1). LAN DUETH ,V SONS, Harden Seeds, Philadelphia. °^ ,or " 'elrlii(c to I'archanf Swil* jr J / • Isculll to th# FAiT that th# Tnbliagu and l|tr i##d. 'Z** \ offered by n. LANhKKTII A fttlNH to th#ir cimtoui^m tv grown and aav*l entirely by thltcf\e|, upm tliotr \ \ \ l M *" l*™ ll ** •"* °f '"•'•y ywura rwreful mid \V\ nr\ lIH M^Sr.P fly and lnt k lli>c**it . mim! are not tlio result of clianc# \ and earelc*# ptifcliMt* from puttie* who know nothing f the I'll*! neon of rutathg #eed. Seed i (lining reijliim year* of rluaa olta#rvatioti f careful attention to the oil" subject, mill einhot be irqulml In a iboft tiro# by tlioau thoit attention lim teen ciigronm-d with other l "" xl!" K**d Growing I*tldi.bln*nt of I>. I.ANDRKTII * SONS mow inmprUlng 1/.71 .rrra), Hrt found*.! In 17#4. mnl IMMIIIK to Uirve generations, ha* teen conducted with the view i producing uwdi of thu eery Iteat ntnl purest ouelttv. We ere, therefore, Justified, In aaaurtng our customer# that TIIK sKKDh oKKKHKD BY |'K IIAVK NO Si'PERIOK IN THIS iIK \NV OTHKK 1~01 XTKY. Tli* |iuh|i. gi-n.rally mi- Invitml l • oil mil riamlit* nnr >i.>k of KKKPR, IMI'I.KMKNTS AND TOOI.H, nil d th. Ilr.t .|iillty. Nn WHOIUI .|ii*lity (fiMnl, for mill' otnU>gtt fr**. Prlc low. D. LANDRETH & SONS, 21 and 23 South Sixth Street, and No. 4 Arch St., Philadelphia, j A NEW OFFER. Almost Given Away, an Eight-Page Paper for Less than Cost of Paper, Ink and Postage. THE world IS FOR HAICOCK ENGLISH FIRST, LAST AND ALL THE TIME, AND WILL BE SENT, Postage paid, from now until January 1, 1881, Weekly - for 25 Cents Semi-Weekly - - for 50 Cents Daily, including Sunday, for $2.50 Or until aftor tho Inauguration Tor doublo tho nbovo pricoa. Democrats, send for it anil rea A ftft •' Port Matilda " ... 741 01 727 A47 " Martha " ... 762 92 7lk A M " Anllan " ™ I *>< 7 &27 M I'monallla •• _. AII 43 7 rat ft |k •• Know Khoo In " ... 21 # ftl # ft lft " Mllaabnrg •• ... *24 ftft 646 ft ft ...„ " Brllrfonta " ... P32 'J ftl 6 3ft 4 ft.'. '• Milrat.org " ... 4.'. 10 3 6 i'. 4Vt " t'nrtin " ... R ftft In 14 4lk 44n " Mount Kagla " ... Onln | 6 431 " llowar.l " ... # • 111 2 5 Aft 420 .... •• Kaglrailla " ._ (I |k |0 42 ft 30 4 lft '• lkw. li I rack " ... #22 lit 47 ft 3* 4 3 " Mill llall " ... 3411 i ft 20 4on •• Flamlngtoa " #37 II 4 ft 2ft 3 ftft " Ua-k llaaan " ... 42 II | >ENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 1 —tPhlladalphla and Krla IHrlalon.)—<)n and aftrr linrmtar 12, 1*77 : WKMTWARD. KRIR MAlLlaarao Phlladalphla 11 Aft p m " " II iiTid or,. .... 4 2ft a at " " W illlamaiairl * Aft n m " " l p m " arrlraa at Rannao.. „.,., 4 4uj>m Paaaangrra by thla train nrr.ra In Balla font at 4 3ft p m PART I.INK laaaaa Phlladalphla 11 4S a m " " Harriaburg 3 3ft p m " " Wllllamaport..- 730 p m " arrlraa at Idick llaran S4op at KAXTWARIi. PACIFIC EXPRKBK laaaaa lr k 11aaan..... A 40 a m " Wllllamaport... 7 ftft a m - arrlatw at llarrlalmrg....„ II Adam " " Phlladalphla.... 3 4ft pn> PAT RXPRRAA laaaaa Rannan 10 10 a m " " ld>ck llaaan II Wa a " " W 1111amap0rt......... 12 40 ani " arrlraa at Harrtaborg....- 4 10 p m " H Phlladalphla. 720 p m ERIK MAIL laaaaa Rannao - - * 3ft p m •• " Uork llaaan w 4ft p m ' <• Wllllamaport 11 Oft p m " arrlraa nl llarriabnrg 2 4ft a m " Phlladalphla 7no am PART LINR laaaaa Wllllamaport 12 3ft a m " arrlraa at llarrlatmrx 3 M a ■ " " Phlladalphla. 7 Mam Krla Mall Waal, Niagara Kxpraaa Waat, Inrt llaran Arnnmmndatlnn Waat. and Dny Rxpraaa Knat. ntaka aliwa connactlona nt Northnmlmrland with L A B. K I N. train# for Wllkathnrra and Ramnton. Erla Mail Want, Niagara Kxpraaa Waat, and Krla Kxpraaa Waat. and Lock llaaan An-ommndatlan Want, ! malt# rlaaa rnnnacUon at Wllllamaport with N. 0. R . W. train# north. , Krla Mail Waat, Niagara Kxpraaa Want, and Day Kxpraaa Kant, maka rloaa rot! a art ton at Loch llaran . With R. K. V. R R. tralna. RHa Mall Raat and Waat onnnart nt Krla with tralna t no L. R. AM.R. R R.. at Carry with 0. C. AA.V. R. R., nt Kmporlntn wllh R. N. T. A P. R. R., an I