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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1882.
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G E X E U A L 1) I R E C T O R Y,
Mayor W. A. Dunn.
Commissioners Noah liggs,
krd 11. M. Johnson, -J. V. Savage.
ilect first Tuesday in each month at 1
o'clock, l M.
Chief of Police C. W. Dunn.
Assistant Policemen -A. David, W. D.
Shields. C. V. Speed. Sol. Alexander.
Treasurer R. M. Johnson.
Ckrk J. CJ. Savage.
CHURCHES :
Daptist J. D. Hufhain, D. D., Pastor.
Services every first, second and third
- Sundays at 1 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer
Meeting every Wednesday night. Sun
day School every Sabbath morning.
Primitive l'.aptist Eld. Andrew Moore,
- raster. Services every third Saturday
and Sunday morning.
4 Methodist Rev. J. Crowson, Pastor.
Services every second and fourth Sun
,C ?davs at 11 o'clock, A. M. Sunday
School every Sabbath morning.
i 3 Episcopal Rev. II. G. Hilton, Rector.
' .Services every first, second and third
- "'Sundays at 10.', o'clock, A. M. Also at
Tillman's Hall every first and second
" abhath evenings at 4 o'clock. Sunday
1 t JSchool every Sabbath morning.
J r w Itantist (colored.) George Norwood,
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l'astor. cervices every lomiu oumwj
Hiormng.
lnorning.
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Sunday School every Sabbath
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Court Clerk and
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Probate
John T. Gregory.
Inferior Court-'-Geo. T. Simmons.
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Register of Deeds 11. J. Lewis.
, V" solicitor A. J. IJurton.
Sheriff J. T. Dawson.
Coroner J II Jenkins.
treasurer Dr. L. W. Hatchelor.
(School Examiner W C Clark.
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t Shields, F. M. Parker, J. llWhitaker,
Sterling Johnson.
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' Sunerior Court Everv third Monday
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Mayor li. F. Whitakcr.
Commissioners -John J. Robertson, E.
T. Drancli, J. 1. Hunter, R. B.
Dritt.
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HOTELS.
Caledonia Hotel. Peter Forbes.
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CHURCHES.
JMetlioiust Episcopal Services every
first Sunday, at 11.00 A. M., and 7.00
P. M. Rev. W. II. Watkins, Pastor.
Baptist Services every second Sunday
at 11.00 A. M., and 7.00 P. M.. and thin
Sunday at 7 i0 p. m. Sunday school at
'.) :50 a. nu Rev. W. J. Hopkins, Pastor.
Protestant Episcopal Services every
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Rev. A. S. Smith, Rector.
Methodist Proteslant-
Services every
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P. M. Rev. W. II. Wills, Pas
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County Appointments M. E. Chucrh
1st. Sunday at Euro's School House, at 3
P. M.
2w Svmday.at Pierce's, at 11.00 A. M.,
and at Smith's, at .i.00 P M.
3rd. Sjnniluy, at Eheneczer, at 11.00 A. M.
-1th. Sunday at Hay wards at 11.00 A. M.
Communion at each appointment in Feb
M ay. Aug. and Nov. Rev. W . li. Wat
Jins, Pastor.
M. P. Church 1st. Sundav, at Brad
fords, at 11.00 A. M., and at Reid's
School House. 3.00 P. M. Whitaker's
Chapel, every second and fifth Sunday, at
11-00 A. M. Roseneath, 3rd. Sun
day, 11.00 A. M. v
Baptist Church. Every first Sunday at
Conoconary at 11 00 a m and 7 30 p m
Each third Sunday ami the Saturday pre
ceeding at 11 00 a m. Prayer meeting each
Wednesday at 7 30 p in Sundav school at
0 30 a in.
Dawson's Church, Dawson's X Roads,
every fourth Sunday at 11 a m and 7 'SO
p m and the Saturday proceeding the fourth
Sunday at 11 00 a m Prayer meeting
Thursdays 7 30 p m Sunday school at 0
30 a m. Rev W J Hopkins, Pastor.
