‘‘RELIGfQN WITHOUT BIGOTRY, ZEAL WITHOUT FANATICISM, LIBERTY WITHOUT LICENTIOUSNESS.”
VOL. XXIV,
SUFi1 ixctevlf, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1871.
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Let
"Ye are
that, is set
ther do men light
ight Shine,
of the world. A citj
not be bid.r ‘-Nei
candle and put it under
a bosilel. but on a candle stick, and it giv
t tb tight unto all that are in the house.'’—
"Let yo«r light so shine before men that
they may tee your good works and glorify
your;father in hea<-en,’’Mail, v: 14-15-10.
Professed followers or Christ, it is plain,
that by tbc above ’ language the blessed
Saviour intended to intpjvts upou tbc minds
• •f bis disciples the jtpji»rtni»i. fact, that ns
Jis followers, they ought so to live and not
«< to reflect np6n the world (lie light of His
.divine example, that as Tie had manifested
lllionwlf as the light of tho world, so they
fkould Walk as tho children of the light;
for he said unto them, “1 am tho light of
the world, ho .that followeth me shall not
walk n darkness, but shall have the light
of life, and whosoever wi". not forsake all
and follow me cann-t be my disciple.
Tho blessed Saviour seldom exhorted His
followers to tlie performance of a duty
without giving them a satisfactory reason
theref >r. He said unto them 1 ‘J.rt your
light so sh'ne before men”—-what for?
Why, "that they may see your good
works, which ought fa bear witness of you
that yc are my diseipftg and thus be in
duced 16 glorify your Father iu Heaven
We are told that while He soj turned upon
earth; the Son of God went about doing
good. Though He was King of kings and
Jjordjjf lords, arid possessed all power on
earth and iu hcayeq, ne did not, as lie
might havo dyne, exhibit Himself upon a
i-pleuiinl tnTmre, u., a great tempocnl prince,
into whose presence none dare approach but
tho rich and the great; on the contrary, He
went about doing good, alike io all who
humbly asked bis favor, but seemed most
delighted to visit the poor, the afflicted the
.distressed, aud give them comfort and con
solation. Instead of travelling in splcn
away |
light ij
ded ill
the lid
floctim.]
their l.j
before
dor, followed by a long retiuuo of atten
dants iu littery, as w'lfs the custom of kings
and princes, the blessed Prince of peao<#,
who could have rode upon the wings of the
_J»jud, thousands of fining udpels ns
his attendants, traveled on foot, over the
jugged country of Judea, followed hy a
few poor fishermen, directing His sieps
wheresoever was heard the' humble cry of
distress, whether in the hovel of thp poor,
the mansion of tho great, or by the way
side, beating the sick, causing tho lame to
tvulk, tho deaf to hear, anil the dumb to
speak, and saying alike to all,i1,repent, for
the Kingdom of heaveu is at band,” and
• bring forth fruits meet for repentauce,”
for "except ye repent ye shall all likewise
peiislj;” — •‘aim whosoever will be my dis
ciple let him ferrake all and take up his
cross and follow me.” Tims did llis disci
ples behold Him as the light of tin? world,
and in Him an example of the most conde
scending humility, and the most perfect
pattern of disinterested benevolence. Hav
ing thus giuuifcsted Himself as flje light of
the world, and having shed the glorious
rays of His blessed gospel upon the tniuds
aud heats of Ilia followers, and shined
r darkness therefrom and set up the
lldis Kingdom therein, He coinunu
|n to walk aB the children of the
and to "let their light,—the re
pf IJis glorious image formed in
lirts the hope of glory,—-so shine
men, that they may sett their good
jkglorify their Father in heaven
aiu occasion,the blessed Saviour
that the works which He
TiT
Futbr.r had sent Him, and
Said unto them, “if I do not
Hiiu that scut me, believe me
lainly teaching that the works
era ought to bear Jwitness of
ey are llis disciples, or else
men will not believe in the reality of the
religion which ■they profess, or be induced
by their example to glorify their father
iu heaven.
