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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-07-01
ELE RAP HIc
ESPECIAL TO The SILVER sTATE.I
EASTERN DISPATCHES


NEW lohh, vuiy 4.
The Tribune reviews Tilden's great
services to the State and eminent fit
ness for the highest Office III the land.
The World cordially endorses the
nomination of Hendricks. and says the
Democrats have selected for second
place man entitled, by his character
and reputation, to aspire to the Presi-
dency. On the subject of acceptance
the World says be shonld allow no
more matters of punctilio to interfere
with his action, but should at once
stepxo the front.
Peter Cooper Remains In the Field.
Peter Cooper expresses dissatisfac-
ton WITH The financial action both the
Cincinnati and St Lenis Conventions
have tuken. and saws he can't with
draw. bnt will enter the contest as the
candidate Of the Independents for
the Presidency
John G.. Sake.
Nkw YORK, July /.
John G. SAKE. the poet and humorisf,
is lying seriously i'll at his residence in
Brooklyn. He expresses doubts him
self of his recovery.
Meeting of Notifying COMMITTEE.
The committee appointed by the
National Democratic Convention to
notify Tilden and Hendricks of their
nomination will meet for that purpose
at 9th Avenue Hotel in this city July
18th.
One of Grants Appointments.
WASHINGTON. July /.
General P. b. Mussey, of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Column
bia. has placed documents in the hands
of Proctor Knott, charging ID. o.
Humphreys, one of the Associate
Justices of said Court, with being
totally unfit mentally and physically
for the position. He has been known
to be intoxicated on the bench, and to
have pecnniary interests in cases tried
before him.
House Adjourned.
The House OF Representatives passed
a resolution yesterday adjourpiug from
tho LIST to the 9th of July to attend the
celebration in Independence Square
Philadelphia.
Hendricks Serenaded.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-07-01

CONSTANTLY. KEEPS ON HAND
Pope Augurs, Butts.
Iron, Anyils. Screws,
cumberland Coal Bolts, Steel,
Horse Nails, Borax, Bells,
A xle Grease. Bits, Boilers.
pakes, Headers, Mowers,
Door Locks, Heliing.
yVhcelbarrows, Rabbit. Metal.
Wire, GrjndstoIes, Machine Extras,
OK YoAes, Barbed Wire Staples,
~
On Cans of every description
Drills Of all kinds.
w oodenware, Teakettles,
k-ron Axles, Guile y,
fs-uts Patel Mt hon Planes,
Malls, Scissors, Wash boards,
-gg-beaters,, = ubs,
Ms-olassas GATES, Hinges,
u rn CocAs. Hammers,
CHAINS, Hooks and staples,
Cartridges Fla. Irons,
Axes. Pumps, etc. etc.
piy3 tt
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-07-01

The Consolidated Virginia has de-
clared Divided of two dollars per
share, five days ahead of the usual
tifne.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-07-01

CoNsTANTINoPLE, June |.
The new Sultan is said to be over
whelmed with the difficulties of bis
position, and is contemplating abdi-
eating in favor of his younger brother.
An Outbreak Feared
The Russian ambassadors has en-
barked his children aboard Russian
dispatch boat for Odessa. The wives
OF the attaches of the Embassy have
been sent to a place Of salty in view of
contemplated difficulties. The Turks
are actively preparing to meet the
Servian attack.
Nearly Drowned.
A boy while bathing ut North Beach
was taken with cramps about one hun
dred yards from shore and sank. a
com panion SWAIN to bis re icue and the
first boy took tie secoud under three
times. Both were in imminent dan
ger Of drownding, when Adam Aulbaeh,
a eompositor on the Evening Post. see
ing their danger, went TO their rescue,
got hold OF both, aud by Determined
forts reached the shore with both
boys. Tie latter were resuscitated and
sent home
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-07-01

Indianapolis July /, 1876.
Gov. Hendricks was serenaded at
his residence last evening. A crowd
of citizens were in attendance and were
addressed by the Governor.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