al . Prtftwnod with A. V. R. R. _Parlor can will rnn Iwtwaan Phlladalphla and I Wllllamaport on Niagara Kxpraaa Waat, Krla Kxpraaa , *aat, Phlladalphla Kxpraaa Raat and Day Kxpraaa Kaat,and Rnnday Kxpraaa Raat. Rlaaplng ranaa all night traloa. Wg, A. Rxtnat*. Oanl Roparlotandant. GIRARD HOUSE, CORNER CHKRTNLT AND NINTH RTBKKTB, rnttanat.rntt. Thla hattao. protnlnatit In n dtp Hamad tor lla en fortabla hntK la iapt In aaary raapart ariaal to any ftrat rlaaa hold aln Ihr country. Owing to tha atrtn ganry of tha timaa, tha prlra of board baa hawn radacad I to raxaa DOUAX4 par day. J. M'KIRBIN. r t-S-tf Maoagar. New Advertisements. IF-AJR/MIEIR, S WHO WANT GROCERIES ANIJ OTHER SUPPLIES KOIt II A.R VEST I "N O MKOULD CALL ON SECHLER & Co. KOIt AN VTIIINti IN TIIK LINK OK SI *(IA US, COFFEES, TEAS, SPICKS, NEW CHKEBK, s. C. HAMS, S. C. DRIED BEEF, ! BREAK EAST BACON, DRIED PEACHES, NEW PRUNES, HOMINY and RICE, SYRUPS and N. O. MOLASSES, NEW MACKEREL, STONEWARE, QUEENSWAItK, V:c„ Ac., Ac. ALSO ANYTHING IN TIIK LINK OK |FRESH MEATS. \\ < arc killing ptftll-fcntr* llall. No lll*r p|..w. lhan J ih*.* ran I*- had for Ih* aam* amoQUI m..n*v Alan Ih* Ontr* llall ( orliplanlrr M.nM aj n<>llt 1 ins a'-'Ut Ih. m'rita i.f ihl. pl.nlrr aa ih* .'an n, w i n lu~ in < Vnir* OMIIII) il*ii*>n.iral** 11,, m t„ p. ii,. |^.| i IIAURoW a and CI I.TIAAToIid of th. hlwt im I pru*d pall.rna. j MoWKKI*. HKAfKRa and HRAIV niNIiKRK Of j lh,w ***-ll Ik* ikl.ifa. Hthtr h. *'Mrat, Moa.n, ComhlnM ami Mn*ra, alnil* llara*at*f.. .* a. Com Id II *d ll*ii. r. and Rlinl.ra. TIIK W IIKKI.KK. N" a* a .mldn.d ma. hin*. la Ih* I*-.! n... hin* of Ih* kind In Ih* mark*! TIIK OKEATKKT IMI'ROX KMKNT OK TIIK AGK. la Hi* N.-trial, .n ill*an*r .n.l llmdrr. Call mid a*. It. II la at..tid*rfull) p*rf*. t. \n) l>j twal*. jrara old. arlth on# hora*. alll f..|. low and I in.l all Ih* (rain thai any R**p*r wllh aid* iWi,j will cut. Il I*l only Had, tail iWm. wm • 111 aar* Ih" pll.a ol lb* marliin* in on* y*ar, hp lakln* up from ih*aliitdd* lhai ahlih i* now hot. TIIK M* -HKRIIY GRAIN DRILL. *llh*r wllh nr Without l-rowl aal l*ww, with al of ih* i*l*Lrml*d ru.NK . LIN WAGON. Ih* r*pula!l..|i of ahbh la a,. w*|| *ala|* , IU!—1 ; Hv( o|iTI.AND I*I.ATIMHM APRINU WAtiONH, I'hirtofM vn-I \il r wifwnlfl rll aiDl "• ait'l mU U*gn* H atxl jffli f Wof" Ru>iug !*••*here OlaK>n" furtii-L.-l nn ati| ticafino. PI.ASTKR AND D RTI 1.1/r.ll'-Catnrv plvalrr finely Kfirtitel. M ID* .| • lb# l*##l .>• Srv tlv. At !h lo* frlr# .f f: !■ 1-r ton. fVnnbin (*UIKI #OI4 on only. IIMJ# on Itovnl. manur## fr >HlTrriil >to|ia aoltl u|>a.n ortlrra at nmnu farturara' nrlreo. POWM'.K—Wa ir" flupnrit'a ag#nta. Rlimlnr. 0| rtiritf and Kifl# |mw)rr on hand and dd at id" jifb ft; a!#* fuv. ORAtA—AAft th# gmwinf crop U harrwte<| no • 111 Iw pf#|Mr# I to |hij th# high***! mark#! prtco for all kind# of grain. OOAL —Our yard la a!ay* Uk#d with th# !•#( Anthratit# Coal which w# #rll at loar#nf prl # LIMK- We mak# th# b##t whit# llm# in th# Atat# If- pro|>#rti# tt+ mechanical and agrh ultural pur i pai# #■< #1 all othm. PAIHfIANKA ACAI.EA —W# ar# th#lr afr#nta In Onlr# county •ml •ill auptdy all pnrtl- •lahing good and tro# aralc# at their low pat prlc#a Wa #tt#nd an invitation to#v#ryUafy In want of anything In our lln# to rail at our vtort rtn. o|- pfalta th# Bnah llou##, ami a what •# ha*#, and icarn feun tho## In att#t>danc# n#.r# partknlarly th# wop# Of .Mir L.i.in### Al,i:\AMMl A 00 M#ll#funta, Pa . May 0, IfN). |v.|f FOR TIIE CAMPAIGN. TIIK " PATRIOT " III'RING TIIK I'RKWI HP.N TIAL CANYARR. TN ortlcr that cvcrybwly, no matter • how poor In pnnr, majr mnl Ih* nw. daring Ih* gr**t pnlltlml tlrnggl* of tMO, lb* Dtif P.Tltor (Rnndax *.lll*.n InrlmM) will I- **nt by noli to **y mhlrmt. |*ol*g* ft**, from Hi* pm*nt ilm* nnlll Ih* ftft**nth of Norlnl*-r n**, for Ann; torlntw of * or mor*. (anil on* ropy fr* lo th* **nd*r of Ih* rlnh.) tlJ*I per ndT- Wllhoat Rnmhi) million, Ih* Daiit P ATA Ior will h* mnl hy malt h any nddrnw, portaga fr**, for mm* pnrlod *>r 12 An • to rlnlw of flr* or mom (wllh on* copy fro* to orndor of rlnh) |2 ( p*r ropy. TIIK WKKRLT PATRIOT from Ih* pr***nt Ilm* nnlll Ih* w**k *ftr Ih* Prmb drullal *l*, Hon will I*, mnl lo any •ddrrm, pualag* ftw* lor POUTT C*T ; lo rlnh* of or npward. for Tninn -ri vi fwii p*r ropy, with on* fro* 10 mnd*r of rlnh. In *ry in*. Ih* mnnry mu*l ***„.