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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
HIDES.

IL will interest many farmers TO learn how
the dealers classify and describe hides and
will, at least, enable them better to compre-
hend market reports Of this commodity, and
often to form a more intelligent opinion of
the value of the hides they sell from time to
time. They are classified as follows:
Green hides are those which are sent in
just as they come from the animal, never
having been salted.
Part cured are hides that have been salt
ed, but not long enough to be thoroughly
cured.
Green Sdited are those tAat have been
salted and are thoroughly cured. To cure a
hide thoroughly will require from twelve to
twenty days, according to the thickness of
the hide and the temperature Of the weather.
The loss of weight from the green state is
from ~ to 20 per cent.
Dry flint is a thoroughly dry hide that
has not been salted
Dry sailed is thoroughly dry hide, hav-
ing been salted while green.
In green salted hides and skins, those
weighing less than s lbs. are called deaeons /;
8 to Is lbs, calf Is to 30 lbs, it plump
kip, but if thin and poor, they are call
ed runners, or murrains, and are sold at the
price of hides all above 20 lbs. are called
hides.
A green salted hide is understood to be
thoroughly cured, free from salt, dirt, meat,
horns, tail, bones and sinews, and before be-
ing weighed, all such substances are removed,
or aproper deduction is made from the
weight, and when the head skin hangs to the
hide by narrow strip, it is cut off before
weighing.
All bull, stag, tainted. cut badly Scared,
grubby (having more than four grub holes
Ed) or murrain hides are called damaged.
and go at twO-thirdo price, unless they are
very badly damaged, when they are classed
as glue stock, at much lower price.
A deduction of 10 per cent. is made on
all branded hides.
In dry hides there are other kinds of dam
aged, such as moth-eaten, sun-burnt or wealth
er.beaten.
As a large proportion of the hides receiy-
ed are green salted, the price that they bring
as rule, is made the standard for the price
of all other kinds.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
KISS NE MAMMA"

"kiss me, mamma, before | sleep" How
simple boon, yet how soothing to tho little
supplicant is that soA, gentle kiss. The lit.
tie head sinks contentedly on the pillow, for
all is peace and happiness within. The
bright eyes close, and the rosy lip is reveling
in the bright and sunny dreams of inuo-
cence. Yes, kiss it, mamma, for that good
night kiss will lngor in memory when the Civ.
er lies moldering in the grave. The memo.
ry of gentle mothers kiss has cheoled
many lonely wanderers pilgrimage and has
been the beacon light to illuminate his desc
late heart ; for remember, life has many
stormy billow to cross, many rugged path
to climb, with thorns to pierce and we
know not what is in store for the little one
so sweetly slumbering, with no marriug care
to disturb its peaceful dreams. The parched
and fevered lip will become dewy again as
recollection bears to the sufferers couch
mothers love-a mothers kiss. Then kiss
your little ones ere they sleep; there is
magic power in that kiss which will endure
to the end OF life.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
General Asritulture.
GROWTH OF PINES IN MAINE.

During recent visit to Lincoln county,
We saw in the northwestern part of Alma
aad in that part Of White6eld adjoining it.
quite extensive tracts of pine woods, the
trees standing very thick, and running up
straight and tall. There were several lots Of
fifteen to twent, five acres in exteut, belong
ing to different parties and from some of
these considerable quantities of timber arc
now being cut. Years ago the land upon
which this pine growth is now standing was
covered with a growth Of white aud red
oak, which was cut of for slaves These
were manufactured, sold in Wiscasset, ship
ped to the West Indies, and brought back
filled with molasses Nearly all the large
oaks along the coast were used for this pur.
pose, and the ground is now producing
growth of pines, Mr.. David 9. Potter, Of
Alma, informs us that fifty years ago his fa-
ther, while gathering oak timber for slaves,
drove his oxen and sled over the tops of
small pines that are now forty, fifty, and six
ty feet high, and that will scale from four
hundred to one thousand feet of lumber.
Some of these trees are now two feet in di-
ameter at the ground, the average being
eighteen inches. The profits of these trees
have been as good as money at ten per cent.
interest, and yet our farmers fail to grow
forest or timber trees, thinking they or their
children will not get paid for the trouble.
Behold these facts, and let some of your
waste land grow up to trees for your chill
drenS benefit, if not for your own.-Mdine
Farmer
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13

