The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1886 Page: 6 of 8
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m
TUots^Wher# Tree. Can Be
l with Profit tor thePur-
pose of Producing PueV
_ ■ . J.I, I ,®SP® •
Ainagiiig a Barn-Yard Bo u to 8ecure
tlk) Protection and Comfort of
An™*1*-
|l--:
BIT [
Doe* Kuel-Knlslnu I’HI*
This depends on circumstopccs. It is
not economical to raise trees tor fuel on
land Worth-from #60 to glffO pcr acred
*Q&GUttjr when coal la abundant and
pending money for coal
ftwl to us6 lii
do oooking during warm weather,
peciallv is this Iho case wh(?n the
m small’m H is lik<iy to be on fl
l| w iiilfts
ml fur bum
_ Wood b tht
id keeping up a fire U
llOUM
fanut
ing in the aid-fashlo:
tton box stove. Hkrd coalis scarcely
ever used in the Jfjjsit . outside of large
•-tight or eoth
worth 960 per acre for agricultural pur-
poeea except in places that jo-e near a
large town and where there are good
mere are good
I facilities for transportation.^ Iu such
localities almost everytliing produce*
I on farms wHl have a market value, ant
[ v coal comparatively cheap. It
fiaiso Stock, grain,^vegetables, or_fniit%
1—___ to sell them in town, and to purchase
f--*■ coal with a portion of the money re-
. ceived. ft takes several years for quick-
towns. The chow
and an inferior sort
former is great;
mueolnlijiff sum me
better for heating
finished and furnish
to handle, while i
any smoke. A
expenditure of
and :idU» greatly t<
(M% . } .
between wood
soft coal. The
for cookir
It is also mu
room that is w<,
,.as if is cleaner
prmluccs scarcely
wood hit sores the
f, prevents anxiety,
the comfort of a
Hfesr*
growing trees, such asTviliowa, pop-
‘ltf» and wbifewoods, to reach a size
that they wjll afford good fuel. At
least twonty yoaraare required to raise
hardwood trees’df^nsize that will afford
good oordwood. Iduring thia-tlme crops
of oorrt, potatoes, graasrand small
grains f^ouId l».• produced on the land
, that is "devoted to the production of
frees. The product of ten acres of
, guikl land would Irt'' twentyT'years
dtwa fund too interest 6f which would
keep a family supplied with coal for nil
'^*Nm£'....., , -I. r y urm
jliut on many farms which art Worth
t&O-or upward p ti; acre there is oonsid-
wrable land that is not suitable for col-
UVation.’ Some of it is quilo certain to
bo brokent rooky, subject to washing.
jjj**®.-.
M..... .........^ Tfpotuu^
•_/ ' quite low. or having, a soil that does
fict produce, pnying.crops. This laud
A Good Warn-Yard.
,Few farmers place a sufficiently high
estimate on the value of a good barn-
yard. and accordingly they give little
attention to its location, tho manner of
■^closing it and Jromlermg it comfort-
ible for the animals that spend much of
serves the purpose of' making and pre-
serving manure. In arranging a barn-
yard the first consideration should be to
HERE AND THERE.
-*-»*■*- •• •
?? Bawarda art offered for lawks
Iwvpral Virginia cyunties.
The Georgia Prq** association meets
iw---- ‘
Tramps----—
•tfound Jacksonville, Fla.
this year in
facon. May 6.
established
i have
l*rge> camp*
7s <
College professors in the United
Mates get an average salary of $1,630.
A Boston nian has a $4,000 Overcoat
w^mh eontatm sixty-nine Russian sa-
bleskins.
It has been decided by the Connecti-
cut supreme court that YaT4' students
ean not vote. --------- :X : “' '
The Simco '(Oregon)’ reservation,, is
‘’aid to be capable of supporting cie-ht
thousand families with good farms. " -
At St. Helena, Cal., a fdw davs a^o,
several thousand gal ions of 10-ycar-oid
California WUU’ Soid for 3 c nits a gallon.
