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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28
Butter Naming.

II the experience of the following writer
for the Ohio Farmer is to be taken as u fair
average, the butter of Ohio is very poor.
l am "butter-and-egg" mau-that is, l
run wagon on "route," gathering up but
ter and eggs for shipping. l am "middle-
man." but also own a small farm, and regard
one employment Just as honorable as the
other. But this is not what L started to
write about. The point l wish to call atten-
ton to is the great amount of poor butter
made by farmers. l visit on every round
filly-eight farmers and get all the butter they
make. used to work in q butter dairy,
and claim to know what good butter is, and
Of these fifty.eght farmers wives only nine
of them make what would be regarded as
first quality of butter. but it wouldn't do for
me to tell them 50. The butter obtain is
Of all grades Of excellence Tor quality vary
ing from "grease," which comprises about
half, to the 6ne solid, golden butter, with a
flavor that would tempt dyspeptic. The
latter, however, is made at one house only
out Of the whole number. In attempting to
get at the reason of this disparity, End
some difficulties. Methods Of making vary,
facilities for keeping milk are different, pas
lures are not all the same and COWS give milk
Of different quality. These all will not &C.
count for the difference Of quality in the
butter, and am forced to the conclusion
that it is solely the treatment which the
milk receives from the time it leaves the COW
till 1t is converted into butter.
The average woman is too careless, and no
wonder. There is no encouragement here
for making an effort to produce good butter
All butter, good, bad, and Indifferent, brings
the same price, unless the maker Of the good
butter can make private contract to supply
some hotel, boarding house, or private fami
lies. Some do this, and get Ave to ten Centl
per pound above the market price.
Now | would like TO see proper discrim
inAtion madc in the purchase Of butter. Il
is shame to put roll Of really good buttel
into the mass Of "grease" which one collects
In "butter tour" but l am compelled I,
do It. can't get any more for the goOC
than for the poor. There is only one remedy
for US "eut west people," and that is t,
manufacture enough Of really good butter b
mako discrimination an object. This is no
done now. The ratio of good butter is s
small that it will not pay to keep it separate
and 1t must all be thrown in together, an
worked over, and sent TO market as "wester
butter" where it is sold at much less figure
than creamery or dairy butter Of almost an
locality. should like to hear from other
on this question.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

MELON SUGAR.-The manufacture of sugar
from melons is about to be established near
San Francisco. The superiority of melons
to beets for the manufacture of sugar is said
to be conclusively proven, and already a
company has been formed and land purchased
on Andras Island, whore the manufacture
will be commenced in short time. Water
melons are to be used principally, the cost
both of raising and reducing being much less
than any other class of melons or fruit suit
able for the purpose. Besides producing
sugar, the melon is said to give a delicious
syrup, while the seeds will be used for the
manufacture of table.oil Regarding the
superiority Of the melon the correspondent
says: AS compared with beets, the syrup
of which is unfit for use, and the impurities,
for which expensive detergcuCc is required,
the pulp Of melons, being FREQ from impur-
tiles, needs no complex treatment; no car
bonic acid, little boneblack, and but a frac-
tion of lime, and small per cent. Of watery
elements to be evaporated. Beets are plant
ed 10 rows feet apart and 8 inches asunder
requiring only oue.third the plowing and
not one.fourth the wedding. The harvest is
cleanly, and not laborious, in melons, as in
beets. In the mill beets require washing
me Ions not. The juice Of beets is liable tc
soon turn black and run into fermentation.
Melon.juice never blacks aud for several
days has no tendency to fermeut. For cattle
feed the refuse from melons is more nutri'
tOus and more palatable.-Er.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

