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Year: 1876

Give me man with an aim,

 Whatever that aim may be, Whether it's wealth or whether It's fame

 It matters not to me. Let him walk in the path of right,

 Only keeping his aim in sight, And work and pray in faith alway,

 With his eyes on the glitterlng height. Give me man who says

 ''I will do something well, And make the feeting days

 A story or labor tell.' Though the aim he has be small,

 IL Is better than none at all; With something to do the whole year

 through,

 He will not stumble or fall. But Satan weaves a snare

 For the feet Of those who stray, With never a thought or care

 Where the path may lead away. The man who hath no aim

 Not only leaves no name When this !ife's done, but ten to one He leaves a record of shame. Give me a man whose heart Is hlled with ambitions fire; Who sets his mark on the start. And moves 1t higher and higher. Better to die in the strife. The hands with labor rife. Than to glide with the stream in an Idle

 dream,

 And live a purposeless life.
Year: 1876

MINERS say gold is seldom found on the south or east side of a mountain, but on the north or west. The Black Hills are the southeast slope of the Big Horn mountains, and il is the opinion of most old miners that gold in paying quantities will never be found there There are reports from Big Horn of rich discoveries, and it iS said there will soon be general stampede from the Black Hills to the Big Horn cOun- try.
Year: 1876

hundred, and a fraction more Of motive
power is necessary to move it, Aud there
may be triAe more Of waste Of tissues to
be restored.


And yet the difference in digestive capacity
Of animals Of the same weight is 80 very
marked and there is so wide a variation in
the secretive glands which draw from the
arterial blood the needed elements, and con.
vert them into various qualities of milk, into
bone and muscle, and the various tissues Of
the body, that the question of size, so long
as extremes are avoided, is hardly second.
AIRY consideration in selecting dairy COW
for the purpose of obtaining large return
for food consumed. When dairymen and
farmers get over the notion that in selecting
COWS for the dairy, it is expedient to procure
cows of any particular size, color, or breed,
the better it will be for them.


The good COW is gross feeder, whatever
her size or breed. If she has an appetite
which will accept any food offered, 80 much
the better for the dairymau.
Year: 1876

For two months past l have practiced
feeding at FIVE in the morning. Hay first
and roots and bran. after the hay is eaten.
Turn out and water about eight and return
to the stable after 4 short time out for drink
and exercise but not long unless the weather
is fine. feed all the roots and braa for the
day at one feed.


The secend feed of the day is at 2 p. IN,
hay only and all they will eat until four
o'clock, at which time | water aad return to
a warm stable for the night. | think my
fifteen cows do better by this method, than
to feed three or four times as | heretofore
have done. sell milk and am able to know
when the cows are doing their best. l con-
slider one peck of roots, one quart Of corn
meal and three quarts of braa, together with
all the June or autumn cut [rowenl hay they
will eat as good liberal winter feed for an
average sized milch COW. My mowings are
all cut twice in the season. Would bc glad
to cut before it is fairly headed out. Grass
is not cut too early but mostly too late
Cut it early and cut the second time. Th'
cheapest feed that can raise is dried gras
and fodder corn. Roots cost mo most bu
they are very valuable. / shall raise NOR
instead of less. Bran is worth all it cost
for feed, and also all it costs as a fertilizer
afterwards. J. ii. II.


NOrthfeld, VI.
Year: 1876

In some remarks appended to an article
from me in the FARMER Of March 3, you say
that if your observations are correct the di.
gestivc capacity aud temperament Of the ami
NAL eIerts greater influence over the amount
of food required to sustain life, than the
weight of tho animal does. l grant this, but
ask if the digestive power and temperament
of the animals are the same, will not the
amount Of food required be in proportion to
the weight of tho animals. In writing the
article the idea was to take average animals,
aud as yet 1 think the premises correct.
Extremes Of course can be selected that will
destroy any calculations. And now, Mr..
Editor, if your views do not coincide with
this, please explain the matter, as my object
in writing thisis for information and improve
ment not for criticism. s. G. Foster.


