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lgrwmmmmmm ' . u THE HERALD," PUBLISHED EVER Y FRIDA Y, Is sent by mail or other conveyance when so de- sired for ONE DOLLAR per annum in advance. Single copies. three cents. TEE HERALD will contain all matters of local Importance, articles and comments on the po- litical events of the day, the latest home and foreign news carefully summ armed, trustworthy market reports, agricultural matters and general family reading. Advertisers contracting for space on the Second third or fourth pages, for a specified t1nie, Will be charged, payable quarterly, as follows: One Two Three Six One Month. Months. Months. Mmithstoar. Column ...... $10 00 $15 00 $20 00 $35 00 $00 00 Half 001...... 8 00 12 00 15 00 20 00 35 00 nutter Col. 5 00 8 00 10 00 15 00 20 00 hreeinches 3 00 4 00 5 00 8 00 12 00 Two inches. 2 50 3 00 3 50 .6 00 8 00 One nch ..... 1 50 1 75 2 00 3 00 5 00 Twelve lines of Nonparcil comprise an inch. Changes allowed in contract advertisements twelve times a year; each change over twelve times will be charged extra, at the iollowmg rate: column, $1; half column, 000; quarter column and under, 350. t The on for changes of udvertiscmen s upâ€" arin‘g oiiythe second or third pages, must reach fife office on Monday to secure attention the same week. All len ' h corres ondence and advertisements must hogtieiieived tilt the office not later than Wednesday noon, to secure insertion the current week, but short items of local news and adverâ€" tisements will be received up to ten oclock on in . Thursday mom g M. H. KEEFLER, Editor, Publisher and Proprietor. THE HERALD: i RICHMOND HILL, JUNE 16, 1876. L NOT CAST IRON ENOUGH. Some dissatisfaction has been expressed at our remarks not being sufficiently oxâ€" - plicit as regards our political bearing to the two parties who claim Sir John A. Macdonald and Alex. Mackenzie as their leaders. We can only say, once for all, and we sincerely trust it may set at rest any misgivings:upon the part of both our personal friends who belong to the Con- servative party, and those who hail Mr. Mackenzie as their leader, that our pre dilcctions arc with the Opposition, but not so prejudiced or unreasonable as to warp our judgment to admire or advo- cate every course that they, as a party, may choose to adopt. Nor, on the other hand, are we bound to condemn those with whom we have no sympathy, unless our judgment goes with the condemna- tion. Before party we place country, after country we are willing to serve party. 00 UR TS 0F RE VISION. Whatever may have been the reasons for the Mowat Government, making the move that it did, in taking out of the hands of Municipal Councilsl the right to appoint License Inspectors, etc. Whether it Was for the purpuse of ob- taining more political power or not, it stances, that parties under the old system obtained licenses that the law did not fully justify them in having. Servants under the control and in the employ of the municipal bodies are too apt to favor their friends at the expense of the general public. It is only the other day thata gentleman, over his own signature, calls attention to two To- ronto Alderman having had their pro- perties valued at very much less than iothcrs in the same neighborhood; and this leads us to think that it would be no harm but rather good to the great body ~of the people to have the power of muni- cipal bodies curtailed, either in the ap- pointment of Assessors in valuing pro petty, or in appointing some one to listen to appeals who have no connection with the Council. It seems to us, and has done for 'a long time, for men to sit in. judgement upon their own property to be a perfect farce; as supposing, for in stance, that some person, having the interest of the ratepayers of a certain village at heart, should undertake to up. pcul against the assessment of the whole of the members of the Council of that village, would it not be very in- decent upon the part of the Council to sit in judgcmnt upon their own cases. We think it is time that this matter had the attention of the Legislature. We invite and ask correspondence upon the subject, for we believe it worthy of atâ€" tention. Throwing poisoned meat to dogs will soon be on the carpet, and it seems to us a barbarous and uncivilizcd mode of got- ting rid of the poor dumb bi‘utcs. It appears to us some other plan might be adopted which would avoid the seeing of dead dogs lying around the streets of cities and villages. A plan of impound- ing them is adopted in some large cities, and of destroying those that are not claimed or sold. Seine such way would be far better than the present disgrace- ful mode. “â€" The annual meeting of the Canadian PreSs Association will be held in TO- ronto, on the 30th inst; and the same evening its members, with accompanying ladies, will proceed to Philadelphia on their annual excursion»remaining, it is cxpcclcd, about a week or ten days. The Cookstown Conservative