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The Clinton New Era, 1878-08-01, Page 6• THE .CLINTON NEW ERA, • • � V .AuGuSxt 1,, 1S7$. oti r<t #>G>ifizd Nath Pomeoac Thea Asalouttan'al Shows. The work of an agrierulter.al society is not only. C show :ti. ,good •• example • of improving .wrachinet•y tacad. live stook to the visiting. farnaese.nnd their f uni- lies, but also• to givq, as cor reat tteoount Of .thp. various-;advitlioos avliicb, earl-• oultaire.has Riede siuee the lest Meeting, In addition to this, its nlission,'is to bring together` the various members 'and visitors fora generel exchange of ideas, not only upon' the "stabjeot of agriculture,- but upon',all subjects: A 'prejudice agrtirast., book.. foaming, as scientific agiikultui•e. is too frequent- ly celled, will of course Militate•itgainst the proper receptions of ue'w ideas by. the ordinztrty-fere)er iit.tlle'se,sa etinge. Nevertheless, the discussions .and do-' bates lay bock -formers. frequently give' birth to ItI'as which subsequently, de. volep into untried experiments, all • 'sometimeii result in untold, profit to the producing classes;- There was a time !When the:cultiva- tion of small fruits was almost a laid-: den mystery Confined to the favored few who kept their. secrets and traded. upon them. A. ,iainuber, of years. ago, how- ever, a young and., ainbitious student and gerdel?er, named Fuller, took np .the aiilsject, `shad aft'or : yeai' ' etesfpeseis moat and study wrote" a 1 enlc. ' •bW nearly every farmer' is not only able to raise the small fruits which ase neces- sary for the health _anti. welfare of hitt family, bat caul send bis •Surplus to diose markets where starch fruit is great-. l.v needed. The mystery! 11ns, ceased, and this particular branch of cutitiva- tion is an open' book. This is Hien- tioncal as only oneof thrjbenefits., oris in; front this iutcruhr nge. osf idea spoken of. By all means a.aistain the agricultural- societies and attend.their meetings .tmd shows., duet of their stal?les_they know 'to Ate. good food fur land aia.they;havoin s y notions abolii =octal manures which; huvit worked miraculous benefits some- .troresi'nnd At others Have disepliointed the enterprise that invested ha thelia. --- But why.the success in the one case and the failurein the other•they have tut a_ ]lazy and probably erroneous idea. One', man. has turned. up • the eubaoil of Ids field and made himself to new farad•,. another has, by the saint process, almost rained 'a very. good soil. it was all es's pertinent -at• heat. • Neitilor know before he. did• it what the result ]would .be, un- less he learned it from his neighbor Who bad tried it before ]lira. Turnips, ay.e are told by our newspaper, work luar- �c'a: pestering soils thin are 9vrorary" of •bearing grain, but when we test this at' ]tome wo find': our Eine] a on'.t,:yieili turnips; end .we have no,iaotion why, it won't. Fall°eti.tyg.la:ud, end 'leaving it in pasture; are both relneclies.in'iitliver- Sal repute, but the former is simply. .a process ifor getting at the reserve capital of our soil, .tie as to exhaust' that also ; and the' latter, while •it iestores• •eer-' taiii substances: to• the soil, robs it of others''wMcll must, in tori,,, be supplied;' otherwise tbe'laind maybe really:]; ootov than it Wa's,, caving; gained a little of what mi ghat have •]leen supplied 'other- wise, but.haviug lost'what we .perheyps 'd0snet-1fr7H�V-"i ow-teY-:8Upply: s llisst[lis- -uncevt;art.i,ty'-anil•'-:-reatdtwnt: lass lir ass from ignorance of What every farrtlor ]night learn, et. least in a.general 'wey, from'studying a tort -book on agi•icul- ttlro ;; and • what every 'farmer's son— wlo intends' to, stick. to .'leis father's profession-7-ehouald learn tl oronghyly, by taking one, or two sessions `itr n ng- ricu;iturel: college. It is, possible to learn' .exactly whatr' ts" halter fi;ons the soil by every crop, and exactly by what process this can he. :restored.