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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

ties, grated in the trees upon which the Fa-
meuse have been SO badly affected, aud grow
ing in the same atmosphere, are fair ? After
doctors have so long disagreed we will not
have the presumption to attempt a solution
of the mystery, but will merely offer one or
two thoughts
l. 1t has been pretty clearly demonstrated
by microscopical examinations that the at
mosphere is constantly filled with the minute
spores of fungi, seeking substantial seed-beds
on which to fasten and grow so that we find
fungi growing everywhere, on decaying vege-
tatiOn, and not intrequeutly on living organ
isms
2. Some species and varieties of fruit, for
reasons not yet clearly understood, seem to
offer more favorable conditions for the lodg-
ment and growth Of these spots than others,
and consequently we see, In the same orchard,
in the same garden, on the same tree, varie-
ties that are fair and healthy, and others that
are rendered almost worthless by the pres
ence of fungus --Rural Home.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06
4oultrp.
MORTALITY IN POULTRY.

Ordinarily, six or eight per cent Of adult
fowls will die of disease annually, when they
are kept for profit and given Q stimulating
diet to make them lay as much as possible.
This is not surprising when we reflect that
our domestic fowls are in highly artificial
condition. The production Of large numbers
of eggs is unnatural, being a habit induced
by man, and causes great strain on the
constitution. The artificial supply Of food
in unlimited allowance, with no necessity for
exercise on the part of the fowls, is another
source of disease. In the wild state every
species Of bird must work for living and
procure their food little at q time. 1t may
be observed, also, that during the very part
dant, the wild fowls are kept from laziness
by the necessity of feeding their young, ma
ture having fixed the breeding time in the
flush season as regards forage. Agsn, the
structure of fowls is so changed by ages of
breeding, that the wings and legs, and whole
sets of muscles connected Herewith are
dwarfed by disease; while other portions of
the body are made relatively larger, which
impars the general vigor by destroying to
some extent the natural balance of the or
ganization. For these aud other reasons it
is to be expected that the ordinary death
rate in the poultry yard will be considerable.
The fact that fowls will die of old age any
how, when five or six-at most eight years
old lin most cases) renders it likely that a
certain proportion will die annually at an
earlier age. In conformity with this idea,
geese, which do not reach old age till twcn-
ty to one hundred years, do not drop off in
the early years of maturity to SO great an
extent as hens.
The moral of the above is that novices in
poultry raising need not worry over their i'll
luck, or mistrust that their management is
any worse than that Of their neighbors, be-
cause, perchance, few of their fowls Of tive,
or three, or four years old, die every sum-
mer. 1t is to be expected unless the breed
kept is uncommonly hardy, and all the cir
cumstances are unusually favorable. Re-
duce the death rate as much as possible by
hygenic measures, rather than by medicine.
Give plenty of air and sunshine, feed mode
rately, aud promote exercise, aud expect
some losses in spite Of all precautions
Buffalo Lire Stock Journal.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06
HOW TO STOCK PONDS WITH
BLACK BASS.

Great progress has been made in the last
FIVE years in the distribution Of the black
bass, especially in New York and in the
New England states. Two hundred or more
ponds and lakes have been stocked, and yet
we are continually receiving letters Of in.
quiry, which show that people have very i'm
perfect information in regard to the habits
Of the fish, aud the best method of introduce
ing them. Some inquire for the spawn, sup
posing that they are propagated like the
salmonid@. But ell attempts to take spawn
from this fish have been failures, so far as
we are informed. Some ponds have been
stocked with the fry, but it remains to be
seen whether this will prove successful. The
fry are very small, and remain but few
days over the beds where they are hatched,
80 that 1t requires very close watching to
capture them. They are removed Just at
the time when they are said to have the pro-
lection OF the parent fish, aud they are all
liable to perish in new water among other
species Of fish. The common and the most
reliable method of introducing the bass is
TO transport adult fish from well stocked
ponds to new localities. This, when proper
ly done, has never been known to fail. In
most of the states there is legal protection
to the fish tor three years, generally granted
by special act of the legislature. But this
is not long enough to secure the object. 1t
should be in all cases five years. The Ash
do not bite freely until after the spawning
is over in May and June, aud they do moi
usually reach their new homo until July OIL
later, so that there is no fry from them uu-
til the second year. The fish generally se-
lected for transfer are from one to three
years old, measuring from 3 to IL inches in
length. Fish Of this size are not only more
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06
TROUT CULTURE.

