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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
Keeping Apples.
Colman's Rural World says: /:

Apples keep well in good, new, clean -four
barrels, headed up and placed in a cool, dry,
cellar, or, better still, in some upper room,
if not allowed to freeze. Barrel as above,
and lay down in an clubhouse or shed about
three inches apart, on sawdust some three or
four inches thick, and then cover, barrels
and all, with sawdust deep enough to prevent
freezing, being careful not to put on or
between the barrels enough to heat. They
can easily be taken out as wanted, barrel
at time, and even fall apples keep crisp
and nice till March or April.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
Winter Care Of Stock.

Winter closed in early on farmers this
year, aud long term Of feeding cattle at
the barn is probable. The first, last and
most important work for the next five months
is the care of stock. For the farmer aud
the farmers boys recurring round OF chores
calls them morning, noon and night. There
are but few frst-class hands to do chores,
either owners or hired hOlp. lis extremely
difficult to hire help who are competent to
take care of stock. The simple routine Of
feeding, watering, cleaning stables and shut
ting the door with slam the moment II is
done, never makes good stock. The cost of
wintering stock is 50 heavy compared to sum.
mering that the wasteful aud indifferent way
it is done appears more fragrant. 1t is not
easy to make stock gain as fast in winter as
in summer, but it can be done, at big profit
over common methods. II costs nearly as
much to keep animals alive aud at a station.
airy point in weight and value as to make
them grow. The cost of barely holding the
amount gained in the summer, at an expen-
diture Of one to two and half tons Of hay
in winter, balances the profit on summer
gain, and frequently over-balauces, SO that
there is an actual loss in the year. Far
mers may well complain that farming does
not pay, when these losses are to be charged
to the account.
Certain things are essential to good care
Of stock, such as will make them thrive.
The first is .....
Warm, Comfortable Quarters.
Without warm barns aud stables little caI
be accomplished. There is constant drain
upon the adipose matter in the food aud in
the system to maintain animal heat. If
animals are exposed to all temperatures,
storms and cold winds, it requires about as
much food as they can eat to simply sustain
the temperature of the body and to supply
motive and nervous power. Barns and
stables should be SO constructed that they can
be effeCtually closed against the entrance of
cold wind. If the boarding is tight, and no
air-holes or cracks, the stable can be kept .
comfortable temperature. When the stable
is old and the walls full of cracks, a very
effective method of making them warm, at
small expense, is to put up inside walls and
fill the space between from four inches to
one foOt) with dry saWdust, 1t is 6ne
non.conductOr. Batten all cracks and make
everything snug Sheep should have plenty
of room to eat all at once, and dry footing,
las important rs food. Cattle must have
the privilege Of lying down in comfort. rest
ing uudisturbOd and rising with ease,
Stanchions are hard, cruel things for cattle
of medium or large size, Chains or bows
should be adopted as an act Of humanity.
The buildings and stables being warm and
comfortable, the farmer has leisure to give
his attention TO
Feeding Animals.
Good haV ia the common food, and Is taken
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

perfect root but short and light as though
the seed was left TOO far from support.
will express my opinion Of Prof BIS
theory, and hope he, or others, may criticise
mine. think all soaking seed an injury
for il swells the grain prematurely, TO fully
or partly shrink before il naturally germi.
mates. / account for the credit the briniug
gets this way. /, The thorough farmer who is
faithful 10 one respect is very generally thor
ough In all. of course he harrows his grain
in very thoroughly and gets a good crop,
but | may be mistaken in the cause.
Will Prof B. account for the difference 10
my Crop7 We are very far apart; and l
think the readers would like 10 have the
matter settled before we further advise in
the way for others to follow. l think he is
sustained by theorists generally, but claim
to be sustained BY facts, which are stubborn
things. O. W. n. DwINELL.
Marslfeld, NoOember %, 1875.
[Does Mr Dwinel wish to be understood
as stating his belief in the principle he lays
down, as the result Of one crop Of wheat; or
has he observed the same effect in other
seasons? It is very unsafe thing to enun.
ciate principle in agriculture from the facts
observed in single experiment. May not
the germ of smut exist equally in seed sowu
in two different fields. and the conditions in
ore bo go unlavorable to its development aud
SO favorable to the growth of strong,
healthy crop that the crop may bo entirely
free from smut, while in the other its de,
velopmeut may be early aud active TO such
a degree as to impede the healthy growth ol
root as well as to appear in the grain
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
For the VERMONT FARMER.
Echo Farm Again. Explanation.

