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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-06-16

The last number Of the Sani,arian
tells how hearty laugh oncc saved a
mans life. lie was suffering from an
liberated sore throat which bscame go
swollen. that death from asphyXiA waa
momeutarily expected. lis lrieuds cNms
10 bis bedside TO bid him farewell. AVA
last of all came pet ape and shocs Aa
masters hand aud went away wAa as
hands ov cr his eyes. The sceuo was so
ludcrous that the sick man INDUCED in
hearty laugc which had the effect TO
brea the ulcer ard speedy relief for's
lowed.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-06-16

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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
fN'ilsrmnnt GARNER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
1T ST. JOHJrSRURF, VT,
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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
For the VERMONT FARMER.
STACKING BEANS.

| was quite interested in the article upon
practical bean culture" by R. j. w., in
the FARMER of March 9th. He seems to
speak from experience, and l think that
there are many valuable hints to be gained
from the article. There is, however, a
method of stacking beans, or perhaps l
should say mobilization of his method, IN
use among the farmers Of this vicinity
which | think to be in some respects an i'm
provement upon it. Instead Of one stake
for each stack we use t1cO, setting them six
or eight inches apart, then put a withe
around them about foot from the ground
and put in the beans, the roots between the
stakes and the tops out, building up as high
as convenient then put on another withe
and few more beans, topping out as r. j.
W. suggests. Stacked in this way couple
of men can take the stacks up entire and
put them upon cart or wagon, and they
can be packed upon scaffold in the barn to
be kept till winter if desired. This can be
done very quickly and only very few beans
need be shelled by it.
X. j. W. also says that beans should be
hand picked to it them for market. agree
to this unless they are all right without.
We once raised upon half an acre of
sward land planted in drills, with no manure
except little scattered in the drills, aud
stacked as above, 20 bushels of beans which
were sold just as they came from the fan
ming mill and the dealer pronounced them
superior to other lots which were carefully
hand picked.
This was in a very dry season. In wet sea-
sons some of the beans are sure to become
discolOred before all are ripe. EAT.
Waitsfeld, March II, 1874.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27

while many of my ueighbors failed. There
is no excuse for harvesting an inferior crop
Of potatoes any season, if they are properly
planted The medicine is simple, sure, aud
cheap. ] will not write long and needless
essay upon the different composts, &c, used
but give my own experience. plow under
as much manure as the ground will allow of,
harrow we'll, drop my seed, and on the seed
in each hill drop a good-szed handful Of
plaster and hard wood ashes, mixed in equal
parts hill we'll. When planted, II your
soil is not too damp and wet, | will guaran.
tee as result harvest that win do you
proud and make your opinion aud mine
alike. Try il. u.tts. w. II. p.
Cdmbriiqe, March II.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
For the VERMONT farmer.
FARMERS WIVES AND DAuGH-
TIERS.

1t Is stormy day and you say to yourself.
sewing that will not stop to arrange my
dress therell be no one in to-day" so
down you sit, and dive deep into the depths
OF II basket in search of something TO iuend
"Johnny's coat" It's bad day, so you
won't mind the pieces scattered about the
floor. Presently some one knocks After
gathering up IL few stray ARTICLES and
smoothing OF hair aud dress, you step to the
door with guilty feeling.
Good morning, Mrs. Grundy will you
walk mp She walks in with II dignltied air
sents herself, aud gives you such IL look
that you feel called upon to rise and ex-
plain" So you say rs nleekLy and sWeetiy as
possible, Il hope you will excuse my untidy
appearance; WAS in something OF u hurry,
to-day, and have not given proper attention
to my dress She excuses you gracefully,
aud Soon departs with another item OF ges-
sip for the next neighbor. Such things are
nlortVytrg and even INJURIOUS to you.
Perhaps you live five miles from church,
and possibly rs many from II neighbor, even
You think you are safe from intrusion, and
will not trouble yourself about your dress;
but this Is, think, great mistake. For
this very reason, there is greater need that
you make yourself attractive, and home
pleasant for your husband and children.
On stormy, cherries days put on your "com-
pany" dress and your sweetest suile; 1t
will be appreciated and you will be better
satisfied with yourself Tor so dong. | would
not have you devote your entire time to dress;
neither would wholly ignore it, | would
prevent, if could, the untidy, slovenly ap-
pearance Of mothers mt home, the example
they are giving their daughters, and the
loss OF seli-respect which they must sustain
who indulge in such habits
l would save two or three dollars IA season
and purchase some good print dresses. /
would save few pleasant words from their
Sunday language" for Monday and Tuesday.
Print is very cheap now. besides it washes
well. Never allow yourself to appear in
anything worse than clean print dress.
To aid in keeping it so, wear nice, big aprons
during the morning, exchanging both in the
afternoon for newer and prettier ones, not
forgetting the plain linen collar. This will
NOoS Jbu buL llltlS OAlld llillCf duu your IT.
ward will be-greater seli-respect and
cheerful home.
Mothers AID sisters can make home pleas
anter to young men OH long winter evenings,
than the oar room and such associates AS
they find there; or they can by their un-
pleasant manner, untidy appearance, and
'cheerl0ssly" kept rooms, drive them there.
Don't cOniine them To the kitchen because
il makes u little work To have the best room
warm and comfortable ior them. Make
little parties for them occasionally, read to
them, or whal Is better, get them Interested
and then ASK them to read TO YOU, while you
sew.
Don't let The rtHlSeiier entertain vOuT
brothers better hdn you do. II we owe
pleasing appearance to society, how much
more do we owe il 10 our own family.
FARMERS DAUGHTER.
jan Ia 1874
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
For the VERMONT FARMER.
HOUSE PLANTS.

