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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-07
Mt PHOENIX, FRIDAY, MAY T. 1880


If the tools have not been overhauled let il
be done Immediately, and il any repairs must
be made, do il now and il new ones have got
to be purchased, do it the first time you go to
the village or city, so you will have them
when you want them, and not be obliged to
make trip on purpose some day when you
want to be using them.
The cellar under the house should be given
air and thoroughly cleaned Of all decaying veg
etables, for these are often great source of i'll
health in the farmers family where practical
BILE it is a good plan to give the walls and
ceiling good withdrawing.
The front yard needs care-more than it re-
ceives from the majority of farmers. Clean
it up remove all old trash that has accumula-
ted, set out few more trees and shrubs,
and get ready good sized flower bed, to con-
tain good supply of Towering plants the
coming season.
Pasture fences should be repaired before
any stock is turned out, and, while about it,
repair them up well, and do not leave any
weak places for the weakest part must
stand the strain"
BY all means set ont few trees. If you
have got row of trees the whole length Of
the road against your farm, set row on the
line, between your farm and your neighbours
farm. They will be very ornamental as well
as useful. BY setting them twelve feet apart,
in a very few years they can be made use of
for fence posts and by using them for this
purpose the fence will not he tumbing down
every two or three years. Maple, chestnut,
butternut or some such trees should be used
for this purpose, as they will serve two pur-
poses, viz. For fence posts, and the maple
will give sugar, the other nuts A few fruit
trees onght also to be set out every year. and
some of the trees that are already in bearing
probably do not produce fruit that is desira.
BILE all such should be grated this spring
with better varieties, and you Will be well
pleased with the change.
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Butter Making Begin. at the stable

The best butter maker in the world will
fail to get tirst-quality butter if the cows are
MIXED in a dirty stable. 1t is not long ago
that New Jersey farmer asked me how he
could best market his butter, which he said
was exceedingly good. He enlarged upon
his high grade Attorneys and the quality of
his pastures and water Afterwards / went
out to see COW l wanted to buy, and he sat
down ut milking time to let me judge of her
flow. certainly never saw a dirtier pail of
milk. Specks of dirt, dust, dandruff, hairs,
etc, etc, peppered the top, and swashed
about on the bottom as the pail was emptied
He got only Is or 20 cents for his butter, and
l think it was worth no more. Does not this
filth flavor the milk, the cream and the but
ter? Most assuredy it does, This is only
obvious filth the invisible and more potent
volatile exhalations from the manure and the
urine saturated floors, and all the malodorous
surroundings of most cow stables, usually
have a still greater influence. When milk is
once contaminated, nothing can be done
which will entirely do away with the effect.
Part of the evil may be removed by thorough
airing Of the milk as it is cooled before set
ting. Shallow setting no doubt favors the
removal of these odors, and aeration during
churning has an important effect. But, here,
as in many other things, the fountain head is
the spot at which reform should be COM
menced.
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Westminster West, w., April 80, IS

VERMONT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. We
publish to-day the concluding one of Prof,
Atwater's series of articles giving the results
of the experiments with commercial fertiliz-
ers conducted during the past two years in
various parts of the State under the auspices
of the State Agricultural College. To our
new readers this article may not be of special
interest but the series as Il whole has been
OF great practical value giving the farmers
of the State the results of such experiments
AS few individual farmers would feel like I'M
dertaking for themselves. Copies of the TIA
bles, which accompanied articlef No. and 3,
summarizing the actual results of the expert
ments, can be obtained at this Office, if de-
sired.
President Buckham gives notice that ap-
plications will be received from boys desiring
to compete for the corn and potato prizes up
to May 18th.
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Mr.. Editor:-''J. T. W., whom you quote
from the New England Farmer, has an expe-
rience with sheep in his Weathersfeld pas
lure that differs from mine. l bought pas
lure in West Westminster in 1869. For five
years l kept only COWS in it and it held its
own, but made no gain. In the spring of
1919 put in about sixty sheep, and from
that time the keeping capacity of the pasture
has increased at the rate of one COW, or about
ten sheep in year, There has been nothing
done to improve it except keeping sheep, and
they have no grain while they are at pasture.
How much further the improvement will go
remains to be seen. l do not expect the
sheep to do the work of breaking up
team, or a man with bush scythe," but
when the man has done his work the sheep
will do something to keep down the bushes.
ID. GODDARD.
Westminster West Vt, April 80, 1880.
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University Of vermont and state Agri
cultural College.


