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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
Farm and Garden Notes

Young pigs always sell for good prices,
and return larger profit in proportion
20 cost, than hogs.
1t takes a good deal of cornmeal to
.ounterbalance the effects of frosty air
coming through numerous crevices in the
hog pen.
Have the stables warm enough to keep
the horses comfortable without blankets;
they will stand the cold better when out
Of doors.
1t is said that if apples are covered
with buckwheat chaff they will keep
we'll, and do not freeze as easily as when
straw, sawdust or earth is used.
Adding cost of feeding all the dogs,
and the value of the sheep they kill
together, it is a question if it is not bet.
ter to feed all the sheep to the dogs and
save the food they eat.
A common herd, well cared for, will
often yield better returns than grade
OF pure blooded one where the owner
places more confidence in blood and
pedigree than he does in good care and
management.
With fat cattle at seven cents per
pound breeder finds that in feeding
four pounds of corn and fodder together
cut fine, with two pounds of linseed meal
to each steer, the corn brings about sew
enty cents per bushel.
If the little striped bugs seem inclined
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
Remarkable Grape-GroNving.

An instance of remarkable success In
cultiyating foreign grapes, related in the
London Garden, is doubly interesting
from the fact that they were grown on
an entirely new and peculiar system. 1t
is in fact an application of the customary
method adopted by European vineyard
lists in the open air-namely, training
to single stem, and keeping the shoots
within bounds by pinching and pruning.
One house is about 10 feet in length,
thirty feet wide, fifteen feet high at the
sides. 1t is planted with $50 vines in
six rows, five feet apart; all of the Ali
cante variety, often known as the Black
st, Peters, an old late grape, large and
snowy but not of highest quality. The
crop was certainly wonderful as the four
inner rows of vines are ten feet high and
carried fourteen or fifteen punches each.
The two rows next the sides of the
house are necessarily shorter, about six
feet high, and had twelve punches each.
''The fruit is rs black as sloes, and aver
aging two pounds bunch all over the
house" A rough calculation gives the
weight near upon two tons. When we
consider the statement that these vines
were but three years planted, it really
borders somewhat on the marvellous.
Other houses filled with vines five and
seven years planted, were equally fine,
thus proving the system correct, under
the system received here, at least. In
this country we are satisfied with one
row of vines trained up the rafters, al
though 1t is customary to set row of
vines along the back of the house for fruit
ing until the main vines become large, but
no such crop as described above can be
raised in this way.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
A Fortune in Celery.

Fifteen years ago Lendert De Brazen,
Hollander, was poor gardener near
Kalamazoo, Mich, trying to make a
living off of some marshy land he had
purchased. After other things had failed,
he experimental with celery and is now
rich man. What was a dozen years
ago a swamp is to-day a vast celery field,
beside which hundred acre lot is but a
garden. The shipping season begins in
July, increases until the holidays them
gradually decreases until the crop is dis
posed of in the spring. Fifty tons daily
are now being sent out, and the crop of
1884 will reach 5000 tons. Twenty
thousand stalks are raised upon an acre
of ground. 1t is said that 1000 persons
in that locality are engaged in this in
dustry. PHILADELPHIA Ledger.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
Household Hints and Esecipes.

