The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-04-04

possible, and the names Of all members
received within three weeks will be print
ed in the roll.
BY order of the Executive Committee.
o. s. BLISS,
Secretary and Treasurer.
The American Hay Loading Company.
The Rutland Herald says -
This is the name ola company formed
recently in Troy, N. Y, for the purpose
of manufacturing in that city and intro
ducing the Hay Loading Machine inven-
ted and patented by N. b. Douglas Of
Cornwall, Vt. 1t numbers among its
stockholders, we learn, some of the most
cnterprising and successful business men
of that city, such as Thomas Kinckerbock-
er, President of West Troy Band 4; Geo.
f. Sims, Cashier of the Troy National
Walter p. Warren and Charles Tilling-
hust of the firm of J. M. Warren Il Co.;
George Babcock, Superintendent of the
Rensselaer, Iron Works.; Gen. VIM ibbets
of the firm of Walter A. Wood e. Co., of
Hoosick Falls, and half a score of others
like them, who have u of their
own amounting to nearly amillion dollars
and whose business connections are such
as to command any amount of capital re-
quired. The president of the company is
l.. l.. Southwick; Vice President George
F. Sims; Secretery and Treasurer, j. J.
T~illinghast; superintendent II. L. Shields
with an efficient board of directors.
With the universally admitted cxcell-
ence of this invention and such a corps of
men to bring it before the public we see
no reason why this enterprise should not
take rank among the first in our country.
Fowls--Too Many Varieties.
1t is getting practically demonstrated by
the experience of many of our poultry
f%anciers that, as a rule, it is a bad prac-
tice to keep a number Of varieties, and
does not pay. AS the National Live
Stock Journal says, two or three kinds Of
fowls are the most any one ought to try
to keep; and, in fact, there is not one
amateur breeder in twenty who should try
to raise more than one variety. Many
persons in buying eggs for Matching order
a half-dozen of as many different breeds,
and the result is almost anything but sat
isfactory. Having sometimes one or two
chicks of a kind and seldom mated, which
necessitates buy ing more eggs, or other
fowls to make a pair or trio, and thus re-
quiring six times the care and labor to
look after three varieties that it does one.
The result is, that as each kind must be
confned-seldom, if ever. having a run Of
g%rass-they become sickly, the eggs do
not hatch, and a sort of a miserable, con-
valescent feeling ZONES over you as you
find yourself recovering from the hen
terer. But where the keeping of one
variety only is attempted, you will not
be asked why your fancy fowls do not lay
and breed as well as the common "dung-
hill" This is our own experience, and
we doubt very much if others who have
endeavored to breed more than one varie.
ty Of fowls at the same time cannot sub
stantiate what we have here said. Our
advice to amateurs is, not to keep toe
many varieties of fowls.
The famous stock horse "Gen. Knox
which has produced what may be termed
the Knox breed Of horses in Maine, hal
lately been sold and taken to New Yorl
State. He was 10 years old, and sole
for $4,000. His owner, Thomas S. LAM
of Augusta, had frequently been offere'
much larger sums for him, but he cheos
|, to keep him in Maine until his stock wa
!, firmly established, which is now accom-
plished, as several of his colts are equa
to the ''old Knox" One of the best
Gilberth's Knox, about 7 years old, an
f as fine a stallion and as good a stopper a
. can be found in New Endgland. BY thi
r Knox stock strain, the horse blood @
/ Maine has been improved so per cent.
I We congratulate the breeders of NeV
York upon the opportunity Of improvin
O their thoroughbred through so good a Vel
a mont horse as General Knox. We hav
t no doubt he will impart to them tn
n same stamina, substance, and spec
\ as the Vermont blood did a few year
r since to the thoroughbrcds of Kentucky
' and as the General has himself to tn
horses of Maine. 1t will also give Vel
mont breeders an opportunity to recove
' some of her best blood, lin diluted quail
a ties) for the impairment of Vermont hor!
es by the use of New York thoroughbred
e How l Grow my Early Rose POtatoe,
Z This is how | raised fifty bushels {
- Early Rose potatoes on one-eight of a
:. acre, without cultivation:-I manure
the ground in November with good con
q post, broadcast /; then plowed to a GOO
y depth, and left it, for the winter, we
! drainedr. March LIST following, | put @
five bushels lime, ten bushels ashes an
one peck of salt plowed again and ha
= rowed thoroughly; run out rows two an
a-half feet apart, three inches deep, drol
ped the potatoes fifteen inches apart; CO.
e cred with three inches of fine earth; rol
ed the ground. AS soon as the potato'
y began coming up, l covered the entil
, ground with straw about one foot dee
and so they renamed until they we