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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-18

The Duck QUESTION. Again must we call
the attention of breeders to the profit in
ducks, when properly cared for and when
there are facilities at hand for breeding them
properly. Many farmer has realized far
more from breeding ducks than he would OBJ
tain from his chickens; for they are very
hardy and lay remarkably well during some
parts of the season. As soon as they COM
mence to lay the eggs should be carefully
gathered and put away. As soon as a hen
mot duck wants to sit, set her with ducks
eggs and let her hatch and care for the brood
till they are able to take care of themselves.
A hen will care for brood of duckliugs far
better, ordinarily than will an old duck If
the ducks think they have laid enough eggs
and show unmistakable signs of wanting to
sit, put them into a convenient coop, put one
of your most vigorous young brakes with
them, and they will soon be willing to shell
out eggs again, which should be set under
hens as fast as convenient, so as to bring as
many out at time rs possible, thereby lessen
ing the cost of attending to them. shallow
tub, kept well filed with water, will afford
plenty of bathing room for the ducklings un-
til they are two or three months old, aud per-
hAps longer. -I'Oult1y World.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-18

" have good news for those who are wag-
ing war on the potato bug II they fight
them constantly they will win in the end
We have in Central Iowa done so for the last
twelve years, and last year they were not as
numerous rs few years before. This spring
there are only few stragglers left and they
are found principally about old potato patches
which have been cropped with potatoes for
years. In the spring of 1876 planted pota-
toes in the middle of n big corn field but the
bugs were on hand as soon rs the potatoes
were up, and did not have more than half
crop that year. The bugs were all over the
corn fields, the roads, pastures, the timber,
and out on the prairie ten miles from any
house. They were all travelling eastward,
and they laid their eggs on the weeds in the
pastures and fence corners, and the tomato
vines, but the potato vines were their choice.
Hardly anything came amiss as food. Our
tomatoes and potatoes really cost us 80 cents
per bushel in time spent in picking and de-
strOying the bugs. Many abandoned raising
potatoes, and raised beans squashes and tur-
nips Now the bugs have migrated to the
east, and We hope they may never return.
They will probably run their race there, and
become of little account. From an I0ird
FdFHfr.
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Soiling offers the opportunity to push the
growth of animals in warm weather when
food produces far better result and as the
animals are constantly under the eye of the
feeder, he can apportion the allowance to the
wants of each. This system is therefore adj
mirably adapted to the production of meat
and it offers the most feasible plan for the
production of meat upon the small farms of
the east Under the present system of pas
turage, the eastern States are largely tributary
to the west for the meat consumed each month
To partially compensate for this, eastern farm
ers often buy western steers in spring and
fatten them on pasture during the warm sea-
son but as it takes three to five acres to feed
a steer through the summer, the profit is too
small to be worthy of consideration. One
acre prepared for soiling would feed the steer
much better than four times this amount of
pasture, and ON this there might be reason
able profit. The great need on eastern farms
is manure, and feeding cattle and sheep on
the soiling system would produce a very large
amount of manure TO return to the land.
This system of summer feeding, with green
ensilage for winter feeding would render the
eastern States wholly independent of meat
produced beyond their borders They could
afford TO buy western grain for feeding under
such a system and this would enrich their
farms each year. and cause an appropriate
grain crop to be greatly increased This sys-
TEN of meat production would soon settle the
question of profitable farming upon all the
arabic small farms of the eastern and middle
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-18
THE VERMONT PHd5N1x BRATTLEBORo FRIDAY 49,

Fon THE CHoLERA.-More than twenty
years ago when it was found that prevention
of cholera was easier than cure, prescrip-
ton drawn up by eminent doctors was pub
lshod in the Now York Sun, and it took the
name of the Sun cholera medicine. Our con-
temporary never lent its name to better ar
ticle We have seen it in constant use for
nearly two score years, and found it to be the
best remedy for looseness of the bowels ever
yet devised No one who has this by him.
and takes it in time, will ever have the chol-
era We commend it to our friends. Even
when no cholera is anticipated, 1t is an excel
lent remedy for ordinary summer complaints,
collie, diarrhUa, dysentery etc. Take equal
parts of tincture of cayenne pepper, tincture
of opium tincture of rhubarb, essence of
peppermint and spirits of camphor Mix
well. Dose, IL to 20 drops in little cold
water, according to age and violence of symp-
TOMS repeated every IL or 20 minutes until
relief is obtained.-N y. Commercial
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States. France, largely following this system
has, of horses, cattle, sheep, goats and swine,
about five to every six arabic acres and be-
sides keeping this large proportion of stock,
raises nearly as much wheat as the whole pro
duction of the United States.
