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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1888)
COUNTRY DOCTORS. The Busy Lives of Country Phy¬ sicians in the Last Century. Medical Treatment in the Days of Our Great Grandfathers. Ty e country physician of colonial day3, and of the years ending with the last century, led a laborious life. Most of his waking hours were spent in rid¬ ing long distances over bad roads. He was obliged to bo hail-fellow-well-met with every one iu the county, for on his popularity largely depended his profes¬ sional success. In tlioso toping days there was always something on the side¬ board for tho doctor, of which he was rarely loath to take advantage; conse¬ quently, he generally mellowed with the years, grew rotund in person, and, like Hawthorn’s middle-aged English¬ man, “his legs abbreviated themselves, and hi3 stomach assumed that dignified prominence which justly belonged to that metropolis of his system, llis eye ■contracted a merry twinkle, a chuckle lurked in his full throat, always ready for use, and gradually ho grew to be known as a peripatetic story-teller, and often the best gossiji in tho county. At that time, as a general thing, chemists and druggists had not yet been educated, and established ou the most prominent corners of tho towns. The apothecary shop of the neighbor¬ hood was usually wherever the doctor’s saddle-bags happened to be at the time. Drugs were then taken in largo doses, their use not being by any means Con¬ fined to the sick. Purgative compounds were administered to tho hearty and strong each spring, and it was deemed necessary that at that season of the year The blood of both old anti young should be purified by the use of generous doses •of noxious mixtures. Rhubarb and mo lasses were forced down tho throats of healthy children as a fancied preven¬ tive of disease, and mercurial medicines were used to such an extent as often, to result in the falling out of tho patient’s teeth. Powerful tine turcs, loathsome infusions, Ahd bitter barks were prescribed in such quantities as would hardly be credited ■by physicians of the present day. Gen¬ tlemen of the profession, when at s, loss to know what to prescribe, were al¬ ways ready to pull, out the laucot, and pious quailtitit uo when such .veaaenmg a u d depseting treatment .. creased the malady and hastened death. .Blood-letting was oven resorted to in ■cases far gone with consumption, and by the oid-time physician was considered tho alpha and omega of ail practice During tho prevalence of yellow fever in Philadelphia testimony was taken as to its manner of treatment. Mc Master quotes from the published re¬ port, showing that one patient was bled twontv-two times ia ton days, losing 170 ounces of blood. From another o°f the sick 150 ounces were taken in fitoen bleedings; several lost over 100 ounces, and from one child but six weeks old 30 ounces were drawn. The Rev. Dr. Ashbel Green writes in his autobiogra¬ phy the t when a lad of about ninetcan, and without any medical knowledge, he * Uflr -d to bo called upon by his father— who was a clergyman, physician, farmer and distiller—to prepare medicines, let blood, extract teeth and inoculate for smallpox. At the beginning of the eighteenth century smallpox was still tho enemy of mankind, as that dread disease had been Dorn tlio sixth century, when, in Arabia, it started on its mission of death. It was annually committing fearful ravages—as many as 400,000 dying in Europe iu ono year. The .Sist, a3 if desirous of compensating the v t'rld for originating this terrible scourge, gave to suffering humanity its Initial knowledge of how to check its spread, for it was in Turkey that inocu¬ lation first became known. This man¬ ner of fighting the disease was intro¬ duced in the Amercan colonies in 1721 by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Now Eng¬ land, at the earnest instigation of Cot¬ ton Mather, who had learned of the success in the Ottoman empire of such treatment. In tho face of great op¬ position, the doctor’s first experiments ■were made on his son, a lad of thir¬ teen, and on two negro slaves. The re¬ sult was such as to warrant his extond ing the operations, and during the year 240 persens were inoculated. For a time Dr. Boylston stood alone. Physi cians, people, and the press were intense against this new manner of combating the smallpox. Even Franklin, who was generally far ahead of the times in his appreciation of what was valuable for the community, wrote strongly in condemnation of tho practice. He a! tered his views in later life, as is shown by his memoirs, although long before that time the treatment had con quered opposition, and was generally accepted as a true preventive of this terrible scourge of the colonist.