A. P. Kinds, Patchogue, l.. l., says -
Four years ago Mr.. Michael Gregory, of
Canaan, village two miles north Of Patch
ogue (post Office address, Patchogue, Long
lsland,) leased about one-haf acre of swamp
land. He dug his canals and went to work
with nothing but his hands. Since then he
has married and bought five acres of wild
land. He has built q nice house, and this
week moved his trout 1t took him two
days, with two one.horse teams. He made
four trips day, using two pork barrels each
trip, making sixteen loads, thrty-two bar.
rels, containing 10000 trout, valued at
$4,000. He had two miles to move, and
stopped at my place to replcnish, SO l had a
good opportunity to interview him on the
subject. l asked him how many dollars worth
year he had sold He said about $1,000,
but remarked that, in order to buy his land
and build, he had kept his stock down. He
said that he looked out for big stock within
the next four years. There you have a
young man, Of no past experience in raising
trout, making $4,000 a year. To be sure,
he had no system to his work for the eye.
His principle is simply that they shall have
plenty of fresh water and feed, and he says
they grow just as well as though he bad ex-
pended $4,000 or $4,000 in their culture.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06
-SIGGteTS.

Most people repent Of their sins by thank
ing God they arc not so wicked rs their
neighbOrs.
What is the use Of talking of this worlds
brightness and sunshine to man that has
tight bOotsP
He who has nothing to do in this world
but amuse himself has got the hardest job
on hand know of.
There is nothing about man that will
outlast nickname, it will stick TO hlm, as
long AS bobtail will to dog.
A Memphis policeman thought that his
orders included all cases of drunkenness,
and, therefore, arrested the Mayor aud was
discharged. -
you wake up in the night in an Italian
hotel and shoot burglar the chances are
that you can't see the landlord next morn
ing and that his wife is widow.
A little boy saying his prayers one even
Ing, was asked by his mother why he had
omitted to ask n blessing for his grand
mother He give his mother whitening
look OF contempt and responded "Who Is
running this payerP"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

Penn, sends local paper an account of the
results Of some experiments in this direc-
ton, as follows:
Last summer hatched 122 chicks from
eggs selected on this principle, 1l9 Of which
we're pullets. l always selected eggs OF
medium size, believing them to be the best
for this purpose. then get a large lamp
(kerosene) aud take an egg in my right
hand, between the thumb and two fore6n-
gers, big end uppermost, and hold it as near
the light as possible; then lay the little flu
ger Of the left hand across the middle of the
egg. This will throw the light in the egg J
then turn it around slowly, and you will
perceive a dark spot the size of thrce.cent
piece directly in the centre Of the large end
or on one side. As raise poultry for eggs
and for market, Of course set only eggs for
pupets, with few Tor cockereis to replace
the cocks of last year."
The 122 eggs which hatcbed all had the
air-bubbe on one side, and we're expected to
hatch nothing but pullets, and only one and
one-half per cent did fail to hatch pullets.--
Country Gentleman.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06
"THE DEPARTED POLITICIAN. >


