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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
Island of Malta.

Malta is British possession in the
Mediterranean, including the islands OF
Malta, Coco and Comino, and the unin-
habited islets of Cominotto and Fila, the
entire group lying about six miles south
west of the southernmost point of Sicily
and 200 north of Tripoli, in Africa. The
area of Malta proper is about 100 square
miles, and population about 14O, 900.
There are neither rivers nor lakes on the
island, and no forests or brushwood; and
most of the surface is a calcareous rock
exposed to the winds from the African
deserts, and but thinly covered with ar
artificial soil Chiefly brought from Sicily.
This is. however, by careful cultivation
made 20 yield abundant crops of cotton,
greens, beans and grass, and excellent
fruits, of which the orange, olive and fig
are renowned. In summer the heat is
excessive day and night. The sirocct
prevails, especially III autumn, and there
is little land or sea breeze. But in win.
ter the climate is delightful. -Ne,o YorA
Dispatch.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
WHY SEEDS FAIL TO GROW.

There are many reasons why seeds fail
to grow. One great cause of failure is
immature seed. The great aim of the
seed grower is quantity; to get the most
from the plant, rather than the best. The
first fruits are often permitted to ripen
seeds for seed purposes, which should
never be, as the first settings and ripen-
ings are usually imperfect. The same is
true of the last of the plants production
they are weak in vitality, and the seeds
produced will have tendency to perpet-
uate that weakness. 1t is of the utmost
Importance that seeds should have at
tanned perfect maturity, and should have
been carefully and healthily preserved.
Immature seed may, it is true, possess TIE
power of termination, but it always le-
tains disposition to disease and weak
ness. Weakness perpetuates weakness,
and unshapely forms and poor qualities
are transmitted. Good cultivation, under
favorable circumstances, will in great
measure restore vitality, but it is a ques
ton of time, accompanied by degree of
uncertainty that the farmer and gardener
cannot afford, as there is liability OF
failure, or partial failure of crop from
this cause. The responsibility, in great
measure, rests upon the seed grower.
Seeds, saved with the utmost care from
carefully selected stocks, may lose their
vitality if they are not properly pre-
served. All seeds of vegetables or flow
ers should be kept perfectly dry, Coz
and in an airy situation; they ought to
be carefully protected from dampness,
and should be kept in room that is not
alternately moist or dry. An even
temperature and humidity is essential TO
the seeds vitality.
Carelessness in planting is one of the
principal causes of failure. The soil
should be carefully prepared before the
seeds are sown; it should be worked
deep, and made fine, and, when the seed
is sown, the soil should be firmly pressed
about them. This has been practiced by
the systematic horticulturists for centur-
les, and for this purpose the garden or
farm-roller was employed, as much to
break up the lumpy soil as for any other
object. The spade was used for packing
the soil firmly about the seed. The mod
ern plan, 1.-THE use of the feet in seed
sowing" is one of the most effective,
practical and convenient methods,
as the feet are always with the
gardener and ready for use when
required, fact that admits of no excuse
if the work is neglected. The influences
that act upon the seed to cause growth
are heat, air, and moisture, and without a
proportionate amount of each there can be
no plant life. Now, it follows that when
seed is put into the ground, and loosely
covered with light, dry soil, it does not
come in contact with sufficien.
moisture to soften its coating, neither is
there sufficient heat, because of the too
great circulation of air around the seed,
to produce the chemical changes upon
which vegetable growth depends. When
we place seed into the earth il CON-
mences growth in two opposite directions,
UPWARD into the atmosphere, and down.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

