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Year: 1876

The Canada Farmer says The Embdcn
goose has prominent blue eyes, is remarkably
strong in the neck, and the feathers from
near the shoulder to the head arc far more
curled than is seen in other birds. The
plumago is uniformly pure white, the bill,
flesh coored and free from dark blotches,
and the legs and feet, orange In carriage,
they should be tall and erect, with fine,
square bodies which in fat specimens touch
the ground. They come to enormous size
three.year-old gander has weighed as much
as thirty-pounds, and goose Of the same
age, twenty.six, but good bird of any breed
| weighing twenty pounds is considered very
fine, and for breeding purposes such weight
is quite sufficient to insure good stock.


The Embden goose seldom lays till after a
year old. Their eggs are white in color,
very large and rough in the shell, which is
extremely thick. Regular goose breeders
rarely if ever, allow the geese themselves to
Sit but put from three to four eggs under a
Cochin or Dorking hen, which they can well
cover and take care Of them. A turkey hen
makes capital mother. The eggs should
be regularly sprinkled with lukewarm water
to prevent the shell becoming so hard as to
cneck Jne egress OF Jne young


Sometimes, but not often, they lay two
sittiugs in season. The period of incuba-
tion is thirty days.


The goslings are easily reared on the same
food as duckings, but they require green
food as well and for this purpose young
green onions are strongly recommended.
When once fledged they will thrive well with
no other food than can be procured by them
in the field or by the wayside, until later in
the fall, when they should be shut up for a
few weeks and fed on meal, oats, ETC. ; they
will lay on flesh quickly and come to great
weight. Embden geese do not necessarily
require much water, but of course, to look
we'll, the pure Embden geese will require
large pond or brook to wash themselves in.


One Of the great advantages of the Emb.
den geese, is that all of their feathers being
perfectly white, their value, where many are
kept, is far greater in the market than is
even the case with "mixed" feathers. The
quiet, domestic character of this variety
causes them to lay on flesh rapidly. They
never stray away from home, the nearest
pond and field satisfying their wants, and
much of their time is spent in quiet repose.
Their flesh is equal to that of the famous
Toulouse of France. Mr.. Hewitt says, "these
birds have an advantage even over the Tou-
ouse. In instituting comparisons between
the white and colored geese, have noticed
that the pendant abdominal pouch of the
Toulouse tells sadly against it when dressed,
and would undoubtedly be prejudiciaI against
the sale, in accordance with current opinion
of such an appeudage being indicative Of ad-
vanced age"


All white aquatic poultry are considered
to dress Of a clearer and better appearance
than the parti-colored or dark featherod
birds, more especially when young, This
arises from the patches where the dark feath-
ers grow, showing even after being carefully
plucked, more particularly if the plumago at
the time they are killed, happens to be inn
mature.
Year: 1876

RECOGNITION OF Colon ny BEEs.-The
following is an extract from paper by Sir
John Lubbock on "Bees and Wasps," read
before a meeting of the Linnean Society, in
London. l found that bees soon accustomed
themselves to look for honey on papers of
particular colors. For instance on Sep
tember 18th, | placed bee to some honey
on slip Of glass on green paper, and after
it had made twelve journeys to and from
the hive, put red paper where the green
had been, and placed another drop of honey
on green paper, at distance Of about a
foot. The bee returned, however, TO the
honey on the green paper. then gently
moved the greel paper, with the bee on it,
back to the old place. When the bee had
gone, replaced the green paper by a yell
low one, and put the green again foot off,
After the usual interval, it returned again
to the green, repeated the same proceed
ing, but with orange paper instead Of green,
1t returned again to the green. now
did the same with white paper it again re-
turned to the green, Again tried it with
blue it again came to the green. | then
reversed the positions Of the blue and green
papers, but still it returned to the green,
Year: 1876

GYPsUM.-One Of the best modes of ap-
plying gypsum is to sprinkle it on the leaves
Of plants while the dew is still upon them.
Applied in this way to clover, turnips cab
bages, melons, &C., "it seems to put new
life" into them, as the lrshman said of his
whisky. A sprinkling on the leaves of
squashes, cucumbers, and other similar plants
not only puts new life, but keeps off the
insects which are such pest to these crops
The plaster should be renewed on the young
leaves each time it is washed of by 4 rain.
All insects like clean leaves, and avoid n
plastersd leaf as though it were poison
Possibly it is, but if poison to the insect it
is medicine to the plant.


