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AGRICULTURAL.
Iloir f .Halfo Hays Ilntc Furming.
A farmer wrote to a member of the
Scw York Fanners' club, requesting
him, if possible, to find for him a boy
who h honest, truthful, not lazj-, and
who will be likely to love fanning.
He -wanted a boy to pick up stones,
chum, milk the cows, tuni grindstone,
etc., and one aI.o that will not hate
farming and run away every chance he
ets. The chairman handed it over to
Sercno Edwards Todd to answer who
replied as follows:
If a boy is justified in running awny,
most assuredly he would be when he is
directed to go alone to perform a job
every faithful laborer hates. If you
wish to keep a boy on the farm never
ret him alone, when the birds are sing
ing, the squirrels arc chattering and the
violets are unfolding tl'eir charming
etal5, at picking up stones iu a large
field. The truth is, those little arms
and soft muscles are no more suitable
for handling stones than the muscles
of a young colt are for drawing a sub
soil plow. If- yott wish to make
a boy like farming, don't keep
him turning a big grindstone
at noon when all the men but the
one that is grinding are lying in the
Ehadc, and don't bear on with all your
might so hard as to stick him, and
then Hdiculehim tauntingly, telling him
he must cat more pudding and milk
before he can turn a grindstone like a
man. Perchance that he weighs only
fifty pounds. You weigh 150, and the
grindstone 150. Now then, suppose
we let you fun a huge stone of 450
pounds while a giant of 450 pounds
weight bears on, which is a fair propor
tion between you and the boy. Before
the giant has applied half his weight,
if we dou't sec you balk square from
the mark, and crack, if you dou't break
the third commandment and assume a
pugnatious attitude, then write me a
false proguosticator. Unless you want
to make a good boy hate farming and
every employment connected with it,
don't manage in such an underhand
manner that he will have to milk the
cow which every one dislikes to milk
because she is so hard. When the boy
comes in at nipjitso tired that he would
rather lie down on the hard side of a
maple plank than to cat his supper,
don't tell him to hurry up and cat his
pupper so as to do that churning, when
all the men and older boys are allowed
to read the newspapers or smoke un
molested. If you wish to induce a boy
to think that Indian com and potatoes
are profitable crops, dou't give him an
old rusty hoe that no sensible man
would use, and then tell him if he will
cut in smart when hoeing that you will
Iielp him k'eep his row up even with
the rest. If j'ou do not want a boy to
liate the country, when a task is as
signed to him, don't pile on so much as
to compel him to summon all his cner
ries for three-fourths of the day to com
plete it, and then, as soon as the job
is done, tell him he will have to go to
mill or the cook can make no bread for
the next day. If you don't want to
make a boy hate all the operations of
si fann, don't tell him while all the men
are taking their "nooning" in harvest
time to water the cows and horses, and
to hurry up so as to go with the men
when they arc ready to return to the
field. Don't encourage the boy to rear
a nice calf or colt and tell him the an
imal shall be his when grown up, and
then tell the beast for a good price,
pocket the money, and tell the boy the
price received don't pay for the hay,
iats, and grass consumed. If you want
to make an energetic and successful
farmer of a boy.don't encourage him to
rise before daylight so as to rake the
wheat stubble while the dew is on, tell
ing him he shall have half the glean
ings, and then sell his part of the grain
with the crop, and tell him, when he
enquires about his share of the money,
that the little sum received will not pay
for half of his loard next winter. Don't
badger a good lwy to the verge of des
peration with the mischievous and ob
noxious "go boys" system of manage
ment. If vou want to make him like
farming ojwrations, don't fret every
ambitious dc-iirc out of the young as
pirant, with tho repulsive and incessint
ding dong of
.liin Jo tliis ami -Jim do that.
When nil lim gcln is an old fctraw hat.
There is no pic:ept and no reason
ing that will induce boy to stick to the
farm like the cheering words "Come
boys," always accompanied by an irre
proachable example in leading the way.
iitianie as it mav seem to some, Ikivs
are human. Vodinj Farmer.
Soil Iucshnnstible.
