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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08
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Fifty-three million forest trees are reported
| to have been planted in Nebraska.
Twenty three thousand females are engaged
In farming operations in England on their
| own account.
Texas farmer invested $3.50 in a lO-acre
grove of 1000 black walnut trees ten years
ago, and the nuts bring him $1,000 year
now. In another ten years he expects the
| grove TO be worth $50, 900.
In the vicinity of Augsburg, Bavaria, snails
are raised, fed, and sold as food They are
said to be highly nutritious, and are recon-
mended in Europe as a food for consumptives
1t is said that in the vicinity of Augsburg
there are 20OO acres of land devoted to the
raising of snails alone.
| A correspondent of the New York Tribune
says; put your hen feed around the cur
rants l did this twice q week during May
and June, and not a currant worm was seen,
| while every leaf was eaten of other bushes
| $50 feet distant, and not so treated"
Bands Of music are forbidden to play on
most of the large wire bridges of the world
| constant succession of sound waves, espec-
tally such as come from the playing of a good
band, will excite the wires to vibration At
first the vibrations are very slight, but they
will increase as the sound waves continue to
| come.
BuckWheat may be made profitable upon a
piece of rough or newly cleared ground. No
other crop is 80 effective in mellowing rough,
cloddy land. The seed in northern localities
should be sown before July II otherwise
early frOsts may catch the crops. Grass and
clover may sometimes be sown successfully
with buokwheat.
The London News says ''Of all poultry
breeding, the rearing of the goose in favora-
BILE situations is said to be the least trouble
some and most profitable. 1t is not surpris-
ing, therefore, that tho trade has of late years
been enormously developed. Geese will live
and, to certain extent thrive on the coarsest
of grasses"
Prof. Kedzie of the Michigan Agricultural
College is reported as recommending q mix
ture of skim milk and brine as a wash for out
buildings, barns, roofs, etc. Besides being
durable, cheap, easily applied and impervious
to water, it renders the wood practically un-
inhammable.
The deer in Barnstable county, Mass. have
become 30 numerous under the protection of
the law which imposes a fine of 800 for
killing one of them, that farmers are serious
ly complaining of the damage by deer to cul-
tivated crops.
In testing eggs, the fresher the egg the
smaller the air-ehamber. This can be seen
at the broad end of the egg if it be held up
against a strong light in dark room. Stale
eggs have a mOttled, greyish look about them.
! new-lAid egg will always give a feeling of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

Corn meal and good clover hay will be a
proper combination of food to produce milk
for corn is rich in starch and oil, both good
for butter, and clover hay is rich in caseine
or cheese, 30 that they possess both the car
bonaceous and heterogeneous elements in prop
er balance. But corn meal is heating food,
and must be fed with good judgment. 1t
must not be fed alone, but mixed with a por-
ton of the clover hay. A portion of the clio.
yer hay should be cut into short lengths, and
the meal should be mixed with twice its bulk
of cut clover, the clover being moistened so
that the meal will adhere to the hay, and both
be eaten together If the meal is fed with
three times its bulk of cut clover, SO much
the better The meal being mixed with hay,
both will go into the stomach together, and
the meal, instead Of being massed in a lump
or bolus, will be distributed throughout the
contents of the stomach, will be raised and
remastoated, and thus not be likely TO pro-
duce feverish state of the system. Nicely
cured oarly-cut clover is a good single food
Tor milk, and corn meal will add other auali-
ties SO as to give some variety but these two
foods may be improved by adding others. SO
as TO give more variety. II dairymen should
grind half corn and half oats together. or
even one bushel of oats with two bushels OF
corn, 1t would decidedly improve the ration.
Oats are excellent for milk. 1t will also be
an Improvement TO mix 80 pounds of bran OF
wheat middiings with 100 pounds of corn
meal. II should always be borne in mind thai
the greater the variety in the food of the COW
the better.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

