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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

Now l want to inquire whether had
better spread about two hundred bads
of manure on the land intend to freak
up next spring, as | get it out next week,
or put it in pile and spread it in the
spring after blowing? the ground being
frozen. l cleaned my barn cellar out ia
October. The cellar is cemented on the
bottom and the walls pointed with cement.
| have made this manure since then
have thirty two head OF cattle, four hoses
in the barn and twenty nine head of swine
in the cellar
] had no idea how much manure was
losing until cemented the cellar bottom.
| have been constantly throwing in dry
loan and muck ut the rate of one ortwo
loads per day, besides bedding my cattle
with sand and the horses with meadow
hay, and now, since the urine of all the
animals is saved, the pigpens which extend
under all the stalls and lintels are SO wet
and soft that the hogs are unable 10 get
from one end 10 the other.
feed one hundred pounds of colton-eed
meal, sixty pounds of corn meal. lfty
pounds of shorts and twenty-four quarts of
oats daily, besides the food of the swine.
| believe that dry muck or loan thorough
ly saturated with urine from animals fed
rs above, and worked up into perfect
mush, is as good to grow crops as the
same bulk of solid execrement. An I
right? | should like to know whethe. |
had better spread my manure on he
ground or pile it.-COrreSponden of The
american CultiUat0r.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
2pettg.
THE OLD STONE BASIN.

In the heart of the busy city,
In the scorching nOon.tide heat,
a sound of bubbling water
Falls on the din of the street.
1t falls In gray stone basin,
And over the cool wet brink
The heads of the thirsty horses
Each moment are stretched to drink.
Aud peeping between the GROWING heads
AS the horses come and go,
Tue GIFT of Three Little Sisters
Is read on the stone below.
All, beasts are not taught letters,
They know no alphabet;
And never a horse in all these years
Has read the words, and yet
| think that each toil-worn creature
Who stops to drink by the way,
His thanks in his own dumb fashion,
To the sisters small must pay.
Years have gone by since busy hands
Wrought at the basins stone;
The kindly little sisters
Are all to women grown.
do not know their home or lates
Or the name they bear to men,
But the sweetness of their gracious deed
Is just as fresh as then.
And all life long, and after life
They must the happier be,
For this cup of water" given by them
When they were children three.
Susan Coolidge, in 81. Nicholas
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
COVERED AND UNCOVERED MANURE

COVERED AND UNCOVERED MANURE
Some years ago, says an experienced
farmer. had lot of sheep wintered in n
building and yard fnnced in with high
palings to keep out worthless ours. In
the second story Of the building hay was
kept for the sheep, and fed to them unGcr
the building, which was open ut one end,
some six or seven feet high, into the yard
where troughs were kept for feeding
grain During the winter manure acct
mulated under the building TO twelve or
fifteen inches in depth and extended grad
ually tapering to the ground, out into the
yard. At the edge of the building the
manure was about twelve inches deep. In
the following autumn, when | went to
haul out the manure for wheat. | found
that Immediately outside of the edge of
the building, where exposed to the wealth
er, it had rotted and sunk till it was only
six inches deep, whilst that Immediately
under the shelter was still about Il foot
deep.
| took cart and oxen and drew the
manure which was on the outside of the
building, and put it on Il strip across the
field intended for wheat, then drew out
the same quantity in bulk from under the
building, and put it in like manner 90
IN adininidg strip of same size and quail
ty. All was sowed with wheat OF the
same kind and at the same time. The
crop from those two lands was not meas
ured, but every one who examined the
crop before cutting decided there was
about twice the quantity on the land ma
nured by the covered manure.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
The Board OF Agriculture and the Agri.
cultural College.

The last Watchman has in its agricul
tural column an article in relation to tn,
causes watch led to the abolishing Of the
State Board Of Agriculture, in which the
following passage occurs: at was simply
killed by the politicians, aided by the tag
rag-and-bob-tail of the farmers; both
secretly egged on by Influences emanatin2
from an institution that Gas regards it,
oflicials) persists without reason in re-
garding the board as Il rival, and from an
Institution that fears and breads the intel
ligent criticism Of its course that has been
aroused whenever the thought of the
farmers has been stimulated on the subject
of agricultural education" This charging
that the University of Vermont and State
Agricultural College was IN enemy, and
sought the destruction OF the board is nc
new thing. Mr.. Douglas, in IL late col.
umu-and-a-half letter to the HeraH ana
Globe, asserts the same thing, and both
without particle of proof.
This is matter in which we are all
Interested, and one in which assertion
only will not be considered sufficient.
Give US some proof, gentlemen, Of youl
assertions, before you ask us to swallow
the whole story.
During the last two years we have at
tended Il good many meetings of the
board. and seen them and the college men
working tremendously, and from anything
we ever saw or heard it never entered our
head that the influence OF the college was
exerted against the board More than
that, in II private letter received from
President Buckham soon after the adj
jonrnmcnt of the legislature j, the follow
ing passage: II think the legislature has
acted with consummate Jolly in abolishing
the board of agriculture We repeat,
we don't believe yet, AMI shall not on
simple assertion. unsupported by proof,
that the agricultural college desired the
abolition of the state board.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

