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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

DESTROY THE WEEDS BEFORE THEY
SEED.-At this season of the year farmers
are generally crowded with field work
and unless great care is exercised, many
things about the farm will be neglected.
There are few more repusive sights about
a farm, than garden overgrown with tall
noxious weeds. 1t Is matter of economy
as well rs neatness that these weeds be
destroyed before they mature their seeds
and they become scattered over the ground.
One weed allowed to go to seed ut this
season, will make great many weeds
next year, aud it is clearly to be seen that
unless care IS taken to prevent it, II little
negligence now will cause much trouble
another year. A few hours each week
spent in the gardens with cultivator and
hoe will be sufficient to prevent this evil
and the time, taken at odd spells when
there is little else to be done, will hardly
be missed. 1t is not practicable to entire
! ly eXterminate the weeds from garden,
but if a little care is exercised in prevent
ing them from going to seed, great deal
will be done in that direction. A well
managed kitchen garden,wi help greatly
to reduce the current expenses of af amilt,
but ut this season of the year it must not
be neglected or the weeds will soon be-
come the chief occupants of the soil. A
quarter of an acre of garden as some are
managed, will grow more weeds that ten
acres of farm land. Fence corners are
also apt to be neglected. When II crop of
gmss or grain has been removed from "a
field, the fences and fence corners should
be moved out with scythe. This will
add greatly to the appearance of farm
and many weeds will be prevented from
scattering their seeds TO adjacent fields
md farms.-CorreSpondent, in Rural New
Yorker.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

july 2S.-Washing-day on Monday
always makes very busy day. for there
is the cleaning up and generally sweeping
to be done also. Since | have been doing
without a girl, have had Mrs. Balligan
TO do my washig, ironing and scrubbing.
She washes and scrubs on Monday and
irons on Tuesday afternoon, for she cannot
come in the morning, and ironing is such
clean work that do not care.
| learned two things from Mrs. Balligan
to-day. had got some oil off from the
machine on piece of muslin had inst
finished for the wash, and when | put it
in told her TO wash it out as well as she
could, then lay it on the grass to bleach
Give me little lard and baking soda
and can take it all out" she said. And
she did, Just by rubbing the stains well
with lard and soda.rubbing it well in. AfteI
letting it lie awhile, she washed the
muslin in hot suds, and by the time it had
been boiled, rinsed and dried | could moi
have found the places that had been stain
ed.
Some time ago bought some starch
polish from man who was around selling
it. 1t proved to be very good, giving u
good gloss to the articles and not sticking
TO the iron. used the last of it last week
and when | Was making the starch thi,
morning l said that | wished the mar
would come around again.
81 wish you would just try some kero
sene," said Mrs. Balligan. 81 know you
would like it. have used it for long
time, and it's the best of anything | ever
tried"
She takes home washing and has grea
many shirts to do up, 50 | knew hel
experience was worth something. She
used one tablespoonful to about two quart,
of starch, and it is so convenient, for it i!
something one always has in the house
| really never saw starched clothes iron
nicer. ironed one of Bafton's linen
vests before dinner, Sd he could have it
for this afternoon, and it was really ,
pleasure to do it.-ILS. EHdic0H's JourHa
in RurdL NelU YORKER.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

Rural" of the Chicago TT i6une, writing
from Champaign Co., H., says: In this
and surrounding counties the yield of
wheat has been astonishing. Yields that
before cutting were guessed at fifteen
bushels go thirty, and forty bushels is no
unusual yield. There was probably 10000
acres of wheat grown in this county,
which, it is safe to say, will yield an aver
age of twenty bushels. This means 300
900 bushels of wheat, multiplied by 80 or
80 cents per bushel-the present price
rhe great good that this large sum of
money will do the farmers cannot be
computed, 1t enlivens all branches of
business and creates large stock of con-
fidence in the future. In some cases the
crop is worth u good deal more than the
land. The only thing 10 be avoided is in
going to an extreme, and by sowing too
much this fall, have high hopes dashed by
IL failure next year. The crop has been
remarkably free from rust and insects; in
fact, it is perfect.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

