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ttentumt I , f .sM'f'If. n. -A.3ST -A.C3-IOXJXiTTraA.Xi .AJNTID IF.A..M.iir5cr NEWSPAPER FOB THE BUEALISTS OP TIKE O-P-BBISr OXJJSTT.IISr STATE. VOL. YI.--NO. 30. ST. JOHNSBURY, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1870. WHOLE NO. 290. PUIU.IStlKl) I'.VKUV VIIIDAY IIY HOYAL CTJMMINGS, t. .loiixsmmv, vt. C, HORACE HUiARD,lScnllnral Ed'P, 1'. O, Ailitrrai, Hprliiftn.lil, Via Trrnn of Sulncrlpllrm. One ropy one year, 'old In adranw Tim TMlars. One copy six tiimiths, One Hollar. One copy three tnnntli., on trial, Kilty Ccnti. Free- oflo.tnu;-i lo mi)' Point In the Unlfcit Hlnles nr C'nmuln. CommunleAtlnnft for the Aprlrnltnral Ppartment should he addresjwl to the Agricultural Editor at SprliitfliM, t. w. i,. swirrr, si. joiiiiiur)-, vi., llrecder of TlIOKOXJGU1tllV.lt VOWM.S, Hull and Partridge Cochins, Plym'lh Pocks, brown una Wlilto Lcihorns. mack-nod (I'm Ilantams. all No. 1 stook. Will tell old stock f, -. cheap to mako room for youne:. Also, ono Vlroo.1 pair Wlilto Cochins. Stock Ixaod to go. i'iisimtr. aiTTX.i: nmt UJEllHSttlllV. PIGSf Alto ft few NiinuTiioitjvs ami .ii:itsi:vs, llrod ami for sale, nt reasonable prices, by A. V It A 1. 1., Derby Lino, Vt., or Stanstoad, P. Slay 11, 1876. Tlio dairymen of California have organized n state dairymen's association. Prof. K. J. Wichson. well-known to tho dairymen of Vermont, is its secretary. - - - Dr. Edmunds, stato 0,h commissioner, is still going about tho stato scckiug whero lio may plant fish. At last accounts ho was stocking Mcmphrcmagog with black bass. In tho hurry of haying farmers should aro all sained, what if gainod by tho chango 7 It seems to mo that for oonvenienco there has not been much improvement on tho old fashioned, thirty and forty foot barn. A stablo ou ono sido of tho floor anil a bay on tho other gavo a very convenient barn to fodder in. Would it not bo well to ask, if wo aro about to build anow, what Improve ruent can wo mako on tho' barn of sixty years ago, besides, adding to its size, making not forget that the cultivator should bo kept it warmer, lighter, tnoro durable and provid going as ofton as once a week, and as long ing sholtor for manure? as possible, tho crop. It will add many bushels to Tho Vermont Farm Machine Company liavo Btill farther improved their Gleaner ltako which wo did not hesitato last season to prooounco tho boat. Thoy aro selling lots of thorn. Competitive field trials of agricultural machines at tho centennial have been, for somo reason, abandoned by tho commission, and parties who had made all preparations aro wroth. BUILDINGS MOVED. Having hut n largo Kiporlonce, and possessing all tho facilities fur HulxliiR mul Mo ving IIiiIIiIIiicn of nil kindt la tin post possl Mo manner, tho sub-orlbor would solicit a tliaro of such work, work dono hy the day or Job, at hard time- prices. JOHN HARROWS, Hartford, Vt. mi' iaim.i:iu'us r niiitii or Ji:it- SI1Y.N, kept by MR. TUOMAS ALl.KN, at 1'ltUOol.l, Mass., Is part brut, from Imparltd and Vriir animals, ami rogiucrou in mo iitru hook vi uiu.. i. v. wuu. jbtock Tor salo. Address I). 0. ROBERTS, Pltt-Seld, Mass. IIOII tn STOC K M KNhTl)A N A'S new EAR MARKING PUNCH, LABELS and REUISTKR3. hi.m ultml In (lAttlti. I I.ilpn and Sheen. Hond eLlinU fVr 'amiiles. Agents wanted. Manufactured exclu tlroly by tho patontoo, V. II. DANA, Woit Lebanon, Haymakers, Attention NANIJI'.ltS' IJI iMtovnn lKlltSI-. IIAICI!, tl.o liejt and Cheapest. I shall furnish tho above well, known Rake tn any responsible party, with wheels and all complete fur i22, or wlthont wheels for. (IS, dolWerod on tho cars Ifdoslred at Windsor or Ludlow, Vt., rroo orcliargo. l or runner information, aimress M. A. DAVIS. Scuth Heading. Vt. Successor to Wetherhea & l)avls. Charles O'Connor gives tho opinion, which it is said other eminent law yers concur, tuat tlio centennial comrais. sioners aro only honorary, and that noithcr they nor their officers ( judge etc.) aro entitled to compensation. , n 1 It is said that birds are skinned while still Y. II, MoAllister of Knosburgh is build. ing, this season, a barn ono hundred and twcnty.fivo feet long, by fifty wide. -Some accounts of It may bo of general intorost. Tho sito is a dry gravelly spot which has been so nicely graded that from the road which passes along by tho sido of tho birn, it is just a proper grado to tho floors over tho basement. A Section of thirty feet will bo used Vor horse-barn purposes. Tho cattle will bo kept in tho basement which will bo oight feet from floor to ceiling,: warm, dry, light and well ventilated. It is designed to accommodate nearly all the cat. tie on tho farm, which consist of forty cows, teams and twenty or thirty young cattle. l'ooplo have noticed for the last three or four years timber and boards accumulating about Mr. McAllister's place, and that as it came, it was carefully stuck up to season I m - .1 I t ' living and in full possession of tho senso of in' C0DSC4ucnco mo oarn is rjciog wnguy inauo ui ury luiuucr. uvurjuu'jjr .uuna feeling becauso the plumage sticks better to secure pretty ornamonts for ladies' bon nets ; and that every pretty bird we sco poised on tho jaunty hcad.gcar of lady fair, has submitted to this cruel torture $35 First Class HORSE RAKE! "Wanted. It is apprehended that tho late recent law of Massachusetts, imposing a fine of from $20 to SIOO for every Texas animal brought into the stato from Juno I to Nov. 1, uuless it is proved that tho cattla wore wintered north of tho Ohio er Missouri rivers, will bo sub- stantially inoperative, there are so many ways to evade it. .Agents Send for circular. I'ICIID ATWOOI), (il'll. Agclll, Wlnterport, Maine. PEST FOISOIV U not only a Safe, Sure ftnJ Choap 1K jit or t 8TR0VKK r tho Colorado Deotlo or Po tato Hug, but All In-octs whfeli prey Veirctatlon. Cut and Armv Worm, uroen Vlv. etc. Unllko Purls Ureen and other Poisons, It can bo cntlrolv dlswlvod In wUer and ap nllod by iprinkllng. Not Injurious to Plants, Not ' ilingoruus to ue. Mrvnr rulU to Kill. Costs about "J-l ' ,or aiti.t'ro. Put up In half-pound lmxc, enough for two acres. Price itO cents. Send for Circular. Mado only by tho iti:it.vr.v cmi.mcAi. woiiks, fS. Cortlandt Street, P. 0. llox 31W. New York. STRAWBERRY BASKETS AXI) CKiVTES. Newest, best and cheapest stylos. Lirgost assortment in tills