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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
The American Farmer.

1t is quite certain that the American
farmer enjoys far more agreeable life,
works less time and less hard, lives
more comfortably, and enjoys much
greater freedom from diseases which
result from hardships and exposure than
any other farmer in the world. In
some foreign countries there are special
diseases, which are called farm dis
cases." in referring to which medical
writers observe that mo case of the
kind has ever been heard of in Amer
ica." Such disease, for instance, is
one called the potato digger's dis
ease recently described in German
medical publication as :" new disease. "
which affects farmers who make Il
special business of growing po-
tatoes. 1t is species of paral-
aysis which affects the legs, in which
both sensation and power of motion are
arrested. This result, it is stated, is
caused by the cramped position of the
limbs as the workman stoOps, resting
his thighs upon his heels, as he goes
about collecting the potatoes. Now,
what American farmer condescends to
take this lowlyand disagreeable position
Here we have pOtato-digging machines
by the score, and if there are any cramps
and loss of power of motion it is the
machine and not the farmer who suffers
them. Fortunately, in America we have
no farmers paralysis or rheumatism or
other special diseases of the kind. And
yet there are cases in which the Ameri-
can farmer is not happy, although he IS
envied by all other farmers in the world.
-NeU York Times.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
Hens by Whnlesala

Mr.. ID. w. Andrews, Lynnfield, Mass.
is poultry farming en- scale unusually
large, and with very exceptional success
He started thirteen years ago, and now
winters l, 500 hens and has 4, 600 to 5000
during the summer and fall OF the To-
cation, breed, losses and feed, the 1meri-
can Culticdfor gives this information
The farm is surrounded on three
sides with rocky, wooded hills, and has
in front a pond, while a stream of water,
which is rarely dry, runs through the
middle of it. The area occupied by the
poultry coops is but two or three acres
lie changes, raising his own chickens
every two years. The breed selected as
most profitable is cross made by breed
ing pure Yellow Leghorn ROSTERS
to pure White Brahma hens He sets
his hens q understand he does not
use an incubator all along the course of
the winter and spring, and markets
broilers in April. The broods average
eight or ten each, but of these he raises
but about half, owing to depredations
from foxes, weasels, mink and owls from
the woods close by. He gives them one
warm meal a day, each morning, which
consists usually Of boiled fishes heads
and onions, thickened up with meal. For
the remainder of the day he gives all
they will eat of oats, corn and wheat
screenings Occasionally he mixes a
little sulphur with the meal. Has had
no trouble from disease"
In reference to range, coops, roots,
and some points of care and unique in
come, we have the following data
'In summer he gives them free range,
and they ramble beyond his bounds into
the woodland around. In winter
they are coopcd up. There are
twelve ranges of coops, having
from seven to twelve coops in each
range. The ranges themselves are about
sixty feet apart The roosts are strips of
board but little above the ground, with
board floor beneath to catch the drop
pings, which are cleaned off daily. The
coops are thoroughly whitewashed inside
and out once or twice year with ordi-
nary whitewash. The roosts and parts
near are thus whitewashcd several times
The floor of the inner coop is covered
with sand, which is removed as deep as
it is dark -colored each spring, and sold
for manure at So per cord. The drop
pings from the roost are sold to tanners
for forty cents bushel, and bring about
$500 annually. Powdered oyster shells
lie scattered about the grounds. In most
of the open coops remarkably healthy
plum trees are growing The coops and
grounds are very neat and clean. Mr..
Andrews employs two hands the year
round to aid him in taking care of his
fowls and marketing the product of his
poultry barn.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
Yaccinating Animals.