—[New York Post. Of all our infirmities, vanity is the ■ dearest to U3. A man will starve his j other vices to keep that alive. j THE DEMOCRAT, CRAWlo'DVTLLE. GEORGIA. Professional Incendiaries. Pew have any idea of the large num¬ ber of incendiary fires that the mem¬ bers of the New York lire department cope with annually, says the Sun of that city, and very few people can real¬ ise the difficulty tho police and in¬ surance men meet with in tlieir en¬ deavors to not only prevent incendiar¬ ism, but to detect and convict those guilty of this crime, The insurance men claim, and perhaps justly, that they are constantly being,/ viudled by pro¬ fessional incendiaries <* l of largo sums of money. P “The professional incendiary—and there are lots of them in New York,” said a prominent insurance adjuster, “is a man who devotes all his abilities in trying to swindle insurance com¬ panies and make money easily, lie has no other trade or business occupation. Ho starts as a dry goods merchant, a provision dealer, dealer in Yankee notions, a jeweller, or in any branch of trade that is reputable. Ho hires liis store, selects his stock of goods, and en¬ gages his clerks, and then, like any cautious business man of respectability, he places an insurance on his prop¬ erty. But, unlike tho bona-fide business man, he insures as heavily as the most • careless broker will allow. Shortly afterward there is a fire in that establishment, everything is cleaned out, and he collects tho insurance. “How can tkesj men sot tiro to their premises and cscapo detection was asked. “The cat and fisli racket is the latest wrinkle, Et was explained to mo by a mita who was very successful as a pro¬ fessional incendiary, but who has at last been driven out of Now York. He said: ‘When it is about time to have a tire tho tho incendiary has tho Walls and Ceilings covered with varnish or shellac, which of courso is very inflammable. Then ho discards tho gfi; burner or the electric light, and lias a lamp illuminated by kerosene oil placed on liis desk. Tho light is better to read and write by, ho 3a I s > and no ono can take any ekeep fioua to his statement;, bo far there is nothing to indicate tho “professional incendiary.” lie then expends a few cents for a fish, tho more ancient the better. IIo ties the aforesaid fish to a piece of Strlug, and fastens the string to tho ceiling, so that when in position tho rather antiquated fish will be suspended from twelve to eighteen inches above the top of the !am P chimney. He then brings into his i stray cat, the hungrier the bet ..ttrpBTpbsk “FtS lamp"” • ibi ig, the fish is in position, and tho pussy is shut in the office, Tho pre¬ sumed respectable merchant hies to his home. Tho cat gets hungry; that cat, like all other felines, likes fish. Pussy is semil on the merchant’s desk, and soon after is springing up to claw tho fish, which, suspended by a strong string, sways back and forth. It is but a abort time boforo tho lamp is upset and broken, the oil ignites and spreads, tho varnished walls and ceilings readily catch fire, and by the timo the insur¬ ance patrol reach the scene, there is no cat, no fish, no string—nothing in fact to tell how the fire originated, for every¬ thing is burning. That’s how some of the fires have been started in New York. A Chick’s Parentage. The Now York Sun, in answer to a question as to which lien is tho mother of a chicken, tho hen that lays tho egg or the lion that hatches it, replies truly: “You must not approach this question iu tho same state of mind as that in which you approach similar questions of humanity. A woman adopts a found¬ ling of a day, but she is not the mother, liens, in the minds of men, must bo judged by different standards. The first hen merely lays tho egg. So far as she 13 concerned tho egg would remain always an egg. It might bo boiled and eaten. Perhaps it might take up evil courses and go to the bad. But tho second hen comes and sits on the egg as a loving parent sits on an obstreperous child. In duo course of timo tho °SS becomes a chicken, full of aspirations and of life far greater and nobler than those of the raw, uncultivated egg. To the second hen is this change due. Tho second hen is tho mother of the chicken though tho first hen is the mother of egg.” A Dog’s Ride Down a Flume. Barney Cusick, when he came down from the mountains about a month ago, left his dog Nero at the mills. The dog ""as B 10 constant companion of the chil the summer during their ram. Wes over tlle Bills, as well as at home, aa( I they missed their four-footed play mate. Air. Cusick accordingly wrote to tB® boys at the mill, asking them to send the dog down as soon as possible^ Not wishing to wait a week or so for the stage, the men built a raft anti on top of it mado a large box and placed some hay in the bottom. Nero was put in, and the raft started on its forty-mile trip. Air. Cusick was telephoned, and three hours after the starting of the raft, took the dog safe and sound from tho flume, and last night friends.