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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07

and the adjacent ground flooded. As soon
as the pond is made, thousand or two Of
young fry may be purchased in November
or December, and patience for two or three
years will accomplish all the rest. The
great danger is overstocking, but with pond
Of an acre, TO which few farmers boys
have access once week, there will be little
danger of crowding the fish. The next dan
ger to be avoided is overlooking. If the
pond isistocked with minnows or other small
fish, and few roots Of lilies, caltheas, or
the common water-Aag, be planted on the
borders or shallow places, and some water
cress seed be sown in the places where cur
rents exist, large growth Of aquatic insects
and animalcul@ will take place sufficient to
support a large number Of fish.
Bass and perch will flourish under less
favorable circumstances than trout. They
will not object to muddy bottom, nor to
water whose temperature for a part Of the
year may rise above 60 o nor TO water
without any current passing through it for
some time. Temporary streams may be
damned for these fish. or ponds in which
there is only spring water enough to supply
the evaporation will meet their needs. A
considerable supply Of food may be gathered
from the offal Of the farm for these fish, and
in short time insects and worms will accu-
mulate in the pond, which will furnish food
The necessary skill and labor is so small,
and the pleasure and profit SO great, from
the culture Of fish, that it is only necessary
to point out how it may be readily UNDER
taken to induce many farmers to experiment.
IL is needlul to follow natures ways as near
as possible to insure success, and it is not
the least part of the profit that fish-pond
upon farm will furnish constant reser-
voir for stock water in seasons when water
is scarce. We don't advise any farmer to
undertake the production of fish in any pond
Of less area than half an acre. 1t would be
better that he should have one or two acres.
La the small, narrow, successive ponds de-
scribed in books and in papers by profession
al fish cultursts, the fish must depend alto
gether upon regular and constant feeding.
The time and care needed for this would be
altogether out of the question upon farm.
Besides, in these small ponds, the fish will
deyour each other unless the large ones are
separated from the small ones and even then
some will devour the others. In large
pond this difficulty does not occur to any ex.
tent. But in those cases where rocky gul.
ly with a rapid fall could be damned so as
to make series ofsmaller ponds of less than
half an acre each, if these are made to COM
municate by means of short falls the fish can
pass from one to another with facility, and
will thrive as well as in one large pond.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
A DEED OF DARKNESS.

1t was a night we'll fitted for the decd
And as Ihastened my dark lamp to trim,
Thore sounds, but moans that Oft proceed
From night-winds whistlIng with the pine-tres lml
j screened the lamp as from tho house stole,
And erept on tiptoe down the darkling path,
Revenge was crying loudly to my SOUL
And In my breast nurturOd thoughts Of wrath.
Hark was not that the scrceeh-owrs ftful cry
That trsmbed on the bosom Of the windi
No matter Those who deeply hate as |,
Must fling alarm and pity both behind
moth perchance the fatal moth that bears
The grinning skull upon its down impressed
Hence idle fears Begone, yo passing cares,
A fearful purpose fills my heaVing breast.
1t Is the spot! But is the victim here,
My hated foe, whose life my wrsngs must pay'
Like ato's dread finger pointing straight aud clear,
My lamp directs one solitary ray.
Yes behold him stir motifs in vain
All, who may tell the savage joy feel,
When nee to crawl upon this earth again,
My hated foeman writhes beneath my heel!
Nay, reader! Be not with such horror thrilled
There is no gut-no crime Ia deeds like these
My hands are bloOdless! have only killed
The slug that ravaged mid my early peas
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07

