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NEW SERIES—VOL. XVIII, NO 45.

Agricultural Superstitions—Horace (JrccIoj's Address at the Itockport l'air. Thc annual spring exhibition of tIn*

Uronkport Union Agricultural Society

was held at the grounds a little south

east cif the vi 11 :itr«*, mi Saturday, Mr.

(Jreeley delivered an address on tlu- oc

casioii, which the llochestcr K.-jn-rgs re

ports as follows: Mr. 11n-eloy began by remarking that l'

the Apostle l'aul astonished his elegant mill learned audience oin-e by introducing his serinmi, "Ve men of Athens, 1 preeeive that ye are altogether too superstitious." In the same way Mr. (Ireeley sniil he would say that American farmers weie too superstitious: they stand too long hy old forms after the spirit that* animated them and the necessity for their existence has ceased. There are a great many practices among fanners which they have inherited from their lathers— practices for which there used to be reasons, that now no longer exist. The subjcct announced bv Mr. (ireeley was.

Agricultural superstitions of American farmers.'' One of the most prominent of these \vas our pasturage system, i'astorial life has its place in the growth of eivi/atiou. It is the first step from the slate of savaireism, which owns nothing, to ••'•property, intelligence and general prosperity and civilization. When men emerge from barbarism, they have not liny better use for the land than to herd and pasture tame cattle upon it. That is a step in advance of hunting wild cattle over it. Land is worth little or notliin and pasturing it. wasteful as it -simplest way of making it produce something. lint American farmers—we of the Fast. at least and you of western

This soiling system would do away with the great amount of fencing nowneeded, which, heavy as other taxes are, costs leore than all together. Allied to pasturage is the superstition of wanting too much land. This comes of our being the sons of pioneers. When they came into the country land was cheap and labor was dear. Hence they grasped all the land they could get, and held on to it until they should be able to work it. That might have been, and perhaps was, I good policy for our fathers but it won't '•i'* do for u*- Here land is dear, and if a man hn a hundred acres lie has a heavy f, capital in\estcd, which he can not let re- ». liijin long without making the most of it.

No man should have more than half his capital invested inland. If he has only 8:1,(10(1, let him pay 81,5011 for his farm, and u^e the balance to stock it, and make the most of it. That is a great deal better than laying it all out in land, having -'J' to buy his stock on credit, running in debt always at the store, and "living undtsr the harrow," a slave to his land, and ir ,c with haidly any possibility of improving it •v' 'j, If any one has such a farm, and can't veil part of it, and don't want to gi.ve it awaj. he cull let part of it lie while he *•-, thoroughly improves one. or

his ],resent one, and which only needbringing u]) to be his. When a man has increased the depth of his soil to twenty inches or two feet, he will find that he can grow more corn, or potatoes, or wheat on his farm of fifty acres than his nciglibjr can on his farm of one hundred acres. half that depth. And the man with fifty acres will only pay half the seed, half the labor, and half the taxes that lii*

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New York -have advanced beyond that. vl.and is worth too much here, and near all l.uae cilie-'. to be roamed over and irampl'id do»sn by cattle which eat only the '/Miner and better grasses and leave the coarser tor seed, besides destroying more of both than they eat. Wherever land ... .. ,, ,.

sells for one hundred dollars an acre, it .. ,,

:lover. sowed corn, duciiig vegetables.

center ol the larm as po»slble, to which food could be brought every day during

could be too poor to farm at nil. None but a very rich man could afford to be a poor fanner. The poor man could not afford to raise twenty bushels of to the acre he must raise fifty. The poor man could not afford to rai.-e weeds or thistles, or niullens. He must make the most of everything lie has. if a man is poor he need not be a poor farmer, but if be is a poor farmer now he probably

I will be a iioor man the future.