We read and hear a great deal about
the inexhaustible fertility of the soil,
that the idea of exhausting the fertile
prarics of the West it too much like
trying to dry the ocean with a spoon
etc. This doctrine may do very well
for visionary theorists to teach, hut the
actual facts stand out in too bold relief
to justify any such groundless assump
tion. The old system of selling everj'
thing off the land for other people to
convert to their own use, has brought
State after State into comparative im
povcri-dimcnt, till the evil is spreading
to what was once called "the West;"
for it appears that Ohio is ahead' go
ing down hill at a rapid rate, and oth
er States of the West and South-west
are following in the same track. What
else can be expected of a system which
exports everything from which is made
the strongest and most enduring ma
il res?
The soil of Illinois andother Western
States, it is true, is deep and rich, but
it is not all on top or near enough the
urface to be available to crop?; and we
already hear from the most reliable
sources that the .oiI of Illinois U giving
out most unmistakably; and unless the
system that now prevails is changed
the time is rapidly approaching when
the lands in that State will also be ob
liged to succumb to its exhausting ef
fect. It does not require the menta!
ability of a soothsayer or of a scientist
to know that manure must be applied
to maintain the fertility of any soil;
otherwise continual cropping will soon
run it down, despite all the thorough
cultivation and deep tillage of a thou
sand theorists. 2or do we need any
other constructor than the common law
of nature to teach us that to take away
anything from something lessens the
amount, quantity, capacity, force, or
any other property of the latter. Just
so with the soil. It is no matter if its
fertility is so great as to produce one
hundred bushels of shelled corn to the
acre, aid its productive powers are re
duced only the one hundreth part in as
many years, its complete exhaustion
would only be a question of time at
last.
The American farmer grows corn
year after year, and it is sent to Eng
land, where it is converted into beef,
mutton or pork for market, in doing
which the farmers of England make
such vast quantities of rich manure
that by its application to the land the
yield frequently doubles the rent, while
the American farmer in cultivating his
own land so weakens its production by
not consuming his produce at home
that it ceases to return him fair aver
age crops a fact which will bo sorely
felt by posterity.
The soil is the foundation upon which
the hopes of the farmer must rely, but
he mu-t not expect it to dispense its
gratuitous bounties unless he recipro
cates its favors. Or it mav be likened
to a machine that converts dead, inor
ganic matter into vegetable life for our
subsistence; we must supply the ma
chine with plenty of grease (manure)
in order to give scope to its greatest
utility. 2sor is this all; it needs also
our care, attention, and the application
of our skill and judgment before we
can expect it to do good work. Ex
change.
The Higher Aim in Farming.
The higher aim of every intelligent
tiller of the soil, should be the im
provement of the productiveness of
his laud, until it reaches the point
where maximum crops are produced at
the least expense. Wise husbandr'
regards the farm simply as a machine
for turning out crops. The machine
is the matter of first importance. This
is always to be kept in good running
order, and its efficiency is to be in
creased by all economical methods.
The man who farms ujon this system
will never sacrifice soil for a great crop.
His aim is to have every crop funded.
He aims in every working of the soil
to increase its depth aud to add to it
more elements of fertility than he re
moves in the crops, and to muke the
crops, not only pay for themselves, but
to pay for the improvement of the
acres upon which they arc grown. In
canying out this aim, so as to realize
these result, a man shows his skill as
a cultivator. It is a comparitively
easy thing, for any one who has money
to improve the soil to that it shall pro
duce crops iiayine: for the labor of
$200 or $:J0O an acre. Stable manure,
enough well ploughed in, will do this.
But it is altogether another matter to
make this improvement pay for itself.
Yet, it is a possible thing to do thi,
and there are farmers skillful enough
to accomplish this result, and this we
hold to be the true aim in the cultiva
tion of the soil. The mo?t judicious
: ii i. fi....n..
...IV-u.l-i.U., m.Ri- vwi.c .many
the largest profits require fccvoral
years to bring m their full returns.
It is a matter of great importance
that our farming population should not
onlvLe settled, but that thev should
feel settled, and plan all their opera-
.? ! . r -p.i . i
I nous ujioii me larm as iiiney expecieu
t to sjxnid their days ujkhi it."
A Singular Itpiiictlj-.
Mention has been made, says the
Baltimore Sim, of the case of A. It.