•-= Most of what grows on a farm. natural ly goes • back to it, tend is, therefore, ;no s.oalrce'of loss, ' That of which it is robbed. is tb,e..lat't, wh„�rh `ta idle11 goes 1.y. into the nmrlufacttire . of , the above. nlentiened':food and `clothin, :Tact us take wheat as an exialilple;.: a very, itn portant' one,to°Canacle Vesteen':On- g tario is now beginnin l'•to fincloiit whit �. I thg' E'covince ot.Qtiebec'found out:fifty years ago, that it. eannot'produee.wheat forever.. Lands y that once,' yielded.' a splendid tjrop'every year produce a short spindling straw, and' a light, imperfect beitd of• grain, 'which is very 'subject to the depredations of animal and. vege- table parasites. Ontario must,' there- fore, soon, aa Quebec has'already• done, eeese to .• cultivate. wheat,' . Yet. .wheat gl•otve abundantly. in, England •en very: niobh. older lands. than ours, There: are certain' snlrstauees of 'which the wheat plant is coniposed,. and unless all these ni;e'within reach`-cifits roots will not. grow. They, mast bo in the 'soil, and they must be there irt'a eolnble fcrtej availablefor. use. 'It is obvious_ that whatever one ref thoso substances.: exists thus in the soil In least• propor- tion .to ,the demands of the itlntlt, Will l;e exhausted first; add that thio quantify ofthis one substaneo will be the '.=1nea- 'sure' of -the period clulint, ...Oda, the land swill produce the.plent in•clueation;; Tlif farm tnov r till • be rich in everything else; racking this it will in, ate mora of the (halved r•1'on, and 00' iseetuat of:.]lint]niin'g tilith' other: tali - •stances Will make it a bit 'better. One' process for it storing flit proatictivoiless of roils is bloalcing thenl'ilp and ex-. visit; theist" to the air acid ;frost. ' by v'luieh eleasss many suisrtaute.:l hitherto , inSOI utjIe'are brought into a. form nr ail - table for use, lila tb.is, a'1 ire have said,; is'only*'a pl'ocesS for, fnrtltrr i xlsitnetin . 'the post;essiona of the.. Hail'. The ob- jcet,"oi' the farmer should be to. find out what he is'exbausting, and to see, that that is; if passible, restored, In. our wheat laniis -What. usually disappears fitst is the phosphoric acid, whish is needed to built] np tie bonen ural'' feed.. the ]trains of anitdal. „life; and 'which, though it is little used by the •rest of the wheat plant, is abundantly required for the grain itself. As the grain itself is what is sold off 'the farm, ant 10 ull[iletrineee 'pis"- tfatdairy there vel y small quantities to beg] • a th, it,is the first to tell, by RS* ek upon the health of tbo'plant.' � i aphorie ltcld'is easily obtaine fro phosphate of line, which is r'rdered ready tit use in agriculture y being'nianufaetured into hyperphos- phate. The phosphate s� now found in extre o abtindanco in this ro- inch m province, , and clone to it 'wti have plenty of iron and copper pyrites, or stillihates of iron and copper,. which yield the sul. phurie acid needed for this manufactures. Yet we send our phosphates in their' article state to. Britain and, the continent of Europe. Green Crops, with manure, are'llsed to keep the land in latest, batt green Props are vastly more exhaustive of the mineral "substances of the. soil' than are grain crops, so that the'intro- duction of rotatidn of crops; renders doubly necessary the study of agricul'-' rural t homirtr . Acroturnips of t urnon air acre of land l. use one hundred and forty-five pounds of potash,: where a crop of wheat will use less than four pounds. Th.o turnips Will use twenty two pounds of :phosphoric acid where the' wheat will use five and a half pounds, so that it is evident that min- eral as well as animal manure'rteods tb. be used with the turnips. We 118;4%4- not laveanot gone into this' subject with a view of telling any farmer what he should Profitable .Gartninir. I+'ai•uaing will_ not p'ty if farmers .are'. shiftless; intemperate and shiftlor. 