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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

The present is = good time to plant
these evergreens, where they caa be pro-
cured from the borders of woods or swamp
within few miles distance. The only es-
sential precaution is to take up plenty OF
soil on the roots, whether frozen or other
wise. If this is carefully attended to they
will all live. - - -l1 Z
In the Country Gentleman of Nov. %,
in an article on apples, by t" s. l.. b."
the question is asked, /" What is the cause
of the failure of the apple crop? Some
attribute it to too much blowing among
the trees" etc., etc. In my mind the po-
sition of the orchard in regard to east and
north winds, which sweep across it when
the trees are in bloom, has more to do with
the failure than any other one thing. For
this reason conclude thus /: Ont Is old
homestead " on which reside is an ORCH
ard containing about one hundred trees,
which are from ten to thirty years old.
The land descends to the west. Close on
the east, in the centre, are the dwelling
house, out-houses, ETC., all connected by q
high, tight board fence South Of the
house is screen of evergreens from ten
to thirty feet high, which is almost wind
proof north of the building is another
screen, thus shielding the orchard from
east wind. North is pine forest. There
is also belt of evergreens from the forest
extending the whole length of the orchard
on the west 1t is generally moved, and
good dressing of stable manure given once
in two years. Now for the result. While
nine-tenths of other orchards are barren
L have an abundance and to spare. The
treatment of the trees may be the same
the results are different. Hence conclude
that position and exposition have some
thing to do with the failure of the apple
crop. ur.
We are feeling more and more the neee
of screens to protect our buildings ano
orchards from the blasts Of autumn. win
ter and spring. Evergreens are easily
transplanted, and grow quickly. l have
nearly three hundred from ten to thirty
feet high. l would as soon engage to Sc
one hundred evergreens, and warrant then
to live, as SO many apple trees.
Perhaps l may give my method of re
moving them at some future time, if an,
of the readers of the Country Gentlema7
desire it.
We may add to the above that the vine
yard of Mr.. Hunt, at Concord, one of tn,
finest in the Commonwealth, stands on
southern slope, with forest of large whit,
pines on the north and west, giving jus
the protection from cold and wind which i
so comfortable for vines, as well as mos
other living creatures.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

TREATMENT OF PoULrRY-Secure your
breed for what you want it. If for winter
eggs. get the brahma if for amount OF eggs
in weight during the summer, or during the
year, get the Spanish. Some breeds will lay
more, but smaller eggs but none will give
as much weight in the aggregate as the Black
Spanish. There are other good breeds.
Suit according to your notion or want. But
make it comfortable for your -fo,cls. They
want to be happy, cheerful to have enough
to eat, without gorging themselves for a
fat hen will not lay, at least SO we'll.
Have good places to lay well as to roost.
Do not admit disturbing element among
them. Have a cock with them Have warm
quarters. Have water ever ready. Have
ashes to wallow in. Give access to gravel, to
burnt bone, to animal food and vegetables,
such onions, cabbage, &c.
Mix little ground pepper with their food,
two or three times week. Put it in n
preparation of corn-meal and sour milk, Do
not exclude the pepper in winter.
These little things are all aids, and only
aids. A good breed, we'll kept and comfor-
tably treated, will lay without all these ac-
cessories. Use, however, as many means as
may be, or all if possible, and good will re-
suit.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

q THE FARMERS WIFE.-Is there any po-
sition a mother can covet for her daughter
more glorious than to be the wife of an
honest, Independent, happy farmer, in
country like this To be the wife of one
who is looked up to by the neighbors as
one whose example may be safely followed
one whose farm is noted far and near as
model of neatness and perfection of Gull
tivation &? To be the mistress of man
sion of her own, that may be the envy of
every passer-by, because it is neat and
comfortable-a sweet and lovely home
To be the angel that fitteth through the
garden, bidding the flowers bloom, and
twining roses and honeysuekles around
the room, or sweetening their fragrance
with her sweetest smile; or spreading the
snowy cloth beneath the old oak at the
door to welcome her husband as he returns
from his toll or ever tipping the cradle
with her foot as she plies the dasher with
her hand, or busily moves the needle, at
the same time humming joyous song of
praise that she is the happy and fondly
beloved wife of an American farmer-one
of the true noblemen of this free country
one that should by right, rank as the
pride and glory of Observation-Disclosures
Rural World.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

