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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

We must offer gentle reproof to those far
mers who make the roadside half mile or less
from their buildings, a place to pile boards
or rails or old refuse of bush, etc., from the
orchard or wood-yards, so as to get it out of
the way. We have one in mind who has
new house, painted white, with green win
dow shutters, white picket fence in front OF
the buildings, well graded lawn about the
house aud all as neat as need be, who, Just
as soon as the picket fence ends, throws
bush, and stone, and potato tops, etc, over
the fence by the roadside, making it
look uncOmely and even hideous. lie wants
to make his home neat and attractive, and it
is but for that conspicuous defect, 1t is as
though he should dress in his best aud tLen
put on his old irOok in which be does chores,
aud start for church. How finely the white
clean linen shirt front, the black pants and
calf boots harmonize with that coarse, dirty
aud faded frOck, easily distinguished by its
rich fragrance of the stable. One is in
about as good taste as the other. Now
there is a more excellent way; burn up the
brush, pile the good rails elsewhere
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

TnE Coon OF A HoRsE.-After a day of
close application in the office or at the desk,
nothing cools the fever Of the blood more
than good drive behind the favorite road.
ster. How delicious the air feels as your
hot face presses into it, as with ears turned
back to catch the signal the honest fellow
levels down to his work What life there
is in the oxygen as your lungs inhale it when
you take the wind full in your face at a fifty
clip How the cares OF the world and the
ills of life vanish, aud what sweet content
fills your breast as you 60 bowling along
One OF the hoalthiest customs in American
life is that Of driving good horse. 1t keeps
the nature fresh with the daily sight of sky
and field, aud gives innocent exhilaration to
all the faculties. 1t makes the heart glad
and fits one for home aud lively chat at the
tea-table.-W. II. II. Murray
Exactly, Sir /; those are our sentiments
only we would use the saddle at least half
the time it starts perspiration and annihi'
latcs dyspepsia.-[ED. FARMER.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

EDUCATE THE BoYs.-Rev. DR.. Allen. Pres
ident VI the Maine agricultural college, in
recent address on How to make farming
generally successful, gave this as one way,
"Make the work of farming honorable, and
render farmers influential in society. This
can be done only by giving a good liberal
education to those who are talented and who
are to be farmers. The bright, intelligent
boy will seek for employment in that pro-
iession which requires the best trained intel
lect II it is thought unnecessary for a
person to have liberal education to become
a mechanic or farmer, those who wish for
influence in society which can only be ac.
quired by trained intellect, will be driven
from industrial pursuits into the overcrOwded
professions.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

PoULTRY RAIsING.-When so many find
it difficult to make a mere suffciency for
life's support, it seems unaccountable that
the pleasant and profitable business of poul-
try raising should be seldom or never re-
sorted to for the purpose of gaining liveli-
hood and establishing paying and perma-
nent business, while an eager, struggling
crowd are jOstling each other in every other
avenue Of industry, no matter how difficult
or how meager aud uncertain the remunera-
tion promised. Poultry raising for profit is
a light employment, requiring no great out
lay, aud but mOdcum of real work, with,
Of course, that regular aud ceaseless attention
which must be gwen to any business to in.
sure success, aud it is a paying investment
from the day Of. commencement. The one
secret Of success is thoroughuess. The chieks
must be well aud regularly fed with va
riety Of good food aud fresh water. The
coops must be kept clean. aud we'll ventilated,
and the chicks must have more or less room
in which to exercise, aud, to reap the fullest
measure Of success, must have comfortable,
sheltered and sunny winter quarters.-PO'd'
try Nation,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

