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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-04-08, Page 3s - fresh Stock of .1)11-U GS' CALS. , Combo, Hair, Tooth French„ English, erican R YE STUFFS. the best quality, le Medicines! Powder. care illy and SMUT - It LUMSDEN, THOMPSON roue einitoMers-fOr their during the: 1411.t afteast receive its etaitinnastea, I a large assortment ef lock I satisfaction. ENERAL PURPOSES E>eral terma. Ordere will a large auortment of 1E0 ACCOUNTS! -„tention of his old caste - a their advantage to re -- without legal proceed - D T E:f. s to intimate to the pub- 3eaforth for the Bala kLAW'S ted UTTER. HAKD POWER. eved n hand. R (1, WILSON, 'Market Square . O. 192-tt ITER, E BROKER, er in rure IF DYE STUFFS under the special iemiat J. ATTER, 59-tf. NTS,, TRADERS, c, ttx. _ t received aia-rgcas�ert- EB8, JOURNALS, Booka, Counting -He -use aries, ies for 1870, 8, Psalm Books -and. enormous books in splend- itabIe for Christmas and. Paper and Envelopea, ocd Books, etc. .nstrumeats ! , Violins, violin Strings ridges,. airM. Pipegi and Fancy For Girigt and Boy& r (2- P7) r 1)rug. and Book Store. - APRIL 8, 1870. THE HURON EXPOSITOR Agricultural. • POTATOES FROM THE SEED.--1-Sect1 po- tatoes,,and potato seed are two viery difier- ent thinge. By seed potatoes ,is meant the tubers or potatoes reserved for propogation. These, when planted, almost invariably re- produce their kind. Potato seed is hat which is produced in the balls which ar found up- on the vines. ! From the seeds contained in these there is no • probability of , etting po- tatoes like the parent tuber, and in eachof , the many seeds a ball contains may pro- duce a- widely different one from that yield- ed by any other , seed from the . ame ball, and in this Manner new varieti s are pr•o- duced. The interest at pfesent elt in po- tato culture has induced some te ask about raising potatoes iron seed. • It is an inter- esting but not very encouraging field for experiment. Mr. Goodrich (says he Hearth aud Home): spent a lifetime in 't, and oro - t few that Still he .. me varie- ere was a duced, out of many thousands bi will have any• permanent value. did a good work. ; he produced s ties which- were hardy when general failure, and he •opened the way for others to -improve upon h. labours. • 17. We have now many fine.potatoe , and .one who raises from the seed mu t . produce something better than we no have to make his labour remunerative. Still, we would not discourage experiments. We do not think that the quality of several of our potatoes cau. be excelled. We must now look in the direction of earlin4s and pro- ductiveness. The ball of the Potato select- ed for geed should be of theearlieet set upon ap the vines; this, when. ripened much as can be upon the stem, should be cut with a good portion of the vine, and placed in the • sun to mature Some direct, when the bell is shriveled, to soak it in water and wash out the seeds, but we believe th4 they will keep better within the .ball. In spring the seeds are to be sown and the plants treated precisely like tomato plants. Silow in Ipt- bed, or in a box in the house, and wlien large enough, transplant te other boxes, • and when the weather will alloW pian fi in good soil out of doors. The Eng ish author- ities say that small tubers will be pro- duced the first year, which are ti) be saved and planted the next year. This may be the • case in the climate of England, but Mi. Bresee, _who has had such remaalkable suc- cess in producing .new varieties, and to whomewe are indebted for the Early. Rose, Bresee's Prolific, and King of the harlies, informs us that he gets tuber S the first season of sufficient size to alldw him to judge of their quality. The potatoes which we have mentioned were started in a box in the honse, planted out at the proper time, and selected ,the first seagon from a large number whish were rejectetl. I .• DEEP OR SHALLOW IPLOUGHINIG.