THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



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Odds and €Inds 



Mr. Beecher says that religion that is not mixed 

 "With politics and the business of life, is about as 

 useful as yeast that is never mixed with flour. 



Fritters.— For frittering away time, nothing 

 can surpass novel reading, silly conversation, 

 late rising, and malting a business of fancy work. 



A Good Building Spot.— A Connecticut farmer 

 who had set out an elaborate scare-crow in his 

 strawberry-patch, was disgusted to find a pair of 

 robins raising a brood under its hat brim. 



How high "a license" would a man need to 

 pay for the privilege of keeping his back-yard 

 well stocked with rattlesnakes, or for keeping a 

 few tigers for pets there ? 



Good Words for Acting Charades.— Arrow- 

 root. Bonfire. Book-worm. Belfry. Earrings. 

 Handsome. Indolent. Necklace. Sentinel. 

 Tennyson. Watchman. 



Midas, in ancient fable, was able by his touch 

 to turn anything into gold. Times are changed 

 now; touch a man with gold and he turns into 

 anything. 



Well Known women.— AlUe Bama, Callle 

 Fornia, Flori Day, Ida Hoe, Louise Siana, Mary 

 Land, Minnie Sota, Mis Souri, Mrs. Sippi, Tennie 

 See. 



Wisdom and Happiness.— There is this differ- 

 ence between wisdom and happiness. He who 

 thinks himself the happiest man, really is; but 

 he who thinks himself the wisest, Is generally 

 the greatest fool. 



For Repairing Family Jars.— Mutual love, 

 "Well stirred with forbearance, mixed witli readi- 

 ness to forgive and general good temper, is an 

 admirable cement. It is well to set the family 

 Jars on the shelf at once. 



One Way to Pay a Debt.— "Yes," said Dear 

 con Lee, *' let us vote to have a supper and eat 

 ourselves rich. First we will buy some food and 

 give it to the church. Then we will buy it 

 back again. Then we will eat it up and the 

 church debt will be paid. 



The smallest post ofBce in the world is kept in 

 a barrel, fastened by an iron chain to the outer- 

 most rock overhanging the Straits of Magellan. 

 It is opened by every ship that pa.sses through 

 the Straits ; either to deposit letters, or to take 

 them out and speed then on their way. It keeps 

 itself, and asks no salary. 



WEATHER WISDOM. 



When the weather is wet, we must not fret; 

 When the weather is dry, we must not cry : 

 When the weather is cold, we must not scold ; 

 When the weather is warm, we must not storm ; 

 But be thankful togeiher, whatever the weather. 



It is a mistake to expect to recieve welcome, 

 hospitality, words of cheer, and help over hard 

 places in life, in return for cold selfishness, which 

 cares for nothing but self. It is painful not to 

 meet with the kindness and affection that you 

 think is yours by right. But you cannot extort 

 friendship with a cocked pistol. 



A Jolly Life.— What a Jolly life insects must 

 generally lead! Think what it must be to lodge 

 in a lily ! Fancy the fun of tucking yourself up 

 for the night in the folds of a ro.se, rocked to sleep 

 by the summer wind, and when you awake, 

 nothing to do but wash yourself in a perfumed 

 dew-drop, and fall to and eat your bed-clothes ! 



Provided For.— I have always noticed that 

 when a poor, shiftless, good-for-nothing man is 

 sent into the world, some active, go-ahead, little 

 woman is usually fastened to him, to tow him 

 along, and keep his head above water. It is for 

 the best, of course. What would the fellow do 

 without her? At the same time, she sometimes 

 finds It a little hard. 



A Neglected Hammer.— The cause of a leak 

 in a relief llghtrboat, was found to have been a 

 hammer, which was probably left In the bottom 

 when the vessel was built, thirteen years before. 

 It had, by the continual motion, worn through 

 planking and keel to the copper plating, which 

 alone kept the vessel from sinking. Neglected 

 hammers on a farmer's premises, cause a good 

 many leaks. 



Trimmed Box.— A florist in New York, has on 

 exhibition sonie fine specimens of boxes trimmed 

 in many fanciful forms ; one representing a cow, 

 another a dog, and one old Bruin himself. It is 

 easily done, he says, when one knows how. The 

 plant is enclosed in a wire •' coop," so to speak, 

 shaped like the object, and as it grows, all the 

 outside twigs are closely clipped away, until it 

 just fills its cage, then the wire frame is removed, 

 and there is your bear, dog, or cow. 



A Narrow Escape.— One day a little lad in 

 New London fell down an embankment into a 

 mill stream and wiis hurried along like a chip on 

 the water, straight to the old mill wheel. It was 

 thought his brains would surely be dashed out, 

 but he shot under it like a fish, and continued 

 his perilous journey, going under a bridge and 

 on into a long wooden trough which supplied an 

 organ factory. Half way down the trough he 

 caught at ajoist and hung on until rescued. His 

 first words, after being put in a place of safety, 

 were, " Where's my top? " 



Bismarck's Black Dog. — Prince Bismarck has 

 a large, lank, black dog, which is his almost con- 

 stant companion. When he goes to the Emperor, 

 the dog knows it by the clothes he wears, and 

 never attempts to accompany him. When he 

 goes to the Reichstag, the Prince usually walks, 

 and the dog accompanies him to the park gate. 