SOUND ADvICE.-0f course it is necessary
for most farmers to economze. We cut off
what seem to us unnecessary expenses. Yet
we must admit that we sometimes prune un-
wisely, aud cut off fruitful limbs. 1t would
be difficult to find farmer who could not
econOmize more judicously than by doing
without good paper, aud yet, and we re-
gret that it is SO, there are farmers with fam
lilies growing up about them, who do not
take single paper. How can we expect to
make the progress we should 10 agriculture
while we neglect the means Of education at
hand Farmers will fud il profitable to
take more than one paper if they are good
ones, BE careful in selecting reading mat
ter to got that which is pure and healthful,
aud then be sure not to stint yourself and
family in amount. You cannot afford to
mentally starve yourself aud family. Bet
ter ecOnomiEe to some extent in feeding the
body than to deprive the mind Of nourish-
ment.-EimiTG HusbaAdmaa.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

NEWSPAPERS AND FARMERs.-A CORES.
pondent Of the Boston Cultivator, writing
of the great advantages to be derived from
newspapers, by farmers, who, living apart
from society, need some means Of commun.
ication with the outside world says News
papers are made to spread intelligence and
improve morals. To the farmer, above all
men, they should be necessity, from the
fact that they afford him in his isolated con.
dition the only means Of mixing in the busy
scenes Of life. Man in hermit state be.
comes personifcation Of selfshuess-ca ar
ing for nobody and nobody caring for him.
Development comes alone from associating
with our fellow men, and appropriating to
ourselves the advancement which they make
No farmer should do without this social
schooling, both for his own good and that
of his children. Iu no other way can he
obtain it so fully and so cheaply as through
the periodical literature; and he who neg
lscts to receive these advantag deprives
himself of light, and lives out his days in
heather darkness
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

Stick TO Your BUsINEss.-There is moth
ing which should be more frequently i'm.
pressed upon the minds of young men than
the Importance of steadily pursuing some
one business. The frequent changing from
one employment to another is one of the
most common errors committed and to it
may be traced more than half the failures
of men in business, and much of the discon-
tent and disappointment which render life
uncomfortable. 1t is very common thing
for man to be dissatisfied with his bust
ness, and to desire TO change it for some
other, which, it seems to him, will prove a
a more lucrative employment but, in nine
cases out Of ten, it is mistake. Look around
you, and you will 6nd among your aquaint-
ances abundant veri6cation of our assertion.
There is an honest farmer who has toll ed u
few years, got his farm paid for, but does
not grow rich very rapidly, as much for
as anything, though he is not aware of it.
He hears the wonderful stories Of California,
and how fortunes may be had for the trouble
OF picking them up mortgages his farm to
raise money, goes away to the land of gold,
and, after many months Of hard toll,
comes home to commence again at the bot
tom of the hill for a more weary and less
successful climbing up again. Mark the
men in every community who are notorious
for ability and equally notorious for never
getting ahead, and you will usually find
them to be those who never stick to any one
business long, but are always forsaking their
occupation just when it begins to be profta-
ble.-Scientifc american.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01
WHOLE NO. 312.
a,uttrtsting StIertiuus.


Little lad slow wandering across the sand 80 yellow,
Leading safe lassie small 20, tell little fellow,
WHITTIER 20 you lettering in the summer weather,
Chattering like sweet-yoioed birds on bough TO-
gether,
81 am Robert you please, and this Is Rose, my sis
tor,
Youngest Of us al"-he bent his curly head and kissed
every day we come and wait here till the sun Is
setting,
Waiting for our fathers ship for mother dear is frot
ting.
"Long ago he sailed away out of sight and hearing,
Straight across the way ho went into sunset steering
Every day look for him and hope for his returning
Every night my mother keeps the candle for him
burning.
"summer goes and winter comes and spring returns,
but never
Fathers step comes to the gate Oh is no gone for
sverl
The great, grand ship that bore him OF, think you
some tempest wrecked herr'
Tears hone In little Roses eyes, upturned 10 her pro
tsctor.
Eagerly the bonuy lad went on. 30 sir look yondcr
In the ong the sails that east and westward wan
derj
Every hour they come and 20, the misty distance
thronging,
While we watch and see them fade, with sorrow and
with longing"
"Little Robert little Rosen The strangers eyes
were glistenng;
As his bronzed and bearded face, up-gazed tho chill
dren, lstening
He knelt upon the yellow sand and clasped them to
his bosom,
Robert bravo, and little Rose, bright as any bios
SON.
"Father father! Is 1t youp The still air rings with
rapture;
All the vanished joy Of tho waiting ones recap
tme!
Finds he welcome, wild and sweet the low, matched
cottage reaching,
But the ship that into sunset steered upon the recks
lies bleaching.
Celia Tbarfer. in U',de AtpaLs
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

