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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
At the last commencement of the Mass

At the last commencement of the Mass
achusetts agricultural college the fellow
ing seniors took part in the public exer-
cises:
Arthur Whitaker of Needham, 1.-The
Plea for Free Ships" H. +. Chapin of
Springfield. Modern DeSpotiSm; & ID.
Warner of GRANNY. " National Danger =
f B. Rawson of Bronklvn. N. Y. JUST
iiratinn;' II. NJ +. Smith of North H;tClley.
"Knowledge and Wlsdom;" j. l. Hills
of b ,stnn, Chemistry in Agriculture;
& l.. Fin, Jr. of Boston, The Spirit OF
Inveninn;" f d Howe of Marlboro,
The End of the Gadialoral Games
What a decidedly agricultural flavor
there is in the programme of essays OF
the seniors-amoSt an OdOr from the barn
at PEA for Free Ships" we suppose
means tree scholarships, National Dan
gers" must, we suppose, refer to oleO-
margarine, aud d" The End of GladiatOrial
Games no doubt, pictured the millennial
PERIOD when by following the rules gwen
the "crcus" which attends the milking
of kicking COWS will be known only in
story With some of the others we cannot
trace the agricultural connection, but no
doubt 1t is there.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20

on our old seat in the cab Of mo. J."
rolling along at the rate OF forty miles an
hour, with long string OF cars behind us.
Some mistakes have been made, which
will serve as help to us in the future. as
we shall look back AMI see the results
that followed, and know how to avoid the
same mistakes the second time.
enltavor to make more or less perma
nent improvements every year, and ma
that the more lahor and money | invest
this way the more income | receive, and
il looks wrong to me to see farmers
Skinning their farms to add to THAR bank
account The farmer, if he understands
his business. should be his own banker.
and his "slfe" should be in the soil, for
he will therefrom draw the surest interest.
if it is rightly titled.
NY aim, as nearly as possible. is to have
no waste ground. believe in making
and applying all the manure we can, and
keep the land constantly producing some
thing-a crop to turn under, If nothing
else.
Much more manure could be made than
usually is made, if farmers would pay
proper attention 10 the matter. The hogs
will manufacture nice pile if furnished
with proper material. Then there are the
poultry droppings. which. if saved and
c,mpOsted properly, make fine article
for the corn, and by keeping absorbents
constantly in the privY, II "pouderette y
can be made for the garden that is of much
more value than a great deal that Is sold
IN our m ukcts, at heavy prices, while the
cost of the home made is SIMPLY little
labor in compOsting.
Bro her farmers, can you afford to pay
biz prices for commer cial fertilizers. and
let those on the farm 60 to wasteP Think
of it, and sec what can he done to save
the home supply. Many barn yards are
50 situated as 10 let the rains wash from
them directly into the streams, and many
dollars are thus lost. Cannot something
be done to prevent thisp The more
manures we can have the better, for we
are thus enabled to raise larger crops and
keep more stock, -. have more manure
again, and thus go on increasing the ca
pncjty of the farm annually. | believe il
is possible to constantly add to the
productlveness of II farm by good man
cement and the application to thu soil o
large piles of manure.
Yes, Young Farmer" give ue chap
ter on farm blacksmithing and horse
shooting. do Il little of the former, bu
for the latter prefer to drive 10 tn
village. Also, please give us some idea
bout those "odi JOBS on the fam gen
orally, such rs tne making of some o
those mechanical contrivances which on
Friend rinkham speaks of.
! think that cutivator you mention
would work well on land free from stones
but does it work well on land that is ful
of small stones, and are the teeth 81
,traghtP Wouldn't it be better TO Sian
them back littlep
| +. H. ID.
Steuben County, N. Y.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
The Farm blacksmith Shop Again.

