1882. J 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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mers should exhibit the same inlolligunt 

 spirit of enterprise disiilnyed by the inventor 

 and manHfacturer;tliat tliey should appreciate 

 the new spirit of American civilization and 

 rush forward to mako agrieulturo not the 

 mere follower and servant of manufactures, 

 hut tlie great leadint; and advancing interest. 



Says tlie Live Utoi-k .Tnunial : The stock 

 ranch and summer residence of ex-Governor 

 Stanford, of California, contains about 300 

 highly-bred horses, and it requires a mile of 

 stable to accommodate them. lie is breeding 

 his thoroughbred mares to trotting stallions; 

 not especially with a view to the production 

 of fast trotters, as some of our contemporaries 

 would have us think, but as a means of laying 

 the foundation of permanent improvement in 

 the horse stock of this ^tate, for general pur- 

 po.ses; and in this he is not far out of the way. 



The longest line of fence in the world will 

 be tlie wire fence extending from the Indian 

 Territory west across the Texas Panhandle, 

 and thirty-live miles into New Mexico. We 

 are informed that eighty-five miles of this 

 fence is already under contract. Its course 

 vv'ill be in the line of the Canadian river, and 

 its purpo.se is to slop the drift of the northern 

 cattle. It is a bold and splendid enterpri.se 

 and will pay a large percentage on the invest- 

 ment. The fence will be over 200 miles long. 



The oat crops of Georgia, South Carolina, 

 and North Carolina, according to all accounts 

 is the largest ever made in those Stales. The 

 crop is now being harvested. It is estimated 

 that Wilkes, Lincoln and Hancock counties, 

 in Georgia, will produce one million bushels 

 each. The Waf hington Gazette says the en- 

 tire small grain crop of Wilkes county has 

 been estimated at one and a quarter million 

 bushels. One planter iu that county has a 

 thousand acres of oats and the yield will be 

 fully forty thousand bushels. A i)lanter near 

 Augusta will make twenty thousand bush els 

 of oats and wheat. With this immense crop 

 there will be more than sutHcicnt for home 

 consumption and a large quantity can be sold, 

 bringing a considerable amount of money into 

 the State. 



The capital investment in railroads in this 

 country has becu divided as follows: Jay 

 Gould and associates, $563,000,000; the Penn- 

 sylvania Central, »G29,000,000; Vanderbilt 

 combination, S?iti-l, 000,000, Huntington com- 

 bination, .1821,000.000; .Jewett and the Erie 

 combination, S317,.j00,000; Garrett, of the 

 Baltimore and Ohio combination, $194,000,- 

 000; the Pennsylvania coal roads, $508,000,- 

 000; Alexander Mitchell management, $129,- 

 000,000; Garrison management, $62,000,000. 

 — Exchange. 



A Hint for Coffee Drinkers.— While 

 "dining out" one day recently, the coffee, 

 which, tliough the last, was by no means the 

 least of the good thiTigs furnished, was so un- 

 usually excellent that it was the subject of 

 general remark, and a word in the ear of the 

 charming hostess after retiring to tlie drawing 

 room called fiutli the following explanation 

 of how the good result was obtained: The 

 coffee furnished was a clear amber in color, i 

 rich in flavor and deliciously aromatic. To | 

 give the hostess' method a fair test it will be 

 no more than just to don one's apron and ad- 

 journ to the kitchen. The coffee to be used 

 is Maracaibo and Java, equal parts of each. 



finely ground. One large cup of coffee, one 

 cup of cold water, one well beaten egg, mix 

 thoroughly ; add four cups of cold water and 

 place over the fire. After it reaches the boil- 

 ing j)oint allow live minutes to liiiish the pro- 

 cess ; strain and serve immediately. This 

 seems a very simple process, hut in the hands 

 of a servant, if allowed to boil too long, it 

 would be easily spoiled. 



The Strength of IIorse.s. — Lieut. Roder 

 of the German Army, has been riding to 

 Granada from St rasburg in order to find out 

 how far it is possible, under certain condi- 

 tions, to draw upon the strength of horses. 

 He left the latter place on September 29, and 

 arrived in the former on November 20, a 

 period of 53 days, including 8 days of rest 

 and a distance of 2,.")00 kiloineires. His ani- 

 mal was a Prussian mare, 9 years old, and 

 when he arrived in Granada he found no diffi- 

 culty in selling her to advantage. He wore 

 no spurs, and bis baggage comprised only a 

 water-[)roof and a pair of capacious saddle 

 pockets, in which were a guide-book, some 

 maps and a few other objects. The pace at 

 which he rode was a steady trot when the 

 ground permitted, and a fast walk when he 

 could not trot. Roder concludes from this ex- 

 perience, and in sjnte of the ap|)arent good 

 results of it, that so much work is too great 

 for good horses and vigorous men. 