Stnoot, commission merchant, who was
so seriously injured a few days ago by
jumping lrom some boxes, on Light
street wharf, on a nail two and a half
inches in length, which passed nearly
through his foot, firmly clinching him
to the floor. Mr. Smoot subsequently
received per mail a postal card from
some kind-hearted person, which read
as follows: "Reading of your painful
accident in this morning's paper (the '
Sun), I take the liberty of sendiugyou
a remedy which is considered infallible.
It is simnlv to smoke the wound or
bruise that is inflamed with burning
wool or woolen cloth twenty minutes.
The smoke of wool will take the pain
out of the wound. I hope you will try
the remedy and bo benefitted."
Sympathizer.
Mr. Smoot lost no time in resorting
to the remedy though it was somewhat
different from the hypodcrmical treat
ment administered by the physicians.
An old iron pot, of extra dimensions,
such as are used in the Old Dominion,
Mr. Smoot's place of nativity, was ira
mediately brought into requisition and
filled with the remedial agents. A
dense smoke was raised from the bunt
ing wool, enough to smoke out all the
Macbeth witches in the incantation
sceucc, and with perfect success. Mr.
nicot desires his most heartfelt thanks
to be returned to the kiud-hcarted sym
pathizer, and is happy to say he expe
rienced the greatest relief in the appli
cation of the remedy. New life, as it
were, and motion was restored to the
afflicted limb, and he enjoyed a delight
ful rest after the operation. The facts
of the case are sent to the Sun as of
value to all who may be similarly
wounded.
Do IMiuit an Orchard.
No man ha lived in vain who has
built a house, planted an orchard, and
raised a child. This is an old Spanish
proverb expressive of homely truths.
Fruit is the natural food of man. The
molar and. incisor teeth of man were
given fur a fruit and vegiiablc diet,
and only a pair of cuspids or eye teeth
ire placed on cither side for the pur
pose of an occasional diet.
Those animals which live altogether
on flesh have teeth adapted to tearing,
like the lions, cats, etc., while those
destined to feed on grass, Hkc the cow,
sheep, &c, have only teeth fitted for
cropping and masticating their food.
Now if nature, through the structure
of our teeth, stomachs, intestines, &c,
tells U3 that fruit is man's natural food,
is it not criminal in us as rational be
ings to attempt to falsify the laws that
nature has ordained, and refuse to sup
ply ourselves with what a beneficent
Providence seeks to give us in abun
dance?
The head of a family who refuses or
neglects supplying fruit for the little
ones is unworthy the trust given him,
and, sooner or later, is apt to pay the
penalt' of his poor stewardship.
Do then, Grangers and farmers, plant
fruit trees of every kind indigenous to
the soil and climate in which you live,
do strive to feed cheaply with healthy
food those dependent on your judgment
and support. Fall is the season of the
year to begin an orchard or a garden if
we want sure returns. It is also the
time to prepare a vineyard, and plant
a full supply of berries of every de
scription. Ignorance, idleness, and
sloth are thebe scting sins of that farm
er who never has time to tend a garden
or plant an orchard. If any of our
readers are curbed with the sin, let us
ask in the name of the country that
he now throw it off, and show his re
pentance by at once preparing to set
out fruit trees and berries of all kinds
sufficient to give an ample supply of
good fruit for his family, with some for
his neighbors. Do this, and long will
you be reincmlwrcd in the land, and
your name will bo called blessed.
Ijouhvllk National Granger.
Eflect.s of Cold iu Fattening
A producer of pork in Muskingum
county, Ohio, who has made an experi
ment with hogs with a view to ascer
tain how far cold retards the rate of
fattening, reports the following results
Carefully weighing the hogs fed, and
the corn fed to tliem, and estimating
pork at four cents per pound, he found
that what he fed out the first week in
October returned (111 pork) 80 cents
per bushel; the first week in November,
CO cents; the third week 40; the fourth
week in November and the month of
December, 25; the first half of January,
5; the last half, 0. In the October
week of the experiment the weather 1
was pleasant and warm. It gradually
rcw codcr tHl the ,aUcr part of-
j vembor, fnmi Ml.ich time it remained
bout stationary till the 1st of January,
aftcr which it rau down t0 zoro a!1(1 bo
i. ,i , . , P .,
" h,Sfw 1 1 U Vl ' lh 'T"
hs eltercf ".' I
Willi :i n'niilr floor. Aarii'iilttirnl iV-
p'rl.
