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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[August 



J. B. Lichty, Lancaster, Pa., Assistant 

 Secretary. 

 John Eshleman, Treasurer. 



DEPARTMENT MANAGERS. 



John Elmer, Springville, and Daniel Diller, 

 Intercourse, Horses, Sheep and Swine. 



Isaac Murr, Intercourse, Horses. 



Charles Lippold, Lancaster, Poultry. 



A. C. Ilyus and H. M. Ilyus, Neffsville, 

 Machinery, Implements, etc. 



A. D. Rohrer & Brother, Lancaster, Floral 



Hall. ^ ^ ^ 



For further particulars call on J. B. Long, 

 No. 4 West King street, Lancaster, Pa. 



EXCERPTS. 

 THE OLD FARM. 

 Out in Ihe meadows the farm house lies, 



Old and gray, and fronting the west; 

 Many a swallow thither flies, 

 Twittering under the evening skies : 



In the old chimney builds her nest. 

 Ah ! how the sounds make our old hearts swell ; 



Send them again on an eager quest ; 

 Bid the sweet winds of heaven tell 

 Those we have loved so long and well 



To come again to the dear old nest. 

 When the gray evenins, cool and still, 



Hushes the brain and heart to rest, 

 Memory comes with a joyous thrill, 

 Brings the young children back at will, 



Calls them all home to the gray old nest. 

 Patient we wait till the golden morn 



Rise on our weariness half confessed ; 

 Till, with the chill and darkness gone, 

 Hope shall arise with another dawn, 



And a new day to the sad old nest. 

 Soon shall we see all the eager east 



Bright with the Day Star, at heaven's behest ; 

 Soon, from the bondage of clay released, 

 Rise to the Palace, the King's own feast, 



Birds of flight from the last year's nest. 



In Kansas the prospect for a large apple 

 crop is good. 



The tender sprouts on the main branches of 

 fruit trees can be easily rubbed off now. 



Two strawberry-growers, near Vincennes, 

 Indiana, say they will have 1,G00 bushels of 

 berries each. 



Pears that rot at the core after picking are 

 usually not picked soon enough. Many va- 

 rieties are subject to this weakness. Watch 

 them and pick while hard. 



Pear trees come into bearing after plant- 

 ing sooner than apple trees, and annual crops 

 are more certain with the usual treatment 

 that both crops get. Generally, too, pears 

 bring the best prices. 



Cornelius Frantz, a Wabash county 

 farmer, recently clipped from 19 sheep, 16 of 

 them last year's lambs, 227 pounds of wool 

 that sold at 20 cents per pound. His sheep 

 are pure Cotswold. 



A STRAWBERRY louse is Said to have ap- 

 peared in the Mississippi Valley which 

 threatens to do immense damage. It pene- 

 trates the berry, checks the growth, and 

 causes a premature ripening at the base or on 

 one side. 



The protection of grapes by bagging should 

 be attended to early. Paper bags, known to 

 every grocer as "two-pound" bags, should be 

 used. After the sack is in place over the 

 bunch one pin will serve to fasten it there. 



A cow belonging to David Jacobs, of lletli 

 township, Harrison county, Indiana, fell a 



distance of fifty-one feet into a cave, one day 

 last .week, and remained there for one day and 

 night before discovered. She was hoisted out 

 alive. 



Rye in fruit orchards to plow under is a 

 good plan. Sow in late August on well- 

 manured ground and plow under in the 

 spring just before heading out. After head- 

 ins the straw is hard, and loses much of its 

 value. The wintering covering of the soil is 

 beneficial. Keep up the practice year after 

 year. 



Statistician J. R. Dodge calculates that 

 the country loses nearly five million sheep 

 each year, mostly on account of dogs. Ex- 

 posure to cold and severe storms in the West 

 kills a great many, and Southern thieves take 

 some. Scab, foot-rot, paper-skin, dysentery, 

 and "scarcity of grass" are also destructive. 

 These causes bar extension of flocks, and in 

 some sections almost annihilate this otherwise 

 profitable rural pursuit. 



One of the best coatings for tree wounds is 

 gum .shellac in alcohol. It effectually ex- 

 cludes air and the wound quickly heals over. 

 In order to raise roses in perfection it is 

 needful to feed them well and place them in 

 the full sunlight, and not where they will be 

 shaded by trees and shrubs. 



There is no doubt that with good crops of 

 fruit here our export of evaporated apples 

 can be immensely increased. In no country 

 is fruit so scarce and dear as in'England. 



