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i K7 ! ! VOL. XL NO. iS. NEWTON, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1890. PRICE: 81.00 PER YEAR, Ivv T n t ti rirni , V M 13 JNTERPRISE. 1 ij ten -Ll Hi VV XI bill Absolutely Pure. Tli is j'owJor nerer varies. A marvel of purity fttonth and wholesonieness. More economical t!;.tn the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in umpetition with the multitude of low tost, short weight alum of phosphate powders. Sold only in , . Koval IUkino Powie Co., 10f Wall St., . Y. JRADFIELDS REGULATOR fj A-5 Pf-CIFIC til .ilCt.iTY rtSED .0 MENSTRUATION OR MONTHLY SICKNESS IF TIVN OVlRHG CHANGS. 0 U?t r TO"WOMAN"w7ef BRADFIELD REGULATOR CD. ATLANTA GA, JOtfl BYALLWILSBiSl. CHAS. W. EICE, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Newton, N. iJ. L. :. CORKLE, A T'l OllNE Y A T LA IF, NEWTON, N. C. yO'JXT liUL'SE. jr. K. YOUXT, Proprietor, NEWTON, N. C. well furnished rooms ; polite and attentive ser vants; t;ihle supplied with the best the market affords. A. P. LYNCH, Attorney at Law, NEWTON, - - - N. C K95 9 i0i.ll QN IMPROVED FARMS IN snms of 300 and upwards, on long time aud easy terms. For par ticulars, apply to L. L. WITHERSPOON, Attoexey-at-Law, NEWTON, - - N. C. MONEY TO LOAN. We will loan money on good real estate security ot: li tter terms than ever before offered in this State. For full information call on the under igncd. A. P. Lynch & M. E. Lowrance. J. E. THORNTON, KEKI'S constantly on band all sizes of Woo Coffins. Also Burial Kobes Strangers sending fur Coffins must send good se Canty Sinj, one mile north of Court House. Newton, N. C, J. B. LITTLE, jr2s3??i nnninnnn nnnmTCin esr:3ra K r.A I r, I hi KM NEWTON, N.G. Office in Ynunl $ Shrunk 's Building. Dr P F LAUGENODR, DENTIST. A Graduate of Baltimore Denat Oollege, trith sev eral ynr.rs experience.) I)oeii everything peitfiiniiiK to dentistry in the ht-t manner possible, at reasoi.ale prices. A;bing teeth made easy, treated and filled so lb at tbev will never ache ap'iin. Extraciing done without pain by usiug gas. Office on Main street Opposite the M. O. Sherrill liuiltline SHOE SHOP ! ! We have employed good workmen and and are running a lir.t'class s:b.oe Sls-op I tbo Krcond story of our building. Hoots and hoes of any gril le made to order. Shoes kept On tiHiid. Mnding promptly done. YOU NT $ S II RUM. A WORD TO THE PUBLIC! Till: XKWTOX IfSAliBKB We are prepared to do all kinds of work in our line in first class style. Soberness and cleanliness strictly obmrved. Will do our utmost to make our shop a pleasant place to our customers. Careful attention given to Ladies and Children at residence or whop- t'arncst Jj. Moore, Porp. Annual Meeting of the State Grange. ADDRESS DELIVERED BY HON". W. R. WIL LIAMS, MASTER OF THE NORTH CARO LINA STATE GRANGE, P OF H IIEXRY WIIITEXER GRANGE HALL, Newton, N. C, Dec. 11, '89." CV"E assemble for the 17th time r, VY order) iu our State meeting, inspired by the same laudable intenn tions and directed by the same spirit of calmness and conservatism, to en deaver to benefit the farmers of North Carolina, and to draw togeth er the links in the chain of attach ment, making them brethien, and thereby "developing a higher man hood and womanhood among our selves." The condition of the order in the State, I regret to say, is uot encouraging, but this will be better noted and explained by tho sec retary. Organization. It is needless to urge farmer? to organize now. The thing is too patent and plain for any controversy or persuasion. In our noble old State they are organized as never be fore, and notwithstanding the organ ization that is leading in members is badly injuring the Grange, yet we can but rejoice at its success, as we are all working for the same noble purpose to benefit the farmer. Agriculture is not prosperous. All over this broad land, this is the uni versal confession. This may appear strange, and is strange, when we consider all other pursuits and professions are prosperous. Tbere never was a time when the corpora tions, railroads, manufacturers and syndicates mads money faster. This depression and gloom is not confined to any one particular locality. Whether we take iu the great eocton belt of the world, or the illimitable granery of the we.st, the middle tier or the New England States, (he cry is heard tiint agriculture does not pay, that farmers are annually get ting deeper and deeper iu debt, that each day there are iee-s free homes, fewer landlords, and more tenants There is a cau.se lor all this. 3ouic thing is unceasingly poisoning the head waters of the stream of Jn dustry, and in its baneful operation taking away the hard aarnings of the farmer. In all ages there have been, and ever will be sluggard, whose chiefest desire is a "little more sleep, and a little nioie slumber, and