Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-05-30

The principal Chicago manufacturers OF
imitation butter are about starting ur
again this season with their mixtures of
butter, lard and Oeomargarne to seek
customers unwilling to pay the prices
asked for the genuine dairy product.
Strange to say there are thousands of peo
pie who will cheat themselves by imposing
upon their stomachs mess of grease in
place of butter, simply to save a few cents
n week. Dyspepsia is the natural result
OF such parsimeny.
In April there arrived in this country
from abroad 1925 passengers, of whom
7o475 were immigrants. Germany fur
nished 25,l70, Ireland 11,796, England
and Wales TO- 42, Canada 1901, Italy C22O
Scotland 35l2, Sweden 1908 and many
other countries the balance. In April
1882, the arrivals aggregated 1O4, 274.
The total number of immigrants arrived
in the country in the country in the ten
months ended April 80, 1888, was 4l7,GS9.
and for a like period ended April 80, 1882,
544,G01.
FENCE PosTs THAT WILL LAsr.-A
writer in an exchange says: II discovered
many years ago that wood could be made
to last longer than iron in the ground, hut
thought the process SO simple that it was
not well to make stir about it. | would
as soon have poplar, Eastwood or ash AS
any other kind of timber Tor fence posts.
| have taken out Eastwood posts after hay
ing been set seven years that were as
sound when taken out us when first nut in
the ground. Time and weather seemed
to have no effect on them. The posts can
be prepared for less than two cents apiece.
This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil
and stir in pulverized coal to the consist
ency OF paint. Put coat of this over the
timber, and there Is not man that will
live TO &c it rot"
AT this time OF the year farmers purchase
new implements, and the high price of
abor makes it advisable 10 obtain the
latest inventions. The old. fashioned meth
cd OF farming cannot exist any longer
When the sow inc and the harvesting sea
sons Struggled over several months each,
the crops were mostly of an Indifferent
character if they could not be sown or
renped or mown in proper time The
whole surrounding conditions of the farm
er have been changed in this competitive
commercial age, and lie must be at his
best dt all times, or he will be beaten in
the Struggle for existence. Only by the
aid Of tlic,ent implements and machinery
can he be master of the work
a CHEAr SMo Last year a farmer
mprovsed small slo by sinking a mo- |
Iasses hogshead into the ground in Ills
barn cellar. lie cut up all his corn fodder
with Il hay cutter, surprising he had
enough to till about four hogsheads, but
IN packing it found it wouldn't fill one
He then bought of a neighbor as much
more as one horse could draw and still
there was room. He then cut M the
stalks from Il piece of sweet corn and with
a lot OF rowen managed to fill his hogs
head. He made Il close fitting cover, and
with a jackscrew set under one of the
Iloor timbels, pressed it down as tight as
possible. la The middle of December he
opened his si!o and found the corn as
sweet and fragrant as when put in. From
he hogshead he fed one COW half a busbel
of ensilage morning and night for two
months, and considers it the best produc-
ing food that can be fed. This wear he
proposes to fill the silo with oats cut lust
As they are in the milk fla silo on so
simple plan Is practicable, there is Ger
-ainy no reason why every body should
not have one, and satisfy himself Of the
value of the ensilase system. --Nashua
I telegraph.