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K. R.—Time-Table ID efTect OU anil afli r March
I, 18H1 : •
Loaves Snow Shoe s..ifi *. if..arrives In Bellefoiitr
7.84 a . M.
Leavee Bellefwute i.U * M?, arrive# at Snow Shoe
11.25 A.a.
l.eavoa Suaw Shoe 2.3" r.M.,arrive# In Bellafoatr
i.ju r, a.
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BALD EAGLE VALLET RAIL
ROAD.—Time-Table, April -J. lso:
Kf. Mail, wenrwtab. aaevwaan. Eip. Mail.
A. w. e. M. * "• *• "•
„ 111 7 irj Arrive at Tyrone Leave..... 7 32 * 48
M ;i t M Leave Lt Tyrone Leave... 7 3'< H 56
, S! A M Vail " ... 742 *6*
,AS „47 " Hal l Eagle " ... 741 I W
14. ii :t •• Fowler " ... 762 8 <*>
142 fl .11 " Hannah " ... 7 &'■ 8 U
I :ii it it, •' Port Matilda " ... * •*> 818
Ij7 617 " Martha " ... *"7 916
II a ti IM " Julian " ... 816 9 i'J
1 j ft 47 " l'nlonvilla " ... 82 1 83V
-ui A4B ■* Snow Shoe In " ... 834 046
LMI 6V, " Mllevbarg " ... 834 84"
" 111 !, 15 " Hellefonta " ... B 967
'3d 6 2'. •• Mile#burg " ... X '■* 10 '*
I; 25 616 " Curttn " ... Bonln 18
218 & 111 " M .ont Eagle " ... 812 In 36
S till " Howard " ... 9 1" 37
?AS 460 ....a " Kaglevlll# " ... 83810 48
?SO 445 " Bee. h I'reek •• ... 84oIn 64
IS4 4 a " Mill Hall " ... 85411 1#
?28 430 •• Flemlngtna " ... 85711 20
J25 426 " Lock Haven •• ...10 01 11 26
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W. trtn north.
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Ftj Ka*!. m*k* rL-- C>o*rti<>n at Lock Htm
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Willlam*port on Niagara Exprraa
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Et, and Pnndajr Rtpr>w* Kal Hla*plnf rar* on all
night traiua. WH A EUJVII,
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JOHN HARRIS,
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2-oae KP.I.I.RrnJITK PA.
M 0 \KY TO T"°NN T6 per CT.
JJ i „ THK inker.
ANCE 00. OF NEW YORK, on rwt mortgage, on
Improved farm prnpwtjr, in .uma not laaa tk.a Rum,
.Ft not "leeadiog rme-third of the pr.a'nt vain, of
the propertv Any portion of th nrt.Hpal rmm ha
paid off at any time, and II ha. Im Ih. rwatoat of the
aaaapany to permit the principal to reauvln aa long aa
the borrower artahaa, If the Internal la promptly paid.
Apply to
OHAffLM P. RTlNßMAlf.Attunay-at law,
627 Ooort, atreet. Reading. Pa.,
arte DAVID E. KLINE,Oo.'a Appealer,
S-tf Mlahate.Fa.
For Hale.
A FARM containing Kitty Acrea,
and having thereon .rvr'tad a TWCh#TONT
PR A Mr. RI'ILDINO and oathnlldlnga T).|. r a^.
Inquire of A. 1.1T.1 UK I EST.
t!- Chiavlllt,oonUo aonaU.Pa.
LVSIa L PiNKH&M, n F LYKN, MISS.,
I Ar**/* I
s-
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VS3ZTASL2 coirrourp.
i- >. T'. tiy. < .
/•trail ikase Painful €'•>■ pi at a sad Uralstiir*
loruMMSN tuwur b at pepNlllUn.
Itmtllr as n!lrly th* w-.rai f rm f 1
1 ItJidi, alt ovsrtan tfuldre, lofUmtMifl m ami t'Wm
tlou, I alHj.jr and |d|darwnrfta, ami tlx* •
I plsal V.' skix-M, and la j-artfi ular!y adsi-Ud to tL
( .'-antra ut tJfa.
It will ditwlre fth'l aipsltnmonffrfnllie ntrrvatn
rrj earty Msfaof drtetut-nK-rd TV !• wh; I >rtn
r*T>ua hun.>rwt!#r*Uf V h-l rry |**dJJy 1 jr Its
It rrnerre fslntiirea, flaltiUirjr, drMt yaaJl rretli g
1 r stimulants. and Hlctm askn's r/fVri' r ir 1
It ntrvi Id'atlnc, llredsrlmi, Xarrnqi Frustration,
f n*r%J IretkUll J, hl i4r*a (,' <•. 1 ivrswl >o am! lull-
If.atl. n.
