H jgrienlinfal grmariment l i (• : Result of Meal recdiaii The records of the Stockton Cheese Factory, where I have sent my - milk the past season, (from May 1810 Oc, tober 9, a period of 145 days), show a daily average per cow of twenty seven pounds. This is more than three pounds daily per cow higher than any other herd sent there, and more than eight- `pounds per cow above the general average of over 450 cows. The herd which show the highest yield in milk next to my own were- fed during the entire period each four quarts of bran daily, while mine Were Ted nothing whatever ex.. Cept their daily allowance of salt. The season has -been exceptionally wit here,- and the pastures good, but clairyinen generally complain of a light yield of milk, in consequence of the continued rains. The last season that my herd were wintered upon hay (ISi2.-3)—and they were well wintered, and came through in good: condition—their milk product for the five months corresponding with thio year was an average of only sit-. teen poundS daily, while last season (18734 ),they' averaged twenty pounds daily;and this season twenty-seven pounds. I .. )uring the Spring months, before sending milk to the factory, they averaged one and a half pounds of butter daily, or nearly double their'product for • the same ,months when wintered under the old system. If these results .are in. any respect accidental, or arise froin any other /9a.use than my system of meal feed ing, I'am not aware of it. The milk produt is not more wonderful than, the making of beef it 4 three weeks upon grass. as reported by me in the cd,lums The Tithes hi:retofore. That, in addition to the great sav ing in food, corresponding results i • may •be 'obtained by all who chose to adopt Im - system of . wintering stock, iirovideialways that they follow the rules laid down in my pamphlet on . • Air and Animal Digestion, . I have no _reason to doubt. Belies - - th'ese facts are of vital interest to ('‘.*Vrc ; man in the world who keeps a single-cow, or winters 'ruminating stock of any • description, they are respectfully submitted.—L. Nin o', Stocl:ton, .Y.'Times. • I.lrxn:LartiTY . IN FEEDINU.-L h. is very comfortable in cold weather to sit by awarm fire. Many who have the care of stock dislike to leave warm quarters-, and cling •to the fire place, letting half hour after half hunt pass by, while the hungry stock are shivering. and hungering forfood and water. -In thus waiting for food and water, *animal loses flesh - rapidly. _ flrutes are the best time keepers in the world.. .They kno- the very mo ment their fi.od 'should be suj~plied, and alit -- disappointed - if it doi!s not come. The stock. breeder, therefore,- should see that regularity and prompt ness prevail, in the carei and managc.- .•ment - of stock. Their various wants should have attention at. the - very minute daily. If hired men will. not iw prompt in taking care of stock, if they don't sympathize with brutes in winter; they ought to be discharged and more humane men hired iu their 'places. -The poor brutes do suffer ,scverely in winter`. Even in warm barns and stables they can hardly keep Warm in ,cold weather, but if , left out of doors, 'exposed to storms • and .cold, their . sufferings are - intense, and then should be fed with the reg 'ul of clock work, and fed all '. they. can eat,and they will require at least One-third more fOod to keel? up . animal heat thaß they,would ,if kept . stock should have shelter. 1t is cruel to leave it expos ed. to I,lle,i•Vors of winter without slAter.—Rpral World. . How BUTTER Is TAINED.--Winter and spring butter is often Very intr..ll injured in flavor by allowing cows to eat the litter , from horse 'stables. Cows :I-remota - infrequently very fond of this litter, thoulh it is impregnat lVd with I manure fram the . horses a :and if allowed, theY eat it greedily; and the effect is that their milk and butter will be :of with the • taste of thIS kihd Sof food, in the--same way that the tlavOr is injured by eating . turnip , but to a more disligreable degree. If litter is allowed to be Catep. it should only be given to cat tic not in "milk, and on no account should mulch cows -be allowed to con suine•other than time sweetest and purest food. Very niee butter milk ; ej;s;?