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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-13
THE INSURANCE INTEREST.
SUMMING UP.

THE COMPANIES OUTSIDE OF BOSTON LOSE
NEARLY TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS, AND THE
BOSTON COMPANIES ABOUT AS MUCH MORE.
The annexed lists present in a tabular form the
Boston loss of companies in this State in Connect
cut. and Rhode Island, and of the English compa-
MES In yesterdays TRIBUNE we gave list of the
losses-amountng TO 81 600 00O-of the Philadelphia
companies, apart from the more extended details
which enumerated the losses Of all insurance compa-
MES doing business in New-York. In round num-
bers. the following will serve as an approximation
+ tb losaas of the interest out of Boston
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

If the ground is poor, the crop will be
greatly increased by manuring. Coarse ma
nure may be used to good advantage on corn
fodder. Plow in burrows about three feet
apart, FIJI them half full of manure by
throwing with fork from the cart or wagon,
then strew the corn along from half bushel
basket on the lett arm, at the rate of about
three bushels to the acre, and then harrow
the whole lengthwise with the burrows. The
harrow will break up the manure and mix it
with the soil, and the seed will be mixed
with both-it may be scattered some, but
more fodder will grow on wide than a mar
row furrow, and if few grains are left un-
covered, there will be enough for good crop.
If the owner happens to have smoothing
harrow, he may harrow the whole surface
before the corn is up and two or three times
afterwards; and this operation, together
with the shading Of the crop, will leave the
surface as clean and smooth as floor after
the crop is harvested.
1t should not be overlooked by those not
familiar with this mode of raising fodder,
that two or three times as much dry fodder
may be obtained from land as from good
meadow; that cattle will eat the whole,
stalks and all and that the stalks will be
sure to heat and spoil with the novice the
first year-therefore begin moderately
CulHU0tOT.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

FLOWER GARDEN.-The chief enjoyment in
this department at this season lies in plan
ming out the necessary Improvements, ar
rangements, and work TO be done during the
next active season. In gardening there are
two styles Of fower-grOwing-O which
looks to the enjoyment of beautiful flowers
Individually the other for the effects which
color gives to the beauty of ones ground.
In the first place, hardy herbaceous plants,
ANNALS, bulbs and such like plants, are to
be employed, and the flower beds for them
must be arranged with this view, SO as to
afford opportunities for individual examina-
ton. There is nothing better for this than
long, narrow borders; such, for instance, as
the narrow belts along the walks Of vege-
table garden.
For flowers for effect, the mass system, OF
course, is to be preferred The flowers are
selected and arranged with regard to their
harmonious tints Of coloring one with
another, and the beds must be arranged to
suit the ideas sought to be ccomplished-
The shape of the various beds is of no ac-
count in this system of gardening. Hearts,
pears, stars, crosses and so forth are not
recognized when filled with flowers but
they have to be arranged one with regard to
the other, that the effect we design shall be
fully accomplished
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

laborer. The secret was, his beautiful ae-
curacy. He began as an errand-boy, and did
his work accurately. His leisure time ne
used in perfecting his writing and arithme-
tic. After while he learned to telegraph.
At each step his employer commended his
accuracy, and relied on what be did because
he was sure it was just right. And 1t is
thus with every occupation. The accurate
boy is the favored one. Those who employ
men,do not wish to be on the constant look
out, as though they were rogues or fools
If carpenter must stand at his journey
mans elbow to be sure his work is right, or
if cashier must run over his boOk-keeper'
columns, he might as we'll do the work him
self as to employ another to do 1t in that
way and it is very certain that the employ
er will get rid Of such an inaccurate work
man as soon as possible.
knew such young man. He had good
chance to do well, but he was so inaccurate
and unreliable that people were afraid to
trust him. If be wrote deed or mortgage,
or a contract, he was sure to leave out some
thing or put in something to make 1t an I'M
perfect paper He was lawyer without
business, because he lacked the noble quality
of accuracy. just across the street IRON
him was another young lawyer, who was
proverbial for accuracy. lie was famous
for searching titles, and when lac wrote out
the history Of a title to piece of property,
it was taken for granted as just 50. His
aim was absolute accuracy in everything. If
be copied a conveyance, or cited legal
authority, or made a statement, he aimed
to do it exactly. The consequence is, he is
having a valuable practice at the bar, and is
universally esteemed.
" But says some boy, when become
a man, that is the way | shall do. mean
n he very aPpura tp -
Perhaps so. l could tell better if | knew
just how you do your work now. There are
several ways of getting a lesson. One IS to
get it ''itolerably we'll, - which does not cost
much labor. The other Is, to get it faultlessly
we'll, which costs a great deal of labor.
boy can get general idea of his lesson ." IN
jiffy," but to get it accurately, Is very
hard, and requires both time and industry
If you, my boy, to-day are getting your les
son in the slipshod way, you will grow up
slipshod man but if to-day your habit is
to get every lesson with perfect accuracy,
will warrant you will do that way when you
become a man. How is it?-Presideat
TuttZe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

