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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[March, 1880. 



should be one to a pound; but then it might be asked 

 what protection would there be to the chicken ? The 

 other day we heard a scientist say that the quantity 

 of rain that actually fell in the Himalaya moun- 

 tains reached sixty-ilve feet. An incredulous man 

 standing by asked what the size of the drops were. 

 "Drops!" answered he, "why as big as a horse 

 bucket." "I'll never believe that; you may tell that 

 to the marines, but not to me." — Gertnantown Tele- 

 graph. 



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Keep Pure Bred Fowls. 



Aside from the great pleasure which it affords, it 

 pays better to keep and to feed pure 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 witli. In determing 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 you wish a breed for 

 layins, get Leghorns or Hamburgs; if you wish a 

 breed for weight, get some of tjie Brahmas or Co- 

 chins; and if you wish a breed principally for orna- 

 ment, get the Polish; but give up the ideas of getting 

 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 an- 

 swer 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. — iloore's Rural Life. 



Feeding Poultry. 



It is a common practice to throw the "chicken 

 food" on the cold snow, sometimes where it is as 

 deep as the fowls can well wade through, or even 

 worse, into a regular mud hole. Neither of these 

 methods is of advantage to the fowls ; in the first 

 case they are obliged to swallow a large amount of 

 cold, chilling snow, and in the second, an amount of 

 mud is taken into the stomach that is not desirable. 

 All this discomfort could be avoided by providing a 

 feeding trough, so arranged that the food may be 

 clean. Aside from the looks of the practice, it will 

 pay to be neat in feeding these animals that help to 

 feed us. 



Milk for Fowls. 

 An old poultry raiser, who believes in milk for 

 fowls, says : "It is both meat and drink. Some of 

 the finest chickens I ever saw were raised upon 

 the free use of milk with their food. Hens lay as 

 well, or better, when furnished with this, than upon 

 any known article offered them." 



Literary and Personal. 



Strawberry Culture.— Spring 1880, with a 

 history and description of leading varieties and a 

 price list of plants grown and for sale by M. Craw- 

 ford, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 24 pp. 8 vo. 



A Condensed list of the most desirable micro- 

 scopes of moderate cost and accessories, mounting 

 implements and materials. R. & J. Beck, manu- 

 facturing opticians, London, and 1016 Chestnut St., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 16 pp., 8 vo., copiously illustrated. 



Nellis' Floral Instructor and priced cata- 

 logue for 1880, published quarterly, at liO cents per 

 year by A. C. Nellis, Cauijoharie, New York, H6 

 pages octavo, with useful tables, a copious index of 

 contents, and 115 illustrations of choice varieties of 

 flowering plants. 



The Ohio Journal of Floriculture. — Pub- 

 lished by Leroy S. Lamborn, propietor of Le Roi 

 rose and plant nursery. Alliance, Ohio. liO pp octavo, 

 with characteristic illustrations. $1.00 a year 

 (monthly) with a premium, without premium, .50 

 cents . 



Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of 

 Moreton Farm Seeds, for 18S0, a select and choice 

 varieties of fresh farm, garden and flower seeds, 

 potatoes, &c., for sale by .Joseph Harris, Moreton 

 Farm, Kochester, N. Y. A 4S page, Octavo pamph- 

 let, ful of beautiful illustrations, and detailed instruc- 

 tions in their cultivation. 



Descriptive Catalouues of Fruits, 24th edi- 

 tion, and do. of plants, S.ird edition, (or 1680. Ell- 

 wanger & Barry, Mt. Hope Nurseries, Rochester, 

 New Y'ork. Being Nos. 1 and -J of this series of 7 

 for the present season, including 88 page6,octavo, of 

 descriptive matter, and 15 illustrations of choice 

 varieties. Established in 1840, therefore, 40 years 

 of experience and constantly increasing facilities 

 and reputation, ought to be a guarantee that their 

 establishment is A No. 1. 



Abridged Descriptive Catalogue, of the 

 Bloomington Nursery. I. S. Tuttle and A. FoUet, 

 proprietors, and Baird and Tuttle, agents. Blooming- 

 ton, 111. 100 pp., 8 vo., with two additional ones of 

 40 and 20 pp., respectively, on tine tinted paper, and 

 beautifully and elaborately illustrated, containing 

 lists of plants, roses, bulbs, fruit, shade and orna- 

 mental trees, shrubberry, flowers, fruits, seeds, roots, 

 Ac, with wholesale price list. Among the fruits 



are choice apples, pears, cherries, grapes, gooseber- 

 ries, currants, blackberries, raspberries, and many 

 other vegetable productions with instructions in their 

 cultivation. 



Our Home. — Bearing on its banner the truthful 

 and significant inscription, "The comforts and econ- 

 omy of home are of more deep, heart-felt and per- 

 sonal interest to us than the public affairs of all the 

 nations in the world." This is a demi quarto of 33 

 pages on calendered paper and distinct letter press, 

 containing the choicest home literature that has 

 ever come under our observation. Published by 

 Geo. H. Bladworth k, Co., No. .W Bible House, New 

 York citv, at$1.00 a year, 3 Nos. trial at 25 cts. 

