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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29
Sgrifmltnral department.
FORAGE CROPS.

1t is an indication of improvement in
farming that an increased attention is
being given to the adaptation of crops
to the purposes for which they are in
tended. The food best adapted to mich
COWS is different somewhat from that
which is required for working cattle or
horses. Early cut clover or some other
succulent grass is now regarded as the
best food for cows in milk. But it is
frequently impossible to secure enough
of this to meet the demands of dairy.
Some other crop must be raised to sup
ply the want. Such crop is fodder
corn, sowed broadcast or in drills, and
cut up while yet green and before the
ears have begun to form. This crop is
easily raised, and if the land is in good
condition large crop may be secured,
which will serve good purpose when
pastures begin to fail. Oats may be
used also as forage crop to good adj
vantage. Sown on rich land cut with a
scythe before the process of ripening
has commenced, crop of oats will af-
ford large amount of excellent fodder.
Rye is sometimes used for this purpose
and is said by those who have tried it
to be profitable crop for feeding cows,
if early cut, and the same may be said
of barley. A farmer in Williston, this
State, writing to the american CultiUa-
tor says that barley abounds in milk
producing qualities, and the straw, after
being threshed, is far before any other
for value in feeding to stock. The
straw is soft and sweet. and notwith-
standing the boards, stock prefer it to
other straw.
For feeding mich cows barley cut
just before the grain ripens is valuable
forage crop. There is sufficient time in
season to mature two such crops on the
same field. The ground should be bet
ter prepared, by thorough narrowing,
for barley than for any other grain crop
since the roots, like the straw, are soft
and flexible, not being capable of pene.
trating hard soil.
1t is not strange that COWS are often
dry of milk for months in the winter
and come out in poor, half-starved con.
dition in the spring when fed on white
top or some hard, wiry grass, cut late
in the season, without roots or meal OIL
any other change of food. The best
dairymen are accustomed to say that il
pays to keep COWS in good condition the
year round, and this being SO. it will
pay to raise their food on the farm.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

THE ENEMY's GRoUND.-The second
primary cause for the continued power
of alcohol In the world is falseness of
belief as to the effect of the agent upon
the body and the bodily powers. 1t
suggests not only that alcohol is a food
but that it is necessary food-a food
that man cannot do without sustain
ing food which, in this overworked day,
is more requisite than ever. The ma
jority of persons whose eyes are opened
to the truth believe in this reasoning
absolutely, and act upon it with implicit
honesty. These otter tell you with per-
feet candor, they regret as much as can
be regretted the evils they cannot fail to
recognize but, say they, of what use is
it to deplore evils that spring from a
necessity. have never yet met leg
islator who declined to legislate against
alcohol who did not express as the rea-
son for his action this theory of necessi-
ty. | have never yet conversed with
doctor, who was in favor of alcohol,
who did not assign the self-same argu-
ment. | have never yet spoken with a
clergyman on that side of the question
who did not follow the politician and
the doctor, and adducc not only their
reason but their authority.
1t is the duty of us who have seen the
true light of this question of temperance
to deal plainly and faithfully with the
reasoning on this point of necessity.
That false doctrine eradicated, the pow
er of alcohol, for all its evil, is UNDER
mined. That left in doubt, the power
of alcohol to continue all its evils re-
mains practically untouched.-Dr. Rich
ardson's Action of Alcohol ON the Body
and on the Hind
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29
WASTES ON The FARM.


