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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
Reported for the VERMONT FARMER,
PASSUMPSIC FARMERS CLUB.
Subject OF Discussion Friday evening, Jan.
81 " Fences, how can we lessen their
amount and eXpense.D

Subject OF Discussion Friday evening, Jan.
- Fences, how can we lessen their
amount and expense"
The Club wish to acknowledge the receipt
of bean pod measuring Ii inches in length
and inches in circumference, picked in
Woodland, Florida, the 18th of December, by
Francis Mason, member of the club, now
stopping in that locality. The greatness Of
the bean can only be matched by the great
ness of our country. No nation can boast
SO great a variety of soil, climate and pro.
duction as ours, and 50 sudden transitions
from stern winter to giant spring and sum-
mer. Thanks to the great Creator that
when wO Of this northern portion of our land
become enfeebled by overwork Of body or
mind, few short days will carry US to an
other portion Of our common country where
we can by climatic influence regain our lost
energies and return with spring to our anx-
ious friends and our usual and agreeable
occupations. Thanks to the donor for his in
teresting present.
j. p. Foster The idea Of farm without
fences'in Vermont would seem to be an i'm
possibility. We cannot get along without
fencing to certain extent with our present
system of farming. In some of the greatest
agricultural countries of the old world fenc-
es as we know them are unknown. Germa.
ny and France have no field fences and no
nation excels them in variety of farm pro.
ducts. Place US there and the first thing
we should do would be to go to fencing In
this country the land is so rough that we
are obliged to have small fields and many
and expensive fences. The expense of fenc-
ing is gaining rapidly. We can lessen the
expense by using less lumber. Fences from
narrow boards are best, will last longer, and
if you have breachy cattle fat and sell them
rather than try to fence against them. Posts
set II feet apart, using IA feet boards, make
strong fence, the feet extra lap adding
much to its strength, A good way is to put
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
TERMS AND RULES.

The price Of the FARMER is $3.50 per year. or $500 in
paid in advance.
The FARMER will be sent to all subscribers until q
discontnuance is ordered.
In Regard 60 Payments.
We desire that all subscribers should send their pay
ments directly TO u.s. instead Of waiting for agent to
call, or handing them to third party who is apt to
delay sending them, causing unnecessary correspond
ence In looking them up. When sent directly 10 us,
$500 will pay for year not than half the year
has elapsed, and $500 will pay for two years II not
more than Of them has passed. But, if only mon
ey enough is sent to pay up arrearages less II must
be at the rate Of $3.50 per year. 81 cents per month
except in of understanding in reference to fur
Their payment
How TO send Money.
Money should by sent by postal money order, from
places where they be obtained, and from other
places by registered letter, and when sent in either of
these ways the safe transmission will DO at our risk
money order for 5000 less costs but five cents
Registering costs but fifteen cents. Money sent by
ordinary letter will seldom fail to reach us, but we
win not assume the risk.
Address. plainly,
VERMONT FARMER,
st. Johnsbury, VT.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
The GALAXY.

The GALAXY opens It's eighth year and seventeenth
volume with the issue for January The magazine has
gained permanent place in the first rank Of Ameri-
periodicals. and the achievements 1t has already
made prophetic of further in the future
From tho first 1t has adopted the policy Of seeking
trbutions from the most eminent writers and states
men, and opening It's pages 10 the discussion Of live
topics OF the day political social scientific and liter
airy. In the present number Judge Black has arti
Gle in reply 10 Mr.. Adams address on Seward, Mr.
White discusses a number of pathological topics Carl
Benson discourses upon physical mpodiments to social
success; Justin Mccarthy writes an interesting sketch
Of the Duke Of Argyll and Albert Rhodes tells good
deal that is fresh and entertaining about newspapers
and newspaper men in France. Do Forests serial is
concluded and there is another insalment Of Justin
McCarthy3 story. Mr.. Kimbal has an article on Wall
street. entitled "0ther Peoples Money" which is tho
first Of series; Miss @. f. Woolson contributes
Christmas story and there several poems, with
much other matter Of interest, Sheldon 4 Co.,
publishers, New York
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
TVUtcrtoicm C0ttIc MARKET.

