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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16
The Calves.

There is no part of the farm stock moro
liable to be neglected in fall than the calves
which have been raised during the summer.
They are often left out late in the season,
without shelter, to pick at the frozen grass,
and by the time cold weather sets in, are
reduced in flesh and cannot be wintered with
out extra nursing. and even then one or moro
are often lost before the the time for turning
to grass.
Calves should enter upon cold weather In
good condition and with vigorous health.
Shelter and an abundance of nutritious food
should be provided SO soon as grass becomes
frost bitten and poor, and cold storms of sleet
and rain begin to be frequent. They demand
the finest and best hay grown on the farm.
and should have in addition a little oil meal
bran or oats. Roots will be found an excel
lent feed for calves during the winter in add
ton to the oil meal above mentioned. Some
prefer oats, say a pint or a little more per
day TO each animal. We have seen calves
wintered through in fine condition upon hay
and oats a. above, but we prefer a mixture
of oil meal and bran. and if it can be had, a
daily feed of turnips or carrots.
Calves that are well cared for, that have
warm shelter and that get a suficiency of nu-
~trItious food, not over fed, continue their
growth during the winter, and viii usually
come In milk when two years old, which Is a
matter of some importance 10 the dalryman
In our expert nee in raising stock we find by
far the most important period to give close
attention to the animal Is during its first
year. Neglect during that time is almost
always attended with loss \ poor, runty
calf, poorly wintered connot be expected to
be in milk the next year, and at three years
old is no better for the pail than the two years
Id that has had generous treatment and care
from its birth-yet the former has cost con
siderable more than the latter. Many farmers
make no estimate Of the cost Of raising stock
and hence do not properly appreciate the
Inference between heifers coming in milk
when two and three years old.
Some object to putting calves in stanchions.
preferring t. let them run loose in the stable
We have never seen any i'll effect from stan
chioning calves, but on the contrary believe
there are many advantages from tins mode OF
management. Less room Is occupied wheI
they are thus confined, and they with theil
stable are kept cleaner than when allowed t.
run loose. they are more easily fed, espec'
tally when any ext a food is given. and eact
one gets its share and is not driven about by
master or stronger animals. BY giving then
a run in the yard every day they get sufficient
exercise. while the early breaking to the stan
chion and the handling daily renders then
more dOcile and more easily managed as they
grow older and come in milk.-JlIca Herald
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

TIE PorAro MANIA.-The NeU York Sun
says I" we have had tulip mania, morus null
~ticaulis mania, but who ever heard of a po-
tato mania?' We supposed that everybody
except very young folks remembered the
Rohan potato mania, to which the present
disease is very similar. 1t says, "Last
Spring the Early Rose Potato sold readily in
New York at So per pound or $12O per
bushel but this is nothing in comparison to
the price at which a new competitor for po-
tato fame is now being sold to some of our
spectators in this escnlent. Here are the
prices of a few bona fde sales in the past week
and we assure our readers that there was no
discount for cash or COW in this transaction
sixteen potatoes brought 1925; twelve pota-
toes brought $615 one potato brought $50;
one was traded for a good cow valued at
$50.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16
American and Foreign Patents
II. 81. EDDY.

SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,
Late Agentot the U. = Patent Once, Washington, IN
der the act of 1887,
No. as state ST., Opposite kilby ST. Boston,
4 FTER an extensive practice OF upwards OF twenty
n years, continues TO secure Patents in the United
States also in Great Britain, France, and other foreign
countries. Caveats, Specifications, Bonds, Assignments,
and all Pdpers, or Drawings for Patents, executed on res-
sonabie terms, with despautn. Researches made Into
American and Foreign works, TO determine the validity
advice rendered in all matters touching the same Copies
OF Claims of any patentfurnished by RENTING one dollar
Assignments recorded in Washington.
No Agency in the United States possesses superior IA
cilities for obtaining Patents, or asceriainlngthe patenA
bihty OF inventions.
DURING eight months the subscriber, in the eourseoihIs
lsrge practice, made, on INTERCEPTED Applications,
TEEN APPEALS every one OF which was decided IN ms
favor by the Commissioner of Patents
TESTIMONIALS
- regard Mr.. Eddy as one OF the most espshie an
successful practitioners with whom l nave mao "Uft
intercourse CHARLES MAsoN,
Commissioner of PatentS-
@Ihavo no hesitation in assuring inventors thar me
cannot employ a person more competent and trustworthy
and more capable of putting their applications u io'm 70
he patent One EDMUND bURkE,
Late Commissioned OF fatentt.
- MIR. X. IL. Eddy has made for me thirteen spphes-
lions, on all but one of which patents nave been stahteo,
and that is ROW pending. Such unmis,Akap'e ploo,o
great talent and ability on his part, leads me to recon-
mend all inventors TO apply 10 him 70 secure tnef pa
-en;., az they may be snre of having the most faIthiuls y
tsutio0 bestowed on their cases, and atyery reasohap!s
iyi .nHS TAGHART
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