Pieces of cheese cloth make the very
best kind of busters Cut them and
hem them.
To prevent patent leather from crack
ing, always warm the leather before in
serting the foot in the shoe. Heat rem
Gers patent leather soft and pliable.
Stair carpets should always have three
or four thicknesses of paper put under
them, at or over the edge of every stair,
which is the part where they first wear
out.
To make green corn pudding, take six
large ears of sweet corn grated, one quart
of milk, two well-beaten eggs, not quite
full teacup sugar. Mix and bake. No
buttered dish.
When roasting a chicken or small fowl
there is danger of the legs browning or
becoming too hard to be eaten. To avoid
this take strips of CLOTH dip them into a
little melted lard, or even just rub them
over with lard, and wind them around
the legs. Remove them in time to al
low the chicken to brown delicately.
Parsnip balls are excellent for IN entire.
Parboil six large parsnips, and let them
get quite cold then peel them and CRATE
them, beat two eggs until very light,
and mix with the grated parsnip, ad-
ding enough flour to give conference to
the mixture -four the hands and make flat
balls. Have hot lard in a shallow kettle
and drop the balls gently into it; fry
them until they are well Drowned on
both sides. Send to the table very
hot
The following is celebrated remedy
for freckles, and may be compounded at
home: Best English mustard powder, a
tablespoonful; lemon juice, enough to
make thin paste; oil of almonds, tea
spoonful. Mix them well, and apply,
spread in a thick plaster, night and
morning until the skin smarts. After
few days the scarf-skin should loosen
and the freckles disappear. After they
had gone the surface should be washed
several times daily with solution of
borax, and the patient should not ven
ture into the open air for some days.
A comparatively inexpensive cream
cake is made of two cups of sugar, two
cups and three quarters of another cup
of -four, half cup of sweet milk, four
eggs, piece of butter as large as two
eggs, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
a half a teaspoonful of soda. This may
be baked in three or four layers. The
cream is made of one cup of sugar, half
a cup of -four, two eggs, the whites and
yolks beaten separately, and the whites
beaten to stiff froth, and one pint OF
milk. Let this cook until it is thick,
let it cool, and then favor with va
nilla.
A delicate white pudding is made by
soaking one teacupful of gelatine in one
pint of cold water; Let it stand for an
hour, then add one pint of boiling
water, the juice of two lemons, and two
cups of sugar. Strain this and add the
whites of five eggs beaten to perfectly
stiff froth. Let this become quite cold
before serving. The sauce for this pud-
ding is made of one quart of boiling
milk; beat the yolks of five eggs with
half cup of sugar, and stir into the
milk. When cool flavor to your taste.
The quantity here given will be suffi-
Gent for nine good sized dishes, or with
less generosity, a tenth may be distrib.
| uted
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
IRM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Ammonin for Plants.

Last year was induced to try an ex-
pertinent in chrysanthemum growing,
and for this purpose purchased one pound
Of sulphate of ammonia, which l bottled
and cOrked, as ammonia evaporates very
rapidly. l then selected four plants
from my collection, putting them by
themselves, gave them teaspoonful of
ammonia in gallon of water twice a
week. In fortnight's time the result
was most striking; for though l watered
the Others with liquid COW manure, they
looked lean when compared with the
ammonia watered plants, whose leaves
turned to very dark green, which they
carried to the edge of the pots until the
flowers were cut. As matter Of course
the flowers were splendid, The ammonia
used is rather expensive, as bought it
from a chemists shop. This year | in
tend getting agricultural ammonia, which
is much cheaper. have also tried it on
Strawberries, with the same satisfactory
result, the crop being nearly double that
of the Others. 1t is very powerful and
requires to be used with caution. Lon
den Garden.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