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The cream thus produced is put up in glass
jars of either quart or pint capacity and
packed, one dozen quarts, or two dozen pints,
in wooden case, divided into compartments
by partitions of tin plate In the centre of
each case is an ice chamber, into which ice
enough may be introduced to serve for Jour
ney to Boston or New York What is here
meant is that the cream intended for shipment
is thus dealt with the greater part of the
production is churned on the spot. This
cream it sold at % cents per quart and Park
er's and Young's find abundant use for it, It
is i'll great demand for notable events in din
ner giving, and was furnished in quantities
for the dinner to the Chicago Commercial
Club. Mr. Burnett is about establishing a
milk and cream depot in Boston, where he
proposes to dispose of the milk from which
the cream has been separated, at about three
cents per quart, or to sell tickets emitting to
35 quarts for one dollar. The milk and
cream, being prepared so soon after milking,
are as pure and sweet as can be, while the
methods of caring for and handling insure the
long continuance of these conditions. When
the milk first comes out from the machine it
is aerated somewhat, and has the bright taste
of fluid slightly charged, but this soon sub
sides, and only the sweet, pure taste of excel
lent Jersey milk remains. -BOst0H Herdd.
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Upona movable shelf, which projects over
the basket, a great can of milk is placed and
After some fifteen or twenty gallons of the
fluid have been placed inside the basket for
beginning operations allowed to run slowly
through II faucet near the bottom of the can
into the cups i'll the centre and midst of the
basket steam is let on and the swift move
ment OF the spinning top Immediately takes
place. Almost during the first minute of the
revolutions the appearance of the contents
of the basket changes, and the color of pure,
rich cream is presented to the behoder in
place of the clear white of the whole milk
which had been poured in at first. Soon
wall of cream, just outside the central cup,
and raised far above it to the metal coping at
the baskets top, plainly appears, presenting
the peculiar appearance of a fluid raised into
that position and kept in place by rapid
whirling motion. This is, in fact, Just what
it seems to be, wall of cream alone, and Just
outside and out of sight behind it, on the
outer circumference of the basket, is another
wall of milk which has become skinned
milk" by the process. In other words, the
Swimming milk has become separated by the
centrifugal force applied; the cream, being
the lighter fluid, has taken its place nearest
the centre of motion, while the milk, the
heavier forms corresponding body outside
and the two fluids now exist in the basket in
well-detned and entirely distinct strata, which
touch without in the slightest degree ming
ling. Now, by the simple manipulation of
brace of stop cocks in the mechanism an out
let Is provided at the bottom of the basket
beneath both the cream and the milk strata
and the two fluids begin to run of into pre-
pared receptacles on the floor, at opposite
sides of the machine. Being under full head
way, the machine will now deal with from 300
to 400 quarts of whole milk per hour.
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At Deerfoot there is herd of 60 Jersey
cows-Deerfoot and its stock of every kind is
the property of Mr.. Edward Burnett who
manages the whole in his own person-of
which one-half are thoroughbred and the
others grade. From this herd about five hun
dred pounds of milk are taken each morning.
and the same quantity at night. Since the
separating machine, or cream manufacturer
has been IN operation there-it can be found
at present nowhere else-Mr. Burnett has di-
vided milking into two parts, as equally as
may be- and subjected one part to the new,
the other to the old process of am-separa-
ton. Thus $50 pounds of milking are run
through the machine, and $50 pounds set in
pans, and SO far the result has been in favor
of the machine; for in the latter every par-
ticle of the cream is separated from the milk,
while III the old-fashioued way it is impossible
to skim all Oft. The milk, as it comes from
the COWS, is mixed in the cans No cooling
process is necessary when it is to be used in
the machine, although Mr.. Burnett allows it
to stand in the cans n short time, and the cans
in water, to remove the animal heat. Every
particle of the cream from mornings milk
ing may be separated, packed in glass jars for
shipment, or made ready for churning, by the
middle of the forenoon of the same day and
Mr.. Burnett exhibited before the Newton Jer-
sey Club, during the past week, cream and
butter made within three hours after the milk
was drawn from the cows.
