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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
RAVES, characterization.

Hayes will be inaugurated President
of the United States next Monday.
The partisan count at Washington is
not yet completed, but will be by to.
day or to morrow More than one
half the voters of the United States
know that Tilden was elected by she
people, but will submit to the Hayes
Administration only to prevent civil
war and anarchy, and will leave the
responsibility of the great wrong to be
shouldered by the partRsIn power.
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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
Get a Reputation.


Success in this world depends very much
upon reputation. In spite of all is said,
there is great deal in name, aud good
name pays. When we want to buy an arti-
Gle, we hunt for one that has a reputation
for being good-that is, for one made by a
manufacturer who has established ohafac-
ter for making good articles--and when we
End it, pay more for it than we would for a
similar article, which, for ought we know,
may be Just as good, but which was made by
somebody we never heard Of The reason
for this is obvious. We are willing to pay
for the assurance or warranty, which the
trademark Of a reputable maker gives us,
rather than trust our own Judgment or the
chance of getting good thing from an un-
known source. This is 80 with machinery,
tools, clothing, and nearly everything else
that we buy, including the products of the
farm. There are farmers who have sold
their butter in Manchester, the past summer,
for fifty cents per pound, contracting it in
advance. Others have very likely sold just
as good butter for thirty-6ve cents, and the
difference has been owing to the fact that the
former had a reputation aud the latter none,
When the citizens bought the butter Of the
6rst- class, they felt certain that they would
get gilt.edged article. When the other
butter was put upon the market, it had to be
sold with the risk of its not being No. l
and the same is true of cheese milk, cider,
vinegar, pork, aud, in fact, of all that is
bought and sold in this city. 1t is easy,
then, to see how important it is for farmer
TO establish a reputation-to get the name OF
raising and selling the best. When he has
done this, his produce not only sells readily,
but at almost his own prices. But reputa.
tion is "a plant Of slow growth" 1t takes
not only time, but constant vigilaut care
To get reputation for the butter of Ger.
tain farm, for instance, 1t must not only pro.
duce fno article, but it must do It all the
time; there must be no break ia the chain
for a-reputation, like other things, is only al
strong as its weakest part, and single pool
article will neutraize the effect Of fifty good
ones. When a man buys thing upon thu
reputation of the maker, he wants to fee
that there is absolute certainty Of his get
ting good thing If be eau have this b.
is willing to pay for it on top of the marke
price, but he will not pay extra for ~ mer,
probability. We ask our farmer friends Il
remember this, and to build up for them
selves a reputation. When thing is solC
as good thing, let it be good, without any
IFS or butts, and if, perchance, poor thinI
must be got rid of, let it be sold as poor
When you put an article upon tho market
let it be understood beyond doubt or ques
tion that it is all you recommed. This j
not only honesty, but, as we have shown
money in your pocket,-MirrOr and Far
Der
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

How TO MAKE Hor.BED.-A good hot
bed may be made upon the surface of the
ground. piling up the manure from two feet
six inches to three feet high, and at least
six inches wider all around the frame.
This extra width tends to preserve the heat
within the frame and if it be foot wider
than the frame it would be better than six
inches. The situation should be where the
soil is dry; and the bed should front to the
south, or as nearly south as the location will
permit. The sashes should either be pro-
cured before the bed is made, or their exact
size should be known when the frame is
made; and the frame may be made to hook
closely together, so as to be removed, and
easily stored away when not in use. Fresh
horse dung is the best manure to produce
heat. 1t should be thrown into a heap and
wet slightly about a week before it is placed
10 the bed and turned over once or twice
before using it to increase the heat. When
put on the bed, tread it down firmly, and
cover it about six inches deep with light;
rich soil, and ascertain the degree Of heat
when you desire to SOW your seeds, by plung-
ing thermometer into the soil and if too
warm, wall uaJ UT tWo loi tho pou W
cool. Seeds will stand heat Of 80 degrees
very WELL Sometimes seeds are grown in
pots and pans, which are plunged into the
manure without any covering of soil but in
such case, it should be covered three or
four inches deep with sand or ashes to re-
tain the heat. Wooden boxes six inches
deep, made of very thin boards, about two
feet long, and one foot wide, would be bet
ter than pans and pots for some kinds Ol
plants. The bottoms might be of zinc, OF
galvanized sheet-iron, perforated with small
holes to allow water to pass through them, il
the watering should be too copiOus. Such
boxes could be packed in without any waste
of room and they could be easily removed
to fork up the bed anew to increase the heat
or to allow a new bed to be made, when thu
heat of the old one is too much exhausted
-RuraL NeW Yorker.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
The Farmers Wife.