THE STOMACH OF A HoRsE.--The horses
stomach has Il capacity of only sixteen
quarts, while that of an OK has two hun.
dred and fifty. In the intestines this
proportion is reversed the horse having a
capacity of one hundred and ninety quarts,
against one hundred of the OK. The OK
and most other ANIMALS have Il gall-bIad-
der for the retention of Il part of the bile
secreted during digestion. The horse has
none, and the bile flows directly into
the intestine rs fast as secreted This
construction of the digestive apparatus
indicates that the horse was formed to eat
slowly and digest continually bulky and
innutritous food. When fed on hay, it
passes very rapidly through the stomach
into the intestine. The horse can eat but
five pounds of hay in an hour, which is
charged, during mastication, with four
times its weight of saliva. Now, the
stomach, TO digest it well will contain but
about ten quarts, and when the animal
eats one-thicd of his daily ration, of seven
pounds, in one and one-half hours, he has
swallowed at least two stomachfuls of
hay and saliva,one of these having passed
to the intestine. Observation has shown
that the food is passed to the intestine bv
the stomach in the order in which it is
received. If we feed horse six quarts of
oats, it will just fill his stomach and if as
soon as he finishes this we feed him the
above ration of seven pounds of hav he
will eat sufficient in thlee.quarters Of an
hour to have forced the oats entirely out
of his stomach into the intestine. As il is
the Office of the stomach TO digest the
heterogeneous parts of the feed, and as u
stomachful of oats contains four or five
times rs much of these as the same amount
of hay, it is certain that either the stomach
must secrete the gastric juice five times rs
fast which is hardly possible. or it must
retain this food five times as long. By
feeding the oats first, it can only be retain
ed long enough for the proper digestion
of hay ;consequently,it seems logical, when
feeding a concentrated food like hay. to
feed the latter first, giving the grain the
whole time between the repasts to be
digested.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

The potato bug, after having for three
years been destructive pest, now seems
likely to degenerate into comparatively
harmless insect. A parasite has shown
itself this year which devours the eggs Of
the bugs at a rate which puts Paris green
to the blush, and probably in another veal
or two the ravages of the ill-famed D0ry.
pohra decemlineata will need no laborious
and dangerous modes of guarding against
-MtddIe6ury Register.
Glad to hear it. They have never been
rs thick and destructive with us as thi,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

Speaking of corn. We saw another phe-
nomenon in the garden of friend, the
like of which we never saw before. aud
for which we can give no reason. This
was piece Of corn, little more than a
rod square, planted from seed of his own
raising last year. 1t came up well, made
a rank, rapid growth, and is all tasseled
out; but en- the whole plat, not a sign OF
an ear. no suckers, but grows up like
broom corn. 1t is rather thickly planted,
but that reason would have left ears on
the outside hills. This seems case OF
what DR.. Sturtevant calls barren stalks.
with vengeance.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13
TOO GREAT A BuRDFN.

Last week an old farmer friend of the
writer's had his farm sold from under his
feet, and at the age of tifty-five years he
is turned out upon the world penniess,
with debt of eleven hundred dollars still
hanging back, and with a large family to
support. There is valuable lesson in
every such occurrence as this, and we be-
lieve an agricultural journal can do its
readers no greater service than to present
these lessons in their most impressive
light, whenever possible. We have been
able to get at some of the facts in this case,
and possibly the cause of the failure can
be ascertained.
Before the war our bankrupt friend pos
sessed one hundred and sixty acres of
land. 1t was all paid for. and he was re-
alizing small but sure profit every year,
mostly from sheep and wool. The advance
had the same effect upon him us upon
thousands of others. He saw an opportu-
nifty to become rich in Il short time. He
bought more land and stocked it with
sheep, going heavily in debt for both land
and sheep. For the next ten years times
were flush, money plenty, and as his credit
was good, he had no difficulty in obtaining
all the money he wanted and in retaining
all he borrowed. He, seemingly, lost all
his former prudence, and plunged reck-
lessly into schemes of speculation. lie
built Il magnificent house, tore down the
old barn and erected splendid new one,
and his carriage and equipment was the
envy and admiration OF his less fortunate
neighbors. Seemingly, he had taken, at
the flood, that tide in the affairs of men
which leads to fortune. But a day of
reckoning was at hand. The foundation
ne built upon was not secure. He failed
TO take in his sails before the storm came.
and when it passed, his vessel was u mis-.
cradle wreck.
1t appears from an investigation Of his
affairs, that our friend had given his notes,
secured by mortgage, or$l1, 225, and had
borrowed on personal security, Sl,l00
more, making in all Sl2,325 on which he
was paying ten per cent interest. His
taxes were $500 Il year, and his expenses
probably $4,000. To meet all this he must
have an income of 1882, and it must
come from four hundred acres of land In
the flush times, even, it is doubtful
whether this sum could be realized from
that amount of land 1t is certain that
under our friends management it fell
Considerably short, and the debt grew sen
sibly larger, year by year, until the crisis
came, when everything he possessed, under
diminished values, was not sufficient to
wipe it out.
The curious part of this episode is, our
friend attributes all his mislorlunes to the
government. Resumption, and contrac
-. 81, y,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

