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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
LETTERS FROM The PEOPLE.


EDITOR FARMER al see some of the
voters on this side Of the state are making
inquiry in reference to the legislative record
Of Hon. Henry Lane, Of Cornwall. have
no particular call to espouse Mr.. Lanes or
any other mans cause as a candidate for the
governership, although | would like to see
an honest man chosen to that Office. But if
seat by his side in the legislature for two
years gives me any title to have an opinion,
| am able to endorse Mr. Lane az a clean
man, free from all cliques aud rings, an EN-.
phatic friend Of honesty and economy, of
temperance, education and general improve.
ment. As farmer he is one of the best in
the state, and know his sympathies are
with the farmers in all matters of aericul.
tural progress. His course upon the apri.
cultural college question in the legislature
was in full accordance with the views held
by the FARMER, and his speech, delivered in
the House, Nov. Is, 1864, was acknowledg.
ed the ablost speech OF the debate.
do not know, nor do care, whether
MIR. Lane is )" Granger" but [ do know
that the farmers cannot find more able.
honest, or upright man TO represent them in
in any public position.
G. A. SYLVESTER.
So. Jobnsbury, March Ia.
The writer Of the above is, aud has been
for number of years, the president Of the
Caledonia County Agricultural Society, and
he is so well esteemed wherever he is known
that his word in favor Of Mr.. Lane will have
weight with the farmers Of the state.-ED.
FARMER.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
GEN ERAL NEWS.

A County Council Of Oranges has been
formed in Hillsboro County, N. IL
The woman suffrage movement appears to
be making more rapid progress out on the
prairies than among the New England rocks
and hills, Just now The Iowa Senate, by
vote that lacked hut one of being unan-
imous, has adopted the House joint resolu-
ton for constitutional amendment giving
women the right to vote.
Miss Grant and Mr. Sartoris are to be
married Just after Easter. The bridesmaids
it is said, will be the daughter Of Surgeon
General Barnes; Miss Kitty Cooke, daugh-
ter of ii. ID. Cooke the two Misses Borie,
aud Miss Drexel Of Philadelphia. This
will be the second wedding at the White
House, the previous one being of President
Monroe's daughter to Mr.. Gouverneur Of
New York in 1920,
A man giving the name of Ezra Y. Cooke
is under arrest at Providence, X. L., under
the charge of extensive swIndling Of bay
and grain from merchants of New York,
Michigan, Vermont, and elsewhere. Hav-
ing leased m old building in Woonsocket,
he put out the sign Of Burrill 4 Cooke, and
to this bogus firm consignments Of hay and
-four have been arriving from several re-
mote places. The officers found in the store
only an old table aud char.
The Agricultural Societies Of New Hamp-
shire held meeting in Manchester on the
18th for the purpose Of making arrange
ments for holding next falls fairs, and also
to consider how these fairs may be improved
aud made more useful. We do not learn
that any definite results were reached, but
the questions of trotting, the best means Of
selecting competent judges, aud others Of
Importance, we're discussed.
The Mennonite immigration is no longer
matter of remote speculation, for, within
two months, several hundred families may
be expected on this side of the Atlantic.
The exodus for conscience sake of this COM
munity of $4,000 souls is the greatest ma
tional migration of civilized people in his
tory. The families now on the way will 20,
according TO an Ottawa correspondent Of
the Boston Globe, some 500 to Manitoba,
aud probably 1900 to- Kansas and Dakota
and il is added that a large colony from
Russian Poland are expected to arrive in
Canada, this spring
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
CORN BREAD.

