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WEST FAIRLEE, VT, Jan. II. 1871
Dear Sir-For seven or eight years past have
been in poor health. and for the past year or
more very feeble. Ny health coutinued To decline,
and my flesh and strength wasted away, until
was una bic to work. or even 90 up STAIRS without
great exhau stop. l suffered from frequents ana
distressing attacks of psipnation of the heart my
food distresses me. causing acidity and pain IN
the stomach; and suffer from extreL'e nervous
ness. constipation. and debility OF the system
generally my blood being thin and poor and
sluggish 10 circulation, and was for years
suffering all the tornes OF connrmed dyspeptic.
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I3s pounds my strength has returned and my
general health is thus wonderfully improved and
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-02-10
Ladies' M Politicians.

There IN generally q woman in
the case" in every important circum.
stance of human affairs. and the fol-
lowing extract from tho Baltimore
Gdsc,te oil tho 10Th uIt., does not
prove 10 tho contrary:
The following incident coming
from u perfectly reliable source,
shows tho determination OF the Rad
icsl conspiratos to count in Hayes
at any hazard. On yesterday there
wa. reception given by one of the
Cabinet ladies', which was attended,
M is customary, by the wives of
Democratic Senators and Represen-
tativss. II happened that in the
general gossip which naturally is
largely engaged in on such occasions,
that the conversation turned on the
dignity and grace with which ladies
had presided over the White House.
Some one OF the ladies' remarked
that Mrs. Secretary Fish would have
filed the difficult position with great
credit. whercupon the wife of one Of
the Cabinet Ministers present said
Mrs. Hayes would not be second to
even Mrs. Fish in this high station.
A lady, the wife Of a Democratic
Congressman, said laughingly that
Mrs. l'elton, the sister of Mr.. Tilden,
was very accomplished lady, and
would grace the White House,
whsreupon Mrs. Secretary Morrill,
said. with considerable heat: eth
den will never occupy the White
House. We have the army and the
navy, and il force is necessary to in
augurate Hayes it will be used" I"
This was said with rude pointedness
Of speech. and the manner of Mrs.
Secretary Morrill, was SO brusque
and unladylike that the Democratic
ladies present felt that it was not
proper for them 10 tarry longer and
they immediately withdrew.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-02-10

Tar Fun TRApE.-In speaking Of
the fur trade prospects, the Victoria
Coloaisi says: "A leading fur deal
or. who has Just returned from a
business trip to Europe, says
shrewd fur spectators, who are
looking ahead for the prospects Of
trade for the next year, venture to
state that there will DO still an i'm
mense accumulation Of furs at the
ecnt,es Of trade, m fur trimmings
alone will continue TO be the fashion,
the only change anticipated being
wide trimmings instead of ussTow,
~ they ~ q pgoeent."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-02-10

FrsrRALs ~ DISEASE BREEDERS.
There il good reasons to believe that
disease IL occasionally disseminated
through the medium Of funerals.
We have at least one fairly authen-
ticated instance in this country of
diphthsria being difused broadcast
through the crowding incidental oc-
casionally 10 the last ceremony. In
America this question is beginning
Ia receive much attention, and sew
sral cases have been reported of late
whore tho transmission Of the disease
from the corpse seemed highly prob
able. The Suffolk District Medical
Society sent out four hundred circu-
lars to medical practitioners, with .
view to ascertain the opinion of the
profession on tho alleged danger of
permitting public funerals Of persons
who hadsdied from diphthsria. Two
hundred and thirty-nine answers
were received. OF these one hun
drsd aud forty-three writers ex-
pressed a belief in the possible dan
ger Of contagion at such funerals;
seventeen believe that there is dan
ger from funsr ls in the houses of
the dead. but none in the churches;
twenty. mine fancy that, in the pres
ent state Of knowledge, there is no
justification in prohibiting public
funerals; aud eight record circum-
stances which occurred in their own
experience confrmatory Of the propo-
sition that peril may ensue, but the
testimony these latter advance is not
quito satisfactory. The Society, al
tor due consideration, recommend
that funerals ut the houses Of those
whs have died OF diphtheria should
be private, owing to possible expos
urs 10 the poison Of the disease
fanc,f.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-02-10


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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12
Dairymen's Association.

