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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-31

We invite special attention tn our Wash
ingson lettc-, which contains complete
rrssw. Of pews In the National Capital nj
20 Ia date.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-31

All new buildings arc progressing with
great mpality.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-31

Several of the most intelligent and pros
porous colorod men in the parish have
lately subscribed for TIE GUARDIAN.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-31

Trenton has received mp ~ date THU
sca.ou 3.0f5 bales Of cation.
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DR.. AOLBROOK,
DENTIST,

HAS opsned an Office in Homer. =
IL an experience extending through y
than twenty Year,. Performs o. inc
rations as any in the State, New Orise,
not excepted. Call and see specimeae
my work. Prices reasonable; Terms -
Persons waited on at their residences in y
country, If desired. 49,. y
B. +. HOLBROOK, D. D: y
Oct. IL, IS77. ~
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II IL runorcd that the surrey Of tn
North Louisiana Railroad Is going on rcgu
larly.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

q busy place. lnerc are mere iooh-
ing after the affairs of State-and
positions-men from all SECTIONS of
the country. Patriots Of both par
ties would consider themselves and
the country fortunate could they So
cure a position where their valuable
services might be utilized. There
are men here who are ready to state
that fhe Government really must
appoint them, in order to have the
Administrator policy a success. AS
usual there are few positions to be
filed, and ninety and nine disap,
pointed aspirants to one successful
zone. When will American citizens
learn that honest, manly labor and
effort in some legitimate calling will
render them more return than a
position under Uncle SAM And
yet every winter hundreds of per
sons collect here to spend their time
and earnings in following political
phantoms that are respondent
with promises, but full Of disappoint,
ment.
The Speaker (Mr. Randall) has
had to 60 to hishomc in Philadelphia,
because he could have no leisure
time here to prepare his committees.
Meanwhile the House has taken a
recess, and the omnipresent lobbyist
is improving the shining hours.
The Senate has been mixed up for
the last few days in trying to settle
the Louisiana Senatorial conun'
drum. Kellogg's credentials, with
Spofford's, have been referred to the
committee, and there is considerable
interest in the result.
The House has two famous jokers
among its personnel this session
Cox, of New York, and Ben. Butler.
The former for the last two years
has been known rs the "witty man
of the House, and before that time
Butler enjoyed that honor. He it
was who made the expression "shoo
fly" 80 famous He was interested
in q debate, and was continually
annoyed by Mr.. Cox, so much so
that lie turned to that distinguished
gentleman, and in tones of the most
profound disgust said, "Shoo-fy-
don't bother me-
The "Quid nuncs,7 and by the way,
where on earth are they moro plen.
tiful than in Washington, are busy
now settling the committees, since
the Speakership question has been
disposed of. Their latest report
puts Saylcr, of Ohio, at the head Of
the Judiciary Committee. Speaker
Randall has been so entirely non.
communicative that no one can
speak knowingly concerning the ap.
pontmcnts.
Among other things, the Georgia
Marshalship is attracting consid.
cradle attention on account of the
applicants for the place.
One NJ. &. has recommended twenty
different men for the position.
Senator Jones' Silver Commission
has at last reported. recommends
n twofold standard and the re.
monetization Of silver.
"My Dear Pitkin- is here on a
short soiourn. lie does not like
nomination.
The Government has decided to
send the captured Nez Perces TO
Dakota, where they can be supported
cheaper than on Tongue River.
There has bSen held here lately a
series Of meetings of the patent at
torneys, and they intend to petiSfon
Congress to amend the existing
Patent laws, as they are in a sense
wholly injurious to the American
patent system.
1t is thought that at least 1000
models can be saved from the ruins
Of the Patent Office by identifying
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-31

"a trenndoM storm of wind and rain
Monday evening
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Sc Succession nile of valuable properly
nj J. X. Walkers late residence.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-31

Succession ale Of land belonging to Good
enough estate 10 advertised elsewhere.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
WHOLE NO. 800.
Cnrrfspnndrnff.
Care and Management of Poultry.