High-toned affliction manifests ifcwrif
m New York by sending out. funeral in-
vitatlons .on noto-paper edged with real
crape. ■ <. . j*
One of the peculiar- attract ions .in
-----—W mm av mc* f o.
R. A. Jefferson and D, J. Calhoun are
circulating a subscription paper to t|tat
Mrs. William Stephenson, a very es-
timable lady living here, is at the point
of death.
. Mr. Carrico, late a business man o:
Fort Worth, has opened a commission
house.
- The wheat crop la looking splendidly,
notwithstanding the reports slew weeks
ago to tho contrary.
• v ~ ~ jw. •• • V -
Midlothian expects a big boom when
the New Orleans & Fort Worth Kail
road reaches the towri.------—*
al t u?r IT—, • Tw Ui n;; niunwtnms ,1U
IqSiCJttmc ux JtJ-In. many, eases -they ,v°huuba, .£L£L* is a. oock.-piU -which is
art at Httle painslo jo arrange it. that ft bcensed by Ihft cityi councll for $300
yard tlie first consideration should be in-
suring the comfort of the animals that
are kept in it, and it should bp rcihem-
bered that most animals kept on farms
pas more than half their lives ip the
barn-yard. It is not practical to make
a pleasure-ground of the barn-yard; but
Uw.practical to make it a comfortable
in wlll^tli^^ cajoy »ta^-
to make their escape. To render -'it
comfortable a portion of - its surface
should be quite high and dry,
animals can s* J
jppming wet and dirty. Tho plan of
°ne aide of the barn-yard nievat-
ed,n foot or more above the remainin'’'
“portion is a gooff oni* and brie that ft
easily earried out. If there is no natnT-
al decline, stones or timbers can be
ilaced across a portion of the* yard aim
toe speee back of It'can be filled t6 the
’■equired height with sand dr clay. -
Protection , from $ wind and snow
should be the next consideration, and
tins Is a very important one in the
northwest. The -barn or other farm
buildingH should have the enticu or chief
per aimtim,
Tho rules of Wflilaflaumd Mary col-
id J772 forbade* the ' Students to
(hrink anything "except“eider, beer
toddy, and spirits and water.4’
..Dartmouth College issued the firsi
college paper ____
hgnptnc-, ,It was cayAT'fhe-jTartrnouili
Wa^K’U I/IC77C
Gazette, and appeared in 1810.
p The transposition of quotation marks
cjfLin »sic.cata loguo cauaedUthe
following astounding .Jtnhouneemcnt;;
allowing astounding .Announcement;
She heaved a- sigh In K flat for 35
oents;” " !
A Gbineso merchant at Borden, Cab.
-hrafl-lsssti imitating afomeof his (Caucasian
felhAW-triuiesmen byTailing for 55 cents
ouYhe doHar and then rosnmtrfg"7>iIsi
Ohl ji wtio teadb the Inzenlu* youth of
our gtemt and growing nation, let them learn
Uie noUle act of sell-deleuae, * aa 8al«attoa
OlLia the apeclflc for pain.
“Let ut sweep”—The broom.
Bnrtied to Death, and Bestored to fdfo. *
I know, of a man near Maxey*a, Gar, who
for teu or twelve years was almost a solid
sore from head to foot..
cotflmi no d on his skttff bones. He tried all ‘ - ....... -
jMthe began the use of B. B. B., .and after
-using stx Bottles his sorwrwere alt healed aiiff
1<> wuc a BAiin.i
At THLBTr-n v* TBU
'‘I’m easily sooted”-
“HotTOH aat run.**
DlSCQVgiU IAS AW “iWVMWAI, 8T0S»-
ach,” andsogdealak^kandsof thedoetors
for1 the remnant of hU
better than cure, but DA vvai.sea’# C’au
ronsiA Yineo ah Bittkk* w.BJ both cure and
prevent dyspepsia, diseases of Ia« *ktn, Mver,
Ui,1Mey^, aw* tit disorder# arising bom bad
blood. . , ft.....•• r -> ^
Oleetlln
iremeH
Hog. Iniernal orblhefr Int^^iaPMuJillS
id/ In each*package. Bnreourr.aoc. T>—-g'— j
A hollo a-cost—paying a man for digging a
Jh‘
_: *«OtlOH ok m»ia>
Roach on Itch." core* »kln iiumore, Ora
‘‘Water Joke I”—The well.