There is no position assigned to woman
where her true worth shines more conspicu-
ously than upon the farm. Her gentle and
graceful touch adorns not only the house
and flower garden, giving to her home beauty
and attraction, but laying aside altogether
the ornamental, without which the farmers
degenerates into mere place where life can
be sustained her help in the conduct Of the
establishment is perhaps not less important
than that OF the farmer himself. Few men
succeed as farmers whose wives fail in the
discharge of the domestic duties arising out
Of the important position she occupies. Her
energy is often the motive power Of the whole
family, and her patient fortitude sustains
and supports in the homes of trial and diff
Guilty, which could hardly be endured, were
1t not for her soothing counsel. Her quick
iDtuitions and lively perceptions are always
on the lookout for something to do, aud
nothing can 60 wrong and escape her notice
She is omnipresent in her own department
stopping here a leak and there creating from
almost nothing some important article, by
which dollars are made or saved, as the
case may be. Her untiring attention tC
everything that comes under her observation
equally to the smaller as the larger matters
of the household, is trait which character
ICES only women. Man pushes forward som,
grand object, and is for the time obhviops o
almost everything else, while woman, how
ever deeply interested, never for moment
forgets her surroundings. The wants Of he
kitten or the pig are with her objects o
equal attention.
The Omniscent Creator gave to maj
woman as a help mate, but no where doe
she fully subserve the great ends of her crea
tion as on the farm. Other professions ma
dispense with helpmate aud yet succeed
but whoever knew bachelor farmer to hav
genuine success, He may perhaps hav
partial success in the mere art of aocumula
tion, but what is farmers home without
wife. The dreary chill of his bachelor honl
is at once forlorn and forbidding, and how
ever genial his temperament, he soon find
himself bereit Of friends, and lonely, drear
and we had almost said wretched, existenC
awaits him.-Farmer'S Journal
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

LAwYERs.-What time some of the news
papers are making about lawyers! After
allowing the lawyers to make the laws for a
whole century after looking upon lawyers
as kind Of demi.gods, far too wise and
good for ordinary comprehension /; after rum
ming to lawyers with thousands Of foolish
complaints that three grains of common
sense might have settled in three minutes
after paying lawyers thousands where other
professional men asking tens would have
been kicked out of doors, after enacting
statutes drawn always by lawyers that make
it impossible for any except lawyers to fill
the more important offices; after submitting
to taxes and fees until a man instinotively
puts his hand in his pocket when he meets q
lawyer on the street; after accepting the
doctrine that no business man is man un-
less he has retained his private lawyer /;
after sef-abnegation SO complete that one
dare not make bargain or draft will with
out consulting lawyer, the trodden worm
Of layman has risen in his wrath, and be-
gins to use hard words about lawyers |! He
even has the astounding presumption to ask
why lawyer should have thousand dol
lars for days work, when q doctor, with
seven ounces more brains, twice as much
common sense, and one, too, who can beat
the lawyer out of sight in dog Latin, is sat-
isied with ten dollars day. 1t is conun-
drum too deep for US, and so we give it up.
-Neto York Mad.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
Good Of SQUIRRELS.

