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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12
SHALL WE MANURE rnELAND THE Gro,

SHALL WE MANURE THE LAND OR THE CROP &?
Plaster Is at retail at the nearest depot,
5 IA per ton, while by the car load it can be
got at 81 so per ton, and as farmers meet
they inquire-are you going to get any plas-
ter this Spring Some say, " No " it does
no good on my land. % Others say, Yes ::
it does well on my land The same re-
marks are made in regard to superphosphate :;
also in regard to the application of manure !;
it is plowed in and the land will receive the
greatest benefit in that way. This theory
may do with those who have capital and do
not care for the next harvest, but rather
desire to permanently improve the soil
They underdrain, pillow in the green crops of
and liberal dressings of manure, and clover
apply lime ashes, plaster ground raw bone or
superphosphate, IN quantities so great that
the lime, potash and phosphate NAY be
enough for several abundant crops In this
case the land is MANFRED, and with proper
blowing, cultivating and seeding, large crops
are almost certain. But with lack of CAPT
tai, and with soil moderately fertile, the
crop should be MANFRED, and the special aim
be to produce the largest crops with the
fertilizers at command. In this view of the
case, plaster should be applied to clover.
potatoes and peas, such crops as long expert
ence teaches it benefits most-the super-
phosphate to turnips. and perhaps wheat
and corn the manure from the stables an
piled to the land after blowing and inter
mingled with the serface soil to a depth of
three inches, for planted or drilled crops a
small quantity of some fertilizer should be
applied near the seed. In this way the crops
will be much better than if the same articles
are applied to the land or plowed into the
land without regard to the crop grown. For
| corn and potatoes L like an inverted sod
with manure applied after blowing it is
made hne and thoroughly intermingied with
the soil by narrowing then through the
season, by the action of cultivators and hoes,
tie mellow soil is gradually worked into bills
where the potatoes appropriate it, as it is in
ITS most available form, The popular theory
Is 70 KeeP cornheld nearly level, but prac-
tlce, wherever hand hoes are used results
IN bills, and the enriched soils form them
while the decaying turf affords fool all the
latter part of the season.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

IMPROVEMENT IN BRAK ss.-rhe st Adams
Messenger says that the Vermont Central
Railroad Company is about to apply to its
passenger cars and engines the celebrated
Westinghouse Air Brake, simple and effec-
tive invention whereby the entire control oil
a train of cars is placed 10 the hands of the
engineer and a train going at the rate Of 40
miles an hour can be stopped in 20 rods.
1t also notices trial which has been made
on that road of Mr.. Sessions Automatic Oiler.
In order to make a statement of the oil used
with the new boxes as compared With the
old style, an account of the oil used was
kept with seven cars with common boxes,
and also with like number of cars equip
ped with the patent oil boxes. These cars
were run together on the same trains and no
effort made to make a test of the merits of
one at the expense Of the other, but this is
simply condensed statement of the oil as
used in the usual way of oiling.
Total number of miles run by seven cars
with common boxes, 1880. Number gal
Ions oil used, IS.
Total number of miles run by seven car
with patent boxes, $50 Number gallons
oil used, 9.
Number of miles run to one gallon of oil
common boxes,) 204.74.
Number of miles run 70 one gallon of oil
(patent boxes,) S64.44.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

BRANDY FROM SAw-DUsT.-- the current
monthly report of the commissioner OF az
riculture, it is announced that there is an
immense waste of material in our saw mllls
where the saR-dust is thrown away; and
that it is possible to produce from this dust
a good quality of brandy. 1t is suggested
that the saw dust of pine and of firm timber
be mixed, and that compound be prepared
composed of nine parts of moist saw-dqst,
80 7 parts of water, and one part of hydro
choloric acid, making 43.6 parts altogether
Those are to be boiled under steam pressure
Ii hours, when it will be found that IS pei
cent Of the mass will be grape sugar. The
acid is to be neutralized with lime, and
the mash supplied with yeast. After 81
hours fermentation, distillaton of the mast
will produce 81 quarts Of brandy of 80 per
cent strength, and free of any smell of tur-
pentine 1t is claimed that in all probabll
ity many other woods than pine and fir viii
prove even better adaped to the production
of brandy
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

