smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

nips and potatoes, without any manure, where
l could see the benefit Of the phosphate not
only on the grain crop, but on the grass get
ting better catch where the hills we're. |
now have piece Of potatoes on broken-up
ground. part Of the crop with stable ma
nure we'll narrowed into the top, and part
with spoonful Of Bradleys phosphate in
each hill, planted at the same time. The
potatoes where the phosphate was used are
nearly twice as large and of better color than
where the manure was narrowed in, but shall
hardly expect the phosphate tOcome out ahead
in the fall, although shall watch the results
with interest. l Hnd Gu our soil spoonful
Of phosphate to the hill on well manured
land increases the corn crop more than
enough to pay the expense, to say nothing
of its forwarding the crop from one to two
weeks. 1 have averaged to use about half
ton Of phosphate each year for tho past
eight years, and am satisfied on the whole
that it has paid me well for using, but would
advise no one to use any brand Of phosphate
to any great extent without first satisfying
himself that it will pay on his soil


Will you please inform me through the col
umns of the FARMER the best time to set out
currant bushes, and oblige.


Yours truly,


Il. p. ALLEN.


[Mr. Aliens advice to test the effect Of
superphOsphate on each mans soil before in-
vesting to any extent is sound. We have
no doubt that on soil adapted to it, good
article Of superphosphate in connection with
baru-yard manure pays well IN starting and
forwarding crops. We cannot advise its use
as substitute for manure.


We have had no experience in setting cur
rant bushes, but would suppose that they
would do well at any time when not in ac-
tive growth. Perhaps readers Of the FARMER
can answer.


Mr.. Allen will accept our thanks for words
of encouragement for the FARMER. We ask
the farmers to help us make it worthy of the
support and of the cause in which We are
laborers in common.
Year: 1875

We were the subject of a visitation of
Providence on the 9th inst, in the shape
of hail storm. Stones third to half an
inch in diameter fell in abundance accompa-
MED by very high wind. The crops suffer-
ed severely. Corn was beaten down and
combed out SO that after nearly a week it
looks like hopeless case. Potato vines
were cut off, turnip leaves ditto. Gardens
are ruined The storm covered belt about
mile wide, and its course was towards the
north east. How far it extended wo have
not learned, as we have been so unfortunate
as not to be able to use our eyes at all for
reading for nearly two weeks.
Year: 1875

| am glad to see by your contributors
among the farmers wives that they are TAX
ing lively interest in poultry l have
kept hens aud ducks, and like "Duck-wing"
| prefer the latter. But she has got the
start of me. My ducks have not produced
such result and perhaps it is because
used only ducks to hatch the eggs, and
this prevented my getting as many eggs or
ducklings in proportion to my number of
ducks. About seventy eggs to duck is as
many as l have ever had. But my sue
cess in raising young ducks has been fair.
From twenty ducks and five brakes | have
raised as many as 300 ducklingS for the city
market have not such picturesque elm
standing on such lovely little swell of land
overlooking the innocent pastime of my pets
as "Duck-wing" My duck pond is nothing
but an oozy bayou from Lake Michigan, out
OF which they seem TO get much food, mostly
fish. l also use the waste of a butchers
shop near by. The duck is a great flesh
eater, and very easy to provide for, if you
have the means. find ducks excellent sit
ters, and perhaps they may as well spend
their time that way as any other. l know
the objection that is raised-that they eat
so much aud that therefore it is better to
hatch under hens, This may be true where
all the food Is expensive, but with me- ducks
can be kept at about the same expense as
hens. My ducks hatch and rear, on an
average of fifteen ducklings at a sitting. l
have warm place for them in winter, and
give them plenty of straw. raise as many
as possible early, for these bring the best
price, but 81 or $3.50 per pair is all can
get. The fact is, have not got the genius
of "Duck-wing," | simply sell my ducks for
all l can get, and instead of laying it out for
mere gew-gaws, pat most of it in savings
bank at interest, aud shall use the accumu-
latiou to pay for another small piece of land
which my husband wants to buy.


