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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-12

OPELOUSAS.
REGULAR WEDNESDAY PACKET
IT, - For Washington, Port isarre
,SxsSGxkl4 Snmsport, Churctville and all landiDgs
. ON the Coast Atchafalaya River and IA
you oourtipleau-the new and light draught passea.
Bertha,
II. II. Broad master r. r Schmidt cl.rL
wi" ~, leave as above, every WEDNESDAY. at S p NJ
iLe nei9ht ana passengers for all landing % on Ba
ou ues uitizes, to be Landed at either Big Bend Land.
lh9 of at either warehouse at Simnsport For freight
or passage apply on board or to
alo BRlTTON u EPPLER 1O1 Common IT.
Leaves every SATURDAY, at 5 r NJ
,E.T For Washington, Port Barre.
- Smnsport, Churchvile, and all interme.
. date landings the Coast, Atohatayiava
, river ana Bayou Courtabeau. The light dIaugRt
Trenton,
viii H faa'. o IVA aux, master I. John, clerk
WI. WIZ leave as above, every SATURDAY M5P. NJ
taxing 1ieiSht and Passengers for Bayou des GIazea
70 De Landed at Big Bend Landing or Simmsport
'or ireisht or passage apply on board or to
~ ). M. BOWLING IS Decatur street
leo u D. b. WOODS & Co. 1874 Gravier ST.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-12

TsrsnWe proper since last evening So bales.
'>.s'A T75 on Last Friday and 513 last year
s~sanS an aggregate since Friday of 267b bales.
~ ms 'ltA last week and 2Gli last year, and
since Aug. 81, Of 346l bales. against 306a Ia It
yasr increase 800
Fer receipts at u porte see above report.
NheAMO The only sale reported today was
bids as a., This makes an aggregate for the
st.i 81 week before. The market continues
tt-ons. We quote inferior Tugs At vi, irw ii
Medium At 8GnSJc, good to fine si6lglc low
tst i0NlOsc, medium 1lAl2c, good ii fne
-k.fTl9Ic collections at i4HAIhc-
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-12

EoE SALE
Two SECONDHAND STAR COTTON GrEa
Cheap for Cash, at
j. II. JENsENB,
wa ~ Carondelet street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-12

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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25
Making Rich Manure.

The greatest need of our farming inst
now Is, and in the future will be, the rro-
duetlon of rich manure, and until every
farm Shall hive 4 few feeding animals
Kept expressly with Il view to the manu-
1acture OF manure, our agriculture will
faIl OF securing its greatest profits. The
present system of making and keeping
manure Is Il most wasteful one 1t is saf.
to say that at least fifty per cent of the
value OF manure is lost by its exposure to
the weather during II whole winter. mt
least under ordinary circumstances. AL
though we have never made exact expert
ments, yet having during one winter kent
several head of stock in covered shed
constantly well bedded with straw. and
allowed the manure to accumulate until
spring beneath the cattle, we can testify to
the merits OF this system of feeding under
cover. The stock was kept in the best of
health. They exhibited the greatest con-
tentment- They were cared for and kent
clean by carding with the least trouble of
any OF our stock. The manure when re-
moved III the spring was in the fines con-
dltion and showed its value by bringing n
crop OF potatoes, for which it was used
equal to 45O bushels Of Early Rose and COO
OF Harrison potatoes per acre respectively.
When, therefore, we call attention to the
following experiments by prominent Eng
lIsh farmer, it is with perfect confidence
as we have realized somewhat of the same
results in our experience. The expert
ments to which we refer were made bv
Lord Kinnaird, a large Scotch landowner
and farmer who has followed the practice
for over 20 years of feeding his cattle in
covered courts or sheds in which the
manure Accommodates beneath the cattle |
during the whole winter or feeding season
Recently Lord Kinnaird planted potatoes
upon four acres of land. Two acres were
manfred from the covered stalls or sheds
and two with barnyard manure of the
ordinary kind. Tne character of the soil
was xactly similar upon each of the plots.
and they adjoined each other. The crops
were as follows: Upon one acre with COW
cred manure the yield was 472 bushels.
and upon the other acre 443 bushels. With
ordinary manure from the open barnysrd
the yield was 272 and 297 bushels 1pon
each acre respectively, The following
year these plots were sown with wheat
md tho crops were. upon the first men
Toned acres So bushels 5 pounds and 81
bushels AZ pouncs; upon the last mention
I'd Al bushels 10 pounds and AZ bushels 9s
pounds respectively. The difference in 1
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

