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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05
THE REsURRECTIoN Flow sR.-There

THE RESURRECTION Flow sR.-There is
a rare flower, found only in the East, that
has excited great deal Of interest on &C.
count Of its mystery. Botanists have
found it difficult to classify it, because it
has properties belonging to different
classes. 1t was brought to this country
by DR.. Deck, who procured it from an
Arab, to whom he had rendered medical
aid in Upper Egypt. AS compensation
the Arab handed him stem which held
what seemed to be two bulbs Of dried
seeds. The Arab said he had taken it
from an Egyptian mummy, and that the
flowers were very highly esteemed.
The popularity of the plant is thai
though apparently decayed and worthless
after being immersed in glass Of water
fo- moment its leaves begin to expand
slowly, but steadily, and beautiful star.
like flower appears to view, something be-
tween passion flower aud sun flower
but more beautiful than either. After the
flower has remained open for more than al
hour its petals close just as gradually az
they expanded, and then nothing is visible
but the dried up bulb.
DR.. Deck says he saw the same flower
60 through this process at least thousand
times, and each time with the same result
He presented one of his flowers to Baron
Won Humboldt, who considered it one Of
the greatest marvels in the vegetable
kingdom, Professor Torrey owned speci.
men, and Bishop Wainwright obtained
two during his tour in Egypt.
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agricultural.
Farm Work for February.

Tools AND MACHINEs.-Hunt up every I'M
plenent that vi he wapted for use on the
farm, and see f 1t ls IN good order. If it is
not so, it is a better time to have it repaired
now than when men and teams are waiting
for it.
1t you have a bench and tools-and how
can you get along without them you may
be able to do the job yourself, and thus save
time 10 carrying it away and bringing IT
back and save the money required to pay
the mechanic. Besides this, as there always
are broken TOOLS the mech anic may have SO
many on hand to repair that there may be a
week Of anxious suspense IN waiting for
them.
FERTILIzERs.-Much, very much, may be
done this month in preparing manure5 fol
application One load of common barn
mingled with the soil, will do more service
for the crops than two loads will, applied il
a coarse condition so, If you have been III
the practice of using coarse manure, make II
fine this year aud you will have, virtually
as much again, as you have ever had before
Try it, and report, will you?
THINK Are you in doubt about using
any ct the articles which are called com
naertial fertilizers? If SO, study upon TIT
matter little. Was your neighbour B. i
crop oil corn increased sufficiently last year
to pay the additional cost incurred for 4Ot
pounds OF superhosphate? Figure little
The STocK-Gve all the stock bedding
and especially the working oxen and hols
The cows will prove the better for it, so vii
the yearlings; 10 the swine, warm plac'
and dry bed, are indispensable to profit
Remember the zero weather We have recent
ly had, and may have again before the midd
of March comes, and how much comfort W
can bestow upon the animals dependent upol
US, by a little timely Gale.
The GAROEN-Was your table PLENTIFUL
supplied last summer AMI fall, with the smai
fruits which make children love their home
aud which promot both health and economy
With such fruits, the contents of the por
barrel, and plenty OF fresh, juicy vegetables
the farmer need not pay out much for fires
meat during the hot weather. An earl
chicken, lamb from biz own flock, or a we
fatted veal. will lie likely to supply a
d, fciencies in the meat diet.
This evening is good time to talk th
matter over with vile and children, arrang
for larger variety of fruits, vegetables an
flowers. The ground occupied by them ma
be a small piece, but no weeds and high Gu
ture will bring large supply.--Neto Eng
land Farmer.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Vermont Central B. B. Line
WINTER ARRANG EN- ENTs.
Commencing Monday, Dec. 9, 1872.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leave Montpelier S.55 an, 2.ls and 9.55 pm.
Mail Train leaves OgdeBsburg at 600 pm., ST. Al
bans at $50 a. M con Meeting al White River Junction
md Bellows Fa lis with trains tor Boston, worcester
&C. and At White River JUNCTION with trains on
New York At New London with Steamer for Ne"
York.
Day Express leaves Montreal at $40 ST. Johns
1T 10 90 a.m Ogdensburg at 20 am, Piattsbarsh a
500 am, ST. Adams al 1900 m, arriving In Boston
Night Express leaves Ogde nsburg at 1900 m Platts
burg 80 pm, Montreal at 80 pm ST. johns az 4'oo
pm. Adams % pm. counectins at white klvsl
Junction and Bellows Falls with trains tor Boston Inc
Worcester, &C., arriving inBoston $50 a al Soutf
Vernon with trains tor Springfield and Ns~ YORK
arriving n New York al 1890 p.m., ana IN new Lon
don at IL Is am.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Montpelier $50 and 7.45 am, and 4 20 ans
| Day Express ga YES Boston via Lowell at 500 am
for Burlington, st. Adams, Montreal &c, arriving IL
Montreal at Gas PM, and ogdensburg At L 10 a'm.'
| making connection for the West.
Mail Train for Burlington and st. Adams leaves Bos
via Lowell at 700 am. via Lawrence and Fitch
Lo1don at 500 am South Vernon 10. 90 am, Bel
lows Falls 1900 M, WhiteRivsr Junction 23op en-
arriving in ST. Adams at 925 pm.
Trains leaving Boston via Fitchburgh at 7.30 a.m
and Springfield at 500 am, connec' at White kive
Junction with Day Express train.
Rutland at 500 am, Burlington at g. 90 am, ST. Al
bans at 1900 m, ST. John at $50 pm, arriving IL
ogdeasburg, at s.1O pm.
| Night Express leaves New London at 2.44 pm
South Vernon at 958 p m, receiving passengers ifon
| Connecticut River Railroad, leaving New York
800 M, Springfield $40 pm, Bellows Falls liz
pm, connecting With trains over Cheshire Railroad
leaving Boston at $50 M, Getting at White Rive
Junction with train leaving Boston at 500 PM, 10
Burlington, st. Adams Montreal, &c, arriving in Mon
treal at 9.45 am, Plattsburgh 1900 am, and II
Ogdensburgh, al l2.45 p.m., connecting with Gram
| Trunk Railway for the West.
Sleeping Cars attached to the night Express Trail
running between Montreal and Boston, and Montrea
and SprIn gbeld and st. Adams and Troy.
Drawing Room Cars o n day Express Trains betweel
Mont re al and Boston.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale
the principal stations.
q. NJ f K RELL, Gen'l perintend c mt
L. nscn
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Hard Ways Of Doing Things.