••Koujk on Bat».” *
rtlouau oa Coraa" harJ or rift gorge, bunloaa,
“Bouch on Toothache.- inacaat relief. %
l;
A gentleman of Color—a painter.
( onaider I' nigaBoe a very valuable remedy
for neuralgia vndrheumatism;. ilave toed ft
with good elfeetjjaad can commend it
Ana, T. Hamilton. M. D., Crab Oitdtard,lCo.
la a tramp idle when he labors under an im-
pressloot ^
- ■ . -------- V.
Pry and gray halr wia ^pcome moist and
dark by the use of RalTVIfair Renewer. ’
For sudden colds,hoarseness,or lrrltatlon of
Young man, never marry a girl who chews
gum. Her Jaw will work just the same after
marriage. " ?■
-------- XPVAA...A anaaaa ifticil UaUIUHl^ UllSl __
f His I i.^biHtlV-s-'wert ycry large._ r 'rrYll» najwrfc
-+ Mro* A. W. Yanlwklc, whose name f*ccs of creditors.
m» i Ss*r
>i«brAska Icgmlatuim, has* komf -retpu- } to^ttWwy-Gartor’g fjnic Liver Pills t£ov
tiuion as tho charanion corn-hueb..v ill *rc the easiest of all medicines th tab« i
he was a sound man.
He looki just like a man who had been
• db*“ ' 1 ...
----j“ov » utou wuu nan ui cII
ourneit to dt>nth and then restored to life. The
l>cst men of the county know of this ca#e and;
several doctors and merchants have spoken
of Jt as a most wonderful £asc,
', ,. - ' -I.. Jo$y Cbaiv#Q&Dt
---ruug^-Athens, SaT
BROWN’S
are geltln^ longer—to are the
Xy
dOBH,
tufiibn as tho”champioh Oorti-btfsker iu I •rT. **«• easiest.nf ^li meiBplnes'loUk'^
Ulh *tafe.w . _ • Y’QwltlTp enre for ttie”abnvo rt iiri'sstnp s«cr
- J'1*!04; KHc prompt relief In Dvs;>ep»ta and
f • ' tT«
r • ■ on^r grovrwi fruTtfur HSfTT feat ean be f Worst winds generally come from IK5
-i°r.ke<1. to witl> ordinarv im- direction. Protection on the other
Dlcmuuts. But little can l>e realized
from a crop of grass proiluced on very
|»oor or uneven land. It costs much to
out and cure it-for hay, and unless
much labor is expimded on it the lane
Till not be profitable if devoted to graz-
duce good treoar Observation shows
—that too Und that is most suitable-tor
- cultivaU^I crops is not the best for for-
est trees. Tim latter will live and
'thrive on land that wilT not prodube
or
P"7®g orpps of any sort of grain
vegetable. Some 61 tho finest foroats
wt the tounlry simde soil that is u
-J
c ountry shade soil that t? unfit
for cultivation. Cultivated plauls rely
tor their sustenance on sou within a
▼cry few inches of the surface of tho
izSroUnd, hut trees send their roots so
«ep into the earth that the condition
-Of the surface hvh! is a matter of small
bestiimppsitTon to make of land
on any fjv/m that is unfit for cultivation.