.-The origin and nature of spring halt
admits of different opinions among the pro-
fessionals. What the affection may be we
will not enter into here this much. however,
we may infer. if the horse is not lame in or
after work, let the cause be what it will. it
most probably was not a serious one nor d.
we believe that in a general way. the extent
of the popularity of motion. that is, the more
or less snatching up of the limb, has any
thing 10 do with the animal getting lame, or
continuing sound, for we have seen numbers
of horses thus affected to the utmost extent,
always remaining perfectly sound. We dc
not know of any certain cure for spring halt
-Pr0irle Farmer;
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16
WHoLEsoxESEss OF ApPLEs.-Raw melloy

WHoLEsoMESEss OF APPLEs.-Raw mellow
apples are digested in an hour and a half,
while boiled cabbage requires five hours.
The most healthful dessert that can be placed
upon the table is a baked apple. If eaten
frequently at breakfast with coarse bread and
butter, without meat or flesh, it has an
admirable effect on the system, often remov-
ing constipation, correcting acidities. and
cooling off febrile conditions more effectually
than the most approved medicine. Lebig
says they prevent debility, strengthen diges-
ton, correct the putrefactive tendencies of
heterogeneous food, avert scurvy, and strength
on the power of productive labor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

LEAcHED WooD AsHEs.-An English far
mer gives the following in regard to the value
of soap ashes:
My opinion of soapers' ashes is confined
TO the application of it as a top-dressing ON
pasture land. About twelve years ago l
agreed with a soap boiler for 800 tons of
soapers' ashes. | used to apply about 20
wagon loads per acre, and a single bushing
would let the whole in. | was laughed at
and abused for my folly the wise ones al
leging that my land would be burned up for
years., and totally ruined all of which | dis
regarded, and applied my soapers' ashes
every day in the year, reeking from the vat,
without any mixture whatever. | tried six
acres mixed up with earth but found it
only doing things by halves. My land never
burned but from the time Of the applIca-
ton became a dark-green color, bordering
upon black, and has gwen me more, but
never less than two tons per acre ever sin ="
To CURE CoRNs.-The corn Should : rst be
well softened by soaking the foot il warm
water, and as much of it removed b. a sharp
instrument as can he done with ut pain.
Then apply over the surface a very small
quantity of pulverized nitrate of silver, and
cover it with a piece of linen or lint, in or
der to keep it in its place. After twenty
four hours. the foot may be soaked again,
and that portion of the corn which has be-
come blackened and disintegrated by the
caustic removed by scraping, or with a knife.
Repeat thu o Grafton till a cure is eff cted.-
Jour. of Chemistry.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

An ICE-HoUsR EASILY NADIA CORES
pondent of the Western Rural gives this bit
of practical experience
Last January l drew one large load of
sawdust and spread on the ground on the
north side of my horse barn, then drew the
ice (sawed in square cakes) and built up a
square pile some eight feet high, filling up
the spaces between the cakes with pounded
ice | then set up scantling and built a
board house around it, two feet larger, each
way, than the ice then filed in sawdust
around and two or three feet on top, and
covered it with boards and slabs. We have
used freely through the season, sold to picnic
parties, given away to sick ~neighbors, and
have plenty of ice yet.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

The Newark Courier reports a new cattle
disease in Union Co, n. j., which terminates
fatally in a short time. The disease is main
ly confined to the head, and is pronounced
by E me To be brain fever. A large number
81 eattie arc =. ai'd 1T least a 1vz ID Death.
Lave occurred.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16
Frsin Getng south East