to have feast at my expense, an
Ohio farmer says; l dust some SCOT or
fine ashes over the vines some morning
before the dew is off. The dew will
hold the SCOT or ashes on the leaves and
the bugs will leaves for parts unknown.
Sheep enable the farmer to use certain
kinds of provender that would not be
saleable without their aid. Hence, sup
posing that sheep do not return any profit
at all, which, however, is not admitted,
yet if they assist in saving that which is
often wasted they pay well for their
keep.
An English poultryman says that on
the first appearance of gapes, make a
quart of oatmeal porridge, stir into it
tallow candle, and administer it warm to
the chicks. Repeat the remedy every
two hours. lie states that he has never
lost chick from gapes when the above
was administered.
In skimming the cream from milk,
there should always be milk enough
skinned with the cream to give butter,
when churned, bright, clean look.
Butter churned from clear cream, with
little or no milk in it, will usually have
an oily or shiny look. This shows that
the grain of the butter is injured, which
affects the keeping qualities of the but
ter.
! Whenever permanent fence is needed
it should be straight and occupy as little
land as possible. 1t is not necessary to
make a post and board fence. With
wire and a stake posts and rails will
answer every purpose, and cost compare
lively little. Land that has been long
occupied by a Virginia worm fence is
generally fertile, and the crops grown on
land saved by Strengthening its crooks
will very soon pay the expense of the
| change.
Every year the proportion of grass-fed
beef is decreasing, and this involves a
much larger use of corn as feed. At the
far West farmers are going into the cul-
ture of corn that they may finish off their
grassfed cattle. In the higher ATTITUDES
where corn cannot be grown, cattle are
driven to those sections where it can be,
and in some cases the cattle men are
! buying farms in Kansas and Iowa, as q
supplement to their ranching operations
in Montana.
Young turkeys require great attention
up to the age OF six weeks. A person of
experience might not loose more than
four or five out of fifty in a favorable
season. No hard grain should be fed
until they are five or six weeks old.
Bread and milk, with hard boiled eggs,
should be fed at first. Afterwards, the
curd from clabbered milk is one of the
best things for them, alone or mixed
with ground oats. Scalded milk can be
used for change.
On sandy soil after a few years crop
ping the sorrel seed is apt to come in.
Farmers often say that the land has be-
come "sour," and imeis used to remedy
the difficulty. But lime is less helpful
to sandy than any other kind of soil.
The cause of the trouble in such cases is
a lack of fertility preventing growth of
clover and the sorrel comes in because
it can thrive on poorer soil. Potash is
almost always deficient in light land,
and dressing of leached or unleached
wood ashes will make vigorous clover
growth and extirpate all weeds that a
good clover crop viii smother.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
Names of Indians.

The American Indians, says Health and
Home, do not usually bestow names upon
their children until they are old enough
to show some popularity of disposition,
or character, and the name is intended
to describe that peculiarly. These names
are liable to be dropped and others sub
stituted at any time, on the development
OF other characteristics-the performance
of some remarkable experience. The
name of an Indian always has, therefore,
to his people, a significant meaning,
while to the whites 1t may be very alb
surd. The Council Fire, paper pub
ished in Washington, as the organ of the
Quaker policy of justice and fair dealing
toward the indians, has many Indian
names on its list of subscribers and con-
tributors, from which we make the fol-
lowing selections:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
nm. AZ nr G.ttInr virora,,.

Is comprised in one very simple piece Of ad.
vice, improve digestion. No elaborate system
Of dietetics is needed II you lack vigor, uss
Systematically that pleasant promoter Of it,
Hosteiter's Stomach Bitters. II you take this
hint, and do not commit any excuses. there Is
no reason why you should not gain in strength.
appetite and weight. Hosts of whilom inValids
are to-day builling q foundation for years Of
vigorous health with this sound and thorough
renovator Of q dilapidated physique and failing
energy. Dyspepsia is eradicsted by it, and the
constitution fortified against disorders "a
which, If it were exposed, it must surely sue
cumb-notably malarial fever. Rheumatism
inactivity Of the kidneys and bladder, nevous
ness, and their various symptoms, disappear
when it is usee with per,istency, not abandon
ed after brief and irregular trial.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