country at Jtinlsoti Jlirrr ltnslifl Ilrpot. It will piy to offer your fruit In an attractlvo shapo, as berries loll better, even In small markets, when offered In myba.koti. Try tho Cli-iilpiisiiial trawberry Uukets this yair, $11 V H. ' w111 r'' ,n ?l,hor cratos for round Uukots. Ilureliii square quart ba keUnnly it. laHnosUnl ana paonom in 1 1 1. IT I""- AiKircsj. jt. n. Mi.ir.ws, Maldon-on-tho-Huilson, N, Y. HATCH & CHAW, PRornir.Tons of Forest and Lowell Mills, Manufacturers of, and Wholesale Dealers In, Ff.OIfK Ai FRED, Xjowoii, - - avricix. Wo mako n specialty of a high SkI? of Family and T.,r tnnklni? aucll a zraoo 01 r". "-,-- ---- at all times when rcquost- nn.l corresponuenco souci ted. Professor Uocssman of the Massachusetts agricultural college is making somo very in. tercsting experiments in feeding to growing fruits fertilizers for producing specifia ro suits. And I'rof. Stookbridge is making experiments to ascertain the best and most profitablo proportion of nitrogen to feed to growing crops. I'rof. Crossy is making careful survey of tho region about Conway, Mass., to ascertain tho cause of tho "cripple ail," from which sovcral hundred cattle sometimes die in a year there, and which tho superstitious ascribe- to a curse pronounced upon tho cattlo by Indian Chief Choeorua, tho last of his race, beforo ho leaped over the prccipieo near Conway. Wc have hail the pleasure ot testing in tho Geld tho "Haymaker" mower, mado by Messrs. Otis Brothers it Co., New York. This mower was formerly called tho Now Clipper. 1 Lo ilevico for communicating motion to the knives is entirely novel. Its operation is extremely good, draft very light, and U almost noiseless. It is handled very easily, is comfortablo to rido upon and appears to bo very thoroughly and strongly built. Either end or the whole length of tho bar can bo. raised to clear obstructions, and it can bo brought, to' a perpendicular position and fixed thcro while tho driyer rotains his scat. No fault could bo found with it in any respect. Wo predict for tho Haymaker a career of success. Utilizing Bones. a dry board is better than a green ono. It would seem as if a litllo reflection would sat isfy a thoughtful man that a dry girt is bet. tcr to nail it to than a green one. That is what Mr. MoAllister thinks, and tho thor oughness Which he has required of his mechanics, from the bottom of tho founda tion to tho spire of the weather vane would catisfy tho most careful builder. It is worthy of remark that about tho only rocks in Mr. MoAUistcr's meadows, wero somo half dozen moss-grown ivy-covorcd boul ders as largo as loads of hay, with several small ones thrown in for chinkiog, all within five rods of where the new barn stands, That tho great boulder is thero designed for a barn foundation becomes easy of belief when one sees tho splendid wall that is made of them. We hope Mr. MoAllister will live to see the cedar shingles on his barn worn- out and replaced with something better, Hut ho, nor his children, nor his children's children will ever need to concern themselves about repairing the foundation. Thcro aro two other good things about this barn. First, Tho yard is on its south sido second, It wilt not ho necessary to cross tho cow path to go from tho houso to the barn. S. II For the Vtniio-r FARHtn. Farm Chats. Potato bugs are hero and band picking is now in ordor. A neighbor said ho picked two quarts yesterday. Less aoreago is plant ed with potatoes than for tho past few years. ow prices' and tho bcetlo bavo caused many four farmers to turn their attention to corn this season. Good chango to mako too. Less potato and moro corn will fill tho pocket better Too much, potato has run tho land hard in this section. In corn cultivation poor seed caused one and two rcplantings, consequently corn stands very uneven. Cutworms aro doing more than their usual amount of damage. I hoar of somo pieocs that will bo replanted to fod. dcr corn, or sown to buckwheat. Corn that came up from first planting is large, stocky and growing Gnoly. Of tho seventcon acres put in with a Hilling's planter, but very littlo failed to come. I darod not risk seed of my last years' crop, but sont to New Hampshire and Canada for my seed corn. In that I mado a hit in tho right place lluckwhcat is quite largoly grown here and it is a crop that I am pleased with ; sown at any time botwoen this and July 4th, t proves a paying crop with mo. The prac tice- hero is to savo the poorest land for this crop. I find it better to put it on good land and to manuro for tho crop. A fair dressing of yard manure, or a liberal quantity of good fertilizer will improve the crop. To day I have had calls from three furmors in. quiring, "What kind of fertilizer is best for buckwheat?" Best ground bono, sown at tho rata of 1100 pounds per acre givos mo good returns, and in trials side by side proved best of any kind tried. Haying is near. Undoubtedly the best time to cut clover and grass for hay making, is when it is Grst blossomed. It then con tains the most nutritious matter. By neglect iug to out grass when in full bloom, the For tho Vnao-T Fanuin. Bone Spavin Again. subscriber has a compost heap of old bones, tho carcasses of sheep and cattlo that liavo died of disease, ashes, muck, cto., and r-n-r-v-iT' A "O riT-T l-i1. I-? wants to know how to pulverize it so as S I- I Ia firinnrrt Ihn tvhnln Tor Ihn snil The question with our correspondent would appear to be whether to try to dis solvo the bones with ashes or to buy sulphu rio acid and make a supcrphosphato of them Wo havo seen a statement purporting to come from a chemist, that the phospborio acid in bones dissolved in ashes is mainly insoluble, and so of no value as plant food The results attained by thoso who have used this process would seem to indicate that the chemist is at least not wholly correct. If tho bones bo broken as fine as may be with an axe and tben packed in barrels or hogsheads with alternate layers of bard wood ashes, say ono prt of bones to three of ashes, being wet down with hot water, and allowed to stand out doors where the falling rains will keep tho whole mass in state of moisturo, pr if it is kept wet with slops from tho houuo, iu a year tho bones will bo dissolved and ready for use. The whole may then be composted with muck, using thrco or four parts of muck to one of tho mixture, and