Year: 1876

of the face, and rest and peace steal


over the features like the merciful


moonlight over desolate landscape:


"rhe guano is a fine bird. but great


care is necessary in rearing it. 1t


should not be imported earlier. than
June or later than September. In the


winter it should be kept in warm


place, where it can hatch cut its young.


sIt is evident that we are to haye .
backward season fer grain, There
fore it will be well for the farmer to
begin setting cut his cornstalks, and
planting his buckwheat cakes in July
instead Of August. st uss. estt


Concerning the pumpkin.-The ber-
ry is q faverite with the natives of the
interior of New England, who prefer
:. it to the gooseberry for the making OF
fruit cake. and who likewise give it
the preference over the raspberry for
feeding cows. as being more filling
and full as satisfying. The pump
! kin is the only esculent Of the orange
! family that will thrive in the North,
! except the gourd and one or two va
rieties Of the squash. But the custom
j of planting in the front yard with the
shrubberry is fast going out of vogue,
for it is now generally conceded that
/ the pumpkin AS shade tree is fail
/ ure.


"Now, IS the warm weather ap-
proaches, and the ganders begin no
spawn"


The excited listener sprang toward
me to shake hands and said: =.


"There, there-that will do. know
am all right now, because you have
read it just IS did word for word.
"But, stranger, when [ first read it
this morning, said to myself, never,
never believed it before, notwithstand-
my friends kept me under watch SO
strict, but now believe L am crazy !:
! and with that / fetched q howl that
you might have heard two miles, and
started out to kill somebody because.
you know, knew it would come to
that sooner or later, and SO might as
we'll begin. l read one of them psra-
graphs over again so as to be certain,
and then burned my house down
and started. l have crippled several
people, and have got one fellow up a
tree, where l can get him if l want
him. But thought that would call
in here as l passed along and make
the thing perfectly certain and now it
is certain, and tell you it is lucky,
for the chap that is in the tree. l
should haye killed him, sure as went
back. Good-by, sir, goed-by; You
have taken great lead of my mind.
My reason has stood the strain of one
of your agricultural articles, and /
know that nothing can ever unseat it
now. Good-by, SIR"


felt little uncomfortable about
the cripplings and arson this person
had been entertaining himself with,
for could not help feeling remotely
accessory to them. But the thoughts
were quickly banished, for the regu-
lar editor walked in. thought to
myself, now, if you had gone to Egypt.
as had recommended you to, might
have had chance to get my hand in,
but wouldn't do it, and here you are.
L sort of expected yOu.


The editor was looking SAD, ,and per-
picked and detected.


He surveyed the wreck which. that
old rioter and these two young farm
ers had made, and then said, "This is
= sad business very sad business.
There is the mucilage bottle broken,
and six panes of glass, and a spittoon
and two candlesticks. But that is not
the worst. The reputation of the pa
per is injured-permanently, l fear.


"True, there never was such call
for the paper before, and it never sold
such a large edition or scared to such
celebrity, but does one want to be fa-
nous for lunacy, and prosper upon
the infirmities of his mind My friend,
as am an honest man, the street out
here is full of people, and others are
roosting on the fence, waiting to get a
glimpse of you, because they think
you are crazy, And well they might
after reading your editorials. They
are disgrace to journalism. Why
what put it INTO your head that you
could edit paper Of this nature? You
do not seem to know the first rudi-
nents of agriculture. You speak of
furrow and I harrow as being the
same thing you talk Of the moulting
season for cows. and you recommend
ed the domestication Of the polecat on
account of its playfulness and its eX-
cellence as a ratter. Your remark
that CLAIMS will lie quiet if music be
played to them was superfuous-en-
tirely superauous. Nothing disturbs
CLAIMS. CLAIMS always lie quiet. CLAIMS
care nothing whatever about music.
And heavens aQd earth, friend! If you
had made the acquiring of ignorance
the study of your life, you could not
have graduated with higher honor
than you could to-day. l never saw
anything like it. Your observation
of the horse-chostnut, as an article of
commerce steadily gaining i'll favor,
is simply calculated to destroy this
journal. l want you to throw up your
situation and. go. l want no more
holiday could not enjoy it if had
it. Certainly not if / had you in my
chair. | would always stand in dread
of what you might be going to recon-
mend next. 1t makes me lose all pa
tience every time think of your dis
cussing Oyster-beds under the head of
Landscape Gardening" | want you