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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
BO8IOW sHUFKeI.
Reported for the VERMONT FARMER by
n. ID. HIBBARD.
fOduce Commission Msrchant.2l John Street. Boston

Produce Commission MSrchRnt,2I John Street, Boston.
SATURDAY. Fob. 6.
Fresh Medts.-Beef, hind quarters. choice
IL to l31c, do. common to good TO lie, do,
fore quarters, choice TO SIC, do, common to
good to Ole; mutton, extra 10 loo, do,
common to good to Sc; lambs, choice 10 to
| lie. do, common to fair 10 Sc; veals, choice
IL to he, do, fair to good to lie, do, COM
| mon q to To-
Flour and Grdin.--Four. The principal
transactions have been IN medium white
wheats ranging from So OF. The stock of
choice st. Louis brands is but moderate, but
the sales have been confined to small lots TO
the trade to keep up assOrtments. We quote
sales of fancy Minnesota brands ut $3.50 to
o. the latter nm extreme price for the best
brands on the market. White wheat st.
Louis has been selling ut 1918 to 3, includ-
ing common and very choice brands; white
wheat Illinois Mt $50 to 7; and white wheat
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan mt $50 to q. so.
Southern flour has been quiet and the sales
have ranged from $i.75 to 3. including COM
mon extras and choice family. Bakers ex-
| tras have been in moderate demand, with
sales at $685. 10 8. 25 Tor Wisconsin and Min
nesOta. Low grades are In moderate de-
mand ut $i.75 to for common extras, and
to 450 for supers.
Corn. There il very little change to notice
since our last. The demand is moderate and
the sales have been at So to sac for mixed
and yellow.
The market is quite firm for oats. with an
increased demand. The sales have ranged
from ga to Tic, ms to quality, for No. 2
mixed and No. white; and rejected at 81
to CSC per bu,
Rye. The market is quiet and the sales
have been in small lots at Csc to 81.
The market is quiet for shorts, with small
sales mt $3.50 to % per ton. Fine feed and
middlings are selling at $2S to 80, MS to quail
ity.
Barley lis quiet and prices are almost on
tirely nominal. Canada West has been sold
Mt 81 40 to |. go per bu.
GrOcerieS-Cofiee. The market Is not
quite so firm, and the sales have been con /.
fined to small lots us wanted bv jobbers. We
quote sales Of Java Mt P54 to sic, gold; Mo-
cha ut 80 to Sic. gold; Rio at 10 to Gle, gold /;
and MaracabO at 81 to 22c, gold
Fish. Trade has been gradually improV-
ing, but 1t Is not up to expectation. Goldfish
round lots offering. the stock being almost
altogether in dealers hands. The sales
have been mostly in jobbing lots at S5. so TO
. per qtl for large bank, and nj $50 to for
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. There
have been sales of No. large mt S7.25 to
7.5O per bbl, and few small Tots are report
ed at LIS, but this price Is above the mar
ket, and IL Is doubtful If n lot could be forced
of ut 7,25 per bbl. No. 9 bay are dull aud
not worth much more than IS, though We
quote them Mt 7,75 to 8 per Dbl We quote
No l bay Mt 80 TO $50 per Dbl. Shore mack
erel are mostly IN dealerss hands, and range
from Sll to Is for No. and to Tor No 2,
with no sales of consequence.
Fruit. Malaga raisins are quiet and re-
main unchanged. The sales have been NJ
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
The Plant Of the British stakeholder.

The full text of the complaint of the
Emma silver mining company (limited) of
London against Trenor W. Park. Henry II .
Baxter aud William M. Stewart was printed
at New York, yesterday and very un.
pleasant document it is. There are Ameri-
cans, we dare say, who will chuckle over
il but there are other Americans very
much larger number, We are glad to believe
who will fnd it anything but amusing
reading. The defendant Stewart is sena-
tor of the United States he had the assist
ance in this business Of United States
minister and Of a professor in one Of our
oldest colleges In this complaint, the
English victims retell the now only too
familiar story OF the way they were "done."
How Park, with Baxter aud Stewart in the
back ground, bought a one-half interest in
the mine at the nominal price Of $4,000
the real figure being very much less
How, we'll knowing that the Emma was =
pOcket-mins and would speedily be ex-
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

