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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

DRESSING AND MARKETING POULTRY
The season has again arrived when the
hopes and profits of successful poultry
raising are about to be realized, and a few
suggestions on fattening, dressing and
marketing will not come amiss in our
columns Choice poultry in good order
always finds n ready market, at the high
est price, but to obtain this attention should
be paid to the following points:
In fattening poultry give them all they
will eat, and poultry fattened on corn is
more yellow and better than that fattened
on any other grain; and it is to be remem-
bered that you not only get pay for every
pound your poultry gains 10 fattenin@, but
by improving the quality you gain from
one-fourth to one-half in price on the
whole. The birds should be kept from
food twenty-four hours before being killed
to allow the crop to become empty. All
poultry, but more especially turkeys,
should be killed by bleeding in the neck.
and the pou try picked while the body is
warm. Wet picked poultry will not sell
which is dry picked, and the best growers
soon rs poultry is picked, the neck should
NC carefully MIpcu, INC I'LL anu wing
feathers should be clipped, and the entrails
removed. Poultry should be thoroughly
cooled and perfectly dry, and in packing
boxes should be used, especially for tur-
keys and geese, although barrels may be
used for chickens and ducks Pack closely
as possible, lining the package with clean
paper, and see that the package is so full
that when the cover is nailed on there will
be no chance of the poultry being moved
about. Never use straw in packing poul-
try, for, besides creasing the bodies, there
is always more OF less chaff that hurts the
appearance of the fowls. Poultry pre-
pared and shipped according to the above
directions, will always meet with Il ready
sale, when half fattened, badly dressed,
slovenly looking stnff, cannot be sold at
half price. We have always found it ad-
vantageous to ship direct to responsible
commission merchants choice lots, there
by securing to ourselves ut least one profit
that would have otherwise gone to enrich
the middle man, or the country purchaser.
N. Record.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

HINTS ABOUT HoUSEkEEPING- We
give to intelligence, to religion and to all
virtues, the honor that belongs to them
And still it may be boldly affirmed that
economy, taste, skill and neatness in the
kitchen have great deal to do with max
ing life happy and prosperous.
Nor is it indispensabIv necessary that Il
house should lie filled with luxuries. The
qualifications for all good housekeeping
can be displayed rs well on II small scale
rs on large one
\ small house can be more easily kept
than Il palace. Economy is most needed
i'll the absence of abundance.
Taste is us well displayed in placing
dishes on II pine table, as in arranging the
folds of Il damask curtain.
Skillful cooking is us readily discovered
in u nicely baked potato, or respectable
johnny cake, as a nut brown sirloin or a
brace of canvas-backs.
The charm Of good housekeeping is in
the order of economy. and taste displayed
in attention to little things has u wonder
full influence.
\ dirty kitchen and bad cooking have
driven many u one from home to seek
comfort and happiness somewhere else.
Domestic economy is Il sciencc-a the
DRY of life which all sensible women ought
to study and practice. None OF our ex-
cellent girls are fit to be married until they
are thoroughly educated in the deep aud
profound mysteries of the kitchen.
See to it, all We who are mothers, that
your daughters are accomplished by an
experimental knowledge of good house
keeping.-Gernantoa0a Telegraph
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01
CENTRAL VERMONT r. Il. LINE.
WINTER AHRANG CEMENT.
Commencing M0A1day, December 8, 1873
TRAINS GOING SOrTH AND FAST


Leave Montpelier at s.55 am, los pm and o55 pm.
Mail Train leaves St Adams go connecting
at White River Junction and Bellows Falls with trains
TOT Boston worcester Sc and at hte River Junctlon
with trains on the Passumpsic Rsiroad at South Yer
non for Springfield and New York; at New London
with steamer for New York
Day Express leaves Montreal at 500 am, St Johns
at 40 am Malone at go st Adams at li45
Night Express leaves Ogdenshurg at 100 M Mon
treal at $50 pm, st johns at 40 pm, 81. Adams at
72O pm, connecting at White River Junction and Be-
irving in Boston at $50 at South Vernon with
rains for Springfield and New York arriving in New
YORK at ESQ pm, and III New London at I1.I5
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Lave Montpelier 10 aud 7-i5 m, and Is
Day Express leaves ston via Lowell at s0a m for
Burlington, st Adams, Montreal &c arriving i'll Mon
treal at 10 IL and OgdenSburr at g00an.
Mail Train for Burlington and st. Adams leaves Il
ton via Lowell at 100 IN: via Lawrence and Fitchburg
AZ 80 am, Springfield at 500 am, New London at 800
AN South Vernon at 1000 Bellows Falls at ll-50
am, White River Junction at , 70 pm, arriving III ST
Adams at 9. % pm
Trains leaving pston Fitchburgh at 30 m. and
Spring field at ~ connect at White River June
ton with Day Express train.
AccomnO daon Train leaves leaves Mortified at 1856
am Rutland at $40 Burlington al a St
Adams II m, st Johns, Montreal and Malone
Night Express leaves New LDnd IN at "a South
Vernon al % receiving passengers from Cpnnec
Spring field $40 pm, Bellows Falls at ll20 pm. con-
Meeting with trains the Cheshire Railroad. leaving
Boston at 31 connecting at White River JunctI,
With tram LEAVING Bost n al oOJ PM Tor BurllIlSt
s. Albans, Montreal &c., arriving IN Montreal at 80
AM and in OEdensburgh At l245 pn connecting with
Grand Trunk Railway for the West
Sleeping Cars attached 10 the Night Express
Train running between Montreal and oston and Nom
treal and Springfield. and st Adams and Troy
Drawing Room Cars on Day Express Trains between
Montreal and Boston.
Through tckets Chicago and the West for sale
the principal stations
s.. Adams Dec. >. 1s7} FMIy
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

