1877.] 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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(lone, it is policy to partially soil from middle 

 of July until tli'e Isl ofSi'iilrnilx'r. Tlirrcarc 

 oflpn ilrv spells in wliicli tlie pMSdn'c becomes 

 very shdrt, ;nul in such a time as lliis sowed 

 corn comes in vi'ry liandy. 



There may be (>lher crops (hat would be 

 profitable to .sow for entlini;, such as peas and 

 the new ''prickly coinl'rey." .\i many places 

 thev are now sowing oats and peas toL;etlier, 

 for I lie jinrpose of laisin;;' winter fodder, and 

 it is <laimed tliat each of these will give ni'arly 

 as large a cro|> as either would .sow<'d alone. 

 Pea vines are, I believe, ranked nearly as 

 high in ndlk production as red clover. I 

 should think that peas and oats would make a 

 splenilid soiling crop. 



Mr. (Juiniy's experience was, that the fewei- 

 croi)S depended on — that would keep up a con- 

 tinuous supply — the moresimpleand beilei- be 

 found it. 



Wliat is wanted now is, that persons who 

 have tried .-^oiling should give their experience 

 and management, and if not successfid, to 

 what they attribute tlie failm-e. This would 

 soon give an idea of what should be done and 

 what should be avoided, and matter like this 

 would give an additional value to agricultural 

 journals. — A. J!. K. 



N(itk: I see the publisherof TiikFahmkic 

 lias conunenced the sale of agricultural books, 

 and the " Soiling of Cattle" is in the list ; so 

 that any in want of such a work, can get it In 

 a short time ; either by calling on him or send- 

 ing the regular price, lie will mail it free to 

 the post otticc designated. 



THE GARDEN OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



A correspondent of the riiiladelpliia P/r.s.s- 

 writes thus plea.saiitly of our city and its 

 beautiful snrronndings : 



The rival charms of tin' Laiieaslerian and 

 Yorkshire roses may set \\\\ a combined claim 

 in this new world, Lancaster garden, where 

 the landscape to-day rejoices in a wealth of 

 blossoms both ruddy and white. Congregated 

 spires among shade trees form no mean mid- 

 dle ground in a picture that boasts r>f such a 

 perspective of distant blue mountains with a 

 foreground of peach and cherry blooms beiul- 

 iug over meadows full of violets. If Hwere 

 not for the brown cows and consecpient 

 dairies, the plough and fallow grounds, one 

 might dream of Kdeii unbroken. But look at 

 the buttercups and think of the butter, and 

 fancy those old kings of apjile trees having 

 their crowns shaken in September. At 

 present, however, the bees are holding court 

 in the branches, ami the way fhe shining hour 

 is being improved suggests the Lancaster 

 farmer, who can generally boast of ■Afnin who 

 can make her kitchen (|uite habitalile for tlie 

 legendary iineen to sit in, "eating bread and 

 honey," wliicli brings to mind among the 

 sweets of life that the most famous mint 

 candy in all the country is made daily in a 

 little shop on a certain .street in the town of 

 .I/ancaster, and disposed of at a penny a stick, 

 wholesale and retail. To the pure candy 

 taste it is delicious, with a llavor as cool as 

 iniimdence. 



