£atratoten&§titduii.j iy Farmers, and Agricultural men generally are requested to contribute to this Department, as it i is from their experience that ae hope to gain some thing o! interest for our readers PORK —In selecting swine for fattening purposes, It is safest not to make choice of long backs, or hollow ones. These may, in time, become large h.igs, but it will tike much c-irnor other food to fatten them well. Generally, hogs, which when fattened, wil> weigh from threg to four hundred p >urd*. are the most profitable and make the mosi desirable pork, either fur domestic use, or for the market. The practice of selecting in early spring, pluinp built pigs at from four or six we. ks old, aud making them fat as 1 possible by Thanksgiving week, is to be com mended. Two such pgs may easily be made to weigh twenty or twenty-five scores ; and as these are not subject to the cost of win tering over, but are kept only through the verna' season, when vegetables are plenty and other tnear.s of feeding are at hand, the cost of keeping two such swine will not equal that of supporting one hog a year r.r eighteen months to make h>ra weigh five hundred pounds. The last two pigs which we raised were dropped in April. They were slaugh tered late in November, and their united weight was an hundred and eighteen pouivi both nearly of equal size. Some say that pig pork, being young and tender, dots not spend as well, or last a iong, as the flesh of old bogs. It may he so ; one reason, however, may be, that, being sweet and tender, the members of a family are in ire disposed to partake of it than a dif ferent kmd. IFe have known some dairy women who h d the knack of making butter that would last the family a long time; indeed, on.- p und would linger as long upon the table a two pounds of sweet butter. Most housekeepers in every village cai convenient ly keep one pig through sutntuci and autumn from the re'use of their gardens a>d the waste of their tables. The purchase of iwo or three bushels of Indian corn one month before the slaughtering, and given them partly in the shape of scalded meal, mav be all the actual cost required. And a wel fitlened, plump, sweet pig or ten scores, about Thank-giving time, is no unacceptable contribution to the meat room, or the eel lar. UTILIZING WASTE. —In the operations of the farmer, the great secret of his success i the facility and cheapness of the manure heap which is made out of the waste ma teriala that accumulate or exist about t.im. This material is always accumulating, and where agriculture ia badly carried on, there is usually a proportionate neglect of manures. A country is impoverished in its agriculture just in proportion as its crops are remtved and the waste is unsupplied to the soil now undergoing exhaustion. Hence a country that carries its products to the city, and where the waste of the city is allowed to run into the sea, is in great danger of being run out. Like nature herself, the farmer should al low nothing to run to waste. He must learo to utilize everything. The ancients when engaged in mining operations frequently per formed their wsrk very unskilfully, and it is said that the silver mines that were wrought in Greece in the days of Xenophon are now worked over again by making uso of the waste materials of that day. Poor farming only partially uses the waste materials of the farm ; good farming saves the whole, just as the skilful miner works out all the gold from the ore. It is hard finding a farmer at the present day who will allow a stream to run through his barn-yard and carry off his liquid manure or who will set fire to his heaps of straw, or who will allow his chip-yard to accumulaie load after load of refuse matter. These fault of the farmer are rarely to be seen at the present day, but the great question will arise in the minds of moat farmers, how they shall add to their manures and how they shall treat them. An important rule is to make the manure heap a common receptacle of every thing otherwise useless about the bouse and barn. It is surprising how great an accumulation of manure attentive farmers can make by watching every opportunity to save It. How A FARMER MAY LOOSE MONEY.