-Mr. D. - Newport, of Abington, Pa., Writes us the past year I have enquired successful farmers on the subj and shallow ploughing, and fin able uniformity of opinion among theni, that the best crops of corn can Le produced by ploughing at the depth of about four inches. Many are of the opinion that this is deep enough for any crop, and one of them (Mr. Ivins), who raises the best crops .of cora, on the average, that I know of, in- sists that after the soil has been broken up to the depth of eight or ten in hes, many ;, years must elapse before a good Top can be . grown, and then only by the application of expensive manures.. On one ocassion, to the great distress of my teams, I broke up a twenty acre field for corn to the depth of: seven inches, a -season of extreine drought followed, and the result was a very small yield. My theory ie, that the I deep, flat furrow turns under, beyond the reach of the surface roots, the food adaptedby na- ture for their sustenance -that the deep roots are merely supporting, •while those .that run near the surface of the ground feed a.nd nourish the plant:" four most et of deep a remark- the best lubricator for wood axle -trees, and castor oil for iron. • Just grease enough should be applied to the spindle of a wagon to give it a light coating, this is better than the more, for surplus will all work out at the ends, and be forced by the shoulder bands and nut washers into the hub al ound the outside of the boxes. • . • To oil an iron axle -tree, first wipe the spindle clean with a cloth With spirits of turpentine, and then apply a few drops of castor oil near the shoulder and end. One teaspoonful is sufficient for the whole.-- R249'al Am,erican. ThePrussian Government has just ad- opted an extensive seheme for improving the breed of horses of all classes, by encour- aging the formation of local associations for the purpose. Elder Knapp on Swearing Eider Knapp is not averse to having it understood that he may be regarded as a sort of consulting physician for sick 'souls when the original family doctor finds that his pharmacy has lost its efficacy. In one Of his recent raids on the arch -enemy of souls, he selected, as being especially fit subjects for animadvertion, the profane swearers ; and this is the way in.which he • "went" for them: "1 will give 'you, my dear freinds, picture from a scene in hell. The devil is sitting in bis private office, receiving the souls as they are brought to him from the upper world. In comes an infernal jailor, conducting a soul to ,everlasting flames. 'Who are your asks the devil, as the cul- prit was brought to where he was sitting. 'Secretary :Benjamin, of the Confederate Cabinet,', was the reply' 'Oh yes, I knew • you were coming,' said the devil, as lie turned the leaves of his ledger and made an entry of the secretary's name. al- ways shotv consideration to those that have showed it to me.' I've got to take you in, but try and make you as comfortable as possible.' To' the attendant: *Show Mr, Benjamin a place • as near as you can get him o a current of air.' The next arrival was a man' who had killed his mother-in- law. He was hung in Cincinnati. 'Take hira away,". said the devil, "sut, treat him kindly. \ The chances are two to one that he isn't much to blame. I remember his case. His mother-in-law came here thtee weeks ago. She looked as though she wanted killing.. She's over in 63. Put him there, and set the old wornan in front of the fur- nace.' No. 63 is too cool for her. Soon another victim arrives. 'What has brought you here ?' asks the devil. 'My case is a hard one,' was the reply. am here just !because I swore.' Becanse you swore?' asked the devil, rising angrily from his ,chair, 'Yes, that's all the sin I ever did.' 'All the sin?' re-echoed the devil ! the sin ? Why, you mean, despicable, con- temptible, low -lived vagabond,'said the devil, as he brought his fist down on the table, 'there isn't a corner here that's hot enough for you.' Of all the sixty thousand preach ers that spend theii Sundays in blackguard- ing me, not one of them ever yet accused me of swearing. Blasphemed your Msker, did you? Profaned the holy name of your Saviour, that forgave his enemies upon the cross, and dibd to have saved you from here The trembling culprit made no re- ply. 