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THE HERALD.
AGRIOULTUnAL.
licss DriulRcrj- lunIJIorc Kccrca
(ion.
The average American lives in spite
of his mast determined efforts to kill
hiuself. While lis is careful to protect
even' portion of in.miinite machinery
of which he ha; the care while he care
fully oils the axles of his old wagon and
guards his plows from rust, the deli
cate mechanism of the human Iwdy,
the slender, hair-like chords and con
nections, the springs of life, scarcely
receive any attentioa at his hands.
That which is the mo-t priceless, which,
when lost, W2 would give worlds to re
cover, health is the least cared for
and appreciated.
We sesm to forget that life is for
purposes other than toil, eating imd
drinking. The birds s ing, but thou
sands of men think melody useless
and even uninteresting; the beasts of
the field sport with each other in obe
dience to the promptings of nature, but
men often think it undignified to play;
The valleys and the mountains seem
to laugh in the warmth of Spring smd
the glow of Summer, but a very large
portion of humanity never cultivate a
smile. With such people life is but a
wearing, exhausting treadmill, fearful
ly mountainous and repulsive.
The merchants and professional men
of this country stifle themselves in the
counting roam and office, within the
cheerless walls of which they actually
find more comfort than at the pleasant
fireside, in the glow of the wife'
smiles and amidst the music of the
children's prattle. Such taste is raor-
liid and destructive of health, mental
vigor, and of life.
The average farmer in his genera
habits is entirely too apt to follow a
course of drudgery which is no less rep
rehensible or dangerous. Neither
scorching sun3 nor pelting storms keep
liim from his fields; he never stops to
sit down amidst the beauty of the gar
den or to be cheered by the charms of
the hearthstone. Day after day and
month after month he trudges over
fields, refusing to appreciate the splen
dors of nature about him, and den3'ing
himself all recreation, until, at last, he
lies down with the overworked mer
chant and lawyer and dies.
With the certainty of such an end
ing to such a sj'stcm of ceaseless toil
it behooves men to seek recreation for
themselves and to furnish it to their
children. It is neither profitable nor
just to deprive ourselves or our chil
dren of the sports which nature craves.
A day at the picnic or in the village
will add much to the usefulness of the
liard-worked farm boy, and may add
rears to his life.
Self Culture for Farmers.
JTot without cause have farmers, as
a. class, in other days borne the re
praoch of want of culture. The cult!
ration of the fields has apparently pre
vented the cultivation of the mind
Terms of opprohium and of ridicul
have been too long bestowed, and but
too well deserved. Xeglect of op
portunily and want of opportunity
have resulted in lowering the stand
nrd of intelligence, but a brighter day
has dawned, and the intelligent farmer
is no longer the exception to a general
rule. There is no reason why farm er
as a class, f-hould not attain to a higl:
-tate of mental culture. While pu
Euinp; the regular task which each dav
imposes, there is opportunity for re
Jlcction, and fur tliat mental digestion
that is so necessary to all who woul
improve-the intellectual powers. Tl
farmer owes it to himself and to hi;
children to cultivate a taste for read
ing. If the father is a reading an
.bscrving man, the children will fall
iii naturally with the lmbit.- of thei
parent., and his intelligence, culture
and good M:n.e will be attraction that
will win the love, rc?pect and confi
iencc ot tiie children, ami will retain
it. The love of readiiigaequired, rare
must be taken to make the acquisition
aluable by calling into exercise tl
duental powers. The mere devourei
vf books is entitled to little credit. The
mind as well as the stomach nr.iv suf
fer from indigestion.
1-armers-Homes that have hitherto
been held together by constraint, mav
be rendered attractive by the effort to
nwaken the energies of sons and daugh
ters, to enlist the family in the noble
pursuit of self culture- Why do so
many of our young men go to the city,
to trades ami profession, to inercan
tile life with its enormous rKks and its
myriad temptations? Simply because
the mobility of agriculture has not
boon taught them.
Too muiy firm?rs have worked
their sons as their oxen. They have
followed in the footsteps of their fath'
era. Are their sons better than they,
that they should inquire into the catfs-
3 of thing5, or suggest improvements
hich their reasons may suggest? That
a happy home where the father and
the son Atork in unison, each helping
the other. Each suggesting modos
iat have not occurred to the other;
each striving to- add to the happiness
of the other.
The farmer's home should be the
happiest spot 011 earth, and it can be
made so if the intelligent farmer wills
it. For removed from the temptations
and wickedness that make the city a
plague and a perdition, the farmer's
ionic should be the natural abode of
intelligence, morality, and of unalloyed
happiness.