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is worth a great deal too much to pasture. •. ... •. ,, .,, ..... ,, the oroltts and pleasures ol lariimiLr when :ittie will run over 111ty acres, but could ... conducted on the best systems. here be kent on hall the land bv cutting and

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many

•j."'* ncres a- he can manage. There is no greatui mistake than for a farmer to think because he has so much land that lie lniut therefore work so much. If he will lut it alone, and keep cattle out, it will grow more valuable timber without tiouble, that will be worth more, and leave the land better, than his old policy of rai-ing four crops on it. This matter of ui-inir timber needs to be better cared

for. Taking the forest off has left our lands exposed to bleak and driving winds and has aggravated the disadvantages of our hot, dry summers, and bleak, cold winters. Lack of forests has narrowed the ftuit region, and is constantly narrowing it More forest must be raised, and those of tlio host kind of timber. Where cattle run in the woods, they cat up the best timber, the hard maples, etc., and then leave the hemlocks and poorer kinds. It should be the farmer's business to reverse this—keep his cattle out and go in himself, planting good treei and culling out and burning, or otherwise destroying the poor ones. Our hot, dry summers, need a different and deeper system of stirring the soil than we have yet

had. American farmers are mostly descendants of emigrants from the northeastern part of Kurope, the shores and islands. This is one of the liioistest climates in the world, jet our farmers keep on in the old policy, stirring the soil only a few inches in depth. The result is that in the drouths that conic every summer, lr land is parchcd and baked, and the crops perish and wither away, literally because "there is no depth there. A drouth to dcstioy crops ought to be unknown.

Where roots can ruu two feet deep, as they will if they have a decent chance, they never suffer. This porous, loose soil to such a depth receives and retains a great amount of moisture, sud the dry mg which parch the top do not reach it.

Hvcry farmer who owns fifty acres ought to know he has another fifty acres under

reason why there should be any

Mr (iree I "".'-'- part of the land sub-j

,, ," I soiled, under drained, and enriched,!

.-.ley would not wholly supersede pasturing ,, ,, I a but his pastures would he a lot ol tour a a or live acres on high land, as near the 1- ,, I

the summer. I his lot should be provid- I ., a sheds lor the protection ol the .. ..

ed with sheds for the protection block from the storm. The manure could be gathered and surcad evenly on the oilier lots in the best possible condition, instead of being dried and wasted us is usually the case now. More stock i": ould be kept, more manure, made, and more land devoted to the most profitable crops, instead of being rui\ over as now.

I a iv in a ii

it. They must run under it with

a a

Mi.

I'uderdraining is one

of the essentials of good farming. There is no land that is worth Working, which jit will not pay tu iindcrdrain. If it is too dry. underdraining will make it moist.

draining allows the air to circulate thro' the soil, where in hot, dry weather, it is cooled and tlu moisture condensed from it. Mr. (ireeley said he believed all land needed underdraiuing. Every farmer believed he had some land that needed draining. Let him commence with that andjdr*in some, if it is only an acre. After he has finished that he will lind another acre that will pay for draining, and before he stops he will believe in as much underdraiaitig as anybody. In our climate irrigation was the best fertilizer. l'lenty of running water was the best manure. Of course, if it is stagnant it docs hurt instead of good. Where afield can bo covered with running water once or twice every year, it will increase in fertility without any other manure. Mr. tlhi scouted the idea that a farmer

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and he makes money by his farming, iie

Tlitise things are possible, not only with a few farmers near New York, but with all. The era of agricultural lin provenient has just begun. We need some mechanical lorce like steam to lake tlio place of the tired horses and cattle atthe plow, the mower, and the reaper. He expected to see steam plows turning over 100 acres of land per week more easily than we now plow ten. It was not a i|iiestion of expense. Such a plow would pay even if it did cost a little more per acre, in saving the keeping of so many horses through the year, and in the increased, advantages it would give in putting in a' crop, in conclusion, Mr. Greeley said ho looked for the time when agriculture should be the profession where thought and mind were supreme, and where brain and not muscle should be the chief agen