'Why,' continued the devil, whose -voice arose as his wrath intensified. -'why, there's no excuse for you. 4 man by an unlucky blow .inay kill another one. In pressing temptation a man may steal ; be may live to save his neck or to cheat his neighbour. There's some excuse for him. The profane swearer has no excuse! At- tendant, take this accursed scoundrel out of my sight. Put him up to his neck where the coals are the hottest, and then put soraebody to sit on his accursed head." --- Beeper's Magazine for April. A Terrible Picture ; SliGAR MAKING. -The expense of fitting up a 'camp' of 500 trees, with buckets, spiles, c9vers, vats, etc., including a decent- ly good - sugar -house and shed, need not much exceed $500 or $1 to a tree. In a favourable year, good trees will yield fifty • cents worth of syrup, which is g The buckets and fixtures will years or more, if cared for. •T od interest. last thirty e work can be performed by the -usual fore , and comes at the time when not much other profitable work can be done, at leagt on a dairy farm. If a an has 500 good Maple trees, grow- ing close together, say on siX or eight acres, with the other trees mogtly cut out, this piece of ground will probably net him more than any other of _ equal size on his farm. The most important di ections may be brieflystated thus : First -Use tin buckets, hang them, on the trees and cover them. Second. -Use maple sPiles, turned, bored, and notched. in three plebes, Third. Use great -Care to keep dirt but, and strain, settle, and skim thoroughly. yourth.- Scald vats, strainers, buckets and spites . when they show the least' sign of Sixth -Use refuse wood, and house it ur- ing the dry fall weather. •Seventh. -Scald, wash and wipe all the vessels, and put up nearly all the fixtures at the close . of the season, lock the sugar -house door, and everything will be ready at a minute's notice. • BO • GRFASING Waoceissf-But few people are awere that they do wagons and carriages more injury by greasing too plentifully than in any other way. A well made wheel will endure common wear from ten to twenty years, if care is taken to use the right kind • and proper amount of grease; but if this 'matter is not attended to, they will be used on ja, wagon, for it will penetrate the hub • and work its way out around the tenons of s the st-R)kes, and spoil the wheel. Tallow is Sponges_ The "Manufacturer and Builder" gives the following account of sponges and their artificial raising: . 44 The common washing sponge is still considered by may natural- ists as a vegetable specie, : and in fact most t people look up ii it as of vegetable growth. Still it Peems n w to be definitely establish- ed that it belongs to those low forms of animalculce that are comprised under the term Zeophites. However, the sponge which you use • daily in your ablutions and which forms one of the most indispensible articles of the toilet is not the animal as it lives and thrives, but only its horny sub- stance, its skeleton, if you liketo call it so. -When cut loose from the submarine rocks ors wbich it is found at considerable depth, the sponge presents *self to you os a black, jelly-like mass, which, 1 when left in the air fbr only a few days, will give off a most disagreeable smell, orkiginating from the gelationous part in question. In the na- tural sponge, you have not one singal in- dividual before you, but a regular colony of animalculce, The elastic hornlike net- work of your tiolet-table is then impreg- nated to its innermost parts with a slimy substance, that is penetrated throughout by fine capillary tubes, not visible to the naked eye. 'Upon examining this curious being further, exceedingly fine •cilia (eye -lashes) will be discovered. They project around the entrances of the pores, arid' by - their motion whieh, in passing through the num- berless tubes, leave behind 'whatever they • may need as food. The horny net -work is probably only their secretion, like the house of the snail. But that the sponge is • of animal origin is now proven by the dig- covery of sperinatozoa and embryos iu the interior, as . well aa by the composition of, the fibrous elastic part itself, which contains one of the constitutents of silk and the spi- der's web. • "In order to prepara it for use, it is first left in the air for a short time, until the gelatinous part is decomposed, then . the mass is washed in hot water, and afterward' in a bath of diluted innriatic aaid. The toilet sponges are bleached by m eans of chlorine and hyphosulphite of soda. The