Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The problem of the possible ca/ pacity of tho grasshopper for destructiveness r is a serious one, especially at this season of tho year, and emphatically, in view of the 'demands which may be made upon us from abroad. At tho same time the culture of wheat lin.q not made such nroirrcss here as other grains, such as corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, rice, and rye. Perhaps, on the whole, thi| may be natter of oongrataj* lion, so far as the eottfttnptio# in otu^fwfl country is cqncerned, and after all that is tho main mattef to be looked after. This subject is of practical interest everywhere in the United States, and especially in the South. Almost everybody in that region buys bread. The Petersburg (Va.) Index expresses tho belief that a great deal of the flour consumed evcu in Petersburg, surrounded as it is with grist mills and water falls, is brought from the West and North. A correspondent of that journal suggests that the adjacent country, which was once famous for tho grain it raised, should onoc more turn its k attention to that cultivation. The Northwnat whinh will fiirniidi Eurone with bread stuffs, may bo mado rich by the European war, and the North and East gain from the demaud for arms, clothing and supplies, but the ootton and tobacco of the South must suffer, and th% South will have to pay war prices for meat and breadstuff's unless she devotes hor fertile ?oil to tho supply of her own wants in these respects. While the South may not be ablo to compete with the great grain areas of the West and Northwest, it ought to raise enough for its own consumption, and thus avoid paying tho increased rates which breadstuff of all kinds will command in tho North till tho war is over. The Index revives tho tradition that wheu Commissioner Blair, of Virginia, and his associates, went to England in 1690 in the interests of William aud Mary College of that State. Attorney General Seymour received them with tho ungracious counsel. . "D?n your souls, raise tobacco." It is a good deal better and more Christian advice now to the planters of the South?bless your souls, raise corn and meat and whatever else is necessary for the support of your ho.usoludds. All wars, as we huv<e already shown, bring want and ruin iu their train, except to the speculaticg buzzards, who fatten upou the corruption aud decay. What should be our first object is to supply food for our jnvu population. So far as the wheat culture c.ic accomplish this object and Icavo a su:plus to supply the foreign demand, it should bo raised, although it lias deadly cueuiies in the Hessian fly, the wevil and other destructive insects. Maryland is well adapted to the permanent culture of wheat., and, iustead of receding westward, it might be centralized upon the Atlantic seaboard so as to cnablejtho country to command the wheat markets of the world. At the snino time we do not accept the assci^iou that the universal demand of civilized men is for wheat bread, or, if it is so, his civilizition perverts his taste so as to make hiui look upon that which is merely pleasing to the eye and a luTiirt/ as more important than other food portion oi tnc nutnan lamiiy it supports to wheat. It is in some parts of India the chief agricultural produce, and is the principal support of the vast population of Chiua. It is extensively cultivated in parts of Africa, in Southern Europe, in tho tropical countries of NorthJandjSouth America, and,while ?I it has flourished especially in the Carolinas, * has been found as far north as Virginia, and sometimes Maryland. Maize, or Indian corn, is of American origin, and was not introduced in the old world until after the discovery of the new. It is estimated that maize is eaten by a greater number of human beings than any other grain except rice ; its analysis shows it to be admirably adapted to sustain life ' and to furnish material for the growth of both human beings and domestic animals. It furnishes a large share of the breadstuff's of our farming populations, and although Tbut little consumed in cities, it largely contributes to the support of city populations in the way of meats, poultry, butter, See. According to the federal census the United States produced more than 700,1)44,549 bushels of Indian corn in 1870. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and Tenuesfiec are the chief corn producing States, though the Southern States are more k ? o rcmarknblc for the superior quality of their corn. In those States it is a inoro general article of diet than elsewhere, and is so prepared as to make it as palatable as wheat. We. therefore, invoke our fellow-eitir.ens of the South to diversify their agriculture and place the production of corn, wheat and rice among their leading industries.? The Philadelphia North American, one of the leading Republican papers of tho North, says : "Unless some change shall occur in . the agriculture of the country, the prospect now seems to be that the South, which, before tho war, was dependent upon the North for its necessary articles of food, will bccotno tho main rclianco of the Northern Atlantic States for vegetable products. It already commands our provisio i markets to an amazing extent, and yields at tho present time a steadily increasing surplus of grain.? Should that section be able to obtain the entire command of two such immenso crops as cotton and wheat, it would in less than ton years regain all the losses of emancipation nii^l civil war.? finlfimorr Son L A CRIME AND ITS CON8KQUENOE8. T This from the New York Tribune : "Lot us faco the truth. Our Southern policy has not only been a curse to the whites, but it has been a curse to the freed people for whose benefit it was adopted.? 1 It has not made them good citizens. It has not taught theui how to uso the ballot. It ? has introduced among them a dctnoraliza- b tiou more dangerous to the couutry than the p, violence of tho Whito League, lor no Re- J publican government can stuud which is not 0i founded upon the suffrage of the virtuous and intelligent." b< One would thiuk from tho tono of the p, above extract that the views embodied cj therein were entirely original, just evolved c| from tho experience and observation of n school of social philosophers. Tho fact is Ci iIiav nrr? nl. lentil, t.nrolvo vcnrs old nnd liavn k "** V *"tw ? ,v? w " J ~ ' -! V been givoQ over end ov?^ gaio by o.very JDwBOcratie pkpdr auffHifVy Democratic p speaker in the country. The utter failure a] of the reconstructiou policy was predicted a{ at the outset, and the prediction has been repeated at each stage of the wretched game; g, but not until the last vestige of that policy it is disappearing amid the excorations of a disgusted people, do we find the Republican Q organs willing to acknowledge what all the p world knows. i, But the Tribune, though somewhat in ad- b< vanco of tho rest of its tribe, is as yet uu- L willing to confess that the act on which the a1 reconstruction policy is based was n blunder tl so inexcusable and so disastrous that it tl amounts to a gigantic crime. The more the a fifteenth amcndmcut is contemplated in the J, light of subsequent events, the more appar- a, ent docs its insane folly become. A race [r upon which nature has stamped the indcli- C( ble mark of intellectual inferiority, and whose original barbarism had been supple- tl uieutcd by two centuries of hereditary sla- h very, is lifted attqjee td thd'&IFeweasuryOT q, citizenship. No preliminary preparation, s; no probation, no education?nothing that tl might tend to strip the tremendous cxperi- u ment of any of its dangers. The nation was literally rushed headlong into a peril whoso r, extent we arc only now beginning to realize, ^ without any opportunity for that thought- p ful study aud calm reflection which should Knwo nrnnn/1 orl n onlinmo nf finnli vftfif. pnnsn. qucncc. For this unnecessary, this fatal haste, and all the evils resulting therefrom, the Republican party is solely responsible, p Perhaps a small portion of tho rank and r< file may escape on the plea of ignorance, tl but no such excuse can avail the leaders.? s] Not a single prominent Republican, who p advocated the immediate enfaruchisemcnt of tl the blacks that did not know precisely what ai he was about and why he was about c it. lie knew what the negroes wcro iu C temperament and character; he knew they were hopelessly ignorant of tho first princi- si pics of politics; that they had not the small- p est comprehension of tho duties pertaining lj to citizenship ; that they were simply grown li up children, who would be controlled and c led by desiguing men, to their own detri- p mcnt and the irreparable injury of the coun- tl try. Neither William Lloyd Garrison nor b Wendell Phillips, the foremost apostles of p the fifteenth amendment, could be hired to v live in a community where the negroes are li in a majority and ruled the whites. Yet y these fanatics and their associates had uo h scruples in fastening upon the Southern v people a yoke they would not wear them- s selves; and now, when that yoke is dropping a off", they insist it shall be again riveted by j bayonets. t Philanthropic considerations had nothing > to do with the enfranchisement of the blacks, t J t. JK -4?..n?vnej* jn.nty oyvi epu VjYf & 11 111 5 { South for all coming time. The Republi- j can leaders did not care whether the nc- e groes made good or bad citizens, so long as y t.hpv ?