The Boston Cultivator quotes from the
FARMER the remark Of Rev. Mr.. Hibbard
and our notes thereon, aud comments with
some asperity:
We are surprised that our contemporary
should more than tao lily indorse the
reverend geutleman's offensive, not to
say scandalous remark concerning farmers
as q class That there are farmers disin-
clined to work, as there are ministers too
indolent to study. We shall not deny; but
that farmers, as a class, are 'internaliy
lazy We do deny.
We have no bones to pick with
brother Witherell, but cannot with
draw what we said, which may be re-
garded as a charge that farmers fail to ex-
hibt systematic or effectual effort for i'm
provements which increase the productive
ness OF the soil, instead of "more than
tact" Endorsement of the 'scandaous re-
mark" of our reverend brother That most
farmers do hard work enough is very true.
But if they would sometimes mako differ
ent application of their labor, or work little
harder on some improvement which promises
to increase permanently the productiveness
of the farm, the result might be more leisure,
as we'll as more income. If any more de-
fense is needed Mr.. Hibbard may take up
the cudgel.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15
Corn Husker.

That the corn Of Vermont will be husked
by horse power in 1886 is more than proba-
bic. 1t may seem incredible to those who
do not remember that only few years since,
the cutting of grass in any other way than
with the scythe was regarded rs the fancy
of diseased brain. That corn can be
husked perfectly at the rate Of 40 to go
bushels to the hour is an established fact
1t does not pay farmers to hire hand labor
to perform what machinery aud horses can
do just as we'll, and at a greatly reduced
cost. They cannot afford to do it. The ac-
ceptance Of all these labor.saving improve
ments is not only matter of economy, but
a necessity which we cannot escape. When
q man has set on an old milking stool day
after day for a couple of weeks, husking
corn until his legs are cramped so that he
can't stand erect, his fingers raw and bleed
ing, and his wrists lame, he ought to be in a
proper frame Of mind to listen with respect
to a statement Of the applicability of horse
power to the work. When the readers Of
the FARMER have reached that condition OF
mind we shall call their attention to the ad.
vertisement of Carr's Corn Husker. in an.
other column, and suffer the proprietors to
use their own power Of persuasion.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15
Deep Soil.

Among the peculiar features Of the exhibit
OF Iowa at the Centennial, is sample Of
her soils. She has long glass cylinders over
a loot in width and many feet IN length, and
in this is placed earth, Just as il exists. On
the top is the black soil, then the subsoil,
and 50 on deep down to "hard pan." "soid
bottom" or whatever the end is called. This
enables the stranger to see how deep is the
rich black soil, and is very attractive to the
visitors. There is q glass pillar for each
county, and the soil Of each county, just as
il is, is represented each by itself. There is
no doubt it is one Of the very best methods
Of showing how deep is the soil of Iowa,
and that the fact will have at least its due
weight to those who are seeking homes in
the west.
3 Bot after all we must remember that IL is
not alone deep soil that is to make good
farm land. Though rich black soil is hun
dred feet deep, it is, only the first foot or
so that is Of any material value to good
crop. Some roots go deep, but the chief
feeding roots are near the surface, and 10
time thoy will exhaust the soil, aud, unless
the lower strata are brought to the surface,
at some expense, the crops will be poor.
This has been found the case in Ohio. Here
was deep, rich soil, as deep as any one could
wish, but in q quarter Of a century it gave
out and many a wheat-feld has, been laid
down again to grass, and cattle now Craze
over land which was once the gran-raisers
pride. The subsoil might be brought up to
the top, but that is too expensive. No way
is like the old way in many things, and no
way Of keeping up the fertility Of the soil is
like the old way Of feeding it annually with
manure. Soil may be as deep as one chooses
aud laughter may be bestowed upon our
western journals and eastern farmers who
talk about manuring, but the richest western
soils are no exception, and the time will be
when these deep Iowa soils, as represented
in these Centennial glass collections, will
have to be annually manured like all the
rest.
Even the deep plowing, the turning up Of
this rich subsoil, is not always the best plan,
even when the expense Of turning it up is
not so great an object, for, notwithstanding
the advice of the great farmer Of Chappa.
| qua to "plow Deep" prairie men never ap.
preciated it. The universal testimony is,
that in breaking prairie for cultivation the
shallow plowed land yields the best crops
There is reason for it, but we need not give
it here, where only the undoubted fact is o.
of consequence.
We are glad to know that Iowa soil is
deep and rich, and see the evidences thereof
at this great Centennial exhibition. 1t doe:
no harm whatever, and in many ways the
exhibition does good. But IN the name o
good farming we must point out that for per
maueut and genuine agriculture it is of littl'
account. The English have no virgin soil
no black, deep bottoms to their land, but b,
judicious aud cheap management it yield
to-day crops of which the black lands o
Iowa might be proud.-Germanto'cn Tcle
graph.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15
The Agricultural College.

