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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Renovation of Soils.

The agricultural department has been coli
lecting information relative to the renova-
tion or improvement Of soils considered worn
out, and says MANY examples are given
Of the renovation of worn and apparently
worthless soils, and the increase OF fertility
in fresh but unpromising lands. Fields that
have been cultivated exhaustivey for twenty,
and even forty years, have been restored to
original productiveness, not by guanos and
superphosphates, at $50 to $50 per ton, but
by inexpensive local resources, the cheapest
aud most reliable of which is found in clover
ing. In one case in Butler Co.. Pa,
section of thin, gravelly land, on which it
was thought no one could secure decent
living, came into the possession Of German
emigrants at nominal rates. They cleared
off the brush, plOwed, cultivated, turned
under green crops, saved every fertilizing
material available, never duplicated crop
in five or six years krotation, and that tract
is now garden, and from worthessuess
has advanced to the value of 800 per acre,
and is yearly becoming more productive.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Insects at the West.


1t would be rather cheerful news, if we
only had it to give, that the crops Of the
West are being injured or threatened only
by the grasshoppers. But this cannot be
said. The universal chinch bug has COM
menced his depredations on very extended
territory. Unless checked by timely rains,
the damage by this insect will surpass by
millions that done by the locusts. But we
hear of copious rains in large number of
localities, aud therefore look for information
that wholesale destruction has been going on
amongst them. Then in the far west we al
ready hear oS the appearance of the potato
bug But somehow this former pest seems
to have lost caste for the past year or two.
He has lost his power to alarm the western
farmer, though it must be said that he has
not ceased to add to the farmers labor in
growing crop Of potatoes. Paris green
has discouraged the striped potato bug.
Down IN Southern Illinois, the army worm,
sometimes direiul pest, has made its ap-
pearance As our worthy state entomologist
lives down in that latitude, he can earn a st.
Patrck's farm by banishing the troublesome
fellows from the borders Of Egypt.-Prairie
Farmer.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Cause of the Low Price of Butter

II is estimated that the low price of but
ter is owing to the sale of oleomargarine,"
in the New York and Boston markets, and
for export. The Syracuse Standard says that
dealers who have spent large portion of
their lives in the butter trade handle arti-
fetal compound every day without suspect
ing that it is the product of the dead instead
of the live animal, and the people of Tomp-
kins, Orange, Oaondago and Oneida Coun-
ties and New York City, are daily consum-
ing " oeomargarine" under the impression
that they are eating excellent dairy butter.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
PLANTING TREES.

Along the quiet village street,
skrtlng shadow. haunted way,
Robust in bole and broad Of arm,
Great elms and naples bend and sway.
They biiug no fpnit as corn or wine,
They store with wealth no throbbing mart
Their ministry Is more divine
The culture Of the human heart.
When April suns have stirred their blood,
And Mays warm breczes thrill the air,
What rich undress Of golden bloom,
Those regal elms and naples wear
And when June, fair imperial month,
The summer Of the northern year,
Leads in, and like some great-souled queen,
strews her large bounty far and near
What Wondrous mantles quaiat and rare,
As sunbeams glance and soft winds blow,
Those stately monarchs Of the air
Athwart their stalwart shoulders throw!
Through cool, sweet depths Of vsrdurous gloom,
A hundred song-birds ait and sing
staid robins with their martial tunes,
Gay orioles with tinted wing.
How tenderly from drooplng boughs
Their dwellings breeze-swung 10 and fro,
Cradle the birds that sill shall sing
As endless summers come and go.
And whom the artist, Autumn, comes
To gild his cleaning wheat with god
And stain with crimson dyes the hills
That prop the azurs-tinted void,
lie fingers with his tenderest art,
Till meath the Indian summer skies
The street with golden light aiame,
Seems like some path in Paradise.
And though the wizard winter weaves
Ger all the pallid countryside,
HIS spell, bejewelled by the mist
And sun, they rise up glorlAed.
And so the rolling seasons hiough,
All souls that live with unelosed eyes
In myriad modes Of form and hue
Find IN these trees some new surprise.
The hands that planted, long ago
We're folded on o silent breast,
And with life's ceaseless ebb and flow
Sank into their eternal rest.
And yet, methinks the genial soul
Who wrought that other lives might see,
In leaf, and bloom, and graceful form,
The stately beauty Of the tree,
Must feel, mayhap, tender joy,
If from the skies he sometimes sees
What grace the fair New England town
Gains ffom the thoughtful planters trees.
A. L. ii. IN Me. Farmer
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

