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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
shorthorn Cows as Mixers.
Mr.. j. s. Lattimer writes to the Nationa
Live Stock ,Iournal

Mr., j. s. Lattimer writes to the National
Live Stock journal
was not little amused at veteran
pair Of wel-to.do persons, who had raised a
a large family and accumulated q goodly
share Of this worlds goods, at fair in Henry
county, ILL.,, where grand display of several
leading herds of this part Of the state were
on exhibition. After looking with much
interest over the many very fine animals,
aud asking many questions as to their merits,
they seated themselves near, in the shade,
the old lady remarking ito her better half,
with significant look and gesture "Them
cattle are purity to look at, but they're no
count for milk-won't raise their own calves
have to have some old scrub to suckle
their calves. They'd be purity COWS for a
young pair, like we was forty years ago, to
start with. How would we have raised all
the boys and girls that we have, and without
milk2 You've got to have milk to raise
calves and pigs, and children, too, old man !''
That's so there is no use of dodging the
question and the true answer.
What do you want cattle for Rich men
and lords can afford to have them for pedi-
grees and playthings but the toiling mass of
farmers will not dare to overlook the useful,
practical and essential qualities of Shorthorn
cows. And if the breeders Of America would
comprehend the real wants and wishes of the
American farmer, and quit breeding for ped.
igree alone, and breed for the true merits Of
cattle-beef and milk-instead, as is now
the disposition, of breeding for pedigree,
without any Of the above qualifications, then,
and not until then, shall we see farmers en-
listing en- naasSe in the enterprise. will
say, for the benefit of Mr.. Cook and Others
that l have always found the Shorthorn COW
equal, if not superior to any other for milk
and butter and believe that amongst tho
old and reliable families of cattle, where they
have been bred for the useful qualities las
they should be) you may yet find cows that
have no superior at the pail | have at
least three families in my herd, and all the
fault find with them is, they give too much
milk. l have had no other than thorough
bred cows on my farm for three years past,
and have only MIXED what had to-that
is, what the calves would not take-and at
this time, from eight COWS -four of them hef-
ers), raising nine calves, we are getting four
pailfuls per day and | have never sat down
to my table without having an abundance Of
nice butter, and plenty of milk and rich
cream, which think good thing for chill
dren, as well as calves and pigs, all three of
which are strictly essential on a welregula-
ted farm.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
Cutting Up Corn.

The corn harvest is hastened this season
by the extraordinary drouth that has pre-
vailed all over the state. On light or thin
soils the corn died while in the milk and the
crop will be light. The old way of topping
corn is rarely seen at present. Cutting at
the ground is found to give as heavy crop
of corn, while the fodder is worth a great
deal more-an acre of bright corn.fodder
being estimated as equal in value to ton
Of hay, The most common method, aud
that which gives the 6rmest stook is to set
it around a hill which remains uncut until
the corn is husked or carted to the barn.
The center hill remains green and aggravates
the tendency of the fodder to heat in the
NOW.
Standing the corn up against jack until
it is bound, after which it is withdrawn, OBJ
viates the necessity of leaving hill in the
center, 1t does not stand as firm, and is
more liable TO blow over, or to "squat.
Ike labor is perhaps a little more thar
where it is set around the hill
Farmers sometimes throw the corn on thu
ground in bundles, which are afterwards
bound and pat up in shocks. This way il
more laborious.
Whichever method is adopted, pain
should be taken to stand tho corn up firmly
for if it falls it soon rOts on the ground
both grain aud fodder.
Corn should be cut up before frosts tOucl
the leaves; If it is caught in a frost, th,
sooner afterwards ii Is cut the better. If
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

At meeting of the N. Y. Farmers Club,
Giles 0'Keeler, said he had two horses that
give evidence of the appearance of bone
spawn by all who examined them. For a
number of months lameness appeared with
out any visible cause. At last the growth
became visible, and he used in all, about half
a pint of oil of spike for each horse, apply
ing it once in two or three days with swab.
A large teaspoon will contain about the guam
tity for each application. The horse he now
owns was lame seven or eight months. For
the past six weeks he has not taken lame
step, being in use at all times when needed T;
no enlargements or punches remained,
Should there be those who apply the above
remedy, after learning the result, he will be
glad to hear from them.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

