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GARDEN CALENDAR 
be an Improper restraint. Leading-strings are 
inconvenient, bnt they are good things for 
the infant unable to walk without them. The 
lunatic does not know his own business, but 
the physician who orders a straight-jacket for 
him does." . . A throne is a very imposing 
thing till yon come to see how small a man 
Bits upon It. . . Among onionB, White Globe, 
Yellow Danvers and Large lied Wetherflelr! are 
the best sorts for main crops. . White Portu¬ 
gal is one of the best onions for pickles. . , 
, It is economy to bear in mind that few nov¬ 
elties are essentially better than the best 
old sorts. . . Now Is the time to select Hoses 
—the Hybrid Perpetuals and Mosses for hardi¬ 
ness—the Ever-blooming Roses for llowers. The 
last bloom more continuous] y than the former 
and for the Southern Middle States and further 
South are more desirable. The first and sec¬ 
ond classes are betterJor theNortb. . . The 
quite common practice among our farmers of 
hiring new help every season is, m our judg¬ 
ment a bad one. . . After a hand has be¬ 
come accustomed to a place and has learned 
the ways of the family und the methods of 
his employer he iB much more likely to take 
an interest in his work, than does one who 
understands that ho has but a short time to 
remain. Maine Parmer. 
The following Oataloguee have Just been published 
and will bn unlit to all applicants as follows: 
No. I —Frulis, 64 pages, plain, loo., with colored plate 
of " Waterloo " pea all, We. 
No. 3-UrwiiA IIoi-ll oiihc iV Bedding Plants, 
FHEK. 
No. 4— Wholesale, Fur.K.j 
No. 7 ( jitnlounn ol Strawberries, with colored 
plate:, tree. 
A 1.1st of New Kokch for I860,15! pages, free. With 
colored plate of live rare and Imauliful UoseH, luc. 
Our handsomely illustrated Catalogue of Orna¬ 
mental Trees, etc., (No. 2,) will bn ready about 
March 1st. Plain, lflc., with colored plate, 25c. 
Address, 
Rochester, 
or THE 
ELLWANGER & BARRY, 
Insurance Company 
OF HAETFOfiD, OONN, 
Oat meal is 
a wholesome and cheap article of diet. It 
ought to be the staple of the supplies given 
in charity to the poor. . . Non-poisonoos 
Flt-papbu : Quassia chips, twoounees; water, 
one pint; molasses, two ounces; boil the 
quassia in the water, strain add the molasses, 
and in the liquid soak bibulous paper, which 
is then hung up to dry. Chemical Gazette. . . 
. . Beurre Giffai d, one of the best of early 
pears; medium in size; juicy, melting Mesh- 
excellent flavor. Must be gathered a week 
before fully ripe. . . Rostiezer and Tyson 
are popular sorts; the first for excellent qual¬ 
ity and great productiveness, the second for 
its larger size and the equal excellence of the 
fruit. Rather a tardy bearer. Both ripen in 
late August. . . Peiilo Marguerite is an ex¬ 
cellent little fruit, also ripening in late August; 
very productive. . . Manning's Elizabeth 
is flue. Oubnnd'B 8unimer Is good. Dearborn’s 
Seedling and Bloodgood are fine old pears. 
Brandywine is variable but usually a good 
late summer sort; and Ott, though small, is 
very good. The above pear notes we. have 
condensed from an article in the Country Gen- 
tlemau. . . In Minnesota 183 gallons of 
sirup were obtained from half au acre of Am¬ 
ber cane. The yield in other cases was from 
150 to 176 gallons per acre, which of Itself 
pays very well. . . Crystals of Copperas, 
it is said, put in their holes, will effectually 
drive rats and miee away. It does not cost 
much to try It. . . In the new Catalogue 
Net Assets, January 1, 1879,. 
Received in 1879. 
For Premiums. 
For Interest and RentB, 
Veteran Corn Shelter 
FOR HAND OR POWER. 
