l l'ihon, MrFarlane l> Co., Hardware Dealers. WILSON", McFAKLANE it CO. DEALERS IN STOVES, RANGES? HEATERS. ALSO ■ Paints, Oils, Glass and Varnishes, AND : ZBTJIULIDIE^S 7 HARDWARE. ALLKGUBNY BTREKT, .... it I'M 18' III.OCK, .... BKI.I.KFONTK, PA. Business Cards. f 1 TAUNESS MANUFACTORY j I X I til Oarman'a Now Blork, ' BKLLKFONTK, !'A. l-ly 1/ P. BLAIR, P • JKWKI.KR, WATCHES, Cl*o4'tl, JEWELRY, **C. AH work noutlv x*'tiled. On Allegheny | K under Bruckerhoff IIOUM. 4-tf , I DEALERS IN I'UHK DRUGS ONLY. 1 2 I ZKLLKR k SON, a I p M, DRUGGISTS. 1 "K ' N.. 8. Brurkertioff IL>w. £ G All tli StaniUnl patent M'-ilicliir* I'rr < K *rrlptlot>* ami Family Heelpee accurately | E IB [prrmrvil. Truneee, SIMIM Wer UriK ee, Ac., Ac. ' 3 Ir- 111 i I OUIS DOLL, I 1 J FASHIONABLE lUHiT k SHOKMAKKK, BrockerhofT Uow, All*>;li#ujr itrwl, IH 1-ly Bellcfont*. P. [E. C. Hl'NEl, Prfl't. j. p- lUH*lN,on||'r, I IMItST NATIONAL BANK OF ■ I BKLLKFONTK, Allegheny Btreet, B*llefnte, Pr. 4-tf t CENTRE COUNTY BANKING 1 C COMPANY. Bi, Receive BepMita Ami Aliuw Intercut, Dtucount Note*; Bn) etui Sell f Gov. Secnrltlee, Gold and Coupon*. Jean A. Preeident. j J. D. SHfOT.Caeltler. *- ,f I T>KLLEFONTE& SNOW SHOE 1 ) R. It Time-Table In effect ou and after May t" l.lHlfl: L Leaves Snow Shoe 7.20 A. arrive. in Bellefonte K 9.10 A. M. : l.earee Itellef.ute 1056 A. arrlree at Snow Shoe W 1 I T a. M Leave, Snow Shoe 2.'> r. arrive* in Bellefonte K 3.45 p. n. Leave# Bellefonte .'..15 r arrive# at hnow Shoe . K .67 P. *. BAN IEL KIIOABS, General Superintendent. ] I I>ALl> EAGLE VALLEY KAIL- H X) ROAD—Time-Table, April'" l . !"; K Kxp. Malt. wiATWAHn. *AarwAßt>. Exp. Mail ■ a.a. p. a. 'a. a.a E * 1.1 T "2 Arrive at Tjrrv.ne Leave ... 7 IH B a ;i 655 Leave Ka#t Tyrone Leave... 7 . X 55 E 759 51 " Vail " ... 742 *4* 1 7 .55 647 " Bald Ea*l* " ... 747 02 I7 41 34 " Fowler " ... 751 <• ■ i 42 6 .'II Ilannah ... 7 5". 9 13 IT 7 " Port Matil la .. ' !• 9I ' 17 27 517 " Martha ... •"7 3lt gf I" <• "* " Julian ... * W V id ■ 7 9 567 " tlntonrltle ... I 2-t 9 I7• ai .6 4v Snow In ' v ' 4 H66 6 46 Mlleabnrg ... * 34 9 4# If • 4f. 5 .15 '• Bellefonta " ... 4 ; 957 Eff dr. IS '• Mlleahnrg " ... *5410 "a ■• 25 515 " Curtln " ... 9no M !'■ K 18 sln " Mount Eagle " ... I'd 10 3t gO 0 5"1 " Howard ... 92010 IT 6.5 4 .'d) .... " Eaglevllle ... 93810 49 ■T 6 .'at 4 4.5 " Beecl, Creek " ... 9401n 54 B 634 433 " Mill Hall " ... 95411 18 § 629 430 " Flemlngton " ... 957 II 'dn r 625 425 " Lock Haven " ...10 01 || 25 I 1 PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. —(Philadelphi* and Krk l>l?l#ioU.)—Ou ftod Bp after IX, 1*77 W KHTWARII. §*: KRIK MAIL leaves Philadelphia 11 Wpm Williani|M>rt H ISA a in Uh k llaffti W 4 a m Hk- " " Rn*o 10 Wa bi •• arrive at F.rla 7 V p m m 19! AHAPkA KXPKK.4B Uara. Philadalphla- 7 > ata •• ** HarHl>urg.... 10 AO a m M •• Willlam*p<rt. 2 J p m •• irriM* at Bt?a* > nflrpri !y thl train arn* in Ik-He £ 4 14 pm li- FA.T LINE PhilaiMpliia. 11 Him llarril>urg 3 36 p m M •* WHlianitM>rt 730 pm M arrivea at l/wk llaven A 40 p m KA*TWARI). m FACIfIO EXPRESS Ifiym lyrk Ilaven .... A 40 a m • ** Williamaport... 7 Warn M arrivea at llarrtelnr(f 11 Mi m •• M Philadelphia.... 346p ai S"3AT EXPRESS laavea Renovo 10 10 a m •• •• Lork Haven 11 30 am " M Wllllameport 12 40 am •• arrive# at VlarrUhnrg 4 10pm •• " Philadelphia..**.. 720 p m C BRIP MAIL leave# RMUM A .V p m " '* l/M-k Haven V 4' p m M M Williamaport 11 06 p m " arrive# at llarriilnirE.... 2 46am I • M Philadelphia... 7 Warn PAST LINE leave# Williamaport 12 36 a m f M arrlv##atHarrlahnrg 3 Mam " Philadelphia 736 am t* Brie Mail We#t, Niagara Rtpr## Weat, Lock Haven Akmammodatlon Weat. and !