THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



III. 



Domestic Decorations. 



An exquisite tiinisiKirciuviiKiylie iiiaile 'jv arrans- 

 Incr presseil ferns, ^'rasses iiml luitunui leaves on a 

 pane of window irlass, laying auotlier |>Bne of the 

 same size over it, and tiini'iini tlie eili;e wiHi riUlioii, 

 leavinLT Hie sjroup iniprisoneil between. Vie L'uin 

 traeaeaiitli in piitlinir on tlie l>imlln!r. It is well to 

 seeure a narrow strip of pajier umlertlie rilibon. The 

 lilmUucr slioulil he jrunimed all around the ciltce of 

 the lirst pane, and dried before the leavnf , ferns, ete. 

 arc arranired : then it ean be neatly folded over tlie 

 second paiic without clilliculty. To form the loop for 

 hanL'inir the transparency, jiaste a biiidinir of i;alloon 

 aloniT the ed!;es, leuvlnir a two-iueh loop free in tlic 

 centre, afterward to be pulled through u little slit in 

 the bindins. These transparencies' nihy he ofthcr 

 hiinicbel'ore a window, orif preferreil, secured against 

 a pane in the sash. In halls a beautiful etrect is pro- 

 duced by placing them agaiusl the side lights of the 



hall door. 



.♦ 



Potatoes MixiNt;. — We had 9upi>oscd, says 

 Mvore's llm-al, that this (jucst ion of whvUier pota- 

 toes ever do hceonie mixed liy oit^icr growing' in tlie 

 same field or hill, had loii!; as:o licen settled in the 

 negative. Of course we know thattliurc arc larpiep 

 who still adhere to their settled belief that po».fto?s 

 do I'regiucntly mix in the hill and wheat turn to chess,, 

 but it is seldom nowadays that a man of intelli;.'eueC 

 who has eiven these subjects careful cousideratiou 

 and examination will stand up and delarc his faitliiu 

 either. But it seems to bo very dillli'ulf tn eradicate 

 prejudice or the inllm nrr ■•( early tr.iininu' ont of the 

 human <.T«H)um, and nUliouuh few may beUeV(viu 

 lucky jisns, still they had a little rather see the ntw 

 moon over their right shoulder thftn-pverthe te^j 



.-.q .A! 



"jpfie Use of MacTiiheiy 



i: UOHUH 



The use of machinery upon a farm is, doubly bene- 

 ficial. It not only reduces the labor, les.sens tliet-ost 

 of ])roducl8, saves time, aud enables a laru.r surface 



tp Ke n^^ Jt^ yitted , b nr it iw-tiotll y necessi' :il i s IjutLci" 



an4 more careful work. To plant corn sur, , .-^lully, 

 it is neceesary that tlie sod be well turned over and 

 cav<Teil, and no trash left upon the surface to iuter- 

 fei* with the recTllar dropping of the seed ; nor must 

 b.ose 6lones be left in the way. It 13 tlie s;\ipc withr 

 all other machinery, and this imlirect beuetit is not| 

 the least by any means qf those that we gain'by thet 



AWARDED THE HIGHEST MEDAL AT VIENNA. 

 591 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, 



((Ij.) osib- Mi'tmi (ilil;ai IImO 1) 

 MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 



CHPOMOS # FRAMES, 



STEREOSCOPES and VIEWS, 



ALBUMS, QRAPHOSCOPES AND SUITABLE VIEWS. 



fhotogh afeic mat erials. 



We are Headqunrters for cveiythiug in tlio woy of 



Stersopticona I Magic Lantierns, 



. .Being J^I^MiafaeiurerH of the 

 L .1 M 'd V . 1 d ..M , 1 tC 

 Micro-Sclentilir Lantorn, 



• ' (»fcrr»-l*«nt»p»J««u, ■ ••ill I'A 



I'liiverNll.v SlereoplleoB, : -'■'-■'[•> 

 " Artverl*H*TH" siorcwptlcon, 



- '. :«:iu'i <ta:<3>' Tr.H'XrtopUcivn. 