1J , if 'fall: their wants are for luxuaies and :- tria= rla •. It will iso£ . la if the are 1 y l.Y y merely. horse •farmers; :and. "ril:n . after agricultural fairs and• trotting purses, and inake the.hotso: of no. more value than a pack of .cards, "a thing to 'bet money on—the. besetting sin -fie ,'yionng men at the present time. It will not pay if they' keep fine `horses•'ftnd bug, gies to ride into . the village; every afternoon to meet jockeys or bar -•room . loungers. It. will not pay :those who, like the southern fernier, had .! hog.'aiid hominy enough at holm to do till spring,' and therefore would• not work. Neill or will those -be s'ucce'ssful who say to their hired hep in the worning, 'go,' instead of saying•'eolne, boys.' It Wi11 not pay to adopt the skinning: ,system and st'trve the soil, or to portrait .Lrtish, weeds and thistles to over I:unthe fermi choke oat the crops, and rob the t lil, Tb,tt. fat•tntr is 'not successful' Nle is•. cesservativc., i.iiti--wedded V), old -ways and .old isle;:=, rind to old implements. t)n the een-trart,'; the, farmer twill- sue.- cce'l who makes lip his mind that the tt•hei, free]•, r or success• it; in .himself ; that it is 11,x' iioui and.71ot the business that trills. ile •ivill'.succced .if lit: 1,rings t', leer the; sawo ..nlilotlnt'' of skill, fort houglit,.energy, cermet:ay falai judgment that . any other branch of inrsinc•ss retlnii•cli. • Ho .will succeed. if he sticks dose to leis-Ftrfn, 'as' Nell' mechanic floes to his shop, and not Ck prat to work three nil four ti;emthe and then take his me the rest of' 'the year. 'Phut farmer will stteeoed • who takes tho papers and digests .what . he reads,.ylrsd is not` afraid of clew ideas' and new method's of ffidustry. Ile will succectl if it is his intorition that whatever he sends to market shall be the rely best, and f;o made' and prit up that whets seen it shall be Capti- vating for its freshness; cleanliness •and purity, and will unhesitatingly on : nc- count of his we1I.knowr character for honesty of weight, measure and count: Those who have farms may deem themselvcfl_ fortunate,-- for =although they Will not thereby find sodden roads to wealth, they will certainly prove that persistent faint labor .Will 'bring a sure reward. It is worthy of potice,. thrt the adventurer, and speetllator, 'with blasted hopes and t]]]attered health and fortune, bavo•in the end came to the farm for health and saf Ag- riculture is. the basis of na ' al strength' h' and wealth, and a o t.certainend. liberal supper all who fellow it' jn teltigentl Iiosv Fitrtn,t Grow Poor. . /�. The soil is the' farmer's raw• mate- s- slab- out ato-rlal,-rout- of which he•'-ixianufacturi food and clothing. Much . plant.food is indeed derived from the air, more even than scientific men have been hith- erto in itherto•in the liabit -of thinking. That portion comes freely to all farmers, Like the sun, that shines on: the•evii and ort the good, and like the rain; that falls on the just and on the unjust:. But a large part of what the plant needs it must get front the •soil, and every far- mer- knows