simply appeal to conscience, and in the name of justice ask, is it right that man should first destroy the works of nature and then place in their stead a forlorn uninviting home? Go then, farmer, and plant trees, straighten and repair your fences, tear down and rebuild those old sheds, and do evey thing which lies in your power to render your habitation a blessing to yourself and an ornament to your country. Your family will never fail to aid you in this noble work, and they will ever rejoice to bring into fond recollection the pleasant scenes of their early childhood, and will ever commemorate that spot as their dear old home. Then, when the blossoms of your earthly career shall have ripened into the sweet fruits of eternity, posterity will gaze upon the works of your industry, and behold in them, inscribed to your name, a memorial which nothing but the ultimate decay of centuries can obliterate. TROY CENTER, June 14th, 1864. P. S. Little Feet. Up with the sun at morning, The patter of little feet. This child is our "speaking picture," When the glory of sunset opens I see by the gates of pearl, And I ask to be taught and directed HEALTH AND DISEASE. Dysentery is literally a "difficulty among the intestines ;" It is a discharga of blood from the bowels, accompanied by what has been aptly termed "an attrocious pain. You feel as if you would be relieved by an evacuation, but when the attempt is made, there is a fruitless straining termed tenesmus, and nothing comes of it, unless it be blood. The rectum, or last foot of the lower bowel, is the main seat of dysentery, which is commonly called "bloody flux." It should be always considered a dangerous disAt first the discharges are colorless; ease. but as the parts come more and more under the influence of the disease, they become disorganized, rotten and insufferably offensive. and is oftenest caused by bad air, a sudden Dysentery most abounds in hot, dry weather, check of perspiration, or by whatever makes the skin of the body cold. In fact, dysentery may be regarded as an exaggerated or aggravated diarrhoea-the latter is water, the former, blood. The great distinguishing features of dysentery are bloody passages, with frequent, fruitless and painful effort to stool. It is one of those diseases which is very apt to go on to a fatal termination, if let alone; a disease which is often made more speedily fatal by being ignorantly tampered with; and whether blood is passed from the bladder or the bowels, a skillful physician should be called in as promptly as possible, as promptly, indeed, as if it were an attack of cholera; but while he is coming, there are several things which may be safely done for the comfort of the sufferer, if not for his cure. The patient should not sit. up a moment; should keep as quiet as possible; should eat absolutely nothing but boied riee or flour-porridge, and swallow bits of ice to the complete quenching. A little cold flaxseed tea may be swallowed from time to time. A favorite prescription of some of the old physicians of a past generation, and which is now said to be in vogue in Russia for several forms of diarrhoea and dysentery, is the use of raw meat-thus, take fresh beef, free from fat, scrape it into a pulp with a knife, season it with salt to make it more palatable, or with sugar for children, to whom begin with one teaspoonfull three timds a day gradually increasing the amount as they become fond of it. Adults may use it by spreading it between two slices of stale bread. Its merit consists in its being easily digested, very nutritious, of small bulk, and readily assimilated to the system. It is well known that children having the summer complaint, will ravenously eat, or rather chew or grind between their gums, a piece of the rind of bacon or ham, to which is attached half an inch of fat, and begin to improve in a few hours. The whites of forty eggs "whipped," and then sweetened with white sugar, and drank largely through the day, without any other food, is an admirable remedy in and one-half ounces tallow, three ounces beesthese ailments. Or for dysentery or protract-wax. cd diarrhoea, take half a teacup of vinegar, with as much salt as it will take up, leaving a little excess of salt at the bottom, add boiling water until the cup is two thirds full, remove the scum, let it cool, and take one table spoonful three times a day until relieved. It has not failed of cure in many hundred trials. Summer Drinks. The 6. The fruit being sufficiently heated, take bottles successively to a table, and quickly cork them. With a towel in the hand they should be carried in such a way as to close the opening and retain the heated steam in the bottles on the way to the corking table. corks may be forced in by a blow of a mallet, or better, by a small lever arrangement fixed to work at the right hight above the table. When inserted as far as practicable, if part of the cork remains above the bottle, pare it off with a sharp knife. 