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FLO RIC i l 7 ] R E..
CULTURE OF. ROSES.
Roses always roses are.
What with roses can compare ?

The rose is the queen of flowers, and II
taken good care of will richly repay for all
the laborbestowed Oh them. The best soil
in which to grow roses is rich loan, the
deeper the-better. 1t should be we'll dressed
and mulched heavily with thoroughly de-
cayed stable manure. .Ihey should not be
planted so near trees as tosbe overhung by
them, as the drip from the trees will prevent
their thriving and spoil the flowers. When
set out, the roots will need to be puddled, to
ensure their living. If planted in spring it
is necessary. to ensure success, that coat
ing of strong manure, or some such mater
ia, be placetsabout them. Those planted in
autumn do not succeed as well as spring
planted ones. Pruning is best left until
spring, except George w., which will not
bear spring pruning. Liquid manure, ap-
piled to the roots once per week, wiH help
to produce large blooms and more of them.
It has also tendency to keep offinsects, es-
pecaly if salt mixed with it.
The following fist of roses do well here.
Bourbon, Noisette, Tea and China roses are
popularity termed monthly towering, as
most do, in pots, nearly, every month, and
in open air constantly, ffosia June until Sc
we're frost. Forithose wishing roses and the
most exquisite rose buds, at all seasons, for
ali purposes, these monthlies are incompar-
ably the most useful of ALI. Many half hardy
| kinds can be successfully taken through the
winter by covering in aGsasnn with loose
/ BARNARD manure-wliich is the best for
lreses--setting an old box or barrel over to
keep3out the wet and keep the frost i'll the
| yroaa,d until late in the spring, after the
danger Is INST from. alternate freezes and
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-06-14
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

A Nix. WASHINGTON SMITH is trying to
persuade himself and others into believing
that the potato-rot has its origin in Peruvian
Guano.
The New Jersey State horticultural Soci-
ETY. has published its proceedings for 1877, :,
and it contains some valuable essays and
scientific papers.
The man who stopped his paper because
he could not afford it, lately sold hundred
bushels of wheat at twenty cents per bushel
less than the=market price,.
A COMMISSION, appointed by the Legisla-
ture Of Delaware, propose offering prem
iums, lext year, for the promotion of sugar
beet culture, and if they will follow it with
sufficient capitsl to run a mandatory it
may do some coed, otherwise not.
No grasshoppers in or tributary to the
Elkhorn valley west of Wisner.. An im-
mense acreage Of small grain has been sown
and is in excellent condition. Prospects for
good crops We're never better throughout
northwest Nebraska.
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KILLING CUT-WoRMs.

In answer to an inquiry, "Reader,'' in the
Couut1u Gentleman of March Goth, gives
a method for the destruction OF these
pests. which he gets from an old tobacco
grower. That the evening is the time
the worms are out seeking food; that the
worms are readily seen when light IS made
to shine upon them, and that by repeated
operations in going over the ground every
evening for week or SO the worms may
he exterminated, is true. 1t is slso true
that his method may be practicable when
applied to small patches.and gardens. But
would such a method be practlcaDle lof sile
farm? Would it not be impractlcable TO go
over 10 or 20 acre field, row by row. every
nioht for a week, with lantern and bucket III
hand. and pick up the worms? Nouli It
not be Impossible:
The best method | know otitor Keeping
the c,t-worms from the plants in the garden
Dr. match. is to prepare at yoM leisure
o,,aatity. of small paper boxes-say tour GO
six inches square aaying neither bottom OF
ton. They must he,nade a little faperlng'
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A GRICU / 7 ] RAL.

OWE of the industries most sadly neglected
Nv Montana farmers is the raising of hogs
and making the bacon for home consump-
ton. Many of them appear to hold the idea
that to raise hogs would be an Improbable
business, without ever figuring the cost or
even rejecting upon the subject. Bacon is
\ staple which has not, since the settlement
Of this country, tailed to bring a fair price
in our markets, and at prices, the lowest of
which, with proper management, would be
relnunerative to the producer in this coun-
try. It has been demonstrated beyond any
question, that the common pea makes most
excellent food for hogs, and is much strong
er than any feed that can be successfully
produced here. 1t thrives better in our soil
than any other grain or plant, and is easily
cultivated 1t requires less irrigation, ma
lures early, and can be harvested with less
labor, while the yield is much greater than
any other farm produce. The experience Of
few farmers has already proven to them
the practicability OF producing bacon. We
are looking anxiously to the day when Mon
elia Will nave nei OWN pdchHiS Hoaeee, ahu
produce the lard and bacon for her own
markets, retaining and circulating within its
limits many thousand dollars now being
carried out of the country to supply the
yearly demand. We shall be prepared at an
early day to give some statistical results OF
the exp orience OF few farmers in this line,
which will doubtless prove valuable to our
readers
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THREE CLASSES OF FARMERS.

