Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-04-01

per cay GStUcc WHICH size HAS Ddu, III
addition to the above. two quarts of oat meal
per day She was giving five quarts of milk
per day, at February. 8. He does not advise
the substitution of straw for hay, but thinks
his heifer did well under the circumstances.
Peat meadows are receiving much attention
in Massachusetts,. Many Of them have passed
into the possession of manufacturing compa
MES The peat is pressed in a machine dried
and used tor fuel, especially for furnaces.
The subject of developing the peat meadows
OF Vermont should receive early attention, as
good deposits exist in Vermont in any
section of the country.
FLEas.-Boil a small quantity of worm
wood in water. and wash the floors and
walls of your rooms, also your chairs and
beds leads, with the bitter decoction, and the
flea will flee when no man pursueth. A
small quantity Of NORWOOD placed with
WOODEN and furs will effectually prevent all
depredations from heas and other vermin.-
Exchange.
On opening the State Fair of Iowa, Pres
ident Melenda, IN the course of his rem arks
said We do not desire a great overshad =
owing federal institution, which shall attempt
to direct or control agricultural matters. We
hang our hopes for agricultural progress in
this country upon the common schools, the
State agricultural colleges, the agricultural
newspapers, and agricultural associations es-
tablished so thickly throughout the country. =
It is proposed in the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture that all land devoted to growing forest
trees shall be free fIom taxation
RECIPE FOR COOKING TRIPE.- Take picked
or fresh tripe, roll in Indian meal; prepare
the griddle or spider with butter or pork fat
brown it nicely on both sides; season to
taste. and serve it hot. We know of no bet
ter way.
BUCKwHEAT CREDIBLE CAKEs.-One quart
buttermilk, teaspoon soda, tablespoon of salt,
if wanted daily for breakfast, make batter
and put in half cup Of yeast; then add the
-four and water to them each evening, and
they can be ready all winter
Corn RUsK.-Take one pint Of corn meal
and scald it with one quart of milk, a half a
teacup of warm lard or butter, little salt,
three eggs, yeast enough to make 1t rise then
stifien it with wheat -four F.; let it stand and
rise about three hours then roll and let it
rise again bake it and eat warm.
Norton Clark, of Turin n. Y raised from
one acre ninety-fve bushels and forty pounds
of yellow, eight-rowed corn. Twenty loads
of Stable manure were spread and ploughed
under. upon n piece of land that had been in
grass ten years. NtI1 iitEA Ooy iuii ohCU d III
nlanted in rows three feet apart each way.
MANFRED in hill with hog manure, and hoed
well three times
A Kentucky newspaper says our farm
ers say that there is no 81 "a of prospect for
wheat this year The wheat has all frozen
out, leavin: the fields perfectly bare. We
will be entirely without wheat crop this
wear. and will haye to do on corn dodgers. -
We seldom notice such croaks, but this one
is so early and SO loud that perhaps some
{. flour dodger =" will thank us to sound it
through the land.
After giving the figures OF an estimate of
the amount of cheese consumed in Europe and
in this country and also OF the amount pro
duced, n 4. Willard says, = we must either
get in the habit of eating more cheese in this
country, or, if we go on producing al the rate
indicated by the above figures, both the home
and foreign market will be glutted and cheese
will not command l2tc q pound While the
price OF cheese has been declining, that of
butter has been rising hence if the factory
system is continued and more largely devei
oped, the lesson Of Tia &c figures is rather TO
sand By the Churn.
CoLD SEASON Prof Loomis of Yale Col
lege, says that this has been the coolest win
ter in New Haven Of any in the last ninety
years, except that of 1856, whose mean
temperature was one degree over.