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PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED), BY SPRAGUE, OWEN &. NASH. TERMS: SEVEN DOLLARS PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPIES, FOUR CENTS.
VOL. 1. AUGUSTA, ME., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1870. ' NO. 130.
JUniubtc Journal.
Published on Water, Foot of Court Street,
AUGUSTA. MAINE.
BY SPKAtilE, OWEN A NASH.
pailg Junurkc Journal
Is issued every morning, except Sundays.
Contains the latest news by telegraph and mail,
gives reports of the Markets, and has carefully pre
pared political and local articles, and a generous
amount of farming, home and miscellaneous read*
ng with a full compilation of state news.
Terms, #7 per annum in advance; il payment
s not made within tin; year. Single copies 4 cents,
to be had at the bookstores and at this office.
Advertisements one inch in length, three in
sertions or less. #1.00; 25 cts. for every subsequent
insertion. Longer advertisements, or those inserted
for any considerable length <»f time, will be inserted
at favorable terms to the advertiser.
Special Notices 25 per cent, additional.
Amusement Notices, $2 per square per week.
'ftOlcclili) Jjcnncbfc Journal,
Published every Wednesday morning,
Is the largest (olio paper in the State, containing
news, political articles, agricultural and scientific
matter, tales, poetry, anecdotes, household recipes,
markets, Ac., Ac.
Terms $2 per annum in advance.
Transient Advertisements, $1.50 per inch for
first week; 25 cents per week for each subsequent
insertion.
Special Notices, #2 00 per inch for first week;
50 cents per week for each subsequent week.
Business Notices, in reading columns, 20 cents
per line for first insertion; 10 cents per line for each
subsequent insertion.
All transient advertisements to be paid for in
advance.
BATH TIBS, COPPER BOILERS,
Water Closets, Wash Basins,
BRANH «* PLATED WARE,
Cant Iron Pipe,
Lead Pipe, Sheet Lead,
Anil every article pertaining to Plumbing kept con
stantly on hand and for sale at
H. R. STRATTON’S,
Corner Bridge * Water Streets.
Under Hunt's Hat* Store.
S. B. Plumbing in all its branches done in a neat
and thorough manner.
Particular Attention Paid to Jobbing.
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RICHMOND PORTABLE RANCE
-AND
Hanging Dome Furnace!
At WILLIAMSON * liBEItyOOPS. i
Cough Candy I
'IirEtDFABI'RU'S rorfSII (ANDY cures
COUGHS, COLDS, WHOOPING COUGH and
all Throat troubles.
2 Doors south of Granite Block, Market Sq.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Tnucy Goods, dbc., sold by
|anl-lyt W. WEXDENBUKG.
PIANO TUNING.
^ riuiy Subscriber would inform the
Jb L citizens of Augusta ami vicinity
If T*f| that ho will give personal attention to
II * 1 " ■ tuning Pianos. Order* left at his res ,
idence, 07 Wtnthrop Street, will receive promp
attention. M. C. M1LLIKBN,
febo-tf Teacher of Piano and Organ
Urowster’s Hotel,
SKOWHECAN, ME.
rfMIIS large and commodious Hotel is situated at
X the head of the Falls on tike Kennebec river, in j
the enterprising village of skowhegan, the terminus ;
of the Portland & Kennebec It. It
Tills is one of the best arranged Hotels for family
borders there is in the State, and a better place for j
Summer resort, cannot be found iu Maine. The
best of water, beautiful drives on the banks of the ;
river, tlshing and sailing ponds in the vicinity, trout ;
brooks, where you emi cuteh an abundance of the ;
spotted brook trout a"y day in the year.
Prices for permanent or transient boarding are ;
very low, so our customers can afford to come often ;
tiul stay a good while. I
We also have a large airy stable to board horses
for the gue.-ts that wish to bring their teams with
them. Also one of the best half-mile trotting parks
in the State, is eoiinettted with the House, tree for ,
the guests to train ibeir horses or drive for pleasure.
tl7jan-tt S. li. 99EWSTKK, Proprietor.
Stevens’ Condition Powders !