_re sometimes at a loss' to account taints in butter,' especially : when- extrarO - rdinary precautions •liave le en taken to have the milking 7done..in • the most perfect manner. ';uul so oil in all the procclfses of han+ Tins the milk until the butter is packed for market: Still th r ii butter has' a clisarcable taint, aid the cause often comes from allowing tire cows; when -turned out_to water a.nd exercise, ,to feed about the horse stable, when they consume alirthe lit ter Which_ on account 'of its being soaked with . . manure, is cast out of-the stable.=Thwat New /4/cer. CARE OF nORSES.— The London Tt.%1.• says; All horses must not be nal in the_ same proportion, without regard to their ages, their constitution and their work, because the impropriety of-such-a practice is self-evidenti Yet this is constantly done:, and is the basis* of disease of every kind: Never use bad hay on account of the cheapness, because it brims on inflammation of the bowels and skin diseases. Chaff is better Surf horses than hay. because theY eau - (-hew land digest it better. When a horse is worked' hard, its food .'*hould chiefly be 11W—because oats \ - supply mord nouriAment and flesh Nru t kin g iimeerial than any other kind of food: hay not so much; The bet= ter plan is . toked with chopped hay, beeamOhe focid is not then thrown out. amlisTinore easily Chewed and Sprinkle :ljAp hay with water that has salt dissolved in it, because. it is pleasin- ,, to the animal's taste and more easily - digested. A table-s=poonful . of salt in a bucket of Water is sufficient." ACCOttUINU ‘ to the estimate of the secretary of the New Hampshire Boar 4 or Agrieultirre, hawks, foes,?( and other birds and beasts of preY d , oltroy more than half the chicken4' and turkeYs hatched in the State. REMPILiER tillage is manure, • til lage is earliness, tillage is • moisture in drouttlit, and too much of it cannot be 4k-ea.; and one horse with a, cut ri.i.va* is worth ten men , with hoes. 'A Winow informed a friend at the fun eral that he couldn't tell whether she would wca mournirt; or not until her husband's ill was rea4. hlutow it." I made a 14istsk , and gave him too much medeohleel fraa , said a Western doctor wberA 119 19 4 1 thiq patient — WM dot Aleparimmil ducafiona ...1......-.....e.................. ,E. E.. Quixwor, I , J. A. WILT,. . Cominitko •J. C. CRAYWORD, ' ' itf G. W. RT,...n, . Associate Editors. .A. A. KEENEr, , • ~ • ' ..~..:...,~:...,. , ....r.~ , . Eotemunleations may be sent tookither of the above editors, as may be preferred, and will appear In the issue of which he has charge. • E. E. QUINLAN, Editor, present week. [From 11001le and 8thoo1i) SOME VERY3AL POEMS, BY NOBLE BUTLER. In the Febraary number of a Canada magaxi:ie, '! The Ontario Teacher," there is a .notiee of "Butler's Practical and Critidal Grammar," in which the writer dissents from the grammar -respect to the the form "ii; being 'built," - though the notice is in!general highly commendatory. He says, "Note 0 (the last) istlevoted to 'is being built,' Mr. Butler taking the ad verse side. 'Tis a pity gram Marians can not'understand that a grammarian can no more stop the growth of a livitig language than a German emperor could, change - a dead one. Whether this form is found in thc.best writers or not, one. thing is cer tain, it has become rooted English speech, meeting what was felt to be a want. It would be far better then for writers to examine the laws df its forma -1 tion than to take a prejudiced stand on either side. There is a law governing the use of auxiliaries, and that law will allow of this form, but not of many of the forms quoted on page 102 from Mason's English Grammar. If this should meet - the eye of Mr. Butler, let him, examine for the rule. We have .never seen it given in any gram mar, yet he (Mr. Butler) has in one ease called a violation of it vulgarism.' In . a note faro writer says, being built' is used by the Rev. E.:.. Abbott, the author of 'A Shakespearian Grammar' and-other ahnoSt unrivaled works on En glish. That'd distinct form for the pro gresAve passive is needed, will be recog nized by any one who pays attention to the speech of uneducated persons and of children. How coihmon is the : substitute use of the middle in 'getting.'