1t is Interesting to look back and observe
the various expedients which have been re-
sorted to, for the past twenty or thirty years.
in the culture and protection of fruit trees.
MANY of these have been laborious modes for
saving labor Some of US well remember the
great eclat with which the lining process
for repelling the curculio was ushered IN,
and recommended by high authority. Some
of our neighbors, stimulated by high hopes,
gave it a thorough and satisfactory trial.
Their trees, in full leaf, appeared. after the
lining, nearly the color OF snow banks. The
swinging with the lime had to be re-
peated every day or two to cover the bare
spots made by the dew, rain or chatting
leaves; Tor the Turk was sure to find the first
denudtd spot, if only as large as pins
head. The labor of these repeated appilca-
tions was probably about ten times as great
as that of the old, we'll proved Earring process.
This the owners would not have objected to,
on account OF the novelty of the task, were
it not for the fact that the lime gave no pro-
lection, and all the fruit was stung.
The expedient which one gentleman adopt
ed OF planting his plum trees leaning over
an artificial canal, was still more expensive
and laborlous, with the only advantage that
the affected fruit fell into and the insects
drowned in the water. Paving under trees
was still more expensive and only partially
accom- plIshed the purpose. When we hear
OF mode for destroying this insect easier
than turning 10 swine, with the addition OF
Earring on sheets, We shall be glad to give it
trial
| We observe in late exchange an ingeni-
Gus method described for excluding the peach
grub. The first experiment was made by
knocking out the bottom of a paint key and
placing 1t over the top of a young tree,
setting the lower end slightly in the earth
by digging. This was kept filled with leaves
and straw, ard it proven ted the insect from
laying its eggs in the bark. The owner
proposed to place hollow sheet iron cylinders
around his trees, riveting the e0ges together
Here is another example of selecting the
hardest way, to say nothing OF the cost oil
sheet iron. The labor of placing and rlvet-
ing these protectors would doubtless be five
times as great as that OF the old and simple
process OF digging out the grubs with point
OF knife before they had made much pro-
gress We have known an active man to e
over several hundred trees in a day, clearing
the grubs out SO effectualiy that but few
were found on a second examination the
same year. The addition of leachvd ashe
nearly excluded them afterwards. 1t will ht
remembered that sheet iron exposed to al
weatbers viii often rust TIN ough in less thar
"a year; and wen il these appendages shoult
remain for several seasons, the difficult
they would cause in impeding cultivation il
obvious. - Country Gentleman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05
The Butter Market Lessons OF 1872

