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Paints, Oils, Glass and Varnishes,
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Indian Blood Syrup
ires all diseases of the Stomach, Liver,
>w<ls, Kidneys, Skin and Blood.
ill nam testify to its offioaoy in heal*
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nounce it to be the
BES* REMEDY KNOWN TO MAN.
jraokhar*. Quart!ntvt'rf to cure DynprpMp!,
PITA GENTS WANTED.-H
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~ THli PAPER 13 ON THE
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NKWH, KACTH ANI HIIOf.KRTIOJfB.
Kvtrv farmer in At# annual experience
lineavtrH lotnethiiifj n( vtt!ue Write <!</ |
tenit it t the "Agricultural J Alitor <•( tM*
I)KM"< ha i, llettefonte, /Vwii'tf," that other
r nm\em may have the benefit <■< it. l t ei
•i mmanieattoHfi tie timely, and be rure tnat
'hey are brief and veil fannied.
Another and Hotter Way.
\tilr*o till*-1 in Ait* • m in t ultnut't
V'caiß ago when teaming liornr
i Itiaila of pure liui. il statile manure
fnnu the city, 1 Knew no other im'le |
1 oil than t<i drive the name mi to my :
I leiru floor, lift 'lie trap door and
: dump the content, into ids haru cel
lar, where iiuiulhth ul awinc would
spread and mix the mime until want
eil for uc. At the suggcHtion ol my
father 1 reluctantly tried another
method. I drove my loada into the
Held, where they were intended for
.übacipient use, laid out a pile, say !
fifteen or twenty by forty feet on the
ground, then, before adding another
load, I would arrange that the pre
vious layer should Ire carefully and
thoroughly trodden down to exclude
the air and preserve the mass intact 1
| trom flrc-fanging or other loss and
i deterioration. I'ilea ol' manure thus
I put up would become thoroughly rot"
ted, in better condition than that '
stored in the barn cellar and would
cut up like "old clueac."
A Bit of Experience in Feeding
Hay Exclusively,
We know of a tarn full of cattle
that were fed almost nothing the past
winter hut good merchantable uplaid
hay, grown by high culture and 1: •
era! manuring. The cattle were kept
warm, we re nicely (tedded, the stables
wt-rc cleaned often, and water was
freely provided, yet the cattle catne
• •ut in the Spring and made but little
I growth. The difficulty wan that the
| giMl hay was given far too freely, or
j certainly too much at a time. There
sua plenty of bay in the barn, and
the att ndant wanted t" make a good
I showing of his skill in stock feeding,
j lie tilled the rack* and mangeis
lull it each feeding. At first the cat
Ic, corning in from a abort pasture,
Would eat heartily, but with little or
ui exercise, there was less food call
.••! for, and the quantity given was
, greater than ibe system requires).
|Of course, a portion would lie lelt
J uieaten after the whole had lieen
lucked over and the choicest portions
taken out. The reat was hrealheil
over ti.l nothing would eat it. when
ii was hauled under foot, trodden
upon and wasted. We have for
many years made it a practice to feed
'•attic hut two meals per day, one in
lie morning, the other in the aft-r
■toon, aiming to divide the twenty
j our hours as m arly aa convenient
; into two equal |eriod*. though the
l nme tk'lwcen inglit and morning is
usually a little longer than the time
'•etwjL-en morning and evening, A
•on's stomach i* so constructed that
-lie can easily take enough good food
into it to last tier twelve hours, and
wo have long leen of the opinion
lint food is more thoroughly digest
••d when but two minis are given,
Cure fu In ewe ns to Seed.
As a rule, there is p>o little carc
used by farmers as to s, lectin j and
un serving seed for their next crops,
although there is more attention paid
to it than formerly So item of
farm labor pays latter thai, this
hven on grxal Innd it makes n very
great diiferenec whether we h*c the
'•est seed or an inferior article. The
latter seed may come up ami grow,
'•ut it grows slowly, ami gives sign*
of wenkness all through the season
Iti want or food for the sprouting
germ at the time at which special
nourishment is needed injures the
id ant through aii its future growth.