Colored Churches 1st. baptist Every
first Sunday, at 11.00 A. M. and 7.00 P.
M. O. B. Gibbs, Pastor.
2nd. Baptist Every second Sundav, at
11.00 and 7.00 P. M. Rev. Ar. R. Shaw,
Pastor.
A. M. E. Church Every fourth Suuday,
at 1 1 .00 A. M. and 7.00 P. M. Rev. J. 11.
Merrick. Pastor.
LODGES.
Knights of Honor Meet every second
and fourth Tuesdays, at 7.00 P. M.
Legions of Honor Meet every first and
bird Tuesdays, at seven P. M.
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T L Whitaker, Agent.
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June 2Jth. 1882.
A LOVE THAT IS STRONGER,
BY JULIA G. GILBERT.
The' say that a lover is tender,
A nit iaitlitul and loving aim muu
That a husband is always complaining,
And seeing what faults he can find
That the traits he admired in his sweet
heart Arc errors now in his wife
That to make her a different being
Is the aim of his wedded life.
But I know of a love that is stronger
Than ever was lover's of old
Of a husband whose gentle forobearancc
In everv action is told
"Whose eludings arc never m anger
"Whose heart is purer than gold
Whose life would be weary and aimless
Outside of Ins own r.ttfc loid
Who are always in waiting to greet, him
With kind words of welcome and cheer
For they find in his love all thcii sunshine.
And he in their love all that's dear.
HOW HE LOST HIS LOVE.
A TRAPPER'S STORY.
BY t'AKJi KAYMOND.
"Bill, I say," observed one trapper
to another, as the two sat smoking
their pipes before their camp-fire,
away out bey:ncl the Rocky Moun
tains ; -Bill, I say, old. boss, arter
all, this here's rayther a loneVy life
for a man as has a natcral incline
for women, ami I'm domed ef 1 don't
think I'll tie up to so'tiiing and quit,
efit'sonlj'a Injun squaw Yes-sir-
ee
"Augh !" grunted Rill.
'Let me sec !" pursued the other,
taking out his pipe and pulling out a
cloud of smoke with an air of serious
reflection ; "it is now jest about tn
year sence I begun my tramp over
these here mountains, and I am
thirty year old ; and what's the use ?
what better am I for't now? I've
made a heap oT money in my time
but wli.-tr is it ? Gone some for
bad whiskey, and a good deal more
on't at euchce and luonle, and sich
like. Now, ef I goes on ten year
more, afore gitting rubbed out, it'll
be all the same, 'cept I'll be ten
yeai older, with rheumatics enough
maybe to make a broken-down,
worthless old boss of a feller as war
some punks in his time. Yes, sir !
Rut cf I oes and hitches teams witn
some female woman, it'll alter the
case amazing for then I'll hev
so'tiiing to live for and work for, and
at forty I'll be a fat beaver, and a
ornament to socicrty. But what's
the use of talking to you, Bill, what
don't know what a woman ar' ! aud
I s'pose never saw one nigher a
hundred yards ef you could help
yourself. Come, now, s'pose you
tell a feller what's the reason you're
so skeery of the critters ! Ar' you
really afcatd of 'em? or does it come
from having had the sack in your
time from some screamer of a ;al
what showed your ngly rival a blazed
patli to Ler affections ?"
"Nyther, Jim," replied Rill, witli
a lone-drawn sigh. "I ar'nt afeerd
of the animals, and I never got the
sack ; but the sweetest lass that ever
live;! come to a horrible end, and
sence then I've shunned every.hing
that made me think of her Ah, Jim,
j'ou've touched me in a tender place,
you hev, and it arn't the easiest
thing in the world to keep the water
out of my eyes this minute."
"Won't vou tell ine the story,
Rill ?"