The Orange Jlcans Peace.
Tn a late circular the Executive
Committee of the Missouri State
Grange very truthfully says:
There arc many professional and
trading, and even some of our breth
ren, who seem to think that the mis
sion of the Grange is to fight every
tiimg anil everybody, rscver was
there a greater mistake. If any body
of men mean "peace on earth and
good will to men," it is the Grangers.
We desire the prosperity of all good
men. Wo have no antagonism to any
honest calling, trade or profession,
We want nil to flourish and prospcrj
"t we do not want them to be our
masters. While other trades and pro
fessions are prospering, wo want the
farmers to prosper also. Vc want
the "man who holds the bread" to reap
the fruits of his own labor, and not to
have them go mainly into the pockets
of the drones of society.
We want agriculture to flounsh and
the tillers of the soil to be elevated
financially, socially, aud educationally
And why should we not try to build
up ourselves, if we do not aim to pull
down any body eUe who ought to pros
per? There is no agrarianism in the
Grange. Every Patron wants all the
property he can get honestly by his
toil.
We do not wish to injure the
lawyers, though one of our cardinal
doctrines takes away a great source of
their profit.
One of our proudest achievements is
to stop strife and lawsuits among farm-
era. y here Granges flourish lawsuits
diminish, and the little breaches that
arise between brethren arc healed with
out litigation. Farmers' Home Journal.
Roys not Suited lor the Farm.
If the only good that a boy ever
did about a farm was to repair the
pump, hang gates, make mole-traps,
put in rakc-tceth, file the saw, and
hang the grindstone, and he did these
things web", obviously the farm is not
the place for Jiim but the machine-
shop is. If a boy will walk a half-
dozen miles after tl:e day's work i
done to hear a political speech; if he
takes the time from play to attend
trials before a justice of the peace, and
sits up half the night when he is go:n
to school to learn declamations which
bring down the house at spelling-
schools, most likely he will do the
world more good if 3-011 put a law-hook
and not a manure-fork in his hand.
If he cam more money in trading jack,
knives and fish-lines on rainy days
than he docs in hoeing potatoes and
cuttuiK cram in fair weather, cive him
a chance at the yard stick, and not
have him around troubling the other
boys who are handling horse-rakes and
pitch-forks, and the like employments.
Again, if a boy is skillful in skinning
small animals and stuffing small birds;
if he practiced making pills of mud
when he was a child, and extracted
teeth from jaws of dead horses with
pinchers when he got older; if he read
physiology while his brothers are deep
in Robinson Crusoe, he will be far
more likely to succeed with a lancet
than with a scythe. Phrenologica
Journal.
HtirjiiiR I'otutoes.
The Canada Farmer gives the fol
lowing method of burying potatoes:
Potatoes should be laid in compact
heaps, and covered carefully with
straw. Over the straw put about
eight inches of earth, and over the
earth n good thick layer of straw.
Over all put six or eight inches of
earth. Frost will go through almost
any thickness of earth alone, but it
will suffice to keep it in place. By
using straw and earth combined, time
is saved in uncovering when the roots
arc wanted to be got at. If the snow
is blown from the heaps during the
winter, and the cold is very intense, it
will be well to cover them with a
coating of coarse manure.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Vnlnnble Iteclpc.
FniCAssT.KD Potatoes. Pare and
slice, half an inch iu thickness, into
cold water, the required quantity of
potatoes.and wash them well; put them
into a clean sauce pan and pour over
them cold water enough to half cover
them, and close the pot tightly and let
them cook fifteen minutes, then drain
oil' every drop of water; have ready a
half pint of cream or new milk, 11 large
FH)onful of good butter, a teaspoonful
of chopped parsley, and some salt, and
pour this over the potatoes and just
heat up. Serve hot.
Curing Hams. A good receipt is
to rub the hams with fine salt and
sugar, and lay iu a dry place. Aftcr
i fivc or sis da.vs rub "S3"'. putting on
Mime now salt, as tlic old becomes dry
and docs not penetrate. At the end of
eight or uinc davs
apply the
alt
again. Use sugar only the first rub
bing. Keep the salt ou them until
the shank looks white and the skin
draws down tight; when this is the
appearance the hams are rcadv to
1 moke.