One of the adjuncts to the workshop of
every farm ought to be a set of tools
needed in mending harness. so that the
boys may. on rainy days, learn a new
trade, and save quite an expense. With
harness. a stitch in time saves, not nine,
but ninety-nine more. The essentials are,
two avis, needles, waxed ends, and a
clamp to hold the pieces to be sewed. The
last may be made of couple of barrel
slaves fastened to block, and frightened
by strap around the middle. Some
mending will have to 60 to the shop; but,
in the course of the year, quite sum can
be saved by merely sewing up the ripped
and torn places in the harness or padding.
We have found copper rivets, sold in half.
pound boxes, of great advantage in mend
ing harness. Half-inch rivets come into
play oftenest. though n few three-quarter
inch ones may be needed.-Erchange
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

boughs parted. and l saw Ms jolly
face looking up at me, with grin from
ear to ear.
Fairly freed. Ell. my boy? Well I've
raised the siege for you, and yonder lies
the enemy. Your bullets run down his
side, under the skin, without exploding
so 1 suppose you must have hit him slant,
wise. Better luck next time. Anyhow,
I'm glad TO find you alive; but fancy
you won't go out alone again in hurry!
And, 10 tell the truth, did mt, for a
pretty long while after that day.-DaUtd
Rer. 81. Nicholas for February.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

A young woman Of Richmond, S. c..
exhibited at the fair few days ago suit
OF clothes of her own make. She sheared
the wool, spun the yarn, wove and dyed
the cloth, cut and fitted the clothes to fl
her brother, and sewed then with a
needle-not with base mechanic sewing
machine), making as handsome an outfit
rs the back of man could desire.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

GRUBS IN THE BACKS OF CATTLE.-As
usual at this season, correspondents are
inquiring about the grubs or worms found
under the hides of cattle. These are the
young or larval form of the EStrus Bowls,
or gad.fly of the OK. which chase and
seriously harm cattle, while laying their
eggs in summer and autumn Where the
flies abound they retard growth and fat
tening, and in extreme cases cause much
fever and arrangement of the system, as
well us deterioration of the hide by the
presence of the larvae under the skin
But rs the fly does not survive the winter,
save in this larval form in the skin, it is
easily killed out in any district by Il uni
form destruction of the grubs now to be
found under the integument. The para
sites will be found mainly in the back
and should be squeezed out of their cysts
by strong compression of the adjacent
skin, and crushed under foot to destroy
vitality and prevent them burrowing in
the soil and undergoing their natural
transformation into the fly. If the hole is
too small it may be Slightly enlarged with
Il penknife so us to allow the easy escape
of the grub. The destruction of these
parasites by introducing caustic liquids or
red-hot irons into the sacs is not to be
commended, as it leaves mass of dead
matter in the sore to undergo putrefaction,
and develops an amount of surrounding
Inflammation that is altogether unnecessa-
ry.-NeW York. Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
agricultural department.
o. N. rINkHAM. EDITOR.