Somebody says the hog is a Peabody
among animals alongside of the hen. Throw
a handful of corn into ten acre lot and ev-
cry hen in the inclosure will get dab at it.
The last hen on the spot may not secure
more than two kernels, but nothing in the
hens appearance will indicate that 1t will
step around with as much precision and graf.
itude as any in the flock, and wear the most
pensive smile you ever saw. A hen will not
eat everything it sees, but it will try to, aud
there isn't one of them on the face of this
earth but that can tell you the taste of every
thing it has seen within the radius of half.
mile Of its house.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
For the VERMONT FARMER
BOUND OUT LANDS
Charlotte, Nor. 20.


Generally, in most parts of New England,
the lands have not been considered too good
for the use of manure; but even among us
much land is suffered by the owners to be.
come bound out. Such land is "skinned" by
exhausting crops until it becomes too sterile
to pay the farmer for cultivation. 1t seems
to us, if rightly managed, there is no neces-
sity that any land which has hardpan for
its foundation should run out The farmer
who draws more richness from tie soil than
he replaces is preparin iur that kind of
poverty which will drive him to the poor
farm or the West, or to abandon farming
and try some other vocation.
The farmers of these New England states
ought to be convinced BY this time that it is
far more possible to obtain independence and
an easy living from farm that is continual
ly improving than from one tbt is contlnu-
ally deteriorating. In a few towns can be
found farms that are improving, and it may
be laid down as general RUE, that the i'm
proving farm, independent Of the additional
value which such improvements yield, fur
nish the greatest immediate profit.
The smallest farmer has it in his power
equally with the larger to make continued
improvements. Let him begin with a single
acre, if he have an acre capable of retaining
the strength of what is applied to it. If he
can obtain the means Of keeping at first two
hogs, these animals, with the aid Of one or
two COWS, may be made to furnish manure
for this acre. The application for one year
will prepare the ground in the first instance
for crops for three years, until two other
acres shall be prepared and treated in
like manner. If the soil of this land be
dry, let clay be applied when it can be pIo-
cured handily; if wet and heavy, let sand
be carted to it andh have it thoroughly drained
The means Of making manure may be
found on every farm. Tufts of grass and
the upper soil from the roadside, deposits
in brooks and mud holes, leaves from the
forests, straw, weeds, decaying vegetables
chips and scrapings from door yards, and
many other kinds of rubbish may be thrown
into the hog yard. In the manufacture oi
manure these animals may be almost made
to earn their living,
There is much land in New Hampshire
nOminally valued at from ten to twenty dol
lars per acre, but which to-day would moi
sell for half that money, which yields annu
ally not over half ton of hay to the
acre. This was plowed and cropped until il
did not pay for planting and hoeing, and now
it is mOwn over, but it hardly pays. Thii
same land by careful management and a ju
dicious use of manure, might be made t
yield two tons Of good hay to the acre.
For example, apply at one time forty load
of manure to single acre, and ten load
each to four acres more. The first year
with nearly four times the work, you vii
have about twice the quantity of cSrn o.
oats on the larger that you have on tn,
smaller field - say the one shall yiel'
twenty-five and the other fifty bushels to thu
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
TACT.

There are times for all things; but the
railroad, or mixed concourse of any kind,
afford no time, for the discussion of exciting
themes. The "price of politeness" is in
knowledge of your companions, or, in default
of that, in avoiding peculiar themes. The
wisest sometimes blunder in this. The vi.
car of Wakefield entertained a gen tleman
who was "cherishing" his fourth wife, with a
dissertation on his (the Vicar's) theory, that
man or woman who is bereft Of the first
mate should henceforth live without taking
another mate. A lady making an introduc-
tory call on newly arrived couple enter
tanned them with a TRADE against female
boarding schools. Among the other evils
she alledged was that the pupils sometimes
run away from the school to get married,
and that under such circumstances the match.
es were always unhappy. The husband of
the lady who persisted in "oratiug" on the
subject vainly tried to turn the conversa-
ton. She understood why, when on their
way home she was informed that the lady
and gentleman to whom she had been dis
coursing were marked instances of precisely
the folly she had been bcrating.
To be really good talker is a great ac-
complishment, and the science of conversation
deserves much more study than it receives.
Mrs Partington lamented that "she never
opened her mouth, but she put her foot in
it," Plenty of other people are in the
same unfortunate prodicament and innu-
merable are the social feuds, more or less
pronounced, which grow out of the careless
use of the tongue
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
PeII-SpGtfeFS.

