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Year: 1876




POWDER FOR HARDENING Butter IN HoT
WEATHER.-An English butter maker Of
large experience, who is now on a visit to
this country for the purpose Of looking over
our cheese and butter dairies, gives US the
following information concerning q method
in practice among the best butter makers of
England for hardening or rendering butter
firm aud solid during hot weather. Carbon
ate Of soda and alum are used for the pur-
pose, made into powder. For 20 pounds
Of butter, one teaspOonful Of carbonate Of
soda and one teaspoonful of powdered alum
are mingled together attthe time of churn-
ing and put into the cream. The effect Of
this powder is TO make the butter come firm
aud solid aud to give it clean, sweet favor.
1t does not enter into the butter, but its
action is upon the cream, and it passes off
with the buttermilk The ingredients of
the powder should not be mingled together
until required to be used, or at the time the
cream is in the churh ready for churning.-
Rural Neo Yorker.


1t is very gratifying to see that the pool
crow which only few years ago everybody's
| uunu was uSulnSti IuIuS OuI " De Ono vi bu'
most valuable birds for the farmer we have
There only sin is in eating the newly.plante(
grains Of corn but this can be wholly
Obviated by taking half peck of corn fol
a field, soaking it we'll and scattering it over
an adjoining field. Crows never eat an,
hard grain, but will bury it until it become
soft, as we have often seen them do. Blu
they at all times prefer worms, beetles, &c
when they can be obtained, aud devour i'm
mense numbers of them.
Year: 1876

MANAGEMENT OF MANURE-It will not do
to say that barn-yar manure should not be
plowed IN. nor that it should never be dis
tributed over the surface, nor that it should
never be piled in the field as a means of
preparation for use. All these practices
have earnest advocates, and all under certain
conditions may be right Not many years
ago there were many dairymen in this valley
who were firm in the belief that the best use
Of their barn-yard or stable manure was TO
spread it on their meadows as fast as made.
Now the practice is well-nigh abandoned,
because it has been found that it involves
great waste in most seasons. Still further
back the common method was to plow all
manure in. That practice is now the rare
exception. As rule, farmers in this state
ind the best results attend the spreading of
manure on the raw fields before narrowing,
by which it is covered just enough to be
protected from injurious influences, and is at
the same timo available for the young plants
which are to occupy the ground.


Tho question of its proper fitting is an.
other troublesome one. 1t may be that there
are in some conditions good reasons for pill.
ing it in the field until decomposition shall
be well ADVANCED, but there is certain
waste in the exposure. Intelligent observ
ing farmers are sure to improve their meth
ods by noting the results of the various ways
Of treating manures, and in this they may
have really valuable aid through the confer
ences afforded by Oranges aud Farmers
Clubs. With all the sources of information
at command well improved there must re-
main vexed questions because there are 8
many varying conditions to be considered
Let no farmer depend entirely upon the d
rections which others furnish him, but rather
study these matters in the light of practical
experience.
Year: 1876

Shyiug generally arises from timidity, but
sometimes it is united with cunning, and in.
duces the animal to assume fear of some
object for the sole purpose of finding an ex-
cuse for turning aside. The usual cause Of
shying is, doubtless, the presence of some OBJ.
ject to which the horse has not been accuS-
toned, and if he has defective eyes, which
render him short sighted, it will be difficult to
convince him Of the innocent nature Of the
novel object. There are endless peculiarities
in shying horses, some being dreadfully
alarmed by one kind of object which to
others is not at all formidable The best
plan Of treatment which can be adopted, is
to take as little notice as possible of the shy.
ing, and to bo especially careful not to show
any fear of its recurrence when the "alarm-
ing object appears in the distance. When
the horse begins to show alarm, but not till
then, the driver should speak encouragingly to
him, and, it necessary, with a severe tone,
which may even be supported by the use oil
the whip, if his outward progress cannot be
otherwise maintained.