—[Chico! he was again at j home with his little " (Cal.) Enterprise. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. Two Cloror Itoral Women. The two cleverest and most highly educated women in Europe are said to bo the Empress Victoria of Germany and the queen of Italy. The Empress Victoria is a brilliant conversationalist, but is not as witty as Queen Marghorita. Tho former, however, is possessed of a knowlodgo of scientific subjects most re¬ markable for a woman. She is able to converse learnedly with such men Virchow and Von llelmholz, and her comprehension of her htlslm:id; ca-o awakened wonder among his physicians. —[Chicago Times. One of alee I .ea of Slie l*.lra«ill There is a now phase of tho plate-glass show window study. The ladies have apparently found out that they stop to admire themselves, under pre tenea of examining goods* withoi everybody knowing it, and have adopt, another plan. As soon as ouo of t fair ones reaches her favorito pub mirror, she throws her parasol or s umbrella over her shoulder in such manner as to completely hide her t en from the top of her hat to her wais thereabouts, according to the (size of IT. umbrella. Then, having thus pine screen between herself and tho generate starers of cither sex, she ceeds to survey her charms, real loged, of face, figure, and costume. E loHies were seen thus occupied 1 :f> ouo large show window at one tim day or two since.—[Courier-Journal. Woaan'fl Finiuicipalion. Some close observers have sagely i sorted that woman willneVol'be eilia pated Until she is freo to swing arms iu walking. Women’s under q outer garments are all constructed u on tho theory that women’s arms aro 10 ( for use. If Pedestrian Albert wore he garments a fashionablo woman wcr. • he could not walk fifty miles, mainly l»o catase lie could not swing his arms ,j inflate his lungs, No one need ' ! >o told there is no benefit in viral kin tho arms are confined. Therefor.:, a pi get no benefit from open air . or very little. How should the n fas of women be freed? Ay, tliero’ t! rub. What power can make a whole;,nT and radical change in women’: ■ ents? No power but fashion and a d > m is foolish it may not boon poet oou do this sensible thing,—-[" dlat ia News. « Itrloflr \il« Mb|&! ChrisjSae NiJ&on, singer, Has a hobby for coll, tries ahd fans. Her colic, tho former is said to be uniqilo. - of her fans have been given her by cidneut people. The flnost ono she has was pr entod her by the Thakoro Sahib of Morvi, and is mado of gold, gems aud bathers. Another, which was givon bar by a Russian prince, is an exact copy of the Queen of Oude’s famous fan. U is made of white silk, with sticks of ivory and gold, tho whole being covert i with j diamonds, rubies, pearls and ome aids. Empress Eugonio onco gave ho: one Which formerly bolonged to Min". Du barry, and was painted by Bon iier, while another, presented by the c.iy of Venice, is of silvered liiigreo and point lace. — [New York Journal. BSi vivnl ill Coral . 11 -u i-! n. A lady well known in society ‘.used consid erablo comment among her friends recently by appearing iu public decked out in ornaments of coral. Inquiry proved that she wore them on a v ager and that they were the property (f her mother, cast aside years before. It was noted with some surprise that they bc i came her admirably, despito theit old fashioned air, and tho incident has given rise to adiscussion in the charmed circle upon the advisability of a erfsudo in favor of the revival of coral. It is not so many years siice it held a high place and furnished a prominent indptry in France. The Empress Eugenie, when sho set tho fashion for tho world, was extremely partial to ornaments of this sort. The Russian ladies of today wear it a great deal, and among the Orietitals both sexes affect it. Tho artistic eL ets possible by a combination of gold and coral are groat; in fact, there is almost unlimited scope for the exercise of tho jeweler’s taste and ability. An attache of a jewely house, in speaking of the matter a day or two ago, said: ‘fThe almost complete absence of <oral from the show-windows of today is a noticeable fact, and I cannot pretend to explain why it is so littlo worn by the present generation. I feel ctsnfi dent that if more coral jewelry was kept in stock it would before long be come fashionable once more. My r ag oa I s that coral is becoming to netrly everybody. Its brilliancy makes the skin look whiter by contrast, and with dark hair it harmonizes heautifti.iy, while its effect i3 also very agreeable | v ''Ben in conjunction with blonde tress- j es - Like all fashion m gem?, this: had its ups and down?; but it is s yi in favor ia some parts of the wo|hJ, proving that the taste for it is rea. y : most universal. It is now a long time it reigned in the fashionable worl' ihcro, and I vould not bo sur. delpja prisei to see .t coi.io in again.”