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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-01-20

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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-20

The toad trade, carried on between France
and England, has assumed considerable i'm
portance and is conducted systematically by
those who are engaged in it. Frenchmen
mostly eat the frogs produced in their coun-
try, but large proportion of the toads they
ship to London and its immediate envirous
They are the honest and natural enemies of
destructive garden insects and therefore good
friends and auxiliary laborers in the raising
of garden products. None but Frenchmen
would think of making a business of raising
and trading in these little brown coated gem
tlemen, and accordingly We find the trade
furnishing in the environs of the French cap
ital. loads for many years have been the in
dispensable allies of the French market gar
deners who cultivate rich aud moist ground.
They fill their narrow acres with them and
thus the army of insects disappears as if by
magic the fine vegetables upon which SO
much of scientific culture has been expended
are thus permitted to ripen to perfection.
Especially do these busy little creatures at
tack and demolish slugs and snails. which
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-20
To whiten iyory-boil in lime water,


To give stoves a good polish-rub them
with piece of Brussels carpet after bla cken-
ing them.
Scrub your floors with hot brine before
lacking the carpet down, and once Il week
scrub your carpets with coarse salt.
Cold boiled potatoes used as soap will clean
the hands and keep the skin soft and healthy.
Those not over boiled are the best.
In making crust of any kind do not melt
the shortening. Let it be as cold as possible
and knead it through the flour. Melting it
Injuries the crust.
Shake off and remove all dust from a black
garment every time it is worn. Nothing soon
or defaces black silk, poplin or wooden than
to wear it shopping, riding, or even for a day
in the house. and then hang it up without re-
moving the dust.
Miss Parloa gives this cure for hoarseness
Bake lemon or sour orange for 20 minutes
in a moderate oven, then open it at one end
aud dig out the inside, which sweeten with
sugar or molasses and eat. This will cure
hoarseness and remove pressure from the
lungs.
To curl plumes, put some GOALS of fire on a
shovel, sprinkle brown sugar on the GOALS and
hold the plumes in the smoke. One applica-
ton will be sufficient to make them as nice as
new. Another way Take a little salt and
sprinkle it upon the hot stove and hold the
plume over the smoke few minutes.
Potatoes are nicer when put at once into
boiling water. After they have boiled 10
minutes put in tablespoonful of salt to 2
potatoes. When they are cooked, pour of the
water and cover the kettle, not with metallic
cover on which the steam will form great
drops of water, but with towel which will
absorb it, leaving the potatoes dry and mealy.
Never paper wall over old paper and
paste. Always scrape down thoroughly. Old
paper can be got of by dampening with sal
aratus and water. Then go over all the cracks
of the wall with plaster of Paris and finally
put ON wash of weak solution of carbolic
acid. The best paste is made out of rye flour,
with two ounces of glue dissolved in each
quart of paste; half an ounce of powdered
borax improves the mixture.
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Farm and Household.


