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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
MILK AND MIDDLEMEN.

when rogues fall out honest men come
by their own is perhaps too hopeful if not
too harsh an adage to quote in this connee-
ton, but we cannot help thinking of it while
reading the last number of the Manchester
Journal. the editorial page of which is TAX
en- up by the statement and commensurate
ment of the milk buying firm Of Cummings,
Baker 4 Co. and the Harlem extension rail-
road in reference to the unsatisfactory con.
dition of the milk business along that road.
The buyers charge the railroad with asking
an exorbitant freight Of two cents per quart
on milk to New York (the farmers receiving
II cents for the milk and the milk buyers
one cent commission 1t will be seen that
more than half the proceeds are thus taken
| by the middlemen, and the farmers, strange
ly, don't feel satisfied, and the business is
falling off. These middlemen are quarreling
as to which shall make reduction from
their share of the spoils. The buyers won't,
and the railroads won't, and there they have
it. Cummings, Baker Il Co. think the rail-
roads should be satisfied with ii cents
freight, but the Harlem Extension road
says it is bound by an agreement with the
Harlem road listen, ye farmers who are re-
buked for " combination bound By an
ag1 cement not to charge less than t'oO cents
quart. 1t then let's some pretty kittens
out of the bag by telling the public that
During the year 1871 there was shipped
over this road forty-two thousand one hun
drcd and twenty-siX cans Of milk, on which
Cummings. Baker & Co. received for COM
missions IS, 1893, and on milk sent to others
$ll3.lO, making total of S9,lll.l0 which
was not bad to take in starting n new bust
ness under such discOuraging circumstances.
Instead of the railroad company refusing to
help them, MS he asserts they were called
upon to do all that was done in the way OF
deductions. | told Mr.. Cummings that
thought they ought to take of n part OF
their commissions, and thus help to start
the business, which was always met with
positive refusal. They have always charg-
ed more commission for selling milk than
others were charging, and even more than
they were charging parties on tho line of the
HousatOnic railroad They have even charg.
ed commissions on milk that they dumped
because 1t remained on hand until soured
Notwithstanding The complaints of Cum.
mings, Baker & Co.. they are the only par.
ties that have mad1 any money ont of thi,
business. They received for commissions in
1872, S1i, S5s.4O; and for the use of ice III
cars on milk going to other parties, Sl,s73.-
30; making II total of Sl6,73l.70. They
have now sold the business for II large sum
and ask us to pay them ten cents per can on
all milk going to New York from this road
The contract never contemplated any sucl
thing.
Observe that the two railroads, notwith
standing their combination, claim that they
do not make anything by carrying this milk
to market though getting, within a small
fraction, as much as the farmers get for pro
ducing it. How much, then, can the farm
? ers be supposed to make?
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE.

Is there any sHoh thing rs scientific agli-
cultureP If there is, we have failed TO dis
cover il. We have known scientific men to
leave their regular calling and taking up
that of farming, have undertaken TO teach
the life long practical workers upon the land
how to produce more abundant crops ut a
less cest, if they would adopt his peculiar
system, which he dubbed scientific. Failing
in influencing others, he would become dis
gusted at the arbitrary ignorance Of those
who had other ways of enriching their land,
seeding and harvesting their crop, ETC., by
which they not only earned living but be-
came independent, when he would abandon
his own operations and go back TO the city
and his laboratory, just in time 10 avoid q
visit from the sheriff to close up steadily
approaching bankruptcy.
We have never yet known one person who
ventlred upon living on the proceeds OF M
labors. by rushing into farming in middle
life from other occupations, and set ont on .
new system and assumed to be general ad
wiser in his neighborhOod, who succeeded II
making both ends meet. Five years are usu
ally the limit of his experiments and his
taste for country life; when, having spen
what spare capital he began with, he recon-
mences, with mach poorer prospects and Z
reduced bank account, his old business
which he well understood, but left for anoth
en- which he knew nothing about.
The Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph, L
which we find the above extract credited
often publishes very sensible articles on az
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