One word of caution as to relying solely
upon gypsum as fertilizer. Excellent as
it is land must have something else, or it
will finally run down. Plants require at
least dozen elements in order TO live and
thrive, whereas gypsum furnishes only three,
sulphur, oxygen, aud lime. When plaster
FIRST came into fashion in this country such
were its magical effects that many farmers
thought they could sell all their hay and
still keep up their farms by purchasing
yearly ton or two Of plaster. They found
themselves deceived, The phosphorus, pot
ash soda, &c, were in few years exhausted,
aud prejudice arose against plaster, which
it did not deserve. 1t was accused Of being
nearly a stimulant to land, enrichag the
father and impoyerishing the son. Rightly
used, it is one of the cheapest commercial
fertilizers used, and will enrich both father
aud son. If hard wood ashes can be bought
for twenty cents per bushel, they deserve to
be ranked No. l, as they contain all the
inorganic elements of plant life, but even in
this case we would like to mix some plaster
with the ashes.-By Alerander Hyde in the
". Y. Times.
Year: 1876

A Test FOR SHEEp-woRRYISG DOGs.-
The report Of the district veterinary surgeons
in Wurtemburg for 1874, makes us acquain,
ted with novel device for discovering dogs
which have been worrying sheep. In Feb
ruary Of that year dog attacked a flock oI
sheep during the night, and killed IL. The
shepherd reported the circumstance to Vet,
erinary Surgeon Osterstag who soon discov.
cred dog which from its general appear
ance and muddy condition he suspected tc
be the culprit He accordingly resolved tC
test his suspicious by giving it an emetic
the effect Of which was to bring up some
flesh and an ear, corresponding to that Of
one Of the sheep which had been partially
deyoured. Another dog was suspected, and
to this tho same test was applied, but thu
creature only vomited potato food. In The
law court to which the case was taken thu
owner Of the first dog had to pay for th,
whole of the worried sheep.-Veterinary
Journal.
Year: 1876

A large part of Vermont is 50 literally
provided with indestructible fencing material
which must be got out of the way, and is
disposed Of in the form of walls around the
fields, that the subject of hedges is never
thought of. In other portions of the state
fences are all made of wood If, as in the
article in the Ohio Farmer, an abstract of
which is given in another column, permanent
hedges are made at so light cost, with so lit
tie drain upon the soil, and kept in order
forever by one days labor a year on fifty
rods, it is worth while to consider the expe-
diency of starting hedges in some sections
If any readers have had experience with
hedges, and can give information the FAR.
mer would be glad to hear from them.
Year: 1876

The Massachusetts Ploughman doubts the
value of any so called remedies for spawn.
We do. At the same time we are, upon
this subject, as all others, open to conviction,
and very glad to welcome improvements.
The Ploughman says:


There are many horsemen who doubt the
hereditary transmission of spawn facts,
however, do not admit of doubt. The ex.
citing causes OF SPAWN are strains, concus-
sion, and sometimes, though rarely, blows.
A kick from another horse has been known
to produce one of more serious character.
Any cause which will excite inflammation of
the tissues of the joint, is liable to cause
deposition oil bony matter, or liberation Of
the tissues covering the bones in many
cases both are found, and doubtless in a
large number of cases of lameness from spav-
ins the internal disease is the cause of the
lameness.


Many persons believe that a spawn arises
from leakage Of the joints if 50, how is it
that bruise upon bone where Joint does
not exist will produce a bony deposit2


Periodically some one gets up specific
LOT tue cure OF spawn. In some cases they
pretend to take them Off Of one thing the
reader may be assured, aud that is, # the
tumor has become organized nothing less than
a chisel or a saw will remove it, Hundreds
OF thousands Of dollars have been expended
wasted we may say in employing men who
know nothing of the pathology of spawn.
The modus operand of those who profess to
take of the spawn is to rub over the tumor
strong acid, which kills the tissue to which
it is applied, (and sometimes the animal, }
after which it is removed, then carried about
and shown as the spawn.


