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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

LET THEM ALONE Never try to rob
one of his good opinion of himself. 1t is
the most cruel thing you can do. More
over it is by no means doing rs you would
he done by. Crush woman's selfesteem
and you make her cross grained and
snappish. DO the same to u man, and YOU
make him morose. You may mean to
create a sweet humble creature but you
will never do it. The people WHO think
hest of themselves are apt to be the best.
Women grow pretty believing they are so,
and nne qualities often crop out after one
has been told one has them. 1t only graf
ities momentary spite to force your own
unfavorable opinion of him deep into
anolher's mind. 1t never did any good
All! if this world full of ugly people, and
awkward people. of silly people. and vain
people, knew their own deficiencies, wha
II sitting in sackcloth and ashes we should
have? The greatest of all things that II
man can have is II satisfactory identity. l.
that which'he calls l pleases him, it is well
with him; otherwise, he is perfectly
wretched. Let your fellow beings alone :;
hold no truthful mirrors before their eyes
unless with pure intention to uproot sin
SO may mirror never without Il flaw b.
prepared for YOU In those things we Cam
not help, m y we ever BIZ blind to our own
shortcomings. We are neither ugly, nor
awkward nor unnteresting TO ourselves.
If we do not know it. A fool may have
the wisdom of solomon in his own conceil
Let him be, and the path to the grave will
he the easier for him to tread, you will be-
no worse, he no better. Leave every man
IS much selfeseem us his conscience will
allow him to cherish. 1t may he II pleas.
IRE to enlighten folks us TO their faults vi
mind and person, but it is certainly not a
duty.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

VIRTUEN WHIsTLING An old farmer
once said he would not have hired man
on his farm who did not habitually whis
tie. He always hired whistlers. Said he
never knew whistling laboror to find
fault with his food, his bed, or complain
of any little extra work he was asked to
perform. Such man was generally kind
to children and to animals in his care.
He would whistle chilled lamb into
warmth and life, and would bring in his
hat full of eggs from the barn without
breaking one of them. He found such a
man more careful about closing gates,
putting up bars, and seeing that the nuts
on his pillow were all properly frightened
before he took it into the field. He never
know whistling hired man to beat or
kick n COW, or drive her on run into a
stable. lie had noticed that the sheep he
fed in the yard and shed gathered around
him as he whistled without fear. He
never had employed whistler who was
not thoughtful and economical.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

spring the centre Of potatoe is somewhat
immature. Cutting it admits the air t'
dry out surplus moisture and enables the
shoot to put forth.
Potatoes intended for seed should be got
out of the cellar as soon ms possible, and
spread in some place where il is warm
and light. Some rainy day when other
work cannot be done, they should be cut
in pieces, with two or three good eyes
each; then spread again, and busted with
gypsum or land plaster. The dust will
adhere to the freshly cut surface. and keep
it from shrivelling while drying. 1t will
also be stimulant to the young plant ms
it starts. II is probable that this year po
Iatoes will get several dressings of plaster
in connection with Paris green, but the
application to the fresh cut potato before
planting will do rs much good as any
This treatment is especially important for
early planting of potatoes. Where seed i
brought from damp, cold cellar. where
1t has laid all winter, and immediately
planted in ground where the Temperature
is not above forty degrees. no wonder tina
it is weeks before the tardy shoot peeps
above the ground. and that many potatoes
rot in the soil without making plant. II
you do not do any more, let the potat'
have at least chance 10 get well warmed
before being buried again.
If the cellar has been warm rs well n
damp, the eyes or " chits" have probably
grown so as TO seriously injure the pola
to for seed. No time should be lost in
removing the potatoes to some warm.
light place. and breaking off the cbits.
Ii cut and kept in warm room week.
the eyes will push vigorously though Of
course less SO than if the seed had not
been injured. This difficulty of keeping
the seed good is the only drawback TO late
planting of early varieties. In most sea-
sons, on rich soil, Early Rose will do bet
ter if planted from the first to the middle
of June. than at any earlier dale. find
generally, that late planting of any va
riety, except Peachblows, is apt to secure
The best crop.-IV. j, Fin Country Gen.
tenldn
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08
Fertilizers.