TUESDAY, Jan. g.
At market this week Cattle 376. Sheen
and Lambs 34GO. Number from Vermont.
Cattle 1872, Sheep and Lambs 2Ol9.
Prices Market Beef-A few choice 1000 to
1880; extra 8 TO 0 so; first quality IS to so:
second quality TO So third quality 81 Is
to so.
Prices of Store Cattle. Working Oxen pr
pair from 300, $50, IT'S to $50.
Mich Cows and Calves from 1876 to IS;
extra 20 to S. Farrow Cows 20 to 40.
Yearlings $40 to 10; two years old 10 to
49, three years old 30 to i6.
Prices Of Sheep and Lambs-in lots ? 25,
275, 90 to IS each; extra 90 to 6 IS pr
head, or from 3 1-2 to &c pr h.
Prices of iIides, Tallow and Skins-Bright-
ton Hides J to &c pr lib; Country Hides 7c
pr Id. Brighton Tallow Sc pr Id; Country
Tallow 41c pr ID.
Pelts S1.25 to 1.5O each. Calf Skins Is to
l6c per lb.
CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP.
N. b. Beef-Choice grade includes moth
ing but stall fed 100 to l40O lbs Bullocks.
Extra and first quality includes the best
large, fat Oxen. Second and third quality
includes Oxen and two and three year old
Steers.
Shoep-Extra includes cossets and when
IllosO vi lHlcll OI qutlltJ dIe lHIOWn OUT.
REMARKS.
Cattle-Nort cattle receipts this week
are light but the quality was unusually good.
Prices previously quoted are firm on all
grades in consequence of light supplies from
all sections. b. Dow sold steers. to dress
$50 lbs, at SIC, per lib, ID w cows, to dress
$50 lbs, at 71c ID w; stag, to dress 700 lbs
ut Sc, ID w. Lowell & Holt sold 3 oxen. TO
dress 1850 lbs, ut Sc per lb, ID W; steers
and heifers, average live 1000 lbs, ut 45c. live
weight. Pike Il Crafts sold several pair of
fine oxen mt highest market prices s. f.
Rossitcr also sold several pair of oxen that
were very likely, ut full prices. NJ +. Shack
EFT sold steers, to dress 800 lbs, ut SIC per
lib, ID w; cows and heifers from TO II. ID
w, to dress 500 to 700 lbs each.
Sheep and Enthusiastically any lambs
are now received Mt market. Quality not
the best, and butchers dilatory in their pur-
chases. Many flocks We're sold ut &c lower
rates. DeWolf & Brown sold 2i3 sheep for
1915 per head, weighed nearly rs lbs each.
A. Livingston sold ll2 sheep, average 50 lbs,
ut &c. II. G. Wood sold l06 sheep average
n lbs, ut 54c; fed on his farm ut West |. b.
anon, n. ii. NJ. Z. Shackett sold 81 sli ep
to ii. Goodnough for SIC, gross weight 1900
lbs So, average II lbs, ut SIC. Houghton d
Wilcox sold loads average 80 lbs, ut &C.
Poultry-A few crates of chickens and
fowl noticed from Vermont that sold ut l21c
per Id. The call is light, and probably will
continue light for three or four weeks
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
"ERRoRs EXCEPTED"
tor of The Vermont Farmer;

Editor Of the Vermont Farmer:
Your compOsitors made better work Of
my copy last week than was to be expected
but ia the trial of milk in extract from Mr.
Flint, read "thin" cream for "ther" cream,
and again in the rule he gave read "the
higher the color" instead Of 'the lighter the
color" o. NJ. TNKHAM.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

Southern to II. Wheat / tn % highcr.
No. spring Sl.6i to IG6 No, . Milwaukee
Log to 1853; No. Q Chicago 80 to | go am.
Der state l.6s; winter red Western 80 to
l.6S. Germ iirmer; new mixed Western 80
to Soc ailoat old do SIC in store; do slI to
621c Western miNcd62 to 6ic white Western
63 to 6ilc anoat. Beef quiet Pork iiri.rr:
now mess $3.50 Lard lirmer; steam O!c;
kettle 9sc. Butter firm; Ohio 90 to 33c;
State 30 to i5c. Sugar firm; refining 7g to
&c Coffee quiet; Rio 81 to 273c. Tallow
Is steady ut o. TO 7lc. Kerosene l3Ic.
CATTLE MARKET.
Cattle declined | to &c; all the yards arc
full waiting buyers; receipts 673S head;
quotations range 7 to &c for Texans to lOlc
IQr poor to far natives; l0l to l3c for fair TO
choice. Veal firm mt 6 TO lie; sheen and
lambs steady; quotations to ice. Sv Inc
dull ut OF to &c for hogs and Sc for pigs.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