TEMPERATURE OF CREAM FOR CHURN-
rNG-John s. Larover, Union County, Ill.
The temperature is very important in
churning, for it is hard work to bring but
ter if the cream is above 20 degrees, or be-
low So degrees F. The best temperature
to begin churning is at about 81 degrees,
for the friction of the agitation will raise it
a little, and IS is as high as it should ever
be at the close. The richness of the milk
and cream depends upon the feed and upon
the COW; sailing the COWS regularly, or
having it always before them, makes the
butter come well, other things being equal
Butter comes easiest when the cream is
slightly sour Then look to the tempera-
ture, and make it right by setting the YES
sci holding cream in an outer vessel of hot
or cold water, or lower a tin pail of water
into the cream, stirring the cream, until it
is of a uniform and right temperature from
top to bottom. Then, not filing the churn
too full, churn steadily, giving thorough
agitation until the butter comes
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

HOMEMADE BINDING.-"W ii. w."
have stitched three volumes taking an awl
and pricking the holes, sewing with strong
thread. FASTING piece of strong cotton
cloth over the back with a strong paste,
made by scalding thin batter of -four,
wet up cold, and adding a piece of glue
about two inches square, dissolved in hot
water, to half pint of paste. Take paste
board, such as is used by book binders, of
suitable size, sew to the papers already
stitched, including fly leaves. On the
back, with your paste, put strip of enam-
elled cloth, cut to the proper length and
width. Now cover the whole sides, turn
ing over the edges, with marbled paper !;
finish by FASTING the fy-leaf to the inside
of cover, and, if neatly done, you have a
book handsome enough for any farmers
library, at a cost of only a few cents.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

DEVELOPMENT IN WRITING MArERIALs.-The
earliest mode of writing was on bricks, tiles,
oyster-shells, stone, ivory, barks and leaves
Of trees !; and from the latter the term = leaves
of book - is probably derived. Copper
and brass plates were very early in use and
a bill of feofment on copper was some years
since discovered in India, bearing date one
hundred years B. c. Leather was also used,
as well as wooden tablets. Then the papy-
rus came into vogue, and about the eighth
century papyrus was superseded by Parch-
ment. Paper, however, is of great antiqui-
ty, especially amongst the Chinese; but the
first paper mill in England was built it 1888
by German, at hartford, in Kent Never
theless, it was nearly a century and half
in 17l3-before Thomas Watkins, a
brought paper making to anything
like perfection The first approach to a pen
was the stylus, kind of iron bodkin but
the Romans forbade its use on account of its
frequent aud even fatal use in quarrels, and
then it was made of bone. Subsequently,
reeds, pointed and split, like pens AZ in the
present day, were used; and whatever may
be said Of our pens and paper on the score of
It is clear from early records
that the inks Of the anciente were greatly
superior to our own.Ja B-.s
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20
agricultural.
Raising Early Chickens for Market.

A correspondent of the Country Gen
tenan says:
Spring chickens make so much more
money than those Matched later, that it is
surprising more hens are not set, say early
in February, and thus raise little ones
which will sell for about IS cents each, at
eight OF ten weeks old, instead of waiting
till March or April, and then keeping those
Matched till they are twelve or fourteen
weeks of age, and selling at half the price.
There is no art nor extra expense in rear
ing thus early; the hens must have COM
Portable nests adjoining the roost, and must
be we'll fed to cause them to lay and brood
by this time of the year, but those pullets
which are about eight months old will do
it, as also the young hens which moulted
first last autumn, if they are attended to
in bad weather, and never suffer from hun
ger or exposure to severe storms.
Last year, 1866, housekeeper living
on one of the Necks on Long Island, oppo-
site the Connecticut shore, had ninety
seven common chickens Matched in the first
part of February (they were cross be-
tween the Dominique and Brahma Pootra) /;
they were put in eight little coops, which
had been used for years on the farm, and,
excepting that they had food little oftener
than in warm weather, and the hens were
kept in all day, there was no particular
pains taken, the daily moving of the coops
on fresh ground being done the same as in
summer The secret of success, if it can
be called a secret, consisted of putting them
on sloping hillside, facing the south, right
away from the haunts of the old fowls, and
not cuddling them in doors, or close to the
house, where they are disturbed so fire.
quently that on very cold days the getting
up of the hen so often chills them so as te
check growth, if not cause death. A little
salt hay was put on the frozen ground un.
der the coops, which of course had no bot
toms, and when snow fell it was shovelled
away, and on some occasions few ashes
strewn in front. When the sun shone the
little ones could be seen running around the
outside of the coop, but while snow wa.
falling, and when very cold. the hens woulC
nurse them all the time, unless for the few
minutes taken to eat up their food, which
would be handful of grain one time, thu
next scalded meal, then, perhaps, a few ode
scraps of fresh meat cut up fine, another
time some cracked corn, and now and ther
a few bits of potatoes left at dinner A
healthier lot of chickens were never
brought up; Lightweight were alive il
April, a stray cat having killed seven, ant
two lost by accident The same person
was living in North Carolina before tn,
war, where she raised much greater mum
bers all through the months of December
January and February, not combining thu
hens at all, but having some small roost
made with old lumber, and also having
some barrels lying around for the hens t.
take the broods in when it rained. BY thu
BY, that is an excellent climate for winter
ing live stock, and anywhere near that lati
tude would be super-excellent for an i'm
mense poultry establishment"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20


