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VEGETINE
IS MY FAMILY
Medicine;
1 Wish ■ Other.
Pbovidsnce, April 7, 1876.
11U. H. It. Stkvkms:
Dear Sir—When 1 was about 8 years of age s hu
mor bioke out upou me, which my mother tried to
cure by giving me herb teas and all other such rem
edies as she kuew of, but It coutiuued to grow worse
until she consulted a physician, and he said I had
salt rheum, and doctored me for that complaint.—
Ue relieved me some, but said the disease could not
be permanently cured as it originated in the blood.
1 remained a great sufferer for several years, until
1 heard of and consulted a physician, who said 1 had
scrofulous humor, and if I would allow him to doc
tor me lie would cure me. I did so, and he com
menced healing up my sores, and succeeded in ef
fecting an external cure, but in a short time the
the disease appeared again in a worse form than
ever, as caucerous humor upon my lungs, throat
and head. I suffered the most terrible pain, and
there seemed*to be no remedy, and my friends all
thought 1 must soon die, when my attention was
called, while reading a newspaper, to a VEGETINE
testimonial of Mrs. Waterhouse, No. 364 Athens st.,
South Boston, and I, formerly residing in South
Boston, and being personally acquinted with her
aud knowing her former feeble health, concluded I
wuld try the Vegetine. After I had takeu a few
bottles it seemed to force the sores out of my sys
tem. I bad running sores iu my ears, which for a
time were very painful, but I coutiuued to take the
Vegetine until I had taken about 25 bottles, my
health improving all the time from the commence
ment of the first bottle, and the sores to heal. I
commenced taking the Vegetine in 1873, and con
tinued its constant use for six months At the pres
ent time my health is better than it ever has been
since i was a child. The Vegetine is what helped
ms, and I most cordially recommend it to all, suf
ferers, especially my friends I had been a sufferer
for over 30 year*, and until I used the Vegetine, I
found no remedy ; now I use it as my family medi
cine, and I wish no other.
Mrs. B. C. COOPER,
No. 1 Joy street, Providence, R. I.
Viqeji/lc.
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nc* of this medicine, end the number of defined
aUcuit, which it never fails to cure, are greater
than any other single medicine has hitherto been
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Rheumatism (tout, Neuralgia, and spinal com
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dropsy, the whole train of painful disorders which
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grave*; D> spepsia, that universal curse of Ameri
can manhood, heartburn, piles, constipation, ner
vousness, inability to sleep, and impure blood.
This i* a formidable list of human ailments for
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uot probable that any other article before the public
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{? , “ ve r to its full and natural action, cleansing
„ *°m*en and strengthening digestion. This
UlU0 “ accomplished, the speedy and the permanent
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out likewise the whole train of chronic and consti
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*nd so easily, that it is an accomplished fuot almost
before the patient is aware of It hlruself,
Best Remedy in the Land.
Littlß Fxlls, N. Y., Sept. 23d, 1376.
** R - U. R.Stevens:
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and neck. After using two or three bottles of
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Trinity for the last thirty-three years.
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VOL. VIII.
Medical Dispensary.
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TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAIL
800 MILES OF THE PACIFIC END AL
READY BUILT.
A San Francisco correspondent of
the New York Sun, writing about
the four great capitalists of that
city, has the following in respect to
an interview with the President of
the Central Pacific Railroad, who is
tha active head of the Southern Pa
cific beyond the mountains ;
Leland Stanford, the president of
the Central Pacific Kailroad.is worth
about $25,000,000. His residence is,
perhaps, the most costly one inside
the United States. Ido not except
the Lawrence house in Boston, Lock
wood’s house at Norwalk,or Probas
co’s house in Cincinnati. It is as
large as an imperial palace in Eu>
rope. Even the front vestibule is
floored with Reman mosaic. The
parlor was frescoed by a master in
Rome and sent over. The carpets
were made in Turkey, and on the
walls hang all the modern masters,
from Gerome and Meissonier to
to Bierstadt and Achenbach.
