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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

The receipts of wheat in Great Britain
from India have materially increased in
recent years. That country has been
placed in the fourth rank of wheat pro-
ducing countries by DR.. Forbes Watson,
the United States, Russia and France tax
ing precedence. The area sown is
assumed to be nearly 100000 acres,
yielding some thing over 200,0O0,00O
bushels. The product in the Punjaub is
about equal to that of good crop year in
this country, in the northwestern provin-
ces somewhat less, and in the central
provinces not more than two-thirds as
much. The return is more dependent on
cultivation and judicious fertilization
than upon climate. India may continue
and strengthen its competition with our
wheat fields. 1t is the policy of the
British government to obtain the raw
materials of British manufacture, and the
food for the supply of the bread of labor
ers rs well, from her own colonies. Brit
sh investments in outlying real estate
return dividends in wheat and wool and
cotton, that are counted as imports, thus
accounting for the anomaly of prosperity
with an apparently adverse balan &c Of
trade.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

MINNESoTA's GRAIN CRoP.-St. Paul
MINI. Aug. 18.-The Pioneer Press will
print tomorrow an editorial review of the
acreage and yield of the wheat crop of
1880, based upon information received
from several independent sources, includ-
ing returns from many thrashings. The
acreage sown to wheat is little less than
5000 900, and the yield per acre is esti-
mated at Is bushels, in the following way
In the southeastern counties, between the
Iowa and Minnesota division of the
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad,
where chinch-bugs have caused some
injury, the average will be II bushels.
West of here and south of the Minnesota
river the same conditions prevail, but the
arear of territory affected is smaller. and
the average yield will be IA bushels In
the central belt of counties, north of the
Minnesota, the yield will vary from II
bushels in low ground to IS on high, with
an average of II bushels. In the Red
River Valley and northern Pacific country,
the average yield will be Mt least 20 bush
els, and east of the Mississippi, Is. The
average for the whole state will be Is
bushels. The whole yield will be about
45, 100000 bushels: The yield of oats for
the season is estimated at about q 600, 900
bushels; of corn, 1860 600 bushels, and
of barley, 3,1S6,00O bushels, making the
total crop of Minnesota this year nearly
9O,000,000 bushels.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

SELECTING DAIRY Cows.-Look first tc
the great characteristics of a dairy COW
a large stomach, indicated by broad hips,
broad and deep loins and sides, II large
digestive apparatus, which is the first
essential requisite to the manufacture OF
milk. Secondly, good constitution de-
pending largely upon the lungs and heart,
which should be developed, and this is
easily determined by examination; but
the vigor and tone of the constitution are
indicated by the lustre of hair and bright
ness of the eye and horn, and the whole
makeup. Thirdly, having determined
her capacity for digesting surplus food
for making milk, look carefully to the
receptacle for the milk-the udder-and
the veins leading to it. The cow may
assimilate large amount of food which
goes mostly to lay on flesh and fat; but il
she has a long. broad and deep udder
with large milk veins, it is safe to con
clude that her large capacity for digestion
and assimilation are active in filling this
receptacle In fact, the udder is the frs
point to look at in a cursory examination
of COW, for nature is not apt to Great,
in vain. If it reaches to the back line o
the thighs, well up behind, reaches wei
forward, is broad and moderately deep
with teats well apart, and the skin sof
aud elastic, it may be inferred that natur,
has provided means for filling it.
If the udder be small, round cylinder
hanging down in front of the thighs, lik
six quart pail, the COW cannot be
profitable mixer, whatever digestiv
apparatus she may have.
A yellow skin and yellow ear Inside
are almost universally regarded as presen
in COW that gives rich, yellow milk; blu
after you find the indications mentione'
above, you may admire as many othe
points as you please-such as first-clas
escutcheon, long slim tail, beautiful
turned, dishing face, dropping wax.
horn, small, straight, slim leg, or an
other fancy points; but do not look 70
those till you have found the essentials
National LiUe Stock JOnrnGL.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