1t seems to be a prevalent idea that Jersey
cattle are Of no account except for their but
reproducing qualities that il is not profit
able to raise them for meat This is an err
ror. My experience has taught me that Jer-
sey cattle not only make n much finer grade
OF beef than other cattle. but that they arc
very'proftable for that purpose They con-
sumo less while growing than the large.boned
Durham cattle, and come to maturity earlier
This past season had an Attorney calf "of
the male persuasion" and not desiring any
veal, and with something of a prospect Of a
sale for stock purposes, kept him along with
only fair amount of food for a growing ami
NAL kept him until upwards of ten months
old, the latter portion of the time giving
somewhat better feed and larger quantities,
but never feeding him high. When l had
him killed the dressed meat weighed q little
over $50 pounds, which l call good weight
for an animal Of that age. Every one who
partook of the meat, and the number was not
small declared it to be the finest they ever
tasted have tried other breeds Of cattle in
n similar way, and consider this one as supe-
rior both in the quality and the cost of meat.
This fall | had n Jersey COW whose teats
were so small thought best not TO keep her
for milk. When she was taken in from the
pasture she was in good condition 1 put her
in the stable, fed her upon good hay and gave
her but little meal, perhaps 100 pounds. l
kept her until the last Of December, when l
had her killed and she dressed of some $40
pounds of the handsomest meat old butchers
say they ever saw. Certainly l have never
seen anything ahead of it. The lean meat
was very rich in color and the fat looked the
color of the richest Jersey butter, while it re-
tanned its rich color when baked or boiled
The taste of the fat meat was rich and sweet,
entirely different from the tallowy taste of
ordinary fat beef.
1t is agreed by all epicureans who have
been so fortunate as TO feast upon good, we'll
fatted Jersey beef that it far excels any
other beef that is produced in this Sec
ton of the country or is readily obtained
anywhere. The corned beef very much re-
sembles the far-famed Gardeners Island beef.
Even with Jersey beef at the same price of
other beef, it is fully as profitable to raise the
Jerseys for the reasons before stated. Again,
they grow to maturity quickly and consume
but little food-in fact they have not the
amount of waste-bone and coarse tissue that
coarser cattle require feed to produce My
experience has shown they do produce good
quantity Of meat per animal. No man WHO'S
lover of good, juicy, fne-grained, tender
roast beef or steaks would object to paying
an extra price for Jersey beef any more than
he would for the rich, sweet Jersey butter
T.. ". F0rJes Winchester " H., IN Imeri-
ctH Cdhicdtor.
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Jersey butter is all the fashion, aud 1t has become
mainly because ths makers have kept up uniform
color through the year, using artificial color when
necessary. Dairymen who wish to be in the fashion
must the Perfected Butter Color made by Wells,
Richardson Co, Burlington, VI. Hon. L. d. Ms
son, President Dairy Association, says; at gives the
brightest and most perfect color to butter Of sub
stance have ever used know 1t to be, you say,
harmless salt, and II adds several cents per
pound 20 the value Of butter
A lady full Of animation said to us, ~ have not
been able to work constantly during the hot weather
for many years. This summer | have taken three
bottles Hoods SArsaparila, and have been vigorous
and strong through the hot weather aud have worked
every day, and feel smart and active now as can
be-" This is only ono Of the many wonderful stories
told our counter Of what Hoods Ssrsaparla has
done. c. l. HOOP Co., Lowell, Mass.
Kdney-Wort has proved She most effective cure for
Piles and Constipaiion--be sure to try it.
Ladies' and children's boots and shoes cannot run
over II Lyons Patent Heel stiGeners are used
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a eenInE the Teeth clean.

Mr.. q. A. Mills gives in Dental Cosmos
some sensible advice about cleaning the teeth.
While there is, he says, general use of tooth
brushes by the people, there is also not un-
commonly an abuse of them for want of prop
err instruction. It is getting to be better un-
derstood by both dentists and patients now
than formerly that a crosswiso brushing is
not wise, but that the upper teeth should be
brushed downward, and the lower teeth up
ward. 1t is n common mistake not to brush
thoroughly the cheek and posterior surfaces
of the third molars and the lingual surfaces
of the lower front teeth. ~ am sure" says
Mr.. Mills, that nothing like an adequate
amount Of care is given to this service. 1t
cannot be too strongly impressed on the
minds of the guardians of children that the
practice Of brushing the teeth thoroughly
should be begun as early as possible Straight
brushes are utterly impracticable on the sur.
faces to which | have referred as the ones
most neglected. Curved brushes with tuft
end, bud-shaped or convex, are the best.
There are several efficient forms"
The faithful use of floss silk between the
teeth ought to be earnestly recommended /;
also the quill toothpick. The wood tooth
picks so generally furnished at public enting
places are a source Of much evil to the soft
tissues between the teeth. All kinds Of me-
tallic toothpicks are objectc nable, though
it is the practice of some dentists to com.
mend them to their patients. The value Of
decided polished surface of the tooth becomes
very apparent TO those who have had the op.
Grafton performed the facility with which
such teeth can be kept clean is evident and
although this condition may have been secur-
ed at considerable expense, yet it Is an in
vestment that will pay good rate of interest.
Few dentists have much idea of the beautiful
polish that a human tooth will take Many
teeth are capable of great improvement in
this direction which are now a decided detri-
ment to what might otherwise be pleasing
face. The general idea among the people is
that interfering with the surfaces of the teeth
destroys the enamel but this is a popular err
rOr
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-20

PLANTING LENA BEANS A correspondent
of the Country Gentleman gives the follow
ing as the method employed by Boston mark
ct gardeners to get an early start for Lima
Beans; The seed is planted in an old hot
bed about May LIST to 10th. Under shelter of
the glass the seed rapidly terminates and
grows; three or four seeds are placed for
each hill in squares marked out ON the bed s
or o inches square. As planting time ap-
proaches, the plants are hardened by taking
off the glass several days, and the day before
planting it should be thoroughly soaked with
water, SO that the earth will not crumble
from the roots in transplanting. This is eff
fected by pressing into the ground, around
each hill, square ring of sheet zinc inch
es square by 3 inches high, to hold the earth
together, and then passing a spade under the
hill, il can be lifted, ring and all, and carried
to the place intended for growth. This is pre-
cisely the way in which we transplant melons
and cucumbers, and by means of it gain at
least two or three weeks, which in our short
season is we'll worth while. Only a few of
the rings are required, as they are taken up
as soon as the hill is planted and used for the
next one. l believe a similar device, but
smaller-sRy 3 or inches diameter-could
be used with advantage for summer planting
strawberry runners instead of the more ex-
ponsive method of potting them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-20

