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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06

This t'ill of course, imply the ploN
ing up OF at least u part of the meadow
last wear, and planting to corn-and os
the clover, and sowing to wheat, Parl
OF the farm should nearly always be in
pasture, If stock is kept; and il
the bess profit is realized with this sys-
TEN of rotation, sufficient number Of
stock should be kept TO consume nearly
or quite all thG products. But it is not
always the best plan to either pillow M
the pasture or the meadow. Properly
managed, these can be kept in grass for
u number of years without change, and
yet profitable crops OF grass be realized
With the meadows especially, it will
be necessary TO apply more or less fer
tilizcrs, in order to keep IN u proper con-
dition to make a.good growth; but this
can be done by applying good dressing
of well rotted aud properly fined manure
over the surface. In some cases good
narrowing that will fine the manure and
loosen up the surface, can be profitably
given, and so long as good crops of grass
can oe secured it will not be necessary to
disturb, In many eases a meadow can
be readily thickened up 10y narrowing
thoroughly and then sowing seed, and
using brush To cover. The meadow
and pasture ought to pay as good per
cent. of profit as the rest of the farm;
and II very important item in this is
good even stand of grass. And when
this is spcurpd il il often not hest IN
caapge-at least not as often as will be
necessary ii tse meadows and pastures
are made part OF regular system of
rotation. Whenever either fail, from
any cause, to yield a good growth of
grass, it will be best to turn under and
plant to something else, and depend upon
new meadow and pasture for grass and
hay, This is especially the case when,
from the texture of the soil, seeding to
grass either for meadow or pasture is con
sldered as uncertain. Prairie Farmer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
A Skull for n Water Pail

There is terrible story coming from
North Queensland about man who was
lost in the bush. He used up all his
water and then dropped his chilly" in
the agony of his thirst. By and by,
fortunately. he came TO a water hole,
where he slaked his thirst ard found the
road again. He had still some thirty
miles to go, however, and he had moth
ing whatever to carry water in. OF
course it would have been madness to at
tempt to travel thirty miles on foot under
North Queensland sun without any
water. so his ready invention came to
his aid. He had been Mortified short
distance back by the skeleton of mau
who had evidently been dead several
years. He went back and got the skull,
plugged up the eye holes with clay and
filled it with water He then tramped
that thirty miles on the water contained
in the skull. Can any novelist imagine
more CHASTITY and frightfnl idea than
this. for which we can vouch. -FsU Nal
Gee.tte.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Fowls should never be permitted to
have access to the horse stable, nor the
feed room nor haymow, Their rooms
should be entirely separate from the
stable, so that they may not always be
ready to slip in whenever door is
opened.
Most amateurs in gardening err in
growing their vegetables too closely
that is, in not thinning them enough.
So treated, they are not only much
smaller, but also inferior in quality.
Those who desire good beets, turnips,
parsnips and carrots should remember
this.
One of the drawbacks to the germina-
ton OF seeds is that they are covered
with too much earth when planted. The
smaller the seed the less covering re-
CURED. Such seeds as kale, cabbage,
turnip, lettuce, carrot and parsnip need
only ne-eighth of an inch of earth over
them.
The buds of peach trees have swollen
unusually for this season, and there is a
prospect of the crop being destroyed by
late frosts. If the trees are young the
failure to produce fruit may be an adj
vantage, as the trees will probably make
longer growth and be in better con-
dition for producing fruit next year.
Chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, butter
nuts and pecans can be grown and will
give IA good variety, and on many places
on the farm they can be planted and
grown to advantage as easily as other
varieties of trees that bear such fruits as
nuts of marketable value, while the
wood of the nut trees are of equal value.
If one will 60 through the orchard in
winter, or any time before the leaves
come, and cut off and burn all twigs
| which have the eggs of the tent caterpil-
lars, he will save much trouble. The
eggs are in rings enclrcling the tM-igs.
This preventive measure is practicable
only with low-hcaded trees, unless lad
der is used.
Get as many early chicks out as you
can, it means early laying pullets in the
fall and eggs in winter you know ;.in
valuable and profitable. But weed out
the culls quickly after you see what you
have; no use feeding poor stock, they
eat as much as the good. Now where is
the economy in keeping them9 This
system of managing your stock should
result well in every instance. 1t is
always better to test a new plan before
adopting it, we advise you to try this and
see what there is in it.
Variety in feeding is not only highly
appreciated by poultry, but, in the ex
perience of those who have tried this
plan, as well as the more general system
of feeding out whole grain only as a
regular food, it has been found that the
former is much the best toward keeping
domestic fowls constantly in good thrift.
/ By variety we mean both raw and cooked
food--meat, vegetables, scraps, green
food, corn, oats, rice, barley wheat,
pounded bones, etc. Either for laying
fowls, for breeders, or for growing stock,
the varied feeding plan is always most
beneficial.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
Followed a Horse Car 10000 Miles.

