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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25
Mhat Garden Ma,e Yout

The best paying plot on any farm, and
the one yielding the most enjoyment, too, is
the vegetable gardener Kitchen garden, II
as it is frequently called and quite appropri-
ately especially when the Kitchen folks
have the chief or sole care of it, good sup
ply of garden products for the table costs
less than the standard bread, meat and pota-
toes, is more healthful and nourishing than
all corn beef, salt pork, and the small assert
ment usually found on the farmers table.
Need we add anything about palatableness,
comfort home enjoymenty Contrast table
set nearly the year round with bread, salt
pork, Corned beef, potatoes, boiled cabbage.
varied with hash mush, buckwheats, and oc-
casionally few other items, with u table
well supplied in succession and abundantly
with asparagus. green peas, Lima beans
string BEANS sweet corn, radishes carrots
bects parsnips, celery, satisfy, turnips, cauli-
flower, spinach, lettuce, egg plants, tomatoes
Gall the year, rhubarb, okra. squashes. on
ions, cabbages cucumbers, and other things
filed in with cuTants, Strawberries, raspber-
ries, blackberries, not to mention grapes
pears, etc. We do not accept the standing
excuse, Il am too poor, too hard driven, too
much to do in my field, to bother with the
garden We repeat with emphasis, that ey-
'ery farmer can have most, if not all the above
pleasant and healthful variety with less labor
and less expense than the table can be sup
piled in any other way. Every days work in
the garden will produce several dollars worth
of good things. One quarter of an acre more
or less, according to the size of the family,
will suffice. Select the best soil available, as
near the house as possible, but at distance
if absolutely necessary. A good loan where
water never stands is desirable. Heavy clay
will not Go well without good deal of prep
arntiOn IF MT naturally lry nj in
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25

Every family occupying a dwelling, in
country or village, and nearly every city resi-
dent, can have and should have at least one
grape vine growing, not only to sit under"
but to cat the fruit Of Wherever there is.
within reach of some sunshine, bit of
ground foot or two wide and three or more
feet long, there vine may be planted, and
trained for a long distance ON a fence, up the
dwelling, on a trellis, or up post. It's album
dant green foliage is always grateful to the
eye, especially among city walls, and its clus-
tiers of cooling, pleasant fruit need no advo-
cate. The grape vine is one Of the most un-
complaining, unfastidious and care-rewarding
of plants. Keep standing water away FROM
its feet, give it something to eat to make
stems, leaves and fruit of, with some sunlight
for part of the day, and it will go to work
and keep at it, ms long as you live. No food
suits it better than lot of bones coarscly or
finely broken, or whole ones if there be
enough of them, mixed in with the soil. 1t
will fasten network of roots or rootlets up-
on every bit of bone and extract nutriment ms
long as there is n particle of it left All the
training it will need you can give in few
minutes before breakfast or after tea, once or
twice month. 1t will pay in pleasure, in TO-
liage, in fruit. Order the vine soon it can
place as soon as the frost is well out of the
ground, dig it up foot or more deep; mix
in the soil peck or more of crushed bone
for each vine, those from the butcher broken
up with hammer or axe-head, will answer
When the vine arrives, expose its roots as lit
tie as possible to the air make hole set it
as deep as it grew before spread its roots
out well each way; cover them with earth,
and moisten if needed. That's all, until you
need to train its shooting stems. (Our col
umns have told and will tell how that is done. }
All the above is very simple matter Read
err, if you have not done so, take our advice
and plant, at least, one grape vine this spring
better two, three, dozen of them, if you
have ground; plant at least one, whether you
live on Fifth avenue or in the "wilds of Ore
gon." You will thank MS for the exhortation
not very long hence. The Concord variety.
better than almost any other, will grow al
most everywhere. The Delaware, Crevcling,
and Eumelan, are excellent among other good
and reliable kinds. american Agriculturist
for -4pTfI.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25

