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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23
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A CONNECTICUT CREAMERY
STEAMlNG FOOD.

Notes taken by visitor to the butter
dairy OF DR.. IL. A. Grant, of El6eld, Con-
necticut, enable us to describe somd5f DR..
Grants means aud methods Of dairying, for
our readers. The doctors stock is mostly
Jersey. The saws are stabbed, we'll groomed
daily, and bodded with sand. Steaming
food is practiced, and in addition to two dai-
ly messes of steamed hay, meal and wheat
bran are provided, with uncut hay. The
proportion of ingredients placed in the steam
ing chest is as follows; Two hundred BUSH
els chopped hay and stalks, four bus hels
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23
For the VERMONT FARMER.
PLANTING POTATOES.

The best field of potatoes l ever dug
were planted in hills seventeen inches apart,
the rows near four feet. The seed was
Early Rose, cut in single eyes, two pieces in
hill. Few of the potatoes harvested were
very large, few very small, but nearly all
above the average size of table potatoes.
There were usually FIVE, six or seven, in a
hill, aud none rotten except where the land
was too moist, or too highly fortilized with
green manure.
POTATo BUG.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23
For the VERMONT FARMER.
HOW TO PROTECT WATER
TUBS FROM ICE.

The best method Of avoiding the inconve-
nience of ice in the tubs or troughs for wa
ter in exposed situations, is to dig well
eight or ten feet deep and about three and
one-half feet deep in diameter. This is to
be curbed with wood stone, or brick. A
little below the surface of the ground place
cross bars upon which to set the tub or
box for holding the water The curb is to
extend few inches above the tub and be
covered with hinged lid. The waste wa
ter is allowed to run into the well where il
is absorbed by the earth. All being kept
tight and banked with loose earth, chips OIL
tan, the steam from the waste water will rise
and keep the reservoir above the freezing
point.
We refer those wishing to try it to severa
such in Post Mills Village, Thetford, or t.
j. NJ. Guild or to IL. A. Chamberlin, who
introduced it, The invention is not patent
ed, and the device may be constructed by
any one with a shovel, saw, and hammer.
PARvO.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

A horse is never vicious or intractable
without direct cause If a horse is restive
or timorous, you may be sure that these
faults arise from defects in their education.
He has been trained either awkwardly or
brutally. Commence the education Of a
horse at his birth accustom him to the
presence, voice and sight of man speak
and act gently; caress him do not startle
him. All chastisement or cruelty confuse
the animal and make him wild. They are
good men who make good horses.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

The idea of making flour by crushing the
grain with innumerable small triphammers
has been carried out in England so success.
fully that pounding mill costing $1,000
will produce as much -four in the same time
as a grinding mill worth $4,000. This is
noteworthy difference, and fact that de-
serves the attention of mill builders in this
country.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

Soup Balls.-Take one pint of sweet
milk when boiling hot stir in dry -four un.
til it is stiff. When cool add one egg and
enough -four to allow you to form it into
balls; add pinch of salt, About ten min
utes before serving your soup drop the ball
in they will be very light and will not fall
after being lifted.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

Mr.. j. Anderson, of Albion, Mich, has
received during the past three years S8,033
for the wool from flock of sheep averaging
440 10 number.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

A man in Chester county, Pa, has been
fined 81 and costs for allowing tue ox-eyed
daisies on his farm to 60 TO seed.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

A correspondent of the Utica Herald says
that from several years experience he is
"satisfied that the cause Of floating curds is
conveyed to the milk through the atmos-
phere, and that curds are more likely to
float the day after hot, showery weather l
think the gas that lifts the curds in the whey
may be traced to close stables with more or
less decaying manure too near the milk
pals aud cans. If cows were MIXED in the
yard or open sheds, with clean surroundings,
would not floating curds disappear2 l have
found that morning milk has most OF the
floating element in it,"
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1t has been ascertained that grain loses
fifteen per cent. by being allowed to become
dead ripe--ffteen per cent. from what il
would have been had it been cut in early
dough or the last stage of the milk state.
There is also difference of FIVE per cent
! in the bran in favor Of early cutting.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21

greatly terrified, and he felt it would be
a terrible disgrace to be shut up in the
calaboose.
"Please let me CO." he pleaded.
"I1l promise I'll neve trouble you
again."
"You PROMISE" said the Marshal.
still keeping his hold.
sob yes, sir, replied Sammy, half
frightened out of his wits.
He lodged back to the store /; his
papa did not notice his return. Sammy
was entirely cured for lounging he
made a very prompt, energetic business
man. He never knew until he grew up
to manhood that his papa was the cause
of his arrest and the City Marshal only
in fun.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
:. VETERAN FARM HAND.