a lit tie more folding of hands iu sleep." These are found in every locality, but the complaint is general among the industrious. There is a monster somewhera. It may be ensconced in the security of law, or combination, interest or mo nopoly, that has its i-on grip upon the hard earnings of the farmer and laborer, aod lower the price of his products. What is it, or what are they? Almost every economic writ er has a hobby. One rampantly as serts that the cause lies at the farm- er's own door, that as the times grow haider, he ought to work more unceasingly, making his furrows longer, plow deeper, kuow no l'ainy days nor wintry weather, that his wife should work haider, and his children should have no play nor school time, but should stay at home and keep at work: that he should have nothing to do with politics- but to vote, nor with public af fairs but to pay the taxes; that if he is behind he ought to make more cotton, or coin, or wheat to sell; another will say the trusts and com bines aud national banks are runnincr the country and taking the hard- earnings of the farmer; another wilj tell you it is the tariff, another that there is too much made; another that it is the awfully bad crop year. another that it is the immediate labor upon which the farmer de pends; and so on they go, each hay ing his own opinion. In my hum ble opinion these things should all be well and truly considered by the farmer, for they are all environments that do him injury, unless it be that he does not work, which accusation I believe to be unfounded and false. The farmers made in the union in 1888 four hundred and fifty million bushels of wheat, seven hundred million bushels of oats and rye, sev en million bales qf cotton, five hua dred million bales of grass and hay, and of corn two billion bushels, to b:ij nothing of poultry, eggs, rice, barley, etc. It is estimated that it would take a striDg of cars, if placed in a straight line, to carry this corn to the seashore, that would reach around the globe and would be more than a year passing a single point The estimate placed upon the agri cultural products of last year amounted to nearly four billion doK lars. Five hundred million of that amount, eight hundred thousand dol lars of that amouut was sent to for eign countries. Sixty million of peo pie were fed in theUnited States,and nearly as many in foreign countries. Somebody worked. Gorn is so plentiful now iu Nebraska, and in parts of Kansas that the people there use it for fuel, it selling at thirteen cents per bushels and being much cheaper than coal. Farmers Ought to Take an Interest in Politics. The farmer has it in his own pow er to place himself in the front, and ought not to complain or engender prejudices against other classes, we know that some people get up a lit tle cheap popularity by abusing law yers, we are not of that "kind, for we know, and everybody knows, that farmers elected them and sent them to Congress nd our Legislature. 'The, fault, dear Brutus, is not in stars, But in ourselves, that we are un derlings. Here let me say that I believe all classes should be re, resented in our National Crongress, and in our Leg islatures, but who can say, or who dare say that the farmers and labor ers should not be the more largely aud numerically present at the call ing of the roll. In the last Nation al Congress there were four hundred and one members, of which number three huudred and seven were law yers, eleven were farmers or plant ers, the rest being divided among the various professions, only one a laboring man. Iu.ourla8t Legislature we had a majority of farmers, but many of them appeared tj have forgotten it. Whenever a time came for them to show their profession, many would sit, then wait for recess, draw their pay, let the lawyers do all the work, and then go out and do some first class "cursing." Brother farmers, select and send your men to the Legislature and to Congress. !t is an undeniable truth, grievously appealing to you for change, for you knowyou can get no laws that will help you unless it is by and through your representative class. But iu choosing them do like Artemas Ward said, when asked if he believed in universal salvation, h answered, "Oh, yes, but then I want to pick my men," and when you get the right man keep him. It takes at least one session or more than one for any man to become a good legislator. In all pursuits whereby men obtain distinction or success, there must bean apprentice ship. Lieut. Gov. Jones who has presided over the New York State Senate for years, in a recent able ad dress before the New York State Grange, called attention to the mis takes farmes were making by their everlastiug rotation in office. He said that nc farmer could become efficient or hardly useful during one teim of the Legislature. The Tariff. The tariff is a