In this article and others to follow, Prof. Atwater
aims to draw from the field experiments superintend
ed by the University, lessons on the value and
use Of fertilizers n Vermont. Iii hoped
that many farmers will md herein to ques
lions which they asking. Questions on which fur-
ther Information is desired may be addressed to me-
and answer will be made either in future articles or
NJ II. BUcKuAM, President
SHALL VERMONT FARMERS RAISE MORE CORN P
FERTILIZERS FoB CORN.
It is said that many of even the smaller
towns in Vermont expend from twelve to
eighteen thousand dollars annually for West
ern corn. Whether these figures are accurate
or not, it is certain that we buy a vast deal of
corn and that it would be much to our advan-
tage if we could riase it cheaply at home.
With q cheap and effective manure this could
done But our farms do not furnish manure
enough and we have to look outside.
Various artificial fetilizers have been pro-
posed for corn. Mr.. Lawes the famous
English experimenter, from results obtained
during thirty years of costly experimenting,
recommends as 1.-THE best possible manure for
the cereals, wheat, rye, oats, etc, inluding
corn, "a mixture of nitrate of soda and super
phosphate" NJ. Vile, of France, and Prof
Stockbridge of the Massachusetts, Agricultural
College, have proposed formulas of which the
ingredients aud costs per acre are as below,
the prices being reckoned at current market
rates. Viles formula is fitted to the assumed
requirments of the crop from the SOIL while
Prof. Stockbridge's formula furnishes the
amounts of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and
potash which he calculates to be contained in
a crop of 30 bushels, including corn and sto-
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A horse will not bite a crib made of hem
lock lumber, nor will rats mice or other YER
min gnaw throughit.
Mr.. Samuel Mosley of Hall Place, Tonbridge,
England, has goose which on the nth of
March laid an egg weighing sixteen ounces.
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Do you know that there are strange people in oul
community; We say strange, because they seem L
prefer to suffer and pass their days mseraby, mad
SO by Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, Indigestion
Constipation and General Debility, when SHILOHt
VITALIzER is guaranteed to cure them. Sold bl
II. c. Willard Co.
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JUST OPENED,
Al ---
|. HAWLEY' $,

DOLMANS at 1875, 1880, H.
90, 400, 1900, 1900.
ULSTERS--NeW COaChman
CuD---at $685., $50, $50, 800,
1000 4 1900.
ENGLISH WALKING JACK
ETS, S., 10 4 II. First LOT Of
low priced ones sold out, EX-
peCt another lot at $685. 4 $50.
CIRCULARS, $3.50, ), 0 4 10.
Special Bargain at S..
LINEN LISTERS, 1925, 200,
2.25.
BLACK DRAP D'ETE for Dol
mans, $t2j, rs, 2,25,
JET ORNAMENTS for Dol
mans, SOC, 7jc, 81, t@.
Elegant Black PRINCES for
DOlmanS, 8jc, $1.25, $50.
CHENILLE SHAWLS, $3.50, 3
& I.2j. The most desirable
combinations ever offered.
BLACK THIBET SHAWLS,---
Square and Long.
NEW WOOL SHAWLS, $3.50
to 1,25. Special bargain in
square bay State" full size,
at 50. Lot of Striped ShaWlS,
6Oc. PaiSleyS, long 4 square,
S. to 81. India Stripes, long
and square, S. TO p.
NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN La
CES, 20, p, 30 & 4jc, and an
unusually fine, beautiful pat
tern at 9jC.
NOTTINGHAM LACE BED
SPREADS, PILLOW SLAMS,
LAMBREQUINS & TIDIES---Gt-
tractiVe styles and prices.
CRETONNES for Lambre-
quinS, Drapery Curtains and
Furniture Covering. New de-
signs and cOlOringS in both
American and Foreign goods.
Have a new CretOnne FRINGE
which is very handsome.
In WORSTED DRESS FAB
RIGS, BUNTINGS & LAWNS, the
assortment is now the largest
and most complete which will
be offered this season. Have
more novelties i'm rich and
medium goods than are uSu-
ally found anywhere outside
the city.
Large and varied aSSOrtm I
new styles in DRESS BUTTONS.
Have choicest new things as
fast as they are put upon the
New York market.
BUNTING FRINGE" very
desirable for WOrSted goods.
All the new cOlOrS.
Headquarters for EmbrOi-
derieS. All prices, from &c to
$50 per yd.
LADIES' CHEMISE, DRAW
ERS,NIGHT-DRESSES 4 SKIRTS
made on lOck-StitCh machine.
Spring styles in HOSIERY,
GLOVES 4 MITTS.
Special Job i'm Hem-Stitched
DKERCHIEFS at IL ~ cts.
Finest goods ever sold at that
price.
FANCY RIBBONS, PLAIN RIB
BONS, SATIN RIBBONS, SASH
RIBBONS, CORSETS, BLACK
CHANTILLA LACES, WHITE
TORCHON, NALENCIENNES and
BRABANT LACES, NECK RUCH-
ING, KID GLOVES, SILK HAND
KERCHIEFS, and small wares.
Atwood BLACK CASHMERE,
4Sin., SOC yd. Special bargain
in extra fine 40in. Cashmere at
Soc.
LACE BUNTING, 15c, all cOIOrS.
FRENCH BUNTING, 81 & 81.
SPRING SKIRTS at IS, 80, 60,
75c, Fl, LES, l.5O, LIS, ,, 2.95.
CALICO WRAPPERS.
TABLE LINENS, NAPKINS,
QUILTS, and WHITE GOODS.
complete assortment, lowest posi-
BILE prices.
Turkey-red Tabling and COlOred
Wool Spreads.
CheviOt Shirtings, TickingS, De.
MINIS, GinghamS, Prints, Bleached
Il Brown COttOns, at lowest prices.
Just opened, one case 24OO yards
MERRIMACK PRINTS In rom.
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SHAKERS
SARSAPARILLA
a wonderful Medicine for ImpuritIei
Of the Blood.

