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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

FATTENING SmEEP.-An Ohio sheep
raiser, writing to the Rural Netc Yorker,
says: Sheep picked out for the butcher
should be fed generously and regularly,
and upon this point too much stress cannot
be laid. Care should be taken, however,
to give the sheep only just enough for one
meal at each feeding time. If they are
given superabundance of hay they soon
learn to be particular in selecting the best
part only, and if there is not enough of
this ut one feeding time, they will wait
half hungry for the next. My own expe.
rcnce agrees with that Of most successful
sheep owners, that lattening cattle should
be fed three times day, though some of
my neighbors think twice often enough.
1t is also very important that the sheep
should not be SLOWED to suffer for want of
water; neither should they lack 4 supply
of salt for although salt is not so neces
sary to them in the winter as in summer,
still they will thrive better if it is fed 10
them at least once week ut all seasons. "
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

The condition of the Chicago grain mar
ket is described as an anomalous one. A
group of New York spectators have pur-
chased million bushels of grain, which
in part is stored in Chicago. The accumu
lation there is so great that the warehouses
can hold but little more. The strange fact
is, that this tends to advance price,, as il
prevents " short sellers from delivering
into warehouses. Some lots in the cars
have been sold at a decline as compared
with the price of lots in store.-Mdss.
RoUghmqH.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

LITTLE Folks Observation-Disclosures
-Shut-eye time.
Dust-Mud with the juice all squeezed
out.
Fan-A thing to brush the warm of
with.
Fins-A fsh's wings.
Ice-Wster that stayed out in the cold
and went to sleep.
Monkey-A very little boy with tail.
Salt-What makes your potatoes taste
bad when you don't put any on.
Snoring-Ietting off sleep.
Snow-Rain all popped out white.
Wakefulness--Eyes all the time coming
unbottoned.
A small decentralization.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

WATERING CATTLE.-If you desire tc
get large yield of rich milk, give your
cows every day water slightly warm and
slightly salted, in which bran has been
stirred at the rate of one quart to two
gallons of water You will find if you
have not tried this daily practice. that
your COW will give twenty-five per cent
more milk Immediately under the effects
of it, and she will become so accustomed
to the diet rs TO refuse to drink clear wa
ter unless very thirsty. But this mess she
will drink almost any time, and ask for
more. The amount of this drink neces-
sary is an ordinary water pail full at a
time, morning, noon and night.-Aichigdn
Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

Small bones in an animal are an indica-
ton of good feeding quality, early maturl-
ty and superior. fine grained flesh; while
coarse, large bones. with prominent joints
and angular projections of the skeleton
indicate poor feeding quality, late maturity
and coarse flesh, in connection with a
large proportion of ofIal and cheap pieces
in the carcass when reaching its final des
tination on the block. - Chauiduqua Fdrm-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

WHAT IS WANTED.-Mr l.. S. Hardin
says, in the London Agricultural Gazette,
that it is his notion that it is about time
the breeders of Shorthorns began to look
at home for the trouble about the neglect
OF their pets by the grazers. They must
abondon the chase after pedigree, and
remember that when the city merchant
sits down to his roast beef, it is matter Of
no moment to him whether lie is eating .
piece of beef from the wilds of Texas or a
slice from the loin of the fourth duke Of
Glo'ster. What he wants is piece OF
Juicy, tender meat, and that is all he is
willing to pay for; and the grazier wants
animals with not only iron constitutions
but, above all, they must be sure getter:
and early breeders.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

THE GREAT DAIRY FAIR.-Alter duly
admiring the "obelisk of SALT the 'pyra-
mid OF cheese" the ''dairymaid's needle"
the "chatIet'' of foreign cheese, and lastly,
reduced mound of salt, all artistic and
ingenious methods of advertising the bust
ness houses of New York, the conviction
forces itself upon the visitor that this year
more attention has been given to this
branch of enterprise than has been be-
slowed upon the exhibition of dairy pro-
ducts and the benefits to the dairy interest.
There is no concealing the fact that there
is a spirit of rivalry among the managers
that has been allowed TO endanger the
great interest that has promised So much,
and to use the fair rs a method of drawing
attention to some business house, or some
individual purpose, or assist in some COM
mercial undertaking. rather than to en-.
nance the dairy prospects of the country.
This calls for censure, and unless this
association elects an entire new manage
ment, and puts the affair into other and
more competent hands than its present
superintendent has there is well ground.
ed doubt that this second fair will he the
last ofthe "internationals. - Ohio Ftrmer
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