To make poultry pay good square profit
we must devote care and attention to them,
just as much as we do to our horses, COWS
and sheep. II we did not give our cows any
more attention than most farmers do with
their poultry, we would say cows don't pay;
it costs more to keep them than they are
worth. The fact is, people have no idea
that hens and other poultry will take care of
themselves by throwing them a handful of
corn occasionally, when they feel like it.
They are apt to keep cockerol of their own
stock year after year, or exchange with
neighbor and get one just as near related as
their own; this soon runs out the stock the
result is some of the chicks are small, puny,
crooked-backed, wry.tailed, twisted-wiuged
birds, that costs more to fit them for the
table, or market, than they will come to;
again, the pullets don't seem to shell out the
eggs favorably. Now they should first be
well sheltered, where these cold nights will
not affect them much; give them good,
warm place then they will thrive give them
plenty of reproducing food, such as fresh,
clean water boiled potatoes, shorts mixed
with corn meal, barley, oats, scraps from the
table, occasionally meat chopped up and
green feed, such as chopped cabbage, etc.
Fowls will not lay well in winter on one kind
of food alone they must have a variety and
a change, and egg producing in winter is the
time for profit; this is when eggs bring the
high prices. The cultivation of improved
poultry stock, whether for market, for eggs,
or for fancy breeding, if properly cared for
and faithfully attended to is as paying busi-
ness as anything raised on the farm, but if
not cared for, nor their wants provided for, is
apt to cause the complaint that poultry rais-
ing don't pay. l feel perfectly justified in
saying that it will pay any farmer to invest
in paying some reliable breeder of thorough
bred stock good price for pure bred cock
erel Of some variety, even if 1t costs from 81
to 30, and no farmer that keeps the common
fowls can afford to do any other way. 1t
costs no more to keep good stock than it
does to keep poor, inferior stock study the
wants of the fowls as you do the wants of
other stock it is not so much in the breed
that makes poultry breeding profitable as it
is in care and feed, after you have selected
the breed that suits your fancy best; it will
pay for your extra time and expense in a
single year as well according to the time
and money invested) as sowing good seed and
narrowing well for good harvest. For
egg producers the Leghorns or Hamburgs
are the best, though small breeds. For poul-
try for the table the Brahmas, Cochins and
Plymouth Rocks are the best, though the
three latter breeds are good average layers.
If well attended and judiciously fed, housed,
and marketed in the appropriate season, the
culture of poultry is, and always will be,
paying business.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
Cold Barns.

On trip through part of Vermont and
New Hampshire this winter, could not but
observe the barns and the cattle, and was
greatly surprised to find so very many large
farms on which the stables were but little
better than an open shed fronting the south.
To be sure if there was high wind these
stables would shelter the cattle little from
the blast, but on a still cold, night the ther-
mometer would indicate nearly as low tenn
perature inside as outside of them. The cat
tie were tied up aud so could not exercise to
keep warm. Such stables With not even
partition in many Of them between the heads
OF the cattle, and the open floor and more
open barn, with cracks between the boards
and in the stable door nearly an inch wide
and now and then hole cut in the door at
the bottom for the convenience of the hens
Add to this almost inhuman way of caring
for stock the fact that it was fed on late cut
hay and straw, and the wonder is that the
cattle live through to spring. [ do really be-
lieye that if Vermont and New Hampshire
would make their hay from two to four weeks
earlier in the season than they do usually and
that at no extra expense and would expend
say fifteen dollars on an average to make
their stables warm that the gain in one year
would be more than two million dollars Ii
is said that you can touch man most effect
aully by touching his pocket now think the
pockets of the farmers are touched with a
vengeance in this thoughtless, slip.shod way
of farming, for very many of the farmers are
stock raisers in these states, making this their
principal business. Perhaps they think they
will make their stock hardy and no doubt
they will but where is the gain and so the
profit Not until the warm days of spring,
il indeed until the grass grows, can they per-
ceive any gain. Contrast the COW that is fed
on late cut hay in cold barn that yields
four or five quarts Of poor milk per day,
with that fed on early cut hay and little
meal or roots 10 a warm stable aud Yields
from eight to ten quarts per day Of good
milk and is herself gaining in flesh, and say
which has the advantage.
The writer, acting upon the above theory,
has native COW that he keeps warm aud dry
aud feeds her well, and she returns nearly
three dollars per week for the feed and the
work at any rate he has received the sum of
eighty-one dollars as her yield within the
last seven months besides the milk used in
the family of six. S.L.
| Cidrsm0Hf, ". H.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09