RULES FOR THE CARE OF CANARY
BIRDs.-1 During the summer season
you should have both drinking cup and
Il bathing-d dish in the cage, and should
wash them twice Il day and fill with fresh
water. The seed cup should be filled
every morning.
2. The room in which the bird is kept
should never be warmer than 80 degrees
). Feed plain food. Now and then q
lump of sugar does no harm; but rs a
general rul'. Grojd streets. Keep the
cuttle-fish dry and clean, and feed only
fresh and dry seed,
+. Never place Il cage where II draft
can strike the bird.
5. Never smoke in Il room where your
bird is kept (nor in any other.-ED. WIT),
as the odor of Il cigar is fatal to canares.
e. AS Il general rule, never keep the
bird in painted cage; for the birds will
peck ut the wires, and it will lead to
disease.
!. When your bird is shedding feathers,
which is generally styled moulting, avoid
draughts of air
BY .obeying these simple directions, you
can keep birds for years in excellent
Dumb Aninsals.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

\ New England naturalist who spent
two years studying the common clothes
moth, gives the result of his observations
as follows: Our common clothes moth
(finca f1rjr0htclO is of a unif I'm light
buff color, with II silky iridescent luster,
the hind wings and abdomen being Il little
paler The head is thcllv tufted with
hairs and is little taWny, and the upper
side of the densely hirusite feelers (palpi)
is dusky. The wings are long and narrow
with the most beautiful and delicate long
silken fringe. which increases in length
toward the base of the wing, They begin
to fly in May, and last Of all through the
season, tluttering with a noise!esS, stealthy
flight in our apartments, and laying their
eggs in our woolens. Successive broods
of the clothes moth appear through the
summer. In the autumn they cease eating,
retire within their eases, and early in
spring assume the chrysalis state Careful
housewives are not much afflicted with
these pests The slovenlv and thriftless
are overrun with them. Early in June
woOlens and ftrs should be carefully dust
ed. shaken and beaten DR.. T. w. Harris
states that 'powdered black pepper
strewed under the edge of carpets is said
to rcpcl moths. Sheets of paper sprink
led with spirits of turpentine, camphor in
coarse powder, leaves of tobacco, or shay
ings of Russia leather, should be placed
among the clothes when they are laid
aside for the summer; and furs and other
small articles can be kept by being sewed
in bags with bits of camphor wood, red
cedar, or of Spanish cedar; while the
cloth lining of carriages can be secured
forever from the attacks of moths by being
washed or sponged on both sides with Il
solution of the corrosive sublimate OF
mercury in alcohol, made just strong
enough not to leave n white stain on II
black feather The moths can be most
readily killed by pouring benzine among
them, though its use must be restricted
from the disagrecable odor which remains.
The recent experiments made with carbol-
ic acid, however, convince Us that this
will soon take the place of other suhstan-
ces as preventive and destroyer of noX-
iors insects-Our Common Insects
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

