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EORGE WASHINGTON was
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His name . will live through all
the ages as the liberator and
founder of the greatest country the
world has ever known. Washington
was, and is, America incarnate. The
United States has outgrown the fond
est hopes which he entertained for
the national fledgling he nursed into
life, but with that growth has grown
the name and fame and honor of him
who is in truth “first in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen.” :
% * *
Bhe first recorded observance of
*Washington’s birthday appeared in
the Pennsylvania Packet on Tuesday,
February 17, 1784 (old style). It
was sent by a correspondent in New
York, and-read: “Wednesday last
being the birthday of His Excellency,
General Washiugton,__ the same was
«celebrated here by all the true friends
©of American Independence and Con
stitutional Liberty with that hilarity
and manlv decorum ever attendant on
the sons of freedom. In the evening
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WASHINGTON IN 1779 i
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) iE FORTY-SEVEN, BY C. W. PEALE
the entertainment was given on board
the East India ship in the harbor, to a
very brilliant and respectable com
pany, and a discharge of thirteen
cannon- was fired on the joyful oc
casion,”
* * *
What a difference between condi
tions then and now. At that time
there were barely 5,000,000 people
in the United States. There was real
1y no great American city, New York
having only 33,000, Philadelphia 30,-
000, Boston 18,000 and Charleston
16,000 inhabitants. Washington died
in December, 1799, and the progress
of news was so slow at that time that
some of the settlers beyond the Alle
ghenies did not learn of his demise
until February and March of the next
year. ‘
* % *
At the time of his death Washing
ton was probably the richest man in
the United States. 'He had vast hold
ings of real- estate, and more than
half of his wezalth lay west of the
Alleghenies. Some idea of his ex
tensive holdings may be had from an
advertisement which appeared in the
Alexandria (Virginia) Gazette of the
time, which contained several col
umns describing lands that he wished
SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS AT YORKTOWN.
By V. de Paredes.
to lease or sell. He offered to “lease
8000 acres of Mount Vernon land,
the- properties known as the River
Farm, the Union Farm, the Dogue
Run Farm and the Muddy Hole Farm,
respectively.” The lands for sale
were “9744 acres on the southeast
side of the Ohio River; 23,266 acres
on the Great Kanawha; 3042 acres
on the Little Miami, within a mile of
the Ohio, and 5000 acres in the Green
River country of Kentucky.”
* * *
When he mjuried the pretty Widow
Custis, Washington received into his
hands oue-thkird of the famous Custis
fortune, amonnting to about $70,000
in momney. ' He purchased, among
other places, Great Meadows, the
scene of thie battle in the French and
Indian’War where he fought his first
fight and “signed the first and only
capitvilation of his life.” At Wash
ington’s Run in the Alleghenies there
is an old water mill in operation
which stands on the site of one that
hg built in 1775.
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without a vreak from 1760 until the
close of his eventful life, shows his
careful, methodical habits, and gives
much information about his extensive
business affairs, Among the products
of his place were a yearly manufac
ture of 1000 barrels of meal, 2000
barrels of good whisky, and freQuent
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sales of hogs, sheep, etc. From 1759
to 1764 Washington was his own ex
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his great farms to Bristol and Liver
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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
he wrote to one of his overseers.
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and desirable on a farm. It shows
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more esgentially than in not suffering
the provender to be wasted, but on
the contrary in taking care that every
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GENERAL GEORGE WASIHINGTON,
Taken from the living features with
a physionotrace by C. B. J.
F. de Saint Memin,
’by carts, and abused in other respects.
More good is derived from attending
to the minutiae of a farm than strikes
‘most people at first view.”
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- Washington's fideliby to detail is
shown by the care with which he kept
‘his account books. The entries were
written in clear, careful letters, and
among them are found entries like
these: “Paid for bonnet and trim
mings for Miss Custis, $2.75:” “Paid
freight on asaddle of mutton brought
from Baltimore by stage, $3.75:"
“For 160 mulberry trees, $2.66;”
“Delivered to Mr. Dandridge to pay
for handkerchiefs for Miss Custig,
$.20;” and this rather surprising
entry, “Paid Timmins for soup, $16.”
Whether in the old executive mansion
on Broadway when New York was the
capital of the United States, or on
hig Virginia plantation, all his ac
counts were kept in the same ac
curate, painstaking way. Wheneyer !
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One of the most widely circulated
stories about any public man who
ever lived is the old one in connection
with Washington, the cherry tree and
the hatchet. The first mention of
this is found in “Weems’ Life of
Washington,” published in 1808. This
Mason L. Weems was an itinerant
preacher who is alleged to have man
uffictured many illustrations and
events found in his book. For this
reason it has been claimed that the
hatchet story was manufactured out
!ol whole cloth. Ve cannot be too
sure of this, however, because Mr. R.
H, T. Halsey in his book on blue
‘Staffordshire pottery, describes a
mug that he saw on which the story
'was depicted in full. The mug was
of rough earthenware and was made
in Germany between 1770 and 1790.
