Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-10-25

Sales OF butter, deliverable at future
dates, is new feature of the New York
and Chicago dairy markets, which has
been introduced since the creamerios have
succeeded in making regular brands of
such uniform quality as to warrant their
sale without sample. Thus fine, fresh
butter sold this week in New York, deliv.
cradle in October for thirty five cents per
pound. Fancy fresh creamery butter sold
in Chicago for next February delivery at
thirty-nine cents per pound.
Fowls at this season should have their
liberty rs much as possible, be fed but
moderately with corn, for it is too heating
and fattening, and be compelled to forage
for part of their living. 1t will do them
@ ld to CLEAN the wheat fields, aud scour
the hay fields for insects. Exercise is as
healthIul in summer and fall as in winter.
Care should always be taken, however, to
have some shelter from the sun provided;
and also to have bountifal supply of
water within their reach.
FREIGHT RATES AND TIE RAILROADS.
AN opinion has been rendered by the
Illinois supreme court in a case involving
The question of the power of the state
legislature to regulate the rates charged
ny railroads for freight carried to points
ontside Of Illinois,: and whether an act
prohibiting unjust discrimination in such
rates is not in conformation of the Uuted
st ties. The clse was one where sixty
SIX per cent larger rate had been charged
nu Il haul from Gilman to New York than
lu II haul fIDm Peoria to New York,
though lne distance rom Peoria is greater
~ eIgh,y SIX miles. The court holds the
cha re to be unjust, excessive, eXtortion
t,r. and unlawful. The court upholds the
authority of the railroad and warehouse
commissioners to regulate their freight
chugps from points in Illinois to points
outside OF tho state.
BUl have never feared one of my own
bals because | have them trained-lo
kupw the tlsto of rawhide across the
nose. This will tame any bull, and if
bail should never 90 from his owners
yald he never need be ringed, if he has
been taught the touch of the rawhide and
his owner never goes o him without it in
hs hand. The most foolish thing that can
b. done is to teach bull to play, even
when Il calf; the bulls training should be
begun when month old, and 1t should be
brought into subsection then taught to fear
its owner, and kept in that fear always
Jersey bulls are not naturally vicious
they are made vicious because they are
petted and spoiled and made playthings
Of by their owners. Unfortunately, the
owner of a calf for which he has paid
81 900 thinks it sacrilege to put a rawhide
on the brute, but the animal has no such
foolish notions.
PoULTRY.-The approach of Thanks
giving suggests to our mind how very
careless the major portion of our farmers
and suburban poulterers are, when we
have every facility to raise turkeys every
year for market but after all fail to do so.
Ducks and geese of the improved breeds
are Grotitahly raised on many farms. If
u supply Of wafer can be given them, all
the Better. Good feed is more important
than water TO swim in and fish for bugs
The Rouen duck stands prominent among
the ducks where size is the consideration !;
| the Aylesbury drake sometimes attains
equal size, but the Aylesbury or any other
! duck seldom dotJ. The white China
geese have their admirers, for they have
merits of no mean der, though for size
the Toulouse geese are preferred to the
| former, while the Empdem or Bremen
hlve mlny enthusiastic frien1s.- Western
! .lyriCUturiSj.