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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[ January, 1880. 



contrive to throw doffn just enough in the morning 

 to last till the middle of the afternoon, and the re- 

 mainder of the dav'S allowance can be given before 

 dark. 



Quarantine New Stock. 



The fancier has evils enough to contend with at 

 home, without liaTiiig disease brought among his 

 stock from outside. Vet there is haVdly one of us 

 but has suffered in this way. There is only one 

 remedj-, and that is to quarantine all new stock until 

 satisfied that it is perfectly healthy. To preserve 

 human health, the jrovernment has made wise pro- 

 vision, and no vessel can land cargo or passengers 

 from a foreign port until a health officer has made a 

 suitable examination ; is satisfied that the general 

 health of the community will not suffer, and gives a 

 certificate to that effect. Until this bit of red tape is 

 all right, that other bit — the custom house permit — 

 is not issued. We will n.H carry our grievance into 

 the halls of government, but, through the widely 

 and wisely circulated pages of the Journal, ask 

 brother fanciers to quarantine all stock from an- 

 other yard, if that other yard be only a hundred 

 rods distant, that no disease gain foothold among 

 those in good health. It is also just to those who 

 ship fowls or other stock. An incipient disease may 

 be lurking among them which, aggravated by a 

 journey, will assume a maliifnaiit form much sooner 

 than it will appear among those which remain at 

 home. The shipper, if apprised of the fact, can 

 treat those remaining in time so save much trouble. 



It is but a small matter to attend to. Let every 

 breeder of poultry or pigeons have a separate home 

 and yard, away from other stock, and on the arrival 

 of a new purchase, keep them in i; a week and 

 watch them closely ; then, if they appear all right, 

 allow themlto make themselve.sjat home.— jf)oinis,'in 

 J''a)n'it)':i' Journal. 



Tender Poultry. 

 'The reason poultry killed at home, though youno- 

 IS not tender as that bought at the market is thit 

 the former is generally not killed until wanted and 

 when v..:vn is stil! rigid with death, while that 

 bought at the poulterer's has been killed at least 

 hours, more often days. Poultry ought to be killed 

 several days before being eaten, dressed at once 

 and, with few a bits of charcoal in it, hung a eooi 

 place. If poultry arc kept from food and drink at 



east twelve hours before killing the crop and intes- 

 tines wdl he emptied, and any superfluity of secre- 

 tions exhausted. The flesh will be juicy and the fat 

 firm. If left three days without food or drink, 



hough HI good condition previously, the flesh will 

 be d ry and tasteless and the fat soft. Never buy an 

 undrawn fowl The grass from crop and intestines 

 will taint the flesh, even though retained but a short 

 time. — J'imeter's Journal. 



Pedigree of Homers. 



A late number of the Buauur, one of the most 

 valuable English papers, contained the followiuff ■ 



We notice in the -Fanciers' Journal,' that a pedi- 

 gree list has been opened for the register of cele- 

 brated birds, at a charire of about Is. per bird The 

 first column gives the bird's number, followed hv 

 the name, sex, color, date of hatch, names o'f 

 parents and particulars of same, and lastly the 

 owner s name. It is somewhat remarkable how the 

 flying fancy has srrown in America, and how, as in 

 in everylhing else there taken up, it has gone ahead. 

 Far beyond us in 'starting the idea,' the Americans 

 have gone beyond us, and carry out the whole sys- 

 tem in a much more complete and enthusiastic man- 

 ner than do the EugUsh."— Fanciers' Journal. 



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Don't Give Preventives 

 Except in the form of ventilation, clean rpiarteis 

 good food, pure water, and exercise. Too many 

 times diseases exist only in the imagination of the 

 owner. Wait until some symptoms make a disorder 

 apparent ; then, if the bird is a valuable one, and 

 there is the least uncertainty as to the cause and 

 remedy, take the case to an homiepathie physician, 

 state those symptoms carefully, remembering that 

 it is the symptoms that indicate to him the remedy, 

 and in all probability lie will give the remedy at 

 once. — FuncUrx' .lour nut. 



Literary and Personal. 



Rules, regulations, itc, of , the first annual exhi- 

 bition of the Franklin County Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Association, held January i:!, 14, 15, IbSO, in Re- 

 pository Hall, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Dr. 

 A. M. Dickie, Doylestown, Pa., Jud"ge; 40 pages, 

 royal, 1'2 mo. containing premium list, constitution, 

 by-laws, &c. Very liberal. 



How TO Study Phrexoloot— With hints on co- 

 operation, observation and study ; containing also 

 directions for the formation of jihrenological socie- 

 ties, with constitution, by laws, beet books to study, 

 &c., including the first principles or outlines of 

 phrenology, by H. S. Drayton, A. M., editor J'hre- 



nological Journal, S. R. Wells & Co., publishers, 737 

 Broadway, N. Y., 40 pages, 16 mo., with 42 charac- 

 teristic illustrations. 