7. Immediately after the cork is in its place, a person should stand ready and apply a coat of sealing-wax to the end of the cork, with a paint or leather brush, to close the pores of the wood. If a man is really thirsty, there is nothing more delicious, nothing which is more gratefully and perfectly satisfying, than a glass of cool water, with the advantage of its costing nothing, and besides leads to no bad habits.The men in glass manufactories, where the heat is fearful, drink water only, and that not iced, and remain healthy and vigorous. Field-its hande on cotton and sugar plantations, find a wholesome drink in the mixture of molasses and water; this is a safe drink for harvesters; so also is "buttermilk," it being not only cooling and nutritious, but otherwise healthful as a liver stimulant.-Dr. Hall. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Method of Preserving Fruit practiced by the Oneida 1. The fruit, properly hulled, assorted, or prepared, is placed in clean glass bottles manufactured for the purpose, filling them to the neck. 8. Next proceed to seal the bottle by dipping mouth in the melted sealing-wax, so as to cover the bulb. Then transfer it to a basin of cold water, dipping to the same depth, to cool the wax. bulb or rim at the mouth of the bottle, there If the dipping is carried below the is danger of cracking the glass. Now examine the scaled part to see if the wax has formed blisters. If there are blisters, rub them away with the finger, using a little tallow or oil to prevent sticking. 9. Repeat the dipping operation in wax and in water. See that the wax is left smooth and without flaws, and the sealing is complete. 10. Pack away on shelves or in chests in a cool dry cellar. If placed on shelves, a cloth should be hung before them to exclude the light. In a few days after packing away, inspect the bottles to see if any show signs of 2. Prepare a syrup of melted refined or fermentation, which may be dected bp a foamy white sugar, and pour into the bottles by the appearance of the fruit. If this is observed following rule, viz: Allow six ounces of sugar in any bottles, it denotes either a crack in.the to one quart of fruit, or melt one pound of su- glass, or that the sealing was imperfect. The gar in one half-pint of water, and give half-bottle should be opened or examined, the conpint of the syrup thus produced to one quart bottle of fruit. tents scalded, and the process of sealing repeated as before. In some cases during the 3. Place the bottles in a steaming box, or a season, a little vegetable mould may be seen boiler with a false bottom, which may be made to gather on the surface of the fruit in the botof loose slats resting on supports so as to raise tles, but this can be easily separated on openit a little above the water in the boiler. Cover ing the bottles, leaving the mass of the fruit the boiler or steam box, and gradually raise a without harm Two or three persons can carsteam that will thoroughly heat the fruit and ry forward the different operations of preservsyrup in the bottles, bringing them to the boil-ing at the same time, and with more conveniing point. This may take an hour from the ence than one alone. commencement of heating; but whatever the time, be sure that the whole contents of the bottles are at a boiling heat. 4. Have ready corks, steamed or moistened sufficiently to make them flexible. They should be large enough to fill the neck of the bottle tightly, and require some force to crowd them in. One cork as procured of dealers allows of being cut in two, so as to stop two bottles. 5. Have ready a vessel of melted sealingwax, compounded of the following materials and proportions: One pound of rosin, one The rule for syrup given above, is adapted to the strawberry, cherry and other similar fruits. RASPBERRY JAM.-Weigh the fruit, and add three-quarters of the weight of sugar; put the former into a preserving pan, boil, and break it; stir constantly, and let it boil very quickly; when the juice has boiled an hour, add the sugar and simmer half an hour. In this way, the jam is superior in color and flavor to that which is made by putting the sugar in first. YOUTH'S CORNER. Enigmas, &c. No. 1.