Brethren, let us who are the professed
followers and disciples of Christ, look well
to His glorious example, and endea.vor by
the help bf His promised grace, to heed His
kind admonition-* for lie hath delarcd unto
all that, “Herein ia my Father glorified
that vo bear much fruit, so shall ye be my
disoiples” and if ye love me, ye will keep
my commandments.
ws
immed and burning, look
■jeot, and the Baal result 1
»oomiuabded to m our’llig
:r object placed before the aSpiratfiffB
Ltcd' boiug than the glory o?the
■ Co'»''i 'here bo a grander iaoen
He uigtbnt it is clearly establisiiou by
the words of ouy Saviour himself, that it
is i he duty "of the ohristian to work lathe
vineyard of the irwd, and bring forth the
fraite-of righteousness—for ho said, every
ood IriVtaingetliiteilt good fruit.,—lot us
Itorder tV. we uiay be encouraged to keep
fivo to right taction, qr a better inducement
to do good held out tq (be Christian, thnn
that-expressed in tl)e sequel to die com -
mand which wo have been considering,
which in that, “They triay see your good
works and glorify ynur Father in heaven.”
Thin is the grand mission of Christianity—
and in this view of the subject, every cliris
tiun is or ought to be a preochcy gf right
eousness, for it is au old am} true adage,
that actions fpcuk louder than words, and
our Saviour iqfurujs us that “not every one
that saith uuto me Lord, Lord, shall enter
iuto the Kingdom of Heaven, but ho that
dossil the will of mj Father, and this is the
will of the Father, that we “cleanse our
selves from all filthiness of the flesh, per
fecting holiness in the fear of Cod, and that
we love Cud with the whole heart, and do
good unto all men as we have opportunity ;
thus shall we let eur light so shine before
men that they may sop our good works and'
thereby he iadiiecd to glorify our fa(.hor ip
heaven.
As this grapd object is here set forth os
the result of our good work.1-,it is natural for
us to enquire here more particularly what
are the good works wLicit uion may see and
glorify. onr father in heaven 2 but we will
leave this for eej a rate consideration in
another artiqje.
Brethren, encouraged by the grand ub
fect fur which we are commanded to let our
light shine, let us lay hold with full pur
pose of In art upon the hope set before us in
the gospel, looking •forward with glowing
anticipation to the fluid result of our obe
dience. This gloripus result and rich re
ward of the chtfatian’s course, is best ex
pressed in this connection by the words of
s*urcSiutJwur hiptsejf IJo said “Wheji the
Son of man shall come in Ft is glory and all
the holy angels widi Him then shall He sit
upon the throne of IIis glory and before
Him shall he gathered alt nations, and lie
shall separate them one from another as a
shepherd iliyi.yeM) bis sheep from the goats,
and lie shall set the sheep on Uis right
hand, but the goats on ills left. Then
shall the King say unto them on His right
hand, come ye blessed of my Father, iu
li^tit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of ibe vrorhl, fur I was
ahungcred and ye gave me meat, I was
thirsty and ye gave me driuk, I was a
stranger and ye took me in, naked and ye
clothed me, I was siek and ye visited roe, ,
I was in prison and ye came unto me.—
Then shall the righteous say unto Him,
Lord when saw we Tltee ahupgerd and fed
Thee, or thirsty and gave Thee drink,when
saw we Thee a stranger and fotjk Thee jo,
or naked ?od clothed Tbee. When paw ye
The sick or in prison and oamo unto Thee.
And the King shall answer and say unto
them, ‘•Verily I say unto yon. inasmuch
as ye did it unto oue of the least of these my
brethren, ye have doue it unto roe.” Thus
did ye in obedience to my command, let
your light so shine before your fellow men
that they might see your good works aud
thereby bo induced to glorify your father in
heaven. Came ye, therefore, aud inherit
the blessed kingdom of everlasting .peace
apd happiness prepared by your Saviour, as
tijc rich rew.std of yom^bl>odieU#e.