For Ilorsfsaind Futile.
rpHE Best Powders e»»r discovered. All we ask
I is one trial and people triU bo convinced. Price
only 4.1 cents per parkage. Cll AS. E. SfJ'E\ ENd
Manufaaturrr and Proprietor, 117 Bridge St., East ,
Kov'snl'u'tiy A. C. DANA, 7 Union Block, An- |
gust*. _3m,J*
, B H TJ ® H ass fS
OE EVERY DESCRIPTION AT
JOHNSON BROTHERS.
Allen, Small & Co,
machinist*,
And Moiiufltoturore ot
Steam Engines,Circular Saw Mills, Clap
board Planers, Shafting, Pulleys,
Mill Work, and all kinds of
JOBBING
Usually done in a flrst-cluss Machine Shop. Also
Improved Excelsior Machines,
illicit cuts two Bolts at a time as readily as one
BOAltn FkANERf* constantly on hand.
To. 1 Journal Block, - - Water Street, j
6m AUGUSTA. ME. 5jan70 !
jTw. toward, m. d.,
physician AND SURGEON.
AUGUSTA, ME.
Residence on Green Street, opposite the Mctho
if>t Church.__—
Wanted j . ..
II \RMEUSaud Hunters having prime Mina »km» ,
P 011 hand will And a cash customer at highest
larket prlco by sending them to
J. H. WBU4 A CO.,
THE SILENT SEWING MACHINE!
AS A FAMILY ASSISTANT,
The Willcox & bibbs Sewing Machine!
Will be found to excel all others. The ease with which it runs, its ready adaptation to all
kinds of work without delay or hesitation, its quiet fidelity, its
I
Superior Strength and Durability of Work, •
are points that astonish and delight all who make its acquaintance. Ladies who are unfa
miliar with this Machine, do not yet know the full blessing and comfort of a Sewing Ma
chine in the family, though they may possess many others and think they arc satisfied.
In proof of tliis assertion is the significant fact,
7hat its strongest advocates and most enthusiastic admirers are always found among
those who have used and are most familiar with other leading machines.
From the thousands of testimonials from all parts of the country, we select the following
from the city of Augusta :
AUGUSTA, March, 1870.
Having used the Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine in our respective families upon
all the various kinds of work required, some of us from one to six years, others for
a shorter time, some of us also being familiar with the use of other leading machines,
we cheerfully recommend it as a most excellent family machine. It runs easily and
quiotly, is simple and easy in its management, does not get out of order, is always
ready, its work is strong and durable, and in all respects gives most entire satisfaction
Mrs. S. S. Brooks, Mrs. C. F. Penney,
“ John McArthur, “ Enoch Sampson,
“ H. M. Potter, “ S. G. C. Pullen,
“ A. M. Lyford, “ G. B. Hoyt,
“ G. \V. Gross, “ A. J. Reynolds,
“ C. E. Page, * “ II. G. Smiley,
“ T. G’. Hoyt, Miss Minnie Woart,
“ G’. H. Starliird, Mr. Thomas Wadsworth,
Willcox & bibbs Sewing Machine Agency,
At Store of F. LYFOKU,
fSinar AXTGrTJSTA..
Also, for Sale as above, A. B. HOWE, Improved!
A standard, and one of the most reliable Machines in use.
Trunk.s ! Trunlis!
TIIE PLACE TO TJCY
Froiicli, Euscuo, Sole XicatUcr,
Ami all kinds of common
T H A \rl<: LLIN G TRUNKS!
Also, Ladies’ and Gent,' TKACELLING A SHOPPING H AGS, is at
HAMILTON & TURNER’S,
135 VVnter Street.
The Right Place to tmv vottr HARNESSES, and get the celebrated DUNN HARNESS, j. at
IIA.HIETOX A TER* Ell'S, 135 WATER STREET.
The cheapest place to buy WHIPS, CURRYCOMBS, BRUSHES, BLANKETS, SURCINGLES, HAL 1
TERS, Ac., is at HAMILTON & TURNER’S,
135 WATER STREET.
HARNESSES!
For Business, Pleasure, Teaming, Trucking, Carling A Expressing.
Manufactured from GOOD OAK >T<H'K. and by the best of workmen.
*Ve would remind the public that our Harness took all the premiums otTered at the last State Fair—
four in number Also the first premium al the late New England Fair.