There is no doubt that weight Tor size,
of the animal has an influence on the quan
tity Of food necessary to sustain life. Bu
We have seen SO many small animals which
consumed more food than large ones, with
smaller results, a. To convince us that it can
not be safely laid down as a principle tha
the consumption Of food to sustain life is il
proportion to live weight. 1t may be tina
digestive capacity, temperament and al
other things being equal, the quantity OF foo


necessary would be in proportion to liv
weight, or nearly 50. BscAuOo it takes


little more fuel to maintain the animal hsa


in a nine hundred pounds than in eigt
Year: 1876

In the report of the discussions on sheep
husbandry at the Pomfret meeting, saw
that two remedies were spoken Of to prevent
sheep from biting aud pulling their wool,
neither of which will fully cure. 1 have for
ten or twelve years used corrosive sublimate,
and found it sure cure in every instance.
l use for flock of about seventy-6Ve one
half ounce year. If flock of that num-
Der pick badly perhaps one ounce might be
required. dissolve One.fourth OF an ounce
in one pint of water; when dissolved apply
from bottle with quill through the cork
by putting few drops to the skin in several
places round where they pick. One aPPli-
cation have found sufficient for one season,
ifWell done. j. A. MILLER.


Lebanon, N. H., March A.


Corrosive sublimate ia an active poison,
and should be used with care marked poison,
and stored where no accident can result from
its uss.l
Year: 1876

limiuary remarks" and little Tapping Of
the wings" by the American eagle but the
claims Of money making and those Of intel
lectual culture and refined and rational
enjoyment seemed to be pretty evenly bal
auced. Not that these subjects we're any Of
them exhausted, but worked up enough to
set the people to thinning on them, il they
did not before. And TO keep them thinking,
keep up the agitation, SO thst action shall
result from thought, and needed improve.
ments in all these respects be generally
adopted, must be the Office of those who are
content to labor less Obtrusively. Among
this number We recognized III. w." and
shall bo glad Of continuation Of her efforts
for the readers Of the FARMER
Year: 1876

four hours, but do not know where | can
find them now. But i want horse that
will do II if occasion requires and also be
good to work. l crossed this mare spoken of
with the HsmblstoDian but did not produce
anything near its equal.


Mr.. Smith of Washington am sur
prissd to find that the Morgan horses are
valuable for speed for my observation is
that good workers are not usually good trot-
ters
Year: 1876

Mr.. Reynolds, please insert the following
Will the buying public be kind enough to
do their shopping and make their purchases
for the Fourth on Monday July Sd, so that
the merchants of Middletown can close their
stores on Tuesday the Forth, and not be
obliged to "keep one eye open" as has been
the case during the past hundred years, to
accommodate few customers who never buy
an article until they are ready to use it. We
intend to give our clerks holiday on that day,
and some of us being bachelors ould like to
go courting and the married men to spend the
day with their families. A MERCHANT.
Year: 1876

these fashions are exaggerated in
America. In the matter of the
close-fitting gowns, that would be
impossible unless the fair wearer
were to adopt the dress Of the de-
mon ballet in the Black Crook at
once-a suit of tights and a ribbon.
Nor will it avail either to say that
the best people in Paris do not dress
in that manner. They all do--that
is, those who go in for dress at all.
OF course there are many, in the
aristocratic set especially, who, with
sublime snobbishness, 60 about in
shabby clothing, trusting to the
blueness of their blood and the big
ness of their ancestral diamonds t
outweigh the antiquated cut anC
general frowsiness of their gar.
ments.
Year: 1876

In order to see the dipper in its
different positions, aud also in that
portion Of its course which in De
cember it traverses during the day
time, it is not necessary to keep q
long watch upon the group, or to
study the heavens during those "wee
sma' hours ayont the twal" where
in the professional astronomer does
the best part of his work. If you
come out in the evening (say at
about nine) once or twice a week
on clear nights, all through the
winter half of the year, and a little
later during the summer months,
you will see the dipper and all the
polar groups carried right round
the pole, For though, speaking
generally, it may be said that they
complete o circuit once in every
day yet in reality they gain about
four minutes motion in about a
fortnight, two hours motion in a
month, twelve hours motion for
half the complete cirOuit) in hall
a year, until finally, at the end Of
the year, they have gained COM
plete circuit.