Essays on independent journalism are
getting to be quite the fashion nowadays
Camp put one forth few weeks ago, and
now Bro Chapman, of the Register, has
followed suit. Here is his idea of the
thing.
Independent journalism, having no stable
principles of its own, and having nothing TO
live upon but the brief popularity of to-day,
is expected to run after every new notion,
right or wrong, hoping thereby to be at the
head OF the winning side. The
| loyal farmers of Vermont expect better
things of the papers that they look to for
| advice on agricultural subjects. They have
learned better than to expect anything better
of independent journalism"
The occasion Of this freeing of Bro.
Chapmans mind is the fact that "the YER
MONT FARMER has got to dabbing in politics. "
The idea of farmers paper meddliug with
political matters! The lawyers and poiti-
clans are competent to run the political ma.
chine. All.that is wanted Of farmers in the
political field is to come out on election day
aud vote with "the party" for those candi-
dates whom these patriotic professional
gentlemen have seen fit to nominate. All
that the farmers need to think about is the
right time of the moon to SOW their turnip
seed or plant their peas. The political
thinking and planning can be better done by
the lawyers and politicians. That is the
theory of the average politician, and accord
ing to their notions the agricultural paper
that "dabbles in politics" is a hereto and
ought to be burned at the stake. 1t SO hap
pens, however, that farmers as we'll as agri-
cultural papers, are getting habit of "dab'
bling IN politics" in way that proves spe-
cially disastrous to states aud wire-pullers.
And that habit seems to DO growing upon
them.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

satisfactory results in all cases. Bruckner
says "Iussmuch as the deoomposed remains
Of all the parts Of any plant contain all the
inorganic with portion Of the organic ele-
meuts originally contained 10 itthese remains
would furnish a most efficient manure for the
production Of other plants Of the same spe.
cies. But il we desire to grow another kind
Of plant, requiring larger amount Of one or
more Of the elements, the deficiency must be
supplied, or, If part Of the plants be re-
moved from the soil. the elements contained
in that part must be renewed, by manure"
Clover is especially recommended for
green manuring as it not only produces a
heavy growth of foliage but sends It's roots
down to a great depth to bring up the treas.
ures hidden there. An analysis Of green
clover before blossoming by Prof Wolf
gives in 1000 parts Ash, 1874; potash,
4.6; soda, 2; magnesia, 1.6; lime, 4,6 !;
phOsphoric acid, LIB; sulphuric acid, A !;
silica, a chlorine, .5 sulphur, IS.
In the green clover there were 800 parts
of water in the 1000 parts upon which the
above figures are based, while Of the dry
buckwheat straw there were but 100, and Of
the grain 14l, which accounts for the higher
proportion Of the constituents named in the
buckwheat which is generally regarded as in =
ierior to clover in these valuable constitu-
ents.
As the most valuable manurial quality is
nitrogen, and as this is lost when the plant
decays in the open air but retained by the
earth If covered with earth, the Importance
Of blowing under any crop which is left up.
on the land for the purpose of fertilizing it
will readily be seen.
Bruckuer allows 80 bushels Of buckwheat
and one ton Of straw as the product per acre.
This he estimates TO contain of ammonia
1914 pounds; phosphoric acid, 24.20 sui
phuric acid, 11.42 lime, 1885, magnesia,
$50; potash, 1924; silica, 6.S4. In two
tons of dried clover hay the estimated pro-
duct Of an acre, he finds of ammonia, so
pounds phosphOric acid, 1916; sulphuric
acid, $50, lime, 10 magnesia, 81; potash,
5000; silica. 1865. He adds: Great
benefits are realized by growing this crop
it sends its roots deep into the soil and brings
up the phosphate and sulphate Of lime, also
potash and uagnesia, and when the clover is
plowed under as green manure, it furnishes
large amount of the nitrogen required for
q heavy crop of wheat"
As Mr.. Gallup asks for the relative value
Of two crops of buckwheat to stable manure,
and it is question which every farmer is
interested in, we give the following table by
Prof. Voelcker, showing the constituents
and value of 1000 pounds Of well-rotted and
air-dried stable manure, estimating the
chemical constituents at their market value
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
NEW UANpSUJRE