the helps and incentives Of society, art, and
literature. II is a great thing for those
who own and till the soil to bring the true
soul to their work, and even in the symbols
aud costumes Of their associations TO show
their respect for themselves and for their
calling. II is we'll that women as well as
men join in the movement and out Of all
this ceremonial of the crook and pruning.
hook, the sash and pouch, some substantial
gain for agriculture in ideal dignity and 30.
cial refinement will be won. Who knows
how much the Ceres, Flora, and Pomona of
the grange may do to give woman a style of
dress that is good for something besides
mere show, and which may join use with
beauty in the future of the sex? The farm
surely has all the elements Of the beautiful
If they are only sought out, aud orchards,
groves, lawns, flowers, brooks, rocks, hills,
lakes, offer charms that need only good taste
and social sympathy to exalt them into agen.
cies Of culture and festivals Of Joy. How
wise il is to give the farmers the dressing of
the church once year, as is sometimes done,
and what harvest-homes our America would
show next November if every farming vii.
lage would do its best to adorn its temple
with the fruits that crown the year But
this is a great matter, and we have only n
passing word for il now EDIToRs EASY
CHAIR, in Harper's Magazine for August.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

we understand the term, the organ of a
society or public body is either owned, or in
some way controlled by such body or society
Now nobody but its publishers owns any in,
terest IN this paper, or controls it in any way
whatever. We give the Patrons our indie.
pendent support, so far as their aims and
acts commend themselves to our judgment
and no further. We do the same for the
State Agricultural Society, the Board Of
Agriculture, the Dairymen's Association, and
every other organization devoted to the pro-
motion Of farmers interests in Vermont, but
our paper is not the organ" of any Of
them. Other errors in the above extract We
corrected last week. The Free Press ought
to be better posted in Vermont affairs than
to copy such gross mistakes from a Massa.
chusetts paper and assume the responsibility
therefor, as it does by not giving its authori
Nv
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

So long as the old party organizations are
maintained, the old party leaders must DO
supported. They are kept up for that pur.
pose. But this is just what the people do
not want The spirit of reform will never
find practical embodiment in Ohio or else
where until the professional politicians on
both sides, with their salary-grab attach
ments, are dropped out of sight How long
it will be before the people will take the
matter in their own hands, regardless alike
Of democratic and republican parties as they
stard, it is difficult to say. The process Of
new formation is recognizable in various parts
of the country in the farmers organizations,
the anti-monopOly conventions, and the indie
pendent municipal and local combinations.
Chicago Tribune
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
st. JOIInSbuTy Academy

Rev. n. r. FULLER, Principal.
Teacher Of Greek German, and Mental Science.
cHAs. A. SAVAGE, A. b.
Teacher Of Latin and Natural Science
CHAS. Il. PUTNEY, A. M,
Teacher Of Latin and Higher Mathematics.
Miss MARY Il. CUMMINGS,
Teacher Of Mathematics and Normal Methods
Miss L. JENNIE COLBY,
Teacher Of French, Drawing, and Geometry
Madame MARIE,
Teacher Of French
Miss EMMA ]. PADDOCK,
Teacher Of Instrumental Music
Teacher OF Penmanship.
NEW BUILDINGS to DO occupied and increased facili-
ties afforded with the next Academic Year. beginning
Aug. 39, 1879
-Four courses Of Study access 10 Atheneum Library
(of 5000 vols and reading room; lectures gymnasl
um, &c.
Family boarding, club boarding. and rooms for self
boarding, all at reasonable terms.
For Catalogues further information apply to Prin-
cipal or Rev. VIM. W. THAYER, Sec. ofTrustees
st. Johnsbury, VI.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

Wednesday afternoon of last week the
laborers at work excavating the tunnel at
Ticonderoga on tho line of the New York
and Canada railroad tamped the holes with
four charges of netro-glycerine. After the
discharges were heard two laborers entered
the tunnel, and just as they approached the
spot where the rock was being excavated
two of the charges of nitro-g lycerine which,
unnoticed, had not been previously discharg.
ed, exploded with fearful report scatter
ing immense fragments of rock 10 all direc-
tiOns and literally cutting to pieces the bod
les of the two men. The remains were
gathered up as far as they could be and con-
voyed TO Ticonderoga.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
PATRONS AND POLITICS.

