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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-03
Sewing Machine Sales for 10
TIL r SINGER
Still Triumphant!

Iu 1869 We sold, as our readers will remem-
Der, S6.7sl Machines bn, We cold luet year
[iS70l 1878 machines showing an exees,
beysnd the sales Of 1869. OF over forty thousand
and as shown by the table below, over "a ,00O
machines more than any other company.
The reader may naturally AJAX whether this
is mere bosstng. in answer to Which we have
to say, that those figures, and the ones given
below are from sworn returns made by licensees
to the receiver appointed by the owners OF the
NEST valuable sewing machine patents who Ii
conse the companies of lesser importance
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-03

From the above figures il will be seen that
| our rivals in trade are far behind ns, that the
popularity Of what is known "a our NEW
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE is steadily and
largely increasing. " Q are not so vain rs to
suppose that these large sales are due to supe
rior business capacity 90 much ss to the merits
of OR machiAes. as well 81 the observation of
those who buy and use, and are personally in
terested in comparing the merits OF the differ
ent machines before making selection.
Few have denied, in fact il has been the hsb-
il OF sewing machine dealers, till recently, TO
speak in laudaton Of our msnuf, curing ma
chimes, but in the same breath 10 deuy the
merits of our machine for family sewing. II
was usual 10 say 10 lady looking for a sew
ing machine, " If, madam, you want manu-
! featuring machine, the Singer is the best" M
if we made but one kind of machine only, and
had 10 Family sewing machine at all, though
| our Nct0 Family" was our greatest triumph,
and even then the favOrite, ever ready aud
never wcarying SeamStress Of many we'll reg =
ulated household Our machine. however, told
ats own story IN the great range aud variety OF
excellent ani beautiful family sewing which it
is capable of doing, and the sales show that its
story was not entirely disbelicvsd we would
not have sold last year III ,S33 machines, being
more than twice ar many machines as there are
words in the English language, and all this has
Voo'i 100"ni iiSn"" VIZ" ii''"S "'H 'o'n %"
| tions and fairs, excepting only tue worlds fair
- constituted ey the homes of the people
where we received the great award Of The high
est sales.
The Folding Gases and Attachments iW
Hemming. FEELING, Bradiug,
Gathering, Cording, Trimming,
Binding, Tucking, Embroiderin,
aLl so forth, are not only numerous, but nos
brought 70 great perfection. Most Of them can
be attached detached Jy simple move oi
the hand. The quality Of the work can only
be fully appreciated on observation and exam i
nation SINGER MANUFACTURERS co.
No. 45S Broa way, New York.
gsy" Any person having machine that rms
hard can have it attended to by letting me know
=. GODFREY.
Do
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Parham Sowing Machine Co., /:
Finkl9 h Lyon Mauuf'g Co, l.
Empire Sewing Machine Co., /.
Etna Sewing Machine Co., II
Gold Medal Sew. Mach. Co., II
American Button Hole Co., IL
Florence Sewing Mach Co.. |
Wilcox 4 Gil bs Sew. Ma. Co. 2
Weed Sewing Machine Co.,
Grover Il Baker s. Ma. Co.,
Howe Machine Co., 5
Wheerer & Wilson Mfg 20. 4
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-03
AVOID GU ACNS.

Paw Paw, Mich, Oct. It'll, 1871.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
P.fL.sCB STOCK CHS.

Any improvement in the marke ct of trans.
porting animals used for human food is
worthy of notice, not only on account of
the benefit to mankind in providing bet
ter quality of meat, but from the greater
humanity to the animals transported. At
the Pennsylvania Railroad depot here there
are now on exhibition several of Streets
Patent Palace Stock Cars" which are an
immense improvement over the ordinary
box car for carrying cattle. The feverish
and unhealthy condition of cattle brought
from Western ranges to the Eastern mar
kets has been so marked of late, that all our
best butchers here have for some time been
compelled to pasture or feed the stock for
weeks berore it is fit for slaughter. The
cars mentioned are arranged to contain six
teen or eighteen head of cattle each. Each
animal, however, occupies a separate stall,
which can be made to suit the size of and
allow the occupant to lie down and rise up
at pleasure. At the head of each is arrang-
ed feed box, which is supplied by spout
from a bin at the top of the car. Beneath
these food troughs on opposite side of the
car is an iron cylinder for water one foot in
diameter, with nose holes opposite each an
imal. These tanks are connected by pipe
running under the bottom of the car and
are filled from the station water tanks.
The cars can be loaded in eight or ten min
utes each, the cattle facing the sides of the
car. This arrangement permits of beef
cattle or horses being shipped directly from
Chicago or further Western points to Phil
adelphia, New York and Boston without
any delay en- route for food or water. In
the case of beef cattle the stock arrives in
perfect condition to kill, with no loss of
weight, and the meat is, of course, far more
suitable for human consumption. The
Palace Stock Car is in short but first class
stable on wheels, and the company build
ing and running it have almost as big a
thing as the Pullman Palace Car Company
for the bipeds. 1t is rapidly being intro
duced on all the leading railways of the
country, and is an undoubted success.
Iron I1e.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
FORTU.vEs Nv sCR.sPS.