Cattle like change of diet occasionally
rs men do. Keeping cattle on hay or
straw alone is little like living on bread
or potatoes, or meat alone, with nothing
except that one dish. Therefore, feed
some roots. as well as hay or meal or
shorts. If You haven't the roots on hand
be sure and have supply next winter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

TO clean soft mahogany, or other porous
wood. scrape and sand-papcr in usual
manner; then take sponge and well wet
the surface, to raise the grain; then, with
u piece of fine pumice stone (iree from
stony particles and cut The way OF the
tibres). rub the wood in the direction Of
the grain, keeping it moist with water; let
the work dry, then wet it again and tins
Grain will be much smoother and will not
raise so much; repeat the process, and the
surface will become perfectly smooth and
the texture of the wood much hardened,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

I A good Jersey COW, during ten years OF
usefulness, will produce skim milk enough
to pay for her keep. and 5000 pounds OF
the best butter in the world into the bar
gain-butter worth several times as much
as the heaviest beef animal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21
From Il Distinguished Physician.
SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE

MAY safely claim to be one Of the few popular rene
vi dies receiving the approval of medical gentle
who in private. not only freely recommend 1t but
it in thir families in preference to any of the prep
aratiUus usually prescribed by physicians
g You are aware, >" said distinguished city physi-
ciau that my obligations to the Mass Medical Society
are such that canLot pubuhcly recommend or pre-
scribe the Radical Cure but since received so much
relief from the OF it myself after thorough trial
the usual remedies have privately advised its use
and presume have sent to your store no less than one
hundred of my ratients for it,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21
agricultural Department.
ON. TINISHAm, Editor.

All communications f7r-this department should b.
ssut to the editor. Mr. o u. TINKHAM, y. Pom
fret, VI.
Please write on side OF the paper only szn sucl
name or initials as you wished published. hut Civ
yolr Full NAME Axp ADDRE.s, post Office County an,
state.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21
WEDNESDAY MORNING S SESSION

was called at little past II \. NJ, the
association having been out to visit the
works OF the American dairy salt company
and the Lake View farm of Messrs. Smith
& Powell, to inspect their Dutch cattle
and Clydesdale horses.
The first on the programme was talk
by f.. w. Stewart, editor of the Lire Stock
J0itrnal,on Dairy Buildings. He advocated
the having OF warm buildings for the
stock, rs tn. animal has to bring up the
temperature Of the cold water size drinks
from the degree ut which it is taken to
blood heat and it is poor economy to have
the animal, to be obliged to, 90 away
80 rods to drink from frozen stream in II
cold day, rs she must eat enough extra
food to bring that up to blood heat. lie
advocated having barns with easements,
and raising old barns for that purpose, and
he described the manner of making con-
crete for wall which he recommended
for use in making underpinning wall. For
this cement one part of cemenJ should be
thoroughly mixed with four parts of sand,
all dry, which should then he wetted to
make it quite thin, and then four parts
more of gravel may be added. This NOR
tar may receive four additional parts of
stone. Such wall is the cheapest and
best which can be secured. He next de-
scribed methods of securing ventilation
for the stables which he would have in the
basement, and ventiate by holes through
the wall, or by tubes extending from near
the floor and ceiling to the roof. lie ad,
vocated an iron grating for the hind feet
of the cows to stand on, the merit claimed
being that there would be no bedding need
cd, and none could be used, and the
manure would all fall through into the re-
cess made for it below. The estimated
cost for gratngs per COW was, before the
rise in iron, Sc 90 per COW. Especially he
commended this grating for stables above
a basement as the current of air coming
up through the grating was most grateful
to the cows standing on it. 1t seems to us
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21
SMALL FLoCKs OF SHEEP.