tits because of this study turn
ing mqtipp or rotation around the
pole Of the heavens, that the stars
Of the dipper (say, for instance
pointers) form as it were aclock il
The sky, by which. the astronomers
at any rate, though also any one
who is willing to give a little at
tention to the matter, can tell tht
hour within a few minutes on an,
night in tho year,


A few observations made in thii
way on q few nights during tn,
course Of the year, will giyes
Year: 1876

\ correspondent at Laramie writes as follows: The exodus still cOntiu-

 ucs, and it seems as if most of the

 mountain towns are to be deserted, in

 order to furnish population for the

 new settlements in the Black Hills.

 There has seldom been anything like il seen in this country, or in any other,

 for that matter, and the busineSs-like

 way in which our people pack up their

 worldly goods. and take their departure

 for the new lands k somewhat startling.

 We hear great accounts of the new gold regions, the most of them being favor able; others, however, are not rose cOlOTcd in the least, and speak anything but well for the late discoveries. The immigration will solve the Sioux h. dian problem, and if the painted war riors are not pushed 10 the wall, it will be the first time they have ever been able To withstand the great wave of miners that seems about to UyerWhclm them. Indian braggadocio seems tO do no good in this case, and the average miner manitcsts no more fear of the Indians than he would of SD many wolves or grasshoppers. One thing is certain, which iS the fact that several mining towns will Dc buIlt in the Black Hills before the spring is fairly open. Houses are goIng up as If by magic, and northeastern Wyoming and south western Dakota will soon be able to boast of considerable population. Goods of every kiHd are being carried ia, and already trade is as brisk as need be- Of course there will be, as usual a great many disappointed men, and their stories will be hawked far and near to prove that there is no gold in that region. But the placers have been loo thoroughly pro>pectcd by expert cnced miners to leave any doubt about the matter, and we may be assured there are really good diggings there, though of course not as rich as some which were found in the early days of Calitor- mia and Montana AS the prospcctors move about among the hills and valleys, richer placers may be found, though those already known will give a good yield, provided men go to work ear neStly and faithfully to find the hidden Mountain News.
Year: 1876

a matter to be determined by the tribunal to which these claims may be submitted

 l have thought it well to post you on these points, since there are number of titles to lands situated in Arizona which were issued under the law of the 4th of August, 1924 I cannot say with certainty how many of such claims there may be, but 1 would say that there are at least some thirty, or perhaps forty.

 l have taken from the archives ex- tracts sufficient to make an elaborate formal report, when the same may be- required. These extracts I shall for ward from this place by express to my son, Henry Hopkins, in the office of the United States Surveyor General, at San Francisco, with instructions to him not to make the same public.
Year: 1876

CAPTAIN MORENO. according to ihc New York Herald, is BOW m Washing

 ton in the interests of the persons who. want to lay a Pacific cable from San Diego to Canton An argument inI favor of laying the cable IS that the amount paid for messages yearly from

 the United States to China and Japan is more than seven per cent of the cost of a cable from San Diego tO China, and yet this enterprise has been killed in one Congress and failed in one orl two others.
Year: 1876

V'HIS NEW AND CONN MODIOUS l hotel extends on Main street from Pennington tO Ott, in the most desirable part Of the CIty.

 Guests are assured that their wants and will have acceptable attention at this house.
Year: 1876

Or, an average Republican majority Of
IL AGO votes. At the election last Monday,
so far as the returns are received by the
Associated Press, there was Republican
majority of 1529S-a gain over the vote of
last year of IL ,424, and an increase over the
average vote for the preceding four years
of 5000
Year: 1876

It is hard to see where the Democrats get
anything out of the returns from Maine to
justify their rejoicing over the result. 1t is
only to be explained under the rules of the
Confederate arithmetic, much in vogue
in the later years of the war, in trans.
forming disasters to the rebel arms into
triumphs of the cause. The following table
gives the vote for Governor in Maine in the
preceding four years:
Year: 1876

In proclamation fixing the Both OF
November as day of thanksgiving and
prayer. Gov. Tilden says:


