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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
Special Premiums for DairYmen.

There are 10 be several special pre-.
miums offered at our state fair for dairy
men, which we have heard .of, by the
way, but have not the full particulars of;
one by the Vermont Farm Machine Co.
of Bellows Falls, of 500, for the bes
butter made by the Cooley system, o.
which apparatus they are the enterprising
manufacturers. Another is offered by II.
X. & +. B. Thurber & Co., of New York
the American agents of Higgins salt
They offer similar prizes in the Northern
Ohio, and presuming them to be uniform
through the country we give their offer al
the fair named above, which with change
of name from Northern Ohio to Vermont
will read all right for our latitude we
presume:
For the encouragement and improve
ment of American derry products, Messrs.
Thurber & Co. offer, through the medium
OF the Northern Ohio fair association, the
following premiums on butter and cheese !;
the specimens to be exhibited at the fair
of 1879, and the same to be sailed with
Higgins Eureka Salt Best single cheese,
not less than 25 pounds weight, gold med
al; second best, not less than 25 pounds
weight. silver medal; third best, not less
than 20 pounds weight, bronze medal;
best package of butter, not less than so
pounds weight, gold medal second best,
not less than SO pounds weight, silver
medal; third best, not less than so pounds
weight, bronze medal; the products ex-
hibited to be of Ohio manufacture.
The medals are from the establishment
of Tiffany & Co., New York, whose repu-
tation is guarantee for artistic design
and superior quality.
Ii. X. & F. B. THURBER g. Co,
New York City.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

The reason poultry killed at home,
though young, is not as tender as that
bought at the market Isl the former is
generally not killed until wanted, and,
when eaten is still rigid with death, while
that bought at the poulterers has been
killed at least hours-more often days.
Poultry ought to be killed several days
before being eaten, dressed an once, and,
with few bits of charcoal in it, hung in a
cool place. If poultry are kept from food
and drink at least twelve hours before
killing the crop and intestines will be
emplied, and any superi1uity of secretions
exhausted. The flesh will be Juicy and
the fat firm. If left three days, without
food or drink, though in good condition
previously, the flesh will be dry and taste
less and the fat soft. Never buy an un-
drawn fowl. The gas from the crop and
intestlnes will faint the flesh, even though
retained but short time.--Fancter'S Jour
nal,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
Che family Girele.

DIRECTIONS FOR DRYING FRESH LEAVE.
AND FLowERS.-To be able to preserve
beautiful flowers and leaves for wears, b,
means of drying thems is very desirable
Tor the botanist, as well as all lovers O.
plants and flowers. A collection of driet
specimens that have been fixed to sheets
OF fine white paper is called herbarium
and where the names, place, and time o.
collection of each is given, and all are
Systematically arranged under their gen.
eral orders, etc, it becomes very interest.
ing. The materials used for drying fresh
or green specimens are simply quantity
OF soft, unsized paper, such as will absorb
moisture quite readily, and a press of some
sort. What is known as blotting paper
would be the best kind of paper for the
purpose, but something much cheaper will
answer very well. Most kinds OF paper
used for newspaper printing are good.
Touch the tongue to it, and if the moist
use left on the surface is quickly absorbed,
then it will answer. OF course the sooner
1t shows itself to be absorbed, the better
is the paper. The paper should be cut
into sheets sufficiently.small to handle well,
and the greater part of these may be made
into driers, consisting of a. dozen or two
sheets held together with a stitch or two of
thread. The specimens to be dried should
not be long picked from the plant before
placing them to press between the driers
The pressure may be applied by q regu-
lar screw press, or by simply placing
weights on the matter to be pressed, when
all is ready. A pressure of fifty pounds
would do for small operations. BY having
it too heavy, the more delicate parts of
the leaves or flowers will become bruised.
First, lay down one of the paper driers
on the top of which place single loose
sheet. On this the leaves or flowers to be
preserved should be placed. If the speci-
mems are small, a number may be laid on
one sheet. Then lay another loose sheet
directly on the specimens, and on this
another drier, continuing in this manner
until one-half the driers are used, and
then apply the pressure. The object of all
this is to have the paper absorb the moist
ure in the leaves as quickly as possible.
After SIX or ten hours the press should be
opened and the specimens taken out and
placed between the driers which have not
been used. The single sheet next to the
specimens above and below may, for con.
venience in handling, remain in the new
making up of form for pressing, espe-
cally if the specimens be small and con-
sequcntly difficult to handle individually
in their partially dried condition. The
driers taken out will be found to be quite
damp, and should be hung up to become
thoroughly dried for use again. After the
specimens have been pressed for twelve
hours the second time, then they should be
again taken out and placed between the
lirst driers, which ought to be dry by this
time. After one, two or three more pres
Sures, always substituting the newly dried
drlers for the damp ones taken out, at
each change, the specimens will be found
dry. They can be fixed in the
herbarium with the aid of little glue or
mucilage.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

