Pad Kantrimg. DOES THE SOIL NEED REST 7 Our fathers in agriculture quite gene rally held the opinion that summer-fallow jog greatly benefitted the soil by the rest whielt it gave. If the land lay utterly idl e through all the season of growth, s hould "it not recuperate its powers of pro duction ? They believed it would. And this opinion prevails to some extent at the present time among farmers. But absolute rest obviously adds noth ing to the soil; no food for plants descends from the air above or rises from the sub soil below. No favorable chemical action is known to be induced by exposing a naked soil a long time to the elements; o n the contrary, it may be apprehended that the washing of the rain, the parching o f the sun, the evaporation of the atmos t,here, remove some of the volatile sub-'''. : mimes which are found in a fertile soil. Best does not impart fertility to the sands the desert, nor are arable soils in a gate of nature where they are increasing in fertility, ever permitted to be destitute of vegetable covering. The soil, then, does not need rest; it re quires cultivation. By cultivation we mean here those physical changes which may be made. It wants deep and thorough working, so that the roots of plants can reach every particle of soil; it needs drain ing to draw off the ,stagnant water, which is poison to the pots of our cereals and cultivated grasses. Deep, thorough and frequent pulverization of the soil, though it adds nothing to the amount of plant food, will, by making it all available to the crops, cause the land to be very produc tive, Then, except during the brief pe riod of this thorough working, the soil should be producing, for it is by the sole agency of what grows upon it that the farmer can hope to increase the amount of plant food in his land. But is not land constantly producing crops, whether of grain or grass, ex hausting itself? Yes, if those ,crops are removed from the soil and no re auneration made therefor • but if the whole produce of the ground is returned to it, the amount of plant •food is increased. he soil becomes richer for the reason hat the' substance of the plant was only partly derived from the soil, but largely min the atmosphere; and while the soil wives again' what it gave, through the iecomposition cif thp plant, it has in add ion all that was drawn from other sources. I his is the reason why the plowing under if clover, or grass, or other green crops, or manure, enriches the soil. The crops tare drawn only part of their fertilizing omponents from the soil—they have ithered from the air likewise—and it is precisely this which increases the previ. us richness of the soil. Atid if all the manure which crops will make by passing through the animal system be returned to the soil, its fertility will doubtless be main tained; enough will be returned to replace the ash-constituents of the plant which alone were derived from the earth. We conclude, then, that the soil does not need rest to render it fertile. It needs cultivation and cropping. Not reckless, wasteful, unmethodical farming, but that hi planned and executed as to grow large and varied crops, and dispose of them in such a manner as to return the extracted elements of fertility to the soil. - --Rural N , a Yorker. PRUNING HEDGES. The present is about the best time to Ine hedges, whether hemlock or Nor ly spruce, arbor vita, or the maclura. One thing should be borne in mind by , se who are growing young hedges, rich is, not to allow, them to grow too cce before the pruning. shears are ap- An evergreen hedge, particularly, by !rowing to prune when the bushes are It four or four and a half feet high, can made in any shape or form desired, lout leaving unsightly stumps. They ays seem to us as though they liked to pruned. They sort of feel a little proud, least they look smart and jaunty, after rin g their heads cropped. Young hedges should receive careful at tion, as they Will become an eyesore teak' of an ornament. They should . be tiously forked under the branches, at every particle of grass and weeds ild be removed ; and if the soil is not i• apply a good noulehing of manure ; if sufficiently rich, grass, straw, or re ef any kind maybe used. le hemlock, especially, which makes most beautiful hedges, and the only that really does well under the shade, rs the effect of manure by a luxuriant eth of the darkestgreen foliage that Ira can present —Gernantatars Tele- ` I IES.