OILED PAPvR SAsHEs FOR EoT-BEDs.-
Make as many frame as you require to cover
your beds, of strips Of an inch and three
quarters wide, and if you are not carpenter
enough to put them together with mortise
and tenon at the corners, halve them togeth-
CT, using wrought nails which will go
through and Just clInch. The frames should
be six feet long and three feet wide, with
piece Of the same as the outside put across
the middle of the frame. This, if not NOR
tised ard tenOncd together, had better be
merely fitted in between the sides, and nailed
with long cut nails its use is more to keep
the frames apart than anything else. Now
get good stout twine put in tacks all around
the frame, six inches apart wind the Irvine
round the tacks from side TO side, until the
Errme Is full that way then 60 from tack to
tack, from end to end, but as you pass the
ball of Irvine down across the first twipes,
take turn each time round the cross strings
you will thus have netting of six inches
square over the whole. This will be quite
strong enough, but you may put the strings
closer if you don't think it sufficient When
you have finished make fast the Irvine, and
drive in all the tacks level with the surface
Of the frame Get some strong white paper
old newspapers will do well if the paper is
thick damPen them a little (only just
damp paste them together, and stick them
over the frame, well pasting the wood frames
with well-boiled, thick flour paste be sure
the paste is thick and well boiled. Let the
paper come all around the edges of the
frames; then put them by to dry. When
dry, if the work has been we'll done, the
paper will be smooth and as tight as a drum
head. Don't damp the paper too much in
the first place, or it will crack and break in
the drying. Now get some well-boiled lin
seed oil, get some dryers put into it and dis
solved IN it, then with a paint brush 90
over the whole frames, wood, paper, string
and all give them a good coat on both
sides, and put the frames by to dry; they
will be as serviceable as the best glass while
they last, which Will be from two to three
years, and they can be freshly covered or
patched at any time OF course dogs and
poultry must be kept off them, and they
must be carefully used, but for service they
are really better than glass, as the plants
grown under them never scald with the sun.
If thought better, the strings may be put on
both sides of the paper, but it is scarcely
necessary.
With these frames, on beds prepared as
before mentioned, everything from turnip
to melon can be raised in perfection and
after the beds are done with for turnips,
melons and cucumhers can be raised in any
quantity, with the advantage that as the
cold weather comes on in the fall, if the
melons are not fully ripe, they may be GOV
cred, and thus the very latest brought to full
perfection. These sashes answer as well for
hOt-beds as for cold frames As they are
very light, they must be properly weighted
in windy weather or exposed situations
CaHada Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

A PRETTY WAY TO TRAIN FUsCHIAs. hen
a slip has grown six or eight inches high
nip out the top down to the last set of leaves
1t will then throw out branches on each side
Let these grow eight or ten inches, then nip
them out as before the tops of each branch,
when grown the same height as the others
nip out again. Then procure a stick the
size of your finger, eighteen inches in length
take hoopskirt wire, Irvine back and forth
alternately through holes made in the stick
equal distances apart place this firmly in
the pot back of the plant, tie the branches
to it. and you will have, when in flower, a
beautiful and very graceful plant. Having
one trained in that way last season, 1t was
the admiration of all who saw it.-Snali
Fruit Recorder.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