subject like the English sparrows, which, when they come to town, come stay. It is well known that I have very decided views on that subject, but I will not discuss it from a partisan standpoint. The Grange does not allow partisan discussions or political measures, but any political subject can be and ought to be discussed in order that we a3 farmers may become better informed as to its bearing and ten dencies, whether of evil or of bene fit. This we can learn only by our ovn careful investigation, calmly in quiring and discussing among our selves. We must not wait till the the next camp'aign comes around. and the timber is all collected by the demagogues and spread-eagle poli ticians for their platforms. For the thing will be all one-sided then. O -e party will have you to believe that i he present tariff is the greatest blessing which has yet been devised, formulated or discovered to benefit mankind, that it is a panacea for all he ails that flesh is heir to, that it drives away the wolf of hunger from the peasant's door, that it wipes away the widow's tears, and stopa the orphan's cry for bread, that it give3 high wages to the toiler, that causes the hum of machinery to be heard, and the smoke of the furnace to be seen all over our broad land, bringing joy and gladness to the farmer, for it gives him a market for products that would otherwise perish on his hands, that it strengthens our government and fills the treas ury with money, and that, therefore, it is not the cause of hard times for farmers. On the other hand it will be answered by the other party, that since the fall of man, the "first and oldest curse," there has been no such calamity imposed upon and en dured by any people, as this high protective tariff, that does not in crease the wages of the" laborer for reason thai whenver any resistance is made to decreasing the wages, the manufacturer sends to Europe and brings over the pauper labor, and giving facts and figures, shows that the wolf is at the door of the poor instead of being driven away. He will say to you that all farmer has to export is sold in free trade Europe, in the open market, in competition with the pauper labor He will also tell you that a farmer from North Carolina has ten bales of cotton, takes it to Norfolk, gets on a steamer with it and goes to Liver pool, where he sells his cotton, pockets five hundred dollars, walks up town, looking at goods which he finds much cheaper than in America. So he concludes to lay out three hundred dollars for home comforts He buys a cook stove for his wife, an organ for his daughter, shoes for his children, etc. The merchant kindly informs him that all shall be put on board. The freight is rea sonable and he comes by way cf New York. When he arrives he is taken in charge, his person searched by custom house officials, and his trunks, and boxes, all, are opened, and he is informed that he will have to pay a tax, on some things double the cost, on others less, but all to the amount of forty seven per cent, of what he piys for the articles. He finds that the things he has so fondly cherish ed to gladden and bless his bouse hold, have cost him nearly four hun dred and fifty dollars instead of three hundred dollars. He asks what is all this for? And they tell him, for the purpose of protecting the American manufacturer. He answers, if that is tht case he might as well haye bought them here at first and is told that that is what the tariff is for. The "Tarmer returns home both a sadder and a wiser man, but has learnt that it is a one-sided government that takes from his ten bales of cotton, which he and his sons and daughters had worked a whole year to make, nearly five bales, or one half, to give to the rich men because they are manufacturers and he only a farmer. They will answer that the asser tion that the protective tariff increas es values is seen to be false by the staitliug facts, that for the last ten years, real property, lauds aud tene ment have gradually depreciated, even in the great manufacturing State of Pennsylvania fuiiiiu Line Jp preeiated in value within the last five years sixty-eight miliioi s of dol lars, that a like depreciation is re ported in the great State of New York, in all America with the single exception of California, which is not a manufacturing state, lands have : gradually depreciated iu value fori the la6t decade. They will also tell you that the most prosperous de cade ever known in the United States was between the years 1850 and 1860, when we had the lowest tariff of our history. It has been J called the golden age, us a blessing j to the farmer by establishing a local irade for his products. They will answer that none bu.t the cheekiest tool of the manufact urer can make the assertion without blushing, for he well knows that quick and cheap transportation has long