cy. The improvements in machinery

are rapidly tending that way, relieving farm life of its drudgery, and making

as successful and profitable prosecution

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has under drained every acre of his laud and put it in the best possible condition, ]\l He will take ordinary pasture laud, drain it, plow it, and plant it with early potatoes. In August, when the potatoes are unit nil kind* uf ri|:iirinir. removed, he will plant it with strawberries. The next year he will get half a crop, paying him §100 over all expenses. The third year he will make §200, and the fourth year 8100 more thus paying him §-100 profit for four years and leaving the land in better condition than at the beginning. After the fourth year the strawberries are plowed under and some other crop put in its place.

the skill, foresight, and

'euertil intelligonee of the farmer.

Drugs and Medicines.

Read This!

T. W. Fry & Co.

Have just opened line assortment

Drugs, Paints, Chemicals,

Oils, Dye Stuffs, Toilet & Fancy

Cigars & Tobacco,

FINEST yrA MTV.

A 1.1. Hii'l sue ui

i'V. tlonrfl fthoV juirJIl'Wwet

on (ireen .-dreet. twot'^II ,1. \\. Lynn Son. ,'Jl T. W. KKV CU.

__ MEDICAL. Carriages and Euggies.

M. HOOVER,"

S I O I A I

iillli i' anil

Mlll'IKT III! \crailll Slrrl'l, site tin- 1'i.sl limcc.

.Nearly Opim-

II,!, t»i Vf it\i• 1 ti »i Mitllrlni' and (ihsairis thi

t" 11M* practu'o »»f. to

1MI\

It enables the Water to circulate through the soil, leaving gashes and soluble food I for the plants, instead of stagnation at (iJulmiis' the top and drying away, carrying the fflSS plant food into the atmosphere. I'nder-

triMitment

of \N union :»nl hmlrfn. A slmiv of th»* public ro-pivttull.Y solicited. [mi

IK. JT~1)OKSIOY,

rawfi»ntsviili« and hi prufi-ssinii, Otlli'i' anil Itt-oiiU lit

J. C. SfMNARD,

HOIVIEOPATHIST

OiV'T- his pr-.fV»-i«ii:il in tlif pt-nplo o! ('rawionl.-villc and icinity. Mi-i»«uri*d 1»v tli«! proper standard—SI.. "'.SSI-1 I TKKATMKNT—the lloujetvpathif Sy.-'tr?:'

AVit»«' or Tur'i-'a plea.-unt preparation. e«»ntainins all themedifal prjiperti«'S nf'the I'ine Iree in the liitfhe.^t decree. It quieklyeuresCoutih--, Colds.Consiunption. Sore Throat- and Ureast, and all «usease^ of the Throat and l.uni s. It restores the system to perfect health, and is very etlVetivo in curinij di.^eajje"1 of \\w Idver, Stmnaeh. Kidney*. Uladder, «ve.

Sold by llr'iiitfUt.* al 51 boitle. Genuine have *'M'ine lA' Tar" Mown on hot tie. OI.IVKIM'HOOK A n.. IhirnhniiHA Van Sehaak. Chie.iyo. dim. 1). I'ark and l-\ K. Snire l.»., (.mcmnati. O. (l. n'l Auent-.

Citron Balsam

NO SWAWHM€r.

C!i(i'oii a pleasant liquid rt-medy which neverfails to cure the ITCH at oiiee. As an external application for Kheunnti^m. Kruptive Diseases of the Skin, riecrs. (Md Sores, tiannrene. iSurtiii and Scalds, it is very etVcotive.

Sold by hs uir^i-ts. I Vice

experience ol

VJ.*»cents.

(M.IVKi: CKOOK

Plow Factory,.

