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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[July, 1879. 



troubled with roup, but since I bee:an to feed carbolic 

 acid in tbeir mush once a week I have had no cases 

 of roup. 



I take a quart bottle, put in it an ounce of the 

 crystals at drus store, and then fill with water, put 

 a gimlet hole through the cork of the bottle, and fit 

 tightly a pine plug. Of this I feed, say a teaspoon- 

 ful to one dozen fowls once or twice a week in their 

 mush, and also use it freely around my house and 

 nests and perches once a week through winter, and 

 oftener in summer. The plug in the cork enables 

 one to throw it from the bottle in small quantities. 

 Any one who is troubled svith roup, try it, and see 

 how smart your chicks will act. 



And if any sign of roup appears, and the owner of 

 the sick chicks has not the German Roup Pill, and he 

 lives away up near the north pole, as I do, and the 

 chick is sick, awful sick, don't wait to send to New 

 York or Hartford, but get a stick of gum licorice at 

 your drug store, and put down its throat a large 

 piece, and bathe its head and throat with kerosene ; 

 feed warm mush, and the next day do the same, and 

 In three days your sick chick will be convalescing, 

 and with careful handling may be made to do good 

 service through the remainder of the season. 



I have seen in Poultry Yard a number of ledger ac. 

 counts with poultry; but in all, so far, some fancy 

 prices are mixed in. Now, what I want to see is an 

 account kept of actual market prices of eggs and 

 chicks sold and feed bought. I am keeping such a 

 ledger with my 32 White Leghorn chicks. I have 

 a very fine lot of full-blooded chicks, and I sell the 

 eggs at market price, and chicks ditto. 



Will some one who has kept such a record, give us 

 the result I My 30 chickens gave me a profit through 

 the winter of t30. M. E. Bkown.' 



Keep Pure-Bred Fowls. 

 Aside from the great pleasure which it affords, it 

 pays better to keep and breed pure-bred fowls than to 

 breed and feed a lot of mongrels, which latter many 

 do for fear of the expense of buying a few pure-bred 

 fowls to start with. In determining which breed of 

 fowls to get, make up your mind at the start that no 

 one breed can or does possess all the desirable quali- 

 ties you are In search of. If yon wish to breed for 

 laying, get Leghorns or Hamburgs ; if you wish a 

 breed for weight, get some of the Brahraas or 

 Cochins ; and if you wish a breed principally for or- 

 nament, get the Polish ; but give up the idea of get- 

 ting a grand combination of all these qualities in one 

 breed. Make up your mind what you wish in the 

 way of fowls, and then select such breed as will 

 answer those requirements best. Give them good, 

 comfortable quarters, supply them liberally with 

 water, giving them requisite care and attention, and 

 you will never have cause to regret your investment 

 in pure-bred fowls. When your neighbors see what 

 fine birds you have, they will naturally want some of 

 them, or a setting of the eggs, and thus will a de- 

 mand be created which will amply repay your first 

 outlay of cash and subsequent trouble and expense. 

 If you had bred nothing but mongrels, there would 

 have been little or no demand, and then merely at 

 market prices. A good trio of pure-bred fowls, of 

 almost any kind, can now be bought at fair figures 

 from reliable breeders, iu most sections of the country. 



Parasites on Hens. 

 A hen was found so lame she could not walk. 

 Parasites under the scales around the joint just at 

 the edge of the feathers, were the cause. Two appli- 

 cations of turpentine effected a cure, followed by 

 anointing with coal tar. The turpentine killed ihe 

 insects, invisible to the naked eye, and the coal tar 

 healed the soreness. 



Literary and Personal. 



Of course, no one who reads the communication 

 on page 84 In our June number, or our editorial en- 

 titled "Southward Ho !" &c., will come to auy other 

 conclusion than that the lands offered in "Clover 

 Hollow," Va., are anything else but virgin lands, 

 land that is quite different from the worn out soils of 

 Old Virginia. Mr. H.'s communication fully explains 

 what they are. In our editorial, we were discussing 

 the subject of immigration per se, and only alluded to 

 the Houpt lands incidentally, by way of illustration. 

 When we remarked that "one old, or partially worn 

 out farm, renewed and restored to a productive con- 

 dition, is of more value to the country than a dozen 

 virgin farms that need no prolification," we had 

 reference to the general subject, and not to the 

 Houpt lands; just for the same reason that one re- 

 claimed sinner causes more joy in heaven than ninety 

 and nine just persons who need no repentance. In 

 the possibility of restoring old lands there is future 

 hope : because, the forcible abandoning of old lands 

 and taking up new ones, in a far off locality, involves 

 ultimately, a barren and deserted country, and 

 human retrogression . 



Bulletin of the "American Berkshire Associa- 

 clation," vol. 1, No. 2, for July, 1879, Springfield, 

 Illinois, 36 pp. 8vo. giving the proceedings of said 

 association, with choice selections from the addresses 

 of some of the most distinguished journals and 

 speakers in Europe, Canada and the United States, 

 and a list of its officers, embellished with three full 

 page illustrations of favorite stock. A wonderful 

 amount of information on the subject of stock-rais- 

 ing and kindred occupations. 