There is evidently a prejudice existing
against the College of Agriculture at Ham
over, that threatens not only TO injure the
institution, but to prove detrimental to agri.
cultural progress in our state. This preju-
dice has been manifest at times from its or
ganization, and to some degree has assumed
the form of an active opposition. At public
meetings, in the legislature, among farmers
all over the state, are heard accusations
against its management, and that OF the
farm connected with it. The idea OF q bet
ter education with the view of making bet
ter farmers is ridiculed and denounced by
the uncducated while too often the scholar,
the professional man and those vino are not
engaged in manual labor, give assent to dec.
larations, dictated by ignorance or preju-
dice, and thus unintcntionaly endorse an un-
friendly sentiment regarding the institution.
Now we have been familiar with the ad-
ministration Of affairs at the college from its
commencement, and though we have at
times discovered deficiencies in one depart
ment or another, we have ever found it
worthy Of public support, and regarded it as
one Of the most active agencies in elevating
the agriculture of our state.
This is what it has been in the past Now,
a new order is about to be inaugurated
there. Prof Dimond, under whose hand
and head the college came into being, and
by whom it has been mainly managed worn
out by disease and over-work, has gone to
his rest. Prof. Blanpied, assistant in the
chair of chemistry, succeeds him as instructor
in that department, and brings energy, accu-
racy, and enthusiasm to the work. The
farm goes under the superintendent OF Mr..
j. W. Sanborn, young, earnest and we'll
educated farmer, who is accustomed to hard
work, and who understands the requirments
Of the soil. We are now more than ever
confident that the institution will accom-.
plish the work for which it was intended
The instructions will be given by competent
talent; the farm, with all that pertains tc
it, will receive the care that it requires
the clearinghouse, if not already satisfact-
orily conducted, will be so. managed as tc
return au income to the college; while the
trustees will exercise greater watchfulness
over its financial interests than ever before
Now, then, farmers of New Hampshire
let us ask you to send your sons to this in
stitution, where they will receive thorough
instruction. and be fitted, so far as any cdu.
cational institution can quality them, fol
farm work, the mechanical arts, or the
duties of liie.-Bulletin Of the NeV Hamp
shire Board Of agriculture.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

THE KERRY Cows AS MrLKERs.-The
Kerry COW is a remarkable grateful feeder,
or, in other words. will live on the common
est and scantiest diet and when her lot falls
into pleasanter places, will yield bOunti-
full lacteal return for the generous keep.
Everywhere and under all circumstances
she has the reputation of being an excellent
mixer. "The average yield of milk pro-
duced by tho Kerry cows belonging to a
gentleman who has for many years paid
great attention to his Breeds" says Mr.. II.
D. Pringe, 10 bis review Of Irish Agricul-
ture, sis about twelve quarts or three gal.
Ions daily, and the average yield Of butter
from six to seven pounds per week. Some
of the cows have produced more, but the
quantities stated have been about the aver
age, Mr., Pringle considers this to bo a
large yield, considering the size of the ami
NAL and the small amount of food they con.
sumo. A Kerry COW was known to have
been kept for five years in a stable in Dub
lin, which had only two calves during the
period, yet was scarcely ever dry and KEEP
up full supply Of milk for large family
- London Lire Stock Journal.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

1t is hoped that the dairymen and dairy
women of Vermont will not forget that the
obligation to do their part in sustaining the
Vermont dairymen's association, should not
rest lightly on their consciences or be forgot
ten or disregarded, for the association has
done much for them. Neither should they
forget that the immediate returns they get
for their attendance on its meetings and the
small membership fees, are worth many
times their cost. The coming annual meet
ing, with the address of Mr.. Willard, will
be of especial interest. The railroads ol
the state will, as usual, probably give free
return passes to all visitors to the capito
during the session who call for excursion
tickets at their own station. The Opportun.
ity to attend this meeting aud look in on thu
law makers and other curiOsities al Mont
pelier should not be suffered to escape.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