ONE Cow A NINE OF WEALTII.-The his.
tory Of the shorthorn COW, Duchess 66th,
which was sold in 1853, at Earl Ducie's sale,
in England, to Col. Morris, of Fordham,
for 700 guineas, or S3,675, is remarkable
as showing the actual value of one good
breeding animal. From this COW, which
was calved in November, 1850, there may
be traced IN direct descent number OF ami.
mails which have sold for about S500,000.
Let it be admitted that as much of this
value as may be is depending on fancy of
rich breeders, and is not the intrinsic value
of the beef and milk produced, yet no one
can help admitting that an immense value,
estimated in these alone, has accrued to
the world from this COW aud in proportion
to this value may be estimated the profit
to breeder from any superior animal he
may produce. A line of breeding animals
is brought into existence which spreads
out ian.like and diverges year by year
wider and wider, until we can 40 longer
reach the bounds Of the beneficial influence.
1t is in this that lies the value Of any
good animal, aud it is an unfair disparage-
ment to conGne its value to the weight OF
meat upon its carcass, or its produce in
milk aud butter. The breeder who produces
a superior animal sets in motion an impulse
which must in time spread and increase enor.
mously and far beyond computation. -
American AQicultUriSt.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

In some sections OF the state, as Chitten.
den county, parts of Addison and Rutland
the farmers are short of hay. The Farmers s
Advocate gives this sensible counsel:
A mlch COW can be brought well through
the winter on good hay, without any other
food, but the question arises-Will she
not do as well or better on hay of inferior
quality, with the addition of roots that cost
less to the farmer than any other provender /?
We have had cattle kept in good, thriving
condition throughout the winter on good
straw, with two feeds of turnips daily. Cat
tic feeders assure us that good.sized COW
will eat twenty-five or thirty pounds of hay in
winter when it is her only food Straw is
seldom treated by farmers as Of much ac-
count. Roots, such as turnips and mangolds,
produce from 600 to 900 bushels per acre,
at the cost of the labor-say Sl2 to Sl5.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01
!ScieIIEiHc Farmer,
CLUBBING WITH OTHER PAPERS.

The following publications will be sent with the
VERMONT FARMER, ono year, at the prices named af-
ter each The prices given include the postage on
both the Farmer aud the paper clubbed with IT, which
will be paid by tho publishers The conditions are,
that all aearages for the Farmer If there are any
shall bo paid; and that both papers be paid for
at the same timO, but II is NECESSARY that both
should be sont To the same person, To the
post Office.
II papers magazines not in this list are wanted
write Us aud We will ascertain what we furnish
them with the Farmer for, aud answer you. We claim
unsurpassed facilities for obtaining papers and maga-
zines at low rates when furnished with the Farmer.
What you save by ordering your city paper naga.
zine with the Farmer
A large discount In price
All risk of transmitting the funds.
The cost Of money order or registration.
The trouble uf writing one letter, aud lis postage
And you insure correctness and dispatch.
Address VERMONT FARMER,
st. JOhnsbuTy, Vt.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

Our 0CcUPATIoNs.-Of the inhabitants
Of the United states, 100000 are farmers !;
100000 are trades people; 100000
are mechanics; 100000 are laborers, and
only 10000 domestic servants. OF prOfes.
sional men, $4,000 clergymen pray for US,
10000 lawyers plead for US $4,000 doctors
bleed and blister US, and l2G,S2 teachers
bend the youthful twig of the human mind
that our boys and girls may grow up with
the proper incline. Besides these 1000 ac-
tors strut their hour Ou the stage, and 5000
journalists gather information from all parts
of the world to be dished up into the daily
and weekly pabulum for children of larger
growth.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

