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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
WINDSOR CREAMERY BUILDING.


A description of one of the best paying Of
these cooperative creameries will interest
our readers One thing is certain: If farmers
will hang together, will use their wits, work
like brothers into each others hands, and
will keep their pluck and courage up, they
are bound to come out on top
The Windsor creamery is in Connecticut.
1t paid from the start. 1t was begun with a
capital of $1,000, divided into $25 shares.
This paid for buildings and outfit 1t took a
good many farmers to raise $4,000 among
them, but that made all the more stock
holders, and gave more people a chance
Start the creamery as near market as pos
sible to make the least expense for transpor-
tation.
The Windsor creamery building was set
into hillside The site is in dry sand bank,
but only few feet beyond the buttermilk
cistern, and several feet below the basement
floor Of the creamery, runs a never-failing
brook which has steep fall, thus affording
absolutely perfect drainage, an all-important
matter. The buttermilk cistern is SO arranged
that it can be flushed out into the brook in
the most thorough manner; thus it can never
become source of contamination by foul
odors getting back into tho creamery through
the buttermilk waste pipe. This pipe is four
inch iron, SO that its joints cannot be dis
located by frost. A never-failing spring
about twenty rods distant runs into 1000
gallon cistern, the water being pumped by
the engine from the cistern into the tank on
the second floor, from which it is drawn into
the tempering watts, churn, Sinks ETC., as re-
quired. The building is 6Ox24 feet in size
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
Furman'S Compost.

The Southern Cultivator gives the follow
ing formula for famous fertilizer in the cot
ton states:
The materials of Furman's compost are
barnyard manure, cotton seed, acid phosphate
and kainit The proportions are thirty bushels
each of the first two, 400 pounds of phosphate
and 200 pounds of kanit These may either
be intimately mixed at first, or put in alter
nate layers of cotton seed phosphate and
kainit, and manure, and so on. The whole
to be well moistened and the mixing, in the
latter case effected by cutting down the mass
clear through from top to bottom You could
add to a heap from time to time, using al
ways the same proportions, but it is usual to
make up all of given heap at one time. If
the heap is made in pens, as it should be, with
sides and at least four feet
high, and the compost covered on top with a
layer of rich earth six inches thick, there is
no necessity for roof; rain, unless very ex-
cessive, will not more than keep the mass as
moist as it should be- The compost should
be put up at least three weeks before it is to
be applied; it is usually done six to eight
weeks in advance.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
Children in the Earthquake.

A little girl who has plenty of brains and
writes most excellent letter, tells Harper's
Young People how it feels to he caught in an
earthquake. This clever miss lived in Charles
ton She says:
l want to tell you something about the
earthquake. Grandmother has lived Sc years,
and she says it was the most terrible thing
she ever passed through 1t was great deal
worse than the cyclone.
Light sand dubbed up in our yard and all
about It is different from all the earth
around.
We have been sleeping out of doors at
night, and we could hear the colored people
singing and praying all night. Itwas strange
to lie down in the open air, just under the
sky The father of one of our little friends,
who was with us, is clergyman, and he
PRAYED for us in the middle of the night
We do not undress now to go to bed. We
keep on our clothes, shoes, and all, day and
night We have no chimneys either, on the
house or the kitchen, and we are trying to
have the holes stopped up so the rain can't
pour down on u.s.
We have shocks all the time, and we don't
know when it will be over We were fright
ened at first, but now we are so used to it we
don't make fuss.
We are going to try to sleep in the house,
on the first floor now, and if the ceiling begins
to fall we will creep under the dining table.
Our pretty room, where Monte and slept, is
all torn to pieces, but we are thankful our
lives were spared. 1t was awful to have to
run out into the street, full of bricks that
night. and the fires burning. We were more
comfortable in the tent than in the stable,
and took bad cold. CARRIE
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
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Part of the upper story can be finished
off for tenement rooms if desired As the
milk is received at the door, seen to the left
in Fig. l, it is sent upstairs on the elevator and
is poured through the cream receiver into
the cream tempering watts below Here the
cream is kept at GO degrees, and frequently
stirred to let in the air and get it thoroughly
ripened. The cream is drawn through troughs
into the Davis swing churns. The outfit
costs S675, and is as follows: One 6-horse
power engine and boiler, two 2OO-gallon cream
tempering watts, two No 9swing cnurns, eight
2O-gallon cream gathering cans one butter
sailing scale, two dairy pals, two thermome-
tiers, a one gallon dipper, two butter ladies,
one self-gauging foot lever printer, six
No. 2 butter carriers, one No. improved
Eureka butter worker, shafting and pulleys.
Each patron is also supplied with creamer,
SO that the cream is all raised under like con-
ditions. A good idea of the building is given
in Fig 1, which shows the front elevation.
The double door opens into the office; the
further door is where the cream is received
and butter taken out The pump is to the
buttermilk cistern. Teams can back up to it
and have the milk pumped into barrels. The
smaller building is the icehouse.
Only three persons connected with the
creamery receive regular pay: The butter
maker, S65 per month; cream gathcrer, who
furnishes his own team, 50. 50 per day. and
the secretary and treasurer, who for the
nominal sum of Sc. 25 per month keeps all the
hooks. and is an interested and efficient gen
eral assistant.
The factory takes the milk from $50 cows
now and is gradually increasing the number.
Tho croao Is raised i'm creamerS at the farm
houses. The milk is strained into cans as
soon as drawn from the udder. the cover IA
nut on and the can submerged at once in the
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
Cement Floors.