One of the best farmers in Maine is Miss 

 Sarah L. Martin, of South Auburn. This 

 lady carries on a farm successfully, and pays 

 much attention to the raising of fine stock. 



A practical farmer recommends the grow- 

 ing of two crops of buckwheat in succession 

 as a means of exterminating wire-worms. 

 They will not eat buckwheat, and are starved 

 to death. 



An old sod will rot more quickly if plowed 

 shallow, provided the work is well done. In 

 the botton of a deep furrow, especially in 

 early spring, the sod is too cold to decompose 

 rapidly. 



Soot is one of the best measures for house 

 plants, and if it can be had in quantities large 

 enough it is excellent for out-of-door use. For 

 the latter it is best mixed with one-tenth its 

 bulk of salt. 



A New York farmer declares that an acre 

 of Hubbard squash will fatten ten more hogs 

 than the corn that can be raised on the same 

 ground, He has gathered from six to eight 

 tons from an acre. 



The Dent varieties of corn are less hardy 

 than the Flint varieties, and needed to be 

 planted on rich, warm soil. The grain of the 

 former is more porous and more liable to in- 

 jury from water at planting or when ripened. 

 Corn for fodder may be sown, or rather 

 drilled, until the Kit of July. It is a good 

 plan to select an early sweet variety — the 

 Minnesota Early is as good as any. Drill in 

 double rows wide enough apart to allow the 

 cultivator to run through. 



Nearly 200,000 more hogs have been 

 packed in Chicago this season up to the pre- 

 sent time a year ago. Kansas City is fast 

 gaining on Chicago in the number of hogs 

 packed, and already stands second. 



Cabbage and other plants intended for the 

 garden should be ti'ansplanted once and their 

 leaves shortened before being finally set out. 

 This makes them stocky. A second removal 

 docs not injure them. 



There is no more difference in men than 

 in the soil they till. Place a good, wide- 

 awake farmer in one of the most unpromising 

 agricultural neighborhoods and he will not 

 only make his own farm better, but also in- 

 crease the value of all the land in the vicinity. 

 In its fright, on being chased by a hawk, a 

 partridge flew against Joseph Brink, of Sulli- 

 van county, N. T., with such force as to 

 break its neck. 



Charles Hedrick, of Lexington, N. C, 

 shot an eagle which had black back, wings 

 and tail, while its neck and breast were as 

 white as snow. It measured seven feet from 

 tip to tip. 



In a burning cabin in Franklin county, 

 Ga., two colored children perished,- and a dog 

 which had been left with them refused to 

 leave them and was burned to death by their 

 side. 



A buzzard dined on a lamb that had been 

 killed by a dog at New Garden, Ga. In some 

 way it got fast in the strap which fastened the 

 bell around the lamb's neck, and has gone 

 jingling about with the bell ever since. 



In Paducah two English sparrows tried to 

 drown each other in a street gutter. The 

 struggle was a long and desperate one, and 

 finally one got the head of the other under 

 water and kept it there until life was extinct. 

 There are people in Norwich, Conn.; who 

 believe that a robin in that town fastened a 

 string to the limb of a pear t'ee, wound the 

 string about its neck, and then dropped from 

 its perch and in a few moments died of 

 strangulation, while its unhappy mate sang a 

 requiem. 



A Franklin, Mass., dog saw a man drop 

 his handkerchief in the street. The dog 

 picked it up, and going to the door of the 

 house into which the man had entered, made 

 his presence known by repeated raps. When 

 the door was opened the dog presented the 

 lost handkerchief to its owner. 



The roof of barns should be steep, and if 

 of wood the surface either painted or the 

 shingles dipped in lime water, to make them 

 more durable. Straw and dirt collect under 

 flat-roofed shingles and cause rapid decay. — 

 N. T. Times. 



Galled and sore shoulders in horses are 

 often caused by the mane working under the 

 collar while pulling. This can be avoided by 

 plaiting the mane and tying it up in such a 

 manner that it cannot touch the collar. It 

 not only injures the shoulder, but the mane 

 also, which is one of the beauties of the 

 horse.— To W« Blade. 



A Lemon Cream Pie may be baked with 

 two crusts. To one glass or cup of milk allow 

 one tablespoonful of cornstarch, the yelks of 

 three eggs, one cup of sugar, the juice and 

 grated rind of a lemon, or, after grating the 

 lemon peal, chop the rest of the lemon quite 

 fine ; the whites of the eggs should be beaten 

 stiff and added to the rest just before putting 

 it in the oven.— A^. Y. Post. 

 Pretty bags for the children to carry their 