FSstns GCtng south East
Leave Montpelier at s So, 4. n, II P.k and 9 IS ?. n
Mail Train leaves ST. Aibans az $40 a m, and con
meets at Burlington with the Rutland Road, at White
River Junction and Bellows Fails with trains for Boston,
Worcester, Springfield and with trains on Passumpsic
X. R.. arrives at New York al 10 as pm.
DAY ExPREssieaves Montreal At : 10 A n, ST. Johns
al 10 a. NJ. Ogdensburgh at 90 p. NJ, lodge At Malone,
cave at : As a m. Rouse's Point at 1911 ~. for Boston,
&C. arriving in Boston via Lowell at 1890 Pm.
NIGHr ENPREss leaves Ogdsnsburgh at IL 80. a. m.
Montreal at 80 P. NJ, Rouse's Point al 5 40 P. NJ, ST
Johns at 4 50 P. ", arriving at Boston at 40 A. NJ, con-
meeting al Bellows Falls with Cheshire K. r. for Boston
and Worcester, and with Vermont Valley X. K. for
Springfield, &c, and arriving in New York at l2,3OP =
Trains Going North and West
Leave Montpelier at 2,40 A. NJ, 90 A. N SIS r.s.
and SIS PM.
DAY Express leaves Boston via Lowell at 500 a n.
for Burlington, ST. Albans, Montreal, Ogdensburgh,
and the West.
MaILTRArr leaves Boston via Lowell, at 100 An, VIA
Lawrence and F~iTchburg at 80 A. NJ, Springfield al AS
A.. NJ, for Burlington. and ST. Adams.
ACCOMMODATION Train leaves Mortified at T.45 . u
for Burlington, Rutland, st. Adams. Rouse's Point,
NJ. receiving passengers from Vermont Valley r. R.,
leaving New York at IL, Is P. M, and from Cheshire X.
R., leaving Boston at $50 p. NJ. connecting at White XIV
err Junction with train leaving Boston at 500 Pm, TOR Bur
Hneton. Rouse's Point. Montreal and Ogdensburgh, con
Meeting with Grand Trunk trains for the West.
Sleepipp cars are attached TO both the night express
trains running between st. Adams and Boston and 81
Adams and Springfield.
Through Tickets for Chicago ana the resi- fofsaie al
the principalstations
ST AH>aua Nov. 80. 1853,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

SUGA Ar NAPLES FROM THE SEED.-In reply
70 a subscriber. we would say that the best
time to plant the seed Of the sugar ma pie Is
Immediately after it has ripened in the fall
1t will do well, however, sown in the spring,
il it is kept in a dry, cool place. 4 seed bed
should he prepared somewhere in an open
field where there il plenty of light and heat
The soil should be deep, rich and mellow +,
well drained and free from weeds. Muck or
leaf mould from the forest will form the best
manure but if these cannot be conveniently
obtained, well-rotted compost or old well-sea-
soned farm-yard manure may be used. 1t is
well also to add bone dust and wood ashes in
small quantities. A trench should be made
about half an inch deep and a foot wide care
being taken to pulverize the bottom sell sew
eral inches deep. The seeds should not be
placed too thicK-nOt nearer than two or three
inches apart, and t en- the dirt carefully raked
over them. If more than one dNl is needed.
they should be at least four feet apart, so as
To allow a cultivator to pass between them.
Care should he taken from the time the seeds
come up to keep tbs ground free from weeds !;
it should also be stirred frequently so it will
not bake but pains should be taken not to
disturb the roots more than is absolutely
Prairie fdrnler.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16
TT WORKS LIKE A CHARM"

ut WORKS LIKE A CHARM"
dave YOU Headache Zee hennes MsEc Oil
Have vCu Toothsches Use Renne's Magic Oil
Have YOU Neuralgia lss benneE haEic on
Have vou RheumatIsm Uss Renne'- Magic OH
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Hav. YOU S%cfstfoa3 Use Renne's Magic or
Have Won = Bruises Use Rennefs Magic oil
Have Won cramps Use Reune's Magic OIL
Have vou Cbaierz NoEbuss Ise Renne's Magic OH
Have YCu Lamenes- tse Renne's Magic Oh
This Is the Best Family Remedy, 70 cure all kirdF 4
Pain you ever tried
II sclesn. safe and delicious 10 use. and II you use i
faithfully, 1t VIII 10 you Good
Directions on each bottle. Buy II OF the bruggstoT
Merchant where YOU trade. II they have not got II on
hand they EIil send Tor II, al your request, and sell you
the Genuine Renne's Pain-killfn Z Magic
Oil. A. the manufacturers lowest price al retail
WN. RENNE, Sole Proprietor and Asnufactursr'
Pittsfeld, Mass
~ sold by Druggists, Merchants and GToceTs
Nnntp-iIer. y. X. BROWN. Wholesale snd Retail
Worcester. J. ABBOTT n son. rp1ssyleop
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