being shoveled ovor several times it is ready for application to tho soil Farmers who havo treatod bones by this pro cess speak in the highest torms of ho good results. Tho making of superphosphate, on tho other baud, is said to require th'o bones to bo reduced liner tuan in tho other process, othcrwiso tho action of tho acid hardens tho surfaco of small piecos of bono so as to pro vent its own action to dissolve thorn. Prao tical bkill is believed to bo necessary to man ufacture superphosphates. )' Will readers who have manufactured the refuse bones of tho farm into a lertillzcrwfor crops favor the readers of tho luoiut with an account of thoir experience. nine, nvr.v sl'.I.I-'-DISCll AlKiINd HAKV. J in uso, oneratod without gearing, friction ur sprlngs,and without extra exortlon upon the horse. M'Iia iritmnln'. arran'-ement ll always nnder tho Control of the operator. His simple In principle, combines many good points, and Is u strictly first class rake. livery one warranted. Uellalile Aueiila Wuiilril. EVERETT & SMALL, i:i South .llarlcvt Slrvvl, llosloii, ?ln., General AecdU (or Now Kngland, imOWlV HAltKY llv Tliurntni.'a lllnrk Ilmvk, liy Olil lllnclc Hunk Dam, n very font I'm Intf Mure ly ,iti Arnlilnii llur.r, Will mako the soason of 180 at the RIDING PARK, LANCASTER, N. H. Torms, $." to Insure i a discount of f on each maro to any ono bringing threo or moro mares. I1R0VYN IIAllitV Is a rich daunle brown. heavy, wary innno and tall, I'l hands high, puro gallon, very siviisii, mwerrul. syin - metrical and fast. In tho first and unlv ruiuul mivacoount ho was over In. ho trotted the third heat ln'J.3., last hair In I.1C without u skip. As a slro of roadsters and trotters he ranks among tho best In New Kngland, having sired lorty colts thut con trot In tf.iuanu octtor, eigni 01 tneiu in -.i aim ho luw, the most of them out or common mares, l'or further particulars address Geo. HI. Slovens, LANCASTER, N. II, Clioioo Flowor & Gordon Soods, STRAWBERRIES UD PEACHES Xow Sorttt by Mall. Plants of tho newest and llnest Improved torts, care fully packed and prepaid by mall. My collection of Strawberries took tho drat premium for tlio best aollcc. tlon. at tho treat show of the Muss. Horticultural Society, In Huston, last season. I Krow noarly 100 va rieties, tho most oompleta collection In tho Country, Including all tho now, lartfo American and linportod kinds. Priced descriptive Catalogue, Rraui, ny man, Also, Mulbs, Fruit Trees. IVoscs, Hvercroons. 21 pack oti Flowor or Uarden Soods, 11.00 hy mall, For the Vinuoxr FAnma. Barns, c. c. c. rry. sort for Unland. lowland or Harden by mall, lust paid. I.IJ per luu tUlO tier lutU. Wholesale L'ataloifuO 10 tuo iraue, ai;ouu namou, II. i'l. WATSON, Old Colony Nursorlos and Seed Warohouse, Plymouth, Mass. ESTAUUSUEl) S2. It is becoming more and moro common for farmers, who are able, to build ono largo barn in place of tho three or four small ones, which with their lean-to's and little addi tlons navo lioen built as tho Increasing size and fertility of tho farm made them noses nary. Of course the aim of all in making tho chango from small barns to ono largo ono is tho same, namely ; economy, convenience, comfort and appearance. Unless theso points Some time sinco I noticed two article! in tho Farukii. copied from tho Massachusetts Ploughman, in relation to "bono spavin, which strongly donouncod as a humbug all remedies brought forward as a cure for this disease, considering it when onco fairly seated, as iucurablc. In this opinion, if remember rightly, you concurred nt tho same time expressing a willingness ou your part to be convinced to the contrary upon sufficient testimony. Now theso articles had been investigated in effect by what I had previously written upon the subject, and as you have loft tho door, open in such a man ncr, I cannot fairly do otherwisa than walk in and mako tho best of an obstinato subject, although I very ranch disliko to do so, as it may appear too much in tho nature of an advertisement, but I shall only en deavor to explain and confirm what has been otherwiso advertised in its proper place the Fa timer. It is getting to bo pretty generally known in this part of the stato, as well as else whero, that Dr. 31. J. Kendall of Knos burgh Falls has compounded a remedy undor tho name of "Spavin Curd,'' and that it really useful for tho treatment of a disoase hitherto considered obstinate and unyield ing in its character, to any of the means us ually employed. That It has cured many cases of spavin, removing the lamonoss and enlargement upon tho leg, thero appears bo good evidenco. 1 havo examinod ono horse that had been treated for spavin and could not tell upon which leg tho difli culty had been looatod, The, euro was com pleto, no soreness or blistering producod and no Bear left. I have1 seen tho owners horses which havo boon treated in like man nor, somo of them which wero bad, and they considered them cured, and havp seen letters from others to the samo effeot. I havo no reason at all for disputing this ovi dence, nor object iu placing it in an unduo light. I should much rather you could sco at least somo of theso parties themselves, und perhaps at somo future tima you may. Meantime I would refer you to F. 1). Fay, secretary, or Charles A. Currier, special agent of tho Massachusetts society for tho prevention of oruolty to animals, at 1 8(1 Washington St., Boston, who havo ordcrod sovcral times qulto largely of tho spavin cure, for the purposo of tostlng it carefully and thoroughly, and thus far wjth good re suits; also to Col. Jacob lloddington, New port, N. II., who has cured a horse of ring. bone, and thus, as ho expressed it, added filly dollars to the value of tho animal, This remedy has also been successfully used in tho treatment of splints, Tho proprietor informs mo that ho has not as yet hoard of a case of failure, which is certainly oncourag ing, and I soe no reason why it should pot oontinue in the futuro to produce as good results as In the past and provo of groat valuo to tho owners of horses in this oountry I hero wish to bo understood that I am in no respect connected with tho manufacture or sale of tho "spavin cure." K. It. Toivi.k, l J.rVUri, mineral substanco In tho oorn fed. It is said that barloy grown in somo parts of tho Old World will not mako malt that will pro duco beer, so that tho