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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-03
Agricultural.



Fortunately for Vermont farmers, butter is
now bringing high price, with a prospect of
a still further advance. A singular feature of
the present butter market is the fact that but
ter is selling in the Western markets higher
than in Boston and other Eastern cities. A
market article in the Boston journal of last
week is authority for the statement that Bos-
ton was then the lowest butter market in the
country. At Egin, ILL.,, sales of 4G GOO lbs.
of butter at 80 to 40 cents a pound were re-
ported. A large butter dealer of the West
possibly not without some interest said
recently, that tho demand for fresh-made
creameries in tho West is beyond all compre-
hension by Eastern men. When he was in
Chicago week ago. holders refused 30 and 80
cents for fine makes, and all through the West
the demand exceeded the supply. The i'm
mense population which has gone into the
territories is calling for the very best butter
and the consumption has rapidly increased.
Boston, he said, is the lowest market in the
country, and no butter can be sent there from
the West except at a loss. Pittsburg Phila-
dephia, and all the leading Southern cities,
OlANl bNbtNl Inducements W Nthltlu bLlpltlb
than Boston. He said that most of the but
ter sold in Elgin on Monday of last week was
probably taken by the "butterine" manufac-
facturers, who must have the finest fresh
made creameries to flavor their compounds.
Butterine is made mostly of lard, and its man
ufacture is growing to be quite an extensive
business in the West. 1t is backed up, he
said, by Armour and Fairbanks, and is paying
a large profit. 1t sells for 2G to IS cents per
pound in Chicago, and is taken mostly for the
Southern market.
Butter is one of the principal articles that
Vermont farmers have to sell, but the price
at which it has usually sold has been too low
to make tho business of manufacturing il
very lucrative. No farmer becomes suddenly
rich from the income of even a large butter
dairy. Ona average, milk is worth, to make
into butter at % cents a pound, about two
cents quart. Butter at 80 cents per pound
would, therefore, correspond in price to mill
at four cents quart. So if farmers can gel
80 or even 80 cents a pound for butter, they
may accept it with clear conscience. Ger
tainly they need be as little troubled in thai
respect as when selling milk at six cents PEI
quart.
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How Much HAY 40 winter a Gown
Feeding Meal 20 snNe Hay.


The quantity of hay required TO winter an
average COW has been variousy estimated.
OF course the amount depends much upon
the quality of the hay and whether it is fed
exclusively. When no other food is given,
more hay is required. Cows in milk are now
nearly all fed something in addition to their
rations of hay, causing less hay TO be eaten,
though the same amount of nutritive matter
that is taken when grain is fed is not entire
ly made up by the increased consumption of
hay when they have no grain or other food
Sufficient hay to fill the stomach OF the COW
will be eaten when fed in connection with
meal without the meal a little more would
be taken and the stomach distended Thus
animals that are obliged to subsist on innutri-
tious food become pot beled." Good hay,
however, will not produce this condition
though no meal or other food is given. How
much hay is saved by feeding meal is ques-
ton upon which the economy of its use large.
ly depends. When cattle in poor condition
are fed with meal, we are of the opinion that
but little less hay is consumed at first but as
they improve in flesh the saving becomes
considerable. In the case of cows giving
milk, the increase in the quantity and the
improvement in the quality of the milk, the
gain in flesh, the increased value of the ma
nure, &C well as the saving of hay, are all to
be taken into account OH one side, against
the cost Of the meal on the other. If four
quarts of meal are fed to COW daily it will
amount to a little more than one half ton if
continued the whole of the season when hay
is usually fed, and will cost at the present
price about $1S, equivalent, on an average
at the farms in this county, to one ton and O
half of good hay. 1t is safe to estimate that a
COW that has four quarts of meal daily will
consume in six months at least three-fourths
of ton less hay than she would require if
fed with hay alone. Calling the hay worth
Sl2 per ton this estimate leaves only nine
dollars to be charged for meal, half its value
being paid in the saving of hay. A COW hav-
ing four quarts of meal each day should be
wintercd on one and one-half tons of hay.
The usual allowance for wintering a COW on
hay alone is about two tons, though some
place it as high as three tons man who
bought hay to keep cow through the year
reports that it took five tons. Prof. Sanborn,
in series of experiments made at the New
Hampshire college farm, found that steers
weighing about 1000 pounds consumed hay
daily at the rate of PIG per cent. of their
live weight This was the average result of
eight experiments extending from rs to 80
days, and it corresponds very nearly with the
estimates that farmers usually make. 1t is at
the rate of about four tons year. and a lit
H. Al, L - l. i
for wintering. Cows giving milk would con-
sumo little more than steers of the same
weight. A good sized COW wintered on hay
alone would probably consume about two
and one fourth tons.
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a Small but Terrible Destroyer.