1t is a well-trained mind which is fully
equal to the task of training animals to labor,
especially animals which cannot understand
that labor has any result. 1t is not the ma
ture of the OK or the horse to labor. 1t IS lit
tie wonder then that he should be unwilling
to labor until, by dint of sufficient training,
he is brought into its practices from habit
Man in training the animal should remember
that he is the thinking and reasoning being
that he must do all the thinking of both par
ties 1t is too often the case that he, too,
allows himself to be overcome by passion and
rendered as little capable of thinking rs the
brute. 1t is good rule always in breaking
animals to require nothing which they cannot
easily perform, and place them in such cir
cumstances that they cannot avoid perform
ing it. Beating should never be resorted to.
If you want gentle, kind animals, treat them
so as to make them kind. The following
method of training steers to work will be
found good one First have a yard so well
and thoroughly fenced that they cannot run
far away from you-not so far but that you
are close by their side all the time. Get your
steers in the yard and begin with familariz-
ing them to your presence, start them around
you, they doing the travelling and you look
ing on, talking mildly to them and motioning
as you want them to learn. Control your
voice. There is no brute so low in the scale
OF intelligence as not to be able to read an an
cry or excited voice. So long as you keep
the voice calm, you may have the mastery
allow yourself to become excited or adopt the
screaming method, and you have lost por-
ton of your control over them-that is all
gained by controlling yourself. A days time
in small yard with yoke of steers is well
spent thus, and by night they will have
learned that you require certain things of
Them as walking forward at your beck etc
They may generally be yoked the first day
and unyoked several times This will accus-
tom them to being handled. Above all, be
patient. If you discover that they cannot
understand you when you talk to them you
should remember the greater difficulty for
them to understand what is wanted, etc
When they obey the motion of the hand and
stop and start at the word you may drive
them whore you like. Study what they need
teaching, and use your reason in teaching
we'll When the work is done it will be a
proud monument to your patience and skill,
or the contrary. You can succeed by care,
the use of reason, not the whip and laborious
effort. If well broken team is the result of
your labor, you have wrought we'll If you
have succeeded only in producing faults in
stead or avoiding them, you have wrought i'll,
and the result of your labor is its own con
demnation. - Western Rurdk
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est on the capital, at per cent, is So, and
the wear and tear at least amounts to $50 n
year, making in all S32 year for the use of
a machine. Suppose the owner of u small
farm can hire his wheat or hay cut at ~ cents
per acre. The outlay for machine as above
estimated will cut y acres per year. This is
not all. Besides the cost of Il machine if
purchased at S32 per year, the farmer en-
ploys n team and hand to do the work This
often makes the moving and roaping very
expensive. Similar figuring may be made
with grain drills and some other machines.
These are often used to SOW not over 30 acres
per year, and are idle for the rest of the time.
But few farmers are competent to manage
reapers and mowers and complicated tools.
For this purpose it needs mechanical tact.
In every neighborhood there are men who
have no farms or only small farms, and who
are apt at driving teams and keeping nipple
ments in order II they are pre-engaged,
they can be employed to drill wheat cut
grass or grain at reasonable prices. This
will need some foresight-some planning
The man can begin on the earliest grass and
quit on the latest, perhaps on bottom land
He can do the same with wheat and other
grain. At n good price he will try hard to
accommodate The writer knows of several
neghborhoods where this plan is already in
successful operation The figures are given
to set farmers to thinking, before the season
arrives for moving, reaping and drilling
Rurdl Men Yoybcr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25

A VALUABLE SMOKING ADVANCEMENT -
Professor W. Il. Brooks in the Rural New
Yorker, gives the following simple but very
effective smoking arrangement for all kinds
of meats, especially hams, shoulders and ba-
con. The smoking is effected in q very thor
ough manner and in short time. The wri.
ter had for this mornings breakfast some
ham which was smoked in contrvance pre-
csely similar to this, in six hours The ar
rangement can be made by any one without
the least trouble, and it is sure to work" ev-
cry time. The device consists of barrel of
any suitable size. An ordinary flour or apple
barrel will smoke four or five moderate sized
hams or shoulders Both heads are removed
and movable cover provided for the top.
This may be of boards, or an old oil cloth or
tight blanket will answer. short trench is
dug, in which is laid length of old stove
pipe. larger excavation is then made, in
which pan of burning cobs or chips eau be
placed. This is covered by n tightly fitting
plank. One end of the stovepipe comnuni-
Gates with this excavation: over the other
end the barrel is placed, the earth banked up
around the bottom of the barrel and over the
stovepipe, to keep all tight. The meat may
be suspended from n stick laid across the top
of the barrel, aud then all covered tight with
an oil cloth or blanket. On placing pan of
smoking cobs or clips in the place provided,
the smoke passes through the stovepipe into
the barrel, illing it with Dense cool smoke
Should the support of the hams break, they
cannot be hurt by coming in contact with
the fire or ashes, as sometimes happens in
the regular smoke house.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25