POULTRY AS FARM STOCK WHY
bother" some may ask, about raising
chickens in COW sheds and out buildings,
when You can set out rs many coops as
YOU like on the grass of a paddock, the
gravel Of stable yard, or upon the seat
tered rick-yard straw?'' Because generally
speaking, half your chickens die under the
common f;lrm-yard treatment. They get
wet feet and die of cramn; they drink the
high-colored soak water of manure heaps,
of straw-yard drains and other filthy Stops,
and consequently sicken and die by doz-
ems.
We have Il troop of adult breeding fowls
large part of their living there But they
do not thrive so we'll and keep so healthy
rs other troops of breeding stock which we
have statione at houses purposely erect
ed in grass fields far from the homestead
For Il very small sum YOU may er ct Il
square board house, tarred outside. lime
washed inside, and covered with Us phalted
felt. Each of the four sides is in Il sepa-
rate piece, the roof Gf of Il gable form) in
two pieces, all knocked together at the
corners with staples and pins. SO II house
say six feet or seven feet cubic can be
popped into II cart, and temporarily set
up in Il pasture, or on Il stubble, or whcr
ever there may be good picking for the
fowls. \ couple of perches, It few nests
and drinking pan for the furniture, while
the ground covered in by the house (for
there is no wooden flour is spread over
with loose earth, ashes, and mortar. Such
is the home of one cock and eight or ten
hens and pullets during the bre ding sea-
son, or the home of double this number of
half-grown chickens The house should
be placed againsta hedge. or in II corner
where two hedges meet, SO that Il few
poles OF posts protect it against cattle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25
An Odd Fellow,

Odd-I should think so! why he carrie:
his house on his back, and has his teeth on
his legs.
That's a tough story, but-dear me its
nothing to what you'll have to believe
when you come to study the curious crea-
lures that live in the sea.
As to carrying his house about with him,
that is nothing new, all crabs and turtles
do that, but must admit he's the only fell
low | ever heard of who has teeth on his
legs. If yon and 1 are not acquainted
with him, it is merely because we haven't
been prying into the domestic manners of
the crab family all these years. as some
scientific gentlemen have. They have
known about him these many years. and
he has even got into the dictionary. Look
in Webster's big dictionary, at the word
Limulus, and you'll see a picture of him.
Limulus, you must know, is his grand
Latin name, which he doesn't wear at home
N the sea. There he is called Horse-foot
Crab, OF King Crab.
And there's another droll thing about
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
CENTRAL VERMONT r. r. LINE.
WINTER ARRAN CEMENT.
Commencing Monday. December 8, 1873.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.

| TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leave Montpelier at s s. am, EOS Pm and 955 III:
Mail Train leaves st. Adams at ~ an connecune
for Boston, Worcester &C. and at White River Junction
with trains the Passumpsic RailToad at South Yer
non for Springfield and New YORK. at New LONDON
with steamer for New York -.
Day Express leaves Montreal at $50 am, st Johns
arriving in Boston via Lowell at 1000 p m;
Night Express leaves Ogdensburg at u m, Mon
treal at $50 pm St johns at 40 M, St Adams al
lows Fails with trains for Boston, Worcester &c ar
irving in Boston at $50 am at South vernon with
York at u 80 m, and in New London at LIS am
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Montpelier 40 and 7.45 NJ and Ais and elJ
Day Express leaves Boston via Lowell at 500 m for
treal at 10 Il D 81 m. and 6gdensburg at 800 am
Mail Train for Burlington and St Adams Leaves Dos
ton via Lowell at 100 via Lawrence and t1tchbure
South Vernon at 1000 Bellows Falls at II 8
am White River Junction at Las pm, arriving IN St
Trains leaving Boston via Fitchburgh at 30 and
Springfield at 90 am, connect at White River juno
ton with Day Express train.
am. Rutland at $40 am, burlington at $40 m, 81
Adams at 1900 m, for St Johns. Montreal and Malone
Night Express leaves New London at 2 45 pm, South
Vernon at a53 m, receiving passengers from Connec
ticut River Railroad leaving New York at 400 pm.
Springfield $40 pm. Bellows Falls at II 20 pm con
Boston at 30 connecting at White River Junction
with train leaving Boston at 100 pm for burlington
a m and in Ogdensburgh at l245 connecting with
Grand Trunk Railway for the West.
Sleeping Cars attached TO the Night Express
Train running between Montreal and Boston, and Mon
treai and Springfield. and St Adams and Troy.
Drawing Room Cars on Day Express Trains between
Montreal and Boston.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale
JOHN W. HOBART. Genr Supt.
st Adams. Dee.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

