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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[Appril, 1883. 



range and good markets. The average size of 

 turkeys in the districts where the business is made 

 a specialty is steadily increasing, and we look for 

 still further improvements. 



Poultry, 



Unless well kept, vermin may be expected as the 

 weather gets warmer. If lice are present, apply 

 kerosene to the perches, from which it will spring to 

 the fowls. Sitting hens should have a warm and 

 quiet room. Feed young chicks often. Never give 

 them corn meat in any shape while in the downy 

 state — and use it sparingly if at all after that. 

 Bread crumbs soaked in water is the best food for 

 young chicks. 



Hens Busy. 



This is the busy season with the hens. If you 

 want them to manufacture eggs, they will do so 

 now most cheerfully, if they are supplied with the 

 raw material. Don't forget to supply plenty of 

 broken oyster-shells, so that they can put covers on 

 the eggs. Look after the nest also, and see that 

 they are clean and free from vermin, and in a retired 

 spot. 



Chicken Notes. 



Sweet or sour milk poured into a long trough is 

 much relished by poultry for drink. Fifty fowls will 

 drink two bucketfuls a day, when on dry lood. 



When the weather is bad and the chicks appear to 

 not stand it well, the food may be seasoned mod- 

 erately with red pepper, with the addition of tincture 

 of iron to the water. Warm milk should also be 

 given to drink. 



Literary and personal. 



Nos. I, 2, and 3, Pennsylvania State College 

 AoRicnLTORAL EXPERIMENTS. -30 pp., octavo. 



The Grange. — Its origin, progress and educa- 

 tional purposes. By Hon. D Wyatt Aikin, of South 

 Carolina. Read before a convention called by the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, January 23,1883, to 

 consider the subject of agricultural education. Spe- 

 cial Report, No. 55. 18 pp. Royal, 8 vo. 



Report upon the numbers and values of farm 

 animals, of product and quality of cotton, and com- 

 parative values of American and European farm 

 implements. Also, ratesoftiansportation in Europe 

 and the United States, Feb. 18S3. Special Report, 

 No. 56. 74 pp. Royal, 8 vo. 



Catalogue OF Jersey Cattle comprising the 

 Crystal Spring Herd, I. H. Walker, Worcester, 

 Mass. This herd consists of one hundred and eighty- 

 four registered Jerseys ; and cattle fanciers and 

 dealers should by all means send for and consult this 

 catalogue, before they make up their minds to pur- 

 chase stock of this character. 100 pages octavo, 

 giving not only the age and pedigree of all the cattle 

 named therein, but also additional information of a 

 historical, economical and domestic character. 



The Nugget — "a precious little lump of wisdom," 

 Dr. H. W. Lobb, editor and publisher. No. 329 North 

 Fifteenth street, Philadelphia. 4 pages, 8 vo, in the 

 Interest of the publisher. 



The Weather Indicator. An 8-page quarto, 

 published by Wm. H. Gather at 50 cents a year, and 

 edited by Geo. R. Gather, Ashville, St. Clair Co., 

 Ala. Professes to prognosticate according to the 

 principles of Meteorological Science, criticises Wig- 

 gins, et al., and alleges that "The system of these 

 forecasts is more certain tlian the signal service and 

 more opportune, as it gives the weather so far in 

 advance." Endorsed by seven papers in Alabama. 



Wholesale price list of grape vines, small fruits, 

 etc., for spring 1883. T. S. Hubbard, Freedonia, 

 New York, with a beautiful colored illustration of 

 the Prentiss Grape. 8 pp. Royal, 8 vo. 



The Sophistries of Free Trade, a quarto cir- 

 cular, in which Sunset Co.x, .Mr. Hewitt and Mr. 

 Lamar, are called to account for their tariff' doctrines. 

 In contrast with the principles of protection to Amer- 



ican production and industries, a subject that seems 

 destined to have no end. 