Cowards die many times before their death !
fhe valiant taste Of death but once
Heaven IL ever kind tew us. she puts our
humps on our backs so that we kant see
them.
Can civil engineer inform us how it is
that the mouths of rivers are larger than
their heads.
A boy being asked what name was given
to residents of the United States, promptlyan.
swered, "tax payers"
The st. Louis Times described the love
existing between young shoemaker and
the objects of his affections as a case Of "two
soles with but single upper
A man that malTies widow is bound to
give up smoking and chewing If she gives
up her weeds for him, he should give up his
weed for hor.
Itiz CRATE deal eazier tew be n philosopher
after man haz had hiz dinner, than it IL
when he don't know where ho IL agoing tew
git it.
an Irishman to the comedian. No, never
was at Cork, replied the wit, but have seen
u good many drawings Of it,
The man who called for tea, at IN ordina-
ry eating-house, 4" as strong ms the kick of a
mule" complains that he got it "as weak as
good resolution"
A neighbor fairly posed us the other night
by asking us the simple question; When is
q fish crazy? and assured us it was only when
the aforesaid fish is in-seine.
The newest Yankee notion is new stove
for the comfort of railway travellers; il is tc
put under the feet, with II mustard-plaster on
the head, which draws the heat through the
whole body,
In some eating houses the following songs
are sung: Ilash-ShOH mGdtGr. Bologna
sausage-iong nieater Boiled pork-cOnnaO'
meater Porter-house steak - particular
NledteT.
" Now John, suppose there's load of hay
one side of the river and jackass on tn,
other, and no bridge, and the rivers toe
wide to swim, how can the jackass get to the
hay3" 81 give itup.n "Well, that's JUS
what the other jackass did,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
FARM-YARD SONG.

Over the hill the hrm.boy goes
His shadow longthens along the land'
A giant staff IN giant hands
In the poplar tree, above the sprng
The katydd begins to sing
The early dews are falling.
Into stone-heaps darts the mink
The swallows skim the rivers brink;
And homo to the woodland ny the crows
When over the hill the farm-boy goes,
Checrily calling,
"Co', boss co., boss CO., CO., CO., CO. :"
Farther, farther, over the hill,
Family calling, calling still,
"Co', boss CO., boss! CO., CO., co. !"
Into the yard the farmer goes
with grateful heart at the close Of day
Harness and chain are hung away;
In the wagon shed stand yoke and plowi
The straw's in the stack the hay in the NOV,
The cooling dows are falling;
The friendly sheep his welcome bleat,
The pigs come grunting t. his feet,
The whinnying mare her master knows,
When into the yard the farmer goes,
Ills cattle calling,
"Cu'' boss CO., boss CO., co, co'!n
While still the COW boy far away,
Goes seeking those that have gone astray,
"Co', boss! CO., boss CO., CO. :" ..
Now to her task Tie milkmaid goes
The cattle come crowding thro' the gate,
Lowing, pushing, little and great
About the trough by the farm-yard pump
The frolicsome yearlings frisk and jump
While the pleasant dows are fallingl
The new mileh heifer is quick and shy.
But the old COW waits with tranquil eyes
And the white stream into the bright pail flows
When to her task the milkmaid goes,
Soothingly calling,
$50, boss so, boss so! so sol"
The cheerful milkmaid takes her stool,
And. sits and milks in the twilight COOL
Saying, "So so, boss so SOL"
To supper at last the farmer goes'
The apples are pared, the paper read,
The stories are told, then all to bed,
Without, the crickets ceaseless song
Makes shrill the silepce all night long
The heavy Gews are falling
The housewives hand has turned the lock
Drowsly ticks the kitchen clock;
The household sinks to deep repose;
But still in his sleep the ihrm-boy goes
Singing, calling,
"Co', boss CO., boss CO. CO. co'n'
And Oft the milkmaid, in her dreams,
Drums in the pail with the flashing streams,
Murmuring, 80, boss SOL"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
SPREADING MANURE AT ONCE.