One day last week the driver of Warner
& Whitney's job team backed the cart
under IL shed and left the horse standing so
that the rain from the caves of the building
fell upon his neck. The animal WINGED
and repeatedly looked back and about the
place. as though considering the chances
of improving his comfort Finally he
walked out, turned the cart with care and
dexterity, and proceeded to return under
cover. In passing into the shed, the wheel
hit a post; whereupon he backed and filled
until he reached shelter. He may be set
down as n horse that knows something!
Orr Dun1b Animdls
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

THE Use OF SALT FOR SrOCK.-While a
certain amount of salt is absolutely
necessary for the health of stock it by no
means follows that lis indiscriminlte ust.
is either needful or safe. On the contrary.
salt used in excessive quantities is highly
dangerous. 1t then acts upon the stomach
and intestines as an irritant poison, and
cases of death have occurred through al
lowing cattle and hogs to consume too much
of it When stock are given free access
to it, they will take small quantity very
often. but if denied Il frequent supply the,
become ravenous for it, and are in danger
OF eating it to excess The safest way i,
to use small quantity regularly in the
food; II quarter of an ounce daily being
amply sufficient for a COW or horse. and
a fourth of that quaint for hog or a
sheep. If stock are sailed once week no
more than one ounce at a time should be
given to COW, and Il quarter of an ounce
to a sheep or hog. 1t should also be given
IN such a manner that no one animal
should eat more than its share. 1t may
be given scattered thinly in the feeding
trough with more safety than in any other
way excepting when it is mixed W tn the
feed. Regul arity in its use is the most
conducive to the health of the cattle. We
ind 1t necessary to give this caution be-
cause some of our readers have been led
10 suppose. very enormously. that as salt is
good thing, stock cannot have too much |
d lt.-dnaertcdn Agricultnrist.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

SPRUCEs AND OTHER EvERGREENS-l
cannot learn that, after the fashion that
made the planting of Lombard poplars
general, there was Il similar rag for any
particular species until the advent of the
fir and spruce epidemic. This was another
public misfortune for when either one has
been planted near Il house, and has attain
ed the height of twenty or thirty feet, it
becomes II nuisance, collecting the dust of
the roads, shading the house in winter
when it needs the sun and light, always
gloomy it, its hues, and awkward in its
motions. When it has attained mlturitv
it becomes glunt and meagre of foliage
and destitute of that symmetry which was
its only beauty when young. This sense
less rage for planting spruces has not yet
declined. Beautiful deciduOus trees have
frequently been removed to make room for
spruces and other evergreens which are in
approved taste - l always admire the
wisdom of neighbor of mine, who, after
buying house, cut down all the spruces
in its Enclosures because they interfered
with the prosperity of some good fruit
trees. By this act he improved the up
pearance no less than the value of his
grounds. Utility is better guide than
even in matters of taste. When
ever see Il g CUP of venerable apple trees
permitted to occupy the front gard of a
modern residence, | think there may be
Claude or Il Salvador in the house; But |
when see 4 row of spruces near Il house
know there is horticultural :. Beau
Nash' somewhere in its neighborhood
When the spruce and fir cease to be for
nal, they are ugly; but in large assem-
'lagcs they constitute the most magnifi-
:ent woods. William Flagg.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

TREATMENT OF TREES. A fruit grower
in Michigan says; About two years AGO
while setting out some apple trees. |
gathered two bushels of bones and pnt
them under two trees; they are now twice
As large Us any other in the orchard of
the same variety. Three years ago. the
mice girdled one which was two inches in
diameter. from the ground upward, six
luches; his did not see until the spring
| cut four scions and shaved them off on
one side, and put them under the bark,
above and below the girdle, in the same
manner us or budding. and banked it up
above the scions The tree did not grow
much that year, but it now looks well and
healthy; three out of four scions grew
and nearly cover the gnawed space
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

BREAD EATING,-Nothing is more sure
in the chemistry of life than that the great
breadeaters are the great thinkers or that
the phosphorus which wheat contains in
the outer kernel, Immediately beneath the
husk, is the feeder of brains, and the sub
stance which provokcs to thought, study.
reason and all the forms of nervous energy.
But the full valae of wheat Us civilizer
will never be fully realized until wheat
meal takes the place of bolted flour, and
the people learn to make bread without
yeast or risings. Good bread is cmphat-
ically the " staff of life but the CONNER
cial article is the way to dyspepsia and
premature death.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