"In regard to cement floors for stables, we
have one that has been in use seven OF eight
years, and it is in good shape yet and with
but little year. and about three years ago we
put in another in a new barn and that re-
minis good. l have reference to their use
for cows. have never used them for horses
The way we made ours is as follows: We first
build wall of common mortar and stone
lengthwise of the stable and even with the
front side of the manager, and within two
inches as high as we want the floor when
completed. Then we measure back from the
front side of the manager the width of the
manager and platform for the cows to stand
on. Then we stretch a line through and set
row of tagging stone by this line to form the
drop or manure gutter. These stones should
be from one and half to two or three inches
thick and from ten inches upward in width.
Set them up edgewise and as high as the floor
is wanted, then pave in between the tagging
and the wall first built with common field
stones and sand or loan, using a straight
edge from the wall to the flags, and notch out
two inches from the end that is used on the
flags to prevent the paving stones from COM
ing within two inches of the top of the flags
SO as to have that thickness for the cement.
Then pave the strip through behind the cows,
making the drop of the desired depth. We
do not make gutter, but leave strip about
four feet wide behind the cows for the ma
nure and a walk back of that.
"Care should be taken in paving to have
the stones all set down level-not to have
points projecting up, to make thin places in
the cement. After paving, make thin
grouting, using four parts of sharp sand and
one of good water lime cement. Mix it well
in box and turn it all over the floor, letting
it run and fill all crevices. Then make your
mortar by using three parts sand to one of
cement, and spread it on about two inches
thick even with the top of the tagging where
the cows stand.
"This should be done in warm weather, SO
that the cement will harden quickly. The
floor should not be used until it is thoroughly
dry and hard. The benefits of cement floor
are: 1t does not rot out and it retains all the
liquid manure which can be saved by using
some absorbents, and there is no harbor un-
dcrneath for rats and mice. 1t is very dura-
bic, and not very expensive when farmers do
the work themselves. There is nothing about
it that cannot be done by any ordinary farm
er "-Husbandman.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08

