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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-24

EKESH CANADA OATMEAL, fac End
IL coarse, received and for safe by
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

having tried them TO the extent necessary
to make an intelligent comparison. but
we have u plan which we shall soon
present to our readers and the max
ers of the several devices for setting
milk, and lift can be carried out, we hope
from it more reliable data on which to
base conclusions. No doubt they all have
distinctive merits, and what they are, and
which combines most are just what we
would like to see settled.
The exhibit Of butter and cheese was
large and meritOrious, and many excellent
samples came from our own state. At
this writing we are not able to announce
the premiums, Gas we were obliged TO
leave Wednesday EVENING" but we hope to
give them in this issue.
In farm machinery was noticeable the
representatives of Vermont horse powers.
The St. Adams foundry. represented by
N. G. Heyde. Esq, had fine tent showing
ODDS patent horse power threshers, separ-
ators, saving machines, etc. The merit of
these machines lies in their thorough
Workmanship. fine finish, and'an improved
link,-Mr. ODDS patent. This is combi-
nation of wrought and cast-iron, giving
great strength and true machine cog
for which they claim to secure greater
strength and less friction in running.
Theirs drag saving machine runs without
belt which is claimed as an advantage.
A. w. Gray's Sons also had tent with
their well known powers and threshers.
They have also made Improvements in
their machines, putting extra rivets in the
link and having an iron cased cylinder in
the thresher.
The Vermont Farm Machine Company
had besides the creamery the Eureka but
ter worker, their oscillating churn, the
Cleaner horse rake. (Which, we think,
unequalled) and their evaporator for sap
boiling which is in very general use
among all the A sugar makers. Theirs
smallest size is eight feet long and may
be used with profit with as few as two
hundred trees. kemp's manure spreader
was show by the Richardson Manufacture
ing Company, who had the Buckeye
mowers, Billiards. hay tedders, Whit
comb horse rake, etc. There were several
new washing machines on exhibition, one
or two of which looked us if they might
be serEcable, but in absence of any trial
we cannot commend them.
The Wickeesham nail machine makes a
new kind of nail with "chisel point ~
instead of the square point of common
nails, and will turn out of finishing brads
sixty in second. 1t is automatic and one
person can tend seven machines. The
general use of this machine must greatly
cheaper nails in the market, as the cost
of making is stated to be only one-tenth
of that of the ordinary (ReeD machine.
The hatfield fertilizers, also the
Bowker and Stockbridge were shown,
and G. w. Belknap & Son showed ground
bone. In novelties we notice nothing new
We may have more to say concerning
this fair, as we cannot now give results OF
the blowing, for which there were many
entries.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

Think A MOMENT, BoYS.-Boys do a
great many thoughtless and foolish things
for fun, " that mortify them very much in
the remembrance. TO have been caught
in somebody's melon patch, or stealing a
nelshbor's choice fruit, or taking a gate
of its hinges, or crawling under IA show
mans tent, OF playing any kind of a trick
to the injury of another, and that has to
be accomplished in a sneaking way, won I
seem very smart if you ever grow to
be man of sense. You will hate it
and wonder that you have ever thought it
sharp.
Don't hatter yourself that the worst
thing about mean act is in being caught
at it or found out. You can't be low or
vicious, or tricky, without somebody
knowing it and it does not take long for a
good many to find it out. 1t takes extra.
ordinary talent and deception to have a
good reputation concealing bad character,
and it is never worth trying for. The
way to seem 10 be trustworthy is to be
Trustworthy. There was never yet boy
who was manly, honest and worthy of
confidence, that people did no find him
out and give him his due.
You cannot afford to trhe with your
reputation. fyou descend to indecent or
immoral conduct, it will spoil your char
acter and hurt your prospects, no matter
what your friends may do for you, or how
you may try TO conceal from good people
that you do these things. just SO long as
you allow yourself to practice the habits
that are condemned by pure, upright,
Straightforward people of integrity
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