>ay Rxprea# Raat, make ® ileae ronnertlone at NorUmmt-erland with L. A B. R B. train- for Wilke#larre and fcranton. fc Ihle Mall Weat. Niagara Kipre## Weat, and Kria Bjfclpre** Weat. and Iork Haven Accommodation Weat, ■Kfeli# cloae connection at WHllatnaport with N.C. R n north. gi Brie Mai! We*t, Niagara Eiprea# Weat, and Pay IgjHßpreaa Raat, make cloae connection at Lock Haven BEN R R truin* IHprle Mail Raat and Weat connect at Erie with train# cli L 8 A M. 8 R R. at Corry with 0. C. A A. V. R Hal Kmporinm with R. N. Y. A P. R. R., an I af Hltw.sdi With A V U R BapParL.r car# will run between Philadelphia and War. uport on NlngAr* Evpre* Wet, Lrie Kxpriw. I'hlUd.lphl. Rxprn. bat *nd Bay Bxprm Sunday Exprm Kmt. Slwpln* rr#un all I'ijSHfbt iraina. Wx. A. BALPWIX, • len'l Superintendent. mam- HOUSE, V* CORNKR CHKSTNLT AND NINTH HTBEICTS, raiLAnn.rniA. I. h.iiH, prominent In a city famed for It" com- bl. hotel., la kept In every reaped e.,nal to any hotel# In the country. Owing to tha atrtn ■Hkevof the tlmaa, the price of Injard baa l>e.n reduced nptwar a DOLLAH per day. J. M'KIBRIN, Baaater W a BUSH HOUSE, HRLLEFONTR, PA., IS OPEN. P. P. I'KTKRS, Proprlator. ! PENSIONS, j disabled Soldiers and heirs of reaaed Soldlora who dle.l from conamtnenem a In th. Army, ara entitled to PBNSIONB. BRARS allowed alter JULY I, 18*0. Bend ior full Inatructlona In all kind* of Soldier* IYPHBRD ft CO., Prntinn Atty'i 004 V Btrat, WASHINGTON. 0.0 ITRAL HOTEL, (Oppoalt* tha Railroad Station,) MIL3SBURO, CRNTRff COUNTY, PA. A. KOHLBKCKKR, Proprietor. UGH TRAVKLBRS on the railroad will And [el an excellent place to lunch, or procure a ALL TRAINS atop about 36 minutes. 47 -i f • A d rert i semen ts. WHO WANT GROCERIES AND OTITKR STJIFrPLIIES KOH IIAR \ r EST I XG SHOULD UAI.L ON SECHLER&Co. FOR ANYTHING IN THK LINK OF sue. A US, COFFEES, TEAS, SPICES, NEW CHEESE, B.C. HAMS, 8. C. DRIED BEEF, BREAKFAST BACON, DRIED PEACHES, NEW PRUNES, HOMINY and RICE, SYRUPS mid N. 0. MOLASSES, NEW MACKEREL, ST< >N EW AIIE, I' E E NSW A RE, Ac.. Ac., Ac. ALSO ANYTHING IN TIIK LINK OF FRESH MEATS. M o arc killint; stall.fpd atoor* of frntn I 1200 to Htktlh*., and liavo poaitivdy tiio BEST M EATS j that aru otiered for alo in Centre countv. SECIILER & CO. GROCEES, liu.-h lln use Block, BrlUfonie, Pa. I - NEW ENTERPRISE. ALEXANDER CO., AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT —AND— SEED STORE, BKLLKFONTE, PA. They mean hy thin all tiie name import*, that i., to deal in and to furnl.h to farmer, at the lowed |.e.1!,1e price everything in the ,hA|w ..f an I AKricnltural Implement that former, uae, Inrludliiii 9KKB9 of all kind.. At prvrwut we have ~n hand nnd are the authortred A.ent. for the wle of the BVKACI 9K I 1111 I.KB FLuMf. made at Byrat ue, N. V. Jt i. the to.t i hilled plow now mode; alo the Key.tone and Iron te-am plow, made at Centre Hall. No belter plow, than the.e can be had lor the came amount of rnon.v Alwi thei'eatre Hall l ornplanler. We need oay nolh- Ing aUuit the merit*of thl. planter.**lhe'y#a>now in u.c in Centre county dene.nalrale. them to he the lewt, HAKRGVVB and Ct LTISATOHB of the lalet me proved pattern.. M'"WKRj, RKAI'KRft and GRAIN IIINHRRBOf Ih.w aewll the l>.t..rne either a# eepnr.t. Mower., Cumtdned Reapr r. ami Mower., .Ingle Ilarvestera, or a- Combined Iteaner. and Binder*. TIIK WII KKLKIt, No t., a cmhlned machine,!, the he.t mar hine of the kind In the market TIIK GRKATF.BT IMPROVKMK.NT <IK TIIK AGK I* lire Norrleioan Gleaner and Binder. Call and *e* It. It I. wonderfully perfect. Any Imy tw*lve year* old. with one her.#, will fo|. low and hind all the grain that any Hraper with *|,|e delivery will rut. It not only hind* hut glean*, and will HV* the price of the machine in one year, hy taking up from theatiihlde that which I. now hat TUB McIIKRHY GRAIN BRILL, either with or without hrnadca.t hoe., with or without ferlilirer and teed w.wlng attachment. It I* the he.t grain drill tor all prpnce In the market. TIIK OKIHKR THRMIIKH AND BKFARATOR The repntallon of thl. machine i. | Wall e.tahli.hrwl that we ran aay nothing almat II that the |wa.ple d* not know Any pereon wanting one, nr in need of repair, for now in theoomty, pleae rail. IIKKIINF.KB I'ATKh'T I.KVEI. TRKAD IIORftR PIIWKR. for one and two hnrm., with Latent Hpee.l Regulator. Little fliaut Threeher and Cleaner. VICTOR CIAIVKR IIL'LLKR. Sole agent# for Cen* tr# ronnty. WAGONS, CARKIA'IKS. ni'GGlKft and PII.KTONIt. ' —We are agenu for the .ale of the celebrated CON K LIN W'AflON. the reputation of which ta en well eetalo llahed; alennl the (7IRTLANB PLATFORM SI RING WAGONS, Carriagee, Phwlnne and Bugglee All are warranted Call and aee epertmene and examine rata luguca a* to etyloa and |ir|i M liefnre buying eleewhere. Catalogue, furnlehed cm application. I PLASTER ANB I KRTII.I/.RKS —Cayuga planter finely ground, aa gemd a* the heat Nova Modla, at the low price of 17 <*J per toll. Peruvian Guano eold on ordere only. Phiwphatee alwaye on hand. H|ievlal manure, for different crope eold upon order, at manu i farturera' price*. POWDER —We are Dnpnnt'e agent. Rlaatlng, spirting and RISe pnwder nn hand and told at whole eale price* ; alao faee. ORAlN.