1t is well known by butter makers that the
cream that first rises on milk makes nicer
butter than that which rises after standing a
long time. 1t is said that the milk that makes
the butter that Queen Victoria eats is skimme6
twice, and twelve hours afterwards it is
churned.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

The latest fancy potato story is told of a
man in Hubbardton, Vt, who bought one
eye of a {" No. 4 potato for $50, and raised
from it this season potatoes that he had sold
for $3.50, and has three left. Eight were
bought by one man for $500.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

All wrinkled peas, says an exchange, are
more delicate than those that are full and
=. rfect in form like sugar corn, the saccha-
rine matter contained in them, causes them
to shrivel when dried.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16
The Texas Cattle Trade.

The Cincinnati gazette has an interesting
account Of the I xas cattle trade, which has
already reached large dimensions and is des
tined to become a great traffic. We select
the following
" One of the striking peculiarities OF the
Texas stock i what a Texan calls the right
smart spring Of horn These appendices
are long and slim. and spring from the head
in nearly opposite directions from each other.
As the forms of many of the Texas steers are
more ike a moose or elk than eastern stock
so their horns are sometimes more like an
tiers. Though sometimes they more gcner-
ally measure less than seven feet IN a straight
line between tie tips of their horns One
of their most common cOlOrs is a moose color,
though every variety Of tint IL found among
them. Their liability TO STAMPEDE renders
the drover's occupation precarious. y large
percentage Of every drove Is lost in this way.
Drovers use swift horses for their business.
Several of the horses and mules are always
kept saddlcd, night and day, for instant ser
vice. y sudden snort and d herd Of a thOus-
and spring - though they were but one
animal, while the earth trembles under them
as they dash away with all the speed a
frightened animal can attain. The cause is
invisible. OF they had no cause, except in
Imagination. Then those on guard mount
in hot haste and chase the fra TIC herd, t.
get ahead Of them and circle them around.
1t is as useless TO attempt 60 stop them as to
stop the flow of the Ohio river But with
fleet horses they can be gradually led to
travel in a circle, when they gradually re-
cover their sober senses, and after having
had sufficient exercise, can be brought back
to the starting point. They are also a saw
age animal. 1t Is dangerous to 90 among
them afoot. As an illustration Of their fero-
ciOu nat ire, [ MY ,ntiDn that some of the
poor and weak ones frequently get down and
cannot rise. You 90 and help them up, and
the first act of the animal, again set on bic
legs, Is TO make an attack on you. and per-
haps runs until he falls from exhaustion.
The Indians along the line have obtained a
custom, since last year, Of levying a tax OF
81 per head, or of some cattle for beef, OF
the droves. as they cross southern Kansas.
They also stampede the droves in the night,
to scatter them, and steal some OF get paid
for aiding TO find and collect them. There
are also a parcel Of desperadoes who follow
the business of stampedIng, for the purpose
of theft.
They select a dark night, put on a buffalo
robe, or, more frequently, tie some white L
their pony's tail, that will futter in the All
as they ride through or in the vicinity of tbs
cattle herd. This is dangerous business, for
herders would shoot him at sight. Yet there
are plenty of desperate men whom such ar
adventurous life suits, Judging from the
numbers who follow it. But the drovers are
men whom nothing deter who would pre-
fer this wild life to luxury and ease"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

Orrin Hager, Of WaIlIngford, VI, writes
to the Farmer that while at work in the
barn with his father recently, they found a
raccoon snugly curled up in a barrel that
stood on the floor. On taking him to the
house he was rather bashful at first. but now
he eats maple molasses and other delicaeies,
and appears to be quite well satisfied with
his winter quarters.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