1t is a singular fact that the worst enemy
which France has at the present time is not
Germany or Bismarck or any of the great
powers or diplomatists of Europe, but q tiny
insect no larger than the head of a pin-and
a small pin at that This insect is the phyl-
loxera-a long and hard NAME formed from
the Greek and signifying "a shriveled leaf 1"
The name originates in the fact that leaf
which is attacked by the phylloxera curls and
shrivels as though 1t We're exposed to a great
heat. The phyloxera is native of America,
and exists in this country in at least sixteen
varieties, but the particular insect which
troubles the French, and which has caused such
ravages that the Government makes perma-
nent offer of $50, 900 reward to any one who
will discover a remedy, is the grape phyllox-
era. Some time during our civil war Ameri-
can vines were sent to France, and with them,
it is thought, must have gone the phylloxera,
for year or two after disease, never known
in France before, began to lay waste the vine
yards. There are about eight million acres of
vineyards in France, and as this now disease
extended rapidly, earnest investigation was
made to discover its cause. After while it
was found that all the mischief was being
done by this little insect so small as to be but
just visible to the unaided eye. To find the
cause of the trouble was one thing, and to
find remedy another. For the latter,
French ingenuity, skill and scientific kuowl-
edge have thus far been unavaiing.
NJ. p. A. Maignen, well-known expert in
vine-culture, estimates the loss already intiict-
ed upon France by this little insect pest at the
enormous sum of 81, 100, 600, 600, and he re-
ports that half of the vineyards now existing
are at the point of destruction few
months ago an international congress assem-
bled at Bordeaux to endeavor to discover some
means of arresting the ravages of the phyllox-
era but without any result. The difficulties
are apparent. A single insect will destroy q
vine leaf in two or three days Every female
phyiloxera born from what is known as the
winter egg produces by the end of May 500
other eggs, and each of the young born of
these eggs produces by the end of June $50
600 phylloxera. The next generation num-
bers G2, 800, 600, 600, and as there are FIVE or
six generations in the summer and autumn the
product from a single egg becomes innumera-
BILE before winter sets in. But the phylloxera
does not content itself with the leaves. As
the cold weather comes on it goes down to the
roots and entirely destroys the vine. The on
ly methods known for combating the plague
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NOTES.

pair of cattle exhibited at tho late Gale
donia county fair was recently shipped to
market by Moses Glfllan of West Barnet
Their live weight when they arrived was A.
800 pounds and dressed 3, 1852 pounds. They
had 1886 pounds of tallow. They were consid-
cred the best pair of cattle ever slau8htered
at Brighton market
The October returns of the yield per acre of
wheat, estimated from results of threshing,
foreshadows product slightly exceeding 300,
100000 bushels, and possibly reaching 52O,-
OOOO0O The average yield per acre appears
to be nearly fourteen bushels, on an acreage
slightly less than $1,000 600 acres.
It is time now, before the snow comes or
ground freezes, TO gather and store quantity
of road dust or some similar material for the
use Of the poultry during the winter 1t is
absolutely necessary to their health, cleansing
their skin and feathers from vermin and i'm
purities Powdered sulphur mixed with the
dust will also aid in freeing thom from lice.
The British Government has expended
S12O, 600 for the destruction of locust eggs in
the island of Cyprus the present year
M. Charney has studied trees in Mexico,
among other things, and he finds that in damp,
tropical climates the concentro rings from
which the trees age is usually calculated may
form at the rate of one n month instead OF one
year
Within a radius Of seventy five miles from
Montreal upward of two hundred cheese fac
tories have been built within a mparatively
short time. Ontario is also increasing her
make of cheese. Thus far this year Montreal
has shipped to England one-halt as much
cheese as New York.
All plants must have nitrogen supplied to
them. It is not taken direct from the atmos-
phere by any plant, but is obtained from the
nitrates and ammonia salts in the soil,
Peruviou guano rendered soluble was tried
by Prof. Z. Koch on barley and potatoes.
The small st quantities of the manure gave
very app parent increase in the product when
the crop was potatoes. II the seed sown was
barley much larger proportion Of the ma
nurc had to be used to effect anything like the
same result.
The experiment of sorghum sugar culture
| has been inaugurated at Rio Graude. in Salem
county, n, j., with marked success. Some
| of the results are thus summarized Within
| the last year 1000 acres of apparently poor
land at Rio Grando were planted and the
sugar already made and sold is 235, 600
pounds; fifteen thousand gallons of molasses
were also on hand on October 18th. The
| quality of the cane juice is said to be richer,
and the sugar better in its degree of purity,
| than the average of Louisiana sugar cane.
The company expects this year to clear Sj3,
600, and is SO well pleased with the expert
ment that the acreage planted will be doubled.
The committee appointed 10y the National
Academy of Sciences last year to investigate
sorghum experiments have visited Rio Grande
and are said to b. greatly pleased with what
they have seen
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-03