Mn EDITOR Your correspondent, Agri-
cola, seems to infer from what We said, that
we doubted the value of the butter produced
on Echo Farm. We said no such thing but
80 long as ho asked people to judge of its
worth, We replied that he had not told us
enough to judge by aud that, although the
COWS were fed on pasture and meadow lands,
and kept in barns as clean as a kitchen
fought to be), that would not be all that is
requisite in making good butter simply
said, let US know the rest Of it.
p. l.. HOPKINS.
P.s. We have some hne dairies about
here, and some very neat dairymsn; but
that their stables, in the morning, are as
clean as their wives kitchen, is an "imagin-
Ary fact" =.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

Our correspondent who writes for the
FARMER this week the frst of series of
articles on "Bee Keeping" is one of the
most extensive and successful bee keepers in
the country. His communications will en-
body the results and suggestions of his large
experience in his chosen speciality, and will
be Of great value to those who keep bees,
and of interest to all w
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

We have from s. L. Pierce, New York,
q circular Of Messrs Elliughausen 4 Co,
agents for the sale of Echo Farm butter,
describing the manner of putting up for mar :
ket, and confidently recommending it as the
best in this New York Cityl, or any other,
market at the moderate price of one dollar
per pound, invariably.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
RoARp on AeRIcULTunE MRETINes

Ludlow, Wednesday and Thursday, December aud 2.
Canaan, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. and g.
Rochester, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. II and 10.
Chelsea. Thursday and Friday, Dec. l6 and ~.
Hnesburg, Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. % and %.
Barre, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. % and %.
Cabot, Thursday and Friday, Dec 30 and 81.
Franklin Thursday and Friday Jan. 10 and IA.
Fayetteville Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. is and 10.
Orwell, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. IS and 26.
brandon, Thursday and Friday, January "a and %.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

The time for receiving pedigrees for rec
ord in volume fifteen Of the American Short
Horn herd book is, December 1st for bulls,
and December 25ih for cows, instead Of the
dates we named in recent issue of the
FARMER.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

The Scientific Farmer, hitherto published
at Amherst, Mass, very able aud interest
ing paper, has been transferred to Msssrs
CLARK W. Bryan & Co Of Springfield, Mas /,
and will be hereafter published by that firni
Messrs Huntington & Libby, though full of
enterprise and pluck, found that it takes a
good deal Of capital to ruh paper. We
wish the Farmer success.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

Perennial rye grass is in England regarded
as the most valuable of cultivated grasses.
1t yields an immense amount of forage is
very early is adapted to various soils, and
is hurtful to stock, if ripe. But it is not
very nutritious, and is very exhaustive to
the soil.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
worth Dragging about.

.
The Western Rural iavors having co ws
come in in autumn and milked through the
winter. The price Of butter is then higher
there is more time for milking and caring
for milk the heat is not extreme, aud there
are no flies. The system of winter feeding
and care prevalent on many New England
farms would be fatal to the success of q
wiutery dairy. Cows that give milk in
winter must have warm quarters, where
they can be comfortable, early cut hay made
from sweet grasses, and grain in many cases,
regular feeding and accessible water in
abundance. These conditions being supplied,
there is no reason why winter dairies should
not be success, so far as the production Of
milk is concerned. The milk room needs to
be different place from that Of summer.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

