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Year: 1875

GREENWICH, Oct. 18, 1875. p


Messrs. EdStors.-I noticed in your is
sue of September 30th, notice of the arri-
val at Bridgeton Of fifteen thousand feet of
White Oak Plank 'that grew on land wa
tered by the Lordly Hudson" Now this
is a sad mistake. They were Black and Red
Oak Plank brought from the Hudson tide
water or some other place where they had
been put to try to make them bring a White
Oak price If our new bridge committee are
no better Judges of Lumber than to purchase
that kind of timber for White Oak they had
better hunt for Subcommittee to procure
timber for plank such as could have been
furnished here in this county, of as good
quality as that purchased from the region OF
the '1ordly Hudson" By such course
the freight on this timber would have been
saved and also the trouble of soaking them
in tide-wat er. Beside this market would
have been made for our lumber and labor
for our citizens, while the county money
would have been circulated at home. Spa
tronize Home Industry is a political motto,
and it ought to apply here.


Yours, TAX PAYER.
Year: 1875

We mean business! Republicans of Cum
berland County the time is rapidly ap-
preaching when you will be called upon for
a most important political verdict In Or
der that that verdict may be of the right
character, it is necessary that the rank and
file should be aroused and made ready for
the battle. To win, we mast work! The
enemy is active and earnest and by their
movements show that they mean to win if
it is possible thing. We of Cumberland
County pride ourselves on the large major
tiles that we are in the habit of giving for
the ticket but we must certainly recollect
that the victory is not always to the strong,
SIT is to the active, the vigilant, the brave"
1t will be remembered that last Fall our
majority was mere nothing, and if we
would win this year, we must stir ourselves.
Let us open the fight vigorously, put away
all dissension and dissatisfaction, and go in
for victory. The recent thunder from Ohio,
Iowa and Nebraska shows emphatically that
the old party still lives, and is as strong and
healthy as in the olden days. Let us not
lag behind in the march to Republican
success now SO auspiciously opening up
Our ticket is good one, and with a reas-
enable amount of effort it will be elected.
For eighteen years, Republican Sheriffs
have presided over the county, and their
reign has been good one for the people.
By your votes you chose to the Sheriffalty
Jonathan Fithian, L. II. Dowdney, Charles
Watson, Saml. Peacock, Enoch Hanthorn,
and James L. Wilson. Through torrent
of Democratic vituperation and abuse, the
Republicans of Cumberland carried them
safely, and through Misrepresentation of
the same character, they can carry THOMAS
7. CoRTIs. What is there against Mr.. Cor
IT'S that he should not be chosen Sheriff.
Is he thief? No! Is he bad man in
any shape? No! On the contrary THOMAS
T. CORTIs is a gentleman and an honest
man, which is more than can be said of
some of his enemies. He was regularly
nominated by fair and square vote, and it
is the duty Of every good Republican to see
that he is elected. During the dark days
of the rebellion when men were needed at
the front, Mr.. CoRTIs enlisted in the Tenth
New Hampshire Regiment to do battle for
his country. He went from patriotic mo-
tives, not as matter of gain, for he was
over forty-five years of age at the time, and
no draft act could have touched him. AS
soldier, he participated in several battles in
Virginia, and served his time faithfully and
well. For this alone, he deserves the solid
Republican vote. A citizen of Cumberland
County for twelve years, Mr.. CoRT1s has
made for himself an excellent record. For
seven years he has been an efficient Deputy
Sheriff. He is endorsed by the best citizens
Of Vineland, and is said by those who know
him well, to be a whole souled, honorable
man. Having received the nomination let
us go to work earnestly for his election, and
to that end we must begin at once and that
vigorously.
Year: 1875

Wanted-The public to know that have


made new departure. Having enjoyed


the reputation of charging little more for
my goods than my competitors, notwith
standing have had the credit of giving
better satisfaction in material and work.
manship, I have determined to reduce my
prices to suit the times, to sell goods as low
if not lower than any other party in the city.
j. Bates, Merchant Tailor, 33 Commerce St.
Year: 1875

Nebraska gives largely increased Re-
publican majority this year. The State
Republican ticket is chosen by ten thous-
and, whereas last Fall it was only five
thousand. That tidal wave that they tell
us about, seems to have spent its force out
there among the Western voters.
Year: 1875