FARM ANIMALS IN THE UNITED STATES
The Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton has just issued a special report upon the
numbers and prices of farm animals, which
shows an increase of the number Of horses
during the past year of about y per cent,
which is equivalent to the enlargement of
this class of animals by about $50, 900. The
Atlantic States have made no perceptble in
crease the Gulf States report an average of
per cent. increase, and the Southern inland
States an increase of per cent. The Mid
die States Just about hold their own in the
production of hOrsehesh, and the States west
of the Mississippi have about per cent more
than last year. The condition of horses all
over the country is excellent as, at present,
there exists no malady of any kind. The
price of horses obtained by the farmer shows
some increase over last year and the largest
increase is in the Eastern States, where it
equals a rise in value of nearly 20 per cent
The average price of milch COWS is about p
per cent greater than last year. and, on the
Pacific coast, California has fallen off ! per
cent in the number of neat cattle, while Ore
gon has increased per cent, and the terri
tories s per cent In the price of cattle, of
three years and upward, there is falling off
of ? per cent in the whole country. New
England fell off per cent, the Middle States
6 per cent. There was also a slight decline
in the Gulf and Pacific States, and the in
crease in other sections was not sufficient to
counteract this decline
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-20

SEAsoNABLE HINTS. among the hints most
scasonable on either the garden or the farm,
few things are more seryiceable than those re-
lating to the sharpening of tools. Too often
these things are not thought of until the art-
cles are wanted when much valuable time is
lost in putting in order what might as well
have been done during the dull winter days
Even the smartest of us do not think enough
of these things, and, indeed, hardly know how
much we lose by having dull tools to work
with, II has been tolerably accurately COM
puted that the same man can do as much in
two days with a sharp scythe, as with one
but comparatively dull and the same expendi-
ture in force, in three. And il is Just the
same in regard to all other tools or imple-
ments, whether operated by hand steam or
horse power. The engineer continually oils
the machinery, and a good saw or file is oil to
hand implements. We know one who has a
great deal of hand hoeing TO do by hired Ia
Dor and he believes that the continued use
of the file ON the hoes makes a difference of
nearly one-half in the labor. His calculation
is that every ten-cent file he buys saves him
ten dollars in his lAbOrers' bills Now is the
time to look after the spades, scythes, hoes,
chisels. SAWS, etc.
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Ilon,t.

Don't speak angrily to a child. Don't kick
a dog when he is asleep. Don't go back on
tho friends Of your parents Don't often
visit your neighbors at meal time. Don't
neglect cough thinking il will cure itself.
Thousands die Of consumption by so doing )
Don't forget DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, for it cures cough or cold in
onc-half the time required 10y any other med
icine, and is the only medicine known that
positively cures consumption in its early sta
ges. Sold by druggists
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A good grindstone and set of files are
among the best Of farminvcstmonts, especially
at this season. It is always nice to be fore
handed, TO get things well ahead but the
best Of all forchandcdness is that which pre-
pares in advance full set Of good and we'll
repaired tools to work with - GTmdRt0cR
7,Legr1DL
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NEW LONDON NORTHERN RAILROAD


