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THE DAYS GONE B
the days gone by ! Oh, the days gone
by 1
apples in the orchard and the pathway
through the rye ;
e chirrup of the robin, and the whistle
of the quail
ihe piped across the meadows sweet as
any nightingale;
hen the bloom was on the clover, and
the blue was in the sky,
ml'my happy heart brimmed over—in
the days gone by !
the days gone by, when my naked feet
were tripped'
the honeysuckle tangles where the
water-lilies dipped,
id the ripples of the rives lipped the
moss along the brink
lero the placid-eyed and lazy-footed
cattle came to drink,
id the tilting snipe stood fearless of the
truant’s wayward cry,
nd the splashing of the swimmer, in the
days gone by.
h, the days gone by 1 Ob, the days
gone by !
he music of the laughing lip, the luster of
the eye;
e childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin's
magic ring—
simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in
everything,
or life was like a story, holding neither
sob nor sigh,
n the golden, olden glory of the days
gone by.
which sympathy, goodness and intelli
gence prevails.
With a good farm of proper size,
healthfully located, abundantly sup
plied with water, good neighbors, and a
handy market, a man is so well situated
that he ought to make himself and
those around him happy. Choose well,
and hold on to the choice.—American
Agriculturist.
Agricultural and Statistical.
Selection of a Farm.
There are many things to be consider-
in the selection of a farm. To the
b gentleman who wishes to retire
[»m the noise and tumult of city life,
[ami has a different meaning than to
poor man who must toil daily for
itenance of lximself and family,
former will look through golden
basses and seek for luxuries in the
I try. while the hitter must obtain
lecessities of life. The one will let
idual taste rule in the choice, the
asks himself, ‘ * Is this tire best
>r me to do substantial farm-
lo general rules can be given
tali man who buys a farm for
Dose of spending money, while
one who seeks to make a living
the land, there are some words of
C*.
pze of a farm should be suited to
baeity of the pocket-book. Many
farmers make the mistake of
a large farm with little money
for it. There is nothing that so
jnan as a heavy mortgage. It
heart out of the farmer,
re a leaden weight upon
of his wife and chil-
etter to buy a small farm
capital to work it
ncreases, it may
^ acres, • or in
lose that have
itable. There Ls a
of the economies
e practiced to the
|on the other hand
*oing beyond that
Tost profitable farm-
on. It requires
pscutive ability to man-
and therefore many
from such by a lack
fully appreciate
*en made and the
not like
iml a
working
Ians—a conquest for
must be clear that
seat of a campaign for a
rers townships or even square
rhe soil is the foundation of
and it should be fitted to the
crops that it is desired to raise,
terences in the nature and ca-
of sand and clay should be inl
and a favorable mixture of
; obtained if there is an opportu-
^posing. A rich soil with
Cement, means good crops
may be as profitable to
:h less in an equal area of
land, and bring it up to a
cultivation by green ma-
iftfeer methods of restora-
m house is to lie the
ily, and therefore the
pm should be liealtli-
for the price may
a malaria-breeding
rofitSyof the invest-
tian balanced by
[tiul loss of time, not
iomfort of fevers in
important that
prater supply on
and the
■ra
in
Nearly one-third of all the sugar sold
on the English market is beet sugar.
Mr. 0. F. Cobb, of Leeds, Me., raised
the past season, from about one acre,
028 pounds of hops, which sold for $410.
Itissaid that Australia has more meat-
producing animals in proportion to its
population than any other country on
the globe.
Thsre has been an increase in the im
portation of butter and butterine into
the United Kingdom, and a decrease in
the importations of cheese.
Across the water the Shorthorn edi
tor of the Field insinuates that Short
horn blood was the element that in
creased the size of the polled cattle.
Statistics place the shortage of wheat
in Great Britain at 136,008,000 bushels.
The shortage of the oats crop of this
country is placed at 1,000,000.
U
Mr. W. II. Francis, of Frankfort,
Mich., realized $145 for the first three
crops from ten Hale’s Early pencil trees,
which are still in thrifty condition.
In the last ten years Lancaster county,
Pa., has produced 142,000,000 pounds
of tobacco. The annual profits on to
bacco alone in that county is estimated
at $3,000,000.
It has been ascertained at the Granby
(Conn.) creamery that it takes ten
quarts of milk to make an inch of
cream, and an inch of cream makes a
pound of butter.
An order was recently given to a Bos
ton dealer for fifty cans of skim milk to
be used in the manufacture of a wash
for the extermination of insects on the
orange trees in Florida.