We want every farmer, especially those
who keep cows, to read the appended lines
from the New England Farmer on our asso.
citation, before he decides to stay at home.
If such is the estimate of a man outside our
state and naturally interested for his own
state board, it becomes the dairymeu of Yer
mont to give more attention to it, and as hlr.
Cheever says, the returns from the two or
FIVE dollars, for annual or permanent mcm-
bership, are so great, that none it would
seem can wisely refrain from becoming
members.
At the Van Ness House the terms
will be but $500 per day, which, considering
the fine accommodation, excellent table and
attention which the guests OF that house en-
Joy, is low figure even for these times
What the American aud other hotels will
charge we know not, though our friends can
get cheaper accommodations at lower rates,
but we cannot speak of the other hotels
from personal experience, as we always reg
lister at the Van Ness, which will be the
"headquarters" of the FARMER.
The Vermont Dairymens association pays
its members the largest rate of interest, for
the Investment required, of any organization
within our knowledge. Two dollars consti.
tute an annual and FIVE dollars life mem
Der, emitting one to several back volumes Of
the societies transactions, which alone are
worth many times the cost Of membership.
The Central Vermont railroad, also, gcner.
ously favors members Of this association with
tickets to aud from these winter meetings,
at greatly reduced rates, acting upon the
principle, no donbt, that the more intelli.
gent and cnterprlsing a community Of farm
ers may be, the more freight they will send
over their road to the markets.
With these advantages Of froc return tick
cts over the railroads, back volumes of the
Society's Transactions, and n three days pub
lie meeting, open to all, free of admission, il
is safe to say that the Vermont Dairymen's
Association offers the best return for tn,
funds invested OF any organization in the
country, and as the fees from new members
are the only source Of income to the Society
the dairymen of New England, for it is mol
confined to Vermont, should feel it not onl y
duty but privilege to join in its ranks
and, while helping the Society, help them
selves even more.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12
Good Dairying.

Editor Cheever of the New England Far.
mer loves farming indeed, we m ay say he
has passion for it, But he is a fancy far.
mer; he follows scientific rules; has "blooded
stock" for which he paid good round price,
and he finds it profitable. He keeps, as we
learn, eleven cows which give sixty pounds
Of butter a week, on an average during the
year five and one-haf pounds per COW, which
he sells at seventy cents pound and so real.
izcs the snug little sum of 2,l4S as the
annual returns Of dairy of eleven COWS
sum greater than our Vermont dairles of
thirty cows average. We know there are
special daries which may yield more but We
speak of the average standard of dairies and
the average returns. Now does any one
wonder that friend Cheever says "milking is
as great pleasure as eating strawberries ?"
The yield would not be large for the ordi.
nary dairy months, but to raise the summer
production so as to make tho average for the
year FIVE pounds and half to each COW, is
something of an achievement. We believe
our cows are "dried off, too early for one
thing, do not have enough succulent, milk pro-
ducing food after the first heavy frosts; are
kept in too cold barns, and hence the sub.
stance Of their food goes to producing heat
instead Of milk We would have stable so
warm as never to freeze, light, sunny aud
well ventilated, with running water before
the COWS, so that they would be let into the
yard on fair days only. OF course the cows
must have early cut, clean, well cured hay
cut before the 10th OF July and short:
or bran and corn meal to keep up the flow
of milk, after which the butter must be vel
made.
We kept during the season an accurate
account Of the butter made as we'll as receipts
and expenses for the same, and as soon a
the returns Of the last shipment are received
we shall make up our statement, not becaus,
it was specially good, for it was not, but Il
incite others to do the same aud give bash
of comparison.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12
Corn Crop.
ny JONATHAN LAWRENCE.

Agreeably to our promise last week we
give the practice of other farmers with the
corn crop. Il. A. Parks of Passumpsic for
morly raised as grain crop from FIVE to
eight acres Of corn which he fed largely to
beef cattle. He began few years ago to
raise corn for fodder, feeding it to COWS when
the pastures began to fail. Pleased with
the result he has now gwen up raising corn
as grain crop and grows from four to six
acres for fodder, planting about double the
number of rows and hills in the row as for a
grain crop uses an early variety of sweet
corn for seed, and cuts up aud cures in tho
ordinary way, when the corn is fully in the
milk before the fodder begins to turn yellow.
lie feeds to cows once day and hay twice.
He formerly raised roots but thinks ho gets
more value of fodder with the same expense
from the corn. A. II. Lawrence, who fur
nishes portion of the village of St. Johns
bury with milk, raised, the past year, a few
| hVlVo VI 0A'i" o'Vu' iO"uSi SOi"i '"NN' ""
rety, that he fed to his COWS during last
falls drOuth, keeping up the regular amount
of milk, which he could not have done
without the corn. There are many Other
farmers in Caledonia county who are giving
up almost entirely corn raising as a grair
crop and growing it for fodder to their nd
vantage as they fully believe,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12
Horse Shoeing.