TIE Squash BUG Among the insects
especially annoying TO the cultivatOr, the
squash bug is by no means the least worthy
of attention. There are various applications
recommended for preventing the ravages of
this pest, but hand picking is the only sure
way. By turning over the leaves the eggs
may be easily seen. and they should be re-
moved with small portion Of the leaf and
burned IN the fire; the more we destroy this
year the lighter and easier will be the task
next year.
DR.. Harris says: About the last of De-
tober squash bugs desert the plants upon
which they have lived during the SUMMER.
and conceal themselves in crevices Of walls
and fences, and other places of security,
where they pass the winter in a torpid state
On the return Of warm weather, they issue
from their winter quarters, and when the
vines Of the squash have put forth few
rough leaves, the bugs meet beneath their
shelter, pair, and Immediately afterwards
begin to lay their eggs. This usually hap
pens about the last of June or the beginning
/ of July, at which time, by carefully examin-
| ing the vines, shall find the insects on the
ground or the stems of the vines close TO
the ground, from which they are hardly TO
\ be distinguished on account Of their dusky
color. This is the place where they gener-
ally remain during the daytime, apparently
/ 10 escape OuserVatIOn; out at night they
| leave the ground, get beneath the leaves, and
| lay their eggs in little patches, fastening
them with gummy substance to the under
side of the leaves.
! In order to prevent the ravages of these
insects, they should be sought and killed
when they are about to lay their eggs; and
if any escape our observation at this time,
their eggs may be easily found and crushed.
| With this view the squash vines must be Wis
tied daily, during the early part of their
growth and must be carefully examined for
| the bugs and their eggs. A very short time
spent IN this way every day, in the proper
season, will save great deal of vexation and
disappointment afterwards. If this precau-
ton be neglected or deferredstill the vines
have begun to spread, it will be exceedingly
difficult to exterminate the insects, on ac-
count of their numbers and if at this time
dry weather should prevail, the vines will
suffer so much from the bugs and drough t
together, as to produce but little if any
fruit. Whatever contributes to bring for
ward the plants rapidly, and to promote the
vigor and luxuriance of their foliage, renders
them less liable to suffer by the exhausting
lpunctures of the young bugs. Water drain
ed from COW yard, and similar prepare
tiOns, have with this intent been applied
with benefit
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

VITALITY OF WEED SEEDs.-I venture the
assertion that the efforts usually put forth
to destroy the chickweed always results in
increasing the pests, for the stellaria family,
OF which there are seven or eight varieties
possess the power of ripening their seeds, if
need be, before they are half matured in size
so that when the plants are chopped up by
the hoe and left to die on the surface of the
soil millions of these seeds will ripen suf6.
GENTLY to retain the terminating power, and
that, too, when the seeds are so small as to
be scarcely visible. S. Media, as botanists
namesthe chcikweed that infests our gardens.
produces seeds as hard as shot. The same,
too may be said of the EpursIane and MANY
other weeds. Now, if these weeds be mere
ly taken up and carried to the dung heap.
the seeds will not rot if in an ordinary com
post, but will be brought back to the garden
where they will grow again. To fight weeds
etectuaLy, they should be chopped or pulled
out as soon as they make their appearance
above ground, and should be at once removed
not to the dunghill, but to some separate
limbo in corner, expressly set apart. and
there undisturbed let them severely alone
year after year to rot, seeds and all, on the
surface of the ground Utica Herald.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29
Poetry.
Johnnys Opinion of Grandmothers.

Grandmothers are very nice folks;
They beat all the aunts IN creation,
They let chap do as he likes,
And don't worry about education.
Pm sure 1 can't see it at all,
What poor fellow ever could do
For apples, and pennies, and cakes,
Without a grandmother or two.
Grandmothers speak softly to mas
To let boy have good time;
Sometimes they will whisper, tits true,
T'Other way, when boy wants to climb.
Grandmothers have mullins for tea,
And pies, a whole row in the cellar,
And they're apt If they know it in time,
To make chicken pies for a feller"
And if he is bad now and then.
And makes a great racketing noise,
They only look over their specs,
And say, 'Ah, these boys will be boys.
Life is only so short at the best;
Let the children be happy to-day
Then they look for awhile at the sky,
And the hills that are far far away.
Quite often as twilight comes on,
Grandmothers sing hymns, very low,
To themselves as they rock by the fire.
About Heaven, and when they shall 60
And then, a boy stopping TO think,
Will find hot tear in his eye,
To know what will come at the last;
For grandmothers all have TO die.
wish they could stay here and pray,
Fora boy needs their prayers ev'ry night;
Some boys more than others, s'pose;
such as need a wonderful sight.
-LittLe Salrar.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29
Two little feet to wear the new shoes;
Two little hands busy all day;
One little body to get in the way;
One little mouth to give kisses so sweet;
Mammals little lady, dainty and neat