UTILIZATION OF SEwAGE.-The Spring
field Republican says; 1t is a great piece
of extravaganza for city to run its sewage
into the river or sea. Its value as fertil-
izer is fully acknowledged by scientists. but
popular in6delity has led to financial fall
ures in the more prominent attempts to use
it. On smaller scale and under fairer
conditions il is proving success. In 1870
the local board Of health turned the sewage
of an English district Of 5000 inhabitants
on 2S-acre lot. In 1873 the expenses
were S2,995 and receipts $6,060,-and this
on land that was all run down, and needed
two years Of manuring to prepare 1t for a
reasonable test The earl Of Warwick pays
bennington S2,250 year for its sewage,
and the profits on 400.acre farm, though
not known, are acknowledged to be large.
The water from this land is free from fun
gold grOwths. Rye grass fed by this sew,
age was cut seven times, last summer, and
the root crops stimulated to an enormous
growth, mangolds producing over 80 tons to
the acre, Although the plan to utilize the
immense sewage Of London failed, few
years since, 1t is being tried again, accord
ing to method invented by John Box.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

AMERICAN RoAsr BEEF IN ENGLAND
Liverpool Courier says; Something over
one hundred tons of American beef, prepared
by the cold-air process, is brought weekly
into the London market. The beef is pro.
nounced to be excellent aud is sold of rapid
ly by West End butchers, who do not think
it necessary to inform their customers that
it has crossed the Atlantic. Whether the
beef is sold under the market price Of native
beef to the butchers is one Of those dead Sc
crets of cattle raft which no outsider can dis
cover. The butchers do not make any re-
duction in the price per pound to consumers.
AS the imported heef meets with instantan-
eous sale; the probability is that the traffic
in the article will increase and extend. Ships
constructed specially for this trade are in
preparation, and when these are At full and
constant work the supplies from the United
States will be multiplied, and then perhaps
a wOrkingman may purchase a piece Of
sound beef without expanding one-half his
weeks wages.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28
Selling the Old Farm.

There is q constant buying and selling OF
farms going on from year to year in our
country. This restlessness on the part Of the
farmer and this desire to change present
location for another one hundreds Of miles off,
is so frequently witnessed in our day that we
cease to wonder at it. In the time Of our
foreiathers, when man was settled on
farm he commonly continued on il through life,
and then left it for his son. In times gone
by, the same farm was first occupied by the
grandfather and so on by the son and grand
son. Then the good old homestead was rev.
erenced and the occupancy Of it was es.
tsemed great privilege. There was satis-
faction felt by the successor that his prede-
cessor was his relative, cultivated the same
fields, wandered by the same brooks, travsed
the same hills, and ate of the fruit Of the
same orchard. Then there was q homo feel.
ing, home associations, and home attach
ments. Now the farmer looks more to his
pecuniary gains, aud when offered q large
price for his land, hesitates not to SELL lie
quits his beautiful home, his well-oultiVated
acres, emigrates to the Far West, and com.
mences life of hardship that he never
dreamed Of. II can safely be said that
where one man succeeds in this undertaking
many fail. If he could only sell his new
farm, how gladly would he HE back to the
old home, now occupied by strangers, and
the enclosure contains the graves Of his kin
dred going to ruin. With the advent o.
spring, many will dispose Of their farms and
remove to far-of country, to undergo the
priVAtions and troubles incident upon Ostab.
fishing home in new country. Our Ad
vice to is remain where you are. II you ar
comfortably of, be contested To remain 50
Do not exchange certainty for an uncer
tainty, unless powerful reasons are brought :
bear upon you to seek new settlement in
distant region. Stick to the old farm, for
has never failed you in the time Of need
Nei0 England Homestead.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

The season has been thus far remarkably
favorable to tho growth Of crops. This,
with few exceptions, is the report from all
parts of the country. The very great heat
which prevailed in the early part and mid
die of July has dried up the soil, so that
there is at the present writing (July 22d)
apprehension of injury to the crops. Pas
ture feed has already suffered.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