The greatest waste on the farm is in
the not using of our brain the greatest
because at the bottom of all other wastes.
A little thinking often saves much labor.
After accomplishing any piece of work,
the most of US can look back and see
how we could have improved on it if we
had but thought. AS we review our
crops of this year, we see how they could
have been easily increased had we only
thought The ditch we dug through
our meadows was not done in the most
economical way. We dug too deeply at
first, and did not allow for the settling
of the land; hence waste of labor.
We omitted buying an implement that
would have saved nearly its cost in one
years use, until we have spent much in
trying to accomplish our work without
it. Here we have another waste. We
carry water-pipe too near the surface
to save the expense of digging trench
of safe depth, and the winters frost
necessitates replacement of the pipe
and an additional digging. Certainly a
waste here. We allow the weeds to
grow on one piece of land, not thinking
to what proportions they would grow by
the time the crops were too far advanc-
ed to admit the hoe. A waste here
which might have been obviated. And
so on, wastes little and big everywhere,
all arising from our not thinking suffici-
ently-waste, because not necessary and
easily obviated. We omit the ordinary
wastes from neglect. from laziness, from
want of appreciation for cleanliness and
thoroug hness; the wastes from our stock,
from our ure-heap, from our house
hold. Verify, little thought will save
the farmer much; and the saving
through this means, even on small
farm, will represent the interest on a
considerable capital. The wastes aris-
ing from ignorance can very readily be
diminished, and are in large part in
excusible; those arising from careless
ness are not deserving of sympathy
The farmer, as we'll as the business man
must use business principles to secure
the largest success, and the one should
be as careful of the out goes as the
Scienti fc Farmer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

JEWELS OF THE CROWN OF SCOTLAND.
At Edinburg, Scotland, some years
since. the jewels of the crown were locked
in a box, that box in another, and so on,
until they were supposed to be burglar
proof. They were then locked up in the
vault of the castle, there to remain for
one hundred years. the keys being placed
in mortar and fired into the sea. Scarce
fifty years passed by, and the modern
lock picker opens the vault and boxes
without trouble. So the science of med
icine, swhen studied with the science of
chemistry and the microscope, becomes
plain and simple. and diseases that were
regarded incurable generation ago, now
readily yield to remedies employed by
the modern and progressive physician.
A decade of years since, and women were
taught to believe that their peculiar dis
eases and weaknesses were incurable !;
but now hundreds and thousands of once
bedridden women in the United States
will testify to the fact that DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription has effected their
perfect and permanent cure.
Toledo, Ohio. Dec. 6, 1876. DR.. R.
V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y: Dear Sir
About five years since my wife was taken
sick, and though we employed the best
physicians in our city, yet she gradually
grew worse. so that she was confined to
the bed. Every remedy had tried, or
could find, failed to cure or even give
relief. At last l procured bottle of
your Favorite Prescription and to my
surprise it gave almost instant relief,
and with a little perseverance, an entire
cure was effected Ever gratefully yours,
Geo. Bodenmiller."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

You see the wine when it sparkles in
the cup; are you going to drink it? |
tell you there is poison in it, and there
fore beg you to throw it away. You an
swer, the wine is harmless in itself. |
reply perhaps it is SO, but still, if it be
mixed with what is not harmless, no one
in his senses, if he knows it, will once
think of drinking. If you add, it is not
poison to me, though it may be to others
then l say, throw it away for thy broth
er's sake, least thou embolden him to
drink also. Why should thy strength
occasion thy weak brother to perish, for
whom Christ died.-Jol,a Wesley.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

The London Times has pronounced
the American potato superior to the
Irish or any other. If this decision is
effectual and an English market is cre-
ated for the tuber, commerce must re-
vive. So much space will be required
for SO little value that potato ships will
have to increase the carrying capacity
of cotton ships, and use iron or stone
for ballast. The country can meet any
demand and should British appetites
choose to join American potatoes with
American beef and bread and cheese,
then the demand will be large.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

The annual yield of potatoes in the
United States, according to the returns
of the last census, was nearly 100000
900 bushels. In view of the increasing
attention lately given to this crop it will
doubtless show at the close of the pres
ent decade large increase in the
amount of the yield, as we'll as in the
number and improvement of varieties.
In fact. it may safely be assumed that
in spite Of the fears of many in regard
to the ravages of the beetle, this crop
will still show yield at the next census
of over 200,OO0,O0O bushels.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29
Gem pEraMcR.
WHOSE BUSINESS is TT?

