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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

The Prairie Farmer, in an article on Prizes
at Fairs, suggests that premiums be offered
for saving the produce of the farm and for
making the farmers home pleasant and COM
Portable. 1t further says it should be the
aim to offer prizes " for things that will
encourage research and investigation, bring
forth new facts, and reward patient indus
| try"
A correspondent of the Western Rural
thinks that the ground is the best bed for
hogs, as he thinks it warm enough, and a
valuable disinfectant. To prevent the hogs
| making distinct beds, he advises laying down
hat stones, or making pavement of small
stones, and then covering them with four or
five inches of earth. He presupposes good
house, built with brick or stone sides.
Warren Leland writes to the Country Gen
ttennan, Directing to recommendations that
corn cribs be constructed in barns. He tried
the plan and found it resulted in large was
5 sofS lie then tried the old fashioned cSf5
crib, set on posts extending three feet from
the ground and with inverted tin pans on the
top, and having Stat floor and slat sides
Such building is rat and mice proof, and
perfectly preserves the corn.
There are 10000 windmills in constant
use in Holland at the present day, for the
simple purpose Of drainage. They are al
most of colossal size, each lifting from TO-
600 900 to 5O,OOO,0O gallons of water every
twenty-four hours.
Mr.. John L. Alexander. of Illinois. who
grazed lest season, 1000 head of Texas cat
tie, informs the Springfield Journal that he
has found 1t losing business, and that here
after he will give the Texas long-horns the
go-by, and Craze and feed none but native
cattle
Considerable inquiry among stock men
was occasioned by an advertisement offering
a g sell-colored = Jersey bull for sale The
term is explained as meaning same color, or
one color, and also, % without white" il
being applicable to animals with different
shades of the same color.
Hearth and Home says it has known a man
who has moved round the stone heaps on
SIX acres of land for six years, when two men
and a pair of oxen would have removed them
all IN one day. 1t estimates tina. he has lost |
in hay ten times the worth of the labor, and !
in time double the cost of removal
American dairying now represents 4 CAPT |
tai of S70O, 200. The cheese products
Of 1870 sold for SIS, 900 600, and the butter |
produce of New York alone, was nearly S. |
300 900 pounds, and the quantity Of cheese /
made 72,UO0, 900 pounds. The value Of these |
products at a very moderate estimate was
$50 ,OOO,0 600.
To TAKE GREASE oUT OF SLk.-Apply a |
little magnesia to the wrong side, aud the |
spots will soon disappear.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

Too MANY COws.-A writer in the Maine
Farmer recommends that farmers should no,
Keep toe many cows, and cites a well at
tested instance in which tDo COWS, BY having
the same quantity of food given them as had
been previously given 60 four, had yielded
considerably more butter, cheese, ETC., than
had been before obtained from double the
mum ber-that is, that the tro upon extra
feed had produced more than four We can
believe this statement, and believe with the
writer, also, that farmers should not keen
more COWS, or stock of any kind, than they
can Keep ,oett, both as to food and shelter.
lt should be as much the business of a
farmer to grow full supply OF winter prov
ender for his stock, as it is TO furnish them
with summer pasture; and yet how many
there are who never dream of such thing
as setting field with clover, or any of the
artificial grasses, relying altogether upon the
precarIous resources of their cornfelds to
carry their stock through the winter and
early spring months. Nor do many of them
pay proper attention to saving the provender
from those quarters.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