since ex ploded that theory of Henry Clay and Horace Greely. But they will not stop there. They will invite you to Massachusetts, midst the music of bumming spindles and in sight ot the smoke of the furnace," and will show you the present state of scien tific farmers in that proud old com monwealth the very head quarters of protectimists and monopolists. There they will show you farms, that were once thrifty, literally abandoned, and'within the last eight years all over the state the farms have fallen in value 30 per cent. They will tell you thut this tariff is the great cause of the great depres sion in agriculture all over the union? that the high tariff takes the money from the people and accumulates i iu the national treasury,"annually, where at least a hundred millions is not needed ; that this surplus is but waste and in the language of the late Sunset Cox, one of the wisest men of his time, that "we can as well expect to run a powder house in hell with out being blown up as to expect any government to run with an averflow- ing treasury without corruption," that it weakens the government in stead of strengthening it ; that a government is strong in the propor tion that her people are contented and prosperous ; that there has nev er been a time when there was so much restlessness and unwilling submission among the people of the union as now, that we should have a tariff for revenue only, and that it should be highest on luxuiies and lowest on necessities ; that the pres ent tariff is the basis and promoter of many of the trusts, among which, strictly interesting the farmer is the jute bagging trust ; that one of the witnesses before the investigating committee of the last Congress, confesses that if the tariff was taken off of jute bagging that it could be brought from India and sold here for six cents per yard, bit that the present tariff enabled the trust to put up the bagging to twelve or fourteen cents per yard. All of these things will be stated when the politician comes to the front. So as tax payers as citizens it behooves us to make diligent iuquiry now. Wrhich does the harm ? Where is the benefit to the farmer? Education can never be overlooked by the Grange. The farmer is mostly need ing education. Everybody knows its power and acknowledges its influx ence. If farmers were, as a rule, educated as lawyers are, they would be the govern ng class. Not that all men should be or can be collejri ates, but all men ought to have a good ad respectable education to1 enable them to attend to their own bnsiness. Education ever helps and assists in the accomplishment of any work. The Grange is the best de bating society, and talking is to a certain extent only a trade. Our youths shculd join the grange, and by early practica in public talking, will at manhood be more useful citi zens and better legislators. Interest. Farmers have to pay a rate of in terest too high. No farmer can stand long with a mortgage at 8 per cent. Adam Smith said no sober, thoughtful man would borrow mon ey at 8 per cent, in England. I doubt if we in North Carolina can earn that much. The farmer cannot get money at a rate of interest as low as other classes. The national banks refuse to loan him money on his own security, real estate; and the same banks have a charter prohibit ing a State system of banking, ex cept by paying to the National treas ury a ruinous per cent Our Legis lature should restrict interest to six per cent., and all above that should be usury. Our forefathers for two hundr- d years had only six per cent, as the legal rate of interest, with se vere forfeitures for usury. This is one of the caases of hard times for the farmer. Farmeis should elect to the Legislature men onlj who will vote for lower interest. Demaad it ami you will get it. We attended the National Grange at Sacramento, California. There never was a more successful meeting. The California Legislature appropri ated ten thousand dollars to enter tain the Grange, and the citizens generally, both in the cities and in the country, vied with each other in showing the Grange kindness and respect. We have one more consti tutional amendment to submit toyou, reducing the fees to one dollar, which I hope will receive your cor dial approbation. Dealing in futures is species of unmitigated gambling that prices the cotton and other products before a seed is planted. It has much to do with controlling the price of cot ton, wheat, pork, etc. Ever since I have been a member of the Legisla ture I have sought to have a law passed by the State, placing its op erations on an equality with gamb ling. I am pleased to inform you that we have the law now, which will only have to be watched to be executed. The farmerjand the jury and the judges on the bench are the authorities to enforce it. Uo-Operation Is one of the tenets of the