That few-llntf of hearing down . rtMjsifcf ywfn, wr'gM
ami Ufkarh*. la always jwrtiiam r.t'y nrsd 1 * ,Huw
It sill at alt llmre ami tiiklrr alt eirm-tmstar ao' I">
harnv ry wth tbslaws tl./lg- ' rti tV frmslsay* •
I t thv rnfenf KMnajr < -mptsfiifi of iJLurf rtU ia
Cmip. in-l la earirfaswl.
i.VDiA r, risuiitut M f.rr\n:r M 5.
rot Mils 1:• t*r 1 at 2 a
l ynn.Maaa Hl* ladlkwft.r £k K ■- t >y na.i
l.i the form of ats In the f rta .fir .ri, rti
of tcW. |1 jer lr f-rHtl -r. llt ; hi*.a
fTwly answer* all lor nf tmjulry f ' f r i*u. , .
let* A -Mrs as aa ahota If'sb-s ffcss
V famity should ha WMfclSl UrmAl 5
U\TJ I n:JA TV7 enro c • I
and of t.V liver. IA re* •% 1
cr Sold ly nil llfUfillM*. "w 1
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I Moo Sitters. Inn* o* Moo ••
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I' I '
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w h'#rer ynnarw fimhk H lasndsdt* an
• liiwi'f yon t—4 ■ ■ pnaJiy fro rn sofiw
that y.nr sfstrm JHyJ of Kidney
n<el rkrestntf. n- that n. rt.t
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BKLLBFONTK, PA.
NKWH, FACTS ANI> HUOOEHTIO2VO.
TIIKtINT sr TVS MATIQVAL WILPAHS In Till IKTfcLLI*
OkKCk null mo.i'tklTr or the r.k.ik,
/■'very farmer in hit animal experience
liiMONriNMittkyof value. Write it ami
taut it to the " Agricultural Kditnr (f the
Dkmockat, Helle funic, fenn'a," that other
farmers may hare the benefit of it. Let
communications be timely, ami be sure that
they are brief anil well pointed.
Shall wo Manure Corn in tho IIiH
or Broadcast.
Many farmers tine a spoonful of bone
flour lo each bill of corn. This is at
the rate of at least a bag or barrel—'JlXJ
pounds—per acre. The spoonful can
only help the corn plant while very
young. We should much prefer to tow
the 200 pounds broadcast, which would
exact an influence upon the plants dur
ing the entire season.— Uural A Vie
Yorker,
A question of prime importance
connected with the great staple is the
one used as a title for this article,
and upon it we have somewhat de
cided convictions in favor of the
position taken by our contemporary
as quoted, it goes without saying
that whatever lx-ncfit corn, or any
other plant, derives from the applica
tion of fertilizers must lie obtained
through its roots, as the roots of the
corn extend, long Ircfore the jieriod
of its ri|K-ning comes, to every square
inch of the ground occupied, and as
they are sent to the most remote dis
tances expressly to search for and
gather up the food which its rapid
growth and development require, and
as the demands for food supply arc
greater and more imperative as the
season advances and its growth in
creases, it would seem to be the part
of wisdom to so place the needed
food that the supply may lie daily
drawn ujH>n as the plant's daily needs
demand. The most and best that
manure placed in the hill can do for
corn is to aid in getting "a start,"
and while under certain condition
this may prove a real and lasting
lienefit, and have an effect increasing
the crop to Ik- harvested in tiie fall,
wc arc not clear that this is always
the case. Where the soil is strong
and rich over the whole of its sur
face and through its entire depth,
or where a liberal amount of fertil
izing material in the form of heavy
sod and a generous coating of stable
manure, lias la-en plowed down, so
that the plant, when starU-d. can find
abundant supplies of nourishment to
enable it to make a continuous, rapid
growth, this "starting," by means of
hill manuring, is undoubtedly an ad
vantage, and possibly the artificial
fertilizer or fine compost generally
used for this purpose will be of as
great lienefit to the crop as it would
if applied broadcast. I f however, the
circumstances by which the plant ia
surrounded arc the reverse; of these ;
if it is located on a thin soil, and is
compelled to "scratch lor a living,"
we should expect very much better
results by scattering whatever ma
nure is to lie applied broadcast, and
mixing it as intimately as possible
with the soil, by repeated harrow ings,
rollings and cultivatings. If placed
in a liody, and in easy resell of the
plant, the young roots will find it
at once, and promptly set aliout de
livering its riders to the plant for
which they are the authorized pur
veyors, enabling it to make a luxuri
ant growth, gratifying to the eye of
the beholder, and promising indis
putable evidence in favor of hill ma
nuring. 8o far, so good. Unfortu
nately, however, the limited supply
plsccd in the hill is now about ex
hausted, and the roots will be found
to have contented themselves, in a
measure with the nourishment thus
easily obtained, and to have failed,
because there seemed to bo no neces
sity for it, to make for themselves a
development corresponding to that o(
the plant. Having been "brought
up in the lap of luxury" and "fared
sumptuously every day," they have
not grown to be so vigorous as they
had when compelled to lengthen and
strengthen themselves by the search
for daily food, and are Illy prepared
to extract from the comparatively
barren soil upon which tbey now
find themselves compelled to forage,
the increased supplies of nourish
ment imperatively demanded by the
lusty and hungry plant which they
have pampered. Hence the growth
ia checked, the development of the
plant retarded at a time when it moat
needs stimulation, and the probabili
ties ure that at harvest time the crop
will be but little, if any, the better
because of the use of the manure,
if this Ihj regarded as mere theory,
let us present a little series of facts
in support of it: A few years since,
intending to grow several acres of
tobacco, and desiring to test some of
the special manures manufactured for
this crop, we procured from one of
the most prominent and widely-known
houses engaged in their manufacture,
an amount suilicient for an acre, and
applied it precisely as directed by
the manufacturers, excepting that
they gave us our choice as to whether
it should be placed in the hill or
broadcast, and we chose the former.