German doctor in New York city who had an extensive and profitable practice i. lis i.vofessiou. lie concluded that lie had money enough to afford an easier hie than the one which compelled him to get up at all hours of the night and tra\cl in all kinds of weather. .So he went up in wot l.t) re.^.Mtfiilly ii^.nn mv ,.!,t customers estclic.ilcr 111v ...1 (m ill. JVlln''„l'7^'4.'Vif-tiV'rv'i'M1 tvr'.r\v"Nf*ii*i5iHe is one of Mr. Greeley's neighbors, and fueium-.uml wilt k«i mi lnimt tin.- very ix-Ht iiimhone of the best farmers in the county,

1911 I IJ

Jim ii. khxi I. ii fir Dikj I'usl )/}h

.itiililishiiirut

••I. iiinl priiinpl iillcntinii

HOKSI:

It. Tliusi knnwiii:

iIm-iii.-1'Ivos iinl(-litrl f..r

will pli'ii^u maku iiiiiiiL'iliiitv piiyuiunt in 1 nicl the lllulH-'V In IMlhirRI! Illy tAIMII'.'.-:*. Min iiii, JOIIX A. (iKIITl.N,

IN"

O NO

O N 1 N \l

FRUIT STAND!

•trui: the eit-

miitly that he h:i opfitcd C'oulVrt n«nery and l*rmt re id he

a nev llaker/. (Jrc.eery Stand, on N\ ashin^loii House, in the mom formerly occupied hy Mf( A. Fry, 1 door north of the (W'ulntin Lsiahlish.iient (ireut attention will h«» jmid to tho

MSnhittfi ncpurt in en I.

ISi'catls.

liottoin llread, Pan Hrenil. Huston Mroun Hrt itd, linihniu lllrad, Kuk-, r,

Milk Hread.

VnUis.

rintnh Cuke, Kol) Jelly Cream Jelly (!ake. (."11r«m Cuke. Almond (.^ike, i-

Ihhnt. '.ike. 1 'ouud ('ake. Spinit'e 'ake,

Lady Kim er,

no\V Hllil

Crackci's.

Bitten Crarkor*. Ilutter Cra'kers,' la Craekers.

I together With I ery variet ol ake*.:

i'ics.

aeh. I l.enion, 1'rune,. 1 Miner and all other kind? to suit the

l*arti«Milar attent:«i :d to lmkinu'

WCDDINII

ant! Parlv

Tobaeeos au«3 (iijai's

of the hr.ii

April »». M»*ttf. Jaiurx T. .lluiii.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 6, 1867.

JA|[ I A E

MANUFACTORY.

Sliri I, nitK' t'lni

'rn:cfoi'((svitl(\ Intl.

Ha\o eojjytantly on

d,«or\eH.-.

all tlu? praise which ha? been aiven it. CIxk K.\ AMl'LK—"In lHU.tu«dvo HoiiH-oputhit' I'hy-.-ieinns in Cincinnati, treated »4iu

cjisus

of cholrra—

rect.vricsdi :ith-•»-»--iii"'rta!ily ah..ut pur

Wine of Tar

And \.chicle: of,every, dc^cripti the ver.v

I. and :S( wesi Pallors

Miinufactured of the very liest uhieh they will ell at the nu and take old work in part puy,-\-

t» .s

.tlOfWH.STi:

«.K

CO.. IVuprict.

llnrnhanis A Van Sehaak,Chieairo. John U, I'ark, Cinnati. .. lii»n*l Agents. ianl-y I'.

ALL

THE CORNER"

Book Store!

MISCELLANEOUS,

\v,.rk

Sch»ul.

Bakery and Confectionery.

BAKERY

3STIETW"

Hi,lil

(i null's

•mamm

Warranted

ps 'mmmrn.

C) 1ST

10 /VII

-r

E'.iil uf tin

Iolu-e (V IN'ighton. C, Mmvii :«i is

Books and Stationery.

l'i»Ue«e. Ttiy. Cift. IMar.k, iiinl all kinds of

BILJJ,

t!or. N.iti-, I!i 11(-L. Willi. Wiiiili.lv ,t W ne.ipini

i— /m."*

UBW

tl'imloir 1'iirHtins!

