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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Potato Experiments.

Of l22 varieties and seedlings of the
potato tested the past season at the Wis
consin station, the following ten were
most productive, yielding in the order
named: Seeding from G. Il. Angel,
Rose Beauty, Monarch Duplex, Late
Beauty of Hebron, Mullaly, Alexander's
Prolific, Seneca Red Jacket, White Beau
Z If Hebron and Wisconsin Beauty.
4 in the order of their table quality,
these varieties would rank az follows:
Alexander's Prolific, White Beauty of
Hebron, Late Beauty of Hebron, Duplex,
Monarch, Wisconsin Beauty, Seneca Red
Jacket, Rose Beauty, Mullaly, seeding
from G. E. Angel. Both with cuttings
and whole tubers, the largest merchant
able yield came from the heaviest seed
ing, though the increase OF understandable
yield was by no means in proportion TO
the increase of seed. The proportion of
small potatoes increased with the increase
of seed The Smaller whole potatoes gave
inferior results to the smaller cuttings.
Two single eyes in a hill yielded decided
ly more than one, without a correspond.
ing increase in small potatoes. No Loss
in yield followed planting in hills as com
pared with drills. The results were clearly
opposed to cutting off the ''seed end of
the potato before planting. No advan-
tage followed sprinkling the cuttings with
land plaster before planting.
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WHY Poultry Rms Out

American Cnltivator says: First cross
es with almost any standard breed of
fowl are pretty sure to produce good re-
suits. The man who makes the cross
knows the characteristics he wishes to
breed to, and the cross generally secures
them. But these grade fowl, though
often valuable for egg pro lucing, are
not trustworthy for breeding. Their
progeny are not grades but mongrels,
Changing the males in fock is often
advised. but if the new stock are mon
grels there will be liltic advantage from
this. The focks on farms all over the
country are largely OF this mongrel stock.
and this Is one reason why SO many have
poor success with poultry. Forty or fifty
years ago the common dunghill fowl in
this country, though originally inter
mixed, had been inbred long enough SO
that 1t had become almost an established
breed. Few, if any, of these old fash
Toned fowls are now left anywhere. As
a consequence the introduction of new
blood in every flock not absolutely pure
bred Is necessity every two or three
years, and in every case males of pure
blood, and so far as possible of the pre-
dominant strain of the flock, should be
introduced for crossing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Go to the annex. "


a correspondent asks, How do the
Radicals in the present French parlia
mont compare in numbers with the
moderate Republicans, and did they
gain or lose in the election of 1882
In the present chamber of deputies,
which was elected in September, 1889,
the Radicals are not as strong as they
were in the chamber chosen four wears
earlier, while the Moderates are strong.
er. The Moderates control the present
chamber, having a majority over the
Radicals, the Bourbons and the Bona
partists combined. The preceding
chamber was divided pretty evenly be-
tween the Moderates, the Radicals and
the Bourbon Bonapartist group. st.
Louis Globe-Democrat
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Roster of the GalIenf Dead

George II. Thomas, Major-Gen.
eral, army of the Cumberland died
March 28, 1870.
David G. Farragut, Admiral, died
August IA, 1870.
George e. Mead, Major G General,
army of the Potomac; died Novem-
Der 6 1872.
George A. Custer, Major-G eneral
killed June 9, 1876, at the battle of
the Little Big Horn.
Joseph Hooker, Major-General.
army of the Potomac; died October
81, 1879.
5. P. Heintzelman, Major. Gen.
eral, army of the Potomac; died Nav
1, 1880.
James A. Garfield, Maior-Gen-
efal, army OF the Cumberland; died
September 10, 1881.
Ulysses S. Grant, General; died
July %, 1885.
George B, Mcclellan, Major-Gen-
eral, army of the Potomac 4; died De-
tober 20, 1885.
Winfield Scott Hancock, Major
General; died February 8, 1886.
John A. Logan, Major-General,
army of the Cumberland died De-
cember 26, 1886.
Philip H. Sheridan, General died
October, 1889.
William Tecumseh Sherman. Gen.
eral U. S. Army, died FEBRUARY IA
1891.
Philip Kearney, Major-General,
Killed September |, 1862, at Chan
lilly, Va.
j. L. Reno, Major General, Third
Army Corps, killed September IA,
1862, at South Mountain, Nd.
John F. Reynolds, Major-G ener
II, First Corps, killed at Gettys-
'urg, Pa, July /, 1868.
John Sedgwick, Major-General.
sixth Corps, killed at Spottsylvania.
"a, May s, 1864.
>. b. Mcpherson, Major-General,
rmy of the Tennessee, killed july
2, 1864, at Atlanta Ga.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
The Great Skin Cure,