The hedge, when its size is sufficient to
protect, is Il drain upon the value of the
field. They shade the surface and impov-
erish the soil by their roots. Hon. +
Cornell. an eminent New York agricultur-
al authority, in 1862 declared, HIS the result
of personal observation and inquiry. that
hedges destroy the value of land for sew
eral feet OH each side, by the exhaustion
of the roots"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

suffered more than others,-notably that
which now is smallest is on the part on
the old land where the frost pInched the
hardest.
The questions now presented to US seem
10 be-Is India wheat an extraordinarily
exhaustive crop. or has it any quality
which makes it Objectionable as a crop
preceding corn? and, second. whether
corn which is cut down when small, will
never come to any satisfactory growth?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13
agricultural department.
o. N. TIEKHAM, Editor.

All communications for this department should be
sent to the editor. Mr.. o. N. TINKHAM. n. Pom
fret. VT.
Please write side Of the oply, sign such
name initials as you wished published. but give
your FULL NAME AND ADDRKss post office, County and
State.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13
SANFORD'S JAMAICA GINGEF
MILLIONS
ELECTRIFIED!

Science holds the lightning in her hand. What was
the terror of millions is the minis tering
angel Of other millions. What killed now curse
ELECTRICITY, as grand curative and restorative
agent, is not equaed by any other element or medi
cine in the history of the healing art. Unless the
vital spark has fed the body restoration by means Of
electricity is possible. 1t is the last resort of all phys
clans and surgeons in suspended animation and has
sccceeded in restoring muscular action and life when
the breath had apparently left the body The value of
this great element In the treatment of such diseases
Rheumatism, Paralysis, st. vtus' Dance Illumination
of the Kidneys, ETC., remains unquestioned by the
highest Medical authorities But how apply 1t to any
part of the body continuously conveniently and
nomically? The invention Of COLLINS VOLTAIC
PLASTER meets this great popular want furnish
es electricity to millions of unhappy invalids in SO
perfect to challenge the admiration Of the
medical faculty. COLLINS voLTAIC PLAsTERS con-
sis tot silver add zinc plates attached
er and imbedded in highly Medicated Plaster, For
Local Pains, Lameness Soreness, Numbnees Weakness
and Inflammation of the Lungs Liver Kidneys leen
Bowels Bladder Heart, and Muscles. Collins Voaic
Plasters are the speedy safe. and effective rene
dy offered the afflicted and warranted super
to every other plaster before the public Price, %
cents. Sold by all Wholesale and Retail Druggists
Throughout the United States aud Canadas, and by
WEEKS POTTER, Proprietors, Boston. Ask for
and Insist upon having
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13
TRA1NsGoING NoRTHA AND WEST.

Leave Montpelier at3 30 asa. M, I3O and $50. SD
p.
A. NJ via Lowell 500 A. NJ New London 800 A NJ .
Springfield soOA NJ: Montpelier 6OP. M, for Bur-
lington St Abans, Montreal. and OxdensburR.
ACCOMMODATIONS Train leaves Northteld at $50 A. g,
Montpelier 845 A NJ, for Burlington, Rutland, st
Adams, st. Johns and Rtchford
MIXED leaves White River Junction 30A.M. North
6eId 10 20 NJ, arrives at Montpelier IL % p. NJ.
Saratoga Express from White Mountains leaves
Montpelier II 9OA for St Adams Burlington. Rut-
INSTRUMENTATION leaves White River Junction 155
NJ, Montpelier 555 P. NJ for Burlington Rutland and
st. Adams
NJ via FitchburRh 500 p. NJ, New York 90 p. NJ
Springfield 500 NJ, Montp eer 30 for Buring-
ton, st. Adams, Montreal and OgdensburH, and the
West.
Trains cave MONTH elierfor Barre 90 A. NJ 1OOO
A NJ and4 30 P. NJ.
5.20PM
Sleeping cars are attached to Night Express trains
running between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal
aud Springfield, and New York and via, Troy, and
Parlor Cars and Day Express between Boston and
Montreal.
Paror Cars are attached to express trains between
White Mountains and Saratoga Springs
Through tickets for Chicago and the Weston sale at
the principal stations - ,.
Genl Supt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13
Central Vermont R. R. Lime.
Commencing Monday, July 7. 1879.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.