An apothecary had tame squirrel, which
he used 10 keep IN his own private room ad-
joining his shop. The little fellow was al
lowed plenty Of liberty. for the door Of his
cage was frequently left open, and no used
to climb up doors and windows and spring
upon his masters hand.
As the winter came on he was 10 the habit
of building himself nest of any tow he
might find about, and used tc choose for res
idence the pocket Of his masters coat.
When, in the evening, the coat was taken of
and huGg upon nail, the little squirrel
would climb up the door on which the nail
stood, run down the coat and take up his
qarters in the pocket, carrying always in
his mouth good supply Of tow, which he
had prepared and rolled together beforehand,
aud with which be contrived to make in the
pocket the cosiest nights lodging in the
world. F
A housebreaker, watching his opportunity,
selected an especially dark night for getting
in through the window Of the .apothecary's
little back room behind the shop. He knew
that the apothecary kept no dog; he could
easily guess where bis coat would be likely
W Do nanBiug up. nc sOVh ivuhu sno PVoAes'
and was just about to tighten it of purse,
pocket-book and keys, when misfortune to-
tally unexpected beiell him.
In rumaging for keeps and purse, he had
struck the squirrel, OF whose strange habits
with regard to. his bedroom he had cot been
aware. Not liking to be thus suddenly dis
turbed, the little animal gave the thief SO
sharp bite on his thumb that he could not
forbear yelling with pain, and the master Of
the house, alarmed at the unusual sound came
into the room armed with the poker just as
the thief was escaping through the window.
The watchman happening to be passing,
the uuwelcome guest was given into custody ;
and as the geese at Rome had saved the cap
ital by their cackling, SO the little squirrel
had saved his masters property by lodging
in his coat pocket-Fdncier's Journal.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

FENCE Boards, Ero.--My experience is
that they are better sawed by II inches
than thinner and wider, they are more durable
aud break less wind. They make good
worm or straight fence supported by stake
and wire without nails. Such fence is easily
lowered to prevent drifts and makes a good
movable fence and is better than posts and
nails Gu heavy land, as the stakes are easily
driven down in the spring. Sometimes
crooked logs are used for fence boards and
are sawed only one way aud nailed on full
width when, if they were split carefully
through the middle with an ak following the
crook they would make more and better fence
and save waste in saving them the other way,
that is when man is satisfied with rough
looking fence. Road fences in certain Sec
tions are being dispensed with--oxcept BY
pasture---and believe It is botter for the
land holder that it is, and l wish it could be
more general, thereby preventing drifts and
much useless expence. This fence question
is one of Importance Who speaks next.
I. c. NARAMoRE.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
Board Meeting at East Calais

The meeting Of the state board Of agricul-
ture at East Calais last week was a very
pleasant affair. A Dwiuell Of East Calais
was chosen chairman Of tho meeting, and his
experience in such matters enabled him to
fill that office easily and well. His address
Of welcome to the board was very good, in
deed, and the welcome that the people Of
East Calais gave to the members of the meet
ing will ever be remembered with pleasure.
The attendance was good, the subjects
wel-cbosen aud highly interesting, especially
Prof. Cressy's lecture on the diseases of ani.
mails in fact, all were good and it was the
general expression Of the audience that they
had got their pay for attending the meeting
A. M, Foster of Cabot had a sample oi
Lost Nation wheat in the straw on exhibi
ton. This wheat seems well adapted to Yer
mont; the heads were long and the straw ap
peared very strong it is less liable to lodge
Mr.. Foster claims, than most other varieties
it is also very hardy. Samples Of corn were
shown by A. j. HOllister Of North Montpe
lier, with Eve perfectly formed ears on on
stalk. Mr.. Alonzo Pierce of East Calais ha'
raised this corn far over City years withou
changing seed. l.. IL. Foster had on exhibi
tion two jars Of wheat, one of Lost Nation
the other of White Hamburg. The latter va
riety is one of the handsomest samples o
wheat your correspondent ever saw. ii
also had a jar of maple sugar this article
one Of Mr.. Fosters specialties and is know
from his farm to the Pacific Ocean. The mem
Der Of the board aud reporters are under oh
legations to Mr.. Foster for the exhibition @
that sugar but there is portion Of the con
tents Of that jar that he will never exhib
again. If the board give as good satisfaC
tiou in other places, which they probably vii
the appropriation given them by the stat
will not have been spent in vain. NJ.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