AMERICAN CHEESE IN SCoTLAND.-The
extent to which American cheese is being
imported into Ayrshire and retailed al
prices greatly under the cost of the home
produce is beginning to tell in Il way that
was hardly anticipated by dairy farmers
in the county. Many of those farmers, it
appears, still find themselves in possession
of the bulk of cheese manufactured last
season, with little prospect of getting it
disposed of at anything like the figure
they have been in the habit of realizing.
The result of this is that not n few of them
have been compelled to abandon the
making of cheese for the present. This,
again, has had the effect of increasing the
supply of butter and milk in the county so
enormously that these commodities are
selling at prices unknown during the past
decade. Last week fresh butter of the
best quality was quoted in the market of
the county town at eight and one-half
pence per pound, or less than half the
price for which it sold at the correspond
ing date of last year. The reduction per
gallon in the price of milk resulting from
the increased competition induced by the
suspension of the cheese manufacture
would seem to be equally marked. For
Glasgow and other large towns the supply
available at present is far in excess of the
demand, and farmers are said to be at
their wits end in regard to the disposal of
their milk. At almost any hour of the
day carts containing barrels of milk may
be seen in some parts of Ayr in charge of
persons endeavorng to secure purchasers,
but who not unfrequently are obliged to
take the article home unsold to be served
out to pigs, which are at this season being
reared in larger numbers than is ordinari-
ly the case in Ayrshire. Should this state
of matters continue, the results can hardly
fail to be serious, more particularly for
such farmers land these are said to be not
a few as have within the last year or two
entered upon new leases at a considerable
Use of rent.-Edinbargh Scotsman, july l.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

FIRM BUTTER WITHOUT IcE.-Fron
w. T. Hazards treatise on butter anC
butter-makng, we extract the following
In families or where the dairy is small, a
good plan to have butter cool and Arm
without ice is by the process of evapora.
ton as practiced in India and other warm
climates, A cheap plan is to Get a very
large sized porous earthen flower moi
with an extra large saucer. Halffill The
saucer with water, set it in n triyet or liobt
stand-such as is used for holding Rot
irons will do; upon this set your hitter
over the whole invertthe flower Dot letting
the top rim of it rest in and be covered bV
the water; then close the hole in thu bof.
tom with cork; then dash water over
the flower pot, and repeat the process
several times day. or whenever # looks
dry. If set in a cool place. or where the
wind can blow upon it, it will readily
evaporate the water from the not and tbo
butter will be firm and cool as if from an an
ice house. A'o'A I'LL
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

GAPEs.-A great many persons who
raise poultry are troubled with thcil
chicks having gapes. think that filthy
yards, impure water and poorly ventilated
houses have great deal to do with fowls
having the gapes. take off the top of
my yards every few weeks aud cover
them over with good coat of sand and
gravel. have not lost chick this year
on account of gapes. l saw the following
receipt to prevent gapes. Take one ounce
of mercurial ointment, one ounce of pure
lard and one-half ounce of crude petroleum,
Mix thoroughly and apply to the heads of
the chicks. in semi fluid state, when
taken from the nest. Repeat the applica-
ton when the chicks ARE two weeks old 4;
keep your chickens dry and your yards
clean, and give your poultry plenty of
clean pure water, and do not forget to
whitewash your poultry houses at least
twice year.
l have a game cock that has sometime
the matter with his throat; he does not
seem sick. but his crow is entirely spoiled.
He is fine bird, would be very much
obliged If some one would tell me what to
do for him.-Correspondent of Ohio Farm.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
The Next State Fair.