so-called wax sponges, that are used by eloctore for dressing ulcers, are purified sponges dipped into fluid wax, and then pressed between hot plates. "The. French and Austrian gove have lately commenced to rear spo tifically-the former!' on the shores Mediterranean, the latter on the Dalmatia. The cultivation is sai perfectly successful, and. to yie profits. " ,• - ee•spe '\ , A New Way of CtrowingFruit Trees. Southmayd gives a fearful pieture of the wicked system of adulteration practiced ca,ndies and confectioneries as well as other artieler3 taken in the stomach. He says that of late years this adulteration has be- come alarming, and in order to produce cheap articles manufacturers are adulterat- • ing with various *extracts and substances which are either injurious to consumers, or a deadly poison. Many children are doubt- less yearly sacrificed by the absorption into their systems of these abominations inad- vertently given by parents, Terra alba, or white earth, costing but orle and a quarter cents a pound, is extensively used instead of sugar, and lozenges are produced by cheap dealers at from two to five cents a pound less than. the cost of sugar at wholesale. In the manufacture of gum drops, glue is used in lieu of gum arabic, the former costing but a few cents per pound, and the latter • about forty cents. Verdigris, Tonka beans, Paris green, chrome yellow, Berlin blue, amiline, and sublimate of mercury are all used, each of which is either a deadly poison or very injurious to the system. The fla- ydrs used in the candies are still worse. Poisons are much cheaper than genuine ex- tracts. Peach flavors in candied almonds and sugar plums are obtained from fusil which is very poisonous. The bitter al- mond flavor is created from unadulterated prussic acid, pineapple. is procured 'from very rotten cheese and nitric acid. *Can- dies are made, purporting to be flavored with fruits from which no extract can be obtained. When cheap candies areso adul- terated, is- it any wonder that so many households are desolated; or if not so bad, that teeth rot and crumble like chalk, and nervous _diseases are generated, which end in craving did dyspepsia V nments e aes ar- of the ast of _to be d large A mode of making productive" in a single year from fruit-bearin has been patented by Mr. Sullivan inson. By means of this process, li which can be spared from trees of choice va ieties can be transformed into independent trees, which,bear right along, and in a veiy short time become fine, thrifty trees, re- taining the habits of the trees from which they were taken. The modus operandi is said to be as fol- lows: Small roots are grafted into the linab or branch above the,point where it is to be severed from the tree. Below these roots the branch is girdled. About and below the rpots, is placed a box filled with earth. The operation is performed in the spring. During the summer the roots grow and perform their functions, and iia autumn the limb or branch is severed in the place where it was girdled, and set out like a young tree. The next year(Mr Hutch- inson says) the new tree will bear fruit just es though it had not been cut from the parent. Except grafting the roots into the limb or branch, there appears to be nothing new in the process; for shrubs and trees have been propagated from time immemorial by girdling or tying a streng ligature around a branch; and surrounding it at the paint where the roots are expected to grow with soil inclosed in a box or frame, and kept damp by daily watering. uit trees iimbs utche bs TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT T. K. 0- . ANIERSON Begs to inform the residents of Seaforth, an vicinity, that he is about opening out a new Tailoring Establishment 1 IN THE SHOP ADJOINING ROBERTSON &CO:'S HARDWARE 4TORE1 Ile is now prepared to take orders for CUTTING AN -D MANUFACTURINC, - And.about the 15th of March, next, 'T He will open up a fine stoZkefiall kinds of goods . - in his line. A TRIAL SOLICITED! SATISFACTION GUARANTEED tf. Seaforth, Feb. .18th, 1870. • SEAFORTH FURNITURE WAREROOMS ROBERTSON Importer and manufacturor of allkinds Of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Suchas SOFAS, LOUNGES • CENTRE TABLES, MATTRASSES, DINING & BREAKFAST