Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-06-25


every leaf with nosc-blood spots, tobacco spat-
ter, and dirty fngcr-marks-this is a vile
trick
1t is not altogether cleanly to use ones knife
to scrape boots, to cut harness. to skin cats, to
cut tobacco, and then to cut apples which other
people are to eat.
Ii is an unthrifty trick to bring in eggs from
the barn in ones coat pocket, and then to sit
down on them.
1t is a filthy trick to borrow of or lend for
others use, toothbrush, or a tooth-pick to
pick ones teeth at table with fork, or Jack
knife; to put your hat upon the dinner table
among the dishes; to spit generously into the
fire, or at it, while the hearth is covered with
food set to warm for sometimes a man hits
what he don't aim at.
1t is an unmannerly trick to neglect the scra-
per outside the door, but to be scrupulous in
cleaning your feet after you get inside, on the
carpet, rug, or andirons; to bring your drench-
ed umbrella into the entry, where black pud-
die may leave to the housewife melancholy evi-
dence that you have beea there
1t is soul-trying for neat dairy woman to
see her "man" watering the horse out of her
bucket; or filtering horse-medicine through
her milk-strainer; or feeding his hogs with her
water-pal or, after barn-work. to set the we'll
bucket outside the curb and wash his hands out
of it.
BOOKS FOR FARMERS.
at is of the highest Importance that farmers
should possess reading hdbts and that they
should bring up their children to a love Of
books. Every farmer should have library it
may, at first, be small but it should be select
As soon as a farmer is before hand enough to
own an acre, he is prosperous enough to begin
u library. 1t is said by many, books ro,tt make
money Yes they will. To be sure, their best
effect is the production of intelligence in the
reader; but man well informed in his own
business is Just the man to make money Who
ever thought of making money by buying
/ grindstones and whetstones9 But they sharp
en- the scythc, and sickle, and the axe. and M,y
/ produce money. Books are grindstoncs and
whetstones to a mans mind.
Many are unwilling to buy a treatise upon
the disease of the horse, although there are
several which will pyerem most of the evils
which affect this noble animal. In the West,
the horse is used in town and country. by al.
most every man. But very few profess to
know how he should be treated. And, of those
who think they are wise, how many have any
knowledge except of few rostrums for sick
nessP The horse, in mans service, is living in
an entirely artificial state. He takes care of
himself if left Wild But living in stables, la
under the saddle, not selecting his own food,
but fed at the will of his master. his own in
stincts become of little use, and he is depcn-
dent ON the mercy and knowledge Of those
whose slave he IS 1t ought not to be thought
unreasonable to say that every man who is will
ing TO own Il horse, ought u be willing to know
how to manage him. in the stable and ont of it.
There is no work in the English language con-
tanning more or better instructions than Stew
arts Stable Economy. IL should be read by
the farmers and just as much by every man.
OF Whatever calling. who uses horse or owns
one. II is of standard authority in England
Mr. Stewart has long been professor in veto
rinary institutes.
Every man ought to know how to treat sick
horse. Suppose horse to be taken sick on n
journey; most frequently the driver is the only
. one at hand TO prescribe. IT Iu,. n, - to,
ern of what use, generally speaking, are the
Dragging prctensionS Of those that crowd around
you' Stopping for night at wretched hole
of a tavern, one of my horses at night fell sick
knew no more than child what to do; the
landlord (ah me- | shall never forget him ,
was equally ignorant and much more indiffer-
ent. big Dragging, English BOBBY was the
only one pretending TO know what to do and
to him yielded the animal. After sundry ma
ipuations-punching him in the loins, pulling
at his ears, etc.,-ha rolled up a wad Of hair
from his tail, and crammed it down the horses
throat. presuming, ! suppose, that the hair
would find its way back to the place it came
from, and so pilot the disease out | nwardly
resolved never to 90 another journey until in
possession of the best remedies for the attacks
common to horses on the road"