rlie':; ii) t 43 4 Re is t r
Is. -published in the Borough of Allentown
Lehigh County; Pa., every 'Wednesday, by
& DIEFENDERFER,
At $l. 50 per annum, payable in advance, and
W.2'00 if not paid until the end of the year.—
No papa discontinued until all arrearages are
paid.
, 11: - .7'0Fmcs in Hamilton street, two doors wes
of the German Reformed Church, directly oppo
site Moser's Drug Store..
Itli.,etters on business 'must be POST PAID
otherwise they Will not be attended to.
JOB PRINTING.
Having recently added a large assortment or
fashionable and most modern,styles of type, we
are prepared to execute, at short notice, all
kinds of Book, Job, and Fancy Printing.
We' Have a Larger Stoc
AND SELL AT
3EI OS Si
THAN ANY OTHER
CIA G ST OWE
In Allentown.
Broinig, Neligh & Breinig,
No. 2, East Hamilton street, have just re•
calved from Philadelphia a very heavy stock of
Spring and Summer Goods,
of most fashionable styles, from all of which
iheY will maketo, order. and also keep on hand
a large supply of
Ready Made Clothing
at such astonishing low prices, that cannot be,
equalled in any establishment in, this or any
other town in Eastern Pennsylvania. Our
Stock is twice as large, and we sell double the
amount of the, Iwo best establishments in town,
consequently enabling us to sell at a very small
profit. They have on hand cve•y style of Gar„
tnents adapted to the season, to which the alien,
lion of the public is invited to a careful exami.
nation of quality, workmanship, style of trim.
mings and cut, which the proprietors will guar_
ttntee to be superior to that of any House in the
trade, They constantly keep on hand a well se•
lected stock of Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods,
consisting of Shirts, Collars, Sucks, Cravats,
Handkerchiefs, Hose, Suspenders, &c., besides
many articles coming in their line of business,
all of which are sold at the lowest prices
Customer Work,
•
Orders for Customer Work will always be re,
ceived with pleasure, and attended to with pone.
lustily, and as two of
,the firm are practical
tailors, none but the best workmanship will be
suffered to pass their hand,.
FeThey also particularly invite Country
Merchants 10 give them a call, as they offer
extraordinary linr2ains at wholesate.
11REIN1G, NE1.16 . 11 & 1112EINIG.
April 1.1. • t—tl
INONIA
Again in the Field.
The undersigned' would respectfully inform
their Ii lends and customers, as well as the
public in general, that they have contrary to
their expectations succeeded (at the eleventh
hoot) to - get a stand for their business, and
have removed into the same, situate immedi
ately opposite their former place, in the ODD
FELLOWS' HALL !lei r
t—orc.oao Intend In
Continue the WHOLESALE and It ETA 11.
Shoe trade in aft its branches. We have also
tented the large arid commodious store house
lately occupied by Henry Zimmerman, for
a 13. mt and Shoe manufactory, wherein we
intend to carry on the business on an extensive
scale. IVe will spare no pains in selecting
the very best of stock,—employ none but good
workmen, and in short get up such work that
will render satisfaction both as regards quality
and price. Cnstomer %York and mending
done with dispatch.
Country Merchants by sending their orders
will be supplied with jest such work as
ordered, and at low prices.
' We feel thankful for past favours, and by a
strict attendance to our business, and by sell
ing at the same +ow and reduced prices, and
by enlarging our Stock, we hope to receive a
full share of the patronage of the public.
AIERTZ & RONEY.
N B. We intend to Wholesale and Retail
both at the store and at the manufactory.
April 11. IT- . f
W. H. Mosser & Co's
Leather and Shoe Findings
011 4 0 Ma
No. 34 East Hamilton Street,_ncarly opposite
Saeger's Hardware Store.
This undersigned respectfully inform their
friends that . they have associated with Air.
