Sh
Interesting to Tobaoco
Growers.
BIAVANA SEED V8 SUMATRA,
We can drive Sumatra tobacco out of
our markets, or at least succesfully com-
pete with it, by growing first-class Ha-
viana Seed tobacco. It will meet the de-
mand of the trade for fine wrappers,
and is far superior in quality and flavor
and nearly equal in wrappi ng eapacity
to Sumatra. Had the cultivation of
this variety of tobacco been understood
and a sufficient amount grown to supply
the demand, the tobacco industry would
not have been in its recent depressed
condition.
There are several varieties of Havana
Beed tobacco. Five yearsago I obtained
a package of seed from Cuba which pro-
duced five distinct kinds, from a stocky
broad leaf to a very tall narrow-leaved
plant. The broad leaf had too coarse
veins, the narrow was fillers. I chose a
medium, and hope by a few vears’ careful
selection of seed to obtain a desirable va
riety. At the present time I re
commend only one variety, and that is
the one introduced by Mr. Elihu Marsh
of North Hatfield,
since, but unfortunately this seed has in
many crops been allowed to get
variety
can
about five years
mixed
with a course broad leaf which
has very large veins and is undesirable.
But pure Seed with suitable soil and
cultivation
which there is yet none superior.
will produce a leaf than
I will briefly enumerate some of the
principal points to be observed in tlk
Havana Seed
seed of
successful cultivation
tobacco :— First, use good pure
the very best
been improved Ly the followin
will give the
best plants, re
afew of the earliest seed-podst
variety. Seed that
g met
best results Select
move all suckers: whe
urn brown,
. all thea hla ms and i
remove all the blossoms and
Ter » . H 11 y v ar
size ; the seed will get ripe an
strong healthy plants: but all the
will not be perfect, and it shoul
fully winnowed
(usually one-quarter to one-thir
moved,
bat it will pay.
in this way a few years,
provement will be observed in
ty and quantity of the crop.
ly convinced from obser
1343] al} :
until all the
[his requires time and i
By using seed
a deci
the
Vall
ence and study of the in
upon
important t«
healthy toba
seed corn or
ment wil
tical.
Suitable soil i
the plan
such as will pr
of Need leaf tolaceo
soils the appli
that is known
advisable, ane}
or Peruvian guand
be grown upon run-out
needs flowing aml fert
paying crops. Sucl
plowed as shallow
good work soor
ht incl
seven or eight In
the ground freezes
of dry slacked lime to 1}
then be 4. The
{
row the land t
appli
plow in ten or t
to the acre
tains the twtter
the
nearly large
land until
three feet
cords of
furrow ; if
used, apply them
the manurer, this with a ridge
that will mark the places for plants t wen-
ty-iwo to twent; -“our inches ape r:. Th
point to be noted here is that the ferti-
lizer must be nearer the plant th:
necessary for Seed leaf,
Set good healthy plants, and in two
to four days cultivate deeply, once in a
row, without disturbing the ridge : cul-
tivate again after the first rain. When
the plants are well rooted, loosen the
soil lightly around the plants to break
the crust and destroy the weeds.
Keep the s0il loose hetween the
rows, and when the plants are abet
14 feet high use wu horse-hoe that
will place the fine soil upon the
side and edge of the ridge, A simple
attachment wade with two barrel
staves in the shape of a V placed under-
neath a common cultivator will answer
the purpose. Very little hand-hoeing
is necessary. In about one week place
more soil around the plant to keep
erect. This variety of tobacco is very
liable to tip over before it is topped, and
when it does it should be set up at
once ; the sooner it is done the less the
damage. It should be topped so low
that the top leaves will be about as larg
as any upon the plant when all are ripe,
I am aware a wide difference of opinion
exists as to how much it pays to sucker
tobacco, but it should be suckered once
abont half way down, and again clean,
for the simple reason that the suckers
suck the juices absolutely necessary to
perfect the leaves, hence the name suck.