—[Phiia Times. i , Wurrlasp by ( apturfl, straugcl Among savage tribes some very rules of etiquette appear to govern' tho matrimonial relationship, Convention prevents a Yontba wife from i 11 her speaking to, or even seeing !:• V id, if it can be avoided, and v Aleutian islanders havo tho » illation about speaking. In jo'i i; o Fiji Islands a husband and wi <- il they \vi?l: to meet, must meet in - ••••! a similar secrecy is or was ob ligai ,, own tho Circassians, and jevoi unrig iho Hottentots. But tho " | kingdom of Futa bears ■ ' , • palm in theso respects, avelor is to ho credited, who that Wives there Wore so bash ' ft. to let their husbands seo ver j wijxhout niifViagc. a veil for three years after ! Tho same sort of feel¬ 's manifest in other cUrious customs, jug tho Es piimaux, oven in cases dm courso of true love ran u noothest and accorded fully with tal settlements, certain old women i o bo sent to drag the brido forcibly husband's hut, she being obliged icr.'i tho penally of an ill namo to , ;ak o as if it went against tho grain 1 if sho were much rutiled at it.” A lm* kadalgirl, (apd the people of Kam 'latka aro among tho rudest of tho - h. however well disposed sho may to her future spouse, makes it a iat of honor to pretend to rofuso him, and the form of forco on his sido and of jsisunco on hors has in any case to bo regularly performed. And tho wild tlbe, the IIos of India, regard it as tho correct thing fot a Wife to run away from her husband aud to tell her friends tlint, sho neither lovos him nor will ever see him agaiD, while lio in Ids turn is expected tb display great anxiety for his loss, and when ho has found his wife after diligent search to carry her homo again by main force.—j Gentle¬ man’s Magazino, s C inliioiit IVotoi. Green of \ jry shado is tho fancy of the hour. Largo blosoms aro seen on tho largo Leghorn fiats. Moire silk should bo of rich and soft quality to bo doslrablo for a wedding costume. there a >mem tho tio*V pinks a shade which jbordoi.i oa shrimp, yot is d'-cso. i oppies are” it i: vorltcr&vww -JKMRg the very many beautiful blossoms exhib¬ ited this season. Loudon sanctions for street wear long veils of gray gauze iied in a big bow under tho chin. Spangled straws in fancy braids aro very elegant, and very generally used by French milliners. Tho empire gown admits of no bustle, but what it lacks in that particular it moro than makes up in sash. Pattern dresses in cashmere with a border of embroidery iu colored as well as in gold threads are very stylish. Coat sleeves aro still worn, but tho skiu-tiglit sausage roll variety so long rampant has given way to an casior shape. Green in all shades from apple to ser¬ pent copper, terra cotta, Indian and Siam reds aud mouse gray aro the pre¬ ferred shades. Parasols being of light and dclicato coloring this season, aro almost invari ( bly accompanied by an overcoat of tho 1 uno silk as the cover. The favorite wide-brimmed hat intro ( need by tho milliners this season is a S opy in shape of the hat worn by tiro Portuguese peasant women. Tho common sense shoe for walking purposes is tho fashion in face of tho pointed toes which some women insist aro the only becoming foot gear. Flounces arc very much revived, and may be put on the skirt pretty much as you will, provided only that you do not lot them go regularly over it. Full sleeves come moro and moro in fashion, and among shapes the leg of mutton is tho o no ofteiest chosen, es¬ pecially for lace or other thin stulIs. A pretty summer substitute for tho fur capes so fashionable during tho past winter are capes made of heavy, smooth cloth in Gobelin blue, tan color, Havana brown, gray and blaCK, Very beautiful imitation? of Irish point laces are mado for trimming cot¬ ton gowns the coming season. These aro used over a color to brighten tho effect of tho open work om broidery of the lace. Lisbon straw braids are very stylish and are trimmed very simply with u beautiful ribbon, moro particularly pearl white in color as this is the com¬ bination most affected by the French modhtos, the straw color being ia de elded contrast. Rosettes are a favorite trimming for gowns as well as for bonnets and round hats, and are seen on children’s costume made of braid. Narrow ribbon with picot edge makes a very pretty trim ming for children’s leghorn flats. 