Peter Grim, and still carry on business at the
above stand, in connection with the Tan Yard,
recently carried on by their farther Jacob
MoSser, where they keep a com plate assortment
of LEATHER of every description, and Shoo
Findings, whiclicomprises all articles used by
Shoemakers, such as CALF SEMIS, MO
ROCCOS, UPPER LEATHER, LININGS,
Ste. A general ass ortment of Heml,pck and Oak
Solo Loather, constantly kept on hand: iHra
Harness, and all otherleathers for saddlers
The highest prices constantly paid for
either al the Store or at the Tannery.
Two of us being 'practical Tanners, We
feel confident in warranting every article sold
by me as represented. We . thereforehope by
fair dealing and low prices to merit a liberal
Aare of 'patronage
W. K. MOSSER,
PETER K. GRIM,
J. K. AIOSSER.
April 11
Odd Fellowg' Hall Saloon,
THE
4 subscriber hereby informs the ladies and
. and gentlemen of Allentown, that he will
ontinue to make ICE CREAMS, and serve up
all kinds of other refreshments during the sea
son. Families and parties supplied with Ice
40ream in Freezers containing from ono to twen
tyquarts, by giving due notice.
EML. J. ABELE.
Mrs. allele
Keeps on band and offers for sale at the same
place ' a very large assortment of Fruits and
Confectionaries, consisting in part of Raisins,
Prunes, Figs, Dried Fruit, Dried Corn, Hem
mony, Corn Starch, Rico Flour, Farina,Linde'
Beans, Hemp Seed, Peat, Oranges, Lemons,
Pine Apple Cheese, Mustard, Confectionaries,
Perfumery, Macaronies, Vermicelli, &c., &c.
• April 11.
.IP' Xi. 0 M il X IT
Paid Eli J. Saeger, Clerk Salary for
(1853 and 1854.) - • -
Paid Reuben Reiss School Tax,
(1854,) - - 7 - • -
Paid Edward Beck, State and Counly
Tax, (1854,) - - -
Paid Charles Brader, pattern foi
Spanners,- - - - . -
Paid Grim & Reninger, Merchandize
for Lock-up, - - -
Paid Jacob Ehrig, Chaff Bags for do
Paid Franklin Leh, removing a dead
dog,
Paid J. IL Mosser, Hardware, -
Paid Jacob Ehrig, 4 extra night Po
lice, - - - -
Paid Richard N. Saeger, notifying
Council, (1853 and 1854,) - -
Paid Samuel Burger, serving Notices,
Amount of debits $l2OlO 95 810723 71
" paid out, 10713 71
Am't. reed. and paid out $23343 GO
Deduct balance on hand
last Report
Loans received
Loans paid out
Commission 1 per cent. 10600 80 100 10
Balance in hands of Trea
surer Mardi 20th, 1855,
We the undersigned auditors for the Borough
of Allentown do certify -that We have audited
and adjusted the account of Jonathan Reichard,
Esq., Treasurer for the said Borongh of Allen
town, commencing on the 25th day of March
1854, and ending on the 20th day of March
1855, and that we find a balance of Seventeen
Hundred and Ninety Dollars and Fourteen
cents in hands as above stated.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hands this 20th day erMarch, 1855.
J. P. BARNES,
J. M. LINE, k Auditors
• .IVM. IIdIMIAN.
April 18
IT -3m
'William L. Yohn i
ijouoc anb s git painter,
PAPER RANGER AND GLAZIER,
EOPaper Hanging done at the attreme low
price of 12i cents
Feb. 7.
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VOLUME IX.
Treasurer's Account
OF THE BOROUGH OF ALLENTOWN, FOR THE
FISCAL ykly. ENDING MARCH 20, 1855.
Jonathan Reichard, Esq., Treasurer, in Account
with the Borough of Allentown, from March
25, 1854, to March 20, 1855.
32) 51. .
To balance on hand per last account, $458 86
Cash for Sundry Loans made during
the year. - - - - 0800 00
Cash of William Horn, borough tax
for 1858, - - -
Cash of Nathan Shaffer,.borough tax
for 1854, 1065 00
For licenses, - - - 21 00
Fine for fast driving, - - 100
Proceeds of sale of old Engine House, 45 87
J. J. Krauss, water dividend for 1854, 244 00
(C 5 R.
