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Year: 1876

The story told BY an Indiana editol


regarding his experience at the Centen


nial Exposition appears almost too


strange to be true, but the man who re


latcs the incident was never known K


lie unless he had an Inherent in doing


40, and here the interest seems totally


lacking. The story is given, as nearly


as may be, in his own words. Said he


"When got to Philadelphia I wal


informed that editors and others admit


ted to the Exposition on passes must


have their photograph taken at des
ignated place that the likenesses might
be pasted on the passes, thus enabling
the gntekeeper to recognize tho owner
of each ticket Of the kind, and prevent
all transfers. was stopping with q
friend, and concluded that the next
morning would 60 over and get the
photograph and pass as directed, and in
the interval enjoyed myself with my
friends family. The children in the
evening had little entertainment of a
masked party among themselves, and
the next morning after breakfast, when
playing with the baby, put on one OF
the masks representing an Indian chief,
and had quite q frolic. The mask
fitted me perfectly; it had large orifices
at the nose and mouth for breathing,
and when I finished trifing with the
child I forgot I had the internal thing
onl Then I picked up my hat and
started off to sit for my picture aud get
my pass, none of the family happening
to notice mo as I went out. On the
street noticed that people stared at
me good deal; but I just put OH my
dignity aid stalked forward, without
paying attention to anybody. At the
photographing room, when I told them
I was an editor come to have my pho
tograph taken, some of the attendants
snickered, but the manager said some
thing about a new paper lately started
in the Indian Territory, and they
quieted down. I never noticed thepho-
tograph, I was in such hurry, but I
observed that the girl who pasted it on
laughed, but when I begun to get mad
quieted down suddenly, very much
scared.


AS emerged on the street again
one of two very stylish ladies passing
by looked at me languishly and said to
her companion, loud enough for mo to
hear: 'Oh. there's one of the foreign
princes isn't he grand q Though not
naturally vain man I was drawn to the
conclusion that there must be good
deal OF natural dignity in me which my
wife had not found out; there was, IN
fact, no other deduction possible, and
started oil to the Exposition: IN the best
OF spirits. On the way to the grounds
something tickled my ear, and putting
up my hand l felt tho string to the mask:
l gave it pull, and the confounded
thing came of; and then, to my horror,
I discovered what had made people. stare
at me. Still, as 1 put the mask in my
coat pocket, l never thought OF the
photograph or of what it must be. AT
the gate of the Exposition which l ap-
preached the keeper was big man. !
showed him my ticket, and he glanced
at it and at me, and then, without utter
ing word, kicked me away from the
gate. I ran shouting for the policeman,
who, upon my representation, started
Year: 1876

gauic life. In this particular il is more re.
markable than any other vegetable produc.
ton known to man. There is a large num-
Der of dishes Of which corn meal forms the
basis, which are exceedingly palatablc.
What, for instonce, is more delicious than
cold corn pudding cut in slices and fried in
sweet butter and lard ? Hot corn-cakcs,
when properly and skilfully made, are
almost universally regarded as luxury, and
Boston brown bread is famous everywhere in
the country. The reason why corn meal is not
more largely used at the present time is that
it is quite difficult to obtain it of dealers or
grocers in a perfectly pure and sweet state,
Millers grind the corn as it comes from the
West, mixed with portions of the cob and
saturated with dust and dirt and this is sold
for kitchen as we'll as stable use. Much of
the western corn is damaged in transporta.
tion, and this is ground up with that which
is sound. If good, sweet, northern corn is
properly ground in an old-fashioned stone
mill, after being winnowed to free it from
dust, meal will result Of a rich golden col
or, aud no dish can be prepared from it which
will not be palatable and most nutritious.
In our family we use the Lakeside-grown
corn, selected for domestic use, pass itaiter it
is sheled through winnowiDg machine, and
have it ground between millstones which
have been revolving for probably half con-
tury. In this way we secure meal in its
highest perfection and this is what ought to
be accessible to all families.