warmth IL the tongue is pressed to the large
end.
Purslane is weed which every one is de-
sirous to get rid Of, and at the same time II is
one of the most nutritive plants raised, either
on farm or in garden. When once started
it is most rapid grower, crowding out every
thing else, and il is most prolific Of seeds
few plants, however, are 80 rich in gelatine.
II is an excellent feed for swine.
A new system of weather signals for the
benefit Of farmers is now being perfected at
the Signal Bureau, Washington, which prom
Uses TO be of much value, particularly during
the harvest season. The plan will be to dis
charge at 3 A. M, at certain railroad stations
in farming sections, q red blue or green rock
et, the color to indicate clear, rainy or varia-
BILE weather The only expense to the govern
ment will be the rockets.
A neighbor says he plowed nm acre of rath-
or poor soil and in the furrow he laid corn
stalks lengthwise, burying these by turning
the next furrow, and so on till the whole was
plowed. On another acre he burnt the same
amount Of cornstalks, and spread the ashes,
the whole field then being planted with corn.
The latter portion started much better than
the first and during the early part of the sea-
son was a good deal ahead, but the latter part
Of the season the first portion went ahead, the
result being that the cornstalks brought off
the best crop.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08
The snnnIr Of nrook Trout.

Boston aud New York markets are well sup
piled with brook trout at 81 per pound. Very.
few Of these trout come from streams, but
most of them are propagated artihcially aud in
Long Island ponds. The waters in Long
Island are peculiarly adapted to trout raising.
The ponds and streams are fed by cold springs
and the supply never falls short even in the
dryest weather The soil is gravely, too,
and that is favorable for trout raising. A few
years ago a speculative mania for trout rails
ing broke out on the Island. 1t was estimat-
ed that an acre of water could be stocked with
100 600 young trout at q cost of S15 per
thousand, and that in two years these 10O,-
600 trout fry would weight 80, 600 pounds
which would bring in the market eighty cents
pound aud leave a good margin to the re-
taller at 81 per pound. But the actual re-
suits are different. Instead of 80, 900 pounds
at the end of two years, the Spectator finds
himself possessed of about 500 pounds Of
marketable fish. The reason for this is the
great mortality of young trout Eels gobble
them up, birds fish for them, and mink seek
them as toothsome morses. Muskrats catch
them, and distemper hurries them off. But
their worst enemies are their own kind.
When one trout grows to be a little larger
than his fellows he does not hesitate to eat
them.
Notwithstanding the unusual supply Of
trout this year the price remains at a dollar a
pound, as at the opening of the season. The
only reason l can see for this is that the aver
age purse is longer than usual and that the
average palate likes to be tickled with trout.
The highest price that trout ever brought in
this country was during the war, when II sold
readily at $3.50 pound The trout sold in
the markets come mostly from Brookshaven
Patchogues, and Babylon. Some handsome
fellows are sent from the ponds in the suburbs
of Providence, and from Westport and Wick
ford, II. l. A few come from Leomasters
station, in Pennsylvania. The season for
trout it the same all over the country it does
not change from one part of the country to
another, like strawberries or peaches, as
many suppose.-N y Letter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

ARTIFICIAL SoIL.-M. Dudouy, of Saint
Ouen, France, has been very successful in
chemical horticulture. In his garden he has
cultivated legumes, flowers, and trees in par
allel rows in three manners; l, with ordina-
ry manures; 2, with chemical manures in
garden soil 3, with a special compound,
which he calls floral, in pure sand. The re-
suits of the third experiments have been
striking, yielding the earliest, the largest,
and the most delicate vegetables, as well as
the most thrifty and brilliant flowers. The
floral contains nitrogen, phosphoric acid,
potash, magnesia and sulphur, in a form so
concentrated as to require dilution with twen-
ty thousand times their volume of water.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

