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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-29
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-29
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-29

O glorious Autumn, thus serene,
Thus living and loving all that hasbeen
Thus calm and contented let me be,
When the Autumn Of age shall come to
me
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-29

He "saw the point" and was not a
little chagrined Still he declared, "it
something for a young fellow to be able
10 have so good an indorser y
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18

upand uses the information diffused through
the papers A few years ago the hop ex-
citement ran high in this section Of country.
The papers tsemed with information concern
ing hop-culture, anda single season found
men as we'll posted in all its details as those
of mature experience. 1t is true hop-cuture
ended disastrOusly here, but the power of the
press was shown just as plainly.
1t is a favorite plea against boOk-farming
that experience is more valuable and that
theory can never compete with it. 1t is an
amusing fact that these very croakers who
dote SO much on experience will have set no.
tions of their own and will lose no opportu.
nifty to advise how to farm, and will give all
particulars and minutie Of procedure with
great stress, as much as to say they have a
perfect right to have their way, but that it is
preposterOus for anyone else to have his say
and print il.
We know the value Of experience, but we
know what It is to learn BY study and infer
eness that lead one to anticipate experience.
This saves us from going hap.hazard to work.
Time is too valuable for us to ignore the
value of the press We pity the man who
can learn nothing from the recorded expert
ence of others who cannot turn information
into benefit to himself; and who is SO stupid
that he can realize nothing but what he sees
and works out for himself
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
THE PERCHERON AND NORMAN
HORSES.

Mr.. A. b. Allen, of New York, who is
good authority on such matters, makes the
following just remarks in late number of
the Prairie Farmer The Percheron horses
which l have usually seen in France are
from l5l to l6l hands high, weighing in
fair working order, from l,2O0 to l,4O0
pounds Perhaps as maximum 1900
pounds, They are pony built, and closely
resemble in appearance the finest of Canadian
horses, although much larger-the latter u.s.
ually being about IA hands high,
Percherons of this class have fine Arabian
like heads, and very broad between the eyes;
oars short and lively name, tail and fet-
locks, fine. They have fast walk, and
their average trot, on dry and tolerably
level road is from seven to eight miles per
hour. They are remarkably kind in dispo-
sitiOn, very muscular, hardy and enduring,
with the toughest sort of hoofs, and well set
up in the heel--this last is a very important
requisite, especially on hard roads. They
are good roadsters, and excellent farm horses.
Stations of this breed would be among the
best the Western farmers could use to cross
on their large, roOmy mares.
The choicest strain of the Peroheron stock
is called MOntdOublOau, 1t derives this
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
WOMEN SIGNING DEEDS.

The law to protect the rights of married
women in the real estate Of the family has
led to good many curious incidents. A
correspondent of the Pittsburgh Commercial,
writes that in a recent real estate transaction
in Berks county, Pa, the purchaser, after
much haggling as to the price to be paid for
a tract Of ground, owned in common by three
married men, was unable to secure market
able title until he had in addition given five
dollars to each Of the respective wives in or
der to obtain release of dover. Our cor
respondent expresses some surprise at this
conduct of the wives in exchanging their
" thirds for SO paltry sum, but the GUS
tom is prevalent in many parts of Pennsyl-
vania, and husbands can only get the sigma
lures of their wives to deeds of real estate
by promising them " black silk gown" or
its equivalent in money, which is always
paid by the purchaser.
The custom is frequently alluded to in the
Pennsylvania Reports, and in one case the
reception of silk gown by the wife was
used as corroborative evidence of the fact
that she had signed the release Of dover Of
her own free will and accord without the
compulsion of her husband. Occasionally
an owner, when dissatisfied with the price
to be paid, has been known to put his wife
up to refusing her signature to the deed, and
in this way obtain an increase of the pur-
chase money. Some of the close listed bar
gamers have succeeded in this vancouver,
retain the I" silk gown" money and thus
cheat their wives out Of their rights but in
well regulated rural society, such men are
held in scorn and contempt, and are consid.
cred as miserable misers.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18

1t follows that it would not be proftableto
keep hens after their fourth year, as their
produce will not pay for their keeping, eX-
cept when they are of n valuable and scarce
breed
To begin WITH we may doubt the possibll-
ity Of making any accurate count Of the
number of ovisacs in the Ovaries, or of af-
firming that no new ones make their appear
anee out of minute germs or cells in the
course Of the life of the hen.
In the next place, such a limitation must
have reference to the actual constitution of
the fowl, and this either in its wild or tame
condition. If to the former, the number Of
ovisacs, even if definitely ascertained, can
have no connection whatever with the real
habit of the hen, since she lays in wild
state only as many eggs as she can cover if
to the tame fowl, it is strange to find so def
mite rule laid down for an animal that is,
in the highest degree, of an artificial charac-
ter, and whose nature is, in so many points,
constantly being remade,-Me Poultry
World.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
is sTRINGHALT HEREDITARY