We need do no more than remind everybody
that the Big Bonanza will be presented at the
Opera House, this evening, with a first class
company and all the accessories of fine perform
ance. The play, itself, is described as most
charming, and full of humor, and competent
critic declares it i" undoubtedly the best comedy
ever written upon local life and society," The
play will also be presented tomorrow evening,
and reserved seats may be secured at Bough-
man, Thomas K Co.'s
Year: 1875

The Boat RAcE.-To-morrow afternoon the
opening aquatic contest of the season twill take
place on the Christana, about four O'Clock, be-
tween the crews of the Undine and Bachelor
clubs. The course will be from Third street
bridge to Mill creek
Year: 1875

FIRE, Last EvENINa.-Early last evening,
flames were discovered in the residence of a
colored family at Sixth & Walnut, and a fire
alarm WAS rung Before the steamers arrived,
however, the fire was extinguished with a plug
stream turned on by one of the Fire Companies,
and but little damage was done.
Year: 1875

After reading our editors article on plow-
ing iu the issue of October 30, was tempted
to add few additional remarks. As he
truly says, there isl great variety Of pat.
terms aud styles Of plOws for accomplishing
the same object. The first great object,
everything else being equal, is to invert the
sod and pulverize the soil and make it suita-
BILE for the reception of the seed this can be
done to some extent with the plow and the
pillow which AccomplIShes this work with
the least draught and opposition is, generally
speaking, the best plOw. In inverting the
soil three things are to be considered, cut
ting, lifting aud turning. 1t matters not
how good and perfect the plow may be, IT
the plowman does not understand his BUSH
ness, it is utterly impossible for the plow TO
do good work. have employed many diff
ferent hands during this last thirty years aud
as yet have never had plOwman that un'
derStOOd the mechanical part Of adjusting
the plow to the different kinds Of soil like
wise adjusting the plOw to the different sized
teams; in adjusting the PlOw to a team
when one horse is considerable taller than
the other, tis much more difficult than wheu
both horses are more nearly size.


In plowiOg the different kinds Of soil
many things are to be taken into cOnsidsFA'
tiOn 10 secure the best possible advantages
Year: 1875

To FIX the pump and water-works SO they
will not freeze and cause you great trouble
and loss; to bank up the house or pile some
henlock boughs about II and thereby save
your potatoes and apples to put in the light
Of glass that was broken last summer, and
nail a strip Of board over each crack In the
barn, and thereby sage fodder and add to
the comfort of your stock (; to fix warm
place for the hens TO roost away from the
cattle, horses and hogs to procure bedding
for your stock and hogs and increase your
manure pile by taking into the barn the
bushels Of fallen leaves which are within easy
reach to clear the garden of the old pea
brush and bean poles and get il ready to
plOw 10 the spring to pick up cord or two
Of old boards and sticks which are kicking
round the premises aud take them to the
woOdshed for kindling; to put the bars and
gates in position so the snow will not crush
them to take down and prune the grape
vines to mend the stable floor aud hunt up
the tie-chains to build rack TO feed the
sheep in to see that the drains 10 the cellar
and barn.yard are clear and will not clog up
and bother when the cold weather comes |;
to build if you have not barn CELLAR a
rough shed over the manure heap to get a
bit of mortar and point up the cellar wall
where the rats, and other causes, have made
holes in the wall to sort the apples and got
them down cellar before they freeze to hunt
up and house all'the farming tools which you
own; to put salt trough where it will be
within daily reach Of all your stock; TO sort
the sheep and sell or skin the pelters; to
patch the shed roof where the shingles are
off to make the corn barn rat proof; to
make a few good meal and feed boxes; to
build high fence on the north and west
sides of the barn.yard, if it is an exposed
one, and do just about hundred other simi-
lar things which need to be done before
winter sets in.


If your cellar does not freeze, put your
apples in the coolest and airiest part Of it (;
they will keep much longer warm, damp
cellars are fatal to fruit.