A man was saving wood, yesterday after.
noon, in back yard. lie severed two sticks
as thick as your wrist, and then went into
the house. MARY" he said to his wife,
"my country needs me there's no use talk
ing, We must 60 to slaughter all these in
juns; no true patriot can be expected to
hang around the woodpile these days"
John" said his wife, "if you fight injuns
as we'll as you saw wood and support your
family, it would take one hundred and eigh-
teen like you to capture one squaw, and
you'd have to catch her when she had the
ague and throw pepper 10 her eyes" John
went back to the wOOdpile wondering who
told his wife all about him.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

Good for the agricultural editor" He
hasn't been excited over the election des.
patches. His sturdy column has kept its
place, and useful information has been dis
seminated in the midst Of the Improbable
froth OF politics. Amid the wreck of mat
ter aud the crash of ballot-boxes, he has
beea quietly writing up the ichueumon fly
and telling US about tree-panting No
country that is well supplied with agricul-
tural writers can ever be completely ruined.
Courier Journal.
Yes, we have long known that the destiny
of the republic rested with US, and hence
necessity for making the FARMER an honest
bipartisan, wide-awake paper, without which
the people of the state could not attain to
that prosperity which is both desirable aud
possible; and it is proof of the goodness
there is in the followers of Gov. Tilden that
the above mentioned discovery was made by
a democratic journal.-[ED. FARMER.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

The Western New Hampshire Poultry
Society havo issued their premium list and
rules tor second annual fair in city hall,
Keene, Dec. 10, 20 and 81. Premiums are
offered for almost every variety of fowl
known in New England, as well AS for rab-
bits, Angora cats, Guinea pigs and squirrels.
We urge all interested in poultry to make it
in their way to attend.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

HARPER's MONTHLY for December comes up to It's
usual high standard. 1t Is the first number Of the Or.
tyiOurth volume, and opens with illustrated articles
on the Home Of Columbus, very interesting sketch
an amusing one on Boys and Girls; another fragrant
with the of generations, entitled the kncker-
bockers Of Two Centuries Ago, which seems like
other legend Of Sleepy Hollow on the Prehistoric
Antiqui Of Tennessee, besides lively paper on
the Philippine Islands. The poems Clouds; loves
Sovereignty, by SAKE, sweet refrain OF the song Of
the poets life Lilian's Dying TrOwbridge's Book Of
Gold At Twoscore, by T. b. Aldrich, characterized by
his peculiar fancy The usual stories, of cours- but
exPremier Gladstones letter to Gen. Schenck in 1879
on the Alabama Claims will be read carefully
than any other article We content ourselves because
we must, with quoting the following lines from Al.
drich's charming poem
Though lacking gold, we stopped
To pick II up in all our days;
Though lacking praise sometimes dropped
We never asked u soul for praise.
The exquisite reward Of song
Was sOng-the selfsame thrill and glow
Which to unfolding flowers belong
And wrens and thrushes know.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

WIDE AWAKE, ID. LOthrop 4 Co., and The NURSERY
John L. Shorsy 4 Coz, Boston, are two well-known
mOnthlies for children, and scarcely know where
or how they could be bettered. For the youngest
children nothing superior to the NURSERY could he
devised full Of little sketches and pictures such
never fail to instruct and delight the hearts Of chill
dren. For older WIDE AWAKE caters successfully
though 1t has a rival in st. Nicholas Every family
Of children should have both Of these little
monthlies they would be worth more than several
times the cost spent in transient pleasures.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

What the Husbandman says in another
place is so true and so accurate in setting
the value and pl ace Of the FARMER, and the
people Of Vermont are so sensible that
we need say only this: il after years
trial of the FARMER you do not find its words
more than verified, we shall be greatly de-
ceived.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