writer in the American Cultivator, who
has recently made trip through several towns
in Windsor county, reports the hay crop in
that section to be light. A few counties north
of us appear to be the only part of New Eng
land where the weather has not been favorable
for heavy crop of hay. The writer found
much to instruct the agriculturist in the town
of Pomfret, where an intelligent community,
actuated by united sentiment and a praise
worthy public spirit, has wrought great
changes during the last twenty years. This
is first seen in the Improvement of farm build
ings-not in large, snowy houses so much as
in refined taste displayed in neat cottages
and pleasant grounds. In the Offering of
prizes through the grange, farmers have We'd
with each other in seeing who should set out
the greatest number of maple trees till now
many steep side hill and worthless sheep
pasture is rearing an orchard of sugar naples
The children of the present generation, at
least, will rise up some April morning and tap
the trees their fathers set. Dairying is the
great interest of the town at present nearly
every hillside pasture is dotted with Jersey
COWS, and here is some of the purest-bred
stock in the country, some animals having
been imported directly from the island of
Jersey. The evidences of progress and en-
lightenment that are seen in the farming COM
munity of Pomfret have been attributed in
great degree to the influence of the grange.
Among the mprovements-at least in the ap-
pearanoe of the landscape-that are noticed
in this thrifty town, is the clearing away of
the highway fences and the cultivation of the
fields close up to the road.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

One of the strong points in English farm
ing was emphasized as follows, by Prof. Rob
erts, of Cornell University Herein" says
he, 81 am satisfied, lies the secret of Eng
lands success in raising larger crops. 1t
would take away the breath of a prairie far
mer to hear even an Englishman's enumera-
tions of the spuddings,' the 'grubbings,' the
'twitchings, the borrowings, the cross. har-
rowings, the rollings and crushings that a
heavy clay field is subjected TO before it is
considered ready for wheat What is all this
for? Simply to unlock the full storehouse
of nature. That it is full has been proven
time and again. By actual analysis it is
found that an average soil contains, in the
first six inches, plant food enough for from
80 to $50 full crops of grain. l do not desire
to discourage the purchase and use of fertil-
izers, but what do protest against is, pur-
chasing on time commercial manures at $40
per ton, which are really worth only $25, to
enrich cloddy fields already fairly rich in
plant food, locked up, it is true, but there
none the less, only waiting little judicious
application of brain and muscle to set it free "
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

Do not drench them in water, nor put
them in barrel with an inch or two of water
in the bottom, nor tie them up by one leg to
tree, nor any of these cruel practices, which
our fathers in their ignorance used to quench
the natural instinct. But take them from the
nest, put them in a large coop in the open
air, under shade tree, if the weather is
warm, and feed them largely with everything,
including baked bones, that you give to your
laying hens. In many cases the fowl com
mences 10 sit when she is in good condition to
keep on laying eggs, if we can but get the
notion out of her head that she must be a
clucking mother. She needs perhaps the
material for egg shells, which may be easily
supplied. Furthermore, she should not be
put in Il small coop, where she will not OBJ
tain exercise; better put her in pen having
no floor, but loose earth, where she may
scratch for living Activity will tend to
forgetfulness of the sitting fever or desire to
sit 1t is well to provide also for social ac-
tivity and to this end cock may be intro
duced to pen where sitting hens are kept
He will talk in his own language, scratch with
the would-be sitters, and soon eggs will be
found, when you may be sure that the time
has come for more freedom. Poultry Yard
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

If the cold, rainy weather of June made
the corn grow slowly, it was the best we could
have for grass and it did us another valuable
service in suppressing the potato bugs, which
appeared in many fields at the beginning of
the season in greater numbers than ever be-
fore, eating of the leaves of early potatoes
nearly as fast as they came above ground.
But the cold, wet weather seems to have Civ
en- them check, and they are not now doing
as much damage as usual at this season. We
have seen potatoes foot high that have had
no Paris green or other poison, that are not
at all injured by the bugs. We find in this
some slight encouragement to believe that the
pests may sometime disappear, we hope as
suddenly as they came. Potato vines are now
looking well, and their appearance promises
more than an average crop.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

An instance is mentioned where excellent
results attended the use of dry, unleached
wood ashes as preventive of the ravages of
cabbage worms. The ashes we're thrown on
top of each plant, pains being taken by the
operator to jar the plant by hitting it with
the foot, so as to shake the ashes down thor
oughly between the leaves. Not only were
the worms killed, but ''the cabbages, instead
of taking hurt from the bountiful applica-
ton, started with new life and energy" Sew
eral weeks later il was found necessary to re-
peat the application. The result of the ex-
pertinent was an unusually fine crop.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08
The Rapidly Of Progress Toward
Health,