May this be the happy lot of all who
read this, is the prayer of one who wishes
well lo all.
II. T. W.
Rod Rsnfc, Ya. i "
Tins Things that Makk Mi*.—It is
not the best things—that is, the things
which we call the best—that make men; it
is not the calm experiences of life; it is
life's.ragged experiences, its .tempests its
trials. Tho discipline of life is here good
and there evil, here trouble aud there joy,
here rudeness and there smoothness, one
working with the other, and •The alternations
of the one and tjbe other whijoh necessitate
adaptions, constitute a part of that educa
tion which makes a man a man, in distinc
tion from an animal, which has no educa
tion. The successful man .invariably bears
on his brow the marks of his struggles
which he had to undergo.
Thr way of Christian life is i
path laid out by Christ himself,
to do our duty gladly, the first <
aui ciroumsl
meat of
nir 11 runili'/PirnOit.
^roubles are
'be true feme
SELECTIONS.
Twenly-Ftve Lents.
Please, sir, wil( you buy my chestnuts?
Chestnuts! Vq, returned lfalph Moore,
looking carelessly down oiW’lbe upturned
face, whose large brown eye*, shadowed by
tangled curls of flaxen hair, were appealing
so pitifully to his own. What do I want
with chestnut? V
Uut, please, sir, buy ’em, pleaded the
little one. re-assured by. the rough ldndness
of his toue. Nobody seems to caro for
them, and—end—
She fairly bujst Into tears, apd ^Jooro,
Who had hti-’ft ou the point of Washing
earglefuiy past her, stopped instinctively.
Are you very nigch iu want qf the money 2
Indeed, sir, we are, sobbed the child ;
mother sent me opt, apd—
Nay, little one, don’t cry it) suqli a
heart-broken any,” said Ralph, smoothing
down her hair with a careless gentleness,
I don’t want your chestnuts, but here’s a
quarter for you, if that will do you any
good.
H6 did not stop trf bear the delighted,
incoherent thanks the child poured out
through a rainbow of smiles and tears, hut
strode on his wav, muttering between big
teeth.
That cut off my supply of cigars for the
next twenty.four hours. I > don’t care,
though; the brown-eyed object reajly did
ery as if she hadn’t a friend in fho world.
Hang it I I wish I was rich enough to help
every poor creature out of the slough of
despond.
VYhilp Ralph Moore was Indulging in
these very natural reflections, the dark-eyed
li.ttje damsel, whom he had comforted, was
dashing down the street, with t^uick., elastic
footsteps, utterly regardless of thn basket
of uusoLd nuts that still dangled on her
arm. l)own an obscure Iano she darted.
between tall and ruinous rows of bouses,
and up a narrow wooden staircase, to a
room whom? a pale, peat-looking woman,
with large brown eyes like ber own, was
sewing as busily as if the breath of life de
pended upon eyery stitch, and two little
ones wero contentedly playing in the sun
sbiuo that temporarily supplied the place of
fire.
Mary / Jjaefc already? Surely yep have
not sold yoor chestnuts so soon V
Q\i! mother, mother, sue / ejaculated "the
almost breathless child ; a gentleman gave
me a whedo quarter. Qnly think, mother;
a whole quarter.'” ' ' - t / j
If Ralph Mooyo could have only seen the
rapture which bis tiny gift diffused around
it in tho ppqr widow's poverty-stricken home,
he would have urged still leap the temporary
privation of cigars, to which his generosity
had subjected hint.
Years came and went. The little chest
nut girl passed as entirely out pf Ralph
Moore’s memory, as if pleading eyes had
never touched the soft spot in his heart, but
Mary Lee neyer forgot the 'stranger whp
bad given her the adyor piecq.
The crimson window curtains were closely
drawn .to shut out the storm and tempest jjf
the bleak December night/ the fire was
glowing cheerily, in the well-filled grate,
and the djune," table, in a glitter with cut
glass, rarb pinna, apd polished silver, was
only waiting for the presence of Mr. Audley.