pcoplo havo to do without this, to some, Indispeusa'blo bever age. Tho various cereal crops aro com posed of about tho samo elements, but in enduro so strong a doso of potash, Tho mixturo Is applied by means of an old broom and a person can go over i hundred medium sized trees' in ono day, washing tho trunks and limbs of tho trees thoroughly. The smaller twigs it Is almost impossible to get at with a broom, but tbey can be dosed lr diffcrcot proportions ; and vet each kind of I means of a large garden svrinec. Tho mixt- grain will adapt itself in somo degree to tho uro for tho twigs should bo mado weaker, as supply of thoso different elements found iu recommended for young trees, or tho leaves tho soil on which tho plant may feed, but it and buds will bo damaged, will not so chango that wheat will becomo Wo have never known strong soap-suds to rye, or oats become barley, but its compost- fail in killing tho lico, and it also scales off tion will so chango as to greatly chango the tho old dead bark and gives a now looso of quality of tho flour mado from tho grain, life to tho tree Tho effect is not fully man. We can very well remember when Genesee ifest tho first day or tho Grst week, but it wheat or flour would soil in tho eastern mar certainly keeps tho lico in check, so that tho kot for quite a percentage nbove that grown tree thrives und is productive. Tho best in other parts of our country. Not becauso timo for doing this work, as wo havo already it was whiter, but becauso it was stronger intimated, is in Juno, when tho young lice flour. It contained moro gluton and other are hatching out. They aro most easily protcine compounds, and would mako moro killed in their infancy, and no ono need and lighter btcad, and of sweeter quality, dread tho qualms of consclonco for slaugh This superiority of quality in barley is also tcring young innocents, for young lico aro distinguishable at the present timo in that not innocent they go to sucking the trees grown in Canada over that grown in tho as soon ns they aro born. Tho females- West the Uahada grown being worth in and theso do tho mischief apparently movo market some fifteen to twenty per cent moro than tho western, which appears to tho sight equally good, Tho important question for us is can wo restore to our lands those elements which wo havo evidently carried away, so that our grain will bo of that suporior quality of which wo once boasted ? Kxpcricnco has taught mo that tho plowing iu of green crops will increaso tho growth of straw rather to about only to Gnd th6 best placo to pitch their tout, and that is on the baric that furn ishes the most forage, Onco squatted they aro squatted forever. No barlc-louso ever changes his camping-ground. New York 1 tmes. Poultry Manure. S. C. Potter gives in tho Boston Cultivator tho injury of tho grain, aad the samo is somo- the following account of interesting experi- times tho caso with barn-yard manures when applied liberally to the wheat crop. Thcro seems to be something wanting to give our wheat that bright beautiful look that it once had. Wo havo noticed that wheat grown by tho uso of supcrphosphato has been of bettor quality than that grown by the use of other manures or at least ofa fairer and plumper berry. Whether tho flour from such wheat would possess tho samo excellence of former Ocncsco wheat wo havo not learned. There can bo but little doubt, however, that tho mineral properties of the soil that we have lost can bo restored, but whether at a cost to pay tho farmer tho outlay, in these times of low prices, is the nuestiou. I am much ments: I givo the result of a littlo experiment I mado in 1808. I had been composting my hen manuro with ashes, and applying it to my crops with very good results. But from what 1 had read 1 was almost certain that tho course was wrong and determined to set myself right. Tho hen manure was piled upon the barn floor and moistened with water so that it would beat a littlo and be como fine; I then added tho samo' bulk of rich loam that had had the wash of tho barnyard and a small quantity of plaster. I took ono bushel of this mixture and ap plied it to 140 bills of corn beforo planting, scattering it over a circle of at least ono foot in diameter. INo other manure was used on growth of aftermath is greatly diminished, better satisfied with tho cflecta of suporphos- the plats. I then took thrco pecks of tho and all praotieal farmers are aware that heavy "fog" or aftermath, is of groat valuo to tho futuro crops of grass. Too lato cut ting is injurious to tho quality of the hay, also tho weight, and if lato cutting Is followed the quantity will deorcase. Juno grass will make the mo-t and best milk, butter and beef. Will not June hay (or hay mado from phate on my wheal this season than ever beforo in the uso of that fertilizer. Thero may be a difference in the quality of tho ar ticlo used, I have used Kalstou's from tho manufactory of Lister Brothers, for tho pres ent soason, and am well satisfied with tbo apparcut effect on wheat and barley. If superphosphates can be mado to supply that clement which is wanted to restore to our wheat its former excellence, as well as to in above compost and mixed with it ono pock Of good ashes and applied it to tho samo number of hills in tho same manner. Tho corn was planted May 2i), cut and stooked on September 8 and husked October 11 Tho portion which tho hen manuro gavo 144 pounds ot sound corn and 1 pounds et solt corn. Tlio portion with hen manuro and ashes gavo 101) pounds of sound corn and pounds of solt corn. I also planted 140 labor thrown away ; but this extra labor Is just what often determines tho differcneo be tweon success and failure in fanning. Thorough culture of growing crops is tho sine qua non of their profitablo development. I lie necessity ot cultivating corn, potatoes and similar crops in order to procuro profit bio returns is oouccded by all, but this no ccssity is understood by many to go no fur ther than tho subduing of weeds that would, by their presence, damage tho growing crop. But this necessity would exist if no weeds were present. Nor is this benefit confined to what are generally called hoed crops. Uur wiutcr grains would bo very largely benefited by this process. If some man would invent somo means by which we might readily and successfully cultivate our winter wheat, rye, etc, ho