It was Mr. Stanford and Charles
Croker who built the Central Pacific
over the Sierras to meet the Union
Pacific at Ogden, and these two in
domitable men are now building the
Southern Pacific to meet Tom Scott,
if he shall ever continue the Texas
Pacific through Texas and into Ari
zona. The Central Pacific and the
Southern Pacific are now united.—
They form one interest, and Charles
Croker and Leland Stanford hold in
their hands all eastern connection
with California.
“How far have you reached out
toward Tom Scott on the South ?”
I asked Governor Stanford.
“We have completed the Southern
Pacific to Fort Yuma, on the Colo
rado river, and are now grading into
Arizona. About eight hundred
miles are already built, which makes
something like 2,G00 miles of road
under one management.”
••Do you mean to say that you are
now building the end of the Texas
Pacific I asked.
“Every day, sir. We’ve got to
the Colorado, and run trains there
every day, and we will soon continue
on toward the Rio Grande.”
“And all without an appropria
tion.”
“Yes, sir. We’ve just gone on
building the Southern Pacific road
as if there were no Congress and no
chance of an appropriation. No ral
lying around the flag with us here in
California—no eagle, no appropria
tions. We just go in and build the
railroads and look out for the flag
and the appropriations afterwards.”
It is the intention of Governor
Stanford and Mr. Croker to contin
ue building this end of the Texas
Pacific, whether Tom Scott gets an
appropriation for the other end or
not. They say local traffic and
freights pay them to run to Fort
Yuma, Buo miles of tne way, and
they think local business and freights
will pay them well enough to war
rant them now to continue building
tho road 280 miles further on
through Arizona to Tucson, the
capitol, and very soon, 320 miles
further on to the Rio Grande. This
will leave only 800 miles for Tom
Scott to build to fill up the gap
from Dallas, Texas, through Texas
and New Mexico to meet the South
ern Pacific at the Rio Grande. In
other words, uis 2,100 miles from
San Francisco to Dallas, Texas. —
Stanford and Croker have already
built 800 of it, leaving only 1,300
miles to complete the Texas Pacific.
“How can you afford to build GOO
miles further to meet the Rio
Grande I asked Governor Stan
ford.
“Why, then we will communicate
by steamer witn the Gulf of Mexico.
No more freighting over the lsth*
mus, then. Steam boats can bring
all our Southern freights straight ui>
from Matemoras, and we will bring
them from the Rio Grande to San
Francisco. Not only that, but very
soon the railroad will be continued
ninety miles further, from San An
tonio to Laredo, on the Rio Grande,
and there we will have an all rail
connection with the East, and can
divide the freights with the Union
Pacific, even if Tom Scott does noth
ing but continue to stay in Wash-
THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 23, 1877.
ington and rally round the flag.—
And once to the Rio Grande, the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc
Road will run down 500 miles to
reach us, too.”
Review orthe Military Situation
London June 10. To the move
ments on the Asiatic side, recorded
last week, which showed that the
Rassian centre and right wing had
joined hands and advanced—the for
mer on the passes of the Soghaulu
mountains, and the latter on Olti and
along the Choruk valley, there must
now be added the fact that theßussian
centre lias obtained communication
with the left wing, so that the eas
tern heads of the passes between the
Soghaulu and Kierstch ranges near
Midshiner are already in their hands.
Muliktar Pasha has withdrawn
from his position between Olti and
Bradez and taken up a fresh line be
tween Kara Killisi and Hassan Ka
leb. Mukhtar Pasha has thereby
improved his position, if he has suffi
cient force north of Erzeroum to
check the advance of the Russian
right wing. This, however, is very
doubtful, especially as his position
at Kylly, south of the Araxes, is
threatened by the extreme left of the
Russian left wing.
A portion of the Russian left was
detached at Dejoraneysi probably
with the desire to turn Murk liter’s
strong position at Keprocoki on the
Araxes —for the descent from Sog
liaulu through the passes leading
down to the valley of Araxes is steep
and difficult, as indeed is also the de
scent from the Kasber range to Kyl
ly’, which is about half an hour’s
march from the Araxes.
If the Turks stand their ground,
which they can only r do if they have
sufficient men guarding the northern
approaches to Erzeroum, the plain of
Araxes will be the scene of a san
guinary battle.