It was decorated with a quaint little
boy, a cherry tree, a large hatchet
‘and the fmscription, “G. W., 1776.”
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. One of tho most interesting relics
| OB exhibition at Mount Vernon is not
to of an American incident.
Mnging in @ glass case on'the wall
ol one of the corridors is a massive
rir"on ‘key which was used to unlock
the Bastile before it fell at the hands
’of the Paris mob in the first revolu
“tion, This extraordinary souvenir
was presented to Washington by La
fayette. The boy-guides at®*Alexan
dria are fond oi pointing out the
house where General Washington met
Mrs. Custis at a ball, and they de
scribe the incidenf in the character
istic way of Young America: “He
was comin’ down the stairs with Miss
Sally Fairfax, and they wuz gone on
each other, and Miss Sally she got
mad because George made £OO-800
eyes at Mrs. Custis.” —~Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Washington’s letters were noted
for dignity and simplicity of style. In
corresponding with his ward, George
Washington Parke. Custis, when that
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A Safety Lantern.
The lantern is a barn necessity, but
it is not necessary to take risks of
getting the place on fire. Keep the
lantern out of the stalls. Run a wire ‘
acress the barn, behind the stalls, and
high enough to be out of the way.
Then with a hook or rein snap the
lantern may be suspended to the wire
and quickly moved along the whole
length of the barn.—lndiana Farmer,
‘Goats For the Farm.
The owner of a badly brier-infested
or bush-covered farm nhas before him
an expensive and disagreeable task,
if he intends to clear it by manual
labor. Many millions of dollars have
been expended in this country in that |
kind of work, and many millions
more will be spent in the same direc
tion. But the Angora goat will do
the work for nothing and will pay
for the privilege. It prefers briers
and bushes to the best clover or grass
that was ever grown.-— Arkansas
Honfeskead.
Gentleness Pays,
Gentleness pays with the flock of
poultry the same as with the dairy
herd or any other kind of live stock.
A mistake many farmers make is
this: Every time the fowls get into
mischief . they are energetically
shooed, clubbed or pelted with stones
or other missile;, This will certainly
drive the fowis away from the seat of
trouble, but it will do more than that
—it will drive the profit out of them.
Don't make your fowls act toward
you as though you were a scarecrow.
Make them feel that when you come
around there is a protector among
them, not something that will scare
or harm them.—Epitomist.
Farm Names.
Missourihas a new law under which
the owner of a farm in that State
may, on payment of $1 in the county
court, register an exclusive name for
his land. The idea is not simply
poetical or orpamental, for the
name, in the course of business, may
become a valuable trade mark. Ex
clusive names are regarded assets of
value in mercantile and manufactur
ing industries, and there is no reason
why the farmershould not have what
ever advantage there may be in a
name that will identify his products
tfi the market. No map, however,
should undertake to do business un
der the name of his farm. It is ab
surd to sign letters ‘‘Lake View
Farmsg,” or to say that “Elm Grove
Farm has sold a fine bull.””—Country
Gentleman, 2%
Notes About Sheep.,
R. A. Pastle, of the Ohio Agricul
tural College, says: There is some
thing about sheep that appeals to you
that you do not find in any other elass
of live stock. "I cannot tell what it
is, but it exists nevertheless. I can
not do better than to quote a few
notes from Mr. John Ray’s talk here.
1. Do not breed to a dry-fleeced
ram. . :
2. The sire is the proper im
prover, but in order to be such he
must be a good individual and de
scend from the best lineage.
3. Study sire, dam and blood
lines.
4. It you are a Shropshire breeder
breed to beat Mansel, of England.
5. Follow the show ring, but show
only good, well-fitted sheep.
6. Have a right ideal and breed to
produce it.
7. Honesty is of as much impor
tance in sheep hreeding as it is any
where else.
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Rustless Steel.
Industry was greatly advanced
when inventors learned how to utilize
the iron oresg which contain phospho
rus. Left in the iron or steel thig
phosphorus made a brittlemetal. The
gimple plan of using lime with the
melted iron ore made many of these
ores available, as the lime made a
chemical combination with the phos
phorus and thus removed it. This
gave pure iron and made a combina
tion of lime and phosphoric acid,
which, in basic slag gives an excel
lent fertilizer. Now we are told of a
new process for preventing rust on
steel or iron. The plan is to treat
the metal with a form of phosphorus
which prevents or retards oxidizing.
1f this be true we shall take the phos
phorus out of the ore and then put a
part of it back into the steel. But
let us not be too sure about this, A
rustless steel ig greatly to be desired,
but a false story about it might make
a fortune for a fakir. — Rural New
Yorker,
Rats.
If the poultry house is in such a
condition that rats may run around
in it or under the floor if it has a
wooden fioor, the farmer might as
well give up raising chickens in that
building. Rats are as bad as any dis
ease the fowls can hdve because they
are so cunning in their work and of
ten are impossible to exterminate. |
At the time the house is built, fut
ure trouble with rats can be avoided
by putting one-inch-mesh wire net
ting under the floor, or burying it in
the earth if that constitutes the floor
of the house, Cement floors are very
certain to keep out all kinds of var
mits, says the Agricultural Epitomist,
and their use is oftén advisable for
that reason if no other,
If you are hothered with rats in
an old poultry house that has a
wooden floor, there is séarcely any
way out of the difficulty unlesgs the
construction of the flooy is changed.