The vaccination of animals according
to the plan suggested by the eminent
French savant, NJ. Pasteur, in order to
protect them from rinderpest and other
diseases, has been tried in British Bur
nah with great success. Some calves,
elephants, sheep and a pig were inocu-
lated with M. Pasteur's lymph, and,
though they suffered in no way from the
experiment, the calves in particular seem
to have been so far proof from further
infection that they escaped scot-free
when placed several times among herds
severely affected by the rinderpest. No
official opinion has yet been given on
the merits of NJ. Pasteur's discovery, I'M
til further trial has been made, but one
official intends to have all his govern
ment mules vaccinated, and trading
company also intend to try the plan
with their elephants.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21

The wife and baby of A. " Steen, of
Edison, Washington Territory, recently
had miraculous escape from an instant
and awful death. Stccn was ut work Il
short distance from the house fling Il
saw. Looking up for moment he saw
huge tree lettering as if about to fall.
A glance told him it would strike di-
rcctly upon his home. With almost super-
human effort he bonded toward the
house, caught his wife JUS in the door
way, and removed heg 10 place OF
safety. He had hardly tax d ,er oil the
doorstep when tin trt sc. cith Il crash
across the roof c-'~h.ug Ia. house to the
ground, and leaving it total wreck,
with the baby buried beneath the ruins
Search was Immediately ma le for the lit
tie one, who was found uniniurcd but
somewhat stunned by the shock. though
the chair upon winch the child was sit
ting was broken.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21

rom the kiln to the roots. He claims
that it kills the grubs and does not in.
lurc the trees.
Most farmers who use very small
amounts of artificial fertilizers prefer to
bay them ready prepared and pay the
m lnulacturers profits, than take the
rouble to provide the materials sepa-
lately and mix them.
An old physician of large experience
says the best ointment for cows teats is
unworked butter right from the churn,
melted and mixed with vinegar-sim-
mered together, pcrhaps-and If used
persistcntly will remove the warts.
Different opinions are expressed by
fruit growers as to the best time for
cutting out the old canes of raspberries
after they have done bearing. Some
prune out as soon as the crop is gathered;
others wait until the leaves have fallen,
while third class do all the pruning
early in the spring.
To keep off nice and rabbits wash
trees with a mixture of quicklime, sulphur
and whale-oil SOAP Make the mixture of
the same consistency as whitewash for
walls A tablespoonful of sulphur is
enough for twenty trees If you object
to a whitewash, add enough lampblack
to color the mixture
Years ago the idea prevailed that good
potatoes could only be grown on sandy
soil. Excessive cropping with potatoes
so reduced the potash that tie land be-
came potato poor. OF late years, the best
quality of potatoes are grown on gravelly
loan. On low, wet land the crop will
often be scabby, and always coarse and
watery.
The roofs of grain barns should be
sleeper than is necessary for barns de-
voted to hay, and should be painted. In
threshing by machinery much dust and
chatf will lie on the roofs, and, adherng
to the furze on the shingles, will rapidly
rot them. The steep roof and painting
the shingles are partial preventatives of
this evil.
Insuniciency of drink is one reason
why fowls do not lay more eggs in win
ter. When water freezes in their
houses it requires some care to keep
fresh and clean supply through the day.
If fowls take to eating snow it is still
worse than doing with too little drink.
Ihey always fall off in weight rapidly
when forced to eat snow for drink.
A Kentucky correspondence Home and
fdrm tells how he prepares and cultivates
onion sets. First, broadcast the manure;
good stable manure is what he uses. lie
digs the soil deep and mixes the manure
and soil thoroughly. Then he places the
sets about four inches apart each way.
Next, the entire bed of sets is covered
with cotton-seed about an inch deep.
This represents all the work that is done
until the onions are pulled.
E. N. Hanley tells in the NeO England
Homesteod how he treats choking cattle
When COW chokes on apples he pushes
down the animals throat a rubber hose
until the obstruction is forced into its
stomach. He keeps on hand for this pur-
pose a one and quarter inch rubber hose
four or five feet long. When the hose is
not very stiff stick may be put inside to
give 1t the required tension. The rubber
being smooth, causes the animal no pain.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD


A correspondent of the F,ncjers' Ga
n,'e says that fowls should be examined
81 least once a month, and if lice are
found on them they should be busted
with sulphur and Scotch snuff, in the
proportion of one part of the former to
two of the latter. A good way to apply
this powder is with "A small tin pepper
box. For leg scurvy, which is very
troublesome disease, the same writer
recommends half pint of fish oil, and
one ounce of citric ointment, to be had
OF almost any druggist The oil should
be warmed and the ointment stirred in,
and all well mixed together. This oint-
mept should be applied warm to the legs
with small swab, made by tying a rag
on a small stick. Two applications, it
is said, will cure the worst cases OF
ecurvy in fowls.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21