Grange, but it has not always been success ful. Wherever it failed it injured the Grange. It can be successful only when operated on a strictly cash basis. Credit will never do for a Grange store. Some of the States like California, Maine and Texas still adhere to the co operative stores, but most of the States have nearly abandoned them, and have resorted to trading with certain stores under contract to sell at wholesale or at stipulated prices. Farmers rushed into the thing without proper calcu lating, and when we consider that only a very few merchants succeed,is it surprising that farmers failed as merchants. Of all institutions we believe that the Grange is the most social in its nature, and beneficial in its teachings to elevate and refine society, and yet when farmers meet there should be other purposes ot a business nature. They should, however, buy together and sell together whenever practi cable. The National Grange has ever left this thing entirely with the State and subordinate Granges. Sell when jou can sell dearest, and -buy when you can buy cheapest. But never go back on your contract when once made. In conclusion I will now, as in the past, appeal to you to stand by the Grange. Other orders may be more alluring in promises, attractive in members, and pretentious iu sys tematic shchemes of trade and fi nance, but what they are teaching we have taught, and in our Declaras tion of Purposes we find for all a basis and a guide whereof they build their structures and promote their rituals. The Grange is founded upon the immutable teaching of the Bible, upon honor, truth and justice, temperance, industry and economy. For tweuty-two years our banner has been unfurled to the breeze. In all the States it is waving. Let it never be lowered in the Old North State whilst it is waving an v where else. A great Roman philosopher said, that knowledge comes with ras pidity, but wisdom ever lingers, but like truth, will prevail So we have only to watch, and wait and work. Every Grange ought to commence a library. The Grange means family. What is a family without books, newspapers and periodicals ? Though it may be prosperous in many things, yet without these potent agencies, it will be behind the times, to say the least, Fortunatelv, we have manv good and able journals to select from, though our first duty and first consideration should be to build up a State paper. We have one in every way worthy of our support, the Roanoke Patron. Let us give it better support to enable the editor to make it a better and larger paper. I would also recommend the Grange Bulletin, The Farm and Fireside, the orean of the Virginia State w tt - Grange; The Farmers Friend and Grange Advocate, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; The N. G. Farmer, Raleigh, N. C, and the Husbandman, Elmira, N. Y. All are worthy of our support. FEEDING BRAN TO PIGS. The Swine Breeders' JournaL C j HAYE alwajs found bran a (?) J good feed for nearly all kinds of stock, an.1 especially so with growing pigs and sows that ar suck ling young pigs. While the pigs are young they must be fed through the sow, and one of the best plans of doing this is to feed them liberally on milk and bran made into a slop. Some other materials of course should be used, such as ground oats or oats and barley mixed. Or when they cannot be had conveniently, corn or corn meal can be used. But bran can be made the principal food and especially daring the spring and summer. During the winter, unless the weather is above the average, some corn should be added to the rations in order to maintain animal heat. But corn is to heating and constipating to make an exclusive feed to young growing stock of any kind. Bian has the opposite effect, and can be used to an advantage in connection with it Clover can be used dry in the winter and green during the summer. In feeding roots of any kind, potatoes, turnips, beets, parsnips or carrots, bran can naarly always be added with profit, not only making them more palata ble but increasing their nutritive value. Roots of almost any kind, with bran, make a cheap food cost ing less than corn and being health ier. While a considerable quan tity can be used during the winter with ajgood clover pasture, it can be made the only additional feed with young pigs. If the sows are fed liberally while nursing the pigs, in a short time the pigs will begin to eat and will soon learn to eat con siderable. A sow nursing a litter of pigs is a voracious eater, and if she is kept in a reasonably thrifty condition must be fed liberally, and if the pigs make a rapid growth her feed must consist of such materials as she can readily convert into milk. If stored where it can he kept dry, bran will keep in good condition a long time and I find it economical to purchase in reasonably large quanti ties and store