The following from the IONA Homestead,
shows how little anxious the Iowa patrons
are to NEEDLE with partizan politics, and
also how much there is in the CaledOnian's
canard about the democrats running the
oranges in the West; =
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIoNs.-Our readers,
no doubt, are generally informed that G. G..
Carpenter has been re-nomnated for Gov
ernor, Joseph Dysart, for 1t. Governor,
Judge Beck, re-nominated for Supreme
Judge, and A. Abernethy for Superintendent
ofPublic Instruction, by the Republican State
Convention held in this city last week, which
nominations are well received by the party.
An attempt was made in that convention
by certain leaders of the Republican party,
to nominate for 1t. Governor the chief officer
in the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, one
of the reasons offered privately that it was
policy to have the good will Of that Order.
We are pleased that such nomination was
not made. The majority of the convention
were Patrons and could have nominated
whom they pleased, but they preferred to
keep the Order and the party separate, each
to take care of itself
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
General N'e,cs.

Dispatches announce that all Western
Iowa is in fever of excitement over the
robbery of the Rock Island Railroad. Well
might this be the case, for never in the an
nails OF crime in this country has there been
perpetrated an outrage more reckless and
daring Such piece Of brigandage belongs
rather to awless Greece than to country
protected as ours is supposed to be. A num-
Der of bushwhacking villains, regardless of
the peril to the lives of men, women and
children who crowded the train, hoping to
obtain the treasure, that fortunately had been
sent by special, deliberately tear up the
track to throw off the train, and after sue
ceeding in wrecking the engine, part patrol
of the cars, occasionally firing their revolvers
at random into them, while the remainder
search for and take off their plumber. 1t
would be indeed strange if such lawlessness
did not bring out the people of that section
to seek and II possible capture gang of ruff.
fans who will only be encouraged by their
present success to further aud more daring
attempts.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

The republicans Of IroquOis county ILL.,,
have concluded that this is a bad year for
regular nominations, and it will be just as
well, perhaps, to omit the county convention.
So they are going to turn in with the other
voters and support non-partisan ticket
This political disorder seems to be spreading
at the West great deal faster than the
cholera.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

The oranges are fast extending over this
State Every town in Orleans county has one,
and nearly every town in Caledonia and
Franklin counties. The Vermont Farmer is
understood to be tho official organ of the
" Patrons of Husbandryn in the State; one
of its proprietOrs being tho Secretary of the
State Grange burlington Free Press
Some achieve honor, and some have
honors thrust upon them" No one connected
with the VERMONT FARMER holds any Office
10 the State Grange neither is this paper
the organ Of anything, or anybody. Al
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

1t doesn't look much like peace and qui.
etness at present. Quite the contrary. In
this offest Of all off years, we find the people
everywhere exhibiting a restlsssness, q discon.
tent, disposition to cavort around and
smash things, that may we'll gil the hearts Of
the professional politicians with anxiety and
fOreboding. 1t is phenomenal state Of
things, not provided for in their almanacs.
They were not warned to expect about this
time farmers movement of such threaten
ing proportions and momentum as to put
party conventions in half dozen states to
their trumps, utterly derange the calculations
Of the party managers, and impart prema-
ture grizzle to the raven locks Of the party
journalists. How were they to know that
the American agriculturist would suddenly
take notion to go tramping about pro.
miscuous like" in our politics.-SpinQfeld
Republican
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

Two spans of a bridge on the European
and North American railroad, between Old
town and Milford, 800 feet long, were blown
completely away by a tornado, Saturday,
which swept over that section Of the state.
An engine and tender, with five men which
was crossing, was plunged into the river En-
gineer George A. Mcclellan was killed, the
others escaping.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
w. A. WOODS
New Iron Frame
Moving and Reaping
MACHINES.
j. M. WARMER

j. M. WARMER
receiving stock of these
of All Machines fitted with
Brass BOCes, OILERS U1,deF-DT0ft,
Lghtes Draft made Durability
motM
England proved MOWERS for the fifteen
years extensively that they need no recommendation.
Will also found Mr. WARMERS Billiard Hay Tedder the
Best the WoRLDVaous kinds Improved Horse Rakes,Aso the
SANBORN PLOW tOith SeLf-shUtii0 Cutter.
others manufactured and
first view must impress the Farmers most taVOrby
furnished notice The subscriber
wishing Moving Repng Machines repaired bring them his shop
s S convenient =.
ST. JOhnsbuy VI, April II, 1873 JAMES d. WARNER
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