that,Jhe same thing cannot bofore r ade m forever from the same soil,— Something is taken from the soil with everyop; which, if not returned, leaves it so much the poorer. Of What that something is, roost of our farmers know nothing anll oare little, . The pro. ea. use, but With a view to Provoking the rtageity in the mi.'nd of .every farmer, wltetiter'iticrr»me • of lipowledge might not Ise lo•ltim incra'afis.of wealth. '1'!]e farmer who has observed an iue•xperi- enced theorist come to his neighborhood' and make a Wieck of his fort'nuo, is too likely to laugh at the knowledge Which the other is;supposecl to: possess, instead , of it the. inexperience with whIOh it is 'applied. . Wua'ei the same knowledge guiding. the'hinds of a man brolaght up on tt farm to ve y differ- ent result osigllt"be`look, d for,-1llosli tregl Wien eSS. • Kansas expects to send 41,008,000 bush- els of wheat to market this -year. The debt of the city of New York was reduced steady e•t,000,000 the past year. The receipts of grain in Mileage-) .for tt 'jingle Week:recently tly reached the ulprece- dented total of 7,585,084 bushels. ¶,tfieri.' are said to he in New York city 100,000 women who•eatrn their owe and is•li°se average' weges are rop per week. • 'ilio catinieag of n1en11i, fruits and vcgos tables has become an immense business.' In Maine over 5,000,000 CADS (doom aro pricked annually; the sales-. of. which •a;nlount to $t;150,000, giving employment' to 10,000 people during thepack ing season. • A . r0ln8t•kablesttatf t oce''i 0 r • statement lirs t report by timed the Governmentneatus- alista-sea. tb<;'--••1•i wieits..leseets--Gf-4he, -Woes liixrnel..: ilirkt:in taper-rcted Sthtea ys the loss of agricultural proditets, through the ravages of'insects, amounts to badly snore.. than $100,000,000 caab' Year', and that from one-quarter•ta one- half of nehalf.of this' stun might be Say ail by pre-' ventive 1nt'asures.' • The 'California .wlieatcropswill be �s rely poor' one tlri' y;>tit. Dike county 161 harvest half a a stop. All ' the late - Sown 'Wheat ateSown'wheat i.a more or lest; badly affect. ei, with rust. The Slur.. Diego News. says : '' ` Our wilt tit trap ispthucled' by .the rust'froi'town to :Ague Caliente, following the roadby way ,of Vtillo '.do' las Violas,. and glome .hy the 'Atkinson greide. It is fonnd•'evetywhere along. the rotte, and. the loss to th.e • yeild at least elle-lialf over %.•hat wits etpeoted ter the crop'0 few . week ago. Where ti yeild. of twenty . bushels to' the. acre w,as expected earlier' it' the se'ason,"ten Will be' a flood rts'era,ae, !Oil we heard of. •placoa ware 's,P•veii wgialld not :be pro-' _eared, and Some \whereof], the ' seed would not be 'rot urned.' It is a sad, slid loss:,, MONEY TO.-1,0AN1 ou ' A roved • Notts,' ALSO, O:7 tiOnTOAGE S1;Cf9It'ITY.. A nihil er of iaod good 'ARMS FOII. SALE 41,50; S0.1ii 1:0w:N DYES.' • Apply to C, .A.,IIAjITT', Attorney..t•c.. Cltntnrl, June20, 1874.• n GE'EN(,Y O1+' r , £ )1 ,'"t rl' I':I 5 .1/..1K1‹, STAN I ).Arlfi FY l�Ttc 11'i.17U!'l .f.()ilIL',AN;tJ * 1. t1 ti ee of Removal:, J , BIDDLECOMBE,' tib•' Maker, Watch and ' Clock� I�akB J'EWETal..ER, Would respectfully announce to his owibQmors Ana the. publlo generally,. that,IeQe. the Tato dleaetrous tiro, be. bas secured the Store 1w gXy occupied by Messrs S, Palliser & oo.,. Whoreiie will keep on hand a. select assprtmout of Weeks, Watches, fewelry,,aed Siiverwareof all kinds, Which ho, trill Sell at' reasonable Nates. Repairing 01 everydescription promptly attended to. rIDDLEQ0i1113l9,'t1aunT sTaI np; 011nt'oe,San, 24, 1878, •, . RANT'S' EX•CELSfll NAY. FORK t 13LV ares• 'rIIo• VfoO '1i, JMtontofl by Ph Ti911 GRAN r, of elinton,. oat.; tar •tbeJ pminion of Canada, anti bae.boengredwilly grow - Ing ib laver, until it, has now been preuo'lneed by all outdid Judgds, auporior to nuythlug of the kitid'ever in. vented. It bas taken six brat ProvnieiniPriass in Oaa,a•' da, previous' tri its introduction Into the 'United Kiang, and at the Centennial Expositiiiu, hold at Philadelphia, 1876, it received the only modal Roil oominondatory re- port of the judges, over thirty-seven oonipc.