Mr. Jeremiah Abbott, of Springfield,
formerly owned flock of about 200 grade
merinO sheep which was said to be the most
profitable flock in the town. They were
large heavy sheep and bore great Aeeces of
wool free from oil and yOlk. They were
hardy, always in good order without high
keeping; and his fat wethers sold for high
prices.
In an evil day he bought buck that had
a very heavy fleece made up largely of yOlk,
a skin full of wrinkles, and small size COM
pared to his own flock, for four hundred dol
lars, expecting great results. He said to
the editor of the FARMER, III stuck to that
little buck until ruined my sheep; now l
have got flock Of little, greasy, tender
sheep" ....
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
Glover Crops Without Seeding.

G. +. Newton, farmer of experience,
says in the Ohio Agricultural Report:
"Land once set in clover, the crop may
be perpetuated in the following manner,
without further sowing of seed (: The year
before the land is plowed, the clover should
come into blossom before it is pastured, and
the pasturiug should be light, invariably
turning off the stock by the middle of July.
The clover is then to be left to grow up as if
for seed, and to fall upon the ground, where
it is to lie all winter. Iu the spring the
clover is turned under and the land planted
in corn. In the fall the corn is cat up and
the clover sod brought to the surface with u
two-horse plow, aud wheat is sown. By this
method the seed which is in the old sod, and
thus brought to the surface, will be sufficient
to seed the land. After the wheat is har-
vested no stock is allowed in the field except
hogs, and thoy no longer than to CLEAN up
the wheat heads from among the stubbles.
Should the clover be very strong and rank,
calves or lambs may be turned on for few
weeks in the fall. The next summer the
land must rest 10 clover as above stated, and
be plowed under in the following spring. In
this way the writer has kept la1d in clover
over fifteen years, without any further SOW
ing of seed keeping the land in good condi-
tion, and always growing remunerative crops.
When it is desired to save seed, the land
should remain in clover two years before
blowing, the 6rst year taking off a crop Of
hay and seed, and the second years crop
plowed under"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

Charles II. Miller, chief of the bureau Of
horticulture Of the centennial exposition, an
nounees that the commission is making am
pie provision for all who wish to avail them
selves of the opportunity offered for repre-
sentation of the progress made by hOrticul-
ture. The department will comprehend the
products, appliances, and the arts and sci
ence Of horticulture
1t is the intention of the commission TO
make it as complete as possible, hence every
effort should be made in order to give just
evidence of the increased taste, and the
progress in horticulture.
The exhibition will open the 10th Of May,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

o. Bliss, of Georgia, VT, is announced
to issue an independent agricultural paper
about July 9th. 1t will be issued in
quarto form, and be as large as the average
agricultural papers, and published at coun-
try prices. Special contributors Of acknowl-
edged ability have been secured for each de-
partment.
Mr.. Bliss is well known as the able secre-
tary of the Vermont Dairymans Associa-
tion, and an able writer on dairy and other
agricultural topics. He is abuudantly able
10 edit an agricultural paper. We wish
him full measure of success.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

Mr.. G. V. Riley. a good authority as an
cntomOlogist, says that scarcely any potatoes
have been raised in the middle states for six
years without the use Of Paris green. 1t IS
not injurious to the plants if properly dilut-
ed-say 25 or 80 parts dilueut to one of
Paris green. And it may be used with per-
feet safety to human life and health, if han
died with care. Its effect upon the soil, if
well diluted, is of no account, it is so slight.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

