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THE IIERALD. AGRICU LTUn.'lL, Snort Potato Cull tiro. wiii -vxi) preparation. Almo-t any will grow sweet lM)Uitx:. Some kinds do better on cer tain soils than othcre; but, on the whole, I find all kinds do best on rath er dry .-oils containing a considerable tiiiioiml of clay, and if enriched with manure, the yield will be greater in proportion. To have the toil in prop er condition at planting time, it should have Ixjen plowed once or twice during the .-piing and rolled, and so prepared as to be as free from clods as possible. I find it best to plant in ridges, which p hould be about three aud a half feet from center to center, and about four teen inches high. PLANTING. The plants should lie dropped but a j-hort distance ahead of the planters, ten to fourteen inches apart, on freshly-made ridge. The planter should be provided with a bright, sharp ma son's Irowl, which be grasps in his right hand, straddles the ridge, picks up a plant with his left hand, pushes the trowel into the earth in a slanting di rection, opens a hole by a drawing and lifting motion, opening a space about an inch wide, thrusts the plant in with the left hand, withdraws the trowel and presses the earth firmly to the plant with the right hand, putting his weight on the arm, without letting go the trowel, and while doing so picks up another plant with his left hand ready to repeat the operation. I have found this the fastest and every way the best manner of proceed ing. Great care must be observed to have the plants well firmed; the earth can not be pressed too close to the roots of any plant, while if not well firmed, and dry weather follows, the plant is almost sure to be lost. AFTER-CULTIVATION. The proper performance of this is of the greatest importance; without it, all jircvious care and expense will avail nothing. I have found it the best, and by far the cheapest, never to allow the weeds to get a start; as soon after ev ery rain as the soil is fit to work, the ground should bestirred with some im plement, be it rake, hoe, plow or bar row, so as to destroy the weeds as soon as they have germinated, when the least stirring and a half hour's sun will kill beyond resurrection. My ridges arc made by a machine built for the purpose, hence all are alike, which enables ma to cultivate both tides of the ridges at one operation with a steel harrow made to fit the ridges and drawn by two hor.-es. The i space at the bottom between the ridges is cleaned by one passage of the shovel plow thus there Is only a narrow strip on the top of the ridges to lie cleaned by hand labor. Two or three such workings are about all that can be accomplished, and arc sufiicient; by that time the plants will be growing so rapidly as to cover the ground in a short time and prevent all further growth of weeds. "Whatever plan or instrument is used, it is of the greatest importance to never let the weeds get a start, as a man can do at least four times as much while they are under half an inch high as he can after they arc over two. muaisa is a costly operation as performed by many persens. The liest and most ex jieditious way I have yet tried is to take a large two or three hore plow; set it as much to land as posible; at tach a rolling coulter, setting it to land about two inches; straddling ridge with your team and turn it over with the plow. The coulter will cut the vines completely if kepi sharp, aud the plow inverts the whole ridge. The potatoes remain hanging together on the vine, and the points sticking up, and by taking hold of one the whole hill can be pulled up. They should be broken oil' from the vine", sorted and laid in piles. The greatest care wiut lie observed not to bruise the potatoes, as the bruises cause rotting soon after. E. A. Kichl, in Rural World. Sniuc -HaiiiiciiiciU. A correspondent of the Cincinnati (Gazette writes: Firt, as to breeding sows. They should, as a general rule, lie kept by themselves, and where they tan have a good range. Sufficient ex ercise seems essential to their progeny. Matured sows have Iicttcr and stronger pigs than gilts, and should be separated from young sows. And for this.reason, a yearling pastor a two year-old sow can eat a great deal fas tcr than the gilts. Thcrclorc, if the ivo kind :ue kept together for breed ing purposes, the matured sow will bc come too fat to do well, and the gilt, or 3'onngsow, will lack the food so essen tial to her growth and perfect devel opment. Every farmer should have a hog houc for hogs. They should he put into it about the 1st of December, and taken out the last of March or 1st of April. The hog-house should be well ventilated, and have a tight roof by all means; for, without it and a good floor, it would be worse than no house at all, for the reason that they should sleep dry and be free from dust or