The Vinewood herd of Short. Horns Of b.
b. Groom, Winchester, KY, was the most
remarkable except that Of Judge Campbell
ever held in this country. FOrtY-four Amer
loan brod COWS sold for S5S,2l0, and twenty
imported ones for S5l, ,225. -Four American
bulls sold for Sl,7l5 aud four imported ones
for sl2,3OO. Sevsnty-three animals sold for
Sl2S,450.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

Large tracts of land in Colorado which
possess the elements Of fertility 10 abun-
dance, are sterile for want of reliable sup
ply of water. Water is brought many miles
in open bitches from the mountain streams,
for irrigation. and other uses. A company
has just been formed in Denver, with million
dollars as capital. for the purpose of bring
ing water to the city.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

the conclusion that the difference when it
exists, is caused by the variation in the in
tervals between milking. The longer the
Interval the lower the percentage Of cream.
The nights milk Of COWS which were not
MIXED at night until fifteen hours after the
morning milking required 5,27 pounds more
milk for a pound of butter than the morn
ibp's milk,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

The Canada Farmer urges the adoption Of
. system of periodical stock sales at local
centres for disposing Of fat animals at auc-
tiOn. 1t results in saving of time for both
seller and buyer, and places all sellers on
equal terms, great gain to those who are
not skillful judges, or we'll posted in the
market, and it is an advantage to the less
experienced buyers.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

Fruit trees which have not been protected
from the depredatious of mice. should be
cared for. Treading down the snow about
the trees prevents their making paths under
It to the trees, aud heads of their incursions
1t must be followed up all winter. The best
way is to apply some Of the various safe
guards, which last all winter, and which cost
but little,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

The prices realized at the great Stuyvesant
sale of Ayrshires at Pougbkeepsie, N. Y,
we're low, and in some quarters regarded as
indicating decline in the popularity of the
breed.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

4he superintendent Of the Ridge Hill
creamery writes to the Utica IN. ~ Her
aid that he has been making tests of the
comparative richness of the milk of night
and mOrnipg And the results incline him to
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

A rams ffty-pound fleece Of wool was
shipped east from California, last year, aud
made great stir in some classes Of mon
strOSity worshippers 1t has nov been
cleansed, and the result is twelve pounds of
wool and burs, the latter estimated at two
pounds. That leaves fleece Of wool ssti.
mated at ten pounds, a shrinkage Of eighty
per cent. If that fleece did not cost more
than it was WORTH then we are no judge of
the value and cost of wool and grease. We
cut nine.pound fleece from twO-year-Old
full-blOOd Merino eve, aud it cleansed six
pounds lacking an ounce, and didn't think it
worth Dragging about.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

The Gardeners Monthly says that up to
the present time june grass has proved the
best lawn grass. 1t should be sown alone.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

DR. Henry BoyntOn of Woodstock shipped
100 merinO bucks to Texas on Tuesday, the
I'd uls.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03
Feeding AnInaIs.

Good hay is the common food. and is taken
as the standard. The variation in the
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

Mr. II. w. Stewart, recently appointed
professor of agricultural science at Cornell
University, in alluding to the college and
its work, says: "Here principles are to
be applied in practice, and disputed prob
lens in the breeding and growth Of animals,
in the culture aud fertilization Of the soil for
various crops, are to be settled by accurate
comparative experiments, These will fur
nish students with opportunities for practical
manipulations conducted in the best manner.
Here the student will watch all the opera
lions upon the soil conducted with the best
implements in the hands of experts"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

Mr. ]. F. Wilkey writes to the Canada
Farmer tho opinion that crops can be doubled
by utilizing electricity as fertilizer or
stimulant to crops. His plan is to construct
9 sort of battery or series Of conductors for
the collection OF the fluid, by means Of wires
buried in the soil connected with others
suspended by dry poles, at cost Of twenty
shillings per acre. He makes out . very
plausible case. We have heard of the vOn-
derful effect Of electricity in restoring some
thing very like life to q corpse, but had not
supposed that It's use for vitalizing growing
crops 10 be Of prsctical value.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-03