BARLEY IN CANADA.-Some weeks ago,
under the head of g" Statistical Stories,
we showed that we had imported over So
O0O, 900 worth of barley during the fiscal
years of 1S72-73 OF course, the bulk OF
this importation was from Canada. \
Canadian writer, under date of Nov. 18th,
says Canadian farmers are getting 81 to
81 10 per bushel for their barley almost ut
their own doors, and that immense guam
titles of it are being sent to OsWego and
Chicago This writer adds:
How is it that we grow such good bar
ley. that it finds 4 ready market on the
other side of the line ut remunerative
prices? One wonld think American farm
ers would be glad to grow such Il profit
able crop. But it seems they cannot do
it; not from any failure in the soil or eli
mate, but simply that they will not take
the trouble to give clean culture to their
soils. 1t is impossible to raise Il good
crop of barley unless the soil, in addition
to being moderately rich, is also thoroughly
cultivated and freed from weeds and grass.
The great b1lk of our barley is soWn on
land that has been i'll roots of some kind,
we'll manured the previous year, or on old
soil that has been thoroughly rotted by
growing crop of peas upon it and then
following with u fall fillow.
What the writer says Of the Importance
of clean land in barley culture is true.
There is no difficulty. however, of grow
ing good crops Of good barley in the States.
We know this by experience. Arich, clean.
loan soil, well pulverized, will produce 4
large crop of barley. What is said by
this Canadian concerning clean culture APP
plies equally to wheat and other small
grain crops where the best results are
sought. There is no good reason why the
United States should import Il bushel of
barley. There is no sense in growing corn
at 10 to % cents per bushel aud neglecting
barley. which will bring from 80 cents to
s per bushel. We commend the subject
to the attention of Our agriculturali,ts.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01
THE SANDAI-TREE.

BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
Beside sandal-tree, a woodman stood
And swung the axe, and, as the strokes laid
Upon the fragrant trunk, the generous wood,
With its own sweets, perfumed the cruel blade.
Go, then, and do the like; a soul endued
With light from heaven, nature pure and great,
VIII place its highest bliss in doing good,
And good for evil give and love for hate.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01
Pennsylvania Barns.

The editor of the Minneapolis Tribune
has been taking stroll East, and thus dis
courses of the barns he saw there:
." May [ Jump from the foot-lights to the
farm? > from Chicago to Pennsylvania
In Chester and Lancaster counties is, |
think, the most finished farming in the
Union. The farms, composed of IA brick
dust sort of soil, are cultivated from fence
to fence, every rood. as the farms of
Flemings and of Brittany are cultivated
from hedge to hedge. Cattle stand with
their four feet in two feet of clover Every
field is park. Every barn is a cow-palace
Every pig pen is porcine paradise. Penn
sylvania is pre-eminently the state of barns
Think of Il three story stone barn, with Il
swell front and dormer windows in the
roof and luxurious portico where the
Sybaritic calves chew the cud of sweet
contentment Oh summer evenings! And
then behold the little cabin in the rear
where the agricultural Dutchman lives
with his " frow,' and where the children
lie on the floor and envy the happy calves
in the lattice portico. Every barn is three
tim rs large as the house, which serves
as a sort of appendage, and. as it WERE
plays second fiddle to it. The barn is
headquarters, and the house is sort of
sentry-boX where the man resides who
takes care of it. The barn is slated, and
the pi@-sty is glazed, the chicken coops are
painted, and the worm-fences are white
washed rs far as You can see. | have no
doubt the original jewellers here white
washed the ground for acres around the
domicil twice or thrice Il year, till they
learned its fatality.
| do not know the effect on cattle of so
much petting. | should think it would
tend to make the animals aristocratic, yet
do not know of any place where cattle
are more stuck up than they are IN the
West. There, You know, we have no
barns to speak of There are townships
enough in Minnesota where everything
with horns has the same chance to fight
for the warm side of hayStack in Janu-
arv, and it must be admitted, the weaker
animals are considerably humpbacked and
subdued in their feelings by April, More
over, here the farmers use fertilizers, but
in Minnesota we have an idea that the
earth is an orange to be sucked, goose to
be plucked, n sponge to be squeezed, Il
reservoir to be everlastingly drawn from,
without in the least diminishing its flow
All through the central West they are
learning. what Minnesota has yet to learn,
that Natures wheat restorer, to which
the poet SO touchingly alludes, is not balmy
sleep, but manure
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

RAISIN-MAKING IN CALIFORN1A.-For
making raisins. they wait until the grape
is fully ripe and then carefully cut off the
lunches and lay them either on Il hard
clay floor, formed in the open air, OF on
brown paper laid between the vine rows.
They do not trim ont poor grapes from
the punches. because, as they assert, there
are none; but | suspect this Will have to
be done for the very finest raisins, such rs
would tempt II reluctant buyer. The
punches require from eighteen to twenty
four days of exposure in the sun to be cur
ed. During that time they are gently
turned from time TO time, and such as are
earliest cured are ut once removed to a
raisin-houSe This is fitted with shelves,
on which the raisns are laid about a foot
thick. and here they are allowed to sweat
Il little. II they sweat too much, the sugar
candies or the outside, and this deterio-
rates the quality of the raisin. It's an OBJ
iect to keep the bloom on the berries.
They are kept in the raisin-house believe
five or six weeks, when they are dry
enough to box. 1t i rs vet customary to
put them in to put them in Twenty-Five
pound boxes but no doubt, as more eXpe-
rience is gained, farmers will contrlve other
parcels. Chinese do all the work in raisin-
making, and are paid 81 a day, they sup
plying themselves with food. There is no
rain during the raisin-making season, and
consequently the whole outdoor work may
be done safely rs well as cheaply.-N0ore'S
Ru3ul.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

Dr. Burden Sanderson, in making some
experiments on the electrical phenomena
which accompany the contraction of the
leaves of the sensitive plant, found the
currents produced are subject in MI re-
spects to the same laws rs those of muscles
ard nerves.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01
Il WELLS RIVER r. r.