"The mills Of the gods grind slowly, .
But grind exceedingly small"
And at last they mets out duly
Justice exact to ell.
No matter how high the ststion,
The man, whoe'er he may be,
will find, in the end, the nation
Will judge him most righteously.
The willy and shrewd politician,
or dark and devious ways,
To the struggle for wealth and position
Devotes his nights and his days.
He fancles that he leads the people,
Who follow wherever he goes
While he's but the vane on the steeplo
That the set Of the air-current shows.
30 long in his place dictatOrial
He stands, that he doubtless conceiVes
II is bis by use immemorial,
To have and to hold while be lives.
But the knowledge ofmen may get rusty,
New Lessons he can't or won't learn;
The vane on the steeple grows rusty,
And soon is unable TO turn.
Some JEALOUSY, pique or ambition
May warp or may darken bis mind,
And our crafty, high-placed politician
For the time is half dead and ell blind,
He thinks he can lead as he chooses,
That the people are glad to be lsdi
No wonder his balance he loses,
And his feet take the place Of his heed.
But still the wind blows as It pleases,
In November 1t cuts like knife,
And our shrewd politician freezes,
And yields up his political lie.
He fAncied, while gazing sunward,
That he was Q leader Of meni
The popular wave rolled onward.
And where wss the leader theni
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06
SEX IN EGGS.

A correspondent of the London Journal
of Horticuh ure, in reference to this ques-
tion, says Last winter IAN old country
poultry-keeper told me he could distinguish
the sex in eggs. l laughed at him, and was
none the less skeptical when he told me the
following secret; Eggs with the air-blad-
der on the centre of the crown Of the egg
will produce cockerels those with tho blad-
der on one side will produce pullets." The
old man was so certain Of the truth Of this
dogma, and his poultry yard so far confirmed
it, that determined to make experiments
upon it this year. / have done 50, care
fully registering every egg bladder vertical,
or bladder on one side, rejecting every one
in which it was not decidedly one or the 9TH
er, as in some it is only very slightly out Of
the centre. The following is the result I:
Finy-eight chickens were hatched, three are
dead, eleven are yet too young to decide
upon their sex of the remaining forty-four,
every ono has turned out exactly true to the
old mans theory. This, Of course, may be
an accidental coincidence, but shall GER
tainly try the experiment again"
A pOultry.keeper in Westchester County,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

KEEPING MEALS WAITINa.-Little things
often interfere with our comfort very much,
aud one small annoyance is for men to delay
coming to dinner when called. Sometimes
they have an hour or more of work which
they will do before quitting, and then they
go to the house to find the dinner cold and
the cook discouraged. Nothing is more dis
heartening to tired woman than table
full of dirty dishes Ornamentng the table an
hour and half later in the day than usual.
Punctuality is a virtue that men should
learn if they are in the habit of being uncer-
tain about coming to meals. Any woman
worthy the name of housekecper will be reg
ular with her meals if it lies within her to
have them so.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

The Boston Globe observes The talk
about the barrenness of New England soil
as a thing not to be overcome is sheer nom
sense, With proper knowledge, the farmer
of to-day can raise as good crops IN Maine
and New Hampshire as in California.
Worn-out soil needs to be treated by the
scientific agriculturist precisely as a physi-
clan would treat a worn-out system, and
there is not farm in New England that
ever possessed the crop-bearing power but
may be made to pay by judlcious and COM
mon sense management. A good deal OF
our old-iashionod farming is on the princi.
pie of sucking an orange dry and then
throwing it away. Let the science of ag-
ricuture be once fairly understood by our
farming population-and the tendency is
slowly that way--and let the system of
fairs and associations be thoroughly devel-
oped, and we shall soon see a rejuvenated
New England and the barren acres of TO-
day "blossoming like the rose"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

time is cot practicable, as we are nccessita :
ted to feed both before and after they arc in
blossom but when we state our experience
in feeding, we ought to state the condition
the food is in. think these experiments
show us why June is the month when grass
es produce the best results in July they
are more matured, and though the weather
may be ever SO favorable, yet the produce
tion Of milk in this month is not equal to
that produced in the month Of June.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

WATERPROOF PAPER.-A nice article,
transparent and imperViOus to grease, Is OBJ
tained by soaking good paper in an aqueous
solution OF shellac in borax. 1t resembles
parchment paper in some respects. If the
aqueous solution is cOlored with aniline col
Ors, very handsome paper for artificial flow.
ers is produced.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06
SONG OF THE FLAIL.
BIZ J. 7. TRowBRIpGE.