In winnowing rye ami wheal the
mill should bp so arranged as to scp
irate the small grains from the large,
and thus secure the best for sowing
l liis is hut little trouble, sml It ps.ys
well if it adds but a single bushel to
the yield of *n acre. Corn is best
selected from the stalk, the iiest esr
be'Bg taken from the stalk which
• beats two or more ears. This has
i been ao often tried, that there is no
j doubt of an increase of crop from
! such seed. Home carc must he taken
I of the corn after it has been selected,
! I I
I as it aometimcH rots upon the cob.
j If it has become glazed early, it i
| generally enough to hang it up in
j bunches by the husks in any dry
place. If this is not the case, it
should be put in the kitchen or some
other place, where a lire is perfectly
I seasoned, which it should Is: by
Christmas.
Less care is gem rally taken of
potatoes and such roots, than of
grains, in selecting tor planting,or to
ripen seed for another year. Hut
they follow the same law of improu -
mcht, and well selected loots pay
quite as will. Turnips, Jsc-ts and
carrots are much better selected now
than in the Spring K very one has
noticed the large number o' luiliin i
among roots which i.nv. In n k> ; 1 in
i the root bins through the Winter. A
beet perfectly sound, and with all Ui<
appearance of life, often f.iiU to
grow. Smooth roots, of t!. most
desirable shape, and of th> large-'
'Zc, should be selected to Ij ir s-o |.
These should !"• jut I v t!n rnselvi
either buried in a pit or packed in
sand, in mk Ii u w.,y lh:.I t!,< v r, ,|
• not freeze. Thu erowiis will tin i.
, come out in good condit. ,n in tin
• Spring, and send t;p '.fro:. > s'
and mature plump seed.
It is by careful attention to snob
little tilings as these, in tin ir s,
that a farmer improves his crops
from year to year, and thtts increases
I his fortune.
Stock Notcn
As long as there is demand for
| choice butter, cheese, cream and
, milk, is there no; a great .ndu t rnent
i for breeders of dairv cows to j r -\e
their stock for the pro luetion of
these articles, both in quality and
quantity.
T he lie*t is what the farmer should
j aim at in a dairying becausi dairy
products are largely a luxury, hotter
. j and cheese particularly . Hut wed
to-do js-opie will have tin in and thi
nner the article the more tli<-> burn
\ to |H>Bsess it.
If ver> fanner would keep a rcc-
I ; ord of the numlier of eggs la I, chu k
! ens hsU-hisl nnd those sold or eaten
• 'seh year, they would form the I ~s ,
of most interesting statist.' -, and a
matter of surprise ten very one as to
the value represented ty Hu m iti
money.
In contrast with tTie common | r a
lice of li lting dairy cows godrv foui
months or so every year, a recent
writer says that be ha* a urn that
lias completed her fourth farrow \i,r
an I ha* averaged during the pist six
months a fraction over five pound* ol
butter per week of fit i rate q-iahtv.
1 ortv thousand horc* ao h eight
and wild annually by vc-nu-en of
the h ruling denier* of N,.v York an I
t'hi'-ago, who iinni iino'if-lv deel in
that one holf ai d three'-fourths blood
Hercheon Normans have ncre *t\i-.
action, h-'st endurance on paic meut*
•nd sell for more money than u.-.y
other ela* of hor*< * on the market
t'himyo T •1:11 ,
I'airy farming i at pi ec t t of such
importance that figures are not nec
essary to convince reader* that the
is great nee dof improve*! stock . I t
the meed import-in: ,'ic*ti"n for Imlli
the dairymen and the ordinary farm
er is "\\ hat bull shall I use> in order
to make the most improvement in
my herd and thereby increase ti.y
profits •
It may le set drtwn r.s a tide- in
stock raising that cattle cannot be
wintered on rough feed alone in tlii*
! part of the country without losing
fle*li or condition. An occasional
farmer, by extra care, and with the
use of shelter and first cl.u- luiy nncl
fodder, tmv bring Itissbu kei * tlirongl
I !
decently without grnin ; but whe re
one can do tbis twenty will tind the u
•tew-k badly run down against Spring,
From the lime an anirual i "lloweel
to gea backwarl iu coudilion the
chances a;c -gainst its leiii2 a profit- ,
aWc investment. Condition should ; .
always be bedel with at lra*t a lead
cncy toward improvement, if not
with a positive gain in that direction. ,
The policy of attempting to winter r
slock wholly without grain will nut
do, anci between ndeqitirig it and
quilling the business the latter course j t
Is preferable. (Train is never so high t
that the starvation of atock can lie r
aSbrdesd.— l'i't*burj AiWZ'uieoi. a
Don't Begin too Early.
