The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-05-07

gentleman who would ornament the
office nightly. However, thats may
be, the neatest comment on the cable
and wealthy citizens" communication
would be to publish his name. We are
not yet however, quito wrought up to
perpetrate an act so cruel.
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gYH The Poultney Journal man has
concluded that editorial disquisitions
on politics do not amount to much, dis
sipate minds and morals, and stimulate
the evils of the body polite. Accord
ingly he proposes to give his attention
to agricultural subjects fort time. We
once felt just that way. We were
drumming a paper" in another state,
and had become thoroughly disgusted
with politics, because a number of our
best subscribers stopped the paper for
the eason that, at q time when the fire
of editorial genius was burning brilliant
ly, we had published an opinion that
| Ben Buffers eyes were not born twins.
Ben was running for governor. We
turned to agriculture for ~solace, as
many great and good men have done.
We published o column or two OF cad
vice to farmers about conducting
thoir business. We put a good deal OF
honest work into 1t. We thought our
directions for feeding mich bulls with
meal and carrots ground together pref
ty good. We believed farmers would
get rich II they would follow our ad-
vice to use superphosphate instead OF
barnyard manure in tho hill when set.
ting fence posts. We recommended the
plan Of stretching a not under pumpkin
trees when the fruit became ripe, thus
preventing them from breaking to
pieces on the ground. We believe we
originated this plan, because up to tina:
time farmers had been In the habit Of
letting them fall right on tie hard
ground, with the result that a great
many of the largest and finest ones be-
came broken and unmarketable. Oui
directions for subsoiling bean pole,
would have doubled the yield of these
valuable tubers If followed carefully
Our notion of putting q swarm of bee
directly into a centrifugal strainer ant
rotating the honey out Of them, wa
most valuable one, and was alOn,
worth the subscription price Of tho pa
per to any n who bred bces, Of whicl
we particularly recommended raising
. the Hambletonlsn and Ayrshire strain
Is being hardy and Of great capacity
Under the sub-hesd Of "Care of Tools
We deprecated the careless habits o
some farmers Of letting these usefn
things lie around out Of doors expose,
to storms and hen hawks. We advise,
that plows and reapers be hung o.
wooden pegs In the shed chamber whel
not in use, and that hoes should be care
, fully coiled up on their drums and rul
in under shelter, their MOBILES bein,
covered with tsllow to prevent the for
nation of verdigris. II cared for thus
we demonstrated that the hoe woul,
be a formidable rival of the hay tedde
as a pruning instrument. There wer
, lots of other valuable bits of advice re
: garding such things as the best time +
plant Goldfish balls, docking saw-horses
. fall pruning of timothy, etc. We foun,
:, it very easy to write "Advice to Far
mers," and concluded to give up poll
tics entirely, and stick to the agricultu
, raj business al our best hold. We ex
, pected a good deal of credit from on
, bucolic patrons, and after we had help
ed the devil pull off the edition on tn
hand press we waited with considers
!, bic complacency for the words of Ell
, enlargement which we felt sure woul,
follow. They didn't follow. The mex
day there was a string of stern and sa,
looking men in overalls and cowhid
boots who came In and one after an
other requested us to 'stop my paper.
We hauled IL pen through their name
on our list with a sinking heart, and b.
: the time the twonty-seventh man re
: peated the same order the thing got S
monotonous that we asked him wha
was the matter. Iic slowly and impress
f sively pulled a copy Of our paper out o
his pocket, and turning to our cherish
D ed "Advico to Farmers" he asked
g wo ever Charmed it." We hadn't
"Ever ploughed, planted corn, sowe
wheat, butchered hogs. boarded tn
school marin, or done any farmer
work whatever" We hadn't, excet
> that we once had been kicked by
, cow. "Well, them" said this cold
hearted agriculturist, fixing US with hi
= glittering eye, hadn't you better cor
q fine your editorials to subjects that va
: knew something about?" lie went GU
q whistling softly to himself when we re
piled that in that case we should hav
q to give up writing editorials entirely
h But he oon came back and said, "PeI
haps Won might write about subject
Q that nobody else knows anythin
about" II was q good suggestion
And e we occasionally put In . eat
tious word about politics. But ayr
' culture We let severely alone ourseil
and either hire an agricultural edito
vho knows something about the sui