Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, . • INDIANA.

THE GOLDEN MILESTONE. Lraiiim are the tree.; their purple branches Spread themselves abroad, like reefs of cOnu, Bisina silent In the red sea of Uie winter sunset. From the hundred chimneys of the villace. Like the Afreet in the Arabian story, Smoky columns Tower aloft into the air of amber. At the window winks the flickering firelight; Here and there the lamps of evening glimmer, Social watchfires , , , , Answering one another through the darkncea. On the hearth lighted logs are glowing. And like Anel in the cloven pine tree For its freedom Groans and sighs the air imprisoned in them. By the fireside the old men seated Seeing ruined cities in ashes. Asking sadly Of the past what it can ne'er restore them. By the fireside there are youthful dreamers. Building castles fair, with stately stairways. Asking blindly Of the future what it cannot give them. By the fireside tragedies are acted. In whose scenes appear two actons only—- _ , Wife and husband— And atxive them God, the spectator. By the fireside there is peace and comfort: Wives and children, with fair, thoughtful faces, 'Wailing, watching—■ For a well-known footstep in the passage. Each man's chimney is his golden milestone: Is the central point from which ho measures Every distance Through the gateways of the world around him. In his farthest wanderings still he sees it, Hears the talking flame, the answering nightwind, .-a,—. As he heard them When he sat with those who were, but are not Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion, Nor the march of the encroaching city. Drives an exile From the earth of his ancestral homestead. We may bnild more splendid habitations. Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures. But we cannot Buy with gold the old associations! —Longfellow.

THE TRUMPETER’S HORSE.

.1 was nearly forty years of age, and felt myself so safely anchored in the peaceable haven of a bachelor’s life that nothing would induce me to run the risk of disturbing it by marriage. But 1 had reckoned without the trumpeter’s horse. It was at the end of September, 1864, that I arrived at Paris from Baden, intending only to remain four-and-twenty hours. I had invited four or five friends to join me in Poitou for the hunting season, and, as they were to arrive at the beginning of October, I had only allowed myself a week at La Roche Targe to prepare for their reception. A letter from home awaited my arrival at Paris, bringing me the disastrous intelligence that out of twelve horses five had fallen ill or lame during my stay in Baden, so that I was under the necessity of remounting my cavalry before I left Paris. I made the round of all the horsedealers of the Champs Elysees, where I was shown a collection of screws, the average price of which was £l2O, but I was neither in a humor nor in cash to throw away mv money upon such useless beasts, it was Wednesday, the day of Cheri’s autumn sale; I went to the Rue de Ponthieu, and purchased at a venture eight horses, which cost me all together £2OO. “ Out of the eight,” said I to myself, “ there will be surely four or five which will go.” Among these horses there was one which, 1 confess, I bought principally oh account of his coat. The catalogue did not assign to him any special qualifications as a hunter. All that it stated was, “Brutus, a saddle-horse, aged, well-broken.” It was a large dappled gray horse, but never had I seen one better marked, its smooth, white skin, dappled over with fine black spots so regularly distributed. The next morning I left for La Roche Targe, and the following day my horses arrived. My first care was for Brutus. This gray horse had been running for the last forty-eight hours in my head, and I was anxious to try his paces, and see what he was good for. He had long teeth, and every mark of a repectable age, a powerful shoulder, and he carried his head well; but what I most admired in Brutus was the way in which he looked at me, following every movement with his attentive, intelligent, inquisitive eye. Even my words seemed to interest him; he leaned his head on one side as if to hear me, and when I had finished speaking replied with a merry neigh. The other seven horses were brought out to me in succession, but t hey resembled .any other horses, and Brutus certainly was different from them all. I was anxious to take a little ride in the country, in order to make his acquaintance. Brutus allowed himself to bo saddled, bridled and mounted as a horse who knew his work, and we started quietly together, the best friends possible. He had a beautiful mouth, and answered to every turn of the rein, arching his neck and champing his bit. His paces were perfect ; he began by a slow, measured canter, raising his ieet very high and letting them fall with the regularity of a pendulum. I tried him at a trot and a short gallop, but when I sought to quicken his pace he began to amble in grand style. “Ah,” said I, “I see how it is; I nave bought an old horse out of the cavalry ridingschool at Saumur.” I was about to turn homeward, satisfied with the talents of Brutus, when a shot was heard a short distance off. It was one of my keepers firing at a rabbit, for which shot be it said, en passant, he afterward received ahandsome present from my wife. I was then exactly in the center of an open space where six long green roads meet. On hearing the shot, Brutus stopped short and put his ears forward in an attitude of attention. T was surprised to see him so impressionable. After the brilliant' military education I assumed he had received in his youth, he must be well accustomed to the report of a gun. I pressed my knees against him to make him move on, but Brutus would not stir. I tried to back him, to make him turn to the right or to the left, but in vain. I made him feel my riding-whip, but still he was immovable. Brutus was not to be displaced; and yet, do not smile—for mine is a true history—each time I urged him to move, the horse turned his head round and gazed upon me with an eye expressive of impatience and surprise, and then relapsed into his motionless attitude. There was evidently some misunderstanding between me and my horse. I saw it in his eyes. Brutus was saying, as plainly as he could without spijakino-, “I, horse, do what I ought to do, ana you, horseman, do not perform your part.’’ I was more puzzled than embarrassed. “ What a strange horse Cheri has sold me! and why does he look non mu in such a way?” I was about