aser within the crcamer Tho gathercr
Skins It on, puts II In spaced can and sets
Gown IN his accounts Then all the skim
* is left at home to be fed to the pigs and
| chickens.
ny the use OF the creamer system and send
Ing away the cream to be churned, fourth
OF the farm wifes labor Is saved More il
got from the cows all around than under the
old way. Much more indeed. Tho butter
milk is barreled and sold from the creamery
at about u OF cent a gallon, or 1t can be
better kept at home and hogs fattened on 1t.
When the butter comes into its granular
form, the buttermilk Is run Off into tho drain
TO the cistern. Through hose attached to
nn elevated tank, brine IL let into the churns
and the butter is thoroughly washed. There
Is thus but little lifting from beginning to
end. 1t is all done by gravity SO far as pos
sible When well rinsed the butter is trans
ferred to the worker This is roller instead
of the lever worker SO commonly used. 1t
does not tear the grain, and makes the butter
firm. After being thoroughly worked, the
butter stands in trays for several hours and
is again reworked, getting out all the butter
milk and water that can possibly be eX-
tracted. This twice working is considered
imperative II the superior firmness and "stay-
ing" or keeping qualities of the butter are to
be maintained. ....
Butter color is used, though surely it would
not be needed if the cream was from Jersey
cows properly fed. Avoid all humbug, and
il you can't avoid it, avoid it as much us you
can.
The butter is put into one-pound prints
stamped with the name of the creamery.
This work is done very rapidly by means of
the foot-power print, which gauges the exact
weight and does the work in an instant.
For dairy of fifty cows, a creamery out
fit can be bought for $3.50 that will answer
the purpose.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
GROUND PLAN.


Inside there is no plastering to Absorb
steam, odors, etc., but the brick work is
simply thoroughly whitewashed. The floor
of the basement or first-story consists of
bricks on edge firmly pressed into the dry
sand, then thoroughly cemented, and finished
off with generous coating of Portland
cement. The floor has a decided slant for
ward and to the various cutters for convey
ing the waste to the sewer, which enters
directly into the running brook. AS the floor
is impervious to water all contamination
from this source is reduced to the minimum.
The ceilings are tightly sheathed with pine,
shellacked so as to be impervious to moisture
also. The sink and steam jet for washing
cans is in the boiler room, so that the steam
and odor from this work cannot get into the
manufacturing room. Every possible safe
guard is thus taken against contamination
from any source whatever, most important
matter, and one that is often overlooked.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
PEDDLERS.

They say Corea is full of peddlers, who go
about all over the roads selling everything
one could think of. Certainly there didn't
any Of them get away from our country to go
to Corea, for we have not missed any out Of
America.
The picture shows how babies, peddlers'
packs and all loads are carried upon peoples
backs over the rough roads of Corea. Ensign
Bernadous collection of drawings will be q
great help to our learned men in studying
about Corea. 1t is said to be country that
has not changed any in 1000 years.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
WEDDING PROCESSION.

The wedding procession is almost as strange
as shoeing the horse. Two men carrying
lighted lanterns in broad daylight go first.
Next comes one carrying wild duck or
goose for luck. Then we have the happy
bridegroom riding all by himself upon
horse that is led by one man and attended by
another Last, as if she was nobody and Of
no consequence at all, comes the poor bride,
riding alone, except for a small boy who
runs beside her. She has sort of big cloak
ready to throw over her and hide her face if
a man should come along that way and meet
the nrOcpSSion
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
Planting Walnut and Wild Cherry Tree

Planting walnut ana wild Cherry Trees.
Professor j. L. Budd tells us, in The
Iowa Register, how to start the seeds of
these shy growers 1t is safer to plant in
early spring. With the shucks on, spread
walnuts or butternuts on the ground in thin
layers at gathering time, and cover with six
or eight inches of forest leaves. If where the
leaves are liable to blow off, fasten them by
spacing rails or sticks over them. Plant
where wanted as soon as ground is fit to work
in spring. Wash the pulp from pits of black
cherry when gathered and dry on boards in
the shade for two or three days. with frequent
stirring. Then mix with four times the bulk
of sand and pack in shallow covered box or
boxes. Bury the boxes just below the sur
face on dry ground, and if the surface is COW
cred with snow before severe freezing of the
soil rake away the snow until the frost has
extended deep enough to freeze all solid.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
Taxes.

The taxpayers of shool district No. 8. of
Rr"dford, vt. are hereby notified that have
in my hands for collection school tax for 1885
and all tax PAYERS are hereby notified to pay
their respective t"Xes as above to the under.
signed treasurer of school district No. with
in ninety days from the date hereof (said time
expires Nov. oath, 1856 as per act No, 80, A.
D. 80, laws of the state of Vermont.
Dated at Bradford. this 26th day of Aug.
A. D. 1886. A. F. JOHNSON.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
Different kinds of peas will not mix.