SORGHUM FOR FoDDER.-C. w. 7. OF
Dighton writes as follows, and requests
immediate answer, "Do you know
whether the early amber or other varie-
ties of sorghum fodder will injnre stock
when fed to them? l have some early
amber, from seed sent from Washington
1t is growing finely-ten feet high or
more. have been told by man former
ly living in the west that it is indigesti-
bic for stock, and will not do to feed to
them. l have quite quantity but nc
apparatus for making syrup, and would
like to feed it to my mich cows"
We have been feeding sorghum for a few
weeks, along with fodder corn. We have
found the cows to leave more of the sorgh
um butts than of the butts from western
corn, but have not noticed that it was
more indigestible than corn fodder, though
last night and this morning we found two
of the COWS had made quite a shrinkagt
in their milk. but have not ascertained the
cause. We had not thought that the sorgh
UNI was the cause. These things some
times require very careful investigation
We find the pigs are very fond of sorghum
butts when thrown into their pens afte
the COWS have rejected them.-America'
CuitiUGtOr.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

TIE DRoUTH is at present the severest
we have experienced in the state for years,
in many sections causing great inconven-
ience and labor in getting water for the
lse of the house as well as for stock. In
.. drive of ten miles day or two since.
we passed four watering places where or
Iinarily there is plenty of water, but now
every one is dry enough for a goose nest,
and no present prospect of rain. Vennor
may prophecy rain, but like the minister S
reply when asked to pray for rain, Z" il
will do no good while the wind is in this
quarter"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

1t is all very nice for an agricultural
contributor to write about applying ma
nure, but when II comes down TO hardpan,
and he has to change his ink pot for a
manure cart, and his pen for dung fork,
things change appearances. That is Just
nv fix. I have a hundred loads Of well
rotted manure to haul out this fall. /
must do this. pillow twenty-five acres for
wheat. build some fence. thresh, and help
my neighbors do so. and dig my early
potatoes-all in five weeks. have al
ways tried to make good profession in
the columns of the Farmer, and have
succeeded hitherto in living up to it, but
am very much afraid that this formidable
combination of circumstances will force
me to backslide.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

If good friend Mary takes off oeander
cuttings now and merely suspends their
bases in the neck of bottle of water, in
not too shady place, she will be likely
to see white roots burst through in a
couple of weeks. and she can then pot
them. Firm, stout, short branchlets. pre-
pairing to bloom. do well. and will often
open their bloom from the store they con-
tain, aided by the water. In May the old
wood is too old and the new shoots too
new to endure through the operation; and
the air and temperature are less favorable.
| take up n large oleander in early fall,
shorten the roots and tops. Our practice
is 10 turn the oleanders out of pots into
the open ground late in May. They are
set round one side of a small white lily
pond where they benefit by its overflow,
along with forget-me-nots, musk plants,
ETC.. rs a carpeting. In October those
that have not become too large are taken
up, shortened in-top and root-and stood
in dry, well aired sand or coal ashes on
the rather damp cellar floor. In February
or March they are repotted in fresh soil,
and given watering and warmth. The
pairs of young shoots that appear at the
base of the thyrsoid cymes of flowers
are pinched out. Young plants are pref
tier than old ones, and preferable. The
oleanler is said to be most poisonous in
the hottest weather.-BLatr, in Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

DR.. Herman Mueller has, not long
since. published work in which he seeks
to explain the existing variations in the
forms Of flowers on the principle of Sc
lection. His supposition is that insects Of
different tastes bred peculiar flowers. just
as men breed peculiar races of cattle.
Carrion-loving insects bred their kind OF
flowers, and long-tongued insects the
tubular kinds, aud many other classes Of
insects have, each class, bred the flowers
they love hest.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

Hereford cattle being large, hardy,
thrifty, maturing early and making an
excellent quality of beef, are finding favor
at the west; many have been transferred
thither from the eastern states and Canada
and considerable importations are annu-
ally made. A distinguished breeder in
Missouri has just imported thirty three
Hereford cows, one bull and nine calves,
all said to have been selected from the
best herds in England. Steers of this
class we'll fattened and exported to Great
Britain will be certain to find a waiting
market at good prices.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