MEAL AND HAY FOR FATTENINd STocK.-
"An Old Farmer" who has been accustomed
to feed aud fatten few animals, has record
ed small item Of his practice in regard to
feeding raw meal, against cooked meal. He
writes my practice in fAttening beef and
swine, as well as feeding cows for milk, has
been to pour boiling water on as much meal
as would not make the animals bowels move
too freely at night aud in the morning. When
the mush is cool give it TO the COW or pig
In covering the meal with boiling water IN
this way the starch of the grain is dissolved
and the latent nutritive properties extracted,
aud the animal receives the entire nutriment
Of the grain. l have for two years past fat
ted two ordinary-sized cows, feeding only
meal and hay and only 300 pounds each of
the former, and each yielded upward of forty
pounds of rough tallow. Salt was given
once week and occasionally tablespoonful
ofwood.ashes. In my experience 100 pounds
scalded and fed as above is equal to 200
pounds fed dry"
Live stock do not, in eating dry meal, re-
ceive more than one.half of the goodness Of
the meal, or there would not be so many farm
ers as he knows who feed from four to eight
quarts of meal day to one beef creature,
till they feed from seven to ten hundred weight
of meal to one animal. Those farmers never
slaughter an ordinary sized beef that yields
upward Of forty pounds Of rough talow.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28
Pasture Grass.


Atthe Montpelier meeting of the Vermont
Dairyman's Association Mr.. Stewart, editor
Of the Live Stock journal, stated that "Ver-
mont has an envinble celebrity for her deli
cious butter, and she owes it to the great
variety of grass produced upon her hill
and mountain side. A botanist would find q
hundred or more varieties"
A correspondent Of that Journal who
gives the signature Of "W. H. b." and who
is graduate of the Massachusetts, agricul.
tural college, writes upon this statement. Nv.
II. B." remarks:
notice that the editor thinks that "on
good pasture sward in Vermont, a botanist
would fine one hundred varieties of grass"
take it he means species, for few pastures
OF grasses have varieties. In the first place,
if we search on mountains and in valleys, on
dry ground and in swsmps, in pasture, wood,
aud mowiugs throughout the whole of Ver-
mont, we shall find but about eight spe-
cies and varieties, while our best pasture
turfs in this section are composed Of white
clover (not grass know, june grass Pea
pratenSiS) annual spear grass (P. annual,
aud red top (AgroStis Umtgaris). A few
more species are sparingly found, but make
little of the sWard. Add to these herdsgrass
(Phlume pratense), and meadow fescue Fes-
tuca pratensiSl, also red clover, and on poor
knols sold fog or "white grass" DanthOnid
spieataJ, you have the grasses, natural and
artificial, found in our mowings. Our chief
pasture grass is june grass Pea pratensiS),
People are apt to look at grasses like the
sands on the sea, or the stars in the sky, as
innumerable; but it is not so. Our pastures
would be bettcred if we had greater num-
Der of grasses; We have but few. Grass
culture is one of the most important subjects
| for Vermont farmers.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

Harris Lewis, the Herkimer county dai-
ryman, said, in an address to milk prOduc.
ers, that he had known a COW which uni.
formly gave eighteen per cent of cream to
her milk, to decrease her yield to six per
cent in twelve hours, merely from the ex-
Citement caused by the bad treatment Of q
brutal mixer. 1t was not gussswork, be-
cause he used graduated glasses to test the
matter. Mr.. Lewis states the case none too
strongly. The COW, to do her best in guam
tity and quality of milk, must be kept in a
state Of perfect quiet, contentment and CON-
fort.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

PLAsTER.--The celebrated farmer, John
Johnston, of Geneva, N. Y, says he has
used plaster every year since he came on his
farm, now ffly-four years and il has done
wonders for him on corn, clover, and
grass. The frst he used was on corn, soak
ing the corn in water, then mixing it with
plaster when wet. He planted the plastered
corn, and hired man planted the corn that
was not plastsred. When the corn was up,
that which was plastered was stronger and
better colored than the other. Itkept ahead
throughout the season, and when ripe, q
blind man could have told the difference by
feeling the stalks and ears.-ChieagO Tri'
baNe.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