"Wall, sence we've got on the sub
ject, I 'spect it wont make .matters
nu wuss in go over it. inougn its
more'n ten vear sence I've mentioned
it to a living soul."
He knocked the ashes from his
pipe with a trembling hand, and sat
some minutes gazing at the fire,
during which time his eyes filled with
tears, and a tew briny drops coursed
slowly down his bronzed, weather-
beaten features ; which, at thirty
years of age, with the look of forty,
were still far from being uncomely.
"I ve tramped vrith you a good
deal, Jim,-" he at length resumed,
drawing the back of his rough hand
across his eyes ; "we've bin together.
off and on, for four or five year ; and
though you've thought me a woman
hater, and seen me keep cl'ar of the
sex, yet it warn't al'ays so, and thar
war a time when I war mixing up
with 'em in the tallest kind of style.
" 1 welve year ago, down to tue
State of Missouri, I sot my affections
on to a gal called Phoebe Lukcns.
loved her in the wildest kind of a
way, and she thought a heap of me
one war seventeen, jest a year
younger'n me, and so purty that the
birds al'ays sung whar she travelled.
When I war with her, and that war
al'ays when I could b I thought
this here 'arth war heaven enough ;
and we talked and romped, walked,
rid and sung and danced exceeding
Ef thar war a frolic within ten mile,
we war sure to be thar, and thar war
nothing in them parts that could
Ii3ad us off; aud as happy as Bui
Withers and Pho-'be Lukens, war all
the best of 'em could say.
"Wall, one awful cold winter
night, we had an invite to a corn-
husking, twelve mile away ; and we
the woods and oyer the frvvsuowl
like a 3ouplc of deer. I had my pis
tols and Bowie in my belt, aud felt
proud, and Phoebe war in high
sperits, too. We got to the place in
good time, and had lots of fun. At
one o'clock the next morning we
started for home. It war cloudy and
cold, with the Wind north-east, and
looked like we's agoing to hev a
powerful snow-storm."
" 'Better hold on a nd make a night
on't, Bill !' says some of the boj-s.
" 'I must git home,' says Phoebe,
'for I promised the old folks I'd be
back by three, and I'm the gal to
keep mv word.
" 'Then don't promise to hev Bill,
and cut off all our hopes 1' says one,
with a laugh.
" 'Wall, thar'd be nary chance for
you ef 1 didn't,' she says back, put
ting the laugh into hinb
"Joking in this kind of way, we at
last rid oil' on a gallop, but without
nyther of us thinking it 'ud be the
last ride we'd ever hev to-gcthen
Ah-nle ! poor Phoebe !
"We hadn't gone more'n three
mile, when it begun to snow, fine and
dry. with the wind driving it power
ful. It come fight in Our faces and
blinded us, and then begun, to drift,
so's to make it hard traveling for the
beasts We did'nt liiind tliisthoitgh5
and kept on, thinking we'd git home
afore it ud be dangerous. We had to
go through one eend of a big swamp,
and thar it war we lost though I
never exactly knowed how for it
'peared to ( mc 1 Was all tlie time
in the open path, and I war all the
time looking to see ourselves come
out agin a hill that war half way be
twixed the two places. The wind
blowed so it warn't easy to talk, and
so we didn't say much; but arter
we'd rid nigh to an hour, and I'd got
so cold that it 'peared as ef the mar
rcr of my bones war gitting froze, I
savs. savs I :
" 'Pho.die, how's this ? Arn't it
most lime we s out oi uns uerc
swamp ?'
She didn't say nothing, Phoebe
didn't, and so I axed her the same
question over agin ; and as she didn't
ty nothing the second time. I rid
up aud shook lier
" 'Dear me !' she says, faint like ;
sT TV,
i. ueiieve I a ;i luoau iiaieep
I felt my hair raise right up.
'For God's sake,' says I, 'don't
sro to sleep : tor et von cio, you u
never wake! It arn't a nateral
sleep, Phojbe but you're freazimj
to (I eath !