Hearth and Home objects to the very
common practice of dumping manure in heaps
on the farm, leaving it to be spread at leis-
ure afterwards, and details single case of
injury to wheat and oats from lodging, rust,
&C., on the spots where the heaps had been
made. We have often noted much the same
results both On grain aud grass land. Even
when not allowed to remain long enough to
inAict actual damage to future crops, it al.
ways results in unequal fertility the site Of
the heaps will exhibit three or four times
the productiveness OF the adjoining land.
The best way is to spread Immediately.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
FUNERAL FLOWERS.

In the larger cities flowers from large
source of revenue to florists who make bou-
quets, etc., speciality. In New York, the
aggregate sum spent yearly on flowers is i'm
mense. Upon funeral flowers, especially,
large sums are expended. The following
will show the prices paid for leading sorts in
Winter; The price of handsome basket is
from five to fifty dollars. Boquets can be
made at from three to twenty-five dollars,
Single rOsebuds cost twenty-five cents, and
carnations twenty cents. Smilax is sold at
one dollar yard, the viOlets by the dozen
at twelve cents. One spray of lilies of the
valley costs twenty-five cents.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13

As rule, the English wife has the abso-
Lutte control of certain sam appropriated
to household expenses and her own personal
wants to much greater degree than the
American woman, In this respect, she is
freer, happier, aud more self-respecting.
The very responsibility tends to cultivate in
her sound judgment, forethought, foresight,
and prudence in expenditure. A creature
treated as a child in the use Of money will
seldom have more than the judgment of a
child, albeit it be that of child of larger
growth.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
For the VERMONT FARMER
THE POULTRY QUESTION.

My husband has always thought hens
were not profitable, so have been trying to
convince him to the contrary. had nine
teen hens in March. They were kept shut
up from May until September raised
forty-fve chickens, and used as many eggs
as we needed in the family of FIVE. The cost
of keeping, in meal, potatoes and corn, was
s0.l9; sales of eggs and fowls, S32.55, and
| have ten Of the old stock left, with twenty
good laying pullets. They have fed them
selves and clothed me through the summer.
- Mrs. NJ. j. g.
PenoJScot Co., Me-, Nor. "a.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
DAIRY CHEATS IN CALIFORNIA

The San Francisco Bulletin says One of
the grossest cases Of fraud ever perpetratcd
upon the merchants of this community has
recently been ventilated by II. Marteno,
produce dealer in the Washington Market,
and the facts are partially known to our
readers. Five months ago Mr., MartenO
bought twenty-eight 6rkins of butter from
Getz Brothers. commission merchants on
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13

Leather contains much that is of manuri-
al value, but the process Of tanning has
placed it in an almost indestructible cond.
tion. and destruction is necessary to fertiliza-
ton. All manures must be reduced to their
simple constituents before they can be again
taken up by plants We know Of no way in
which leather scraps can be destroyed with
out the loss of their nitrogenous matter
consequently our plan would be to burn
them and use their ashes. These would be
good for any purpose; much better than
hard wood ashes, and rather more nearly al.
lied to calcined bone. They would be espe-
cially valuable for small fruits aud root
crops.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
POOR FARMER JOHN.

