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, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLKFONTE, PA.
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Olßco adjulnlng Hrockerhoff limine. 4-L'
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PUILIPSBUBG, PA.
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cr |y occupied by the Pldllpsbuig Banking Company.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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Office on N. K. corner of Diamond ami Allegheny-at.,
iu the room lately occupied by Yocuni & Hasting*.
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rp 0. HIPPLE,
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• ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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r,. tf BELLKFONTE, l'A.
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Bellofonte, Pa. 16 ~ 1 . v
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£.X R. It.— L'iiiio-Tjiblo In offoct on and iiftor March
I,1882:
Loaves Snow Shoe 5.80 A. M., arrives In Rollofoute
7.21 A. M.
Loaves Bellofonte 9.12 A. M., arrives at Snow Shoe
11.2-J A. M.
Leaven Snow Shoe 2.30 p.ii.,arrives in liellefontc
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7:20 P.M. S. S. KLAIK, Gen'l Superintendent
I)ALD EAGLE VALLEY RAIL
1J llOAD.—Time-Table, April 29, 1880:
Exp. Mail. WXSTWARL). EASTWARD. Exp. Mail.
A. M. P. M. !• M. A. M.
810 702 Arrive at Tyrone Leave 732 HlB
8 8 0 55 Leave Last 'i'yrouo Leave... 7 89 8 55
759 051 41 Vail 44 742 Hsg
76 5 04 7 44 Raid Eagle 44 ... 747 902
748 086 .... 44 Fowler 44 ... 752 909
74 2 083 ...... 44 Hannah 44 ... 755 918
;85 025 44 Port Matilda 44 ... 800 919
727 017 44 Martha 44 ... 807 925
7IS OOS 44 Julian 44 ... 81 5 982
- ti 5-7 44 UiuonvHle 44 ... 523 989
700 54s 44 Snow Shoo In ' 4 ... 532 it 45
066 645 44 Milosburg 44 ... 884 '9 4^
(; 40 585 44 Rollefoitte 44 ... 848 967
a3O 525 i% MHcßburg 44 ... 85410 Oh
25 515 44 Curtin 44 ... 90010 19
uIS 010 44 Mount Eagle 44 ... 91210 26
9 501 44 Howard 44 ... 92010 57
r. 66 450 44 Eaglev 11 le 44 ... 98810 49
cSO 445 44 Beech t'reek 44 ... 940 Hi i4
•84 483 44 Mill Hall 44 ... 96411 16 J
>29 130 44 Fleiniugtou 44 ... 9 .57 11 20 ;
j25 425 41 Lock Haven 44 ...10 01 11 26 I
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. ,
£ —(Philadelphia and Erie Division.) —On and
after December 12, 1877 :
"WESTWARD.
ERIE MAIL leaves Philadelphia 11 55 p n
44 44 HarrUhurg 425 am
44 44 Williamsport 885 an
44 44 Lock Haven 9 40 an
44 44 Uonovo 10 56 an
44 arrive* at Erie 7 36 p n.
NIAGARA EXPRESS leave* Philadelphia... 7 20 an
44 44 llarrisburg.... losUan
44 4 4 WillianiHport. 2 20 p m
44 arrives at ltenovo 4 4o p II
Passengers ly thin train arrive in Belle*
fonte at 4 35 p n
FAST LINK leave* Philadelphia 11 45a ..
44 44 Iliii-risburg 36 p n
44 44 WillianiHport 730p n<
44 arrives at Loek llaven...*. 8 40 p n
EASTWARD.
PACIFIC EXPRESS leave* Lm k Haven 6 40 an
• 4 44 Willinmsport... 766 an.
44 arrives at Harrlsburg 11 55 am
44 44 Philadelphia.... 3 45 p n
DAY EXPRESS loavesßenovo 10 10 an
•• 44 Lock Huvcu 11 20 an
14 44 Wtllinuißport 12 40 an
44 ) arrives at Harrishurg 4 10 pn
/<* 44 Philadelphia. 720 pm
KIWV M AIL leave* Renovo 835 p m
44 44 Lock Haven 945 p m
44 44 WilliamsporL 11 05 p m
44 at rives at Harrishurg.. 2 45am
44 44 Philadelphia 7 00 a ni
EAST LINK leaves Williainiport 12 35 H n
44 arrive* at Ilarrisbtirg 3 68 n ni
44 44 Philadelphia 785 a m
Erie Mail West, Niagara Ex pre*? West, Lock Haven
Accommodation Went, and Day Express East, inak*
close connections at Northumberland with L. A B. R
R. train* for Wilke*barre and Scranton.
Brie Mail West. Niagara Express West, and Eri<
Express West, arid Lock Haven Accommodation Weft,
malca close connection ut WilHainspoit with N.C. R
W. train* north.
Erie Mall West, Niagara Express West, and Pa\
Express East, make clone connection at Lock Haven
With B. K. V. R. R. trains.