Summer Pamphlet of pot-grown strawberry 

 plants : for sale by I. T. Lovett, Monmouth Nursery, 

 Little Silver, Monmouth county, N. J., an 8vo. 

 pamphlet of 13 pp. with two beautiful illustrations 

 of the "Sharpless" and the "Glendale" strawberries, 

 the first named of which is beautifully colored. 

 Giving price lists of some fourteen varieties, with 

 full instructions for their cultivation ; nature of soil, 

 its preparation, and setting out plants under differ- 

 ent systems, and other interesting matters In relation 

 to their culture. 



The Fancier's Weekly.— A super royal octavo 

 of 13 pages, devoted to the rapidly increasing Poul- 

 try interest. No. 1, vol. 1, of this enterprising jour- 

 nal has been placed on our table, and it looks "for 

 all the world" as if it was going to succeed; and if 

 it don't, then for once, excellence in letter press, em- 

 bellishments, paper and literary ability will go unap- 

 preciated and unrewarded. Live or die we extend 

 our hand and friendly recognition. Welcome into our 

 fellowship. SI a year, Albany, New York. 



Ward's Muss;n\iof Mineralogy, Geology and Zo- 

 ology, No. 2, College Avenue, Kochester, N. Y. 

 Prof. H. A. Ward. A quarto circular of 8 pages, 

 giving lists of naturnal objects on hand and for sale, 

 in Mineralogy, Geology, Paleontology, Archaeology, 

 Ethnology, "Zoology, both vertebrate and inverte- 

 brate; relief maps, charts, pictures, &c., &c., the 

 details of which are exceedingly interesting to col- 

 lectors. By sending to the above address, "informa- 

 tion through circulars or correspondence may be ob- 

 tained. Prof. Ward purchases choice specimens of 

 American minerals and fossils, &c. 



Premium List of the York coonty Horticultural 

 and Industrial Society. First Exhibition at York, 

 Pa., September 17, 18 and 19, 1879. 20 pp. royal 13 

 mo., containing also Rules and Regulations of the 

 Association, lists of officers, and an introduc- 

 tory address to the public. The premiums offered 

 are very liberal, and are for the best grades of fruits, 

 flowers, vegetables, dried fruits and grain, painting, 

 penmanship, drawings, pantry and kitchen products, 

 household manufactures, embroidery, crotchet and 

 tatting work, cabinet ware, saddlery, musical instru- 

 ments, sewing machines, new inventions and miscel 

 lany . This if an entirely different organization from 

 the York county Agricultural Society, and exhibits an 

 energy that our/ht to be contagious. 



Premium List of the Twenty-seventh Indiana State 

 Fair, to be held at Indianapolis, September •.;9th to 

 October 4th, 1879. An 8 vo. of 40 pp. in paper cov- 

 ers, with an introductory; Lists of members of the 

 State Board of Agriculture; Executive Committee; 

 Superintendents; Rulas and Regulation; Instructions 

 to Judges: Forms of Protests; Programmes of De- 

 partments, and 48 "Books" of liberal premiums, 

 diplomas, silver medals, &c.; General Regulations; 

 and List of the District and County Fairs of Indiana, 

 for the year 1879. Indiana seems to be far ahead of 

 Pennsylvania, in this i-espect. In addition to the 

 State Fair, seventeen District Fairs, in as many differ- 

 ent places, and fifty-five County Fairs, in as many 

 different counties, have been already announced for 

 the year 1879. 



Peck & Snyder's Illustrated Price List for 1879. 

 Being a Guide for Sportsmen, and devoted to the 

 advancement of all legitimate Sports and Pastimes. 

 both out and indoor. Published annually for the 

 benefit of their patrons and themselves. Price 10 

 cents. Manufacturers, importers and dealers In an 

 Immense variety of goods, almost literally— "from 

 a needle to an anchor." "Now by Saint Paul," we 

 like that. They publish it for the benefit of them- 

 selves, as well as that of the public. It Is so com- 

 mon for advertisers to simperlngly announce that 

 they have no interest whatever in the matter, and 

 that they are making the most extraordinary sacri- 

 fices for the interest of the public alone. 192 pages 

 12 mo. profusely illustrated, No. 134 Nassau Street, 

 New York. 



La Belle Letter-copying Book and Ink. — A 

 quarto circular of eight pages, amply Illustrating 

 what is represented to be the best and most expe- 

 ditious system of transferring copies of written 

 letters to a book prepared for that purpose, extant, 

 and from a practical test in our presence, so far as 

 our experience is concerned, we believe it possesses 

 all the merit it claims. This is eminently a Chicago 

 invention; and, if the testimony of all the leading 

 Chicago newspapers, merchants. Court officials, mu- 

 nicipal officers, and county and city functionaries is 

 of any value. It comes strongly recommended, and 

 our testimony is certainly not adverse, but rather 

 confirmatory. Dr. E. B. Herv is the Agent for Lan- 

 caster county; who will give all necessary informa- 

 tion on 



connty, 



Quarterly Report of the Pennsylvania Board 

 of Agriculture, for March, April and May, 1879. 

