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LV.NDON SWAIN
The Greensboro Patriot.
Established in 1824. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1872. Jffew Series No. 210.
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A Bill
To be entitled an ACTto proridefor the
collection of Ttu-e* by the Stale
and several counties of
the State, on
property.
[From the Wilmington JAnrssy ]
We publish below Sections 30,31. 32
and3r>«f theal»ove> set, H reeenUy]
passed by tlio Legislature. We would
pablisli the bill eutire, bul as yet have
been umtble lo obtain ftconect <x>py.—
We give the above sections as of par-ticular
importance to our people, assu-ring
them tbat this portion of the act
uicoriect.aiul may be relied on :'
• • • • •
SECTION 30. If no one will bid for
any piece of real property, the amount
of the tuxes thereon and the charges
of the sale.the sheriff shall bid oft' the
property lor the State, ami upon prov-ing
the'fact and tendering to the Slate
a deed to the Stale for the propertj,
duly registered in the county in which
it lies.shall have credit for the amount
of such tax and charges. The deed
shall be deposited without delay by the
Auditor, with the Secretary ot State.
The property so purchased by the state
shall be under the control of the Board
of Education, but may be redeemed as
hereinafter prescribed.
SECTION SI. The Ddnupten* vmy
Redeem the Propertt) irithin Tmlrc
Months.
The delinquent may retain the pos-session
01 property within twelve
months after the sale,and within that
time may redeem it by paying or ten-dering
to the purchaser the amount
paid by him, and twenty-live per cent.
in addition thereto. II the purchaser
shall accept the stun so tendered, be
shall give a receipt thereof. It he shall
refuse.the delinquent may pay the same
to the clerk of the Superior Court for
the use oi the purchaser, and the clerk
shall give a receipt thereof. Such pay-ment
shall be equivalent to payment
to the purchaser. The delinquent may
cause the receipt of the purchaser or ol
the clerk to be registered, and the reg-ister
ot deeds shall refer to such regis-tration
on the margin of his registra-tion
ol the reports from the sherifl to
the purchaser. Alter the payment to
the purchaser or to the clerk for his
use as aforesaid, his right under the
purchaser shall cease. No sale of the
property or by the delinquent within
twelve months shall convey to their
respective vendees any other rights or
estates than the parties themselves
possess.
SECTION 32. If the Delinquent /ml
to Redeem.
If the delinquent fail to redeem as
prescribed in the proceeding section,
the purchaser may, within eighteen
months after the purchase, pay to the
sbeiill the residue of the sum bid by
him,together with the interest thereon,
at the rate of one per cent, per month,
from the expiration of the twelve
months next succeeding the sale to the
day of payment, and demand a deed.
The sheriff shall receive ihe money for
the use of the delinquent anil make the
deed. The sheriff shall lie entitled to
retain from the money so paid fin his
trouble in the preinisi s.live doilars.i'i'l
the residue he shall pay '" delinquent
on demand. The died from the sheiill
to the purchaser shall be registered
within six months, and when SO regis.
tered shall convey to the grantee there
in all the estate in the premises which
the delinquent had at the time of the
sale for taxes.
SECTION 33. In case the State be-comes
the purchaser under Section 30,
then within twelve months after the
sale, the delinquent may pay to the
county treasurer the county taxes due
with 25 per cent, added thereto, to
gethcr with the costs allowed the sher-iffs
in settlement under sub division 3,
section 30 of this act, and upon pre-sentation
of the. several receipts of
those officers respectively to the secre
tary of State that officer shall endorse
upon the deed conveying the property
to the Slate, these words, "Taxes and
costs paid, delinquent restored to his
rights," and sign the said endorsement,
annexing the seal of his office thereto,
and charging 33 cents therefor, and
shall deliver the deed to delinquent or
his agent. And upon presentation ot
said endorsement to the register of the
county where the land lies, he shall
enter the same on the margin ot that
page ol the county records on which i.-
registered the deed made to the State
by the sheriff,charging l"> cents there-for;
and such endorsement, delivery,
and registration shall have the effect
ot reinvesting the delinquent with all
his rights in the premises. That the
time for redemption of any properly
hereafter bought by the State is hereby
extended until the30th of November,
1872. That wherever the word delin-quent
is used in this act. it shall be
taken to mean delinquent, or his licits
or assigns.