wet. And, having a good floor to sleep on, they will not smother each other. In cold weather, for the purpose of warmth, they should be bedded with good wheat straw. But as often as once in three or four weeks, the old bedding should be removed, scattered out on the field, or putting it on the manure pile. This use of wheat straw will make it pay largely for the cost of bedding. Fifteen or twenty stock hogs are enough to bed together. A hog-house may be twenty feet long and eight feet wide, and divided in the middle, adjoining the partition. Such a house will comfortably accommodate forty shoats; and if their house be kept clean, they will naturally occupy both apartments. Oil flic Harness Now. A good harness is costly, but if prop erly used and cared for will last a good many years. If neglected, it will soon need repairs, and in a short time be come utterly worthless. In caring for a harness, one great point is to see that it is kept suitably oiled. A work har ness in use on a farm should be oiled twice each year, m the spring and fall. It should be taken entirely apart, the places where sweat and dirt have col lected cleaned with a chip, or an old case-knife, then wash clean in warm water in which a little caslilc soap has been dissolved. As they arc washed the straps should be hung on a pole to dry. "When the outside is nearly dry, but before the moisture is all out of the leather, the oil should be applied. This may be done with a clean paint brush, which is the best thing for the purpose, a sponge or a woolen cloth. A mod erate quantity should bo used; and, if it does not soften the leather enough, another light coat may be applied when the first one is well dried in. This is better than to put on a great deal at once. Care should be taken to obtain a good quality of oil. Poor oils arc of little use, and sometimes are injurious. Neat's foot is the very best kind of oil for leather. tirowltis Oirmnbcr lor 1'IoklcS. I find cucumbers a paying crop when grown for pickles, and sold either be fore oraftcr salting price per hundred the same in either case. I plow as deep as two horses can pull the plow, then mark one way four feet apart, letting the plow run as deep as the ground was plowed. I then put a shov elful of good barnyard manure where each hill is wanted, say four feet apart, and then thoroughly mix with the soil, making the hills about two inches higher than the general surface of the ground. I plant about the middle of June. As soon as the plants' get large enough to be out of the way of the striped bug, I thin out to four plants to the hill. I cultivate them frequently, aud hand-hoe them two or three times before the vines commence to run. In this vicinity the price ranges from 50 cents to SI per hundred, and the product of an acre sells from S400 to $800. Cor. Country Gentleman. About Sick Animals. Xcarly all sick animals become so by improper feeding, in the first place. Nine cases out often the digestion is wrong. Charco-.il is the most efficient and rapid corrective. It will cure a majority of cases, if properly adminis tered. An example of its use: Tho hired man came in with the intelli gence that one of the finest cows was very sick, and a kind neighbor pro posed the usual drugs and poisons. The owner being ill, and unable to ex amine the cow, concluded that the trouble came from overeating, and or dered a teacup of pulverized charcoal given in water. It was mixed, placed in a junk bottle, the head held up ward, and water and charcoal poured downward. In five minutes improve ment was visible, and in a few hours the animal was in the pasture quietly eating grass. Another instance of equal success occurred with a young heifer which had become badly bloated by eating green apples after a hard wind. The bloat was so severe that the sides were almost as hard as a barrel. The old remedy, salcratus, was tried for correcting theaciditv. Hut the at tempt to put it down always caused coughing, and it did little good. Half a tcacupful of fresh powdered charcoal wasciveu. In six hours all appear ance of bloat had gone, and the heifer vra. well. Tlii-ining Corn. Prof. Roberts, of the Cornell Uni versity, made some experiments, in B.v,.,...a nil. l.U.H.e, 1.11 111 l.l.Tl. season, the results of which are valuable. He planted three plats of three-sixteenths of an acre each with corn, and thinned the hills in one lot to three stalks, another to four stalks to a hill; the third was not thinned. The first plat yielded at the rate of 1G0 bushels, the second 125 bushels, and the third 10G bushels (of cars) to the acre. Mr. Roberts states, as the result of many experiments prior to these, at the Iowa Agricultural College, that the heaviest crop3 of corn were made by growing three stalks to a hill, and that two stalks to a hill will produce more than five stalks. If every stalk produces an