correspondent Of Colmo1's Rural World
has this to say on the subject of three classes
Of farmers:
First, here is a farmer whose home. how
ever humble it may be. shows evidences OF
taste and retinement-of progress and enter
prise. His stock is cared for, and each ami
nal. seems glad to meet him, for it is certain.
OF some kind word or caressing stroke.
dates are on their hinges, fences in repair
door yards set to blue grass, shrubbery and
flowers, farm tools of the best and in good
condition, his work all up to the season.
otep into his "home circle" and see the plea
SAINT smile Of his better half, as she goes
quietly about her household duties ask her
aoout the children, and she will tell you they
are at school,. Note the small stock. of books
which compose his library: Bible. .diction-
afy' reports OF State Boards of Agriculture,
Mo a few others. Observe how carefully
he preserves his file of the Rural World, or
setae other agricultural paper, tor this is he
VINO takes and reads such papers. Sneered
8. oy Ills less progressive neighbors as a
oooS 1armer' or newspaper farmer"
nc Keeps his temper, quietly pursueing the
'enord his ways, until they, seeing his bet
'1 success in farming, gradually begin to
.ollow his example, and are greatly benefit
ted thereby.
our next class consists Of these whe know
-. -. .,ise can be known about farming, and
are too Industrious to waste time in reading
p@pefs ossbooks. Ask such a. man to sub
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thaws, which kill so many of our finest var
ieties of flowers and fruit.

thaws, which kill so many of our finest var
ieties of flowers and fruit.
June roses: George N, Madam Planter,
Night OF Splendor, Queen of Prairie, Madam
Hardy, Princess Clementine, Gem of Prairie,
Baltimore Belle, Mrs. Hovey.,
Hybrid perpetual: Clhude Million, Gen.
Washington, Gen. Jaqueminot,. Madam
Chas Wood, Prince of: Wales,, Baron de
Rothschld.
Bourbon Roses: Glory de Rosamencs,
Empress Eugene.
Moss roses: Princess. Adelaide, 4Etna,
Glory of Moses
Tea-scented roses Gen. Tartes, Isabels'
sprunt, Eord Melville, Caroline Cook.
China roses: Lady WarEender, Madann
Breon.
Noisette roses Washington, Fellow NoI-
settle, Fellenberg.-
The summer roses are very little cultivat-
have been almost entirely supplanted by the
ever-blooming. varieties. The hybrid per-
petuals are the best of the rose family for
the amateur to cultivate, ,,as~they are strong
growers, free bloomers, andsWil1 standtonr
winters well with a little protection.
The rose has many enemies. The bug, /.
think, does more damage than all the others
combined. Hellebore, used in the shape Of
liquid two or three times, is sure death.
Another method is, put a tin pan underneath
the bush, filled with rotten wood, on which
sprinkle sulphur and coal oil; cover with an
old piece of carpeting and ignite The
slnudge will kill the worm and not burt the
bush. have never had it used for roses,
but ssseaghtI would try it, as it kills worms
OH currants and goosebesries.-
| The more flowers yea gather the more
you will have,, as each plant will bloom
afresh in return for those that have been
plucked. All of us have friends who cannot
exercise their taste in cultivating and raising
flowers. To them -and;to the sick a tasteful,
fragrant bouquet is always an.appreciated'
token of atfection.-Eg.
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so as to flare about half an inch. Set these
boxes over the plants, the widest edge up,
and the worms cannot crawl over the top.
If the boxes are dipped in strong solution
of gum shellac, they will stand the weather,
and with care last for years.
Should there be any danger of the cut
worm taking the corn in the field, the fol-
lowing, if practiced, will be found beneficial:
AS soon as the corn makes its appearance,
coming through the ground, apply to each
hill small handful of lime and salt in the
following proportions: One-third salt, and
two OF newly Stacked lime. Put the mixture
in a bucket and sprinkle it Oh with the hand;
an old glove, If put on the hand, will prevent
the lime from cracking the skin. do not
know that this mixture kills the worms, or
that it keeps them entirely off the hills, but
(lo know that it makes the corn grow so
rapidly that in Il short time it is out of their
reach.
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DIAMOND CITY, M. T., JUNE IA, 1877.