When our grandfathers were BOYS they
lid all of the larm work by hand or with
very rude implements. The soil was then
rich. and would produce good crop with
hut little cultivation. Now the soil, every
thing is changed; the sni, in order to pro-
duce n good crnp requires the best OF
eutivali ion, and Yankee ingenuity Is taxed
to its utmost to devise tools To keep mp
with the times. Now, the grain drill takes
the place OF the hand sowing, The moving
machine and reaper the place of the scyt1e
and sickle. the threshing machine OF the
Il ill, the horse rake and hay tedder of the
SPREADING stick and hand rake, the steel
and chilled iron plows the place OF the
wooden plows with wrought iron share,
the improved pulverizers, the place OF the
wooden toOthed harrow, and others with
out number, each new tool calling Tor
some other invention to finish what they
began Ii is these tools that make II farm
blacksmith shop necessary. Like all KINDS
OF machinery they are constantly wearing
md unless kept up by repairing will not
pay the first cost, though there are eXcep
ions TO this rule. Some farm tools will
d " for themselves the first 81 aSOn, need
ny no repairs II II great while, hut AS :,
general thing there Is continually needed
,ruairing Have any of the readers uf the
FIREMAN ever been into horse nail lac
tory wnen in full operation, and watched
Il nail from the time it leaves the iron ROT
until 1t comes out all pointed and bright ?
II so, then he must have noticed VIII I AN
amount Of wear and tear there must be to
he IN chinery to make the thousands OF
A, 4 In l. hut
1t is entirely different from common nail
factory, but it is not INV purpose to describe
It here. If these horse nail factories we've
Obliged To depend upon some other ma
chine shop for repairs to tn, lr machinery
it would use up II large portion OF Their
profits. Now farmer equipped with the
improved machinery of the times (tnd n"
farmer will say that they can go back to
the old ways) Is IN one sense he the horse
nail factory; II he would have the entire
benefit of his tools he must do the repair
ing ri his own shop. 1t is for this reason
hat again bring the subject before my
brother farmers who read the FREEMAN
One tool calls for another, we have got It
have them sooner or later us our farms
will go back on us, and they will have tt
he repaired, or else new ones must take
their place before they are half worn out
Can the farmers afford to depend on thu
hIarhsmlt Tor repairs? We think not, anr
Is proof we give below the amount o
WORK done in our own shop from April lst
1880 TO March 3Oth inclusive, 1881, max
ing Just one year. This is WORK actually
required, that we would had to have gone
10 the blacKsmlth's for if we had no shoE
IF our own. The prices we have figured
below is what we had to pay the black
smith for doing the same work.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
For the Freeman.
Hints from Onr Farm,
July 9, 1881

1t is not what would be called a large
farm, although it Is about rs large ms
care tor. because believe in " II little farm
well titled" rather than large one half
run over and overgrown by brush and
hramble. with everything all askew, re-
mndng one of the shifLless farmers sur.
rouudings as seen illustrated in some of
the pictorial papers occasionally, But,
good reaCer, do not let me mi>lead you
into the belief that "uur farm" il
! paradise. On, no! 1t is not. But we
ire irving 10 make it our ideal AS nearly
a circums' ances and other things will all
nit, bat | expect it will he the work of II
lifetime and yet be unfinished because life
is short ut the best, and the older we get
the more do werealze the fact. The years
do not seem half rs long ~ they used to,
aud we can accomplish only small part
OF what we would like to in the coul ST. al
Il Year; but as we look back few years,
we oln see that something, at least, has
b, en- accomplished and that we have en-
ioye quite Il degree of hnppiness in doing
what we have done; but AS yet it falls far
short of being the farm which we contem
plate making OF it if we are Successful,
tor. let it be known that when we com.
menced on it, it WIS nearly all covered
by woods, and that, too, something les
than half score of years ago, and not a
sign Of building on it either; and. Mr..
f itor, if you ever had any experience
in working new land, you must know that
It takes IL great deal OF elbow grease 10
gether with considerable patience, and
some time, to subdue it; but when the soil
is GOOD, the reward is sure to follow; and
hence we are enabled TO do all this with
some cheerfulness, believing that we are
on the right track and less likely to meet
with "smashup," than when sitting
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20