demon- stration will come off on the 27th inst. Sir John A. Macdonald and other guests will be met at Bradford by a deputation and escorted in carriages to Cookstown. ,blacklaccd aunt clopc with?” YORK COUNTY STATISTICS. From a statement of the assets liabili- ties, revenue, expenditure, ctc., for 1875, of the Municipalities constituting the County of York, recently sent in, in ac. cordancc with the statute, to the Assist" ant Provincial Secretary, the following information is gleaned: The assessed value of real estate is $18,003,965, in comparison with $14,782,427 of the pre- vious year, showing an increase in value of over $3,000,000. The assessed value of personal property has increased by more than $50,000. For 1874 it was set down at $1,490,000 : it is in the last return stated to be $1,521,338. The taxable income is now stated to be $98,404, which would appear to be con» siderably less than in 1874. The taxes for 1875 and arrears amount to $10,099. The other assets amount to $108,767. The debentures have increased by $28,000. in 1874 they amounted to $140,136; they are, in 1875, «$168,767. They are dcvided as follows : Markham, 35113011001200. THE USES OF TIMOTHY. It has long been and still is with me, an established belief that seeding with clover is far better for the land, and therefore more profitable than seeding with timothy or other grasses. With this idea, I have advocated sowing clover exclusively, and have even denounced Liniothy as injurious. Some farther ob- servations have compelled me to modify 1 this view. In fact, on a farm, experi- ence will bring frequent change of reâ€" sults and therefOrc Of ideas. Generally speaking, only agricultural writers who remain in their offices most of the time can maintain their consistency. The books do not change, and the same set of ideas will answer for all time. During $23,000; Scarboro’, 810,000; Whit- church, $15,000; Yorkvillc, 851,003; Aurora, $3,164; the County, $66,000. 0f the last item, the sum of $21,000 was incurred as the balance due on the York Roads, and the remaining $45,000 is a bonus to the Simcoe Junction Rail- way Company, which was voted by the townships of North Gwillimburv, East Gwillimbnry and Georgina, and subse- qucntly ratified by the County Council. The total expenditure for 1875 was $317,017; for 1874 the expenditure only amounted to $200,660. Last year the money was laid out as follows: Interest paid on debentures ..................... 5,228 Educational purposes.,...... Municipal government... Administration of ju t'co Roads and bridges. .. _ Other accounts ........ . 162,360 Total $317,017 The amount collected for school pur- poses was raised as follows: From the County, $47,283 ; from the Government, $14,086; total, $61,369; total school expenditure, $60,353; balance, $1,016. The expenditure for 1875 exceeds that of 1874 by $3,784. The population of lhc County is as- sessed to be 51,242. The census of live stock is as follows: Cattle, 32,610; sheep, 37,479; hogs, 15,774; horses, 19,931 ; dogs, 4,971. The following schedule, taken from the return to the Provincial Secretary, gives the acreage, assessment and popu- lation of each municipality and village: q; . :1 fdv-1 m'g 'g'g‘g we? .9 93:2 Ems $55 3 MUNICIPALITIES. 0 3 $3 0 8 E 9* 3‘ <1,” meg meg C4 95 ¢>® 494;}, a 3-1 Etobicoke ........... N. Gwillimbury.. E. Gwillimbuiy. Georgina ............ King ...... Mnrkhan Scarboro .. 29,133 $002,500 $91,500 2,519 29,068 795,105 76,878 1,930 59,311 885,661 80,470 3,328 35,382 525,984 34,940 1,714 85,204 1,698,568 193,005 5,554 1,901,025 214,105 5,410 2,428,157 109,100 3,979 00,117 1,330,895 112,550 1803 05,249 2,183,295 205,000 8,915 ‘Vhitehurch . York .................. VILLAGE S. Yorkvillc"............ 500 1,748,707 75,750 3,872 Newm ai'ket... .. (194 898,7 55 37,050 1,777 Aurora ,,,,, ... ,1 ,139 219,807 16,900 1,114 Holland La g 1,000 75,680 7,900 5511 hfmrkhaln . . . . . . . . 454 124,083 27 ,300 801 Richmond Hill. .. 470 110,040 14,250 608 l 544,578 13,003,005‘1,521,338 51,242 u clover was sown alone than where it was the past few weeks I have learned that timothy is often an important makeshift, and on some kinds of soil, the alterna- tive to leaving the ground bare of all vegetation excepting weeds. Fallsown timothy with wheat is almost sure to be a good catch, and all the better if, through wet soil, the wheat crop is a failure. Timothy sown alone is often killed entirely by the winter, when, if it had the protection of wheat or rye, it. would have been saved. Even when the clever does not fail, a little timothy is no detriment. In going over seine fields this spring, I find the ground much more badly heaved whore mixed with timothy. The grass seems to have protected the ground from many light frosts, and the mass of fibrous roots hold the clover in place. Clo‘wr "has few fibrous roots of its own, and where I , .‘quality. When space is an object, a great INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. From the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. LIME AS MANURE.