—LIGHT AND HEAVY SOILS, sandy soil is generally preferred for Bruit, and by far the greater part of h orchards of the country stand on I land. Without doubt there are reasons for planting • them there-- succeed better than on heavier soil. Peach tree is tender it cannot' bear :r around its roots, and sandy soil has natural drainage. The roots of the ire tender also, and are not inclined iree their way through and draw ample inance from a compact, hard soil. re, sandy soils are generally chosen each orchards. But we believe, also, ieaehes grown on loams, heavier and compact than sand, are better flavor- Jo those grown on lighter soil. And link that, if properly prepared and ;ed, heavier soils than sand may be successful in growing the peach. must be completely drained to start not because they are wet—for wet should not be chosen—bat to carry quickly the surplus water in the and when copious rain may fall, and ' Prepare the soil for the most per rilliure. After draining the soil , be well worked, sub soiled" and pul "I at l eas t •Awenty inches in depth. Plant the trees, and afterward take I. .thena. Nune them judiciously— Is no tree more benetitted by the I `THE -AMiRiCAN M=',l2llllll= right pruning than the peach. Cultivate the soil; mulch slightly during the hot test of the summer. By this method we believe that quite heavy soils—excepting perhaps the com pact clays—will produce peaches of a better flavor and size, and with as large a profit as the light sands whereon they are now generally planted. And We think; further; that the trees will be longer lived, freer from disease on the heavy sell than on the' light. But the conditions of perfect drain age, and deep and thorough pulverization of the sell, - must be complied with. Afoore's Rural. FATTENING HOGS. The. editof Of the Germantown Tele graph having made inqiiiries of a .farmer as to the profitableness of pork raising and the best way to feed hogs, received a reply, the substance of which was :-Ist. That feeding grain—especially corn—to hogs will pay better than would the same amount fed to any other kind of farm stock. But this is qualified as to the kind or breed of hogs fed and the manner of treating them. The breed should be the:' Chester White"—the nom, de plume of the writer —and they should be fed in such a man ner as to gain a pound a day. In other words the hog, at a year old, should weigh , three hundred and sixty-five pounds. erreater weight than this could be produced, but the increase would not pity the extra expense necessary to procure it. 2d. One bushel of good shelled corn, made into meal and fed to'the hogs regu larly, in such quantity as to prevent them from fretting for more, will produce froni five to Seven pounds or pork during• the months of October and November. After this season of the year more feed is re quired and less pork produced according to the quantity fed. *. 3d. An important point is to keep the hogs growing all the time—not starving them to mere hog , frames during the sum mer, and then attempting to finish off quickly on the arrival of cold weather. 4th.. When put up in the fall—indeed, during the entire season—a oomfortable shelter should be provided, so that the hogs may avail themselves of it whenever a storm occurs;- lout when the autumnal storms commence the hogs should be penned for good till ready for slaughter. sth.' With the pure " Chester White" stock of hogs, properly brought forward during the spring and summer months, it is safe to feed eighty.five cent corn on a basis of five cents per pound for the ani mal fed. This feed for October and No vember should be corn-meal, mixed with water to the consistency of a thick slop. griEntifir. THE SANSCRIT. An article in the London Quarterly, treating the question whether the Sanscrit is to be regarded as the father of languages, or an elder brother in a family of tongues having common parentage, says as follows : As is well known; the rise of the higher method [of philological science] now prevail ing is in great measure due to the accident that, in the course of the last century, there came within the field of view of European philologists an ancient language, almost the first glimpse of which changed the whole face of their science. The key to modern comparative philology was set before the world in one passage of a paper which Sir William •Janes read on the 2d of February, 1786, before the Asiatic Society in Cal cutta, of which he was one of the founders. " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists : there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Geltick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the old Per sian might be added to the same family." The interest of these remarkable sentences does not lie wholly in the announcement of a great discovery. They are an example of the true philosophic temper, which it will be well for us carefully to mark. Their author must have been tempted to let his imagination, fill up the gap left by his evi dence, and to suppose that he had before .him the very source. out of which the great languages of Europe had sprung ; but he was