FASTENING HORSES N a STALL.-FaTmers
often find some trouble with their horses in
properly restraining them in the stable or
stall, and how TO do 10 without any injury
to the horse, and yet the horse be comfortable
under his restraint, is a question with them.
| The accidents to the horse in the stable are
various among farmers, for the reason that
they more frequently do not take the pains
in care that is necessary to their safety, etc
their other stock being too numerous, and
other cares being pressing, the one or two
! horses kept on the farm are not so likely TO
receive as much attention IN regard to safety,
comfort etc las the gentleman S or amateur 5
and again, their stables are differently con-
structed, so that they are from these and
other causes more liable to accidents If
farmers would take One-half the care of their
horses that the amateur hOrseman does OF
his, there would seldom if ever be an acct
dent in the stable.
Among the various accidents that are
of somewhat frequent occurrence is that of
halter-casting. a not unfrequently danger
Gus and sometimes fatal one. The very mode
of fastening, often is the very worst, and so
dangerously unwise that accidents Of this
kind are scarcely to be avoided if the horse
is not cast, he often gets his fore foot over
the rein or halter rope, and IS thus pre-
vented from taking his usual feed, if no fur
Their injury result. With suitable care to
keep the halter-rein free from the feet,
which is very easily done, there is very lit
tie danger of any accident resulting from
this cause, and to do it, the halter-rein
should not be too lOng-only just right when
the horse stands up to the manger to get
his hay from the rack without the rein
drawing to annoy him. To fasteu the
horse safely, tile halter should pass
through a ring at the rear of the man
ger, and the end be loaded with a weight of
three or four pounds, just enough TO take uI
the slack when the horse steps towards his
manger from the back part of his stall, a.
most horses are inclined, when not feeding
to step and stand back in order to rest in {
more comfortable position. In this case the
manger must have a suitable height-ful
breast Highland the rack not too high, O.
the rein cannot be kept with its proper ten
sion, unless the rein passes through a rim
affixed above the mauger in some way.
In our experience we have found that t
keep a horse from backing out to the lengt
Of his halter, the best way is to furnish hin
a somewhat raised platform, plank, or like
for his hind feet to stand on when he step
D to an easy position in regard to his mangeI
We have noticed a strong inclination in th
2 horse, while standing, to have his hind fee
above level with bis front ones, and ther
G he will rest contented unless thus supplied
/ he is seeking it while not eating-W. +
White,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

teman's pantaloons, and screamed with all
his might.
cannot begin to describe what followed
or record the questions with which Tommy
was assailed, in English, Irish and French,
to all of which ne could only say that his
grandpa owned Dolly and kept bears, and
that he was bear himself when he went
to sleep. OF course there was nothing to
do but take the little bear to Ryetown,
and send him back by Fridays coach. So
he cried himself to sleep that night in the
Ryetown hotel, and early the next morning
was lifted into the yellow stage again. All
the way back the driver wondered what he
should do with the boy when he got &c
Pearfeld; but there was no need OF wor'
rying about that, for everybody IN towr
knew that he was lost, and dozens o.
people were looking in every direction
You can guess whether anybody was GLAD
when the little runaway was set down at
grandpas gate, umbrella, carPet-bag an'
all.
Grandma's eyes looked very red and he
voice trembled when she said
Why Tommy, Tommy, you poor dear
child, where have you been "
oOh, ever so far " said the young ad-
venturer with a sigh; "way, way Owe
most to the 'lutionary war. Has grandp
caught my bear ?''-Little Corporal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

CosT AND VALUE OF BEETs.-At recent
meeting of the Little Falls Farmers Club,
IN the course of paper on roots, Mr.. Harris
Lewis stated the cost of raising beets on his
farm last season, for labor in blowing, ma
nuring, cultivating and harvesting, cost OF
seed and sowing, at S46,70 per acre, which,
as the yield was 900 bushels, is equal to
about 1-2 cents bushel, or allowing also
for value of manure used and interest on
land, about 7 2 cents bushel He adds ;
. A crop of yellow globes and imperial beets
were grown on part of the same land the
year previous, at cost of about seventy dol
lars per acre, yet the yield was so much
greater that the cost of the roots was about
two cents per bushel less than the cost OF
the crop last year"
Mr.. Lewis advocates feeding cattle regu.
lar portion of roots each day, the whole
time they are confined from pasture in cold
weather, as preferable to partial feeding, as
for example emitting roots while the COWS
are dry in midwinter. He expresses the be-
/ lief, as the result of experiment, that beets
are actually worth from 3 to "a cents pei
bushel for feeding, as compared with hay
/ at $50 ton-the lowest of these estimates
affOrding ample profit on the cost OF cul-
tivatiOn but he thinks the consequential
advantage even greater still, IN g increased
usefulness during the entire season, " lesseneC
liability to disease, &C., and in the improve
ment Of the butter and cheese which the mill
produces. In support of this last item, h'
says, in conclusion
g The managers Of the Frankfort chess
factory, have at my request, made two test
of the milk of all their patrons this sprlnt
for the express purpose of determining the
relative quantity of milk produced b!
COWS with hay and grain, and concluded
that beets are as good if not better, for tn
production Of rich milk than grain. Afte
carefully looking at the subject in all it
bearings, so far as my limited experience ha
given me an opportunity to do so, hav
come to the conclusion that beets for cattl
, food are well worth full as many cents pc
bushel, as good hay is worth dollars per ton
I and that the average cost per bushel, whe
stored in the cellar, with every item of ex
pense included need not exceed eight cents pc
bushel. Now, as the price of hay in Contra
New York will probably average at least re
dollars per ton or over, for the next decade
do not discover any risk in growing beet
for our dairy stock. My advice to all dairy
men who are not convinced, in regard t
their value as food for dairy stock, would be
to try a small piece each year, until the
t become fully persuaded in their own minds
e not only of the cost of beets but also of thei
value as food for dairy stock
e For how long period, and in how man
| different localities, will it be necessary ths
such experiments should be repeated in tn
5 country, before our farmers become cor
: WINGED that it is worth their while TO unde
D take the cultivation Of roots ?-COuntT
b Gentleman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