The first aud most important step.to take
in the first stages of spawn is to place the
animal in absolute rest. The hook joint OF
the horse aud the ankle of man are anto-
mioally nearly alike. If person sprains
his ankle the surgeon orders rest, not for a
Year: 1876




LIQUID GRAFTING.WAx.-The Horticul-
turist gives the following formula for max
ing Leiorts liquid graitng-wax, which is
said to have been highly commended in
France, and until lately kept secret Melt
one pound Of common resin over a gentle
fire. Add to it an ounce of beef tallow and
stir we'll, Take it from the fire, let it cool
down little, and then mix with a table.
spoonful Of spirits of turpentino, aud after
that about seven ounces Of very strong alco-
hol, (sixty.fve per cent.,l to'be had at any
drug store. The alcohol cools it down so
rapidly that it will be necessary to put it
again on the fire, stirring it constantly
Still, the utmost care must be taken to pre-
vent the alcohol from getting inAamed. To
avoid this, the best way is to remove the
vessel from the fire when the lump that may
have been formed commences melting. This
must be continued till the hole is a homogen.
eous mass, similar to honey. After a few
days exposure to the atmosphere in thin
coat, it assumes a whitish color aud becomes
as hard as a stone, being imperyious to water
or air.
Year: 1876

PROTECTION AGAINST THE WIRE WoRM.
i give you my experience with the wiro
worm. Being troubled with tho little pests
one year, l was advised to soak my seed
corn in solution of copperas aud saltpeter,
using One-iourth of pound each to bushel
OF ears OF common eight.rowed corn. Tho
result was that my seed all grew, aud | lost
none by the wire worms, and | never saw
corn have so dark and vigorous a color be-
fore. Since then | always soak my seed
twelve hours after being shelled. | do not
know as it would affect the cut worm, but
have never been troubled with them since |
used the solution of copperas and saltpeter.
Neither was | ever troubled with them when
plowed my corn in the fall which | would
invariably do on old sod. Some farmers
extermnate them by hunting them out in the
hill aud killing them by hand, but this il
slow and tedious work, and is liable to be
sighted by hired help. An ounce of preyen-
tion is worth pound of cure, is proverb
true in this CASE. b., in Country Gentle
man,
Year: 1876

The English Farmer says that rupture in
the horse, when the opening is no more than
one and one-fourth inch may often be cured
by returning its contents into the abdomen
By manipulation, and raising an active blis-
ter on the parts with swelling enough to act
as a pad. Cantharides , drachms, oil origa-
mum one.half drachm, lard one ounce, well
rubbed in and repeated if the first appica-
tion is Intellectual, will usually answer
Should it resist this treatment, the use of
wooden clamps, such as are used in castra-
tion may be resOrted to, to be left on until
they drop off.
Year: 1876

BurrER FAmuNO.--I have great faith in
good farming. And l feel sure that there
is no country in the world where good farm
ing as compared with poor farming, Is more
profitable than in the United States. Our
general agriculture is not of high standard
There is very little culture about it. We
PlOw aud sOw-and reap what nature gives
US. Sometimes the seasons are favorable
and we have good crops But such crops
rarely prove of much benefit to the farmer
They are good for the railroads and all
interested in the carrying trade, do not
see any remedy for this state of things, eE.
ccPt in better iarming,-JO'eph Harris,
Year: 1876

CONDIMENTS IN POULTRY DIET.-Cayenne
pepper, mustard or .ginger can with great
benefit be added to the food of fowls, to in
crease their vigor, and to stimulate egg pro
duction. This apparently artificial diet will
seem to be natural if we remember that wild
birds of the gallinaceous genus get access to
very many highly spiced berries and buds
articles that give the "game flavor to their
flesh" The ordinary food of the domestic
fowl is entirely without some such addition,
since there being more or less aromatic prin.
ciple in wheat, Indian corn aud other grains
Nevertheless it is not sufficient in quantity
to supply the places Of the stronger Spices a
taste for which is part of the lowls inhor-
tied quality. A moderate quantity Of cay
enne, etc., added to the ground grain is pro-
ductive of health and thrift in poultry. -
Poultry World.
Year: 1876

day or week but for long time then apply
a cooling lotion, cold water freely applied is
perhaps as good as anything to arrest tho in.
Aammatory action. Afterwards some stimu-
lating application, perhaps counter irritation
IA blister) may be necessary to bring the
deep seated inflammation to the surface
Year: 1876

A correspondent of the Boston Cultivator
attributes the love aud interest he has in his
pursuit-farming-to the reading of that
paper'when he was ten years old, and the son
of widow in care Of farm.
Year: 1876