»V

I'istofs

(^TKOS,

Al.M).

TOBACCO.

A splendid ouality Virginia Cuvetidi^h (.'hewing T.diiu'eoSm.-t received and f««rale hy

Millinery.

MILLINERY STORE.

ir*t'ii

Street.

.Vo. *J5. i'ouinicrrial IV Sf,i!)•..).

Mock.

i-btfhntfr.

Mrs. M, L. Williams

1 AS just r.-(M-ivcd a full und i-nipM.- of I 1 all articUv f»r the .«p» ins: trade, in the Millinory lim*. of ihe latrst-tylcs. Tin* puMk* are invitod t»i eall h»'f««re purvha^intf, ari ,»ho ik determined to sell

N. 15. Ille:

*OR

*t:» l»li«h merit

ehin« and Piesfin^ do)

the city. on hort no-

Al^o. puriieiilar attention

I I E S

SConiicis A ll«ts.

J. A. HENDERSON, Nits. 1 A 1^ Hcst nnh Street, near Vain sirnt snow prepared to oflVr to her eii.-toiners I.AUtiK atit) A

ttkactivk

Stoi'K of Ukm»y-Mahk and

Tuiit*ti onskts

and

avp jssks ats.

of all the late styles, at vrieos which cannot fail to irt\c satisfaction. Also. Straw Uood« and Millinery I riniininc- of every description. jl.'j-1 Country Merchants will lind onr stock of Triintned (ioods the most desirable to select from in the city.

II French and onr own Pattern lloiineK for Milliners as uMinl J. A llKNDKllrfO.V N..s.

and 1- West Fifth St.. near Main.

nprJOiii4.* Cineinati. Ohio.

imi

nil riiwiti LiiiiVht ri:a.-"ii:il.lu rati'?.

Pepaiiing Machinei"y.

ISIiAI KflA'LBO X. COl,

K-l?

it a .v

an 1 it

tlune uii j-hort nidi

jm.

ISIjACKSiMTIllNti

All wanting iinythint: in thrir line eall *f#m. (apr^'o: we\!.

Watches, Clocks, ,&c. ^ifg

JAMES PATTERSON,

-DK.U.EH N-

E "W EL TI

l't.CKei littery, li»struinent?', INtfket Itrushe-. Toyrf. Hunks si^n uf the "GOLDEN WATCH,"

ENVELOPES,

I'ens. Ink. PeiM'il.-. Slate?1.

•lCL. 4[ (£. 21ms

KI:.S.

I'riim- Mnlilnu l.ril mil

TASSELLS.

luind

and the following li.-t of arttele will ho kept at all times.

Shinies

ITOTIOITS,

and Kaney (iood^ hotli useful and rv*

OEBTAM

Kaisin Cake,

Ctirrant Cake, I-K« Ki-e.. Kroneh is.-cs...

1 Stationery. tl»o

Mum Street, Crawfonl^viJlc, Iml.

HT'WuVfHe most pxperieii runted.

e«l oi kinen.

behind him is driving.''

all kind- I

Machinery, JJeapers, Mowers.

Threshers Engines, &c., &c.

Iron or ISrass ('ttsliuiis,

t'ot up "i» .-hurt noliee.'

pjijred by Uie I'jijses u-ur-Del y0i-7

all

Meat Market. T~

I:n s'nu:i:T DAILY MIRKKT.

iI F. B. Guthrie & Bro

quality of

I'iekled 1'ork. C««rnetl Ue.-f. ('urii-

c4 'I'dnguey stl^**, a splendid lot »»t' ilatu^. Shoulders and llaeun. of their own eurinij. BoUuna Suu^n^e, Dried Ht-ef, ete. An extra quality *»t Frt-^h Lard tan at ell time.* he found. 1 1 I in an it in to '1 he limhesl inarlit.'t priee puid tori-at (.uttle, Jlidc and Pelts. K. U,(».A Hut), apt lit lHi:i rni»r-'t y.

