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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09
knowledge and PIeurO- Pneumonia.

The Springfield Republican, in speaking
OF the catte-plague, happened to renal
that 1.-The spread of these contagion.
among farm animals magnify the neces
siy for greater attention to veterinary
science. The farmer must not only study
his soils and manures. but his cattle anc
other stock as we'll"
The which stirs the bile of Bro. Hos
hins, and he asserts that the RepubHcan
has been the "contemptuous enemy " OF
special agricultural education from the
beginning, and finds proof in the fact in
that at has always steadily opposed the
appropriation of states money to the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, ridi.
cued its instructors and spoken contempt.
uously of its work"
But this is not the extent Of the ReDub.
jca~'s misdemeanors. The gist of the
matter lies deeper, and is of a darker
deeper dye:
But the fact is that the RepuJlicau is
edited by graduates of literary colleges,
and the jealous spite of all such against
the breaking of their monopoly bv the
spread OF liberal knowledge among The
masses " shows itself continually in its
columns. AS Mr.. Goodman saws, in the
New England Farmer, "class prejudice
is blighting in its bitterness, and the col
lege bred men look down upon the insti-
tuition created 10 raise up near their level
the toiling masses in the same spirit with
which the students of their alma mater
fail to recognize the AqgieS, who NAV,
in the land and water paths of life, DER.
leap them in the race, as they have when
put to the test, walked or rowed away
from them in the encounters of sport In
tho same spirit our so.called educated
men, merchants, manufacturers and many
ignorant farmers hesitate about placing
the agricultural college upon substantial
and sefsupporting basis, not discerning
the immediate benefit it is bestowing upon
agriculture in the state and out of T. md
not being able to realize the immense nd.
vantage which will be conferred hereafter
upon the whole commonwealth"
How pitiful is this spirit, and how little
ground does it furnish for the claim thai
the culture " of our colleges is Liberal "
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

The DAUGHTER AT HONE.-Do not
think that because there comes TO YOU no
great opportunity of performing wonder
tul work, you will let the thousand little
ones pass you unimproved. 1t is no small
thing 10 be the joy of the domestic circle.
the one whose soft touch and whose gentle,
flly spoken word averts disturbance and
disagreement, conciliates the offended,
AID makes alien natures understand each
other 1t is no small thing to possess the
happy tact which makes people pleased
with themselves, and which insensibly
urges people to appear at their best. The
young woman who is gifted with this
grace Of touch, this swiftness of sympa-
thy, and this beautiful unseishness, may
not have fair face, nor trim figure, but
she will be endowed with dignity moro
winning than either.--Bible Banner.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

TRAINING FRUIT TREES" AS the
twig is bent the trees Inclined" By tax.
ing advantage of this docile disposition
one can make anything Of young tree
The direction of the branches, the form OF
the head. the height or the rotundily Of
the tree may be changed to suit tne's
wishes. An ill-sI aped young tree may be
brought into regularity; upright branches
may be made to droop by hanging sutfi.
Gent weights (stones or brickbats) upon
them; dropping Or wrongly directed
branches may be led Alright by means of
strings to support or confine them; too
vigorous limbs may be shortened by
pinching off the extreme end while it i
soft; badly placed shoots may thus be
nipped in the bud or changed into fruit
spurs, and inner branches NAV be pre-
vented from growing and thus wasting
The vigor of the tree upon useless material
which must be cut away after it has
grown.-Ne,O Yorb Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