to proceed to extremities and administer to him a good thrashing, when another shot was f •ed. The horse thc i made one bound. I thought I had gained my point, and again tried to start him, but in vain. He stopped short and planted himself m9re resolutely than ever. I then got into a rage and my riding-whip entered into play. 1 took it in both hands and struclc the horse right and left. But Brutus, too, lost patience, and, finding passive resistance unavailing, defended himself by roaring, kicking and plunging, and in the midst of the battle, while the horse capered and kicked, and I, exasperated, was flogging him with the loaded butt-end of my broken whip, Brutus, nevertheless, found time to look at me, not only with impatience and surprise, but with rage and indignation. While I required of the horse the obedience he refused, he, on his part, was expecting of me something 1 did not do. * How did this end? To my shame be it spoken, I was relentlessly and disgracefully unseated. Brutus saw there was nothing gained by violence, so judged it necessary to employ malice. After a moment’s pause, evidently Eassed in reflection, the horse put down is head and stood upright on his fore legs, with the address and equilibrium of a clown upon his hands. I wad consequently deposited upon the sand, which, fortunately, happened to be rather thick in the place where I fell. tried to raise myself, but I cried out and fell stretched with my face toward the ground. I felt as if a knife were sticking in my left leg. The hurt did not prove serious—the snapping of one of the small tendons—but not the less painful. I succeeded, however, in turning myself, and sat down; but while 1 was rubbbing my eyes, which were filled with sand, I saw the great