Machinery.

I^O ULSTDKY

sei Wi-O SI BP I'SJ, Mj li.

ISLAMC, liVIiBi A: CO., Have now in operation a l-oundry and .ila«liine shop in thi place, and would invite all mt ere.- ted in

MIHHINM OF \n\

to «i ve th• in a eall. hey lin«s.

A.L.

EilsTT

Toys, of till Itcscriiftions.

anil Cart ridges.

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-rwrm

Leading Literary Papers rind

3yC^G-A-ZI3\TES.

\l E WILCOX A GIBBS

Sewinsr Miiehine*. Ueineinher the Corner HOUK STOitK.

L. A. FOOTE CO.

I.I.I: A lililJfllKK. I Nnvointiera-lHGillK'.

making ivll kind.- ol

IvdIXLL G-^J^RTISIG-cif I-VITV ilesi-nplloll.

Siiruhuin .Mills, Furnace Fronts. (Irate !!:irs. Snjrar Kettles, Ovens, l'ojr 1 runs, Making 1 'attorns for arnl

i-'armiii" of Hie Prairie. cial want of shade, as such bunches as M. II. I!irkard. I'es Miiiit's. Iowa, were in the shade were in every part

I sent to t\,« X. V. Farmers' Club salt sound, and had attained to the highest

mouth a note on farming in the prairie re- maturity, yielding a rich, sweet must.

It is

gioiis of the West. It is mu-ically dra-

malic. We will assume that he has taken

a friend out to witness farming operations

and begins explanations. Yankee fashion,

by tir-king i|iiestio!!s. Thus—"What is

that man lining in this stalk-field, riding

on a kind of two wheeled wagon?''

bear you say. -Well, Sir, he is cutting the .-talks down ready for the plow. That

is a stalk-cutting machine, and it cuts

them in pieces lli to II inches long, I making them readily plowed under,'

Crape

Silk a pril'»

Millinery,

'"'.I ut so. a good invention! you reply.

"lo you see that man in this stubble

field, riding on a low-looking thing. 1 can baldly tell what. It must be some

kind of a plow, there's ground fresh-

plowed nearby?'' "Ye*. Sir that's a

l'our-horse gang-plow. He rides all day turning over four to live acres, feeling no

more tired at night than when he began

in the morning.'' A outlier good thing," vou saw '"1 see two men over in that

fidd with a blue, two-wheeled concern,

and two horses pulling it. One man ap

tice that can bo pursued, (j rapes should

be shaded hy the leaves of the vines, just enough to prevent ili« „f dm »mi

from striking the clusters, and not so

dense as to prevent the beat from the

sun's rays reaching them. A writer in the Uiinil Wm hl says In order to give greater access of air

to the grapes, that foliage alone should

be removed which is found upon the socalled bearing branches. In luxuriant

growth—even upon vines correctly train

ed— they cover over the fruit rods with tlioir j.T.ipi'f=. thus receiving suflicient

shade and protection l.y the three leaves

above thun J1 Coiipequentlv in order to ii eirouhiiUvii

of air, m.'inv leaves are to be it-tniUf.fi up

on such parts ol the just named bearing

branches, where the espalier is spread over too thickly by them, and where the

grapes cluster too closely and thickly by

sun.

a 1 1 I I O

limp.

kind

miccuss

He|tla injr Stove 1'lates. SlMi Itu-y :tro ]iri'p:iri-il lo ropiiir

T111m 1 :ir Hoilers. Steam Fnirines, Thr:^h-iir_rMai-liilies, Hcapcrs. Mowitrs, .1 )iau .i\\-, anil tu inaki' ami fit up

Ur.i~- ('.i-tin«• ~, anil Mlai I. -1• iith i11of e\ er\ ile--eri]ition 11 oi ilone lij them i-

AV arranteil to

perforin as ]ire-enteii.

