V otunae 32. tarm and gonothoid. Specialties in Farming 'There are generally two or more sides to most questions , ttoncerning the most. common affairs of ;life. If there were not, the course of dully experience would run smoothly enough. There would in deed be no question as to the proper thing to do or the proper way to do it.— When it comes to the more important matters of life, as the economy of this or -That dispoOt ion of time or labor or energy the question often becomes one of great practical importance to the individual at least, upon whom the responsibility of a decision rests. Tits is the case, it seems to us, in laying out the work of the farm. Shalt - it be concentrated or diffu sive ? It seems to us that we, as a body i f farmers are too scaticring, that is, we aim at doing too many things and spread our energies over too much ground, instead of concentrating our thoughts, our skill and our means upon some special line of effort, some particular crop or some lead ing branch of farming. Go round through our quiet and beautiful rural districts, and study the character and inclinations of the farming population, and you will find in a vast number of instances that the farmer wants to own the next farm.— There ie a blinkering for more land rath er than a desire to cultivate the home farm well.and bring it to the highest state of productiveness. But this, although we regard it as in some respects, an un— fortunate trait in the New England char acter, is not exactly the fault to which we allude. ' You will find generally that the fariner makes his calculations to do a lit tle of anything. He will have a little patch of corn, an acre or two of \potatoeS a few roots, perhaps two or three cows and a borse,.all of which is very well, in its way, btu son will discover nii central `, leading idea—no one crop, no one i ranch of farming that seems to excite the mind and thought to special activity, n one product on which to rely for the money income of the farm, and so you will find at the close of the year.that both ends will 'hardly meet, or if they do, tbt re will be nothing to :pare. . Now we are not inclined to advocate the cultivation of one erop.or another, to the esclusion of all others, but to insist upon the adoption of some line of effort as a specialty, whether it be the culture of fruit, the culture of corn or grass, the breeding of stock, the keeping of sheep or poultry. We would leave the particu lar object of pursuit to ba governed by circumstances, such as the location and character of the fax m. We would study its special fitness for one thing or another Some farms are admirably adapted to the raising of fruit. Some have a warm southern . espo:nire, with a light warm soil, adapted to the grape, where vine yards would return a profitably yield.— Some have facilities for the raising of cranberries, and it is a pity not to take advantage of them. Some are remarka bly well adapted to the raising of poultry retired and free from disturbance. Some ars? specially suited to grass, and the rais ing of stock wound seem to be a leading pursuit, and soon. The idra is to study and take advantage of the peculiar cap acities of each farm, and of ten farms taken at random, scarcely any two would present the same characteristics. Let us present one or two illustrations. We know a practical cultivator who has bout three-quarters of an acre of Con ord grapes. He raises poultry, too, but rapes and small fruit are his special bob y. Last year from this vineyard of less han an acre, which he tended himerlf,he very nearly eighteen hundred dollars , orth of grapes. But if be had frittered way his time on forty different crops,and }ow and then run into town with a doz— •n 'eggs, or a peck of turnips, or a bushel if peas, or a few ears of green corn, or a string of onions, or