Iaave MONTPELIER at las A. M O5, 700 and 90 P NJ
White Mountains Express from Syracuse and OV-
densburg st Adams aud Burlington arrives at Mont
MAIL TRAIN from Montreal, st. Adams, Burling-
ION &c leaves Montpelier ll45 A. NJ, for Boston,
New London, Springfield. New York. and inter
mediate points. -,
Montpeer % p. for Boston via Lowell, also Bel
lows Falls aud BrattleborO
Rutland and Buringt ton &c. arrives at Montpelier a
Pm,
l9P M Montpelier Ol P. NJ for North6ed
Nta9r EXPREss from OgdenshurH, Montreal 81. Al
bans aud Burlington leave Montpelier at sWP NJ for
Boston via Lowell or Fitchburgh, Springfield New
York and int ermediate points.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

Here is something from the Ohio Farm
or which we print, not because such in
stances are so rare as to be curiosity, but
because it sets forth in true, simple light
the reason (Which many are diligently
seeking in Il most profound and laborious
Way for the hard times many are expe-
riencing:
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-03-13
Rules for the Care of Sheep.

Western Rural.
The following good rules for the
care of sheep we find floating round
without credit. The writer, evident
Iy, understands how to take care OF
sheep, and every farmer who keeps
sheep-as most farmers should. at
least few-ought to paste these Sim
pie rules upon his stable door, that
himself and hands may see them Of
ten, and adhere to them strictly:
Keep the sheep dry under foot with
litter-is even more necessary than
roofing them. Never let them stand
or lie in mud or snow.
Take up lamb bucks early in the
Summer, and keep them up until De-
cember, when they may be turned
out.
Remove the lower bars as the sheep
enter or leave the yard, thus avoid
ing broken limbs. Count them every
day.
Begin gaining with the greatest
care. and use the smallest quantity
first.
Ifs eve loses a lamb, milk daily a
few days and mix little alum with
her salt.
Let no hogs eat with sheep.
In weaning lambs, use a little mill
feed.
Never frighten sheep If you can
avoid it.
Sow rye for weak ones in cold wealth
er.
In the Fall separate the weak, thin
or sick from the strong, and give ex-
ira care.
If one is hurt, catch at once; wash
the wound if in fly time apply spir-
its of turpentine daily; always wash
with something healing. Splinter
broken limbs tightly, loosening as the
limb swells.
Keep a number of good bells on
them.
Don't let them spoil wool with
burrs.
Cut tag looks in early Spring.
For scours give pulverized alum in
wheat bran. Prevent by taking great
care in changing from dry to green
food.
If lame, examine feet, clean out
hoofs pare hoofs. If unsound, and
apply tobacco boiled with vitrol, in a
little water.
If the weather is not too cold, shear
at once sheep beginning to shed, and
carefully save peIts of those that die.
Have some good book on sheep to
refer to. 1t will put money in thy
purse.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-03-13
Robinson CrusOe's Island.

A late visitor to the Juan Fernan-
dez Isles, describes thus the island
made famous by De Foes celebrated
romance:
Finding, to our delight, a very
clear and beautiful morning, we were
ready for the boat to take us on shore
by eight O'Clock. We found a nice
landing place, with a few houses close
by the shore. The gentleman who
leases the island from the Chilian
Government, Alf de Rode-an enter
prising Swiss-met US on the mole,
aud very cordially invited US to his
house and gave US some fresh milk
and bread, as the morning air had
sharpened our appetites. He then
said he would go with us to see the
cave where Alexander Selkirk (the
original Of Robinson Crusoe) lived so
long. When We arrived there beau
tiful lunch was set before us, compos-
ed of various viands, wines, fruits,
etc., while there was nice cool water
close by, making it altogether lovely.
After an hour or so spent in exam
lining the far famed locality, we took
our leave, we'll pleased with our visit.
NJ. de Rode has leased the entire Is
land for period of eight years. and
is stocking it with cattle with which
to supply passing vessels or ship to
the mainland. Fine feed abounds,
and there is an ample supply of fresh |
water. Wild goats are abundant, and
many are consumed by the natives for
food, the skins being handed over to
the prOprietor.-FFthnsfe are also great
number of fine fish in the surround
ng waters The highest part of the
sland is abont 5000 feet high. The
scenery is varied and exceedingly
The climate is tropical.
md life in such place. although of
necessity very isolated, must still pos
ess all the romantic charm which
brewer invests the far off summer
sles of the Pacific ocean,
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-03-13
A Story That may be True.