 No. 2., Vol. 1, (Feb., 1880) received. Among other 

 excellent features it contains home amusements 

 (including theatricals) and fashions, interspersed 

 with poetry, wit and sentiment. 



The Floral Monthly. — A beautiful 8 paged, 

 3 columned quarto, devoted exclusively to flowers, 

 plants and the garden, published the 1st of every 

 month, at only .50 cents a year, by W. E. Mortou & 

 Co., 615 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. No. 2, 

 Vol 1, (for February, 1880) of this young and vigor- 

 ous looking candidate for public favor has reached 

 our sanctum, and is about the freshest and most 

 sprightly visitant we have had during the present 

 year. It is printed on fine, calendered paper, in new 

 and plain type, and superbly illustrated. Six pages 

 are devoted to floral literatiu-e, and only two pages 

 to advertisements. Each page has a beautifully 

 embelished margin, and the paper is so faultlessly 

 pure, the typography so distinct, and the selections 

 so practical and from such excellent authorities, 

 that we cannot see why this journal should not 

 command a large patronage among the fair dames 

 and daughters of our land, especially ,as its print is 

 such as to make it re.adily readable by all, from 

 little Dora up to great grandmother. 



The Musical Herald.— A new royal quarto 

 musical journal of 24 pages, 8 of which are devoted 

 to the latest and best music ^in the market. Its 

 contents consist of original contributions, transla- 

 tions, foreign letters, able criticisms, reviews, illus- 

 trated sketches, serial stories, Sunday school, pub- 

 lic school, .singing school and ;church music; hymns 

 and their authors, gems of thought, musical men- 

 tion, music of the future, scherzando, and corres- 

 pondence. It is especially adapted to the use of 

 choirs, conerregations, social meetings, Sunday 

 schools, families, praise meetings and vespers. The 

 printed music alone is worth $10.00 a year. Pub- 

 lished by the .Musical Herald Co., Music Hall, 

 Boston, Mass., on fine, tinted, calendered paper, and 

 with clear type, .at the exceeding low price of fl..50 

 a year, single numbers 15 cents. No. 2., Vol. 1, 

 (Feb., 1880) has been received, which, among other 

 excellent things, contains an interesting illustrated 

 memoir of John Sebastian Bach, the great German 

 composer. Its difl'erent departments are all con- 

 ducted with "rare and raccy" ability. 



The Chinch Bug. — Its history, characters and 

 habits, and the means of destroying it, or counter- 

 acting its injuries. By Cyrus Thomas, Ph. D., an 8 

 vo. pamphlet of 44 pages, with sundry illustrations 

 and a map, forming Bulletin No. 5 of the United 

 States entomological commission, under the auspices 

 of the Department of the Interior. We are under 

 obligations to the commission, at whose request a 

 copy of this valuable work has been sent us, through 

 the politeness of Assistant Secretary Bell. The work 

 came to hand too late to refer to any portion of it in 

 the present number of the Farmer, except to 

 say that in the distribution of the insect referred to, 

 according to the map, its region extends at least 

 three degrees beyond the northern boundary of 

 Pennsylvania, and approaches unpleasantly near our 

 entire western boundary, there being, partly, noth- 

 ing but an artificial line separating the eastern 

 boundary of its region from us. The Interior De- 

 partment is certainly doing a good and useful work 

 in issuing their bulletins and scattering them among 

 the people. We ar» satisfied that they will lie more 

 widely distributed and do more good than when 

 they are included in voluminous and promiscuous 

 reports which may or may not be distributed by 

 members of congress. If they have not the desired 

 effect, then it will be because those in whose behalf 

 they are issued have failed to read them and follow 

 their instructions. 



~The Y'oung Scientist. A popular record of sci- 

 entilic experiments, investigations and progress. A 

 monthly octavo of 12 pages, with about 12 pages of 

 advertisements, all relating to scientific matters, and 

 in that respect interesting and specially important. 

 Terms — fifty cents a year, free of postage, and pub- 

 lished at 176 Broadway, New York. P. O.box 4873. 

 This is an exceedingly interesting and practical pub- 

 lication, appropriatly illusti-ated and of excellent 

 typhograpbical execution. Just the thing for those 

 who have neither time nor ability to "wade through" 

 the more voluminous scientific publications, and the 

 price is such as to bring it within the means of those 

 in the most ordinary circumstances. Its articles are 

 short, terse and practical, and just of such a charac- 

 ter as ought to make the work welcome to any fami- 

 ly and fireside that occupiei a mental plane above 



the sensuous or merely romantic. It is a great pity 

 that the teeming millions of our country are too 

 much absorbed in sensational literature to entertain 

 a proper appreciation of the rational. If there is any 

 species of literature that is likely to make an inroad 

 upon that impractical domain, we think it would be 

 such a publication as the "Young Scientist." 