would open up tho way for a larger increase of our crops than was lone by tho invention of the drill. -L. J. Templin in Ohio Farmer. Itinerant Threshing Machines. Tho Farmkr has often referred to tho economy of using horso powor to savo hand labor, and urgod the expediency of farmers owning all machinery that' can bo economic Hy employed, clubbing together in the own ership and uso of threshers, saws, and somo other machines, whero there is not work enough or capital enough to havo ono on each farm. A writer in the Now York Times says : Tho greatest evil to which farmers arc exposed by patronizing traveling threshers, is the carrying of foul seeds Irom one farm to another, it ono iarmcr raises red root or Cauada thistle, tho seeds aro sure to bo car ried all through tho neighborhood by theso threshers and clover hullcrs. Tho reracdv suggested is for good, tidy farmers to club together and buy a thresher not tho largo six or oight horse powers, but a good tread power as now mado, with a level tread, that will thresh two hundred bushels a day. with one team and three men. "It is i'ar safer," ho says, "moro profitable becauso less expon sive, costing not moro than one-half, some say not moro than one-third as much par bushel to thresh grain as with tho traveling machines, and it relieves tbo houso ot small army of men. As long as traveling machines aro used lrom (arm to larra, thoy should bo brushed and swept from top to bottom before moving from each station This is tho only precaution that can bo taken to guard against the dissemination ot foul seeds, except the plan abovo suggested." Smut in Wheat. grass iu blossom) mako th best feed in win- -rcaso tho quantity of product, it will be of bills with nothing in the hilt and got 84 ler? With such hay and a liberal quantity great uso to us of western Now xork, for we pounds sound corn and 31 pounds soft corn. of roots daily, nearly as much milk, butter ar" DOt wining to surrenucr our love anu tuo ucu manuro increased tno crop a per and beef or growth can bo mado as in June feed. Why Not. ritttlitU,Mut.,Jl 10, H76. Fino Samples of Merino Wool. Mr. John S. Goo, Brownsvillo, Fayctto Co., Pa., sends us samples of wool, from his flock of pure bred American Merinos, which uro very choice. Also tho following record of tho weights of fleeces. II IMS, 1 YKAK TO AOEn, 1NCI.VSIVK. love and I tbo hen manuro increased the practicoof wheat growing, whioh has so long cent, hen manuro and ashes 110 per cent. prevailed as a leading crop with us. J'. very Uno half bushel of hen manuro made 3d farmer is well convinced that we must uso pounds of sound corn ou tho cob, and this somo fertilizer to keep our lands in condition approximates very nearly tho result 1 get iu Ujlwn taiu piuu.uui-. wiuiw iim wu i iiuiu JCill tu jrvui VJ uaui ui.it luduuiu. rclianeo formerly, with barn-yard manuro of Thirty-five pounds of corn on tho cob aro tho farm. We now think it expensivo to worth at least !15 cents, which practically ai it. u 21 a 13 " (I 13 1 I 2 lb S iu. 3i " 0 " 11 lbs 30 1J b res. 0 .. s Una. 6 I " plow in clover for an uncertain crop. If I commercial manures can bo profitably used wo shall soon know it. Thoy aro being tested this season moro generally on u greater varioty ot soils and crops than ever before, and tho results must bo moro conclu sive than any that have preceded. BWia, I VBAR TO AtlKI), INtXL'SIVK. :; Its u ou. 17 " 7 " 11 " a m i i 11 II 20 ii 0 " 13 3 " 1J " - 13 " II " II ' II " M " a ll lbs H . 17 n ID I' 1 " w 11 " li " 11 " 13 12 ' 13 13 ' 1T,, urn, IJ ' 19 ' 3 'l 10 It " 20 11 ii is " a 11 13 " II 10 ' 13 a 13 " 6 " is a 13 " 10 ' 11 ' 8 " 33 lbs lieu. S ' 0 1 11 I) ' 11 1 J 1 1 I 13 ' 13 1 1 The Apple-Baric Louse. Juue is tho best month for destroying that most pestiferous of all insect peats, so far as the apple orchard is concerned, tho applo- bark louse, or coccut conchiformis, as tho entomologists call it, from its resemblance to au oyster-shell. During tho warm days of tho middle ot Juno in tho Eastern and .Hid. dlo States, and earlier at tho South, this in sect hatches its young, atid hatching timo should be butchering timo, for thoy jnultiply, somo tbirtv, somo sixty and some an hun dred fold. The number of eggs under each scale varies greatly, apparently depending upon tho vigor ot the tree. Dr. Pitch, tuo New York entomologist, states tint ho has counted from a baker's dozen to over ono hundred iu one nest. In this ratio of gco- ,nntriial nmrtrfjtainn it ilnna not takn manv not so likely to ruu out or deteriorate. Jlut vcar. t0 -u th0 aT.i.uir, fria,0 0u tho moving on 'to a farm that my father has bark of an apple treo with this scaly insect, lived on this last fortv voars and over. I find and wo havo known trees so infected with it , c,mn, Mo.uian. f -! sti, n.... that speoimens could bo found on the leaves . , , . land fruit. This louso is only an eighth of lieo, h no uas Nweu mo sa ne oats M inch ongl to tho CM obwrwr may planted the samo corn sinco his oceupanoy Bppear t u0 too insiguificant to bo worthy of the farm, and inoreovor tho potato which of notice, especially as the most part of its wo aro all so ready to condemn as running lifo is stationary and apparently torpid, out so rcadilv. and becomins worthless. Ho 'rho ara8 Jon by one or a dozen, or even , , . . . , . ' ,. a hundred, of theso insoots would bo lnsig- lias piantec a son oi cany potaios lor over Mcaai but whcn ,h0 trt0 hal thousands forty years. And this is all on tho samo auj tcns 0f thousands of those little ports farm, with very much the samo quality of sucking away at itg lift blood tbo innnitos Itn Mn-MlWralan-inn nr filWn nni-ns imal damago becomes finite if not infinite. makes tho hcu manure worth 70 cents a bu&hcl I havo just weighed a bushel of hen man ure from under tho hen-roost and find it weighs thirty pounds. According to Bruck tier's analyses, a bushel of hen manure con tains I, iiupiiuriu ciu, .u-itj iu , nvrwi low. tvt iu. I'ntajli, .isivilk., worth 7e. per lb. .'J01 Nitrogen, .015 lb., worth 3iV. per lb. .I'J ' For the Vmot Fiama. Changing; Seed, I liavo always advocated that a chango of seed from ono location to another, and per haps a change of soil whero tho Mod was raised, was beneficial to farmers in securing good crops, or in other words, tbo seed was of corn yearly; likewiso about the samo quan tity of oats, and