have thrown or will seon throw up new
stems TO form the basis Of next years crop.
Some practice cutting off aud removing
the old stems aud leaves, just as We do the
old exhausted raspberry canes after they arc
through bearing, and believe that the nov.
ones start up faster, and grow more rapidly
in consequence, and we have certainly seen
good results from such a course, but whether
we cut off the vines or not, the ground be-
tween the rows which has been compacted
by many feet should be broken up mellow TO
the depth Of three TO five inches, and all
weeds and grass cleaned out
Ifthe ground is not very hard, perhaps
one Of the improved cultivaters or grubters
would be the best implement for mellowing
it, but if il is packed too hard to yield road
lily to these. one-horse plow (steel is the
best) should be used, plOwing the earth
from the rows. After the plants have been
cleaned out, the ridge thrown up between
the rows should be leveed with the culti.
vator.
Ii the strawberries have been kept 10 mar
row matted rows, the space between tkeln
should be broken up, and the rows them.
sciNes CUT uOWn quite hhrrOW, anu Cleaneu
out. Sometimes the workmen may run the
plow just so as to turn under the original
plants and level n row Of fresher ones on
one side of the old one. Where this can be
done, it will give you more vigorous plan
tatlon for next years crop.
After the plantation has been put in good
order you would have stronger assurance
of good yielding crop next year, it you
should apply top.dressing Of fine, concen.
trated manure. A good article Of super.
phosphate or bone dust could be easily scat
tered along the rows, and would probably
repay coat, several times over in the next
crop OF berries.
The directions here given for the manage
ment Of market plantations, will apply
equally well to the family garden patches,
only substituting the spade for the pillow in
breaking up the ground. If the reader
comes to the conclusion that good deal of
labor is involved in the proper cultivation
Of the strawberry, it will be correct con-
cluslon, but then none but the best cultiva.
tion pays. Our best cultivators make some
money in growing strawberries for market,
but halfway cvltvators make noue.--Amer.
ican Rural Home.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
KEEPING POULTRY I'M OR
CHARDS.

Some farmers make it a practice to keep
their poultry in their orchards from early in
the spring until cold weather sets 10; aud
they find that it pays them for so doing A
picket fence should be built around the or
chard, high enough to prevent their flying
over, with suitable house or shed in one
corner of the yard to shelter them at night,
Thus situated the poultry will thrive and
prosper keeping themselves in good eondi-
ton, and the increase in eggs will be greatly
augmented, and their usefulness aud value
enhanced to their owners at least, on ac.
count of tho thousand myriads Of insects
and worms which they naturally destroy,
and which will more than repay the cost and
labor of building the fence. BY keeping
them enclosed in this manner, a large NUN.
Der of tolws may be retained in an orchard ;
and the continual scratching which is done
by them will prove advantageous both to the
soil and trees themselves.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
TESTING THE COLORS OF
WOVEN FABRICS.

The Manufacturers Repiew translates
from Professor Stein the following summary
Of directions for testing colors for their fast
ness -
Red ColOrs.-A small sample of the yarn
or fabric is boiled first in soap water, which
should not affect the color, and become but
slightly colored itself secondly, in lIme.wa-
ter, which also should neither affect the col
or, nor extract 1t. These tests are sufficient
to demonstrate the presence or absence Of
logwood, sanders, and aniine colors.
YelLoIo ColOrS.-Boil samples successive
ly in water, alcohol, aud lime.water. Col
Ors which are not fast enough color the wa.
ter and alcohol sensibly, aud turn the lime.
water rod. Annatto and turmeric are tho
most fugitive yellow colors; fustlc is a little
faster.
Blue COlOrs.-Q.) Boiled in alcohol, a
fast blue color should not give red, purple,
or blue liquid. (2) Boiled in muriatc acid
aud water, or alcohol, the liquid should not
color red, nor should the color of the yarn
or fabric change to red or reddish-brown.
Purple COiorS-The only fast colors Of
this class are those derived from combining
a vat blue or indigo carmine blue with cochi-
neal, aud the madder purple. Boiled with
dilute alcohol Zone halt water) and left to
stand ten or fifteen minutes, fast puppies sul-
fer no change; nor should they turn brown
or reddish-brown when boiled with dilute
muriatic acid
Orange Colors-Boil in water; if it be-
comes yellow, reddish-yelow or red, the
color is not fast. Ii the water remains un-
changed, boil in alcohol, which should like
wise leave fast orange unaltered.
Green COtOr.-Boied in dilute alcohol,
they should not color it blue, green, or yell
low muuatic acid should not be colored red
or blue. n
BrOi0A ColOrs.--It is quite difficult to
test these colors for their iastness. Boiling
water should not change them to red when
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
BUTTER FACTORIES IN CANADA.