a box of butter, or a few other little lots of garden truck, is it to be supposed that be would have real— ized seventeen or eighteen hundred dol lars on less than an, acre of vineyards? Again we know a man in the Connec ticut Valley who bought his place, built a large tobacco shed and made some oth --r improvements, and paid for the whole by the single crop of tobacco the first Bat he gave his attention to it, Ind didn't try to cultivate mnch corn or natty potatoes. Again we have a friend in Plymouth aunty, who began to reclaim one of the ardest looking bush swamps that we ev •' saw, and set out cranberries, now four iws ago. The cost .per acre of cutting bushes, grubbing up the roots, paring A l i- enlace and sanding and setting oat vines exceeded four hundred dollars. ivt veer wag the third of the experiment, et believe, and the first crop yielded be wen seven and eight hundred dollars income. This year the plantatation iruised far better than last, but wo are - informed of the result. nese are only a few of the instances. ere are very many others which we not.present here. 1 i 6e would•not put all the eggs into the b : basket y cultivating a single P ..- we would select some specialty and give .. as a 'lead— bi to that 0^ _ particular Eaten— ,- the money crop of the Si Make that more prominent than friers, and in the long run we believe it t uld pay better than to scatter our work t , natich. t , Use of Farm Capital 3ne of the great • draw-backs to pro-- Ef css on farms is the apparent reluctance - most farmers to employ what capital ey can command upon improving and lveloping the resources of the farm it• air. We know very well that many far- E ers have but a small amount to em• t !oy at all,but those who have seem more tclined to use it in outside ventures, to b.t it into some railroad stock or to loan v on interest.ratber than to put it into the d rm itself. It seems to show a distrust their ability to make it earn a fair trofit. It is a well settled fact that no usiness can be economically carried on :ithout capital. The manufacturer usu lly puts his earnings into his business, o develop and increase his capacity to mike money, and so does the merchant. -1 a general rule. Why should it not be 0 on the farm ? A market gardener 'fear Boston, Mo., W. D. Plnlbrick. says :pat some of the best gardens within i•ven•milee of this city employ a capital t 700 per acre. The expenditure for I mpure and for lahni often amounts to .500 per acre, and they g , t their pay in ,fie immense crop of early cabbages, early Jam for the table, peas, potatoes, small 'ruffs, and garden truck. To make imitation gronnd glass that seam frill not destroy. get a piece of put p, place it in a bit of muslin, twist the u.bric tight, and tie it into the shape of a ;iid well clean the glass first, and_ then titit all over. The putty wilt exule sof- Oen tly thiough the muslin to render the jaM opaque. Let it dry hard and then tiro ish. If a pattern is reqnired,cut Wont g paper as a stencil, place it so as ,net to s tp and'proceed as above removing the r encil when finished. If there should r ; any objection to - the existence , of the e.ar spaces, cover with slightly opaque t~s,,._ ~t~. w ~:~s'*~:.+'sue=7..-~. ~~. s~y~yrwr+r-;~.-•~~. - podiums. Sense and Nonsense Ida Clare is married. I deOlare, who to ? "What% a. bonanza ?" A plug bat, SO en years old. A man has been arrested for taking things as they come. As twice eleven is twenty-two, how can twice ten be twenty too Forgery—A. slip of the pen, a playful habit, writing another person's name. Wife—One who shares our sorrows, doubles our joys, and quadruples our ex— penses. Why do people call for a piece of string, and did anybody ever hear of one calling for a whole one ? A saloon keerer in the city, reading that geraniums will keep off snakes, is