Just the Thing for Mill, Farm or Plan¬ 
tation. 
Power and Hand Corn 8helleri> of all sizes 
and lo suit nil wants. 
HOR.SK POWERS, JACKS, <feo. 
Write for Descriptive Circulars ftD<1 prices. Ad¬ 
dress SANDWICH MANbrO CO„ 
.Sandwich, Illinois, 
Not Settled Which. 
I tell yon, you brute, one of us two has 
got to give In. 
From Fliegende Blatter. 
DISBURSED IN 1879. 
To Policy-holders : 
For claims by death 
and matured endow¬ 
ments. $3,746,268.64 
Surplus returned to 
Policy-holders, 1,885,264.97 
Lapsed and surren¬ 
dered Policies, 1,606,455.88 
ALll80M BUTTHE HomB 
K bffl Cheap, Effective 
'2mm. <• iid Durable. 
^ J^OAN BE BUN BY ANY 
POWER. 
Capacity from 6 to 80 bushels per hour, according to 
size. Send for Cataloguo “ B,” sc. 
U. S. WIND ENGINE & PUMP CO., 
Hntavla. Kane Co., II,. 
Total to Policy-holders, $7,136,986.39 
Expenses 
Commissions to 
Agents. $308,146.69 
Salaries of Ofllcors, 
Clerks, and all 
others employed 
on salary. 97,674.29 
Medical Examiners’ 
tees. 12,644.26 
Printing, Stationery, 
Advertising, Post¬ 
age, Exchange, 
etc. 164,948.82 
Profit aud Loss.... 2,496,60 
Rendering a loose or dry soil firm after seeds 
are sown, by a roller or by the feet is an aid 
to their germination. But if the soil is moist 
when Beeds are sown, the use of a roller or of 
the feet Is to be avoided. . . If tender seeds 
—egg-plants, tomatoes, &c,,—are sown in the 
same hot-bed with cabbages <foc., one or the 
other class must suffer as the one needs air, 
the other heat. . . The World says to Mr. Par¬ 
nell, “Go East, young man ; go East!” . . Mr. 
Beecher Bays that the man who can learn to 
love tobacco can learn to love anything under 
heaven. There are harder things to learn to 
love, Mr. Beecher, than tobacco. . . And 
now*“A. B. Alien makes a plea for polled 
cattle. . . Borne of the farmers of Canada 
“ in convention assembled ” expressed the be¬ 
lief that the soil lives to eat and as well as the 
farmer ought to bo fed ; that every farm should 
own a good farmer; that the fertilizer of any 
soil Is a spirit of industry, enterprise, and 
intelligence; without which, lime, gypsum 
and guano would be of little use. . . In 
speaking of the new “ American Bauner Rose” 
a month or more since we said it resembled a 
sick Bon Silene. It seems it it a sport of Bon 
Silene. We trust Bon Silene will amuse her¬ 
self more creditably lu the future. . . The 
Very soul of market gardening is manure. . . 
Farmer Mechl’s (England) balance sheet for 
1879 shows a balance on the wrong side—the 
first in 15 years. . . Mr. Read tells English* 
men that we say that the difference between 
protection in England and America 1 h that here 
it is a protection for the back—there protection 
for the belly. . . Mr. Read concludes, as a 
result of his visit here, that there is no country 
like England. . . He further concludes that 
nowhere In the world has the almighty dollar 
such an influence as in the United States. . . 
There is a most powerful aristocracy here as 
well as in England—the aristocracy of money. 
. . Our whole country is addicted to gi¬ 
gantic speculations. . . Rich men in Amer¬ 
ica do uot retire from business and take to 
farming, but they continue on in business and 
die in harness. . . Americans take grog, 
says Mr. Read, as Englishmen take physic. 