Parsnips must be packed in clean, dry
sand to prevent whitening.
Prevent a spindling growth pear tree
by keeping the central shoot cut off when
the tree is young.
Sedge or marsh grass makes an excel
lent mulch for gardens. 1t will not seed
the soil as hay will do.
Cottonseed meal, if mixed with twice
its bulk of wheat bran and fed sparingly
to mich cows, will greatly increase the
quantity of butter, which will also be
Grmer and of better quality.
A Delaware peach-grower advocates
the use of lime in the peach orchard. He
scrapes the dirt off and applies lime fresh
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21

A mule owned by certain captain on
the Erie canal was bought for ninety dol
lars, in 1858, at three years old He has
worked steadily ever since that time and
has never been sick or disabled in any
way.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21

Mr.. Jones, Ontario, Canada, is credited
with having the largest bee farm in the
world. This seasons produce is set
down at 70, 900 pounds,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21

South Carolina has q debt Of $G,53l,
200. The State has increased in value
50. 167, 012 during the pass year.
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ITO be coRtinued.)
Milford chronicle., 1883-09-28

any animal is ncomprehensible. Even
an Afghan can give no plausible reason.
Wherever a camel is seen for the first
time, the rest of creation fees as if from
the wrath to come. Ihave been assured
by presumably veracious persons that
horses seeing a camel, or a team Of
them, for the first time, have run away
and kept on running for days. I have
seen them run away, but do not know
how many days they went, because I
did not follow them.
Probably camels have been the means
of saving the lives Of some persons. It
would be interesting to know how many
they have hurried in a premature grave.
I have been nearly placed in the latter
category. They have so many ingenious
methods of putting you out of the way.
Lying down upon you when you are
asleep is generally effective Pulling
one out of the saddle and sitting on him
has been known to produce happy re-
suits for the camel. Another method,
which they practice when a man is hob
bling them, is generally successful; they
raise one of their fore-feet, ostensibly to
knock off fly or two, but really to land
a person about fifteen feet away, and
then kneel on him. As a camel does
everything by contraries, he can not kick
in the normal way, 4. G., with his hind
legs; at least he does not. He hits
straight out from the shoulder. If any
one is standing then anywhere in the
vicinity, he goes off into space with
strong impression near the lumbar
2lerus that he has been hurled from a
catapult.
Camels at a good distance, say ten or
twelve thousand miles, are noble and
imposing beasts. Nearer than that their
interest to me dimishes directly as the
square Of the distance. Long may they
flourish in Afghanistan never want
to see them-except through the re-
versed telescope. Bismillah Peace
be with them l-HarPer's Bazar.
Milford chronicle., 1883-09-28
GONE OYER.

''Come hither, come hither - the broom wSs
in blossom all over yon rise,
There went a wide murmu of brown bees
about it with songs from the wood;
''We shall never be younger; Oh, love- let us
forth for the world meath our eyes
Ay, the world is made young cen as we, and
right fair is heryouth and right good.
Then there fell the great yearning upon me
that never yet went into words,
While lovesome and moansome thereon spake
and falter'd the dove to the dove,
And came at her calling; 'Inherit, inherit
and sing with the birds. "
went up to the wood with the child of my
heart and the wife Of my love.
pure Opathetic! Wild hyaeinthe drank
it, the dream light apace.
Not leaf moved at all meath the blue, they
hung waiting for messages kind;
Tall cherry trees dropped their white blossom
that drifted no whit from its place,
For the south very far out to sea had the
lulling low voice Of the wind.
And the child's dancing foot gave US part in
the ravishment almost pain;
An infinite tremor of life, fond murmur
that cried out on time,
All, short must all end in the doing and spend
itself sweetly in vain,
And the promise be one of fulillment tolean
from the height Of its prime
1--WE shall never be younger!" nay, mock me
not, fancy, none call from yon tree;
They have thrown me the world, they went
over, went up; and alas for my part
am left to grow old, and to grieve and to
change, but they change not with me.
They will never be older, the child Of my
love and the wife of my heart.
JEAN INGELOw.
Milford chronicle., 1883-09-28
An Extraordinary Battle.
FERoCITY OF BEES IN CARRYING ON A
BATTLE FOR TWELVE HOURS.