Smportainc.
a any fa/m that is unfit for cultivation,
i* to plant it to trees. If it is too mffist
to plow or produce good griisa it is quite
Bkoly that some varieties of the ash,
poplar, willow, or larch will succeed
wetl on tl. if it is high, broken, or
rocky all kinds of irutrbr’Jirii)g trues,
maples, and evergreens will grow well
npoiv it. The trees will improve the
fkrm to some extent, will hide the por-
tions of the soil that bad an uninviting
AtWlABYAtlfn• iintl will Knaufifvr
ampearane -, and will beautify the nlaoe
Tag production of the tr<*cs wiH
useless for other purposes. Tl
; will supply ftiel after a certain
of years, and will reduce tho
Thb trees
___ Up numoer
r years, and will reduce the cost of
warming, the house. Wealthy farmers
«nj<>Y the luxury of an open flro
aVtring the winter season if they produce
f&o worn! to keep it up on their own
sides should be Secured by means of
sheds and tight fences.- The best fence
for a farm-yard is one made of strong
posts apd boards. A wire fence is very
objectionable, as it affords no protection
against the wind, allows the snow to
Wow tlmih’gh ft. wtrttc thn barbs Off tTii'
wire are very likely to injure animals
uve- jmened against it; ns they are
likely to be in tho contests that are go-
ing on when IPany. animals are con-
fined in somewhat limited quarters. A
good femoe, somewliat costly to build,
but economical ij». the end, efth be con-
structed of strong uoaIs in which
scantlings are inserted near the top and
bottom, to Which boards seven or eight
feet long are .attached in an .upright po-
sition. Such' a fence keejw* out the*
drifting snow and breaks the force oi
Pennsylvania has a standing army of
ignorance—323,000 children who do not
attend the public schools. |.ni^ n]
proper accommodation, as well as dis-
inclination on the part of the children is
Yatffro
About 1 per cent, of ail deaths" aro
classed as sudden, OLthese four out of
liv-e are referalde to caiwes acting di-,
reetly on tho brain and its append ages';
anu one i
ouoto^n to the heart, and one" in
BITTERS
^'h^ftlon; .prevent and cure Coustlpatimi
■ anc! Plies. As easy to take as sugar. -Only
onp pill a «I.40 in a vial. Prtre !2S'
*??**: If you trt them you will not be with-
Out *hnm
Ctablalax IBOlt wltk PUBS TK6ETABLB
TOXICS, qatcAif aai aanpletelf CLKA
; them. ____ .
Moatly ou plck utek—the pmrteiv -
"All Men AreLiara,'*
^ft4^_^G’utUc that stand Qr lie near,
it will be comfortable, providing rain is
not Tailing. "Their fodder will not be
iwuuci nu, UOl oe
btoAn about if it is placed next to sucb
a fence-. ‘ ,, ^... .......
A fence of this kind can be utilized to
fornYone Side of a long shed. If sftp-.
linj^s can bt^ obtained they can be placed
inline in toe ground twelve or more
feet from tho fence and a support for
>olos nailed to them at the proper
might. On this polos can be run to the>
top of the fence and on them a roof of
Irar-proffueeff snToubTe^HmHe'rn’hrty.
three feet long, with "a widlh of fifleen
Tnchrrs. - It Yrtlghs eighTeeri Tjpfiareff
pounds and is deeorated with a hand-
«ooie painting of Brooklyn bridge.
^Vllccl ^wiU es^roat<^ toat an iron
while aateel tjro wil|4ruu the‘enormous
di>tancp of 400,0^)0 iqiles before wear-
iug .oitt;■ tlrtjtf, tbou^h.co^;so nJueh
more, steel has greatly il«e advantage.
~ A doctor who has bod mu to experi-
ence in treating labwors in gas-works
says that persons who hm’o bceCuttfis iU-
-shUSiblo. from broalbing ilpHt^lmting
gas will usually revive after thi admin-
istration of a few drops of nee lie ether
!n water.
Woodland, Yolo county. Cal., is the
home of a phenomenallv honest man.
