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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
ADVICE TO A PENNILESS YOUNG
MAN WHO WOULD BE A
FARMER.

Save your money in the start. The hard
est of all is to get started. Every penny
laid up then will work for you, work all the
time-will be a co-worker with you. 1t will
not only earn, but its earnings will give you
courage, give you power. Once well started,
the thing will be comparatively easy
You earn money by working out on the
farm, and while earning money, learn the
trade, which you must do if you wish to sue
ceed in any branch Of human industry. This
gives you not only handling, but an insight
But work for the best men, the very best you
can associate yourself with This is OF such
Importance that you cannot well get along
without 1t. Such men will do well by you if
you are true to them, and advance as much
as you can their interests
Thus you will houorably and pro6tably
improve from the beginning, and soon be en-.
abled to do for yourself. Be cautious and
do not 60 too fast better to be on the safe
side than to run doubtful risks, for to be
threatened with failure is to be restless and
unhappy. This restlessness saps the health,
hurts the mind, and discourages generally.
The whole of s0me lives are thus affected
Worry shortens life, why throw it away :?
Start safely, then, and you will accomplish
more in the end. An amount of land suited
to your means and the capacity to work it, is
what you want. You are not to make money
alone remember you have a life to live and
that life to ENJOY as well as to advance your
means else your case will be a hard one.
1t will be the misers miserable life it will
be selfish, cut off from the sympathy and the
support OF your friends consider your en-
Joyment more valuable than money.
To get money, then, may be curse, if it
be the all-absorOing idea But judcious
saving, il only little at time, will cause
u constant increase, which will be gratifying
aud sustaining to the mind as it contemplates
the safety Of the future. At the end of a
reasonably long life it will be a fine accumu.
lation, counting its many thousands And
all this may be done without being niggardly.
On the contrary, you may live at the same
time, making home, and rearing a respect
able tamil y.-Erchange.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04

In 1855 John Fowler, Of Essex county,
England, started the first steam pillow, Now
there are about 500 sets of steam plows
worked for hire in England not counting those
owned by the richer farmers A tract of
500 acres OF stiff clay land near London was
so Improbable as to be rented for SO an acre,
and could not be prodtably worked by horse
plowing. But being leased to an enterpris-
ing farmer, by steam plowing he cleared last
year, after allowing l0por cent on his invest
ment, $4,000. Already in Scotland culh-
walton by steam is becoming quite general,
aud joint stock companies are investing large
ly in land and steam machinery, The Pasha
Of Egypt is doing the same thing
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
VOL. III.--NO. Is.
CUMMINGS q HosKINS.
Rates of Advertising.
BEAST AND MAN ARE BROTHERS.

Little one, come to my knee
Hark how the rain is pouring
over the roof, in the pitch black night,
And the wind in the woods a aroaring
Hush. my darling anr listen,
Then pay for the story with kisses
Father was lost in the pitch black night,
In just such night As this is
High up on the lonely mountains,
Where the wild men watched and waited,
Wolves in the forest, and bears in the BUSH
And on my path belated.
The rain and the night together
Came down, and the wind came amer,
Bending the props of the pine tree roof.
And swapping many rafter
crept along in the darkness,
Stunned, and bruised, and blinded
Crept TO a FIR with thick-set boughs,
And a sheltering rock behind II.
There, from the blowing and raining
Crouching, I sought to hide me
Something rustled two green eyes shone,
And wolf lay down beside me.
Little one, be not frightened;
and the wolf together,
Side by side, through the long, long night
Hid from the awful weather.
His wet fur pressed against me
Each Of Us warmed the other
Each Of us felt in the stormy dark,
That beast and man were brother
And when the falling forest
No longer crashed in warning,
Each Of US went from our hiding-place
Forth in the wild, wet morning.
Darling, kiss me payment
Hark how the wind is rearing
Fathers house is a better place
When the stormy rain is pouring
Bdyard FdytOr
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04

under cultivation, and gave an account Of the
orchard of Mr. Wright, of Cornwall. A few
years ago the fruit was invariably 80 wormy
that the owner thought Of abandoning the at
tempt to grow fruit for profit The orchard
was converted into a hog pasture, and in two
years the fruit was ali fair, so that Mr.. w.
now thinks fruit pays.
Other interesting subjects we're before the
meeting, of which the readers Of the FARMER
may have some account at other times.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
IMPORTANCE OF HOME MAR
KETS.