Two little feet to wear the new shoes;
Two little hands busy all day;
One little body to get in the way;
One little mouth TO give kisses so sweet;
Mammals little lady, dainty and neat,
With five little fingers and five little toes,
And what she'll be good for-nobody knows"
How did those yellow locks get bobbed
off so unevenly on her forehead?" some
one asked.
"Oh, she did that her own SELF" an
swered Bessie. Last Saturday Ernest
was going to mill in tae big wagon with
father, and Margery cried to 60. To tease
her, father said it was to cold for girls.
Could she 90 if she was boy ? she asked
mother, and mother said she supposed SO.
She was awful busy baking, and never
thought another thought about it, for a
while. When she called Margery to come
and get her little cake out of the oven,
only Margery's voice came, so smothered
that we ran to find her, and there she was,
under mothers bed. with the shears bag
CLING her pretty hair. To make me a boy
so l tan do anywhere with papa she said
In the afternoon spelling-class tedious
little fellow was dragging along a line of
words of three letters. Margery standing
by my side followed his lesson by the pic
lures accompanying eachword. When he
came to u-r n, urn, she said quickly,
ain't Erne, I'm Margery; Erne's my bruz-
ger" Then l could hardly keep order,
and bethought me of the teacher who
" turned out " Mary's lamb. Only l feared
the effect of such proceeding would be
different from the ancient story, and both
teacher and scholars would be sure to fol-
low the lamb.
When school was out, [ sincerely beg
ged the little guest to come again and |
guess she WILL she had been so well enter
tanned with the routine of the school
room.
We asked Bessie, the next day, what
her sister did when she went home
Why, she really thought she had been
gone long time, and grown big too. She
went up the front stoop and rang the bell.
Erne and l were waiting at the gate to see
what she would do She could Just reach
the knob on tip-toe, but she managed to
pull it. Mamma did not happen to come
soon enough to suit her, so she opened the
door and walked into the parlor, where
mamma found her"
Then what ;" | asked
u, mamma hugged her anu squeezed
her, and Ernest and | ran in, and Tower
too, and we danced about and laughed till
she most cried when we told her how Mar
gerry told the mistress she was named
after grandmamma. Mother said we had
all better come back to school to learn to
be orderly-we had such a riot. She and
Tower were the noisest ones in it though,
till Margery looked tired, and mother ran
with her in her arms into the kitchen. for
her bowl Of bread and milk. christian
Weekly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
Vermont Central R. II. Line
WINTER ARRANGEMENTs
Commencing Monday, December 4, 1871.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leave Montpelier :. SIS am. y Is a nd 955 pm.
Mail Train leaves Ogdensburg at 600 pm, 81 Al
bans az b2O a. m, connecting al White River junction
and Bellows us with Boston, Worcester.
&c, and White River Junction with trains on Pas
sumpsic Railroad South Vernon for Springfield and
New YORK Grout's Corner for New London.
Day Express leaves Montreal $40 am ~. Johns.
a. .jI3 an o-dea-1uFs az 25 aia / dttsbuTgh al
631 SAL Moners Junction 1915 am, 81 Adams 81
-. M arriving ia Boston via Lowell al 10 90 pm.
Night Express leaves pgde nsburs az 1900 M, PlaUs
burg 10 pm, Mooer Junction 5.uS pm. Montreal
33)pm. 81 Johns al $50 p.--Sf. Adams 7.21 r.
coDnecting az White River Junction and Bellows Falls
with trains Boston and Worcester &c. arriving in
Boston 30 am. al South Vernon with trains tor
Springfield and New YORK. arriving i'm New York a.
1880 pm.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Montpelier $50 and = As am, and 3-55 and
$40 pm.
Day Expire leaves Boston via Lowell at SEQ am.
for Burlington. ~. Adams. Montreal sc arriving IN
Montreal at 9.45 pun, and ogdensburg Al J p am.
making connection for the West
Mail Train for Burlington and 81. Adams leaves Bos
ton Lowe II at 100 am, Lawrence and Fitch
burgh 80 am. Springfield al 500 am, CIRCUITS
lows Fails -. pm, White River Junction 225 p.m
arriving in 81. Absns SIS pm
Accommodation Train leaves Northheld at Z. so AIM
Rutland al SEQ AN, Burlington @ GO am, 81 Al
bans az 1900 m, =. John al $50 pm, arriving in
Sight Express leaves CIRCUITS Corner al 800 p.m
south Vernon az 9je pm receiving passengers from
800 p m, Springfield $40 pm, Bellows Falls II2O
pm, connecting with trains Cheshire Railroad
junction with train leaving Boston 600 p.m., foI
Burlington, -. Adams. Montreal arriving ga Mon
tre9l az $50 am, Plart~burgh 1900 am, and in
DgdeHsburgh. 1918 pm, connecting with Grand
Trunk Railway and Steamer for the West
sleeping Cars attached IN the night Express Train
running between Montreal aud Boston, and Mo-tTeal
aud Spring ED, and -. Adams and Troy.
Drawing Room Cars on day Express Trains between
Through Tor Chicago and the West for sale al
The principal stations.
G. MER RILL, GeuI superintendent.
Il Adams, December /, 1871.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