DEAR FARMER--Can any Of your lady
readers who keep house plants tell me what
to do for my Chinese Primrosesp They
grow thriftily and send up great many buds,
which blast few days before it is time for
them to blossom. Last winter | had one
that blossomed all winter long. These |
have now received the same treatment I
gave that, except that they have better
place to grow in, a room that is warmed
only by opening into another room where is
II large stove. They have south window,
and sometimes fresh outdoor air when II is
not too cold, and don't see what they can
complain Of Father thought | gave them
too much water, but as had read that they
needed almost as much water as Gala,
and my pots have good drainage l did not
sce how that could be. However, l tried
less water and still the buds blast. And my
roses have put what little skill | have in
growing plants to shame. They sent out
new shoots which would die as fast rs other
new ones came, but finally the dying proc
ess got ahead Of the growing, and now they
are banished to the cellar, AS bare as the
rose bushes in the garden. One of them is
two years old. l have Kept it growing all
the time until now but it never hurt itself
blossoming; the other is a young one that
has had but one perfect blossom. l repotted
them in the fall and cannot think what is
the matter with them. My other plants are
doing well, have Cyclamens that have been
in bloom some time. | wonder if my sis
ters know the value Of the Gamma us IL house
plant. have one that was cut down in the
fall and brought into the house, and it has
been constantly putting out new leaves ever
since; it needs but little water and bears
hot airless room, such as too many of our
living rooms in winter are, better than any
plant | have found. There is one flower
miss sadly in winter, the beautiful Puritan
pansy. Is it possible to grow them in the
houseP find paper II very good protection
for plants in the cold nights, put against the
glass behind hanging plants, and pinned
over those that are too heavy to move from
the window. | generally use the FARMER
for this purpose. Could you have II prettter
compliment dear FARMER2
LOVER OF FLOWERS.
Grand Isle, Jan. l6.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
For the VERMONT Farmer
SEEDS.

buy my garden seeds Of men who are
in the seed business. DO this because my
operations in this particular line are not
very extensive, because | have so much
other business to attend to that have not
the time to spend in selecting and growing
seeds which must be given in order to be
successful, and also because seedsmen have
far better facilities for growing and keeping
pure the different varieties which | want
than have, or can have, while in ordinary
farm business The best seeds are the cheap
est. The judgment of every farmer assents
to this. Poor seed is expensive at any
price--ruinous if much is used. Few farm
ers grow first class garden seed. They can
not do it. 1t is cheaper and better for
them to buy the few seeds of this kind that
they want to use. Admitting the above the
question arises
where shall I Buy seedI
Locality has much to do with this ques-
tiOn. Seeds from place near home usually
give the best results. Northern grown seed
is far better for Northern farmers than that
grown at the South. 1t will produce earlier
and better vegetables. 1t is not necessary
to explain rOhy this is 30. Suffice it to say
that knOD it to be a fact. Seeds from
Vermont are better for New England farm.
ers than seed from Boston or New York.
But locality is not all. Some men who are
in the business sell very poor seed. Some
times old aud worthless seed is mixed with
some that is good and the whole sold for the
first quality. Sometimes it is sold without
mixing. | have been cheated many times
in this way. So we must not only obtain
seed from good locality but also from an
honest dealer. If we could have but one
thsiatter should most certainly be chosen
But the New Eugland farmers can hare both.
Let them send to the
Editor Of the Vermont Farmer
aud they will get the best Of seed and be
fairly dealt with. This learned by eI-
perience.
Now let me tell you, o reader, that the
above advice, which costs you nothing, may
be worth great deal to you. If you fol.
low 1t you may be saved from being badly
cheated, Also, let me tell you that the
said editor not only did not solicit the
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
Gbe 9airp.
For the VERMONT FARMER
A MILK TESTER; HOW TO
MAKE AND USE 1T.