A lady correspondent, writing from North
Duxbury, asks :" Is corn cake, or bread,
healthful or otherwise?" This is one Of a
class Of questions that physicians are often
called upon to answer Sometimes the ques.
toner is a sincere enquirer and sometimes
he or she has already formed an opinion, aud
is only throwing out bait for an argument, or
to catch the doctor.
The shortest ana most sensible answer to
all such questions is found in the old pro-
verb, What wont poison will fattvn. " In
various parts of the world we find mankind
sustained, and brought to high degree of
physical perfection, upon almost every con-
ceivable sort of food, animal or vegetable, or
both together The early German settlers
in Texas lost their first crops by too late
planting and drouth, and many families sus-
tanned life for a whole season almost entirely
upon rattle-snakes, which were very album
dant. These were pronounced excellent
food, and no i'll results followed their use.
In India and China vast numbers of people
live almost wholly on rice the Esquimaux
use an exclusively animal diet the negroes
Of our Southern States, while slaves, we're
fed on corn meal and bacon, exclusively
Perfect health and gigor is maintained on all
these varieties of diet. There can be no
doubt that people who work or live, mainly
in the open air are rarely hurt by their food
But when it comes to a sedentary life, in
close rooms, the whole body becomes weak
ened, and the stomach suffers with the rest
If to this is added the habtual use of things
that loW poison, such as alcohol, tobacco,
tea, coffee, or opium, hardly any kind of food
can be digested, and then the victim begins
to charge the trouble upon some particular
article Of diet, as did the old lady whe went
to wedding party, and after stufhng her
self with cake, coffee, ice.cream, nuts and
raisins wine, stc., ETC., was taken with
cholera morbus. that is, an effort Of na-
ture to get rid of tho oppressive load by the
most summary process. Oh doctor, said
the old lady, in the midst of her suffering,
:" know just what the matter is. ate just
one grape, and grapes never did agree with
me
We will say to our correspondent, though
it is doubtful if she or any other reader will
believe us, that if she will swallow no drugs
and drink nothing but water, dress warmly,
and spend two or three hours in active exer-
else out of doors every day, she can eat corn.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
miscellaneous Stems.

Small fans, next summer, ladies.
A severe lady says male is only mule
spelled wrongly.
California is discovering that she is the
most extravagantly governed community in
the world.
II is maintained that Richard III was n
Good Templar, because he stopped King
Henry's bier.
Seven of 1.-The ten recognized milionaires"
OF Chicago are said TO have signed a petition
for imitation. Natural enough; imitation
makes millionaires and paupers, mostly pau
pers.
II was an Ogdensburg hoy who said, when
his mother threatened to sew peas into the
them out on the floor, "Wsll, ma, how can
| pray thenp"
Witnesses running short in Nebraska
court, the Judge declared he knew some
thing OF the case, solemnly administered the
oath to himself, gave his testimony and con-
Victed the prisoner thereon.
The Pennsylvania society for preventing
the abolition OF slavery recently held an
election of officers for the ensuing year. II
is supposed To be living post-mortem for the
purpose Of having u centennial.
A man was boosting that he had been
married twenty years and had never given
his wife cross word. Those who know
him say he didn't dare to.
Snrtoris, the young Englishmnn said to be
engaged to Nellie Grant, is in Washington.
lie is one Of those fellows that part their
hair in the middle.
II is MORALLY aggravatng to n hoy with a
hard SNOWFALL in his hand TO chase another
boy n mile for the purpose OF hitting him,
aud then to miss him by about eight feet.
A Mississippi legislator, who evidently be-
leves in making students practice pedes-
trianlsm. has introduced bill prohibiting
tho sale of liquor within five miles of the
State University
~ wish could mind God rs my little dog
minds me-" said little boy, looking thought
fully on his shaggy friend, "He always
looks so pleased to mind, and | don't.
What painful truth did this child speak!
The Maine ship-building interest continue
TO look up. There will probably be 10000
tons built, tho present year, or about SO per
cent more than last year, though last years
record WAS 10 per cent. better than that OF
any previous one.
And still woman's sphere enlarges Here
Is Maryland lady, Mrs. b. ii. Conway, OF
Frederick County, who has established a
reputation ms contractor for fills" and
cuts; has filed several contracts in Penn
sylvania. been awarded 100000 job on
the We stern Maryland railroad. and now
takes the work OF eIcavating a ira ct in Bal
timore for bulding-stes
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
Thomas Jefferson on Agriculture and
Slavery.

The Springfield Republican recently re-
marked that when our ancestors made the
declaration that all men are created free
and equal" they only meant all white men.
We do not so read American history, nor 50
understand the political principles of the
Declaration Of Independence. Certainly
such was not the meaning Of Thomas Jeffsr-
son. its author and the founder of American
democracy, as will be seen by the following
extract from his Notes on Virginia" writ
ten during the last year Of the Revolution,
where he says
The whole commerce between master
and slave is perpetual exercise of the most
bostelous passions the most unremitting
despotlsm on the one part, and degrading
submissions ON the other. The man must
he u prodigy VINO can retain his manners
and morals undcpraved by such circumstance
as, and with what eXecriuion should the
statesman he loaded, who permitting one
hdU The citizens thus 10 trdnpie on DE
RIGHTS of he other transforms those into
despOts, and these into enemies. DESTROYS the
morals of the one part, and the patriotism of
the other. For If "A slave can have II country
in this world, il must be any other in prefer
ence to that IN which he Is born to live and
labor for another,
And can the liberties of a nation he
thought secure when We have removed their
only firm basis, u cOnCictiOn R TIE minds Of
he pe0pie that these liberties are he gU Of
God? indeed tremble for my country when
reflect that God is just; that his Justice
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
BOSTON Kitchen Market.
March l6.
From the Boston Journal.