The North British Ayrieodturist, in an
swer to question asking if stringhalt is
hereditary, states the case thus
The precise conditions from which strnghalt
consists are yet unknown. Frequently it is
traceable to tumors about the brain; some-
times spicule of bone have, after death, been
found pressing upon the great nerve going
down the hinder extremity Probably any
causes which interfere with the nutrition of
the brain, spinal cord, or even Of the large
nerves, may induce the peculiar catching
movement Enthusiastically entitled string
halt. In many cases il resembles chorea,
or st. Vitus's dance. 1t may, indeed, be
fttingly regarded as chOrea affecting the
extremities
Although more common in the hind limbs,
it occasionally affects one or both iore-legs.
The nervous way some horses carry their
heads, the trembling muscular twitching and
other fantastic movements Of the head which
are often excited whilst the bride is being
put on, appear to be manifestations Of con-
ditions very similar to stringhalt. All these
defects are usually particularly apparent
when the animal is first brought out of the
stable, and when from any cause he is irri-
tated or annoyed.
The slightest cases Of strnghalt are read
lily enough made apparent by causing the an.
imal to move backward, or to take sharp
turn, when for few steps the natural SYM
metry of motion is disturbed, and the sudden
catching up of the affected limb is particu-
larly noticeable. The great majority Of
cases of stringhalt appear to be brought on
by causes over which we have as yet but
little control. Although often born with
the colt, or observable very soon after
birth, it usually appears to be independent Of
hereditary Transmission. In few cases in
which we have known it to re-appear in the
progeny of stringhalt parents, it has follow.
ed the sire rather than the dam. No treat
ment, either of pregnant mare or her foal
can prevent its occurring. Violent eIertion
undue excitement, unwonted sights and
sounds, as in other animals, tell very preju.
dicially on the fptus in pregnant mares, and
may become a source of stringhalt. Chores
and other nervous disorders in children are
often traCeable to frights and violent nerv
Gus impressions sustained by the female
while the child is in mero. In well-estab
lished cases of stringhalt, neither iron, ar
senic, strychnia nor electricity, are Of any
| nermanenk Value as n cure
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
HARRIS LEWIS ON FEEDING
DAIRY COWS.

During the seasons of 1916, lS47 and
l94S | instituted series of experiments,
which were conducted with all the care was
able to bestow, for the express purpose of
testing the value of the various kinds Of grain
as cattle feed in connection with pasturage.
And in every instance found that while my
COWS obtained sufficient good fresh grass
feeding meal aud shorts, either with or with.
out whey, would not increase the quantity of
milk or the quantity of butter or cheese. -
But as soon as the pasture supply failed to
afford all the cows required or as the grass
became less succulent, as it usually does to-
ward the latter part Of July or before the
middle of August, l found that each kind of
grain fed would increase the flow of milk,
and consequently increase the yield Of butter
and cheese. From the experiments | came
to the following conclusions, viz;
First-Ihat buckwheat bran, when only
the best Of the -four was removed would pro-
duce the greatest amount Of milk, but that
the COW would lose in weight or fall off in
condition, whether it was fed in connection
with whey or water.
Second-That oatmeal would increase the
quantity Of milk nearly as much as buck.
wheat, and that the COW would gain in weight,
at the same time, twice as fast as the COW
fed with the buckwhsat would lose in weight.
Third-That wheat shorts (costing at that
time ten dollars per ton, and before the mill
lers knew how to dust out every particle Of
aour,) were next to oats in value for the pro-
duction of milk.
FOurth-That barley would rank as num-
Der four for the production of milk, and as
number two for increasing the weight of the
COW.
Fihh-That cornmeal would stand number
five for producing milk, and as number one
for increasing the weight of the COW, But
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18

good, even and uniform development Of all
his parts, not extremely fine in bone, and by
all means not coarse, having good depth and
thickness Of body just back of the fore-legs-
this is very essential point in a strong sire;
a strong, vigorous-looking animal, and good
feeder, that will thrive on moderate keeping
and stand little hardship. A bull from
good dairy COW is more likely to get dairy
stock, and if he is bred from good dairy stock
on both sides, that quality will be very sure
to be transmitted to his calves. If such
bull is from thoroughbred stock that has been
bred and trained for the dairy, and is not
enteebied by close breeding and pampering,
the farmer will be as sure as anything in the
future can be of having calves that will not
dsappoint his expectations.
Thorough-breeding fixes and intensides the
qualities to such a degree that they are
transmitted with great certainty and uni
formity where male of this class is coupled
with grade Record and Farmer.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
THOROUGH BRED OR GRADE
BULLS.

