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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-17

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this account, it was found several
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zen more than accessory.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-17

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RELATIONS WITH oERMASY.


The Interpretation OF our existing treaties OF
naturalization by GeTmanv during the past wear
has attracted attention by reason Of an apparent
tendency on the part Of the imperial government
10 extend the scope OF this residential restrictions
10 which returning naturalizad citizens OF Ger
man origin are asserted 10 BE- liable. undeT the
laws OF the empire. The temperate and Just atti-
tnds taken by this government with regard to
this class OF questions will doubtless lead TO a
satisfactory undefs. snding. The dispute OF Ger
many and spain relative TO the denomination OF
tIs Caroline islands has attracted the attention
OF this government BY reason OF extensive inter
ests OF Ametioan ~eiti1sns having gFogG up In
these paita during the past thirty years, aud be-
cause the question OF ownership involves jurts-
diction OF matters ~efecttng the status OF our
citizens under civil and criminal law. whilst
standing wholly alOof from the proprietary
issues raised between powers TO both OF whom
the United States Is friendly. THIS government
expec.s that nothing In the present contention
shall unfayorably affect our citizens carrying on
a peaoefal m ar there aau;oileI aud has
40 informed the govern msnts of \ ain and Ger
many, Marked good will has existed betweeu
the United States and Great Britain during the
past year. The termination OF
THE FISHING AUS
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Joint resolution OF March 3. 1883. must have re-
su TED IN the abrupt cessation on the LIST OF July
81 this year. ia the midst Of their ventures. OF the
operations OF citizeGs OF ths United states en-
gagged IN fishing In British-American waters, but
for = diplomatic understanding reached with her
maisstys government in June last, whereby as
sarNnee was obtained that no interruption of
thosc OpefatiOns shouiu take place during tine
current fishing season. In the interest OF good
nsighb0rhood, OF the commercial intercourse OF
adjacent communities, the question OF the North
American fisheries Is one o. much Importance.
Following out the inttnlstion given by me when
the extens0ry arrangement above described was
negotiated, l recommend thar the congress pro-
vide for the appointment OF q commission in
which this government OF the United States and
Gre at Britain shall be respectively represented.
char ged with tho consideration and settlement
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ras entire question OF the fishing rights OF tho
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-17


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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
Agricultural.
rnrmer. ana me TariR.


Our Country Home a monthly journal Of
the farm and household, published at Green
FIELD, Mass, by Henry d. Watson, is one Of
the best periodicals Of its kind that we read.
Its several departments are under the charge
Of eminent specialists, whose reputation is a
guarantee of good work. We take from its
pages the following sensible remarks on the
tariff question: Gree traders have won en-
emies who should be friends of their cause.
And some Jealous friends have created false
impressions by indiscriminate demands for
free trade Now it is a fact that the leaders
in the free-trade movement do not ask for
free trade in the sense that many critics take
for granted. Absolute free trade exists in no
civilized country, and is impossible under any
form of government yet tried: it would mean
free rum, free opium, free obscenity, free
dynamite. Those free traders who are really
men Of intelligence ask only greatef degree
of freedom in trade the liberty for any man
to buy and sell legitimate goods where he can
do it to his best advantage, yet without harm
to the general public the reform Of abuses
in our customs law, and gradual return 10
the principles of liberty which underle our
institutions from the irregular condition Of
war tariffs. Farmers want to sell their sur
plus produce in markets which they can con-
troll by reason of our natural advantages, but
to do that must be able to buy in those same
markets on the same terms that their Austria
liam, and Indian, and Russian competitors do.
Yet they ask this to be brought about gradu-
ally, without working harm to other interests.
On this platform all fair minded men can
work. And on this platform the leaders Of
all parties now seem to be gathering"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13