— By not taking a good home paper. Keeping no account of home operations. Paying no attention to the good maxim, •'A stitch in time saves nine," in regard to the sowing of grain and planting of seed at the proper time. Leaving reapeis, plows, cultivators, etc., uncovered from the rain and heat of ihe sun. More money is lost this way than most peo ple are willing to believe. Permitting broken implements to be scat tered over the farm until they are irreparable By repairing broken implements at the prop er time many dollars may be saved, a proof of the assertion that "time is money." Attending the auction sales and purchas ing all kinds of trumpery, because in the words of t"he veodet. the articles are "very cheap." Allowing fences to remain Uurepa SCRANTON. < P.M 10.10 4-35Le S ( Ar.9 50 6.25 10.40 4-57 Clark's Summit, 9.23 5.55 10 53 5.05 Abington, 9.20 5.40 11.13 5.21 Factoryville, 904 5.21 11.43 5.41 Nicholson, 840 435 12.0 d*- 6.03 Hopbottom, 8.23 410 12 33 625 Montrose. 800 340 1.08 646 New Milford, 7-29 3.10 135 705 Great Bend, 7.20 2.45 p M. P.M. AM P.M 'Station toot of Liberty St COW N ECTIONS-- Westward, The MORNING TRAIN from New York con lectsat MANUNKA CHUNK with the train leav ing Philadelphia (Kensington Depot) at 8 00 a. ui. and at GREAT BEND with the through Mail Train on the-Erie Railway, with sleeping car attached, stopping at all the principal stations on that road, and arriving at Buffalo at 6 15 a m , and at Sala manca at 5 50 a. tn. The Passenger train from Scranton connects at Great Bend with through trains going west and east on Erie Railway, arrivin* at Buffalo at 12.00 mid night, aid at Salamanca at 11.55 p. m. Eastward. The MORNING TRAIN from Great Bend con nects there with the Cincinnati Express on the Erie Railway from the West; at Manunka Chunk with a train for Philadelphia, Easton, Trenton, and in terinediate stations,arriving in Philadelphia at 0.00 p. m., and at New Hampton with a train for Eas ton. Bethlehem, Allentown. Reading and Harris ; burg, arriving at Harrisburg at 8-30 p. m. At SCRANTON. connections are made with i trains on the Lackawanna and Biocmsburg Rail road, and on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co.'s Railroad, Time Tables of which roads are printed below. R. A. HENRY. Gen. Pass A Tkt. Agent. je29tf FURNITURE AMD CABINET WARE. STANSBURY, HASS ttle. Don't fail tn call for the Great English Siceeney Liniment. D. G. GAREY. Middletown, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1869-tf. A GREAT VICTORY!! FORT SUMPTER RE-TAKEN AND THE Enemy of Mail Driven to the Wall:: THE NORTH SIDE OF THE OLD FORT FILLED TO OVERFLOWING WITH SUGARS, I TEAS. COFFEES, FLOUR, MEAL, FEED, MOLASSES, SYRUPS, CHEESE Both Green and Dried Apples, Also, Fresh Cjnned and Dried | Peaches, Prunes, Currants, Raisins, Lemons. Oranges. Figs, Sardines, Candies, Potatoes, Cabbage, Nuts, Spices, Salt 1 Soap, Segars, Pork, Lard, Butter, I Eggs, Fish, Smoked Meat, Oysters by the quart, gall on or barrel; Solid Meals, in fact, every thing in the line of GROCERIES and PROVISIONS. | The South side of the Old Fort is fitted up for the reception of all wishing a dish of Raw Stewed or Fried Oysters ALSO, : Pies, Cakes, Cheese, and a Cup ot Hot Coffee, Sar dines, cr a dish of fresh Peaches. | WANTED. Bntter, Eggs, Game, Chickens, Ducks, I and Geese, at ail times, . for which cash will be paid on de livery, at the very highest market rates. Call and see for yourselves and be convinced that the place to buy your Groceries, is in the Old Fort on the Southwest corner of Tioga and Bridge streets, Tunkhannock, Pa. B. M- STONE. Nov. 5, 1867 —v7nl4tf. JUST" OPENED A full and well Selected Stock of ! SEGARS. SMOKING TOBACCO, CHEWING TOBACCO, SMOKERS* ARTICLES, ! NOTIONS, Ac. At TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. The undersignod take 9 pleasure in soliciting the inhabitants of this place and vicinity to call and ex amine his goods. SUPERIOR FACILITIES Enable him to supply BETTER and CHEAPER ARTICLES In his ine at WHOLESALE and