Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-06

there is little difficulty in preparing
good -four. But we must select from
the -four which the market Affords
Good -four from fully ripe, dry gram
but recently ground, will not contain
Jumps. These are due to sourlng,
which softens the gluten and sticks
the -four together. Good flour Will
readily mix with water to form uni
form creamy batter. Good flour will
yield, with small amount of water, a
tenacious, elastic homogeneous dough.
Good -four will not smell sour or mus
ty, but will exhale a fresh, fruity aro-
ma. 1t will, when pressed in the hand,
retain the Imprint of the fingers.
CURE FOR HORSE DIsEAsEs.-Mr.
Robert Armitage of Gladeville, Pa,
sends US some old, we'll tried cures,
which are too good to be lost, and he
hopes they may benefit many: For
founder, take half pint of suntower
seeds; bruise we'll, and mix with any
feed to which the horse is accustomed
he will eat readily, and two or three
feeds will effect a cure.
| had horse that at one time was
taking the distemper-did not eat
was losing flesh rapidly. His throat
was quite sore. He had been drink
ing from a trough which had been
used by horse-since dead with
this disease. | stated the case to our
family doctor. He made bolus of
this description: An equal quantity
of aloes, assafmtida, sui phur and gar
lie. Pound together and give in a
bolus; repeat if necessary. | gave
but one dose. In few days he began
to recover, and in two weeks he was
perfectly healthy"
WHY | WANT BOYS TO LEARN
FARMING live when | can III the
country, though most Of my sleeping
and nearly all my waking hours are
given to work which calls me to the
city. My neighbors are mainly farm
ers, generally in fair circumstances
whose children are fairly educated
or may be if they will. | regret tC
say that a majority of them prefer
not to follow their fathers vocation
but want to live by trade, by office
or something else than farming. AnC
the reason, to my mind, is clear; theii
education and their whole intellectual
culture leads array from the .tarm.-
Their school books contain nOthin!
calculated to make them love agricul
ture or qualify them to excel in it
their fireside reading is not Of chem
istry geology, and the related sciences
but of knights and fairies, troubadOur
and tournaments-in short, all thing
calculated to make them detest farm
ing as a coarse, plOdding, hum-drun
pursuit, fit only for inveterate Ounce
and illiterate Doors. Iprotest again
this as false, misleading, perniciOus
and demand an education aud a liter
AZURE which shall win our farmers
sons to prize and honor the calling O
their fathers.
A political economist has observe,
that labor, unless used at the momen
of production, is lost forever. 1
most vocations it is impossible to pre-
duce beyond the days needs. Tn
doctor can only cure diseases as the
manifest themselves; the best lawye
cannot anticipate next years lega
| business; the carpenter and maSO
cannot build houses except as the
are wanted. The farmer, on the cor
trary may grow corn or cattle, fa2
wool, or cotton in excess Of the cul
rent demand, and store it against tn
time of need. Better still; he ma
drain and subsoil, and fertilize ma
plant trees, and graft, and prune, 5
as to double his product III the futuI
by a judlciOus expenditure of effort i
the present. If a hundred thousan
additional lawyers and doctors wei
let loose upon the community, do nc
feel sure that the net result would
more justice or less disease and deaf
while | am quite sure that the nation
al wealth would not be increase
thereby but hundred thousand e.
lightened, efficient farmers added
those we already have could hard
fail to add one hundred millions pt
annum to the property which shall |
the heritage Of our children.
My countrymen let US each do h
best to increase the proportion of US
full workers to pestilent idlers in tt
community. Nay, more; let US tt
to increase the proportion of prod
GERS to exchangers or distributors {
wealth. Fences and padlocks, al
policemen, and revenue officers ma
be necessities of our present conditi(
i presume them to be so; but v
might have our country so well fence
and padlocked, and policed that v
: should all starve to death. There
no shadow of danger that too fe
, will seek to live by law, physic, trac
: and the professions will be owe
crowded. to the neglect and detrime
OF productive industry. Let us Ia
: the foe that menaces our position, al
) defeat him if we can.-Hmace GreeI
/ IN Hearth and Home.
Fowls IN ORCHARDs.-The publ
has yet to learn the full advantage
keeping poultry. Few seem to a
> preciate what they may do amor
! trees in az orchard. Let any one t
}, them in an orchard of a quarter of
acre, where they may oe kept by
f picket fence 4 or 5 feet high, putin
b in say 125 fowls, and observe the I
n suit. He will avoid the annoyan
+ in the garden of which so many CO
d plain, while they will work among t
J, trees, doing just what is needed, kee
ing the ground well cultivated al
y destroying everything that can inju
:. the fruit trees in the shape of bus
: worms, or other insects, and lay
large number of eggs, which are
d cash article, to say nothing of t
y chickens, which pay well for raisi