/ had some neigbbors once-clever, good
sort Of folks. One fall four of them we're sick
at one time with typhoid fever. The doctor
ordered the vinegar barrels whtewashed, and
threw about 40 cents worth of carbolic acid
into the swill pail and departed. went into
the kitchen to make Cruel. needed dish.
cloth, and looked about and found several, and
such rags ! ! burned them all and called
the daughter of the house to get me a dish.
cloth. She looked around on the tables.
Why she said, there was about a dozen
here this morning ; and she looked in the
wood. box and on the mantel- piece, and felt in
the dark corner Of the cupboard Well I
said, i saw some old black rotten rags lying
around and / burned them, for there is death
in such dish cloths as these, and you must
never use such again.
/ took turns at nursing that family four
", eks, and believe those dirty dish-cloths
ere the cause of all that hard work. There.
fore, say to every house keeper, keep your
dish-cloths clean. You NAV wear your dress
es without ironing, your sun-bonnets without
elastics, but you must keep your dish-cloths
clean. You may only comb your hair on
Sundays, you may not wear a collar unless
you go from home but you must wash your
dish-cloth. You may only sweep the floor
when the sign gets right ! the windows don't
need washing you can look out at the door 1;
that spicer-web on the front porch don't hurt
anything but, as you love your lives, wash
out your dish cloth. Let the foxtail get ripe
in the garden (the seed is foot deep any.
way let the holes in the heels Of your hus.
bands footrags go undarned let the sage go
ungathered let the children's shoes go two
Sundays without backing let the two hens
sit four weeks on one wooden egg but do
wash your dish Eat without q table
cloth wash your faces and let them dry do
without curtain for your windows, and cake
for your tea, but for heavens sake keep your
dish cloths clean.-Cdhf0rnid Patron.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
Have COURAGE!

Full, robust courage is the great need of
the hour in all business affairs. We have all
the material wealth of products necessary to
form the most substantial basis of business
prosperity, but there is timidity by which
the currents of trade are obstructed, and as
consequence, general dullness in all CONNER
cial affairs. In real truth, farmers with full
crops are the principal sufferers, because
they have expended their labor in production
and find returns insufficient to cover cost.
Manufacturers may suspend operations; far
mers cannot. Men who live by daily labor
find hardships it is true, in lack Of employ
ment when manufactures are closed, but
they need courage too. They should be
brave enough to accept lower prices for their
labor when the conditions of trade will not
permit larger compensation. They find far
mers, who more than all others produce the
wealth of the country, obliged to accept low.
er prices. There is equal obligation resting
upon them to meet the hard condition of
situation that will soon be brighter if courage
directs and rules every act The coming
spring may be full of promise-indeed it i.
full of promise-if men will be brave and
consistent, accepting the inevitable and strug
Cling nobly to restore confidence, the one
element of prosperity now lacking
-Hus6dndmdn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
What 70 Feed CnIren.

j. E. Saunders writes thus to the Maine
Farmer Last winter kept two COWS which
dropped their calves-one the 22d of Febru-
airy and the other the 18th of March. / then
bought and had given to me five more, from
one to six days old, which / brought up by
hand. gave them new milk until ten DAYS
old; then skinned milk and hay tea. the
milk being set from As to 60 hours before be-
ing skinned. made the hay tea by filling
tin wash boiler with hay and putting in three
pals of water, from which would get about
two pals of tea. 1 stepped the same hay
three times, turning it upside down in the
boiler the last time. l scalded the milk and
then let it stand until it was about as warm
as when drawn from the COW then gave one
quart of milk and two quarts of tea to each
calf, morning, noon and night. l also gave
each one pint of oats at noon, after drinking
the tea. kept them in clean pens, with an
abundance of good bedding. fed them un.
til II weeks old, and then turned them out to
pasture on new land that had only been pas
tured one summer and when put them in
the barn last fall fed each two quarts of tur-
nips per day, with plenty of good hay, for
about three weeks, and since that time they
have had nothing but hay and plenty of wa
ter, which warm for them. The result is
have seven as good-if not the best-calves /
ever saw in one barn.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Rarmera, WINea.