in its character. To overlay and smother
IN industrial college at its birth, or 10
starve it to death in its infancy, is hardly
characteristic of " benign mother
Now the idea that college bred men
have monopoly of either learning OF
talent, or claim to have it, or that they re-
fuse to recognize 1t in others not college
bred seems to us most ridiculous. AnC
it is no proof to us. or an indication ever
of such spirit, that educated men, anc
many not college bred, have condemned
the persistent. never ending cries o
more, more" from the institution a
Amherst which greet each succeeding
legislature of state which has already
given over half million dollars to put OF
u " substantial and self-supporting basis
IN institution which has apparently ethel
no power of or no inclination for self,sup
port rs long as the legislature will "givt
down"
We have never had the advantages of {
college education, yet we are smong tho't
who have not seen the agricultural millen
mum dawning from the windows of some
agricultural college. The fact stands be-
You'd dispute that as educators Of farmers
or even of young men to be farmers, they
have been conspicuous failures. The in
dictment against them is not that they
educate farmers, but that they do not edu
cate farmers. Almost every one has hi
idea of the cause, but that it is owing tt
Jealous spite of college bred men" ant
their opposition to the spread of liberia
knowledge we do not in any degree be
lieve, and especially as in those who, lik'
the editors of the Republican, must expec
their profits and success to be just in pro
portion as the people do become educated
a thinking, reading community.
But there are other classes who ART
bamable in the matter, and they are so
called educated men" when merchant
or manufacturers, but "ignorant farmers.
What proof of their ignorance they hav,
shown here we cannot see, but if they b,
ignorant as asserted, why here is another
and striking instance where extremes
meet; few so wise as 10 honor such al
institution and fewer 50 poor as TO render
homage.
Let Amherst or any other agriculture
college show good solid work, and ever
encouraging results, let such college
become place which students will seek
instead of being coaxed to, where it wi
turn out a respectable majority of its
graduates good common sense, educated
working farmers, and we prophesy it will
not lack students or handsome recogni.
lion and hearty cooperation from college
bred men, so called educated men, or ig.
norant farmers. Till they do show some
results, other than making debts for the
state to pay, and an excuse for drawing
liberal salaries, they must expect the crit
icism of those who love and prize thorough
education and despse shams.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

SUMNER PRUNING OF GRAPE VINES,
The pruning of grape vines in the sum
mer is rarely attempted except by profes
sional growers. But it is u very usefu
practice. 1t keeps the vine within bounds
prevents much useless and waStefu
growth which would otherwise divert tn,
strength of the plant from the formation
ct fruit, and greatly improves the quality
of the grapes. There is no secret about
the method. With IL sharp pruning knife
(Which has a curved blade) Slash off by 4,
quick stroke the ends of the shoots whicl
are intended to bear fruit, leaving thos,
intended to make wood to grow on. II
fine fruit is desired. only one branch should
be left on each spur or shoe branch; il
abundance is desired more than qnality,tw,
clusters may be left. The ends of the shoots
may be pinched off with the finger and
thumb just rs easily .-Ne,o York Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09
9netru.
CHOOSING A KITTEN.
BY MRS. CLARA Dorr BATES.

There were five, and they found them in the hay
Five little kittens slowed away
80 snug aud warm
And far from harm
That, had it not been for the children's play,
They'd have lived in secret to this day.
Jack put the yellow one in his hat;
The black one nimble. the white one fat,
He claimed beside.
Then Teddy cried:
81 speak for this and speak for that ~
None left, you see. for the poor old cat
Old pussy had thought herself so wise.
Blu, what can you hide from the children's eJ es
So beautiful !" said
The breathless Ted.
They're all asleep, and all of a size ~
And they bore to the house the woudrous prize.
Did mamma smile? All. no she frowned;
And the rest OF the children gathered round;
And Teddy heard
The dreadful word;
''Tis very fortunate they were found
Keep one; but the others must be drowned !"
Then each would choose So down they sat.
Twas this one first, and then twas that;
Each making choice
With an eager voice,
OF the white or the gray. the slim or the. fat
Just which he CHANGED to be looking at
Ted said at last: 1--WE can't spare none !"
Ills grammer was poor, but his tactics won)
Well hide them away
Again in the hay!
Put two in your hat and rum Jack, run!
Well save them all !" And twas done.
-Wide 4 nake
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

AN IDLE WoRD.-How inadequately
spoken. and yet how frequently with seri-
nus and painful results. How many hearts
has an idle word severed-how many
broken. For true il is that thoughtles
expression will make n breach betwe, n
those that fate. in its visitation, could NOT
livide; hearts that would have struggled
ogether through the storm of life-thal
would have chung to each other fol
-trength when its buffetings had almost
overwhelmed them, that would. have
1raved all the changes of 1uctuating for.
une and still see in their own unchanging
owe CLEAN of brightness through the
blacklist cloud. And yet an idle word
Ine-has separated hearts like these. The
reach once made. Others step in to max,
it wider and wider. False pride. mistake, I
ceilings, the sudden bitterness the hear
AN feel even towards those it loves, al
id the work of cruelty. the distance in
'reases day by dtv. until finding it impos
'ible to return. like the wrecked mariner
they give up in despair and sit down t,
MOURN over their fate. careless, it seem
whether they live or die.
And this is not the romance of youthful
affection, though there is perhaps NOR
differing from the early disappointment q
he heart than the more serious ones aft
ifn produces. No, it is witnessed in tn
experiences of every one, in the friendship
t life, in the family circle. in business
what mSunderslandings what pickering
strife and irreconcilable difference ma
nave arisen from one idle word; it ma
nave been spoken in jest, in spirit {
evily. in an attempt to be witty, or it ma
ave been said innocently or inadvertenl
with no motive and no intent, and still
or some causes of which you are total
2noranl, Il certain purity applied the r.
mark accompanied by knowing win
md in u moment Il firebrand was kindled
How entirely do we ignore that b
who rueth his tongue is mightier than b
no talkrth city," that on the last da
efnre the tribune of the Eternal Judge W
shall have to render an account for ever
nile word
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