Mir. Willard, in his second address be-
tore the New York Dairymen's Association,
said think home consumption should be
promoted in all possible ways the more
country markets We can have, if properly To-
Gated to accommodate local dealers, the bet
ter. The looking to New York city as the
great center for unloading factories and load
ing up retail dealers, often operates very
dlsadvantageously to the dairy interest. |
nave case in point. During the past sum-
mer some of the Wisconsin factories which
had been sending their goods to Chicago be-
came very much dissatisfied with that mar
ket and commenced shipping their cheese
through New York city to London Mean.
while, euterprising Ohio factories opened up
IA trade with the mining interest Of Lake Su-
perior, realizing more money on their sales
than the best OF our New York factories at
this market. The Wisconsin people instead
Of taking advantage Of market at their
own doGrs, must needs look to more dis
tant locality and pay the freight on 5000
miles OF carriage, 1t is believed by many
that if the cheese OF America was properly
distributed over the country in manner so
as to avoid useless freights and commissions,
our home consumption would take nearly the
whole product, and at better prices than
have been obtained for the past two years,
New York city will always be a great mar
ket for dairy produce, | do not object to
that; but what seems to be the growing evil
is, that dairymen are inclined to look upon
it as the only outlet for their goods, and
often to the neglect of better markets near
or hnma
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04

Experiments made by an English chemist
some years ago show how much food of diff
ferent kinds it takes to make a pound of
flesh. According to his conclusions, it re-
quires of milk 25 lbs; turnips 100 pota.
toes, so; carrots, 80 oat meal, 8 barley
meal, "A peas, 3! beans, 81,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
For the VERMoST FARMER
ABOUT SUGAR MAKING.

do not consider myself competent to
answer all of the questions published, but
will give my views on some points in sugar
making. have tor ten or fifteen years used
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
RECIPES FOR THE FARMER.
steamed Brown Bread.


No |. One pint of sour milk one pint
Of sweet milk, two-thirds Of cup Of mo.
lasses, one teaspoonful Of soda, one quart of
Indian meal, one pint Of Graham or fine
-four; mix thoroughly and steam five hours.
No, ? One quart cold water, one cup
molasses, one teaspoonful soda, one quart lI.
dian meal, one-half pint each Of Graham
aud fine flour Tor one pint Of either if more
conveniently beat well and steam five hours,
Baked brown Bread.
No, /. Two quarts Indian meal, one
quart rye, one pint Graham or fine -four, one
cup molasses, sweet milk to make a rather
soft batter place Immediately iD hot
oven, bake five or six hours, gradually less
ening the heat.
No. 2, Stir two quarts Of Indian meal
into two quarts of boiling water; let it re-
main until ukewarm then add two pints OF
rye meal, one cup of molasses, twO-thirds
cup of good yeast set in warm place to
rise two hours, then pour into your bread.psn
and bake as for No. /.
Breakfast Rolls.
To one pint Of sweet milk add three
small cups Of -four and one egg beat we'll
Have your roll-pans hot when you pour in the
batter, and bake as quickly as possible. If
you wish them extra nice, add two eggs aud
little cream. Mas. l.. II. b.
Randolph, March 10.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
WHOLE NO. 1872.
Raoies' department.

Ne particularly desire contributions 10 this eofumR
upon all SUBJECTS interesting 10 our lady readers.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04
TOO GOOD TO BE LOST.

~ E. Hygeian Home, Concord, W.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-07-08
Oiling the Harness.