A.- our customers are daily informed that our Harnesses are Machine Stitched—we would invite
them and the public generally*to call ami examine the 1 irge-t stock <>f readv-made Harnesses ever of
fered in this city, and we will convince them that we make the be.-t HAND nTITCHED work to be had
for the f-ame amount of money, and if we don’t have on hand what is wanted, can make it at short
notice. Samples of Gold Gilt! Oroide Silver. Covered, and Japanned Trimmed Harness, mav be seen at
our salesroom, NO. 172 MIDDLE STREET. HENRY DUNN & SON.
For Kale by
Hamilton db Turner,
135 WATER STREET, - - AUGUSTA, MAINE
tllfcb-lf OPPOSITE DEERING & HOLWAY'S.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
A FACT WOliTll K\OWl\(i.
TO TIIE PEOPLE OF AUGUSTA,
And all having business in Augusta please bear in mind that the place to buy
PURE AND RELIABLE
Drugs, Medicines,
TOILET & FANCY ARTICLES,
And APOTHECARIES’ GOODS generally is nt
FRANK KINSMAN’S DRUG STORE,
lie has spared no pains in selecting Goods of the purest to be found in the best markets
of the United States, and the same are offered to the public at
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL, at “Prices that Defy Competition."
He also continues to make all odd change IN GOLD AND SILVER. His motto •
Quick Sales, Small Profits, Pure and Reliable Goods!
In hot weather FRANK’S STORE is the coolest place in the city, and the Ice Cold Soda 1
drawn from the
Famous Nou-corrosive Arctic Fouutaiu
refreshes nmny weary souls. Temperance Devotees can drink and not violate their pledge.
THE COLDEST AND THE BEST! THE COLDEST AND THE BEST
with rich and delicious FRUIT SYRUPS.
I®— Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compounded from the purest Medicines at all
hours of the day and night.
REMEMBER THE NUMBER OF FRANK KINSMAN’S DRUG STORE,
No. 142 Water Street, : Augusta, Maine. |
4
James H. Leigh,
DEALER IN
Foreign and Domestic
DRYGOODS
Also, Aof.nt fok
Wheeler A Wilson's
Sowing machines !
H'EEIU.ES anil all Tools adapted to the Ma
chines, constantly on hand.
Water St., llallowell, Me.
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JOURNAL
JOB PRINTING
Establishment!
OUR FRIENDS are reminded that havim?
the Largest
Steam Job Printii Establishment,
On the Itiv< r, and employing
COMPETENT AND EXPERIENCED WORKMEN!
We are at all times prepared to execute in the best manner
and at low prices, all kinds of
PLAIN AND FANCY
Book <fc Job Printing
—-8CC8 AS —
Books,
Pamphlets,
Newspapers,
Mammoth Posters,
Handbills,
Show Cards,
Circulars,
Business and
Wedding Cards,
Letter Headings,
Bill Heads,
Ball Tickets,
Programmes,
Auction Kills,
I u voices,
Kills of leading,
Receipts, *
Law Rlauks,
PLACARDS,
SCHEDULES,
INVITATIONS,
-RAILROAD and
Steamboat Printing,
Ac., Ac., Ac.
To all those who desire work Id our line, we would say
that it is our Intention to
SUIT OUR CUSTOMERS
Both in regard to Prices and Execution of Work.
%
it r Olden by mail or expreae will recSve the tame
PROMPT ATTENTION
aa though delivered penonaily.
8PBA0UE, OWEN A NASH,
JOURNAL OFFICE AU0U8TA,
Augusta, Oct. U, 1889
J. F. ISTason,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
Boots, Shoes and Rubbers,
Constantly receiving from the best manufactories,
work suited" to the wants of the people.
Water Street,
Hallowell, Maine.
A#' Custom work done with neatness and des
patch. _
HENRY HEIMS,
A'o. lOO Hudtmry Street, - - Boston,
MANUFACTUREK OF
BILLIARD TABLES
WITH THU COMBINATION STRING CUSHION.
New and Second-Hand Tables always on hand
and for sala at the lowest prices. Give me a call
apritMint K. E. VV1LMAUTH, Agent.
HENRY 0. & A. A. NICHOLS,
MASONS AND SLATERS, j
4 1.1. work in their line done promptly and in a
j\ good, workmanlike manner, by the day or job.
Particular attention paid to repairs of slate roofs, I
cementing cisterns, cellars. Ac.
