Show I 1 an 4 X 1 J ACRES ENOUGH 1 1 1 i i 0 1 tell teli teil ten acres devoted to vegA vegetable able abie culture emar dmar hear sear a city may bea hea be a miracle of plenty but in the outlying rural districts it is not quiet enough though infinitely better than nothing A man with ten acres aeres of anywise decent land need never fear the poorhouse poor house if he I 1 work works sit jit jib well his family may outnumber i the nine digits but there will be corn in egypt for all that now we hold that fifty acres of good land or that which can be made good s enouf enough gh unless a man wishes to slave out his whole life in toil digging tili till his old baek back is as crooke dasa rainbow baingo w till his muscles cies cles crack with the dehu and his joints sn snap with anchy losis some penetrating genius has discovered that man has but one life to live on 0 ah earth why toil incessantly for the bread that peri perl in the sweat if our brows are we to get our bread but dont let us sweat immoderately for mammon ammon oa enough is all we e can use we wo know of a snug little faim farm of thirty four acres of cultivated land and seventeen of rocky pasture which 1 yields a profit much larger than any one hundred and nifty fifty know of hitup it upholds a snug little cottage of eight rooms corns a large barn with modern useful improvements three acres of splendid orchard of all valuable fruits half an acre 0 ld o excellent garden an acre and a half more devoted to carrots turnips and onions the fences are all ali all ail post and rail bushes and weeds are in eternal exl exi exile exlie ae and the whole alce is fair to look upon and to live an on this man is 18 getting rich by being thorough in everything his uis lien ilen house is perfect his hens lay aldno and no droppings are lost his pigsty is well supplied with muck nd the house slops run into it after taking in the first premium he puts 1 about six aa aeres acres beof of corn cm into pork which makes manure his dar ear carrots parrots rots and turnips he puts into beef which makes more manure manure and thorough tillage 1 are the grand secrets of all farming in Ne at least thi this man lives well no pork diet for highe eats turkeys eats eggs eats lambard lamb lam band and the first of of his fruits and herds he dresses well rides in a carriage has a good pew in churchard chur church chand and sends ills his children totite gotlie to the first institution of learning his wife worked to death and has a piano in the parlor he pays about fifty dollars a year for help visits his neighbors and abiu knows how to fish no rich uncle ever lefft left him any property he began life by owning ab about half of his hig farm without any buildings upon it and live kive nive five thousand dollars would not buy his real estate today to day this ghis farmer is no myth we know him and more minute statistics might be given to show that fifty acres is enough enough unless aniess a man desires to dig and scrub over a large farm of half tilled acres and perhaps not be any better off in the end than my easy friend with a small farm it is a fact that a two hundred acre farm might be made equally good but hut it is another fact that they seldom are thorough tillage in new england cannot extend over a multitude of acres fifty acres of rich land it can be made rich if poor now with a snug house in a spacious yard with an abundant fruitage and everything qa as perfect as a man can make around it is a work ingmans paradise there is his vine wreathed arbor in which to read his papers of a summer sunday eve and behold the sun sink down through gli the golden gateways of the west the while there is everything beautiful and bright around him in the house and out of doors and why is it not all the paradise earth can give we hold that thai the man who wild makes an an acre of this earth more beautiful or product productive Ne is doing heaven service and if lie tie has hag not over fifty acres he can make it shine with fruition and beauty and never ask discount disco discount uit besides country gentleman Gent iema lema z C I 1 SOIL 1 l LIQUIDS AND 1 r 1 SOLIDS 11 in jahe tiie he last number of the country gentleman E M of geneva a inquires how to prepare night soil for fertilization liquids and solids A full answer to this would be mix mem thiem 11 the true way is to have privies but without a vault beneath the beat seat at plank should be hung on hinges and arid put fut tout buckets placed as receptacles into In the buckets the solid excrements fall and an dinto andanto into them too should all the chamber vessels of the f family a m 11 y be emptied by pursuing this plan when the tile buckets are full about one fourth will be fa solid flolid and three fourths 1 I 1 liquid and iad y other t h r smell than that of ammonia when the bucket is lifted out the con tents should be thoroughly stirred and the whole become as a rich liquid manure ius lus one abne of the very best fertilizers for fruit trees that can be applied it may be scattered on the surface of the soil around trees or what is better small conical heaps of barnyard manure or road scrapings or muck may be made redy ready under the trees to receive this rich liquid addition in this latitude I 1 prefer making these conical heaps in the fall and have the same