in boxes. To both the breeding stock and growing pigs, up to the time the hogs are being finis'-ed off for market, bran can be used to a more or less extent and will lessen the cost of feeding during growth and ia a healthier feed than so much grain and especially corn. To attempt to feed hogs alone from birth'until ready for maket, will in crease the cost so much that ihere will be but little if any profit. Cheaper materials must be used as much as possible, and my experience is that bran is one of the be3t that can be used. CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED. To the Editor Please inform your readers that I haye a positive remedy for the above named Disease. By its timely use thousands of hope- ess eases have been permanently ured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and post office address. Respectfully, T. A. Slocum, M. C, 181 Pearl St New York. Dec. I, "89 EXREDITIOUS BUTTER-MAKING THE BETTER WAY. ASTE no time from the milk Cl- pail to the butter plate, if you wish to make good but- ter. I think this is a good motto for creamery men as well a3 other but ter makers. No unnecessary delay should be allowed, between any of the processes, in the munipuiation of the milk or the manufacture of the butter. It is a laaientable fact that no creamery man can get all his milk perfectly clean even iu private dairies, the chances for careless or slovenly milking are frequent. You may direct, and schold and threaten, but more or less dirt will get in. Now, the separator is a good clean ser of milk, so far as foreign bodies are concerned, and even with liquid foreign matter, the- sooner the butter fat is got out of the tainted milk the better. Had I everything to my mind, the separator and the dairy maids should 6tart in about the same time. Milk separates better, and the risks from taints are fewer. The great bane of the creamery men, "smothered milk," would be avoided. All volatile odors and taints pass out of new milk freely if run through the separator at once. The ripening of the cream should be done rapily. Heat is a gooJ agent, and no tem perature under normal animal heat will taint either milk or cream if cot subjected to it too long. Heating is less injurious to cream than chilling with ice. We wact to cool quickly and thoroughly when the time comes to cool, but we want to do it with heavy flows of cool spring water. Do not prolong the churning or the butter. Have your cream rich so that two and one half pounds of cream will make cue of butter. Have the temperature of the eream high enough to make butter in 20 minutes: stopping the instant the grains appear: wash free'y with cool brine; work, weigh out, and print in a temperature a little below 60 de grees, aud as the butter "sets", ship to the consumer, and let him eat it on his buckwheat cakes the next morning. John L Carter.in Hoard's Dairyman. THE FARM AS A FACTORY. Cultivator and Dixie Farmer. CYfF THE farmer could realize (j I that the farm is a factory, and V J to sell the crops off the farm is selling the raw material which al ways brings the lowest price, that he is loosiner more than half the profit he should obtain from the farm.there would be less poor, rundown farms. less poor, bankrupt farmers, and less heard of hard times, and that farm ing does not pay. The farm is not only a factory, but produces its own raw material from which to manufac ture oi sale. j.ue soil and air are the sources from which the farmer draws his raw material, annd the plaDt and animal life are the ma chines bv which he works up this raw material into useful manafac tured articles, such as wool cotton beef, pork, butter and cheese. In stead of the farm being adopted to a single occupation it is really a com bination of a great many pursuits. The implements and machinery are varied,and the products are not limi ted to any particular article. It is because all the advantages of farming are not utilized that somany failures occui; for with proper man agement and a judicious system no business is surer; ft r the farm pro duces its raw material; it raises its own machines and manufactures it into articles ready for market or for use. The farmer to a certain decree, is independent. He can partially regu late the prices obtained by sending his produce to market in the forms that will bring the most profit. He can watch the markets, and if he finds, ail things considered, that it is more profitable to sell the raw ma terial, which is seldom the case, he can do so. If stock, the farm ma chinerv, is in "Teat demand and prices are high, he can turn it into stock and seli it in this stale; or if milk butter, wool and cheese are in demand and prices are high, he cau run the raw material through the farm machinery, manufacturing it into these articles. The cow, unlike other machines used for converting the