The following figures will be found
to afford useful and popular study:
"Pension frauds 8,000,000 per
annum''(Mr. Garfield)
Tension frauds during Grant's
incumbency 824,000,000
"Bevenuo less by smuggling
and Irand—-me fourth the whole.
(Report of Civil Service Commission.)
Annual revenue 9500,000,000
Animal stealage 9125,000,000
Stealage during Grant's in-cumbency
3*0,000,000
Land Grants to Railroads and
Their Value.
The Roston Daily Advertiser has a
long article on the value of land grants
to rail roads, which concludes as fol-lows
:
With respect to the grant of the
ITortbera Pacific railroad and its pros-pective
value,Gongress granted to this
Co.12,800 acres of land to each mile of
road, commencing on Lake Superior
and extending to the eastern boundary
line of Dakota, and 25,000 acres per
mile from that line to the Pacific coast.
This giant was to aid in the construct-ion
ol a railroad from Lake Superior to
Puget Sound and the vicinity of Port-land.
Oregon, and calls for about 50,-
000,000 aeres,or 00,000 square miles of
land,an extent equal to NeWjYork ami
Indiana together, or eleven and a half
Policy and Duty of Democrats.
[Prom the Now York Express.]
Not many weeks can elapse before a
Democratic National Convention will
be called to make, or act upon, nomin-ations
made for the office of president
and vice presideut. What the pricese
duty ot the Democratic party is in the
present condition of the country, is no
doubt matter of far more inward feel-ing
than of outward discussion. There
are those who ridicule what is called
"the passive policy," as well as those
who believe in it. Those who believe
in always fighting their enemies, re-gardless
of results, ridicule nny inno-vation
upon the old order of things.
Those who believe that the defeat of
this enemy is desirable, will think
more of victory than of a fierce or
doubtful contest, merely lroin the love
times Massachusetts. The rout, of of resistance or a feeling of hate.
this road, commencing in Minnesota, dust now, tue internal peace of the
on the shores of Lake Superior, passes country, the restoration of the Uuion
through the timbered lands West of
that lake and over the region of prai-ties,
lakes, and grovcs.in Western Min-nesota
; thence it crosses the wonder-ful
valley of the Red River of the
North, and strikes out over the gently
undulating and fertile prairies of Dako-in
spirit as well as form, the arrest of
the constant war upon the States and
the. people of the States, General
Amnesty for the people of the South,
a tariff for revenue and not for protec-tion,
a check to the present advauce
towards centralization, more indepen-ta,
and crossing The Missouri river at . deuce on the part of the supreme
(ho mouth of Dealt, it extends to the court, so that the majority there shall
beautiful valley of the Yellowstone, in not lie appointed to office or sustained
nearly a straight line. Ascending this in office forobeying the descisions ot the
valley and passing through belts of executive, are among the reasons for a
timber and rich, rolling lands, it goes change of the administration. The
through tbe-iteseman pass of the Belt monstrous corruption of leading men
mountains in the central basin of the in office, the patronage of government
Montano.and crosses the fertile valleys now everywhere brought into conflict
of the Gallatiu, Madison and Jefferson with the freedom of elections, the use
forks of the tipper Missouri, doing up of the custom-houses, post-offices, and
the valleys of the latter and Divide revenue departments to reiiouiiuate
(Tick,it runs through Deer Lodge pan and re-elect the present executive, all
at an altitude under five thousand feet admonish us that the time has come
above sea level,and descends the west- lor a change of administration. The
ern slope bv the valleys of Deer Lodge president has been forced by public
creek,Hell Gate river,and Clark's fork opinion to remove one or two officials,
to Lake l'end Orielle, where it crosses as public opinion has driven out of
the great grass plain of the Columbia office the late clerk of the state senate,
toWallula; theuce it follows the Co- after receiving bribes in office; but
these changes, and all changes for the
public good, are lew ami far between.
Aside from men in office, uicu ex-
Itimbia liver through the Cascade,
mountains to the Pacific coast. The
climate ot this gieat land-grant belt
across the continent is bracing and un-usually
healthful, being free from all
peculiar diseases. The soil, as a whole,
is of excellent quality, producing large
crops of "heat, rye, oats aud barley ;
vegetables yield without a parallel in
the history of horticulture in America,
and all kinds of small fruits, wild and
cultivated, yield the same as in New
England States. The nntritiotugrasses
peeling office, strong party men, and
the friends of this class of people, Un-settled
conviction is that there should
be a change of public men. '• How-shall
this be done I" is the great ques-tion
of the day.