TABLES, BUIMAUS, • • CHAIRS, ana • - BEDSTEADS, In Great Varity. Mr. R. has great conidence fn offering his goods to the public, as they are made of Good Seasoned Lumber. and by First -Class Work- men. COFFINS MADE TO ORDER'. • On the..ShortestNotice. REINDEER BONES IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. -An interesting communication has lately teen made by Professor Shaley, of Cambridee, in corroboration of previous statement t that effect, of the occurence of bones of the reindeer in the Big Bone and other licks of Kentucky. These were found of a lower level in the lick, and in another deposit than that of the common deer and the buffalo, whinh occupy the most super- ficial position. Situated as they are, in close connexion with the bones of the mas- tadon and fossil elephant of the same layers, it is extremely possible that, if not contem- poraneous with these animals, the reindeer came at least immediately after them. The occurence of the bones of this animal, under such circumstances, may be considered as a satisfactory proof of the existence _of a much more arctic climate in North America at an earlier period than prevails at the present Woe ; and this suggestion, as stated by Professor Shaler, is still further sub- stantiated by the occasional discovery of bones of the musk-ox in somewhat similar situations. It is now believed that one- or more species of fossil oxen, described by naturalists as occuring in the Mississippi Valley, and supposed to be entitely ex- tinct, aro in reality the ancestors simply of the musk-ox of the present day, only rather - different in developraent, as might reason- ably be looked for. The _scattered indica- tions of the eccurrence of reindeer bones in the valley of the Hudson, and in New Jersey, will have an additional value in connexion with this announcement of Pro: feasor Shaley.--.Harrper's Magw:ine for April. Done WOOD TURNING 'th Neatness and Despatch- Warerooms TWO DOO S ; SOUTH SHAR•P'S HOTEL, Main Street. Seaf arth, Jan'y ‘ilst, 1870. 57-tf. $501000. MO lend. on the seeurity of Real Property in the County of Huron at from 04 to 10 amr cent., by • • - • • s • poYtt, 117-6m. Barristers, 6oderich. NOTICE TO DEBTORS. A LL persons indebted to the late firm of Zapfe & McCallum, are -hereby requested. to call and. settle the same with the undersigned on or before the 1st. of Ma-rth next, otherwise costs will be incurred. • ZAPFE & CARTER. Seaforth. Foundry. Seaforth, Feb. 151, 1870. 115-tf. DOG LOST. - TiOST in. Seaforth on the last. Show Day, a . 1: small shaggy, blackdog, with a little tan color on the nose and legs, answers to the name of Ceaser. Any person leaving the same at Mc - :Bride's Hotel in Seaforth, or with the owner -will be suitably rewarded. •JOHN DOBIE, • Lot No. 11, Con. 9. Tuckersmith, March 25 1870. tf. 11- T IS UNDENIABLE that the Lockman Ma - 1 chine is not•only the Latest but also the best of its kind, before the T T IS UNDENIABLE that the Lockman Ma- chine, although not much exceeding in price the very cheapest machine manufactured any- where; is yet Incomparably Superior Ao any cheap machine yet brought out, IT IS UNDENIABLE that the Lockman Ma- chine has achieved. an immense popularity in the short time it has been before the people. IT IS UNDENIABLE that the Lockman Ma- chine already occupies a position only &cord- ed to others after years of toilsome effort. TT IS UNDENIABLE that the Lockman Ma - 1 chine, by the mere force of its inherit good qualities, is bound to become the universal favor- ite of the Canadian public. Money!:Money THE subscriber has received. another large re- _ naittance of money for investment on good farm property, at 8 per cent ; or 10 per cent, and no charges. ., JOHN S. PORTER_ Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870._ 95-tf. M'GREGOR & SON, BOOKBINDERS, ITULLETT. A RE prepared to execute binding in every LI. style. Persons residing at a distance by leaving their books at the Signal Book Store, Goderich, r at the EXPOSITOR office, -Seaforth. stating style, may rely upon' them being well bound. . • AT TH1e1.40-WEST PB.ICES. And. returned without delay. Seaforth Jan'y, 21st, 1870. 