A concentrated, Scientific Compound,
combining the most powerful healing
agents known to the medical profession
with the wonderful antlseptlc properties
Of Aristol.
lnfallibly cures EXzema or Salt Rheum
letter. Ring-worm, Itch and all skin
ernptlons, Scrofulous Sores, old Sores
and Wounds Assesses, Cafbuncles and
Boils. One size only. Price 25c.
Ask your Druggist for it.
AGIsToLFNE XXX.
A veterinary Specific specially com
pounded for horses and other animals.
Cures all flesh Wounds, Bruises, Chafes,
Calls and for, Scratches 1t has no equal.
Asistolene Xxx is put up in two sizes
and retalls at 25 and so cents.
When treating a case of Scratches II is
well TO use 1t in connection with our
Blood Purifier, a recipe for which win
be found with each SOC box of Aristolene
Xxx. This is the best blood purifier
known for horses and cattle. Any drug
gist will prepare it for you, and the re-
cipe costs you nothing.
Aristolene, both kinds, is for sale by all
druggists or will be sent by mail on re-
ceipt of price.
The ARIsTOLENE Co.,
So. Londonderry, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26

Atlanta's first free night school
started off last week with over 200
pupils.
A member Of the Kansas legisla-
ture has introduced bill to make
women eligible as presidential electors,
Two years ago Secretary Window
was supposed to be worth S250,000,
but his estate, so far as it can he
traced, is valued nj not above $4,000,
of which $4,000 is n life insurance
policy.
In consequence of a recent runa
way and subsequent newspaper agita-
ton, the city council OF Worcester,
Mass, has passed an ordinance for
bidding the leaving of horses unhitch-
ed in the street,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Where Oil Was First Used.

1t is to the Persian language that we
must go for the derivation OF the term
naphtha, the root nafata meaning to
exude, and the oil was SO called ON ae.
count of its exuding from the soil. The
native naphtha of Persia and Japan
would seem to have furnished the ma.
tlves with a lamp illuminant from the
very earliest ages. Its first authentic
use In Europe would, however, seem to
date back no farther than the later
part OF last century, when limited
supply OF lamp oil' obtained from
district in Calabria was utilized by the
Italian peasantry to light their dwell
ings. -Chambers' Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Pasturine Orchards.

"Ought apple orchards to be pastured?'
was a question asked at New York
farmers institute.
Mr.. Van Alstyne answered: 81 past
ured an orchard of eight acres with
sheep two years, and the fruit was i'm
proved. Sheep droppings are very val
liable for the trees. shall continue to
keep sheep in my Orchards
Col. Curtis said: ''The advantages of
swine are that they do all that the sheep
do in enrichins the land, AMI they root
up the larvae Of the codling moth which
have escaped from the apples and are
hidden just under the ground. The pigs
will destroy all of these, which the sheep
will not. All other larvae will be in
similar danger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Wanted the Annex.

The actions of man at the post
Office the other day attracted atten,
ton. He kept going in and out, walk,
ing up and down the corridor and
looking into the several windows, and
he was finally asked what troubled
him.
Il want to get money order" he
replied.
go to the annex"
That's where the whole botheratjon
comes in. | saw the sign up there. but
I'll be hanged if l know what an an
mex is. Is it up stairs or down cellar
q circus or a steamboat? | know
enough to give bunco steerer the cold
shake, but never run up agin AN an.
mex yet.
he was fully informed of its nature
and location, and he started off saving.
"Oh, that's it. If it's an addition
why don't they call it onea NV shirt
collar is part of my dress, but you
don't catch me going into store and
inquiring for a No. 16 annex. DE
troit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Chronic Rain,

