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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

culiaritv of its nature, is intensely deetruct-
i've 10 insect life. And to this point in con-
pection with poultry, and poultry
we desire to direct the attention OF our
readers.
All amateurs and poultry breeders are but
too well aware that parasites are the pests 0,
poultry-houses, more especially IN toWns anu
cities, where poultry are kept within con-
fined limits. Without, as the owner thinks,
any real cause, the fowls begin to droop ana
LOOK sickIv, and after a while, one by one die
off. He then becomes alarmed examines
them. and finds them filed with parasites !;
he looks into his fowl-hOuse and examines
the cracks and chinKs in the boards, and
finds them filled with insects; living insects.
He is astonished; he cannot account Tor II ;
and then the question arises in his mind :
:. How can get rid of them?' Scores OF
times within the last few months has this
question been asked of us, and our answer
invariably mas been, use carbolIc acid.
But how to use it is matter OF import
ance There can be no doubt about its efficacy,
but it becomes every one to exercise care IN
handling it. The acid is sold by all druggists
in its crystalline and liquid form. In crystals,
1t dissolves in twenty times its weight OF
water that is one ounce of the crystals re-
ouires twenty ounces of water to dissolve
them. Thus dissolved, it is entirely. too
strong for any ordinary use. DIR. Emerson
gives receipts for preparing this powder for
disinfecting and other purposes. AS white
wash for walls, for protection against insects,
bugs. etc he SAYS: Z" Put three ounces OF
carbolic acid into ten quarts of lime water
or white-wash." White-wash the walls Of
the poultry-house well with this wash, and
no living parasites will be seen-their death
is inevitable. A weak solution may be made
to wash fowls in one part of the acid to
sixty parts of warm water let it cool, then
dip the fowls in it until the feathers become
thoroughly wet and the solution reaches all
parts OF the body. Afterwards place the
fowls on clean dry straw, where the sun Will
reach them until they are dry.
Another form in which it is recommended
to use it, is a soap. These soaps are for sale
by various manufacturers, and have high
reputation for cleansing animals and the cure
of skin diseases. A mode of making this
soap is as follows Dissolve eight pounds
common bar soap in hot water, add two to
four ounces of carbolic acid, according to the
desired strength. Allow to cool as usual in
making hard soap. As these preparations
may be bought ready prepared, and as car
bolic acid Is by no means sale article TO
keep about the house, we would advise per-
SONS to buy rather than attempt TO make
them, except in the case of white-wash, when
they must get the pure article and dilute it.
Canadian Poultry Chronicle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

The WIRE WoRM.-Eds. Country Gentle
mani see a call in your columns, for in
formation about the wire-wOrm, and l will
respond to it. The most important thing to
be known about the Wire-worm is that it's
principal food, where it can be obtained, is
the angle-worm, and where that exists to any
considerable extent there is no danger to the
crop unless dry weather sets in and drives
the angle-worm down below the reach of the
wire-worm. Application of fresh stable ma
nure has tendency to keep the angle-worm
near the surface, and generally saves a crop
even in dry time. Concentrated manures
will not do it neither will stable manure
unless there are angle-worms in the sol. On
most soils (sIndy excepted) tillage and ma
nure for three successive years will bring in
the angle-wOrm. The reverse of that will
drive them out, or as some suppose will bring
in the wire-worm. ] have no faith in nos
trums as specifics. [ have seen many time
where if gravel stone had been placed up
on each hill, it would seemingly do the same
thing, when in fact it was all done by copi-
GUS rain bringing w the angle-worms near
the surface.
Sod ground will prevent their ravages the
first year on the same principle as fresh ma
nure. But say you, must we breed the angle
worm to get rid of the ravages of the wire
worm? That seems to be the most success
full way at present. There is one other that
| will suggest, and particularly where it is
difficult to breed the angle worm, pillow early,
drag down smooth, mark off drills on surface
say six feet apart, run drills the way of
prevailing winds, scatter corn on surface,
cover about two or three inches thick with
straw, watch and see when the wire-worm
freely finds it, then when the straw is dry
and wind is right, set fire to straw, and my
word for it you will have less wire worms :
at least such is my experience E. Hay
,cdTd, in Country Gentleman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

