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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

GATHERING LEAVES FOR BEDDING-A
friend visiting at our farm, makes good
suggestion as to gathering forest leaves for
bedding. Those who practice saving this
valuable material for promoting the COM
fort of stock and increasing the value Of the
manure heap, are aware that dry autumn
leaves are light. They are hard things to
pack in large bodies. A wagon will hold
but few pounds 1t IS vain to try to tread
them down, for however large and heavy the
foot which descends upon them they move
away, and refuse to be compressed But il
the wagon be filed with barrels having one
head, or even without any head, the quanti-
ty Of leaves which can be carried home at a
load is largely increased. They can be
pounded, or tamped in with a mallet having
long handle, or tramped in with the feet,
and being confined in small space can be
packed in so close that a barrel will hold
near half as many as an open wagon.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

LICE on CoLTs-Lice may accumulate in
great numbers before they are discovered.
Sometimes they are diffused all over the
skin other times they are confined to the
mane the tail and parts adjacent The horse
is frequently rubbing himself, aud often the
hair falls out in large patches. There are
many lotions, powders and oiutments for dc.
stroying lice. Mercurial ointments, lotions
of corrosive sublimate, and decoctions of to.
bacco, are so dangerous that they never
should be used. Refuse oil or lard, rubbed on
lousy beast of any kind, Immediately de-.
stroys the vermin, aud there is no danger to
be apprehended from this application. 1t
merely occasions the hair being earlier in
the spring, and requires a little extra atten-
tion in the housing Of such animals as have
been affected. Vinegar mixed with three
times its bulk of water is also a good appli-
cation, and not dangerous. 1t is most irrita-
ting, but the irritation soon subsidies, and
does not sicken the horse ; tobacco often will,
Next day the skin should be examined, and
wherever thoro is any sign of living vermin,
another application should be made. Two
days afterwards the horse should be washed
with soapy water, warm, and applied with a
brush that will reach the skin without irri-
tating it.-GoLden Rule.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

SUGAR OF MILK-ln sugar Of milk we
have a crystalloid principle which appears
in the milk, but which does not occur, so far
as we can determine, in any other fluid of
the body We know but little as to
how the sugar Of of milk is formed, or as to
the how it passes into the milk. We may
probably assume that it is separated from
the blood by the character of the membranes
through which it passes, and that its appear
ance would be coincident with the presence
Of starchy or saccharine matter in the food.
We have reason to believe that the feeding
of fodder corn, food abounding in sac.
oharine matter, is followed by an increase of
sugar in the milk, and that the character of
the gland determines also the presence of the
sugar in a greater abundance. This is also
as we should expect, because the quantity o
cellular tissue and membrane, both abso-
lutely and proportlonately must vary with
the gland. If sugar is the result of dia-
lytic action on the part Of the membranes,
we should expect the amount Of sugar Of
milk, in the milk, to vary with the food of
the COW, and also to hold great constancy
under like conditions Of feeding. Indeed, as
milk is ordinarily taken for analysis from
the whole udder of cows under normal cou.
ditions, We would be greatly surprised to
fud striking differences in the results of diff
ferent analysis and yet we are prepared to
look exceptionally for great variations. Es-
pecially should We expect variation caused
by the decrease OF tissue activity, and as in
fueuced by the different quantity of milk
yielded to the supply by the different glands
DR.. Sturteram.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

DANIEL WEBsTER's PLow.-At the Gen.
tennal is exhibited among other antiquities
is the plow used by Daniel Webster, and it
is but reasonable to suppose that it took even
his giant intellect to manage the clumsy
tool, since it must have required more than
common manual strength to handle it. Its
total length is l3 ieet length of beam,
nine feet and one inch of handles six feet
aud four inches distance between ends of
same, two feet and ten inches; length of
Landslide, four feet and two inches width
of mold.board, twenty inches; of share, 6
inches; distance of share point from fur
thest point of mold-board, five feet and four
inches. Such is the utensil with which the
great statesman used to "tear up turf when
when harassed with cares Of state nova
days, statesmen are apt to filing mud" in
stead.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The SNOWFLAKE PoTATO.-We have this
season some twelve bushels of sorted potatoes
of this variety, the increase Of one potato
planted in 1875. The crop each year having
had ordinary field culture, the conditions
being unfavorable the first year as we'll as
this. 1t has endured the drouth better and
given larger yield than any other variety
planted on our farm this year, (the Early
Rose and Jackson Whites being the leading
sortsl. Its manner of growth is favorable,
lying a little deeper in the soil than the
Early Rose, and growing in clusters. Quail
ity unsurpassed.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10
Veterinarian School Wanted.

