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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-04
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10
An Old Sailor ON IA Vermont Farm.

HIS EXPERIENCE WITH ENsnAaE.
l opened my silo week ago. The pre-
seryation of the ensiage is perfect Every
animal ON the place, even to the pigs, took
hold and ate it greedily. The summer has
been so dry that have fed corn fodder since
July, and 1 had only enough left to fill one
silo, 20 by II feet and feet deep. Into
the other put the cornstalks, cut up, and
the cattle eat these all up clean. l have
learned a good deal since l commenced build
ing, and cutting up the corn. l had only
one horse, and wanted another for the horse
power. One Of my neighbors brought me
hard Hooking old mare, and said she was
splendid in a horse-power and so she was,
but she would not pull on Il wagon. Another
neghbor wanted to sell me a feed cutter,
and l took it on trial. II cut all right in the
small corn, but as soon as we struck the
large (some of which was inches in diane
ter and 10 feet high, it broke down. | then
put stone on what was in the silo, to stop
fermentation, aud sent to Boston for a Bald
win No. IA, costing 500. l then got new
one-horse power of A. W. Gray 4 Sons of
Middletown Springs, Vt, and after discharg
ing all the idlers Il had five men and four
horses), l fed the cutter myself, having one
man to cut in the field and boy and one
man to load and haul the corn. l think
have about so tons of onsilage whole cost
of putting it into silo, about $40.
This shows the cheapness of the whole
thing. For the silos used common stones
out of an old stone wall surrounding the barn
yard. Whole cost of mason work, SO; II
barrels lime, $10 3 barrels cement Cost Of
lumber and shingles for roof, $50. | have
two silos each % #. long, ~ wide and ;
deep, pointed with liuie mortar outside and
plastered inside with cement floor, well
banked up with earth outside. 1t has been
very wet the last month, but no water has
come in, and | cannot see but it answers the
purpose as well as q more expensive one. l
write this TO help the small farmers like my
self. | am an old sailor, and for Il long time
everybody who wanted to get clear of some
old trap would be sure to give me call
Fruit tree canvassers were always sure to get
an order for the first two years l was on the
farm. | do not think there is a farm in Yer
mont which has a greater variety of trees
and vines Con paper) than mine, but there
are no signs Of any fruit yet. They tell me 1
have set them too close, or not in proper
place. have been changing some trees and
vines to-day. Nevertheless we are happy
family. l do not have to 90 out behind the
barn now when l come home, for fear wife
will smell my breath. All the accursed stuff
that defileth, even to cider and tobacco, went
overheard when | tackled ship, heading for
blue water homeward bound. owe nearly
all | know about farming to your valuable
paper. Correspondent Country Gentleman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

A considerable acreage Of the plant has
been grown in New Hampshire this year on
small patches sown perhaps in most instances
to crafty curiosity rather than with any ex-
pectation of realizing profit from it. We
know, however, two or three farmers who
put in the seed with faith that it would pay
aud who have been to the expense of provid-
ing themselves with the machinery necessary
to extract the juice and convert it into strip.
One of these has made about three barrels of
sirup which he is selling in his neighborhood
for 10 cents per gallon. His judgment based
upon one years experience is that he can
make gallon of strip as cheap as he can
bushel of corn, and he intends to largely in
crease his production next year.
In many sections of the West sorghum
growing has become a prominent feature Of
farming, and our exchanges from that sec
ton devote much attention TO it aud general
ly testify that it pays. The variety raised in
the Northwest, and, as far as we know, in
this State, is the Early Amber, one which
grows rapidly and natures early There is
no more difficulty in growing it than in rails
ing corn, either as regards soil, culture, or
manure. Formerly, for it has been grown to
a limited extent in the West and South many
years, it was supposed that the juice would
only make sirup or uncrystallZed sugar; but
recent experiments have demonstrated that
at certain period the juice undergoes a
change, and that if the plant is cut at the
right time it will yield real sugar; and tax
ing advantage of this fact, Western farmers
time their harvesting so RS to secure the crop
when its juice will crystalize and make from
it large quantities of sugar
The necessary machinery for grinding the
stalks and evaporating the juice is not costly,
and the process of making strip is not diff
cult; but the chief trouble comes from lack
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10
NOTES.