In addition to other means that have
added so much to the farmers facility
for culture and mental growth, the
Grange offers a school that will con
tinue to teach lessons of beauty to the
expanding mind of the youthful far
mer, and will bring wisdom and com
fort ave, and competence, to the
iiome of the tiller of the soil.
Tlic tiraiu Aspect.
The Lexington Gazette says: There'
has been great excitement in the grain
trade all over the country, the im
pression being that the destruction
from the rains must make the prices
high. Advices from abroad are to the
effect that the same state of affairs ex
ists in England, and on the continent
as far east as Hungary, and this must
make a large demand for exports from
this country. A firm in this city,
which held a large stock of old wheat,
had been selling along i-j a small way
up to harvest, when their customers
fell off entirely, waiting for the new
crop at a decline. They telegraphed
to a miller in Paris to know if he would
take a few hundred bushels at a de
cline. He courtly replied, "Not a
bushel." Rains decended in a few
days and the floods came. No new
wheat in, and that Paris miller could
be seen standing with his hat off at the
door of the firm begging for wheat,
'.Not a bushel," was tho response. If
he had used a few more worih in his
telegraph message, they would have
let him have some, but he was curt,
and so were they. He will exhaust
his ten words the next time he tele
graphs.
We are glad to hear that another
firm in this city made large purchases
of wheat in jscw York city last week,
we have heard it said as much as 100,-
000 bushels, at a figure that will make
them a good deal of mode-. If the
farmers do not succeed in saving all
their grain, the will get the better
price for what they do save. But the
destruction in all this section has been
terrible. Some have lost all, some
half, and none except a very few who
had threshed, but what did suffer
more or less.
Et Looks I'rollliible.
A farmer of our acquaintance in this
country cleared last year a cool $2,000
on a flock of sheep numbering in the
spring not over a hundred and fifty
ewes, and did it so easy that the won
der is, some one didn't go and do like
wise. He is one of those bold fast
men, who sticks to a thing until they
prove whether it is good or not. Years
ago he went into the business with
hundreds of others, and though one
misfortune or another kept on the
even tenor of his way, until to-day he
is well, better off than most of his
brethren who dropped sheep and went
into something else. He started with
Merinos, and has bred strictly in this
line. Each year he has sought to im
prove the wool of his flock by judicious
ly breeding to long and fine vvooled
bucks, and the results are certainly
flattering to his skill and judgment as
a breeder. The staple Ls superior in
every way, and commands the highest
price in the market. Not onlv this,
but his flock has attained some celebri
ty, and his lambs go oil at good price-
to ready customers. According to the
old rule, an acre of tame grass will
1 . A 1 1 . .
Keep tnree Miecp through the year.
At this rale, ."i0 acres properly fenced
a part for pasturage and a part for
hay would feed 150 sheep, leaving,
if on 80, 30 acres for crops to support
them. Not everyone could make
82,000 a year on it, yet many could
make 81,000, and this ten times more
than many of us have cleared for the
la-t five years on wheat. Fanners
Union.
Vermin on Foul.
There arc at least three different
kind-; of lice which infest poultry an 1
their quarters. (We do not now in
clude the ecani., that produces what is
known as "poultry itch," and "scabby
or scurvy legs" etc.) There is the
large louse found fur the most part in
the heads of young chickens. This is
quite destructive to the broods, and bv
some is fcuppo-c 1 to be the pircat of
the gape worm. Whether this sup
position is true or not, this louse will
certainly destroy young chickens mi
ss it is removed, and the broods pro
tected from its attacks. Then there is
the common lwdy louse, found mostly
under the wings and the inaccessible
parts of the skin. These are, perhaps,
the least noxious of any of the different
kinds; but the)' evidently annoy the
fowls, and should not be allowed to re
main on them.
The third class of lice is tho small
red 'mite," found only in the house or
roosting puces or nests. .Lnese are
pernaps the most annoying anu irouuie-
cnni n in t-ta liMvla i-if nil nnil nrn mnw I
" , . , ' " , :
iiuiui.-iL.in man umci ui i.ic i i
L-imlj Tlmv mm' hr found in nprirlv I
all roosts and houses that have been
used by fowls one or more years where
especial care has not been exercised tO
exterminate them. They stay in crev-
ices on the 1 roosts or wans ana nest-
Doxes curing the any, ana creep upon
the fowls and feed at night. They are
seldom found on the fowls during the
. , rtM I
day, except on sitting hens, these are
.1. . - X .1.-
uie ones uih are so .muoymg to u.c
brooding hens, forcing them to alrnn-
aon meir ucsis. xuey are sumeumes
found in great numbers 111 neglected
l AT ir TT 11 i
quarwrs. a. si-.ruui.
Keutuclty Wool-Growcrs.