(u-fiva vntn/1 llm T? I: .......ju fvvvu v.iv Obiaiguv lVt'l'UUllUail ticket, llcncc the idea, constantly urged, t that no negro can possibly cast t Dcuiocr. t a ic ballot except under some kind of com- t pulsion. The truth is that the negro votes e with those whom he thiuks will do the most t for him, and consequently is always anxious o to get on the winriiug side. As to the is- d sues involved in the election,, he is perfectly n indifferent, and now that Republican recoil- li structiou has collapsed and carpct-bag power (. sunk out of sight, nine-tenths of the colored li voters of the South will hcnccfrrth act with li the Democracy. But though the fifteenth n amendment promises to be a valuable rein- s forccincnt of Democratic strength, yet it is u impossible to disguise the fact that the e wholesale manufacture of African citizens was a calamity, the effects of which will be felt as long as the republic stands. The 1 burden cannot be thrown off, cannot be ma- p torinlly lightened. Heavy as it is, cmbnr- t' rnssing as it is, perilous as it is, it must be p borne to the end. We have "made our bed d and must lie in it," and our slumbers arc fi not likely to bo either peaceful or healthy, o The confessions of tho llepublican organs ti arc good enough in their way, but they will w not take from the shoulders of the party an e ounce of responsibility. There could have t< been no reconstruction, no carpct-baggery, si none of the innumerable curses that have it fastened and fed upon the South these ? twelve years past, had it not been for negro 1' suffrage?and negro suffrage is a Ilepubli- I can chilci that will live to vex the American A people long after the Republican party has] S ceased to exist.?St. Louis Republican. ft ? 11 The Richmond State says correctly that ei Mrs. Jackson should be sacred from the iui- p pudont intrusion of tlicsc "interviewers." tl When they invade the presence of ladies c1 and the sanctity of private life, it is about tl time to put down the brakes. is li One of our exchanges tells of a man who at his death bequeathed to his widow ten thousand dollars as a wedding gift in the event of her second marriage. What refine- ei incut of ciuclty lo throw temptation in a a widow's way like that. < < " DfJJE%.5tESJgS/&5,EA.or State of Georgia, "1 Department of Agriculture, [ Atl^jta, April 17, 1877- ) "o the Farmers of Georgia : Id view of the threatened war in |bc East -which seems now to be unavoidable?it ecomcs us ns prudent men to avert, as far as ossiblc, its disastrous effects upon our inustries by a wise foree ittiu our f*rin econa,y The indications now arc that there will 0 a protracted war, involving the lending owcrsof Europe, tlio necessary consequence ['which will be a rapid advance in the price f all food supplies. Even the "rumor of war" has already luscd an appreciable advauco in uicat6 and rcadstuffs, and a decline iu our great staple . UujMuaily 1?w?rovisions to the various European ports are/ [ready reported, and m&st continue so long 1 the war lasts. The foreign demaud for cotton may bo rcatly reduced, and its price fall below even s present low figures. In view of thoso facts, the farmers of eorgia arc urged to increase their areas in rovision crops. It is not yet too late to icrcaso the area in corn, even if it has to B done by red icing tlio area in cotton.? et farmers plant enough corn to iusurc an nplo supply for the ensuing year. Let lem plant crops for their hogs, and force icm forward to secure, as nearly as possible, supply of bacon for home consumption.? et them plant liberally in German millet id field peas to supplement their corn crop i feeding stock, iu order that more of their >m may be used for bread. Tf the war should be averted?of which lere is at present little probability?wo will aye lost uothing by tho above policy ; if ot, we will have provided against the posbilityof loss or suffering, in either event, lose who adopt the above- advice will have othing to regret, while thoso who do uot iny be compelled to purchase provisions at ainously high prices, aud pay for them ith cotton at prices even below the cost of roduction. Very respectfully, Thomas P. Janes, Commissioner of Agriculturo. Peanuts.?As