sit is not my business" says the ed
itor when some mysterious voice COM
mands him to write the truth; "Here
are six hundred dollars worth of adver-
tisements of the liquor trade in my pa
per and l must not oppose the traffic =
and SO the ceaseless influence of the
press is on the wrong side.
at is not my business" says the
church, sit is a political question very
good people are divided upon it. and it
would disturb our peace. We will try
to save those who come to US, but we
cannot 60 to the saloons after them"
Meanwhile, the saloon comes to the
church with its influence, and boys from
the Sabbath school and men from the
pews are drawn into the awful whirl-
pool.
at is not my business" says the pas
tor, Il try to preach the Gospel, but
there is A and B, they own stock in this
business, and Y rents his for liquor
store, it would drive them from our
church, if l should be plain, and they
are very good men, after ALL"
sit is not my business" say they all,
and so the slaughter of home, morality
and life goes on.
All. did we say; nay, not all sit is
our business" said the wives, mothers
and sisters of Ohio on their knees before
God. alt is our business" echoed the
pallid lips of the women of many States,
and they went out in throngs to plead
alike with those who drank, and those
who sold plead with strong men to
arouse themselves, and with the law
making power for protection. and to so
plead with God that they dare to put
Him in the reckoning when they say,
at is our business -
What good has been accomplished Z?
The curse is with US yet. some good
laws have been repealed, some bad ones
made and the right has been trampled
down with impudent scorn.
This it has done it has shown that
the strongholds of this traffic are Ape
tite and avarice.
The first, by early education and the
grace of Christ, can be controlled and
overmastered.
The second is the realm of law, and
one day, not far away, national power
will crush business that, like vul-
ture, feeds on blood.
This more it has done
1t has simplifed the great problem by
lifting above the divided ranks of al
temperance people, this simple standard
Total abstinence for the individual
total prohibition for the State, and calls
all to the battle, who dare to say OF
that line: 1t Is Gods business and it il
ours fitness
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

Temperance is not subject to be
played with. There is earnestness
enough on the other side. The rum
sellers are earnest and determined, the
poor drunkard is terribly in earnest in
his appetites and in his remorse, the
ruin of those dependent on him is over
whelming. the waste of resources is dew
astating, the danger to the young fright
full; and all these to degree which de-
mands the most serious earnestness on
the part of those who would remedy
this state of affairs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29
From n Physician.

'Great Bend. Pa, Nov. %, 1875.
Messrs. Seth w. Fowle & Sons, Boston.
Gentlemen-For nearly two years my
wife was troubled with the lung Difficult
ty. After enduring the trial of much
medicine. she was persuaded to use DIR.
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry. After
using two bottles she experienced great
relief, and after she had taken six bot
ties she was freed of her cough. with
pleasure commend DIR. Wistar's Balsam
of Wild Cherry. J. t. Payne, M. d.
SO cents and ST bottle. Sold by
all druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

o Thou good Shepherd. who hast
laid down thy life for me, let me trust
thy love and feel thy support. that
whatever lies before me to be done or
suffered, | may be enabled to do it. and
to suffer it, by the continual supplies of
thy grace.-W. Romain.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

Lord God of heaven and earth, we
thank Thee for Thy blessed word, to
which if we take heed we shall soon
have the day dawning upon us. Lord,
enable us to use Alright this lamp which
Thou hast put in our hands, and SO to
guide US along our PATH. anderson.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

The great aggravation of the misery
of hell will be its eternity,-that when
thousands of years are past, its tor
ments are but beginning. Oh that sim
ners would lay this to heart for as the
joys of heaven are beyond our conceiv-
ing, so are also the pains of hell. Eter-
nal torment is inconcelvable torment
Barter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29
VEGETINE
ChiIIs, Shakes,
AND AGUE.
TARBoRo, N. c., 1878.