Erie Mail Ka*t and \\ e*t connect at Eri "> with trains
on L. S. A M. S. R 11.. at Corrv with O.t\ A A. V. H
R., at Emporium with It. N. Y. A P. R. R., an 1 a'
Driftwood with A. V. R. U.
Parlor cars will run between Philndel| Ida mt
VVilliaiiisport on Niagara Express Went, Erie Express
West, Philadelphia Kx|r'-* East and Hay Express
Bast, and Suuday Express East. Sl o ping carson al
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(lett'l Superintendent.
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2-HM RELLEFONTK, PA.
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ANCE CO. OF NEW YORK, nn rnt mortgage, on
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.nil not exceeding one-thlnl of the present value of
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627 Court, street. Reading, Pa.,
orto DAVID Z. KLINE, Co.'a Appraiser,
g-tt llallefonte. Pa.
For Sale.
A FARM containing Filty Acres,
J\l and haying thereon erected a TWO-BTORY
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NEWS, FACTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
TUtTKST OP TUI NATIONAL WZLFAKI IS THft INTILLI
fIBNCK ANO t'UOSI'PKITV Of THIS FARHkR.
Every farmer in his annual experience
discovers something of value. Write it and
send it to the " Agricultural Editor of the
DEMOCRAT, llellefonte, Penn'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 DEMOCRAT cannot remove
from any one the necessity for work,
but we are sure that farmers who
regularly read it, even at the busiest
times, can do their work more easily
and more profitably than those who
do not.
IT is (piite possible to sow fodder
corn even yet, and have it arrive
.sufficiently near maturity to help out
the short pastures which prevail late
in the season. Try at least a small
patch of it on good rich ground,
with a little superphosphate, byway
of stimulent, added. •
THERE certainly bns been little or
no occasion for watering plants so
far this season, and possibly none
will occur. In case it does, however,
remember that daily waterings are of
no benefit, but are a detriment. A
good soaking once in three or four
days is very much better.
As to manuring, a New Hampshire
farmer, who for sixty years has never
had a failure in his corn crop, and
who insists that all corn consumed in
the State should and can be grown
in the State, says that "one load
spread on the surfuce is worth three
in the furrow."
DON'T let the rush, push and hurry
of "haying and harvesting" cause
you to forget that patch of Canada
Thistles. Cut, CUT, CUT. This is
your only salvation. Appoint a cer
tain morning of each week for visit
ing the thistle patch, and keep the
appointment as long as a leaf can be
found.
SOWING of next year's wheat crop
follows so closely upon the harvest"
ing of this that the lessons learned
in the harvest field may be applied
before they are forgotten. Wheat
should produce nn average of thirty
bushels per acre. Perhaps close ob
servation and study while in lite bar
vest field may disclose sonic of the
reasons why it does not. Lookout
for them.
WE believe that ground plowed as
s >on as practicable after baying and
harvesting are over, and kept clean
and mellow upon the surface b}* the
frequent and thorough use of the
harrow and cultivator, will he in bet
ter condition for seeding wheat than
if left until a later date. The plow
ing can he more easily and much let
ter done than after the drouth which
often appears latter in the season
shall have baked the ground and
caused it to turn up in clods, and
the burying of the weeds before
tbey have ripened their seeds is an
object worth looking after.
MANY of those who sow and plant
depend upon the seedsmen for their
annual supply of seeds, while others
save those of their own growing from
year to year. We are glad to believe
that those who buy of responsible
dealers are uniformly treated with
fairness and justice, and secure good
fresh seed, true to name, and sure to
grow with proper treatment. This is
not always the ease with those who
save their own seed, but should lie.
A little extra pains-talcing in gather
ing, and care in keeping seeds will
accomplish wonders in the way of
improvement in all that farmers
grow. We have recently alluded to
this matter, but it is jnst now so
timely, and always so important, that
our readers will not, we trust, object
to our mentioning it again. When
saving seed at all, that should be
saved which is earliest and best, and
by pursuing this course from year to
year, whether it be of beans or peas,
corn or potatoes, we may be able in
time to produce something that will
be so much better and earlier than
that with which wo started as to am
ply repay us for onr time and trouble.