The Springfield Republican, describing
violent tornado and hail-stOrm that visited
towns in Middlesex county recently, says,
II" Bushels Of apples and pears were riddled
and shaken from the uines and trees by the
hail and wind"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

The straw Of oats or barley, cut when
half turned in color and cured bright, makes
food for stock of much greater value than
straw Of ripe grain. The grain is worth
nearly, if not quite, as much too. There
certainly is not loss enough on the grain to
balance the gain on the berry.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

Wheat cut while in the dOugh-while the
kernel is still so soft that it can be easily
crushed between the fiuger aud thumb-nail-
makes plumper, heavier grain and better
head than if il stands until the berry is
dead.ripe and hard
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

The grangers of North Troy, Jay and
Newport Center held picnic near Reed
Keith's on the 4th. Five hundred or more
we're present; addresses were made aud
a good time enjoyed.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28
FARM FOR SALE.

The subscriber offers to sell his farm at East Cabot
consisting Of 2i0 Of good land divided into tage
and pasture. There Is orchard OF 10 young bearing
trees two good sugar places Of 32j trees In each The
heavy tim6ered land covers l25 and includes a hne
growth of cedar The farm Is we'll fenced and there IS
a good supply of running water and we'll water The
farm is but three and half miles from West Danyule
depot and only hall mile from post Office and hrst-
rate school, Will be sold at low figures and on easy
terms. Enquire Of b. F. Rollins, st. Johnsby or Of
the subscriber on the place. .
East Cabot, Vt.
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15

Every msn ha. a good .fe.A of .rli--nr-
ceii. lie thinks be know. il.,i hsv ,,,ry-
ought 10 be-. Yet. uo farmer wHl a-us
that some nen-ail thing, being equal a.
reEarls farm. location. tools anI ta.A>-
will succeed aud prosper. Wh.lr others a.c
continually Do arrears. Nc Iusure The
cause, AID arc answered that 90, one 20 tu
Knows how % manage. 10 manage What!
he may not managet to -cii OF by auy bet
ter than H. u,i-hbor, hu'. % we observe
closely, We had be manage to make li.
own time and that of hi hired help count
more. The farmer should hook ahead. uo;
only from one day ts another. but from
season TO season. lie should l05k hi.
work all over. and make calculations l.r
rainy weather aud for accid, ui,. 80 that Il
anything should happcu 10 stop the pro-
gress OF some particular JOB he could i'm
mediately turn HI forces on 10 something
that is necessary TO be done. auI - >ouu
a. possible proceed with the mos, impor.
taut job until it is completed. Push thiuG-. !.
-NN'Ni bt eiA1.h W E'ttttf- st4 4tNtN lANaA4
piece Of work completed too soon IL IL i>
the proper season for II. am acquainted
with ShortSisht, who was ob igcd 10 stop
plowinS his corn ground in order To re-
move rocks or stump. which should have
been cleared cf " hen business was not
pressing. He consoles himself with the
thought that there Is time enough yet. not
making any calculation for accidents or
rainy weather. The result j.. il hi- neigh
Dor plants hi corn the tenth of May Ag
plants on the twelfth Of June. H. aver,
that lie Is up earlier, works harder aud
goes TO bed later than any other man.
ct his neighbor, LongsiGht, will Guido
him-raise better crops aud gc; them ap
in letter shape. And ShortIslt can't toll
why. He is always In a stew aud iI,t.
Let him cool down, ilud out what j. needed
t. be done first an 1 then 20 a; e quietly
aud stick to il until il i finished. Then
90 Al the next thing needed, always Keep
cool and always thinking. Thi. advice ap-
plies 10 every man who find, I; difficult to
accomplish his necessary worn and MAKE
it give 4 fair rcturn.-New York World.
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15