wo arc in the midst of hinting timo for peanuts, and as we have jceived inquiries from several parties as to lie method and policy of making them a pccialty for reason given, we venture to ublish another article upon the subject of lie cultivation cf the pcauut, particularly b it differs in some respects from tho artiles already ftublishjjd. A friend iu Ilorry louuty, *t"f'4jhrTr. writes us as follow*; The peanut is a profitable crop iii this cction, and is worth from 81 25 to 82 50 er bushel, according to quality and handing. Sandy loam suits them best, and shell inie and surface from the hammock arc cxollcot fertilizers. Tho land should be prepared by thorough breaking, and laid off in hirty-inch cheeks. Two peanuts should e planted in each check. Shell before planting and select the seed. Cultivate ritli sweeps entirely, and as much upon a evol as possible, running the furrows both fays, and using uarrower sweeps as the lunches branch out. Chop through twice vith a hoe. Keep the land as levol as posible. Any time after the middle of April nid before the 1st of June is the time for limiting When the leaves become spotcd, in the fall, the crop is ready to be liar rested, and, if the nuts arc dug before frost, ,hc tops furnish the finest kind of forage tor iv.d can be'seen, there will be left in the ;round enough to fatten at least one hog to ivcry acre. From forty to fifty bushels per icre is a fair crop in this vicinity. We think from what we have published hat peanuts, where the soil suits, must be , remunerative crop. We like that idea of he refuse fattening the hogs. If our farncrs only knew it, how easy it would be for hem to grow their own meat. Five acres f red oats to the mule and one acre of pinlers to the hog for 150 pouuds of bacon icedcd, with potatoes, chufnl* peas, and a ittlc corn, will make any farm in South Carolina self-sustaining, andgivc the farmer lis cotton crop as a ifbt income. l?ut these ittle things are too troublesome. They dcland too much of our time, which wc can't paro from the cottou crop, llenco most of s plant cotton to excess, and grow poorer very year.?Aiken in jYrus and Courier. The Man Wiio Stops His Paper.? Miilip Gilbert llamerton, in his admirable apcrs on "Intellectual Life," thus talks to lie man who stopped his paper : "Nowspaers aie to the civilized world what the aily house talk is to the members of the unily?they keep our daily interest in caoli ther, they save us from the evils of isolaion. To live as a member of the great hitc race that has filled Kurope and Amrica, and colonized or conquered whatever :rritory-it ha* been pleased to occupy ; to tiarfc from Jay to day its thoughts, its cares, s inspirations, it is necessary that every lan should read his paper. Why are the 'reach peasants so bewildered and at sea ? t is because they ncvor read a newspapor. iiid why nrc the inhabitants of the United tates, though scattered over a territory mrtcen times the area of France, so much lore alivo and modern, so much more interred in new discoveries of all kinds, and caablo of selecting and utilizing the best of icni? It is because the newspapers penetrate verywhero, and even the lonely dweller on le prairie or in the forest is not intellectually olutcd from the great currents of public fe which flow through the telegraph nud rcss." m The Norristown Jf'-rabl has solved the juundrum: "Why was Washington like newspapermen';'" Answer? lieeanse he Mthln't Ml a lie " A TOUCHIHG BTOXY. Au uld follow, who gavo hi* oatnc as Charles H. Slosson, was called up io a Virginia City court on the charge of druukenuess. .flc was a remarkably seedy looking specimen, arrayed in a dirty check shirt and a pair of loose, baggy trousers, which ware prevented from falling off by a leather strap knotted about his waist, lie was shivcriug and trembling from the effect of a debauch, and hardly had the strength to staud upright. When the judge asked him if he had anythiug to say, he rose up in a sort of disjointed way and demanded a jury trial, which was granted, and when his turn came ho advanced and began : "Uenilcmcn of the jury, I stand here toM my own personal deA . i _ _ n t J. ousemeui man un cxauipic ui uuuiau uipravity, which like a beacon light, should warn you from the ragged rocks of iotenipcrauce. A uiau in my condition is liko a rude sign post I once saw iu Tennessee, which poiutcd up a road over which the green grass was begiuuing to wave. On the sign was the inscription, 'Smallpox,' and the index finger of a baud pointing , westward. If any of you in travelling along a highway saw such a sign as that you would pauso upon the brink of deadly i danger and turn backward. [Sensation.]