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OIBCI AND rBOIPIKITT Or THI rAIUNII.
Every farmer in hit annual experience
discovers something of value. Write it and
send it to the "Agricultural Editor of the
DEMOCRAT, Bellefonte, I'enn'a," that other
farmers may have the benefit of it. Let
communications be timely, and be sure that
they are brief and well pointed.
THE Centre County Pomona
Orange will meet on Tuesday, the 25
inst., in the hall of Progress Grange,
at Centre Ilall. Sessions at ten, two
and seven o'clock.
I>O NOT wait until the corn and
potatoes are up to attack the weeds.
A harrow with small teeth, made of
steel sloping backward, 'and close
together, can be run over tho ground
within a few days after planting,
carrying destruction to myriads of
weeds, and helping the corn " come
op " at the same time.
Oi'R most excellent contemporary,
the Rural New Yorker , has grown
" too big for its old clothes," and has
moved into new and commodious
quarters at 34 Park Row. It pub
lishes a fine view of its new otlice
in the current number, and seems
(justifiably) as proud as a boy with a
new hat.
MESSRS. W. I. CHAMBERLAIN and
Wm. Crosier, two of the best farm
ers in the country, are indulging in a
friendly little controversy as to the
relative merits of bran and roots as
feed for stock. We see the question
fro?n different localities, and different
standpoints, and, so far as wc can
judge, both are right.
MAJOR MCCONKEY, Corresponding
Secretary of the State Agricultural
Society, has placed us under obliga
tions for a copy of a preliminary
abstract of the list of premiums
offered for the exhibition at the Cen
tennial building, in Philadelphia in
September. His abstract covers only
the first department, and embraces
horses, cattle and swine. The pre
miums offered are large, and the reg
ulations liberal. The officers of the
Society are devoting themselves
energetically to the task of making
the exhibition the finest ever held by
any State society, and the indications
are that they will have abundant
success.
WE did not write this, but it says
so well just what wc think that we
arc glad to ndopt it. " A more
unblushing and dangerous swindle
has not been palmed upon the world
for many a year, than the oleomarga
rine which nobody ever sees under
its own brand, but which everybody
is in danger of eating under the
false name of butter. The American
jwoplc are known as the greatest
butter eaters, comsuming a larger
amount per capita, than any other
people. When capital and apparent
respectability combine, and through
bogus scientific opinions and edito
rial advertisements in our large
dailies, seek to impose this counter
feit of butter upon the people, it is
time that the agricultural press
should come to the rescue of the
legitimate dairy product, and stamp
this vile counterfeit and those who
are knowingly concerned in its sale
under an honorable name, with the
public condemnation they deserve."
Cutting Seed Potatoes.
From C. X ll*r> Is Country OrntlrnMii.
I have thoroughly tested planting
potatoes whole, in halves, quarters,
eighths, and in one, two and three
eyes, and my conclusion is, that cut
to a single eye on a piece and two
pieces on a hill, is the best economy
for the most profit. I prefer planting
in drills 3 or 3| feet apart, dropping
the peices together every 10 or 12
inches. It is true that, in this way
of planting, there are not as many
potatoes, but what there are grow to
good size for the table and will yield
more bushels to the acre than more
seeding will give. F. 11. D. says
that he cut some pieces "as small as
grains of corn." When potatoes
have been so very scarce that it was
necessary to practice the most rigid
economy, I have planter) the parings
saved from the potatoes prepared for
the table, with satisfactory results.
As to the manner of cutting, I prefer
what is oalled the Orange Judd stvle
(I know not why, (tales* attention
was first called to it in his paper;
Mr. Judd learned it of a friend years
before I saw it in print). This style
consists in cutting in single eyes
lengthwise, preserving on each piece
all that can* be spared to it, from the
point of incision to the base or but
of the potato.