Old farmer John is sore perplexed-
Nay, farmer John is really Vexed;
He labors early, labors late,
Yet ever talks of adverse fate;
For all his toilIngs scarce suffice,
OF longed-for lands to pay the price.
The summers come, the summers go,
The spring showers waste the winters snow,
The while from dawn till close of day,
Receiving naught but frowns for pay,
His good wife tolls and anxious care
Has faded lip and cheek and hair.
Acres on acres stretch away
OF woodland, corn, of wheat and hay;
His cattle roam DER many hill,
His brooklet turns the grOaning mill.
Yet still he sighs. and longs for more,
And grumbles e'er that he is poor.
Four sturdy sons, four daughters fair
Claimed at his hands fathers care.
He gave them labor without end,
And strove their souls, like ais, to bend
Into the narrowing groove uf thought;
Gold TO be earned, land to be bought.
Yes, farmer John is growing poor
You feel 1t as you pass his door.
His old brown house is small and mean,
The roof is warped by crack and seami
The leaning bars, the halfhinged door,
Proclaim old John as uery poor.
No books; no pictures on the wall
Carpetless room and dTeary hall.
Why think it strange such farmers boys
Should seek the eitys pomp and noise
shonld learn to loathe the sight of home,
Where naught Of joy or grace may Gomez
Why think it strange his poor, old wife,
Who coined for him her very life,
Should pause, at last, despite his frown,
And lay her weary burden down
In joy, to walk the streets Of Heaven,
Where naught is sold, but all is given.
Go where you will, search earth around
The poorest man that can be found
Is he who tolls, through life, to gain
Widest extent Of hill and plain,
Forgetting all his souls best needs,
In counting DER his title'deeds.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13

acre, the addition of stalks and butts CON-
peusating for the extra labor, but can the
fertility of the land be kept up on the four
acres? We think not We offer the above
facts for the consideration Of the thoughtful
farmer who expends his evenings in reading
and the improvement of the mind.
j. l.. HRRsEY.
TUJtoRJOrOuOh, N. II.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13

BE independ ent ; young hOusekeeper
never needed greater moral courage than she
does now to resist the arrogance Of fashion.
Do not let the AS and BIS decide what you
shall have, neither let them hold the strings
Of your purse. You know best what you can
and ought to afford. 1t matters little what
people think, provided that you are true to
yourself, to right and duty, and keep your
expenses within your means.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-13
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Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-09-18

1 SUICIDE, OR PROBABLE MURDER IN
LEWIS TowNsHuP.-The following are
the reports that have come to us in re
gard to an occurrence that has thrown
the upper end OF this county into an in
tense state of excitement:
On Friday week. Mrs. Mary Ann
Schell, wife of Jacob Schell residing in
the upper end of Lewis township. about
three quarters of mile east of Brass
tavern stand. now owned by the Snyder
brothers, went to Mr.. Robenold's, two
and one e-half miles from her residence, to
assist in boiling apple butter. On Sat
urday afternoon following she left Robe
nold's to return home Not coming hoCe
on Saturday evening. as was expected by
the family, two of her sons were sent, on
Sunday morning, 10 discover what had
detained her. After they had gone about
a quarter Of mile they discovered her
in hollow in the woods hanging on
tree A part of her clothing Cher draw
ers) had been used in hanging her. The
alarm was given and large number Of
neig hbors and friends were attracted to
the spot. A jury was summoned by
Abm Wagner, Justice of the Peace, of
Turbutville. A physician from Turbut
vile made an examination and gave it as
his opinion that no violence had been in
Aic,ed by second party-that it was a
case of suicide. A Muncy physician
r,ade an examination after the body had
been taken down and conveyed to her
home. He gave it as his opinion that
she had been choked to death by come
unknown person before she had been
hung up, as several marks of violence
were found on different parts Of her body
Small PARTICLES of leaves and sticks were
found on her face, which would seem to
indicate that she had been killed and left
lay on the ground. and afterwards hung
up TO avoid suspicion One of her sons
says that jast before he came to the spot
where he discovered his mother hanging.
he saw man with gun running away
from the place. Whom she left Eobenold-
she was given crock of apple butter
and a small bucket of lard. The former
VAS spilled at several places near where
the body was found, and the ground
showed signs of scuffle There are
various opinions, We are told. in reference
to this unfortunate occurrence. Some
think she was foully dealt with, while
others hold an opposite opinion. Grca,
excitement prevailed throughout the
neighborhood. The man who was seen
running away from the place, it is said,
Is known by the boy who saw him; and
the friends have suspicious as to who
killed the woman-ii she was killed -
She was buried on Monday evening We
are told that she did not bear very
good name, and had been in frequent
trouble with her neighbors.-.Sunbary
D,mocrat