The hosiery mill Of Tilton, Ptmau & Co.,
at Laconia, was burned Monday morning,
together with the grist mill of Clarence
Eastman. The loss on the hosiery mill was
$40, 000 insured for SIS 900 on the other
$40, 200, insured for $500.
MASSACHUSETTS.
William Il. Sturtevant, the Halifax muir
derer, will hang, Friday, May I, at Plym-
outh, by order of the governor and cOun'
Gil.
Wages aud salaries on the Boston, Lowell
and Nashua railroad have been cut down 10
per cent, and some of the engineers have
been discharged.
Some jewelry and silver.ware found con-
cealed in Dr. j. G. Ayers medicine factory.
the other day, which we're supposed to have
been stolen from his house, turn out TO have
been placed there for safe keeping during
his absence in Europe.
They are having mining fever in some
parts Of Massachusetts,. An assay Of the
ore from d. Kelleys mine at Newburyport,
by w. Il. Dubois of the United States mint
at Philadelphia, gives a value of $50 4 ton
to the silver aud SO to the gold no report
of the lead is given. The main shaft is now
40 feet deep, and is to be sunk 100 feet
further within 40 days, and still another 100
feet subsequently. A good deal Of machin.
cry is now being put up, to work the mine,
which is to be considerably developed before
any stock is issued or any land sold. The
doctor Is, of course, sanguine, and estimates
that, if the vein continues, it will yield, with
the new machinery, 80 tons a day, which at
its present value would DO $4,000, or 800
900 per year, being 10 per cent on 10 ,OOO,-
600, aud he says that there is no reason
why these figures should not be greatly ex-
ceeded, as the ore is continually getting rich
er, specimens of pure native silver being
found daily.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
W'aserIo,om CasfIe Market.

TUESDAY, teD. ".
At market this week Cattle 27s, Sheep
and Lambs 1917, Swine -. Number from
Vermont. Cattle 81 Sheep and Lambs
Prices Market Beef-A few choice 10 rs
to =; extra Q rs 10 10 so; first quality 90
to so; second quality 700 to . so; third
quality IS 90 to 6 so.
Prices of Store Cattle.-Working Oxen pr
pair from 500, $50, us to $40.
Mich Cows and Calves from S35 to SO;
extra Is to 50. Farrow cows - to 40.
Yearlings $40 to 10; two years old 20 to
60; three years old 80 to IS.
Prices OF Sheep and Lambs-in lots . so,
) 90. 80 TO - each; extra 3 IS to 90
per head, or from to &c pr Id. Fancy
sheep 7 to C.
Prices of Hides, Tallow and Skins-Brisht-
ton Hides 81 to &c pr Id; Country Hides
8 to SIC pr ID. Brighton Tallow 81 to &c.
Country Tallow to SIC pr ID.
Pelts 100 to $50 each. Calf skins lac
TO l5c per ID.
CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP.
N. b. Beef-Choice grade includes moth
ing but stabilized 100 to 400 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.
Sheep-Extra includes cossets, aud when
hhooS VI ihANA ioA HhtilN1 ulO ehAN"h
REMARKS.
Cattle-Livo stock trains from the North
were very light. At time of starting the
trains from the country to market the Their
mometer ranged from 10 to "a degrees be-
low Zero and many that had stock to ship
did not start them. The demand apparently
light, coming Lent. The best Offering sold
at full prices, but not iany exactly agreeable
to purchasers was not bid on. We find but
little activity to the trade in cattle. G. Il.
Houghton sold 7 oxen to Mr.. Cornell, to
dress 800 lbs, ut Sc per III, ID w; stag, to
dress llG0 lbs, at Sc ID W; 4 steers 10 Mr..
Coward, dress $50 lbs, ut Sc, ID w. L. Hast
inBs sold oxen, to dress 1850 lbs each, at
lot TO l04c, ID w. s. 4. Rossiter sold oxen
TO James Taylor. fed by George Sheldon, of
Weathersfield, VT, weighed at market $3.50
lbs, at loic, ID W; CAT IOtc. ID w. II. Hub
bard sold . three-year-old steers. to dress 600
lbs each, ut SIC, ID w. g. S. Brown sold
oxen, to dress 1850 lbs, ut loo per ID.
Sheep. Receipts this morning figure 1917
head, which Is light. Many OF them were
slim lots, selling from s to &c per Id; fine and
best focks Mt 7c. Supply heavy from the
West. Butchers were not anxious to specu-
late in sheep only AS they could be bought at
figures noticed the past two or three weeks.
]. g. Brown sold SO sheep, average 10 lbs.
at 90. o. Bardwoll sold SIS sheep, average
90 lbs. at &c. ID. +. Gay sold 20 sheep, aver
age 80 lbs, at &c. b. Dow sold 81 sheep,
average 95 lbs, ut 0hc.
Poultry No arrivals. Several dealers cal
culated to start several crates OF live poul-
try, but In consequence OF extreme cold
weather were left back, PoultIymen Offer
ing l5c for best chickens and turkeys; or
binary grades at l3c per ID.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
General N ews.
Gold l141.

