Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-07-10
Items for Farmers.

CuIiureH, 10 Tue dolilty 10 Help luehisSlNos
This is better than hundred thousand
dollars apiece. In any trouble or diff
Guilty, they will have two excellent ser
wants ready, in the shape Of their two
hands. Those who can do nothing, anC
have to be waited on, are helpless, and
easily disheartened at the misfortunes Of
life. Those who are active and hardy
meet troubles with cheerful face, and
soon surmount them. Let young peo-
pie therefore, learn to do as many differ
ent things as possible.
Every farmers boy should know how
sooner or later
l. To dress himself, black his own
shoes, cut his brothers hair, wind up
watch, sew on button, make a bed,
and keep all his clothes in perfect order.
2. To harness a horse, grease wag
on and drive a team.
3. To carve and wait on the dinner
table.
4. To milk the cows, shear the sheep,r
and dress veal or mutton.
8. To reckon money, and keep ac-
counts accurately, and according to good
bookkeeping rules.
6. To write neat, appropriate, brief
ly expressed business letter, in good
hand, and fold to subscribe it properly
7. To pillow, sow grain and grass
seed, drive a moving machine, swing a
scythe, build stack and a load of hay.
8. To put up package, build up al
fire, whitewash a wall, mend broken
tools, and regulate a clock.
There are many other things which
would render boys more useful to them
selves and others--these are merely al
specimen. But the young man who can
do all these things well, and who is ready
at all times to assist others, will command
far more respect and esteem than if be
knew merely how to drive fast horses,
smoke cigars, play cards, and talk nom
sense to foolish young ladies at parties.
-Er.
Every farmer and gardener should
make au effort to raise their own seeds.
Turnip, cabbage, beet, parsnip, carrot,
lettuce, and all the garden seeds can be
raised at very small expense, and then
here would be no uncertainty in regard
o purity or quality. Now is the time
% set them out From the cabbage,
beet and turnip, an occasional "mess of
greens" may be obtained that will prove
very acceptable.
AT the latter part of the season,
the COWS will need some nice bites at
and night. These can be sup
piled in no way so cheap as from the patch
Of fodder corn. Put in half an acre and
try it.
The Editor of the Gardeners Month
y says the ravages of the apple-tree Dor
sr may be prevented by simply scraping
away the earth from the trunks of the
rees till the roots are bare, and keeping
benz SO all the year round.
Here is an item to demonstrate the
'alue of deep blowing. A farmer in
Jutchogue, Long Island, plowed up 61
liver spoons, which weighed 1873 ounces.
lie might have plowed shallow and miss
d the spoons. Go deep, in the right
oil, and you will be sure of getting sill
'er by and by. 1t may be in spoons or '
old, just as you choose when you sell +
be crop. n
WELL SAID.-The "measure worm" ?
j stripping the foliage from shade trees I
. all our principal cities, and substitut-
lg its filthy webs. The Philadelphia
ledger rightly says in behalf the birds,
'hich do more than any other agency,
left alone, TO exterminate this vermin ::
1t ought to be the endeavor of the press
} urge farmers to preserve birds and 81
rosecute all trespassers who shoot them.
| farm should be as sacred in this re-
1ect as a private residence in our city," Y,
BAKED BEANS WITHOUT PORK
EXCELLENT in taste, easily digested, good
# dyspeptics, free from swinish havors.
oak quart of beans in water over 7,
ght, draw the water away, boil in G
can water until soft, put in baking
sh with lump of butter the size of U
egg, salt and pepper, and bake as
'ual.
If this recipe, which is from French /
lper be true, it is worth TO every man "
nee the amount of his subscriptions
axe the paper if you want to know
hat is going on. II
RANCID BUTTER.-To make rancid ~
liter sweet, beat two pounds of it in tn
fiicient quantity of water, in which drop
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