Carter and Southland have reduced the bust
ness of pork-raisng to n science. The for
mer, intent upon taking the palm, started of
with thirty-nine hogs Upon twenty seven of
these he bases his hopes of success. OF the
original number several have been killed. In
January three of them came so very near
choking to death that the farmer grew fright
ened and slaughtered them. They weighed
79S, sl7 and 73S respectively. The hogs en-
tered for the prize have had the very best of
care. There are Just two events in the lives
of such housekeeping and eating They are
10 fat even TO waddle They never wake up,
except to eat, and that process over they
again stretch ont upon clean straw in their
separate pens. These particular hogs of Mr..
Carriers were too lazy even to feed themselves,
and, indeed, even if they were not, they could
not see their food. For weeks they had been
in total blindness. Like the average hog of
no particular distinction they all had eyes
but three inches aud a half of genuine fat
kept them closed completely. The feeding
process is one of interest to both hog and
spectator. The farm hand rolls up boiled
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25
ponds EXTRACT.
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The Peoples Remedy.
The Universal Pain Extractor.
Note: Ask for Ponds Extract.
Take 20 other.
Hear, for 1 will speak of excellent
IhInes.s'

Hear, for 1 will speak of excellent
IhIngs.'
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Pain Destroyer. Has been In use over
thirty years, and for cleanliness and
prompt curative Virtues cannot I've excelled
CHILDREN. No family can anOrd to be
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Bruises, COntusiOns, Cuts, SPraIns
are relieved almost instantly by external appll.
cation. Promptly relieves pains OF Burns,
Sealds, Excavations, ChRhngs,
Old Sores, BOlIs, FeIOns, COrns, etc.
Arrests Inflammation, reduces sWellings stops
bleeding, removes discOloration and heals rap
LADIES md 1t their best friend. 1t assuages
me pains to which they are peculiarly sub
Ject-nOtably fulness and pressure IN the head,
nausea, vertigo &c. II promptly ameliOrates
and permanently heals all kinds OF Inflnm-
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AEmORRHOIDS or PILES find In this
the only immediate relief and ultimate cure.
No case however chronic or obstinate can long
resist its regular use.
YARICOSEV VEINS. 1t is the only sure cure
KIDNEY DISEASES. 1t has no equal for
permanent cure.
BLEEDING from any cause. For this tits
specific 1t has saved hundreds Of lives
when all other remedies failed TO arrest bleed
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TOOTHACHE, Earneha, NeurnIgIa,
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PHYSlCIANSO fall schools who are acGualnt-
ed with Ponds Extract of Witch Hn-
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Catarrh (for which 1t is specifcl, hill
blatnH, Frosted Feet, Siings of I'M
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HANDS, Face aud indeed all manner Of
skin diseases,
TOILET USE. Removes Soreness IL Ough-
ness and SmnrtIng; healsCuts, Erup.
lions, and Ptmples- II TeUiUes, mDt0OTdles
ana Tgreshes, while wonderfully improving the
Complexion.
TO AHmEHS-POnd,s Extract. No
STOCK Breeder, no Livery Man can arord TO be
without IT, II Is used by all the leading Livery
stances street Railroads and first HOTsemen
IN New York CITY Ii has no equal for Sprains,
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scratches, Swclllngs, Cuts, LaCeTatiOns, Bleed
lngs, pneumonia, Collie, Diarrhua, Chills,
COILS, &c. Its range Of action is wide, and the
relief II Affords is so prompt thatit is invaluable
IN every larm.yard as well as In every farm
be without It.
CAUTION! Ponds Extract has been I'M
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Ponds Extract blown In each bottle. 10 is
prepared by the only persons living who
ever knew how 10 prepare 1t properly. Refuse
all other preparations OF witch Hazel This Is
the only article used by Physicians and IN the
hospitals ofthis country and Europe
HISTORY aud Uses of Ponds Extract.
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Picture. and Carpet. in "a Cow stable