We confess that at present we see
but one way, and that is by uniting
upon a common platform all those who
are honestly opposed to the present
^rowing wild on theEasternand West- administration. There are no great
era slopes of the Rocky mountains and differences of opinion amongreally con-in
the valleys afford sustenance for
cattle the year round, the climate be-ing
so mild as not to necessitate shelt-er
lor stock in the winter. A large
portion of this giant is covered with
forests ol an immense growth, the like
of which cannot be found on this con-tinent.
Fine building stone is found in
almost every variety and inexhaustible
in quantity. The mineral wealth of
this region seems as yet to be hardly
• . ' I. at the present time no por-a
country promises a greater
amount ol precious metals than that
Ihrough which this road will run. Im-mense
coal deposits arc found under-
King a gnat portion of the grant. The
Committee on the Pacific Railroad in
the I'uited States Senate, in their re-port
Feb. 10,1809,says: •• Every ele-ment
of wealth, every condition of so-cial
growth and prosperityyxist in su-perabundance
and beyond exhaustion
in the region lying between Lake Su-perior
ami the' Puget Sound. For this
immense country railroads can do more
lli.at they have done for Illinois."'
Now it we compute the ultimate value
of the grant of the Northern Paciti.
servative and patriotic men on the fol-lowing
points:
1st. The necessity of a revenue tariff,
with fewer taxed articles.
2d. Greater honesty and economy in
the administration of the government.
3d. Civil service reform, aud civil
government in place of military power.
4th. Decentralization.
5th. Complete purification of the
public service.
Oth. Amnesty and iieace.
7th. The one term principle for the
president of the United States.
8th. Local self government.
9th. A fixe I time for the resumption
of specie payments.
loth. Public offenders to be treated
in the same manner as private of-fenders.
These, in part or whole, with some-thing
more or something less for the
sake of general harmony, make a suffi-cient
groundwork for a common bond
of union. President Grunt and his
supporters in official service have been
"weighed in the balance and found
warning." Theexecutive.il not wicked,
is weak, even in the estimation oi
railroad at *7 per acre, the average of judgment of thousands who voted to
Ihe land giant sales already made, it place him where he is. He has placed
will amount to 9406,000,000; if at on- in office a more corrupt and worse set
ly 95 per acre,it amounts to 9290,000,- ot men than ever held office before,
000: if at -*3.07 per aere,the lowest of who have demoralised the custom
all Hie grants, it will amount to *17S, house service, robbed merchants ol
000,000. This latter sum is more than
twice the estimated cost of the road as
set forth by the most competent engin-eers.
These prospective results seem
as'ouinliiig.yel it strikes us as not uu-reasouable
to believe that the liuati'ial
millions of income, and injured the
commerce of the country. He lias sus-tained
bad men in office, and, as in
the ease of Leet and others in this
city, over and over again introduced
bad men lo office. To put down such
results of this grant shall even exceed an administration, its great public and
the highest of these estimates, in as private wrougs, ought to be a bond of
much as its resources are so immense union sufficient to unite all patriotic,
and will be developed with so great fa- j intelligent citizens in the United
cility by the railroad.which will be the States, and what in itself is reasona-shorter
and more easily operated of
our Pacific Roads.
An Interesting Table.
Nothing illustrates the beauties of
the tariff system better than the follow-ing
table, showing the duties collected
at various places under it, and the
amount of money paid for collection :
able and proper, there ought to be no
difficulty in bringing about among the
honest opponents of the administra-tion.