must be a father as well as mother for
the brood.
The workers are essentially female in
their organization, but their growth is ar
rested before they are developed. For
this reason they are smaller than the queen
or drohes, and their colors are not so bright
Any of the larvae of the working bees may
be developed into queen, by being fed
with y stimulating food, and thus the loss
of a queen may be repaired.
We have now reached very interesting
point in studying the body of our little
socialist. 1t is no less than his sting. This
is composed of two needle-shaped darts in
a sheath. Near their extremities these
are armed with saw like teeth, which make
it impossible for the bee to withdraw it
from an object which it has pierced, in
which case the bee dies. There is a bag
of transparent acrid poison near the base
Of the sting, which is squeezed into the
wound by violent contraction of the sur
rounding muscles: When one is stung by
bee it is very natural to attempt to with
draw the sting with the fingers This
forces the poison into the flesh, whereas, il
the spot were gently scraped with knife
blade, the sting and poison would be taken
out together.
1t is curious that while the queens and
workers have stings, the drones have none.
The queens sting is only used to defend
herself from another queen, and is turned
inward at i is end. There is only one queen
in hive, but two hives may get united,
and sometimes on the loss or death of a
queen more than one larva is highly fed,
and by these means two queens may be in
the hive together, IF such thing should
oesur there would be an IrrePressfbie con
iict. The two queens would prepare for
battle. The other bees would form a ring
around them, and true prize fight would
begin. When bees fight they rear up on
their hind legs like dogs, and exert every
nerve, and in such a position the curved
stings of the queens are, of course, Just
the thing for effective use. The combat
is not given over until one is dead, and
the survivor ascends the regal wax-wOrk
throne in triumph.
The sting of the worker bees is curved
outward, for in their case it is a weapon of
defense against outsiders, and they have
no business to quarrel with one another
But they do fight, nevertheless, for there
is good deal of human nature in bee
The brilliant, thoroughbred Italians have
much of the old Roman spirit, and great
amount of pluck and muscle. In these
respects they excel the humber black bees
with which our hives were formerly stock
ed
The queens live about four years, the
drones three or four months, and during
the winter the workers live five or six
months. During the summer, however,
the little busy workers labor so hard to
heap up something for posterity that they
use themselves up in six or seven weeks.
What sad warning to those who labor too
hard
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

A NEW lEDUsTRY-Texas is essentially the
bovine state, and its motto of lone sta,
should be replaced by pair oflong OK horns
and more coming every year, and beef in all
its forms is becoming the great staple of the
state. Several years ago, thousands upon
thousands of beeves were slaughtered for the
hides, tallow and tongues. Then Jerking
and smoking the beef followed. Next we
had I" refrigerated beef !" then /" condensed
beef" and now Houston papers come to us
with long descriptions of a factory where
the bullock is killed, the meat roasted and
then packed for shipment! Here is what is
said about the oven where the roasting is
done
The oven will hold eight to ten steers at
time, and will roast twenty a day. The
buildings are calculated for 100 beeves day,
and space has been left for four more ovens
like the one constructed. 1t is intended to
increase the business as fast as the market
can be created for the meat. On the premi-
ses purchased there are sites Just as conve-
nlent as tais one, for nine more establish
ments of the same size, and the business will
be increased as fast as market can be found
for the roast beef, up to one thousand day,
or any number that can be sold, up to that
amount.
Let US hope the old political millennium of
" two dollars per day and roast beef" 50 Of
ten promised to the working world, is now
speedily to be realized.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

FEEDING Young TURKEYs.-One NAV about
as well feed young turkeys hot embers and
birthstone, as coarse, unlocked Indian meal.
And yet, Thousands of people attem pit to rear
their turkey chicks on such unsuitable food
as raw meal and water. For twenty four
hours after a chick has burst the shell, it
does not want an atom of food. Colts, calves.
and lambs, as soon as they spring into life,
make an effort to obtain some nourishment
from the natural source of supply. But
chickens and young turkeys are nearly
e. stone-blind - for more than ten hours after
they are patched. To supply the necessities
of such little bundle of life, nature has so
provided, that on'y short time previous to
the termination of the period of incubation
the breast and crop of the embryonic chick
shall open, sufficiently by some clonic, spas
medication, to allow the yolk to be drawn
into the little crop. This fact shows us that
young birds of every kind should be supplied
with soft and delicate nourishment, such as
boiled eggs, curds, thick mush made of equal
part of wheat and meal, with sweet milk.
Young chicks should never be confined to
either of the foregoing kinds of food. They
like small quantity, many times daily
Working Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