The Sugar Beet.— Devoted to the cultivation 

 and utilization of the sugar beet. A very hand- 

 somely illustrated quarterly quarto of 16 pages. 

 No. 1 of this new journal, issued in .January last, 

 has just come to hand, and ought to have a wide 

 circulation in our country, not so much for the 

 pecuniary speculation it may be to its publisher, as 

 because of its being the representative of what may 

 become and ought to become one of the leading in- 

 terests of our country — an interest, too, in which 

 every man, woman and child is immediately con- 

 cerned. Very few perhaps consider the vast amount 

 of sugar consumed amongst the whole people of 

 whatever condition they may be, nor of the immense 

 amounts of money that are sent every year to pay for 

 the sugar we consume; and it must be evident to 

 every one who notices the great increase of the 

 confection business, and other corelatives, and the 

 increased patronage they command, that there must 

 be a corresponding increase in the consumption of 

 sugar. Now, because the sugar cane is cultivated 

 in a few of the Southern States, and we occasionally 

 hear of such things as "New Orleans molasses and 

 sugar," some of our people may be unsophisticated 

 enough to suppose that all this sugar is grown and 

 manufactured in our country, but far, immensely 

 far from it. We only produce comparatively a small 

 portion of it. But we ought and can produce all we 

 need for home consumption, and a surplusage for 

 exportation, and -Whoever may live to see it, it will 

 come to that before many years. The sugar com- 

 merce is too big a "plum" for enterprising and spec- 

 ulative America to let slip through her fingers. 

 Sorghum, maize and the beet vegetation that can be 

 grown luxuriantly in our most Northern States, will 

 supply the saccharine fluid in abundance, and it only 

 needs rural enterprise to develop this interest. It 

 has been demonstrated over and over again that the 

 manufacture of sugar from the beet is not only prac- 

 ticable but profifable. We shall take occasion to 

 introduce into the columns of the Farmer interest- 

 ing extracts from this journal, and regret that it 

 came to hand too late to do so this month. Pub- 

 lished by Henry Cary Baird &. Co., 810 Walnut St., 

 Philadelphia, at 50 cents a year. Robert Grimshaw, 

 Ph. D., and Lewis S. W.are, M. E., editors. 



The Christian Union. — A weekly journal of 

 religion, literature and politics, a 16 page 3 column- 

 ed quarto, published at No. 8 Salisbury Square, Fleet 

 street, London, England, at " six and sixpence per 

 annnum," single numbers one penny. No. 249., Vol. 

 6, February 13, 1880, has found its way to our table, 

 and is welcome there. Although it does not seem 

 to be distinctly stated who the editor is, yet it is 

 announced that it is printed and published for Chas. 

 Kirby, at the above named place. The journal is 

 gotten up, mechanically, in a creditable manner, and 

 it breathes a healthy tone in all of its articles, both 

 original and selected; indeed we can truly say that 

 its solid and compact reading columns are exceed- 

 insrly interesting, and its morals unexcepti»nable. In 

 a heading " marlied " editorial, the " proximate re- 

 appearance " of Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull, is 

 announced, after a recess of two years. The editor 

 seems to have a very exalted opinion of Mrs. Wood- 

 hull, and perhaps justly so. It is possible that Mrs. 

 W. has been misunderstood, yea, even "maligned 

 and persecuted." Many others have, and these at 

 least will sympathize with her. But if she can 

 " pos.'iess her soul in patience," these things will only 

 facilitate her moral and spiritual regeneration, in- 

 stead of being permanently injurious. We confess 

 we know very little about her, except so far as her 

 history has been reflected through the columns of 

 the public press, and this may have misrepresented 

 her. We are entirely in harmony with Irer view 

 "that woman's loving influence is to be the great re- 

 generator of the human race," if even it is regener- 

 ated; but, is the moral, spiritual, intellectual social 

 and domestic condition of women per se such, at this 

 juncture, as to qualify her for the great work of 

 iiuman regeneration? Have they a firm reliance upon 

 Divine Providence, and accept the adversities which 

 He has permitted as a means of individual or personal 

 regeneration? Woman possesses an immense power, 

 if she only knew how to wield it rationally and dis- 

 passionately, and we believe as firmly as Mrs. W. 

 does, that \voman only, as an instrument in the hands 

 of the Almighty, through a pure hereditary trani- 

 mission, can effect the regeneration of the human 

 race, and that she is a God-appointed means. But 

 O, let her not obey the dictates of her sensual nature, 

 nor pander to that of man. The regenerating of the 

 human race involves a subordination of mans sensual 

 nature to that of his spiritual, and when we say 

 man, we mean man, male and female, " There's the 

 rub." We are so apt to mistake the promptings of 

 this dual nature in man. How often do the insidious 

 promptings of the iMl o'er sway the suggestions of 

 the understanding? How often does the intellect yield 

 to the affections. 