They walk up to the bar and, taking a small 
glass of whisky, toss it off and follow it up 
with a glass of iced water—just as children in 
England take castor oil. . . We hope that 
Mr. Read’s agricultural observations have been 
as careful as his other observations. He found 
that although the barrooms were ostensibly 
closed on Sundays, there was a “hack entrance" 
alwuys open. . . Jle did uot find this oat 
until he had been obliged, one Sunday night, to 
retire thirsty. . . Mr. Ritter says he likes this 
world the best of any world ho has ever lived 
in and dislikes the idea of leaving it, . . It 
is stated tiiat the wholesale oyster trade of 
New York amounts to $25,000,000 a year and 
that of the Chesapeake to about the same. . . 
Americans may be said to have been the first 
to recognize the general utility of the oyster, 
and to huve turned it to account In cooking, 
by stewing, roasting, broiling and frying. . . 
To avoid miscarriage, raise your abilities, or 
lower your aims. . . Thoughts and Events 
remarks:—“ Ah, liberty is a fine thing,—bat 
not liberty to Bteal, say. So, it is a fine thing 
to be able to throw off restraint, but It moat 
CHALLENGE FEED MILLS. 
inv\ Grinds three Union ns Inst as any 
I //m\ other mill*. Always successful. 
. m /ftyvti Over 5uo First Premiums and Med- 
1 ■fcrjAnK' als. Over Ib.Ooo In use. They do not 
clog or limit, grinds 6o bushels per 
Xi'tZtJy IjZF, ihour. All suooeuafnl Iron Feed 
frZf » jHBr Mills infringing our patenls. Biv 
in {5/U warn: Buy none but the best. Re- 
1 member tno Courts have sustained 
*- i.1 UrTt our Patents. Also, the l>CBt Wind 
Mills, Ooru Shelters, Horso Power wood Saws, Fann¬ 
ing Mills aud Pumps. Address 
CHALLENGE MILL OO.. Batavia, Hi. 
Results Tell the Tale. 
What may we reasonably lufer rrom the success 
of a medicine which Is sent far and wide, not only 
In the land of its discovery, but in foreign coun¬ 
tries, which has met with the Indorsement of 
medical men, the annual .preparation and ship¬ 
ment of which employs a small army of employes, 
and the Outlay' upon which. It) various ways, Is 
simply enormous. We must, if candid, award to 
such a remedy, the meed of well deserved success. 
Such a medicine is Hosteiter’s Stomach Hitters, 
the leading American remedy for rover and ague, 
liver complaint, dyspepsia, debility, nervousness, 
rheumatism, and various other physical troubles' 
it. early took precedence among tonics and altera¬ 
tives, and has steadily maintained it. Persons of 
a weakly physique stale Its recuperative proper¬ 
ties to be remarkable, both in degree and the 
matter of promptitude, and the bilious give a 
partlclarly good account of its effects. 
COOLEY CREAMER 
$685,708.46 
340,533.89 
Taxes 
Awarded Gold 
Medal at Paris Ag¬ 
ricultural Exhibi¬ 
tion, 1879. 
Butter made by t,blH 
$8,063,228.73 
$47,116,244.37 
Balance Net Assets, Deo. 21, 1879, 
SCHEDULE OF ASSETS. 
Loans upon Real Estate, first Hon. 
Loans upon Stocks aud Bonds. 
Premium notes on Policies in force. 
Cost Of Real Estate ownod by the Oomp’y, 
Cost of United Status Registered Bonds. 
Cost of Stato Bonds. 
Cost of City Bonds. 
Cost of other Bonds. 
CoBt of Bonk Stock. 
Cost of Railroad Stock. 
Cash in bank at interest. 
Balance due from agents secured. 
Bills receivable, and Judgment. 
process, awarded Sweep- 
k takes at International 
Dairy Fair, 1878, and Two 
Cold Medals and First 
Premium ut, same fair, 
_ , 1879. First Premium at 
Royal Agricultural Exhibition, Ixindon, 1879. 