or prcjudioed to grasp eomprshensivsIy the
rudimental principles of success. Henco Il
is that breeding 10 America has been an ia.
nocsnt kind Of gambling; that IA a rnalnro
~ which good luck, rafhef ,han a. under.
standing Of and attention q sbt business, whs
relied on tor success. Hence many Of our
fastest horses araNont to as enpually from
the ibanply yards Of unknown. and. 80 fur as
principles q breeding 90: ignorant farmers.
We dnd them--as "DutchmanY was found,
in tandem-team, drawing bricks; or be.
hind a drover's wagon, az "Flora Temple"
was discovered without name or fame.
they come unheralded BY ans expectation.
the result Of no plan, no epptisdgc, no wisely
invested capital This seems an indisputable
proposition, therefore,-that one Of the
causes Of the financial failures which have at
tended attempts at breeding is to be found
in the gross ignorance. of the breeders them
selves in the principles q propagation
ParsOa Murray IN Golden Rule
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

amounts to an endorsement, but the bona fde
signature Of the endorser, in black and white,
and thus the clause Of the constitution that
no er parte laws shall be enacted, Is vir-
tually set aside.
Farmers are repeatedly made the victims
Of systematic swindlipg through q partial ib.
terpretation Of the laws. The remedy, il
there is one, is TO be sought among themselves,
Among the means looking toward the attain
ment Of that end, may be mentioned wider
diffusion Of knowledge in regard to political
questions, so that public opinion may be
something more than mere assent TO the doc
trines Of popular leaders, the cultivation Of q
more social spirit among the rural population,
a concentration Of labor aud capital upon
such things as are most productive and
profitable, more time 10 devote 10 intellectual
pursuits, especially such as are connected
with agricultural science, and decided and
vigorous assertion Of their rights, and de-
termination 10 maintain before the world the
dignity of oflabor---RarGt Neio Yorker.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

We are indebted to the Poultney Journal
for the following report Of the agricultural
meeting held in Poultney February 27,
MORNING SESSION.
At ten o'clock forenoon, on Tuesday Of
last week, the people from Poultney and sur.
rounding towns, assembled at Josin Hall,
in Poultney, in accordance with the notice
previously given. Hon. Ralph Richards of
Hampton, chosen president for tho occasion
called the meeting to order, and at his re-
quest, Rev. Calvin Granger offered prayer.
A quartette was sung by Messrs. Ham.
phrey and Griffith, and Miss Thompson and
Mrs. Skace, entitled the Farmers Home,
after which the president gave brief open.
ing address, characteristic Of the man. 1t was
sensible, practical and appropriate. He
said we have met to sec what could be done
to promote the great interest Of agriculture, Q,
No class more needed to know how best TO
pursue their calling; he had long thought
that If parents should make any distinction
in the way Of educating their children, that
those designed for farmers should have the
moro attention. The president then intro.
duced Hon. Il. d. Mason Of Richmond, who
remarked to the audience that he was will.
ing to make himself useful if he could he
thought II was high time We took new dc.
parture in agriculture but few farmers
keep accounts that should not be so every
farmer should keep accounts, aud then they
will know what they are about. He was too
poor to keep a COW that did not pay many
COWS did not make over two hundred and fifty
pounds Of cheese in year every COW shoulC
make Eve hundred pounds. We ought L
study carefully all our business on the farm
IL is au easy matter to test the milk Of !
COW by weighing it, and if we find that q
COW does not pay, to fat her aud give her t
the butcher as soon as possible My busi
ness is cheese.making, principally, max
some butter. My COWS are oil the nativ
breed, crossed with Ayrshires and Jerseys
He referred to dairyman in Pomfret, VIII,
made 300 pounds of butter a year from ou'
COW. Other farmers in that vicinity, wer
successful in making butter, got prices abov
the average market prices. Their breed o
cattle were the Jersey and the Jersey grade
These dairymen feed meal to their COWS tn
year round. Mr. Mason said he receive
from his dairy Of 20 COWS in 1874, 1887
per COW. lie now keeps 30 cowsi neve
buys any manure or grain. lie has Ia
acres Of land, 40 Of woodland On a huu
daed acres Of land, consisting of fifty {
meadow and fifty Of pasture, he keeps a
good Os forty COWS, that is, stock that
equivalent TO that.
He feeds meal but not in summer. Nj
. Mason feeds fodder corn-he plants it thre
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

