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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The creamery is the dairy farmers
hope.
Have milk rooms we'll ventilated from
above.
Liquid manure is best applied weak
and often.
Do not allow the ground around plants
to become baked. A.
Keep swine healthy. Loss begins when
health breaks down.
Every young weed that is cut down is
one less to go to seed.
Corn isn't horse feed. Never look for
anything better than oats
The cows will be more comfortable out
of doors these hot nights.
The three great enemies of sheep are
dogs, foot-rot and parasites.
A member of famous farmers club
says, feed onions to sheep to kill ticks.
Sheep do not suffer from the cold, but
they ds-not like high winds OF to have
wet fleeces.
After long journey, walk your horse
around the yard little before feeding
and until he is cool.
The silo on the ''cheap plan" is grow
ing in favor, and will help solve many
problems of feeding.
Timothy when unmiXed with other
grasses should be cut while in blossom,
or just before the blossoms appear.
See that there is shade of some kiad
in the pasture. 1t is for the comfort of
the stock and the profit of their owner to
do this.
Burdocks are everywhere a nuisance
If you have none, your neighbor has.
Cut them off frequently at the grounds
surface.
Immediate straining will remove i'm
purities which otherwise might be dis
solved to the permanent injury of the
whole product.
Don't abuse the COWS if they happen
to strike you with their tails or kick over
the milk in their attempt to defend them
selves from flies.
II you have patch OF timothy and
"daisies' cut it when the daisies are fit,
and never mind the state of the timothy.
Cut daisies just before the flowers
fade.
See to it that the cream does not get
too "ripe' during hot weather. Poor
cream won't make good favored butter
no matter if the grain, color and texture
are good-a doubtful result.
Winter dairying, where creameries are
Used particularly, is most profitable.
Farmers are getting rid of the notion
that COWS must go "dry" all winter.
Change the breeding season to fall.
Don't put off building the sio until it
is too late to have it finished and filed
before frost comes. Frozen corn NAV
make good silager but we would
rather have ours "fresh' when we can as
well as not.
A news item says that over 200 silos
will be built in Jefferson County, N. Y,
this year. 1t is an evidence of the hold
which the silage idea is getting on the
farmers. 1t is one of the coming features
to successful dairy farming.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
WISE WORDS
Little men cannot pardon.

Llttie men cannot pardon.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
Time and opportunity lost is eternally
lost.
The secret of lifc is not to do what on,
likes, but to try to like what one has te
do.
1t cannot be denied that amusement il
one of the most powerful influences o,
life.
Great things are not accomplished b,
idle dreams, but by years Of pattern
study.
Wit should be used as shield for do
fence, rather than sword to wound
others.
We always like those who admire us
We do not always like those whom W,
admire.
More failures are to be attributed t.
efforts misdirected than to the want OF
exertion.
There are more people abusive I.
Others than lie open to abuse themselves,
but humor goes round, and he thai
laughs at me to-day will have somebody
to laugh at him to morrow.
Ability is often REINFORCED by neces
sity. He that will not suffer himself tc
be discouraged by fancied impossibilities,
may sometimes find his abilities invigor.
ated by the necessity of exerting them at
short intervals, as the force of current
is increased by the contraction of its
channel.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15

The more the private Ii of Gen. Grant is
revealed and studied the NJ re roofs are
found of a sturdy, sensible purp SO 10 keep
his obligations to man and God. The ma: ter
of smoking was defect and sadly did he
pay for this one lapse IRON his position as an
example fer our manhood He refused to
allow unchaste stories, ahstained from vines
and liquors, at least III his matuter years,
and he was regular att nd mt upon divine
worship, and lent the Influence of his great
name to those things w ich make for right
eousneSS.
On one occasion, when he was president,
his pastor called on him 10 say that rs dis
tingui he'd reacher was to occupy his pull
pit on Sunday evening, h. hopel the pr ST.
dent would attend that evening rather than
in the morning, as was his custom; for he
atten led church only once on Sunday To
this Gen. Grant replied: Il am glad of an
opportunity to explain this matter to you
Secretary Fish aud some others have an at
surf notion that ought not to walk about
tn streets of Washington at night, and, con-
stquently never go to the even
ing service, though l should be glad
to do ST. Seeing that the pastor was sur
prised by this staten nj, he said: perhaps
you think l might have the carriage and
ride 10 service; but, Doctor, when | was n
poor man. long before ever thought that l
should have a servant, | made up nv mind
that if ever did have one he should have
his hours of Sunday for worship; AMI no
servant or horse are ever called into use
upon that day for my own personal conven-
ience."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
A sUBsTITUTIoNARY SACRIFICE.