Even when good remedy for disease is selected de-
ponds in some measure upon the manner in which It
Is taken Irregular, interrupted doses afford no
fair test OF the efficacy Of any medicine however sal
utary. Taken in proper Doses at prescribed intervals
a reliable curative will effect the object Of its use
Among remedies which, systematically and persistent
ly used, accomplish thorough and lasting cures and
prevent the recurrence Of periodic disease Hostel
ters stomach Bitters ranks especially high. In cases
OF dyspepsia debility, rheumatism, fever and ague,
liver complaint inactivity of the kidneys and bladder
constipation, and other organic mAlades it Is tried
remedy, to which the medical brotherhood have lent
their professional sanction, aud which, as tonic al
terative and household specific for disorders Of the
stomach, liver and bowels, has an unbounded popu-
lArity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08
why Wear PIasterst

They may relieve but they can't cure that lame back
for the kidneys the trouble and you want a rene
dy to act directly on their secretiOns purify aud
restore their healthy condition. Ridney-Wort has
that specific action and ut the time It regulates
the bowels perfectly Don't wait to get sick but get
package to-day and cure yourself. Either liquid or
dry for sale at the Observation-Disclosures Rspbii-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

GooD IHvEsrMKNT.-One OF our prominent busi-
ness men said to us the other day: HIn the spring
my wife got all run down, and could not eat anything
Passing your store, saw pile Of Hoods sarsaparila
III the window and got bottle. After she had tax
en- week she had rousng appetite, and it did her
everything. She took three bottles, and it was the
best three dollars ever invested. G. 1. HooD Co,
Lowell, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

hALAMAZOO, Mich, Feb. 2, 1880.
know Hop Btters will bear recOmmen dalton hon
esty All who use them confer upon them the highest
enconiums, and give them credit for working cures
all the proprietor claim for them. have kept them
since they hrst offered to the public They took
high rank from the frst, and maintained Il, and are
more called for than all others combined So long as
they keep their high reputation for purity and useful
ness shall continue TO mend them-somethinp
have before done with any other patent medi-
cine. j. J. BARCOCK NJ N
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FITCHBURG RAILROAD
HOOgAC TUNNFL ROUTR.

NUTtU AUlIs TItIW T.WL O.IW 6.WU IT sU-
Runs Sundays: omitted Mondays.
tSiratoga Special Express with DraWing-room car.
The trains arriving IA Boston at g:O5 SIN, $3.50,
aud 30 ,. aud the trains leaving Boston at 30
am, 100, aud 500 pm, are through trains with
through sleeping or draWing-ruoI cars to aud from
the West via Ho vac Tunnel.
General Office Hoosac I uunel Route, $50 Washington
Street Boston. JOHN ADAMS Genl Sup't.
T. K. TuRSYH. AsstSupt
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

No better compliment can be given than that which
comes from the warm heart and quick wit of the true
hibernian. Mike was laying pavement brick in the
cool drink and carried out to quench bis thirst Az
ter long.drawn "swig," he wiped his mouth on his
sleeve, and said YEN be in Heaven siyen years be-
fore the diyil N dud IL ont
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

"You can't both eat your cake and have "-An eient
'en-Laye 'em bad.-WdShingtOn Critic
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

young man in Illinois was so badly stunR by a
colony of bees that he couldn't get married at the
time agreed upon. He had taste of his honeymoon
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

Make from 425 90 $50 per week selling goods
for Il. @. RIDROUT 4 CO., 10 Barclay. ST., New York
Send for their Catalogue and Terms.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08

The Peruvian syrup has cured thousands
who were suffering from Dyspepsia, Debility, Liver
Complaint, Boils, Humors Female Complaints etc
Pamphlets free to any address. Seth W. Fowle 4
Sons, Boston.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08
NEW LONDON NORTHERN RAILROAD