. This morn ing I heard a little four-year-old say, 'while I was 'getting washed.".": • Now to represent retling as a substitute for Wag is like representing ale as a sub stitute for the orange-peel and water 9f Dick Swiveller's :Marchioness. little four-year-old used an appr Upriate word. Getting, as the child:used the word, means becoming, earning to be, not being. Words worth says, "The boy is fattier of the man;" but the man who is to be the sou of that boy will never say "is being wash ed" or "is being built," unless he should prove to be one of those graceless wretch es who show no respect for their parents. The man who is under the lands of the barber is getting shaved, but being shaved he Walks out of the shop. Horace was getting rid of the bore when' he, was wit nesSing_ the arrest, but being rid oC:him continued his - walk.. When the reverend author of Shake spearian Grammar" uses •is being taught' to denote progressive action he does what Shakespeare never did. Shakespeare MIMI "We but tea:Ch • Bloody lustruillons. whyh, inJ fat4,rld, return To the inventor."' Does Shakespeare nrean to imply that the blOOdy instructions "are heinetaught" while they are returning to plague thein ventor Does mean to tell tisthat the teaching is going on, not completed ? We all know that 'he means - that2afeer the in structions have been taught theYreturn to plague the inventor. Antony, furious when he sees the messenger of Caesar kissing the, hand of Cleopatra, :cries out, 'Whip him, fellows, Tll4 like a boy. you se'e him rringr 14% lace ' Sn 4 cry alchul for mercy, Take t6i,l h.euce: "Tug Lim away : Being li:hipped, " Bring htm again." ‘ Did Antony order his servants , to bring the messenger while they wereWhippitig him ? When he was started on his way Lack to Antony I think the Messenger was under the impression that the whip ping—had been done, unless indeed his Skin was harder than even the :41 - alit of the colored individual. who, when a thunder bolt, struck, his head, scratched It 'doubt fully, with the passing remark, "I ti.ought I felt comet hing hit my head.'' . • - Being, denotes actual existence in the state expressed by the word with' nimich it is connected. not coming into existence. CoMpare these two Sentences: '•john is diligent, and he makes rapid progress;" "Veiny diligent, John makes rapid pro gress." Here both being and is denote actual existence, which is asserted with is and mistimed with being.' The difference between asserting and assumingis all the differenne that exists between is and be ing. .Deing does not denote coming to be any more than is. denotes it. If instead of an adjective a parteipie is used after these words, there is no change made iu the meaning of either is or being, thetlat ter-still assuming:time sumo thins that the other asserts. "The letter is written and I will now seal it:" —The letter; being written, I will now seal it." Hero being as well as is denotes actual existence in the state expressed by irrittends as:,rt: jag and bt i;tu assuming. If we say, "The letter is being mitten," ,we do nothing bUt assert and assume at the samOinie. The letter exists existing written: By using is and being together we add:noth ing to either of 4 them. In "The letter is written" there is_ 'nothing to denote com ing to be; in . '"The letter being written" there is'nothing- td denote coming to be: in "The letter• is being written" there is nothing to denote coming to be: le us, An is and being with an adjective. ‘.l - olin is being .dijigent." Is there anytl lig in M this to denote t that in is not ,ye \Tdili gent, but is I.6rordirlf, diligent? If' th e is not, then there is nothing, in ''The let ter is being written" to denote that the letter is not yet written, but is becoming written. '-It i s asserted that this form meets l'what2was felt to be a want." , Shake speare'wrote several timings and never felt the want; Bacon wrote and spoke - and did not feel the want; Milton did not feel the want; Dryden did not feel the Want; nor Addison, nor 'Pope, nor Cowper, nor Gray, nor Thomson, nor Goldsmith, mu. 1" - eung, nor Johnson, nor Burke, nor Pitt, nor Fox, nor Hume, nor Robertson, nor Gibbon, nor Macaulay. "Is being built" ; Was not introduces' because any; elt the want, but because some one, like little George, "could not tell a lie." - AU ar dent lover of the truth was one day struck with the thought that When we'. sa'y the "house. is building" we make the house a mason or a carpenter.: A strong imagi ' nation may perhaps form'setne faint idea l of the agony of his soul. "l low can We," ! he `cried, "bow can we thus lead the world astray and hope to be saved?". In des peration he seized upon "is being built," and never igain made any ono -believe that houses build. - In "The house is building" what is'tho nature of the word building? It is a ger mid, a verbal noun, A :gefund- uierely presents in the form of - a noun what Is de noted by the verb, and whether a.g,Orund in any particular passage is active or pas- Sive in sense is determined by the context. Be4triceopeaking of 13enedick,Ws, pray yott, bow many bath ha' laded and aka in thebo WM? Ant bow *my hath be ' , killed? For indeed I prouditd t , eat all of his killing." Here killing is active in sense. When Cassius learns that Brutus during their quarrel knew of the terrible death of Portia, be efelaims, "How 'reaped I killing when I crossed you so !" Hero killing has a passive sense. " Luciana, suppposin' g that she is speaking ,to the hitsband of her sister, 44 And may It be that ytha hare quite forgot A husband's *dice Shall unkind debatis Even In the spring of love thy liere•oprings rot/ • Shall Uwe In building grow so initiate 2" In this passage building is passive in Sense. Horatio says, "If he steal aught the whilst this 'play Is piaying And 'scape detectil4, I will pay,the theft," Here are two gerunds used in a passive, sense. The assertion may seem rash, but.; I will venture to make it, that among all who attended at the perloimance of Ham let, inculding Queen Elizabeth, the cour-. tiers, and the citizens, 'there was not one who believed that Horatio was represent ing-the- play as aboute to go upon the stage as one of the actors. The gerund had originally the preposi tion on expressed before It. On became o', which so often used for on by Shake speare; and in rapid pronunciation o could pot be distinguished from a, which be came established as a prepositioU. The house is on! building, became the horse is o' building, the house is a building, the house is building, building in this last form being the object of a preposition un derstood. The preposition in, which in Anglo Saxon is another form of on, has been used; as. " Forty and six years was this temple in building."—English Bible. "Tir Mist these senteLees are in reading." —Book Commell'Proyer. " The prelimi naries were not long in arraoging."--Le err. " While Tenderden Steeple was in building."—Bisli Latimer. Sonic . modern writers are so enamored Of ix being that they thrust it in even when progressive action is •denoted with out either is being or a gerund. ";Xu meroits complaints are being made about the insufficiency of the street lamps in cold weather." Why should being be be ing here? " The habit of reading With out understanding what is being read, is easy to be acquired." "The law requir ing full prepayment on newspapers ~ sent by individuals is being enforced at the post-office in obedience to orders from Washington." "A story is being told of a Lancashire collector who, having bought fine specimens of the best artists, was in formed one day that of all the hundreds which he - ,:ossed only two were genuine." "The spotter tells the manager of a road on which conductors are not allowed to collect fare in money that money is being taken," As Sir Lucius . O'Trigger says of Mfrs. Malaprop's words, being as used in such passages as these "would get ha beas e,irptts from any court in Christen dom." The friendly critic suggests thAt I should seek for the rule that admits,"is being' smitten," and excludes had been being smitten, should hare been being smitten, triulft hare been :being smitten, fI be being smitten, etc. Froth this task I beg to be excused. Where one of these is admitted the others may enter without any civil-rights bill. In a recent speech John Bright patheti cally said, "For me the final chapter is now writing; it may be already. written." Suppose he had said, "For me the final chapt& is now being written; it may be already written." In that case we could almosj; wish that chapter to be done being written. Othello saysAf Cassio, "I would have him nine, years a killing." If .be had said, "I would him nine years belay hilted," who would say