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I'ill'lll illlll Git I (It'll. a lesson from cabbage. Everyone knows lliat cabbage will not grow fast or bead out well unless they are hoed very often-. Most have also learned that this crop dues Ihe best if hoed very early in the morn • ing, while the dew is on the ground. Hoeing later in the day when the dew has evaporated, vill not have the same effect. The reason appear to bo this : Tito dew being covered with soil, is retained and helps, keep the earth moist. It contt ins a large amount of oxygen, which it took from the air. Those act to decom pose the soil and to hasten the growth of plants. It also absorbs \ large quantity of ammonia, which isi directly taken up by the plant. XotiJ the same cause ought to produce tha same effect on other plants, and iU Las been found by observing farmer' that they do. Market gardeners prefer to have potatoes hoed either when t he soil is wet with dew or after a slight rain. Observations made by one of the best farmers in Wisconsin, extending through many years, convinced him that there was great advantage in plowing land while it was wet with dew. Especially was this the case when clover or grass was plowed un der. It was found that the grass and sod rotted much sooner, and that the succeeding crops were larg er and of better quality. SHEEP ON THE FAR}.!'. That sheep can save farms from litter ruin, and improve the condi tion of good farms is beyond doubt. —However much we may prize the horse and the cow for their valuable services to mankind, still we must ad mit that the keeping of sheep is very profitable to the farmer, in that i' brings money to his pocket and im proves the condition of his land. Experience has shown that slump husbandry is directly profitable. There are no losses and very lew risks to be met with in the business. Early lambs, fat wethers, wool and pelts always bring good prices and find ready market. Besides, sheep bring up the condition of the farm, and,, as the old adage has it, ‘turns the earth to gold wherever their foot prints are found.’ Nothing will im prove a farm so vrcll as a course of husbandry in sheep, well selected and judiciously followed. Sheep can be made the salvation of a poor farm, and if more of our farmers would keep sheep, a larger share of prosper ity would be the result. WIIY A HEN STOPS LAYING. There are many things that we do not know all about yet, and this is one of them. It is not certain that a hen ean lay so many eggs during her life and no more, or that the ova ries each contain so many germs of ova,, and that when these are exhausted she will stop laying. The statement that the ovary of a hen contains not ov er 400 ova, is not true, lor some hens that we know of have laid 800 eggs during their lives, and arc laying yet, at the age of eight years. A well fed hen will lay more eggs than a starved one, and it is more proba ble that the ova are secreted according to circumstances, than that they are already in embryo in the animal, as soon as it is formed in the egg, as some think. —We know also that hens stop laying in cold weather if expos ed to the cold, but not otherwise. RAISE YOUR OWN HOGS. Raise your own hogs this year. It is not difficult to do. Construct a covered pen or house out of heavy logs or plank; have a plank lloor, so as to allow of cleaning; a good strong door with a good lock, and the work is half done. Devote from one to ten acres to a hog range, plant in peas, potatoes, chufas, arti choke, etc., and pasture the hogs up on it by means oi a movable fence until the period arrives for cornl'eed ing. They ean easily be learned to come to their pens at night by throw ing them corn, or giving them a night feed. By this plan there is no danger of loss by theft. This plan will also enable the breeder to an- prove his stock by a judfeious cross-! ing with JJerkshiro or other impruv- | cd breeds on the best of the native j stock. value of night soil. There is no question as to the val ue of night soil as a fertilizer. The difficulty in the way of using it is the handling of it. Properly managed, it may be made no more offensive than barn yard manure. It may be mixed with coal ashes, or earth and straw, so that it may be loaded on to wagon. In many of the French and English towns this refuse matter is thus handled by the farmers