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The machine is simple in construction and
movement, and readily understood by any
person who may witness its performance,
though not perhaps so easily from a written
description 1t consists of a steel basket or
kettle, of about twenty five gallons capacity,
set within very strong stationary cast-iron
drum or larger kettle The basket is made
very strong in all its parts, as, when the ma
chine is in operation, the former is to make
20O0 revolutions per minute, and must be able
to resist pressure of 200 pounds to the
square inch in consequence of this motion.
A central cup or receptacle for milk, holding
about gallon, is in the centre of the basket,
raised considerably from the bottom, and this
cup is used as q feeder, and into it the milk
is poured. Two doors or partitions stretch
across from the outer circumference of the
cup to the inside wall of the basket and these,
placed oquidistant in the midst of the
basket, serve to prevent the milk from
smashing when the machine has slow move
ment. When it is added that the basket and
its cast-iron receptacle together rest upon
single pivot or leg, and that when this is seen
standing in its bearing upon the floor of the
dairy, the whole looks like n huge top ready
to be spun about, like the schoolboy's toy on
larger scale, the upper portion being cut
squaroly of and a flat cover of tin laid on,
and that the top is in communication with Ii
light steam engine by the simple arrangement
of a pair of pulleys, the story is told. The
resemblance to a top is heightened when the
machine il in motion.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-18
The New Process Of Separating Cream
from Mtlk.

A German in the fatherland, in 1877, in
vented an apparatus for mechanically separat-
ing the heavier from the lighter fluids in the
composition of milk by the application of
centrifugal motion to the milk in simple
piece of machinery. When the continuance
was perfected and applied practically, the re-
suit proved to be only the application of the
same principle, in almost the identical form,
which Mr. Weston, well enough known in
Boston, had already utilized in the centrifu-
gal sugar machine, the laundry machine, etc.
Mr.. Weston holds patents in this country for
these discoveries, and has recently continued
and extended his operations in the same direc-
ton by preparing a centrifugal machine for
the separation of milk The machine finish
ed, the already celebrated "Deerfoot Farm,
at Southboro, Mass, with its dairy of GO Jer-
sey cows and extensive facilities for expert
ment, was chosen for the setting up and per-
fectng and, at the present time, the enter
prise is as assured n success rs though it had
been inaugurated 20 years ago, the machine
is working wonders, its performance is sys-
tematized and under perfect control, and rev.
olution in the dairy business has taken place,
in more senses than one, by its use.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-27

Two for the parish Of =. al DE-
One for the parish Of Union.
One for the parish OF vsrmlllion,
One for the parish Of Vernon.
One for the parish OF Washington.
One for the parish Of Webster,
One for the parish Of VIM.
Total, ninety-eiaht Representative de,sa....
Now. therefore. l. FRANCIS II. NICuoTTs
Governor of tho State OF Louisiana. do ba.aa.
Issue this my proclamation, directing n (, ~
tlon to be held throughout the State. u -
places as may be designated by the legs, 80,
authorities thereo', on TUESDAY, the ala
teenth day Of March. A. d. 1879, from o,cloot :
the forenoon until o O'Clock Ia the afternaa -
for the purpose Of eecling delegates To a..
vention to frame now constitution for the I'm.
o. Louisiana, recording to the above apporticr'
ment. the delegates TO meet In conyentlon ].
tho State- House. at New Orleans. on MONp.v
tho twenty-flrst day Of the month or Arm !
u. 1879, ut - o'clock m. And do hereby ordev
and direct oil sheriifs, commissioners Of elaa.
ton. and other officers therein concerned u
hold said election on tho lay aforesaid. al M
places designated blythe local authorities tbara
of. and to cause the same to be- conducted ana
the returns thereof to be- made In the mauus,
and within the time prescribed by law.