In trials at the farm TO test the compare.
tive value of meal from home grown corn and
that for commercial sources when fed to
cows and other animals, we have learned
the nutritive value of the former is nearly
double that Of the latter, and this practical
result confirms analytical results The diff.
ference between the specimens from the two
sources is most surprising. Farmers who are
so foolish as to 90 into the market to pur-
chase corn and meal for their animal; mel; should s,
understse211 tne great difference in nutritivo
value between what they can raise and what
they purchase.
Year: 1876

Mr.. M. G. Weld says in a letter from
Jersey to the Country Gentleman


1t is surprising to hear upon almost every
farm the people mourning, almost with tears
sometimes, the loss of valuable COWS, oftenest
the very queens of the herd, from milk fever.
The hest cows, of course, are the ones to have
the disease, and to die with it, Nowadays
it seems matter Of real congratulation to
the owner OF a frst.class COW if she has Il
calf and gets well over it. So far as know,
Jersey COWS are no more subject to milk
fever with US than those of other breeds, and
yet at rough estimate, should think that
in Jersey fully 30 per cent Of the cows on
the best farms die of this disease, or of one
closely akin to it, possibly an apoplectic form.
The COWS of poor people seem not to be
troubled, hence the practice IS becoming
prevalent to reduce the feed before calvng.
This, | think is great mistake. My own
practice has been for years to feed well and
and even to give fattening food, holding that
the COW passes through the ordeal safer and
better, and that all the fat that one can Law
on a COW before she calves will be given back
in cream and butter afterwards. Nevertho-
less, the greatest care should be taken as the
period approaches to give loosening food.
When COW cannot be turned upon fresh
grass, or fed succulent green food in the
stable, then oil-cake, or oil-cake neal fed
upon sliced roots in sufficient quantity to se-
cure decided, but not extreme relaxation of
the bowels for some days before calving is to
be earnestly recommended. For my own
part, feel as it similar practice, connected
with that of drying off the cows uniformly
at least four, and better six, weeks previous
to calving, might save many Of the best COWS
to green old age, when they might be fat
ter for the shambes with pleasure to them
selves aud profit to their owners. Besides,


it is probably no single one but variety of
influences which in combination produce the
effects alluded to. 1t may we'll be mooted
whether the lack of exercise when in the
stable, and even when tethered by IL or Is
foot chain, may not be the chief cause. Ger
tainly the surroundings are as far as possible
from those of nature, and from what We
might naturally suppose would be conducive
to perfect health.
Year: 1876

Some years ago was raising my own tur-
fully keeping the eggs till opportunity pre-
sented, set three hens on turkey eggs at
the same time. The hens were large and
each covered q dozen. They brought out
thirty three healthy chicks. made yard
with broad boards, set odgewise aud held up
right by small STAKES driven in the ground
giving them grassplat Of about square
rod, with shelter in one corner for their lodg-
ings. The chicks were mutually cared for
by the three ioster.mothers, with no other
division in the household than such as re-
suited from those that failed to. find shelter
under the wings Of one hen, seeking mater
nal shelter from another-neither chick nor
hen making any distinction relative to the
hen which hatohcd them. Feeding IN the
usual way, kept them in this inclosure till
the chicks we're able 10 scale the twenty.inch
wall of their yard. The hens, meantime,
were able to get out at pleasure, but soou re.
turned when they found their family would
not follow. When out the hens were less
inclined 10 wander at a distance than tur-
key mothers are, and at night they genor-
ally "come home to roost." In this way no
chick was lost by getting wet aud chilled in
the grass aud left behind to perish and the
result was that | raised thirty.two turkeys
from thirty-six eggs-thirty. from thirty
three chicks at hatching-a larger per cent
than | ever got from eggs or chicks hatched
by the turkeys themselves and they cost me
less care and labor, and no more than those
raised in the ordinary way. Setting turkey
eggs under hens know, is very common
practice bat this community mode proved
success with me, and | have not learned
that it is generally practised, so it occurred
to me to give it to the readers Of The World
as the best way Of giving a good thing a
large circulation, 1t others have tried it
already, they should not forget "to do good
and to communicate"


Turkeys on diary farm can do large SER
vice as early and persistent harvesters OF
the grasshOpper crop. And, in that matter
their labors are valuable for the grain-raiser,
too II they can be kept out of the fields dur
ing harvest and few days previous, while
crops are ripening.