decorating his bar with them. At a recent sale of rare coins an Amer. icau dollar of the year 1804 is said to have beet, sold for 8700. One of the wedding presents of a young married couple of indiana recently was 170 bushels of coal. The manufacturers of artificial ice at San Francisco made last year, it is said, a net profit. of 8150,000 on their patent. Two troublesome young men having left St. Charles, Michigan, a number of the citizens of that place publish a card expressing joy. Judge Haines of Chicago has decided that editors are professional men, and that neither pens, scissors, nor paste, can he seized for debt. A cynical son-in-law sneered when lie came to the head-line in his newspaper, •`A Mother's Live Compels Her to Take a Perilous Voyage." Lives of preachers all remind us. ►►'e may make our lives sublime ; And in dying leave behind us, Novels worthy of a dime. Mohair chairs are going out of fashion, and we are glad of it. A mohair chair is the worst thing -in the world to sit on when drawing on a pair of pants. How would you like to be one of the Beecher jury. and he descpihed as the "big-headed young man with ears like transparent turrets ?" In this cold season, a pedestrian miss is not good for a mile, but she i 8 apt ,to keep to her fur-long. The weather sup plies chin-chiller enough to make it a boa. In Canadian cities beggars make quite a living by picking up ears which have frozen and dropped off, and returning thorn to their rightful owners. "What time is it. ?" asked one pass,n. ger of another in a Detroit depot the oth er day. " Ten minutes to wait," was the answer, as the man looked up at the time table. Leaning over a garden fence, were two gossipers, and as we passed one of them remarked : "Mis' Patterson. shur's you live there's going to be a slit in, our church !" George Washington Jinks, a colored barber. was up before the police court recently, for cutting down a neighbor's apple trees. History will repeat itself. 'Farmer stubs has sold his celebrated bull, the "Forty-first Grand Duke of Jim sonweeds," for 810.000. He took his pay in two calves, valued at $5.000 each. Mr. Beecher thinks the wickedest thing in the world is to thump a child on the head. This is undoubledly true. The best way to nfinich a oLila lay kalua 1.0.0 u ,LLL. wax down its back. When a Connecticut deacon nulged a somnolent worshipper with the oontribn tion box, the sleepy individual awoke par tially, smiled, murmured,"l don't smoke!" and dropped off again. I swear,' said a gentleman to his mis tress, 'you are very handsome.' 'Pooh !' said the lady, 'so you would say if you did not think so.' And so you would think,' answered he,`though bEhould not say so.' All the Candor of Youth—Aunt Bella (who has just read aloud, 'The Burial of Sir John Moore,')—'Now, then, which of the verses do you like the best ?' Jack, (with alacrity)—'o: I know—'Few and short were the prayers we said." Schoel Inspector (to nrchin)—'Now, Johnny, how many can you count Johnny—`one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.' Inspector- , 'Good Johnny, go on.' Johnny (after a moment's thought)—'Jack, queen, king, ace.' 'Why, Ichabod, I thought Von got mat ried mor'n a year ago." Well, Aunt Je— rush, it was talked of, but I found out that the girl and all her folks were oppos ed to it, and so I just gave 'ern all the mitten and let the thing drop. . Old gentleman (having had to pay twice)—'But I'm positive I handed J ou the money. It may probably ped down the slit in • - aave drop or-481i4. - ...e door!' Conduct ... in the door ! Well 'taint likely i m going to turn the bus.upside down for sixpense !' A promising Pupil according to Punch. Mistresl—'how does your brother get on in New York, Parker ?' Lady's Maid —'Very well, indeed, ma'am, thank you. He's only been there three months, and he's already beginning to speak the lan guage beautiful.' •I see very little of you,' said an old gen tleman at a ball to a young lady whom he had not met in a long time before. know it,' was the artless reply, 'but moth er wouldn't allow me to wear a very low— necked dress to-night, the weather is so cold.' Judge (to intelligent juryman)—'Wo'd yon convict a man on a circumstantial evidence ?"I dunno wot dat is, Jedge.' 