That old pride Of American lterature-tho NOaTH
AMERICAN REVIEW C changes editors again. Mr.. A.
T. Rice, graduate Of xford, England, but
ideut Of New York, and Rev. Julius II. Ward, we'll
known in Massachusetts,, will hereafter be its editors
and the venerable quarterly is to be issued bimonthy
All this will be fear to the grief Of its old friends
We mournnot the loss of the old arstocratc flavor Of
Beacon street, but rather the scholarly atmosphere
Of lIarvard's cloisters.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

APOSTOLIC SUcCEssIoN.-The following
sacerdota fact throwing much light on the
vexed question of "apostolic succession
comes to us from friend in Benicia, Cali
forna An old lady belonging to lone of
the sects," on meeting the parish rector, said,
"Pray, Mr.. Matthews, will you tell me what
you Episcopalans mean by the apostolic
succession 2 =" Certainly, my dear madam"
replied the rector, who was little given to
practical jokes. "You see my name is Mat
thews l am descended from Matthew the
Publican" "Oh !" she answered, "that il
excellent and how about Mr.. James 2"
"Why, don't you know-James the brother
of John, sons of Zebedee ?" "Why, yes,
certainly but how about Bishop Green 2"
This puzzled our reverend friend for an in.
stant, but he soon frightened and replied,
"Why, Bishop Green derived the succession
through his mothers tamily"-Harper's for
December,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

The old Boston Cutivator, that paper Of
our bOyhood' has experienced InetempsychOsis
and appears under new conditions and en-
larged proportions. Having shifted off some
of its mortal coil it appears under new
name-The American Cultivator-with fresh
new type, enlarged pages, new departments
and improved appearance generally. We
don't quite like the heading, though tastes
differ.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

Two FORTUNE SEEKERS, ID. LOthrOP 4 Co., Boston,
il volume of choice stories for children by such
writers Rossiter johnson, Mrs Moulton Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, Sophie May and Nora Perry. The sto-
res, so far as we have read. entertaining aud
hsalthful; just enough Of the dash TO give them a
keen relish and not enough to render 1t perncious in
its influence.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

OATMEAL.-We have called il the food
for bone as well as brain, muscle as we'll as
mind. To the aboring or artisan class it
commends itself as an article Of diet on ac-
count of its cheapness the readiness aud
economy with which it eau be cooked (; and
while it is easily digested, it contains, us we
have seen, larger proportion than wheaton
bread Of the elements that go to form bone
and muscle. The best Scotch oatmeal costs
two pence a pound, and this contains far
more true nourishment, IN the opinion of
some medical men, than the same weight Of
Liebig's extract. 1t commends itself to lit
erary men, and all workers who earn their
bread by the sweat of their brains. There
are, as we happen to know, several well.
known authors who, though born aud bred
this side the Tweed, nevertheless swear by
oatmeal porridge as a brain-inspiriug com.
pound. Then, as to its palatabeness, we
ourselves have long held the belief that not
only is porridge pre-eminently rich in nu.
tritive matter, but when nicely cooked, and
eaten with new milk, is simply Delicious
dainty dish fit, indeed. to set before any
king-Cassel's Family Magazine.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

the poor ones cut into fuel for the
stove, and the potato tops throw into
the compost heap. This splendid autumn
weather ought to see great deal of "slick.
ing up" done by our farmers and their Sous.
And be sure not to forget to pillow the vese.
table garden and spade the Hower.beds, and
while you are about it don't spare the dress.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

We have received from Mr.. John H. Mead
Of West Rutland, two pair of mOttled fan
tail pigeons. Mr.. Mead has the finest stock
of these beautiful pets that we have ever
seen.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01

Mr.. j. d. Wheat, of Putney, for many
years breeder of Merino sheep, has recently
purchased of Hon. Frederick Billings, Of
Woodstock, ten two.year.old Southdown ewes.
the best of his flock. for S25 each.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-01
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