What cap it be that detains papa? said
Mrs. Apdley, a fair, handsome matron of
about thirty, as she glanced at the dial of a
tiny euameled watch Six'Wielook, and he
does not make his appearance.
Theresa a man with him in the study,
mamma—Collie on business, said Robert;
Andley, a pretty boy, eleven years old, who j
was reading by tbe fire.
I’ll call him again, said Mrs. Audley, ]
stepping to the. door But, as ,she opened j
it the brilliant gas-light fell full on tbe face j
of an humble-locking man, in worn and i
thread-boar garments, who was leaving tho
house, while hor husband stood in the door
way of his study, apparently relieve to be
rid of his visitor.
Ofyrles,
had paled S
hope cheek
tmau, and
ie want?
And I-will, keep n
the lover husband, _\vil
ing. I believe I’ve got bis address about
not soeu
That's right, inf tittle wife, replied her
limb md, folding her fondly to his breast,
when the simple talc was concluded ; never
forget one who was kind to you in the days
when you needed kinfTicis most. *
Ralph Moore was silling in jiis poor
lodgings, beside his:»iling wife's sipk bed.
when a liveried servant brought a note from
the rich and prosperous bank director,
Charles Autjjcy.
(food news, Htrlh.i ! be exclaimed, as he
fead the irief wordA-rf We slr-lb it§» starve.
Mr. 4odlcy promises me the vacant situa
ting.
You have dropped something from the
note. Ralph, Said Mrs Moore pojotipg to
a slip of paper on the floor.
Moore stooped to recover the esirav. I*
was a fifty-dollar bill, neatly folded in a
piece of-paper, on which was written
In grateful remembrance of a stiver
quarter that a kind stranger bestowed on a
little chestnut girl oyer twenty years age."
Ralph Moore had i'lfown his morsel of
bread upon theaters, and after many days
it had returned to him.
PttssiU}* os lii'.NVan-—The great Kng
liah orator, I»ov. J)r. Euishon, has a lec
ture oji John Banyan. Speaking of the
trials through which Buuyao passed, he
recently said :
‘Ttfo not wonder that the philosophy of
the ancients produced such uien as Leonid*#
and lirutu.s, and, in trptli, there is many
an example of hardiness of soul amidst suf
fering among those men that wonld make
many a modern Christian dwindle into the
very shadow of a man. When mon of the
i cast, aud strength of Banyan wander-through
darkness, doubt and danger, we see in it all
i (i:i*y tt heart}uly curriculum by which they
; arc stripped of their sins and their pride,
i Bet ue recognize this truth ; it it always
I possible to tnumUiii tbe strictest adherence
j to truth, and at (ho some time tr iooji with
a tender regard on tiro evil-doer, i’oung
men, Jr make this appeal to you. Chivalry
is not yet dead. Knights of the true order
of Jesus are leagured for the held. Their
colors are red. They are striking st--ut
blows in the cause of p. aee hztd love, and
amid the sheen of bright banners and bright
eyes. They are lighting in an agony of
spirit, weeping over the bondage of wrong
iudifferenug, doubt and infidelity. Like
Peter, the Hermit, I say to you, come
forth to the crusade. In this war, a churls
blood js pp bar to honor. Go where glory
awaits. Go to the haunts )f crime, and
float gospel messages on the peatileut sir.
Syhen Bunyaii was culled to preach in the
early part of that September his friends
urged him to desist. Nature argued against
it. flis Wife and children would surely
suffer, and prudence said that if he shunned
this threatened arrest, he could find betterj
occasions for preachiug hereafter. But-he
took eefincil of Qad in prayer. If I fly
time, he said, the world will
take occasion to carp at the cause on account
pf the cowardice of ono of tho actors. He
did.go and preach, and was arrested. He
passed twelve years in that very dungeon,
the horrors of which years afterwards first
awakens^ John Howard to the necessities
of prison reform. That fiail life has become
immortal. God's work wilj not bo said
because of our indiffcper.ee sloth, or wick
edness. IIow ofian has the ory gone up,
“watchman, what of the night?” and the
answer has keen, “It is night still,'* but
now again ages up the cry, “what of the
pjght J’" an uThe. answer counts, “tho dark
ness is not so dense as it was ; tho clouds
rolling away ; it is morn ; :.l^ light bursts
through; eyes flash with brightness,: ibe-j
night of error is gone; the dawn domes to
tho mook-eyed student aud tells him that
intellectual night too has gone.” ’ Sing:
forth, ye heavens! the spn is iudecd shining,
the planet glistens in its orbit like a garnet
Yes, the morning hascomo. But also there
is a noon, that noon is heaven, and thero ;
shall he no night there.’’