1t is generally supposed, says the AL
bany EceniaQ journal, that when a
man reaches the allotted age-three-
score years and ten-he is not capa-
BILE of doing as much harI labor q a
mai of 40 or 80 years. And when he
passes threescore and ten, and even ex-
ceeds 80, it is something wondrous if he
retain the full possession OF his facul-
ties, and is able even to do a few small
chores about the premises. But We
can cite the case of James Cameron, a
farm hand in the employ Of Mr.. Sloan,
about eight miles from the city, who is
now verging on his 9th year, yet is
hale and hearty as most men at so. He
is now engaged in harvesting, and does
a full days work with the rest, fixing
his turn at moving, grading, or reap
ing, and fulfilling all his tasks with per-
feet satisfaction to his employer, and,
We may say, to himself. He fully earns
his - per day, the wages that are paid
to the most efficient hands, and sustains
his declining years by his own exer-
tons, Independent of ki.h or kin. The
old gentleman is blessed with perfect
health, II clear understanding. and a
vigorous constitution, and will probably
yet live to be classed among the CEN
tenarians. He belongs to a race of
long-lived people, his mother having
attained the age of los years at her
death.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
A DOGS INTELLIGENCE.

An instance of extraordinary intelli-
gence in a dog is given by a CORE
spondent in Land and Water. The
gentleman who witnessed the event was,
n short time since, on a visit to Scot
land, and during II of his walks he
came across some men who were wash
ing sheep. Close to the water where
the operations were being carried on
was n small pen, in which a detachment
of ten sheep were placed handy to the
men for washing. While watching the
performance his attention was called to
Il sheep dog lying close by. This ami
NAL, on the pen becoming nearly
empty, without a word from any one,
started off to the main body Of the flock,
and brought back ten Of their number,
and drove them INTO the emptywa hing
pen. The fact of the dog bringing ex-
actly the same nImber of sheep as had
vacated it he looked upon Mt first as a
strange condolences mere chance
But he continued looking on, and, much
to his surprise, as soon as the men had
reduced the number to three sheep, the
dog started off again and brought back
ten more ; and so he continued through
out the afternoon, bringing one
more Oh less, and always going for a
fresh lot when only three were left in
the pen, evidently being aware that
during the time the last three were
washing he would be able to bring up a
| fresh detachment.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
TN A Raj Fly

1t has never been definitely settled to
the satisfaction of the public who the
Man in the Iron Mask was, but genera
tions to come will know all about Dick
Palmer, of Macomb street, who, on Sat
urday got inside of something worse
than a mask. His mother sent him
after a brass kettle, which n of her
neighbors had borrowed, and on his
way home the boy turned the kettle up
side down and put it on his head. An
other boy gave it a blow and it shut
down over Dicks face as closely as a
clam in his shell, n of the "ears"
digging into the boys head behind, and
the other pressing on his lose. The
victim jumped and shouted, and clawed
at the kettle, but he couldn't bulge it.
A man came along and lifted at it, bat
Dicks nose began TO come out by the
roots, and the man had to stop. A
crowd ran ont of the corner grocery,
Dicks mother was sent for, and the boy
danced up and down and cried, "Oh,
golly !" without ceasing. One boy
SAID they would have TO take a cold
chisel and drill Dick out of the kettle,
and another said they'd have to melt
the kettle of, while everybody raped
on it to sec how solidly it was on. Then
they tried to lift it off, but Dick roared
"Murder," until they stopped. Some
said grease his head, some said grease
the kettle, while the boys mother sst
down on the curbstone and sobbed out,
"Oh ! Richard, why did you do this "
The crowd took it coolly it wasn't their
funeral, and a boy with a brass kettle
on his head isn't to be seen every day.
Tears fell from the kettle, and a hollow
voice kept repeating, "Ill never do it
again" Finally they laid Richard on
the walk, and while one man sat on his
legs and another on his stomach, a
third compressed the kettle between his
hands, and the boy crawled out, his
nose all scratched and twisted out of
shape, a hole in his head, and a bump
ON his forehead. His mother wildly
embraced him, and all the boys cried
Hip la" and little Richard was led
home to loaf around on the lounge and
bava tnast and fried cpos for n week -
Detroit Free Press,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
THE HIGHWA YMAN'S MISFORTUNE.

