Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — Dangers of the Telephone. [ARTICLE]

Dangers of the Telephone.

Mr. Basingbal (city h erchant) — "Most convenient! I can converse with Mrs. B. just as if I was in my own drawing-room. I’ll tell her you are here.” (Speaksthrough the telephone.) "Dawdles is here—just come from Paris—looking so well—desires to be,” etc., etc. “ Now you take it, and you’ll bear.her voice distinctly.” Dawdles—"Weally!” (Dawdles takes it.) The voice—" For goodness sake, dear, don’t bring that insufferable noodle home to dinner!” ‘

Leghorn eggs average ten to eleven to a pound. Those of Light Brahmas average between six and seven. Farmers are seriously inquiring if they can make pork for 82.50 per hundred. They did for half. c?f that in 1861, and lived over it In 1841 they sold dressed pork for 75 cents per hundred, and no more than half took the benefit of the Bankrupt law. Nearly haff did, however. z , Let every man who expects to. raise but a Utter of pigs, put in a few rods of mangel-wurzels, and begin to feed out the thinnings as soon as they begin to crowd; keep the corn till fattening time. Instead of having to fatten a lot of stunted shotes, he will begin oh 250 hogs at least. I would advise farmers not to let their ideas run too high on the subject of chufas, for they are nothing new, and, although very prolific and edible, are not delectable. The great labor incident to harvesting will prevent their being extensively produced for swine or poultry, and when estimated in bushels artichokes will exceed them in yield. Frost kills their germinating powers.— George R. Drake, in Rural New Yorker. Ever since the epizootic year I have given my team a pint of onion sets every morning during winter and spring; they kept off the epizooty then and twice since, when it became threatening. I am satisfied they are very beneficial in other ways, as my team are never sick or off their feed. I use the " top onion,” merely because they are plenty with us, and cheaper than other kinds, otherwise they are no better. They are always eaten before the corn.—& R. Mason, in Moore's Rural. If there is a profession upon earth, which must be practiced in order, it is that of farming. There should be a time for everything as well as a place, and more depends upon timing work on a plantation than on almost anything else. Good seed, good sowing, good plowing, good cultivation, are good only when employed at the right tune, and many a man, if he looks back over 1877, will see that his failures arose from a disregard of nature’s first law. In transplanting remember : Dig wide holes—cut off all broken or marred roots, spread out the roots in a natural position, set the tree a little above its previous depth, fill in with good soil (no manure), work it between the roots with the hand, do not pull the tree up and down, and finally press the earth firmly down and if there is a likelihood al dry weather spread a mulch over the surface. Bear always iu mind that plants are injured if their roots are exposed to sun or wind for even a few minutes. In an old agricultural paper of fortyseven years ago, we learn that it is a good plan to put a piece of chalk in the pen with the young calves. They will lick it and thus correct the acidity of their stomachs and assist digestion and prevent dyspepsia, which often leads to scours. There is no doubt but that this is a most excellent practice. Prepared chalk is often prescribed by doctors as a ..remedy for heart-burn, which is a symptom of dyspep da, and for diarrhea. The crude chalk of lime) is unquestionably a good preventive and remedy for similar disorders in stock. The prepared chalk is the crude with all the gritty particles worked out.— Cor. S. D. Payne, of Kasota, Minn., announces hie expectations of having 100 acres in forest trees before the end of the year. He planted 70,000 during the past season, apd his mode of operations, briefly stated, is as follows: "Break the land the first year, crop it the second, plant the trees, seeds, or cuttings the third. Put 2,000 trees to the acre. Distance apart, 4 feet 8 inches each way, or 6 feet one way and 3| feet the other; the latter distance preferable for many reasons. Planted as last stated, and after the ground becomes thoroughly shaded, I intend to cut out every other tree. This will leave my plantations 6 feet by 7. After ’this cut out only dead trees. Our forests are like the human family, composed of pigmies and giants. The pigmies do not amount to anything. At the expiration of thirteen years I do not expect to have over 300 handsome, thrifty, growing trees, standing on an acre. ”