School Lantern," Family Lantern, 



- People's Lantern. 



Euch style being the best of its class in the market. 



Catalogues of Limterus and Slides, with dlrectiODB fori 



-usiug, mtui ou at>fili «flii uu, . , ■■ ^m I 



Any euterpripiiij,' m»u cim raftke oiouey wUh a Btlagic 

 Lantern. 35S^('nt out this udvertiseTncuI fur reference. 



E:]VG-i«A.Nr>. 



use of farm machines. 



a-sZT-. 



A ToRRESPOXDEXT of the Coiinlvtj Peiilleman 

 writes : "I tried hellebore, Paris green, and various 

 things, with indifferent success,' hut have found 

 nothing that will so thoroughly destroy rose slugs as 

 wood-ashes. The ashes may be sifted on early in the 

 mof-pijig while the leaves aa-e damji, the branches be- 

 inir turned over carefullv, so that the under side of 

 .ili£ Jfiares, to -ivJiich Uie young alugB_cUng»anay.get 

 their fair share of the siftings. .^ 



^ .QV-C: 



Young Stallions hy "HONEST TOM" and other 

 First-CISs« Draught Sires, for Sale. 



LITERARY NOTICES, 



/■JHONTHLT KSPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 



AgrK'VLTCRe for May aud June, ISTfi, with an iodt>x 

 -of. contents, from page 1R3 topa»e 3l4:-inelusive,and, 

 ''eight charts, in colors, illustrating the various sub- 

 jects treated in the work, besides a full page illustra-. 

 tion in " microscopic observations" on " Animal aud 

 Vegetable Cellulose aud t^tareh." 



We regret that we received it too late to make much 

 use of it in the present number of Tuk Fahmek : for, 

 terminating as it does the last tiseal year, there is 

 much in it of a statistical character that would be 

 interesting to our agricultural readers. We quote 

 from page 154 the aggregate value of pur priuclpal 

 crops for the eight years f"rom ISOt! to 1874, and their 

 relations to each other, in the entire country : Com, 

 $.540,33.S,n07 : hav, ?:-;4S,l-ll, 4.50; whe.it, S3aS,!:i8r,,- 

 272; cotton, §oO.VyO,Sll ; oats, ?12:),Sfi7,42il ; Pota- 

 toes, Si7fi,S.Tf.,914; tobacco, *:>4,4;5'J,80y ; barleVr?' ■,- 

 o74,78iS; rye, SlS,G!t.J,'S2f. ; buckwheat, S12,',H:i,',a:;. 

 This siiows that corn leads all our crops by l'i;r, afld 

 that hay is next on the list, whilst tobacco is only the 

 seventh, large as It seems. We njll jirepare a 

 synopsis for the August number. 



AMEUK AX JOIUNAL OF Pn.UtM.YCT,' puMfsTied 



hy authority of the Philaildphia CuUcijc of Phvrntncii^ 

 and edited hy .John M. Maisch, at S:!.<XI per annum. 

 The .June number, now before us, contains among 

 many other good things, an abstract from an inau- 

 gural essay on "Tobacco Culture iu Pennsylvania," 

 and especially iu Lancaster county, by our young 

 friend .JoiiN Alii<i:o Witmer, Ph. (i.,of Lancaster 

 county, who recently graduated with honor in the 

 above named college. .Judging from the abstract be- 

 fore OS, we consider the essay a valuable contribution 

 to the local agricultural literature of the county of 

 Lancaster, as well as the State of Pennsylvania. 

 Although It may contain nothing especially new to 

 veteran culUvat>ors, yet, as every year brings inex- 

 perienced hands iuto this increasing field of culture 

 in our county, we believe their progress might be 

 facilitated by giving the essay a wider publication 

 than it will receive in the columns of a joarnal of 

 pharmacy alone. 