Fall blowing invariably makes better corn
crops.
The Crescent is the most popular straw
berry in the south.
Always gather your own tomato seeds, Sc
Letting the earliest and smoothest specimens
from the variety which you may prefer
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
A Crop of Widows and SchOOlmarms.

A Cleveland grain house sent out circular
to one of its customers inquiring the amount
of old crops on hand in that neighborhood
The answer they got was as follows: "All
we've got in this neighborhood is three
widders, two schoolmarms, patch of wheat,
the hog cholera, too much rain, about fifty
acres of 'taters, and a darn fool who married
cross-eyed gal because she owns eighty
sheep and mule, which the same is me, and
no more at present"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
Enigma.

Enigma.
am composed of letters
My 1, Z, 5 is plaything.
My s, Z, l is an adverb
My 6, Z, 8 is male child.
My s, 2, is useful to fishermen
My 4, Z is a negation.
The answer to the above enigma is the
name of poet who wrote these lines.
Ills better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
UnequaIIed Cures !
Almost Helpless Three Years-cured and
Gained * Pounds

Giles S: Appleton ESQ.,, aga Maple Street. Burling.
ton VT, is well-known resident Of that CITY, whose
word is good bond He that he has rela-
tive who helpless three years with spinal disease, nvov
ing the liver, kidneys stomach and nervous system;
weighed but 90 pounds. DR.. Gage cured her without
seeing her, and she weighs 165 pounds and is WELL
Could not be Carried to the Doctor.3Ie
L. G. Boutwell,, Esq.,. Elm street, Montpelier, was
very low with lung and other Diseases could not be
carried to the Pavilion Dr. Gage treated him without
seeing him, and strange it may SEEM he is up and
out again. amending TO business. 'ESElE ..ss0
Doctors were Mistaken. ,7@
Mrs. S. R Colby of Montpelier, wife of the we'll
known baggage master on the Central Vermont railroad
had complication Of difficulties which doctors failed
agree upon much moe relieve her Of. Her recovery
under Dr. Cages treatment is remarkable she gained II
pounds in very short period
Desires that it be Known
Mrs. jessie Flint, Montpelier, terribly afflicted
with complication Of difficulties. The change wrought
is wonderful, and she desires that it be known.
Ora Bishop, postmaster at McIndoes, w. says "My
wife very lame. used crutches. DR. Gage Guard her.
EDITOR CALEDoNIAN;-Two years ago I was help
less with spinal dseasecoud not move foot Kidney
Bladder and Bowels greatly affected. DR.. Gage sent
medicine without seeing me, and performed cure.
amin good health. CHARLES L. BuFFUM, North Mon
roe, N. H.
Another Marvellous Cure Without Seeing
the Patient.
From the result Of Dr. Cages peculiar treatment it
quite evident that he possesses method Of great merit
As an ILLUSTRATION Of his ability to cope with the most
desperate diseases, without seeing the patient we
will cite the case Of Duncan Mckay Esq, Groton, VT.
He was Frustrated by complication Of difficulties and
very low. The case laid before Dr. Gage, Of New
York Strange as it may seem, DR.. Cages diagnosis
without seeing the patient proved be correct and the
medicines he sent acted like charm He relieved
at once, has gained five pounds per week. He states
that his friends look upon his recovery with amazement
Indeed he feels that DR.. Gage saved his lfe.-[M
pelier Paper.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08

Shooting KICKER.
When they shoe a kicking horse they get
him down squarely upoI Lis backbone, draw
his legs together like to four corners of Q
handkerchief, tie them thus and then ham.
mer the shoes on. Their bellows is a square
box. They fit into it frame of wood packed
with paper and shove this up and down to
drive the air out.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
HOW COREAN eLACKSMITHs SHOE
A KICKING HORSE.