that he kill ed himself a day to soon ? THE NEXT ,ASSOCIATION. The next session.of the Bradford 'coun ty Teachers' Association will be held in Towanda on the second Friday and F+atiir day of next month. This meeting will probably be one of the most interesting in its history. This Association, having an existance of nearly, or quite a quarter of a century; may justly -be ranked among the perinanent and useful institutions - of the county.. That its Hundred meetings have had a great influenc;e 'upon the ed ucational interes,tS of the county, there can be no doubt: It was through the agency of this association that a unifOr-• mitt' of text-books was - secured. Proba-, tylY jn no other county- in the State has: there been so uniform a use of the same text{books for,so long a period. At the next` meeting the members of the As'soei ation propose to - discuss, and vote on'a clav in a portion of the series. This is aniimportant matter and should secure nf itAelf a large attendance. The expense of a change is quite an item. The effect a change will have upon the schools of our county, is a question of,great moment. A large number of the teachers of our county are young and inexperienced.' Not having methodsf of their own, nor having that thorough acquaintance with what they teach, which a long experience gives, it is of the highest importance that the very best books be used. If our di rettors cannot afford to put experienced teachers in our schools, they should place the helps, in the way of texts books, which the markets afford, especially when books clear, well classified and scientifically ar iranged cost no more than those which are almost universally condemned by the teachers of the county. The next subject it will be well for the teachers to consider, after the matter of text-books has been disposed of, is t 4 question how their own compensative* be increased to such an extent that it will be an object for a young man or woman to qualify himself or herself,. i vett foi the work:, and then follow teaching as a prct fession long enough that the community may reap the benefit of this stiperior.qual- Jtication and experience. We see unions or combinations in nearly all other cvoca ;ions, for the purpose of increasing the remuneration of those employed. Would it not be well for our teaeliers in conventions, not onlY to loOk after the Welfare of their employers, as they have done in times past, but also to be mindful of their own interests? TEXT-BOOKS. We bad hoped to see more discussion in the Educationa.l Departtuentin regard to the proposed change in text-books. The communication signed "Wyalusing," in TIIE RErOIITER of January 0, although good in theory, we think would be bad in practice. Certain members of the Associ; ation have dwelt so much upon the neees: , sity of having teachers so well - prepared that they can- teach weld with any text: ' books whatsoever, or no text-books at all; , that they have come to malai themselves believe that the matter of what text-hooka are used in our county is a matter of very little moment. It Would be' of less con , . sequence .were our: teachers experienced and well prepared; but the ugly fact fa- ces us that a large percentage of our teachers are young and inexperienced; and not well qualified. In considering this matter we must look at matters as i they are. • It will be sometime in tho dis+ tanee before Our teachers are prepared to secure good results with indifferent text, books. . -We would beg to vary the'-well- Worn sentiment of our friend a little: A good teacher can teach better and secure larger results with a good text-book. Pu pils under a teacher who is confined ea clustve,fy,to the text-book, must &pm% very; largely upon the nature of the itielpi thfitt WA.Ye IA UK' Waf of ft VARK O 9It, '1 I G4OCERIES Ai PROVISIONS. I=l aIIeCASIE s EDWARDS. Cash desk= in sli lands of GROCERIES & PROVISIONS. C NE DOOR NORTE! OF CODDINO k 1111118ZLL Towanda, July $2. UM J. K. BUSH. = .1 - I"--,-• 4 3 z ttA 0 z -1 E.' 00 - rzl • az E 4 r m'm I 1 :4 114 e ' A 4:: , - ce, A tz , cr s C 3 . Z z • 1 X 4 I:3' is t/3 5 tb I E 0 ° 8 D 4 5 - E., 7- 1 + E' 4 0 2 0 ~.. dc oz - 6 g • ..8 • o I ..hitTa 4 § g Ad - cl.. 11 til )- 41 c'? g u 1.4 La g ~,, e ;a 4 tt 2 CI 0 11.. ... 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