Don't undertake to winter a hundred
sheep in one pen; they will do much better
in three or four Aocks. Put those of nearly
tho same age, size and strength together.
Mirror and Farmer.
Year: 1875

TO the soil and the fsture crops. In plov-
ing common soils, our practice Is 20 gauge
the PlOw 50 as TO lay its furrOWs at an angle
Of shout fOrty-6ve degrees or 10 other words
10 have one furrOw lap over the other one a
little 80 that beneath the furrOw there will
be small open space, this serves as drain
age from the top Of the ground, likewise for
The circulation Of air and has tendency to
keep tbs ground light and porous, but in
plowing light soils the reverse course ought
10 be adopted, laying the burrows as Cat as
possible, keeping the ground more compact
and solid for the better protection Of crops
through our hot, dry sNasons Having
adopted the use Of the swivel plOW to do all
my plowing on level land as we'll as side.hills,
1 have found but few men who could ever
give the first idea how a swivel plOw ought
70 be adjusted. Most hands will hitch on
the team and ifthe plOw runs well, all right
IL not the pillow comes in for very large
oueto VI AAuuc ahu Cufuoos Au untuk u
reversible plow il is we'll known that there
ia no way Of adjusting the plow by the
clevis TO take wide or narrow furrow and
IL ouS horse should be inclined 10 travel
wider on the land than the other, it is almost
impossible to plow even and no blowing is
we'll done without being even; therefore the
only way to gauge the reversible ploW for q
vide or narrow furrOw is by means of q
long or short evener. Likewise it often hap.
pens that one horse is much taller than the
other, and however bad this may be on q
common plow, it is much worse on swivel
plow, being reversible. The tall horse will
bc on the land, and the small horse in the


furrow, every other time, and under those
circumstances it is almost impossible for a
professional expert to plow the land even
tOlerably well. This difficulty may be Obvi-
ated to certain extent by using swivel
link to connect the clevis with the evener,
instead of a common link, as link is sure
to kink and twist by reason Of the uneven
ness of the height Of the horses. .


..-g WILLIAM s. TMoRP.
Year: 1875

Taking with Western farmer, two or
three years ago. we asked him why the West
universally preferred the mammoth corn,
rather than the smaller size grown in York
state. With not as rich land we weaveraged more
bushels per acre than we got at the West.
With laugh at the revelation he was max
ing. our friend frankly confessed that one
important advantage Of western corn was
that it grew faster than the weeds, which
would rise up and choke the smaller variety,
but were themselves kept down by the mon
strous growth of stalks and leaves on the
corn now grown. ...


1t was only few years ago that western
farmers had an important advantage over US
at the East on the. freedom Of their farms
from weeds. This is still true 10 many
places as respecting Canada thistles, quack
aud other perennial weeds, but the whole
tribe Of ANNALS, especially rag.weed, is more
numerous on western fields than any where
else. This is the double result of careless
culture and the great fertility of the soil


On western corn fields rag.weed often grows
nearly as high as mans head aud filled
with seed while by eastern woodside and
stubble fields it is found from six inches to 1
foot and half high. This filling up oi
western soil with Weeds---even ANNALS, is q
great loss to farmers. They hurt the corr
crop, especially 10 such seasons as the pres
ent, and they make the growing Of small
grains moro and more precarious. At the
West As we'll as here, clean, thorough cul
ture is the only live policy and pays bes


in the long run.-RurGL Ne'O Yorker.
Year: 1875

Mr. Andrew Lugden writes to the Fan
cier's Journal Of the breed which he makes
e speciality, from which we make the fol-
lowing extract; .# -


The White Crested Black Polands are
said to be natives of Holland, although they
are known to be very numerous in Poland,
and we are inclined to think they derived
their name from that place, as many other
birds derive their names from some city or
country. We cannot give them the credit
of being very hardy, but they thrive well
with comfortable, airy coops and range Of
high, dry, gravelly soil. They are non-sit.
ters, and continuous layers from mid-winter
to September or October Of white medium
sized eggs Their weight averages about
Eve pounds. Their flesh is tender and juicy
and cannot fail TO please the most fastidIous
But while the Black Polish serve their kind
master with liberal amount of food, they
are also a continual source of pleasure and
amusement, with their tameness, freedom
aud, above all, with their expressive beauty
In feeding them they gather round us, all
confident and conscious that they are to us a
family Of pets, and will caressingly fly up
to our arms and eat from our hands. Their
bodies are sleek and compact, resting on
neat leaden.hued legs. The plumage trim
and glossy black but when near to them
on sunny day the black changes to pearly
opalescent aspect, in which subdued shades
of blue, green, purple, etc, commingle with
each other; and to contrast with the dark
plumage of the body and pompous tail, a
white rosy plume or crest crowns the head
bordered with black in front, as if Nature
had provided this to prevent the snowy
feathery tuft from being stained while eat
| ina .#..
Year: 1875




A villager wants to know how much meal
it is profitable to give new milch COW, per
day meal at Us cents bushel and hay at
Sl5 ton.