WV
Two more Charlie ROSES were found 10
New Jersey last week.
The reciprocity treaty is dead. Died in
the United States Senate last week.
1t is said the Senate has setits face stead
lily against extending any sewing machine pa
tents. Good, if true.
The judiciary committee has agreed to
report favorably on Gen. Buffers telegraph
bill, which makes every telegraph line in
the United States a post road. The bill
places the telegraph under immediate super
vision Of the Government as regards rates,
and compels all companies to pro.rate.
John Young Brown, Of Tennessee in 4
speech in Congress on Thursday OF last week,
used such severe and supplementary Ian.
guage toward Gen. Butler that he was by
vote Of the House led to the bar OF the House
and censured by the speaker. II Butler
don't make that man feel his resentment be-
fore the session closes we are mistaken. The
Boston Journal sees in the conduct Of Brown
proof of the unregenerate wickeduess of the
democratic party, because Browns demo-
crat.
At last, after much tribulation, the House
has actually passed civil-rights bill. 1t is
a very mild bill we don't wonder that the
thOrOugh.going are disguised. 1t leaves the
mixed school question severely alone, simply
enacting that railroad cars, hotels and thea
tiers shall hereafter, be open on equal terms
to all citizens who can pay their way. In
other words, that the only color with which
commentaries, landlords and public anus
ers are hereafter 10 concern themselves in
the color OF their patrons money This is a
very different affair from the original civil
rights bill
To the Senate Of the United States !;
Herewith have the honor to send in ao-
cordance with the resolution Of the Senate
Of the Sd inst. all the information 10 my
possession, not heretofore furnished, relating
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

In proportion to her population Canada
produces more horses, cattle and sheep than
the United States, twice us much wheat,
three times rs much oats, rs much butter,
and considerably less swine and corn. So
says Senator Morrill,.
The Syracuse Standard justly remarks
People who send us communications for
publication ARE requested not to quote
and UndGrScOrc so MUCH. THIS is about the
tCdy A good deal of matter would LOOK
If we printed it rs it is WRITTEN"
A subscriber writes us that he once saw n
recipe. How to Prevent Mule from
Kicking" and he wants us to hunt it up and
publish it. We never saw the recipe. and
don't know where TO look for it now; but II
said "recipe" didn't recon mend amputating
the hind legs of the mule. it was a glaring
swindle. Another good way TO stop u mule
from kicking is to XII II the animal aud buy a
twenty -four-year-old horse.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
Secretary DelanO's "ofRoe Carriage"

Attorney General Williams IL celebrated
for his " lsndaulet," but Il would not be
surprising If Secretary Deano we're to be.
come even more famous for the Office car
rage Of the department Of the interior.
Some curious facts concerning this remarka.
bic vehicle are revealed by the " detailed
statement Of all the expenditures Of the con.
tingent funds Of that department " for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1874" which
has Just come to hand. The only mention Of
the original acquisition Of an Office carriage
is the following:
Is79.
Juiy-R. II. Graham carriage and attach
ments, f53l.7t
1t will be observed that the foregoing
statement does not show whether the carriage
was new or secondhand From the fire.
quency and costiness Of the repairs We
should infer that il was several grades be.
yond even secondhand. 1t is, indeed, diff.
cult to conceive how vehicle, however old
IL it were able TO stand alone at all, could
need such constant, elaborate und expensive
reconstruction as Secretary Delanos carriage
appears to have undergone. Tho following
are the items:
1874.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
50. .GIbGSss Market.
Fre@ our Special Reporter.

Ffe" y" 'Peeh NePoFfp'
TUESDAY, Feb. 0.
The market for butter remains dull with q
still farther decline from last weeks prices
We quote; common winter made 20 10 CSC
medium to good 20 to 26c, choice 80 to $50
selections 81 to 35c. Amount Of shipment
$50 packages.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
NermaHt Gatmtt
St. Johnsbury, VT, February IL, 1875.