 There the statesman turns, and raising his hat, 

 politely says, "Reichstag," and the dog drops his 

 head and tail, and turns back reluctantly. Who 

 shall accuse Prince Bismarck of a want of polite- 

 ness? 



A farmer cut down a boundary tree which a 

 neighbor claimed. The neighbor prosecuted him, 

 and the case was carried on from court to court 

 and year to year, until finally it was decided for 

 the prosecutor. The same day he made over a 

 deed of his place to his lawyer to settle up his 

 costs. Houseless and homeless, his sole consola- 

 tion was the cold comfort to be got from feeling 

 "I've beat him!" 



Presence of Mind. — A builder one day ascend- 

 ed to the top of a tall church spire in Auburn 

 to do some work. .Suddenly he grew sick and 

 giddy. He was alone one hundred and fifty 

 feet from the ground, on a narrow scaffolding. 

 He had the presence of mind to lie flat on bis 

 back on the narrow board, and there be lay 

 for a half-hour, as near as he could judge, 

 swinging in boundless ether. Gradually th^e nau- 

 sea passed away, and he was able to arise. After 

 growing again steady in nerve he finished the 

 work. 



Not Content. — An old lady whose son was 

 sentenced to ten years imprisonment was greatly 

 surprised and distressed over the sentence. She 

 felt called upon to expostulate, and stepped up 

 before the judge and said, pathetically, "Why, 

 Judge I've known John a sight longer than you 

 have, and I know he won't be contented there a 

 week." But John had to serve ten years with no 

 body to ask what degree of contentment he wa« 

 able to enjoy. 



A Colt in the Well.-»-Two lads were left alone 

 at home one day,when a favorite colt fell Into an 

 open well about twelve feet deep. It was large 

 enough to allow him cramped standing-room, 

 but how to lift him out was the puzzle. There 

 was a quantity of straw near, and the nine-year- 

 old boy suggested that they throw it in by the 

 armful until the colt could reach the top. They 

 tried this plan, and the straw was tramped down 

 as fast as supplied, and at length their pet walked 

 out on straw bail. 



Vast beds of phosphatic rock have been discov- 

 ered in Mississippi, and the discovery will be a 

 boon to the agricultural interests of the South 

 and West. Farming lands are becoming rapidly 

 exhausted of their phosphates, and they are the 

 most expensive part of all manures to replace. 

 The supply of bones, which once constituted 

 alone the supply, is now wholly inadequate to 

 the demand, and recourse must be had to 

 mineral phosphates, such as are found in South 

 Carolina, and are now reported to be discovered 

 in Mississippi. The discovery will be an import- 

 ant ene to the vast agricultural interest of the 

 United States. 



NIGHT ON THE FARM. 



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Now all clucked home to their feather bed». 

 Are the velvety chicks of the downy heads, 

 In the old Dutch style with the beds above. 

 All under the wings of a hovering love. 

 But a few chinked in, as plump as wrens, 

 Around the edge of the ruflled hens. 

 With nose in the grass the dog keeps guard, 

 With long-drawn breaths in the old farm yard. 

 The cattle stand on the scattered straw, 

 And cease the swing of the under jaw. 

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And everywhere the pillows fair, 

 Are printed with heads of tumbled hair, 

 Time walks the house with a clock-tick tread. 

 Without and within the farm Is abed ! 



Warranted to^^Crow. 





or order refilled g'ratis. 1 have aold vegetable and flower 

 seed to over a million farmers and Kardeners In tha 



United Statfs, perhaps some are your neigbbors, if so ask 



them whether Ibey are reliable. Mr. Thomas HenHhall of 



Tr«y, Kansas, writes me : "For 26 years 1 havedeuU with 



you. I have lived in Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, and Kan- 



*, and no matter what the soil or climate, the result 



IS Hlways the same, to wit: — rellglouBly honeit 



and good." This is the kind of seed I raise and sell. The 



Hubbard and Marblehead Squash. Marblehead 



J'orn, Marblehead ('abbafceg. Ohio Potato, Kclipfle 



Beet, are some of the vegetables of which 1 was the uriyinaTin- 



troducer. A Fair with $500 in premiums. SeemycataloRue.Ir'eeto all. 



OAMES J. H. GREGORY, (Seed Grower). Marblehead. Mass 



M ONEY IN POTATOESI 



400 BUSHELS Ta THE 

 ACRE AS A FIELD CROP. 



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tial description ofthe nt:w vi 

 riftlcts their iiierlt« ond de- 

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Rent (I a. -re in n--\v .■l.jv.r worili jlUO) . Jfi 00 

 Mainire, l.> loadj or us equivalent, . , 15 00 

 Plowiu,' and harrowing. ...... 2 00 



Marking, plowing furrows, coveriag, . 1 50 



Dripping seed bv hand, 1 50 



Seed, 25 bushela @OUc 15 00 



Cultivating, etc 5 00 



Harvesting and marketing, 5 00 



Suppose vou rame $5! 00 



250 bu^b«la @ 2io. m 50 



Proflt, 111 50 



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HAVE, YOU AN ACRE YOU INTEND T O PLANT IN POtAtOES? 



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Address, 



- - _ le improied methoils described In this book. Two bushel* 



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