SEED TIME" Whatsoever a man SOW
eth that shall he also reap" and "He that
soweth plentifully shall reap plentifully. !"
Ii person scatters thistle seed, he should
not expect precious fruit or flowers to
grow therefrom; and il he sow sparingly,
he should not look for an abundant crop.
Youth is the seed time of life, Just as life
is the seed time of eternity. Hindu chill
dren are thus addressed, Little babe,
though enterest the world weeping, whilst
all around thee smile. Conlrive TO live
so, that thou mayst leave the world smil-
ing, whilst all around thee weep" Young
people are now reminded,
whate'er thy age would reap thy youth must sow
For the great seed time of thy life is now.
The seed time will never return, and
those who misspend it will sooner or later
possess the iniquties of their youth, in
the harvest of sorrow or suffering they
must reap. The young should begin. well,
for The way to Babylon will never bring
you to jerusalem" Get into the right
train if you would arrive at your proper
destination. Have your cloth woven well
at the loom if you would have it wear well
and long. Lay good foundation if you
would erect a secure superstructure. Be
sides. "When you grind your corn, give
not the flour TO the devil and The bran to
God" Rather let God have your freshes
and best energies, as well as your life long
love and service. Terence says, "BaC
beginnings have bad endings.' Make a
mistake in your multiplication sum at the
commencement and it will be very wrong
at last. One wrong action may quarter
repentance upon us for life.-MetbodisI
Recorder.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

Agricultural Education.

Again l rejoice, and my joy is two-fold
first that the Caledonia county grangers
app e;iate the need of some agricultural
education for the farmer; and, also, that
II worker for their cause has been honored
by them in their late resolution of thanks
to him for his co operating efforts to in.
troduce into our common schools the ele.
ments of an agricultural education"
The success of this movement l earnest.
ly desire, and ask leave to present few
thoughts relating to it.
Only the elements of an agricultural
education are expected to be taught in the
common school. So the grangers have
resolved;. so every sensible person will
judge. The agricultural education is to
be completed elsewhere. A few will car
ny it forward in the academy and smaller
number will carry it farther in the college,
but most will 60 directly TO the farm for
their advanced study. The mastery Of
I'M elementary text book on the subject
will be of great advantage to them; but
in order to good progress they need some
other acquisitions.
LIST, They need to be good readers, not
so much in the Evolutionary sense rs in
the Students sense. They need to be able
10 grasp quickly and to hold firmly the
sense OF what is written, that they may be
able to profit by the books and periodicals
relating to agriculture. They must be
taught TO read and to interpret. The
training in this branch must be skillful,
thorough and continued for years.
I'd, They need to write well. They
should make observations according to
plans thought out and written down, and
should make careful record of those OBJ
servations. Penmanship then is necessary,
and ability to express themselves in good
English will not come amiss.
I'd, They must have some knowledge of
numbers. Any thorough knowledge of
minerals, OF plants, of animals, of chemi-
cal compounds, involves a knowledge of
number; so do all farming and other bus
mess operations. Arithmetic, then, is a
necessity.
9th, From my standpoint it seems that
this most reasonable demand for some
agricultural education in schools is first of
all demand for better instruction in the
common things; that is, is II demand for
better teachers and for better schools.
This is what all thoughtful citizens want
Whether this instruction to be added to
our schools ought to be from an agricul-
lural primer, from primers of botany,
mineralogy, ETC., l do not now inquire j.;
but am heartily in favor of agricultural
education in our schools, always insisting
that it be founded in sound training in
good behavior, reading, writing, arithme-
tic. SCHooLMASTER.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10
Teaching Elements Of Agriculture.

We print this week the reply of our
esteemed correspondent, Jonathan Law
renee. Esq, to Schoolmaster," and, as
luck would have it. we received another
communication from him, answering some
of the questions Mr.. Lawrence puts, so We
print that, hoping we may hear from him
still further on the same line.
In reading Schoolmaster's idea of
the importance of reading and writing as
elements of agricultural education, "
just remember how general the lack of
these branches in our rural population"
only few of the brightest being able to
read anything Understandings except the
newspapers or write letter of which
they have no need to be ashamed at least
so we are assured by eminent authority.
There are questions in Mr.. Lawrence's
letter which Schoolmaster did not
happen to answer, not having seen them,
and to him or any other manor woman
who cares to take hand in, we commend
them for reply, confident We can do the
farmers and mankind no greater service
than by agitating the question of, What is
proper education and how can it best be
securedP
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

