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LoNGFELLow AND HARRY RAssETT.-Ed-
wards & HutchiSon's Stimuli ating Linimeut
Is the best thing for injuries inHorses. 4;
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BILL FOR A DIVORCE. To-day Messrs
Darlington d Darlington nled a bill for
Delflah Smith agt. Samuel Smith for al.
.vorce on the grounds CT bad treatment.
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To do this IL is necessary that you should fnhale
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NEW PATENT TRANSPARENT yKNTILA-
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The Me ropoIis Nnrin.s Rnnk.

For BRONCHIAL, ASthmatic and Pulmo-
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manifest remarkable curative properties.
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ON CoRNs, &c.-Dr. Whites column, in
Forney's Sunday Chronicle. +
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SICK HEADACHE Or. 2enSon'S CcleY1J and
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NERVOUS HEADACHE.-Dr. ReYlNon's nle77y
and ChdnoBllie PDls viii cure Nervous Head
Svhe, Sick Headache, Neuralgia and Ner-
vousuess. 50 cents n box. Sold nv All Drug
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TEN-PINS, 10 cents a game. at Rauer,s
Bowling Alley, lli2 Penn'a avenue. ali:
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BOOKS for Lent, Bellows, 7o5 It'll street.
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Conduce To health s-d comfort. hence thour-
snds OF the Intelligent public patroniLe Or.
White's establishment, 14i6 Pennsylvania
avenue, opposite Wlllard's hotel, for relief
from Corns, Bunions, Chilbains, Inverted
Nails, Vascular Escrescences, sc. Esta0-
ushed 1861. Fee 81.
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ALEXANDRIA WANTS QUE NAvy
IARD.-Gen. Eppa Hunton has written a
letter to Joseph Hopkins, ESQ.,, member of
council from the FIRST ward, in this city, in
70 the possibility Of the removal Of the navy
yard from Washington TO Alexandria. Gen.
dunton advises that council take action on
the subject. 1t is probable that Mr.. Hopkins
viii, at the next meeting of the council i'm
troduce resolutions In regard to the matter.
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DEAEK A QUART OF WHISKY oN
WAGER.-An oyster shucker named Eugene
Pierce drank quart OF whisky last evening
at the 18th street wharf on a wager ana can,s
near dying in consequence OF IT. DIR. H. Is.
Leach was called In and relieved him NJ the
liquid by me- ans OF tiles. aud restored
night.
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HATs-The broadway SILK Hats. s. 20 So
New styles StiH Hats, 50. ~ 50, -.
Nice stylish Soft Felts. ~ 81 20 -.
New and stylish Hats for Boys ani Chill
oreD. all colCrS. -. ~ *. SI.5O, at Lewis
Popular One f-ice Store, /" go 9TH street, be
tween and II. ,
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tn NATIONAL SAVINGS BArE, corner o
new YORK avenue and 18th street, pSys 50 7
cent per annum or deposits for each calendar
month. Ranking hours, Q TO & Saturdays, 8
% and toe. TtS,IftIo
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A. p. Pardon stated that he represented the
farming interests of the county. They pay
the same rate as property does in the city
There should be discrimination. They had
received but small part of the improve.
ments made, yet are called upon to pay the
same rste of tax. This should not be done.
In no part OF the country is agricultural land
assessed at as high rate as land in cities
a discrimination should be made i'm the case
OF Isnds and property outside the city limits.
Mr. A. ;. Brown, from the county, ex.
planned the different values in different To-
caities In The county, all of which is taxed
alike. This is not right. They OF the conntV.
IN IN me n6st place, did not get their share OF
Lne si,UoO COO loan, nor had they got a fair
proportion OF the improvements in the conn
y, and why should they be taxed to paw
Ibis debt He submitted memorial of Ia <
PAYERS from the county, which he real in
favor OF q discrimination of one half less tar
In the county TO that paid In the CITY.
among those who appeared on behalf of
GeorgeIown and the county were Messrs.
Josiah Dent, Joseph L. Simms, w. III. Ten.
ny, James Goddard, ID. L. Shoemaker. A. III
Herr, Francis Wheatley, and Others. of
Georgetown; and Messrs. Pardon. Colder
Brown, Barker, and others, OF the county
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
For the VERMONT FARMER.
Kindness to Domestic Animals.
BY sILAs HOPKINS OF EAST BERKSHIRE.