—After the growing crop |e barveeted we will lie prepared to pay the hlglieet market price for all kind, of grain. GOAL.—Our yard la alway* .locked with the bmt Anthracite Coal wblrh we eell at loweet price LIMB —We make the be.l white lime In the State. Ite pnipertle* for mechanical and agrlcnltnral pur- I ma*a excel all othera. FAIRBANKS' SCAI.KS,—We are their agente In I Centra ronnty and will mpply all partiea wleblng good and true eralee at their loweat plicae. W* extend an Inelution to everybody In want of anything In our line to call at onr etore roome, op- KMlla the Buah llonee, and aea what we have, and ara from thoee ID attendance more particularly the eropeofour hnalnea*. ALKXANBRR A 00. Bellefonte, Pa., May B,IMHI. 19-tf , WOODWARD SEMINARY7 Boarding and Day School for Young Ladloi i and Little Children. BKCOND AND LOCUST BTRKKTB, IIAURISnURO, PA. ! Regular term will hegtn SEPTEMBER 10, If . Conrae of etudy—<7aelr and HHentlSr, with Muale and Art. Board and tnltion from 1250 to (360 a year and no eitraa. For rlrcnlnr* and all dealrabl* information addraa* 31 : m __ _ PRINO!PAL._ TJROCKEUHOFF HOUBE, • l J IIKLLKFGNTI, PA. W. R. TELLER, Proprietor. I Good Sample Room on Second Floor, i eVPraa Una* to and ftom all Train*. Special rata* f to wltneaaea aud juror* 1-ly Cnilrr gtnwcrai. ♦ —- BELLEFONTE, PA. NEWS, FACTS AND HUTIUKSTIONS. TIIK vtT or Tux National, wxhraug IH THK INTXI.I.I --IIKNCB AND eaoat'V.HiTt or TIIK raauxn. hvery farmer in hit nnnunt experience Uueoverß tomething of value. Wrue it ami send it to the "Agricultural Editor of the DEMOCRAT, Itellefmitr, I'enn'u," that other farmert may have the benefit of it. l.rt communication br timely, and be sure that they are brief and welt pointed. Common Sense in Pig Farming. I'crbnjis it woultl be too much to assume that all our farmer readers carefully rend our account of Col. Curtis' "Pig Party" as published in our issue for November 4. If any have failed to do so, we suggest that they do it now, and then read the fol lowing paragraphs quoted from Spe cial Report No. 22, of the U. S. Dep't of Agriculture. They are ex tracts Irotn the letters received from the Department's correspondents in the localities to which they are cred ited : I have to report a loss of hogs by disease during the past year of S2O - The malady which proves so fatal to these animals is generally known as cholera. It is supposed to be caused in most part by a too ex elusive corn diet, and the too frequent practice of feeding them in their liltliy quarters. The disease is regarded as preventable but not curable. — Otoe county, Nebraska. Our swine are of the long-nosed kind. They run in the woods eat worms, snails, and roots, drink pure water from mountain streams, and sleep under big cedar trees. During the six years 1 have resided here I have never known a hog to die of disease.— Columbia county, Oregon. Liquid Manure. Over the signature of "A Subscrib er," a Millheim correspondent of the American Agriculturist , asks that journal to tell him "whether it would profit a farmer to apply liquid man ure to land, and the quantity to the ' acre." Although the reply to this question is necessarily of general ap plication, the residence of the ques tioner in onr own county makes it "local" with us, and we quote it be below: l.i<|Uid manure i the "double diatiiled extract of fertility"—distilled, so to apeak, in the uniinal economy. There i* not a plant on th" farm which will I not he grateful for it, but it mut not he too strong. Whether you can apply it with profit, i another question. Prob ably you