"Jest as I'd said this, I heerd
some cussed wolves begin to howl
fust here, then thar, then yonder
as ef one war answering t'other, on
different sides of us.
" 'Wake up, Phiebc !' says I ; 'for
the varmints is arter us, and we'll
both want all our wits ef they comes
up close !'
"As she didn't say nothing to this,
I shook her agin, and hollered in her
ear that the wolves was arter us.
" 'Oh, I'm so sleepy!' she says;
and the last word was spoke so faint
that I couldn't scarcely hear it.
"I knowed chat sort ot thing
wouldn't do ; and quick as lightning
I jumped down off my boss, and
pulled her off of hern, into a deep
drift of snow. Then I begun to
shake her and rub her. and scold her,
and tell her to wake no and not die
that way.
" 'Yes, I will, William,' she sa3'S,
so's I could scarcely hear her ; 'purty
soon l will, v nuain but l m so
sleepy now I iest wants one little
nap !'
"I shook her again like fury, call
ing her all sorts of hard names, jest
to rouse her by making her mad.
'At that minute some cussed wolf
howled agin right close to us ; and
afore I'd time to catch the bridles,
both bosses gin a wild snort and
started oil on a run, leaving us both
thar afoot in the swamp, the poor
gal freezing to death, and the hun
gry varmints all round, ready to
tear us to pieces at the fust chance,
I tell jTou, Jim, nobody knows what
my feelings war then ; they war
awful ; and as I drawed a pistol with
one hand, and shook the poor dear
gal with t'other, I felt the sweat,
cold as the night war, start out all
over me. Ef thar'd bin any chance
of catching the bosses, I couldn't
hev left Phoebe a minute for she
war determined to sleep and that
itself would be death, even ef the
wolves didn't git hold of her, which
I knowed they would ; though from
the way thar yelps cam,' to us now
gitting sharp and angry, but furder
and furder off I guessed they war
arter the hosses themselves.
"But what war to be done with
Phoebe ? for the poor gal war so nigh
gone that I couldn't rouse her fears
a bit, and scarce git an answer to
my questions when I hollered 'em
into her ear. I stood her up on
her feet, and held her thar, aud
shook her. and walked her about,
and scolded her. and told her every
skeery thing I could think on; but
the minute I let go on her, down she
dropped, as ef she war determined
to sleep her 1; st.
"Then I knowed, ef I didn't start
a fire right quick, she'd die for sar-
tin ; aud stripping off my big b'ar
skin coat, . I wrapped it round her,
and laid her down in a drift for the
warmest place, and went to work
with my knife to cut sticks and twigs
for kindlings. I worked fast, Jim, I
tell you ; and' I prayed God I might
succeed for the life of the poor dear
gal depended on't, and my own futur'
happiness besides. But all to onct
I hecrcl the cissed wolves coming
back, or else another pack gathering
round, and my heart riz right up and
stuck in my throat. Nigher and
nigher they come ; and so fast, that,
in less nor a minute, as it 'peared to
me, thc? war dancing all round
about, and I could see thar infernal
eyes in a big circle, like so many
coals of fire. At this, I run to Phoebe,
and stood right over her, putting my
knife betwixed my teeth, and hold
ing a pistol in each hand, determin
ed to eyther save her from them
howling varmints or else die with
her.
"I never knowed how many wolves
thar war round us that night ; but it
'pcai'ed to inc as ef they'd bin let
loose from all creation ; and sich
snapping, and snarling, and growl
ing, aud barking, and yelping, and
fighting, as they done right close
about me with a hundred balls of
fire moving up and down and hither
aiid yon, and now aud then some
shadowdy figur' bounding for'ard, as
ef to grab me, and whisking past so
close that I sometimes felt his
breath all this war enough to drive
a'most any man crazy, ef thar'd even
bin no poor sweet gal a freezing to
death at his feet to make his feeling's
awful beyond what words could tell.