Fairtar, NOUemJsr %, 1875.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

THE Erie Railroad is declared bank
rupt and a receiver appointed. Jewell
the President of the road becomes re-
ceiver on fling approved bonds to the
amount of $500, 900.
PAUL BoYNroN finished his feat OF
swimming across the English channel, by
landing near Dover early Saturday morn
ing, having been in the water constantly
twenty-three hours and forty minutes.
Ar Great Darlington, Massachusetts
May 28th, there was an attempt made to
rob the National Mohair Bank. Failing
in this the robbers went through the
cashiers house, taking all the ~valuables.
The Irish Court of Common Pleas has
decided that the late John Mitchell was
ineligible for admission to Parliament,
and awarded the seat to his opponent,
Moore.
A FIRE broke out in Truckee last Sat
urday, and spreading rapidly destroyed
$50, 900 worth of property before it was
controlled.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

EBERHARDT & AURoRA.-We 0 D the
following in regard to one of our mines
from the London Mining World Of the
18th of May
Eberhardt, 6, 6H. The directors have
receivedthe following telegram from Capt.
Drake "Ore mined January l to May
], 2.453 tons; ore on mine and mill dumps.
l,25O tons; ore milled April, 1908 tons;
assay value. 16.015l, u.s., equal to 13l. IS.
per ton; bullion produced, Is, 1914. As. !;
percentage obtained, 80; mine looking
WE'LL" The accounts for the half-year
ending 3Oth December, 1874, have been
received, and are now in the hands of the
accountants. The directors anticipate
being enabled to hold the half-yearly
meeting by the middle of June next.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05
WHITE PINE NEWS
saturday, June 8, 1875.

A i question involving the right
of a Roman Catholic priest to accuse a
person married outside Of the Church
with living in mortal sin when he accu-
sation is without malice, and only with
the intention of ~discharging his duty as
priest and pastor, is to be tried in the
Boston courts. man and woman were
married by a justice of the peace, and
the priest denounced them from the pull
pit, charging that they had committed
fornication and that their children would
be bastards. The parties brought suit
for 50, 600, for libel. and the priest in his
answer says his language vas notdictated
by malice, but being the guardian Of
their spiritual welfare, he had a right to
denounce them for q violation of the
rules of the church.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

AMovE in the right direction has been
taken, says the Record. A number of
our citizens have determined to form a
company for the purpose of sinking a
prospecting shaft. This shows that the
members of this community have faith
in the future of Phoebe, and we are sure
will be well rewarded for their public
spirit.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

JAMES LICK, of California, has other
woes than satiefying those whom he is
trying to give his money to. A San
Francisco doctor has sued him for $50
0OO for medical attendance rendered in
twenty-five years. If Mr.. Lick has been
getting doctored at that rate, it can be
no wonder that he thought best to make
his will.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

VALUE OF THE EUKEKA CONSOLIDATED
BONANZA Some one, probably Captain
Osbiston, the distinguished expert who
was here a short time since, has been Civ
ing the Enterprise figures with reference
to the value of the Eureka Consolidated
bonanza. We know from personal obser-
v~ations, says the Sentinel, that the show
ing is rather under than over the mark.
After alluding to the dimensions of the
great deposit, the Enterprise says:
This makes a body of fifty thousand
tons of ore in sight, which assays, by
careful sampling, $40 40 in gold, 1913 O8
IN silver, Sill per cent. in lead per ton,
giving a net value OF the gold and silver,
as the lead ought to pay the expenses.
T~hisshould leave to stockholders Sc, 67S,-
5OO. There is, besides, five months
supply of ore for the furnaces in the old
works. The new development is on the
56O-foot level. The company have work.
ed no more of the new discovery than
has been taken out in running the shafts
and drifts necessary to develop it. The
managers are building a new furnace
which will make four-and constructing
a railroad from the furnace to the mine.
which improvements will consume the
next three or four weeks. When the
road and furnace are done they promise
to commence upon their bonanza. If
they do, with so great a percentage of
lead in their ores, they ought to reduce
five thousand tons of ore per month, or,
as they will probably mix the heavy lead
ores with those carrying a lighter per-
centage from the old works, their daily
reduction ought to be one hundred and
twenty tons, or three.thousand six hun
dred for the month. or a clear profit of
$3.50, 900 per month.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

