Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-08-25
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- Vegetable oysters may be raised 10
any garden in the country. rhey make an
excellent substitute for those of the salt-wa-
ter production. For spring aud summer use
boiled thoroughly, in milk aud water, with
a little butter added to toasted crackers,
and mixed, the dish is delicious one. -
bring others forward than to exalt ourselves
and better still to attribute good motives
to the absent than bad ones, especially when
good ones can be charitably presumed to
exist - To practice decent econo-
my in dress, aud in all the ways of good
living, is deemed medhness in the minds of
fashionable dandes. To pay ones debts,
aud live within ones means, and save pit
lance for the poor and rainy day is esteem
ed rise, by men of common sense.
There is nothing brighter than virtue moth
ing purer than honesty; nothing more
steadias' ihaa fai,h. - A simple. and
eIieclual stump machine is thus described
by one of our exchange papers
A stiff massive lever about twenty feet
long, is placed with its thick or stronger
end at the side of stump; chain several
feet long, with links made of inch, or
inch and quarter iron, and with long
ring at one end, is then attached to the end
of the pole by means Of the ring, and the
rest of the chain passed round the stump.
and hooked into the body A yoke of oxen
now attached to the other or smaller end of
the lever, exerts an enormous power and
unless the stump is quite large, will quickly
twist II out"
- We have lately seen the following
application strongly recommended as an ex :
cellent preservation Of Shingles, for many
years. A pound Of potash aud pound of
salt are dissolved in four gallons of lin c
wash, aud while the whole is boiling, hand
fu of shingles, held By the tips, is dipped
10, and placed on the end, on a board, so that
the drainage shall run back into the kettle.
When well dried, they are laid on the roof,
yellow ochre, Venetian red or lumber may
be mixed to give a suitable color, but the
lighter the color the more durable the
shingles, and the cooler the attic. -
How To reclaim swamps. First, to drain
secondly, TO diam well, thirdly, to drain
thoroughly-ior unless the lands are well
aud thoroughly drained, il is useless to ex.
pect much improvement Aud besides il
pays well to make frequent bitches, for the
proceeds Of these drains conveyed to the up
lands, are equal TO the best manures. Afiel
the lands are sufficiently drained they should
be thoroughly broken up. An enor,
nous corn crop, Of eight hundred bushel,
of shelled corn, aud twenty tons Of superior
pumpkins,ar testified, roma measure Of d
portion of the field, as the product Of five
acres Of land in Susquehannah Co, Penn.
sylyania, by Geo. Walker, who took the frs
} premium on corn. at the State Fair. w,
think the society erred in not measurin.
the land, and The whole of the crop. Thu
odour of this big story is lnlle ishy.-
Tell it to the marines Farmers won
believe it. - You have noticed tina
tall ladies' frequently stoop, and tina, shor
ones are strait II is just so with men, an,
speeches, and items, and horses backs
the shorter the better.