„■ Kny Ik* ..rd*r. Now I* Ih* tlnl* to g*i up *| n lw nine rati* local orgaaiullon. .an not rirrul.l* . li**i* er and nn.r* *ff!llt* runpalgn llt*r*lm* lhan n*w- CP*ra furni*h*d ol th*** *ilr*or.lln*rlly low rat**. d In yonr ~rd*r* *.htr*m*d to Ptraior I'l .Li.in'q CO., II ikwim oa, P> m BUBH HOUBE, RRI.LKPONTK. PA.. IS OPEN. -#R l. P. PKTKRA, ProprlMor ■ # PENSIONS. A LL dißablefl Soldiers and beim o( 1 V dei Mi.l Roldlrra who dl*d from inmaaio*t of mrtlr* In Ih* Army, or* *ntitl*d lo PRNRIGN*. NO AII It KARA Ollowrd ft*r JOLY 1, HWW. Bond •tamp, for frill InalracUowo In oil kind* of Soldi.™ 1 J. H. BYIMIF.Itt) • CO., Pension A(ty>i. M r Rtrml. WARHINIITON. !. 0 pKNTRAL HOTEL, V > (Oppo.ii* ih* Rollrvwd Rlnlhin.) MILRRHI'RfI, CBrrai OOCNTT, PA. A. A. KOIILBKCKSR, Proprietor. TIIROt'GII TRA YKLBRR on lb* railroad will Sod tkt* HoM *h ic*ll*nl pi*** to Innrh, or procur* • mmJ.M ALL TRAINS rtopbool 2R rnlßnlm. 47 * - >• tTlu (frntrc ; Tlrmocval B KLLKFONTE, PA. A.amc-crLTX7Xi^.L. NKWH, FACTS AND HUOOEBTIONfI. TH TUT or TUB NATIONAL M'lLrtKK In Tit* INTKLLI* Kci AND rKimrrxiTr or TII* rAmim. Every farmer in hit annual experience tit leavert lomethiny of value. Write it ami ttend it to the " Ayriruliural Editor of the UlilocUT, Beliefonte, J'enn'a," thai other farmer* may hare the benefit of it. Let communications be timely, arid br nurc that they are brief and well painted. COI.ONKI. F. 1). CuilTlH CXpCCtS to slaughter 125 pigs this full, raised mainly on clover and roots at a cost of three cents the pound. That's as cheap as western corn-fed pork, and we'll guarantee it is better. The Degree of Doctor of Philoso phy was conferred, the other day, by the University of Michigan, on Prof. \V. J. Real,of Michigan Agricultural College. The university has never | conferred this honor but once before. The degree was conferred for his work in the direction of agricultural ° education. Mil. It. 11. Thomas, chairman of Committee of Arrangements, sends us a programme of the tri-state pic-nic and exhibition of the Patrons of Husbandry now in progress at Wil liams' Grove, in Cumberland county, and to continue until Friday of this week. The programme is full and interesting, and we have no doubt that those who can attend will have ! an enjoyable time. These days or weeks of recreation for farmers are multiplying in number, and it is in all respects desirable that they should be still increased. The Twenty-seventh Exhibition of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural .Society will be held in the Main Cen tennial Building, Fairinount Park, in I September, opening on the f>th and closing on the 18th. Following the 1 State fair, and under the auspices of the same Society, an International Exhibition of Sheep, Wool and Wool Products will begin at the same place on the 20th and continue to the 251h. In all something like 940,000 will be ode red in premiums, and tho inann- ■ gcrs confidently expect an aggregate j attendance of fully .'IOO,OOO people, i Premium lists are now ready, and ' may be had by addressing D. W. Sciler, Secretary, loth and Chestnut Sis., Philadelphia, Pa. Management of Calves. Frcti* IJ< Hrli Journal. We have felt it a duty often to re mind cattle raisers of tho need of fur nishing abundant nutriment to calves through the first year. It is food only that produces animal growth, and the more rapidly that growth is produced the greater the profit. The old-time Western cattle-raiser provid ed most completely for calves by hav ing them run with the dams anil take the whole product of milk. This ! was a liberal provision, but is con sidered quite too expensive in a re gion where the milk can