A remarkable instance Of the ferocity
of bees under certain conditions has just
been afforded. A couple of days since
the Topsham Horticultural and Cottage
Garden Society held its annual exhibit
ton at The Retreat, near Exeter, Eng
land. One of the tents was occupied by
the Devon and Exeter Bee-keeper's AS
sociation and among its exhibits was one
which excited very great deal of in
terest. This was a case containing sew
eral thousand dead drones which had
lost their lives in a sanguinary battle
couple of days previously. A well
known aparian was visiting a friends
house a day or two previously and on
coming to one of the bee hives it was
found that there was great uproar inside.
Close inspection showed the ground be-
low the hive to be covered with several
hundred dead drones and hosts of them
were still being brought to the entrance
and bundled out by the workers, genC--
ally by being seized behind the head
and dragged along to the exit, where, as
a kind of farewell, sting was given to
them. Examination ofthe slain revealed
the fact that they had been severely
handled. Many were headless, others had
lost legs or wings or both and all bore
evidence of rough usage. That the bees
were very much the superior force was
shown by the fact that only about fifty
of them had fallen in the fray, aremark-
able disproportion to the number slain
of the enemy. The battle had ragged
from about seven in the morning to the
same hour in the evening and seemed
then to end only with the utter annihi-
lation of the drones.
Milford chronicle., 1883-09-28
A Metropolitan CrematOry.

Ground has been purchased on the
highest and the most picturesque
grounds on Manhattan Island on which
to erect a crematory to reduce dead
bodies to ashes. The New York Gre
nation Society wish to avoid ferries,
railroad trains, and crowded thorough
fares when conveying the remains of
their relatives and friends to their last
resting place. This will be secured by
the proposed works on Washington
Heights. This cemetery will be more
complete than anything of its kind in the
world. There are to be no yew or willow
trees and no emblems of mourning. A
picturesque chapel fcr memorial services
will be erected, and the grounds will be
laid out and adorned with plants and
flowers suggesting hope and Joy instead
Of the more melancholy emotions. Nor
will there be any roasting or burning Of
the bodies, but the remains viii be in
cinerated by an intensely hot, dry air
radiating from furnaces fifteen feet dis
tant, which will reduce the corpse in
short time to ashes. The crematory is
to be in part modelled upon those in Ger
many and Italy, where they are in much
more general use than in this country
Demoresfs Monthly.
Milford chronicle., 1883-09-28
@ A M ELS.
"REMINISCENCES OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

A friend once informed me thata camel
was a tylopod. At that time I had never
seen a camel, and consequently did not
know what he meant. 1 believe now
that a tylopod is a beast formed by the
coalescence Of a goat, mule and a
giraffe. A camel certainly does present
various phases of character which can
only be accounted for by assuming that
its parentage is connected in some mys-
terious way with the above animals.
1t has the thievish propensities of
goat, and that animals omnivOrous ap-
petite, the obstinacy of mule, and the
ungainly aspect of giraffe. His organ
of song, too, has certain thrilling notes
which could only have been derived
from a he-mule. Esthetically camel
is not a success. There is wanting in
his form the symmetry of proportion,
the perfect fitness of things which would
render him an object of admiration to
one of the higher culture. His beauty
is Of an obsolete type. He belongs
rather to the preraphaelite school,
If Cleopatra were alive we probably
should not be awe-stricken with her
good looks; yet she drove Mark Antony
to a suicides grave. The camel and
Cleopatra were contemporaneous. They
were both products of the same civiliza-
tion. Cleopatra died, but the camel,
alas survives, a monument to the mis-
taken ideas of early man. What Cleo
patra did for Mark Antony, the camel
nearly did for me. Often has a camel
driven me to such a degree of madness
that l have determined to hurl myself
into eternity regardless of consequences
or expense. Remembering, however,
that revenge is sweet, I lived. I con-
sidered the pen to be mightier than the
stock-whip, and solaced myself with the
thought that one day would show to
the world what a misbegotten beast a
tylopod really is. That day has arrived
Hence this production.
When the writer was in Australia it
was his misfortune to be engaged for
some two years in exploring certain parts
of the interior. Horses were useless
there, as the country was so dry. Cam
els were the only means of transporta- (
ton. When I heard Of this 1 thought
in my innocence how nice it would be
to initiate the free Bedouin of the Sa- /
hara, and bound along on the feet-footed !
ship of the desert over the burning sands |
of Central Australia. From childhoOd's |
happy hour I had read of these noble |
beasts. Camels were associated in my |
mind with much that was beautiful
things that appealed to my feelings,
such as palm-trees, dates, cocoa-nuts,
oases, goat-skin, water bags, dusky
maidens, sheiks, and negro slaves.
Accordingly, one morning, when I
found two camels and an Afghan wait
ingsto convey me to the rest of the party,
my excitment was wrought up to fever
heat. The camels looked similar to pic
lures of them had seen in my boy
hood, although could not tell whether
they were true tylopods or not. The
Afghan appeared to be a veritable sheik,
and reioiced in the name of Mohammed
Golah Hassan. My zeal inspired me to
mount Immediately. I went to look for
a ladder to carry out my purpose. But
Hassan informed me that the camel
would lie down, and thus enable me to
dispep le with that article. I remem-
o, that it would be quite possi-
Milford chronicle., 1883-09-28