saturated with the liquid manure I 1 two or thee theo times during the fall and winter md then than in the spring level the heaps wn by scattering it over the entire tire s suni suri lace Tace f bee lee where varieties of apples are cul cui cultivated that incline to be great bearers the orchard ought to be well as often aa as every second or third year it is folly to expect large and continued returns orom from fruit trees without they arc ad fed I 1 relieve the us use e of chiq liquid illiquid manure has a great tendency to clear an orchard from in sects six smiths cider apple appie trees in my orcha orchards orchard Td netted season sixty dollars most orchards in my neighborhood and hild around cincinnati did poorly but mine hever did bettel better I 1 attributed hy my sue suc success eess very much muel to the P which trees I 1 feeding my got what an uncivilized procedure it is to dig vaults under privies in which MV may lace fice accumulate ate year yea rafter after ye arthis most offensive and health heith destroy destroying ln 9 substance i it is the fruitful source soure e of f yel low and typhoid fever and in cities it so saturates the soil soli beneath us that the plague and pestilence esti estl lence lenco must some day burst forth ha manding demanding the j just f aist penalty of this criminal infraction of the laws of health when properly applied the substance referred to is the richest and most welcome food for plants but it is a virulent poison to all animal life jf if our entire country would adopt the plan above suggested during the next half alf century as many lives would be saved and as much increase would be q given ivon to our national wealth as would make makeup u for the havoc on life and property w which i ef 1 this great rebellion war has occasioned 0 p 0 i bags BR LS gS clatonia latonia sprin aprin springs gs ky feb LOW HEADED headen FRUIT TREES there are sam e good hints hinis in the following in tri trimming mal n fruit trees we should always be bo care careful rag fag I 1 to secure the trunk from the rays of the summer sun solar heat by being ieng permitted to gome come in contact with the bark essaid to fo scald scala the or circulating cu lating fluids and thus cause many of the diseases which affect fruit fidia trees in this climate the foliage only should be fully exposed tot tov the influences of heat for that is capable of bearing it unharmed and eveh even to profit b by y it when most intense it has been asser asserted t by distinguished that trees which are permitted to branch out low say ay three or four feet from the ground better two or three feet and oftener less ED NEWS are rarely attacked by fire blight 11 frozen sap blight 1 Y black spots OF or other dis dig diseases eases of the bark or limbs there is also another advantage attending this practice the aqil is k kept t lighter looser oos r and n more free from we weeds e els the high ig winds pass almost harmless over t the he trees and have not power to twist rack and break the branches or to detach the fruit as they do where the branches aspire and are exposed A writer on thi this s subject says the trees will be much longer lived more prolific beautiful and profitable they are more easily rid of destructive insects the fruit is much less damaged by falling and the facilities for gathering it are much greater there is much less danger of breaking the limbs the trees require less pruning scraping arid washing and the roots toots are protected from the scourge of th cheplow the tho plow eplow which is too often allowed to tear M and mutilate them 11 J ameri ameni pan institute farmers club an and d other sources larv LAP BUGS bucs whatever else you destroy in la the insect line une biever n ever injure a lady bug for in its larvie its pupa two stages of its metamorphoses and its insect states it feeds upon the aphis the plant louse or vine fretter that tl is so pestilent in gardens and greenhouses anses and even in window gardening gardani among parlor plants every chil chii child H knows the as well as the zoologist who calls it that is sheath winged having having its wings under cover of a pair of shel shei shells sheils s running long iong longitudinally tu dinally the wings are of various brilliant colors generally between orange and deep red it belongs to the same genus of insects as the beautiful cochineal genessee farmer scratching POSTS LUXURIES FOR C E sidney smith used to say JJ 1 I am for all cheap luxuries even for animals now all animals have a passion for scratching their backbones they break down gates and halings palings to effect this look looka there is my universal a sharp edged p pole 0 le resting on a high and land low pos post t adapted to every height from froma A horse to a lamb even the edinburg reviewer can take his turn you have no idea how popular it is I 1 have not had a gate broken since I 1 put it up I 1 have it in all mv my fields I 1 KEEPING EGGS A subscriber ays says the boston cultivator i writes that eggs may be kept a yea year r I 1 in n pickle made as follows one pou pound d of lime one pound of roel rock salt and six quarts i of soft water it should stand one night to settle and cool then stirred and ind turned on the eggs which should be packed the small smail end down care should be taken to select