HINTS TO CoNsUMPTIvEs -Consumption il
not disease of the lungs, but of the system
showing itself in the lungs. If you fully
comprehend this, you are ready for common
sense treatment. Avoid all local treatment
by inhalation all the panaceas, including
whisky and cod liver oil, fashionable to-
day, exploded to-morrow); Employ those
natural methods about which wise doctors
never differ.
/. Walk in all kinds of weather two or
three times day. If too weak for this, be-
gin with the saddle.
2. Hang by the hands, in rings suspended
from the ceiling six feet above the floor, swing
backwards and forwards side ways, aud in a
circle. The effect pom the walls of the chest
is very remarkable. | have known such
swinging to reduce the pulse very sensibly
in a week. In such exercises. continue until
slightly fatigued.
3. Wash the entire skin in tepid water
and good neutral soap every morning on re-
turning from the first walk. and rub the
skin to redness every night 90 going to bed
EItA. AaArp las Elofos- rsATr--ALrce's Eng
fish patent gloves are sle best. I'D 4.sss-i-s>
sell them. So ~ ----4v ta-anss'
a z5Tvep much, retiring before nine, ad-
ding a nap in the middle of Tie day. Never
forget that good ventilation u the hours OF
sleep is vital in every case of diseased lungs
5. Eat for breakfast and dinner oat meal
cracked wheat, beef, mutton, potatoes, plain
bread, and other vegetables, except tomatoes
Use no pastry or other trash. Eat no supper.
6. Cultivate the society of joval people
Laughter is the most precious of all possible
exercises for all chronic affections Die
Letois.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

FooD MEDIcIEE.-Dr Hall, in his book
just published, relates the case of man who
was cured of biliousness by going without
his supper and drinking freely of lemonade
Every morning, says the doctor, = this pa
tient rose with wonderful sense of rest, re-
freshment and feeling as though the blood
had been literally washed, cleanscd and cool
ed by the lemonade and the FAST His
theory is that food will be used as a remedy
for many diseases successfully. For example,
he instances cures of splitting blood by the
use of salt watermellons, epilepsy and vel
low fever; kidney affections, celery poison,
olive or sweet oil pounded cranberries ap-
Piled to the parts affected, erysipelas hydro
phObia, onions, etc. go the thing to do in
order to keep in good health, is really to
know what to eat, and not what medicine to
take.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01
9uftru.
While L Nay.
By IIIRAM RICH.

Hl IIfE-AM EItH-
Z PaPa shut the .sw~..~.sss- ~ F--- .
I'll be FATTY w orton m her gown OF CAV,
a1ady buying all my berries.
And you will pay in silver,-papa, what do yor
say?"
Pages of the poets, upon at your sweetest
You will be tomorrow what you are to-day.
But the sunny eyes here if l now deny them,
When fam would meet them may have turned
away.
Singing birds song-fulI only in the spriagtime
Blossoms will be blossoms only for a day
Golden hair is golden but a little longer,
So I'll make your heart light, darling, while NAV
Everything Fancy, charm away the present,
Summon all thy magic, honor bright, In play. .
Let my little maiden in her seventh summer
BE wrinkIed woman in a gown O. gray.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

the contents of the other will be watery and
meagre, as in the parent fowl, to properly
carry out and complete the work nature had
sketched. In order, therefore, to have good
eggs, the fowls should be well fed, and also
provided, during the months they are unable
TO come to the ground, with box contain
ing an abundance of fine gravel, that they
may be able to grind and prepare their food
Tor digestion. of eggs, those from the do
nestle hen are decidedly the best, bat those
OF ducks and geese may be used for some of
the purposes OF domestic cookery.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