Southern Cultivator pob MARrn.— The March 

 number of this standard agricultural journal h.as 

 come to hand, filled as usual, with varied and inter- 

 esting miscellany. Dr. Jones* " Thoughts for the 

 Month" and his "Inquiry Department" are unu- 

 sually full and able, and this one feature of The Cul- 

 tivator would commend the paper to our farmers and 

 render it invaluable to them. 



Mr. David Dickson'sseriesof contributions is begun 

 in this number. His portrait and a sketch of his 

 career as a farmer, are published. All our farmers 

 should be readers of this paper, for to them it is a 

 vehicle of information and instruction that is unri 

 vailed North or South. 



Mr. Dickson's contributions will run through 

 twelve numbers of The Cultivator, and will, doubt- 

 less, prove of value to the thousands of our Southern 

 planters, but cannot be estimated in dollars and 

 cents. -We have not space to enumerate the many 

 interesting and able articles in this paper. Every 

 farmer should be a subscriber. A new feature has 

 been added for the especial benefit of the ladies, not 

 exactly a " Fashion Department," but lessons of in- 

 struction in dressmaking and fitting, with illustra- 

 tions and designs. This will be an interesting and 

 instructive feature, and we are glad it is added, for 

 why. should not our farmers wives and daughters 

 dress as well and as becomingly as anybody else ? 



Without further enumeration of the excellencies of 

 this magnificent journal, we advise each and every 

 oue not a subscriber, to send $1..50 to James P. Har- 

 rison & Co., Atlanta, Ga., for a year's subscription, 

 or if they prefer, we will send our paper and The CuJ- 

 tinalor one year for two dollars. 



The Telephone, ((Joi(i-)iai /or the people, York, 

 Pa., March, 1883, volume 1, No. 3, Lancaster edition. 

 A very handsome Ifi pp. 4 to., in the interest of Tele- 

 phonic communication throughout Pennsylvania in 

 general, and, we may legitimately infer, York and 

 Lancaster counties in particular. Monthly, at 25 

 cents per annum, with five cents additional for all 

 papers sent out of York county. Isaac Rudisill, 

 Editor and Proprietor. Published in the York Daily 

 Printing house, opposite the Court House. From 

 this number we learn that on the date of its issue 

 (about March 15) there were in Lancaster city and 

 vicinity already 92 telephonic connections between 

 prominent business houses, hotels, etc., and the cen- 

 tral office (Exchange office) Penu Square, Lancas- 

 ter city, and "the cry is still they come." Very 

 neatly gotten up, and plain typography. The letter 

 press seems mainly made up of business notices of 

 advertisers and subscribers, and perhaps, as a 

 medium of ad vertising the merchandise of its patrons 

 and to the limit of its circulation, it may possess 

 peculiar advantages. 



Aside from all this, is it not wonderful that nearly 

 twentv years before the expiration of the nineteenth 

 century, people should be able to hold verbal inter- 

 course with their friends and patrons miles away ? 

 The telephone, however, is of no more account to ws 

 than boots are to a man who is destitute of feet, 

 nevertheless, we are in hearty sympathy with its 

 !«sf, as we are with all progressive uses. The popu- 

 lation of our country is increasing so rapidly, and the 

 different business avocations and professional calling 

 are so crowded that new channels of employment 

 must be studied and developed, or it would be 

 impossible for society to prosper, or' even to exist, 

 and the telephone develops just so much additional 

 labor and compensation, and society, individually 

 .and collectively, is benefltted thereby. It not only 

 furnishes employment to those who operate its 

 machinery, but also to those who manufacture said 

 machinery, and this will ultimately furnish occupa- 

 tion to thousands. 



American Home, an illustrated 4 to. of useful 

 and entertaining literature, published in Springfield, 

 Ohio; monthly, at 25 cents a year. Sixteen pages 

 quarto,'at 25cents a year, cleverly illustrated, will 

 no doubt be appreciated and appropriated by the 

 "million." 



The American Farm and Home, published 

 monthly at 1006 F. street, N. W., in the city of 

 Washington, D. C., atSl.OOayear in advance. J. 