instead of their running out they are sought after, especially for feed, as beiug equal or better lo quality than tho averago' grain farmers raise William 8. Tiiokp. Utdlrkllt, ft. Manures. ft I philosophy lies in two words, "sus . i ti rv ...... lain auu "ausiaiu, -ujiKiaui. Thcro is an indoGuito number of applo trees at this very moment dragging out an un healthy and unfruitful cxistenco becauso of this pest, and multitudes havo succumbed to it and died, In fact thcro aro a very fow orchards in Now Kngland, or tlio Middle States, that aro not suffering moro or' less from tho bark louso, though its operations aro so stealthy that many farmers art not awaro of tbo causa of the unhealthy and un fruitful condition of tboir orohards. Tbo in sect is stationary, except for a few days after it Is hatched, and as it is very Binali, and has tho color of tho bark, mauy havo uovcr noticed it, or certainly have uotstud icd its habits, and wo piay therofora do tho farmers a service by a short aocount of tho coccus concmformit and tho simple modo iu which ho cau bo chcokod, if not cxtormin atcd. In still warmer climates tho, larvtu of tho that aro so strong iu tho mineral bark-louso is hatched parly in May, but in that to supply the orgauio to keep New Kgland we havo uovcr seen them till Mr. F. P. Hoot says in tho American Hural that tho idea prevails with farmers that lands can bo wholly restored to their original fertility by tho plowing in of olovur or other greon crops, but it is an error in theory aud also tm practice. That lands oan bo greatly benefitted by this operation thero is no doubt ; but the beneut is moro In tho mechanical condition than in quality ot the soil, Ubcro aro , lands in somo localities olemont that it looso and mellow will produce good crops Juno, and it requires a practiced oyo to seo for many years with no other manures, them at any timo, Thoso first hatched often But thev will ultimately fall to nroduco L'ood stay under tho scalo If the weather is oool. grain. Tho graiu grown on soils dcQciont When they do walk abroad thoy appear liko in mineral uiaiiur win ua 01 noor nuuiuv. nuuuiu wuuc uota. auu vuu duuivoit up and will mako poor nualitv of flour. Tho tinguishod by tho naked eye from the whit Wheat now crown in western JNaw York, will e anus oi tho baric : nut uy careiui watcn make no such quality of flour as that grown ing thoy can bo secu to movo with consider thirty or forty yoars ago, nor will it make able agility. Tbo larvw aro uot as largo as any such quantity per bushel. Then, a bar the eggs which can bo seen undor the scale, rol ot oxtra hour was ma lo from Tour and a and the mioro&oope is nQoossary to raano any nuartcr bushels of wheat. Now. it takes closo observation of them, Few fariuors ucarlv Gvo bushols to make a barrel of will havo paticnoo to study tho habits of poorer nualitv. Our wheat is deficient in this insect, but who aro infested with the tho phosphates, becauso tboso elements are pest -and fow aro not will bo glad to know deficient In. soil on which it is grftwn. Grain how to get rid of tho "little varmints." of all kinds whou grown on soils rich In the Wo cannot promise perfoot extermination, mineral elements, is much moro valuablo for thoy squat on tho extrcmo twig whore It than that on lands deficient, for tho reason is difficult, if not impossible, to administer that tho soil cannot nroduco that which it mcdioiuo to them. docs not contain. It Is not In this section Tho insect doctors rccommncd many rcmo of the country alone that tho nnnlltv of dies for tho bark-louso. Among theso aro nraln !a declining, but wherever lands havo whitowash. strong ley, sulphur, dry ashes, crown grain, oxolusively for a term of vears Infusions of quassia and tobacco, mackerel the same results are seen. brine, tar-water, cto. Wo havo tried most nn f.l. 1.1- . , . .fiL... I...I llfl um..l.. m. Lhba fniimt i-nal 1H0 grain IBUUS 01 lOO WCSl are UCPOUl UI luiao, uu. mu ivmuujr nu uiv i..' Aetual value of bno bushel hen manuro $0;iG9 In 1801) I mado another experiment, but mixed no ashes with tho hen manure, Three bushels of tho compost mixed as bo- fore, mado niocty-onc pounds ot sound corn, or tbirty pounds for ono bushot of tho com post. - Supplementing the Hay Crop. We should iudgo that thcro would bo good crop of hay this year, but ns there nro always exceptions to tho goncral rule there will doubtless bo many lurmcrs in all who will not obtain their usual quantity. In theso cases it will bo well to sow somo fod der corn or Hungarian grass, or perhaps, as a matter ot experiment, a small picco ot each. By growing both crops tho samo year tho farmer could very readily deter . . i i i. 1 1 . i i'. . i II mu wtiicu uu wuuiu trruw iu iuu juiuiu If properly grown, both crops aro very good indeed. Both may be fed. green, or be cured and used for winter food. And tho fact that many intelligent farmers prefer ono while many others who aro just as Intelli gent prefer the other renders it probable that there is but very little differcneo in thoir real valuo. Under somo circumstances corn may bo grown to better advantago than tho grass, wbilo under other conditions the revcrso may be true. But as both aro good crops, the farmer will not go far out of tho way lu gruwmg muur ui mum, auu sum mon crass has not got so nearly matured that a pretty correct opinion concerning yield can bo given. Tho farmer should there fore cxamino his Dcldi and see whether bis hay crop is coming up to the averago or not If be bods, that his 'crop will bo light, will certainly pay him to mow a pioce once, plow and harrow it well, and sow either corn or Hungarian grass. They may not do quito as well on the turl as thoy would on land that had been cultivated, but they will provo a great deal better than nothing, aud i- i.. i r..: ... u .. - II prupeny luauugcu u imr may uu so- cured. Although it is later than wo usually put in fodder corn, it is not too late to get a crop to feed dry in tho wintor. Tho corn should bo sown in drills in which a quantity of manuro has been placed, or, if planted without manure, liberal applications of ashes and plaster, or of somo of tho commercial manures, should bo mado to tho crop when it is hood. If Hungarian crass is grown in-. stead of corn, there is no special hasto about bowing tho seed, though wo should rather do it bstoro long than to wait until tho hurry of haying. While tho majority of farmers may not need anything of the kiud, wo think that many, in all, may bo benefitted by the suggostlous wo iavo made. 