Orders h It at A. P. Gould's Wove Store, first door |
above Railroad Bridge, i»i-oiiipiiv attended to.
HENRY O. NICHOLS.
ALBERT A. NICHOLS.
Augusta, Jan. 1 1888.
KENNEBEC SAVINGS BANK!
TruNtecH: *
\Y. F. HALLETT. RUSSELL EATON,
O. ( . VYlIITEHOUsE. DEANE PRAY,
ORRIN WILLIAMSON. •
Deposits received at the counter of the
Freemans National Hank.
The net earnings of the hank arc divided
every six months.
Loans made to Depositors on Depositing
their Bank-book as security.
J. L. ADAMS, Treasurer.
| April 8th, 1870. 15tf
Crockery, China & Glass.
rniCES REDUCED :
The prices of Crockery, China ami Glass Ware at
No. 159 Water Street,
Are marked down to meet the fall in Gold
Htay2-m J. I>. riKBCE & SON.
Pure Drugs & Chemicals
FOR SALE
At the Lowest Rates !
TOILET ARTICLES,
FRENCH, ENGLISH, & DOMESTIC SOAPS,
CAMPHOR ICE,
Dentifrices, English Cold Cream,
Coudray’s Cosmetique and Pomade,
Bay Rum, German and Domestic Cologne,
Hair Oils, Dressings, Restorers and
Dyes, Perfumery, Sachet Bags, Toilet
Powders, Moth and Freckle Lotions,
Camelia Balm, Laird’s Bloom of Youth,
Hagan’s Magnolia Balm, Barnes’ Mag
nolia Water. Shaving Cream and Soaps,
Shaving Brushes, Razor Strops,
Nail Files and Cleaners,
Tweezers, Hand Mirrors, Dressing Cases,
PCPF BOXES,
irony, tortoise shell, <f nopx
Dressing and l’oeket Combs,
FINE COMBS,
Nail, Tooth, Hair, Hat, and Clothes
I1I1I7SIIES !
TIicrmomctcrM, Work lloxem,
PORTE MONNAIES.
Pocket and Bill Books !
Feather Dusters,
PAINT & WHITEWASH BRUSHES,
SPONGES & CHAMOIS SKINS!
Cigar Cases, Cigars and Tobacco,
Humphrey's Homeopathic Specifics.
Welcome's and Fitch's Remedies,
and all the popular
Patent Medicines, Pure Drugs,
Chemicals tk Family Medicines,
Fresh Pressed Ilcrbs
NEATS’ FOOT,
Lard, Sperm, Olive, and Kerosene
OILS, cfcc., cfcc.
44*-Call and examine, and you will iind
PRICES EXTREMELY LOW.
Physician's Prescription* carefully compounded
from pure Medicine* at all hour* ut' the day and
night.
A. C. DANA,
Hurt mint ash Apothecary,
j Successor to ,J. I*. Deekivo, No. 7 Union Block,
Water Street, Augusta, Mo.
Iy47
n Pi N’T 'Vith the sticky, liltliy i
iJtllv I dangerous Hair Prepera- j
tions, hut lift* .\«turr'»,
Ilnii- Itontorntive, .
which is perfectly clean
and transparent, and en
tirely free from all dan- I
gcrous drugs. It will
positively restore Gray
flair, prevents the Hair
from falling off. will cause
Of it to grow when prema
UL turelv lo.-t, removes dand
ruff and keens the head
in a perfectly neulthy con
dition. Try’a bottle and
be satisfied that it is the
greatest discovery of the
age. PROCTER BROS.,
Gloucester, Mass , Sole
Agent- for the Patentee.
All the Maine Druggists
POISONED
Portland & Kennebec Railroad.
! Summer Arrangement, May 23, 1870.
ON and after Monday. May' 23d, next, the Port
laud and Keuiiebec’Railroad Company will put
on an additional passenger train to leavi' Portland
for Augusta and intermediate stations at i.lu, and
will be due at Augusta at 10 A M.
Returning in the afternoon. Leaves Augusta at
3.15 and connecting with the even! ig express for
Boston, which leaves Portland at 6 I*. M. and ar
rives m Boston* 10 P-,*^ 8„„crlnt,n,lcnt.