CUTTING Corn WTH REAPER.-HUsK.
ING MAoHINEs.-A correspondent of the
Country Gentleman at Brewsters, N. Y,
writes: concur with your correspondent,
Il. w. s., in the possibility of cutting corn
with a reaper. Ihavc practiced it success.
fully for the past five years. ID cutting very
tall and thick fodder corn it is good plan
to remove two of the rakes in order to re-
vent the stalks catching fast and being car
ried around. The only difficulty l find
in cutting hill corn is the tendency
Of the rakes to break off ears. A
little care, however, when the corn is stocked
will save all of these. use the Buckeye
reaper, and have never found any corn so
large that it would not cut it in good order.
With me, husking machines have proved a
success. | bind the gavels left by the reaper
before they are put into stocks. The corn
is then easily drawn to the barn when it is
wanted for husking. If the corn is green,
considerable will be sheled in huskiug. II
dry, very little. When the work is done in
the barn, all the shelled corn can be saved
Two men can easily husk sixty bushels of
ears in an hour. The Phillips husker, as
now made, SHELLS very little. The stalks
are materially benefited by the operation.
They pass through heavy iron rollers, which
crush them without breaking off the leaves.
If they are to be fed whole, they are in a
better condition for cattle to cat, and the
butts that are left will rot sooner for the
crushing; if they are to be cut, the sections
will fall to pieces as they come from the cut.
ter. Another and still greater advantage is
the removal from the stalks, of smut and the
sand and gravel which adhercs to the butt
when set up on the ground. After an ex-
perience of five years, | am of the opinion
that corn husler would pay by improving
the quality Of fodder corn alone, if | did
raise hill corn.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

The power, with the improvements, are the result
of thirty years hard study. The pTopretors the
Inventors over have been and the sole manufac-
tureTs We have laboTed from the first 10 produce
machine, durable, tasty, compact portable, and one
that will run with less friction, We believe that we
manufacture the best machine Of the kind In the
try.
We have received FIRsT PREMIUM at Now England
fairs In 1873 1874 and 1875 also Estate Fairs, Vermont
and Maine, years and have repeatedly taken and
HsusT fails 10 take the highest hOHOTs at any and every
exhibition whore presented
What the newspapers say OF usi
P0Uiiney Vt.i Journai-"It Is the best machine Of
It's kind In use.
mG0achtsetts PiouqAHdH.-"Pages could be filled
with many glowing praises of the Gray machine"
A. H. Williams Of BRADFORD, ~, WTitess-The ma.
chine bought Of You gives entire satisfaction 10 all
who have employed H. having threshed the past
3O0OO bushels of diheTentlklnds Of grain.
Warren ShepdTd, Cr0WH Point, N. ", states he made
the last threshlng $500 nee from expense.
4. N, CLARK, HAtehaH, ". r., statos that no made
last hTeshing season free from expense 500.
4. SAsHs, Cambridge, N, r., states he threshed
2,2OO bushels iA 81 days
For ErIce-IIst mad CircNlars address the
above.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

Mr. Lewis f. Allen, Buffalo N. Y, editor
Of the Shorthorn Herd-Book announces that
pedigrees of bulls for the 10th volume will
be received until Nov. 10Th, and Of cows un-
til Dec. 18th. The circular with directions
for preparing pedigrees, price Of volume,
ETC., will be forwarded on application to
MessrsA Allen & Bailey, Ill92 Niagara street,
Buffalo. N. Y. Owners of Shorthorns should
keep their pedigrees recorded.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

light frost touches the leaves and it is cut
and stocked up, or laid in bundles, at once
before the sun shines on it, the injury to the
fodder will be less.
1t is believed that corn should be cut be-
fore the fodder is dry. VIXEN the husks are
half.turned white and the leaves still green,
there.is as much corn and better fodder.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

The following stock entries have been
made at the Centennial from Vermont -
Sheep, II. 9. Bindwcll, Bridport: Horse, A.
o. Cummings, Montpelier Sheep, l.. p.
Clark, Vergennes A. L. Tuller, Pomfrct !;
r. G. Hill, Elmore Jerseys, Peter Leclair,
WinoOski Sheep, A. Z. Perkins, Pomfret.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