Dr. Rkkcukk declares it a real blcssiug 1
to have one in a family who is sensitive to |
the lt)diorous. There are enough to reflect
the sad side of life, and its irritable tide,
d its sober side. We need one or more
iw the u.irth that oftou trembles just
the surface of painful things. A
real impetuous laugh dissipates many illu
sions, sweeps the twilight out of our imagi
nations, and brings honest daylight. But
^ must ■■ be i oal. * No dry, haokiog laugh.
spanfaocous, outbursting, rrre
sistibla.ibfectwus. We have seeu men fall
trj laughing who have net heard the cod
-‘-wion of other men’s laughing. It is hard,
■fpft to laugh with men who are in earnest
about it. r
Xuk gold of the sanctuary must be trie£j
d^foru it-is accepted) wd is thrown info !
the fire, not because it is of no value, but
because it is precious
Regard the hand of God in all the dis
jeusati'oos of his provideuoe, and in what
iver state ho places you, thcicwith be con
icnt.
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Good Advice.
Spurgeon sonlentiously expresses a Dum
ber of thoughts worth remembering in the
following appropriate secteoais, which he
publishes as advice gratis ;
Nobody ja more litc an honest man tbau
a thorough rogue.
When you see a (can wifh a great deal
of religion displayed in his shop windows,
you may depend upon it be keeps a very
small stock of it. within.
Donut chose your friend l,y his looks;
handsome shoes often pinch tjig feet.
Do not he fond ot-e/iinpliments ; remem
ber Thank you, (pus-v, and thank you,
pussy, killed the gat.
Don’t believe the man who talks the
most, for mewing cats arc very seldom good
mousers.
Jsy no means put yourself in auotlier
person’s power It you put your.thumb
between two griders they are very apt to
bite.
Drink nothing without seeing it, sign
nothing without reading it, aud make suKe
fhat it means no more than it says.
Don't go to !aw> unless you have nothing
to loose; lawyer’s houses are built on fool's
t heads.
I’ut no dependeppe in 'ha label,of a bag.
j and count money after your own kind.
I In any bpsiness never wade into water
where you cannot see the bottom.
[- See the sack open before you buy what
is iu if ; for he who trades iu the dark asks
to be cheated.
Keep clear of a man who does not value
| his own character.
Every Teacher a Pastor.—Every Sab
bath School teacher should keep watch over
i his pupils: If one is U,t W
j first to discover it, notice it in the class,
! inquire the reason, go and see the absentee,
j if sick, comfort aud help him- Every
| teacher should carefully learn the spiritual
I condition of every pupil. It can be done
iu the class, and in a way that will make
the scholar grateful for the interest there
manifested. It can be done at a pupil’s
heme, where every teacher should go and
sec earth member of bis little Sock, and that
several times a yea;-. Sometimes (lie call
can social, sometime spiritual chiefly, and
ofier. cr always the two can bo united,
blended. Sometimes the teaeher can find
his scholar alone or can take a walk with
him alone, and thus have good opportunity
to draw out the scholar’s state of mind.