In these times of poor leather, we should
clean and oil the harness at least once
year, to keep 1t in good condition, and to
reduce the wear and tear as much as pos
sible. Don't let the jobou TO the harness.
maker, but some of those stormy days
when the harness is.hot in use just take it
into the workshop and commence opera
tions. Take the harness all apart, and
scrape off all scurf, hairs and dirt, and
wash the leather clean with soap and
hot water. Then heat two OF three quarts
Of neats-foot oil in a long, shallow pan, (or
use half the quantity of vacuum oil backing,
an excellent oil recently introduced, )::and
draw each piece of leather through it
slowly, bending the leather backwards and
forwards, and rubbing the oil in with a
cloth or sponge. Hang near the fire to dry,
and repeat the process until the leather
rs saturated with oil, mix a little lampblack
with clean tallow, with cloth rub it into
tho leather while warm, until the pores are
filled, and the surface becomes smooth and
glossy. II harness is oiled in this way it
is never gummy, and will therefore keep
clean long time. Sometimes hnseed oil
or adulterated oils are used, but they dry
on leather and make 1t gunmy, dirt and
hairs stick to It and the harness get 80
dIthy as TO soil everything it tonches.
After the harness has had a good oiling, an
occasional rubbing with tallow and lamp
- 49,. a.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-07-08
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

we tnvfte comynunfcdttonsfron, all persons,oho are
Interested In matters properly belonging to this
department.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-07-08
UNITED STATES HOTEL,

Cor Falton' Water and Pearl Sts., NJ Y
THIS well known favorite hotel has recently
Il been renovated, remodeled and furnished
new and elegantly throughout It's kept on the
European plan, and has ample accommodations
for four hundred guests.
:. The location is more accessible to all parts of
New YORK and Brooklyn than any other house in
the city. The Broadway Stages pass the hotel
every three minutes besides various lines of Street
Cars one OF which intersects every other route in
New York.
1t being but two blocks from Fulton Ferry
makes II convenient for those wishing to visit the
City OF Churches" as from this ferry diverge all
theprincipal Railroad routes in the city of Brook
lyn. (6.9dp) GEO. N. TERRY, Proprietor.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

Chaff Is better for old horses than hay, be.
cause they can chew and digest it better,
Mix chat with corn and beans, and do not
give the latter alone, because it makes the
horse chew his food more and digest it bet
ter.
Hay or grass alone will not support horse
under hard work, because there is not sutfi-
cient nutritive body in either
When horse is worked hard its food should
be chiefly oats--if not worked hard its food
should be chiefly hay-because oats supply
more nourishment and tlesh-making material
than any other kind of food hay not so much
For saddle or coach-horses half peck Of
sound oats and eighteen pounds OF good hay
are sufficient. Ifthe hay is not good add a
quarter of peck more oats. A horse which
works harder may have more OF each; one
that works little should have less.
Rack feeding is wasteful. The better plan
is to feed with chopped hay from manger
because the food is not then thrown about
and is more easily chewed and digested.
Sprinkle the hay with water that has salt
dissolved in it, because it is pleasing to the
animals taste, and more easily digested A
teaspoonful of salt in a bucket of water is
sufficient.
Oats should be bruised for an old horse
but not for Il young one, because the former
througe age and defective teeth, cannot chew
them properly. The young horse can do So
and they are thus properly mixed with saliva
and turned into wholesome nutrifnent.-LOn
don Horse Book.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

A DURABLE PAsTE.-Fourpart by weight
of glue are allowed to soften in fifteen part:
of cold water for some hours, and then moder
ately heated till the solution becomes quite
clear. Sixty-flve parts of boiling water arc
now added, with stirring. In another vessel
thirty parts of starch paste are stirred UP
with twenty parts of cold water, so that thin
milky fluid is obtained without Jumps. Into
this the boiling glue solution is poured, with
constant stirring, and the whole is kept at the
boiling temperature. After cooling, ten drops
of carbolc acid are added to the paste. This
paste is of extraordinary adhesive power, and
may be used for leather, paper, or cardboard
with great success. 1t must be preserved in
closed bottles, to prevent evaporation OF the
water, and will, in this way, keep good tor
wears.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

STABLE MANURE AND RAIN WATER.-Herc
is an item worthy of more than casual read
ing: Prof Lawes, of England, has plot OF
experimental meadow to which fourteen tons
of stable manure have been applied each year
since 1S43. Plants grown on this surface
have absorbed all the rain-water, so that little
or none has been discharged by under-drains.
Similar drains under part of the meadow
not MANFRED have run freely several times a
year. An acre of long-manured land holds
within thirty-siX inches of the surface 1,9lO
tons of water; while the same area and depth
of similar ground unmanured holds only l9l
tons
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