could with proper appliance*, e*pecinlly a good prinkling carl. The quntilily to be applied lo the sere i* hard to measure. Experience will indi cate the strength desirable, and it will lie found most beneficial upon grass and grain crop", frequently applied while thev can be gone upon without detri ment. Value of Water for Cows. hotn th*- X#Lr##k# flur*l. Cows should have access to water at ail times, especially cows that give milk. They want to drink often and return to their feed. The best stable, nnd one in which stock do the best, is one whcic water is always running in through troughs before the cattle. Thus managed cows may be kept up to a full (low of milk, cither winter or summer, and for this reason : if the pasture fails from drought, it ma)' be supplemented with other feed, but a failure of water cannot lie remedied. So in winter cows thnt arc only wat ered once a da} - , as many do who consider themselves good farmers, the cows shrink in their milk, and it can never IKS regained. The same rule will hold good in the stable; abundant feed may ite suppled, if the water supply fails the profit will be nil. The necessity of plenty of pure water for stock is one of the first im portance to breeders nnd feeders. It must not only lie in abundance, but it should be in such supply that stock may cither take it at will, or if sup plied at stated times it should lie offered at least twice a day, and three times will be better. No animal can thrive properly that has access to water but once a day. Every good feeder knows this, aud hence in all large feeding establishments the greatest care Is taken to keep the sup ply ample and constant. Many far mers neglect this, and always to their cost. If water cannot be had near in an other way, wells should be dug, and the water raised by wind or other power, aa the case may be. Having plenty of water, see that the stock get it regularly as they feed. It will Ey. Remember that animals should treated well in order to thrive properly. We are familiar with the troubles incident to the neglect of regularity in food and drink with the human body, and the consequences are analogous for our cattle. Apples boiled with meal arc good for pigs. Agricultural Books and Periodicals. We have received from Commissioner of Agriculture ho I'uc a copy of the Department's Special Report No. 22, having for its subject the contagious diseases of domesticated animals. The Department's investigations in this di rection are being conducted with a good degree of energy and intelligence, and cannot fail to be of benefit to the agri cultural community. One of the inter esting features of the present report is a map, prepared by Dr. Charles Lyman, showing the parts of the country in whieh contagious pleuro-pneumonia exists. The Kmn Journal, 144 N. 7th street, I'hlladclpliia, says : It is our constant endeavor to treat all subjects in season ; to be concise and to the point; to be practical rather than theoretical; to exclude long-wind ed discussions and fine-spen theories of fancy farmers; in short, to give our readers CREAM, not skim milk. It oilers no premiums, gives no chromes, pud's no swindles, inserts no humbug adver tisements, and does not devote one-half ol its spare to telling how good the other half is. It is published monthly and is furnished to subscribers at 50 cents a year, postage prepaid. Terms, cash in advance. At the expiration of the year the paper is stopped, unless renewed. That is an excellent programme, and we can give the Journal no higher praise than to say that it "fills the bill." Every family, without exception, in city, village and country, will find it j highly useful to constantly read the ■ American Ayrirulturitt. It abounds in | plain, practical, Tclialjh information, most valuable for in-door as well as out door work and comfort, and its 800 to 1,000 ; original engravings in every volume are both pleasing and instructive. In this i respect it is preeminent and stands I alone, and it should have a place in j every household, no matter how many ! other journals are taken. Its Illustrated Department for Youth and Children ; contains much