Young men who ape English man.
ners and customs are reviled daily by
newspaper wits. Ore Of them is even
represented as carrying an umbrella on
a fair day, because it's flaming in Lon.
don, doncher know" An equally log.
zeal reason is ascribed to the artist
Fuseli.
One of his peculjHities was that OF
carrying large gingham umbrella of
conspicuous colcr, generally red.
whether the weather were fine or not,
One day friend met him bearing his
usual burden, and called to him
'Halloa, Fuscli! What do you went
that old umbrella for this fine day."
What do want it forI answered
he. "Oh. I'm going to see Constable. y
What has that got to do with it,
Why, whenever / go to see him hos
always painting !n-Youth's Com
panion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Letters from the People.
A few causes of Monetary depression

few causes of Monetary Depression
Mr.. Editor IL have ENJOYED read
ing the recent articles relating to the
political situation, and while they are
cogent and to the point, there is more
of the drama they have overlooked or
left out,
1t seems as if all Of the people had
become intoxicated with n mania for
expenditure, the poorest citizen of
New England often lives in q style
that would have been deemed ruinous
one hundred years ago with persons
of considerable means, and for this
state of things the political parties
are not to blame. The furniture in
many houses has been improved and
the spinning wheel, the distatf and
hand loom has given place to the pi-
ano, organ and sewing machine, now
in 200 towns the outlay would prob
ably reach two million dollars, which
if extended to the whole country
would make an aggregate of surpris-
ing dimensions. The railway system
with its forced overcharges on ac-
count of the watered stock, its costly
pullman and palace cars, each one
rivaling the home of an emperor of
one hundred years ago. The great
structures at business centers, the
costly state houses (the one at AL
bany, N. Y, costing over thirty
millious) the telegraph and telephone
system with their arbitrary enhance
ment of values, rentals and losses
from western investments, strikes
and other false issues all must be fed
from the nations store house, and the
cost must 60 for balance, and added
to this is the rum, tobacco and opium
bill, and we have the appalling statis-
tics to show that we are paving near
ly one billion, five hundred and sixty
million dollars, for these three articles
alone it is simply an enormous drain,
submerging all other expenses, and it
is clear that money paid for unneces-
sary or inferior articles lower the
financial condition of the community
from which it is paid.
And yet through the tremendous
energies of the people we are going
ahead, and we are living better and
longer than our fathers; books and
papers freighted with the rarest
thoughts come to us day by day, mu-
sic and kindly deeds, and love and
all the adjuncts of high civilization
Ire ours, and the farmer gets more
Der bushel or pound than he did forty
years ago for the crops he raises.
)ur energies are undiminished, our
aspirations unquenched, and the god
less of genius still holds up destiny
with excelsior, but we are
ARRIVING an enormous load and moth
ng but an indomitable will and ear
lest steadipess will long support it,
md if it were possible to drop that
which is productive evil and loss and
'etain that only that is conducive to
he peoples real happiness he
ancor and bitterness of party strife
would be greatly diminished.
j. S. l..
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
THOUGHT HE WAS ctiLoRoFoRMsp.

What Came of the Use OF a Moth Pre-
ventive by n Washington Woman.
There is one lady in Washington
who when she puts away her winter
furs at the end of the season will
probably not use moth balls to pro,
tect them, The pungent odor of this
detergent has peculiar effect on
some organisms, as she has learned by
most disagreeable experience during
her Christmas shopping.
The lady in question is the wife of
government official of high standing.
Just before Christmas she took from a
clothes press fur trimmed cloak
which had been laid away since last
winter, and forgot to remove from its
secret recesses the moth balls with
which it was powerfully charged At
tired in the garment she entered a
jewelers. establishment recently opened
on Pennsylvania avenue and asked to
be shown some diamond rings.
The proprietor was alone in his store
As the lady leaned over the tray to ex,
anime the rings Whit of the odor of
moth balls struck him. With a bur
ried motion he thrust the tray of rings
back in the case and rushed to the
door, where he stood for some time in.
Hating his lungs with the crisp, wintry
air. Then, returning, he ran to his
telephone. All this time the lady Gus
toner was standing in wide eyed won
dernent. As soon as an opportunity
offered she asked him if he was sick,
and he gasped out that he had been
overcome by a sudden sense of suffoca-
ton, but was better now.
The lady resumed her Purchasing,
and selected a costly ring with re-
quest that it be sent to her husbands
address. As she left the store she no
ticed that some one was apparently
following her In an hours time she
reached her residence, and was aston
ished to find her husband closetcd with
a detective, who had informed him |
that it had been reported at police
headquarters that a genteclly dressed
diamond thief had attempted to spray
chloroform in the face of ieweler, and |
when detected had given her address
as his house. The detective had Just
description of the lady and
her address as furnished to the police
when the lady herself entered and was
ut once greeted by the official as his
wife
The explanations that followed made
TIE situation scarcely less embarrassing.
The ring was returned to the ieweler
with an admonition to be more careful
N future in noting the difference in
DIOR between chloroform and moth
oalls. St Louis Republic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26