A convention of wool-crrowers met
at Eminence, June 20. After discus-
0 I
sions.a constitution was adopted, and
the following officers electod:
- i
President E V. Waide, Henry County.
Secretary J. L. Xeal, Shelby County.
Treasurer S. T.Dra tie, Shelby County.
The constitution provides for regu
lar meetings to bo held on the 3rd
Wednesday in August and the 2nd meal mixed w ith grated cocoanut pro
Wednesday in April; that any citizen duces a very attractive cake to both
in the State, who is interested, can be-
long to the association by payment of teaspoonfuls of grated cocoanut, or
SI, annually; that six essays on sheep two of the prepared dessicatcd cocoa
culture and the production of wool, nut; add to it half a pint of tho finest
shall be read at each meeting, to be oatmeal and two heaping teaspoonfuls
written by members appointed at a
previous meeting; and that the associ-
ation shall procure legislation protect
ing sheep from dogs.
The last session of the Executive
Committee of the State Grange of
Kentucky, the following authoritative
orders were passed:
1st. That each Subordinate Grange
in the State, send immediately to the
Secretary of the State Grange nt
Oporo-ptnwn. n stntnmpiif nf firromif
0
with the totate Orange stating also
whether any money has been paid to
the State Grange, to whom, whenand
how the money was sent.
2d. That each County Deputy re
port as soon as possible to the office of
Secretary of the State Granj;o, at
Georgetown, the number, location nnd
date of organization of eacli Grange in
his countv that has not received it's
charter.
Opposed to 1111 Aristocracy in tiie
wrucr.
in order that iourtn degree mem
bers may be invested with all their
rights and privileges, a little change in
the law is necessary. The National
Grange constitution should be so
amended as to permit all fourth de
gree members to vote direct for Na
tional and State Grange officers, and
be eligible to all the degrees; thus
wiping away all danger of a privileged
class and making our Order a demo
cratic institution in reality. Vc wi
have more to say on this question in
the future. Farmers Friend.
I'crsciere Alvtiijs.
No legitimate business can succeed
wihtout continued effort. AVe may
1 il ' 1 t r ti t r.
iav 11ns uown as a rule, ihe u range
does not differ materially from any
other business in this respect. To suc
ceed well we must persevere. 3Iem
bcrs must attend meetings; no time is
lo-t by attending grange meetings.
If
the thought and intelligence induced
by your meeting with your grange are
applied in your daily labor it will
more than compensate for time lost.
Jlitsouri Fanner.
The State Grange of Florida recom
mends subordinate Granges to ofll-r
annually a premium to the member
using the most complete set of im
proved implements; alo, that the State
Grange shall make an annual i nnort.
, - j
giving a lull exhibit of the agricultu
ral implements in use by its members;
also, that honororable mention be made
01 subordinate oranges showing great
est number of improved implements.
From ever' quarter of tho cotmtrv
comes the word that under the new
order abolishing the old credit plan,
the farmers in the Order of Patrons arc
attaining to a degree of independence
they had never before experienced,
and a mutual benefit is seen oa all
hands. The world is moving. Intl.
Farmer.
An llliuois boy rubbed arsenic on his
teeth bo that he could bite hi- father in
the leg and dose him when the old man
hauled him oer his knee.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Valuable Kcclpri.
Sakvtog.v Fi:inu Potatoes.
The following is said to be all there is
of the cook's secret for producing those
world-renowned potatoes served at
Moon's Lake House, Saratoga Springs,
every summer: Feel good-sized pota
toes, and slice them as evenly as pos
sible; drop them into ice-water. Have
a kettle of lard as for fried cakes; and
very hot. Put a few at a time into a
towel, shake them about to dry them,
aml then (lrop ;nto lhc l0t art, gt;r
tucm occasjoaanv ,! whcn of a light
b L k tl OHt with a skimmer.
- r - n 11 . .1 1
propeny none nicy win not oe aiVcalvtiahoU!catDhV .or gcneral
a grcJi5y, Out crip WltUOUt and
1 ?ii -
To C Tou vtofs Be snro thev
arc perfectly fresh and ripe; immerse
,1,, n ininiifr. nr two in srjil.linrr
watcr;n an ox muzzle jf you have
oue romove ti,c skin put the pulp in.
to collinder to dra;n. thcu Pllt in the
preservi ng kettle and boil till just
d j fc t(0 j m k tA
O I
SCG(ls out tl . ,... mit
0 '
at onc2 ; and j,. t,1(g0
rectioll3 foUowetl vou may Il!lvc to-
matoc3 a,, winter M fnah M t, h
- t f t,
Broiled Tomatoes. Cut medium-
1 "lt 1 il . .
lzeu tomatoes 111 naives ana put mem
upon a gridiron, surface down. When
the surface appears to be somewhat
cooked, turn them, and finish the cook-
- 1
ing with the skin toward the fire. The
cooking should be gradual, so as not
to brake the skin. Place upon a dish,
put a little salt and a lump of butter
upon each half, and serve quite hot.