IMPORTANCE OF Pure WATER FOR Cows
A case of scientific investigation at Cornell
University, by Prof. Low, is full Of interest
to farmers especially dairymen. The milk
furnished by the milkman attracted the at
tention of the Professor by the peculiar ap-
pearance of the cream which had rOpy
look. When subjected to powerful miscro-
scope there appeared large number of llv
ing organisms of different stages Of growth.
The investigation was pushed by the PROBES
sor and the cause ascertained. The milkman
admitted that he allowed his cows to drink
at a stagnant pool instead of giving them
good pure water 1t was shown that the
foul organisms taken up by the cows wher
drinking such water, pass into the circula-
ton, enter the blood and even faint the secre
tions, making the milk mass of filth. Thi'
/ fact has heretofore been brought to the at
tcntion of dairYmen, and cannot be too care
| fully attended to by those having the care Of
cows for dairy and domestic purposes
/ BeUeUjHe Ontario.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12
gnetru.
TO-MOrrOW.
Dreaming in the golden twilight,
sits a maiden young and fair,
While the shadows slowly lengthen

Dreaming in the golden twilight,
sits a maiden young and fair,
While the shadows slowly lengthen,
Building castles in the air,
Dreaming Of the coming morrow,
Brightest day in her bright life
All her love and trust rewarding
With the holy title-wife.
Dreaming sits widowed mother,
Aged not by time but care,
Like the maiden, che is busy,
Building castles in the air.
Dreaming Of the coming morrow,
Day long looked for, now so near
And she murmurs, Fer another
Sunset, Charlie will be here"
Dreaming, sits student lonely,
In his attic, mean and bare,
Though a man, he. too, is building
Building castles in the air.
Dreaming of the coming morrow,
And the contest for the prize
"What, though others strive, care not,
Mine, it is, ;" he proudly cries.
Dreaming, sits a soldier youthful,
In his hand a tress of hair,
Gazing on it, he is building
Building castles in the air.
Dreaming Of the coming morrow,
When the:din of battles Ger,
Victor-crowned to her who gave it,
He'll return to part no more.
The morrow cometh, and the maiden,
Lonely, for a false love weeps,
While the widowed mothers darling
Meath the blue wave soundly sleeps,
And the student, disappointed, sees,
The prize snatched by another hand,
The soldier, in the battle slain.
Fills the grave in q far-ofI land.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

BIG TREEs.-An exchange says " In
almost all parts Of the country may be
found large trees. The largest in the north
ern states is that known as the Balm
Gilead tree, near Newburg, which is about
thirty feet in circumference. 1t is now
about one hundred years old, a fact which
casts some doubt upon the antiquity of its
California brethren. Ga Denning's point.
opposite Newburg, are two old oaks, called
the Washington Oaks. One is twenty-three
feet in circumference, and the other eigh-
teen feet. a few years ago a companion
Of these trees was blown down, and on be-
ing sawed up, an examination with mi
croscope revealed seven hundred and sixty
five rings, showing that the tree was seven
hundred and sixty-fve years old; as it was
only thirteen feet in circumference. it is
supposed the largest tree now standing
must be about twelve hundred years old,
and the other thousand years. The rail-
road company owning the property. have
directed the trees to be protected from in
jury, and 1t is possible that they may
stand another thousand years"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12
Agritult
Notes About Crops.

