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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

Geo. Z. Waring, Jr., Esq, and Mr.. l..
S. Hardin have been paying compliments
to each other. Mr.. Hardin wrote an article
on Guenon's escutcheon " theory (Which
we printed some weeks ago. in which he
called it an unmtigated humbug." To
this, Mr.. Waring pays his respects in the
Amcrican CultiuatOr in the following
" sarcustical Y manner:
"The boldness, confidence and freshness
Of this statement are almost enough to de-
ter one from saying anything which might
touch the bloom of his youthful cheek.
That we are great people has long been
obvious, and no indication of our superiori-
ty to the effete natives of Europe is more
marked than our ability to determine, at a
dash, difficult questions which have been
painfully solved by our cousins across the
water in accordance with systems of rea-
soning and rules of evidence which their
narrow and restricted training has led
them 10 consider necessary. tneeds but
the strong blood, the quick intellect and
the confident manliness of young people,
whose home is in the setting sun, to over
throw with sweep of the pen the logical
deductions of those senile peoples who base
their conclusions upon cumulative proof
and the experience of many years"
This stirs up Mr.. Hardin again, who
takes occasion in the Country Gentleman
to express his views on the American
Jersey Cattle Club of which Mr.. Waring
is the "stylish secretary" and compiler of
the Club Register, in his usual direct and
positive manner:
There has always been a feeling abroad
that this Club was too close corporation
and worked for the benefit of few indi.
viduals. These charges will never do the
Club any harm until the actions of the
members prove them to be true. have
never had donbt in my own mind but
that it was the selfish action of few breed
ers, who were well stocked, that had the
rules drawn so tight that they killed off
the Fowler importations. This thing was
run to such a ridiculous extent rs praoti-
cally TO put a stop to all importations, and,
in my opinion, materially injure the jersey
interest in this country. These restrictions
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

KEEP ClsTERNs CLEAN.-At a recent
meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, in
Edinburgh, DR.. Stephenson Macadam read
a paper on Sediments in Domestic Water
Cisterns," in which he expressed the con
viction that in many cases the evil effects
of impure water supply were directly ira.
ceable to the contamination of the water
by its being retained in cisterns containing
deposits ly ing there for heightened periods.
The analysis of II number of sediments
taken from cisterns in different parts of
Edinburgh and Portobello proved that the
deposits were intermingled with minute
particles of carbonate of lead, due TO the
action of the water upon the lead of the
cistern, as well as of organic matter, de-
rived in part from the ordinary street or
house dust, and in part from insects, etc
Analyses of the water supplied to the city
before entering the house cisterns, and of
the water which had stood for n week
over the deposits or sediments from els
terms, showing that the water had suffered
serious contamination. The only way to
obviate this is by the periodic cleansing of
the cistern; and this should be done at
least every three months.-MaSSachuSctts
PlOughman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05
The State Fair.

The 9th Annual Fair of the Vermont
State Agricultural Society is to be held at
st Adams, commencing the 18th, and
continuing three days Competition open
to the world. Live stock must be entered
on Or before the Saturday previous, except
for trotting premiums, which must be
made before Tuesday evening, the 18th.
All entries will be free except trotting
premiums and no exhibitors tickets will
be furnished, and no season or family tick
cts sold. The Central Vermont and leased
lines will carry stock and articles at usual
rates, and passengers for fare one way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

LARGE YIELD OF WHEAT see Frank
lin will have 10 do little better. One O
our gardeners has single acre on some
Of his 90 d l;nl. He drew it to neigh
boris where there was a threshing MIA.
chine, and brought home SirtyJfve bushels
This is our hest to date. G ST..
G.s. I. lives in Franklin Co. and thi,
puts Franklin Co. ahead on II single acre
We clip the following from the Toledo
Commercial; 1.-The heaviest growth o.
wheat known in Ohio is said to be that o
Andrew Smith, of Townsend, Sandusky
county, formerly member of the legisla
ture. The field contained IS acres, o
which the average yield was fifty-three( 53
bushels. The crop (9j4 bushels) was mar
keted at the Castella Milling Company, a
S1.35 per bushel, making an aggregate O
81, 2S7 80, or $71.55 per acre.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

trees, there is no way except to kill them
or cut them ont one at time. A small
piece of whalebone is the best to kill then
with, by pushing it into their hole. A
piece of wire will answer. When the
bark is killed over them it is just as vel
to cut them out The application of the
soap is necessary in May. Either soft oil
hard soap will do, but if hard soap is used
a thin piece had better be crowded down
into each principal crotch of the tree, Sc
that the rain may wash it down the trunk
Do this, of course, after having washed
the tree with strong suds.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