The great length of the Russian
lines of communication with the tw r o
fairly garrisoned fortresses of Kars
and Batoum in the rear, necessitates
great caution on their part, because
if the Turks had sufficient enterprise
or available force, would long
since have sent large reinforcements
by sea to Batoum and endeavored to
break through the circle which the
Russian corps has been forming on
the heights around the land side of
that town.
A vigorous effort in this direction
might yet save Erzeroum* The
Turks appear to be becoming has
tily aware of this fact, and some rein
forcements have been ordered to Ba
toum : but their efforts in this direc
tion do not appear very serious.
The secret of the plan of Russian
operations on the Danube has been
well kept.
The few special correspondents
who are allow’ed to accompany the
Russian army are forbidden, under
pain of instant expulsion from the
camp, to send any details which
might give a clue to Russia’s designs
and consequently’ there has been lit
tle news from the Russian side, where
their operations have been confined
to reconnoisances, by’ which the Rus
sians are being kept fully’ posted on
the disposition of the Turkish com
'manders.
Thc same cannot be said ior the
Turks, who see a regiment in every
Cossack and shut their e3 T es in terror.
They have not, like the Russians,
any friendly population to assist
them with information.
The disposition and state of pre
paration of the opposing forces lead
to the belief that there will be heavy
connonading all along the Danube,
coupled with raids and feints in va
rious directions uuder cover of which
there will be simultaneous attack by
the Russians in force at Oltinitza,
Rustchuk, Sistova and Turna Ma g
relli, with diversions at Kalafat and
I brail. It is not probable that any
thing of importance in the way of cros
sing in force will take place for the
next week whatever may be the oth
er points at which a crossing will fi
nally he attempted.
England. * Opinion of America.
Two American ex-Presidents, Fill
more and Van Buren, visited Eng
land so'me twenty years ago and,
through civilly treated and presen
ted at Court, there was no demon
stration of any kind in their honor
and royalty and society, does not
seem to have through of treating
them as ex-sovereigns, which, it is
said is the character in which the
present English government regards
General Grant. To some extent
this difference is due to the great
military fame of General Grant, but
it cannot be entirely due to that, for
in military circles in Europe Sher
man is regarded by many as the
greater general of the two, but Sher
man had no such i ration on the oc
casion of his*visit to England and
the continent a few years ago. In
fact, the present furore in England
over General Grant is not so much
a personal tribute to the man, as it
i, c , to the country of which he was so
the chief magistrate, and
the difference between the reception
given him and that accorded the
previous ex-Presidents above-men
tioned, indicates the great change
that has taken place in English sen
timent toward America during the
past twenty years. Tb% do not es
pecially admire us or our system of
government, perhahs, more than
they did thjn, but they do respect
us and recognize our equality with
them among the world’s great na
tions, and this is all we have the
right to expect from them or any
other self-respecting people.
GREAT SIVARXS OF LO
CI'STS.
A continous whirring sound is
heard in the woods and orchards
which cover the Orange hills ; li New
Jersey and extend in scattering lines
and patches through the village
which lie about their base. A few
days ago the earth under the trees
began to open with innumerable cir
cular holes into which a child might
trust his finger, and insects an inch
in length and completely enveloped
in a light-brown, translucent shell,
eiime crawling forth. Sometimes
there would only be from twelve to
fifteen of these holes under a tree,
and again the ground would be rid
dled like a sieve. Immediately af-
Ui coming forth fnSji their dark un
derground cells to the light day
this multitude of creeping insects, as
if with a common impulse, began to
move toward the foot of the trees
under which they had sprung up.—
as they crawled along the ground
they burst their light exterior cov
erings of shells and struggled forth
perfectly formed winged insects,
leaving their outgrown shells behind
them under the trees. Tlvey crawl
ed slowly up the tree trunks, cling
ing to the bark with their forked an
tennae. Many may still be seen
high upon the trunks, sticking close
lv to the rough surface, and where
they have not shed their shells on
the ground these also are to be found
fastened to the bark with the tip
bristles of the legs, and remaining
till they are washed away by the
rain. When the insects, creeping
upward, have reached the limbs,
they crawl out to the ends of the
branches and fasten themselves to
the growing twigs. They never at
tach themselves to the branches ex
cept at a distance from the trunk,
and commonly within eight inches
of the farthest tips. Trees can now
be seen on the Orange hills or at
West Brighton on Staten Island
whose branches are weighed down
at the ends and fairly blackened with
the swarms.