Extermination!
rpHE fumes of a powerful drug destroys bed bugs
-l and their eggs. Bedding and furniture need
uot be removed. Satisfaction given or money re
funded. For full particulars enclose one dollar to
M. F. NEWCOMB,
3w23* Manchester, Maine.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. j
The citizens of Maine who rejoice in the progress
of Human Freedom and Equal Rights, achieved by j
the Nation under the direction of the National
Republican Party during the past decade; who
heartily second the administration of President
Grant in its measures to secure national prosperity
by the restoration of confidence abroad and tran
quility at home: who endorse its wise policy for the
reduction of the national debt and applaud its suc
cessful endeavors to establish economy and honesty
in the administration of the Government; who ap
prove the record of the party in Maine on all
questions of public policy, including its consistent
and straight-forward efforts for the suppression of
the evils of intemperance, are requested to send del
egates to a State Convention, to be held in
Granite Rail, Augusta, W ednesday, June 15th, I $70
at eleven o’clock A. M., for the purpose of nominat J
ing a candidate for Governor, and to transact such \
other business as may properly come before the
Convention.
The basis of representation will be as follows;
Each city, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate, and one additional delegate lor every
75 votes cast for the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in 18**8. A fraction of 40 votes will be entitled ‘
to an additional delegate.
Delegates are required to be actual residents of
the municipality they claim to represent in the Con
vention.
The State Committee will be in session in the Re
ception Room of the hall at 0 o’clock on the morning
of the Convention for the reception of the credentials
of delegates, and to hear and determine all cases of
contested elections, subject to ratification by the
Convention.
-Tames G. Blune, Chairman.
W m. P. Fkye, j
* v lira M. Powers, .
Frederick Rowe,
Wm. F. I.owell, I Itepuhlican
Jos. 11. W est,
Pai l Stevens,
s. s. Marble,
TiMonn Walker. State
Wm. 1*. Wingate,
Stanley T. Pullen,
J W. Wakefield,
Hiram Knowi ion, Committee. ;
S. G. Tiiuklough,
Charles R. Paine,
Geo. H. Knowi.ton, .
Congressional Convention—3d District.
The Republicans of the Third Congressional bis- j
trict are invited to send delegates to a Convention
to he held in
GRANITE HALL. AUGUSTA. ON TUESDAY, JUNE 14,
at 11 o’clock A. M., for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Representative to the Forty-Second j
Congress.
The basis of representation in the convention will
be one delegate for each city, town and plantation,
and an additional delegate for every hundred vote.
cast for the Republican candidate f »r Congress in
ls.w. \ majority fraction will be allowed an addi
tional delegate. This basis will give delegates as
follows:
Augusta, 11 Mercer, 3
An-on, 3 Mount Vernon, 3
Vlbion, 3 Moscow. 1
Athens, 3 New Portland, 3
Aina, 2 Newcastle, 4
Bingham, 2 Norridgewock, 4
Belgrade, 3 Nobleborough, 2
Benton, 3 Palmyra, 3
•Brighton, 2 Pitl-tou, 3
Booth hay, 3 Pittsfield, 4 j
Bremen,' 2 Ripley, 2
Bristol. 4 Readfield, 3 <
Cambridge, 2 Rome, 2
Chelsea, 2 St. Albans, 4
China, 4 Sidney, 3
Canaan, 3 Solon, 3
Clinton. 3 Somerville, 2
Concord, 1 Skow began, S
Cashing, 1 Southpo’t, 2
Cornvifle, 3 Smithlield, 2
Detroit. 2 St. Ceorge, 1
Damariscotla, 3 Starks, 2
Dresden, 3 Thomaston, 3
Kmbden, 2 Union, 3
Kdgeconib, 2 Vassal borough, 3
Fairfield. ."> V'enjin,
Fanningdale, 2 Waterville, 7
Fayette, 3 Wayne, 3
Friendship, 2 West Cardincr, 3
< iardiner, 7 Windsor, 3
: Harmon?, 3 Winslow, 3
Hallow ell, .r> Winthrop, f>
Hartlaud, 2 Waldoborougli, 4
Jefferson, 3 Westport, 2
Lexington, 2 Whitefleld, 3
Litchfield, 4 Wiscasset, 3
Madison. 3 Washington, 3
Manchester, 2 Warren. • 3
Mavfleld, 1 Carratnnk. 1
Monmouth, 4 Unity plantation, _ 1
C. It. M< Fai>i»kn, j
J vmks B. Dascomii, District
C. A. Wi so, >
K. W. Rom.NSUN, Committee.
J. A. Hall, J
May lUh. 1370.