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REPRESENTATIVE AND CUASIP-
IOX Or AMERICA ART TASTE
rsosrtcTcs roc 1875 menm tear .
THE JVLTDISnS
TnE ART JOURNAL OP AMERICA,
mum UOXTULT.
A MAGNIi'ICANT CONCEPTION WON
DERFULLY CARRIED OUT.
The necessity of a popular medium for th
representation of the productions of onr great
artists baa always been recognized, and many
attempts hare been made to meet the want
The successive failures which hare so Invariably
followed each attempt Tn" this country to estab
lish an art journal, did not prove the indiSei
enefl of the people of America to the claims el
high art. So soon as a proper appreciation of
the want and an ability to meet it were shown,
the public at once rallied with enthusiasm to.
its support, and the result wan a freat artisVib
and commercial triumph THE ALDIXE.
The Aldine while issued with all of the regu
larity, has none of the temporary or timelj in
terests characteristic of ordinary periodical?.
It is an elegant miscellany of pure, light, aad
graceful literature, and a colleiioaof picture,
the rarest collection or artistic skill, in black
and white. Although each succeeding number
affords a fresh pleasure to its friends, the real
value and beauty ot The Aldine sill be most
appreciated after it is bound np at the close ot
the year. While otberpufalloations may claim,
superior cheapness, as compared with rivals of
a similar class. The Aldine Is & unique and
original conception alone and unayrjtoached.
absolntely without competltfon-fa price oc
character. The possessor of a complete voir
nme cannot duplicate the quantity, of fine pa
per and engravings in any other shape or num
ber of volnmej, for ten timet its coil; and tie,
llere f the ekrouto, IttiJen!
The national feature of Toe Aid ne must bo
taken in no narrow sense. True art is cosmo
politan. Whilo The Aldine is a strictly Ameri
ran institution, it does not confine itself to the
peproduction of native art. Its mission is to
cultivate broad and appreciative art list e.ona
that will discriminate on grounds of Intrinjrs
merit. Thus, while pleadingbefore the patrons
of The Aldine, as a leading characteristic, the
prodneiions of the most noted American artist..,,
attention will always be given to specimens
from foreign masters, giving subscribers all the
pleasure and instruction obtainable from hems
or foreign sources. v
The artistic illustration of American, icenrfy
original with The A Wine Is an Important fea
ture, and its magniSeent plates are of a sire
more appropriate to the satisfactory treatment
of details than can be afforded by any inferior
page. The judicious Interspersion of landscape
marine, figure and animal subjects, sustain sn
unabated inUieit, impossible where tie scope
of the work confines the artist too. closely to a
single style of subject. The literature of The
Aldine is a light and graceful accompaniment
worthy of the artistic features, with only such
technical disqnisitions as do not interfere with
the popular interest of the work.
TREMIUJI FOR 1875.
Kvery subsciber for 1875 will receive a lean
tiful portrait, in oil co'ori, of the same noble
dog whose picture in a former issue attracted so
much attention.
"Man's Unselfish Friend"
will be welcome to every home. Everybody
loves such a do, and the portrait is executed,
so truo to the life, that it seems lbs TeritabTo
presence of tho animal itself. The Rev. T.Do,
Witt Talinage tells that his own Newfoundland
dog (the finest in Brooklyn) barks at It. Al
though so natural, no ono who sres this pre
mium chromo will hare the slightest fear, of
being bitten.
Besides the chromo every advance subscribed
to The Aldine for 1375 is constituted a member
and entitled to the privileges of
TUE ALDINE ART UNION.
The Union owns the on'gfnals of all The AN
dino pictures, which with other paintings and
engravings, are to be distributed among the
members. To every series of 5,00V subscribers
100 different pieces, valued at over $2,500, aro
distributed as soon as the series is full, and the
awards of each series aa niaJe, are to be pub
lished in the next aueeeding Usae of The Al
dine. This feature only applies to subscribers
who pay for one year in advance. Fall partic
ulars in circular sent os application inclosing
stamp.
TERUS:.
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year, the Chromo, and the, .
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Specimen copies of The Aldine, 50 cents
The Aldine wii hereafter be obtainable onlv
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canvasser, without responsibility to the pnb-.
lisber, except in cases where tbe certificate is
given, bearing the fan simile signatuio of Jas.
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1875'
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