SiiUiriis. Dufut:
Alnemsrle, N. •'.. 8 i.n.v.i * TiiT
lUriiatslite, Mass., «.:i i-i 8.0S4
Ileanfort, N.C., a .517 1,746
Ca-liiif, Maine. 11.3M 708
1-YrnaiiiliM.i. Kla . :iA-14 1T0
Georgetown, 8.C., •-'.ii:t-f 7li
Gloucester, Mass., -.r.:,r. 8,944
Machaius, Main.-, t.i-.-.".i 8,178
Mat 1.1. bead, Maaa 8.103 8,ioq
Micuiga-, Mich., 0,777 :il
Newark, NJ-, 4,154 890
Newport, It I . 7553 3,495
Pitmlico, K.Ci S.15S 1,»KH
Sac >. Maine 1,785 995
Beverly and Salem Ma.s,.l-VJl.-, 106
St.Marks.Fla,, 7.7»a SSri
St Johns, Kla., 6,75H 353
BtouiDgton.Conn., 1,514 988
Qnincy, 111-.
Wheeling, W.Va.,
T.4..t 77 :l
1,023 19
The Arlington Estate—The Re
publican Press Ashamed of the
Robbery.
Prom the Cincinnati Enquirer.
We are glad to see tbat respectable
aud influential Republican papers like
the Cincinnati Gazette and Baltimore
American are calling attention to the
rank injustice of the General Govern-ment
holding on to the Arlington es-tate,
which is the property of Mrs. Lee-the
wife of General Leo, ol the Confed,
erate army. The property was always
her own, she inheriting it from her pa-rents,
one of whom was the SOB ol
Martha Washington, wife of General
Washington, who was a widow with
two children at the time of her mar-riage
with the General. This property,
lying opposite to Washington City,
consisting of eleven hundred acres,
with the most valuable improvements,
Frank Blair on Grant.
Prom 0. A. Towusend'a Correapondcucu iu
the Chicago Tribune.
Tho other day I sent a card to Frank
Blair, who promptly came out of the
Senate, for Frank is bold as a lion,and
never evades the newspa|ier challenge.
Frank invited J. B. Stillsjn and my
sell back into the marble Room, and
gave us a frank aud free Blair conver-sation.
Tie expressed the opinion that
Grant was a "great man." Said he:
" He has an immense personality;
the awful incarnation of self. He is
running this Government without prin
ciples, on the theory of personal suc-cess.
He must be a big man; for
who ever saw a continued draukard
and borrower raise himself up late in
lite, unless he had left some strong
human elements for capital 1 His gov-ernment
is not comprehensible, not
was bid iu to the Government for taxes,} intellectual—only personal. The Amer
at the commencement of the war, for
the sum of 902. Upon this miserable
tax title the Federal Government has
thus far held this important piece of
property. There was uever any era
fiscatiou of it, and could not have
been, unless Mrs. Lee had been tried
aud condemned for treason, and then
the forfeiture would only last during
her lifetime. There is always au
equity of redemption in the extinguish
nient of a tax title, even iu quiet or
civil times, and how much more so
when it is acquired during war and
revolution. That individual would
have been considered a shyster who,
for the pitifnl amount ot 992 tax paid
by him, would seek to deprive Mrs.
Lee from the enjoyment of the fee of
her estate, upoti her making restitu-tion
ot it. All the generals aud other
leading Confederates are peacefully
living upon the old estates they had
before the war. Where is the sense
or the justice in singling out Mrs. Lee
alone as an object of Government
plunder! Arlington has been made a
vast cemetery, anil the property so
changed that probably Mrs. Lee would
not desire to retain it, and iu thai
event a compensation in money should
be paid her for the property—a com
pensation to be agreed upon by disin-terested
parties. Tho Qazette well
says:
" Persons may make savage declar-ations
against rebels to stave off reflec-tion
in this affair, but an honorable
nation cannot maintain the position
which onrs holds as to this estate.
Sooner or later compensation will be
made. The sooner it is done the sooner
will the Government relieve itself from
a position which will not bear examin
ation.,' .
It is nonsense to talk of "the Presi-dent's
policy" in speaking of Civil Ser
vice and Revenue Reform, Retrench
ment,or anything clse,Grant never had
but one policy, but he has been con
Sistently a man of many "jobs." His
single policy, that of Santo Domingo,
was a "job' too.as is proved by the an-xiety
of that gobbler of "plums,"young
Mr."Leet, to invest in it. Tho Presi-dent's
jobs have been many, from the
callow adventure of Jesse R., and the
Macks,in cotton,down to the monstrous
job now being consummated under the
name of'the postal telegraphy system.'