These creeping millions which a
uay has brought forth in New Jer
sey and Staten Island are the seven
teen-year locusts, or harvest flies
(cicadadae septendecim). At in
tervals of seventeen years they have
made their appearance in New Jer
sey since the earliest record, and in
deed m all parts of the country ex
cept in the latitude of Northern
New England. They probably air
pear m some part* of the country ev
ery year, hut never in great numbers
twice in the same section except at
the above-mentioned interval.
Making Up the Verdict of His
tory,
It is now generally conceded that
the reconstruction policy of the Re
publican party was a failure. That
it was not good statesmanship to
proscribe the natural leaders of the
South and still pretend to intrust
that section with self-government ;
that same caution should have been
exercised in granting suffrage to the
emancipated slaves, or at least that
no effort should have been made to
constitute them rulers as well as vo
ters ; that the effort to carry on
State government in communities
which were at the same time pro
nounced unfit for freedom was u sol
ecism—all these things are now ad
mitted even among Republicans.—
In withdrawing the Federal troops
from South Carolina and Louisiana
and disowning the pretenders Cham
berlain and Packard, President Hay
es has virtually abandoned the poli
cy of interference which has been
the distinguishing political dogma
of his party for several years ; and
Mr. Evarts bus put himself on re
cord, in the report of the Municipal
Commission of this State, as reject
ing the theory of universal suffrage,
lie seems to hold that ordinary
white people in the cities of New
York should be restricted in the ex
ercise of franchise, and all the Re
publicans of the State Legislature
and nearly all the leaders of the or
ganization indorse his position ;
which fact proves clearly that they
must a fortiori repudiate the action
of their party in making voters out
of the poor, ignorant and degraded
negroes of the South. Thus the
great work of reconstruction, which
was taken up in folly and carried
out in iniquity, must be pronounced
a piece of bad politics, since its re
sults were evil, its process long and
weary and its cost heavy. The em
ancipation of the which is an
older achievement of the Republican
party, on the glory of which it has
rived and flourished, was a praise
worthy work, hut the cool criticism
of Hie present day pronounces the
prico paid for the good done alto
aethor exorbitant. Every adult
slave -cost the life of one of the best
and bravest of the freemen of the
country, and the market value of
ne oTO in the South has been paid in
cash over and over again in the pro
cess of securing his emancipation.
The Second Controller of the U.
S. Treasury has been requested by
the Attorney General to furnish
copies of all the returns made by
Brigham Young while he was Indian
ao-ent, in 1848 or ’9, with a view of
prosecuting Young for misappropri
ation of public money and issuing il
legal supplies.
Four deputy collectors, namely,
Messrs. Tanner, Wyman, Warren
and McAfee, have been dismissed
from the Baltimore customhouse. —
No charges have been preferred
against them.
How to Get Along.
Don’t stop to tell stories during
business hours.
If you have a place of business, be
there when wanted.
No man can get rich by sitting
around stores and saloons.
Never “fool” in business mat
ters.
Have order, system, regularity,
and also promptness.
Do not meddle wi‘h busines- you
know not of.
Do not kick e very one in your
path.
More miles can be made in a day
by going steadily than stopping.
Fay as you go.
The following “sayings’’ by mnir
Richard are worthy of place hen 1 .
The eye of the master will do more
work than both his Hands.
Diligeuce is the mother of good
luck.
Now I have a sheep and a cow,
everybody bids me a good morrow.
He that hath a calling hath an of
fice of trust and honor.
A plowman on his legs is higher
than a gentleman on his knees.
V Girl’s) Advice to Her Sex.
Dont do anything that you will
look back on from the mature age
tf thirty and wish you dedn’t.—
Don’t do anything, no matter how
long you have been engaged to a man
that when you marry you will regret.