In no other class of farm machinery has
there been more active and intelligent COM
petition, nor more radical advance in gen.
uine merit, during the last dozen years, than
in plows. The swivel plow which turns a
perfect furrow on levsl land, is of itself an
achievement of which plow-makers may
well be proud. Among the claimants for
the patronage of farmers is the Hakes'
plow, advertised 10 the FARMER. While we
have no personal knowledge of its operation,
and can only speak of it as recommended
by others, we do not hesitate to say that the
character given it by those who have tried il
is very high. Brother Witherell OF the
Boston Cultivator says sit turns aud pulver-
ICES better than any other pillow we haV,
ever tried"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

Mr.. Geo. Haskell of Ipswich, Mass, who
writes to the Country Gentleman on the sub
ject of draining, advances the opinion lin con-
Aict with the best authorities on the subject
and with common seAse) that the tile for
the whole length of the drain may be below
the level of water at the outlet and yet op-
crate as an effectual drain. He has such
drains FIVE hundred feet in length, two and
one-half to three feet deep, and with only
two feet fall, and all the tile are more than a
foot below the surface of the water at the
outlet. Yet "the water is kept from the
surface just as effectually as if the outlet
were above the surface of the water, though
the water does not drain of so quickly il
the spring Of the year or after heavy rains.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

PLANT Strawberries IN AUTUMN.-The
Germantown Telegraph good authority in
such matters, says; The question of
whether fall or spring is the better time to
set out strawberry.beds is raised in certain
quarters, when they run out Of topics for
discussion and are bound to discuss some.
thing. In this region of country nobody, we
believe, thinks Of setting out new beds of
strawberry at any other time than in the
fall aud during the month Of September,
With some care 10 planting firmly, aud COW
ering slightly when cold weather comes on,
with some light stuff, there need be little fear
of good crop the following season--bettor,
in many instances, than if planted four or
five months previously. A gentleman near
here took FIRST premium Al the Centennial
Exhibition for strawberries planted last Sep.
tember We had ourselves an excellent
crop from plants set out in that month.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

Mr.. B. f. johnson Of Champlain county,
Illinois, writes to the Country Gentleman
that the virulenco of the hog and chicken
cholera at the west in the autumn Of 1874
and all the season of 1875 was possibly due
to the poor quality of the corn crops Of
those two years, which formed their exclus-
i've diet, the unusual deficiency in albumen-
oids and pbosphates in the corn being uu-
favorable to the health of the animals.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15
The Drought and Fodder Corn.

Those dairymen who made ample provi.
sion for soling their stock by raising crop
of corn fodder, are now, during the severe
and protracted drought, reaping the benefit
of their forethought. Pasturage at this
writing Aug. 24) Is scunty, brown and dried
up ever wide extent OF country, and in
many instances where COWS are receiving no
extra feed the shrinkage of milk has been
very large. Many farmers, for lack Of other
forage, have been feeding hay, and this
must reduce the winter supply, which at
best is below an average quantity in GEN.
tral New York. Dairymen who have been
led astray by the foolish advice of such men
as Harris Lewis, who for some years has
been strenuously preaching against the rails
ing of corn fodder, stigmatizing it as an al
most worthless crop for soiling, will now
have ample opportunity to compare the yield
of milk from those herds which have their
daily rations of fodder corn wit those herds
which get no such extra feed. Farmers
who are feeding corn fodder are now able to
keep up the flow of milk from their herds to
the usual quantity, and so far as we can
learn there has been no fault found with its
quality, while on the other hand the half.
starved cows on the scanty and brown pas
turage, with no supplementary food, are
yielding milk that is quite inferior.
In feeding sowed corn it is always we'll to
have the ratious cut some hours in advance
of the time of feeding, in order that the
stalks may be exposed to the suns rays and
wilted 1t may be remarked in this con-
nection that cows ought not to be allowed to
run down thin and shrink in their milk al
this season, and where corn fodder or some
other green crop has not been provided fol
soling, wheaton bran mixed with ground
oats will be found to be good feed both
for producing milk and keeping up the con-
dition of the animal
Seasons like this carry convincing argu
ment in favor of the value of corn fodder as
a soiling crop to bridge over the defects o.
scanty pasturage; and we hope those whc
are feeding fodder corn as supplementary
forage will make a record Of results as com
pared with those who are depending wholly
upon pasturage, because the crop ought t.
be grown more extensively than it is b.
dairymen,-Rural Neto Yorker.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

