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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

SECRET OF RAISING TURKEYS One of
our .,ost successful breeders remarks on
this point: One great secret of riasing
turkeys is TO take care, and take care all
summer; and even then you cannot raise
them, for sometimes they will not lay, or
they will not hatch, or something will
befall them. Sometimes we raise turkeys
without much care. when the season is
specially favorable, but generally the
measure of care is the measure of success.
A boy ten or twelve years old, with
little direction from his father, can easily
take care of two hundred turkeys, and he
cannot earn so much money on the farm
in any other way. 1t is an old maxim
that if thing is worth doing it is worth
doing well. Some may think this constant
care is too much trouble to raise turkeys.
This is free country, and you can omit
any part. or the whole, of these sugges.
tions. If you know better course, by
all means pursue it. This painstaking has
made turkey raising about as sure as any
other branch of farm industry. | have
usually kept from eight to ten turkeys as
breeders, and have raised from ninety nine
to one hundred in a summer. In 1860
sold my turkeys for twenty.seven cents
pound, amounting to $3.50 40. In 1869 L
sold for twenty five to twenty-seven cents
a pound, gross amount of sales, S3S6.14.
That year l kept an account of expenses,
and calculated the net profit at S2l3.5o.
In 1870 l sold for twenty-five cents a
Mound; amount of sales, $3ll.32. In 1871
sold for eighteen cents pound; gross
amount of sales, $286.23, would rather
raise turkeys and sell at fifteen cents than
to raise pork and sell at ten cents pound.
Perhaps in fattening pork you can save
the manure better, but the turkey drop
pings, if gathered and saved every week
and kept dry are worth half as much as
guano, and are certainly worth cent a
pound.
The turkey crop is steadily increasing in
value, not more by the increased number
of farmers who make this specially in
their poultry raising, than by the increased
attention and skill Of those who have long
been in the business. Care in selecting
stock for breeding brings ample rewards.
The prospect was never better than now
lor the extension of the business among
the farmers who have II good range and
good markets. The average size OF tur-
q eys in the districts where the business
made a speciality is steadily increasing
and we look for still further improvements,
Lancaster Fdrser.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

TIE STANDARD DOLLAR Now tha'
The trade dollar has been so thoi oughly
written up hv the press, would it no, be !,
good idea to consider the growing evil o'
pilng up the so called standard dollar,
rhe standard dollar is &C utly worth less
than the trade dollar, say less han eighty
cents each, and the treasury department
now holds III 900, 900 OF them, on which
the discount, when fl iyured on gold
basis, would be over 1922 600, 900. If The
United States government continues to
coin these non-circulating silver dollars,
it will not be very long before careful
business men will make their contracts
on n gold basis. Is it not well, while the
business Of the country is on Il sound
basis, and growing stronger every month,
as the result OF the years bountiful har
vest just commencing to be gathered, TO
provide for some relief from the silver
dollar nuisance? There has not been a
time for the last three years when there
has been so little speculation in articles OF
merchandise and food staples as now, or
when stocks have been much quieter,
Careful merchants and manufacturers have
been taking in sail and getting their busi-
ness into compact shape for the last two
years. If congress, when it assemblies in
December, would give the country law
for a uniform system of bankruptcy for
all the states and territories, correct what
blunders the last congress made in chang
ing the tariff, and stop the coinage of
silver. the country would be in good shape
TO go through the usual excitement always
incident to presidential year, which
comes around again in 1884. 1t is crafty
ing TO know that the general feeling
among our business men is that the coun.
try, as a whole, is in much better shape
now, so far as material prosperity goes,
than at the same time in 1SS2.-Boston
TrdUeller.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