shakers Sarsaparia cleauses the blood Of scrofula
aud all other impurities, eXcitcs the appetite. regu-
lates the stomach and bowels and increases the flesh
II prevents weakness and degeneration Of the liver
kidneys aud urinary organs. II is a mothers remedy,
regulating and Strengthening the maternal functions
purhes the female system Of Lucrative weaknesses
and facilitating humors, and e1pels the hrst symp-
toms " hereditary humors in children and youth. II
II truly wonderful In nervous and general debility,
emacation and dropsy iuyigorating and strengthen
lug both the mental and physical forces.
Drdr Sir.-In answer to your inquiries concerning
the Compound syrup Of Sarsaparia, as prepared by
the Society Of shakers in Canterbury, n. H. / would
say that have been familiar with the prescription,
and have always recommended II from my personal
knowledge OF those concerned in its preparation,
which to me Is proof that 1t is just what purpOrts
to be- DIXI CROSBY, MD,
LAWRENCE Jan. 10. 1880.
n. A. BRIGOs, Esq; Dear Sri have sold "Cor-
years and consider to be- the most reliable prepare
ton Of sarsapariA syrup in the market. My opinion
Is based partly upon the reputation Of the mAnufAc-
turers and partly upon testimony Of those Of my
customers who have used 1t. Yours very truly,
CHARLES CLARKE, Druggist.
This truly great medical compound, invented by
DR.. Thomas Corr EFT, member Of Society, was
the first wen the best Of all remedies called Sar-
saparia, 81 which bear any comparison to II in
the variety quality and quantity Of its ingredients.
Druggists warrant as genuine every bottle bearing
the signature Of Thos. Corbett.
Inquire for COrbetts shakers SArsApArilla.
In behalf Of the Society,
NICHOLAS A. BRIGGsl
JOSEPH WOODS, Trust.es.
SHAKER VILLAGE, y. H., Jan. l, 1880
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The aged and inhrm are strengthened Aad fAcul-
ties frightened by Malt Bittera.
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Thompson q Rangers Block.

John G. Haynes & Co.,
SO COURT STREET, BOSTON.
Musical Boxes in Great Variety,
Brass Band Instruments.
Violins.
American Guitars, Warranted.
Imported Guitars.
BanjOs from $500 upwards.
Violin, ViolOnCellO, Double Bass,
Banjo, Either and Harp Strings
and Trimmings,
ACcOrdeons and Concertinas of all
descriptions, American and For
eign Sheet Music, Music Books
&c., &C., Wholesale and Re-
tail.
This establishment is one Of the branch stores Of
OLIVER DIrsoS Co., and possesses unequalled ad-
vAnages for the importation Of instruments from the
best manufacturers in Europe. 4l-4O
, 1880-02-26
Gen. Buffers Coat.