In the autumn when the hollows
AL are filled with hying leaves,
And the colonies Of swallows
Quit the quantity succeed caves,
And n silver mantle glistens
Over all the misty vale,
Sits the little wife and listens
To the heating Of the hAil,
To the pounding of the fail
By her cradle sits and listens
To the Tapping Of the aail.
The bright summer days are over,
And her eye no longer sees
The red bloom upon the clover,
The deep green upon the trees;
flushed the songs of finch and robin,
With the whistle Of the quail;
But she heaTs the mellow throbbing
OF the thunder Of the flsil,
The low thunder Of the fail
Through the amber AIR the throbbing
And rsVerberating fail.
In the barn the stout young thresher
STOPPING stands with rolled-up sleeves,
Beating out his golden treasure
From the ripe and rustling sheevosi
Oh, was ever knight in srmor-
Warrior ell in shining nail
Half so handsome Us her farmer,
AS he plies the flying fail.
As he wields the flashing haill
The bars-thrOsted, brown young farmer,
As he swings the sounding aail'
All tho hopes that saw the sowing,
All the sweet desire Of gain,
All the JOY that watched the growing
I'd the yellowing Of the grain,
And tie love the: wont To WOO her,
Aa,. .4s isitA t0 shall not lAil-
Ala are spsssing softly tO her
In the pulses Of the fail,
Or ths pslpitating fail,
Past =ut trtpre whisper to her
In the music Of the fail.
Il So ,-!b their babe is sleeping,
And the sunshine from the door
All the afternoon is creeping
Slowly round upon the aoori
And the shadows soon will dSrken,
And the daylight soon mus pale,
When the wife no more shall hoArken
To the trampiug CT the fail,
To the dancing Of the fall
When her hsnFt no more shall hearken
Ta the football Of the fall.
And she baba shan gIrw snd strengthen,
BE nader be 3 vito,
While the moving shadows lengthen
Round the dial Of their life
Theirs the trust Of friend and noighbor,
And an age serene and hale,
When machines shall do the labor
OF the strong arm and the fail,
or the stout heart and the fail
Great machines perform tho labor
or the good Old-fashiOned fail.
But when, blessed amops women,
And when, honored among men,
They look round them, can the brimmlng
OF their utmost wishes then
Give them happiness completerl
And can ease and weslth avail
To make any music swseter
Than the pounding ofthe nAili
Oh, the sounding Of the fail
Never music can DO sWseter
Than the beating Of the fail.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

Milton b. Wadleigh, of Sutton, N. H.,
has raised this year 225 bushels Of spring
wheat on ten acres of land from which he
last year harvested 100 bushels of potatoes
and 300 bushels of sheled corn.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

Harris Lewis says he has found as high
as thirty per cent of cream in the last pint
Of milk drawn from a COW, when the first
pint from the same COW had only nine and
one.half per cent.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

We are in favor of swivel plows for
all kinds of plowing, and use no other
Massachusetts PlOEghman.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

An orchard planted by Daniel Webster
at Marsh6eld yields this year thirteen hum
dred barrels OF apples.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-07-04
Saturday.. July 4, 1874.
The State Convention at Alexandria