At this time the prevailing prices of dairy
products, especially butter, are little more
encouraging than during the spring and sum-
mer, when there was a general feeling of de-
preston and distrust throughout the entire
dairy regions. Probably this feeling has
been n little more intense among the butter
makers than among the cheesemakers We
cannot avoid the conclusion, however, that
il was not well founded in either case, for it
is uDdeniably the truth that good butter and
cheese have been as remunerative as any of
the other great staple products OF the c1un-
try; and yet, so very profitable had their
prOdu' tion been for whole decade, that
dairymen had come to look upon high prices
as an unquestioned prerOgative of theirs
1t is true that, for little while at time.
there have been periods of depression in
prices, but not for many years has there
been one of such long-continued depression
without single rebound.
10 1871 the production of butter, especial.
ly in New England, was far more profita bic
than that of cheese. The effect was to cause
q very considerable number of our large
dair, men to abandon cheesemaking, in favor
OF buttermak king, and, as is nearly ALWAYS
the case with those farmers who pursue q
fuctuatng course, this year they have hit
wrong.
In times of high prices and quick sales il
does not make nearly as much difference with
the agents who make the purchases in ouI
country markets what the quality of the
product is, SO that they get enough of the
better quality to cover the loss on the poore,
when It gets into the city markets, and they
often pay nearly the same price for every
grade. But in periods of depression, anC
with an abundant stock upon the market
they discriminate much more closely, and, Of
course, give much better satisfaction to then
principals.
There has been greater difference in the
prices of butter this year than ever before il
our recollection, and this is due not so muci
to the TACT that there is a greater differenc,
between the two extremes of quality thar
heretofore, IS the fact that the best qualities
are becoming more appreciated year by year
and that, in seasons of abundance and Low
pr,,es, the lower grades accumulate NOR,
rapidly. 1t is most astonishing feature 0
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Roxbury, Vt, Jan. Is, 1877

CARE OF YOUNG DUcKs.-I take three
boards about foot wide. and make yard
either square or triangular shaped, AND put
the hen and coop, in one corner of it,
keep the hen cooped until the ducklings are
about two weeks old, when / give her her
liberty. She will stay with the ducklings
some time longer No more than twelve or
fourteen ducklings should be kept in one
yard, as they are apt to pile upon one an.
other at night, and smother each other. The
ducklipgs should be confined in yard until
they are we'll feathered, for if they &c
through wet grass they almost invariably
die. The yard should be moved every two
weeks, and care should be taken to have
good shelter in one ccrner-Pouhry World
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05
| see by some reports last fall, that yiel,

! see by some reports last fall, that yield
Of sixty odd bushels of corn to the acre is
thought to be worthy of record, and it is
doing we'll. My own experience and obser-
vatIOD, however, lead me to believe that with
the right kind OF seed, properly planted and
cared for, on land we'll prepared, We may
reasonably expect hundred bushel, or more
per acre. In 1871, planted the Scandin-
avian corn, 80 called, by Evarts, OF Sails
bury, of whom | procured the seed, and
failed Of getting sound or ripe crop. The
next winter, while visiting my brother in
WlllIamstown, only a few miles distant, |
noticed that his corn was very nice and
sodnd. planted seed procured of him last
spring, and was perfectly satisfied with the
result. Some of it was silked in less than
six weeks after it was planted, and On most
OF the field the yield was fully two hundred
| bushels of ears per acre. The manure was
not quite what it should have been on the
entire field.
My brothers crop was equally good. From
one and one-sixth of an acre, he harvested
more than two hundred and fifty bushels o
ears, besides the nubbins, or pig corn, which
he did not measure, though 1t was all rip,
and dry. 1t is a twelve -rowed variety
though it varies from eight to eighteen rows
and weighs more than sixty pounds pc
bushel
Perhaps ought to add that planted tn
rows about the common distance of tire
and half feet apart, the hills about ffteer
inches, and two kernels in place. Th
method gives more ears to stalk, and large
than when planted in the usual manner.
W. |. SIMoNDs
Roxbury, Vt, Jan. Is, 1873.
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OIL FOR HARNssEs.-Harne it is said
may De rendered impervious to water by
thoroughly impregnating them with mix
ture made in proportion of twenty-one gal
Ions of pure whale oil and fifteen to seven
teen pounds of india-rubber shreds. Heat
these ingredients together at a temperature
OF 1912 to 240s, in order that the rubber
may be completely dissolved Another
preparation contains one gallon of alcohol
one and half pounds of white turpentine,
the same weight of gum shellac, and one
gill of Venice turpentine. Let these stand
by the stove until the gums are dissolved
then add one gill of sweet oil, and (if desired
for the color) two ounces of lampblack.
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my boy, fear the cross you take up1 is
heavier than the ona laid down."