As soon as the young plants got set
tled in their new home and commenc
ed growing, a very prcccptiblc differ
ence in favor of those to which the
fertilizers bad been applied became
apparent, and this difference increas
ed until when the plants were about
two feet high, it was visible as far as
the field could le seen, and was the
remark of the neighborhood. Short
ly after this, however, the difference
became less marked : the plants on
tin- ground to which no fertilizers
had been applied seemed to Ik; catch
ing up; and, to make a long story
short, they finally caught up, and at
| cutting time, if any distinction could
1 have been made, it wsuld not have
■ iiecn in favor of the fertilized plants.
The stems were in many cases hollow,
and the leaf shorter and lighter, if
anything, than in the case of their
1 less highly favored neighliors. That
the fault was not with the fertilizer
j itself is abundantly evidenced by the
fine growth it induced in the early
: part of the season, and the only con
: elusion justified by the circumstances
•eems to be that when the plants had
| exhausted the supply of food fur
nished "ready to their hands" by the
special manure, they found them
selves less able to draw upon the
supplies which were more; distant
than the others which hail been corn-
I Hilled to "shift for themselves" dur
j ing the whole period of their exist
ence. True, "one swallow does not
make a summer," and one cx|mti
merit does not establish a fact, but
this, with other experiences and ob
servation, has so established our con
victions upon the subject that we
■hall, at least until we learn better,
apply all manures broadcast, whether
they Ire special or general.
Fodder Corn.
fr tn lb* Am'rir an Dairiman.
Our gucalest fislder crop is corn,
(irass is great, but corn is greater.
One acre in com may Ik- made to pro
duce easily as much fishier as five in
grass. Here is an enormous economy.
And corn well grown is but little in
ferior to ordinary grass, if, indeed, it
is equal in every respect. Corn, then,
should take the first place in the list
of fodder crops. Much has been said
of this crop, because it is unquestion
able the greatest wc can produce in
every sense. Hut it is a subject
which admits of constant consider
ation, because it is one of which wc
are ever learning something new. As
a fodder crop it has not yet had
justice done to it. Many farmers
have grown it for want of any better,
and have fed it because tbey have
grown it, and have roundly abuser! it
in private and Irecause of disappoint
ments for which their own mistakes
have been to blame. It lias been
charged that this crop makes a very
poor fodder. That is true when it is
grown in such a manner as to entire
ly prevent it from becoming anything
else than poor. It lias been sown
broadcast very thickly, so that the
ground has been entirely covered
when the blades were a foot high.
All the growth after that has been in
a dense shade. It should be well
known that the bright sunlight is
required for healthful vegetation;
that some wholesome plants when
grown in the dark become absolutely
poisonous ; that at the best the chem
ical changes by which water and
woody fibre become starch and sugar,
and by which nitrogenous elements
are elaborated into flesh-forming sub
stances, require for their operation
plenty of air and light and warmth.