GERMAN CROPS RUINED London.
Aug. ia Berlin dispatch SAYS: 1.-The
papers are again full of disheartening
reports of the harvest in Silesia, Posen,
and East and West Prussia. .rhe crops in
certain districts in these provinces may be
said to be wholly Destroyed. Lives have
been lost, railway and river embankments
have been swept away, bridges broken
down, villages flooded, farms inundated,
and vast tracks of grain growing land
converted into lakes and swamps by tor
rents of rain, while great famine is
feared in all the above-named provinces,
The correspondent, who penetrated the
furthermost parts of Silesia, estimated
that in one potato district alone the dam
age amounts TO the sum of 100000 marks,
while 1000 acres of arabic land and pas
ture ground were inundated by the
overflow of the Oder. In the neighbor'
hood of ,Oppeln, 5000 acres OF potato
fields are covered with water. Whole
clusters of villages are isolated. The rain
was so violent that in few hours the
river Neisse rose six feet. In Posen an i'm
mense expanse of meadow is inundated, No
only is the grain destroyed, but straw also
1t is feared that in some places the wet
ness of the ground may disastrously delay
or altogether prevent its preparation fol
next years seed. In the district of Kuhn
West Prussia, "a hours of rain completed
ruined the harvest, especially of wheat
In some parts of East and West Prussit
the fields are so impossible that it il
impossible to garner what remains of thu
grain. Potatoes are beginning to rot. |
will thus appear that the official estimate
of the German harvest prospects recent.
published will have to be greatly lowered
Rye is almost wholly destroyed. Whea
and barley have little surviving value ii
the market. For the laboring portion o
the community the potato crop is the mos
serious, and aid of the government i
already being earnestly invoked.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

Fellow farmers, look out for the wei
worm. 1t is to be met in our orchards
with alarming and increasing frequency
As soon as youj discover branch on
which they have effected settlement, cut it
off and burn it, and in this way we can
escape its -ravages, at least to a great
degree. Where they become numerous
they attack other trees, and their unsightly
webs cover elm, ash, willow and many
other trees. Burn EN-.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

With good bulbslthere is no difficulty in
obtaining fine tuberoses; with poor ones
it is impossible. For early Towering,
bulbs have to be started in pots, in the
house, and transferred to the open ground
about the first of June. when the remain
ing ones should be planted for late sue
cession. They require deep, rich soil,
and should be planted not less than foul
inches deep.-Anlericdn CultiUator.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.

We invite for this column, contributions from our
lady readers to make it such shall be of vslu
and interest to them Any topic of domestic economy
which may suggest itself to them may be discussed
and we hope this feature will prove successful and an
additional attraction to our readers.
Contributions should be sent to the Editor of the
Agricultural Department
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

Much alarm is felt about the disease
which is injecting cattle at Erie. A veter.
mary surgeon calls it splenis or Texas
fever. or more properly, anthrax. 1t is
very contagious, and the breaking out is
due to the number OF Texas cattle import,
cd and unloaded in Erie.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08
agricultural department.
ON. TINKHAM, Editor.

All communications for this department should be
s'nt to the editor, Mr.. o. NJ. TINKHAM, n. Pom
tret, VT.
Please write one side Of the paper only sign su
WINE or initials as you wished published but give
'ur FULL NAME AND ADDRESS, post office, County and
STATE.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION
NA Nervousness Hysteria Night Sweats, Sleep
lessness Cough Emacistion and Decline are at once
arrested by MALT BITTERS. This original aud in
comparable FooD MEDICINE isrch in nOurishment
and strength 1t feeds the body and the brain.
regulates the stomach and bowels ceauses the liver
and kidneys increases the appetite and enriches the
blood Health, strength, and peace of mind are sure
to follow its daily use Prepared by the MALT BIT
TIERS CONPAN from Uhfermsni.f vat and Hops,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

perience with a feeling akin Ito perfect
satisfaction. P. S.-The trough is not
patented. +. D. CARTS, ia Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
Central Vermont R. R. Line.
Commencing Monday. July II. 1880.
rRAINsaorsG SOUTH ASDRAsT