information as well as amusement. lis humbug exposures are invaluable to all clashes. The cost is very low, only 11.50 from now to the end of 1881, or four copies for $5. \ Single numbers, 15 cents. ne speci* : men, f> cents. Take our advice and I subscribe now for volume 40 (1881). Orange Judd Company, publishers, 245 | liroadway, New York. Care of Live Stock. The farmer who neglects his rattle at this season of the year, when pas tures are damaged by frosts, thereby incurs loss which can not he easily repaired until the fresh pastures of another spring are available. The tune to begin feeding is w hen the cat tle need more than they can gather from the fields, and that time always comes with the cold chilly weather of autumn, with its drizzling storms and frosted pastures. Under : such conditions cattle lose vitality. While they might pick enough to maintain thrift, if the weather were mild and pleasant, they need more, ; because they must fortify against the severity of the season. Farmers are ! often deceived by the appearance of 1 their fields. They think there is a j good bite of grass, from its fresh I appearance ; but they forget that the good bite is not a bite of good grass —that appearances in this case are deceitful. They forget that their animals need more feed, and of better quality, than when the weather does not make exactions upon their flesh. A good way to secure a wholesome condition and maintain thrift in the animals, is to bring them to the stable whenever a cold storm occurs, and in the case of milch cows to put them up at night regularly, and feed liber ally, so that on the following morning they may go forth to the pastures with paunches already filled. It is false economy to compel cattle to pick their living in the fall, in order to save the scanty supply of fodder in the harn, for the demands upon it by this course are inevitably increas ed. The true rule is to keep the cattle thrifty at whatever cost. Removing Small Stones. Fmm tb ormiitn"n Tlrn|>li. We have now before us a short and sharp paragraph on the necessity and security of removing from the highways the loose small stones which arc so frequently allowed by road repairers to remain scattered about on the roadbed. The article referred to says; "A single loose stone, which might be thrown out in two seconds, is sometimes struck by wagon wheels 50 times a day or more than 10,000 times a year. Ten thousand blows of a sledge hammer as hard on one wagon would probably demolish it entirely, and the stone does no less harm because it divides its blows among a hundred vehicles. There is, therefore, probably no investment that would pay a higher rate of profit than a few dollars' worth of work in clearing public highways of loose and fixed stones." AOITATC the manure question; throw everything in the barnyard, keep your stock In your yards, do not have them running in every field on the farm and on the public highway. Then yon will begin to aee what the manure will do for yonr run-down land. A Lot of Good Things. STOI.KN, BKCI(IEI) Ott BORBOWKB i'llOM Of It CONTEMI'ORA Kl EB. Where small fruit is to is: set out next spring plow the ground now and manure it. Now remove all dead wood from currant hushes and clip off one-third the length of new shoots. It pays to feed cows giving milk liberally, butter is high, and now is the time to feed profitably. Always give the soil the first meal. If it is well fed with manure it will feed all else, plants, animals and men. When any tool, harness, wagon, or anything else breaks, do not wait till you need it for use before repairing it, but get it mended at once. One well fed calf is worth two or three that have been recklessly han dled, and it is decidedly less trouble, and a source of more pleasure as well as prolit. The grape ought to be as widely disseminated as the apple, and there is no good reason why it should not be. A four-months'supply of grapes will promote health in the family, save doctors' bills, and prove an im portant part of the food supply. I'lanl a vine now. The orchard needs to le fed as well as any other field w hen a yearly crop is removed. Circumstances