ENGLISH AGRICULTURE is room
in The world for all. The briskest compe.
tition should engender no feeling of graf.
fication at the reverses of a rival. There.
fore it is matter for regret to notice The
unsatisfactory, not to say disastrous con
dillon of English agriculture. English
journals are filled with complaints and
lorebodngs of evil. Agriculture was
never in SO depressed condition. Rents
are unpaid; farms go a-begging; the
owners cannot work them; the tenants
cannot make enough out of them to pay
for labor and for rent. The English
farmers are deluged under a flood of
American products. The cheap lands of
this great continent and our free system of
labor-in which we include the privilege
to work without loosiDg caste as a gentle
man have borne the fruit which has
been SO long a-ripening; and our unfortu.
nate rivals across the water are no longer
able to compete with us. The gates are
broken down. Our exports are flowing
abroad nearly at the rate of one million
dollars each day. over and above the
amount of imports. This result is the
inevitable effect of law which no man.
or nation, can set aside. We could not
help it If we would. The best we can do
is TO offer to our rivals position bv our
side where they can share our advantages.
Here is room for all. There the balance
is disturbed; here it is suspended evenly
and is not likely to be disturbed until our
broad fields and plains are fully occupied
And this cannot occur for century.
perhaps for several of them to COME
Rural NeW Yorker.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

Last year gave the roos,s, etc, "a Goa
of tar,applied while nearly at boiling heat
with an old brush, filling all the crevice,
and well known hiding places of th,
Insects with the hot sticky material, an,
finished the work with busting plenty o
flour of sulphur over it. This remedy di,
bother the fowls for few days, as thei
feathers would now and then stick TO tn,
roosts, but have not seen u hen spider
since. Correspondent in Rurul New York
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

Farmers who have money at command
cannot easily put it in more profitable
investment than judicious outlay on theiI
farms. Draining wet land is estimated
to return from forty 10 eighty per cent on
the yearly cost. In the same way, good
stock pays far better than poor; good
fencing, well selected fruit trees, carefully
looked after homesteads, all repay the
money laid out, and besides all that, add
immensely to the comfort of the occupier.
AgrtculturtSt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

WONDERFUL SToRIEs.-Ordinary com
monplace farmers, of s'aid conservativ,
disposition, industrious, careful and, withal
contented with their lot, or their farm
and its income, are greatly disturbed an,
rendered treiful sometimes, BY wonderful
stories of others successes. They read OF
hear that this man fird| customers for hi,
butter at one dollar pound; that thai
man makes fabulous income from grow
ing red kidney beans, or distiling pc PIPER
mint oil or gathering sumac. or going t,
Kansas and becoming a boated cattle
lord or vast wheat grower; and theh
modest desires are changed into envion,
hopes of emulating this or that man
But by and by the secret comes out; tn,
truth is known, and we find it to be all II
mistake, or worse. The man who h;
been selling butter. or said to have been
at one dollar pound, strangely gives ~
his profitable business and goes to selling
milk at eight cents quart, or about tire,
or four cents net when expenses ale paid
Something has been wrong, and it is IN
the reported price of the butter; for Will,
all the fools are not dead, their are few
left alive who will pay dollar for wha
they can purchase for thirty-fve or forty
cents or less in the market; and So We
find the noted or notorious fancy dairymer
going out of business because if they coul
sell butter in small quantities Mt II dollar
II pound. the expenses of keeping up he
needed notoriey to attract a few butterfl,
customers swallow up all the profit an,
cost price, TOO. Let us be content, MOI
envy any man, but do the best we can in
our own way, keeping sharp eye "fol
the main chance, and using all the energ,
and enterprise we can bring to bear on
our business, and never getting troubles
by forgetting the solid fact that no nan
gets dollar, very often, without giving
II dollar in labor or skill, or sometimes
in actual money for it,-New York Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