The cold junk" business is much moro
extensive than most people suppose. Ii
includes refuse of all kinds, cotton waste,
wooden rags, old newspapers, iron, tin,
lead, ETC., patiently gathered from all quar-
ters, insignificant in detail, but valuable in
the aggregate. 1t is believed that over
SIS, OOO, 900 worth of old material is annual
ly worked over in New England, and at
least 5000, 900 worth of this peculiar stock
could at any time be thrown upon the mar
ket by the Boston dealers. The amount
consumed by the mills is astonishing, es-
pecially of shoddy. Wooden mills could
be named that purchase each year from
$1,000 to 81, 900 of the above Stock and this,
too, in addition to flocks. Very many pa
per mills have standing orders with the
largest paper dealers for thirty and fifty
tons of stock per week. The Kingsley iron
and machine company receive and consume
from sixty TO seventy-fve tons of scrap
iron each week, and the Old Colony and
Ames shovel companies stand ready to
take all the old wrought iron offered in the
market. The war in Europe seems to have
closed up the avenues for using large per-
centage of the Mediterranean rags and as
anatural consequence, they have all drifted
here. The immediate effect on our market
is to put foreign stocks at the lowest quota
BILE Ggure, while domestics are, and are
likely to be for some little time drug.
There are firms in Boston each holding
100000 worth of foreign and domestic, pa
tienty awaiting a rising and favorable
market. The importation of old junk
grows in importance each year. Old news
papers are brought from England and are
sold at remuneratve rates the rags from
London and the Mediterranean average
each succeeding year. It has been suppos-
ed that imported rags have been source of
epidemic diseases in many instances, but
one of the largest dealers in Boston, who
has been in the trade fifteen years, states
that he has yet to learn of a single case of
sickness occasioned by the opening or
bundling of bale of foreign rags. New
England rags are worth more and will
readily bring from one TO three cents per
pound more than those from any other Sec
ton, the reason being that an almost uni
versal custom prevails there, among the
housewives, of washing the rags before
putting them in their rag bags-so that
time, labor and shrinkage are directly
saved to the mills. One firm in Boston re-
ceives over 100000 worth of paper stock
per month from the South, New Orleans
the chief point of collection.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03

weight, you get no baryta. The color is
zinc, and will stand where lead would
blacken, and 1t is less injurious to health"
Now is the time for farmers to paint
Let the pillow, the cart, the moving machine,
and each tool that breads the weather have
its coat. Before next winter, when your
quarts are not half empty, you will have
saved ten times their cost. Besides the
paints and brushes, there win be needed
oil and spirits turpentine or benzine-noth-
ing more. A single spoonful of paint will
go great way, and last a long time. And
boys will stick better by a farm where eve
rything is kept painted up Watchman Dc
Reflector.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
RELICS OF Nv U.SK.vOU.V' RICE.

Some very remarkable discoveries of
relics of the race that in unrecorded times
occupied this country, have lately been
made in leveling the great mound at East
St. Louis, Ill. All the relics and remains
found in this have accorded both in charac-
ter and mode Of deposit with those of other
mounds throughout the West, and have
thrown no new light on the nature and or
igin of their builders. Still more interest
ing than these researches is the unique cave
recently found in excavating for the Du-
buque and Minnesota railroad at Eagle
Point. Workmen, cutting through the
loose limestone at the foot of q tall bluff,
struck upon a fiat stone, inscribed with
strange hieroglyphics. This they at once
removed and descending found themselves
in passage fonr feet wide and high enough
to walk in, which they followed tor fifty
feet, directly into the heart of the bluff At
this point removing still another large
stone, the party descended another ten feet
and then found themselves in huge
chamber, cut out of the solid rock, about
twenty-five feet square, and twenty feet
high. The floor was hard and perfectly
smooth, while the walls were embellshed
with uncouth characters and figures, in
tended to represent birds, trees, flowers
and other natural objects, all carved in SOL
i'd limestone. On the south wall appeared
a representation of the sun, and Immediate
ly below this the figure of man clad In
loose flowing robe, in the act of stepping
out of a boat, and holding in his hand
dove. The roof of the chamber was en-
beliished with stars, serpents and chariots,
the outlines all being plain and distinct
In the centre of the apartment was a fiat
slab, and upon removing this a vault was
revealed below, filled with skeletons Of
some unknown race, in sitting or stand
ing posture and almost perfectly preserved,
even TO the smaller bones. All had origin
ally been inferred with their faces to
the southwest. BY the side of each skele-
ton stood small vase of the most perfect
form and finish, each filled with yellow
earth. One of the vases was examined
and at the base found to contain some ami
nal bones and dark particles of animal
matter, which had evidently been placed
in the sepulchre to support the departed
to the spirit land, II funeral rite in obedi-
ence to wide spread custom among many
barbaric nations. Heads of arrows, stone
hatchets, and pieces ofshells perforated with
holes, were found scattered about the vault
in profusiOn. The skeletons were arrang-
cd in the form Of IA semi-circle, the largest
being placed in the centre. This skeleton,
by actual measurement, stood seven feet
eight inches high. The teeth were white
and glistened like ivory, while in the palm
of one of the outstretched hands, securely
locked in the articulated bones, reposed a
small pearl ornament. This person had
evidently been the chief of the tribe, and
was consequently buried with unusual
honors. BY the side of the Uranium were
two ear ornaments of shell, while numer-
GUS minute bone and copper beads cover
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
TIIk IDR.fL F.1R.NBR.