The only man who eau answer that quss-
ton with any degree of accuracy is the one
who takes care of the COW. His information
upon the subject to be obtained by varying
the feed and noting the effect. There Is q
wide difference in the capacity Of cows for
assimilating food. Aud as great a variA-
tion in the power to convert it into butter.
Some COWS never pay for their keeping, be
it what it may.


II may be stated as rule that II pays TO
feed milch COWS meal with liberality, espe-
cially so if both hay and meal are bought
Much depends on the quality Of the hay
Early cut june grass hay will make as
much milk as fair quality Of timothy hay
aud two or three quarts Of meal . day
From two to four quarts, per day, Of meal
Year: 1875

FEEDING Hay TO HoRsEs.-By cutting
truss of hay into chaff, every blade Of it
will be consumed, and it will be found that
three-quarters of a pound Of cut hay will
60 as far as one pound of uncut hay in
the daily rations of horse. Coachmen
and grooms in private stables do not like the
system of feeding horses on mixed forage,
namely on bruised oats, chaf and maize
given ogether-because, owing to the bulk
Of forage supplied being more easily weighed,
the facilities of fraud are diminished. The
General Omnibus Company have, we believe,
for many years adopted the plan Of "mixed
forage" and no one can look at their horses
without being struck by their admirable con-
dition notwithstanding their hard work.
Farmers Journal.
Year: 1875

Why HENS DoN'T PAY.--A correspon-
dent of the Live Stock Journal says It
seems to me there are three reasons why
many farmers do not get pay for keeping
their hens. One is the failure to supply
sufficient amount of suitable food and water
another may be found in their neglect to Sc
cure the eggs which are laid and to sell the
chickens early in the season, when they will
command good price while the third is
the general neglect to provide suituble
place for the comfort and convenience of the
hens. There may be few cases where some
other cause can be assigned, but 1 think
most Of them are covered by the reasons I
have named. If this view Of the case is
correct, it follows that the trouble is not with
the hens, but with their owners, and that
instead of complaining that it don't pay to
keep hens they should comply with the con-
ditions upon which success depends, and
thus make this part of their business profit
able.
Year: 1875

A farm in Maine owned ten.acre field,
clay loan, which had been mown ten years
without application of any fertilizers. The
grass had all run out, leaving nothing but
white weed, yellow weed and Ox-eye daisy
In the spring of 1866 he turned in forty
yearling grade MeriuO steep and kept them
in the field through the summer. The next
year the same number were kept in the field,
getting nothing only what grew there, aud
they came to the barn in splendid condition


In the spring Of 1867 about bushsl Of
plaster to the acre was sown. and a light
seeding Of timothy and redtop. That year
he cut on this field the heaviest crop Of grass
and of the best quality. that he ever cut
and it has continued to produce bountifully
up to the present time, cutting this year, the
ninth crop, over a ton to the acre, as hi
writes to the Germantown Telegraph.
Year: 1875

The people Of Vergennes have decided to
apply to Gov Peck to call special session
of the Legislature for the purpose of making


provision for the representation Of Vermont


At the centennial. A state that raises as
good cattle as any in the country, the best
horses, the best Merino sheep, and the very
best men and women 10 the world, ought to
take her own proud, proper place among her
sisters on the grand birthday of the republic
but she won't If this was manufacturing
state, like Massachusetts,, the hum of busy
preparation would be heard but, being al
agricultural community, we move slow, and
shall get fully walked up after the event
The good people of Vergennss ought tc
remember that the Legislature had ful


notice, aud fair chance TO act, when IL
session; that the space in the eentennia


buildings is already all engaged, and then
the mischief which might be done in an eItr'
session Better give it up, little city Of th'
reform school.
Year: 1875