We lay ourselves liable to the
charge Of boring" npon this
question, but there is nothing
like excepting q Z riving'' ut any
thing to succeed in it aud "the
powers that be- shan't forget us
at any rate, They may ignore our
claims but they shall not have the
excuse Of overlooking us. g
This is just the place to get tie
Representatives Of all the people to-
getber, and to have q harmonious
talk about matters and things pol
itical.' We extend a cordial .invi-
tation to our sister parishes to meet
here aud if they don't and won't
come it shall not he for the want OF
assurances of the welcome they
would have had here.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-07-04

to control or dictate In the White
Mans Party, then we are as warm
" in favor Of the Reorganization" Of
the Democratic party. If it only
wants the Democratic party to pre-
serve its organization for q cam
paign in 1876 upon national issues,
then we are in favor Of it. But il
by "organ;zation" it means, COW
ventions, confusion, conflicting
nomipationsapd tlfscordy We ay ops
posed to It, and We cannot BACK
down until the people shall have
decided upon the merits q the
White Mans Party, pr4 o. csa.sg 7
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-07-04
4 Negro Magistrate Caught Stealing.

q 4 : Il Z Z. = r A.
On the 9Th Of this month tho
Store house of Mr.. Gordon, at
Loyds bridge was broken into, late,
at night and many articles stolen
therefrom. A search warrant was
applied for and obtained, and seye-
raj days afterwards the promises Of
one Robert Duke, the former negro
Magistrate appointed aud commis,-
stoned by Kellogg-were searched
and the stolen goods recognized.
The said Duke was arrested, and
fon his way to the Magistrates Court
he escaped from the Constable.
Thetts of this kind are not of a
frequent occurrence in this parislly
but SO soon, as a negro gets into
office, under the Radical regime he
believes himself fully autlorized to
commence D. round o: stealing and
plundering. Dhke'i is not the only
thief that has been in Office, in tho
long years of misrule in this State
and parish. An honest man WHO
holds an Office under the negro
Radical party in. Louisiana is an
exception ana hard to find, while tho
general rule is, that all are thieves
and plunderers. Duke4is an igno. 1
rant negro and has escaped the
hands Of justice, but has left be-
hind him whole corps whose
crimes against the property and
liberties of the people of this State,
are ten fold as great. Forbearanco
with public and private thieves,
throughout the country has ceased
to be virtue. &g 8 nS.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-07-04
o Outrage Upon the Press.

We had started to say the Bulle-
in-but it was al outrage upon all
the Press and we so resent it. II
the hired minions OF a corrupt gov
eminent can today seize it's forms
without warrant or authority in
law, tomorrow. it may he. the time
of the Caucasian, the Shreveport
Times; Vindicator or any other pa
per that may make itself 'particu,
larly obnoxious to radical officials
to be served the same way. The
seizure of the forms Of the Bulletin,
at midnight, and by the New Or
leans Police, under the fiimsy pre-
text. Of debt, is an outrage SO
fl agrant, SC ran-n.i ca
and so subversive OF tho
only right left to- us, that of freely
expressing our opinion, as to de.
mand at the hands Of every mem.
her Of the Press, the most severe
condemnation, and at the hands oil
an outraged people quick and just
ly merited punishment.
The last resort of Usurpers and
Tyrants isoutrages such as this, and
a free people should rise in their
might. and crush out such supple
instruments OF oppression as the
Metropolitan Police. Where is
your manhood, people Of New Or
leans' Where is your liberty, .peo'
pie Of Louisiana, when such bold
robbery and oppression as this goes
UNPUBLISHED 2 There is a day Of
reckoning coming, when a long
standing account is to be settled by
tile people, with their oppressors.
and when it comes it will be a day
Of awful import to tyrants and
thieves such as the New Orleanf
Police.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-07-04
Personal.

, Our sanctum has this week been
visited by MI. G. L. Walmesly aud
Mr.. NJ. j. Cunningham, Of Natcli-
toches; the former, ono of the
staunchest and most reliable Com.
mission Merchants in New Orleans
and the latter, a most promising
member of the Natchitoches bar.
1t has not heretofore been our good
fortune to meet such agreeable Wis.
itors as We have had this week.
Our Natchitoches friends give Us
encouraging accounts of the awak-
cning of the people to the cnor1nity
Of the frauds committed upon them
and of their determination to stand
thcm no longer.