So far as our observation goes not one
half of the blacksmiths in the country know
how to shoe a horse in a proper manner. In
the FIRST place very many Of them are poor
bungling mechanics; they never had much
native talent for the easy, rapid, skilful use
of tools, and what they have has been but
imperiectly trained they have "picked up"
a little knowledge Of the tools and the work.
ing of iron, and set up in business, though
of course there are many who are experts
in tho use OF tools, who can iron a carriage
or do the mere mechanical part of the bus.
mess with success. But few, very few, have
any accurate, adequate or scientific knowl-
edge Of the anatomy of the structure of
horses foot. They do not know how many
bones there are, their shape, relations to one
another, and their connection with bones and
siuews Of the legs, and consequently they
can't tell what the necessary effect will be Of
pairing the heel too much, or making the
shoe too short They do not see what the
frog is for and so shave it of in rough,
crude way. No man is fit to put shoe on
a horse who does not understand these things,
and it is one Of the marvels to us that farm
ers-though to tell the truth they are about
as ignorant aud careless as the smlths,-and
owners of horses generally, do not secure a
law which shall compel smith who shoes
horses to know something about the struc-
ture Of the horses foot. Our practice has
been to go around from shop to shop till We
found a man who understood his business anC
then patronize him. We saw pair of faru
/ horses few months since, aged seventeen
and eighteen years respectively, on who's
feet no shoes of any kind had ever beer
placed, and it was delight and a stud.
fruitful of practical hints, to examine thei
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12

feet. Probably their size would have
greatly shocked fancy horse men; the
size of the frog would have disgustCd most
horse .shoers, and the shell Of the foot was q
marvel of solidity, thickness and strength,
while the indentation which their fore feet
made on the soft earth was nearly if not
quite eight inches in diameter. Those horses
knew nothing Of ring bone or founder in the
feet theirs were full grown according to ua-
ture's laws and purpose. We commend to
our readers who own horses the following
from that authority on all such matters-the
Forest and Stream:
On an average horses require shoeing once
a month. The length of time a shoe will
wear depends much on the kind Of service a
horse is doing, aud on the kind of road he is
daily travelling. A team horse in heavy
draught does not wear out as many shoes as
one used on a hack; quick motion grinds
shoes down more rapidly than slow use. The
hind shoes wear out flrst, and there is MORO
strain and friction on them than on the for.
ward shoes. 1t is impossible aud improper
for horse to wear shoes more than six weeks,
for the growth of the foot shortcns the shoe,
as well as changes the shape otherwise The
neglect will cause the shoe TO encroach upon
the soft textures OF the foot and produce
lameness.
There are few practical mechanics who
have sufficiently studied the foot Of the horse.
1t is not enough to know the anatomy Of the
foot, and where to insert Il nail not to cause
pain, but the foot should be studied in the
state of nature before the mechanism Of man
has by artificial appliances distorted it. The
shape of the hoof of the wild horse, or Of one
which has never been shod should be taken
al a model. The foot is then properly bal
anced, neither too long nor TOO broad, but
it has adj usted itself to nature, and the mus
cIes and tendons are not strained by travel.
Confinement and uuskillful shoeing change
the anatomical relations of the foot, aud the
best judgment of the mechanic is often taxed
to correct the growing deiormity- un-
skIllful shoeng. When a reasoning, skillful
mechanic is found, the horse is safe in his
hands, for he only preserves the normal shape
of the hoof, and adjusts the shoe to protect it.
The frog in the hoof Of the horse is placed
there for particular purpose, and should
not be cut by the sboer If this is allowed,
contraction and lamenoss will follow. The
shape and weight Of the shoe should be accom-
modated to tho purposes for which they are
designed. The track horse requires a shoe
lighter and without calks, while the draught
horse must have heavy broad shoe, with
calks to enable him to obtain foothold and
travel with the least possible strain.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12