Ho purchased a pair of licuses wwhich
subsequent eyents seemed to show had
been stolen, and now Jte advettisos for
informatian concerning toe rightful
owner.
ot lu effleacy-
SUSStomato** i^rk^fl'rvKS
nnreJUWe catarrh remedy. Had he been per-
mltted to live un^ll ttie present day, and tried
BartaU Weiwedy, he rnt^lii liaie hatf-a bet-~
lliinfAn of Hr. .1 . ...
to a
——~ 0 UV X]
-—h*e iron W1 UOI|WV tpl wr ,
Sicssssfsms
“nJaT3S
1 tfloUljr
4&!
hke a new man i
“Fa jdl cut up”—The wood-pUc.
straw can be made. A shed of this tremendous landslide. A few days ago
kind will cost but very little, while it about ouo mile of the north side °of
will do niu^h toward affording comfort BerapBr mountain,five miles from Sterl
ITU. r ing, shd dv»wii into the Yattey, choking
by . np the Ciiattooga river. TFie noise o?
ss^te's^TT^r-asa
n, (MS
..... ......■- ri*r
tpaaces. and can Out and prepare it with-
tk<j help thqy ordinarily keep. The
1 VffViil fimu rlnanrvno 1 a i*mh mI.aU
Apeo wo«>d fires desorves ' a rank with
/greatest comforts of life, but it can be
• tiojoyod almost without expense by per-
*«» wjio raise trees on their farms.
He branches that are removed by prun-
ing a few acres of timber trees wifi af-
ford fuel enough to support at least one
sfNMKr. 1 f
With Httle doubt it pays to raise trees
Jo jsreduoe fuel in portions of the coun-
try where land is cheap, but Where coal
Is dear on aoeount of the remoteness of
“My Ufa ends in a lye”—The ash-heap.
. f f erocaoa—ioawnorwiu,
.tssfsf^rj^ss.?
• —---- - buUdtBf BjaterUffor tooth nern
yard. A better shed can b* mado oy •"f *,“v vn.Huu-n.urer. me noise or
usiug cedar posts and scr.ntling for tho avalanche was beard a distance of
support and by making the roof of ttjn miles.' ‘ ” r
tF6' Wltrh COral lar* rf*>n. au<1; of a peer family! ^Wb-it will von do
KrL t1 10 r°°fS °f man^ bujW^g*. with it?” she asked. -The answer was.
t D,9.^re n.ow made of these most practical. “Soak it,” said the '
materials, and they give excellent sails- small boy with decision.
nof0J^‘r£0'irki«“AU u U •«(«-»»*
t hoiie-h r wZu ®^°untry- AU i Conversations take place over the wifes
it:: n““xser:„"S‘, _____
protection needed for ordinary store' bu!M*riM* and fifty thousand “Hellos” | This country would be a stag-nation it
b*r“.“,‘ •a**."—i i.»«^lr£tr£K ft?*-
During the war, Dr. Lloyd, of Obi®, from
3cpss:e*£vs
52Y,*“rt«»nd enjoying perfect health.”
1 ”P<’rirnent with newand untried medl-
“Pro gone through oiy work”—The needle.
_ |?te Chemist of* Delaware.
Prtf. Ghas. P. Williams, Sa.Vs that Red
£
and C°UM^ Cure is 8af® anfl valuable Is prCIlOlLlCCd Bj'ffTOrCS of phj-
and contains neither ,
nor any other narcotic
price is only. 25 cents.
0fylT andTiotsinas of peop^
--.1. _ 1________^ • • 1 1 ^,4
“I’m pressed for > Httle time”—The cheese.
• A Prjae in the Lottery
19 heir to,and whlchmake^life burcl^ “me.S
failed. l)r. Herce’s treatise on consumption
Pentjl In ■tamn. A J A. J
^^Drt’s soap for better time*”~-ThAjoap
wlio liavo usfiiit, to bo tho best_
known remedj for Debility, Dya-. M.
^popsia, Indigestion, Loss of Ap-
- petite. Loss of Hosli, Lung' Com-
plaints, Female Weakness, Gas-
tric Irritability, Nervousness,
Malarial Fever and many other
diseases "where tonics are required
■^differing essentially from all
other Beef Foods and Tonics.
11 treat Invlarnnitop consist® of th®
Jute® of U>® flnwutrwto b®ef-br Baron Von
th® enilnem chemist, AR-
W.. f #
cored. Book 10 cents In stamp*. World'#
. —IRSAI.L, M.D., T.
ooa, — —■
rtoa.________________ .