ers. A perfect erop cannot be obtained
unless the suckers are removed, besides
it is less lable to pole sweat and damage
from fat stems and tearing. Tobacco
should not be cut until it is thoroughly
fine,
apart
fine manure to
commercial
Cover
in is
:
ripe. The practice of cutting a little
green to obtain a darker color is wrong ; |
it should be fully matured, and if |
allowed to stand a few days after it is |
suckered clean, more weight and better
quality is obtained, Havana Seed usual- |
ly requires four weeks or more to ripen |
after topping, and it cures better if hung
with twine than upon lath ; the slower |
and darker it can be cured the better,
Tobacco should be taken down only |
when in just the right condition. When |
stripped the butts should be kept even
and the leaves tied with two strings in
bundles of ten te fifteen
pounds each. Springfield ( Mass.) New
England Homestead, March 31.
neat from
REBATE MATTERS,
in the Office as to |
whether the present reduction means a
permanent whether in a
few years the Government will be col-
Opinion difiers
reduction, or
tobacco,
lecting about as much from
sunff, cigars and as
The largest receipts ever received from
the tax on tobaceco was 828 148,767.90.
in 1877,
cigarettes now.
The last reduetion before the
Wis March 3.
Mav 1. 1870,
year ending June 31,
1879,
For
present made 7
and ?
the
the
IRI. R72 4
went into effect
fiscal
receipts from tobacco were
from cigars and cigar-
of
$I8,108,008.69, received that vear, The
the
cigarettes,
), and
ettes $11,719.226.39. making a total
reduction which took place next
vear did not affect
but
) 4
wl
ast fiscal ve
cigars or
reduced the tax on tobacco from
16 cents per pound.
there was collected fron
tax on tobacco 225.811.936.16.
sSO0WwWedd
FLIRT LINE,
MIOW 3 lola
L
of
18 (0K (6s
60 00 0060
francs were expended
and OOK 00
tol acco che wi
HK.
ns ——————"
More Precious than Gold.
sail an
ago."
officer of a safe deposit company,
“About ten years
We
box
that contained a child's primer. two or
three picture books fish-hook
and line, This box was left with us
by an elderly lady, and
once belonged to a child that died mas y
years ago,
had in one of our safes a small
and a
its contents
Two or three times a vear
the lady came to our place and ex-
amined the contents to see if they
were all right. She was the mother of
the child, she seemed to take a
fad sort of pleasure in gazing upon
the articles that had amused her dar-
ling in the long ago. Finally she
ceased coming, and when the time
for which she had leased the space in
our vault had expired we made in-
quiry as to the reason why it was not
renewed. We then learned that she
was dead.” “Who was the lady?"
“1 must decline to state ber name:
but I will say that her husband was
for a yuarter of a century one of the
leading business men of New York. |
He took the little box containing his
dead wife's treasures away with him,"
and
A French inventor says he is to con. |
struct a buloon which will be eliptical in
form and 131 feet long, Ite capacity
will exceed 100,000 cubic feet, giving a
lifting power all told of 34 tons. The
means of propulsion is to be a dynamo-
electric machine and a secondary battery, i
Cullings.
Why is a fishmonger a prudent mer-
chant¥ Because he buys and sells
If you should happen to want to have
Patent medicines are now made that
Autumn: Wheezy, sneezy, freezy ;
Winter: Flippy, drippy, nippy ;
Spring : SBhowery, flowery, bowery ;
Summer: Hoppy, croppy, poppy.
BRADY.
Oh, ves ; a tall man can have a short
man
A young lady on being asked where
I am the daughter of a Metho-
dist minister,
The young man who went to a butch-
of a fellow who went to a grain elevator
to have his corns removed,
Man's a Fool.
Man's a fool!
