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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[September, 1878. 



Bone Meal and Crushed Shells 



may be used generously in feeding fowls. That is, 

 if the crushed oyster shells and granulated bones 

 are mixed and placed in a box inside the hen-house, 

 where the birds can have access to these articles 

 freely, they will eat of them no more than they need. 

 If these are mixed with the food given, either in the 

 dry grains or in the soft mash, much of both is 

 wasted, to say nothing of the additional trouble 

 caused in preparing it thus. Fowls devour no more 

 of the oyster shell particles than they naturally re- 

 quire to assist digestion and to help in forming the 

 shells of eggs. Of pounded boues they will eat more 

 freely ; but if both are left where they can always 

 get them handy, they will not eat too much of either 

 for their good. — Poultry World. 



Of all Domestic Fowls. 



The Ocrmajitown Tt'hijraph siiys, the goose is the long- 

 est lived. One died a few days ago near Baltimore that 

 was hatched in 1824, on the day that Lafayette visit- 

 ed that city, and during the lifty-three years of its 

 life, its owner, now living at an advanced age, be- 

 livcs that she lias realized from feathers and goslings 

 between five and six hundred dollars. Although this 

 specimen was not the fowl that laid the golden egg, 

 she produced for her owner a pecuniary reward nearly 

 equal to her weight in gold. 



When a Few Fowls 



Are confined in a small space they may he encour- 

 aged to take needful exercise by suspending a piece of 

 meat just high enough so that they must jump a lit- 

 tle to reach it. Forking a piece of ground and raking 

 therein grain or scraps is another good way to ac- 

 complish the like result, and at the same time divert 

 the active minds from such mischief as egg-eating 

 and feather-plucking. 



Lice on Chicks. 

 The following is the quickest and most effective 

 way of disposing of the pests : Take a sponge, dip it 

 into kerosene and squeeze dry, then mop the feathers 

 and puff of the mother hen ; and in the evening and 

 next morning you will be satisfied with the result. 

 An occasional application will keep young chicks en- 

 tirely free from vermin. Care must be t.aken to 

 squeeze the sponge dry, as it is the odor that removes 

 the critters. 



LITERARY AND PERSONAL. 



" First Annual Kepobt of the United States 

 Entomological Commission, for the year 1877 ; relat- 

 ing to the Rocky Mountain Locust, and the best 

 methods of preventing its injuries, and guarding 

 against its invasions ; in pursuance of an appropria- 

 tion made by Congress for this purpose. With maps 

 and illustrations." We have been favored with a 

 copy of this work a little in advance of the general 

 distriliution, for which we are exceedingly thankful. 

 This is a royal octavo of 771 pp., including copious 

 appendices, and printed on calendered paper, of a 

 better quality than usual ; with 3 maps and .5 full 

 page illustrations containing many figures ; besides 

 111 groups of wood cuts (from one to ten in each) 

 illustrating the insects in their various stages ; their 

 modes of transformation and reproduction ; their 

 natural enemies ; allied species ; their anatomy ; and 

 the various implements and machinery used ibr their 

 prevention, capture and destruction. This volume 

 contains much interesting reading, and much infor- 

 mation to those who take the irouble to read it. But 

 in order to be of any use to those foe whom it is es- 

 pecially intended, it will be absolutely necessary to 

 read it, ponder it, and carry its recommendations into 

 practical eft'ect. Although elaborated and compiled 

 in the interest of western farmers, especially those 

 residing within the " grassliopper" region, there is 

 much in it that is of interest to the whole country ; 

 and the American people owe a debt of gratitute to 

 the indefatigable commissioners, Profs. Riley, Packer 

 and Thomas, for the sacrifices and labors in behalf 

 of the material interests of the farming public. We 

 observe, too, that tlie commission asks Congress for 

 an additional appropriation of $18,000, in order to 

 complete and render effective the labor they have 

 begun, and we hope no ideas of false economy will 

 interpose between Congress and its reasonable duty. 



CuURon's Musif'AL Visitor, an independent 

 jurnal of music. The September number of Church's 

 Musival Visitor, the popular journal of music, eon- 

 tains eight complete pieces of music, in addition to 

 the large quantity of reading matter, including con- 

 tributed articles by well-known writers. The vocal 

 selections in this number are: "Don't Leave the 

 Farm," sous and chorus ; "Harp that Once thro' 

 Tara's Hall ;" " Song of the Sailor ;" " Pharisee and 

 Sadducee," comic song; and "When the Star of 

 Eve" The instrumental pieces are " March of the 

 Commission," "The Winding Brook," and "Bird 

 of Paradise Waltz." This is a large quantity of 

 good music to be given with one number of a journal 

 costing but $1..50 a year. These pieces alone in 

 sheet form would cost fully $2.00. The October 

 Visitor will open a new volume. It will contain ten 

 pieces of new music, besides the reading matter. 



Musical people can secure plenty of good music at a 

 very low figure by subscribing for the Visitor, and 

 now is a good time, beginning with the new volume. 

 Every subscriber also receives a premium. Send 

 stamp to John Church &, Co., Cincinnati, 0., for full 

 particulars. 