will determine the kind of manure to use. That from the stable is always in order ; ground lone, ashes, or green crops turned under are all of great value, and one or more should be used. Fall is the best time to manure the orchard. Small Compost Heaps. All farmers know the value of "compost" and how to prepare it. Many farmers manufacture hundreds of loads of the best manure in this way. They gather together on the premises forest leaves, cornstalks, including the roots, weeds, vines, olfal from fence corners, muck from ponds and ditches, occasional sprink lings of lime tlirough the mass, layers of barnyard manure, and thus build up oblong squares and let it remain over winter. When April arrives the mass has gone through fermentation and comminution, and presents a mound of fertilizing matter better than a small gold mine would be to the proprietor of the farm. Hut we want to see these com|>ost heaps in the garden, and there is no reason why they should not lie there as well as upon the farm. There is rubbish ■ enough in the garden, with the assist ance of leaves, some mould from the woods, if attainable; if not, from i [Kjrtions of the premises it can be j spares!; scrapings from the turnpike; , manure from the stable, and every attainable substance that will decay through the winter. A little slacked lime will be a good assistance. A half dozen to a dozen loads of excel lent manure will be manufactured by the time it is wanted in the spring, without incurring scarcely any ex jicnsc. "Btore" Pickles. An exchange says : We have many letters asking how to put up pickles so that they will look like those sold iin the stores. These pickles look | t>cautifully, but we cannot advise our readers to try to imitate them in all respects. The fine appearance of these pickles is dee to two things, the "greening" and to the use of colorless vinegar. The very green pickles are made so by soaking them in a solu tion of alum and verdigris. The use of a small quantity of alum, an ounce to every five gallons of water, to harden the pickles, is not objection able. After the salted cucumbers have been thoroughly freshened by soaking in blood-warm water, anil changing it every day, until the cu cumbers are fresh enough, they arc put in alum water and kept at blood heat for a day or until sufficiently bard. If they are not green enough be sure not to use verdigris. The vinegar used is "White Wine Vine gar," but it is really made from whis key and water. Its only merit is, that it is colorless, it is a pure acid without the fine fragrance and flavor that belong to cider, or even real wine vinegar. For home use, cider vinegar is vastly preferable; but the pickle makers, for the sake of looks, use the other. Corn. Dr. Sturtevant aays, in the N. Y. THbunt, that Wausbakum in three years' breeding, has increased in weight from 56 pounds to 64 pounds per bushel for the selected cars; from an open ear to a close, compact, cylindrical ear; from a crop that varied greatly in sice, shape and quality of ear, to at present a crop of excellent uniformity and very few unmerchantable ears. Per con tra, a single ear selected for poor quality yielded 181 ears, of whieh but two were of fair quality, the remain der, or 99 per cent., being soft, short, gnarled, etc. Where no culture gave two bushels of eats as good as seed, and culture gave 16 bushels aa seed, and the beat culture gave 26 bushels of Mrs as good as seed. Work and Feed. Frum DiftnU't'i Jvnrntl. An instance of an inventive genius in aii illiterate farmer's hoy is too good to be forgotten. A small far mer hired a youth to assist him in the work of his farm as an indoor servant. The first piece of work he was set to do was to thrash out some corn. As the farmer was passing the barn in which the youth was at work, he heard the flail la/.ily keeping time to a tunc the lad was singing. Stop ping to listen, he ascertained that the words were, "Bread and cheese, tak* thy ease." Going into the house the farmer said to his wife: "This is a queer sort of a lad we have gotten; he seems to think that the speed at which he ought to work should Is; measured by the kind of