Your husband will respect you all
the more, if you have always been
true to yourself during his courtship
Time enough for the kisses and the
“loving clasps” will come after mar
riage, and will be enjoyed all the more
for true purity of thought and deed.
And if the engagement should hap
pen to get broken, it will save many
annoying thoughts, if not words, to
know that it is impossible for some
man for whom you care nothing for
then to boast of familiarities from
you. These young men who are
willing to draw out these little, ca
ressing, familiar acts that if them
selves contain nothing impure, must
possess impure, minds, and imagin'
ed license from pleasure, will sooner
or later, with someone venture more
you may depend. Your careless
words and actions may inflame his
passions,jandjpresently someone falls
and can yon say but that it is part
ly your fault ? No doubt it is very
pleasant to be supported in yourev
‘ening walk or ride, by the arm of
your dear Augustus, or to lean your
head to rest On his hand, and giving
him a parting wiss , but as sure as
you live to be ten years older, you
will be sorry that you did it. Then
consider one thing more. In the
strength of your virtue, did you ever
think some weak sister may see or
know of the act, and think, if you
do so, it cannot he improper? The
consequence is that someone takes
advantage of her weakness, aud she
is lost. Oh, girls, we must blame
our own selves for some of this great
evil ! Do be thoughtful and avoid
any acts self-respect calls doubtful.
Ashtabula Sentinel.
According to a little tract recent
ly ]'rinted by the London Peace So
ciety, the total strength of the regu
larly trained soldiers of Europe
amounts to nearly 0,000,000. It
has been pointed out that if only
one-half of the present excessive
armies of Europe were disbanded at
least 3,000.000 men of from 20 to 35
years of age would be restored to pro
ductive laber, and $500,000 of mon
ey saved from oppressive taxation.—
The same authority puts down the
cost of all wars since the Crimean
war at $lO, 0G5,000,000. The most
expensive war since the contest in
the Crimean was the American re
bellion, which, it is estimated, cost
the south $2,300,000,000, and the
north, $4,7000,000,000. It is esti
mated that the enormous sum spent
in these wars would build two rail
ways round the world at the rate of
$250,000 a mile, and that it would
provide a freehold farm of 100 acres
in this country to each of the 40,000
000 adult males in Europe.
The Baltimore Gazette lays down
this plain proposition: “A newspa
per that is afraid to express an opin
ion for fear of losing a few subscri
bers, or a little advertising, is quite
likely to lose a good deal of both in
the end. Of course there are some
small souls who are irritated at a
truthful utterance in a public .jour
nal, particulrrly if it interferes with
business, and straightway they rush
to stop the offending paper. But
the great world still keeps moving
on, the sun still shines, the rain falls
and tilings generally work along in
about the same groove as usual. If
people would ouly take this lesson
lovingly to heart, they might save
themselves much annoyance.”
The State Department has inau
gurated a system of consular promo
tions. That is, when a vacaucy oc
curs in the consular service some of
ficial holding an office of less impor
tance than the one made vacant, is
promoted to it. Under this rule Jos
Smith, Consul at Funchal, Maderia,
has been promoted to take charge of
the commercial agency at Notting
ham, England, a position much more
desirable.
The Washington Market Compa
ny are now leceiving bids for the
erection of fourteen stores, to be us
ed by wholesale dealers, which are
to be built between the two wings
of the market buildings, facing Pen
nsylvania avenue, extending from
Seventh to Ninth streets.
Crutilled Uali.
Chirlratoo Neva and Courier.
We have beeu astonished at the
continued ignorance of our farmers
about the value of oats as a feed for
horses and mules. Recently we
were riding a three year old with
some brother farmers, when one re
marked: ‘Your tilly is very fat
you must have plenty of corn at
home.” We replied, if ever this an
imal ate a bushel of corn some other
man fed it to her.
‘V\ hat do you feed on!"’ asked he
and when told that cut oats did it all
he was amazed, 'lime and again
have we been asked, ‘Do you think
oats will do to make a crop on?’—
Whether our farmers will ever learu
the value of such food for their stock
we cannot tell. But if they never
know it, it will not be our fault*
There is no better authority in'
the United States on the subject ©f
raising stock than the American
Agriculturist, and it speaks of crush
cd oats thus.