A NEW disease among cattle in
Indiana kills nearly every
animal afflicted.
Making a Farm.
In the early days of agriculture in
New England and New York there
was a class of farmers whose proto
types still exist in many sections of
the West, who make a practice of
taking a piece of new, raw land,
breaking it up, erecting a few cheap
buildings, and then selling the farm
for the value of the improvements.
This practice is not one to be com
mended. Farmers working under such
faulty methods take all the roughest,
hardest work, and suffer most of the
privations of pioneer farming, only
to go the same round of experience
over again through the remainder of
their lives. value of an
improved farm raaj- often be as much
as it costs to improve it; but such a
farm will rarely sell for as much as
it is worth to hold. The fact that a
man has only one life to live makes
it worth his while, as far as possible,
for him to spend it as pleasantly as
possible. If a man sets out to be a
farmer it makes all the difference in
the world whether he farms it with
convenient and pleasant surroundings
and amid the comforts of civilization,
or rough it on the frontier, beginning
to enjoy the comforts of this world
only as he is about to leave it. This
is the stiong argument for making
homes in older States. The same
reasoning is, however, quite as con
clusive in any locality for purchasing
the most highly improved land, which,
for home purposes, is always most
valuable in proportion to its cost.
Whatever improvement lias been
made upon a given farm, still a good
farmer will always find room for
more. Usually the improvements
made after the first clearing of land
pay better than those which, through
necessity, everybody is forced to
make. No farmer will leave his land
in an unchanged condition after oc
cuping it a few years; while a good
farmer will always leave it in better
shape. How it shall be improved
must depend somewhat on bis avail
able capital, as well as on bis natural
skill and aptitude. With good man
agement, the improvements that add
most to the value of a farm need not
be very expensive. Granting that
the farm will pay its own expenses
and provide support for the farmer
and his family, he can do much of
the work of improvement himself.
An example from real life illus
trates the manner in which this may
be accomplished. A young man just
twenty-one years of age purchased a
farm, paying Bf>o per acre. His lirst
work of improvement was to plant
150 peach trees, occupying about an
acre of ground. The third year after
planting lie sold from this acre 100
bushels of peaches for as many dol
lars. In the five years succeeding he
sold from this same orchard upwards
of SISOO worth of fruit. This en
couraged him, and he made a second
peach orchard of thirty acres, five
acres of quince trees, and four of
I pears of different varieties, llis rule
| was to make the farm crops pay all
I expenses, and invest his fruit money
in new orchards. When he had the
faun eighteen years he had an asstir
red income of 82000 to 85000 a year
from fruit alone. Then he had an
oiler, which he regarded as a good
one, receiving 8210 an acre for his
improved farm. The larger part of
this advance in value he had earned
by improving bis farm, llis icason
for selling was that the farm was
larger than he wished to care for,
and he regarded some of bis selec
tions of fruit trees as unfortunate.
He now lias a place of less than fifty
acres, of which ten acres are HI
Dutchess pears, seven acres in quin
ces, and twelve in peaches, nearly all
early and late Crawfords. The trees
have only been set seven years, but
the farm would now sell for UiOO per
acre, yet its owner regards it as
worth far more to hold.
Many other arguments will he sug
gested even to the casual reader in
favor of making a farm, in a neigh
borhood adjacent to good local mar
kets, accessible to manufacturing
centres, where a daily demand exists
for milk, fresh butter, vegetables,
fruits and similar farm products,
from which the husbandman can ex
tract a profit far beyond that which
attends the growing of course grains
and live stock on the Western prair
ies. Good roads, fine educational
privilegs, established neighhorood,
opportunities for social and friendly
intercourse, proximity to kindred and
ealy friends are all strong arguments
in favor of making a farm by iin
provingjthe paternal acres or those in
close vicinity, instead of sacrificing
the best years of one's life to the
vain attempt of securing double the
area of land and double the happi
ness in some distant section of the
country.
A VETERINARY professor says that
"the great majority of ringbones in
young horses come from the failure
to sharpen the toes." To this may
tie added that ringbone is apt to be
formed if colts are allowed to stand
on a plank floor, or anywhere else
where their footing is hard during
the first eighteen months of their
age. Whether in stable or yard dur
ing this period let them have earth
for standing or walking free from
atone or gravel.
THE corn crops in Tennessee are
reported as being in excellent condi
tion, but the cotton fields have been
badly damaged by the cold weather.