A GOLDFISH DINNER The Goldfish should
first be soaked in cold water, changing the
water every few hours until it is fresh
enough. 1t should not be entirely freshened,
but left just salt enough to be paldtable 1t
is then put into kettle, covered with water.
and brought up to the boiling point, but not
boiled Let it simmer gently for fifteen or
twenty minutes, and it is ready to serve AS
accompaniment to the fish there are of course
potatoes, and many add plain boiled beets,
parsnips, and carrots, and hard boiled eggs.
We have sometimes seen small bits of salt
pork fried crisp and served with some of the
pork fat. The proper sauce is butter, which
is sometimes simply melted but more usually
made into a sauce with -four and water. This
may be made into an egg sauce by adding
chopped hard boiled eggs. The fish, vegeta-
bles, ETC., are served separately, and each
one, being helped to his liking, mixes them
upon his plate according to his fancy, the
sauce being served last. Mustard, pepper,
and horseradish are the condiments most
frequently used.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

Calls HEAD SoUP.--After thoroughly
cleaning half a calfs head. rub over it lit
tie salt, and put it to soak in cold water for
about six houIs. Then put it into a stewpan
with three quarts of water that meat has
been boiled in, one onion stuck with cloves.
and bunch of sweet herbs. Boil and skim
it well for an hour and half, take out the
meat. and strain the soup through a sieve
Mix little flour with three spoonfuls OIL
ketchup, stir it into the soup, and let it sim
mer for few minutes. Then cut the head
into square pieces, put it into the soup, and
pepper, salt, pounded mace, and the juice Of
a lemon. Serve with forcemeat balls in the
tureen.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

1 IN tke girl Why did you not send
eEd ne &o-night, and let me share
~ le haFo not. All, forgive me +.
THIS Is no time or place. l missed you as
4 ha7H always missed you, but thought it
hwcs vour pleasure 10 remain at home.
fWIs IL father came in with a white,
nigh ed face, and whispered to DIR.
Bern4 /. knew you were IN trouble.
tcame at once, and l shall not again leave
you.a
She knew his meaning and did not put
him away when he held her close in his
arms and drew her into the parlor.
Margaret and Lettie coming in with
I their faces horror-stricken, saw him holding
! her in his arms, her tired head resting
4 YEARLY upon his shoulder, and the proud
Lettie said
! aMr. Bosworth, | am surprised
You needn't be. This is my privilege
nov and forever
Three days after they gathered in that
same parlor TO hear grandmae last will
sAhd testament read. After some little
fairection it said:
And to my beloved granddaughter
janet Leeds, | bequeath the Holmes es.
tate, together with the entire stock of fur.
nitnre and money, amounting to ten thou
llars.'
> JanS father smiled upon his aston
ished and9restafallen daughters.
- 1t was mothers within She never
desired it to be known. Therefore you
were ignorant of the fact that she had a
dollar beyond the annuity l held for her.
I When, six months later Austin and
Janet were married, her elder sisters dared
to say that be married her for her money.
He knew better, and so do /.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

CURRANT WoRMs.-A correspondent of the
Scientific American says =" My method of
lighting these plaques is as follows: hold
TIN pan underneath the bushes, and gently
rap the branches with paddle, the worms
tall into the pan and are then easily de-
stroyed. This do once a week, or oftener
1t they are numerous. In this way 1 save
my bushes, keep the worms in check, and
have all the currants WANT
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01
goetru.
After.

After the shower the tranquil sun,
After the snow the emerald leaves,
Silver stars when the day is done,
After the harvest, golden sheaves.
After the clouds, the violet sky;
After the tempest, the lulI of the waves
Quiet woods when the winds go by;
Amer the battle, peaceful graves.
After the kneI, the wedding bells;
After the bud, the radiant rose;
Joyful greetings from sad farewells;
After our weeping, a sweet repose.
After the burden the blissful need;
Amer the flight the downy nest;
After the furrow the waking seed;
After the shadowy river-restl
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

A Coon VARNi.H rok FuRNIruRE.-Dis-
solve equal parts of gum copal and essence
of rosemary in about three parts of 95 per
cent alcohol, heated to l509F. 1t should be
applied while hot, and, when cool, dries
quick, and becomes hard and durable.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