He can manifest and have an interest in
the secular a flairs of the pupil, and some
times engage with him in them, even in
suitable recreations, and thus get the deep
er hold on his attention and affections, The
teacher can aud shoutd often or daily pray
for his pupils, that the Sunday School in
struction may be blessed to that end. Such
earnest prayer that f< rgets not to persevere,
wiil be heard. In these ways the teacher
will become a Pastor of his scholars. They
will become Lis little parish. Ev^yteach
er who becomes truly such, aud so con
tinues, will have souls na the crown of his
rejoicing in the day of account.—Uhristian
Worker.
JBscs’s Tears.—Jesns wept over the
woes of a single city: and do yon think
■that ho ever wept over the woes of a world ?
lie wept in public, where he would certain
ly restrain his feelings as much as potsible ;
and do you think he never wept in secret?
Could we lift the sacred veil of his solitary
hours ; of his seasons of retirement, while
an obscure workman of Nazareth of- hjs_
fort'vHays fastinfCJtftd prayer in the wildest.
f*' iirt~ -a**---.-— ,.mr,p-.. .
and In the deserts—what prayers, what in
tercession, what tears, what tender and
heavenly sympathies, with the sorrows and
woes cf humanity would cyme to light/
Ilis affections were net limited to Judea :
He did not love those who loved him. He
wept at flic gravy of Laiarus, and over the
distress of Mary and Martha : and why not
over the great congregation of the dead of
more than a hundred and thirty generations
past; over the broken hearts of widows
and starving orphans from the beginning of
the world? Why not over tjbe distress of
all the sick, tho <’“lirium of the deranged,
the agonies of the dying ? Do you now
sec why he wcut about with restless assid
uity to cousolate, to comfort, to bind up
broken hearts, raising the dead, curing and
cleansing and restoring men to the enjoy
ment of health, sight, hearing and reason ?
How could he do otherwise with a heart
like his? He would have done so, though
no man would have done so, though no
yjjSjjfre believed-fc^ ^
account, or return to him a grateful word or
look.
An opportunity Is like a favoring breeze
springing up arouuu a sailing vessel. If
the sails be all set, the ship is wafted on- :
ward to its port. If the sailors are asleep !
or ashore, the breeze may die again, and
when they would go on they cannot; their
vessel stands as idle as a painted skip upon ,
a painted eCOttU. '
FARM AM) GARDES
A Word to Immigrant).
To any Northern man about to seek a
milder climate and a. more fertile anil, we
| would say that, in our opinion, ibey can do
j po better within thy broad limit* of our
! country, than to come to Sou'hsido Virginia
| Qur climate is healtful and agreable in an
eminent degree ; our anil, though less fer
tile than some, is capable of any state of ini
i prpyemrnt; we have tens of thousands of
acres of virgin land well flocked yfith any
j sort of limber that a man ever wants ; we
j have in abundance at our very doors the
material—marl, muck and mold--that if
rightly used would restore our poor lands to
more than primitive fertility besides, there
j are thousands—yea, thousands—of unde
| velopeu natural auvantages; an»l our lands,
wh»»u we take info consideration tbs capa*
I bill ties and proximity, to market, ttr^e t'a
| cheapest in the world. Southside Virginia
ha* been marked out by the hand of .nature
as a great fruit growing and truck-growing
region. The abundance of wild fruit found
in our woods show this. Raspberries,
strawberries, currants, huckleberries black
berries, dewberries wild crab?, persimmons
and grapes here enjoy their native habiial,
and luxuriate ;n the genial suns of. our
glorious Sou-th^n Summers. Of native'
wild grapes we have many representatives
of the vitis labnisca and r. rot mid if alia.
These things all lie awaiting the hand of
the enterprising of any clime or country
who may decide to cast their lot with us. If
you are seek seeking a borne any where in
this Western world, come to Southside
Virginia. We inviie you to come. Good,
industrious, sober, honest and peaceable
men, from any land, would "be welcomed
rherq. We don't Tyant meddlers_or office -
seekers. Vv e have plenty of them. \Ye
, w.;u} quiet, iudu.-tri-us farmers. who will
iriiud their own business and to improvetheir
| farms and help build up the country. We
want wdrkiny men—not idlers, tricksters,
! gamesters or sparks. We waut meu to till
our firms and workshops and make more
farms ; not to fill our drinking ;a:oon3, jails
and pen’t ntiaries. We waut respectable
men, wbo Yyould be an acquisition to soci *1 v
We want men of means, and energy, ami
brain, to develop our unused resources.