leaving balance of SI6 81
n our favor Then there is work amount
NO to over So that | have done for our
ueghbors when could not neg off, which
,ill more than pay the interest on tno,s
md stock used. There is besides the abUv,
yearly halt AS much more work MOI claSsed
with actual necessities, but which We
'ound very convenient to have done, among
shirh was the one horse seed snwrr tie
scrlbrd by Dr. Ho>kins in the Verm9nt
,Jou,n nal, the labor and iron used in making
it estimated at $40. The steel punches
marked (*) cost ut the hardware store 20
cents each, the cold chlsel so cents. The
oil cup TO section bar could not hav" go'
nut on AT any blacksmith's short of 30, il
is u peculiar piece of work, and | doub
whether | could have got it done ut all.
The time that the horse rake broke, cost
ing only 50 cents to mend, would have
been more than IS damage to us it we ha
mad TO take it to the bIacksmlth's "a mlles)
hereby losing the time and having Oul
hay get wet, Us it would at the time
There are "a out of these % dates in which
blacksnithing would have had to be done
It the time, requiring So miles travel, with
! 1 loss 10 the farm OF not less than Is lay'
# one self and horse, and calling ii 81 81
Or man and horse also esimated) amount
NJ to 1922 so, add this to the SIG SO AM
what do y, IL have,-just 500 80, saved b.
dong ones repairing at their own shop
| All farmers of course do ct have a
much mending to do, but they have mon
than they have any idea of, as they do no
Keep any account of the backsmilhs' bill
OF the time spent in going TO and from tn
shop When | began this intended t
say something about horse shoeing, but
is now longer than meant to have it, $
that the horse shoeing and non shoeing
will have to go over to the next.
YOUNG FARMER.
July 9, 1881.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20

Take dried beef sliced thinly-the same
quantity or a little more than you would
use in cream or milk gravy. For four
persons use a handful Of slices; put
them in kettle, pour one quart OF boiling
water over them and set over The hrei
hen pare and slice half-a- dozen potatoes,
also one or two onions and put them in.
Of you are going to divert yourself with
Il visit in the afternoon you can leave out
the onions, if you prefer-it Will not spoil
the soup). Add salt and pepper to suit
boil one-half hour, or till all are soft and
tender; then pour in half pint or more
of sweet cream, or if you economize' call
it creamy milk. small piece OF butter
and serve with crackers.
Mrs. G F. ID.
Montpelier. July IL, 81.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.

We invite for this column, contributions from our
ady readers, to make it such as snail be of value
and interest to them Any topic of domestic economy
which may suggest itself to them may be discussed
and hopethis feature will prove successful, and al
additional attraction to readers.
Contributions should be sent to the Editor of th
Agricultural Department
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20

BLACK ANTs.-Can some reader of the
household column give IA remedy for the
black ants which seem to have the ability
10 seek out the " goodies if they he hid
never so cleverlyP We have no trouble
with red ants but the black ones do bother
US exceedingly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
Genuine Shaker Medicine

invented hy Thos Corbett and prepared for fifty years
Nv the CfNTERBURY SOCIETY OF SHAKERS, at SHAKER
VILLAGE " II. Those who have failed to be benefited
nv other Sarsaparilas earnestly desired to make
single trial of this pure and Wholesome compound of
shaker Sar5aparilla Daud lion. yellow Dock, Nan
brake, Black Cohosh, daryet, Indian Hemp and the
Potassium, made by the Society because 1t IL safe
never falling and adapted to all ages aud both
1t rleanses the blood regulates the stomach and
bowels, puriRes the system of humors and inherited
diseases, and is of priceless value in maintaining the
health of the household. Inquire for CoRBETT' Is
SHAKERS SARsApARILLA. Sold every where.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
agricultural department,
o. M. TINkHAM. Editor.

All communications for this department should be
sent to the editor. Mr.. o NJ. rINKHAH, n. Pom
fret, VI.
Please write on side of the paper only ssnsueh
name OF initials as you wished published. but give
your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS post office. County and
State
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
Central Vermont R. R. Line.
Commencing Monday, June r. 1881


TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST
Lava Wop,pelier at % aud II IS N; Is and II 4"
Nj, from st Adams aud Burlington leaves MONS
Nal q AZ n for Boston. New York and all P'inN
In New s1 Montreal st Adams BIrlingon, &C.
,sas Wortnelier II IS N, for toncord nsn, va
eaNtes o,ass boston, Springfield, New LONDON anu
NeT n9Ikrr leaves st Adams % P M BurlinR-
,on ~ p NJ Montpelier a Al, for S9rtnnmeih :, Al
toN " F%pErss from Oxdeusburg Montrra ~ ~
Mans and BURLINGTON leaves Montpelier ~ u VI
Boston, via Lowell or fltchOutsni opiiHe '' 49,
YORK and ltermediate points
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
lava Noptpelier at 90 o. 10 4OA NJ, and So and
B,T FxPRrss leaves Boston via, Fitchburyh at 90
NJ via, Lowell 80 n, Ns" & M for Bur
iington, Rutland, st. Adams MONTREAL anu 'eu"l'
olnrcScoNNopArIos Train leaves Northhed at % NJ
Mo1tpeiier Q O5 NJ, for Burlington, Rutland 81 NJ
oaI am leaves White River Junction 80 N, North
sed Ia 10 a NJ Montpelier IL % ~ for BuriinEtoh'
q AIhans Richfprd, RuuseS Point &c. A. a 81
ACCOMMODATIONS leaves white RIVER JunaGftlnn : w.
NIGuT EXPRFss leaves Boston VIA, LgNeli az Z W =
~ via. FItchburgh % NJ, Ne" hark Wt M'
ION St Adams, Montreal aud Osdensburg ana the
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at SoAN IL 81
RetruinS leave Barre at 35A NJ, 80 p N, aud q
Sgonnv cars are attached to Night Express trains
rnnning net geen Non trea and Boston, and MONTREAL
| and Springfield, and New York and wa. Troy dhi
Parlor Cars and Day EXPRESS between nnstoh anu
Throuyh tickets for Chicago aud the West Tor sale al
the principal stations VI uop.ur
GEM. Supt.
ct Adams Vt, June 25. 1881
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
The Great Health Restorative

NIFTY Years of faithful attention to the minutes
L l.tuls tho itowTH, SELECTION, AND Pre-
PARArIoN of it's Ingredients eutle this great original
Family Medicine to the confidence of those desiring
a pure, safe effective and genuine Blood Purifier
Spring Medicine, Appetizer aud Tonic 1t has been
publicly aud prescribed by hundreds of the
greatest American physicians, among whom are Drs
Valentine Mott. Dixi Crosby and Prof. Cleveland
every iru tist familiar with its virtues will bear ties.
timouyto its universal excellence, unequaed purity
| and uever-faling success. lisa
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performed in double largo, so to speak
will bring his mind to our instruction
before he gets through it, and when thai
is over and everything lovely,
Far from mortal cares
comes naturally enough. If this explana-
ton is not satisfactory, why, call the mat.
ter carelessness, which may perhaps come
rs near the truth.
But there is soothing power in music
in " concord of sweet sounds" and whti
the tolls, troubles and cares of the day ar,
over. the piano OF orgao (evon though on
he too tired to sing to its playing givin;
forth some of the sweet oil tunes SEQ hc
and leads the soul to peace and rest'unes'
Cultivate mu ic in the family. 1t IS
powerful influence for good, anl brings Il
its web of harmony abundant and pun
Enjoyment.
AGRICULTURAL EDITOR.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
To the BOYS Of New England.

Every day at noon, precisely, after April 4,b. +,
Balloon six feet high will be released from tht
top of Oak Hall, Boston. and a reward Of a sur N
clothes will be paid TO the boy who captures land
returns it TO Boston. We also gire to every ems
toner in our boys department, an inflated Partisan
Balloon, 90 centimetCrs in diameterl
The stock Of Mems and Boys Spring and Sum.
mer Suits and Spring Overcoats is complete. md
surpasses in variety and general excellence Al
former displays. In three hundred New England
towns and cities are represented hy rsfahlI.be5
Agents, in whose hands full lines Of Spring and
Summer Samples will be found, and with whom
our trade can confidently deal.
When you go to Boston be sure and visit OAK
Hall-the famous, one.price, reliable Clothing
House
Samples and rules for self measure sent to any
address
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20
Montpelier. July IL, 81.
REMARKS.

We seem to have fallen into trouble by
not explaining sufficiently the "order Of
exercises" as one of our esteemed friends
and correspondents has taken us to task
privately for the supposed attempt to dress
Balerma in the clothes belonging to
Greenvile. When COW kicks rs describ-
ed, one hymn tune doesn't suffice, and
Balerma,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-20

AGRICULTURAL EDITOR.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-12
Big Words.