Suppose the farmers should unanimously
resolve to kill and destroy half the hog, corn
and cattle crop-would not the effect bs to
raise prices and would not half the staples
above named bring more money and cost less
than half as much for marketing as the
whole crop2 If to-day half the corn, hogs
and cattle in the West were stricken out Of
existence, that part of them that remained
would bring one dollar aud quarter
where the whole crop would not fetch more
than one dollar But such course of ac.
ton on the part of the farmers would be
morally an infamous wrong, and would f.
nally injure the farmer more than it would
benefit him, because it would impoverish the
country. But, then, would this production
Of an artificial scarcity of agricultural staples
be morally worse and pecuniarily more dis.
astrous, than similar combinations of mid.
dlemen2
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
Richmond Market.


SATURDAY, Jan. 3.
The market here to-day was very light
owing to the bad roads The warm weather
of Saturday and Sunday took of all the
snow, and tho roads are very muddy. AT
mark ct 40 tubs of Butter, 200 boxes Cheese,
3 cars of Potatoes. Butter-fne October 80
to 40c, winter 80 to 33c. Cheese-fne late
made III to l3c; 100 boxes of cheese was
stored here; no factory ut market. Pota-
toes As to so for 60 lbs.
Hon. Il. D. Mason, our Market reporter
at Richmond, in sending his report says that
he picked pansies in full bloom in his wfe's
flower garden, Jan. 4th.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
THE REGISTERS

Are going off pretty fast but we will give
away few thousand more if called for soon.
Each subscriber who comes forward with
the money to pay up to January l, 1875,
not having had any other gratuity, has one
handed to him at our office, or sent to him
by mail New subscribers fare as well as
old ones. See notice on third page.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

All friends and subscribers of the FARMER
will do their neighbors favor, and us too
by metioning to them the fact that by send
ing us $500 they get the FARMER for ono
year and copy of the Vermont Register
thrown in. A great many are accepting this
offer, but many more would be glad to if
they knew of it.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

The scandal about the reform school at
Waterbury proves, as We expected to be an
utter falsehood. This school, which is visit
every day, more or less, by citizens Of the
vicinity interested in its success, has been
thoroughly inspected, since the stories of the
boy johnson have been published, by the
trustees, and by the representatives of three
Of the most respectable papers in the state,
the Burlington Free Press, and the Mont.
pelier Waterman and Freeman, and all con.
cur that no public institution could be better
administered, or its inmates better cared for
In person, mind, or morals, than the boys of
the Reform School.
The story was started by the Wood.
stock papers, which live, of late, in a
state Of chronic snarl at all the world out
side of Windsor county. The Post strains
itself to initiate the Springfield Republican,
replacing the brains of that bright though
sarcastic and sensational paper with the
slack.jaw of third-rate country court law
yer. The whilom respectable though ineffa-
bly, dull Standard, frightened by the loss of
subscribers, certain class Of which will al
ways flock to the dirtiest sheet they can find,
has lately tried to ape its rival, with the
success of a JackOss dancing highland
fling And speaking of filings, both these
papers seem to regard them as the sine qua
non of editorial success. We should say that
the respectable citizens of Windsor county
would soon be tired of that style of journal.
ism
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
SO. JOHIlSblGru Market.


PhODUCE.--WhOleSa Prize.
BednS.-Marrow and Pea, 80 so t. - 90
pr bu
BUtter.-Selected and choice 30 t. 30 Or
lib. Common 10 TO zoe pr Id.
ChceSe.-Farm diaries 10 to l2c pr liz. Fac
tory Is to l61c pr lib.
Hdy.-Sales Mt Sl4 to l6 as to quality.
Other PrOduce.-Beef, side, TO Sc pr Ib.
Mutton 10 to l5c pr lb. Chickens in lots -
to lac pr ID. Turkeys ii to l6c pr ID. Geese
II to lac. Potatoes As to SOC pr bu Eggs
30c.
FLOUR, GRAIN, &c.--IsetaiI Prices.
FlOm.-No. Spring Wheat So so to 8 90
pr Dbl. Amber Winter 80 90 to so. White
Winter $40 90 TO 10 so. st. Louis Pastry
81 so.
Gran.-Corn Sl.OOto LOS pr bu Shorts
and Middlings $50 to 40 pr ton. Oats so to
zoe pr bu.
SdH.-Turks Island SOC pr bu Ashton
Dairy IS 90 pr sack Higgins Dairy 81 90
pr sack, Liverpool coarse fine 80 so pr sack.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

The Phenixvillo Bridge Works propose
to erect an iron tower at Philadelphia, 1000
feet high, to be completed for the American
Centennial Exhibition in 1876. 1t is to be
circular in form, $50 feet in diameter at the
base, and thirty feet at the top. A spiral
staircase for those who wish to climb in
side of which is an elevator running to the
ton in three minutes.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
So. .4Eb0nS .V0rkeI.
From our Special Reporter.