Fresh Mcats-Siroin and rump steaks 90
to 33c round steak zoe; ribroasts 10 to 25c I;
chuck ribs 10 to Is per Id. Corned beef 7 to
lee. Trpe lee. Beef liver 8 to l0c. Mutton
legs ls to zoe; fore quarters l24c; hind quar-
tiers 10 to l63c; loins 10 to zoe per III. Veal
shoulders l2l to lie. Breast neck I24 to lac /;
loins 1853 to 20c; legs 90 to 25c per Id; Steak
40c. Calves heads 75c to 81 each Spring
lamb, fore quarter l24c; hind quarter 1863 to
zoe. Pie meat to l5c.
Pork, &c.-Choice strips of salt pork 10 to
lie per ID. Whole hams I2c per ID; sugar
cured hams 10 to zoe. Corned shoulders Sc
Briskets Toe. Smoked shoulders Zoe. Smok-
ed ribs &C. Smoked beef 90 to Csc. Fresh
ribs lie. Salt ribs Sc. Hooks &c. Pigs
harslets Sc each, Pig tongues Sc. Sausages
lie. Lard in pail or tub 10 to l3c; leaf lard
lie. Pigs feet Ice per lib. Beef tongues lSc.
Poultry, Game, Foul, &c.-Partridge so to
Gee per pair. Rabbits 20; tame pigeons lie
squads 33c. Turkeys 90 por Id; fresh spring
killed chickens Is to csc; fowl Is to 1890
common country geese 1863. Red head ducks
80 to 2. so per pair; mongPel ducks $50 to 3;
black ducks l.50 to q widgeOns |, Smoked
beef tongues SI.25 each. Young dressed
pigs 81 .25 TO $50 each.
Ddiry--Best packages of lump butter so
to 60c second grade 40 to 4sc; best tub but
ter As to SOC; second grade 81 to 43c per ID.
Cheese-Factory 10 to lSc; sage cheese IL to
zoe per III; pineapple cheese $3.50 to 1850
each; Dutch cheese 1875. Eggs, including
Eastern and Northern, Csc; lined eggs Is
to 25o per doz.
Fruits and Vegetables. -Cucumhers SO to
4Oc each. Shaker apple sance SOC per bucket.
Cranberries 20 to 25c per quart. Marrow
squash to &c per Id; Hubbard squash 6 tc
&c crookneck squash &c. Potatoes SOC per
peck. Apples 60c to 81 per peck. Lemons
so to 75c per doz; oranges so to Use. Pickles
90 to zoe per gal. Onions SOC to 81 per peck
Cabbages &c per Id. White Hat turnips $50
per peck; carrots 4Oc; beets IS to 40c. Let
tuce loo per head Cider SOC per gal. Hon
ey in the comb 40 to SOC per H. Popping
corn Sc per ID. Fresh ladishes 10 to l5c pei
bunch Celery rs to 40c por root. Fresh
dandelions 81 per peck. Spinach 60c pei
peck. Fresh rhubarb zoe per Id.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20

Pelts $3.50 to $50 each. Calf Sk,rs "a 70
Ice per ID. Dairy skins 75c each.
CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP
N. b. Beef-Choice grade includes moth.
ing but stall fed 100 to 400 lbs Bullocks
Extra and first quality includes the best.
large, fat Oxen. Second and third quality
includes Oxen and two and three year old
Steers.
Sheep-Extra includes cossets, and when
Those OF inferior quality are thrown out.
REMARKS.
Cattle-A trine better feeling for cattle.
probably on account Of lighter supply over
the Albany road this week. There was not
y large supply from the North. but some of
the oxen offered were of the first order and
brought for Quincy market. Prices on best
grades ol cattle are II trine sitter and np-
prOach lc advance. j. W. TAYLOR sold 2 fine
oxen ut l0c per ID, ID w, to dress 1850 lbs
each; ut 90 per III. DIV, $50 lbs 9 to dress
600 lbs at &c. b. Dow sold u fine pair. esti-
mated to dress 1900 lbs each. ut Toe per 10.
ID w these were ied by Mr.. Woods of Bath,
N. H.; oxen, to dress 1900 lbs each, at g5c:
fed by same party; cow to dress 600 lbs, vt
SIC. &. w. Brownell sold heiers. to dress
700 lbs each, ut S1c. John Grove sold fine
pair of steers to s. S. Learnard ut loo per
ID, ID w; these were fed and raised by John
A. Tolman, of st. Lawrence County, N. Y.
near Ogdensburgh; 2 oxen by the dollars
5000.
Sheep-The supply, when compared with
laN week. was considerably larger, hut not
what might he called u large supply for some
seasons of the year. Some of the city butch
ers were up country late'last week to buy up
u few sheep of farmers: came away we be-
lieve with only one load. Their appearance
up there raised the expectation Of dealers
somewhat, and Occasioned the increased
supply. |. b. Sargent, average 95 lbs, mt
7ac. p. Wright sold lO4 sheep, average l05
ut home. Mt &c; fed by Albert Hutchins. Of
Sutton, Vt. A. M. Bowen sold 100 sheep,
gross weight s44O lbs, Mt 7ie.
Poultry--Poultry in the country laid over
until next week. None noticed at market.
Prices have stiffenod somewhat for dressed
lots in the city, and trade improving. Prices
offered rs follows for live lots; hest Ice;
medinm l5c, ordinary Il to Ia l-2c
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
.N'esc York Market.