In regard to pasturiug stock, large share
of farmers have but little thought only to
get them from the barn all kinds turned
into the same pasture, which is great mis-.
take. Where person keeps a mixed stock,
cows should not be kept in a pasture with
sheep, the sheep will do well but cows very
poorly. Sheep aud horses are very close feed
ers and should be kept in separate pastures.
EXCELSIOR.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

The Newport Express says b. D. Clark,
of Charleston, has COW that has not CIV
en- any milk since dropping her calf. Cow
and calf all right" and yet it wants to
know what to do about it. If our COW
didn't give any milk we should think she was
all DrOng,-milk selling at four cents a
quart, too. If brother Camp had no cream
for his tea, and was obliged to make his Gus
tard pie of water, he would sympathize with
that calf, though it may be all right" poor
thing.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

Mr.. Riley assures farmers at the West
that the hoppers will not extend eastward
and overrun Missouri, Illinois and other
states. The insects reported to be spread.
ing eastward are leaf hoppers. Mr.. r. is
emphatic in the prediction that farmers
"will, as surely as the day alternates with the
night, witness the gradual disappearance of
the Rocky Mountain locust from Missouri,
and all the other portions of the country
where it is not indigenous" So mote it be.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

A. j. Kinds, Patchogue, L. l., writes to
the FARMER that he has heard on reliable
authority that driving stake into the earth
at an angle of forty-fve degrees under
hill of corn when it is six to twelve inches
high will increase the yield twenty-five per
cent. Doubted. Will our correspondent
try it. Stake hundred hills and measure the
corn and measure hundred hills alongside
treated in every other respect the same, and
report these facts to the FARMER.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

The Georgia State Agricultural Society,
which has formerly tolerated all sorts Of
gambling, has voted to have no more racing
at its fairs, and have resolved to make the
great fair Of the state an agricultural exhi-
bition. We wish them success
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

and it is therefore necessary that those who
desire to exhibit, should make provisions
during the present season, and should also
make early application for space.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

The Michigan oranges are using their in.
Huence to have the state provide series Of
uniform books for the public schools. If our
Michigan friends desire to know how that
thing works, they can procure valuable in
formation from Vermont.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

The Boston Culti1atOr remarks that, since
eggs were bought and sold by weight, great
change has come over the trade in certain por-
tions of Mass. snow the small ones are
mostly given to the children and hired help"
which shows the influence Of circumstances.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

The Prairie Farmer says the use Of
sulphur for vermin on poultry causes roup.
Use clean lard instead, rubbing it on the head
and throat.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
VOL. VINO. 20.
Aetmnht 3attmtt
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
ROYAL CUMMINGS,
ST. JOHNsBURY, VT.
c. HORACE HUBBARD, Agricultural Ed'E,
p. O. Address. Springfield, VT.

Terms OF subscription.
One copy one year. paid In advance. Two Dollars
One copy six MONTHS. sOne DOLLAR
Que copy three months, on trial, Fihy Cents
Free OF Postage 60 any Point I'm the United
States Canada.
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In requesting change Of address, the postoce 10 be
changed from should be given well as the address
In C1ubs.-four copies paid at one time, Six Dollars.
TVS reduces the TO ebO per copy yet let
suppose ha four different subscribing at different
and paying 80 each would amount 10 the sne thing
The object Of the club Is 70 increase bHsHes II Deacon
Jones' order get his paper for $780, must get three Of
hs neghbos TO Join with him, then the publisher stands
chance Of getting three sNbscrbers, thereby
Increasing business and enabling afford the low
It for ~ and NOT for The bit Of trouble saved that
club terms made.
Communications for the Agricultural Department should
be addressed the Agricultural Editor at Springfield VT
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