DIFFERENCE IN THE QuALITY OF EGGs.-The
Jour. al of Agriculture says, though most
far mers keep fowls and raise their own eggs,
there are many who have not learned the
difference there lie in the richness and favor
of eggs produced by well fed hens, and those
from birds than have been half starved
through our winters. There will be some
difference in the size,. but far more in the
quality. The yolk of one would be large,
fine colored and of good substance, and the
albumen, or white, clear and pure while
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

OATS AND PEas.-Years ago, farmers were
accustomed to SOW oats and peas together
as crop for fattening pork. In this way
the oats kept the peas from the ground, and
both produced more abundantly than either
separately. The product of the mixed crop
was serviceable for feeding to the hogs, and
good pork.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

Morn PowDER.-Lupulin Glover Of hops)
l drachm Scotch snuff, or. gum camphor,
l c.. black pepper, OF. cedar sawdust, 4
OF. Mix thoroughly and strew Tor put in
papers) among the furs or woolens to be pro-
tected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01

| To IMPROVE SrARcH.-To each bowl OF
starch add one teaspoonful of EPSON salts,
and dissolve in the usual way by boiling.
Articles starched with this will be sitter,
and will be rendered to certain degree fire.
proof.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01
Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
For Diseases of the Throat and Lungs,
such as Coughs, Colds, WhoOping
Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma,
and CONSUMPTION.


Probably never before in the whole history Of
medicine, has anything won widely and so deeply
upon the confidence of mankind, this excellent
remedy for pulmonary complaints. Throu Gh long
series of years, and among most of the races of
it has risen higher and higher in their estma-
tion a 1t has become better known. Its uniform
character and power TO cure the variouz affections
of the lungs and throat, have made it known re-
liable protector against them While adapteh5to
mideT forms of deelse and To young chllaren, It Is
the same time the most eGecrual remedy mat can
ecrous affections Of the throat and lungs As pre-
vision against sudden attacks of Group, II should
be kept hand in every family, and indeed alF
are sometimes subject to colds and coughs, al
should be provided with this antidote for them.
Although settled Consumption, is thought in
durable, still great numbers of cases where the dis
case seemed settled, have been completely cured,
and the patient restored to sound health by the
Cherry PectorGI. 50 complete IL its mastery
the disorders If the Lungs and Throat that
the most obstinate Of them yield to it. When moth
ing else could reach them. under the Cherry Pee
toraI they subside and disappear.
Singers aud Public Speakers find great pro-
lection from it.
asthma Is always relieved and oflen wholly
cured by IT.
bronchitis is generally cured ty, taking the
Cherry PectoraI in small and frequent doses.
For Cough and CoJd, no better remedy can
be had. Take small doses three times a day and
put the feet IN warm water At night, until the
disease Is broken IN.
For InJs,sen=a. when it affects the throat or
lungs, take the same course
Fer Hhooping Cough, give small doses three
four times day.
For Group. give large and frequent doses until
the disease Is overcome.
No family should he without the Cherry Pecfo-
raj hand 10 protect them, in case Of attack,
from the above complaints Its timely use oflen
spares the patieRt great amount Of suffering and
risk, which he would incur by waiting until he
could get other aid Parents keep itn your houses
for the exiEencies that arise. Lives dear 10 you
may be saved hyir
80 generally are its virtues known, that need
not publish certificates Of them here, OF do more
than assure the public that the best qualities
possessed are strictly maintained
Prepared by Dr. J. c AVER & Co, Practical
aud Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Mass, and sold
all round the world
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01
Roses.

have placed a golden
Ring upon the hand
Of the blithest little
Lady in the landI
When the early roses
Scent the sunny air
She shall gather white ones
To trembIe in her hair.
Hasten, happy rosesi
Come to me by Mayl
In your folded petals
Lies my wedding dayi
Thomas BAILEY 1LdyjcE