? In me you behold such a sign, and if by looking upon ine any one of you can be , turned back from destruction, I shall think that God iu His infinite mercy l}as allowed me to till a sphere of usefulness which shall enable uic to bear with fortitude tho imputation constantly hurled upon mc by uiy own conscience, that I have lived in vain. "Gentlemen of tho jury, as you pcruso the pages of the old poets you will see how the, have deified the wine cup. They have wroathod it with the flowers of fapcy, surrounded it with the halo of song, and poopled its bloody depths with the creatures of their own bright imaginations, uutil one might almost believe it to be tho wcllspring of human happiness, when bitter experience tells us in very different language that it is the fountain head of misery, the ahodcofthc demon that destroys our lives. There is something which comes ip in the fumes of tlm oim lliil frtnlo n-ilt inanirntirtn lmt. it. ia ...w .WW ? ? 1 ? a CUOJiiug ro.ntiLi, wkiek, ornVrKng-up frtrcn the dregs of the grape, enters the window of the braiu and steals away, like a thief in the night, with our reason fast in its embrace. There is a hand in the wine cup which at any momeut may put its felon grip upon your throats and strangle you as a strong man might a babe. Gentlemen of the jury, I have not long to stay. Two mighty miners arc delving 011 this lode? time and death. They are daily at their posts, working together side by side as ono eternal shaft, clearing away the rubbish of waste rock and pushing along the iedgc.? Before long I shall be gathered iuto the vast laboratory of death, a piece of useless porphyry, to be cast into the waste dumps of hell.'-'o^^rembi and'Dfighn toVob. ind ? -,<d b/-)rs and the jury moved by his forcible simile, broke forth into a simultaneous sob, in which the court, spectators and prosnnifiiirr nUiirr.nv iniimil Tim e j J ? J ublidgcd to tiud a virdict of guilty, but recommeuded hiui to the mercy of the court. He was accordingly fined 85, which the jury paid on the spot. Cutting Out a Hoy's Tongue.?A few weeks ago a man presented his son, a boy of about twelve years, to our surgeons for treatment. The case was a novel one, the child being ufllictcd with enlargement of the tongue, llis father hailed from Williamson county, and stated that lie came to Sau Antouio to consult our surgeons, as those of Austin, Galveston, and New Orleans, to whom he had applied, had demanded exorbitant fees. Dr. Hcrff informed the troubled father that he would endeavor to cure his son of tho excrescence, and sympathizing with him in his trouble, and the child in his pain, the father being a poor man, he offered to perform the operation at a most rcasonaablc charge. Tho citizens of Williamson county charitably raised the means to pay for the operation. It was executed Wednncntiv nmlor lir 11 /- '? ? .? K iivi'uiij I uuuv J' javi u o tUIU| UIIIUI9 Hill" ing him. About four inches of tongue were taken olf. The extreme end, which has been preserved in alcohol, would weigh about a quarter of a pound, and about as much inoro was cut ofT in small bits. It is thick, much wider than the child's mouth from which it was taken, is very rough, and resembles very much the tonguo of a young Calf The patient is now doing well, and wjll no doubt be greatly benefited by the operation, which called into requisition the most perfect care and the ablest surgical knowledge.1 The affliction was one in which thcro has probably been less room for surgical experience than in any other, and is the first else of the kind we ever heard of in Texas.-v- Son Antonio ( Tcxai) Express. The President's mail is something surprising. JJsually the letters for the Executive mansion arc carried from tho post office by a messenger on horse-back, by an orderly who waits at tho President's door to do his errands, but, since the 4th of March, it has been necessary to send it down in a wagon, specially dialled from the I'ost office department for that purpose. THE FIELD OF JOUXHALISX. II. V. lledficld has this iu a reoont issue of the Cincinnati Commercial: It has h been remarked that very few who get into f journalism start out with such intention.? Thoy drift in accidentally, and aro promoted c as they dovclop capacity. Money, wealthy ur parents and influence are of no sort of ser- fl vice in getting a young man a place on a newspaper. There is no business that is so a( entirely independent of all