There has been some discussion in farmers
clubs and the agricultural press, on the COM
paratve value Of male animals of pure blood
or thorough breeding, over grades, as sires of
stock for farmers use, for the dairy, work,
and beef. The subject is exciting an uuusu-
al degree Of interest, indicating greater de-
sire for Improvement. Those taking part in
these discussions often point to individual in-
stances to sustain the positions they take,
comparing the stock of single thoroughbred
and a single grade bull, proving in some cas-
es that the stock of the thoroughbred was
the best, in others that the calves got by the
grade bull were worth the most. This kind
of reasoning is narrow and erroneous. 1t is
not safe to Judges class by individuals. Some
grade bulls are without doubt very superior
stock getters We have known such. On
the other hand, there are instances Of thor
oughbred bulls-or those called thorough
bred, having a recorded pedigree tracing
back to approved stock-whch leave behind
them stock of an inferior character. These
instances are, in our opinion, exceptions to
the general rule.
We do not give unqualified advice to use
thoroughbred bulls alone. We know of cases
where this course has proved injurious to the
farmers herd, The farmer must exercise
great care and good judgment in the sslec.
tion. The only infallible test is a trial of
the stock of each animal that gives promise
of usefulness as sire. Careful observation
has confirmed our own opinion that it is not
safe to use mean bull because he has a
pedigree that is admissible for record in the
herd-book.
Our advice, in brief, to farmers, in select.
ing bull to cross with grade or native COWS,
is this Select bull of medium size, with a
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
StOek 8aisin9.
RrsDYKs HAMBLEToNlAN.

This remarkable horse, according to the
Spirit Of Tie Times, has served l ,S33 mares,
and got 1851 foals of which about one out
of every l25 has trotted below 2,30. During
the first three years he stood at S25, to in
sure the next nine gears, at $50 the next
year, at S75; the next, at 800; the next
at $780, and since then at $500. His
earnings in the stud have amounted to $780,
l25. Alexander's Abdallah was got when
the sire was twO-year-Old Volunteer, when
he was four; Ed,0ard Eperett, when he was
FIVE; Derter, when he was eight; Bruno,
when no was eleven; Sentinel, when he was
twelve Jay Gould, when he was fourteen !;
Gazelie, when he was sixteen, aud Startle,
when he was seventeen.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
4umErp
POULTRY-HOUSE FOR THE
FARMER.

The cheapest way to build fowl.house
and give the greatest amount Of ground room
(which is what counts with poultry is to
make but one roof and have that meet the
ground. The building should be nine feet
wide at the under.pinning, and nine feet high
at the highest part. This gives as much floor
room for the fowls to move about in as if the
walls were high on all sides of the structure,
and with great economy in building materials.
There should be twelve doors in the building
besides the small openings under the win
dows for the use of the fowls, and the ventila-
tor near the peak Three board doors in
each end, the tallest being for the attendant
to enter, and the other two for ventilation in
extremely hot weather. The dOorways of
the board doors are furnished with another
set of doors made of lath.
When the board doors are all open in hot
weather and the lath doors shut, there is a
fine circulation of air, and when the house
is to be cleaned the lath doors as we'll as the
others may be all opened. 1t may seem as
if there was an over-plentiful allowance OF
doors, but we have tried as many to build
ing with satisfaction. There is nothing we
hate worse than hot, pent-up house for
fowls in July. To make the house as warm
in the winter as it is cool in the summer,
keep all the board doors closed but one, aud
have packing of straw between each lath
door and the corresponding board door, ex-
cepting of course, the tallest pair of doors
where the attendant enters.-Er.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18

The Jowess pans were put in the tenth of
june. and whether We have made more but.
ier alnee then than We should in the common
pans cannot say positively, but we have
made more than we did before they were
put 10. lat least lWo or lhree pounds day,
On IN average Perhaps the feed has been
better br there may have been other causes
To mako ths dllIsrdnoe. st
All he butter made previous TO the FIRST Of
Jnne we sent to Boston to be sold on COM
mission, and hsiled from two to four cents
mOreper pound than the highest price paid in
this vicinity, and | would here recommend
those farmers who desire to send their pro.
duce to a firm who do business on the square,
to try Messrs. Hinckley q Ayers, Boston.
They sold our butter for us last year and
this spring, and also about two hundred gal.
Ions of maple sirup, and the returns have, in
all cases zen satisfactory and prompt.
There We a dozen more things that
would like'to say, but fear that | have
tired your patience already, y,---though editors
are long.sufeting and patient | suppose
at least they have need to be.
LAURA b. BoYcE.
F1DSfou. ,J1i1,e 30
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
BUTTER AND CHEESE IN NEW
YORK.