1t pays to feed sheep, not ticks.
Old hens invariably make the best sit
tiers.
Prune trees early for growth and late
for fruit.
All foods for plants must be soluble to
be available.
Give your fruit trees good soil, They
cannot feed and thrive on nothing.
The farmer who makes his own pork
and beef pays himself for so doing.
Do your shortening back among your
young trees before the buds begin to start.
Pruue little at a time and avoid the
necessity for heavy pruning in the future.
If you want your stock to do their bes.
give them better shade than that made by
of wire fence.
Set out well tried varieties that thrive
in your section, but do not try too many
varieties of fruit.
Il has been demonstrated that spirits
of turpentine is one OF the best remedies
for roup in fowls.
More attention ought to be paid to the
teeth of our domestic animals. They
often suffer from neglect.
There are four hundred varieties of the
bean family. No wonder the average in
dividual tioesn' know beans"
Is it wise to neglect to repair the floors
of the stalls until after valuable COW or
horse has broken leg2 Mend yours to-
day.
Don't breed for quantity but quality.
Better have five birds good all over than
than twenty good only in one or two
sections.
No better use can be made Of the small
potatoes than to cook them for the hens
smashed warm aud thicken with meal,
shorts or bran, they make good morn
ing meal.
1t is invariably from the early spring
pulets that we get the bulk of our eggs
in winter, and the earlier the better. But
be sure to have suitable place in which
to raise the early pullets.
Ashes increase the quantity of the
strawberry crop, and make it better
colored and firmer. Well-rotted barn.
yard manure makes healthy growth OF
plants; superphosphates are also valuable.
A fruit tree should never be popped UP
to keep the limbs from breaking down
with their load. Instead, pick off the
poorest specimens, and don't show greed
by allowing the tree to overbear. Thou
sands Of trees are ruined this way.
The Illinois Agricultural Experiment
Station has reached the conclusion that
while the yield of orchard grass is less
than that of timothy, its composition and
digestibility indicate a better quality Of
hay for mich COWS and growing stock.
! In purchasing swarm of bees, get one
early in the spring, that is, an early
swarm, in good two-story hive with
movable frames, You must have two
story hive for storing surplus, and hive
without movable frames is no better thar
| any box.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
THE voIcEFuL wAvES


The voiceful wavesl love at night 10
stand
Mad with strange yearnings on the shelly
sand.
To watch the foam flowers fade beneath my
feet,
And guess what words the lisping combs re.
peat.
Then, il ships spars like full.spread hand,
Within the round red moon are framed
complete,
seem to fly to tropic islands sweet
Where dusky creatures list upon the strand
The voiceful waves.
At morning, too, when sea gulls, white and
fleet.
Swim through the mists with measured
pinion beat,
almost hear in forests old and grand
The unseen winds-I hate this gold-cursed
land,
And they have told me Of some safe retreat,
The voiceful waves.
George Horton, in Chicago Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
FODDER AND ENsILAGE.

The College of Agriculture of Cornell
diversity has published an interesting
ticle on growing corn for fodder and
silage, giving the results of its expert
entail work in this direction. The fol-
wing is a summary of the subject:
First, we wish to emphatically repeat
recommendation of last year, that, in
owing corn for ensilage, care should be
ken to select the largest variety that
ill fully mature before frost in the local
where grown.
Special attention is called to the fact
bat heretofore it has been a common
ractice to SOW or plant corn for fodder
hd ensilage, entirely too thick. Starch
nd sugar are not fully developed with
ut an abundance of sunlight.
Immature plants are likely to contain
very large per cent of water. 1t will
|eadily be seen that twenty five tons Of
green corn, containing ninety per cent. of
vater, gives but five thousand pounds of
Try matter; while twelve tons, contain
ing seventy-ive per cent. of water, gives
tx thousand pounds of dry matter. In
he latter case we get thousand pounds
|hore dry matter, and have to handle and
Store less than half the weight of gross
material; while the corn will still hare
sufficient moisture to give the resulting
silage that succulence upon which its
value for feeding, as compared with dry
forage, largely depends.
While the percentage of nitrogen
grows less as the plant approaches ma
turity, a much larger proportion of the
nitrogen in the unripe material is in the
less valuable form of amides, than in the
mature plant. So that the less percentage
of nitrogen in the ripper product is com
pensated for in its increased nutritivt
value. y.
So far all the experiments go to show
that the effort should be made to s,ist
the largest yield of grain irrespective Of
stalks, no matter what purpose it Is in,
tended for. Ii one variety gives an equa
yield of grain and greater amount Of
stalks and blades, then of course il
should be preferred, for fodder and ensi
lage purposes, to the variety that gives
the less stalk and blade; but it will be
found that as rule the larger the yield
of grain, the larger will be the yield Of
slower.
Finally, the fact should not be los
sight Of, that wood and water alone, ART
not good food for animals, and that they
are expensive products to handle. -Nea
York ObsG.c6r.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
Offers Arc Very Epicurean.