content to make sure of the least, not to speculate upon the most, which his facts could prove. It will aid us in giving Sir William Jones his, proper historical place, to examine the book which, published Some twenty years later, set the stream of Euro pean scholarship fairly in.movement in this direction. Friedrich von•Schlegel's guage and Philosophy of the Indians" is a most suggestive essay, and a great part of the inferences which he draws as to the connection of the " Indo-G-erManic" lan guages have stood the test of time. But into the pitfall which the cautious English (or rather Welsh) judge had passed safely by, the impetuous German litterateur fell headlong. Schlegel appears to have had no doubt that the Sanscrit or "Indian" lan guage was not only related to Greek,.Latin and German, but was the very ancestor from which their descent was to be traced. When, however, thorough-paced investi . gators like Bopp came to sift and compare the evidence, it became clear that Sanscrit was itself, like Greek or Welsh, a descend ant of an extinct common tongue, and could only claim, as Max Muller puts it, the dis tinction "which Austria used to elaim in the German Confederation—to be the first among equals, pronus inter pares." By comparing-Abe various shapes assumed by different members of the great Indo-Euro pean family of languages; it even became possible to guess out of what primary forms the diverging languages of India, Greece, or Britain might have developed their groups of words, at once so_ similar and so dissimilar, and thus to some small extent to '2====l reconstruct the original source of them all, what Schleicher, in his "Comparative Grammar," calls the Indo-European 46 U.r• sprkche," or Original Language. It has now been found convenient for ethnological purposes to revive the good old national term of "Aryan," a familiar word in the ancient literature and geography of India, Persia and Media, and'perhaps traceable even so far west as in the name of ketand. Thus thelndo-European stock of language, comprising the Sanscrit, and Zend, with their immediate relativesithe Celtic, Italic, Greek, .Slavonic, and ,Germaniesroups, has come to be 'classed as a whole under the name of the Aryamfamilyiand referred for its origin to a hypothetical primitive Aryan speech. When the Sanscrit is compared with the rest of its kin of this great ryan family f it is found that :.there are `atitualry points in which thislanguage; qtric)ient it is as a whole, represents Vet :Stagre:of growth than even , our modern European dialects. 'To' take a trivial instance, its root-verb with the meaning, of to "„sta s adV s , is stlia,,in the, pronunciation of which * soundlit4s to be ob served that the letters th stand for some thing like the th in pothook. But the con curring test4ony of other members of the Aryan family is that the original of stare, stehen, stand, French j'etais (estois) 'Greek raT , N .4I, Zend stowmi, Irish stadaim (a stop), and so forth, was simply sta,-and thez„Sanscrit:stha ap pears. have, ..cchanged r from tnoni s A h n: ,original form. Tliellig-lectap that priceless ,monn ment of the thoughtatiithbelieDof the early Aryans, is framed in even a more arehaic dialect than the bulk of the Sanscrit litera ture, and mpst have been created in.very ancient times, . at: least as" early, Professor Muller'thinks, as 1000 'B.C.; but it already says stha for to stand, and thus even a lan guage so battered.w,ith ,the-s9h9cks of4irne —so broken &mit inThrgrammatic:arstrut- s ture—sci mited;patched told remade in its vocabulary as our modern •English, is yet to be traced back in the first, letters of the verb to stand, to a more h'cituly - antiquity than the great Aryan hymn-book. Such oases as these are, however, , cAceptional. Taken as a whole, the Sansorit (and with it is to be classed its s sister, the Zend,the language of the ancient book of Zoroaster) regesents a state of language so like what the primitive Aryan must have been, that the first investigators , had really a fair color for ;the opinion tfiat:itiwaiitserf that very , tongue. Nothing so well shOws Ai% 'relation of Sanscrit to its kindrki.'languages Eu , rope as the fact that the sight of it put at once into an intelligible shape the rela tion of these languages to one another. That there were words in Greek, Latin, Russian, English, which were exceedingly alike, was no new observation; though by what chaittof cause and effect this likeness had come about was a matter on which theory was very 41ind and helpless. But When Sanscrit came to be examined by European scholars, it was evident on the very face of.it that it represented an origin out of which these languages :had diverged, retaining the similarities ;hick had so long been noticed, but which without, this