If the floor is an earth one, remove
three or four inches of the top crust
(which will be good for the sanitary
effects anyway) and before refilling
with fresh soil or gravel cover with
fine mesh wire netting being careful
to see that it fits up tight at the wall
of the house, A
Points For a Profitable Cow, .
The following are the esgsential
points in a good dairy cow, as stated
by a practical man:
A continuous milking cow will al
inost always have a large jaw, in
dicative of good feeding qualities; a
long slim ewe neck, accompanied hy
a thin sharp wither. As you past
down her back you will find the
double chine; her ribs will spring
from her back, so that they form a
wedge, viewed from the front, on
both sides.
Next, you will find high hip bones
—the higher the better—if you can
hang your hat on them all the bet
ter. Her thighs will be flat, and she
will have a lgrge paunch, the more
the better. What is the value of the
last indication? The greatest bulk
of food is composed of roughage. The
cow cannot make something out of
nothing; to produce a large flow, she
must be a big eater. If she and her
ancestors are and have been good
feeders, and have had the structural
form here described they will be big
producers. In addition, the cow,
must be loose jointed, and she must
have a wedge shape, viewed on both
sides, as well as from the top and
under lines. Such a cow, so built,
cannot put the feed on her back, but
will utilize it to put it in the pail.—=
Farmers’ Home Journal. ey
Fate of Barn Cellars. 1
At a meeting of the Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture, much in
terest centred in the discussion 6f
barn cellars. Most dairymen of New.
England have long been taught that
progressive farming demands a barn
cellar for storage of manure; but of
late years many of the milk inspec
tors and boards of health have de
clared in favor of storage at some
distance from the barn, 03
The speaker of the occasion, C.
B. Lane, of the United States Dairy,
Bureau, expressed the opinion that
in time the barn cellar will have to
go. He advised all dairymen who
were rebuilding or remodeling their
barng to make other arrangements.
Tha barn cellar, he said, gives off
gteam and odorg which come through
the floor and are great brgegers hot
flles. It would be better, he thought,
to iav’é a ‘q};fgfiifi‘e plt fiot less ii'a__'fi'
thirty feet from the dairy barn. ™
There was much difference of
. opinion among the dairymen present,
-many of them contending that a barn
“cellar properly constructed and cared
tor cannot injure the quality of the
milk or affect the health of the cat
tle. Some good New England authori
ties, including prominent instructors
ot the Massachusetts and Maine ex
periment stations, are defenders of
the carefully managed barn cellar., It
will take something more than “say
80" {o convince many dairymen that
cellar storage is not still a good plan
for the Northern States.—American
Cultivator. .
mebite. 45 i
Canker Among the Hogs.
There ig some complaint of canker
by hog growers, and as the Okla
homa™ Station has tested the follow
ing remedy for it and found it valu
able, we give it here from the sta
tien bulletin:
“This is a parasitic disease and is
contagious, spreading rapidly among
pigs. The cause of the disease is a
small parasite similar in some re
spects to that of mange, but is much
more difficult to treat successfully.
The disease first shows by a con
traction or wrinkling of the skin of
the nose or face. This is often ac
companied by slight swelling, 'The
pig rubs its nose snifles, and shows
in various ways that the diseased
spots irritate and burn, Gradually,
these diseased spots break out as
small sores, occasionally sloughing
out to form ulcers of considerable
size. These sores or ulcers may oc
cur on any part of the head and occa
sionally they will extend over the
sides and under part of the body.
Since the disease is contagious
and spreads easily, all pigs showing
any signs of the trouble should be
gseparated from the healthy ones. The
following preparation should be ap
plied to the diseased spots: A mix
ture of carbolic acid and lard in the
proportion of one of acid to eight
of lard may be -applied to the dis
eased spots before sloughing ocecuys.
For open sores or sloughs use iodine
one part and vaseline six parts. Ap
ply this ointment once every two or
three days. A tobacco solution, to
bacco one part and water twenty
parts, may be made by steeping the
tobacco for ten to twenty hours in
warm water, This may be applied
to the ulcers instead of the iodine
and vaseline, The disease is gener
ally stubborn to treat and several
applications of any of the above reme
dies may be required to affect a cure
Saves “Moving Up.”
“A new improvement is shortly to
be tried in Leeds tramcars,” says the
Engineer. ‘“This consists of the pro
vision of a partition or sereen divid
ing the car into two compartments,
not necessarily of equal dimensions.
Thig will save inconvenience in more
directions than one, an® apart from
its making it zasier for the conduetor
to seat his passengers, the latter will
be largely freed from the ®inoyance
of having to ‘move up’ in a body to
recomimodate a late arrival,”