RETAIL than can be bought elsewhere j Call at M. R. KOIINSTAMM'S (Crane A Lull's old stand.) Tunkhannock, May 5, 1868 tf. | gI'KOUD A BROWN'S ~ Fire, Life, Accident, and Live Stock GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY! MONTROSE, PA. ' CAPITAL REPRESENTED OVER $30,000,000. I Home 1n5.,C0.,N Y., Capital nnd Surplus,s4, r, 00,000 | Ins. Co. of N. America, Pbila. " '• 2,000,000 | International Ins. Co-, N. Y. " 1 1.500,000 Hartford Fire Ins. Co, Hartford Ct. " 2,000,000 I Putnam " " " " 700,000 j Enterprise " Cincinnati, O." 1,000,000 Glens Falls " Glen's Falls, N. Y., " 400.000 i Lycoming Co. Mutual, Muncy, Pa, 4,000,000 ! Farmers' Mutual, York, " 700.000 j Phoenix Insurance Co Philadelphia, $250,000 J CONNECTICUT MCTDAL LIFE INSURANCE COHPANY. ,of Hartford, Ct, Capital - $16,000,000 Notes received in payment of one-half the i premium, on which six per cent, interest i enly is charged, and the note is never to be paid under any circumstances—at death or maturity the policy will be paid in lull and notes given up. Travelers' Ins. Co. of Hartford Ct, Capital and surplds ... 700,000 Hartford Live Stock In. Co., Hartford, Ct. Capital and Surplus, - - 500,000 Insurance on all kinds of Live Stock against theft and death from any cause. All Business entrusted to our care will be attended to on fair terms, and all Losses promptly adjusted UW Office Ist door East Irom Bunking Office of W. H. Cooper A Co., Turnpike St., Montrose, Pa. C B r.T BZWN.* \ STOLTD 4 BROWN ' M. C SUTTON, Esq., rfViendsville, Pa, Solicitoi CIIAS H. SMITH, Montrose, Pa., " v7-n34-tf. NEW Jetvelry Store ! ! P. C. BURJFS ■&BRO. JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF JEWELRY of the latest styles. GOLD RINGS, 18 Carets line. SOLID GOLD SETTS JEWELRY, Gents' Masonic and Scarf Pins. Sleeve and Collar Buttons, Ac., Ac. Solid and Plated Silver Spoons, Forks, Napkin Rings, Fruit Knives, Cake, Pie and Bntter knives, Castors, Cake and Card Baskets. Butter Dishes, . Sugar Bowls, Spoon Holders, FOIKS, Spoons, Nut-Picks, Ao., Ae. From ROGERS A BRO.'S Silver Plated Ware Co, Also, CLOCKS and WATCHES of the latest American and European Manufactory, Tuakhaanock, DM. 18, IFF?. Hart tone & flttj ©flutus. ' ' MTITL ' Corner Tioga and Warrgn Street*, TUNKHANNOCK. I'ENN'A. -:.?U Are now opening a large stocko Hardware, such as IRON, STEEL & NAILS, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Var nishes, Turpentine, Benzine, Nail Rods, Building Hardware, Mechan ics Tools, Wooden Ware, Brushes of all kinds, Cutlery, Shovels, Seives, Lamps, Lanterns, Oil Cloth, Rosin, : Ropes, aiso Hatchets, wrenches &c. HARNESS MAKERS HARDWARE, Buckley Japanned Buckles, Silver plated Bitts of every kind, liames, Iron Pad Trees, Sa'dle Trees, Gig Trees, Girth Web, worsted and Cotton, Thread, Silk Awls, ami needles, Halter Chains, Trac . Chains, &c. ' complete Drug Store in TUNKHANNOCK. NEW GOODS FOR EVERYBODY!!! PRICES REDUCED. NOW 18 THE TIME TO BUY I Just received and for Sale a splendid Stock of NEW GOODS, insluding— DRCGS, PAINTS, VARNISHES, DYE STUFFS, BRUSHES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, Pocket Books, HAIR^* 1 * To3Nriofi % YES , STERLING'S AMBBOSIA, TOOTH DROPS, HAIR OILS, POMADES A PERFUMERIES, FANCY NOTIONS, CONFECTIONERY, STATION RIES TOBACCO, HAVANA CIGARS, (REAL.) ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS, SHOUL DER BRACES, TRUSSES, Ac., Ac., A". ALL THE POPULAR PATENT MEDICINES OF THE OAY And in fact every imaginable article belonging to a FIRST CLASS DRUG -STO.KE. PHYSICIANS' PRESRCIPTIONS efully compounded at all hour* of- and night. Don't forget to call at DR. RIIOADS' DRUG STORE. v6n37tf. Tunkhannock.Pa. Jjitlings & |hillips Keep on hand and at all times, a full stock of 33RT GOODS AND &£ & IE BOOTS & SHOES, of Elmira manuf ture. " i( Bing'mton " " " City " WOOD, WILLOW, TIN, STONE, GLASS and CROCKERY WARE. Ashton and Bbl. SALT, DRIED FRUITS, of all kinds Flour Feed, Meal &. Bran. PORK, HAM and FISH, Farming Utensils, &c., &c. We take in exchange, all kinds of Grain, ai the highest market prices, Receive and forward feight of all