Shop "oil (!rccn Street, near Dop»Jl.

Cash l'ni't fur hl Iron, Coji/nr f- Jlriux ,. ,j l-.'W 1U.AIU, i.vij: AV

GROCERIES.

LEI: & BKOTIN IR« NEW GROCERY STORE.

rp|tIS c^tiihlif»hincnt i.- now stocked with a larce ftj»-when sortiaent of plain and faney Groceries: which will heboid for cash or produce. Farmer*»»f Montkroiney citunty

chII

In and exiiinino our «t«»eKlKdorepurrim.-

nsj el.-ewhere.

Table Cutlery.

-'(1"M-at1^'

LKK A 'liUOTUKfi.

i/l/

WHOLE NUMBER

AGRICULTURAL. this splendid grape, but merely its spu-

ashes.

pears to lie working a lever, the other

the hoe." --Well, well," you reply, Is Jjwt the way you /"u ni in Iowa?" "Yes, farming is done almost wholly hy ma

chinery." "Atul here is a man drilling

wheat, or oats he rides, ol course, on his „i

drill.'' he would be ashamed to

walk when all his neighbors ride."

'•Surely, this is fanning maile easy!" you!

saw It is so. To tend a farm of SO or

liiO ai res in the West is easier than to tend 'JO or -10 in the Fast.. Such are

seenes in this beautiful Valley of the Des

Moines.

(Irapes Must be Shaded. The plan of stripping jrrape vines of a

larjje portion of their leaves, to allow the sun to shine upon the fruit, wliieh some

people have adopted, is the worst prac

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The urriilio and Wood Ashes.

.V. Harnett. West Haven, Ct., writes the Albauy Cultivator that wood ashes •••:.

sprinkled over plum and other trees will

destroy the insects on them, aud especial

ly the curculio on the plum, lie writes.

'•Having tried this, as well as many

other remedies, such as salt and clay on the surface, and washes of salt, tobacco,

lime and soap on the foliage, I at list

found a remedy in wood ashes, jut once

i-iniple, all'eetual and feasible.

I'pon the plum tree the dry ashes

should be applied by dusting when tin-

blossom begins to drop from the young

fruit, and repeated when washed off by showers, for a few weeks or till the fruit

gets two-thirds grown.

It is necessary to do this at sunrise,

when the dew is upon the young fruit and foliage—the great object being to

cover the fruit from the time it gets to

he of the size of a pea, with a coating of

Of course this is more readily done

Ah, yes 1 where the tree has been trained low, and

that a corn-planter. They put corn in when this is the case, a handful or two

a box on either side, hook two horses to I

it, and mount the machine, and there, minute or two.

chatting, laughing and enjoying them

selves, they plant 1(1 to 12 acres per day,

doing it better than it can be done with

a tree will accomplish the object in a

N'ot the curculio alone, but almost all

insects, are more or less thrown /tors i?u 11•omlmt by iVose of dry asUos. TliripB aud apliides, squash bugs and turnip flics,

•*)u£s and worms, are cheeked in their destructive operation by this and while

it relievos the plant from its insect eue-

it nourishes it by enriching the

j] witli the alkaline solution that wash-

es into the ground.

Were the gardener to have but one

single remedy, that should be dry wood ashes, for instead of being injurious to

plants like oil, and grease and tar, and

I some washes, it benefits it by fertilizing

properties."