A writer in Montreal gave the following
concerning the operation Of butter factories
in Canada: The great success which has
attended the cheese factory system in Canada,
in securing uniform and high standard Of
manufacture in this article-so high, indeed,
that last season Canadian cheese took a bet
ter place than American in the British
market-hRs led to strong feelings in favor
ing members of the provision trade in this
city. There is no doubt that Canadian but
ter is susceptible of great improvement, and
before it can become a very profitable busi-
ness to the farmer must be Ofmuch better and
more regulated quality. The make Of last
season was pretty good, but that Of the pre-
yious year was so poor that a large por-
tiOn Of it was sold at grease prices, from
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
3Ortitultmre.
THE OLD STRAWBERRY PLAN
TATIONS.

If they have borne two full crops, plow
them under. We do not believe that it will
pay to raise OVer two crops Of Strawberries
from one planting, and many Of our best
small fruit growers only take one full crop,
knowing that they will diminish in size aud
yield thereafter but if we'll manured when
planted, and kept clean at all times, the
second one may pay.
Let US examine the plants in strawberry
plantation at this season Of the year, when a
large crop of strawberries has just been
gathered. If the plants have been kept in
stOols--the runners all removed-those stems
which have borne fruit are exhausted, and
die, and so do the roots employed in feeding
them; but from near the crowns Of those
roots new roots have started, which either
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07

The CosT oV LAVA suit has just been
disposed of by the Supreme Court of Iowa,
which has been before one court and another
since 1861. In that year the Iowa Land
Company, Of Cedar Rapids, were assessed
for taxation on lands in Carroll County,
which had been granted to them by the
General Government as railroad lands. The
company refused to pay the tax, amounting
to $4,000, and has stuck to its determination
not to pay during the past thirteen years.
The result is that judgment against the COM
pany for principal interest, and penalties
makes the sum now to be paid $4,000, to
say nothing Of the expenses of litigation.
That affair has been a more profitable one
for tho lawyers than for any one else.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
Gbe 9airp.
For the VERMONT FARNKR.
MILK-COOLERS.

We do not have the Jewett pans, nor me
Douglas pals, though we sometimes wish
we had. but we have milk cooler Of our
own. We have a tin can, which will hold
all of one milking, as our dairy is small, set
it into an old.fashioned cheess.tub outside
the milk-roOm door, 6ll the tub with cold
water from the we'll, which is but four de-
grees warmer than ice. In half an hour
the animal heat is all out Of the milk, and
it is then dipped into pans and carried to
the milk racks, thus saving considerable heat
from the mik.room, and also the odOr from
the new milk.
This takes little time aud labor but we
think it well pays for all it costs.
Mrs. A. b. BRAdd.
Fayston, VI.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07