1'OR farm and garden. 1 llcihi In flic Oiirrtpn. A fow pot herbs and sweet herbs should have a placo iu every vegetable garden. Every cook and every good housekeeper knows tho value of tho littlo patch of herbs upon which slu makes daily drafts in tho summer and which furnishes such a nice collection of dried herbs for winter seasoning, without which tlio Thanksgiving tur¬ key would bo scarcely worth tho hav¬ ing; while as domestic medicines several kinds are held in high repute. A very email space iu tho garden gives all tho herbs needed in any family. The cul¬ ture is very simple; and the best is to make a little seed-bod iu tho spring, and sot tho plants out in a as soon as largo enough. As a rulo it is beat to cat herbs when flower, tio them up in small and hang in tho aliudo to dry. H .si tilin' ■Soil's. As tho season advances, tho matter sotting lions must bo considered. eral must bo set at one timo if and the nests be roomy, warm ami fortable. The best nest is a largo rel filled to within ono foot of tho with leaves and hay. If pure eggs aro to bo hatched, common should bo substituted for a day or then they cau bo remove 1 and choico oggs put iu the nest. The should not bo disturbed for thfco when she may be removed to feed drink. Sho must not bo allowed more than ten minutes. Bo sure she turns to the nest boforo you leave her. The best results in hatching can bo had by sprinkling tho oggs after seventeenth day with water warm, just before returning tho hen to tho nest. This is especially dark-shellod oggs which aro usually tough. After tho nineteenth day not disturb tho iron at all, especially tho oggs have coinmouced to pip or there is music in tho shell. If the chicks aro to ba talcon from the hen aud placed in a brooder, a small piece of lard (the size of a pea) should be rubbed thoroughly on tho head and under tho wing to kill vermin, they arc suro to get from tho Iron.—[Farm, Field and Stockman. To (l*i-i, vr ill Smut iii <- ill I ii. In a focont issuo of the Farm, and Stockman, writes a I noticed an item about smut aud to prevent it. Tho way wo provent in the Pacific slope is by tlio uso of vitTirit,-m u "W4ie Weae, -.a? called lioro. It is a dead shot ( I been farming moro or loss since 1857 California and Idaho, mid novel 1 smutty grain when I vitrioled tho Ilso it on oats as well as wheat. For t benefit of such ns Wish to givo it a 1 will fltnlo tho process. Lor six els of soed ground up pretty fine, pound of blue stone; put it iu a keg barrel, and turn in two gallons of wator, stirring occasionally to make all dissolve; then put your in a light wagon bo* or on barn floor if you havo one; set keg close toil, take an old broom, dip it in tho vitriol watof, and sprinkle grain. Thou turn over with It and sprinkle again ; stir it until tho liquid is all used and every grain dampened. Lot if. I/o a fow und it is ready to sow, or it cau Uo month if you choose. Many uso pound to ten bushels, hut 1 use ono to six. Farmers who sow from 100 to acres have a tight tank that will hold sacks, and sink them in tho liquid, where they lion fow hours and fish them out; that safes time, but they use cheap sacks, as it soon eats them up. ('iifNiicr/iiH I Bo #*«»%. While it is certainly true that the horse is not a flesh-eating animal, but a grass and grain-eating one, as his teeth plainly indicate, iik stomach has the power of digesting animal matter, as shown by the Arabs, who from very early times have made cakes lurgely composed of camels' flesh for their horses. These cooked cakes a highly nutritious diet in small bulk. This ancient Arabian practice has highly commended by some arians, and it is thought that for army horse cakes in which the has been incorporated and during fermentation would be very use¬ ful food, owing to its concen¬ trated form. About ten years an article appeared in a French medical journal giving an account of an experiment made (luring the siege Metz to feed a certain number of horses on horse flesh, and tho writer, M. Lc guerrioro, claimed that ho had mined by these experiments that the horse can perfectly digest and raw or cooked animal matter. While i may never be necessary to feed a animal matter in this country, it is to know that ho can subsist ou food. In a hefieged town, or snowed in as this city found itself re¬ cently, tho defunct animals might utilized for feeding those which mained alive or were the must in case the supply of grain gave