Big words are great favorites with
people of small ideas and weak concep.
tions. They IRE sometimes employed
by men of mind, when they wish to use
language that may the best conceal
their thoughts. With few exceptions,
however, illiterate and h~alf-educated
persons use more "big words" than
people of thorough education. It is
a very common, but egregious mistake,
to suppose that the long words are more
genteel than the short ones-just as the
same sort of people imagine that high
colors and fashy figures improve the
style of dress. They are the kind of
folks who dontbegin, but commence"
They don't live, but "reside." They
don't go to bed, but mysteriously "re-
tire, They don't eat and drink, but
"partake" of Refreshments" They
are never sick, but Extremely indis-
posed " and instead of dying, at last
they "decease." The strength of the
English language is in the short words
chiefly monosyllables of Saxon deriva-
ton ; and people who are in earnest
seldom use any other. Love, hate,
anger, grief and Joy express themselves
in short words and direct sentences
while cunning, falsehood and affectation
delight in what Horace calls ver6a se8-
quipedalio-words ga foot and a half "
1ono
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-12
Begging in New York.

A New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Transcript writes: Among other
kinds of business which are Furnishing
in New York just now is that of begging.
The mendicant is seen everywhere.
Chancellor Crosby, in an address the
other evening said that after a months
experience in personally investigating
cases in which he had been applied to
for help, he had found all beggars to be
frauds. He believed, too, that all the
beggars he had known for thirty years
past had been foreigners, or the children
of foreigners. This is a sweeping as
sertion but it is pretty near the truth.
Begging is made a regular occupation to
a much greater extent than is generally
known.
Yet there are cases that appeal 80
strongly to your sympathy that you Ear
hardly pass them by. I found one the
other evening. I had crossed the ferry
to Brooklyn about dark, when a little
girl asked me for a penny to buy bread
for her sick mother. She was bare-footed
and shivering in her thin clothes, and
seemed to be a deserving object of char
ity. But I thought I would investigate
little. So I insisted on her taking me
to see her sick mother. Very reluctantly
she led me to a comfortably furnished
apartment in a neighboring street, where
I found the sick mother to be a robust
Irish woman who was bustling about
preparing supper for the family.
There were ornaments on the mantel
and pictures on the wall, and an ample
supply of cold meat, bread, and tea on
the table. I used some vigorous Ian
guage appropriate to the occasion, when
the woman said she had sent the child
to beg in the streets, but her reply was
characteristic of the class to which she
belonged: "Shure, and what harm is
there in the child's earning a few pennies
at the ferry!?"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-12
How to Behave at a Party.

I remember that when I was quite
young going to a party was nearly as
much q trial to me as q pleasure. Being
diffident, / dreaded entering the room,
and e~ncountering the eyes of the people
already assembled there; and once fairly
in, I was overshadowed all the evening
by the dreadful necessity of, by-and-by,
retiring. Besides, I felt q sense of re-
sponsibility which was very oppressive,
and was so afraid of not doing or saying
what was expected of me that I moved
and acted awkwardly, and no doubt
looked perfectly miserable.
Perhaps some Of you may have had
experiences similar to mine. Now let me
tell you that I have lived to laugh at my
foolish shyness, and to be very sorry for
boys and girls who suffer from the same
thing. =. When you are invited to a com-
pany, the first thing in order is to reply
to the invitation. This is polite, whether
you accept or decline, and it is inaperd-
the if you decline. Send your answer
as-soon as possible, in some such simple
phrase as this: "Harold," OF FLORENCE,
thanks Mrs. II for her kind invitation
for Thursday evening, and accepts it
with pleasure" or declines it with real
regret" as the case may be. Arrived at
your friends house, you will be directed
to the proper place for the removal of
your wraps, and the arrangement of
your toilet, and then you have only to
proceed to the parlor, where your hostess
will relieve; you from embarrassment by
meeting you at once. She is, Of course,
the first person whom you are to greet.
Having spoken to her, you are at liberty
to find other friends. Dol not think that
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-12
The Rarity Of Healthy Genius.

We acknowledge reluctantly that of
few painters can it be said that they
were, at the same time, highly educated
as youths, highly experienced in the
world as young men, highly successful
in the art they practiced and the friend
ships they gained, and highly honored
at the close of their career for their pic
lures, their teachings and their life.
Something, we a not say what, that
belongs to the artist temperament is
generally found to prevent either the
success sought for or the respect that
should accompany it; or, if it makes
shipwreck of neither fame nor respect,
yet forms the cause of disaster still more
fatal to happiness, and spreads over re-
putation and honor a shadow of morbid
sadness which admits of little or no al
deviation. Healthy genius may exist,
we believe it has existed, but it is GER
tainly the rarest thing in the world, and
all the conditions of modern life seem to
be against its development. spectator.