I kiiowei they War cowards as
wouldn't dar' to attack nie vvheii I's
facing 'em, but then I couldn t lace
em all at onct ; though I kept turn
ing round and round to keep 'em off
mv back for I knowed, thar hunger
would make 'em risic that much ef
they once got a good chance.
"Wall, they kept me so busy that
I couldn't rit no chance to do noth
ing for Pluebe, who didn't 'pear to
mind 'era at all all, but laid thar in
the snow as ef she War dead, which
I's afeard she war, though I kept
praying powerful that the Lord He'd
somehow preserve her through.
"All that night long I stood over
that poor gal, and kept the cussed
wolves off of her : and at daylight
they all sneaked awar, one arter
t'other, till only me and her was left.
Then, as I looked down on to her, as
she laid thar so still, I war afeard to
l'arn the truth ; and when I did bend
down to her and shook her, I shook
irivself as ef I had a agur-fit.
"But what did I find Jim ? Oh,
my God ! what did I fiud ? A corpse,
Jim ! a coll, icy corpse ! Poor
Phoibe LuJc i us war froze to death !
"I don't hardly know what I done
arter that, Jim," concluded the nar
rator, sobbing like a child ; "but I
lound my wav out ot that swamp
somehow, and got people to go for
her. But I didn't 'tend the funeral,
Jim. for war sick abed with a brain
fever. And as soon as I got well
put off for the wilderness, to spend
the rest of my wretched lite away
from women-kind.
"Thar, Jim, youv'e got the awful
story, and 3rou knows - now why I
keeps away from them as makes me
think too much about poor dear
Phoebe Lukens, who's dead and gone,
and has took ray heart into t'other
world with her. Ihar s not none
living like her, Jim, and so I keep:
away from them as makes me thinl
of her, for I can't never love ag'in.'
REMINISCENCES OF KATE STODDARD
The Freaks of the Veiled Murderess
of the Hon. W. W. Goodridts
Brother.
"Of all the criminals I ever met,"
said Superintendent of Police Camp
bell of Brooklyn, "I must say that
Elizabeth Lloyd King, alias Kate
Stoddard, the murderess of Charles
Goodrich, was the smartest. After
Goodrich was found murdered in the
house in Degraw street there was a
long and tedious search for his mur
deress, for we had a clue that a wo
man had killed him, and you remem
ber that Kate Stoddard was final
captured by a female detective. I
talked at intervals for two days with
the prisoner, and I found her bright
and intelligently acute, and in all
other conversations she never told
ine a falsehood.
"She wore a big locket around her
neck,, which I at first thought might
be Goodrich's watch, which was
missing, and I asked her to let me
see it. 'Oh !" she said, -I can't.'
'But you must," I said, and I snatch
ed it away.
'Don't open it,' she exclaimed,
'don't open it.' But I did open it
and some fine dust fell out cf it. I
inquired what it was, and she told
me it was some of her victim's
blood. She said she filled it with
Goodrich's blood after she shot him,
and allowed it to drT into a cake, a
bit of which she had eaten every
dav. We took from her a clipniuT
from a newspaper, which related how
a society of Frenchmen, dried- the
blood of members who bad died be
lieving that by eating it the spirit of
the dead would pass into the living.
She had eaten the last substantial
bit of the blood just before her ar
rest. In a little book entitled
'What I know about the Goodrich
Tragedy,' which she wrote before
her talk with me, she denied the
murder. She would not tell me
where she went to live after the mur
der, but she said : 'If you find ray
room you will find there in my trunk
Goodrich's watch and pistol and a
package of earth.'
" 'What did you have the earth
lor r I asked.
" 'Oh,' she said, 'I loved the very-
ground that he walked on, and so I
dug up some of it to keep.'
We found her home, which was
in a room in High street, by sending
to every house in Brooklyn and ask
ing if anj'' young woman belonging
to the house or having a room there
lad been missing for two days, for
then we had had her for that length
of time, and it was not publicly
cnown that we had arrested her.