SoAm men are known by the company
they-can't get into.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-12-17
NEWS OF THE DAY

Representative Haskell Of kapsas. wbo
has been i'll for some time, died in Washing
ton Yesterday.
The Crown Prince OF Germany vii. arrive
at Rome this morning, and it is settled thu
he will pay q visit TO the Pope.
Baker Pasha is unable to leave Cairo 10
move against the rebels in Upper E.yf; ul
account Of financial difficulties
a fire in Alexandria has DESTROYED tn.
temporary buildings put up in the srca.
square after the bombard,aent of the city.
The glucose works situated at East =
Louis were burned last night. The loss OF,
the works is $4,000, and on stock $1,000
In consequence Of the recent break in the
prices of cotton goods leaving, it is claimed
no good margin for profit, notices OLA r..
ductiOn Of wages will he posted today in
many of the leading mills in Rhode Island
a mass meeting Of laborins men Was held
yesterday in Irving Hall, New York, to ten
der reception TO a French delegation Of
workmen. Justus Schwab and Herr John
Most spoke in German. Herr Most's speech
was Of most incendiary character, and he
was repeatedly interrupted by cries OF give
la Commune" aud 'Nive Ia dynamite
Another scandal has come to light in the
Treasury Department ut Washington. Ii i.
alleged that an employee in the office Of the
supervising architect Of the treasury has
been for some years iu the receipt of a per
diem compensation Of so, Sundays inclut.
ed, and that the only authority for this is an
order Of the Secretary Of the Treasury. The
Secretary who issued the order was Mr..
John Sherman, and the beneficiary, it is
said, helped to build the new house Of
Secretary. He is the only person in the
Treasury Department on per diem COM
pensation who is paid for Sundays.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-12-17

cess from the Goth to the I'd of January was

cess from the goth to the ID of January was
agreed to.
The bill declaring the debt settlement a
fnalitv. &c.. was passed unanimously.
a bill to remove the disabilities of certain
gentlemen on account OF duelling was order
cd to be engrossed. The names included
Messrs. Beirne, Elan and J. ). Wise.
Among the bills and resolutions introduce
ed and referred were the following:
To inquire into the eXpediency of chang
ing the laws of the State SO as to prohibit
persons engaged in trade from executing
deeds or advertisements giving preference
to creditors, and to report by bill or other
wise.
To amend section 81 of chapter - of The
Code of Virginia, 1873, in relation to the dll'
ties of school trustees; to amend and re-
enact section of chapter lO5 OF the Code,
in relation to divorces.
Granting the West Virginia and Ohio
Mineral Railway Company the right TO eX-
tend their proposed road through The State
Of Virginia and to connect with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad and other roads III
the State.
Toincorporate the Lynchburg and North
Carolina Railroad Company to lessen the
danger Of travelling on railroads by requir-
ing the establishment of telegraph stations
and to enclose their roadbeds, and fixing
their liabilities for refusing to do so; and for
extending the time for the collecting of the
State tax to first day of April. 1881.