Il anything besides failure to capture
Massachusetts, can aggraya.c Gen. But.
lcr, il must be the story that he wesrs a
coat Of buffalo skin. After eXpending
some hundreds Of dollars for an outer
garment OF sleek fur the .cmper of the
usually impe-turbable statesman Of Es-
sex must bc somewhat ruiilcd TO have
tho reporters tell the world that he Is
going about the country with what
looks hike q buffalo robe thrown about
his shoulders Gen. Butler brought
his famous coat to New York when he
came to argue the case against the Ele-
waited Railways. When the driver OF
Broadway stage saw him swinging a
heavy stick at the corner of BIeecker
street yesterday afternoon, he must have
taken him for a monster bear which had
wandered down from the Adirondack
region, or else have supposed from the
appearance of his ambiguous optics that
he was shaking his club at another man.
lie certainly was too fri yhtened or bewll-
dered to reign up, and a crowd OF gamins
were tickled to see the old man vainly
trying to catch the stage. But rough
usage has given the General a hide as
tough as that Of rhinocero7, and he is
quite as Indifferent to the jeers of news
boys as perhaps he may be to the gossip
of the press, and who knows but that he
secretly enjoys the story of the spoons,
and may chuckle to think that some
newspaper scbriblers are such fools that
they cannot tell a boaver from a buffalo
skinl That great coat iii which he
wraps his body is, after all, but the
mate to that comfortable garment OF Il
sense of luxurious ease and self-compla-
cency in which his inner consciousness is
encased, perfectly secure from the taunta
of the scoling world--N. Y. World.
, 1880-02-26
a Disciple of Cowley.

Under date of Greenfield, Ohio, Feb
lst, the New York Times publishes the
following Lying upon small pallet in
room in little one story frame house
on Lafayette street, last evening, was a
little child whose sufferings could hardly
be fathomed, except by one who has
been victim of frozen limbs. 1t ap-
pears that one year ago this month Will
liam Diehl, a shoemaker, bound out his
little girl, then seven years of age, to a
man named j. w. jackson, living in
Jackson county, five miles from sta
tiop called Berlin, where he owns IS
acres of land and is well to do in this
worlds goods. Himself aud wife consti-
tute the family. This child was given
to them with the understanding that
they were to educate and dress her un-
til she became eighteen years old How
far this contract was kept will be seen
by the story told by the little girl be
tween sobs and groans of pain. The
following are not her words, but the
import is the same. After going to
live with the Jacksous she was treated
very well for a few months, when they
began to treat her badly, Mrs jackson
whipping her until welts were raised all
over her body. These whippings were
administered mostly with stout switch
to her nude back. Her back and arms
still bear marks which corroborate her
story These she says she got because
she refused last Fall, when the ground
was frozen to go out in her bare feet
and pick up apples and bring in the
wood She was also made to work on
the bare floor washing clothes, and 60
out and hang them up shoeless and
stockingless during the cold, freeing
weather about Christmas. At this time
her feet were frozen. After this she
was provided with pair of heavy COW.
hide shows, which hurt her feet so badly
in their already painful condition that
she could not wear them. Attending
physicians think amputation of the feet
will be necessary to save the cbild's
life. 'a.' .i
, 1880-02-26
Mrs Brassey and Her Revolvers.

Next morning we made an early start,
and travelled for seven hours and half
straight on, only stopping little while
every now and then, when it became
absolutely necessary for us to rest The
pleasantest halt was at Jeba, where we
ate our luncheon in grove of olive
trees. Just after that we passed most
beautiful cavern, hewn out of the rock,
and supported by two pillars. Every
part of it was covered-tapestried, l
might say, with maidenhair fern pill
lars, roof, walls, every inch of rock,
were hidden and made green by the del
icate, close growing fronds. Partly to
look at this cavern, and partly because
| could not ride fast, Tom and had
fingered behind the rest Of the party.
We noticed that n large number Of
Turks and Greeks had passed us, and
overto k those Of our party who were
in front, but no sooner had they done
so than it became evident that some sort
of scrimmage had begun. We could
see that Karam was off his horse, and
had his revolver out, and it seemed high
time, for one of these strangers was
holding his revolver unpleasautly close
to Karam's head. Other men, too, were
galloping up, and it really looked rather
formidable. We Immediately pulled
out our revolvers and cantered as
quickly as possible to the scene Of ac-
tion, where we met some of our mule
teers and servants hurrying to the
rescue. Whether we were too Large
party and were evidently too well pre-
pared for fight, know not, but peace
seemed to be restored in moment, and
we all put up our revolvers and rode on
as quietly as possible without further
annoyance, while our would,be assail-
ants remained behind, vociferating and
gesticulating Mrs. Brassey, in Fraser's
Magazine.
, 1880-02-26
Wendell Phillips,