Hut all of these are denied to a crop
of corn sown broadcast and thickly,
and the consequence is that the
fodder is worthless, being mere water,
aoids, and innutritions cellular mat
ter. There is then no nourishment
in it, and cows fed upon it not only
shrink in their milk, but are troubled
with diarrheas and urinary com
plaints. But this is not the case
when the corn is grown in the ususl
manner in row*. Kxposed to the
blessed influences of the sun's heat
and light, the stems and blades are
of a vivid, healthful green, and the
sap is rich in sugar and starch. The
sLnlksfgrew stout and strong and tall,
and although hut one-fourth as raueh
seed is sown as when planted broad
cast, there is n much heavier product
of fodder. It matters not what va
riety is sown so much as the manner
of Bowing it. Common field corn of
averuge height, with a leafy habit and
inclined to throw up suckers, is the
best to choose, and a variety that is
no taller, when full grown, than 'J or
10 feet is preferable to a larger kind.
The writer prefers sweet corn and the
kind known as Ktowell's Evergreen,
a common and everywhere to be pro
duced variety, and to plant this in
drills 3 feet apart, .'5 seeds together,
1 inches apart in the drills, or if the
seed is dropped 3 in a place, 12 inches
apart, a very heavy growth of the
best fodder ami many halfgrown
ears will be produced.
Plant Swoet Corn.
From lb<* AjriicultuntJ KJ-UJ
Don't neglect a liberal planting—
or what is better, several libera!
plantings of sweet corn. An acre or
two, bountifully manured, carefully
plowed and devoted to this crop, will
prove a profitable investment. Plant
in small sections, beginning at one
side, as early as the season will jcr
mit, with one of the earliest varieties,
such as the Minnesota. Follow this
up, at intervals of two weeks or
more, with late varieties. This will
furnish an abundant and continuous
supply for the table, and what is not
consumed there will be much the
larger jsjrtion, makes most excellent
and profitable feed for fattening hogs
and milk cows. When earH are pull
ed for table use the stalk should not
Imj left to dry and waste, but should
le pulled at once, and carried to the
cow s or pigs.
Salt for Barley.
As moist, cool soil is important, a
top dressing of salt is one of the best
possible applications for barley. The
salt should not l>e drilled in with the
seed, but sown after the barley has
la-gun to come up. One barrel |>er
acre, or about 30b pounds, is the right
quantity. It will make the imrley
straw bright and the barley plump
and of full weight, an item of great
iiu|K>rtance, for thousands oi bushels
of light barley arc thrown out as
unsalable for malting, and fit only
for feeding. Parley is one of the
best fallow crops for preceding wheat.
It can be harvested two to four weeks
earlier than oats, and the longer
preparation of the soil thus secured
is very important for the wheat plant.
It is also believed that barley is less
exhaustive of the soil than oats, but
this is not certain. Parley stubble
i usually lighter than that of oats,
and. therefore, after plowing, the
mechanical condition of the soil is
much more favorable.
TJIK <lays in which a crow can be
destructive to the corn crop are but
few, and all the rest of the year it is
really the friend of the farmer. This
black-coated bird is one of the great
est enemies of the "White Grub,'" the
caterpillar or larva state of the "June-
Mug" or "May-Beetle," and for this
service, if for none other, the crow
should be spared, and even enoour
aired. A flock of crows upon a ncwly
plowed field will destroy vast numbers
of white grubs and cutworms,enough
to make a decided dilferencc with the
following crop of grain. In many
cases the crow only pulls those spears
of corn that are wilted, it thus secur
ing the marauder that has been at
work below the surface of the
ground.
WHENEVER possible set turkey
eggs under a turkey hen. She sticks
very closely to the nest, rarely com
ing off, even to feed. Unlike the
eggs of other fowls, the eggs of the
turkey will not bear much variation
of temperature, and they must never
become chilled. When a turkey leaves
her nest see that she is cooped in a
dry location, as the slightest damp
ness is injurious to the young ones.
They are also very sensitive to filth.
A OREAT MAN v, if not a majority
of farmers, now recognise that plant
ing corn in hills is a great mistake,
and that when the crop is made in
drills four feet apart, and the seed so
planted that the stalk will be from
nine to twelve inches apart, the yield
will be from ten to fifteen bushels
more per acre than when the land ia
check-rowed and three or four stalks
stand in bunches three and a half or
four feet apart each way. — Exchange.
HAWKS and owls prey upon rats
mice and other small animals, there
by keeping them in check ; while the
crow prefers grubs, cutworms and
carrion to any other kind of food,
and while they may occasionally rob
a bird's nest or pull up a little oorn,
they do a thousand acts of kindness
to the farmer for every one thmt is
injurious. Ho ssys the Sun, and
there is a good deal of truth in it.
THE golden rules with core reisers
are : plow deep, turning every thing
under; barrow extra-thoroughly; do
not plant deep; cultivate continuously
untU too big.
Tat golden wax, and the wax or
butter beans generally, are almost
stringiest They ripen early and are
very tender.
CLOVER, not cotton, will, in the
coming future, be reoogoixeda* king.