The arrangement of the farm houses and
stables in Holland is economical, and to stran.
gers a novelty. sitting room, parlor and
one spare bed room constitute the house prop
er; the sitting room usually connects directly
with the COW stables, one corner of which
serves as kitchen.
The cows stand facing the wall. An alley five
or six feet wide extends along behind the cows
and then a partition separating the stable
from the hay NOV. Open the doors in this
partition, as if opening into a cupboard, and
there are the beds Cor hunks as we would call
them) for different members of the family.
Some will say this arrangement is not con-
sstent with neatness, but let such suspend
judgment till they have seen those stables ;
the floors, sides and ceilings secured as white
as soap, sand and water can make them the
sides frequently painted and vanished the
cows cleaned till their coats shine like offers,
their tails attached to cords suspended from
the ceiling to prevent them from being soiled
while the COWS are lying down n deep trench
to catch the droppings and fender to pre-
vent the liquid from scattering into the alley
behind the cows This trench is regularly
cleaned and washed, and the alley behind the
cows is frequently carpeted
The cows remain in pasture as long as the
grass will sustain them, and when once put in
staples 40 not go out I'LL grass Is again sufh-
cient for their sustenance, not even for exer-
else, This seems to people accustomed to a
different course rather severe on the cows,
but their appearance as seen quietly standing
there, receiving their rations and care with
regularity of clock work, does not indicate
any inconvenience from the confinement If
you were to ask the farmer why he purs1es
that course, your only satisfaction would be
the reply, 1T is our custom"
When the cows go to pasture in spring, the
stables undergo a most thorough cleaning and
scrubbing in every part. The floors of the
stables are covered with white sand and orna
mented with a variety of sea shells, while the
sides of the stalls and walls of the stable are
ornamented with old styles of china ware and
quaint pictures In one or more of the stalls,
tables are frequently arranged where callers
are entertained. Journal Of agriculture.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25

COOPERATION IN THE PURCHASE OF FARM
IMPLEMENTS. In many places farmers are
saving money by cooperating in the purchase
of farm implements. This is worth attention
Every enterprising manufacturer of farm ma
chimes sends out his agents into various parts
of the country They are good takers, and
often prevail on men to buy machines. Men
with small farms cannot afford to buy costly
machines for their own use alone, 1t would
be much cheaper to hire the work done in the
old way that is, to cut wheat with cradle
and thrash it with fail. A combined reap
er and mower costs about $50, and, on the
average, lasts about eight years. The inter
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For Sale!
THE SMALL VILLAGE FARM AND BEAUTIFUL
RESIDENCE KNOWN AS
BIB L A IR,"

Pleasantly situated on Greeneaf street. West Bratte-
boro, VT, only six eight minutes, walk from post.
Office, stores, Churches Academy and other schools
The farm consists Of nine acres of land of which
about two are woodlot and pasturage, watercd by a
brook the other seven being level arabic and highly
the street thus affordng good number Of eligible
building lots.
cellar, yerandA in front and on side and an L
part with dormer window, contains fourteen rooms
all so arranged as to accommodate either enc or two
families. The other buildings include barn, sheds
carriage apartments ice house, hennery, sc.
The place is supplied with an abundance of both
well aud running water at house and barn. The fruit
trees, nearly all in their prime number more than
$50, and include all the best varieties Of apples, few
pears and ounces, The street is lined with thriving
sugar naples for shade; tue grapery, Of young and
choice vines, is ample and well placed the fences
walls bankwalls, underground drains and buildings
Of every kind are all wen arranged, well made aud
in good repair.
For further particulars inquire Of the proprietor on
the premises, or address "BELAIR,"
&c West BrattlebOro W.
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VEGETINE.
Or. ]. P. CONAN SAYS :

II. Il. SrEvESs Boston:
Veg tine has performed some wonderful cures IN
our town and is esteemed superior to all other 'Buod
Purihcrs.' DIR J. r. CONAN,
Druggist, lens, Ala.
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Read the Following
Testimonials:
VEGETINE
SAFE AND SURE.