â€"â€"What is the 'valuc of pure lime, burned from rock, 98 per cent by actual analysis, as com- pared with ordinary shell lime? How much per bushel can a farmer afford to pay for such lime ? Will lime destroy brown sedge and other acid growth? B. R. 11., Virginia. [There is not much difference in their value as applied to soils ; more depends on their mechanical condition, as they may be more evenly spread and diffused when in fine owder; and still more depends on the cljaracter of the soilâ€"to be determined only by trial. On some soils limo produces a more beneficial effect than on others, and in any case it is only an auxiliary, and must have manure for cooperation-not W“ are making great Prepamuom f‘” "’8 FRUIT SEASON» "no; “’5” necessarily the same year. For these reasons, we cannot assign a definite value will not destroy sedgcs, or produce any sensible effect on the wet soils where they grow; where it benefits crops, it helps the growth of weeds, and the only way to destroy sedge is underdraining and cultivation, with such crops ss favor clean culture. There is no way, as a general rule, for getting rid of any weeds but by direct assault and mechanical destruction, assisted by the overshadow- ing growth of strong crops] ‘ We fully agree with the New England Homestead in the following. and would add train the tomatoes 0n,lr_eilises also;â€"-C.u‘ cumbers are generally permitted, or com- pelled rather. to grow flat upon the ground, but vmes have been trained upon trellises With the very happiest results. Indeed nat- ure never intended the cucumber for a mere provided with grasping lendrils. A low trellis, keeping both vine and fruit 013‘ the ground, add largely to the yield and the grown alone, unless well protected by the top falling over and covering it, the plants are standing up three ‘10 four inches out of the soil, and of course making a poor show either for mowing or pasture. If cattle can be kept from young elovu‘ in the pasturcd closely, as too many often do with horses and even sheep, it is better to have some limOthy with it. Even June grass is better than nothing, and will insure some food next year if an un- favorable winter destroys the clever. Good farmers hercabouts calculate to plow after the first full years’ growth of clever. The sod is then at its best, full of clever roots and with less blue grass than later. But if the clever seeding the previous years fails, that has to be plowed, and with no timothy the farmer finds himself compelled to plow much more than he can manure and cultivate, or leave it to produce half a crop of June grass and weeds. I believe that two quarts of timothy seed per acre in the fall will usually diminish the catch of clever very little, and be really so much 'morc food than would otherwise have grown. If we could always be sure of our clover catch, it might be safe tosow clover alone, but so long as seasons are as precarious as they now are, a half seeding of timothy is generally advisable. IV. J. F. 7771 Country Gentleman. We copy the above from the Mail. It will be noticed that the figures for the population are below the actual number, although they are the numbers returned by the Assessors. The population of Richmond Hill, when incorporated, was 784, and there has been considerable in- crcacc since then. uâ€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"-_ “ Many people were under the im- pressiou that the grand fancy ball given in Ottawa last winter was given by Earl Duifoiin himself. They were inclined, therefore, to find fault with Sir John A. Mucdonald and Dr. Tuppcr for declining to accept an invitation to the ball as an ‘apparcnt discourtcsy to the Queen’s rc- prescntativc. Other persons could not understand why the Premier should have the privilege ofinviting persons to the ball, as he certainly did in the case of Bennett, of the N. Y. Herald. The mysteries are all cxplaincd now. The ball was a grand Government affair, and the country paid for it, the cost having been no less a sum than nearly twenty- cz'gllrt thousand dollars. That amount of money was taken out of the people of Canada by the Government in its deter- mination to give a fashionable cast of countenance to itself and party; and the Governor-General kindly fathered the affair, as was of course t) be expected of him, from his well-known suavity. The Government, however, are responsible for the projecting of the ballâ€"and they pro vided the money to pay for everything.” â€"â€"11al73/am Rnportcr. We notice some of the Grit-party hacks are commenting on the above extract to the effect that they believe it to be on» true. 