kinds for up or down the river during the season for shipping, and will keep coal on hand, in quantities to suit purchasers, during the season ; will be found on Bridge Street, below Hufford's Hotel, the sign in large letters "Store." JWe have good PRINTS at j 12 1-2 cts. per yard, and all other goods in proportion. Call and see us and you will be satisfied that it is not the best place to buy where there is the most blowing done. Our stock is always full, as we receive goods every day from New York, and are bound to sell as low as the lowest. BILLING & PHILLIPS Tunkhannock, May 27, '67—n42 tf ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Whereas, letter* of adminis'ration on the estate of Jason Frost, late of the township of Forkston deceas ed. have been granted to the subscriber. All peosons indebted to the said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having demands against the estate of the deceudent, will make known the same duly authenticated, without delay. GEORGE FJTOST, Administrate, Fork*ten Sept. Bth 1818. tß.nß.vf* flatter, C- D- GEARHEA RT &GC I ... .. *l V r -w \*£r fesC f 'w' Foundry, Machine, AND Stove Shop. WARREN STREET, TUNKHANNOCK. PA. Having had a life-long experience ai Found ry men and Machinests, and employing none but tb. beat workmen the undersigned pledge themselves to execute nil work in their line in n style not tor. passed by any a'mllar establishtnnt in the country MILL GEARINGS made and fitted up on short notice, from patterns on hind ot all sites. PLOWS, CULTIVATORS and other Farming Implements. ALSO STOVES OF ALL KINDS. Tin, Sheet-Iron, and HOLLOW-WARE. LAMPS, LEAD, PIPES, dc., dr. always on band or famished to order. C D. UEARHART, tc CO. Tunkhannock, April 29th, 1867 —v6n3Stf. Hardware and Iron. RUNT BROTHERS. NOW OFFER FOR SALE. IRON, STEEL, NaILS AND SPIKES, MINE RAIL, RAILROAD SPIKES, ANVILS, BELLOWS, PLAIN A CONVEX HORSE-SHOES, HAM MERED HORSE NAILS. WROUGHT IRON. b niLosß s* IIUTIU CARPEN TERS' TOOLS, (ALL WARRANTED,) HUBS, SPOKES, FELLOES, SEAT SPINDLES, CARRIAGE SPRINGS, AXLES. PIPE BOXES, SPRING STEEL. BOTTS, NUTS, WASH ERS BELTING, PACKING GRIND STONES; PLASTER 1 PARIB, CEMENT, HAIR, SHOVELS, WHITE LEAD FRENCH WINDOW GLASS. Ac., Ac., ALSO SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS ON HAND IN ASSORTMENT AND MANUFACTURED 10 ORDER LEATHER AND FINDINGS FALBBAK'S SALES. wanton, March 25, 1553. *ln3S WM. MACK A SON W take pleasure in informing the publio that they hare opened their Carriage Manufactory IN TUNKHANNOCK, And are ready to fUI ORDERS. NONE BUT Flrst-Clase Mechanics EMPLOYED. REPAIRING done promptly and well, Tw>wii>,ginl IKQtf. J rni woelo's oaaat aunsr roa Scrofula and Scrofulaua Diseases. From Emery Eden, a well-known merchant of u ford, Maine. " I have eold large quantities of your Sarsaf. BILL*, but never yet one bottle which fail*.] 0 f n, desired effect and rail satisfaction to those who t,, | it. As fast as our people try It, they agree ther u been no medicine like It before In our commuuty j Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches, Pustules, c„ j cere. Sores, and all Diseases of the Skin. From Rev. Robt. Stratfon, Bristol, England. j " I only do ray duty to you nnd the publio, hq 1 add my testimony to that you publish of the rr* diciual virtues of your SARSAPARILLA. My I ter, aged ten, had an afflictiug humor in her iv, I eyes, and hair for years, which we were unable t I cure until we tried your SABSATARILLA. She kit been well for some months." From Mri. Jane B. Rice, a well-known and mvi esteemed lady of Den nitride. Cape May Co., S.J. i "My daughter hss suffered for a year past with, | scrofulous eruption, which was very troublesome Nothing afforded any relief until we tried yog. SARSAPARILLA, which soon completely cured | ier /. j From Charles P. Gage, Esq., of the uritlely loor, • Gage, Murray l * Calf Boot. (Hand Sided,) - - * " 6 ' W Oak a quarter dollar extra. Other goods in pfF° r tion. Please call and examine our goods and satisfy yourse Iter No trouble o show any thin g In the Boot and Shoe or Gaiter line. BASTSAS FSeS mnena.asuikiw-"-