RAKINGS.
Never attempt to cultivate wet
land with a green crop. If draining
wi not pay, working wet land never
wi
Ler sheep-keepers shorten the tails
of nine-tenths of the dogs, say to with-
in an inch or an inch and a half of the
ears.
THERE is always a little doubt about
what seed will “produce, and always
must be. With cions and cuttings there
18 no uncertainty.
oO oiuiy lidar
FiNp me a chicken:
ken; fancier, who at
the same times likes fruit:g rowing, and
I would advise him to plant prunes and
_ plums in his poultry ranges.
. How many men would escape a dull,
lifeless old age, if they would, in the
decline of life, take an interest in the
culture of flowers, or some similar
‘pleasant pursuit.
PROMINENT among qur exchanges
‘we find “Vick’s Flo Buide, Noo 3,
for.1876. It is full of delightful reading
for all lovers of flowers, and superbly
‘printed and illustrated.
No man having a farm or village
lot should neglect to plant fruit trees
and grape vines. Every corner and
waste place should be occupied by a
tree or vine to bear fruit,
. & Chester county “orchardist, had in-
tended to graft some of his _trees over
-again, but limed heavily under them,
and that brought them to perfection—
a thing worth knowing,
_ Every writer and every farmer who
‘has tried it, so far as we have been
able to learn, favors harrowing wheat
in, the spring after, the ground has
settled. Rolling may be done earlier.
How are the cellars—have they been
cleared of vegetables and all: rubbish
such as boards, barrels, and boxes?
The health of the household depends
much on having pure air underneath
the roorhs,
I nave found coal tar. the best cov-
ering for stumps of large. limbs or
spots where the trunk is barked-by
whiffle-trees. Having used it a few
years since, I found the wounds healed
over finely.
"THE sea gathers waters from a thou-
sand tributaries. So an agricultural
paper gathers knowledge, experience,
wisdom, from hundreds of intelligent,
practical correspondents, and from
other agricultural papers, .and thus
furnishes an exhoush store of infor-
mation to the farmer.
..FarMERs are greatly improving in
observing with more care what is going
on under their own eyes, and are re-
porting it with more care, as we often
remarked and heard remarked at the
meetings we tttanded the past winter.
This.is an indication of progress and
improvement.
Now for the dogs. If you keep one
yourself tie him at night, and shoot
every strange dog you find prowling
around your sheep-pen at night. If
you, occasionally put out a bait with
strychnine in it, it will do its work
noiselessly, but none the less effectually.
Any dog that is worth having is worth
keeping at home. We have one that
we would not give for the best cow in
this neighborhood ; yet if he is caught
in bad company and gets killed, we
will not blame the one who shoots him.
Tur celebrated farmer, John John-
ston of Geneva, New York, says he
has used plaster every year since he
came on his farm, now fifty-four
years ; and it has done wonders for
him on corn, clover and grass. The
first he used was on corn, soaking the
corn in water, then mixing it with
plaster when wet. He planted the
plastered corn, and a hired man plan-
ted the corn that was not plastered.
When the corn was up, that which
was plastered was stronger and better
colored than the other. It kept ahead
throughout the season, and when ripe
a blind man could have told the differ-
ence by feeling the stalks and ears,
HEeroEs are scarce, but the man who
.. can. make poverty respectable is one
of them.
[ Continued from 1st page.]
To this must be added compound in-
terest on the land occupied by these
fences, equal by careful calculation to
$10.22 per year.
To this again there must be added |
the year’s loss upon the land taken up
by lanes, that would be farmed were it
not for the fences at the sides, which
amounts to 148} rods of land. This
at $60.00 per acre amounts to $55.68,
the compound interest on which for
twenty years would be $122.89. This
divided by twenty would give a yearly
loss of $6.14. There yet remains the
item of yearly repairs, a matter,
as every farmer very well knows, of
no inconsiderable consequence in esti-
mating his annual expense. Owing to
the great difference of opinion among
farmers as to the amount of this ex-
pense, and in the absence of any cor-
rect data from which to discover it, I
have been compelled to estimate; and
preferring to err by an under rather
thanby an over estimate, have sup
posed that an average of at least $5.00
per year would be expended in these
repairs,
We have then as the total cost per
year of ten hundred and twenty-four
rods of fence, not including taxes, gates
or cost of clearing fence rows, the sum
of $202.29, an amount equal to the net
yearly income from upwards of thirty-
six acres of wheat; or by losing this
amount for twenty years you will have
lost $5,845.80. In other words a young
man buying a farm of one hundred and
eighty acres, at $60.00 per acre could
in twenty years pay $5,845.80 by sim-
ply doing without his inside fences.