A Boston Boy, says the Scientific Farmer,
writes from the Royal Veterinary Institute,
Berlin, for making a strong appeal for means
establishing Veterinary School in connec-
ton with Harvard University. II it were
possible to have this school established upon
a firm basis, and with such connection as
this University would guarantee, simply from
its own standing both at home and abroad
the direct benefit to our great stock.owniDg
interest, and through them indirectly to the
whole country, would be almost beyond es-
innate, substantially or humanely. Regard
ing the means Of educating men for this pro-
fession we are to-day immeasurably behind
every other civilized country. Even the
governments of China and Japan are taking
the matter in hand, establishing schools, aud
importing educated Veterinarians from
abroad as professors. Why is it that we
Americans, nation as enlightened
as we suppose ourselves to be, so persistenty
ignore the claims of the Veterinary art, and
either allow our animals to suffer, and our
selves to sustain unnecessary loss at the
hands of set of ignorant men, selfstyled
Veterinary surgeons, who do not know the
first rudiments Of anatomy, pathology, phys
iology, or the action of drugs? Or else, hav-
ing had experience, follow the advice recently
given by noted divine, land keep the horse
doctors as far away as possible from the sick
and suffering animal" Is it right that such
a state of things should exist when there is,
as the experience of other countries has
shown, a profitable, feasible, and honorable
remedy? Is there any one who does not be-
leve that animals suffer as acutely as men
from physical pain, Or that their diseases,
if properly understood by the person in at
tendance on them, are any the less amena-
BILE to treatment ?
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10
Governor Smiths Farm.


While 10 attendance upon the recent state
fair at st. Albans, we had the pleasure, in
company with Mr.. A. w. Cheever of the
New England Farmer and his wife aud sew
era of the directors of tho state agricultu-
raj society, of drive to the "Point Farm"
owned by Ex-Governor j. Gregory Smith
Governor Smith has done SO much to pro-
mote the cause OF agricultural progress in
Vermont by afording facilities for travel to
fairs and agricultural meetings such as are
enjoyed by the farmers of no other state,
that we felt some curiosity to see what sor t
of farmer he is.
The Point Farm, of thousand acres, ly.
ing on a point Of land extending into the
lake, and some three miles from st. Albans,
has been under a system of improvement for
but few years, The buildings stand upon
a slight elevation above the water, aud COM
mand fine view of Champlain, aud the hills in
the distance. A substantial modern farm
house of brick is aanked by a barn of the
same MATERIAL barn in keeping with the
farm and the means of the owner, but such
as few of US can have. The main building
is 1--WE made no figures or notes, and write
from memory, two months after the visit)
about $50 feet by 50, with two wings at
each end, and perhaps 80 feet to the caves
Across one end and wings are two rows of
stanchiOus for the large herd of cattle, while
the other end is devoted to the stalls for
horses and boxes for calves. A high cellar
under the whole receives the manure and
accommodates the pigs. The cellar wall as
well as the walls aud frame Of the building
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

IMPORTANCE OF PURE WATER FOR Cows
In Jarrow "a cases of typhoid fever sudden.
ly broke out in limited district in 20 diff
ferent families, the cases being mostly con-
fined to children. The houses, with two ex-
ceptions, were clean and well supplied
with pure water, IL was discovered that all
the families received their milk from the
same farm, which was at once visited. Six
of the farmers family were down
with the fever. The water used in the dairy
was from well close to a cesspit, and evi-
dently contaminated by soakage, as it be-
came putrid in two days after drawing from
the we'll. The dairy was also used as a wash
house, aud the linen Of the sick persons of the
family was washed in it. The person who
MIXED the cows was in constant attendance
upon the sick, The nuisance was promptly
detected by the health officers, and immedi-
ately abated.-EHglist Sanitary Record.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

STocKBRIDGE FERTILIZERS FOR CoRN.-Col.
John b. Mead of Randolph, who applied
"Stockbridge fertilizers" to one acre of his
corn.6eld in place of barnyard manure, re-
ports that the crop SO fertilized was fail
ure. While that portion of the field having
barn yard manure gave good yield of corn
on the "Stockbridge" acre was very poor in
quality and small in quantity. 1t was SO
evident that the the thing was a failure that
he did not consider it worth while to meas
ure the crop before condemning the chemi-
Gals as worthless for raising corn.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