There was the "old Bill Stoms" job ;
the Orville Grant job in Illinois inter-nal
revenue ; the general order job; the
Chicago town lots job; tho Senacn
sandstone job ; the gold conspiracy job;
the Commissioner Parker Indian job ;
and several more too numerous to men
tion. We do not charge that Grant
has been concerned in all of these jobs,
or.indeed, in any of them ; but we do
gay that some of the odor from each
and every one of them clings to him
persistently. If Grant had been Cie-sar's
wile,he had been divorced beyond
peradveuture.— Wash. Patriot.
Feet.—The fees heretofore allowed the
Superior Court Clerks have been
amended as follows :
81.00
25
1.00
35
00
00
1.00
ican people are in more danger to day
from n man of this character than they
would be from Aaron Burr, or men ol
much higher parts. Under Grant we
are approaching that period ot polit
ical complacency and indifference, as
a people which will make the im i
ing of a despot quite propi r and
uatnral.
•'Grant cares nothing for party oi
principle; he runs the thing for him
self; nnd many of the business inter-ests
of tho Country are so situated that
they can better afford to drop into ihe
line of a powerful President's prejudi-ces
aud ambition than to join the mass
ol the people in fighting him. Grant
has com united but one mistake as a
politician-of course, I am talking to
you boys as one politician to anothei
—and that mistake is shaking off
the old Abolitionists who have revolu-tionized
the country, for the sake ol
certain Swiss like Morton and Cam-eron,
who never cared for the daikev
more than Giant himself.
North Carolina Cities and Towns
The relative population of the sev-eral
cities and towns in this State is
very little known. A friend has fur
nished us with the following list ol all
those whose population exceeded five
hundred.
It is an interesting table, and i-well
worthy of preservation. The fig
ures are taken from the official census
reports:
1. Wilmington, 13,440
t. Raleigh 7.71"'
3. Newl.ern :
4. Payetteville
5. Charlotte
G. Salisbury
7. Raufort
8. Washington
9.'Asheville
In. Plymouth
11. I'm!. .-.
I-J. Kdentnn
13- GsMsbore
14. Kinatoli
1.1. Wilson
16. Elizabeth City
17. Oxford
18. Concord
19. Smitliville
ill. Mil IH!
•21. Lilicolutoii
"2-J. M . i :'.i
•i:t. I.oiii*l>urjr
-•4. Suiteavillo
85, Liimbcrtoii
'.'ii. Oreeiitillo
27. Morgautoii
There are doubtless some few omis-sions
in the above list, such as War-renton,
Lexington, and probably oth-ers,
the population of which wo have
not now at hand. But the above table
is substantially correct,and must prove
of interest.— Wil. Journal.
S-HI
4,1.1111
4,47:t
:i,:«7
2,4:'.»
9,031
1,400
1,389
1,340
1,343
1.131
1.103
1,036
930
916
878
Sill
809
eua
75ft
644
III.-.
001
r:.i
Xotal 9309,000,000
N. B. these are Radical figures, and
do not include the Custom house frauds
of Leet & Co.,nor the straw bids of Mr.
Creswell— Washington Patriot.
It seems that the Government spends
91,000 at Wheeling, W.Va..in order to
collect? 10! There are a great many-more
offices that hardly pay expenses.
Gen. Grant's Qualifications.
Out of his own mouth the President
is condemned:
[ prom a letter of tho President.]
TTEAniju's ARMY U. S.
.r<l»7ii'ii!7o»i,Oct. 21, 1808.
On further and full reflection upon
the subject ol my accepting the mission
proposed by you in our interview oa
Wednesday,! have most respectfully
to beg to be excused troui the duty pro-posed.
// is a diplomatic service for
which I AM NOT FITTED EITHER
BY EDUCATION OR TASTE. It
has necessarily to be conducted under
the state department, with which my
duties do not connect me. Again,then,
1 most respectfully but urgently re-peat
tny request to be excused from the
performance of a duty entirely out of
my sphere, and wne. too, which «in be
tomuehbetter performed by others.
U. S. GRANT, General.
His Excellency,A.Johnson.Presid't &c
Experience has only too well con-
Such publications are well calculated Brmed the truth of what the President
to strengthen those who insist upon wrote to Andrew Johnson trom the
;i, ■■•.•« free trade aud direct taxa- Head Quarters of the Army in Wash-
-. iogtou.