When it
When it's
No'er o
When
He
Ww
Of the wet the |
hen — 4
A gent
ACTH
‘dark possibility
Wo Red
show weakn
fect health,
Tr
{rom
rit. Tran
the
persons who could spare t}
them has
advanced dentists for
GRAFTED plantin
“ound teeth jaws of health
em to those
ile
needing een practiced
wine time,
Tw
the superfluous sound
the decayed
together and the
freshly drawn good tooth immediately
placed in the cavity made by the other,
But it ofien happened to Le Necessary
to remove a sound tooth from a patient
at a time when no person of whom the
dentist had any knewledge needed such
aone. It would therefore be lost, for
only ** living ** teeth could bs made to
Rrow in a strange mouth, and they died
very soon after wing torn from their
parent gums, Teeth are “living so
long as the membrane covering the
roots had any vitality, 1t has been a
problem of great interest to dentists
throughout America to devise some
means by which the sound extracted
teeth could be kept alive indefinitely,
until they should be needed, and toa
Nan Francisco dentist belongs the honor
of solving the problem. Dr. W. J.
mol ua peran i» was as folis
with
Lae
WS
individual
tooth, and
molar, were mated
one with
ducting a series of experiments, which
have resulted in the discovery of a
means of preserving the life of the ex.
tracted tooth, It is nothing more or
less than grafting it as drawn, upen the
engorged comb of a healthy rooster,
and leaving it there properly secured,
'
until it is wanted,
| ence of chloroform, washed, and every-
} i
i thing removed down to the membrane
' and placed in the freshly made cavity
| where it is needed,
mouth of a gentleman in which
& week or so before.
parently firm
always been there,
and which was
as those which had
It had been kept
alive on a cock’s comb for ten days, and
is
had been taken from the mouth of a
young lady whose looks were benefited
by the removal,
The Rev, Mr, Gilbert, during an ad
dress at Christ church. the other night,
of the telephone, asked his
if
audience
tell them that it was now
possible to convey by electricity vibrations
of light, to not only peak to your distant
friend, but him. The
of the
to do this
actually to see
eiectroscope—the name
abled us Wiis
fic discovery .
"ictoria, belonged
the proud distinction. The
wonderful
trial of this
took place at
Melbourne on the 31s tober
i the j
Last
res SOT cientific men
ae Nittirier
Bue t » ILLITE
ed on a large
01 20 VY
Did
goad ¢*' =
seftiod it! The
It sav he was
Jones, “Well man
hat
war dead
his
perienced docot
and you had no right to say
When
ors, like Smith and 1,
unprofessional
that wasn't, two old, ex-
SAY
a man is dead, its and
discourteous for a young man, a begin-
ner in practice, to dispute their word,
We'll forgive you this time, beeanse of
Your youth and inexperience, and will
hush the matter up for you: but be
very careful in the future, and make no
mre much mistakest,
——
Jay Gould's yacht Atalanta was
launched at Cramps’ ship vard recent-
ly. The Atalanta will be lighted
hroughout by electricity, and each state-
room will be supplied with electric bells
to the servants’ quarters and steward’s
pantry. Steam fans will keep the air
moving at all times, and, in short,
everything that ingenuity can suggest
and cash command will be suggested
and commanded, The pleasure of plow-
ing the raging main as boss of the Ata-
lanta will cost Jay Gould in the neigh-
borhood of $250,000,
he —
A valuable deposit of the remains of
mammals from the diluvial period has
lately been discovered on the banks of
the Volga, between Zarizyn and Sarepta,
after a flood which cut away some of
the land beside that great river, The
variety of the specimens is notable,
Innocence consists in the acknowl.
hituself,
sists,
but from the Lord. It con-
therefore, in being led by the
Lord, and not by self. Therefore all
who are in Heaven are in innocence,
for all who are there love to be led by
Suede nhorg,
(rod makes crosses of great variety
3
that
difficult
ROSIN KO Hight,
to
and yet are
less carry ; some he
the e)
spectators Ht reality
to « as
much dreaded, Fenelon,
Cultivate ie ne s Lhe
body,
dazzle and excite the envy of
are well
an
able rucify those which are so
inteliect, the
Loot “out all evil
’ Lut al }
earn to
YOUr countenance
al peace with God
and that will
i
does d
us
alabaster shade,
-—
Muscovite Christianity.
y
and Sectar in Russia-—
Secret Centres of Disaffection.