scribe for an agricultural paper, and he will
take it as all insult to his superior wisdom.
No sir he has no time to devote to such
silly uses. He dashes in with team and
plow, wet or dry, and cuts and covers his
muddy acress, and succeeds in mudding i'm
his corn thre or four weeks too soon. The
consequence is, he gets spare "stand" of
feeble, sickly corn plants, whose vigor can
never be made equal to that of the fox tail
and crab grass which successfully dispute
their possession of the land. His library
consists, perchance, of a medical almanac,
which is consulted occasionally to determine
when the sign is right to ,lo his work. Wife
weary and careworn, children at hard labor
under their taskmaster father. He has, of
course, no time to spend in such foolery as
door yard ornamentation. ''Draw bars'' Or
''slip gaps" answer instead of gates, which
he has no time to make. All is hurry and
confusion, vexation and aggravation, from
early morn to late at night, for three hun
dred and sixty-five days in the year.
The representative of our third class is too
poor to take an agricultural paper ~. See
him as he saunters leisurely forth from the
door of the village store, where he has just
succeeded in getting outside of glass of
vile stuff tor medical purposes. and for which
he has paid ten cents. Observe the streams
of brown filth oozing from his mouth and
trickling down his chin-tobacco juice, for
tobacco he can't DO without. Picking up
his gun and calling after four or five dogs
1.-THE others are Off after some ones sheep
he goes on hunt. After some hours thus
spent, he goes to what he designates ''home"
to growl at his barefooted, half-clad wife,
for allowing the neighbours stock-he has
none of his own except the dogs at his heels
to get over his four or five rail fence, and
destroy his crop of-tobacco plants. Poor
fellow! Too poor to take Il paper, he is able
to feed-no, not feed, but keep-halfa dozen
worthless, NANCY dogs. Too poor to take
a paper, he can indulge in whisky and to-
bacco. Too poor to take a paper, when the
time spent in idleness and loafing, if proper
ly employed, would afford the means to SUBJ
scribe to and take y tirst-class agricultural
paper every week in the year. His door
yard is adorned with a vigorous growth OF
burdocks, and Of jamestown weeds. His
library, if he has one, contains few dime
novels, SUIT Lovingood, or DR.. Rattlehood,
borrowed, but never returned. His children
are scattered about over the fields or woods
like so many half-wild sayages, or hide upon
the approach of stranger.
Of these three classes of farmers, the first
is annually increasing in members and influ7
ence, and that the other two may continue
to diminish in numbers until they, like the
aboriginal natives, may be known only III
history, is the Wish Of G. W. WHITEsIDE. !
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WEEKLY BY
R. N. SUTHE ERLlM
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

nh. Rocky MOUNTAIN HusBANDMAN is designed
in na s the name indicates, htlsbandmar il. every
70 w. T the term embracing in its columns every
se,1lstn,ent se,1 of Agriculture, Stock-rais.g, Horti-
1',.nre Social and Domestic ECONOMY.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12

The BosToN HERALD OF Sunday morning had
a most excellent editorial on the position OF
Messrs Geo. f. Iloar, VIM. A. Wheeler,
and VIM. p. Frye in respect to the Louisi-
ana returning board. Let it be remember.
ed that the board who returned Kellogg
as governor in 1874 is the same who return
ed Hayes electors in 1876, and that this
Hoar-W Wheeler committee then said the
boards canvass "has no validity aud is en-
titled to no respect" while now they try to
defend this board, especially by calling at
tention to Chairman Wells service during
the rebellion she was a faithful union man"
SO was Benz. f. Butler union man in New
Orleans, but--wel time would fail to tell
what. Now of this same Wells Gen. Sher.
dan said in 1867, "Gov. Wells is a political
trickster aud dishonest man." Again he
said, "hs conduct has been as sinuous as the
mark left 10 the dust by the movement of a
snake" The Herald has done good ser.
vice in putting all these things together so
that we can get full view of the rascally
conduct of those men. If the republican
party gets the president on the returns oil
this board unsupported by evidence so full
and clear and convincing that honest men Of
either party cannot doubt, it gets milestone
about the neck which will drag it to ruin aud
oblivion. The peril Of the hour for either
party is in this, that to take the presidency
with any real valid grounds of suspicion OIL
fraud is sure death, and therefore with ouI
republican sympathies we rathOr see Tilder
declared elected than have Hayes inaugural
Cd unless the investigations in Louisianr
clearly proves that he had the majority o
the votes cast. To rest it on the returns o
that board is to invite party death.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12
Sauce for Goose and Gander.