Offers are perhaps the most fastidious
of all animals about what they eat. They
confine themselves to a fish diet chiefly,
usually the finest salmon or trout obtain
able in the river. They reject the head,
tail, and other portions, aud will often
catch and kill four or FIVE good fish in one
day, and eat nothing but the fine ''haky'
meat which is found on the shoulders. OF
domestic animals it seems that, contrary
to the usual idea, the pig is the most par
ticular as to diet, Exhaustive expert
ments were, some time ago, made on
this point at Upsala, in Sweden, the re.
suit of which was to show that the goat,
sheep, COW, horse, and pig eat and re.
ject plants in the following proportions
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
An Extensive Bed Of Glass Sand.

Near Fort Spokane, some twenty five
miles down the river from Spokane
Falls, Washington, az exteneive bed of
glass sand has been discovered 1t is a
peculiar formation, entirely unlike
ordinary loose sand, and it is so compact
that it must be crushed by machinery
before it can be used. Samples sent east
have been found to produce the best of
glass. 1t is as white as salt, which it re-
sembles in appearance. Used instead of
common sand in mortar for inside finish
ing work it makes beautiful wall at an
expense hardly exceeding one-third that
Of the ordinary finishing coat. In the
vicinity of this sand bed there is fine
marble and superior quality of potter
clay. Steps are being taken for the
organization of a company in Spokane
Falls for the purchase and development
Of these minerals. Wssi Shore.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
ward into the earth. Ths tlrst root the

ward into the earth. Ths first root the
seed puts forth does not furnish the young
plant with food for its Development 1t
simply holds the plant in place until the
true roots. by which the plant is fed, are
formed, after which il becomes part Of
the plant itself. The cotyledons, or
seed leaves, contain the food of the in
FAINT plant until its true leaves and roots
are formed. II the soil is not firmly
pressed around the main root, these feed
ers will have nothing to feed upon; they
must come in immediate contact with
moisture, or the warm, dry air will
destroy them, and the whole plant will
stand still until new roots are formed, or,
in the meantime, perish. Herein lies the
benefit of firmly pressing the soil around
the seed when planting.
Deep planting is another frequent cause
of failure. Take, for instance, sweet corn,
and cover in planting from one-half
inch to FIVE inches in depth. The former
will terminate, if the seed is good, with
out a loss of five per cent, and the latter
will not grow five per cent, and the en-
act ratio between the two will DO kept
up. The cause for the difference is that
the conditions OF growth are not COM
piled with--thc deficit being heat, which,
at the season for planting, cannot
be furnished at so great depth from
the surface. As n rule, not more than
one-9ua-ter OF an inch OF soil should be
put over the seed. Very fine seed should
only be covered from sight, Proper care
in sced-sowing, and the too common
practice of burying seeds, is just the diff
ference between success and failure in
their termination and growth.
Mechanical assistance, or the manner
of placing the seeds in the earth, is of
eater.importance than is generally sup
posed, particularly those of the gourd
family, or any large and Hat seeds. 1t is
economy to plant all vine-seeds edgewise.
Lima beans should always be placed edge
wise, germ down. The same is true with
the seeds of the hybrid amaryllis. If sown
fatwise, they will rarely make plant; if
sown edgewise, rarely one will fail, un.
der the same conditions of soil and tenn
perature. Any careful experimenter can
easily explain how one man could COM
plain of the seed sown, while another
would kindly praise the scotsman for seed
from the same stock, and will become
convinced that, very often, seeds not
growing is more due to poor sowing than
to poor seeds. America .4g,iculturist.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29