TUESDAY, Jan. 6.
There was light attendance on the mar
kot to-day. The amount of Butter offered
was not large and the quality was rather
below the average. We quote common to
fair, winter made, 20 to 25c, medium to good
25 to 3Oc, extra fine 80 TO 36c, selections, fall
made, IS to 4Oc There were only 1877 pack
ages shipped from here to-dnN.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

SHORT 0FF-HAND SERMONS is the title Of 37-pag 0
tract Just out, in the interest OF the antIprohbton
lists. The principal points advanced in its arguments
that total abstinence from intoxicants is not
manded in the Bible that in various instances the
Of vino is sanctioned and that therefore prohibition
lists need to beware, ost hapy they be found to
fight against God" The subject Is well handled, and
tho tract will repay perusal, Philadelphia Claxton,
Remsen, 4 Hahelfnger. Price Toe.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

We wish to have every subscriber exam
inc the date on the address label on his paper,
and see that it is correct, and if the proper
change is not made within two weeks after
making a remittance notify US at once.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

The following letter, which appears in the
Rutland Herald, seems to un-explain the
explanation that has been given of the fail
ure of the State Fair at Rutland to pay ex-
penses -
Editor Rutland Herdld:--I notice in back
number of the Herald report of the State
Agricultural Society with note that some
thing over 5000 was expended on floral hall
that is great error and probably a mis-
take, rs no such amount was expended. |
paid the bill which amounted to n little ever
500; in II was included all the help during
the fair, police and night watch. The hall
was in dirty condition and unfit to use be-
sides arrangements had to DO made for
Vick's flower show and for other exhibitors
There was $500 appropriation for this de-
partment, to be paid out for premiums, and
in consideration of the expenses only $3.50
was paid in premiums by the committee.
think great credit is due the ladies who
acted on that committee for their strict econ
omy in the management of floral hail. and
still made 1t The attractive point of the fair
l write this in justice to those ladies who de-
voted so much hard labor to make it attract
i've to those who visited It, J. WILDER
West RHpeH, Dee &c.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09
l'ey Fork Market.

MONDAY JAN D.
Flour fairly active and 10 to Use higher,
the Improvement chiefly in low grades /;
sales Is 900 bbls; state $3.50 to $50; round
hoop Ohio 0.75 TO $40; Western $50 to 3;
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-30
Prospect for n Duel between JEFF
Davis and Henry 5. FOOte.

The probabilities of duel between
Jefferson Davis, late President of the
Southern Confederacy, and He"ry ).
Foote, late United States Senator and
Confederate States Congressmal, are
widely discussed here to-day. Davis
having taken exception to some criticism
personal to hImself in Foote'S recently
published "reminiscences; Foote comes
back at him in the Chronicle of to day
with a very bitter card, in which he
says that Davis "Has cherished an un-
dying hatred for me ever since his own
presumptous arrogance on a very noted
occasion compelled me to slap his jaws,
in the winter of 1847-8." The card con-
cludes with the following standins chal-
lenge:
"But l bid this mighty man of Gath,
who writes so blusterously for publica-
tion in the newspapers, that l 10 not
live in absolute concealment. My
whereabouts may be easily found by
him or his idoliz1ng Confederate. He
knows, as thousands of others know,
that for full twenty years l have stood
ready to accord to him such satisfaction
as he might deem necessary to his deep
" wounded honor, and that whatever
general views may entertain touching
the propriety of settling such issues as
have arisen between him and myself in
the mode referred to, yet that from spec
ial Difference to him 1 shall be alto
gether induced to make an exceptional
case. The habitual calumniator of hon
est and patriotic men has no right to
skulk behind the hypocritical pretenses
of extreme piety."
The drift of opinion here appears to
be that these two old gentlemen should
be permitted to pass away at pleasure
and rumors came from Richmond to.
day of an attempt to make arrangements
for meeting.-W Washington telegram,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-30