Take dairy salt box which has the cover
removed, turn it on its side with its open
top toward you or in front, bore some holes
in what now forms the top of box of sufi-
cient size to insert glass tubes letting the
lower ends Of tubes stand on what now forms
the inner side OF bottom of box. These
tubes may be made from lamp chimneys OF
the German student pattern, which may be
had at nearly every country store, and if the
bottom or bulge part is broken off, all the
better.
Now stop up the contracted part of chin.
ney with a cork coated with gum-shellac
melted sealing wax, or anything which may
assist in holding the cork and making it milk
tight, and you then have a uniform column
OF milk about eight aud one third inches
high, which divided into one hundred pa rts
will make twelfths of inches which degrees
may be put on card board or piece of shin.
gle forming scale of which each twelfth OF
an lhch represents one per cent. Alter these
tubes are set into their places, pour into
them the milk which has just been drawn
from the respective COW whose name should
be attached on piece of card to the COR
responding tube, care being taken to proper.
ly stir or mix the milk of each COW separate
ly, so as to get uniform quality, for the
milk remaining in the pail few moments
will be found richer at top than at the bot.
tom Of the pail, and such unstirred milk
would be an unfair test.
Let the milk stand in these tubes in a
room of a temperature of from 6fty-sight to
sixty'fve degrees until you think the cream
has all risen, which will vary in different
cows from twelve to fOrty-sight hours, and
you can then readily tell by applying the
scale to the side Of the tubes the per cen.
tags Of cream Of each COW, as we'll as see its
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
THE SPIRITUAL TRAINING OF
CHILDREN.

Ii children We're generally taught that
they are as really endowed with spiritual rs
with material powers, and that only by the
exercise OF these powers is it possible for
them TO perceive the highest truths and be-
come acquainted with God, believe that
multtudes would escape the doubts and
perlls to which deficient training exposes
them, aud grow up with AN habltual and
sOul-satisfying sense Of Gods presence and
help. Our methods of religious education
are too external. We address the sense and
the intellect, but allow our children to grow
up with only dim consciousness that they
are spiritual beings. Surely there must be a
way OF making them understand how to use
the highest powers with which God has en-
dOwOd them; way Of teaching them
that their spiritual faculties are AS real AS
their eyes and ears, their hands aud feet, n
way Of training those faculties SO AS To make
God visible to their soul, even as his works
are visible to their senses. Ii Christians
generally we're thus trained in childhood and
youth, they would learn TO commend re-
ligion by their spirituality aud the force of ~
consscrated lille, rather than by doubtful
disputationsn and contentious. and an undue
eNaltatlOn Of ereeds and forms. Our theo-
logical systems are born of the Intellect
rather than of the spirit, and therefore fail
TO lead the soul TO GOd.-ChriStidn Union.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27