The Ludlow Tribune is reminded
that running highly moral essays as
editorials and weak variety of skunk
journalism in its news columns fails
to produce harmony and some other
things. -Rutland Herald.
Why, you dear old Herald, how
you do falkland about brother Crane,
the man who told us all how to run
our newspapers before he was a
month in The business. And the idea
of ministerial editor engaging in "a
weak variety of skunk journalism 7"
Too bad !!
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26

A fearful railroad accident occur-
red in the forth avenue tunnel in New
York city last Friday by a collision.
Six persons were killed.
Two Wagner sleeping cars were
wrecked and partly burned. The fire
was caused by an overturned Baker
heater and the bodies of the dead
were SO badly chorred that it was diff
ficult to identify them.
A mistake in signals is supposed to
nave caused the disaster, although
this has not been definitely settled.
Louis G. Fowler, an engineer, who
has been employed on the New York
d New Haven, has, however, been
arrested and held without bail.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Vermont News.

There are now So veterans at the
soldiers home, Bennington, two have
died within week.
st. Adams, Feb. pc. r.
Barnes, freight brakeman on the
Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain div.
lslon of the Central Vermont rail.
road, was killed Saturday morning
oy an overhead bridge at Alburgb
Springs. He was 20 years old, and
belongs in Malone, N. Y.
Vergennes, Feb. 22.-About 9
O'Clock Saturday night two shots were
heard in the neighborhood of East
and School streets. Upon investigat-
ing the body of Jedd d. Rock. aged
"a years, was found in front of Mrs.
+. Ryan's residence. Two bullet
holes were found in his body. A five
shooter was found in his right pocket,
two chambers of which were empty.
The body was taken to Smith &
ketcham's undertaking rooms and an
inquest was held Sunday by Gen.
Grandey. The post-mortem showed
that the right verticle of the heart
was pierced. The inquest will be
concluded Monday.
1t is thought to be case of sui
eide.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26

clover will not thrive. 1t is useful IN
mixture for dry soil.
Red clover is perennial but. of very
few years duration. 1t isnutritious and
voluble in moist locations. The large
red or pea vine clover, also known as
English COW grass, is reliable sort for
blowing under. White clover is espe-
cially priced for lawns and pastures.
Crimson clover, u sketch of which is
here reproduced from James M. Thor
burn & Co.'S annual descriptive cata-
logue for 1891, is an annual with crimson
flowers, about which many reports were
made last season, some exceedingly COM
mandatory, while others were not favor
able. Thorburn says that ''sown late in
the summer it furnishes an early green
fodder the following season: it is also
excellent for soiling." Beal says, 1T
belongs to warm climate, and is not SC
popular at the north as is red clover"
Japan clover is perennial, voluble
only in southern localities, where it
thrives in any soil. 1t makes a fair hay,
and stock eat it readily when green.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
He Needs No Typewriter.

John Habberton, the author of
"Helen's Babies" is two handed
man. When engaged on long article
ne changes from one hand to the other
every fifteen or twenty minutes, and so
avoids fatigue and that distressing com
plant known as scrivener's paralysis. :"
To write at a stretch $4,000 words is
rather tiresome task. The fingers be
come cranIped and dull pain affects
the palm of the hand. Habberton can
write 1900 words by using his hands
alternately without any painful sensa-
ton whatever-New York World.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
Observation-Disclosures.