A Maine woman sued a saloon-keeper
for "the loss of her husband s society"
A tender-hearted wife at Scranton
sold her false hair to buy her husband
a silver-headed cane.
A Brooklyn woman has just unravel-
ed case which the detective vainly
worked on for six months. Her eyes
hadn't been blinded with greenbacks.
The next largest steamship to the
Great Eastern is the new City of Ches-
ter, of the Inman line. Her last voy-
age out was one of the fastest on record.
An unhappy Wisconsin maiden is
plaintiff in a breach of promise case,
and in one of the letters produced on
the trial she declared that she had shed
tears enough TO run grist mill.
Mrs. Sarah II. Davis, the Boston fur
kleptomaniac, says that she is in the
habit of taking twenty grains of opium
at a dose, and when under its effects
does not know what she is doing.
Rev. DIR. Sunderland, Chaplain of the
Senate, recently prayed that God would
make "this Congress- as the Sanhedrim
to the Jew" but the telegraph reported
it as the "Sacred Ram of the Jews"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-30
Death Of a Maryland Farmer Who
Whipped Company Of COnfeder-
ate Cavalry.

The Middletown (Maryland) Register
says: This gentleman, one of the oldest,
most highly esteemed and intelligent
farmers of this valley, died at his resi-
dence, on Highland, in Catoctin Dis
trict, at ten o'clock on Wednesday night
of last week, aged nearly eighty years.
For about three years past Mr.. Blessing
had been severly afflicted with asthma,
and it was this disease that caused his
death. During the rebel invasion of
1864, Mr.. Blessing acquired the tile of
the "Hero of Highland" on account of
the bravery he displayed in protecting
his property. His fight with squad of
rebel soldiers on that occasion is thus
told in letter written by himself at
that time:
"On the morning of that day COM
pany of cavalry, commanded by Major
Harmon and Captain Walker, came in
sight of my farm, where they detailed
five men to come and steal my horses.
As they rode up gave my son two guns
and took six, and went in the nIme of
the Lord God of Hosts to meet them,
and as they rode in haste we fred upon
them in quick time; one was mortally
wounded The died at Middletown,, the
other so bad they rode under the over
shoot of the barn, where we had Il cross
fire on them. As they were retrcating
fired, killing one on the spot and took
the other prisoner The balance got
back to the company, which was from
forty to sixty strong, and before had
reloaded my guns they returned. nine
teen in number, and had pressed il their
service four Of my neighbors as guides,
and marched them in advance. | gave
my son two guns and another young man
one, but they both retreated. ] then
took four guns and went to group OF
cherry trees; as their guides came up
halted them under pain of death if they
did not stand. One of them broke of
and ran. I fired on him without effect
As soon as he reached the rebels, they
opened fire on me to their hearts con-
tent; splinters from the trees and fence
flew in my face, while some of the balls
fell at my feet. l had three guns, which
held back for sure work. After firing
some fifty shots they rode off, leaving
their dead and wounded in my hands
They then sent me word they would
bring up battery and shell me. 1 sent
word back that l had their wounded
man in the barn; if they chose to burn
him up they could do SO. A little be-
fore night Coles cavalry, under CON-
mand of Lieutenant Colonel Vernon
came in sight. thought it was the
rebel battery, and took the dead rebels
carbine and concealed myself in a
bramble bush close to the lane, to make
that the closing scene of that bloody
Gay. When / saw my happy mistake
crawled out; they gave me a hearty
cheer, rode up to the house, helped to
bury my dead, and stayed over night
Thus closed the tragic scene in the his.
tory of my life. am seventy years OF
age. DO not wish to correct your er.
ror to boast, but do it to encourage oul
soldiers and people to fight better and
look to God for just victory.
GEORGE BLESSING"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-30
of Liringstone's Death


!. LosDoN, Jan. 27-Herr Brenuer,
German explorer Of Africa, in a letter
to DR. Petermann, of Gotha, dated Zan-
zibar, says Livingstone died on the 18th
of August This date differs from that
of previous report, but all doubt has
been set at rest by an official dispatch
received by the Government to-day from
Zanzibar This dispatch states eireum-
stantially that Livingstone died in Lo-
bisa, after crossing marshes with the
water for hours above his waist. The
sufferings Of his whole party were terri
bic, and ten of them died in conre-
quence.
The members of Cameron'S expedi-
ton were suffering from fever and OPP
thaInlia, but would await the arrival OF
the Doctors remains, and bring them to
Ujiii From the latter place they wonld
be conveyed to Zanzibar, where it is ex-
rected they viii arrive next month.