Subscribers for the Farmer under he Old credit sys-
ten requested 10 pay up TO remain cith as II they
WiHy TO STOP II they ipdHt 10, Those who pay up all
arredfages aud for year in ADVANCE either Singig
clubs, pfH BE- required 10 pay only $500 year for
redrdges Those WhO pay up and stop WtH be required
10 pay the IaH time phicA force when heV
snbseribed, viz. $3.50 per near. 81 ctnts month.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

The President the Kansas Agricultural
College complains that not one graduate of
that institution has become farmer since
1867 Exchange.
Probably because there is net form con-
nected with the college but stOp,-there
is farm connected with the Kansas Agri-
cultural College.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
Value st.l

1000 Value Sl.l9
On farms where the land, or portions Of
it, is run out" and the farmer is struggling
to harvest from three acres what he ought to
raise on one, we can think Of no course that
we would recommend sooner than the pow-
ing under of green crop, and the larger
that crop can be made before it is plowed
under, the better. Do not content yourself
with leaving portion of moving land the
crop on which is not worth harvesting, and
blowing under crop of perhaps 800 pounds
of grass to the acre in July or August, but
get in good crop of buckwheat, as Mr..
Gallup proposes, turning under two crops in
season, land be sure and pillow them both
under by the time they begin to blossom, or
you will have more buckwheat than anything
else the next year, or, what we think better
still, seed down with clover, using little
manure (even very light coat will do much
goOd), let that get good growth the next
year, and then pillow it under. Mr.. Lang
recommended Canada thistles for green ma
nuring last week. They certainly will fur.
nish heavy growth almost anywhere, and
have the same advantage of a long tap root as
clover, though we should hesitate somewhat
before Sotoing them.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

Patrons and Sovereigns in this vicinity
think they do as we'll with A. II. Mcleod
as they can any where. He is getting the
trade Of the St. Johnsbury Council aud they
are doing better than they could with any
Western firm they have tried, on -four.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
July I il-John MoDormott a BRO, repairing

II is said that the ingenious Chiaaman
employs his physician at a fixed salary, de-
Quoting certain sum for every day he is
sick. 1t is 4 pity that the federal govern
ment had not made such q contract with
carriage doctor MoDermott. His treatment
seems sometimes to have made the vehicle
worse. For example, he was called in De-
Cember IL, 1873, and prescribed S35. rs
worth. Next day, the carriage was no bet.
ter, and DIR. McDermott was again sent for,
this time increasing the prescription to
S45.75. Later in the same day, the patient wa,
very low, the doctor was again summoned 10
haste, aud applying a still stronger draft
SIS worth, got the better of the disorder fol
the time. In less than twelve months thC
expense for repairing the carriage was 1878.
63-or S34l SO more than its Rrst COST
Net0 York EUening Post.
EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, p. q.
John Smith, Ways Mills, says he has mo-
a dog left. He undertook to deliver one O
the clnines that he had sold, the other day
aud she froze so hardly on the way that ID,
purchaser backed out.
| OOnpetiLlOu ~ hlCuulOuu mas put tue
price Of -four down to FIVE dollars per bar
rel.
The Grand Trunk Railway will build 1
commodious passenger depot and new
freight shed in st. Johns this spring.
We thought it was cold here Sunday bu
a club agent writes from Hatley that tn,
mercury was 36 below there.
Rev. Mr.. Mills donation at Barnstol
Corner, last week Thursday. was success
despite the severe weather. Proceeds
S13l.
W. L. Oliver is Mayor of Barnston instead
of DIR. Jencks, who was dismissed with q
vote of thanks for his years service.
Lewis ii. Pond carries on the Barnstor
poor farm this year.
The thaw of last week must have amount
to more here than in St. Johusbury, as 8
correspondent says it considerably lesseneC
the amount of snow.
The coroner's jury In the case of Carlton
who committed suicide In Stanstead last
week returned verdict "Thst the de.
ceased came to bis death from an over dose
Of morphine, taken in the presence of foul
persons who made no efforts to prevent
him."
Foss Il Bissell, of Staustead have a pair
of three-year,old steers that girth seven feet
aud pair Of two.year-ods that girth six
feet and three inches.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

The following is Bruckuer's estimate on
ordinary bornyard manure, which figures
will probably apply with degree of cor
rectness to the manure used by most of our
farmers
Pure dung. ..............l5O lbs, worth. 1910
Straw or other ltter..... 400 " '' =. O.i9
Water and useless matter 4J0 " e. O.OO
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

Communications unaccompanied by the
name Of the writer are worth 81 cents per
pound. We sell good many pounds, and
have few on hand now.