Bee CtTLTURE ; or the successful management of 

 the apiary, by Thomas G. Newman, editor of the 

 American Bee Jourjial, Chicago, III. Published by 

 Thos. G. Newman & Son, No. 97-t West Madison 

 street. Price 40 cents, in paper. 



This is a very handsome little 12 mo. of 80 pages, 

 on heavy calendered paper, and plainly and cleanly 

 printed. It embraces every subject that will interest 

 the beginner. Commencing with a short chapter on 

 the natural history of the houey-liee, it passes on to 

 the consideration of the situation, stocking and ar- 

 rangement of the apiary, giving minute details of the 

 management and manipulations necessary to make 

 bee-keeping a success. It describes all the newest 

 discoveries in the art by which the production of de- 

 licious and healthgiving honey is obtained, as well 

 as how to prepare it for the market in the most at- 

 tractive form. It is embellished with .56 beautiful 

 engravings, and is the most perfect work of the kind 

 for the price, that has ever come under our notice. 

 What will enhance its value in many parts of Penn- 

 sylvania, is the fact that it is published in both Eng- 

 lish and the German languages, and either edition is 

 sold at the same price. The whole subject is here 

 contained in a nut-shell. 



As A NECESSARY sequc] to the foregoing notice 

 we have received from the enterprising publishing 

 house of Jones, Brothers & Co., of Cincinnati, Phil.a- 

 delphia, Chicago and Memphis, three beautifully 

 illustrated and remarkably well executed 12 mo. 

 volumes admirably adapted to public schools and 

 seminaries ; namely : First Lessons in Arit/unelic, 

 including oral and vjritten exercises ; and the Practi- 

 cal Arithmetic, including the same features ; and 

 both on the inductive plan, by William J. Milne, 

 A. M.; 144 and 391 pp., respectively. Also a Gram- 

 mar School edition of a History of the United States, 

 prepared especially for schools ; on a new and com- 

 prehensive plan, embracing the features of Lyman's 

 Historical Chart. By John Clark Ridpath, A. M.; 

 377 pp. It seems to us that nothing could facilitate 

 the learning of arithmetic more than the pic- 

 torial object plan of the " First Lessons." The solid 

 illustrations, and the appended answers in the 

 "Practical Arithmetic," are also worthy of commen- 

 dation. Nothing can be superior to Ridpath's school 

 histories, and this is fully up to the standard of 

 former publications. 



We are under obligations to Prof. B. F. Shauh, 

 the courteous Superintendent of the Public Schools 

 of Lancaster county, for a copy of the " Report of 

 the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Com- 

 monwealth of Pennsylvania, for the year ending 

 June 1st, 1877. This is a royal octavo of 967 page's 

 of beautiful letter-press, and on paper of an excel- 

 lent quality ; and, on the whole, possesses more 

 than ordinary interest, inasmuch as it contains his- 

 torical sketches of the public and private schools of 

 each county composing the Commonwealth of Penn- 

 sylvania, from their respective origin down to the 

 present time. Although the details are necessarily 

 limited, in order to bring the work within the com- 

 pass of a single readable volume, yet so far as it re- 

 lates to the older counties no work in relation to our 

 public schools has appeai'ed possessing the same in- 

 terest, and none perhaps may appear again, for 

 another decade at least. This work ought to be in 

 the hands of every progressive teacher. 



TwESTY-TniRD edition of the Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of Fruits, of Ellwanger & Barry's Mount Hope 

 Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. No. 1. Established 

 in 1840. A beautiful royal octavo pamphlet of 68 

 pages, with a magnificent full-page colored frontis- 

 piece illustrating Sharpless's Seedling Strawberry, 

 and numerous other well-executed engravings illus- 

 trating choice varieties of apples, pears, peaches and 

 gooseberries, systematically classified, giving their 

 foreign and American origin, and a brief description 

 of each particular variety, with bints about trans- 

 planting and other useful information, so that their 

 patrons may be able to act intelligently in their pur- 

 chases and mode of culture. The fact that an estab- 

 lishment can afford for such a long series of years to 

 issue such elaborate catalogues, ought to evince their 

 worthiness of the patronage of an appreciating farm- 

 ing and fruit-growing public. To amateurs and 

 young beginners, these catalogues are of as much 

 value as the best text-books on horticulture. 



The JTouse Keeper, monthly, by the Buckeye Pub- 

 lishing Company, Minneapolis, Minn., at 75 cents a 

 year; a 16 page quarto, in the interest of the house- 

 hold. No. 1, Vol. 1, for August of this well execu- 

 ted journal has reached our table, but too late to no- 

 tice it in our last No. This paper as its title indi- 

 cates, is devoted purely to domestic affairs and no- 

 thing else, and this t)eing its specialty, it can work 

 more effectively in that hitherto neglected depart- 

 ment of human economy. If there is not an ample 

 field for it in the domestic literature of our country, 

 and if it cannot fill the measure of that field, then 

 we have greatly eired in our perceptions and ap- 



preciations of it, and so will the community at large. 

 The Lancaster Farmer and the Housekeeper will be 

 furnished to any part of the country, post paid, at 

 $1..50 a year. 