PULvERIzING MANURE.-A farmer in
an adjoining town was narrowing his bar
ley stubble the other day before blowing.
| asked him why he did so, and he said
it was to break the clods of manure as
spread from the heaps. The idea is an
excellent one, and worthy of adoption
wherever possible. A large clod of ma
nure has enough material to fertilizeten or
twenty or more wheat plants, but if left
unbroken it will probably be reached by
only one or two. The "patchy" appear
ance of wheat that has recently been ma
nured is well known, and it results from the
unequal distribution of manure. The
grain is uneven, some places ripening ear,
lier than others, and hence it cannot be
harvested without loss. A more serious
matter is the waste Of the manure itself.
70 be sure, it is all in the field and will
be available sometime but that is not
what the good farmer wants. 1t is said
that it is better to have nimbe six-pence
than slow shilling but in most farming
operations it is getting nimbe shilling
or Il tardy sixpence. If lot of lumpy
manure is broken into pieces one fourth
as large us before, Its Immediate value is
increased four-Gold. Before the crops
have extracted the fertility ofthe dressing
of manure, the farmer is or should be
ready to supply them with more. have
no doubt that the simple act of narrowing
that manure mopethan doubled its value
fort next years wheat and clover, and the
narrowing did not cost fifty cents per acre.
Where winter grain is top-dressed. the
manure is usually dragged about in cul-
tivating until it touches nearly all the
surface soil. What is left on the surface
has its fertlizing elements washed into
the soil as evenly as possible. This is one
reason why top-dressing is generally
reckoned the best method, unless the ma
nure is mixed with long straw which will
clog the drills in sowing. -W. j. 4. in
Country Gentlemen.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

How PEOPLE GET SICK.-Eating too
much and too fast; swallowing imperfectly
masticated food by taking too much fluid
at meals; drinking poisonous whiskeY, and
other intoxicating drinks; keeping late
hours at night, and sleeping too late in the
morning; wearing clothes too tight so as
to relax the circulation; wearing thin shoes
neglecting to take sufficient exercise 10
keep the hands and feet warm; neglecting
to wash the body sufficiently to keep the
pores open; exchanging the warm clothes
worn in warm room during the day for
costumes and exposure so incident to eve
ming parties; starving the stomach to
crafty vain and foolish passion for dress;
keeping up constant excitement; fretling
the mind with borrowed troubles; swal-
lowing quack nostrnms for every imagin-
airy ill taking meals at irregular intervals
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

WRITING A LETTER.-"I wish l coult
write to Tommy" said u little girl whose
brother was at school.
WELL SAID friend who was in tins
room, | will lend you my hand and pen
What will you write to Tommyp"
"Oh, | can't write letter, / don't know
what TO say" said the little girl.
" Not know what to sayp" said the pen.
tleman. Come, let me begin: last
night the house was burned from ton IN
bottom
ION, no, please don't say that"
"Why notP"
"Cause it isn't true"
" Well, that is something. You know
that you mustn't put into letters things
that are not true. Now let us try AGAIN
The kitten has been playing with its tail
for five minutes "
say that" wv"
doing it." ~ ~''''n
" Yes, but Tommy don't want to know
it," Nuo"
" Come, my dear, that is another thine
that you know. When you write a lettar
you should say something that YOUR
friends will care to know. Shall I writ
: Jem was naughty and would not learn
his IessonsP'n ''''n
mo, no, not that, please"
why, that is true, isn't itpn
~, Yes but you needn't tell Tommy
mat would be telling tales"
You are right, my dear. see vou
know something else about writing letters TS
we should not put unkind tbinrs '' 10
them Shall ! write, Mary Anne Is mnc Il,
better, and will be down stairs to NAV -I ~
P"'y To-
"Oh, yes, do write that, cause Tom mil,
be be SO glad to know Mary Anne is be, @m'
he is so fond of Mary Anne" ''''oF'
, why, you little puss, you do know
how to write IL letter, after alps sail INV NV
Gentleman. And little Betsy went ' ""
linking of things that would please 1T TN vi
1t school, and the letter was 4 ysSS 1 ,,;
at Work. WY nice
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
VEGETINE
is MY FAMILY
NJ E D 1 G 1 N &
l wish no other.
HG E IN E