A correspondent of the Woman's journal
pays this tribute to farmers wives The
farmers of this country occupy position of
honor and usefulness They are the source
of the nations wealth and prosperity, and by
their vote can at any moment decide its des.
tiny. Their wives occupy position of cor
responding importance. They are the moth
ers Of the men whom our nation delights TO
honor-whose voice of wisdom is heard in
our national councils. Lebanon shorn of it's
stately cedars would be her sad emblem were
our land bereaved of the patriotic and heroic
men whose early youth was associated with
rural scenes-with woods, and streams, and
bird voices that filed the air with melody.
But the sweet voice that stilled the cry of in
fancy, the kind hand that led children to the
altar OF prayer, the counsels that conducted
them in the paths of wisdom, the maternal
influence that developed their moral nature
these we're the pledges and presages of their
future greatness.
The wives of our farmers. whose thrift and
industry have secured for their husbands a
competence, whose intelligence is the light of
the social circle, and whose piety is the guar
dian OF domestic peace are emphatically the
mothers of our men. Such women see that
many of their sisters of toll have tainted be-
meath the pressure of misfortune, and have
failed to reach that sublime eminenee for
which woman is destined. They have trained
up an eliminate and useless offspring, and
have bequeathed TO their country a curse in
stead of q blessing. They have failed in the
great end of life. They have been mothers.
but without habits of industry, without the
power of self-control, without intelligence or
piety. They have been untitled for their sta
ton, and their children have been sent from
the parental roof morally disqualified for the
duties and responsibilities of viTtuous life.
failure in the country, with all the oppor-
tunities OF sueoess-away from all the moral
communications of a crowded city, amid all
that is pure and poetic in nature all that is
suggestive of truth and beauty, and all that
Is bountitul and beautiful in agricultural pur-
suits-Tightly to train their children, ought TO
awake the voice of warning aud reproof.
There may have been no failure in aceumu.
Rting wealth, none in cntivating the soil
none IN making home tasteful aud beautiful
but the failure has been where it is most ia.
tain training the heart aud directing the
footsteps of childhood There may have
been lavish expenditure to crafty pride and
taste, but too little to develop the intellect
aud train the heart There may have been
untiring effort 10 teach the children TO sing
well, to play we'll, and TO dance we'll but
none to make them useful, ViTtuous and happy.
There is an evident tendency TO increasing
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
That $1,000 Appropria,,op.

Our little state appropriated $4,000 for the
New Orleans show. Like the large sum Civ
en- to the managers of that concern by Con-
gress, our $4,000 is said to be prematurely ex-
hsusted Vermont gives as much as has been
appropriated by the great states having more
than ten times as much wealth but, with
the $4,000 given or promised to the state out of
the national appropriation, it is found INSULT
cient. The show business is at best hardly a
legitimate thing for a state to engage in, but,
having put money into it, the people of the
state should know how it is expended, in Or
der that they may be better able to Judge
whether to continue voting appropriations for
similar purposes. In New York-a state that
has 30 times our weRlth-the people ask the
legislature to make provisions that no part
of their appropriation of $4,000 for the New
Orleans exposition shall be used to pay for
personal services
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13

wealth and luxury among farmers 10 initiate
the ostentation and display of city life. We
wage no war against refinement; we are not
averse 10 the eleganoies Of life but 10 train
up our daughters only 10 shine in the parlor,
to play the piano, and 10 speak French with
a correct accent, and TO teach our sons TO de-
spise the honest toll of the husbandman-thi
is q sin.
Our fathers, who laid the foundations Of
our nations greatness, we're tillers of the soil ;
and many who have plowed the field and SOW
ed the seed bave risen 10 guide the affairs Of
state, 10 hold converse with the muses., or to
sweep the harp strings with Bryanfs hand.
Our mothers, whose names and heroic deeds
are immortal, cultivated the domestic virtues;
they piled the loom and the needle, and made
the garments of the men whose names are
associated with the heroisms Of the past.
We must still look to farmers wives who
are blessed with children for the men Of strong
frames, of iron nerves and heroic hearts, TO
accomplish our nations destiny.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
How they Cure Hams In virginia.