An intimate friend Of Wendell
Phillips for 25 years has just been tell
ing what he knows Of the renowned
BoStonian as n man and an orator.
Phillips, though in comfortable cirum'
stances he is probably worth 100000
lives very plainly in an old fashioned
meagrely furnished house In Essex
street, and has lived there for 30 years,
notwithstanding the encroachments OF or
binary boarding houses and retail STOPS
He is a great lover of art !; but he mas
no pictures or bronzes or marbles, be
cause he prefers to give the money tney
would cost to the poor and struggling
No really needy deserving man or
woman ever appeals to him in vain he
is constantly doing good, but h" IS so
secretiye and silent concerning his be-
nevolence that nobody hears OF 1t, un'
less by accident His manner in pri-
vate is perfect as a specimen OF New.
England manner it is wholly simple
and natural it puts persons at their
ease vet it is the manner OF a patncian
and men of the common sort who meet
him esteem and admire him, though
they always feel the difference between
him and themselves. They cannot un.
derstand why he has advocated the
cause of the poor and lowly. He has a
wife, chronic invalid, and no children;
he is, and always has been,
chivalrously devoted to her, and as
cribes all the things he has done to her
influence His entire life has been reg
ulated by affection and consideration for
her. Though still, it is said, a nominal
member Of the old South, he rarely, if
ever, attends church, having been re-
PEELED by the course OF orthodoxy during
the early anti-slavery days. He is the
antipodes in everything in Ingersoll,
who once declared that Phillips was no
more an orator than mathematician is
poet. On the roStrum he never
moves, and is never moved he adopts
conversational tone and mirn he inva-
riably addresses the intellect; he con-
vinces his forte is picturesque logic, ep-
igrammatic truth His ..Lost Arts"
was never written; has been delivered
for 80 years, and is as fresh now as at
first. His lecture on Daniel O'Connell,
prepared at the request of Roman
Catholic society, has been pronounced,
in a literary sense, his masterpiece.
it has never been put on paper either
before he had delivered it, he had no
opinion of its quality; thought that it
would gain no reputation. All he had
tried to do was to get material enough,
he said, to enable him to talk an hour
on the subject he had on hand. Despite
his aboltionism, he has always been
very popular with the Irish, who have Il
constitutional hatred of negroes and
their advocates. Phillips friend main
tains that he and Ingersoll are two
great distinctive native orators; that no
other country could have generated
them. Phillips represents Boston and
Boston culture, New England intellect,
character and method. Ingersoll is a
son of the West, child Of the people,
aproduct Of the prairies. N. Y. Times
, 1880-02-26

The Chinese believe in the Bible
"1he sins of the father shall be visited
on the children, unto tho third and
fourth generation" is their rule. in
1877 Yakoob Beg tho famous rebel, was
put to death, and now an edict has been
issued sealing the doom of all his kins
men, among them being little boys from
5 to IA years of age. The New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children has memorialized Congress,
asking it to do all in its power to stop
the barbarity about to be perpetrated.
, 1880-02-26

"Moik, phat's ifIigyl" asked Miles
ian matron the other morning in San
Francisco, locking up from the Post.
"Sorra a bit do | know" replied her
husband. 'Is it something to ate, 1
dunno" "Ate, ger ownadhaum !
Sure it's Dinnis sez he'll burn Giant
in if-i.gy.' "Begorra, it must be wan
O them big wurds he brought back wid
him from Bostin. I'm thainkin' it's
Frinch for the Foorth warrud, so it is"
And the pair shook their heads in
speechless admiration of the lingual re-
sources of Mr.. Kearney
, 1880-02-26

81 ordered dozen oysters" said a
young society blood at a popular res
taurant last night, "and here are only
eleven. Will you kindly elucidate :"
"Certainly," replied the obliging res
taurateur, "there is certain supersti-
ton in good society against thirteen at a
table and SO you see, ehF
, 1880-02-26

A skeptical young collesian confront
cd an old Quaker with the statement
that he did not believe in the Bible.
The Quaker said "Does thee believe in
Francol' eyes, for though have not
seen it, / have seen others who have;
besides, there is plenty of corroborative
proof that such a country does exist"
"Then thee will not believe in what thee
or others have not seen q "No, to be
sure won't" "Did thee ever see thine
own brainsP "No." "Ever see any
one that did - 'No." "Does thee be-
lieve thee has any9' The young man
left ia