Three more brands plucked from the burn.
ing Senator John Sherman and Congress-
man Charles Foster of Ohio, and Congress-
man Wilder ID. Foster of Michigan, have
unlOaded their back-pay at the gates of the
treasury. The list of refunders now includes
tho names of l6 senators and 30 popular
branchers the aggregate refund to date is
S2lS,645.S4.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

We are told that in an entcrprising village
in the eastern central portion of the State, the
terminus of a railroad, the merchants meet
every night in sort of Board Of Trade y
meeting and regulate the prices to pay on
the following day for all kinds of country
produce that may be offered. The farmer
may go into ten or dozen stores in success
sion and will get the same price offered him
in each store, whatever article he has TO sell.
As he must take this low price or carry his
article home, he almost invariably sells for
from three to five cents per pound or bushel,
less than what he should.-Adine Farmer.
The Maine storekeepers are merely doing
what the larger merchants and manufactur.
ers have always done. And of course they
all howl together when the farmers try to
block their little game.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

The Ohio constitutional convention, under
the lead Of delegate Ewing, has virtuously
voted down motion to adjourn over the dog
days. There seems to be general impress.
sion among public servants out West-and
indeed at the East, too, for that matter-that
this is not time for slothfulness or ease.
taking.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

The farmers are finding that they are pay
ing large bonus to manufacturers for their
farming machinery. The Illinois railroad
quarrel has brought out a correspondent who
has been investigating the actual cost of GER
tain farming implements, and comparing that
with the prices paid by the farmers. The
result il stated as follows.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
Total

Which gives profit of s4s7 on $40 worth
Of machinery. AS the above figures were
taken from the sworn testimony of McCor.
mick himself, as given before the COMPRESSION.
al investigating committee, they are entitled
to credence.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

Large fires are reported during the past
week in Baltimore, Nd, Portland, Me-,
Norfolk, Va, Rochester, N. Y, Cleveland,
o., and in the forests on Long Island.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

A convention Of Wisconsin Changers is
called at Milwaukee, August IL.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

II. 90 IT. FATR1ANK
1t sews all your muslins your silks and delalnes,
The ightest goods furnished in city or town,
SeWs the thickest and hardest without taking palms.
With common cheap Holyoke thread, white black
or brown.
1t sews with ono bobbin, of seventy thread,
Full fifty times stitching across yard wide,
You do not believe it!-well, then, enough said
Just try 1t and then your own eyes can decide.
With needle set quarter way round, left or right
With needle set high, with needle set low
With needle and tension in most any plight
The DOMESTIC is ready and willing to sew
1t sows what other machines cannot sew,
with the coarsest Of cotton or ball linen thread,
Chwhide, patent leather, and shingles and lead.
Its llghtrunning movements so quietly glide,
Like the flow OF the river and ebb of the tide,
That when once set in motion no effort will need
But to manage your sewing and govern tho speed
Away with your patented two-motion bubble,
That contryance where each foot alternate must trot
Called the Walking Foot Motion -as relief Ds THAR
The old-lners" may need it, the DOMESTIC does not
Just place one foot forward, the other one back
If change Of position you happen 10 want,
And You get it, "a point which the two pedals ack
For with each foot confined to its pedal you can't
In its beauty and majesty nothing vic
With the new style DOMESTIC improved and enlarged,
And betwixt you and me, all the rest would be high
Although we might buy them at half the priced
charged.
Buy one for your daughter, yeur wife, your niece,
present Of value untold 1t would bei
We sell them for sxty-fvo dollars apiece.
Also-2j, 900 feet OF No. dressed CIapbOards.
and 1000 Russian Apple frees for sale. Inquire
Of VIM Wilder, at the Iron Store Harvey Haskols
Agricultural store. Address
F. p. CHENEY,
st. Johnsbury Centre, VT.
Professional and Amateur Musicians
should examine the Combination Solo Stops found on
ly in
Geo. Woods & Co.'s Organs.
The ROLINE-A most delicate, son or breathing
stop.
The vOX HUMANA-A baritone solo, not fan or
tromolo.
The PIANO-A beautiful toned piano, which will
never require tuning. See advertisement in another
column,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
Testimonials.