"Let us rejoice in the spirit of order
and of charity and of hopefulness hich
has pervaded all classes under the de-
preston in the industries and trade, and
in the growth of public sentiment toward
wise and humane methods of dealing
with want and suffering. Let us give
thanks for, the maintenance of our social
and religious institutions in their integri-
ty, and implore the divine blessing upon
all efforts in behalf of good government
and true morality. In common with
the people of the other States of the
Union we recall at this time the blessings
which we hold by inheritance. 1t be-
comes us, with them, to gratefully and
humbly acknowledge the God of ur
fathers, whose mercies have been from
eneration to generation. beseechine
him for the continuance of his favor to
the nation of his planting, that He may
not " deliver our glory unto another.
Year: 1876

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Washington, April 6.-The House
committee on public lands agreed
upon the bill. this morning, granting
to the Territories of Dakota, Wyo-
ming. Idaho and Montana, two town
ships of land, of seventy-two sections
each, for college purposes.


A New Dollar.


The House bill to provide for the
deficiency in the printing bureau and
for the issue of silver coin in place of
fractional currency is amended by the
Senate finance committee by striking
out the 3rd section and providing in
lieu of it that there shall be coined a
new silver dollar of 4l2S grains of
standard silver and that this new
coin shall be legal tender to tho
amount of twenty dollars in any one
payment, except for customs and In
terest on public debts. These coins
may be exchanged by the treasury
for an equal amount of United States
notes TO be thereby retired. The de-
Year: 1876

We are indebted to the engineer office in
this city for the following memorandum for
the past month:


During the month Of July, 1876, the
depth of the channel at Southwest Pass, at
mean low tide, ranged from fifteen fest six
inches to sixteen feet six inches, with
least width for those depths ranging from
seventy to eighty feet. High tides ranged
above mean low tide from two feet tire 9
inches to three feet, making the depth of
channel at high tide range from eight en
feet to nineteen feet six inches.


The following number of vessels crossed
the bar during the month:
Year: 1876

Of these nine drew from eighteen feet to
eighteen feet six inches. OF this number
two, drawing eighteen feet and over, were
detained an aggregate of ten hours and
forty-five minutes by grounding on the es st
side Of the channel.


The above was the only detention Of vea-
sells at Southwest Pass during the month
by grounding.
Year: 1876

To persons about to build q residence,
the following article from the Land
sOeU1aer, on the most desirable corner to
locate on, will be read with interest {:
When lot Is on the northwest corner
of two streets, it is best. in sanitary
point of view, for its frontage to be on
the west side of the street and the depth
on the north side. The house thus gets
the sun in the front bedrooms in the
morning, and on the side Of the house,
looking south, nearly ali day. When a
lot is on the northeast corner, it is best
that its frontage should be on the east
side and its depth on the north side OF
the street. The east side of the street
looks west, from which quarter our pre-
vailing cool summer winds come. All
rooms looking west are very cold at
night, especially at the time of year
when sudden changes Of temperature are
common. If the front bedroom windows
face the east side of the street, they can
be kept closed at night, and air
secured from the sheltered side windows
on the north side of the street, on which
the sun shines nearly all day. If lot
is on the southwest corner, it is better
shat the frontage be on the south side,
and its depth on the west side of the
street. The rays of the sun do not
strike th9 south side of the street, while
they do strike the west side in the early
half of the day-thus getting the sun
shine and heat in the front bedrooms at
the most desirable hours. When lot
is on the southeast corner, it is best that
it should have its frontage on the south
side and its depth on the east side, for
the reason before stated, that the sun
does not strike the south side of the
street, while its rays are poured on the
east side from about noon till five P. NJ.
The cold winds of night can be kept
from the best (the 'front.' bedroom by
having the windows closed on the east
side and by opening them on the south
side. These are important facts to be
remembered by those who are sub
dividing large lots for sale. OF by those
who are erecting houses on large corner
lots, where they are in position to
front them either way.
Year: 1876

6. Those who can give employment OF
any kind to persons. male Or female,


young or old, out of work, at this time,


should not fail to do SO. There are
great many idle people in the cities who
are very much in need OF something to
do. and who will not ask unreasonable
remuneration for their services. 1t is
not hard to find them, or to commucieate
with them. Thousands of them can be
seen by visiting the various places
where charity is distributed. It is better
to furnish work than to give gratuities.