All communications fer this department should be
ent to the editor. Mr.. o. Il. TINKHAM, 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 ADDRESS, post office. County and
State
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22
ron WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Central Vermont R. R. Lime.
Commencing Monday, Dc. so, 1873.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.
Te.ve Nontpelier at H. 9sA.M, 74o and 9OOP.M
MAIL, TRAIN from Montreal Malone. st. Adams,
Burlington, &C. leaves Montpelier ll.4O A. NJ, for
Boston, New London, Springfield, New York, and
intermediate points go -
s 10 P M, Montpelier 7.4O p. NJ for Northheld.
NIGHT EXPRESS from Ogdensburg, MOntreal St AL
bans and Burlington leave Montpelier at 900 p NJ for
Boston via, Lowell or F1tchburgh, Springfield New
York and intermediate points.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Montpelier at Is s4OA NJ IL 10 and % p N.
A. M via, Lowell 500 A. M, New London 90 a. M,
Springfield SOOA NJ, Montpelier p p. NJ, for Bur-
lington St Adams, Montreal, and OEdensburg.
ACCOMMODATIONS Train Leaves Northheld at 30 4. NJ,
Montpelier $40 NJ, for Burlington, Rutland. st.
Adams, St Johns and Richford.
MIXED leaves White River Junction 200 A. NJ, North
field IL 90 NJ, arrives at Montpelier IL % p NJ.
ACCOMMODATIONS leaves Montpelier l2.lU L. M. for
Burlington, Rutland and st. Adams.
NIaHr EXPRESS leaves Boston via, Lowell at 30 p.
NJ via, Fitchburgh 800 p. NJ New York 3 90 P. d,
Springfield s. 90 Montpelier % A NJ for Burling
ton ST. Adams Montreal and Ogdensburg, and the
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 100 A M, 1900
A M, and ~ P. NJ.
Returning leave Barre at % A and 10 so A. NJ and
520P NJ.
running between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal
and Springfield, and New York and via, Troy, and
Parlor Cars and Day Express between Boston and
Through tickets Chicago and the West for sale at
'''' HOBART,
Genl. Supt.
CIV BENTLEY.
Genl. Manager.
st. Adams, Vt Dec. %. 1873.
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Being under the control of the four Literary Socie-
two journals had and will have the following advanta
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LIST, 1t will be published twice term, thus giving
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end, 1t will contain no stale news, nothing but what
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3rd Being issued by the four societies will tend to
bring them and their alumni into closer union and
give them all common interests and a common aim.
4th, The same labor which formerly extended
upon two publications Will now be devoted to one pa
per which will alike be the exponent of the school and
of true, liberal education.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION is called to the fact that
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There may be those who say the Seminary is decn-
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Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-11
CASUALTIES.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax is talked Of as
the republican candidate for governor of In
diana.
A $35O,OO0 fire occurred in Troy N. T.
on Sunday morning Dec z. One fireman was
injured by falling walls
A $4,000 fire occurred at Philadel-
PHO, Pa, Dec. 1, several firemen were serious
ly injured by falling walls.
A Presbyterian church edlfce was
burned in Philadelphia, ON the morning Of Oct
9. The church cost $150,OOO.
During the recent heavy cyclone on
the Bay of Bengal storm swept over Man.
kishkal Island. drowning several hundred
persons.
In New York City, Dec. 8, Otto Wolf
and wife went out to work, locking three
children Ia q room. A fire occurred and two
of the children were burned to death.
Dennis Kearney, in a late speech in
San Francisco, intimated purpose to go to
Ireland, and take hand in the land-tax trou
bles that are at present vextng the Emerald
Isle.
Between Forest City and Madison, 4G
miles west of Memphis, Tenn, Dec. l, q freight
train was dit ched, and eleven cars loaded with
cotton were burned. A colored woman and
two children, and white brakeman were
killed
A regular and wild freight train col.
lided early on the morning of Dec. 6, on the
Chicago & Alton road, noar Jerseyville. Ill.
and Richard Gilchrist, engineer of one Of the
trains, was killed, and the fireman, name IN
known, was badly injured. The trains are
said to be badly wrecked.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-11
SPARE ME THE DAY A LITTLE LONGER
YETI

o, golden color OF the evening sun,
Spare me the day little longer yet;
The tasks to me appointed are not done, :,
And the night filings down its shadows cold
and wet.
Ere yet thy rising glory flushed the east,
Ny day began, with noble purpose fraught;
For well knew II but helped the least,
Twould help me on toward the goal
sought.
And, as journeyed on, stopped to raise
Those who, toil-worn, had fallen by the way!
And strove to guide along the rugged maze
Their faltering steps into the better way.
At times to some paused to whisper peace,
To calm the'raging of their souls dark deep
And 10! the clouds disperse, the tumults cease
And DER the spirit waves Of comfort sweep
dissatisfied, turned and strained my eye
To catch glimpse of heights / longed to
reach;
How can these feeble deeds so small. thought
The way to gain the heights unto me teach
And, sore dismayed, / laid my burden down,
And tho my way lay thro' a goodly land,
[ knew not that twas on enchanted ground
MY needless feet had been beguiled to stand
And, all unmindful of the much to do,
slept the long, bright, idle hours away;
And see! the goal sought is just in view,
But ah! nights shadows cloud the face O
day.
And, as haste to finish tasks undone,
My saddened heart is filled with vain regret
| o, golden color Of the evening sun,
Spare me the day little longer vet.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-11
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The philadelphia mint will coin ten
milliens in eagles and half eagles.
A bill has been introduced into con-
gress for the removal of the Ute Indians.
Dennis Kearney will be present in
Washington, Jan. Is, at meeting of Green
hackers.
Judge James III. Edmunds, postmaster
at Washington, DC. is dying with Bright's
disease Of the kidneys.
Rumors are current that an attempt
has been made on the life Of the Gar of Rus
sia while on his way to Moscow.
Secretary Evarts has telegraphed to
the Emperor of Russia the Presidents con-
gratulations on his escape from assassination
Caucuaes were held respectively by Re-
publican and Democratic members of con-
gress, Dec. Q, to interchange views and lay out
work for the session.
Hon. r. G. Parsons, of Cleveland, Ohio,
late member of congress has assumed full
control OF the Cleveland Daily Herald, having
purchased the entire interest of the paper.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
have appointed committee to cooperate
with committees of other commercial bodies
in making arrangements for the reception Of
Gen. Grant.
Hon. Samuel Reber of st. Louis, was
found dead in his bed at the Burnett house
! Cincinnati, on the afternoon of Dec 2. He
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-11
The Easy Times Great Warriors
Have.