By Cash paid sundry loans and int s est, $3256 21
_Paid Josh. Haines lot for Engine Irouse; 1002 25
Paid work end material for Engine
Houses, (1853,) - - -
Paid Charles Quier on account new
Engine House, (1854) -
Paid William Horn, High Constable
Salary and other services,- - .
Paid Borough Auditor's services,
(1853,) 10 00
Paid Sam. HO - rn, Street Commissioner, 36 59
" J. Hagenbuch, do .9i.;8 6 0
" Reuben Smith, do 560 70
" Jacob Hainse, do 33 73
" Casper Kleckner do Lehigh Ward 278 38
Paid Daniel \Viand work on street, 9 3
Paid Samuel Horn filling up Ludwig's
alley • - - - -
Paid Nathan Laudenschlager, Iron
Lamp Posts, - - - • -
Paid J. F. Ruhe, taking census of
Borough.- - - - -
Paid P. & H. Storch setting Curbs op
posite the Court House and at La.
fayette Snyder's, - -
Paid Jacob Foelker, setting Curbs,
Paid Elias Mertz, surveying &c. in
Lehigh Ward, - -
Adolph Aschbach, Engineering,
Draughtihg, &c., - -
Paid Sundry assistant Engineers,
Paid Joseph Geuther, Sett Engineer
ing Instruments, - -
Paid repairing Fire Plug, -
Paid T. %O'er & Co.. Fire Plugs, -
Paid Samuel Beidleman, repairs
Hook and Ladder no
P.m nnuogue Serril, 1000 feet
ma
Paid J. Young & Son for Columbia
Hose Carriage, nape, &c.. - -
Paid appropiation for Good Will Hose
Carriage,
Paid James H. Bush, Fire Bell and
Freight. - - - - -
Paid Mifflin Hannum, publishing
Borough account &c., - -
Paid Blumer• Bush & CO., Printing,
&c.,
Paid J. W. 'Wilson, P,inting,
Paid Jacob Eltrig, Police Salary on
account,
NO. 42 WEST HAiNIILTON STREET,
• ALLENTOWN, PA.
a Uilimala 6111111D,41---VINIELII aTI Taivaguiz4
84 22
$12619 95
358 84
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120 00
25 00
80 82
11 05
SALLN .li,AGIIS,
Tim Woman Wot linow•s how to Manage time Men,
Well, here I be ; wake snakes, the day's 'a
breakin' ; now I'se:set my eyes on a good many
strange things in my day, but this gettin' mar
ried business beats everything I ever did see.—
It goes ahead of Sam Fling, when he wanted to
buy one of my cheeses to make a grindstun.—
Egg
159 95
40 70
280 00
45 00
710 00
But there's Mrs. Fletcher, she's three parts
a natural born fool, and Vother part is as soft
as biled cabbage. A woman that don't stand up
for her rights is a disgrace to my sect. how
any man . should ever want to marry such a
molasses candy critter as she is, is one of the
secrets of human natur. And as to handsome
—handsome never stood in her shoes. For sho
looks as if she'd break in two if she tried to lift
a pot of potatoes. I suppose her fingers were
made to play the pianny.
300 55
355 00
215 27
23 50
13 78
0 50
11G 00
105 00
" Now, it's my notion, when a woman gives
a man her hand, it ought to ho big enough to
hold her heart at the same time. Such a hand
as mine is worth giving, for I can stop a bung
hole with my thumb, and I've done it too.
" I went into Fletcfier's this morning, and
true as I am a virtuous woman, he was busing
on her like a dog for lending his receipt book
to Miss Brown, who's fond of reading. I spose
he didn't keer for the receipts that was written
in the book, but it was the receipts that wasn't
EMI
25 20
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19 91
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135 G
800
Mere, and ought to be, that stuck into his
crop. And Mrs. Fletcher hung dawn her head,
and looked for all the world like a duck in a
4 50
GO
thunder-storm. I just put my arms agin my
sides, looked her man right in the eye till he
looked as white as a corpse. It's always a way
everybody's:got when I fixes my eye on 'em.—
And the way my looks white-washed his brazen
faccovas better than slacked lime. There says
I to Mrs. Fletcher, says I your husband had
ought to had me for a wife. When my man
was alive, he'd no more think of saying noth
ing imperdent to:me, than he'd take the black
sow by. the tail when she's nursin her pigs ;
and.you must lain to stick up to your man jest
like. anew hair=brush.