PROVIDENCE, April Z, 1870.
~, M q rvvESs-Dear Sir: When Twas about !
NH ~ a. r., o minor broke out upon me, when N
years y. rs To cnre nv giving herb teas anu ~
ntbsT Sicb ram edies she pnew o. Dut II and
osS 80 until finally she consulted pny slcian AL
"a bad fhe salt rheum. aud doctOred 4e ~ t
.ononiaint He relieved me some Out salu oS ~ ts
he nsrma nentiy cured as the disease as
bioad remained great sufferer LOT se'eIaai sd
unti hear Of and consulted phy WIZ hSu 70
haS ne 90 fnlous humOr and would allow hi W
49, m . he would cure me. dld 80, anu NC I'm
j toaIny mn my sores and succeeded III eHeot
M ~, Az tornai cure but in short time the usea5e
nnnaared sgain in worse form tnan eyer as
ahs Snnor pon my lungs throat ana mead ha no
adj the most terrible pain and there seeneu ~ U
Semey And my friends thought must soon ale
me- Sttention was called, while reading heWsPstNga
To q VEGE TINE testimonial Of Mrs Maternousg, 10 w.
a., theus Street South Boston, and l. I0rnerLy re
~ hsn IN uth boston and being personally acqualhti
~ Viii her and knowing her, former feeble heAtn
oopcinded would try the Vegetine After haa tan
"a ya bottles ii seemed to force the sores 0ut o. n
Sv.fsm had running sores in my ears winch io g.,
fns we're very painful, but continued 10 take iu6
Vsretne untiiI had taken about 20 bottles my neais
In 3rovinV ali the time from the COMMENCEMENT o te
srst hntte nd the sores to heal commenced taKns
~ vsetine in 1872 and continued its constant use loI
siT month"; Al the present time my heaIth y Detted
than il ever has been since was child Tue Vegett
ia VIA heiued me- and most cordially TeGomInenu
to XII suffereors especially my friends haa Oeen
SHerSr for yer 30 years and until used tne neSH,
fine ION nd no remedy; now use 1t a. my FANNY
medicine and wish no other. ~, II n CoOprp
No. hoy Street, Providence R. l.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

WHERE HE'LL Is.-"I wish to ask you a
question:" said Mr.. Sharp to our young
minister, as he met him in the street; 81
am anxious to know where hell is. The
Bible have read, biographies, histories
and other books, and can't find out
where it is exactly"
The young minister, placing his hand
on his shoulder, and looking earnestly
into his eyes. replied encouragingly:
My dear sir, do not be discouraged; |
am sure you will find out after while.
As for myself, have made no inquiries,
and really don't wish to know where hell
is. About heaven have thought and
and read, and studied great deal.
wish to make that my home, and by the
grace of God | will Ask me about hea-
ven and can talk. / don't know where
hell is, and you would better not find out. "
The Presbyterian.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