Will you permit me, Mr.. Editor, to cal
the attention of the farmers of the state tc
the next state fair? 1t should be an exhi
bition Of the best products of all the va.
rious depal tments of agriculture, and it is
time Tor farmers to begin to prepare for it,
by looking about them and making selec.
tions of the best products of their skill.
Well conducted fairs constitute one Of
the cheapest agricultural schools, and their
lessons are doing very much to promote
Improvement and progress, and all should
avail themselves of the benefits of our
state fair, and help to increase its useful
ness by an active interest and co-opera-
ton.
The location is very favorable, and with
the advantages of cheap and easy atten-
dance offered by the railroads, general
interest on the part of the farmers to aid,
will make the next exhibition the grandest
and most profitable in its results, in every
way, of any ever held in The state.
Farmers, please think of it-think how
much we may gain in knowledge and
progress, and how much in the reputation
of the state for the variety and superiority
of its products, and the consequent i'm
then act and begin noe0 to prepare.
FARMER.
There is no reason why, with the fair
located at Montpelier, we should not have
a first-class show in every respect. One
thing is especially favorable-the cars run
to the grounds, and there will be no driy-
ing of stock a long distance through the
streets, or heavy bills for freighting mer-
chandise. both of which every exhibitor
breads who has ever been through the
mill. Montpelier is all right in that
respect.
Then she has good hotels. and enough
Of them to take good care of all who come.
and at very reasonable rates. So let
every body come, with his sisters and bis
cousins and his aunts.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
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The stream is oalmest when it nears the tide
And flowers are sweetest at the eventide,
And birds most musical al close of day.
And saints diyinest when they pass away.
Morning is holy; but holier charm
Lies folded close in evenings robe of balm
And weary man mus. ever love her best,
For morning calls to toll. but night to rest,
She comes from HEAVIER, and on her wings does bea
holy fragrance, like the breath of prayer
Footsteps of angels follow in her trace,
To shut the weary eyes of day in peace.
All things are hushed before her as she throws
Ger earth and sky her mantle of repose:
There is calmer beauty and a power
That morning knows not. to the evening hour.
Until the evening we must weep and toll,
Plow life's stern furrow. dig the weedy soil.
Tired with sad feet our rough and thorny way
And bear the heat and burden of the day.
Oh when our sun is setting, may we glide
Like summer evening down the golden tide
And leave behind us as we pass away,
sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

And speaking of fairs, reminds us thai
we have received by the courtesy of the
Ohio Farmer the premium list of the
Northern Ohio fair, to be held at Cleve.
land, September LIST to 9th, inclusive. This
society offers $4,000 in premiums, and
they evidently know what they want
most, for while they offer $50 for the best
Durham bull. and $40 for the best Dur.
ham COW, they offer but 1926 and 800 for
Devons and Herefords, $l5 for the best
Jersey bull and 800 for the best COW, and
SIS each for Ayrshires, but in DAIRY
Stock" they offer S15 each for the best
milking COW in each breed.
In addition they have in the Shorthorn
class breeders herd, for which premi-
UNI of $3.50 is offered for the best bull and
four COWS or heifers bred by the exhibitor,
and an exhibitors herd, with 500 for the
same owned by the exhibitor. So it is
seen that in Ohio they go heavy on Short
horns. They there discriminate largely
in favor of what must constitute their
chief. or one of their Chief industries
stock raising. Can we compete with the
west in raising stock or grainp In what
direction, then, does our chance for profit
able farming lie, and how shall we encour-
age itP
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
The Weeds.

Oh the weeds! how they grow and ge
the start of one in these warm, mugg,
days. While we were haying. and aftel
we were done, and helping neighbor ;
little, they have grown SO big that las
night we pulled good armful and gave
the pigs, and they seemed to enjoy them
And, by the way, that's not bad DISPOSE.
ton to make of them either. Pigs want
and need green food; it is a healthy change
of diet. and promotes growth and health
While at Mr.. Gilmore's in Fairlee, Of
whose excellent farming we have before
spoken, we saw his hogs and pigs, about a
dozen in number, which were in good
order, running in the pasture with the
cows and getting nothing bnt grass, and
he expects to keep about thirty or forty
next winter, to run in his barn cellar and
work for their board.
But of the weeds Perhaps it would
not be profitable to raise weeds just to feed
them to pigs; but better pull them and
feed them so, than to let them stand and
go to seed, and we believe it will pay to
pull them, Or if hoed up to gather them to
feed rather than to let them lie. Guilt
waiting will keep them down between the
rows, and where check rows are used, it
will leave little hoeing to be done, or few
weeds to pull. AT any rate, keep them
from seeding, or they will "rse up in
judgment against you for generations
(of weeds to come.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

RAvAGEs OF HOG CHoLERA.--A Chicago
dispatch states that stock raisers repor
terrible ravages among young pigs by hos
cholera in southern Wisconsin and JIG
Davies county, Illinois. A Galena dis
patch says hundreds are dying, and the
disease not only spreads from drove te
drove, but is always attended with fatal
results. The disease has ragged for several
months in Grant, Iowa and Lafayette
counties, Wis, 10 Davies county ILL.,, and
Dubuque county, Iowa. The loss is in
calculable; some farmers are ruined and
Others much discouraged.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

And writing of weeds brings to mind
our corn, and one piece of that is any.
thing but satisfactory. 1t was plowed after
haying last year (broken up after taking
off the grass), and sowed to India wheat
This spring it was again plowed, and q
good coat of stable manure spread on and
well narrowed in, planted, hoed, etc., all
right, but frost cut it some when very
small, but it seemed TO recover from il
soon after, but has not grown much, and
now is tasseling out, and looks as if it
might be "a small kind of corn" as the
boy said. A part of the piece is better,
which was green sward broken up in the
spring and MANFRED the same as the rest,
but it also lays higher, and was not as
much hurt by frost.
A neighbor said one could not get much
corn after India wheat, and another said
that corn once bitten by frost never
amounted to much, so what is it, and who
has had experience in the matter? We
raised good crop last year on land sowed
the year before to India wheat, and so
that does not help us to an intelligent de-
clslon in the matter. Who of our readers
can help us and possibly others, by their
experience?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