FALL CUTTINGs.-The fall season is a
much better ope for taking off cuttings than
any other, and there is large number of
plants that can be propagated in this way
The currant, gooseberry, ounce and grape
among fruits; aud the privet, honeysuckles,
wiegela. forsythia, mock .orange, and many
other things among ornamental shrubbery
Indeed there are SO many things among these
hardy plants, &c, that will grow well in this
way, that it is much easier to give a list Of
the things that will not grow from fall cut
tings, rather than the things that will. The
great difficulty is that they draw out Of the
ground by freezing and thawing. To avoid
this the cuttings need not DO set out at once
in the ground, but they may be tied into
bundles, each after its kind and buried I'M
derground till spring, and then put out in
rows where they are to grow. OF course
they must be looked after early in the spring
or the buds will sprout and rot. In sandy
land or earth that keeps good hold Of things,
cuttings may be put in at once.-German.
torn Telegraph.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

For several years we have been in the
practice Of using different brands of SUPER
phosphate. The past year we used Cumber-
land phosphate with good results. On
greeusward with a tablespoonful in each
hill, we harvested nine hundred bushels of
turnips at cost of about six cents per
bushel. There was no other manure ap.
piled. f. f. RICHARDSON.
81, JohnsburV, Oef. l6 1876.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The subscriber offers his farm for sale, situated in
Sannard three miles from tho principal depot the
r. x o. r. II. and continuing about one hundred and
forty of most Iexcelent land, little more than
Onehalf cleared and under very high state Of cult
yaton, we'll fenced, with comfortable buildings,
good apple orchard OF grated FRUIT just beginning 10
hear, together with plums, cherries and small fruits
Of the best sugar orchards In the county, partly
rugged with eleven hundred buckets, eight holders,
four pans, etc, and the remainder covered with
heavy growth Of hard and soft wood Underwood and
timber enough the place 10 pay for II, standng in
good nelghbOrhOOd, near school, meeting, mill, &e
will be sold at great sacrilce will take in part
payment small but comfortable village residence,
and the remainder be paid at the convenience of
the purchaser Will sell stock tools aud produce and
give immediate possession Vdesired.
have lost my health and cannot labor, and my
family is broken up by the death Of my wife, and the
farm must no sold. Ii is the best farm in town, and is
under the best state of cultivation. Now the time
for some one to secure a rare chance and great bar
gain. CHESTER BhOWN.
Stannard October 20, 1876.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The drouth is extraordinary. Many farm
buildings in Windsor County are absolutely
destitute of water Nov. 3D. Springs that
never failed until the summer of 1870, are
dry. Should the earth now become deeply
frozen and winter close IN, the inconvenience
and suffering for water would be extreme. But
while the promise that seed time and harvest
should not fail holds good, the rain will fall
on the just and unjust. 1t is not only fool
ish but wrong to borrow trouble in advance.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

Mr.. j. G. McKeen, South Acworth, N. H.,
writes us: have sold to Eddie Fassett of
Enosburgh, Vt, my Silver Spangled Ham.
burg cock, that took the first premium at New
port last winter. He is a good stock getter,
and with the stock he already has, will un.
douhtedly make the best yield of Silver
Spangled Hamburgs in the state.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

fdnct as many other localitits now are from
similar neglect We think the above de.
serves tho attention of our farmers.
We also think that careful study of
all of the facts presented will show that
the culture laid down will pay largely
for the extra pains and expense.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

There were twenty.three head of Short
horn cattle from the United States at the
Centennial cattle.show, and eight Of them
were imported. Ten head of the same
breed were owned in England and twenty
eight head in Canada. The character of the
few animals of this breed was very high.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The friends of DIR. Hoskins, among whom
we are numbered, will rejoice that he is able
to contradict the report in q recent issue of
the FARMER, of the precarious condition of
his health. 1t had been remarked that
brother Wetherell of the Cultivator was
probably of opinion that, if Dr. Hoskins was
really dying he was "dying hard" May
he be spared these many years.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The convention of governors and others
at Omaha, to discuss the question Of getting
rid of the grasshoppers, concluded its session
recently. Resolutions were adopted urging
the states and territories interested to enact
laws offering bounty for the collection and
destruction Of eggs and unfedged grasshop.
pers, and suggesting the repeal of the game
laws, or such modification thereof as to pre-
vent the destruction Of the birds which
feed on insects, Congressional action was
also recommended.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