To BE lIAPpY.-I will give you two OF
hree good rules which may help you tc
become happier than you would be with
ut knowing them; but rs to being com.
plelelv happy, that you Can never be unit
you get to Heaven.
The first is, Try your hest to make
others happy" =" | never WAS happy, '
said certain king, It'll began to take
pleasure in the welfare of my people; hui
ever since then in the darkest day, have
had sunshine in my heart"
My second rule is, " Be content with
little There are many good reasons for
this rule. We deserve hut little. and ..bet
ter is little with the fear of God, than
great treasures and trouble herewith
Two men were determined to be rich. bnr
they set about it in different ways; for the
one slrove to raise his means to his desires
while he other did his best to bring down
his desires TO his means. The result was,
he one who coveted much was always
repining. while he who desired but little
was nj ways contented.
My third rule is, Look on the sunny
side of things
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09
TRAINS GOING NoRTHAND WEST.

Leave Montpelier at 30 BAN, 1i.oO and 80,
DAY EXPRESS leaves Boston via, Fitch3urgh at b
\. NJ via. Lowell 500 A. NJ New London 10 A NJ
;prinsheld 5000 NJ, montpelier Sb0P n for Bur
ACCOMMODATIONS Train lie ives Northteld at 30 A. NJ
IOntpelier As NJ, for Burlington, Rutland 81
Nhars st Johns and Richford.
MIXED leaves White River Junction 30A NJ. North
ield 10 70 NJ, arrives at Montpelier II % p
Saratoga Express from White Mountains, leave
Montpelier II 3IA NJ for st. Adams, Burlington, Rut
and and SARATOGA springs
Accommodation leaves White River Junction rs ?
" Montpelier IS P. NJ, for Burlington. Rutland anC
It Adams
NIGHT EXPRESS leaves Boston via Lowell at 100 ?
VI via Fitchburgh 500 P. NJ, New York 3OOP
springfield $40 NJ, MonI elier 80 IA for BurlinE
gu, st. Adams, Montreal and Ogdensburg, and thu
Vest
Trains leave Nontpelierfor Barre at 20 M, 100
M. and4 BOZ NJ
Returning leave Barre att 45A NJ. .andlO5OA NJ. ant
90 NJ.
Sleeping cars are attached to Night Express train
running between Montreal and Boston and MOutrea
md Springfield, and New York and via, Troy, aut
Parlor Cars and Day Express between Boston ant
Montreal.
Parlor Cars are attached to express trains between
White Mountains and Saratoga Springs
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale a
The principal stations.
Genl Supt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09
agricultural department.
ON. TINKHAM, Editor.

All communications for this department should be
rnt tn the editor. Mr.. o. III. TTNKHAM, N. Pom
fret, Vt.
Please write side Of the paper only, sign such
name or initials as you wished published, but give
state.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

1t is related of Kentish farmer that h,
condensed his practical experience inc
this rule: Feed your land before it i,
hungry, rest it before is is weary, ant
weed it before it is foul"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09
FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Central Vermont R. R. Line.
Commencing Monday, July 7. 1879.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.

Ieave MONTPELIER at II IS A. ,2O5. 90 and O0P
White Mountains Express from Syracuse and or
lensbnr1 st Adams and Burlington arrives at Mont
,elier 25 A. NJ. 80 ,
MAIL TRGIN from Montreal. ST. Adams. BnrlinR
on. &c leaves Montpelier Il As NJ, for Boston
new London. Springfield, New York, and inter
Mediate points.
Ernress from Montreal st Adams Burlington leave,
Iontneiier 2 % P for Boston via Lowell also Bel
iOws Falls and BrattlebOrO
White Mountains Express from Saratoga Srpings
rutland and Burlington, &c, arrives at Montpelier AZ
PM.
q p NJ Montpelier o. p NJ for Mortified
NIGHT EXPRESS from Oxdenshurg, Montreal st. Al
ans and burlington leave Montpelier at " p. 70
I0ston via Lowell or Fitchburgh, springfield, New
York and intermediate points.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

The skipping lambs, the singing lark
and the leaping fish tell US that happiness
is not confined TO one place; God in Hi,
goodness has spread it abroad on the
earth, in the air and in the waters
feithan1.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

A PREPARATION so elegantly favored and med
"a cinay effective as to utterly surpass all previOu.
preparations. Essences or Extracts of Ginger Compose
ton. Herb Teas, Pain Believers and the hundred and
have been wont to dose ourselves. Its
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

"Look with hopeful eyes,
Though all things Sem forlorn;
The sun that sets t. might will rise
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

Fl6tf ODpOsite Patent Offce UosbjDoto,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-07
THE SUICIDE.