80-tf. LOVELL'S -DOMINION AND PROVINCIAL DIRECTORIES. TO BE PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER, 1870. . TT IS UNDENIABLE that every family, eith- er in country, town or city. should have a Sewing Machine, and it is equally undeniable that none is so well adapted for _ universal use as the Lockman. AITIFE, Sister and lather within . the bounds VV of our happy land, importune their re- spective. USBAND, Brother and Father. until the Millenium (which is sure to follow the universal introduction of the Sewing Ma' chine) has been. inaugurated. WILSON, ROWMAN & CO. Mr. C. :11. CULL, • Agent, Seaforth. Hamilton, Jan, 21, 1870, • 111-tf. NOTICE. -Learning that my name ha., been unwarrantably used in connection with Directories now being canvassed. in the Provinces, and. entirely distinct from my works, and that in other cases it has been -stated that my 'Director- ies have been abandoned, I would request those desiring to give a preference to _my works to see that persons representing themselves as acting for me are furnished with satisfactory credentials. JOHN LOVELL, Publisher.. Montreal, March 164070. LOVELL'S DIRECTORIE. • IT is intended to make these Directories the most complete and correct ever issued on this uontinent. They are not being prepared by cor- respondence, but by personal eanvass, from door to door, of my own. Agents for the requisite infor- mation. I have now -engaged on the work in the several Provinces, Forty men and Twenty horses. These are engaged. mainly ou-the towns and vil- lages off the Railway and Steamboat Routes, im- portant places on the lines being held_ till the completion of the former, to admit of correction to latest date. I'anticipate issuing, in Octobernext, THE CA- NADIAN DOMINION DIRECTORY, and SIX PROVINCIAL DIRECTORIES, which will prove p correct and full index to the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Is- land, and a combined. Gazateer„ Directory and Hand Book of the six Proyinces. SUBSCRIPTION TO DOMI0ION DIRECTORY : Dominion of Canada Subscribers, ..812 Cy. United- States do. 12 Gold.. Great Britain and Ireland do £3 Sig. France, Germany, &c., do £3 Stg. SUBSCRIBERS TO PROWINCIAL DIRECTORIES : Province of Ontaaio Directory, 1870-71 -SA Province of Quebec Directory, 1870-71 4. Province of Nova Scotia Directory, 1870-71 3 Province of New Brunswick Directory, 1870-71 3 Province of Newfoundland Directory, 1870-71 2 Province ofPrinceEd. Island Directory, 1870-71 2 No money to be paid. until eacb book is deliv- ered. FOR SALX CHEAP! A GOOD,newSSEWING MACHINE IX. in good working order, will be -sold at coat price, for cash. Apply at the "Exposnoe office. Seaforth, Feb. 25, 1870. JOHN LOVELL, Publisher_ MONTREAL, March 16, 1870. EASE AND COMFORT THE BLESSING OF PERFECT siGirr, There is nothing so -valuable as perfectsight, and perfect sight can only be obtained by using Perfect Spectcles, the difficulty of procuring which is well kno-wn. Messrs. Lazarus & Morris, Oculists & Optici- cans, Hartford, tConn., Manufacturers of the Celebrated. Perfected. Spectacles, have after years of Experience, and. the erection of 'costly ma- chinery, been enabled. to produce that Grand Desideratum, Perfect Spectacles, which have been sold with unlimited satisfaction to the wearers in the United States, Prince Edward's Island, and Domirrien of Canada, during the past nine years those CelebratedPerfected. Speotacles never tire the eye, and last many years without change. Sole Agent for Seaforth, M. it. Counter, from whom only they can be procured. LAZARUS, MORRIS &_ CO. • Montreal. WE EMPLOY NO PEDLERS. Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 76-1y. ..SEAFQRT11. PLANINGMILL SASH DOOR, AND BLIND FACTORY! • HE subscribers beg leave to tender their sin- cere thanks to their numerous- cestomers the public at large, for the very liberal patronae received since commencing business in Seaforth. And as they have now a very large tock of Dry Pine Lumber on hand, and having lately enlarged their premises and added New Machinery (there- by increasing their facilities for doing work with. despatch), they feel confident of giving every so,- tisfaction to those who may favour then" with then patronage, as none but first-tlisa worknwre are employed. Particular attention paid to custom planing. BROADFOOT k GRAY.. Seaforth, Jan'y. .21st, 1870. • *,"