How Li mo Serves tho Farmer.
I From an Irixli Agricultural^Fuper.
The uses of lime are in part me
chanical and part chemical. Upon
deep alluvial and clay soil it increases
the crop of potatoes and renders
them less waxy. Sprinkled over po
tatoes in a store heap, when both the
potatoes and the lime are in a dry
state, it preserves them, and when
riddled over the cut sets at planting
time it wonderfully increases their
vitality. Lime eradicates the finger
and toe disease in turnips, and helps
to give greater firmness to the bulbs.
It gives when applied to meadow
land a larger product by producing
more nutritious grasses, also helping
to extirminate the seeds of mosses
and aquatic plants. Upon arable
land it destroys weeds of various
kinds. It rapidly decomposes vege
table matter, producing a large
amount of food for plants in the form
of carbonized elements. It destroys
and neutralizes the acids in the soil,
hence its adaptability to .some lands.
It acts powerfully upon some of the
organic parts of the soil, especially
upon sulphate of magnesiaand alum
ina. It proves fatal to worms anil
slugs and the larva; of insects,
though favorable to the growth of
shell-bearers. Slacked lime added to
vegetable matter causes it to give oil'
its nitrogen in the form of ammonia.
Upon soils in which ammonia is com
bined with acids it sets free the am
monia, which is seized upon by the
growing plants. Its solubility in wa
ter causes it to sink into and amelior
ate the subsoil. When the soil eon
tains fragments of granite or trap
rock, lime hastens thcirdecomposition
and liberates the soil products saline
compounds such as potash and soda,
which immediately enter into plant
growth. Strewed over plants, it de
stroys or renders uncomfortable the
location of numerous species of in
sects which pray 011 the surface—no
tably the turnip fly. Worked in with
grass seeds, the beneficial elfect of
lime, chalk, marl and shell sand—in
to the composition of all of which
lime largely enters—has been known
to produce visible effects for upward
of thirty years. Applied to manure,
lime serves to destroy the seeds of
various weeds, the larva: of insects,
and otherwise exercises a very beau
tiful eflect in the liberation of organ
ic constituents, and then assists in
their combination with others and
more useful forms of plant food.
An Excellent Garden Cultivator.
Henry Ivei, in the Trihnne.
Some of our best farmers liave
very truly stated the advantages of
using horse power in the garden, be
tween long straight rows, with a grass
plot at each end to turn on, but the
implement for this class of work I
have not seen described. Most gar
den plants are more delicate than
'hose of (h id culture, for which our
tools lor horse tillage were designed,
but we can make the comltiou corn
cultivator answer in the absence of
anything else m re appropriate.—
\V hat I find, however, to lie the liet
tool for the purpose is easily obtain
ed and it is so useful in field culture,
too, of corn and beans, especially at
their first tillage, that it will always
pay to have it for that also. I make
it simply by removing the cultivator
teeth (rom u common corn cultivator,
which are usually live in numlier.
Remove four, all but the middle one ;
then bore in outside beams of culti
vator four or live holes in each, to set
in eight or ten common small drag
teeth. This will do close work and
without riding ami throwing the
earth much. The teeth can be re
moved when the implement is wanted
again as a cultivator, but for both
garden and farm this will be found to
be quite a favorite tool for many pur
poses of tillage.
I HF. lowa State Agricultural So
ciety has properly refused an oiler
ol $2,100 from a gambling concern
for the privilege of running a "wheel
of fortune at the State fair next
fall. Evidently the good sense of
lotva farmers has become aroused to
the corrupting inllucnces of these
"nurseries of hell" upon the youth of
the State. A good example that all
other societies can not emulate too
quickly.
LESS grain and more grazing tends
to a better development of frame and
muscle than when corn is fed to hogs
exclusively. It is best to push hogs
for growth by giving a variety of
food rather than attempting to keep
them fat. Build the frame first and
lay on the fat afterward.
LANCASTER county papers say that
a heavier crop of bay has not been
seen thereabouts for years, and this
seems to be the case in all parts of
the State
FARMERS in the region of Wichita,
Kan., finished harvesting wheat iu
June. It is said the yield in many
fields is 30 to 40 bushels per acre.
A sMALi. dark colored worm has
attacked the pear trees in this vicin
ity the past few days and is playing
havoc with the leaves Jjock Haven
ErprtM.
THE New York green grocers pro
pose to sell potatoes hereafter by
weight. Why limit this just meth
od to potatoes.