Uppublinin louiuy (oimntlon.
The Republican voters of Kennebec county are
requested to send delegates to a Convention to be
held at
Granite Hall, Augusta, Wednesday, August 10th,
at 11 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of nominating |
three candidates for Senators, one County Comrais* ,
sioner, Cotinly Attorney, County Treasurer, Sheriff,
and to transact all other business that may proper
ly come before the Convention.
* The basis of representation will be as follows:
Each city, town and plantation will la? entitled to
one dele rate and an additional delegate for every
seventy-five votes cast for Joshua L. Chamberlain
at tin* Gubernatorial election «»t 1>'&. A fraction of
forty votes will be entitled to an additional dele
gate.
The citjes, towns and plantations are entitled to
the following number of delegates:
Albion, 3 Pittstoil. 5
Augusta, It Readflcld, 4
Belgrade, 4 Rome, 2
Benton, 3 Sidney, 4
Chelsea, 2 Vassalboro', 8
Clinton, 1 Vienna, 3
China, ft Waterville, 10
Farmingdale, 3 \V.,yue, 3
Fayette. .3 West Gardiner, 4
Gardiner, 10 Windsor, 3
Hallowed, tt Winslow, 4 |
Litchfield, ft Wjnthrop, <>:
Mauche-ter, 3 Clinton Gore, 1 ;
Monmouth, ft Unity Plantation, 1 ;
Mt. Vernon, 4
Total 132.
Wm. 11. Tjbby. Augusta. 1
L. T. Boo i miY , Watery.Ho, I Hey uU iron :
J. L. Stoddard. Gardin ■ r. J County
Joseph T .Woodw \ud. > tnev. | Committee.
Ch.vui.es Jewett, < lint u, J
May 27, 1870.
Knickerbocker
Mutual Lire Insurance Company
OF NEW YORK.
ERASTTS LYMAN, - • • PRESIDENT
rpms is one of the oldest, most reliable, and best
X divideml paying companies in the country.
ASSETS OVER $7,200,000!
Liberal arrangements will be made with Agents, 1
aud they are wanted in nil parts of the Stale.
Apply at AUGUSTA, HU.,
1UU Wutcr Hti’ecl, (up-Htalr.1 to
CHARLES WHITE,
Manager lor Maine anil New Hampshire.
March 22,1870. Ittmuvtf
ALL KIMS OF JOBBING
AND
K-epairing- Done at
fapr4-3m Williamson A Greenwood’s.
BIXBY’8 BLACKING t BLIE1NG,
The best in Ibe market, for sale at » holes.le or r*
tail by TITCOMI1 2b ItOKIl,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists
lotf West End krnnrbec Bridge. 1
CATTLE GRAZING IN SI MMER.
BV A PRACTICAL FARMER.
I do not profess to write anything new
or novel upon a subject ot such great in
terest to the agriculturist as the grazing of
cattle—the summer grazing of cattle ; but
there is suggestions to be made, and
improvements to be noticed that may prove
acceptable to even grazers of enttte. The
tirst point I shall make is as to the kind
and quality of the land to be grazed.
True bullock-land is land of the very best
staple and quality, producing the most nu
tritious and richest ^pasturage. It gen
erally consists of a fine deep loam of con
siderable consistency; the herbage a thick
mat of tlie most valuable grasses, notice
able for their sueeessional and progressive
growth, by whieli a good pasture is kept
up and retained throughout the summer.