458 8G
9800 00
2475 00
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81700 14
" I never found any debility in managing
these critters, for I always teached 'cm whi's
sarce for the goose is sarce for the gander.—
There's no two ways•with me ; all of size,
stub-twisted ; and made of horse-shoe nails.—
I'm chock full of grit, and a rough post for any
ono to rub their backs again ; any gal like me,
what can take a bag of meal on her shoulder
and tote it to mill, ought to be able to shake
any man of my heft. Some think I ought to
get married, and two or three has tried to spark
it with me, but I never listens to none of their
flattery. Though there was Blarney Bob came
flatterfyin' me like a tub of new butter. For
I've no notion of being trammelled up in their
halters of hymens. I likes my liberty, and
wants no halters or bridles put upon me.
" Sam Mooney was shinin' up to me too ;
and then there's Jim Sweetbread, the butcher ;.
but ho didn'•t find me half enough for his
market. It isn't everything that sticks its leg
thro' broad cloth that's going to carry ofra gal
of my spirit, My charms ain't to be had for
the bare axing.
• " Gettin' married is a serious thing, as I telled
my old man when I was wallopin' him with a
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ALLENTOWN, PA., APRIL 25, 1855
~Sn iriil.
I SAW lIER IN CABBAGE TIME
13P.SLOct3E SLUGS, ESQ
I saw her first in cabbage time,
She was a cutting crout—
She'd stoji the cutter, now and then,
To turn a head about t. •
And as she'd salt it in a tub;
And stamp it down awhile,
Upon her fresh and rosy lip
Reposed a witching smile;
I saw her next in winter time,
And still she gaily smiled
For there upon the cooking stove,
Her grub was being b'iled.
Around the huge and greasy pot,
The steam came pouring out :
And from the smell, I knew that she
Was cooking " speck" and trout.
When next I saw her, in the spring,
She smiled not as before ;
A heavy weight was on her heart—
The trout was " all no more !!' •
The pot she used to cook it in
Was eaten up with rust ;
. The cutter hung upon the wall,
'Mid spider webs and dust.
I've seen her often since that time,
When all around were gay—
When others laughed and talked the mos
She'd frown and turn away, •
I've watched to see a ray of joy ;
But watched, alas ! in vain—
I never hope to see her smit ,
Till cabbage time again !
311iffrrilrititatiri.
le only said beans to me, I made him jump
•ound like it stumptail cow in fly time.
leg of mutton, because he took my shoe-brush
to clean his teeth with. Wherever there is n
nose, there is a mouth not far off; and that
proves that natur has given woman her rights
as well as man."
MIA RID TIMES.
If We look around and see the immense sums
which men waste on cock-tails, tobacco and
spittoons, we should wonder not that we have
bad times now.and then, but that we ever have
* anything else. Let us look at sonic of the
fingers.
According to the census of 1840, 1,500,000
persons, one•fourth of the entire population of
the United States, were engaged in raising and
manufacturing tobacco—and at the present
time we raise not less than 200,000,000
pounds. And if we take into account the
waste of land and labor in raising it, the ex
pense attending its manufacture and traffic,
with the loss of time occupied in sinoking and
chewing it, and the consequent idleness and
indolence it begets, $40,000,000 would be a
low estimate of the present annual loss to the
nation ; a sum sufficient to provide every dis
trict in our country with a free church and
every pauper with a free home.