When I found her room I discovered
that she had determined to make
lerself comfortable. She had hired
a piano, purchased mjisic, and she
used to play and sing to divert her
thoughts. She also had a book upon
insanity, which she had evidently
been reading, and upon one page,
describing the case of a woman af
flicted with mania, she had jotted
down the words, 'My case exactly.'
The description was that of a woman
with a Roman nose, blue eyes, and
iight hair, her own general descrip
tion. Shk read all of the newspapers
while we were searching for her, and
when she Went otit she. was always
doubly veiled. She told ms that she
saw that we had a good description
of her and so one dav she took a
walk through the crowded streets to
see if women with Roman itCes-blue
eyes and light hair were uncommon,
and she said that she found scores
of them. Then she took off one of
her veils. At length sue read m a
newspaper that the police had. given
the case up and she became bolder,
and so we caught her. The day that
Goodrich was buried, she said, she
stood at the foot of the stoop, and
the policeman who was pusuiiig the
crowd back pushed her also. At
that vcrv moment everv member of
the police force was supposed to be
on the lookout for her She stood
by the hearse door as the coffin was
put inside. A few days oetorC she
was arrested she was so confident of
her safety that she paraded with a
Bible class from Beecher's Sunday
school, in full view of a score of
policemen. The day she was arrest
ed, Mary Ilandley, the female detec
tive, who was emplored to search
for her because she knew her, got
$10 for expenses from the depart
nient and started for New York
Just as she was about to enter the
Fulton ferrv house she missed 65 of
the money, which she either lost or
had stolen from her. She went bad
to look lor it. and suddenly came
face to face with the murderess that
we had been over six months looking
for all over the country.
"Kate Stoddard came from a re
spectable family of Newburyport,
Mass Thev gave her a good educa
tion, and felt easv about letting her
seek her own way in the world, be
cause she had been reared in a re
ligious home. She, however, had
periodical fits of insanity, and al
though usually in possession of all
her faculties, she escaped trial for
murder, and was sent to the State
Convict asylum for the insane."
Nb-w York Sun.
FIRM NOTES,
Millions of pounds of honey go to
Waste for want of bees to gather it.
Nearly one-third of the sugar sold
on English market is beet sugar.
Vegetables make good feed for
hogs, and they ought to have all they
will eat.
York county, Pennsylvania, reports
a colt that kills and eats chickens,
pigeons and ducks.
Twelve tons of beets to the acre
is a frequent European average, from
which is extracted 1.5 tons sugar.
The fifth annual fair of the Dela
ware Agricultural society will be
held on September 2G, 27, 28 and 20,
1882, at Dover.
Prices asked by American breeders
of the pure bred Polled Angus cattle
are as high as $350 for cows and $500
for buils.
It is said a dip of water, ojie gallon,
benzine eight ounces, and cayenne
pepper two ounces, will kill vermine
on sheep.
Pinkeye is troubling the horses' of
the bluegrass regions, Kentucky It
is also accompanied by scarlet and
other fevers.
One cow, horse, sheep or pig well
fed is more profitable than two kept
on the same amount necessary "to
keep one well.
, Robert A. Hall of Richmond coun
ty, Va., raised 200 bushels of wheat
this reason from four acres. It was
the "black bearded wheat."
Never use the currycomb on a
horse's leg below ) the knee aud U ok. ,
A corn broom is best, since it takes out
the dirt and does not hurt the horse.
There are over sixty
corn-canning
establishments in the state of Maine,
and the number of cans of corn annu
ally put up is nearly 12,000,000.
In the year 1319 wheat sold for
25 cents per bushel, while woolen
blankets were worth from 10 to $2 5
per pair. Now wheat is worth $1,50
and blankets from $3 to $10,
The rasberry is a native of moun,
tains or cool northern climate. Hot,
dry soil is its abomination, and it is
always on the alert to "run out" in
these situations.