£BA»Mtffl WlIAOX, V.B.fl.. u
don, are laboled oa each bottle.
. . «<* mnarhsM. our®*
.HtSiTSSar'"*-
more liberty. ,
^■rJliwCTtho^tSmSS^SS^I •n^iw'wlth
waf over sary, buuesei. tbuV-thw well toat sup-
pile# the water or the pump that raises
it be located in the yard. There are
*•' •—v ntMuni^ will over
il»e poor roadu that are oomraon in new-
*” “***I»mI portions of the west is consid-i
B-,.. . A 4 often happens that a great
atnounlt of seflermg takes place in conse-
auervw of getting out rif^oal when tBf
eommon roadu are impassable on ao-
^MlM’.Bt-toe snow or Urn railroads ate
nroventod from moving heavy freight
la many places during the pastfow win-
tnisi farmers living quite a distance from
< * railway station have been eomjpplcd
darlrj: the prevalence of long Storms to
— — —--• toe yard, .noio «ir
many good reasons for liaving the well
outside of the yard. Its water would
be less likely to be contaminated, and it
well that» outside the ,________
that is within it. If Ts mueh better ^
have the watering trough under an open
(ig the prevalence of long __
Btarn corn, of which they hadbutasmaU
I »tf i.u order to keep from freezing
1 ««iy a few acres of trees on their
ffhwdB they woiiitl have beqzT^pompara-|
ttvely comfortable, notwithstanding the'
eevere wild and the bad condition of the
fhod than in an exposed place near the
center of the ySfll, Hit b under a tthed . ,-------,_____
snow will not accumulate about it apd Ek-Ropresentotive H. B.
it dimcuit for antmab to get a Smithville, captured
• ■‘h®M nl°re *nun*b M alive to Canada last summer
make
drink. If there are uiore animals ,oi
different kinds to be Applied with
water it is mnetrbetter to have mors
than one drinking-place.^ By ha vine
aovelhil troughs the •*----- - '1 • *•
time
ares a Hiipply ofTiiei at
w Umi most needed. , -
srt living a long distance from a
set have to study how they can
‘ with the necessities
r,‘Wffli6W speudmig
i«f»iaq trees
plan to have aU the troughs ffllod vrith
water before cattle ahd horses Are let out
of thB lN^andrstable in the raornintr.
Ss they g. nersUy seek to obtain s drin
otod to the making and
ring their food
ng without ex-
devoted
—*--—-**- —»-• and storing of
manure. During the summer the drep-
pings of tho cattle should U thrown on
ssSSSrSi
with thei same period of a year ago. The
cMefTeSSSa lSems~to be the require-
parents or
meat of the
guardians. ■*
oonhent of
A New York fcwt®**
deitiand for seoret aoeiety badges is
the south;
, ZUIVI Jb ^ m avsa ruvi v* , #Uvll;(
from s dying out in the east. In the south and
-t there is still a demand for them,
— in this section Masons, Odd-FeUows
and others of that ilk prefer rings en-
graved with the mystic emblems to the
conspicuous badges once,so fashionable.
Smith, of
--—--—-i -• -•» ,w|>wni a moose
•alive to Canada- hist summer, and has
since had him trained to harness, He
NEURAtfi
a*1.**'.*
. JO* TM.
RHEMKTI
win so<ih appear on tho road with the
animai hitched to an Esquimau sledge,
sod the fannerk of Burlington county
“ turti out eh 1 -
.....
JraiSKSi
"“u wm ». tt ueu aw reacnes a simm*ry
place* he scatters his ashes and waiks
awreww with 'tmfgty andwawp;' Hu tirtUor
sVl 1PITCSSSQ
. 11
'f*,**/i .i * -viU'V »• —ia'jV > * iv ■ *
his method more efficient than tbs
a benefit upon his fellow-citizens,
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The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1886, newspaper, March 11, 1886; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth886644/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Library of Graham.