Good Letter From Little Girl Who
Passed Through the Charleston Earth.
quake - Enigma The Corcan Bride
Rides Alone Behind the Procession.
Corea Is a peninsula running out from the
eastern coast OF Asia. 1t Is very strange
country indeed. Nobody in Europe Or Amer.
lea knew much about the ways of its people
until lately. That was because the Coreans
didn't want company and they cut Off the
heads of foreigners who came spying into the
land. 1t wasn't much fun to travel in Corea.
Quite lately, however, some Americans
have penetrated into this queer region En-.
sign Bernadou, of the United States navy,
has brought home and presented to the Ma
tional museum at Washington collection
of the works Of the Corean artists. There
arc artists even in that country, it seems, and
they can scratch upon brass stork standing
upon one leg with the most aesthetic young
lady in America.
Their drawings are very quaint. They rep
resent life in Corea and show how the people
do things there. Here are some copies of them:
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08

N ut n fields are scarce, but those who write b
"I Stinson Co. Portland Maine, will reeeivs
u.uuI fres, full information about work which
HILL they can do, and live at home, that will pay
" ILL them from Is to % per day. Some have
earned 80 day. Either young old Capital
not required You are started FREQ Those who start
are absolutely Of snug little fortunes All
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-10-08

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POMPANOOsUC VT. Nov. g. 1886
Mr. MANSON
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Mr. Manson Dear Sir Have been using the water from Permont Mineral
Die with the caused by chronic dahe contracted the Have
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others afflicted which faithfully will
benefit Truly,
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Professor Of Chemistry, Dartmouth College.

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Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1886-07-15

wszakze zjednae odpowiednich
profesorow i kierownikow "a
kladu. Ola tego ks. Dabro-
wski przybyf z Ameryki do
Krakowa, ably prosic o popar-
Gle. Il tamt9d uda sic dalej
do wszystkich biskupow Cali
CYL"
Wszystko dobrze, byle ME
owa blaga, jakoby seminaryum
polshie W Detroit staae}o ko-
sztem amerykanskich bisku-
pow. Czyz to ks. Jozef Da-
browski i jego asystent ks. ia
worski mic ME dostali cd Po-
lakow z Texas, z Wisconsin,
Polonia, Stevens Point i in
nych stanow, gdzie pc para
Gach polskich odbywali kole-
kty? 0 lie ia WIEN, gotowa
trzecia czesc seminaryum pol
skiego w Detroit prawle wy
1qczuie pobudowanq zostata z
ofiar polskich = ma coz vice
przemilczaG o%liarnosc rodakow
a przypisywac zas1ugi obcym'
ktorzy chyba tylko bardzo ma
10 nam pomogll?:
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1886-07-15
Echa PeIskis z hnsryki
1Noyusa dochoa=qee.
Galxie Jest E1iszE1ofaj::

Drogi Majstel ku!
Bedac GAS krotki w liz Sale,
zapjsatem sob:e Wdr1so, ale re
walka o chicb powszedni mic po-
zwoljta mi dluzej tam pozostac'
vice prosze mi Wiarmsa do De
Piu p~rzysefac, DO mysle, Z" III
czas diuzszy zestane, choclez mnle
tcskno *. La s"lia, gdzie tylu
nam serdccznych przyiaciof.
Mianowicie jcden mnie bardzo
obchodzi, Piszczaiia alias Fuj ara,
ktory w sam dzieh m"jrgo wyj"-
zdu wyp,awiat imioniny kledym
do niego przybyl, ralnAt mi poi
sodzinna move rosegn%lna. AZ
sobie pomyslulem duchu:-zeby
to byEo w moje.j mocy rozdawac
ty,ufy, to bym mu dat tytul re
laznego ksiazecia, o ktorym NtarHts
az dwle umlescl1 ZaSauhh
Ma zakonczan;c zaspiewaf mi
kumo,er tajn sztucahe nie'"'ecka
Lieb Vaterland, lecz drudzy
yosyie povi"dali, &c ia mu sc
mniej udaIa, 10 %nierowne robf
pauzy vice zaiowafem, re me
zabratem re soba bebnisty P'zy-
~w}oskiego, ktory byIby mu pomosf
taktu wybij@c, DO ten to um:e, ja<
zadsn inny. Jat jej wiele me sly
szafcm, DO byiem bardzo rozczulony
owa nova, k,ora do dzisi;'j W
uszach mi dzwieczy.
Unizonv s!usa
X. Ais=hoiai.