foot of a horse descend gently upon my head, and again extend me on my back. I then felt quite disheartened, and was ruminating in my mind what this strange horse could be, when I felt a quantity of sand strike me in the face. I opened my eyes and saw Brutus throwing up the dust with both fore and hind feet, trying to bury me. This lasted for several minutes, when, apparently thinking me sufficiently interred, Brutus knelt by my grave, and then galloped round me, describing a perfect, circle. 1 called out to him to stop. He appeared to be embarrassed; but seeing my hat, which had been separated from me in my fall, he took it between his teeth and galloped down one of the green paths out of my sight I was left alone. I shook off the sand which covered me, and with my arm and right leg—my left I could not move—dragged myself to a bushy bank, where I seated myself, and shouted with all my might for assistance. But no answer; the wood was perfectly silent and deserted. I remained alone in this wretched condition above half an hour, when I saw Brutus in the distance, returning by the same road by which he went, enveloped in a cloud of dust. Gradually. as it cleared away, I saw a little carriage approaching—a pony-chaise—-and in the pony-chaise a lady, who drove it, with a small groom in the seat behind. A few instants after Brutus arrived covered with foam. He stopped before me, let fall my hat at his feet, and addressed me with a neigh, as much as to say: “I have done mv duty, I have brought you help.” But I did not trouble myself about Brutus and his explanations; I had no thought or looks save for the beautiful fairy who had come to my aid, and who, jumping from her little carriage, trippea lightly up to me, and suddenly two exclamations were uttered at the same moment: “ Mme. de Noriolis!” “ Mons, de la Roche Targe!” I have an aunt between whom and myself my marrying is a source of continual dispute. “ Marry,” she would say. “ I will not,” was my answer. “ Would you have a young lady? There are Miss A, Miss B, Miss C.” “ But I won’t marry.” “ Then take a widow; there are Mrs. D, Mrs. E, Mrs. F,” etc. “ But marry I will not.” Mme. de Noriolis was always in the first rank among my aunt’s widows. To tell me she was rich, lively and pretty was unnecessary; but after setting forth all her attractions, my aunt would take from her secretary a map of the district where she lived, and point out how the estates of Noriolis and La Roche Targe joined, and she had traced a red line upon the map uniting the two properties, which she constantly obliged me to look at. “ Eight hundred acres within a ringfence! a fine chance for a sportsman. ’ But I would shut my eyes and repeat as before, “ I will never marry.” Yet, seriously speaking, I was afraid of Mipe. de Noriolis, and always saw her head eneifcled with an aureole of my aunt’s Ted line. Charming, sensible, talented and 800 acres witinn a ringfence! Escape for your safety if you will not marry. And I always did escape; but this time retreat was impossible. I lay extended on the turf, covered with sand, my hair in disorder, my clothes in tatters, and my leg stiff. “What are you doing here?” inquired Mme. de Noriolis, “What has happened?” I candidly confessed I had been thrown.

“ But you are not much hurt?” “No; but I have put something out in my leg—nothing serious, I am sure.” “ Aqd where is the horse which has played you this trick?” = - I pointed out Brutus, who was quiet. Jy—grazing upon thp shoots of thq broom. . “ How! it is him, the good horse! He has amply repaired his wrongs, as I will relate to you later. But you must go home directly.” “ How? I cannot move a step.” “ But I am going to drive you home, at the risk of compromising you.” And calling her little grooin Bob; she led me gently by one arm, while Bob took the other, and ltlhde me get into her carriage. Five minutes afterward we were moving in the direction of La Roche Targe, she holding the reins and driving the pony with a light hand; I looking at her, confused, embarrassed, stupid, ridiculous. Bob was charged to lead back Brutus. “Extend youb leg quite straight,” said Mme. de Noriolis, “ and vl will drive you very gently, to avoid jolting.” When she saw me comfortably installed, “ tell me,” she said. “ how you were thrown, and I will explain how I came to your assistance.” ' I began my story, but when I spoke of the Offorte of Brutus to unseat me after the two shots, “ 1 understand it all,” she exclaimed; “you have bought the trumpeter’s horse.” ‘ “ The trumpeter's horse?” “ Yes, that explains it all. You have seqnmany scenes in the Cirque

de I’lmperatrioe, the peiformanoe of the trumpeter’s hone. A Chasseur d’Afrique enters the arena upon a gray horse; then come the Arabs, who fire upon him, and he is wounded and falls; and, as you did not fall, the horse, indignant at your not performing your part in the’ piece, threw you down. What did he ao next?” I related the little attempt of Brutus to bury me. “ Exactly like the trumpeter’s horse. He sees his master wounded; bnt the Arabs may return and kill him, so what does the horse do? He buries him and gallops off, carrying away the colors that they may not fall into the hands of the Arabs.” “ That is my hat which Brutus carried off.” “Precisely. He goes to fetch the vivandiere—the vivandiere of to-day being ybnr humble servant, the Countess ae Noriolis. Your greatgray horse galloped into my court-yard, where I was standing on the doorsteps putting on my gloves, and ready to get into my carriage. My grooms seeing a horse saddled and bridled, with a hat in his mouth, and without a rider, tried to catch him, but he escapes their pursuit, goes straight up to the steps, and kneels before me. The men again try to capture him, but he gallops off, stops at the gate, turns round, and looks at me. I felt sure he was calling me, so I jumped into my carriage ana set off. The horse darts through roads not always adapted for carriages, but I follow him, and arrive where I find you.” At the moment Mme. de Noriolis had finished these words the carriage received a fearful jolt, and we saw in the air the head of Brutus, who was standing erect on his hind legs behind us. Seeing the little black seat of the carriage untenanted, he had taken the opportunity of giving us another specimen of his talents by executing the most brilliant of all his circus performances. He had placed his fore feet upon the back seat of the little carriage, and was tranquilly continuing his route, trotting upon his hind legs alone, Bob striving in vain to replace him upon four. Mme. de Noriolis was so frightened she let the reins escape from her hands and sank fainting in my arms. With my left hand I recovered the reins, with my right hand I supported Mme. de Noriolis, my leg all the time causing me most frightful torture. In this manner Mme. de Noriolis made her first entry into La Roche Targe. When she returned there six weeks later she had become my wife. “ Such, indeed, is life!” she exclaimed. “ This would never have come to pass if you had not bought the trumpeter’s horse.”— London Society.