 G. Taylor, manager. A royal quarto of 24 pages, 

 Vol.1, No. 1. Of course, this is a new venture in 

 agricultural journalism, nevertheless we cannot see 

 why it should not, or o)(y/i< not, succeed. Consider- 

 ing the relations of agriculture to all the other in- 

 dus'.ries of the country, it ought to support more 

 agricultural journals than it does. This journal 

 does not confine itself to the sphere of agricultural 

 and domestic literature alone, but, with its ample 

 space, is able to "box the compass" in literature. Its 

 literary quality, however, is superior to its material 

 quality, but it is a good begining. 



Science, published weekly at Cambridge, Mass., 

 U. S. A., by Moses King, at fS.OO a year. This is 

 ademi-quarto of 40 pages, printed on calendar paper, 

 and in clear type; and, if we regard the quantity and 

 quality, it is certainly the cheapest publication ever 

 issued in this country. The present number (.Vlarch 

 9, '83)is embellished by a portrait and a biographical 

 sketch of Pkof. Spencer Fulton Baird, Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, and Director of 

 the National Museu.m, unquestionably "the right 

 man in the right place," and, one never having seen 

 him from the picture alone, would be able to account, 

 in some degree, for his eminence as a scientist; for 

 his appearance indicates not only the ability to think 

 and to search, but also the physical energy to ulti- 

 mate in visible form the substance of his thoughts. 

 "S'cieitce," seems to be an epitome of what is valuable 

 and interesting in the scientific world, to all who 

 really take any interest in scientific things. It does 

 not seem to attempt to popularize science by "step- 

 ping down," but rather in "drawing others up." 



The Hahnemanian Monthly, published by the 

 " Hahneman Club," of Philadelphia : Bushrod W. 

 James, business manager. Northeast corner 18th 

 and Green streets, Philadelphia. Terms, §3.00 

 per annum, in advance. Single number, 30 

 cents. One hundred pages octavo, monthly 

 (vol. 4, No. 21), al which rate would amount 

 annually to twelve hundred pages, making two 

 large volumes of interesting reading matter to 

 the student, tlie practitioner or the amateur in 

 Homeopathy ; a price, according to quantity and 

 quality, almost as infinitesimal as its doses of medi- 

 cine. What a wonderful progress this system of 

 medicine has made in the last forty years, and how 

 emphatically and confidentially it proclaims itself 

 "A man among men." Whatever the quality of the 

 system of Homeopathy may be, it finds an able expo- 

 nent in the columns of this intelligently edited and 

 excellently executed magazine. Whether Homeo- 

 pathy is regarded as medical orthodoxy or hetero- 

 doxy, it cannot be denied, that during the last forty 

 years, the whole medical lump has been somehow, 

 more or less leavened, through an influx which is 

 claimed for Homeopathy. It is now able to stand up 

 successfully in its own defense. There let it stand . 



The Wheelman, an illustrated magazine of 

 cycling literature and news, Boston, Mass., published 

 by the "Wheelman Company," 60S Washington 

 street, at (wo f?o/;«r.s- per annum; single numbers 20 

 cents. Thebycicle is rapidlj becoming an institu- 

 tion in our land, and if it continues to increase at its 

 present ra*e of pi ogress, the census department of 

 1890, will have to de6igna.te an officer or officers to 

 take charge of this specialty, and make the proper 

 returns. Here is a royal 8 vo. magazine, literally 

 and artistically illustrated, containing 78 pages of 

 letterpress, embracing a literature — although pecu- 

 liar to itself — at once able and entertaining, as well 

 as instructive, which five years ago was little dreamed 

 of. The Byciclers, or rather the "Wheelmen," have 

 their literature and their commerce, their clubs and 

 clubhouses, their commercial depots, of bicycles, 

 tricycles, velocipedes, and all their accessories, their 

 riding halls and their schools of instruction and 

 salesrooms. The ll'Aec?»i«n is an interesting journal 

 to all, and its material and typographical execution 

 is equal to any in the land. No professional or 

 amateur ought to be without it. 