ardson Of Waterford on the "Importance Of
Education on the Farm which though brief
was so pointed and suggestive for young
farmer that we shall publish il.
In reply to the question as to how we can
prevent the ravages Of the potato bug, Mr..
Mead gave the direction of gentleman in
Pennsylvania, which was to mix Paris green
one part with twenty parts plaster of Paris
and sift it on the potatoes in the morning
when the dew is on. Put it on when the
potatoes are first up and the bugs appear /;
then again when the second crop of bugs ap.
pear, and again when the third crop appears,
and the potatoes will be secure. He made a
sieve by tying piece of coarse cotton over
an old tin pail or cup turned bottom up and
held by wooden handle three or four feet
in length 50 as to keep the poison from be-
ing inhaled.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
CLUBBING WITH OTHER PAPERS.
PRICES REDUCED.

The following publications will be sent with the
VERMONT FARMER, one year, at tho prices named ai-
ter each. The prices given include the postage on
both the Farmer and the paper clubbed with it, which
will be paid by the publishers. The conditions are,
that all arrearages for the Farmer If there any,
shall be paid; and that both papers be paid for
at the same time but ii Is not necessary that both
should be sent TO the person, nor 70 the same
post office.
II papers or magazines not in this list are wanted
write US and we will ascertain what can furnish
them with the Farmer for and answer you, We claim
unsurpassed facilities for obtaining papers and maya
ZINES at low rates, when furnished with the Farmer.
What you by ordering your city paper or maga-
zine with the Farmer
large discount ia price.
All risk Of transmitting the funds,
The cost of money order or registration.
The trouble of writing 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, 1877-02-09

We have then in skinned milk cheese
nearly double the amount of the hesh form
ing substance that we have in whole milk
cheese and nearly the same amount as in
beef The fat to furnish heat we can supply
by other substances. TO make an article
that would sell well and suit the consumer,
| would follow this process; Set the milk in
the shallow pans and in butter dairies for
twelve, twenty-four or thirty-six hours, or
for whatever length Of time is required to
raise the cream and keep the milk perfectly
sweet, which may be done by running water
around the pans. Remove the cream aud
set the skinned milk for cheese at as low a
temperature as possible, say from 759 to
so >; add rennet sufficient to coagulate in 20
minutes; cook the curd tS6 to 909; avoid
all tendency to acidity, aud be as expeditions
in the operation as possible and not suffer
waste. | would salt spariugy and press
carefully. Place the cheese in a warm room
tc cure, and when fifteen or twenty days old
send them to market. would retain as
much water in the curd as would insure its
melOwness and carly ripening, Three.
fourths of the consumers of cheese in thi,
country prefer new cheese providing it is
mellow and of good flavor, and young people
as a rule like it as near the press as they car
get it.
would not have all dairymen 60 into the
business Of making skinned milk cheese ioI
that would overdO it, but believe a certain
amount Of good article, would find ready
sale at good prices aud the income of tn,
butter dairy increased thereby.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09

BLACK LEG IN CALvEs.-At the dairy
mems meeting at Burlington last week the
subject Of black-leg came up, and you re.
member the time was limited so l did not
state my experience, which now send to
you thinking it may save tho lives Of some
young cattle next spring Twenty .ono years
ago was remarkable, like last year, for
great surplus of apples, and after filling all
the cider barrels we could buy or borrow we
stored forty bushels Of little, hard, sweet ap-
Piles aud fed them to the calves that winter,
and | never saw handsomer or fatter YEAR
lings in all my life, but, alas, the sweet 10 the
apples thlckened their blooi to that extent
that they all died with black leg in the fol-
lowing spring. Sweet apples make excellent
food for most kinds of stock when Judi
ciously fed, but remember my calves aud
govern yourself accordingly, ii you care to.
4, .. NARAMoRR.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
WEEKLIES