Comb making is a New England spe-
cialty. The first comb made in America
was whitfield out of piece of wood, in
The town of West Newbury, Mass. Now
the town boasts of three large factories
where beautiful colored combs are made,
The process is simple and interesting. Ok
horns are sawed into strips, and boiled in
oil to soften them. Then the teeth are
cut by machinery, two at a time, and pol
ished. Massachusetts is famous the world
over for the remarkable manner in which
she divides her industries, and has Kept
them within certain limits from the colo
.ial times until the present. Every one
knows that Lynn is famous for shoes; that
country; that 'Newbury combs" are found
abroad; that Shelourne Falls cutlery is
famous; that Weymouth nails are sure to
strike home; that salisbury dories.' or
boats, are considered little better than
any other; that Lowell and Lawrence
mills manufacture superior cotlohs; that
the "matches which some have fancled
were made in Heaven, and yet smell of
brimstone," are turned out by thousands
in the pretty town of Bedford; that much
Of the eleg int furniture which we use
either in eastern, western or southern
homes is all made in small town by the
sea called Manchester; but how many
know that the old city OF Salem originated
the phrase. "codfish arisocr cy," and
would prefer to laugh over that ohorilerou,
title than discuss her "witche.P If the
statements of venerable and good men
are correct, the first Goldfish we're cured
here. an eccentric old man, who made ii
fortune in the business, had the staircase
uf | is IN tnsiun ornamented with ctrveh
isb; and from that day to this we have
heard Will sneer Of Goldfish ari-tocracv,
while the old sOalrcase is s'iIi standing and
is of Tn visited b. curious people -
EnrtcS's Fashion Qua't,' g
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

Orr BrrG GATHERS We have a garden
around our house, where we try to raise
fruits. and flowers, and peas and beans,
and lettuce, and cucumbers and such like.
Rnt we have one trouble; there are lots OF
little bugs and worms that seem 10 ike
provisions as we'll as we do, and that are
always on hand to take their portion.
And, in fact, they sometimes seem 10
want to take the whole.
Well, what is to be done in such case!
| will tell you what to do. We have
several little bug catchcrs, curious Great
ures,-in color and shape they look almost
like a lump of earth, and one would
hardly know them from the clods among
which they travel about. The children
see them about the fields or highways
and whenever they find one they speedily
pick HIM up and invite him to make his
home in our garden, and so they have
their dwellings in holes and corners about
the yard.
The little fellows have queer way oil
catching bugs. They have long. sticky
tongue, though where they keep it IS
mystery, as it seems to be longer IMAM its
owner. Perhaps they take reef in 1t, us
the soilors say, and so STOW IL away pu'
when one of them gets near little bug ne
sits and looks at him, and winks in kind
of solemn way, till at once. his mouth
opens, and quick as flash, the tongue
goes out again and the bug is among the
missing! And then our little friend sits
winkipg and blinking and waiting for
another bug to come that way.
He is said to have an ear for music, and
to do some singing in the warm spring
evenings, but we do not count much on
tnis; nor do we brag much about hii
good looks. His skin is not soft nor hi
complexion fair, but, for real usefulness
he is about the best kind Of live stock w
have on our farm; and if people want t
keep their gardens free from bugs, tn
best thing they can do is to get on friendl.
terms with the little bug catchers an
make pleasant homes for the toads!-
Little ChrtsLtdn.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

WHO MADE THE FIRST COOP DAGUER-
years that the late Prof. John w. Draper
took the first successful likeness of the
human face by the method which Joseph
Niepce invented and Louis Daguerre
developed. 1t is now claimed, however,
that A. S. Wolcott, New York daguer.
reotyper, who finally opened a laboratory
in London, made excellent pictures sever.
al weeks before Prof. Draper had accom-
plshed anything of consequence. This
is proved By files of the american RepoSi-
torQ, edited by Prof Mapes. The number
for October, 1910, contains an article
showing that Wolcott, after many expert.
ments, "took the image" of person
standing near the windo1 in his labora-
tory at New York in October, 1889. 1t
was dark and indistinct; but within few
weeks he remedied the defects, and had
been making excellent likenesses for some
time when Prof. Draper announced his
success in July, 1910. Draper did not
begin his experiments until two months
after Wolcott set to work, and his prog.
ress was slower. This question of priority
is of no special Importance, but is inter
esting because it relates to some of the
first experiments in an art which has
developed marvelously. But the honor oil
discovering a method of obtaining perma
nent fac. simili 8 of objects by the chemical
action of the sun, belongs neither to Louis
Daguerre, Prof. Draper or Mr.. Wolcott
Joseph Niepce discovered process by
which this could be accomplished while
Daguerre was yet trying 10 find it, and
then the two joined forces In perfectine
the method. Niepec died in 1883, however
and in 1889 Daguerre had made suct
headway that the academy of science:
began to sound his praises, and in the
anne year he made the invention public
on the condition that the French govern
ment should grant annuities OF 5000 franc
to him and 1000 to Niepce's son.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