The consumption of cigars alone in the city
New York, in 1854, was computed at $17,000
a day, while the whole city paid $8,500 for
bread ; this would be $3,G50,000 a year for
cigars alone. The Erie Canal, three hundred
and sixty-f Our miles long, the longest in the
world, with its eighteen aqueducts and eighty
four locks, was made in six years, and cost but
little over $7,000,000. The cigar bill of the
city of New York would have paid the whole, ( 4)
two years.
if a line of Atlantic steamers, the pride of the
ocean, were all sunk, how soon would the cigar
money of that city rebuild the whole ! It is a
very moderate cigar smoker who spends only
six cents a day ; and yet it amounts to $21,90
a year—a sum which would be called an enor
mous tax if laid un a young man for the pur
poes of government, or the support of religious
r"`Luc
Luc u sametrifling sum, if put to interest,
would in thirty years amount to *3,539 30, a
sum sufficient to stock him with a nice little
farm, four yoke of oxen, a trotting horse and
peach orchard. When will men learn to place
proper value on things ? When will they dis
cover that he is a fool who spends twenty-one
dollars a year fur the purpose of keeping his '
shirt-front sciled with tobacco squirtings ? We
pause for a reply: Who will send it ?—Alb.
Knick.
N:b pokollll.
Napoleon's mighty shade rests there ;
On St. Helena's shore lie (40 ;
Ambition all desolved in air,
And phantom glories by his side.
Who can write the epitaph of that man of
Destiny ? Passes his mighty spirit from earth
forever, and lo ! the artillery of nature• roars
forth his funeral dirge: the storm cloud rains
tears of sorrow over his fallen ambition, while
the lightning spear of the Almighty engraved
on the annals of Napoleon :—" All is vanity."
On a bleak and lowly inlet of the dark rolling
ocean, the great desolator of kingdoms ended
his eventful days. He who recklessly deluged
the fairest portion of our globe, with the blood
of her slauF,htercd sons, rested awhile on that
barren spot, ns one not to be remembered. The
mighty imperial exile, who ere awhile, had
made monarch's tremble in their capitols, re
signed himself to his sad fate, with all the
sternness of a true hero, and laughed to scorn
his insulting captors. Immured in that little
principality of Albion's empire he was, yet,
truly the last dread captive of millions in war.
Bathe mighty exile's epitaph is written:—
" There he lies."
lie who made the fairest part of the world a
wilderness and deitreyed the cities thereof, lies
where all the kings of earth, even all of them lie
in their glory. •
With all the firmness and perseverance which
exalted science gives, the boy of Corsica rose to
the highest pinnicle of worldly ambition he
arose, and still aspiring, by aspiring fell.
Napoleon's sun arose with blood red battle
sto P rms. As a poor boy he first wandered in
the street of Paris. Soon afterwaids he appears
a pale stripling in the drawing•room. Next an
assistant leader of the dread artillery at Troulon.
The general of the armies of Italy, he crossed
the snow-capped Alps, and fights the memora
ble battles of Lodi, Arcola and Marengo.
The infatuated Frenchmen follow their gene
ral. Austerlitz, Jena; Friendland, Eylan tells,
cf the presence of the terrible invader.' Russia,
now, falls for a moment into his power, and is
saved only because the blast of boreas and snow
fight her battles for her.
Leipsic at length beheld under her walls the
three days combat, which result in the first fall
of the hitherto invincible marauder, who is
exiled to, Elba, a petty island of the Mediterra
nean.
Like n meteor of war he appears °rice more
on the plains of far famed Waterloo, to find the
charin of his invincibility broken forever. He
is now sent an exile to the Rock of St. Helena,
to escape no more
"Sic transit gloria mundi."
So thought the mighty exile, as he stood on
the shore of his sea-girt prison. Such was the
end of his glories won on ever memorable battle
Such was the setting of that sun which was
to rise, now no more forever. Napoleon sleeps
soundly in the land he loved—the land of his
ambition—fair France. He sleeps to wake not
till the lasCtiumpet wakes the dead.
I=ME MEI
Economy in a Family.
There is nothing goes so far toWards plac.
ing young people beyond the reach of poverty,
as economy in the management of their domes
tic aflltirs. It matters not whether a man fur
nishes little or much for his family, if there is
a continual leakage in his kiylen or in the
parlor, it runs away he knows not. how ; and
that demon Waste cries " More !" like the
horse-leech's daughter, until he that provided
has no more to give. It is the husband's duty
to bring into the house, and it is the duty of
the wife to see that none goes wrongfully out
of it. A man gets a wife to look after his
affairs, and to assist hiin in his journey through
life ; to educate and prepare his children for a
proper station in life, and not to dissipate
his property. The husband's interest should
be the wife's care, and her greatest ambition
carry her no further than his welliwe or happi•
ness, together with that of her children. This
should be her sole aim, and the theatre of her
exploits in the bosom of her family, where she
may do as much-towards making a fortune as
he can in the counting-room or the work-shop.