An Owensboro (Ky.) dog followed a
street car in that place for nearly year,
and travelled in that time 40, 900 miles.
His travels were cut short by piece of
poisoned meat, and the Greensboro
Messenger thus Eliminates his career:
"The queer freak of the dogs follow
ing the car was a singular illustration of
his faithfulness. In the early days of
last March countryman came to town,
bringing the dog with him. He con-
Guided while here to take street car
ride, and when he got on the car the dog
trotted along behind. as he had been
wont to do with his masters wagon.
When the man got off the car he passed
out the front, instead of the rear, where
he went in. The dog thus missed him,
and nothing could induce the animal to
leave the car without his master. He
followed that car for days, almost re-
fusing to eat, but at last he grew to like
, the business and followed it to the day
Of his DEATH
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
FEEDING POULTRY,

The food given poultry in the morning
should be soft food and well cooked, and
in cold weather it should be fed wneu
nearly at blood-heat. Cornmeal and
ground oats, of each one part, and two
parts of wheat bran, makes good food for
breakfast Cook or scald it, and feed
it dry enough to crumble between the
thumb and fingers; no food should be
given poultry in a ciammy or sloppy
state. Season this with salt and pepper
as if for your own table, only making it
pretty hot with pepper in very cold
weather. Have portion of the floor
covered some six inches deep with straw,
and at noon scatter among it some oats,
rye, barley, wheat. and once week sun.
flower seed, and let them scratch for it.
The exercise will be beneficial to them
Hang a cabbage head up SO it will be
some two feet or more from the floor
they will find a way to reach it.
Their evening meal should consist sole
ly of good, sound corn. We say feed
corn at night for two very good reasons !;
it takes corn longer to digest than most
foods, and by feeding your fowls corn at
night they will not be nearly so hungry
in the morning as they would be were
they fed upon other food; and, again,
corn is a great fat-forming food, hence
heating one; and as the nights are
colder than the days, and the fowls are
upon their roost, and taking no exercise,
hence whatever will aid them to keep
up the animal heat will be highly bene-
fetal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06

An item was extensively published
some time since, to the effect that bean
seed in each potato hill would keep away
the potato beetle. The theory was that
the smell of the bean was so obnoxious
that the bug would not feed in It's vicin-
ity. Having this in mind have planted
this season several rows of late potatoes,
alternating with rows of early red valen-
tine beans. The beans were M some
time before the potatoes, and, according
to the theory, should have acted as
"scare- bugs" But rs soon as the potato
sprouts appeared above ground the omni-
present beetle found them and went to
work with his usual activity. Although
the bugs confined their depredations to
the potatoes | several times iouhd them
upon the bean plants, but never any evil
dence that they had been feeding there.
As the pods began to develop on the
beans, while the potatoes We're in the
first stages of growth, was compelled
to desist from applying insecticides for
fear of poisoning the beans. Thus the
potatoes bid fair to be total loss. Has
any one else tried the ''bean remedy"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
CURIOUS FACTS.