The sacrifice of our Lord was, in the high
est sense, substitutionary. The penalty Of
sin is death; and Je.us died All through
the old law there is no att nenent except by
the death of a victim. Ildee this is what
God hath said from the beginning, even in
the garden. Still is this the sentenc, of the
law, ''The soul that sinn,th it shall de-
Sin necesstate, DEATH The Lord su3
Christ did not ONE to earth 10 make re-
Cancellation by the holiness of his life or by
the earnestnes of his teaching, but by his
DEATH The text satin, BY his own blood
he entered in" He mus die in the room,
AMI place and stead of guilty men, before
he cou enter heaven on their behalf. Just
as the calves and the bullocks in the type
were slain, and their blood poured cut be-
fore God, so must Jesus be slain in tae sin
ners place Oh, beloved, let us ling to the
great truth of the vicarious sacrifice which
is the ief teaching of this sa"rcd Book
Take this away, and do not see anything
left in the Bible at all which can lie called
good news, The very soul of re doctrine #
Christ is atonement by his dcath.-C H.
SpuT1eOn.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
GOOD USE FOR HOUSE Stops.

If you save all the slops from the
house, the wash-water and suds of
sundry occasions during the week, you
will find that you have supply of nutri-
ment at hand to draw upon which is far
richer than you had any idea, 1t will
not make poor soil permanently rich,
but it will afford sufficient nutriment to
nourish such plants as you grow in it dur
ing the summer in very satisfactory
manner. We planted some ANIMALS on u
stiff clay that had been thrown out of a
cellar. We water them regularly with
suds and slops, and they surpass in
growth and Righteousness those grown
in the garden.-American .4gicultwia,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
Americans Neglect the Mushroom

1t is n curious thing that concerning
the mushroom, which is to be found
everywhere in such abundance, and which
would make so valuable an article of food
if properly used, Americans are generally
so ignorant that as rule that they can
not tell it from toadstool; and although
nearly every 1rishwoman can bring in a
basket of mushrooms out of hand. even
then many are afraid to eat them. Ger
tain people viii claim that anything with
gills-parallel edges lining all the under
side--is edible, but will not eat it them.
selves; others claim that the gill must be
of particular color. These will have
only the mushroom grown in cellar,
those only the mushroom grown with
nothing between it and the sky. The
mushroom loved in Italy is rejected in
England, and the best English mushroom
of all is regarded in Italy as of the same
nature as the evil-eye. 1t would be well
worth while to have some instruction
made common as to the general nature of
this growth, the innocence of some species
and the deleterious quality of others
AT10ndut
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
BEGIN AT ONCE.

Is gin at once TO do whatever your Master
commands Begin to practice religion, A
child never would learn to walk by hundred
talks about the law of grav,tation; it must
use its own feet even at tae risk OF many
tumble. Wait not for more feeli Y, or more
pungent convictions or FIR anything at
you read of In other peopl Is experie lces.
These ore all saar es and hindranc s. II they
keep You from doing at once the very first
act that will please Christ Have
you never opened your lIs to
an unconverted friend either to
avow your own fes in9s or to d. that friend
some goodP Then try it; you will strengthen
yourself, and may bring an uEexl ected
blessing to him or her. In short, you must
begin to obey new Master; to serve new
Saviour; to strike OUT a new line of living,
and rely on G IDS almighty help to d. it.
When you give y ur,elf to Christ in this
whole-hearte and practical fashion He will
give you thou aandfold richer gift III re-
turn. Yes, He will give you Himsel
When you possess Christ you havs every
thing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
A Tish-y0rse.
"Iknow a colored man who uses a fisl