It might l>e nskod why it is not
better to cut two eyes on each piece,
since two eyes are planted, than one
eye on each and plant two pieces. I
answer, because I can cut tliein
better, and much more satisfactorily,
and another reason is that, cut in
single eyes, it is more than probable
that, in planting them, you take out
of the basket eyes from different
parts of the same potato, or, what is
better j-et, an eye each from two
potatoes. J. L. Perkius, p. 99, tells
us that potatoes deteriorate, a fact of
which I suppose every farmer is
aware, and I have no dolibt it is due
in a great measure to planting whole
potatoes, which is a kind of in-breed
ing. Hence the necessity of cutting
potatoes, in which case it is not so
rapid, and if, in planting two or more
pieces in a hill, the planter was par
ticular to select from different pota
toes it would be still less. Everyone
does or should understand that sex
exists as certainly in the vegitable
as in the animal kingdom ; hence the
necessity of having the two in the
potato field in at least a neighl>orly
relation, not of the same but differ
ent potatoes. Some farmers cut off
the top or seed end, as it is called,
but this should not be done; every
eye should be planted. It is said by
those who claim to know that the
eyes near the base are the male, and
those on the upper part are the fe
male, the number on each being in
the right proportion. If this l>c so,
it is clear that every eye should le
planted. With corn,, none but per
fectly filled ears should be used for
seed, and from these the tip and but
kernels should not be rejected, as is
the practice with some farmers, but
every kernel planted. Of course you
will get potatoes if you reject the tip
end, and so you will corn If you re
ject the tip kernels, but you will not
get as large an average of well-filled
ears, the tip kernels being necessary
to this end, as the middle ones are to
the body of the car.
Weeds.
The farmer's fight with the weeds
is a never-ending one, and unless
kept up with unyielding vigor, the
weeds are apt to come out nhcad.
So persistent and ever-present, and
destructive of comfort and profits
are they, that the bare mention of
the subject is almost enough to send
cold shivers down the back of the
practical farmer. In the May num
ber of Scribner's Magazine, John
Burroughs, under the head of "Notes
of a Walker," gives information con
cerning these iest3 in a pleasant,
chatty way, a part of which we re
produce below, by courtesy of the
editors. Every issue of this grent
magazine contains one or more arti
cles of special interest to farmers,
and we should be glad to sec its cir
culation among them largely in
creased :
The walker make* the acquaintance
of all the weed*. They are traveler*
like him*e!f. the tramp* of the vegetable
world. They are going eo*t, we*t,
north and couth : they walk, tbey fly,
they swim, they steal a ride, they travel
by rail, by flood, by wind ; they go
underground, and tbey go atmve, acro*
lot* and by the highway. But, like
other tramps, thev find it *afe*t by the
highway; in the field* liiey are inter
cepted and rut off, but on the public
road, every bov. every passing herd o(
cheep or cow* give* them a lift. •
Weeds, like ver uin.are carried Irom one
end of the earth to the other. A curi
ous illustration of thi* fact i* given by
Sir Joseph Hooker. "< >n one occasion,
he says, " landing on a small unin
habited i*lanrl, nearly at the Antipodes,
the first evidence 1 met with of it*
having been previously visited by tnan
was the English Chickweed ; and tin* I
traced to a mound that marked the
grave of a British sailor, and that was
covered with the plant, doubtless the
offspring of need that had adhered to
the spade or mattock with which the
grave had been dug."
Ours is a weedy country because it is
a roomy country. Weed* love a wide
margin, and they find it here. You
shall see more weeds in one day's travel
in this country than in a week's jour
ney in Europe. Our culture of the
soil is not so close and thorough, our
occupancy not so entire and exclusive.
The weeds take up with the farmer's
leavings, and find good fsre. One may
see #large slice taken from a field by
elecambane, or by teasle, or wilk weed ;
whole acres given up to white-weed,
goldenrod, wild carrots or the ox-eye
daisy; meadows overrun with bear
weed, and sheep pastures nearly ruined
by Bt. John's wort or the Canada
thistle. Our farms are so large and
our husbandry so loose that we do not
mind these things. Rv and by we
shall clean them out. Weeds seem to
thrive here as in no other country.
• •esse
In ihorc not something in our toil
and climate exceptionally favorable to
weed* —nomething harsh, ungenial,
sharp-toothed that is akin to them?
flow woody and rank and fibrous many
varieties become, lasting the whole
season, and standing up stark and stiff
through the deep winter snows,—desic
cated, preserved by our dry sir I Do
nettles and thistles bite so sharplv in
any other country? To know how
sharply they bit*, of a dry August or
Hepletnber day, take a turn at raking
and binding oats with a sprinkling of
blind nettles in them. A sprinkling of
wasps and hornets would not be much
worse.
Yet it is a fact that all our nioro per
nicious weed*, like our vermin, are of
Old World origin. They hold up their
head* and a**ert themselves here, and
take their till of riot and license; they
are avenged for their long year* of
repression by the stern hand of Euro
penn agriculture. Until 1 searched
through the botanies I was not aware
to what extent we were indebted to
Europe for these vegetable Ishtnaelites.