In his address on profits of forest cul-
ture, Mr.. Rothe suggested what trees to
plant. He said: Locust will make
fence posts and pavement blocks in eight
years from the seed, and large trees in
twelve years. 1t is also well adapted
for furniture. Catalpa, which makes the
best railloa ties, grows even quicker.
Hickory, now largely exported TO Europe
and in great demand there, will prove
exceedingly profitable. Sown in rows
three feet apart, the nuts six inches
apart, the young trees will grow up
straight and slender. In five years,
thinning out may begin, and hoop poles
sold; the next thinning out will give
material for spokes and buggy fills, and
the best trees, left standing at proper
distances, will make fine forest in less
than twenty years. Black walnut is of
slow growth, but being costly it Is worth
while to think of planting it for specu-
lation. A forty acre lot of black walnut
now planted will in twenty-five years
make its owner independently wealthy
without much outlay of labor.
But the most profitable branch of
forestry is the cultivation of oak for tan
bark on the renewal or Hackwald system.
The acorns about six bushels to the acre.
will be laid six inches apart and in rows
three feet distant. The young sap
lings taken out by tn ming may be
used to great advantage in planting. In
twelve years the trees will be large
enough for cutting and peeling. New
sprouts grow from the roots in the same
year, and the second growth proves
more thrifty than the first. The revenue
from such forests may be called perpetu-
al. In Europe vast tracts of second class
land has been forested in this manner.
The bark of the young and middle sized
trees contains mole tanning and is there
fore of higher value than that taken
from old trees. Here in Ohio the bark
of the chestnut leaved oak is preferred
to all others. The tree is a more rapid
grower than other varieties of oak and
is satisfied with the poorest of soil.
Cincinnati alone uses 200 cords OF
tanbark per year, and even larger
quantity is consumed in Louisville.
Seven trees of one foot in diameter will
furnish one cord. The pine now varies
from $14 to $28 per cord and is steadily
increasing. From carefully prepared re-
forts of the forestry departments of the
several German States and of Austria it
appears that an acre of properly cult
waited Hackwald of the age of twelve
years, will furnish four to five cords Of
tanbark and about 5000 feet of timber
(board measure) fit for posts and fol-
~agon-makers' work. The revenue
from the wood covers all expenses o.
planting and managing, leaving a sur
plus.
Large tracts of land are lying waste il
Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia anG
other States which, by means of fores
Culture, may be transformed into paying
.States. -New York World.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

of life which is usually unappreciated until it
is lost, perhaps never to return, is health.
What priceless boon it is, and how we ought
to cherish it, that life may not be worthless
blank to us. Many of the diseases that flesh
is heir to, and which make life burdensome,
such as consumption (scrofula Of the lungs
and other scrofulous and blood diseases, find
@ complete cure in Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Golder
Medical Discovery" when all other remedies
have failed. Dr. Pierce's pamphlet on con,
sumption mailed for two stamps. Address
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, n. Y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
Taking a Thumb Oath.

In the council chamber of an old Ger
man town, famous for rare and quaint
memorials of the very long ago, is pre-
served with wondrous care very singu-
lar bit of gold smithcry. 1t is "the
Burgered crystal" an enameled relic
box with rock crystal upon the top,
and upon this the burghers of Luneburg
placed thumb when required to take
an oath. -Harpet'S B1zar.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
The invention of a newsparer story

The invention of newspaper story is
hotalways agreeable in its results. Two
years ago, a man named Subers, of Macon,
Ca, gave to the papers an account of q
wonderful new kind of cotton plant, oil
which the ball turned red. 1t went the
rounds of all the papers, Subers chuck.
ling over the smart thing he had done,
BY and by letters began to come asking
for seeds This amused him more, but
soon his mail became enormous, and from
All over the Union, often inclosing
stamps, mispelling his name, and far out,
running his ability to reply. Then India,
Egypt and the far East began to inquire,
until he realized that he was the champ
ion humbug of the age.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

MEHsMAN's PxPToNIzED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation fbsef containingits entire n.fs''-
iious properties. 1t contains blood-makinS
force generating and DEMONSTRATING properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and ali forms of general debility;
also. in all enfeebled conditions, whether tho
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly il resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswon, Hazard &
Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
The Arizona editors believe chat nlain

The Arizona editors Believe that plain
words are best. Here is the way in
which one of them pays his compliment;
to his rival: 1.-The d-nosed idiot who
fathers the dirty little dish-rag in thi
town calling itself newspaper, is sri
engaged in making asinine remarks
about us and the postoffice. Let thc
orncry cuss go on with his abuse; we
don't care. He reminds us of fellow
who should try to dye wool while it is or
lambs back. And it isn't because h!
is a lamb.dyer either; oh, no; quite the
other way.n
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
&c All Men Are I,inrs -

said David of old. He was probably prompted
to make the above remark after trying some
unreliable catarrh remedy. Had he been per.
mitted olive until the present day, and tried
DR.. Sage's Remedy, he might have had bet
ter opinion of mankind. We claim that nc
case of catarrh can withstand the magic eff
fects of this wonderful medicine. One tria
of it will convince you of its efficacy. By
druggists; fifty cents.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