Ward's Mdsecm of Mineralogy, Geology and 

 Zoology, No. a College avenue, Rochester^ N. T. 

 A lice natural science establishment, where colleges, 

 academies, seminaries, institutes, museums, schools, 

 societies, scientists and amateurs may, at reasonable 

 prices, purchase fo6sils,or casts of fossils,of the extinct 

 animals of the different geologic periods of the world, 

 including casts of celebrated fossils, skins of animals, 

 stuffed specimens, skeletons, anatomical preparations, 

 birds' eggs, invertebrates, minerals, archieologieal 

 and ethnological specimenes, glass models of inverte- 

 brates, singly or in series, for the use of schools, 

 academies and colleges. This establishment has 

 been endorsed by the highest scientific authorities in 

 the country, and there are few museums in the Union 

 that have not received rare " missing links " from 

 this celebrated depot. 



Premium List and judges of the Twenty-fifth An- 

 nual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania State Agricul- 

 tural Society, at the city of Erie, Pa., Monday, Tues- 

 day, VVednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 

 the 23rd, 24th, 2.5th, 26th and 27th, 1878. A royal 

 octavo of 58 pages, including all the necessary rules 

 and regulations for the orderly conduct of the exhi- 

 bition, and one of the most liberal and most carefully 

 detailed and properly discriminating lists of premi- 

 ums ever issued by the society in Pennsylvania or 

 elsewhere. Those who intended to be exhibitors 

 should send to the Secretary, D. W. Seller, Esq., 

 Harrisburg, Pa., and get a copy of the catalogue. 



A Splendid Nursery. — Messrs. Ellwanger <fc 

 Barry, whose advertisement appears in another edl- 

 umn, have a great reputation throughout the coun- 

 try for their large assortment of the choicest selec- 

 tions of trees, plants or bulbs. Without exception, 

 their establishment at Rochester, New York, is the 

 largest and most reliable in the United States. Par- 

 ties desiring to lay out their grounds, should send for 

 a collection of their catalogues, and select what they 

 wish. They are full of descriptive cuts, ai3& are an 

 ornament, as well as very instructive. — Spirit of the 

 Times. 



Model Farm. — Duringthe present season the can- 

 nery has turned out seventy-five thousand cans of 

 blackberies,ten thousand 3 pound cans of asparagus, 

 one hundred and fifty thousand 2 pound cans of peas, 

 and seventy-two thousand 3 pound cans of tomatoes, 

 and will probably put up four hundred thousand cans 

 more of the latter vegetable, besides the product of 

 130 acres of sugar corn. 



The Litiz Record, published on every Friday 

 morning, at S1..50 a year, in advance. This is a very 

 handsome medium folio, (about as large as the Xew 

 Era) fine paper, well executed, and ably conducted, 

 and is a credit to the village of its paternity, as well 

 as of the county and the State. 



The Commercial and Tobacco Leaf, Richmond, 

 Va., a weekly derai-folio at $1.00 a year, devoted to 

 the mercantille, manufacturing and agricultural in- 

 terests of Virginia. We clip the following from a 

 graphic description of "Lester Manor" one of the 

 estates of Mr. Jno. B. Lee, of Richmond, Va.: 



Catalogues of minerals, geological specimens, 

 fossils, shells, plants, Occ, &c. A. E. Foote, M. D., 

 publisher of "The Naturalists' Leisure Hour and 

 Monthly Bulletin of Science and Practice," No. 1233 

 Belmont avenue, Philadelphia. See advertisement 

 in our columns. 



The Farmers' Advocate, published at Stroudsburg, 

 Pa., at .50 cents a year, a medium folio weekly — in 

 the interest of the national labor green-back party — 

 conducted with spirit. 



Special attention is invited to advertisement of 

 Eureka Red Oil. County rights for sale by P. J. 

 Fitzgerald, 103 and 105 North Fourth street, Phila- 

 delphia. 



Carter's Self-Operating Gate, for the farm, 

 residence, nursery, park, cemetery, asylum, church 

 and enclosures having a driveway. M. Carter, 

 patentee, Plaiuficld, Indiana. 



American Newspaper Directory. — Edition for 

 1878 ; 484 pp. Price, 50 cents. Published by Geo. 

 P. Rowell, N. Y. 



Wholesale Price List of Grapevines, fruit 

 trees, &c. Autumn, 1878. T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, 

 New York. 



Descriptive circular and price list of small fruit, 

 plants, &c., offered] by Gibson <fc Bennett, nursery- 

 men and fruit-growers, Woodbury, N. J., for fall 1878. 



Pure water, Brach's Union Filterer, latest, in- 

 vention, patented April 30, 1878 ; warranted. J. 

 Brach, 916 Spring Garden street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Wholesale price list of the Bloomington Nur- 

 series, Bloomington, McLean county, Illinois, for 

 fall of 1878. W. F. Baird, Trustee. 



Wholesale price list of fruit and ornamental 

 trees for sale by E. B. Richardson, nurseryman, 

 Geneva, N. Y. Office, .35 Seneca street. 



Wood's Household Magazine. — S. S. Wood, 

 161 Franklin street. 