In a garden, berry plat, or among grape
vines, their attention to early vegetation, aud
to fruits when growing as we'll as when ripe
is not desirable or profitable and unless
they can be shut out and kept out, they will
destroy more than they and their services
together are worth. For this end, hens as
fOster-mothers, are desirably handy. But,
in the pasture, in the wood lot, in the or
Year: 1876

Corn can be raised on good tillage land
such land as dries off soon after 4 shower
and warns up under the heat of the sun
without the use Of large quantities of manure.
Vegetable mold or muck from maple wood
lands, well rotted chip dirt or old manure
in the hills. with spoonful Of ashes and
plaster mixed, and applied in the hills, will
give corn good start, and in good corn
season give good crop.


Plaster and ashes mixed together and
dampened SO that 1t will not fly about or be
blown about by the wind, seems to be better
to handle than when dry, and also more
beneficial to the crop.


Lime freshly Stacked in pit in the ground,
and as it is steaming and Stacking, covered
with earth makes II or Is bushels Of excel
lent fertilizer for corn, potatoes or wheat.


MALE CORN.--In most corn fields there
will be seen in the spring, among the young
corn, white stalks these BECOME green as
they grow aud very like the other corn, ex-
cept that they bear no ears. Many such
stalks would be useful in corn field, as it
is believed tho pollen from the tsssel fertilizeS
the other corn. More observation is needed
in this matter.


Cows sometimes get in bad state, their
blood impure, and their condition unhealthy.
If they are doctored at all for this, it ought
to be done while tho COWS are dry, so that
when they begin to give milk again they will
be in condition to give healthy, pure and
sweet milk. Some men expect certain cows
to be affected with garget, caked bag or bad
milk. Why not mako the COW more healthy
while she is dry? Sometimes it can be done
by putting piece of garget root into the
brsket and inserting rowel to aid in the
discharge of impurities of the blood.


When young cattle are turned to grass in
the spring, it sometimes aids their thriftiness
to bleed them by cutting of their tails. This
practice also prevents the horn all. Exam.
ination will show that the hair Of the switch
is closely curled, and by feeling the tail
seems hollow These indications show the
Deed of bleeding as above mentioned.


Albany, VI. O.. M. @.


But the veterinary surgeons tell us there
is no such disease as "horn ail."l
Year: 1876

The LAYING HEN OF THE PERIoD.-Au
exchange says 1--WE have found that hogs
lard is the best thing to mix with the dough,
to give hens, to make them lay. One cut of
this fat, as large as walnut, will set hen
to lay Immediately after she has been broken
up from setting, aud by feeding them with
the fat occasionally, the hens continue to
lay through the winter" A better plan still
to make hens lay, is to place under them the
Connecticut hen.trap nest. An ingenious
false bottom is so contrived as to allow the
egg, when once deposited, to drop through
into a cushioned sack the hen rises up and
is just on the point Of cackling furiously,
when, as she casts her eyes around and espies
no egg she holds her peace, out of modest
dislike to make "much ado about nothing"
and Immediately lays another egg-when, to
her astonishment, the same joke is repeated.
A Jersey farmer exhibited patent nest Of
this description, recently, at a farmers
club, with a hen on, and produced bushel
Of eggs in sixty minutes. Besides, the hens
are not warranted to set.
Year: 1876

1t would, at first, seem that 4 substance
so common as water, and so indispensable in
domestic affairs that not day passes when
it is not called into use abounding in lakes
and streams; seen in the falling rain, in
boggy soils, under foot in the streets to the
disgust Of the pedestrian, and sparkling like
diamonds upon the grass, is already we'll
understood and needs little description
But it has properties and uses, though well
known to the student, that may not be
familiar to the general reader the presenta.
tion Of few Of which may not be unpro6ta-
Bile.