There are but very few farms on whicl
small flock Of sheep cannot probably
be kept. and us Il general thing u small
flock pays better, proportionately, thar
large one, for they receive better atten
ton, and the better care they have The
more profit is to be derived from them
The large breeds are to be preferred fol
the reason that the lambs get to BIO of large
size early in the season, when they can be
sold at "A better figure than later on in tho
season. F. II. d.
Corning, n. Y, Jan. Z, 1880.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21
MINED FARMING

for one am in favor of mixed farming
in preference to special farming. Some
writers advise that the whole of ones
attention be given to the production of
some special crop, TO the neglect Of all
others, but from my own observation
believe that in the majority of cases mixed
farming for u term of years will give the
best results. 1t is of course well enough
and perhaps advisable to make some crop
or some one of the many kinds of farm
stock the leading object, but to entirely
ignore all others seems to me to be entire
~ wrong. When ones labor is all
bestowed on one crop, if the prices are
very low, the chances for success are en-
ceedingly small; while on the other hand,
if mixed system is pursued, the chances
are that something will sell to good advan,
/ tage, hence there will be something to pay
the taxes with and buy clothes and other
necessaries, if not Il little spare cash with
which to make some needed improvements
on the buildings or elsewhere. If the sea-
son and the state Of the markets could be
foretold the ease would appear in Il some
what different light, but as this can not be
done the safest plan to pursue is course
of mixed husbandry,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21
WEDNESDAY EVENING SESSION.

The president said that at the meeting
last year a committee was appointed to
see what statistics were desirable for the
dairy interest in the forthcoming census.
4 member of the committee reported
that they had had some CORES pondence
with Gen. Walker on the subject but had
arrived ut nothing definite. 1t was voted
to add four more members to the commit
tee. After some discussion as TO what
was most desirable or most feasible, in
which there was about as many opinions
as speakers, the meeting proceeded to the
hearing Of paper by Solomon TIoxie of
New York, on Dairy Record. His paper
set forth that, at present, the selection of
dairy stock is made hap. hazard, for there
are no settled principles by which one
may be guided. Each person had some
arbitrary sign; wide mouth. Il thin lip,
steep ribs, II small tail were indicative of II
good mixer. Common sense would teach
= man that II round barrel would be better
for II healthy, hearty animal. Now the
breeder is guided by his fancy, not by rea-
sOnable law, for there is now no such law,
nor any data on which to base one. He
advocated the keeping of exact records by
dairymen of all breeds and grades OF
cows, records which should be exact and
scientific. He, described his methods OF
record, which were quite accurate.
There was Il committee appointed TO
consider the propriety Of the association
taking the matter in hand. which it was
finally voted to do.
The committee on nominations reported
Il list Of officers for the ensuing year,
chiefly the presen, incumbents: l.. B. Ar
mold, president; T. d. Curtis, secretary
j. V. II. ScoviIe, treasurer, and large
number of vice presidents, of which Hon
f. ID. Mason Of Vermont was one.
Edward Burnett of Deerfoot farm,
Soulhboro, Mass, read paper on the
Separation of Cream from Milk nv Cen
triical Force. which We shall give our
readers soon entire Or nearly SO.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

$500 n Z! !.
~ AL gay In your own locality No risk
u = ENEH Women do as well as men Man.
u HUUE make more than is stated aboTS
~ uUEH NO one can fail to make n,onay;
I'D NNNF last Any one do the yrnrE
" u " " " fon can make from 30 eta 10 40 a.,
and ,,au, A.. hour by devoting your eyeSin on
snu spare tilne TO the business n costs nothina -
~ 'hS business Nothing like il for money mai
ohsleu psI9re business pleasant and stTictIy
pet paymg business before the public send TS y Ine
s sss ana we WIZ SEND you full PARTICULAR and Drt
sh niake gp your mind for yourself Address can
"-'n"h silNsoN x 90, Portland Maine. Ts,eIvl
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

PROTECTING APPLE TREES FROM MICE.
The mice often do so much damage to
Young apple trees that it is not safe to
leave them unprotected, in some manner
consequently have placed little mound
of slwdust about the trunk of the tree be-
lieving it to be the easiest and cheapes!
mode of protection.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21
TUESDAY EVENING.