TRAINsaoING SOUTH ANDRAsT
Leave ontpeneIAts.soA and I145A .N.,s.S6andlll1
P nj, fam svraeuse and oydensburgh. 81 Al
as ana BurIinStOn leaves Montpelier 500 A A.tor
Roston via Lowell. O.. 49,. p,rii,o,on
Express from Montreal, 81 Adams fnr Rost9n
Nav London, springfield, New YORK anu lh'er
mediate Adams % PM Burlington
, ~ " Montpelier IS p. N for Northheid a. a,
,ouT FTPRFss from Ogdensburg, Montreal 81 ~
~ and burlington leave Montpelier at lllO ioI
pans s ~ ia Lowell or Fitchburgh springfield New
Y0Tk and intermediate points
TRAINsGOINeNORTH WEST
NoutpeiIer at slOs 50 NJ. 1850 and sb5 and
f6;n1ExPREssleaves Boston via, FIteh9urgh At 20
- via. Lowell s.f5 A. N 9. New LONDON 9.Vu a. m
=: n teisid 0O A NJ Montpelier s. P. NJ for Bur
ii}Engtnn 81 Adams Montreal, and O<densourt;- .
ACCOMMODATIONS Train leaves Northheld ~ 80 .;
WGXEpIeaves White RIVER unction5, 30 N iNorth'
- Libans Richford, Rouses Point 9c A. a,o
AUGMENTATION leaves White River junction z.lO,
Montpelier p NJ. for Burlington 81 AlOsns anu Nun
S1aHr EXPRESS leaves Boston via Lowell at 100
M via, Fitchburgh so p M New dof r. nv nv lin n
ton, st. Adams, Montreal and Osdensours' anu TN
West. NJ, - IN . =. a I.
ARetiurningl cave Barreat7 asa NJ. .andlO2OA NJ an
Sleeping cars are attached to Night Express train
running between Montreal and Boston, and MOntres
and Springfield, and New York and VIA troy an
Parlor Cars and Day Express between Boston an
Thronsh ioketsfor ChicagoandtheW estf rsale a
theprincpal stations uop,pr
| Genl Supt.
st. Adams, VT JulyllO, 1881
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

$500 ! !
m n A A MONTH guaranteed. Sl2 day a
ks home made by the industrious CAP
a pHEHH ita not required; will start You
AHUN Men, women, boys and girls make
a. A. HUE money fast at work for us than AT
NeHVHVV anything else The work is light anC
WV " pleasant, and such as anyone can u
right at Those who wise who sec
this notice l send their address at once and see
for themselves. Costly outfit and terms free Now Is
the time Those already at work are LAYING up large
sums of money Address, TRUE Co,
FM3ly1 Augusta, Maine.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-14
ALLEN O'MYERs.

REV. DR., FOWLER, whose hobnob-
bing with politicians has recently
gained him such unenviable notoriety,
is the official head Of the Missionary
Society of the NJ. e. Church. He
seems to have laid aside to a more
convenient season the work Of sending
Oh rist's Gospel of love to the heather
to engage in retailing mems hate to
their fellows. His tale.bearing Is no
exception to the rule of common tat
ling, that always expands It's commu-
nications. In this case the tale so
gained in malignity that its author felt
compelled, even at the expense Of
sanity veracity, to correct the caves
dropper's statement. Surely a man,
much less minister of the Gospel, so
greedy to become channel Of detrac-
tion and so ready to add venom to
scandal, seems an unfit person to send
the heathen a Gospel whose charity
thlnketh no evil Times.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-14
OHIO'S OUTLOOK.
Net Democratic Gains Over
Fosters Majority.

Net Democratic Gains Over
Fosters Majority.
Special to the PATRIOT.
COLUMBUS, O., October12--I2.5O
A. M.-Scattering returns have
been received at midnight from 600
precincts in all sections of the state,
which show a net democratic gain
Of LOO over Fosters majority last
year. The indications are that the
republican majority is less than TO- :
600 in the state. It looks as if the
republicans had elected both their
congressman in Hamilton county.
Hurd claims his election in the To-
ledo district and MacMahon is cleo
ted in the Dayton district. Durbin
Ward, democrat will probably be
beaten in the Third district by a
small majority. The towns general
| yshow republican gains while the
country districts como up strong for
the democrats.
ALLEN O'MYERs.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-14
WHOCAN VOTE.