The principle, which should be carried
out, is to adopt such measures as will ge
the horse to pass the object at which he SHES
somehow or other, and this should be effected
with as little violence as possible, always
commencing in an encouraging tone as soon
as the purpose is gained. Nothing has so
great tendency to keep up the habit as the
plan so common among ignorant grooms o.
chastising the shyer after he has passed the
object Of his alarm. If he can be persuaded
to go quietly up to it and examine it with
his muzzle, as well as with his eyes, great
good will be effected, but this can seldom be
done with moving vehicles, and heaps o.
stones or piles Of sand are generally only
alarming from defective vision, so that each
time they assume a new phase to the activ,
Imagination Of the .imid animal. Furnishing
bits only make high couraged animal worse
and the use of "over-checks" rarely, if ever
prove beneficial Wakes Spirit.
Year: 1876

Rev. Mr.. Hibbard Of Charlotte said, at
the Hinesburgh meeting of the board of agri-
culture, that the reason farming is no more
satisfactory and profitable is because farmers
are so Internally lazy. Is there not too
much reason for the charge that this season
of the year, the season when there is most
opportunity to carry out improvements
which will increase the productiveness Of
the farm, is frittcred away, accomplishing
nothing except what must be Immediately
done? a
Year: 1876

may carry this idea into all our worrimouts,
and especially this one Of weeds 10 the pub
lie highways. The moro we beautify our
properties, the more we attract travel by il (;
for people will 60 in preference where there
is something nice to be seen. Improvements
cost something. They are taxes. A man
may beautify at great cost when there is
no one TO appreciate them. OF course such
work is thrown away. But no work is
thrown away that attracts travel along the
highways.
Year: 1876

A correspondent Of the Michigan Farmer
states that there is large loss Of trees occa-
stoned by top.grafting. 1t is well to i'm.
prove the fruit Of our orchards by grating,
but too often is the tree destroyed thereby.
A healthy tree, ten to twenty years old
the usual character Of trees grafted-stand-
ing on good soil, is valuable property, and
therefore the laws of life that govern trees,
should be well mastered by the CRATER. A
tree may be hurled TO destruction in q hall
hour or even less; but twelve 10 twenty 1--WE
years may be required to grow its like again
and that with much care and expense. The
main cause in killing trees by grating is iu
cutting away too much wood at a time
When tree is thus robbed Of too much Of
its wood, it loses its power to draw the sap
of the whole roots, and so its functions Of
life are impaired aud soon death may set in
Large limbs cannot be cut from the tree
without severely hurting it. Do not theI
commit an onslaught on your trees by I
Wholesale cutting with the grating saw
Better consume two or three years TO chang
the fruit of your trees, than to lose it en-
tircly or lose its usefulness. Grait small limbs
1t is better to put in more gratis to cut larg
limb. Cutting should be seldom done wher
the limb is over two inches thick. Th
safest size is from half an inch to an inc
aud half. The number Of limbs to be Gu
cannot be given on paper the CRATER him
self must use his judgment in this. q
course the size OF trees guide this matter alsc
The most thrifty trees are most likely to
hurt by too heavy cutting. BY all mean
leave more young branches than what yo
take away, and do not disfgure the tree to
much by the operation, When trees loo
bald by grating, the cutting was too heav
and the tree is damaged.


This will be a good year for graitin
The trees have now much recovered frol
the dry summers and cold winters, and Il
ground is full Of moisture again-favorab
for young gratis The earlier the work


done the better for the health of the trc
Year: 1876

LIME WATER FOR BURNs.-A correspond
ent writes that the readiest aud most useful
remedy for scalds and burns is an embroca-
ton Of lime water and linseed oil. These
simple agents combined form thick, cream
like substance, which effectually excludes
the air from the injured parts, and allays
the inflammation almost. lie mentions a case
where child fell backward into bath tub
OF boiling water, and was nearly Aayed from
from her neck to below her hips. Her ag,
onies were Indiscribable but her clothing
being gently removed, aud the lime and oil
preparation thickly spread over the injured
surface, she was sound asleep in Eve minutes
Subsequently the parts were carefully washed
with warm milk and water three times a
day, the oil dressing renewed and the little
patient rapidly recovered. Though all the
scalded skin came of, she did not have Z
scar. This remedy leaves no hard coat "a
dry on the sores, but softens the parts, ant
aids nature to repair the injury in the read
lest and most expeditions manner. ThiI
remedy may be procured in the drul
stores but if not thus accessible slake I
lump Of quicklime in water, aud, as sooI
as the water is clear, mix it with the oil ant
shake II we'll. IL the case is urgent, US
boiling water over the lime, and it will be
come clear in Eve minutes.
Year: 1876