THE PROFITS OF FARMiNG.-Th profits
of farming should consist in Il large meas
ure of the improvement of the farm itself
and its belongings, and there can be no
bettes investment than this. That is very
poor farming. if worthy to be called farm
ing, which, through it may nominally
show q cash balance, leaves the homestead
in worse instead of better condition
than it found it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25
nR. Film
. L Il Err BITTERS,
4 GREAT MEDICAL DICOVERY AND
REMEDY

Extract Of Root and Herbs which almost iuyaria b.
cure the following COMPLAINTS
DYSPEPSIA Heart Burn Liver Com, lant and Loss OF
| Appetite cured by taking few bottles
LAssITUDE Low Spirits and Sinking Sensation cured
at once.
ERUPTIoNs Pimpes, .Blotches and all impurities of
the blood bursting through the skin otherwise cured
easily by following the directions on the bottle
For KIDNFY, Bladder and Urinary arrangements it
has equal bottle will convince the most scepti-
cal.
WORMS expelled from the :system without the least
difficulty; few bottles sufficient for the most OBJ
stinate
PILES one bottle has cured the most difficult case
when all other remedies failed.
NERVOUS DIFFICULTIES. Neuralgia. Headache. &c,
-ased-imnediately.
RHEUMATISM. Swellei Joints and all Scrofular At
ictIons removed greatly relic ed by this invaluable
medicine
BRONCHITIS. Catarrh, Conyulsions and Mysteries
cured or much relieved.
D1FFIcULr BREATHING. : , prevalent among Ameri-
Han ladies, yields readily this Invaluable medicine
The Quaker BItters-
BILIOUS Renittent and Intermittent Fevers 50 prev
dent many parts of our country completely erdi
ated by the use Of the Quaker Bitters.
The Aged find in the laker Bitters iss the article
hey stand IN need tuelr .clinn years Itquick-
rs the blood and cheers tha mind and paves the pass
.<e down the plane inclined
No remain long unweu tunless afflicted with
N incurable disease alter taking Few bottles Of the
quaker Bitters.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25
9uetru.
LEARNING TO PRAY

Ny inmost soul o Lord, to Thee
Leans like growing flower
Unto the light. do not know
The day, nor blessed hour
When that deeprooted, daring growth
We call the hearts desire,
Shall burst and blossom to prayer
Within the sacred fire
OF Thy great patience; grow so pure,
So still, so sweet thing
AS perfect prayer must surely be,
And ye my heart will sing
Because thou seemest sometimes SO near
Close, present:Godl to me,
1t seems l could not have wish
That was not shared by Thee;
Ii seems cannot be afraid
To speak my longings out,
So tenderly Thy gathering love
Enfolds me round about;
1t seems as il my heart would break
If, living on the light,
| should not lift to Thee a. last
bud of fiawless white.
And yet, OH helpless heart, how sweet
To grow, and bud, and say;
The flower. however mari ed and wan,
Shall not be cast awayl
E. 5. Phelps IN Independent
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

Keep your barn floor clean and tidy
your domestic animals well bedded and
clean-feed regularly and not too often, and
do not carry Kerosene lantern into your
barn or stables, if you would guard against
fire from explosion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