First class lands of this order will rapidly
fatten oxen of great weight without the
aid of artificial food. Lands of second
class quality are far more abundant, and
the sweet, healthy, and nutritious grasses,
they yield arc highly valuable for tatten
ing cattle, but require a careful and judi
cious selection of the animals to be grazed
upon them. No experienced grazier
would stock the lands of this order with
large heavy cattle, unless he was prepared
to supply them with other liberal rations;
but the lands of this quality would readily
fatten the smaller breeds of onv cattle or
the females of our larger breeds. The
ordinary grass-lauds or sheep-pastures
may be ad\ antageously appropriated to the
fattening of cattle, should the prospects of
cattle-grazing appear to be superior to
sheep-grazing. The additional require
ment being the resort to other aids and
lighter stocking, the grass being permit
ted to grow luxuriantly before being
heavily stocked. It requires an intimate
knowledge of the land to he able to graze
it to the greatest advantage, there is so
much dependent upon the local position of
the land, its sits, its aspect, its climate, its
habit of growth, its contiguity to water
streams or river-drainage. Cool, well
watered velleys will retain their verdure
much longer than warm, well shell
tored hill- sides. Warm aspects produce
the earliest pastures, and clayey loams
take urceedenee of norous onen loams.
The far-famed Lincolnshire marshes—
which, lor depth of loam, richness of pas
turage, and the stock they will carry, are
perhaps unsurpassed—do not produce
early pasturage. The Buckinghamshire,
Leicestershire, anil other inland counties
precede them in their summer stocking.
A knowledge of land enables the grazier
to determine when to stock it, when to
ease it, when to clear it, and he provides
accordingly. If it is liable to injury from
drought, he will take care to secure a good
pasture prior to stocking, and, if possible,
retain a “good covering" throughout the
summer. On the contrary, if the habit of
growth of the pasture Is very rapid, and
liable to run to a strong coarse herbage,
he will stock early, and be very watchful
to keep the pasture in highly nutritive state
by additional stock as required, and to
ease it when necessary. Grazing-—profit
able grazing—does not altogether depend
upon providing good stock and good pas
ture, but much depends upon th.e care,
judgment, and watchfulness of the grazier.
“The eye of the master graizeth the ox”
is one of our oldest adages, and it is a
true one. Fatting cattle must not retro
grade ; they must be kept advancing, and
herein is the greatest requisite for care and
attention, and very often is the grazier in
untoward seasons at his wits1 end to com
pass this desideratum, and frequently he
has to put up with heavy losses, both from
excessively dry summers and excessively
wet summers. To prevent such losses in
dry summers it is customaay with some
grazers to permit a field of pasturage to
grow almost without limit, in fact, to be
come almost a meadow in which to turn *he
advanced stock when others sources fail,
in this way, with artificial aids, cattle may
be kept progressing. In wet summers it
is desirable to supply the stock with hay,
straw, or like dry food, to counterbalance
the cold innutritions food of wet grasses.
Every grazier in stocking his land is
supposed to have an eye to the greatest
possible profit to be derived from grazing
it; there are many graziers, however, who
will in some respects “ride their own hob
bies.” and therefore stock their lands ac
cording to their taste, profits being rather
a secondary consideration: one likes a
herd of pure Short-horns, another llere
fords, another Devons, and so on. But
with this class of graziers we have notiiing
to do ; we graze for profit; I shall there
fore endeavor to suggest the best modes of
stocking and grazing our lands with cat
tle. I shall first take fields of highest
grazing value ; these should be duly laid
in till a good pasture issocured. The first
stocking should consist of good cattle
nearly ready for the butcher; these to put
on to fortn a rather heavy stocking, and to
be liberally fed with linseed cake ; in six
or eight weeks they will lie ready for mar
ket, their places to be supplied with others
of nearly equal maturity, to be led in like
manner, these “two runs” to be got off us
qieedilv as possible, I would fill up their
places again with good stores to prepare
hem for winter grazing.
This appears to me the best way of
grazing our best lands. 1 have known
great profit necuro from stocking such
lands with poor aged cows, bought in at
little cost. They abidy such rich keeping
upon the whole exceedingly well. For
young store cattle it would iu the average
ot seasons be decidedly injurious- For
second-rate bullock lands 1 would select
oxen of medium weight, condition and
qualitv, heifers, or young cows. These I
would aid by liberal supplies of eake, and
bring them on to as great perfection as
possible, and when drifted off to market
supply their places with strong poor steers
or heifers to prepare also for winter graz
ing. I would not attempt to get oft two
runs of cattle from these lands as a rule,
although it might be accomplished occa
sionally : “by aiming at too much we often
miss the mark." I think it better to liegin
with lower priced animals, in lower con
dition, and bring them on as well as can
fairly be done, so that they be fatted upon
their pastures during the summer. For