THAINS LEANE HHATTLEFDKO NJ FOLLOW6
Going south.
1870 a. m. for South Vernon, Springfield, Miliers
Falls. Fitehburg, Boston, aud all stations on the
New London Northern railroad. Sundays, only
connects for Springfield. Mondays, starts from
Mlsrs Falls, leaving there at :O5 a.
$500 a. m, for Millers Falls aud Boston.
1900 a. M, for Conn. River X. r., Millers Falls
Fitchburg, Boston, Hoosac Tunnel, &c.
2:dG p M, white Mountain express for Springfield,
New York and Philadelphia.
415 y. m, steamboat train for New London aud also
for Conn. River u. r.
Going North.
Trains arrive in BrattlebOro-
10 :26 a. M, from New London and New York.
~ :23 y. NJ, from Millers Falls Hooac Tunnel Bos
ton, Fitchburg, sc.
4 :34 =. M, white Mountain express.
o :43 D. m, from Springfield New YORK, Ne.
1871 pm. from Boston, Worcester HOofac Tunnel,
and all stations ON New London Northern road,
aud from Springfield, New York sc.
q. W. BENTLEY, Gen. Srpt.
New London. Conn, June 30 1881.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD.
VERMONT VALLEY RAILROAD.

T5ssFaa55sFz5IH 4 LII ~ trains on this road viii
Eisisi.szssssshs I.h leave BHATrLTBoRo for all
@AA---AA--e-po North at10!J0 a. m.
4;42 :55 and 10 go pm.
The 1920 =. m. train IL express for Montroaltvia
White River Junction. with sleeping cur attached.
The 10 3Oa. M train 10 mail train for Montpelier,
St. Adams Rutland Burlington, Montreal, the Par
sumpsic road and the White Mountains.
The 5;55 pm. train il mail train for White River
junction and Rutland.
Trains leave BELLOWS FALLS for the South, con-
Meeting with the Connecticut River lue at Brattlebo-
rO folows Montreal express train at 80 n. m,
mail and accommodation o 40 am. white Mountain
express, 2:l5 PIN. mail and accommodation, J:25
y. m.
The 3 80 a. m. train arrives in New York at 1900
the 9;lO a. m. train at 545 =. m. the 2l5p. IN.
train at 100.
Allthese traius make close connection with Boston
Albany II. r., both east and west Of Sprin Fheld.
- J. MULLTGAN, Superintendent.
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Notice !.

All owners and occupants of houses aud tenements
IN the village Of Bratteboro hereby notified to re-
move all NTH aud causes Of sickness from their prem
Uses without delay and all persons also forbidden
to deposit any decayng vegetable animal matter
NTH OF any kind, on any bank or and along the
highways OF said village, under the penalties OF law
Gath and 25th.
by order of the Bailihs
-. P. BARRows, Village Clerk.
June l7thi 1881. 2l-27
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-11-12

The New York correspondent OF
the Rochester Democrat writes:
Speaking OF stock matters, it may
be noticed that Chemical Bank
shares have reached $3.50. this
being the highest quotation OF any
banking house in the world. AS
these shares were 500, the present
figures show a very handsome adj
vance. Sixty years have elapsed
since John Mason originated the
scheme of manufacturing chemi-
calls, and was deeply disappointed
when it proved failure. The ex-
pertinent sunk 100000, which in
those days was equal to 81 900. 600
att present time. An apparent
misfortune, however, often proves
real benefit, AS was the case in
this unsuccessful enterprise. The
latter had q bank privilege which
Mason determined to turn to &C
count. He abandoned the chem
ical scheme, but continued the
banking privilege. The capital
was only $500 900, but under good
management, 1t has accumulated
surplus of 81 900, 900, which is ac-
lively at work. The result lie divi-
dends of Is per cent, per quarter,
and the present astonishing quota
tions. John Mason was the dry
goods colossus of his day, and left
large fortune. His nephew, John
@. Jones, was president of the
Chemical Bank for forty years.
He died recently in a good old
age, leaving an estate worth ST.
600, 600, most OF which had been
made by buying business paper,
in which he was an expert. Jones
Jaw Chemical shares reach 81, 800,
which some considered the ex-
treme of their possible valuation.
There are, however, no more to be
had, even at the last quotations,
and 1t is now probable they will
70 ,ch $1,000"