Summons,
For each copy,
Entering Judgments,
Execution,
Presentment,
Indictment,
Capias,
Transcript to Supreme Court 2.00
Auditing and settling account, Jot
one percent, ouall sums under 8io,-
000 ;all sums over 910,000,1-10 of one
per cetit,provided,that no fees thereon
shall exceed 915.
Letters of administration, 91-00
Appointment of Guardian, 1.00
Rinding Apprentice, LOT
Justification ofBond, «
Probate of will in common form.1.00
I;ccording a will or other writing
necessary to be recorded, for each copy
sheet, _ l
AnKxpensiieEstabliihment.—Accord-in.'
to the figures printed in the Con
greuional Globe, it takes 9122,800 per
annum to run the White House, under
the administration of general Grant.
The items embrace all classes of officers,
from Majors and Brevet Generals to
laborers on the sidewalks and furnace
keepers, nnd the items are made suf-ficiently
large to cover Ihe bills for
marketing, table expenses, a bather
and a variety of other items which
(Slant's predecessors were considerate
enough to pay out of their salary ol
925,000 per annum. The President's
housekeeping is pretty expensive,but t
isanieretrillecomparcdwith the larger
leaks through which the public money
is constantly escaping. If the people
think a Radical administrtion is a lux-ury,
they must not object to paying for
it Luxuries are always costly.
A fair litigant in a Pennsylvania
Court has just achieved a double tii
uinpli by a decision which at the same
time establishes a point in favor of
married woman's rights, nnd also the
possibility of getting the advantage of
a railroad corporation in n lawsuit.
The case was that of a married woman
who having lost a quantity of baggage
valued at 94,000, brought an action in
her own name against the Pennsylvs-uia
Railroad Company for damages to
that amount. The company relied ill
its defence ou two points: First, thai
Ihe plaintiff was incompetent to sue,as
in such a case the suit to be valid tnual
be brought by the husband ; and sec
oud, that as their tickets expressly no
tided passengers that their liability for
losses of baggage was limited to one
hundred dollars,in any case no greater
amount could be recovered lrom them.
The Court decided against the compa-ny.
on both points, and she obtained
judgement in her favor for the whole
amount claimed.
TheFarmen
"/.(As neat./ Hyfmfkmll lAoa sat
Many persons have wondered how
Gov. Holden managed to get Ihe posi
tion of editor-in chief of the Washing-ton
Chronicle—having never been a
defaulter—but it now turns out that in
addition to being an origninl secession-ist
and infamous tyrant, he received
925r000ft>r signing the State bonds ot
North Carolina. This vindicates the
Presidentfrom the suspicion ofemploy-ing
an undeserving editor.
Squandering the Session.—Mr. PrCS-idcut,
two months and a half of this see,
sion have passed, and we have done
little but scold each other, criticise
each other.and make the world believe
if they believe what we say
that we are hardly tit to do the
business for which we are sent here.—
Senator Wilton on Tuesday.
Eighteen years ago Carl Sehnrx
stood on the tloorof the United State ,
hardly comprehending the language
spoke around him. He wrote to his
wite,"Soine day I shall stand here an 1
speak iu English ,"and his prediction
proved true.
Yes, and splendid English he does
speak.
Tree Planting.
Planting trees, the custom has been
almost universal—and sanctioned, too,
by the highest authority—to first dig
deep holes aown into the stiff day or
barren sand subsoil, as the case may
lie, and then fill in with soil that has
been highly manured—sometimes with
manure alone, and covered with soil—
aud then plant the tree in this highly
enriched and thorougly prepared soil,
while the surrounding soil beyond the
limits of these holes if left unmsuured
and uncultivated. Now, what is the
consequence f If the subsoil be/a stiff
clay, the hole becomes a receptacle for
water, which stands aud stagnates at
the bottom. The roots, at first, stimu-lated
and nurtured by the rich soil,put
forth fibres rapidly, and the tree starts
into a sudden and rapid growth.—But
as the roots descend.they soon come in
contact with the stagnant water which
operates as a deadly poison to the roots.
The poison is communicated to the tree,
which soon sickens sal dies. Nothing
cam be more certain than this result—
A subsoil of poor barren sand is eqnally
fatal, though from a different cause-
So long as tho roots can revel iu the
rich and highly prepared soil, the
growth of the tree will be rigorous and
healthy. But the roots are constantly
extending iu every direction after food.