The crushed oats of England are
certainly tho most admirable feed
for horses that can be. With us
this article is practically unknown.
They use in New' York and vicinity
what purports to be one-third sound
corn and two thirds sound oats
ground together. Were it truly
this it would be excellent feed, but
it is notorious that not onty is sec
ond quality of corn used, but the
siftings of the corn meal, consisting
of the bran and often bits of cob,
with some good meal, coursely
ground, are used, insted of mixing
tho grain and grinding it, as should
be done. Then too the oats are the
lightest and poorest that come to
market, and often full of dirt and
g<it from having beeu lodged while
growing, or from laying too long iu
the swalth before binding up. From
whatever cause oats become unmar
ketable, it does not prevent their be
ing used for ground feed.
In England oats are crushed by
hand in machines not larger than a
root sheer. One large, smooth fac
ed wheel, with a face about three
inches wide, revolves in close prox
imity to a smaller one, six inches in
diameter, and about the same face
as the larger one. A hopper ]>er
mits the discharge of the oats be
tween these two wheels, which, roll
ing together, crush each grain as a
wafer. As they drop from the
crusher the plump oats are nearly
circular ; those less plump elliptical
and the few' false kernels in the sarn
pies I examined were flattened and
broken, but showed no white flour
and no definite form. In one or
dinary sample, which weighed forty**
four pounds to the bushel, almost
every oat was flattened into a white
floury disk, nearly or quite as large
as an oldfashioned silver three cent
piece. Oats thus crushed may be
fed as they are, and not one will
pass the digestive organs unacted up
on, as so often happens with whole
oats. They may be mixed with cut
or changed hay wet or with steamed
fodder of any sort. They go decide
dly further. Those who figure most
are the most positive m their appro
val of them from motives of econo
my solely, and uniformily assert
their superiority to ground oats even
though they were to grind them
themselves.
Oats**crushers will certainly find
their way to popularity among us,
for with our light-weight oats they
are more important than where the
heavy oats of Europe can be obtain
ed—oats weighing forty to forty
seven pounds to the bushel are not
uncommon there, while here thirty
two pounds is legal by weight, and
the measured bushel oftener falls be
low than it goes above that weight.
Many city dealers sell ninety-pound
bags for three bushels.
How to Teach Writing.
The successful teacher of writing
will be certain to set the brains of
his pupils to work before be does
their fingers. He will recognize the
fact that the fingers can be skilful
only as the ready and obedient ser
vants of an enlightened and active
brain, that the one can never per
form better than the other conceives
and directs. He will therefore di
rect his first efforts to awakening
thought and enquiry concerning the
subject. This is best accomplished
by a skilful and free use of the black*
board, upon which should be careful
ly written the copy of each exercise,
when it should be carefully aud crit
ically analyzed by the teacher, before
being practiced by the class, thus
conveying through the eye to the
mind of the pupil, a correct idea of
the form and construction of the
copy, which should also be written
or engraved upon a movable slip,
which should he kept in close prox
imity to the pen while practicing.
By skillful black board illustrations
the eye and mind will become famil-
iarized with the form and construc
tion of letters and writing, and when
thus in the mind there exists a clear
and perfect conception of writing,
the fiugers, with proper instructions,
regarding position, movements, etc.,
will very soon acquire the requisite
skill for transcribing it upon paper,
nor will they soon lose iheir power,
since a perfect copy of imitation
will alwayss lie present in the mind,
while the pupil, who by much prac
tice, with little study, may become
skillful at imitating a good copy so
long as it is before him, will at once
lose that power,when the copy is re
moved. Teachers who look for per
manent success, must therefore make
a free use of the black board. —Art
Journal .
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How Sheen Kalfflnc Pare.
We need make no apiiology for the
frequency with which we urge this
subject upon the attention of our
readers. So impressed re we with
the truth, that sheep raising is in
dispensable to successful husbandry
in this section of the >South, that
we think it can not be too often pre
sented to the consideration of our
farmers. To say nothing of the ex
cellence and cheapness of the food
which they supply, sheep will do
more than any thiug else, to reclaim
and render profitable, the exhausted
lands of the South. The advanta
ges of sheep husbandry ore thus sum
mod up by the Amcricau Cultivator.