-V''tF't ''-7VJ -'VIT IItV-I TT
TRAINS GOING EAST
No. VI AL TRAN. leaves VI lntpeier al 80 am. Ar
rlEes at Wells River at 80 in t. connect
with Express Trains upaHd Man down. Pas
sumpSlc and JsJn, Concord and Montreal Railroads
t. and from Boston
No. MIXED TRAIN, leaves Montpelier at 42J pm.
Arrives az Wells River at 500 pm
TRAINS GOING WEST
No. >, MIXED TRAM leaves Wells River at 1925 am.
or arrival Of trains Passumpsic and Boston.
Concord and Montreal Railroad Arrives Montpelier
at 100 III season to connect with afternoon trains
going North and South over the Central Vermont Rail
road
No 4. MAIL TRAIN. leaves Wells River . m
arrival OF trains the PasSlImpsic and
B 'ston. Concord and Montreal Railroads. Arrives at
Montpelier at go pm.
JAMES G. FRENCH. Manager.
Montpelier. Vt. NOV. 18th, 1873 FMi7
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

GOOD BUTTER.-The Boston journal of
Chemistry says:
The market is abundantly supplied with
poor butter, but of finer qualities the sup
ply is very limited. 1t is a matter of won
der that dairy farmers do not regard their
interests more wisely, in manufacturing
this most important farm produce. 1t re-
quires but very little more skill and care
to send to market butter which finds
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01
9nftru.
ASLEEP.

Sound asleep: no sigh can reach
Him who dreams the heavenly dream;
No to-morrow's silver speech
Wakes him with an earthly theme.
Summer rains relentlessly
Patter where his head doth lie;
There the acild fera and the brake
Al their summer leisure take.
Violets blinded with the dew,
Perfume lend to the sad rue,
Till the day breaks, fair and clear,
And no shadow doth appear.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

BE CAREFUL-It is habit of many
persons to thoughtlessly write their names
on blank scraps of paper and leave them
lying carelessly about their office. This is
dangerous practice, and has been attend
ed with serious financial difficulties. \
gentleman Of means by way of practicing
penmanship wrote his name upon blank
Slip of paper, leaving it to lie upon his
desk 1t attracted the attention of friend,
who in joking way, filled the space above
the signature in the form of a promissory
note and in Il few days afterward present
ed the paper with the offer to allow a con-
siderable discount if the drawer Gas it
would appear woull cash it at that time
The gentleman so requested saw the joke
and SO recognized it, and the holder, plac-
ing it in his pocket, departed, and nothing
further was said about it. Subsequently
the holder was stricken with paralysis and
died, and his executors finding the note,
and having no knowledge of the joke at
tached to it, brought suit and recovered the
sum for which it was drawn (S500,) thus
proving the dangerous habit of persons
care1essly writing their names on blank
scraps of paper
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nR. PLUMLEY'S METHOD
TREATING
CHRONIC DISEASES BY THE URINE.

Aclean bottle of the morning passage
with patients and age will enable treat the
case successfully Specimens sent by express, pre-
paid with fee of 81 will be examined, and the result
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relief from their family physicians, and the supposed
incurable, are most solicited.
Heart, Liver, and Kidney Affections, Female Weak
ness Diseases of the Reproductive Organs-eitner
early or late in life, cured
Send for Circular
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F35tf MONTPELIER, VT.
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THE SENI-wEEKLY TRIBUNE.

THE SEMI -WEErLY TRIBUNE has grown very ranidy
in public favor OF late In addition a careful
mary of the it contains oil the best IF the foreign
and domestic correspondence and leading articles the
Dav-lt gives speria y the scientific intelligence
clunr the proceedings OF all American and scientific
miscellaneous matter Relating to education the arts
rion &c. II has all the commercial and market
reports: all the agricultural articles of the Weekly and
gives, moreover. regularly serial work of fiction
presenting in the course Of the year three
Of the latest p IN ,tlpns 0f the 81 popular
elIsS A. it takes only few select al refreshments il l.
enabled to give unusua y lsr--e proportion OF read
ing matter aud may be called considering the extent
and variety contents the cheapest newspaper
the world. Il Is published every Tuesday and Friday.
and reaches nearly postntre OF the Nissis
wi hin DAYS Of is issue
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HIE AN ATKINS

At Argus and Patriot store Montpelier VT the pls
fishers Jobbing Agent for Washington, Orange and
Lamoille Counties FGzer