my boy, l fear the cross you take up1 II
heavier than the one laid down."
After long ride, rather tedious on the
whole to Johnnie, the train arrived at NJ.
and here his uncle was waiting for him.
Very tired was Johnnie, and cared nothing
at all for the fine house" and i" long
curtains that night, but went to bed quite
early. In the morning the tinkling OF a
little bell awoke him. "The cows" he
/ thought, as he opened his eyes; they are
already Oh their way 70 pasture But
{ e next minute he saw his mistake in
Q cry strange thing about him.
| After breakfast he went with his uncle
to the barn to see the horses, then return
ed to the house to find plenty of picture
books and amusements Of all sorts await.
ing him. With these he busted himself
Ill the forenoon, and the afternoon went
out to drive; but after few days spent
thus, and the novelty had partly worn off,
Johnnie found himself thinking oftener
and oftener of /" mother" and the " brown
cottage of home" Every light he won
dered over Grandpa Lines parting word
and finally when few weeks had rolled
away, he determined to write letter, ask.
ing his mother to send for him. Now, a
real letter he had never written or sent in
his life, only make-believe school exer.
else SO when this bright thought came to
him, he hurried into his unce's library
and with paper, ink and pen, seated him
self at low table and commenced:
DEAR MoTHER Il have been thinking
grandpa's words over and over, and CUES,
know now what they mean. Do please tel
me to come home, and to come quick
Your own JOHNNIE.
This he sealed and directed and carried
to the office himself And when he hand
ed it to a clerk, another letter was handed
out to him. How his two feet did fly back
to his uncle's house and up to his own
room. He was not long in opening it, you
may be sure. Part of it read in this
way:
And now my dear boy,
| will tell you why you have never seen little
Ike Selden out with the other bows, and have
never heard him shout in schoolboy sports,
or, as you say, why he is less boy like y
than you. Ike Selden is dumb; hasn't
spoken word since he was five years old
Oh, my Johnnie, do you now wish you were
in " his boots?" Poor little f. How HE
cross is heavier by far than ever yours has
been. But | must say good bye for the
present We all miss you SO much.
Your loving, lonesome MOTHER.
Johnnie Jacque is home again, but he
never complains of his cross
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FEEDING Mich Cows.-W. II. Tanner. in
the Country Gentlemen, says that the most
profitable feed for cows giving milk during
winter, and that used in nearly all the best
diaries producing milk for New York mar
ket, is good quality of wheat bran and
corn meal mixed as follows: eight pounds
Of bran and corn meal for each COW daily
If the above can be thoroughly cooked with
cut hay, it increases its value about one-fiftb
by actual experiment. l produced from
fifty cows five hundred quarts of milk daily
ON ten pounds of feed mixed as above and
thoroughly cooked. l then changed 10 dry
eed, when it took thirteen pounds of the
same mixture to keep up the aow of milk.
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gostry.
Mathis.