Fun Among the Members of the Philadelphia Commercial Exchange.

The first half-dozen or so of the members of the Commercial Exchange who reached the Board yesterday morning constituted themselves a committee on reception. Armed with tin horns and the inflated bladders with which Clown so unmercifully pommels luckless Pantaloon, on the stage, they awaited fresh arrivals. As the members reached the top of the stairs they were received with a deafening flourish from the horns. This compliment, as a rule, was acknowledged with a profound bow, which was the signal for the opening of hostilities. The committee would draw the bladders from beneath their coat-tails, and the first blow, given with a hearty good-will, would light on the new-cotner’s hat and send it scurrying across the floor. Away he would fly after it, only to catch it on every side from his relentless pursuers, who would pound away at him until the cry of “fresh fish” from the outposts would announce another victim- When the last man had regained his wind he would enroll himself in the ranks, and mete out to the next unfortunate, with redoubled vigor, the punishment bestowed on him. Hats, especially high ones, were the objective point of attack, and when Stephen N. Winslow, editor of the Commercial List, entered the hall in search of a few items, with a brand-new tile perched upon his head, a mighty shout of “ bounce him” went up as he was in the midst of his enemies. Mr. Winslow speeded around the hall once or twice, in a vain effort to escape from his assailants. His time was good, but there was just so much latent force held in reserve for the newspaper man, and he got the full benefit of it. As he flew down the stairs in escape, three steps at a time, as if to add insult to injury, a gentleman, who had been there, innocently inquired: “Steve, have you been up-stairs?” “ Have I?” he indignantly shouted, “loojeat that,” and, shoving his damaged two-storied head-cover into his tormentor’s face, he rapidly continued toward his office, with vengeance clouding his brow. Toward noon the fun became rougher. Bags of flour were thrown and bursted until the floor looked as if the Exchange had been out in a snow-storm, with no roof to cover it, and, to cap the climax, some one hurled a full-sized foot-ball into the center of the room. For two long hours the members kicked, pushed and scrambled, and upset each other, without fear or favor, until they were completely exhausted and were forced to sit down for repairs.—Philadelphia Times.

How a French Boy Objected to Being Named After Assassins.

Louis Jacquin, a boy of fifteen, has been on trial at the Court of Assizes of the Seine, Paris, for the murder of his brother, a lad of fourteen. The murder occurred on the sth of May last, and is certainly a truly French’curiosity of crime. The two boys worked in common in a cabinet-maker’s shop. One morning, in the course of certain jocular exchanges of conversation, Alexander 4acquin, the murdered boy, called his brother “ Biltotr and Magaux.” “ Why do you name me after those infamous assassins?” insisted Louis. ** Because I choose,” returned his brother, laughing. “You are not foolish enough to get angry, are you?” “ But there is Clemence (their employer’s daughter) laughing at me,” demanded Louis. “Pshaw! who would not laugh?” returned Alexander. “ You are a goose. Go on with your work.” Louis complied, muttering and grumbling constantly: “Magaux and Billoir, ell! Oh, lam tn be called an assassin, am I? Then I will be one. One might as well be a murderer as have people call one so.” The next morning, while Alexander was planing down a plank, Louis came up to hiin and asked sharply: “ What is it I am calleu?” * Billoir apd Magaux,” answered his brother. “Then I wilfbe them!” yelled the yoUng assassin, hnd before his brother yould defend hiipuwlf he plunged a long