^lany (inaint histories lie back of homely 

 old-fashioned walls within the town that are 

 nearly forgotten in the sup|ilaiiling of modern 

 residences, ample and eUgant, one of the latter 

 of .some years' standing having been built 

 within nineteen hours, piastcred, painted and 

 habited in time for supper. Here aiul there 

 the spring grass is creeping along the wall of 

 some old church that holds mural tablets "in 

 memory of" many recognizable names, and 

 among the ipiiet sleepers in the cemeteries we 

 read of Huclianan and Steven.s. It is west of 

 the city thai Wheatland lies, the homestead 



Wif President Buchanan, where in the midst of 

 rees and tlowering shrubs, stands a capaciou.s, 

 line old liou.se, still fragrant with associations 

 of hospitality; the lawn conitnands iileasant 

 vistas of the mountains, nearer woodland, and 

 rich farm lands, but it is back of the house 

 and to the side that the heavily-laden currant 

 bushes define the well-trimmed garden of 

 homely shrubs and vejietables, prim llower- 

 beds and clustered fruit trees reaching to the 



fine old woods beyond. The lilacs are jnirple 



and fragrant again jnst without the library 



windows, and one likes to fancy a past May 



day when the statesman may have )iau.sed 



from book or pen to take in the subtle jier- 



fumes or gather quiet fri>ni the sight of the 



strong-armed oaks. It is through tlinsc woods 



that you can see clearly, in th(^ midst of its 



willows and larches, C:ernarvon, the home of 



the great Dr. Xevin, and the awakening life 



outside this morning suggested the silent 



wm-kings of that master-mind within, sending 



from the, hush of his study those results of an 



intrrior life which govern so many minds of 



the present day. 



* * » * * 



Yesterday morning the horse stepped pretty 

 briskly outEasl King strcf^t into the country 

 S(Uith"of the city, where among umber willows 

 an old mill and old-fashioned house had 

 awakened an interest some days i)reviously 

 that was repaid by a recital of some incidents 

 connected with the place. It seems that here 

 in the substantial country house, then a pub- 

 lic one. Major Andre spent a part of his jiarole 

 in lT7.")-l77Vi, and it was In good Cent('nnial 

 spirit on the Idth of May that a grand-daugh- 

 ter of one ot the " fayre inaydens of ye olden 

 time" sat near the willows and told me of the 

 fascinations of that .sadly fated life. Mary, 

 the grandma, knew him well, and many were 

 the dances and coquetterles they tilted on the 

 May days long ago. The Major, it seems, 

 wa.s stylish, graceful and witty, and withal 

 played the flute with no small grace— no won- 

 der then that Mary's sympathies were awak- 

 ened in the young prisoner, and that when he 

 spoke she listened ; "but there wa.s a Delia In 

 the case." "And did j\[iss Mary fi^ar ?" 

 " Well, no, not precisely ; you see there was 

 the ocean between, and she well knew that 

 only a man's fancy crosses that, when it lies 

 between him and his sweetheart," and so she 

 dwelt at ease and even sang with him his 

 ditty to his Delia ; and now a century after- 

 wards, while a voice overhead started on a 

 venturing solo, the great-grand-daughli'r, 

 while wrapping willow withes about her hat 

 began to sing a quaint, meandering sort of 

 tuue that had been transmitte<l through the 

 intervening generations in connection with 

 the ditty itself, and it was through many an 

 apjiogiature that the name " Delia" struggled, 

 in this old love song of the young English 

 ollicer. Mary used to say that Major Andre 

 never indulged In vituperation against the 

 colonists, like his lirother oliicers. AVe ap- 

 pend fragments of this love song, which he 

 used to sing in his captivity along the lianks 

 of the Concstoga ; 



Return, enrapturrd hours 



When Delia's heart waH niiue, 

 Aud she with wreaths of flowers 



My tomples did entwine. 



No jealously or care 



Corroded iu my breast ; 

 But visions light as air 



Presided o'er my rest. 



Far, far from these sad plains 



My lovely Delia flies, 

 Whilst raeited with jealous pains 



Her wretched lover dies. 



The above, and much more, may be trnth- 

 fiilly "said or sung " of (Mir beautiful city ami 

 county, and in speaking of one W'e include 

 also the other, for they are as in.separablc as 

 the Simiicsi: Tioiiis. Nature has done much 

 for r>ancast-er county (the city Is a ])articular 

 frienil, on the whole, of the county). What 

 the correspondent of the /'/-m.s says is true or 

 otherwise, and as he has said it, it relieves us 

 from the necessity of .saying it, and also from 

 the imputation of egotism. The allusions to 

 Andre, to Buchanan and to Stevens are chari- 

 table, even liberal. How wonderfully time 

 .Softens human aspi'ritles and permits us to 

 talk of those that are "gone, but not forgot- 

 ten," in a s|iirit of toleration. Andre was 

 said to have been br.ave, accomplished and 

 genial, but still a " spy " and the enemy of 

 our country. Buchanan and Stevens never 

 could meet on one political plane in life — they 

 were opposite extremes in iiriiieiples anil in 

 practices — yet now we can talk of them leni- 

 ently, forgetting the evil then and remember- 



ing only the good ; leaving them In the hands 

 of Ilim who madi! them, and Invoking "peace" 

 and prosperity to them and oiu' great old 

 (tounty— onr Kinplre — our natal realm. " Rc- 

 (luicscai in ^hicc." 