(t tors. It 0 now introdnngcr to tbe'agrioulturist of the United States and Dominion of Canada, with tho,onadont belief that it mast supersede all other appnancea et, the kind,: 'rho Patentee has testimonials'feoio ltnndrodaof prominent agrioultuiists in the. province, It only requires to be soon to bo fully appreciated. The advantages claimed •for it aro, that it noes its'work quiokpr,. hotter, and y¢ith less attendantlabor than any other fork, a ,boy 12. years of alto can handle it with the greatest ease. They. rewxttnsivelY•reanutaaturod be odvriair•lfaunfeetur- imps.. Price, $12. . For pr1eeaand full partiouiaas, Had applications for agpuetos, township and countryrights,adtlress PnTEB (}RANT,.CLINTON, 'ONT. Or, faoscbnuvxttri, DELL a0., Ph„ fortutted states. ' Cliaton, Aprit :x.a,.1815. ' pr•. Specific. 'Medieiva• EUrglPshateredy is: especi�ially re- oommon(10L1 11 i an nnlnili )5 cern for Seminal Weak- ness, Spormatorr e t . hen • Imp jtencyi' n that, follow as: n T :�..£ore.:'Taking.aoqupna bf 81ir •�tqP Taking, • Abuse, as Loss of lIomory; tTnivors 1Lassitlude,Pain in. the Back, Dimness ot.yisiori, Promatnro old Ago, and many other diseases that lead to Insanity or 'Cousump. ,don, and a Promaturo Grave, all of which as a rnlo are tirat'oaund by doviating from the path of nature and over -Indulgence,. !The Spooiflo medicine is the result of .'a life study itnd many year¢ of exporieneo iu treating.' th000 'syiebial didoasogi.. Pamrdtlet'freb: by mail'., The Spocifie Mcdioine is sea by all Druggists at $l ver pack- ago, orsix packages for $6 of will be sent by nail on rooeipt of the money, by nddresaing' YDS. 01141 4 00., Windsor, Ont. Sold iii Clinton by T. 11. Qombo;and all. all druggistsovorywaoro: • Ana all diseases ....lt • • 03f�AiT 1• iTM Jl. AOTORT,.. riIUE'suascllrnsr nnStnnS•TO RETURN 1I18 oiucoro thanks for the liberal aharo:ot patronage afforded hen, and would also intimate that ho lias,tlur ing tho past Winter, laipatp a• largo stock of first=clans material, rind ja .ntiw., I r pnred,tb.make.and put in, the MOST - . SUPERIOR PUT$IPSy: Of every description, oirthe 8trtiiarior Npiteu/ane• on the most Comeau/31C tarns. remember •the place - next door. to A. • Mathesenr's.,macirsrxiitb. Shop. YES FErtc visor. Clinton; April 10,1877.' -4 r 0 rr I On and after this dote, rIwill sell neoolsncredit' e trouble in collecting trifling amounts being, small h 1at Z uav o decided to SELL TQR O SH ONLY, or keep the goods,. All outstanding accounts mast he sett1ed,at once, and without further notice, as I making Yarraugeruents 'to . go out of the.. Boak and Stationery business, and:the books must positively beclosed at once. gElE_ALAIINiC `0011Jr.C, m.e .tire stook of ail Pa a �teYw ; new . an.d. _excelle.at p,tieai xio :better. opo p srtuality can be ' utd for. Etoa� e keepersl (Nettingtae ,e floods.. .. 4t "VVho1esa,le rieel ;' ' t •�'f Ll .of a ; °('�•, U . entire e � t cls Wbi do* 7P -a err, anztc .d a -..•et 3'eft n t1r S.IEILJEYNGr, OUT, my entire stock of i b1 prayer' 3ooks,and, lay>rn;l L . ooks. • •o S l ;"_4141ENf • O1Jal,., my- entire s_ tobliof .. Ci ee1I neotttN oli .p i'ool t+✓a i' 1...etter•1&?apex',,, .LNTote;'.Y�'a:` .aa>id= frull Ytnefg '-xAa :33lallla otac and flfiee t,xo»lltc.ry, :ai i .:�obf)17.