Who would believe that butter is the lead
ing item in the produce and provision trade of
the city of New York; At recent meeting
Of the Butter and Cheese Exchange, the pres
dent delivered lengthy statistical address
in which these figures were given:
There are annually received on the piers
of the Hudson over 100000 packages of
butter and 100000 packages of cheese
The traffic in butter is nearly double the
amount Of that in cheese; in this respect
butter is one Of the leading articles Of pro-
duce received in this market in quantity and
aggregate value, and by far the most impor-
tant Of that class of produce not sold by sam
pie, but by actual inspection; of the same
nature are cheese and provisions mainly, and
it is this fact that confines the commerce in
these products to any locality most conven.
lent to the general carrying trade. 1t will
surprise all on comparing the estimated value
of the receipts of produce in the market, to
find buttor the chief, and dairy products, with
kindred articles to that commerce, immensely
in excess Of breadstuffs The estimates are
Butter, above s3O,O0O,000; cheese, over
sl5,O00,O00 or nearly $4,000, 900 of dairy
products wheat, S24,000,000; corn S26,-
100000; -four, s2O,OOO,OOO. The butter
and cheese produce merchants receive iu
dairy produce, and other smaller produce, it
is estimated, SlO0,O00,O0O provisions oI
the same class as respects carrying, distribu'
tion and exchange, are confined to the same
channels. BreadstuHs, and other sample
produce, aggregate S70,O0O,0OO.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
THE IOWA STATE AGRICuLTU-
RAJ COLLEGE.

Suel Foster, Muscatine, Ia, writes to an
exchange concerning this institution Eyes
we are a success. l have said as follows
and believe it, that the Iowa Agricultural
College is the model institution of this kind
in the United States. The causes of our
success are the following First, it is an in
dependent and purely agricultural college,
not attached to an old.fashioned classical or
literary college or university, but placed on
large farm, where practical and experimental
work is done second, it is on the manual
labor system, and this is in the law of our
state from before the institution began. 1t
works well, and there are so many great and
good reasons for it, that trust it will stand
as long as labor is useful, honorable and
heathful. Yes, healthful What is not health
worth to the young man or woman in their
teens, at school ? We insisted on making
manual labor obligatory. We make it a
chief cornerstone 1t has its moral tendency
and education is good and only good, and
this good feature has not made our college
unpopular Our president reports when the
second term opened, with accommodations
for 200, they had 500 applications our
president and professors are the right men
doing good service as managers and teach
ers of that peculiar reformatory kind of edu
naturalization in things instead of words
the practical and useful in life, instead of
thefancilul and ornamental. The ornamental
is not neglected, but the useful is paramount
fourth, the president and professors are wei
paid-from $4,000 to $4,000 a year-lol
we are richly endowed for new college, il
new country, with $50, 600 annually, which
can be somewhat increased-ths from the
congressional land grant. We believe Iowa
did as much toward getting the grant from
Congress as any other state, and has made
as good use of it, according to her quantity.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
CHILDREN'S SAYINGS.
Glouer, June I

Little Mertie, bright-eyed boy of two
summers, stood looking out of the window
one day when he saw long-eared hound
and, turning to his mother exclaimed, Dog
gie's ears all tomin off mamma 90 fix 'em
on" One day he was at his grandmothers
when she Glanced to be shelling beans for
dinner he watched her few moments, then
taking pod he commenced pinching and
twisting it saying ope oor mouf, ope oor
mouf," but not succeeding handed it to his
grandmother saying " Drandma, tell it ope
oor mouf"
A little girl upon seeing for the first time
her little baby nephew, looked at him very
earnestly for a moment then looking up
asked "Will he ever get married?"
After a thunder storm accompanied by
hail little George ran out and picked up
some Of the hail stones and began to eat
them then he ran into the house where his
mother was and said " Oh mamma do taste
of this thunder, it's real good to eat!"
Mrs. l.. Ii. b.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-18
General 9gritulture.
THE AGRICULTURAL PRESS.

A correspondent of the Germantown Tel.
egraph says;
To every reasonable mind the vast power
of the agricultural press must be apparent
Take for instance the sliding-gate bars de-
scribed few years ago in some of our lead
ing agricultural periodicals. Ten years ago
they were scarcely knOwn--tO.day you can
see score or more of them in almost any
section of country within days drive. They
are one of the most convenient and pratical
styles of gate in use, and they are appreciated
by the entire mass of farmers. Yet this
simple affair was introduced by the agricul-
tural press,
Again, consider the use Of the press in
such matters as the horse disease that has
prevailed SO generally over the country.
Almost every horse owner reads the matter