ear, and com is planted three feet apart each way, there will be nearly 100 bushelg of shelled grain per acre. To grow maximum crops of corn, then, it is only necessary to grow' one ear upon a stalk, and ears of such a size that a hundred of them will make a bushel of gram. In view of this, it is strange that, with so prolific a grain as corn, a yield of 100 bushels to tho acre should be con sidered as something almost impossible to be obtained. Am. Agriculturist. A Particular Hen. Capt. Jacob W. Dobois has a hen of the golden pheasant breed which is very particular as to her place of laying. She always comes in the house and makes for a certain closet, where she arranges a nest, quietly deposits her egg, and goes off with a happy, con tented little cackle. If she finds the doors and windows closed, she will walk nrouud from one to the other un til she attracts some one's attention and is admitted". "When she comes in to tho house she behaves in the most circumspect manner, like a well bred fowl, as she is, and never says anything to anybody, or gets in any one's way. The hen has a mate in a little rooster, who accompanies her about the prem ises, escorts her to the house, and qui etly waits for her until she makes her exit, and then wanders off happy and proud in her companionship. Kings ton (N. 11) Fireman. Household hints Vinegar Pie. One teacup of mo lasses, one of sugar, halfacupof good vinegar. Thicken with flour, or an egg, and then bake it with two crusts. To remove old paint, cever with a wash of three parts quick limestone, slacked in water, to which one part pearl-ash is added. Allow the coating to remain for sixteen hours, when the paint may be scraped off. German Toast. To one egg, beaten well, add one cup sweet milk or cream; season with a little salt and pepper. Cut in slices stale bread, and put in the milk to moisten, and fry in butter on a griddle. This is an extra nice dish for breakfast. Lettuce Salad. Most housekeep ers use vinegar, vinegar and sugar, or vinegar and meat gravy for lettuce, but sour cream from sloppered milk and sugar, added to the lettuce after it is cut up fine, makes a most delicious and healthy salad. SfON'oi: Cake. Six eggs, four cups flour, three cups sugar, one cup water, one tcaspoonful soda, two tcaspoonf'uls cream of tartar; flavor with lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar together until very light, then add soda dissolved in water, and the cream of tartar mixed thoroughly with the flour. For tabic furnishing, glass is now more fashionable than silver, and plain white china is quite out of fashion. Minton ware an English china with surface in broad ornamented bands of chocolate brown, is much in vogue; but crockery in color dark blue all the majolica hues and designs, plates covered with leaves, birds, flowers, landscapes, beasts, and fishes with cake, fruit and desert plates all odd, unique devices seem to be the demand of to-day. Bay rum is a useful, agreeable and inexpensive application to the scalp. Everybody should use it, so we will give a formula for making it as good as can be purchased anywhere, and at a small cost: Take oil of bay, ten fluid drams; oil of pimento, one fluid dram; acetic ether, two fluid ounces; alcohol, throe gallons; water, two and a half gallons. Mix, and in two weeks filter it carefully, when you will have a su perior article of bay rum, better than can be purchased at an extravagant price, already prepared. In furnishing "windows, waste no money on paper shades. If there are no shutters get shades of dark, heavy Holland, or in oil, if there arc shutters. "White muslin on rollers arc the best. To the cornice of the window may be added a lambrequin in color and ma terial to match the mantel and brack ets; it may be well to add that lambre quins should he lined, as tlie sun would otlierwise soon fade the material. The addition of lace or gauze curtains is a matter of fancy. In a room of com mon use, they arc often of more trouble than worth; moreover, anything that keeps out the sun and light should not be patronized. It is a great mistake to keep a room in profound darkness lor any reason. The leaves of geranium are an ex cellent application for cuts, when the , " 111 ! 1 .l 1 . sKin is ruuoen ou, mm oilier uuuu3ui the same kind. One or two leaves must be bruised and applied on linen to the part, and the wound will become cicatrized m a very snort time. W.1I. I'. GREGORY. (County JuJgo.) AT TO 11 NE Y AT L A 71', HARTFORD, KY. Prompt attention given to tbo collection of claims. Office in he courthouse. E. F. STKOTIIi: R, ATTORNEY AT LA W. HARTFORD, KENTUCKY. Will practice in all the court's of Ohio counts and tho circuit courts of adjoining counties. 