of the forged bills. They We're dis
counted without hesitation, and the au-
thors of the fraud had, to all appearance,
succeeded in safely pocketing about a
hundred thousand pounds. Some Of the
money, it appears, was invested in United
States bonds. so that to the last they
might avoid the appearance of doing any
thing unusual. They are said to be Ameri-
cans, and what more natural than that
they should desire bonds OF their own
country? All these arrangements were
masterpieces of ingenuity and patience


But it is rarely that these conspiracies
are not marred by some utterly gratutious
oversight, and the execution of this scheme
was marred by the inevitable flaw. The
men who had exerted skill, foresight
and perseverance sufficient to ensure the
unhesitating acceptance of forged bills,
could not escape one trivial blunder,
which revealed the whole plot. They
presented two bills in which the date Of
acceptance had been omitted. The whole
calendar was at their disposal, they knew
perfectly well that single slip in the
usual formalties would be fatal, and vet
they fell into the folly Of marring their
whole scheme for lack OF date Enquiry
was of course made of the firm whose
acceptance was thus undated 1t was dis
covered that the bill was not genuine, and
the whole series were then found to be
forgeries. How much further the plot
might have been carried it is impossible
to say"
Year: 1873

IA few winters ago | weighed the hay
for ten fine wo0led sheep and for an ordi-
nary sized COW that was giving milk, and
the COW consumed rather more than the
sheep. A few roots daily in winter, fed
with fair hay, will keep sheep in good
condition to care for her lambs in the
spring. The lambs need looking to the
first few hours after birth; most of them,
however, will not need it, but occasionally
one will be found that will not be strong
enough, or from some other cause will fail
to obtain It's natural supply of milk, and
will require assistance Here is what
three sheep did last season: They lambed
in March, one had three, the others two
each, seven in all sold five Of them in June
Tor twenty five dollars; the two kept if sole
at the same time with the others, would
have brought eleven dollars, making thirty
six dollars; sold twelve pounds of wool for
six dollars; total, lambs and wool, forty
two dollars, which will be called goo6
return by most of your readers, | think
But perhaps some of them have sheep that
have done better. These lambs were not
sold for any fancy price, but at regular
rates to the butcher" Peterboro', N. H 8.
Transcript.
Year: 1873

Live in the light Of the Truth that hath founi


thee,


Live as the Ocean lives, sparkling and broad
Live tor the thousands who perish around thee
Live for thy country, Eternity, God;
Live in the Past with its eloquent history;
Live in the present-it soon will have fled;
Live for the Future, enshrouded in mystery;
Live while you live, ere you sleep with the


dead.


Learn to look up when temptations assail thee
Learn to do right, whosoever may laugh;
Learn to distrust the delights that regaIe thee
Learn from Quilts chalice, oh, never to quaff
Learn to rebuke each unhalowed emotion.
Learn to thyseh to be loyal and Just;
Learn TO make Duty thy shrine of devotion,
Learn not in man, but thy Saviour to trust.
Labor for all that is highest and purest


Labor for that which is wisest and best;
Labor for Hin who of friends is the surest
Labor till Death brings thy guerdon of rest
Labor is earnest thy work is around thee,
Labor unweariedly on to the end:
Labor is worship, and angels surround thee,
Labor to cheer thee and fly to defend.
Love mid aspersiou, neglect and disaster
Love in the sunshine, but more in the storm
Love, above all thine EXempar and Master,
Love Him with constancy, tender and warm
Love not of Sorrow her vesture to borrow,
Love in the layspring of Heaven to roam;
Love not Self or Sin, and i'll Earth's glad to


morrow


Love everlasting shall welcome thee home.
Year: 1873

One OF the most paying crops in our To-
cality the past few years, for the farmer
mas been the hay crop, as prices for this
staple have ruled about S25 per ton, baled
and delivered at the railroad. OF course,
it has been our study how to increase the
quantity. 1t is universally admitted that
we do not, for some reason, obtain as heavy
crops as formerly, especially on our up
lands. Our seeding does not ''catch" as
well, and then the occasional drouths to
which we are liable, seem in a certain de
gree to kill the grass roots; and then, per
haps, we have acquired the habit of apply
ing our manures too much to our hoed
crops, and not giving proper amount to
the grass, which, as general rule, is of
course very poor policy.


Again, we are accustomed almost eXclu-
sively to seed with some grain crop, and
not to sow the grass seed alone. AS this
subject is being very fully and properly
discussed just now in the columns of the
Country Gentleman, l will not hazard an
opinion; only presuming to say that it is Il
subject Of much moment, and trust 1t will
be fully ventilated


Another reason has been whispered,
which is this That on account of the great
competition among the different moving
machine manufacturers, as to which ma
chihe snail shave-yeS, literally shave-the
surface OF our meadows the closest, the
roots OF the grass are really and perma-
nently injured in leaving them bare, and
thus very liable to be frozen out OF course
| shall not be presuming enough to attempt
to point ont a remedy for these failures, my
only object being to get your readers to
put on their thinking caps, and see if really
there are any grounds for these formidable
allegations; and my object is then fully
gained.


One thing is certain, the time is forever
past when we can hope to cope with our
western brethren in raising the cereals
their rich soils and cheap lands give them
an advantage over US which it were useless
for us to try to compete with in any degree.
And even now quantities of hay are being
brought from Canada to our own markets,
and sold so as to compete successfully with
our own crop. VIM. j. PETTEE
Year: 1873

Prof- Tyndall illustrates the value of a
single potato by supposing that every po-
tatO in the world were destroyed; that one
would contain the possibility of again stock
ing the world with an invaluable article of
food. Ii one potato would produce, when
planted, only crop of ten potatoes, in ten
years the total product of the produce of
this one potato would be equal to ten
thousand millions, which would be suf-
ticient to stock the whole world with seed,
The real value of that single potato, then,
would be such that it would be better that
the City of London or New York should be
totally destroyed than that tuber should
be lost to the world.