To all such we say, come. Coiue by all
means. Do not fear that such men would
not welcomed here. Come and go cjuietly
to yyorfc, atql show that you-are deserving
our esteem, mid you will have it. One
reason why Northern men do not secure
the esteem of Southern people is they make
themselves too prominent in Union Leagues,
and affiliate too much with negFoes. And
one great reasou why they do not succeed
better at farming is, they invariably employ
a gang^of negroes'and leave two much of
the management of the farm to them. Not'
one negro in five hundred bere ever makes j
a good farmer. If you are going to come
here aud expect tjje negro to manage and
do your work for you while you lie by in
the shade, you will soon be a bankrupt.
The best thing an immigrant can do on
settling here is "to seek the advice of our !
most successful farmers, and follow some- !
what.closely for a few years the system cul
ture iu vogue here, gradually filling back j
ulpon his own plans as bs yiay find them
adapted to the soil and climate.;—-livrtil
Messenger.
A Qusap Houh-MAde I'eutilizeh—
The iSoiW/mni Planter says that a cheap
fertilizer, nearly as good as guano, may be
-matig aoroTditrg To^thtr-fotltTwirig formnlaT
V -wafijj&f;-'gather any quantity' of swamp 1
mu.-K into a pile to dry ; measure, on six ;
barrels of ibis, or any other rich black |
.earth, into another pile, and uddulho follow
ing salts, previously dissolved in a barrel or
more of water, viz : forty pounds of nitrate j
of soda, sixty pounds sulphate of ammonia,
and half a bushel of cotnmou salt; then \
add a barrel of suPuix, a barrel of plaster of!
Paris, and a barrel olVround boues. Mix
all of these well tojjn-fher, and use in the
same manner as Peruvian guano.”
Sprung Knees —Corns are the cause, iu
most case*, of sprung knees. The horse, i
in order to relieve the heels from pressure,
throws his weight mainly on the toe, thus
relating tbu tendons and suapeusory liga
ment of the leg, contraction of which nat
urally follows. As a proof of this e.xauriue
for yourselves the feet of sprung knee
horses, and you will find a majority i if uotl
four fifths of them, with corus.
Large Cow.—Harrison Staples, E.-tj , ui’i
Lakeville, recently killed a three year ohij
heifer which weighed fiftieth httudred atrd ;
fifty-four jjouuds alive, and dressed ten
hundred and fifty-six .pounds. The animal1
is of Durham and native breed, was tin
fuet high aad mcasurccL devtu feet girth,— .
Plymouth, Masri, OUl City Sirfttiiid.
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Hav and oats m-tka the best feed for
horses that are obliged to work hard and ;
regularly. >
The Christian Sitn.
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Cotton Seed Manure.
We sue still ft»irig the rounds of agri
cultural papers, instructions for the use of.
cotton seed as a fertilizer, and all predica
ted upeu the idea of using the seed in an
unbroken rtate. The receipts given us for
u.-ing this valuable manure cither tell us ,
to rot, compost, or sow broadcast. Wo /
I are perfectly sure that results have demon- ■
i strated that there is gteat loos by either ofS
these methods. Professor jlilgard, o|.
