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Year: 1873

Though | am a " female woman" as Fan
ny Fern used to say, | read with great pleas
ure the pages of the FARMER, and like it the
best Of any agricultural weekly have ever
read. have been interested in the various
articles relative to sugar making, and would
like to say few words about the matter.


One week ago last Tuesday, the first day
of April, our men began to tap our sugar
orchard, consisting of fourteen hundred trees,
lying in two bodies about ninety rods apart.
BY the next Monday night they had made
sugar and sirup to the amount of one thou
sand pounds, pretty good record for FIVE
days. Since then sap has run but very little,
and the prospect is now for small supply Of
sugar this season. The snow was very deep
to commence with,-though not nearly so
deep as it was four years ago this SPRING
it has settled very fast and now the bare
spots begin to appear in the lots and wood
land. We have never tried the eVaporator
yet, but think we can boil quite as fast witA
the arrangements we have. We have two
arches, one eighteen feet long, the other is
smaller, containing two long pans and a
saldron kettle set in the back side next the
chimney. A large holder sets close to the
chimney, and a gas pipe runs through the
chimney from this holder, which is regulated
h,t N Ea,o.A 40 thot ,Ba nan hava n atraavn of
any desired volume, and the sap is conveyed
into the pans only as fast as it evaporates,
so that they are always boiling. A sphon
of gutta percha tubing conveys the sap from
the draw.tub into this reservoir so that there
is no lifting of sap. The sugar house is sit
uated in the lower sugar orchard SO that the
sap is all conveyed from the upper orchard
by leading spouts direct to the sugar house,
thereby saving vast amount of labor in the
handling The sap from the trees that are
on lower ground than the sugar house, is
gathered into draw-tub.


Our trees are nearly all second growth.
When they were first tapped some twenty
five years ago or more, the sugar was very
dark colored indeed, but it has improved in
quality as it has grown older, and makes
very nice sugar now, 1t is true that our
conveniences are much improved since that
date but that cannot be all the reason Of the
difference in quality, as with the same con-
veniences we made very white sugar in an
other sugar place less than half a mile dis.
tant. Can any one tell the reason Of the
difference in quality of sugar from the first
tapping and now? and is this fact one Of
common occurrence
Year: 1873

y correspondent in late FARMER asks
the question, Which is the worst. the murderer
or the runseller?


BY the way N. l.. d. states the question,
judge she would decide against the rum.
seller. Without joining issue upon that
point, l would say that in my humble opin-
ion the rumseller is not the only guilty party
in this business of manufacturing drunkards.
The appetite for strong drink is very often
acquired long before the victim ever visits a
grogshop. The seed is sown in the nursery
at their own freside. The country is flooded
with quack nostrums in the form OF ano-
dynes, cordials, &C., &c., which are forced
down the throats of the little innocents, until
the system learns to depend upon the stimu-
lants thus introduced, Then the appetite Graves
something of like nature. Hence we can see
how easy it is for these children thus treated
to yield to the temptations that are sure to be
presented to almost every one sooner or later.


Again, the practice of giving them highly
seasoned food and at unreasonable hours, is
fruitful source of mischief by vitiating the
taste and causing an unnatural and uncon-
trollable appetite, thus rendering them an ca
sy prey to the snare of the fowler"


Again, beverages which are in constant use
in almost every community, which contain
small percentage of alcohol, and are deemed
by the mass to be quite harmless, tend to
develop an appetite for something stronger,
an appetite that is not easily got rid of, and
when it demands indulgence it requires more
stamina and moral courage than is possessed
by the majority of young men to say no.


Who is responsible for appetites formed
by using alcoholic liquors in cOOking2 In
late number of the FARMER l saw a recipe
for making mince pies, where to one quart of
apples one-half pint of best French brandy is
used. Now let every family in our land
make mince pies after that recipe for one
generation, and if you don't at the end Of
that time find an increase Of grogshops Of
more than 500 per cent, then I'm no Yankee
and will not try guessing again.


