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A Good Creed. 
About forty-two years ago the Rev. 
Henry Ward Beecher was editor of the 
Indiana Farmer and Gardener, a monthly 
magazine published in Indianapolis. His 
first work was to establish a creed, which 
was as follows: 
“We believe m small farms and thorough 
cultivation. 
“We believe that soil loves to eat, as well 
as its owner, and ought, therefore, to be 
manured. 
“We believe in large crops which leave 
the land better than they found it—making 
both the farmer and the farm rich at once. 
“We believe in going to the bottom of 
things and, therefore, in deep plowing, 
and enough of it. All the better if with a 
subsoil plow. 
“We believe that every farm should own 
a good farmer. 
“We believe that the best fertilizer of any 
soil, is a spirit of industry, enterprise, and 
intelligence—without this, lime and gyp¬ 
sum, bones and green manure, marl and 
guano will be of little use. 
“We believe in good fences, good barns, 
good farm-house, good stock, good orchards, 
and children enough to gather the fruit. 
“We believe in a clean kitchen, a neat 
wife in it, a spinning-piano, a clean cup¬ 
board, a clean dairy, and clean conscience. 
“We firmly disbelieve in farmers that 
will not improve; in farms that grow poor¬ 
er every year; in starveling cattle; in 
farmers’ boys turning into clerks and mer¬ 
chants; in farmers’ daughters unwilling to 
work, and in all farmers ashamed of their 
vocation, or who drink whisky till honest 
people are ashamed of them.” 
We would that every farmer and garden¬ 
er in our land, would not only adopt, but 
keep this creed inviolate. 
Scaly Legs on Fowls. 
The crusted substance which grows upon 
fowls’ legs and forms thick scales is caused 
by the work of a small mite, a scab-mite, 
which burrows under the scales, and causes 
an effusion of watery. matter, which dries 
and hardens, and forms scabs. In time 
these scabs fall off and new scales appear. 
But sometimes the legs become so diseased 
as to prevent the fowl from moving. The 
remedy is to wash the legs with warm 
water in which some soap and kerosene oil 
have been beaten up; then thoroughly work 
in under the scales with a brush a mixture 
of equal parts of sweet oil and kerosene oil. 
Begonias. 
Begonias in summer should have a cool, 
shaded situation. The best plan we have 
ever seen adoped was a small lattice house, 
made entirely out of laths placed half an 
inch apart, sides and top alike; benches 
were arranged on either side, the same as 
in an ordinary greenhouse; upon these the 
plants were placed, and all the interstices 
filled with spagnum. There the plants 
thrived most luxuriantly; we have never 
seen greenhouse plants in summer look bet¬ 
ter, if as well. Not only was this the con¬ 
genial home of the begonia, but all kinds of 
ferns, coleus, and many other plants, grown 
expressly for exhibition purposes, were 
here to be seen in the best possible condi¬ 
tion. This was the work of an amateur, 
and when his plants were placed beside 
those of the professional florist, the latter 
was completely used up —American Culti¬ 
vator. 
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