THE Two BLUE BOTTLE FLIES Some
times even very slight knowledge Of
natural history ia of great practicll use,
if remembered and applied at the needful
occasion. Al an illustration. we give Il
fact recently told hv naturalist -
A gentleman, mixing n cali nj the
house of IL fliend, WAS astnnshed to find
he looms and p ssages in 'nus n and.
on inqurng The cnnse. WAS answer' d !:
oh. we are very much annoy, d here; we
have an in'ol' rable nuisance. la' ha-
come to finish it's existence under hn fl 'or
Of our large drawing room. We do not
know the exact place, but we cannot
endure the stencil any longer. S, we have
rolled up carpets, removed the furniture
and called in c,rpenters, who are just
c ,mm, ncing to take up the floor
Now don't be too hasly," said the
visitor; "you need not pul. up more than
one board, will show you what | mean
presently; and meanwhile, shut down the
drawing room windows, and close the
door behind me Immediately | return
He then stepped down the front steps
into the garden, walked around the house
to the stables, and. after few minutes
with both hands tightly clasped, so AS to
enclose something between them. Placing
himself in the centre of the drawing room,
he opened his hands, and out flew two
large blue bottle flies, and buzzed around
the room for second or two. But pres
emily one of them aiehted on certain
plank of the floor, and was almost imme-
diately followed by the olhe insect.
Now, then" exclaimed the visitor,
stake up that board, and I'll engage that
the dead rat will be found underneath it.
The carpenters applied their tools, raised
the board, and at once found the source of
all the unpleasant smell.
Thus. by the ready thought of an
observer of common things, II troublesome
and expensive operation was almost en-
tirely prevented; and, instead of a day or
two being spent in removing the floor
generally, and recovering il, the mere
displacement of a single plank enabled the
needful business to be accomplished in a
few minutes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

more than all others for the moral and
intellectual training OF the word-wb,
evangelizs the world AMI hold it bacl
from ruin; is it the "nascullne sex" wh,
discard religionP Not by any me ms.
Is tn women and children and intellect
ual light weights who believe in God.
The Bible, Christ. heart pety, churc
-upport and service are not antiqnaleo,
pueIile, feminine, imbeclle m alters alb III
which the 'masculine sex" have no busi
ness. u E. NJ.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01
WHAT'S THE Use?

What is the use of this imIeturus haste?
The en- II certain Let us take our time.
lnd hoard the vital forces rat We W iste
Before our day has reached its golden prime.
What is the use of rushing with spent breath
After old aye, its burrows, its white hair?
Vhy n ed we hurry SO to welcome death,
Urgo half way, with hands stretched out, TO care?
There is no use, Dear heart if we but wait
thugs will lind US. Let Ms pause, say
We cannot go beyond the silent gate
That lies u short days journey down the way.
so let take our time in youths fair bowers,
he summer season IS 50 brie at best:
iIet us look on the stars, and pluck the flowers,
And when our feet grow weary let us rest.
Let us take time tor love and its delight;
1t is the one sweet thing that pays for all
rhe bitterness of life, for sorrows blight.
For pains despsir and deaths funeral pail.
In that lost era when the world was new,
Love was mems first pursuit and llies excuse.
Now has that time come back to me and you
Why should we seek Tor more? What is the use?
Ella Wheeter
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01
PALATKA' Fla. June lOlh.