| am at loss to know where to attack
this subject, it is so wide and long
One cannot well speak Of the virtue OF
kindness to animals without also speaking Of
the opposite vice Of cruelty to animals. The
subject has a wide range 1t reaches from
the little boy who treads on the kittens tail
and the little sister who grievcs for the suf-
fcring of her pet, up to the stingy farmer
who feeds his cattle only poor hay and straw
in limited quantities, and the liberal, gener-
GUS feeder whose sleek haired, mild-eyed
cows bear witness to their owners generous
kindness.
1t pays to treat our animals with kind
ness. What is kindness to animals ?
FiIstly, plenty of wholesome food. The
very first aud strongest instinct Of all ant
nal nature Is to get something to eat. And
the next desire that shows itself is to Gnd a
comfortable, quiet place to sleep aud est
When we have well supplied these two de-
mands of our animals we have done about
all we can for their comfort.
There is a social nature in animals which
may be developed into strong attachment
for those who take care of them. 1t il
necessary to get some profit from our dOmes
tic animals; we must work our teams, mill
our COWS, shear our sheep, pick our geese
butcher our hogs, cheat our hens out Of thci
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
Cultivation of Orchards.


Mr.. John j. Thomas writes to the Ameri-
can Rural Home that the rule that trees ex-
tend their roots distance equal to the
height Of the tree Is now too strongly stated.
lie cites instances of trees II feet high with
roots 27 feet long. For this reason cultiva-
tion should extend over the whole area Of
the orchard.
But little benefit is derived from spading
circles about fruit trees unless the circles arc
very large.
Mr. Thomas proceeds to say
There are other questions in the manage
ment of orchards which must be answered
variously, according to the circumstances Of
tho case. One Of the questions refers TO the
depth to which cultivation should be given.
Where the subsoll is hard aud poor, aud
nearly all the fertility OF the land lies within
few inches Of the top, the treatment must
be very different from that employed on a
deep, rich soil. On such shallow soil, the
trees are much more susceptible of the in-
hacnce of surface culture or top.dressng
with manure. The roots extending very near
the surface, it becomes very important to
cultivate shallow 1t often happens that a
top dressing of manure on such land is the
very best thing for the trees. Aud to allow
dense growth of grass without manure
may be the worst treatment for their growth
and success
have Just examined the roots of large
trees in an apple orchard standing on lane
with comparatively loose and fertile sub
soil The majority of the roots were two
feet below the surface some Of them nearly
an inch in diameter were found four fee
below, and they appeared to run muol
deeper, probably seven or eight feet. In thi
orchard, after the trees were twenty years
old, the plowing Of one part and the gras'
sod in another made but little difference II
the growth, The roots were far below thu
reach of the pillow, aud the roots Of the grass
on the surface drew but little nourishmen
from two feet below. Cultivating the sur
face, aud top-drcssing with manure, ha'
comparatively little effect on the trees wheI
old although making a great and obviou
difference while they were young and tn
roots nearer the surface.
There are many soils, however, where
most of the roots are not a foot below tn
surface, particularly while the trees ar
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
Inspiring Scene in a California Wheat
Field.

Tho following graphic account of the Cali
ifornia wheat harvest, from the columns OF
Appleton's journal, makes the Vermont way
of grading, binding by hand and threshing
with one or two.horse power seem slow in'
decd.
Suppose that upon one of the many days
of the harvest season you get out of bed at
au unusually early hour, and again climb to
the housetop.
Beneath and in front of you will lie, as
before, the pale, golden sea Of wheat, girdled
in the cool distance with tho purple noun
tains The air will be soft and delightful
to breathe the oaks upon the riyer-bank
will throw shadows across the roadway, aud
the rays of the sun will spread over the
enormous plain-a smile Of greeting for the
day.
You will sweep the horizon with your
glass. Hardly to be seen, even with that,
are some curiousy shaped dots, moving
slowly hther and thither. They seem to
crawl like insects, some going north, some
south, some east and some west. After u
while you will distinguish that nearly every
one of these dots is Of deep red color. A
little later you recognize the awkward shape
of the separators, aud the broad.topped fun
nels of the engines Throngs OF people,
most Of them in wagons, yet some atoot, fol-
low on behind. After a while all Of these
now widely separated groups will come to a
siandstill. They have taken up their posi-
tions for the onslaught upon the grain.fields
as deliberately and with as much thought as
batteries take up positions for battle.
When one Of these corps approaches its
station, a header, with its attendant wagons,
is sent forward to cut clear place in the
centre of the area to be worked upon that
day. The machine is pressed upon the
wheat, devouring 1t as it goes, aud then, haS,
ing accomplished a proper distance, turns
and works in circle, cutting out a bare
spot from three to five acres in extent. This
is the point irom which seventy acres oI
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
New Facts About Butter.