American Union, Boston, and Vermont Farmer, $500
Boston Weekly Traveller and Vt. Farmer, BIO
Country Gentleman and Vermont Farmer, 800
Boston Weekly Globe and Vermont Farmer, 300
Detroit Free Press and Vermont Farmer, $40
Springfield Republican and Vt. Farmer, $40
Harpers Weekly ana Vermont Farmer, 5.s5
Harpers BazaT and Vermont Farmer, 80
American Rural Home and Vermont Farmer, 275
Christian Union and Vermont Farmer, 4.U
New York World aud Vermont Farmer, $50
Youths Companion new subs and W. Farmer, 2.sj
New York Sun and Vermont Farmer, 27j
New York Tribune and Vermont Farmer 300
Rural New Yorker and Vermont Farmer, 375
Scientific American and Vermont Farmer, 4'30
New York Witness and Vermont Farmer, 2.sj
SEMI-WEEKLIEs.
Boston Journal and Vermont Farmer, $50
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New York Tribune and Vermont Farmer, 400
DAILIES
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MONTHLIES
scribners Monthly and Vermont Farmer, 4,5C
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Nursery and Vermont Farmer, 27l
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Household and Vermont Farmer. 22i
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Poultry World and Vermont Farmer 2.5l
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chronological Journal, aud Science OF Health, and
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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
The White Solomon Oats.

Raised pure from seed imported from Liverpool, are
believed 10 the most profitable variety for the New
England States, and possesses the following merits
They yield large crops of heavy grain from 6O TO 50
raised the past season 3J2 bushels on acres. They
are not subject IN mildew rust, and do not lodge
badly They grow several oats in hull, and are per-
fectly hardy and adapted 10 all kinds Of soils,
Many testimonials TO the superiority Of these oats
could be given, but not deemed necessary. Refer
ence may he had 10 q. Horace Hubbard and H. ii
Howe of Springfield, VT N. s. Clark, ESD, Of Ran
dolph VT Hon. Levi Bartlett Of Warner, N. H., and
the Commissioner Of Agriculture, who have tested
them, and know whereof they speak The W Farmer
SAYS: 'HThe testimony In their favor is unanimous"
offer these oats at the following rates, delivered at
r. r. Station or Express Office | peck, or lbs, 7j
cents; half bushe, l6 lbs. Sl2ji bushel, or 3S
lbs. $500. No charge made for packages or sacks.
All orders with funds promptly filled.
JAMES "a. WALKER.
Weathersfeld, Vt, Feb. /, 1877.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09

AT BED time now, after the little Phila-
delphia boy has said his "Now l lay me,
he adds, in a truly thankful spirit, MA, amt
| glad don't have to sleep out in the shed
any more"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
HATCH 81 CRAW,
PRoPRIETORS OF
Forest and Lowell Mills,
Manufacturers of, and Wholesale Dealers in,
FLOUR AND FEED,
T.o~oll. Mich.

We make a speciality Of high grade Of Family and
Pastry Flour, and using the best improved ma
chnery, we'll skilled help, and but Extra White
Winter Wheat and in fact all the necessary requisites
for making such grade OF Flour. Samples sent free
at all times when requested and correspondence sollc
tad
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09

1877 SEED C.HIshLOG CE
And circulars of BlOoded Live Stock FREE. We offer
the best and most reliable Garden, Field and Flower
Seeds See sample packages farm seeds free for two &c
stamps. BENSON Il BURPEE, Seed warehouse rs
Church Street, Philadelphia Pa.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
.1sA A BUILDINGS MOVED.

Ak3$a7k Having had n large Experience, and
possessing all the facilities for Raising and Mo-
wing Buildings Of all kinds in the best posi-.
BILE manner, the subscriber would solicit share of
such work. Work done by the day or job, at hard
times prices JOHN BARR0WS, Hartford, VT.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09

nHnAHEA in Delaware and Maryland. in the
HUHUVRN renowned Peach District. No better
hhShth ~ soil for cereals and grasses Excel.
lag in Fruits Good society, healthy climate, and
cheap communication. Can suit any one. Prices low.
GEO. W. INGRAM, Real Estate Agent.
Middtetown, Newcastle Co, Del,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09

JTiuutoE.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-09
THOROUGHBRED
Good Homestead, Cheap

In Pleasant village Woodstock VT. Two story house
with niue rooms shed and garden Noar best of schools
churches and court house Only Sl0O0 oneha II
down. Apply soon to II. DEARBORN, Woodstock, VT
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-30
BY Robert B. Lyme
Successor to Lyme & Brothcr),
Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer,
No. 1912 Main street