1t is a staring fact that thorough cultiVa-
tion is in all respects equal to the best man
uring, for without it manure would be Of
but little value. 1t can be seen everywhere
by those capable of judging. A 6rst-OlAss
farmer rarely complains Of drought or too
much rain, as he makes frequent cultivation
a substitute for the one, and draining for the
other.-GTmantO'on Telegraph.
Year: 1876

thought 1t due TO the Committee matter Of courtesy
that his first statement should be made to them, If they
wished him TO appear as witness. He said he had


signed all the receipts for the money but refused to say
whether not he had been Of Col Whitleys I'M
willingness to pay the money without special order.
While the reporter conversng with Mr. Davenport,
however, a subpoena was received summoning him to
appear before the House Committee on Expenditures
forthwith. Mr. Davenport announced his intention Of
leaving this city for Washington last night.
Year: 1876

my TELEGRAPH To the TEIBuSE1


WASHINGTON, April 20.-Thc House debated
the bill 20 transfer the Indian Bureau to the Mai Depart
ment for five hours and decided to take final vote upon
it early tomorrow afternoon Al the amendments which
affected the essential parts OF the bill were voted do"n
and the indications that the bill will pass by large
majority There was considerable animated discussion
upon the peace policy and the Quaker agents pn he
representatives OF this theory or treating the Indians
were greatly in the minority The philosophy OF most OF
those who spoke that the Bible could not make It's
way among the red men without the bayOnet.
Year: 1876

Regulations are being prepared at
the Treasury Department for the issue
Of silver currency under the new law.
Treasurer New has been in consultation
with Secretary Bristow on the subject.
The silver currency will be issued only
as a substitute for fractional currency
delivered at the department. II is not
yet decided whether the department will
bear the expense Of transportation Of
silver from the treasury to the bankers
and others applying therefor. There are
now s20,00O.OoO Of silver and silver
bullion in the vaults Of the treasury.
Enough will be provided to redeem all
the fractional currency in circulation as
rapidly as the same can be presented.
Year: 1876

The condition of Turkey becomes more
hopeful for Christians every day. The
financial state of things is worse and
worse. and the worse the better for civil
lizatiOn, liberty and peace. The Turk
ish government is simply an armed oc-
cupation of the Levant. religious and
wicked despotism, holding three times
its own population under the iron heel
of military subjugation. The provinces
now in revolt confidently rely upon the
Christian powers to help them. or. at
least, to maintain neutrality. There is
little danger that the great crime Of the
Crimean war win be repeated. The
world now sees, aud many bitten mon
ey-lender now feels. that the vast expen-
diture of life and money to uphold Tur-
key was the greatest blunder of the age.


Whom vast Christian population is
crushed to the earth by power whose
only principle is the propagation of Mo-
hammedanism by force. the process of
recovery must be slow. But it is writ
ten, we believe, in the book of Divine
prophecy, that this false prophet will be
overthrow. And no future event ap-
pears to us more evidently approaching
than the downfall of the Turkish En-.
pire. The wish is apt to be the father
of the hope, and we are quite free to say,
that in the drying up of that great river
of blood, we see the resuscitation of
Christianity in the East, the union of
Western with Oriental civilization, the
practical connection of Europe and Asia.
and a long stride toward the enlighten-
ment Of the world.