There is probably no topic connected
with our work which is receiving more
sttention or deserving of more careful
thought than that of fertilizers. With
many, if not with most of our farmers, the
first step should be more care in saving
what they already make and In making
more on the farm from materials which
are at hand. What these are, there is no
need to attempt 10 specify. They vary on
every farm, and every farmer knows
where to find and how to use them Be-
side this, and when the farmer has ex-
hausted all the means at his command, he
may still find room and need for more
To fill this need he must now have re-
course to those known as Commercial
fertil zers,' and of these, VT believe every
farmer must determine for himself by
experiment where and how far they are OF
value to him and whether they can be used
with profit, and, if so, what kinds.
We believe the best chemists now hold
that the attempt to determine by chemical
analysis what particular element of fertili-
ty is lacking in the soil is practically of no
account. The question must be put to the
land itself and the answer given by one
farm will not be certain to be the one
given by the next one to it; or that of one
piece of land, for II whole farm or for a
succeeding crop on the same piece.
We understand the faculty of the Uni
versiiy at Burlington are sending out
samples of different fertilizers to farmers
in different parts of the state for expert
mental purposes and if the experiments
are carefully made and fully reported
some general conclusions of a practical
value may be reached; at any rate, their
values may be determined for the ground
where and the manner in which they are
applied. But every farmer can make an
experiment station of his own farm where,
by the application of some one or more of
the articles furnished by reliable dealers,
they may, by careful observation and
noting of results, come TO some definite
conclusions us to their value for use on
their own farms. There is one drawback
to this cause; want of knowledge or expe-
rience on the part of the farmer. DR..
Hoskins says:
Not one farmer in twenty has experience
enough 10 use chemical fertilizers to a
good advantage, upon the mere prescrip-
ton of II chemist. We shall therefore not
be surprised, within three or four years, to
hear Professor Stockbridge and his plan
denounced on all sides as fraud and "A
humbug. Yet his system is founded upon
laws and principles which are perfectly
correct and sound, and which, in the right
hands, rightly understood and worked,
Will always give true results.
But if we have not experience, we must
gain it by practice, and if one follows plain
directions faithfully the article or the
director and not the farmer must be nj
fault, at least so 1t looks to us.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

Mr.. B. F. VANMETER of Clark County,
Ky. met with misfortune April 9th.
described In an exchange as follows:
A pile of horse manure had been COW
cred heavily with straw. and at 4 p. NJ
AS Mr.. Van NJ, the herdsman and Mr.
Hamilton were about to leave the bai n.
an expl' sion occur d under the straw pile.
he result of spontaneous combustion.
which was instantly followed by blaze
in The straw. The stables were rapidly
together with two young bull
md two horses The young bull, Double
Rose. n finely bred bull on a Young Mary
oundat on, was cut loose and escaped
with slight screening. There had been
II large number of valuable calves in the
stable during the day, but luckily these
were with their dams outside. getting
their evening intellectually Gentieman
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