key had not been satisfactorily accounted for, nor probably would have been for many a long year. Sanscrit not only showed simi larities with Greek or Engliih;it corres ponded herd with the one, there with' the other—it brought together grammatical processes and meanings of words which had gone one way in one language and another way in another, till often 'nothing butrthe sight of a stage near the common starting point could justify the Philologist in saying that there was a connection; ; between them. To take some'of the more familiar instances : when it appeared' that the -verb-reOt'man, to think, produced in Sanscrit on the one hand coati and manors; mind, on .the, other manushya, a son of man (German mensch), it became evident that the English word man, and the Latin word wens had a com mon origin, the of their relationship being that the one meant the thinker, and the other the thinking apparatus. In Latin we find a word viduaPi English a word widow ; but in the Sanscrit dictionary there is not only a word vidha,va to maoh both of these, but also the materials for its evi dent derivation, vi, without,—dhava, a hus band. Again, a Latin name for pule is pecus: now the Sanscrit 'dictionary AoWed a word pacu, cattle, corresponding to it; and it appeared, moreover, on examination of the letters which habitually correspond with One another in different European lan guages, that to - Sanscrit pacu Ind Latin pecus. there answer a. Getinanie group,. Gothic faihu, Anglo-Saxon feoh, meaning in the first, place _cattle, and in the' second goods or possessions in general, among which in old times cattle was so important an item. In modern times these two mean ings have* gone in different ways; for the German ideh keeps tO the 'primitive sense of cattle, white English fee has, given; itself, up to the secondary meaning of property, possession, money payment, like pecunia from the corresponding Latin pecus. - In grammatical proeesses it was much the same. The languages 'cifthe ancient Greeks and of the ancient Goths had vdual num ber, which &Copped'away in later `times, is to be found in'Sanicrit, in company with both the reduplication of the Greek and Latin perfect, and the augment of the Greek aorist. The language of the'modern Lithuanians has a. 'locative ease ;- in Latin, too, this case is to, be found, though,mixed up by grammarians with the genitive or otherwise explained away,ns inßomm, at Rome, humi, on the ground, domi, at home. In Sanscrit this locative ease is, both fully developed and necessarily acknowledged. Again, Greek, for is, last, Latitiesl, German ist, and we, have moreoter.,Otirlt'to which cornea' Outniaiicinratin fwd. When we go back to Sanscrit, we not only find early forms of both these' verbs, bhu, to be, and as,to be (esse), but we can event trace the plain material meanings which they bore before they were caught up into func tional grammar and stamped with the mean ing of that colorless #bstraction;the 4S: called substantive verb'. Sanscrit bhu cor responds with the •Greelcepim, antririetifirter "grow." Max Mtiller holds the original meaning of as to have been first to breathe, then-to live, till at last it dwindled downinto to exist.- This , opiniOn 'his, by the way, may be supported by an idiom current among English-speaking negrops, whose linguistic proceedings' are often instructive • , • e . • • e;• • k BYT - E AN THURSDAY - SEPTEWEIt 9 0 - '1866 in a high degree. These people, true to he instincts of an early stage of language, hate to use words which do not convey to their minds a definite meaning, like our English verb to be, and they will say to live, instead : if one asks them where the lamp is, they will say, 4 , him lib in cupboard, and thus repeat in modern times what was done so ,many ages ago by the men who shaped the early Aryan speech. Truly therels 'a great likeness in the working of men's minds, in the old times or new, With in black , skins io pr white ones. ' Besides . the ancient and markedly origi nal character of the Sanscrit, the regularity of its structure,in which it so far surpassed the more worn and mutilated languages of Europe, allowed the native grammarians to take it to pieees like a disSected puzzle; and to bring to such Wonderful perfection its analysis into very simple root-forms, that it is even now very often found hardly pos sible to modern scholars to go a step beyond them. Thus a critical knowledge of San scrit became not a mere knowledge of a single language but of the principles of language, in general. Of course, the struc ture of tongues. belonging to other groups than the - Aryan, such, for instance as Arabic, .Hungarian or Aztec, is very differ ent from that- of gansorit ; but practically any one who:has seen how Sanscrit is taken to pieces, lehiticas it can hardly be so Learnt by any other means, how himself to under stand and analyze other languages, however different their type. 