I'm no apolOgist for the rumseller, but
think there is great deal of ammunition
wasted by not understanding the exact posi-.
ton Of the foe. Our efforts would be more
successful if they we're directed to the root of
the matter. | consider the business Of the
rumseller anything but laudable, and would
have all the influence possible brought to
bear against it. At the same time would
have every mother in the land understand
her responsibility. Let us stop fostering
appetities for strong drinks in the young
then may we see grogshops diminishing, until
they shall all die for want Of customers,
ARvILLE.
Year: 1873

The winter of 1928 will long be re-
membered as one of the most severe within
the past hundred years with no frost in the
ground, and from six inches to six feet Of
snow for blanket for over four months.
Not spot of bare ground have l seen out
side Of the warm side of buildings since the
snow first came Not rain of any amount
for over four months, and not warm and
thawy weather enough in all the time to take
the snow from shingled roofs even on the
warm sides. find the opinion general,
that the effect of the deep and long continu-
ed snow will be favorable to the grass crop
of the coming season, and think there is
good foundation for the impression. 1t is
an advantage to the after crop Of grass to
have the ground well covered during the
b winter. 1t is great protection to the grass
roots, aud saves winter killing. If the spring
should prove favorable, and we get our usual
amount of moisture and heat during May
and June, we shall be very likely to have
large grass crop. Everything has been
favorable to last fall sown grass, especially
that sown early, consequently we may look
for very heavy burdens of hay upon all such
lands. A good many of the fields that were
seeded to grass in the spring of 1871, proved
to be somewhat killed by the drouth of that
year, and last season produced about half and
half Of clover and sorrel. think that all
such that are III good or even fair condition,
will pay for few POUNDS OF clover seed to
be sown this spring on light snow, or while
the ground is freezing and thawing. AS the
hay crop is the crop of all crops it is well
to look close after all barren spots, so as to
have no waste places. There is many an
old bound out field that might be cut early,
say by the 18th of June, and then turned
over, and with few loads of manure spread
on and narrowed in, would grow fine crop
of Hungarian grass. 1t is worth a trial


Why Nor.


BrattleJoro. March 81, 1873





P.S. April I. Since this month came
in we have had just the right kind of weather
to settle the snow, at least one-half, and it
now looks as if we might still get the early
spring that we have heard so much about all
winter. But planting potatoes or peas the
first Of April has gone by, and We must wait
ere we put them in. Some bare spots are to
be seen IN the lots and the grass is looking
finely on all such. If the weather proves to
be Just right after the snow leaves, the grass
will grow right along as it is already nicely
started Fodder holds out well and stock OF
oil kinds as far as have seen, is coming out
finely.
Year: 1873

have noticed that there is a large guam
tity Of inter in the sugar this year, the first
sirup made depositing considerable sediment.
Some years there will not any appear until af.
ter the first run. think the inter does not
injure the flavor of sirup before it graduates,
and l prefer my sirup which l put up in
cans to be made thick enough in tho first
boiling. l like the flavor better than to let
it cool aud settle and boil over. Is there
anything injurious to health in this inter ?
Is there really more of it than there used to
be years ago, or have we learned that the
sediment which we used to call ashes is real
ly something else 2 l do not remember to
have ever heard the subject discussed at all
until within few years.


We use mostly tin buckets, and would
prefer them altogether have used Posts
Eureka Spout some, and like it well. We
do not claim any superiority for our mode Of
sugar making above many others, but think
there is more than one way to do some things
right. LAURA BRIGHAM BoYcE


Fayston, w., April ~, 1873.
Year: 1873

1t is now time for those who want to have
early chickens, and particularly those who
are raising any of the pure breeds and expect
to send their chickens to the fall shows, to
make up their breeding stock for the coming
season. 1t is mistake commonly made at
this season of the year, to put too many eggs
under hen. Seven or nine are enough for
the largest hem for if she is so fortunate as
to cover them all, and not allow the outer
ones to get chilled she will not be able to
cover her chicks well during the long cold
nights Of early spring. tits particularly essen
tial at this season of the year that both food
and water and dust,bath be placed where
the setting hens can have convenient access
to them for short exposure at this season
ehills the eggs.-Live Stock Journal,
Year: 1873