Considerable has been lately said in nedi-
cal journals concerning the value of warm
milk as a remedial agent in certain diseases.
The Christian at Work, referring to an inter
esting article on this subject which lately APP
peared in the Tendon Milk Journal States on
the authority of Dr. Benjamin Clarke that in
the East Indies warm milk is used to n great
extent as a specific for diarrhon. A pint every
four hours will check the most violent diar-
rhea, stomache-ache, incpient cholera, and
dysentery The milk should never be boiled,
but only heated sufficiently to be agreeably
warm, not too hot to drink Milk which has
been boiled is unfit for use. The writer gives
several instances in arresting the disease,
among which is the folowing
The writer says: TT has never failed in
curing in six or twelve hours, aud / have
tried it, / should think, fifty times. l have
also given it to dying man who had been
subject to dysentery eight months, latterly
accompanied by one continued diarrhea and
it acted on him like charm. In two days
his darrhea was gone in three weeks he be-
came hale, hearty man and now nothing
that may hereafter occur will shake his faith
in hot milk. writer has also commitment
ed to the Medical Times and Gazette a state
ment of the value of milk in twenty-six cases
of typhoid fever, in every one of which its
great value was apparent. 1t checks diar-
rhea, and nourishes and coOls the body. Peo-
Pile suffering from diseases need food quite as
much as those in health, and much more so
in certain diseases where there is rapid
waste of the system. Frequently all ordinary
| food, in certain diseases, is rejected by the
! stomach and even loathed 10y the patient
but nature, ever benefcent, has furnished
| food that in all diseases is benefcal-some
| directly curative. Such food is milk" The
writer in the journal last quoted Dr. Alexan-
der Yale, after giving particular observations
upon the point above mentioned, its action in
checking diarrhea, its nourishing properties,
and its action in soothing the body, says
eve believe that milk nourishes in fever,
promotes sleep, wards off delirium, soothes
the intestines, and in fine, is the sine qia nan
in typhoid fever
We have lately tested tho value of milk in
scarlet fever, and learn that it is now recon.
mended by the medical faculty in all cases OF
this often very distressing children's disease.
Give all the milk tho patient will take, even
during the period of greatest fever. 1t keeps
up the strength Of the patient, acts well upon
the stomach, and is in this way blessed
thing in this sickness.
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For General Debility.

DANFoRTH, Me, Oct 2, 1877.
Mr.. Steycns-Dear Sir: My health has always been
poor. Have taken great many kinds of medicine,
but never took any that could begin to help like
Negetne. One year ago last March had lung fever,
and it left me very feeble for a long time 1 could do
very little work and it hard for me TO do that
little had never heard Of Negetine. One day saw
the advertisement in paper, and felt that if could
get it, it would help me. l sent next day and got one
bottle, and before had taken it all could see good
effects from it. After taking few bottles I could do
4 good washing. have taken seven bottles. Am Go
years old never well in my life and never so
fcshy, for which feel grateful to you and to our
Heavenly Father. recommend it to all around me,
for prize it above all other medicines. Respectfully
yours, MRS. /. r. HOWARD.
Thousands will bear testimony and do it voluutari-
Ivy that Yegetine is the best medical compound yet
placed before the public for renovating and purifying
the blood Graduating all humors, impurities pois-
onous secretions from the system, invgorating and
strengthening the system debilitated by disease; in
fact it is, as many have called it, "Tho Great Health
Rcstorer.n
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arc almost as ruinous as the plague itself.
The means of relief are of two kinds, submer-
sion of tho vineyards and the use of insect.
cides. Tie fluid used in submersion must lie
several inches deep for several weeks, and
then it is effective for only single year; and
the insecticides are even less effective. The
cost of either of these methods is so great as
to make vine culture Improbable 1t is be-
ginning to be felt that nothing will avail but
some scheme of temporary devastation, un-
dertaken by the Government, with view of
starving out the insect by destroying the vines
on which it feeds, and then replantng, after
tho complete destruction of the pest is assur-
ed. That so desperate a remedy should be
seriously nrged shows how great tho evil is.
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Nervousness and SIeepIeSs
Nights.