At the Both Annual Meeting of tbe 



LYTHAM and KIRKHAU AaEICULTURAL SOO'Y, 



On WEDNESDAY, 23d AUGUST, 18J6, 



MESSRS. LT7CAS & CO. 



Of the Repository, Liverpool, have been iiiBtnicteil to SELL 



BY AUCTION, ou the Show Day at Lytham, near 



Prestou ^an hour by rail I'rom Liverpool), 



FIFTY TO SEYENTY DRAUGHT STALLIONS, 



Coniprietjig Fouls, Yearlings, Two Year OUle and Tbreo 

 Year Okie, iiiany of them by the Celebrated Sire, " HONEST 

 TOM," the proiierty of "The Fylde Cart Horse Breeding 

 ImprOYement Coniprtny," aud considered the best Cart Stal^ 

 lion in the world. Foals got by hini sell readily at Xlml 

 each, aud a Three Year Old by hiiu has receiltly been sold 

 for XSOO. ■ ! -'-''^ 



•.'Catalogues forw^ardod to parties sending tbe^ addr^ to 



l.-.u Messrs. LUCAS & CO., Liverpool. 



Peabody House, 



COR 



OF LOCUST AND NINTH ST8., 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Convenient to all places of amusement and car lines in 

 the cilv. No changes to aud from the Ceutennial grounds. 



Col. Wateou, proprietor of the Henut Uocme, Clucinuati, 

 for the past twenty ye.irs, and present proprietor, has leaded 

 Ike liouse lor a lerni of yeais, and has newly famished and 

 fitted it thrminho'it. He will keep a strictly llrgt-class house, 

 aud has accommodation for 300 guests. Tei-ms, only $3 

 per day. ' 



No bar has ever been kept in the Hsnbi Hoosb, nor wU^ 

 auy be kept at the 1'e.iiiodt. 9-8-5 



CAIVASSEES WANTED 



TO TAKE SUBSOaiBEKS FOR 



TEte Laiji©ast©r Farmer. 



Fjirmers' Son? and other Young Men, 

 during Their leisure hours, 



CAN MAKE GOOD WAGES. 



flTe want n thoronph caii\Ti»*ff ma(t?of (■TerT<l*ctrie(,»iM! will 

 pay Kood cauvaaHcrs hbcrally. Atlilrcss 



PEARSOL & &EIST, Putlishers, 



7^tf LAXCASTEB, PA. 



God's Acre. 



I like that aiH-ieiit Saxon phrase, which calls 

 The Imrlal ground (iod's acre '. It Is Just ; 



It consecrali-8 each cfave within ils walls. 

 And breathes a bontsou on Ibc slecplne dust. 



fiod's acre ! Ves, that blessed name InipartB 

 t'oinfort to those who In the grave huvi' sown 



The seed that they had garnered In llndr hearts. 

 Their bread of life, alas 1 no more tholr own. 



Into its I'urrows shall we all be cast. 

 In the snri' faith that we shall rise again 



At the great harvest ; when the archanRel's bllQ^ 

 Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and ^ralu,j : 



Then shall the gixnl glanil In immortal bloom. 

 In the lair gardens of that secontl birth ; 



Aiid each bright blossom mingle its pirfuine 

 With that of flowers which never bloom on BBrth . 



'With thy rude j^lon.'lishare. Death, ttirtftip the »o^, 

 ,. AuU spread the furrow for the seoJ we sow ; j 

 Tills is lhc4cld and acre of our (iod, • r 



This is the place where human harvests jpow.- 



%»'".;- '■ ' . .',(,' ^LoniifdloK. 



TJit;S*V(j of'V»Mff8 Slid 'servants, tHfese twoftom 



"aild'Siiotia.art r.itliPi''neat :'■,;■. ' ',.V'.,.\". ' \".\ 

 A baby was out w ith the rtUrk,' who Walfccd tt- tlj) 

 and down the garden. • •. 