! Mississippi, (very high authority,) holds than
! the oil, the lint, and the unbroken shell
the cotton seed are all unfriendly to a ojutx
imum advantage in ihc use of this fertilize-;
I* may not be generally credited, cverr
auioiig these familiar with the use id eutr
ton seed as a mahuro, that much of the
mass of these seed, after plowed into the
ground with smalt grain, w ill lie for months
with the shell unbroken, and showing the’
kernel only Shrivelled or wasted to a black
substance which scents to baye been quite'
inoperative. We composted cotidu seed and
fowl-house manure last, year, and kept the
mass wet with slops from the house fully
six months, and upon opening the bulk, wo
■ >und a very large proportion of the seed
tint -only unrotted, but as white as when
we buried them, The proof of the waste
that our old mode of u.-ing cotton seed oc
casions has been amply iurnisjteti by the
experiments of Mr. Van Dusoa, of DefLalb
county. . ■ r
1 hat gentleman demonstrated bv actual
trial, that five bushels of crushed e/tten
seed make a difference of seventeen jturhelk
of corn iu an acre’s production, u/td four
hundred pounds of seed on an aqfpe of cot
ton. The results not only executionv,tl)‘ing
of record, in that line of exptfimenf, but
prove beyond all dubiety, that in our usual
.mak'-oil aptlyimr cotton sped ;o our crops,
we waste or misapply a very Ure^^opor
j iion of one of the very best manures knorre
I to agriculture.—£d. The FiatHiUion. »
Carbolic Soap fok Issects.—I ant ex
perimenting with Buchan’s Carbolic Soap,
as rr preventative for injurious insects, and
am so well pleased with the result thus faVt
that L wish to stimulate other horticultu
rists to try some experiment syith the arti
cle.
For cut worms, I made the soapsuds
pretty strong—two gallons of water to balf_
a pouud of soap, and with it saturated a
bushel of saw dust; then placed a little
around the stem of each cabbage and to
mato plant,—using a handful to eight or
ten plants—adding a little more after two
or three days when the odor seemed gone.
This was completely successful in ground
where the worms were quite plenty, and
where plants not pretcoled were speedily
cut off by them. It is the chcapestaud
most easily applied remedy that I have yet
seen. ,
For striped bugs ou melons 3uu cucum
ber vines, I find the same method cf usin^
the soap effective, if the saw dust is sprink
led ou the piauts every day,—which is very
little trouble,-—but I am now trying wet
ting the plants directly with weak suds,
made of ten gallons of water to half a pound'
of the soap, an! I think this will prove the
For aphis of plan? lice on eperry trees or
the-like, a sprinkle or two with the suds,
by means of a sponge, oj bending the'
shoots so as to dip them into a pail or ba
sin, is speedy death to bug*, s)Care must be
used not to have the suds too strong when
applied to tender plants or young shoots of
trees ; experiments arc needed fur this
point. _ ___■ nh?. “jjjf
Fit lire currant worm and tJ'*"r ~»li
I.lra£rvt>dt_j- —. Vajj... oppurt uuh y^ytfW"'
amine, and yet I hope others will do so
and make a report.— 1/^IS Bateham, tV
Ohio Farmer. * '"
Manure the Gardes. — Ground that is
tp be used for vegetables next spring.should
be manured Dow. Haul out from the barn
yard ail the‘manure that can be spared tor
this purpose- audrptead it over the surface,
mid then plow uuder, and leavo the soil in
slight ridges until spring. If the manure
is fresh and warm, it will become su*.oieutly
et'ol and deeompose^ by spring, and its
juices thoroughly incorporated with the aujl.
When the surface of the land is nearly
level, and there is no danger of ihe manure
washing away, U may be spread upon thg^r .
surface, even after the ground be t'rosen.
For vegetables the ettriuhing iu»WrUlsjjf
should be thoroughly decomposed dSt.J
e vaporated with the soil; an T wo do m
kutwr of a better way .of d-' g 4;'S ML^.
began in autumn, r* '1 once, at tide
time*, ■ !- t■ . afis heavy
rains will "(Ip ecre towards mixing the ma
terials ih-m 1.: - vr‘ 1>!°W %
spad j4
Liniment yo:t Animals,—An excellent
liuitueut for wounds, bruiser, sprains, and
-.'Yelling, may he made as fodows .* e .
Pint of good vinegar, a, pi a t of soft soap,.
t handful of salt and a tablespnnnfull of
isltpetre. Mix thoroughly aud bottle for
is*. Thi -Is very rfli nioiinia amlla-ebeapiy
ami easily prepared.
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