We have hardly a weed we can call our
own ; 1 recall but three that are at all
noxiousor troublesome, viz: milk weed,
rag-weed and golden rod; but who
would miss the latter from our fields
and highways ?
"Along tli rcNuUMe, Ilk*' thu flowers of gold
That tnwnv Inrm* for tliwlr gnnlHii* wrought,
il avy with •uitnlilne dr<M>p the golden rod.
sings Whittier. In Europe our golden
rod is cultivated in the flower gardens,
as well it might be. The native species
is found mainly in the woods, and is
much less showy than ours.
Our milk weed is tenacious of life:
its roots lie deep, as if to get away from
the plow, but it seldom infests cultivat
ed crops. Then its stalk is so full of
milk and its pod so full of silk that one
cannot hut ascribe good intentions to
it, if it does sometimes over run the
meadows.
In Musty polls tin- rullk-w.-. M
It* hidden Milk had
sings " 11. 11., " in her September."
Of our rag weed not much can be set
down that is complimentary, except
that its name in the botany is Ambroeia,
food ot the gods. It must be the food
of the gods if of anything, for, so far as
I have observed, nothing terrestrial eats
it, not even billy-goats. Asthmatic peo
ple dread it, and the gardener makes
shoit work of it. It is about the only
one of our weeds that follows the plow
ami the harrow, and except that it is
easily destroyed, I would suspetff it to
be an immigrant from the Old World.
Our Henbane is a troublesome weed at
times, but good husbandry makes short
work of it.
But all the other outlaws of the farm
and garden come to us from over seas ;
and what a long list it is:
The ommon thistle, Nightshade,
The Canada thistle, Buttercup,
Burdock, Dandelion,
Yellow dock, Wild mustard,
Wild carrot, Shepherd's purse,
Ox-eye daisy, St. JoHVs-wort,
Chamomile, Chick-weed,
The mullein, l'urslane,
Elecampane, Mallow,
Plantain, Darnel,
Motherwort, Poison hemlock,
Stramonium, Hop-clover,
Catnip, Yarrow,
(•ill, Wild radish,
Blue-weed, Wild parsnip,
Stick-weed, Chickory,
Hound s-tongue, Live-forever,
Hen-bane, Toad-flax,
Pig-weed, Sheep-sorrel,
(jultch grass,
and others less noxious. To offset this
list we have given Europe the vilest of
all weeds, a parasite that sucks up
human blood, tobacco. Now if they
catch the Colorado beetle of u* it will
go far toward paying them off for the
rats and the mice, and for other pesta
in our houses. •
The more attractive and pretty of the
British weeds, as the common daisy, of
which the poets have made so much,
the larkspur, which is a pretty corn
field weed, and the scarlet field poppy
which flowers all summer, and is so
taking amid the ripening grain, hare
not immigrated to our shores. Like a
certain sweet rusticity and charm of
Kuropean rural life, they do not thrive
readily under our skies. Our fleabane
(F.rigcrvn < /tnadnunt) has Become a com
mon road side weed in England, and a
few other of our native less known
plants have gained a foothold in the
Old World.
Poke weed is a native American, and
what a lusty, royal plant it is ! It never
invades cultivated fields, hut hovers
about the borders and looks over the
fences like a painted Indian sachem.
Thnreau coveted its strong purple stalk
for a cane, and the robins eat its dark
crimson juiced berries.
It is commonly believed that the
mullein isindigenous to this country, for
have we not beard that it is cultivated
in Kuropean gardens, and christened
the American velvet plant? Vet it.
too, seems to have come over with the
pilgrims, and is most abundant in the
older parts of the country. It abounds
throughout Kurope and Asia, and had
its economic uses with the ancients.
The firecks made lamp wicks of its
dried leaves, and the ltoinan* dipped
its dried stalk in tallow for funeral
torches. It affects dry uplands in this
country, and, as it takes two years to
mature, it ia not a troublesome weed in
cultivated crops. The first year it sits
low upon the ground in its coarse flan
nel leaves and makes ready ; if the
plow conies along now its career is end
ed ; the second season it starts upward
its tall stalk, which in late summer is
thickly set with small jrellow flowers,
and in fall is charged with myriads of
fine blsck seeds. "As full as a dry mul
lein stalk of seeds" ia almost equivalent
to saying, "as numerous as the sands
upon she sea shore."
