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Losing Situations.
It is a had business of losing
tions. It, is a Lad sign, too, for t
presumptive proof that the loser
not deserve the situations he fails
retain. It may not boon account
dishonesty, morality or drunkencss, or
; these are giant vices
condemn their victim in all
and circumstances. The young man
who is dishonest, or addicted to dis¬
sipation and licentiousness, need not
expect to be trusted with the business
ol others; it is a wonder that he
should keep it. Rut the severe exac¬
tions of business in these times re¬
quire something else of a young man
than exempliori from faults and vices;
they demand positive virtues and apti¬
tudes. A young man may possess
exemplary morals; he may have no
had habits ; he may flatter himself
that he has a good education, that lie
writes a good hand, that he is quick at
figures, a mathematician, a linguist,
and a scholar. All this is well ; but
it is not enough ; these accomplish¬
ments arc graces that adorn a charac¬
ter, and give satisfaction to their pos¬
sessor ; but they do not mean busi¬
ness. {situations demand not merely
the absence of bad habits ; they exact
good habits, such ns dilligence, in¬
dustry, cheerful willingness to work,
without measuring the alloted task;
a vigilant watchfulness over the em¬
ployer’s interest ; the prrctice of
doing thiugs thoroughly and effec¬
tively ; promptness and reliability.
All these may be possessed by men of
only ordinary talents and indifferent
education ; but they will enable such
a man to hold iiis situations, and
rise higher ami higher in his em¬
ployer’s favor, while a young man of
superior talents, education and accom¬
plishments, who is destitute of these
sterling qualities, will lose one posi¬
tion after another. It is a pitiable
sight to sec a man out of business,
and without means, appealing to per¬
sonal friends to assist him. Rut there
arc too many young men seeking
clerkships aud agencies, who want not
the situation but the salary; they de¬
sire good wages with little labor; they
want to do as little work and to earn
as much money as possible. They
perform their duties but decline to
perform more than their duties, they
are languid, listless, and indifferent ;
they take no active interest in the for¬
tunes oi their employer, and put them¬
selves to no trouble to win his favor,
i hese are the men who lose situations
without knowing exactly why. If a
situation man, young or old, would retain his
and win favor, lot him make
himself indispensable to his employ
ers. The task is not a diilicult one,
and will be worth more titan ho im
agined.
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Things a Farmer Should Not Do
—A farmer should never keep more
cattle, bev c s, sheep or hogs, titan he
can keep in good older ; an animal
in high order the first of December
already half wintered.
The farmer should never be so im¬
mersed in political matters as to tor
get to sow his wheat, dig his potatoes,
and bank up his cellar; nor should he
be so inattentive to them as to re¬
main ignorant of those great questions
of national and state policy which
will always agitate more or less a
free people. should
A farmer shun the doors of
a hank as he would an approach of
the plague or cholera ; banks are for
men of speculation, and theirs is a
business with which farmers should
have little to do.
A farmer should never be ashamed
of his calling ; we know that no man
can be entirely independent, yet the
farmer should remember that if any
one can be said to possess that en¬
viable distinction, he is the man.
No farmer should allow the re¬
proach of neglecting education to lie
against himself or family ; if know¬
ledge is power, the beginning of it
should be early and deeply laid in the
district school.
A farmer should never use ardent
spirit as a drink ; if, while undergo¬
ing severe fatigue, and the hard
labors of the Summer, ho would en¬
joy robust health, let him be tem¬
perate in all things.
From the French of M. do Dombaslo,
Scarlet Clover.
The scarlet clover has been long
cultivated in Southern Franco as an
excellent forage crop. Of late years
it has been introduced in some of the
more northern departments, where it
has succeeded very well. It is no
more sensible to frosts than the ordi¬
nary clover, especially if sown early,
so as to become well rooted before
Winter.....One ought not
to pass the end of August before sow¬
ing is finished.
The most valuable property of this
plant is that it. may bo cut in the
Spring fifteen days before other
clover and ordinarily before lucerne.
It gives but one crop if cut when in
bloom, which only happens where
oue has no need uf green forage early
iu Spring; but when it is cut before
the heads appear, a second crop can
be cut, but it will be weak unless the
soil is strong. Strong soils will be
found most profitable for all forage
crops. It is not very difficult a,s to
choice of soils, but light sandy or
gravelly soils is loams. much better than
clays or heavy
This plant must be sown by itself,
and may succeed any cereal or other
crop. Consumed green, it is a valu¬
able forage, and it comes at a time
when stock are not particular abcut
green food ; but it is inferior to clover,
whether used green or made into
hay. One sows, ordinarily, about
1G lbs. of clean seed per acre, or its
equivalent in seed left iu the head
(4 bushels of seed iu the chaff are
equivalent to 1G lbs. of clean seed.
—Ed. F. &. II.) The last method is
preferred, as the a ed is more sure to
vegetate, probably because the en¬
velop left on the seed preserves mois¬
ture and facilitates vegetation. This
plant likes a firm bottom; thus in a
light soil not infested with weeds it is
thought better not to woik it deeply
after the preceding crop, but to pre¬
pare the surface merely, and then
sow broadcast and harrow thoroughly.
Oa some soils thorough harrowing is
quite sufficient preparation, but if the
land be foul it must be plowed, but
not deeply, mdweli harrowed b< fore,
and after sowing.”