Oatmeal and Cocoanut. Oat'
old and young, lake three lieapinj
of sugar: stir into one gill ot boiling
watcr and mix ll tliorougly together;
turn out on the rolling board well
floured, and roll it as thin and cut out
as fjr common cracknels, put a bit of
citron and a half dozen currents into
each cake, sticking them into the
dough. Bake in a slow oven and
watch carefully lest they brown a
shade too deep. To make them crispy
let them stand a dav in an uncovered
dish.
I Pnrc llrln nnd Impnre lloyM.
(Womans Journal.)
Girls in treating Jisiiiated young men
1 . .
as equals, Io a wrong they can scarcely
realize, bucli men should lie made to
feel that until tbev walk with correct
ness and honor in the path of right,
good people stand aloof from them.
Girls who respect themselves will not lie
eeen with eucli men, nnd will decline to
put them on the familiar footing of friend
ship. It is a mistaken kindness to poul
tice when caustic is needed, nnd I am in
clined to think that a little sharp decis
ion on the part of girls of to-day would
20 far to correct the seneral looseness
and immorality among young men.
far-
An editor having asked an Illinois
mer for crop news, received this answer
"And now the reaper reapcth, the mow
er inoweth, and Hie little bumblebee get-
teth up the busy Granger's trowscr leg
and bumbleth.''
Like a man without a wife, like a ship
without a tail, li!;c the meanest thing in
life, is a shirt nituout a turn down
collar.
The man who takes too
makes a Judy of himself.
much punch
Fishermen should always take a lunch
along with them, for they may not be
able to get a bite during the day.
ALL OVER THE STATE-
There is not a barroom in Marion coun
ty outside of Lebanon.
Gen. Preston delivered the address at
I the Eminence (air Saturday.
John D. Fogle, of Taylor county
wants to be Gov. McCrcary's Secretary
of State.
W. T. Knott, of Lebanon, killed thirty-
nine snakes at one blow Saturday.
Three colored "Ku-Klux," eo-cnlled,
were tried and discharged nt Lebanon
la6t week. They "hickoried'' a colored
man for voting the Democratic ticket
Miss Lutie Carrico, formerly of Wash
ington county, wasdrowned in North-fork
' -Salt river, Monroe county, 3Io., on the
30th tilt.
If the Lexington Press paints his portrait
correctly, the Pinchhack who spoke there
me otner nignt is oogus. 1 lie genuine
P. is a healthy, rich, dark brown color
something on the bronze order.
The small-pox still makes things live-
ly at Covington.
Paris now boasts of a hook and ladder
company.
Thomas Cruse, of O.vensboro, has been
appointed cadet at West Point by lion.
John Young Brown.
The asiessor of Bourbon county reports
2,930 vol en and the poll-booka show
3,199.
Geo. M. Bedford, ofParis, fired in the
air to frighten hia colored hoallcr, who
didn't scare worth a cent. The chival
rous Bedford then planted a load of shot
in the boy's shoulder. As he is rich, the
crime will be overlooked.
GEO. KLEIN,
GEO. KLEIIST fc BRO:
HARTFORD, KY.,
Band, tuc
-A."RIZOISrA. COOKHSTG" STOVE,
Seven izes Tor either coal or w ood. House-keepers are delighted with its snpcrbr cooking
and baking. It has n equal anywhere. Call and see for yourself.
J. V. YAGEK,
Sale ami Livery SUJJe,
HARTFORD, KY.
ilesir to inform the citizens of Hartford
Iin.l tft,.:.. : tl... fr 1 nm . 1 f. i .1.
- :jr'"V ' rrrr'. 'i
ccs of all kinds on the muareaiunaijie tcrma,
III .. .t r.... 1 . 1. . 1 .L .
ormuSu,? A UbVuw
teJ i ly
II. IV BEKKY.UAX,
Fashionable Tailor,
HARTFORD, KY.
Coats, Tants and Vests eat. made and re.
paired in the best style at the lowest prices.
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OF
L1YERPOOL.
Seeurlly nml Indemnity.
CAPITAL, $10,000,000 GOLD.
Cash Assets, ovp.k S12.000.000 Gold.
Cash Assets is U. S., 81,837,1)34 Gold.
Losses paid without discount, refer to 12th con
ultion 01 Ujmpanjr i policy.
BAMJEE A- CASTLEM AX, (Jcneral Agents,
J.ouisrille, Kentucky.
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