In testimony whereof have herennto afp,a,
my signature and caused tho seal Of the staia !,
Louisiana to be hereuDto attached, Mt the cltv "a
New Orleans. this twenty fifth day Of the month
Of January, In the year Of our Lord ona
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nlns. ana
of the Independence Of the United stataa "a
America the one hundred and third ysar "
FRANCIS T. NICHOLIg
By the Governor:
WILL A. STBoNG,
SnrretarY OF Htnta. inaa
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OFFICE OF CIvII. SHERIFF, !
Parish OF orleans. I

OFFICE OF CIvII. SHERIFF,
Parish Of Orleans
New Orleans. February Is. 1879. J
By and under authority OF "a proclamation
issued by his ExcelleDcy Francis T.. Nichols.
Governor OF tbs State Of Louisiana. dated on
the twenty fth day Of January. 1873. directing
an election to be held on TUESDAY, the eigh-
teenth day OF March. 1879. for the purpose Of
electing delegates 10 meet In convention TO
frame new constitution OF the State
Notice Ia hereby given that an election will b
held, In conformity with act No. 50 OF the extra
session OF 1877. on TUESDAY. the eighteenth
day Of March, 1879. from O'Clock In the FORE
noon until o'clock in the afternoon, through
out the parish Of Orleans for the purpose OF
eIecting delegates to meet In convention at the
State House. at New Orleans, ON Monday, the
twenty FIRST OF April. 1879. at IL o'clock m, 20
frame new constitution for the State OF Louis
lana; az provided for by act No, Of the Gen
eral Assembly OF the State OF Louisiana. ap-
proved January %. 1879. The delegates TO be
chosen to such convention to be apportioned a.
the members Of the General Assembly Of the
State are now apportioned by law. as follows
to wit
SENATORIAL DELEGATES.
Two for the First Senatorial District. COM
posed Of the eighth and ninth wards Of Orleans
and of the parishes Of st. Bernard and Plaque
mines.
Two for the Second Senatorial District. COM
posed OF the fourth. fifth. sixth and seventh
wards OF Orleans.
One for the Third Senatorial District, COM
posed Of the third ward Of Orleans.
Cne for the Fourth Senatorial District. COM
posed Of the second ward and fifteenth Wafd
lOrleans. right bank } Of Orleans.
One for the Fifth Senatorial District. COM
posed Of the first and tenth wards OF Orleans
| Two for the Sixth Senatorial District. COM
posed of the eleventh. twelfth. thirteenth Jour
| teenth sixteenth and seventeenth WaEds OIL VI
| leans. .,,
REPREsENTATIyE DELEGATES.
| One for the First Representative Distri@.
parish Of Orleans.
| Two for the Second Representative Distra.
| parish of Orleans.
Three for the Third Representative Dissria
parish Of Orleans.
One for the Fourth Representative DsssEfo"
parish Of Orleans.
Two for the Filth Representative Dastria'
parish 81 Orleans.
One for the Sixth Representative Distri1
parish Of Orleans. y
Two for the Seventh Representative Dis'sies
parish Of Orleans.
One for the Eighth Representative District
parish OF Orleans.
Two for the Ninth Representative DiS'li'.
parish Of Orleans,
Two for the Tenth Representative Dist1d
parish Of Orleans.
Two for the Eleventh Representative L's.''s'
parish Of Orleans. 49,
One for the Twelfth Represen'auveD'''AA
parish of Orleans. ~
] 0pa for the Thirteenth RaDr6EePodiFc NAo
trict, parish OF Orleans. 49, m.
One for the Fourteenth Repre'ntatse De-
trict, parish OF Orleans.
One for the Fifteenth Repres l1aelso Di7afaes
parish OF Orleans.
J. r. ALCEE GKiiILhEAOA.
Civil Sheriff of the atiSu " osioaas-
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