at all, and is commonly known Il drone
laying queen. The queen is an impor-
tant individual of hive only so long as
she is useful. When her usefulness
ceases she is destroyed with as little con-
sideration as are the drones.
The droncs are the male bees. and are
generally found in the hive only from
May TO November, though they may re-
main all winter. There are in nature
several huiidnd and often thousands in
each colony. The number may be and
is often reduced by the apiarist. The
worker or neuter bees are the undeyel-
oped femalcs-the bees that do the work
except that of laying eggs. There are
from $4,000 to 10000 workers in every
good colony.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

Walnut trees do not prosper above
5000 feet, ash at $500, and fir at 6, 7O(
feet above sea level,
Bacon was 50 before he published
his great work, "Dc Novum Organum. y
The card by mail is an invitation to
call, though it would be more polite to
leave the card in person,
Milliners claim that we will have the
narrow velvet ribbon strings on hats
and bonnets this spring.
IL is claimed that in almond and Ma.
deira nut culture the Pacific coast bids
fair to surpass the world.
it takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one end of the At.
lantic cable to the other.
The body of the late Alexander viii.
lam kinglake, the historian, has been
cremated in England, according TO his
last expressed wish.
Never let the suns rays strike mir
ror. 1t acts upon the mercury and
makes the glass cloudy, which all the
rubbing in the world will not remove.
When a fly is bitten by a spider it's
whole body seems seized with convul-
sive twitchings, and death generally oc-
ours after few minutes
Most people have plenty of hard
common sense; the real difficulty lies
in it that they use it con others more
frequently than they do on themselves
IL is less than 300 years since the stu,
dents of the earth came generally to
believe that fossils were the remains of
creatures that were once alive.
A curious accident occurred to mule
in Swainshoro, Ga, the other day
The animal fell down in the stable and
broke its neck in trying to get up.
There are few articles which are
more susceptible to disease germs than
milk, and the practice of sterilizing it is
one which should I've heartily com
mended.
The skirts of dresses for little girls of
b years reach half way between the
knee and the top of the shoe. The
waists are longer than formerly, reach
ing to the natural waist, and the sleeves
are very full.
Salt spfinl;!ed on any substance
burning ON the stove will stop the
smoke and smell. Salt thrown upon
Goals blazing from the fat of broiling
hops Or ham will cause the blaze to
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
QUEEN, oaoNs AND WORKER eees.
The Three Kinds to lie Found In Eacl
Coiony--All About the Mother Bee

The Three Kinds to he Found In Each
Coiony-Aii About the Mother Zee.
The queen is the mother bee, and the
most important parsonage in the hive.
The queen, as compared with other bees
is long lived, 1t is not unusual for her
to do good work for from three to four
years. All depends upon her excellence
and vigor, Some queens cease to be use
ful at the end of one year, others at two
and so on. When they no longer lay
impregnated eggs-cease to be fertile
the workers rear new queen and destroy
the old one.
II is the queens mission to keep the
colony we'll populated-in a word, to lay
eggs. good queen lays from 1000 to
5000 eggs per diem, or nearly double her
weight of eggs per day, Queens differ,
however, in the matter of fecundity; the
good ones keep the hives populous with
active, profitable bees, while inferior
ones, although they may lay eggs for q
time, are never profitable. Those i'm
perfectly developed bees are, according
to Root, the result of trying to raise a
queen when there are too few bees, or
when the larvae with which they are oh.
hged to rear n queen are too old-that
is, too nearly ready to seal up. Pro-
lessor Cook says that this lack of fecund-
ity may be due TO disease, improper de-
velopment or to special race or strain.
The activity of tho queen is governed
largely by the activity Of the workers.
According to Professor Cook, as the
worker bees feed the laying queen, it is
more than probable that with no nectar
to gather the food is withheld, and so
the queen is unable TO produce the eggs,
which demand great amount of nutri-
tous food all ready to be absorbed.
Queens begin to lay when about eight
to ten days old, as rule. If Il queen is
not fertilized in, say, fortnight from
the time she is Matched she will frequent
ly begin laying without being fertilized
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26

The house coinage committee de-
clded on Friday by vote of 8 to 4
to report the senate free coinage bill
adversely, with a recommendation
that 1t do not pass. The four in the
minority were Messrs. Carter, Bar
tine, Bland and Williams. 1t was
found that no compromise could be
arranged in committee.