Idlsness not only produces individual
suffering, but is injurious to the public
welfare, and o cause of loss to the whole
community. If you can give or find any
sort of employment for an unemployed
man or woman, or boy or girl, don't fail
to do it. - -i.u -.Llrssl-- 4 ~
Year: 1876

It is none of the worlds business who
the lady is or in what part Of the county
she resides. The facts are sufficient to
show how lady, vulgariy called an old
maid, got husband, and one that may
prove himself worthy of her. Six months
ago q tramp came to Berks county
pa. J farmhouse and asked the daughter
for food, and it was given to him. He
was considerably worse for wear, yet his
modest demeanor and gentlemanly bear.
ing attracted the attention of the family.
He was given work ON the farm, and
shortly became favorite. He was sober,


industrious, genteel and intelligent.
Gradually the daughter took a liking to
him, and she loaned him money from
her own purse to purchase clothing
with. ..a a..


She encouraged him to keep himself
well dressed, and in short time the
farmer saw that his man of all work had
suddenly become fine looking and
earnest suitor for his daughters and in
marriage. It was first refused, but the
only child cried to her mother; the
mother interceded, and finally the stern
parent gave his consent. It was virtu-
ally romance in real life. The marriage
took place, the ceremony being perform
ed by Reading clergyman. The young
man is tall and finely formed, is Ger
man by birth, and has been in this coun-
try not quite year. He has good
education, and wants to be farmer.


The lady is proud of him, and does not
seem at all embarrassed when reference
is made as to how she secured him. He
has made "ten strike," and is now on
fair way of becoming rich man by
and-bye. 80 ...r
Year: 1876

About this time look out for fires
which might have been prevented by q
little ordinary care, is never an untimely
warning, but it. is especially timely at
this season, of the year, when untried
heating apparatus and that which has
become imperfect or untrustworthy by
serveal months of disuse, is taxed to its
utmost capacity in stores and dwellings,.
Year: 1876

1our hours, Tor the prevention Of smut, the
greatest of curses to a wheat-field, also be-
tore your wheat has headed, have the bows
to run over the field and pull out any rye
that may appear, and you will then have
wheat that will command the highest mar
ket price. No greater mistake can be made
than to thrash while the straw is damp.
Poor wheat in good condition is preferred
by manufacturers to good wheat in bad con-
ditlon. Wheat in shocks, if rightly con-
structed, is much safer than any stack ex-
posed to weather. Fultz wheat will stand
more than dozen duckings in the shocks
without much depreciation in its quality.
Six heavy rains day or two apart will
nearly ruin any white wheat in shocks. NV
own crop stood fourteen rains in sixteen
days, while in shock, and is to-day worth for
manufacturing ten cents per bushel more
than any white wheat that has appeared on
the market this season.
Year: 1876

A prominent agriculturist of this country,
after returning from tour of England, says
he is thoroughly confirmed in his old faith
that the only good farmer of our future is to
be the high farmer" There is a widely pre-
vailing antipathy among the common farm
ers of our country against not only the prac-
tice CT high farming, but against the use of
the phrase by agricultural writer's. This is
all wrong and should at once be corrected.
Through some misconception OF the phrase,
and also of its application, they have come
to believe it synonymous with " theoretical
farming" "ne tangled notions,'' boasted
progress, followed by disappointment and
final failure. This is all an error High
farming simply means thorough cultivation.
liberal manuring, bountitul crops, good
stock, good feed, and paying profits there
from. It is not strange that misconceptions
have arisen in the minds Of doubling farm
ers who have been eye-witnesses to some of
the spread-eagle experiments Of enthusiastic
farmers, better supplied with money OBJ
tanned in business they know how to man.
age than with practical experience on the
farm. Bountiful crops and paying profits
of course are what all farmers, who are de
pending on the farm for an income, are striv~
ing to obtain and every year as it passes is
re-confirming the opinion that the profits
are small and will grow /" beautifully less -
where high farming is not practiced.-Joua'-
nal Of Progress.