Royal Smith of Millington, Mass, writes
to the Boston Cultivator that clover which
had forsaken his fields, has been restored to
them by the use of plaster, which is applied
as one of the constituents of his compost of
green manure with absorbeuts, wood ashes
and little salt, the whole being worked
over until it is ripe.
Year: 1876

The ground being prepared and roots
ready, take one at time, either from a
wet cloth in which they may be wrapped,
or from the earth 10 which tho roots are
heeled, in order that they may not dry,
aud proceed to plant, taking care to spread
the roots well, and put rich, loamy soil on
and among them, using the hand and not
the foot, for placing it. BE careful to leave
the surface light and loose, so that it will
not bake, break and crack. Plant Just so
deep as to leave but one or two eyes above
the surface.
Year: 1876

the audience scorned all restraint, but
found vent in a wild deafening applause
that shook the building to its founda-
ton. And Amanda had whispered to
her companion, sit is glory enough to
be her friend"


At the close of the entertainment abe
was offered situation with . salary
that seemed to her like fortune. And
Herbert Allen who had just returned
from College said, "your ambition is
gratified, Ina; you have won. what
need of longer waiting:"


"When have helped my parents to
comfort and plenty and laid by some
thing for myself, l will urge no further
delay, for to be settled In a quiet peace
full home of our own, surrounded by
loving friends, will certainly be my
crowning happiness" said the dutiful
girl.


"Provlde for your parents if you de-
sire il, Ina; but meanwhile l will be
providing for you, and when you are
satisfied that your duty is done and
your parents enjoying all the blessings
that your dutiful heart desires, my
home will be waiting for You to share
its plenty"


''And it all came from padding your
own canoe. If you had waited for op-
pOrtunities to come to you, you would
have been waiting yet," said farmer
Robinson when he came to congratulate
her.
Year: 1876

dealer will cali Rio. 1t is all called
Mocha or Java, or possibly MaracaibO.


By far the greatest part of the coffee
used in the United States is Brazilian
or Rio coffee. Indeed Brazil produces
more coffee than all the rest of the
world put together. There are marked
ference In the appearance of some Of
these coffees, as well as considerable
difference in flavor. Taking three of
the best known kind, for example, Rio,
Mocha, and Java, we notice that the
grains of Java are larger than either of
the others, and of a slight yellowish
brown color. Rio coffee has larger
grains than Mocha, and the color is usu-
ally considerably darker and somewhat
more inclined to greenish.


In flavor Java is much milder than
either of the others, and Mocha is richer
and spicier than Rio, while Rio is the
strongest of the three, and indeed, Is
perhaps the strongest of all coffees. 1t
is true of all coffees that the fewer bro
ken and discolored grains in it the bet
ter the coffee. and no cup of coffee can
be really excellent unless all imperfect
grains are removed before the coffee is
roasted.


The best coffee here obtainable is an
equal mixture of Java and what is called
Mocha. As the grains of one are much
larger than that of the other they should
be roasted separately, but ground to-
gether.


The common cheap ground coffees
little coffee, and here
the bulk is supplied mostly with either
peas or rye. ChicOry is too high priced
to be used to any great extent, and the
people who think that if their coffee is
not really pure it contains only little
chicory ARE probably drinking peas and
rye, made dark and bitter with burnt
sugar. The higher sounding the title
of the coffee, the poorer the quality as
a general thing.
Year: 1876

Capt. Rob. Dunlap related to me the
circumstances o! duel which he once
witnessed little ways inland from the
town of Juba, on the river of the same
name, upon the eastern coast of Africa,
and nearly under the equator. 1t was
certainly not such duel as our heroes
of lighter complexion would delight in
nor yet such as they could feel pride in;
but, after all, it evidently yielded entire
satisfaction, and was fully as sensible as
shooting with pistols, or chopping and
stabbing one another with knives and
swords.


In the case of these dusky sons of the
Afric shore, as is not unusual elsewhere,
a woman was at the bottom of the diff
Guilty. At the appointed time the duel
lists, two stalwart savages, nearly naked
appeared upon the field of honor, each
armed with a stout raw hide eat, or
triple-thronged whip, capable of intlict-
ing the most tremendous blOws-blows
that might make an OK below. Having
arranged the few necessary prelimina-
ries, they pitched three oyster shells
each at a given mark to decide which OF
the two should receive the first lashing.
The unfortunate loser Immediately took
his stand, and received, without finch
ing, the given number of blOws-five-
and twenty.