The hour for Mr.. Browns paper not
having arrived, questions were suggested,
and in absence of any other Mr.. Tinkham
asked whether corn cobs had any value
for food?
Prof. + w. Stewart of Lake View was
called upon. lie thought cobs were of as
cobs with lifty-six pounds Of pure meal
was a proper proportion to produce the
best food The corn and cob should be
ground together. a recent test proved
that ten per cent more pork was produced
by feeding corn in the cob ground than by
feeding pure meal. The notion that cobs
were iniuriou, to the stomach was mis-
laken idea. The hog was naturally a
grass eating animal, and every animal
needed certain amount OF coarse food.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

| boiling temperature had been proved A
heat Of about four hundred degrees Fahren
heit was necessary to destroy certain ami
malcule. The discontinue we feel from
the air of a crowded room is due to the
presence of foreign matter. To procure
pure water, it is necessary to distill it
again and again. The presence of foul
olors in stables is source of disease
Odors from asbestos walks had been
known to affect milk. In the north OF
Sweden a peculiar kind of milk is made
which will keep good for months.
Stables should be cleaned daily, and the
manure removed a distance of at least
sixty feet Repeated whiIe-washing. AT
least every month, is very essential. The
,tabl IS should be frequently deodorized
the burning of sulphur is an effective
means of purifying the stables. Excessive
feeding of brewery feed is likely to cause
milk to sour soon. The evil effects of not
properly washing the cows bags, of milk
| ing with unclean hands, etc, the speaker
said were well known. He would advise
IN open she'd where COWS could be milked
in bad weather The milk should never
be strained at the barn. In conveying
milk to the factory, the cans should be
closed so as not to allow the odors tc
escape. The cans must be washed ant
steamed At the factory. The stability o.
butter depends upon the proper prepare
ton of the cream.
Moisture in the air hastens the souring
If milk Milk could be preserved longer
in the pure air than with the air excluded
From many examinations the speaker wa:
satisfied that the more free the huiter Un;
made from buttermilk the better the butter
| Is.
In answer to Il question, Pref. Engie-
hardt said that salt was especially liable tC
retain odorS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

that cows standing over pile Of manure
below and grating only between them
and that manure would be likely to have
air to breathe little off flavor. He next
spoke very strongly in favor of octsgon
barns, as cheapest, handiest, best.
The afternoon session was opened by
some discussion on Prof Stewards talk on
barns, methods of disposing of the ma
azure, etc, after which Prof. G. C. Caldwell
of Cornell read paper on the methods of
testing milk. The lactometer he consid-
cred on appropriate indication of purity.
and the experience of the past year has
rather strengthened the estimate in which
it is held. In the milk of four cows mix
ed, the specific gravity of the milk at co.
Fahrenheit, should never fall below .029
in rare cases in individual cows it may
fall below. In cream gauges there ha-
been no change in their value for the las
eight years; 1t is entirely untruStworthy
Prof. Coldwel had diagram of sim
pie instrument designed BIZ Prof Feser of
Munich, which is glass tube some twelve
or fifteen inches long, and 49, inches in
diameter. The bottom of the instrument
is little smaller, and inside that part is 4
glass cylinder on which black lines are
marked. When the instrument is filled
the black lines are not visible. Water is
then carefully added and shaken till the
lines on the glass rod are visible, so as to
be counted. The amount of fats in the
milk is shown BY figures on one side the
instrument.
lie then described and illustrated by the
instrument used in the test the method OF
testing by the lacto-buty-roneter, a
process which however valuable for the
chemist or expert, will not be of particular
interest TO our readers. The instruments
necessary for this test cost about eight
dollars to import At the close Of his pa
per, gave an experiment with the instru-
ment.
l.. 3. Arnold, Esq next read a paper
improvements in Cheese Making There
are too many conditions in the conversion
of grass into butter or cheese to expect an
uniform product Cheese is more uniform
than butter, bat not enough so. He gave
some account of recent innovations in
cheese making. and the reasons leading to
it. In 1917, while seeking to make Il
lasting extract Of calves rennet, he dis,
covered that any alkali added 10 the solu
ton spoiled the quality. So sensitive is
the curd to the action of the alkai that
the small amount found in the coloring
annatto will have a most injurious effect.
Acid has an almost identical effect.
He described his method of cheese
making by sweet ourds, which differs from
the Cheddtr method in that they induce
acidty. The TWO conditions of cheeseing
and souring have no connection-each
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