'Well, what do von think it is? 'Well, 'oordin' to my jedgement, sarcttmstanshil is 'bout dig : El one man shoots anudder 'an kills him, he orter be hung for it. Ef he don't kill him, he orter to go to the plenipotentiary.' -'Got anything for a sick man to read inquired a pug•nosed boyata news=stand, the other day. "Yes, anything you want —Bibles,. poems, religious books, and so forth," replied the clerk. "Bibles I' ech oed the boy, "do you think dad's a hang el ? Gimme a liVely dimo novel—one with atAnjun scalping a solger." .• whence,g :—'Whence, oh, whenOe, ladies oh, whence, came the mar vellous instinct,that prompted the minute being originally contained in this fragile egg shell, to burst the calcerons envelope that secluded it from the glories of the outer world Chorus of admiring lathe's: 'Whence, oh, whence indeed, Mr. Honey comb?' Master Tommy—Perhaps the little beggar was afraid he'd be boiled l'• It being unlawful to set man traps and guns, a gentleman oncthit upon a,bitPl4 device. He was a schollar and,being oft en asked the meaning of mysterious words compounded from the Greek, that apPear in every day's newspaper, and finding they always excited wonder by their riength and sound, he had painted on ~a board, and put up on the premises, iu sexy large letters, the' follow ings qon dapanuoornenos set up in these pounds. It was perfectly a 'patent safety.'- THE MONTROSE DEDIOCRArt, MAROH 24, 18175. Eseellaneous Advertisements What is Vegetiae IT Is a compound extracted from barks, roots, and 1. herbs. It Is Nature's Remedy. It is perfectly harm less from any bad effect upon the system. Rho nourish ing and strengthening. It acts directly upon the blood. It quiets the nervous ovotem. It gives yon good sweet sleep at night. It is a panacea for our aged fathers and mothers, for it gives them strength, quiets their serves, end gives them Nature's sweet sleep—as has been prov ed by m person. any an aged It Is the great Blood Gee It le soothing remedy for our children. It as relieved end cured thousands. It Is very pleasant to take ; every child likes it. It relieves and cures ill dis eases originating from impure blood. Try the VBGB TINE. Give it a fair trial for your complaints ; then you will say to your friend nsighbor, and acquaintance, Try It , It has rurod me." RELIABLE EVIDENCE. The following unsolicited testimonial from Rev. 0. T. Walker. formeripPastor of Bowdoln Square Church, Bosun, and at present settled in Frollidecee, FL Island, most he deemed as reliable evidence. No one should Gall to obseave that this testimonial is the result of two Rev.experience with the nse of VEGETLNR in the Rev. Mr. Walker's family, who now pronounce it *mai uabie PeovuaNce, R. L. 16i Trutelt Street. IL R. STEVENS. Eeq : I feel bound to express with my signature the high value I place upon your VEOETINE. My Madly have used It for the last two years. In nervous debility It le Invaluable, and I recommend it to all who may need an invigorating, renovating tonic. 