these considora- 0I tions as this. A wealthy father can easily ^ get his son a location to rend law or modi- f cine, or push him forward in almost any walk of life he may selcot, but he is utterly powerless to do anything for him in a jour- ^ nalistic way. Tp ln wis hw -sway bnj+ newspaper and set up bis hopoful iu that 8( manner ; but unless there is something in r( the youth called journalistic knack, a natu- ^ ral knowledge of what to write and how to O write it, ho will be a failuro in that line, ^ aud nil the money and influence of wealthy ^ and perhaps powerful relative# will count for nothing. Some fond parents cducato their sons with especial view to make journalists of them ; but it is rare that we hear of these young nicn after a few years. Meantime somo Bcrub, boru amoug the hills, having nothing but a common school educatiou, and tho knowlcdgo scraped up iu a country printing office, will advance to a front rauk in the ai profession. He has the journalistic knack, ei and forces recognition bocnusc ho has it.? ai He gets a place, not because ho has wealthy parents to influence the proprietors of lead- ^ ing newspapers, but because he knows what ^ to write and how to write it, and the editors 8 take it because it is what thoy want. His u articles go in because they supply a demand, while, perhaps, tho elaborate essays from the ^ per of a man educated on two continents, with an especial view to journalism, arc east P into the waste basket. Young men just out of oollcgo, and with p journalistic ambition, and who hnvo had w their essays passed upon by admiring relalives, and prouounccd tho production of 11 genius, think if they can get a letter of introduction to the managers of some leading n newspaper, they will forthwith find rccognitiou iu his columns. I dou't knny Jing, Ji many applications by mail aud in person I 11 Imun linl fmm v/iunrr mr>n nukiinr m(> for .1 letter of "rccouimondation" to the editor of g the Commercial. I never complied, because a I know that these agencies aro not worth ^ five cents a peek towards getting into the g paper. I tell the applicants to send along n whatever essays aud so forth they have on ^ hand, aud that a letter of introdution a mile j long would not be of tho least service in ^ influencing the editor to print what didu't t fill the bill. Recommendations from those ^ known to the editor, or the "influence" of wealthy relatives of young men ambitious ^ to shine in journalism, aro of no earthly benefit in this matter, unless, indeed, the f latter might furnish money to have the j lint lame, at thirty Jolfnrs a column, 'i9"expensive. j 'J he majority of successful journalists drift into it from other walks of lifo and ^ perhaps the most of them up to the time I they are eighteen or twenty years old, had no thought in that dirottion. ^ First Work (No of Corn.?If the land 1 has been packed by rain since the corn was c planted, run close and break deep?if the laud is close and open, the ploughing is not * important. In that event use plows that n will go over rapidly{and save labor?a shovel, c or sweep, or cultivator will answer. Avoid a throwing uiuch dirt to tho young corn, only 1 enough to cover up any young grass that H inay be present, but be suro it is well cov- b ercd ; much hoeing will not pay in a corn r crop, the plow alone ought very nearly to make it?of course thinning and some chopping is generally unavoidable. Thin to a y stand as soon as danger of frost and worm is over. Nothing is more prejudicial to a jj plaut than having another plant with the 8( same wants growing beside It?tho struggle for existence then becomes intensified. If 0 tho middles ai o not very hard or foul, and p time presses, they need not be ploughed out !t at this working. In any event push on c rapidly to give cotton its first working just c as soon as it will bear it. The farmer who a keeps well ahead, not only stands the best 8 chance to make the best crops, but will do t it with very much less actual labor than the laggard. Let it never be forgotten that the time to kill grass is bofore it can bo seen, p Hesides, every ono knows that early and ai frequent workings niako cotton grow off fi rapidly?and an early growth of stalk is ono Ir of the surest antecedents of a large crop of bolls. ' k "I say, Paddy, that is the worst looking horse you drive I ever saw. Why don't J you fatten him up?" "Fat him up is it? Fail, and the poor baste can hardly carry j the mate that's on linn now," replied 8a Paddy. w A _ .. .... -J - elected recifxs. Sponok Gakk.?Four egg*, bcsten