Colmans Rural says An esteemed cor
respondent in Ohio sends us the following
extract, taken from the Cincinnati Gazette,
and comments upon it as follows A few
years ago cut off and grated about two
feet above the ground lot of fve-year-old
Oolverts as they stood in the nursery rows.
grated them with the Rome Beauty and
several other varieties. Those that have
come into bearing are producing larger and
finer apples than those grown on adjoining
trees. now have one Rome Beauty which
measures 12l inches around one way, and IL
inches the other. am sure the way to inn
prove apples in size and quality is to graft
upon the strongest growing varieties; and
where young seedlings are used for the pur-
pose, one whole root should be used, instead
Of cutting them up into sections as nursery
men have been in the habit Of doing In do
ing this, only the strongest growing seedlings,
such as the Colvert, should be used. l hope
horticulturists will commence experimenting
in this direction"


Loveland, o., Nov 4, 1S72.-In grating
or budding on Seeding stocks, l consider it
highly necessary that the cions or buds
should be taken from trees that are bearing
the finest and best specimens of the variety
of fruit sought for-for am fully convinced
from my long experience that fruit grated
on Seeding stocks will paetake more or less
Of the nature Of such stocks. know that l
shall be met right here with objections, for
learned doctors hold to the contrary. 1
insist, however, that careful observation will
convince any man, or any committee that
what have declared is correct. But it will
be revealed more plainly in some kinds Of
| fruit than others.


In support of what | have said, L will give
a few facts that have come particularly under
my observation l once grated an English
white cherry on wild cherry stock. When
it came into bearing it bore cherries about
twO-thirds the size of an English cherry, the
1


color of the fruit red, and the favor near
that Of the wild cherry, viz bitter Another
time took cions of an early May cherry
and grated part of them on Mazzard stocks
and part on Morello stocks. When the trees
came into bearing the fruit was SO different
that each kind might have been called diff.
fsrent variety from the other. tru


Any fruit grower can convince himself of
the truth of this matter if he will take cions
from one apple tree and graft them into
twenty different young trees in his orchard.
When they come into bearing he will proba-
bly, find that the fruit of any two will not be
exactly alike. In my own neighborhood l
know many apple trees of our old standard
varieties the fruit of which has become SC
degencrated that they can hardly now be
identified even by the best judges Of fruit.


repeat then, that all nurserymen and
fruit raisers should be careful and select theil
cions and buds from trees in bearing, and
trees, too, that produce the finest and best
favored specimens of fruit NJ. YOUNG.
Year: 1873

My dear Faith:


"There are foam embroidered oceans


There are little wood.cad rillsi


There are feeble inch-high sapings,


There are cedars on the hills


God, who counts by souls not stations,


Loves and prospers you and me-


For to Him all vain distinctions


Arc os pebbles in the sea-"


You complain almost bitterly Of your pov.
erty and am not going to blame you for
fnd myself doing the same sometimes, but
when look with my eyes open, then l can
see, for " God who counts by souls, not sta.
tions," loves you and me, ay, and prospers us
too. Let us see. We always have enough
to eat to satisfy hunger, and if delicacies ID
not often drop into our fare, our health is all
the better for it. You and l do not have
more than one or two dresses, and those are
never nice ones, in year. As for our hats
we wear them two or three seasons, trim
them anew with the old ribbon washed and
ironed sometimes. Kid gloves, dear to the
heart Of women" we never could afford to
buy.


We 60 to church, we cannot have the
conscience to stay away for clothes sake, and
each thinks: " How shabby am No one
can care for me or think am anything" and
we shrink into corners. As for going into
company VIC don't try it much, but OCCASION
ally we are invited to somewhat rare en-
tertainment, and we declare we will not 60,
we have nothing to wear, but we want to so
much, and finally We yield saying What
did she ask me for She might knowI would
go, and ought not to for I've not nice
dress in the world" but stop, honest poverty
is no disgrace, and as for those who think it
is, We do not care for their opinion, and if we
have but little to spend on dress, we shall
learn that there are things SO much better
than dress. .T ...