Thirteen hundred acres of wheat on the
Darymple farm, Casselton, Dakota, was har-
vested in a week by nine self-binding reap
ers. Twelve men followed each reaper to
shock the wheat. So says an item from the
west. 1t appears to be nearly twenty lone
acres day for each reaper, and one and
three-fourths acres per man to shock; which
is rather smart for the former, and rather
lazy for the latter.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

The farmer who fails to take advantage
of the present favorable season for making
improvements to the mechanical condition of
his soil, by the draining of wet lands and ir.
radication of stumps and stones from the
same, is devoid Of the spirit of enterprise.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

Hon. j. w. Sanborn of Gimanton, we'll.
known as efficient member of the New
Hampshire Board of Agriculture, has been
appointed superintendent of the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural College farm. A good
appointment.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

The Minnesotiaus think they have discov-
cred the destined exterminator of the grass.
hopper, in the shape of small red louse.hke
parasite, that doesn't hurt full.grown insect
but devours its eggs like fun. And the press
of the state wants the government, which has
partially committed itself to the insect de.
stroying business, to spend little money in
colonizing the Rocky Mountains, the original
habitat Of the hopper, with its ncwly-discov.
cred enemy, so as eifcctually to protect the
country at large. The damage OF the last
few years to the crops of Colorado, Dakota,
Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Min.
nessotaIs estimated at about 100000
Now find us an efficient destroyer of the
potato.bug, and we shall all be happy.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Ga
zotte, writing from Butler county, o., says a
new disease has been raging there this sea-
son among the hogs, and that it is moro dis
astrous than cholera. 1t is called the sore
mouth-a scrolulous affection. lie repre-
sents the entire system of the hog as attacked,
and by the time death ensues the hog is a
rotton mass. The estimated loss from this
new disease is OF pigs, 5000 to 1000 ;
and 800 to 500 old hogs, There was no
present promise Of relief.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

Butchers in Mass achusetts report large
purchases of fat COWS, to be delivered dur
ing the fall, at SO per hundred lbs, dressed
weight choice COWS, $3.50 the best steers
800.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
The Composition of Cheese.

The following interesting article on the
composition Of cheese is from the pen Of
Prot. GOessman Of the Massachusetts, Ag.
ricultural College, and is printed in the
Massachusetts, Ploughman
The following analyses were made at my
suggestion by Mr.. K. b. Bragg of Amherst,
graduate of the Agricultural College Of
the class Of 1875, for tho purpose of ascer-
tanning the relative percentage Of fat and
casein contained in the articles stated.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

The Higganum manufacturing company
have been sending plows to South Africa at
the rate of 500 week. 1t is a mystery to
a Yankee what those Africans do with
plows, unless they use them as weapons of
war
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

A gentleman in Danbury has long been
annoyed by his neghbors hens which made
daily practice of rowing through his front
garden and back yard. lie just went pa
tiently and put old hats and hay under his
steps and 10 the barns, aud when these hens
came on their maraudipg expeditions, those
that came to scratch remained to lay. He
has had all the fresh eggs he wanted this
spring, and has sold si.6O worth to the man
who owns the hens.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

It'new appears from letter Of Mr.. G.
Ia. Shsrpless that each of the cattle judges
at the centennial is to be assisted by three
experts, who in most cases are to be the
real judges" Then what are the Judges /"
for9
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

Mr.. Curtis Wheeler of Fairfax has onr
thanks for premium list Of the eleventh an
nunl fair Of the Franklin County Agricul.
tural and Mechanical society, to be held at
Sheldon, September 27-29.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

Two acres out of 100 in wheat in Cali
iornia are put in by drilling, while in Ore.
gon there are 10 acres, 10 New York, lndi.
ana and Michigan, each 80, in Ohio go, and
in Pennsylvania and Illinois each 10 acres.
The gain by drilling, as compared with
broadcast sowing, is put down for the Eastern
States mentioned at from one-tenth to one.
StatisticaH DOdge'S Report.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
FARM FOR SALE.