—I am composed of five letters, which, by transposition, spell fourteen different words. Leave off my first, and I am a word expressing the use of extravagant language. Leave off my first two, and I am an insect. Leave off my first and last, and I am a verb in the past tense. Leave off my first two and last, and I am an adjective. Leave out my second, and transpose the remaining, and I am an insect. No. 3.-I am composed of 10 letters. My 2, 8, is an adjective. My 1, 6, 3, 3, 4, 8, is a county in Texas. MARION MONTEOP. Answers to Enigmas, etc., in May No. No. 1.-"Nevada Territory;" answered by Leave off my first two, and transpose the Charles W. Lentt, Union Grove; Letetia Lamb, remaining, and I am a color. Waupun; Agnes Stevens, Eldorado; Adela Leave out my second and last, and transpose Marshall and Kate Cochran, Lamartine; Jane the remaing, and I am an animal. Felton, Fond du Lac; Minnie Stebbins, Cooks Leave off my last and transpose the remain-ville; Myra Kincaid, Portage City; Mary and der, and I am a word expressive of discontent. Leave off my last, and transpose the remaining and I am a verb. Leave off the first two and fourth and I am & preposition. Leave off the first and fourth and I am a small animal. Mandie Clark, -; J. W. and H. L. Mor- .; C. Brown, Leave off the first and fourth, and transpose. My whole is a name familiar to every Ameri- can. PORTAGE CITY, May, 1864. No. 2.-"Pink;" answered by all the above, and in addition by C. Tripps, Fond du Lac; B. F. Williams, New Brookville; P. M. Johnson, Christiana; Addie Montross, Columbus; Sylvia Raney. Ottawa, and Maggie Stevens, ENIGMA NO. 2.-I am composed of 28 letters. Eldorado. My 27, 23, 8, 15, 11, is a fruit. My 8, 16, 2, 7, 17, 20, 28, is a vegetable root. My 19, 6, 29, 21, 9, 10, is a tree. To Conundrum, "Ohio."-Answered so nearly by the above names, that we will not re-print the list, also by Yinee Crawford, Grovesville, and C. F. Edgerton, Fond du Lac. To Puzzle, "87."- Our little friends must forgive us, in that they were so much more badly puzzled by the "Clock and Mallets" of the May number, than was expected they would be. Over forty incorrect answers came in. Maggie Stevens, of Eldorado, says "No Times," referring, doubtless, to the mallets alone. The following letter which, substantially the same, was also sent by J. W. Collins, Prescott, explains the puzzle. This one is given the preference because it is to the point and brief. MRS. H. MRS. HOYT:-To Geographical Enigma"Nevada Territory." To No. 2-"Pink." To Puzzle-As the wooden boys strike only when they hear the clock strike, they would not strike at all, for wooden boys cannot hear. The clock would strike seventy-eight times. To Conundrum-Ohio ( o high o.) F. SANDERSON. CAMBRIA, Wis., May 13, 1864. To require the publishers of the FARMER to furnish more matter than any other paper in the country, at prices less than cost, and then to wait twelve months for their pay, when the terms are invariably pre-payment. With three prices for material and fifty per cent. added to cost of labor, is it reasonable to expect us to patiently wait on delinquents much longer? Our bills, however extravagant, must be paid every month. Will you not pay up then, O ye readers of the FARMER who are in arrears? The sooner the better. Don't wait another day. How Some People take Care of Grape Roots. and see if the excellent care which you have Complaints. We are in receipt of letters stating that the premium grape roots which we distributed in May had not been received. Wherever grape roots were ordered, we sent them. If any subscribers failed to get them it must have been the fault of the mail. In such cases we will make up the loss this fall by sending strawberry plants, unless the DROUTH interferes. If our subscribers would take the trouble to ask the Post Masters to place the plants and roots in moist earth when received into the office, much of the difficulty in making them good would be obviated. Post Masters ought to accommodate their patrons this much at least. The subscriber is also to blame. Not enough care and nursing has been given them. So far as our observation goes, not one in a hundred has succeeded in making the Tribune Strawberries live. Occasionally one who has taken the pains to put them into a box, keep them from the hot sun, and water them with soft water as often as they require it, has succeeded in making them live. We were unfortunate enough to lose about 900 of our Concords by freezing last winter, consequently we were short this spring; and as Concords were very high and scare we could not get the best, hence in some cases the vines were not as large as we should have been glad to send. In all cases where the fault has seemed to be ours, we will make up the loss, if