A wire heated by galvanic current will
cut wood like a saw.
Corn stalks contain more potash than any
other fodder fed to cows
Pots containing flowers should be washed
pears.
Wyoming has lG7, $50 cattle and 332, SOS
sheep on her plains, while the human popula-
ton is 20, S0i.
TO make bale of cotton weighing 800
pounds, from / 600 to H. 500 pounds Of seed
cotton is required.
A farmer in Hill county, Texas, harvested
GOO acres Of broom corn, the past season,
which Melted $4,000.
The rain annually carries to the earth a
quantity of nitrate and ammonia equivalent to
three pounds per acre.
The rice crop Of Louisiana this year is es-
timated at $50, 600 barrels. Last years crop
amounted to 100, 600 barrels.
The most fertile farms in New England to-
day are, as a rule, those that are devoted to
stock and dairy farming.
When strawberry plants are set in rows
three feet apart and foot apart in the rows
it requires Il, 52O for an acre.
Sheep manure is much richer than that OF
cows. Practically it is estimated at nearly
double the value Of that of cattle.
Canadian farmers complain that tariff Of
but cents per pound on wool affords but lit
tie encouragement 10 grow merino sheep or
produce fne wool.
The largest sale for artificial fertilizers is in
the South Atlantic States, the lands which
have become impoverished by cotton and to
bacco culture.
Texas is importing large numbers of morino
sheep, the number imported during the past
season excelling that of any former season
during the past ten years.
A moderate quantity Of cayenne pepper,
mustard or ginger can with great benefit be
added to the food of fowls to increase their
vigor and to stimulate egg production.
+. NJ. Potter Of Kalamazoo, Mich, says
that he made thirty-two gallons of moasses
equal to the best New Orleans, from amber
sugar cane grown on one-tifth Of an acre.
1t is estimated that the manurial products
annually emptied into the river Thames by
the sewage OF Loudon, if applied to barren
soil, would impart to it a productive power
capable Of feeding $50, 900 people.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

Suppose machine should fail to perform
its work, and the owner, instead Of trying to
ascertain the cause Of failure and remedy it,
should conclude to run RICH, along and argue
that AS the machine had heretofore come
around all right it would soon be so again
II general and permanent break down
ensued could anybody be blamed but himself +:
Now, precisely this way do people act and ar
que when the "human machine is out of or
der. When the liver is torpid and bowels
constipated every one knows that DIR. Pierce 5
Pleasant Purgatve Pellets afford pronpt and
permanent relief. Yet some guess the ma
chine" will come around ali right, and do
nothing. Could any system of false reason
ing be more peulicious? Suppose the blood
be out of order and there be pimples, ulcers,
or running sores with scrofulous tumors
swellings and general debility, and those thus
affected should refuse TO use DR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, guessing that the
blood would purify itself, could any body be
blamed but themselves if general and per
manent break down Of health ensued No rem
edy yet known equals the Discovery in cur
ing all scrofulous throat, bronchial and lung
diseases. Sold by druggists.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