melting ice, thus securing constantly dry ice, making
a sav.n< Of more than fifty per cent
z mix can nineteen inches deep
D.. portable Ice chest htted with an arched iron
bottom of sufficient size TO extend over one or more
cans of milk This arched bottom is high enough to
form a commodious air chamber
DIRECTIONS FOR USING.
/. The box refrigerator is filed with water eighteen
inches deep and the ice receptacle with broken ice.
Fill the milk can full OF milk and place it in the
box refrigerator.
B. Having filled the portable ice receptacle with
Droken ice place 1t over the cans OF milk and lower 1t
water rest upon the iron supports extending along
the sides of the box refrigerator,
ADVANTAGES OF THE PROCESS.
LIST 1t is claimed to be the only open creamery
that perfectly secures the milk from all odors
purities from without;
I'd. That the milk is cooled and animal odors escape
more rapidly and perfectly than by any other process
inasmuch as the arched air chamber above the IN TX
while constantly hed with pure cold air. is also pro-
vded with vent through which all warm air and i'm
pnrlties escape;
Sd. perfect circulation throughout the milk and
surrounding water secured by placing the ice the
either the milk or the water This colder air coming
in contact with the surface OF the liquids coOls them
and the surface particles sink to the bottom while the
warmer particles at the bottom in turn ascend TO the
4h. In other processes for deep setting in reriger-
aturs the cans are all provided with metal
tanning the animal odOrs and retardng the cooling OF
the milk.
9th. Repeated experiments in the same refr igera.
tors with the same quantity Of milk and with floating
ice in water over the in the instance and my
process in the other, has invariably given twenty five
per cent more cream by the Lincoln creamery IN TWEEN
tyour hours At the end of six hours the result has
been about fifty per cent greater.
Of the merits of these different methods
we are not competent to speak, never
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

FURNITURE FOR Dolls HoUsEs.-Ta-
bles and chairs can be made of cardboard,
but they are hardly durable enough for
the doll house. If the family contains a
brother with any taste for carpentry, he
had better be applied to. Knowing the
strong views boys generally entertain
against dolls and doll houses, make this
suggestion with dif1idence; but there are
sott-hearted moments, and long, wet holi-
day afternoons, and prudent sisters will
avail themselves of these circumstances in
furnishing their houses. Tables and chairs
are easily made, even by amateur carpen-
ters. Iii neatly done, it will be sufficient
to paint the legs and backs to initiate
whatever wood is desired; vanishing is a
sticky and smelly operation, and hardly
one TO be recommended to young folks
who have any regard for their own frocks
or their parents carpets. If, however,
the carpenter has not planed his furniture
sufficiently smooth to take the paint kind
y, many defects in construction can be
concealed by covering the legs and backs
OF the chairs with paper pasted on. Elk
tremely pretty chairs can be made by
covering the wood with strong gum, and
then laying cut straw regularly side by
side upon it till the chair is covered. Rice
can be similar applied, but is apt 10 drop
Oft after time, while the straw lasts for
years. Tables can be painted dice pat
terms, or covered with paper or velvet, or
cut straws. We once saw very pretty
effect produced by pasting small scraps OF
glazed colored paper in pattern on a
table; it looked like wood inlaying. Pic
lures look well on table, but they require
vanishing over Sofas without arms can
be made out of any small box; turn the
box bottom upwards to form the seat, sew
piece of card against one side to form
the back, cover the back and seat first with
u thin layer of wadding, then with silk,
velvet or chintz
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

VANISHING WuuD.-A good surface
may be produced on Imprinted wood by
the following treatment: Glass paper
the wood thoroughly as for French polish
ing, size it, and lay on a coat of varnsh,
very thin, with piece of sponge or wad-
ding covered with a piece of linen rag.
When dry, rub down with pumice dust,
and apply n second coat of varnish. Three
or four coats should produce surface
almost equal to French polish, if the var
nish is good and the pumice dust be well
applied between each coat. The use of a
sponge or waddng instead of a brush, aids
in preventing the streaky appearance
appearance usually caused by brush in
the hands Of an unskilled pers n,-Artizan.
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gnetru
THE LITTLE BOY WHO WENT OUT To
SWIM.