Thorough preparation Of land is absolutely
necessary to the successful and luxuriant
growth of crops.
bushel of plaster per acre sown broad
cast over clover will add one hundred per
cent to it's produce.
Periodical applications of ashes tend to
lengthen the integrity of soils by supplying
most, if not all, OF the organic substances
A correspondent of the Rural Neto Yorker
had cotton which were many warts. After
smearing the warts a few times with salt but
ter, they all disappeared.
Abundant crops cannot be grown for a sue
cession of years unless care be taken to pro-
vide an equivalent for the substances carried
off the land in the products grown thereon.
Young stock should be moderately fed with
grain in winter, and receive generous sup
plies of long provenders, it being essential to
keep them in fair condition, in order that
the formation Of muscle, bones, etc. may be
encouraged and continuously carried on.
Milk varies as much in cssein or cheese
making quality as in cream. The best milk
will give pound of cheese to eight pounds
of milk the poorest, a pound to twelve
The average ii ten. This shows that facto-
ries ought to receive by the pound, not by the
quart
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22
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Nothing to Do.

" Nothing to do % in this world of ours,
Where weeds spring up with fairest flowers,
Where smiles have only itful play,
Where hearts are breaking every day.
Nothing to do !" thou Christian soul,
Wrapping thee round in thy selfish stole;
OF with the garments of sloth and sin,
Christ thy Lord hath Kingdom to win.
Nothing to do :" There are prayers to lay
On the altar of incense, day by day;
There are foes to meet within and without,
There is error to conquer, strong and stout.
Nothing to doio There are minds to teach
The simplest form of Christian speechj
There are hearts to lure with loving vile
From the grimest haunts of Sins defile.
Nothing to dol There are lambs to feed,
The precious hope Of the church's need;
Strength to be born to the weak and faint,
Vigils to keep with the doubling saint
Nothing to do !" and thy Saviour said,
''Follow thou Me, in the path tread"
Lord, lend Thy help the journey through,
Lest faint, we cry, SO much to do"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

A COUNTRY OF FLocks AND HERDS The
vast region between the valley of the Platte
and tho eastern base of the Sierra, says the
San Francisco Bulletin, is rapidly filling up
with stock-raisers. They do not jostle each
other, because nearly all of them occupy as
much territory as is comprised in the smaller
States of New England. Herds of cattle
numbering from five thousand to ten thou
sand head are found in the high table lands
and in the valleys, while the more mountain
GUS country sustains focks of sheep, which
are producing some of the best wool sent to
market. The land occupied belongs to the
government, and at present does not cost the
occupants one cent-not even for taxes. BY
common consent, one herdsman does not
trespass upon the territory of another, and
each decides for himself how much Is neces-
sary to supply pasture for his cattle We
have done something in the way OF cattle
raising in California; but hereafter the great
pastural region of the United States will en-
brace territory between the Colorado on the
South, and the Columbia on the North, the
Platte valley on the East, and the Sierra on
the West The more elevated regions will
produce the finest wool in the world, and the
table lands and valleys beef in such abund-
ance that poor man can buy steak for
som ething less than the price of day s
work.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

How OLs - EXPLODE. The expression
often used that an oil is explosive conveys a
wrong idea. The OIL does not explode. An
oil may even extinguish a burning match
when thrust into it, and yet be highly dan
gerous to use burning fluid 1t is the
vapor of these oils, mixed with the air, that
is dangerous, as far as explosion is concerned.
Where partly filled lamp has the portion
above the oil filed with mixture of vapOr
and air, it may explode. When a lamp is
filled while lighted, the mixture of air and
vapOr in the can or filler, explodes upon
coming in contact with the fame the oil
itself does not really explode, though it does
serious injury when scattered by the explO-
sion
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