�w` �r eek ' •_ • • n R.Oallii &. Note the�sta d NeXt door to adz Cos I� to__ � • SIGN OF-THE'BIc1 BOOK,`EX•PP-RxSS'AND T:EI,E GRAPH 'OFFICE, Clintori, rally' II; '1875. ,1117`4' ' •1t1 (:'E;T'V.1411); 1,04 t,f •;•.,1 ,t i rli•ti^t 1'i tit rt ,1 ' 1. rate,. i (`: 11l►itlt'.�', astern, COMM , I Oftht 11'llgnlll)1 , Rin1i s a r Clinton - • rte., i'v. .4-4, , , raver c� a f '✓ F%�Ct 84Y 0 '' Pn: tlr.t s.tlplto:t trttlt ti : i,trvr: tt rb,rrteat • at the VERY LOWEST RA• axe UllfY zllod Securities 'Purchaser;, 'C'Ol -6rfr"r.;-,AINT CING w'.w.r 0iruton, hew. it, milt. AN; . 47 NEW " E' •CARD. • • : GEA•'TD- T ilN 1i r1IL�VAY ON 'AND AFTER MONDAY, 'MAY 27TiZ, VassongefTr`alne wlil ioavo t)iiniou'eiittton asTollowS GOzwa Fisc.—Erproset 12.50 p. m. Hirzel. -7,27 a, in,, 1Q a.m., 4,25 p. rn, (Jotko Wsdr.—Express, 245 p.•m. ; Anted, 10 a.m., 5.00 frac„ 0.25 Saturday EXCURSION tickets To London, fiaderich and Stratford, good to retnrn'en Dtonday, at reduced rates. ro IfICKS014, general hfanager. 4. fititI.tTCN, Agent at Clinton. Clinton, May 20, 1878. HURON SEED STORE `aoDERICH. The undersigned has on hand and for sale, IateltOVED . ?EACIDILOW5, A St7PLnIOIt POTATO ; C.13NTCNNIAt SNOWFLAKE; B, YTRA EARLY' VFTirIONT sl3Rir- ' NEI, BEAUTY, x>a •TY ILA. loSE , AMY OTIIER, VAIIIETIES. Te has also a Targe quantity of •y All kind's of Field and Garden Seeds, HAA UL'lSbllf tSTREE't'. • • rAMES McNAITt. Godorfcl'r, April 18; 1878. Also, a Do .11E.. 1teme11a_har tho Phaco-VTOTORtIA Street tapl.Gi: DIEHL Oaten, 8egt 0,1877.. ... '1•11I1+1 -19 Scottish -Com.msrcisi Fire Insurance Cot, . 1» GLASGOW. Gautier, .'i'Wo `fiilioits Stirling'. Ae3yets, . • • - 1,11,500,000, iuconie,. • - • - 1,001),000, 'vftOVINcn OF ONTA1tI0 I16ANCIf. goad OMoe e•'- 7 Toronto Street, TORONTO. . teems of Dr ul(relts 441/l0-T„41A#II1'E; Esq., Chairman,- President •tanadrt • Landed CreditCompany, Jona s'. PLAI`FAIn, Enq., of Ilryce, ideil:nr1ieh A: Co. WILi.lAtr AtsxAsrisn, Edq., Vlce•Ptesideut Federal hank of Canada. . I1 sP.I CTon-•IIOBEBtr Mc1.EA74.• RESIDENT SECRETARY.-- LAWRENCE nuCItA11/4N, Deposited with the Government etOtf05semi' 7ity f Canad1ot I11oy Holders$100,000. This Company iMacs '1Tolioies of Insurance against Toss or damago by Hee or lightning, on mercantile, mangy affiancing, faun and household risks, at current rates: "Policiets aro losued from and losses settled' directly by the Toronto office, without delay.• . ij1IPreintams taken la this country aro invested in Canadian securities. • .JOHN R.113011', -AGENT 1 Olt el:ANTON Attu ` ralNITY's Clinton, lnly 12,1877• KNOW' ily tneeli rind truth Clntf tlrb Iacetlablo truths con• tameIn the best Medicas book' ever iesncd,• entitled ' s�LP-rztFs>srtv�.Tlsarl n b mail e 1 1, 8e t ric on THYSELF 1 recc pt of pries It treats ofEzhansted Vitality Pr:maturo Decline,. Ivervoueand Physical Debility, and the.endless • ttnaomitant ills nnd untold n11001105 that result tbcrefrena, and contains inoro than 60 original prem' seripptions, an ono of which is worth the price of • the book, Tide book was Written by(heftiest e t- tensiv c nnd probably the most skilful practitioner. to Amerite, towhom was awarded it gold and Jew• eked medal by the Natfeaal Medical Association. A Pamphlet, lnpslrated with tho *cry debet• Steel Ettrt andtC s -,a mar. H�A wet of art and hearty-, e sent ,brit to all. Send Afor itItDYnncerfoAddressL �INSTITtTE, N. 411uHYSCLF dtlovth'3»., Roston,, Dasa YZT=L1L TICE. °TICE. LL GOO: C'yT ,LOW ES • • CAS PRICE ••0110 Bullar 4/7.) HUGH WALLACE .& CO.. tioNDEsEop,o,imaroh 7).1878. ._.._