for alf an hour, one cupful of sugar, ouc cupul flour. Lady Cake.?One cupful butter, two upfuls sugar, four cupfuls flour, ono cupful lilk, three egg*, one-half tea-spoonful soda, avor to taste. Flannel Cakes.?To ono pint ot flour dd one-half pint of corn nieal, four eggs, ae tablespoonful yeast, with milk enough ) make a stiff batter; set to rise over night, bin with warm milk and water before bakig next morning. Jumbles.?Take four eggs, tlirco cupils sugar, a very little uutuieg, one toajoonful baking soda, ono cupful butter; ir in the flour uutil it will roll; cut in )unds with a holo iu the center. Will ecp good two or three weeks. Crazy Biscuit.?Three piulA if milk, o toaspoonfuls of yeast, ouo tenspoonful f unit; boil tho milk, and then cool, stir in our, making it a little thicker than pnnake batter; add the salt, and when lukcarui put in tho yeast. Iu tho morning, 3d ono egg, half a cupful sugar, one tenaoonful saleratus, uiix and let stand to rise; hen light, mako into bisouits; let it riso ;ain, aud bake in a medium oven. To Preserve Eggs.?When the eggs re takcu from the nest, if they arc brushed atirely ovor vriih a solution of gum nrnbic ad laid in n cool place they will kc?.p pcrjet two years, and chickens have been atehed from eggs so treated at the end of :int time. If farmers as soon as they gathr the eggs would cover each one with fresh icltcd mutton suet?just enough to cover be pores of the shell?they would confer a oon upon thousands. Pressed Corn Beef.?Choose a plate iccc, fut and lean; put in a pat little larger ban itself, and covor with cold water; pepcr well; let it boil moderately till the boucs ill come out; turn it several times while oiling; when cooked place iu good shape i n towel, and fold up iiruily; let it be l:?i. :n ?i ..i IIIUK UIIU OllUlb IU OIIUJMj JMUVC U f JIU U V U I , nd three or four irons or bricks to press :; let it stand till perfectly cold, or four or yt| hoyrgiirf'Ulf 'iVn c"- U?.? 4?Wy, iish with sprigs of parscly. . . ? ltour in Fowls.?Regarding this offouivc, troublesome, and often fatal disease tnong fowls, a farmer gave it ns his opinion, >cfore the American funnels' club, that even out of ten cases were owing to the loglcct of the poultry keeper, who permits lis birds to be exposed to wet grounds, cold Iraughts and bad veutilatiou iu the henlouses. To prevent this troublesome visior, give the hens a wide, clear rango and ilcnty of fresh water; keep them cool and liry in summer, and warm and dry in tho vintcr. This speaker thought that the best food or newly-hatched chickens is shelled oats loiled a few minutes and mixed with meal; ? - ?--*- ??.a L.:UJ >gg, or, better still, crumbs of bread.? Uoilcd potatoes given warm and corn meal ire also good. When tlioy need animal bod the mother hen will provido this with nsects and the like. A spoonful of sulphur tirrcd with the food now and then will rid owls of vermin and tone up their systems; his was particularly advised for young hickcns and turkeys. Dr. J. V. C. Smith thought it all nonensc to try to ndvauco the I >wer order of nimals; he did not approve of so much odding and cooking for them. Give fowls wide range and they will tnke carc of hcmsclvcs. Wild turkeys rarelylo.se their oung, and yet once domesticated in the arnyard the farmer finds much trouble in aising thon}. ? ****+.Sweet Potatoes.?And now is the time )T the potato patch, as we call it. Plough our intended potato patch two or three imes before setting out draws. Having it i rews. Plough and rcverso, getting the )il in fine tilth. When the time is near jr setting out, take a single shovel plough, pen your beds to the depth of throe inches, ut a little pure stable manure in the trench nd await the rain. If the rain docs not ome, set out with water?half a pint to ach hill?tho oarth being pressed firmly round tho potato root, and a little dry dirt priuklcd around tho top ground. Next is lie setting out?-some say one foot, some say wo feet apart?I say four inches. The best cultivation is to plough to your otato all the time, pulling tho earth up round the little plants with tho hoc the rst working. Never bar off, therely savig the small roots which make potatoes, ud saving one-half the ploughing. In 1870, I made 15ft bushels sweet potass on one half acre of land by this uiodo -giving one booing, or pulling up with tho i>e, and ploughing to the potato.?It. L 'tinner. \ Western Kditor in acknowledging tho ft of a peek of onions from a subseiihcr, its : "It is sii? li kimlm ss us this that alays brings tears to otjr eyev" fc . ' I ' ***" '