knife into his abdomen with such force as to literally disembowel him. Alexander rolled on the floor and the murderous boy again and again drove the knife into his body until, when aid arrived, his victim was at the last gasp. The preoociotis assassin gave no reason for his crime other than that noted above. “ He called me Bllloir and Magaux,” he said, “ and made Clemence laugh at me. So I might as well have the crime as-the reputation.” After a long trial he was acquitted on the ground of insanity.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—An old man named James Graham, a resident of the Township of Etobicoke, Ont., murderously assaulted his son, Henry Graham, with a knife, stabbing him in five different places. The two had been quarreling over religious matters. —Locomotive Engineer Nute, of the Nashua & Worcester Railroad, while driving at full speed near Lee, Mass., the other day, felt something strike him in the face, which knocked him from his seat, With his cheek cut and bleeding. It was found that a partridge had flown against the window and been cut into two parts, one of which, with pieces of glass, struck the engineer. —An alleged train-wrecker, Albert Tackleberry, in custody at London, Ont., is a youth of some sixteen years, who came from Chicago. He admits having placed obstructions on the Grand Trunk Railway track near Parkhill, and offers the excuse that the train people were unkind to him, that the conductors and brakemen squirted and poured oil on him when they caught him stealing rides. He is awaiting trial on two indictments. —The dead-beats appear to be the dominant class In Mexico, Oswego County, N. Y. “The merchants formed a protective society against persons who contracted debts and did not pay them. They published a list of the dead-beats in the village newspaper. Thereupon the house of the Secretary of the association was burned, the President’s drug store was set on fire, and the editor was warned that he would have neither house nor office if he published the list again.” —The correspondent of a New York journal writes: “As I was going off with my party, I heard a young lady in front of me remark in French to a young lady friend who had come to meet her: ■ I have six dozen kid gloves sewed up in my petticoat, and mamma has a piece of silk made up in hers.’ As 1 smiled at the remark, the young lady caught my glance, blushed to the tip of her nose, and hastened on in great confusion. My companions informed me that she was the daughter of a Member of Congress from the West, and that he was a very wealthy man. But the temptation to do a little smuggling on their own account was too great to be resisted by these ladies.” —The Springfield (Mass.) Union relates this incident: “ A man from this city, with his bride, made a sensation at the Westfield depot yesterday. Leaving his lady at the depot, he started on an errand and was bitten by a dog. Rushing back he asked the ladiy for money to pay the doctor, whom he must see instanter. The woman was disgusted and declared she was tired of paying out money for him. He ventured to inquire if she was not his wife, whereupon she repudiated the idea with scorn, saying the only claim he had upon her was a certificate which she herself had to pay for. This was too much, and the forsaken one burst forth with, ‘ Oh, Clara! is this the way you cast me off? Oh, Clara, Clara!’ But Clara was incorrigible, and, ordering all her baggage rechecked, left on the train for New Haven.”

Meal for Cows.