CARE FOR THE FEEr.-Many are careless
in the keeping of the feet. If they wash them
once a week they think they are doing well.
They do not consider that the largest pores
of the system are located in the bottom of
the foot, and that the most offensive matter
is discharged through the pores. They wear
stockings from the beginning to the end of
the week without change, which become
completely saturated with offensive matter.
Ill health is generated by such treatment of
the feet. The pores are not only repellants,
but absorbents, and this fetid matter to a
greater or less extent, is taken back into the
system. The feet should be washed every
day with pure water only, well as the
armpits, from which offensive odor is also
emitted, unless daily ablution is practiced.
Stockings should not be worn more than a
day or two at time. They may be worn
for one day, and then aired and summed and
worn another day if necessary.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20


CARE IN DISTINGUISHING KEROSENE LAMPS
The late sad burning accident in Chelsea
which cost Miss Vinto her youthful life,
causes a shudder to run through the frame,
as we reflect on the dangers unseen which
throng our New England homes.
A lady recently lost her life in Lewiston,
Me-, by the same agent, kerosene. She was
dressed for retiring, and in extinguishing
her lamp, turned it down, at the same time
blowing from the top of the chimney. This
blew the flame into the lamp and caused an
immediate explosion. The lady lived twelve
hours in most intense suffering.
A lamp should never be turned down, nor
blown out from the top. Always blow from
beneath the chimney, where the current of
fresh air feeds the flame. This blows the
flame upwards, rather than downwards, and
can do no harm. If this caution will save
one person in all New England from tor
turing death by flames, 'tis worth needing.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20
Coxpos1rros OF Co,s.-The gold coin of the

COMPOSITION OF CoIN.-The gold coin ofthe
United States is formed of gold ninety parts,
silver, two and half, copper, seven and
half The silver coin is composed of silver,
ninety, and copper, ten parts. new alloy
which promises to be useful for small coin
Is Just announced by NM. de RuoZ and de
Fontenay of Paris, and is called by them
Tsers-argenf, or tr-silver. 1t is composed of
80 per cent. silver, 25 to 80 per cent. of
nickel, and 81 to SO per cent. of copper.
The three metals when melted form COM
pound which is not homogeneous. and it is
only by secret process that malleable
metal is produced. In color the alloy re-
sembles platinum, it takes high polish and
is not affected by exposure to the atmos-
phere, or by any but the most powerful re-
agents, and is extremely hard and tenacious.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

FARM PROvERBs.-"D d. f." writes l..
Use diligence, industry, integrity, and
proper improvement of time, to make farm
ing pay. 2 Choose farm with soil
either naturally dry or drained, not too
level nor yet too steep, well fenced in
proper sized fields, not too large. 8. Good,
snug buildings, with dry, if not clean,
yards and cellars, especially barn and sta
bling. 4. Economy in accommodating, saw
ing, and properly using all manures and
fertilizers possible, no matter how rich your
land may be naturally. 5. A good and
tolerably fast team, better smart than large.
u. Your farming implements well made, of
good material, not too heavy. Z. Have
work done in season. =. Always SOW good
clean seeds. 9. Do not harvest before
your crop is fit to harvest. 10. Don't
keep more live stock on your farm than
you can keep well. II. House all things
as much as possible-animals, utensils, and
crops. II. Sell when you can get fair
price and do not store for rats and specu-
lators.-American Agriculturist.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20
The VIRTUES OF

