Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-06-02

rled bundle to Boston for us, free Of
cost. The consequence is that we have
been lending him two shllings a week ever
since "--There are many things which
a working farmer and his hired man, can't
afford. They can't afford TO do without the ,
price of pork, butter, cheese, beef, &c. in
the market-nor can they afford to live
without newspaper that gives such facts,
any more than the printer can afford TO have |
them but least of all can the farmer afford
to buy ardent spirits TO be drunk upon his
premises Come in, Joe, aud let's take
drink Thank ye, Thomas, can't afford
it, Well, but III pay for it, 'Oh, l'm
not speaking Of money 'Wha, then ?
Loss of health aud energy for | tell you
what j, is, Thomas, ! find IT up hill busi-
ness to uork steody. under liquor; it does
well enough for half an hour, and thea |
get lazy and moody want more, aud be.
come reckless, and that's why ] can't az
ford it, so here's home TO dinner -
Go, scolding wife, have YET" That's
pity-but the more's the pity, you made her
her so. A woman can't afford TO have her
husband kick up dust in lie kitchen and
break things. On the iek-htr principle
seedlings just as natural as human nature
let loose. gravel is coming
IN vogue for the walls of houses. A house
was some time ago constructed ofthis mate
r al on the Hudson river. The walls of said
house are two hundred and hliy-six feet in
circumference, and eleven feet four inches
in height, and cost S1c. This amounts to
as many feet as are embraced in mouse
forty-fye feet long, twenty-five feet wide,
and twenty-one Might've stories and a
half. The materials of which the walls are
compounded are Stacked lime, sand, aud
fine and coarse gravel. This wall has
stood summer heats aud winter irosts, and
is getting harder and better every day
Some farmers have a cheap aud easy way
of doing things, such, FOR instance, as
planting potatoes with the horse and pillow.
The thing is done thus: After turning the
first iurrow, drop tile seed potatoes about
foot and a half apart, aud turn the next
fnrrow so as TO cover them. That's the
secret. Continue the process, and you
have planted two acres day Hen,
well fed lay vast number of eggs, bu
starved, lay no eggs at all. 1t is jus, Sc
with the earih--feed it well, with appropri-
ate iood Coz plants, ard it will lay golden
eggs, but siarve it, and you get just what
you deserve-an empty stomach, aud nc
bread. --Liquid, fltrated through liz.
ing, solid maple timber cannot but be pure
Sap, caught in wooden troughs, with lib
eral infusion of leaves and dust, cannot but
be dirty. The upshot of the matter is
cleanliness is the principal secret in making
nice maple sugar. Cooking food for
cattle, AMI the reason why IL serves ia
dsorganize more completely The substance
by rupturlng the grains of starch-coagu-
iating the Misunderstanding the tissues,
which are more or less tough and strlDgy,
aud thus rendering them tender, and when
taken into the stomach, easy of digestion.
THE Maine Farmer recommends,
tina, next fall. Just before the ground freezes
that farmers try the experiment ga LITTLE
easy" of planting potatoes, aud next 4tt
of July report the result. ---lt is doubt,
ed by some, If any man can be called "old'
81 long as he is an early riser and an early
walker. A youth in dressing gown and
slippers drawing over his breakfast at ten
o'clock, always reminds US of decripid
old man in miniature. --Some patient
curiosity hunter has found that the number
or grains in bushel Of wheat weighing
sixly-lwo pounds, is upwards of 639, 900
Mir. Luther b. Lamb, of China, Me
has raised from one COW within one year
six calves that are all doing well. The
mother died at the birth of the last.--
In the reign of Henry l., about the yea
1880, sheep could be bought in England
for four pence, aud wheat enough for feed
ing one hundred men a whole day, cost bu
a single shilling. the last slxt,
years production has been so much increas
ed. that il is estimated the labor now per
formed by machinery in Great Britain, u
equal to that of 600,000,0 600 men. Start
ling as this may seem, 1t is well sustained
BY reliable data and figures. One man, BY
the aid Of machinery, can produce as muci
now as 100 men sixty years ago. The far
mer who neglects 10 provide himself will
tools of improved construction is only slx;l
wears behind the times. depart
meat of Mineralogy aud Chemistry, at ih'
Worlds Fair, in New York, has been as
signed TO Prof Sillman, IT,, with WIN. P
Blake, as assistant. To the intelligent far
mer, who would acquint himself with ih'
nature of soiIs, minerals aud rocks of HI
farm, this dcparinen, alone will justify
visit to the palace. - An Oregon man