A Montreal dealer ships tomatoes to
England, where they bring good prices.
The taste for tomatoes has been acquir
ed, but the Edglish climate will always
be too cold for them to ripen.
The Journal of Agriculture says that
“refrigerator meat in the Eastern mar
kets is not only causing the railroad
people to sweat under the collar, but the
canned beef crowd is also joining in the
kick.”
London purple is better adapted to
fighting the canker worm on apple trees
than is Paris green. It dissolves in
water, which is not the case with Paris
green, and the former is, therefore, more
evenly distributed.
It is a severe calamity to any agricul
tural country not to be the producer of
its own wool. All the varieties produci
ble in the world are equally producible
in the United States. Saxony or Silesia
can produce no liner.
To cure warts on cows’ bugs i\ir. 11.
G. Abbott, of Maine, recommends to
saturate them three times a week with
kerosene oil, and in a short time they
will all be gone, leaving the skin
smooth and free from soreness.
If a cow’s hind feet are tied together
she cannot kick. It will make the cow
some trouble for a time, but the mind
of the milker will he secure and undis
turbed. After a few weeks a slight
cord on each leg will be enough.
A Fort Smith (Ark.) oil mill furn
ishes bagging and ties and gins cotton,
taking the seed alone as compensation.
A very few years since cotton seed came
very near being considered worthless,
except for manure for the next crop of
cotton.
The cow population of the United
1 States is 12,611,148, or about onf cow
to every four people. This only includes
milch cows, and their value is estimated
at $340,500,500, an average of $27 per
head, based upon their prices in differ
ent States.
hear as corn has been it well pays to
feed it moderately to cows giving ipilk.
Butter is proportionably as dear as corn,
and a feed of the latter affects the but
ter product, both in quantity and quali
ty, even more Ilian it does the How of
milk. t
Dr. Hoskins, of Vermont, writes to
the Mural JN’nc Y order that he has
fruited and compared the three sup
in an exchange, are that the animu s
fight less, are never fly-blown around
the horns, are more conveniently
sheared, and, what is of greater im
portance, keep easier and grow larger.
The branding of cattle as now prac
ticed in the West is pronqucned by the
Shoe and Leather Reporter to be a crime.
That there is much unnecessary cruelty
and much wanton destruction of hides
in the wav this work is generally done
is beyond question.
An IoVva correspondent of the Ger
mantown Telegraph makes his granary
distasteful to rats by “daubing all the'
angles on the outside of the building
with hot pirle-tar for the widtli of three
or four inches, and also any seam or
crack where a rat or mouse can stand
to gnaw. ’ ’
The following are the measurements
of three intestinal tubes of sheep
which were lately examined : Lamb,
Southdown, 6 months old, 74 feet 9
inches; old ewe, Southdown, 100 feet
8 inches; old Leicester ram, 117 feet
8 inches, when the intestines are pulled
out from the mesentery.
On a cranberry farm at Hyannis,
Mass., $40,000 worth of cranberries
have been sold this season, and $7000
paid to pickers at the rate of from one
to two cents per quart. Picking affords
busy work during the time so occupied,
and, after the crop is gathered the
gleaners often secure large quantities of
the fruit.
A new white potato, called the Duke
of Albany, is becoming very popular in
England. It is a sprout of the Beauty
of Hebron. Most of our American
potatoes do well if taken to England ;
but the rule does not work both ways,
as American farmers who have planted
imported seed have found to their cost.
The Boston Cultivator says that the
flowers of raspberries, where this fruit
is largely grown, are ruiningTlie honey
product of the neighborhood. The, bees
like this food, but no human being lias
been discovered who appreciates the
product. The honey from raspbemes
is a dirty yellow in appearance, with a
verv disagreeable odor.
epidemics, and in all ways improving
the healthfulness of communities,.
A variety of tobacco lias lately come
into use which is called “hybrid” to
bacco. It is a cross between seed-leaf
and Havana, and produces leaves of
smallish size but of excellent quality.
The plants are set out nearer together
in the field than is usual with seed-leaf
varieties, and in that way the yield of
the hybrid falls little if any below that
of the seed-leaf. The usual distance
fofc setting the plants is about 16 inches
in the row. and the rows 3 feet apart.
Regarding the Crescent strawberry,
Mr. E. Engle, ol Beaver county. Pa.,
says he finds it larger and handsomer
than the Wilson, and escapes the spring
frosts better than any other variety!