Even BlacksOoods Magazine has at
last come to say these words which we
said twenty years ago;


sit seems to US that the integrity and
independence of the Ottoman Empire.
which it was the object of the Crimean
war to uphold, are complete illusions"
~. Y. Observer.
Year: 1876

PRAISE THEM.-Praise people when
ever you can truthfully, instead Of blam-
ing them on every possible occasion. Ev-
erybody needs little encouragement in
life, and there are more opportunities of
giving it than is generally realized. In
general we are quick to notice defcien-
cies and faults in husband, wife, child
and friend but scores of good qualities
and numberless pleasant attentions pass
unnoticed, as a matter of course. If the
breakfast is late, the coffee poor, the bis
cult burned, we are ready enough TO find
fault, but if everything is nice and good,
how often does the care-taker hear a
word of commendation If Charlie
comes to table with soiled hands and
rough-and- tumble hair, or if Susie leaves
her room in turmoil and disorder, they
are reprimanded. But if the boy is nice
and tidy, and the girl has put her room
in good order, what then ? Is some ap-
probation of these things shown
Year: 1876

1t is a common, though mistaken idea,
that labor was imposed upon man as
curse. The first we read of Adam after
his creation is that he was placed in the
garden of Eden s4tn dress and keen it,
and, sin or no sin, the Creator destined
man to work. 1t was heather poet
who said. at is a slaves duty to plow,
and a treeman's business to enjoy the
fruit of the blowing" unhappily, this
opinion is shared by many, even among
farmers and mechanics. In schooling
their sons they aim not to make them
educated farmers aud mechanics, but
rather to shun these avocations because
they are connected, as they suppose,
with degradation and drudgery. The OBJ
iect should rather be, to honor the calling
of the father, by teaching the son to
bring more knowledge and practical
wisdom to the compounding of soils and
the construction of labor-saving ma
chimes. If mere blind unthinking force
moved the plow and the saw, we should
not be able to boast our present advance
above the beasts. Instead of toiling
wearily by some mountain stream, In
telligent man damned up its waters, and
compelled it to saw, and grind, and spin
for him. Instead of the dim Indian
trail or rude highway designated BY
marked trees he constructed roads of iron


and harnessed to caravan of wagons {
steed whose muscles are steel, whose
nerves are brass, and whose heart is thu
fire of red-hot Lehigh. He has subju


gated the winds and waves to his will
and even the lightnings of heaven be
come his messengers and leap away +


do his bidding. The design of labor


saving inventions is to bring the power


of the wind to the relief of the hands


thus providing leisure for social inter


course, mental cultivation and religion


duty .. V. i.
Year: 1876

HE never spoke to me but twice"
said an ex-clerk of A. T. Stewart. "once
/ tore piece of wrapping paper rough
ly across, and he came around to tell me
| should have folded it, and made even
edges. People" he said, didn't like
to get shiftless looking bundles" Again.
| wound bundle around with an extra
turn of string, and before I could cut it
be had the bundle out of my hand and
unwound the unnecessary turn. "Neyer
waste even piece of string" be said
"waste is always wrong"
Year: 1876

his compOsure, home must be place of
peace and comfort There his soul re-
news its strength, and goes forth with
new vigor to encounter the labor and
trouble of life. But if at home he finds
no rest. and there is met with bad tenn
per, jealousy and gloom, or assailed with
complaint and censure, hope vsnishes,
and he sinks into despair.
Year: 1876

The man who has not tho whip hand
OF his tongue and his temper is not fit
to 60 into company.


When the wind rs high, move your
tent to the other side OF the hedge i.
e., change your side according to cir
cumstnrces.


Never buy handkerchief or choose q
wife by candlelight.


It's like q kiss, good for nothing IN.
less divided between two.


Don't ask for thing when you can't
get it.


1t is always tho largest fish that falls
back into the water.


There may be adversity in a large
house Us we'll rs in u small one.


Keep it a secret in your own heart
and nobody will know it.


Clean water never came from dirty
place.


Behind bad luck comes good luck.


There is a sweet sleep at the end OF
long road.


An ass that carries you is better thar
horse that throws you oil.
Year: 1876

Never 90 10 bed with cold feet.
Never try to sleep without being per-
fectly certain that you will be able to
keep them warm. To lie one night
with cold feet gives such a strain TO
the system as will be felt seriously,
perhaps ending in fiji Of sickness.
Cold feet show an unbalanced circula-
,ion. The very best thing to do is 10
warm them by exercise, if that be
practicable. If not, try dipping them
in hot and cold water alternately two
or three times, and then using yigor-
Gus friction. If that does not warm
them and keep them warm, heat
before the fire, drying them lhroughly
and then correct your habits or i'm
prove your health for be sure one OF
the other is wrong, perhaps both.