The next election in Pennsylvania Will be
held on Tuesday, November 9, 1880.
Voters must be assessed two months before
the election-that is, on or before September 2.
The assessors mdst be at the election house
on Wednesday and Thursday, September lst
and End, from 10 o'clock A. NJ. to o'clock p. NJ
of each day, for the purpose Of correcting the
list of voters, by adding names thereto or strik-
ing them off.
The committee men OF the respective election
districts should attend at the time the assessor
sits to correct the list.
To secure their votes, voters must have paid
a state or county tax one month before the
election and within the two years Immediately
preceding the date OF one month before the
election: The last day for paying tax this year
is October End.
Members Of Democratic state, county and
city committees should see to 1t that every .vot-
er OF our party has complied with the law.
Failure to pay tax in season depriyes the
voter Of the privilege Of voting. An elector can
swear in his vote though he be not assessed.
But the neglect may cause much trouble.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-14
GEN. WEAVER a TRAITOR
TO THE GREENBACK
CAUSE AND A DIS
GUISED REPUBLICAN.

That James B. Weaver, the Green
back candidate for President, is trait
or tothe Greenback cause and has been
upon the stump In this canvass moth
ing but hireling of the Republican
National Committee, has long been
evident to every man of political intel
ligence in the country. No proofs be-
yond his public course were needed to
establish the fact. Still, the letter of
DR.. Lum, the Assistant Secretary of
the Greenback National Committee,
given in part in our telegraphic COL
umns to day, is interesting DR.. Lum's
evidence and structures, addressed 70
the chairman of the committee. Con-
gresham Mnrch, Of Maine, whose de-
feat Weaver sought to accomplish by
his visit to that state before the elec-
tion there, will open the eyes Of such
members Of the Greenback party as
heretofore been deluded by Weaver.
This man Weaver is native and
long time resident of Dayton, O., and
a cousin of James A. Garfield. He is
a Republican disguised rs a Greenbacks
9r and nothing else. lie has been
Republican officeholder under the state
government of Iowa, where he now re-
sides, and was for six years and until
the Office was abolished Assessor of
Internal Revenues for the first district
of Iowa under the Republican federal
administration.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-14
wAsHINaToNLErTER.
Washington, D. c. Oct. 9th 1880.

oouluSlUlls ~ ~ OCI' cGn lOOUs
Most Democrats regret now, think I.
that either General Hancock or his
friends have denied or explained any
falsehOod the Republicans have inven-
ted against him. Not but what she
answer has in everycase been complete,
but because the record has 50 prompt.
ly furnished a satisfactory answer
every time. I know of nothing like
the certainty and promptne ess with
which every charge against Genera |
Hancock has been met with a record
which contradicts it. In the case of
the Sherman correspondence in which
our candidate was said by Republicans
to have uttered disloyal sentiments in
1867, that publication Of the CORES
pondence itself was printed and it
showed him to be mal not only de-
voted to his country but one who hAi
clearer ideas of the question then
before us than the most prominent
public man. So thoroughly honorable
were the Generals letters, and so much
were they calculated to raise him in
public esteem that even the Republican
papers which clamored for their publ
cation refused to give them to the
public. So with the last slander, alleg-
ed to have been uttered by General
Grant, in relation to the Louisiana
and Texas command of genera Han
cock. The record shows that the story
is based on events which never occur-
ed.
In this campaign the Republicans
lave tried to falsity their own record
to injure Hancock and English, aud
have been compelled 10 do the same
thing to defend Garfield and Arthur.
Intelligent people will understand
what that necessity means. Besides
the negroes shipped through this city,
and the government employees given
leave and pay to go, some of the ex-
tremely rough classes of Washington
Radicals are in Indiana or on their
way. Some of the city policemen,
also paid by the government, are there.
In short, all that the Federal Capitol
through its Radical authorities, can do
to make Indiana and Ohio Republican
States on Tuesday is being done.
So much interest has been and is
still felt in Indiana and Ohio, that com.
paratively little attention has been
paid to other States. The Democracy
of New York, Massachusetts, Illinois,
Maine and other States, however, make
regular reports to the Committee
here, and uniformly Of o favorable
character,
Secretary Evarts is here,-or was,
this morning-but only for respite
from campaign work. No other Cab
met officer Is in the city.
CARROLL.