The Live Stock Journal gives as rea-
son that pigs are condemned by Eastern
feeders is that they keep them too long,
mostly in a store condition, wherein they
are always kept at loss. The pig, to be
profitable, must in no case be kept beyond
twelve months, and ten months is the better
rule at which latter age they should weigh
300 pounds. We have no domestic ani-
NAL that Utilities its food better than the pig,
and none that pays better profit unless the
product brings s-higher price. In the case
of poultry, the product brings 50 much
higher price that the profit is greater il the
stock is kept healthy. Dairy products also
bring higher price and pay better, but the
pig is the best animal to utilize the refuse
of the dairy. When farmers learn that the
pig is simply machine to make pork out
Of vegetable food, and they adopt the eco
nomical principle recognized in running
other machinery, to keep it going to its ca
pacity, there will be no disappointment
about the profits. The simple point to be
made is, the farmer takes nearly or quite
twice the length Of time necessary to reach
a given weight, say 300 pounds, and the
loss is in the keeping the pig half of the
time without growth.
Year: 1875

lin steaming, manipulating and feeding, L
found there was an average profit Of fully
twenty-five per cent, that is, in feeding the
variety Of animals named but in feeding
milch cows 10 cold weather with warmed,
steamed food Of every description, there was
profit Of over thirty per cent, when the
animals were kept at proper temperatures,
and fed with proper proportions of nutritious
e
Year: 1875

The prejudice against black color in pigs
is giving way to considerations of greater
moment than color. The Berkshire and
Essex breeds are in many sections replacing
the white breeds. A pig with fine bone,
early maturity, and capacity to give a large
amount of meat for food consumed, is found
to be more profitable animal than large,
cOarse-bOned one. A larger proportion Of
lean meat is desirable. The color of the
dark breeds affects only the cuticle or outer
skin, and is removed If the scalding process
is properly performed. The animal which
commonly bears the name Of Chester county
is an Improbable sort of pig large, to be
sure, but it takes oceans of food to make hIm
so, Digestive CapaOity--not the power to
cat q great deal, but to extract a great deal
OF nutriment from given quantity of food
should be perpstuAted by selecting and
breeding, in pigs as we'll as in other farm
animals.
Year: 1875

is probably as much as an ordinary COW will
pay for.


1t is better economy and more hsalthful
for tho COW, and we believe for those who
use the milk as food, TO give mixed ration,
Say wheat bran four or six parts, wheat
middlings two parts, corn meal two parts
and liDseod meal one part, by measure, and
feed the COW as much Of that as she shows
herself able to pay for, whether it be four
quarts or eight.
Year: 1875

Poultry breeders are laboring over the
question Of the number Of days after mating
hens will continue to lay fertile eggs. Won't
some one who is not "in the dark" as to
poultry matters suggest to the combatants
that when eggs become fertilized they remain
SO, and the number of days that will elapse
before they are laid depends on the food of
the hen and other circumstances.
Year: 1875

They have in Scotland new machine for
thinning turnips, which is thought by the
Ayr Advertiser to be the greatest boon on
arabic land since the introduction of the
reaping machine The extent to which root
crops are cultivated in England and Scotland
would astOnish those New England farmers
who regard turnips as all water.
Year: 1875

would be the last to admit that the looks
and especially the attire are not really minor
considerations in judging Of man or woman.
Perhaps he can recall TO memory young
pilgrim from South ACworth bound upon an


errand Of far greater import than cattle or
even fowls, who would be satisfied with moth


ing short of certificate of domestic quali6ca'
iiona
Year: 1875

PRosPEcTs FOR PEACHEs.-Josiah Hooper
says, in the New York Tribune, that wise
man would seize the present time " increase
his peach orchards Some of the wise saVaAts
knowingly shake their heads and venture the
prediction that more than one nurssryman
will have good peach trees to burn next
spring They base their representations on
two points First, the general stagnatiOn in
business, aud secondly the ruinous price Of
fruit, How near these predictions may
prove true is as yet an uncertainty, but a
wise men would seize upon just such circum-
stances TO increase his orchards. This rule
will apply 10 every farm product.