It is not the money earned that makes a man
wealthy—it is what he saves from his earnings.
Self gratification in dress, or indulgence in ap
petite, or more company than his purse cari
Well entertain, are equally pernicious. The
first adds vanity to extravagance, the second
fastens a doctor's bill to a long butcher's ac
kiwat.(jainklitkalltter b my r i n. i2leinnsratme
zu Lr t , ,1) ga • I
Etiquette.
The National Intelligenccr has a correspon
dent who procures a series of numbers on this
subject :
1. Before you bow to a lady in the street,
permit her to decide whether you may do so or
not, by tit least a look of recognition.
2.. Excuse my glove,' is an unnecessary
apology ; for the glove should not be withdrawn
to shake hands.
3. When 'your companion bows to a lady,
you should do the same. [When a gentleman
bows to a lady in your company always bow to
him in return.]
TREATMENT or Fautr TREES.—MR. EDITOR :
—I herein propose giving you the manner of
treating fruit trees, particularly the peach and
plum, so as to make them bear, and if suitable
to appear in your well prepared columns, you
are at liberty to use it.
The following treatment. of fruit trees was
communicated to me, by a lover of good fruit,
who has taken great pains to have plenty of
fruit, and that whichois . good, In the begin
ningsof the month of April, take a handful of
rock salt, and put around the roots, close to
the trunk of the tees. ' Then leave the trees
until the firSt of May, when a good coat of limo
should be,applied to the bodies of the trees.—
At the same time, make a strong decoction of
hickory wood, ashes and water, by boiling them
together, and apply this plentifully to the roots
of the trees, by pouring it around them while
in a boiling state. This will kill the worms
and insects, or prevent them from injuring the,
trees... After trees have been acted on a few
timesin this . manner, the bark becomes smooth
er, anit the knots, of young trees which aro
found particularly on the plum, will disappear.
The trees grow snore thriftily, and bear double
the cpiathity of fruit they would without the
application.
It is often a complaint among many farmers
that their peach and plum trees will not do any
good, but if they will try this simple applica
tion, their complaints will . cease. One of my
neighbors who had 'several plum and peach
trees and who I hnd tried various ways to make
them bear without effect, determined on cut
ting them clown ; but aft'er somo persuasion,
last spring, he was induced to givo this mode
a fair trial. The result was that his trees were
loaded with good fruit, and instead of having to
buy; he had considerable to sell.
Let each of your readers try it, and see if it
does not produce the desired effect.
LEACUED ASTIE9.-111iS makes an excellent
top•dressing for grass lands, but w -sh(4ild
rather recommend 'Mi them wit compost,
or introducing. them as an ingr ient in the
compost heap. "Leached ashes re so_mettia'q
used with , success on onion ds, and around
•oung apple and other fraLtcees. " They
should never be thrown away. /1
Suggestion for Me Farmer.
STONE POSTS.—Never set stone posts on
lands liable to " heave." In such places they
aro a source of perpetual annoyance and ex
pense,—swaying to and• fro, and very often
breaking the boards, or "warping" them to
such an extent that they can never be again
brought back to their original straightness, or
made efibctually to subserve the purpose for
which they are designed. Op elevated lands,
not liable to be operated on by heaving, good
stone posts are preferable to all others: The .
extra cost is but a trifle, and-in economical es+
timates should not be • allowed a feather's
weight, as it is a more cypher compared with
the superior durability of the article.