| AN UNSANCTIFIED SMELL.-A Christian
worker from Boston was holding some
evangelistic services in neighboring
town. At the conclusion of one of the
meetings, q deacon of the church came to
him and said:
$50 you think that YOU are sanctiiied,
do you5'
"Well, yes, l rather think am"
Then you think that you can't sin any
more?"
"Oh! 10, do not think that; I am
afraid shall"
"Well," said the deacon, a don't
think am sanctfied."
NO" replied the brother, with little
hesitation and deliberation, 81 should not
think you were; you don't smell like a
sanctlied man.
The deacon was soaked with tobacco
from head to foot The conversation clos
ed he went home and thought; for the
| first time in his life the idea dawned on
him that there was any difference between
the smell of sanctfied man and an old
tobacco user He could not readily dis
miss the matter from his mind. The words
stuck to him, until at length he renowned
the filthy weed, and it is to be hoped smells
more like sanctificd man. Surely when
men lay apart all filthineSs and super
fluffy of naughtiness," pipes and tobacco
will be quite likely to be discarded with
other abominations.-The WaySide
-
How THE LITTLE GIRL PROVED IT.
Hereafter the language of mathematics
will have to be more exact. A female
teacher said that on II certain occasion she
had in her school class of little beginners
children of four and five Jears-and
that in inducing them into the rudiments
of arithmetic, she sought to simplify things
as much us possible. There they had the
ten numerals on their ten fingers, and in
adding or subiracting the simple numbers,
they could reckon upon those digits. The
thing worked to charm, and the little
ones readily learned to solve the first
problems of the great science.
One day the class was out for recitation,
and subtraction was the theme
Five from five leave how many?"
was by-and-hy asked of n bright eyed
miss Of four summers.
Inc llttie tulnS up with her myers and
went at it. For II time she seemed ex-
ceedingly puzzled, but at length her eyes
snapped, and she lifted her head confident
ly
Give" she said. with most assured
emphasis.
Curious to know how she arrived at that
solution, the teacher asked her to explain
"Why," replied the child, holding out
her two hands, and placing them side by
side, " zere's five on at hand, and five on
ut. Now take away 'ese five fom 'ose
five, and ERE zcy be -fvem
About as fine II piece of ocular demon
stration in the way of logical dilemma
as you will often meet.
To" head off such sharp little discov-
erers and accountants, it will be in order
to say, " five from itself how yP"-E1.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05
agricultural Department.
0. M. TINNAAM, Editor.

Accommodations for this department should b
sont to the editor, Mr.. o. II. TINKHAM y. Pom
fret, Vt.
Please write on one side of the paper only, sign sucl
name or initials as you wished published, but Civ
your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS, post Office, County an(
State,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05
VEGETINE.

The range Of disorders which yield to the influence
Of the medicine and the number OF dehned Diseases
bicb Il never fails to cure greater than any OtheI
single medicine has hitherto be- even TecommenaeS
for by any other than the propreors OF some 4uaCs
nostrm These diseases are Scrofula and az eruhtve
diseases and Tuners kh nd al inaammStory sy9p
TONS Ulcers a diseases Kidney lnd O aa
orders which so generally alct American women ana
which carry annually thousands OF them to prems-
fra vrayeg DyspepBa that universal curse OF Aerl-
can manhood. Heartburn. Pes. CONSTRUCTION dd Ner'
yOIlsness Inability to sleep, and impure blood. -.
This iG formidable list of human ailments Tor any
single medicine to successfully attack and y IS NOT
urohabla that any one article before the pubic mas
the power to cure the quarter Of them except
RI aya the AZ at the root OF the tree OF disease by
6rat eliminating every mpurty from the blood, pro.
noting the secreions. opening the p9TesEthe great
valves Of the system the liver 70
its full and natural action, cleansing the stomach ana
strengthening digestion This much accomplisDeid
tha speedy and the permanent cure OF not only the
diseases We have enumerated. but likewise the whole
rain Of chronic and constitutional DISORDERS is GER
tain TO follow This is precisely what Vegetine does
aud does 1t quickly and 50 easily that 1t s an ac
compBhed fact almost before the pauehtls aWAEe ol
ii himself.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

ia HVSbandnaan, has the report of a discus
sion at II recent meeting of the Farmers
Club there, from which we take the fol-
lowing:
VIM. A. Armstrong had a field now
prepared for sowing, but he would wait
until the 10Th of September; he wanted a
good growth, but not too heavy before
winter, and if sown too soon, the young
plants would fall and smother the roots,
james Mccain would not SOW day later
than that date. lie had known two por-
tions OF the same field, one sowed on the
10Th, the other the Goth, the latter giving
greatly inferior crop. j. S. Van Duzer
sowed on the 25th, and harvested forty
bushels per acre. The next year he sowed
at the same date, and harvested forty
bushels from eight acres, the difference
being due to the seasons. The 10Th he
thought, was us early us wheat should be
sown. The year of his good crop n neigh
Dor sowed much earlier, and had II crop
not ut all equal to his own. George Nc
Cam had sowed as early MS the 10th of
August and had Il good yield. lie would
never sow later than the first of Septem-
Der. President Hoffman had sown the last
day Of August, on new ground, and this
proved too early, as the plants grew to the
joint in autumn, many died in the spring,
and he had only fifteen bushels per acre.
This was an exceptional case, and gener,
ally he would prefer the LIST to the 10th of
September; on very rich land perhaps II
little later would do. Poor land might be
sown earlier, and should have twice as
much seed as rich. But the best way is
not to sow poor land at all, but first to
enrich it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05
WE'D