of food you offer her whon soilng. This
rank grown stuff is put in a great mass in
her manger, where she breathes and slob-
bers over it, with the smell of the stable
permeating everything, until she is fairly
sick of it, and consequently will not eat
enough of it to make the system profitable
to her owner. Again, no matter how often
you may plant grains. so long as sunshine
and rain come at regular intervals. it is
impossible to have your crops ripen at
regular intervals. For instance, suppose
you sow two crops of oats one week apart.
there being sufficient surface sown The first
time 10 last one week when ready to cut
and will last until the second crop il
ready to cut. But if the ground is very
dry when the first crop is sown, and ii
rains just after the second crop is put in.
the two crops will be ready to cut at just
hbout the same time; thus you will have
but one week of soiling provender instead
of two. This is no exceptional SUPPOSE
ton, but whit ac ually happens all the
time. In other words, a regular supply
of green food can not be kept on hand, and
consequently constant resort has to be had
10 dry food. A constant change from dry
to green and back to dry food again, has
the effect of drying up the cow.
A cows appetite is quickened by pleas
ant sights and smells just as is II human he
ing's. For this reason she must have the
fresh air and pleasant sights of the pas
ture to do her hest. For the above reasons
gathered from my own experience, AN
compelled to condemn the practice of soil
inc cows that are giving milk This ap
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08
Another stump I'm hungry for hon

Another stump I'm hungry for hon
ey." ,.., ,,,a
ayes, follow me, and find second good
stump"
Over on the edge of the clearing. they
found another broadtopped stump. ana
here Seth deposited II second box prepared
like the first. They went through SINH
lar process as before. waiting Tor the bees
and watching the direction OF their hiSnt
lit is southwest" shouted VIII.
|" Shall we start. Mr. Philosopher"
Hold on q minute. Now. viii. We
have some facts for triangle. For in
stance. this distance between the two
stumps is the base line. The other two
sides of the triangle are"
The lines The bees marke out"
Exactly, and where they meet you
will find"
=" Honry!" shouted viii, throwing hi,
cap IN the mir a. almost taste it now!
q There. this shows it," and Seth drew
some lines on The bottom of the honey
box. What now?" asked Will.
You 90 10 one stump and walk south
east; will 90 southwest from the other,
and where we mee,," said Seth, will h
the"
Honey foreverl" cried Viii, pitching
mp his hat again.
They went into the woods for some dis
lance coming nearer and nearer, till at last
VIII shouted: "On. Il bee! see big
bumble-bee! " and he bumped heavily
against Seth.
60 way. Whit"
% see him aud want his honey" and
he colared Seth us vigorously as II boy
could after eating the quantity of lunch Ii
had dispatched.
Stop. Will. or you shall whistle your
self sore for your honey! If you see any
bees loatng about, mark en-"
The boys lramped round and round, and
for half an hour in vain. AT last. Will VIA,
about to make II plunge upon Seth anu
declare that he could see piece of como
having spied wooden article by thai
name sticking out of Seth's vest pockel
VIII, n Seth suddenly shouted, Good! We
have the bees at last" He pointed up til,
shaft of IN old pine right before them
Thir,y feet up, the honey makers Were
dancing about in the sun that, golden IL.
their comb, rested warm and thick on til,
doorway of their home.
What now?" asked Will. "Shall w,
shin that treeP"
shin it! We'd better Shun it, mn,
come tomorrow prepared to Cut it down
WILL"
Will demurred, but another lunch rec
onclled him to the situation, and the boy.
started for home.
The next day these honey raiders wen
to the woods, armed with axes and pals
The old pine soon came crushing to tn
ground. Will was fearfully afraid of
singing a. the axes We're swung over tin
hive, but the bees unused to such an humble
altitude, flew up to the lordly height the,
we're familiar with, and there they he'll
an Indignation meeting, confusedly bump
ing into one ant Their.
And no one was stung? No one; an
| that was the real state of the case. Tn
honey-hunters brought home lusciou
Jumps Of booty. So much for living il
Maine, with its grand old woods an,
precious hives hidden in the trees.-Con
gregationatiSt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08
Mass. Agricultural College.
CAUTION.