products into milk, butter and cheese, is self-sustaining and seif- repairing. There is a great deal o matter produced on the farm which there is not market enough and would be lost; bnt by the assistance of the cow, the farmer is enabled to manufacture it into a form for which he can find a ready sale, while at the same time she returns aportion of the original cost in the shape of manure, for the purpose of assisting to fur ther increase the amount of raw ma terial. The ewe comes in with her mite, giving ajgreater variety of salable products in the shape oi wool, mut ton, lambs and manure, besides keeping down briers and other pests of the farm. Notwithstanding the great advantages this valuable ma chinery is to the fanner, there are many without, who buy th;ir fami lies' supply of wool and mutton, and dig up the briers and sasafras bushes with "elbow grease7, while much of the production of the farm that is not marketable ia the present shape could be eaten by the sheep. The sow, another valuable ma chine, comes in to enable the farmer to cultivate crops that are rarely sal able except at at low prices, and to manufacture them into pork and valuable progeny that mature quick ly reach a market'in a short time. Then again comes the valuable mare, that gives us the power with which to perform the vork required and adds her offspring to the reve nue There are few, if any farmers who do not keep horses to work; but how many ayail themselves of this advantage of keeping a mare as a machine and working her to her f ui- est capacity? If the farmer will give the mare a chance she will take much of the farm's production that does not sell at prices much above the cost of production, and manufac ture it into the shape of valuable colts, that will make him indepen dent of the markets and fill his pockets with moner. We should not forget the little eathered machines, though but a small part ot the whole, are effective and capable machines for the conver sion of much waste into ready sel ling carcases and eggs. Thus we see the animals and birds act as so many machines, performing their work by different methods, manufac turiiig the raw material of the farm into a variety of manufactured pro ducts, which are salable at all sea- ons of the year. Bat since the farmer has become a manufacturer, and the farm his fac tory, he should procure the best ma chine to run his factory with, that he mav make the most out of his raw material used. We see the mer chant fills his store with croods of the most approved and fashionable stvles. The mechanic provide themselves with the latest and most approved tools and mechanics, and they make the most offt of the pur chased material and the least time in its manufacture. No business man is satisfied with the machinery of 20 vears ago, and whv should the far mer be less energetic? He should throw away the old machinery of two frallons of milk for afive gallon one. fhe back hog machine, that would have to be fed two years to get two to three hundred pounds of pork, for the improved Berkshire or Poland China, that will make it in one year. Now,let the farmer remember that he is a manufacturer,his farmhis factory and that he should work it to its ful lest capacity, and nothing should be sold off the farm until it has been utilized by the machines. T. Baird. PHYSIOLOGY OF BREEDING. HE late James Ho Tard, who was considered good authority on the physiology of breeding, deemed the following cariinal points fully established in breeding: 1. That from the male parent i3 mainly derived the external structure, configuration, and outward charac teristic?, also the locomotion system of development. 2. From the female parent is de rived the internal structure, the vital organs, and in a much greater pro portion than from the male, the con stitution, temper and habit, in which endurance and "bottom" are includ ed. 3. The purer the race of the pa rent, the more certainty there is of its transmitting it3 qualities to the ollspring; say two animals are mated, if one is of purer descent than the other, he or she will exercise the most influence in stamping the char acter of the progency, particularly if the greater purity is on the side of the male. 4. That apart from certain dis turbing influences or causes, the male, if of pure race, and descended from a stock of uniform color, stamps the color of the offspring. o. That the influence of the first male is not unfrequenCy protracted beyond the birth oflspring of which he is parent, and his mark is left upon subseqdent progeny. 6. That the transmission of dis eases of the vital organs is more cer tain if on the side of the female, and disease of the joints if on the side of the male parent. Everything which belongs to pure, healthy blood ia imparted by Hood'a Sarsaparilla. A trial will convince you of its merit.