The pork crop of the approaching season
will probably no the largest ever raised in
the United States. The weather has been
favorable for the corn crop in Illinois and
other States, and it is said that it will be the
heaviest ever grown in this country. Stock
hogs are said to be plenty and in fine condi-
ton. The present price of pork in the West
is much higher than at the same time last
year.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

A process has recently been patented in
England by which the bran of -four, after
being separated is ground into an impalpable
powder, and then again mixed with the
-four. In this way all the nutritious ingre-
dents are preserved, while the fneness Of
the flour is not affected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

A recent blast in lime rock at Wardsboro,
after the explosion, ~re-opened with a sensa-
tional finale, discharging fire, lava, and smoke
with a strong stencil of birthstone, after which
the cavity nearly closed up.
The Placer herald., 1868-10-31
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
coNsTARLE's SALE.

DY virtue of an alias Execution issued by H. y.
ID Poland, Justice of the Peace, of Township
No. 3, Placer County, State of California, on the
2Sth day Of September, D., 1868, and 10 me
directed, in favor of A. Lipsett and against
Robert E. Green, Judgment $500, costs $1,000,
with Interest from date on Judgment at the rate
Of ten per cent. per annum, costs and accruing
costs: l have levied upon, seized, and Will ex-
pose to public sale, at the Court House door, in
the Town of Auburn, on =
Monday, November 10th, A. ID. 1893,
at the hour of o'clock, p. M. all the right title,
interest and claim of the said Robert E, Green,
in and TO the following described real estate, to
wit: Six hundred feet, more or less, of a certain
Quartz Mining Claim, situated in Auburn Quartz
Mining District, Township No. 3, Placer county,
California, about two miles from Auburn, on North
Ravine, and known as the Nina RIGA Quartz
Ledge or Lode, together with all and singular
the appurtenances thereunto belonging.
CHAS. HIGGINS,
Oct. 24-td Constable Township No. 3.
The Placer herald., 1868-10-31
THREE DAYS MORE.
LIRERTY's LAST HOPE.

There is now but one Government in the
world where liberty fingers and struggles
for life, and that is in our own loved, revered
and blessed United States Of America. Shall
we bid it depart from us, as all the early
and modern Republics have done, through
strife, partnership, corruption, ambition and
fanaticsm, or shall we cour. her stay by un.
selfish, patriotic devotion to the doctrines
of our revolutionary fathers, and statesmen,
who preceded US! Our Government has
been at once the pride and hope Of liberty
loving civilized mankind, and the terror Of
the dynasties Of The world. Shall we by our
own mad acts blot out the last ray Of liberty
regulated by law, 10 Republican Govern
ment on earth! This question must the
people Of the United States decide within
the next three days. Blot out rational
liberty in the United States on Tuesday
next, and the black pail Of anarchy, monar
chy and despotism will settle down upon the
world, and mankind will live, move and act
only as slaves and masters, governed and
governors, producers and consumers, and
not one foot Of Gods earth will furnish an
asylum for oppressed and down troddeu
man to flee to. Liberty, long years ago,
took its fight from proud ancient Greece,
Rome and Sparta. 1t found no permanent
resting spot upon Gods green earth until it
settled upon American soil, and took up it's
abode with our patriotic sires and grand
sires; and shall we, their unworthy offspring,
bid it depart from US! Is there liberty,
rational liberty, in moDgrel Mexico, 10 South
America9 Do these Governments furnish
protection to life, liberty, and property!
No. And are we not tending to the mong
tesm they have reachedG Vote on Tuesday
next to carry out the doctrines of Grant,
Sumuer Il Co., and if they are successful,
anarchy and mougreism will follow as surely
as it did in Mexico and South America;
and liberty, ratona! Republican liberty, de-
parts from US, and ours forever. We mourn
over the thought that such thing is posi-
BILE. Make the negro politically the equal
of the white man, and The meaner whites
will make them their'socia equals, and thus
The work Of mongreliza!ion, and mixture of
blood, will have been secured, and then good
bye to the principles and Government OF
our fathers. This fearful future for our
country and people can be avsrtsd only in
one way-aud that is by voting for Seymour
and Blair, and a white mans Government.
Then let oil good men, all white men, all
men who love their country, its name and
institutions, their race and posterity, rally,
ON Tuesday next, aud decide this contest
in favor Of liberty, law, and white mans
Government, by voting for Seymour and
Blair.