Dr. Ellis of Russell county, Kan.
large wheat-grower, understands
the value of sheep upon land so thor
oughly that he advertises he will pay
1U cents per bead lor sheep to pasture
upon his fields.
It is easy to give advice to thorough
y cull the flocks and herds ; to cas
trate every inferior male, and as near
ly as practicable convert all 'females
not up to a satisfactory standard
into beef, mutton or pork. To fully
carry out this practice requires more
resolution and self-denial of imme
diate profits than the average breeder
possesses. V ith the more popular
breeds even quite inferior animals
can usually be sold for breeding pur
poses at higher prices than they will
command in the general markets. It
is often true, also, that inferior ap
pearing animals often prove success
ful as sires or dams ; equally often
that unpromising youngsters develop
into really- excellent animals. All
these points are apt to present them
selves to the breeder as he thinks of
'culling." There is, fortunately.
strong argument in favor of an v reas
onable degree of weeding out. The
animals turned off for meat will, or
dinarily, give a fair profit. There is
no absolute loss, onty a reduction of
profit aa compared with what would
have been realized had they been
good individuals kept for breeding
purposes. It may also help to a right
decision to remember that a sale of
inferior animals usually is bad for the
reputation of the hei'd. The purchas
er will pretty certainly report where
he made the purchase, and many
may form their opinion of the stock
trom one poor specimen. In our
own view, What should be done in
such cases depends largely on what
the inferiority consist in. Ifthe an
imal be seriously -defective in con
stitution, or of bad form, it oug ht not
to be allowed to reproduce such de
fects. If its inferiority consist in
being of unpopular color, or other
such matter of taste, or if it has met
with an accident leaving it blemished
it may be the very best way to con
tinue its use in breeding. The repu
tation of a breed or of a herd will cer
tainly suffer in the long run unless
careful selection be made. Selecting
first-class sires will do much, but re
taining inferior females will partially
lose the gain thus secured.
Farmers so habitually follow in
the timeuohorcd ruts of their fathers
that they do not take kindly to inno
vation of any sort. Seeding grass
with root crops, however new to our
old-fashionedj roundabout practice,
is nevertheless a good piall. Rowing
rrrn.sa apnrl w?fb n-rnin rf onirl-nirl ?3
unplulosophical, inasmuch as grass
and grain, bring plants of the same
natural, family, make similar drafts
upon tne soil. Root CrOPs dr? din-
erent elements from the soil at least
in widely different proportions so
that clover and the grasses follow
naturally in the rotation. Land ought
not to be laid down ander any circum
stances iinless it is in condition to
oflrr.v a grass crop several vears. For
this, as is well kown, the soil should
abound in residuary manure , that is,
in manure which other crops have
failed to take, and which is therefore;
left as an accumulation of fertility
in the soil. We can ordinarily plan
so as not to have considerable resid
nary manure left after every manured
crop ; so we put grass at the end. of
the rotation, to occupy the soil so
long as it makes good returns. To
seed down with turnips sowed broad
cast, the turnip seed may be mixed
with timothy and clover, and thus
sowed very " evenly, at all events
much more evenly than if sowed by
itself. When seeding with red top,
orchard grass, or any of the lighter
seeded grasses, it will not do to mix
the seed, for in casting, the heavy
turnip seed would go much further.
To seed down upon root crops in
drills, the grass seed is not sowed
until the roots are well established
and have been once or twice hoed.
This will have leveled down the
ridges to nearly a flat surface. The
grass seed is sown broadcast just af
ter the last hoeing, which will suffi
ciently disturb the surface to secure
the covering of the seed. In the
spring it will do very well to trust to
rams beatiua: grass seed into the sou.
but. in lnidsmrmmr t his is an unsafe
reliance. After pulling the roots the
field 'should le wv,ll.. roiled, so :is to
give it an- even .'.surface foe future
convenience. ' '
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