There are 1850 languages spoken in
the world.
A crank at Mount Washington, Penn,
who thinks he has a mission to kill stray
dogs. is said to have removed hun
bred of them within six months.
The smallest prayer book ever issued is
the "Finger Prayer Book, printed in
London. 1t measures 3fXl inches and
weighs quarters ofan ounce
A laboring man was digging ditch in
G street, San Bernar,lino, Cal, when he
unearthed an oyster can full of money.
He kept his find secret and left town
next morning.
A curious fact about cigarette smoking
is that nearly double as many cigarettes
are smoked during July, August and
September as during any other three
months OF the year.
Henry Schumacher, farmer at Low
hill, Penn, attempted to shoot a wild
turkey, when the cap missed lire, but ne
exploded the towing piece with match
and killed the bird
While sinking a well at his new saw
mill near Seymour, Ind, Jesse Cox came
across some large chestnut trees thirty
five feet below the surface in a perfect
state of preservation
Truly there is nothing new under the sum-
1t now turns out that massage was tine
art with the Chinese about the time that
Moses was maturing his plans for the
exodus from Egypt.
cigarettes for ladies' smoking" are
sold in London, provided with specially
prepared mouthpeces. They are per
fumed with musk and violet, and they
are having very extensive sale,
Mrs Halter, of Port Townsend, Wash,
dreamed that her husband stood before
her without coat or vest and drenched
with water from head to foot. The next
she heard of him he was found drowned
A Michigan farmer claims to have
saved his large flock of sheep from the
dogs by putting bells on each one.
When the sheep get frightened and run,
the bells play grand march and the dogs
scamper off.
Miss Kennedy. San Francisco school
ma am who was dismissed by the school
committee in 1887 without any assigned
cause, has been reinstated by decision
of the Supreme Court, with $4,000 for
pay in the interval.
Eugene G. Blackboard, at Fulton
Market, New York, has received some
curious Chinese gold fish. They are
known as King Hi-Ho, and have three
tails They are produced by the inter
breeding of deformed species.
Peter Laiag, Scotlands remarkable
centenarian, has entered upon his 106th
wear. but has yet no notion of dy
ing. He recently, on leasing house TO,
some years, remarked to the tenant that,
.after the seven years is deem I'm gaun
to live in it myself.
At Castua, small town in Austria, all
the couples who become engaged during
the year are united in the bonds of we'd
lock by one and the same marriage cere-
mony. In virtue of this ancient cere.
mony thirty young women were the other
day led to the altar.
To give an idea of the dairy produce
IN France, it has been computed that the
milk sold in the country would, if col
lected, form stream three feet four
inches in width and one foot one inch in
depth, flowing night and day all the
year, with mean velocity of yard per
second.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06

ana the mason what he has done with
his trowel and the artist what hs has
done with his pencil We shall have 10 give
account of what We have done with our pen
There are gold pens and diamond pens aud
pens OF exquisite manufacture, and every few
weeks SEQ some new kind of pen, each said
TO be hotter than the other; but In the great
day OF our arraisnnent before tine Judge OF
quick and dead that viii he the most bsaut
tul pen, whether gold or steel or quill, which
never wrote u profane or unclean or cruel
word, or which from the day IL was carved
or split at the nib, dropped from its point
kindness and encouragement and help and
gratitude to God and oenediction for man.
May God comfort that torn IN Southern
home and all the homes Of this country and
OF all the world which have been swept
by this plague OF influenza, which has
deepened sometimes into pneumonia and
sometimes into typhus, and the victims of
which are counted by the ten thousand Sa,
tan, VINO is the "Prmce of the Power Of the
Air" has been poisoning the atmosphere in all
nations. Though it is the first time in our re
membrance, he has done the same thing be.
fore. In 1896 the unwholesome air of Cairo,
Egypt destroyed the life of ten thou.
sand in one day, and in Constantinople in
17i4 three hundred thousand people died Of it.
am glad that by the better sanitation OF our
cities and wider understanding of hygienic
laws and the greater skill of physicians these
Apoliyonic assaults upon the human race are
being resisted, but peStilantial atmosphere Is
still abroad. Hardlya family here but has
felt its lighter or heavier touch. Some of
the best of my flock fell under its
power, and many homes here repro
sented have been crushed. The fact il
tne biggest failure IN the universe Is this
world if there he no heaven beyond. But
there is, and the friends who have gone there
are many aud very dear o fearful eyes,
look up to the hills crimsouing with eternal
morni That reunion kiss will more tE-.
make up for this parting kiss and the wei.
come will obiiterate the goodbye. "The
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
snail lead them to living fountains of water
and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes," Till then, o departed
loved ones, promise us that you will
remember us, as we promise TO remembe
YOU. And some of you gone up from thu
city by the sea and others from undei
southern skies, and others from the homes
the more rigorous north and some from the
cabins ON the great western farms we shall
meet again when our pen has written its last
word and our arm has done its last days
work and our lips have spoken the last adieu
And now, thou great and magnificent sou
or editor ana orator. under brighter skle.
we snail meet again. From God thou earnest
and to God thou hast returpel. Not broker
down, but assembled. Not collapsed, but irra
dated Enthroned onet Coroneted onf
Sceptered onei Emparadissd onel Ha
and farewall
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
WHISKY EnR CHILDREN.

