Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-11
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Subscribers owing rs will assist our credi-
tors by paying up. We have no personal in
terest in tho matter, we only feel for those
we owe. - IFhitohdH Times.
A Huron county (Ohio) farmer, p. IL.
Schuyler, raised fifteen hundred bushels of
onions on three acres of ground. lie made
one sale of five hundred bushels to Toledo
parties ut ninety cents.
The California foundries and other manu-
factories are 50 crowded with work that
they are running night ann day, says the
San Francisco bulletin. California is u
hard money state.
A canny Scot has discovered that If hide
is immersed for four or five days in mix
ture ofvegetlblc or animal charcoal and wa
ter, Of the consistency Of n thin paste, tho
hair is entirely removed, aud the leather
made from hide thus treated is of superior
quality.
Farmers were never before so little In
debt. They have been economizing for u
year or more, rs the experience of New York
merchants in all trades will testify. Tho
best work of the grange has been to teach
them to go without, and to keep clear of
debt.-Mtltcdukee Journal of Commerce.
"You call yourself granger, sworn to
uphold honesty, -look at the taper in that
peach basket, -bahw remarked grocer
Thursday last to farmer. Then he went
inside, and in his just indignation put twice
us much sand us usual into the muscovado
sugar barrel
| H,ss, ln,r hat I,a ,n,f
ment in drilling grain rs conducted ut the
State College farm this year, has proved
very satisfactory and successful. The drill
cd grain, although put in later than that
sown broadcast, has ripcncd earlier and
given heavier yield; two strong points in
favor of drilling in seed grain.
Among the curiosites of railroad freights
may be mentioned the fact that merchandise
may now be shipped from st. Louis to New
York city, thence by steamer to San Fran
cisco rid tho Isthmus, for less money than
direct from that city by rail, Thus freight
is carried more than double the distance it
would have to travel to reach Its destination
by the Union Pacific railroad, and notwth-
standing this, the shipper saves eighty cents
per hundred pounds in fret ght charges.
An inquisitlve chap stepped into II marble
shop the other day, where Smith was about
completing the sculpture of lamb. Ibid
you cut out that animal?" asked the interro
CATION point. "Oh, no" said Smith, 18th,
lamb has been there all the time; | onl.
took the marble from around him-that':
ALL"
Nineteen years ago Tennessee father re
fused TO let his young daughter 60 TO II can
dy.pull, aud she disappeared. The othc
day she returned. lifted eleven children on
, of the wagon, and entered the house an,
took of her things rs coolly us if she hadn'
been gone over aday.
A fast front--a telegraph. following
! affecting lines are copied from Il tom bston
in Barton:
! mo more his pa will candy bring
Unto his darling boy:
lie loud aloft will praises sing,
Expressive of his JOY
= With angels he will stay,
9 Ills rattle spring with pride,
And bless the day when far away
: He laid him down and died
Gone to meet his grandmother
, A Richmond man, who had been com
! planned of for keeping vicious dog, put tn
animal upon the stand as n witness. o
, being asked if he would bite, he uttered
, peculiar noise, and shook his head. lie wa
then asked if he would bite If his master So
him on, and replied in the affirmative, b
nodding his head and barking. When ash
. ell if ho would bite the court nc shook hi
, head vigorously, and this secured for him u
honorable acquittal.