I It is suggested that if fruit growers

and vineyaj-dists pould train their trees

low the application of the ashes would

Hjjj

I be comparatively easy, and

certain every time.

fruit arop

Eggs—How Many to a lien. (Icylin, in his book on poultry breedays:—It hnu boon ascertained that the ovarium ol' a fowl is composed of six hundred ovules or eggs therefore, a

hen during the whole of her life, cannot

possibly lay more eggs than six hundred, which in a natural course are distributed

over nine years in the following propor

tion:— First year after birth If) to 20

sccond, 100 to 120 third, 120 to 1515

fourth, 100 to 115, fifth, GO to 80 sixth

50 to GO seventh, 35 to 40 eighth 15 to

j20: ninth, 1 to 10. From this the conelusion is deduced that it is not profiluI bio io keep ii lion a/'tor her /burt|i laying seasou is o.v.er. ..'

1)0 roultr Pay.

F. F. Meclii answers this ijuestion very

briefly, and lie thinks conclusively, by

sapiug: "I test this 'by the following

tliein. but by no means in order to ex-! 'propositions and comparisons. It pays pose the young grapes to the rays of the indirectly to produce cattle, sheep and

pigs—if so, why not poultry? It does

llerefYii Southern Illinois, deg. X. not eost more to produce a pound of

latitude, this part of the labor may be poultry, live weight, than a poutfd of

begun, without any detriment whatever, meat, live weight. Well, then, do poy.lhy the niidJle of .lime, and thus siinul- t, sell at less or more per pound live

ta-u :ously with the cutting out of the weight than meat? The answer to this

sei-Mis, and in agreement with its wants, pound of poultry live weight, alma\ l" continued to the maturity of the

Thc h'irgidy jnevalcnt view" that (he |i, j-

"grape ripens in the shade rests upon

truths long sincc eonlirnied. As little as

ays sells for much more than a pound

of meat, live weight, and so that qucs-

settled in favor of poultry."

I'kas

for seed should always he picked

the grape can pros],or and ripen beneath as soon as they attain i'vll size, before the

a shade occasioned by dilVeront objects, pod begins to t,y.ny. I'ut thorn away ill

as. for instance, trees overgrowing •riiein

i.the-pod

grower even to be made clew., .l.n the actual expeiiinent.

lieginning of August, IStil, a et.ai 4e- _.\

curred in the temperature from a i^odor pi

ate warmth to a burning heat. Chiefly at

to dry. Peas dried in this man-

the like, junt as indispensable to its ncr will bring peas the next seasou irom.

is the shade of its own lea\t ten days to two weeks earlier than if al

Permit mc to add some experience lowed to ripen op thp stalk, and tlio sauve

•fathered from my j» practice on the rule applies to beans, corn, and almost all

subject, which requires for many a wine garden vegetables, as I hayp proved-by

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the portion of my vineyards lying to ic l^ scunner as tliey ofton soutbwciit. a certain bletiii.-h (produced j^

by the burning of the sun) became visiblc ujion the grapes exposed to the suti given as a rule to determine at

rays. The grnjic thus affected, receives i„, to cut timothy for hay:—'

a dot or mark of the color ol clay, some- Whenever in thc bloom it has ob.taii^c^ times soon seen entirely to cover it—at fl ient strength to pull up by the roots

times but partially. 11. the former in

stance. shrinks and falls ofl—ill the lat

ter, the part affected merely shrinks

while it heals around, and the unaflected

s.—The Horticulturist says

bloom much better if plant-

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without breaking the straw.

Jul

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w.,n

that had little or no shade, without ex

hibiting as usual that over-ripeness and

the berries were plucked, it became evident that even the stalks and pedicels lind dried up, and so could not supply

the bunch with nutrition, which by no weans indicated any disease peculiar to

.—During the tempo

rary absence of the jailor, three prisoners respectively named Jack ltoad, bm.on •\Vitl.arding and \V llliam bagin, confined the county jail made an exit for tliem-

part matures. I"poll the Delaware, that valuable grape, 1 have seen the berries shrink off buuehes by knocking a hole through the

with the leg of an iron bedstead,

which they had detached.—L-..usi.lL .Joiiriuif.

St'let UK.—'On Thursday last, at lerro llaute a dyer committed suicide Dy hanging while the family were at dinner. Cause-family troubles.