Rev. C. Il. Rust in The Western Christidn
Advocate gives the following statement about
'nickel-in-the-slot' apparatus which he
says is in use in Cincinnati:
'This internal machine is located upon
some thoroughfare. where children pass to
and fro, as the adjunct of saloon. 1t bears
the inscription, in large and distinct charac-
tiers: Put Two Nickels in the Slot, and Get
a Bottle of Whisky The Cincinnati police
authorities have unearthed this conspiracy
against our homes, and it is TO be hoped that
swift and heavy retribution will overtake
these human ghouls When the aforesaid
nickels are dropped in the slot, small bottle
of whisky, containing about a gill falls into
the hands of the expectant children, who are
the chief victims of this sort of traffic.
when the saloonists are confronted with
the facts, they effect an injured air of in
nocency and claim protection, with brazen
effrontery, for the so-called freedom of free
land. These machines are quite plentiful
Over-the- Rhine Under the very caves of
our churches these human vampires ply their
pestlential trade"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
distractions in the Eye.

When you get einder or speck of dust
or other offensive particle in your eye,
don't rub it. Don't touch 1t. Don't
pull down the lid Don't put your hand
near it. Let it alone. This is very
hard advice to follow, aud in nine cases
ont of ten you will find yourself rubbing
your eye before you know it. But if you
can refrain from touching your eye at
all. the action of that organ will itself
cast out the offending mote in much
quicker time and with far less irritation,
while your efforts would only hinder it
and perhaps fasten the intruder so that
it will stay long time. OF course, if it
is a particle of metal you will consult
surgeon or oculist at once; but ordinary
substances are best treated as above in
Dictated. Some people say; Rub the
other eye but this is of no use Wash
o,0t0n Sta.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
A coon rLAN or NOTATION.

A good system or plan of rotation is to
pillow clover under, and SOW TO whea. and
with timothy, followed in the spring
with clover, securing in this way stand
of grass. Cut two crops of hay, and
pillow up the meadow in the fall, and
plant to corn the next spring; then Cow
to oats and clover again. Other crops
can be used or added. with a truck
patch for potatoes, sorghum, beans, cab
bage and this Glars o. crops, with sup
ply of tree and hnsl, fruits, aad garden.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
A Curious Colony of Mice.

While out hunting, Colonel Standifer
and Billy Muller, of Dennison, Tex,
came across large dead tree, the stump
of which was full to overfowing, so to
speak, with mice. The Colonel and mis-
companion pulled off strips of the de-
cayed outer growth of the tree, and
every time strip was pulled off myriads
of mice ran for their lives. Colonel
Standifer killed 1856 of the mice and
Muller AIS. The next day the tree was
visited with two black and tan terriers,
.he bark was removed and the number of
mice killed is estimated at over thou.
sand.-PittsJurg Dispatch.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
CARE AND PROFIT IN SHEEP.