lie utilized for dairy products, as it will yield in butter or cheese as much as the whole value of the calf at the end of the season. This has caused, in all the j well-settled States, an abandonment of 'he system of letting the calf run \ with the cow, except in the case of a few breeders of thoroughbreds who still adhere to the practice. There is other food much chea|tcr for a calf than new milk, after it is a few weeks old. The skimmed milk is well util ized for feeding to calves, and when given with other fowl containing con siderable oil, will make a growth quite as rapid as whole milk. One pound of boiled flax seed, mixed with the skimmed milk for each calf, will cause a growth entirely satisfactory. This flax seed will cost, in most local ities, altoiit 2J cents, white the cream thus saved for butter will bring from 10 to 20 cents—a saving of from three to seven times the cost of the flax seed. But as most farmers arc loth to take the trouble of boiling flax seed, they may use, with the skimmed milk, linseed-oil meal, or the new process linseed meal instead. The latter docs not supply much oil, but it is so rich in muscle-forming food, and phosphate of lime for grow ing the bones, that very strong and finely-formed calves may be grown. The linseed meal may be purchased for one cent per pound, in ton lots; and two pounds of this added to skim-milk will produce a most vigor ous growth. This refuse of our oil mills should all be used in this country to grow young animals, which would make our exports from this source at least $20,000,000, instead of $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 now received from oil cakes. It la a prodigious folly to export this raw material to make meat, instead of the meat it would grow. This highly nitrogeneoos food is precisely adapted to growing calves and young stock, and then our great corn crop is exactly adapted to fat tening these cattle after their frames are grown. Com is now the fatten- J ing food of the world, but it has too large a proportion of starch for growing young animals. We are pleased to see that our cattle feeders are becoming better acquainted with the use of oil cake, and are making more home use of it in feeding young cattle. If they could IKS induced to feed it all at home it would have a great influence in raising the quality of our beef and mutton for export. Calves, while fed upon new milk, get into a very thrifty condition, and this thrift is easily continued by the use of other food when that is dis continued. In the first place, the ! calf lot should be well provided with water, and then, near the watering place, if this is convenient, there should be a trough or troughs for extra feed. This extra feed may be of various kinds, according to the productions of the farm. If the farm raises oats, one or two quarts of oats to each calf, given in two feeds, per day, will do much towards keeping the calves growing finely; or 2 quarts of bran and 1 J lbs. of linseed meal, given in two feeds, or 2 lbs. of corn meal with the oil-meal. This extra feed, after the calves cease to get milk, will continue their rapid growth. We have often attempted to im press upon our readers the fact that it is only from the extra food that any growth can be made. For if the calf only gets food enough to support its present condition, it must remain without growth, and the food it eats is wholly lost; and perhaps worse than lost, for the calf cannot remain j stationary without becoming un thrifty, and this unthrifty condition j will greatly interfere with its future j growth. Every consideration there- j fore requires that calves should not I be permitted to remain stationary, i but should keep up a steady, thrifty growth throughout the season. This is what some skillful, practical feed ers mean when they say that calves should never be |>crmittcd to lose j their calf flesh; and if this can be | prevented they will continue to make j a profitable growth till fitted for | market. There is no feed given