"Iknow colored man who uses fish
for a horse"
Mr.. W. c. Casey of Augusta knows
more about fish and snake stories than
any man in Georgia. Catfish, when
frightened, he says always run down
stream. On this he builds narrative,
and swears to it.
A colored man, fishing in the Savan-
nah, he says, hooked huge catfish,
which ran down stream at rapid rate,
the boat and man following, the cat not
stopping until exhausted. 1t was then
captured, but placed in the water. The
next day the captor tied rope to it, at
tached the line to his boat and turned
the fish in the river. Down stream the
boat went, faster than oars could carry
it or wind propel it.
The fish is fed and petted with care.
A set of harness has been made for it.
The man is now trying to educate it to
go up stream.-Atlanta Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15

not seen you lover That win be the Good
Shepherd, not out in the night aud
watching 10 keep of the wolves,
but with the lamp reclining on the
sunlit hill, That will be the captain
OF our salvation, not amid the roar and crash
and boom Of battle, but amid His disbanded
Hpps hssa Of The ,css snTsS .o That
from Afar, the bride leaning upon His arm,
while He looks down into her face, and says;
"Bshold, thou art fair, my love Behold
thou art fairr'
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
THE GIFTED u pRusKARp


1t is common practice to speak of every
orunkard as smart man, as man cxtraor-
dinarily gifted, capable of great things, and
nampered only by the practice of getting
drunk. Most Of the drunkards themselves
aonuiy imagine that 1t takes braps and gon-
Jus to be drunkard, and that il man be
not drunkard he must necessarily poor
devil be an ass. b. this sort of talk the
arunkards have humbugged not only them
selves but a great many descent people.
Doctor asked lady of the famous DR..
Abernethy; doctor, why is it that SO brainy
ii man as my husband gets drunk .,B5-
cause, madame answered the doctor. SOL
"innly, ''he is blank dashed fool.n We nave
very often heard people say, commenting
upon work of art or OF literature done by y
woman: Yes, that is exceedingly well one
for a woman May be when people IN Of
the smartness of their drulsarl fri mis- .le,
mean to say that they are smart for drpnE-
ards Chicago Ne,ps.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
EFFECTS OF roops-1EAN PORK.

The best results can be had with breed
ing sows, writes T. d. Curtis to the
american Agrieulturist, by turning them
into field where there is plenty of pas
ture. 1t is not advisable to allow them
to have pigs where other hogs run, al
though, in a large range, there is little
danger of the pigs being disturbed or in
jured when born. One thing is sure
there is no food which will make better
pigs or put the sows in better condition
for bearing young than grass. 1t seems
to be as natural food for swine as for any
class of animals. / have known sows
which destroyed their pigs in the spring,
to make the best of mothers in the sum
mer when fed on grass. In the spring
they were feverish and made frenzied by
their physical condition; while in the
summer by the cooling and succulent
character of the grass they were in per-
feet condition for the ordeal of bearing
young. Feeding vegetables has a similar
effect, and when sows have these regularly
they are always sure to do well. Fruits
are also natural foods for swine, and sows
will do well if fed nothing but apples.
In the summer hogs should always be on
the earth and given a chance to root.
When it is known that all these cheap
foods are so natural and healthful for
swine, it seems strange that so many far
mers perzist in keeping their hogs, the
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
THE Farm AND GARDEN.


The soil best suited to hemp is rich
alluvial loan; it will thrive in moder-
ately tenacious one if well pulverized and
1t has good under drainage, either natural
or artificial. Land that bakes hard isnot
good for hemp. 1t is generally sown
broadcast, from bushel to bushe and
a half of seed being used to the acre, II
drilled in less is required. When raised
for the seed 1t may be planted in hills
Boston Cultieator.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
uNpER a CHESTNUT Tree.