Piah, one of the chiefs supposed to be
engaged in the present outbreak, has been
IN Washington. One cold day Gov. Me-
Cooke came into his Office and found Pr
all sitting by the stove. Thinking it
good chance to deliver lesson to the In
dian, he said; "Piah. why don't you Indi-
ans pillow and raise crops and build hous-
esq You ought to work. If you did,
you would not have to come here to Dor
row my fire, but you could buy FIRE of
your own. Why don't you work like
white menu" Piah Strengthened up at
once. "Me great warrior" said he. War
riors never pillow. Me go to Washington
and see John Grant" TIE Indians al
ways call Grant "John."l "John Grant
great warrior. He no work. He no pillow.
Me see John Grants squaw. She no
work, either too. Great warriors never
work. Tell yeu what do. You say to
John Grant he come. here and GO with
me. We go out and fight Rapahoes and
Cheyennes, and kin plenty braves, and
get plenty squaws. Then squaws work,
and me and John have good time. No
work-no plow-no nothing" Whether
the proposition was ever forwarded to
Grant we do not know.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-11
JAY GOULD.
TIE Personal Habits of the Conspicuous
millionaire.
st. Louis Republican.

TIE Personal Habits of the Conspicuous
millionaire.
St. Louis Republican.
Mr.. Gould's millions now crowd close to
those of Vanderbilt. He is a man of finer
texture than the old commodore's son. He
doesn't run to fine houses, costly stables and
blooded steeds. At night, when he dismieses
his operators from the telegraph Office in his
own house in Fifth avenue, and enters up in
little book the Geographic reports of the
receipts of the various railroads which he
owns, he does not go to club to carouse, to
banquet to steam up with champagne, or
to theater; he retires to the recesses of a
peaceful library, and, with his young sons
about him, reads the Latin classics, the
world forgetting, but not by the world for
got-by large majority. The next morn
ing early he has the telegraph doing light
ming service, and he is sending an electric
shock through Wall street IS soon as the
bulls and bears come into that field for pas
ture. Mr.. Gould is liberal man, although
| when he makes bequest he does not have
the information written in manifold
| and sent to all the newspapers. The first
news New York had of his gift to the Mem
rhis sufferers of $4,000 came from Mem
| phis, as did the news of the second gift of
| $4,000. Mr.. Gould, being a small man of
little physical prowess, is naturally not dis
posed to put himself recklessly in the way
of the horns of the bulls aud the claws of
the bears. There are some men in Wall
street, as Mr.. Gould has reason to know,
who wish to resent their losses with their
fists, and ore disposed to follow Mr.. Selover's
example and despatch him bodily down into
convenient area. Accordingly Mr.. Gould
keeps his Office guarded by stout Irishman,
who prevents the intrusion of visitors, and
he has usually private way to get out into
the street. He has, too, it is said. big Ital-
ian book keeper, who accompanies him on
many of his business trips about town, and
stands ready to protect his millionaire en-
DlOyer.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-11
The Way an Indian Girl Puts 1t.

"You never heard but one side. We
have no newspaper to tell our story. I
tell you the soldiers do things with the
prisoners or the dead as horrible as any
Indian could think of. Then your people
are almost always the aggressors. I tell
you a case know of. Two young white
men met an Indian with basket of pota-
toes. One of them said that he would
like to have it to say when he went back
to the East that he had shot an Indian.
The other dared HIM to shoot this one.
He drew revolver and shot him. The
Indian was an Omaha. Oh, tell you if
he had been Sioux or q Cheyenne you
would have heard from it. But we knew
we would gain nothing, and nothing was
DONE"
swell what do you propose to 6o?''
"Ipropose that you white people treat
us on q platform of plain honesty, and let
us be citizens. We now are farmers and
are doing we'll. We want to stay there
and want assurance that we can live like
other farmers. We have deposed the
chiefs and want to be just like any other
citizens of the State. The young lady IL
a daughter of White Eagle, thu old head
chief, and no blood but that of the Oma-
has flows in her veines.