TRAINS LEAVE BRATTLEBORo AS FoLLoWs'
Going south.
1870 a. N, for South vernon, Springfield, Miners
Falls. Fitchburg Boston, and all stations on the
New London Northern railroad. sundays only
connects for Springfield. Mondays does not con
meet for Springfield.
1000 a. IN, for Conn. River r. h, Millers Fails,
Fitchburg Boston, Hoosac Tunnel, &c.
3:J7 ?. m, White Mountain express for New YORK
4:2j y. ~. steamboat train for New London and also
for Conn. River Il. 4.
Going North.
Trains arrive in Brattleboro-
10 rs d. NJ. from New London and New York.
~ $50 p. m, from Mers Pals, Hoosac Tunnel BOs-
ton, Fitchburg, &c
9:i0p p. m, Express for white Mountains.
$40 p M, from springfield, New YORK, &c
$40 p. M, from Boston. Worcester, HOOsac Tunnel
aud all stations on New London Northern road.
O;25 p. M, from Springfield New York, &C.
c. i. SPAULDIE0, Acting Supt.
New London, Conn, July l, 1879. 80
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without pretending to give editorial opinion Of
remedy Of which we know nothing personally, We
desire to ask those Of readers who are AFFLICTED
with scrofulous other diseases # the blood to eI-
anime and test the claims Of Hoods Sarsaparilla 1t
comes 10 us with high individual endorsements, is
compounded BY practical druggists, and is made Of
materials recognized valuable by ali physicians.
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leading Democrat Of Burlington, Mr. E. NJ. sut-
ton, speaks in the highest terms Of the curative pow
or Of the celebrated Kidney Wort. II FIRST cured him
OF distressing kidney disease, aud be now uses It
whenever be has any symptoms Of bilousness OF
needs t0ning up. 1t acts efficiently on the bowels
and cures the worst cases Of pilos.
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This item Of expense, now borne by the publishers
Is equivalent to reduction Of 20 per cent on the cost
to subHcribers in former years.
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A discount Of twenty per cent will be allowed to
clubs OF fuur persons. Thus: four copies Of
BlackwOod or Of one Review will be sent, to one ad-
Dress for Sl2S0 four copies Of the four Reviews and
Blackw0Ud Tor y4s, aud So on.
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1880.
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Railroads.
VERMONT Valley RAILROAD

s.o nNund a'ttr Dec. s, 1872
Is5syS5s5Ss,s5sn A trains on this road vii
kssisisssssiisl e. ~ leave BBATTLEBOROforall
points North at lO:jO q. NJ
5:45 p. m, aud 10 $50 ,. M. ,,.-
The ~ $50 =. IN. train IL express for Moutreai wa
White River Junction. with sleeping car attached;
The 10 :JOa. m. train is mail train Tor montpelier
St Adams Rutland, Burlington, Montreal, the i't'
sumpsic road and the White Mountains.
The as y. IN. train is mail train for Whte River
junction aud Rutland.
TrainaIeave BELLOWS FALLS for the South. con-
Meeting with the Connecticut Biyer line at BrattebO-
70, as follows: Montreal press train at $50 a. m
mail and accommodation, Q 10 a. IN. mail and accom-
mediation, 3 :35 =. m. -
The 3 $50 a. M. train arrives in New York at 1900
m the g:15 a. train at as p m. the :S5 p m
train at 1880
Althese trains make close necton With Boston 4
Albany Il. r., both east aud west Of Springfield
% J. MULLIGAN, superintendent.
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Nothing is conducive to a mans remaining
bachelor as stopping for night at the house OF
married friend and being kept awake for Ave or six
hours by the crying Of cross baby. All cross and
crying babies need only Hop Bitters to make them
well and smiling Young man, remember thia-
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THE HON r.,

Giving recipes for practical dishesi hints for making
clothing and for keeping with the latest fashions
at the lowest price Every item Of cooking or econ
omy suggested In this department Is practically tested
by experts before publication Letters from our Par
IL and London correspondents on the very latest fash
Ions. The Home Department Of the WEEKLY HER-
AID will save the housewife more than one hundred
times the price Of the paper. The interests u
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- COLLINS -
PLASTER

Affords the most grateful relief in Rheuma-
tism, Weak Spine, Local Pains, Nervous Az
fcctiOns, Local Rheumatism, Tie DoulOurcux,
Nervous Pain, Affections OF tho Kidneys,
Fractured Ribs, Affections Of tho Chest, Colds
and Coughs, Injuries or tho Back, Strains
and Bruises, Weak Back, Nervous Pain Of tho
Bowels, Cramp in tho Stomach and Limbs,
Heart Affections, Enlarged Spleen, Bruises
and I'uncturcs, Rheumatism of the Wrists
and Arms, Asthma, Gout, Local and Deep
seated Pains, Pain in the Chest, Stitch in the
Back, Pain In the Hip, varicoso Enlarged
Veins, Crlck In the Back and Neck, Pain and
Weakness in Side and Back, Hoarsencss, Sore
Throat, Lumbago, Whooping Cough, Sharp
Pains in the Breast, Heart Disease, QuInsy,
Diabetes, and for Lameness In any part of the
Body.
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p A II H N II s
r. III. EDDY.

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BRAIN FOOD,

preparation Of Gluten and Barley for the nervous
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