In a pamphlet, entitled “ Meal Feeding ana Animal Digestion,” Mr. Louis W 7 Miller, of Stockton, N. Y., dairyman of great experience, advocates the use of meal for cows during Winter. He says that three quarts of good Indian meal, fed under proper conditions, is more than the equivalent for all the good hay a cow can be coaxed to eat—that the animal does not need to have its stomach distended with a great bulk of woody fiber, which imposes upon the system a large amount of extra mechanical work both in the processes of digestion and remastieation—that, in brief, bulk in food is not advantageous, but to the contrary, and that nutriment in food governs the condition and health of the animal, and that condensation of nutriment is Upie economy. Mr. Miller has conducted physiological investigations into the functions of the four stomachs of the cow, whence it appears that meal follows the.same course as herbaceous food, and stays longer in the rumen than coarse food, while it also digests more thoroughly than when the energies of the stomach are divided between meal and coarse herbage. The Western New York Dairymen’s Association appointed a committee to examine into the system; the report shows the following facts: The examination was conducted upon Mr. Miller’s herd of Chatauqua County native cows, the average live weight of which was 900 pounds. The herd were fed exclusively upon corn-meal for seven weeks, each animal, according to its digestive capacity, making an average of about three quarts of meal per day for each cow. The animals did not ruminate, did not manifest so much desire for food as cows fed on hay alone in the usual way, a little less than they will eat, showed no signs of unrest or suffering, and at the time of going back to hay, the cows had neither lost nor gained flesh. After returning to hay, their stomachs filled and ruminating went on normally, and, when turned to grass, the animals took on flesh faster than those wintered m the usual way. Their daily yield of milk was twenty-nine pounds three ounces, or one pound eleven ounces Ser cow more than that of any other erd sent to the cheese factory. As regards the economy of mealfeeding Mr. Miller points out that'one bushel of corn, groufid and tolled, will last an ordinary cow of 900 pounds weight twelve days, ptid is equal to 240 pounds of hay. Corn at sixty cents per bushel is therefore the equivalent of hay at live dollars per ton <>f -2,1 mo pounds, and where it can be had at that rate the costof wintering the a nimal will range from seven dollars to ten dollars, according to coldness and length of the foddering season. But hay as a rule costs at least ten dollars per ton, and frequently much mure. Hence the estimated saving by meal-feeding is placed at from five dollars to, twenty per animal, according to the respective prices of corn and hay.—X K Gerald. • ■

HOME, FARM AND HARDEN.

—To keep moths from any kind of fur, scatter powdered camphor on the fur or hair side, wrap up in paper, fur inside, and hitng away In bjtgs or pack in boxes. This is the way they keep them in the stores. —Starch Cake.—The whites of five eggs beaten to a froth, two cups of white sugar, one cup of starch dissolved in a cup of sweet milk, one cup of butter, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream-tartar; flavor; add the eggs the last thing. —Of all business men, farmers this year should be the most contented. No matter how- prostrated trade may become, there is a ceaseless demand for the products of the farm. The forge may grow chill, the loom cease its active motion, and the anvil rust for want of use, but there is a profitable market at all times for farm and garden crops.— Germantown Telegraph.

—The calla lily, roots of which may be procured of any florist, is one of our finest plants for house growing when properly treated. The best method we nave tried is to procure an earthen jar, suitably decorated on the outside if desired, by painting or pasting on of frieze or flower pictures, or by a paper open-work covering. In this place rich mould some five or six inches deep, and in this set the calla plant. Now put o_n the top of this mould a layer of'dean coarse sand about two inches deep, and on top of this some small pebbles. Then fill the jar with water and replace as evaporated, so as to always have the water several inches deep above the pebbles. Place in a warm and sunny window, and the plant will throw up large, luxuriant leaVes, to be followed by the magnificent bloom. Whf tis still better, the flower stalks will be sent up in succession so as to afford a nearly continuous series of flowers. A few minnows introduced into the water will usually thrive without further care, and afford a pleasing study.— Scientific Farmer. —New Englands agricultural journals have for a long time urged upon the farmers in that quarter the necessity of growing corn extensively as one of the best means of increasing their wealth. The advice seems, to have been heeded to some extent, and the results have proved equal to anticipations, not only as a source of profit, but as exhibiting the excellence of New England soil for corn raising. The editor of the Journal of Chemistry has also urged upon farmers the necessity of corn culture, and in the December number of the Journal gives an account of a personal expenment that is of interest. He says that upon a hillside originally covered with beeches and rocks, he raised last year, the drought notwithstanding, more than fifty bushels of corn to the acre, and this by the use of home-made fertilizers. He insists that one bushel of sound Northern corn in the ear is worth as much to feed to stock as a bushel of shelled corn such as comes from the South or West. The field under experiment never received any animal excrement, and in 1876 yielded eighty bushels of shelled corn to the acre.

Muck.