AN ITEM of note in the literary announce
ments of the duY is the fact that Edward
Abbott and Edward H. Hames, respectively
of the editorial and business departments of
The COngregationalist, have purchased The
Literary World. founded, aud for nearly sew
en- years edited and published, by Mr.. S. Il.
CrOcker; and will hereafter conduct Il nm
der the firm name of f. Ii. Hames q Co..
Mr.. Abbott taking editorial charge, and Mr..
Hames the business management. Tho is
sue for April will be the first under their
auspices. The Literary World is monthly
journal of twenty pages. published tho first
day of every month, and occupied exclusive
ly with critical reviews OF new publications;
choice extracts from such as are Of special
interest; discussions. original and selected.
of literary topics; and Information Of vari-
GUS sorts about authors and their work hav-
ing for its specific and constant aim TO dis
sominate u knowledge of good books, to pro-
mote II love for useful reading, and to extend
and deepen the influence of all wholesome
literature.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
WHOLE N0s82e.

|.II
Fonns1oHr keD HpDuoHp'-- The winter
has been pretty snug one or siock-oWpers.
with no let up 10 lhs ioddcriag. u is .
good tims. now that the days begin 70
lenglbon, 70 take IN account Of ihe bern and
granery comminary supplies, and SEQ
whether they will carry you through the RS
---say to May. u Is ) good deal better TO
piece out the hay and grain with oorn-stalks,
straw or roots now, than to pay high prices
for feed near the close Of the season, OF TO
scrimp the supply for stock al a time whom
they Deed most generous and tempting
diet--at the end Of long winter. The roots
are getting no better very fast" and the
price Of hay, If one needs TO buy at all, is
likely 70 be higher before Il Is lower, in
most localities. A farmers experience has
not done him much good If he has not learned
'the value Of foresight in other things. The
man who makes farming pay is looking up
bis sap-pails and sugar utensils. about these
days, and seeing that they are all In readi-
ness for the ''6rst run :" his potatoes and
apples are looked over aud The cellar kept
clean; his seeds for all crops are provided
for. his woJd-pile is being slowed away in
snug shape--about twenty cords more than
he thinks he can burn; the comfort and
safety Of incoming COWS and sheep are
looked after; the boys are watched to see
that no fodder Is wasted by being trampled
under foot. In word, he make his "hind-
sight" give him sharp foresight, and his
experience furnishes him with wisdom. 1t
is good thing in any business, but in none
does it pay better than in farming.-GOldem
Rs,le
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
Raising Pear Trees.

/ notice in the FARMER that Farmers
Wife" wishes some one to give her tho "se-
cret of her i'll luck" in having pear and apple
seeds to grow perhaps l can't do that, but
l think can give her the secret of success.
The seeds as they are taken from the fruit
should never be allowed to become thorough.
ly dried, but as they arc saved should be
placed in moist earth until she is ready to
plant them I prefer planting in the fall
say 10 October or November or any time be
fore the grouDd freezes, or they may be KEEP
until the following spring, provided they ar,