Testimonials
To Ddirymen.-On the 18th Of May, Deacon CowIes
OF Coventry, set up for us his Patent Pans, which
have since used to entire satisfaction They empty
easily, quickly and without stopping. We like them
better than expected and would not exchange then
for any other we have seen.
Yours, &C.,
o. l.. & A. Ii. KIDDER.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

Mr.. COWIess-Dear Sir, The Pans purchased Of you
last May give entire satisfaction. They great
amount OF labor and my wife says she would not part
with them on any consideration am convinced that
more butter and that Of a much bettor quality be
madO by using them than by the old method The
manner of emptying the Pans think could not DO i'm
proved upon.
Trulv Yours GEO O. REAN
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

This cerfes that have purchased OF 8. F. Cowles
and have now in set Of his Patent Milk Pans and
from experience with them free TO say that
| they than meet expectations, and we feel
confident in recommending them to other Darymen
superior in durability simplicity and convenience to
any other Pan now offered for sale.
HARRY WARD,
ASHLEY FARAiAN,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01
Newport House,
NEWPORT, VT.
MEMPHREMAGOG HOUSE,

Newport, VT, July 10. 1873.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-01-22

Chniebieu. J. u. ThorP, q CsaFle'ie
Washington, Rev. 4. Palsam. Of Waits
ksll.
The committee en- the satjeei Of 4 ten
psrau5s paper, refenoi resolution rec
omendisg the Vermont Vitae" as the
proper organ to be used by the Order io'
it, reports and communications and to &c
generally circulated among the member
Of the Order aud in the vicinity OF eaei
lodge.
The committee to report a place io'
holding the next session Of the Grand
Lodge reported in favor Of s.. Johnsbury'
aud the report was adopted.
Adjourned, 10 meet at hali.past seven
in the evening.
Iu the evening, the hall was well hlled'
aud after finishing the proper business Of
the session, interesting speeches were
made, aud the Grand Lodge adjourned
after one Of the most harmonious, inter
estibg aud profitable gatherings Of the
kind ever held 10 Vermont.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-01-22
Clubbing.

As has beeu cur custom for some yeafs
VIC Offer ail the prominent periodicals. 10
eosneetion with the NEWsbEAIEE Al great
Is reduced raics, and insert partial iisi
below. A pcrs1n, making uP lisi OF
reading for the year. oan IN mest eases
saye enourh - that the y wsuTauE viii
essi nothing. For insiance,- III the At
Llntie monthly. Scientific American. aud
Boston Journal should be selected the
price wsuli be $500 for all. Now We
win farni.h them all and me NEvsprALER
beSidss, for as IS. All periodicals are
sent directly from the Office Of publication
TO the subscriber, just the same a Il the
subscriber had ordered them himself We
have not space to insert all The papers
with which nc club. aud should any 9TH
er be desired, the same proporiionate re-
ductfon will be made. The first column
gives the price Of the period:cil alone
the second for il aud this paper -
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-01-22

Monday, of last week Edward Shiette
was examined in the Burlington City Court
before Judge Noyes, on the charges of
breaking into and robbing the store of Ell
II. Rankin & Co.. of carrying Sung
shot, and jail-brcaking. States Attorney
Burnap appeared for the State, and Ri.
Start for the respondent. He was ac-
quilted of the latter charge on the
grounds claimed by his counsel. that as
he was not confined in the jail by virtue
of any warrant, or due process Of law. he
could no, be guilty of the technical crime
of jail-breaking, On the other two
charges he was held to bail, in the sum
of 5000 for carrying a Slug shot, and
$500 for burglary.