The London Agricultural Gazette pub
fishes the following lately acertained chem
ical facts, condensed by that paper from the
report made to the Board Of Inland Rev enue
by the principal of the Chemical Labora.
tory, Somerset House, on experiments con.
Quoted by him for the analysis Of butter
One hundred and seventeen samples were
tested, the result being that while few sam.
pies were found to be very poor in quality,
and few others exceptionally rich, the great
bulk examined wcra found to possess consid.
erabe uniformity of composition the prin.
cipal variations beng apparently due to a
difference in the method of manufacture, the
different seasons of the year when made, and
the various modes Of feeding. As might be
expected, some Of the poorest buffers were
produced by, and obtained from small farm
ers in ireland, at time when there was
very little grass, and food was scarce. 1t
was also noticed that the butter was rela-
lively poorer in its essential constituents
when the food was chiefly cotton and oil
cake, than was the case when roots and grass
formed the staple food. A noticeable fea-
ture in the results recorded is the great va
ration in the quantity of water in the differ
ent buffers, the lowest being 4.l5 per cent
and the highest 20.75 per cent The Devon
and Dorset buffers, which usually stand so
high in the market, were found to contain in
nearly all cases high percentage Of water,
and one sample which was procured from the
dairy ola private gentleman, contained smuch
as l6.09 per cent; and second sample, re-
Gently obtained from the same source, con-
tanned 1870 per cent, Another point Of
interest was in some measure elucidated, and
which has reference to the deterioration which
certain buffers undergo when kept in small
quantities in glass or earthenware vessels.
1t was found that while some of the iuest
and best prepared buffers undergo little OF
no change, there is in Others a gradual dis.
appearance Of the characteristic principle,
of butter, and consequent assimilation to
the constitution Of an ordinary animal fat.
This change, which appears to be due to al
inciplent fermentation, and is generally ac,
compauied by the development of fungi, il
probably caused either by the use of SOU
cream or by insufficient care in making but
ter.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
-.S-%

The comparative exhaustion OF soil by
crops which mature their seed and those
which do not, is a question farmers cannot
afford to neglect. Mr.. Jerome Holden Of
West Westminster related to us recently an
incident which appeared to throw light on
the point. A piece Of land Of about two
acres on his farm was very heavily manured
(plpwed in) and planted to corn, giving
good crop. The next year it was sown to
wheat and stocked. About six years after
it was again maHured heavily, about half Of
it having fifty loads to the acre, and the rest
considerably more, the latter half being so
heavily dressed that it was with difficulty
that it was turned under. 1t was again
planted with corn, but the yield on account
of an untavorable season and other causes was
not good. The next year the part most
heavily manured was planted with corn and
the other half sown with four bushels to the
acre of corn, broadcast, for fodder, the yield
on both parts being very heavy The fod-
der corn made no ears and was cut when fully
tasseed. The next season the whole was
sown with wheat, The part which had
borne fodder corn the year before gave a
taller growth and longer heads, very evil
IDENTIFY heavier, better crop, although it
was not harvested separately, When it
came to bear grass, there was the same diff
ference. The crop on the fodder corn land
was much heavier Mr.. Holden accOuats
for it by the greater exhaustion Of the ele'
ments. of fertility in forming the seed on the
field corn, its effects being apparent in all Of
the succeeding crops in spite of the fact that
the soil was the same and had much the
heaviest applications of manure. He con-
siders fodder corn the most valuable croE
the farmer can raise for winter feed of stock
Thinks an acre Of it worth more than an acre
of corn.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
CLUBBING WITH OTHER PAPERS.

Tho following publications will be sont with the
VERMONT FARMER, one year, Mt the prices namod af-
tor each. Tho prices given include the postage on
both the Farmer and the paper dubbed with 1t, which
will be paid by the publishers. The conditions are,
that ali arIcaragos for tho Farmer, If thoro are any
shall he paid; and that both papers be paid for
at the satne tmO but IL Is not necessary that both
should he sent 10 tho same person. nor to the same
post office.
II papers or magazines not in this list wanted
write Us aud we will ascertain what can furnish
them with the Farmer tor, and you. We claim
unsurpassed facilities for obtaining papers aud maya
zines at low rates. when furnished with the Farmer
What you save hy ordering your city paper naga-
zinc with the Farmer
A large discount in price.
All risk Of transmitting the funds.
Tho cost Of money order registration.
The trouble Of writing one letter, and It's postage.
And you insure correctness and dispatch.
Address, VERMONT FARMER,
st. JOhnsbuTy, Vt.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

Grass seed may be sown at any time be.
fore the ground freezes. Whether clover
seed may not be sown with late-sown grass
seed, just before the soil is frozen up tor
winter, aud be all ready to germinate in spring
giving surer catch and better stand than il
sown on the snow or frozen ground 10 spring
without narrowing or other covering save
what it gets in the freezing and thawng and
spring rains, is a question we propose to dc.
termine by test. In theory it is sound.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