And then books, and pictures, and flowers,
we could spend fortune for these if we had
it, but there would be so many flowers we
could not take good care of, nor have time
to enjoy all of them now we know and
love each individual plant OF pictures, so
many there would not be room to hang them
all now we get picture one year and a
frame for it the next SO when we do get it up
it is very precious and joy forever. And
books, if we were rich, fear we should buy
more than would be good for us we should
buy everything, and read them SO last as not
to get half their value. Now we get only
the best, we cannot afford to buy trash, and
read them thoroughly, and hold them in pre-
ciOus keeping ever afterwards.
| But hardest of all we have to work so
constantly, for we are poor, that our souls
don't grow. We gave up studying long ago,
we never hear lectures, we never travel, and
we can't find much time to read so we are
stunted and never get to be cedars on the
hills" but only " inch-high saplings." o
thank God, who counts by souls, not sta
tions," that He loves, torres you and me But
our station though lowly is not to be despis-
ed, because God placed us in it, and perhaps
it will keep US SO humble that we shall think
more of Gods work than our own, and so
find our lives by losing them.


Truly your Friend, ETHIOPIA.
Year: 1873

During recent conversation with an OBJ
serving aud skllful farmer, he said that by
soaking corn meal and then cooking it over a
slow fire for six or eight hours, the meal
would become expanded double in bulk, and
would feed swine twice as long as when mere
ly soaked in cold water. He had tried it on
large herd of swine, and the experiment
was made in December. The cost of the fu-
Ell must come out of the profits of cook.
ing, but this he had not determined .--Coun.
tn Gentleman.
Year: 1873

If you have any land to seed shis spring,
suppose you try part Of it without grain.
This practice seems to be gaining favor where
ever hay is Of more account than grain. If
you have a rich, moist piece of land that
ought to be made to produce two or three
crops of hay in n season. try orchard grass,
at the rate of two bushels of seed to the
acre, with eight or ten pounds of clover and
a bushel Of June grass. This is heavy seed
ing, but if you will manure literally you
ought to get heavy crops of hay.-N. E.
Farmer.
Year: 1873

-" do not see any space in your pa
per for inquiries. l would like to inquire
if you know anything about the Ames Plow
Company's steel sidehill plOw2 Are they used
in your vicinity7 If SO, how are they liked 2
have never seen one of them, and do
not know whether l should like them. If they
are not liked what sidehill plow is considered
the best to turn on moderately level land,
free from stone7 also ease of draft would be
great consideration. If you can give me
any information either by letter or through
your paper, it will be thankfully received.


II. ii. COLLINS.


johnson, March 49,"
Year: 1873

The question whether a man shall adopt
dairying as a speciality or not is one which
every farmer must decide by considering
his surroundings and cOnyeniences for sue
cessfully and prOftably carrying on the bus
iness. The essential features that make up
a good dairy farm are too we'll known and
understood to demand a lengthy notice. 1t
is desirable to have rich and well watered
pasture, meadow OF moving field that yields
Year: 1873

Between five and sig miles from this
city, on an obscure neighborhood road, a
quarter of mile from the Brownstoro'
road, rest the remains of the twelfth
President Of the United States-Zachary
Taylor-whose name once was upon all
lips, and whose praises sounded from
one end Of the country to the other.
The grave is situated in the northeast
corner of the Taylor farm, and it is NOR
tifying to relate that it is in a sadly neg.
lected condition, underbrush, weeds and
allantus trees rendering it very dithcuit
Of access. No monument has ever been
erected to General Taylor's memory.
The remains lie there in plain vault,
built in the side of hill, with marble
slab over the door, bearing the inscrlp-
ton:
Year: 1873

Love WILL FIND Our A WAY.-The
smartest case Of the kind that we have
met with lately is that of a girl who
makes her unsuspecting father the daily
bearer of sweet missives to clerk in his
office who has been forbidden to visit his
employers house. She pins the letter in
the old gentleman's cloak; and when he
reaches the office, and throws off the
garment, the clerk gets it, and responds
by the same carrier.
Year: 1873

WEDNESDAY May 2l-P NJ.