Occasionally the "grass professors meet
with some examples of encouragement tc
their theories. Here is one point: In the
last report of the American Pathological So
cicty, an Iowa orchardist communicates the
fact that he has been engaged for twenty five
years in growing pears, and has lost in thai
time by blight fifty times as many as he now
has growing. In 1864 he ceased to cultivate
his trees and allowed them to grow to grass
which he kept down by cutting every few
weeks; and to keep the sod open he spread a
barrow load of manure around each tree in
autumn. Since that date, eight years ago, he
has not loStSa tree.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

BARK LICE.-lt is very easy to destroy bark
lice. The little oyster-like scale was last
year the living inseCt-a white louise so small
as to be almost microscopic, with just enough
vitality to move little from its parent nest,
and there fix itself, growing eight or ten times
larger, by means of a viscous fluid exuding
from its body, and finally hardening into the
scale now covering from one to two dozen
eggs, looking like white dust. A little watch
ing with the aid of pocket magnitier, which
every farmer ought 70 own and carry with
him, will enable the observer to tell when
they are Matched out and moving, which, in
this latitude, 42 80 and elevation above
tide-water 1,225 feet, is about the Goth of June.
At any time after this, and before they are
fixed to the bark, or are too much grown and
hardened nothing more expensive than soap
suds from Mondays washing with soft
soap suds has always sutficed to kill them all,
and restore tree to vigor.-C0untyy Gentle
man.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

The Macomb JOu,maltells this yarn: John
II. Hays, of McDonOugh county, is the owner
of a heifer calf not Il year old but which
from nicely developed udder is giving milk
in copious quantity and Of good quality. Last
fall this calf and another were turned into a
pasture for the purpose of weaving them from
the COWS. The other calf, not relishing the
idea of giving up his lacteal provender I'm
dertOok to draw it from its mate, persisting
on that line In course of time the uddei
developed, and the calf began to give milk, a
performance which it still continues with as
much success as the most staid brindle that
trudges home morning andnight"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

RED CEDAR HEDGEs.-A correspondent
says there is no timber for hedges compare
BILE to the red cedar. 1t will do well in any
soil with little care at first. 1t is long lived
and grows very rapidly. To propagate it,
gather the seed when ripe and prepare the
ground as for drilling garden seeds. Plant
the seed three-quarters of an inch deep,
slightly manurlng the soil to force the
growth at the start The seed is abundant in
Maryland, and the correspondent believes il
will be valuable in many States where hedge
trees are becoming scarce
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

AASTER'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given
M That by virtue OF decree made and entered OF record
by the circuit Court OF La Sale county state OF illinois, at
the May term of said court A. 1875 In certain cause
then pending in said court the chancery side thereof
wherein Margaret A. Mccarthy complainant and Ezra
W. Grggs and Charlotte Griggs were defendants SHALL
TUESDAY ne fifteenth day OF July A. D. 1873 At the hour Of
ten O'Clock In the forenoon said day. offer for SALE at the
south door OF the County Court House in Ottaws In said
county at public suIton and will then sell TO the highest
bidder the following described property being the
ordered by said decree to be sold, that Is TO say:
The east half the northwest quarter OF Section Twenty
the third principal meridian In the county of La Sale and
State of Illinois, 80 much thereof may be to
realize the amount of SAID decree the costs
TERMS OF SALx.-Cash. GEORGE NJ LELAND,
junli-iw Master In Chancery.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

The hay consumed by different animals
does not vary greatly from three pounds
daily for each hundred pounds weight of She
animals. The following table is the result OF
various experiments by different persons, and
will be useful for farmers who wish to deter
mine by calculation beforehand how their
hay will hold out for the winter-5O0 feet OF
timothy hay in full bale being about one
ton:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

The Faribault Democrat says: The epIzo-
otto turns out to be an hereditary disease in
Iowa, Colts in Plymouth county, as soon a.
they are folded. show all the symptoms of the
horse disease which attacked their progeni.
tors last wear, and are dying in large num-
berS; 60 deaths reported in one township
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