Farmers do not make enough of the muck in their swamps. Muck is nothing less than the accumulated vegetation and plant-food of countless ages. The best time for digging muck is in dry weather, say July or August; although in some cases this can be more profitably done when the ground is frozen hard and labor is cheaper or more convenient in winter. Muck recently dug should neVer be plowed under until it has been fermented by the action of salts or niello wed by frosts; otherwise it will remain in lumps in the earth, often for years, without producing any beneficial results. W hen taken out, it is sometimes a good pl§n to leave it for six months or even a year, if convenient, exposed to the pulverizing action of the air, in small heaps, on the margin of the place from which it has been taken. Bv leaving it in this way and occasionally w’orking it over, it will become in course, of time, without further treatment, fit for application to any kind of soil; but especially to those that are sandy and light. When dry, muck makes an excellent bedding-for stock in the stable or pigpen, where it proves a powerful absorbent of urine and ammonia. The escape of ammonia (the most volatile but the best part of the manures about the homestead) is in a great measure the cause of the strong odor from stalls, barnyards, sinks and privies. In the stable a bedding of dry muck, a couple of inches thick, will arrest and imprison the fugitive, while a slight covering of leaves and straw will keep the animals unsoiled on lying down at night. The foulest stable-floor will lose its pungent odor in a few minutes if overlaid with fine muck or pulverized peat. When dug in the summer and intended for this purpose,the dryer portions should be taken to the barnyard and placed under shelter; and in piling it up it would be well to mix it thoroughly with a small quantity of lime, to prepare it for quick decomposition. Another advantage of such treatment is that a large quantity of it can afterward be added to the manure in the compostheap. If then composted in proportion of five loads of muck to one of manure, the absorption of urine and the retention of gases, together with the elements of the muck itself, will render the whole mass as good as an equal bulk of uncomposted manure. The most expeditious way to prepare muck for use is to mix with it a quantity of lime, in the proportion of from three to five bushels of the latter to a cord of the former. The lime to be used for this purpose should always be fresh slaked; and if it is thoroughly blended with the mass its effect is invariably more powerful and rapid than if spread in alternate layers, as some advise. Work the Tioap over In about ten days, and it 2 will be ready for application to the land in three or four weeks; or it may be used as an absorbent of aninjaLmanure after three months, Tor this ahterval at least should always be alloWed to intervene between the application of lime to muck and the use of the mixture in the stable. Muck may be advantageously composted with barnyard manure in any proportions, from one load of each to five of the former with one of the latter; but the nearer the compost approaches to equal proportions of both the more satisfactory the results. The heap should bo built in alternate layers of from six to eight inches, and care should be taken that the muck is wet When cofnposted, to promote fermentation and the diffusion of alkaline ingredients. It should lie worked over occasionally, and if the heap is so constructed as to permit this to be done with the plow it will insure a considerable saving of labor, < ’

Under certain conditions, after partial decay has taken place, further decomposition ceases unless promoted by alkaline applications. The decaying vegetable matter contains several acids, as gallic and tannic, which are developed by fermentation; and the fibers in the muck become coated with a species of asphaltum or pitchy matter, which prevents the necessary access of air to the inner portions, and so prevents decomposition. Under these circumstances, the contents of the heap should be freely exposed to air, ana warmth and an alkali (lime, potash, or soda) should be applied, to neutralize the acids and dissolve the sphaltio coating. In this connection the application of ashes is generally very effective; for, although there is considerably more alkali in a bushel of lime freshly slaked than in one of ashes, yet the potash in the former is much more soluble, and consequently more readily diffused throughout the heap. Marl, shellsand, and soapsuds, thoroughly mixed with the compost, are also promotive of fermentation, as they also are rich in alkaline properties. Finally, the best use of muck is as an absorbent in the stable, pig-pen, sheep-fold, and barnyard. In these its own fertilizing properties are best developed, while it collects and retains much of the urine and ammonia, which would otherwise be wasted. Properly decomposed, its effects are good on all soils," even on reclaimed swamp-land; but it is most beneficial on light, sandy ground.— Rural New Yorker.

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