 With the valuable and interesting tabulated statis- 

 tics, relating to farm wages ; board ; prices of farm 

 products and stock ; condition of stock ; acreage in 

 crops ; and condition of crops ; instituting a com- 

 parison between the years 1878 and 1879 during the 

 same period. 40 pp. royal octavo, creditably gotten 

 up as all its former publications. These reports 

 contain much valuable information as a whole, and 

 much that may be referred to with profit In the fu- 

 ture ; but, as reports of the growing crops, they are 

 not of much practical account ; simply because al- 

 ways a month or six weeks intervenes between the 

 period to which they are estimated and their publi- 

 cation, and six weeks in a growing season, is capable, 

 sometimes of working a wonderful revolution in the 

 conditionof vegetation, either beneficial or hurtiful. 



Associated Dairying; Creameries and Cream- 

 ery Butter; Cheese and Cheese-making; Our Dairy 

 House and the best Butter; 74 pages 16 m. Price, 

 paper 20 cents. Limp cloth, SO cents. S. H. Zahm 

 & Co., Publishers, Lancaster, Pa. Not only farmers 

 and dairymen, but all who may buy or eat butter, 

 will find something of Interest Id this treatise. It 

 tells how the celebrated Creamery Butter is made, 

 and shows the workings of the now widely-extend- 

 ed system of associated dairying under which it is 

 produced. Cheese too has some space devoted to it, 

 but no odor of Limburger clings to Its leaves. No 

 other modern improvement in the practice of agri- 

 culture has proved more profitable and convenient 

 than 'he creamery, nor has any other added more to 

 the uniform excellence of its products; and the sys- 

 tem of which the Creamery is a part, has of late at- 

 tracted renewed attention. 



The work is printed on ffood paper, and we think 

 will meet the wants of those who are looking for iu- 

 formatlon in regard to the subject treated. We com- 

 mend the work to our readers as a worthy produc- 

 tion. 



"Four Roller Cylinder Press," of No. 8 Spruce Street, 

 New York, and is as beautiful a specimen of this 

 kind of picture printing as we have yet seen. Those 

 desiring further information, as to quality and ca- 

 pacity, will do well to send for their Illustrated Cat- 

 alogue of all their presses, which has just been pub- 

 lished. 



A pure, unsophisticated and artless village maiden, 

 just blown into womanhood, seems to have been 

 gleaning— like another Ruth— and, with sickle and 

 canteen is returning from the field, bearing her sheaf 

 on her shoulders. Crimson marigolds are twined 

 low in her hair behind, and she seems absorbed in 

 deep contemplation, or perhaps only in a " brown 

 study," as to whether he will keep his promised 

 tryst. What .a pity that the airy castles of early life 

 should be doomed to the undermining process of 

 time, disintegrate, topple over and decay. But, per- 

 haps after all, the picture is only a "make-believe." 

 Those chubby hands don't look like the brawny and 

 bony digits of one accustomed to " pot-v"re6tling" 

 and the scullery; nor yet to the lacerated or callous 

 " paws" of the professional reaper and gleaner. 



So much for the sentiment of the piece. The me- 

 chanical contrivance that can throw off such pictures 

 — perhaps as fast as they can be counted — is entitled 

 to a prior consideration ; just as a picture portrayed 

 by the hand, is of almost infinitely less considera- 

 tion than the hand that produces it, or the mind that 

 guides that hand. 



Farm, Field and Fireside, devoted to agricul- 

 ture, markets, and home literature. A royal quarto 

 of 16 pages; Thos. W, Herrlngshaw, proprietor: 

 Fred. Haukohl, editor: Charles W. Cook, business 

 manager : published semi-monthly (?) at gl.OO per 

 year, in advance; single copies 5 cents. Professes to 

 be "the best Agricultural and Literary paper pub- 

 lished," and, under that binomial combination, we 

 are not preared to say that it is not; notwithstand- 

 ing the absence of a specific qualification may Indi- 

 cate the whole world. We are too young to know 

 what Is in the world, notwithstanding we have strug- 

 gled through a decade or more. To make a long- 

 story short this journal is worthy the companionship 

 of those excellent publications "The National Live 

 Stock Journal," "The Prairie Farmer," and "The 

 American Stockman," all domiciliated In that re- 

 markable Gotham of the West— Chicago. The 

 marked editorials, however, relating to the peculiar 

 virtues of "revolvers" are mal apropos, so far as 

 K'« are concerned. We are verging rapidly towards 

 "three score and ten," and yet we never had occa- 

 sion to use a weapon more formidable than a tooth- 

 pick in our life, and we have been in our time at 

 least 2,000 miles from home for months together. 

 Modern, improved, and cheapened revolvers may be 

 the visible outbirths of genius, but it is a genius that 

 is not evolved from the regions above. Anyhow, what 

 ean genius be thinking about, when it ultimates a 

 revolver that will "go off to a hair," and is "sure to 

 kill" at forty paces or more ? Nevertheless, the 

 Farm, Field and Fireside Is a capital journal within 

 the sphere where It professes to labor. Spicy and witty, 

 Jf it is "young." Heigho I we wish we were young. 