AMONG THOSE who took awards on sheep
at the Centennial were II. +. Dean, West
Cornwall; Joseph T. Sickuey, Shoreham !;
j. Q. Stickney, Whiting; A. Il. Fuller,
Pomfret; T. Stickney & Son, East Shore.
ham; Henry g. Burwell, Bridport L. p.
Clark, Addison A. Il. Perkins, Pomfret /;
and the Vermont wool growers association
Most of these were for the Merinos for which
our state is so justly noted. Pretty good for
Vermont But where were our cattle
Premiums by the score went to Canadian
herds but none to Vermont. Even English
breeders exhibited and received awards, as
did breeders from the west as far as Kansas
but Canada took the palm in quality aud
number of exhibits, unless we except few
near Philadelphia. We regret that Vermont
had no exhibit worthy Of an award, as we
suffer by this neglect of ours, while the prom.
inent position occupied by our sheep will
greatly enhance the fame and value Of that
industry. Vermont's course towards the
Centennial exhibition was narrow, and un-
unwise all through, with few exceptions.
True, enough Of us went to see it, and that
is the way we knew how unworthy an exbi-
bition our state made. Contrast Vermont
with Kansas and Colorado, whose fame is
now all over the world. We wont do so
next time, that is sure.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12

CELERY.-The habitual daily use of this
vegetable is much more beneficial to man
than most people are aware Of. A writer
who is familiar with its virtues says: al
have known many men and women who,
from various causes, had become so much
affected by nervousness that when they
stretched out their hands they shook like
aspen leaves on windy day, aud by a mod
crate daily use Of the blanched toOtstalks
OF celery as a salad they became as strong
and steady in limb as other people. have
known others 80 nervous that the least an-
noyance put them in a state OF agitation aud
they were in constant perplexity aud fear,
who were also effectually cured by a moder-
ate daily use of bleached celery as a salad
at meal time. have known others to be
cured of palpitation Of the heart. Every
body engaged 10 labor weakening to the
nerves should use celery daily in the season
and onions in its stead when not in season. "
To this we may add that prominent New
York druggist draws in winter from his soda
fountain hot extract of celery, mixed with
Liebig's meat extract, under the name of ex-
celery. 1t is q nourishing drink at lunch
time, far better than coffee or tea, aud is do.
ing great deal in this neighborhood to pro.
mote temperance. We give celery almost
daily to our canary birds and it cures them
Of fits; they are little animals, with very
delicate nerves, easily frightened, and there
fore they need such a remedy very much,
and the relish with which they take it is q
proof that their instinct guides them to eat
what is good for them. A manufacturer ol
periumery Of our acquaintance some years
ago commenced to prepare an extract OF eel
cry seed, put up in bottles aud intended "a
give strength to old or exhausted persous
who, by oyer-iudulgences, have reached
such a state as to require restOratiyes.-
Journal Of Chemistry.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12
Cnrfrspnudfuff.
A Word to Highway Surveyors.

The snow storms which are following each
other make il probable that Vermonters arc
to be favored or troubled (which p with an old
time amount OF snow which will, of neces-
sity, make travel on the ordinary, aud
especially hill roads rather uncom-
Portable, and the labor great Of keeping
them in even a tolerably passablc condition.
But the greatest amount of inconvenience il
found in the turning out OF loaded teams, or
their passage by each other on meeting.
1t is in this connection that would have
"word" with those having the care Of our
roads in the winter. What can say will
be only to enforce upon their minds tho par
amount Importance Of that which must be
apparent to all men Of experience and COM
mon sense. 1t should be the duty-aud the
statute should make it such, if it does not
Of surveyors to see that there are "turning-
out" places within reasonable distances of
each other, on all roads whero the amount of
travel docs not make u wide, or what is
equivalent to double track These places
should be kept hard, so that loaded teams
can pass in safety when two of them meet ;
and their nearness to each other should de-
pend upon whether the drivers of the teams
can see each other longer or shorter dis
tance. Where the view is unobstructed, of
course longer distance can intervene be-
tween these places; aud custom, if not law,
should require that teamsters, when they
discover an approaching team, should stop nd
wait at one of these turniug-out places un-
less he is sure it would be for their mutual
advantage for him to drive on and pass at
one further on. When the view is broken by
woods or hills, these places should be more
frequent Attention to this matter would,
often times, save damage and much trouble.
D. t. AvERILL.