'iVftn England Homestead, FACT AND FANCY. C. V. Ililey writes to the New York Trib- une that a great deal ot nonsenso is written in reference to the causo of smut in wheat ; and it is well to bear in mind that there is in reality no nuestiou at all about it. Tho fact that it is a parasitic tungus Uslilauo stactum) is as well established in botany as that mistletoe is a parasito on apple, oak- etc., aud not au outgrowth of tho trees, luat it propagates by dust like spores. when the conditions aro favorable, is also well established. Every particlo of the brownblack dust is a sporo or germ, each so minute that s,UUU,UUU could bo nlacod sido by sido on a squaro inch of surface. These float through Hie air, attach themselves to tho ripening grain, and aro sown with tho seed, when they gcrminato j and after going through tho various stages of development in tho tissuo of tho growiug plant imbuing them with its poisonous qualities rcpro duco a fungus liko tho parent, i. o., causo tho car to "smut." llcuco tho philosophy of tho various washos with which tho seed is treated to prevent smut, tho object being to destroy tho vitality of tho spores. The fact of finding insects in such smut is no more evidenco of its being caused by them than tho finding of them iu black knot is ; or, to put it moro strongly, than tho finding of mistlotoo on a treo is proof that tho tree was produced from mistletoe. A littlo light brown beetle, uot quito ouo-touth of an inch long, with four quadrangularly arranged blackish spots on tho back Brachylarsiis varieyatus, Say), is fond of breeding iu diff erent smuts, aud oan almost always.be found in them, cither in tho larva or beetle state. Thorough Culture. Nothing is mora essential to tho highest success In raising crops than thorough prep aration and cultivation ot the soil. Much is lost for want of having (be soil In good tilth before the need is deposited in it. Whon a plant is compelled to struggle for lifo during its earlier existence, it receives a shock that it oan never fully rccovor from, If tho soil Is well pulverized it places within reach of the roots ot the young plant a larger amount of available plaut food, and It starts off in life with more vigor, and, like an animal that has been well fed during ts infancy, it is more capable of taking oaro of itsclt In after life, than if stinted and half starved in its earlier lifo. Within reasonable limits, ing oxhausted of the mineral matter, so that effectual iu killing tho lice, and at the samo an additional plowing or harrowing will often thoir grain is of a poorer quality thau for- time of giving lllo to tho treo, is domcstio add many times its cost to the valuo of tho tncrly, It is belioved by intelligent farmers soap diluted with water half soap and crop. Many farmers beora to think that all of tho West tuat tho bog cholera, so preva nail water ior oiu trees ana less uoap mr eir wur. iu usup piowiug anu tnorougn lent and fatal, ia caused py tbo want of this young ones, whoso bark is tender and cannot hatrowlng In propavlng for a crop la so much Faiisi Oarpks. A correspondent of tho Seicntifio Farmer says, "Whether or no tho garden gives us pleasure, depends upon the place it occupies in tho farm economy, as likewiso whether or no it gives proht. bo long as 1 held tho garden at arms' length, as something apart from tho farm, and tho manuro and labor put iuto it as so much stolen from tho farm itself aud to bo almost apologized for, the garden and I wero not friends ; and I found friendliness with our labor here, as clsowhcro, is essential to tho highest success. But when I come rouud to tbo household point of view, and took coun sel of tho family, and adopted tbo garden iuto my earo as something worthy of it, tho kitchen farm and tho big farm go ou well together. Charity, they say, should begin at home. Methinks our farming should begin in tho garden, and get out of it only when tho household has ample provision mado for its own tablo. Tbo garden, too, is tho best of schools, and 1 find it rare that tho farmer steps from the good garden to the poor farm.J it 1 cannot got out ot tho garden, 1 bad bet tcr not try tho farm : but in practice, ono should not bar tho othor, but assist. Tho order should bo, not from tho farm to tho garden, but rather from tho garden to tho farm." Tun vm or Machinery. Tho uso of machinery upon tho farm is doubly benefi cial. It not ouly reduces tho labor, lessens tho cost of products, saves time, and enables a larger surfaco to bo cultivated, but it actually necessitates better and moro careful work. To plaut corn with a drill successfully, it is necessary that tho sod be woll turned ovor and covered, and no trash left upou tho surface to interfere with tlio regular dropping of tho seed ; nor tnut loose stones bo left iu tho way. It is tho samo with all other machinery, and this indirect benefit is not the least by any means of thoso that we gain by tho uso of farm machines. Dosk for Melon Bras. -Tho N. Y. Times gives tho following: Tako a fow lumps of frosh burned lime and break thorn up into Btuall pieces. Then dissolvo ouo ounco of carbolio acid iu ouo pint of water and snriaklo this upon tho lime, slacking it into a fino drv powder. This is carbolato of lime, which, if spriuklcd around tbo stems of melons und cucumbers, or upon tno leaves or blossoms, will drivo olt both tbo squash beetle, which cats tlio. stalk, and tho striped butr. which destroys tho blossoms. It will also savo tho cabbago from tho flea which cats tho young plants, and from tho cater nillar. It should bo kept in a dry place, closely corked in widc.uiouthcd bottles, until wanted lor uso. mo water must oo useu cautiously, lest tho limo bo mado too wet and pasty, Tho break of day was organized and regu lated long before tbo fowls ot tho cartn wero created, and it Is nothing' for a rooster to crow over, It was stated at tho Brewers' Congress that ab6ut 0,000,000 barrels or beer were mado iu this country last year. Docs this razor tako hold well 7" asked tho smiling barber. "Yes," replied tho un happy victim, "it takes hold well, but it won't let go worth a cent. ' A Connecticut farmer finds guinea hens the best potato bug destroyers