If your sheep pens are not in order,
you cannot repair them and get them in
comfortable condition any too soon.
Sheep need warm, comfortable quarters
SO that they will not need to huddle too
close together to retain little warmth.
No open holes or cracks, however small,
should be left for the wind to blow
through and the snow to sifs in, making
cold streak clear across the pen. The
ceiling or roof does not need to be high,
yet good ventilation should be provided
for, while an agreeable temperature of so
to 60 degrees is KEEP; throughout the
sheep pen. No cheap rickety concern
will answer the purpose. But how many
really good wsnter quarters for sheep are
provided In the recent storms in Colo
RADIO and Texas sheep persisted by the
thousands for want of shelter. They
suffer everywhere from the same cause
The time is coming when men will better
protect their animals.
The profit on sheep growing does not
all come from one source. 1t is not con-
fined to the receipts for wool, nor yet to
what the mutton and young lambs bring.
Nor, in the case of blooded stock, Is it
confined to receipts for animals for breed
ing purposes. Neither is it confined to
all these three combined. There is value
in the droppings of the sheep. They en-
rich the land wherever they go, and not
only consume weeds that would other
wise be an increasing nuisance, but they
live on much that would go to waste be-
cause other animals reject it. With good
fences they give little trouble, because
they attend strictly to business. In sum
mer give them a good range, plenty OF
salt and good water, and keep the dogs
away. Beyond these they do not need
anything more than is necessary for the
owner or master of the flock to keep up
familiar acquaintance with them.-W5'-
~or and Farmer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
COMING our OF oHuRoH.

Ills memory of Childhood,
Twilight shadows deepening;
Aud the sooty, swinging kettle
Trying very hard 10 sing;
Then bevy of bright children,
just like birds upon perch,
Watching, in the crimson emhers
People coming ont of church,
Little people,
Nimble people
Coming out of church,
Golden rippleS of the freight
Dance upon the kitchen wall;
And, to join the silvery laughter,
Hark! the crlckets CHEEKY call.
OH the glances, quick and star-likc
While SO eagerly they search
For a glimpse of scarlet mantles-
People COMING out of church.
Spright.y people,
Queerest people,
Coming out of church.
'.'Sded, like that flre-sidr, embers,
Are those faces now "a me;
But wander back to Child-Land,
And child seem to he,
For, tonight, my own wee darlings
just like birds upon perch,
Sit and watch, the same as ! did
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
Attacked BY Wolves.

As two merchants were returning late
" in carriage to Bartfeld from the
Hungarian Galician frontier they were
attacked by pack of nine wolves, the
leader of which was shot as soon as he
leaped on one of the carriage horses. The
remaining eight, far from being fright
ened off, furiously pursued the travellers,
who managed to shoot two more of the
bowling animals. Just as the horses be-
gan 10 slacken their pace through loss of
blood and fatigue, five hunters hove in
sight from neighboring field and quick
ly dispatched the rest of the pursuing
pack.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
NOVEL WAY OF pRorAGAr1Se ROSES.

NOVEL WAY OF PRoPAGATING ROSES.
Recently l was conversing with man
who is rose enthusiast, aud he told me
he had strong bushes CT some Of the best
hybrid perpetuals upon their own roots,
that he had rooted himself in way
quite new to me. Having obtained a
suitable shoot, or several of them, they
were placed in an ordinary bottle which
contained some water, and this bottle
was hung upon the wall of the house in
a sunny position and there left, water
being supplied to make up the deficiency
caused by evaporation. In this water,
which often becomes very warm from
the heat of the sun, the cuttings re-
NAMED, and after short period they
calloused, when they were taken out and
dibbled into pots in the ordinary way,
the formation of the roots soon taking
place.
The above plan was claimed as expedi-
tious, as the cuttings calloused much
sooner in water than they did in the
soil. 1t is known that many things root
readily in water, and oleanders are fire.
quently propagated in that way, whilst
some Sedum Specialize that have lately
had in cut state had rooted freely
long before the flowers faded. With the
roses, if cutting is once nicely calluused,
success is almost certainty, and if this
needed state can be brought about by
immersion of the base in water, we then
have simple and valuable aid to rose
propagation, because it is much easier to
preserve alive cutting placed in water
than it is one in the soil during its early
stage Tick's Magazine.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
THE FARM AND GARDEN.


Ring geraniums, il not more than six
months or year old, should never be
ported in more than five or six inch
pot, Begonias like plenty of water, rich
earth and all the sun they can get, so as
to dry of daily aud dAuk again freely
next morning, ileliotropes should he
broken oil at least once week for six
months, Break oil the last three inches
of each branch's growth, and make u
slip or cutting of it by pulling oil the
leaves for two inches, and set this
pluoked stem down firmly in the pot,
BY so doing with young heliotrope one
can, in a few months, have a mass of foil
age and wealth of blooms. -Americaa
Cultirator.