STATUTEs.-Through the courtesy and
generosity of State Printer Hill, we have
received a copy of the Nevada statutes,
passed at the seventh session of the Leg
islature, 1875. The volume contains 1923
pages and is very neatly gotten up. Mr..
Hill will send any person a copy for five
dollars.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

THERE are % eight gold note banks
in California-one each in Sacramento,
Stockton, Santa Barbara, Petaluma, two
in San Jose and two in San Francisco.
Two are soon to be going in Oakland,
n at Tomales, and perhaps one at
Marysville.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

A BUSINESS crisis is reported in Little
Falls. A man recently passed a counter
felt $40 bill there, got nearly all the
money in town in change, and departed
for parts unknown.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

a REPORT was brought to Fort Sully on
Saturday that the Indians had killed a
party Of white men in the vicinity of
the Black Hills.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

STAT1sTIcIAN.-We are in receipt of the
May number of this valuable monthly.
1t contains q large amount of general
useful information, and is valuable as a
book of reference. L. p. McCarty is the
publisher, 423 Washington street, San
Francisco.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

SUIT has beer commenced by W. W.
Moreland, Of California, in the United
States Circuit Court for the district Of
oregon, to recover from Marion county
thr block in Salem on which the Court
house stands.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

LARGE FIGUREs.-The Eureka Sentinel
makes the following showing for the
month of May In round figures the
amount of ore received at the furnaces
was 16, 800, 900 pounds ; charcoal re-
ceived, 352, 900 bushels; bullion pro-
duced, 2,814,0 900 pounds bullion ship
ped, 750, 900 pounds !; pig lead shipped.
1911. 900 pounds, and over $11O, 600 in
fine bullion from the Richmond REIN
erv.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

The furnace built by Nh. Airey, near
Tucson, is now in operation and working
well. In a few days we will begin to see
the first droppings of the silver shower
that viii make Arizona famous.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

A GANG OF convicts, just before leaving
Winona (Minn.) for the penitentiary,
presented the wife of the sheriff a copy
of "The Poets and Poetry of England"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

IN New York. May 20, Col. James Nc.
Coy OF General Sherman's staff, died O
consumption.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

AT Buffalo, New York. May 2sth, Adam
otlnger and wife were burned to death in
their house.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

THERE are twelve Indian students IN
Drnry College at Springfield, No.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

The Lyon county Times of the 25th ult.
says 1t is a pretty sickly season here
just now for children. There is hardly
a family in town but the children. have
the measles, and DR.. Kirby informs us
that there is every indication that the
town will be scourged with s~carlatina of
the most violent type. So far we hear
of but one death, but there are quite a
number of cases which are thought to be
hopeless. Mr.. Killeen, foreman of the
Buckeye mine, has three children very
i'll with the disease at the present time.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-06-05

The OLD MAN.-Governor Bradley, who
has been in Elko recuperating his health
since the adjournment of the Legislature,
says the Silver State of the 31st ult.,
was a passenger on the west-bound train
last evening. His health is much better
than when he went up the road three
months ago, butswe regret to state the
old gentleman is yet quite feeble. He
was warmly greeted here by many ac-
quaintances, who were pleased to again
have opportunity to grasp the hand of a
Governor whose honesty and integrity in
these degenerate days is without stain or
blemish. He was on his way to the Cap
ital, where he intends to remain awhile
and see how the boys are getting along.