10 scientific language water is known as
the prOtOxide of hydrOgeu-protoxide signi-
flying one equivalent Of oxygen with one
equivalent of any base not producing the
properties of an acid. Hence, as the name
signifies, water is composed of one equiva-
lent of oxygen aud one equivalent of hydro
gen by volume aud it is found to be COM
posed of eight of oxygen aud one of hydro.
gen by weight.


Oxygen gas was discovered in 1774 by
DR.. Priestly and named dephlogisticated air.
1t is little heavier Than common air, and
like it is destitute of color, taste and smell
aud is the most universally dffused through
nature Of any known element.


Hydrogen gas was discovered eight years
before by Mr. Cavendish and is fourteen
times lighter than atmosperic air, and is the
lightest ponderable body yet discovered.
Its extreme lightness renders its ascending
power very great; hence its value among
balloOnists who IN the early stages of the art
hung their destiny upon heated air.


Without describing in detail the process
by which these gases may be united to form
water and the composition of this fluid
placed beyond controversy, it may he re-
Marked briefly, that when hydrogen is
burned in pure oxygen in the proportion Of
one of the former to eight of the latter by
weight the result is water Of equal weight
OF the two gases which have now entirely
disappeared. Thus it is settled that the
water that leaps down our mountains, some
times sweeping away the labor of many
years in as many minutes that is traversoC
by ships Of war aud commerce and is Ii,
natural dwelling place Of myriads of livinI
creatures, is compound body whose Gle
ments have the extreme teuuity of the all
We breathe. Resolved into its elements il
bulk is increased nearly 1000 times hence
one cubic foot would Gil hollow cub,
nearly thirteen feet in diameter.


All vegetable substances contain in thsi
green state more than so per cent of water
When dried much Of it is expelled yet ever
then much remains, and il is only when tn,
Year: 1876

"A. S. Fuller recommends trenchipg soil
to the depth of two feet and the application
Of one hundred and ninety-two two.horse
loads of we'll rotted COW manure to the acre,
worked in to the depth Of foot, for the
cultivation of Strawberries. This looks like
thorough culture to farmers who apply six
loads of manure and litter to an acre of
warn out sod land for corn crop, which we
have seen the present season.
Year: 1876

RED PEPPERS FOR PoULTRY.-An old far
mer writes to the Woonsocket Patriot: |
do not know if other persons who raise poul-
try and pet birds are as much dependent as
l am on red pepper; but | have found so
much benefit from its use in my poultry yards
and bird cages, that it may not be amiss to
call the attention of others to its good prop
critics. | do not speak of the article that is
sold in drug stores-and sometimes not re.
markablY fresh-but of the capscum that
grows in our gardens. have tried all the
different varieties, and find that the most pun
gent and efficacious is the small kind mostly
known by the name of "bird's pepper" The
plant in itself is beautiful object 1t grows
about two feet high, and in autumn its bright
little scarlet berries look like coral beads
peeping from under the dark, green foliage


Indeed, one plant in a pot forms very
pretty ornament for flower stand The
seeds possess a stimulating and reviving prop
erty, aud find that two or three given to
new wly-hatched chickens, especially if they
are weakly, have most happy effect. If a
hen looks feeble after moulting, six of these
berries or pods, given daily in some corn
meal and sweet milk, improve her wonder
fully. Last summer two of my canaries be-
gan to droop. Every day gave them each
one seed Of the "birds pepper" and in less
than week they were quite well. The
same remedy is invaluable for mOcking birds.
Year: 1876

lis well to WOO, It's well to wed,


For so the world hath done
Since myrthleSs grew and roses blew,


And morning brought the sun.
But have a care, ye young and fair,


Be sure ye pledge with truth;
Be certain that your love will wear


Beyond the days of youth!
For if you give not heart for heart.