to a I | calf during its whole life that will ! | pay a better profit than this extra j food we have advised to lie given during the first season. The feeder cannot atlord to le illilteral in feeding his calves—bis only profit depends upon his liberality. ! „ - Farms and Farmers. | From the floral Jlew T<*rler, Farmers, like poets, are born, not j made. There are thousands who ; occasionally make rhymes' but never a line of true poetry, and there arc ; thousands who labor on farms all there lives and still arc never farmers in the true meaning of the word. It takes j but little skill to hoe a row of corn or j | to dig a hill of potatoes; but when we j come to the real, serious, practical business of farming, we shall find it ! is. from first to last, an avocation that requires as much soundness of judgment ami clearness of foresight to insure success as any other trade j or profession. It is true that Nature ; is bountiful in her gifts, and in almost[ every instance he who expresses his desires by both faith ami works re ; ccives something ; but it is only those I who work with the spirit and the ! umlertanding also who receive the | fullness of her liounty. There are but few who have not j sufficient ability to plow and to sow and to reap; but to know when and | how to do these tilings in order to secure the greatest return is given to | but a very few of the many thousands who engage, either from choice or ; necessity, in agricultural pursuits. | We say from necessity, for it often happens lliat we find on the same farm that has given employment and liveli hood to his father, a man in no way fitted for the business, whose choice amP success would have been in some other pursuit, but who as a boy was compelled to stick to tbc plow only for tbc reason that somebody must do it, and one son, at least, must remain to take care of the homestead and of father and mother in their old age. Farming is not the only occupation in which those least fitted for it arc employed. The fact that 90 out of every 100 who engage in mercantile affairs sooner or later go tA finan cial ruin, and that the great majority of those who choose law, the ministry or medicine are never able to attain even moderate success, shows how lit tle attention it given to the putting of a boy or a young man in the place for which be is by nature best fitted. This poor lawyer might have made an excellent farmer, while that poor farmer has In him latent power that, if cultivated, would have enabled him to take a high rank at the bar. But we did not set out to write an essay on the right man in the right place. A successful farmer is one who is naturally a chemist. A farm is a lab oratory where chemical changes are constantly going on either with or without the observation and aid of the farmer, and he only is the suc cessful one who can make the forces of nature work for his profit. There are certain tilings connected with farming that one not a fool can not help learning, end a general rou tine may he followed that, taking one year with another, will result in pro ducing average crop*. Hut the true fanner is he who underatandingiy— wo would say scientifically if the word was not BO distasteful to many —departs from this routine and holds converse with nature, making a bar gain with the soil, perhaps, that for a | certain amount of particular care and fertilization a certain and large crop . shall lie returned. it is said that a good chess player is able to give a reason for every move he makes, and a move that is made without an object in view is i worse than useless. A commander in a battle field who has not clear and definite ideas of what he wants to do and why, sends his men to inexcusa ble slaughter. 