Somewhere in the annals Of literature
there is an old adage to the intent that the
sauce which is suitable for the quiet dame
goose is equally adapted to the sensitive pal
ate of the more boisterous gandor With
out entering into the gastric merits of the
question, we are inclined to believe it true
it has the aroma Of the ages about it; an
tiquity lends grace and dignity and charm to
its unanswerablo logic; the great men of
the past, the Caesars, the Charlomagnes, the
Machiavelis, the Fredcricks, the Napoloons,
and the Wellingtons were trained aud
achieved successes through tho courage aud
practical wisdom which it inspired Nor
are its resources for good yet exhausted it
is the Pactolus Of the ages, guiding men to-
day as Of old. The evidences Of this are
near at hand. Indeed it is refreshing to see
how the republican party organs commend
the wisdom Of representative benjamin. H..
Hill of Georgia in refusing to follow tie fire
caters Of his party. Mr.. Hill says and no
one can fail to commend his words and
spirit IL am absolutely dead to party, and
shall act and speak as my best judgment
shall dictate for the peace and prosperity Of
the country" And every republican paper
commends Mr.. Hills course, and they do
we'll. Mr. Hills attitude is the FARMERS
attitude; it is the attitude Of ex Gov. Bull
lock, of President Seelye, Of Carl Schurz, Of
the lameuted Sumner, Of hundreds and thou
sands Of men less known than those men,
toned. Yes aud the republican papers
almost without exception try to read out Of
the party the BuIlocks, Seelycs, and Sum
ners, just because they say with Dir, Hill
1--WE are absolutely dead to party" be-
cause they dare to act as their better judg,
meuts, their conscicnces, and patriotic love
of country shall dictate. rather than obey
the behests OF such partisan leaders as Chand
Ter and Morton aud Butler. Docs au,.. de-
cent man suppose that Charles Sumner wal
a little mean trickster, or that Gov. Bul.
lock is demagogue, or that Mr.. Seelye
whom the cultured, heightened friends o.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12
Feeling Bad,

FRIEND HIBDARD.-l notice that you re-.
greet the existence Of bad feeling between
the board of agriculture and the dairymen's
association, aud write this to relieve your
anxiety.
There is no bad feeling whatever between
the two organizations. The bad feeling"
is all mouopolized by one individual and
it can't be helped. It's constitutional.
have been to some extent identified with the
two associations since their first organization,
and am pretty well nformcd as to their rec.
ord and know all about the recent overtures
for Joint meeting" Now, my friend, it
is fact that the party who made the prep
osition to the board Of agriculture for a
joint meeting, does not desire such meet
ing. He said distinctly that the papers by
members of the board would be quite too
Then what is wanted, do you ask | will
tell you 1t is desired that the state treas.
uiJ sHdll pay h"ii 'HS SAINt'SS VI WV
dalrymen's meeting, and the only way to
bring that about is to have Il joint meeting
Mr. Fassctt, for the board. declined the in
vitatiou very properly, and | approve Of his
action But Of course somebody feels bad
j lust look at the matter a moment. The
material always available for the exercise.
Of the dairymcn's meeting is abundant t.
fill up the three days with a full, rich pro
gramme. The association has cha ract e
enough and the meetings ecat enough with
out calling in the board or any other organ
ization. There is no occasion, if there wa!
room or time, to crowd the board Of agr
culture into the darymen's meeting. Othel
reasons could be cited, but these are abln.
dant.
owe the Vermont dairymen's association
nothing but good wishes, intend TO be pres
ent at the Burlington meeting and expect G
rich feast Of good things, and hope that the
disgusting centennial quarrel" will not in
tcrlere with its success
Very truly yours, C.H.H.
| S,r,.,s,J L,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12