We are sometimes asked by dairymen
what substance to use 10 coloring butter for
market. Our uniform reply is, by all means
use butchers Golden Liquid, as we know it
is the best from actual trial. 1t gives the
butter bright golden yellow color so exact.
ly like the natural color of June butter that
an expert can seldom detect the difference.
BE sure and get butchers; it is put up in
green glass bottles.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

Although the Northampton agricultural
society continues to offer somewhat liberal
premiums for progressive husbandry," in.
cludng reclaimed lands, the best experiments
in raising grains and root crops, and the cul-
ture of forest trees-as all societies who
pocket the state bounty are bound to do
nobody in the three counties has lately cared
to compete for them.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

PoTATo BEETLE. - CoTswoLDs. Il NAV
have something to say about the potato
beetle before planting time-I have had a
little experience with them the past season
Mr.. Stoddard of Peacham may have some
good Cotswold sheep, but should not con.
slider the lambs very fine unless they showed
wool twice the length mentioned in the last
FARMER. l have had lambs whose wool
would measure ten inches and did not con-
slider it worth Dragging about.
A, d. ARMS.
Montpelier, Oct. 30.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The grand stand, judges stand, poultry
house, sheds and fencing of the fair grounds
association at New Orleans, leased by the
Louisiana jockey club, were burned, Satur-
day, and the main exhibition building was
considerably damaged loss $4,000.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

There is some improvement in the condi-
ton of the district Of Bombay India, so
distressed by drouth and shortness Of the
crops. Great suffering, however, exists in
Sholaporc, where cattle are selling at a
few pence each, on account of the lack of
water Reports from Madras are also
gloomy.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The standard adopted by the United States
is the Winchester bushel, 81 inches in diam
eter inside, - inches deep, and contains
2,l50 42.l00 cubic inches 1t is the legal
bushel each state having no special statute
of its own.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

The Alabama state grange fair at Mont
gomery closed on Saturday, having made the
largest display of field and garden products
ever seen in the state. One gardener exhib-
tied $40 different garden aud field prod
uets
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

Two enterprising Calilonians, who, four
years ago, planted thousand acres in wal
nuts and almonds, will net over two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars from this years
crop.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.

THEE Subscriber offers for sale the premises lately
occupied by b. F. Hill on Caledonia Street in St.
Johnsbury, consisting Of dwelling house. barn and
large garden This property is situated thas must
increase rapidly in value business revives and will
be sold at bargain. For terms inquire of the subscr
Der. Marshall Montgomery,
Attorney and Agent,
Railroad Street.
ST. Johnsbury, Oct. llth, 1876.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10

A new way has been discovered by New
port man to stop a runaway horse. 1t is to
dash pail Of water in his face.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10
SMALL PLACE FOR SALE.

The subscriber will sell his place at St. Johnsbury
adjoining the Fair Ground. 1t contains two Of
ground, good house and barn, agood garden with so
fruit trees, running water at house and barn and in
the garden that never fails, even dry time. The
buildings are 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 very easy terms Apply to Hiram
Russell on the premises, or Joseph Gautlier at the
harness shop on Eastern Avenue.
l., o. RICHARDS.
St Johnsbury Aug 2i 1876.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-07-28
A Contrast.

Suppose Hayes had such a record
as Tilden's opposition 10 the war
demanding peace at any price in
1864; the intimate friend and adj
wiser of Boss Tweed, and the
whole gang of New York plumber
ers; the man who cheated Griswold
out of an election in 1868, and
counted Hoffman in by fraudulent
votes; who turned Reformer only
when he saw there was no hope for
the survival of the ring which he
had been supporting; whose only
reforms consist of the prosecution
of one personal enemy, and that
enemy, though convicted, not yet
in the penitentisry, while his law
yer appeared before the st. Louis
convention, an ardent supporter of
Tilden Suppose Hayes had been
such man as this, what chance
would there have been for HIM in
the Cincinnati convention His
name would have been laughed at
there, and his candidacy would
have been a failure from the very
beginning. Among the DemOcra-
cy Tilden is known chiefly as an
astute manager. In the Republic
can party such a man would be
known as an associate of corrupt
rings, aud dangerous enemy to
the State,