Our farmer readers will thank us, surely,
for printing in full Mr.. Hopkins paper on
kindness to animals There is a deal Of
truth and not little poetry in his treat
ment Of the question. Our farmers would
do well to consider the appeal to the purse
as well as to the higher sentiments, in favor
of kindness to the mute, trusting creatures
which Providence has placed in our care.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

In the new scale of points Of Guernsey
cattle, adopted by the Royal Guernsey Ag-
ricultural Society, in which thirty points
mark perfection, the head Is given seven
points while four are made to suffice for the
udder, teats and milk veins. 1t is notice.
able that the escutche on is not taken into
account at all.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

The Boomer & Boschert cider press, the
most powerful machine for the purpose in
use, made at the Centennial, in nino hours
and forty.6ve minutes, one hundred barrels
of cider from seven hundred aud fjrty.sx
bushels of apples, less than seven aud half
bushels to the barrel
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

Messrs. Charles Holt aud w. S. Lowell Of
Springfield have bought of T. G. Narramore
the patent of Davis Rock LITTER for Wind
ham and Bennington counties and Spring
field, Weathers6eld, Chester aud Oavendish
in Windsor county.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

At the sale of lIolstoin cattle by the ad.
ministrator of the late W. W. Cheney, Bel
mont, Mass, prices on Il head ranged from
$50 to s2l0; only seven going as high as
500.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

Brother Cheevcr Of the New England
Farmer does not agree with some writers as
to the character of the crow; but regards
him like woodchuck and fox, nuisance.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

AT Toulouse, France, a curious lawsuit is
going on. An oyster opening few biVayos
for u purchaser, found in one Of the oysters
valuable pearl. This he at once pocketed
but the buyer of the oysters insisted that 1t
was his. lie claimed that ne bought Shells
juice, oysters and everything, while the oys'
ter opener alleged that he had bought only
the oysters. The question Of the ownership
OF the pearl is yet undecided.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.

TINgTE Subscriber offers for sale the premises latoy
occupied by B. f. Hill on Caledonia Street in st.
Johnshury, consisting OF dwelling house, barn and
large garden This property s situated thas must
ftrcasc rapidly in value business revives and will
he sold at bargain. For terms inquire of the subscr
Der. MIr-haiI Montgomery,
Attorney and Agent
Railroad Street.
81. JoAHsBury, Oct llth, 1876.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

Iu Northern Vermont the apple crop lis
poor and potatoes good. Just the reverse
here.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

Farmers will do we'll to lay in supply
of cider, vinegar and apple sauce. The ap-
pie crop next year is likely to be light.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17

American Union, Boston, and Vermont Farmer, Si0O
Il0st0n Weekly Traveller and VI. Farmer, $50
Country GontlemRn and Vermont Farmer, 400
Boston Weekly Globe and Vermont Farmer, 32j
detroit Froe Press and Vermont Farmer, $50
Springfield Republican and VI. Farmer, $50
liaTpers Weekly ana Vermont Farmer, 5.2
llarpers BazaT and Vermont Farmer, h,26
American Rural Homo and Vermont Farmer 300
Christian Union aud Vermont Farmer, 1l5
Now York World and Vermont Farmer 30
Youths Companion new subs and w. Farmer 80
Now York sun and Vermont Farmer, jOO
New York Tribune and Vermont Farmer j'2o
DAILIES
Boston Daily Globe and Vermont Farmer, 9.2O
Boston Daily Traveller and Vermont Farmer $50
NONTILIES
Scribnors Monthly and Vermont Farmer, $50
Saint Nicholas aud Vermont Farmer, i.iO
llarpers Magazine and Vermont Farmer OPS
Gudeys Ladys Book with chTo. and VI. Farmer, i.iO
PotersOns Magazine and Vermont Farmer, $50
American Agrlculturist aud Vermont Farmer 800
boston Journal Of Chemistry and VI. Farmer BIS
Nursery aud Vermont Farmer, 800
Scientific Farmer and Vermont Farmer, 2jO
Bee Keepers Magazine and Vermont Farmer, J.yl
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
PLACE FOR SALE.

The subscriber will sell his place at st. Johnsbury
adjoining the Fair Ground. 1t contains two acres Of
ground good house and barn, asOod garden with 80
fruit trees running water at house and barn and in
the garden that never fails even IN dry time. The
buildings arc in perfect order and very pleasantly
and conveniently situated being half mile from the
scale shops, and good schools and churches. The
place will be sold on very easy terms. Apply to Hiram
Russell on the premises, Joseph Gauthicr at the
harness shop on Eastern Avenue.
St. Johnsbury, Aug. 2i, 1876
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-17
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