Amherst college have selected as the sue
cessor Of the lamcnted president Stcarns, is
anything but gentleman Docs any one
suppose that these men are any less wise, or
manly, or patriotic than Mr.. Hill Yet it
is mean, disreputaLle, almost treacherous
conduct for them to take the same attitude
towards their party, which Mr.. Hill takes
towards his. For these men to think and
speak and act as they do, imporils the posi-
ton, pay, emolumeuts Of thousands Of the
postmasters, collectors, aud armies of fed.
eral officials all over the land for Mr.. Hill
to think speak aud act as he does, not only
does not threaten the position Of these men
but has tendency, they think. to make
them moro secure in their positions. Hence
for Mr.. Hill to do as he does is the highest
type Of patriotism and craftsmanship, but
for Gov. Bullock and President Seelye to dc
the same thing is in the highest degree rep
rehensiblc, yes, it is all but treason L
does make n difference whose corns ar,
pinched, does il not2
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12

WISE LEADERsnIp.-This is what the
Journal Of Education says Of the efforts re-
Gently made by the president and faculty at
Middlebury to raise the standard Of a college
oft" Though it gave some dissatisfaction at
the time, it is already bearing fruit both to
the good aud glory of DR.. Hubert and his
college,
president Huber. Of Middebury, COM
menccs his administration under the most
favorable circumstances, and with firm de.
termination to elevate the standard Of sehol.
arship, both in the college, aud in the pre-.
paratory schools which supply it. In this
college president, and by every high school
teacher in New England The responsible.
ity of fixing the standard Of qualifications
rests with the united college presidents, and
the fitting schools will furnish Just what the
colleges may demand. 1t has been great
draw back to advanced scholarship, when
one college was willing to become an asylum
for rejected applicants to other institutions.
Such policy may temporarily gain students
but it is at the expense of character and
scholarship. 1t don't pay in the end Col
cgc presidents should stand shoulder to
shoulder in jealous defense of a higher
range OF learning, and they will secure it as
soon as they make the demand Of prepare
tory schools, and stick to it. The time is at
hand when the leading institutions of New
| England should refuse to pass men who are
innocent Of Il knowledge Of the rUdiments,
aud whose acquaintance with Latin aud
Greek and mathematics is OF the most su.
pcrfcial character"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-12

sport is in being able to dodge around a cor
ncr completely out of sigh. quicker than you
can say scat" Well he did 10 replying to
our answer; the main issue he lodged and
we shall have to call him honceforth, not the
"artful dodgor," but the "expert dodger."
The girls are sure to win as grace, beauty,
wit and spirit always have and will. Har-
wards faculty are getting ready to say, "yes,
come right in, glad to see you" when the
next bevy gently ring tho door.bel for ad-
mission. Though this is not leap year, the
young ladies are sharp enough aud eager
enough for an education to present them.
selves as soon as they see any "Barkis is
wiiliu" spirit in the powers that rule.
The democrats OF this state have been
reading the FARMER, that is sure, as witness
their sensible resolutions, when they assem-
bed in Montpelier, Mouiay to keep alive
the memory Of sold Hickory" Here is ono
Of them, "Resoved that the liberty lowing
democrats Of Vermont will give a ready &C.
quiescence to whatever may be found to have
been the honest result Of the late presiden.
tial elcction--let that be what it may" etc
Good, that sounds like it, such views by any
party are timely and Indicate speedy set
tlemeut Of the question at issue. We opiuC
our friend Atkins could tell who wrote tho
resolutions, as he has been diligcnt reader
Of the FARMER Of late.
Can you remember the day, June Is,
1862? What then2 Why this-gold dowr
to 1869, just the point touched Tuesday
Guess Hendricks and Tildcn wish they had
not "conIercnced" so long at Saratoga last
summer That was gricvous mistake il
condeming the act for specie payments, they
are coming, in fact are at hand If we will &C.
cept them, il not they may 60 like wandering
Israel into the wilderness for score and 0
half Of years.
It's all clear now-why the editor of the
Rutland Globe is such spare, shad-likt
fellow, but he tells US his diet has been
"aquara," that is two oysters to quart o.
warm water Rather slim even for the edit.
or Of the Globe not very "globular" die
that. But then there is this to be thought
Of tastes differ.
The last week belongs to the "Newgat,
Calendar" Major, the Wilton, N. H., wifi
murderer, was hung in Concord, Friday
La Page, the murderer of Josie LangmaiC
and Miss Ball, will have his new trial Feb,
ruary 20; aud Wednesday morning the jury
brought in verdict of guilty of murder in
first degree in case of Gravln the murderer
Of White in Weathersfeld last October Sci.
dom docs justice get so well her due, and VIZ
think the public conscience and judgment
will be satisfied.