One reason why some growers condemn
it is because they allow the plants to
run freely am. cover the bed with a
dense growtr. jf leaves. When suliject
to hill culture it becomes a different
fruit, varying from pistillate to stami-
nate in blossom, according to soil and
culture.
“It takes close observation and con
stant study to make a practical and in
telligent bee-beeper. ” Good advice as
far as it goes. One needs to be fortified
with a good stock of resoluteness and
tiiat kind uf pluck which doesn’t easily
succumb to adverse circumstances even
if quite often repeated. Bee-keeping
luus been reduced to a science; and
after all, 'the asperities of winter and
other things .which often try the bee
keeper’s tact render the businesa some
what precarious one.
In England a rain is often rented for
more than the price obtained at sales
for others. For the services of the ram
Little Lord over $250 was paid in 1872,
and the next season $420 was realized.
For the services of the Shropshire ram
Hero $630 was paid, and many others
obtained nearly as high sums. While
these prices are seemingly high for one
season’s services, it may be stated that
the lambs born to these sires sell for
very high prices, making the invest
ments very profitable to the renters.
posed distinct varieti
pies known Grand
Transparent and (
jlnds them identical,'
/the advantage
i of Russian up-
Sultan, Yellow
’lAulottenhaler, and
from
A writer in the Fruit Recorder makes
the statement that one of the neighbors
planted some cabbage plants among his
corn where the corn missed, and the
butterflies did not find them. He lias
therefore come to the conclusion that if
the cabbage patch were in the middle
of the corn-field the butterflies would
not find them, as they fly low and like
plain sailing.
When pigs do not thrive and try to
eat gravel or earth it is a symptom of
indigestion. They are probably over
fed. Reduce their food one-half. Give
two pigs half a pint cf sweet oil oPlin
seed oil in the food daily for two or
three days, and as they recover gradual
ly give them a little dry corn in adili
tion to their other food. Some char
coal would be of service, and may he
given frequently.
The valuation of sheep made in the
highlands of Scotland has reached a
point which even old flockmasters have
not seen surpassed. Sellers are often
astonished at the prices they receive,
while buyers are paying prices at which
they would have been appalled a year
ago. This is especially true of desir
able breeding stock, while the boom
extends through all grades of decent
mutton sheep
In doing up wool the fleece should be
put up so as to be comparatively loose,
light and easy to inspect and handle.
Lay the fleece on the table, turn in the
head, tail and flanks, and roll it up,
commencing at the tail end. Tie with
two strings to keep the roll in place,
and then one about the ends. The
strings can be laid in grooves sawed
into the folding platform, so that the
fleece can be tied quickly
The greater part of the soil of Eng
land lias been under cultivation for a
thousand years, and yet the laud is richer
and the crops more prolific than they
were a thousand years ago Why, then,
should so many thousand of acres in
many sections of this country have be
come so greatly deteriorated in pro
ductiveness in a comparatively few
years V Careless anil unskilled culture
must necessarily be the answer.
It is a well-known fact that trees
along highways, trees in towns and
cities, trees in groves tfmiilst agricul
tural regions reuder the atmospli%e
purer. They, by their foliage, absorb
hurtful gases, which wquld otherwise
lie breathed by the inhabitants of the
densely populated cities^liereby modi
fy Imyl^aaes,
Health Hints. (
Painless Cure for Warts.— j
Drop a little vinegar ou the wart and i
cover it immediately with cooking soda I
or saleratus ; put on as much soda as
you can pile on. and let it remain ten
minutes, Repeat several times a day,
and in three days the wart will be gone.
A good remeuy for corns also.
Women’s Health.—Eminent med
ical authority is given for the state
ment that the chances for life for men
are, on the whole, better in this coun
try than in England, and the same
would doubtless prove true as regards
women were like comparative statis
tics available. On the subject of diet,
it is asserted that, among the lower
and middle desses of the larger New
England cities, the diet could hardly
be worse, and is a most potent and pre
valent source of ill-health. People fill
themselves with “imassimilable abomi
nations,” shatter their nervous system
by exeesshe tea-drinking, and dyspep
sia with its attendants is the result.
Nevertheless, the outlook is not less
encouraging than twenty-five years ago.
Respect the Body.—A writer in
the Health and Home has some sensible
ideas on the subject of bodily health.
He says : “Respect the body. Give it
what it requires, and no more. Don’t
pierce its ears, strain its eyes, or pinch
its feet; don’t roast it by a hot fire all
day, and smother it under heavy lied
covering at night ; don’t put it in a cold
draft on slight occasions, and don’t
nurse or pet it to death ; don’t dose it
with doctors’ stuffs, and, above all,don’t
turn it into a wine cask or a chimney.