Perhaps the moat notable thing about
the weeds that hare come to from
the Old World, when compared with
our native apeciea, ia their peraiatence,
not to say pugnacity. They fight for
theaoil; they plant coloniee here and
there and will not be rooted out. Our
native weeda are for the moat part ahy
and harmleas, and retreat before culti
ration, but the European outlawa follow
man like vermin; they hang to hia coat
akirta, hia aheep tranaport them in their
wool, hia cow and bnrae in tail and
mane. Aa I have before Raid, it
with the rata and mice. The Ameri
can rat ia in the wooda and ia rarely
aeeu even by woodmen, and the native
mouae barely hovera upon the outakirta
of civilisation; while the Old World
apeciea defy our trapa and our poison,
and have uaurped the land. Ho with
the weeda. Take the tbiatlea, for in
stance; the common and abundant one
everywhere, in fielda and along high
waya, ia the.European apeciea, while the
native tbiatle ia much more ahy, and ia
not at all troublesome; indeed, I am
not certain that I have ever aeen It.
.The Canada thiatle too, which .came to
ua byway of Clneda, what a peat, what
a usurper, what a defier of the plow and
the harrcw I I know of but one afreet-'
ual way to treat it: to put on a pair
of buckskin glovea, ant} pull up every
plant that shows itself; this will effect
a radical cure in two summers. Of
course the plow or the scythe, if not
allowed to rest more than a month at a
time, will finally conquer it.
Or take the common St. John's-wort
(Hypericum perforatum.), how has it estab
lished itself in our fields, and become a
most pernicious weed, very difficult to
extirpate, while the native species are
quite rure, and seldom or never invade
cultivated fields, being found mostly in
wet and rocky waste places. Of Old
World origin, too, is the curled leaf
dock ( Rumex Uritput) that is so annoying
about one's garden ami home meadows,
its long tapering root clinging to the
soil with such tenacity that I have pull
ed upon it till I could see stars without
budging it; it has more lives than a
cat, making a shift to live when pulled
up and laid on top of the ground in
the burning summer sun. Our native
docks are mostly found in swamps, or
near them, and are harmless.
Purslane, commonly called "pusley,"
and which has given rise to the saying
"as mean as pusley"—of course is not
American. A good sample of our na
tive purslane is the Clay lonia, or spring
beauty, a shy, delicate plant that opens
its rose colored flowers in the moist
sunny places in the woods or along their
borders, so early in the season.
There are few more obnoxious weeds
in cultivated ground than sheep sorrel,
also an Old World plant, while our na
tive wood sorrel, with its white, deli
cately veined flowers,or the variety with
yellow flowers, is quite harmless. The
same is true of the mallow, the vetch,
or tare, and other plants.
The European weeds are sophisticat
ed, domesticated, civilized; they have
been to school to man for many hundred
years and they have learned to thrive
upon him; their struggle for existence*
bus been sharp and protracted ; it has
made them hardy and prolific; they will
thrive in a lean soil, or they will wax
strong in a rich one : in all cases they
follow man and profit by bim. Our na
tive weeds, on the other hand, are furtive
and retiring; they flee before the plow
and the scythe, and hide in corners and
remote waste places. Will they, too, in
time, change their habits in this re
spect ?
"Idle weeds are fast in growth," stys
Shskspcre, but that depends whether
the competition is sharp and close. If
the weed finds itself distanced, or pitted
Rgninst great odds, it grows more slowly
and is of diminished stature, but let it
once get the upper hand and what
stride* it makes! Ked-root will grow
four or five feet high, if it has a chance,
or it will content itself with a few inches
and mature its seeds almost upon the
ground.
Many of our worst weeds are plants
that have escaped from cultivation, as
the wild radish, which is troublesome
in parts of New England, the wild carrot,
which infests the fields in eastern New
York, and live forever, which thrives
and multiplies under the plow and bar
row. In my section an annoying weed
is AbuUlon , or velvet-leaf, also called "old
maid," which has fallen from the grace
of the garden and followed the plow
afield. It will manage to mature its
seeds if not allowed to start till mid
summer.
Weeds have this virtue; they are not
easily discouraged ; they never lose
heart entirely : they die game. If they
cannot have the best they will take up
with the poorest; if fortune is unkind
to them today, they hope for better
luck to-morrow; if they cannot lord it
over a corn hill, they will sit humbly at
its 'foot and accept what comes; in all
cases they make the most of their op
portunities.
Extracts and Comments.
In turning a nod fur corn any Lroaka
or "balks" in the work will prove an
annoyance in after cultivation, and
should be avoided.— Farmer Frwntl.