Nothing contributes more to large
crop OF fruit than liberal supply of some
coarse material put close around the bush,
that is the space that cannot be reached
with the cultivator. Some advocate mulch
ing the entire surface, but this is too
laborious, takes too much mulching ma
terial, and is too expensive. A constant
and thorough cultivation and stirring up
of the soil with the hoe or cutivator is the
best mulch land can have. Leaf and
woods mould, cornstalks, straw, hay, chip
dirt. ashes, rotted sawdust,or tan bark are
all good mulching materials for raspberries
or Observation-Disclosures
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

Prof harrington, in summary of the
experiments begun in 1870 by the Maine
agricultural college to ascertain which has
the greater value as a food for swine,
cooked or uncooked meal says: 1--WE
have, by an experiment which has been
continued through from three to four
months of each of the nine years since its
beginning, obtained evidence that all the
money and labor expended in cooking
meal for swine is more than thrown
away.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
Tantara, the celebrated landscano mi

Tantara, the celebrated landscape paint.
er, was man of ready wit, but he once
met his match. An amateur had ordered
landscape for his gallery in which there
was to be church. Our painter did not
know how to draw figures well. SO he put
none in the landscape. The amateur was
astonished at the truthfulness and colorine
of the picture, but he missed the figures
" You have forgotten to put in any fig
ures." said he, laugbingly. Sir re-
piled the painter, " the people are going to
mass" "Oh, WELL" replied the amateur,
g will wait, and take the picture when
they come out"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

Small bones in an animal are an ndca-
ton of good feeding quality, early maturity,
and superior, fine grained flesh; while
coarse, large bones. with prominent joints
and angular projections of the skeleton,
indicate poor feeding quality late maturity
and coarse flesh, in connection with q
large proportion of offal, and cheap pieces
in the carcass when reaching its final
destination on the black Chautauqua
Farmer
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

A California paper says: In order to
keep their butter over the period of low
prices and hot weather, California dairy
men seal up their products in tin cans,
sinking them to the bottom ofcold streams.
Butter made in April comes out in October
in good order, and continues to keep fresh
in the cool weather of winter. Forty pound
cans are commonly used"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

Nature seems to exist for the excellent.
The world is upheld by the veracity of
good men; they make the earth whole
some. Life is sweet and tolerable only in
our belief in such society; and. actually
or Ideally, we manage to live with superb
ors.-EmerSon.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

1t is good plan to improve the warm
weather by collecting and laying up a
quantity of dry soil to be used in stables
to absorb the urine which would be other
wise almost wholly wasted. Loan, dry
muck, or sand, may be used as absorbents,
and should be used also about the house.
where offensive odors are generated.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
agricultural department,
o. TINKHAM, Editor.

All communications for this department should be
sent to the editor. Mr.. o. NJ. TLNKHAM. N. Pom
fret, Vt.
Please write side Of the paper only sign such
name or initials as you wished published. but give
your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS, post office, County and
State.
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A WONDERFUL REMEDY.
Central Vermont R. R. Lime.
Commencing Monday, july Z. 1879.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST

Leave Montpelier at II As NJ, 2O5 700 and 90 p NJ
White Mountains Express from Syracuse and or.
densburg, St. Adams and Burlington arrives at Mont
pelier g. 25A NJ.
MAIL TRAIN from Montreal, st. AIbans, Bnrling
ton, &C. leaves Montpelier II. As A. M, for Boston
New London, Springfield, New York, and inter.
mediate points.
Express from Montreal, st Albans Burlington leaves
Montpelier 05 P NJ for Boston via Lowell also Bel
lows Falls and Bratteboro.
White Mountains Express from Saratoga Srpings
Rutland and Burlington &c. arrives at Montpelier 43t
MIXED TRAIN leaves st .Albans3 90 p. NJ, Burlington
~ p M, Montpelier 100 p. NJ for Northfed
NIGHT EXPRESS from Ogdensburg, Montreal, St Al
bans and Burlington, leave Montpelier at 90 p NJ for
Boston via, Lowell or Fitchburgh. Springfield New
York and intermediate points.
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mended by dealers for purposes of gain ASK for and
insist upon having SANFoRD's JAMAICA GINGER.
Sold by Wholesale and Retail Druggists Grocers
and Dealers in Medicine throughout the United States
aud Canadas. Price 50 cents per bottle, WEEKS ID
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