80 the farmer, who docs not wisely plan and carefully execute his work, while his labors may not 1* entirely useless, only attains a partial success. There is hardly one item of a farmer's business that may be done strictly by rule. Kverything must be changed or varied to meet circum stances. That which would be advis able to do with an early spring is hazardous in a late one. If the field is wet and the soil does not crumble when the furrow turns, let it alone and plow the other more sandy or higher one. This heap of manure, that in a dry time would be just the thing for a certain crop, must go elsewhere. Shall this field be plowed this fall, or left till spring! And so on through the thousand questions that are constantly arising. He who is competent, first, to sec the necessi ty of asking them and afterward to decide them, is worthy of the name |of farmer ; others are laborers. Of the first there are few; of the latter, ! many. A farmer should bo a student of 1 books as well as of nature, in order ; that lie may profit by the experience | of those who have gone before him. Every year people are repeating the ; failures of those who lived a thousand years ago. The necessity of an edu cation for a farmer is not sufficiently appreciated. Thomas, who is to Vie a minister, and Kichard, who expects ! to gather fame and riches as a lawyer, must lie sent to college, while Harry, who is to work the farm, must lie content, as he too often is, with such teaching as the district school affords. This is ail wrong, and not until there is a change will farmers take the position in society to which they are entitled. As we sometimes see an eloquent minister or a talented law yer who has attained his position by * virtue of his own unaided intellect, so we sometimes find a thorough, | scientifically practical farmer who I lias sought out in nature's own books, the fields, the knowledge necessary I for making his labors successful and J his life of use not only to himself hut to all around him. It should not lie forgotten by those in other paths of life, that on the laliors of the farmer de|iends their welfare. This is true to a greater extent than is often remembered. Suppose that every agriculturist in the country could, by some means, I lie changed instantly into a first-class farmer. It would be itnjtossible to I compute the wealth thai would be added to this country during the next year. And every bod)* knows that a good year for farmers means j prosperity to every branch of trade | and commerce. WHEN one ton or ten tons of do ; corticated cotton-seed meal, linseed meal, malt sprouts, wheat bran, corn meal, or other food, is fed to sheep upon the land, you may determine, quite accurately, the amount of each of these important food elements added to the soil; but when you apply a ton of commercial fertilizer, purchased at the full value of a projier standard, the ordinary farmer knows very little of what be really adds to the soil. Under a proper system of feeding, the sheep farmer can scarcely err in applying fertiliz ers to the Roil which are obtained by passing rich foods through the di gestive system of his sheep. Thia will be a chemical analysis and deter mination which he may rely upon for accuracy. A FARMER of experience says that the feet of a horse require more care than the body. They need ten times as much, for in one respect tbey arc almost the entire horse. All the grooming that can be done wont avail anything if the horse is forced to stand where his feet will be filthy. In this case the feet will become dis ordered, and then the legs will get badly out of fix; and with bad feet and bad legs there is not much else for the horse fit for anything. AN "incubator tournament" lately took place at Hernel Hempstead, Cape of Good Hope. Kacli of four competitors sent two machines; they were all manipulated in a locked apartment by "the manager of the gas and water works," according to printed instructions furnished by the inventors, and in the course of twenty-one days one hatched out 75 per cent, of the eggs and received a prize of SIOO. THE annual destruction of sheep by dogs in this country amounts to $1,600,000. And yet in the face of this fact, farmers, when they have a chance to vote lor s law to tax dogs and protect sheep, vote the other way.