4 correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican, writing under date of May Is, says
The recent excitement in the wheat
market and consequent advance in the price
OF that commodity, were evidently results,
in great measure, of a speculative influence
the talk of impending -four famine is all
sheer nonsense. In the first place, large
proportion Of last years harvest still rests
in the hands of the producers, who are wait
ing anxiously for still further advance in
price Then the hue and cry echoing through
the country at the present time, that the
coming wheat harvest will prove failure,
is false alarm, sounded for purpose alike
by spectators who hold large invoices Of
-four for sale, and by farmers who have not
vet parted with their last years crop. The
report that winter wheat all either seri-
ously winter killed, or subsequently des-
troyed by spring drought is only correct in
the most limited sense. In some parts OF
New York state wheat fields have suffered
in part through these influences, but had
every wheat fed in the entire state been
totally ruined in this or any other manner
the disaster should not advance the market
price of wheat the value of a single penny
per bushel. The fact is, New York, as q
wheat producing state is essentially - played
out" The farmers have - wheated = soil to
death. The area given to this crop has
diminished rapidly during the last twenty
years, while the number of bushels per acre
has decreased in about equal proportion
New York farmers are nearly through with
raising wheat, and it is about time they
found it out. If the very best wheat lands
in the state produce twenty bushels per acre
it is called first class crop, while ten or
twelve bushels is considered fair average
harvest. The land is worn out for wheat !;
a majority of the farmers are learning the
fact by experience, and are branching into
the production of other staples. 1t is true
that winter frost and spring drought
did iniure the wheat fields of New York, as
well as those in some other places, but not
by any means to the disastrous extent
represented. Winter-ields, in most Of
the wheat producing districts throughout
the western states, promise more than aver
age harvest, while the average of spring
wheat in the same districts far exceeds that
of any previous season With the present
amount of that grain in store throughout
the country, and the present prospect of a
plentiful harvest, if the current Eprice of
flour Is sustained it must be achieved through
speculative influences alone.
s. In spite of the general absence Of rain,
grass is coming forward grandly all throu Oh
the Middle States and Ohio, and if june
proves a propitious month, the yield of that
great staple will be abundant EVERYWHERE
in the New England states, New Jersey
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio the
native fruits have displayed perfect prodi
gality of bloom, and if One-tenth of the fruit
now setting, natures, there is certain to b
an excess Of all the common fruits in thei
season of harvest
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12
goetru.
The Old Mans Revere.


] can't make out for the life Of me, what ais my
eyes tonight
As clear as ever the hills anddeds stand out in the
sunset light;
But, whether look this way that, comes up a
different scene,
AS if another picture had somehow slipped be
tween:
Her fathers apple-orchard, and we two lettering
there.
| shouldn't have stayed a minute hadn't one TO
spare;
I'd only just come. over to try and borrow pillow :;
But the sight Of her put my hurry right out of my
head somehow.
mind the apple-blossoms how thick they were
thatspringi
Yes, and I'm likely 70 mind them as long a. any
thing.
some ofthe boughs, I remember, were just a sight
The buds were as red as rosos, all over the top o
the tree.
held branch while she stripped it, till shaker
out Of place,
\ bee from one Of the broken flowers came flying
into her face.
she screamed, and II kissed her, just for a cure
you know,
And she biushed ull her cheeks were pmker thal
the pinkest apple-blow.
And so-and so--we were married before the sprin
came round again;
Under this roofwe lived together five happy years
and then
Well well, she never was wrinkled, like me, an
old and gray:
I think Of her always fresh and fair, just 81
looked that day.
I've somehow taken notion that the first thing
shall see,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

STRAWBERRY SHoRTcAKE.-One quart Hour,
three tablespoonfuls butter, one large cup
sour cream or rich loppered milk, one egg,
one tablespoonful Of white sugar, one tea
spoonful soda dissolved in warm water, one
saItspoon of salt. Chop up the shortening
in the sailed -four as for pastry. Add the
egg and soda to the milk put all together,
handling as little as may be. Roll lightly
and quickly into two sheets, the one intended
for the upper crust fully half an inch thick
the lower less than this. Lay one crust
upon the other, and bake While warm
not hot-separate them, Lay upon the
lower a thick coating, several deep. of straw
berries; sprinkle powdered sugar over them
cover with the upper crust
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

DEATH to BUGs.-The following recipe for
destroying bugs on squash and cucumber
vines has been successfully used for years.
1t Is certainly worth a trial:
Dissolve tablespoonful of saltpeter in a
pailful of water, put one pint of this
around each hill, shaping the earth so that
it will not spread much, and the thing is
done, Use moro saltpeter if you can afford
tit is good for vegetable, but death to
animal life. The bugs burrow in the earth
at night and fail to rise in the morning. 1t
is also good to kill the grubs in peach trees,
only twice as much, say quart to each tree.
There was not yellow or blistered leaf on
twelve or fifteen trees to which it was APP
piled last season. No danger Of killing veg
etables with It.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-12

The great secret in raising orderly and
tractable animals, lies IN treating them kind
~ and gently when young. heiier that is
kicked, roughly treated, and occasionally
scared into wildness, will probably make a
vicious cow-One that will kick or hook oc-
casionally, for she has learned to consider
those who approach her as enemies. On
the contrary, one that has never learned to
fear those who feed and attend her, Will sub
nit to the operation of milking without re-
sistance, and can be broken to all the custo-
mary duties Of a cow with case and safety.