1 OFFICE upstairs over J. W. Lewis' old stand. n0 tf JOHN O'tXAHEHTY. A T TO II NE Y AT LA W, HARTFORD, KY. Collections Promptty Attended to Office on Market street, over Mauzy's tin shop. jan20 ly JESSE E. FOGLK, w. X. SWREXKY, Hartford, Ky. Owensboro, Ky. FOGI.i: A SWEEXEV, ATT OR NE YS A T L A W, HARTFORD, KY. Will practice their profession in Ohio and adjoining counties and in tho Court of Appeals. Office on Market street, near courthouse'. r. r. sioeoax, a. c. wkdrIsg. MORGAN A WKDDI.VG, A T TOIiNE YS AT LA W, HARTFORD, KY. (ODIco west of courthouso over Hardwlck & Kail's store. Will practice in inferior and cuperior courts of this commonwealth Special attention given to cases in bank ruptcy. F. I'. Morgan is also examiner, and wil take depositions correctly will be ready to oblige all parlies at all times. E. D. W1LKEK, K. C. IIURIIARD. WALKER A IIUHUARO, A 1 TO JiNE YS AT L A "W , AND HEAL, ESTATE AGENTS, HARTFORD, KENTUCKY. not la HENRY D. MCHENRY, SAM. E. HILL. MclIEXKY A IIIIX, A TTOltXE J".?.C- COUNSELLORS AT LA ir HARTFORD, KY. Will practice in Ohio and adjoining counties and in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. ' nol ly. JOHN C. TOWNS END. (Formerly County Judge,) A TTOItNE Y A T LA W , IIAltTFOUD, KY. Will practice in all the courts of Ohio county and tho circuit courts of the 5th judicial dis trict, liu incss solicited and.pronipt attention guaranteed. JOHN P. ISA K RETT, ATT 0 11 NE Y A T L A If, and Real Estate Agent, HARTFORD, KENTUCKY. Prompt attention given to the collection of claims. Will buy, sell, lease, or reat lands or mineral privileges on reasonable terms. Will write deeds, mortgages, leases, Ac, and at tend to listing and paying taxeson lands be- ItOV.VI. I.VSUItAXCi: COMPANY LIVERPOOL. .Security ami Indemnity. CAPITAL, $10,000,p00 GOLD. Cash Assets, over $12,000,000 Gold. Casu Assets iv U. S., S1,837,(J84 Gold. Losses paid without discount, refer to 12th con dition of Company's policy. IiARBEE JLCASTLEMAN, General Agents, Louisville, Kentucky. 1IARHI7TT & nitO.. AgrutN. HARTFORD, KY. (iKEEX ItlVKIt WOOLEN MILLS JAMES C.VTE, Manufacturer of every description of Woolen Goods. My mill has been enlarged and improved making the capacity three times greater than last season. We also have a full set of Clote Dressing Machinery, For Cassinieres, Tweeds, &c. and aro manufacturing a perior article of JEANS. LI NSEY, PLAID, TWILLED AND PLAIN FLANNEL, BLANKETS, BALMORAL SKI UTS, CASSIMEHES, TWEEDS, Stocking Yarn, &c. We havo largo and superior Wool Carding Machinery, and warrant all our work. floods manufactured by tho yard, or in ex change for wool. Highest market price paid in cash for wool. GEANGEES aro solicited to correspond with me. I will tnako special contracts with you,and mako it to your interest to do so. JAMES CA IE. L'llfi .(in K'jm.'i'.v, Mel.mii Co., Ky. GEO. KLEIN, JNO. M. KLEIN geo. kleest & bro; HARTFORD, KY., Dealers in house furnlshinggood, for general kitchen and table use. Wo keep constantly on band, the celebrated LRIZOIsrA. COOKXLSTG STOVE, Seven sizes for either coal or wood. House-keepers aro dclightcdwith its superhr cooking and baking. It has no equal anywhere. Call and see for yourself. Cancer nutl Sore Eyes Cnreil. Those afflicted with Sore Eyes or Cancer would do well to call on D. I.. GREGORY, Todd's Point, Ky., who has been very suc cessful in the treatment of theso diseases. He can cure any cancer- on the surface, if taken in in time. He treats npon the systcmof "no enro no pay." Give him a trial. nol 7 em isroTiojs. Wanted to borrow $3,000 for two or three years, for which ten per cent, interest will be paid payable semi-annually note to be due if interest is not promptly paid, and will se cure tho lender by iftnortgago on real estate; anl as an additional security will give him to hold as collateral real estate lien notes worth at least $0,000. Address "MONEY," care Herald office, Hartford, Ky. J. F. YAGER, Stdc and Livery Stable, HARTFORD, KY. I desira to inform the citizens nf Hartford and vicinity that 1 am prepared to furnish Sad dle and Harness Stock, Buggiesand conveyan ces of all kinds on the most reasonable terms. Horses taken to feed or board by the day, week or month. A liberal sharcof patrcnago solici ted, nolly FOR SALE. A government land warrant for services ren dered in the war ot 1312, for 1C0 acres of land, at a REASONAltXI' PRICE. For further information apply to J. M Rogers, Beaver Dam, Ky., or John P. liairctt Hertford, Ky. Plow Stocking AND GENERAL WOODWORK. The undersigned would respectfully an nounce to tho citizens of Ohio county, that they aro now prepared to do all kinds of WOODWORK at their new shop in Hartford. They have se cured the services of a competent workman to STOCK PLOWS, and they guarantee satisfaction, both as to work and fbices, in all cases. They will make WAGONS AND BUGGIES, and will make and furnish COFFINS AND BURIAL CASES at tho lowest possible prices. 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