Each package contains DR.. Sanford's Improved In
haling Tube aud full directions for its in all
Price, Sold by all wholesale and retail druggist:
and dealers throughout the United States and Cana
das. WEEKS X POTTER, General Agents and Whole
sale Druggists, Boston, Mass.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-01-21

Opposite Patent ofcs, Wa.lma,u. J.,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-22
A Funny Team.

A, correspondent of the Boothbay
(Me.) Register has farmer uncle up in
Skowhegan of that State, a man of
wealth and leisure, who believes thor
oughly in training animals. He once
taught ram and a three year-old colt
to pull horse-rake together, and the
correspondent describes the trial, as it
came off in one of his uncle's hay-fields
last summer: Several neighbors had
been invited to see the feat, and stood
curiously looking on. The, colt and the
ram were led out separately and har-
messed. Nothing could have looked
more ridiculous than that queer span,
the ram standing demurely beside its
tall mate, and the colt looking with
great care, seemingly lest it should step
on its diminutive partner. My uncle
took the reins, and started them with
an authoritative "Get upn' He raked
over nearly two acres of land, working
them as he would span of horses. the
ram pulling and tugging as hard as the
colt. The novel sight was so ludicrous
that the bystanders roared with laugh
ter.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The University of Brussels has for
the first time admitted a lady as science
student.
-Messrs. William H. Vanderbilt, G.
X. Garrison, William E. Dodge, James
Talcott and others have subscribed
$50, 900 toward fund of $1,000 for
the purpose of founding a permanent
Institution for the New York Christian
Home for Intemperate Men.
|, General Armstrong, head of the
Eampson (Vm) Colored Normal School.
said recently that there had been a vast
improvement in the condition of the col
ored people in Virginia and in the sem
timent of the white people respecting
their education and welfare.
The Freedmen's Aid Society pro-
poses to the friends of the late Bishop
Haven to raise $4,000 for the compile
ton of Clark University, at Atlanta,
Ga, as q suitable monument to his
memory, his name to be given to Pro-
fessorship in the institution, in which
he was very much interested.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church, which
meets at Pittsburgh in May, is the first
| of the reunited Methodist and Methodist
Protestant Churches, and will revise
the work of the Union Convention, and
perhaps take steps for the establish
ment of a theological institution.
The Catholics demanded of the
Swiss Federal Government that Epipha-
nv, the Publication of the Virgin Mary
and the festival of the Immaculate Con-
ception should be declared legal holi-
DAYS. The Government objected to
adding three holidays to those already
in the almanac, and refused the de-
mand.
Hon. Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia,
has placed in the hands of Rev. j. P.
Boyce, Treasurer of the Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary of Louisville, $4,000
| for the endowment of professorship.
1t is the intention of the faculty to so
add to this as to make a special endow-
ment fund of $3.50, 900 for the support
of professors. = =
bishop Corrigan, of New Jersey.
has issued circular recommending the
formation of debt-paying societies
throughout the diocese for the purpose
of liquidating the debts of theSarious
churches. The total debt of the Church
in the State he gives as 81 900, 900. For
these societies he advises a system oi
monthly payments instead of fairs and
festivals. Na
-Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians
and others have for some years enjoyed
their denominatiOna watering; places
and seaside resorts. Now the Quakers
have determined to be even with them
and have purchased 400 acres on
Brigantine Beach, N. j., for $40, 900,
These solid people do not believe il
owing money, and therefore pay hard
cash for the property. e.A E.it 4