Editor Massachusetts, Ptoughn,an
The stubble on our wheat field of last
year was burned off early this spring, and
rs the result, all the finer grasses, which
were very abundant, are completely killed
out to all appearances. The herdsgrass
looks well but not nearly so well AS where
the fire did not touch. To all appearances
should consider il a very poor practice
to burn over newly seeded land at any
time. Yours very respectfully,
A. A. SoUTHwICK,
Farm Superintendent
April %, 1873.
The agricultural college at Amherst
wants $4,000 to pay off its debts, and the
legislature is asked to contribute that
sum. 1t will want about that money every
year to keep out of debt. Palmer Jourss.
dL
How any legislature can hold out any
longer after such a proof of the value of
the college is more than we can see.
The farm superintendent learns by ex-
perience that grasses are not of like
character of that given the three worthless
who were " cast into the burning fiery fur
mace" and that consequently they do not
thrive well when fed with fire. So he at
once prints a letter. headed with LARGE
capitals CAUTION" and tells the farm
ers That he considers it a poor practice to
burn over newly seeded land. Just con-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

CUTTING AND PLANTING PoTAToEs-Po-
tatoeS are so cheap this spring that hear
of many farmers who propose to plant
them whole, with the idea that it will NOT
pay TO cut them. But our experienced
potato-growers do not share this notion.
They find by trial that cut potatoes, three
or four eyes in hill. yield better crop,
and average more large potatoes, than they
do by using more seed. The increased
work is better in the crop than in the saw
ing of seed. What they will do, however
is TO use better quality of potatoes for
seed-good size and of the right shape.
In using small potatoes, there is always
danger of getting some that are unripe,
an these will n axe weak, spindling plants
But with q well ripened small potato.
hose starch is fully developed, can get
rs strong plant and as good growth
of tuhcrs rs lfthe seed were extra large.
My chief objection to small potatoes for
seed, is that they are not of the right
shape-usually round, rather than oval
and smooth. Cutting all potatoes for seed
is great advantage, rs it enables care
full farmer TO throw out all that appear
watery and unripc. Such potatoes are
not worth more for that than for anything
else. My rule in planting is not to use
any seed that would not be fit for use on
the table. This does not exclude small
potatoes for seed. No matter how small,
if a potato will cook dry and mealy, it
will make good plant if used for seed.
There is even greater need ofcutting the
seed. if small potatoes are used, as the
small have more eyes often than very
large potatoes. If they have too many
eyes. it is pretty sure sign that the po-
tatoes are watery and unfit for planting.
There is considerable advantage in cut
ting potatoes and storing them in some
warm, dry place few days before plant
ing. A green potatoe has to dry out a
good deal before it will sprout and grow.
You may leave well ripened Early Rose
from August till November without dig
ging and not II sprout will Start. 1t is true,
they are still attached to the root; but as
the tops are dead, the root furnishes little
moisture. Even if we dig such II hill, and
keep the potatoes well covered, not one
will start sprout. But dig some ripe
Early Rose in August. Let them dry in n
warm kitchen for week. cut and plant
them, and they will grow rs readily MS If
planted in May. Storing in cellar, or in
pits, is slow process for ripening pota.
toes. 1t usually takes all winter to accom-
plish what can be done in week above
ground In July or August. Even in the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

slider the damage which would be done if
all the newly seeded land in the United
States, or New England, or even Vermont,
should be thoroughly burned over, and
here is the CAUTION which will avert
such catastrophe and save hundreds of
times over the paltry twenty five thousand
asked for. To be sure there will be SCOT
fers at science. who lightly esteme such
great discoveries. who will say they never
heard an instance before where it was
tried to nourisb grass crop with fire, and
that no farmer with sense enough to go in
when it rained would ever try such a thing,
and he wouldn't have told of it afterwards.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