THE HIGHWA YMAN'S MISFORTUNE.
The Rapparees, says Samuel Lover,
we're the worst marauders Ireland has
produced. Disbanded soldiers of the
lowest class, they united to their vices
sufficient order to enable them to rob on
an extensive scale and till they were
dispersed by regular troops, they con-
trived to lay the country under pretty
general contribution. Still it must be
owned that, with all their villainy, these
fellows had a spice of humor which, if
it did no credit to its nationality, un-
mistakably proclaimed it.
One of them, arrested for a highway
robbery, on being brought before a
magistrate, asserted that he was more
entitled to be pitied than to be pun
ished.
"Pitied !" exclaimed the justice,
while his eyebrows arched with
than ordinary wonder and contempt /;
"and on what account, pray"
"Sure, on account of my misfortune"
Your misfortune, indeed What !!
that we have caught you, 1 SUPPOSE"
go, the jintleman that's brought me
here knowsmy misfortune well enough"
But the gentleman "a as astonished
as the magistrate himself, and as inca
pable of guessing the culprit's meaning.
"You will own, 1 suppose" said his
worship, THAT you stopped this gen.
tleman on the highway"
go, yesI did that same"
"And that you took from him fifty
pounds in Bank of Wexford bills p,
"Andthere yourhonor'sright again.
"Well, then, you perplexing vaga-
bond, what do you mean by your mis-
fortune:"
"Sure, I mean that the money wasn't
in my pocket above a week, when the
dirty bank stopped payment, and 1 was
robbed of every shillin'."
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21

with a hearty shake. They then pre-
pared to "draw cuts" Unable to con-
ceal myself longer, I went up to the
boys, and wished them a good morning.
After which I asked them if "drawing
cuts" was not a much more pleasant
way of disposing of a difference of opin-
ion than fighting.
ooh, yes, ma'am," said they both.
"Then promise mt that you will
alUdys settle your boy troubles so, and
when you get to be men you will love
the system of arbitration better than
war;"
They did SO, bowling politely as I
passed on.-Anget Of Peace.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
THE BAR VEST-MOON.
By L p.

Again the ripened grain is clearly shorn;
Again the earth her yearly bounty yields;
Again the sheaves stand clustered in the fields
Like golden tents. Along the tasseled corn
The night-wind ~rustles, and the orchsrd-trees
Utter low whispers to each passing breeze.
And once again hangs calmly over all
The harvest-moon. Beneath this dusky ~splendor,
This dreamy Summer-softness, sweet and tender
While cooling dews in balmy silence fall,
Come out and stand, your arm about me-so.
Twas thus we stood together years ago.
Just such a night as this! just 80 the leaves
Whispered above our heads just 30 the corn
HUSTLED bes1de the wheat-felds newly bhorn;
Just so like tents stood up the clustered sheaves
And royalty above ne, on her throne
OF dusky blue, sat the full harvest-moon.
Well I remember what you said to me
Under the moonlight, what were my replies,
And what l read so clearly in your eyes.
Twas sweeter than the moonbeams! And I see,
Just as I saw it then. that tender light.
As then it shone on me, it shines tonight.
And that was long ago. We two have trod
Ways often steep and rugged, and our rose
Has often borne its thorn; yet still it blows
In fragrant clusters by the stony road.
Beneath the harvest-moon my eyes are wet
With happy tears-I keep my lover yet.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
s.Genie, Let's Draw Cuts"

One day, while passing along a public
road, l saw two bright little fellows,
with curly heads, bare, and eyes spark
ling with interest, playing marbles near
the district school house. Unobserved,
1 stopped and watched the progress of
the game. Suddenly, one, whom l
shall call Frank, stopped, and, with
reddening face and flashing eyes, said:
"You cheated !"
81 didn't" said the other, posi-
lively.
"And 1 say you lie !" retorted the
other !; and they each took the attitude
of defense so common with boys of
eightand nine years. All at once Franks
face turned pale, and he exclaimed:
Genie, let's draw cuts"
"Why?" said the other, greatly sur
.prised.
Because mother says that quarrels
make war, and you know that is so aw-
jul. Don't you remember hearing her
tell about brother Tom going to war
and getting shot right through the
head, and how they brought him home
dead and cold in the coffin? She has
his picture in the parlor. The large
one, you know, with the high, white
forehead and black hair and beard"
eyes, Frank, he's awful pretty, and
looks like a prince"
eyes; and mother always cries when
she talks about him. If quarrels make
war, Genie, let's not quarrel any more
"All right, and we'll shake hands
on it."
And the brown palms came togethe'
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21

A FRENCH officer, who fought in the
Crimea, has related now an English
battalion of infantry destroyed two Rus
sian regiments. The Russians fired in
cessantly, and did not lose a foot of
ground but they were excited, and
aimed badly. On tho contrary, the
English infantry avoided undue haste,
took steady aim, and missed scarcely n
single shot. The human being is ten
times stronger when his pulse contin-
ues calm, and when his judgment re-
mains free.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
Sammy's Arrest.
4 TRUE STORY.