When In Che drowsy lull OF afternoon
l SEQ the lazy shadows draw their trail
Athwart the turf, and hear the doves Low
Groom
Float from the distance on the summer
gale;
When from their leafy village overhead
The squirrels chatter in their oeaseles
play
Then, stretched at length upon NOISY
bead,
love to dream the sultry hours away.
Then all the world takes on lazy mood,
And nature seems to pause amid the heat
And, buried in a thoughtful calm, to brood
Above her children crowding at her feet.
Out there the shadows sleep beneath the rays
That beat upon them with so fierce a
glance,
And just above them in the trembling haze
The vagrom puff-balls weave an airy
dance.
Down by the pool, on whose sedgo-giriled
breast
The merest ripple stirs in oily waves
A minstrel robin lifts naughty crest
And looks and drinks, and drinks and
looks and laves.
Forth form their harbor meath the willow
tree
Where lilies pave the pool dusky green,
fleet of ducks puts slowly forth to sea,
Solemn in progress and erect in mien.
There, on the highway, where it scars tho
hill,
pair of oxen drag carts dull weight
While clouds of crimson dust the ether fill
And mark the progress of their patien
gait;
Down in the rye patch where the alders grow
The partridge pipes his mate to guard the
nest,
And where wild roses by the hedges blow
The bee and butterfly both sit and rest.
The scene is perfect. Not single chord
In this sweet concert jars upon the soul.
lie upon my Mothers lap the lord
OF mighty dreams that cares cannot con,
troll
Strong with her strength l lie on Natures
breast
And like Anteeus am renewed again;
Most solace she gives when she's most at rest.
Oh! mighty Mother Healer of all pain.
u W. G. Johnston, in Atlanta Ooastit>s-
&oR.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
MARKETING FRUITS,

Large cities do not always prove the
best markets for fruits. The best market
is often passed by and the fruit sent to
New York to be sold at a less price than
it would have brought nearer home
Look we'll to the question of markets be-
fore the fruit is ready. If the fruit is to
be consigned to a commission dealer,
greatest promises, but the one who has
best reputation for fair dealing and
promptness.
Conform to the customs of the market
in the choice of packages. Where the
custom is to send berries in round boxes,
those in square ones will meet with slow
sale. Have choice fruits, such as selected
apples, plums, ETC., go in bushel and half
bushel crates. Let the crates be built of
bright new stuff, and establish reputa-
ton for neatness that will designate your
fruit, even without label. But do not
omit to mark every crate, barrel or other
package, plainly, with the name of the
consignee, and with your own name
Make or purchase packages of all kinds
well in advance, so that this important
matter may not be rushed at the time
when the fruit is ripening.
Too much care cannot be taken in as
sorting fruits. Some make three grades,
the first and second for market, and
third to be fed out or dried or otherwise
disposed Of at home. Some of the most
careful fruit growers make but two
grades, the first and best only goes to
market. All other is kept at home, or
disposed of without having the name of
the shipper on the packages. -American
AgricuIturalist.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
COWS SHOULD PA

COWS SHOULD PAY FOR THEIR BOARD.
In order that the plants grown may
yield the best return of which they are
capable to the husbandman, his skill
should be exercised to provide animals
which can return to him the most in
products or service for the food which
they consume. 1t is possible to keep
animals which yield so much less in food
than they eat, that they are veritable
burdens upon the man whose property
they are. Instead of being his servants,
living and laboring for him, he some
times becomes theirs, and apparently
lives to keep and feed cows, hogs and
horses. The COW in all civilized coun-
tries is always boarder upon some per-
son. She should be made to pay for her
board at such remunerative rates as will
leave profit for the boarding house
keeper. If she fails in that she should
be made to render service which she
will not unwillingly contribute. Her
carcass should be made into beef and her
hide into leather. She should not be
slyly sent to board upon some other I'M
fortunate man. A COW with the business
habit of keeping her accounts with the
world paid up through the man who
owns and feeds her, is good business
cow. That is the kind of cow ! recon-
mend. Her power of service will be in
dictated by certain external points. She
should have large long udder, of elastic
fine quality; mellow movable skin,
covered with soft silky hair; long large
barrel, hooped with fiat ribs, broad and
wide apart; broad loin, spreading out
into broad, long headquarters; an open
twist with rather thin hips, and a leal
neck of symmetrical length, carrying
clean-cut fine face with prominent eyes.
A COW with these points has ability to
serve man well, if she gets fair
chance. That her calves should have
powers equal to or rather better than her
own, care should be exercised in their
breeding. The best blood, of the breed
adapted to the farmers purpose, should
be used to enlarge and not to lessen the
working capacity to be transmitted to
her calves. Fern, Field and Stoclmaa.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15
THE ANSWER DELAYED.