As in almost every other farm operation,
IN machinery is taking the place of hand labor
in drying apples, and the result is the sboli-
ton of those delightful gatherings and all
those blissful Accomplishments known as par
ing-bees, at which our fathers and mothers
did their counting. The shoe-knife, the long
darning- needle and the apple-frame no longer
constitute drying machinery, and their place
is filled by immense parers, cOrers, and slicers
run by steam power, and evaporators which
swallow up the fruit by the bushel As illus
trating the magnitude of the business of dry
ing fruit as now carried on, it is interesting
to note the fact that one firm at Rochester,
N. Y, dries 400 bushels every twenty -four
hours. Wiudfalls of good winter sorts are
used, for which the firm pays from 20 to 80
cents per 100 pounds. Twelve Hubbard par
ers and slcers, each of which requires two
girls to tend it, are used Before It is dried
the fruit is bleached in fumes Of burning sui
phur, which whiten il without affecting the
taste. Each evaporator holds thirty bushels,
yielding about five pounds of dried fruit per
bushel. About seven hours are required to
dry the apples. 1t is to be regretted that we
have not here in Vermont dozen establish
ments like the one at Rochester. for they
would save and turn into valuable property
thousands of bushels of fruit which will now
amount to nothing.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

can be obtained with little work Farmers
pillow and scrape a pond in some low place
and wait for the rain. The water does really
keep from stagnating and the stock-well,
don't suppose it fats them any, but they don't
die. A great many farmers have no shelter
for their cattle. Others have shed shelter
ed from the north wind, and some have no
better place for their horses. Very few have
barns or anything Of the sort. kansas sta
bles" are made by setting forkcd posts in the
ground long ones for the middle and shorter
ones for the sides, to give the shed slant,
poles are placed in the forks, and rails or
poles fastened to the ridge pole" project
over the lower poles, then rails are laid from
the ground to the lower poles and the whole
covered with hay. If windows" are needed
a hole can be made through the hay. Some
have fiat roof barely high enough for the
horses to stand. Such things seem outrage
Gus to Yankees" but the cattle and horses
live and do as well as any where East
Yours ''YANKEE"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

member Of the presidents cabinet, with the
same salary as secretaries of other depart
ments, and that this department be sustained
and encouraged by appropriations commensu-
rate with its Importance
"a. The enactment Of general railroad
law prohibiting all discrimination in favor Of
or against any class locality, or interest in the
transportation of passengers or freight; also
prohibiting excessive or exorbitant rates.
Sd. Such revision of the patent laws as
shall eiIectually protect the innocent purchas-
err or user of a patented article or implement,
and make the manufacturer or vender alone
responsible for violations of the law.
ith The immediate enactment of grad
uated income tax, to the end that all wealth
may bear its just and equal proportion of the
expenses Of government, and that productive
industry be so far relieved from the burdens
of taxation as shall be consistent with strict
justice to all.
RoSOlUod, That we will hold each senator
and representative in Congress responsible
for his action upon the subject-matter herein
set forth, and we pledge ourselves most cor
daily and earnestly invite every Patron and
every farmer in all our country TO unite with
US, to use our whole influence, both by word
and ballot, wholly regardless OF party ties
political associations, or personal connections,
to carry out the spirit of the foregoing reso-
lutions
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10
The Fertility OF the Soil Improved
by TilIaEe,