Sammy was a bright, dear little fel-
ow as one would wish to see. His
arents never thought boys were
troublesome-in the way-more bother
han they were worth ; no, indeed, they
were as proud of him and his brother
4 S they ceuld be, and wanted them to
make good and useful men. So, as a
beginning, when Sammy was nine years
G Id his papa took him into his store as
leash boy" Sammy was delighted
with the change from school he got
very tired sometimes, but he braved it
out and never made any complaint. He
had, however, one fault which grew
upon him. his papa was afraid would
spoil him Cor business if indnlged IN
a fault, il you can call it such, that
every child should possess in a greater
or less degree, that of a desire or
curiosity to see and know everything
that was going on. Now Sammy got so
he ran to the store door at every IN
usual noise. Sometimes he went out
on the sidewalk in his eagerness to see
and hear it might be An organ-grinder
he might have a monkey what boy
could miss such a sight p or perhaps it
was a band, or dog-fight-surely a great
temptation to a boy. Well, the trouble
was Sammy would get out SO far he
could not hear the rat-tat-tat of some
clerks pencil, or the call of "cash,"
consequently there was some dissatis-
faction. Sammy, however, was always
so willing and pleasant when he did
hear hat all were ready to forgive his
negligence. One day there was a SOL
der without any legs and only one
arm on the street corner, and he had a
real lively monkey all dressed up like a
soldier. 1t was too much for Sammy /;
he could not see it as we'll as he wanted
to from the store door, so, hatless, he
slipped across the street for "just a
minute" he thought. But the minutes
flew and flew; he was SO delighted
with the funny pranks of the monkey
that he did not realize how fast the time
passed. His papa was watching him,
and thought if he stayed a reasonable
time ne would not say anything. As he
did not return to his post, his papa,
spying the City Marshal, called to hin
and whispered:
81 want you to go across the street
and arrest Sammy ; just enough to scare
him. He has had a bad habit of leav-
ing the store without permission, and
want to break him of it,"
"Oh fe !" said the Marshal. 81
don't want to touch Sammy ; why, he's
a favorite of mine ; he's only a little
fellow, let him alone"
Mr.. Clay insisted SO the Marshal
was soon at Sammy's side, and, grasp,
ing him firmly by the ARM, said:
lyon must go with me-"
Sammy gave one look at his captor's
face and began to struggle and try tc
get away.
81 haven't done anything wrong
he said ; "please let me go. Why, Tn
Mr.. Clay's boy 1 work in the store
you know papa, don't you?"
swell, well, it makes no difference
Ican't have idle, vagabond boys on the
streets /; lheymust go to the calaboose,'
the Marshal said sternly. Sammy's
face Was hot and flushed he wa,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21
Ants In Central America.

Ants In Central America.
A humming-bird has been telling me
about some of her neighbors away down
South, where she spends the winter.
The thriftiest people in Central
America are the smallest-the ants.
Some of them are wonderful workers.
There is one kind, a sort of wee, wee
trutae-growers, who live together in
immense swarms, and do such a deal of
cutting up, that it is almost as much as
the forests can do to stand against
them.
They are called le~af-cutters, for the
reason that they send out armies of
thousands and thousands to bring in
leaves, which they cut from the trees
in such quantities that whole planta-
tions of mango, orange and lemon trees
are sometimes stripped and killed.
Do they eat the leaves? Not at all.
They live on funny little t%rufies, or
fungi, of their own raising. They use
the leaves only to make hotbeds for
their dainty plants, in chambers under
ground. A beetle who was born in one
of their cellar chambers told the hum
ming-bird about them.
One colony of leaf-cutters will have q
great many of these cellar chambers, all
united by tunnels, for quick transit,
and well supplied with what builders
call ventila.ing shafts for the ants are
very particular about having plenty of
fresh air. These shafts reach to the
surface of the ground. Each chamber
is about as large as a mans head, and
is kept a little more than half full of
cut leaves, overgrown with the small
white fungus which the ants cultivate
for food.
There are three kinds of ants in each
colony the workers, who go off to the
woods for leaves, and have all the out
side work to do some very small ants,
who stay at home and spend their time
cutting up the leaves that are brought
in, and taking care of the baby ants ;
and a few gigantic fellows, who manage
things, and do all the fighting III time
of war. Let any enemy disturb the
workers going ont for leaves or bring
ing them home, and instantly the sol
die1s will rush ont in force, with their
big jaws wide open, aud settle things
in short order. The little nurses come
out sometimes, too, but only for fun or
exercise. When they haven't anything
to do, ard the weather is fine, they like
to take a run out with the workers, but
they do not bring any loads back.
When one of them gets tired, he Just
climbs up on a leaf that a worker is
bringing mas you might climb up on
a load of hsy-and so enjoys a nice ride
/ home From "Jdck-in-the-Puipit
81. Nicholas for August..
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-21

"LoRD GoRpoN' has committed sui
eide in Manitoba, after having been ar
rested by two English detectives. Cor
don was q clever swindler, who will be
long remembered as the only man who
has proved himself sharper than Jay
Gould, and has beaten the latter at his
own game.