'Wc do not doubt it at all, for the present Administration are equal to any- thing in the way of spending the people‘s money. Mr. Brydgcs, of the Intorcolonia] Railway, is having a special car made for himself at a cost of $15,000. The economical so-ealled “Reform” Gov- VALUE OF YOUNG CLOVER. A few farmers are ploughing up fields of young clover of last year’s seeding. This practice was quite common a year or two smcc, and though not to be re- commended has some good arguments in its favor. Of course the clever has not nearly got its growth of top and still less of root. In fact, I find that clover roofs do not get their largest Size until the second growth after the first mowing. It is this which makes growing clover seed so advantageous to the soil. During the hot dry weather of July and August the strong clover roots strike deeper into the subsoil than at any previous time; and though the second crop, including seed, is taken from the soil, there is an in- crease in fertility by the operation. That is to say, there is lllOl‘CiIDl‘tllity available than before. Of course there is no abâ€" solute gain by taking something from soil ; but what the deep tap roots draw from the subsoil more than balances what is taken away in the hay and seed. In plowing under young clover most of fall, it will do well sown alone ; but where ' saving of ground may be accomplished by training upon high lrellises. HYGIENIC NOTES . For Weak Eyes.â€"Bathe night and morn- 1n,g in a solution of salt and tepid water. A simple and eflectual remedy for ivy poison-ingis said to be sweet spirits of nitre. Bathe the affected parts freely two or three times during the day, and the next. morning scarcely any trace oflhe poison will remain. A simple remedy for neuralgia is horse- radish. Grate and mix it;in vinegar, the same as for table purposes and apply to the temple when the face or head is affected, or the wrist when the pain is in the arm or shoulders. For Enablesâ€"Dissolve a little borux and sugar in some lemon juice and-apply to the face, then wash 1n castile scan. The quantity of borax should be that which will cover the point of u pen-knife to the juice of one lemon. A Cure for Pimples.â€"- Wash the face in y 'a dilution of carbolie acid, allowing one tea- spoonful to a pint of water. This is an ex-- cellent avd purifyng lotion, and may be used on the most delicate skins. Be careful about letting this wash get into the eyes. M EPPS’S COCOA. â€" GRATEFUL AND Comronrmc. â€" "By a thorough knowledge ofthenaturallawswhichgoverntheoperntions ofdigestiouand nutrition, and by acarel‘ul up- ‘ plicaiion of thefineproperties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables Willi a delicately flavored beverage 'up until strong enough to resist every tendency floating around usrcady to attack whereverthere is :1 Weak point, We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.”â€"~ Civil Service Gazelle Sold only in packets ‘labelledâ€"“ JAMES Errs & Co . Homoeopathic Piccadilly, London." CARRIAGE BUILDERS, RICHMOND HILL, Begs to announce to the inhabitants of Richmond this advantage is lost; but if plowing is delayed until nearly the last of May, there will still be time for planting corn or potatoes. The clover, at this early stage, is very succulent, and immedi- tcly begins to decay, making the soil warm and light. There is no trouble from sod in after cultivation where young clover has been plowed under, and the speedy decay of the plants under the corn is for the first few weeks even so- perior to a dressing of manure. In a heavy rich soil this may be all the for- tilizing needed. On the whole, the practice is not nearly so wasteful as seems and is certainly much better than loav- ing the field unseeded because the farmer expects to plow it the following season. Some even argue that it pays to seed spring grain which it is intended f0 plow and sew in the fall. But this is very doubtful. Clover the first summer makes a very small growth of either top or root, and as stubble for fall sowing should be plowed as early as possible the clever can he of very little value. The cats or barley shelled on the ground in harvesting are worth nearly their market value as grain for manure when the field ernmcnt know how to reward prosclytcs. The United States public debt was icduccd over four millions and a half during May. One hundred and eighty- 000 millions have yet to be paid to rc- ducc it to even two billions. “Have you seen my blackfaccd antel- ope?” inquiicd Mr. Leoscopc, who had a collection of animals, of his friend Bottle is plowed early. I am not sure that it would not pay to sow outs on stubble ground to be cultivated under just before drilling in the wheat. Such land will be a better, moistcr seedbcd than iflcft bare during the month of August and early part of September. We have learned during the past few years that the crop of wheat depends mainly on the growth and vigor Of the plant the pre- cccding fall. Anything which secures this, whether it be clover or other succu- lcnt plants plowed under is of great jack. “No,lhuvon’i. Whom did your benefit to the crop.»â€"- 11". J. 1’. in Coma- . Irg/ Ccntlrman. 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