«" " Is't a laddie or a lassie i" said the gardener. 

 ■•■'" .\ liidaie," said the marld. 



" Weel," says he, "I'm glad o' thiit, for there's 

 ower niony women in the world." : 

 " Hech, mou,"»aid the (rirl, "div yo no keu there's 



avc malstsawn'o'thfe best crap?" •» 



. »". ' • 



Ai?, irishman who firofcssciJ tp be a great spoHs- 

 raaii,T)ut who in icality had ^ever loaded or fired a 

 gun, went out with a party ou a jjuunins c.xpcdiIion. 

 Bv some mistake he had manageil to get a double 

 TliaTwpiol^O'trderln his foTrlinir-piece : and eeeliip-a 

 yJMiug 6"^uTrrjf*it]bin ran(re,heainieil 4 Itand^iJled 

 trigger. ThT snnic niomenf he found himflClf lyiiilj 

 Hat uiion the ground, his shoulder aching from the 

 iMooil of the guu. LooJcing around to UiKNJie §dulr- 

 rcl, which he BUpposnd he had demoliiliA, Wspled 

 him skipping about on the rail of a fence fts'chirk'and 

 lively as ever. Kubbing his shoulder, tlnrtliortsman 

 apoatropliized his woiihtbe victim as fc)ll»i>»E : *' Bad 

 luck till ye, yc varmint ! Te're ehippen i ■ 

 but if ychad been at this end of the gun, 

 goin' chip, chipper on. the fence there bjitluo uni. , ^e 

 Villaiu ye ! "• ' . k.' ''.' ' "C TV. , ■ . ■" ^ '; 



Ax eccentric poet of Newark, New .Jersey, well 

 known to the last generation as Matt Ward, was the 

 author of the following epitaph on a dog named 



On brute and monarch death alike will call ; 

 Dogs have their d;iy, aud 8priug hath bad his SEL" 

 Doctors by barking, lawyers biting, thrive; < ■' 



eprin?- coui<l do Ixrth — both could not make him live. 



Fi-om human puppies he had gifu apart ; 

 Tlu-y heartless souls, but he a soulless heart ; 

 They, doomeil to future lil'e, meet death with fear. 

 But he, more happy, sleeps forever here.' 



CosCERNiNO the Centennial, this is not bad : 



At a colored church iu (ircencastic, Tcnnsylvania, 

 a few days .i^jo, a colored w;omau_brought up an 

 ebouv youufstcr for baptisni. -^ 



"What U the child's name?" asked Iho jnlnisfer. 



"Thomas Cent^-nnial Mhldleton," said the uiolhcr. 



This beiug apparently too lengthy for the minister, 

 he concluded to irlibreviate it, which he did in this 

 wise: "Thomas S. Middleton, I baptize you," etc. 



The DiKFEREXt e.— The following little anecdote 

 teaches a lesson etTeclually, If not elCijantly : 



A market gardener near Boston liad a very 6ne 

 cow that was milked week and week by two hired 

 men. He observed that the amount of butter he 

 carried to market weighed about a ponnd more on 

 each alternate week. lie watched the men and tried 

 the cow after they had Unishcd milking, but always 

 found that there was no milk in the teats. He 

 linally asked the Scotch girl, who ti>ok care of the 

 milk, if she could account for the dill'crence ? "Why, 

 yes,'* said she, "when Jim milks, he says to the old 

 cow, 'So, mv pretty little muly, so; ' but wheu Sam 

 milks, he liits her on the hip with the edge of the 

 pail, and says : 'Hist, you d— n brute.' " 



This, from Nevada, speaks for Itself : An Irtth- 

 man in Virginia City, bchig tried for assault and 

 battery, wheu askeil if he had anything to bay by 

 way o'f defense, replied, " Well, yimr honor, I saw 

 but lilllfof tbc flght, as I was underneath most of 

 the tim«'.'* 