BY HENRY ROWLAND.
A little boy went out TO swim,
One pleasant day in June,
And the fish all came to talk 20 him
That summer afternoon.
Come down, dear little boy" they said.
And let us show to you
The homes of fish, norman and maid.
Under the waters blue.
Wen show you where the naiads sleep,
And where the tritons dwell;
The treasures of the unknown deep.
The coral and the she'll
The SIRENS song shall charm your ears.
And lull you into rest;
No monsters shall arouse your fears,
Or agitate your breast"
The little boy was glad to go;
And all the company
OF fish escorted him below.
pageant brave to see
The pilot-fsh swan on ahead,
The shark was at his heels
The dolphin procession led
OF porpoise, whale aud cells.
The trout all brave in red and gold.
Many caper cut:
And after them. came crowds untold
OF cod and halibut.
The blue-ish with the black fish swan:
Who knows the Joy each felt2
The perch was escort to the clam
The oyster to the smelt.
The muscalonge, from northern lake,
That leaps the harbor bar,
Swan close by in the surgeons wake,
Famous for caviar!
The haddock noated side by side
With carp. from foreign shore.
And with them, through the seethiny tide.
Went scollops By the score.
The sword-ish, like soldier brave.
His sabre flashing bare,
Went DER the swelling ocean wave,
With bold martial air.
The jelly-fsh went trembling down;
The star-fish mildly beamed;
And through the waves, like diamonds thrown,
The sun-fish glanced and CLEANED.
The sea-bass. black bass, pike and dace
Went dashing on like mad:
The sheep's-head, with his lamb-like face,
Swan by the graceful shad.
The pickerel leaped and danced along;
The frog-fsh pulled and blew;
The herring in countless throng
W d nleIIy CIGW.
The turtles sailed a Dutch fleet,
On port and staboard tack,
While through their ranks, with caution meet,
Darted the stickleback.
The shrimp and lobster cawed aloly,
With others of their kin.
And in their company a throng
OF lively terrapin.
The bull.pouts, dressed In black and drab
With horns and visage grim,
Preceded the meandering crab;
The mackerel followed him.
Sea-spiIers, in their colts-of mail:
Sinners, with silver vest:
White.iish and weak ash at their tail,
Swan Oh with all the rest.
The royal tur5ot, true and tried
Subject of Enylanl's queen,
Sailed on in regal pomp and pride
With whteblit and sardne.
Tho kniShtiy slln)n. king OF fish,
Without reproach or fear,
The noblest fish maa hould wish,
Came bringing up the rear.
And thus they reached the mermaid's cave
Who, with heartfelt Joy,
To her bright home beneath the wave.
Welcomed the little boy!
From the Bov's O,cn Pdpe
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

The COMPOST HEAP-How MADE AMI
How USED. There is fashion in farm
ing as there is in everything, and the fash
ion of farm doctors nowadays is to pre-
scribe the use of concentrated fertilizers
What is the use," they say, ofhaulng
manure by cart-loads, when the essence
of a load can be carried in ones pocket P'
This is telling way of putting partial
truth. The whole truth is that all the
virtues of barn-vard manure and compost
do not consist in the concentrated salts
which the chemist extracts Nitrates,
phosphates and ammonia are good fertli-
zers, and just the chemicals which most
lands need, but plants require good bed
as well as they do good food. The physi.
cal condition of the soil, as we'll as its
chemical, must receive attention Mt the
hands of the farmer. Corn will not thrive
on II rock or in water, or even on hard.
baked land, however much nitrate, phos-
phate. or ammonia may be supplied. 1t
needs mellow, well aerated soil in order
to perfect growth, and we know nothing
superior to a well-made compost for fur
nishing both the chemical and physical
conditions necessary for the development
of corn and crops. Specifics may be rec
commended by agricultural doctors, and
we would by no means condemn them.
but we have no fear that barn-yard manure
and compost will ever cease to be the
fashionable fertilizers among practical
farmers. Compared with these specific
fertilizers are like specific foods good in
particular cases, but for steady, plan.
diet, commend us to stable manure and
compost. These contain all the elements
of plant growth. and, in addition, they
keep the soil mellow.-Ale11ndcr HIDE, IN
NeW York Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10
The family Circle.