IMPROVEMENT IN DAIRY Stock. -
Whatever the breed of cattle selected for
the dairy, it is of the first Importance
that CAFE in the selection of the males BE-
taken into account. They should b.
known to come of good milking stock. and
of those individuals that have uniformly
produced mixers. 1t will also be neces
sary for the dairymen to select such ami
mails as have been known IT, produce good
results in the particular branch he intends
to prosecute, whether cheese or butter.
Herein is II close study, and one that may
not be decided hastily. for MS surely as
" lie produces like so surely will the
influence ofthe male stock tell on the herd
The samels true oil the females. 1t is not
enough to know that the dam is supe-
rior mixer. We must know that she
comes of a family that have generally pro.
duced mixers. The Short horns, id IL r
rable as they are for gaining great weights
Of beef at an early age. have produced
families of great mixers. Unfortunately
within the last twenty five years. the milk
ing qualities of these particular strains
of blood have been ignored, so that now
dairymen are looking, and very properly
o the JERSEYS, Ayrshires anu Hosl ems
for their value for milk. We do not
think the Short-horns will ever regain
their popularity in this direction, and for
tie II a'"n that it may only be done by a
long course of selection and breeding. 1t
will be cheaper to begin with the breeds
now admirably developed in this direction
and let the Short-horn and the Hereford
hraedars fiUht ont tho nnaciion IF ,,o,;,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
Central Vermont R. R lin.
Commencing Monday, Apya % 49,.
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parlor Cars and Day Express between We n Troy M
Through tickets for Chicagoandtbew.
the principal stations. est fonil,,
J.w. HOBART
CIV BENTLEY. GenlSVR
st Adams, Vt, April 81, 1873.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

LARGE AND SMALL FARMS -Agricul-
tural writers are inclined to recommend
small farms. AS well advocate doing bust
ness of any kind on a small scale Better
have a small farm paid for and well man.
aged than to owe for a large one without
the means to work it well. But if farmer
is able to own large farm, and has the
ability TO manage it, no one need to waste
any sympathy on him. Large farms are
often poorly farmed, so are small ones.
The difficulty is not so much with the size
of the farm as with the capacity of the
farmer. Good farming can be done Just
as well and more economically on n large
farm than on small one. Teams, i'm
plements and farm hands can be used to
better advantage on the large farms. for
the farmer can afford to hive variety
suited to his needs, 1t is foolish to seek 10
get large farm just for the sake of room.
but if the large area is fully utilized, then
we see no objection TO Mathematician.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08

l remember perfectly well, - don't youP
when the grass-crop was practically
considered a secondary crop, and the ma
nure made from it went to the plowed
lands. 1t was in most cases, very poor
manure at that,-manure that was coarse.
that was full of butts of cornstalks, that
had lam teaching under the caves of the
barn for months, until all the soluble ma
terials had disappeared. There was no
barn cellar in my neighborhood when
was a boy; and, il there had been, the
value of it would not have b en- under
stood and appreciated. The common
practice was, as you know, TO select some
piece OF run out grassland which the
COWS. prehaps. had gnawed bare, pillow it
up. and put in potatoes,-a very exlaus-
ting crop,-with the manure in the hill.
The next year it was planted with corn,
with lot of white beans or bush beans
in each hill; and almost invariably a
pumpkin-seed or two was stuck in with
them. The manure in the hill was suifi-
Gent to give all those plants brisk and
rapid start at the outset; but they had no
sooner left the manure in the hill than
they were drawing upon the very heart
aud fertility OF the soil itself. The third
year the farmer woul generally SOW oats
and little grass-seed with them. He
would cut his oats some time in midsum-
mer, or IA little later; and, if the season
happened 10 be favorable, the grasses
would make out to sustain life; but in
many cases, rs you remember very well,
we had severe drouths, that killed out all
the young plants after the oats were har
vested. The next year, if we happened
to be reasonably fortunate. we had Il
feeble stand of grass, Timothy and red
top,-which- cut, and then the field
pastured to death all the fall. There was
no economy, no profit, no lasting improve
ment of the land, in such system rs that.
And you know-every farmer who WAS
born and raised on farm forty or fifty
years ago knows-perfectly we'll. that
was the almost universal practice. What
wonder that our grass-lands were run out
until IN average hay crop was less than
a ton to the acrep-Cal Farmer.