FARMERS GARDENs.-The Germantown Tai
egrdph says q We can see an Improvement
IN the gardens of our farmers within the last
BALI dozen years. For years we have en-
deaVored to convince the general farmer Of
the necessity and advantage of providing
larger gardens for their families, and of de-
voting more attention to their cultivation.
They should raise two or three times as many
vegeta bles as most of them now do, and they
must have them earlier. They must not be
satisfied with two or three messes of beans,
peas, sweet corn, etc. but they must ENJOY
them daily for weeks. We do all we can to
point out the best sorts of vegetables and
when to plant them. There should be at
least three paintings Of peas, four of corn ;
string beans all the time, lima beans for
summer and winter, early cabbage, beets,
lettuce, etc, as long as they will possibly
last. An early crop of turnips should be put
in, not less than three OF four stalks Of cele-
~, and any amount of winter cabbage.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

Extensive GARDENER AND HORTICULTURAL
DEMONSTRATIONS are apt to exult IN any
superiority which they possess over Euro
peans They should not F.; for in many re-
speets they have better opportunities and a
much freer scope. Nurserymen here who
raise fruit trees, have wider sale and
larger number of appreciative customers.
We are not held back by the depressing IN
fuence Of the despotism of aristOcracy and
monarchial rule; every man here can have
an almost boundless swing. These remarks
are suggested by the statements of a CORES
pondent of the New York EreHing Posi-, on
the .. immense horticultural establishments
at Erfurt, which is called the d" Garden City
of GERMANY The area devoted to horti-
culture in and around that city is 200 of
our acres-Of which 400 are market gardens.
There are ~ men who do wholesale trade,
besides 100 market gardeners, who employ in
all over 500 hands. Over 300 900 catalogues
and price lists are annually printed at cost
of 500
We can make but an imperfect comparison
of this extensive business with the nursery,
seed and gardening business in our own
country, as the two differ much in character
but we may state that the whole nursery
business at Rochester a few years since was
about 5 600 acres, and over 900 hands were
employed to work them. The extent has
been somewhat reduced since the war, but
there are now some 5000 nursery acres at
Geneva, n. Y The seed store of James Wick
and the single nursery of Ellwanger & Barry
at Rochester, employ more hands during the
busy season than the entire p wholesale
dealers at Erfurt and Mr.. Wick alone prints
more than half as many catalogues yearly, or
over $50, 900, at cost of over $50 ,000-nOt
small pamphlets and cheap sheets, but
full and handsome treatise, with rich chromos
and illustrated with 300 cuts. Rochester
has a rather larger population than Erfurt,
and should be expected to do more. We are
not able to give the extent of horticultural
business carried on in the suburbs of our
eastern cities, and by our large seed estab-
lishments in New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia, but it would doubtless afford much
interest by way Of comparison with that of
European cities. -COuntTy Gentleman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

FENCE PosTs-The following experience
on the mooted question whether fence posts
will last longer when set in the same posi-
ton in which they grew, or Uice Uersa, Is
given by writer Some twenty-Uhree or
four years since set fence, incosing house
and door yard, rail and banister fence
The posts were sawed from good sized first
growth red chestnut logs. To saw them
tapering, one half of them must be sawed to
set in the ground top down, and the other
half bottom down. The posts were set pro
miscuOusly, and to this day there has been
no distinguishable difference in their lasting
quality, unless it be where some of them had
more sap in them than others, and these gave
out first, without regard to which end was
set down.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22
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WEDN
The Sign of the Daisy.

By H. II.
Is
Am summer she scattered the daisy leaves
They only Knocked her as they fell.
she said /. The daisy but deceives;
There j. no virtue in its spell.
He loves me not he loves me WE'LL
one story ne two daisies tell"
An. foolish heart, which waits and grieyes
Under the daisy's mocking spell
Eut summer departed, and came again;
The daisies whitened every hill
Her heart had lost its last years pain,
Her heart Of love had had its fill,
And held loves secrets at its will
The daisies stood untouched and stll'
No message in that snowy rain
To one whose heart had had it NIL
So never the daisy's sweet sign deceives'
Though no two viii one story tell
The glad heart sees the daisy leaves,
But thinks not Of their hidden SPELL
Notes not which fingered and which fell.
81 lie loves me; yes he loves me well"
An, happy heart which sees, belevesi
This is the daisy's secret SPELL
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

A sensible writer says that the blame Of
balky and scarey horses belongs to those who
teach them to be so :" A horse can easily
be taught to pull by the traces, or by the
halter-strap. If you want him to pull well
on the halter, all you have to do is to hitch
i'm with something he can easily break, and
he will soon learn to pull back with such
force that no bride will hold him. If YOU
want him to pull well in the traces, give him
a light load until he learns to move it, and
he will soon pull his best at heavy loads
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