March 10.
Flour heavy and to 10 lower; Western
and state $50 to $50; white wheat Western
extra $50 to 7.30; round hoop Ohio $40 to
1856; Southern $50 to IL; extra st. Louis
6.55 to IL, closing dull. Wheat dull; No 3
spring $l.44 to Las; No 2 Milwaukee l.53
to l.55; No 3 Chicago l.50 to l.5l; ungraded
Iowa and Minnesota spring LAB TO l.55;
extra choice white Michigan I 90 choice
winter red Western 1877; No. l Minnesota
and Milwaukee l.56 to l.59; No Chicago
LIS. Corn IN buyers favor; new mixed
Western 81 to $50; high mixed and
yellow Western ss1 to 9Oc; old Western
mixed SO to SOC Oats dull and lower
Western mixed 60 to 64c; white Western 631
to CSC. Pork dull; new mess $40 Lard
heavy steam rendered 81 to 7-l6c. Butter
firm; Ohio 25 to Ale; state 80 to soc. Sugar
steady fair to good refining "a to 7sc; prime
&c. Coffee l1c lower; Rio % to oslo. Pc
trOleum steady crude 7c; Kerosene I5c.
Tallow dull ut II to 7sc
CATTLE MARKET.
Cattle-Beeves are &c higher; poor to me-
dunn 9 to lie; medium to fair III to ll4c;
fair to good Tia to Ice; good to prime l2t 10
I21c; prime to choice l2J to I2ic; prime to
extra l2A to l2ac receipts Zoo head. Sheep
and Lambs &c better; common 10 choice sheep
6 TO 74c; with sales of the best mutton at lie I;
receipts 1900 head Hogs-Live nominal
at to 6bc; dressed steady ut 60 to 73c; re-
ceipts %, $50 head.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20

cannot sleep forever; that considering num-
hers, nature, and national means only. n
revolution Of the wheel of fortune, an ex-
change situation, is among possible events
that II may be probable by supernatural in
terferenco. The Almighty has no attribute
that can take side with us In such contestr
SO much for Jefferson's views upon the
slavery question. The following extract
from the Same work upon the value Of farm.
ers as citizens, will also be read with inter-
est at this time.
." Those who labor in the earth are the
chosen people of God, II ever he had u cho-
sen people, whose breasts he had made his
peculiar deposit for substantial aud genuine
virtue. Corruption OF morals IN the mass vi
cultivators is u phenomenon of which no age
or nation has furnished an example. Il Is
the mark set on those, who not looking up
to heaven. to their own soil and industry, rs
does the husbandnan for their subsistence,
depend for II upon the casualties and caprice
of customers. Dependence begels subservi-
once and venality, sufiocates the germ Of
virtne, aud prepares fit tools Tor the designs
OF ambition. This, the natural progress and
consequence of the arts, has sometimes per-
haps been retarded by accidental circum-
stances; but generally speaking the proper
tiOu WulCi tuo hSSTtRilt Oh inc OtneT CtitsStS
OF citizens bears in any state to that OF its
husbandmen, Is the proportion Of its unsOund
to its healthy parts, and is n good enough ba-
rometer whereby to measure its degree of
corruption. The Mobs Of great cities add
Just so much to the support Of pure govern
ment, Us sores do TO the support Of the human
body"
II any one wanted evidence of the wisdom
ofthese words of Americas greatest statesman,
he has only in these days to look around him,
and see the great manufacturing state of
Pennsylvania, and the great commercial
state of New YorS hopclessly buried in tn Q
mire of political corruption, with the great
manufacturing state of Massachusetts,, for
getting all her noble antecedents when the
majority of her people we're farmers, now
evidently preparing to bind herself to the
fortunes of one of the basest and most bra
zen political demagogues that America has
ever produced, in the person Of Benjamin
f. Butler, the chosen friend and chief ad-
wiser (oh shame y of the President of the
United States.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20