MASTERS AND SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS SALE.
made and entered Of by the Circuit Court La Sale
county state Of Illinois. at the May term Of said court
chancery side thereof wherein Henry Suppes and Christian
pPe es snn Spp ps
Amelia Louis suppes and Rose SupPes defend
D. 1873 at the hour OF ten O'Clock in the forenoon of said
day. offer for SALE at the south door OF the County Court
will then sell to the highest bidde the following described
property being the ordered BY said decree to be sold
that Is to say:
The southeast quarter OF the northeast quarter of Section
Eleven In township thrtysiN north range four east
the third principal meridian. In the county OF La Sale and
State Of Illinois
TERMS OF SALE.-Cash. GEORGE NJ LELAND,
juni-iw Master In Chsncery and Special Com'r.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

LIME AND SALT MIxTUREs-PrOfessor
johnson recommends for fertilizing purposes
to mix one bushel of salt and two bushels OF
dry lime under cover and allow the mixture
to decompose gradually, thus forming an
intimate chemical union of the two materials
For this purpose the mixture should be
made at least six weeks before use, or still
better, two or three months, the heap men
toned being turned over occasionally This
salt and lime mixture, when applied at the
rate of twenty or thirty bushels per acre
forms an excellent top dressing for many crops
1t acts powerfully on the vegetable matter OF
soils; fifty-six bushels applied to a turnir
crop have produced as large a crop as barn
yard manure 1t is also very destructive to
gfubs and other insects in the soil. Like salt
it attracts moisture from the air, and is useful
against droughts. Its decOmposing power is
remarkable, and if three or four bushels of il
are mixed with load of swamp muck, the
latter will be reduced to powder.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

NOTICc.-EsTArE OF JOHN hLLEN, DacRAsKD -
traitor Of the estate Of John Allen late Of the county OF
Sale and state O. Illinois deceased VIII appear before the
the 18th day. OF August 1873 at the Court House In Of
tawa said county, when and where all persons having
claims demands against said estate notified to attend
aud present the same In writing for adjustment.
Dated this 1th day OF June A. D. lsIS. -
JACOB BARR,
junli-6w Administrator.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28
junll-6w

MASTBR'S SAI.E.-Notce ls hereby givsn
M That by vruo of decree made and entered oil ord
by the Circuit Court OF La Sale county OF Illinois,
the May term of said court d 1873 in certain cause
then pending In said court the chancery side thereof
wherein Peter Reck was complainant, and Mary AleXls
Eppes and Louis Alderman were defendants, shall
Monday the fourteenth day OF JAY 1873 at the hour
O'Clock the afternoon day. offer for sale at the
south door of the County Court House in Ottawa In said
county public auction, will then sell the highest
bidder the following described property being the
dered by said decree TO be sold, that is to say:
Lots Six, Seven Nine and Ten, in Block Twenty Sx in
the Nnewa Addition the town OF Peru in the county
La Sale and state Of Illinois.
Terms OF SALg.-Cash. GEORGE NJ LELAND,
junli-iw Master In Chancery.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28

A $4,000 COw-Ithas often been said that
cows, especially milk cows, never sell for as
much as they are really worth, but A. J
Alexander, of WOODBURY., WOodford county
sold on Thursday, Goth of May, 2-year old
heifer, known as The Duchess of AirdriC
XIV" to 60 to England, for $4,000, which
may be regarded as a sum not very far below
her real value. She is said to be a beautiful
specimen of beautiful race" and it appears
that the English breeders, having heretofore
parted with all their finest cattle, are now
determined TO have some OF them back al
any priCe.-FrankfOrt (Ky) Ye0mGE.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-28
AesaI.

NOTICE.-EsTATEo OF GEORGE WILsos. pHCKAsRD
Notfcs Is hereby given, that the undersigned admins
traitor of he estate of George Wilson, late the county
Of La sas and State Of Illinois deceased viii appear
the County Court OF said county the ID Monday beng
the 18th day. OF August 1873 at the Court House In Ottawa
In said county, when and where all persons having claims
or demands against said estate notified attend and
present the same In writing for adjustment.
Dated this 18th day Of June A. D. 1873.
ROBERT WADE,
junE-6w administrator.