ho has triod. Ha keeps twenty of these fowls, and thoy do their work thoroughly. A Pennsylvania physician told a sick lady that sho couldn't live a month. She died, that night, from excitement, and her husband sues for 810,000 damages. "A beautiful female foot," says a writer, "should bo onc-eovcoth of tho woarcr'n height." That is, a beautiful femalo should bo seven feet high. Ivoree-Ccr Press. Governor Irwin, of Colifornia, has taken off from one to four years each from tho sen tence of 100 convicts in tho Stato Peniten tiary becauso of the good conduct of tho body of convicts at a recent firo in tho prison. Jlrs, Lincoln's estate, which consists mostly oi u uiicd Mates nonus, amounts to about 880,000, besides which sho receives from tho government a quarterly pension of 8750. A young lady viewing Dom Pedro in St. Louis the other day remarked as sho fixed her eyes on tho carriage, "It is n't exactly immortality to sco an Emperor, of course, but it 'a a glance, at least, of King Dom couio." The southern Negroes aro mystified over tho recent visits of cyclones and hurricanes, and an aged Savannah darkoy remarked : "If dese winds can't be turned down a littlo, what's do uso ub buying mules and 'cumu lating a family ?" An old negro was paid his week's wages in New York, roccntly, receiving tho most of it in silver half-dollars. Ho looked benignly at them as thoy lay in his palm, chuckled as though in triumph, and exclaimed, "Dat's do stuff do rats can't chaw I" The uso of tho editorial "we" prevails in the South, as will be seen by tho following romark in tho Paris, Tonn., Intelligencer : "If we escape tho bog cholera this season, thcro will bo largo surplus of pork next win ter." Sir James Hall has been making somo experiments on hatching eggs by artificial heat, and on ono occasion observed in one of his boxes a chicken in tho act of breaking from its confinement. It happened that just as tho crcaturo was getting out of tho shell, a spider began to run along tho box, and tho chicken darted forward, seized and swallowed it. A St. Louis commercial traveller has sued an Indiana hotel keeper for 85,000 damages for not waking him up in timo to catch a certain train. He must bo a singular man. Most drummers would havo taken tho day to go fishing, and put down on their note-book , 'Bridges carried away couldn't get on." Chicago Times. A negro was sentenced in Floyd, Ua., to to be hanged next September, and ho asked the judga to appoint an earlier day. His Honor remarked that propriety prevented a chauge. "Never mind tho propriety, judge," said tho prisoner ; "I'm the man that's going to bo hanged, and I ought to havo something to say about it." 0. G. Ernest of Stookbridge, Cal., after several experiments, has succeeded in rais ing roses as black as ink. His plan was to engraft a slip of dark red roso into un oak treo, whero tbey grew, flourished and blossomed, tbo dark sap of tho oak effectually colored thu roso black. Ho did not succeed, however, iu transferring tho slips so treated to the ground, for thoy invariably died iu the attempt. It has puzzled many peoplo to docido why tho dark wood so highly valued for furnituro should be called rosewood. Its color does not look muc'.i like a-roso ; so wo must look for somo other reason. Upon asking, wo aro told that when tho treo is first cut tho fresh wood possesses a very strong, rosc-liko fra grance henco the name. Tho following curious account of a paintor for restoring paintings in a convent was written in a scroll less than an inch squaro : Corrected and revised tho Ten Command ments, 5 francs and 12 contimcs ; embel lished and renewed Pontius Pilato and put a new ribbon in his bonnet, ti francs C cent imes j put a now tail on tho rooster of St. Peter, and mended his comb, !i francs 20 centimes ; rcplumed and gilded tho left wing of the Guardian Angel, 4 fraucs 18 centimes; washed tho sorvant of tho High Priest, and put carmine on his checks, 5 francs 12 centimes; renewed Heaven, ad justed two stars, gilded tho Sun and renewed tho Moon, 7 francs 14 centimes ; reanimated tho Flames of Purgatory and restored somo souls, G francs 0 scntimcs ; rovived tho Flames of Hell, put a new tail on tho Devil, mended his left hoof, and did several jobs for tho Damned, 4 francs 10 centimes; put new spatter dashes on tho Son of Tobias and drcssiug on his back, 2 francs ; cloanod tho cars of Balaam's Ass and Bliod him, 3 fraucs 7 centimes ; put car-rings in tho ears of Sarah, 2 francs 4 centimes; rebound tho robo of Herod and readjusted his wig, 4 franca 4 centimes ; put a ncwslono in David a tiling, enlarged tho bead of Uoliath, and extended his legs, It francs 2 centimes ; decorated Noah's Ark, it franca ; mended the shirt of tho Prodigal Son and cleaned tho pigs, 4 francs 0 centimes, Total, 50 francs 11 cent imes. Tun Pearl Fishery of Ceylon. Tho poarl fishery, vaguely renowned oven in tho ilaya of Pliny, is carried on principally at Aripo, ou the west of Coylon, a dreary shore. Enormous mounds of sheila havo accumulated for centuries. From March to Slay this spot ia thronged by some hun dreds of thousands of people interested in tho catch. Tho diver's plungo to the bottom is facilitated by a stono weighing thirty pouuds attached to a rope. Exports remain under tho water not quite sixty seconds, though tho government nispoctor had known ono mau who could stay eighty-seven. Thoy can go down nine fathoms, but work has bocn dono in thirteen. Danger from sharks Is uuknown because of the noiso and disturbance of tho waters by so many hundred boats. Somo divcra can bring up 3000 or 4000 shells a day und earn nearly XI in eight days' work. During fh.o occupation of tho Dutch, 140 year, sixty yeara wero unpro ductive, and thcro wero only four real good seasons. In our timo there was a failure from 1820 to 1828 and another from 18117 to 1850. In 1814, 70,000,000 of shells wero brought up, and iu 1708 tho contractor paid tho government 140,000, and roallzoil about .50,000 of profit. Thcro is still somo doubt, it would seem, whether tho pearl Itself is tho result of disease or of an "inde pendent Natural concretion," Ono natural ist ascribes the opinion to parasites, Tho stench which arises from the putrefaction of such vast numbers of shell-fish is horrible, and yet tho aeo-brcczca and the short timo of tho fishery insure immunity from epidemics, t