II requires no milk-room. 
It raises nil of cream between milkings. 
It affords better ventilation. 
It requires less labor. 
It is more thoroughly made. 
It In cheaper, 
and (rives better satisfaction than airy other way of 
sotting milk. 
Send for “ Dairymen " giving full particulars and 
testimonials. 
VERMONT FARM MACH. CO., 
Bellows Falls, Vt. 
ratAMCI 
Mill Manufactory 
Zltsbtlahcd 1KM, 
CRIST MILLS, 
OrKKKNOU BUHRBTONU 
I’nrtiblii UlUi for Fsrmeti, 
Raw Mill* eU.; 18 llxm; orrr 
i.oooio me. Prlr.e from IHrt 
up. Complete Mill »nj Bbcll- 
er, |96. A liojr e»n grind and 
keep lu order. Adapted lu an , 
kind ofeiiltalde |,o„er. Coni. 
I>lete Flouring end Corn Mill,. 1 
NOKDYKK& MARMON CO., 
ludluiepolle, lad. 
$47,116,244.37 
Add: 
Internet duo and accrued $1,463,488.52 
Rents accrued. 16,779.06 
Market value of stocks aud 
bonds over cost. 165,982.86 
Not premium in course of 
collection.... None .... 
Not deferred quarterly and 
semi-annual premiums, 39,839.68 
IUII I OOUi lllMIlHtcd The best work on 
Garden lug. ft contain- descriptive price-list of 
VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS 
and CUOlL lt PLANTS, with everything for the 
Harden. Copy, with a large chroma of NEW 
COLEUS. 10 els.t plain copy, (5 els. for postage 
HENRY A. DREER. Seedsman and Florist. 
?l4Cheatnut Steot, Philadelphia, p a . 
My Annual Priced Catalogue is now ready and 
will be mailed free to all applicants. It contains all 
the leading and most popular sorts of 
VEGETABLE, FIELD, 
AND 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
Besides all the desirable novelties of last season, and 
nearly everything else in my line ol business. 
ALFRED BRIDGEMAN, 
870 BKOADWAV, NKW YORK. 
Ghosh Assets, December 31, 1879, $48,792,384.48 
Liabilities: 
Amount required to re-insure 
all out standing policies, 
net, assuming 4 per cent. 
interest.$44,074,325.00 
All other liabilities. 1,277,257.06 
- 46,351,582.06 
VeseySLHJU 
NEW YORK) 
Boarding IT o u s o S 
Agents, und larg 
it to their in tort's 
to the above ad 
latest terms. 
Stores, II o t a 1 a. 
Restaurants, Club 
consumers will find 
to send Post al Card 
dross, and get tho 
Subplus by Conn. Standard. 
Subplus by N. Y. Stadard, about. 
N. B.—Be¬ 
ware of Imi¬ 
tators. 
tfT NO 
HUMBUG 
Ratio ol expense of management to receipts 
In 1879...6 
Policies in force, Dec. 81, 1879, 64,604 in¬ 
suring.$ 
l&BBRRIEr^ 
.00031 CwtmU. 
lARupnrtor p| A UTOofiUI tbo yneef 
’ stock of iLHIl I O old And choice 
new varieties- -including tlic CUTB- 
BERT Raspberry, Glendale Straw¬ 
berry and Dnchess Grape. My cat¬ 
alogue (free to all) gives imitruotlona 
for culture, honest descriptions arid 
fair prices. J. T. LOV JETTY 
lvcr, Monmouth Co., JL 1 , *> 
Combined Catuloirup «»f 
JACOB L. GREENE, President. 
JOHN M. TAYLOR, Secretary. 
D. H. WELLS, Ass’t Secretary. 
PHILIP S. MILLER, General Agent, 
No. 1 Wall St., New York 
Sent tree to all who apply by letter. 
• Peter Henderson * Cc 
35 Cortlandt Street. New ’ 