Do not bo in too great a hurry to
oegin' in the Spring, but when the
noil is in good condition to work
lint is when it is quite fariable lone
10 time, i'lant as early as possible,
11 as. beeta, carrots, parsnips, onions,
salsify, radish, lettuce, etc., as early
is the soil may lie worked; corn,
hush beans, and other half hardy
plants as soon as 'lunger of white
rusts are over, and at the same time
transplant from the hot lied or cold
frame, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower,
•quash, cucumbers, pule bean, okra,
tomato arnl egg plant should not go
out until tiie nights as well as the
la\s are warm, and all these should
be transplanted from the troughs
from tiie cold flames, we have named
rather t ;ai> lie planted by seed. Once
the planting is done, it is simply to
seep tiie soil clean and gather the
produce. II vou provide yourself
with the same class of modern gr
1. n implements, that you do with
arm implements, this cultivation is
ueithcr onerous nor difficult.
Gardening.
A thoughtful writer recommends
.o every man, especially in the au
umr. of his life, to take to garden
in:'. if l.e has not already exj>erienced
its pleasures. Of ail occupations in
the world it i the one which best
combines repose and activity. It is
not idleness : it is not stagnation ;
si : \et it is perfect quietude. Like
all things mortal it has its failures
and r disappointments, and there
• ""me things hard to understand.
J: it it is never without its rewards,
and perhaps if there were nothing
I .' - ; cessful cultivation the aggre
gate, rj ymerit would l>e less. It
better for the occasional sbadriws
that come over the scene. The dis
cipline, too. is oio-t salutary. It
trii* our patience and it tries our
f.utli. But even in the worst of sea
•"ins tbor. is far more to reward and
encourage than to dishearten and dim
ij>lkint. There is no day of the
nir without something to afford
tranquil pleasure to the cultivator of
;1 overs, something on which the mind
may rot—lest with profit and de
light.
The Way the Iloilarftlern Keep up
their fiords.
A correspondent of liUicl;uYKxTs
M I I'IIU gives a very interesting
I '.ure of home life among the Hol
landers. and s|fsks particularly of
in ir very fine herds of cattle. In
' ing lie accounts for their main
i • iiii ) excellence in the following
sentence, which carries with it a
'•road hint to American dairymen :
W en th< y had a good cow they kept
her wheuthcy saw a good cow they
•ought In r : and when they had a
ud cow they sold her.
What the Bnae Do for Ua.
Tin re arc said to lo fifty injurious
insect - in our vegetable gardens ; fif.
■\ m our vineyards, while seventy
tive ntlack otir apple trees and more
Mini fifty our grain fields, Seventy
five million dollars is estimated as the
d.unnge done fo the wheat in Illinois
HI one season, and nearly ten years
ago the annual loss in the t'nited
"•liti s from insect depredations alone
is i stiinated at nearly $400,00(1,000.
Tilt cultivation of a good garden,
with a full list of vegetable* and
fruits thai will flourish in the climate,
ami has an important )tearing upon
success in field husbandry. It stim
ulates inquiry, cultivates observing
habits, gives breadth to the mind,
leads to study and reading, and
make# turning more n business of
mind tin.n of muscle. Good gardens
•HI firuis would soon make agrieul
tni.il i .pels and books a necessity it,
every htmicr'a home.—.fmerrevtw .fy
ric/b<ris'.
Uu n tuaimie is more than twice as
valuable on lanel worth !*ltHi |>er acre
as on land worth at l**t wot ovf
S4O or t'fin for farm purposes.
Tint true test of a butter cow is the
number of pounds she will make in
a Jiar, and the cost of the same.
V—-
It is of the greatest importance
tlial mill, lie placed only in vessels
that sre scrupulously clean, and they
need cleaning after uiilk as much M .
after anything else.