The New-York Evening Post describes
the ideal farmer in the following moderate
and well chosen terms:
First of all, he should be a healthy, hon
est, scrupulous man; man whom his
neighbors will trust, and in whom all with
whom he deals will place implicit conf
dence. Such character, coupled with ro-
bust and hearty good health, would be the
best half of a young farmers stock in trade.
Then again, he should be thoroughly versed
in the details of farming as an art. When
and how to pillow, to SOW, to hoe, to harvest,
to garner, and to sell how to keep his land
improving in richness and in filth; how to
buy, how to breed, how to feed, how to
grow, and how to sell his live stock how
to drain land, build fences, lay out fields,
arrange and construct farm buildings,
break roads and manage all kinds of farm
machinery; how to manage the dairy, from
the setting of milk TO the marketing of the
products. All this and much more should
be learned, not parrot-fashion, but so that
the knowledge will become as intimate as
an instinct, and always ready in any emer-
gency.
Underlying all this should be knowl-
edge of the science of agriculture the 'rea-
son why of all this work, so far at least as
the present state of agricultural knowledge
makes possible; vegetable physiology, that
is, the construction of plants, and the man
ner in which they form their growth and
perpetuate their species; vegetable chem
istry, or the composition of various parts of
plants, and the different composition of the
same parts at different stages of growths;
vegetable nutrition, or the sources from
which the plant obtains its food, and the
manner in which the food is assimilated;
the chemistry and mechanics of the soil;
the manner in which it is influenced by
growing and by decaying vegetation,
by the action OF frost, of water, and of
air, and of the various chemical agents;
why wet land should be drained, and why
dry land irrigated or frequently stirred"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
Poetyy.
THE sLOTuFUL F.sR.uEB,


In the State Of Vermont far up this way,
Where we labor to earn our bread,
There once lived a man, who, as I've heard say,
Spent most OF his time in bed.
Yet somehow he managed COW to keep,
Together with three or four hogs,
And small flock Of nearly dozen Of sheep,
with two or three half-starved dogs
His farm had become so exhausted and poor
That nAught to advantage would grow,
For II never had yet seen a coat Of manure
Unless twas a coating Of snow.
His buildings showed premature signs Of decay,
with boards swinging loose in the wind
While the rags from the windows were blowing away
Leaving only an opening behind.
His fences were ruined and broken and gone
Till whatever pleased passed through;
And twas seldom he had any more blowing done
Than just what his hogs could dol
His crops, when once planted, were suffered to go
without his assistance, TO seed
And his neighbors all wondered his corn didn't grow
while It stood in such excellent feed
And thus with each crop, 1t would still be the same
1t would never be tended at all;
And II it by chance to maturity came,
II vas suffered to waste in the iall.
Thus he managed, till finally hunger and want
Drove him forth like hog from his nest,
And he sworo twas no place for man in Vermont
30 he sold and removed to the West.
Rural REPOSITORY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
Farm and Fzreszde.
SUBsTITUTRS ron MILK Nv
R.sISE.N'G C.fLI.BS.

a correspondent in Nebraska writes to
inquire what will be the proper food for
young calves. He states that he can obtain
several from excellent mixers, but has no
milk to feed them.
1t is difficult to raise calves in winter and
have them do well, even when they have
the advantage of the natural food drawn
directly from the COW. 1t is more difficult
to have them thrive il brought up by hand
and fed on milk; and the difficulty will be
greater still if no milk can be obtained.
All attempts to make an artificial milk
that will be healthful have resulted in fail
ures. Liebg made an artificial milk that
contained the identical ingredients of our
common milk, and they were united in the
same proportions. 1t was thought that
great good would result from the discove-
ry; but all the babies that were fed on it
for a considerable time, died. Fresh milk
seems to be absolutely essential to the calf
during the first few days of its existence.
After this, the supply of milk may be d.
unfinished, or the cream may be separated
from it before it is used. If we do this,
however, we must keep up this loss in the
oleaginous principle by means of some such
substance as fax seed or oil cake.
Probably the best food that could be OBJ
tanned for young calves in the winter time,
if no milk can be obtained, is mixture of
flax seed jelly and meal cruel. Dat meal
is unquestionably to be preferred to other
kinds, as 1t contains large amount of glu-
ten, which very nearly resembles casen in
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
PAINT.

