CORRESPONDENCE.
To The Publishing Committee of Centre
Farmer: —
GENTLEMEN:—-In the first number
of our Society paper, the CENTRE FAg-
MER, which was just reached me, I find
an invitation extended to farmers to
contribute to its columns, and I freely
accept it with a view to giving expres-
sion to some random thoughts:
I am glad to see by the announce-
ment in the first column that we are to
have ‘a fair this fall. Having ‘heard
some few of our members express -an
opinion that because of the «Big
Show” at Philadelphia this year we
should not attempt to hold a” fair, I
feared that the Executive Committee
might so decide, but am glad to notice
that my fears were unfounded. It is
true, that the Philadelphia show
eclipses any that we may "be able to
make, and it is also true .that many of
our people will visit it, and that to
them, ours will seem tame, but in this
I can find only reasons why we should
endeavor to have a better and larger
fair than ever before. While many of
our farmers can visit the Centennial,
and will be greatly benefitted, a very
much larger number, will, for various
reasons, be compelled to deny them-
selves this privilege, and for their sakes,
our fair should go on as usual. Be-
sides those who do visit the Centennial,
will be just as anxious to see what pro-
gress we have made at home during the
year, as though the “Big Show’’ had
not been held. By all means go on
with our fair, and let the Executive
Committee, and all interested in the
management of the Society, exert
themselves more than ever before to
make it one worthy of the Centennial
Anniversary of our National Birthday.
And now, although but a private
member of our Society, may I make a
suggestion or two in regard to the
management of the next fair, in the
interests of the public; if it be possible,
there should be some change in the
management for getting in and out of
the fair grounds. The gates for enter-
ing and leaving the grounds seem ill-
placed, compelling the lines of the in-
going and out-coming vehicles to cross
each other near the gates thuwsiig much
delay and vexation. It seems to me
that this could be obviated by proper
effort, and I know the change would
be appreciated by the public.
Again, could not very much of the
delay and crowding in the street be-
tween the glass works and the entrance
gate, which caused so much discomfort
on Thursday of last year, be obviated
by selling tickets at some stated place
in town for, say, two weeks or more,
before the fair?
I see that the Premium List is to be
published in one of the numbers of
your paper, and presume it is time yet
to suggest improvements in it. I have
not now the time, nor would you grant
me the space to write a dissertation on
the evils of horse-racing, even if I
were disposed to do so, which Iam not;
but under all the circumstances, I re-
spectfully submit that it would be well
to dispense with this feature of our
fuirs, as at present conducted, and de-
vote the money which has been hercto-
fore expended in this direction, te
giving larger premiums in our regular
stock department.
YOURS ¥OR THE FAIR, X.
Potter Township, June 30, 76.
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Ir the prizes for walking horses,
distributed at Philadelphia, tend to
draw the attention of breeders to the
development of excellence in this gait,
the Centennial will not be held in vain.
A prracricAL farmer from the far
West says that seed oats soaked in
strong brine before sowing produces a
much more satisfactory crop than seed
which has not been soaked; he has
also found salt beneficial to both rye
and wheat.
A CoNVENIENT LAND MEASURE. —
To aid farmers in arriving at accuracy
in estimating the amount of land in
different fields under cultivation, the
following table is given :
b yards wide by 968 long contains 1 acre.
10 yards wide by 484 long contains 1 acre.
20 yards wide by 242 long contains 1 acre.
40 yards wide by 121 long contains 1 acre.
70 yards wide by 6914 long contains 1 acre.
80 yards wide by 6014 long contains 1 acre.
60 feet wide by 726 long contains 1 acre.
110 feet wide by 397 long contains 1 acre.
130 feet wide by 863 long contains 1 acre,
220 feet wide by 198 long contains 1 acre.
240 teet wide by 18114 long contains 1 acre.
440 feet wide by 99 long contains 1 acre.
“TIDYING UP.”
There are two necessary jobs that
appeal to the taste of every rural
dweller, that come as regularly as
house-cleaning time, and as surely as
the advent of the “potato-bug.” "The
first is planting, and the second clean-
ing up. No matter how extensive may
be the first of these, whether large or
small, the latter may not be disregard-
ed in any particular, provided one has
any pretension to true taste. = It will
not do to hastily.pick off a few scat-
tering sticks and straws, dig over the
flower-beds, and then fold our hands
with supreme satisfaction at the com-
pletion of our Spring work. Every
tree and shrub of small size must be
dug around care!ully. Use a piece of
twine, fasten one end loosely to the
body of the plant, and with a sharp
pointed stick at the other describe an
accurate circle to serve as the outer
edge of our work. Be thus particular
in everything we undertake. Trim the
edges of the walks and beds as neatly
as possible. Give the walks a good
hoeing and raking. Rake the beds
evenly and smoothly after planting,
and never let a weed show itself there-
after. Do not forget to prune the
shrubs into shape, or in after years
they will be sure to remind you of the
oversight by a profusion of long, bare
stems,
Soar-sups may be used with great
advantage for manuring grapevines or
any other fruit.
The Popular Centennial Beverage
BOWER’S MEAD
BEST IN TOWN,
Also, Mineral Waters,
ONLY 5 CENTS A GLASS,
at ZELLERS'S DRUG STORE,
No. 6 Brockerhoff Row.
See other advertisement in this paper.
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