WHAT THALL WE HAVE FOR BREAK.
FAs r?-Mrs Il. ). Benhan, Oxford, Ohio
answering this question in the Anlcricdh
Agrtcuiturist, gives recipes for preparing
such dishes as the writer considers moi
generally known OF for which her manner
OF making them may be peculiar. She
writes: In preparing Il bill of fare for
breakfast for one. week have selected
such articles rs most farmers wives can
command, and such rs ann in the habit
of setting before my own family. Most
OF the dishes are wholesome and easily
prepared, and 4 breakfast from any one OF
these bills of fare can be made ready in
forty-five minutes" Bill of fare for break
fast for one week:
sunday,-Beefsteak flashed potato.
Fried mush. Baked apples. Cold bread,
coffee, and such fruit rs is in season ac-
company each breakfast, and need not be
repeated.
Nopday.-Broiled ham. Potato balls.
Graham gems.
Tuesday.-Sausage or mutton chops.
Fried potatoes. Corn dodgers
WedneSday.-Bacon or corn-beef hash.
Baked potatoes. Shirred eggs. Corn
bread. Pickles.
Ihursday.-Neal outlets. Boiled pota-
toes. Butter cakes or milk toast
Friday.-IIam toast, and Graham bread
Potatoes pared, sliced, and boiled in Just
water enough to cover them. Pickles
Saturdpy Goldfish bulls Boiled eggs.
Fried rice or baking powder biscuit.
flushed P0t1oes.-Chop cold boiled pota-
toes us for hash Moisten with milk, add
butter and salt, and heat in Il skillet
Grdhdn GenS.-One heaping pint of
Graham flour, one scant pint of cold wa
ter, and oue-half tea-spoonful of salt
Heat the gem pans, grease, and fill even
full with the batter. They will bake in
thirty minutes in Il quick oven
Corn Dodgers -Scald the corn-meal.
add salt and cold water, having the batter
Il, stiff as mush. Bake in gem-pans. If
milk is used instead of water they will
brown more quickly. but are no better.
SHRED EggS.-Heat little butter in a
ple-pan, then put in the eggs, taking care
that the yolks are not broken, and bake in
the oven.
Corn Bread.-One pint of buttermilk:
one heaping pint of meal; one even ten
spoonful of soda; two eggs.
HIM T0oSt.-Ch pc ld boiled ham; add
milk to soften a sufficient quantity of toast,
ituu DutIcr, ana season TO TASTE. Alter
dipping the toast, and just before disling,
stir in two or more eg 5. As soon as it
begins to thicken pour over the toast
GrHham Breud.-Two tea-cupfuls of
buttermilk; two tca-cupfuls of sweet milk;
one half II tea-cup of molasses; one tea
spoonful of soda; salt; and Graham flour
to make stiff batter. Bake in gem-pans
Fried Rtce.-Take cold boiled rice, sir
in IN egg, and drop by the spoonful on a
hot griddle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-25

I Weld shows the extra value of the covered
manure In our own case IA head Of
| Young stock (two-vear old heifers) were
| ed in a lean-to shed (40xl2), the lumber
| for which cost less than $50, and the labor
| putting it up less than IS. They were
| ed upon cut cornstalks. bran and corn
meal from October to April, and were bed
led with wheat straw quite plentifully
All through cold winter the manure
| never became frozen, and it made u mass
Of the most compact kind three feet deep
20 that there were 144O cubic feet or over
II cords, which if it had been as loose us
ordinary barnyard manure would have
measured nearly twice as much. The
low fermentation it had undergone had
completely rotted the straw and reduced
t to the finest condition, so that it was
removed with the greatest case. The
tbsence of any evaporation or exposure to
he weather doubtless fully doubled the
value of the manure, to say nothing Of the
saving of lab 7 in making and final hand
ling of it.-Anlericdn Agricutturjst.
WHERE CARRIAGES SHOULD BE KEPT.
There is Il common and very vexatious
complaint from parties who store their
carriages in the same building with their
horses. or in damp carriage houses, of
poor varnish. This will happen even after
the best material and varnish has b en-
used. Then the owner blames the poor
pal ter, swho has endured the fumes of II
close varni room. trying his best" and
also informs the builder that he is using a
vile trash instead of Il good serviecable
,ieh h. IN, !,
innocent; for no varnish ever was made
or ever can be made that will stand the
steam arising in stable where the horses
are kept. Oils by contact with alkalis
are more or less readily converted into
soap, soluble in water (among the most
easily saponified oils is linseed. used large
lv in the manufacture of varnish). which
when shaken up with n solution of ammo
MIA uni es with the alkali, forming Il thick
solution of soft soap Ammonia is Il gas
and occurs in the air wherever organic
is i'll progress. When Il var
nished carriage is exposed to an atmos-
phere of ammonia. arising from manure
pr decaying vegetable matter. the alkali
unites with the oil of the varnish, forming
IN almost imperccptible filiment of soap,
which when the carriage is washed dis
solves in the water and is removed, lcav-
ing Il fresh surface to be again acted on by
the ammonia, so that tn oil i gradually
removed from the varnsh. leaving the
brittle gum to 10 k like resin. and crumble
away Therefore. a dry, clean carriage
house, entirely separated from the stable
is the first ting required; and.
to have it revarnished when it is
not the house but the carriage.
for there is nothing saved by letting car
mage run tsree or four years without var
Ms ing. and then spend five times the
amount in having it repaired. In fact, Il
carriage that is used continually should be
Tarni he'd once Il year.-COachmakcrS'
J0urnal