A friend writes us: 81 have been round
the world not little, meddled with not
few arts, sciences and trades, and very late
in life have come to know the luxury of
paint. My first brush, bought in 1868, was
clean and new last New Years, and | had
little idea how much good could be obtain
cd from it. Economy concurs with taste in
debating to every farmer and householder
a free outlay of paint. A few minutes can
make so great difference in no other way.
Wood and metal are protected from the
weather, made clean and made cleanable.
/ have splendid green, ready mixed, in
a Hilton fruit jar, accessible any moment.
A rich brown, black, white and lead color
are In their respective tin cans, well stopp-
ed. use Averill's paints, for six reasons:
They are more convenient, (ready mixed,
of innumerable shades, canned in quarts,)
and | think far more durable cheaper, will
bear rain when fresh, and have themselves
the gloss of vanished surface, and they
can stand opened in the pot with less dam
age than others. As they arc not sold by
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03

ed the floor of the vault. Vestiges of fl
brous cloth were also discovered near the
lower extremities of each skeleton, but so
thin and impalpable that 1t crumbled away
at the slightest touch. No ornaments of
implements in copper were scattered thick
ly about, which had evidently been pro-
cured from the mines of Lake Superior, as
the evidences are accommodating that these
mines were worked at date long prior to
the deuge. Measures are on foot TO re-
move the skeletons and all of the most i'm
portant articles TO the hall of the Iowa In
stitute of Science and Art in Dubuque.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03

How TO RAISE FODDER Conn.,. Tai
colt writes the Boston Cultivator and gives
the following as his method of raising corn
for fodder:--
1.-THE piece of corn that was used in the
first experiment was sown in drills about
80 inches apart, strewed by hand from
basket, so as to occupy space the width
equal to the width of the bottom of the fur
row; when all was sown II was covered
with a light harrow; after the corn was up
six inches or more in height, it was cult
waited with a one-horso cultivator between
the rows to keep down the weeds, at two
different times, then left to grow till wanted
for feeding purposes. Very little fodder
corn Is sown broadcast in this vicinity, as
the drill system has been found much the
best way TO produce a good crop; and the
best dairymen think that corn sown in
drills, so that IL will produce small ears at
maturity, is much the best for feeding pur-
poses; that cows fed on such corn will give
more and better milk in quality than when
the corn is sown so thckly that no ears are
produced. Ono thing seems to be pretty
firmly established in the minds of dairy
men in central New York, that there is
need of better feeding and care of milch
cows than is usually practiccd; and that
fodder corn for summer feeding is profita-
BILE. Very many of our dairy farmers sow
in drills with grain drills from 0 to is inches
apart, which is a very good way to put in
the corn, always remembering the ground
should be dry and rich to get good crop"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
And Other Points as Followsi


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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
uIGmLY NORTHUMBERLAND

IL in Delicate Health. Dr. Dow, Physician and
surgeon, No. Endicott Street. Boston, is consult
ed daily for diseases incident to the female system
Prolapsus Uter or falling of the Womb, fluor Albus,
Suppression and other menstrual arrangements, are
all treated upon new pathological principles, and
speedy relief guaranteed In few days. So Invariably
certain is the mode CT treatment tina. most obs-
nate complaints yield under IT, and the afflicted person
soon rejoioes in perfect health.
Dr, Dow has no doubt had greater experience in the
of diseases Of women and children than any 9th
or physician in Boston,
boarding accommodations for patients who may
wish TO stay in Boston few days under his treatment.
DR.. Dow, since l8i5 having confined his whole atten-
ton office practice, for the of private dis
eases and complaints Acknowledges superior
In the United States.
n BAH letters must contain four red stamps, or
they will not be answered. O1ice hours from A. NJ.
tO9P. N.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03

An unhappy condition of matrimonial
affairs is developed in the state of the di-
vorce market in New Hampshire as well
as Vermont. During the year 1870 three
hundred and thirteen applications fer dl-
vorce were brought before the Supreme
Court of that State. OF the whole number
222 cases were decided, and in l57 of these
divorces were granted for the same period.