and decayed wild fruit, before wereached
a settlement, and were then all of thirty
miles from Davidson's. We were sad
looking lot when we finally reached
home, and, while Mr.. Cullen was taken
with fever to die in about ten days, MIR.
Williams was so broken up that he lived
only long enough to get down to the coast,
A year later Sam and two of that crowd
were caught, tried at Sandhurst, and
o'Hara and saw them drop from the
gallows. -Meao Yorb SIN.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
WHERE THE APPLE BLOSSOMS
BLOW

Meet me where the apple blossoms blow.
Softly now the fragrant boughs are swing
ing.
Greet me when the moon begins to glow.
And the pines the whippoorwills are sing
ing.
With loyal heart beat
oh, haste with flying feet.
And shame the sluggish hours that wing too
slow.
The day was long and dreary.
My heart is worn and weary.
count the laggard moments as they go,
Love.
Oh.
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow.
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow;
Let the floating petals fake your tressss,
Breathing us benson below.
Growing our bethrothal with caresses,
Far in the upper deep,
The stars are now a-peep,
The drowsy river murmurs in its flow.
hear its voice repeating;
'Life's blossom-time is feetingr
All! lot us catch the fragrance ere it go,
Love.
Oh,
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow
-Samuel Miatlua Peek.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29

Olive Thorne Miller, the Brooklyn
authoress, has a room set apart exclusive
ly for her pet birds, about which she
writes so entertainingly. In this indoor
apartment she trains and watches them,
and from her observation OF their ways
writes such books as birds Ways" ''ln
Nesting Time" etc.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29
WISE WORDS.
Not to love is not to live.

Not to love is not to live.
Look up, and you will climb UP.
Life without hope is living death.
Selfishness is the assassin of the soul.
If you live to die, you will die to live.
1t is not the crown that makes the
King.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29

Australian settlers complain that there
has been great decrease in destructive
insects since the English sparrows ar
rived and drove out the native birds.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29

A French investigator, who expert.
mented with greater variety of plants,
came to similar conclusions.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29

In 1880 the United States had larger
percentage of foreigners than any otner
country in the world.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29

The Empress of Austria Is building a
S2, 500, 600 marble palace at Corfu
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-25
The Abel Case.

1t looks very much as L the mayor thinks,
once in while. that he has about the same
jurisdiction as the superior and city courts.
William Abel was before him yesterday
morning on three charges. One was for
disorderly conduct, one was for carrying a
concealed weapon and one was for attempt
ing to shoot the policeman who arrested
him.
Instead of committing him to jail to
await the action of the grand jury for the
felony the mayor fined him s57 and sent
him to Jail to answer before the city court
the charge of carrying concealed weapons.
Wasn't the mayor a little hasty in settling
the charge of feloniously assaulting a police
man in such an off-hand ways There
doesn't seem to be much use of grand juries
and the superior court if charges of felony
are to be disposed OF in SO summary a
fashion. However, the mayor may have
had some reason for his course in this mat
ter. If he had the public would like to
know what it is.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-25
Tapping a Shell.