0. T. WALKER, Formerly Pastor of Bowdoln Square Church, Boston. THE BEST EVIDENCE. The following letter from Rev. R. S. Best, Pastor of the M. E. Church, Neter, Mass., will be Wad with In terest by many physicians• also those suilt!ring from the same disease as afflicted the eon of the Rev. E. S. Best. No person can doubt this testimony. as there is no doubt about the curative power of VEGETINII. NATICK. Maee., January let, 1873. MR. R. R. STEVENS: Dear Sir—WO bare good reason for regarding your VEGENTENE a medicine of the greatest Vllll3O. We feel assured that it has been the means of saving oar eon's life. Ile is now seventeen years of age for the last tivo years he has suffered from necrosis of his menet by scrofulous affection, and was so far reduced that nearly all who saw him thought his retovery im poesilble. A counsel of stile phyorclano codid give no but the faintest hope el his ever relying • two of the number declaring that he was beyond th e ;each of hu man remsdies. that oven amputation could not save him ao he bad not rigor enough to endure the operation. • Just then we commenced giving him VEGETIKE and from that time to the present he - bas been continuously Improving. Ile has lately resumed studies, thrown away his crutches and cane, and walk]. about cheerfully and strong. Though there is still some discharge from the open ing where his limb was lanced. we have the (Wiest con ddmice that In a little time he will be perfectly cured. He has taken about three dozen bottles of Vain- TINE, but lately tome but little, as he declares he is too well to be taking medicine. Respectfully loan R S. BRET. Mae. L. C. BEST =EI H. R. STEVENS, Boston. Mass Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists, The Doubt Dispelled. NE11217 41311-40000MISEI Wm. Hayden. -New Milord, Pn., le now offering an entire new stock of DRY GOODS azetally selected for Spring and Summer .frade BOOTS AND SHOES the largest and beat variety In Northern Pennsylvania. Harts (3b CEtr3iSi, TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAGS Gents' Furnishing Goods, Yankee No- Lions, etc., etc. Every article Warranted a. Itepreaented. No Variation lo Prices. New Milford. May 13th PAINiS AND OlkA. A FINE STOCK AT B. R. LYONS & Co.'s Montrose,ltay 14.1879. CARPETS, CARPETS AT 20 CENTS AND UPWARDS —Less than N. Y. Prices— Mayl4, '7B. For Sale by B. 8. LYONS Ac Co SUGAR, TEA, COFFEE, and otber Groceries At Low Firwes at B. R. LYOICB & CO.'S WALL AND WINDOW PAPERS. A Large Stock, And And New Patterns Received Every Week Direct From the Manufactory. 11. R. LYONS & CA. S I3CPCO2 gr21.2"0/24:i. Coat's, Clark's 0. N. T., and John Clark's Spool Thread, White. Black, and Colored—from No. 8 to No. 100, at 'M cents per dozen. For sate by. B. B. LYONS dc CO. Montrose, /J6.1'14.1873.-0 ' LICHENSTEIN BLUMENTHAL BRIM. New nitro it% Pa., Wholesale and retail dealerelnifine Watches rid Rich Jewelry, Sterling Silver Ware, French and American Clocks. Fine Plated Ware, and Sily r Tea • Sete. Alan all kind of Gold and Silver visiting. Watch, Clock, and Jewelry Iteiminng, and Plain and Ornamental Rngrav Lug, neatly executed, June 94.14.—1 r. NEW MILTOBD MACHINE SHOP. . JULIUS 8111.1LTZ,Posetica1 , 1,1aebinfati respeetlol4 Illicit", the patronage of all whn may want Nngtnes Milloork,'Shafttoz - thingel 9, Pl:Memel!ll.&e. atteatton old to repelling. New Sillfonl.lune 10, 'l4-4. INVALID, TUE CNNVEVIIODS D üblisbed 1111 a Aralaing And for rho benefit of Young Mem and others who 'curer from Stavocs intartdry Loss or Mammon, etc., supplying the. means of keg; Cart.. Written by-one who eured - himself after ander• goingtonsiderable quackery, and sent free on receiving. a post paid directed envelope. balierert areinvited toondress be &Mbar. -NATHANIEL, kin.YRAIR. R. O. Doe 1(03, Brooklyn . October 1th,1814.-0114 . $15,0c00 ! NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS GUTTENBERG, ROSENBAUM, & COMPANY To all In search of a good bargain we c t d llal inVitatioil to cull and examine our stnek, and take prices. We are prepared and willing* to do well with you, and it will undoubt edly he to your Interest to call and giye us your custom. 