without difficulty, and made into inoffensive composts for the market gardens near by. I Miseelianeus Advertisements f SQUARE GRAISTjI) fPianos Retailed at Wholesale Prices fttiOO tor I&230. &•© for tSj.7o© for ss*o© for s3s© tup. “Mendelssohn” Piano Company HAVE STRUCK HARD PAX PRICES. Only One Price for Cash, and a LOW OKE NO DEVIATION! W e give no discounts. We pay no ageuts’ commissions, which doable the prices of all Pianos. Wo look to the People, who want a first-class Piano at a fair prelit over cost of inanimcture. We appoint the peo ple our agents, and give them our Pianos as low as any agent can buy equally good Pianos of any other manufacturer, giv .ingthe People, in a reduced pi ice, what is usually expanded in commissions, rent, freight, traveling and incidental ex penses. The “MENDELSSOHN” PIANO CO. can sell you a 7£ octavo, rosewood ease Piano, G feet 10 inches long, with front round corners, carved legs, serpen tine and plinth mouldings, with all im provements, including Full Iron Frame, Over Strung Ham, Agraffe Treble, a*ul Frencli 4* rami Action* which only accompany the best Pianos of the most celebrated makers, at the very low price of $250, §275 or §3oo,ac cording to style of case, or with four round corners and full agraffe for $350, and guarantee them in every respect equal to any Piano made of similar style, or rvo|sale. The “MENDELSOHN” Piano is manufactured from tho very best ma lerials, and by the most skilled and fin ished workmen. The manufacture is conducted by one of the most experi enced Piano manufacturers in the coun try. This is no new enterprise, turning out a poor and cheap piano, made from green wood, and by greener mechan ics. Our Piano is unsurpassed by any in the market for its rich and powerful tones, and its adaptation to the human voice in sympathetic, mellow and singing qualities. It speaks for itself. W e are willing to place it beside any other make of Piano on its merits, either in beauty of ease, or excellence of tone, and “at half the money” of equally good instruments. “The best is the cheapest? —- When it costs the least money. All Pianos fully warranted for five years. Send for out Illustrated and Descrip tive Circular. Tlie Piano Cos., OYSee of Manufactory. 50 ISitOAI>W V Y, j ue2-1 y Nc w York. Unabridged Dotionary 10.000 Words and Meanings not in other Dictionaries. 3000 Engravings; 1840 Pages Quarto. Price §l2. V\7 elMer now is glorious—it leaves noth- TT ing to be desired. —Pres liagntond, Viumr College. JPvory scholar knows the value of the L work—lE H. Prescott, the Historian. S|_)iievo it to be the most, perfect dictions of the language— l)r. J. O. Holland interior in most respects to any other known to me —George 7’ .1 harsh. rpbe standard authority for printing in tsh- JL office —A H Vlcpp, Government Printer i I Axcels all others in giving and defining sci 1j entitle terms —Paesident Hitchcock, j Kemarkable compendium of human knowl edge— IF A' Clark, Pres't Agricultural College. “ihe best practical English Dictiona ry extant,’’ —[Loudon Quarterly Review October, 1873.] A NEW FEATURE.—To the 300 illustrations heretofore in Webster's Uu abridged wo have recently added four pages of Colored Illustrations, engraved expressly for the work at large expense. ALSO WEBSTER'S NATIONAL Pictorial DICTIOMI. 1040 Pages Octavo. 600 Engravings. Price $5. JfcA'The National Standard. Proof: 20 to 1 The salo of Webster's Dictionaries throughout the country in 1573 were 20 times as large as the sales of any other Dictionaries In proof we will send to any person, on application, the state ments of more than 100 booksellers from every section ol' the country Published by Gr &, C MERBIAM, Springfield, Mass /Sold by all Booksellers Newspaper Adverliseisieiils. telEiilpii & Imer FOR IS7G. | Great Sfieidueiioii l 1 ( )n and after Ist January, 1870, our d/mmnotli Wick y, Tho Great Family I J hiper of Geoigtn, contain:: g 04 cl- | limns, and the largest in the South, t will bo tent io subset ilic sat $2 a Year, arid postage. This in but a small ad- ] valuta on cost of blank paper. Weekly for six months, §1 and postage is 20 | cents a yi nr. Tho Semi Weekly Will be seduced to THREE DOLLARS a veal' and postage —20 cents. For ►ix mouths $1.50 and posing. . Daily Edition Ten Dollars a year and postage. 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