... [Oor. Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1875

We read in an agricultural journal, the rec
ommendation to farmers, to take few days
for rest and recreation after harvest, by going
a fishing. This is good, but we propose
something better. We like recreation, but
we never could get time TO go a fishing, nor
could we discover the great fascination in
holding pole and cord in the water for
hours, with the hope of jerking out OCCASION
ally small animal with sharp hook in its
tender mouth. Is there not a better way
for farmers to enjoy themselves for few
days after harvest If they and their chill
dren have any taste for science, sketching,
and making natural history collections, let
them hitch the horses to the carriage and
take jaunt to the widest woods. rocks and
ravines for this purpose. Collecting miner.
ais, pressing and drying plants, sketching
trees with twisted trunks and roots, or wild
rocky scenery securing the roots Of wild
flowers for removal to the garden or door
yard, in all these and many other amuse.
ments of the kind, there is a great deal of
real intellectual fascination. Do you say
you have no such things? Then we are
sorry for this great vacuum in life's enjoy
ments But the taste may be cultivated.
1t is too valuable to leave undeveloped.
There is not one person in ten who has not
a real or latent taste for them. Examine
and study the beauty of natural scenery, and
in little while you will begin to admire it.
Use microscope on the minute and beauti.
ful parts of plants, flowers and insects, and
you will soon find an inexhaustible fund of
in nd nnTn nanN /
collections Of shells, minerals, insects, &C.,
you will secure permanent record of your
rambles, as well as a museum OF scientific
value. This is a kind of recreation that gives
permanent enjoyment, not found in Jolly
and senseless parties and throngs.


Country Gentleman.
Year: 1875

The New England Farmer copies with
approval an editorial under the above title
from the Vermont Watchman, and then,
apropos Of the statement therein that it will
take three times as much plant food to grow
one thousand eight hundred pounds of oats
as it will to grow six hundred pounds, copies
from the same column the following item {:
A pair of six.year.old graded Devon oxen,
weighing four thousand seven hundred pounds
were sold recently in Gilmanton, N. H., for
1925 A pair of ordinary native cattle
would have cost Just as much to raise. and
would have sold for about half as much.


And then remarks:


Now, we are not quite sharp enough to
see how, if the above reasoning about large
crops is correct, it is possible to raise yoke
of cattle weighing forty-seven hundred
pounds as chcaply as pair weighing two
thirds that number of pounds, allowing that
each pair are healthy and good feeders.
Of course, we do not doubt that cattle may
sometimes be out of condition, and that at
such times they may waste all the food they
consume /; but, aside from such disturbing
influences, is it fair to assume that it takes no
more hay and grain to grow two tons of beef
than to grow one ton? Is not this, also, one
of the agricultural impossibilities?"


To this the Watchman responds as fol-
lows:


Yes, sir it is an agricultural impos-
sibility," and we thank you for calling our
attention to the item, which did not emanate
from the agricultural editor but was SCISSOR.
ed to fill out the column. And that samC
scissoring by non.expert in agriculture is
pregnant comment on the way "agrioul-
tural departments" in most of our papers
are "edited, !" and thus made the vehicles fOl
the dissemination Of "a vast and varied mis-
information" The printers who, without
practical knowledge of the subject, under
take to supply their readers with agricultural
reading, are continually printing similar alb
surdities.


Now we entertain the greatest respect fo
the opinion Of Brothers Cheeyer and Hos
kins, and regard them as among the yer,
ablest and most careful of agricultural edit
ors, but the way in which that unfortunat
item in relation to the yoke of Gilmanto
oxen is treated is in our opinion calculate
to mislead farmers, and to convey by impli
cation, the notion that native or scrub cattl
are just as good for converting the forage {
the farm into beef as those improved by gra
ing up with theimproved breeds They appea
to reason by analogy, that because the so
takes given amount of plant food to max
pound of oats it will therefore use ju
thrice that to make three pounds, hence
one animal requires given amount of nutr
ment to make pound Of beef, another OF
will produce beef in the same proportion
available nutriment consumed. The prop
stion of the Watchman is correct in prime
pie, of course But DR.. Hoskins is tc
sound man to go one step further and 81
two plots of soil Of different character W
each make the same number of pounds


oats Of given quantity of plant foo
And yet this is just what is to be impli
in regard to the cattle statement.