Communications for the Agricultural Department shoult
be addressed the Agricultural Editor at Springfield, VI
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16

have killed the proposition % often, have
influenced so many conventions aud legs
lative bodies to do the same thing. and
have never yet succeeded in. finally dis
posing Of 1t, that their power to harm it
begins to appear decidedly and ridiculously
ineffective. Verify, this Third Term project
must be q spectre, an "airy nothing. q
real ghost, so often is it stabbed to the
vitals and yet so often does it appear with
ga local habitation and name" But
what pity it would be if the thing should
happen to be exercised effectually7 The
Detective press. the Democratic press and
the assistant. Democratic press, otherwise
known as the Independent press, would
have nothing to write about. 1t has been
their stock in trade for nearly three years.
and yet they are foolish enough to try TO
dispose of it altogether. Perhaps, how
ever, they have some other empty non
sense held in reserve upon which to fall
hark
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16
THURSDAY MoRNINe:.::DEcEMBER 1s. 1876.

THE LATEST Democratic resolve is based
upon the presumption that General Bah
cock will be convicted at ST. Louis, and
that the evidence on which the conviction
will be procured will so circumstantially
implicate the President as TO insure his
Impeachment. Mr.. Lamar, whose certIi-
cate as a member of the House from Ms
sissippi IS sealed by the blood of murdered
American citizens, and Senator Jack Brown
Gordon, of Georgia, whose seat was only
made secure by the disfranchisement OF
thousands of Republican voters in his State,
are said to be the leading intriguers in this
plot. 1t is not the first time these men
have been engaged in q conspiracy against
the peace and quiet Of the country. But
they will fail this time, as they failed be,
fore, simply because they are proceeding
upon false basis. When the truth is
known regarding the Presidents connec-
ton with the transactions of the whisky
ring, it will be discovered that it began
with the effort to punish the criminals, con-
tinued while he exclaimed, "Let no guilty
man escape" and will not conclude until
every man, high or low, whose criminality
is established has been punished to the
utmost extent of the law.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16
Der of Republican State conventions.

LOYALTY to government rests upon re-
ciprocal considerations. The government
gives the citizen q consideration for his
fidelity to it. In monarchy the problem
has always been how to attach the citizen
to the crown by the two fold influence of
interest and affection. In republic this
idea has not been much discussed, because
it has always been presumed that the citi-
Zens of free country would of necessity
love it and thrive under it. 1t is reserved
for the American Republic to violate both
the policy of monarchical prudence and
republican justice. In the Southern States
to-day we have large class Of citizens who
enjoy neither protectiont to their persons nor
to those interests which form the zest and
reality of life. These citizens are told that
they must look to their local State govern
ments for protection. Will Republican
Senators add to this injustice by excluding
one of their number from his rightful seat
in the National Legislature? If this treat
ment of our colored citizens is continued,
what effect will it have upon their loyalty
to the Government? Can we afford to
ALLEVIATE the affections of so large body of
our people? Can we afford to deny them
the right of representation in the Americl an
ConCreaaS
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16
THE sAHro DOMINGO QUESTION