70
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perversitJ
being cor
To be sur
sulky and
dog star,
on the pa
all the d.
the NOV
muggy,
beyond al
ly summ
departing
dare say
summer,
the event.
getting 1
though tn
where vii
of wondrc
may van
persistent
well WORT
ing a fog
test betwe
dense foI
mountain
quered.
ments, an
for q rain
will utter
have a mt
and ripen
when mir
and sunsl
yard. tt
day, but
owy place
may find t
The dimi
over its
stones. j
and shrut
lazily. 4
at your I'd
the shrill
zeal is m
ability.
with gre
grain is y
or being
carts, by
might sa,
ing the bl
ing of fov
away ant
phere. 4
every bl
The brow
and the
passer-by
hill side 4
Now an
last of do
cool and l
q kind of
itself not
fibre of I'd
tence is b
en- to the
Could d
divinely 4
of late?
light and
failed to 4
of MarsP)
to an anna
appears |
more com
of thinly
work. A
drop with
cy unkno
multitude
the night,
izing lull
delicious
And so
gone; lea
evil, of 81
pleasure
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05
For the Freeman.
Insects Injurious to Vegetation.

ROUND HEADED APPLE TREE BORER-SA
PERDA BIVITTATA.-Sdy.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-08-15

HNHE UNDERSIGNED BEGs LEAVE
TO inform the public that he now
prepared, with the most approved machinery,
to rink Artesian Wells in any part of the State
on the shortest notice.
All orders or communications on the sub
iect address tG Uatoon II Palmer, Battle
Mountain will receive prompt attention.
8. L CAHOON
Battle Mountain. October Q. 1876. tt
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-10

numerous, some farmers claiming
that, after selecting from the best
cared stalks, the yield has been in
creased twenty-five or fifty per cent.
On my own farm | have corn which
has been thus grown without change
during the past fifteen or twenty
years, and | am sue it has great v
improved in the size of ears and yield
of corn. The peachblow potatoes
have also been grown about the same
term Of years without change of seed,
with no appearance of running out.
During the period of over for
ty years of farming on the same farm,
I have never but once changed seed
of grain or vegetable for the benefit
of change, and then with bad results,
for the seed obtained was not as good
as that on the farm, and the crop
grown WAS not as good, but have uni
formly sown seed Of my own growing
on y when new varieties have been
introduced thought to be- better than
the old. And think my success in
cropping has been as good az these
who have practiced change. Farm
ers may he benefited often by change
of seed. il they get seed more perfect
than that grown on their own farms,
but not Other wise.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-10
Feeding Soft Corn.

Feed the soft ears of corn to miIch
cows, gain in the flow of milk fol-
lows. Now stop feeding these soft
ears, and give them the big ears, set
with hard kernels; and it will at once
be seen how much more good the soft
corn does them. If the cows are
overfed, or perhaps should they have
but little of the hard corn, the ker>
mel will be found in the manure, unu>
tilted by the animals. III feeding a
herd of cows on hard corn, some cows
will be always found not ljgrs,ing
completely the kernels. 1t is also
observed then when corn is sent to
mill before 1t is sufficiently dry to
grind fine with the cob, it an unsatis.
factory feed. 1t does the cows less
good than we should expect, thus
clearly betraving the fact that at this
time the meal is less nntritious, in it.
self is less diSestahle than meal made
from old coln.-Scicntifc Farmer.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-10
among the }armeE5.
No Capital

When you want a farmer to de-
versify his crops; to invest III
factories whereby he can sell his
cotton to the home spinner, he
tells You he cannot, has it not,
nor can he get it, while II he were
TO start iu on the less cotton and
more cereal plan Ire could at once
sell off the surplus males he would
not require under the new order
of things. Three hundred sur
plus mules sold and the proceeds
invested in connection with our
town friends would start Facto-
ry costing 100000. This situa-
ted on the water power OF Slb-
ley's Lake would work up every
bale of cotton made in the parish
By this means the farmer would
sell his cotton to first hands, and
would make all that profit now
given to the middle men. Let us
not then talk Of ''no capital" to1
we notice that when a person
wants to go into exclusive cotton
planting, a business that does not
pay, he can manage to borrow
money to buy three or four thou
sand dollars worth of mules.