How TO Cook Rice. — Rice is becoming a 

 much more popular article of food than here- 

 tofore. It is frequently substituted for pota- 

 toes at the chief meal of the day, being more 

 nutritious and much more readily digested. 

 At its present cost, it is relatively cheaper 

 than potatoes, oatmeal or grain-grits of any 

 kind. In preparing it on'ly just enough cold 

 water should be poured on to prevent the rice 

 from burning at the bottom of the pot, which 

 should have a close-fitting cover, and with a 

 moderate fire the rice is steamed rather than 

 boiled until it is nearly done ; then the cover 

 is taken off, the surplus steam and moisture 

 allowed to escape, and the rice turns out a 

 mass of snow-white kernels, each separate 

 from the other, and as much superior to the 

 usual soggy- mass, as a fine mealy potato is su- 

 perior to the water-soaked article. 



How to Catch Crows. — A gentleman 

 writes us that he has succeeded in catching 

 several crows from his corn-field in the fol- 

 lowing novel manner: " I arranged a number 

 of large twine strings with a slip-uoose in 

 each, and placed them on stumps in the fields 

 in such a manner that when pulled the stump 

 would not interfer with the closing of the 

 noose. I stood hidden at a convenient dis- 

 tance, and would almost invariably catch the 

 crow when he alighted on the stump. I 

 caught eleven in one morning in this manner." 



The First Balloon.— In June, 1783, 

 Stephen and Joseph ^Montgolfier sent up the 

 first lialloon. To commemorate the centenary 

 of the event, it is proposed that an interna- 

 tional exhibition of " aerial arts " be held at 

 Paris next year. The "aerial arts" are to 

 include every industry, science orart, relating 

 to gas or the atmosphere, which is supposed 

 to have any connection directly or indirectly 

 with aerostatic experiments. 



Fattening Sheep in Winter.— In the 

 first place a good way is to begin early in De- 

 cember by giving, in addition to straw, to 



each sheep, each day for a couple of months, 

 a pound of meal, grain, or oil cake. 



If the roots of tulips and hyacinths are left 

 in the bed where they have bloomed and the 

 stalks cut after blooming and the bed sufli- 

 ciently protected in the winter there will be 

 annual blooming. The reason why hyacinths 

 that are flowered in water-glasses are ex- 

 hausted and make so poor a growth is that 

 the flowers and stems are produced at tlie ex- 

 pense of the bulb, and this is not renewed in any 

 way. When grown in rich soil this exhaustion 

 does not occur and the bulbs are able to bloom 

 repeatedly. 



Save the middle grains of the fine ears of 

 corn for seed. 



Hogs should be allowed to have a heap of 

 coal ashes. They will be all the healthier for 

 it. 



Beef and mutton are not flavored by feed- 

 ing turnips to the animals — at least this is the 

 statement of some who have tried it. 



Thk amount of fruit shipi)ed from Califor- 

 nia during the present season will bring about 

 $1,000,000 profit to the State. 



It costs the people of Tennessee 81,000,000 

 annually to sneeze and use snuff. This is a 

 Nashville merchant's estimate of the annual 

 consuniiition of the article. 



An orchard should never be planted in a 

 clay soil unless the latter is underdrained, 

 after which it becomes one of the best soils for 

 apples and pears. 



Let every farmer keep all the stock he can 

 possibly afford to — and generally he can afford 

 to keep more than he does. The dependence 

 of farming for all time must be mainly on 

 stock. 



A Wisconsin farmer, twenty-three years 

 ago, planted a piece of waste land, unfit for 

 cultivation, with black walnut trees. The 

 trees are frem sixteen to twenty inches in 

 diameter and have been sold for $27,000. 



France produced last year 7o0,000,0(X) gal- 

 ions of wine. Of these, 47,000,000 were made 

 from sugar, 51,000,000 from raisins, while 

 154,000,000 gallons were imjiorted from Spain 

 and Italy, to "blend " with their home pro- 

 duct. No wonder everybody wants to drink 

 French wines; they are so pure. 



In a small grove which adjonis the Schoen- 

 berger residence near Cincinnati, an army of 

 crows take shelter every night. They assem- 

 ble by thousands an hour before dark, and an 

 old man living near the place says that to his 

 personal knowledge the same grove has been 

 their dormitory for sixty years. 

 Don't Do It. 



Don't sleep in a draught. 



Don't go to bed with cold feet. 



Don't stand over hot-air registers. 



Don't eat what you do not need just to save 

 it. 



Don't try to get cool too quickly after ex- 

 ercising. 



Don't sleep with insecure false teeth in your 

 -mouth. 



Don't start the day's work without a good 

 breakfast. . 



Don't sleep in a room without ventilation 

 of some kind. 



Don't .stuff a cold lest you be next obliged 

 to starve a fever. 



Don't try to get along without flannel un- 

 derclothing iu winter. 