EvERGREENs.-The advance of spring has
shown what sad havoc the past winter has
made with the evergreens in hedges, orna-
mental and nursery grounds. The sorts
hitherto regarded as perfectly hardy seemed
to be the ones to 60. The arbor vitae pretty
generally had to take it, and thousands of
hedges that had cost much time and labor
and had been years in growing, were totally
ruined, while many Norway spruces, juniper
and rhododendrons in private and public
grounds and parks suffered terribly. Even
the rustic and hardy red cedar which every
body supposed could stand anything, fell 4
victim to the four feet Of frost in the dry
earth and the dry and piercing winds of the
first ten days Of March.-PLoughman
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

PorA1oEs.-Andrew S. Fuller, agricultur-
al editor of the Sun says The number OF
pieces of potatoes to the hill, will depend
somewhat upon their size and the number of
ewes upon each. We think that piece OF
potato containing three or four eyes, is just
as good as larger one, or even whole tn
ber Three or four pieces are enough for a
hill but we have abandoned the bill system,
and now plant in drills, placing the pieces
feet apart. We have found by careful ex-
periments that we obtain a larger yield by
planting in drills, without increasing the
cost of production. The past season we
PLANTED several new varieties of potatoes,
and used pieces containing but one eye, and
the yield was as large as where more seed
was used.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29

PoTAroEs We all have observed the
great deterioration in our potato crops dur
ing the past ten or twenty years and what
is the cause of this alarming decrease OF
tubers? Can science, can chemistry point
out the reason or aid in remed ing the diff
cultY2 We think it can, and in order u
place the matter in clear light we will
point out the kind and amount Of food which
the potato demands
We had field of potatoes upon the farm
which yielded three hundred bushels to the
acre; this may be regarded as an Old-iash-
toned crop. This crop removed from the
soil in tubers and tops at least four hundred
pounds potash also 1t removed one hundred
and fifty pounds phosphoric acid. Now these
amounts are very large, and serve to show
that the potato plant is great consumer Of
the two substances, and it also shows that 10
order to restore our potato fields to their
former productive condition, we must supply
phosphate compounds and substances hold
ing potash in large quantities.
For SIX or eight generations IN New Ing
land our fathers have been exhausting the
soil by em)ving these agencies in their pO-
tato and other crops, and we have reached a
time when the vegetable i5 starving in our
fields for want OF its proper food. Our
farmers have found that new land gives the
best crops, and this is due to tue fact that
such fields afford the most potash. But 50
long as we crop our pastures 50 unreasonably,
we cannot resort to new land, as land Is not
new that has had its potash and phosphate
elements removed by grazing animals.
Remember that potato field which gives
but one hundred bushels TO the acre requires
at least one hundred and sixty pounds of
p fash but by allowing the tops 70 decay
upon the field, sixty pounds Of this amount
is restored to the soil again. as that amount
is contained in them. A medium crop Of
potatoes requires twice as much phosphoric
acid as a medium crop of wheat, 50 that in
two years With wheat the land is destroyed
of no more Of the agent than it loses in one
year with potatoes Boston Journal Of
Chemistry.