Let it be ‘warrautetl not to smoke,’
from the time your manhood takes
possession. Respect tin; body; don’t
overwork, overrent, or overlove it, and
never debase it, but be able to lay down
when you are done with it a well worn
but not a misused tiling. Meantime treat
it at least as you would your pet horse,
or hound, and, my word for it, though
it will not jump to China at a Ixuind,
you’ll find it a most excellent thing to
I have—qfciieeially in the country.",
I , 4
Ari/)swego physician, in questioning
me ojif colored woman the oilier day in
regiu/ to her ailments, asked if slit, hi
a gelid appetite. "No, doctor,”
replij d, “and 1 'don’t care about a
appetite untilinrovlsiu^tret eli
Science and Invention.
Facts About Mother of Pt
This beautiful metal,
much used in many kinds of
productions, is chiefly obtained
the pearl oysters (Meleugrma mar;,
lifera) which are found in the Gul
California, at Panama and Colagiul
Ceylon and Madagascar, at the
river in Manilla, and at the So
Islands.' The black lipped mu;
from Manilla bring the best pr
The Society Islands produce the
lipped muscle^, and Panama the
called TBullacks.” The peculiar a|
varied tints and colors exhibited
mother-of-pearl are due to the stiflil
ure of the surface, which is covered]
innumerable tine plates—often Bevel
.thousands to the inch—which break
the rays of light falling on it, and
fleet it in all different tints.
The square or angular pieces i
sawed out' with a small saw, the
being held in the hand or clampedj
vise. Buttons and similar round
are cut with a crown saw attache
spindle. All the tools employe
working mother-of-i>earl must be
continually moist to pr eveut tlieirj
ing fast. The pieces are
shaped on a polishing stone, thl
which must be ribbed to avoid c
and smearing. The stone, of
must be kept wet while in use ; a
soapsuds works better than water ali
When the pieces have been brougl^
the proper shape on the stone, they
then polished with pumice and
In many cases it is well to shapei
piece of pumice so as to tit the forn
the article to lie polished, and tli
latter can be fastened to a hand
rotated iu a lathe.
It is afterward polished with
pondered pumice on a cork or we
wiiile the final polishing is done
English tripoli, moistened with
sulphuric acid. The acid brings
the structure of the pearl very *lj
fully. In many articles it is riece
to use emery before tile tripoli is
plied, and then empl*y oil instead
acid. Knife and razor handles have thl
holes bored in them after they are cu|
in the proper shape, and are then
riveted together, polished on the sti
and finished as before described.
In many workshops the polishing
performed on wheels covered with
wet cloth which holds the polishing mj|
terial. For common work some pul
verized chalk or Spanish white is sill
stituted for the English tripoli.
Mother-of-pearl is frequently eteht
like copper. The design is put on wit!
asphalt varnish, which protects tl
parts that are to be etched, and
piece Ls then put in nitric acid. M
the exposed portions have been t
ciently corroded by the acid thi
article is rinsed with water and the
varnish dissolved off with turpentine or
benzole. Thin pieces of pearfcwhich arq
to have the same shape are glued ti
gether and all cut and bored at on<j
like a single piece, and afterward
rated by putting them in hot water,
ordinary inlaid work of mother-of-p
scales or very thin pieces of pear)
fastened on iron or some foundaj
ususally made of papier mache,
Japanese varnish. The plate is
cleansed and dried, then coated
varnish ; when the latter is
cut pieces of mot her-ofq^^BTe pressed
into the varntoMPHff^irtist so
adhere to it. The plate is then bal
in an oven until the varnish bard^
when a second coating is put over
entire article, which is then polis
again.
An Ounce of Prevention.
Sometimes an ounce of preveutioi,
worse than a pound of disease,
day last week the children came r
ning in, shrieking that a big hawk w
circling over the poultry yard.
Farmer Tliistlej>od dropped his pa]
caught his trusty gun from the
and charged for tilt* poultry yar
ran right over a bee stand just tli
side of the cypress buslq &nd>was
in thirty places before he jumpei
the fence of the poultry yard, alig
upon the old black Hen that was bh
ing thirteen chicks, breaking her m'
and mashing five hapless “weetlAs
the gun caught pi the fence as h.
jumped, and went off. tfmjig i\ young
turkey, and tilling ttyu, Durham heifer
ip th^^ulow nearly full of buckshot;
hawk, alone oahu and self
in the midst of the tumult
sion, sailed gracefully awui
ring chicken lie had aUj