THE VIRTUES OF BoRAx.-The excel
lent washerwOmen of Holland and Belgi-
um, who get up their linen so beautifully
white, use refined borax as washing
powder, instead Of soda, in the propor-
ton of one large handful of powder to
about ten gallons of boiling water. They
save in soap nearly one-half: ALI the large
establishments adopt the same
modes. For Iaces, cambrics. etc., an extra
quantity of the powder is used for crino-
lines. requiring to be made stiff, = strong
solution is necessary. Borax being neu-
trail salt. does not in the slightest degree
injure the texture Of the linen. Its effect
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20
The Uses of Evergreen Screens.

Go out some bright day in Winter or
Spring, when there is an icy chill in the
northwest wind, and stand by the sunny
side of grove of pines or hemlocks, and
suddenly you will find that you have in
temperature moved some degrees south
The air is still and summer-like and soft,
the snow nearly or quite gone, and you at
once understand why the cartridges and
rabbits choose such places for their homes.
A screen of this kind may often be a
substitute for an expensive boundary fence.
Clumps of evergreens may be set in a
single day, that will at once relieve the
badness of new lawn, and, if four times
as many are planted as can finally remain,
they may fill the space while trees of a
rarer kind and slower growth are coming
forward.
We give below some clippings from the
Country Gentleman, by which we we're
reminded of this subject
PLANT EvERGREENs.
A young planter was once ridiculed by
his neighbors for setting out what they
chose to call cedar swamp around
his residence They changed their senti-
ments a few years afterwards, when they
discovered that nearly one-half of the fuel
otherwise required was saved by the shell
ter from bleak winds which these ever
green's afforded in winter, and that they
were something more than only good to
look at"
Country residents may do much towards
comfort and economy by planting strong
growing evergreens on the windward side
Of their dwellings.
Another important use Is the shelter
which may be given to cattle yards and
still another is to furnish supply of ever
green boughs for the various purposes of
protection, to be used early in winter Ev-
cry farm should have small plantation
for this purpose, of which the limbs may
be cut off at regular intervals. These
boughs are not only useful for covering or
namental shrubs and plants, but strawberry
beds and Frustrated grapevines and rasp-
berries. They also make an excellent
covering for cabbages, placed in heaps and
with about six or eight inches of the
boughs laid compactly over them, with the
tons downward 20 a to throw off the wa
Ter. This viii prevent the rotting 80 often
caused by burying cabbages in the common
way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

The BEST VARIETY OF PoTAroEs.-The Ru-
raj Ne,r Yorker says White beach bloom
potatoes are one of the best varieties for
market or yield. They are hardy, produce
well, and are not liable to rot They take
the lead in the New York market in the
Spring, as they are good keepers. They re-
quire to be planted early, and they will then
be the very last to ripen. The vines grow
rank, and they will not bear crowding. The
tubers run a great deal in the hill, which
makes the digging slower more laborious and
costly than almost any other variety
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20
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Directions for use and diet accompany.



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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20
TINE KIDNEYS

THE kidneys two in number situated At the
l of the loins, surrounded by at and
consisting of three parts The Anterior, ofthe in
error, and tho Exterior.
The anterior absorbs Interior insists of tissues
veins, which serve deposit for the urine and
it to the exterior. The exterior Is coDduc
also, terminating in a single tube and JAILED the
Creter. The ureters connected witt the bladder
The bladder ia composed o. various coverings or
issues. divided in parts the Upper. the Lower
the Nervous, and the Mucous The upper expels the
lower retains Many have de=ire to urinste with
cut the ability. others urinate without the ability to
retain. This frequently occurs in children
To these elections must bring into action
The muscles, which engaged in their various fune
tons. If they neglected, Gravel or Drop7y may
The reader must also be mae aware, that howeverly
slight be the attack il il dsure to affect his bodtd
health and mental powers; flesh and blood
are Imported from these sources.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-20

A correspondent of the Name Farmer who
raises some years fifty tons of hard shell
squashes, says that without the seeds they
cause a greater flow of milk than any other
vegetable he ever used. BY way of expert
ment, one season. he fed them with the seeds,
and the milk considerably decreased. In
three days after taking out the seeds GO the
milk was double and quite as rich