On the whole there was, perhaps, rather more life
in the stock speculation to-day than yesterday
though the business was not of any special I'M
portance as developing any change OF sentiment
among operators The foreign advices no longer
influence dealings, and the course Of immediate
money is such that no further disturbance is likely
Still general belief is beginning to be entertained
that the Summer season will be unusually dull
one, seemingly on the apprehensions of renewal
of the late monetary strngency in the
Fall and this not only initiates against any heavy
purchases for rise, but increases the difficulty Of
unloading such holdings of long stocks before hard
money begins in Autumn, as have been vainly wait
ing for the "Spring rise.n And to this we may
attribute the dullness Of speculation and the gradual
decay in prices into an approach to dry rot"
Despite then the ease of money, the decline OF
prices as compared with year ago. and the Halter
ing traffic reports Of the leading railroads, the mar
ket by no means looks bullish though of course it
is next to impossible to form an opinion worth an
expression. The Jack Bunsbys of the street
are numerous, but their opinions are worth
less The market at the start to-day was
about steady, but it declined and rallied again
by the First Board and then ruled fairly steady un
til noon. Here the whole line, headed by Pacific
Mail and Erie beat retreat, and by the one o'clock
board prices half to about one per cent lower
During the session there was a slight recovery in
prices, but the later afternoon was very dull, and
the market developed no new features.


The leading cards were Pacific Mail and Erie,
though there was little new gossip about them.
moderate business was done in Central, Lake Shore,
Rock Island aud Western Union at lower quota
tions than yesterday. Panama. Harlem, and the
other investments were quiet and steady, though
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western was more
lively at about 1903 to 1884. Miscellaneous and Ex-
press shares were quiet The opening, highest,
lowest and closing prices were follows:
Year: 1873

INOR SALE-THE STOCK, FIXTURES AND GOOD


Will of extensive Printing Office located in OF the
most eligible positions in the city will be sold at sacri
ce parties desiring business OF this description
quested call and investigate for themselves satst0c
tory easons for selling Address or call at the AMER
CAN CHURCH PRESS CO., Ill East Ninth street
Year: 1873

Does not borrow THE CAPITAL. of Policy
holders on PROMISES to return the same at
some INDEFINITE future period and CALL
IT A DIVIDEND.


In presenting the claims of THE REPUB-
Lie to the patronage of the people of this
Coast, we shall at all times aim to be gov
erned by sound business considerations, and II
due regard for the rights and merits of conn
peting companies
Year: 1873

We have the important news from Wash
ington that the venerable Caleb Cushing has
been appointed to take the place of General
Sickles, resigned as our Minister to Spain.
This is important news, as it foreshadows
somewhat broadly the future policy resolved
upon by the administration in its treatment of
our difficulties with Spain. We infer, from
this appointment of Mr. Cushing, that in
reference to Spain it is first the purpose of the
administration to secure the confidence of the
government of CASTELAR,, and to give him all
possible moral support in the work of estab
fishing the Spanish Republic !; and that after
thus preparing the way our government will
proceed to some definite propnss;;tions :sor the
settlement of our Complications in the affairs
OF Cuba. Mr.. Gushing goes out to strengthen
first the bonds of peace between the Republic
Of the United States and the Republic in
Spain, as, perhaps, the shortest way to
manifest destiny in Cuba; and whatever
may be the difficulties which the Republic in
Spain may have to meet we dare say it will
meet with no embarrassment from Mr..
Cushing


AS, in short, we interpret his appol lntment,
it will be his task to prove to Spain >and to
Europe that we are not hankering or iInk'a-
tient for the possession of the island of Cuba;
that we are not seeking for pretext for war
with Spain under cover of which we NAV
seize the island; that we do not really desire it,
but that while we do desire the establishment
of law, order, humanity, liberty, peace and
security to life and property in Cuba, and lib
eral reciprocal commercial relations with the
island, we also desire to see the establishment
OF the Republic in Spain against all its ene-
mies. With these credentials Mr. Cushing
can hardly fail to secure the confidence of the
government at Madrid with his first report
to Castelar, but still the question recurs,
What of Cuba? The answer must be left to
the development of events. As the first object
appears to be an entente cordiale with SPAIN
Mr.. Gushing is the right man in the right
place at Madrid. The special object to be
gained by this movement for an entente
coriiale may not be visible to the naked eve:
but we are satisfied that, in any event, Mr.
Cushing at Madrid will maintain the dignity
and honor Of the United States.