food he gets." And then relating what he had heard, lie suggesed, "Suppose we give him something different at dinner to-mor row, and see how that acts ?" This being agreed to, he had apple-pie added to his bread and cheese. This brought down his flail somewhat more rapidly, for it was going to the speed wlierewith the lad sang "Apple-pie, accordingly." "Bob's doing a hit better to-day, lass," said the farmer to his wife; "let us mend his dinner again to morrow, anil see what that will bring forth." So, when the next dinner time came around, he had a good plate of beef and pudding set before him, which went down quite grandly and brought the flail into splendid action to the words "Beef and puddin' I'll gi'e thee a druhhin," and to a jolly good tune. "I see plainly," said the farmer, "If I wish to get good work out of Bob we must feed him wellso Boh had his bill of fare changed without having recourse to a strike. How FOWIB Grind Their Food. On this subject S. Edward Todd discourses as follows : Fowls have no teeth to grind or masticate their food with, anil the l>est they are able to do with it is to pick it and swallow it whole. Kernels of grain are swal lowed by them, and as they are sur i rounded by a tough |slliclc or skin, which the juice of the stomachs will not readily dissolve or digest, they could obtain no nourishment at all from grain, if this tough pellicle was not broken. Now, if we dissect the gizzard of a fowl of any kind, we i tind a lot of small gravel stones, which are usually the hardest kind of ' flint, granite or sandstone. Surely here is a pocket edition of Farm i <irist Mills. "Fowls swallow their food, broken j or not, and it enters the crop or first stomach, and remains in it until it lias become softened, more or less, when a small quantiiv at a time, just as grain runs into a grist mill, is —< forced into the gizzard among the gravel stones. This gizzard is a i strong muscular stomach, and plays | night and day, when there is grist to ; grind, similar to bellows, contracting and expanding; thus forcing the gravel stones into the grain and : breaking it to fragments, and tritu rating the whole mass, after which it is in a suitable condition to be quick ly digested." Time for Another Humbug. It is about time for getting up an excitement on another humbug, to put money into the pockets of some body—a new forage plant, for in stance, might be trier! again, although this lead has been pretty well worked, in the Prickley Comfrey and Fcarl Millet business. The sorghum lead may not lie entirely exhausted. Some wonderful sorghum might do for a year or two. The farmers will have some money this fall, and it may do them harm. It is best to get this root of all evil away from the honest sons of toil, for they are no more fit to be trusted with "it than children with edged tools. Correct. From thr FATTJI J<mrn*l Farmers who take their own wheat to mill to be ground for home con sumption make a grand mistake when they have only a small grist ground at a time. Flour improves with age ; that is one thing. A better grade of flour can be made where a large lot is ground at once; that is another. Time is saved in going to mill; that is one more. One is suter to get his own wheat back in flour and the whole of it; that ia the final clincher. Any farmer that has tried it knows we are right; and any miller will say the same thing. AN Illinois correspondent, writing on the selection of seed corn, remarks that the dent in the kernel means soilness and sweetness, and that southwards, where the dent varieties do beat, the flinty tendency should be eliminated by selecting the rougher ears with dull creamy shades of color. Glossy varnish on bark and buds is a provision common in Northern spe cies of shrubs and trees, while species native in warm regions, and not re quiring such protection against win try desiccation, have an open leath ery looking surface, not smooth or bright oflored. He states that the flint varieties of corn grown in the North and East will not attain their greatest perfection in the South or West, and vice versa.
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