Ma. II. r STEVENS:
In 1872 your Ncgetinr was recommended to the
and, yielding TO tue pcrsuasouH Of friend, / CON
scented to try it. At the time | suffering from
general debility and nervous prustration superin-
duced by oyerWork and irregular habits. Its wonder
full strengthening and curative properties seemed TO
affect my debiitated system from the FIRST dose; and
under its persistent use rapidly recovered, gaining
more than usual health aud good feeling. Since then
l. have not hestated to give Vegotine my most un j.
qualified endorsement as being safe, sure and pow
erful agent IN promoting health and restoring the
wasted system to new life and energy Vesetine is
the only medicine use, and as long live
expect to ind better,
Yours truly, W. II. CLARK,
100 Monterey St, Allegheny Penn.
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Negetiue has never failed to eject 4 cure giving
tone aud strength TO the system debtaitd by dis
ease
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VEGETINE
IS WHAT rs NEEDED.
FEMALE WEAKNESS.

DIES MoISEs, Iowa, Sept. 6, 1878.
II. STEVENS, Boston:
Dear Slr,-For long time have been troubled
with Female Weakness, and a weak, sinking feeling
at the stomach, and through the advice Of a friend
tried your Negetine and mud it just what is needed
can recommend 1t to all who are suffering frCm
these complaints Yours resp'y,
MIR. ANNABELLA HARDWOOD.
$40 Fourth street.
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Railroads.
NEW LONDON NORTHERN RAILROAD

TRAINS LEAVE BRATTLEBoRo AS FoLLows
Going south.
d, .oo M. for south vernon, Springfield, Miller'H
rails. Fitchburg Boston, and all stations on the
New London Northern railroad. Sundays, only
connects for Springfield. Mondays, docs not COLI
meet for Springfield.
O.9 a, m, for Conn. River X. X. 800 -,
g.25 a. M, for Millers Falls, Fitchbnrgi boston,
Hoosac Tunnel &c. $500, H..
4;95 m, steamboat train for New London aud also
for Conn. River y. X.
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Trains arrive in Brattleboro-
10 .q5 A, M from New London and New York.
~ :9O D. M from Millers Falls, Hoosac Tunnel Bos-
s.ls D. M, from Springfield, New York, &c.
s:a5 y. M. from Boston, Worcester, Hoosac Tunnel,
and all stations on New London Northern road.
in,11 n M from Millera Falls, Boston, Fitchburg &C
C. i. SPAULDING, Acting Supt.
a. r..,,, Conn Ian 1 1879 80
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DOCTORS PRESCRIBE 1T!

n " oAkNENst BostOns
Vegetine is excellent medicine. / have pre-
scribed and used 1t in my practice a doctor.
DIR. c. S. BALDWIN, Druggist,
Farley, Iowa
NEGETINE.-By its use you will prevent many Of
the diseases prevailing in the Spring and Summer
season.
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DOCTORS REPORT.

Vegetine has restored thousands to health who had
been long and painful sufferers.
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-28

1t is generally supposed by physicians and
the peopla generally that dyspepsia can not in
variably be cured, but we are pleased to say
that Green's AUGUST FLOWER has never, to our
knowledge, failed to cure dyspepsia and liver
complaint in all its forms, such as sour stom-
ach, costiveness, sick headache, palpitation of
the heart, indigestion, bad taste in the mouth.
etc. Out OF the $1,000 dozen bottles sold last
year, not a single failure was reported. but
thousands Of complimentary letters were re-
ceived from druggists of wonderful cures.
Three doses will relieve any case Try it.
Sample bottles, 10 cents. Regular size, IS
cents. FOR sale by all frst-class druggists in
the United States.