hhAi INA Elu', ouuC lVlh.
Many think that Florida Is destined to
become the sanitarium of this country
This climate is questionably beneficial
to patients suffering from ncipient tuber
culosis, asthma, cstarrh, ESQ called rheu
malsm and. perhaps, kidney affections
Patients should not come here without
means, as the expense of living is fully
as great as it is north. This town. for
example, may be compared with Saratoga
in that respect, though it has only about
$500 inhabitants. Neither can people
90 the same amount of work here that
they can north, though the mercury
seldom rises above 095, it seldom goes
below 080 in summer; and with the sun
almost vertical. as it is now, little can be
done out of shade. But for that very
large class of patients suffering from
stomach, liver, bowel and head troubles
this climate will certainly prove injurious,
except in winter, and in most cases the
northern winter is good for such patients
For persons with consumptve diathesis,
who intend to do no work, this is good
place. But persons in the later stages of
consumption should not come here, as
darrhea is likely to set in and hasten
death. saw a man to-day, who came
here last March. and not in the last stages
diarrhea had set in and followed persist
emily, and the poor fellow was "digging
out" as fast as he could crawl back north.
PERRY MARSHALL.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01
NO. 81.

THE NEW POSTAGE STAMPS A circr.
la has been Issued from III" post off {
department al ,shin"rOn, ofli;rallv ho'i.
fying the poslmas'ers of the reduc' ion II
hostage rates to take fl on the first or
o .tob"r. and directing them 10 max.
preutrolions ard cn'l the attention OF tn,
ru|Iie 80 hat purchasers of samps wlII
not Hccmull'e a suppv of three crnl
stamps. as no arraug mon' will he maa,
for their rrdenp ion The lwo cent sIalups
will b. endy on the IS h Of Sep ember.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

The intro luctiun OF cunl oil into Eastern
Asia has had one curious result. From
time immpmorial the asiarIc has econn
mz d he use of artificial light by going
to bed early; hut the example Of Europe
ans and the Introduction Of kerosene hav"
made suci Il revuIu ion in he eli ies AID
towns near The coasts of China and Japan
he better and cheaper Illumination of tht
houses is eIucatlng the Ori,ntals to late
hours, ami to social gatherings in the even
in
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

Be patient with the little children this
hot weather. They are soon weary.
Don't drag them about in the sun to show
their fine clothes. Don't scold them for
rolling on tempting cool grass plot.
Don't find fault with their lingering to
dabble their little fat hands In water when
they can find it. Don't force them to eat
quantities of meat, because this is your
hobby, when nature calls for fruit and
vegetable and light diet. Don't prt them
to bed In close, hot room, at sun down,
ito get them out of the way" and doom
them to lie there kicking at mosquitoes,
while you are leasurely taking ice creams,
or otherwise refreshing YOURSELF out Of
sight and sound of hearing of their cries.
Don't ever doom your children to that
which you could not endure yourself.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

E. D. Griswold of Sylvan Shade farm
Orwell, VT, reports that his Jersey cow,
Lady Aspiuwall, FIVE years old, that drop
ped her last calf March 20, 1888. gave
daily average of milk for the week COM
mencing May 81, on grass only. OF "a 1'2
pounds. The milk produced IA pounds OF
butter. His COW, lockwood Maid, five
ears old. whose last calf was dropped
March %, 1888, gave a daily average Of
milk for the same week mentioned above.
and also on grass alone, of % pounds, the
weeks milk producing Is pounds Of but
ter. Mr.. Griswold values his four years.
old Jersey bull, Champlain, at $4,000.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

Faith may be cast down, but faith can.
hot be destroyed. There is no reason,
because we are "perplexed," ever to
desp pair. For dark as the cloud looks, il
presents one aspect to the world and,
another 10 the Christian. l stand on the
side of it that lies next the sun. There
with the sun shining at my back, and tht
black cloud in my eye, / see a radiant bow
which spans its darkness, and reveals in
heavenly colors mercy to fallen world.
-Gnkhrte.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

The coming servants will not be for
eigners but American Indian girls from
government schools. Thus will the In
dans once more rule the land they once
possessed Philadelphia NeacS.
A Brahmin writes to n missionary: 1--WE
are finding you out, you are not as good
as your book. II your people were oily
as good as your book, you would conquer
India in five years."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

1t takes four things to be gentleman /;
you must be gentleman in your princi-
Piles, a gentleman in your tastes, gentle
man in your manners, and gentleman in
your person
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

A boy says in his composition that
"Onions are the vegetables that make you
sick when you don't eat them yourself"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01
Beet greens, one hour.