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF THOSE
OTHREE HANDSOME AND DESIRABLE
THREE-STORY STOCK-BRICk TENEMENTS,
Nos. coz, GIL. AND 6l3, SITUATED On TIE
EAST SIDE OF TENTH STREET BETMEEN
LEIGH AND II STREETS, TWO OF WHICH ARE
NOW OCCUPIED BY j. j. FRY, ESQ, AND j: A.
PIZZINI, EsQ-We. the undersigned commission.
erS, acting under decree of the Chancery Court OF
the city Of Richmond pronounced on the 14th day
of April, 1877, in the suits of Bright ps. Walsh and
Walsh rS Bright will proceed TO SELL upon the prem.
ises on MONDAY the 30th day OF April. 1877, at
AZ O'Clock p. NJ. those THREE VERY DES1RA-
BILE BRICK TENEMENTS located as above, and
containing seven rooms, detached kitchens, bath
rooms, closets, &C., and very derp lots.
These houses are comparatively new, having been
erected about five years ago, and are now IN very
good repair, each having large front porches ana
tiue verandas, and are occupied by hrs-ciass ten
ants, and yielding fair rents. The neighborhood Is
one of the best in the city. a..
This sale offers rare chance for an investment or
for securing home so centrally located. Each
tenement fronts % feet and runs back about l25
feet to an alley IN the rear.
TERMS: Que fourth cash balance at six, twelve,
and eighteen months, purchaser to give note, Win
six per cent. interest added and title retained until
all the purchase-money is paid and conveyance Or
dered by the court. A. II. SANDS.
= A. r. COURTNEY,
c. U.WILLIAMS,
Commissioners.
popppr 1--WE Auctioneer. ap1S
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-30

BY W. Goddln,
heai Estate Agent and AuctIoneer.
corner or Eleventh and Ha,t 60,


TRUSTEES SALE OFya1r,
= SGBUkBAN FARM OF rs s5g.1oGoh l. h
r 1,al ~ IN THE CITY or RfiIMHEYrnr, LEES,
m5HESsrppVVoITph III WEST OF THE Marsh n
to the subscriber By Mr. Levi. + ''mMa.eSecu'et
%its. bearing date 9Th April. 1875. dni rsH and
ID tenrico County Court ON tho 5iI NJ, RECORDED
snail, In execution thereof prGceei ~ 1915,
puoilc nctlon, ON the premises. on ,r,.t @t a.
s VI, ~, G.n ay toll, atb O'Clock r. W (if
BILE PROPERTY, located a. : sI"v, aruiy SALCA-
COTTAGE RESIDENCE thereon MOI. % ", u. nc,t
Fancy OF Major John Il. Haryir Jr nn ~ 81" "rcu-
o6-lO0O ACRES the greater par, q, VIII s
mo i've msn anr cuiIivati0n. II adJoins The Ell !c
md ntio Iaa aa L'rothcrs Dr. Thomas rn.gg
limits and within two hunnred yards ~ ~, ne city
llnc OF the Marshall reservoir and hn,nn %'9'rFn
WHICH would make IL an e1t"nsiv. ,,i a,"'r'i t9
city park. The deed rcGuir", ,br, ',srachTe
tract shall be sold subject To- \ nr,, we >ait
trust 70 Messrs WELLINGTON Gtfdin and =, t''G at
Howison trustees. Ito secure a debt ,n H. 'I,!Tlt T.
dth. or his assigns, amounting ~ ~ o. !" h'rc
interest III arrcar.) upon line fo!loyin, "'Ni III
Enough III cash 10 defray EXPENSE. Of Ii ~ :
discharge negotiable note FOR 81 oon iii ahI 70
est from Elst April, 1877; and ao 10 the rr ,'r-
shall prescribe and direct: or. on ihe,r ,,ahogn'
gave any Instructions. then credit ~ "n'2
TWO years Tor negotiable uofrs in,.r, '"S ana
secured by deed Of trust. The <,nrI, ,,,' 2iH!',
capitalists ana Others Is called h. t .. u
tive and VALUABLE PR0pEETY. '''' -''Fac'
RIcTfMoSD;25th April. 1877, '' ifu''sc.
+. S--If all the parties interested woura In ,,,,
request II, the trustee would cause. The s' '.h1
be subdiridcd into such smaller rarrrs as NO. ~. 70
deemed advantageous; otherwise the f,rrn rt'I :,
an2G TRUSTEE.