out. —[New Yoik Bun. *■- A Wfijflilf Matter. IIouso scales, denoting ounces and weighing up to fifty pounds, aro needed in selling small quantities of butter, meat, etc., aud each package of ten, sugar, coffee, and everything bought of tho grocer by weight should be tested on one’s own scales, to keep tho grocer honest. Platform scales, weighing up to 1000 pounds, aro noodoil as much for weighing grain in bags, dressed lioga and other animals, wool ami hides. Every ono should know just what his produce weighs before it goes to market, and then ho is prepared to talk intelligently about it and is not so lia¬ ble to get choatad. It is not prudent to trust to tho purchaser's weighing. If a man’s grain ovorruns or falls short of legal weight per measured bushel, h« should know it before offering for sale. Hay scales cannot bo dispensed with without loss. Deprived of this help, the farmer buys, sells, and feeds stock blindly. Store cattlo aro wintered at » loss unless they gain in weight all the timo, otherwise there is nothing to show for the euro and food but tho manure! heap and an empty barn. And ho can¬ not; toll whether his stock is paying without frequent tests upon the scales. Butchers like to buy by tho lump only whoa they think they aro getting tlio host ond of tho bargain, aud they can outguess a farmer every timo. Weigh¬ ing often causes “tho scales to drop from ono's eyos.” Tho farmor lias a great advantago wlio always knows just what his stock weighs. Huy scales aro quito expensive and not evory farmer i» ablo to have thorn. It is often suggested that several neighbors unite in tho pur¬ chase of a set but this is impracticable, becauso tliero is always so much dissatis¬ faction. Tlio bettor way is for ono to mako tlio purchase and tell tho neigh¬ bors it is at tlieir service for a trifle,say 10 conts a draft. This would at least pay tho interest on tho purchaso price. Scales should bo sot up in n building as a bay barn and then they are always in readiness.—-[Now York Tribune. E'.irm ami dardntt Sol.. This is tlio timo to apply whitewash. Well rotted sawdust can bo usod to advantago about all fruit troos. Tho darkness of comb in fowls is the result of congestion of somo kind. In agriculture, tho scrub in all its forms should, as far as possiblo, bn avoided. Has tlio poultry yard all tho troos in it that it will hold} If not, put plums, cherries and poaches. It loss to expoct tlio adoption of 'l.n i no nctUods of farming whoro lands are plea ad cheap. Coarse boncsjpn fowls indicate coarso meat. A coarso-moatod fowl is a poor thing beside n fine, juicy-mcatod ono. Chicken manure is of itsolf a good fertilizer, possessing liberal portions of nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid. Continual mulching is a dangerous practice, drawing tho roots so near tho surfuco that they loso tlieir hold ou tho soil. Ducks, after commencing to lay,drop one egg vory regularly every twenty four hours, almost invariably utter night. Hi is said that if wot boots aro filled with dry oats at night, in tlio morning they (the hoots) will bo dry, soft aud pliable. Be careful in ploughing the grovo or orchard; much damage is often done by tho (dough, especially if tho hired man has hold of tho handles. Borrow tlio good wife’s yardstick, and mark all tho hoe, rake, pick aud shovel handles in foot aud half foot measures. Handier than you think. Never cut the entire top off a tree when transplanting. It will not heal so as to be sound. Shortening the branches so tin to mako a good formed top ia a better plan. The damage done to fruit trees by rabbits, borers and insects, may bo pre¬ vented by applying pine tar to tlio bodies of the trees. Warm the lar and apply with a brush. A mixture of wood ashes and super¬ phosphate is a special fertilizer for strawberries. Hen manure in a lino condition may also be used, and should bo mattered over tlio plants in time to be washed down by the rains. If potiflo seeds aro spread out in sin¬ gle layers, and in a light place, three or four weeks before planting, the buds will grow short and stout, aud aro ready for business when put in the ground. Not so if left in barrels or bins in the cellar. Tlio carriagc^nouso should be entire¬ ly separated from the stable. Tho am¬ monia arising from stable manure destroys the varnish and paint on car¬ riages in a short timo, and tho owner feiior material. An oblong form is better than a square ono for tho homo garden. Seeds sown or planted in rows instead of lit¬ tle beds simplifies the whole matter, and admits of the uso of the plow and culti¬ vator instead of the spado, the hoe and tho rake, and makes its cultivation a pleasure instead of a dreaded task.
