Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-08-25
Timely Topics.

For wagon and carriage axles the best
lubricant during hot weather is tallow and
black lead rubbed up together. Castor oil
and black lead is best for winter use.
THERE are good men in each party, and
there are bad men also. If the good men in
each party would keep an eye on the bad
men on their o,Cn side, politics would be i'm
proved.
FUcHsIAs, to succeed well, must be plant
ed in rich soil, kept constantly moist, and,
partly shaded. Rose geraniums need great
deal of sunlight, and should be watered well
every day.
In the rearing and care of domestic ami
mails and in the cultivation of plants the aim
of the producer should be to furnish his
equally healthful surroundings, and in that
way escape diseases which confne their at
tacks mostly to the weakly.
HE'LL is potentially everywhere; that is,
it will manifest itself wherever wrong, sin,
discord, selfshness, exist; will begin to show
itself precisely at the same moment that
they show themselves. Does any one doubt
this2 Let him go home and there obey the
fundamental law of hell, which is frantic
self-seeking, and see if it does not start up
at once from underneath the floor.
WHEN crop of rye has been taken off,
barley may be sown, even as late as the first
or second week in August, and this will give
excellent green fodder till November, or till
frost comes. 1t may be necessary to cut it,
however, in October, on account of frost, but
sometimes it will continue green till into
November; but if cut in October and only
partially cured, it will make excellent fodder
in November, and effect a wonderful saving
of the hay-mow.
THERE is no surer instinct in the heart of
man than his prophetic sense that punish
ment eternally follows wrong. Whenever
gross wrong is committed, whenever the
weak are oppressed, whenever the fatherless
and widow are robbed of their inheritance,
whenever crime brings seeming success
no matter how high the offender how sur
rounded with whole armies of guards, or
how low and weak and unaided the souls he
tramples on,-the indignant, outraged heart
of man is sure, as if God spoke it from
heaven, that day Of reckoning will come.
A HORSE cannot be screamed at and cursed
without becoming less valuable in every
particular. To reach the highest degree of
value the animal should be perfectly gentle
and always reliable, but if it expects every
moment that it is in the harness to be
"jawed at and struck, it will be in con-
slant state of nervousness, and in its excite
ment as liable through fear to do something
which is not expected as to go along doing
what you started it to do. 1t is possible to
train a horse to be governed by the word of
mouth, almost as completely as it is to train
child, and in such training the horse
reaches its highest value.
The Farm and Fireside speaks with Just
severity of the way blacksmiths hack off
the frog of the horses foot, as though ma
ture had made mistake in putting it there.
We know" it says, "what an elephants
foot is it is all rubber-like. The horse
has the same encased in a shell, which gives
him accuracy and steadiness of movement.
Now, this casing protects the frog. 1t grows
slowly, the frog grows rapidly. The healthy
foot of the colt shows a center, if not pro-
jecting, at least level with the line of the
hoof. He does not take his weight wholly
on the rim of his feet Old horses would
have feet more like them if blacksmiths
would allow they knew little less than ma
ture, and really knew enough to read her in
tentions."
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Times
relates some remarkable experiences with
the use of salt in his garden and orchard.
In 1877, he says, his wife had garden forty
feet square which was necessary to water
every day, and still the plants and flowers
were very inferior The next year he put half
barrel of brine and half barrel of salt on
the ground and turned it under. That sea-
son watering could be dispensed with, and
the plants were of unusual size and the
flowers of great beauty. He also had some
potatoes growing from seed that wilted
down as soon as the weather became very
hot He applied salt to the surface of the
soil till it was white. The vines took
vigorous start, grew to the length of three
feet blossomed and produced tubers from
the size of hens eggs to that of goose eggs
His soil is chiefly sand.