bread all her life, and 6nd il very
healthy" and fatteuiug diet. And the
same answer may be applied to the case Of
tomatoes, pork, beans, cabbage, and City
other things that people are continually
drumming the doctors about to know if they
are " hurtful They may be all hurtful If
you live in such a way as to depress vital.
ity, but man as God made him can eat with
out harm of all the food His bounty has be-
slowed npon us.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
W'a,ersssVm Cattle Market.
TUESDAY, March II

lbEoDAls mhIcu H.
At market this week Cattle 259, Sheep
and Lambs 2O97. Number from Vermont,
Cattle As, Sheep and Lambs 500. Calves -.
Prices Market Beei-A few choice $50 tn
1000 extra so TO 90; first quality 81 SO Ia
25; second quality to %; third quality
IS 90 to SO.
Prices Of Store Cattle-WOrking Oxen pr
pair from 500, $50, 200 to $50.
Mich Cows and Calves from $35 to IS
extra 20 TO IS. Farrow Cows 25 to So
Yearlings $40 to 10; two years old 20 to
% three years old 30 to 45.
Swine-Stores wholesale "a to Sc per 10,
retail 8 TO e4cI
Prices of Sheep and Lambs-in lots 5 so.
4 90 4 so to 90 EACH extra 5 so TO ] so
per head, or from 81 to TIC pr 10. A few
fancy sheep Mt "a 70 &c per 10.
Veal calves 5000 to 500.
Prices of Hides, Tallow and Skins-Brlght-
ton Hides "a to 30 pr 10; Country Hides 70
to 7ic pr ID. Brighton TallOw &c pr lbi
Country TAllow 44c pr ID.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
About Going West.

T., near Rutland, VT, writes | have
little farm of fifty acres, upon which have
worked and partly reared small family,
until have reached forty years, My small
farm and stock are paid for, but am not
able to get much ahead, and have felt anx-
ious to do something for u growing family
more than seems in prospect here. Would
you advise to sell for $4,000 and 90 West,
where the money will buy larger farm, and
have something to divide, at least in land, at
the end.
We are also in receipt Of a letter fro m
Mr.. g., who went West on the same errand
that T. contemplates. He writes
Five years ago | owned small farm of
sovonty-fve acres in an Eastern State, and
thought it too small to occupy my energies,
sold, at what | thought good figure, and
came to Illinois and purchased two quart err
sections in Champaign county, at about one
tenth the price per acre for which | sold.
was delighted with the exchange Broke
100 acres Of the rich prairie soil, and raised
twenty-five bushels per acre of sod corn, the
first year. That year corn brought fifty
cents, pretty fair price, and paid expens-
co. ihO uOAN JOdi OuI OuOikiOo HCIC ~
crippled with sickness that | did not break
but fifty acres, and let out that broken the
year before on shares. We got a good crop,
but it brought only twenty-five cents and
was all absorbed by the labor. Here we are
still, and have managed to live after this
Western fashion without getting much into
debt-haVe 800 acres of excellent land that
will raise as much grain aud grass as ever
imagined 1t would, when my eyes looked 30
longingly over it as It lay spread out in
beautiful rolling prairie before me, But
the ague has shaken all the enthusiasm out
Of us, and that little, despsed seventy-Rve
acres has sometimes riselIS-traus6gured be-
fore US, with more glory than any other sew
enty-6ve acres ever had on this earth. But
we are getting used to the climate, to TWEEN
ty cents bushel for corn, and shall try to
take all the other blessings becomingly that
may be sent US. We have more horses,
more cattle, more corn, more land, and that
is what we came for, so let us be content.
We can give an Gig hty to each child, that's
what we came for-dont tell us that there
is something better than an eighty for a
child But you may say to the uneasy spir-
its upon small Eastern farms, look well to
all the advantages of ,ae dear old homestead;
count every sunny spot, every gushing
spring, every running brook, every beauti'
full tree, all the domestic animals whose ia
mliar faces belong to the picture, not for
getting the span of bays that carry the fam.
lily visiting aud to church-count them all
before you decide for more land and new
country.-Lipe Stock Journal.