There are certain experiences common to
all saints. One OF these is the temptation
that comes because prayer for right things
does not Immediately inherit the promise.n
There are seasons when the reason for delay
seems to us very plain; there are othe, times
when we are constrained to say: 20 Lord,
hast Thou forgotten to be gracious?' But
in all prayer we are to remember that we
are suppliants on y through grace: that to
approach God and ask of Him is in any sense
"a great privilege. A just view of prayer,
that act by which we fall in helpfulness be-
fore God, will prove to US that we are not at
liberty to make any demands upon Him.
Just as Thou wilt, o Lord, is the proper
attitude of the suppliant bending low at His
feet E tire submission to HIS way i a
mark OF prevailing faith. And such faith
is not so much concerned whether God choose
t. delay tr n t.
Andrew Murray las said: "When once
faith has taken its stand uron Gofs word,
and the name If Je,u, nd has yielded itself
to the leading of the Spirit to seek Gods
" i'll and honor alone in its PRAYER it need
not be discouraged by delay Itknow< from
Scripture that e power ii believing prayer
is simp y irresiStible; real faith can never be
d sappointed. 1t knows that just as wafer
to exercise the irresis iule power it can have
NUT be gathered up and accumulated ustil
I Q stream can come down in full force
there must be often heap ng up of prayer
until God sees that the measure is full and
the answer comes 1t knows that just as
SION as the plowma has to take his ten
thousand steps and sow his ten thousand
seeds, each one part of the preparation
for the firal harvest, there is a need be
for oft-repeated, persevering prayer, all
working out some desi red blessing. o
Lord, do teach me how real the labor of
prayer is. know how here on earth when
] have failed in an undertaking l can often
succeed by renewed and more continuous
effort by giving more time and thought
Show me how, by giving myself more en-
tirely to prayer, to live in prayer, may OBJ
tain what l ssk. And, above all, o my
blessed Teacher, author and perfector of
faith, let my whole life by Thy grace be one
of faith In Thee, in whom my prayer gains
acceptance, in whom / have the assurance
of the answer, in whom the answer will bs
mine.n-N. Y. Christian Advocate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15

Tic consumption of lumber, bricks,
cement and building materials generally
throughout the country is going on at an
enormous rate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15

In Rome the number of cremations has
increased from 119 in 1885, and 15y In
1887 to 202 in 1888.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15

The population of Brooklyn is set
down at 100000, Chicago LOO, 900,
Philadelphia at !, 250,0
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-15

1t is very sweet sometimes when sorrow is
intense and darkness, just to pillow our head
upon the Saviours busom in subdued, silent
trust. There is comfort ever in simply rest
ing in the everlasting arms" But the rich
est Of Gods comfort comes from his wo d.
To neglect the Bible when seeking Divine
comforting, is really closing our ca to the
consolation he sends
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-04-13
Difference of Opinion.

Alderman Gray, chairman Of the
market committee of the council. and
Harlow a. Gale, the pis .losophicaI gen
tlernan who piesides over the destinies
of the city market, were the principals
in lively little war Of words which rs.
lieved the Joint meeting Of the commit
tees on ways and means and markets
Wednesday afternoon, The Twelfth
ward alderman opened the meeting in
a vigorous style. He said that Mr.. Gale
had coerced producers into selling their
products at the city market, and had
made 1t a business to hunt up produc-
ers and try and have them prosecuted
when they did not patronize the city
market. Mr. Gale denounced this
statement as an unm1tigated falsehood.
The alderman's S temper was aroused by
this reply, and in his anger he called
Mr.. Gale liar. Mr.. Gales temper was
then 1uff1ed, too, and in return he ap-
piled the same unpleasant cognomen to
the alderman, but clothed in more clas-
SIC language. Nothing particular was
done further than to estimate the cost
Of central market at $500, ,OO0. %. Il. .tss. d.
4 Z az. III