We crow over our Yankee agricultural
implements, but they are running away from
us in England in one respect, as there are
not less than thousand sets of steam plOw-
ing apparatus in regular use on English
farms.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

To preserve meadows in their productive
ness, 1t is necessary to harrow them every
second autumn, apply top dressing, and roll
them up.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22
ONL025 CENTS

The Great Quoting Remedy for Children
Contains no MORPHINE OR POISON
Gus DRUG; sure to Regulate The Bolcels !:
allays all Pain; corrects Acidity Of the
Stomach makes sick and freak children
STRONG and HEALRHY; cures Wind Collie,
Griping. Inflammation Of the Bowels, and
all complaints arising from the effects Of
Teething. Call for Mother BaiJey's Quiefing
!Suyup. and take no other. and you are safe
Sold by Druggists and all dealers in Med
icine.
A. RICHARDS, New London, Conn,
Agent for the United States.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

Shall grudge to spend my life for Him
who did not grudge to shed his blood for me
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22
Manufactured b.
The National Watch e.
OF ELGIN, Ill.

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Makers. Railroad and EN-
press men. Last and " t'f'
10 be the most coFftt
Time Keepers Gidd..
Avoid parties WAC
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70 be Of our make.
furnish meme for iHs
purpose. There are ~
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get GENUINE ti1i'
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

whenever and wherever brought into contact
with them is certain death to all kinds OF
,nsects. 1t is poison, but only moderately
% to the human system; yet from some pc
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22
CarbOlic Acid and Poultry.

lany $4Ssgies which science has
C prA6, no one article has
groy f6F5S6zayor as carbolic acid
I sE3 ton of coal tar for
ton Il 9tenzole, etc. Its
ropef 2EGfherous it is alike
1tic HSS6Hhfectant, and, too,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22

tuated in Waterbury Village.
On Main Street, abont 100 rods fem *. K DeH"t
One-hslf acre o. Land, Buildings early New. =s"s
Wen aud CiSterR. Apple rees IN he q 81, ais" a
Choice Variety of Grapes
And other fruit. S75 worth ot Crane Vine, 81. Tlr
Trees set out iaSt summer.
GEO q. AIMS.
Waite ~ s5a.-9
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22
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Hair VIgsO
For restoring Cray Hair 10
its natural Vitaliiv end Color

Ia \ dressing which
Gan l. at once agreeable
-. healthy. and cfec;aal
for preserving lie
4 hair. FnI.f or gray
@ la'r j. sa5u ~'ored
! @a b rs ots,rs1 color
y7Sfa 'ri.5 He gloss and
9 q tresha.Ss 81 4oa.i.
Thin HAIR j. thiek-
falling hair checked, and bald
heu, though not always. cured
use. Nothing can restore the
here the toilicles are destroyed.
glands atrophied and dccayed-
-ch as remain can be saved tor
less b. this application. Instead
ing the hair with a Ta>lv sedi-
it viii keep it clean and vigorous.
aSioaal use viii prevent The hair
uruing gray or falling eff. aud
uen,Iy prevent badness. Free
hose deleterious substances which
some preparations dangerous and
Us to the hair, the Ni2or can
enetit but not harm it. Il wanted
4Ov- n
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28

WHAT WOMEN EAT.-It is a popular belief
that women eat nothing. 1t is of course con-
ceded that they sustain life by the consump-
ton of some article of nOurishment; but eat
ing, in the whole acceptance of the word, is
supposed to be foreign to female nature. This
fallaOy is founded and sustained by women
themselves, who, during the affected period Of
their lives, cultivate small sppettes as being
OF semi angelic construction. When this per-
nlclOus nonsense is cOnscentiously carried out,
the results upon the would-be angels are
squalor, red noses, certain loss of vigor, gener-
al limpidness, and some other unpleasant con-
sequences. But, as a rule, the smallest appe-
ttes at the fashionable tables are exhibited by
those shrewd girls whose natural and healthy
wants have been thoroughly appeased by secret
stufhng. Need we refer our readers to tho
historical poem concerning Violate in the
pantry, gnawing of a mutton bone, reminding
them how she gnawed it, how she clawed it
when she found herself alone?
All this is a direct deceit, however, practisad
upon unsophisticated old bachelors who, when
they have made the dainty creatures theirs,
find out by the butchers book, an ocular
proof. what sturdy trencher-women they have
married Watch a healthy girl at supper,
during the intervals of dancing she consumes
by installments four times as much as her
partner, and seems, and is, none the worst for
it. Our experience tells US that women eat
in proportion to their weight, as much as men,
and are no more fairies in this respect than in
the matter of weight.
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28
A SINGULAR SrORY.-All have read with