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It has made a new man of me; Infused into my system new vigor an& energy; I am no longer trtmulous and debilitated. as when you last saw me, but stronger, heartier, and with larger capacity for labor, mental and physical. than at any time during the last five years." An eminent divine of Boston, says : "I have heen using the PERUVIAN SYRUP for some time past; it gives me new vigor, buoyancy of spirits,' elasticity of muscle." Thousands have been changed, by the use of thick remedy, from weak. eickly, suffering creatures, to. strong, healthy, and happy men and women; and in— valids cannot reasonably hesitate to give it a trial. A pamphlet of 32 pages, containing certificates of stales and recommendations from some of the mat eminent physicians, clergymen, aria others, will be lent filee to any address. XV- See that each bottle has PERUVIAN SYRUP blownlin the glass. For sale by J. P. DINSMORE, Proprietor, 86 Dey St, New York. AND BY ALL DRUGGISTS. SCROFULA. All Medical Men agree that lODINE is the BEST REMEDY for Scrofula and all kindred diseases ever discovered. 'The difficulty has been to obtain a Pare Solution of it. DR. H. ANDERS , lODINE WATER Is a Pure Solution of lodine. WITHOUT A SOL VENT I A: most Powerful Vitalizing Agent and Re storative. It has cured:Scrofula in all its manifold forms, Erleers,Cancers, Salt Rheum, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Consumption, Heart, Liver, and Kidney Diseases, &c., &e. Circulars will be sent free to any address. Price $1 00 a bottle, or 6 for $5 00. Prepared by Dr. H. ANDERS. Physician and Chem— ist. For sale by J. P. IDINSMOR,E, 36 Dey St., New York. WILD CHERRY HALF A OBN7'I7I?Y. With the 'nogg Astoniehing Succese in airing Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,Sore Throat, Inp fluenza, Whooping Cou gh, Croup, Liver Complaintoßronehitis, Difficulty in Breathing, Asthma, ami every aff'ection ofthe i_. - crwcre. 8c 4c3Er.,,isrir... CONSVMPTION.. which carries off more victims than any other disease, and which baffles the skill of the Physician to a greater extent that any &her malady, often YIELDS TO THIS REMEDY, when all others prove ineffectual. Rapid in Relief, Soothing in Effect, Safe in its Oro- ration. IT IS UNSURI-ASSEDI. while as ayrlparation, frep from noxious ingredients. poisons, or minerali; uniting skill, science, and med ical knowledge i'ciombiniiig all that is valuable in the vegetable kingdom for , this class of disease, it is . ' INCOMPARABLE! and is entitled, merits; and receives the general con fidence of the public. SEYMOUR.THATC.HDR. M. D.. of Herman, N,. Y., writes as. • Ira ' Wistailßalsom of Wild Cherry gives universal satisfactionV It seems to Cure a Cough by loosening 'andoleapsing the bangs. and allaying irritation. thus removing the cause.inatend of drying up the cough and leavinethe canal behind. I consider the Bahasa as.good arani. if not the ' , beat, Cough medicine with which I am,acquainted"? , . The Rev. JACOB SECHLER, of Hanover, Pa., welt known and much respected among the German popu lation of.thia country; makes the following statement for the benefit of the afflicted:— Dear Sirs :—Having realized in my family impor tant benefits from the use of your valuable prepare tion--Wistar%Balsam of Wild Cherry—it affords Me pleasure to recommend it to the public. Some eight years ago one of my - daughters seemed to be in a de -Annie,. and little hopes' of her recovery were enter tained: Ithen procured a bottle of your excellent BalearMand before she had taken the whole of the contents of the Bottle there was a great improvement in lier health. I have, in my individual case, made frequent use of yOUT. valuable medicine, and have al ways been benefitted by it JACOB SECHLER.. Price One Dollar a Bottle. For sale by J. P. DINSMIRE, 36 Dey Street, New York. SETH W. FOWLEA SON, Proprietora..Boston. And by all Druggists. <4461* 45 0 • GRACVS CELEBRATED °SALVE Cures Cuts, Burns, Scalds. Grace's Celebrated Salve Cures Wounds, nraises,Aprains. Grace's . Celebrated Salve Cdres Oh pe 1 , Hands, CLilbiains. Grace's Celebrated: Salve Heals old Sore*, Wousida, amt. It is prompt in action. removes Pain at once. reduces the mest:angry-looking swellings amain* mations, 112 if magic"-thus affording relief a complete cure. Only 25 cents a box. (Sent by mail for 35 eenta. For sale by J. P. DINSMORE, 36 Dey St., New York S. W. FOWLS & SON, Proprietors, Boston. and all Druggists. Groce and Country Stores. ra ; Etritinat. SYRUP And by all Druggists WISTAR'S BALSAM HAS saw USED Iva. NEARLY 4 MEDICINE.
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