Wooden Posts should be set with the tops
down. As much of the length as is to be in:
sorted in the soil, should be - charred. Gather
your posts together in the woods, and having
heaped them together over vpile of combusti
ble matter with top ends resting upon each
other over the centre of the mass, heap on a
few armsful of the same dry material, and ap
ply firs. The fuel may be renewed from timer
to time till the posts are sufficiently charred,
when they may be withdrawn. Tho bark, of
course, should be first removed. In this Way,
the work may be speedily and economically per
formed.. In setting posts on lands that are lia
ble to heave, dig post holes quite large, and fill'
in with spent tanner's baik. This does not
heave with the expansive force of the frost, and
will aid in keeping the fence perpendicular.—
All the bark should beremoved from the posts
before setting them. A good coat of tar oil
tends greatly to the preservation aboveground.
MANI:M.—Keep your manure heaps covered.
If you have no manure shed, or cellar, sprinkle•
the heaps frequently in the spring with gypsum,
charcoal dust, {sitriol water or sulphuric acid.
In this way you may easily save many dollars.
Cf:T.T..t 113. —Open and ventilate your cellar
the first warm day that occurs ; it is a sanitary
measure which may save you a long doctor's
bill, and will tend to preserve your potatoes, if
closely packed, and other esculents.
Seams.—Plant and sow none but the best.—
If
you discover a head of wheat or an ear of
corn ripening in advance of the rest of the crop
watch and save it to propagate from. In this
way the maturation of many vegetables has
been forward many days, and, in some cases,
weeks. The largest and best developed spe
cimens from your several field crops, are
those which should be selected and reserved for
'seed. Attention to this important matter will
cost but little, yet be productive of incalcula- -
le benefits in the long run. I need not give
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the observation ; every one can adduce them for
himself, doubtless from his own experience.
ANIMALS.—Let the butcher take, your SClllg
gy yearlings and older cattle, your coarse wool
ed lambs and slab-sided calves. Like the lean:
kind of the dreamer of old, they will do--
your the fat, or rather the food which should .
be reserved for thorn, and give you no equivolent
in return. A poor animal is always a pro
f' tless animal, and the sooner one is rid of such,
the better it will be both for his credit as a
farmer, and for his purse. There is no com
promising the matter—no side issues, as tho
politicians say, to be Weighed or taken• in the
estimate.
SroxEs.—As soon as the frost is out of the
ground, set your boys and hired helps to. clean
ing off the cobble stones from your stubble
lands. Do not pick into heaps, but into a cart,
I and convey them from the field at once. I
I would almost prefer not to pick them, to pick
ing and piling them into heaps on the ,land.—
Such accumulations are always in the way of
after husbandry. Besides, the labor of con
structing stone heaps, is labor thrown away.
You will do well to remember this fact.
THE llEssur.—you should not neglect the'
excrementitious contents of the Itenery in se-'
curing manurial applications for your intended
crops. There should be no stone or wooden
floor to this structure ; the fowls want the
fresh soil to stand upon, and every spring you
may remove from two to four inches of the sur
face to put under your corn. It is a species of
domestic guano, rich in fertilizing matters, and
of hie most salutary effects, , When pure, it
should be mixed with a large proportion of
' wood ashes and loath before being applied.
'Armen Cows.—lf you . . (lesiro your cows to
yield-liberally to the pail, you must feed them
with something.better suited to the secretion of
rich milk than dry provender. Chopped roots,
or meal slops of some kind, should be given to
them twice a day at least, say morning and
evening. They should also be provided with
littered beds, dry lodgings—moderately "warm
—be regularly watered thrice each day, just'
before being fed—be curried or. combed once •
day, and salt, with occasionally a little ashes
or fine bon%dust mixed, two or three times a
week. They also like a variety of- food.—
Roots, cut or rasped and mixed with cut hay or
straw, then stirred and left for an hour ortwo,
make a mess . which they will oat very. greeslily.
We think that hardly attention enough is given
to the bedding of cows, as the morn quiet and
comfortable they are, the less food will be re
quired to sustain the system, and may there- _
lure go to produce flesh or milk. A gentleman
who has constantly employed •several pairs of
working oxen for many years, states that oxen
will travel fifteen miles a day, littered down at •
night, as easily as twelve miles and lie ufron
the bare floor. If this statement 'be correct,.
and it seems to us consistent—it is pietty
portant matter that all our cattlo are well vitt
vided for in this resvct..
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