those with thick shells and which are fresh fr esaw they must be kept in wood or stone I 1 have kept them one year perfectly glod abod 11 another subscriber recommends limewater for 1 keeping eggs use a peck peek of linie lime to forty gallons of wager wafer draw off the clear water and add td it two quarts of salt keep the tile eggs in the water in a cool place I 1 THE LEGACY 01 never in my life IM knew any people so 0 clucky as george Andi andl andreww andrews evs and his wife observed mrs Henders brn bri ane evening to her het husband in a tone atone W which pic mic h bordered strongly on 04 complaint ahat has happened to io them thih now sophia inquired he be au suspending ills his pe denand pen nand nana and ard looking up wi with spendIng a stronger ronger sense of interest in his cifes feelings however than in his neighbor fortunes 1 1 shave you yov not heard philip that a cousin ot of his has as died in 14 india india ind left deft him sik six or seven thousand pounds only think of receiving such a legacy from a person one has never seen and arcely scarcely bc ever heard of kofl 10 lo am glad to hear it replied mr henderson pe rne may congratulate him on his accession of wealth without fear of giving I 1 I 1 rise nse to painful regrets SI six thou Ahou thousand sadu bbunds pounds pound sh would bhat fiat nit console one for the loss of a very dear friend Six thousand pounds would be every very pleasant to inherit hi herit herlt philip replied the lady in a tone which seemed to imply that it would console her fora fona for fon a great deal 1 I wish somebody would le leave ave dve as much you how happy it would mak makess makers eusI 1 aili am not so sure of that such ah addition to our income might possibly make us neither happier happler noi not nor richer thail than we are are at dt present I 1 not lanot richer why phil philip you are joking would not three it hundred a yea year r and if properly managed it I 1 would ouid produce that make us a great deal rl nicher richer what an advantage it would be what do you need sophia that you do not at present ps possess sess that you are so extremely desirous of a larger income oh a dozen things at least we would put edward to a first rate school and have a capital governess for the others what a pleasure that would be I 1 should be no more tied to teaching as I 1 a am in now but should be as independent of the nursery as mrs andrews and then perhaps you would indulge me with a week weer in london and I 1 am dying to hear an opera I 1 am sure you could afford that once in a while 1 AI I hope we shall shail manager nga aga to put edward to a good school my dear said her husband rather gravely though ou gik as to the tuition of the girls I 1 t think h I 1 n you must still be contented to act the apart of a mother towards them and permit me to say chati that J trust bourde your desire of going to london is as visional visionary vis fonar ionar y as your expectation of a legacy your happiness does not depend on either elther event rs r should hould imagine certainly not nearly so muchas much as on the cultivation of a a cheerful chees ful and contented spirit such as you have always hitherto exhibited no more was said on the subject and mr 1 henderson trusted that as the excitement cit ement of this intelligence subside subsided A ills his cifes inclination to discontent would likewise die away and that she would gradually resume the use of her cef reason ancher and her habits of active usefulness I 1 41 the inheritor of this unexpected legacy meantime did not view the affair in the bright colors that dazzled mrs henderson on the contrary he had many and serious thoughts on the subject he was at the first moment it is true much pleas pleased edwith with this sudden accession of property but when he came to consider the matter he experienced a great revulsion of feeling and he be gan to doubt whether helwa wa aso so lucky a manas manaa man as his acquaintances universally denominated him it wak wai was after all so small a 4 sum only six thousand pounds 1 l it would hardly add to his income or increase his credit why alad had it not I 1 beell weeti ten fen thousand he would he thought have been quite satisfied with that that would have been a handsome legacy a something worth talking about a gift to be thankful for perhaps had it been ten teo thou thousand vand he might have risen rigen a step in the world and from the senior clerk in the extensive firm to which he belonged he might have been admitted as part partner nr a change which ich he had ardently desira desired why could not nob his cousin have made the le legacy g ap y larger how provoking ing edg that either from want of interest inheres t in his welfare or from any other cause he had stopped short of a sum which would certainly have procured him as he imagined imagine dy perfect happiness i I 1 the gloom which overspread disbrow his brow was not unmarked by his affectionate wl wide wife i fe and sup supposing osing that he was over wearied with Ms his work and standing in need of relaxation she one day proposed enthat that he should beg a short holiday from the oisee office and spend it with them at the seaside sea side wide 1 I cannot afford any suc sueh such h extravagant pleasures was his reply somewhat impatiently to her |