01t73FIL W1'4004033. cicrours=Die s xisibsi Dry Goods Department. Ciothins Department. Dress Goods, Domestics, Flannels, Rose Blank ets, Shawls, Cloakings, Gloves, Hosiery, Merino Underwear, Dress Trimmings, Corsets and Skirts, Table Linen, Napkins, Towels, &c. Full line of Millinery Goods, Zephyrs, Worst• A fine variety of Cloths, Castors, Beaver, and eds, Germantown Yarns, Furs, and Cassimeres for Custom Work. Mesa- Furnishing Goods, Carpets urea taken, and good:fitting and and 011-Cloths. -Workmanship Warranted. = . , - - . ®`. = „ . ot-. . Montrose, October 21, 1874. D. J. MURPHY - , Proprietor. GENERAL Mon 5 Hot CorbettevUlb N. Y. THLotel Is sin:Luca on too river roan ioadieg from Binghamton to Montrose, mose to Conklin Station. on the Delaware, Lackawanna. and Western Railroad. Parties stopping at thin Station will find it conven• lentio call on me, as I have proper conveyance to carry them to any place they want to go. I have been refit- Mg my House and Barn making it more convenient to entertain the public. TiIEILI kin! for the many favors o my old friends and will be glad to see them all when going this way. Corbettsvilie. N. Y.. January 6,1873. tf D. J. MUBPHY, Proprietor. Binghamton Advertisomenta • 0 - kvAvAID * AOll Poor cf•ZiltlMArro Merchant Tailors, A 7 COURT STREET, .1-1-01-14 3311174131r.12E..5LM1TTC1N. N. "Sr. ARE NOW OPENING A LARGE STOCK OF MEWS & BOYS' CIOTHMG, Gouts' Malin Goods, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC. extend a cordial -.ion to Inc public to call and ix:amine our Or Our Motto le, Not to be Undersold. _al JOHN C. FOOT Binghamton, N.Y., Oct. 7th. /BM The Cheapest Place i ~ ~ ~ CROCIER & OBEYS, WU. HAY DEV Plielp's Bank Building, 13XIVCS-33..41.11111441C0N, T. 4. PMrllnVl 4' =r=MTE HEAVY AND SHELF HARDWARE, CARRIAGE GOODS, BLACKSMITHS' SUPPLIES, OAK TANNED LEATHER BELTING RUBBER BELTING AND • PACKING, ETC., ETC., ETC. CIRCULAR AND CROSS-CUT SAWS, Celebrated Hand-Out Files, Tbo Best in tho World ! Binghamton, Oct. 14th. 1674. TIIE LVDEPENDE.II77 Sewing Machine ! THE OIifrATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE AGE! Sews ttom but One Spool of Thread. It has bat stz worldag parts, to nemeleso, and /MI mere rapidly than any Mathias in the Market. Sae a self-setting Straight Needle It Combines Dnrabillty with I3eanty and Blmpllcity.and has all the Modem Improvements. W - A MST-CLASS ItAMTNE C/N A RUCS WALNUT TABLN FOB $3O. Bgaiitess "VETaiasteell. Address, TEE INDEPENDENT SEWING AsACIIINECI Dee. 81,1818 Iliagßau'top, N. Y FURNITURE WARE ! EVEILYTIIING NEW LITE STYLISIfI 4gLer oT. - 30cogirmazrarso 50 Waehingion St., Binghamton, bonsistingot everything nameablein that business.. Reptonng promptly done. OtIDER _ . ". .9.l33poollealty. ' PRICES REASON/LISLE. Batisniction gun:waved. Magbatoton. N. Aixtust 20.1=-11.. JOB PRINTING AT THE "I)EHOOttAT" OFFICE. CHEAP wry .170 Guttenberg, Rosenbaum & 00. JUST RECEIVES) BY: Our Stock haa been selected with great care and bought at Borrow Fulcra GUTTENBERG, ROSENBAUM & CO. II S. Dessaner, Managing Partner. Opp°.He Exchange Hotel STOCK AND PRICES 0. M. HAWLEY We are Agents for HENRY DITSON t, SONS' AND JOBN ROTELERT'S SEND FOR CIRCULAR. TWIG - - r -. <.- Ready-Made Clothing. Metter Youth's, and Boy's Suits, Men's, Youth's, and Roy's Over coats, Ta'was, &c. Buck, Kid, and W o ol Gloves, Merino Shirts and Drawers, Flan. l i and White Shins, Knit Jackets, flats and Caps, Trunks, Umbrellas, dr.c., Bows, Scarfs, Ties, and Mufflers. V, =4,1, Binghamton AdverUamenis CARTER, ABBOT';:, & JOHNSON, W - I0 HARDWARE IRON, STEEL, AND NAILS, Blacksmiths' Supplies, FABXESS'IABD MECHANICS' TOOLS Agents for 191'ave *Ps 191 ta el C3-.o.codaes, SEAT SI•RINOS, STEEL TIRE, TOR CALKS and CALK STEEL. Ac., BURRETT•S CORN SHELLER •—a the Improved BURDICK FEED CUTTERS CALL Jan, Su Us, 87 Washington St., BINGHAMTON, N. V Oct. 14th. 1875.-I.Y. R. C) 33 I IV 151