PROSPECTS FOR FARMERS. 



The reports of the growing wheat crop are 

 generally favorable. A large majority declare 

 the condition of the crop to indicate a full 

 average, and more than half speak of a pro- 

 mise of above an average yield. A compara- 

 tively small number of places are threatened 

 with a jiartial loss of crop ; California pre- 

 senting the least hopeful condition, on ac- 

 count of a serious drouth. So far as (uir own 

 obser\ at ion and iulbrmation extends, we con- 

 sider the |ironiise of the crop to be very favor- 

 able, and if dry weather should not Interfere, 

 a fair harvest may be expected. At tli(!Same 

 time, the country is bare of wheat, and the 

 foreign demand Is larger than usn.al. The 

 experience of the (last few years goes to .show, 

 that there will be no danger of "over produc- 

 tion" in the future. We need iiot fear to 

 raise as large croi>s as we can. The foreign 

 market is large and steady, and will need all 

 we can produce iu the way of grains, meats, 

 provision and dairy produce, to snjiply it. 

 Tlie low ]irices of the past few years have 

 brought this aliout, and therefore have not 

 been by any means an unmitigated evil. 

 While we liavt; been depres.sed and troubled 

 by a reduced income from our farms, which 

 has sorely embarrassed those who li.ave been 

 in debt, this has been the means of stimula- 

 ting farmers generally to do better by their 

 farms than they had formerly done. In no 

 previous condition has stock been so much 

 improved as during thi; few years just past, 

 and we have, in conscfiuence, found a market 

 iu Knglaud for meat, which has saved our 

 home market from demoralization. At no 

 time before the present, has there been so 

 much artificial fertilizing, and never before so 

 anxious inquiry about the jiossibllity of en- 

 larging the croiis, and using the most elTectivii 

 economy in farming operations. In the mean 

 time thousands of persons arc entering into 

 agriculture from other industries ; the wave 

 of western Inimigratioii has broken upon a 

 .shore, where the land, although valuable for 

 jiaslure. Is not arable, .and it now flows back 

 again upon the neglected lands of the Kast, 

 which are being restored again to their former 

 frnitfulne.ss, by means of more skillful culti- 

 vation. There is now a closing up of scat- 

 tered ranks, and the farming interest is 

 becoming consolidated. As ]iopulation may 

 increase, duiingthe next twenty-five years, to 

 ilouble its jiresent limit, and we have a hun- 

 dred million months to feed in our own coun- 

 try alone, all the resources and skill of the 

 farmer will be taxed to meet the demand for 

 his proilucts. The value of farms can hardly 

 fail to increase year by year, on these ac- 

 counts, and it will b(^ the farmer's interest to 

 see that be neglects no means of making his 

 more valuable property pay a higher Interest 

 than now. This can only be done by making 

 it more productive. — Amerirun A<jncHlturist. 



AT THE HEAD OF HIS CLASS. 



On Saturday, .Iiine "^d, we gave an aeconni 

 of thtUobacco sheds of .lames Duffy, of Mari- 

 etta, one of which was ! 15 feet and the other 

 KI'.M'eet in length and lilt feet in width. It was 

 also stated that Mr. Dully intended plan ling 47 

 acres of tobacco. We suiiposed then that Mr. 

 Diilfy wasatthe lieadof hiscla.ss, buthe is not. 

 .Jacolili. Landis, of Manor Iwp., has one tobac- 

 co shed '.iS7 feet long and 40 feet wide, and 

 another l.'iO feet long, 4ofeet wide and '20 feet 

 high. This yearhe will iilautri.'iacresof tobacco. 

 Last year he planted •"iliacresjand realized prices 

 ranging from IS to '20 cents round. There are a 

 numberof othei' farmers in the same sectifni of 

 AManor who have set from.'! to 1(1 acres of plants, 

 among them being Abraham Leonard, esi]., 

 of the Doner farm, who has 10 acres of as 

 fine tobacco land as there is iu the county. — 

 Examiner and Express. 