Then came the turn of the other who
with heroic firmness. offered his back to
the sufferer, whose arm was not made
lighter by the pain and the loss of the
pitch. Thus they alternated until one
gave in; and, had the umpires judged
that the twain had suffered sufficiently
before either would give up, they were
at liberty to stop the duel, and award
the victory to him who had borne the
greatest number of blows without finch
ing. And ever after the scarified backs
of these heroic men were displayed in
token of their honor and their bravery.
Year: 1876

The feeling that you are settled and
fixed will induce you to work and inn
prove your farms, to plant orchards, TO
set out shade trees, to inclose pastures,
to build comfortable outhouses, and each
successive improvement is bond to
bind you still closer to your homes.
This will bring contentment in the FAM
lily. Your wives and daughters will
fall in love with the country, your sons
will love home better than grOg-shops,
and prefer farming to measuring tape
or professional loafing, and you will
be happy in seeing the contented and
cheerful faces of your families. Make
your home beautiful, convenient and
pleasant, and your children will love it
above all other places: they will leave
it with regret, think of it with fondness,
come back to it joyfully, seek their
chief happiness around their home and
fireside.


Women and children need more than
meat, bread and rainment; more than
acres Of corn and cotton spread out all
around them. Their love for the beauti-
full must be satisfied. Their tastes
must be cultivated; their sensibilities
humored, not shocked. To accomplish
this good end home must be made love-
ly, conveniences multiplied, comforts
provided, and cheerfulness fostered.
There must be both sunshine and shade,
luscious fruit and fragrant flowers, as
well as corn and cotton. The mind
and hearts as we'll as the fields must be
cultivated; and then intelligence and
cOntentment will be the rule instead Of
the exception. Stick to, improve and
beautify your homesteads, for with
this good work comes contentment.
Year: 1876

At first il was held by many that pc
troleum was the result of distillation
from the bituminohs coils, which were
strengthened by the fact that some of
the very bituminOus Goals, such Is Cam
mel and Roghead coal. afforded large
quantities of similar oils on being dis
titled; but, although this is very prob
ably the source of a small amount Of
oil, yet the larger part Of il is now be-
lieved to derive. its origin from rocks
lying below the coal-measures, since
the oil bearing rocks are mostly older
than the carboniferous formations.


Some investigators have ascribed a
vegetable origin to petroleum, but most
authorities agree in attributing it to ami
NAL as well as vegetable agencies.
Shales are the most common oil-bear-
ing rocks, and in their formation the
organic material would be finely divided
and protected from oxidation. The OIL
bearing shales commonly show few
vegetable remains, and Dana observes
that the absence of distinct fossil ami
NAL aud vegetable remains points to an
abundance of delicate water plants or
infusorial or microscopic vegetable life
as the source OF organic material con-
tanned in them. Limestones, on the
other hand, are frequently full of animal
fossil remains, showing an animal origin
in them, although it is by no means
said that the petroleum in certain lime
stone was derived from organic remains
in the limestOnes and not from other
strata below them. In whatever shape
the finely-divided material was origin
ally present, it would be finely diffused
through the mud, and protected from
atmospherical agencies, and subse-
quently the hydrocarbons would be
formed from them, probably at but a
slight elevation of temperature, pro-
duced by the same agency which have
caused elevations in the temperature of
the interior of the earth's crust at vari-
Gus points


Dana has further pointed out how
petroleum might be formed by the reac-
ton of the organic vegetable remains
alone, the abstraction Of some carbon
and oxygen, as carbonic acid, account
ing for the formation of the lighter oils;
while the escape of some marsh-gas
from less confined material would ac-
count for the heavier oils.-Popuidr
Science Monthly.
Year: 1876

Pappenheim sang Spanish song as an encore piece:
Dui ing the evening Don Carlos with his suite walked
several times around the garden apparently enjoying
himself, notwithstanding the crowd which followed ms
steps Shortly before the concert ended he left. The
evening cool and large crowd was IN the garden
The Excise law was rgidy enforced, and no beer was
sold SUPERINTENDENT WaIng aud Capt. Steers OF the
Twenty-nlnn Police Precinct present in civilian