above, but, until my manuscript met his
eyes, he had no idea thai intended to vrite
anything Of the kind. | write it on the
principle of giving "hOnor to whom honor
is due" and also the best advice 10 my pow.
er to the readers OF the VERMONT FARMER.
If this article is not already too long let
me say a word about the
Brooks RED Seeding Potato.
A year ago or more one Of my Massachusetts,
correspondents sent me copy Of the YER
MONT FARMER in which was an advertise
ment of this potato. One of my friends
said he would take part Of them and sent
to the proprietor Of the Memphremsgog
seed farm for barrel. They arrived in
due time and were some Of the finest look
ing potatoes ever saw. My friend took
what be had engaged and l was intending
to plant the rest. But two of my neighbOrs
happened along before | got them planted
and 1, very foolisbly, sold each Of them a
peck. planted what remained, giving
them Enrequhl chance with the Early Rose
which planted on the same piece. l also
had other varieties 10 different fields. The
season was extremely dry and l do not
think the yield OF potatoes was half what
it would have been in a good year. My
other varieties did not yield over sixty or
seventy bushels per acre while tie Brooks
produced at the rate Of one hundred and
sixty bushels. This, considering the season,
was remarkable yield for this locality.
The three men whom furnished with seed
all report large yield and speak highly Of
this variety. Not only was the yield good,
but, what is nearly as important, the quality
is also very 6ds. Either boiled or baked
they are, what every farmer wants, good
potato.
| ought also to mention my trial Of
Kingsbury's Excelsior Corn,
the seed of which obtained at the same
time and place as the potatoes, but as l am
interested in the sale Of rival variety my
remarks will be quite brief The seed
looked finely aud germinated perfectly. l
planted it on dry land and the drought hurt
it severely. 1t grew as we'll, however, (when
the season and the natural dryness Of the
land are cOuo;Aered) as could expect, and
yielded double what any sensible farmer
would have estimated when it was cut. l
saved some seed aud shall plant it this sea-
son. On the whole think it is one Of the
most valuable varieties have ever grown.
MASSACHUSETTS FARMER.
amherst, Mass.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27
For the VERMONT FARHER.
PLASTER.
amherst, Mass.

| nee many notices Of commercial ma.
nures, and Of almost endless varieties, which
L have no practical knowledge of. The
phosphates are but little used in this region,
and with what results report does not say,
and for some reason am led to suspect that
many commercial manures are put into the
market mostly for the benefit of the trade,
and not Of the land. 1t is but just, howev-
er, to acknowledge that so varied are the
soils in different regions that what is worth
less in one section may be of greatest value
in another. 1t was never my fortune to re.
alize any benefit to the land or crops from
the use Of wood ashes, either leached or un-
leached, yet know how the best farmers of
Massachusetts for 100 years have valued
them at fabulous prices. In like manner
have witnessed the value of gypsum or plAs.
ter in Eastern and Northern Maine, which
leads me to suggest experiments in all grass
growing regions till it is fully known where
it may be used with profit. 1t is certainly
a mystery to us all what buShel of plaster
on an acre can do when distributed over the
surface, yet the wonderful effect Of doubling
q crop Of grass can not be disputed. Not
all results are alike, but the most worn-out
lands are most affected and most strongly
improved. give the facts Of a single old
barren farm Of Alvin Haynes, OF Passad um-
keag, Penobscot County. The farm, settled
90 years ago, was left 35 years ago for the
buildings of tavern stand on the opposite
side of the wide river, a mile,) since which
no more plowing or manuring has been done.
after cutting the hay for the tavern ten
years, much Of it cut but One-f6urth ton to
the acre, and they were about to give it up to
pasture for what it would fetch at that time
Twenty-Five years ago facilities for getting
plaster cheap induced a trial. 1 do not
know the amount used, but plaster was
cheap AMI used literally. The moving la nd
soon came to yield ton and more to the
acre, and think has continued that yield
now for rs years. The old fears Of ex-
hAusting or sappng land by the
use Of plaster have entirely dis
appeared in this region. might give an
instance Of an old run out pasture in Fort
Fairfield with equally strange results. No
va Scotia plaster comes here where | write
for about % or 80 dollars per ton, and yet
l hear good farmers say they will give go
dollars if need be, Tobiqus plaster is de-
posit OF the mineral several miles in extent
forty or fifty miles from here, easy Of access,
and free to all until lately bought up Boston
capitalists.
Long continued experiments 10 some Sec
tiOns seem to make it probable that the per.
petua use Of it will make the growth Of
grass as perpetual without our returning to
the land the manure that is made from it.
There are some wonderful undeveloped ma
terials for fertilizing the farm on our deeply
indented sea coast, in the form of kelp, aud
muscle beds, aud other inexhaustible prod
ucts of the SEA, which are not yet but will
hereafter be brought into use.
M. II. KEEP.
Dalton, ArOOstOok Co.. Me.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27

color, and consequently learn the color and
quantity Of butter each COW will make, and
learn their adaptation to butter or cheese
purposes.
If the cream is low in per centage and
light colored. then turn her TO cheese pur.
poses, or prepare her for the sbambles.
GEORGE BAcHELDER.
StanStead, p. O., March 10.