In their progress they soon pass
through the manured soil, and strike
the poor and unfertilized sand, and
here they stop : they cannot penetrate
a soil that is destitute of the elements
uecessary to their susteuauce—they can-not
travel without food. Food is what
they are in search of; but reach which
way they will in this barren soil, they
find none. The tree, after having been
highly ted and stimulated to an exces-sive
growth, suddenly linds itself re-duced
to a slate ot starvation. Its
growth suddenly slops, the leaves turn
yellow, the treediags out a sickly exis-tence
for a few years, and then dies
from starvation.—Aberdeen Ej-aminer.
A Profitable Article/or Culture—Tim
Hon. Win. D. Kelley has called atten-tion
to the facts that licorice root, now
imported from Spain, Italy, Sicily and
France is specially adapted to tile soil
ot Eastern Virginia and North Caroli-na,
aud many of the Western Stales
could also make it a profitable article
for cult in e. From ten to t*elve million
pounds are imported every year iuto
this country, either iu the crude or
manufactured state. It is largely used
by tobacco inaiiutactuies and for medi-cal
purposes, and some few are now en-gaged
in making it into a |>aste formerly
obtained fioiuEurope. As iglit duly now
exists ou manufactured licorice, aud
this should be maintained. Also let
the rough article lie sufficiently taxed
to encourage out-Southern farmers to in-vest
in its cultivation. The root is growu
iiiEuglaud.and yields five hundred dol-laisto
the sere. Here or in the South
it would yield three or four times that
amount. The root is worth from five
to ten cents per pound, according to
quality. ^^_______
The Importance ofa Frequent Change
of seed —It has long been observed by
intelligent farmers that seeds or plants
procured from distant places, with the
same collateral pirallels of latitude,
appear to grow with more strength of
vigor in their new stations than wheu
kept and cultivated in then native
places. On this fact Ihe lules for a
change of seed, or of one species of
plants for another of the same genus,
are founded.
A change of seed is almost always
practically safe and eminently benefi-cial.
A change of teed, sets, or plants
from one description of soil to another,
or from valley to mountain,or vice ver-sa,
seems to possess a renovating in-ilucucc
ou the crops. It is ou this
principle that the practice of rotation
of crops is based. Plants appear to be-come
tried of an old station, except
aquatic plants, which are constantly re-ceiving
new elements of nutrition from
fresh supplies ol water.
To Drire Weevil from Jlarns.—A
writer in a French Publication asserts
that his lather had, a long lime ago,
his granaries aud barns infested with
these insects j [euoulio granariu»)to
much so that they penetrated into all
the bins and grain stored there. He
plaei d an open cask, impregnated with
l.'.i, iu tin- bain and then in the gran-aries;
at the cud ol some hours the
weevils wen- s. in climbing along the
walls by my raids and flying iu all di-rections
from the cask. Ou moving
the tailed vessels from place to place
the premises were iu. a lew days com-pletely
cleared of these troublesome
and pernicious guests. The farmer
who is troubled with these insects may,
as he perceives their presence impreg-nate
the sin face of some old planks
with tar and place them as required iu
his granaries ; care must be taken to
renew the tar from time to time in the
course ofthe year to prevent their re-turn.
Harden Molts.—Every garden is
mote or less doubled with moles, and
every housekeeper is under the neces-sity
of watching out for rats, and al-most
everybody knows how trouble'
some they al.- when they lake 'Hise*'
sion of a house, granary or cellar. I
have found that potash placed iu their
holes, runs or resort, effectually cleans
the premises in a very short time. I
had tint pleasure of seeing one large
mole which had helped himselt to a
small dose of potash found in his walk,
and he looked like H dilapidated and
superannuated scalawag. I don't think
he ever troubled any body's garden
again.—Cor. Pomoloyist.
Milk to a Pound of Putter.—A corre-spondent
of the "Boston Ploughman"
kept an account of milk from hisberd
of" nine gradeShort Horn cows, begin-ning
June 1st, and continuing for 124
days, together with the butter made
Irom the same, and ascertained that it
has taken 21 lbs. of milk to makeone
pound of butter, 'or abont eleven quarts
to the pound.This is not guess work,ho
adds, but the actual results of a correct
recoid.
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