The cattle item, if taken for an averag
Year: 1875

When hay goes to the barn so damp that
it Is liable to injure by heating, half doz'
en- forkfuls of old hay or straw sprinkled
evenly over the NOV after each load is put
in, will absorb the moisture, and frequently
bring out hay bright and green which would
otherwise be nearly ruined
Year: 1875

The hay season is late. The grass con-
tinued to grow with the late rains, and many
farmers who usually get half done before
"the fourth" did not begin until alter that
date, and are now cutting fair crop, be-
tween showers. The weather is catching,
and progress is slow. Grass is maturing
faster than usual, and much is liable to
become over-ripe before it can be cut.
Year: 1875

If there are stones in the mowings which
interfere with the operation of the mower
now is good time to find them. Dig them
out at odd jobs as opportunity offers and
haul them off before the second crop gets up.
A little stone, which could be removed in a
minute often Injuries mower, causing
loss in cost of repairs and delay, of many
dollars.
Year: 1875

MEMPHIS, August The situation
along the river l. gloomy,and the planters
are very dcspondcnt, in view of the floods
reported in all the upper rivers. The rise
here to-day, was only an inch, but the
head Of the second rise viii probably
reach here tomorrow, though the river
probably will not rise rapidly before tie
last part of the present week.
Year: 1875

An Iowa mother lately met with a
chapter e. horrors. She sent two CHI
dren to the barn for eggs. They went to
II pot whore they knew there was anesI
and 1t being concealed by straw, one Of
them put his hand in, but suddenly drew
it back saying the hen had pecked HIM.
4 second one then tried 1t, and with the
,ame result. Search disclosed rattle.
snake in the nest. and amid the excite
mrut that enSucd Il younger child fell
INTO bucket of hot water which the
mother had left ON the floor. All three
children were corpses i'll half an hour.


The effort 20 make Of the O'Conncl
Centennial in Ireland religious instead
Of purely patriotic occasion, will be
likely to create trosble, and do Gamag"
to the cause of Irish self government.
1t is understood that the Lord Mayor OF
Dublin intends to propose to the health
of the Pope before that the Queen,
and many Home Rulers and Protestant
admirers of the great liberator are dis
gu>ted
Year: 1875

fW LIE lTuNSc7lW


Mr.. EDITOR In your last issue
found your annual TRADE against the
poor Peach Pluck How could we pos
sibly get our immense crop of peaches
picked without them? We imported
Swedes at heavy cost and nearly all
Of them ran away before the time was
up for which they agreed to work to
pay their passage.


And as to the darkey, how much de-
pendence is there in him? Almost
none! What do they care about their
contracts? During the greatest pres
sure Of work they will stop and go to
campo picnic. Could the cotton plant
er have such an influx of labor during
picking season, he could safely grow
fifty per cent. more cotton.


Just let those poor fellows forsake us
for one season, when we have crop on
hand, and then we will know their
value. They should be treated kindly.
Many Of them are cultivated and refined.
Who knows what the future may have
in store for US? We may next year be
q PEACH PLUCK.
Year: 1875

The GREAT ScANDAL.-The jury
having failed to come to an agreement
as to the guilt or innocence Of Henry
Ward Beecher, in the late trial, the
counsel of Theodore Tilton have served
formal notice upon Beecher's counsel
that they had demanded new trial and
that the case would be brought up at
the September term Of court. Tilton's
counsel claim to have evidence that will
prove the guilt Of Beecher beyond cavil.
They also say that the trial will not, or
need not, last over ten days or two
weeks at furtherest. Be that as it may
the country is to be again afflicted with
Beecher, Tilton, Bowen, Moulton, Bes-
sic Turner and the filth and trash Of
that disgusting trial.
Year: 1875

facilities for the sale of fruit in their
city. They present references and en-
dorsements Of the highest and best
character for responsibility, integrity
ana business capacity. AS the peach
cscp is almost complete failure in the
West, fruit sent to those cites will
doubtless command very high and re-
munerative prices. and as Chicago
stands at the forefront in other branch
es Of business it is fair to presume
that she will prove an excellent market,
also, for the sale of the Peninsula's lus-
cious productions Persons who con-
template making the experiment Of ship
ping to the West, may find it to their
advantage to correspond with Messrs.
S. B. Chase Il Co.
Year: 1875