After lapse Of six years since the Presi.
dent submitted to the Senate treaty for the
annexation of Ssnto Domingo to the United
States, we venture to refer again to the
subject for the purpose of reaching other
matters. In justification of the President,
however, it might be stated that the ques-
ton of acquiring insular possession never
occurred to him until the matter was forced
upon him by circumstances. Soon after his
first Inauguration he was waited upon by a
professed agent of the Government of Santo
Domingo, who explained very wildly the
topography, climate, products, &C., of that
part of the island under the Dominican
Government, the number and character of
its population, the desire Of the people and
authorities to become part of the United
States, and that he was authorized and
directed to make overtures to our Govern
ment for the purpose of bringing about an
nexation. The President listened to all that
was said without venturing remark that
could in any way be interpreted as an indi-
cation favorable to the proposition. In fact,
his whole judgment st he time was against
the proposition. But later a second agent
appeared, making substantially the same
statements as the first, and was listened to
and treated in like manner. The Presi-
dent seemed to feel no assurance that these
parties were not adventures. anxious to
make something for themselves out of the
transfer. In view, however, ofthe close prox-
unity Of the island to our shores and Of the
oft-repeated Monroe doctrine on our part,
he believed it his duty TO ascertain the real
feelings of the people and Government of
Santo Domingo in relation to the question
of annexation. For this purpose he dis
patched confidential agent who visited
nearly every portion of the island, held free
intercourse with both officials and non
officials, and found that It was the enthu-
siastic desire of all to become part Of "the
Great Republic. Under these circum-
stances a treaty was entered into and SUBJ
mitted 10 the Senate for ratification. That
II would excite the animosity and harsh,
unjust and untruthful criticism which n
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16
New Publications.

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monthly magazine, devoted to agriculture.
horticulture and rural economy most excel
lent number. Terms, 80 per annum. Pub
lished by Ezra Whitman, No. AS West Pratt
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16
QUI WIVES


Out from the night and into the light
Looms the sun OF Rebellion
His cohorts gray advance this way;
The 0orde de corps has come
Whisper the word: "Break ranks, - Old Gu.rd
Your ward and watch are o'er;
For, hooking your scars, the Stars and Bars
From Capitol's south wing soar!
They've stolen again through Manassas glen
By red-rlw rebel russ-
All where were our eyes? to recognize
That Trojan-Horte nag OF truce
And the day accursed! when our legtons burst
On Rebellion'B serried ranks,
II the grand high priest OF Secession,s feast
Is to reign on Potomac's banks!
Soldiers, sMakei the long roll beats
In ev'ry Union camp:
For, though dark The night, theresone clear light
From Duty Q holy lamp.
Bnshwhackers crawl in Congress hall
With Libby-prison hate:
And crippled braves are hurled Ike slaves
Beyond the outer gate.
Comrsdes> fall In All patriot hearts,
FROM TeXAsup to Maine,
Have sworn to tread on the Copperhead
When he shows his fangs again:
Sons Of the North come proudly forth
Men Of the West! stand by
Battles are won without sword or gun
When an outraged people try!
Who'd crush the germ Of green Third Term
In EuperstitioGs scare,
1.-THE soyEHEIGS wILL.all potent still
Holds the Ndtion's Sarior there!
The sentinels post be ours,
To hold the fort, with Heavens support,
Against baf1ed Treason's powers.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16

THE EIGHTEEN VOTES in the House yes
terday against Mr.. Springer's anti-Third-
Term resolution were significant only as
indications of individual independence of
thought on this question but the adoption
of the resolution had no permanent signif-
canoe whatever The Democrats intended
to put the Republicans at a disadvantage,
and failed to do so simply because the
latter were too shrewd to walk into the
trap laid for them by their enemies.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16

THE New York Herald and Jay Gould's
organ viii crow loudly this morning over
the proceedings Of the House yesterday.
They will arrogate to themselves hecredit
of having influenced the Republican
minority in the House to join with the
Democracy in voting for the anti Third
Term resolution. This will do very well
as boast, but who will believe il? They
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16

WHILE the Democrats have established
new system of civil service rules in the
House, it is a noteworthy fact that the
Republican majority in the Senate continues
to maintain a number of Democrats in
Office. Perhaps this is satisfactory to the
Democracy, but it is a question whether
the Republican party will be benefited by it.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-16

THERE WAS q stupid absence of good
management on the Republican side of the
House yesterday, which may be accounted
for by the fact that numbers of the leaders
of the party have become habitual towards
whenever the Third Term ghost is brought
to their view. What some one of them
should have done was to offer an amend
ment to Mr.. Springer's resolution declaring
that the Third Term project is no longer a
question in politics. The p---'den' las
-----Sr s-EaIuST II, and so have num-