TARBoRo. N. c., 1878.
DR. H. B. srEvEEs:-
Dear Sir-l ieel very grateful for what your valua-
BILE medicine, Vegetine, has done In my family. wish
70 express my thanks by informing you Of the wonder
full cure OF my ALSO 10 let you know that Vegetine
il the best medicine saw for Chills, Shakes
Fever and Ague. My was sick with measles In
1873, which left him with Hpjoint disease. My son
suffered great deal Of pain. all OF the times the pain
was great he did nothing but cry The doctors did
not help him particle, he could not lin his foot nom
the floor he could not without crutches. read
your advertisement In the Louisville CourierJOur-
nal" that Vegetne a great Blood Purifier and
Blood Food. tried bottle, which great ben
eft. He kept with the medicine, gradually gaining
He has taken eighteen bottles in ALL and he is
petey restored 10 health walks without crutches
cane He is twenty years OF age / have younger
son. fifteen years Of age, who is subject TO Chills-
Whenever he feels coming on, he comes in, takes
dose Of Vegetine aud that is the last Of the Chilli
Vegetine leaves bad effect upon the system like
most Of the medicines recommended for Chills.
cheerfully recommend Vegetine for such complaints
think IL Is the greatest medicine In the world.
Respectfully MRS. J. W. LLOYD.
vEaErINE-when the blood becomes lieless and
staguant either from change OF weather or OF climate
Of exercise. irregular diet or nom any other
cause the vEoEEINE will renew the blood carry Off
the putrid humors cleanse the stomach, regulate the
bowels, and mpart tone OF vgor to the whole body
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

DR.. Reynolds, the temperance lecturer
says that six hundred Of the ablest ply
sicians of the land testify that since
they have stopped giving alcohol as a
medicine they have had much better
success with their patients than before.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

- can make money faster ut work for than at
anything else. Capital no: required; we will start
you. $l2 per day at home made by the industrious,
Men, women, boys and girls wanted everywhere
10 work for us. Now Is the time. Costly outht and
terms free Address True Co., Augusta, Maine. oil
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VEGETINE
FOR
DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUSNESS,
AND GENERAL DEBILITY.

BKRNARDsroN, MASS, 1873.
We the undersigned. having used vegetne, take
pleasure In recommending II to all those troubled with
Humors OF any kind Dyspepsia, Nervousness. or GEN
eral Debility II being the Great Blood Purifier Sold
by X. L. Crowell Sons, who sell more OF IL than all
other patent medicine put together.
MRS. L. Y. PERKINS.
MRS. II. W. SCOTT.
JOSEPHUS SLATE.
VEGETINE Is the great health restorer-composed
exclusively Of barks, roots and herbs. IL Is very
pleasant to take; every child likes 1t.
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VEGETINE.

Druggists Testimony.
Ma. n. r. STEvENs:-
Dear Strive have been selling your remedy, the
Vegetine for about three years. and take pleasure in
recommending II TO customers, and in instance
where blood purifier would reach the case has it
ever failed 10 effect cure TO our knowledge. 1t
tanly is the me plus ultra Of renovators. Respect
fully, 4. NJ SHEPHERD co Druggists.
Mt. Vernon Ill.
Is acknowledged by all classes OF people TO be the
best and most reliable blood purifier in the world.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

There is safety in temperance there
is destruction in inebriety
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

Mrs Darlington, reading of the strike
of the wiredrawers, remarked: "What
new tangled things won't they wear next ?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29