As well as hand for hand.
You'll find you've played the unwise part,
And built upon the sand"
'Tis well to save, It's well to have
A goodly store of gold,
And hold enough of shining stuff


For charity is cold.
But place not all your hope and trust
In what the deep mind brings;
We cannot live on yellow dust


Unmixed with purer things;
And ne who piles up wealth alone
viii often have to stand
Beside his coffee chest, and own
'Tis built upon the sand"
'Tis good to speak in kindly guise
ana SO0the where er we can;
Fair speech should bind the human mind.
And love link man to man.
But stop not at the gentle words;
Let deeds with anguish dwell;
The one who pities starving birds,
Should scatter crumbs as well;
The mercy that is warm and true
Must lend helping hand,
For those that talk, yet fail TO do,
But build upon the sand"
Year: 1876

Once in a while, in this world so strange


To tighten our sad regrets,
We may find "heart that is true through cbonoo
heart that never forgets.
But rare as a rose in December,


AS bird in an Arctic cline,
ls heart that can ever remember


through sorrow, and change, and time.
once In while we find friend


That will cling through good and i'll;
Whose friendship follows us cen To the ond
BE it up or adOwn the hill.
But the heart so true and the love so tender
And friendships faithful smile.
"hether we dwell in sadness or splendor.
We find but once in while
Year: 1876

is to head it back, curtail the roots, and give.
1t a smaller pot with fresh soil, BY autumn
we thus have usually a strong, healthy plant
for our winter enjoyment, and it will be a
never-tailing source of pleasure if kept in.
perfect health.


In selecting varieties, by all means choose
the tea rose; they are much better adapted
for pot culture than any other class, are us
ually very profuse bloomers, exceedingly
fragrant, delicate in color and compact in
growth. A truism in rose growing is, that
those who really love flowers always have
good luck, for the fact is such always tend
them well.-A Rose Grocer ia n Y. Tribune.
Year: 1876

1t is plain that as business is now done all
good and honest buyers have to pay more
than they ought to do, because Of the poor
and dishonest ones. Most people in business
have losses, and, whether they deliberately
do it or not, these losses have to be divided
among the good cash-payng- customers, or
the store-keeper would have to fail: In brief
if every person honestly paid his debts all of
'sls would get things much cheaper than we
do. Out Of this fact arises various co-opera-
tive movements, in which the shareholders
buy for cash, and share out among them
selves for cash what they buy-in this way
saving the retailers profit and the additional
percentage from the failure Of others to pay
their honestdebts. Wherever they have been
honestly managed all round they have PROV
ed excellent things for all engaged in them.


Sometimes they are attempted ola 8 slliall
scale by a few persons in a local neighbor-
hood. Some active fellow shows how much
may be saved by all getting together, and
they authorize him to buy and share. He
takes on himself all this extra labor, without
anything for his trouble, and, perhaps, in
addition has to supply one who has not the
money "just now," but will pay s'in the
morning." which never comes. In this way
most of these local efforts fail.


On larger scale they have done better.
In these cases clerk or agent is employed
at a salary, and cash, strictly cash down, is
enforced from all stockholders. So much de-
pends on honor in these cases that failure
often occurs. Still it is wonderful how sue
cessful they often are. Philadelphia there
are an immense number Of building assoca-
tions On this principle. People own their
own houses in time who could never get them
in any other way. A number get together,
subscribe u weekly sum, which must be
promptly paid, and then they borrow their
own money with which to build, paying
simply as interest what they would have to
pay as rent. Of course, the scalawag who
never intends to pay rent if he can help it.,
does not care to get into those associations.
They are made up Of honest-hearted people
who only want what they work for, and are
willing to pay for what they get, and there
fore it is a rare thing to find adishonest man
VI ucidultCI siHloiiS tutHl. LII HIltuCIpiIita
large number are not even incorporated.
1t is all matter of trust with reasonable
precautions.


One bank, in district where these associa-
tons prevail, has had as much as $500, 900 a
year on deposit from them. There is not
however, much labor in affairs of this kind.
Money is simply received and paid over, the
conveyancer doing the real work to be done.
Regular store business is too intricate, and
the temptation to work for oneself, instead
of for the company, is often too great for
the agent. He either abandons the business
and starts for himself, or does worse and
ruin follows. There are, however, few