"An Address of the representatives of the religious 

 Society of Friends of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 

 Delaware, to their fellow citizens, on the use of in- 

 toxicating drinks, Philadelphia, to be had at Friends' 

 book store, 304 Arch street : 16 pages octavo, replete 

 with charitable warning and healthful advice ; but 

 in this mad, impulsive age, will it be sufficiently 

 heeded to arrest the reckless, downward stream of 

 fallen humanity? 



Sixth Quarterlt Report of the "Pennsylvania 

 Board of Agriculture," from September to Novem- 

 ber, inclusive, 1879, 48 pages, royal octavo, with two 

 full page colored illustrations »f diseased lungs of 

 cattle infected with pleuro-pneumonia. Containing 

 official list, and list of members, tabulated statistics 

 of crops; stock, products, and especially reports on 

 the lung plague: Reports of the veterinary surgeon ; 

 abortion among dairy stock ; a synopsis of the laws 

 of trespass, as they relate to agriculture, and the 

 proceedings of the Board. Material and letter-press 

 first quality. 



The Chester Valley Farmer .-" kfire-sMe jo\irna.\," 

 This is a neat monthly folio of four pages, about one 

 column less in length and breadth than the daily 

 Examiner, to be published monthly at Coatesville, 

 Chester county, by Joseph C. Kaurt'man, at 25 cents 

 subscription per annum; 20 copies to one post office, 

 S3.00. A very clean and sharp typographical im- 

 pression, and on good paper, dented mainly to 

 agricultural literature. No, 1. Vol. 1. for Decem- 

 ber, 1879, has been laid on our table, and w-e are 

 glad to say, is very prepossessing, both in general 

 and in particular, and we welcome it to the great 

 literary omnibus of our country, feeling that it 

 always has the capacity of accomodating "one more 

 passenger." We feel assured that Chester county 

 possesses the mind and matter to secure the success 

 of a good agricultural journal, and doubtless its 

 yeomanry will put their shoulders to the wheel and 

 sustain this clever and hopeful beginning. 



A New Health Almanac— We havejust received 

 from the publishers the Illustrated Annual of Phre- 

 nology and Health Almanac for 1880, 73 octavo 

 pages, price 10 cents. This publication has become 

 a necessity in many well-regulated families, and 

 well it should, for it is tilled with reading- matter 

 containing valuable information relating to Phre- 

 nology, Physiognomy, Health, Hygiene, Diet, etc. 

 The number before us, in addition to the usual 

 astronomical note6,monthly calendars, etc., contains 

 a Monthly Sanitarium, with special hints for each 

 month in the year ; the Principles of Phrenology, 

 with illustrations, showing the location of the 

 organs, together with the definition of the mental 

 faculties; Phrenology vs. Bumpology sets to right 

 some erroneous opinions ; Phrenology in Scotland, 

 as seen in .the Edinburgh museum"; Tree Ferns, 

 illustrated ; The portraits' with sketch of Mrs. Lydia 

 F. Fowler and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes; How to 

 Teach, illustrated; Fat and Lean People; Instruc- 

 tion in Phrenology ; Natural Teachers ; Plurality of 

 the Faculties, and a great amount of information in 

 email paragraphs, with notices of recent publica- 

 tions, and a full and complete catalogue of phren- 

 ological works published by this house, and all sent 

 by mail for only 10 cents. It is handsomely publish- 

 ed, and will have a large cireulation. We will say 

 to our readers, send 10 cents in stamps at once to 

 the publishers, S. R. Wells & Co., 737 Broadway, 

 New York. 



Butterflies and Moths in their connection 

 with Agricultural and Horticulture. A paper pre- 

 pared for the "Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society," 

 January, 1879, by Herman Strecker, Reading, Penn- 

 sylvania, published by the State, Lane & Hart 

 printers and binders, Harrisburg, Pa. 



This is a royal octavo pamphlet of 22 pages, aud 

 is prepared by the best practical authority on those 

 specialties in the country, and backed by the most 

 ample material resources. This work will be em- 

 bodied in the forthcoming volume of the proceedings 

 of the various societies relating to agriculture and 

 kindred objects, of the State of Pennsylvania ; but 

 we have been favored with an advance copy in 

 pamphlet form, and we have read it with unabated 

 interest from beginning to end, and reirard it as an 

 able and useful synoptic view of the order of insects 

 of which it treats. If, from this outline of the sub- 

 ject, farmers and fruit growers could be induced to 

 commence a systematic study of the insects it com- 

 prehends — their histories and habits, their transfor- 

 mations, their jieriodical appearances and disappear- 

 ances, their forms under thi; different stages of their 

 development, and the injuriesthey sustain from their 

 depredations, the remedies for their extinction would 

 naturally follow, for after all an entomologist can 

 do, this experimental work comes directly wllhin the 

 sphere of the farmers own daily occupations, aud im- 

 mediately affects their own material interests, and 

 therefore ought to elicit their special attention. 



The A.meriuan Entomologist— An illustrated 

 magazine, devoted to Practical and Popular Ento- 

 mology, edited by Charles V. Rilev, Washington, 

 D. C, and A. S. Fuller, Ridgewood, N. J. Terms 



of subscription, $2.00 per annum, in advance ; pub- 

 lished by Max Jaegerhuber, No. 323 Pearl street. 