One day when was at Glendale, Va, a couple
OF negro boys drove up with a mule and cart
and began to dump out at the blacksmith shop
lot of stuff picked up on the battle field of
Malvern Hill. There were bullets, buckles, STIR
rups, belt-plates, musket- barrels, rusty swords
and bayonets. and in the lot was loaded shell,
which had been fired from a heavy field piece.
The blacksmith was an old darkey and the boys
were his sons, says the Detroit Free Press.
When he saw the she'll he said:
You git out wild dat yere foolishnessi Didn't
dun tole you not to bring any mo- of 'em
yere!'
One of the boys threw the shell aside. and
then the old man went with me down the road
to point out the public hitching post We
were gone about half an hour, and were within
one hundred feet of the shop, when there was a
loud explosion. great hole was blown out of
one side, and part of the roof was bulged up
and the two boys came tumbling out through
the smoke and ran against us. The old man
grabbed one by the arm ald whirled him around
and demanded:
Didn't l dun tole We to LET dat foolishness
aone?"
She's 'splodedr' gasped the boy.
splode you.''
And he drew him to shade tree, broke off
limo and tanned bis jacket till the boy yelled
murder Then we entered the shop and found
1t almost a wreck. The boys had placed the
shell on an anvil and struck it with the sledge.
and the anvil had been blown ten feet away.
miraculous as |. may seem, neither boy was IN
jured in the slightest.
'Sich trifln' can't be abeared," growled the
old man as he hunted around for his scattered
tools. Didn't dun tole 'em to let dat non
sense be? Didn't know dat dem yankees didn't
go an fill up DER shells wild co'nmeal and
breeches buttons? Ofcose she 'splode 1t was
her bizness to 'splode. Now you sot down till 1
find Moses an wollop him. an den I'll tell you
what part OF dat fight seed wild my own eyes, -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-25
he Got the Dollar.

There is a good story told about Senator
Palmer, says the Sew York Star. when he was
living in Washington twas his custom TO &c
to church every Sunday morning. and also his
custom TO put single dollar on the plate. As
be passed into church one Sunday morning. &C
companied by his private secretary. he began 10
search through his pockets with a dlsmayed
look on his face. Turning to his companion he
asked for the loan Of dollar. explaining that
he had nothing but 81 bill. The secretary
could not accommodate the senator, but a
bright thought suddenly seemed to strike the
latter, and he exclaimed:
Oh. well, can fix it,"
You wouldn't make change of the plate.
would you;" asked the secretary, Mortified at
the thought.
Never mind how / viii do it" replied the SEN
ator, y on will see 1t done"
When the plate came around the senator
gravely took ou- his 81 bill. it in two pieces
Ia the middle and laid one piece on the plate.
Atter the services we're over he walked forward
wnere the stewards were counting the collection
money and asked the one had come down his
aisle II mutilated 81 bill had been found on
the plate
Yes. and we don't know what to do with it, !"
was the mans reply
well, )" said the senator, there's the other
bali, ana you can have it for 81. That will
make your half worth 81 to you, and 81 is all
He got the dollar
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-25
End of the Norm IN Church.

It looks very much as If the Mormon
church has coma to an Q ID. It is doubtful
/ if the abiest Of the Norm Ons see any futu e
for i. The government has been at war
with it for more than a third of a century,
and. from present appearances, has virtually
destroyed it. The Eimunds law, which
takes away its charter, provides for wind
ing up its aft airs and authorizes the proceeds
Of the sale of its property to be turned into
the federal treasury, has been sustained by
the federal courts of the territory and by
the United States supreme court. The
Mormons fought this law vigorously aud
bitterly. but unsuccessfully. 1t has been
pronounced constitutional and will be en-
forced.
There are Mormons. of course. who will
cling to the Mormon faith, but the power
which comes from organization no longer
exists. The young Mormons, both men and
women, will soon break away from the faith
Of their fathers and will disregard their
teachings. No Mormon has right to vote
until he has taken the nti-polygamy oath.
Indeed, ne cannot bs considered as ENJOYING
the full measure of citizenship until he has
taken that oath. There are very few Nor
mons who will consent to be shut out from
participation in public affairs, particularly
since the foundations of their church have
been removed and the whole structure has
fallen to pieces.
Immigrants are pouring into the terri
tory-Gentile immigrauts-and in little
while the Gentiles will be largely in the ma
jority. Public sentiment will then bs over
whelmirgly against Mormonism, and under
its influence the Mormons will gradually
lose their identity. They will be assimi-
lated, and Mormonism will become a
memory. The Mormons have made a
strong fight for bad cause. 1t is source
of satisfaction that the fight is virtually
over