ADVICE FOR DULL T1MEs.-Adver-
tising is a great bother. It only brings
lot Of folks to your place of business.
If they want you let them hunt you
up. Then if you get your name in the
paper you will be bored with drum
mers and people from the country will
call on you and you will have to show
them goods, and like enough have to do
up bundles for them, which will ex-
haust your stock so much that you will
be obliged to buy more goods, which is
great trouble. If you advertise, too.
it gives your place reputation abroad /;
folks will 60 there and crowd you, and
make it too lively. If you don't want
to do anything, keep as still as you
can.-Nep York Commercial Advertis-
er.
Year: 1875

ANDREW JonNsoN's PROBABLE SUc-
CEssoR.--It is thought in Tennessee
that the Governor will appoint Gen.
VIM B. Bate to the seat Of the late
Andrew johnson in the Senate. Gen.
Bate was close competitor of Mr..
johnson, the latter winning only by a
very small vote. He was confederate
officer, but that he has become fully re-
conciled to the situation is evident from
the letter which he wrote to a recent
meeting of Southern soldiers: 1--WE
have not at any time lost sight Of the
fact that this is our country, and the
only one in which we have a special in
terest that its glory is our glory, its
shame is our shame, and that it is
both patriotic and manly for us to vie
with our late adversaries, in generous
way. in elevating, strengthening and
ennobling it,"
Year: 1875

of five-eighth bushel, in our city, and having
experience and standing in the business, we
offer our services, and shall be pleased to give
prompt attention to all shipments The Fruit
can be shipped by Star Union Express Line,
from Philadelphia, at 81. so per 100 lbs land,
in all probability, less rates can be made
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad can get the
Fruit through in thirty-six hours, from the
orchards, and at less rates than the Star Union
Line. We have facilities for handling o Car
Load day to good advantage, and if the
trade justifes it, so we can handle more, we
will advise you of it promptly. We make re-
turns the same day the Fruit is received, and
furnish telegraphic information of the Market
to all who desire it,


Trusting that we shall hear from you, we
remain


Respectfully yours,
Year: 1875

A DISMAL scandal has re Gently


shocked the American colony in


Paris, it being the arrest of a wealthy


American lady of respectable stand


ing at the Bon Marche for stealing.
The case appears to have been one
of bona .ttde robbery, and not, rs on
a former occasion and in another
establishment, an unfounded and
slanderous charge, for the erring
dame Oh being searched was found
to have filled her poe kets with arti-
cles for which she was unable to ac-
count. AS the smallest tritle pur
chased at the Bon Marche has to be
paid for at one of the desks, where
the purchase is doubly entered, first
by the salesman who files bill for
it, and secondly, by the cashier who
receives the payment, makes out
the change, and enters "A full, de.
tailed record of the transaction in
his book, a mistake in regard to
the ownership of the articles is
hardly possible. The unfortunate
woman was in prison for over a
week before her release on bail was
effected.
Year: 1875

A WELL ROUNDED LIFE. WheI


death comes early, when it crushes


the budding loveliness of childh )oC


or treads upon the bloom of youth


or even when it tlamplcs on the


strength of manhood, the natural


grief that we feel is aggravated be-


cause the event is as untimely as it


is severe; and we murmur, for it


contradicts the order of nature.


But when the pale messenger lays


his hand upon an accomplished life,
a life that has rounded out the years


which experience and inspiration


assign as the desirable limit of hui
man duration; when these years
have been filled with usefulness, re-


warded 10y success and crowned
with honors; when good man,
having discharged the duties and


fulfilled the trusts Of life, lies down
calmly and peacefully to his final
reposc. we may grieve, but we are
not permitted to complain. The
tears of affection may not, indeed,
be kept back, but the voice of rea-
son is silenced. TO complain at the
close of such a life is to complain of
the law of our existence, and to ac-
cuse the Greater that he did not
make man immortal upon the earth.
For such life eloquence shall lift
her voice and poetry shall string
her Tyre. For such a man, praise,
honor and imitation, but not tears.
Tears for him who has failed, tears
for him who has tainted on the way
side, not for him who, through his
fault or his misfortune, omitted to
employ the opportunities that were
given to lin, not for him who died
when he had accomplished that for
which he lived. So, we will lament
in no complaining spirit for the man
whose memory we honor to-day.
With our grief that he has died
shall he mingled our thankfulness
that lie has lived. The State that
he served so faithfully in the time
of her greatest emergency, proudly
lifts his name inscribed on the roll
of her hOnOred and remembered
sous, and the history of that State
cannot be fairly written without
honorable mention of his services.
The Senate which he informed with
wise counsels, which he adorned
with dignity of manners and with
purity of life, bears equal testimo-
ny TO his abilities and his virtues
and equal honor to his memory
From Senator Anthony's EatOgy up
~ Senator BaSkingham, !
Year: 1875