Virginia hams, and notably the Smithfield
and East Virginia hams, are cured in the fol-
lowing way; The hogs are left on the scat.
fold till the animal heat is well out of the car
cass and it has become little stiff from cold,
in order that it may cut smoother and better
than it does when limp. Usually the pork is
not cut until the next morning after il is kill
ed, but if the weather is very cold and il ia
feared that it will freeze before morning. il ia
cut and sailed the same day. On being cut
the meat is Immediately sailed and packed
down in bulk, flesh side up, on the floor of a
platform made for the purpose. In packing
it down each piece is so laid that all the blood
that oozes out of the meat will flow away from
1t, and not remain in contact with the flesh to
faint it. This is one of the nice points in our
method of curing bacon-namely, to have the
animal bleed freely when it is killed, and not
allow the pork to stand long in the bloody
water that always comes away from pork for
short time after it is slaughtered Hence
We never use the brine, but always salt the
meat dry, and break bulk and resalt again in
q short time Care is taken to touch all the
joints and bones with plenty of salt, and TO
sprinkle more salt on the thick part of the
pieces as they are packed down. We use
from bushel to bushel and a half of dry
salt to 1000 pounds Of pork, applying the
must VI heat VI large size. sometimes, to
give fine red color to the flesh of hams, a
little saltpetre is rubbed on them, but very
often nothing but the dry salt is applied till
the meat is ready to be smoked. At the ex-
piration of four to six weeks depending on
the size and the weather. the hams are taken
up, washed clean of salt (but this is often
omitted), and molasses or moist brown sugar
is smeared over the flesh sides, and black or
red pepper applied freely to give the meat
good flavor and also to keep of the bacon
bug, the parent of the skipper" The red
pepper should be dried in an oven and then
pounded fine in a mortar. Both sorts of pep.
per may be used together. gallon of mo-
lasses or ten pounds of sugar, and four pounds
of black pepper or peck of red in pod, are
enough of these articles for 1000 pounds of
hams. The pieces are then hung up and
smoked in the usual way, by kindling slight
hre in the middle of the room and keeping it
smothered with chips Only green. hickory
or oak wood is used, as it imparts a brighter
color to the meat.-COuHtry Gentleman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13
voice from she Farm.

You say that my life is a round Of toll?
The stalwart farmer said,
That I scarce can wrest from the oft-tilled soil
Mypittance Of daily bread3
Well, what you tell me in part is true,
am seldom an idle man,
But value the blessing of rest, as you,
Who have much Of it. never can.
And surely, have never worked in vain,
From the Spring tothe golden FAN;
The harvest has ever brought waving grain,
Enough and to spare for all.
And when in the evening. free from care,
sit at my farmhouse door,
My wife and little ones waiting there,
oh, what has the millionaire more?
Ny children may never have boarded wealth;
Their lives may at times be rough:
But II In their homes they've love and health,
They will fnd these riches enough.
The only land they will ever own
Is the and that the strong right arm
And the patient fearless heart alone
Can till to fertile farm.
have nothing beyond my simple wants,
And a little for cloudy days:
But no grim spectre my threshold haunts,
Such as silver and gold might raise.
Around me are eyes that with sparkling mirth
Or with placid contentment shine
Aud no wealth-clogged lord upon all the earth
Has lot more blessed than mine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13


In the dairy awards at the New Orleans ex-
position Vermonters get these premiums: W.
T. Chaplin Essex Center second premium Of
$50 for dairy butter made in September or
October; f. b. Wood on Barre, third, S25.
@. Miller OF Pomfret and w. W. Park Of
Montpelier get shares Of $1,000 which was
divided between some 20 exhibitors Of butter.
The Dairy Association Of North Pomfret gets
second premium, $3.50, on largest and best
display of butter. W. d. Bronson Of East
Hard wick gets second premium Of $50 for
print and ornamental butter, and Q. L. Wheel
or of Randolph, third, $50 For graduated
butter f. O. Grout Of East Concord gets first
premium, $50. For tub butter made in New
England or the middle states, f. B. Living
stone of Morrisville gets first premium Of
$50 Mr.. Bruce of West Randolph, second,
$50 and +. b. Douglass of Whiting, third,
$25 On cheese, W. I. Chaplin Of Essex Cen
ter gets share of $1,000 with some 80 others,
and third premium Of $50 for largest and best
display of cheese by individual manufacturer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13

On every hand We see evidences that winter IL
breaking up, aud will have TO yield 70 the adyan-
cling spring 1t is most important question amongst
scientific men what causes the general feeling Of de-
bity and lassitude so prevalent in this region While
some regard Il az the result Of confinement and mac.
tion others suppose 1t to be caused by the decay Of
vegetable aud animal debris which has accumulated
during the winter. What Is especially needed az this
time however, is something to overcome these infiu-
ences II IL too late 10 talk about the causes what IL
the cure Thousands Of persons all over the country
who have given Kidney-Wort faithful trial are ready
TO testify that other remedy a equal 10 Il for clean
sing the system, purifying the blood regulating the
bowels, and curing all liver aud kidney diseases Its
in fact the king Of all spring medicines.