anism
wis dge of
terior of Russia,
undoubtedly is, of many
tial elements which united do
Em-
I% not without many
tiie essen
much to th
pire % #t
of the elements of
not by any means an impossibility that
BO of the
¢ establishinent of the
Russia
adisumion, and it is
native forces with unity
may do much to hinder the full realizs-
tion of the Russian dream of
dominion,
world
From a well-informed pamphlet,
lately published in Germany, we learn
that there are scattered over the Em
pire not fewer than fourteen millions of
dissenters, not to speak of Jews, Mo-
hammedans, Roman Catholics, and
those who would naturally come under
the name of Protestunts,. Of Jews
there are about 2,600,000; of Moham-
medans, about 7.500000: of Roman
Catholics, about 7.500.000: of Protes
tants, about 2.800000, The Russian
{Greek) Church or Orthodox Catholic,
is set down at a little over 60,000,000,
Of thise 60,000,000 it. is said that about
14,000,000, more or less, are Dissenters.
The sects with priests are estimated at
3,000,000. Those without priests are
set down at R000,000. Of what are
called Spiritualistic Christians there are
1,000,000; and what are known as
Chiysty und Skopzy are estimated st
065,000,
Most of these sects owe their origin
to an attempt which was made some
two hundred years ago to revise the
religious books and the ritual. Of
those who have prizsts, the mest
numerous are the Pomorzy, the Phill-
powzy and the Kupitones, all of whom
attach much importance to what may
be called generally baptism by fire, Of
the priestless secis the most numerous
are the Fedojeejewzy, and the Biran-
inki. The latter are homeless, restless
wanderers, and are opposed to marriage,
holding that the death of the
famous Nikon of Moscow no priest is
entitled to perform the ceremony.
All of the above named sects believe
that Antichrist
and they submit to the authority
Bice
5 in power in Russia
the
State reluctantly and under compulsion.
of
They refuse to pray for the Czar: and
Lhe reason assigned for their wandering
that they are in perpetual
flight from antichrist, The Chlysty are,
habits is
a3 their name signifies, self -flageliators,
It is their that their
Daniel Philipowitch, was a persogifica-
tion of are
belief founder,
£,
fond
hey
they
many
Cromd, of great
have ng them
of God
amo
Mothers
The Bkopzy
names; and
many Christe,
are
and many prophets,
immolators i this respect
the Pomorzy
of whom, under «
bh
encourage suicide by
York Herald.
-
Curious,
burning
LANCE,
New
i AHN)
coin
ind by gol min
im at (x
have been
WITCH
sheds in consequer
t we call the shooting stars.
-— a.
Origin of Simon Pure-
ther Quaker, Obadiah a rigid
of Anne
Wi O00,
i sternman, whois gu
ATYIATL
| d a worth £
LAO nel
young lady
Feignwell, another character
in the same play, whois enamoured of
Miss Lovely and her handsome fortune.
dis
its
+2
himself
¥
himself of accidental
of
availing
covery of Holdfast's
sucess
Prim
real Simon Pure, calling
an
letter and
contents,
in passing
off on as his
The
expected visitor.
at
If treated as an impostor, and is
liged to depart in order to hunt uy
witnesses who can testify to his indenti-
ty
Prim’s
house
+3
0
5
Meantime, Feignwell succeeds in
getting from Prim a written and nneon-
ditional eonsent to his marriage with
Anne. No sooner has he obtained pos-
session of the document than Simon
Pure reappears with his witnesses, and’
Prim discovers the trick that has been
at upon him
CI iin, oo"
Warts on Horses.
A correspondent of the Germantown
Triegraph says: “Fresh, clean hog's
Iard rubbed three or four times on any
kind of warts on horses or cattle will
remove them on three or four applica-
tions. Ihave removed the warts time
after time, and never have been
able to find the wart for the fourth
application, If I shonkd send the Latin
name for the lard and tell men to pay
fifty cents to the druggist for about two
cents. worth of good land this remedy
would be oftener used,
cn
The Government breakwater, which
was projected 1500 feet into the inlet
at Atlantic City four years ago, is now
nearly buried in sand. At low tide it.
stards (ntirely dry,
“