All of our cultivated plants have been
brought to their present state of perfection
by cultivation, having originated in wild
type presenting but little similarity to that
which is now cultivated by the farmer and
gardener.
This improved condition of plants is due
solely to the cultivation and tillage of the
soil. If we take piece of the richest land
and SOW upon it seed, without cultivating
and mellowing the soil, exposing it to the air,
the rain and the frost, the crop will degener-
ate far below the seed which was sown and
if sown the second time, it will still further
depart from the original seed and this
process, if continued, will give product lit
tie resembling the original seed. If we re-
verse the process, pillow and cultivate, we can
bring it back and even improve upon the
original.
What then is gained or lost by tilage
1illage is the key to the great store-house of
agricultural productions, unlocking the inert
matter in the soil, and changing it to the &C
tive and soluble. Water aud air are the uni
versal solvents nothing in existence can re-
sist their action. The atmosphere is never
uE1t Dul GOuLAlub hhLeI III hOlullOn, Ut
vapor; and in every 100 parts it contains
about 20 parts of oxygen. If we take piece
of iron and expose it to the air under ordinary
circumstances the air being moist it will rust
the iron the rust being an oxide, or COM
bination of the oxygen with the iron, and in
the course of time the iron will be completely
Tusted away or turned into oxide of iron, and
the water will carry it completely away.
In order to improve the soil, it must be
opened by tllage to the action of air and wa
ter; for it is law in agriculture that the
mechanical condition of the soil is an impor-
tant element of its fertility. Chemists say
that the soil contains three portions, the &C
tive or soluble the insoluble, and the dor
mant by tillage these are constantly chang
ing; the first is taken up as plant food, while
the action of air and water upon the latter are
changing them TO the active or soluable. This
fact has been clearly demonstrated by the
long continued experiments in England by
Lawes Gilbert in producing on the same
piece Of land, without manure, II bushels OF
wheat to the acre for 30 years.
Another illustration of this subject we have
in barren plain that has laid for years with
out producing but slight vegetation. Summer
till this barren land for few years and then
SOW clover, and a small crop will grow; pillow
this under, and SO continue, and it will in
crease from year to year in plant growth
from its own natural strength = or rather
by tillage it changes its chemical compost
ton.
If these conclusions are correctly drawn
farmers need the best implement possible tc
loosen and pulverize their plowed land. Who
among the many readers of this excellent pa
per will rise and tell what this implement is
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10
Agricultural.

I'VE invite farmers TO freer use q this depart
ment Of paper for the interchange Of ideas and
the communication Of such facts ae may be mutually
beneficial. Brief reports Of the discussions the
papers read at farmers meetings would be acceptable
II any OF the farmers Of Windham county, or any Of
the readers Of this paper, are making experiments
with ensilage, should be pleased TO have them re-
port the result for publication ia these columns Re
ports Of the sales Of FARMS pastures, woodots etc,
would be Of especial interest, II accompanied with
description Of property, giving price, location, num-
Der Of acres and IN case Of farm the condition Of
the buildings, the amount Of live stock which may be
kept through the summer and winter, the size and
condition Of the slgar orchard, II any, the quantity
of fruit, condition Of fences, etc. We would also like
reports OF the sales Of and other cattle with de-
scription and price.1
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

The l4th annual meeting of the national
grange closed on Saturday, Nov 27th, having
been in session ten days. The following res
olutions were adopted
ResOlDed, That the National Grange of the
Patrons of Husbandry most respectfully yet
earnestly request of Congress
LIST. That the commissioner of agriculture
be made the secretary of agriculture and a
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

If any of the readers of the original matter
on this side of the paper notice language as
ridioulously nlisused as the word adversely"
in the article on Taxation, in late number,
we hope they will be charitable enough to be-
lieve it an error of the types. 1t should read
absundity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

In the dental ranks will never II you are parc-
ular with your teeth and cleanse them every day with
that famous tooth-wAsh, SOZODON1. Prom youth 60
old age will keep the enamel spotless and unmpair-
ed The teeth Of persons who use SOZODONT haye
pearl-bke whiteness and the gums rosrAte hue,
while the breath is purified and rendered sweet and
fragrant. II is composed OF rare Antiseptic herbs
and is entirely free from the Objectionable and uuri
Gus in rodents Of tooth pastes, etc.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

Prof. L. NJ. Hale, author Of "MAtcriA Medica New
Remedies" professor at Chicago Medical college, re-
commends Coca for bad taste III the mouth, furred
coated tongue dryness Of the mouth on waking, de-
bility Of the digestive organs collie, constipation, in
efectuAl urging 20 stool, and hAtuleuey
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10

A Coon ISvEsTMKSI.-One Of our prominent bust
ness men said to us the other day: an the spring
my wife got all run down, and could not eat anything
Passing your store saw pile OF Hoods SarsApArillA
IN the window, and got a bottle After she bad tax
it week she had rousing appetite, aud 1t did her
everything. She took three bottles, and 1t Was the
best three dollars ever invested c. 1. HooD Co.,
Lowell, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-10
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