Covering Strawberries.
Wherever the ground is likely to
be frozen at any time during flic Win¬
ter, strawberries will do very much
better, producing larger fruit and
more of it, in case the beds arc well
protected by a mulch from now until
the 1st of April. Even where there
is no frost, but harsh, strong winds
that blow off the fine earth from around
the surface roots of the plants, it will
pay well to cover the beds with some
kind of lifter.
It is not necessary that I lie plants
should be covered very heavy ; enough
is wanted to cover the foliage the width
of the row or bed. When the ground
becomes frozen under this mulch, it is
likely to remain so all Winter, pre¬
venting, as the mulching effectually
does, the alternate changes of freezing
and thawing of the surface, which
often proves so fatal to the surface
roots of strawberry plants when no
mulch is used and the ground is frozen
to a depth of six or eight inches early
in the Winter. Then follows a spell
of warm, mild weather in mid-winter,
or toward spring, and thaws a couple
of inches of the surface ; the expansion
of these two inches will often break
off a third of the roots or strawberries,
and many of tin* plants will be heaved
out, or so nearly so that they are
worthless fur bearing, and might as
well he hoed out altogether, tor the
leaves will turn a dark brown about
the middle of May; and if such
"stools” produce any fruit, it will be
small and inferior in quality.
This is more likely t* occur where
berries arc grown on heavy clay soil,
especially if the ground becomes lro
zen while the surface is wet.
When the beds are carefully
mulched there is seldom any injury
from "heaving, J ’ and the foliage is
generally found, when the luuleli is
taken off in the Spring, to be fresh,
aud the blossom buds looking very
much more vigorous than it left ex¬
posed through the cold weather.
Wheat or rye straw is better than
oat straw for covering strawberi ies.
Reaves gathered from the woods make
an excellent mulch, provided they run
he kept in place ; a strong wind will j
often blow them all about wh n they j
become dry from exposure. This cjii ,
easily i.« prevented of l.y scattering leaves
some earth on top the as
s ion as they are put on the beds.
A neighbor protects his beds in this
way. mulch
The sooner the is put on the
better, and there nec-1 be no dausp-r
apprehended from tin* plants being
injured when covered before very cold
weather sets in.
Before putting the mulch on heavy
ground, it is a good plan to draw some
Lose earth up around the "stools" of
plant-:. In the garden this can be
done with the h n-, aud in field culture
a shallow furrow thrown toward the
row of plants, and then leveled off some
with the hoe, will be Lund to answer
a good purpose. In case a few of
the outside leaves are covered by* the
loose soil, it will in no way injure the
vigor or fruitfulness of the plaut for
next year’s bearing.
When mulching material cannot
be procured, this method of drawing
the loosed earth toward the rows of
plants late in the Fall, will be found
to protect the plants from heaving to¬
ward Spring, in case the weather is
unsettled through the month of March.
Veter Henderson.
To Prevent Hoys' Rooting. — A
correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette gives his mode of preventing
hogs’ rooting, which at least, has the
merit of cheapness and simplicity.
“I go to the tinner’s and buy rings
made for the purpose nearly an inch
in diameter; I take a pair of nippers
and force the ends of the ring apart
sideway—if the wire is soft l do it
with my fingers ; then I take a tile
and file one of the ends smooth. Now
l am ready for the hogs.
"I put them in a^small pen where
they cannot stir much, and take a
small rope five or bed-cord six feet long ; a
piece of common that has
been used a little to pi event it from
being stiff is the best; l make a noose
at one end of the rope about ten or
twelve inches Wide ; then l put the
noose under the hogs nose, when it
will open its mouth, and 1 pull the
rope hack behind its tusks ; now 1
draw the rope tight, and fasten the
other end of the rope to the other
side* of the pen, when the hog will
stand with rope tight. Now 1 take
a shoemaker’s punch, and when I get
ready, l instantly punch a hole in the
middle of the rooter (standing
actraddlc of the hog): then 1 draw
the ends of the rings together as it
was when 1 got it from the tinner's :
after (his I take a small pair of tongs,
made lor the purpose by the black¬
smith, aud press the ring to a smaller
circumferecce, as 1 were going to tie
the ends of the lings together with a
string.
"I prefer this m >de as a small d ing
is apt to ( ill out sooin r ; tie* end of
the wire begiug twisted is apt to catch
on the clover it it is high and keep
the hog’rt nose sere also, 1 can ring
the help.’ largest h**g I raise without any
Receipt for Rots in Horses — It
is well known that noordinary nostrums
admini-fered to the hor-e will have
. ... lV . .
hi - mouth is so deep in the coatings of
the stomach that it cannot be reached,
but an ounce of chloroform Will gei:
cral y so stupefy his senses that he
w l! l ' ,0 sc h “ l, « ld ' when 3 l’ ur l*«*ivc
' f , i,uy y kind klmi , Wl11 wm carry carr » thcm off 1
have never seen a case lost when so
treated.
Men seldom or never die prema¬
turely of overwork. What they die
of is the W3iit of pr *m> rify in their
work. It was a wonderfully .shrewd
saying whoever said it, that wc do not
die of the work wc do, but of that we
find we cannot do. Men die prana
turely of chagrin.