4 farmers wife in Bollinger county,
Mo-, left the baby in his care while she
went to town shopping. The father,
being busy blowing, nailed box to
the pillow beam, in which he placed the
baby snugly, and thus the industrious
and ingenious father proceeded with his
work, to the satisfaction and amusement
of the little one.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

A great elm tree recently felled in
f.angaon was 100 feet high and sixteen
feet in circumference two feet from the
ground. At sixty feet from the ground
Xix limbs branched out, each measuring
,ix feet in circumference. A section OF
the trunk twelve feet long required nine
woke of oxen to draw il,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

A pianoforte railway carriage is being
built for an English railway. 1t is sus-
pected by the Norristown Herald that
when passenger in an ordinary coach
becomes unruly and insulting he will be
punished by being locked up in the piano
car
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
Fat People in Public Life.

Judge David Davis is here with his
young bride, says recent Washington
letter. Their is about forty years diff
ference in their ages, but the old Judge
has grown thinner since his marriage,
though his eye is brighter than ever.
Perhaps the latest couple in our politi.
cal history was General Knox and his
wife, who used to be central figures of
court society in Washington's day.
Knox was Washipgtons secretary of
war, and it is said that both he and his
wife pulled the scales at full three hun
dred pounds General Knox began life
as bookseller in Boston, and he met
his wife in his bookstore, where she
came to purchase. Her name was Miss
Fletcher, and she was the daughter of
the Hon. Thomas Fletcher, the secretary
of the Province. The Fletchers OPP
posed the match, but it finally came off
and Henry Knox soon became more
noted than his father-in-law. He died
at last from his carolessness in eating A
chicken bone, choked him and he swal-
lowed it. Modification of the stomach
resulted, and he died at fifty-six. -.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
New Zealand Songstress.

Madame Marie Carandini, Musica
Artist, Wellington, N. T., writes tC
the Christ-church, New Zealand Tele.
graph: 81 have used st. Jacobs Oil
and find much relief in case of rheu.
matism, and for all neuralgia pains"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

The Andrews Parlor Folding Beds receive the
highest commentator wherever used, in Ho.
tells, in Boarding Houses and Private Families,
Keelers, SO to 81 Washington street, Boston
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

The Methodist Episcopal church is
going to start another university in West
ern Missouri or. Eastern Kansas. A
Kansas citizen offelD $500, 900 if they
will call 1t by his name,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

When you visit or leave New York city save baggage,
expressage and 50 carriage hire and stop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot
eco elegant rooms fitted up at cost OF one million
dollars 81 and upward per day. European pani Ele-
stages and elevated railroad TO alldepots Families
can live better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other nrsclass hotel in the city
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

An adjustable electric apparatus has
been applied to a thermometer which
rings bell when the temperature rises
or falls above or below desired point
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

Russia makes annually 1875, 900, 900
wooden spoons for the Central Asia mar
ket. The common grades are made from
birch and poplar, and the best qualities
from lockwood,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

Delicate diseases, affecting male or female,
however induced, speedily and permanently
cured Illustrated book three letter stamps.
Consultation free. Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association. Buffalo. N. Y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

Full oft we feel the surge of tears,
Yet joy has light for all the years.
To all whose hair is getting thin,
Our Carboline will keep it in.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

A French astronomer claims to have
discovered mountain seventy miles
high In the planet Venus.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

Cleopatra's needle, which stands in
Central park, is said to be wasting
away under it's change of climate.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

CROUCH on T0Othache."
Instant relief for Neuralgia, Toothache
Faceache Ask for "Rough on Toothache-"
Is and % cts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13

CHAPPED HANDS, face, pimples and rough
skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made BY
Caswell Hazard & Co., New York.