With all the rest, if you sleep on a
hard bed, with cotton sheets, in a
cold room, put on an extra covering
over the feet. 1t is very convenient to
have a foot comfort" just wide
enough to cover the top of the bed
and about yard deep. This may
be made of some light material (per-
haps the remains of some pretty
dress), filled with cotton, like CON-
ior,abIe,' and tackled with some har-
monious color. During the day this
may be thrown over the foot>board
and spread over the bed at night.
The advantage of this is to secure
light covering for the feet without
overburdeniDg the remainder of the
body.


If you use hot brick or hot iron
put it in the bed a little beforehand,
aud then when retiring remove it. To
sleep with the feet In contact with ii
has a tendency to make the feet tender.


But better than both these, and 10
be used with or without them, is the
foot blanket. This NAV be a square
yard of domestic flannel, or two yards
folded of Swiss flannel, or anything
else you like that is warm enough.
only have it nice and clean. Fold
This around your feet and ankles be.
fore you put them down i'll the bed. II
not very cold, this will often warm
them, especially if you have used
friction and if warm, it will prevent
their becoming cold by contact with
the cold sheets. 1t keeps the warm
air around them. 1t does not make
the feet tender, and it is far more con-
yenient than the hot brick or soap
stone. Try it, and if you are trOubl-
ed with cold feet you will be likely to
keep Ii by you hereafter. What ever
you use, always lie at full length. To
x cu5l up" hiuders free circulation.
Year: 1876

A SEAsoNABLE RELIGIoN.-How
many people do you know who regu.
larIy pack up their religion in cam
phor for the warm months? Strange,
how easily they slip out of the old
habit, and don the new. Wonderful
what a difference it makes in their
personal appearance; how much more
stylish and elegant they look in their
summer suits. You wouId hardly
know them tor the same people. Every
thing fits so much more LOOSELY. They
had a habit in the winter of going to
church regularly. But away in the
country tor the hot weather, it is such
bore, and nobody goes, and there is
no preaching :hat they care to hear,
ami II wouldn't do much good at any
rate; and so,-well that habit is GER
'aIuly much too heavy and close for
the summer.
Year: 1876

WILD OATs.-The old saving about
the sowing of wild oats " is a very
foolish one. 1t is on q par with ether
incomprehensible and still popular
lies, such as that bad beginnings
make the best endings," and that
married rakes are the best husbands
People repeat these old sayings as If
the were wise; but folly has her
proverbs is we'll IS wisdom. Reduce
such maNims into practice, knock a
hole IN the bottom OF Your ship As
you are about TO sail, fall and badly
bruise yourself as You start on a ieur
ney, and take such beginnings IS fine
omeys for success, if you can. So al
so in question Of morals, To stain
yourself so that you may become
pure, TO blot your virgin page so iha;
il may look white, TO throw away
yeur money in order 10 fiji your purse
would be al voted contradictions in
terms and living a youth of folly
and SIN, so that We may dedicate OLD
age 10 wisdom, philosophy, virtue and
greatness, Is plainly no less. He wi O
is resolved TO sow wild oats broadcast
IN his youth may rest assured that
there Is an eternal tFu,hiu the saving.


Whatsoever man sowelh, that al
so, shall he reap
Year: 1876

ALFALFA.-The cultivation of alfal
ia is increasing all over California,
and 1t seems certain 10 prove of very
great value to farmers generally and
especially TO stock.raisers. Upon favor
able soils the yield per acre is enor-
nous, often three or four times great
er than any of the grasses. When it
can be irrigated four crops per year
can be raised, afording abundance OF
green feed at all seasons. 1t is one of
the hardest plants known, very diff
cult 10 be eradicated when once well
established, and is green when all 9th
er kinds of vegetation are dead and
sere. This constant vitality seems 20
depend upon The power of its roots to
penetrate to great depths as if in
search of water We know OF no 9th
er plant except the grapevine that
sends down lis roots SO far. \ few
years a ago, upon the high bank of q
stream where a flood had cause q
part of the soil to fall into the water
an alfalfa root was traced seventeen
feet downward from the surface where
the plant was growing.