No annual on the farm gives such
quick returns or so Urge profits.—
The same feet! whether in hay,
grain or roots, will produce one
tliird more mutton than beef. No
meat commands a higher price than
the best mutton, none more econo
mical to the consumer, since in cook
ing it shrinks one-quarter less than
boef. To produce the best results
the Cotswold must be crossed with
tho Merino, Combing wool, premium
mutton and early lambs arc the
three essentials for nofit. This cross
necessitates better feed, which in its
turn demands better culture, and
the first supplies the later with let
ter manure. Thirty-six pounds of
sheep manure equals ir. yalue for
grass lauds a hundred pounds of cow
manure, the former being nearly
equal in nitrogen and superior in
phosphates to guano or hen man
ure.
Many of our abandoned lands are lit
tie market value even for pasture
land, since they are grown up t<
weed. There are however, one hun
dred and forty varieties of weed that
sheep will eat and thrive on, and
they arc the only auimals that de
stroy the vitality of all the seeds
they cat. With a slight addition of
better food, sheep will not only im
prove on much of our abandoned
land, but would become important
factors in restoring lost productive
ness. European agriculturists, in
cluding such emiuent authorities a
An dci son, Sprcngcl, Col man, Meelii
and Thaer, admit that an acre of
land fed and occupied by one thou
sand sheep, is capable of supporting
one extra sheep for each day so oc
cupied ; that four sheep per year
will feed and highly manure an acre
of land ; that one hundred sheep in
fifteen days would so manure and
acre of land as to carry it through :i
four years rotation of crops.
tat ion .
How to Choose m Plow'.
Plows frequently annoy those who
use them, in a most mysterious man
ner. They, refuse to run evenly
through the ground, and refuse to
keep the land as they ought to do.
On examining them nothing seems
to be wrong. Every properly shaped
plow ought to have a slight concavi
ty along the base of the landside.
of one-eighth or three-sixteenths of
an inch, so that the implement* wit I
“suck” into the sod aud run steadi
ly. This concavity may be shown
by holding a steel square to the bot
tom of the plow. If this part is
convex, as it not unfrequently is, no
matter what reputation the maker of
the plow has, it will not stay in the
ground, and will annoy the plowman
till the evil is remedied. The land
slide of the base should also he slight
ly concave to the same extent of one
eighth of an inch or more, and nev
er ought to he convex or bulging,
under any circumstances. If these
apparently trifling items are properly
attended to at the time of selecting
a plow, more trouble may be avoided
which often seriously perplexes the
plowman, and causes him to lose
much time which may thus be saved.
Prairie Farmer.
A Washington special to the Bal
timore sun says : Senator Con k
ling, who was lately here for four
days, procured his passport for Eu
rope through the subordinates of the
State department, as his relations
with Mr. Evarts precluded personal
intercourse with that gentlemen. —
During Mr. Gonkling’s stay here it
is said by his intimate friends that
he did not call at the W hite House,
nor did he meet the President, and
further that he has abstained entire
ly from making recommendations of
any nature in behalf of persons who
seek Presidential favor, leaviag,
himself free to oppose or support the
President when Congress meets, a
he may see fit.
Captain Lee, of the 10th cavalry,
forwarded to General Sheridan, from
Fort Griffin, Texas, an account of
an engagement with a hand of Cam
anchee Indians, near Lake Kuemado.
The skirmish occurred on the 4th of
Mav. There were four Indians kill
ed six squaws and fiftysix head of mul
es and horses captured,fifteen lodges
with a large supply of powder, lead,
dried meats, etc., were destroyed.—
First Sergeant Charles Butler wu
killed. |
Senator Kirkwood says he wants
to see more of the President’s policy
before he indorses it.
Mr. Adams, Clerk of the House
of Representaties, has not yet fully
made up the roll of members for the
next Congress, there beng one case
of election from Missouri aud one
from California in litigation, two
cases of dual certificates from Louis
iana, with the certificates of the two
contesting members from Colorado
uudecideu.