Beet greens, one hour.
Beets, one to two hours.
Onions, one to two hours.
Carrots, one to two hours.
Spinach, one to two hours.
Tomatoes, fresh one hour.
Parsnips, one or two hours.
Cauitlower, one or two hours.
Dandelons, two to three hours.
Potatoes, boiled, thirty minutes.
Tomatoes. canned, thirty minutes.
Potatoes, baked, forty five minutes.
Shelled beans boiled, sixty minutes.
Green corn, thirty to sixty minutes.
Sweet potatoes, boiled, fifty minutes.
Squash boiled, twenty-five minutes.
Sweet potatoes, baked. sixty minutes.
Asparagus, fifteen to thirty minutes.
String beans boiled, one to two hours.
Turnips, yellow, one and half hours.
Cabbage, forty-ive minutes to two
hours. ..
Green peas boiled, twenty to forty min
utes.
Turnips, white, forty'tive to sixty MIN
utes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-01

COOKING VEGETABLES A French cook
oives the tul,wIng general rules for cook :
lng all klnus Of vegetables:
Green vegetables should be thoroughly
washed in cold water and then dropped
into water which has been sailed and is
beginning to boil There should be Il
tablespoonful of salt for each two quarts
of wafer. If the water boils long before
the vegetables are deposited at the bottom
and sides of the kettle. so that the water
is fiat and tasteless, and the vegetables
will not look well nor have fine flavor.
The time for boiling green vegetables
depends upon their age and the time they
have been gathered and the quickness
with which they are cooked. Below is a
very good time table for cooking vegeta-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-04
FLINGING A FIREBRAND.

The lac Ohio Democratic State Convention
placed in its platform plank which declares
among other things, that @the Democratic
sparty is, as it always has been, opposed to I'M
"equal taxation" The (newl World is so
pleased with the plank containing this declar-
alton that it keeps it standing at the head of
its editorial columns and keeps suggesting it
as a contribution to the National Democratic
platform of next year.
The new World doubtless does not so intend
it, but its course in this matter is we'll calcu-
lated to kindle the anger of the Democracy OF
this State. That large and influential portion
of the Democratic party has demonstrated,
through its representatives in the Legislature
for the last two years, that it is not opposed
to unequal taxation Governor Cornell in
his annual message directed the attention OF
the Democratic Senate and Assembly of 1882
to the fact that taxation was unequal through
out this State. The Governor wrote that a
large share of personal property went untaxed,
and that consequently real estate was unduly
burdened. Governor Cleveland spoke to the
same effect in his annual message to the DEM
ocratic Senate and Assembly of 1888. 1t Is
"notoriously true he said, " that personal prop
"erty not less Iemunerative than land and real
"estate escapes to very great extent the pay
"ment of its fair proportion of the expense In
@cident to its protection and preservation
sunder the law" But neither of these Legls-
lntures took heed to these plain admonltions.
Neither one made any attempt worth mention
ing to put an end to unequal taxation by Il
thorough and well considered revision of the
tax laws.
In these circumstances the maladroitness OF
The new World in advocating plark for the
National Democratic platform which shall
pronounce against "unequal taxation" is
evident. Let its suggestion be followed In
1854 and what would be the inevitable result
Would not the entire Ncw-York delegation
promptly march out OF the National Conven-
ton, giving as a reason for its bolt that New
York Democracy had been insul.edP Most
certainly. Why, then, does The new World
insist upon finging this hrebrand, day alter
day
The question is pertinent one. And since.
in the nature of things, The new World will
not be able to answer it satisfactorily. it will
doubtless occur to the Democratic Committee
of this State that fidelity to obvious duty
demands that they should discipline this par
tcular party organ to within an inch of its
life That is n party in which they are said TO
be able, sometimes, to do such things.