ST. VINCENT SCHOOL, Troy, NY.
DR.. Sloyens-Dcar Sir: We are truly grateful for
your generous donation of vegeunc, received last
evening. lady here has been using it with benefit
to herself who for years has been pronounced worn
out, "broken down." etc. Frequently she was dis
turbod in her sleep by violent nervous twtching Of
foot, or the face, or the whole body BY taking Veg
etne she is enabled to sleep quietly, and her general
health seems much improved, though she has a COM
plicaton of chronic diseases to contend with. May
God bless you for your charity to the orphans. Re
specially and gratefully SISTERS OF CHARITY.
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when baby has pains at dead Of night,
Mother 10 a fright, father in plight;
When worms do bite, baby must cry,
If fever sets in, baby may die.
If croupy pains kill Leonora,
In that house there's no Casturia;
For mothers learn without delay,
Castoria cures by night and day,
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Speedily leaves the surface Of teeth upon which the
cleansing and preservative influence of Sozodont is
daily cxerted. No form Of decay infest a set of
"iyories' upon which it is used. 1t has, moreover
most refreshing effect upon the mouth in which it
leaves very agreeable taste, besides rendering the
breath fragrant If the mouth be rnsed with it after
smoking the taste of the tobacco entirely dsspated
As an auxiliary to personal concuess it cannot be too
highly extolled. Sold by druggists.
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PATENTS.
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Boston Jan. 1882.
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Vegetine
Dyspepsia, Nervousness and
General Debility.

BERNARDsroN, Mass, 1875.
We, the undersigned, having used Yesetinc, take
pleasure in recommending it to all those troubled with
Humors of any kind Dyspepsia, Nervousness or Gen
eral Debility, it being the Great Blood Purifier.
MRS l.. +. PERKINS.
MRS. II. W. SCOTT.
JOSEPHUS SLATE.
Yegotino is the great health restorer, composed OK
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ant to take; every child likes 1t.
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Singing, smarting, irritation Of the urinary pas
sages, diseased discharges cured by Buchupaiba. 81
at druggists Prepaid by express s1.25; for IS. Z.
s WELLS, Jersey City, y. j,
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Messrs Houghton X Kuech of Bratteboro have Sc
cured the agency for the Dorcas, SaXouy, Knitting
Morsted and Germantown Yarns, which have become
popular throughout the East. The shades and coll
ors are just what wanted. 42-2
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New, quick complete cure days urinary affections,
smarting, frequent difficult urination kidney dis
81 at druggists. Prepaid by express, Sl.25 /;
for s.. Z. $. WELLS, Jersey city, y J.
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The wonderful success Of James PSles Pearline has
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their names, evidently to have them sound like Pearl
inc Enterprises OF this sort quite likely to be
more self 81 than beneficial.
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$500 per year can be easily made at home, work
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Send for their catalogue and full particulars. 1y42
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SCRoFULA.-A me lcne that destroys the germs of
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women and children, described by testimonials,
prove Hoods Sarsaparla reliable medicine, contain
ing remedial agents which eradicate scrofula from the
blood. 100 doses 81. Sold by all dealers. c. l. HOOP
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st. Peters church in Rome will hold 1000 people
St. Paus in London $4,000; the Catholic cathedral in
New York 1900.
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Wells Health Remover. Absolute cure for nervous
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druggists. Prepaid by express, Sl.25; for So. L.
S. WELLS, Jersey City, Nj.
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Forbid intoxicating nostrums aud use Parkers Gin
ger Tonic in your family. This delicious remedy
intoxicates is true blood aud brain food and aids all
the vital processes never falling to iuyigOrlte.
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COngls, Colds, BrOncltIR, WhOOping Cough, GROUP,
Influenza Consumption, and all diseases Of the Throat
Lungs and Chest. so cents and 81 a bottle.
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See "Bird" advertisements Get Holdon's Bird Book
food care, diseases, breeding, He has extra singers
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Dresden matchmaker has made paper watch
which said to be seryccabe those in ordinary
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true tonic medicine, blessing in every house
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Premature grayness avoided by using Parker's Hair
Balsam dstiuguishedfo for its cleanliness and perfume.
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Vegetine.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
Nervous Debility and Sleeplessness.

In almost all cases, sleopessness Is q symptom of
other disease, and can only be rcmedied by the
removal of the latter. II frequently however forms
prominent feature to render it necessary to be
treated organic disease. Intense mental excite
mcnt continued up to the period Of going to rest scd
entary habits, the habtual use Of coffee, and weak
Of the digestive organs, are frequent causes Of
this trouble The best and simplest remedy is Nege-
tine, and any person who cannot sleep nights should
mako it duty to keep bottle Of this King Of rene
dies always In the house, and to take good dose Of it
just before retiring for the night 1t will be sure to
prove natures sweet rcstoror, and give to the patient
that refreshing sleep which every woaricd frame is
much in need Of. For small children afflicted with
wind, undue excitement and the agonios which
company difficult oehug, nothing will be found safer
or better than few drops Of Negotine. 1t will at
restore quiet to the nervous system and give rise
to o natural and easy sumber. Although Negetine
contains not particle of opium other narcotic,
I'm any shape form, it yet has most soothing effect
on the whole system, and works in conjunction with
nature to give relief. See testimonials.