G ray earth, gray mist, gray sky;
Through vapors hurrying by,
Larger than wont, on hi-h
Floats the horned, yellow moon.
Chill airs are family stirred,
And far away is heard,
OF some fresh wakened b ird,
The querulous shrill tune.
The dark mist hides the face
Of the dim land; no trace
Of rOcksorlriyer's place
In the thick air is drawn;
But dripping grass smells sweet,
And rustling branches meet,
And sounding waters greet
The slow, sure, sacred dawn.
Past is the long black night,
With its keen lightuings white,
Thunder and floods new light
The glimmering low east streaks.
The dense clouds part; between
Then jagged rents are seen
Pale reaches blue and green,
AS the mirk curtain breaks.
Above the shadOwy world,
Still more andimore unf ,Tled,
The gathering. mists uncurled
Like phantOms melt and pass.
In clear obscure revealed,
Brown wood, gray stream, dark field;
Fresh, healthy OdOrs yield
Wet burrows, flowers and grass.
The sudden, splendid CLEAN
OF one thin, golden beam
Shoots. from the feathered rim
OF yon hill crowned with woods.
Down its empowered side,
AS living waters slide,
SO The great morning tide
Follows IN sunny foods.
From bush and hedge and tree
Joy, unrestralned and free,
Breaks forth in melody,
Twittcr and chirp and song;
Alive the festal AIR
With gauze-winged creatures fair,
That flicker eve ywhere,
Dart, poise and flash along.
The shining mists are gone,
Slight films of gold swift blown
Before the strong, bright sun,
Or the deep cOlored sky;
world of life and glow
Sparkles and basks below,
Where the soft meads arrow,
Hoary with dew-fall, lie.
Does not.the morn break thus,
Swift, bright, victorious,
With new skies cleared for us,
Over the soul Storm ,ost?
Her night was long and deep,
StrangeIvisions vexcd her sleep,
Strange SORROWS bade her weep;
Hes faith in dawn was lost.
No halt, no rest for her,
The immortal wanderer
From sphere to higher sphere,
Toward the pure source of day.
The new light shames her fears,
Her faithlessness, her tears,
AS the new sun appears
To light her godlike way.
-Lippi nc0tFS Mdgdz
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&oetrY.
For Thoughts

A pansy on his breast she laid,
Splendid, and dark with Tyrien dyes;
"Take it; 'tis like your tender eyes,
Deep as the midnight heaven" she said.
The rich rose mantling in her cheek,
Before him like the dawn she stood,
Pausing upon LIES height, subdued,
Yet triumphing, both proud and meek.
And white as winter stars, intense
With steadfast fire, his brilliant face
Bent toward her with an eager grace,
Pale W 18th rapture half suspense.
"You give me then thought, o sweetp'
He cried, and kissed the purple flower,
And bowed by loves resstless power,
Trembling he sank before her feet.
She crowned his beautiful bowed head
With one caress of her white hand;
Rise up, my flower of all the land,
For all my thoughts are yours" she said.
-.SCribners for Fe6rudr!
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the lake, where the water was the deepest,
so deep that no line in the village could
reach the bottom, and where tho ice must
be the thinnest, because it is the last to
freeze there. l knew this; but felt that
now we were going with such rapidity,
there was no new danger so long as there
was no break in the song. 1 singled out a
tree upon the shore we were trying to
make, and calculated if, at the rate they
were sin ing, there were verses enough tc
last until we reached it feared lest the
leader might omit verse, as was som
times done in church, and there might | I
left space over which we might pass ii
silence, or rather in silence made dread
full by the cracking of the ice.
| had no cause. There was indeed tina
awful crack crack erack of the ice dis
tinctly heard during the singing of eact
line in every stanza of the hymn; but i
was either that had become used to it, Of
that it was indeed more faint than it wa
before, that it failed to affect me as at first
So, too, there was little breadth of ice t.
be passed over, after the singers had closee
the verse -
"a Let every kindred, every tribe,
On this terrestia ball,
| To Him all majesty ascrlbe,
And crown Him Lord of ALL"
But our momentum was then such that
knew we could reach the shore in safety
which we soon did
On reaching it there was the same bois
ferrous noise that marked our starting, eacl
one untiying his own sled or sleigh, an(
joining the little party with which h.
came. But of the peril through which
they had passed, the danger, from which
they had been rescued, not one had tn
slightest intimation. For my friend ant
myself-the only ones who were aware o
our wonderful deliverance-we were lef
alone. And there, on that rocky beach
with the stars above us, we sank upon gu
knees, our arms entwning each other
neck. 1t was silent prayer we offered
an offering of thanks to the ''Giver of ever,
good and perfect gift" Not for US alone
but for all those who had been brough
out of peril. Then we rose, and hand il
hand silently walked to our homes.
The next day was Thanksgiving; we en-
tered into no boisterous mirth. We KEEP
our secret to ourselves that day, but dur
ing all the time since then we have no
mentioned the affair to each other Blu
once long after this, when We were il
church together, and the preacher CAV,
out Coronation, j noticed that he did no
sing, but grasped my hand in his, while tn
tears flowed from his eyes as though h
were child.