Ok Yoke. do. do. do.
Axe Helve. do. do. do.
Models Improved Farm
Implements, do. do do.
Display of Farm In
plements. 90. do. do.
Specimens of Painting
and GraiAng, do. do do.
Specimens OF Book Bind
ing, do. do. do.
Display Of Teachers
Judges. Simeon Lord. Wills HodsAius.
Races. DruriHg, Gc.
Two Races.
Drawing with Horses.
Oxen or Steer.
Foot or sack Race.
Conditions 10 5c made .uoau on thc
morning of Fair
LJTHER Loan, sc D.. -.
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15
poetrp.
Hymn Of Peace.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


Angel of Peace, thou hast wandered too long
Spread thy white wings u the sunshine Of
love,
Come while our voices are blended in song:
Fly 70 our ark like tho siorm-beaten dove.
Fly to our ark on the wings of dove
Speed DER the far-soundng pillows of song.
Crowned with thine olive-lesf garland Of love,
Angel Of peace, thou hast waited too long
Brothers, we met on this altar OF thine.
Miugng the gilt. we have gathered for thee
Sweet with the odors Of myrtle snd pine,
Breeze OF the prairie and breath OF the sea,
Meadow and mountain and forests and Sea.
sweet Is the iragfaD Of nlyrtle and pine,
>wecier the incense we offer 10 thee.
Brothers. once more, round this altar OF
thine,
Angels oi Bethlehem. answer the strain
Htrk, new bTth-song j. ii ing the skt'
Loud ~ the stprm-wiud that iumhles The main,
1871 the fu.l breath of the orgAp reply,
1t THE ipud tempest of voices reply.
k3A H. long surge Ike the cafth-shaking
main
swell tie Nast song tai u mounts % the skN
Aug'.ls II Bethiehem, echo thc straiu'
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15

To COLOR SCARLET.-Take half a
pound of madder, half a ounce of cream
tartar and one ounce of marine or n.y.
drochloric acid to one pound of goods.
Put all together and bring the dye to a
scald for ten minutes, but do not boil
rinse Immediately in cold water.
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15

To KEEP SWINE HEALTHY.-Give hogs
plenty of pure water to drink, and keep
within their reach equal parts of wood
ashes, common salt and flour Of sulphur,
and you need not fear hog cholera, not
other disease.
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15
$Sarm AND Aousfb0IO
The Eureka Farmers Club
Will uuIp A TkIll Al
RHral nall, Hast ssrry. o. ~ eds~-aa,, Oc-
tsber An. 1876.

t.-1 >apPrr 10 The evening 10 be fol-
lowed ty Lecture
A4R.ttAnce to Hall. Visitor, Tickets.
2lct.. Exhibitors Tickets. 10 Ct Meals,
3D. C'>
rno4. entered for competition must be
ia place at . O'Clock 4. NJ. and remain Ut
t.l . O'Clock +. NJ. Awards 10 be made
ll -lflg tut ru,r.es are made IN each class
4, follows
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15
state Of Maine.

:. ) ,CoURT-PENoBscoT Co. April seth, Is76.
EBES sTUBBs 4 AL.
v.
BUChsPORT SAVINGS BANK.
| Is hereby ordered that the commissioners ap-
i pointed IN The above entitled cause, meet in
Bucksport in the banking room Of said bank ON
every saturday in May, June, and JuA neAt at 10
O'Clock A. M Tor the purpose of relieving and
deciding upon all claims against said institution
and II Is hereby further ordered, that said com.
nlsslOners shall give notice of the time and place
OF sald meetings by publishing an attested eopy
OF this order in the Bangor weekly Courier, gnd
ihe Ellsworth American, throughout said months
of May, June aud July.
JOHN APPLETON, {. J. 5. j. c.
true coPy-Attest:-E. G. BRETT, Clerk
The undersigned commissioners appointed by
the court hereby give notice, that they viii be in
session In accordance with tie above order at the
Danhlng room OF the Bueksport savings Bank at
10 o'clock A. u. Every saturday, in the months
oil May, June and July next, TO receive and decide
upon all claims against said institution.
y. L. CUNNINGHAM.
Jmosle ISAAC PARTRIDGE
Ellsworth American., 1876-06-15
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