A correspondent of the Hartford
Times relates that as Mrs. Isadore
Middleton, of Mobile, Ala, was ia
her bedroom, in the absence of her
husband, putting away some jew"lry
she noticed that a lamp in the back
part of the room had thrown the
shadow of a man, who was crouch
ing under the eenter>table; on the
floor at her feet. Instead of fainting
with fear or shrieking for help, the
brave woman seated herself at the
very table under which the misore-
ant was concealed, and rang for the
servant. Bridget said she, with
calmness, I want you to take a note
to Mr.. Forfar, the jeweler, and have
him send you back with my diamond
necklace and ear drops, which left
there for repairs. 1 do not wish to
pass another night without having
Them The note was written, but,
instead of being in the tenor that she
had sigDified, it was a hasty note to
the jeweler, an intimate friend, in
which she stated her position, and
urged him to hasten to her relief with
police assistance. At last came the
ring at the doorbell, and she strobe
carelessly into the hall and down
stairs and opened Ii. The ruse had
been a success. She not only admit
ted Bridget, but also Mr.. Forfar and
three policemen. The latter passed
stealthiIy up stairs and into the cham
ber, where they pounced upon the
concealed burglar so unexpectedly as
to secure him with hardly struggle.
The prisoner proved to be a negro
criminal named Chapman, but mostly
known as 'Two-fingered jeff He
was in great request about that time
for several rOberies, and is now serv-
ing a twenty years sentence in the
Alabama State Prison.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-03-13
POis0ns and AntidOtes.

Although we have published this
list of poisons and antidotes, as we
continually hear of deaths among
children, who are apt to tamper with
medicine bottles, we repeat its publi-
cation, and would advise every moth
er to paste the list in some "handy"
place, where she can refer to it at a
moments warning.
Acids.-These cause great heat and
sensation Of burning pain from the
mouth down to the stomach. Rene.
dies Magnesia, soda, pearlash, or
soap dissolved in water. Then use the
stomach pump or emetic.
Alkalies.-Best remedy is vine
gar.
Neutrality-suspicious. juice
or vinegar.
Alcohol.-First cleanse out the stom-
aeh by an emetic, then dash cold wa
ter on the head and give ammonia
(spirits of hartshorn).
Arsenic.-In the first place evacu-
ate the stomach. then give the white
of eggs, lime water, or chalk and wa
ter, charcoal and the preparations of
iron, particularly hydrate.
Lead, white lead, and sugar of lead.
-Remedies-Alum, carthartic, such
as castor oil, and Epson salts especi-
ally.
Charcoal.-In poisons by carbonic
acid gas remove the patientt to open air,
dash cold water on the head and body
and stimulate the norstriIs and lungs
by hartshorn, at the same time rub
bing the chest briskly.
Corrosive Sublimate.-Give white
ofeggs freshly mixed with water, or
give wheat flour and water, or soap
and water freely.
Creosote.-White of eggs and the
emetics.
Belladonna might henbaue) Give
emetics, and then give plenty of wa
ter and vinegar, or lemonade.
Mushrooms (when poisonous).-|
Give emetics. and then plenty of
vinegar and water, with doses of eth
er if handy.
Nitrate ofSilver Qunar oaustic).-
Give a strong solution of common
salt, and then emetics.
Snake bites, ETC. Apply immedi-
ately strong hartshorn, and take it
internally; also give sweet oil and
freely; apply a ligature
right above the part bitten, and then
apply cupping glass.
Tartar emetics. Give large doses of
tea made of CALLS Peruvian bark, or
white oak bark.
sVerdigris.-Plenty of white of eggs
and water.
White vitrol.-Give the patient
plenty of milk and water
Opium.-First give strong emetic
of mustard and water, then strong
coffee and acid drinks; dash cold wa
ter on the head.
Nux vomica.-First emetics, then
brandy.
Oxolic Acid Frequently mistaken
for Epson salts).-Remedies-
or soap and water and 9TH
or soothing drinks.
Prnssic acid.-When there is time
cholorine in the shape of
soda or lime. Hot brandy and water,
and turpentine are also
useful.