The subscriber offers to sell his farm at East Cabot
consisting of $40 Of good land divided into tlage
and pasture. Thoro is orchard Of rs young bearing
trees two good sugar places of 32 trees in each The
heavy tm6ered landcovers 25lcTes and includes zines
growth of cedar The farm well fenced and there Is
a good supply Of running water aud we'll water The
farm is but three and half miles from West Danyile
depot and only half mile from post ohco and hrst-
terms. Inquire of b. F. Rollins, st. Johnsbury, or Of
j. A. r. GLIDDEN
East Cabot, VI.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
PLACE FOR SALE.

The subscriber willsell his place at St. Johnsbury,
adjoining the Fair Ground. IL contains two of
ground good house and barn, agOod garden with 80
fruit trees running water at house and barn and in
the garden that never fails even IN dry time. The
buildings in perfect order and very pleasantly
and conveniently situated being half mile from the
scale shops, and good schools and churches Tho
place will he sold very easy terms. Apply to Hiram
Russell on the premises, Joseph Gauthier at the
l.. d. RICHARDS.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
Pastures in Windsor county are bereft of
feed and water.

Dairying is disOouraging business when
you are obliged to provide food at the barn
for the COWS nine and a half months in the
year.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

EGGs-HOw INCREAsED.-If an increase
Of eggs are desired in the poultry yard, be-
fore large sums Of money are expended in
the purchase of everlasting layers, we would
recommend the keeping of no hens after the
first, or at most, their second year. Early
pullets give the increase, and the only won
der is that people persist as they do in keep.
ing up stock of old hens, which lay one
day and stop three, instead of laying three
days and stopping one; in some parts of
England it is the invarable rule to keep the
pullets only one year. Feeding will do a
great dea-a surprising work indeed-in
the production of eggs, but not when old
hens are concerned ). they may put on fat,
but they cannot put down eggs Their tales
are told, their work is over nothing re-
mains to be done with them hut to give them
a smell of the kitchen fire, and the sooner
they get that the better. OF course there
are some old favortes whose lives to be
spared as long as they can send forth their
representatives. Judicious mating, by which
we mean the advantage Of comparatively
youthful cockerel, may be the means of even
exhibition poultry making their appearance
from the eggs of the good old hen, aud here
we have the exception to the rule upon
which we insist-LOndoa Agricultural Ga.
zette,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

Our remarks on harvesting corn would
have appeared more seasonably but for q
delay in the mails which put them by one
one week.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

A correspondent wants to know the best
way to preserve cherries. Around here
(adds the Norwich Buletinl one way is to
climb the tree with shotgun, at dark and
stay there till morning, Another way is to
carry the tree into the house every night at
sunset. The only sure way, however, is to
eat the cherries before they are ripe.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08

A mare in Madison county, Ala, recently
gave birth to two colts, Que horse aud the
other mule.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
A@4A BUILDINGS MOVED.
FOR SALE!

A V aluable Location.
About l2 acres Of Land one-half in hard wood
grove, and the balance good tlage land, with good
water One-half mile from Newport Depot. For fur
ther particulars inquire of Royal Cummings,
st. Johnsbury, or of the subscriber at Newport.
COlgODEN cum mINGS.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-07

We are sorry that in a canvass
which otherwise is characterized with
the utmost harmony and good faith
1t should be found necessary to resort
to threats OF boiling and party defeat
II the personal favoritism OF n ac-
ton shall not prevail in the National
Convention. This method of con-
Quoting the canvass is confined to the
adherents of Mr. Bristow SO far as
we know. All the other candidates
will he presented ut Cincinnati by
men just as earnest and honest ms
those who will present Mr.. Bristow,
and they will have the additional
merit Of proclaiming their motive OF
political action to be something more
than mere personal idolatry. Who
ever of the several candidates named
shall be nominated for President and
Vice President will receive the cor
dial support Of all the others with the
exception of Mr.. Bristow if his friends
fairly represent him. II they do no,
fairly represent him, when they say
that they Y will stake him to st
Louis, ".or "to an independent conven'
ton" if he is rejected at Cincinnati
Mr.. Bristow should say 30.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-07

golden cage, but she still cried, my
home, my home"
Two Captains ia one ship will sure
lg sink her.
The fox ends by getting into the
furrier's shop.
Knife wounds heal, but not those
produced by a word.
The heart is as a crystal palace /;
once broken, ii can never be mended.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-07
AN 0RDIN AkCE.