especially 10 matters Of procreation, il was
hard 10 keep them from Matching. / have
had some experiences the other way, and SO
have SINE others Of your readers, probably.
| have purchased a setting of eggs of the
most reliable breeder; they were packed
beautifully, lids screwed on, "big end up.
with care" TO-, and having reached me, we're
Immediately set under frst.class hen for
four weeks without the pipe of chicken to
gladden. the heart of this faithful feathered
biped, who, If she could have talked, would
have given the correct reason by showing
both big.eudians and little-endians aside aud
saying-these eggs are not good, not laid nor
impregnated dy fowls in anything like
natural state, aud neither the hen that laid
them. nor a forty-horse power incubator
could have hatched them.
Again, have purchased settings and had
a small percentage hatch out chickens that
generally have the appearance Of roosting in
theelop-barrel. Let any person that is in
tefested in this matter experiment for him
self, Let him have some common eggs sent
him by rail and otherwise, from yards where
he knows the raising Of chickens is the rule,
and not the exception or let him take some
OF the same sort Of eggs and subject them to
jarring, rolling or hammering, so that he
does not break the she'll, and try this matter
thoroughly, and the general result will be to
establish the ideas here advanced. am no {
making TRADE against the fancy poultry
men, but On the contrary the agitation aud
settlement of this egg.hatching business will
serve to distinguish those who raise their
poultry properly, and sell eggs that can pos
sibly hatch, from those Of the reverse order.
As the case now stands the poor breeder can
ensily screen himself by the generally ac-
cepted notion that the failure to hatch iu eggs
shipped from distance is due to the jarriug
of the journey, or tho upsetting Of the eggs
from the big end up to little end up-that
is, from one unnatural position to another
one equally unnatural.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
THE DETERIORATION Of THE
WHEAT CROP.

The specific manure for wheat is nitrogen.
No other cereal crop requires 80 much nitro
gen in the soil. As on anal ysis, but little of
the compounds Of nitrogen are found in
wheat, it is supposed that its resOlvent effect
on the plant food in the soil is required by
the growing crop. Joseph Harris has it
that wheat is greater destroyer Of nitro.
gen than any other cereal crop. Corn and
potatoes require potash, phosphates, aud
other mineral plant food, but no wheat crop
can be perfected unless the soil is rich in the
compound OF nitrogen.
When first came in sight Of CaYuga
Lake and saw the extra tall wheat growing
up among POnderOuS girdlcd oaks, without
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
WHOLE NO. 1872.

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Journal.
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OH 9S]aily Ar9ns.
On the Ragged Edge Of the Jim Jams


Washington Correspondence cincinnati
Commercial,
There has been in the last six months a
renewal of the discussion OF the President $
fondness for drink, and of the manifest de.
plorablc effects Of yielding to the cravings
of his appetite 1t is boldly charged that
he has been frequently, of late, on therag
ged edge of the Jim jams. W neither
those making the charge are well inform,
ed or not is not known. but it is certain
that his Excellencys appearance lends
color to the assertion. lie has changed
greatly within the last four years. Abund
ant gray hairs have come, especially In his
whiskers. But he has acquired within
eighteen months a puffy and tiabby look,
and the dimmed eyes that are not uusaIY
produced by rigdly temperate HE
Every once and while Il loyal admirer Of
his Excelency COMES from White House
interview with shocked manner and
protruding eye balls,to take one aside
tide the dreadful suspicion that, after
all, these stories, heretofore set down
to partisan malice, have foundation in
fact. Party men are 50 drilled in this
country to loyalty to party that they I'M
heSltatlngly accfedlt to malice everything
they hear, not praiseworthy, charged a.
gainst their party. Occasionally they a
wake to the fact that it is possible for I'VE
uns to err even with our eyes wide open.
During the currency excitement last spring
aud summer many good Republicans gath
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the combat, astonished themselves aud
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veto, The candid, frank testimony OF the
members IT the conference committee on
the currency bill, who called at the White
House for purposes Of consultation, would
be valuable, ii it was worth while to Silt
this matter and get at the whole truth.
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ALMOST A MIRACLE
TESTIMONIAL
Office and Residence No A Dauphine St.,
NEW ORLEANS sept. 90, 1SI3.
CAPT TRYON J. WOODWARD

NEW ORLEANS sept. 90, 1SI3.
CAPT TRYON J, WOODWARD,
Agent Maguire's Medicines.
No IS Magazine street,
F7EsTHRMED SIR:-From feeling of heartfelt graf
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OF Won for the kind interest and generous sympathy
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