A SINGULAR STORY.-All have read with
horror of the barbarous murder committed on
young and extremely well-favored girl a
child, one might say-nigh on seventeen years
old, at Ethan, in Kent. The painful subject
is referred to in consequence of very extraor-
dinaTy circumstance connected with the girls s
death. The girl expired at Guys Hospital at
nine o'clock on Sunday night A doctor. a
nurse, and detective policeman were in the
room at the tine, and they all concur in stating
that at the very moment of Der decease the
>'>> of man appeared at the windew close to
Jed on which the murdered girl lay. This
NJ. sterious apparition disappeared as soon as
the policeman approached the window, which,
by the way, is about fifty feet from the ground.
OF course no one was there There were no
means by which TIE window could be reached
from the street save by ladder, and ladder
there was none. The story must be taken for
what it is worth.-Court Journal.
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28

the war of 1912. Ferdinand Durang died-I
do not know where-and Frank Keys bones
lie in the cemetery at FredericktOwn; but l
guess that song will live as long as there is an
American boy to sing it. t."-MrS. Nellie EySter,
IN Hdrper'S MaQazine for July
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28

The Democratic State Committee of Wiscon-
sin has called a State Convention for Aug. %.
The call declares that the true mission of all
parties now is to deal with the practicable
questions of the day, ignoring those CON
trovcrsies which have been settled by the pro-
gress of events.
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28

One Of the Republican papers in Ohio gives
a list of l6 Democratic journals in that State
that oppose the New Departure and inquiries:
"Will these presses consent to be muzzled by
put-up committee at State ConventionP"
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28
" 1.-The Star-Spangled Banner"

HOw 1t toGs composed and set to music, as re-
lated By an OctOgenarian.
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28
ATTENTION :!

AA LIN i 1ON
The undersigned begs to inform her old friends
and the public generally. that she has opened store
10 the building lately occupied by the Misses Megear
OPPOSITE FOXWELES HOTEL.
Her stock is all new, and consists Of
DRY GOODS,
Spring Dress Goods, Calcoes, Muslins, Balmorals
Hoop Skirts, Ladies' Hose. Corsels and large as.
sorment Of miscellaneous articles pT Will &c at
PhIladelphia Prices, ExclusIvely for CASH.
Call and examine for yourselves.
G.. M. COLLINS.
Mrs. c. also informs her friends that she has com.
menced the DRESS MAKING business. mh6
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28

Savannah, fGs.)
argues that the Southern
not at present talk about
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28

are authorized to say that the freight this sea-
son on the Delaware Railroad will be no more
Smyrna times., 1871-06-28

Castle. Being sufficiently improved, his son,
a lad of II. came to take him home to Middle
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-01-14

TASArroS.-Thpt Part Of tho m,ssaCc
Which ives rcsesgcd las, week, as wellfsr con-
vcnienoe as togive Il greater prominence, by
Standing clone, is given, below. Tho subject
Of taxation comes very near cvGF ones heart
and pocket, and It's incrcase-so rapidly and
'enormousIy-wiH arrest attention. The fol-
lowing table gives the amount of taxes assess
Cd for the various objects named for the year
1870, and The iDctcase or tliHl yearovef 1860;
IN ten years. That increase, 1t will be seen, is
very great, aud beyond the growth Of the
state In business, population and wealth. In
the Governors mind, it portends evil, aud we
think he does well to call the attention. of the
Legislature. and the people of tho State, to q
matter ~ seiious and threatening.