These "balks" arc not only "an
annoyance in after-cultivation," but
arc a positive detriment to the crops
when planted, whether it be corn or
any other. A good plow, properly
set and properly held, will make but
few, but these few should not be
passed over. Avoid making them if
possible, but under no circumstances
leave them. Stop, "back up," and
"try again."
To riag a bull, take hint any time
after he is a year old ; fasten his head
securely in a position convenient for the
operation; take his nose between the
thumb and forefinger of the left hand ;
pull the nose out to make the part
through which the incision is to be
made as thin as possible. Then with a
quarter-inch chisel (well sharpened) in
the right hand, feel gently for the de
sired spot. When found, give the
chisel a little thrust, and it will go
through so quickly the bull has scarce
ly time to wince.
Before withdrawing the chisel, give it
a few turns, so as to separate the flesh
of the nose. Take it out; put in the
ring; fasten, and he is so that you can
manage him at any time. I have put
a good ninny rings in, and I find this
the best and quickest mode. I ask no
assistance except a little feed to get a
stranger into my stable; after that, the
chisel and I do the work.— Cor. (f tVnn
try Gentleman.
This correspondent waits too long.
Many bulls evince a disposition to be
come quite unruly before they come
to be a year old, and had better be
placed under the good influence of u
ring at an earlier age. Six or eight
months is better tlisn a year. A
better instrument than a chisel is a
small three-cornered saw-flle, which
has found its day of usefulness as a
file. Grind its flat sides on a smooth
grindstone until all the file marks
have disappeared. This will leave the
point ss sharp as a needle, and the
corners will hsve knife edges. It will
make a cleaner, better cut than the
chisel.
If taken internally with their food, j
Hulphur will almoKt invariably keep nil 1
kind* of animal* free from lice, We
have made i practice for yearn pant of
giving a heaping teatpoonful once a
week in the feed of each of our covin,
and the name quantity to about every
ten heiia in our flock, and they bav
never been troubled with lice in them,
It may be given in the name proportion
bh to hi/,e when required in the food of
poultry, piga nnd sheep. .Sulphur is a
mild cathartic when desired for this pur
pose, and in small doses seems to have
a general beneficial effect on the animal
system, something like salt, though, of
course, not of that nature.— Jtural New
Yorker.
The propriety of feeding sulphur]
in limited quantities cannot Im doubt
ed. It not only is a preventive of
lice, but seems to have a beneficial
effect upon the general health of the I
animal. Instead of mixing it with
the food, however, we prefer to keep
a mixture of, say, eight quarts of salt,
four quarts of wood ashes and one
quart sulphur in a sheltered box in ;
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ttuaa Ml. Aa Dr. Onulard la the only phyeleian that
haa ever made Ihla dlaeaae a anrrtai atndy. and aa to
our knowledge th <u*anda have h-en PMRantSTLT rnr- |
ad hy the uae of them Pnwntna. w a WILL nuananru a
rnnantnT mm In erery ram, or narvnn toe aU
■over timnnun. All anlfcmr# ahonld give iheao
Powder* an aarly trial, and bo convinced of their reca
ll v. power*
Price. Iter largo box. £I,OO, or 4 bnxea tor SIO.OO. aent
by mall to any port of tho United Stale, or Canada on
rootopt of prim, or by eapreee O. D. Add rem
ASH ft BOBBINS,
ti-ly. MB Fnlton Street, Brooklyn, N. T.
the harm yard, where all the stock
can have a "lick" at it whenever they
please. In this way the animal,
have the unerring guide of their in
atinetn and appetites as to when and
how much of it they may need.
An extensive chicken raiser has com,,
to the conclusion that keeping tbem™l
too comfortable a house is conduoj" !o
disease A little more roughness and
exposure he thinks is be tt ,. r f„ r „
than being coddled and too tenderly
cared for.— hirmrr'n Frond.
That may be all well enough for
"extensive chicken raisers," but we
apprehend that the average farmer
needs but little encouragement to
improve, in this direction, upon the
care given his fowls.
THE sooner we can cool the milk
the quicker will the nroee-s of crr-atr,-
ing commence, and bv keeping it a t
low temperature the more perf. < t will
it be.
I3ELLEFONTE A SNOW SHOE
' * I R R.—Time Taide In effect on and after Dec
31,1177:
i Leave* Soow Shoe 7.30 *. a..arrive* in Bll*f<rt*
I 8.20 4. v
I/-11-1 Belief nte 10.20 a. n.. arriie* at Sr, a Shi*
' 11.57 a.a.