On WHEELS.-When I was boy, ]
used to think that would rather have in.
vented the wheel than anything else
knew of. 4 wheel is so ingenious, so
useful and yet so simple. that am not al
all surprised ut my youthful admiration of
the mind that conceived the idea of it.
However, | think that made mistake in
surprising that any one invented the
wheel. believe that it invented itself
! and, in saying this, mean that wheels
grew up by degrees from very simple
things. beginning probably at round
sticks, or logs. which were used rs rollers,
and so progressed gradually until they ar
rived at their present condition, which is
probably not perfection, although do not
see how some of our wheels could be i'm
proved.
The main object of wheel is to assist
in moving something. 1t may, itself,
remain in one place, or it may go about
with the thing it helps to move. In the
latter case, 1t is almost always attached to
some kind OF vehicle or carriage, rs it
is about carriages that | want to have a
little talk with the boys and girls.
Every middle-aged person knows what
a great change has taken place in the car
riages in ordinary use in the last thirty or
forty years. When | was boy, family
carriages, and, indeed, vehicles of every
kind, except omnbuses and carts,-I be-
leve there has not been much change in
them, very heavy and unwleldly
affairs, when compared with those now in
use. Not long ago,I saw at the permanent
exhibition. in Philadelphia, the carriage in
which General Washington used to ride.
You could not get IL president ofthe United
States TO ride in such Il funny old coach
nowadays, and doubt very much if any
one would take it as II gift if they were
obliged to use it. Yet it is far better look
ing than some of the carriages that were
thought good enough for kings and queens
Il hundred years ago. But we cannot 90
very far back in making comparisons of
carriages. Previous TO the sixteenth CEN
fury, there were many hundreds of years
when carriages were scarcely known at
all in Europe.
In the old Roman days, there had been
handsome chariots and wheeled vehicles
of various kinds, but when Rome declined,
chariots and carriages disappeared, and
people either walked Or rode on horseback
vi were CtIIleu ny men III Seuan-CnalfS
and similar contrivances. There was a
good reason for this change. The old
Romans made splendid roads, but the ma
tons that aiterward ruled Europe did not
know how 10 make good highways, Or
did not care about such things and were
content to ride their horses over such
roads us they found. Even in England,
where we might suppose the people would
have known better, this was the case.
The principal highways were SO bad and
the mud was sometimes SO deep, that
even horsemen found great difficulty in
getting along. So they never thought of
using wheeled vehicles on these wretched
lhoroughfares. But when they began to
make good roads, carriages followed, as n
matter OF course.-St. Nicholas for Sep
tember.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

whether you do it openly or on the sly
you will make no progress in the forma-
ton of fine character, or in building o
good reputation. So when you are tempted
to any low, tricky, dishonest, mean oil
unworthy act. stop long enough to think
what the effect is going to be upon your
own soul, your own mind, your own repu
tation, and if that is your strongest motive
don't do it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

Mr.. EDIroR:-I am glad that my sug-
gestions in regard to agriculture in our
common schools, with DR.. Hoskins' and
your commendatory remarks, has walked
up one Schoolmaster, who is delight
ed to think that some of the farmers are
getting interested in the practical educa-
ton of the whole people," He tells us
that for years he has labored for this very
thing, and the greatest obstacle be has
met is the apathy of some farmers and the
open opposition of others.
Allow me to inquire what kind of an
education he has been trying to give the
farmers sons and daughters who in these
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agricultural Department.
ON TINkHAM. Editor.

All communications for this department should b,
sent to the editor. Mr.. o. NJ. TINKHAM. n. Pom
fret, VT.
Please write side of the paper only sign suel
name or initials you wished published. but Civ,
your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS, post ONCE. County and
State,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

The apparatus consists
Of three parts:
L. A box refrigerator
trranRed for any number
II cans, according to size
md provided with an over.
low pipe eighteen inchei
rom the bottom. 1t alst
las a galvanized iron box
Xtendin- from the top oil
he refrigerator below the
water line. The upper i,
II ice receptacle with per,
GRATED bottom. The lower
,'eceiYes the drip from th,