THE SUBSCRIBER TAKES THIS METHOD
INFORM ALL THOSE WHO OWE HIM. THAT
CONSIDERATION OF THIS NOTICE HE sH
FEEL AT LIBERTY ON AND AFTER MAY
1878, TO PRESS SETTLEMENTS AND COLI
TIoNs. AND SHALL DO so. FOR NECEss
CoMPELs.
E. o. RANDALL
West Glover VT, March %. 1873. 12tfE
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The feeding of the animals in a
menagarie is always carefully
done, because their lives depend
on the adaptability of their food.
The Philadelphia Times says that
the daintiest eaters in the ZO0log
ical Garden there are two CHM
panzees. They breakfast on weak
tea, with plenty of milk and SUI
gar, aud bread thickly spread
with honey. They lunch at 10 o.
clock Oh bananas and oranges,
dine at 3 on rice or tapioca, serv-
ed with sugar and sherry. and
sup at Z on rice and milk. The
seals are less troublesome to feed,
but more expensive, for five of
them eat daily eighty pounds OF
fresh fish, Formerly the Iions, IT,
gers, aud other carnivOra We're
costly, but of late they have been
fed Oh horse meat, which is very
cheap. The buffaloes, deer aud
elephants live now on the grass
III the grounds. The rhinoceros is
the greediest of the lot but it is
quantity that he Graves, without
much regard to quality. He will
eat 25O pounds of hay evrey day,
and a bushel o: potatoes is to him
like q plate Of Strawberries to q
hungry man. His food costs $40
a week, which is as much as that
OF an elephant. The giraffe has to
be fed carefully, because he has
no regard for his long, narrow
throat, and starts one mouthful
before the one before it has reach
ed his stomach, thus choking him
self. Common monk eys eat nearly
everything that is offered !; SO do
the Ostriches and cassOwaries, but
some of the insectivOrus have to
be patiently catered to. The
moose is hardest to please, and
misses the twigs of his native
woods.
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mot m ine."

She was stylish young lady
about eighteen years old, and to
accommodate a friend she took
the baby out for IN airing. She
was wheeling it up and down
the walk, when an oldish man.
very deaf, came along and inquir-
ed for certain person supposed
to live on that street, She nearly
yelled her head Oft trying to an.
swer him, and he looked around,
caught sight of the baby, and
said ::
''Nice child, that. suppose
yon feel prOud Of him 4.
"lt isn't mine,''she yelled at
him.
"BOy, eb we'll, he looks lust
like yon."
6 1t isn't mine." she yelled a
gain, but he nodded his head.
and continued
"Twins, ehp Where's the 9th.
er one ~
"She started off with the cab.
but he followed and asked: a.
did it die of collcW ''ftt
Despalring of making h,m un.
derstand by words of mouth. sha
pointed to the baby, at herself.
and then shook her head.
"Yes-yes, l see-'tother twin
in the house. Their father is fond
OF them, of course p
She turned the cab and hurried
tho other way, but he followed
and asked
"Do they kick around much
nights 7"
N tell you faint mine." She
shouted, looking very red in the
face.
n think..you're wrong there w
he answered. "Children brought
up on the bottle are apt to pine
and die.'
She started on a run for the
gate. but before she had opened
it he came up and asked:
"Have to spank ,em once and
awhile, l suppose Z"
She made about twenty gest.
ures in half a minute, and he help
ed the cab through the gate, and
said.
-FOUR children were all twins.
and III send my wife down to
give you some advice. You see-n
But she picked up IA flower-pot
and flung it at him. He jnmped
back, and as she, entered the
hOnse he called out f
"Hope insanity won't break out
on the twinsw
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A SCHOOLBOY's EAGLE.-The
American eagle is the largest and
most powerful bird in the world,
but he is smaller than an ostrich,
which is more of a boss than a
bird. The eagle is a very proud
bird, and don't go round eating
worms and catapillars and diggin'
up tomato plants like a hen does,
bnt he flies through the air with
his wings and sometimes swallers
little children, which is very sad.
The eagle lives sometimes to be
several hundred years old, which
is a very long time to live. There
is several kinds Of feagies, but the
United States eagle is the boss
bird and eau baste blazes out Of
any bird that ever crOwed III Eu-
rope, or Africa. An eagle can fly
about "a thousand miles in "a very
short time. l should like to see two
eagles fight. l should like to owr
Ian eagle.