THE GARDENERS LIFE.-Alcott, in his
"Tablets," remarks "Thus we associate
gardens and orchards with the perfect condi.
ton of mankind Gardeners ourselves by
birthrght, we also mythologize and plant
our Edeus in the midst Of us, like our ances-
tors the sacredness of earth and heaven
still clingiug to the tiller Of the ground.
Him we esteem the pattern man, the most
favored Of any. His labors have a charm
ing innocence, They yield the gains of a
seIf.respect denied to other caIlings His is
an occupation friendly to every virtue; the
freest of any from covetousness and debas-
ing cares 1t is full Of honest profits, manly
labors, aud brings and administers all neces-
saries gives the largest leisure for study
and recreation, while it answers most ten
derly the hospitalities Of friendship and the
claims of home. The delight of children,
the pastime OF women, the privilege OF the
poor man as 1t is the ornam ent OF the GENTLE
man, the praise Of the scholar, the security
of the citizen, it places man in his truest re-
lations to the world in which he lives. And
he who is insensible to these pleasures, must
lack some chord in the harp Of humanity
w0rshipping, if he wOrships, at some strange
shrine.
| "Who lovos garden still his Eden keeps
Perennial pleasure plants, and wholesome haryest
reaps,"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15
Modern cider MlIIs,

of various sizes aud patterns, many of them
light and portable, for hand or horse power.
With these mills and presses the farmer or
villager can transform his apples, be they
many or few, into cider, at his own conven-
ience, and with slight labor aud trouble.
The readers OF the FARMER cannot fail to
find just what they want, be they cider mills
or other farm implements or machinery, in
such frst-cass and reliable houses as those
of Joseph Breck & Sons, Messrs. Parker
and Gsnuett, and the Higganum Manufac.
turing Company, whose several advertise
ments may be found in our columns.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

In addition to the agricultural features
of the New Hampshire state fair, arrange
ments are in progress for an antiquarian
show, including old style farm implements,
farm and household practice and, wIthal,
it is proposed to receive delegations in an.
cicnt costume from various towns. Where
is Col. Weare2
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

The president Of the American Jersey
Cattle Club, Mr.. j. Milton Mackie, announces
that unless the awards on Jersey cattle at
the Centennial exposition are made by judges
selected from the club, by its executive COM
mittee, according to the understanding with
the chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, the
club will withhold the one thousand dollars
in prizes voted at the last annual meeting.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

We give Mr.. Bliss appeal to the dairy
men and farmers Of Vermont in full, be-
cause there is deal of truth in the impor.
tance of the Investigations he urges. Pco-
pie of less sauguine temperament than friend
Bliss would suppose that he ought to
know by this time that he cannot raise
money enough in Vermont for the good pur-
pose he designates, to pay for one farrow
COW to stock his experimental dairy farm.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15

Messrs. Samuel Thorne and John d.
Wing state in a card in the County Gentle.
man that Mr. Landreth chief Of the Bu-
reau of Agriculture at the Centennial, has
shown himself dcsirous of doing all that
he could for the best interests OF his depart.
ment. "The trouble has been with those
above him in authority"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-15
Mr. J. w Sspborn of the Now Hampsbir

Mr.. J. w. Ssnborn of the New Hampshire
boad ofagriculture who makes special study
of the subject of fertilizers, is of the opinion
that hay is the poorest crop to sell from the
farm, and should never be disposed of for
less than SIS per ton at the barn. He says
in the Mirror and Farmer, that it is far bet
ter to sell corn, as the manurial value of
corn is comparatively low.