An ordinance to amend an ordi-
nance entitled IN ordinance concern
ing Instructions of streets and side
walks.
The board of trustees of the City
Of Cheyenne, do ordain :
SECTION l. That section one ~
of said ordinance is hereby amended
by adding thereto the, following
words, viz:
Provided, That all merchants and
business men in this city shall be al
lowed the privilege of using three
feet of the sidewalk next adjoining
the building for the purpose of dis
playing goods offered for sale.
SEC. 2. The said ordinance en-
acted March Goth, 1876, is hereby
declared to be in full force, with this
amendment.
Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take
effect after its publication according
to law.
Adopted June End, 1876.
L. r. BREsNAHEN,
Pres't of the Board of Trustees.
Attest GEO B. SIMPSON,
[sEAL.l City Clerk.
je3-d6t
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-07
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7. 1876.
Extracts from Nj. Blaine's Speeches.

E1iIntkS lfum M. Didiuc . opSoeub'-
AT CLEVELAND, OHIO, OCTOBER 8,
1872.
rules the panoplyy, that the Ameri-
can citizen on this wide globe shall
find it a protection and a safeguard
wherever that name Is pronounced.
THE SAME.
l 90 for the protection Of the citizen
everywhere and anywhere.
THE SAME.
Let us as American citizens hold
that wherever, over the land or sea,
an American citizen goes rightfully
In the prosecution of any business,
the protection and prestige of his
Government shall follow him, and
first of all he shall find that protection
and that prestige on his own soil.
AT SARATOGA N. Y, AUGUST IL,
1871.
Were l to claim your attention
while / recite the achievements ofthe
republican party during the period
OF Its national power, the night itself
would give place to the day before l
could finish. l point you to a conti-
nent untrodden to-day by the foot OF
q slave. / point you to a Constitu-
ton rounded and perfect in all the
elements of civil rights and personal
liberty. 1 point you to the credit
and currency that bore us triumph
antly through the several wars, and
have assured to us the amplest
prosperity in the time of peace. l
point you to q nation Of forty mill
ions Of people, the freest, happiest
and most prosperous IN the globe and
finally, I point you to the fact that
the policies and measures which COM
manded these were the policies and
measures of the republican party.
AT ELMIRA, N. V. OCTOBER 2 ,1S74.
] aver that the intention of the
Fourteenth Amendment was to GEN.
tvalize within the federal Govern
ment all the possible power needed
for the protection of any citizen,
however low or humble. If that be
Capitalization, let them make the
most of it. 1t was exactly what it
was Intended. Our rights are not to
be left to the caprice of a mob, they
are to be held sacred by the general
Government. If the democratic
party desire to hurl this word at us
we will accept it, and we will central
ize, and %centralize, and central
lie. until every citizen. whetherh high
or low, rich or poor, shall feel that he
has the amplest protection.
AT BANGOR, FALL OF 1874.
Let us not abate one jot or title of
the protection we extend to our W
citizens when on foreign soil, but let
1t be understood as the fundamental
principal of the Republican party
that the safest place for an American
citizen is under the folds of his own
flag, on his own soil-and that here,
high and low, rich and poor. black
and white, shall alike have absolute
and impartial protection. Until that
Is settled definitely, acknowledged
irreversibly, no other political issue
can possibly be so vital and important
to the United States.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-07

~our Authorized Adyerusins Agents tor the
LsApER are, in New York, S. M. Pettengill d Co..
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NJ. Louis, Roweil 4 Chesman, Cor. Third and
chestnut Streets, ST. Louis Advertising and
Publishing Agency; Chicago, IL. II. Chandler,
ial south Clark Street; Philadelphia, n. W.
Aver A Son, 7Ss SAMSON Street; and coe, Weth-
snil & Co. Bulletin building.