a SAD JOKE. a practical joker
has been brought to his senses in
Carlisle, Ontario. A very intelli-
gent and estimable young lady of
that place was sitting with an init
mate friend in her fathers parlor
the other evening, and while ell
gagged in conversation leaned over
and rested partly on her compan-
ions lap. The joker eutered from
behind, and suddenly pulled her
chair out from under her In at
tempting to save herself, the young
lady injured her spinal column so
severely that she went into cOnvul-
sions; and the family physician has
given his opinion that, even if her
life is spared, her mind will be de-
ranged from the shock.
Year: 1875

CoMFoIT IN PARTING.
When friend from friend is parting,
And in each speaking eye
The silent tears are starting,
To tell what words deny,
How could we bear the heavy load
OF such heart agony,
Could we not cast it all. our God,
Our gracious God. on Thee;
And feel that Thou kind watch will keep
When we are far away;
That Thou wilt soothe us when we weep,
And hear us when we pray?
Year: 1875

TO Babe BESSIE.
From thee and thy innocent beauty,
First came the lesson;
And 1t taught me to love, to adore
To feel thy bright presence,
And turn with shame tbefore
From the idols 1 blindly had knelt to
Ger the waves of life,
Long blighted and wild,
Thou cam'st, like soft, golden calm,
Coming from over the sea; smiled
And if happiness purely and glowingly
On my evening horizon,
The light came from thee.
Year: 1875

saosins with care and tsstc, and perfectly conecion
tousy. Mss Drasdi unfortunately ndisposed and


~ Obliged 70 retire first In consequence
Of this the exquisite to. Lift thine eyes" and tho aria
80 Rest IN the Lord" well two three other
numbers had to be omitted. But the little work which
her iudisposton allowed her to do vas as is almost
always the case with whatever Miss Drasdii sngs,
tremey well donc and her enforced absence In the
ond part of the oratoo all the to he regretted
on this account Mr. Simpson in better voice than
usual, and sang with all his od-tlme vigor
The perfectly artistic character OF HIS work pec-
iiary noticeable in his recitaves, which sung with
the utmost cearness and precision and with regard TO
the meaning OF the words which rarely hears. His
two solos, II with all your hearts and Then shall the
righteous shino." were exQuisltely rendered; the
time OF tho latter, though. was little
slow Mr.. sohst. as Eiljah, extremely good. "Is
not His word Ike fire Z" admirably given, and 1t
s enough left very little be desired His recitatvcs.
too OF which ho has great many. carefully and
well done


The work OF the chorus very unoven. 1t Is not
well balanced and this defect enhanced at times by
the explosive singing OF the different parts which seemed
20 work along without any regard to each other
The tenors were very weak particularly on
the high notes. Tho chorus "Hep Lord was
very rough and coarse and "He watching over lsraeI
was numerically maugled. The orchestra too'
showed the same lack training the chorus, and the
brass WAS very offensive being decidedly coarse
and blatant The cho!us seems to contain some good
material for there were many young, fresh voices but
did not seem as though they could he depended Care
fu practice however would do much to remedy the de-
fects which were apparent their work and this they
have: with such conductor AS BrstOw they should
be ac 10 give better account OF Themselves than they
did Iast evening.
Year: 1875

To ths EDITOR or The Irtbunf.


SIR: thank you heartily for letting us all
Give and let live" What happy privilege you confer
upon the conflicting surging masses in allowing them
voice and hearing through your mighty paper NJ only
object in writing you thank you most gratefully for
tho clear and gnied message you daily bring Of the
divine work going in Br0okynand Philadelphia Other
papers have been faithfully most points
but You have excoled in all am led TO write YOU thus
earnestly because OF letter sent you rom yed, Conn.,
When read tat letter felt keeny sorry that your cor
respondent should widely have faded IN his solution
Of the problem or life. In closing let once more than
you for tho intense enjoyment you have given and
thousands OF Others in The s gntrOIward, manly course
you have taken all the way through. L. L.


LAKE NOhezdH, Nov. 23, 1879.