notified, either by sending strawberry plants this fall or seeds next spring. Recently we met a subscriber to whom we had sent a Concord grape root this spring. In the course of conversation he remarked that the grape root which he had received from the FARMER was dead. How did it happen, said we? "Oh, it was dead when we got it." Did you plant it? "No; it looked dry and dead when it came to hand, and I threw it upon the ground. I afterwards threw a shovel full of dirt upon it, thinking that if there was any or Seminary. Is competent to teach the Englife it, it would manifest itself." Have you lish branches, French and German, music examined it lately? "No;" but I know it (piano and guitar). Can give references. could noo live." Let us look at it, said we, Address this office. Wanted. A young lady, graduate of an eastern College, will accept a situation in a High School Couldn't Do Without the Farmer. Jottings from our Note Book of Travel. GLIMPSES OP OLD ENGLAND.-NO. II. * * [ an waling be you to say to the world at large that I do like the FARMER, and dont see how any farmer can think of doing. without. I think every farmer will be paid ten fold for his money. In short, I would not do without the FARMER under any consid-trast! The way hither has been through mageration whatever. High Prices for Produce S. J. FORD. Of all sorts is the programme for the coming year. The farmers will not be in a hurry to sell grain, wool, or anything else so long as they can do without the money. From the classic fields of Stratford-uponAvon and of Shottery to the smoke and roar of great Birmingham, how marked the con nificent scenery, the approach heralded by the gleaming fires of furnaces, the thickening smoke of monster foundries, rolling-mills and manufactories, and by the bewildering dissonances of clank and champ and hiss and ringing crash, which here, as nowhere else in all the world, surprise and stun the ear. It is as — A subscriber wishes to know where the if Pluto and Vulcan had joined hands to batter best shepherd dog can be found. New Advertisements. R. C. Browning, of New York, advertises the Universal Clothes Wringer. We have tested the value of his machines, and are able to give them a high endorsement. See advertisement of Cane Mills, manufactured at the Rock River Iron Works, together with an illustrated notice of the same in Mechanical Department. Mr. Prentice advertises Strawberries. (ADVERTISEMENT.] Premiums for the Diligent! We offer as a premium one of our Improved Grain Binders to the farmer binding the largest number of acres in one day with our implement. Also to the Farmer binding the largest amount through the harvest; in both cases the grain to rate not less than average, the work to be well done, the ground be measured and properly certified by disinterested parties, and the statements furnished us not later than September 1st. Farmers, let us have your reports carly. W. W. & H. M. BURSON. down and re-forge the world, and this Birmingham were their grand, central workshop! At length the long train enters the great station-perhaps the largest, and certainly one of the most remarkable in the world. It is built of iron and glass; the arched roof being supported upon iron pillars at the sides, without central supports of any kind, and covering a space which measures 1,100 by 205 feet. Across the numerous tracks and over the tops of trains, are iron suspension bridges, connecting the two platforms. Fancy yourselves for the first time ushered into this grand palace of hissing engines, hundreds of hoarse porters' voices, trundled baggage, rushing, struggling multitudes, and ringing bells! You might endure it for a few moments, but scarcely longer, without distraction. Birmingham is the leading city of England in the working of metals. It is also famous for its manufacture of india rubber fabrics, papier mache, mother of pearl, tortoise-shell and ivory goods, and glass ware. The city stands upon a number of sandstone hills, is well built, and contains a population of a quarter of a million. It owes its greatness to the rich mines of iron and coal in the midst of which it is located, and to the genius of the immortal Watt, which gave the world that wonder-worker, the steam-engine. For many centuries it was a town of no special importance, though so favorably located. But imSec. W. S. A. S. mediately after the application of steam as a ROCKFORD, Ills, June 1864. County Agricultural Societies Intending to compete for the Prize Banner offered by the State Society, must file a notice of their intent at this of September, State Madison, June 3d, 1864. office by the 1st day |