Startling as these statements are
they by no means tell the entire truth.
There are circumstances of inconve-
‘nience and loss of time, although com.
monly overlooked, or considered as but
trifles by farmers, which are so directly
chargeable to the inside fences, that
I would be neglecting my duty to yo
and be unfair in my treatment of the
subject were I to pass them by without
attention. Farmers, in a general sort
of way, know that it takes somewhat
longer in proportion to the number of
acres, to plow a small field, than a
large one. But few ever calculate just
how much is thus lost, or investigate
the cause? .
[Here the Prof. enters into a long,
elaborate and most carefully prepared
calculation, which we are compelled to
omit for want of room, by which he
shows a loss of $63.44 each year
that a farmer puts out a crop, in turn-
ing alone, . A loss that would have
been, saved had he simply taken out
the fences dividing fields in which the
same crops are grown. EpiTor.]
[To BE coNTINUED.]
No, stock should be allowed to wan-
der ayer the meadows. This is doubly
injurioys, . It destroys the grass and
spoils the aypetite of the animals for
dry feed. Nothing is gained but much
is lost by this practice. The ground
is also “poached,” and quagmires are|
formed in.low springy spots where the
first grass. appears.
THE. most, profitable hog is that
which will grow, you the most, pounds
of pork at ten months old for a given
amount of food. This will require an
early maturing breed, and one that
utilizes its food to the greatest extent.
The Berkshire, or Essex, or Suffolk,
in health, will do this.
ER .
THERE is no profit in feeding stock
that is past its prime. It is a waste of
feed and money. Old animals form
the bulk of the stock upon many
farms. The young animals are sold
off. This isthe reverse of what is wise
and profitable.
1776. MONTGOMERY & 00,1876.
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Will not be undersold in anything in our
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steck of Hats in Central Penngylyania.
SHIRTS A SPECIALTY.
Grain taken in exchange for merchandise—
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SCHROYER & SON
SEs 0 Bre selling hens
very low for cash, They have just filled their
ware-rooms with new style, Bed room Sets.
Call before you buy or you will miss it.
UNDERTAKING GOODS
always on hand, and funerals attended with a
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street, opposite McClures saddler shop before
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GROCERIES! . GROCERIES!
GREAT EXCITEMENT!
: Over great. reduction (in: prices at the
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Humes’s block next door to Post Office. The
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lowest possible cash basis and are determined
not to be undersold. We claim for the fol-
lowing reasons to be able to sell at small
profits : 1st, we pay small rent, 2d, we pay no
salaries, 3d, we let the price and quality of our
goods ndvertise for themselves, 4th, we are
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The Popular Centennial Eeverage
BOWER’S MEAD
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ity Manufactured, from the :
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.. SPOUTING A SPECIALTY,
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. Near, Howard, Centre County, Pa.
have just opened in their .
NEW. STORE .-ROOM AN ENTIRE NEW
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consisting in. part of
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS,
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS,
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© +. ware, &ec., &c.
Will"'be: sold ‘at bottom prices for cash, or
in exchange for produce.
othing, Mats, Hard-|
THOMAS A. HICKS & BRO.,
[Successors to Wilson & Hicks.]
Wholesale and Retail
HARDWARE DEALERS,
Iron, Paints, Oil, Glass, §c,
Builder’s Hardware.
Coach Miker’s Goods.
STOVES OF ALL KINDS.
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WHERE YOU WILL FIND
A GOOD VARIETY
a of all kinds of
FURNITURE AND WALL PAPER,
at a great reduction of prices.
SPRING STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
W. McCLELLAN,
Merchant Tailor.
Clothing made ‘at the. Shortest
Notice and in the most Fash-
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BROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
BELLEFONTE,
PA.
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Bellefonte, Pa.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Flour, Feed,
and dealers in
ALL KINDS OF GRAIN.
The highest market price paid for
WHEAT, RYE, :
CORN, OATS, &C.
BOOTS, SHOES & LEATHER.
‘GRAHAM & SON
Have, without exception, the largest and best
Stok of shliis is mut
Boots © Shoes
in Centre county. -- We have the exclusive
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in Bellefonte, the best in the world, 8 widths.
In addition to our stock of Boots and Shoes
we have a splendid assortment of Sole
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Findings.
Bellefonte, Pa.
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Dealers in
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS,
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
HAT, CAPS, &c.
100 000 Bushels of ‘Grain wanted atthe
’ . highest cash priees.
Spring Street, Bellefonte, Pa.
It will pay you to go to
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on Alleghany Street, next door to Hicks &
Bro’s., Hardware Emporium. A full stock of
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS
constantly on hand. "All the, leading Patent
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vee Y —IN— ‘ : 5
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