' Leave. Snow Shoe 2.42 r.B.,arrive* in Bellifolte
. 4.12 r. a.
1/e.vc Rcllefgnte 4.M r a .arrive* ai Snow fhee
i 0.27 r. B. DANIEL KMOAHS,
I Oeuarnl Superintend-*!
DALD EAGLE VALLEY RAIL-
I > RIAP -Time-Table, December SI, 1677 :
; Kxp. Mail, ntatwaan. taarwaai'. Lap Mail.
1 a.a. r. a. r a. x.
7 55 8 32 Arrive at Tvrone Leave .... 7 n* • 0
T Hi 6 21 Leave Lnet tyw*e Leave... 7 1' f■
7 4fc ■ ■ " Tail " ... 7IV 142
,7 42 817 " Bald Eagle " ... 7 171 47
729 ID " Hannah " „7 38
j7 22 &AS " Port Matilda " ... 741 !' II
714 A47 " Martha " „. 762 8 &
'7 06 53 Julian " ... SOl 83i
I 8 68 &27 " I ntonville M ... *ll 842
fi 47 Alt " Snow Shrm In " ... 21 M
643 6 I.'. " Mileal.nrg " ... 624 * M
I 8 33 605 " Bellefont# " 632 1"
623 4 5,1 •• Mllnahurg " ... S 4.1 10 14
813 445 " Cnrtin " ... *5618 2*
OR 4 4<> " Monnt Ragle " ._ 80"1" *
1 8 00 431 " Howard " ... BMIO ♦"
i 650 420 " Kagleville " ... 81610 62
648 4IS " Bee. h Croek " ... 22 18 65
453 403
629 400 " Flemintton " ... 83711 M
'i 25 355 ...... " leick Haven " ... 84211 16
1 >KNNS YLV A NIA RAILROAD.
X -4Philadelphia and Rrle Ptvialon.l-On and
alter December 12. 1*77 :
WKSTWARD.
KRIR MAIL leave# Philadelphia.— 11 55 P m
•• " Harriabnrg.._...~_..... 426 a
•• Wllliameport—. *-V. a m
- " lewk Haven - 848 a m
" Rennm.. 10 56 aia
" arrive# at Erie. 3>' T f
NIAOARA EXPRESS lenrm Philadelphia-. 7 J am
• " liarrtaburg.... In 60am
•• William*port. 2 2Prm
'• nrrtvea at Benovo. ...™ 4 41'rm
Paaannger* hy thla train arr.ve In Belle
font* at 4 .16 p ta
FAST LINE leave* Philadelphia 11 ** *
•• Harrivloirg — ™ V m
•• •• Willi*in•Dort •..tnmMw. TSDI'W
•• arrive# at Lock !lamn.„ 540 p m
KASTWARD.
PACIFIC EXPRESS leave# Lock Havan * *? "
•• \ illlamaport... 765 a W
arrive# at llarrtahurg.— 11 55 ani
Philadelphia.... 346 p
DAT EXPRESS tonvea Renovo -
•• l/ock llavan 11
Wllliatnaport It 4° a m
nrrlvea at llarrtabnrg.— 10 P *
~ - PhiladelpUn. 7l'
ERIE M AIL leave# Renovo • F "
- Lock Haven * p #•
~ •• Wllliameport... _ll6p ■
arrive# at liarrtaburg - |*• • ™
- Philadelphia .121 S
FAST LINE leave# williamapnrt 1. 6J a m
" arrive#at Harrtatmrg •■
• Philadelphia....;.. JJ? * ™
Erie Mail WeeL Nlegaca Expmaa *nt, Uwk Harm
Accommodation Vmd. and Day tot"- *•'
. lone cvmaectlow* at Knrthnmberland with L. A R *•
R. tmina tor RTllkeahanre and Scmnton.
Krle Mail Weat, Ktagwra Kipraaa Wmt, and kne
Expmaa Weal, nnd Lock llavan Arcommodallon Weab
maLe rloee connection at Wllllnmigwrt wltn E.C. E.
W. train, north. _ . ... n.,
Erie Mnll Weal, Mngnra Exprma WmR RjJ
Expreae Enat. make clone connection at Loch " ,r *°
With B. ET.R. R, tmla. a 1 lit tixl"
Rrle Mail Bnet and R eel connect at Erla with trai"
onT S4M.B.R S-nlOmrjOrtU oa Iff R.
R., at Emporium wtth E N. T. R P. E R. nn-t
Eaai, and Snnday Exprern
night tmlna. "ien'l Snp-rin'lendmt.