Leonidas Bennett committed suiside
by shooting himself, on the afternoon
Of last Tuesday, week, on the farm Of
c. barrow, jamestown. His body was
found lying near the hen-house, between
five and six o'clock. would seem that
he had placed the stock OF the gun
against the hen-house, the muzzle
against his heart and fired. Coroner
Durkee was notified and held an inquest
over the remains. The man was 81
years old, bachelor, and his family
reside in Mower county. lie was a
nephew of Mr.. barrow, and came to his
house the morning Of the day before he
took his own life. The family noticed
that he acted strangely, being unusually
silent, and asking questions about the
easiest way to die. Between three and
four o'clock he took gun and left the
house saying he was going to hunt
ducks; that was the last seen of him un
til Mr.. barrow found his body. Al
first he had tried to cut an artery inside
of the right thigh, with a razor, but his
courage failed him and he put the razor
back in his pocket and resorted to the
gun. No reason is known for his COM
hitting the act.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
that the deceased, LeOnidas Bennett
came to his death by a gunshot wound
in the left breast, produced by himself
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-07
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

II G Hazel to Timothy Farrell, 100
a sec 81, Sterling; $500.
s b Babcock TO l. s Babcock, 100 a
sec "a, 106, 90, Vernon; price, indefinite.
Gardiner Darr to Anna Gapter, 10 a
sec 80, South Bend; 500.
Ernest Just to Erik Knutson, 10 sec
), Rapidan; 5000.
A j Gilman to Frank and Nc Atcher-
son, 100 q sec 81, Medic; $235O.
Geo Beise to August Bcise, 80 q sec
90, Medic; $t4O0.
Jennie and Richard Hughes to John
J Griffith, eH lot l, blk 8, Branson's
add; $500.
Hiram Hills to Fred Rask, so a sec .,
Ceresco; 300.
Moreland, Freeman 81 Buck to Bruno
Rocmer, lots 29, 23 "a and 25, Moreland,
Freeman & Bucks add; $275.
Thomas w Phillips to William Phil.
| lips, 100 a sec 90, Judson; $1,000.
A II Bixlcy and T II Buck to J S
Hinckloy, lot II, blk 8, Hincklcy's add
$500.
LII Gregg to Henry r stratton, 40 q
sec ID, Rapidan; $500.
| A Is Hough to Loo Lamm, "a sec
Judson, and part lot 8, sec 81, Judson
5000.
Joseph Withcrspoon to John Klein
lot 9, blk 8, Hubbeli's add; 500.
Frank Kennedy to Andrew Glasgow
10 a sec 2, Decoria; $1430.
Melissa o Helson to Erland Kelly, 81
a sec 3, Lincoln; $1050.
RID Hubbard to Stephen r Holman
100 a sec 81, Garden City; $500.
r d Hubbard 10 Cushman Merryman
80 sec 81, Garden City; $1,000.
VIM NJ Buck to John Marks, 80 q 80,
81, Vernon; $500.
Henry II Hughes to Margaret vii
liams, 80 o sec 10, Butternut Valley
$08s.
Allen Moon to Nancy Z Luthultz
part lot 4, sec Z, LeRay: $500.
! Chas o Kittilson TO Peter Peterson, 81
u sec 90, Shelby; $1100.
Charley E Thurston TO John Griswol6
80 q sec Il; Garden City; $1,000.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-07
Personal MENTION.

Capt. Clark Keysor, who has been at
Jordan since last July, arrived at home
this week. He has been at work on Nj
collins mill, which has eight run of
stone and ten set of crushers. The Capt.
leaves this week for Sheldon, Iowa, to
work on another mill. He came home
to vote the Republican ticket.
Judge E. B. Ames, OF Minneapolis,
was at the city yesterday. When he
heard the glorious election news, he
laughed louder than ever.
Frank South went TO Chicago on
Monday, and intends to make that city
his future home.