 New York; Vol. 1. No. 1. new series, for January, 

 1880. This is a double columned royal octavo of 24 

 pages, exclusive of embellished, tinted covers. After 

 an interval of nine years this excellent journal has 

 been revived, seemingly under auspices that promise 

 a longer lease of a useful life, than was realized 

 during its publication at St. Louis, Mo. It is so 

 familiar to us— pictures, title-head, letter-press and 

 all— that we rather regret it is not called Vol. III. 

 of the same series as the former publication. Prof. 

 Riley, who is a host within himself, will not only be 

 assisted by Mr. Fuller iu his editorial labors, but 

 also by a distinguished list of able entomological 

 writers, scattered over a large portion of the Ameri- 

 can IFnion, and presumably by scores of amateur 

 querists, and smaller fry ; so that the journal cannot 

 fail of success, and ought to find a welcome recep- 

 tion wherever noxious insects abound. We commend 

 it to the patrons and readers of The Farmer, be- 

 cause we feel confident that from the experiences of 

 the tifody-sir who have volunteered to contribute to 

 its columns, sufficient will be developed to cover any 

 case that may come under their observation. Single 

 number 20 cents. Six copies, $10.00; ten copies, 

 S15.00 per annum, in advance. 



Eighth Report of the State Entomologist, on 

 the Noxious and Beneficial insects of the State of 

 Illinois. Being the third annual report by 

 Cyrus Thomas, Ph. D., Springfield, 1879, 213 

 pages octavo, in paper covers, with ten pages of in- 

 dexing, botanical and general, and 47 illustrations. 

 This work is gotten up in a creditable manner, both 

 in quality and mechanical execution, and is almost 

 exclusively devoted to the history, the habits, the 

 development, and the classification of the Aphididae, 

 or plant-louse families and species. It would be 

 safe to say that every tree, shrub and plant has at 

 least 0)16 species of plant-louse that preys upon it, at 

 some season of the year . Many have more than one, 

 and some species feed indiscriminately upon almost 

 any kind of plant, to the sap of which they can possi- 

 bly gain access. A distinguishing merit in this work, 

 is the bringing together in one volume, classifying, 

 and succinctly describing so large a number of insect 

 pests, whose histories heretofore have been distribu- 

 ted through many different publications. Therefore, 

 whatever may be thought of it at home, students of 

 practical entomology abroad will thank Professor 

 Thomas for boldly "striking out" on this line of 

 duty. The Aphids are so numerous, so destructive, 

 and so peculiar in their habits, that it is absolutely 

 necessary that more should be known about them in 

 order to counteract their depleting and destroying 

 propensities. They are so very fragile iu their struc- 

 ture, that it is almost impossible to make a durable 

 collection of them, and therefore the State or the 

 National goverment ought to publish a separate 

 treatise on them alone, and illustrate it with colored 

 plates of all the known species, and this attempt of 

 the State entomologist of Illinois is a step in the 

 right direction. It is difficult to bring governments 

 — and sometimes also people — to see the utility of 

 these -things. But when the "dear people" are 

 threatened with the destruction of the results of 

 their toil, only they begin to cry for entomologica 



aid. 



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Phrenology. — The time is passed when people 

 question the utility of Phrenology, and men are now 

 applying its principles to an extent that is hardly 

 appreciated, both in self-culture, and in their deal- 

 ings with others. 



The ritrcnological Journal of New York is the 

 only periodical devoted to the subject, and it includes 

 with this all that relates to human nature and the 

 improvement of men physically, mentally and mo- 

 rally. In the prospectus for 1880, the publishers 

 make liberal propositions to subscribers. The price 

 has been reduced to two dollars a year, and to each 

 subscriber is offered a phrenological bust. This bust 

 is a model head, made nearly life size, of plaster of 

 Paris, and so labeled as to show the exact location 

 of all the phrenological organs. It is a handsome 

 ornament, well adajited to the centre-table, mantle- 

 piece, library or otflce. With the aid of this, and the 

 illustrated key which accompanies it, together with 

 the articles published in the Phrenological Journal 

 on Practical Phreuology, each person may become 

 quite familiar with the location of the different 

 phrenological organs, and a good judge of human 

 nature. The bust is sent by express, carefully pack- 

 ed, to every subscriber who sends iu addition to the 

 subscription price (two dollars) twenty-five cents 

 extra for the boxing and packing; or. No. 2, a 

 smaller size, will be sent by mail, post-paid, on the 

 same terms, to those who have the bust, or prefer 

 the new book premium, will be sent "How to Edu- 

 cate the Feelings aud Affections," worth $1.50. .Our 

 readers cannot do better than to subscribe at once 

 i'ov Ihe I'hrciiological Journal; it will be found the 

 best possible investment for the money. 



Those who desire a more explicit description, to- 

 gether with prospectus of the journal, should send 

 their address on a postal card, or accept the pub- 

 lishers' ofl'er, and send 10 cents iu stamps for sample 

 copy of the Journal to S. R. Wells tt Co., 737 Broad- 

 way, New York. 



